Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 31, 1902, Page 6

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THE OMAHA l){uy BEE. E. ROSEWA PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING, TERMS OF 8UBSCRIPTION. Daily Bee (without Sunday), One Year.$4.00 Daily Bee and Sunday, One Year 60 Lilustrated Bee, One Year... . Bunday Bee, O%e year Baturday Bee, One Year. o sadusrsst Twentieth Century Farmer, One Year.. DELIVERED BY CARRIER. g:uy Bee (without Bunday), per copy... 2¢ ily Bee (without Sunday), per week..1c Daily Bee (Including Sunday), per week.17c Bunday Bee, per copy . B Evening Bee (without Sunday), per week Evening Bee (Including Sunday), per 100 0 1w “ompla of “leregularities in delivery should be addressed to City Circulation De- partment. OFFICES. Omaha—The Bee Bulldin Bouth Omaha—City Hall ty-fifth and M Streets. Council Blufts—10 Pearl Street. Chicago—16# Unity Bullding York—2328 Park Row Building. Washington—l Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE Communications relating to news and ed- ftorial matter should be nddressed: Omaha Mee, Editorial Department. Funding, Twen- STATEMENT OF CIRCULATIO iBtate of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss.: George B. Tzschuck, seeretary of The Bee Publishing Compahy, being duly sworn, says that the actual mumber of full and complete coples of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of November, 1902, was as follows 1,470 o 1 2 L 4. 6 6. 31,410 80,920 31,000 81,130 31,480 FERNERRERNZES 81,810 Total .....e.. . Less unsold and returned copls Net total sales.. Net hverage nales. . GEORGE B. TZ8C Bubscribed in_my presence and sworn to betore me this Bth day of November, A. D. 1902, . B. HUNGATE, (8eal) Notary Public. The grim reaper seems to keep his scythe sharpened all the year round. - ] For the dying year death always comes promptly at the predicted time. —— The merger of the Denver labor unions shows that they are bound to be in the style. m—— Had Veneznela been able to raise the wind, it could have raised the blockade much sooner. GEps—————— Nebraska implement men come next as Omaba’s guests. Make ready the im- plements of hospitality. R —— + From the number of elephants em- ployed it is clear that the Curzon festivi- ties are to be a big thing. L e ) Omaha can be made a great grain market, but nothing comes without ef- fort. It is worth working for. ee——— All hopes that the Stratton will con- test might prove in the same class with the Fair will contest are now shattered. 0 e — -3 The glowing accounts now being sent out regarding Grover Cleveland's health will hardly escape the eye of Colonel ‘Watterson. S A New Year's day reunion and jollifi- cation of all the beneficiaries of Gov- ernor Savage's pardon pen with the great pardoner as guest of honor would seem to be in order. Footings of the city assessment roll show that the recent Board of Review is , the only board that ever made any ma- terlal Increase in the totals returned by the tax commissioner. e ae—— From New York to Chicago in four hours Is the promise held forth by an ambitious inventor. From Omaba to Lincoln in one hour is equally desirable and much more practicable. ! Ep——— And now the police commission hints that it will apply falth cure treatment to all liquor license allments. In other words, 1t has no faith in the circulation statements of the pretending Fakeries. e——— If that newly invented machine will really heat a room for $1 u year, it must require extraordinary self control on the part of the inventor to refrain from selling ‘themn under existing circum- stances. EE——— Those South Omaha officlals who are getting apprehensive over a prospective overlap might apply to the Omaha school board for consolation. Our school fund has a perennial overlap, but it never disturbs school board members. fe - —4 Down 4n Lancasteér ‘county a bank combine that has been working the tax- “payers for county deposits without pay- ing the interest required by law has been broken. There is no good reason whatever why Douglas county should Dot get Interest upon its treasury bal- ances, and it would get the interest speedily if the respousible authorities ‘went about it the right way. " British observers take comfort In the thought that so long as American manu- facturers bave the profitable home mar- ket at their command, there is no danger of American products supplanting Brit- 1sh products either at home or in neutral markets, But bad it not been for the policy of protection American wmanufae- turers would not bave had the home ‘market wuch less a foothold abroad. e ] Senator Teller is treading on the thin- nest kind of ice in his effort for re-elec- tion. It is known that @ number of the democratic members of the Colorado legislature are strongly disposed to throw him overboard and to insist on an out-and-out democrat, in spite of the fact that he publicly declared his ad- hesion to that party last summer. The prospeet Is for a long-drawn out coutest, with a growlng feellng that the demo- cratic members caunof in any event be beld together long for him., S 28310 haye again shown the independent coun- a1.000| tries of this part of the world that the 80,780 4t qll times to protect them from for- 28,478 | the fulfillment of their just obligations. THE CLOSING YEAR. Ipmlillnn to control markets in the Ori- The year 1002 has contributed much that is notable and valuable to. the world's history. For this nation it has been a perfod of progress in all direc- tions, of growth in power, influence and | prestige. We have had unbounded busi- | ness prosperity, bountiful harvests that bave richly rewarded the industry of the producers, a constant demand for {1abor in mill and factory, unprecedented activity in transpostation, heavy Invest- ments of capital in industrial enterprises and a marked development of resources along all lines. In material well-being no country has ever occupled a higher plane than does ours at this time, The United States 18 playing a large part in the world and it is doing so in the interest of peace and civilization. In this second year of the twentieth century no other nation bas done so mich for the betterment of mankind. We have given to an alien people a government of liberty and law, with every assurance of future care for their interests and welfare. We have as- sisted in establishing a new republic, modeled upon oursown political insti- tutions and which we are pledged to pro- tect in its independence and aid in its materfal development. We have taught | Europe a fresh lesson in the Interest ol" | peace in inducing three of the powers | to submit to arbitration thelr claims | against a state of this hemisphere. We United States is their friend, ready | elgn nggression, but requiring of them We have demonstrated anew that as a nation we love peace and that we desire | to cultivate friendly relations with all | other countries. There is no doubt that today the influence of the United States upon international affalrs that touch Its Interests is greater than ever before. European countries have been less favored than ours in the past twelve- month, many of the people of some of them having experienced severe hard- ship and privation. It is stated that British trade for the year has been good, yet there is a great deal of destitution in England, especially in the larger citles, recent reports stating that pov- erty is more general and distressing than at any time since the repeal of the corn laws. England has enlarged her empire by annexing the South African republics, but the taxation which the war made necessary bears heavily upon her people and her indus- tries. The British isles will not soon recover from the effects of the Boer war, In Germany the Industrial depres- sion that has continued throughout the year is not being relieved and great numbers of her people are out of em- ployment and destitate. The conditions in Austria-Hungary and Italy are no better and France is by no means prosperous. In Russia there is a deplor- able state of affairs, a late report from 8t. Petersburg stating that the govern- ment Is face to face with the grave problem of how West to feed 15,000,000 hungry peasants scattered over numer- ous provinces. Throughout Europe, in short, many more millions of people are now, feeling the pinch of poverty than a year ago and the governments gen- erally are finding in this the most troublesome and difficult problem with which they have to deal. But they con- tinue to heavily burden their people with taxation to maintain ‘great military establishments and there is no promise ent? The maintenance of the open door policy undoubtedly depends a great deal upon the position of the United States, and our influence in behalf of that policy would certainfy be very much weakerfed if in the Philippines we discriminate | against other countries, The question | raised merits the very careful attention of congress. GUARANTIES OF ARBITRATION. There is no end of irrelevant arsertion or assumption that guarantees of the ex- ecution of the finding of the arbitrators { must be had in the sense that some au- thority will undertake the collection of whatever damages may be found to be due from Venezuela. No such result Is | necessarily implied in international ar- bitration us it has been resorted to or as is provided for in The Hague treaty. Nor is it probable that President Roose- velt would in any event have consented to act on such terms, Where digputes are submitted to ar- bitration of course an implied obligation is upheld and almost fnvariably the ex- press pledge of the parties is made to carry out its decision. But no case of international arbitration can be cited whiere governments as third parties have stood by with drawn swords to en- force the finding of the referees. It is also true that no nation could refer a matter to arbitration and then refuse to abide by the result without putting ft- self clearly in the wrong and forfeiting the respect of the civilized world, while the other party or parties to the arbitra- tion could still resort to other remedies previously at its command. It is a conceivable case, although In { high degree an improbable one, that an jarbitrating board might find an amount to be due which it would be impossible for’ the debtor or offending nation to pay. But as no such case has yet arisen, It 18 not necessary to cross that stream before coming to it. The usual method when war Is resortM to and the in- demnity, required by the conqugror can- not be paid is to appropriate territory, but the Monroe doctrine forbids this re- sult in American countries as against Europe. ‘The refusal or the sheer in- ability of Venezuela to pay an award, if it be concelved as possible, is all the greater reason why no strict guaranty of enforcement can be exacted. WHAT WERE THEY ELEOTAD FOR? The republican members of the dele- gation from Douglas county are reputed to be under a pledge not to commit it or any of its members for or against any fissue that may come before the leg- islature until it has received the ap- proval or disapproval of a majority of the delegation in star chamber session. In other words, every member of the delegation {s reputed to be pledged to surrender his own convictions to the will of the majority, and to take nobody into his confidence except by permission (of the majority of the delegation. This unique gentlemen's agreement has its only counterpart in the now fa- mous St. Louls councilmanic agreement which bound the members of the com- bine not to speak except through the chosen spokesman. From the dark re- cesses of the chamber In which the Douglas delegation has held its secret conferences the public is assured that the prime object of this extraordinary policy is to promote the public welfare and forestall adverse criticism. How the public welfare is to be promoted by a refusal to discuss public Issues in pub- lic can only be surmised by the tip given of a change from (l}ls policy. The American people will say farewell to the Real Estate exchange by one of the spokesmen of the keep-it-dark dele- to 1002 with a feeling of gratitude for |gation when asked what position he and what it gave them in such rich abund- | his assoclates would take with regard to ance and will welcome 1908 in the con- | the proposed repeal of the section of fident exmuu‘on. which all signs seem | the charter that virtually exempts the to warrant, that it will contribute no |raflroads from local taxation. “The dele- less liberally to their prosperity and gation would prefer not to touch this happiness. —— AN “OPEN DUOR" QUESTION. Some months ago the British and Ger- man governments protested against the remission of the export duty, $7.50 a ton, on hemp from the Philippines to the United States. Those governments nrged that this discrimination against them is an infraction of the open door policy, for contended in the far east, and expressed the hope that it will not be continued. The correspondence in the matter is now iu the hands of the senate committee on Philippine affairs and ‘it is understood will recelve consideration in connection with the pending Philippine tariff bill. This is the first question that has been raised bearing upon the open door policy of this government and its determina- tion will be important. It is sald that the congressional theory seems to be that an executive proclamation of the open door, made before congress as- sumed jurisdiction of the government of the Philippines, is not binding upon eon- gress now that that jurisdiction is in full operation. It also appears to be the opinion of some that as long as the products of other countries are admitted into the Philippines on equal terms with our own, no foreign nation can complain that we have closed the door because a Philippine product is laid down In San Francisco cheaper than in some ports of Europe. The San Francisco Chronicle takes the view that It Is none of Eng- land and Germany's business what we do with the Philippine islands. It says in regard to the open door principle, that we have simply insisted that so long matter, but leave it to the courts to set- tle,”” was the response. This 18 cooler than a 30-below-zero breeze. It is a declaration in so many words that the Douglas delegation would prefer to be excused from dis- charging its plain duty and leave the taxpayers, who have for years borne the burdens that should justly have been imposed upon the rallroads, to the ten- der mercies of these corporations until the highest courts have pronounced upon the constitutionality of the tax-exempt- ing clause of the charter. The question that will naturally force itself upon the mind of every taxpaying citizen 1s, What are they there for? What object Is there in electing repre- sentatives to the legislature If they will deliberately decline to represent the in- terests and wishes of their constituents? What other natural inference can be en- tertained than that they have mort- gaged themselves to the corporations that own $25,000,000 worth of property in Omaha which'ls assessed at less than 1 per cent of its actual value, while all pther property is assessed at 100 cents on the dollar? How can any representative to the leg- islature justify himself iu surrendering his own Individual convictions by shift- ing the obligations imposed upon him by his constituents on the plea that he is tied hand and foot to do only that which the majority of his colleagues will per- mit him te do, even when his action or attitude is in conflict with his own hon- est convictions and when he believes 1t to be detrimental to the public welfare? SE——— The dominant majority of the Douglas as China is recognized as an independ- | delegation to the legislature fs repre- ent nation she shall observe, and be | sented as expressing a desire to be ex- permitted to observe, her treaties with | cused from striking out that portion of this country. the charter which permits the railroads ‘There s no doubt as to our right to do [to evade their taxes by having their as we vlease with the Philippines. We | property In Omaha assessed at mileage can establish free trade between the |rates by the State Board of Equaliza- islands and this country and maintain [tion and let this disugreeable duty be & prohibitive tariff in the Philippines on | performed by the courts. But suppose goods of other countries than our own. | that the rallroads should succeed in We may of right discriminate to the [ overruling and reversing the action of most radical extent against our com-|the Board of Review by buying up a petitors for Philippine trade. But would | majority of the city council, how would it be expedient to assert this right?|the rallroad taxation clause of the char- Should we not in doing s» inyite retalia- | ter get into the courts? Buppose, on the tion ou the part of countries that are in |other haud, that the rullroads | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, from tampering with the council. Why | should taxpayers of Omaha be compelled to wait for a decision from the federal courts, or the supreme court of Ne- braska, when its representatives In the legislature can give them relief by knocking out the rallroad taxation clanse? There is no room to doubt that the Monroe doctrine is exceedingly unpopu- lar with the German nation, however, the government by inference may have recently recognized it. The immense expansion of German foreign trade has raised visions of colonial empire which have pointed toward South America. With a large German population already in some of the states, it is natural that the aggressive spirit of the mother na- tion should be dissatistied with an in- ternational rule whose maintenance bars it from the chance of territorial ac- quisition In a whole continent. The German people would hall with delight A positive movement on the part of united Europe to annul the Monroe doc- trine, but there is not the slightest pos- sibility of such a movement at present, nor is it probable that it can ever be consummated. r——— The new $ear will open with a poor prospéct of peace among the great rail- road systems especially interested in the transcontinental traffic. A bitter war has sprung up between the Gould and Harriman interests, which will inevi- tably result in construction of a great deal of new mileage and it is just pos- sible the Milwaukee will resume its plan for building to the coast. The. Real Estate exchinge committee on taxation does not appear to be willing to lay down just to accommodate the tax-shirking raflroad. The taxpaying citizens of Omaha certainly will not lay down even if it takes years to fight it out. —— e to Break L Chlcago Chronicle. The mad mullah has not been killed for almost. two weeks and his friends are be- ginning to feel uneasy, about him. Old as Good as the New. Philadelphia Press. It is not necessary to go to the trouble of getting up new resolutions for the New Year. The old ones can be worked over once again. Cut Out the Preface, 8t. Louls Globe-Democrat. Arbitration Is a goqd thing, but should never again be prefaced by the selzure of @ navy and bombardment of a fort as a means to collect private debts. Opportunity for Milllonaires. Brooklyn Eagle, If our millionires want to do one of the greatest services to the human race that is P ble to them, why don't they engage Dr. Lorenz to live in America, at a suf- ficlent income, and let him cure the poor? —— Jug Handle Suggestion. Portland Oregonian. Ya Nebraska the State Board of Chari- ture to pass an act & husband to desert his wife. How foolish to expect a legislature of men to pass such a law! Acting upon' the suggestion, they may paes a law making it a criminal offense for a wife to desert her husband. 'an We Live Without Them? Baltimore American. The highly dangerous habit of kissing having been called by special legislation to the attention of the public, the practice of hand-shaking has next been haled befors the medical bar to give reason why it should not be banished from mogern so- clety as harboring objectionable germs. It looks as though we were gradually work- ing back to the old days when clothes were made out of armorplate. ‘Whoeoping Up thé Farmers' Trust. Philadelphia North American. The farmers are trying to organize a trus but it will be seen that among the announced purposes of the combination lm- {tation of products, destruction of compe- tition and dividends on fictitious capitaliza- tion are not included. The aim of the farmer is not Morganization of agriculture. He desires to encourage improvements in methods, increase the crops, obtain & fair price for farm products and get a square Success to the trust and more power to its arm! Aerogra in a Storm, Victor Smith tn New York Press. While the storm was thickest on Satur- day afternoon, about 3:30, I stood on top of the Chesebrough buflding, 17 State_street, reading aerograme from Coney Island and Fort Wadsworth. Not an object in the har- bor was visible, but the blizsard’s fury did Dot retard messages in the slightest de- gree. As & matter of fact, a great preci- pitation of snow or rain serves to increase the efficacy of the wireless system. Aero- grams fiy all the faster and truer as the elements destroy or embarrass the existing Primitive New England Knowledge Which Was Sesnt Elsewhere. Boston Globe. The glory of the New England forefathers is not likely to soon fade from the earth. In New York, Philadelphia, in the west, and, in fact, wherever we cast the eye we find ready representatives of the Pilgrim Fathers embled to sound their virtues and glorify thelr names at this season. In New York and elsewhere some at- tempts have been made to imitate the Pilgrim Fathers in the bills of fare served. How puerile it looks to try to imitate the Pilgrim bill of fare in the Waldorf-Astori and similar fashionable gatherings! Even if they had the food they haven't the men and the parlors of fashionable hotels are not the places to display them. But it may surprise a good many New Yorkers to know that the Plymouth colouy raised potatoes as early as 1862, about the same time Gosnold raised oats and barley. In fact, right in Boston we raised beans as early as 1602, and forty-two years afterward they bad the conceit to think that they knew beans in Manhattan and Virginia. The fact is that the Pilgrim Fathers were a platu, blunt, ‘unvarnished set of fel- lows. Rev. Dr. Twing, president of tb Western Reserve university, lately stated that the Fathers were even & very t of men. Not one of them, be said, except Brewster, had ever seen the inside of a collegd. Yet few men bave ever been more hon- of learning, especially by Harvard university, and by other colleges. It was not that they were lear: that they were men of character and convic- tion. All honor to the Pligrim Fathers! We will even forgive them, though they allowed history te chest Cape Cod gut of the real belag ROUND ASIOUT NEW YORK. the Current of Metropolis, “The accounts of the high prices paid for real estate on Manhattan island read Iike the records of a boom town" says a letter in the Philadelphia Ledger, “and many people are wondering It a reaction will set in. Prices continue to advance to sensational figures. This particularly 1s true in the business sections and in the more aristrocratic residential districts, and It s true to some extent in every other part of the island. The reason Is plain. The city is capable of almost indefinite expansion north and east, but Manhattan, which Is the heart of the city, its center of business, of amusoment and of art, is restricted to a fixed territory that can never be enlarged. Hence the owner of real estate on Manhattan island has trom one point of view a monopoly. Its value must necessarily increase as the trade and commereg_ of the city grows.” e in the After a wedding at Grace church the other afternoon, relates the Evening Post, there was a street scene that in its com- position and pictorial value was Iike a bit from a play. When the bridal party came out of the church they stopped for a mo- ment, laughing and talking gaily. In- stantly traffic was stopped and a crowd formed on the sidewalk—the audience. The bride nfade a conspicuous figure be- cause of her dress and the background of smartly attired attendants. Each woman | that joined the sidewalk audience. sald softly and apparently unconsciously, “Aln’t she sweot?' then began a critical inven- tory. Three or four dirty-faced urchins came out of Ninth street with a rush, sew the throng and wormed their way through 4nto the first row and waited for something to happen. A spruce young usher furnished | the excuse. He had gotten a bag of rice and when he and the others began to toss it over the bride the urchins set up a shrill cheer and clamored for “fest a little handful.” STy Up in Morningside park, in Harlem, by permission of the city, says a New York letter, there has been a camp of about a dozen male consumptives since October 15. They are taking the new open-air cure for the disease. Each man has a sheltet tent and there is a big A tent used as a kitchen. The men take turns doing the cooking for the camp and a sort of voluntary military discipline is maintained, the most robust man of the lot—and the term is rather pitiable at that—having been chosen to boss the outfit when the camp was estab. lished. The men are visited every day by the physician in charge of them, who is posi- tive that the open-air scheme is the only way of curing pulmonary diseases. The men are very warmly clad in several sults of heavy underwear, but they are not per- mitted to have any sort of a fire in or around their shelter tents and they are required to keep on the move as much as possible during the hours of the day. At night they sleep in their shelter tents under heavy bedding, but their heads are exposed to the cold air, of course. The medical man having them in charge main. tains that the more frigid alr they breathe while thus comfortably wrapped up in their bedding the better are their chances of being cured. Other features of the open- alr cure are a diet consisting very largely of raw eggs, unlimited quantities of pure milk and a certain emulsion of mixed fats, which has attalned a big vogue over here even among persons who are only in a run-down physical condition. The funniest version of English In the city, reports the Times, is that heard at | the Chinese kindergarten, and the quaintest | little “Americans” in New York are the small, pig-tailed persons who go to 11% Mott street to weave paper mats and learn thelr first pothooks. Some twenty or twen- ty-five of them gather around the teacher each day. The muster roll is much longer, but they are excessively irregular as well as unpunctual in their atténdance. The | Chinese empire may bo founded upon com- | petitive examinations, but those members of it found in Chinatown have apparently little conception of the value of education. t they have some is proved by the fact t three-fourths of the pupils are boys, while a good percentage of the girls are little ‘half-and-halfs,’ whose mothers do not consider the education of the kinder- garten too advanced for their daughters. A desire to bave the children learn English, the difculty of sending them to the pub- e schools on account of the teasing of other children, and a vague kncwledge of the Gerry soclety which permeates the quarter, are other elements conducing to fn- ere the attendance, As for the little Chinese girls, not one of them is to be seen on the street after she is 12 years old. She sits at home with her mother, doing Chinese sweatshop work on the loose » mer garments worn by the men of the rter. One never sees & woman on the streets of Chinatown. Beneath stout bars guarding a wide arched window in the United States assay office, In Wall street, thousands of dollars’ worth of little gold bricks, the honest and true kind, pass every day from Uncle Sam's coffers to the hands of jewelers and bank- And all that Uncle Sam charges for the exchange is b cents on $100 for the small o The bars Uncle Sam dispenses are of two general sizes, the $5,000 size for bankers and the $150 size for jewelers, the small size being about an inch and a quarter long, three-quarters wide and perhaps half an inch or less in thickness. Very often they run up to $200 or even more in value. Thelr e adapts them to the size of the jewel- er's crucible. As for the banker, he does not melt his gold; he contents himself with shipping it back and forth across the ocean. A remarkable feature of the exchange of legal tender for gold bars is that one can- not always get just the amount he wishes. It & jeweler or bunker wishes $10,000 in gold bullion Uncle Sam gives him as near that amount as he possibly can. It may be $9,970.50 or $10,000. the bars vary in size and welght and practically ell of them have odd cents in their value. Two bars the cashier handed out one day re- | ere stamped $531.70 and $123.10. ng gold bars the purchaser first tells the cashier at the assay office how mych he wishes. The cashier comes as near thls amount as he can with the bars on nd, and then the purchaser goes next door to the subtreasury, where he deposits his legal tender, gold certificates, green- backs or gold coin, for the amount desig- nated 'by the assay office cashier as the nearest to the desired amount, receiving therefor & certificate which, upon presen- tation at the assay office, insures the de- livery of the bars. But before they may be taken away the reciplent must sign for them in the registor, which lies open be- neath the bars of the wide arched window. Something short of seven years hence it will be 300 years since the Hudson river was discovered, and already numerous representatives of old Holland families in New York state and city are considering plans for fitting celebration of the tri- centenary. A committee appointed by the Holland society to outline some scheme in- cludes such good old names as Van Dyke Van Norden, Van Wyck, Roosevelt, Banta ete. A good many of the members favor & world’s fair, but there is the embar- that New York City has no fit- ting site other than Central park, and to the selection of that spot there would be strong public epposition. | otherwise sordid and unpoetic age. | @ mere sacrificial tribute to his mellifluous WHEN HENRY SINGS. An Apostrophe to Watterson's Melll- fluous Volee, Washington Post, Colonel Henry Watterson juggles very prettily with words. In his melodious peri- ods we have the rebeck and the lute, the deep and thrilling timbre of the horn, the flddle’s wild complaint. He smites the haro and wakes the palpitating pipe. He sings as Sappho gang, upon the great white rock of Mitylena; yea, like Parthen ope herself. As Eurydice followed Or- pheus, so has the star-eyed goddess hu upon the colonel's tuneful heels in t| But when Colonel Watterson flutes to us that the Monroe doctrine ‘‘took no account of imperiallsm in Brazil or royalty in Canada,” we feel like hiring & little Ger- man band and smothering him with Wag- ner. Has Colonel Watterson examined the Monroe doctrine very recently? We fancy not, for if he had examined it, he would know that it took mceount of more things than Brazil and Canada. He would kfow that it took account of the two Gulanas, the Fremch and Danish colonles, and all the rest of them, and stipulated only that there must be no more of it. The United States government did not warn off the premises anyone already in possession. It simply said that the line was drawn, and that it must not be disturbed thenceforth. Strange as it may appear, the men who were running this country at the time un- deretood that England, France, Holland, Denmark and so on, were then in occupa- tion of certain areas and territories in the western hemisphere, and frankly admitted their right to remain in such possession as long as it might suit their taste and fancy. The proposition was that the status quo should be preserved and that there should be no nonsense about it for the future. Perish the thought that anyone or any- thing shall interrupt the flow of Colonel Henry's song. This feeble chirp of ours is flood. When the ekylark trolls his midair FREIGHT RATES, ' EXOESSIV] p and Will Congress Take the Matter Do Something? Chicago Tribune Discrimination in rallroad rates is grow ing. Extortion in rates 1s the crying evil now. Under the new order of thinks no ir dividual is speclally favored, but all ar treated unjustly. Rallroad combination ha | done away largely with the favored shipper It is not so easy for him to extort cut rates | trom one road by threatening to turn his | business over to another. But ecombinatior | which makes it possible to maintain ur | form rates, has also made it possible to fix | and maintain unjust rates. | According to Mr. Prouty, interstate com merce commissioner, the overtaxation of | the public through excessive freight rat: s already a serious matter and threatens to become more serious The railroad says Mr. Prouty, promised, when they werq combining, that they would not raise rates but rates have been advanced and are still advancing. There are pow complaints of | illegal charges before ‘the courts which amount to a lump sum of $400,000,000. the one item of anthracite alone, says Mr Prouty, the roads have been squeesing the consumers out of $50,000,000 & year. Mr. Prouty has his plan for dealing with the railroad question. Other men have theirs. Congress has no plan and pays no attention to the subject. This is ‘chiefly because there is no general popular demand for action. These are prosperous times, and most people take ratlroad rates as they come. Whenever the pressure of rates is generally and seriously felt, and there is a popular demand for legislation, as there was when the interstate commerce law was enacted, congress will take the matter up and do something. e SMILES OF THE OLD YEAR. Boston Transcript: Canvasser—T'yve a book here I'd llke to show you. Busy Ma a bulldog In the next room I'd like to show you. Somerville Journal: Slim Man—8ay, old fellow, {gu'vo got one of your socks on e o lay, what doee the cricket hope to do upon its lowly perch? When Rizzio shakes the night with song, let meaner minstrels squat. —— CORN REGAINING LOST GROUN Increased Demand Abro: the Exports. Cleveland Leader. American exports of corn are steadily increasing and the shipments of that grain from the Danube valley to western Europe are as regularly diminishing. The indi- cations are that the exports of American maize for December will be three times as great as in the corresponding month of last year, though the shipments will hardly be more than 30 or 35 per cent as much | as they were in December, 1900. ' The main thing is that the changes are con- stantly In the right direction and they are by no means slow. These conditions in the corn trade indi- cate that the effects of a very bad crop which cost American farmers the tem- porary loss of a big export trade in the most important American cereal will soon and it seems reasonable to expect that corn alone will lift the total trade of the United States 350,000,000 over the figures for the current year in 1603, un- less there should be a serious loss in some other direction. Natural eonditions favor a fine business with Europe in many Shown in wrong' side out. Fat Man—Weil, it doesn't make any dit- ference to me. . Chicago Tribune: “Pigeon shooting ways seems to me such an Inhuman sport. - ““How can you call it that? Nobody but human belngs ever indulge in it.” Detroft Free Press: “They say she has absolutely no lelsure in her married lfe.” q married her husband«to reform : “What a nolsy thing remarked the clarionet “Just ltke a hum; ng, isn't “Like a human belnr‘r" “Yes, it's the one with the big head that makes’ the most noise.” American Baltimore : Waggsby-~The most remarkable frankness 1 have ever seen! . Naggshy—What's that? v dairy wagon tha Just labeled “Crystal rook Dairy.” Chicago Tribune: “I beg your pardon, doctor,” said the toastmaster, affer the dinner was over, “for introducing you in- adyertently as ‘professor.’ ' ‘“That's ‘all right,” repiled the prinocipal speaker of the occasion. “The title fits ‘mo better than ‘doctor’ does. I profess to be a dector, but I get mighty little practice.” NEBRASKA POETS ON NEW YEAR. I saw an old friend turn y from me And slowly totter on his anclent cane, With ‘labored steps, as one who suffers leading agricultural products, notwith- standing the excellent harvests of that continent last season. Australia must import wheat rather than dispose of a surplus and the Argentine exports of grain promise: to be only.imoderate. Conservative. Americans sometimes have serfous doubts about special features of the financial situation, such as the fate of certain heavily watered trusts, but there {8 mo room for uneasiness concerning uch basic elements of our natural pros- pority as the abundance of great staples of the soll and the size of the surplus which can be sent to other markets. PERSONAL NOTES. Prince Leopold Ferdinand of Saxony thinks America is the only country in which to start life afresh. There are some lives that sadly need starting afresh. Governor Yates of Illinois has abandoned his trip to Cuba and expects to return from Florida and spend New Year's day In the executive mansion at Springfield. It is sald upon reliable authority that when J. P. Morgan and King Edward went to a pleasant little game of bridge at Am- bassador Choate's recent affair the band be- gan to play “God Save the King.” Commissioner General Sargeant of Wash- ington, who was grand master of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen for seventeen years, has been presented by the order with a hi ome silver service of 191 pleces C. P. Harder, now postmaster of Danville, Pa., enlisted as a drummer boy in the union army in 1861 at the age of 10 years and 6 months, and now cl to have been the youngest soldier to enlist In the was the youngest of five brother: whom entered the union army. Gilbert's pooh bah does not compare with Lord Raglan, governor of the Isle of Man. He is president of both houses of the island parliament, he can initiate laws and taxa- tion, he is chancellor of the exchequer, président of the government board, chief Justice of thé courts, admits members to the bar, is head of the military forces and po- lice, besides being commandant of the pris- ons. In fact he Is invested with such mult!. form authority that he may be regarded as an absolute monarch. . He all of n, And dim, sad eyes that scarcely seemed to se I called his name, again, again, but he ‘Was all unheedl; and the snow and rain Came in between with ull and. misiy stain And shut him out beyond my alght or plea. Abh, well, he was not always over kind; Nay, often even cruel, T confess, Yet, strange at 't RQut call to mind better deeds, his sometime 1enderness. I am glad, since we no niore shall meet, The bitter to forget and keep the sweet. ISABEL RICHEY. And The 0ld year wore a robe of green, With many garlands of sweet flow'rs, And fastened with the golden sheen Of shining, shimm'ring, dreamy hours. And then the ripening summer time Made him a garment of spun gold, With gleaming emeralds at each line, And beauty lurking in each fold. Rich autumn changed his bril To sober brown and qui A And rubles gave it lovelines: Burning with light of closing day. t dress And now the spirit of the snow Bestows a cloak of fleecy white, Bedecked with dlamonds that show Unrivaled splendor day and night. ‘The signal fires of the sun Proclaim the dying of the year; His spring and summer time are gone, The winter of his life is here, He meets the new year, fair and glad; He turns to greet him at death’s door, And smiles o see him gally clad In the last mantle that he wore, BELLE WILLEY GUB. The Year is drawing to a close; Old Year, good-bye! To some 'twas filled with joys; to others, woes; 4 Year, good-by, We leave the past with deep regrets and T8, For hours misspent have added to our And to the future look for recompense, When we may gain more wisdom and more nse’ Old Year, good-bye! Thou glad New Year. we welcome thee; All hail, New' Year! Ana may your coming il with glee; Al hail, New Year! Our new resolves will be ‘our Hives to make More worthy, less of sin and grave mis- And if our efforts fruitful to the end ‘We'll mourn thy waning days as some lost nd ; All hail, New Year! CORYDON ROOD. and other articles of merchan morrow. All through our store are department also included. to be had, you will be money values. CLOSED ALL DAY NEW YEARS We are going to take inventory—all of our broken lines_ bave been reduced for this occasion—to go into effect to- no other time and are dificult to duplicate—our children’s If there is any article of wearable for the man or boy . “No clothing fits like ours.” - RBrowning-King 3@ R S. WILCOX, Manager. dise that are not complete values that are to be had at shead to investigate these