Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 3, 1903, Page 6

xonw - COMMERCIAL PRUBLENS. THE OMAHA Dany BEE EDITOR. confronting the United States which are likely to press more urgently for solu- tion this year than last. The action of the senate committee on foreign rela- tions In reportfng adversely on the E ROSEWATER, PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dafly Bee (without Sunday), One Year ':m B B e $% | treaties with Argentina and Jamaies is s s 1% | resurded ssuring the rejection of all | ay Dee, One Yea :nan v,':fiurry Farmer, One Y 1® | the reciprocity treaties megotiated dur- DELIVERED BY CARRIER. ly Bee (without Sunday). per €opy... 3¢ ly Bee (without Bunday), per week. ik ly Bee (Inciuding Sunday), per week 17c Btnday Bee, per copy RNy ening Bee (without Sunday), per week fc ing the administration of President Me Kinley requiring congressional ratifica- tion. It is quite plainly indicated that the policy so earmestly advocated by hening Bee (ncluding Sunday). P, |the late president and approved by Mr. Complaints of Irregularities in delivery | Rooeevelt Is not to be carried out by the should be addressed to City Circulation De- partment. il present congress, though it should not e F“;FF.;‘:—‘ES» be hastily assumed that it is to be v 4 el Buflding, Twen- | wholly abandoned as a republiéan prin- ts. ciple. The party has been so strougly committed to reciprocity by its leading statesmen and its national conventions that it cannot now safely diseredit the system, though it may refuse to apply it in particular cases. Perhaps the most serious of the com' mercial problems s In regard to Ger- many. That country has taken an ag- gressive position in its new tariff which threatens decided injury to our trade, now large and profitablel The ques- tion as to what may be done to prevent, at least in part this promised damage to our commerce with Germany, must receive attention. Future commercial relations with France are of hardly less importance. There is pending in the senate a reciprocity treaty with that country the advocates of which claim is largely favorable to the United States in its terms and would materially benefit our French trade. It has been held In suspense for more tham two years and If It shall finally be rejected by the senate, which seems probable, France may deem it necessary to take Yorl shington—al Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. - Communications relating to news and ed- ttorial matter Adressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, es.: Geceps B. Taachuck, eecretaly of Bee blishing company ul says the utu‘}‘mmm of_full and com- sworn, Net total sales ... Net average sales Subscribed in my before me this st e (Seal) Omaha ought also to celebrate the ad- vent of the Chicago Great Western In the year 1908. — The first cable message from Hawall managed to come in under the wire with the other New Year's day callers. e It is reassuring to know that the city of Fez remains calm. In other words, it Is still assured ghat its hat is on And now we have a deadlock on the assignment of the dockets between the E— About the only elephant lacking in the great Curzon procession was the fa- mous G. O. P. quadruped created by the W After pump-bandling the crowd ror‘,qumud with the history of the United two or three bours on New Year's day, | States or he would not assume that the _it is probable President Roosevelt had | American people had lately suddenly | pronounced ideas on the question whether It is more blessed to give than to recefve In the White House. v | : i i ! i i FEER Ik prfy 111 I mercial interests. Our trade relations some action unfriendly to our com- with Russia bave suffered from the controversy in regard to the differential duty on sugar from that country and although the loss has not been very great the Russian market is certainly one to be cultivated. ‘We have also to consider intelligently and carefully what is necessary to be done for promoting our trade with the Orient. This great field, which prom- ises to contribute vastly to our wealth and prosperity, must not be neglected. There is already strong competition in the markets of the far east and it is | depression, retarding for a time our In order to | Progress, but there is no reason to fear certaln to become flercer. obtain our share American manufac- turers and merchants must be active and enterprising and prepared to meet | their competitors at every peint. Our government will undoubtedly continue to losist upon the principle of com- mercial equality for all nations in that quarter of the world, but in order to win trade we must be as active and en- ergetic as others who are striving for it. The great South American mar- ket offers opportunity which we should take advantage of. The southern coun- tries ought to feel more friendly to- ward us now timn ever before and therefore be better displeased to do| - 5., 7 exchange of views regard- business with us if we make the proper efforts to meet their requirements. The strong position which the United States has attained In the world's mar- kets can be held only by persistent en- terprise and pursuing, in the language of McKinley, “a broad and enlightened SURDAU AND AMERICAN MILITARISM. Max Nordau cannot be well ac scquired ‘& military epirit. On the S WEALTH Ninety-four billion dollars, tn ronad numbers, was the wealth of the nation when the census of 190 was taken. It s greater than that now by at least SE000.000000 if the rate of increase in the ten years preceding the census has been maintaloed during the past twe years and it is not to be doubted that such is the case. The United States has’ more than doubled its wealth in twenty years and there seems to be no reason why the progress made during that period. which it is needless to say has never been equalled by any other coun- try, should mot go on for the mnext twenty years. The resources of the country are practically boundless, its producing cepacity can be developed to an almost unlimited extent, it can sus- tain a population five or six times as large as it now has. In view of what has been .accomplished in material ad- vancement during the last two decades it does not appear extravagant to esti- mate the wealth of the United States a quarter of a century hence at $200,000.- 000,000, with a vast increase in indus- tries and commerce. . This country is now the world's lead- ing banking power. Taking European estimates of the banking power of vari- ous countries, the comptroller of the currency has.made a comparison of the total with the present banking power of the United States, showing that In this particular this country is twice as powerful as Great Britain nearly twice as powerfuyl as all to the whole mass of foreign countries enumerated. Nowhere else does the concentration of floating cap- ital and the extension of the credit sys- tem approach such a degree of develop- ment as in the United States This| demonstrates conclusively that this country is now the money power of the | world and It Is steadily growing stronger in this position. It Is interest- ing to note also that In comparison with the public debts of other great nations that of ours is small in amount. Such facts are well calculated to en- courage optimism among the people and to stimulate their enterprise. There will undoubdtedly come periods of that this nation will go backward or will fail to retain a leading position in the world race for wealth and indus-| trial and commercial power. gE——— CHARTER DISCUSSION. Public discussion of proposed amend- ments to the city charter has at last be- | gun. In view of the fact that the ses- sion of the legislature will open within three days, it Is not to be expected that any well-digested scheme of munie- ipal regeneration can be formulated or agreed upon. All that can be accom- continental Europe and almost equal| SATURDAY, ervens when the Raldwin-Mercer polioe commission was inducted into office, Is again olling up for the municipal cam- palgn. The.good people of Omaba who had gone to bed without their night- caps because they bad fondly Imagined that the machine was a busted com- munity will doubtless be frightened out of thelr wits by this latest dis- covery That Missouri Pacific order against nepotism that enables a superior offh- cer to plant relatives ou the pay roll of the company in positions under him might be extended to the public service with good effect. The tendency to make publia office a family affair is altogether too prevalent. It may be that the only way to check it is to in- terdict it entirely Ne Trust Here. Louisville Courter-Journal. The numbder and vartety of idiotie bills agalfist the trusts that are being Introduced in congress would indicate that there ls at least me trust tdat destroys cempetition amoag the teedle-minded. Keen Thrast of Semg. Chicago Post. Peor Mascagni'! He is probably verging oa & mental condition in which he will ap- preciate such rag-time geme as “Take your clothes and go.” Provided, of course, that our constables will leave Dim even this mach “Plain People” Getting Rich. Times change aad we all chaage with them. Charies A. Towne is not as much of a popuiist as he was in 1300 by about $1,000,- | 900 and ex-Governor Hogg of Texas lacks something like $7,000,000 of being a trust- Rater zow. | the loss of & brave and taitatul seldler, of & hearty and successful mazager of clean amusements on a large scale, asd of a versatile, mirthtul and comscientious com- edian, a5 well as of an excellent citizem and a faithtul friend. A Symbolle Springfield Republican. The gorgeous spectacle at Delhi is caleu- lated to impress India with the splendor of the power that rules, but to outsiders noth- ing could be more symbolic than the ride of Lord Curzon on the back of the elepbast in the first day’s festivities. That was England riding India. Vaia Yells of the Yellows. Philadeiphta Press. One strong evidemce of good semse and eool judgment is to be found I the fact that the Venmesuelan affair, with all the labored efforts Yo magnify it into & eause of war, bas not had the least influemce on the mocey market -at home or abroad. Sensible men of fSnance could Dot be per. suaded by journalistic hysterics that the Emperor William of Germany so much eov- eted Venezuelan territory, with its “greaser” Inbabitants, as to excite a gemeral war under pretense of enforcing the pay- ment of debts to his subjects. The seasa- tion was too eballow and flat for sober con- sideration, and the business of the world has kept.on in ie wented ways. Time for ive Measures. Kansas City Star plished by public discussion at short ing the most vital defects of the exist- ing charter and the ventilation of sug- | sirable and advantageous. Whether the Douglas delegation will! heed any popular demand or be disposed to carry out any of the sug- gestions or recommendations of public bodies and public meetings Is still problematical. The noncommittal and noncommunicative policy pursued by the delegation up to date would seem to indicate that its members have plans of their own, irrespective of the wishes of their constituents, and in all probabil- gestions for changes regarded as de-| contrary, they have, as & whole, rather | |V Dave already drafted a revised char- lost than gained in military hard |{ter on the assumption that they know during the last gemeration. The very conditions of the settlement and con- quest of this continent made fts In- habitants a warllke people. They came virtually as Invaders, whatever pretense may bave been made to the comtrary, and, confronted by savage foes, fought their way during three centuries from ocean to ocean. The froutier as it was better than anybody what is wanted and do not propose to allow anybody else to improvise municipal reform legislation for them. Under such conditions public discus- sion of proposed charter amendments will, at best, be a profitless pastime, and yet it Is not only proper but im- peratively necessary that all questions slowly pushed westward was the skir- mish line of veritable and ceaseless war, and the rifle was as Indispensable as the axe and the plow. If these facts bad escaped Nordau's attention he should not have missed the significance of the more notable demonstrations of fighting prowess in the French wars, in the wars with the mother ecountry in 1776 and 1812, in the war with Mexico in 1848 and in the great civil war of 1881 The conditions to which those of the present generation were born are ma- terially Qifferent and are such as to tend toward pesce. The war of the frontier bas at last ceased. The un- precedented industrialism which has taken possession of the contineat, re- quiring the most intense effort for its development, and expanding within a few decades into a predigious foreign commerce, is inhereatly a guaranty of peace. It is a conspicuous fact that within a geseration the American peo- ple have taken the foremost place for international arbitration and for all ex- pedients for the peaceful settlement of such differences as must ipevitably arise between nations, a policy that has been persistently pursued from the set- tlement of the Alabama claims down to the still pending case of Venesuela. The truth, of course, is that Nordau ever view may be taken of the neces sity or the wisdom of that war, and whatever embarrassment may be in- volved in the Insular acquisitions that followed in its train, the affecting Omaba’s future growth and welfare, and especially its municipal development, should be fully discussed within the bearing of the delegation, so that its members may not be able to plead ignorance of public sentiment. Such bas been the custom ever since Omaba had a charter, and such has been the usage in all cities whose munic- ipal machinery is regulated by char- ters enacted through legislatures. In any event, the public discussion of pub- He issues can do no harm. If the men elected to represent Omaha in the legls- lature of 1903 have made up their minds to ignore popular demands and public sentiment and are determined to assume all responsibility for charter re- vision, they are at liberty to do so. Some members of former delegations pursued just such a policy. By this course they succeeded in inflieting upon Omaha confusion, litigation and ineal- culable loss, but they rarely succeeded in securing other positions of honor and trust. The report of the operations of the Agricultural departiuent for the sup- pression of the cattle plague in New England Is very gratifying. Not only has the disease been restricted to the place of outbreak, but it has already been almost extirpated there. The de- partment has acted with great emergy, and its success is a striking illustration of what can be accomplished by modern scientific methods well directed. — The raflroads say they do not want a grain market in Omaha because it would Interfere with the long haul They sald the same thing when Kansas City insisted on equitable grain rates, bat were finally persuaded to give In Why should Omaha be demled favors extended to Kansas City? — And now the loesl popocratic organ This country Eas been conspicuously gen- rous ‘with the:dig Tallway companies. aluablp concgasjons havé been made. Enormous privileges baye been granted. Every encouragement that a federal gov- erament could reasonably give to these great agencies of material growth and na- tional development has been given. It Is now time that restrictive measures should be applied. The system of robbery that Bas beem going OB has fostered the spirit of public ownership against the taste and the judgment of the people and if no other means is found to secure reasonable treat- ment from the ralircads this sentiment will continue to grow. And if the railroads ever do become public property they will | Bot be taken in on the basis of watersd | stock, efther. Solution of a Mystery. Philadelphia Record. Why Batters and March Dares should be mad has provoked the curiosity of philoso- phers and humerists, but a partial solution of the mystery is afforded by the hatters who compose the Cloth Hat and Capmakers’ National union, who are mad because the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen elected President Rooseveit an bonorary member. The convention of this union has adopted resolutions to the effect that It is against the principles of trade unlonism to admit anyone to membership who bad never worked at the trade represented by the union, and, besides, the hat and capmakers disapproved of Mr. Roosevelt's course whea OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. The emperor of Germany, with all his panoply of war lord, has been markedly democratic in choosing his intimates and isors outside the pobliity. He has been dieposed to meet and confer in public and private with men of affairs—manufactur- ers, merchants, masters of the mechanical arts, economists and philanthropists; in fact, With all who are striving to improve the commercial, industrial and Intellectual condition of Germany. The ki r is hon- est and fearless, energetio and practical The lowly birth of the late Herr Krupp was no obstacle to the friendship of the kaiser. He considered and published It loudly that he did so, that mo individual stood higher than plain Herr Krupp. The Kalser haswset up an active thinking for once among the German who bear titles and do mothing for anybedy, not even for themselves. e Fitteen or twenty years ago the great- est possible strategle Importance was at- tached to Port Arthur and there were periodical alarms that its occupation by Russia would prove & casus belll on the part of Great Britaln. Then there came the great flourish of trumpets over the British occupation of Wel-h 1} that the place was of no use base, although it might be a nice, healthy spot for a sanatorium. Now the glory of Port Arthur has almost all departed, and the probability is that Russia would bandon it altogether If she had not spent £0 much money there. It was expected to prove the great southern terminus and commer®tal depot of the Manchuriam rail- way, but this is the position occupled by Dalny, while Port Arthur is reached by a loop lime. It has been deserted by nearly all its merchants, who have migrated to Dalny, and exists only as a military and saval headquarters. Even as & naval sta- tion it will be of Inferior rank to Viadi- vostok. Some Russian naval experts bave aiready advised the government to follow the example of Bagiand at Wel-hal-wel and withdraw from the place, but it s mot Iikely that this advice will be taken, as retirement would not only de an offense to national pride, but & confession of error. - The people of Japan are begianing to recognize that to malintaln a big standiag army, to have and to hold a modern pavy and to be ambitious to de considered one of the powers of the world, requires & vast amount of momey. There is mot much in Japan that can be further taxed to secure the sums required without emtailing undue Bardships, hence the indirect meaas of taxing imports more Beavily has been re- sorted to. The mew tariff is Dot for pro- tection. It is for revemue oumly, as the Cleveland free traders might say, and goods that the Japanese cannot produce and yet ties have reeeived the large total of $36. 9,864, and museums and art galleries the comparatively small amount of §2,586,000. Library denations have dropped from $15,- 288,732 In 1901 to $4,970,800, and of this amount Mr, Carnegle is to be credited with | only $2,508,500, as compared with $12,888,600 ";“:"""'w‘:‘ » ""n‘;"‘":’“"" eyeq |8 1901, & decrease which Indicates that bis - s e W = | lbrary this 18 nearing its gotdess Bve Khandencd the 10us of taking | Hoca aoek A O O sther wars of :::‘h'fllbr“;‘fl:. ‘::' “'““l";"':m‘:d":h:{ | getting rid of his money if he would not die oo+ .- - disgraced. From this point of view it is in- they afe willing to annex the western hem- | {erapting 1o recall that in 1890, the Sret year isphere to Uncle Sam's quarter section. of his library donations, he gave $3,503,600 Dr. Bllis T. Plerce, a chief of the Ogalalla | for thirty-four libraries; in 1900, $640,000 Sloux, has been elected to the Sduth Da- | for nineteen; in 1901, $12,888,600 for 109, kota leglslature s a representative of Fall | and {u 1902, $2,698,500 for ninety-six; mak- River county. Though nominally an Indian | ing a total of 268 libraries which he has he is of Caucasian blood. He ved ' caused to be erected all over the United among the red men for twenty-elght years. | States at a total cost of $19,630,060. It is The friends of the late Colonel Charles A. | likely Mr. Carnegie has come to the con- 1l, long @ representative from the clusion he has done enough in this direc- congrossional district of Connecti- | tion, as it is many months since he has cut, are quiotly raising & fund for the edu- 'made any offers. If he has come to the con- cation of his children. The plan is to raise | clusion that perhaps his widespread dis- 25,000 for his tamily and the fund is al- | tribution of Intellectual charity has not ready making good progress. been altogether judiclous in ita methods he r United States Senator Willlam B. | Will find many others sharing the same A member of the New Hamp- | View. tutional convention. He is the representative of Ward 8§ of Concord, Mer- rimac county. The New Hampshire conven- tion comprises 413 delegates. The atate leg- islature appropriated $25,000 for its ex- n POLITICAL DRIFT. Benator Qeorge G. Vest of Missourl re- affirms his intention to retire from huh"el life with the close of his present term. ' This is likely to place Gumshoe Bill Stone a whole, the year's record speaks well for philanthropy. It 18 a record which rep- resents the sympathy and merosity of thousands, and year by year people are learning how to bestow their money more practically and in ways which do the most good and least harm. POINTED REMARKS. pe! Colonel John R. Pencell, the tamous horse breeder, announces himself as a candidate for governor of Virginia and says his cam- palgn slogan will be “Look out for the A honey bee.” One of his horses, the Honey | S9merville journale Only the fool oy Bee, won first honors at the New York show | by it last fall, a fact of which the colonel is Philadelphia Press: Willle—Pa, wha b her. exceedingly proud. ‘The were in New York at the date of the federal cen: of two years ago 1,239 American citizens born in forelgn countries dQuring the residence of thelr parents abroad. Ome of the members of the New York City delegation to the next house of representatives, George B. McClellan, was born abroad. He is a native of Dresden in Germany. Candidates are already being put forward for mext year's mayoralty election in Bos- ton. On the republican side Dr. E. Peabody t_do Cai ence -We mean t! Hlenoe of otl people, my son, particularly of curious little boys. Chicago Tribune: ‘“Which is the mother and which s the daughter? asked Mr. Gaboy, with his most engaging smile, on being introduced to them. ““The old fool!” simultaneously exclaimed two volces as soon as he had gone. ‘Washington Star: “Do you think Josh' irventions will work?" asked Mrs. Corn- tossel. “I_hope 80, answered her husband; “I know mighty well that Josh won't.” Brooklyn Life: Mrs. Chic—Our new rector must have have been selected to pay the expenses of government. Many articles | formerly on the free list are mow made| dutiable. Foodstuffs gemerally have the duty on them imcressed 35 per ceat, and whest, formerly untaxed, is now charged 7 cents per 133 pounds. Even raw material for manufacture suffers. The duty ca pig- | iron is raised 50 per cemt, and steel, for- merly free, has now to pay 35 ceats or 85 cents, according to kind, per 133 pounds. Clothing is morve heavily taxed Cotton yarn bas to pay 35 per cent more and fan- nels have to pay 4 cents instead of 3 cents | per square yard In isolated lines, such as serges and piain-woven blanketing. there is & reduction. v The present session at Montd Carle, ae- cording to present indications, will be the best that the resort has had aimce the gambling bank of M. Blanc was estad- lished. The best part of the season has heretofore been the late winter and early spring. but the recent early November found the place as lively, the guests at the hotels and large villas as many sad the money as abundant as in last Febru- ary. The gambling is incessant and the stories of money won and lost are umer- ous. Two months ago the semsational plunging of Bares de Wietinghof afforded an interesting topic of comversation. The | baron bails from Berlic and he played a) game that war in deflagce of all systems and secepted gambiing axicms. He suc- ceeded in breaking the bank twice In three Gerry, Alderman George H. Tinkham, ex- Alderman P. A. Dyar and G. W. Swallow are mentioned. Congressman Naphen is the leading democratic possibility, but he will not contest if Mayor Collins wishes to try for re-election. Whea the United States senate met on December 1 for the beginaing of the second session of the Pifty-seventh congress, both senators from the following states were in thelr seats: Alx’ama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Missourt, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia—all southern states. There were oaly three absentees from the states of the south—one senator from Florida, one from Tennessee and ome from Texas. Johnny Gooduow of Minneapolls, comsul general at Shangbal, is under fire, being charged with Shanghai-fag vessel owners for liberal fees. An imvestigation has been ordered. When the Minneapolitan got the job a few years ago those who knew him best rushed into print to laud Mr. Good- now as a good fellow. The hope is cherished at his home town that he will emerge trom the melee within a “big mitt" from thbe| Minneapolis factory. DONATIONS OF THE YEAR. A Record of Liberality Far Above the Average. Chicago Tribune. While the donations which have been made by gift and bequests to educational, charitable and religious institutions during 1902 fall far short of those which were still they are greatly in ex- Axy year prior to 1301 This year the total is $77,147,157, which is far above the aver- age, leaving out last year's. It is doubt- ful whether this amount will be given in 1903, as the needa for giving will be fewer, the competition of millionaires to keep on the good side of the public will not be so intense, and some channels of distribution will be closed. | days. Recently, however, little Bas bees | Edueatiooal institutions bave had thelr fair share of gifts. One hundred and forty- four of them have recefved $27.900.503 in Beard of him, the people baviag & more | absorbing subject in the statement that | during the month of November the batk | sums ranging from $1,000 to $1,000,000 and won over $490,000. The rush for Monte | upward in individual oo nll o Carlo thus early is 1o & measure attrid- | and religious societies heve received $4,869,- uted to the black eye which gambling &t |700. This sum does mot include the re is_not at all worldly. Mr. Chic—Well, he will have to tone our parish down. Mrs. Chic—Oh, no; our parish will have to tone him up. Star: 8o you think you wil Washington have a titled son-in-law. o8, answered Mr. and the girls think we'd rtner 8 then a stlence. their merry and plannirg together A and ey They are plotting To take me by surp: A sudden rush from the stairway, A sudden raid from the hall’ By three doors left unguarded They enter my castle wall! They climb up into my turret O’er the arms and back of my chalr; ey seem to be everywhere. They almost devour me with kisses Their arme about me entwine TiI 1 think of the Bishop of Stngea In his Mouse-Tower on the Rhine! Do you think, Oh. blue-eyed banditet, Because you have scaled the wall, Such an mustache as [ am Is nct & mateh for you all’ Ostend bas received from the Belglan Par- lament, s measure which the cable re- ports has just recelved the approval of King Leopold. X No doudt the Uganda ratiway will be a money making institution some day, but the Mfldw‘uhmr-fllyl\-h.lll meanwhile the enterprise ls & steady draln upon the resources of Great Britaln. The House of Commons Bas been called upon to fund another $3,600,000 for extra expendl- Sunday offerings, which amount to a largs I have you fast o total in & year, zor the twenty-one million DT R, trees twentieth century offering to the Methodist ipiscopal church, which covers a period of three years. Until an official statement 1s made it will be Impossidle to know how much of it should be credited to 1902. Chart. 1l not let you depart, But put you down into the dungeon In the round-tower of my heart. And there will I keep you forever, Yes. forever and a day, Til the walls shall crumble to rutn, And moulder 1 dust away' ture and voted it with oaly & mild protest. Sir Edward Grey pointed out that the road 1s oot in any sense a commereial enterprise, but the imevitable consequence of the pres- Be was a police commissioner. If the presi- dent had given a 35,000 office to the head of the Hat and Capmakers’ union It might Bave made a difference. LINKING THE ORIENT. Importance of the American Cable Lime Acress the Pacific. Cleveland Plain Dealer. If no untcward circumstasces shall inter- veme the dream of the late Joba W. Mackay will be realised within the year by the completion of an all-American ca- bie line llaking the United States with its Bew possessions Ia the Orfeat. The con- mection with Honolulu was made last week and the work will be pushed rapidly to completion, making it thus possible to send & message from San Frascisco to Maaila with only three delays instead of the four- teen mOW Decessary whes usiag the route by way of Burope. Another welcome result will be & reduction of rates from $1.66 to $1 per word from San Frascisco to Maafla or to the stations in Chins and Japan. The three licks, one of which bas just been completed, will average some 1,000 miles in leagth. The second will run zorthwest from Hooolulu to an uninbabited group, known as the Midway islands, from their position about balf way between North America asd Asia, where a station will be estabiished. The third link will ex- tend from these islands to Guam, an Amer- lcan possession, where & naval station bas already been estabiished, and will skirt the edge of ome of the deepest of ocean’s knowp abysses, where a depth of seven miles bas been found The fourth will be carried arcund the grest faland of Luson and be clinched in Maalla bay, betwees which and Asia cable connection already exista. The scheme is a tremendous one, but ia this day of big things seems sot remark- able. The value of the cable ia pesce aad war will be beyoud computation. Inci- dentally it will prove, if further prect were needed, that there was Do occasion for the United States 1o embask in the eaterprise The line under construction will be at the government's dispesal, if the pecessi'y shall arise, no less absolutely thas if built with public meney and operated by public em- ployes. The argument of those who clam- ored for the United States to go outside its proper spherc asd set up in the ocesn telegraph business has been discredited at & surprisingly early daie ence of Great Britain in Uganda. The fact ummmmzuvmm- fills reasomable expectations in the future the raiiroad will pay as & matter of course. The chief cause of complaiat just mow is that the original estimates Bave proved so entirely untrustworthy. This in itself is & commen experfence, but a this case the excess of the actual over the estimated ex- pense has been phenomeral All the aif2- culties seem to have bees minimized. The country bas turmed out to be much mere @ificult than was expected, the climate much more unheaithy, the cost of labor sponsible eontractors. .. A curious public meonument, especially ably very few of the citizens of Berlia, or indeed of any other city, have the slightest HHRAL § Berlin exercise of th B — Handy te Have Around, However. Men’s Overcoats— $12.50 Overcoats . 10,00 $15.00 Overcoats. ..12,.50 $18.00 Overcoats . 15,00 $20.00 Overcoats . 16.50 $22.00 Overcoats . 18,00 $25.00 Overcoats. . 20.00 preportion. tables. and are on the second foor. mences at once. A Clothing Reduction We bave just taken an inwntory and find many broken lines—when a break occurs—as it does about this time of the season—in any Hae of sizes. M'Imm.flfim”myll‘fl.mhill" Our broken lines have been placed on separate tables and marked down for & closing sale—and they represent our entire stock, Including black clay . Worsteds. There are some very fine bargains Bere and whea it comes to buying good clothes at these prices we don't know where you caa do better, Black clay worsted cutaway and Prine Alert suits are cut in same Our Boys’ Clothing Has also recelved a generous cue, and like the men's, are om separate All Broken Lines Of doys® overcoats, Juvealle overcoats and reefers, boyw' and ehild's loog past suits, 3-plece sults, 3-plece short pant suits, saflor suits, Jestor sui's vestes suits, Russian suits and kilt dresses. These Dave all beem marked at o 25 Per Cent Discount Furnishings $1.00 and $1.50 Fancy Shirts, 75¢c. $2.00 Shirts, $1.50 Flannel Night Shirts, 40¢c. and other articles in this departmeat st greatly reduced prices It's up to you to profit by it e, e R S WILCOX, Manager. Men’s Suits— $12.50 Suits...... 10.00 $15.00 Suits.......12.50 $18.00 Suits.......15.00 $20.00 Suits...... 16.50 $22.00 Suits . . 18.00 $25.00 Buits. ..... 20,00 $30.00 Suits......25.00