Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 9, 1903, Page 6

THE OMAHA DA ILY BEE: FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1903, -—_— THE OMAHA DAILY Bgfii E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERME OF SUBSCRIPTION, ally Bee (without Sunday), One Year.$4.00 aily Bee and Sunday, One Year (3] Tllustrated B One Year . 2w Bunday Bee, Use Year PRy Baturdny Hoc, One Year T Twentieth Century Farmer, One Year.. Lo D IVERED BY CARRI aily Bee (without Sunday), per Daily Hee (without Sunday), per week..12c | Dally Bee (nciuding Sunday), per week.1ic [ Bunday Bee, per copy 3 | vening Bee (without Sunday), per week 6c Svening Bee (ncluding Bunday), per | " 133046900 | irregularities 1n' deiivery | to City Circulation De- w: ¢ Complaitits of should be addressed partment. OFFICES. e Bee Bulldin Sn omanacity Hall Buflding, Twen- ty-Nrth and M Streets. Council Blufte—10 Pearl Street. Chicago-_1siy. Unity Building New FYork- s Park Row Buflding. Washington—w1 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. g i o ca tic elating to news and ed- ey Should be Addressed: Omana ee, Edltorial Lepartment. CIRCULATION. 0 0 , Doaglas County, s8.: e B Tanchuick, accretary of The Bee Publishing compeny, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and com- lete coples of The Daily, Morning, Even- hg and Sunday Bee printed during the month of Decen: 1%, was as follows: 0,820 30,010 ...80,880 30,780 28,700 80,000 30,500 0,000 130,250 | 30,830 80,870 8,805 | 80,790 82,520 80,040 28,820 30,810 910 SEESENENENREES “Total 052,045 Less unsold and returned coples.... 10,181 042,404 Net total sales g v 1 GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. 1esence and sworn to Subscribed In my before me this Slst jay of December, A, D. M. B. HUNGATE, Notary Public, Governor Mickey's watchword: “Strict economy without parsimony. President Burt has returned to Omaha in good humor. It is to be hoped that he will have no occasion to lose his good humor while he remains. i The senatorial contest in Colorado threatens to re-enact the senatorial con- test in Nebraska of'two years ago, with a very, very dark horse looming up In the distance. SEem— It the city prisoners can be fed for 9 cents a meal, why should it dost 45 cents for two meals to feed prisoners in the county jail? That conundrum Is passed up to the new county board. Em—— Experience is the best teacher. Ex- perience has convinced Ezra P. Savage that fewer elections and longer tenure of office would be very desirable for most men at the public crib. s L ] Colonel Ager, chief pass distributer of the allled community-of-interest rail- roads, should strike for higher pay. For a man of his capacity and experience $200 a month is a mere bagatelle. S— The waterspout by which the state senate was deluged at the opening of the session was not entirely unexpected by the people who knew that the tall senator from Douglas is a reservoir unto himself. Among the inevitable consequences of the higher price of fuel and the higher price of provisions and other commodi- ties s the increased cost of mainte- nance of state Institutions and the ne- cessity of larger appropriations. e 1t 1s to be hoped that S8enate File No. 1 ‘was not fabricated as a plece of political claptrap or a holdup. Munlcipal own- ership of water works 1s desirable, but popular sentiment n Its favor should not be misdirected into political or mer- cenary channels. The chances for recovering the pro- ceeds of that $200,000 warrant from the Bartley bondsmen are not much better than are the chances of recovering the $286,000 ‘deposit lost in the wrecked Oapital National bank from Charlie Mosher and the other bondsmen. o 2 e The pending asmy appropriation bill for 1003, carries $9,000,000 pay of enlisted men and $5,000,000 pay qf offi- cers; total, $14,000,000... Pay of rall- road and steamship companles for trans- portation $15,000,000, or $1,000,000 more than the pay of the whole army. Com- ment would be superfiuous. The governor of South Carolina Is reputed to have remarked once upon a time to"the ‘governor of North Carolina, “It is a long time between drinks. ‘Whether the outgolng governor of Ne- braska made the same remark to the in- coming governor of Nebraska has not transpired. Suffice It to say, we feel sure that the incoming governor de- elined with thanks. — It is doubtless fortumate for a good many people in the state house that the outgolng governor was not in position to have full swing for his reform axe to carry out the recommendations em- bodied in his farewell address. Other- wise we would presently have no state PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT URGES ACTION. Again has President Roosevelt shown in the most unmistakable manner that| he earnestly desires legislation for the supervision and regulation of the eom binations engaged in interstate and for- | Jign commerce. He also feels that such | legislation should be enacted by thy present congress and there has been plainly Indicated, in the letter of At torney General Koox published a few | days ago, what character of legislation | the president regards as desirable. Ac cording to the latest advices the presi- dent is not committed to any particulur | measure among those which have bo-t'ui introduced in congress. It apparently | is not intended that the influence of the | administration shall be exerted for the | promotion of the Cullom, the Hoar, the Littlefield or any other of the numerous auti-trust bills that have been submitted and are now In the hands of the proper committees of the two houses, but that administration support will be given to any measure which shall have the en- dorsement of a majority of republieans in cougress, President Roosevelt, while not . at- tempting to force congressional action, is endeavoring to impress upon his party in congress the imperative duty of tak ing action on the trust question and do- Ing so promptly. In this, it is not to be doubted, he has the unqualified en- dorsement and support of the great ma- Jority of republicans. The party Is fully committed to a policy of trust regula- tion and supervision. Its promises in this direction have been accepted with confidence by the people. The president believes that good faith demands the ful- fillment of these promises and all repub- lleans who desire that the party shall retain its claim to popular confidence will stand with him, Representative Grosvenor of Ohlo is quoted as saying that the trust ques. tion Is a most difficult one to handle in & legislative way, but he thought some measure will be enacted into law at the present sesslon and suggested that It will be mecessary to steer a middle course between those who want radical legislation and those who are opposed to any legislation. Everybody of intelli- gence who has given the subject thoughtful consideration realizes that it is a complex and difficult problem, to be dealt with carefully and conservatively. A rash and reckless poliey would do infinite harm, from which the independ- ent Industries as well as the combina- tions would suffer.’ The republican party has never falled to find a remedy for evils and abuses affecting the public interests and it will not fail now. There will be a wise solution of the trust prob- lem which will protect the people against extortion, prevent the crushing out of competition and effectively check the tendency toward monopoly. Per- haps all that is desirable cannot be ac- complished at once, but its ultimate at- tainment can be confidently predicted. The present congress should move in this direction. Sm——y THE COAL SITUATION. From various parts of the country come reports of an impending coal fam- ine and at some places the situation is most serfous. At Toledo, for instance, it is stated that dealers will not sell coal except upon a physiclan's certifi- cate showing that there is illness in the home of the would-be purchaser and that coal is necessary as a safeguard for the patient. At a number of places east and west the supply of coal is much be- low the demand and decreasing. Every- where prices have reached exorbitant figures. In Chicago the manufacttrers assert that there Is a conspiracy among dealers to deprive them of coal in order to raise prices and the manufacturers are proposing to take legal action against the dealers. The anthracite operators are making no effort to meet the demand and the in- dependent operators, baving broken away from their contracts with the rail- roand coal companies, are advancing prices at thelr pleasure and have now got their figures to an almost prohibitive point. With the winter not half over, the coal situation generally threatens a great deal of suffering, but to this the coal barons are of course quite in- different and they have the matter en- tirely in their own hands. OUTLOUK FOR CUBAN TREATY. The indications are favorable to rati- fcation of the reciprocity treaty with Cuba and the supporters of the treaty are hopeful that this will speedily be accomplished. The reported abandon- ment of opposition on the part of the beet sugar interests seems to leave no obstacle in the way of ratification, so that the only apparent reason for de lay 1s In the consideration by the senate necessary to ascertain.if the treaty is equitable in Its terms and makes satis factory concessions to the United States. The published text of the convention shows that the Mexican authorities have been very reasonable and that the ar- rangement should work very fayorabl to our export trade with Cuba, The general opinlon expessed of the treaty | has been that under its operatien our| business with Cuba would be materially | increased and of course we should enjoy a declded advantage over other coun- tries trading with the fsland republic. Indeed, with this treaty in operation it auditor, no state commlissioner of pub- Ue lamds and bulldings, no labor bureau and np supreme court commission. 3 Smrm——— In a recent magazine contribution President Ingalls of the Big Four rail- road declares that franchise taxation is pot only falr, but just. As a practical rallroad manager he has the courage to say that “of course corporations will ob- Ject to paying taxes, as everybody does, but nevertheless it Is right and proper. Those who have the protection of the state should bear their share of its bur- dens.” President Ingalls should lose no time in coming to Nebraska to lmpress | yleld of eets and of sugar that farmers | ... iy the world's history have ever been | began” there is “hope, enterpri in sowe places are now getting from §75 | more intamously plundered than the states | sut coufidence 1a the future porporativn managers with Lis views. \ : would seem that the United States will have no very serlous competition in the Cuban market. The withdrawal of the beet sugar op- position appears to have been decided upon immediately after the recent state- ment of Secretary of Agriculture Wil- son regarding the present condition and the prospects of the beet sugar indus- try. ‘I'nis showed that it 1s now highly prosperous and that the promise for the continued development of the industry is most favorable. Secretary Wilscn of the cabinet who had opposed a tari to $100 an acre from their beets and in short thme all up to date beet farm will be doing as well. He expressed the opinlon that within five the United States will be producing all its own sugar at a price not exceeding 2 cents a pound. As Se Wilson was understood to be the only member rs years ptary concesslon on Cuban sugar his interest because of in the development of the American beet sugar industry, his sts ment swept away the argument chiefly relled upon by the oppohents of Cuban sciprocit The treaty will undoubtedly be help ful to Cuba, though perhaps not to the | extent which its people expect. It will benefit American trade with the island and at the same time bind more closely | the United States and the new republic PRUPER BASIS OF APPORTIONMEAT. The republican city committee is cre ited with the intention of making an ap- | portionment for the coming city pri- marles on the basis of one delegate for every fifty votes cast In the city of Omaha for the republican candidate for governor in 1902. On broad lines the principle of representation apportioned | according to the number of votes cast by the party Is eminently sound, but in adopting that principle the committee should be governed by the fundamental idea that the apportionment shall repre- sent the full vote of the party, without reference to faction or the individual in- terest of any particular candidate or set of candidates. An apportionment on such lines would be fair and the distribution of delegates | in proportion to the muster roll of the party would make the convention truly representative of the rank and file. The proposed change from arbitrary and in- equitable representation to an appor- tonment based on the relative strength of the party in each ward and precinct has for years been advocated by this paper, and any move In that direction will meet its cordial endorsement. There is, however, cogent reason for opposition to the selection of the vote cast for governor at the last election as a basis for the apportionment in the nomination of candidates for the city ticket. It is an open secret that the vote for governor does not fairly repre- sent the rank and file of the party in Omaha, and the manifest aim of the ad- vocates of this basis is factional and purely personal. What they are aiming at is to disfranchise the republicans of wards that are llable to prefer one can- didate for mayor In the interest of other | candidates for mayor. This would be | wrong from every point of view. Committees are organized to promote party harmony and success rather than party discord and disaster. Political experience shows that it is never safe to perpetrate-a wrong In the interest of any candidate or faction. Curses, like chickens, come home #o roost, and chi- canery and trickery in the long run are liable to prove a boomerang. Established precedent would have dic- tated that the basis for nominating a mayor and city ticket should be the | vote for mayor and city officers at the last city election. If this basis Is lop- sided because many democrats voted for Frank E. Moores and many republicans voted for W. 8. Poppleton at the election | three years ago, the vote cast for presi- | dentfal electors would not be open to that objection. It is safe to assert that all republicans voted for McKinley and all democrats voted for Bryan. At any rate, the per- centage of republicans who voted for Bryan In 1900 and the percentage of | democrats who voted for McKinley that year is Infinitesimal. An apportionment on that basis would therefore be as nearly fair as it could be made. Ap- portioned on that basis, the Fourth and Sixth wards would doubtless be given many more delegates than the First and Second wards, or the Third and Fifth wards, etc. Should it be deemed best that a basis on a more recent vote than that of the presidential election is desirable, then some candidate on the state ticket to whom there was no special opposition should be selected as the standard. Tf, however, the city committee attempts at the very outset of the municipal cam- palgn to bar out one set of candidates | and force the nomination of another set of candidates it will simply lay the ! foundation for disaster in the spring election. Just now the most profitable industry | in the federal buflding Is the lassoing | of tame Indians by deputy United States marshals especially trained for that arduous task. Last year the Winne- bagoes and the Omahas furnished all the supply. This year a bunch of Santee Sioux numbering half a hundred have been corralled and detailed to polic the corridors of the building as alleged witnesses necessary to convict one bung. ling bootlegger of selling two bhottles of whisky contra v to Uncle Sam's statutes made and provided. After the Lord had created the heay ens and the earth, and blown the bpeath | of life into Adam, he six shalt thou labor and the seventh day shalt thou rest, but Nebraska legisla tors think they need a rest after four| days of arduous labor in marking time, ——— Whence Came the Pressure, said, Chicago News. Nowadays prices undoubtedly depend on supply and demand—to-wit, on the corpora- tions' supply of nerve and the stockbolders’ demand for dividends. e Policy Vindicated. Springfeld Republican “Large and enormously rich fields exist north of Pretoria Gob! dlamond reports a London paper. Then the British South African policy Is doubly viadicated. Both gold and dlamonds! “‘God bless us all,” as Tiny Tim would say. inted out that improved methods and scientific principles are so .ncreasing the T rdering of Ind, Springfield Republican. The truth about India is that few sudject | Two hundred words a minute at 1 cent a | ported in that matter by the United States { terest in 'his fortunes, Dec. 1, 1902 Clowe” i ot 81 | Winter ‘wheat... 266,727,475 Spring whea 165,496,642 | | Oats . 303,684,852 of India were during the first 100 years of the British domination. There is less plun- dering now, but the famines are a keepsake of the glorious old days of loot. Even now the interests of the British manufacturers dictate the industrial policy of India Generosity Pushed to the Limit, Detroit Free Press. 1t is very kind on the part of Lord Beres- ford to tender the help of Great Britain in maintaining the Monroe doetrine, but if Great Britain looks after its own affalrs In Egypt and South Africa and India and China and Australia and Canada, it will probably have all it can attend to. Most Independent of Men. Charlotte (N. C.) Observer. It agriculture is without opportunity to pile up wealth it has its compensation for the loss. The life of the farmer may be one of toil, of patient endurance, of com- parative fsolation from his fellow man, but it 18 one of the greatest independence. The man between the plow handles is the freest man on earth. One More Unfortunate. Boston Globe. It is sald that the revision of the army uniform by a special board was brought about by the detection of an officer we ing russet shoes with full dress. W was done to the culprit is not known, but, unfortunately, the Constitution forbade making the punishment fit the crime by bolling him in ofl. Here is Rich Humor. Chicago Chronicle. Among the humors which occasionally enlighten the coal situation is the threat of Penneylvania consumers to attack the coal trust through the medium of the state legislature. The fate of an anti-trust measure in the Pennsylvania legislature can only be compared to the finish of the hietoric snowball in hades Prejndiced Judicial Dicta, Chicago News The passionate and unjudicial tone of the decision in which the Missouri court de- clares that the mule is a ‘“viclous and treacherous animal” deprives the opinion of any real weight. Whatever experience the court may have had with mules, the court room is mot the place in which to give way to personal prejudices. Mutually Beneficial. Philadelphia Press. Now that the cable is laid the annexa- tion of the Hawalian islands s placed on a more absolute footing. They wre tied to us by a new bond whbich does away with distance and brings them into im- mediate contact with our policy and busi- ness affairs. Our relation is at once made closer, more secure and more mutually ad- vantageou; Speed the Day. Indianapolis Journal. Marcon! predicts a commercial through wireless telegraphy. Signor revolution word and the gemeral use of wireless telegraphy instead of the mails for & large proportion of the personal correspondence that now passes between America and Europe are ‘developments that he sees in the near future. Yet the laying of the Pacific submarine cable goes right on, An to Pass It Philadelphia Press. China wants the question of gold or silver payments of the indemnity growing out of the Boxer troubles referred to The Hague tribunal for arbitratiom, and as it is sup- it is difficult to believe that the civilized powers of Eurape will, hold out in refu 1t means, If decided against China, an ad- ditional tax on it of qver $40,000,000. It is unable to pay and ought not to be pressed too hard. ng of Calamity's Foghorn: New York Sun. One by ome the sons of calamity get tangled up with the octopus and let the prosperity bacillus undermine their herofc principles. Hon. Jacob Coxey of the Irregular Army, O., has been a man of corporations and a bloated bondholder for years. Hogg, Towne and Bryan are plethoric of purse. And here is our old greenbacker and populist friend, General James B. Weaver of Iowa, a statesman whose ap- parently invincible disbelief in the hunt for happiness has long kept alive our in- Alas, he, too, 18 fallen. According to an teemed lowa contemporary, he has gone to Sour Lake, Tex., as president of an ofl company. Sour Lake has a name congenial to the old Weaver, but we fear that the new Weaver is destined to be an optimist and perhaps a millionatre. ASSURANCE OF A GOOD YEAR. Last Year's Abundance Uplifts Expee- tatio for 1908, Chicago Tribune. The statisticlan of the Department of Agriculture makes the following report as to the production and farm value of the principal farm crops of the United States for 1902: Production. Farm valae, Barley . Rye : Ruckwheat Fotatoes v, tons ibacco, 108 Tlaxseed Total value, . ..$2,617,895,416 The large and valuable crops of 1902 are the best assurance that 1903 will be one of the fat rs In American industrial his- tory. There need be no fear of immediate disaster or depression when the national | granaries are full to overflowing. The crops | are not so large as to force down prices. | The supply exceeds the American demand, but forelgn markets will absorb all that Americans do not consume. The shipments of corn which were suspended because of | the short crop of 1901 will be resumed. | Europeans have learned some of the uses of maize and will be glad to take at reason- able spare The ups and downs of stocks fn Wall street may be viewed with unconcern. The industrial condition of the country for this year is not settled there. Neither is it de- termined by the success or failure of pro- moters in carryiug out plans for the com- bination of railroads or of industries. The good crops of 1902 will supply the farmers with funds and they will keep the manu- facturers busy supplying thelr wants. Most | of the large manufacturers have orders on | hand which it will take them & good part of the year to fill. After the advance orders have been disposed of others will come. The prophet of disaster should be silent for a few months at least The survey of the entire financial world, printed in the New York Evening Post of last Wednesday, shows that “In spite of all the doubts and hesitations which the recent exploiting of American industry has pro- voked the bright spot in the prospect is industrial America.”" The clouds of indus- trial depression have settled over Germany prices whatever Americans have to | The London and Paris markets are only hoping for the light. On the eastern sea- board of the United States there is some uncertainty as yet, but in “‘the new west where the present movement of prosperity and buoy- THOMAS JEFFERSON, Letter from General Lafayette on the Death of the Former. After his return from his triumphal tour in 1824 In the United States, General La- fayette wrote the following letter to his triend, Arnold Scheffer, the Fremch pub- | leist, and brother of the well known painter, Ary Scheffer. It was published for the first time in the last number of the New York Independent “I am much pleased to hear that it is you who are going to write a notice about | Mr. Jefferson. The subject s one of the | finest that can be treated, for the history of the human race tells us of no one who has ever had a broader mind, a loftier soul, a stronger republicanism, of no one in fine, who has ever been associated with | a greater and more fruitful drama of soclal | civilization. “I have recently sent to Carrel two big | You | will find in them some remarks on Adams | parcels of United States newspapers. and Jefterson, and, in particular, dates re ferring to the early years of the illustrious | Virginian. “‘These papers contain details concerning Jefferson’s last moments. There are some in the Richriond paper of the 14th of July | on whose authenticity you can rely. They were published by a friend who left Monti- cello the dey before Jefterson's death and who recelved communization of them from Jefterson’s grandson immediately after the event. I send you the original of this triend's letter. i ““The idea of associating slavery with the name of this great man is so painful that, in your place, I should limit myself to ing that among the blacks emancipated was his faithful servant Barwell, or else to mentioning this servant among the small nuiber sdmitted Into his sick room. Probably, however, you will have no room | for all the particulars one would like to give. “I hope there will be enough space for printing the translation of the last letter he wrote in his life. It contains sentl- ments worthy of belng published, and which in this form would have more welght than in any other. ‘“Jefterson’s scrupulousness in giving to Franklin and Adams the credit for the | modifications introduced by them into the Declaration of Independence cannot be too highly praised. “I am sending you & book in which you will find a very good notice of Jeferson. Within the next couple of days I will dic~ tate some further remarke.® “LAFAYETTE. “Lagrange, September 17, 1826." * Unfortunately, no trace has been found of the letter here referred to. CHEAPER TALK ACROSS SEAS. Poantbilities of Increased Cable and Wireless Development. ew York World. Thursday's announcement of the recelpt at San Francisco of the first message from Honolulu over the new Pacific cable sug- gests the interesting question, How will Marconigrams affect the cost of across-sea messages? In a speech at Sydney, N. S., recently, Marcon!, as reported in the World special, remarked that, while his first contract with the Canadian government was to send wire- less commercial messages at 10 cents a word, he thought it probable the charge would eventually come down to 1 cent per word. Side by side with this put Hennfker Hea- ton's statement in the current Magazine of Commerce that cable messages could and ought to be sent for 2 cents per word. He points out the glaring inequality of the present cable rates, under which a message from London to the Cape is sent for less than half the charge for one trom London to Lagos, which is but half way to the Cape. Mr. Heaton has long urged that the Brit- ish and American governments should join hands, purchase and internationalize all the great Anglo-American cable systems and make cable rates uniform and cheap for all distances. To lay an ocean cable costs $1,000 per mile. A transatlantic cable represents an investment of over $3,000,000. A wireless telegraph system can be established across the Atlantic at a total cost of $200,000. It seems highly probable, therefore, that in the near future the cable lines, whether they remain private or become public prop~ erty, will find it necessary greatly to reduce their charges in order to hold thelr own against the new Marconigrams. PERSONAL NOTES. Georgla’s governor, by a new law, can now have only twenty-eight coloncls on his staff at a time. 1t the anthracite operators are hard on the public, it canmot be said that the bituminous people are at all soft. Elder D. Lindsley of Marion, O., is be- MHeved to hold the world's record for mem- bership in the Oddfellows. He entered Kos- clusko lodge, No. 58, in 1846, being, there- fore, in the fifty-seventh year of his mem- bership. He is 82 years old. Ex-Governor J. Proctor Knott, at the age of 73, has settled down for the remainder of his life, as he hopes, in & new house bullt by him in Market street, Lebanon, Ky., his native town. A fine country home which he had just beyond the city limits was burned a little while ago. Congressman Hemmenway said to “Joe™ Cannon, “You will have to sweat next summer making up the committees,” refer- ring to one of Mr. Cannon's duties when | elected speaker. The Danville sage replied | gravely, “I have been waiting & good while | for that sweat to break out on me." The Studebaker Manufacturing company | of South Bend, Ind., has presented to the | Young Men's Christian assoclation of that | city $200,000, to be used for the construc- | | tion of a building as a memorfal to the | | five original Studebaker brothers, the last of whom, Clem Studebaker, dled las* year. As a sort of reward, after preventing his relative from becoming & member of & London stock-broking firm, King Edward has allowed Prince Francis of Teck $10,000 a year until the prince can obtain some | | remunerative position more in keeping with his standiog as a member of the royal tamily. Charles D. Rose, just chosen a member of the British Parliament at the by-election at Newmarket, England, is a Canadian by birth avd married a Vermont woman. He 15 an ardent sportsman. Mr. Rose is a liberal and succeeds a conservative member who s chosen at the last election by a ma- Jority of over 1,000 votes. Except that he s sbout a head taller than the conqueror of Robert E. Lee, Gen- eral Fred Grant s now almost the exact physical counterpart of his famous father. His beard, now tinged with gray, s worn the same as his father's. given him a rugged look, too, and altogether be bears a marvelous resemblance to the silent soldler. The death of Mrs. Jesste Benton Fremont recalls the story of how her father, Senator Benton of Missouri, violently opposed her union to Lieutenant, afterward General John C. Fremont. After her marriage the senator went to a newspaper office and handed in a notice announcing the wedding Army life has | of “Jesste Benton to John C. Fremont." The editor suggested that the groom's name was usually put first, whereupon Benton 1a explosively: “It will go in that way or not at all. Fremont did not marry my daughter; she married him." BITS OF W INGTON LIFE. Minor Scenes and Imel, nts Sketched on the Spo. President Roosevelt enjoys a good clgar at the right time and in the right place, but objects to inhaling an atmosphere of cigar smoke manufactured by others. For that reason and also to reduce the fire risk he has decided to bar lighted cigars from the White House and has made known his wishes by hanging over a mantel in the publio reception room the famillar sign, “No Smoking Allowed.” Some time ago Arthur Simmons, the colored doorkeeper who has been at the White House for many years, was made smoke Inspector, but he found that his efforts to put a stop to the nuisance provoked a good deal of tall language among offenders. Mr. Simmons is of a plous turn and naturally that sort of talk shocked him exceedingly. Therefore be begged to be relieved from the task and #0 Mr. Roosevelt has hung up the sign. The fact that Senator Lodge of Massa- chusetts 18 the bosom friend of President Roosevelt is generally recognized in con- gress and many plans are shaped accord- ingly. Some time ago, relates a New York World letter, a representative from a west- ern state gave a testimonial for a patent medicine which was printed in the news- papers with his pleture. A wag here out out the advertisement and malled it to the representative with this written across its face. “I am glad to see that you have been improved physically by this medicine. Now find something that will improve you mentally and morally.” The representative replied: “1 know what I am doin 1 found that this medicine was made in Ohlo when I began to take it. I am now taking & medicine made in New York and I have telegraphed to Massachusetts for a prepa ration I understand is concocted there. With a view to bringing good luck to the omnibus state bill, Mr. Rodey, delegate trom New Mexico, is distributing to mem- bers of the senate New Mexican turquoises, unpolished and uncut, but mounted with gold, and thvs forming unique scarfpins. Mr. Rodey has the utmost confidence In the efficacy of the “‘good luck stones” and is confident that If he can {nduce the five senators rated as “doubtful” in the canvass on the bill to wear New Mexican turquoises in their scarfs the success of the measure will be assured. Senator Quay wears one of these unique pins and Mr. Rodey says that the Pennsylvania senator carries a turquolse in every pocket. Every time the delegate from New Mexico meets a senator he adjusts his glasses and zes at the necktie. At last accounts two of the doubt- ful senators had donned the ‘“‘good luck stones’” and Mr. Rodey is still working on the three remaining. The president has decided to rehang the pletures of his predecessors in the White House, and instead of banishing these old portraits, as was the plan in the renovation of the executive mansion, they are to be glven consplcuous places in the halls and corridors. The work of retouching the paintings began last week and as soon they are ready they will be put in position on the walls of the bullding. The portraits of Presidents Arthur, Polk, Jackson, Har- rison and Fillmore are to go in the main corridor. In the basement corridor will be located the portraits of some of the women who have been the “first lady of the land Those scheduled to go there are Mrs. Tyler, Mrs. Van Buren, Mrs. Polk, Mrs. Hayes and The venerable Galusha A. Grow of Penn- sylvania, who will retire from public lite with this congress, looks with distavor upon the improvements which have been made in modern railroading. Not that he dislikes the comforts of modern travel, but he says that airbrakes, patent couplers and vesti- bule platforms have robbed him of his best medicine. In the old days when the tracks were crooked and rough and the link couplers permitted the cars to jerk and jolt along Mr. Grow found a trip from Washing- ton to New York the most effective medicine he could take. When he felt his liver be- coming a trifle torpid he used to jump on a train and ride to New York. The shaking up he received in a few hours’ run was most benefical. He still applies this remedy, but he maintains that the results have dimin- ished in direct ratio to the improvements which have been made in the road. Representative Cyrus Bulloway of New Hampehire is the tallest member of the house and although he is 64 years old he insists that he is still growing. Mr. Sullo- way declares that on each Christmas day he applies a foot rule to his length and that each year shows an increase in height. This year he measured 6 feet 7% inches and he welghed 276 pounds. “If T am not growing taller, then the foot rules are growing shorter,” sald Mr. Sullo- way. “I am fully & quarter of an inch taller this year than I was last December. I think I have grown at least three inch sinco I was 25 years old. WORK AND WAGES. Foreign Orders for American Machin- ery and Equipment. Philadelphia Ledger. The statement made In the Public Ledger yesterday that American firms have secured from abroad contracts for machinery and mechanical equipment amounting to $5,000,- 000 within, two weeks, llustrates forcibly the wonderful success which is attending the American attempt to do the business of the world. It s noticeable also how large a share of this work Philadelphia is doing. Firms in this city will send locomo- tives to Guatemala and Brazil, pneumatic tools to the imperial navy yard in Klel, Germany; sugar apparatus to Porto Rico, Corliss engines to England for blast fur- naces, and to Japan for use in the power house of an electric railway; trolley cars for a Japanese traction company, and iron plpe for the Dutch East Indles, while an American firm will construct in Glasgow & factory for the manufacture of golf balls, and {n the home of the game the balls will be made according to an American process. The growih of American exports of tools and mechanical equipment has of late years been rapld, but it is not more remarkable than the increase of manufactures in gen- eral. The bureau of statistics has just pre- pared a statement which shows the exports of manufactures from the year 1780 to the present. In 1850 the value of the manufactures ex- ported was only $17,000,000, or 13 per cent of the total exports; in 1870 the value of the manufactured exports was $68,000,000, or about 17 per cent of the total export: while for the current calendar year the ex- ports of manufactures, estimated from the figures of the first ten months, will be $415 000,000, or nearly 33 per cent of the total exports. It 18 clear that the United Stat is not only selling goods, like food product because we have extraordinary natural r sources, but is surpassing England and the world in turning out manufactures which depend on the eficlency of labor. And this labor is more eficient because our m: chinery is better and our labor intelligent enough to see the benefits to trade and in- dustry, and, therefore, to labor. On the other hand, England’s fallure to meet the competition of America is due perhaps more than to any one other cause, or to all other factors combined, to English labor's hostil- ity to machinery, PROPOSED COFFEE TRUST, Producers of the Brown Rerry Seek to Reost Pricea, Chicago Tribune. The coffee-producing countries of this hemisphere, with & few insignificanit excep- tions, were represented at a coffee congress which met in New York last October. There 18 & crisis in the coffee industry. There 18 overproduction in some quarters, notably in Brazil. If prices eannot be advanced many of the planters will be ruined. The most important recommendation of the congress was that a national trust be eetablished through the machinery of a treaty by which the coffee-growing countries are to bind themselves to regulate and restrict exporta- tion so that it shall not outrun the just limits of consumption. It is assumed that the effect of this will be to raise price considerably and keep thew up. There is no doubt that the throwing of large surplus stocks of coffee on the mar- ket has an effect on prices which the con- sumer does not complain of, but which the producer does. If Brazil and other South and Central Ameridan states deem it ad- visable to form a coffee trust by regulating exportation there is nothing to prevent their doing so, but they cannot expect the United States, which is a coftee-consuming country and which grows mnonme except In Porto Rico and Hawali, to unite with them in a project to raise the price of coffee. The Russian government once suggested fo that of the United States that they com- bine to keep up the price of wheat, of which they are both large producers. The propo- sition was declined. The American gov- ernment did not how 1t could go into & trust and repudiate its anti-trust policy. The suggestion of the coffes congress that this country go into a coffee trust cannot be entertained. Other recommendations of the congress are that only the best coffee be raised, that the shipment of poor or adulterated coffes be prevented and that laws be enacted to stop the adulteration of coffee. These are unobjectionable recommendations and are feasible. The plan for the formation of an international coffee trust hardly will work. MODERN LAWYERS, Three Clases Defined and Briefly Consldered. Cosmopolitan Magazine, This brings us to the discussion of the three classes of lawyers known to modern fte. The first stand high. They are men of warked mental caliber, practieing thelr profession honorably, preventing litigation whenever possible—conducting it, when neceseary, in a straightforward way and reflecting credit at all times on thelr profession. The second is composed of the unfor- tunates, who, because of slight mental equipment, or lack of opportunity, or naturally lov: moral standards, have sunken to the poin of using the law as a elub with which to hold up the fortunate and the unfortunate of the men engaged in the business world. The third class of lawyers {s 8o new as scarcely to be generally known. But the developments of the last ten years have already produced many distinguished ex- This new division {s that of the who becomes connected with large business affairs. His first duty Is to prevent litigation. In the second place, he famillarizes himself with every depart- ment and keeps in touch with the officers and all of the company’s affairs. Less technical in his training, and perhaps for that reason more capable of taking a bird's- eye view of the company's affairs than those more immediately Interested, he be- comes an efficlent adviser in many direc- tions. He familiarizes himself with ques- tions of sclence which enter into the evo- lution of the busine: Instead of being & clog upon the Industry of others, he Is himself & leader in the direction of high- est economic development. PASSING PLEASANTRIES, The Vegetarian—Never try to make both ends me: s'rno Hen—Better lald than never.—N. Y, un. Rich Aunt—Henry, how have you run through with all your money so quickly? Tell me—that's a good fellow. Penitent Nephew—You've ~ guessed it Aunt Ann: Being a good fellow.—Philadel: phia Press, “I am afrald that you broke the New Year resolutions you made a year ago." ‘Yes; but if 1 had no occasion to make resolutions 1 couldn't fittingly celebrate tha holiday this vear. So perhaps everything is for the best.—Washington Star. “But,” protested the plain citizen, you consider honesty a good thing?" “Bure,” replied the politician, ‘but it's ltke all' ood things; you've KGt to maka some money before you can afford ft. Philadelphia Press. Miss Loved—Father, him_cons “don't when you refused t to marry me did he get on his hands and knees and plead? . Irate Father—How do I know? I couldn't see where he lit.—Punch Bowl “I came in today,” said the shoppe: those swell sidéboards of yours." Not me, lady," replied the man in the furniture store, T wore anything but a mustache. Tribune, Dick—Wu Sing Yang says Americans have no_repose. Tom—He is only half right; many Amerl. cans who have too little repose are all hustling to support Americans who have too much repose.—Detrolt Free Pres “To what do you attribute the remark- able majority by which you were elected, senator?” asked his confidential friend. T have just told you'' replied Senato; Lotsmun, with some firritation, ‘“‘what mjy election expenses were.”—Chicago Tribune SONG OF PROSPERITY. James Barton Adams in Denver Post. Peace an' plenty everywhere, Brimmin' full our bowl! Songs o' gladness in the atr, Music In the soul. Everybody steppin’ high Down the easy pike Lightnin' snap in every eye— ever w e like! Oodles o' prosperit Laylr all around, v Wheels o' business, hully geel ‘Hear thelr. whirlin' sound! Money chokin’ up the bank~ Trade a makin' more-— Not a hustler in the ranks Lettin’ out a roar. Unele 8ammy got & grin On his happy face— Bcowl he was & wearin’ bin Jostled out o' place. Bees the ball o' progress rolied Steadily along As he seth an’ sings that old Yankee Doodle song. Sta 11 workin® lively feetm Hottest sort o' pace— Each endeavorin beat Others in the race While they come with sna tread Rushin' fur the stake, 07 Colorado's 'way ahead Munchin’ at the cake! —_— THE EYES NEED CARE CONSULT HUTESON 213 South 16th St. Paxton Block.