Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 28, 1903, Page 7

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CORRESPONDENCE, Communications relating to news and ed- torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department STATEMENT OF CIRCULATIO State of Nebraska, Douglas County, se.: George B. Tzschuck, secretary of The ]!r:n PublisRing company, being duly swurn, says that the actual numbcr of full HED‘ complete coples of The Daily, Morning, Evening and Bunday Bee printed during the month of December, 155, was as follow 1. 18 emuamsmer 80,870 28,505 30,700 32,820 30,870 Hotal v orver 062,645 Less unsold and returned coples.... 10,181 042,404 LoRiive 30,402 ¢ GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. . Subscribed in_my presence and sworn to before me this 8lst day of December; A. D. 4002 M. B. HUNGATE Notary Publie. Net total sales Net aver: With all these legislatures in grinding, it 18 up to some one to project a legisla- tive merger. e amg— As a matter of precaution the senate should walt grappling with the Alaskan treaty untll warmer weather. If the local coal exchange is mnot convinced by this time that it Is an odious, grinding, monopolistic trust it 18 a hopeless pupll. P ——— With an overlap of $2,000,000 staring it in the face, the legislature ought to think twice before it appropriates § 000 for the St. Louis show. Those bank robbers operating in Ne- braska must be laboring under a delu- slon. The great pardoner no longer oc- cuples the executive chair in this state, —— . Most people will want more direct evi- dence before they will swallow the yarn about a Michigan student being killed by overstudy. The medical books do not contain the diagnosis of any such disease. The taxpayers of Omaba look to the eity council to keep the tax rate down. They have long ago given up all idea of economy from the school board so long as the budget is made up by the present superintendent. Under the precedent established hy the reform police board, patrolmen who leave their beats while on duty are docked two days pay. In the army men who desert their beats while on duty are court-martialed and drummed out of the service. —— The danger Is that the farmer who responds to all these numerous calls for meetings to launch co-operative move- ments will be kept busy doing nothing else, and will have to employ some one on the outside to do the co-operative work around his farm, pmee—— The redoubtable Devery will not be allowed to go Into eclipse in New York even If it takes a court order to inject him again into the inner sanctuaries of Tammany hall. Without Devery local polities in the great metropolls might lose all its picturesqueness. m— The allowance for the agent of the Owmaha and Winnebago reservation has been lost in the shuffle in the lower house of congress. Nobody will mourn the loss unless it be the agent and the land speculators and money in and about the reservation, changers The Douglas delegation in the house concedes that the Howell water works bill as engrossed In the senate is ille- gal, but it refuses to see anything ille- gal in the provisions of the bill that are manifestly contrary to fundamental principles and constitutional pro- visions. — A forced contribution of $302,000-will be levied upon the taxpayers of Omaha for the support of the schools during the year 1803. Toward this amount the rallroads centering in Owmaha would contribute the wmunificent sum of $471.50 on the mileage basls as- sesswents N —— When the leglslature has banished the corporate lobby and served notice on the Baldwins, Agers and their ilk that thelr presence and thelr advice are mot needed in the framing of laws . for ‘the people of Nebraska, the people of Nebraska will have greater hopes for tax reform and wholesome legisla- tion ' the interest of the common- wealth. . The school board finance committee estimates the cost of free test books for the coming year at $11L,000" At this rate the school book trust would take $110,000 out of the city of Omaha in ten years, which would seem to Justify the partiality of the trust managers to Omaha and the lavish THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, 9 JANUARY 28, 1903. REVISE THE REGISTRATION LAW. The main ohject of the law requiring the registration of voters in citles Is to prevent election frauds. Experience has demonstrated beyond a peradven ture that the registration laws are lamentably ineffective and exceedingly expensive. Abundant proof of this fact is afforded by every succeeding election in Omaba, Lincoln and other towns where registration machinery has been introduced. Originally some protection was afforded against fraudulent registration through publicity and reviglon of the registration lists. The first registration law, enacted more than thirty years ago exclusively for Omaha, required registrars to publish in the official newspaper of the city the names of registered voters, with thelr location by wards and residence number. Umder that law the last day of registration was get apart for revision and unless voters suspected of registering under assumed names after due notice failed to appear before the registrars on re- vision day their names were stricken from the roll. All this has been done away with. Publication of registered voters in the official paper has been discontinued on the plea of economy and the purgation of the registration lists on a fixed day has also been dropped. As a natural consequence false registration has been made as easy on the first day as on the last day, which occurs only three days before election. Originally there was one registration board for each ward in this eity. Now we have a board for each of the seventy-six voting districts in the eity, or a total of 228 registrars, each draw- ing $3 per day, or $684 for each regis- tration day, making a total of $2,052 for every election. This I8 a mon- strosity. What s needed for Omaha and every city where registration of voters is mandatory is a board of reg- istration composed of three men for each ward, with books for each voting district. lielty through newspapers the registration lists at least thirty days before election and a revision of registration 1ists no later than two weeks before election, with a closing of the registration books immediately after revision s completed; followed up by a publication of the names stricken off and names added on revision day. In addition to these changes in the registration law there should be re- vision of the primary election law to prevent the recurrence of the: frauds perpetrated in Omaha last fall, when more than 1,000 names were added to the registration lists on affidavits, r—— A UNIVERSAL GOLD STANDARD. It is stated that in connection with the plans being considered by the officials of Mexico for placing that country on a gold basis, the Mexican government is taking the lead in A& movement having for Its object the adoption by all the countries of the world of a uniform monetary system, the basis of which is to be the single gold standard. It is proposed to have the several countries use in their circulation as much silver as can be maintained at parity with gold, this silver to be coined at the ratio of 32 to 1. Representative Mexicans are now in Washington urging this plan and the Mexican ambassador has recently presented a note to Secretary Hay in- viting “the United States to appoint a commission to join a similar commis- slon appointed by the Mexican govern- nt, to be charged with the duty of de- vising a gold standard monetary system which will be suited to the needs of the commercial world and which can be uniformly adopted. It is sald that the invitation will probably be accepted and also that the State department has re- celved assurances that the Chinese goy- ernment will approve the plan. It is but a question of time when the gold standard will be universal, but it may be doubted whether the Mexican proposition is at present practicable, for the reason that the gold standard na- tions are not likely to disturb their pres- ent system and make a higher com- wercial price for silver, which would not benefit them but would be of material advantage to the countries that, lke Mexlico, are on a silver basis. The gold standard countries are satisfied for the present to keep silver in a subsidiary place and so far as the United States is concerned it has as much on hand as it can comfortably keep In that position. The thing for Mexico to do is to adopt the gold standard without trying any expedients. ST — REPORT OF ANTI-TRUST BILL. The report on the house anti-trust bill, as agreed upon by the judiclary committee, presents nothing essentially new, but emphasizes and strengthens much that has been sald before as to the nature of combinations commonly called trusts and the necessity for their supervision and regulation. The belief is expressed that the combinations have not been organized, as is some- times claimed, for the purpose of re- ducing prices to the consumer, but on the contrary the controlling purpose of such organizations is the profit of the parties thereto. It is pointed out that no one can now tell to what extent exorbitant prices are being pald, there being no authority, state or national, to give any adequate information on that point. Overcapitalization, says the re- port, furnishes convenient opportunity for concealing the profitable character of the enterprise and it is asserted that corporations have dgubled thelr capital- ization for the purpose of concealing their earnings. It is urged that publicity, while not claimed to be a cureall, will go far toward ameliorating oppressive condi- tions and the hope s expressed that by its avplication “the operation of of expenditure by Its agents for courtesies and refreshments whenever they favor Omaba with a visit, natural laws may i an appreciable degree alleviate - existing conditions. It is very generally admitted that pub- lleity would be serviceable in correct- conl dealers cannot, with all thelr efforts, Ing some of the evils and abuses of the | be independent of the mild snaj combinations, but than this required for a complete correction o existing conditions. more natural laws, but still provision be made for the supervision and regt lation of the mbinations b natlonal and authority, and may be confidently assumed that unt this 8 done and the policy rigidly forced some evils will remain. Industrial development which the cow binations represent is in the opinion ¢ many economists in great state of the trusts has seemed to suppor this view. Yet most of them stand an apparently are having a career. wise to rely too confidently upon operation of natural laws for allevia ing existing conditions 1s great deal of evidence not sufficlent. prosperou There that these Public interest in this subject, while still strong and earrest, is not greatl, concerned with theories and academic arguments. The people are familia with all this and what they want now 18 the application of a practical policy, be The combina- tions are here; they are doing business them- are even though It must somewhat experimental. necessarily and more firmly intrenching selves; the evils incident to them not being remedied; they are takin: unfair tribute from the people to meet the requirements of a vast overcapi talization. All this is patent and th people ask that something be done t correct it and give them W tection against monopoly it is in power of congress to provide, has been enough of talk; the time ha; come for action. —— TWO MILLS ARE AMPLE. the The Board of Education has adopted an estimate of expendittires for th | coming year, embodying in it a demand | There should also be pub- | for a direct tax levy of 2.3 mills for th #chool fund. This demand Is the school affairs mills will produce ample revenue | addition to the income from gources to run the schools without th and a levy of slightest fmpairment of their standard of efficlency. 1In fact, with a 2-mi levy the school fund would not onl, meet every legitimate requirement fo running expenses, but also leave good margin to be applied to the ex- long-standing tinguishment overlap. of the An-examination of the board's esti- mate in comparison with previous es- timates, appropriations - and revenue: shows that the probable expenses hay been systematically padded and th probable receipts other than estimated at the lowest limit. In add tlon to the ftem of $25,000 for for improvements, services and §1,850 the law expressly for new buildings to $25,000 in one year unless first authorized special vote of the people. for The item: for supplies of various kinds, including turniture and fixtures, are all far in ex- cess of what was spent for those pur-| poses last year, and so on down almost | the entire list, with the r total of the estimate is $50,000 greate: than the actual last school year. In view of these facts the demand mills cannot | for a school levy of 2.3 be justified. We believe the would be fully sustained by sentiment if it would refuse to more than 2 mills for the school and that no court, should the matte be taken Into court, would uphold th lawless demand of fthe board. counci| and with 2 mills the work of th schools will go on unhampered in any | respect. If congress passes the land-leasin, Something may be accomplished through the aperation of must The contravention of natural laws and the collapse of some Manifestly, therefore, it is not the are atever pro- There un- warranted by the financial condition of other | taxes con- structfon there Is an Iitem of $10,000 A to say nothing of §14,000 for repairs, $1,500 for architects’ sites, when limits expenditures any by sult that the | expenditures of the | public | levy | fund Two | mills is all that should have been asked I8 f Some Modern S Chicago Ohronicle. As the political pot bolls faster the usual amount of scum comes to the surfact There are individuals prancing up and down platforms instructing their fellow- citizens how to vote who, at any other time, would have heart failure at the sight of & policeman A Decided Advantage. Brooklyn BEagle. Senator Hoar does mot like it because )- | the president expresses opinions on bills ot | before they are passed. It s often an ad- vantage, not only to the nation, but to the senate, to have a man in the White House who has a mind, and is not afraid to let it be known. tesmen. 1 v it il n rt d g Ing Onr Wards a Lift. New York Tribune. The senate committee on the Philippines, in recommending action to admit free of duty into those islands all materials to be used in the construction and equipment of steam and electric railroads for a period of five years at the discretion of the Phil- ippine commiesion, has taken up a judi- cious policy. Such legislation would un- doubtedly be of marked value to all the industrious and loyal inhabitants, t- a ¥ r Value of Convictions. February Success. Men who do things, who achieve re- sults, have strong convictions; they be- lieve something in particular and believe it without reservation. A man who ls willing to fight for an ides, to sacrifice everything in order to develop it, has something definite in his life, a specific certainty that will bring him out some- where in the nelghborhood of success. A man without a policy, without a definite purpose, without a strong conviction of any kind, who belleves a little of every- thing and not much of anything, who is willing upon preseure to relinquish his | opinion on any subject, to abandon any idea he has conceived, whether it be feasi- ble or not, who does mot hold on to any one thing tenaciously, will never accom- plish much in this world. g 1- | o o s Sample of Ghoulish Glee. New York Sun. Another farmers’ trust, the Farmers' Co- operative Grain and Live Stock assoclation, has been formed, and formed with brutal disregard of the hollest feelings of a states- | man and a journalist in Lincoln, Neb., the site and capital of Mr. Bryan. The Ne- braska farmers are to build their own ele- vators and warchouses, to market thefr own products, to eliminate middlemen, to force up prices and make the railroads give lower freight rates. Wicked, wicked, o | Breedy, grasping, monopolistic Nebraska | farmers! They must be fined and punished. Publicity must glare at 'em. What un- grateful dogs they are to go to work and build trusts, when the soclologists at Washington are thinking day and night how to curb and chain those malign mon- sters! o e 2 n| 11 y r a ‘Women Seek a Risky Joh, Indianapolis Journal. The decision of the immigration com- missioner to appoint four women inspect- ors whose duty it ehall be board incoming steamships before thelr arrival in port in order to inspect the passengers, has caused considerable comment in New York. Even Commissioner Sargent was in doubt as to whether women could be found to accept the positions, {nasmuch as the duties would involve climbing a long ladder from a cutter to a steamship with both vessels in motion. His doubts have been removed, however, by a Host of applicants, women of all kinds expressing their willingness to undertake the work, ladder-climbing and all. Men are slow to learn that women are not more reluctant than themselves to do service for thelr country—when there is a salary attached. 8 e e v 2 One Way to Keep Warm, Washington Pos Coal ofl that was retailed at 10 cents & gallon last June has been for some weeks | selling at 15 cents. As everybody knows, the former price, and even the lowest price that prevailed at varfous prior periods, yielded enormous profits and piled up fabu- lous fortunes for a few men. The Post has never falled to recognize all the good points of the ofl trust. That it sold an excellent quality of ofl at a seemingly low price we cheerfully conceded, and we paid due trib- ute to the splendid business capacity of Mr. Rockefeller and his assoclates. But this rushing up of the cost of fuel in order to augment profits that already exceeded “the dreams of avarice” seems to us like heart- less oppression of the poor. When one re« members that all of those millions go to the coffers into which hundreds of millions had | been gathered before this time of distress ¢ | began, when one reads of or hears or sees the sickness and death and cruel suffering incident to lack of fuel, one cannot help thinking thoughts that had better not be printed. The only advant; of such thoughts is that they warm one up. 2 gl proposition up, it will devolve on Presi- » dent Roosevelt to deal with the fencin question in his own way subject to the books. From the vigorous language used by the laws already on the statute president in his last message need doubt that he will hes sume responsibility and go ahead wit what he thinks the right course. no One house of the Utah leglslature ha censured a Salt Lake newspaper for re- declaration that one delegation could by changing places with jack rabbits strengthen the lleving its mind with the body to which they belong. The sured editor should have been mor choice in the selection of the animal for his legislative comparisons. The raflroads are well represented by paid lobbylsts at Lincoln engaged t see that thelr masters do not suffer f the new revenue law. ryday taxpayers will upon the members of the house protect them from the shirkers. corporate ta —_— One thing the Lessler bribery case demonstrating as effe Christmas bribery charges of last yea and that is that a cholice assortment ¢ llars is to be constantly found in the v cinity of congress who are ready o short notice to furnish testimony every side of any subject. The corporations have.a right to be heard before legislative under discussion, but they have lature with a bribe-distributing that carrles on its nefarious Ilrllvflm-us in the dars. Cause for Thankfulness, Baltimore American There is one drop of comfort in the bit- ter cup of high prices. . one e to as cen- The common eve- have to depend | and senate to look after their Interests and tively as did the on committees when bills affecting their interests are no right to beset the members of the legis- lobby criminal g| MILLIONS OF TONS OF CEREALS. Development of American Agricul- ture Without Parallel. Joslah Strong in Success. The story of American agriculture has been the story of our growth in population and of the extension of our natfonal domain —a record without a parallel in the history of the world. A Chicago man once said that he had lied a great many times about the growth of his city, but Providence had always quickly come to his relief. It would take a gifted llar to overstate the growth | of our agriculture or exaggerate the marvel of its present proportions. The difficulty 18 to prod imagination to any appreciation of the simple facts. Uncle Sam already occuples the first rank pmong the farmers of the world ‘in the | magnitude and value of his crops. Al- though his family constitutes only one- twentieth of the human race, he produces | nearly one-third of the world's food supply, while Russia, which comes next as a food producer, has one-twelfth of the world's population and supplies less than one- fifth of its food. Compare our wheat crop, for 1900, with that of the other leading wheat countries of the world: Country United States..... Rus: in Europe TFrance 5% 49 Pritish India.. Germany Hungary e Ty | Ttaly P ot | O entine o1 i-| Great Britain 98 56,390,000 u| The expert (not official) estimate of our wheat crop for the last year is 700,600,000 bushels, and the same authority places our corn crop at 2589,951,000 bushels, which equals the output of wheat for the entire world in 1900. We are told by government authority that our crop of cereals for a single year fs 0,000,000 tons. Let us try to get hold of these figures so that they will mean some- thing to us. How long a traln of cars would be required to ship this crop, allow- ing forty feet outside measurement to each car and ten tons of grain to each? 1t we had a double track belting the globe at the equator, these cars loaded with our grein crop for & single year would fill both tracks solid, and then enough would be sidetracked to reach from New York to h s Is 0 n x Bushels. 18 1) 141,139,000 185,000,000 119,750,000 © 106,000,000 ©.101,166,000 The speculating | Sap Francisco six times. | individual holder to make it rustaining for STATE PRESS COMMEN Stanton Picket: The appoiniment of Cap- tain Culver to be adjutant general of Ne- braska cannot but give general s fon Thus far Governor Mickey's appointments have been meritorfous. Character and fit- ness for the position to which the appolint- ment is made are the chief considerations. Hartington Herald: Those who have made a study of Nebraska legislatures cor cede that the membership this session made up of better material than ever fore. It has often boen remarked that more than usual care was exercised in the nomi- | stac is nations, and that fewer of the professional | politician clase were elected than in former years. With this good material and the | overwhelming republican majority in both houses there fs reason to expect the best of results, Broken Bow Republican: The land leas- ing bill, which is good in some respects, is calculated to retard rather than build up | the population in the northwestern part of the state. Much of that country can only be utilized by grazing cattle, horses and sheep. While the bill provides a fee rental | that will enable the government to realize | something from it In a financial v there | 18 a question if the government and espe- clally the state, will not lose more by the | bill becoming & law than should the land be held for future development by stock men, who in time will homestend all the valleys and land adjacent to streams, and finally all the rest, on which they will pay taxes to the county and state in greater amount than the government will receive by leasing it. Besides could that territory be populated with a family to every section or two with small herds of stock it would provide a much better market for the grain produced In this county than it will should there be but one ranch to every twenty sec- tions. Wisner Free Press: Two cents per acre, or $12.80 per section, as the leasing bil' would provide for the rental of public lands for grazing purposes, would produce a very slim revenue indeed, when compared | to deeded taxable land. When this small return is divided equally, the one-half for the government frrigation fund and the | other two-fourths for county and state re- | spectively and none whatever for school | purposes it would leave those localities Jamentably short on land revenues. 1t necessary to enlarge the territory of the grazing or agricultural purposes, it would | scem better to the interests of the states and counties in which these lands are lo- cated to make a single homestead entry cover a section or more; eventually deeded and taxable. At the present, or it leased, an interminable barrier of wire fences reach over the country and mot a habitation for miles at a stretch. Churches and schools, ex- cept in an occasional hamlet, are mnot founded aad not needed; only in the study of nature and communion with the Deity on the broad open prairie are these priv- {leges afforded the scant population. Every- body except the cow man is fenced out and | the other fellow doesn’t care so mich be- cause at present he cannot get a deed for enough land by living on it to make a living on. It Is literally out of the market | and out of service except to the cattle | baron and he is making the most of the golden opportunity and Uncle Sam holds | the bag. Fremont Tribune: The decision of the populist state central committee to aban- don fusion in Nebraska is an interesting in- cident of politics. The committee at its meeting at Lincoln a few days ago prac- tically agreed to do that, and there is little doubt but that the demcerats aud populists will hereafter conduct their shows under separate tents. For the past twelve years the iwo parties have been practically one, though they have contrived to maintain dis- tinct organizations. They have won some alstinet victories by co-operation, and this | gave them courage to continue fusion. That is to say, they won the offices for a short while, though it cannot be sald, in truth, that doing this was achleving a victory. Having the offices they also had responsi- “bilities and duties and these they scarcely fafled to meet as they had promised and as the people, without any cxaggerated idoa of thelr goodness, had a right to expect. And 80 they were driven from power, after a brief and unsatisfactory period of proba- tion. They have pretty generally concluded there can be no more offices for them for a tew years, except here and there n a small way, and so each party will now be con- tent to “stand for principle” for a little | while. It in the future there comes a panic or a drouth and the peple are rest- less and seeking relief, under which condi- tions. they readily turn to anything new, there may be fusion again, in the hope ef procuring the spoils of office. Meantime there will be something of a realignment of .voters. Fusionists have three alterna- tives—to go to the democratic party, train with the populists, or, better still, to co- operate with the republicans, the party in power, and thus be able to glve force und effect in a practical way to their views. PERSONAL NOTES. Senator Beveridge lives modestly on a small salary and accepts no railroad passes or telegraph franks. When one concern can draw its check for $22,600,000, as J. P. Morgan & Co. have dome, it indicates that there's something’ doing. A democratic district leader in Brooklyn refused to accept a thousand dollar silver get the other day. Perhaps it didn’t con- taln a punch bowl. United States Senator George G. Vest of Missourl and August Emmett Maxwell of Pensacola, Fla., are believed to be the only surviving members of the confederate states senate. Though the memory of Beecher is held in deep veneration by Brooklyn citizens generally, they are mak- ing strong objection agalnst changing the name of Clinton street to Beecher avenue. A bill introduced in the Connecticut house of representatives dc way with the death penalty and provide that persons found guilty of murder In the first degree shall be impris Henry Ward permits, “spend one day in every week in a solitary chamber of reflection.’” Hon. James Wilson, culture, is to be one of the speakers at the annual convention of the Wyomi Industrial association, to be held in Chey- enne, February 3 and 4. Many other speak ers, gentlemen prominent in Wyoming agri- cultural, educational and political affairs, will take active part in the meetings. The plain people scored a signal tri- umph In Texas. Some misgu 4 upstarts attempted to make the inaugural ball a full-dress affair. When the boys from the back counties heard of the move upon the committee of arrangements and 1ald the members up for repairs. Thus the conventional swallow-tall ripped up the back and the Lone Star state saved from disgrace. Oscar Hammerstein, the New York the- ater manager, As & great stickler for even- ing drese at the play house, among guests of the management. least & deadhead can do,” he says dress up. It makes me tired to in free seats in & sack suit secretary of agri- was ce a $4, even if they ain’t. And another thing— I don't like the idea of critics coming evealng clothes. { punishment |1, and the new building will be started as | me. ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK. Ripples on the Current of Life in the Metropolin. Emphatie wife beaters in practice or take class of cowardly enjoyed immunity thetr brutality notice has been served New York to stop the consequences thugs have a from punishment because thefr victims upon such ( That rule | for | re- | |fused to prosccute and for the further | reason that imprisonment of the husband | deprived the family of support In most | cases the Iatter reason prevented adequate But the brutal evil thrived and other means scemed nec. essary to prevent suffering among the in nocent, while justice got in its work with a club A fund was raised and placed in the keeping of a soclety having for Iits prime object the punishment of wife-beat- ers. City magistrates have been notified | that in future they need have no fear for | the families of the brutes, as the fund is| sufclent to insure §7 a woek for wife and | hildren while the husband is doing time in the penitentiary. One of the first cases under the new plan was heard last week hefore Magistrate Higginbotham. A man named Rice was not only a habitual wife- beater, but he would lay abed all day and | allow his wife to do washing and then take | her meager earnings after inflicting brutal | beatings. Maglstrate Higginbotham said in sentencing the prisoner: “Under a new ar- rangement which has been made, Rice, we will seo that your wite and family are | taken care of. I am going to sentence you to six months. You are no good, and in future any wife-beater who comes befors me will get the limit. You will go up on Riker's Island for six months and break stones, and when you arg released, if you touch your wite again your punishment will be more severe.” on lenlency By the passage of title of the old Bruns- wick hotel site at Fifth avenue, Twenty- sixth to Twenty-seventh streets, and ad- joining property on both sides, it now be- comes a certainty that the long-talked-ot proposal for the erection of a mammoth hotel of modorn type on the plot will be carried through. Some additional facts about the plans have been made public. The cost of the building will be Approxi- ately $3,500,000, making the total cost of nterprise about $6,000,000. The Hotel Brunswick company will own and operate the hotel under the management of Gustav Bauman, proprietor of the Holland House, | The building will be twenty stories high, with frontage of 197 feet on Fifth avenue and 130 fect on each street. It will contain 1,100 rooms. In view ot the fact that the carrylng charges on the land in its present condition are very great, the work of tearing down the old building will be begun on February soon after that as possible. It is estimated that the building will be completed in two years. “The conversational versatility of your American giftls astonishes me. sald the Englishman who was approaching the close of his first month in New York. “Not only do I find that in society the young women have quickness of perception and readiness of repartee, but I have found that in the downtown restaurants, whero girls are em- ved as waltresses, they are extremely with their retorts.” | ““Been trying to Jolly 'em a bit, eh?" safa | the college graduate, who was finishing off in Uncle Jim's Wall street office. “Not at all-not at all'" replied the Englishman hastily. “My observations are based on what 1 hear them saying to other men. The girls are quite bright, y'kno “What led you to think them otherwise?" sald the American citizen. 1 did not look for the quality of glib- ness in girls of that class,” said the man from London. “In eating places on the other side, the waltresses never talk to you, not even after you have been golng to the restaurant every day for months. Hero in New York it is vastly different. And they seem to know where you are from, too. “I went to my usual restaurant today. | There was a new girl at my table, and the one who usually walts on me was & sort of | assistant head waitress. She came over to the girl at my able before I had a chance | to tell what I wanted and sai *‘Bring the gent a rasher of bacon, two eggs, underdone, a toasted mufin and tea. Is there anything else?” and she looked at | 1 said that would be all right, and remarked that the weather was changeable, and what do you think she mid?" “Something equally bright, I suppose,” remarked the college man. b Englishman eved him a moment. “I wonder if she was poking fun at me?" he sald. “Well, she just answered: ‘We have so many foreigners in New York we have to have all kinds of weather to sult ‘em. This is not our day for English weather, but I hope you won't get tired waiting for your turn.'" It has been stated that the “largest check ever drawn in the history of com- mercial transactions in this or any other country” was that for $22,500,000 which recently passed through the clearing house and which was drawn by J. P. Morgan & Co. for the payment of the Lake Shore's interest in Reading. As a matter of fact this check is neither the largest drawn in this country nor in Europe. A check for 016,67 was drawn by J. P. Morgan & Co. on February 5, 1801, in connectio with the disposal of Mr. Carnegle's hold- | The sorrows of those | means eyesight. pence ($41,125,000) was pald in London at the close the Chino. war as the first installment of the war indewmnity pald by China, and some timo afterward a check for £11,008,857 (about $55,000,000) was pald fn London by China as the final pay ment on the indemnity to Japan DRINKING ABITS WORKMEN, Major Church ¥ Talks Tempers ance to Nritish Wage Varners, Springfield Telegraph, Dee. 17 In his very thoughtful speech at the Britain presentation dinner the other night Major Charch Howe, Ame consul_in efMeld, made much of the d snee be- 1®een fhe British workman and b Amer!- can cousin as regards drinking habits. On the question_ whether, as Major Church Howe averred, the Britisher is at a great disadvantage in this respect there may bo some difference of opinion, but inquiry shows that however that may be, temp ance is more widely appreciated in Ameri than in this country. It is a fact that the consumption of alcohol in the United States fs smaller per head of the population than in any other great non-Mohammedan nation. Of beer the consumption in gal lons for each head of the population is 13.1, against the 31.7 of Great Britain and 27.5 of Germany, though it looms large against the 6.2 of France. France, however, is not a beer-drinking country, and it more than makes up the difference with wine, of which its people consume 4 gallons per head, against the 145 of Germany, .39 of Great Britain and .33 of the United States, which consumes only 1.10 gallons of spirita per head, against 1.12 of Gredt Britain, 1.4 of Germany and 2.02 of France. A stari- ling statement which bears directly on the alcohol question {s that the great rallway systems of the United States are run from the bottom nearly to the top by tectotalers and the man who drinks finds it more cult to get or to keep an onerous position, while even the circus which is erroneously supposed to be intemperate in its habits was, so far as Barnum's show was concerned, organized as a band of non- drinkers. a popularly POINTED REFLECTIONS, Gayman—8o you don't belleve me, eh? I suppose you belfeve that ‘men are deceivers ever.’ Mrs, Gavman—Not at all. Sometines they only think thay are dangerous—Philadelphia Prees. A man was asked recently by the gruft clerk at the stamp window, after he had deposited 2 cents, “Well, what do you want? 1o answered gently, “An automobile, please.”’—Albany Argus Lawyer—Have you ever seen the prisoner at_the bar? Witness—No, sir; but T have seen him many times when 1 strongly suspected he Rt been at 1t—Philadolppin Bulletin “Why are you In j 17" asked the kind- was the response, mine that I'm here, I minute if I could.”—W it ain't no leave in a ashington Star. Don't think because you see a man with a button off his coat that he Is certainly a hachelor. The chances are that he is mar- ried—Somerville Journal. Silllcus—Byerybody saye he is a gentus. Cynicus—Then I guess he might be. It takes genius to convince other people that you are one.—Philadelphia Re ““There rich.” “What's the proof?” “He has cut all his poor relations and puts a dollar in the plate every Sunday.'— eland Plain Dealer. is no doubt about his getting “Did you enjoy the musicale? Inquired the friend. “In a way,” answered Mr. Cumrox. “It was a great deal better than listening to the conversation that would have occurred It there hadn't been any music.”—Wash- ington Star. » THE GORING OF THE OX. ‘W. D. Nesbit in Chicago Tribune. ar away Are sure to touch our tender spot. ‘an such things be?" we rise 1o say, Is human gentleness forgot? We shudder at the direful tales That come from out the Orient— We feel that tears, and moans, and walls Have unto us a message sent. ‘We censure despots here and there, Whose subjects seem to need a friend; The ships that cross the ocean hear Rellef that we, In kindness, send. Whe —over there—is woe; Wherever persecutions rage, Our protestations quickly go, And cruel wrath they soon assuage. What If the sultan took his pen And wrote: “I learn with much That In your land are boys and men ‘Who toll all with straining eyes; In constant fear for limb and life; Where dangers great are hourly met And that thelr lives are one long strife Aguinst disease and death and debt!" surpris What If the sultan wrote: “You must Bo loas oppressive with your slaves, And deal in manner kind and just With those who work In living graves, You must not think a ton of coal 18 equal to a ton of peif” Why, I he did! Why, bless your soul, ‘We'd tell the fool to chase himself! Every Day’s Delay added danger to your ghealth and We provide glasses to meet every defect ned in the state prison | during life and shall, when their condition | they fell | especlally | “The to | man If he and his | friend are in evening dress they look like | to | my house on firet nights in other than | Ings, and checks ranging from $10,000,000 of vision and our charges are moderate, to $17,000,000 have often passed through the | clearing house , J C.HUTESON & CO., A check for £8,225,000 1 shilling and 6 213 8. 16th Street, Paxton Block. A Janunary Thaw has certainly commenced at our store. Stock We are getting ready for our Spring There are many lines of merchandise and odd articles that must be | closed out, and to avold carrying them over the price has been reduced out | of all order of reason | FOR INSTANCE: Children's kilt dresses that sold for $3.00, are now $1.00 | Chilidren’s vestee suits that sold for $3.00 up to $5.00, are now $1.50, years | 3 to 8 years, | Men's trousers that sold from $5.00 and up, are now $3.50, $2.00 Manhattan shirts, colored, are now $1.50. | $1.50 and $2.00 colored shirts are now $1.00. | $1.00 colored shirts, all (15), are mow 75c. §1.00 flannel night robes are now Some values In suspenders at 25c. Besides the good values offered above sizes except there are others that cannot mentioned for want of space and their limited quantity, but they are all set forth to attract you when you make us a call No Clothing Fits Like Ours, Rrowning-King - -v_o__l R. S. WILCOX, Manager. b X