Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 2, 1903, Page 4

" ch ’ Ny ” & 5o THE OMATA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1903. — e _The_OmAnA_ DALY BEE BE. ROBEWATER, WDITOR. . PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Bee (without Sunday), One Year..$4.00 Daliy Bee and Sunday, One Year. 600 Hiustrated Bee, One Year... junda, One Yea Yea h Century Farmer, One DELIVERED BY CARRIE! Dally Bee (without Sunday), per copy... aily Bee (without Sunday), per weel ily Bee (Inciuding Sunda Bee, per copy i Evening Bee (without Sunday Evening Bee (Including Su en R. ‘week pox e Compla of 'jrregularities 'in deiivery should be addressed to City Circulation De- partment. OFFICES. Omaha—The Bee Buflding, South Omaha—City Hall Bullding, Twen- and M Btreets. "Hunaing. Washingt th Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to néws and ed- ftoria] matter should be &adressed: Omaha Bee, Editorlal Department. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, sa.: George B, Twschuck, ecretary of The Bes Publis mpany, being duly swoen, saye that theyatual number of full and complete coples of The Daily, Morning, ing_and [ Sunda printed during the month of Jlnul;';m. was as follows: - 11 EEBENERERREES Get up early and welcome the ground Marconi should set to/work next de- vising a system of wireless heat @istri- bution that will help us get around the coal barons. 3 ———— The present Nebraska legislature is already. dstinguished In ofie thing—it has had no contests for seats in elther house to wrestle with. S—— Members of the Council Bluffs Com- mercial club have made the editor of a daily newspaper president of their or- ganization. Think of it. The South Omaha. charter bill has duly made its appearance in the legls- ] Apparently, the Cubans are not so frantlc t0 have us do something for Cuba now. It 1s fust possible they have decided to get busy doing something for themselves and let Uncle S8am's gener- osity work out by itself. Smemem— Will the manager of the Thomson- Houston Electric Light company permit the late governor threatened *o call out the whole army and havy of Nebraska to put down insurrection, in Omala. Without the nayy, the army would be impotent in this prairie state. —— The Board of Education appears to UNIVERSAL MONETARY STANDARD. The proposition looking to a univer- sal monetary standard, which has re- celved the countenance of the nationul administration, is a matter of very great Importance. A few days ago President Rogrevelt sent to corigress a message, with a report from the secretary of state and notes from the diplomatic rep- resentatives of Mexico and China, rec- ommending that the executive be given sufficient powers to lend the, support of the United States, in such manner and to such degree as he may duem ex- pedient, to the purposes of the two gov- ernments of Mexico aad China, The proposition of those countries is that a,commission be appointed to study (he economic problem presenting itself to sllver-using countries and de- vise a plan for a universal standard of colnage. When this shall be done the matter is to be laid before the goyern- ments of Burope having Interests in the far eadt, with a view to the universal adoption of the systemgy, dexised by the commission. The suggestion now made is for a general coinage of silver at the ratio of 32 to 1, each country to use in its currency so much of silver as it can maintain at a parity on the prescribed basis. In the communication of the sec- retary of state accompanying the presi- dent’s message it is stated that the Uni- ted States is not asked to modify its monetary system, nor is any movement contemplated for the restoration of in- ternational bimetalism. The idea of the Mexiean government, with which the proposition originated, is that “consul- tatidn between the United States and Buropean powers having dependencies in the Orient and the independent coun- tries where silver money is in gemeral use may result in the adoption of a monetary system which will prevent the ‘great fluetuations in exchange which now ogeur in trade with silver-using ‘countries.”. It is pointed out that the plan is in accordance with that favored by the Philippine commission for bur felands and proposed in a bill now be- fore congress In tegard to a Philippine currency, and the opinion i3 also ex- pressed by the secretary of state that it might have an important bearing on the payment of the indemnity due by China to Huropean powers and to the United States. It 1s further urged that if the proposed plan weré carried into effect “great beneflts will follow to the trade of the world, by making easier the access of the products of the manu- facturing nations to the markets of China and the other silver-using coun- tries.” The recent experience of the silver- standafd countries bas been of a na- ture to impel them to look foward a change of their monetary system. The qualifications for g!noril manager of the corporation known as the Oity of Omaha, If he has squandered the public funds, allowed municipal property to go to waste and ruin, or neglected to pro- tect the city whenever its interests were endangered or assalled, the people of Omaha will have the opportunity of de- posing him by the election of another man when his term expires. ° It would be a sad commentary upon the metropolitan pretensions of Omaha to remand it to village government. 8mall towns that have no phvements, ne sewers, no street raflways, no public works, no health boards and no park boards cannot suffer by choosing all of their city officials at the polls and giving the town council the appo!nting power. In such munfeipalities any dry good box politician will do for eity attorne any common surveyor will fill the place of city engineer and afy school boy can fill the place of town auditor. If the new charter is to be built on those lines its constructors will invoke upon their own heads curses loud and deep that will consign them to everlasting polit- feal oblivion. They will show them- gelves utterly unworthy of representing a city of the metropolitan class. If our charters are to be made the vehicle for gimlet bore spitework, Omaha's seif- governing charter should be revoked and its citizens would deserve to be disfranchised. CONSTRUOTING THE OANAL. The treaty with Colombia provides for ample time in which to construct the Panama canal. The main works of the canal proper are to be commenced with- in two years from the date of the exchauge of ratification of the treaty and the canal is to be opehed to the traf- file between the oceans within twelve years after such period of two years, but in ¢he event of any unforeseen diffi- culties or obstacles being encountered, the time for the completion of the work will be prolonged twelve more years. Thus the United States will have not less than fourteen years in which to construct the canal, which may be ex- tended to twenty-six years if difficulties or obstacles which at present it is im- possible to foresee should arise. Still another provision fs that In case the United States should at any time de- termine to make the canal practically a sea level canal, then there,shall be a further extension of time of ten years. The careful investigation made by the American engineers and the assurance that when begun the work will be pushed with all possible energy war- rants the opinlon that this vast under- taking can be completed in fourteen years. But it Is to be expected that dif- ficulties will arise which cannot now be foreseen, or that those which it Is stendy decline in"the commerelal price of silver has been very detrimental to their trade and they realize that this condition is likely to continue so long as they remain on a silver basis. Th 18 especially true of Mexico and hence ‘ountry 1s most anxious to adopt h .nld starddard, but would like to do upon a basis which would not be imaging to its silver production. It is very doubtful if' any European gold standard country will be found to favor thé Mexican proposition and we ¢an see no sound reason why this country should do so. SEg—p—— MAKING LAWS TO SPITE. It is an open secret that the Douglas delegation, to the legislature is con- structing a new charter for the city of Omaha. ‘While the delegation Has not taken the public into its confidence, it is, generally understood that its chief aim and purpose Is not so much to amend defects In the municipal organic law as to slash and gash the charter in order to make Frank E. Moores harmless po- litically In case he should be re-elected of Omaha for a third term. is decidedly small business, to use a mild phrase. It is given out cold, for example, that the new charter will divest the mayor of all executive author- ity and power by making all the {m- portant offices elective and leave all the minor appointments to the city council, This is factional partisanship run riof. Are enacted legislatures for the government of .cities to be framed to gratify ‘factional spite, or are they designed for the promotion of the pub- lic welfare on broad lines regardless of Individuals or parties whom the people entrust for the time with positions at the helm of local government? The trend of municlpal legislation everywhere wNthin the past twenty years has been toward the concentra- tion of responsibility. In nearly every American city of from 50,000 population upward the mayor as chief executive is made responsible for every branch of municipal government, amg with that end in view is given the exelusive right .I to designate the heads of departments, subject only to confirmation by the council, and the heads of departments in turn appoint their subordinates. * In this respect modern municipal cor- porations are organized on much the same limes on which great industrial corporitions are organized. Every in- dustrial concern and railrodd comipany is governed by a president, or general manager, andl a board of directors. ' The ’| president is ‘supreme in the choice of tract 18 subject to adulteration. Perhaps that explains why callers at the soda fountain these days give wide berth to the old-#me standards and are vari subordinates, aud ‘lis ‘selections are in most cnses not* subject éven to the board of directors. In eyery instance the heads of departmenfs and 'bifreaus o turn appoint their own subordinate: _To divide ‘and subdivide autbority create cohfuslon, promote efficiency in the lee. In order to insure the greatest i the administration of its AMalfs it is the requisite known must be encountered will prove more serious than is now anticipated, so that it is quite possible that more than fourteen years will be consumed in the work. This also suggests that a great deal more money may have to be expended in the entérprise than is now provided for—$135,000,000. Indeed, it Is hardly possible that the candl can be constructed for that sum, even if there should be no unforeseen difficulties or obstacles, 'The French hiive expended that amount or more in constructing only about one-third, of the canal, but of course the avork will be prosecuted more vigorougly and advantageously un- der American methods. . Cm—— IMMIGRATION RESTRICTION. It appears that Senator Lodge is ex- ceedingly anxious to have passed at this session his bill imposing ad- ditional restrictions upon immigration and in order to %o 8o is willing to sur- render provisions of that measure which he has hitherto deemed to be especially important and essential. For instance, it 18 reported that he is disposed to drop out the educational test, which he has Yery earnestly advocated. This s cer- tdinly an important concession on the part of the Massachusetts senator, who is one of the most radleal advocates of turther restricting immigration, but even with this it fs pot probable that he will get his bill through at the pres- ent sesslon. ‘ { An expert in regard to immigration, Dr. McLaughlin of the United States Marine Hospital service, says in a re- cent magazine article that while the percentage of undesirable immigrants is doubtless higher at present than in formér years, restrictions have been growing more stringent, so that now the system in operation is sufficlently effective to keep out the dis- eased, the pauper and the criminal, while admitting the immigrant “with two strong arms, a sound body and a stout heart.”” Regarding an educational test, he Is opposed to it for the reason that it would not keep out some of the leust desirable arrivals, while excluding many thousands of immigrants who supply us with nearly all of the un- skilled labor needed for our industrial progress, This is the sound view of the matter and the one that is certain to prevail, as even Senator Lodge ap- pears to see. Immigration for the last two or three years has been.large, brt it has been made available in the indus- tries without any injury to American labor and there is not a single sound reason why any additional restrictions should be imposed. . In defense of their ayltefil of consti- tutional prohibition, Kansas prohibition- ists are circulating some statistical ex- hibits designed t§ show by comparison with ‘other statds the advantages s, | Kansas enjoys.' Among other asser- tions Is the statement that prohibition Kausas in the tem years between the two Jast federal censuses pushed three 'y | cities up over the line of 10,000 popu- lation, while Nebraska lost three that dropped below that line. Such a state- ment does gross Injustice to Nebraska, for no cue conversaut with the facts of our 1890 census will for & moment ex- 1800. We do not hesitate to say that not one of the incorporated citles in Ne- braska had a smaller population in fact !n 1900 than jt had ten years be fore, and that the truth of this conten- tion can be easily verified by compari- son.of election returns, school attend- ance, vital statistics and other evi- dences that cannot be doctored. What retarded Nebraska's growth In the cen- gus decade were the drouths and crop failures and general business depres- sion growing out of them, which hit Nebraska harder than they did Kansas. We advise our prohibition friends in Kansas to take a different tack in their arguments and stick closer to the truth. ——eee Up to date the democrats in the legis- lature are taking no stand In favor of home rule. On the contrary, they re- corded their votes in favor of the bill that takes away from the citizens of Omaha the right to elect & board of water commissioners and have gone on record in favor of a governor-appointed commission without responsibility or accountabllity to the citizens of Omaha for the expenditure of millions of dol- lars. In fact, the democratic members of the legislature have up to date given no evidence that they stand for any principle or doctrine which democracy pretends to uphold. Fhe Civie Improvement League of St. Louls is just now discyssing plans for making the coming world’s falr city at- tractive to visitors. Among the various improvements proposed by the league is the abolition and demolition of bill- boards which disfigure the city and add materially to the fire risk in case of a general conflagration. | Although Omaha does not contemplate an_exposition in the near future, it might emulate the example of St. Louis profitably by fix- ing the time limit of the biliboard nuis- ance to the end of the amusement sea- prefer to take their important cases into the federal courts, but sometimes they get fooled. In the Omaha viaduct cases it will be remembered the tax shirking roads car- ried the contention up to the supreme court of the United States, only to get an adverse decision and find themselves compelled to construct the viaducts de- manded by the needs of the city. Prospects are that there will be some- thing doing soon by the railroads to head off a tax Jevy in Omaha that might make them pay taxes on their property the same as other property owners in the city, Good Thing for the Promoter. Cineinnati Enquirer. A corporation of farmers will prove a good thing for somebody, no'doubt. The farmers can furnish the land, the money and the labor, and the capitalisis the water, and draw the dividends, as well as pocket the commissions. It will be a thing for those who watch the farmers B h ¥ —_—— Our Comic ra_ Colony. g New York Tribune, Senator H sepms to be desirous of information to sort of government which now exists in remote and solitary Guam. At ofe time, under the Spanish flag, it was & comiq opera rulership, some- what resembling the methods of Sancho Panza In the island of Barataria; but probably thete has' been a marked change for the bette: The Reward of Zeal, Philadelphla Record. Prof. Wiley of the Agricultural depart- ment, who has been trying practical experi- ments with food preservatives, lugubriously complains because he has been given the title of “Old Borax.” He should console himself with the reflection that this is one of the rewards of zeal for the public serv- Strangling a Famoui Waterway. Philadelphia Record, in the New York ‘legislature Las deter- mined that $82,000,000 shall not be voted for the enlargement of the canal unless $60,000,000 be voted at the same time for good roude. It they shall hold their posi- tion the canal cause will be hopeless. It s uncertain whether the state would bobd ftself for either amount; it will not pond itself for both. The canal has been very useful as a regulator of railway charges even since the trafflc through it became inconsiderable, but i the farmers of the state have decided that there shall bo $50,000,000 for roads or no canal, the latter might as well be presented to the New York Central. The farmers bellove that only the cities would benefit from the canal. GOOD, BUT NOT TOO GOOD, Ways in Which Many Well-Meaning Persons Do a Deul of Harm. Kansas City Star. The Roosevelt standard of morality is a sound one to work to or to work from. It 18 based on worthy {deals, for it makes for strength as well as morals, and ite keynote is common sense. It is & good thing for the time that this standard is wielding an influence in the public life of the country, but it 13 also appropriate that it was set forth by the president in his address last night before the Washington Young Men's Chris- tion assoclation, The point of this admoni- tion was that a great deal of high-minded endeavor falls of nccomplishing results because it is misdirected. “There are many philantliropic. movements led and supported by most excellent people,” sald Mr. Roosevelt, “which ertheless, h produced results altogether disproportio ate to the efforts put forth, because they have falled to recognize the need of human nature at the same time that an effort was being made to better human nature.” The difference between the man of cor- rect morals, consistent religious principles and common-sense methods and the man of extreme views and exaciing conduct i3 ‘the difference between the man of ach ment and the theorist. Neither fanaticism nor Phariseelsm ever accomplishes any- thing for the permanent betterment of the human race, for they do Dot recognize the essentlal needs of vital human nature. For example, those pecple who make or- ganized protests against the use of wine at the White House are merely bigots on the eubject of one kind of temperance, while they themselves are thoroughly iu- temperate in another direction. Persons who denounce as wicked all card playing are too parrow to accomplish much good, for they do not come into sympathetic con- plain any discrepaiey shown by the |tact with the world. All persons should 1900 census except on the score of the | Striv notorious census padding indulged by the enumerators in all our cities 0|y jot more barm than good to do right and (0 set good exam- ples, but making an ostentatious specialty of finding fault with harmless things does REVENUE LAW REVISION, Wood River Intere An equal distri- bution' of rallroad taxes throughout the state and In the counties, towns and school districts through which the railroads pass is what the people want and will have or there will be lots of trouble in store for somebody. Tekamah Herald: If it is the tax shirker that the legislature is after, nothing would catch them as quick as a law similar to Iinols, which requirns the county clerk to publish the assessment of each and every person. In this way they can be brought to time before the Board of Equal- ization. For fallure to list all property a heavy fide or imprisonment is attached. It 18 easy to get them if this method is en« acted into law. Dodge Criterion: We have never yet seen any argument presented why prop- erty should be assessed for less than its actual value, The total assessment would be much larger, but the tax levy would be Jower to raise the same amount of rev- enue. Besides, all property would then pay its just proportion of the taxes. Each county would pay state tax according to property. It is the only fair and equal way of assessment, but of course must be general, ¥ Hastings Republican: The Republican believes the hue and cry for revenue re vision Is raised by the corporation lobby and its news boosters in an attempt to di- vert the attention of the public from an attempt at a strict enforcement of the present law and the few minor amend- ments needed, and that the session will cither be spent In airing personal views of widé divergence, or in the event of the passage of a new law there will be found in its enforcement the usual loophola for the escape of the franchised corporations. A strict enforcement of the present plain Iaw would place these corporations on an equal basis of taxatfon with the small property holder, who has always borne the heavier burden, and until some tax re- former points out the defeots of the old law and not the manner in which it s evaded we shall tend to the view that there is much ado over nothing. Arapahoe Mirror: The Nebraska legisla- ture seems to be making real effort now to amend the revenue laws of this state, There is certainly nothing needed in Nebraska in the line of legislation more than a change in tho present revenue law; and this does not mean that the whole law be radically changed, but - certainly some amendment will be Made that will compel the assess- ment of property at its real value. It seems, too, that the state and county boards of equalization should be given more power than is conferred by the present law. Tho other features of the present law seem to be all that is required. There has been an effort in the legislature for the past sev- eral years to amend the law, but some in- terest has always been strong enough to block any remedial legiglation. Just what that {s seéms a mystery to most people, be- cause everybody has realized the necessity for a change. If the present members fail to do their duty in the matter they will probably hear from the people who have elected them to represent them fn the law- making body. Fairfield Herald: It may be expected that the revenue laws of the etate wijl be considerably amended at this session of the legielature. The plan to provide for county assessors and to give added powers to boards of equalization om review of sessments to raise or lower the aggregate of asseesed valuation meets with favor. The small property holder has probably paid his share of taxes all the years, the shortage in the revenués comes from property that escaped the attention of the assegsor, and from delinquent taxes stretch- ing all the way back since Nebraska be- cam state, But there is a wider view of this revenue matter, and that is to assess all property as the law contemplates, at its fair cash value in the first instance, thus showing up the resources of the state at something like what they really are and at the same time reducing the percentage rate of taxation on the dollar in the same proportion. As it is now, Nebraska shows up poor in mssessed valuation and with a rate of taxation as high, or even higher, than the current interest rate, enough to appall the easteru investor who in his ignorance of the facts naturally takes the &l succeeds in providing a fairly satistactory remedy for the present ridiculous inade- quacy of the annual precinct assessors’ returns it will be a great step forward for the state and entitle the lawmakers who accomplished 1t to some consideration for one good plece of work which had long awaited attention. Neligh Leader: A casual glance at the dition of the Nebraska state treasury warrant the assumption that the present large floating debt of the etate fs due to extravagant appropriations. While this may be true in a few instances, yet it by no means solves the problem. The cause lles deeper. While the state has been grow- | 1ing in population and wealth, and the cost of government largely and naturally in- creased, yet the fact is patent that the valuation for purposes of taxation, as. re- turned by the assessors, shows a gradual and steady decrease for a number of years. ‘While state expenses have necessarily be- come larger, the source of revenue has di- minished. The Ledder is not favorable to any measure that will give a large fictitious valuation for revenue purposes, yet it is foreed to the conclusion that some means for raising the assessment to a figure that will yleld sufficient revenue for state pur- poses, under an economical administra- tion, is not only wise, but absolutely mec- essary. The present condition can not go on forever, for while at present the credit of the state is of the best, a continuation of the policy of the past few years will in the end reach the climax of state bank- ruptey. This Is the situation as presented to the members of the state legislature, and happily they seem to appreciste it fully, and are planning to curtail expendi- tures to the lowest possible limit, and at the same time enact needed revenue legis- lation. To what extent they will be sue- ceseful cannot now be outlined, but man- Ifestly they are sincere In their purpose. Henry Loomis Nelson in the Century. The senate is the most powerful body in the government. It s often spoken of a oligarchy; but this is not absolutely accurate. Sometfmes the president de- feats it by an al to the country, but the senate ylelds slowly even to e coun- try, for the people have a long time In which to forget the early sins of & senator, who, If he be wise, will be cautious during the latter balf of his six years' term. But two-thirds of the senate chn be care- less until thelr indifference or obstinacy threstens the party. A semator Is not chosen by the people, and legislatures are rarely held to a strict account for the manner in which they select senatogs, or for the kind of men whom they choose. There is @ general Immunity for the middleman in politics. The executive who sppoints is often punished for a frailty of judgment or for partisen blindness to bad character, while the senator who votes for confirmation may gO Scathless. The people have not often been watchtul over elections to the senate, and are mot mc- customed to take fallure to elect good me: or the actual election of unworthy men anything that they can help. They to suffer from the Inertness which often accompanies a4 conscious lack of powes. NITS OF WASHINGTON LIFE, Minor Scemes and Ineldents Sketched on the Spot, President Roosevelt does not intend to engage in bear hunting again until he ha laid down the cares of office. The Wash- ington Post reports that he gave the hunt- ing ultimatum to a Wyoming delegation, hetded by Congressman Mondell, which called upon him recently. He was asked to participate in a grizsly hunt next spring in the course of his trip through the west. “Your pleture Is very alluring,” said the president as the Wyoming people described to him the prospects of big game, “but I have found from past experience that hunt- ing bear with a brass band is barren of re- sults.” Weo will close all the tralls In the vi- elnity,” protested Mr, Mondeli and his con- stituents in ome voice. “Yes," answered the president; “that niight be dome. I appreciate the courtesy of your invitation, but some people would get Inside even if they had to take a bal- loon to do it-* % The president has reached the conclusion that there can be no gport With the trees full of reporters, the eky speckled with Kkite eameras, Balloons sailing over con- taining journalists and sketch artists perched on every crag and butte. He wants some solitude to pop the pesky varmint, nqt o much on his own account, but to give the bear a run for his lte. If he is hunted with too much halloo and uproar he will refuse to play. A nice, quiet game suits him better. Simple In his tastes, he dislikes vulgar didplay. Mr. Roosevelt and the bears will get along very well to- gether if the newspapers will spare them. But there 1s only one instance in the presi- dential career that the press will heed an admonition to secrecy; and this is concern- ing the annual message. There is, to be sure, not the glowing and eager interest in a message that there is in a bear hunt. Nine columns of bear hunt is mode too much. We can not speak as unrestrain- edly of messages. Sometimes nine columns is too much. Asher C. Hinds, clerk to the speaker of the house of representatives in Washington, is a parllamentarian of great attainments, but he acknowledges that a question asked the other day by Congressman Shattuc knooked him out. Debate on the Philippine currency bill had been dragging along wear- ily, each successiva orator having his time extended. One member secured double in- dulgence of this kind and them Mr. Shat- tue inquired with portemtous solemnity: “Mr, Speaker, if this discuesion is continued indéinitely how long will it take to reach a vote?” Nir. Hinds did not see the inten- tional bull for a moment, but realized the situation when the members laughed. A new plano worth $15,000, according to competent Judges, has been installed in the East Room of the White House. It i3 the glft of a firm of plano manufacturers. It belongs to the massive square class and is covered all over with gold leaf. The Jega are formed of great eagles with outstretched wings supporting the piano and feet rest- ing on the floor. Around the body of the instrument the shields of the thirteen orig- inal states are painted at intervals. The interior construction of the plano is|& of the finest and its tone s very melodiol 1t will be used at the musicales which Mrs, Roosevelt gives frequently. The life of a paper note, and especially’ those of small denominations, as a ome, .two or five-dollar bill, has always been much shorter than the average person would imagine. Of late, however, owing to the great increass of prosperity through- out the country, its existence has been durtailed until at the beginning of the present year it has been estimated that the ordinary outstanding note mow lives but a little more than two years. The main reason for Lhis, says the Wash. ington Post, lies in the fact that as busi- ness becomes more active there is a greater demand for small bills for ready use, and these being handled oftener and more care- lessly than the larger ongs, they wear out much sooner. This tendenoy to have the average valye constantly reduced has made a great increase in the issue of new money amounting to over $23,000,000 in bank notes ang gdvernment paper currency, and a pro- portionate increase in destruction and re- demption. All of this has its effect on every de. partment through which the.note passes. from the time of the begiuning of its istence in the paper mills of Massachu- setts, whence it is eent to the Bureau of Engraving, to the treasury, and to the countless people who use it until it again reaches the treasury, where it is redeemed and ground into pulp. In the paper mills this increase in the demand for "notes necessitates more’ em- ployes and more machinery. In the Bu- reau of Engraving, where the money is en- graved, printed and numbered, before belng taken to the treasury, the results are still more manifest. During the last year 400 more .clerks have been added, thus bring- ing the number up to 2,851, which, when set up against the 479 employes which com~ posed the entire working staff of the bu- reau twenty-five years ago, is a forceful reminder of the rapid growth and pros- perity of this country. The great amount of work done by the bureau since 1900 has required’ the organization of a night force, besides the extension at times of the hours of labor of the entire riinting force. Indigestion a Great Leveler. Baltimore American. Bdward VIil's physician pluntly tells the monarch he eats too mukh. 'This s a pretty dish to set before a king. But it seems that there is no royal way to health ~in the matter of indigestion all men are painfully equal. The oldest, safest, strongest, Sarsapafilla you can buy * | word about it. PERSONAL NOTu. d The adviser of “620 per cent” Mille; us Brooklyn has gone into bankruptey. A Baltimore gitl farried a man whom she had arrested for ploking her pocket. Say, “wasn't that just lovely!" - The leglslature of Utah has been asked to legalize a hollday to be known as The nuval investigating committne ought to place some 1imit on the number of times & witness shall be permitted to change his testimony. General Funston 1s on & visit to his old stamping grounds in Kansas, but in spite of all temptation has thus far refused to make a speech. Admiral Schley, accompanied by Colon: and Mrs. A. K. McClure of Philadelphia, is to make an extended tour of the west, going as far west as southern California, where the early spring will be spent. An intimate friend of the president re- celved a letter from Mr. Roosevelt recently in which the writer says: “I am not a rich man, hardly a well-to-do man, and besides I have a large family of emall chil- dren.” (A friend met Congressman Ruppert of ake, I eame away from home without any money this morn. ing. Let me have a couple of dollars, will you. I want to get shaved.” “Say.” ob- sorved the congressman as he handed over the money, “who shaves you-—Plerpont Morgan?" Invitations have been fssued by Mrs.| Maria Patrick of Urbana, O., for & dinner party February 2 in honor of her ninetieth birthday. Twenty-five guests have been invited, none of whom will be less than 76 years of age. The combined ages of the guests and hostess will aggregate close to 1,800 years. | Monday last was a fatal day for beauty, and two harrowing accidents were re- ported. The long, luxuriant locks of Prof. Mommsen were burned away by the flames of a candle in Dresden, while on the other side of the worid Sanford B. Dole of Hono- lulu was rushing about endeavoring to quell a conflagration ig his flowing beard. The slang phrase “up against it" appears to fit the position in which Mayor Fagan of Jersey City finds himself. He fs in bad health and doctors have ordered him to take immediate rest at some place away from home. But Mr. Fagan is a republican and if he leaves his office it will be fillea by Alderman Block, a democrat. Political lines are drawn tightly in Jersey City, so there {8 no knowing what Acting Mayor Block might do. Thereforse Mr. Fagan fs filling up with medicine and sticking to his job. — SMILING LINES. He (facetl A e :e;"gl‘um)—A saclety bells should 8She (demurely)—W - e demure y) ‘hll.lhlnhm “Yon- ur?“m_n" no use fighting the coal deal- rs. George—No; the thing for you te do 18 to ‘say nothi - is to aay nothing and saw wood —Detrolt Maudie—You ean’t fool me. I k; trying to keep your engagement to 3 rofound secret. ‘aycle—For Fodnul u're orace ake, don’t a to death for fear Horace will find it out k! in ' ! out himself!—Baltimore Newitt—Funny! T al associa Wifo with a certain epixode 1n my #-’l"“::.f :ha:e'- Just one thing she always, ds Henpeck—I wish T could say that. There's Iots of things sho alw — 1084, 9% hings she aiways reminds me of. “George, ald you iy othe woman 4 well as you Jove mer-tly Other b4 ) .%%fi, r;@;fi:] i':“m" of 50 .f"fi.u" o o au oo, ‘ell, T suppose be tha e8tion, 100, BOmO 48y ChISES 4 He—You are the first woman T ever loved. Bho—Well, 1 don’t Know about thats bui’ I'm certain’ X’T you ever ‘h"y‘d&?" you/ e, YV;::.III‘ #see that B D 1. you 1t.—Boston “You can't judge by appearances, paw, sl Dl ] S SR the heart of ou" iy 2 The old man looked thougktful. o R B Ty brick.”—Cl land l’llnln”bo-l-r. ] eisiod Bt ot SALUTH THE nl!'l‘ll.‘ 8t. Louls Globe-Démocrat. Oh Prune! > ::olflt. lgfivelld gnl‘n'l Ve ut’ whose umbrous s atill clings” The fragrant breath Thou meek and lowly cate, ‘To thee we dedicate rime to_celebrate Thy virtues, Prune. Long hast thou been u 3 Butt of the witless mfllfll‘ every clown h sought to ; : Thou thal 'Il’i once a ! Full-blooded, of Bacchus himself it rape. And joy- to 'mbibe thee, 4 Fall'n daughter of the Vine, Thou wast not for wine; A lowlier & ‘:.r 1t in the odorous Once thine empurpled M 3 Heedless of future deom ' ' boarding tal masses bow, Foe of the trusts art thou, Pride of the nation, “I remember well when I first used Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, nearly 60 years ago. 1 was thin, pale, ‘weak, tired all the time, no appetite, could not play asthe other boys did. “Since then I have taken it many times, especialiy when over- worked, tired out, or nervously de- pressed. Now, all my children and ) their children use it.. As a medi- family it has no equal. first great rule of health— keep the bow- without Ayer’s Pills,” ' *