Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 5, 1903, Page 6

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Bubscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this st day of January, A. D. 1003, M. B. HUNGATE, (Beal.) Notary Public. Coal dealers’ lament: We don't care If the mercury never comes back. ETpp—— For the time being, “Keep off the grass” sigus are a little out of season. e As a preventive of war the peaceful blockade is not what It is cracked up to be. EEEep—— They will now cease raising blind pigs in Vermont and turn more attention to the ralsing of other animal e———— It is not always the biggest world power that cuts the biggest swath in ‘current history. Witness Venezuela. After the horse show shall have be- come acclimated in Omaha, perhaps we ean branch out to an automobile show. The squabble over the m-nmr'uent of the Red Oross soclety appears to be a quarrel chiefly as’ to who\shall handle the funds. News from the rebel provinces of China indicate that the foreign devils are still personae non gratae in those parts of the Flowery Kingdom. The resolutions adopted by the demo- cratic state editorlal assoclation at Grand Island - with regard to the Infamous manipulation of the corpora- tion lobby have the right ring. 4 expm—— Another Nebraska district judge has resigned. While no reasons are given, we feel safe. in asserting that the resig- nation s not prompted by any feeling that district judges in this state are either overworked or underpaid. Every time a person owning property in Omaha pays his city taxes, one dollar out of every five which he pays is paid for the tax-shirking railroads. But that 18 a form of double taxation that does not distress John Baldwin of Iowa. Republican city primaries have been postponed two months to conform more nearly with the new law moving the city election up from March to May. This is simply taking chances with April showers rather than with winter winds. ] For hours Tuesday Chicago was cut off by the storm from all communica- tion with the outside world. And for some inexplicable reason the world moved right along as if it were not seriously aware of the plight in which it was left. His communication to the Board of Bducation on the bad penmAnship of High school teachers and puplls would indicate that Superintendent Pearse were again falling “into the bad habit of sending out of@ial documents with- out first having them revised and cor rected by his private secretary. — Ambassador ‘'McCormick explains his appearance in gorgeous regalia at the Russlan court on the score of the czar's insistence upon uniforms for the diplo- mats In attendance there. The alacrity ‘with which the suggestion of a uniform was adopted, however, indicates that the czar's wishes were not in the least @istasteful to our ambassador. e “The rallroads have no newspapers of their own to present thelr case,” de- clares Pompadour Baldwin of the Union Pacific lobby as an excuse for his coarse attempt to buy the editorial col- umns of gil the country newspapers of the state. But if the rallway case were the people’s case, as Baldwin pretends, what necessity would there be to buy up any newspapers at all? Has anyone ever heard of any money being put up to the eeuntry papers to persuade them to plead the cause of the common tax- payers? THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1903. THE CRY OF DOUBLE TAXATION. The manifesto issued by the rallroad tax agents in opposition to the revision of revenue laws by which Nebraska rallroads have for years evaded mu- nicipal taxation on property valued from $25,000,000 to $30,000,000 Is a false alarm to justify purchasable members of the legielature for selling out the people. Their ery’ of double taxation is a delusion and a snare. If it were true that the gayment of clty taxes at Omaha, South Omaha and Lincoln would transfer the money now belng pald into the county and school district . treasuries outside of Douglas and Lancaster countles into the city treasuries of Omaha, South Omaha and Lincoln, what difference wonld that make to the railroads so long as the aggregate of their taxes was not in- creased? If, for example, the assess- ment of Union Pacific terminals at Omaha for $15,000,000 would take $15.000,000 off the Union Pacific assess- ment which is said to be distributed along the line of that road, what would the owners of the Union Pacific care? Why would they squander money on tax agents, literary bureaus and lobby workers to manufacture public senti- ment against municipal taxation? Are they not distressed because they would have to pay a large amount of city taxes in addition to the state, county and school district tax they are now paying? Are the rallroad tax® agents and the railroad lobby not making all this racket In order to beat the taxes which the railroads justly owe for pro- tection In municipalities and also to detract public attention from the out- rage perpetrated upon the taxpayers of Nebraska by undervaluation of rail- road property? Double taxation, indeed! Suppose a corporation should organize an automo- bile line between Omaba and Chey- enne, with 500 automobiles running within the state of Nebraska. Suppose that each automobile was assessed for $10,000, and the total of $5,000,000 was distributed for taxation on a mileage basis along 500 miles of the Ine. That would entitle each county, town- ship and school district along the line to its proportion of a tax of $10,000 to the mile. Now, suppose that 100 of these automobiles were located and housed in a depot In the city of Omaha, would the fact that these automobiles were taxed for city purposes on an assessment of $1,000,000 in any way diminish thé tax levy in any county, township or school district on the line between Omaha and Cheyenne? Would anybody dare con- tend that the assessment of these 100 automobiles for municipal taxes _at Omaha would rob the counties, pre- cincts and school districts beyond Omaha of one penny? Would anybody dare contend that the payment of state taxes by the antomobile company should relieve it from city taxes for the 100 automobiles located within the city of Omaha? And yet that is precisely what the railroad tax agents and rallroad law- yers are contending for, although they know they have not a foot of ground to stand on. E—— A NECESSARY MEASURE. The judiciary committee of the United States senate having reported favora- bly the bill to expedite proceedings ia the federal courts under the anti-trust law, it is to be hoped the measure will become law at the present session. It provides that the courts shall give pref- erence to such proceedings at the re- quest of the attorney general of the United States and that in antl-trust cases appeal shall go direct to the su- preme court. S It 18 a necessary measure.” There has been complaint that the Department of Justice has not shown proper zeal In pushing proceedings under the anti- trust act. He cannot be justly blamed for delay when the cases he institutes must take their course, awalting the disposal of cases brought in advance of them. ~The proposed law would remedy this and permit the attorney general to have proceedings against a trust given preference by the court. Such a course is justifiable on the ground that anti- trust proceedings are in the interest of the whole people and therefore should be given precedence over all other cases. The provision for appeal direct to the supreme court s also important as a means of expediting such proceedings. No reasonable objection can be made to the bill and it should be promptly passed. —— FAILURE OF PROHIBITION. For half a century the state of Ver- mont has had a prohibition law and for years this law has been inoperative in the cities and larger towns of that com- monwealth. On Tuesday the people of the state voted in favor of lcense and local option and after this month the citles and towns of Vermont will de- termine whether or not intoxicating liquors shall be sold within their juris- diction. The probibition element in the state made & most vigorous campaign for the maintenance of that policy, but the license and local option league so conclusively demonstrated the fallure of prohibition that many who had long fa- vored it were persuaded to renounce the policy and support a praetical and en- forceable system which has been shown, wherever properly administered, to be rcally jn the interest of temperance. New Hampshire is another state that has had a prohibition law for nearly half & century, or since 1855. The gov- ernor of the state says the law has been a failure and the legislature is expected to take steps looking to the substitution of a high-license, local option system of regulating the liquor traffic. In Malne, the first state %o adopt prohibition, there is a vigorous agitation for the abandonment of the policy, hostility to it baving been steadily growing In re cent years because of the incomtestable fact that it falled of is purpose. Un- doubtedly It is but a question of time when Maine will follow Vermont in sub stituting high llcense and local option. syerywhere the experiment with pro hibition has failed, except as to small rural communities where theré s an overwhelming popular sentiment fn fa vor of It. It cannot be successfully en forced in cities and in the larger towns. The high license and local option policy, the other hand, has worked well wherever tried. The people of Vermont heyve done well in adopting that system, e ENLARGES SCOPE OF COMMINSION, The menasure passed by the United States senate, known as the Elkins bill, provides ‘for enlarging the jurisdiction and powers of the Interstate Commerce commission and contains the provisions which have been recommended by At- torney General Knox as to the punish- ment of those who recelve as well as those who give rebates. It provides for the punishment of corporations by fine instead of imprisonment of the officials; also for iAjunctions prevent dis eriminations. Willful failure on the part of a ear- rier subject to the acts to regulate inter- state and forelgn commerce to file and publish the tariffs or rates and charges, as required by the acts, or strictly to observe such tariffs, shall be a misde- meanor, conviction of which shall sub- ject the offending corporation fo a fine of not less than $1,000 nor more than $20,000 for each offense. It 18 declared unlawful for any person, persons or corporation to offer, grant or give, or to solicit, accept or receive any rebate, concession or dis crimination In respect of the transpor- tation of any property in Interstate or forelga ecommerce by any common car- rier subject to the acts to regulate com- merce, whereby any such property shall be transported at a less rate than that named in the filed and published tariffs, violation to be punished by fine. When- ever the Interstate Commerce commis- sion has reason to believe that the re- quirements of the law are not being complied with It Is authorized to peti- tion a circuit court of the United States having jurisdiction alleging unlawful practices, whereupon the court shall in- stitute an Inquiry and if satisfied of the truth of the allegations shall en- force an observance of the published tariffs or require a discontinuance of discrimination by proper orders and process, enforceable as well against the parties interested In the traffic as agalnst the carrier. The commission is empoweréd to ex- amine decisions or papers bearing upon any contract and upon its own volition, or upon complaint filed, it may. in- quire into the actual effect. If it shall deem such contract or its results un- reasonable or unjust, it is given au- thority to annul the contract on a speci- fled date, not later than ten days from notice of the order, or it may enter an order directing that the contract and the practices under it shall be changed. Full jurisdiction and all necessary pow- ers are vested in the federal courts, the cases in both circuit and supreme courts to have precedence over all but crim- inal cases. Persons giving testimony under the provisions of the bill are to have immunity from prosecution and punishment. It will be seen that the measure would materially strengthen the author- ity of the Interstate Commerce commis- sion and undoubtedly render the inter- state law far more effective against re- bates and discrimination than it now is. The bill has been carefully considered by the senate committee and passed the senate without debate, ‘but it is indi- cated that it may be considerably amended in the house, in which event it is quite possible that it will not be- come law at the present session. Sy THE OMAHA PLAN. ‘Why doés the rallroad literary bureau, organized to disseminate misinformation about railroad taxation, call the move ment in favor of making railroads pay their just share of municipal taxes the Omaha plan? Why daoes John N. Bald- win, head pusher of the raflroad lobby at Lincoln, persistently focus his fog- horn on the Omaha plan? What s there about the Omaha plan that dif- fers essentlally from the plan of taxa- tion outlined by the framers of the constitution of Nebraska in the declara- tion that all property, corporate and in- dividual, shall bear its just share of taxation according to valuation? Does this express provision of the constitu- tion mean that one class of property in cities shall pay city taxes, county taxes and state taxes, while another class shall be exempt from paying city taxes? Manifestly the object of stigmatizing the demand for rallroad taxation on the constitutional basis as the Omaha plan Is to arouse the prejudice of the representatives in the legislature from outside of Omaha against Omaha and array the state against Omaba, on the presumption that Omaha is trying to levy a tribute on the railroads that to would come out of the pockets of the | taxpayers of other sections of the state. With sublime fmpudence John N. Baldwin cries out the means double taxation. How about the Council Bluffs plan? Council Bluffs is permitted to assess the Union Pacific railroad within the city limits at §75,000 per mile and the east balf of the Union Pacific bridge for $87,000, while Omaha, on the Baldwin plan, Is allowed to tax Union Pacific terminal tracks at $9,800 per mile, which would tax the west half of the Union Pacific bridge on a valuation of only $1,565. Wherein does the Omaha plan con- template double taxation? Property in Omaha, Lincoln, Beatrice, Hastings and every other town in Nebraska pays state taxes, county taxes and city taxes. Is that double taxation or Is it treble taxa- tion? 1Is it not simply taxation ac- cording to the character of the public wervice rendered? The Union Pacific bas always been compelled to pay its Omaha plan | proportion of elty taxes in Omaha, Grand Island and North Platte on its machine shops. Is that double taxa- tion? People unfamiliar with the modes of taxation in other states would naturally imagine that the Omaha plan was a monstrosity, when in fact in all the older states of the union, in New Eng- land, New York, Pennsylvania and New Jerse the Omaha plan has prevailed for forty years or more. In the city of Pittsburg the raflrond machine shops, depots, depot grounds and all ter- minals, excepting the right-of-way lim- ited to sixty-six feet in width, are sub- Jected to municipal taxes by local as- sessors and the aggregate assessmant of railroad terminals at Pittsburg for the year 1902 exceeds $15,000,000. Did the Pennsylvania legislature adopt the Omaha plan for railroad taxation? Do the counties outside of Allegheny lose a dollar of rallroad tax by municipal taxation in Pittsburg? Would the rail- roads that are assessed for $15,000,000 on terminals at Pittsburg tamely submit to double taxation if they had any chance to maintain that position in the state courts of Pennsylvania or in the federal courts? It 1s given out that the farmers of Douglas county outside of Omaha and South Omaha are opposed to the plan of consolidating city and county govern- ments and will exert themselves against it at the legislature. In point of fact, it is not consolidation that they oppose, but the possible separation of the county into two districts that would detach the two citles of Omaha and South Omaha from them. 8o long as the county and city are in one district taxes pald by clty property owners furnish a huge fund that is cxpended chiefly for the benefit of the people in the county outside of the city. They are not to be blamed if they prefer not to give up this great advantage they have been enjoying, yet that should not stand In the way of legisla- tion making it possible to merge the city and county governments with a view to more economical administra- tion. —— The raflroads of the country are form- ing an association to protect themselves against the perpetration of frauds in the use of rallway tickets, which dur- ing the past year are sald to have in- volved them In a loss approximating $100,000. This is really not very much of a loss when the tremendous passenger business done in the United States is taken into consideration. It is a mere bagatelle fn comparison with the cost to the roads of the viclous free pass system that takes a million out of their treasuries where tlcket forgeries and frauds take a hundred thousand. If the roads would get together to put an end to the free pass incubus the people genérally would be ready to co-operate, Germany's nxmmunt with auto- mobiles for the postal service has not proved the success that was expected. It will take Yankee ingenuity yet to perfect the self-propelling machine for practical use and ‘the American post- office to apply it effectively to the needs of postal distribution. SETE—Se——— The Drifting Policy. ‘Washington Post. The Hon. James K. Jones thinks a drift- ing policy is the best thing for the demo- crats at present. In the meantime, the gentleman from Arkansas hopes to drift onto the Isthmian Canal commission. An Ulustration of Prosperity, Philadelphia Press. Some distinguished democrats had a con- ference over breakfast at a swell New York place the other day. Here we have an illustration of prosperity. In demo- cfatic times it would probably have been necessary to hold the conference in a soup house. Orders have been issued to have 100,000 Krag-Jorgensen rifies distributed among | the various arsenals of the country, and for the navy yards to work three shifts of men; but there is nothing doing, ab- solutely nothing. This is merely a time of peace well lapted to preparation, Forelgn Decorations Indlanapolis Journal Senator Cullom, chairman of the foreign | relations committee, has plgeon-holed a | house bill granting permission to a num- | ber of government officials to accept deco- ratlons, orders and gifts tendered to them | by the rulers of other nations, and says that no such bills shall be passed while he 1s chairman of the committee. It {s an un- American practice and had better be re- formed altogether. ved, Trust Magnates, Albert Shaw in the Century. Unfortunately, the trusts are in the hands of men whose huge projects have | developed a little too rapidly, and who have become wholly fmpatient of any sort of check or restraint. Some of them, per- chance, have been intoxicated by the ex- traordinary access of power that has come to them, and others have buflt up a false pride that makes them forgetful of their places as individual citizens in a democ- racy. Still others, of a baser type, have Dbecome hardened through long years of de- liberate practice of corrupt mcthods in politics employed by them with a view to making public authority subservient to | private interest. ‘ A Woman to Homor, New York Sun. Hats off to Mrs. H. A. Harkson. The | story of her work as an angel of mercy at that wreck on the Jersey Central first | gives you & glow in your beart, and then | makes you want to cheer. When the ter- | rible crash took place she was in her back | yard. which is situated pest the track. She | didn’t lose time going through the house, but, seizing an axe, cut her way through | the back fence. To get the injured into the | bullding quickly she ordered the rescuers | to tear away part of the back of the house. While attending to the dylng she saw some tramps robbing & wounded man who was lying in the kitchen. She drove them out | at the muzale of a revolver. Truly, a he- role soul. No horrors daunted her and no labors tired. She must have the heart of & woman, the courage of a soldier and the strength of a man. Her nelghbors should be proud of her. And just think of it, but for this terrible disaster it is possible that nobody would have suspected tbat such a o—heroine Is 0o weak & word—lived in these parts. Long life sud all homor to berl | them. ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK, on the Carrent of Life in the Metropol The activity of housebreakers of late brought down upon the police the undi- luted wrath of the victims. Every house holder relieved of goods or cash joined in a warm chorus of condemnation, charging the defenseless cops with lack of vigilance and a chronic desire to sleep on duty. The police resented the charge and procecded to show the critics that lack of ordinary precautions by housekeepers 16 responsible for the activity and prosperity of sneak thieves. One of the captains of the Fifth avenue district sent seven detectives to surrounding homes to examine and report on the number to which entrance could be effected. The men got into fifty-six houses, in some cases as far as the second floor, before being stopped by the head of the house or some of the servants, and then the officer was usually unmercitully be- rated for his intrusion. Millions of doliars worth of valuables and enormous quantities of jewelry were within the reach of the detectives, who could have walked out with thousands of dollars worth of small pictures in Willlam K. Vander- bilt’s home, at Fifty-second street and Fifth avenue, without being detected. In instance one or more doors opeened when the knob was turned. Holders of stock in the Woman's Hotel company have recelved notice that the Hotel Martha Washington, the East Twenty-ninth street hostelry buflt by that company for use by women, is ready for inspection. The capital of the company is $400,000. The owners of the shares include many women, members of professions, book. keepers, stenographers and others who a self-supporting, and business men and per- sons of wealth who went into the enterprise in a philanthropie spirft. Five hundred guests have engaged rooms and Manager James H, Case says 100 women have applied and asked that their names be placed on the walting list. All employes have been engaged and the furnishings are to be completed by Feb- ruary 15, the date for the formal opening. ‘The elevator operators, “fronts,” mail and key clerk, and the head walter are to be men, and the room clerk, assistant room clerk, cashier, and bookkeeper are to be women. Ripp! every This 1s the age of cheap dentistry in New York—cheap that is to say in com- parison with the prices which once pre- valled. The visit to the dentist was an excursion formerly dreaded as much for the aftermath that came by mall as for the physical discomfort that the visitor was certain to undergo. But the increase in the number of good dentists during recent years has made it no longer possible for any of them to charge large sums for ordi- pary services. Some of the long estab- lished dentists, who stand toward their patients in the, same light as family physi- ° are still able to impose the old-time fees. But thelr number is small and grow- ing smaller every year. One dentist of long standing sald the other day that the tees his colleagues could charge had de. ¢reased by at least 20 per cent in the last fifteen years, although there had not been any noticeable decline in the character of the attention that patients recelved. The quality of the work has steadily improved while the compensation for it has grown cheaper. J. P. Morgan visited the office of the New York tax commissioner the other day and declared that he was not lable to personal taxation, but rather than be called a tax- dodgér he agreed to pay personal taxes on an assessment of $400,000. “I see that T haye been put down on the tax books for an assessment of $600,000," he | sald. “I pald taxes last year on $400,000 | and have therefore heen increased $200,000, | for none of which I am lable. There was a note of complaint iIn the | millionaire’s volce, although he aid not | make the statement in the way of a protest. “Have you no personal property?” asked the commissioner. “I have personal property, but it 1s not in form to be taxable by the city,” answered | the finaricier. “All my property consists of | railway stocks In corporations, for which I | am not subject to taxation. I own no per- | sonal taxable property.” “Do you own any railroad bonds?"" queried the commissioner. “I do not,” promptly replied the financier. “Is your property all in stocks “Ye | “Is any of your property in bonds and | Absolutely Pure THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE OUR AMBASSADOR'! Effect of the Costume by Mr. MoCormick. Washington Post. We should really like to secure some definite Information touching the costume in which Mr. Robert McCormick, our am- bassador to Petersburg, appeared at the Ruseian court a few days ago. There has been much disturbing gossip in the prem- ises. Some ‘rumore had it that Mr. Me- Cormick had presented himself at the Winter palace in the full dress uniform of a major general of the Illinols State guard, which, as everybody knows, is almost as beautiful and resplendent as the regalia of the Philadelphia City troop or the com- plete war paint of the supreme potentate of the Improved Order of Bungstarters. It doesn’t line up, of course, with the panoply in which Mr. Cleveland's envoy to Germany once invaded the Presence in Berlin. Any reproduction of that amasing plumage has since been solemnly forbidden by International agreement, for its effect was more than disastrous at the time. Several princes fainted outright. A par- ticularly large job lot of Junkers threw fits both ways—a-comin' and a-goin'—and the Grand Hereditary Bootjack of Pum- pernickel retired to his principality in a burning rage of envy, swearing that never again would he go abroad without his army —179 men and 184 officers of all ranks. It occurs to us, however, that Mr. McCor~ mick's costume may easily have led to Jealousies and heartburnings at the Russian capital. If it be true, as stated, that he wore the uniform of the Illinois militia, we can well belleve it. We have seen that uniform in Washington and we know that it means chilblains for the gaudiest Willle boys In Burope. But we hope It was only a Loufs XV recrudescence—something sweetly rococo in the lace, brocade and eatin ltn a creation of puffs, patches, high-heeled skates, and silken calves; ruffied throat and wrists and mincing steps. We are proud of Mr. MeCormick’s legs, as we were of Mr. Breckinridge's in his day. Any one can pound about In swords and jackboots, with tempestuous mustache and muttering strange oaths; but when it comes to t long, smooth glide, the 1mpld legs, the aromatic whisper, and the sinuous duck, the American people point with pride and Itkewise hurl back. Tell us, oh, tell us, that it was our ambassador's legs ths made the minions of despotic power wince! LEGS, Mysterious PERSONAL NOTES. A Washington correspondent says Senator Allison is noted for the dexterity with which he keeps his views out of the news- papers. The young sultan of Morocco has fire- works at sundown of each day. In other respects, however, his life has none of the Fourth of July trimmings. During the past month Senator Hanna attended eighteen dinner parties on eight- een successive nights. He is now a reco mortgages “No," said Mr. Morgan, bluntly. [ | An interesting question often asked in | Wall street, says the Evening Post, con- | cerns the amount of capital that a large | ank could raise at an hour's notice. That | 18, how much accommodation could a bank | extend & customer unexpectedly confronted with pressing need, or for the purpose of financing a great deal with. A banker of international experience is authority for ihe statement that Wall street's facilities in this regard are superfor to London’s, in that a large undertaking could be financed here with much greater dispatch than on the other side. | Sald an officer of one of Wall street's most {mportant banks: “It is no trouble at 11 nowadays to raise $5,000,000 or $6,000,000 within an hour. I have seen it done too often to think for a moment that it would tax serfously a large bank's resources. Five times that sum, say $25,000,000, can be raised at twenty-four hours’ notice. It has been done. Of course, no one bank could o it, but the great Wall street institutions are linked together in such a way as to provide almost unMmited resources for the financing of any safe deal. The large banks think little of $1,000,000 or $2,000,000 loans these days, whereas in former years they attracted general attention, for such large amounts were released only after consider- | able negotiation. But that has all changed | now." | nized authority on table decorations. Mrs, George B. McClellan, widow of the famous general, who has been residing in Europe for many years, has returned to this country and will make her future home in Washington. Time works wonders. General Miles eat- ing with King Edward suggests the query what would the latter's great-grandfather have done to George Washington if he had had him in England? Dr. Edward Everett Hale says if he were ! a millionaire he would buy a large tract of land near Boston, divide it into four-acre lots, build a small house on each lot and present them to the poor at & nominal rental and at the end of ten years give them the houses. Arrangements are in progress in Cen- cord, Mass., for the observance of the cen- tennial of the birth of Ralph Waldo Emer- son, May 25. The Soclal circle, of which Mr. Emerson was a member for forty-three yeers prior to his death in 1881, bas ap- polnted a committee to prepare the pro- gram. In the morning ‘there will be ex- ercises in the town hall for the children and in the afternoon the exercises will be in the Unitarian church. The New York Press says that at a recent dinner given by a woman the guests | were at table when Miss Alice Roosevelt When ery standing until was announced. she entered the dining room “'e &nd remained the ‘crown man and woman rose | PROSPERITY’S GOLDEN GUARANTY, Increasing Output of Gold a Sign ot Great Promis New York World, One indication that prosperify will re- main with us for a long time to come de- serves to be noted—the rapidly increasing output of gold. The world's gold production was $42,000, 000 greater for 1902 than for 1901 It came within $6,000,000 of equaling the largest previous year's production, that of 1899, when the aggregate output of all countries was very nearly $213,000,000. More than $30,000,000 of the increase of last year over 1901 came from the Trana- vaal alone. Thus jmmediately did the r turn of peace make itself felt. It is esti- mated that this year the Transvaal will add 70,000,000 to the world's gold stock, and that for probably ten years to come this output will be steadily and largely in- creased. At the same time there seems te be no doubt that Alaska s to bo & new fleld of gold mining of indefinite magnitude. A fact of no small importance in fts bearing on the competitive progress of the different nations s that of the total world's production of $306,000,000 in gold last year the United States produced mearly $88,000,- 000, Australia $81,000,000, Canada. $19,600,000 and British India $9,000,000—a total of $197,500,000, or nearly two-thirds of the whole, from mines of Anglo-Saxon coun- tries. Historlans have noted the invariable co- incidence of increased gold mining with good times. California and Australia gave us in the late '40s and early '50s our last “golden age” of prosperity. The present one promises to be longer and greater. SAID IN FUN. First Office Boy—I guess de boss will raise my pay. Second Office Boy—What makes yer t'ink 80? First Office Boy—I give him ter under- stand I'd stay til he did.—Judge. “Madeloine fs such a dainty little per- son!" Ten't she! Why, it Just fascinates me to #ed her nibble her- wi round- o hole in & BC of "Swise " choese,~Cleveland Piain caler. “‘See here!" exclalmed the wrathful cus- tomer, “your clder vinegar isn't pure!" “8ir," ‘calmly rejoined the grocer, who has a habit of attending church occasion- ally, “to_the pure all things are pure. Chicago News. When a man tells you that the world is growing better all the time, it is generally safe to assume that he himself is steadily growing richer.—Somerville Journal Ascum—He hopes some day, he says, to become a popular poet. Do ycu think he ever will? Bditor—Of courne. He'll die some day."— Philadelphia Catholic Standard. “Don't_you think the office should seek the man?" ““Yes," the candldate answered; “it would save me a tremendous ambunt of work and worry if it would."--Brooklyn Eagle. “Some men, advice simpl’ ‘sponsible {! ton Star. said Uncle Eben, “axes yoh to have somebody to hol’ things goes wrong." —Washing- The Pastor—I hope you never swear when the baby is frritable, The Parent—Oh, no; the baby attends to all that.—Lippincott's Magazine. ‘““The humorous,” said the scholar, “{s part of the arm. “Strictly speaking,” said the ‘teacher of physiology, “would you say it was one of the bones of the arm, or of the shoulder?" “Oh! it's the elbow really, the humerus is the funny bone, ‘of coursé.”—Philadelphia Tess. MAKE WAY FOR THE MAN. C. E. Banks In Saturday Evening Post. Let us have peace; no crayen's peace, Nor sluggard's, to gape and dream, But the strenuous peace of the land's increase, And the powerful beat of steam; Let lh'-’ lv’unnlm of commerce roar over the flelds, nd the bugles of brotherhood play— r the arm of the man, and the brain of the man, And the grit of the man, make way. Let us huve peace; no timid peaco That doubtful clings to its place, But the free, brave peace of the old-time Greece And the faith of a patriot race; Let the vision of virtue enrapture the gasze, And the bolts of Integrity stay For the arm of the man, and the brain of the man, And the nefve of the man, make way. Let us have peace; no anchored peace +nat holds its eaits in the slips, | princess,’ as she has been dubbed by those | But the peace that sweeps all the strange WHY ARIZONA IS HALTED. | Attempt to Hold Up the Territory for Outlawed Bonds. | Buffalo Express. | Delegate Mark Smith of Arizona offered | a strong argument why that territory should be admitted by his explanation of the Plma county bond case. It appears from his statement that the bonds were {ssued in Pima county to pay for the con- struction of a rallroad that mever was butlt. The supreme court has declared the bonds invalid, but congress made & law, at the request of the bondholders, validating The people of the territory are now testing that law. It Arizona were an independent state congress could not override the local au thorities and the courts In this manner. The incident illustrates the old maxim that congress never can be trusted to govern any community in the Interests of its own people 80 well as they would govern them selves. The principle of creating states as soon as territories obtain sufficlent popu lation to afford a guarantee of their ability to maintain & permanent government of their own has been adhered to In all cases, except New Mexico and Arizona. It is unjust to make an exception of them Incidentally, it may be mentioned the man who is representing the Pima that county bondholders before congre and urging that Arizons be denied statehood unless it agrees to pay those bonds, is Bird 8. Coler, the recent democratie can- | didate for governor of New York. who do not approve of the new formality, was. seated. Of course, the Roosevelt family s in no way responsible for this departure from democracy, but its members are in the hands of the sentiment they have unconsclously created.” biue deeps With the keels of its own. great shipe; With_honor commanding, and truth at the heim, And bekuty 10 welcome the spray— For the nerve and muscle and brawn and bran For the soul of the man, make way. “our own manufacture.” Just ripe for you. dows will prove the saving. If the mind fs properly trained evident in manhood—and this applies The season is nearly over for us. A Good Example in childhood—the result 1s to good clothing. There's sufficient reason for the lowering of prices on the garments of But It you want @ good eult, overcoat or & palr of trousers—and they are considerably reduced in price to make it an object—even to buy them for next sesson—a look at our win- NO CLOTHING FITS LIKE OURS, Browning-King - @ 5. Wilcox, Mgr.