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

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1903. SUBDIVISIONS WILL REMAIN Tlkhorn Wai- fnins 'Distriot!" Headquarters at Fremont, Norfolk and Ohadron DEPAL Y LEN S RCTmFFIC[S IN OMAHA Benrwmi Pranéuner Agent Not Mentioned tainiug to New Go Buchanan, In Clreulars Pere Arrangement, to Chieago. I W General Manager BidweN of the Fremont, Eikliorn & Mlssouri Valley rallroad has sued turther details concerning the opera JUon of the line under the uew regime ®s the Nebraska and Wyoming division of the Chicago & Northwestern railway, which change {akes e next Sunday, March 1. Mr. Bldwell's latest announcement reads: The rumbe’ that the subdivisi of _th Fremont,: Elkhorn & Missourt Vajley rafl: Toad are’ 4o be changed is erroneous. The roperty. will be operated substantially as eretofory. The three operating divisions, With hoadquarters and superintendents at Fremont, Norfolk und Chadron, respec- l\lvely. will continue as “‘dietricts” of the Nebraska and Wyoming division of the Chicisgo & Northwestern rallway, instead of “divisions” of the Fremont, Misgouri Valley rallroad. Thé managing, iega traflic and operatin retain the same head: Quarters in Omaha as heretofore Complimgnt to 014 Management. B0 none of the present employes of the Operatiig department hege or over the line will be sacrificed a’fesult of the ab- sorption. Operation of the road will' con- tinte just as before. This is a compliment to the m: al tacties and polfcy pur- Sued by Mr. Bidwell in the past, and & further commendation comes in the latest ctrcular from Cficago, which states that: All traffic between stations and to_and Trom stations on the Nebraska and Wyo: mind division ot the Chicago & North- western rail will be waybilled accord- Ing to the rules and regulations. tarifts and circulars jssued prior to March 1, 1903 by the Fremont Elkhorn & Missouri Valley raflrond, untll maid rules and regulations, tariffs and circulars are canceled by the Chicago & Northwestern railway. “This circular {s {ssued by Marvin Hugh- itt, §r., freight trafic manager of the Northwestern. Thus the trafie policy of _the Eikhorn, too, 1s to he pursued by the Northwestern managemeat. - J. R. Buchanan, general passenger agent of the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Val- ley rajiroad, who is not contemplated in the cifculars so far issued relating to the new trafiic department, went to Chicago last night. If could not be learned whether he had been sent for or was going on his own motiom; 3 wn that he goes on business . retirement. FARMERS ON SITUATION w. Ure Says Residents of Burt County Are Amainst Rev- ikhorn & . 4 ) —_— W. G. Ure returned yesterday from Lyons, INeb. where he addressed the Burt County | Farraers’ institute Thuraday night on the subject of “Taxation.” Mr. Ure says that the people of the community arg very much ,htm in the pending revenuy bills and mong them fear was expressqd that the general revenue bill before the“legisiature Will increase the taxes of the fhrmers and {merchaufs and reduce the tax en the rail- and, other corporations, and for that :,af;p.oplc. generally oppose the ent 1n favor of to permit In- elevators on rs_of Burt the mercy of control the sales . ~Indfregard to H. R. those “Dpresent at the Sostitute session said the town of Lyons ‘would recelve more taxes from the rail- road company it the bill became a law than it now recetves. . . SANTA FE WAGE TALK OVER Conference Breaks Up andl Company Is Left to6 Declde on De- Wands Made. TOPEKA, Feb. 27.—There will be no further Degotiationd: between the Savta Fe and conductors and trainmen re- gording a raised wage scale. According to a member of the train- n's committee, $he final conference wac today. All that remains now is for 3 either | t or reject the It is foztempromise was agreed upoh and that stand prac- tically the same as whefl the conferences were started. ADMIRAL SCHLEY LAID UP —— ¥ Celd Turns to Inefplent Pneumonia 1 wnd Forces Sailor to Refuse Oniters. NTONIA, Tex.,Feb. 27.—Rear Ad- legation of citizens called at the 1o pay their respects they were in- u—? ‘Ilpd other ln'd ” on &l nutrition. It enables the perfect nutrition of the body and so re- th. 1 had stomach troub- e from birth.* writes . Willis Seaman, of {e formed that' the admiral was confined to his bed and was too Ill to receive anyone. Later a physician was summoned to at- tend him and at 9 tonight he was shle to resume his jovrney t. Admial Schiey ntracted a scvere cold enroute from New Ofleans that developed symptoms of pneu- monia WILL SPEND MANY MILLIONS Railrond Decldes Tmprove Line at Cost of $67,00 Pennsylvania to Pml.um.;:rnu. Feb. 27,—Thg Pennsyl- vania raflroad will spend $6 on im- provements of its lnes w Phila delphia and Pittsbiirg in the next“iwo or three years. This statement Is made the annual rt of the company, issied | today. | The improvements will include the con- struction of new comnecting lines and the Increase of trackage at various points be- tween Philadelphia and Pittsburg. The traffic carried over the system dur- r "8 Schley arrived in San Antonio ¥ hour this mdrning, and when ing the year aggregated nearly 270,000,000 tons, an increase of 26,000.000 tons over the previous year. The net earnings of all lines east and west of Pittsburg for the year were $6,762,502, an increase of $2,716,100 compared with 1901. The gross earnings of the Pittsburg, Cin- cinnati, Chicago & St. Louils company amounts to $26,634,357 and the net income to $3,021,983, PENSIONS FOR WESTERNERS Survivors of the Wars Generously Remembered by the General Government. WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—-(Special.)—The following pensions have been granted: Issue of February 4, 1908: Nebraska: Originals—Charlés W. Smith, Stockham, $10. increase, Relseue I William Y. Crow, U'lysses, 310; Wiillam W Jobes, Tecumseh. $i2 lTowa: Originals —Sewall 8. Farwell, Monticello, $8; Alexander Wilson, Farn hamville, '$6. ' Increase, Relsgue, Etc.— Dwight ‘Manwaring, Aigona. $12! Ira_ G Baker, West Liberty, §12; James C. Mc- Crary, Bentonsport, $14; Appollas W. Mof- | fitt, Webster City, $17; David Bruch, ‘Cedar Rapids, $10; Benjamin White, Sheilsburg. $24; Benjamin Bogardus, Toiedo $20; Henry Hime, Blencoe, $i4: Henry H. Stanbus, Douds Station, $10. Widows, Minors and Dependent Relatives—Nancy Huffaker, Cin- cinnati, $8; Sarah E. Pickett, Keoesauqua, $5; Lovilla' A. Rise, Wiota, §. Wyoming: Originals—George M. Little- | fleld, Fossil, $5. s RIVERS ~PASS DANGER LINE i ippl and Other Streams In the South, Swollen by Rain, C Anxlety. HOUSTON, Tex., Feb. 27.—There is & steady rise in every river in the state and | the Brazos, Trinity, Colorado, San Marco Guadalupe, Comal and Leon are out of their banks at some points. The rains have ceased and it Is now believed that the floods will recede. MEMPHIS, Tenn., Feb. 27.—The Missis- | sippl river at this point is above the danger line. Already the lowlands are beginning to get the full effect of the overflow. The | flood is forcing the water over the banks of the side of the levee and these pro- | tective earthworks are showing signs of weakening in .some places. RAILWAY CLERKS WALK OUT Canadian Pacific Employes Demand Recognition af Newly Formed - Umtgn. VANCOUVER, B. C.. Feb. 27.—The clerks employed in the freight, passenger and telegraph departments of the Canadlan Pa, cific rallway went on strike today to en- force recognition of the United Brother- A freight clerk, alleged to have been dis- charged last evening because of his mem- bership in the brotherhood, was made the subject of an ul'imatum. The brother- hood demanded his reinstatement, and | when this was refused the strike followed. SLOT MACHINES ON TRIAL dicts Seventy- eago Grand Jury 1 Five Operators of De cen. CHICAGO, Feb. day voted a true bill —The grand jury against Miss Elsie Barrett for assaulting Miss Bessie Palmer, | the actress, in their rooms on January 2. | | The girls were roommates, and in & quarre! | resulting from jealousy Miss Barrett shot and seriousiy wounded Miss Palmer. Seventy-five Indictments were also re- turned by the jury agaivst the operators of slot machines as a result of a crusade instigated by the Hyde Park Protective assoclation. STIFF TERM FOR BANK THEFT Twe W mtana Bandits Go Up for Ei, Years and Compan for One. - RED LODGE, Mont, Feb. 27.—Will Cowffitryman, Jed S. Lindsay and Pat Mur- ray have been found guilty of robbing the Stock Growers' bank at Bridger on De- cember 2. The jury fixed Countryman’'s punishment | at one year in the penitentiary aad that of Lindsay and Murray at eight ycars each. QUAINT FEATURES OF LIFE. | o connection with the extensive mam facture of the new bullet invented for the | French army several sets of cartridges have been stolen at Lyoms. It is thought that they have been sold to forelgn powers, and vigarous search is being made to trace the culprits. is #0 great as to drive the bullet in a straight course for half a mile without any ory. This insures terrific speed and cer tainty of aim. Regardless ‘of thelr ball room attire a score of the members of the Amogerone fire company of Greenwich, Conn., which is neas men, left the opera house at 1 o'clock the other morning to respond to am alarm The firemen slipped out of the door with- out donning hats or coats and ran to the engine house, an elghth of a mile away. After giving aid in extingushing tne blaze they returned to the reception which had been in progress in the opera house. A Wednesbury, (England), resident in the sixteenth cemtury left $1.000 to provide annually on St. Thomas' day three gowns and three coats to indigent persous of the parish. Following the custom of the times, the money invested in land (in this case in minerals). and the original legacy bas increased in value to $30,000. Instead of the three gowns and three coats, the charity commissioners who administer the funfs are able to present 200 gowns and sixty coa Wanted Some. “When you say whisky's ‘above proof’ s it ain't got any smell to #t, hopin’ It might mean your wife wouldn't have 4%y prcof that you'd bad & driok of it."—Philadelphia Press. {have been steadily | “The supreme court decision,” answered | “Then, hood of Rallway Employes. | to- | The new bullet's propelling power | of the rise and fall of the present traject- | composed of merchants and New Yerk busi- | RATE PROBE SINGS DEEP Railroad Officials Called to Explain Recent Freight Advances. COURT DECISION DUBBED IMPRACTICABLE | Delaware, Lackawanna & W ent Ha Vice Pres 1y Criticlses Involving Transportation Charges, Verdiet in Case WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—The investiga- tion into the recent advances of freight | rates on grain, packing house products, | tron and other commodities was concluded ho«‘ | e President Caldwell of the Delaware, | Lackawanna & Western, Comptroller Buck ley and General Traffic Manager Wight of the Baltimore & Obto, Freight Traffic Man- | ager Powell of the Southern, General Freight Agent Knight of the Wabash, Traf- flc Manager Guthrie of the New York Cen- tral, George F. Brownell of the Erle and F. W. Janvierr, counsel for the Lehigh Valley were witnesses. In general thev contended that the increases were based on commercial and trafic conditions, present and prospective, but admitted that the earnings of their systems were ample. In reply to questions by Assistant Secre- tary Decker of the commission, Mr. Buckley said the Baltimore & Ohio was contemplat- ing an advance of salaries to men getting $200 a month or more. The increase in salarfes of men getting $200 and under, | which went into effect on January 1, would make the cost of labor at the end of the present fiscal year $3,000,000 higher than for last year. The extent of the increase now in contemplation was not settled, but he did not believe the net expenses of the road would be greater than before, because of Increased traffic competition. When he was asked about coal expenses, Mr. Buckley said both he and the general superintendent believed coal prices, which increasing, would go higher. Mr. Wight agreed that the cessation of the rebate practice had saved the raflroads much money, but declined to make any estimate of the amount. Mr. Caldwell reviewed the attitude of {trac wanagers and contended that the rallroads were the real basis of commer- clal prosperity and without them the Indian still would be roaming the land. The rail- roads were entitled to a fair return from the investment on the basis of service given and not according to what so-and-so says. “Is what the courts and legislators have sald about reasonable rates all nomsense, or is it otherwise?" asked Commissioner Prouty. Mr. Caldwell, referring to a freight rate | decision, “is mot, kn my opinion, altogether | | practical.” Continuing, witness reterred to the rail- road policy of avolding depressing rates, which he claimed had maintained commer- clal prosperity. | Your'idea, then,” suggested Mr. Prouty, | & that railroad men of the past have been ted by a spirit of patriotism?" o, replied Mr. Caldwell, “but many were. He sald much of the Delaware, Lacka- wanna & Western stock was held by chari- table organizations. interposed Commisstoner Prouty, “when 1 have to pay $1 more for coal de- livered at my home I am making a contribu tion to some charitable organization. Numerous questions were asked to ascer-’ tain what the railroads thought would be a fair return op investments, but the com- missioners could get no specific answer. WHERE SOUTH WINDS BLOW tating Hurrieane and Tidal Wave. The experience of the Paumotu Istands with a tropical cyclone last month, of which news has just been received from Tahiti, illustrates once more the rule that heavy mortality is an indirect and not a direct consequence of such storms. Ship- | wreck, prostration of bulldings and other | damage to property are usually immediate | effects of the wind, says the New York | Tribune, but any considerable loss of life is almost invariably the result of floods | | and tidal waves caused by the hurricane. | Such was tle case at Galveston only a few | years ago, when *svmething like 10,000 deaths were reported within a day or two. | Even more appalling disasters of the same character have occurred on the shores of Benga) Bay after the visit of an East Indian typhoon to that part of the world. That Hikuero and her sister Islands should suffer so severely from such a meteorological disturbance is easily ex- plained. They are nothing but vast coral reefs, rising only te the level of the sea trom unknown depths and covered with & little sand. Had they originated from vol. canic action, as have most of the Soclety Islands, and the Marquesas and Samoan groups, they wonld undoubtedly have stood out of the water hundreds of thousands of feet. Only their coasts would have been affected. A wave twenty or thirty feet high might make a good deal of trouble, but it could mot travel far inland. It is doubtful if the Paumotu Islands were more than ten or fifteen feet above the level of high tide. No wonder that the great nav- igator Cook should think “Dangerous” an appropriate name for them! life from this cause last month, it prob- ably creates less of a gensation in the metropelis of the New World than a more | trifiing sacrifice nearer home. It is mo exaggeration 1o say that the Westfield ac- | | cident a fortnight ago, which was attended with scarcely more than a score of deaths, produced a much greater shock in this | community. The difference is partly one of 'ntal perspective. A hand held at the distance of only two feet from the eye covers & wider angle than a cathedral a mile away. So, too, the importance of events depends upon their geographical nearnest It 15 natural and pioper to feel a livelier sympathy for the former than the latter. No one possessing the aver- age amouut of sensibility can view with indifference the sudden «xtinction of a thou- sand liver more deeply by a sinrle death in his oun immediate environment and sphere. Among those Paumoru ‘slanders who sur- vived last month's visitation the most pressing need would be for food. At the present time summer weather prevails in the southern hemisphere. Besides, the scene of the calamity lies within fifteen or twenty degrees of the equator. Clothing is needed there omly for decency. Even roofs could he dispensed with for weeks | without serious Inconvenience. Yet in the most genial of climates man must eat. It is not unlikzly that all accumulations of grain and fruit and nuts existing before | ments, however, are surpassed by “Pitty Large as was the destruction of human | but he might well be stire— Why Syrup of Figs the best family laxative It is pure. It is gentle, It is pleasant. It is efficacicus. It is not expensive. It is good for children. It is excellent for ladies. It is convenient for business men. It is perfectly safe under all circumstances, It is used by millions of families the world over, It stands highest, as a laxative, .with physicians. If you use it you have the best laxative the world Because Its component parts are all wholesome. It acts gently without unpleasant after-effects. It is wholly free from objectionable substances. It contains the laxative principles of plants 1t contains the carminative principles of plants. It contains wholesome aromatic liquids which are agreeable and refreshing to the taste. All are pure. All are delicately blended. All are skillfully and scientifically compounded. Its value is due to our method of manufacture and to the orginality and simplicity of the combination, To get its beneficial effects — buy the genuine. Manufactured by (Autroria fig Sviip ¢ San Francisco, Cal. Louisville, Ky. New York, N. Y. FOR SALE BY ALL LEADING DRUGGISTS. invented for an automatic machine he had | worked over In the employer's shop. No one will ever hear of it, but the little con- trivance will save the manufacturer be- tween $40,000 and $50,000 a year, and the workingman won't have to mind the ma- chine, either. ‘World's Work. CANARY THAT CAN WHISTLE Remarkable Bird Possessed by an Actress—Cheerily Pipes, “I'm & Lad COLORS IN PHOTOGRAPHS Recent Advances in Applying the Three- Plate System. COLORED SCREENS SECURE GOOD RESULTS Methods Pursued in Developing the Negatives and in Printing—A Series of Complicated Processes. There are a few cases on record of canaries that have learned things. There s a bird out in Towa that is reported to whistle “Yankee Doodle all the way through. A woman who lives in Philadel- phia has a canary which distinctly says | “Pretty Dewey, dear.” Thase accomplish- That system of reproducing color by photographic means which has given the best practical results s the one which em- ploys three separate negatives, reports the New York Tribune. One sensitive plate is exposed by itself in the usual manner, ex- cept that a red glass screen or filter I placed in front of it. Without moving the camera or changing the focus, a second plate is exposed behind a blue screen, and finally a third one is used with a green screen. When these three plates are de- veloped they all bear the same picture, but a comparison will show that the dif- ferences between light and shade (in black and white) in one are not identical with those of the others. Halftone blocks made from these neg- atives are used in succession on an or- dinary printing press with colored inks, as in chromo lithography. With the block de- rived from the red screen the printing Is done with blue ink, while yellow Ink is employed for the blue screen block, and pink or-red ink with the one which was made with the green filter. If the right shade of pigment has been chosen, if the impressions are equally heavy. and if the three successive plctures match exactly— “register,” as the pressman a fair degree of fidelity to the original tints and hues is secured Gelatine Prints, Pat,” the name of the wisest little eanary in the world—a bird that can whis perfect musical tune thé anewering : of a somg. It belongs te Miss Hattle Wil- liams, who has the leading female role in ““The Rogers Brothers jn Harvard" at the Tllinols theater. It was during the re- hearsal of the song “I'm & Lady,” which is sung by Miss Willlams, that Pitty Pat de- veloped his remarkable mimic refrain. When Miss Willlams was “trying the song out” at her plano Pitty Pat was sit- ting on top of the instrument. Miss Wil- lams played the song over a few times and whistled it again and again instead of sing- ing It. Finally she began playing and sing- ing It eoftly. Of course she did not sing the chorus answer. To her surprise when she repeated thc refrain from somewhere kher head came the whistle of the she had whistled it a few moments before. It was Pitty Pat sitting | on the upright piano case looking at her, with his head eocked over comically on one side. To see If the bird would do it again she played the chorus over. Beyvond doubt this is the only bird that has any appreciation of the musical bugaboo “‘time.” The bird Is | 105tead of transferring the result of the a Hartz mountaln canary, with a yellow | WOrk done by the camera to paper for mul- Dbreast and brown,wings, and was given to | tplication, the photographer may want to Miss Willlams in Los Angeles, Cal., as a | make a lantern slide that can be exhibited fledgling five yqars ago.—Chicago Chranicle, | DY @ lecturer. He will then pursue a dit- 1 as Lt AR ferent method. He can make a print on Drawing a Fine bDistinetion, | transparent gelatine from each of the three lates, and then dye them properly. If they “John,” said Mrs. Upjohn, who was at- | bre m ety gt tending. with some misgivings. a party | 4TS mounted, one in front of another, their 3 o oy v PATLY | eftects may be bined In a single slide. given by the Gaswells, “who fs that distin- P ol LTwo or three methods of preparing such p‘:l'l'::" looking man over there by those | gy have been devised, but that with ) % whose development Sanger Shepherd (of That's Wiggly, the wealthy manufac-|p,e1and) 1 identified is just now regarded turer,” answered ‘Mr. Upjohn. [ the most satistactary. Manufacturer of what? It was long ago discovered that if a T°°'”°'he b K oai | certain chromium salt was added to gel- i suppose. that may ‘be considered a respect. | 118¢: 8ad & Alm of the latter was exposed ” to the action of light under an ordinary able business. Who is that slightly bald | b ot 008 B0 B LR Y would be man talking to him? H . ? produced: Under the clearest and most That's Hagsly. He's snother Elunlplrenl parts of the negative the gel- it e | atine would be hardened so as to be prac- it Gaes Be (igiature’ | tically insoluble, while those parts that aryeieptdor. g o |18y under the dense portions of the nes e on the oreigot "8 T |ative would be almort unaffected. The T B e ereaines on carth,~ | Ibtermediate shades would act according e e o e e sty iy | to thelr denaity. If, afterward, the surtace : e b of the film were {horoughly washed, fhe carry out her Instructions, “a woman I8 the | \ oiocted parts would partially dissolve, MR- 000 SRS while those acted upon most strongly by wealthy Palked, | the light would stand up higher than the gk leading with the In. | TeSt Of the surface. In other words, there d[:::‘ ontas was pleading with the In- | 46414 be a colorless image In rellef, the . thickest portions corresponding to what “What!" grunted the braves, “give him | hickest PO R o were the shadows In the orginal subject, while the thinnest ones would correspond to the high lights. Staining ‘would now up after we've taken the trowble to pick | bim out from all the other Smiths in the directery ¥ | give transparencies in a single color, and B, N e the ronie cmselves | the amount of stain absorbed would be with Penimore Cooper, noble red men | Louorned by the depth of the gelatine at were persuaded to desis.—New York | 2RV€TUE, 0 N L Times. | corresponding to each of the negatives, ! might thus be Imparted the proper colos Another Method. Rockport Woma Fatally Hurt. tek avenue and fatally injured at noon to- and she is badly hurt otherwise. A Brave Ma the surface would not be absolutely level and the process was a troublesome one, bul The denate of Maine was a tle that day Twelve to twelve stood the vote, and the Solons gray Looked one at another and turned away latter acting as a support. were combined the artist strata besides his paper. thunderous din. There the president stood with the sweat 08 his face, film, while yet moist, be laid over anothe) the recent flood were swept away thereby. Sickness and starvation, therefors, may possibly carry off many who were not drowned. fhe L e Things T t Connt. “n 'aanufacturing cosu recently. “Only this morning & manufac- turer, a workman and I settied the matter of two little wheels that the workmaz bad often the little unheard-of things that are making the great reductions tn " sald & patent lawyer stain will have been imparted to a singh -Cleveland Plaindealer. layer of uniform thickness. No cellulok work to the final stage, but it gives print which is more compact and flexibl S A WATRON, Temperance Lectarer. P G WL nercnre. your legal notices in The Week) To three films, one ST. JOSEPH, Mo., Feb. 27.—(Special Tel- | egram.)—Mrs. Mary Walter, a resigent ¢t It was also found that it these films, in- We are very Rockport, Mo., 76 yvears of age, was ruu stead of being mounted together in a lan- | proud of the down by a street car at Ninth and Freder- tern slide, were laid down over a sheet of | white paper and made to stick thereto, a day. Her shoulder and ome leg were broken picture as good as, or better than, that ob- tained with halftone blocks and & litho- graphic press would be secured. Of course the picture itself would be an excellent one. The white paper would gleam up through ¥or the question that caused such douot the superposed films with a degree of bright- | and vain Sees aevernsd B the werying thiskaess st | N 10030RS 100 Was the suffrage right for tHe women of (ne girata. and the resulting tints would | | this: First, _depend on the different proportions of the d th Twelve to twelve stood the vote when the Ao S arts of the composite. we send the president rose . Ana Reuin calied the roll with its aves an OBe more mlun-eth“ll now ‘-nl made formula to s noes, upon this proce: til recently it was And p;:lltd for a moment and stiffened his customary to mount each of the three films, sny phyllclln And the aflence was such that the drop of before it was expouhed l';'ll the light under a upon request; a pin negative, upon another film of celluloid, the Would" have wakened the echoes with and, second, When the three really had six It & newly stained v s erves d ® | A3 Qe Save S bs nesves an pdditiendl o0t oo selatine, the teler will greduelly And hie eyes wildly rolled with & dull ficry | transfer itself (o the latter. The former AR s e pale as a pan of MAY then be discarded and the other mem- Ky ' K bers of the trio applied in turn. Absorp- As he shuddered and muttered a hideous 'tion will again occur. In time all of the | bases will be needed, and that solitary gela tine film can be mounted en white paper Additional trouble is required to carry the color | | than would be poasible with six fitme super- CONTROL A POT OF MONEY |!can trade is so sweeping and striking as Monetary Force Wielded by the In- wurance Companies the United States. Probably very few people who live and work outside the money markets have ever paused to consider ‘he tremendous mone- tary force wielded by the insurance com- panies of the United States. The amount of money thal these concerns handle {s enormous. One may read that at present the sixty-seven leading life insurance com- panies of the United States hold securities of all kinds that aggregate more than $1,- 600,000,000 Imaginatfon fails to grasp such figures. It Is equiyalent <o saying that there are 1,500 banks {n the country, each invested. Stefking as these figures are, they do not include the holdings of the lesser in- surance companies, and they pay no heed to the money controlled by the little multi- tude of large and small fire insurance com- panies. Of course, the bulk of the money held by an insurance company has ¢o be invested: that is to say, every dollar not needed for running expenses and for the prompt pay- ment of claims. It is like a fairy tale of | finance when one reads what use is made of the millions on millions paid to insur- ance companies. During the year 1901, for example, the total of the incomes of the mixty-sev leading life {nsuranca companies was som thing ltke $376,0( .000. Of this money about $176,000,000 was paid to policy hold- ers or to thelr heirs. More than $77,000,- 000 was disbursed for operating expenses. 8till more than $120,000,000 was left. Some “economists” have figured that such facts show a “surplus” in which policy holders do not participate.~-H. Irving Hancock in March Success. WHAT A FALL, MY COUNTRYMEN Rise and Fall of the Bleyele the Most Remarkable in the History of American Trade. There were 300 bicycle ractories in the Uniteds States in 1895. They produced an- nually. 500,000 machines. These machines cost the users $37,500,000 each year, and the supply was not equal to the demand. Hearly 800,000 bicycles were manufactured in 1896, but the price declined 40 per cent in the next Ywo or three years and the supply was in ercess of the demand. In 1898 the membership of the League of American Wheelmen was 103,000: it is now 5,830. In 1398 there were in the Unitod States fifty newspapers devoted to cycling; now there is only one. Five years ago our boulevards and park ways were crowded with bicycle ride last summer were comparatively few on streets or to be ‘teshionabl vards. Five years ago was to ride a whee last summer to ride a wheel was to be un- fashionable. The bicycle has fallen trom its high pop- ularity. Wheeling hobby, and ranks simply as ordinary recre- atlon, channels. The sales of wh are not one- twentieth as large in 1898, and the the same proportion. There were twenty bicycle stores in Chi cago in 1898 where there is one now. maintains ite organization now. The local - rf wheels declined %0 per cent five years. No o:her reactionary movement in Amer- of which has $1,000,000 which it must keep | has ceased to re a Most of the capital invested in bi- cycle factories has been turned into other membership of the league has declined in ot the many bicyele clubs in 1898 only one this pa: Ocean. sing of the bicycle.—Chicazo Inter- Wireleas Telegraphy Not until the Ward line steamship Morro Castle sailed recently for Cuba was it definitely known that the Wireless Tele- graph company of America bad obtained for Cuba. concessions from the Cuban goiernment for the establishment of a wireless plant in Havana to connect with another to be lo- cated in Key West, Fla. A complete outfit for the equipment of these two stations was put on board the Morro Castle, the equipment consisting of several long poles | and 102 packages. The wireless company claim that their system will do all the work of the marine cable betwean Havana and Key West, and do it more cheaply.—New York Herald. Dies an His Mother Fea: Bdward Goode, of Kokomo, Ind., prom- isd his mother he would mot work on a rallroad during her litetime, she declaring that he would be killed before a month it he did. The mother dled three weeks ago and the son, having kept his promise, se- cured a place on the railroad, which had been his ambition. The prediction of the mother was fulfilled. He was killed In the Vandalia yards at Terre Haute on Monday of last week, and the body was brought to Kokomo and buried beside the mowly made grave of his mother. et LABOR AND INDUSTRY. The Baltimore & Ohio rallway will be made a four-track road from Plitsburg to Chlcago. ‘Trade unfons In New York Increased 20 per cent in membership during the last six month: The average depreclation of the thirteen 2able stocks because of Marconl's success is 3 per cent, In ten years the bollermakers and fron shipbullders’ union has grown from 450 to 23,000 members. The cost of the various contemplated will be $50,000, According to the bureau of s United States does an internal business of $20,000,000,000. Irrigation works in Dritish India which cost $128,000,000 water 13,000,000 acres and pay 7 per cent on the investment, The Boston Elevated rallroad ha: oh- tained 8,000 tons of Scotch houschold coul which any employe can have at $5.50 a ton T]he l:)ou‘l‘-munem Ins)mcl‘(unl of food ani mals he government in 192 numbe Rbodexd, ‘ana® 6900 carcasses - wore Cene: demned. The Illinols Btate free employment bureay obtained situations last year for 4,000 men and 13,000 women. The appiicants numbere i 21,779 men and 13,134 women. Illinols ranks first among the stetes in the manufacture of agricultural imple- ments, bicycles, cars, glucose and distilled lllflu( and In slaughtering and meat pack- ng. The great shoe manufacturing towns are Lynn,i{ erhill l“:"‘BY{)(‘k(OH, Mass,, and the gl‘fll hat producing towns are Bethel and Banvury, Eonn., and Oranke, N, 3. There was l.l‘l‘nfll’ beld in Germany a competitive exhibition of the work of gfllml‘) men shoemakers. In the United tates the cutter is the only rkilled work- man in the shoe Industry. This country invented the parlor, sleep- ing and dining ecars, the presied steel freight car, many of the beat features of the modern locomotive, the air brake, the automatic coupler and a host related de- : T and it runs the fastest lon istance a A pair of Mass., to es improvements oF the Pennsylvania raliway atistics the mmercisl vomen's shoes made in Lynn, blish a record for rapid shoe- making, required fifty-seven different operations and the use of forty-two ma- chines and 100 pleces. All these parts were assembled and made {nto a graceful pair of shoes to wear in thirteen minutes A twenty-five-story buflding s to be erected in New York, 100 feet square, and on land worth §100 a square fool, or $1.0M,000 for 100 feet square. The din 325 feet high, will cost oniy 81,400,000, 0 per cent' more than the land. Offies are ex- pected to rent for §3 a square foot—$800 for a room twenty feet square. — ] fact that doc- turs so gener- ally indorse Ayer’s Cher- ry Pectoral. There aretwo 1 t the physician o 4 . agree with us. ~Mm#¢.-m’..~.. sees for himself that the medicine is all we claim for it. We make no extravagant clsims. We raise no false hopes. Aver’s Cherry Pectoral Sixty years of experience make us believe that this is the best medicine in the world for colds, coughs, croup, bron- chitis, and all other throat and lung troubles. And the doctors Thees slaes : 25c., Sbc., $1.00. 3C. AVER CO., Lowsll, Mass.