Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 18, 1903, Page 6

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Communioations relating to news and edi- orinl_matter should be addressed: Omahe ee, Editorial Department REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order papstie to The Bee Publishing Company, 2-cent stamps accepted in payment of mall accoun n,r!onllr checks, except "d(‘ Omaha or tadh ern exchanges. not accep THE B PUBLISHING COMPANY. BTATEMBNT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas Cnum[, .8, George B, Taschiick, secratary of The Bee Pnhlhgll' ‘company, heing duly sworn, says that the actus] number of full and com- <ol Tha Dally Morning, Eveniny Al\m ay Bee print 4 ?lurfll[ he mont! ugust, 1908, was as follows: 20910 17 20,050 27,200 130,040 .20,730 20,220 29,930 290,360 verr . 29,700 20,270 29,750 20,880 20,920 26,600 80,180 29,380 120,610 290,330 +..20,800 129,280 20,060 20,380 20,680 29,080 40,430 81,0023 Total Less unsold and ot total sales. Net average sales. GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. bscribed {n my presence and sworn to pelorehe s llnyd.ll;'uof August, A D. 1903, y 1 (Bot Nota 904,832 Teturned coples. PART) LEAVING THE CITY, Part! avi the city at any time may notifying The The Roosevelt-Lipton incident is a tempest in a teapot. The nassessor is now abroad in the land. Keep your eye on him. 2 E—— Are the managers of the public light- ing companles playing a game of hide- and-scek ? Omaha jobbers confidently look for- ward to a heavy fall trade, and fall will begin in real earnest on next Monday, the 21st day of September. —— The cell Louss at the state peniten- tiary always has been o bone of conten- tlon and a source of graft, and it will probably so continue until the end of time. In splte of the variegated weather the harvest home season s coming on apace and King Ak-Sar-Ben is preparing for a formal entry Into the royal city of Quivera. Hven with one-fourth of its corn crop spolled by the frost, Nebraska farm crops this year will be coined into more gold than all the precious metals mined in the United States in the year 1008, The colnage of pennies has been dis- continued by the United States mints. At the present price of copper the coin- uge of pennies 18 sufficlently remunera- tive to insure a full supply by counter- feiters. ‘With six candidates for gubernatorial honors the republicans of Illinols should have no serfous trouble in finding a standard-bearer whom the rank and file are willing to follow In the campalgn of 1004, e Judge Sullivan's opiufon on reading in the public schools seems to have stirred up a hornet's nest. The so- ealled oplnion was really a straddle that pleased nobody and irritated a good many people, Municipal ownership in Germany has | culminated in the establishment of mu- nicipal drug stores in several cities, the eities determining their number and lo- ! from the cation. This is a varlation South Carolina dispensary. The product of Colorado’s gold mines 1 ises to be exceedingly interestipg and no aggregates about $25,000,000 a year. Nebraska's corn crop this year, marketed at 30 cents a bushel, will aggregate $60,000,000 in gold, or converted into coin currency exchangeable for gold. Omaba has expended money enough for public school education to place its plane of efi- clency, but the Omaha public schools have been retrograding rather than im- proving on account of politics and per- schools on the highest sonal favoritism. With new fire apparatus that will cost fire company, the fire department of Omaha will be much more efficlent than it ever has been. The question is, Will the fire Omaha the benefit of the Increased fire protection? about $25,000, and an additional insurance companies give The removal of Miss Todd from a fourth-class postofiice In the fourth-class | heen accomplished it is yet an undeni- bible THE FIFTEENTH AMERNDMEN 1t is announced chat at the forthcom ing session of congress Senator Carmack of Tennessee will introduce a proposi- tion to repeal the fifteenth amendment to the constitution of the United States, which gives to colored citizens the right o suffrage. It said that Senator Carmack expects that his proposition will have the support of every southern ropresentative in congress and he prob ahly will not be disappointed so far as {the democratic representatives from that sectlion are concerned. It is also | stated (hat the rea! object of his con- templated move is to revitalize the question and to precipitate dmscussion, “out! of which will issue germinating thought for the ultimate solution of the problem,” which he thinks will follow as a natural sequence to a clearer and more widespread understanding of the principles involved. The Tennessee sen- ator, it is gaid, is of the opinion that the surest plan of solving the negro ques- tion is elimigation from poiitics, which wonld result from repecaling the amend- | ment. Another view of Mr. Carmack in regard to the negro question is for the separation of the races. It is not likely that the senator has the slightest expectation that his propo- sition will be adopted by the Fifty- eighth congress, or that it will be ap- proved by a majority of the people of { the country. There are many who think that the fifteenth amendment to the constitution was a mistake, but even of these a considerable number, it is not to be doubted, would oppose its repeal. They would do so on the ground that repeal would be an act of manifest in- justice to our colored citizens which would subject the nation to reproach. The amendment was adopted in the be- lief that every principle of right and duty required that the colored race should be given the right of suffrage and it is not to be doubted that this be- lief is still held by a very large ma- jority of intelligent and unprejudiced people. The republiean party can cer- tainly be depended upon to firmly op- pose repeal and that party will be in coutrol of the government for some years yet. 1t is suggested that the movement which Senator Carmack is to start is not in good faith, but is simply to stir up the race question for use in next year's campaign. Possibly this is the real pur- pose, though it is not easy to see what the party of which the Tennessee sena- tor is a member will have to gain from a discussion of the race question. Northern democrats have very ecarefully avoided that question, which involves the southern element of the party in practical nullification of a part of the federal constitution. The democrats of the north will hardly be disposed to thank Mr. Carmack for making an issue of this question in next year's presiden- tial ecampeign. Republicans, on the other hand, will be quite willing to dis. cuss it, confidently belleving that in op- posing repeal of the fifteenth amend- ment they will be sustaining a just prineiple in accord with our republican institutions. e —— MEXICO'S MONETARY PROBLEM. President Diaz, in his message to the Mexican congress, merely mentions the monetary problem, promising that when the national commission shall have made its report he will present meas- ures to congress providing for the de- sired monetary reform. It is needless to say that Mexico's executive is very earnestly in favor of such a change in the financial policy of the country as will remove the difficulties incident to the silver standard and the general pub- lic sentiment is in accord with him. It is by no means a simple problem, but one that must be dealt with cautiously and carefully. This Diaz fully understands and therefore he appointed a commis- sion to thoroughly study the question and submit recommendations as to needed changes. This body is composed |nf men thoroughly familiar with finan- cial and commercial affairs and with the operation of the sllver standard. Mexico is now a considerable producer of gold. It is stated that the gold mines of that country are already yielding about $20,000,000 a year, with the out- put steadily increasing. A leading Mex- fean paper expresses the opinion that within a year or two the annual gold production of the republic will reach at least §25,000,000, which would put Mex- | ico well up in the list of gold-producing countries. This 1s obviously important in its bearipg upon the monetary prob- lem, for if Mexico should have such an annual output of gold that country | ought within a few years join the ranks of gold-standard nations. is W YURK CITY CAMPAIGN. mpaign in New York City prom- The ¢ confident prediction can be made as to the result. Mayor Low has been en- dorsed for re-election by all but two of the fusion elements and will run again, hut there has developed a considerable opposition to him among some of his supporters of two years ago. A leader in this opposition is District Attorney Jerome, a forceful man who is thought to be able to command a large follow- ing. Jerome has not hesitated to de- clare his convietions that Mr. Low can- not be re-elected and also to state in ex- plicit terms his reasons for opposing the mayor. The two fusion elements in op- position are sald to be strong and in- fluential and while they may not be able to prevent the renomination of Mayor Low they may defeat his re-election. It would be unfortunate if New York 7| should agaln pass iuto the control of Tammany. If all that was boped for i | from the Low administration has not is required. It was an enormous task jand referendum. Where does Judge that was presented to him and it is not | Sullivan stand on these issues? surprising that he has been unable to complete it. Nor is it at all astonish- ing that he has made some mistakes. On the whole he has done remarkably well and fully merits re-election. All is not at present harmonious in Tammany, that organization being with- out a strong leader, but it may be ex- pected to adjust differences and quiet the disaffected, =0 as to present a solid front in the campaign. There is no one now prominent as a possible Trinmany candidate for mayor, the man most talked of being George B. McClellan, who is a representative in congress. The question before the voters of New York is simply whether they want a continu- ance of good government, with every prospect of its constant betterment, or a return to the Tammany graft and blackmailing conditions. MORE ALIGHT WANTED. More than a month has elapsed since President Nash of the electric lighting company announced with a grand flour- ish of trumpets that he had conceived, digested and evolved a scheme of benefi- cent monopoly for public lighting that would do away with gas lamps and gasoline posts and make it entirely unnecessary for the city to invest in a municipal electric lighting plant. The attractions of the scheme for monopolizing public lighting were fully explained by Mr. Nash to the members of the Omaha Real Estate exchange, and in conformity with his expressed wish and request a resolution was adopted by the city council inviting proposale for public lighting from the electric light- ing company and the gas company. The invitation to the electric lighting com- pany contemplated the extension of the are light system over the territory now covered by gas and gasoline lamps, while the invitation to the gas company only covered the territory now lighted with Welsbach lamps. Inasmuch as the beneficent monopoly scheme of Mr. Nash contemplated the snuffing out of all the gas and gasoline lamps, the invitation to the gas com- pany to submit proposals was really a mere blind, unless, indeed, Mr. Nash had no design to monopolize the public lighting, but was bent simply upon fore- ing a reduction in the cost of gas light- ing. In any event, however, the decli- nation of Mr. Nash to submit his plan and proposal for lighting the whole city with arc lamps until after the gas com- pany has submitted its bid cannot be explainea on any rational ground. Suppose the gas company were dis- poged to cut its price in the middle, would Mr. Nash follow up the cut in rates, or would he abandon his scheme of beneficence altogether and leave the city at the mercy of h}s competitor? Ruppose the gas company should de- cline to reduce its rate, would that fact have any bearing upon the proposed cut in the arc light rates from $94.50 to $70 per lamp? If Mr. Nash has scaled down the price of arc lights to bedrock, would the electric light company cut below the cost of production just for the sake of monopolizing the public lighting and staving off municipal ownership, to which the mayor and council are pledged? Would it not be well for Mr. Nash to give us a little more light on this subject, so the people of Omaha will understand why he withholds his proposal? rr——— Philadelphia is still wrestling with the asphalt trust swindle, which {s de- nounced by the North American as “a most disgraceful scheme of imposture by which credulous investors have ever been fleeced. A few hundred families have lost the savings of a lifetime, a few hundred business men, have felt the pinch of decreasing resources and a new stain now wmars the once bright shield of Philadelphia’s honor. The blotch of asphalt is there as repulsive as it is indelible.”” Omaha jobbers and manufacturers have within the past few years ex- tended their trade territory on both sides of the Missouri river and periodic trade excursions have done much to- ward making Omaha a distributing cen- ter. The next trade excursion into cen- tral and western Iowa cannot fall to prove mutually beneficial to the mer- chants along the lines of the principal arteries of commerce and the jobbers and manufacturers of Nebraska's me- tropolis. The trafic managers of the Texas railroads have asked the Texas State Railroad commission to issue an order prohibiting the railroad companies from granting return passes for live stock shippers. This is whipping the devil around the stump. The traffic managers counld have just as easily brought about the same result by getting some friendly “Injun” on the bench to issue an injunction to restrain them from is- suing passes. Commissioner Harte wants three busi- ness men “plugged to size” to investl- gate the plumbing job at the county hospital. Would not three expert jour- neymen plumbers be more competent than three men who could not distin- guish between a stralght job and a crooked one, and would any business man not a practical plumber be compe- tent to figure out how many days' work are represented In the job? If the crogked plumbing job in the county hospital was the only crooked thing traceable to the court house, the taxpayers of Douglas county might be willing to close their eyes and stuff cot- ton in thelr ears, But there are a good many worse things than the padded wiate of Delaware has created a great | gble fact that the political and social | plumbing bill. rumpus in democratic civil service re- | conditions have been very much im- form circles. As a matter of fact, Miss | proved. ToAd was deposed because her conduct Mayor Low has given the city t| better government than it had for a L __ _J Nebraska popullsts declared in their state convention their adherence to the had evoked a protest from patrons of | long time and there can be no doubt | Omaha platform and especially for gov- the ofice on account of her pernicious | that if given two more years he would | ernment ownership of railroads and all sativity In local factional politica ilustitute every practicable reform that public utilities, as well as the lnitlative Too Much of a Good Thing. Detroit Free Press, Sir Thomas Lipton's attack of acute in- digestion may have been brought on by the great quantity of taffy he has been com- pelled to swallow since he came to the United States, Skating on Thin Ice. Brooklyn Bagle. They say that a marquis with a millien dollars a year {s coming over here to ast. It he does not act better than the dead broke noblemen who have preceded him he will need it all before he goes home. Spolls Foster Sean Chicago Chronicle. In the Todd business as In the cases of Beavers et al the trouble has arisen from the practice of regarding the Postoffice de- partment as a political asset instead of a government bureau to be administered in a businessllke and economical fashion. Scandals will not cease until this policy ls changed. New York Tribu There are this time no advantageous political possibilities for any of the European powers in the mess in which the Grand Turk and most of his near neigh- bors are wallowing. Thers is no winning In the game for anybody, but the oer- tainty of loss all around, for no end of con- fusion and disorder, and 8o far no defined limit to its sprea An Excel t Excha: Philadelphia Inquirer. Becretary Wilson wishes to see agri- culture taught in the common schools and thinks that would be a good way to keep the boys on the farm. If the msecretary will take a second think he may perceive that it would be an excellent way to send city boys out to take the place of the boys who fles from the practical education of the farm itself. The Boys Are Young Yet. Philadelphia Record. Only $2,204,(84 was pald by the pension office during the last flscal year to Spanish war veterans. This Is the smallest amount disbursed by the government on account of pension clalms growing out of any of the wars of the country. The revolutionary war cost the government $7,000,000 in pen- slons during the year referred to, and the outlook is bright for Spanish war veterans. By the year 208 thelr widows and’chil- dren’s children may be drawing a billion a year from a grateful and long-memoried nation. —_—— THE MAN BEHIN! Let Him Stay There a4 Tip Your Beaver to the Man Ahead. Chicago Inter Ocean. The editor of the Manteno (Il.) Inde- pendent is tired of hearing of the man be- hind. And who can blame him? When- ever a phrase takes possession of this coun- try it is certain to be used until it is frayed out. ‘The man behind was all right for a time. He served a good purpose. He pointed a moral and adorned a tale. He inspired youth with ambition and sent blood cours- ing faster through the veins of age. But he had his limitations and the editor of the Manteno Independent voices a popular protest when he says: “In every newspaper we pick up we're sure to find a lot of gush about the man behind the counter and the man behind the gun, the man behind the buzz saw and the marm behind the son, the man behind the times and the man behind his rents, the man behind the plowshare and the man be- hind the fence, the man behind the bars, the man behind the kodak and the man be- hind the cars, the man behind his whiskers and the man behind his fists, and every- thing behind has entered on the lists." It was only to be expected that, in the mad desire of the emotional press to can- onize the man behind, another man, and one no less deserving of occasional recog- nition, should be shamefully neglected. As the editor of the Manteno Independent truthfully remarks: “They skipped another fellow of whom nothing has been said, the fellow who was even or a little way ahead, who always pays for what he gets, whose bllls are always signed, he's a blamed sight more Important than the man who is behind. All we editors and merchants and the whole commercial clan are indebted for existence to the hon- est fellow man. He keeps us all In bu: ness, and his town Is never dead, and so we take our hats off to the man who is ahead." Of course, & happy medium between these two extremes Is to be found in the man who s trying to catch up; or in the man who, though once behind, Is now forging to the front by doing his level best to meet his installments. Yet this does not affect the general proposition as set forth by our esteemed contemporary. THE PRESIDENT ON IRRIGATION, Keen Interest in the Welfare of the Wh Country. Kansas City Star, In his letter {o the Irrigation congress, now in session at Ogden, Utah, President Roosevelt has again revealed his great in- terest in and fam!llarity with the general characteristics and needs of the west. In his administrative policles he has given every consistent encouragement to the irrigation movement and has done all he could to conserve the forests of the west and north as essential to the needful water supply of the country. He favored the frrigation law and it was in the Interest of the work to be done under that law that he addressed the Ogden congress, Mr. Roosevelt is well aware that in such great undertakings as the reclamation of the arid lands of some thirteen states and three territorfes, or rather such parts of them as may be reclaimed at consistent cost, there will be great disappointment. He has foreseen that many projects for which certain groups of men have worked, and in the perfection of which they have hoped to enlist federa! ald, will not be deemed feasible by the expert engineers engaged by the government to make the surveys. He realizes also that there will be & good deal of discouragement because of the slowneas of the work actually under- taken. His letter is a strong presentation of the enormous scheme—the necessity for careful and accurate preparation, for un- questioned stability and forample service, He has dwelt especlally on the permanent character of the developments to he made and has admonished patlence and co- operation on the part of those who are most interested personally in the gigantic scheme. Incidentally, he has taken the opportunity to urge the most careful con- servation of the forests, withont which permanent irrigation on an elaborate sca would be impossible. In this communication, as in many other addresses made by the president, he has shown the keenest interest in the welfare of the whole country and the particular Interests of certain sections. Few presi- dents have kept such close watch on the details of public movements. Only & man of exceptional capacity could accomplish what the president has accomplished in the matter of acquiring personal information relating to the vast &xd varied ooarerns of his administration. A AN I e e A A AP 4 SEPTEMBER 18, 1903. MAKING OF MARKET TOWNS, [ did Mr. Stiekney's Delive Uplift of the West. Minneapolis Journal When Mr. A. B. Stickney, president of the Chicago Great Western railroad, makes an address it is a good rule to hear or read it. His address at Omaha last Saturday night, on the occasion of the celebration of the entrance of his rallway into Omaha, was no exception. After a philosophical discusaion of the relations of the country to the market village and of both to the market town, and some interesting remarks on the agricultural and population possi- bilities of Nebraska, Mr. Stickney took up & subject that is of the greatest interest to the people of the entire west and especially to those living in the great market towns, such as Minneapolts and 8t. Paul. In brief, he held that instead of being at the end of a period of prosperity the west is just entering upon a stretch of good times. His argument was that every period of active Immigration in this country has been fol- lowed by prosperous years. ““Because history repeates itself,” he sald, ‘I feel that it {3 not venturing upon the realms of prophecy to say that resulting from the enormous immigration of the last four years the market towns of the west have already entered upon an era of in- creasing trade and collateral development, which will increase year by year, and which will equal and probably exceed the increase from 1883 to 189, and that there is not ‘the slightest cause for alarm on ac- count of the present panic in Wall street.” Mr. Stickney went back as far as 1838 to show that every period of Industrial depres- slon in this country has been followed by a great migration, which in turn was fol- lowed by a great expansion of business, The last hard times began in 1893 and ended in 188, which was the year in which the present migration of homeseekers began. The last great movement before the pres- ent one began in 1878 and lasted until after 1883. The next year there was a stock market panic comparable to the present one and general business was affected by it in 1884; and so, Mr. Stickney thinks, the general business of the country will witness some reaction in 1904, but the market towns of the west will be more prosperous than ever because thelr tributary population will have been so greatly increased by Immigra- ton. It is notable that the migration of the present year is the greatest since the present moving tendency set in. 1t will be hard to dispute Mr. Stickney's reasoning. There are hundreds of thou- sands of new people in the west and their wants must be met, whether school keeps in Wall street or not. It will take some years to catch up with the increased trade, As for the country at large Mr. Stick- ney holds that the stock depression will have the same effect that it had in 188, Men of brains and energy, disgusted with watching the ticker, will take the rem- nants of thelr fortune out of speculation and put them, together with thelr encrgy and abllity, into productive enterprises, thus increasing the real wealth of the country. At the same time the collapse of the speculative bubble will put prices back to a reasonable basis and thus stim- ulate business which has been in ce on the some degree repressed by excessively high prices. 80, comparing ourselves with ourselves in the past, 1904 in this cycle of trade represents 1884 in the last cycle, hence Instead of being at the end of good times we are only a little beyond their beginning, and even If the length of the eycle 18 not to be changed, we need not expect really bad times before 1910 at the earllest. Certainly, this is a comfortable view of the outlook. But let him who opposes It look to his argument! THE ALASKA CASE REVERSED, da’s Big Bl and What Amounts To. New York Tribune. Tt would probably be best, as we have al- ready suggested, now that it is before the International commiasion, to regard the Alaska boundary ‘dispute as fn a munner sub judice, and therefore refrain from gen- eral discussion of it. Rut if one side per- sists in continuing the town meeting de- bate, it is at least permissible for the other to make reply. Thus we notice that a near relative of cne of the British (Canadian) commissioners Is publicly urging those commissioners to “resist the American demand” and not to “glve away Canada’s right.” That is a | characteristically Canadian version of the | case, diametrically opposed to the well known facts, There are in the case no “American de- mands,” and there are no ‘“Canadian rights.” America {s making no demands. She s content with her rights as she at present possesses them, and as she has possessed them ever since she recefved them from Russla, who possessed them be- fore her. It is Canada that s doing all the demanding. Nearly elghty years ago Count Nessel- rode said, “The British wish to obtain, w wish to retain.” That was an exactly ac- curate description of the controversy at that time. With “we” meaning America instead of Russia, it is equally accurate now. We shall expect the outcome, al to be the same as in 182. e, PERSONAL NOTES, Tt is significant that the Connecticut man- ufacturer who is bringing the labor union leaders to court is a hatter of Daubury. There 1s no doubt about his being mad. Michael Cronin, the Adirondack guide who drove President Rooseveit from the heart of the mountains when President McKinley lay dying, is lying dangerously Il in Albany City hospital, Patrick Dolan, the reputed originator of the quick lunch, is dead In New York, but it 18 to be hoped that he will not have to answer for all the untimely deaths that may be traceabla to the quick lunch. A statue of Colonel Joslas R. King of St. Paul, said to be the first o volunteer for service in the civil war, will surmount the monument to the soldiers and volunteers of Minnesota which will be erected in Summit park, Bt. Paul. John Crump, a mulatto and reputed son of a prominent southerner, has been obliged to seck a home In the Denver poor house at the age of 102 years. He served under Far- ragut and was severely wounded during thé battie in Mobile bay. General Andre, the French minister of war, has decided to take steps to secure the registration of automobiles owned by all Frenchmen lable to army service, so that the military authorities could fmmediately requisition them in time of war. When Senator Albert J. Beveridge of Indi- ana addressed the bankers' convention at Indlanapolis the other day he had not a penny in his pockets, his wallet, containing all his money, having been appropriated on a train by a dexterous pickpocket. Five widows and daughters of soldiers who served In the revolutionary war are now drawing pensions from the United States government. Thelr names and ages are: Hannah Newell Barrett, I ther 8. Damon, 8; Sarah C. Hurlbutt, 8; Rebecca Mayo, %, and Rhoda Augusta Thompson, 52 B. Anundsen of Decorah, 1a., who has just been selected as president of the Natfonal Norweglan Bocieties of the United Btates at ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK. % on the Cur the Metropolis. A somewhat frisky satlor lad hove inte port recently and cast anchor in Madison Square. The band was playing and a crowd of women and children were listening to the music. Fortunita Lorito, a pretty girl of 14, and her two slsters wers among the num- ber. “I'm going to kiss you,” sald the salt water pligrim to Tortunito, as he grasped her in his arme. The girl screamed for help. Instantly hundreds of women rushed to the scene. The rained blows on the sailor, and finally felled him. He was Kicked on all sides and his face was torn by sharp finger nails and handfuls of hair was torn from his head. The sallor cried for mercy, but the women gave none. Men tried to get him, but the womerl waved them back. “We'll attend to him,” they said. “Lynch the cur! shouted the men The cries of the satlor for aid had sunk to low moans when two officers arrived. After forcing their way through the crowd of struggling women the police found that he had fainted. He was carried to the station and locked up. | of collte from the strike. ly higher bec both way porting a; not only strike, gains In ago, showing an Increase in net earnings of In the New York aquarium a day's food for the fish, besides quantities of live shrimp, minnows and a small amount of steak and liver, fncludes twenty pounds of herring, thirty pounds of cod and %0 clame. The feeding of the fish calls for great at- tention. Some of them are predatory and must have live food. Small fishes, minnows and the like are kept in tanks for the pur- pose, and tons of them are consumed. Other fish, again, are vegetarian and still others are omnivorous. The food must be fresh, has to be prepared and must be glven at the right periods. Some fish have to be fed every day, others at intervals of three or four days or a week. Every day the smaller ones get their meal of finely chopped clams. The larger fish eat a variety of things, suoh as quahaugs, live shrimps, salt-water min- duction a now with REC Here {8 the street t of Life in|Spesking of the Anth in Conmection with the Law. industry does not make pleasant reading for the general public vanced 10 con | dispatches were teliing of the shutting down The commerclal showing of the :lh(hnf"? did not keep pace with the supply festly, then, During wera expected companies engaged during the last eight monthe. but cite Monopoly Indlanapolis News Recently prices were ad= a ton. At the same time s because the demand for ¢ Mani the Industry had recovered depression wrought by the great that process high prices but with essation of sup- of overproduction prices 1 1se {11! Evidently the rule that gov erna the anthracite monopoly does not work s. Meanwhile the reports of thi in mining and trans- nthracite show enormous earnings They have recovered from the lossea of the have one and all made great their fiscal year. The Erfe road, which led them all, reported a few days nearly $3,000,000 over the year before, while the Reading showed a surplus of nearly $1,00,000 for last July, whereas in July of > previous year it had but $00,00. The net result seems to be that the strike af- forded the coal monopoly an opportunity to work off its eurplus and its subsequent pro- t unusually high prices, rounding up with a repetition of its old tactics, and a refusal to make a showing of 1ts business according to law. But to speak of the anthracite monopoly and law in the same connection is a satire on America. OGNITION OF “CHESTY." An [lustration of the Fact the People Make the Words, New York World chesty,” slang word, word of s, expressive and useful, given a a recent Minneapolis convention, is one of the brightest men of lowa. He is a news- paper man, being the editor of the Decorah Posten, & semi-weekly newspaper magazine published in the Norweglan language. nows, moping and off their appetite. pond fishes will eat only quire live animal food. The huge Ansonia apartment hotel on the Broadway block that runs from Sov enty-third to BSeventy-fourth street York. it from outside and inside. time to take it In, as storles above the ground and two below. and covers a large portion of a city block. It contains 340 suites for famlly use, be- sides those many public rooms for the general use of a great hotel, The first floor has a bank, a flower store and a drug store, a grill room and a res- the office, a ball room, a public The floors from the second to the fifteenth are for family oc- the main dining room is on the sixteenth floor, and quarters for the ser-. taurant, reception room, ete. cupanc vants are on the seventeenth. The kitchen, laundry, cold first basement. The building is to a great extent runm the things that would be needed in & village of 3,00 people have to be provided for the structure s expected to on its own resources—that fs, all 3,000 that this house. The managenment is compelled, are 362 telephones in the building, nected with its own central station, with lights. There are 2600 steam ra- diators to be kept supplied with heat in There are 400 refrigera- but to be kept cool by cold air from a central plant There are 1,000 faucets the cold season. tors, not to be filled with ice, in the building. connected with 160,785 feet of iron piping, for both cold and warm water, There are in the building six main pas- two walters’ elevators, There are also senger elevators, and two freight elevators. private lifts that connect with the larger apartments. New York of right may claim to be the| greatest holiday city on the American continent. In “Little Italy” they celebrate 110 feast days; the Ghetto has about fifty specfal holidays, and there is hardly a day passing without its extra legal holiday of some sort. ' On August 1 the boys who live along the harbor have what they call “Jaunching day.” They celebrate this by pitching each other, clothes and all, into the water. Monday there was another festal occasion known as ‘‘chowder day." This was a politiclans' holiday. “Blg Tim' Sullivan and other lesser leaders treated their myrmidons to a grand blowout on the shore, and chowder was the piece de resistance. On the great eastside fhis Is recognized as “Mulligan day"” and “Sullivan day.” About 8000 soverelgn cltizens participated in the big feast at College Point. The Mulligans are the Sullivans on Mre. Sullivan's side, and that clan has increased to remarkable proportions in the past few years. In fact, when the proces- sion started from “Big Tim's" headquarters on the Bowery on its way to College Point the Mulligans outnumbered the Sullivans one and a half to one. Expert accountants employed by the city have made the discovery that there s a small matter of $19,00,000 due the city T rom street raflways for unpaid taxes. The result of thelr examinations shows that various corporations owe nearly $10,000,000 on franchise taxes alone. For the tax on tracks under the special franchise law the companies owe nearly $1,000000, and for car licenses there is still unpald nearly $100,000. Of the grand total of $19,000,000 arrears $12,000,000 Is established as the amount due on the lines and the balance represents the experts' estimate to indicate a total of at least $7,000,000 due on real estate and personalty. This s the first examination ever undertaken to establish efinitely the amount due from these corporations to the city for unpald taxes from all sources. With the New York habit of dining out has come & varfety of restaurants un- equaled in any city in the world. The New Yorker can dine modestly for 5 cents. can dine sumptuously for $2. He can eat Chinese chop-sucy In twenty parts of the eity. There are more French and Italian table d'hote establishments than there are restaurants in Philadelpbla. He can find German places without number. Hungarian specialitl Syrian cookery, Japanese deilcacl He can dine in places or in parks. The variety pleases him. The amount of money spent by the New Yorker in restaurants is almost incredible. A young Irishman who started an eating house in the rear of his saloon less than a dozen years ago now has & large and fashionable restaurant on the upper West- side. He Is planning to build a sixteen- story apartment house with his last year's profits. Men who only a few years ago were walters are now millionaire res- taurant ewners. Perils of M n Work, Washington Star. The members of the Salvation Army who intend to carry their good work into the mountains of Kentucky should take pre- cautions to prevent thelr uniforms from causing them to be mistaken for revenue officers. beef's liver, worms, fresh dead fish and boneless salt codfish. The last named appears to be relished by them all, and it is given as a tempting bite to fish that are Most fish Iike raw beef chopped fine. Brook trout and nimal food, and such fish as the stickleback and sunfish re- has become one of the show places of New Visitors go there dally to look at| 1IN @ll nations therc has existed side by It takes some it is seventeen storage rooms, barber shop and the like are in the there- fore, to do things by the wholesale. There con- ‘There are 18,000 electric burners to be provided place In the newest dictionary. So the dic- tionary press agent informs pointing with pride to its presence there as cvidence of modern methods in lexicography. In Dr. Johnson's day the province of a dictionary maker was to keep out a8 many words as possible. Barlow called “clever a “vulgar word” and advised his readers that it should “never make its way Into books.” Johnson called “fun” a ‘low” word. Quantity, not quality, is now the .| 1dea with the dictionary editor, and it is the right idea. It Is the people who make the words, not the dictionaries, e o o o — side with the written language a spoken one not countenanced by the literary, but far more fruitful in word invention. Max Muller sald that for one “lbrary” word popular speech could provide a dozen of similar meaning. The “vulgar’ words are Just as likely to live as the blue-blooded. In Rome In Clcero's day the nobles called a horse equus, from which we derive equine. The common people called it caballus, from which comes cavalier. There Is a democ- racy to language which makes light of the rules of speech lald down by purists. hesty” is popularly regarded as @ Devery invention. It was merely “appro- priated” by the ex-boss, having becn in general use years before his time. Words that seem to be new-born Into publi-ity, Iike “chesty,” have had a slow maturing process. The poet Dryden was credited with originating half a hundred words; Trench found most of them in_old English writers, many in Chaucer. Ie not our so-called Amerfcanism guess” also in Chaucer? As & matter of fact, it is as difficult for an individual to make a word as to kill one, excepting always the men of sclence, who apply new words to new inventions. Thus Von Helmont, who invented gas, gave it its name. Another word of his invention, blas, died untimely. Similarly it is impos- sible to kill a word that the public likes. Johnson and the other lexicographers of his time could not do it. Bwift could not do it in the case of “bus” for “omnibus. Rich- ard Grant White could not do it with “telegrapher. If the public wants the word it keeps it; if not it refects it. Its verdict is final in language as in all other matters, i | | L GHING GAS. “Would you marry a title?” “Oh, 1 don't know. The papers are roast- ing the ‘barons' & good deal just now, but T wouldn't mind winning a magnate,”—Chi- cago Post. The instructor was trying to teach the class the lesson that brain work is no less important than the work of one's hands. “Now," he said, “fo recapitulate, how many kinds of labor are there?" “Two," replied the solemn faced young man; ‘organized and agonized."—Chicago Tribune, “Who are those two shabby looking fel lows 2" “They were once the leading vaudevilla comedy team of the country.” “And what wrecked them ?* “They dared to spring a new joke on the public.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer, “Why should I give this man a position?" said the sultan of Turkey. “Because he may be very: useful In an emergency,” answered the grand vizler. “He knows how to say ‘we nrulo‘ile in every modern language.” —Washington Star, “Well, John,” xald the eminent personage, who was niow' an nvaild, “who s It wishes {o see me now? My biographer?” ©. 50, Your exceliency.! replied the butler, “your' physiclan.” y AR almost the same thing. He's at work upon my life, too. —Philadeiphia. Press. §he—1 rather like that new restaurant. The uniforms the waltresses wear are so pretiy He—Neat, are the S8he—Oh! positively fetching. He—Well, a fetching uniform does seem appropriate for a waltress, sure enough.— Phlladelphia Press. ¢ he succeed as i cook Ol A na: #he Touldi't cook at all.” “Bult she seems Lo be Prosperous. Of course. You see, after she falled as a practical cook the got up a cookbook and fi Pas hiaa a big sale. —Chicago Post “There's one thing that 1 do admire ahout our base ball club,” sald young Mrs. Tor- ing. cheerily. v hats that?” asked her hus! “You know exactly what It do. There isn't any danger of your losing money’ betting on it." —Washington Star BROWNELL HALL, OMAHA, &chool for young course requir- Day A Boarding and Bpeci women and girls. ing two years for Ligh schoo also prepares any ! women. 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