Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 6, 1903, Page 6

E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. Sl ound TERMS OF m'nsva'rmN ly Bee (without Sunday). Qne Year. "o Bes and Sundsg, One Yoar.. hn rated I Bee, One Year......... i e 200 .18 1.0 rJ , One Year.. m lay Bee, One Year ntieth Century Farmer, One Year DELIVERED BY CARRIER. ly Bee (without Bunday), per copy— 2 ly Bee (without Bunday), per week..l2c BOO l|m‘ludln. Bund.n per week. !’lr nlnc lo! (wuhom YGinda vening Bee (ncluding 8 le;phlnu of irreguiarities in delivery | be addressed to City Circulation De- partment. OFFIC Fs Qmahs_The Bee Bullding, bth Omana—Clty Hall Bullding, Twen- R wnd M strests. Counil Blufte_10 Pearl Streot. 1640 Unity Build Sow Sorkanz Park How Bunaing Washington—01 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi- matter should be addressed: Omahi Bee, Editorial Department. MIHTTANLES. by dra‘e exprem or postal order ayable to The th Fubliahing Company. .e«ru-a in payment of WTATEMENT OF cm_cumfioif kl, Douglas 0("!1’“*11‘l ‘Teachuck, mnurz e Bee l' Camplny '*f . EEEENEREEEREEE Laas unsold and returned copies. Net total salei Net average eales. . umml: B. TZSCHUCK. resence and sworn to w‘ me thll lth RIY of_Octol B HONG e, Judge Bulltvan never really expected to be re-clected anyway. Emm—— The Towa Sullivan did not do so well on the home stretch of the political race track even as the Nebraska Sullivan. ' As a nominating convention the round table at which a few wire-pulling law- yors eat their lunch dally is not a success. EEe——— The republicans of this county ean doubtless now see thelr mistake in not following The Bee's advice to give South Omaha one of the principal places on ~the county ticket. S Dow't forget that Omaca s actively engaged in a campaign for the establish- ‘of a graln market. Every enter :&.—- e B demoerntic nomi- ' for United States senator n Ohfo, to explain his eclipse in the election. Why not cut it short m it a case of “too mueh John- son.” N e It would be too bad If Omaba cannot seare up a few aspirants for R, E. Lee Herdman's shoes ae clerk of the supreme court. We ought to have repub.:rns here to absorb all the salaries state house. em——— Gengral Warfleld's plurality as the demoeratic candidate for governor of is expected to reach 8,000 s not so much as to take Mary- land out of the debatable territory for the presidential contest next year. mm——— 1t Schwab should take another K trip through Furope for the benefit of his health, we fear that the solicitude for information as to, bis condition will' not be so intense as to demand daily bulleting by ecable. The annual expenditure for transport- ing mail in the United States s offl- clally stated to be $83,504,542, 6f which the greater part Is absorbed by the ralirond companies. If it ever comes to postal retrenchment this ftem will offer an inviting point of attack, Em———— The relief of the sausage makers’ threatened strike should be halled with satistaction throughout the country as the saving clause for the free lunch . The averting of this calamity m give double cause for wholesoulod participation in the coming Thanksglv- thg boliday, e ] Colonel Bryan evidently knew what he was doing when lie gave the cold shoulder to his home state and went east to lend a hand to his friend Tom Johnson. They nepded him worse in Oblo than they dfd in Nebraska, al- though both were lost to the democracy beyond recovery. ’ ee———————___J Before Uncle Sam recognizes a new governiuent in Panama he Will have to ! have sowe; good evidence that a sub- stantial government really exists. There | have been altogether too many paper revolutions jn South and Central Amer- fen ‘to justify action on a mere tele- graphic demund. The Real Kstate exchange has chosen & new president who will guide its work for the coming year, The Real Estate exchange has wade & record which has given it a reputation to live up to, but we may be sure that under the ad. ministration of President Wallace It will take no steps backward. ‘i epE——— Mrs. Rohert J. Burdette has come to the assistunce of Colonel Flenry’ Wat- terson in his lambasting of the society spobocrats of New York and its sub- urbs. Convineed as we are that the is equal to the task all by him- o G0 Pt hol will find it call for | g 23 o THE PANAMA REVOLT. The revolutionary movement In Phuama does not come as a surprise. It had been predicted in the event of the rejection by the Colombian congress of the canal treaty and it i# now made evident that preparations for it had been made as soon as it becawe ap- parent that the treaty would not be rati- fleh The people of the isthmus of Panama have most naturally been in- tensely interested in the canal Ques- tion. They realize its great importance and they understand that if the canal is ever to be constructed it must be done by the United States. All the influence they could bring to bear at Bogota in behalf of the ratification of the treaty was employed, but neither persuasion nor threat was effective. The greed of a coterle of senators prevailed and the Colombian congress adjourned without The people of Panama are now show ing that they were in earnest in their threat to revolt. A declaration of, inde- pendence has been proclaimed and a provisional government set up, which is said to have the practically unanimous support of the people. It is a most Interesting situation and the course of the government of the United States in regard to it will com- mand world-wide attention. This coun- try bas a treaty obligation In respect to the isthmus, entered into nearly sixty years ago, which requires that it shall keep open transit across the isthmus and of course is authorized to employ force, if mnecessary, for tRis purpose. On two or three occasions our govern- ment has acted in pursuance of this treaty and now it is sending naval vess sels to Panama and Colon for the pur- pose of protecting American interests and fulfilling the treaty obligation. This does not require that it shall interfere beyond keeping open the line of rafl- road. As between the revolutionists and the Colombian government it has hith- erto observed strict neutrality and should continue to do so. But in the event of the people of Panama main- taining the revolution and demonstra- ting their ability to make it successful, what should be the answer of the United States to an appeal from them to recog- nize their Independence? This is a ques- tlon which may have to be seriously considered in the not remote future and whenever it shall be presented it will un- doubtedly cause a good deal of discus- slon among ourselves. At present there i& probably a majority of our people who would not object to a recognition of the independence of Panama. They feel that the course of the Colombian congress, in not accepting the fair and liberal terms of the United States and attempting extortion, has forfeited claim to friendly consideration. On the other hand are those who believe that we should still treat Colomblia, so far as any internal troubles of .that country are concerned, as if there was no canal fectly fal) 1“ Impartial way, the ob- ligation ‘imposed upan out government by the treaty of 1846, We are inclined to think that the Iatter is the view of the Washington . authorities and that consequently nothing will be done by our government that might give encour- agement to the revolutionary movement in Panama. All proper effort will be made to protect American interests there, but the revolutionists, it is safe to say, will receive no ald or counte- nance from this government. Opme—e—t— APPEAL FOR AMERICAN AID. Tre Chinese minister at Washington, acting under Instructions from hig gov- ernuient, has been earnestly endeavor- Ing to Interest our government in Chinn’s behaif in her Manchurian trou- bles. Aecording to Washington reports, while this government is by no means indifferent to the Manchurian situation, but on the contrary feels no little con- cern regarding it, yet the secretary of state is unable to see any way in which he could properly ald China in the mat- ter under present conditions. It fs pointed out that the events reported as hnvln.lmppened at Mukden, where Rus- sla appears to be acting in a most arbi- trary manner, are not looked upon with friendly eyes by our officials, bat so long as the United States has secured and re- 4hlnl trade in Manchuria it will not be drawn Into the political complications of the present situation. In the carly part of last month a | treaty between China and the United States was signed providing for the opening to the trade of the world of two poris in Manchuria. one of which has siuce been occupied Ly Russla on the plea that the Chinese were not presery- ing axder there. Until this treaty shall litve béen ratified hy the senate of the Vnited States this government will not regard for its treaty rights throughout Chinn. It is stated that the Peking gov- ernment has been told that infringement Ibr Russia of American treaty rights in Manchuria will furnish, the Washington government the opportunity for at least | a reiteration of its desire for the preser- { vation, of the integrity of China. Tt i= perfectly obvious that under ex- | isting conditions our government can | tdke no action for the purpose of aiding | | China Iu resisting the course of Russia |lll Mauchuria, however strong Americsin sympathy with the Chinese government may be. As yet there has been no in- jterferonce on the part' of Russia with American trade in Manchuria and al- though there is resson for belleving that eveutually theré will be jnterference this could not justify the United States in at present taking a position hostile to Ressia, Owr government can properly act only when there has taken place an | netval infringement of its rights, or the manifestation of an unmistakable pur- pose 1o do so.' But assuming that the treaty between this country and China, providing for the opening of ports in Manchpria, will be ratified by the sen- ate, what then will the United States do in the event that Russia -hng w the uul and u-t J having ratified the Hay-Herran treaty.! Lo In @ position to insist upon o striet | THE OMARX DA[].Y BEE: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, pose of the treaty, which is by no means Improbable? This-is a quéstion which it is concelvable may cause some trou- ble. In the meantime China must do the best she can, without American aid, to resist Russian encroachment, which scems to be steadily advancing. TRAR ELECTION IN DOUGLAS COUNTY. The outcome of the election in Douglas county, while not all that republicans had wished, is still to be regarded as a signal republiean victory because the entire republican ticket, with three ex- ceptions only, was successful by hand- some majorities. There will doubtless be crimination and recrimination with respect to the loss of the three places that have gone to the democrats, but it will be nearer the truth of the matter to ascribe it to fhe personality of the opposing candidates. None of the three successfyl demo- cratic nominees could have won out ex- cept for a personal popularity, which brought him votes from outside of his own party ranks. The personal strength of Broadwell, Power and Drexel was realized and recognized by the campaign managers on both sides from the start. The democrats centered all their efforts on pushing these three men ahead, while in the case of two of them the repubd- licans found themselves handicapped by the personal weakness of their candi- dates. Each succeeding campaign rings a new change in the political kaleldoscope and the campaign just closed in Douglas county had peculiarities not found in those that had gone before. Whether the resylt would have been different if it had heen waged along different lines or whether the whole ticket would have been pulled through had there been a fuller registration and a fuller vote on election day are subjects on which peo- ple can speculate, but can arrive at no satisfactory conclusion. The election shows, however, that with n united party vote Douglas county is safely republican by from 1,500 to 2,000 majority, except where the opposing candidate has some extraordinary per- sonal strength. If the republicans can be kept together in a compact and har- monious body they ‘can have things about as they want them in this county, because it is plain that the opposition finds no solace or comfort except in re- | publican discord and dissension. It will devolve upon the republicans who have been invested with official honors to discharge the duties of their respective offices "with credit to them- selves and to the party and to redeem the platform pledges made for them. By showing its ability to give the people the kind of local government they want and they are entitled to the party will establish its right to remain in the as- cendancy In this city and county. smpm—— The Bee has been asking right along through the campalgn where the demo- crats would come in in the znpardun Judiciary bunco game even ii panned out. The 'eleéction returns llve the answer. Had the two republican can- didates against whom the special fight was made been beaten none of the democrats would have landed, but the two places would have gone to the two tion in the republican convention and were then given nominations on the democratic ticket. The democrats were playing to lose no matter which card was turned for trump. Eo———— Omaha is to be congratulated on the orderly chardcter of its election Tues- day, which did not give the police occa- slon to make even a single arrest. a great political contest like that can be brought.to a focus without any serious disturbance of any kind it shows a pretty good regard on the part of the public for the observance of the law. The fact that the saloons are closed during the hours when the polls we open is no doubt a contributing factor, but the good record indicates that the liquor dealers have complied scrupu- lously with the closing order. — The announcement that there will be | no competition between the Southern Pacific and the consolidated electric lines of California will be no surprise in | both are closely assocluted. Serious coim- petition between the steam’roads and the eleetric trolley lines has not ma- terialized in any part of the country, the development of the suburban roads serv- ing simply to stimulate business for the regular transportation companies, It will be no different on the Pacific coast than it is on the Atlantic seaboard. — Douglas county republicans bave this year regained the office of county treas- {urer and taken possession of the new |office of county assessor. Next they will re-establish thex control of the Board of County Com- missloners. A good begluning has been in republicap hands before very long. While the river improvement conven- |tions are laying plans for the ex- penditure of prospective congressional appropriations they might Include the | embellishment of our river front, which | Park Commissioner Cornish has pictured las the culmination of Omaha's park system, the river improvement cidedly popular here. program de- Th courts might simplify matters in | view of their rapldly accumulating in- junctions by making the first assossment and thus relieve the eity tax commis- court orders. The construction of an assessment roll is a difficult enough task as It Is. q His Collar. New \'n Mail and Express | republican judges who failed of nomina- | Wheun* view of the fact that the owners of year selves 1 the | | office of county attorney and resume made and at this rate of progress the whole connty court house will again be Such a promisc would make under the new revenue law themselves sloner from the confusion of dublous -.-Wmm.p far east. He ls quite aware that there are other ways of keeping & door open than shooting it off the hinges. it Pays to De Saturday Evening Post. Onos upon a time opportunity failed to knock at a wise man's door. But he ad- vertised for her and she came and stayed. Porfls of Getting Gay. Indianapolis Journal. Nine Crow Indians killed and ten cap- tured in a battje with a Wyoming sheriff's posse comes nearer the proportions of an Indian war than anything that has oc- curred for some time. Like the colored man in race conflicts, the Indian generally gets the worst of Hot Alr for Ethiop's King. Ban Francisco Call. The American consul welghted with the massive mission of Uncle S8am’'s good fel- lowship and good will to King Menelik has carrfed with him as tokens of our friend- ship to the Ethioplan stacks of modern firearms and implements of agriculture, May the untutored mind of the great Mone- lik have wisdom to know which we use for ornament and which for service. Falr Play | McClure's Magasine. It is of vast importance to the future manhood of this country that scorn of un- falrness should be universal. Above all, let it be applied strenuously to unfairness in business. We are a commercial people. Our boys must go into commerce. Our profes- sions are so mingled with commerce that it is often hard to distinguish if they be professions. If we are to wink at unserupu- lousness In commerce, then we are doomed to become a race of tricksters and manhood is dead within us. Tax Trouw Philadelphia Press. The $25,000,00 which the Cuban congress authorized to be raised to pay the old sol- diers promises to give a great deal of trouble to the Cuban government. It is an excessive amount to pay, as only a few men merited any remuneration. The money has not yet been obtained and the people object to the taxes levied to meet the interest and to provide for a sinking fund for the loan. These taxes are gener- ally stamp taxes Imposed on retallers. Those In Havana have agreed not to sell at retail any of the articles on which these taxes have been imposed. They include beer, spirits, sparkling wines, cider, mineral waters, cigarettes, matches, eto. But this “resolve” will hardly hold out. The de- mand for beer, wine and such things is too strong to be overcome because of taxes. A half a cent a box on matches, while only 6 cents Is charged on twenty-four bot- tles of beer, shows the gross inequality/and injustice of the tax. Escaping the United States. Atlanta Constitution. The red thread of warning that runs throughout our consular reports from for- clgn countries is that the majority of them aré trying to escape paying tribute to the United States. The growing wealth and power, political and commercial, of this country is oppressive to them and they are ecagerly seeking ways to withdraw thelr contributions tg’ our ‘increasing and over- shadowing importance in world action. All foreign countries-are helping to develop whatever wheat growing territories in Alsa, or Afrfea, or 8oiith America that will emancipgte them . from dependance on American wheat,(To do that for England is one of the starred points of Chamberlain's | protection campatgn. The same thing can be sald of tton needs of European people and tHe{F manutactorfes. They are {lending every. aid posalble to create new and cheaper cotton fields In India, Egypt and South Africa, and announce fairly that they mean,{if fature and cash can work to that end, to come tb the point where they can make a declaration of independence against Amerfoan’ dotton fleld S — SHAKING UP THE POOL. i President Stickney's Effort to Uproot Discrimination Against Om Pittsburg Dispatch. Mr. A. B. Stickney of the Chicago Great Western rallroad has made what is de- acribed as another “coup” that shocks the | Breat community-of-interest arrangements, Mr, Stickney has been a thorn in the side | of the raflroad combinatiops in many re- spects, and generally by his perniclous practice of acting for the Interest of his | corporation and the publie, The nature of the last bunch of trouble which he has presented to the other lines illustrates the artificial nature of combt tlon rates. It consists of establishing a through rate on grain originating west of Omaha, consisting of the local rates to Omaha added to the through rate from Omaha east, This is not only a natural rate, free from the suspiclon of favor to any locality, but it has & legitimate pur- pose. Under such a rate grain can be ware- housed, sold in the Omaha market and re- shipped east—just as it is in Kansas City, What Interest other railroads have in re- fusing Omaha an opportunity to develop a grain market and reserving that privilege to Kansas City Is one. of the things not explained. Yet Mr. Stickney's stroke is raising a row, from which we gather that the foundations of the great rallroad sys- tem are In danger of upheaval and the gates of anarchy are thveatening to swing wide open, A GREAT ANNUAL SHOWING, Preclons Metals Extracted from Uncle szm's Interfor. | St. Louls Globe-Demoocrat. The latest arnual exhibit of gold and | silver mined in the United States covers the calendar year 1%2. In the figures of the director of the mint the total of gold mined In this country last year is estimated | at $50,000,000. Colorado still holds the lead, with an aggregate of §25,000,000. California is second, with $16,000000. Alaska is In third place, with 8, South Dakota is not far behind, its total almost touch- ing $7.000,000. Then follow In order Mon- tana, with $,900,000, and Afizona, $4,100,000. Next in line stand Utah, $,600,00; Nevada, $2,800,000; Oregon, $1,800,000, and Idaho, $1,400,- 000. ht states produced gold below $1,000,000, New Mexico makes a goold show- | ing. with $531,100. - All the states and tec- ritories, with the exception of Maryland, which mined a little gold, also produced siiver last year. The total colnage value of this fresh American silver was §71,000,000. Thus the gold and sliver mined in the United States in 192 had & total colnage value of $151,000,000. or 23 per cent of the world's production of the two metals. Cal- culated on the basis of a century, this out- put of gold and silver Is colossal, and the tendency is to increase. Australis last Year produced a lttie more gold than this country, but only one-seventh as much silver. Africa’s gold yleld for 12 was 39,000,000 and $20,000,00. Rus- sia mined gold and Miver to the extent of | nearly $23,000.000. When it comes to the accumulation of gold in the form of money. the United States stands at the head of all nations. The gold coln and gold certif- cates In circulation in this country Beptem- ber 1 last was $1,014,00,000, & galn In gold money in five years of $348,000,000. When all the other mineral production of the United States is added to its yleld of the wpalth i 1903. ARTISTIO SWINDLES. Philadelphla Inquirer: Perhaps the time will come when all sorts of swindlers, com mon, ploturesque or artistios, will be treated allke, and when there will be law to reach eovery class. New York Times: All of which gives point and force to that now classio ob- servation of ex-Attorney General Griges that it was not the public at large, but the invstors In thelr securities that stood in sorest need of protection against the trusts. Washington Star: It is somewhat sad- dening in the face of the shipbullding charges to remember that a few years ago Charles M. Schwab was held up to the youth of the country as an example of what a young man could accomplish by honesty, industty and patient economy. Philadelphla Ledger: This particular swindle falled because it was undertaken too late, when the credulity of Investors had already been overstrained and the for indigestible securities was ex- hausted. A year or two earlier. the pro- moters would probably have unloaded thelir “wholesale plunder” and added more mil- lions (0 the many already secured by similar means. The temporary suocess of such fraudulent promotions is much more disastrous than their fallur d for the injury they do to sound financial enterprise the great financlers who father them or who tolerate them ought to realize thelir high responsibility. Brookiyn Eagle: Where are the laws that Are to protect the community against swin- dles of this sort? Obtaining money under false pretenses is an offense punishable by statute. There are, various forms of this crime, such as the confl the melling of “gold brick: the public is more famillar, but none of them at thelr worst can compare with an enterprise which sets out to get the pub- lic's money first by selling them worthless securities and then planning to get it a second time by buying in at low figures the properties which they have sold and wrecked. Yot the law has nothing to say on the subjest so far as its criminal aspect is concerned. The trust promoter can es- cape with public odium merely; his proto- type Ip the humbler walks must go to jail. PERSONAL NOTES. Texas cattle, Missourl mules and Oregon raliroad ties are doing the best they ocan to rehabllitate South Africa. Uncle Sam's debt increased more than 2,000,000 last month, but he has nearly $400,000,000 right In his pocket in cash. It Mr. Rockefeller Jives ten years longer and increases his holdings at the present rate he will be worth two billion dollars. Mrs. Roland B. Molineux has been mar- ried to the lawyer who secured a divorce for her. Some people would do almost anything to get out of paying a lawyer his fee, A huge accession to the number of office seekers must be looked for in Washington, else the Pennsylvania raflroad would never be Incurring indebtedness of $14,000,00 to bulld the new station in the Capital City. Signor Bauclo, an Itallan musiclan, has concluded his task of playing on the plano for fifty consecutive bours, His ex- traqrdinary performance was given in a Baltimore theater and 2,000 persons cheered him when the time expired. One thousand employes of the United Btates Express company in Chicago held a Jubllee on Saturday night in honor of the recent marriage of Benator Thomas C. Platt, president of the company, who fur- nished the ‘entertainment, which cost more than $2,000. George Garrett, a large manufacturer of iron and steel at Glasgow, Scotland, is visiting Washington. In speaking of the progress In this country, he says: “At no distant day the American Union will be at the head of all the great govern- ments of the world.” In administering the pure food law the the secretary of agriculture causes samples to be taken from all Importations of food products. ‘These samples are pald for by the government, and are used In the an- alysis to determine purity. Uncle Sam has declded to establish a grocery store in ‘Washington to dispose of the pure samples that remain after the experiments. Au- thority has been granted by the Treasury department to the Agricultural department to engage in the retall trade, and with- out license the government will sell choice imported food products at cost price. IMPORT FREIGHT RATES, Transpertation Companies Agree on Rates to the Missouri River. Chicago Record-Herald. At a recent meeting held in New York and atiended by traffic officials of all rall- roads eadh of the Missquri river regular and stable tarifts of rates were established on all Imports thrgugh Atlantic and Gulf ports to the middle west, taking the port of Bal- timore as a basis or 100 per cent point. Tho | steamship lines are parties to the agree- ment, 80 that in the future both the home and forelgn producer will know exactly the relative rates they will have to pay and order and certainty will succeed the chaos and uncertainty which have existed in the import trade for many years. The most vital part of the scheme for the rearrang ment of the impert schedules 18 that which | provides that the Inland propertion of the through import rate shall not be lees than the local rate on the home manufactured product. This will have the effect of giving the do- mestic-made goods a big advantage In the | home markets over «he imported commodi- | ties. Heretofore many import rates have eradicated the protective tariff and domes- the manufacturers were suffering accord- ingly. In short the rallroads had in many | cases rev jed the protective policy of the American government, whereas they have | now placed themseives In sympathy and co-operation with it. It was through a re- cént investigation by the Interstate Com- merce commission pursuant to a resolution by congress that the hitherto peculiar con- dition with reference to import rates was made public. The disciosure was made | during the investigation that many articles could be shipped from London, for exam- ple, to Missourl river points at a less rate than the same could be ipped from of the east to the same points. It is a self-evident fact that the ralsing or lowering of freight rates on imports has & similar effect to increasing or decreasing | the protective tariff, making it possible for the former to nullify the latter. The rail- roads at last recognised the mjustice of the | import conditions which they had created. | as well as the foolishness of suffering a big | loss in revenue which was without excuse. Under the new arrangements the railroads will not only conserve the interests of home industries, but will also Increase theilr import receipts materially. In com- menting upon the re The Globe of Toronto, Canada, says: “The foreign trade | of interlor points is more materially af-| fected by rallway than by tariff rates, so that the Line managers is of greater moment than that of congress. Tt is really more impor- tant than tariff revision." trade legislation of the Trunk |} Light Breaking Io. Kansas City Star The New York bankers have dic-overed that the west can exist without Wall street, & fact that the west has suspected for sev- ergl years. ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK. Ripples on the Ourrent of Life in the Metropo) In & single hour's walk through the lower quarters of New York one will en- counter as great a varjety of races as in @ tour around the world. ‘““To {llustrate, says a Pittsburg Dispatch Mtter, “one may begin In the Turkish quarter below the Btock exchangs, jump into Syria by cross. Ing two streets, dash northward into Groece, then on Into Russia, making s three-minute circuit of Italy and land finally in Japan by way of China. The lamp of Aladdin could not bring about a more miraculous thing and airships of the future will fall far short of this feat in point of time. And yet this girding of the earth is not altogether figurative. It is the only spot on the great globe where ¥you may mount a housetop and look down Into ten countries—ten concrete and ocon- servative nations which, were there a stone wall separating each from the other, could not live more isolated and to them- selves and in themselves only. “Some idea of the cosmopolitan character of the great cast side of the city may be had by the statement that eighty-two dia- lects are spoken there. In this district there are 84,000 families, the average sise of which is five members, with two board- ers in addition—for there are always at least two boarders in every family on the east side. The most crowded spot in any city in the world is In the northern part of this district, in the blocks bounded by Broome and Stanton and Bldridge and Buffolk streets. Under the roof of the house at 171 Rivington street there are thirty-seven familiés. with 150 children, eighty of whom are bables. “Race sul’ cide” is not encouraged on the east side, which is a world apart from most New Yorkers. They know of {ts situation and catch fugitive glimpses of its life through visits to a bohemian restaurant at night or by tours through the shops where Rus- sian brasses are sold any, day." “I have come, sald the young woman, when the mistress of the house came Into the sitting room wondering why a stranger had called, “to show you these photographs of your little boy taken in a donkey cart on the Mall in Central park. I posed him and your nurse kindly gaye me your ad- :rell. The charge for the six pictures is The proud mother was delighted. ‘Take them?” she said. “Indeed I will, and you may send me six more at the same prics. It is the best photograph of my little Ar- thur I ever saw.” Then, as she paid for the pictures, the mother asked: “And do you make a living at this?" “Yes,” replied the girl, “and a very good one. I am going to one of the Vanderbiit hot from here with photographs that are a sure sale. I make it a practice only to take Interesting children who will make pretty pictures, and children with nurses, #0 that I know they belong to parents who will pay me for my work. It is very rare indeed that I meet with fallure. I ran across one rich man who sald that none of his children had ever been photographed, and that he intended they never should be. He gave me 35, though, to bring him the negative, and he smashed it on his door- step before my face. “SBometimes I find difficulty to learn WM' the children are. Most nurses will tell me when I promise them two or three pictures of themselves. I have three here now for your nurse, and since you are so pleased with the boy's picture I am sure you will | forgive her. May I ask you to send them to her? Thank you. I will bring the other hmuuqudnnyet tite country's large coal mines. The carry- ing capacity of the cars which will conve § the coal from the dook into the bunkers is 106 tons per hour. All the cars are run and dumped by electricity. The coal runs ¢ from the elevated bunkers down immense chutes to the fire rooms, where nearly 100 men will be employed day and night shovel. Ing it into the furnaces. The engine equip ment of the house will consist of eight 8000 horse power, four-cylinder compound engines; three 13,000 horse power, four cylinder triple engines, and four 2,000 horse power tubo-generators, representing a nor mal capacity of 108,000 horse power. When required this capacity can be increased to 160,000 horse power, which s dduble the normal capacity of the power house which is now used to run the entire Manhattan elevated system. “In the studio of one of the younger ar- tists of this ofty,” relates the Hvening Post, “there is an 0dd concelt in the matter of decoration which catches the eye of every one entering the place. Upon the studio floor near the surbase on one side/ ! of the room I8 a serles of footprints ap-) | parently made by a person with very | muddy shoes. These footprints Indicate | that two steps were taken on the floor and | that then the person making them walked up the wall, as the footprints ascend that vertioal surface with the same certainty | a8 that which marked them upon the floor. ’ The tootprints also show cleatly against; the white of the ocefling. But halfway photographs tomorrow. Placards and sign boards in New York disclose som: range ways of making a living. In East Thirty-fourth street a sign in the window of a house informs the public that “Birds are boarded there by the day, week or month.” A little further downtown a sign in a basement window announces that “Doges’ ears and talls are cut in the latest fashion,” and & sign In the same locality reads: “I educate cross cats and dogs to be gentle and well behaved.” “Young women are invited to come in and learn the name and calling of their fu- ture husbands” In West Twenty-third street, near Eighth avenue. “Round- shouldered people made straight” is an an- nouncement on East Nineteenth street, and near Nineteenth street, on Fourth avenue, “Perfect grace is faught in twelve lessons” and ‘“satisfaction guaranteed.” “Beauty pads for thin ladies” may be obtained on the Bowery, near Houston street; and not far away, “Ladles deficient in wardrobe are fashionably dressed on easy monthly in- stallments.” “Sore eyes in poodles effectually cured here” is a plece of valuable information given in East Broadway. In Catherine street “Bables are hired or exchanged,” and In Division street “Old sets of artifielal teeth are bought and sold." In Hester street “Black eyes are artfully peinted over.” and “False noses as good as new and Chatham square, conveying the impression that mayhem is not an uncommon crime in some quarters. In Chatham street the wayfarer is told: “Dine here and you will never dine any- where else,” and in Mulberry street an undertakér makes a bid for business with a sign in his window which reads: “Why walk about in misery when I can bury you | decently for $187" In another month the biggest power house in the ‘world—that to be used for generating electricity for the New York subway—will be completed. Home idea of the immensity of this bullding and its ma- chinery can be appreciated when it s known that to keep its engines running a year will require 303,00 tons of coal. This | loons down to pants. rranted to it” are advertised near | across the celling the pedestrian has cast a shoe, the shoe itself belng left in the track {t made; that its, the shoe is fastensd with its sole against the celling, and the footprints continue beyond it. The only difference now is that one of the prints is that of a shoe, the other that of a bare foot. A few feet further on the walker' other shoe is cast and, like its fellow, in fastened to the celling. And” from this point to the upper ledge of the window, \. out of which the ghostly visitor passes, the|| footprints are those of two bare feet. Thel| llusion is very striking and the artist has been asked times innumerable how he did| it. After saying that the shoe prints were J easy enough, he adds: “I made the bu‘v1 footprints by lying on my back on top of/, a ladder and pressing my feet against the celling.”, f Many attractive advertising novelties have been seen on Broadway, but a com- merclal concern in the upper part has hit upon a scheme which never fails to attract a large audience from early morn to lafe| at night. In the window sits a full-blooded Indian, weighing 30 pounds, in front of) ‘whom 1s a typewriter on which We thumps| now and then. As a background a quantit, of typewriters of other makes are piled in & heap, and the onlooker {s told that this is vart of “Chief” White Bear's “'scalps’” among the rival concerns. 5 i POINTED REMARKS, "Hurnton. how far out in the suburbs do pipefuls of tobacco and a game of c(nch "—C icago Tribune. 4 he's too busy to do anything.” that's H "'? 80 busy about? Da(rcll Free Press. Soph—Do you think kleptomania is catch- nlrfih—Nn. It's taking.—Yale Record. “I will be v ‘busy preparing speeches.’’ waid the man who had Just been elected to eo"!v friend,” answered Senator lorlh\lm, maan Tn your posttion busy. 1t is husting man dn your s l’li::l clflnn to deliver !hnm ‘Washington ‘Do you drlnk?" llq\llr.‘ the young woman's mo b The hd *B5 You !flnk"' the woman repea “If you insist.” replied the modest Y Sing man.—Cleveland Plain Deater. Boy—My mother says there was a pound of :lnfl in the last box of prunes you sent uj Gro“pr—wdl you_ tell yo\lr mofl'ar thnt the scrul ng is good customer and I threw It ih.~Philadel- phia Rlcord sald_the good-natured t 5 absolutely necessary 1! . Mlu vllth Dllrnlnllmm alse promises.” aworba The sold-blooded_ad- thing that men seem lon wltho\lt misrepre- shington Star, “Bo_you, thin monarc! 'r'xfi sentation.” » 'C\ntmn Made P.-n!l.' " gollloquized the professor, observing & sign in a clothier s ‘window. “Il)lldb l:"t Welfi cu:\‘lom‘ was lln mighty small business when it cut panta- Jhe ."—~Chicago Tribune, Dowlo is wasting his talents." h‘znh s Tt r of expletives ust think a bif ul-nl'o Duhr A l.l‘l'l'lc. ‘MAN. WP mmwlvul-lc-mu.,‘ A little man dwelt in a little town used to know twenty-one, And Jater on l ttle som. little to t, h}"‘nmbutul h&auonoowm o weak. rs 1 never wet, Wltl dnn" he M little time to speak. nstead, h } to church a lttle lmo Anfl ‘4ropped a littie nickel in the plate. Hg drank s little coffee now and ther But little stronger I passed bis lips: 6 mingled )ittle wfl.h u hemian men; Ll(o‘l ‘wine he drank in stingy little sips. When With Jittlé pain he shook his little head. He made a little | fortune rapidly grinding labor out of little arms, An 57 Torecioning & Yariety Of little mortgages on little farms. He dled—and, 'meath the weeping willow tragglers came to him for food or ug! 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