6 THE OMAHA DAILY PEEt FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1902. The umaiia Daily Bee. 13. R08HWATER. EDITOR. rUDLIHlIKD KVKRY MORNING. TERMS OK SUBSCRIPTION. eally lice (without Sunday), Ono Vcnr.. 16.00 ally Hie and Sunday, Ono Year 8.0) Jllustrateel lice, One Yenr. 2.00 Sunday Bee, One Year 2.JM Hatureiay Bee, One Year l.W Twentieth Century Farmer, Ono lonr... l.W DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Dally Deo (without Hunday), per copy .... 2c Dally Hcc (without Sunday), per week' ...,12c Dally lieu (including Sunday), per week. .1,0 Hununy Hoc, per copy v.60 Evening Dee (without Sunday), per week. 10c Evening Beo (Including Sunday), per week ...........US Complaints of Irregularities In delivery shoulej bo addressed to City Circulation De partment. OFFICES. Omaha Tho Hen Building. . South Omuha-Clty Hull Building, Twenty-fifth and M StreetB. Council Blu9-10 Pearl Street. Chicago 1040 Unity Building. New York Temple Court. Washlngton-tol Fourteenth 8treet. CORRESPONDENCE. 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State of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss.: George B, Tzsch'Jck, secretary of Tho Beo Publishing Company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and complcto copies of The Dally, Morning, Evening nnd Hunday Beo printed during the month of December, Mul, was as fol lows: l ao.ioo 17 :to,ooo s :to,oor, is :io,:iio 3. :to,:i:u ao.MNo 4 .-...:io,;mo so :k,mu 6 ko.i.-.o 21 :io,7oo c :to,:no 22 ;to,oio 7 tto.mto i ntviHO 8... :to,:ioo :i ho.iho o :to,:t:io r. :....:io,i lo 10 :to,H 2fi :io,r,oo 11 :iviho 27 IIO.OTO 12 :io,r,oo 28. :to,sto 13.. i :io,fto 29 :io,u.io 14. :io.r,:to r,o :io,no is ao.aoo 31 ao.-iao 10 no, hio Total , ,..i....im:i,'xis Less utispld and returned copies.... 10,OlH Net total sales ,..U.i:i,lB7 Not dally average :t(),101 GEO. B. TZSCHUCK. . Subscribed In my presence and sworn to lwforo mo this 31st Jay of December, A. D. 19ul. M. B. HUNOATE. (Seal.) Notary Public. Stick to It for a week at lenHt. Uncle Snin has hung out a new sign: "This 1b my lywy yenr." The letter enrrler nntl tho expressman can heave n sigh of relief at the passing of tho holiday senson. From tho brisk competition to get It, thnt criminal division of tho district bench 'seems to bo the' Judicial prize package. The latest combination Is that of nil tho great electrical manufacturing con cerns. Stockholders should keep un eye ou thp safety fuse. An eastern paper accuses Iowa of having designs of moving the national capltol to that state. Most Iowaus seem to llud It easier to move to the capltol. Omaha people piild over $10,000 to see Henry Irvffig and Ellen Terry, but up to thl time Omaha people have con tributed less than '$U0O to tho McKlnlcy memorial fund. Tho latest news from Now York Is to the effect that Tummnuy has sworn off holding ofllcc for at least n year, and tho people will use their best endeavors to pinko the abstinence permanent Who will look nfter the tender cnb biige plants and sensitive onion shoots In tho penitentiary greenhouse now that Joo hartley's' services have been abruptly terminated by Governor Sav age? Tho several democratic candidates for tho Kentucky senatorshlp have opoued IwutUiuurterti at tho state canltal. They wJH be forced to open something else before they secure an election in that State. Empqror, William of Germany has not oniy onicreu n yacht mint In turn couu try but'has asked the" daughter of I'resi dent Roosevelt to christen It for him Nothing but tho best satlslles tho em peror. t Now that Superintendent Pcnrsc has returned from Ula Kansas City audi torium Inspection tour It Is to be hoped ho may be able to devote a part of his valuable time .to an Inspection tour of tho public schools. "Wanted, live llrst-class business men who .uro willing to devoto their entire time to the management of the pros pective metropolitan city 6f Omaha for u period of three years without pay and Without peruulsltes. , Statistics show that during the past year ?i:,(XO,(i0O lis added to the en dowment funds of educational instltu tions lu this country, hike the federa treasury, tho philanthropist has a stir- plus mid Is willing to put It to a good use. It Is scarcely worth while to nml any forecast for tliu Omaha auditorium based on tho experience of St. I.oul with Its Exposition hall. St. l.ouls has u population of more than 000,000 a tho revenue comes chleliy from homo patronage, Tho next thing on the carpet Is tho organization of tho new Hoard of E 3dti cation, 'which starts out In an atmos pheio clurliled of well-dollned rumor and ought to bo able to see Its way-clear to effect u few reforms within Its ow sphere of. "action. Cuba started off well by having an orderly election to name the llrst pros! dent of the new republic. If they keep up that record and drop tho Spanish American habit of pulling ott revolu Hons every chango of the mooiu tho United States can congratulate Itself on having tloue a good job down there. let coyancss make haste slowly. It may be regarded ns absolutely set tled that tho American pcoplo favor tho construction of a cannl that will con nect, tho Atlantic and Pacific oceans ithout unnecessary delay. It is also absolutely settled that the Isthmian cn- nal, whether by the NIcaraguan route r tho Panama route, shall bo built, wned and operated ' by tho govern ment of tho United States. The Judg ment of the American people Is against any partnership with a private corpora tion In the ownership of tho canal, nnd this is tho spirit in which congress pro poses to deal with this great project. While tho general Impression, based upon tho report of tho Isthmian Canal commission, favors tho Nicaragua route, the American people would prefer that congress make haste slowly In flxlug the location of this gigantic enterprise. Taking It for granted that tho United States government Intends to build, own and control tho canal, it still remains an opCu question whether it may not bo more economical and benellclal to eqtilro tho Pauamu canal at rcasounblo cost than to undertake the construction of n canal over tho Nicaragua route. The llrst question with which con gress must grapple Is, which of the two routes for tho Isthmian canal presents the least resistance from an engineer ing standpoint? The report of the com mission describes tho engineering dltU- cultlcs presented by the two routes and their respective advantages. With ap parent candor tho commissions glvcs'as- surauco that the water supply Is nde- piato on both lines, but while the regu lation of tho water supply will be auto matic at Panama, It will depend' ou the experience and judgment of tho operator at-Nicaragua. Tho completion of the harbors ns planned for both routes would yield little advantage to Ither, but all other advantages, Includ ing those of maintenance and opera tion, favor tho Panama, route. It Is conceded that tho Panama route Would 1)0 nearly Yio miles shorter than the Nicaragua route, and its summit elevation will ta less. As a result n deep water vessel would pass through the Panama cunitl in about one-third of tho time taken for passage through tho Nicaragua canal. Nevertheless, lu tho opinion of the commission, the Nicaragua route Is tho more advan tageous for nil trans-lsthmlan commerce except that originating or ending In tho west coast of South America, because for the commerce in which the United States Is most Interested, that between tho Atlantic and tho Gulf ports on the ono hand, aud our Pacific ports and thoso on the Orient on tho other hand, the 'advuntago of tho Nicaragua route, notwithstanding the greater" length of the canal, will bo pretty near two days. It Is asserted by tho commission that the danger from earthquakes, is essen tially tho same for both routes, nnd neither In Panama nor Nicaragua Is this danger sulllclent to prcyeut the con struction of the canal. , The material difference between the two routes Is therefore chletly In the mutter of estimated cost. Tho cost of building tho Nicaragua canal Is esti mated at ?100,000,000 and tho cost of completing tho Panama canal at a little less than $145,000,000. If the upset price of the Panama canal could; be llxed at $10,000,000 or less, the canal by way of Panamn could be completed for less than $100,000,000; at nuy rate within the limit of $UOO,000,000. Some of the most competent- engineers pro nounce tho commission's estimate of the probable cost of tho Nicaragua canal Idlculously low. Instead of $100,000, 000, Its cost Is computed nt $400,000,000 to $500,000,000. Would It bo prudont for congress to rush hcadloug Into an undertaking that Is liable to Involve this country lu an outluy that may exceed one-half of the entire Interest-bearing national debt? Could tho Isthmian canal, by nuy possi ble Increase lu international tralllc, bo made to yield a revenue of from $10, 000,000 to $15,000,000 per annum over aud above the cost of maintenance? Would not tho prospective drain ou tho national treasury by an enterprise that would Involve au outlay of-$500,000,000 materially weaken thu credit of the na tion aud force an increase of tho In terest charged upon tho existing na tional debt? Would not tho prospective expenditure of' $500,000,000 absolutely block for many years any attempt to reduce tho war taxes? Would, it not as a consequence also seriously Inter fere with tho policy of commercial reel proclty between the United States and other foreign countries which promise to enlarge tho world's markets for American products of tho farm! mill and factory? These are serious problems to which congress should give, mature consldera tlon before committing tho country to the Isthmian canal project. A MODEL MAY()U. For the llrst time In Its history the American metropolis has for its' chief executive a man who entertains a hfgh Ideal of civic virtue nnd oltlclal obliga tlon. It Is announced through what Is be lleved to be reliable authority that be foro assuming tho duties of mayor of Greater Now York, Seth Low had dis posed of over $1,000,000 worth of stocks lu various financial institutions which might seek to become depositories o city fuuds. Many of theso stocks and bonds Mayor Low has owned for years They were all of tho gilt-edge order and mauy of them were Mocks lu bank and trust companies, Inherited from his father, and had stood In tho family name from tho time the banks Were organized. Most of these securities cannot bo duplicated as Income pro dueers by any mercantile or Industrial Investment. Not only has Mayor Low divested himself of all relations t financial concerns that were liable t become fiduciary agents of the city, but he has also disposed of all his holdings In other corporations which uro curry lng on a public or scml-public business as contractors for supplies or mate rials required by the city. In taking, this action Mr. Iow has acted upon tho principle that n public Ulcer, like Caesar's wife, must be above suspicion in order to retain pub lic confidence and esteem. While tho charter of Greater New York does not expressly prohibit tho mayor from hav ing nn Interest In banking institutions ud other concerns that como into direct business relations with tho municipal government, he very properly has cut loose from connections that might place him In a false light as n representative of the municipality. This Is ou example which It Is to bo hoped tho mayors of other cities will mutate. MVNICWAL CONSOLIDATION. The committee of eminent lawyers and citizens appointed to consider the questions of municipal consolidation and reduction of taxes havo formulated n most attractive plan, which the gen tlemen profess to regard ns entirely practicable and confidently expect it to be accepted by tho people. This plan contemplates tho establish ment of oiio metropolitan city covering an area that would lncludo within its boundaries the cities of Omaha aud South Omaha and tho villages of Dun dee and Florence. It Is proposed In tho plan outlined thnt the entire machinery of government of tho consolidated ltles aud towns shall bo placed under a board of control, which shall consist of live members, to be selected for their known ability and probity of character, who shall serve without pay and who shall have full power to appoint all other necessary olliccrs aud agents they deem necessary under such ordinances ud rules as they may see fit to enact. It Is also proposed lu this comprehen sive plan that the urea cbvered by the consolidated corporations shall bo sep arated from the remainder of Douglas county and freed from all excuses In cidental to county government. This plan of the live eminent lawyers uud citizens recalls forcibly the ex clamation of tho French general who lowed the charge of the heroic 000 who rode Into tho Jaws of death: 'This Is magulllceut, but It is not war!" The plau submitted is magnificent, but it Is utterly Inapplicable to existing conditions, and, with all duo deference to the live eminent citizens, it is also utterly impracticable. The eminent projectors of tho plan admit that it caunot materialize until life is blown Into it by tho next legis lature, which convenes in January, 1003. With absolute assuruuee thut tho next legislature would enact a law to curry out tho plan, the proposed reduction of taxes would be postponed for from fifteen to eighteen months. But the next legislature will do no such thing, and the people of Omulm uud South Omaha will never ratify any such scheme. And, worst of all, there is no prospect of finding five citizens, known tor their 'ability aud probity of char acter, who would be willing to assume the responsibilities and discharge tho burdensome functions of local govern ment, without compensation. Public-spirited cltlzeus may possibly exist in the older cities that boast re tired capitalists lu tho prime of life who possess theso qualifications and who nre willing to devote their eutlro time to puulle affairs as a matter of honor, but Diogenes, with tho aid of a calcium light, could not find one such man in Omaha. No first-class business man lu this community, who Is compe tent to manage the affairs of ,a great corporation, would be willing to aban don his own ' business aud devoto his entire time to public uffalrs without pay. Hut even If five such self-sacrificing business men could bo found, It is ex ceedingly doubtful whether a majority of tho taxpayers or voters within the now corporate boundaries would be will lng to vote them nbsolute control of the machinery of local government it Is ulso exceedingly doubtful, notwith standing the. eminent legal authority, whether tho property owners withlu tho new corporate boundaries could bo freed by any process, outsldo of a con stltutlonal amendment, 'from puylug their share of the liabilities of Douglas county. The county now has a bonded debt of more than $500,000. It owns public buildings and grounds located within the corporate boundaries of Omaha, acquired by taxation and bond Issues. It is very doubtful whether the owners of property In tho cousoll dated city could escape tho payment of their share of this debt and yet re tain part ownership In the county build- lugs. Viewed from the standpoint of prae tlcal experience tho uew plan strikes us us belug too visionary for this gen oration. At any rate, tho people who expect to effect uny material reduction lu tuxes, either lu tho city,- county or public schools this year, havo nothing to hopo for from a plan that cannot bo put in operation for years, to come. Seven Sioux Indians nro going to Washington to collect pay for ponies alleged to huve bceu lost mauy years ago lu the attempt to rescue sumo white women from other Indlaus. Thu vuluo of all thoi ponies the Indlaus owned at that time would probably not pay railroad faro to Washington, but llko a snowball lu It travels thu bill will bo big enough when It reaches, tho capital. And to think of It, that some of tho very men who havo' been shouting loud est for purity aud honesty in local gov eminent put their names to the petltlou for the unconditional pardon of the prince of embezzlers and greatest .cor- ruptionlst who ever held olllce In Ne braska, Itusslnn nihilists have not abandoned tho cheerful pastlmo of placing bombs uudur the houses of people lu authority, They made nn attempt to clevato the family of tho czar's cousin and fears aro cntcrtnlucd tlmt another epidemic of such outrages is likely to break out. Living In Hussla appears to be a choice between being blown up or being sent to Siberia for blowing up someono else. Most people would prefer a residence In Nebraska. Police Judge Gordon hns filed another ofllcinl bond based on his election In 1805. Hut why go to all this trouble every two years? Why not file n bond good lu perpetuity that will also cover his heirs and assigns? Tho mere fact thnt tho pcoplo have voted for another man at tho last election aud turned Gordon down ought not to Interfere with his vested rights In tho emolu ments and perquisites of tho ofllcc. A few years ago tho people of Colo rado were absolutely certain they would be utterly ruined If they did not get free and unlimited coluago of silver. The first of the year the papers in almost every city lu tho state published an nual rovlows and tie showing Indicates beyond contradiction that the state never had so prosperous a year as tho ono Just closed and It did not get free coluago of silver, either. The city tax rato for 1002 Is already In process of incubation. To keep it within bounds will require tho co-opera tion of both school board and council. There Is ho good reason why these two bodies should work at loggerheads, as they havo for tho past two years, when ever the tax levy Is up. They are both spending money out of the same pocket. Tho Weather bureau Is to establish a station lu the Yellowstone park to as certain, If possible, what becomes of mauy storms which come down from the northwest but ure lost lu that sec tion. There is no hurry about digging them up, and ou a pinch thu rest of the world could stand It to havo a few more lost. Mnny of One Mind. Now York World. It Is a mlstako to assume that girls aro ever of ono mind. Fifty-six of thorn have ejected the same man In Omaha. The World's Arbitrator. St. Ijouls Globe-Democrat. Tho willingness of tho nations of tho earth to refer their neighborhood griev ances to tho United States Is qulto com plimentary, but likely to become qulto bur densome. A Gold Buk from the West. Philadelphia Record. When a gold bug sails out of tho west to alight at the door of tho federal treasury and make his headquarters there, tho be lievers in 18 to 1 silver dollars must admit that tho fact is portentous. A gold bug from tho cast would havo beea no such great matter. Taels Outivelnh Tradition. 'Washington Star. By dining with Minister Conger a num ber of Chinese dignitaries' have violated tho traditions which prevented association with foreigners. But- tho Chinaman was ever astute, and when it comes to a di rect choice he would rather have traditions broken than tho treasury. Road Will Apprerlated. , Kansus City Star. As long as Admiral TCervera can feci friendly enough toward the United States o send a bunch of autograph photographs to this country in acknowledgement of the treatment ho received on this sldo of the Atlantic, It would seem that tho naval war at Washington might .bo brought to a close. Knickerbockers Getting; Good. New York Tribune. It Is now certain' that New York for tho' next two years will contain comparatively few fraudulent buckot nhopB, "got-rlch- qulck syndicates," pool rooms, policy shops, faro banks and swindling schemes of any kind. Thercforo, honest Industry, sobrl ety, diligence and bard work will havo a better chance. Unreliable Estimates. Buffalo Express. 1 George S. Morrison, a member of tho Isthmian Canal commission, Is said to have acknowledged that the estimate of $159,000. 000 for tho Nicaragua canal is only a be ginning and that the canal would really cost $300,000,000 and perhaps more. If tho commission has deliberately undorestl mated the coat it has pavod the way for futuro scandals as serious, perhaps, as those which havo Involved tho Panama canal. The Land at Opportunity. Loulsvlllo Courier-Journal. This is the country of the individual where every tub Btands on its own bottom and where every man is given tho oppor tunity to mako tnonoy it he wills, or do anything elso ho prerers. Our millionaires knvo won their way la most cases with stout hearts and bard work, Just as our statesmen, poets and artists havo done. Kmorson, In ono of his rail-driving sen tenccs, said no"man should repine for what his soul desired. Let him take it and pay tho price. Ho can do it In tho Unltod States as be can do It in no other country In the world. Too Many Itnllronrt Accidents. Springfield Republican. It is a tlmo of many railroad accidents Hardly a day goes by that one or moro of them aro not reported, as a rulo accom panied by loss of life. Ono would suppose wo wero going back toward tho Infant days of railroading. From tho tlmo of the d!s aster at Seneca, Mich., over a month ago, In which fifty or more persons wero killed there has been a steady succession of acci dents, an astonishing proportion of them being caused by careless head-on collisions Tho heavy business presstsg upon tho roads seems to be moro than they can safely handle. The Arbitration Committee, Indianapolis News. It Is a matter for congratulation that ox- President Cleveland hau consented to be como a member of tho special commltteo appointed by tho National Civio Federation to bring capital and labor closer together and to smooth out the rough places for them. Composed as tho committee Is of such men as Mr. Cleveland and Bishop Pot ter, It will be bard to Impugn Its motives or to mnlntnln that the members havo any other object in view than doing tholr duty fearlessly and honestly and to tho boot Interests of tho country. Whllo, therefore the decisions of the commlttea will not be compulsory, nevertheless they will inform public opinion and decide for It on what side it shall cast Its Influence. The result will be that even tho party that is not satisfied with the judgments of the com mlttee will hestuto before it will aot eon trary to Ua. llOIJXn ABOUT NEW YOIIK. Hippies on the Current of t.lfe In the Metropolis. Copper King Lawson of Boston does not entertain a very high oplnlon.of New York ers In general. And for very good reasons. Last summer, it will bo recalled, he tried to break Into yachting circles lu Gotham nd was turned down. Later on tho Now York speculators attacked Lawson's copper ank and let out all the water nnd some of tho metal, squeezing tho Boston carnation pcclallst for sovoral million dollars. These incidents lend a copper tint to tho Bos- tonlan's opinion of Gotham, and it Is hot stuff. In a calendar of fifty-two tablets, one for ach week, compiled by Mr. Lawson and sent to his friends during the holidays, ho indulges in these sarcastic remarks: "Wall street on dry days amuses itself by soaking tho public also on wet days and other days." "A Woll street pilot Is ono who, tired t sinking his own craft, sinks others for salvage." "A trust is n modern skyscraper, with foundation of water, no windows nnd tho roof In tho cellar." "Tho letters nnd figures used In tho Inn- guago of the tapo nre very few, but thov spell hell in 99,000,000 different lan guages." In Introducing January, Mr. Lawson says thcro aro thrco fundamentals of stock speculation, which ho describes as follows: "1. Toko what comes to you as thouqh you liked It. Never for an Instant forget it's a gamo of chance, and, whllo It's free. no ono is compelled to como into It. "2. When you loso tho other follow wins. and ho Is as much entitled to It as you. "3. Don't rail against Walt street bo- cause it in time gets tho entlro stake through its commission. Wall street Is the gamekeeper and roferco. All Interest ing games must, will and do havo them. Wall street was thcro beforo you wcro born and will bo after you nro dead." Hero arc somo of tho best of tho epi grams: "If Rockefeller, Rothschild or the czar of Russia etnckB up against the tlckor somebody will ride in the ambulance and it won't bo tho ticker." "When you gamble in stocks It Is you against tho world ono mind against trill ions." "There are many philosophers In Wall street, but they aro nil broke" "Tho ticker blasts moro lives than rum and cards combined." "Aristotle must havo been flirting wUh tho tapo when he said tho world was made up of two kinds of pcoplo liars and liars." "A lie well told In Wall street Is tho truth." Tho Brooklyn Eagio eays that during this year $0,600,000 of property has been stolen, $1,051,610 baa been paid by banks and stores for special protection, $1, 521,000 has been paid for prlvato watchmen nnd detectives and tho city has paid $11,938,312 for Its po lice forco. This makes n total of nearly $25,000,000. Crlmo has Increased In ten years. In that tlrao burglary has Increased 113 per cent, whllo tho population has In creased only 35 per cent. Thcro havo been 31 murders, C03 robberies, 3,472 larcenies and 1,513 burglaries during tho last year. Tho population of tho ocean Is estimated at 3,000,000. That Is to say, tho number' of atlora and others whoso business is ou the high seas equals tho inhabitants of the thirteen original colonics. Last year moro than ono-sUth of this ocean population, or, to bo moro exact, 550,000, olliccrs and men, of 4,313 veasels, entered the port of New York. These figures aro significant- of moro than tho mere oxtont of our commerce. They toll tho story of neglect of tho nation, tho state, tho city and tho church to protect seamen whllo they aro on land. Something In that direction has Indeed been done. There nro several admlrabto charities and societies which labor in hchnlt of .these men of tho sea. Among tho best of theso s tho American Scainon's Aid society, which was established seventy-throo years ago. Miss Helen Gould has recently erected a splendid clubbouso for tho seamen of tho navy. But for tho most part our attitudes toward the sailors has becu that of neglect. Tbore aro good laws for their protection, but thoy are not enforced. Tho sailor, when ho reaches New York finds bis most cordial welcomo from tho harpies who prey upon him rather than from the men who may pray for him. The expense of lighting the city of Now York is no small ono. For 1902 tho appro priation for lamps and gas in tho two boroughs of Manhattan and Tho Bronx is $1,361,500. In ro borough of Brooklyn it is $990,000; In the borough of Queens, which Is, in proportion to Its total population, by fur, tho best Illuminated of tho boroughs of 'the city, $376,000, and In the borough of Richmond, $150,000. All told, the expenso of gas and electricity furnished on streets, in public buildings nnd In highways lu Now York City Is a round $3,000,000, a year. Tho city of Now York, through its chari ties department, engages quite extensively in the agricultural line. During tpo sum mer of 1901 tho official .harvest was 60 bushels of onions, 46 bUBbels of rhubarb, 96 bushels of beans, 25 bushols of parsnips, 41 bushels of carrots, 2 bushels of radishes, 4,713 heads of cabbage, 2,367 heads of let tuce, 17 bushels of spinach, 35 bushels of peas, 35 bUShelB of beets, 3 bushels of to matocs, 17 bushels of leeks, 4,621 cars of corn, 343 squashes and 957 cucumbers, rr,nsoNAi, notch. Secretary Rltchlo of tho Cincinnati Mu nlcipal Reform league reports that tbero aro 8,440 penny-ln-tho-slot machines In that city and tha over $3,000,000 drops Into them ovory year. It is said that Herbert C. Hoover Is ono of tho highest-salaried men of his years In the industrial world, At the age of 29 ho Is in receipt of $33,000 annually for his services as a mining expert. Someono complimented Qcncral Miles on tho uniform ho ,woro nt a rocent reception in Washington. Tho veteran said, sig nificantly: "I fear I am getting too much red tapo on my uniforms, don't you?" Richard Henry Stoddard, one of tho best of tho living American poets, Is lying dan gerously ill at his homo in New York City Slnco the death of his son, Dorlmcr, tho dramatist and actor, he has failed rapidly, Thcodoro S. McClclIan, a printer of Brunswick, Mo., who recently celebrated his 91st birthday anniversary, did all tho typesetting and presswork on Longlollow'o "Outro-Mer; or a Pilgrimage Beyond tho Sea," tho first proso work tho poet wrote, W. Scott Miller of Loulsvlllo, Ky., has been granted, by tho courts of that state, the right to control and collect the money yielded through visitors to tho Mammoth cavo. Tho matter has been In litigation and the four daughters of tho into Dr. Georgo Grogham, who own the cave, are widely separated, ono of thorn living in Switzerland and another In California. Thoro will bo established In honor of tho memory of General Frederick Townsend Ward, leader of tho "over victorious" army of China, who was killed near Nlng Po, in October, 1862, n Cblneso library In tho Essox Institute, In Salem, Mass. It Is the first of Its kind In America, Oenoral Ward was born In Salem In 1831. fought with the French In tho Crimea, with Garibaldi In South America and later with tho victorious army in China, which "Cblneso" Gordon afterward commanded. .NOMI5 l,.ST YIJAIl'S ItllCOItllS. Now York Journal of Commerce: The total capitalization of oil "Industrial" con solidations In tho United States at tho pres ent time, nftcr making nllownnco for dupli cation, may bo placed nt approximately $G,600,000,000. This docs not lncludo rail way, street railway, lighting or banking consolidations St, Louis Republic: Amcrlcnn cltlzenJ havo reason to review tho record of 1901 and to fnco the probabilities of 1902 with peculiar satisfaction. They belong to tho most prosperous nation In tho world. Their government, In splto of dangers, still stands for thct best truchlng of civilization nnd the sanret thought of free nnd en lightened humanity. They nro tho onvy of every other people Tholr futuro 1sln their own hands. A glorious past should bo a guarantee of a consistent futuro. Now York World: Moro thau 217.000,000 shares of stock have been sold "on 'change" In" this city slnco January 1. At $100 per sharo tho property thus sold Is 25,000,000, 000. It Is a sum inconceivably great, ex pressible only In comparisons. It Is ( iwemy-ijvo limes uio mini lnieresi-uear-lng debt of the United States: It would dig 3,000 tunnels to Brooklyn at $S,000,000 each; it would build n $100,000 library for every 300 Inhabitants of tho wholo coun try. Amazing total i Besides tho specu lation In bucket shops In tho Consolidated exebango Is the Produce exchange, In land, this single mart of a slnglo city hns sold In a Blnglo year $l,fiGC In shares for every family in tho United States! Chicago Tribune: Tho record of embez zlement and other forms of financial dis honesty during tho year jut closed, like that of tho thrco years preceding It, Is dis tinctly encouraging. Tho record of the ast four years Is ns follows: 1838, $5,851,- 2C3; 1899, $2,218,373; 1900, $4,660,131; 1901, $4,0S5,569, as compared with tho reports for a long series of years preceding 1S9S these nmounts nro comparatively small nnd they testify eloquently to tho general prosperity of tho times. It Is only In periods of panic or general financial depression that tho em bezzler lnrgcly nourishes, or his work bo- comes apparent. Tho banks, ns usual, were tho principal sufferers In 1901, their losses amounting to $1,513,49G, but even theso fig ures aro Smalt when compared with those of some past years. Chicago Trlhuno: Tho rocord of deaths by violence In this country In 19dl shows qulto n decrease, being 7,852, as compared with 8,275 In 1900. Tho latter flguros wore an Increases of 2,050 over thoso of tho pre ceding year. It is not possible, of course. to obtain accurate statistics on this point by mall and telcgrnph, ns many cases are not reported, hut they are sufficiently nc curnto to Indicate that crlmo Is not rapidly Increasing in this country. Tho record of bulcldcs, howovcr, tells another and sadder story. In 1001, 7,245 persons "shuffled olt this mortal coll," as compared with G.755 In 1900. Tho sternly lncrcoso in the suicide habit, largely duo to tho easo with which poison may bo obtained, this bolng tho most common agency employed, Is shown by tho following record of cases In n scries of years: .lu 1890, 2.040; 1891, 3,531; 1892, 3,860: 1893, 4,436; 1894, 4,912; 1S95, 5,7:9; 1S9G, 6,530; 1897, 6,600; 1898, 5,920; 1899, 5,310; 1900, 6,755; 1901, 7,245. Mil. SCHWAB'S "DUAD TIIIISTS," Does ii ChmiKe or .niiir Improve Their Chiirnrlerlnllcn f Philadelphia North Amcrlcnn. It would bo -Interesting to havo ths ' opinion of Mr. Schwab, president of tho United States Steel corporation, on tho nature of tho sower pipe and window gluss combinations that havo been formed, or; rnther renewed, during tho last week, tho i former at Pittsburg, and the latter nt Munclo, Ind. Mr. Schwnb undertook re cently to expound beforo tho Bankers' club of Chicago tho fundamental principles of tho "trust" and tho "consolidation" bv contrasting them. "Tho trust." ho ob soverated with all posslblo poBltlveness "lij a doad business proposition, with which we will never ngnln bo troubled." It was founded for tho purposo of restricting trade. Increasing prices and throttling competition, and consequently had worked Its own destruction. "Out of tho ruins," hu continued, "had sprung tho bcncllclcnt 'con solidation,' which hnd for Its guiding lino tho very opposlto of this tho expansion of trade, tho creation of uew avenues nnd tho reduction of prices." It Is now announced that tho manufac turers of sower plpo and window glnss within tho last few days havo perfected arrangements for securing control of the entire trndo of tho United Slates nnd maintaining uniform prices by gcnornl agreement. Mnnlfcstly theso two trusts or shall wo call thom "consolidations." out of regard for Mr. Schwab's sensibilities? have not been organized for chnrltablo purposes. Both seek to create and main tain trado monopolies. Their underlying principle Is tho throttling of competition, which carries wltn It tho power to restrict trado nnd regulato prices according to tholr will. After all, It matters llttlo what namo Is given to theso monopolistic alliances. Neither can they bo Justified by BUbstltut Ing a now title for an old ono. Tho trust apologists may juggle tholr words never so clovorly, they cannot conceal tho fact thnt now trusts aro being ndded every month to tho hundreds that already exist. The abuses growing out of tho trust system cannot bo cured by coining agreeable definitions. That a slnglo panacea has been discovered for all tho diseases from which tho Industrial system Is suffering no scnslulo person will contend. Neither will he, unless 'governed by solf-lntcreat, nttempt to forestall tho application of V WhyTlookold? hy allow your: gray hair to add 20 years to your age? Ayer's Hair Vigor always'restorcs color to gray hair, all the dark, rich, color of youth. any remedy by Insisting that all tho organs of tho body Industrial and commercial nro sound and working naturally. IOWA'S IIA.HKUT OK 1M.UMS. CirorKln WonderlnKlr VImv the A tin it iln noo of tlii IlmvUojrc Htnle. Atlanta Constitution. How docs it happen that tho stato of Iowa is capturing so, many political plums this your7 Nothing liko It has ever been known In tho history of tho stnto. We aak this question In no spirit of dissatisfaction, but Bltnply to get n tho root of tho good fortuno to which our sister commonwealth of tho mlddln west has fallen hoir. Jeremiah Wilson, who hns heon secretary of agriculture for tho past flvo years, will continuo In nil probability to occupy this portfolio under President RoosovclL At luast no declaration to tip contrary has yet been made, and now that Lcslla M. Shaw has been called to tho oQlco of secretary of tho treasury It will bo tho souiowhat anomalous lot of tho stato of Iowa under tho present administration to bo repre sented by two members of tho president's cabinet at the samo time. Even tho great stnto of New York hns rarely laid claim to such an honor. But thu Inventory Is still Incomplete. David B. Ildndcrson, speaker of tho na tional houso of representatives, hails from tho stato, of Iowa, and it tho republican party remains In tho nscendancy In con gress It Is likely that tho present spoakor will succeed himself. Anothor distinguished representative of tho stnto who occupies nn important publlp otllco Is Goorgo K. Roborte, who holds tb'e ofilco of director of tho United States mint. Kj, whllu tho stnto of Iowa Is just about tho slzo of tho stato of Georgia, it happens by an extraordinary coincidence to ho get ting tho llon'a shares of political plums Just nt this time. But wo cougrntulato It ou Its good fortune. LAiciis i.nifr ovrcit. Chlcnao Trlhuno: "What a difference" nuiHcd I'nclo Allen Sparks, "thiire Is be tween tin- human form dlvlno and tho human form as tho fashion plates make It thoso duysi" Philadelphia' I're.is: "My dear," nid Mrs'. Oush, "your mourning bonnet la Just lovely." "Yes," replied tho young widow, petu lantly, "but thu fnet thnt I havo to pay for It myself robs tno of all tho ptensuro I might havo In wearing It." Detroit Frco Press: Clara It's a thrilling story, Isn't It? Miuj.,1 Ono of the most thrilling 1 aver reail- I couldn't skip more than half of It. Soinervllli Journal: Mrs. Winks I wonder why It Is that pcoplo always call a locomotlvo "she." Mr. Iltnks I don't know, I'm sure, unless It Is because she Isn't good for much, with out a muti to mn her. Washington Star: "There Isn't as much kicking In foot ball ns I had expected," said the young womuii. "No," suhl tho young mnn. "If you enjoy kicking you want to tuko nn interest In base ball." Philadelphia Pres.: Mrs. Hiram Offon Anel do you think you could do thu rooking for tho family with n llttlo help trom mo? Applicant No, ma'am, I de not. Mrs. Illiom Often You don't? Applicant No. nm'iim, but Ol'm sura Ol cud do It wldout auny help from you. Chicago Post: "Havo you dono any thing with thnt n-ystcry yetr asked tho frlonii. "Yos," unswered tho detective, "wo liavu found several clows that muko It more mysterious than ever, which fnet you will, of course, understand Very materially en hances our artistic enjoyment." Brooklyn Kngle: Mrs. Datto How ild Mrs. llllklnH ever get tho reputation for being such a buru? Mrs. Bnrkey Sho tried the experiment of making It n point never to wiy nnyililtig but good of unyono behind thlr bilcliv HOI.I, CAM,. Nathaniel arnhnin Shepherd, "Corporal Green!" tho orderly cried: "Hero!" wns tho answer, lesud nnd clear. From tho Hps of tho soldier who Ktood near: And "Here!" wns the word the' next ro plled. "Cyrus Drew!" then silence fell, This tlmo ne) answer followed tho call; Only his roar mun had sion him fall, Killed or wounded, ho could not tell. There they stood In. tho falling light, These men of battle, with grave, dark looks, As plain to be rend as open, hooks, Whllu slowly gathered the shades of night, Tho fern on tho hillsides wns splnshfd with blood, And ileiwn lu tho corn, wlie-ro tho poppies grew, Wcro redder stolns than the popples knew, And erlniHon-dyetl was tho river's Hood, For' tho foo had crossed from tho other side That day, In tho faces of a murderous tiro That swept them down In Its terrlhlo ire, And their llfe-blooel went to color tho tldo. ''Herbert Kllao!" At tho cnll there enmo Two stnlwart soiellers Into tho line. Bearing betwe'cirthesm this Herbert Kline, Wounded nnel bleeellng to nnswer his name. "Kzrn Kerr!" nnd a volco nnswereel, "Hero!" "Hiram ICerr!" but no man replied. Thoy were brothers, theso two; tho nd winds slKhcil, And a-shudeler crept through tho cornfield near. "Kphralm Dcnne!" then a soldier spokot "Donn cnrrlcel our regiment's colors,'' ho sale! ; "Where our enslcn was shot I left him (lend. Just titter tho enemy wnvored rend broke. "Close to tho roadside his body lies; I patiHcel a moment nnel gnvo lilm a drink; Ho murmured his mother's name, I think. And elouth enmo with ft and closed his eyes." Twas a victory, yes, hut It cost un dear, For that company's roll, when called at night, Of a hundred men. who went into tho tight, Numbered but twenty that answered "Hero!"