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TI1E OMAHA DAILY T.EEt WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBETl 3, 1002. 'n ie dmaiia Daily Bee. E. ROSE WATER, EDITOR, i PUBLISHED EVERT MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, pally Bee (without Sunday). On Year.,14 . laily bee and Sunday, Una Year J 00 Illustrated llee. One Year J Sunday Bee, One Year J W Saturday bee, One Year l-W Twentieth Century Farmer, One Year.. 1.00 DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Dally Bee (without Sunday), per cony... lo Dally Bee (without Sunday), per week. ..12a Pally bee (Including Sunday), per week.. 170 junda y Bee. n. r ivinv c Evening Bee (without Sunday), per week. Wo Evening Bee (Including Sunday), per ween ISo fry Complaint of Irregularltiea In delivery Should De eaureasea to City Circulation ljeDartmenL , , OFFICES. Omaha-Thc Bee Building. South Omaha City Hall Building. Twenty-fifth and M Street. Council Bluffs 10 pearl Street Chicago 1640 Unity Building. New York Temple Court. Washington 601 Fourteenth Street CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to newa and edi torial matter ahould be addreaeed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department BUSINESS LETTERS. Business letters and remittance should be addressed: The Bee Publishing Com pany, Omaha. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft eipress or postal order, payable to The Be Publishing Company. Only 2-cent stamps accepttd In payment of mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchangee, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County ss! Oeorge B. Tsschuck, secretary of The Publishing Company, being duly sworn, ays that the actual- number of full and complete copies of Th Dally, Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of August, 1902, waa as follows: J.. 28.T20 U , '.2,770 17.. II.. 19.. 20.. a.. 22.. 23.. 24.. 26.. 26.. V.. 28.. 29.. .. SI.. .28,820 ..2.as ....S8,610 ....sw.eno ....a,Teo ,...2,TOO ....as.T&o ,...s.o ,.,.2S,TBO ....2S.TBO ....2H.T30 ....28.820 ....28,MO ....28.T30 20,30 29.7T0 30,380 30,120 ....... 20.00O 80,910 28,733 80,330 20,800 20,030 20.0O0 80,070 ...... .80,110 2,120 f 7...... id....:... H........ u u........ 14 is Total 0OO.44O Lees unsold and returned copies.... 0,877 Net total sale.. 8B6.S03 Net dally average. 28,021 GEO. B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me tnia 1st aay or oepiemoer. v. u.. 1402. O. MUNUA1L, (Seal.) Notary Public. Summer resort men ought to be right In practice to Jump Into the winter resort business. Omaha has captured the presidency of the Nebraska Embalmers' association This la on the dead. That unexpected addition of $9,000 to Its revenues is being spent by the school board' not once . but several times. - N The only way to verify Senator Piatt's prediction that the coal. strike will be settled In two weeks Is to wait and see. Arkansas bas gone democratic again, It goes democratic ao regularly, how- ever, that democrats draw no Inspiration from It It Pelee la really erupting again, we f ought to have a fresh supply of news about smoldering volcanoes In northern Nebraska and fierce earthquake' shocks on the rim of the arid regions. That polite Tennessee train robber who Introduced himself to bis victims before making his departure should bave bad visiting cards printed for dis tribution as mementoes of the occasion. Perhaps Pelee is simply coming to the rescue of the belated magazine articles on volcanic phenomena contributed to current periodicals by scientific experts to give them a better flavor of timeli ness. ' Colonel William Jennings Bryan will help open the democratic campaign In Missouri, That's the reward the Mis souri democrats get for standing faithful , to the Kansas City platform In Its every .word and. sentence. Jones of Arkansas, who shone for a while as chairman of the democratic na , tlonal committee, will issue no bulletins on the democratic victory In his state, The -Arkansas election cinches the re tirement of Jones to private life. "The heat was excessive, but the presl dent seemed to suffer but little from Its effects," reads the account of the Labor day receptions to President Roosevelt In New England. He won't be troubled that way when he cornea out west After all, when we get through play Ing war, there is uo assurance that 'a real invader would go about if the same way. In fact, the foreign enemy will have full warning that he will bave to try something different If he wants a chance at success. It's all in the way It la done. The difference between the attitude of the street railway managers to their em ployes and that of the Union Tactile management to Its men is the difference between the strike and the peaceable adjustment of grievances. Denver bas Just come out lucky from the collapse of a flimsy grandstand erected for temporary use at Its horse show. If any reviewing stands are to be put up for the coming Ak-Sar-Ben parades In Omaha, It behooves ' the authorities to make sure ef safeguards against such accidents. Iowa democrata -will go through the form ef nominating a state ticket very peacefully, but will flgUt furiously over the rcassertlon of fealty to IS to 1 free silver. But In debatable states, where the spoils constitute a prize within reach, the contention over "principles" Is relegated to the rear. ' Why stop with a salary for a horse for the superintendent bf school build tngsT Does not the superintendent of Instruction Btand In equal need of a horse and buggy T - Why not put an automobile on the pay roll fur the use of the supervisor of music and a bicycle for the liea4 klnderxarteu director! . rat AMtRitAK rnifiCitlK. It Is very, rernnrkable thnt European , sentiment should be so adverse, even In a limited degree, to the enunciations of the American principle embraced In what la known as the Monroe doctrine. If that were a new principle, If It had leen promulgated In recent years, or alnce the United States has become a "world power' It would not be difficult to understand that European powers ahould be somewhat antagonistic to It and, be unwilling to give It recognition. But the doctrine waa proclaimed nearly eighty years ago, when the United Statea was comparatively a weak nation, and It has been repeatedly affirmed since as a cardinal part of American policy In respect to affairs in. this hemisphere. Yet it Is a strange fact that the Amer ican attitude In regard to this principle Is still being dlscuftoed abroad and there seems to be a feeling In certain quarters that somehow It Is the duty of foreign governments to put themselves on record as opposed to the Mouroe'doctrlne. The references which President Roosevelt, in an entirely conservative way, has recently made to the position of the United ' States In regard to the Mon roe doctrine,, have started an amount of - discussion abroad that Indicates very . profound . feeling , there on tne subject which seems to beq.ulte without " Justification. This Is par ticularly true of Germany, If recent re ports are true, and yet that country has absolutely no good reason for objecting to the Monroe doctrine, alnce It has no interests in this hemisphere which the American principles interferes with. It Is alleged, it Is true, that Germany Is seeking to colonlte , certain parts of South America and that ' this contra venes the policy of Monroeism, but there is nothing In this hlch should trouble the mind of any supporter of that pol icy. The , doctrine does not interfere with the Immigration of Germans or any other European to the western hem! sphere, but simply prescribes that the governments of Europe shall not seize territory In this hemisphere and plant their political Institutions here. .President Roosevelt boa stated the American idea of the Mnnrnn wtrina In HpfisHntr hf t ..k. " " " "" Ject for political colonization by any European power, anai is ail mere is of It and It la remarkable that European .vc.uuiCUl. eem unaoie to unaerstana u uu ..Bumcauce oi we principle. T4V la ome. r- rt tL - . I " " "r- "WBeveii lain, mat we are aggressive toward any power. "It meana merely that aa the biggest power on this continent we remain steadfastly iruo u mo principles nrst rormuiated under the presidency of Monroe, through John Quincy Adams-the principle that mis comment must not : De treated aa a suuject ror political colonization by any European powera." That doctrine Governor Savage wants to add a pho the American people are unalterably in tographer to bis staff. The governor favor of and .under no circumstances I will they abandon It , .AA:B0JIi1 r -'1 The railroad tax bureau continues to rail over the slipshod, haphazard fashion of making Nebraska as sessments. In this respect we fully coincide with the railroad tax bureau. There certainly is good ground for de nounclng Nebraska assessments as slip shod and roughshod when railroads in the most prosperous era of Nebraska are assessed for many millions less than they were during the years of drouth and general depression, notwithstanding the fact that they bave increased their mileage and multiplied their rolling stock. There certainly Is a great deal of slip shod and haphazard assessment when railroad property la assessed at one- thirteenth of Its actual value, while the bulk of all other property returned for assessment In Nebraska Is appraised at one-third to one-seventh of its actual value. Nebraska's assessments are awfully slipshod when It is borne In mind that out of the assessed valuation of over J25.000.000 for Douglas county the rail roads represent . only 3 per cent; that the Burlington terminals, depots and depot grounds within the city limits of W1"aua w ul. we aame amount ot n. iu DVV uuuuing; mat uie Lnion Pacific bridge, toward which Douglaa county voted a quarter of a million of subsidy bonds on which it Is taxed for $12,500 in Interest a year, Is assesseu ai i,ooa ana pays about 3U of county taxes and $45.50 of city taxes. oureiy mat Deats ji.w sewing ma chines, $1.85 watches and clocks and 57 cent per acre sand bills all to pieces, LABOR'S VULIQAT10K3. In bis address at Kansas City Sena tor Fairbanks of Indiana, speaking to the workingmen, said some things that ought to be seriously considered by labor everywhere. He pointed out that those who represent labor organltcatloua are charged with important and 'dell cate responsibilities ana that they should therefore be men of the highest cuaracier ana worm, mat is an un- questionable proposition. No man who naa any regara ror lis personal char- acter or for his worth as a member of the community will for a niluute ques- tlon the proposition that the Individual, wbotber he be a member of a union or not must conform himself to the laws and the order of society of which be Is a part All intelligent workingmen appreciate that and understand that anything different means a state of affairs which would result In social dis- cord and an unending conflict between capital and labor. . : Senator Fairbanks said that those who represent labwr should know the rights of labor and also the rights of capital and 'should be able' and willing to as sert the light of one and respect the rights of the other. Tbat Is by no meana 'an 'impossible proposition. If both capital and labor could realize fully and properly their true relations there would be no difficulty in. carrying out the Idea conveyed In the suggestion of oeiiawr au-wniaa, wuio poinia w ao - solute harmony between the now con flicting interests. Senator Fairbanks recognized, what every rational man must see and admit, that organized labor Is a permanent fact which it Is absolutely futile to oppose. "The evolution In our industrial condi tions," said the Indlnna senator, "which Is the marvel and admiration of the world, has rendered It necessary- that labor should organize." Can there be any doubt .or question about this? Again be said: "Labor organizations have their origin In the Instinct of self preservation, of mutual advancement, of common good, and are as natural and legitimate as the organization of capi tal. In fact," he said, "the organization of labor and capital naturally go hand in hand. The one Is essentially the complement of the other." Considered in all its relations It is absolutely apparent that labor as well as capital bas its obligations and that both are bound to consider what is due to the. public interests .and welfare. That neither ,of them do this la a fact which is constantly working 'against the general welfare. ' , . those roxr pupocbats. A crow, having stolen a bit of flesh, perched in a tree and held It In her beak. A fox, seeing her, longed to possess him self of. the flesh, and by a wily stratagem succeeded. "How handsome Is the crow," he 'exclaimed, "In the beauty of her shape and la the fairness of her complexion. If her voice were only equal to her beauty she would deservedly be the queen of birds." Thl he said deceitfully, but the crow, anxious to refute the reflection cast upon her voice, set up a loud call and dropped the flesh. The fox quickly picked it up and thus addressed the crow: "My good crow, your vole I right enough, but your wit Is. wanting. "Aesop's Fables. The suggestive lesson of this fable is recalled by the following alleged Wash ington special telegram to the World- Herald: There Is every Indication that the am- bassador to Germany, Mr. Andrew D. White, will be succeeded by John L. Web- ?ter of mh-' Th president. It is said. Le.tlon. en ,f h(l notder.ntteiY de. elded on it. The appointment of Mr. Web ster has. been strongly urged by Senator Millard. The president Is understood to hT not et reached a final determination In the matter. to help Mercer to ft ren0Djlnati0I1 that w, mnb(, TTitphnnpfc'a oWHnn are Tery mucn dl8turbed over the ap- parltton of Webster on the ' congres sIonal horizon. Their effort to lure him ta . higher altitude Is aa deceitful as it i ingenious, but we apprehend that John u Webster la not a spring chicken nor even a crow in politics.' While he ap- Dreciftte the comnllment eonveve.l In that Washington special he can read between the lines and comprehends fully its purport evidently thinks the photographers who bave taken snapshots at blin in various attitudes at picnics, banquets, lunch ' o ' o Poljtlcal grandstands have not done him full Justice. The governor wantso be photographed in the attitude In which be stood ' on- I be stage of the Lincoln auditorium, facing the republican con vention and making frantic appeals to them for an endorsement of the Bartley parole.. That would be an historic pic ture to bang in the executive chamber. The governor should engage a photo grapher by all meana. ' One of "the railroads of Nebraska" la boasting that it has Just placed the largest order for locomotives e,ver given by any railroad. For this road, It id in sisted that Its equipment will have been enlarged during the year by 425 new locomotives of the most modern and ex pensive pattern. A goqd share of its mileage is in Nebraska, but It will be interesting to watch bow many of the new locomotives are credited up to this state In Its next tax returns and at what valuations. . Chairman Goss might , travel the straight road . if be made himself bis nwn iriilria lmt vhpn ha mtlimita him. trt.tllA rtlr.Hnn. nt M-.r .mi Mercer's factotum, he quickly geta off ,nto a crooUed path. Mr. Goss should remember that as chairman of the county committee he is supposed to act ln - reore8entativ raoacitv for all the renubllcans of Douglas countv. and not merely for one nonresident congress- man. Reading the answer filed by Jim Hill in the merger suits ought to couviuce any fair-minded man who knows noth ing about the other side of the question I that the communlty-of -Interest magnates are Instigated solely by motives of gen erous philanthropy and an unmixed de sire to give the public better railway service at cheaper rates, without re gurd whatever to the profits of the own ers or the wlunlngs of the stock gamblers. President Roosevelt bas set at rest the talk about him contemplating the promo tion of Attorney General Knox to the supreme bench vacancy to be made by the retirement of Justice Shlras. An other story will now bave to be In Teuted to explain the delay in the con gummatlon of the promised meat Dack era' combine. According to William F. Gurley, "Omaha needs Mercer more than Mer cer needs Omaha." When a public servant or a private servant, for that matter, thinks be bas become lndls pcnsable, It is high time to give bim his walking papers. Mercer's rooh-Bab still Insists that the county committee must abdicate In bis favor so that be can levy bis $o0 bead tax on Mercer s competitors and do them up by Juggling with the ballots There Is nothing small about Mercer' Pooh-Bah. Treason on th Border. Kew York Trlbun. Th democrata of an Iowa unruinnl 1 district, oa th very border ( Ksbraiks, have Just repudiated the Chicago and Kan- ass City platforms. Tet Colonel Bryan keep wasting hi eloquence on long distance New- England Spellbinding and harmonizing tours. Not Ka.y It Looks. Brooklyn Eagle. It Is a deal easier to be president of seventy millions of people who are largely of one mind, than ; to be president of one and a half million 'Cubans with one and a half million different minds. Btlll, the discovery of mind antedate the harmony of them. Reasoning; Ont of Date. Washington Star. Secretary Wilson's hopes that the abund ance of corn will reduce 'the cost of beef may be well founded. But the argument 1 based on a method of reasoning which prevailed some time before the trusts cam Into operation. . Money Well Employe. '"' 'CleVHand Leader. The largest stock of money ever pos sessed by the American people or placed In circulation continues to be very fully employed. Thkt'one fact Is good proof, If any were needed, of the general activity of trade and Industry. Speculation Is by no means of extraordinary range or volume. Speaking; to People Who Work. Indianapolis Journal. To th people who have occupations to those who toll In some Held of usefulness, the president delivers addresses now to the farmers and factory people In Connecticut and Maine, and next to the locomotive fire men In Chattanooga a few days hence. In no way doe he recognise by hi presence or words the existence or usefulness of those who have no vocation. FatiJ League f Kings. Philadelphia Inquirer. The European kings who are reported to be organizing a league to keep American manufacturers . out . of Europe will have their trouble . for their pains. Beyond question they can organize the league, but what good .will that do? Their own people want American goods, the American manu facturers want to and somehow will supply that demand just as they have been doing for years past. The world Is moving for ward, not back. ' Taken at HI Word. Philadelphia Ledger. Secretary Shaw's famous Interview, In which he declared that a returning tourist I could bring anything Into the country free of duty, even to a bale of hay. If it did not reach a value of mor than $100, Is likely to be surpassed tor foolishness and embarrassing . consequences by Secretary Wilson's promised philanthropy to the set tlers of bare pine tree lands In the north western states. He publicly declared that the government would assist eolonlBts in that part of the country, and requests are now pouring Into the Department of Agri culture for team of horse, seed corn, beet sugar factories and setting hens. High Scsrs Tf!l! . io well lwy in taha car that they know what they think and think what they say. AS OTHERS 8EB TJS. v ' What the British Industrial Expert Discovered In the United State. Philadelphia Ledger. A commission of. the Brltleh Jron Trad association, which ' visited this country to study its great steel and iron manufactur ing Industries, hss published ' a report which is discussed I in some of th English tecJUJical, pawta, ' The rejort Itself has not yet reached th treasury bureau of tatlstlcs, but seme extracts from It hare been printed by the English paper. Th commission wa composed of J. S. Jeans, an authority on thai subject; Axel Sahlln, an expert In blast furnace work; Ebenezer Parke, a specialist In sheet and bar mill practice, and Enoch .James, who gave spe- lal attention to th steel industry. Mr. James says that It la a mistake to suppose that Americans ' work harder than Eng lishmen. They hav to be attentive in guiding operations and quick in manipu lating levers and similar easy work, and they are much mor desirous than Eng lish workmen to. get out large quantities, but they do not. work harder. They are better paid and more regular la their at tendance at th works, loss of tlm through drinking habits or otherwise not being tolerated. Mr. Sahlln gives similar testimony, and adds that Americans aspire to the higher grade - of work and leave to foreigner the rough manual labor. He saw Polish and Hungarian laborer working for $1 to $1.50 per day alongside of American rollers averaging $12 per day. Tb aver age wage of men employee, at Home stead was, according to Mr. Carnegie, $3 per day, or, as" Mr. Sahlln put It, 187 per annum, against 68 per annum In Lancashire and '79 per annum In South Wales. Mr. Jeans gave special attention to the cost of living, and concluded that the average American workman., la moat of the essential of Ufa, could live a cheaply as hi British brother. If this be approximately true th American must have much tb better of It, with average wage In these Industrie of $935 against $340 in Lancashire and $395 in South Wale. Commenting on these report, the Lon don. Statist approve Mr. Sahlln's remark that "it Is not the guns that win th bat tie, but the men behind them," and adds: "What the American admires and honor 1 the ability to do; that capacity in a man, through his own sagacity, nerv. en terprlp and skl)l, to create and employ fortune. Nobody 1 above hi work. Everybody works, and for th aak of work, and thus has been produced In Amer lea within a generation an Industrial po tenuauty mor wonaenui ana more to d feared than all the factories and machinery and 'plant' that these worker hav cre ated. . It come to this, then, that Amer lean labor 1 not mor efficient, though It Is better paid, than ours; and that Amer lean aanufacturlng development Is due to th persistent, unresting industry which one characterized the Briton, but for which trade unionism end athletics hav given an apparently growing distaste. All the reporters, however seem struck with the strenuousness of American life. The comparative absence of a leisured class is noted as on of the prominent character istics of the principal cities and Industrial center of the United State. In th ave nue of industry a man without a regular business, or who 1 not concerned In tb development of soma Industry, is as a' fish out of water. Nowhere, we are assured. Is th struggling youth more kindly encour aged, mor -generously aided and, mor readily trusted than In America; and it 1 pleasant to read of an esprit du corps among the works' manager which on would hardly expect to find In a land of such feverish, competition Thl 1 not merely complimentary; It I true. As a people we work hard because w Ilk to work: w are ambitious and enterprising, and It 1 tb human factor, not our machine tools, that foreign com petition hav to dread; now that the Amer lean people hav begun to enter th mar ket of th world. War Veaael Sold nt Anetlon BAN JOSE. Cota Rica, Sept I, The Cos La Rlcau war vessel Rose has been sold at auction,' and bas bsea bought by th Colombian government Tide of Good Times ' New Tork Tribune, The Interstate Commerce commission's 1.0S9.J2M40 being amaller by M.000,000 report for th year ending June SO. 1901, than thst for 1899-190IK But" the ton mile bear eloquent witness to the pressure of age actually Increased. Indicating a greater that tid of prosperity on which the nation density of traffic, and th total revenue ha floated since the advent of the first from freight service rose mor thaa $9. McKlnley administration. Nowhere are the 000.000 above the level of th preceding signs of good times or of hard times to b year. Passenger revenue, with a greater read more clearly than In the Increasing expansion ef business, made a gain of $27,- or diminishing business done In' this coun- try by Its far spreading railroads. Rail road values may rise or fall through the hazards of speculation, but railroad opera tions themselves offer an unfailing Index of national activity and national growth. The figures collected by the federal com mission take an almost bewildering range. Tet every tabulation contribute to the general deduction of enormous and wide spread national prosperity, In which th carrying trade of the country bas had Its necessary share. Like the statistical ab stracts of the three or four years preceding. thl latest report of the commission testl- flea not only to the vastness of our Ameri can railway system, but to its constant advancement In extent of mileage. In earn ing power, In safety of equipment and la efficiency and economy of operation. Earnings for th period covered by the re- port show aa advance highly satisfactory to the railroad Investor. The gross earning ef all the road were $1,688,526,037, a gain of $101,000,000 over the year 1899-1900. Operating expense were $1,030,897,270, an Increase of only $68,968,759. The net earn ings $568,128,767 registered, therefore, a gain over the year preceding of $32,612,463. Earnings have more than kept pace with In- crease In mileage; for the average return per mile have grown from $2,729 In 1899-1900 to $2,854 In 1900-'01. .Yet nearly 4,000 miles of new track were laid in the period covered by the commission' report. Passenger traffic showed a relatively greater Increase than freight traffic. The number of passen gers carried was 607,278,121, a gain of 80, 000,000 on the record of the year preceding, freight tonnage fell off a little, the total- ROUND ABOUT KEW YORK. Ripple oa the Current ef Life In the Metropolis. Fir Chief Croker, son of the only Rich ard, secured leave of absence for a vacation trip last July. He didn't get a hint that there would be something doing as soon as he got out of - town, and he went on his vacation as merrily as a youngster when school closes. Presently there was some thing doing. The lock on the fire chief's desk was changed, as well as the lock on the door of th office. Keys to the new locks were sequested In the pockets of Fire Commissioner Sturgls. When Croker returned to town refreshed and relnvtgor ated, he bumped against locked doors and hoarse laugh. "Tour Services are no longer needed, you are dismissed," whis pered Sturgls through the keyhole. "The dsuce you say; we!!, I'!! ee you !st?r." hissed young Richard. He did. A man damus from the supreme court secured his reinstatement, accompanied by the emphatic remark that a fire chief cannot be removed without trial on written charges sustained by evidence. Opponents of Crokerlsm ad mit that the chief Is thoroughly competent and efficient, and that the action of the court puts the ' fire commission In a very small bole.' The loss of th master-key by a janitor la a-large New Tork office building the other day, while occasioning considerable un rest to Its former custodian and Wetebsnts of th building, nevertheless performed a useful service by acquainting many persons with the existence of the product of the locksmith's punning. The jnaster-key is an Ingenious Invention which I th open-se same often to hundreds of office each with Its own peculiar lock. Its possession by an unscrupulous person might give htm sn In troduction to the secrets or possessions of every office In the building. In the present case every lock In the building 1 being changed and a correspondingly larg num ber of new keys notched. The work of fitting out a large building with keys and locks sometimes takes over a month befor its successful completion, for locks, in particular, have sensitive na tures, and are often put. out of condition by petty disturbances. Th task of manu facturing a master-key or pass-key is a delicate undertaking, and often Is accom plished only after a number of composite wax Impressions have been made. The first part of the key to be Inserted has no effect on the lock, but simply forces an entrance. The various cuts In th edge then feel their way until one respond to ome gateway in th interior of th lock. It is easy to see how many combination can be devised by a system of delicate cuttings on th key and of Blight changes in the tightening or turning of the lock. With passes of nearly all th Important railroads In the country la her possession and known to keep a valuable Great Dane and a tiny poodle as pets, Mrs. Jean Harris Hunter, 35 year old, who assert h I i the widow . of Alexander Hunter, former president of the Chicago Board of Trade. was arrested In New Tork last week on a charge of vagrancy. Dressed .in widow's weeds of expensive material and wearing a beatific smile, Mrs. Hunter was arrested after she had accepted a marked dollar at the office of Kubn, Loeb ft Co.. 27 Pine street It la said she ha collected more than . $26,000 by systematic begging In th last thre year. Th police ay the woman la th most skilful and successful solicitor of alms they l have met In years. They say she has j operated In cities from Oakland. Cal., to New Tork. A large number of letters were ; found, and passes were taken from her of ' the following railroads: Pennsylvania. New i Tork Central, Southern Pacific, Atchison, Topeka ft Santa Fa, Wabash, Chicago ft Alton and Union Pacific Beneath stout bare guarding a wide, arched window In the United State assay office In Wall street, say th New Tork Post, thousand of dollars' worth of little gold bricks, th honest and true kind, pass very day from Uncle Sam's coffers to the hand of Jeweler and bankers. And all that Uncle Sam charges tor th exchange is 4 cent on $100 for th larg bar and 6 cents on $100 for th small ones. For tb week ending July 28 th gold bar (they did not call them bricks in th assay office) exchanged for gold cola amounted to $190,780.17. Thl I a small figure compared with what th office haa don on a busy day. One, six or seven years ago, when a large quantity of gold was to be shipped to Eu rope, the assay office exchanged $8,000,000 Into bar. Th bar Unci. Sam dispense are of two general sixes, the $5,000 sis for bank ers and th $160 sirs for jeweler, the mall size being about an Inch and a quar ter long, three-quarter wide and perhaps half an inch or lea la thickness. Very oftea they run up to $200 or even more In valu. Their size adapts them to the also of th jeweler' crucible. A for th banker, he doe not melt his gold; he con tents himself with shipping It back and forth across th ocean. A remarkable feature of thl exchange of legal tender for gold bare Is that on cannot always get Just the amount be wishes. If a jeweler or a banker wishes , $10,00e la gold bullion. Uncle Sam gives 40.2, a little larger percentage thaa that hown In tb return from freight The enormous scat on which railroad opera tions In this country are bow conducted Is suggested ;by. th census taken of rail way employe. ..Nearly 1.100.000 men wer on the railroad payroll In 1900-'01, th ex act number being 1,071,169. Thl was aa Increase of M.ejf ever th preceding year, and It Is eat te say that aa equal addi tion has been made to this vast array since the commission' latest enumeration wa made. ' An especial interest attaches to the tabulations which deal with the average railroad traveler' liability to accident. Th list of V casualties for ISOO-'Ol mounted up to 4U.794. Death took aa an nual toll of 8,445780 lives more than -were lost In 1839-1900. But of tb total number killed only SSI were passengers and only 4.128 passenger wer Injured out of a total Injured list of 61,139. On pas Sanger, was killed for every 1,153.46 ear rled and on was Injured for every 111,748 carried. In view of th vast stretches of single line track which Americas rail road operate, this record Is not aa ap Palling one. There are good years aad bd years In the history of railroad dlsas- ters. Th one covered by the commission's report appears to be about aa average one, is perhaps sufficiently consoling to tle .Amenea.a traveler to Know that oy an application of the doctrine of chances to the record of 1900-'01 he ought to accom plish, under conditions as they were then and doubtless are now, a Journey ef 61, 637,648 mile before being killed, or a Jour ney of 8,479,067 mile before being Injured. htm as near that amount as he possibly can. It may be $9,970.50 or $10,060.30, be cause the bars vary in size and weight, and practically all of them have odd cents la their value. Two bars the cashier handed out one day this week were stamped $531.70 and $123.10. In buying gold bars the purchaser first tells th cashier at the assay, office how much be wlshee; the cashier comes as near this amount as he can with the bars oa hand, and then the purchaser goes next door, to the sub-treasury, where he de posits hi legal tender, gold certificates, greenbacks or gold coin, for the amount designated by the aesay office cashier as the nearest te the desired amount, receiv ing therefor a certificate which, upon pres entation at the assay office. Insures the delivery of the bars. But before they may be taken away the recipient must sign for them In the register which lies open be neath the bars of the wide-arched window. PERSONAL MOTES, Sir Robert Bond, premier of Newfound land, predicts that the Atlantic will soon be crossed in forty-four hours and that the trip from New Tork to London caa be made In 100 hours. Marshall Field of Chicago Is beading a movement to colonise the numberless aban doned farms of New Englsnd with farmers and mechanics from the old world. Several railroad are also interested tn the project Residents of Portland, Me., ar taking steps looking te the erection of a memorial to William Pitt Fessenden. long United States senator from Main and secretary of the treasury under Lincoln. Mr. Fessenden was born Ja Portland. Two boys on the training ship Minne apolis are representatives of both sides ot the moat merciless feud ever known in the south the Hatfleld-MoCoy war. -The lads are Perry McCoy and "Ansa" Hatfield. They have burled their hereditary hatred and are fast friends, with hammocks slung side by side. Some superextra eultured persons down sat have been much shocked at the loose and careless way In which the president has been using the English language in some of his speeches. In one of them delivered la Boston, too he began thirteen unlucky sentences with th word "now," and he used the phrase "hav got" eleven time. Worse that that, th chief magis trate of the nation ' actually spilt an la flnltlv. -- rfh"V-s. ' ' 0 What? For Breakfast I - $ For rosy, active "strenuous", health, use the menu advised by a famous food expert: :.. Some fruit. t A dish of Grape-Nuts, dry and ready cooked, crisp and fresh from the package. Rich Cream Soft boiled eggs (2) Postum Coffee. That's enough to ran you until noon; the . food Is of selected parts of the grains that ' i rebuild the brain and nerve centers. You will feel "fit as a lord" on this kind of ... breakfast Use the same articles for luncheon . or supper. ' S$TT1Ma TUB. CLOCK. itnanerlenl Chancre . with' Kvery Cenana Dees4e. " Nw Tor World. Th most Interesting moment of the day in crossing the ocean Is that' at which the ship's clocks are changed. On th stroke of eight bells the passengers set their watches and with the act-they realize bow many league of sea they have left astern la twenty-four hours. It Is with a similar feeling. that we move from one round number to. another tn de scribing the population of the United States. When we could stop speaking of a nation of 40,000,000 people and begin Instead to speak of one of 60,000,004 w all felt a few inches taller. We grew still further when we rose from 60,000,000 to 60.000,000 and from 60,000,000 to 70,000,000.--. Aad now; the time has come for a new advance. -We may henceforth refer confidently to our 80.000,000 Inhabitant. . Tb Increase In our population between the censuses of 1890 and 1900 was the least shade under 1 per cent a, year. plus the year's Immigration. The same rate of In crease would have brought us to the 80. 000,000 mark In July, or, to be perfectly safe, In August, ot-the 'present year. It will be several years before we shall need to set oar national watches again, but barring an unforeseen and, .Improbable interference with our present rate of ad vance. President Roosevelt, or whoever may be chosen to aucoeed him at th next eleo tloa, will become the head ot $0,000,000 people within the II ml ta of the old con tinental United States some time. In the year 1907, or at the very latest In 1908. A WAT, DULL CARE. " sjomerrltle Jonrnal: When you throw one of your shoes at a cat in the night always tie a long string to It o that you can pull It back to throw again. Boston Post: The open ar stopped at a cross street and a lady stepped on the footboard. The end seat hog glared at her. but made no move. "May 1 come In your sty?" she asked, sweetly. Th E. B. U. got red in the face and moved over. Chicago Tribune: "Isn't he a queenly girl?" exclaimed the doctor; looking after the beautiful maiden an she swept grace fully along the street "How divinely tall!" "And how devilishly pretty t" added th professor. Washington Star: "Miss Oabblns says She loves the truth above all things." "Yes." answered Miss Cayenne; "she realises that as a rule, the truth I the most disagreeable thing you can aay about anybody." - - . .i Philadelphia Press: Aunt Mary And did you have a good time at your birthday psrtyT Tommy Oh I fin. Aunt Mary Of course you danced. Tommy No, but I made Willie Brown dance all right Me and h l wa flghtln' in the cellar moat o' the time. . . , Baltimore American: "And now, ladlea and gentlemen," said the lecturer, "you are about to witness the most thrilling specta cle ever presented In the arena. I would request that y)U kindly maintain silence and refrain from applauding until the act la concluded. Senor Recklesslo will now ride the man-eating automobile three, time around the hippodrome track!" Mew Tork Sun: Horatlu had lust In vited Spurtua Laxtius to play 'a game ot ping-pong. i "No," replied the berolo Ramman, "but I will abide at thy right side and hold the bridge with thee.,r Thl prove that the ancients were behind the times, or Spurlu would not hav shown a preference for whist . , MEMORIES OF 4KB. GONE. The Bookman. Sweet little maid with winsome eyes That laugh aU day through., the tangled hair, . Oaclng with besfcy looks e-wiew Over the arm of the oaken chair. Dearer than you Is none to me. Dearer than you there can be none; , Since In your laughing face I See . Eyes that tell of another one. Her where the firelight softly glows, Sheltered and safe and snug and warm. What to you Is the wind that blow, ' Driving the sleet of the winter storm? Round your head the ruddy light Glints on the gold from your tresses spun, But deep Is the drifting snow tonight Over the bead of the other one. Hold me close a you sag-ely stand. Watching the dying embers ehlne; Then shall I feel another hand That nestled once In this hand of mine; Poor little hand, so cold and chill. Shut from the light of star and sun. Clasping the withered roses still TJiat hide the face ot the sleeping one. Laugh, tittle maid, while laugh you may, Borrow come to us all, I know; 7 . Better perhaps for her to atay Under the drifting snow. : Under the drifting, robe of snow.i Sing till your baby days ar done; But oh, the ache of the heart that longs ' Night and day for the other one I ' ' i - a1 't X over.