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I 0 TTTTC OMATIA .DAILY "REE: TUESDAY, DECEMTtETt 0, 102. 'Hie umaha Daily Bee E. ROSEWATEIl. EDITOR. 'PUBLISHED kAEKY MOHNINO. ' TERMS OF SUHHCIUPttON. I t)allr B"e (without Sunday), fine Year.."4 Ially l!ee ami (Sunday, One Year 6 '41 Illustrated Bee, unn Year Htinriay lien. One Year t .tw Haturoay Hoe, unc Year l.ou Twentieth Century Farmer, One Year.. l.UU DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Pally Hee (without 8unrtay), per copy.... 2c I'ally Hee (without Hun-lay, tier week.. . .120 Dally Bee (Including rXthtiay), per week.Uc Bunday Ree, jer tdpy.1.-, ...A....... 6c Evening Ree (without Sunday), per week 6c Evening Ree (Including Sunday), per week l"c Complaint of Irregularities In delivery should he addressed to city Circulation De partment. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha city Hall Building, Twenty-fifth and M Street. Council UliifTs-M 1'earl Street Chicago 1040 Unity Building. New York -JXM Park Row Hulldlng. Washington 6D1 Fourteenth Street. 1 CORRESPONDENCE. Communication relating to news and edi torial matter ihould be -addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS. Business letter and remittance should t addressed: The Bee Publishing Com pany, Omaha. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to The Ree Publishing Company. Only 2-cent stamps accepted In payment of tnall account, personal check, except on Omaha or eastern exchange, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Stat of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss.: Ueorge B. Tzschuck, secretary of Ths Bee Publishing Company,- being duly sworn, says that tho actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning, Kvenlng and Sunday Bee printed during the moDtn ol iNovemoer, urn, wi lunu-o. 1 31,470 t 2U.4BO 8 31.0UO 4 31,350 ft 41,148 6 34,6o0 7 81JJIO U0.240 9 StW,B7S 10 81,300 11 80,070 12 30,700 13 ao.aao 14 30.730 16 31,310 16 ,435 17 30.M09 18! 3O.S70 19 .30,040 20 30,8W 21 : 30,30 22 '. 31,410 23 JW.310 24 80,020 25 ...81,000 26 31,000 27 80,780 28 31,130 2 31.4HO 80 SM.47K Total oaa.oio Less unsold and returned copies.... P.23.T Net total sales.......... 022,073 Net average sales ...i 80,7B5 GEORGE fi. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 30th toy of November. A. D. 1802 i M. B. HI' NQATE, (Seal) " ' . Notary Public It Is charged that the securities even of tome of the irrigation corporations have been watered. ,-'' King Alfonso has a new ministry on his hands. But not for long if Spanish precedent holds good. The boycott we have always with us. It would be a cold duy without some body on, the unfair list ,; The paramount "Iowa idea" is the one that was so successfully exemplified at the Chicago live stock exposition. Friends of prisoners in the Nebraska state penitentiary whom they wish par doned out by Governor Savage should get busy. If the number of South Omaha council men Is to be doubled by the next legisla ture the number of Omaha councllmen would have to be quadrupled. North Platte is to be accommodated nd pacified with an accommodation train that will remove the bitter taste treated by the Baldwin Incident. Chicago republicans propose to discuss live Issues for the spring election before the nominations are made. Omaha re publicans might emulate- the example with profit The two younger sisters, Arizona and New Mexico, jtlll Insist that they ought not to be kepr in snort aresses 11 jia noma Is big ienough to be politically full-robed. If the French government really wishes to abolish dueling it 'should com pel duelists to; have It out In a,; foot ball game. But tills is probably too dan gerous a remedy. J. J. n Ill's position on the steamship nbsldy Is very simple and clear. If there Is to be a subsidy he wants a piece of lt himself. ' He does not favor a pubsidy for some other fellow. Nebraska woman suffragists evidently already have an eye to the prospect of a constitutional convention to revise our organic law and propose to be beard as well as seen whenever the question of political franchise qualifications cotitt'8 op for dlscutislon. '.". Meetings of the Denver city council will hereafter be held ln Jail and tbe mayor's proclamations will be is sued from behind grated windows, all on account of . such a small matter as rushing a street railway franchise ln the face of an Injunction. i " Former Senator Thurston wants the report corrected that he has been ea gaged to represent Queen Lil ln her claim for restitution or compensation for al leged Hawaiian crown ltimlx. This ought to leave a good opening for Our Dave to fall Into the lobby at once with dazzling but contingent retainer. Some of the partita who engineered the present . South .Omaha charter through the last legislature propose to besiege tbe coming legislature for a radical revision. Beore taking such action the coming legislature should as certain Just how much boodle passed through the bands of tbesea patriots for their Invaluable service two years ago. In Minnesota, Congressman Llnd filed schedule of election, expenses which exceeded by a trifle the limit fixed by the state corrupt practices act But the people seem to think that the only dif ference between him und the other can didates Is that he forgot ln fixing up his statement the legal limit that he should swear to, while they rvrnem-tmrUt. PHOPuskd PRiLtrriXS Ltnixr.A rio.v. Two proportions in tvgnrd to the Thll-1 Ipplnes will le considered and perhaps I acted uponiat the! present session of pngrcss. r")rtnp Is to glte the archipelago a staMe currency ana trie, otner to re- (luce the .tariff on the products of the Inlands und on nil articles exported from them to the I nlted 8tntes. The currency situation in the Islands Is most injurious to business nnd If oi- lowed to continue munt prove disastrous. This Is strongly presented in tne repon Of the secretnry or war, wuicn states that the insular government has lost over $l.i)00,00 gold by the decline In silver because It was operating on a silver basis, while agriculture is pros- trated and commerce hampered and dls- couraged. He points out that all the political parties In the islands urgently ask a change of the present currency standnrd and there Is no reason why congress biioihu neiay compliance wiin this request which Is approved ty tne l-nnippine commission, isouiing more tnan tne weii-nuestea racis oi me situ- atlon, It would seem, can be necessary to convince congress of the necessity for a change in tne monetary stanaara or the archipelago and of the duty of mak- ing tnis as soon as it is possmie to ao ctmndence game attempted to be so. It Is manifestly a most vital matter. piaye(i upon advertising patrons In gen since present conditions, If continued. eral and -nnucants for liauor license can hardly fall to be productive of a great deal or popular discontent mat might show itself In a way to cause no little trouble. . as to tne proposed reoucuon or duties, It is urged that a low tariff will greatly etlmuiate trade Between tne 1'hilippines anu tne united Mates, to tne oenent or both in general and the former in par- ionger, if necessary. The Bee Is pre tlcular. It is shown that this country Mr(,t tn ...hmit tn tin rcr nnmn in Is taking a large place in the trade of the archipelago, which In the fiscal year l'JOJ was made up of ,000.000 Im- ports, excluding specie and government supplies, and .nearly 124,000,000 mer- cnandise exports, ur tne imports over 54,UOU,uuu came from the united States and or tne exports neany a.uou.uwo were to the United States. The imports from this country showed an Increase iDg World-Herald, which he is pleased of 143 per cent as compared with 1900 to call The Daily World-Herald, ap and the exports a gain of 118 per cent proxlmates 12,000 In Douglas county, as ror tne same period, it is proposed to make a reduction in the tariff on prod- ucts of the islands to 25 per cent of the DIngley rates, but as congress at the test session refused to go below 75 per cent It is not probable that It will now make the large reduction that Is pro- posed. There Is no doubt that should it do so tne effect would be to materially increase trade between the Philippines and the united States and perhaps It would also Induce .the .Investment.' of American capital in the Islands, but there will be strong opposition. It Is safe to say to making rates a. low as per ceui oi me uingiey unn. It is evident however, that there is pressing need of early legislation for the betterment of financial and commer cial conditions In the Philippines. The people of the Islands are submitting peaceawy to American rule and appear generally to be satisfied with the po litical conditions. They should be made equally contented with conditions affect ing their material welfare. TU DKNTER CODTBMPT CASB. There Is one important direction in which all good citizens are agreed as to the righteousness of government by in- Junction, and that is where, as In the case presented at Denver, public offl- cers enter into a conspiracy w nerray erty and Bufferlng among them con their trust Ui.ni .a ih . . ..vn- The franchise pending before the city council or uenver ior a traction com-1 ptuiy uuu usBumi-u me proportion 01 a scandal. The very terms; in which It was -drawn were scandalous. ' and the methods by which it wai sought to en- cnain me puonc ior a long penoa were even worse, u was oenevea oy prac- ucuu, uib wuu.b couiuiuu.ijr. uu ei- dence which could not be doubted, thnt . i a corrupt gang within, the council had been procured by criminal Inducements to pass the ordinance ln its original nugruiu lorm its umwu oy me atior- neys of the corporation, to whose trees- ury lt meant hundreds of thousands of aoiiars ai uie eipense oi xna puoilC. Nevertheless, the council had the au- oaeuy to pass me rotten measure ana the mayor to sign it in the very teeth nf the sneclflc Inliinctlnn trhleh tho court naa issuea upon a iuu ana gianng buowiuk oi uie icu, tuene ouicers in- stantly absconding to distant parts like tlcket-of-leave men. But the serious point Is that the sen tence of Imprisonment for three months which has been passed Is no adequate penalty for such a crime and no remedy wnatever ror tne injury innicted. No punishment could be too severe and no process to summary for all the partlci- pants, whether the guilty officials or corrupt promoters. ORE at iRRWATloy work. The dam of Assouan, which was opened yesterday. Is the newest engi- neering wonder of the world in the land which Jiokls the earliest of such won ders that still stand. This penning of the Nile four hundred miles above the r.. ,.. . . ?'Q'1""" " tlon, abandoned as imiossibie -by tne Egyptians and the French, but pushed to success by British skill and persever- nw Thla milt the Asslont harraee will give Egypt reservoir of 1.000,000.- 000 cubic yards of ' water every year, crops will be dependent no longer upon the risings of the Nile and the fatness of the land will exceed that of the days of old. All the while that Great Britain was engaged In war tn South Africa this work of peace In North Africa never slackened. It is said that this great enterprise cost between 1100,000,000 and 125,00fl,0(0 and there Is no doubt tliut it will many times repay the ex- pcndlture. The water that will be stored will. It Is stated, flood the Nile valley for fifty miles, assuring & great increase In the agricultural product of that re- giou and a regular yield. It lft hardly possible to overestimate the value or this to the country. The completion of tills great work, which has lnen jroln ou for yours. Is nt onre highly credltn bie to British policy and notnlile evl- Uence of British skill and persistence At iiuri'VlXT BL.Lt F CALLED. About eleht venrs aeo the nulilisher of th World Herald sought to piny a hlgh- handed confidence gnmcon Omaha nier c!mrit, hy circulation claims. The ltn,,ud(,nt bhlff wna cnlloil hy tno de. ,t cf a certified check for $5,000. r,incpd jn the hnnd8 of Henry W. Yates, prp8ldeut of tue Nebraska Natlonol bank to be pnd ta G- M mtcheock in fractions of $1,000 on five separate propo- nmonB that tue bona flde circuiation of Tho 0maha Evening Bee in Omaha and gollth Cmana overlapped by many thou- Bnnd( that of Tbe Evenln)J worl.HIer- nid The MornIn(f World-Herald, or both coulbned. The money remained In the h(uu,s of Mr Yatp9 for thlrt (lilT9 w,tb out even an efrort on the pnrt of Mr, Hitchcock to claim the reward on any one f tue fl . different propositions. Tbus bubbie wa8 pricked and the bos ciftlniant eubslded for a few yeara. , particular by bogU8 ciaim9 and fake affidavits has forced The Bee to prod the nCated double-ender balloon and let tho .,r nt it The offer mnd b The Bee pubn8h!ne company is made in arood faith and with- ollt mental reservation or evasion of anv klndi and win gtand untll New Year's or it8 reward offer the lists of subscribers soured by nearly 100 carriers in a honie- to - home canvass. If the World-Herald bas anything more than brass to support ,t8 ciaim8, ltB publisher will have no trouble in earning $5,000 between now and Christmas. lf the combined bona fide circulation 0f The Morning World-Herald and Even n8 claimed by his circulation fakirs. It will be an easy thing for him to furnish the lists. As soon as they are verified he will get $1 for every name he pre sents in excess of 8,000, and make more money than he could get out of the liquor dealers' advertising before or after dividing with his side partner in the bluff, who prints the Junior after- noon paper In Omaha MJ.K1NCS SLOW PROGRESS. Rather slow progress Is being made In thn nnrhrnelto ennl nt-rtWA IntroaHcra- L,on and u ,8 announced that at ,east three weeks more will be consumed In taking testimony, but the "disposition of the commission to get at all the facts necessary to a complete and clear under- Innrllnff et tha iafiiiaa In tr.nt nowever long lt may take to do to tn which has been submitted on the part of the miners has disclosed a condition of affairs which every right-minded American citizen must deplore and there seems no reason to doubt the authen ticity or truthfulness of what has been told the commission by these witnesses Indeed much of ,t wa knowa before nd . .-t dpftl thBt h tMtlflo(s by the mae ln regard to the d a and hardBhp of tnelr toil and the pov- s us, &AJ a n iiul uuis. sizrzru ki i m lis is iiiiiii r b neWBDaDeP correspondents ftn(1 nfhor investigators. Them nnnenr. t rw n nmml.. - settlement of the controvert thrnn.h negotiations between the operators and Le miners. The former persist in the de- termination not to recognize the miners unlon and thxn l8 not the lengt proba bmty that they will change their atti ... . luuts in huh resnect. ir nns twen n that the prlllc,pal attorney for the mine owners, Mr. Wayne MacVeagh was diseased with their position, but ,f B0 fact j8 not jikey tJ ejert aQy influence with them. They especially obJect to Mr MltcheU yet if he should withdraw as the renresenrnti nf miners there is no assurance H,t t, 0nerators would then make n .etti.. ment Meanwhile the effect of a short I . . . ... Bge m lne coa guppiy ftna tne conse- quent hlgh pr,ee of fuel is widely felt -nd the sufrerlmr nlrenrtv tnrhaA. what may be expected before the end of winter, COMPARlSOii3 AR VDIUUHI, The World-Herald claims The Bee's circulation ln Douglas county is padded m order to exceed the World-Herald during the publication of linuor licenses. This assertion Is absolutely baseless. In auy event it could not apply to clreula tion outside of Douglas county Tbe following shows the comparative circulation of The Bee and World Herald hn the ten largest towns in Nebraska, omitting Omaha, South Omaha and Lin coin: Bee. World-Herald. . 36S 105 . 338 176 . 338 83 . 313 181 .206 87 . 185 67 138 ! ' 40 . 140 : (R. .. 13T so ..111 1 ( 42 ..1.318 906 I circulation fakirs Grand Island. 1 etraelta City.. puttsmouth Hasting Kearney I York will discover presently that you can fool I some people sometimes, but you can't I fool all the people all the time, Whatever the real truth may be, there lis a growing belief that there is a move- ment to bring Grover Cleveland out again as a presidential candidate and that it Is with his knowledge and con- sent Ills recent public apiearances af- ford no little corroboration of this view, The, statement of the New York Sun, which to believed to be strongly lnflu- fenced lf not directly controlled by rierpont Morgnn. that It would support Cleveland If nominated, Is regarded as nlKnllicHiit In connection , with many other recent happenings. , There is no doubt that many of the controlling spirits In the great financial 'and Industrial manipulations view with profound ap prehension tho positive and courageous attitude of. President Koosevelt toward trusts and that the same element would be entirely satisfied with Cleveland If there should be a chance to use him effectively. And It is at least a safe In ference thnt they are carefully costing about for some means of hopeful oppo sition to his re-election. According to the Chicago Record-ner-aid, there Is great suffering In Omaha owing to scarcity of coal. If the Chi cago Record-Herald would direct Its long-distance telescope to the east in stead of the west it would discover a great deal more suffering owing to the scarcity of coal. For example. In the city of Washington anthracite coal Is doled out to owners of dwellings and hotels In very small quantities and Virginia cord wood at $10 per cord has been substituted by people who can af ford not to shiver. In New York City there Is also an acute) stage of coal famine and thousands of poor people are exposed to the inclemencies of se vere winter weather for want of fuel Omaha Is comparatively comfortable. The demand for cordwood has not yet manifested Itself In tbe Capitol avenue market square. . At the recent convention of the J.eague of American Municipalities the dangers from escaping gas were a subject of serious discussion. Attention was par ticularly called to the deleterious effect of gas leakage on asphalt pavements and the diffusion of gas into buildings through the earth covered by air-tight pavements. It seems to us, however, that greater danger exists by leak age of worn out gas fixtures in old build ings and the liability of fatal conse quences from Inhaling poisonous gases and the Increased risk .of accidental combustion in cases of fire. Periodic In spection of gas fixtures in hotels and lodging houses would suggest them selves as the only effective preventive. The citizens' educational commission appointed by the Civic Federation of Chicago has formulated a bill for the reorganization f the Chicago public school system. The principal features of the measure are reduction of the num ber of members of the school board from twenty-one to nine, to be appointed by the mayor, enlargement of the powers of the superintendent of schools thnt will give him authority to employ and dis charge all teachers and principals, and the creation of the position of business manager, who will have charge of the business affair of. the board. If any body ln Omaha should propose such in novations what would become of him? Prosperity must certainly have struck Nebraska strong rwhen the country weeklies have . to crowd out all their editorial comment and run supplements to boot to make i room for merchants' holiday announcements overcrowding the advertising columns. The failure of the packers' trust merger is .charged, up by,. New York papers to Michael-and Edward Cudahy. If the Cudahys are really responsible for the collapse of the beef trust scheme they are entitled to congratulations. A Nation' Gratttw.de. New York Tribune. The annual pension bill falls little short of a total of $140,000,000. The surrender at Appomattox took place more than thirty-seven rears ago. Republics are not always ungrateful. The South. Learalag, Atlanta Journal. A portrait of Lincoln Is to be hun be side that of Lee in Mississippi's "Hall of Fame." The south Is learning much more rapidly than the north that greatness Is not confined by geographical lines, creeds nor political principles. Hit the Tsnet Everx Time. Portland Oregonlan. President Roosevelt is right. "The only shots that tell are the shots that hit This is true whether applying to the battle record of war, afloat and ashore, or to presidential utterances upon trtmts and other matters that touch tho publlo policy of the nation. No Eicnit for Pardon. Philadelphia Record. President Roosevelt's sympathies are less easily moved, and he haa refused par dons to several embezzlers and unlawful bank officials. The last refusal was In the case of a bank president convicted of embezzling funds and bribing couple of aldermen. "Denied: this seems to be an absolutely clear case of guilt, with no excuse whatever for pardon," was his in dorsement on the application. Slaughter of Deer Hantera. ' New York Tribune. The northwestern deer season winds up with fourteen hunters killed and twenty wounded, all shot because they were mis taken by their fellow sportsmen for the game thoy were pursuing. The Adiron dack region scores a brilliant record of its own of tbe same kind, but is not allowed a walkover in its race for that altogether too ensanguined laurel. A change in the color of hunters' raiment is now favored everywhere, dark blue being the hue pro posed, and Its adoption . will probably greatly lessen tbe number of - such cas ualties. Dut with their recurrence and increase year by year, why was not such an expedient thought of long ago? Evidence of Business Prosperity. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. President Roosevelt Is unquestionably correct In assuming that the great In crease in the postal revenue of the coun try la an evidence of business prosperity. The postal department's receipts la the fiscal year which ended on June 30, 1903, were 3122.000,000, an increase of mora than 310.000. 000 over the preceding year. This was a larger gain than bad ever before been made In a twelvemonth. When seneral trade is active the postal receipts of the country always go up, and vice versa. The country la enjoying in thla republican era the best days which lt has ever seen, and It knowa this, and testified its appreciation for It by the big majority which It save the reputfticaa party la the recent alee J.Jlua. MO 1 11) lUVtr KKW IOHK. Ripples on the Current of 1.1 te tn the Metropolis. New Yorkers are such gracious experts In handing "gold bricks" to Innocents from "the provinces" that when a resident Is taken tn by the game the fact Is worth recording, merely as a solace to recipients of similar packages. The victim In this Instance I a saloon keeper, owner of a desirable corner lot whereon he irrigates the thirsty multitude. The lot was for sale and one day a smart looking young tnan entered and began negotiations for its purchase. They could not agree upon a price. Tho owner thought that he ought to get $75,- 000 for It. The agent did not believe tho parties he represented would give more than $65,000. The caller wont away with a promise to return. He came back In a few days and several other visits fol lowed. The diverse figures of buying and sell ing came closer together. One day a couple of surveyors appeared and began to run line all around the place. When asked what they were doing, one of them replied: "We were told to come here and survey the property. I think It was by aome fellow who Is going to buy it." A few days later the young man ap peared. A bargain was concluded at $70,- 000. The papers were drawn up and the purchaser paid $100 tn cash to bind the bargain and took a receipt. A time was set when the deed and the purchase money should be forthcoming. Two days afterward another men ap peared. After much talk he Informed the saloon keeper that he had been sent by a big syndicate that had bought several lots on the block, and must have this one. When told that the corner had been sold he was frantic. After much more talk he made this proposition, that If the saloon man could get out of his contract In some way the syndicate would give him $80,000 ln cash. They were so sure of it that their plans had been made and the block sur veyed and now they must have lt. To make a long story short, the owner found his first friend, paid him $1,000 in cash to cancel tho agreement and handed him back the $100 paid ln. Then he sat down to await the return of the agent of the syndicate. That was several months ago and be Is waiting for him yet. No woman, no matter how poor she may be, who lives within the confines of a cer tain territory In New York City, need be without help In her household duties any roore that is, provided the present state of things In that section continues. She can call to her aid a man-of-all-work who will perform any service she requires, and all she will have to pay is orio penny. There Is a youth Just verging on man hood who patrols the section every morn ing regularly, going into the yards and calling out at the top of his voice that he will "do any kind of work for one cent." Many housewives ln flats who do not keen a servant find this youth excecdinalv use ful. They get the hardest part of their work done quickly and cheaply and do not have to contend with many annoyances consequent on keeping a girl in a small flat. Most persons who employ the youth give him more than a penny, but he does not seem to expect any more. The strenuous American girl had an other Inning In one of the suburbs of New York the other afternoon. She was re turning from the high school which she attended, with her books under her arm. when her attention was attracted bv the spectacle of an Italian peddler unmercifully beating with a spade an emaciated horse hitched to an overloaded wagon. The Italian was trying to beat tho horse ud a steep hill, but the horse's starved condi tion was such that the feat was lmooesl ble for him, hard aa be tried. "Let that horse alone," the high school girl said la a quiet tone to the Italian, stepping over to his side. The Italian turned and said somethlne to her ln his language which wasn't ex actly a benediction, and then went on pounding the suffering animal. "I'll give you just one minute to un hitch that horse from that wagon." re marked the high school girl to the Italian, taking a little enameled watch from her belt and gazing at the second band. The Italian understood English all right, for this time he swore most exoreesivelv at the young woman in the English tongue. She didn't pay any attention to his swearing, but kept on looking at her watch. When the minute was up and the Italian was still beating the, horse. Bhe delib erately tucked her watch Into her belt, placed her books on the curb, west to the back of the peddler's wagon, took a club which she found there, approached the Italian and laid his head open and stretched him out senseless In the road with a busi nesslike blow of the club. Then she un hitched the horse from the cart, led him to the brow of the hill and tethered hira to a tree, returned and got her books and went home. The Italian had her before a magistrate on the following day. "Good girl," said the magistrate, when the Italian had hissed his story and de manded venegeance. "Bully good girl! Wish you were one of my daughters. You did Just what I'd want them to do under similar circumstances. Go home. You are discharged." If you want a church nowadays, reports the New York Times, all you have to do Is to place your order with the church builder. Heretofore when churches wore projected builders who were engaged ln general work were called on to undertake the Job- Now lt is different. In August last a corporation was organ ized under the name "The Church Cou- I struction company" and that corporation proposes to begin after the architect is through and not to stop until It hands over the complete church, woodwork, carpets, organs and all of the accessories, except the preacher. "Our ideas were not the result of acci dent or of sudden conviction," said one of the officers of the company last week. "All our men are specialists and have spent most of their business life In some branch of ecclesiastical construction. "One of these men became known to tbe building trade as an expert church builder and he was frequently asked by other build ers to take charge of their work for them. He became convinced that a company or ganized to construct churches and kindred buildings would succeed and last August we began. In the three months that have followed we have obtained more than $J00, 000 worth of business and have 200 men employed. "One thing In our favor Is that tbe ordi nary builder, accustomed to the building of tier upon tier of beams and of providing for office construction, finds himself ln a strange land and he must guess at a great many things he does not actually know. The arched, self-supporting roofs and the building of gaflerles are all things that he must figure on In a hit-or-miss fashion and necessarily his estimate Is higher than that of an expert. "When we first started operations we in tended to build only the walls and then to lease the rest of the work to some one else. We found, however, that the architect who drew the plans had done Just that same thing, with disastrous results. The con gregation was one not very well off u this world's goods and they had Instructed their archlisct to prepare plans tot a build- srr- ""fssW" ! lAYER'of THE DOSE AsoM MJ so ts TO dn S-Sult rssislsSOts SO draps 'rssrssis SStsSOdress lOrssnsi sotssssmrs rssnsIS l9klSSrsps SrssrssIS lOWISsrops SrssrsoM eslOrs S rssrs SIS S ts sress 1 Tssr SIS S ts S Srsps ( Th srsrsfS tssipsss Sold adrop. IHfMiMti si nts IS HmuKI bo. ss ropMtrj oli.n.r ihss ran ssr lo.r bosrt. KipcrUldlFX-ttosaars rnnnd sn ihs t Irraisr Mm rnilnfchlKXii. In,,,, rmily Jiur s sris wtfs s tall Sms sjM Inorrais lh smmtni imdss'tr sntll lbs 'BsaJUMIS SMS IS Ksskss. EverV Wdl-nOSted doctor tori a fib "UrAk k 1 SI I a I ri ii m t-- ' :-b i Pectoral. Most doctors order it for coughs, colds, bronc itfs, and even for consumption. Your doctor use It ? 'iwiT,?- ing costing a certain amount, which they had In their treasury. He did so, but only figured on the bare building, without even any windows. It happened that we knew of their plight and succeeded ln getting the architect to so modify his plans that we were enabled to give to them a pretty Utile stone church, with stained windows and carpets for the amount the archltoct believed the bare walls would cost. WHAT TUB I.M)IAS HAVE COST. Millions Spent in gabdnlna; nnd Con trolling; tho IVoble Rods. Chicago Tribune. The commissioner of Indian affairs savs that from the founding of the government down to 1890 $S45, 000,000 was spent ln sub duing and controlling the Indians and $240.- 000,000 for the education and care of their children. This Is a large bill, though lt Is not to be compared with that for the civil war. The commissioner's figures do not give the full cost of the subjugation of the Indians. So that white men mleht oc cupy thla continent in peace Indian wars began soon after colonies were founded in Virginia and New England, and were car ried on at Intervals during a century and a half of colonial existence. To find what it really cost to get rid of the Indians lt will be necessary to add to the exoendl tures of the national government those of the colonics and also those of the British government prior to the Declaration of In dependence. Allowance must be made also for the fact that the purchasing power of monpy was greater two and a half cen turies ago than lt is now and that an ex penditure of $1,000 In King Philip's war meant much more than an expenditure of $1,000 ln modern Indian war. From first to last the Indians have cost the whites a sum out of all proportion to their num bers. It has been no simple matter to make this country an abode for civilized men. PKKSONAL, NOTES. Secretary Shaw reports that Uncle Sam has money to Incinerate, although a good deal haa been burned ln the past year. Frederick K. Landis, the newly elected member of the Eleventh Indiana district, will be the youngest member of the next house. Representative Lanham of Texas, who has been elected governor of his state, will resign his seat ln the house earlv ln January. President Roosevelt very properly ln siet that offloers in the army shalll not wear the derby hat and tan shoes with the army blouse. On Christmas, 1900, Peter Carroll gave 500 turkeys to the poor of Cleveland: in 1901 Sheriff Barry contributed an addi tional 600, and this year Congressman Beld Ier having Joined the other two. 1.600 turk eys will be distributed. W. L. Ray. a grandson of Greenwood Laflore, the Choctaw chief who negotiated for the treaty by which the tribe ceded Its lands in Mississippi, will present a portrait of the chief to the gallery of por traits In tbe Mississippi state capltol. "Man's inhumanity to man" haa long been a theme for countless tongues, but all the eloquence of ages do not equal the brevity and vigor of the words which sorlna from the heart of the man who suddonlv sits down on a slippery sidewalk. ' Then lt Is that feeling lends to eloquence its rarest tone. Samuel W. Pennypacker, governor elect of Pennsylvania, has a valuable library. In some respects the most curious in the world. Among its treasures Is Jefferson Davis' copy of the constitution of the United States, with the confederate leader's auto graph on the fly leaf: "Jeffn. Davis." Underneath Judge Pennypacker has written: "His book. And little good did it do him." There Is no more enthusiastic hunter in either branch of congress than Senator ' TTIf WiHt.lt"JIJJ1!Jta Do Your Holiday Shoppine Early and avoid the late confusion Here "mm. groviiiif - R. S. Wilcox, Mgr. v knnore all ohnni Airst-'c rk.rr.r Burton of Kansas. lie has trophies galort to prove his skill in tbe chase. While ln Hawaii last summer he enjoyed some royal sport after the wild boars there. A vic ious quarry Is that same animal bv oil accounts. One of the senator's party was chased by a wounded boar and bad to shin up a tree in a hurry. Hq waited there some time before being released by his friends. I.I . ICS TO A LAI GK. New York Sun: "Land to mighty chea, here. You cun buy a g-ood farm for a song." "Just my darn luckt I can't sing." Philadelphia Press: "I think I know." said the amateur gunner, after his tlftlj straight miss, "why those birds are called 'ducks.' " "What's that, sir?" Inquired th guide. "Because they duck out ot the way every time a fellow shoots." Yonkors Statesman: Church Do think he Is a well Dronortloneil man? you Gothnm No: his lungs are away out ol proportion to hla brains. Boston Globe: Jorklns Your son will ba a comfort to you lu your old age. Joblots If that boy turns old as ha promises I won't have any old ag. Cleveland Plain Dealer: "Yf, sir," aald the glib salesman, "I contend that I can tell the dispoHitlon of a woman by the cor set xhe wears." "Well," said the thoughtful man, "I'll admit there's a good deal ln that" Baltimore Herald: Beryl Why, Slbvl, you keep on talking 'foot ball Just as-If th season wasn't overl Klbyl The game may be over, but the foot ball season is not. Why, most of the college team will be ln the hospital for the next three months, and It's such a Jolly lark cheering them up! Philadelphia Press: "O yes!" he said, boastfully, "I used to be an old flame ol hers." "Ah! Bo you were. Her father was tell Ing me last night how he put you out." Detroit Free Press: Tom At Pan Juan battle President Roosevelt said, "Come on, boys!" " Die' Well, ln the rush for office he ought to Bay, "Come off, boys!" A UIKU A.N'D A HOPE. A bird of beauteous plumage, Flying unerringly. Rested Its strong, bright pinions Upon a sturdy tree. The glowing, brilliant color That glorified Ita breast Was like to sunset splendor. Gliding the dusky west. When rude winds swayed the. branchei It but the closer clung; And, with the early morning. Most tenderly it sung. A hope as glad as sunshine Came to a burdened heart And brightened It and blessed It Ho sorrow had no part. It whispered of the future And covered up the past; Each lurking, present shadow , Its radiance o'ercast. And when the heart was weakest The hope shone, clear and etrong. And when the ntfiht was darkest Most satlent wts Its song. ' But- now. the tre Is barren Of brightness and of bird . And the sad heart Is empty And hears no ch erlng word. Wlnslde, Neb. BELLE WILLEY OtTB. THE PURE GRAIN COFFEE Tb coffee habit is quickly over come by those who let Grain-O take its place. If properly made it tastes like the best of coffee. No grain coffee compare . with it la flavor or health fulness. ' TRY IT TO-DAY. At groesrs everywhere ; lsc and toe psr package is What the Boy Needs CM. B for school and all out-door amuse ments a nice, warm, high collar Ileefer, $3.50 up; lined gloves or Mittens 25c up, utocking or pull down Caps 50c up; canvas, cor duroy, Jersey or leather Legglns 50c up, and the best 23c Hosiery in town. NO CLOTHING. FITS LIKE OURS. j - - (9