THE OMAHA DAILY r.EK: 'MONDAY, JANUARY- 4, 190.
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complete copies of The Dnlly, Morning,
Evening and Sunday Bee printed during
the month of December, 193, was as fol
lows:
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Net total sales...' U.KI.H34
Net average sales :io,it2i
GEORGE B". TZSCHUClv.
Subsrrlbed In my presence and sworn to
before me thU 31st day of December, A. D.
IS1" M. U. Hl'NGATE,
(Seal.) . Jfotary Public.
Isn't tho return of tlie McKlnley demo
crats likely to crowd out a few of the
Bryan populists?
The west lias no advantage over the
east this time in the enjoyment of the
told wave. .
Six yours 1m n pretty long time any
way for.a railroad president to stay lu
one place these days.
:
If It came to a pinch, a big city could
get along without theaters at all and still
retain a place on the mnp of tivHlzatlor.
That Bible case is to have another
whirl in the Nebraska supreme court
The Bible does not heed the free adver
tising, t
Perhaps Moine of our Jacksonlan
friends will be ready to celebrate again
when the real fc!t. Jackson's day roll
around with another week.
While the mayor und i-councll of
Omaha are wrestling over the new fire
'engine, the mayor und council of Lin
coln aro distracted over a flre ex
tinguisher pump.
When it comes to harmonizing the
loyal and the disloyal democrats, the
Bryanites down at Lincoln have a dif
ferent idea of puYgation from that of the
Jucksonlans at Omnha.
It is already quite plain that the
democratic . newspapers would much
prefer to have the republicans nominate
some one elso thiui Theodore ' Roosevelt
to head the presidential ticket.
After all those fsusts with royalty and
the nabolm of Kurope, won't a plain
dollar dinner seem like ra.ther slim fare
for Colonel William Jennings Bryan in
his capacity us the returned globe trot
ter? Why do not men of higher standing
consent- to serve on the juries in our
district courts? The question is not
hard to answer so long as the Jurors
are compelled to go without decent ac
coininodatlons and are treuted more
like buttle than like men.
With aa able, feurlcss, uctlve county
attorney there would be no need to put
the taxpayers of the county- to the ex
pense of a grand Jury. There Is nothing
for which a grand Jury can bring in a
bill that cannot lie reached also by in
formation by tho county attorney.
This war business does not go so fast
as it tued to In years gone by. For
uierly the monarch tsluiply taid, "We'll
go to war," and ho went. Now the war
declaration has to pass through various
Mages of . discussion, negotiation, and
formal rat mention that takei the sud
denness, all out of it.
National Committeeman Schneider is
Just simply "horrid "" that he doesn't
come, right out and deny for the benefit
of the World-Herald that because he
Is a personal friend of Senator Hauna
ho is laying wires underground to pre
vent Nebraska republicans sending e
ltoosevelt delegation to the .Chicago
Dominating convention.
The personal property "schedules pre
pared by the state board under the new
Nebraska revenue law are said to bo
constructed o catch everything of value
a man can own. ' If the railroads would
j first turn in their property ut something
like Its market value, the common every
day taxpayer might mt object to being
( lute-toot h-comlx-d for his taxes.
. It's a pretty safe guess for the as
trojogets to forecast l'.KH as a year of
disasters. ' 1'very . succeeding year la
bringing 1U share of dlsusteiu which in
the very nature of things are the out
'eome of our strenuous way of doing
things. The law of averages in nature
can be relied oulo make one year very
fuuch Ilk the one just goue before it
A JWTAHLK RtKTIOK.
NotliltiK In n fliinncltl way (liirlnu the
punt twelve lnontlm 1ms boon niire no
table than the reaction from capital
entrnlizntlon. Accfinlliic to the Nc'w
York Journal of Commerce, n most com
petent and trustworthy authority, the
total cnpltall.atlon of industrial ensli-
latlons for a period of live years, Im-kIii-
ltnvr with lS'.r;i, reached nearly ?s.hhv
hki.IMHI and of this only ?42.".ST,IHK) is
o be credited to fast year This was a
recession from f.2-.'207i.'2) In the pre
vious year and ?2,Sii.",47r,(HK) In 1!HM,
when tlie culmination was reached.
thoueh this was but little higher than
the total of 1NJM It) spite of the f ut that
It Included the capitalization of tlie
great fteel trust.
This decided check to tho consolidation
movement the Journal' of Commerce
points out was duo partly to the pint-
ting of the stock mnrket with Inflated 1
dustrtal securities and In part to the
failure of some of the combinations In
their purposes, apart from the market-
Inj? of stocks for the prolit of promoters.
In many cases the practical and eco
nomic results heralded or. expected were
not attained and these failures helped to
diseournpe the movement. That paper
remarks that the most promising conse
quence of the reaction and the reasscr
tion of the principle of competition has
been the tendency to organize lndenond-
nt companies In these same Industries
and their ability vvhon properly capi
talized to compete wfih the trusts, and
the ftill stronger tendency, when there
was an opportunity for new enterprises,
to organize corporations on a moderate
basis to prosecute them rather than Imi
tate tho trust method of consolidating
and absorbing. "The period of central
izing appears to be followed by a move
ment of decentralizing and Independent
organization and the effort at monopoliz
ing seems to be Succeeded by a revival
of the spirit of competition. This is n
hopeful sign and exposes the fallacy of
the assumption that tho springs and mo
tives of human action can be changed
by the scheming of financiers, however
powerful. The principle of individual
Initiative, of Independence, from central
ized control, or resistance to monopoly
and the insistence upon competition, is
asserting itself again" in a promising
way."
There is very string reason for be
lieving that the. end of industrial com
bination, at least on the scale of two and
three years ago, has been reached and
that there Is not likely tobe a return
of that method for n very long time. If
ever. The lesson taught by the liquida
tion of the past year was so severe that
the impression it made is not likely to
soon wear off. The promoter of over
capitalized corporations has hod his
day and: to n great many people the
recollection of his work is anything but
pleasing. The fact that his occupation
is gone is to be heartily welcomed.
Referring to the report that agents for
both the ' Russian and the Japanese
governments are . negotiating for coal
supplies for the navies of those gov
ernments, un eastern paper reniurks
that in the event of hostilities the
United Stutes can supply anything in
the line of munitions of war thut either
nation may wish, to purchase. There
appears to be no doubt that we could
do this without any impairment of our
position as a neutral. Jefferson de
clared a principle wljlch hits ever since
ben alhered to, when in a note to the
American minister to Great Britain he
said: "Our citizens have always been
free to trnakt, vend and export arms.
It is the constant occupation and liveli
hood of some of them. To suppress
their callings, the only, means perhaps
of their subsistence, becuusV a wur ex
ists lu foreign and distant countries, "In
which we ' have no concern, would
scarcely be e-tpected. It would be hard
in principle and impossible in practice.
The law of luttlons, therefore, respect
ing the rights of those at peace, does
not rqulre from them such on internal
derangement of their occupations."
. .
i.ven m me case oi ua insurrection
our people may sell'munltlons of war to
the Insurgents. This was stated by Sec
retary of State Fish in a note to the
Spanish government transmitted for its
information at the time of the insurrec
tlcrii in Cuba a generation ago. Mr. Fish
said: "A friendly government violates
no duty of good neighborhood in allow
ing the free sale of arms and munitions
of war to oil persons, to Insurgents as
well as to the regularly constituted au
thorities, and. such arms or munitions,
by whichever party purchased, may be
carried In vessels on the high seas with
out liability to question from any other
party." He furfhor said that the ves
sels may freely carry unarmed passen
gers, even though known to be insur
gents, without thereby rendering the
government which permits it liable to a
charge of violating its international du
ties. These require that a government
shall not knowingly ' permit organized
bodies of amed men to leave its terrl-
. ' -
loiy tor tue wi'e in engaging in war
ogalfist a friendly government.
' The position of Secretary Fish has not
only been the rule with the executive
branch of the government, but has been
accepted by the United States courts as
applicable to the cases brought before
them under the neutrality laws, ' These
citations appear to make absolutely nn
qucstioiiable tho right of our people to
freely sell to lielllgerents u'rins aud mu
nitions of war and we are not aware of
any subsequent utterance or of ony In
ternational regulation that nullities or
even modifies the principle enunciated
by the distinguished secretaries of state
quoted,. Tlie United States government
has always bcn most careful In ob
serving lis international obligations and
the requirements of neutrality, but it
has always refused to Interfere with the
legit I mute business of its people and In
Kistcd upon their right to sell to whom
ever desired to buy of theiu. It Is not
to be doubted thut this principle will JL-e
adhered to if war comes, between Russia
and Japan.
t.KSSuy VFTHK CHICAUO TP A TtHFIRK
4
The awful loss of life caused by the
lire at the Iroquois theater lias awak
ened public Interest in every city of, the
rivilized world in the necessity of safe
guarding the patrons of public halls and
theater against n recurrence of tlie
calamity that has befallen Chicago.
In the city of Nc'w York a special In
spector of public halls and theater
buildings lias been appointed, whose
duty it will be to periodically inspect all
such structures" and point out any
defects In their construction or equip
ment. The flre commissioner of New
York declares that while the metropolis
has many so-called fireproof theaters
there ore none where such an awful
accident like the Iroquois' disaster might
not have occurred.
. In New York City, as elsewhere, the
trouble ha's been a division of authority
In the supervision of the construction of
buildings, and especially In the Inspec
tion of structures used for largo popular
gatherings. "The construction of
theaters," declares the New York tire
commissioner, "Is no part of tlie busi
ness of the flre department. The matter
of proper curtains, lire escapes nnd such
accessories is looked lifter by tlie build
ing department. The only precaution
taken by the flre department is ' the
stationing of firemen in each theater
during tlie course of,a play, where they
nre expected to remain until the lights
are put out. The flre department of New
York also Inspects the arrargements for
meeting the emergency of lire, such ns
the placing of extinguishers In different
parts of the building, but -receut In
spection has disclosed the fact that the
extinguishers in many of tlie theaters
had never been tested and tle hose
lines on the stage and In the auditorium
were found to be rotten and fall of
holes."
These disclosures nrp as suggestive for
Omnhn us thej are for any other city
In the country. Every publio hall nnd
every theater In this city should be re
inspected without delay by the building
inspector or n competent assistant and
special pains should be taken to test the
electric wiring in these buildings nt
regular intervals. The . owners of
theater buildings and concert halls
should be required to provide . devices
for separating the auditorium from the
stage by fireproof curtains and the ap
paratus for' lowering these curtains
should be kept in perfect order at all
times. And since all conceivable pre
cautions cannot avert a panic in a
theater, ample exits should by all means
be provided for the ground floor and
speclul care Should be taken that these
exit aisles should remain unobstructed
during every performance.
For the first time within the memory
of man Omaha is furnishing the presi
dent of the Nebraska State Teachers'
association in the person of our county
superintendent of schools. If he Is en
titled to as many terms in the (presi
dent's office as he is enjoying in the
county superintendent's office all com
petitors for the honor, may as well put
their ambitions In cold storage without
deluy.
Omaha has been singularly fortunate
in the past in having had ail its theater
tires free from loss of life, but that is
no reason it should not exercise every
precaution for the future. The theater
has become an established amusement
nnd recreation feature of every pro
gressive community to maintain its
popularity, however, nothing required
for safety can be overlooked. i
The members of the democratic mi
nority in the Ohio legislature will carry
out the decree of their state convention
and east their votes for millionaire John
II. Clarke for United States senator.
Mr Clarke ought to have something for
his money besides the experience of be
ing buried with Tom Johnson under a
snowfall unprecedented iu tlie politics
of the Buckeye state.
Hrttrr Uo Slow,
''Chicago Tribune. ,
Stronger countries than Japan might Well
hesitate before attempting- to break the
Russians of their Invariable habit of stay
ing where they have once squatted.
Watrhlnif Opportunities.
. Chicago Tribune.
( The case of, F. C. Andrews, who ac
quired 11,010.000 at a cost of only sixteen
month In the penitentiary, shows what a
thrifty young man may accomp!lKli by
watching his opportunities.
Modern Fireproof llalldlnas.
Kaunas City Star.
The chief defect In the modern fireproof
building Is the ease and rapidity with
which it succumbs to the ravages of flre.
Bo fur as wind and water are concerned,
it seems to be as durable as any other
structure.
Good Thins to Spread,
Baltimore American.
Matrimony has become such ni epidemic
among the "teachers, of Omaha that, the
1 schools are suffering. The officials are un
' . , , "ru," 7 lne .P""'0
1 and find themselves unable to apply a s.n-
le roraedy to the case
. Prlii, t'anse of War.
" Louisville Courier-Journal.
Our minister of Cor-a complains that
his silk hat rubs against the top of the
legation roof. Rut what objection has he
to the custom of removing one's hat In
doors? It would nwb to be a question of
rumuvlng the hat or removing the roof.
Get
Into the Hand Hagon,
Philadelphia Press.
Now that Great Britain has recognized
tho Panama republic there Is no nation
of any importance holding back In that
respect. There are a few democratic sen
ate who want to fight on the Colombian
side, but tlm democratic senators are rather
accustomed to fighting all of the rest
of the world, although their fighting is done
'in the air." "
failure of lloltlno Tacllps. -Buffalo
Express.
Some of the secret correspondence be
tween Secretary Hay and Minister Beaupre
while the Hay-Herran treaty was pending
at Bogota has been given out. A fclgnln-t-ant
dl4ttch from Mr. Beaupre states
thut lie was infuinuU the treaty wuulj le
ratified at once If amended to provide for
the payment ef tio.nno.ooo by the company
and t"i,mn,nn0 more by the United Ptates
This confirms the opinion that the action
of the Colombian C. iiRros was merely an
attempt at a holdup.
Knorklii( at the Door.
Philadelphia. Press.
The claim of Porto Rico thitt It should
have A delegate In the hntiso of repre
sentatives, the name ns Hawaii, seems to
bo well founded. Such a delegate has no
vote, but he has a seat In the house and
can spqak on any me-isure in which his
constituents are Interested and In thai way
has some Influence. There docs not appear
to be any valid reason why Torto Rico
should tiot be treated In this respect the
suino as Hawaii.
Reeedlna Tide' of Immlgratlnu,
Sprlngtteld Republican.
While unprecedentcdly large numbers of
alien workmen nre returning to- Europe on
account of the slackening of employment,
the Inflow continues high above the record
figures of a year ago, the November ar
rivals .exceeding by 13,405 the number
brought In during tl)e same time of 1P02.
'lhls crossing of high record currents in
transatlantic migration is unusual. Them
Is a decrease In Immigration from Italy and
Sweden, but nn Increase from other coun
tries, and particularly Russia und Austria-
Hungary.
siums op Tin; tidies.
Steady ProKrr In the IUkM
Direction. '
Chicago Inter Ocean.-
Official returns from manufacturers show
that 154,808 railway cars have been con
structed this year. Of the total number
2,007 were passenger nnd" 152,Snl freight
cars. Of the wholo number 153.195 cars
were sold for use at home, nnd 1,618 built
for export.
Nearly 1,000 more locomotives were built
In American locc.moti.ve works this year
than last year, and most of them were
hurried to completion to meet the homo
demand, which for two years has been
urgent.
The new cars and locomotives nre In
use and there Is a perla6nt demand for
more. With due allowance for the old
cars that have become unserviceable, the
reports Indicate that there are now mora
locomotives and more cars particularly
more freight cars in use on American
railways than ever before. This shows
tfint In spite of the business depression,
which a ,few months ago seemed a fore
boding of disaster, there is abiding strength
at the foundations of our Industrial fabric.
Business Is not as It was two years ago.
Tho events of the last few months have
not been promising. But signs like that
of railway construction and the construc
tion of railway cars and locomotives show
that again the tendency Is In the right
direction.
Last spring and summer the affairs of
tho Industrial and business world were
unsettled; we had lost the momentum of
our prosperity of two years ago. But there
came the abundant crops of the season,
and there was almost Immediate Improve
ment all along the line of Industrial and
business activity. '
We have not recovered the ground lost,
but the indications, are that we are, mak
ing steady progress toward recovery and
that we shall go higher before we go lower.
CHIMES AMD CALAMITIES. 1
Features of the Past Year Hednoed to
Fltfores.
' Chicago Tribune. v .
The record of crime, of suicide, of dis
aster, of property losses, of legal execu
tions and lynchlngs, und of private benefi
cence Is made up for1 1903, and it closes with
the crowning horror of the year In our own
midst. Its entails ehould furnish ample
material for Investigation by students of
sociology and criminology, political reform
ers, and municipal, stat and national gov
ernments.
There were 8,976 crimes resulting In death
by various forms of violence In 1D03, v a
small Increase over 1902, when there were
8,834. One of the most significant features
of this record Is the fact thut 406 of these
murders were committed by thugs and
holdup men, .being nearly twice as many
as were committed last year, and showing
proportionately the increase of lawlessness,
There were 8,597 cases of suicide In 1903.
The following figures show the steady in
crease of self-murder. In 1M)9, 5,310; in
1900, 6,755; In 1901, 7,245; in 1902, 8,291; In 19(3,
8,597. As has been the case during the lust'
three or four years, noisonlna and shoot
ing have, been the principal methods, the
two numbering 7.C77 out of 8,597. The ease
with which poison may be obtained ac
counts for 4,050 of these cases.
The total number of legal Executions In
1903 shows a falling off compared with last
year, being 123, es against 144 In 19J2, 118
in 1901 and 110 in 11M0. There were seventy
seven hanged In the south and forty-six
in the north,, and of these sixty-three were
white and sixty colored. The largest num
ber hanged was eleven euch in Missouri,
New YorJr and Alabama; ten In "-Virginia,
nine In Georgia and eight In Pennsylvania.
Lynchlngs numbered 104, as compared with
ninety-six In 1902. Notwithstanding this
comparatively Blight Increase, ar examina
tion of the reports for several years buck
shows that there were many less lynching
In. the decade Just closed than in the pre
ceding decade. The totul for 19u3 Included
ninety-two lu the south and twelve in the
nopth; eighty-six negroes, seventeen whites
and one chinaman; 102 men and two women.
The two principal alleged crimes were mur
der, forty-seven cases, and criminal as
sault, twenty. Arkansas, Georgia, Louis
iana' and MUslsMlppl led the list with
eleven, twelve, fourteen and eighteen re
spectively. Alabama, whlclj used to be no
torious for lynchlngs, had only two casus,
and th?re were two southern states, Mary
land and Virginia, which had none.
The loss of life by disaster In 111 his
been Urge. Shipwrecks on the ocean and
inland lakes and rivers have tuken 1.9'S
lives. Over 4,0n0 persons have been" kill- d
and over 5,000 Injured In railroad accldi nts.
These figures Include pnly the severely In
jured, and the list of killed is mainly pas
sengers. The complete returns, Including
those killed and Injured on electric roads,
will be much larger, a the Tribune's rec
ord includes only prominent disasters.
There haVe been numerous other disaster
Involving heavy loss of life. Cyclones and
rockHlldfS In April killed 127 persons. By
cyclones and the floods at Toptka and Kan
sas City In -May 2A persons perished. In
June there was a series of unusual disas
ters. Eighty lives were lost by a cyclone
at Gainesville, Ua. ; fifty-eight by a flood
at Spartensburg, S. C; thirty-one by a
cloudburst at Clifton, Aril., and 2ti0 by a
cloudburst at Heppner, Ore. Then the
country enjoyed Immunity from great dis
asters until December 30, when between
&0 and 00 Uvea were lost by 'the burning
of the Iroquois theater the crowning hor
ror of the year's record at home or abroad.
The erub.-nl. rs and defaulters Jn 19C3 got
away with KOSfUti", not a large sum aa
compared with the average of the last
fifty years. Ctompured with this there
stands to the credit of the national g ner
osity and philanthropy the handsome sum
In donations aud bequests of $76,934,978, dis
tributed as follows: To educational insti
tutions, l9.900.Gb2; to charities, 1-1,7:6,
to religious purposes, t3.99J.9l!; to museums,
art gallerlea and for municipal betterments,
:.9.7.500. and to librar" -s. 7.5S3.5Hi. Truly
"this is not so bud a 1 or I J as some would
like to make, It."
lilKlil'M OF It IB A t, I.IFK.
Stromsburg News: Thl? column an
nounced tlint tlie.wcek of prnyer would be
kept at the Presbyterian entire i begin
ning next flnr.ilny evening ' t we are not
so sure of it now, for "tlvv piy" that the
flomlnle did r.ot announce It on Sunday
last and p n-sll.ly we have got our foot
Into It, but ; mi Just be on the lookout
for It anyw:.; .
llartington Herald: There In no longer
any necessity of gents being hampered with
nn unonm'ortal'le growth on their phi on
the Sabbath day, as the barbers' union
baa declared the Fundny closing deal oft.
Ijist Sunday all shops were open In full
blfut and any man could got sprueetl up
from a shoe shine to a hair cut.
Bancroft Blaele: Wo are thinking of add!
Ing a marriage reporter to tho Blade force
to catch the connubial news "which should
result from the renewed activity among tho
ladles which begins today. This will be
a great year for the minister. There will
be much half eagle ploces, chicken and
orange blossoms. Bashful young men
should hunt holes or take to the woods.
It's going to be a killing!
Red Cloud Advertiser: A good Joke Is
that on Oscar Tool. One day during last
week he lost his "famous cob pipe," and
after hunting a half hour for It went to
the kitchen and found another one, cleaned
It up, ftllcd It with tobacco, struck a match
nnd went to place it In his mouth, when
lo, and behold, there between his teeth
was the lost pipe and there tt had been
all the time. He laughed, his wife laughed,
the children laughed and In fact the air
seemed to be filled with blue smoke.
Fullcrton Post: Miss Daisy Pugh writes
her parents here, on her way to Chicago,
that tho train on which she Is making her
trip burely escnped a head-end collision
between Columbus and Omaha, It seems
that the engineer did not eee the signal
but by accident the conductor paw It and
slopped the train. In five minutes the fast
mall went flying past and a disastrous
wreck was averted. The train Miss Daisy
was on was a through tniim She barely
escaped a wreck the last time she went
to Chicago.
. Springfield Monitor: Frank Anson left
Springfield about a year ago and returned
Inst Thursday night in two sections. He
was married to MUss Clara Phillips in
Blair Thursday morning nnd the happy
couple Immediately departed for Spring
Held. It was reported lust spring thut
Frank hud been married, but It was hever
proven on him, and the rumor Is now
shown to have been untrue. Mr. Anpon
was reared In this 'vicinity and Is well
liked by all the people. The bride " is a
charming young lady of Blair. They will
reside on the farm owned by the groom's
mother northwest of town. The Monitor
offers congratulations.
Chappell Regiater: We are pleased to an
nounce the death of Harrison Sudman,
aged eleven yenrs, three months and reven
days. 'llarrjeon was the pet of the Sudman
family, and when it came to saying a
last good bye to the old dog last Tue-sday
the grief of the children was uncontrol
able aild they refused to be comforted.
Harrison, like every other cur, hud hi
faults ,nnd while he was worshiped by
Mr. Sudman's children as the one dog of
all dogs he was universally hated by
everybody else, and we are truly glad that
the old dog has passed Into the great un
known, where tin cans, baling wire and
pebble are not to be thought of.
Allen News: AVell, wouldn' that frost
your whiskers! Charley Coftln-the father
of twin babies," and girls at that! Hap
pened December 14 Just about nine months
from the time he left Allen, too. We don't
know how to account for It. He was nine
years getting one baby In Allen and only
about nine months, getting two of tlwm In
Iowu. It may be that Charley has turnet)
over a new leaf, or that the Iowa climate
agrees with him better than the Nebraska
.breezes did; or It may be that, freedom
from business cares has had something to
do with It. Certain it is, that he Is making
a great record for himself and Is doing
much better than wUs expected of him.
The News extends congratulations.
Rising City Independent: Again a few of
the "would-be-palnt-the-town-reel" fellows
are apparently figuring on having a h 1 of
a time In town on Saturday nights if the ir
recent actions count for anything. On the
other hand we learn from those who do not
enjoy that kind of amusement aro prepares
themselves to meet any anel all emergen
cies. If this be true the "town red paint
ers" had better be a little careful if they
don't wish to get thembelves into a he.'ap of
trouble. If, however, they have mors
money than they know what to do with
they might as well squander It by paying
some of it to the state. It seems that rome
young men don't know when to let well
enough alone. We repeat uguln, "a word
to the wise ought to be BUfllcleut'
Schuyler .Sun: Dr. Kackiack, a man whd
claimed he could remove corns, bunions,
ingrowing toe-nails, warts, moles, black
heads, pimples, freckles nnd a thousand
und one thor things that man Is heir to,
und makes the human race uncomfortable
and unsightly, was In town Monday una
insisted thut ha should prescribe for every
one thut he met. Just how much business
ha picked up we are unable tu say, but we
understand that not a few purtud with
some coin of the reutm for his rrme.ly, but
whether they, havo parted with their Ills
Is a question that only time will answer.
Tho renowned doctor Is a man who Is going
down the decline on (he side of the battle
of life. His locks are grey, his features
wrinkled and steps unsteady. It is evlelent
frem his general appearance that he has
not been overly successful In this world
and It would seem that a man of his age
should deserve something better than the
occupation that he was following.
Persia (la.) tjlobe: We got a pair mt
Bkates Tuesday evening und went out with
the boys and girls to skate. Just like we
Old years ugo, to revive old memories and
recall pleusunt recollections of the past.
We put on tho skates and started out Just
like old times when all at once wer sat
down. No one asked us to, either, and it
seemed so far to the object with which
we were going to connect, but oh, my,
we were not long going. And after we
hud ceased going through space it seemed
to us that tlie object we hud sat down on
was hard, extremely hard. Then It seemed
thut our hend wanted to rest e.r sit down,
too. At any rate it went down with our
body.' After we had gotten into a state
of mind so we knew what was going on
around us we heard a lot of people
laughing. We couldn't see anything to
Uugh at. In fart, we would not . havtt
laughed if we hud seen something funnjr.
There is twines in a man's life when he
don't want to laugh. It wouldn't tuste
good to him. Skating Is great tun.
Fisrhtlntr Material In Stork.
Philadelphia Press.
Russia and Japan are reported to be buy
ing coul In this country an article as es
sential to the prosecution of war at the
present tinra as gunpowder. As mess beef
and flour ure being purchased here in
large quantities, the commercial aspect of
the war, from our point of view, Is env
Intntiy satisfactory. War has always cre
sted a demand for our foodstuffs, fit late
it has created a demand for our coal. We
are now In a position to sell warship und
arms and ammunition, We deplore war;
we are a humane nation, but if any two na
tions feel that tliey must fight we beg leave
tu call their attention to the fact tsat we
have In slock pmtty nearly everything they
can rtejuira for llfchtliig ou Uuid or :.
IUM M1 AtlOt T SEW YORK.
Ripples on the t'arrent of I.lfe la
the Metropolis.
Contracts sre about tr bo let feir the
erection on leiwer Broadway of tho tallest
bullellng In tho world. Accorellng to the
advnnco notice of tho press agent of the
projee-i, there will be five steiries below the
street level and forty stories above, sur
mounted by a, sixty-foot tower. The 'gi
gantic building, which will bo known as
tho Broadway-Cortlandt, will have a total
height of 615 feet, ranking it GO feet higher
than tho Washington monument, over
twice as high ns the Flatlron building, anj
nlmost as tall again ns the I'urk Row
building, which at rrcsent holds tho
record.
Plans for tho construction of the build
ing were started almost a year ago, when
a syndicate whs formed, with Henry C.
Flick of nttsburg nnd Bird 8. Ceiler of
New York City ns tho prlmn movers. The
lane! needed for tlio slto was quietly secureel
through brokers during the spring nnd
summer, nnd tho plot, with' a frontngo of
212 feet on Broadway, extends 100 feet down
Dey street to the tall telephone building,
and 123 feet down Coitlandt street.
The building Is eotlmated to cost when
ready for occupancy J4.500.0OO. while tho
site wilt cost $.1.000, 000. Instead of sinking
caissons to suport the heavy foundations
on which trio immense building proper will
rest .those In charge of the wcrk will ex
cavate to a strata of bedrock, Vhlrh un
derlies tho lower part of Manhattan Islnud
at a depth of almost eighty feet.
It Js claimed by Its promoters that the
"Broudwny-Cortlandt" building will be the
central or union station for nil transpeirta
tlon lines. A double tunnel to the Jersey
City and Brooklyn branch subway will
meet In nn nrendo In tho new .skyscraper.
Whlto marble will compose tho outer walls
from the street to tho fifteenth floor,! and
the remainder of the building on all sides
will b faced with white porcelain brick.
Tho total floor space of the building will be
579,579 square feet, and unusual five proofing
precautions will bo taken. The company
will be capitalized at $."0,000,000, and will
have control of the building when It la
completed. The total rental, It Is said,
will bring $1,500,000 annually.
Let it not bo supposed that nil of, the In
genuity of this town Is exercised by the
young and sappy. A very eild gentleman
of New York recently brought a singularly
Ingenious "fame-up" that Is the jnvat ade
quate and expressive word for It to a suc
cessful conclusion.
Several times, in crossing a certain street
near his home, the old gentleman had been
nearly run over by a furious driver, of n
grocery wagon. Tho driver, a huge rufllan,
would direct his charging horse at tlie old
gentleman at full tilt, out of sheer malice,
apparently, and shout at him at the top of
his lungs: "Git out o' do way, y' old
duffer!"
, The old and somewhat Infirm gentleman
at length ceased to extract amusement
from this sort of thing. In fact, he became
quite annoyed. lie did not enjoy having
bis life imperiled every tlmo h went
abroad for a morning's stroll in the air. He
felt that It would be frivolous to complain
to the police, and he was equally skeptical
as to the Bense of complaining to the
ruffian's employer. So he did neither.
Instead he hunted up a burly prize fighter
who wasn't working at anything else and
needed the . money. The old gentleman
struck a bargain with the prize fighltr.
The pug mado himself up Into an exact
counterpart of the Old man and Infirm gen
tleman, his temporary employer, and stood
at the crossing, waiting for the malicious
and ruffianly driver of the grocery wagon
to come along. The ruffianly driver came
along in due time, at a gallop, all right,
bawling at the made-up pugilist to git out
o' da way.
But the puglllst'dldn't git out o' do way.
He grabbed the horse's off rein and threw
the surprised animal back) on his haunhes.
Then he hopped onto the off' shaft, cata
pulted himself into the wagon, tossed the
amazed driver off . the seat and back Into
the covered wagon, and for about ten min
utes he occupied himself in punching the
driver Into the merest semblance of a
human being, while the genuine aged
gentleman who had arranged for all this
stood In a doorway holding hfs sides in
very glee.
Nothing could be more absurd than to
suppose that the young and 'venly know
it all. In New Y'ork or anywhere else!
As with the waiters, the tips which cab
men receive ore their principal sour,ce of
Income The cabbies may get, $12 or $15
a week wnges, but they usuully muke a
great deal more In tips.
A driver for one of the big cab companies
has saved $100 in the lust three weeks, this
amount being his tips alone. He used his
wugi-s for living expenses, and gave all his
tips to the carrlugu starter in the stable to
keep for him.
A patron who doesn't give a tip of at
enst a quarter to a cabmun is marked for
a "dead one," and the drivers try to avoid
his call when it comes Into the stable. Hut
Christmas Week It was all different Th
I "dead ones" loosen up In great shupe, and
oiien give gratuities or $5 und $10 to theLr
favorite drivers. Theso aro the only tips
they give during t,ha whole year, so the
drivers are tumbling over ech other
drive "di'ad ones" this week. It's a '
harvest, but it must be gathered soon.
eno stuble the men shook dice to pick ih
cubby who was to drive ono of New York't
most prominent men from his residence. In
upper Fifth avenue, to Trinity chapel on
Christinas morning. The lucky man
received $10. But now that Christmas has
passed no one will care particularly about
driving him for the rest of the year. It s
he only tip he gives.
Twenty-sixth street, between First avenue
nnd the Kast river, Is called tho street of
Sorrows. The north slele ,of the streA Is
taken up with the somber buildings of the
Bellevuo1 hospital and their uses are
gruduated with fearful suggestiveness.
Thus the first building la held U the uses
of transient patients, suoh as reepilre treat
ment only for a day. Next to this cornea
the alcoholic building, then the wurd for
the Insane and the dope Heads, and then
built out over the river the morgue. Mai.y
a man und woman traverses this ghastly
gamut in a week's time, and even then
does not reach the end eif death's terrors.
From tho inorguu unclaimed bexiles move
to dissecting tables.
Nearly 1A0 deaths from pneumonia have
be'tn recorded in Manhattan borough dur
ing the past live weeks, almost double the
record for the corresponding period of J9ij2.
The early and comparatively severe weather
Is in a measure declared to be responsible,
but the theory Is advanced by Ir. William
If. Oullfuy, register of records of the
Health department, that pneumonia Is un
lnftctlems disease. This theory Is backed
by the records, hlch show a great
prevalence of the malady In the denser
populated sections. In tho Italian quarter
tho deaths from pnotfmonla are nearly 50
per cent greater than In any other quarter
of ti e city.
A long-lost piece of Information about
New Yek Is. how did the city come to be
ealleel "(leitham?" It is supplied by a
writer In the Tribune. "Ooth;in," we are
teeld, was satirically applied by Washington
Irving In 1Su7 to the city of New York in
one of the "Salmagundi" papers, entitled
"Chronieies of the Renowned and Ancient
City of Ootham," mst likely beeauejf the
irapllcity of Its Inhabitants In the old
days. He took the appellation from a
parish of Nottinghamshire, England, rsllrd
Ootham, whose Inhabitants wers isnld to
have simulated simplicity to avert a klnc's
anger.
l'FH0tl, OTF.S.
The variations of tho weather nowadays
Ichvcs no doubt In the wrn'.her man's mind
ns to the guess that's coming.
President Charles W. Lilot of Harvard
university has accepted n Invitation to ad
dress u regular meeting of the Boston Cen
tral Irtior union to bo held on Sunday,
February 7.
Joseph Jeffei-sein has fc-eti ussxi in r..
to Australia and make a tour of that cwas
try. Ho played "Rip Van Winkle thsro
forty years ago, slnco which time he has
never crossed the equator.
Not the least shocking feature of the
Chliiigo disaster was the rapidity with
which tho manager's candor expressed In
the featured line "Absolutely Fireproof
was blnstrd and blighted forever. .
James Douglass of Kalamazoo, Mich.,
bus Invented an airship which recently had
Its initial trip. It proved successful, tho
model flying several hundred feet, after
lifting Itself from tho ground by Its own
mechanism.
Kentucky democrats will erect to the
Into Governor C.ocbel, .victim of a political
assasshmtlon, tho hnndsoniost monument
In the state, it will be of brnnie with a
podostal of Vermont mnrblo and will stand
In Frankfort.
An Omnha pilgrim with Missouri Instinct,
when cornered by highwaymen, "showoel"
them that he was it tax assessor and went
on his way rejoicing with a card of mem
bership In the Amalgamated Association of
Holdups In his pocket.
If you Insist on being a crook, don't be a
cheap one. Tho most successful way cf
making millions Is to organize a combine
of the shipbuilding variety and shove "the
queer" made by yourself. No minion of
the luw will touch you for more than a tip.
K. W. It. Cogley, probably the 'oldest
telegrapher In ae-'tive service In the tTnlted
Slates today, hns Just been appointed as
manng-r of the Western Union office nt
LewWtown, Pn. Ho wns one- of tho field
telegraphers during the civil war, was
taken prisoner by the confoelorates, but
escaped and reached tho union lines In
safety.
Baron Kuno Freltherr von Kits, a mem
ber of the German nobility, about 26 years
old, is employed on a "scraper" In the loe-o-rmaive
department of the Michigan Central
railroad, at Jackson Junotlon, Mich. He
Is connected with the railway de-partment
of the German government aa a special ap
prentice to lenrn what tin run nf A mav-eno .
methods of railroading.
A former resident of the western pralrfos,
commonly known as Prairie, Dog, has gone
In search of the north pole. According to
a booklet Issued by the Manitoba Free
Press he Is wintering some 800 miles north
west of Winnipeg, thriving under the alias
of Gopher. The Free Pre tells the tale
of his migration, his watchfulness nnd
fidelity and send along a gopher tall, "not
necessarily for publication, but as nn evi
dence of good fulth" and good luck.
By means of collections taken annually
among the pupils of tho public se hools of
Cape May county, Pennsylvania, for seven
yenrs a fund has been rnlsed for the erec
tion of a monument to the memory of
John Grace, a revolutiemary scout 'on
Washington's staff, and of whom Washing
ton said: "British gold cannet buy him."
The monument will be placed In the ceme
tery at South Dennis, where Grace's re
mains are Interred, and the unveiling will
occoir on next Memorial day.
Like a summer flower blowing In mid
winter comes the Los Angeles Express, Its
pages teeming with interesting descriptive
and statistical matter and fascinating pic
tures, of southern California. It Is a very
twnptlng bouquet to, lay before people
amesng whom the north wind blows and
the mercury takes on the elevator habit.
The grewth and development of the region
annexed to Los Angeles as well as the city
Itself bespeaks energy qnd enterprise un
der most favorable conditions. The glories
of the climate let thnt'pass. Duty to fam
ily and furnace restricts exclamations. The
Express expresses the sentiment and we
pass it up.
Japan's greatest warrior Is General Vis
count Katsura, who became prime min
ister of the country two years ogo. The
viscount, -who has been called the Lord
Roberts of Japan, began his military rareer
in 1SC7, during the. civil war which over
threw the old order of things and resulted
In the adoption of western civilization.
He was a lieutenant then and so good wus
his record that at the conclusion of the
war the government sent him to Germuny
to study military affairs. Then he returned
home and remodeled the Japanese soldiery
on tho EuropYun plan. Now, he says, the
soldiers of bin country are fit to go against -those
of any other.
M.KS TO A I.AIGII.
"Agnes said she wouldn't let another
VPH r Mill, Ytt Ulll,..lll uhu,.),ln a ki.ul I
. . " J -wu. U.UILIMH, M liUBUIIML
"Aud what's the result?"
"Same old slip." Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Ruyter I'm writing a sequel to my book,
"How to Live on l-'lvn Itui.dred a Yap"
He'iibbler What do you cull the sequei?
ituv lev "How to Get the Five Hundred."
Iniiuiiatoils Journal.
Customer r you keep fur caps?
Fresh Clerk r.o, sir; we sell 'ein.
Customer Not always, jny friend.' You
may keep one that you might huve sold to
me-. Good lay ! Philadelphia Press.
"Were your remarks extemporaneous?"
said tho constituent.
"They was worse." answered the local
statesman. "The-y was almost profane."
Washington Star.
"Watered stocks have been the "ruin ot
Tadeleils," said Hpatls.
"if ho'd only learned toswlm he coulel
have rescued hlmseif," added Bloobuinper.
Detreilt Free Pre-ss.
"How about that little bill?" ,asked the
doctor.
"Why, eleie-.tor," wus the reply, "only a
little while befc.e you sent It lu you told
me not to let anything worry me, and I
haven't." Chicago Post.
Superintendent You don't appear to be
much of a rpeller. Ixits ef words here sre
Fpe-Ued wrong In this paper.
Ne-w Clurk Oh, I didn't take particular
pains, you know. I ce.uld spell all right If
I had the mind. ...
Sujxrliitenilent Y-s. That S what I siip
peweed. BoHtein Transcript.
HE.
Wp qu irre-lid Just at Christmas
Ami I'd surtVr Kthel's loss:
But that 1 know 'twill do her good
To learn she's not the boss. -SHIS.
, Because we're eut at Christmas
Wnide! occasion keen regrets;
But Kdgar nee ds I'm free to ssy
This diseipling he gets.
Indianapolis Journal.
NISETKKX HlsnKKIl AXD FOIH.
Town Topics.
If men won't woo and marriage Is
Hull somewhat out of date,
Ti thus the unasked maid may do
Who craves the weddyd iaU;
"7ear boy." she'll say, "afo you awsrs
'I his. vear's fore-fix is Lea),
When tin my privilege lo knock
e'emveutloiis In a heap?
"fo know the friendship we have had
Was Just to pass Uie timev,
Anl now I tuiel my thinking roves
To ties fur mure sublime.
inelee-el, your many qualities
Suggest tl double hetlrle.
From all wheise sweet Cnpsrtnershlm
My heart wool 1 never loam.
"Teo sudden! Why you must have
I meant to ssy this thing;
And . . . after you have kissed me, dear,
Weil go sud hunt the ring.'' ,
Since men won't woo and marriage Is
A ttilK. out of date.
The happv Leap Year comes again
To Loviu the wedded sluts.