THE OMAHA DAILY REE: THUKSDAY, JANUARY 14. 1904.
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(Seal.) Notary Public.
Having decided to meet at St. Louis
July 0, the democrats are sure to have
a warm time id their national conven
tion, i
The oninion is trrowlniz that mutual
fire insurance comnanles elve something
for nothing no oftener than the other
' The city department that managed to
t..-r..it, iha van m, ulni-f rntlnna I
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without an overlap Is entitled to extra
credit A I
on the question "Whicn is trie bigger
the council or the Advisory board?" the
.CDuncll has banded down a unanimous
opinion in ravor or itseir.
Whatever Is done by the council to
olve the garbage problem, the solution
should be one that will not leave . a
Stench in the public nostrils.
' It may be surmised that the expert'
enee of John Mitchell in the coal, strike
makes him friendly disposed to arbltra-
tlon, International or domestic.
The World-Herald has not said any-
thing for at least a week about theM
Iniquitous revenue law saddled upon
the taxpayers of Nebraska by the rail-
. roads. I
The real estate men ef Omaha are
optimistic in their banquet speeches. I
But tney nave a right to be optimistic.
even discounting uie entuusiasm en-
gendered by a squure meal.
A little more prutk-e would go further
than much preaching to prove the truth
of the recent statement of the governor
Of Kentucky that that state is one of
the most lawabidlng In the union. i
It Is settlea that tho aemocrata will
same their presidential ticket- in St
Louis, : but it is not yet announced
whether they will be assigned space
among the main exhibits or In the side
show belt
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renew their wonted winter pursuits.
Truce ha. been declared at r.tt
and the foot ball team will A
usual for Its annual defeat at the hands
of the Corchuskers. I
Russia's promise to respect treaties
Wlth China regarding Manchuria shows
that despite its disclaimer to Janan. It
xpects ' to have considerable to say
about the government of the disputed
province. The bear that walks like a
mn mnriniiatt tn. lanthon if-
We now have the promise that the
Fremont power canal will be completed
snd la active operation within two
years, cm v,e nau mat same promise
more than two years ago. We all want
to See the wheels go round, but la this
v"T..nK ' oeaeving.
The United' Btates haji been the pio-
neer in International arbitration and has
submitted 'more differences with other
governments to arbitration than any
other nation. The United States will
continue to be a leader in promoting n-
ternatiouaj arbitration as the safety
"valve for the world's peace.
General lteyes' praise of Secretary
Hay as "a tine but very determined
man'
reinforces the opiulon our own
people have had of Mr. Hay. That Is
the kind of man required to handle the
dellcate diplomatic negotiations that
devolve upon the orelgu secretary for
a great nation like the United States.
ft will take some little ,tlme yet for
the newspaper eonviondents and news
photographers to get themselves prop-
erly distributed at the strategic points
bl the Seat of war. But then Russia
. and Japan as belligerents would not
I ttilnb.f BtArtlntf anvtlilnf ihMtil rif tha
think 'of starting anything ahead of the
Signal, so we may expect the ultimatum
stags to last at leant a UtUo longer,
TO on.T ItiDlAH IaWDK.
A rrojiosltlon Is In-fore the Imllnn af
f 11 1 rs oonimlttee of the house of repre- I
sentatlves to open all the Indian reser-1
vatlons to settlement nrul entry, the
i'i"'viijr .nun- ii inr- iiin.in iu in- i'""'
ov,.r to the lndlnns or held In trust for
their benefit. The proposition Is strongly
endorsed by the commissioner of In-1
I
jinn affairs, who thinks that the con-1
nn nf th Inillnna should h secured if I
poHdllile, but if not tiie action should
tflkon anyway. In regard to this a
wpfltern paper remarks that it suggests
the proper settlement of the whole In-
dlan matter and adds: "The reserva
tion system was a blunder from the
start. The proper method of dealing
with the Indian has always been to give
him a start and let hhn work out his
own salvation. Given an opportunity.
an Indian can earn his own living as
well as anybody. The proper oppor-
tunlty to give him is to. make him go to
work by tu pressure of necessity. Un-
der such pressure the Indian is likely to
. , . ii nniyi ,.itwrt Thorn
j e.
ure numbers of-them, wno luae aone
so under precisely this pressure."
There is no doubt that this is in ac-
cord with the opinion of all who have
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jjiyp,, intelligent consideration to the I
Indian problem. Justice to the Indian
does not require that he be maintained
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m iMiut-n. xiiv u.-m Bruin; umi
and to depend upon his own industry
and thrift for a living.
as tu roHBsr nssmvta.
Tho policy of the government in re-
Kuni to forest reserves, while very gen-
orally regarded as Judicious, has met
with some opposition. In his address
before the stockmen's convention at
t,.i.tl.,n r tw T,..,,r..i. f.F tlio Kn.
A UlllllllUi VS. la, ..... .I'.ll.p.. V 1 ..u
tional J.lve Stock association said. that
stockmen have no objection to honest
reserves, where there afe forests to pro
tect or to foster the ' growth , thereof,-
but where millions of acres are set
apart on which there, are no trees,
'which is done only on account of the
flue manipulation of some great land-
graft railroad syndicate, who wish to
unload their worthless holdings on a
gullible government, this is the point
where an American stocknian insists on
rising and entering a general and also
a spwial demurrer."
If there is warrant for this complaint
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,,"lurl" 10 'i-y u-Bii.u.-, uui ..
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become more necessary man ever iy
reason of the irrigation policy that is
lwliio' carried out hv- the federal I70V-
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eminent. Jn a forthcoming report by
F. II. Newell, the officer in charge of
the reclamation service, it will be said:
..0ne of the most important matters In
connection with the permanent develop-
hnent of Jhe water resources of the conn-
try is the protection of the catchment
basins from destructive influences. The
hend t of ma of th lun)ortant
stream9 aro nIreftdy ,nduded within the
forest reserves - and ' some of the im
portant reservoir sites ure thus guarded
from injury. The forest reserve bound
aries, should be extended to include, the
U0 'rora T'.TT '"f
part of the rainfall." It is said that the
belief Is gaining ground at Washington
that not only should the forest reserves
be extended to this degree, but that the
entire remaining public forest land
should be permanently reserved and
that any timber cut therefrom should
be under government supervision, thus
absolutely insuring the water sunnlv.
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as for municipal or any other need. '
lg pomt out tbnt the scores of denuded
an(1 bare ,nollntnin ranees in western
Btavte8 once woodea atte to
toe bnneful option- ' our present
timber laws. Perhaps some modlflca-
,on ,n the method of forest reserve ex"
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mug me general poncy, u tne wor or
arid land reclamation Is td succeed.
The meeting of the democratic national
committee developed nothing new in re-
gard to possible candidates for the pr'esl-
flency and tne leaders annear to be still I
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Bl . " l" wup i iue uui,t a uozen
thst are talked of would be the
most available. Gorman seems to be
BomWIiai n ine lpaa. witu Judge
ariter or new lprit a close second,
but it Is auite plain that the Maryland
senator has lost some prestige by his
course- in the senate in reuard to the
Panama treaty, though It is nosslble
that he will be able to recover from
this before the meeting of the national
convention next July. The strength of
t-i. t.o4.v iu i,, i. ,n,.
that he can carry New York, where he
lg unquestionably popular as a jurist,
but without any standing as a rx.lltloian.
havlng had bnt mtle to do with politics,
T1)ere doe8 uU appear to be an eager
demand on the part' of Empire state
democrats for the nomination of Tarker.
A few neWpapers have been endeavor-
,nK t0 1)00111 h,tn' but Bg yet PrlaP
"i""1"" UB u?u ao en
thusiastic and it cannot uow be confi
dently predicted that he will have the
delegation from that state. Mr. Olney
has received the endorsement of the
Massachusetts democrats and it is un
derstood Is willing to be a candidate for
the nomination. A great many demo-
I crats, however, while admitting the
ability of Mr. Olney, are not pleased
I with his very pronounced admiration for
Mr. Cleveland and there is reason to be-
Heve that his reference to his former
chief in his speech at the MeClollan
banquet did him no good as a possible
presidential candidate. It is needless to
consider Judjie Gray , among the possl-
I buttles and the Hearst candidacy is very
generally regarded as a Joke, though the
chief of the yellow journalists of course
I does not so lntemf It There is no sort
I of doubt that he if very much in earnest
and it is intimated that he counts iion
I iha filllllkort ft tha Rrvnn flAiiionr In
the svilort of the Bryan element in
I the national convention.
I Who will W. J. Bryan favor or the
nomination Is likely to IxVome a ques
ltion of t-nmmnnrilnR interest to the
(h - iiKM - rat between now sml the Bssem-
,iinR pf the nntWmnl convention, lie
hiis paid nothing since bis return from
iiuruin - ivmcu nuiveys iut liiuuiniiuu
of a preference, but It Is well under
stood that neither Oorninn nor Olney
would he acceptable to him. The
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marked attention that has been shown
Jin V..KV lai.lnr l.r iunl,.rn Hnmn.
crats since his return shows that he is
far from belhfc politically ostracized,
even in what he once called "the en
etny's country," and indicates that he
Is still a force in the democratic party,
that must be reckoned with.
Now' that the place and time for the
assembling of the 'democratic national
convention has been arranged, It is to
foe expected that the patty leaders will
give more serious attention to the ques-
tlon of a nresldential candidate, which
at present is 'as perplexing to them as
the question respecting the issues to be
presented by the democracy in the cam-
imiSn.
TflsT MUStVlPAL BUDQtT.
The various departments of city gov-
ernment are engaged in formulating
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their estimates of expenses for the
coming year and these estimates when
fitted together will form the basis of
Li. ii i v .
ujumiipui uuuru
the amendments to the charter enacted
by the lust legislature is the elimina
tion of tho water fund levy, but in its
place we h.-jve a new water fund to be
augmented by the proceeds of a tax not
exceeding $100,000, entirely in the dis
cretion of the water board. The water
board has already made a requisition
for $25,000 for tho coming fiscal year,
which must be regarded as an addi
tional tax not taken care of last year
when the old water fund was first
dropped out. The school board also still
has practically unlimited taxing power,
so that the school levy, which is part
of the general municipal levy, Is out
side of the control of the council and
may be expected to be no smaller than
It was a year ago. '
On the 'other hand, the work of the
various departments of the city is cer
tainly not decreasing and in a number
of them increased salary lists must be
met -as a result of charter amendments
likewise adopted by the last legislature,
The possibility of a tax levy ns low as
the levy for 1903 is, therefore, de-
stroyed, but that is no reason why tho
effort should not be made to keep the
estimates down to the very lowest dl
menslons with which efficiency can be
maintained.
The low tax rate of 1903 has unques
tionably been of greatadvantage to the
city and a welcome relief to the prop
erty owners. , Having, had their' burden
materially lightened, while they will
probably realize that they cannot ex
pect the same low tax rate continu
ously, they will also Insist upon their
right to object to a tax rate inflated be
yond the necessities of the occasion. .
Both the cattlemen and the sheepmen
are agreed that the laws which prevent
them from having free use of the pub-
lie domain for grazing purposes are bad
and ought to be amended. All recent
legislation, however, that contemplated
reasonable rentals have been rejected
by the .cattle syndicates as unsatis
factory because they preferred to con
tlnue as they were, in disregard of the
land laws, so long as the latter Were
not enforced. With the prosiiect of
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provisions they may prefer to modify
their demands and make them more
reasonable,
The elevation of County Commissioner
O'KeeQ'e to be chairman of the county
board for-the ensuing year would in-
dicute that that body as now constituted
ore Bvmuathy wlth thft demands
for reform and retrenchment which Mr.
O'Keeffo has been voicing for the last
carry 0,lt some of 1,,s ideas of economy
anu DlotK "uccessiuiiy queBuonaoie jods
ana Btettl8 tuat uave Deen hayla rree
wt-ii rii in Tim miinrv rut a r1 na tfi ma
associates will be entitled to sneelal
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tuanks from the taxpayers of the county
pay Ule b1"8'
If the mayor and council can be held
retHioniilblo for all the unpaid taxes
tnnt are on the treasurer's books per-
nnp8 we wm 1,01 ua,e 10 rP80rl 10 001
,ectlon under the "veiigr law. All
that wU1 be needed.w111 be 'or the mayor
and council to order the delinquent taxes
Mpro u men unve mem suea
on tbelr bonds for the detlclency. The
only difficulty such a plan might en
counter would be the difficulty of get-
cou,,
tlnS
any one to serve as mayor or
councilman for the privilege of assum
ing this responsibility.
The World-Herald makes much of the
probability that District Attorney Sum
mers "will be discharged froui the pub
lie service. 7 The truth is that Mr. Sum
mers four-year term of office expired
months ago and he has been holding
on simply by swinging a club over the
head of the department. An employe
of a liiisiuess establishment who told
his employer to let him out "if he
dared" would not stand long on the
order of his going.
Vice Chairman Edmlsten of the pop-
I ullst national committee is calling that
body together in evident willful dlsre-
gurd of the fact that there is a chalr-
man of the committee, whose name
would look much better at the end of
the calL If Mr. Edmlsten really wants
. reunion of all the uonullst elements
he might set the example by a nrenara-
tory merger between the vice chairman
I and tli chairman.
I Colonel Bryan thoughtfully delayed
anxurlng at the meeting of the demo-
lerntlf- nntinnnl fvmimlttp.0 until nftor It
cratlc national committee until after It
had concluded the business, for which
lit Lad beua called together. Had be
arrived sooner the couuIttee might
have nsketl his advice and his old ex
cuse that he was reserving his opin
ions for publication in the Commoner
might not have proved Serviceable.
The Wkf aad tho Wherefore.
Washington Tost.
The Interstate Commerce Commission Is
trying to ascertain why the railroads have
raised rates. One reason la they think they
need th money.
An I aheralded Scrap.
Indianapolis Journal.
People have so much trouble keeping
track of other and more Important things
that nobody aerms to notice the nice little
war which has reopened In the Balkans.
While Russia has one eye on Japan and
the other on England, and the rest of the
world Is anxiously expecting something to
happen, the Bulgarlani are quietly potting
their forty .or fifty Turks a day down there
In Macedonia.
War Chivalry Disappearing;.
Boston Transcript.
Now the kaiser, whose energetic devo
tion to the cause of applied science has
often been hoted, has set his experts to de
vising a uniform which shall render the
soldier practically Indistinguishable against
a field of grabs or stubble. A blend between
straw color and olive green has produced
the desired effect. The last shred of the
old chivalry of war will disappear with
the disappearing soldier.
Pat on the Brakes.
New York Tribune.
Few winters in this country have known
so many shocking disasters in times of
peace. The destruction of life on traffic
lines and In places of amusement has been
so extensive that the American people are
In no mood to listen to excuses and
apologies, and insist upon the meeting out
of stern, stark justice In full measure to
those who have been In fault The circum
stances have been exceptional, so much so
that no mercy or leniency should shown
to any culprit whose guilt Is made clear.
A Hint for Vnele Sam.
, Philadelphia Press.
Germany is still anxious for more
colonies, though so far they have been
losing Investment for her. Her colonies
now have an area of 1,024,262 square miles,
and contain only 6,126 OormanB, many of
whom are in government employ. It has
cost the empire $76,000,000 so far to
distribute and maintain that small num
ber of Germans In the colonies, and the
expenditure fpr thls year Is estimated to
reach $5,750,000. It is rather an expensive.
fad for Germany.
The Inut Surrender.
Philadelphia Record.
The two last of the great confederate
generals Longstreet and Gordon have
now made the final march to . the last
great camping ground on the other side
of the river. Both of them were stout
antagonists in war, but after the war
was ended devoted followers of the flag
and lovers of the union they had so
fiercely fought to dissever. Both lived
to see the states on either ride of Mason
and Dixon's line thoroughly reconciled
and reunited and a new generation of
soldiers, gathered Indifferently from all
parts of the union, marching side by side
ur.der the Stars and Stripes to do battle
against a foreign foe in behalf of their
common country. Both lying" in their
freshly-made graves are sharers in the
sorrowing recollection of the surviving
veterans of the armies they commanded
and the armies they opposed. .
LIKE A TVT7E THAT IS TOLD.
Skyrocket Flight and Descent of the
Rage Steel Trnst. v
United 'states Investor.
, In the year 1901 the United Btates Steel
corponation was floated into the gaze of an
astonished world, a billion dollar corpora
tlon, with a directorate representing more
wealth than had ever been assembled In a
single enterprise. It was accompanied by
assurances from financiers of pre-eml
nence, calculated to allay the fears of any
awestruck Individual who might conclude
that In the sise of the new corporate craft
there lurked an element of danger. It was
a season of such prosperity that all things
seemed possible, especially when under
taken by financiers whose will was sup
posed to be greater even than law. A
few, It Is true, persisted In shaking their
heads, and disagreeing with optimistic cap
italls&tlon of the future; but they wera
looked upon as persons incapable of ap
preciating the marvelous strides of finance
and Were told that old things had passed
away, that the supreme law now waa
Integration. Take any given aeries of In
dustries which carried along a raw ma'
terlal through several processes Into the
finished product, roll them up Into one cor
poration, and no "matter what the capitali
sation, dividends would be forthcoming
through the; saving grace of integration.
That Is what the United Btates Steel
corporation does. It mines its own ore.
makes Its own coke, transports these pro
ducts on Its own vessels and railroad to
the furnaces, and finally out comes the fin
Ished product. "Nothing is left to chance,"
said the first president of the company.
Not even was there allowed to be a chance
of American prosperity falling In the least
degree, and even If It did, why, look at
the enormous earnings of the corporation
and the colossal surplus.
Furthermore, what a blessing Integration
waa to be to labor. Integration meant
tablllty of prices; there would be no mora
ruinous fluctuations of prices' that had
made the Industry In the past either
U... n . num.. uV,H taY.flftv nt
prices assured the workman' steady work
at high wages. What glowing, convincing
articles did the world read about the
economies oft Integration. Hundreds of In
vestors -looked upon "steel common" at 45
as a good Investment, as a bargain at SO,
and as a road to competency at 20.
The years rolled by two of them and
long years they were to some individuals.
Prosperity waned, not a financier pos
sessed the vaunted power of controlling
the tides of the business world; the econo
mies of Integration, were unmasked as ex
travagancles; and the strength ef integra
tion In prosperity proved to be Us weak
ness In adversity. There, had been warn
ings that such would be the case, but the
warnings were uttered at a time when the
American public was worshiping Ha new
gods. When adverse times affect an inte
grated Industry, the only direct saving It
can effect Is a cut in labor cost, either by
lowering wages or by Inventing labor-
saving devices. Its raw material through
the various processes costs just the same
In times of low prices for finished product
as In seasons of high prices, unless the
wage cost la reduced.
The year 1904 Is marked by a reduction
of wages In the plants of the United. States
Steel corporation, by a cutting of salaries,
by closing t soma plants and mines, and
by a passing of the dividend on the com.
mon stock, due to the earnings declining
over 60 per cent. But integration has not
caused this ending of great expectations;
If the same spirit of true economy had en
tered Into the formation of the corporation
and Into Its early management that pre
vails today, . business reaction would not
have worked such havoc. But as It is, the
workman who thinks of his' high wages
and the Investor who misses his dividend
can exclaim with th poet unless stronger
language Is preferred:
Thou rt g'-ne-froiu tny gas Ilk beau
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ROIXD ABOlT DEW YORK.
Ripples on th Carrent of I.lfe
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the Metropolis.
Charles T. Terkea of Thlladelphla, Chi
cago and Ixindon, promoter, philanthropist
and philosopher. Is doing New York for
recreation, and Incidentally filling space for
Interviewers. Mr. Yerkes Is a regular pay-
ng mine for Interviewers, and some of his
observations are worth a thought or two.
Discussing th elements of success he says:
America's progress Is due to the fact that
her men begin the battle of life early,
whea they are full of enthusiasm and en
ergy, and when they are most adaptable
to existing conditions In their teens. Per
sonally, I think college spoils a good many
young men. I think a good high school
education Is preferable, rather than a col
lege one for young men who have their
own way to make In the world. A boy
who goes Into business at IT or 19 has
seven years, say, the start of the college
man, and the college man must begin In
a small position and at a boy's pay begin
where that boy began and naturally this
dissatisfies the college man. And a man
dissatisfied 'Is a man that la spoiled for
the dsy's work. In this, of course. I am
speaking of commercial and business Ufo,
along lines where experience and common
sense are needed more than technical
knowledge.
Common sense is better than a high
education, anyway. The man with com
mon sense can always get an education,
but the best education In the world doesn't
bring you any more common sense than
what you wera born with. As for success,
the component parts of success are a level
head, an honest Intention, industry and
perseverance and this la Important Just a
dash of good luck."
Mr. Yerkes admited he had twelve rules
for success and consented to give some of
them. From somewhere In the recesses of
flat-top desk he produced a worn and
creased piece of paper, from which he
read:
"Thai, worst fooled man Is the one who
fools himself." ("That's my, eleventh com
mandment, he added In an aside.) "Have
one object in life, follow it persistently
and determinedly. If, you divide your ener
gies you will not succeed."
'Do not look for what you do not wish
to find," continued Mr. Yerkes. He cleared
his throat and added: "Have no regrets.
Loik. to the future. The past Is gone and
cannot be brought back."
One of the strangest occupations fol
lowed by the people of the teeming east
side is that of "dish lender." There aro
only two men one a Hebrew rtnd the other
an Italian In the business. They are lo
cated In Baxter and Hester streets, re
spectively. The former has his 'establish
ment" In the basement of a six-story tene
ment house. The place Is almost entirely
lined with rows of shelves, on which are
neatly arranged tea and dinner services of
varied colors and patterns, besides dishes
and plates of all kinds. In one corner of
tho basement Is a large wooden box, di
vided Into numerous partitions, for the
knives, forks, spoons and other "sliver
ware." Most of the borrowers are as reg
ular as clockwork In their requirements on
Saturdays and Sundays, marriageable
daughters, maybe, whose Intended hus
bands are always entertained at tea those
days, accounting for this. There Is more
money spent In this way among the east-
slders than is generally supposed.
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Shoes selling for $1,000 a pair are the prod
uct of a factory near Madison square.
To style It a shop would be to insult the
artisans employed therein. They call it a
"footgear Institute" and the proprietor goes
by no less a title than "curative orthope
dist"
The wearing of these $1,000 shoes la,
in the main, a hobby, and la based on
nerves gone wrong. For there are some
persons, it seems, who are plagued with
sensitive nerves In their feet which ache
so excruciatingly that nothing can assuage
the pain but shoes "prescribed" by a phy
sician cobbler.
The learned cobbler listens to a tale of
toeache, with attending nervous disturb
ances, and examines the patient's feet with
critical scrutiny. Every hill and dale of
the foot Is Inspected and studied, and
especially Js a sharp lookout kept for the
sensitive nerves, which ultimately are sure
to be fcund. A volume of notes Is taken
and the prospective customer naturally be
comes Impressed with the severity of his
allmont. Next, and what Is very Im
portant, a plaster cast of the foot Is taken,
and if the patient's purse Is proportioned
to his plaint the physician cobbler is apt
to enter a new order on his book
The ahoes are made of good leather, but
do not generally follow the lines of the
latest fashions; rather the reverse. It all
depends on the views of the healer. Some
sufferers are scientifically shod In exchange
for $600, $250 or even $100; but those cus
tomers who prefer to pay the highest
prices are satisfied with nothing less than
a $1,000 pair.
The shoe bills of one New Yorker-
rich 'contractor who rides the orthopedic
hobby, have footed up $50,000. Yet the
shoes he wears are queer-looking Con
trivances. ,
The cobbler has made a fortune and Is
about to enlarge the establishment and
employ additional assistants. The revival
of the high heel for women, with Its at
tendant train for nervous disorders, has
suggested to him a new and profitable
field. The only thing that perplexes him
!s whether lovely women will purchase
$1,600 pedal pain killers that make her
feet look anything but fairylike.
BuCHhe cobbler Is a man of genius, and
ha awaits the issue with serenity
The largest and most powerful screw
drivers ever devised have Just 'been dellv
ered in the vicinity of New York. The
Pennsylvania railroad. In planning for Its
double tube under the North river has de
cided that it needed them, and the engl
neerlng department, working with the con
struction departmnet, has provided them.
The carpenter In using the ordinary
screw drivers exerts a power of about thirty
pounds. The new screw driver will have
power of 200,000 pounds, equal to that ex
erted by 6,606 carpenters, They will drive
the great piles which must be sunk under
the tunnel they will. In fact, be the piles
themselves. Inasmuch as about l.OOO.OOQ.OW
pounda of metal will be used In the tubes
a , faint Idea of what the piles will have
over them can be formed.
The screw driver plies are cylinders two
and one-quarter feet In diameter, made of
cast Iron one and oae-quarter Inches thick.
They will be located every fifteen feet cen
trally, so that both tubes will .be rein
forced. They will be made In length short
enough to be handled in the tunnel, the
successive lengths being belted or? as tha
pile sinks. The screwdriver, or screw
point, so-called, la at the erfQ of the pile
and is ao constructed that It will have one
turn of twenty-one inches and' a diameter
of four and three-fourths feet,
Examples of the power of the screw were
given recently, when It wss said that Its
force would be equaled only by a weight
of mo. 000 pounds placed on the pile, or It
could be equaled by the power of a lever
one-half mile long, at the end of which
would be a man weighing 150 pounds.
A touch of nature makes all passengers
akin. A wagon loaded with eoal wss stalled
on tha street car tracks at the foot of Am
sterdam' avenue hill. The two horses could
not m6ve It and tha driver was In despair
"Get up to your seat and bead your
horses up hill," yelled the motorman. The
driver obeyd.
"Now start them gently." said the man
on tha platform. Xhe front of th ecar
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touched the rear of the wagon. It began
to move. The horses pulled, the car pushed,
the passengers smiled, the broad face of
the big driver was one .grin. At tho top of
tho hill the wagon pulled out, the driver
shouted his thanks, and tha car bowled
merrily on.
At Intervals of nhmit nni-A a tnnnlh mnm
Philistine New Yorker Is moved by a great
desire to take a fall out of John D. Rocks-
felle
ler, Jr., at the tatter's celebrated Ilibla
class meetings. Tho Inspiration came laat
to.
a finely dressed and evlilentlv vnrv
clever youth when the oil magnate's son
gave a discourse on the "Puty of a Cltlsen
to the State." Mr. Rockefeller's remarks
were beautifully Vague, and the young New
YorT rose and said "I don't think good
citizens should try to avoid pnylng their
taxes ry Having two or three residences or
Y uam swearing-ore process. Do you, Mr.
ocgefeller?" The teneher Inntr o innr
breath and expelled It again without an
swering, in tne meantime looking around
or neip. one or the class cappers In the
ludlence arose to the occasion by saying:
'It all denends On whether the Im la i,,at
Mr. Rockefeller nodded annroval it hla
and the discussion proceeded with thi
sual deft avoidance, at live Issues If .un.
pens that Mr. Rockefeller's father and un
cle are Just now in controversy over their
taxes.
SOMETHING OIGHT TO DE DOXE.
Rural Mall Carriers Entitled to m.
Living; Wage.
Minneapolis Tribune.
The postmaster general does not agree
with the recommendation of his assistant.
that rural mall carriers should be permitted
to add to their salaries by doing an ex
press business. Mr. Payne thinks that
the law which permits this ought to be
repealed, and that salaries ' of carriers
ought tooe raised to a living wage. It
Is clear that something ought to be done,
when 3,000 carriers' resigned last year be
cause they could not live on their salaries.
we doubt very much If congress can be
brought to Increase salaries more than
enough to offset the loss of giving up the
llttlo local express business That would
leave the carriers Just where they are now.
and the sen'ico would still be crippled by
continual drirtlng away . of its best, men.
Wo cannot .Bee how the service suffers by
letting rural carriers become carriers of
the small package trade which Is con
stantly going on between little village set
tlers and the surrounding farms. We
should think that this might be winked at
In any case. What the postmaster general
complains of Is. the express business that
originates In cities, goes part . way by
freight and the rest by rural carriers as
messengers for the public. This, he says,
ought to go through the malls and pay
revenue to the government
But If the government Is going to get
more revenue out of the change, It must
be more liberal In tho matter of salaries.
We think an increase of at least 25 per
cent ought to be the first step, leaving the
question of express business to be settled
afterwards, when the department has had
a llttlo more experience.-
PERSONAL SOTES.
The contract for the equestrian statue
of General Frans eigel, the hero of Pea
Ridge, to be erected In New York City, has
been awarded to Carl Blttner.
To honor the memory of Emillo Castclar.
the celebrated republican orator and former
president of the Spanish Republic-,, his
friends Intend to raise a monument to him
In Madrid.
Colonel C. M. Whelden, a member of thn
staff of General Benjamin F. Butler during
the civil war, on Saturday, December 26,
observed his eighty-third birthday at his
Tiome In Newton, Mass.
Washington ,1b in an uproar because the
government has decided to make Its clerks
work half an hour a day longer than has
been the custom. Yet a half an hour out
of twenty-four Isn't very long to work.
Persia's 'grand yhtler, Atabeg Axam, U
only making a tour to 'Mecca, that's nil;
but owing to sensational stories about the
sudden death of his warmest enemy he is
making the tour about 25,000 miles long.
Pierre Loti has been for some time In
the harbor of Constantinople as com
mander of the Voutour. He is, giving his
leisure hours In writing a novel, the scene
of which Is placed in Persia, a country In
which he spent several months three years
ago.
Tains Blxby, chairman of the Dawes
commission, has given up his residence In
Minnesota and become a citizen of the
Imljan Territory, with a view to running
for the United' States senate when the ter
ritory Is admitted to statehood, or, as is
possible, the Creek nation Is annexed to
Oklahoma and that territory admitted.
French physicians report an Increasing
number of cases of acute nervousness
which are due directly to automobillng,
and they predict that with an increase of
the sport will comb an Increase In the
number of the cases. The sickness Is called
the neurosis of anxiety, and may ba traced
to the excitement and mental tension, of
rapid traveling with the emotional re
pression necessary to secure a reasonable
feeling Of enjoyment while speeding rap
idly, with risks and dangers constantly at
hand.1
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A CLKVF.R SOOTHSAYER.
Jim Hill Imagines the Hallraods Are
the Whole Thing;.
Chicago Rocord-Hcrald. -James
3. mil Is a clever speaker as well
as an able railroad president When he
tells us that railroads that "act In re
straint of trad will go bmke," and when
he argues that consequently no railroads
ever act In restraint of trade, he almost
convinces lis that all the long series of
court decisions against railroad companies
for just such acts are as unreal as dreams.
Mr. Hill is certainly clevef. But after
wa have caught our breath a few times we
are apt to remember that there la a very
real distinction between restraining one's
own trade and restraining other people's
trade, and that very often a man or a rail
road company conceives that the very acts
which most restrain other people's trade
are most advantageous to Its own.
It Is not true, however, that railroads
always act in the way best calculated to
build up even their own trade. There is
a short-sighted point of view, as well as a
long-sighted point f view. In railroad man
agemt-nt. High rates and little business
are very often deemed better and more
profitable than .low rates and much busi
ness. It used to be a common saying In
California that the Southern Paclflo took
the difference between the cost of produc
tion and the market price for freight, and
the saying Is a good enough Illustration of
the grasping policy pf the compaiiy.
"If a man does not prosper," says Mr.
Hill, "he can move, but a railroad is there
and must stay." If Mr. HUI means by
this to draw clearly the Issue as to who
owns the earth, the railroads or ths peo
ple, he will be apt to discover before he Is
done that even his own cleverness will not
gain for him the answer he wishes.
S.MII.ISO LIXES.
"De trouble wlf tryin to keep dressed fit
to kill," said Uncle Eben, "Is dat you's
spendln, a heap o' time an' money foh de
sake o' wakln aroun' an' beautlfyln' de
In if scape, an' not nit tin' no thanks for It
f'um nobody."'-Wasliington Star.
. "You know, Jessie, the good book says
'Love your neighbor,' " spoke the mother
to her little gfrl. "Yes, mamma; but that
was written before,, the days of flats."
Yonkers Statesman. ..
"I didn't know you were in tha 'choir.
What's your position there?"
"Neutral."
"How do you mean?" ,
"I don't Blile with either faction."
Philadelphia Press.
The ' Dramatist You'll find, this a very
warm play colonel. '
The Manager Hush, not so loud! If
the buHdlng inspectors hear you they'll
insist upon opening a Couple of aisles
through It and keeping all the exits wide
open Cleveland Plain Dealer.
"The trouble with the average servant
girl Is. that she cannot remember her
place."
"I guess you're right. At any rate our
new servant-girl went out last Thursday
und forgot the way back to the house
again." Philadelphia Catholic Standard.
Lafayette was tendering his services.
"I will not unly fight your battles," he
declared, "but I will translate your menus
tor you." I
Rejoiced to know what they were eat
ing at the Hyphen hotel, they gratefully
accepted the oft'ur." Nw York Sun.
"Why do you persist In saying 'widow
woman' nil the time?" asked tha eg,
pedHgiigue. '"Why not 'widow' alone?"
"That's all right If she happens to be a i
plain widow." explained the party of tho
other part, "but If she's young, handsome
and wealthy you'll seldom Und her alone.'" ,
Chicago News. ,
4 HE PASStSU OF THE ARMY BEAN.
(Major "W. II. Bean, chief commissary of
the Department of the Missouri, has gone
to Forts Leavenworth and Riley, Kansas,
to test the eltlelency of fresh beef hash as
an army ration.)
Oh Major spare our soup, touch not a sin
gle beun;
In days gone by It nourished us, so pure
h ml white and clean.
The menu of the camp and march; the
srnnd. old army bean,
Has solaced many a hungry soul, to desart
it now were mean.
A vaunt thee with thy fresh beef hash, a
mixture unforeseen,
And give us back our old-time love, th
sturdy army beun.
Your name should be its guarantee, your
' ln.rnlty I ween.
Will not be rash for fresh beef hash; ba
loyal to the bean
Oh trifle pot the bill of fare, whatever
supervenes.
Let other rations go If must, but save to
us our beans.
Just test your hash on Spanish dns, or
hungry Philippines,
Leave us our soup, tried feast of gods, our
Royal Pork and Beans. 8. 8.
Comfort
Everybody says they ara comfortaMs
and what every bodyaays Is so.
Don't ask for your slss.
Ask, to ba fitted
The Fit Tells '
$3.50 Always
Soresis Shoe Store
203 5. 15th3t
Frank Wilcox. Manager.
Write for tha lata catalogue.
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