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THE OMAHA DAILY KEE: MONDAY, JANUARY 2, 1903.
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At last aecounta the Cominlttee oil
1'ublic Safety was Mill safe.
Every closed year Is a record breaker
lis against all that have gone before.
Taken altogether, Oniaba will not have
to use much red Ink In clotting up Its
accounts for tho year 11)04.
Lawson Bays he lias not quit the fight
and people are beginning to wonder why
Colonel Greene went to Boston anyway.
While those Georgia farmers are burn
ing cotton the negroes may have a brief
renpite from being roasted at the stake.
Federal grand Juries leave shining
marks, but Nebraska's experience will
lead Its citizens to suspend Judgment
until both sides have been heard.
The year 11)03 ought to see Omaha
realize on its opportunity to get those
two branch public libraries through the
generosity of Andrew Carnegie.
Judge Wade of Iowa purposes to make
a fight against the "Beef trust," but as
he leaves congress with the present ses
sion the , "trust" is looking for real
trouble from' another direction.
The statistics of Omaha's business
during the year Just closed make a pros
perous showing, but) we confidently an
ticipate that 1005 will stack up better
than any year in Omaha's history.
Inspector Wright is not the first man
to find himself unuble to tell Just what
he discovered In a Nebraska Indian res
ervation; but it wus not illness in some
of the other cases which caused failure
to report.
The expenses of Russia for-tho war
in' the orient during the lust year are
said to mount up to the figure $304,000,
000. Itussia would not mind the cost
so much if it only bad a little more to
show for its money.
The local popocratlc organ has again
detailed a correspondent with multiplex
eyes to cast the political horoscope for
It at Lincoln. He will see more things
that are not so in less time than any
man on tho grouud.
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Direct primary legislation will be up
before'every state lawmaklug body that
sits his winter. No state is going to
have a monopoly of tills sort of reform,
though some of them may get along
lu It faster than others.
President Ulpley of tho Santa Fe
says that company has not violated the
interstate commerce law. This should
occasion no surprise, as railroad officials
do not receive their salary for pleading
guilty before arraignment.
When tho local popocrutic organ dis
covered there is no objection on the part
of the responsible officers in charge to
an Investigation of the conduct of the
state insane asylums it discovered also
that It did not care so much about it
With a unanimous vote In the senate
and a membership of 91 to 0 in the
house, there is no real necessity to hold
the party strength by preliminary cau
cus. The caucus is unnecessary unless
there is danger that division may be
utilised by the opposition.
One of the reforms which the coming
legislature should by all means inaugu
rate is the destruction of all fee mills
and cost mills. Every officer state,
county and city should be given a fixed
income, and all fees, costs, penalties and
perquisites should go into the public
treasury.
The fire Inventory shows that more
than 500,000,000 worth of property
went up In .smoke in the United States
in 11X4. Tula terrific loss is absolute
and complete and much of it could have
been avoided by reasonable precaution
ary measures. How large an annual
fire Jews we muHt have before we realise
tine necessity of prevention T
PROMISE OF THE SE1T TEA It
The con son us of opinion among men
prominent In financial and commercial
circles Is that 1WO will be a year of
prosperity for all interests. One of these,
noting that the value of last year's crops
Is placed at nearly f.j.Om.OUD.oon. "ays
that with such a magnificent showing
and with assured pe'"' at home and
abroad, we may reasonably anticipate
that the record of the year 1!C) will
prove most gratifying. It is pointed out
that the presidential election fixed for
at least four years the financial status of
the country and this assures a continued
activity in manufacturing and com
merce. What seems to be the prevailing feel
ing is expresHcd by the editor of the
Manufacturers' Record of Baltimore,
who thinks that we have entered upon
a period of business activity based on
sounder conditions than we ever had
before and that It will surpass the ac
tivity of four or five years ago as greatly
as that period exceeded the previous
burst of industrial prosperity. He be
lieves that if the wild speculator can he
restrained the people of the country
have It, in their power to maintain a
long period of abounding prosperity in
which this country will become even
more than in the pant the wonder and
admiration of the business world. So
far as the speculators in stocks are con
cerned their operations no longer cause
tho disturbance to the business of the
country they once did. This was quite
conclusively demonstrated during the
past year. ;
There are certainly substantial rea
sons for this optimistic forecast. There
Is an ample supplypf money for all the
legitimate needs of business, the Indus
tries are at present active, labor in man
ufacturing finds ready employment, the
great agricultural interest has never
been In better condition than now. All
this Justifies confidence in the industrial
future. Trie men , of practical affairs
who take this view generally advise a
Judicious degree of conservatism and
such admonition Is always timely. What
is to be desired Is a sound and sane and
safe development, which will lie of last
ing benefit to thfl country and to all In
terests and cIrskp.
TIIE QUARLES-COOrER DILL.
One of the strongest influences oppos
ing the Quarles-Cooper bill amending the
Interstate commerce law is the New
York Board of Trade and Transporta
tion. At a meeting of this body a few
days ago its committee on transportation
made a report in which it said that the
more the evils' and abuses of interstate
commerce had been, studied the firmer
was the opinion of the committee that
the bill In question will not In any de
sirable way add to the effectiveness of
the existing lawful remedy. It was
urged thflt the measure would make no
improvement in expediting the trial of
complaints and that it would not in the
slightest degree affect the abuses con
nected with the private car line, private
terminal track and side track systems.
These are certainly valid objections to
the bill and the supporters of the meas
ure should amend it so as to provide for
dealing with the abuses Indicated, if that
can be done consistently with other
features. It Is not denied that under
the private car line and private terminal
track and side track systems the grossest
discriminations are mado and rebates
given, and any legislation relating to in
terstate commerce which Ignores this
cannot be regarded as adequate.- The
private cur companies have denied that
they are under the provisions of the In
terstate commerce law and the commis
sion has not determined their status. It
has simply suggested that the private
car line companies be brought under the
Jurisdiction of the net to regulate com
merce and their charges be made sub
ject to the determination of the commis
sion. This recommendation has met
with very general public approval and it
is presumed will receive the attention of
congress.
It is manifestly of the first Importance
that something be done to put a stop to
the abuses of the private car line system,
as was earnestly urged by President
Roosevelt In his annual message. The
railroads appear to bo quite powerless
in the matter, seemingly being largely at
the mercy of the private car companies.
which do as they please in making rates.
They must be subjected to some sort of
control and regulation and there should
be no unnecessary delay in doing this.
As to the Quarles-Cooper bill, it is doubt
ful if there will be action on it at the
present session.
THE COVXTF HOSPITAL.
Douglas county has expended iuoro
than $200,000 upon the tract of land ac
quired many years ago for a "poor
farm," in the construction of a county
hospital and bulldiugs for the housing
of the county's dependents. The scan
dals that develojed-in the construction
of these structures have become .ancient
history, but much Just criticism has from
time to time been made concerning the
administration and management of the
county's infirmary and hospital.
The recent leasing of the greater part
of the lands covered by the original
"poor farm" to the Omaha Field club
will In a great measure relieve the
Board of County Commissioners from
further wasteful experiments in conduct
ing a farm almost in the .heart of the
city, but the change will also center re
sponsibility for the better management
of the infirmary and hospital.
Whoever may be placed in charge of
these institutions will be expected here
after not only to improve the sanitary
conditions by enforcing strict rules of
cleanliness, but also to put an end
to pilfering and waste of supplies, and
especially of the excessive use of liquor
by employes and inmates. Plain, whole
some food is much more esseutlal for
the county employes and the county's
wards than distilled stimulants.
By rights the county hospital should
be so arranged as to accommodate not
merely the poor and Indigent who may
need treatment, but any man or woman
entitled to avail themselves of the fa
cillties of the Institution. Complaint
has recently been made at South Omaha
of an Insufficiency of hospital accommo
dations. In view of the fact that the
county hospital is nearer to South
Omaha than it Is to Omaha proper, why
should not the great majority of peopl
who live In South Omaha have access
to the county's hospital for accoinmoda
tlon?
To put It plain, the county hospital
should either he made a real hospital or
abandoned altogether. Unless this Is
done the money expended for Its main
tenance would bring much more satis
factory results by apportionment to the
private hospitals already in existence or
ahout to ho established.
r AX AM A CAXAL TROUBLES-
A lively controversy Is expected when
congress reassembles over the method of
constructing the Panama canal. The
question is whether there shall be a
sea-level waterway, as recommended by
Mr. Wallace, the chief engineer, or one
with locks, and many millions of dollars
are Involved in the determination of the
question, as a sea-level canal would add
largely to the cost of the enterprise. An
other matter that will enter into the con
troversy Js in regard to the size of the
commission. It is said to be the under
standing that the president feels that the
system In operation Is somewhat cum
bersomo and that a slightly smalter com
mission would answer Just as well. The
congressmen who visited the isthmus
with Secretary Taft did not find condi
tions, so far as the commission was con
cerned, entirely satisfactory. That body
was not altogether harmonious and the
congressmen reached the conclusion that
better results would probably be hnd if
the commission were smaller.
It Is suited that questions of contracts
and patronage are also arising and that
those who want the canal constructed
in a, high-grade, Intelligent way, as orlgl
nally planned, .must continue vigilant,
These troubles are not of a particularly
serious character, but of course their ef
fect Is to cause delay and the vigorous
prosecution of the work ought to begin
within the next few months.
Only $7,.r)(X),000 is asked for the
Omaha water works. If the appraisers
return the valuation at $5,500,000 or
$0,000,000 we will be toldIt is the biggest
bargain ever offered from the Howell
bargain counter. Ta,ke it! Take It quick
before jsoniebody bids more! Take It!
Tuke it quick or South Omaha will buy
It in! South Omaha never encounters
any trouble in carrying a bond propo
sition. If you take water on this big
bargain the village of Benson may take
the works on its own account and make
Omaha take its water supply from
Benson! That would be very humili
ating, wouldn't it?
The commissioners of Douglas county
have allowed themselves to be hypno
tized into voting a pejpetual franchise
for the Omaha-Lincoln tnterurban trolley
line. In establishing this unprecedented
precedent the eommlsslanera.eommit the
county to voting perpetual franchises to
all the othy interurban trolley lines that
may ever be projected. It is an open
question, however, whether the commis
sioners of Douglas county or any other
set of men can legally deed a right-of-way
to any corporation Or individual for
all future generations.
Since the Evening World-Herald has the
largest circulation of any dally newspaper
published in Douglas county, why did not
John Under, a wholesale liquor dealer of
1209 Douglas street, comply with the law,
which provides that applications for liquor
licenses must be published In the paper
having the largest circulation? World
Herald. Simply because John Linder did not
propose to allow himself to be held up
and blackmailed out of $10 by the bogus
claimant, as many other liquor dealers
have done this yeac and for several
years past.
There will be no change in the office of
state treasurer because of the recent su
preme court decision on the question of
official bouds furnished by guaranty
companies. Treasurer Mortensen Is in
office and will hold until a successor
comes who has a valid claim to the seat,
and if it were impossible for the present
treasurer to give the requisite bond no
one else would be willing and able to
meet the emergency and take the Job
off his bands.
Unless the Board of Fire and Police
Commissioners voluntarily reject appli
cations for licensing, saloons located
within the proscribed district, and as
far as possible separate disorderly re
sorts from the liquor traffic, that dis
agreeable task may have to be per
formed by the legislature In specific
amendments to the Slocumb law.
The Innocent ipertator,
Philadelphia Press.
The Chinese are In some respects the
worst sufferers by tho war In Manchuria.
It Is reported that 30,000 of them are home
less about Mukden and in a starving condi
tion. They have no rights, apparently,
that either Russians or Japanese are bound
to respect.
Doing; Unite Well, Thank Yon.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
In railroad gross earnings last year the
United States came within a few thousands
of being a two-bllllon-dollar country. Divi
dends amounted to 1184,000,000, an Increase
of $23,000,000 over the fiscal year 1903. The
2u9,000 miles of railway in the United States
are a productive property.
Silver Famine Threatened.
Chicago Record-Herald.
The superintendent of the mint at Phila
delphia says the country is on the verge of
a silver famine. He announces that there
is no more bullion from which to make
dimes and quarters. Mr. Bryan will no
doubt-watch anxiously for the effect a
shortage of change will have upon tho
public.
Governors Who Are Feared.
Washington Post.
Former Attorney General John W. Griggs
says the federal government has no right
to usurp the functions of the states In
dealing with corporations. Still there is a
suspicion that the corporations would
rather take their chances with the federal
government than with governors like Van
Bant and I Fvllette.
STATE PRESS OPHIO.
Beatrice Bun: Edward Rosewater of The
Bee landed In New York fifty years ago
on, Christmas day. There are some, peo
ple In Nebraska who wish that Bohemia
had not made the Christmas present to
this country. i 4
Blue Springs Sentinel: Judge Sears of
Burt county has demonstated that he can
write letters that are racy and contain
food for thought at the hands of the com
ing session of the legislature. He has
been there and knows.
North Platte Tribune: So long as Wyom
ing coal sells In Omaha for less than It
does in this city 281 miles nearer the mines
our people will continue to believe that
they are being "hogged" and -that It Is a
matter that should be Investigated by the
Interstate Commerce commission.
Columbus Journal: Now the administra
tion has begun action against the paper
trust. We don't know whether he has us
in mind or not. but If Teddy will Just land
once or twice on the paper truM we won't
charge him anything for the aid and com
fort which we have given him In his hours
of stress and storm. If there Is one sure
way for a man to make himself solid with
the press It is to hand It to the paper
trust.
Norfolk Press: Public sentiment Is back
ing up the president so strongly In his
position as to regulation of freight rates
that It now seems certain that congress will
at this session pass a law that will give
the Interstate Commerce commission power
to establish rates that will do away with
discrimination In favor of Individuals or
communities. Such a law would strike at
the root of the evil of railroad discrimina
tion, and nothing less will satisfy the peo
ple. York Republican: The Omaha Bee says
that courtesy pasteboards bearing the
names of the members of the legislature
are being rapidly engrossed and prepared
for distribution, and it wonders how many
of them will be returned with thanks. It
cannot be possible that The Bee is seri
ous In asking this question. The Bee must
know that every single one of the paste
boards will be returned. There Is no use
of befogging the public mind with Imperti
nent questions.
Grand Island independent: Hall county
has a claim on the legislature that will
convene next week. It has not only sent
three of the best men In that body to
Lincoln, but It contributed largely to the
success of tho entire state ticket. It has
a right to ask for the speakership of the
house and for reasonably liberal treat
ment of Its state Institution, not only
on Its own account, but on account also
of the merits of that Institution per se.
And It asks for the selection of Hon.
George Rouse for speaker.
Schuyler Free Press: If the supreme
court of Colorado keeps on Its work the
election of Alva Adams, democrat, as
governor of that state will be changed Into
defeat and Governor Peabody made the
successful candidate. The court Is throw
ing out the heavy democratic precincts
where election frauds are said to have ex
isted. Out In Colorado, by the way. Is
where they have woman suffrage which
purines the ballot, and It Is shown that
the worst ballot box stutters of the lot
was woman in her gentle Influence In pol
itics. Beatrice Sun: The republican party Is
now In complete control of every branch
of the state government. The legislature
is practically unanimous. There are no
obstructionists. There are enough strong
men In the party to handle the business
without the help of Inconsequential non
descripts who, after being repudiated at
home, secure certificates of election, by
methods not recognized by honest men.
Of such the people expect nothing. But
of the men who will direct the party much
Is expected, and they will be held to a
strict account for the stewardship.
Beatrice Express:1 It is perfectly right
and proper that any citizen of Nebraska
should have the right to talk to any mem
ber of the legislature or to any committee,
either for or against any proposed legisla
tion. It is neither right nor proper that the
time of members should be taken up by
professional lobbyists, whose expressed
views on the subject are paid for views or
men willing to ptostitute their talents ana
urge the passage of 'unwise and vicious
measures In order to earn their salaries.
The professional lobbyists should be denied
the right to come upon the floor of either
house.
Long Pine Journal: One of the duties Im
posed upon the next legislature by the con
stitution of the state Is the preparation for
tate census. It Is provided that a state
census shall be taken midway between each
national census, as in the years 1895, 19u6,
etc. Ten years ago this duty was omitted,
ostensibly because the state was "too poor,"
but In reality because the solons were
afraid that It would show a decrease ah
compared wlthhe stuffed census of 1890. It
was a poverty of Inhabitants which was
expected. There' need be no fear of such an
Issue now, ana aouDtiess me census win
show a substantial Increase over the poll of
1900. It need not cost an excessive sum. Th
n,ny frills which encumber Uncle Sam s
neaa-counvu.s -
time ana money ..a".
01 noun m "
York Kepuum.au., "'" ,
State oi ,
has been given i
r -. ...... rt whim mnnh I , ,A ) , .
exoected Mr. Burkett ought to be elected ;
expecicu. ... i
I'nited States senator on me nrsi uuiiou
There ought to be provision made for the
ultimate assembling of a constitutional con
ventlon, and the organic law of the state
permanently placed beyond the reach of
wouldbe legislative constitution tlnkerers.
There ought to be some sane railroad legis
lation. There ought to be offered to the
people of the state. In return for their re
cent vote or connaence, some eviuence id
the lawmaking body of the state Is not
bound hand and foot and strangled In paste
board gyves and collars. It is now up to the
legislature of Nebraska. It Is that honor-
ble body's move. It Is time for those mem
bers to show their constituents how much
they are entitled to the little old three let
ters that precede the names of the members
In ihA rpnnrta and lournals.
Beatrice Express: The victory of the)
Gage county farmers In their fight for equal
shipping privileges at the village of Vir
ginia is gratifying, not only to the farmers
directly Interested, but to every man who
believes in fair play. The farmers won,
because they obtained what they sued for,
but there Is one kind of victory which
would have been more satisfactory, and
that would be a decision from the supreme
court, which would forever have settled the
questions Involved. As it is, after a long
Iftigatlon and considerable expense, the
farmers obtain an elevator site, but the
next company of farmers asking equal
hipping privileges will likely be denied and
put oft on various excuses and finally have
to ask the aid of the law to give them
what should be granted without question.
The right of a company of farmers to com
ply with the law and be given equal ship
ping privileges In every other respect should
be settled loom It ought not to be neces
sary to employ attorneys and begin law-
ulta. The railroad should grant these
things because they are right, and because
the petitioners are entitled to them. With
rebates to favored shippers, elevator sites
only to the favored few, no cars for the
farmer who wishes to ship his own grain
and refusal to pay taxes unless he can
name the amount to be paid, the railroads
are laying up trouble for themselves and
there wUl be a day of reckoning. Because
they are strong is no reason why they
should not be just and fair to rerybodjr.
BOt ID ABOIT SEW YORK.
Ripples on the nrrent of Life In the
Metropolis.
A report of the money order division of
the Nfw Tork postofflce, through which
pass all foreign money orders Issued in
this country, shows that from December 1
to December 24, no less than S34.0M Inter
national money orders were forwarded to
other lands, and these orders called for
Jl.KTT.&.'S.Ml
The remittances were the largest In the
history of the postofflce. The figures show
an unusual distribution also. For Instance,
Italy came second In the list of beneficiaries
In point of money received, and a good first
In the amount of the Individual orders.
Great Britain, as a matter of course, got
more money and more orders, but average
Ing the amount of the recipients got but
little more than $10 apiece. The Italian or
ders show an average of more, than 130
each.
Portugal had the smallest average. The
average of the orders forwarded to that
country was $J. Kven Luxembourg, which
was at the bottom of the list from the
standpoint of the number of orders, showed
an average somewhat larger. Egypt had
slightly the best of Portugal, too."
In making the holiday remittances $4,171,
406.11 worth of exchange was bought, and
In the buying a tidy amount was saved for
Uncle Sam. International money orders
are obtained from the Postofflce department
at a fixed rate of $4.87, Irrespective of what
the market quotation may be.
A woman entered a postofflce substation,
which Is also a drug store, and requested
the clerk to weigh a package she carried
and tell her the amount required in stamps
to carry It to the address It bore, relates
the Tribune. The clerk weighed it, said
"Twelve cents." and returned It to the wo
man with a 10-cent stamp and. a 2-cent
stomp. Then he set about weighing another
package. Presently the woman spoke up
"You haven't given me the 12 cents In
stamps for this package yet," she said.
"Pardon me, madam," said the clerk, "but
I have. There they are." He pointed to
the 10-cent stamp and the 2-cent stamp,
which still lay on the top of the package
"No, they are not," snapped the woman.
"That's not 12 cents In stamps." "Ten
cents and 2 cents make twelve cents," said
the clerk. "I don't know anything about
that," returned the woman. "What I want
Is 12 cents In stamps." The clerk looked at
her. She looked intelligent and was dressed
as became one In comfortable circum
stances. "Madam," he Anally Inquired,
"what do you want?" "You said It would
cost 12 cents. I want. six 2-cent stamps. You
ought to know that. Seems to me you don't
know your business." "Madam," asked the
clerk as he carefully laid out six 2-cent
stamps before her, "wouldn't you like to
have me lick the stamps and stick them on
for you?"
With the record-breaking army of unem
ployed which the city, through Its various
charitable Institutions, will have to support
this winter, It faces also the problem of
caring for an unprecedented number of
sick. So many cases have been received In
Bellevue hospital In the last few days that
the Institution has been obliged to transfer
many patients to the Metropolitan and City
hospitals on Blackwell's island. As a re
sult these hospitals have been filled to over
flowing. One hundred extra cots have been
Installed in the Metropolitan, and as many,
in the City hospital, and no more patients
can be received In either place. The normal
capacity of Bellevue hospital is 850 pa
tlents.
In the annual report of the Post-graduate
hospital in New York Is made the Import
ant statement that forty persons suffered
from consumption of a distinct character
and were absolutely cured at that instltu
tlon during the year. Some of the patients
visited the hospital regularly; others were
treated at their homes by hospital phy
slcians. The treatment consisted chiefly of
sanitary and dietetic methods, with such
medicines as the conditions indicated. This
establishes beyond a doubt that It Is not
necessary in all coses to send the patient
away from home, but that by avoiding ev
erythlng unfavorable the disease can be
cured even la this climate,
One of the most famous criminals the old
Tombs prison In New York held In many
years had Just been placed In his cell. His
name Is a familiar one and he was Involved
In a recent Wall street scandal. The de
linquent in this case has always been very
friendly with the newspaper men and when
he was arrested several reporters who had
known him hastened to the Tombs, con
fldent of obtaining an Interview. He re
fused to be seen, and his message to them.
which Is a tradition of the Tombs, was emi
nently characteristic: "Tell them," he said,
to the warden, "that I am not in."
One of the men in the New York fire de
partment was placed on the retired list a
week ag(J for a most unuaual reaaon. For
thj twentyH),d ypar, he had ,n the
d tment hls dlmenslon. had Increased so
much that e wag unab,e to get tnroUfh
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allii a down the Dole and caused the com Dan v
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to lose some time in responding to the
alarm. After that he used the stairs. This
was considered too slow for modern meth
ods of fighting fire and It was thought ad
visable for hinj to retire on a pension.
The great Pennsylvania terminal opera
tions are progressing steadily. In that Im
mense square bounded by Seventh and
Ninth avenues and Thirty-second and Thirty-third
streets demolition is everywhere.
Not a single one -of the 300 houses which
occupied this section a year ago is still
standing, and atop of the debris from
razed buildings huge piles of stone and
earth tell the tale of what Is going on under
the surface. On the Manhattan side there
mu" OB luu . '
various details of the Immense undertaking,
and over In Koboken activity Is even
greater. Four acres of ground have been
cleared on the Jersey side, and here the
clicking of drills, the groaning of the big
excavation buckets and the wheezing of
derricks make a lively din. When It U con
sidered that It was only In 1901 that the
Rapid Transit commission awarded the
franchise to the company the progress
made la quite phenomenal. Most of the
workmen at the Manhattan end of the
tunnel are negroes. On the Jersey side
there Is a mixture of Irish, Finns, Poles and
Italians.
A Chicago man just returned from a visit
to New York declares that nothing can
exaggerate the exorbitant prices charged
by fashionable restaurants there and the
haughty waiters In such places gave him
cold chills "Accompanied by another Chi
cago man," he says, "I went Into one of
these dens of thieves and, calling a fls
tinguished looking person In evening dress,
asked him if he was the waiter. With
rather a bored air he answered that he was
the waiter's valet, but that he would call
the waiter. He did so. A still more dis
tinguished individual approached and said:
'What can I do you for, sir I mean, what
can I do for your Oh. yes," In response
to mild aotest, "that may be a litUe bit
overdrawn, hut not much.
COTTOJ Bt'RXIIO.
Startling; Aetlon Designed to Roost
the Price of the Crop.
Chicago Record-Herald.
By the sweat of his face man earns his
bread; also his clothes and all that he
ha. That Is the hard law of the world
Then what a sorry spectacle, what a
symbol of social maladjustment It Is when
man must deliberately destroy by fire the
goods which his toll and sweat have pro
duced! .
They are burning cotton In the southern
states. A hundred thousand dollars' worth
Is already consumed. The talk Is that
J.OOO.Ono hales, or almost one-ixth of the
year's crop, will be given to the flames In
order that the remainder may have higher
value.
The burned cotton would make cloth
which would make clothes and other serv
iceable things for men. Its destruction Is a
net loss to the world, whatever gain the
destroyers may or may not make. The
unclothed people, the reople with too little
clothing, the people who must wait for
cheap prices to buy what they need, ore
all sufferers. Surely It Is a sh;uneful mat
adjustment.
The disorder began when, on the bisls
of a short crop, the price of cotton was
artificially stimulated a year or so ago.
Factories closed, factory employes suffered,
cotton cloth prices Increased, cotton cloth
users suffered In consequence. Also cotton
growers In the south were led to Increase
their plantations enormously, bringing un
der cultivation even poor fields that had
been abandoned for decades.
Now this year the disorder Is greater
than ever. An enormous crop is followed
by extremely low prices; prices, It is said
tnat bring less to the planter than his
actual expenses for cultivation. What Is
the planter to do? The more of his cot
ton he sells the greater the net loss he
will have to charge up on his books.
He has found the solution In fire. He
hopes that the burning of part of the crop
win make the rest more valuable. His
boldness is something new. Farmers often
have left part of their crops to rot In th
field rather than spend money to harvest
It. But after harvesting costs have been
paid It Is an unheard of thing to destroy
the crop. Perhaps In this case more good
Is hoped from the rumors of destruction,
which may influence the market, than from
actual destruction. Certainly if the plant
ers cannot get together in a selling syndi
cate to control the market, they hardly
can expect to get together In a burning
syndicate.
Whether the planter's arithmetic is good
or bad, whether fire harms him or helps,
the loss of , actual wealth to the world
Is the one certain fact in the situation.
Surely a time will come when society will
be able to order Its economic affairs in a
more rational manner than this.
HARD TASK FOR ARBITRATORS.
Delicate Issnes Submitted n
the
Dogger Rank Commission.
New York Sun.
When the adjourned Dogger bank com
mission meets again on January 9 it will
enter upon what Is perhaps one of the
most delicate tasks ever Imposed on a
body of responsible men by International
diplomacy.
The kernel of the question to be discussed
lies In the second article of the convention
between the British and Russian govrn
ments. That article says that the com
mission shall decide principally who were
responsible for the occurrence and also the
degree of blame attaching to the subjects
of the two high contracting parties or to
the subjects of other powers In the event
of their responsibility being established by
the Inquiry.
' It Is quite evident that It Is really on
the contingency Indicated In the last sen
tence that the whole question hakgs, and
therein lies the delicacy of the subjects to
be deliberated on. Should the culpability
for what took place be found to rest on
subjects of either of the powers which are
principals In the affair, or to be shared be
tween them, their respective governments
will no doubt be prepared to deal with
them to the satisfaction of both, and the
Incident will cease to have International
significance. But It must be quite other
wise should It be found that the subjects
of another power or powers were Involved
That the possibility of such being the
case was present to the minds of those who
drew up the protocol of the convention on
behalf of their respective governments is
plainly visible from the wording of It, and
It probably accounts for the apparent de
lay in the conclusion of the arrangement.
The International consequences that would
necessarily arise from the mixing up in the
affulrs of subjects of another power is far
too serious to admit of undue haste or a
loosely worded agreement.
Whatever may be the decision arrived at,
the gravity of it will be extreme and unde
niable, for If It be found that there was
just cause for what has appeared all along
to be a criminal blunder of the first magni
tude, and that cause can be traced to Its
real source, not only does the responsibility
of the members of the commission become
of the most solemn sort, but the situation
created for the powers represented will be
perplexing In the very highest degree.
Senatorial Dignity Harried.
Chicago Record-Herald.
Let the world kindly take notice that a
working majority of the members of the
United States senate are not under indict
ment for land frauds or for being con
nected with get-rlch-qulck schemes and are
not being tried for belonging to churches
that are unconstitutional. The senate may
have Its faults, but there are some bad
men .who have not as yet succeeded In
getting Into It.
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This your head to the left?
Then there's no use trying. It's too late! Noth
ing in the world can make hair grow on a bald
scalp that has been smooth and shiny for years.
It's too late! No use trying now!
Or is this yours to the right?
Good. Only look out for dandruff! It leads
straight to baldness. But there's use trying now,
for Ayer's Hair Vigor cures dandruff, keeps
the scalp clean and healthy, and checks falling hair.
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ATlft isBIAMBrtll-Pof tee sloes. ATBR'S PILLS-Ter eoBitlpattoB.
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PERSON AIj ROTES.
Joseph C'hoate. American ambnssadnr to
the court of St. James, has now served
longer In that position than nny of his
predecessors since the retirement thirty
five years ago of Charles Francis Adams.
Mr. Beckwlth, the Oborlln banker who
loaned his bunk's money to Mrs. Chadwlck,
Is said to resemble Russell Sage. We
assume that the resemblance extends only
to personal appearance, which Is often mis
leading. One cannot but feel tender over the story
of the 6-year-old lad of Chicago whose Joy
at receiving his long-expected Christmas
presents was so extreme that the little
heart stopped beating. Santa Claus was
tco bountiful ia this giving.
Lieutenant Victor Saporettl, a popuUr
officer of the Sixth regiment des Alpines,
Verona. Italy, has become famous the world
over as the result of his recent invention
of a telemeter for measuring accurately
long distances, dny or night.
M. Alphonsc Bertillon, inventor of the
system of mrastirlnx criminals, li;s made
another discovery which Is pronounced of
tremendous value, how to transform a per
spective view Into a kind of geometrical
plane which would allow of the mathe
matical determination of the dimensions
and the distance of objects from tho eye.
David Turple, Indiana's only living ex
senator, is alert at the age of 79 and takes
a lively interest in public affairs. He has
been brought Into the public eye again by
the suggestion that the democratic minority
in the legislature honor him with its vote
for senator in January, when successors
to Beverliige and Fairbanks are to be
chosen. Mr. Turple was retired from the
senate In 1899.
King Leopold of Belgium hns never
signed a death warrant. The laws of the
land prescribe a death pi unity, hut they
are only tarried out constructively, the
condemned person being permitted to serve
out a life sentence In Jail. The reason fur
this strange state of affairs is that King
Leopold promised his mother when she
wus dying that ho would never sign Ins
name to a death warrant.
LAST YEAR SMILES.
"Say. ma," said the small boy. "mi
stomach sez It's dinner time."
"Hun away ami play, replied tils ma.
'your stomach's fast." Philadelphia Led
ger.
"I had an uncle who never paid but one
debt."
'And that was:
'The debt of nature." Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
'Hut." hissed the heavy villain, "suppose
our plot should leak out."
"It s bo thin It's likely to," shouted a man
In the audience, "but then there's so little
f it you d hardly miss it. Philadelphia
'ress.
"My dear, I hope you will not be disap
pointed when I tell you that I am really ten
years older thun I look." ,
"Not at all, my love. Ever since we were
married I have been wanting to tell you
that my fortune Is only about one-fourth
as large ns It ia generally supposed to be."
Chicago Tribune.
The rlrl who marries for love can look
down with lofty scorn on the girl who mar
ries for money, excepting wtien they meet
somewhere at a social function. Somerville
Journal. N
Mrs. Brlckrow How do von mannea to
persuade your husband to buy you such ex
pensive nonneis :
Mrs. Toiitlatte I tnko him shopping with
me. walk lilm around until he can't stand
nd then wind up lu a bonnet store. He I
buy anything to get home. New York
Weekly.
Jones Smith seems to be a nice follow.
and yet you say he is unpopular in this
neignuornoon.
Urown e. he Is. You see he cets out
and cleans the snow off his walk every
morning, and the rest of us have to do the
same. Cleveland Leader.
Mrs. Tittle What a beniiflful world it
must have been when there was onlv Adam
and Eve In It! There was nobody to say
nasty thlngn about them.
Mrs. Tattle Hut, then, they had nothing
to talk about.
Mrs. Tittle Well. I guess, after all. the
world 1ms Improved since their time. Hon
ton Transcript.
TIIE SHOE STHIXU MAX.
The shoestring man is blind, he sits all
day
Right in the alley where I go to play.
He has the nicest shoestrings, red and blue,
tor little codgers Jimt llkt- me and you.
1 break my shoestring sometimes when I
can.
And buy another of the shoestring man.
Ilo calls to all (lie people, 'Four for Ltvel"
lie barely sells enough to kei p alive.
1 hat's what he told me, and it made me
cry.
And then the shoeHtring man ho laughed,
oh my,
And made me sit upon his one good knee.
He said has happy hh a man could be.
He salu only meant it for a Joke.
If I'd be good and quit he'd blow the
smoke
Out of his nose and whistle like a train.
And I might ride to London on his cane.
Sometimes the hot tamulu man will say,
"Well, Uncle Hilly, how is trade today f
And Uncle Hilly, he will say It's good,
He wouldn't change his business if ha
could.
And the hot tamale man will go.
And maybe Uncle Hillv wouldn't know
He left him anything if I ain't there.
He gives me half, iio says 'at that's my
share,
Because I told him. Well, I s'pose that'a
true,
For he can't see a bit like me and you.
Folks asks him, "Uncle Billy's that your
boy?"
He says, "No, that's my pardner, Mr.
Hoy."
He tells 'em I'm his ryes and ho would be
A mighty lonesome man If 'taint for me.
1 asked him Where's his mamma, and be
said
He hasn't any mamma; she's dead.
And then 1 cried again and he said, "Oh.
Don't cry for that, my boy: Its long ago,"
The shoeutrlng man is old; his hair Is
white.
He lost his arm, he told me, In a fight.
His sleeve is empty. When the war began.
He says he was a boy, the poor old man.
He's Just as kind. I hope he'll never go
Out of our alley, for I love hi in so.
ibaui-.u int. 11 ci.