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TOE OMAHA DAILY REE: TnrRPDAY. MAY 11. 1903. err The Omaha Daily Hee. K. ROREWATER, EDITOR. IfDMSIIED EVERY MORNINU. It W TERMH OK SUBSCRIPTION: Tally Itce (without rtuiulayi, one year. I'slly H-h and Htinday, one year lllusl i n trd Bw,' om year Hunrtay bee. one yer Mat unlay Bee, one year Twentieth Century Farmer, one year. DKIJVKRKU BV CARRIER. Ilallv Mm. (without fiiiiiHVi. tier oony 1'ally Ili (without hunoayi. I'er wi'.. .t iially Hre (Including Hunoayi, per wet-k.lic Evening Bee (Without 8unua ), per week, iu Evening Hie (Including Hunaay), per wpp r"; Sunday Hoe, per copy 60 Complaint of irregularities In delivery shoulu be addressed lo City Circulation Lie lartment. OFFICES. Omaha The Dee Ilulldlng. ouih omaha-Ctty Hail building, Twenty filth aid M atreel. Council muffs 10 Pearl tret. Chicago 1G40 t'nlty building. New Vork-lWW Hume Elfe in, building. Washington 611I Fourteenth street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communication icluting to news and edl AO VOMmoMtSK' It In evldont from tlio latt'ct tifUrsmp of rrpl(lnt lloosovelt tlint tlifte vf-iU I't" no r-oniprouiisn 011 t li isrt of r , ml ntl itiHt rat Inn In regit nl to rn Mronil loiris Intloti. Ho Im stntoil In nn imiiilstnka- tilt; way tlutt there linn Iwon no hnii(fp 2 j In Ms "onvlctlon rcirii riling the norpsslty 1 . Si I uri iiiiii null 11-fiiiinuiiii .r i. iiiiii."j l-'' I rntin nnd that no legislation M ill lit) - ....t.l.l.U ... I.t... .l.n. .!.. ,,.. tuvil'lilA 2. I li jnninr lif mill linn in a j'mm i.h tliin. That his tiililliPt, with perhaps single exception, Is In iixreenicnt with him la Indicated in the speech of Sec retnry Tnft nt the dinner to the dele Kte to the Iuternntlniial Hallway con gTss The secretary of wnr, who la of course entirely familiar with the views of the president, declared that railway rate leg iHlatlon must come. It seems very evl dent from what Mr. Roosevelt has suM slncp lenvliig his hunting trip that tho torlul matter ahould be addressed: Omaha I npeech made some daya a no by Secretary fcUliunai urminncii. ,.,. .. .,! .!. ....l,1., REMITTNCES I 'I,M I,MI lllinn-jn rm-mru in.- I'li rni'in Remit by draft, express or postal order, I position, In SO far as It suggested some orin-Vnt .mprr..vLr;n.ymenVof Uort of fompromise. The station of mull uxpmmli Purinna 1 cliPi'KH. XL'et)t Oil I tt.. It . ,,:h.- ;ii .cer.ted. ,n'T "i ,,mi 11 tub BEE I'LREISHING COMPANY. certain sppiinen ainsen were corrccieti the rate oneation would adjust Itself, STATEMENT OF C!Kvll-AtlW. TUI lt,rnn lnn.,o.ir a tnken far State of Nebraska. Douglas County, ss.: I ' c. . Kosewater, secretary or int joo seriously ns nn nasumeii siHu-ineiu ruollsning Company, being ouiy i .... i i.t..., i. tl lh.il ills artnM number Of full MO ' ini i lull. i ") complete copj-s of The P"'1-.Jpr"',f' partly, and not In the most Important Evening and Sunday Ree printed during tne I ,. . 4 i month or April, llnw, was aa ioiiuwi. i r'(ci;i, rTtrcciiM'ii iim- iiirMiii'iiin qui shall prevail and we are Inclined to le licve from lic alxive remark that he will decide for the former. Why, It may rea aoimlily lie nskinl, wait for the comple tion of the isthmian canal In order to obtain from the transcontinental rail roads a revision of their way of looking at the interests of certain Inland cities' If that way Is not now the Just and proper way it should be corrected as soon as practicable. The government should not 1m a party to the maintenance of monopoly in connection with the Pan ama, railroad. l ai.oHo 2 31,0.10 I VH.I80 4 2S,ltt D. UH.lOO I H.N, lOO 7 ai,w:M) t ;o,sj: HO.UilO 10 27.UTO 11 2N.1TO It itN,4H U H.H,1.'0 1 21,000 15 ao,8o 16 4!.ihm I t,,An ,... nf fa.,t It, (pnriencT 17 jtH.ano lg; a,:J7o Ivhr to place him In a false light in re- l 27.B' I gard to a most vital phase of the queg. at aBo tlon of rnl,wn3r IRlalntlon and It Is most 22!!!!!!!!!!!! 8oiioo I gratifying to find that Mr. Roosevelt 23 81,770 I has taken the earliest opportunity to I Zhmui "passnrp tl,e P"'111 th"t ''e Is as fully 26.11. .1 it!S,no and firmly convinced today as when he 27 2,tiso wrote his last annual message of the 23 " bo.khi I necessity of such legislation as he then 30 82, 100 I recommended. The latest declaration of Mr. Roosevelt Total 88tl,4 kes unsold copies... ,783 H renewal of the challenge, In behalf Net total sales KTti.uaT of the people, to the railroads. It says Daily average v 2U.321 to )tter In terms not to be misunder- C. C. ROSE'A.RI:y. stood that it Is the purpose of the na- Suhscrlbd In my presence and sworn to tlonal administration to spare no effort Ctrore me trtis 1st oay 01 may. iwa. tical M, B. HUNUATE. Notary Public. The attorney general of Nebraska Is a pretty busy man these days. Tht bears can now stand back and watch the railroad rate makers. to protect the Interests of the pubjlo against admitted abuses on the part of the railroads. The railway corporations are given fair notice that all the lnflu ence of the administration will be ex erted In every proper way to secure Billbourdg and wooden sidewalks legislation which the president believes should be tabooed as twin evils. to be necessary to the correction of ex isting evils and abuses detrimental to the general welfare. A senate committee. dominated by railroad Influence, may propose n compromise measure designed to shield the railroads from adequate governmental regulation something that will enable them to continue In large part the conditions of which the public now complains. Nothing of this kind will be acceptable to President Roose velt. He wants no legislation that would operate to the Injury of the railroads, but only that which will be fait" and May day and Sunday arrive together J"" fl,lke t,ie corporations and to tho In Russia this year, and the social demo- public. President Roosevelt had doubtless read John I. Sale's poem of forty years ago entitled, "Hast Ever Been to Omaha?" raving specifications for l!)or have been unanimously approved by the coun ell. "Thank God from whom all bless ings flow." to hold back their orders anil then to all rush In together with disastrous results to themselves r fnr n prices are con cerned. It would seent that men of ordi nary sagacity would not be caught out in this fashion. Sener Tnnrheit 'Km. St. liouls ninbe-Democrat. Attorney Oenernl Moortys opinion on th rate question shot clear over the heads of tho Klklns committee. The commltte will probnbly report that cmKresa cannot do anything that It Is opposed to doing. crats promise to make the double holiday one Russia will remember. Maxim (Jorky is to te permitted to stay any place In Russia except St. Petersburg. This should be no hardship when the bombs begin to fly. In this the president has the nearly unanimous support of popular senti ment, which means ultimate victory. THE BOnEX-LUOMIS MATTER. Auioug the matters to which the pres ident will be called upon to give early attention after his arrival nt Washing- Thls chronic Inaction in the far east I ton is that of the charges publicly made must be trying upon Admiral Dewey if by Minister Bowen against Assistant he la still getting up at 5 o'clock in the Secretary Loomls. The latter asked for morning to read the war news. a thorough investigation and Mr. Boweu, minister to Venezuela, was called to If Secretary Taft and Secretary Mor- Washington in order to personally pre- ton are not in unison on the subject of sent the charges and whatever evidence railway rate regulation, the president, he has to suppqrt them. These are of happily, will have the deciding vote. a rather grave nature and if sustained will comnel the retirement f Mr While the prohibition agitation Is In Uwmin from the nubile service. If thev progress people in Kansas' are in doubt are not shown to be well founded Mr. whether Hoch of Chicago or Hoch of Bowen must step out of the diplomatic lopeka is having the greater trouble. service, with the certaintv of not heln ib cAMrAMx ton 1.1 w A spontaneous and simultaneous cam paign for Increasing the population of Kansas City, les Moines, St. Paul and Omaha has recently been inaugurated by the proprietors of the Omaha Kven lug News, who also publish newspapers in the three other cities uained. Kansas City is promised 5(H).(kn population by 1010 if its people will patronize home Industry, St. Paul 5(i,(nh), Omaha, ".on.- (HH) and lies Moines 100,000 population, providing they patronize home Industry. While the prospectus may have more or less of n rainbow hue, and while It Is by no means novel, it merits popular support. Years before cither of the Kellogg publications had been dreamed of The Bee carried on a campaign of home In dustry In Omaha and it lias kept precept lu line with example by practicing nt every stage what It preached in behalf of home Industry. In every instance where it In's been possible to purchase Omaha-made machinery and building materials and Omaha-made fabrics, The Bee has given preference to Otnnha over outside competitors, even whenV the preference was given at an cxtrd ex pense. It goes without saying that If Omaha bankers, merchants, manufacturers nnd wage workers would discriminate lu favor of Omaha-made wares they could add hundreds of thousands of dollars annually to the earnings of Omaha man ufacturing concerns and swell the vol ume of Omaha's wholesale and retail trade correspondingly. Whether Greater Kansas City can make a .00,oi0 population leap within the next live years is decidedly prob lematic. But J renter Omaha surely ought to be able to pass the iionKK) population mark by 1010 with moderate strenuosity. All the elements that contribute toward the rapid and substantial growth of a city are now propltrous. The es tablishment of the milling Industry; the erection of large grain elevators and the extension of the distribution facilities now In progress assure a very material Increase in Omaha's commerce ns well as In its population.' The prosperity of Nebraska and tho region commercially tributary to Omaha, and especially the rapid settlement of every section of that region, all tend toward strengthening confidence In Omaha's progress in the Immediate future. All that has been lacking heretofore. and Is still lacking to a degree, Is for every man and woman in Omaha to exert all their influence and energy to make Omaha more attractive not onlv to nvestors, but to people who want homes In other words, to give Omaha a boost every time there Is a chance for so doing. Cronitlnsi M nmea'a mileages, Ralilmore Amerln. It Is said that the requests for admis sion to a prominent Woman's college ht Increased to such enormous proportions that applications orp being received Ave and six years In advance of the time when the student may be expected to enter, and requests for admission are being rejected. This shows what rfTect on the sensitive feminine nature the criticisms of the higher education for women hav been having. The Japanese doubtless congratulate themselves upon the fact that all of the really dangerous Cossacks are appar ently eugaged lu keeping the populace of Russia lu order. permitted to return to it during the pres ent administration. The most serious of the charges against Ixiomls Is that of receiving, while minister to Venezuela, money from an asphalt company which was in the ncture of a bribe. He has very ex plicitly denied this and it has been said Lincoln hotels are not entirely without hoiwvof a reuiuuerative month, since the railroad tax agents are due to talk the thnt hu ttnient was accepted as sat statu board iuto reducing railway assess- ,gfH( tory b the president and secretary uieuts next week, . . OT um air. Kowen is to be heard regarding it. The suggestion has been Now that the Macedonian plan has a'l that perhaps Bowen was misled leu approved It still remains for the by the Venezuelan authorities, partlcu- six jiowcrs approving to put the neces- lHr'y Tresldent Castro, by whom he Is sary forces of the sultan lu iuotiou lu very disliked and who has wanted the right direction. him recalled, though not disposed to take any official steos to brine this ahout lu reiterating his determination not to It appears, however, that in an Insidious be a cuudidate for re-election President way the Venezuelan president has been Roosevelt gives Increased Importance to working to discredit at Washington the his statement that there can be no com- American minister. At all events the i.rummo vn me raiiroitu rate question. Bowen-Ix)omls matter manifestly calls for careful tnvuH7nHr.n anil 44- i ..t Whllo . ' " ""l luc Ulunu iirumoifn are to be doubted this will l. nmrto i rr..1 . 1 ,1 iv m it A A . 1 i . . I . . ... . I - umpmcw uicuiu oy eiec- I nresldent tricuy, uenerai Manager Mobler of the t'ulou Pacific Is preparing to displace the electric trolley with the gasoline motor, It Is a little bit too early to enter upon a serious discussion of au extra session of the late legislature, but we can con- vnv 01 coiiuiuoiis mai mignt make an extra aesslou next fall or next winter Imperative. HATES BF PAS AM J. What was said by President Roose velt at Denver iu reference to the Pan ama canal appears to Justify the infer ence that lie will approve the policy proposed by Secretary Taft In regard to transportation rates by the isthmian rail road, rather than that of Mr. Shouts of the Panama commission. It will be re membered that the latter declared In Secretary Wilson and party are on a fvor of continuing the present rates. trip to the southwest, where they will notwithstanding the admitted fact that tell farmers how to grow grain. They they Interfere with trade between this will lie followed later by various parties country and the southern countries In volunteering to tell the fanners how to the Pacific,' while the secretary of war ell it to advantage. I favors a modification of rates, making them such as will nav a fair return tn Kuuant Is the latest to claim recognt- the government on its luvestineut in the tion as au independent state. It has railroad. This might affect to a sllirht "CW1U" l " vn "l "ruzii ana win i exieni our transcontinental lines and it probably continue to be so counted until la needless to say that they are opposed u uas ueeu unie 10 uoal bouus In luHu- to tne Taft proposition. eutltil quarters. , The president said he thought wi,n the caual comes into oneratinn it -m ManJfostly the Douglas delegation to have a very important reirnlatorv the legislature did not dream Uiat the I lu connection with the tr..1.nnti.n(ui Juvenile court would Involve an expendl- commerce ft the railroads and that they urmn tuey maae will usvs revise their way of looking no provision for supplying the necessary at the interests of certain Inland cities funds, and the council very naturally it will be for the president to determine does not aee its way clear to a contrlbu- whether the policy advocated by Seere- " "ol ,uu" "P " ior wmcn uo tary Taft In regard to the Panama rail public fuuda ha v been raised. 1 road or that urooosed bvMr. ki,,- Reform In l ittle Rhod). Chicago Chronicle. Opinions may differ as to the advisability of electing Judges by popular vote or hav ing them appointed by the executive, but few people hereabouts would favor tho plan of electing them by the legislature, which Is tho system In force In Rhode laland. U has been the pleasant custom of tho legislature to elect all tho Judges, high and low, front among Its own members. That public opinion has been effective In bringing about a change In this custom during the present session is one of the encouraging signs of the political times. State I.lqnor Monopoly. New York Independent. Iiiqiinr selling Is a monopoly of the state In South Carolina. Anybody can get whisky who wants It. The state supplies dis pensaries anywhere, and they are freely patronised. When the system was started It was said It would bo a temperance measure to limit sales. But the sales, which began with two or three hundred thousand dollars, have grown to $3,374,786 last year, and a net profit to the state of $H03.W8, of which sum $304,339 was paid over to the school fund. Public vice was found an easy and profitable way to support public education. The more liquor sold the more money for the schools, etc.; so that he Is tho best agent who develops the most trade. It Is a bad business, but the Board of Control report themselves "very much gratified to report that the business of the dispensary has been conducted with har mony and success In all its departments." ROt.lD AnotT SEW VORK. Ripples on the Cnrrenf of life In the Metropolis. Prompted t) Andrew Carnegie's J10.0o0.O00 benefaction to oolleno professors. Henry Clews makes an estimate In round num bers of the fortunes of the great capitalists of the country. His figures on the leaders are as follows: John r. Rockefeller trw.rtO.OoO Andrew I'nrnesie, $1 15.iJ.m g.ven awav. Ifuvlns 2SO,nnO.0"O William Waldorf Astor, clip lly In r.al estate 2w.nnnniA John Jacob Astor 75.M,Oi Uotlld family, of which (ieorge J. Mould's personal fortune rep- l.vt.non.oon imi imi.on) li 0 (() sOII'UMK) XI (IKl.O'O 75.nivi.oo 75.m,flOj H1.0Oo"0 AU.fOlVO'l 46,onn.m) 4O.0i0.(ii) 4n.cfln.O0 40.0IHI.IIIXI 3.1.0il0.0ilt an. oi n. i in) lft.onn.otKi 15.0en.000 CONDITIO OF J.4PAVS TOILERS. Viewed Struggle ns Now that the council has disposed of the paving specifications, It might be In order for that body to get together us a committee of the whole to Improvise an ordinance prohibiting the laying of wooden sidewalks in Omaha from now on and forever. A salutary example has been set In this direction by the mayor and council of (raud Island,, where all sidewalks are required to be of brick, stone or concrete. The plea that side walks laid on streets that have not yet been graded must le built of perishable material Is preposterous. Brick side walks can be taken up and relaid at comparatively little cost. They do not decay nor do they warp and leave gaps that become n menace to limbs If not to lives of people by whom they are trav ersed. ' ) While there Is some divergence among memlsTS of President Roosevelt's cab inet regarding railroad regulation and rate making, the president's utterances on the subject are nof the least am biguous and the probabilities are that the members of the cabinet who are not of his way of thinking will be either converted or diverted out of the cabinet. for n I.lvlnor by Native. Kilchl Kaneko In the Arena. The condition of the worklngmen In Japan Is a most miserable one. They are yet In a state which mny be described ss wage slavery. In 1S99 we had 20,922 work ers employed In the varlons factories In Japan. Of these, 184.111 were female workers. They are working generally twelve hours a day, and sometimes fifteen hours. Ordi nary workmen receive from 12 to 20 sen (cents) a day; skilled laborers from 30 to 40 sen; girls earn from 10 to 20 sen, and children only a few sen per day. Even skilled mechanics receive but 60 sen per day; seldom do they get as high as CO to 80 sen. Street car drivers and conductors receive 10 or 12 yen (dollars) per month, while American conductors and motormen receive $50 to $60 a month. Your policemen receive $100 a month, while Japanese po licemen get only 12 yen per month. While our carpenters earn T5 sen per day, your carpenters receive $3 or $4 per day. Here you see the great difference between the American and Japanese scale of .wages. This means misery for the laborer. To be a workman in Japan is to be a life slave. There Is no chance to get ahead, no chance to enjoy life. I- learned from one of the Toklo printers that there are thousands of printers In Toklo alone and that they are not more han twenty of all these who are receiving enough to support families. Two solid gold disks, alleged to be worth at least $34,000. which are said to have been shipped as ordinary baggage from Omaha to St. Joseph, are held for the benefit of the claimant by the Bur lington baggage agent at St. Joseph. Whether the disks are of the same metal usually poured into ti gold brick has not yet transpired. 1 The $100,000,(K0 o preferred stock about to be issued by the Union Pacific will not figure In this year's state as sessment, but next year it will add at least $?.00 a mile to the capitalization of Nebraska's mileage iu the L'ulou rnclflc system. lor Than a suspicion. Chicago Tribune. The suspicion Is that Tat Crowe merely hankered for a sight of his name in the papers asain. WHEX THIRSTY) EAT FRIIT. Substitute for Iltarhballs and Schoon era Within Reach of All. Chicago Tribune. The What to Eat magazine says there is but one sure cure for the drink habit. .This is eating fruit. Let a man take an orange in the morning Instead of old Scotch. Let him keep apples In hla desk, and, when he feels the highball tempting him, devour ono. Let him eat prunes at lunch, strawberries at dinner, and a handful of dates or figs before going to bed. The drink Satan will then get behind him. "No person," says What to Eat, "ever saw a man or woman who liked fruit and who had an appetite for drink. No person ever saw a man or woman with an appetite for drink, who liked fruit." These statements are inconsistent with the tradlonal affection of policemen for both fruit stands and bars; but there are exceptions to all rules. The fruit cure has obvious advantages. Even those who dis like fruit will prefer it to remedies that taste worse and cost more. When a man goes ofT for three or four weeks to be treated his absence excites the suspicions of watchful neighbors and requires an ex planation to his employers. He may take the fruit cure without any such disagree able consequences, other cures are ex pensive. The fruit cure costs nothing. What la spent for oranges and prunes may be saved on other edibles and on whisky and beer. But the main advantage of the fruit cure, according to What to Eat, Is that, unlike others, it is sure. This statement requires proof. When people have seen "the drunk ard return to the thoughts and tastes of childhood" merely from eating fruit tfiey will be convinced. The new remedy worth trying. There Is no healthier food than fruit. It aids digestion and helps clean the poisons out of the system. It is a natural tonic. If It does not cure the drink habit It will refresh and Invigorate the drinker. The Living net the Money. Chicago Record-Herald. 6paln Is celebrating the tercentenary of the publication of "Doir Quixote" and the Germans are having fetes lu honor of the poet Schiller. Cyrus Townsend Brady con tinues, however, to get the money. (aperlor Railroad Talent. Baa Francisco Chronicle. We hear a great deal about the extra ordinary ability of the manag ra of gr. at railroads, but it is only rarely that the facts about their blunders are mude pub lic. There is pretty good evide.ica that a couple of eaatern lines are called upon to pay about $3 7M.i 00 for freight curs through the failure of those who run them to give their orders when car construction was light. The Railway Age some time ago painted out lh propensity vt managers A House Party Deucedly pleasant, of course Butyou're always on the go A score of people to meas ure wits against A hundred things to do Wearing on the nerves Stomach sympathizes You wake up feeling razzle-dazzled A bottle of Red Raven will clear the liver, sweeten the stomach, and take the strain off the nerves for ult svrybt resents $1f,.0no.i . Marsltnll Field Hlalr vestate W. K. Vandrrbllt . Russell Base I. O. Mills William Rockefeller J. F. Morgan James J. Hill Henry i'hlpps John 1). Arclilbokl . Henry M. Flagler . Junies ft. HagKiu . . . James Henrv Smith W. If. Tllford James Slllltniin George F. Raker ... It will be noted that Mr. Clew's list does not contain by any means all the great rich men. Tho members of tho so-called Rock Island crowd William H. nnd J. H. Moore. D. d. R"ld and W. R. Leeds are not In It. neither Is Senator W. A. Clark, Henry C. Frlck. John W. Ontes, Norman R. Ream, the William C. Whitney estate. P. A. B. Widener. the younger Vanrterhllt, Mrs. Hetty, Green nor any of the other notably rich women of the country. Mr. Clews. In fact, admitted that his list was by no means complete, but he said ho be lieved It contained undoubtedly all the very richest capitalists. Thnt the flame of R youthful 'love was carried by Mrs. Thoelm Berrlan to her grave, at the ripe old age of three scorn and ten, was attested, to the consternation of her direct helrs-at-law, when her will wss filed for probate in the surrogate's court in the old town hall of Flushing, Long Island. Mrs. rhoebe Berrlan long outlived her husband, and for years residents of Locust street. Flushing, where she lived, regarded her as an eccentric woman, whose likes and dislikes were hard to get at. She lived so cheaply that no ono ever gave her credit of owning a fortune. With the filing of the will, a month after her death, the surprising fact that she had left an estate of $15,000 was revealed. But the most surprising thing was the uncov ering of the romance which neighbors haij suspected, but which their curiosity had never been able to bring to the light. The partner of the romance Is Elmer A. Ilolden, a business man of Franklin, N. Y. As the expectant heirs listened they heard that they were cut off without a cent, and, save for two bequests of $100 each, the en tire estnte of $ir.000 Is to go to Holden, the old flame of the youth of Mrs. Berrlan. The two $100 bequests are to the sister and the nephew of years gone by. who are long since dead, nnd the $:i)0 will go to their hclra. New York's subway has been In operation six months, and has more than met ex-pe-tatlons 1-0 the amount of business at tracted and In the facilities secured. It was estimated that the number of passen gers would be 350,000 a day, but at times 425,000 have been handled, and it Is clear that extensions of the system are needed. Operating the plant has been satisfactory. No Interruption has occurred except a strike, which had no speciat relation to underground travel. Ice and snow have been no Impediment, and the various notes of al.irm about the subway atmosphere and other features have proved uncalled for. . The only serious complaint heard now Is that local trains are not frequent enough. Express trains are pronounced all that could be desired. At the end of six months' experience, the public urges more accommodations of the same sort. Rising above the roof of a storage ware house on the upper East Ride Is a tall flag staff that Is sure to fix the attention of anybody seeing It for the first time, a flag staff that Is set up and rigged like the mast of a ship. It la In two parts, a lower mast and a topmast, with the regulation crosstrees at the point of Junction, while running up on either side to the crosstrees. from the sides of the building at the roof, are shrouds, ratllned like those set to stay the mast of a ship: and projecting from the rear of the staff Is a gaff, like the upper spar of a fore-and-aft sail, to add to the flagstaff's marine appearance. It is a ves sel's mast, rising above the city roof. This unique flagstaff was set up by one of the owners of the storage concern who bad been a sailor and had served In the German navy and who loved the sea, and whose fancy It pleased to set up this flag staff In the manner described. He Is now gone, but his surviving partners, of his own family, have maintained the staff as he left It. and so It stands today, all trim and shipshape and doubtless the most no.el of all New York CUy'a flagpoles. Irene Rlckert. 5 years old, of 448 West Fifty-third street, New York, while playing on the fire escape balcony on the fifth floor of the tenement house In which she lives, lost her balance and fell through the ladder opening. The child Is said to have struck each balcony between the fifth and the first floor, where she landed. As the child's body passed the second floor It was seen by John Hayes. He hurried down the ladder and carried the child to his own room. By this time the child had been missed by her grandmother, who was Ironing In tha kitchen, and when she looked from the window and saw Mr. Hayes with the baby in his arms she promptly fainted. Hayes was about to go for an ambulance, when the child surprised all by opening her eyes. "Please, mamma." she said, "don't send me to the hospital." The sound of the child's voice sent both mother and grandmother into another faint. The family physician was summoned and after examining the child found her to be suffering only from slight abrasions and a small wound on the sculp. The "jewelry district," being Maiden Lane and the vicinity, Is wondering what has become of one of its picturesque fig ures, an old watchmaker, whose boast wai that his own timepiece never lost two sec onds a year. Every day at noon he would stand beside his window and gase at the brass ball that drops frort its pole on the Western Union building on the minute of midday. Around hint, hung on pegs, lying on the window sill, strung along the sash, were rows of watches. For several min utes before the hour of noon the old mail had been waltlns and when the ball dropped ha would take a quick look at all tha watches. Five minutes later he was busy regulating them and making a table to show how much time each had lost or gained. Tha office on tha top floor was rented solely because tha window commanded a good view of tha time ball, and tha noon calculations cam to tie a mania with tha Jeweler, who, although h prospered with all aorta of mending, appeared to lake lit tle Interest in anything except watches that needed to ba compared with the ball. How ha came to desert the window nobody In Maiden Lane can tell. All tha I.aii knows la thai ha baa uivvad to auolhsr City. tnowe, Chicago Inter-Ocean: All of the Sur rounding clrrumstan'-es seem to Indicate that "I'at'' Crowe Is determined to stand pnt. Chicago Tribune: The next time Pnt Crowe walrs Into a newspaper offiie and annoum es himself there should be an at tempt to keep hliu enaaged In conversation until the officers arrive. Boston Olob : Tat Crowe gave himself up In Omaha last week, evidently feeling thnt a chance of Jail wns preferable lo ob livion. People had narly forgotten him. Having recalled himself to their minds, he vanished again. Chicago Chronicle: As Tat Crowe has failed to make satisfactory arrangements for Immunity, we may now expect him. to resume that interesting exhibition of ubi quity with which ho entertained the police for six months after his kidnaping ex ploit. A man who can register at hotels In Minneapolis, Pittsburg, Sun Francisco anil New Orleans on the same day cer talnly possesses powers of eluslveness that should be of value to him. Mr. Crowe might do something In a business way with Admiral Rejestvensky, for Instance. A MATTER OF HEALTH FHRSOVll. ROTES. John Wirt Randall of Annapolis. Md., who Is a descendant of William Wirt, hs In his possession the original letter of Thomas Jefferson offering Wirt the presi dency of the Cnlvorslty of Virginia. A batch c.f Yale students and a profes sor have been studying "sociology" In New York In the Tenderloin. If these are the same men who are In New York after foot ball victory they know tho ground well. It Is said that the board of trustees of the Jamestown exposition will otter th presidency of the exposition, recently held by the late General Fltxhugh l.ee, to former Governor Charles T. O'Farrall of Virginia. H. B. Rlackwell, the venerable reformer and publicist, has Just celebrated his eightieth birthday In Boston. He was a potent factor In the free soil movement and married Lucy Ptone, a leader In the woman suffrage movement, In ISM. He has been a persistent advocate of suffrage for women. The late Jules Verne relied chiefly on his reading and his Imagination for the mater ial for his stories. To prepare himself for his "Five Weeks In a Balloon" he mad a single ascent, lasting an hour. He wrote glowing descriptions of Ihdla and other remote countries, though his travels never took him beyond the Mediterranean re- glOUA Pavld loffat of Denver Is the wealthiest man in Colorado, which outranks all other states in per capita wealth. Colorado has the further advantage that most of Its vast fortunes were made within Its boun daries, not alone In mining, but in the cattle industry. In realty, speculation In fruit, sugar beet culture, potato farming and in manufacturing and other mercan tile pursuits. There are 108 resident mil lionaires In Colorado, their total wealth being about $.'60,000,000. "Big Bill" Devery. formerly chief of police In New York, thus delivers himself regarding auto speeders: "Them people that's got enough dough to own autos don't care no more for a fine than they do for a spot of gasoline on their pants. This thing of finln' men that have fun makln' people do kangaroo jumps on street crossings is a comedy. For them, Jail. If these swift hoys was to stack up against that grub on the island for a few days they'd put drags on their machines In the city streets. mmm Absolute! Pure HAS 110 SUBSTITUTE FLASH F.S OK Kl '. Miss Giggles Mr. flifdley took nie to see the first performance of your play, and I enl'ivod It so inn.-h. Pe Rlter-Pellshted to hear you Say so Miss Giggles Yes. we had a two-pound box of tine bon bona between us. Phila delphia ledger. "A New York man who wanted to get out of an Insane asvluni said he could sit down and wlite an editorial for any paper In New York." "What dirt the Judae do?" "Remanded him buck Into custody." Cleveland l'lain Dealei. "Is your son Industiii us?" "It depends.' 'Hnswiied Farmer Com tossel. "He's liable to lake his time doln' chores, but If you ever get bint on second base with a good hitler up he's liable to be about the busiest thing on caitli." Washington Star. . "Come, now. you're putting It too strong when you speak of old Slorlgcrs as 'one of th greatest patriots In the country.' " "No. I'm not. He Is. He never tries to dodge his taxes." Chicago Tribune. "What a pity real detectives Hre not ns brilllint as the story book detectives." "It wouldn't work. ' answered the police officer. "They'd all resign from the force and write novels." Washington Star. Boggs Clerks nnd office boys hnve a queer sense of humor. SkHggs Yes? Boggs Yesterday my office boy told.me that Mr. Beans was waiting to see me. I remarked that I didn't know him. and the whole office force shouted with laimhter. And there wns no such person, either! Cleveland Leader. sTAnif; im.i:. W. T. Iiinpton In New York Sun. What's the good of standing idle When th world Is full of men Who are striving with the ledger, With the hammer and the pen, Who are doing deeds of valor In the limitless expanse Of endeavor, with a purpose That must nullify all chance? 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