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TllK OMAHA DAILY BKK: FRIDAY. .1ANTAHY .1. 1008. Tim Omaha Daily Bee. FOUNDED Br EDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. KMered at Omaha Postofflce aa second tlass matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: rlly Bee (without Hundayt. one year..H. Ially Bee and Sunday, one year. 00 I 50 I 60 tunaay naay Ueo. one rear.. Saturday Bee, one year. DELIVERED BT CARRIER: Pally Bee (Including Sunday). per weeH loe Dally Bee (without Sunday), per week.. 10c Evening Bee (without Sunday), per week c Evening Bee (with Sunday), per week...Wc Addreaa all complaint of Irrerularttlei In delivery to City Circulation Department. r OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Bunding. South Omaha City Hall Building. Council Bluffs 16 Scott Street. Chicago 1640 l'nlverslty Building. New rork-lWS Home Life Insurance building. Washington-725 Fourteenth Street N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communication relating to newa and edi torial matter ahould be addressed, Omaha bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only 2-cent atampa received in payment of mall accounts, personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchange, not accepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, as.: Oeorgo B. Tsschuck, treasurer of The Tli. Publishing Company, being duly worn, save that the actual number of full and complete ooples of The Daily. Morning, Evening and Sunday Bte printed during the month of December, 1907, was as follows: 1 34,400 2 37,180 l.w 37,379 4 37,390 6., 37,330 36,960 T 37,090, 1 36.300 17 . . 36,840 1 36,630 It 36,640 20 86,880 21 38,350 22. 36.300 23 36,400 24 36,890 -5 -i . '36,600 9 36,930 10 37,030 11- 37,000 12 36,740 13 37,530 14 36,610 IS 36,950 II 36,960 2 36,800 27 36,890 2 II 36,360 29. 35,300 30 36,113 31 36,610 Totals 1,133,980 Less unsold and returned copies. 9,304 Net total Dally average . . OEORGE B 1,139,776 36,444 TZSCHl'CK. Treasurer, Subscribed In my presence and sworn to berore me tins Zd day ot January. ROBERT lU'NTEK. Notary Public WHEN OUT OF TOWH. flabacrlbera learlnc the city tern porarlli- should have The Be ana Ilea, t thaa. Addreaa will tMi ctuaataToal a often aa requested. At least, the weather man has been starting the new year right. "The Man with the Bundle" has re tired In favor of "the Man with the Bill." Tom Lawson seems to cling to the notion that presidents are selected by correspondence schools. The state of Delaware is said to be going dry. Still, at least half of that tate is wet when the tide is in. "What will be the first result of our prohibition law?" asks the Atlanta Constitution. More drug stores. Hobuon says the nary officials should quit quarreling. In other words, he advises them to kiss and make up. Rear Admiral Brownson admits that he lost his temper in that controversy with Admiral Rixey. The record also shows that he lost his Job! "Congress has- passed but tone bill so far,'" says a Washington paper. At this time of the year most people take real pleasure In passing bills. Captain Hull ot the army says sol diers should be encouraged to marry Just as If there were no other way of keeping them in fighting trim. A man has been sent to Jail at De troit for stealing 3,000 fountain pens. A fitting punishment would be to com pel him to keep them all cleaned and filled. Michigan has a boy who heard ot God, tho Fourth of Christmas or his birthday. If left alone he will grow up to model juror. never July, he Is be a The United States court at Omaha lias broken the record by sitting in the trial of cases on New Year's day. In cidentally the lawyers in the case had a break-up, too. A physician might do more good In the Navy department at Washington Just now than he could commanding a battleship on the water. Most of the officials there are In a high fever. China reports that 10,000,000 rifles have been made in one of Its arsenals In the last year. It Is evident that the imperial decree against opium smok ing la not being obeyed in China. ' Omaha got such a good start the first ten months of , last year that its achievements In a business way must surprise every one in spite of the fall down during the last two months. Tom Lawson says that he is going to make a dive Into Wall street early in January. Tom should know that the water is not very deep In Wall tieet just now, but that It Is very cold. These predictions that the democrats are going to sweep the country next year have been explained. - The lead ers have just cashed In $25,000 of Denver' bonus for the national con vention. . The street commissioner of Philadel phia lost a valuable ring and had the streets for several blocks scrubbed and cleaned in a search for the missing jewelry. Too bad that more street sp"cisi!onera d not low their ring". TAT FOR M.X-rBK9WE.TS. Senator Allison has made a sugges tion, which he intimates he will later embody In a bill to be offered for con gressional consideration, providing a fixed compensation for presidents of the United States after they have re tired from office. Senator Allison's suggestion Is that each outgoing presi dent be retired as a general of the army and be entitled to pay as such. Argument In favor of the suggestion of the Iowa senator has been offered by the confession of Mr. Cleveland, In recent magallne article, that he . if using his pen because he needs the money derived from his literary labors. When Mr. Cleveland was president It was charged that he hnd profited hand somely by Investments made through friends, but he has refuted these charges by a confession, supported by testimony concerning his mode of life and his domestic affairs, that, he- is compelled to earn at least part of the funds needed for the support of . his family and the education of his chil dren. One precedent exists for the plan proposed by Senator Allison. Presi dent Grant received a pension, al though It was given under the guise of restoring him to his rank of general of the army and allowing him the pay of a retired officer of his rank. The president is, by virtue of his office, the commandrr-ln-chlef of the army, and navy and It would not require much of a stretch of the law to- retire him as a major general. Grant, Garfield, Hayes, Harrison and McKinley we're soldiers and officers before they were presidents and rendered military ser vice during their terms of office. It 1$ conceded now that the war with Spain was conducted very actively from the White House by President McKinley, and every president Is compelled, In times of peace or war, to give enough attention to military and naval affairs to entitle him to retirement on the pay of an officer of high rank. While the plan may Involve a stretch of prece dent, it might furnish a means for overcoming the public sentiment against the granting of civil pensions. While the salary of the president ot the United States is $50,000 per year, with certain perquisites In the-form of living expenses, the fact remains that no president has ever retired from office a gainer financially. After his retirement many avenues of making a fortune are closed to him by the de mands of dignity, and an ex-president must rely upon his private income, if he has one, to maintain him. Under the circumstances the suggestion ot Senator Allison is at least worthy of consideration. Tff THIRTEENTH CtXSUS. Upon the recommendation contained In the president's message,' a bill has been introduced In congress providing for taking the thirteenth federal cen sus In 1910. An appropriation is au thorized in the pending measure and the director admonished to begin prep aration of plana for the work. The bill and tbe comments caused by It serve to direct attention to the enlargement of the scope of census work In the last forty years. Originally the census was little more than a mere enumeration of the population. The plan has been enlarged until it now embraces the collection of data on manufacturing, vital statistics, com merce, debt and taxation, health, mu nicipal expenditures and nearly every p phase of human activity. So varied has become the work that little effort la now made to secure data along more than one line at a time. The enumera tion of the population, with certain relevant facts, is made at a fixed date every ten years,, while the bureau, which has been made permanent by act of congress, continues at work all the time maklns investigations and collecting data and publishing the compiled Information in the form of special census bulletins from time to time. The first work of special Interest lu the 1910 censiiH, therefore, will be the enumeration of the population. Di rector North recommends that this work be done in April, lystead of in June as usual. He argues that the census would be more complete if taken In April than In Juue, as June is the vacation month in many sec tions and presents difficulties to enu merators In securing data desired from indvlduals. Another argument Is that if the censurts taken in April the re sults may be transmitted to congress at the opening of the session In Decem ber, instead of early in tho following year, as has been the mle. Speculation hag already beeu started as to what the population of the nation win fi;ure by the next census. The population of continental United States for 1900, including Alaska, was 76,303.387. Since then separate cen sus reports have been made, by .ten states, and experts have estimated the population at the beginning of the present year at about 8 8,000,000 and place the probable total of the federal enumeration In 1910 at 91,000,000. The population increased 20 per cent in 1620 over 1810. and 23 per cent In the decade between 1860 and 1870, notwithstanding trie civil war and its drain i'ioi the people. The gain from 180 to 1880 was 3Q per cent and 'the gain in the decade end ing with 1890 was 24 per cent. There was a slight decrease in the percentage of gain for the ten years ending with 1900, and all estimates for the next census indicate a gain of approxi mately 20 per cent. Tbe net result is that all the appli cations for renewals of liquor licenses; cicrpt one, have been granted by the police board subject to promises to be good. Summary .revocation of the first llcenae whose owner Is convicted of law-breaking will furnish the effec tive means of holding all the rest to their promises. KAVtGATWN COZGRSSS AT 810CX VlTl. The preparations being made for the Missouri River Navigation congress, which Is to meet In its first annual convention at Sioux City January 22 and 23, promise to make that gather ing a notable one. The movement for improved waterways is a national movement, attracting attention from all parts of the country. To promote the Interests of some particular part of the work various associations are be ing formed, with special reference to individual waterway projects. While all of this organization and agitation is laigely preliminary, it is Important that the various waterways which have solid claims to considera tion should secure a proper place In the. general perspective, which con gress will have before It when It finally takes th! subject In hand. The Mis souri river is one of the big waterways of the country and Is unquestionably subject to development as a traffic highway, so that in any gefferal scheme of water transportation it would oc cupy a position of importance second only to the Mississippi. The Missouri rivpr, moreover, forms the entire east ern boundary of Nebraska and Omaha is recognized among the leading Mis souri river entrepots. It goes without saying that Omaha should participate actively In the coming congress at Sioux City through an adequate and representative delegation. A good delegation of Omaha's busi ness men at Sioux City ought, in addi tion, to lay the foundation for closer co-operation between all the Missouri river cities. While these cities will always be in keen rivalry end eager competition forv business advantage, there are yet many problems arising from time to time in whose satisfac tory solution their Interests, are Iden tical and for which they should pull together. In one working harness, Omaha, Sioux City, Council Bluffs, St. Joseph and Kansas City could pull al most any prize they went after and there is no good reason why they should not be thus Joined whenever they have common objects to subserve. riWDVCTWX AtiD Dl$TRlBrTIOX. As a result of attendance for a year In the school of experience, the rail road managers and financial experts of the countryvhave learned that the problem before the people today, steps toward the solution of which must be taken In 1908, is one of distribution. Overproduction, always a fruitful source of trouble in times of indus trial and financial stress, was not car ried to any dangerous extreme in 1907. While some of the big mills in the east reduced their working forces on account of the financial stringency, the record shows that the stocks of manufactured goods on hand are not large enough to cause any sudden fall In prices and, consequently, no serious loss to the owners and makers of these products. The country Is still de manding goods so as to insure an early resumption of partial activity at nearly all ot the mills that have been closed temporarily. The problem, therefore, how to distribute the products of the farms and factories accordlnz to the needs ot the consumers Is one which hUBt be solved by the transportation companies. v Some emphasis has been placed on statistics showing tho construction of 5,220 miles of new railway, exclusive of doublings, sidetracks and electric lines in 1907. but the effect of the showing Is ljst in the face of the fact that the extensions have been made almont entirely In the south, while practically nothlns has been done In the west and northwest, where con gestion has been felt at Its worst. After reports are all In, it is clear that the transportation facilities are ut terly inadequate to meet industrial and commercial requirements, and (the problem - Becomes more grave when railroad managers announce, as some of them are doing in the east, that they will make no improvements dur ing the present year. Railroad managers admit that the freight offered for transportation Is Increasing in volume by at least 10 per cent every year, while railroad facilities are befng'increased by less than 3 per cent. If this condition. ob tains for any considerable period, the country will face a car shortage prob lem much more severe than anything in that line that has occurred In the past. The situation furnishes a potent argument for 'the improvement of all means of transportation that may give ultimate relief from the Inadequacy of railway facilities. The democratic World-Herald In sists that of the supposed "two mil lion pro-fervid Bryan voters" a great majority of them are republicans. The next thing we know Colonel Bryan will be letting the Denver convention go by the board and facing around to ward Chicago in quest of the repub lican nomination. So long as the county commissioners give the taxpayers the full benefit of the saving assured by feeding the county Jail prisoners by contract In stead of' by graft the desperate efforts of the higher bidders to break into the game will hot receive any popular sym pathy or support. t After birllng several anathemas at the editor t The Bee, denouncing his pernicious interference with their af fair, the democratic city councilman nonetheless have taken The Bee's ad vice and dropped their scheme to di vert $6,000 from the sinking fund Into a grading account pocket In defi ance of charter prohibitions. The edltof of The Bee will be pleased to stand for the councllmanlc knocking, providing the councllmen do the right thing when they come to actual voting. All the democratic orzans are hot for a primary to give Nebraska repub licans a preferential vote on president. None of them, however, haye suggested a primary to give Nebraska democrats a preferential vote on president. A democratic atraw vote might show how many democrats In Nebraska would rather have some other standard bearer than Mr. Bryan. Stuyvesant Fish says that If he gets control of the Illinois Central he will operate it as a railroad free from any Wall 'street interest. That man is ap parent' too old-fashioned in his no tions about railroads. Fortunately or unfortunately, Ne braska has no session of its legislature to entertain in 1908, unless some un foreseen emergency should force a con vening of the law-makers by guberna torial proclamation. "Satan is to rule the land for the next ten years," says State Senator Dubois of Pennsylvania. Tho Penn sylvania taxpayers are always hopeful of some change for the better tn their administration. Something more than $187,000,000 In dividends Is being distributed by American railroads and industrials this month and, in the language of the spendthrift, "there's more where 'that came from." Senator Piatt says he would be as good as a youn-z man if his legs had not gone back on him. He has made the mistake of other railroad managers of allowing his rolling stock to get out of repair. o l.auKhs the World Away. Baltimore, American. That this Is an age of paraduxea is proved aguln by the fact thut a famous living skeleton, formerly with iiarnum, has Just died from fatty degeneration. Simply a Matter of Choice. Indianapolis News. If that Omaha girl who was equal to the task of stopping a burglar and compelling him to disgorge at the point of a revolver passes through 1908 without being mar ried, It will undoubtedly be a matter of choice on her part. Centennials of Great Men. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. One of the duties of 1S08 will be to get ready for the centennial anniversaries next year. Abraham Lincoln and Charles Dar win were born on" the same day In 1809, and In the same year occurred the birth of Tennyson, Mendelssohn, Pee and Oliver Wendell Holmes. Let Well Esosfh Alone. Springfield Republican. The railroads will not be acting out of harmony with their position under the ac cepted policy of the nation, if they make a united effort to secure the repeal of the federal anti-trust law In so far as It is held applicable to themselves. They are now recognised as a monopoly subject to public control, and no longer an Industry within the reach of competitive Influences -capalilt of Imposing an adequate measure of restraint. -Vow Let I.acallna Weep, New York World. For panic times Philadelphia has done pretty well with Its debutantes' ball, at which 600 butterflies collected In India and South America were turned loose over the dancers' heads. After this circuses and horseback dlnnera look like commonplace affaire. Except for his pea cocks' tongues, the account of poor old Lucullua' banquet, with its fruits from Arabia and oysters from Britain, mlaht be n every night performance when stocks are booming. Ayi Senator Jeff Davis said in comparing himself with President Roose velt, , Philadelphia has Rome "skinned a block." MAKING TllK MO.KV FI.Y. I nlqae Talent of Statisticians la Speed In ar the Coin. New York Evening Post. Official statistics, which exist largely to glorify our material progress. tliemselveH Increase with amazing rapidity. The cen sus of 1790 cost 1.12 cents per eppita. The census of lftiKl cost 15.50 cents per capita, and the thirteenth census, despite the economies of a permanent office which manufactures its own tabulating machlnea. Is expected to cost about the same. We ought to reach, In course-of time, statistical equilibrium. The Ideal is that, knowing Just what facts and figures we want, we should collect them ut regular Intervals, without changjng the scheme every tun years. The tendency toward extending the scope of the census must be strong, even apart from the universal desire of public offices to enlarge their functions. The trunkful of volumes from the last enumer ation contain almost an Infinitude of items unknown to the twenties und thir ties. Yet let the investigator go outside of the main traveled statistical roads, and he will discover many things which the census dots not touch. The man who at tempts to find the crop, say, of usparagus. given by "minor civil divisions," Is doomed to disappointment. There are many and fascinating details which could be Included If congress would be as liberal to the cen sus office as it ia to the army and navy. The statistician, however, is already a pam pered personage, and me should dislike to see him spoiled entirely by excels of in tellectual lollipops. I'KHDOItl, !OTKS. "ehieeze and the world sneezes with you," Is the slogan during thesejrlppy days. There are 18,000 more women than men in Washington, D. C. Many of them have positions that would entitle them to sup port husbands. New York has taken its first inventory of school property, an-1 find that It foots up a plump hundred millions, a sizable educational plant for a single city. . An Ohio man died of heart disease when he waa dealt four aces In a poker game. The next time you want to bluff the other players into thinking you have a strong hand try the ruse of dropping dead. More trouble Is threatened for the Pitts burg millionaires. The young Englishman who got himself In Jail there by trying to peddle aristocratic Introductions Is going to write a book when he goes borne on "Pittsbfirg Plutocrats." BITS OK WAHIHTO LIFE. Minor Scenes anal larldeate ketrhed a the pot. Echoes of "vociferous hoss laugh" are still heard In congressional and reoorforlal circles in Washington as the recess num bers of the Congressional Record are conned for sensation and humor. Robert Minor Wallace, an oratorical posy from Magnolia, Ark., emulating Senator Jeff Davis, has "deliveed the goods." He has "made good." Unlike Jeff, Robert did not "smite the arched dome with vocal melody." Instead he secured "leave to print his re marks," and they appear In the Record as three distinct speeches. Nearly eight printed pages are devoted to reporting what Is al leged to have been said on the floor by the Arkansaa representative. "The Tariff In Its Relation to the Farmer and the Homo Builder" Is given a place on the first page. It appears that at the conclusion of this speech there was "prolonged arplnuee." Doubtless this was due to the fact that Mr. Wallace varied his statistics with fre quent quotations from Winston Churchill. Robert Burns and others whose musical words touch the Imagination so that It oozes out In handclapping. The speech on the "Income and Inherit ance Tax" was not as long aa the tariff speech. It appears, however, there was "loud applause" following Mr. Wallace's peroration to the democratic party. There waa another outburst of "loud ap plause" when the representative from Ar kansas dazaled the house with a brilliant peroration on the subject of improving the country's highways. One of the most impressive of the cere monies prescribed in the chapter on "Hon ors and Distinctions" of the United States navy regulations, relates Harper s Weekly, Is that lo be followed when a vessel of the navy, on Its way up or down the Po tomac river passes Washington's tomb at Mount Vernon. Unfortunately the observ ance of this ceremonial 1s limited to the smaller ships, as for such only Is the Potoirinc at this point navigable. The dis patch boat Dolphin, the president's yachts Mayflower and Sylph and the smaller cruisers and gunboats that occasionally visit Washington for presidential inaugura tions or similar events, observe tne cere mnniul i utrletlv that It wotJld seem through Infrequent occurrence It gains In Interest. When any naval vessel ap proaches Mount Vernon the marine guard and the band are paraded, the ships bell Is tolled and the colors half-masted. When opposite Washington's tomb the bugles mind "tans." the marine guard presents arms, and all officers and men Btand at attention and salute. Of the forty-six states In these United States, only six send delegations composed entirely of native born citizens of the states they represent. The states so distinguished are Louisiana, Maine. Maryland, South Carolina, Vermont and Virginia. Three states of the union are represented In the legislative branch of the government by 121 native sons. Of these forty-three were born in New York and thirty-nine In Penn sylvania and Ohio, respectively. Thirteen of the forty-three claiming New York as their birthplace now represent other states In congress; eleven of Pennsylvania's thirty-nine hall from other states, while Ohio, the banner state in this regard, has given to the states at large seventeen of its native sons. Of the 147 senators and representatives from the southern states only six were born north of Mason and Dixon line; one in the District of Columbia, one In Iowa, ne In Canada and three in Ohio.. , , Fourteen members of the house are for eign born, Cochran and McMillan of New York In Ireland; McKinlay of California, Campbell of Kansas and Hughes of West Virginia In Canada; Kahn of California, Bartholdt of Missouri and Kustermann of Wisconsin In England; McLachlan of Cali fornia and Wilson of Pennsylvania In Sot land: Sabath of Illinois In Bohemia, and Llnbergh of Minnesota in Sweden. John Sharp Williams put TouVelle, the new Fourth district democrat from Ohio, on the education committee. TouVelle sought a friend who had been here a long time and cautiously whispered! "Just what does the committee on edu cation do?" "Are you on that? You lucky fellow. Do? The committee on education maintains the finest bar In the capltol." Tou Velio still thinks that was a Joke, but It Is not. Since the capltot canteen was abolished "supplies" are kept In a number of committee rooms. That labeled "eduea tlon" Is never troubled with legislative matters, for the committee has no functions that have yet been discovered. Taking ad vantage of this fact a number of bon vl vants in the last house, aided and aWtted by certain members of the committee, fitted this room with an assortment that would put the ordinary barroom to the blush. The committee clerk ran mix any thing from a cocktail to-a "hot buttered bun," and lias never been stumped. Senator Burkett of Nebraska, says the Washington Herald, Is rne of the many members of the upper house who enjoys a cigar, and he admits himself that there are times when hi! smokes too much. But he has never smoked In his father's home, and says that he never smoked In his father's presence until after he was elected to the United States senate ' Both my father and mother," lie says, "disapproved of smoking, and I never uc qulred the habit until I was fully grown and long past the legal age, when I might have smoked without any qualms. After-l had left home I began to smoke, and, of course, my father knew about It, but out of consideration for his antipathy to it I never smoked in his presence. Because he does not smoke in the house, but in stead, if I feel I can't resist the lure of My Lady Nicotine any more I go outside or down town." Senator Smoot Is one of the members of the upper house who does not indulge In tobacco, but declares he deserves no credit for It. for the reason that he has never had the inclination. He says hia early teaching at home kupt him from taking up the habit, and that since he has never wanted to smoke and has been too busy to take the time necessary to ac quire the taste, "Your Uncle Joe Cannon," Is always ready with a story when the occasion de mands It. When the speaker was being thanked by Representative Young for the place which he had given the member from Michigan on the river and harbor commit tee, he proceeded to compliment Mr. Young "I went to my friend. Dr. MeAIIlster, In Champaign county, Illinois, and aaked hlin for his aupnort for my candidacy for district attorney. I told Mm thut I must have Champaign county, and with Ms assistance I thought I could get it. " 'But,' said the doctor, 'you have scarcely acquired legal residence in the district.' 'I will soon be able to Improve this,' I urged. "The doctor then suggested that I was a very young man to aspire to such a responsible position. To this I replied, 'I will be older in time.' "Flnaljy the doctor said to me: 'Well, you are of that rlaas of men to whom It is better to glvo a thing than to fight. Bo rather than fight you I will do what I can for vou tm tbe county.' ENGLISn DISCOUNT REDUCED Rate Cut from Seven to Six Per Cent by London Directors. DEMAND FOE GOLD HAS 8T0PPED Steel and Glass ladaatrlea la failed tatee Are Hesamlaa- Under Pressare af Increased taslaess. LONDON, Jan. 2-The directors of the Bank of England today lowered the mini mum rate of discount from 7 to I per cent, the former rate being established as a re sult of tho recent American financial crisis. Improved financial conditions In America, coupled with a better monetary situation In Oermnny, assisted the directors In their decision to remove the stringent rate of discount, which had been handicapping trade and speculation for the last seven weeks. The effect of the reduction f the discount rate, however, already had been largely discounted on the Iondon Stock exchange, aa the absence of New York competition for Monday's gold arrivals and a sharp drop In discount rates fore shadowed an early decline In the official minimum rate of discount. Today's stock market was quiet. NEW YORK, Jan. I. Tho announcement of the reduction of the Bank of England's minimum dtacount rate from 7 to 8 per cent was received with general satisfaction In this city, although the American demand for gold has been satisfied for some time past. The placing of the rate at 7 per cent during the severe period of New York's monetary stress caused a sensation, as It was taken to Indicate that the Bank of England intended to resist the outflow of gold to this country. However, it devel oped that the action mas simply precau tionary and New York continued to receive gold as long as It was required. BVS1KS I BECOMING BETTER Steel, Coke and Glaas riaata Will Sooa ne Active. FORD CITY, Pa., Jan. 2. After being shut down for repairs, No. 4 works of the Pittsburg Plate Glass company has re sumed operations. It will run both day and night; The department employs from 1,200 to 1,500 men. Owing to the shortage of finished stork on hand. It will take at least three months' work day and night, to ac cumulate the necessary stock to fill orders. No. 5 works, employing 1,200 men, will also resume within a few days. PITTSBURG. Jan. 2.-U is expected that fully 7,000 ovens of the H. C. Frtck Ceke company In the Connellsvllle and Lower Connellsvllle regions will be put In oper ation again within the next ten days. Sev eral of tlu plants of the Frlck company, which were operated only two days last week, are being operated five days this week andl a general resumption Is expected shortly. BUFFALO, N. T.. Jan. J. The Lacka wanna Steel company will relight the fires at Its open hearth furnaces early next week. With the opening of the furnaces, several mills which have been closed four weeks will resume service. Several hundred men will be re-employed. BONI AND HELIE HAVE ROW Doel Likely to Iteaalt from Hot Words littered Darlna Qssr- , rel In Paris. PARIS, Jan. 2. There was a violent quarrel In the Rue Jhlllut today between Count Boni de Castellane and Prince Helle de Sagan. The count Is reported to have denounced the prince In unmeasured terms and a duel Is Imminent. Count Bonl de Castellane was recently divorced by his wife, who was Miss Anna Oould of New York. It was reported In November that Mme. Anna Gould waa engaged to be mar ried to Prince de Sagan, but this rumor was promptly denied by Mme., Gould her. self. The altercation occurred outside the church -of St. Pierre de Chaillot, where a service fiad been celebrated In memory of Lady Stanley Barrington, who was the only daughter of Baron de Tnlleyrand. Tho two men, who are cousins, met upon emerging and a sharp quarrel ensued. Count Bonl, according to some accounts of the difficulty, spat In the prince's face. According to other reports Count Bonl struck his cousin in the face, slightly cut ting him. The men finally were separated by Count Jean de Castellane, a brother of the count. When Count Jean resched the two men both were rolling in the gutter. Prince de Sagan was on top, bleeding from a wound on the head where Count Bonl had struck him with ,hls cane. The police marched both to the station, where they told their stories. Each claimed that the other had been tho aggressor and Prince de Sagan charged Count Bonl with assault. The latter claimed that Prince de Sagan and some friends were lying In watt for htm. Subsequently both were released upon their own recognisance. TRADE AGREEMENT IS LIKELY France Phosra Conciliatory Attltada and Satisfactory Arrangements Will Be Made. PARIS. Jan. 2. Negotiations for the con clusion of a definite commercial agreement between France and the United States are now proceeding so satisfactorily that the French government, without any request on the part of the United States, has extended the life of the decree, which permits Porto Rlcan coffee to enter France upon payment of the minimum rate of duty, until Febru ary 1. The posslmUm which ju evaded here at the beginning of the negotiations, on account of what was rtgarded aa dispro portionate demands by the United States, has now been succeeded by a belief that an arrangement satisfactory to both countries will be reached. WASHINGTON, Jan. 2. The finishing touches were today added to the draft of an agreement between America and France under aectlon three of the Dlngley act, which has been in preparation for nearly a year past. M. Jusserand, the French am bassador, called at the State department today to. discuss the details of this arrange ment, and It Is expected that It will be promulgated from the State department In the course of a day or two. Pending its signature the details are withheld, but it Is known that the concession made by America is the abatement of the existing duties on French champagne by 20 per cent, while France remits maximum duties on American cottonseed oil, certain classes of machinery and other commodities. PRINCE'S BEDROOM ON FIRE Damage Doss Reral 4'iiateaa of Belle ae at Berlin la Rooms af i.ltel Frledrlcn. PJCRL1N, Jan. 2.-A fire broke out this morning tn the bedroom of Prince Eltel Frledrleh, the third son of Emperor Wil liam, in the royal chateau of Bellevue, located in the Tiergarten. where the prince at present Is residing. Nearly the entire fire brigade was called to the acene and succeeded in extinguishing the flames In a short time. Considerable damage te the contents of the castle waa done by the Uf TUe chateau was built In 171 " HOW Tllr? WO.tl.l) t.ltOW. Flaarre Tell nf the Karth'a Rapid In. crrae la 1'otMilnt Inn. Ilnhliill (ilnlK ' in a little more than loo yesrs, Recording to government figures, the jmpulat'on of the world has groan fiom Oto.W.nocl ' to l.finO.Ono.OOO. an Increase fif rl p,.r cent. At ' the end of so many hundred nf centuclcs. In other words, 1hrf wetr In the worrd In 1M"0 only fifn0 of roiis. and In h years, from 11 to 14, to this number had been added W.auo,0iin. ... The. total commerce of tin- world In lMf was about tl.6m,000,riur; in l It was more than $.000.W,i). Othr figure xhow that In wealth and the growth rf vi llous Indus trial agencies the Incrcaso hus been far , swifter tfcun that of population. The overpopulation of the woild U not a present menace to thn thinker i.f loilay, but the thinkers of a period whin thcri were less than half as many ix-ople In the world as there are now seriously de. bated the Imminence of the catastrophe that tho overcrowding of the earth would produce. l.Al UIIIMi J AS. "The wav that dog tries to get you to answer his arpeal for a bone Is like the famous orator s." "How can the dog remind you ot an or-' ater?" "Paws for a reply." Baltimore American. "Robber!" growled the victim, "you ssld that house was Just a stone's throw from the station." "Well?" demanded the real estato agent "Well, the distance la half n mile at least." "Is that all? Time and ngiiin I've seen a blast from a quarry thai would thriw stones upward of a mlli."t-i,hii'1o!pM Press. "No." she ssdly said, "I cannot h,..i . you, Charles. I am sorry, hut It Is hej. that we should part.'' "You have admitted that you love me." he protested. "I know, but I am afraid you wouldn't In case of trouble he able to pay me enough nllmony to be worth mentioning." Chicago Itccord-Herald. "That wit has such spirit In his replies." "How can he have?" "Why not?" "Because only yesterday I heard you say he had such dry humor." Baltimore Amer ican. "Now," said the lecturer, as he folded up his manuscript after having given the pupils of the night school a discourse on the wonders of chemistry, "I shall b) pleased to answer any questions you wlsli to ask." "What becomes of all the corks?" asked a shaggy-haired ty In the audience. Chi cago Tribune. "Baldwin, you've been drinking!" "I don't show it half as much as you do, Rambo." "That's because you sobered yourself by getting your safe open. It took you half an hour to work tho combination. I've been watching yiu, you glaring old fraud!" Chicago Tribune. MABI.H AT TllK TELEPHONE. Chicago News. When Mabel's at the telephone She's generally loaded. The others on the line must groan . When Mitfiel's at the telephone To desperation goaded. . But Mabel ni'vor seema to flinch; Bhe knows that she has got a cinch. . When Mabel'a at the telephone, You'd think she hod Imparted All that the girl had ever known. When Mabel's at the tulephone. But really she's Juat started. , ' There's nothing any one can do But wait with patience till she's through. When Mabel's at the telephone. i She heeds no call to "trim It" Or "cut it out." That's said, I own When Mabel's at the telephone.. Her chatter has no limit. Borne dav subscriber will combine To eust her from that party line. She shows great indignation-, i i; .- When Mabel's at the telephone; Her prnlnte would move a heart of atone When Mabel's at the telephone ' And hears a conversation. She'll ask them If they mean to stay And gabble nonsense there all day. THE LEADING HOTEL In the City of Great Hotels One Easily Heads the List FACTS ABOUT THAT ONE In a city like New York, which has o many great hotels, it is more difficult than elsewhere to single out any one and, say "this is the leader." Consensus of oplon lon, however, favors that on which open ing its doorsi to tho public in 1R04, gave to the world a new note in hotel life and set the mark of hotel excellence so high that all others must be content to follow for years to come. Those familiar with New York hotels of the twentieth century ran easily supply the name of this pecrlesi hotel. To others less fortunate it is neces sary to mention It the Bt. Regis. Within the portals of this beautiful house, per fectly equipped, luxuriously' furutshed, built, aa safe as human Ingenuity can de sign and construct, where absolute rest fulness and comfort It added to hereto fore unknown gastronomic perfection, tl Is possible to enjoy life to the utmost. The Hotel St. Regis stands at Fifth Avenue and Fifty-fifth Street, upon thu finest city atreet In America and only four blocks distant from the main en trance to Centrol Park. Climtered about It are far-famed private residences, clubs and churches, while near enough to be easily reached are the city's high class shopping districts and Its great amusement center. The noise of trsfflc and the bustle of business never dls- , turbs, yet close at hand on either slda are surface, elevated and subway lines leading to all parts of the city. ' One Important fact is trfat the cost of living In this elegant, homelike houa the leadrtr among New York hosie ries Is no greater than at other flrst-cla? hotels. The best at a fixed and fair charge la tho unvarying rule at the St. Regis. WHY YOU SHO ULD DRINK COFFEE Because It Is an easily digested and nourishing Food Drink that hlps to digest other foods and makes you bettervfltted tor your task, be It with brain or muscle. Pure coffee u a wholesome, refreshing beverage at all times. Tbe coffee you will want is The German-American put up in sealed packages with the Coffee Bird ou each package. This is a pure mountain coffee always pure, always the same. Use German-American Coffee and your breakfast will be good. Ask your Grocer for It. Does the dealer know better than you what you need in your home? If not, yoa owe it as a uty te yourself to Insist on getting what yon ask for when you try to buv an advertised article. Tou are at tiacted by tbe advertisement I The Bee. You read It and raal. up your rnlnd that the goods n vertlsed are what you want. Yi. enter a store to make your put chase. Be true to your tourictioa and get what you ask for. 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