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TJTE O MATT A DAILY IVEEt TUESDAY, FEBRUAHY 18, 1D02. The. omaha Daily Bee. E. flOSEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MOHNINQ. TERMS OF SCBSCRIPTldN. till! lii.t . ... , . I. cs . V ".- AA Aany i.-e ana ftuuOay, One 1 ear. ;...., S Oo' iiiuBiriinu oee, .line leit I -w Sunday tire, one Y-ar XUO baturuay Bee, one Year 1 00 XwentleiB Century Farmer. One Year... LOO i-iLl VKKED BY CAMKIEK. Pally Bee (without Sunday), per copy.... to pally Bee (wltnoul buuuay. per weeK....12c Paliy Bee (Including Sunday), per week..lo Bunuay iee, per ci.py..., ' 6c Evening ee (without eunday), per week. toe Evening , Be (including bunaay), per week lBo Complaints of Irregularities In delivery Should be addressed to City Circulation De partment, , ;' OFFICES. Omaha The Bee building, r, South Omaha City Hall ttulldlng, Twenty-firm and M Streets. Council Blurts 10 pearl Street N Chicago 1M0 Unity Building. Hew York Temple Court. .Washington U Fourteenth Street. . CORRESPONDENCE. . ' Communications relating to news and edi torial matter should be addressed; Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS. Business letters and remittances should be' addressed: .The Bee 1'ublishlng tympany, Omaha. . REMITTANCES. . " Remit by dratl, express or postal order, payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only 2-cent stamps accepted in payment of mall accounts, personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchange, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY., STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.' State of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss.1 ' ' Oeorge B. Tsschuck, secretary ol The He Publishing Company, being duly sworn, gays that the actual number of full am complete copies of The Daily, 'Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed -during the month of January, 1302, was as. fol lows: .' 1 ,....80,500 16.... X .... 80,210 n.... It J... .80,090 ' 18.... . .80,180 ..80,180 ..80,280 ..80.8IM ..80,100 . .80,4110 .. 80,400 . .80.200 ..80.130 ..80,000 4... .. .80,110 ...80,185 1 ...80,400 ...80.JIHO 1 SO 21 n.. 2t 24....... ' (... ... 7... ... .80.820 1 80,170 10 30,130 11 8f,80 11 80,430 U 80,470 14 80,100 IS 30,070 24. ...... ,S,40 27... 2S... ... JO... i 11... ;....:.8i,ieo '.80.080 ............83,040 8080 .80,500 1 Total .". ,..41,03 Lcbs unsold and returned copies.... 9,940 Net total sales. v.. 932.0T0 Net dally average.,... 80,007 GEO. B. TZ8CHUCK. Subscribed In Iny presence and sworn to before mo this 1st day of February, A. D., U02. M. B. HUNCIATB. - (Seal.) Notary Public At present rate the Omaba Ministerial association will soon have as many new names as old names on Its roster. That Ohio man who has been con victed for the fourth tlmo of murder has one consolation he will only have to be hung once. Over $1,500 In Nebraska's contribution to the McKlnley memorial fund. This Is a creditable showing, but it should yet te materially Improved. ' combination of flreprooflng manu facturers has been incorporated In New Jersey. The usual amount of water in the stock will be one of the ingredients. . We. .refuse, -to .believe the embezzler whA Innlnffl Vi 1 a ilnurnfall la Ann Vnw lng learned to play - poker. He cer tainly failed to learn the game In all Its intricacies. ' ' ' " ' Omaha has wanted a market house for long time and still-wants one, but avhea It comes It must be a creditable market house suitable to Its needs, 'even If we have to wait for It a little longer. When the other candidates for the headship of the Elks organization saw the antlers of the Omaha entry coming out for the start they all took to their beels and returned to the training stable. The plumbers in the Missouri Valley are reported to contemplate a concerted Increase In prices for work. The new schedule will probably provide 'a charge of 25 cents for looking Into the' shop windows. ; 8outh Omaba democrats are about' to revise their call for city primaries, in srder to postpone nominations until after the republicans have first acted. This Is characteristic of democracy in these parts. . ! Rest your fears. It Jg not a crime to be poor any more than it is a crime to be rich. But dishonest poverty is Just a criminal as dishonest wealth. It takes, no pulpit debate to demonstrate these truths. . An Antarctic explorer reports having reached within 800 miles of the south pole, the nearest any one has ever been to that goal At that rate the goal of the southern frost king is not likely to ie crossed for some time. .' One Chicago scientist is trying to Show the people of that city that it is cheaper to burn the coal smoke than to allow it to escape from the chimneys. If ha van prove his case he will do more to abate the smoke nuisance than a book full of. city ordinances. Chicago packers do not understand twny a Sou tli Dakota company w hich in leads to engage lu the-killing of live stock should incorporate; with S'JOO.OOO, 000 stock. Wind Is pleutlful in South Dakota and its people have as srood a right to' capitalize It as have those 'of iw Jersey, , , General Funaton is to be initiated into the Elks as soon as he has entirely re covered from his. illness. The Elks are all right, but If the general is really look lng for something which will'remlud him of the strenuous times that are past he should ooiue to Omaha aud Join the Kulghta of Ak-8ar-Ben. CapUid Hosou, in a . recant speech. declared that the United States should bo the peace arbiter of the world. Like most other countries, the United States . will do reasonably well seeing that keeps tut of trouble itself. The peace maker proverbially gets into the thick est of the fight and gets out without Tea thanks. ... A QQVKRflMKST CABLE. The close vote in committee on the bill providing for a government' Pacific cable indicates that there "will be strong opposition to the measure In the house, though! it Is. doubtless safe to say that It twill pass ' that body., . Of course . the prlvste'coinpany which has made a pro posal to lay a cable will exert against the bill all the influence it can com mand, but having failed to persuade a majority of the house committee on commerce that the company's proposal ought to be accepted there is good rea son to believe that it will be unable to convince a majority of the house that it would be well to accept the company's offer. , . A - cable between . the United States and our possessions In the Pacific should be owned and controlled by the govern ment The arguments for tnls pre sented. In, the report of Mr. Corliss are ample and conclusive. The proposed cable will be used chiefly by the gov ernment and for that reason It Is most Important that it should be controlled and operated by the government As Mr. Corliss says, the proposed cable will be a great public utility and as such should be in the public control. From whatever point of view the matter is regarded it' must be obvious that the construction and operation of a cable line to our Pacific 'possessions should be the work of the government and that It would be most unwise to place an enter prise so essentially public in character In the hands of a private corporation. We can very properly follow the ex ample in this matter of England and other countries whose ' governments have established telegraphic communica tion with their possessions. The fact that a private company has made a contract' to lay a cable to Hawaii Is not' a matter which' the government Is called upon to consider. It is wholly an affair of the company and we can see no good reason why the government should have any sort of dealing-with that company. ; The cor poration, when It contracted for a cable line, was well 'aware of the proposition that the government should construct a Pacific cable. " The subject was before the last congress and was pretty, freely discussed. In view of this the Com mercial Pacific 'company. In contracting for a cable to Uawali, has no claim to any consideration on the part of -the government ' Perhaps there can be no reasonable objection to the government purchasing the cable the company has ordered, if It can be bought as cheaply as the government can contract for, but there is no obligation to do this, nor in any respect to relieve this private cor poration of what It has assumed in con nection with the construction of a Pacific cable. ' Congress should not unnecessarily delay this' most Important work, which is . demanded alike for commercial, political and military , considerations. There Is no doubt that direct telegraphic connection with our Insular possessions would" have most valuable results com mercially and politically?' 'If congress consults public sentiment in the matter it will promptly. provide for the con struction of a government' cable! SCHOOL BOOK TBU8T MKTBODS. That the , peculiar methods , of the school book trust exposed from time to time in Omaha, are not confined to this city has been brought out by recent dis closures In Boston, where the trust has been pursuing its old tactics of reward ing its friends and punishing its enemies. The charges and counter-charges in the Hub have a strangely familiar sound to those conversant with school matters in Omaha. , . . The chairman of the text book .com mittee, for example, publicly admits that he has written and contracted to write text - books , for the great publishing houses that are seeking orders for books for- the city schools. - Another member of " the 'same committee - is likewise charged with having planted a daughter In a high salaried position with one of the publishing bouses that draws thou sands of. dollars .each year out of the municipal, treasury., ,Under these cir cumstances the Boston Post calls upon the members Implicated in the scandal to hand In their resignations. The .situation in Boston strikingly re calls the fact tnat an Investigation Into text book favoritism in Omaha not long ago found our present superintend ent of schools making the admission that he had been liberally subsidized by the school box trust under pretense of engaging him to write a chapter on Ne braska for a text book on geography it was preparing to sell to eur schools. OCR FVRKlOtl FMEXDS. i The president of the great steel cor poration found among the people of Eu rope with ; whom ae -came in contact only friendship and admiration, for this country. . Mr. Schwab met' leading financiers aud manufacturers who it ap pears -were very much Impressed with the combination of which he is the head and which he is now more strongly con vinced than before he went to Europe is a great thing for our Iron and steel Industries. That may prove to be the case if economy and reduction in cost which Mr. Schwab says are the objects In view, shall be attained and the con sumers of . the products of steel are thereby benefited. As yetf however, the steel trust while paying large dividends to stockholders, has shown no disposi tion to consider the Interests of con sumers and it may fairly be doubted if it will ever do so. 'As to the friendship of foreign finan ciers and manufacturers, It is very ques tionable if it exists to the extent Indi cated by the statement of the president of the steel corporation, whose observa tion was doubtless confined to a limited circle. There is quite as trustworthy authority for saving that many Euro pean manufacturers, who have suffered from American competition, do not feel at all friendly toward this country and would like to find a practicable way to shut out or put check upon our com petition. In view of the suggestions In this direction that have come from Euro pean statesmen, who must b presumed to know the sentiment among their peo ple engaged in 'the Industries, It Is not possible to believe that all European financiers and 'manufacturers are friendly to the United States and admire us for having taken their trade. Perhaps the feeling of commercial hostility toward the United States in Europe has somewhat abated, but It Is by no means entirely dissipated, and while the idea of a continental alliance to check American competition has prob ably been abandoned as unattainable, there is no, assurance that European countries wHl not discriminate against our products in their tariffs. UXAXIMOVS FOR TAX RKDUCTl OS. The passage In the house of repre sentatives of the bill repealing the war taxes by a unanimous vote was extraor dinary. It was a sagacious move, from a political point of view, on the part of Mr.' Richardson,, the democratic leader, in asking unanimous consent that the bill be put upon Its passage without debate, ' since it enabled the democrats to go on record In favor of tax reduction with as much prestige as the republicans. Ilad the usual course been pursued there would have been democratic objections to the measure, and while of course these would have been futile, they might have been made to do service against the party, ' As we remarked at the time the ways and means committee recommended the repeal of the war taxes, one of the ef fects will be the cessation of agitation for general tariff revision, which, how ever, had already practically ceased. What effect, If any, the action of the house will have upon the ' question of granting tariff concessions to Cuba, re mains to be seen, but it is certainly not favorable to anv lnrr ennnaa.lnn Tli house has done its duty m relieving tpe American people or taxation to the amount, of $77,000,000 and If the senate concurs the government cannot afford to make any great sacrifice of tariff revenue in the interest' of the Cuban sugar and tobacco growers! The gov ernment will continue to have ample revenue, after the, repeal of the ,war tales goes into effect for all legltimate expenses, but It cannot safely cut off much more revenue. It Is possible that - the senate, will make changes in the house bill and that a. few of the taxes repealed by that measure will be retained. We think it safe to say,, however, that in the main the bill will have the support of the senate republicans and that it will pass that body without any material changes. There is no doubt as to the public ap proval of this legislation and the re publicans of the senate are . not likely to disregard the public will and also the pledge of their party for an early repeal of the war taxes. , BY ALL MKABa SELL. .' " , .' ' The Intimation has been given out that the auditorium directors have an'oppor tunlty to sell' the auditorium site and get back not only the $60.0uO which has been locked up there, but also an addi tional $20,000 'or $25,000, which would go to , increase the building fund. If this is a bona fide offer rather than an attempt to frighten people Interested in the present location into coming to the front with more subscriptions, it should by all means be promptly accepted. The fundamental mistake committed by the auditorium promoters wss the im pounding of the greater part of their re sources by a purchase of real estate forced under the influence of those who had property Interests to subserve. , By this hasty action money that was sub scribed for' the purpose of erecting an auditorium building was used for a real estate speculation, with a resulting de pletion of the auditorium fund, from which it has not yet recovered. If the directors can get their money out of the site again and turn It back to the orig inal purpose of construction they should not hesitate to do so. Should this be accomplished, there Is no good reason why a site equally well located and suitable should not be se cured without drawing materially upon the construction fund at the present time. This could be done in one of two ways either by lease of the ground, sub ject to an annual rental, payable out of the Income of the auditorium, or by re quiring the owners of the property to take at least half of the purchase price in auditorium stock. The advantage that would be gained by such a course would far outweigh any loss occasioned by a change of site, even if all of the subscriptions conditional upon the pres ent location should, be entirely' with drawn. Had this course been pursned from the first the auditorium would now have been well under way, ' And now we are. told that the Omaha attorneys who howled loudest for the re establlsbment of the supreme court com mission are decidedly dissatisfied with IU operation. , Of course, Omaha at torneys have no reason to expect better treatment or more favorable notice of their superior legal attainments than at torneys Jroin other parts of the state, but the fact remains that they profess disappointment in tbelr expectations. To. the 4 lay observer, ' however, the su preme court commission seem' to be doing precisely what was anticipated. The commission Is confessedly a tem porary makeshift designed to bridge the period 'until 'the supreme court can be enlarged -by constitutional amendment The trouble' has been that many attor neys preferred 'to content themselves with the makeshift rather than work for the permanent addition of more Judges on the supreme bench.' - That was one of the contributing causes of the defeat of the amendment when it was ' sub mitted five years ago. If the attorneys are finally waking up to the realities of the situation there may be some hope of carrying the amendment when it Is sub mitted another time. The last large tract of white pine In the state of Wisconsin which had not previously passed into the hands of the lumbermen, hss now been transferred to them. Of course there are many tracts which have not been denuded of tlmlier, but at the present rate not many years will have elapsed before those magnificent forests will be a thing of the past The lumberman Is leaving a serious problem for the-coming genera tions to solve In the restoration of what he Is destroying. i The Real Estate exchange must pos sess Its soul In patience until the su preme court clears the way for the next move In the campaign for tax reform. but at the same time it can line up for another Inning. . And when its gets through with the city assessment it will have the pleasure of tackling the county assessment which contains inequalities just as gross. Aar Port la a Sterm. Detroit Free Press. On account of diplomatic exigencies Great Britain has decided that the Japanese are to be considered x-offlclo aa Anglo-Saxon rsce. Will Bara-mlas Fr Kansas City Journal. The Daalsh Islands have not cast much. Let us hope that they will not be Uks soma other islands cheap to buy," but expensive to keep. r Pleterlal Gld Bricks, ' Chicago Chronicle. ' ' : ' The prevalent infatuation of Americas money for foreign art is bringing Its inevit able result The pictorial gold, brick is ready, for gullible investors. It requires aa much astuteness to buy a good picture at a fair price as to detect a salted mine. Net Small aa Palated. Chicago Record-Herald.' 1 Congressman Wheeler of Kentucky re ferred to Prince Heary as "the little Dutch man." The' prince Is six feet and half an Inch .tall, weighs' 182 pounds and always keeps in the pink , of physical condition. What do they call a good-sized man in Kentucky, anyway f; , I Throws Cp the Spoag-e. .' Washington Post Mr. Moreton Frewen has formally and un reservedly' admitted the failure of the free sliver cause. For the benefit of some of our younger readers we will state that free sliver was a fetish advocated strenuously by the decemratlo party la 189t and dodged to beat the band In, 1900. - Where Reform la Heeae. Baltimore American. , The protest of women travelers to the president concerning the customs regu lations at the port of New York contains a serious charge in their complaints ,of insulting and . , Impertinent treatment Civility to citizens should bs the keynote of the entire public service, and if these complaints are found to be well grounded such a state of affairs should be promptly remedied. , ,. . A Hint o the Trvata. , Brooklyn Eagle. , Wisdom and prudence dictate that obvious aad notable abuses .springing from combina tions should, be, serrected now . while, the combinations are in good odor rather than be left to pile up for a dire day of reckon ing, .which, If it gomes, win amount to aa industrial ' revolution. The combinations sheuld submit to discipline at the hands of their friends rather than wait for punish ment from their enemies. Kaee Breeches svael Paanpa. Boston Herald. It appears to have been settled that our official representatives to the coronation must wear, knee .breeches after all. ' Their toggery will be an ordinary black evening dress coat and waistcoat, with tight-fitting black cloth knee breeches, black silk stock ings and pumps. The special and regular representatives of the United States will ba the only people at the coronation thus attired, since everybody else is required to be either in . full- uniform or in what' is known as court drees. They say that Am bassador Choate has been appearing at all court . balls, . state concerts and - dinners given by the sovereign In these clothes. In which he looks well, being endowed with a particularly plump--pair of calves. . ., - HO PRINCESSES Ilf AMERICA. PrealSeat Heoeevelt'a Daughter at the ' .' CerOaatloa. Baltimore American- (rep.) i The press dispatches tell us that Miss Alloa Roosevelt is to go to' the coronation of Edward VII, king of England, aa a sort of adjunct to our, special embassy.. From the same source, we glean the information that whea the daughter of eur president arrives at the court of St. James she Is to ba treated with Ute same marks of honor and distinction as are accorded to prin cesses. In other words, she is to figure as the child, of the ruler of. one of the great powers of the earth. This is not pleasant reading for democratio America. Miss Roosevelt la a moat charming young girl aha is not yet II. She has recently had soma pictures' taken. They show her to be a child of - prepossessing face and form. She wears her gown well and is, withal, a good, average specimen, of sweet American girlhood. That she can outshine all the sprigs of royalty who will throng Westminster abbey we have no doubt In the princesses' section of the reserved seats she will be as a bright and shining star. Her face will be aa attraction It will be a relief from those of the other daughters of rulers, who, by Intermarriage of royalty, hare all coma to look alike. As aa American girl she would shins there In a way to please all Americana But this princess business cannot be swallowed. Every American girt is a queen; of psuedo-prlncesses we have none. Nor will we. The father of Alice Roose velt Is not the ruler of this nation! Our presidents are not rulers. Here the people are sovereign. Presidents are the servants of the people, who make and unmake them; who may regulate their tenure of office, fix their salaries, and, if occasion demands It, Impeach and drive them into oblivion. No president has ever ruled this country: none ever will. The people rule, and President Roosevelt Is, as. one ex-prestdent has stated, coarsely perhaps, but aptly, their "hired man." Should he conssnt that his daughter go to the coronation to rank as the daughter of the ruler of the United States the presi dent will fling ' down a gauge which the American people will not fall to pick up. We have no real princesses; we will have no counterfeit ones. Let Alice Roosevelt go to the coronation as the sweet and at tractive American girl she Is and the nation will follow her triumphs over royalty with pride aad Interest. But let her go masquerading as a princess, daughter of a ruler who la only a servant and wo shall hear the storm which will break about the resident's head. Advertising Values Chicago It doea not need much argument to con vince the modern world of the value of advertising. There are still some among the professions, so-called, whose exponents look upon almost any direct means of tell- lng the world what they profess to be able, to do as more or less derogating from the dignity of the profession. But even among such as these there are not wholly want ing signs that they are beginning to sus pect the mistaken policy of permitting the pretenders to take and keep the ear of the world. They give soma Indications of a willingness to take the common sense view of the shrewd preacher who admitted that It la bad policy to "let the devil have all the good times." The modern world has become a reading world. It does not trust any more to the spoken transmission of news from man to man any more than to handing along the history of men's doings by oral tradition. Along with this almost universal practice 6f reading has come that of advertising In printed form or readable form of some kind that each one of us pursues. Naturally the leading medium for this recognized practice of advising our fellow men of what we can do gravitated to tho newspaper, tho medium through. which men learn what Is known as the news of the world. Essentially the spreading of knowl edge of where forms of business are trans acted is news aa truly as spreading knowl edge of anything else. Ingenuity of self-interest the desire to "make money" led some men to invent other ways of advertising for which the Inventors could get payment and their name is legion., "Wall paper,", as. it is called, of all kinds, billboards, programs of all the Infinite variety of entertainments, circulars, many forms of books which but for the' fact that their cost is defrayed by the ad vertisers wno can do persuaded to use them, would never be printed, and count less other schemes for promoting alleged imbllclty have grown up until many who have business to advertise give no small part of their time to listening to solicita tions. Every "manager" of a doubtful con cert or recital seeks to thus lure the public Into paying the cost of his programs. The visitor to every theater must turn over many Inky pages before he can find the bill of the play he has come to see. Every city street Is disfigured with huge, ungainly billboards. Through the country houses and barns and fences and rocks are made unsightly with painted placards of pills and potions. Many business men seem to ALLIES OF THE ORIENT. Philadelphia Record: The alliance of Great Britain and Japan is a pitting of the two greatest island empires against the greatest of the continental empjres. . Indianapolis News: The probabilities are that Russia will merely be "checked" by the Anglo-Japanese alliance. It ' has been checked before, and In many parts of the world. But always lta movement has been forward. Springfield Republican: So far as Man churia Is concerned, however, this alliance does not promise to effect substantial re sults, at this late day, unless the Jap anese are now prepared, with British sup port to strike with all their military force against the advance of Russia In eastern Asia. ' New York Work: Should war result be tween Russia and Japan over Korea, as has been anticipated, the latter power would now have the support of England, whose naval operations are unaffected by the v trouble In South . Africa. ' Further moves on the international chessboard In the east will be awaited with world-wide interest. New York Times: The publication of this treaty comes just after the publication of the protest against the signature of the treaty by which China was to make over Manchuria to Russia, and that protest was subscribed by the United States, as well aa by the contracting parties In this treaty. In effect the British 'proclamation of "Hands off!" is aa American proclama tion also. That fact will not fall to be noted In all the chancelleries. It is en tirely safe to. say that "the crime of 1895" will cot be .repeated. New York Tribune: There have been In timations of late that Oreat Britain, Japan and the United States were working to gether at Pcjjln to thwart Russian designs upon Manchuria. The three have "a corn unity of . Interests in that part of the world, and are natural and logical allies. Tho United States Is not a party to this treaty. It does, not enter. into such alli ances. But it will welcome this treaty as a guarantee of its own welfare, and will continue to give its cordial sympathy and moral co-operation to the two great and friendly powers which have made It . Detroit Free Press:'. That Oreat Britain should have entered into such an appar ently Jug-handled arrangement that she should have turned her back on her tradi tional policy of "magnificent Isolation" In order to gain the support of a third-rate power like AJapan is significant. An offen sive' and defensive alliance between Oreat Britain and any other power would have been a nine-days' sensation la Interna tional politics; but when the nation is neither whits nor ' Christian and - Oreat Britain voluntarily agrees to pay a usu rious rate of interest oa the Investment, the wonder must be increased. PERSONAL NOTES, Prince Henry soon after returning from the United States will celebrate the quar ter. centenary of his service In the navy. Senator Hanaa now has in his possession the pen with which Speaker Thomas B. Reed signed the famous McKlnley tariff act . Thetus W. 8 1ms, a representative In con gress from Tennessee, was working thirty years ago in a brick yard at $1 a day and later wandered over ths Big Bend stat,e with tho pack of a peddler on bta back. Hon. Martin I. Towneend, the oldest liv ing graduate of Williams college, baa Just celebrated his 2d birthday at Troy,-N. T. He is the oldest member of the New York State Board of Regents, having served since J87J. . General Russell A. Alger, In a recent speech on 'the reforesting of barren lands, urged that Germany's system of maintain ing the Black forest should be carried out In the pine barrens of the United States and especially in Michigan. J. A. Howells, a brother of William Dean Howells, still edits tha paper, the Ashta bula Sentinel, upoa which ths novelist worked when a boy. Mr. Howello says: "I was bora in the room next to the one In which my father worked on the St. Olairavllle (O.) Gasetto and I have never been much further from a printing office since." Cheklb Bey, diplomatic representative of Turkey la Washington, la officially unknown to tha Roosevelt administration, though bo has been In the national capital six months. Ha reaohed Washington Just before Presi dent McKlnley's departure for Buffalo and after tho tragedy there his credentials had to bo returned to Turkey for aeceeaary changes as to the personnel of thls.gov ernment Tho corrected papers have not yet arrived and Cheklb Boy U a Oil la of ficial retirement, . Chronicle. think it cheaper to pay for most of these schemes than to spend time in'trylng to say no to solicitors. Business' men, however, give evidence of beginning to discriminate between the kind of advertising that. 1 of , value' and ' the many kinds that are Worthless. Some time ago the Board of Trade of a large "New England city appointed a committee .made up of practical business men to Investigate and report upon the whole question and the report recently made Is detailed and exhaustive. It sets out a great, variety of facta which were unearthed in the course of the investigation, many of them very curious and some very amusing. , Touching the issue of books of ephemeral character, the report details one case where a-large number cf advertisements were secured on the representation that 10,000 copies of tho book would be printed and distributed, while the. projectors collected from ad vert leers several times tho whole cost of the work done. In fact, no books were printed except enough to show to advertis ers, who thought themselves shrewd in In sisting on seeing a copy. The committee gave especial attention to the practice of advertising, in programs, theatrical and other, and. reached the con clusion that It Is practically without value. One curious and amusing Instance of test ing it Is detailed wherein certain trades men, v quite a number of them apparently, advertised In , certain programs that for some plausible reason they would give away certain articles of trade usually In fair do mand. The programs appear to have been some of the great value of which as ad vertising mediums great things were prom ised and some of . the advertisers rather trembled for the possible result As a mat ter of fact no . one of them .ever had as much as one single call for the articles so advertised, though the ordinary sales con tinued as usual. These are examples of the facts un- earthed and the unqnallfled, positive recom mendation of the committee la the complete abandonment by business men of all these advertising devices and ths concentration of all the money that all business men can devote to advertising in the columns of the legitimate mediums for such busi ness, the newspapers. That this agitation runs along with a general movement . against the unsightly billuii.-d Indicates a fresh application of common sense to the general conduct of business. ROUND ABOUT HEW YORK. Ripples ea the Cvrreat of Life la the Metropolis. A strenuous gas meter tucked away in a corner of a home la the suburbs of Ootham, some three years ago, worked up a bill for $1.65 for gas which the owner claimed he did not contract tor. He re fused to psy and the company turned off the gas. The owner happened to be a lawyer with time to burn, so he called the gas company into court, fought his claim for damages tfrough the devious paths of litigation, and Anally, In the - supreme court, was awarded Judgment for $4,300. The lawyer claimed that the gas was turned on before he took possession of the house, and sued the company for falling to pro vide bim with a meter or to give him any light at all. The Judgment was obtained at the rate of $5 a day, which was fixed as a penalty for the failure of the com pany to turn on the gas. For 195 days the lawyer burned kerosene lamps, and then sued for $985. The action was tried la four courts, the company refusing still to turn on the gas, and the plaintiff won every time. Now the corporation, for lighting over a bill of l.(5,has to pay $5 for each of the 730 days, besides ths costs of the suits. , . It was a pleasant day on Wall street. relates the New York Evening Post. . Old Trinity faced the usual busy crowd of brokers, some sad, some gay. In a private office on the first floor of a great building a gray-haired man sat calmly at a desk. It was ths sort of face that steadies one In a worldly atmosphere; The door opened, and a man entered whose bearing indicated the unscrupulous promoter. He began at once: "You see, we are in search of men like you to become directors of our company. There are great prospects and lota of money. If the thing goes through all right, there will be a handsome profit for those concerned, especially for persons on the Inside;' (Here there' was a curious little wink.) Big men are in the scheme, snd ws are' in search of one or two more of your caliber. Will you go lnT" "I have no money to invest in such enter prises," said the older man. "That's Just it You need not put In a cent. Only let us use your name, and we will do the rest". "But I have not time to - attend board meetings, and I certainly would not con nect myself with any concern with whose affairs I was not familiar. I cannot Join you." "Let us get down to business,", said the promoter. "You have reputation; we have money. . A fair exchange is no robbery. We will give, you 850,000 in cash for the use of your name. You will be In good company. Now will you Join usT" "No; I will not." "What, not tor $50,000 in cash?" "No. sir; not for $50,000 In cash." "Well, you are a 'queer man," said the promoter, as he reached for his bat. to go. This is a true story, and yet they say that Sunrise or Sunset? " Which shall your mirrorsay? If the former, then your hair is rich and dark, long .and-. heavy; if the latter, it is short and falling, , thin and gray. . . ' .V The choice is yours for ; Ayer!s :Hair Vigor always restores color to gray hair. tops. v falling of the hair, and makes the hair jW ; long and heavy. Yonr Hair Vigor has tamed mv hair from gray to Jetlsck. I aa ialforbatUhasioae(or m. sad I intend to keep on mslag it. - -' Mrs. Wm. SrxcBT, BochtslsvOa, Pa. . tut, AnsraakSa, every other man you meet on Wall street worships the almighty dollar! ' The highest priced bit of land In New York. City ,1s. a triangular plat 15x18 feet on Broadway, near Herald Square. What gives it extraordinary value is the fact that the rest of ' the" bloc Is owned by a department store company.' A writer In tho Saturday Evening Post says when ths agents of 'the. department! store people sought the owner he bad gone to Europe. They wrote and-asked him to cable a proposition. , He replied that he would sell for $125,000. They laughed at him and offered hlra something leas. He didn't even answer. Finally they offered him $126,000, and he told them that his price had risen and was now $150,000. " They offered htm $140,000 and he declined. Then they rose to $150,000. and he told them that his price was $175,000. V Before they oould cloee be had Jumped it to $190,000, then to $210, 000,' to $225,000 and Anally $375,000. This for a bit of ground that haa in it S18 square feet or at the rate of nearly $3,000 for every square footl The department store people Indignantly declined to buy. When they woke up they found that a little mer chant with a speculative mind and con siderable backing had snapped up the parcel at the owner's figure. All this occurred inside of three months. The proprietors of the department store now find them selves in this aredicament: They have a huge plot of ground containing about four acres, for which they have paid enormous prices and on which they are proceeding With the construction of a building to cost several million dollars, while the vital cor ner, a mere speck of ground, is denied them, except at a price that makes even New York stare. An Irishman, bent on showing his recently arrived friend tho eights of Now York, took him to the bridge at Fifty-fifth street over the railroad tracks, near the entrance to the Fourth avenue tunnel. While they were ad miring the view, the bridge and. the tunnel the Empire state express passed under them with a roar and a rush that almost took their breath away and disappeared in the tunnel. "What d'ye thing of . that, Pat?" said Mike to his daied companion. ' "Well, Mike," rejoined Pat, as he gased at the gaping orifice that bad Just swallowed the rushing train, " 'Us a mighty .small hole and a mighty big train. If them cars lver miss It there's going to bo a horrible smash some day." , , - LINES TO A SMILE. Washington Star: "Some tnen," ' snld Uncle Eben, "treats delr hosnea better dan dey does delr wives An' den again, some men's hoeoes treats 'erft- better dan' delr wives does." :-. Cleveland Plain Dealer: "Yes. 1 saw your father and It's all right." "Splendid 1 How did you accomplish such a delightful result?" - "I got the Janitor to crack on all the heat he could and concentrate It In yoUr father's office." . ... . - : . . , . Wrelir "Well, It thawed him out" Chicago Tribune:. -"When people learn how much alum, there is In It," remarked the doctor, "it will be good-by baking powder." ' "And that," retorted tho professor,- sell ing hie hat "will be the cream of ta-ta." Philadelphia Record: HeDid you say he was a millionaire? .. k , She No: a milliner. ' . .. He Well, that should be the same thing if he collects his bills regularly. - Judge: Miss Kitty Don't you want to teach me to skate, Mr. Simpson?'1, Mr. Simpson I'd be chainKd. Miss Kitty, but I don't skate. , , ., Miss Kltty-ls that so,' Mr. ' Simpson? Well, then, let mo teach you. Boston Transcript; CRrrle-r-What hateful things they will say about people! That horrid Mrs. Tattler declares you accepted the first man who proponed to you. Bertha Well, she lan't far oft. I did accept the first man whom I Oermltted to propose to me.'' .. avile ati,- J ".? ioot Philadelphia Press: CttSey Did you say Brannlgan had quit? Caesldy Ayel He left-his place lasht Week.. , ... y . Caseyr-Shure, he told me he had a lolfe Job. ' ' Caasldy So he did. "Twae Irr. a quarry he wurk'd, an' the. blase wint oft befoor ho knowed It. THE SPECTACLE OF SPECTACLES. J. J. Montague In Portland 'Oregonlan. Fiercely roars the raging fire, engines dash from all around, i r Flames shoot out from every window, with a snapping, crooking sound, " Yet no crowd. In wild excitement 'round the building rocks and sways. Breathing groans and moans of horror at the sights that meet their case. Not one lone spectator- shudders . at the havoc of the heat,,, . ,, , For the people all are gathered at tho dog fight up the street. .-... Far away our gallant soldiers fall like ten pins on the Held,' " ' ' Fighting till the last shall perish or-the enemy shJl yield.' ,rv , On the . board upon the corner dreadful bulletins are spread,' ' Telling of the awful details, swttfng forth . the lists of dead. . .. .- . , Yet no eager throng, waits breathless jto peruse each' later sheet,' ..' For the crowd, of oourse. Is gathered at the dog fight up the street. ... in tne tneaters tne actors play to row of empty chairs, Vacant Is each office building, for the in mates are downstairs, Empty every store 'and warehouse, lifeless i every market place, ".--v . mi In hotel, and shop, and gin mill, is no sign of human fare. - Not a single stolid .copper 4 patrolling on his beat, Every one, perforce. Is 'gathered at the dog fight up the sjtreetx,. r Jt There's no spectacle "So thrilling In Itilm world of wild alarms . . , s That a crowd will not desert It for a dog fight's subfle charms, . .. -, Death and war, and business failure, mar riage, Vove or politics..-.- v .- . All are elri; tracked till tho' people afcall dis cover which, dog lick. Nothing else can wield a power so en thralling and complete. Bo profound and soul-comnelMflg as a dog right up the street. ( f , JL CAVER CO LeweiU Ms. ' -ir- I Hi "' 5Sk 2