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0 TIIE OMAITA DAILY UEE: TniTRSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1002. rniE Omaha Daily Uee, E. BOSK WATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERT MORNING. TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION. Bally bee (without Bundayl, One ear..$4.09 aliy H-e and bunnay, one Year i liiustraied i-e. One iear Sunuay Hep, one Ker J ttaturuay Hw, one Year ' Twentieth Century farmer, One lear...l.ou DELIVERED lit CAHK1ER. pally See (without Sunday), per copy.... Sc Iaiiy bee (witnout Buriil.iyi. per ww...uc Daiiy Be (including bunuay). per week. .lie bunuay Hce, per copy . c Evening Bee (without Hunday), per week be Evening bee (Including tsunUay), ter Complaints' ' of 'irregularities In delivery Should be addressed to City Circulation De partment. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Hulldlng. South Omaha CUy liall Building, Twen-ty-fltth and M Streets. Council Bluffs-io l earl Street. . hlcago 1S40 Unity Hulldlng. New tfork 232H Park Row Hulldlng. Washington &1 Fourteenth Street. CORRESIONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi torial matter should be auurwssea; uumim Bee, Kailoriul Department. - BUSINESS LETTERS. Business letters and remittances should be addressed: The Bee Publishing Com pany, Omaha. REMITTANCES. Remit by dratt, express or postal order, payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only ii-cent stamps aceept-d In payment or mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska. Douglaa County ss: George B. Tsschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, cays that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally. Morning, Evening and Sunday Uee printed during thj month of August, 1902, was as follows 1 i 2,7itO 3 2S.T70 t XH.HM, 4 SiK.ttlO 1 2M.U1IO 2, 700 7 28,T!M 28,760 I 28,000 10 28,750 H 38.7C0 U 28,730 13 28,820 14 28.020 16 ........28,730 1 28.UUO 17 28,820 18 2,80 19 211,770 20 80.3MO 21 30.120 22 20,000 23 3,510 24 28,733 25 80,::iO 26 20,800 27 20.H30 28 20.000 20 80.070 30.. 1. . ..80,110 ..2,120 ToUl .... Less unsold and returned copies. . .000,440 .. 0.8T7 Net toUt sale ..800,50.1 Net dally average 28,021 GEO. B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 1st day of September, A. D 1902. M. B. HUNGATB, (Seal.) Notary Public It is hard for Colonel Bryan to de cide which he abhors most republicans f reorganlzers. Connecticut Is the latest state to en dorse President Roosevelt, and the env dorsement Is a hummer. It's a safe bet that runny of the loud est talkers about the price of anthracite coal have never used anything but soft coaL With three bank presidents on the Mercer primary tickets, Our Dave would be safe If the dollars voted lnsteud of the men. ... Governor Savage may bring on his militia ' In support of Mercer, but be can't make the worktngmen of Omaha upport Mercer.' ' " Torto III co has been accorded ' Self government only a-couple ;pf years, but has already developed opposing political parties just as If It came by them nat urally. ' The organization of a gigantic com bination of the Iron and steel industries In England hardly consists with the theory that free trude is the remedy for trusts. A man cannot serve two masters. Mercer's first allegiance is to the cor porations, and as between the corpora tions and the common people, he will always be for the corporations. The test oath bluff has also been called. Uegulurly registered repub licans will vote as usual at the coming republican primaries without an inqui sition into the secrecy of the ballot. The market house ordinance has been again passed by the council for the 'ateenth time. That la no aanurnnoA. boweverjthat It will not be passed up and passed down a few more times. A committee of the city council will take charge of the city hall reviewing Stand when President Roosevelt reviews the Ak-Sar-Ben parade. Now will the members of the school board be good. Noth'ng like nn inevitable" overlap in the police fund can be expected to deter the Broatch-Mercer police bourd from using the police force to meet the po litical emergency presented by Our Dave's desperate case. If the railroad managers and bankers could cast all the votes at the republican primaries next Friday, Mercer would win out hands down. But the wage workers ought to have something to say and will have somethine to snv. Secretary Wilson's bulletin predicting that the price of beef will soon begin to fall at the result of abundant grass and corn crops will be gratefully ac cepted, provided It Is followed by fulfill ment It Is safe to assume that the meat packers' trust will not co-operate rery strenuously. cpeaner iavia u. Henderson was uuanlmouKly renominated by acclama tion, put he refuse to be a candidate when even' a small portlou of his re publican constituents differs with hliu aa he conceives," on a matter of principle. Dave Mercer But it would be an in ult to the speaker to muke any com' parlson with Dave Mercer. m. General Plerson's prediction that by 1910 the South African mines will turn out an annual product of 1,000 tons of gold, or four times as much as the world's present output, Is a wild over estimate. But It Is well known that now that the Boer war is over gold production In South Africa Is increasing at a rapid rate. It is noteworthy that large Importations of gold to this coun try are now being made. " " . nrtAKtn ntJDKRsoxa withdrawal. If the withdrawal of David It. Hender son from the race for congress In his district means his retirement from pub lic life It can be regarded In no other light than a national calamity. As speaker of the house Colonel Henderson has become a national figure, the speakership In Importance and Influence ranking second only to the presidency Itself. It will be conceded by friend and foe that In that trying position Speaker Henderson has acquitted him self In the most eftlclent and creditable manner. No other man In congress could have succeeded to the place vacated by Speaker Reed and accomplished 'the same results with as general satisfaction and as little friction as has Colour! Henderson. It Is no disparagement of Colonel Henderson to say that following In the footsteps of that plant of states manship his notable achievement has been to hold the speaker's power built trp by .Speaker Reed and to guide the course of legislation in smooth channels without encountering the personal op position which Mr. Reed met from mem bers of the house of both political parties. Speaker Henderson's hand upon the legislative throttle has been the all powerful factor for safe and conserva tive law-making In the national halls of legislation since the retirement of Speaker Reed. In view of these conditions, viewed from the national standpoint. It Is cer tainly to be hoped that Colonel Hender son's determination to decline his re nomination Is not Irrevocable and that he will be prevailed upon to reconsider his announcement and to continue In the position of party leadership he now occupies. The reasons given by Colonel Hender son for his refusal to make the race for congress will, as a matter of fact, strike broad-minded republicans as of minor and inconsequential Importance. The difference between his views and the declaration .of the Iowa republicans on tariff revision, emphasized in his statement, Is rather more apparent than real. Colonel Henderson declares that he does not believe tariff reduction Is the cure-all for trust evils and In this only narrow-minded bigots will disagree with him. Themost that ardent ad vocates of tariff revision could look for would be simply a partial relief from exactions by the few trusts that have been sheltered by tariff advan tages. The most careful reading of the Iowa platform Bnno.m'emer!t does not. In our Judgment, admit fairly of the Interpre tation Colonel Henderson has put upon It hut on the contrary It strongly re affirms the historic protection policy of thi nnrtv. Afnch mnro nrtn Vina hoim ! made of It by the Iowa democratic press than it really Justifies, Even If Colonel Henderson were at variance with a por tion of the republicans of his district on this one question, as he seems to think, he is still In full accord with them on all the most vltl issues of the day, and they could well, afford to over look one point to retain the services of a man of such transcendent ability as the speaker. Colonel Henderson looms up so far above all the other western members of the house that should he retire the speakership would certainly be lost to the west. The west particularly would rejoice If, after all, it should be found that no considerable element of the party in his district takes uncompro mising Issue with his position and he should yet allow them to re-elect him iu November. THE OYSTER BAY COXFERtXCK. Very little Is positively known In re gard to what transpired at the confer ence at Oyster Bay between the presi dent and leading republican senators, but there appears to be no doubt that one of the things decided was that there will be no revision of the tariff at the next session of congress. It is stated that two of the senators, Mr. Allison and Mr. Spooner, favored revision, on the ground that It Is imperatively de manded by the west, but it Is doubtless safe to assume that the statement is erroneous. Those senators know that a general revision of the tariff, if done with proper care, would be well-nigh impossible at the short session of con gress and It Is hardly conceivable that they would recommend undertaking so large and Important a task at that ses sion. The Flfty-nfth congress snent over four months on the DIngley tariff, for the enactment of which it was called in special session. To properly revise that act In a session of less than three months, with all the other business re quiring the attention of congress, Is obviously out of the question. It is stated that the president is to maintain his position as to the trusts and also to Insist on his demand for Cuban reciprocity. The president's at tltude In regard to the great Industrial combinations Is so generally approved by Intelligent and conservative public opinion that there Is the most conclusive reason why he should maintain it It la a sound and defensible position, which has in view the correction of evils and abuses without Injuring those who are Innocent or Jeopardizing the security of our entire industrial system mo prfHiueut s ptun is remedial, as opiwsed to the revolutionary policy of the democratic party. The latter pro posed, as forcibly expressed by Speaker Henderson, "to kill the child In order to cure it." President Roosevelt and the republican party would preserve the In dustrles of the country while remedying those evils that are Incident to great combinations. - . It Is not to be doubted that the presl dent will lublbt upon reciprocity with Cuba, lie bus clearly indicated his purpose to do so In some of his recent public siK-eches. Mr. Rouse velt most earnestly believes that It Is the duty of the Uuited States to make some tariff concession to Cuba, in order to promote the material welfare of that country aud he also believes that It would be of beuetlt to this country to help Cuba. He will therefore continue to urge Cuban reciprocity and It Is understood will have a treaty ready for submission to congress when It assembles. There are predictious that such a treaty will be ratified, but ss to this no one can now speak with certainty. Notwith standing the fact that most of the state republican conventions have declared In favor of Cuban reciprocity, there Is still a strong republican opioHitIon to It and it Is at least doubtful if a treaty could be ratified. The conference at Oyster Bay Is to be regarded as assurance of the president's earnest desire to maintain harmonious relations between the administration and congress. ' 11 1 IBS, CMOS PACIFIC LOCKOCT. SOUTH OMAHA, Neb.. Bept. 16, 1902. To the Editor of The Bee: I read your "Time for Plain Talk" editorial and was surprised as well aa grieved at Its general tenor and tendency. The business commu nity and good citizens usually overlook one-sided and prejudiced reports and write ups, but when we find a great paper's ed itor publishing such glaring and unjusti fiable Ideas as contained In your article the better element In this country may well begin to prepare and fear for the worst. To tell how the Union Pacific railroad or any other employer of labor should run their business affairs is entirely out of place for you or ma or any person not Interested financially in the management of their plant. If those employes, who were well treated and better paid, did not like the change to piecework It was their right and privilege to quit and do better If they could, but they have no right or authority under the law to arm themselves with bludgeons, brass knuckles and other deadly weapons and awault, beat and mur der those poor laborers who are willing to work to support themselves and families. I observe a strong disposition on the part of public officers who are elected to administer impartially Justice and protec tion to every citizen and also on the part of newspaper men to represent everything favorably toward these thugs and law breakers and reflect as unfavorably as pos sible on the business men's corporations and business world in general. The office hunters and politicians are also eternally clamoring for the union vote. You touch very critically the fact that a young man In the prime of life who was willing to work for an honest living was foully murdered by those ruffians who re fused to work, preferring to loaf and guz- rle bad whisky. Tou call the perpetration of this terrible crime "a fray or skirmish and say it was by no means an exceptional incident. The world at large does not need such a statement, as everyone knows when these non-responelble bodies go out on a strike they always mean to lntlml date, harass, assault and kill, If you. pleasei other poor laborers who are willing -to work and fill their places. What, I would ask, Is this country fast approaching I answer frankly, anarchy and revolution. But thank Ood there Is and always has been good citizenship and true patriotism enough to put down Bnd subdue all evildoers, agitators and malcon tents, when the business Interests of this country, the agricultural and manufacturing Interests, are once fully arbused to the ne cesslty of their own defense the horde of mischief's labor leaders, the union comblna tlons and the politicians, will be 'quickly brushed to one side and our Declaration of Independence and glorious Institutions will be strongly sustained, preserved and handed down'to following generations unsullied and untarnished. Tou say Mr. Burt knew the rules of the international union prohibited the ' piece work system. I Inter from this that you believe their obligations to their union are paramount to the service and duties to their employers. What an anti-republican and preposterous proposition! Do you permit your employes to override and disregard your Instructions concerning their duties toward you? If so, you have my unfeigned sympathy, for your workmen have you by the throat. You Intimate the strikers are struggling for life and subsistence when they quit their Jobs voluntarily that were netting them 12 to $4 per day, and the army of vagabonds who auit their work five months ago in Pennsylvania and have been engaged de troylng their employers' property and In tlmldotlng and murdering their fellow men presume are also fighting a battle for life and sustenance while losfng $10,000,000 through Idleness, In wages, and you and I help to foot the great loss because the own ers and employers of the coal region will not permit the. worklngmen to run their business. And what free-born American citizen, r ask. will submit to such un reasonable and unbusinesslike conditions? I think you and I and every true lover of his country should discountenance and frown upon everybody and every movement calculated to foment strife and disorder in the community and thus show our good cltl- senshlp and true patriotism. ' DAVID ANDERSON. It Is the policy of The Bee to give a fair hearing to all sides In every con troversy involving vital Issues, reserv lng to Itself the rlpht to express Its own views fearlessly from the standpoint it believes to be for the public welfare. Mr. Anderson's Indictment of labor unions In general and the Union Pacific shopmen locked out by Mr. Burt In par tlcular is as unreasonable as it is un Just. We are living in the twentieth centurv and cannot meet modern in dustrial conditions with eighteenth cen tury methods. Every civilized country has recog nized the right of worklngmen to or ganize for mutual leueflt and protec tion. Within the past fifty years colos sal combinations of capital have monop olized every avenue to employment They control vast armies of wage work ers, who would be absolutely at their mercy were it not for the trades unions and other associations of wage workers. Organized labor alone van cope with or sanized capital. Were It'not for labor organizations the captains of industry would become harder taskmasters than were the pharuohs of Egypt or the feudal liarous of the middle ages. The union labor trust Is cbseutlal for the protection of the middle class, the farmers and merchants, against the ag gresslon of the railroad trusts and the Industrial trusts that have become a menace to American self-government Prealdetft Roosevelt has recognized that fact in his recent speeches. And all ra tlonul people wbd want to perpetuate free American Institutions agree with him iu the declaration tuut the power of the trusts must be curbed and lubur must be protected in its right to resist the tyranny of corporate monopoly Mr. Anderson's views of the obliga tions of the wuge worker to his em ployer are IniM-d ou undent usage when the man or woman who worked for wages was the chattel prois-rty of the man who hired him. iu these days the only obligation Imposed npon wage workers Is to do the work faithfully and diligently for which they are paid. No body contends that a mechanic belong ing to a union has a right to slight his work or refuse to obey his superiors In the performance of the work allotted to him. But every member of the trades union Is presumed to be a man of honor as much as the president of a railroad or a bank. When he enters a labor union he assumes obligations which he cannot repudiate with honor at any sacrifice. When members of a trades union are locked out by demands with which they cannot comply without breaking away from the union or violat ing their solemn pledges, a conflict is forced upon them for which they are not responsible. This Is precisely the condition of the Union Pacific shopmen who were discharged by Mr. Burt be cause the rules of their union prevented them from doing piecework. Mr. Burt undoubtedly had a right to Issue this mandate, but in doing so he assumed re sponsibility for all Its consequences. To denounce the men discharged by Mr. Burt as a lot of tramps who pre fer to loaf and guzzle bad whisky to honest well paid toll. Is only heaping Insult upon injury. The great ma jority of these men had been working day in and day out In the shops for many years. Many of them are home owners and taxpayers, whose sons and daughters, educated In our public schools, occupy positions of trust In vari ous walks of life. The brutal assault that resulted in the death of the young rutin imported from Chicago by the Union Pacific cannot be charged up to the Union Pacific strikers, although' it is an Incident of the strike. The un fortunate man could have found em ployment in Chicago, but was lured on by the tempting offer of high wages held out to strike breakers by the Union Pacific recruiting officers. The coro ner's inquest has developed the fact that he came to his death not as a vic tim of a plot or of an assault by strikers, but in a fray with men em ployed inside of the Union Pacific shop grounds. The comparison made between the Union Pacific strike and that of the anthracite coal miners only emphasizes the necessity of curbing the greed of organized monopoly. The cruelty, wick edness and defiance of public sentiment of the anthracite coal mine owners Is without a parallel In Industrial wars. These- multl-mllllonalres who have amassed enormous wealth from the earnings of labor refuse to recognize Iho advance in the price of breud, meat and clothing. They not . only refuse their imported laborers the pittance to which they are entitled, but have taken advantage of their enforced Idleness to double the price of coal mined at the old wages before, the strike began. While thousands of families are at the point of starvations these soulless mo nopolists are levyptjg tribute upon the whole country and 'tilling their coffers. They refuse to listen to any proposal of arbitration, under tjie pretext that they will not permit their r worklngmen to run their business. If the conservative business men of the country want to head off socialism and anarchy, they should protest vigorously against such outruges and endeavor to find a solu tion for the grave problems that con front us, rather than attempt to excuse and palliate the wrongs Inflicted on the Industrial toilers, who constitute the bone aud sinew of the land. IVHF THE ItAlLHUAUS , WAST JUEBCtB. Why are the allied railroad corpora tions making .such a desperate effort to force Mercer upon the people of this district for a sixth term? That question can be readily answered. Mercer has always been a ready and willing tool of the corporations and can be depended upon to do their bidding. As chair man of the committee on public build ings, he Is in position to make trades with members of the other committees for bills' in which the corporations are interested and render them Invaluable assistance. In this work Mercer Is worth his weight In gold. One example will suttice: When the Union Pacific railroad was chartered it was given a land grant subsidy of every other section of land with li twenty miles of the main line and a bond subsidy ranging from $16,000 to $48,000 per mile. The Burlington & Missouri River road received only a land giant subsidy. When that road en tered upon the selection of its land It found the Union Pacific road within its territory south of the Platte, so It crossed over into the North Platte coun try and selected a large part of its land rant in counties north of the Union Pacific. In making this selection It overreached Its grant bj about 200.000 acres. This land was disposed of to settlers, who received from the Burling ton warranty deeds for the land they bought. The fraud was discovered by Laud Commissioner Sparks," under the Cleveland administration, and, being an honest man. Sparks refused to issue the patents for the Burlington lands that were In excess of their legitimate land grant Two years ago a bill was in troduced iu congress for the relief of the settlers on the lauds fraudulently ob tained by the Burlington. This relief bill was smuggled through congress by the help of Mercer, under the pretext that it was gotten up for the benefit of the farmers, when, us a matter of fact It wus for the benefit of the Burlington company, which was bound to make good Us warranty deeds. At the very lowest estimate, these lands were worth $10 an acre, and Mr. Mercer thus saved ut leust $-,000,0M) to the Burlington at one clip. But what benefit was this to the farmers of Nebraska? What bene fit was it to his constituents iu this district? The affinity of other railroads to Mer cer can also reudily lie explained. Each of these corporations has used Mercer for some scheme thut brought bun dreds of thousands of dollars Into its coffers, and there are, doubtless, other schemes on the stocks In which they waut to use Mercer's Influence for their own aggrandizement There Is a well defined rumor, for example, that one of these railroads contemplates an exten sion through the Yellowstone park, for which the government Is to vote a free right of way. Mr. Mercer's assistance Is very much needed, and Mr. Mercer Is the man to whom they look to do It best. To what extent the people of Omaha or the farmers of Douglas, Sarpy aud Washington counties are to be benefited by national donations to the railroads that will be capitalized Into millions of dollars of railroad stocks for private gain, has not yet been explained. County Treasurer Elsasser prints an other monthly statement, showing that be Is carrying In the near neighborhood of $123,000 of county money on deposit in local banks. Although these same banks are paying Interest on balances of city money, Mr. Elsasser falls to show where a single cent of Interest has been turned In to the credit of the county. No good and sufficient reason has yet been advanced why the tax payers should not have the benefit of the Interest earned on county deposits as well as on city deposits. A Sweet Yoonar Thin. Louisville Courier-Journal. The latest fad in trusts is a combination of manufacturers of candy with a capital of $9,000,000. This Is a case of lengthened sweetness long drawn out aura enough. But will it stick? One leap of Roosevelt. Springfield (Mass.) Republican. Mr. Roosevelt has now been president of the United Slates a full year. It has not been a year of uniform success, yet it has been by no means a failure. And the most notable fact to be recorded Is that he is now settling into his own natural stride. Sh. Death! Chicago Chronicle. Senator Bailey has begun to breathe heavily through his nose and hitch up his trousers with omnibus earnestness. Pen flcld. the solicitor of the State department, who called the senator an asa, Is on his way home from Europe. We shall have blood and wounds anon. Favorite of the Ksvy. Philadelphia Press. A general cheer will go up at the an nouncement that the battleship Oregon Is ready for duty again. The country has not felt quite safe from hostile Invasion since those rocks tn the Oriental seas tore nasty boles in the bottom of the ship that made the memorable voyage around Cape Horn Blue Bloods at Newport. Baltimore American. Grand Duke Boris, It Is said, retired from a Newport dining ball In a huff be cause the soup was served to the hostess before being lauled out to him. Five others of the guests, it Is further told in this thrilling rumor, left In his wake. Perish the thought! Only five? Only live persons In all America In whose veins courses blood of sufficient bluenees to cause them to rise In wrath and offended dignity and walk with "me, too," air at the angry coat talis of an irate duke? Only five people who do not know when the soup should reach the duke or the duke should reach the soup? No. It must be a mistake. If the nobility, of Newport knows how to en tertain a monkey, It must possess sufficient Darwinian Instinct to enable It to feed duke according to Hoyle. Otherwise the Four Hundred is submerged in the con somme. Manner of Paying; for Pavfna-. American Asphalt Journal. Every American city does a deal of pav ing every year, and there is a great variety of arrangements for payment. In the DIs trict of Columbia the district pays halt and the United States government half, and it Is proposed to change the plan. Senator Mc Millan of the committee on the affairs of the District of Columbia, has been collect ing information from leading cities on this point. The cities where the abutting prop erty owners bear the whole expense -of first paving are Baltimore, Boston, Buffalo, Chi cago, Detroit, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, Omaha, Pittsburg and St. Paul. In Balti more, Cleveland, Minneapolis, New Orleans and Omaha the city pays all or the greater part of the cost of paving street Intersec tions. In Cincinnati the city pays 2 per cent of the entire cost of paving. In ad dition to paying for the street Intersections the balance being assessed on abutting property. In Charleston the expenses of first paving are borne by the city. In St, Louis one-fourth of the cost Is charged against the abutting property per foot the remaining three-fourths against the property in the district defined by city ordl nance in each particular case. WATTERSON OX THE SMART SET. Kentucky Editor Hands a Bonqort to the Idle Rich. Louisville Courier-Journal. The term "smart set" was adopted by bad society to save itself from a more odious description. The distinguished trait of the "smart set" is its moral aban don. It makes a business of defying and overleaping conventional restraints upon Its pleasures and amusements. The women of the "smart set" no longer pretend to recognize virtue even as feminine accomplishment. Innocence Is badge of delinquency, a sign of the crude and raw, a deformity, which. If tolerated at all, must carry some promise of amend ment; for among these titled cyprlana the only thing needful is to know It all In London and in Paris at Monte Carlo tn the winter, at Trouvllle and Alt In the summer tbey make life one unend lng debauch: their only literary provender, when they read at all, the screeds of d'Annunzlo and Bourget; their Mecca, the roulet table and the race course; thel heaven, the modern yacht with the luxury and Isolation. The ocean tells no tales; and the "smart set" knows no law, when tn extremis It can go to sea. The "Four Hundred" In America take thel cue from the "smart set" in Europe. Be hold them at the horse show In New York. Regard them at the swell resorts after the show. All tbelr talk Is about stocks and bonds, puts and calls, horses, scandals and dogs. They the best society good Lord Truly, we have come to a beautiful pass If the simpering Johnnies and the tough glrla that make Sherry's and Delmonlco' "bum," that Irradiate the corridors of th Waldorf-Astoria with the exhalations their unclean Uvea and thoughts, emulat tng the demlmondalpe of the third em plre, are to be accepted even by Inference as the "best society," while the good and virtuous of the land, even though quit able to pay their way home and abroad must be relegated to the "middle class and dismissed as simple "bourgeoisie. The "Four Hundred'' are rotten through and through. They have not one redeem lng feature. All their ends are achieved by money, and largely by the unholy use of money. Must these unclean birds of gaudy an therefore of conspicuous plumege fly from glided bough to bough, fouling the very air as they twitter their affectations of social supremacy, with no one to sby brick or to cry, "Scat, you dsvllsl" ROIXD JtDOlT SEW YORK. Ipplea on the ('arrest of Life In the Metropolis. The tunnel projected by the Pennsylvania ilroad under the Hudson and Bsst rivers nd through Manhattan Island Is a glgantte nrtertaklng, both In cost and from an en- neerlng standpoint. H. O. Prout, editor of the Railroad Gazette, estimates the total cost at 140,000,000, of which 25.OOO,OO0 will be paid for labor. The new line begins at Harrison, on the east side of the TasKalc river. Just across from Newark. It runs along the south Ide of the Pennsylvania main line for bout 5,000 feet, at which point it has such an elevation that It ran cross to the north ward across the meadows to the west side of the ridge Just back of Hoboken. On the meadows the line crosses seven railroads, besides the main line of the Pennsylvania, and an Important highway, on which Is a ouble-track trolley road, and It also crosses the Harkensack river. All of the crossings are over grade. That necessi tates a continuous embankment, or viaduct, from Harrison to the tunnel portal at the est side of the ridge, about six miles. At the Bergen ridge the line enters a rock tunnel and emerges In Long Island City, the total length of tho tunnel being a little less than six miles. The total im provement from Harrison to the Junction 1th the Long Island railroad Is twelve miles and one-eighth. It is costly work. Not a foot Is oa the natural surface; all ts In tunnel or cutting or on embankment for viaduct Across the North river will be twe tun nels and across the East river four, and the tunnels are to meet at a great central sta tion to be established on Manhattan Island, between Seventh and Ninth avenues and Thirty-first and Thirty-third streets. On Manhattan Island the rails will never be nearer the surface than forty feet, and everywhere they will be below mean tide level. In fact, at the highest point of the tunnel the rails will be about ten feet be low mean low water. Obviously, the sta tion platforms will also be below tide level. Under the Bergen ridge the grade of the unsel will be 255 feet below tho highest point of the hill. Under the North river it will be thlrty-flve feet below the natural bottom of the river and eighty feet below mean low water. Under the East river the depths are about the same. The uptown movement extends rapidly. The department stores, the theaters, the hotels and the newspapers are in the move ment. An uptown site for a new postofflce will soon be selected. The appellate court already has a building uptown. Commls- loner Partridge has applied to the Board of Estimate for an uptown site for new police headquarters. The site he selects is the triangle at Broadway, Seventh ave nue and Forty-seventh street, In what la known as Longacre Square. This Is an admirable situation. There Is no doubt that new headquarters are needed, and there could be no better site selected. That J. P. Morgan believes in rewarding honesty In others was shown the other day when he gave a little newsboy an extra half dnllnr for gnln; several blocks to hand him change from the purchase of a news paper. As the great financier was driving to his office a newsboy recognized him. The boy ran alongside the carriage and shouted "Hey, Mr. Morgan, here's a coal strike extra!" Something In the paper caught Mr. Morgan's eye, and, reaching for It,, he threw the lad a half dollar. The carriage never slackened Its speed. The boy clambered on behind, and when It stopped In front of Mr, Morgan's office he handed out 49 cents Change. "Here's, your change, sir," said the lad, as Mr. Morgan stepped out. - ' "What's that for?" asked Mr. Morgan gruffly. Tou bought a paper from me at Liberty street, and I couldn't give you your change,'' answered the boy. , "Never mind the change," said Mr. Mor gan. Putting his hand In his pocket he took out another half dollar, which he gave the boy, telling him to . buy himself some peaches from a cart standing near. I call myself an indexer and a scrap per," said the occupant or an omce not rar from Madison square, quoted by the Even ing Post. "By scrapper I do not mean a pugilist, but a professional scrap book maker. In these two fields, or, really one Held, because no scrap book ts of value until it has been Indexed, I am an expert, That does not mean much, because there are only six or eight of us In New York. Our calling is the result of the clipping bureaus, of which there are now some thirty or forty In various parts of the country. You subscribe to a bureau and order clippings upon any particular sub Ject or subjects. These are furnished to you by tens, hundreds or thousands, ac cording to the subject given. Each clip ping is mounted upon a slip, which gives the name, place and date of the paper from which It Is taken. If you are wise you will now employ an Indexer and scrap per to put these Into permanent and valu able form. If you do not care to engage an expert for the entire Job you will And it advisable to consult with one tor la- formation and advice. "In the choice of scrap books beware of the gaudily bound affair with which the market is flooded. They are poorly bound and go to pieces before tbey are half filled with scraps. What Is even worse, the pages are made of thick wood pulp paper, which dries, cracks and breaks ere a year has gone by. I have seen scores of nice looking scrap books which were masse of fragments by the time the last page was pasted with clippings. The only kinds of paper which should be used are either the -best linen or else Manila hemp. Literary people may profit by the usages in business offices. The books there which are made for the heaviest wear and tear have their pages of yellow or brown Manila hemp paper. This Is particularly the case with all first-class Invoice books which will last till the day of doom. Most of them will outlast their bindings and for this reason nearly all are so constructed that the heavy canvas bindings can be re moved without trouble and handsomer ones put . on' when so desired. What Is more, they are very economical. A 250-page In voice book costs $1.50, which Is less than most of the pretty parlor table affairs which contain but 100 pages and the poor est wood pulp paper." Extent of Morgan's Power. Springfield (Mass.) Republican. The editor of "Moody's Manual of Cor poratlon Securities" has been studying his latest bulky volume of facts for the pur pose of tracing out the measures of J. P, Morgan's immediate, active power In the financial world. He finds that Mr. Morgan's Influence la paramount In 55,655 miles of railroad, or over one-fourth of the total mileage of the country; that this mileage Is capitalized at $3,002,949,671; that he dominates the United States steel corpora tlon with a capitalization of $1,389,339,556, and three minor trusts, and that he Is now to control a steamship combination of a capital at the start of $170,000,000. The total capitalized power of Morgan Is rep. resented by $1,737.280,527 this aside from the influence which necesaarlly radiates out In all directions from so colossal a concen tratlon of financial might. When Gladstone was Informed that they had a man In Amer lea (William II. Vanderbllt). worth $200, 000,000 In negotiable securities, he declared that it was too great a power for one man to have, and that the government ahould look after him. Apparently the government will have to look after Morgan. ABVKDANT TIEI.D. . . Approximate Flstnrea on tho seao'a Harvest. The national drpsrtment of agriculture will not publish Its final crop figures for several months to come, but the statistics now given out of acreage and condition of the principal crops, on September L make It possible to present approximate figures of the season's results, which are thus cal culated In bushels by the statistician of the New York Produce exchange as to corn, wheat and oats. In comparison with official estimates of yields for a few years back: Corn. 1K02 J.4!.0K1.0M 1901 1.622,51,8!1 llKH) 2.1H6.102.518 1SH3 2.e7f,143.!W.1 1SW 1.9V4 1H4.e) 1S07 1.992.9H7.il''3 1896 2.2S3.875.165 Wheat." Osts. in,6ii.ono rw.j-7.oo( 74Mm.2t . ".W.Mra.T: Ii22.2:,9.6i5 . St "9.1 Mi 3"3.MO W3.3-f7.S75 75.14 H.7 T..9.143 D.TO.H9.34S 77.84.S9 427.6S4,34 707,346.404 The corn crop is late, and In the more northern sections of the belt It If still ex posed to danger of damage by , frost, and. will be till nenr the end of the month, but there Is every promise of a harvest In ex cess of any previously kcown. This Is an extraordinary outcome for a season of ex ceptionally low temperatures and high moisture, and all the more fortunate in view of the very low production, of last year and the consequent depletion of, the country's granaries. The wheat yield has been three times exceeded In 1901, . 1898 and 1891. hut Is well above the average, and will leave a large surplus for exportation beyond sup plying the domestlo demand. The oat crop Is large, but of poor quality. The other cereal crops are as a rule above the average, and potatoes and apples will be abundant and cheap. The cost of food, aside from meat, will thus be lower for a year to come than It has been, and so It l that the wind In some measure ts tem pered to the lamb shorn by the coal and beef trusts. The corn and wheat comparisons In the above table are probably more favorable for the present year than the tacts war rant. The year's acreage Is calculated by the agricultural department on the basis of laBt year's, and that was arbitrarily Increased In order to make the depart ment's estimates conform more closely to the census revelations, showing that the department had been greatly underestimat ing the principal cereal crops. In other words, this year's and last year's harvests on a revised estimate are being compared with previous estimates that are ad mittedly too low. But after making all reasonable allowances on this account, the fact would remain that the season's yields are a large average all around, and most assuring for the continued prosperity of the country. PERMMAL BTF.. Maacagnl says he admires this country. It is unnecessary to say that he will make a tour here. Mayor Tom Johnson has one comfort. in his political tour. He's the "whole thing" at his circus. A nephew of General pewet, . the Boer commander, arrived tn Berlin recently to be treated by Prnf. Herrmann for a gun shot wound. Lieutenant Frank L. Harris, the only survivor of the Hayes Arctlo expedition. Is in uoaion. no was me nrsi man io piani the American flasr In tha oreaent r.ltr at San Francisco. , . ' . .. Senator Pettus of Alabama, who Is 81 years old, has been enjoying" his vacation IU jnUUUV IUiU LOB WlUlilBUDU rioi J HUB by his aprlghtllness. He says he is good for many years of public service. - ' Alexander Scammell Wads worth,' mid shipman of Chesapeake, Is a great-great-grandson of General Felts Wadsworth, and his great-grandfather,-Alexander Soantmell Wadsworth, was born in the Longfellow house, in foniana. Me., in uw. Major Cornelius Gardiner,-who has Just arrived In San Francisco from Manila, has brought with him a native Filipino, Emlll- ano Gala, who will complete his studies at the University of Michigan, having already obtained the degree of B. A. at the St. Thomas university of Manila. When Admiral Rodgera was tn Japanese waters lately he entertained Hlrai Suke klchl, a poor fisherman, who was of serv ice to Commodore Perry on the latter' visit, which opened Japan to the world. Hlrai Is now 90 years old and on his visit to Admiral Rodgers was' accompanied by his son, grandson and great-grandson. The late Admiral KUUck, who went down with the Haytlan gunboat the other day, was not exactly a naval adventurer, far, while his father was a Scotchman,' his mother was a Haytlan. Adventurers from Europe and the United . States, however. have often figured as the commanders of South American armies and navies. Tho names of Cochrane and O'Higgtns are con spicuous in Chilian military annals. 'irnri i--r ipn a xn I Bf f where the ripest grapes are in your yard ask your neighbor's boy. Washlnaton Stax: "Do you enjoy walk ing?" . . . . 'riiin TTi ..n T'tl take vMi for a ride In the country In my automobile.". Philadelphia Press: Tess She's per petually smiling these days. - jesa xea, ene goi a new set i wiw teeth. Tess Ah! I see; and ahe's determined to "grin and bare It." . . Hiinmnra American. wibbi n.vruuji . tiava heen exDerlmentlnr with this new compound for a week and I cannot decide what It is. .1 Wise Friend Bay. old man, you've atrucs a great idea for. a health food. , Chlcaa-o Post: "But are you sure," asked the manager, "that you won't be troubled, with stage fright?" "Btnre fright! exclaimed the woman scornfullv. "Huh! Tve been through two church weddings and a divorce suit." ,. Homervllle Journal: Mrs. WlTso'ti (up stairs) What Is the baby crying about? Mr. Wilson (flownsiairs) i ou win nave to ask the baby, I haven't been able to find out myself. Philadelphia Press: Mam My steady blew me off ter supper at a reg'lur rest'rant last nlht. Mag Say, they tell me he's Teal, re fined. Mame Dat'a w'at! When lie pwurtvj fils eonVe out In "Is saucf r, ter cool lrv he didn't blow It like some guys -Would, "hut Jlst fanned It wld 'la Panama. ,' . Washington Star: "So you went to that famous health resort?". , ,: "Any result?" J ' : "Decided. Became' Interested - In the games of chance conducted there , and got nervous prostration." , " : YEARLING. Somervllla Journal, It may be that the skies are clear. And that the sun Is shining bright. To some the outlook may be gay. But lift to us looks dark at night. . ' . There's little comfort In our home, ' And all our household's In a whirl, ' For Hannah qjlt us yesterday, t And now, alas! we have no girl. , "TIs true, we did not love her' much, . 1 hhe was not beautiful te nee, Her work was sliom rightly done. And with her tongue tine was too free. But oh! we mine her from our lives, Her absence leaves an aching void; And now she's gone, we d not think How frequently her faults annoyed.,' ' She waa the fifty-seventh girl We've hired since lh gUd New Year' And now we're waiting sadly for ' The nfty-elghth girl to aiipvar. Fate, neiid her soon, and may she be A diamond, a rirlot-luas pettrl, . " One who will stay at least a week. or what U life without a girll