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Til ft OMAHA DAILY HEEi MONDAY, NOV EMU EH 17, 1002. Hm omaha Daily Bee. B. ROSUWATLR, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Bee (without Riinriny), (Hip Year.M Dally He aim ttunduy. One Ych r i Until rn t"1 Bee, onn Year 2"" Humlay , Onf enr J'" Pnturciay ltw, one Year 1 f1 Twentieth Century Karmer, One Year.. l. DKUVfcltKD UY CAKIUKK. Daily Bee (without 8 indnv), per ropy... 2o la!ly Hee (without Funrlav). per week...1J: Dally Bee (including Sunday), per week. 17c Sunday ee. per copy ff- Kvenlnr,Beo (without Sunday), per week 6o Evening Bee (Including Sunday), per week , l"c Complaint of Irregularities In delivery should be addressed to City Circulation De partment. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha City Hall Building. Twenty-fifth and M Streets. Council Bluffs lo pearl Street. Chicago 1640 Unity Building. New York 232!) Park Row Building. Washington 601 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating- to new and edi torial matter should he addressed: Onfalls, Bee, Editorial Department. Business letters. Busfnot-s letter and remittances should be addressed: Tiro Bee Publishing Com pany, Omaha. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to The Bee Publishing Company. ( inly $-ent stamps accepted In puyment of mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchange, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OP CIRCULATION. Etate of Nebraska, Douglaa County, as: Ueorge 11. Tischuck, secretary of Ths Ree Publishing Company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and rcmplete copies of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of October, 1802, was aa follws: 1 80,700 17 31,820 2 SO.U.'tO 18 31,450 3 3 1,1 0 19 80,400 4..... 80,970 20 83,210 F 2,3ft0 21 SS.UUO 6 . 81,200 22 31,570 7 30,910 23 81,740 8 31,070 24 82,1130 B 31,000 23 31,140 10 81,100 26 20,3.-5 11 32,090 27 31,070 12 2O.02O 28 81,000 13 31, 300 29 31,030 14 31,2JMt 30 82,800 15 81,040 31 31,330 18 82,700 Total 9U9.U15 Le unsold and returned copies 9,8711 Net total sates...; 0B9.743 Net average sales 30.0B9 GEORGE B. TZBCHUCK. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 31st day of October, A. I). . M. B. HUNGATE. tSeal.) Notary Public. Onlj two weeks more for the fever to run on the foot ball enthusiast. It is a wise railroad that knows who controls It three months In succession Iheso days. Boodle distributers get no comfort from Missouri Juries or mercy from Mis souri Judges. Moral Don't leave valuables In plain fdght of a second-sight medium. Make htm use his second sight. . Judging from the official figures of the election of Douglas county, the populists have disappeared from the map and the socialists have taken their place. It begins to look as if the order of the secretary of the Interior for the fences illegally erected on government land to come down really means that ' the fences must come down. '4 - If newspaper sentiment controls the situation. Uncle Joe Cannon need have no fears that the necessary votes will he at his command when that speaker ship contest Is pulled off. The prospective reappearance of the snow plow on the mountain division of tho Union Pacific will have a tendency to hasten the settlement of the boiler makers' and machinists' lockout, or strike, as It Is commonly called. As to a state census for Nebraska in 1!K5, there Is really no hurry about pre 1 (miliary preparations. The census may bo taken at any time during the year and the legislature of 1906 can take care of It without crowding In case the com ing legislature of 1903 fails to get around to it. Fusion organs profess to be sure Ne braska wonld not have been carried by the republicans at the recent election had all the voters registered their choice at the ballot box. The political mind reader who can tell bow the stay-at-homes would have voted Is sadly in requisition. Chicago Las been shaken up several times during the past tpn days by stored explosives; Omaha la liable to have the same experience mot any time simply levauso the city council has never been able to agree on an ordinance requiring the insertion of explosives by a coinpe lent officer. The butchers and bakers of St. Joseph Lave organised a merger for the purpose of keeping up the price of meat and Liread and keeping down the price of lieef and flour. The next thing we hear of will be a merger among the consum ers with an agreement to subsist on cod llver oil and feathers. At the forthcoming state meeting of the Nebraska woman suffragists, an In novation Is to be Inaugurated In the form of a "men's evening," in which the entire program will be rendered by the sterner sex. We presume this Is to prepare the men for what they may ex pect when the women hold the whip hand. If our state Institutions were to get all they ask for from the Impending legis lature, the floating debt of the state wonld soon reflect the expansion policy But then heads of state Institutions in Nebraska, as elsewhere, proceed on the principle of asking for everything In sight and resting content with what Is given to them. The deadlock over the countv commlfl- lonershln has been fortified by aa order from the courts restraining the county clerk from easting lota for the tied can didates. If the Injunction were made permanent and Commissioner Ostrom kept In as a holdover the controversy might be solved to the satisfaction of t us public, If not of tho contestants. tnr. itest solid ton CAynx. The announcement of Congressman Itnhcm-k of Wisconsin, that he will not enter the contest for the speakership of the nntlonnl nous' clears the field, so fnr as the west Is concerned, for Con gressman Cannon, and should go fnr lo settle the contest In his favor. It t conceded flint If the west is united on one ninilldnte It can In all probability control the caucus of republican mem bers. It can now be confidently pre dicted that, with Babceck out of the race, the west will be solidly united on Cannon. Mr. Itnbcock's decision aud announce ment are opportune, and will greatly strengthen him In the opinion of the party generally. He had it in his power to divide the western members. Person ally popular, a strong man of good pub lic record and widely known by reason of his position as chairman of the re publican congressional committee, he would as a candidate for speaker have commanded a considerable following. He would have haiTthe support of the Wisconsin delegation, part of the Iowa delegation and of members scattered through delegations of other states. It is hardly possible, however, that he could have got the solid western support at any time when it could be effective, or that he could have secured more than a minority of It. Mr. Cannon could not be reasonably asked or ex pected nnder the circumstances to give way in favor of Mr. Babcock. If the latter entered the race there must therefore come a time when, if the west were not to lose the speakership, either he or air. Cannon would have to get out, and It Is likely that by the time such agreement had been readied it would be too late. Mr. Babcock therefore has acted wisely, and with generous re gard to western Interests, to settle the whole matter at the outset. It Is to be hoped that the prompt re sult may be an agreement, without further contest, on Mr. Cannon to preside over the house. His admirable qualifications for the high office is gen erally and rightly regarded as second In genuine importance only to that of the presidency Itself, his experience, his ability, his universally recognized integ rity and bis amiable personality mark him out as peculiarly worthy of the honor. . ' lyDvamiAL pk ai i:. The very earnest Interest manifested bv President Kooscvelt In behalf of In dustrial peace ought to make a strong Impression upon the country. The pres ident has manifested in regard to this matter the greatest solicitude and has never neglected an opportunity to im press upon the public the necessity of nrninntlnir IniliiMrrlul nunm. It Is evi dently one f the things which most engrosses bis thought and which he strongly feels to be most- essential to the continued prosperity and progress of the country. In his notable address before the New York Chamber of Commerce last week, Mr. Itoosevelt made the .subject of In dustrial peace a prominent feature. He urged the commercial men there assem bled, representing a tremendous power in the business affairs of the nation, to exert their great Influence lu behalf of the maintenance of the industrial peace. Nothing that has been said on this subject was more direct and pointed aud vigorous than the utterance of President Roosevelt and It was especially valuable because timely and made to a body of men who are In a position to dd a very great deal in pro moting Industrial peace, Such an organ ization ns the Chamber of Commerce of the metropolis of the western heml- snhere could, if disposed to, exert a potential Influence in the cause of indus trial peace. Aud there Is no doubt that the great Influence which' the president then called .upon will be used In future In the Interest of the great work for which President Itoosevelt has con tended. . WAY BKhOW THt MARK. Tax Commissioner Fleming is to be highly commended for his courageous action lu raising the assessment of the railrouds from the nominal valuation fixed on the mileage basis by the state board to what he conceives to be the actual value of their terminals and prop erties within the city limits. But the tax commissioner's assessment Is still way Ix'low the mark. Take, for example, the Union Pacific railroad, which is placed by him at S0.OH4.94O. when by rights, at the lowest cstiinutc, tho value of its taxable prop erty in Omaha is not less thau f lo.ouu, 000 nnd Is capitalized for many millions more. Klght years ago while tho road was still in the hands of receivers Irgll C. Bogue, one of the principal wltuesses for the Union Pacific lu the maximum r:ite case on trial in the United States circuit court, computed the value of the Union Pacific termiuals at Omaha at $0,108,0.11. In this computation he in cluded 1135,000 for headquarters build ing and furniture and $10,9-J3 for the right-of-way from South Omaha to Gil more, but that was more than offset by his ridiculously low valuation of the Union Pacific freight house aud upper yard at f 101,350, wlieu In fact the yard age aud freight bouse facilities of the Union Pacific are worth nearer 11,000,- 000 than 1 100,000, The value of the Improvements inade by the road in its terminal facilities within the past eight years. Including the Union passenger depot, viaducts and bridges, additional depot grounds and enlarged right-of-way by the settlement with the city of Omaha by which they acquired miles of streets aud alleys, can not be less than $3,000,000, while the In creased franchise value of these termi nals would be at least equal to another $3,000,000, or. In round figures, at least $ 12,000,00a The valuation placed by the tax com missioner on ths Burlington terminals and properties Is also exceedingly low. The assessment of the so-called Omaha & .North Platte line, which on the map begins on the west side of the Tenth street viaduct. Is apparently excessive, but In reality It constitutes a part of the whole of the Burlington system and shares with the Southwestern all the ter minal facilities, and for practical pur poses extends Into and through their pnssenger and freight depots and over every sidetrack end switch Into the heart of the wholesale district. It Is not to be expected, however, that the tax commissioner's assessment will be allowed to stand, If the railroads can help it They have enjoyed extraordi nary exemption from municipal tax bur dens for so many years that they may be depended on to make a great outcry against what their tax agents and law yers will be pleased to stlgmatlre as "oppressive exactions." AN VJSJVST ALLEUATIU.I. The statement recently made by Ca nadian authorities to the effect that Americans had unjustly Invaded the ter ritory in Alaska claimed by Canada has met with a prompt and unqualified denial. Officials of the coast and geo detic survey pronounce as absolutely false the statement that encroachments had been made tpon British territory and there cannot be. a reasonable doubt as to the truthful teas of this statement. In the first place there can be no object on the part of the American surveyors to Invado British territory, and In the second place they are especially cau tioned against any such course by the regulations governing their Investiga tion In regard to boundaries. It should be understood that the ef forts on the part of the representatives of this government to ascertain the proper boundaries In Alaska are being conducted with the utmost regard for the Interests of all parties concerned and in an entirely fair and Impartial manner. The purpose of our govern ment In prosecuting this investigation is to secure unquestionable facts that can be used In the final determination of the very important question respect ing tho Alaskan boundary. From the very outset of this controversy the United States has shown a disposition to deal with this issue with the utmost fulrness and that is the feeling of the government now. Had, Canada met the question In the same spirit there would not today bo any controversy between the two countries lu regard to the mat ter, but on the contrary a perfectly amicable and satisfactory arrangement would long since have beeu reached. The charge now made by the Canadian government, for which there appears to be no substantial reason, Is simply calculated to complicate tho situation nnd render a final settlement more dif ficult. That this is the Intention Is per fectly obvious and It ought to convince those who are familiar with the clrcum- lessness of being able to get anything lesssness of being able to get anything like fair and honorable action, on the part of Canada In connection with the question of the Alaskan boundary. Another line example of stock water ing Is to be found In the absorption of the White Stae line by the new Atlantic steamshin trust. The figures in the transaction as reliably reported involve an Issue of $25,174,000 In preferred stock and $12,587,000 In common stock, in ad dition to $13,736,180 In cash, as the pur chase price for the shares of the old comnauv at more than ten times par value, the cash alone paying the selling stockholders more than was originally paid lu for their holdings. If tho steam ship trust pays interest and dividends ou all its bond and stock obligations, some people we presume will still be unable to see wherein the stock Is watered. If the World-Herald had any right to the publication of liquor license notices. why has It not put in Its claim with the county board or with the city council of South Omaha, which issue licenses for this county outside of Omaha? The same law applies to tho entire county and both these bodies are controlled by democratic majorities. But both of them have accorded The Evening Bee the position of newspaper of largest bona tide circulation in the county, be cause the facta in the case are indis putable. Applicants for licenses In Omaha who submit to the present World-Herald raid will be voluntary victims of the holdup. lu case President Loubet should ac cept the invitation to attend tho St. Louis World's fair, another reason will have to be urged for his entertainment than that of gratitude to France for permitting us to acquire Louisiana by purchase agreement. France got its own price by selling to the United States, and at the same time prevented the territory from being taken away from it by its ancient enemy. We in this country are indebted to Franco lu many ways and would take delight in enter talulug its chief executive most hospit ably, but not in recognition of any un liquidated obligation growing out of the Louisiana purchase. A writer In a popular weekly congratu lates the new woman on the growth of politeness in the sex, which, it Is as serted, shows remarkable improvement compared with a few decades ago. The men are willing to give the women full praise for every newly acquired virtue, but they would like to share the credit In this case on the score that they have learned to give the women less cause for Impoliteness than formerly. Impolite ness recognizes no lines of creed, color or sex. If the figures for Douglas county are a straw, the constitutions! amendment submitted to Nebraska voters at the re cent election has been lost In this county It received 6,564 affirmative votes out of a total of approximately 20,000. Inasmuch as all not voting for ths amend me ut must be counted against It, this makes an adverse majority of nearly 7,000, or more than two to one. If King ltpold of lie Igl urn had any way of profltlug at the box office by the free advertisement, the temptation would bo Irresistible to assume that It had loen previously arranged by his manager that the pistol of the would be assassin be loaded with blank cart ridges. Kmnlatlng; the raleface. Brooklyn Eagle. The Sioux are going lo put up a monu ment to tb.Hr follow tribesmen who were "massacred" at Wounded Knee. Wo have put up a monument to the white folks who fell In that battle, and it fills us with astonishment that the red folks should care to remember their dead in the same way. A Hooi to Farmers. Baltimoro American. Rural free mail delivery has proved such a boon to the agricultural population that every effort for its Improvement and ex tension will meet with general public ap proval. Though expensive, this govern ment can well afford It, and the rural resi dents have a right to the privileges and conveniences it confers upon them. Ideal Happiness Attained. New Tork Jun. Great news and good! The Beef trust mar choke Itself with Its steak and the Bean trust cook itself In its own oven. The bottom has dropped out of the Newfound land codfish market. New England can treat Itself to its favorite amusement, cod fish balls. There are palladiums that make more hullabaloo than the sacred codfish. There is no other tutelary divinity that at tends more strictly to business. .General Chaffee's Services. Springfield Republican. General Chaffee, who left us In a hurry In the summer of 1900 in order to make connections with Pekin, comes home one of our most distinguished living soldiers. His service with the allied forces in China brought him conspicuously before tho wbolo world, and, in that way, it was much more an advertisement of him than the succeed ing service In the Philippines, where be "raked after" Otis and MacArthur. Kraft In Oranare Groves. Chicago Chronicle. If it be true that a trust hna been formed to take over the orange groves of southern California an opportunity will be offered the thrifty citlscnB of that lo cality to unload divers "gophered" or chards fifty miles from a pint of water, which have been dangled before r astern pilgrims without success for lo! these many years. The gentlemen composing the trust will quickly have an exemplification of the adage respecting (he separation of a fool and his money. Strrnaons Womanhood Weakens. Chicago Post. True womanhood of the advanced order is somewhat disgusted with the absurd be havior of three young women at Sat urday's game at New Haven. They were so -weak and unwomanly as to faint away when a player Btaggered to the side lines with blood streaming down his face. It Is true that one of the young women was tho player's sister but' at such a time she should have remembered alma mater and rejoiced in the valor and prowess of her brother, exclaiming- that It is sweet tor one's college to bleed. Evidently these three young women have not had the bene fits of co-education, which strengthens womanhood in trying hours and compels a look of calmness; Ina of joy. at these or dinary scenes of 'strenuousness. Corn Harvest of UM)2. Springfield Republican. , The indicated Corn harvest, from the statement of acreage production per acre Issued by the United State Department of Agriculture, amounts to 2,542,616,000 bushels, or much the largest production ever reported. Present acreage figures have been revised by the department In the way of adjusting them more closely to the census returns of 1900, which showed that previous corn and wheat harvests bad been greatly underestimated. Thus the present estimated crop is being compared with previous estimates, which were ad mittedly much below the truth, and Is therefore auade to appear comparatively larger than It Is. But after making all allowances on this score It Is to be said that the corn harvest of 1902 is close to being, it not actually, a record-breaker. ALT TRIST WKi l, SHAKE'. California! Conrt Throws Search light on Its Contracts. Chicago Record-Herald. United States Clrcut Judge William W. Morrow has rendered a decision at San Francisco In a trust controversy which will excite Interest throughout the country. The trust Immediately concerned Is tho Federal Salt company, and the circumstances under which the decision was given are as fol lows: A temporary injunction had been secured against the trust to prevent it from doing business on the ground that it was an Il legal combination in restraint of trade. This Injunction applied to several corporations and to numerous firms and individuals also to prevent their acting in concert with the trust, and the parties concerned were or dered to show cauae why it should not be mado permanent. This they failed to do to the satisfaction of the judge, who gave a broad interpretation to the anti-trust law and a broad construction of the judicial powers in the premises. . On the subject of his own authority he said: j "It is within the jurisdiction of a chancel lor to look into the entire case. He is au thorized to look behind mere contracts and see the entire transaction, so that the real effect is within the purview of a court of equity. Hence the court is not restricted to any mere technical defense as has been claimed by counsel." There remained to be considered then only the character of the agreement be tween the parties resisting the Injunction and its effect. On this point the court rea soned in the following terms: . "Now, it has been admitted by counsel for the defendants that the Gets contract is void, and no other defense could well be made. But the other contracts still belong to the same general scheme of the Federal Salt company to strangle all competition, and it lr evident that all form part of one general combination or conspiracy. Their only possible effect Is to restrain commerce here and In other parts of the union. I think that the contracts can be properly con structed as a class of contracts which al ready has been declared Illegal by the su preme court sod more recently in the court of appeals." If this Is good reasoning against the salt trust it is good reasoning against others which operate under a similar class of con tracts and which were organized primarily to crush out competition and establish a monopoly that may and that constantly does restrain trade through a species of dic tatorship. Whether the cure by Injunction is a proper one or not is another question. But Whatever Us merits may be the decis ion has had the ulterior effect of encourag ing the district attorney to proceed with a criminal action against the members of the trust. TUB DECK AT OP MKRC EH. Dakota City Eagle: Dave Mercer dtarov ered that the bats In Rosewater's belfry were quite numerous. The Gollah David will realize that there is gratitude In poli tics and that no one man Is tho whole cheese In the republican parfy. Ainsworth Star-Journal: And whetf you sum it all up. Mercer contributed more to his own defeat by his past selfish record than did Rosewater with his scalping knife. When will men In public office learn the leason that use of office must not be abuse of office? Lynch Journal: Edward Rosewster, like the rest of humanity, has his faults and some of them are pretty rood-sized, but fellows that are trying to shelve the Utile editor are finding him pretty hard to lift out. of politics, and It would also be a hard Job to find a man that would take his place and exert as great an Influence for the party In the state. Hebron Register: Before the election many of the republican papers of the state came out boldly and stated that The Omaha Bee had no Influence and that David Mer cer would be returned to congress from the Second district In splto of The Bee's efforts to defeat him. Now these same papers will blame The Bee and its editor for the defeat of Mr. Mercer. St. Paul Republican: Who would ever have thought that tho Sixth district would be sending a republican congressman down to Washington In a year when that re publican Gibraltar, the Second, electa a democrat? Or, stranger yet, who would have dreamed a year ago of Edward Rose water supporting his ancient enemy, O. M. Hitchcock, In a race for office. Politics doea create queer situations and make' strange bedfnllowe, for a fact. Wayne Herald: One thing Is ccrtalr, and that is, it would have been wise for Dave Mercer and his friends as well as for all the republicans In the First district had he not been nominated. It Is evident to him now and to all for It la absolutely useless to figure that The Bee has no In fluence. It has and it is widespread and good reasoning will not suggest the sit ting down upon a great influence for spits work. It Is poor politics. That Influence 1 3 sure, it trampled upon, to sting back and the result Is serious both ways. Superior Journal: Omaha republicans had best quit trying to "down Rosewater" and buckle down to honest, hard work for the party. Rosewater has been accused of having personal animosity for Mercer, and as a consequence fought him. Granted this la true, the Mercer republicans had a per sonal hatred for Rosewater and they would not lay aside their personal feelings a whit quicker than would Mr. Rosewater. Rosewater has again proved that be is the best campaigner In the bunch. Per haps tho republicans down there will learn after awhile that It is a whole lot easier fighting with him than against htm. There are a score of men who were belter timber for congress than was Dave Mercer, but tho republicans nominated him to spile Rosewater. They didn't like to be "dic tated to." The Omaha republicans are just learning the first lesson of politics; that it Is a whole lot better to swallow a little dictation now and then and even pretend that you like It than to make a bitter, costly flfcht and go to defeat. An other thing in politics is so true that it may be regarded as an axiom: No man can afford to make two campaigns one for the nomination and another for election inside of three months. The nomination has to come without a bitter and prolonged fight If the nominee is to be a winner. HOIVD AHOIT SKW YORK. nipples ou the Current of 1.1 fe In the Metropolis. Dr. Burchard's famous alliteration. "Rum, Romanism and Rebellion," which sounded the political death knell of James G. Blaine in the fall of 1884. Is recalled by the dis appearance of the church over which the minister presided from the list of religious edifices In New York City. An artist and bis wife, Mr. and Mrs. Francois Tonettl, have bought the place and will have it fitted up for a studio, a residence and a stable. For a long time the old-fashioned rcd-brlck church has been on tho market. but found no purchasers. Mr. and Mrs. Tonettl, both having ample means, looking around for a place of residence, hit upon the disused church and bought it. It will be remodeled. A department store which has taken possession of its new quarters, is giving out figures in illustration of the immen sity of the premises it occupies. Of floor space, it has twenty-four acres. The weight of the building is 2,000,000,000 pounds. It contains 26,000,000 pounds of structural steel and Iron; 2,150,000 pounds of orna mental bronze and iron; 6,340,000 common bricks; 2,305 separate columns; eighteen miles of brass tubing and galvanized iron pipe in the pneumatic cash system: forty- six miles of beams, 738 miles of flooring planks, forty-two miles of electric wiring, 150,000 square feet of window area, thirty three hydraulic elevators, four escalators, with a carrying capacity of 40,000 persons an hour, 1,400 enclosed arc lamps, 15,000 In candescent lamps: and eighty electric mo tors. When 4,000 employes are turned loose In these acres of floor space, this one building becomes a village by itself. The above figures give some Idea of the weight that is supported by the rocks of Manhattun Island. The new public library, the cornerstone of which was laid last Monday, will be a four story building of large proportions, the Fifth avenue front being 390 feet long. The depth will be 270 feet. Already f 1,000,000 has been expended on the work and the foundations are laid. Faring the Bryan park side will be the main library structure proper. Three floors will be devoted to the book-stacks, and the top floor will be used as a reading room. Two courts will sep arate this building from the frontage on Fifth avenue and furnish light and air to the rooms surrounding them. The"bulldlng when completed will represent a cost, ex clusive of site, of over $3,000,000. Last Saturday there died In New York City a man who had been continuously the president of a bank since the year 1849. His name was Francis Asbury Palmer, and he was more than 91 years old when he died. He was in business up to two months be fore his death, when he was prevailed to take a bit of a rest the first he had bad In more than halt a century. It Is asserted by persons who seem to know that the rest killed him. He was nervous and uneasy about his business from the beginning of his little vacation, and he worried and stewed so over the way he imagined things were going at the bank the National Broadway bank, one of the big institutions of the city that he worked himself into a fever which be was unable to fight against In his senile state. He was a millionaire so many times over that he had often been known to say that he didn't know within $5,000,000 how much he was worth. Madeira, Hill Co., coal miners and shippers at 143 Liberty street, have dern onstrated how coals can be shipped to New castle, reshipped and sold at a profit under certain circumstances. More than a year ago, according to the Times, they shipped to Fred Zerega Co., their agents at Liverpool, thousands of tons of selected anthracite. One cargo of about 2,600 tons went to Rouen, France, but o log te ths lack of familiarity with this The Gospel Detroit Free "The first requisite of a good citizen In this republic of ours Is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight, " said President Roosevelt in his speech st tho dedication of tho New York Chamber of Commcrcw "that, he shall not be s mere passenger, but shall do his share in the work that each generation of us finds ready at hand, and, furthermore, that In doing bis work he shall show not only the ca pacity for sturdy eelf-help, but also self respecting regard for tho rights of others." Good words, those, and worthy of the hon est consideration of every citizen. The gospel of the strenuous life Is good in lis way, but the gospel of self-help is better, and there was never a time In the history of the country when the republic needed manly and eloquent sermons In support of the American theory of independence. The notion of self-help Is rapidly giving may to tho notion of social assistance. Half the thought of society Is directed toward tho devising of methods by which the Individual can slide through life with tho least pos sible exertion on his part. Mr. Morgan builds a maternity hospital for tho modern American to be born In. Mr. Rockefeller endows a university at which he Is to bo educated. Mr. Carneglo constructs libraries for him and provides books to while away his leisure hours. The community undertakes to bury him If ho has not made a sufficient effort to acquire an estate that Is capable of paying his funeral expenses. We are creating a condition of society in which a few men are allowed to disregard everybody else's rights in order to acquire fortunes that can be devoted to improving the condition of their fellow be ings. The fact that Mr. Morgan or Mr. Carnegie or Mr. Rockefeller are willing to devote their wealth to what they call be nevolent purposes slides all Inquiry as to the frocesscs by which this wealth was obtained. There is no curiosity as to whether the rights of others have been sac rificed in the making or not. We are as- quality of coal there, very little was used, and owing to the peculiar conditions pre vailing here they have been enabled to re purchase the cargo and sell It In New York at a profit. A member ot the firm ot Madeira, Hill & Co. said that the cost of freights and In surance, both ways, was about $S per ton. He also said that the steamship Madeira, with 6,000 tons of Scotch anthracite, would sail on Tuesday. This will be the first Im portation of Scotch coal to New York. Thus far more than 60,000 tons of foreign anthracite have been brought to New York since the coal strike reached an acute stage. The great bulk of this was pur chased by the gas companies and the Man hattan Elevated Railroad company at prices ranging from $10.50 to $13.50 per ton de livered. Lower Broadway has two persons of pe culiar and distinctive tastes, relates the Evening Post. One Is a rather short. elderly man, who rarely wears a bat, or even carries one about with him. Ho has thick white hair and flowing whiskers, and only on the coldest winter days does he seek to cover bis . head. A hot sun seems to be his delight, and fine rain gives htm no concern, but sometimes ho uses an umbrella when a heavy shower comes down. As a rule, however, bo goes bareheaded. Whether the little man does this upon the advice of a doctor cannot be said, but his sprightly step seems to show that the habit agrees with him. The other person Is a young woman who apparently has an unsatisfied craving for literature, for she always reada while walk ing to and from tho office in which she works. With her eyes fixed on the open pages of some book, she may be seen every day In the neighborhood of City Hall park. Her eyes appear to follow the type whether she walks fast or slow, and it takes a lively street noise to arret her atten tion. This young woman's habit has led to the development of a faculty which one In variably flnde In a blind person. Although apparently oblivious to everything but her book, sho crosses the streets in perfect safety, and is always able to thread her way through a crowd without bumping into anybody. PKHSO.N'AI. XOTKS. Elmer II. Bryan of Bloomlngton, Ind., has been appointed by Governor Taft. su perintendent of education for the Philip pines. When Premier Balfour says the kalaer's visit to England has no political signifi cance Englishmen straightway wink the other eye. J. B. Hedenger, who was a seaman on Indiana, Is the recipient of the first of the Santiago campaign medals, Issued by the Navy department. In Washington it is now regarded as pretty much settled that Senator Hanna will retire from public life at the close of his present term in the senate. Those who bought $13 coal a few weeks ago are attempting to persuade their neigh bors who had some left over from last sea son that the famine-priced article Is greatly superior. Ex-Governor W. J. Stene of Missouri ex pects to succeed George G. Vest in the United States senate. He claims sixty- seven members of the legislature Instructed to vote for him and has the promise of twenty-two additional votes which will give him a clear majority In the democratic caucus. 1- V n , U Till ?.'T. It feeds Ayer's Hair Vigor is hair food. It feeds, nourishes, invigor ates the hair. That's why it makes the hair grow, stops falling hair, and keeps the scalp free from dandruff. It always re stores color to gray hair, all the deep, rich color of early life. And it is an elegant dressing, ti oe a i. o. at oa. . -Alt' Bait Visor staspea say Iwtr from fsllias whoa U m so twa you oould m say esalf, sad ft aud mw bU euiu la, thick ud Ly." K. W. U. UiDin,Uu. Ohio. of Self-Help Tress (drm.). sured further that If .Mr. Morgan and Mr Carnegie and Mr. Rockefeller can do s much to Improve mankind, society as a whole might do Infinitely more If It were graciously permitted to confiscate every thing and manage everything for the pub lic good. Then we should have tho mil lennium at which everybody mould have a maximum of comfort at a minimum of labor with no troubles and nothing to worry about. Opposition to the doctrine of self-help has been organized, and has even txen. In corporated into the educational system of the country. The first processes of mod ern education are directed toward enter taining the child. He must never euspert that he Is working, becai!? work la dis agreeable to him, and if he were required to work it might annoy him. This theory follows him through his school life, and If tho notions of certain prominent educators are generally adopted. It will follow him through his college and university life. In the midst of the most strenuous period of American existence we have all begun to discredit the doctrine of aelf-effort and self-help. Society Is to bo reconstructed along labor saving lines. Wo are making a national cultus out of the doctrine that work Is Inherently bad and must be avoided so far as possible. Nobody Is to pull his weight, as President Roosevelt says, but everybody is to be pulled along by myste rious forces toward the ultimate goal ot his ambition. It is time we were turuing our thoughts back to the old-fashioned American Ideas of industrial as well as political independ ence. All that the fathers ot the republic asked of government was for the govern ment to protect their lives and property, and then let them severely alone In the enjoyment of tbelr natural rights. The sons are beginning to insist that the gov ernment shall provide them with life and property, and then scrupulously managt both in order that they may be relieved ol all care and responsibility. MIRTHFUL REMARKS. New York Sun: Her Father So, young man, you want to fill my shoes? Her Suitor I'll try, sir. Her Father Well, If you did your first ael would be to kick yourself. Washington Star: "Do you think thi world Is getting better?" "Certainly," answered Senator Sorghum, "Why, I'm making thousands of dollar! where I formerly made only hundreds." Brooklyn Life: Clergymar I'm sorry ts hear that you sell liquor In this hotel. Hotel Clerk Well, sir, we wouldn't If you could get people to stop buying It. Philadelphia Record: "I desire an audi ence with the manager." remarked the dlKiiiflcd, smooth-faced person as he ap proached the box office of the theater. "Step right in," replied the man In the box ditl ce. "I think he's looking for a few audiences himself." Baltimore American: First Capitalist t have a Kreat Hellenic. Whitt do you say to organising a merger In mushrooms, with $5i.00U.otK capital? Second Capitalist Why mushrooms? First Caiiitullht Man alive! It is tlin chalice of the century. Mushrooms Hre '.n per cent water. Philadelphia Inquirer: Mrs. Rubha How's Mrw. Chatter this morning, doctor? Doctor Suffering terriblv. Mrs. Ruhba What, with only a slight throat affection? Doctor Yes, but she can't speak. Brooklyn Life: HHXter I thought Miss Blumster had a reputation ot being very truthful? Blaxter She did have. But of late she has fallen from grace. Huckster How so? Hlnxter Sho has got in the habit of tell ing her age. Chicago Post: Cordelia It worries roe to buy dollies. Cornelia Why? Cordelia Oh, I can't decide whether to look stvllnh and be uncomfortable, or to be comfortublc and look dowdy. Philadelphia Press: "Now, this." said the carpet salesman, "is an odd design." "You wouldn't recummend that carpet for a nursery, surely," protested Mrs. Kidd. "Yes'm. Why not .'" "Why, that is so loud It would wake the baby." Washington 8tar: "Don't you think that you are making an 111 advised display of wealth?" said the friend. "No," answered Senator Sorghum, "I don't think my friends out home care very much for self-denial and simplicity. I want to let '-em know that If 1 need the votes I've got tho cash to buy 'em." I VtllK JIM SAG LOW, Brooklyn Eagle. Jim had a big revolver and he made an awful "bluff," Pretending on occasion to be very brave and "tough." He kept peace lovers nervous with his san guinary threats, That no one cared to tackle him was one of his regrets. Ho liked to hear his comrades say, "Oh, please don't do that. Jim!" Their pleas for peace and quiet were ex tremely dear to him; And so on every pretext he kept reaching for bis gun. Until ha chanced to meet a man who had another one. He blustered with the quiet men who al ways went unarmed: He talked about his prowess and he told of those he'd harmed; He showed them tricks of juggling with his awe-lnsplrlng gun. Until he chanced to .meet a man who hsd another one. "Now, what," his comrades pondered, "can have made this change In Jim? He hasn't let his anger rise, and that seems strange In him." "Oh, aa to that." the stranger said, "of mystery there's none; I merely chanced to say to him, 'I also have a gun.' " wmmmi the hair