Nebraska Newspapers

    Til ft OMAHA DAILY HEEi MONDAY, NOV EMU EH 17, 1002.
Hm omaha Daily Bee.
B. ROSUWATLR, EDITOR.
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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.
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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.' "
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