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TJTE OMAHA DAIL.T BEE; TIITJKSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1902. '11 ie umaiia Daily Bee E. ROSKWATER, EDITOR. I'fllLISIIKD EVJBKY MORSINO. TEKM3 OF FCnscmrTioN. IDally Hee (without ncmuay,, one Yuar.ll.Oj iMlly bee aim cumluy. One Year S.uo Iliuxtraieil nee, Uiip Imr 2. ID Bunday Alee, yne Year it.iM raturuay iite, uiw ieiir 1.W Twentieth Century Farmer, One Vear.. l.w UfcL.iV'1-.M-.D UY CAKKlt.it. Iily'Be (wlihout Sunday;, per coiiy.... 2c lialiy Bee iwnhuiit Bunuay;. pur w.ik...1jc Lany bee (including nunuuyj, per wek..l7c Buuuay iee, er copy oc Evening iie iwithout Sunday), per weea tic Evening bee Inciuumg ounouyi, , per week lc Complaint! ot IrrtKUiuriiMS In dellveiy should be addressed cuy Circulation uv lartment. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Bunding-. Bourn Omaha city nail Uullding, Twenty-nun anu ii bireeta. Council faiutta lu 1-earl Street. Chicago itu Lnity Huliulng. New urn 1-ark huw ttulldlng. Washington ool fourteenth btreet. COKKESFONUENCE. Communication!! relating to nei anil edi torial matter should lie addressed: Omaha Hee, Editorial Liepartment. HI' 81 NESS LKITER9. Business letters and remittances should be addressed- The Bee Fubiisning Com pany, Omaha. REMITTANCES. Remit by dratl, express or postal order, payable to 'ihe Bee Puollshlng Company. Limy it-cent stamps acccptcu in payment of mail accounts. Personal checKH, except on Omaha or eastern exenange, not accented. THE BEE PUB-LiSHINU COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Stats of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss: George B. 'liscliuck. secretary of The Bee Fuollshlng Company, being duly sworn, ays that the actual number ol full and complete copies of The Dally, Mornm:;, Evtnlng and Munuay Hee printed uuring toe month of October, uxa, was us luiiuwu. 1 8U.700 2 . 8o,o:io 1 3l,lt 4 80,1)70 t KU.UftO ai.voo 7 8O,t10 ....81,070 .... 81,04 H 10 81,liO u aa.ouu 12 241,120 )3 81.4SO 14 31,2.10 16 31,040 17 31iO 18 31.4.-.0 is ao,4io 20 82,2 10 21 32,SUU 22 31,670 23 81,7-40 24 82,180 25." 81,140 26 20,259 27 81.O70 2d.. 81.O0O 29 31, OdO SO ;t2,aoo 81... 31 .a JO 16 3H.700 . Total ". BOO.tflS Less unsold and returned copies 0,8)74 Net total sales PB0.743 Net average sales ao,50 GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this iist day of October, A. D., 102- M. B. HUNUATE. (Seal.) ; Notary Public If you want more, be thankful for what you have. For today the turkey supplants the eagle as the national bird. The doubling of the deposits of the Omaha banks within a period of two years is a fact that carries Its own com mentary. If worse comes to worst. It may be necessary to compel the State Journal and the World-Herald to arbitrate their inferences. The foot ball players who not only sur vive today's battles, but also carry vic tory on their banners, will Indeed have cause for thanksgiving. No new cabinet officer has been added to. the president's family since the first term of G rover Cleveland.' The ninth cabinet officer is almost due. The ''next amendment to the rules of the Commercial club should be one against telling stoi-les of questionable propriety at Its public banquets. It turns out that Nebraska is not the only state in which land frauds on the public doinaih haver been .' perpetrated. There may be some consolation lu that. It now takes $2.85 in Mexican silver to buy what one dollar in gold will buy in that country. But we will not say anything more about the sacred ratl f 10 to l. Now that' the contending telephone companies Of South Omaha have gotten Into court with their troubles, inquiries of central will bring the response that the Judicial Hue is busy. Not since the days of the James and Younger brothers has the Industry of bank robber 'flourished as it has lately. The trust principle may have to lie re sorted to iu suppressing it. If the forecast of tSovenior Mickey's appointments to his clerical force should prove to bV correct it would seem that the First coUk'ri'ssioiuil district Is the only one on the governor's map. The governors of eighteen agricultural states are expected to attend the live stock show at Chicago next week. The governor of Nebraska must be in the list, and no bull tight among the attrac tions, either. 'Those belter skelter, newspapers which a few days ago proclaimed the anthra cite coal arbitration all off and all differ ences between miners and operators ad Justed might at least 'fess up to their readers that they got the cart ahead of the horse, i The complaint about the Inadequacy of tho cqnipcusatiou, attached to the office of lieutenant' governor In this state under present constitutional limitations overlooks the fact that tho f 10 per diem of the lieutenant governor Is at a greater rate than .the salary accorded the gov ernor himself, who' gets only $2,500 a year, or less than' $7 a day. Neither officer 1 likely to grow rich off his pay. Jealousy- is not an admirable emotion, but like the wrath of man it sometimes eventuates in good, as in the relations between Henry W Prick, and Andrew Carnegie. The former. It appears, Is not to be outdone In public benefactions, and proposes to build and endow an ed ucational Institution at Pittsburg which will throw the Carnegie institute iu the Ciade. However, Caruegie's benevolence Is evidenced by actual brick, mortar and other substantial things, while It still re mains for Frlck to make good on his promise. TrutiKSQirixa day. President Roosevelt's, proclamation designating a national thanksgiving day says that In the more than a century and a quarter sine the United States took Its place among the nations of the em in rte uiive had on the whole more to 1 thankful for than has fallen to the lot of any other people. Each succeed ing generation has bad Its burdens and Its trials, yet decade by decade we have struggled onward and upward and now abundantly enjoy material well-being. "The year that has Just closed." says the proclamation, 'has been one of peace and of overflowing plenty. Rarely has any people enjoyed greater prosperity than we are now enjoying. For this we render heartfelt and solemn thanks to the Giver of Good, and we seek to praise Him not by words only but by deeds, by the way In which we do our duty 'to our fellow men." In the spirit of those words all should observe this national festival of thanks giving. The season of Joy should also be a season of charity and mutual good will. Out of the great material pros perity that has blessed the labors of all classes of workers In every section of the union there should come a genuine spiritual uplifting that will enable men to see the brighter and the better side of our national life and appreciate more fully the splendid opportunities it af fords. Any good citizen, no matter what his religious belief, can Join with his fellow citizens on the day set apart in heartfelt thanks for the bounteous good things heaped on the nation and the people during the year. That Is the primary meaning of the day, though there are others hardly less significant which have grown as the day itself has expanded into a national occasion. Thanksgiving, though in its origin It was purely local and up to the time of the civil war had scarcely any ofBdal recognition outside of New England, has become an essentially national festival and undoubtedly Is permanently established as suem' The Pilgrim Fathers perhaps left no more distinct impress upon the country than that which is perpetuated In the thanksgiving observance. It is certainly well that the nation takes one day In the year to consider the state of the body politic and express gratitude not only for ma ter.nl well-being, but also for the main tenance of the institutions that have brought such happiness and prosperity. Surely no nation has better reason than this to be thankful. HLLPIXQ THE HOME MARKET. The advance In wages of hundreds of thousands of railroad men and other em ployes of large companies will neces sarily be helpful to the home market. It Increases the purchasing power of a great army of wage earners to the ex tent of hundreds of millions of dollars and a large part of the Increase will go to the purchase of more of the neces saries and comforts of life. It will be a stimulus to commerce and'productive in dustry. There is one point, however, sug gests the Cleveland Leader, that Is doubtful and this is the influence which it may have on American competition with other nations for tho markets of the world. ' That paper says that if capital accepts whatever decrease may be necessary in its profits, in order to advance wages without Increasing prices, looking to the expansion of business and wider oppor tunities for investment for its reward, then the position of this country In com petition for the trade of other countries will be made better Instead, of worse. ' But If the shippers of freight are to pay for the Increased wages of railroad em ployes because of a higher average charge for transportation, then the ad dition of many millions a year to the coBt of sending great staples to market must affect the ability of American pro ducers to sell their merchandise in for eign lauds." The railroads have ad vanced transportation charges and it is highly probable that the shippers of the country will more than pay the increase in the wages of railroad employes, yet this is hardly likely to have an appreci able effect upon our competition for for eign markets. At ull events, the ad vance iu wnges is unquestionably a good thing for the homoMrads aud that Is the more important consideration. HA LT OF CA XA L A tUOTIA TIOXS. The announcement that the Panama canal negotiations had come to a halt, owing to the rejection by Colombia of the last proposition of the United States, was a distinct surprise, although the disposition that had been manifested by the Colombian government caused some appreheuslon. It was to be ex pected that that government would be somewhat exacting, but there had been such apparently earnest expressions of a desire that this country should con struct the canal that it was believed Colombia would eventually accept the terms offered by our government. 1 Having declined our proposition as the basis of a treaty, which is as far as this government is willing to go in making concessions. It looks as If the Panama route will have to be dropped unless the Colombian government shall recede from iu position, which seems lruprobnble. It appears to be the de termination of that government to insist upon its own terms and conditions aud In order that It may do this It Is under stood that Nicaragua and Costa Rica have been induced to keep out of negoti ations with the United States, at least until It should become certain that no treaty .would be made between this country and Colombia. Thus there seems to be a definite arrangement be tween those countries looking to coer cing the United States into accepting their terms or abandoning the project of a iv isthmian canal. It Is a situation that strikingly shows the untruKtwortbl- neas of assurances and promises from these sources. What further steps our government will take It is Impossible to say, but probably there will be no effort to re new negotiations with Colombia and an attempt may lie made to Induce Nica ragua and Costa Rica to enter Into ne gotiations. In its present aspect the situation Is certainly perplexing, but there can be no doubt that ultimately an Isthmlnn canal will be constructed aud that it will be owued and controlled by the United States. COXST1TVTIOX CHAXOIXG. In his brief address at the Commercial club Lieutenant Governor McGilton seized the occasion to endeavor, to Im press upon the business men of this city the necessity of a revision of the state constitution that would enable Ne braska to administer its state govern ment upon a more businesslike basis. To undertake to conduct a mercantile or manufacturing establishment, which In twenty-five years had expanded its output twentvfold and Increased the number of Its employes eight or ten times, In the same building In which it had started up would appear to be pre posterous. Yet Nebraska, with nearly 1,100,000 population scattered over Its fertile prairies and dwelling In Its cities, continuing to administer its affairs under a constitution framed and adopted when it had but 200,000 people within its borders presents no more an extreme case. The necessity of constitutional revision will be admitted by everyone who looks Into the matter with . unbiased Judg ment. How to accomplish this object, however. Is still a perplexing problem. Mr. McGilton has expressed the opinion that In view . of the failure of all previous attempts the only course re maining is through a constitutional con vention. The failure of the amend ments submitted In the past by the leg islature for ratification at the polls has been due to the fact that a large propor tion of the voters neglect or refuse to express themselves either for or against the proposition, and under the ruling Of the supreme court failure to register a vote is the same as voting against the amendment. The difficulty arises from the fact that the same method of secur ing popular approval Is required for summoning a constitutional convention as for adopting amendments formulated by the legislature. The amending clause of the constitution, so far as It relates to revision by convention, reajds as follows: When three-fifths of the members fleeted to each branch of the legislature deem it necessary to call a convention to revise, amend , or change this constitution they shall recommend to tho electors to vote at the next election of members ot the legislature for or against a convention, and if a majority voting at said election vote for a convention, the legislature shall at Its. next session provide by law for calling the same. Inasmuch as the language here used Is precisely Identical with that employed in counectlon with the submission of proposed amendments, it Is hard to see how -the supreme' court eoukl rule.. dlfr ferently In the one. case than, in the other. In a word, to alter the constitu tion by convention will require the posi tive votes, of the majority, not of those recording themselves on the proposition, but of all the voters casting ballots at that particular election. Not only this, but the election at which the proposition must be submitted must be the election at which members of the legislature are chosen. The next election fulfilling this description is that of 1004, the presiden tial year, in which the national Issues are' sure to overshadow all the ques tions of merely state import. Whether it Is likely or even possible for a propo sition for a constitutional convention to carry an absolute majority at the presi dential election in this state is a very serious question. The Bee still tielieves that it advised the wisest and most practicable course when it urged the governor last winter to call the legislature In extra session to act In the place of a constitutional convention and submit the necessary amendments for ratification at the re cent election. Last tear tx the hailiiuad world. Coincident with the orders pultiug into effect an increase of from 10 to S3 per cent freight rates ou grmn, flout', vonl, iron aud cement, the official reports of tho railroads for the fiscal year ending June iW to the Interstate Commerce commission are published, showing the enormous increase of their profits. There wus an increase of 10 per cent iu net earnings, while the aggregate amouut distributed as dividends to shareholders was nearly L'3 per cent greater than the previous year. If the average net earn ings per mile of all the roads, which was $3,001, be capitalized at 4 per cent, the railroads of the United States are pay ing ou a valuation of $77,273 per mile. It is uot disputed that every mile of railroad with its- equipment could lie duplicated at an average cost uot much exceeding one-half, and certainly be low two-thirds of that figure. It Is a suggestive fact that the Item showing taxes paid, by all the railroads, was about the same the lust fiscal year as the preceding year, notwithstanding the enormous iucrease of actual earnings and profits and the corresponding In crease of valuation as estimated in the business world. In -some states, as In Iowa, there was an increase of taxes, representing new mileage aud higher as sessment of the old, but Nebraska stands almost alone in showing an actual de crease of assessment per mile. These are the conditions upon which, beyond question, there is now a syste matic effort among those who control the carrying properties to establish a gen eral advance of freight rates, with a strong probability that it will be done. The first half of the current fiscal year has already nearly elapsed, and the earnings so far exceed the rate of thooe which have Just been given to the pul- 11c for the last year. The advances of wages recently ordered will Involve some addition to the cost of operation, but wages are still out of proiiortlon to the gains of the companies. Taken all to gether the facts clearly demonstrate that the roads can well afford to contribute more nearly their Just share to the pub lic treasury, esicclally in Nebraska where they have never done so. The public will watch with Interest the struggle for control of the Colorado Fuel and Iron company. It cannot be positively proved, but It Is highly prob able, that an effort Is on to eliminate the Colorado concern as a competitor of the United States Steel corporation. The Osgood management, which has had such phenomenal success In developing the Colorado Iron and steel Industry, was able to defeat the first attempt of John W. Gates to seize control. That attempt Is now renewed with a persistency and vigor which shows the importance the great Interests behind Gates attribute to the supresslon of western competition. Precisely for that reason western sym pathy aud Interests are enlisted oil the side of the Osgood management. On complaint of Congressman Loud investigation is to be had into the charge that officers of the National Letter Car riers' association in violation of the civil service rules covertly contributed to the defeat at the recent election in Cali fornia of the chairman of the house post- office committee. But what Is to be done about the open and undisguised attempt to use the National Letter Carries' asso ciation, through its official organ, in the Interest of the re-election of Congress man Mercer here In Nebraska? If it Is against civil service rules for the asso ciation officers to help down Loud, Is It any less offense for them to make their association journal a campaign circular for Mercer? The Commercial club, through its ex ecutive committee, has undertaken again to advise the city council as to what it should do with the pending franchise ordinance. In this case, as in most in stances in which the name of the Com mercial club is used In this way, the action was taken on merely an ex parte statement from parties Interested In de feating the franchise proposition with out even the courtesy of a hearing to the promoters of the proposed power canal. It Is this one-sided sort of deal ing by a small clique that pretends to be th whole club that weakens the Influence of the club when it really moves as a body for some public pur pose. reople who should be most thankful of all are the owners of the railroads in Nebraska, who for years have been un loading the taxes they should pay for the support . of the government onto the shoulders of other property owners. Not knowing how niuch longer this out rage will be tolerated, the beneficiaries should be thankful while it lasts. In little Delaware a special election has been called fVtYexiide' again between two legislative candidates who came out of the last fracas with, a tied vote. Here in Nebraska the tie, would have been cut away by appealing for an Injunction or mandamus to some convenient and ac commodating court. Rfuou for Thankfulness. Chicago Tribune. Editor Bryan is not absolutely without causes for thanksglvtng. It might have been worse. Suppose Missouri had gone republican! Pass the Nerve Tonic. Minneapolis Journal. Silver Is still declining In the Philippines. It is now down to $2.60. In proportion as silver goes down the nerve of the re publican senators who were afraid to give the Philippines the gold standard should go up. . We Have the Means. Indianapolis Journal. If some of the essentials ot a Thanksgiv ing dinner cost more now than in 1895 and 1SH6. people have a great deal more money with which to purchase. The public soup house of those years is not a possibility of next winter. Time to Stop the UraJn. Philadelphia Press. The Philippine government has lost over $1,000,000 in a comparatively short time owing to the fluctuation In the price of sil ver. Perhaps the senate will now consent to abollBh the absurd silver standard. The losses of the government are a mere baga telle as compared to those of producers and traders. Slonr but Sure Progress. Minneapolis Journal. The impatience of tho people for the ac tual construction of irrigation reservoirs and canals by the government to begin at once causes Secretary Hitchcock to say a few wise words about making slow but sure progress In the great enterprise. As the secretary says, it Is far more Im portant that water should be running over well-constructed ' works for an indefinite period than through the ruins of a slugle failure. 1'rosecntlon ( Land Grabbers. St. Louis Republic. Secretary of the Interior Httchcoek's an nual report has much to say regarding the extensive frauds which are being prac ticed by large cattle owners and others who wish to secure a monopoly of gov ernment land. Mr. ' Hitchcock's adminis tration of the Interior department has been marked by a vigorous prosecution of these offenders. As long as his opposi tion to the granting of special privileges is marked by the bitter hatred of the men who are back of these schemes, he will receive the cordial support ot the people. Much der Gross Ilalmerlchl St. Louis Globe-Deir.ocrat. It Is now said that tho man after whom America .was named was a German, and his came was Halmerlch, Italianized Into Amerigo. We never fancied being discov ered or named by a Latin. We always Imagined him. sailing up and down our shore In a banana cart. But Halmerlch Is a different proposition. We are kindly disposed toward him. We know that the bold of his ship was stocked not with spaghetti, but with : pretzels and . our favorite brew. Unconsciously we have all along rendered homage to Halmerlch. Un knowingly we have built monuments to him in our breweries. This discovery ex plains our seeming prejudice against the Latins. Now we bear them no ill will, but they must cease to taunt us with the fact that our continent Is named for them. This is Haimericha. Nicht wahr? Then let the maps be changed. liocQ der gross Halmerlchl On the Giving of Thanks Baltimore It is a very easy matter to argue thAt the blemtngs and the other good things of inis me are not evenly distributed that some have far mors than their share and others far less. A visit to the homos of the poor and another to the homea of the rich will, of course, give very different pictures of life, though they may not tell all the truth about the amount of real happiness these homes contain. It Is not safe to measure contentment by a scaie graded either on wealth or luxury, for hackneyed though the phrase may be, money cannot buy happiness. At the same time money can buy many things that conduce to happiness and can when put to the best use add not only to tho comfort of its owners, but to the advan tage of others. It Is only when such wealth is hoarded and allowed to lie ldl mat it becomes or no use to a com munity. When it Is expended in a legiti mate way, not only its possessors, but many others reap benefits from Its ex Istonce. It thus confers blessings not only on tho one, but on the many, and as an agent for good has a power that all must recognize. It is for such reasons that all can re joice at the conditions now existing In the country and can In sincerity follow me aavice or the president and the gov ernor In giving thanks for the blessings of the year. Even those who will not go to church on Thanksgiving day can, for a time at least, turn their thoughts to the good things BITS OP WA9HIXGTOS LIFE, Minor Scenes and Incidents Sketched on the Spot. During the crest of the campaign for con trol of congress last month a Washington reporter dropped Into the democratic con gressional headquarters to Interview Chair man Orlggs and observe the machine at work. He did not succeed in interviewing the chairman, but got what the boys call "a corking good Btory" out of the Texas ranger, Charley Edwards, who held down the Job of secretary. The story wa not published at he time because premature publication might have Increased the demo cratic slump and the remorse ot Griggs. The story Is now out and Is worth reading. The reporter found Edwards sitting at his desk talking confidentially with a large. smooth-faced man, but he at once turned his attention to the newcomer. "Is Chairman Griggs in?" asked the re porter. "No," replied the soft-voiced secretary, "he Is not. Do you want to see htm per sonally?" " "Yes," was the reply. "I would like t get something from him on President Roosevelt's Cincinnati speech." "An interview?" queried Edwards. "Well, you can't get It." "And why not?" asked the reporter, who. not being acquainted with the Texan, who at heart Is the best fellow In the world, was feeling Juat a trifle resentful. "Because," said Edwards deliberately, the old lunk-head'ls incapable of giving an Interview. He never has an opinion worth expressing, and if he did have one he wouldn't be able to express it In words of one syllable without four grammatical breaks to the sentence. He's a peach, he Is. Why, don't you know that I do all his thinking and writing for him, and when I'm away that duty devolves upon Joe Sinnot, the sorgeant-at-arms? ' Anyhow, Griggs Is In New York:" ' "I notice," said the reporter, "that he goes to New York quite often. I suppose it is to see Ben Cable and talk over the situa tion with him, isn't it?" Secretary Edwards' lip curled In disdain. "See Ben Cable! Talk over the situation with him'!" he exclaimed. "Why, he wouldn't know Ben Cable if he ran against him, and he hasn't sense enough to realize that there Is any situation. Between our selves," he continued, leaning toward the visitor and adopting a confidential air, "ho goes there to get drunk. He's the biggest tank not employed by tho Standard Oil company. He can't find whisky enough to drink In Washington, so he has to go over there to get his fill. Oh, don't talk to me about Griggs. I can't bear to bear his name mentioned." The reporter left, thoroughly convinced that Chairman Griggs was an ogre Indeed. As he closed the door behind him the man who had been talking confidentially to Ed- ! wards burst into a fit of laughter that ! caused the chandeliers to rattle. Having subslded, ho turned to the secretary and said: "Look here, Charley, It's all right to help me dodge an Interview when I don't want to talk, but, for the sake of the folks at home, leave me a shred or two of reputa tion In It." But all the satisfaction he got out of Edwards was: "Well, I didn't say it be hind your back. Judge, did I?" The United States government has never Issued a postage stamp decorated with tho head of a woman, nut mis cbduoi d nam after December 1. On that day the Post- office department will begin sending out to postmasters a new 8-cent stamp on which will be used tho head of Martha Washing- ton. The design is considered one of the most beautiful ever put out by the Fost- office department. The head Is encircled I with a wreath. 'At the bottom on the left is 1732, the year in which Martha Wash ington was born; on the right, 1802, the year in which she died. Three years ago George H. Hamilton of Washington erected a elx-story build ing of concrete under what Is known as the Ransome system. He had trouble in Obtaining a permit to erect- the building, the experts alleging that It could never bo taken down except by blowing It up with explosives, to the Injury of adjnxent build ings. There is not a stick of wood or a bar of Iron In the entire structure, all the floors being of concrete subjected to a strain of 900 pounds to the square foot. Recently it was desired to make an addi tional door on the basement floor, but it was found that the entire opening would have to be chiseled out as If it were of Iron. ' It was then attempted to drill through some of the Interior walls for ad ditional electric wiring, but no metal drill was found which was hard enough to go through the concrete, and the wiring was put along the wooden walnscoating. Tbs experts pronounce the building as having ten times the strength It would have if It had been carved from solid granite. It has no party walls and there is not a crack or evidence of setting in any way, although there are a number ot heavy Iron safes on each floor. It has only twenty-five feel frontage. The owner carries no Are in surance on the building. The cost of construction was only about 80 per cent of that of a steel building. Perhaps few persons know that all of Uncle Sam's postofflce date stamps are made In a little shop at Lodge, Northum berland county, Va.. says a writer In Chat. Hon. Benjamin Chambers, an expert ma chinist, has for a number of years had a contract with the government for this work. While the shop is small. It has almost very known appliance for th handling aad cutting of metal and affords employ American. that hsv com to them snd give thanks to tho great Olver of All Good. Na- tlonal prosperity may not always moan Individual prosperity, but there are very few who do not In some measure reap direct benefits from favorable conditions of business. President Roosevelt, in a speech in Phil adelphia, pointed out how great bad been the Improvement In these conditions since right years ago and his words are true. There have been enormous fortunes pile up, but while the rich may have boon get ting richer the poor have not been growing poorer. More is done to relieve poverty now than ever before: more avenues of es cape from poverty are being opened every year, more encouragement Is being given to thrift and to Industry and more people are caving something every week or every month, no matter how small their earn ings may be. Truly, this is Thanksgiving from Its purely 'material side. There Is a higher view of it one more worthy of man, but one he is very apt to overlook. For the freedom bo enjoys, the liberty given him by the founders and the builders of this great republic, for his health and the love of those dear to htm, for his right to wor ship his Creator after his own fashion, for his manhood and for the opportunities given him to prove himself worthy of respect, esteem and honor; for a thousand and one blessings God gives to his children let one and all give thanks. ment to a number of skilled workmen. Lists of the new stamps wanted are fur nished by the government, and the work Is sent to Washington complete, even to the polished wooden handles. As each stamp Is a separate piece of work, all the type cutting is done by hand. The base is sent from the main shop to the cutter with a circular path ot solid metal around the outer rim. In this rim the cutter deftly chisels out the name ot the postofflce and state. This done, the stamps are put through a hardening pro cess, that the type may stand the vigorous pounding of postofBce workers. The date letters and figures are cut on separate bars, and sets ot dates sufficient to last many years are furnished with each stamp. Many of the city postofflces require special stamps. These are made by the best cut ters. Some of the most skillful tpye cut ters in the country learned their trade la the Chambers shop, A If rWFORTCNATB COURT ORDER. Fraud Order of the Postofflce Depart ment Nullified by Conrt. ' Brooklyn Eagle. By nullifying a fraud order the supreme court has opened the gates to all manner of humbugs practising In the name of health and religion. There was a concern called the American 8chool of Magnetic Healing that evaded the results of Its con duct by concealing Its headquarters at Nevada, Mo., and there applied for the dollars of the trusting, promising In re turn to give them "absent treatment" for anything they might suppose to be the matter with them. All that this amounted to was that the School of Magnetic Heal ing accepted the dollars of fools. To pro tect the fools from their folly the postofBce returned their letters with the dollars, stamping the envelopes "fraud." Now the supreme court says that the postofBce has no right to protect the public and this would seem to mean that the precious scamps In Nevada, Mo., can go right on selling thtnk-treatment at a dollar a thought. Maybe It's as well. 8ome peoplo learn only by experience and it they can buy wisdom for a few dollars It stays by them longer than if somebody had told it to them. Yet, the attitude of tho court is surpris ing. Hundreds of scallawags are trying to prey on the public, and most of them by subtler schemes than that of the School ot Magnetic Healing, which is so barefaced In its fraudulence that it becomes humor ous. There are people who advertise goods which are never delivered, and not even made, people who are willing to teach pro fessions at a distance the greater the dis tance tho better they like it on advance payments of disquieting sums; people who will trace your relation 'to millionaires recently dead for a retaining fee of con- slderanie suein oner, ounce men u sorts, filing anything from new creeds to Patent ciomes wringers, n in poi -u- thoritles did not' follow these scamps, any one of them could become rich In a fort night by using the malls for purposes ot robbery. With sll due respect to the supreme court, tho postmaster general did exactly right, afod the supreme court has done exactly wrong. It is not for a Judge to decide in a medical case. It Is for physi cians. Schools of Magnetic Healing will not have the vote of one qualified medical nmrt tinner. The eniDtlness of the claim . ,ho Kav-A. institution Is Droved by the fact that the fiIow wn0 aii tho magnetic thlnklngi one Weltmar by name, did not i eyen llye ,n N(vaQai an(j m not see the ; lpUerB o( hlg dupeli which were answered by a corp8 of typewriters. Tho money j turm(1 nt0 hlm i , single day was $1,800. j Does jugtlca peckham mean to say that . monfy wal not properly returned to Deonlo who sent It? The School of Magnetic Healing did not even have an existence. If its thinker was not apprised of the names and residences of his vic tims. Why have officials of the courts for bid them to exercise common sense? Courts , ought to exercise It,. top. WTO Your Turkey Dinner Are you prepared for It? Possibly you will feel the need of a Dress Suit or a Tuxedo. No telling what is going to happen on short notice. Our lines are perfect every detail precisely right. The cus tom tailor can give you no better goods nor better fit- ' ! And Then the . Price Difference ' t Dress Shirts, Handkerchief, Gloves, Collars, Cuffs, Neckwear, etc. All in keeping with your needs. Thanksgiving Day No Clothing Fits Like Ours. : (' ' We Close at Noon. R. S. Wilcox Manager. rKllSOXAl. SOTFS. A thirty-ton granite monument of rlaln design has been erected over the grave of John Sherman In the Mansfield (O.) ceme tery. The only Inscription Is "John Sher man," cut en the massive block. The Treasury building in Washington Is being thoroughly scoured on the outside by order of Secretary Shaw. Every sign of age, which to most observers only added to the beauty of the building, is being removed. Some of the men at the New York Horse show appeared In costumes rather startling In their kaleidoscopic tint, but the majority were quieter than of yore In this respect. Hotel men there say thaf never before did a horse show attract so many Strangers to town, the number being put at from 40,000 to f.0,000. As a consequence the hotels were enormously overerowded. Anticipating the speedy confirmation by the United States senate of the appoint ment of Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes of Massachusetts as a Justice of the supremo court of the United States, the Bar association of Middlesex county, Massa chusetts, has tendered hlra a complimentary farewell banquet In Boston on the evening of December 3, and he has accepted tho In vitation. Judge Holmes Is a member of the association. All the Judges of the supreme and superior courts of Massachusetts will be Invited to attend the banquet. SPICKD HK.MABKS. Town and Country: Attorney Ignorance of the law excuses no one. Client Except, of course, a lawyer. Cleveland Plain Denier: nimler says that If a man's heart Isn't In Ills business aiui his liver all right he can't succeed." "Blmler ought to know, lie used to be a butcher." Judge: "Few men are as good as they pretend to be." "Well, what of It? Few men want o be." Philadelphia Press: 'Tve Just thought of a good Joke on Lincoln.' "You mean by LJncoln." "No, I mean on him. The town that's named after him out in Nebraska Is the home of William Jennings Bryan." . New York 8un: Kir Walter Raleigh had Just laid his cloak In the mud when Essex inquired tho reason. "Because," replied the wily courtier, "I wanted to raise the dust." And a subsequent present from the royal bounty showed it was Indeed pay dirt. Washington Star: "Don't you think our voting system should be reformed?" "I do, answered Senator Sorghum: "the way things are at present you can t tell half the time whether the people you pay to vote for you are delivering the goods or not" New York Sun: "Why did hs marry the widow after courting her daughter? "He concluded that he would rather have the girl as a stepdaughter than the widow as a mother-in-law." Chicago Tribune: "What made you think I'd even look at you?" she asked him. "Well," replied the youth whom she had rejected with scorn, "the other girls have got all the really desirable young men away from you, and I thought maybe you'd take anybody you could get now. Good evenln'." Baltimore American: "I wish to be very exact," said the man who was cataloguing the library, "so do yon think I might class writers on etiquette as the civil authori ties?" Brooklyn Life: An automoblllat was onco halted on the highway by an ordinary per son. "You have killed my baby!" said tho ordi nary person, displaying some temper. "But why do you halt me? Am t not ready to pay for all the damage I do?" demanded the automoblllst, with a severe look. At this the ordinary person' was quite abashed, and drew back, stammering apolo gies. TUB OLD THAIVKSGIV1N' DAV." ' t A. J. Waterhouse in New York Times. If dreams could bring them back again, the old Thunksglvln' days; If wishes had the cheery art of alterin' our ways, I'd sit again by grandpa's board an see his kindly face; I'd view the table, bounty stored, and listen to his "grace?' And If the blending halted some I would not twist, I know. As did my sister and myself, oh, long, long years ago, For now Thanksglvin's not the same; It lacks the genial cheer That glorified an' hallowed It, since grand pa Isn't hers. The blessing that he asked was long, or so It seemed to me; It covered everything In sight, an' some you couldn't see. The turkey an' tho President, the things of cheer and Joy I wriggled less to hear him bless "this orphaned girl and boy." "An' bless our Congress, too," he said, "with all Its sharps and flats. An' please forgive the errln'. ones that's known as democrats." And while the mighty turkey steamed and forth Its odors dealt, I pinched my sister 'neath the board to show her how I felt. - To all things mortal comes an end, and so the blessing passed, And grandpa and the turkey met In con flict dire at last. And how we children ate and, ate, unmind ful of the load, . , : Till auntie said In warning tones: "Them children will explode!" , We didn't mind, what auntie said; we ate, an' ate, an' ate, An' frequent was our bland request: "Some more upon my plale?" And when a wreck alone remained upon the festal board. While grandpa offered final thanks, we lack of room deplored. If dreams could bring them back again, the old Thanksglvln' days; If I could hear my grandpa's voice In words of grateful praise; If at the board my sister sat, not worn and gray and old. But in her eyes the light of skies when mornings were of gold, Then, though the blessing wandered on through minutes growing long, To cover all the peopled tarth and life's tumultuous throng. Still would I sit In full content, or cry "Amen!" with ion I For It would take a host of words to speak wia maims x l zcei.