Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, December 15, 1902, Page 4, Image 4
THE OMA1TA DAILY HEK; MONDAY, DECEMBEIl 15, lPOg. The omaha Daily Bee. E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERT MORN I NO. TERMS OF SCtlSCRlrTION. ral1y Pee (wlthou'. Sunitnjn. One Year..H .W 1'ully !ee anil Hurnlay, One Year 6.00 illustrated Ben, Una Year 100 Sunday lief. One Iritr 2 0" Haturday fcee. One Year 1 tu Twentieth Century Farmer, Ona Year.. 1.W DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Pally Bee (without "unday), per copy.... te Ijally Bee (without Bun. lay), per week.. ..12c Daily Bee (Including Sunday), per week.. 17c HunJay teo, per copy 5c tvenlng Bee (without Sunday), per week 6c Evening Bee (Including Sunday), per week 10c ComplaJnts of Irregularities In delivery should be addressed to City Circulation De partment. OFFICES. ' Omaha The Bee Building. Smith Omaha City Hall Building, Twenty-fifth arid M Streets. ' 1 Council Uliifr.i 10 Pearl Street. Chit ago l&w Cnlty Building. New York ZV I'ark How Building. Washington Oul Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to new and edi torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Kdltprlal Department. ' BUSINESS LKTTER8. Business letters and remittances should be addressed:. The Bee Publishing Com pany, Omaha. , 1 REMITTANCES. Remit rry draft. eapreae or postal order, payable to The Bee Publishing Company, tinly 2-cent stamps accepted In payment of mall Recounts, personal checks, except en OmHha, or eastern exchange, not accepted, THH BE hi. PUBLISHING COMPANY. BTATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, .! (leorg U. 'J'cschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, says tlat the actual number of full and compute- copies of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month ot November, IWi, was as louowa 1 81, 470 2 ,. S,460 1(. .ZH.43S ....SO.TOO ....8O.8T0 ....3O.B40 ....80.8U0 i ai.eoo 4, 31,350 6 41.UKS 6 34, (ISO 7 81.210 80,840 1 2U.5TS 10 ...31,300 11 30.W70 12....' 30.TOO 13 80.820 It 80,730 15 ........81,310 U.. 1.. 20.. a 30.030 22 31.410 23 2H.310 24 so,ew 25 81,OUO 26 81,000 27 80.7HO 28 81,130 29 31.4HO ao 2S.47B 832W10 Total Lesa unsold and returned copies. Net total sales 9,23r ..2z,8T3 Net average sales.. ao.76S OEOROB B. TZSCHUCK. before me this 80th day ot November, A. D. l2- . M. B, HUNOArt, (Seal) ' rtoiary ruu i Omaha retail merchants will have no ground to complain this year about a green Christmas. An exchange has a story headed "Cold Facta About Nebraska." The season would Justify a transposition of the adjective. Mr. Cudahy is not inclined to believe that Tat Crowe is now doing business In South Africa. In this respect Mr. Cudahy does not disagree very much with other people As no invitations are required to par- tieipnte in that Httlo game down in South America, several more nations seem disposed to take a hand and ask for cards from the dealer. ... In the tug of-war between Nebraska I .... it to see wmcn noias wo and Missouri, kvaalnf Id. nrl suit- rt K wanrlan. I " wt , : " . , wms. ai wwii lui-u is mo ui-i-iniuu ui Governor Savage is In Colorado again inspecting mining property In which he Is said to be Interested. It is not stated whether this is the same mine In Which some of the state's money sequestered by Bartley was salted. , Members of the city council who are trying to obstruct the submission of the electric power franchise proposition to the people at the coming city election should remember that they cannot play ostrich very much longer. I That offer of $5,000 reward in support of the assertion that The Omaha Evening Bee has a subscription list in Douglas county exceeding by 7,000 the subscrlp- tlon list of the Morning World-Herald and by 3,000 the subscription list of the Evening World-Herald still stands. - ... '., .8 The National Civil Service Reform league wants the credit system fn the federal service extended to the Indian agencies. If the league had Its way mere wouia be lamentation and gnash- ing of teeth In the neighborhood of the Omaha and Winnebago reservation. A coroner's Jury on the recent Chicago hotel disaster that extinguished four- teen lives has come in with the usual verdict of condemnation and lets It rest there. In the meanwhile flimsy con- structlon of buildings that constantly endanger Hfe and property will con- tlnue without fear of penalties. . , The Union raclflc Railroad company wants its machine shop grounds to be ultimately secure what It demands Is assessed by the acre at cornfield valua- not to be doubted and railroad men tion, while the grounds occupied by agers who opiose a ay concessions to other shops, mills and factories are as- this sentiment are making the gravest seesed on a town-lot basis somewhere near equal to the assessments of lands occupied by dwellings or business bouses adjacent to these concerns. H . J The worst advertisement Yale has re - oelved as a rich man's college comes from the account of the Imposition of fines ranging from $100 to $200 on four students charged with breach of the peace, with the notation: "The fines were immediately paid." Poor men's sons will do well to keep away from an edu catlonal Institution where they will be expected to strike such a high gait The railroads of Michigan will pay about $3,000,000 of taxes on an assets ment of $208,000,000 for the year 1903, or about double the amount of taxes they have paid for the preceding year. If the Nebraska railroads were hon estly assessed in proportion to the valu- atlon of all other classes of property, their taxes would lso be doubled and the state would not be running Into debt at the rate of more than $100,000 a year as It ha for the last tea, years. A "PACIFIC BLOCKADt." A New York dispatch of Saturday stated thnt vessrls leaving for Vcnor.ue lnn porta took otit their clearance paper as usual, notwithstanding the reports of a blockade, no official notice having boon received tr tne collector at New York to warn vessels of a blockade. In regard to the so-called "pacific Hock ado." as now established by the Ilrltlfh nnd Germans at Venezuelan ports, Theo dore I. WooIboy, the leading American authority on International law, says of It that It Is an Invention of one or two' of the leading nations, "the object of which has been to prevent neutral ves sels from entering or Issuing from cer tain ports of art offending state just as In war, with the same rules of proc lamation and arrest for violation of the rule os In war, while yet war U de clared not to exist." - According to Trof. Woolsey most writers on International law who mention the pacific blockade at all condemn It as unjust to neutrals nnd he says: "This appears to us to be evidently the correct' opinion, because If any measure Implies a state of war, blockade does so most decidedly, and no anch measure can be Introduced Into the law of nations without the consent of all. Neutrals, therefore, would have the right of making complaints against such a principle, which affects their commerce." . If this view be correct, and It certainly appears reasonable, it would seem that our government may properly require that the blockade of Veneeuelan ports, which Is not regarded as Implying a condition of war, shall not be permitted to interfere with our commerce with Venezuela. The United States has never, It appenrs, recognized "pacific blockade" as a principle of international law and there is no good reason why it should now do so. While the Venezuelan sit uation is certainly in the nature of war, not only by reason of the blockade, but also because of the seizure and sinking of the naval vessels of Venezuela, yet there Is no admission that a state of war exists and therefore no neutral nation la I.niind to observe the hloekade. Tt iumi entirely clear that an American vessel leaving one of our Dorta for Venesueln. - - iias as umiutBLiuuauie tk rigut lo enter a port of the latter as If no blockade existed, that , condition being held by the powers creating It not to imply a state of war. Nothing has come from Washington to Indicate how the executive author! i . i . i. , , i , . l,lB rr"ru UJe ulull"lue Bna proDamy there will not be unless there is some lnienerence witn our commerce. That is a possible contingency, though un- doubtedly it Is the intention of both the British and German governments to avoid giving any offense to the United States and doing anything that would afford a reason and Justification to this country for interposing. It can be con fldently predicted that no unwarranted Interference with our commerce will be tolerated and it is not to be doubted that this Is well understood bv.the. Brit. Ish nnd ,,,. ' , knowjedge' their, right to collect Just hnt K W ltSu- they must do no injury to our Interests, ,., , THt HfTMBSTAi; LAW. present session of congress in regard to amending the interstate commerce law and there ,s reason to fear that nothing wln be done ,to mko tne ,aw more effective by this congress. Representa- UTe" or commercial interests are about to renew their efforts to secure amend- ments to the act, but the prospect of accomplishing anything this winter Is not particularly favorable. The New York Journal of Commerce remarks that It is being made every day more plain that such powers as the courts have left to the commission need enlargement land were It on no other ground than the necessity for furnishing a counter- poise to the growth of the autocratic power of the railroads some Increase of the authority of the Interstate Com meree commission would be obviously defensible. That paper says: . "As un- dcr the new regime of community of interest or of ownership the railroads advance one pretension after another, all having the common end of raising the rates of transportation, there is a public opinion being formed not unlike that which existed before the passage of the Interstate commerce act It would be wise for railroad managers to reoognlse the existence of this and to make some needful concessions to It. lest Its demands should assume a form which tt might be .harder for them to satisfy." The popular sentiment in favor of leg- 'slntleri Increasing the authority of the commission and making the law more effectivt- was never stronger than now and it will not decline. That it will I possible mistake, since.' that course oper stes to Intensify public opinion regard- lng the recesslty for a stronger law. TIME IVR PLBLIC DISCISSION. 1 Only three weeks remain from now I until the convening of the legislature, I but no action has as yet been taken I either by the city council or' commercial I bodies toward discussing and formu I luting amendments to the charter and I other lmportaut legislation of vital con I cern to the citizens and taxpayers of I Omaha. The Bee Is Informally advised that the members-elect to the legislature from Douglas county desire to be lu formed and Instructed as to the wishes of their coustituteuts and are willing to exert their Influence to effect proper I legislation. In order to arrive at a rational con elusion no time should be lost in calling meetings for public discussion and care' I ful deliberation by committees of clti I sens and public official with a view to I impressing upon the representatives to I the legislature from this county the es seatlal features of - proposed charter amendment In this connection it would, in our Judgment, be very desira ble that every department of the city government, and the Ponrd of County Commissioners as well, should submit briefly such recommendations as experi ence has shown to be essential for more economic and efficient management of departments of city and county govern ments. Incidentally It might also be desirable to ascertain what, If any, legislation the Board of Education Is disposed to recom mend for the letter government of the public schools. With this information in their possession public bodies and committees will be letter able to discuss intelligently the various changes pro posed In the charter and the statutes re lating to county and school government. It may also be eminently appropriate after the conclusions have been arrived at on these subjects to discuss the pro posed reforms in our election laws which also affect this community in a great measure. There certainly Is no time to be lost If we are to arrive at any definite con clusions before the legislature convenes. The contempt proceedings before the federal court strikingly illustrate the differences of opinion as to cuss words and abuse. The strike breakers claim that they have suffered mental anguish. If not bodily pain, from Insulting re marks dropped by the striking machin ists as they pass In and out of the Union Facific enclosure. The Union Pacific strikers positively deny any disposition to hurt the tender feelings of the strike breakers or to cause them bodily in jury, but on the contrary assure the court that they have exhibited an ab normal amount of forbearance and only talked back when they could no longer hold down the safety valve. With such clashing testimony before it, the court very naturally hesitates between a repri mand and a referee. The Omaha Iteal Estate exchange has voted a request to the secretary of tb Board of Education for a list of all the teachers and Janitors on the payroll of the school board, with the salaries paid to each and the duties performed by each. The exchange also makes a re quest for the names of all other persons employed by the school board, together with the salary paid each and the'dutles performed by each. This is manifestly a search after sinecures, but the inquiry will fall far short of the mark unless It Includes also the relationship of every person on the payroll to members of the board. The days of martyrs are not yet over. A striking example Is Elmer Pettiford, colored Seventh Day Adventlst em ployed In the Treosury department, who refused to work on Saturdays on account of religious scruples, and has been trans ferred from one corridor in the treasury building to another corridor, with a re duction of $480 a year in his salary for worshiping two days In the week, while any number of white folks working in other parts of the building enjoy a Sab bath all the year around without having their salaries trimmed off. The mayor and eleven city aldermen of Denver, who are languishing in jail with Christmas In sight, have applied to the Colorado supreme court for relief from involuntary confinement on the ground of error In their sentence. If the court should find that an error was made by the lower court In sentencing them to a few weeks in idleness In jail In stead of requiring them to break stone for twelve months in the Fort Collins state boarding house, the Denver officials might repent the error of their ways. The republicans of St Louis, through the Globe-Democrat are urging a cam' paign for home rule In the government of the police and fire departments of their city. They insist that St Louis should have the right of electing Its own police commissioners without the Inter vention of the governor, Just the same as they have the right to select their own mayors and other officials without the intervention of nonresident voters. The great majority of republicans In this city are In the same frame of mind. Ambassador Storer, who has Just been promoted from the position of minister of the United States to Madrid, declares that the young king of Spain has been basely maligned in the stories about his health and private conduct In spite of the late unpleasuntness, the United States has only friendly feelings for Spain and no Interest In the circula tion of defamatory fabrications about the Spanish monarch. A bill has been introduced in congress to make punishable the levying of po litical contributions uion federal ap pointees by members of the house and senate. A bill giving appointees a right to recover political contributions ex acted of them under the guise of loans might be more effective and would hit more of the honorable congressmen who make others pay their campaign bills. Good Examples to Follow. Boston Transcript Mr. Conkllng and Mr. Reed proved that distinguished publlo service is an excellent advertisement for professional life. Stretching a Point. Baltimore American. The rubber famine could hardly have selected a more unseemly time than when all the windows are full ot Christmas goods. Bat Will They Stadyf Philadelphia Ledger. With twenty-one anti-trust bills already Introduced In ccngreas, the ccngressmen will have to learn something about mergers before the session is over. Wattrrsen'a Iat Analaala. Louisville Courier-Journal. It Is a trifle early for the millionaires to begin the naming ot presidents. But when they do. It will be for democracy to exclaim, "I forbid." Then Indeed shall there arise some leader itk creative wand to aaaembls forces la tke daolate cops. But, this will be long after we, hate gone to sleep. And, bla name will not be Orover Cleveland! Root et the Tire reeling. Boston Globe. It Is to be feared that rejoicing over the discovery of the germ ot lailness Is pre mature. That activity which ever Bods work for Idle band to do Is not going to be checked at this late data by a mere scientific antitoxin. rprlght for Womaa'a Rights. Chicago Chronicle. A roost wise and upright Judge in Mains holds that It Is not theft tor a wife to go throush the pockets of ber husbands clothes and abstract therefrom any cash assets that she rosy find. His honor's dic tum merely affirms the judgment banded down by millions ot matrons In this and other lands. The taw on the subject may be reduced to the legal maxim, "finders keepers." Misdirected Poatal Reform. Chicago Chronicle. Postal reform, like charity, should be gin at home. Before we reduce foreign letter postage we should bring the local service up to the standard ot foreign local service. Before wa reduce foreign letter postage wa should perhaps reduce the do mestic rats to 1 cent. There is no clamor for such a reduction. The demand ot the American cities especially Is not for a cheaper stamp, but for a better service. Better service will cost more money. We cannot afford to be generous with foreign ers before we are Just to ourselves. The I.ady and the Cow. New TOrk Sun. Solomon In South Omaha. The Hon. Charles Epstein asserted that he was the owner of a certain Jersey cow. He ar rested the cow. Mrs. Emma Houghman had him arrested and brought replevin pro ceedings. Then she summoned the cow as a witness. The Judge directed that the cow be brought into court Mrs. Houghman called the cow by name. "Immediately the Jersey walked over to ber and kissed her by rubbing her munla against Mrs. Hough- man's face." Thrice the cow then testified. The Judge couldn't help giving Judgment for the plaintiff; and so the lady and the Jersey went out of court happy. ISDISTRIAI, iCCCESS. trance Protest Against American Methods In England. Indianapolis News. We get a glimpse of British industrial methods that shows that the employer Is as badly Inoculated with the false economy of the relation of work and wages as is the employe. There Is an American electrical works at Manchester. It has been paying wages 33 per cent higher than the rate pre vailing there, with a result of getting all of the best labor. The Employers' Federation of Manchester has remonstrated with the American concern, saying that this Is de moralizing the condition of things. But the Americans reply that, though they do pay twelve pence an hour where the English works pay nine, they get twice as mucn work done for it; therefore, that the higher wagea are demonstrably cheaper than the lower. This Is a simple fact ot Industrial economy as well as human nature, though It has not Indeed, in its philosophy, been always recognized in this country. Ameri can labor has been taught that wages are naturally higher with us and that, there fore, the employer . must have a heavy tariff so that he pan pay them, whereas the American laborer has won his higher wages because he, has worked for them. He has given the equivalent or he never would have got them. The Manchester1 employers, Instead ot Imitating the Americana, are trying to drag the wagea down to the old level, although it Is manifest that these old wages are dearer for them than the new Increased wages. In this they act precisely as British trades unionism has acted, and as American trades unionism has acted when It has tried to compel a uniform rate for a poor and a good workman and tp limit produc tion. The Manchester Incident shows the dry rot from which British industrialism Is suffering, shared by the employer and the employe. The admonition in It for us Is that our supremacy is won by hard work and can be maintained only by hard work. As soon as we limit ambition and Industry, hamper output and enforce a socialism that makes the best man In the lot fall back abreast of the poorest, regulate the whole procession by the gait of the weakest in It, then we shall fall to that low level just as certainly as the law of gravitation acts. Advance in the world Is made and kept by those that strip for the contest and do the best that Is In them. In the long run the man as well as the nation wins the greatest reward that works the hardest ORIGIN OF THIS "MESSAE." President Jefferson Given Credit for the Cnatom. t Indianapolis Journal. It la a singular fact that the term "message," now universally aplied to an executive communication to congress, does not appear In the Constitution. Neither was It used in the early years of the gov ernment. The Constitution says the presi dent "shall from time to time give to the congress Information of the state of the union and recommend to their considera tion such measures as he shall Judge neces sary and expedient." Washington and John Adams read their first annual "com munications" to congress In person, and their subsequent ones were sent In writing. All were styled "addresses." In "Messages and Papers of the Presidents," edited by Representative Richardson, the eight an nual messages of Washington and the four of John Adams are styled "addresses." Jefferson inaugurated the custom, since followed by all ot bis successors, of send ing all messages in writing to congress, and the term message was first applied to his annual message ot 1801.' In communi cating It to congress Jefferson addressed the following letter to the presiding officer ot each branch: "Sir The circumstances under which we find ourselves at this place rendering In convenient the mode heretofore practiced ot making by personal address the first communication between the legislative and executive branches, I have adopted that by message, aa used on all subsequent oc casions through the session. In doing this I have had principal regard to the con vcnlence of the legislature, to the economy of their time, to their relief from the em barrassment of Immediate answers on sub jects not yet fully before them, and to the benefits thence resulting to the public af fairs. Trusting that a procedure founded on these motives will meet their approba tlon, I beg leave through you, sir, to com municate the Inclosed message, with the documents accompanying it, to the honor able the aenate, and pray you to accept for yourself the homage of my high respect and consideration." This is the first official use of the term "message." The Inconvenient circumstance alluded to was probably the bad road be tween the White House and the capltol. Prior to this It had been customary for the senate and the bouse each to make a separate reply in writing to the president's communication, which reply waa delivered to him at the White House as soon aa possible after bis communication was re ceived. With the beginning of Jefferson's adminiatraUoa this practice ceased. bits or WAittuaTo life. Minor Scenes ana Incidents Sketched a tho Snot. Newspaper correspondents at the national capital show a poverty of appreciation ot the new business annex of the White House. They do not like it. The archi tecture, the perspective, the entrances and the exits are not at all td their liking and they have pounced upon It with critical pens nntll tt has become la their estimation what BUI Nye would designate "a low browed architectural wart" The secret of their grievances Is out. In the original White House big and little callers went In the big front door and came out that way. There was no back door exit by which statesmen might escape the myrmidons on the press who held the fort In front. But the annex la provided with a rear exit and a safe retreat for secretive visitors. Ot course, a room Is provided for the press a room with a window commanding the road, the path and the front door ot the office section. Here la a mahogany table for Cerberus, with easy chairs conducive to dozing and a warm, equable temperature and all the comforts ot homo. Here the "gentlemen ot the press" are encouraged to congregate and receive glowing words from accommodating patrons. While the boys are waiting for their prey, "This way, my dear Lodge," the executive is remarking. 'Terhaps you would ratber not face the press Just now. This way, through the passage into the old part out the eastern door, down the path, all un guarded, toward the treasury. Good day, Friend Lodge. Come again!" And the senator departs by the private exit, and the business and uiyhap even the fact of his call la not heralded to the world. Senator Hanna knows how to point a Joke or an anecdote, relates the Washington Post. He was bantering Senator "Billy" Mason the other day about nursing a presi dential boom. "How will you tlx It about your seat in the senate while you are running for the presidency yourself?" retorted Mr. Mason. "You remember the story ot two Irish men who got loaded T" said the Ohio sena tor. "Their names were Mike and Pat. They tried to stick together, but got on different sides of the street, and soon found themselves bugging the same lamp post " 'Pat,' observed Mike, 'how are ye?' " 'Oh. O'im pretty well. Come over here.' 'I can't' ' 'And why?' " 'Because I have me bands full staying where I am,' " "It I were In control ot the organization of letter carriers," said a member of con gress, quoted by the Brooklyn Eagle corre spondent "I would guarantee to defeat any nnHata foe ran omaM In nltv district that our men might have a grievance' agalnst And, further, if I were at the head ot the rural free delivery carriers, I would be able to whip any candidate for congress In the country who might oppose the wishes of the organization. These men have opportunities to do political can vassing that no one else has and If they were properly handled there is no telling what their Influence could accomplish. On the train coming to Washington I met a politician from Lincoln, Neb. We got to talking about politics when he drew from his Inside pocket a long list of names and said: 'I have here the foundation for the finest political organization ever con structed outside of Tammany hall. Here is a roll of the rural free delivery car riers in the state of Nebraska. I propose to organize those men tor political pur poses. It may take some time to do it, but the labor will be well rewarded by the results. These men go to every house in the rural districts throughout the state, They talk with the farmer, his wife and the hired man and naturally have wonderful opportunities for molding opinion. A word dropped here and there among these semi isolated people will accomplish much. It'i a great scheme, and Just as soon aa 1 get back home I propose to start the ball rolling.' " With true southern chivalry the clerk of the Joint committee on printing refuses to give out the name of the writer of this letter, which was received recently: Joint Committee on Printing, the Cap- I itol: Gentlemen Please do not give date of papa's marriage in the next edition of the congressional directory. I am the eld est daughter, and the date given In the directory Is a clean giveaway for me, aa I am not married. All the boys look up the date and then calculate. Papa prom ised to attend to this for me before the first edition came out, but says he forgot it I do not think any end of the govern ment can be served by thus giving away my age, so please attend to it. Tours re spectfully, ." Congressman A. J. Hopkins of Illinois says that Senator Dolllver of Iowa is a hoodoo. A year ago when the congress man was starting to Washington to attend the opening of congress he met Dolllver In Chicago. The senator at once brought his persuasive powers Into play and In duced Mr. Hopkins to share Dol liver's state room to Washington. The train waa wrecked and. although neither the senator nor the congressman was Injured they ar rived too late to hear the chaplain make the opening prayer. This year when Mr. Hopkins reached Chicago from Aurora on his way to Washington whom should he meet but Senator Dolllver. "Come, ride with me to Washington," said Dolllver to Hopkins In his most alluring tones. "No," said the Illinois senator-to-be resolutely. I am going as I planned." Dolllver hated the prospect of a lonesome twenty-four- hour ride and he argued accordingly. The upshot of It waa that he won Mr. Hopkins over and they atarted together to the cap ital. Just west of Pittsburg the train waa wrecked. Mr. Hopkins' head was Jammed so hard against the end of his berth that he thought his neck was broken. A apeclal train was hitched up and the senator and the congressman were landed In Washing ton In time to participate In the dolnga of the first day of the session. Nevertbe less Mr. Hopkins asserts that Dolllver Is a hoodoo. VAX.IB OF CHKKHFILSE8S. The Keyaote of Happiness aad the Passport to Pnhlle Fnvor, Philadelphia Ledger. Cheerfulness and good nature have a value In the market The lack of them ex plains the slow progress of the downfall of persons otherwise sufficiently endowed. A good sale has often been missed because the salesman repelled by bis unfortunate manner, though he may have been a good fellow at heart. The cheery clerk estab llshea a clientage and holda bis place be cause he la skilled in tho fine art of friend liness. One is willing to pay a good price for cheerful service. It Is not quite enough to do a thing well. It should be done graciously. Those who sing at their tasks, as many workmen do, have learned the aocret of getting on In the world and making the best of it. A gracious manner, all the world knows, explains the rise of many men In political and official life, so that mere good fellowship is often accepted for statesmanship. The popular politician al most invariably has a sunny greeting for . all sorts and conditions et men. This is the The Railroad Rake-Off Chicago From the beginning of the controversy between capital and labor In the anthra cite region many of the raining compa nies have contended that they could not pay higher wages, and hsve pointed to their low dividends or no dividends as proof. It has been frequently suggested that the controlling shareholders ot the miulng companies, who are practically the same men aa the controlling shareholders In the coal-carrying railway eonionnies, chargrd themselves exorbitant freight ratos and so took their profits In railroad dividends In stead of in mine dividends. A table of freight rates recently com piled by the Interstate Commerce commlf slon seems to afford concrete proof that this suggestion is true so far ns It gs. That it does not go far enough may te shown hereafter. From this table It ap pears that the railroads Interested rharge: For carrying a ton of bituminous coal to Jersey City 346 to 388 miles $1.70. But they charged for carrying a ton of anthracite coal to Iloston 345 to 387 miles $3. to. For the same distance the charge on anthracite wns practically double tho charge on bituminous. For carrying a ton of coal from the philosophy of his success. It would have served him well in any calling In which he might have been engaged. Here and there one may advance to great heights of success and fame who has pushed his way upward despite a cold and forbidding manner. We speak ot the rule ot success, not its excep tion. The value of a sunny disposition is evi dent in all occupations which bring persons in contact with the public. The man who presides in the ticket office of the railway station, the conductor on a railroad train or a street car, tho clerk behind the coun ter and others who serve the public dally have need for this great endowment. They may be serving angels unawares. Wherever found a cheerful man or woman "is a bet ter thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she Is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance Into a room la as though another candle had been lighted. We need not care whether they can solve the forty seventh proposition; they do a better thing than that, they practically demonstrate the great theorem of the lovableness of lite." PERSONAL NOTES. Cleveland will erect a new city hfJl, pub llo library and eourt house In a group, with a- great court running from the publlo square to the water front. President John Mitchell ot the mine workers' union will write a hook on "Csd- ('al n1 r" b"1 .n th thraclte strike In Pennsylvania. A. J. Alexander, the noted breeder of blooded stock, who has Just died at his home in Lexington, Ky., had in his pos session more rare china and curiosities secured in extensive travel than any other gentleman In the south. Peter English, manager of the Boulder (Colo.) Oaa company, has discovered a process for extracting an excellent quality of gas from lignite coal, which abounds in Colorado. This will open a market for a large product that is now practically value leas. There Is a reminder of the late Dr. Burch ard's famous "Rum, Romanism and Rebel lion" alliteration ' In a remark made by Rev. Mr. Tunnell of Washington. In dis cussing the negro problem he said It must be approached with "soap, soup and salva tion." William S. Devery, formerly police chief of New York City, paid his taxes the other day and the amount he turned over shows that "Big Bill" is in the millionaire class. In his twenty-three years' service as an officer of the law Devery drew salary to the amount of (58,909. In answer to the academy's annual ques tion to eminent Englishmen aa to the new books they have read with the most pleas ure the last year, Herbert Spencer wrltea that he has not read any new books, while Prof. Skeat of Cambridge university says that he has read none, having "quite enough to do to read the old ones." A reminder of Jerry Simpson's prosperity has reached the United States senate cloak room from New Mexico. It is in the form of a large box of beautiful apples grown on Jerry's ranch in the Pecoa valley. The former KanBan is a strong advocate of statehood for New Mexico and possibly the apples did not hurt the cause he baa at heart. Congressman James K. P. Hall, one of the democrats from Pennsylvania, will not serve in the next bouse. The laBt republican gery mander put him in a district overwhelm Ingly opposed to his party, so he accepted the nomination tor state senator. He was elected almost without opposition and his salary as aenator will begin on December 1. Not caring to draw two salaries and not seeding either, for he is a millionaire he will hand his resignation to Speaker Hen derson. The death of Mr. Reed leaves only three ex-speakers ot the house still living Oa- lushs A. Grow, who was wielding the gavel forty, years ago and Is a member ot the present house; J. Warren Kelfer, who pre aided in 1881, and John G. Carlisle, who served from 1883 to 1889, Inclusive. It la noteworthy In this connection that by rea son of the retirement of Speaker Henderson and ex-Speaker Grow the next congress will be the first in many yeara in which no man sits who waa ever speaker of the house. " Doesn't cough much through the day. It's when night comes that he coughs 60 hard." Don't let these night coughs deceive you. Some day you may wake up to the fact that your boy Is thin, pale, weak, even seriously 111. You can't safely trifle with any throat or lung trouble. Cure the cough quickly with Ayer's Cherry Pectoral It's the same medicine your old doctor gave you when you were a child. The young doctors Indorse it now, too, for coughs, colds, croup, bronchitis, consumption. Tspm slusi ttc. Mc., U N. J C. AYE CO., Uwtll, Mass. m I hBT. tha (niiMt aonfldsnrs in rhrrry an and 1 wu ku.w u to fail le btiti ap caii. yean Inter Ocean. bituminous region to Bait Imore 529 to 240 miles the charge was 11.45. But for carrying a ton of anthracite to Baltimore 179 to 224 miles the charge was (2. For carrying anthracite a distance averaging 23 miles lcs (5 rente a ton more was charged. The hard real trust, when confronted with such facta, replies that the coal carrying roads do not pay huge dividends and that some of them havo paid no divi dends for years. And that Is true. On the other hand, It Is bIko true that these roads which pay small dividends or no dividends have been frequently "reorganized" and their nominal capital swollen with every reorganization. From these two sets of facts It Is eafy to see where the profits ot the hard coal Industry have gone and are going. They have gone and are going Into the pockets of promoters and rrorganlzers. If they are not taken In dividends now these profits have been taken in advance by the salo of Inflated stock and are being taken now In itnercst on bonds Issued to effect the reorganization. These are all very simple facta, but they also are very luminous ones. - TUB DCTT TO A NAME. Pointed Lesson to Men of Mark In n Commnnlty. New York World. A man was asked to invest some money in an Insurance company. He raw tn the list of directors such names as Chauncey M. Depow, John Jacob Astor, Benjamin F. Tracy, Levi P. Morton. He invested J 80,000. The insurance company is now dead. He has lost his money and Is suing the directors to recover It. Sev eral prominent men have already paid htm $2,000 each, realizing that they were duped In allowing the use of their names. This should be a lesson to men of mark In the community. He who has made a name for himself owes to tt a duty. The wily promoter is happy If he gets the name of one prominent man as a di rector. Other prominent men say to themselves. "If So-and-So Is In It, It must be all right." If "So-and-So" has investi gated the enterprise It must be "all right," but the chances are that he has not. There have been rases where the name of a prominent man has been used without authority as a lure for others. Every busi ness man owes It to the community to allow his name to be associated with nothing ha has not thoroughly and personally ex amined. LINES TO A LA I Gil. Washington Star: "Many a man," said Uncle Kbcn, "thinks he's a gcttln' sumfln' foh nutfin', when, in reality he's dune a hand day's work flxin' up fulry stories." Philadelphia Record: Wigwag It makes me hustle to pay my rent. Harduppp The question of rent keeps me moving, too. New York Times: Jaggles Are these relatives of yours near or distant? Waggles The ones who have any money are very distant. Brooklyn IJfe: "Hut there's plenty of money In politics," said his friend. "Oh, yes," aaid the politician, "but. like other remunerative lines, lt'a overcrowded." Chicago Tribune: "Whnt do you know about this case?" asked the lawyer. "Nothing," replied the witness. "I'm the expert." Subsequently his testimony proved con clusively that he knew leas than nothing. Philadelphia Catholic Standard! Ifloks Peckham'a wife has quite a temper, hasn't she? Wicks I can't say. She lost It the last time I was there, and I didn't wait to see If she found it again. Smart Set: Mrs. Blank Is your husband, going to Mrs. Jason's funeral? Mrs. Dash Decidedly not! She never re turned my last call. Washington Star: "I trust yeur son does not read trashy Juvenile literature." "No, Indeed." said the fond mother "Wil lie aays he gets all the blood and thunder he wants in the historical novels that his futher brings home." Chicago Tribune: "That orator is a deep thinker and a great speaker." "How do you know. ' "Because he discussed his subjects In such a way that there wasn't a soul could understand what he waa driving at." Philadelphia Catholic Standard: "I sup pose," Bald the emaciated new arrival at the Colorado health resort, "all the people here have lung trouble." "No," replied the clerk, glancing Involun tarily at the white stones dotting the dis tant hillside, "some of them have no trou bles at all now." A MODERN PROPOSAL. Brooklyn Eagle. He voiced his admiration. But learned with cnnsternAtton She had no time for Cupid. She spoke without emotion. And showed she had a notion That love waa rather stupid. He promised ease and pleasure; She did not seem to treasure The Joys that he depicted. Despising old conditions. To feminine ambitions She would not be restricted. She scorned the protestations That once, throughout all nations, Fair woman had delighted; The time waa now propitious Fur freedom most delicious. And greater deeds incited. "Alas!" he cried, despairing, " 'Twas waste of time declaring The love that I have tendered. ' But then he thought to urge her To Join him In a "merger," And straightway she surrendered. Pectoral. I b bm4 tt tor a number ef - lMAi-l t'asvunr. Haiubms, N. T. I