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T1JE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1002. 'nre umaha Daily Bee K. ROSE WATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Cully Pee (wlihuu Sunday, one Year..$4 "0 Dally Hee and Huntiny, One Year 6 (d) Illustrated lire. One Year tW Sunday Hee. One Year i ' Saturday Mce. One Year 1 .50 Twentieth I tntury Farmer. One Year.. 1.UU DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Dally Hps (without Sunday), per copy.... 2c Dally Dee (without Hunday), per week....)2c Dally Hee (Including Hunday), per week.. 17c Sunday per copy 5c Evening ilee (.without Sunday), per week 6c Evening iitft (Including Sunday), per week lc Complaint of Irregularities In delivery should l addressed to City Circulation De partment. OFFICES. Omaha The Nee Building. South Omaha City Hall Building, Twenty-fifth and M Streets. Council HliifTn 10 Pearl Street Chicago 1H40 Unity Building. New York SIMS Park Row Building. Washington .V)l Fourteenth Street. CO RRE8PONDE NCE. Communications relating to news and edi torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS. Business letter and remittances should be addressed: The Bee Publishing Com pany, Omaha. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only 2-cent stamps accented In payment of mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchange, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska. Douglas County, ss. : Oeorge B. Tzchuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, aaya that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday ISee printed during the month of November, 19u2. was as follows: 1 S1.470 .16 2K.435 I SMMSO 17 30.MW0 1 81.0iO 18 .-.30.S70 4 81.3RO 19 30.1U0 t .41.05 20 SO.HMO 34.BSO 21 30.030 7 Sl.itlO 22 31.410 80,340 23 SM,310 t 211,575 24 80.U2O 10 81.HOO 25 31.000 11 80.H7O 26 31,000 12 30.700 27 SlO.TSO IB SO.HiiO , 28 31,130 14 ao,730 . 29 31.4HO 16 81,310 SO 2H.47B Total W3a.10 Less unsold and returned copies.... W.237 Net total salea U2,U73 Net average salea 30.76B GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed In my presence and eworn to before me this 30th day ot November, A. D. 1902 M. B. HUNOATB. (Seal) Notary Public Secretary Rhaw has very prudently rung off on his Wall street telephone. The Iowa Idea is now reposing under m mantle of snow, but It will thaw out by the time spring sets in. Another hospital has been projected, this time in South Omaha. There may be such a thing as too many hospitals. The coal barons will be heard at Scran ton this week, but in the meantime the people of the whole country are freezing. Tarties ambitious to. own a street rail way franchise in the Philippines had bet ter flre their proposals into Manila by cable. - . .. If an eminent divine of Omaha has ar rived at correct conclusions, they have stay-at-homes in churches as well as ttay-at-homes at primaries and general elections. The end of the Hawaiian cable has been hitched to the Golden Gate, and Honolulu will he within hailing distance of the government at "Washington before New Year's. Ilereafter- whistling, coughing or sneezing on the Union Pacific picket line will not constitute an offense suf ficient for punishment by contempt of court proceedings. While Dewey is playing football with the American marines In the Carribean sea the British and German sea dogs are bombarding the Venezuelan coast cities Just to keep In. practice. Germany and Great Britain will not be permitted by Uncle Sam to war on Venezuela, but there Is nothing to binder them from scaring the Venezue lans Into submission to their demands. The conclusions of the Board of Re Tlew are that the assessmept of railroad property by the state, board represents less than 1 per cent of its actual value, while all other property in Omaha Is being assessed at 100 cents on the dol lar valuation. Here Is uniformity. Congressman Fowler, was plainly In formed by his republican colleagues on the house bunking committee of a lot of things which he ought long ago to have known regarding the bill that carries his Dame. They made it plain to hhu that bis banking and currency bill can neither pass the bouse nor even the com mittee. . As a rule, the first thirty days of the short session of congress is practically wasted, and the present session is no ex ception to the rule. Experience shows that It is impossible, In the absence of some emergency, to tjet congress to set tle down to business before the first of the year, and even then it is generally some time lcfore the appropriation com mittee begins to hold continuous ses sions. The inevitable result Is that many Important measures are delayed till the last days of the session, when they are crowded out by the appropriation bills. The movement In Georgia to establish a "patrol system" in the agricultural dis tricts Is nothing but the reestablish nieut of the Ku Klux system of terrorism In vogue In the south at the close of the war of the rebelllou. It is aimed ex cluslvely at the colored population. It provides for patrolling the highways day and night, and no negro can be abroad without subjecting himself to arrest and severe iienaltles unless he can ex hibit a certificate of character signed by tho proper officials. It practically an nihilates or destroys the f reodora of the colored people, and places them In con taut Jeopardy ot arbitrary arrests. THe VKNCZVKLAN SITCATION. Po implicated Is the Vtne.uelsu sit-u.-itlou tint tin ilelinite crlulon con 1-e formed as to whnt course it aiay tnke or what the probable outcome will be. The proKsnl of arbitration made through our government is under consideration by the HritUh and German foreign of fees, but there is no Intimation as to what their decision will be. There must be a consultation between the allies, and this wny delay for several days a de termination of the question whether or not tin.- proposal ahall be accepted. The Indications are that the British govern ment is favorably disposed toward the arbitration proposition, bnr!a report from Berlin states that it Is the opinion In official circles there that the proposition was made too late to affect the general situation. This, however, would hardly be regarded as a valid reason for reject ing It, since It was submitted as soon as possible after the allies had entered Vencziwlan. waters "tand demonstrated their purpose to forcibly collect their claims. To reject arbitration because It won not proposed before what has occurred would be very generally, re garded as Implying that the European nntlons are aiming at something more than the collection of debts. Meanwhile there 1s reported to be very strong sympathy with Venezuela on thei part of other Sooth American countries' and a disposition to offer her assistance If she shall need It This Is credible, for most of the southern republics are In debt to foreigners, and they see dan ger to themselves in the course of Great Britain and Germany toward Venezuela, If those powers succeed In collecting their claims. It is unfortunately true that Integrity In regnrd to financial obli gations Is not a conspicuous character istic of the Spanish-American countries generally, and when they find a determin ation on the rart of their creditors to cornel them to pay- their Just debts It Is quite natural that they should be dis posed to stand together for resisting it. It is also said that there Is great dis satisfaction with the United States be cause it does not Interpose In the Ven ezuelan difficulty and make application of the Monroe doctrine. Our govern ment has repeatedly and clearly ex plained the meaning and scope of that doctrine, which it has very recently been pointed out by the president of the United States, does not safeguard the Independent countries of this hemi sphere against the collection of financial obligations which they Justly owe and refuse to pay. The United States In tends to protect all of Its sister repub lics against seizure of territory by a for eign power, and from interference by a foreign nation with their political In stitutions, but it says to them If they re fuse to pay their debts this government will not Interpose to prevent the Collec tion of such debts by the method which It has recognized as legitimate. With this the Monroe doctrine has nothing to do. .'' r- .. It Is still possible that the Venezuelan difficulty will not bdeotue more acute and aggravated, and there Is 'no doubt that whatever our government can prop erly do to this end will be done. A BLOW TO AMERICAN EXPORTS. The German tariff will, It is said by those who speak with authority, de prive the meat packing industry of 25 per cent of the provision export trade, exclusive of fresh meats. The foreign representative of one of our leading packing firms states that the new law will practically put an end to the meat trade with Germany, which is one fourth of our total exports in this line. Tills is a serious blow and the packers, It Is reported, are preparing to ask the government to take some action for their relief. There is no doubt that the new Ger man tariff Is aimed at the United States. Evidence of this is ample. Some of the supporters of the measure have been so frank as to publicly de clare such to be the case. Some ten days ago a resolution was Introduced In the Reichstag In regard to withdrawing the most favored nation treatment from countries which do not grant to Ger many full reciprocity. The mover of the resolution declared that It was aimed primarily against the United States. In the course of the debate on the tariff bill last Saturday the fact that it Is directed chiefly against this country was clearly disclosed, one speaker saying: "We expect that the government. will .undertake a thorough going revision of all treaties containing the most favofed nation advantages. The United States has introduced the limitation of the most favored nation clause; we have every reason to act In precisely the' same manner." It Is possible that the" German government will not be disposed to go as far as the advocates of discrimination against the United States desire, but it appears to be reasonably certain that our Commer cial relations with Germany are ap proaching a crisis. , What should be the policy of this country In the matter Is manifestly an Important question. Undoubtedly there are some who will counsel retaliation, but that is a course to be adopted only when all other plans and expedients fall. While there can be no question that In any tariff war between Germany and the United Statec, the commerce of this country would suffer a good deal less than that of Germany, the fact is to be borne in mind that there are meas ures of reprisal ' open to Germany to which we could not reasonably take ex ceptlon,' but wWch would neverthelevs place some of our products now finding a market In Germany at a considerable disadvantage. Some time ago the able consul general of the United States at Berlin, In a report to the Department of State, urged that there should be a broad, liberal and comprehensive treaty between the two countries, "under the influence of wtIch the prosperity and re ciprocal good will of the republic and empire will be promoted and main tained." It cannot be said that Ger- tnany's present policy will contribute to such a treaty. While the attitude of the American senate towaid pending trade treaties does not warrant belief that a reciprocity treaty with Germany would be ratified. With our exports decreas ing, this latest blow to our foreign com merce, affecting one. of our most Im portant Industries, should command the thoughtful attention of the legislators at Washington. MIT TORK LOAN SITUATION. The New Tor Investor, In a careful analysis of the loan record of the New York banks since August 20, when the stringency became critical, emphasizes the fact that In the meantime there has been no net reduction of the loons. The banks all understood that the difficulty of the situation was caused by excessive borrowing, especially for speculative purposes, and It Is admitted that they have made strenuous .efforts to call In loans. But while an Immense amount of loans have been called In, the fact remains that the banks have not been able to resist the pYesaure for funds In other directions, although they have suc ceeded In effect In getting sounder se curity without reducing the amount of the loans. ' , The significant explanation given by the Investor of the failure of the banks to materially shrink the volnme of loans amounts to an Impeachment of the policy of the banks. It Is In short that many of the banks themselves, directly or Indirectly, were Implicated in specu lations and promotions. They felt bound to sustain the market In the interest of these operations, and to do this It was necessary to be lenient with many en terprises in which they were not directly Interested. ' The failure to restrict loans appears to be one of the strongest points operating on foreign creditors at this time, and whose demands are making the money market, very sensitive. There is not as yet any pronounced and general move ment on their part to call home their enormous loans that have been piling up for over a year, and It is not believed that there will be, but with the pressure so severe as it has been on the banks for several months any noteworthy de mand of the foreign creditors Is Instantly severely felt a phas or rut. coal arbitration. The Investigation before the coal strike commission has not yet reached a point of exceeding Importance In public esti mationfull publicity as to the relations and .doings of the railroad companies, which are also operators of anthracite coal mines, producing about two-thirds of the total output While the Pennsyl vania constitution positively forbids' It, the fact Is notorious that there Is identity of proprietorship in all the coal carrying roads and most of the mining companies, and enough has already incidentally transpired in the Investigation to show that srich" proprietorship stands on a fundamentally different basis than that of the independent ' mining companies having no connection with or control over transportation, but being necessarily in large measure dependent upon compet ing operators who have that Illegal ad vantage. It Is not doubted by those familiar with the facts that a policy of syste matic discrimination In transportation charges has been for years practised against the Independent operators, every detail of which Is a direct violation of the interstate commerce act and many of them of the Sherman trust act So grave have the effects become that the in dependent companies have steadily been compelled to yield In the contest and have been absorbed by their competitors armed with power Over railroad rate This is precisely the point, as la now known, which led the Independent op erators to refuse to Join In the proposed concession of a 20 per cent Increase of wages, since It was apparent that if the price of coal were not raised the transportation and coal companies by discriminating rates could la effect com pel the independent operators to pay the entire Increase of wages, that of their competitors' as well as that of their own employes. ' The contest, therefore, resolves' itself Into a distinct issue between the victims and the benefielarlea of wrongful rail road discriminations. This phase Is no less Interesting and Important than the differences between the proprietary coal companies generally and their striking employes. It Is not likely that the com mission is competent to correct and set tle it but If It is able to develop the facts It will have accomplished a result of inestimable value. NO tXCLUSlVS FRARCRiaC. At a special meeting of the Central Labor union resolutions were adopted declaring against an exclusive franchise of the proposed electric power project now pending before the city council. At this special meeting only a baker's dozen of the membership of that body were present and the instigators of the meeting were openly charged with, hav ing been hired by parties Interested In sandbagging the cheaper power enter prise, which Is of great moment not only for the members of organized labor who now reside in Omaha, but-also for future generations of worklngmen. In the very nature of things- it would be deplorable for the Central Labor union to array itself against an enter prise that would Insure an Increase of mills and factories for Omaha and South Omaha by snap Judgment taken on mis information. The hue and cry raised against an exclusive franchise is n!s leading. There can be no such thing as an exclusive franchise or grant lu the state of Nebraska, That was set tled by the courts In the decision rela tlve to the franchise voted by an Omaha city council to the Holly Water Works company twenty-two years ago. The courts declared In so many words that under our constitution there can be no monopoly in public utility or any ex- elusive franchise for any purpose affect ing the public. That was the ground upon which the council but recently voted a franchise to the Thomson-Houston Electric com pany for wire conduits under the streets and alleys of Omaha. Had the franchise granted to that company been exclusive It would have been void. There Is, how ever, a very marked difference between franchises granted to street railways, water, gas, telephone or electric light ing companies. All these franchises contemplate occupancy of space under the streets or over the streets, and In asmuch as two bodies cannot occupy the same space at the same time, these fran chises may become, exclusive, because no competing concern could plant Its tracks, pipe lines, or wires where tho duplicates would seriously affect pub lic convenience. The proposed franchise for conveying power In Omaha contemplates no such condition In fact. It would not In the least conflict with municipal ownership. With the power brought to the city limits by overhead wires the city could readily avail Itself of the opportunity for supplying the municipal buildings with power and light and supplying power and light to private consumers. There is nothing, either, In the proposed franchise to hinder any competing power supply concern from entering the mar ket under specific municipal regulations to be enacted in the future. Manifestly the opposition to the proposed franchise springs from a desire to block the effort to supply Omaha with cheaper ' power than is now obtainable directly by the use of high priced coal or indirectly through the medium of the Thomson Houston company. For many years The Evening Bee. has been recognized officially by the city and county boards as the paper having the largest circulation in Omaha and Doug las county. Druggists and liquor deal ers may publish their applications for license In The Evening Bee in compli ance with the law in good faith and no licensing board can legally refuse their applications if they publish their notices this year where they have been pub lished during previous years. If other papers have any claims to priority they have not yet furnished the proofs either that they have increased their circula tions within the last year to surpass The Evening Bee or that The Evening Bee has lost its circulation during the past year and fallen behind them. Under such conditions the attempt to compel these people to pay three prices for one service is a downright Imposition. The purity department of the Wom an's Christian Temperance union has a rod In pickle for President Roosevelt, be cause he turned down Its urgent request for an explanation of his conduct In plac ing the painting, "Love and Life," In the private apartments of the White House. The offensive picture was on exhibition In the Corcoran art gallery, and as a matter of 'fact .ttiete' is nothing in the painting to which the purest-minded person could object It was pre sented to the government to be placed In the Vhlte House, and those who are acquainted with the president's peculiar ways feel sure that it will remain where it is, unless some one should Imitate the man who made Omaha famous by driving the leg of a chair through the Bougereau painting now hanging on the walls of the Lin Inger art gallery. Merchants who patronize The Bee for their Christmas advertising get the larg est returns in Christmas trade. It pays to pay the highest price and get the beet goods. The Evening Bee alone supplies more than 8,000 subscribers by carrier delivery in Omaha, South Omaha and Council Bluffs that are not reached by any other newspaper. Stick a pin there. The River, Only, Moved. Boston Transcript. Stands Iowa where It did? Not en tirely. A three-mile strip of. it haa been moved Into Nebraska by the Missouri river. "What Might Have Been." Indianapolis News. Coal Is reported to be vary scarce la Ne braska, also, and as Mr. Bryan looks back over the last five or six years It Isn't hard for him to see how all this trouble might have been avoided. HIsTh Art Harked Dowa. Philadelphia Ledger. Speaking of the government la business. perhaps It Is not generally known that this government la selling flna engravings cheap. The subject is Martha Washing ton on the new 8-cent stamp, now ready for the holiday trade. - Aay Port la a Stars. Chlcajo Inter Ocean. The lavish manner in which President Castro la distributing amnesty these days only proves once mora that those who make It a rule in life to keep out of family rows are blessed with a large star of worldly wisdom. Womaa'a Inhumanity to Maa, Cincinnati Enquirer. Prominent note la made of the fact that a woman clerk In the Postofflce department at Washington gave up her husband rather than lose her situation. The order ot the postmaster general is cruel. No telling how many poor husbands will ba driven out this cold winter to maks their own living. Cleveland's Tendency to Reforaa. Brooklyn Eagle. Mr. Cleveland Is reducing his habit ot splitting the infinitive. He would now say, for Instance, "the effect ot protection for the sake of protection is generally to demoralize .Its advocates," not "to gener ally demoralize" them. Several men who aplit the Infinitive have become, presidents, but none three times. Aawtlacr aoarce u 1-ust FroaUa. New York Commercial. A stranger riding over the St. Louis, Iron Mountain Southern railroad, along the eastern slopes of the Ozarks, In south eastern Missouri, asked what tha numerous piles of soft whits atones ready for ship ment were for. "Those rocks," said a habitant, "are the refined, powdered sugar of commerce la the crude." The adulterant is mined la large quantities and la said to make excellent food If one doesn't know he Is eating iu ROl'KD ABOIT HEW YORK. Rlpalea oa the Carrent of Life la the Metropolis. Millionaire home owners along Fifth avenue are occasionally taken In and fleeced as smoothly as lamba In Wall street. Considerable money ss well as judgment Is necessary to do the Job suc cessfully, but the profits Justify the In vestment and the risk. All that Is acc essary Is to secure possession of a lot adjoining one of the palaces and threaten to build a flat or store building. Like Davy 1 Crockett's coon, the millionaire "comes down." Last spring a Chicago millionaire whs bought a corner mansion on Fifth avenue aoon discovered that the brown atone house next to his, which had been sold, i was to be replaced with a building to be used as a cafe, 1. e., a sort of aristocratic saloon. The Chicagoan saw .his duty and did It. Suddenly the work of tearing down that house next to his stopped. The wreck remained and to hide It a high fence was put up. The neighbors were told the mil lionaire had bought out the persons who were about to spoil an elegant bit of Fifth avenue, but strange' to relate, flaring theatrical posters have been permitted on that fence. Farther up Fifth avenue, right in the midst of Fifth avenue, a man bought some expensive lots and announced that he was going to put up flats. John Jacob Aator and W. C. Whitney lived near and a very fashionable millionaire lived next. There was great consternation, but there was a lot of money back of the consternation and tha vulgar Intruder was bought out. "Competition In New York Is down to a pretty fine point," remarked a man from tha far west quoted by the Tribune, "but where is impressed me most was not in legitimate business, but in the 'touches' made by beggars or 'grafters,' especially along Park Row, where I suppose their trade Is keenest. ; "The first experience I had in this line was the other evening whe I was stand ing at the entrance to the bridge, a Utile undecided what line to take uptown. First came a tired looking man, who had 4 cents, but wanted to go to One-Hundred and Twenty-fifth street. That seemed a long distance to. walk for the lack of a cent, so I gave It to him. Perhaps be passed the word to hit fellows In alleged misfortune; perhaps they recognized in me an out-of-town type,' but 1c the next four of five min utes put forward their pleas. None wanted over 2 cents and all wanted these not very startling sums for some laudable purpose. The first two or three got what they asked for. Then all of a audden I realized that I had struck assort of endless chain, or more exactly, that It had struck me. So I promptly made up my mind what line I wanted to take, and hurried from that vi cinity. "But Is Vas all quite different from my home town. On the coast If a man gave a beggar a cent the mendicant would look at It in pained amazement. There Is generally 10 cents or nothing. Some of the San Fran cisco beggars ought to spend a couple ot weeks in New York. Then they could ap preciate what strenuous life in beggardom really means." 'Several members of the Transportation club of New York City were smoking and chatting over the after-dinner coffee a few days ago, when the conversation turned to the horseless age," rajates the Times. Trol ley cars, automobiles and air ships had their share ot the talk,' when one of the party, a young mpn well known In New York; clubland, said: "I wonder If they will ever , Invent sllverlets dinners." "8llverless dinners!'1 exclaimed the oth ers. '' ' "'' .'.. ' " ' " ' y "Yes," dinners at which one will not have to bother with knives, forks or spoons; where everything will be prepared In such fashloa that one can simply take It In his fingers and still not require a pail ot Water alongside of him:" , "I doubt' It," said another. "In fact, I don't see how such a thing could very well be." "Well," continued -the man who had made the proposition, "I am willing to wage the cost ot a dinner that I can get up one which you will call excellent, and we won't have a piece of silver on the table." The wager was at once taken, and the young man sought the chef. Next night the five men were again together, and each had brought a woman to pass judgment on the meal. It consisted of eight courses, and all those present voted It a perfect success. The menu was as follows: Oysters on the half-shell, to be eaten from the nhells. Consomme In cups. Frogs' legs, with a sauce on the side. Half of a baked squab, with the leg In paper cap. Lamb chops, with the ends la paper cap. Stuffed celery. Ice cream sandwiches. Coffee. Mrs. Mary Bond Moroelnl, grandnlece ot George Washington and wife of the mil lionaire banker, A. C. Morosinl, recently had a terrible experience with a burglar. Robbers entered her home at Mount Vernon and the young matron was the first to give the alarm. Said Mrs. Morosinl l "I retired early and had pot been asleep very long when I was aroused by some one moving about. I lay perfectly still and listened. A moment later I heard some one hit his knuckles against the foot of my bed. I saw a man atandlng at the foot of the bed. He ran lightly around and peered Into my face to see If I slept. I screamed as loudly as I could and the man fled." The burglar tried to escape, but ran into the arms of the husband, who slept in a room opposite, and the athletic young banker struggled manfully with the thief in the dark ball, but was unable to hold him. Finally the burglar struck the mil lionaire two or three blows over one eye and finally escaped out of the window, but not until Mr. Morosinl was beaten nearly Insensible. The whole neighborhood was aroused, but no trace ot the robber could be found. The most successful barber la New York City has his shop In his kit. He starts out In the morning on a regular route, which he follows as sedulously if not as early as the milkman follows his. He has four teen customers, each of whom pays him not less than SO cents for a shava. Three give him $1 each. Two batchelor brothers living In the same apartments, give him 12 for half an hour's work. Plenty aad Poverty. Detroit Free Press. There are two big thoughts in the news from England that there Is a deplorable state of poverty and want. One Is that we are In an enviable state of prosperity that calls for the utmost wisdom In Its perpetu ation. The other, that organized labor In England has been very largely responsible for conditions existing there. It has been larbitrary, dictatorial, short-sighted and at times almost senseless. The harvest that It Is reaping Is largely of its own production and Its tsctlts m it change before England can cease to go back in the commercial race. i A Matter of Policy. Baltimore American. The United States supreme court has de cided that suicide does not prevent the collection - of money on a life Insurance policy regardless of the wording of the policy. The basis of the decision, per haps, is that that method of collecting In surance will never become popular. WOJIDEBJ OP OIR DAT. The Warbllna- (It aad the Klsslaa; Bag Sketched hy Master Feaa. Washington Post. Bulletin No. 88 new series of the divi sion of entomology Is perhaps the most in teresting document that has been issued from the Department of Agriculture for several years past. It Is naturally out of the question that a mere newspaper should give even the faintest suggestion of the wealth of fact and sapience contained In that mod est but pregnant pamphlet. We ahall not. therefore, essay the Impossible. Keep on the safe side Is our motto. But surely we mry be permitted to revel in, and perad venture comment upon, at last a few of the slmrlcr propositions Involved. That cannot offend science or take modern Journalism beyond Its depth. On page 109 of the pamphlet to which we have reference there is a "Note on the ex warble in Mississippi." We skip it. We have never heard an ox warble, in Missis sippi or elsewhere. It may tie all right. Far be it from us to enter a denial. 8trange things have happened In Mississippi within the past few weeks. What with bears and Bobos and moving accidents by flood and field, how can we be sure that the ox doesn't warble In that Illustrious state, or even la Arkansas and Louisiana? Neither have we a word to say against the assertion that at Llano, Tex., the cattle owners treat their cows for screw-worms by Christian 8clence. We don't knew anything about the Llano cattle owners except that they live In Texas, and our Information as to screw worms could be passed through the eye of a cambric needle without crowding the ori fice in the very least. It may all be true doubtless Is. But we shy at the "Notes on Kissing Bugs" furnished to the department by a gentleman residing In Phllo, O. One must draw a line somewhere, and it seems to us that the limit has been reached In this: "Notes on Kissing Bugs June 2s, 1902, we received a specimen ot Reduvlus personatus Linn., from Mr. W, T. Hubbell, Phllo. O., with the information that It was caught In the night within the fold of a lady's night dress after .twice stinging her. The lady described the sensation like the sting of a wasp, causing sickness and something like a chill, symptoms which, however, might have been due to nervousness, as the lady was not very strong." Any one who wants to believe this yarn is at liberty to do so. For our part we don't see how a well-regulated kissing bug could get tangled In the folds of a lady's night dress. We have never heard of such a thing before, and we don't propose to swallow the proposition now. A careful perusal ot Bulletin SS. however, moves us to wonder whether the president's protest against lengthy official reports, especially those which are Illustrated, was intended to apply to such publications as this. Surely every right-minded person must want to know about screw-worms, and kissing bugs, and warbling oxen, and things of that kind, and surely no taxpayer would object to expenditures in illustrating these exciting things. A really life-like picture of that kissing bug, for Instance, would be welcomed in every American home, while I the very simplest black-and-white sketch! of the warbling ox especially if It were accompanied by the musical score would take the very highest place in the affec tions ot the people. We are glad we saw that bulletin. Such experiences help to Impress us properly touching the greatness of our own, our na tive land. PERSONAL NOTES. - 1 . . o Venezuela has millions for defense but very little to' pay brlls with. Despite th terrific speed of Tom John son's "Red Devil" automobile b is unable to overtake the band wagon. - ' It will hardly do for any more raconteurs to die at present. All the good stories have already been credited to Tom Reed and Tom Ochiltree. King Oscar of Sweden has conferred the Royal Order of Vasa upon Dr. John A. Enander of Chicago, the oldest editor of a Swedish newspaper In this country. Librarian Putnam is preparing a card catalogue of the various breakfast foods. It will soon be possible for a debilitated con gressman to push a button and ascertain what Is good tor him. Dr. Steiner of Sandusky, O., who will write Tolstoi's biography, is a Totstoian disciple, and haa worked as a day laborer with the Immigrant people of the United States to study their needs. ' Steps were taken toward erecting a monu ment in bronze to Commodore John Barry, the "Father ot the American Navy," in Washington, at a recent meeting of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick. The Missouri politician who denied the charges made against him, "unequivocally and without reservation," has defied the usual Missouri and Kansas form, says the Kansas City Star, which requires the use of "in toto, every scintilla and each Jot and tittle." Edward Butler of St. Louis haa the pe culiar distinction of having been dead and brought to life, but only In a legal sense. He was recently convicted of bribery, but appealed his case. Later he qualified as a bondsman for a friend and in accepting Mr. Butler the court reversed a former decision which declared that he was civilly dead. Emperor William of Germany talks fluently in six languages English better i than any other except his own. Indeed, it has bean said that he actually speaks Ger man with just a trace ot English aocent. In the case ot hla august uncle of England this condition is just reversed, and for a tfust Because your That's no Your father druff was the beginning of baldnessi so you remember his shiny scalp. Cure your dandruff Ayer's Hair Vigor cures dandruff, stops faiiing hair, and keeps the scalp clean and healthy. Always restores " I ws bothered f resttf with dandruff and falling of tha hair, bottle of Ayer's Hair Vigor stopped the falling hair sad completely the dandruff." Miss Lucllo Hardy, 1 Dorado Springs, Mo. THE OLD RELIABLE kaSJ ... POOTEE Absolutely Puro THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE precisely similar reason. William's mothe; was English; Edward's father was German. The sale of the household goods of M. Cambon, the retiring French ambassador at Washington, took place last week and many articles exposed for sale brought fancy prices. Chairs that M. Cambon paid $16 or 20 tor sold for $75 and $100, and so on. Fashionable society was represented and men and women bid against each other with acrimony. The Persian minister paid a high price for lace curtains. An official of the house has returned to Washington from a trip In -the west and, meeting Congressman Bull of Rhode Island, began telling him of his experiences. Among other things the returned traveler told of a barbecue which he attended in Colorado, where they roasted the fincBt ox he ever saw. The Rhode Island man, who was badly beaten by his democratic opponent In No vember, interrupted: "Don't want to henr about your roast ox. You should have been In my district last, election day and seen how they roasted Bull to a turn, bat not to a return." PASSING PLEASANTRIES, Detroit Free Press: Tom I can read your thoughts. Clara 1 can hardly believe it, for If you could you wouldn't sit so far away. Cleveland ' Plain Dealer: "Young Flut terby seems to be an empty-headed fel low." "Yea. He hasn't a lump In hie bin." Boston Transcript: Mrs. Bouncer I have been to see Mrs. Grace tils afternoon. What delightful company she Is! Mr. Boiincr Yes. 1 understand thatJsho Is no talker. v Cincinnati Tribune: "And this long, shal low metal pan?'' asked the Christmas shopper, "what Is It for?" "That Is a collar button box," replld the affable salesman. Ut la made to lit under any bureau." Brooklyn Life: Hewitt I proposed to twin sisters and both gave me the mitten. Jewett Well, theres one consolation; your mittens ought to be mates. Philadelphia Press: Ascum I don't see why you patronise that cigar store. They give you pretty poor weed there. Graphter I know, but they keep a big box of matches on the counter and you oan take all you want. . Chicago Post: cross?" "I don't know, annoy him?" "What makes papa so Did you sap an thing to I Just hannenpd in re Certainly not. mark that Christmas was almost here." ' Baltimore America: - Xones hcii ouvtret your cook like one of the family? ' . ' Smith Or cat heavens, no! We wouldn't dare to take such a liberty. Slarna of the Tlanea, Washington Star. Christmas Day approaches, You feel It In the air; 'Tis written In the grocery store ,- Where fowls are fat and fair. Tls mentioned In the window Of the big emporium, 'Tls whispered In the murmur Of the shoppers as they come. Christmas Day approaches. The people smile to see Its heralds thus appearing In a splendid pageantry. You note the fact most keenly Whene'er you pause to look On the vanishing proportions Of your busy pocketbook. A WOMAN'S HEART. ' 8. W. Glllllan in Baltimore American. Omaha, Dec. 10! With more than a dozen astonished but admiring paHsongprs look ing on, a society woman this afternoon aroae In a stret car, removed her silken ftettlcoat and wrapped it about tho shlver ng form of an Infant 2 yearn of age. Stooping over, she snuggled that Karment about the Infant a legx. smiling Into the child's face and remurklng to the father: "I'm afraid the baby has scarcely enough on for this weather. News Dispatch. Ah, there spoke the heart of a woman! Who'd ask of her church or creed? She 'followed a Godlike Impulse To lessen a human need; Her womanly soul was ringing With "unto' the least of these" She gave of her bent to shelter A babe from the chilling breeze. She gave of her best; the widow Who came with her wretched mite, And gained for herself approval Prom 111m who was Juki and rlrht; Deserves not a place more honored Than she who was quick to part With costliest silken raiment Becaute of her tender heart. i O women of wealth and station, ' O women of pow'r anil place, . There's more In this life than beauly Of fubrlc and form nnd face; There's always a chance for playing The womanly woman's part God gave to the world no blessing Surpassing a woman's heart. FATHER. tow? BALD sign you need be bald. didn't know that dan and prevent baldness. LmreU. atase. color to gray hair. On cured