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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
Btate of Nebraska, iJOJglas County, as :
George u. Tssrhuck, secretary of The Res
J'ubllxhlng company, helnir duly sworn, rays
that the actual number of full and com-
filets copies of The Dally. Morning, Even
ng and Sunday liee printed during the
month of December, l&jl, was aa follows:
1 17 31M2
j 31,120
3 31.4T0
4 31.O0O
E ill,IUO
C ai.nao
18 30.U10
U 8t,fet
20 3l,7MO
21 as.700
22 80,000
1 8,MH 23....
S 3(1,1X10 24....
.10.000 2D....
io.... ao.itno 2u....
11 UO.fMiO 37....
12 3O.070 28....
U... 30,040 29....
14 liH.HW) 30....
IS SO.MIO 31....
It ao.it io
Total
....3O.K00
...,30,000
,...8(),2r.U
,...80,K30
'....30.K70
....2S.80B
....80.710
....32.24t
....aO,M70
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. , .tr.a.i r,
... lO.l.M
Less unsold and returned copies....
Net total Bales 042.4414
Net average sales Ito.-HU
OEOROE II. TZSCHUCK.
Subscribed In my presence and sworn to
before me this 31st day of December, A, D.
Ir2. M. H. HUNUATE,
(Seat) Notary l'ublic.
The passing of "Suvngc" Is accentu
ated by high winds.
TliU Is Jacknoninn day, and all who
Worship the patron saint are expected to
celebrate.
It's an 111 wind that blows nobody
good. The plate glass uiou have their
Innings now.
Legislative committees are presumed
to bo organized to expedite legislation,
not to obstruct It.
In spite of the high and dry winds the
state capltol Is In great danger of being
flooded with bills.
Governor Mickey will not dance to
night, but he will allow all Nebraska to
Join In the Inaugural hymn.
It would be agreeable alike to coal
miners and coal consumers If the arbi
tration commission would cut it short.
Tho federal, petit Jury,, that will con
vene at Lincoln ou January 10 to assist
the legislature In Its Impending wood
awing contest has been drawn.
Governor Van Sant of Minnesota not
only has the courage of his convictions,
but also the nerve to keep up the fight
against the Northern Securities merger.
The twenty-eighth session of the Ne
braska legislature Is now In full blast,
but there Is not sufficient reason to sup
pose that the session will differ ma
terially from those that have gone be
fore. Will the outgoing governor of Ne
braska turn over to the Incoming gov
ernor of Nebraska that mystic cigar box
with ita historic contents, or does 'he
propose to hold on to It as a Botiveulr of
better days? -
Improvements Lu the Nebraska tele
phone system are. In. sight Whether
this Is to be attributed to the menace of
a competing telephone company or to
natural evolution Is quite ' Immaterial.
Improvements are always welcome.
In discussing the Nebraska grazing
land problem' It should not be forgotten
that the small ranch owners outnumber
the big ranch owners a hundred to one.
and If concessions are to be made to the
cattle barons by revision of the grazlug
laud laws the rights and Interests of the
small ranchmen should be safeguarded
and protected.'
Blx members of congress rose to their
full height on the tlor of the house of
representatives Tuesday to deny public
reports to the effect that they had
Joined with other meuilors to pool their
clerical work. lu other words, the
honorafcte members of the house want It
understood that they have not organ
lied a letter-writing merger. A single
stenographer doing the correspondence
of six congressmen would, of course, be
very unparliamentary. There Is, how
aver, a well-defined rumor urouml Wash
lugton that some uichiIkts of congress
pool with themselves and pocket the en
tlra $1,200 a year salary allotted to
them for clerk hire.
A Washluirtoii uiun lu a letter to the
New York Times says the republican
party should nominate SjK-aker Hender
son lu 10O4 for vice president. He writes
In most complimentary, terms of the ser
vles of General Henderson to the coun
try and the iwrt.v, all of which is fully
merited by the distinguished lowan. It
will not be ynestk ?ed that General Hen
dersoto has every ipmlltlcatlou for the
vice presidency Meept oue he la a na
Uv of Scotland, bavins becu lx.ru at
Old leer lu.thnt country, nearly-M
years ago. It njay utit Ik; remarkable
that a retddeut Kit the iuttKmul cupltiil
who chows familiarity with the publl
record of General lleuderson, should be
unaware of his foreign birth, but It is a
little surprising that that fact should
bava been, overlooked by fcuch a news
paper aa the T lines, w. . t
the first DVTTvr rw tcoiLAtrnt.
The first duty of the legislature la to
lit up to the letlrr and spirit of the
innMltiitlon, which each member has
tilemnly sworn to olv.v. The failure
of former legislatures and state admin
istrations to conduct the affairs of the
state within the Ixiuuds of the constitu
tion Is responsible for the overlap of
nearly $'.J.iM),iirto lu the state, debt
Section 19 of urtlcle 111. entitled ' leg
islative," reads as follows:
Each legislature shall make appropria
tions for th expenses of the government
until the expiration of the first fiscal quar
ter after the adjournment of the next regu
lar session, and all appropriations shall
end with such fiscal quarter. And when
ever it Is deemed necessary to make fur
ther appropriations for deficiencies tho
same shall require a two-thirds vote of all
the members elected to each house and
shall not exceed the amount of revenue
authorized by law to be raised in such
time.
The meaning of this section of the
constitution Is very plain. It Is an ex
press prohibition of all expenditure by
officers of the executive department In
excess of the revenues authorized by
law, and It furthermore contemplates
that the legislative appropriation of one
session shall be ample to cover the cost
of maintenance of state government and
state Institutions for the period covered
by the session of. the succeeding
legislature. In other words, the ap
propriations mnde by ' the legislature
of 1001 were presumed to be ample
to meet all the demands for salaries.
supplies and Incidental expenses of
state government up to April 1, 100.1.
The only legitimate deficiency which
the constitution contemplates Is the ex
pense incurred In extraordinary emer
geneles, such as might be caused by
the destruction of state Institutions or
some unforeseen calamity. It goes with
out saying that no state board or state
officer has a right to deliberately create
deficiencies by purchases of materials
or .merchandise not specifically author
ized by law. Hut this Is precisely the
condition that has confronted nearly
every legislature within the past twenty
years. " . . .. "
According to the Lincoln Journal, the
secretary of state has incurred liabili
ties amounting to from .$.,000 to $7,000
for repairs, furniture . and materials
purchased to meet the wants of the leg
islature, although there Is no appropria
tion authorizing the creation of this
debt. Part of this expenditure, according
to the Journal, "consists of the most ex
pensive, furniture ever brought Into the:
state house. Among the Items are five
settees, or davenports, each costing $75.
Each of these pieces of furniture is
solid oak, upholstered In leather, and
will form luxurious resting places for
the tired lobbyists. Three of the set
tees have been taken to the bouse and
two to the senate."
Only two years ago Secretary Porter
bought new carpets and new furniture
for both bouses and expended several
thousands for lcautlfying the halls of
legislation. This also was'a -reckteai
violation? of the constitution?- If a com
pletely new set of furniture, garnished
with carpets, only survives a single ses
sion of the legislature, that fact should
be made patent to the appropriation
committees of each legislature, so that
It may Insert the amount deemed neces
sary for the purchase of furniture and
repairs of the chambers In succeeding
legislatures. ,
The extent to which this periodic dis
regard of constitutional limitations Is
carried, and the rank abuses for which
it Is responsible, was strikingly brought
to light ten years ago, when the legis
lature Impeached three state officers for
reckless expenditure of public moneys. I
It was found In the investigation of the
lnveutory submitted by Secretary of
State Allen that he had bought carpets.
hardware and lumber from a leading
Lincoln druggist at. druggists prices;
that he had Invested In two solid silver
Inkstands for the use of the speaker and
chief clerk of the house, and Indulged
In other luxuries at the expense of the
state.
While nobody charges the present sec
retary of state with . any intentional
wrongdoing, it Is manifest that he has
overstepped the boundary of the con
stitution and the law in' Incurring lia
bilities in advance of an appropriation.
It stands to reason that merchan
dise bought on credit with no assurance
of payment except by the caprice of ap
propriation committees, will be charged
up at Installment house prices. '
The present legislature can render the
state Invaluable tervico by putting a
stop to willful creation of deficiencies
by making appropriations for whatever
U deemed necessary to keep the capltol
building In repair and replace worn-
out furniture In the legislative halls two
years hence. Any other method is lia
ble to become an Incentive to extrava
gance and a link In the endless chain of
deficiencies that have caused the enor
mous Increase in the state debt.
SOL'IH 1AhOTA'H PK(M1HKSH.
The message of Governor Herreld of
South Dakota shows that state to be in
a highly prosperous condition and mak
lng rapid material progress. He says
the past two years have lKen a period of
contentment and happiness for the peo
ple of that commonwealth. The state
has had a wonderful growth in this
time, all industrial and commercial en
ergies having flourished under moat fa
vorable condition. There has leen ad
vance also In the Intellectual and moral
force of the state.
The financial adrUatstration of South
Dakota appears to. "have been conducted
In a most satisfactory jnanuej-, with the
remilt that the, bonded Indebtedness was
'considerably reduced , (luring rtlie last
year. The charitable and penal liistitu
tlolM hiV been well managed and In
abort the governor ioint4 out that In all
departments of the state government the
officials have been diligent and faithful,
lie earnestly commends the law giving
the governor- pvwer to unceremoniously
reiueva wtUclala who do nut measure up
to the requirements of tielr positions.
Governor Ilerreld strongly urge the lin
jMiitance of maintaining a national
guard, believing this to be a patriotic
duty. On the whole South R-ikota seems
to 1k In as favorable condition as any of
the states, with promise of coutiuued
prosperity and progress.
T1IK A KM Y STAtF HILL.
The passage by the house of repre
sentatives of the army staff bill gives
favorable promise that It will become a
law. The retirement of Senator llur
rows of Michigan from the senate com
mittee on military affairs In the Interest
of his colleague, Seuator Algur, made a
decided change In the prospects of the
staff bill. Mr. Alger h;is expressed him
self as favorable to It and if the three
ex -secretaries of war now in the senate,
two of them on the military committee
and one outside, can get Into line lu
favor of the bill Its chance of passage
will be exceedingly good.
There Is still opposition to the meas
ure in army circles, but It Is not so
strong as when the change was llrst pro
posed and probably will not now be
very vigorously asserted. The thorough
discussion which It has received and es
pecially the strong arguments In support
of it presented by Secretary Root have
convinced many of the eurly opponents
of the proposed system that it would re
sult In improving the military estab
lishment where Improvement Is most
necessary. In his last annual report tne
secretary of war said that our military
system Is exceedingly defective at the
top, that while we have a personnel un
surpassed anywhere and our adminis
trative staff und supply departments, as
a rule, nave ut tuelr heads good and
competent men, faithful to their duties,
"when we come to the co-ordination and
direction of all these menus and agencies
of warfare, so that all parts of the ma
chine shall work true together, we are
weak. ' Our system makes no adequate
provision for the directing brain which
every army must have to work success
fully." The purpose of the general staff
bill Is to correct ,thls defect nnd there
Is no doubt it would accomplish that
most desirable result. . The bill would
establish harmony of administration,
which, according to General Corbln, is
not possible under existing conditions of
law and regulations an admission of a
competent authority that ought to be
conclusive In favor of the proposed re
form. SENATOR HOAR VAPLAlyS HIS BILL.
Senator Hoar Is a learned and able
lawyer. He knows as well es anyone
the limitations upon the powers of con
gress Imposed by the constitution. He
framed his anti-trurt bill In the full
light of this knowledge, with care and
deliberation, and those who question the
constitutionality of its provisions, as
Representative Jenkins, chairman of tho
house committee on Judiciary, and some
others have done, must be prepared to
give very conclusive reasons' ' for their
opinion. ' The country will not accept a
hastily formed Judgment adverse to the
anti-trust measure of the eminent
Massachusetts senator, who Is in the
frcnt rank of constitutional lawyers.
In his speech Tuesday explanatory of
his bill Senator noar did not claim for
It perfection or infallibility. He said it
was tentative and experimental, as any
legislation of this nature must neces
sarily be. No mortal wisdom can dis
cern at once all that Is required for the
proper and adequate supervision aud
regulation of the great Industrial com
binations. It is a comparatively new
question, arising from an extraordinary
evolution in Industrial and economic
conditions the Import of which is not
yet clearly and perfectly understood.
"We should proceed safely, step by
step," said Senator Hoar. That is the
view of thoughtful, conservative men.
They see the danger Inherent in the con
centration of vast financial, industrial
and commercial power in combinations
controlled by a few men. They realize
that such a situation Is pregnant with
possibilities of very great evils and
abuses, some of which have been
already developed. But In seeking a
remedy men like Senator Hoar, who un
derstand the obstacles and difficulties,
endeavor to find a way that will cor
rect evils and avert danger without shat
tering the entire industrial system and
halting progress aud prosperity. The
conservative and rational plan, the only
plan that can be certainly and perma
nently effective, Is that of regulation and
control. This will not be destructive,
nor will It Interfere with legitimate In
dustrial progress on sound and safe eco
nomic lines. As was said by Senator
Hoar, "great wealth should be controlled
as the servant of man r-ud of the gov
ernment and should not be given the
reins of control. We must keep control
over agencies which can make cities
grow or wither."
It Is uect-esary In dealing with this
complex problem to avoid whatever
would be essentially revolutionary lu its
operation. It must be borne In mind
that If It were practicable to destroy the
combinations this could not be accom
plished without more or less injury to
the entire Industrial system of the coun
try. Every Independent enterprise that
now competes with the combinations
would be unfavorably affected. It Is
not a revolutionary but a remedial pol
icy that Is to lie desired aud It Is this
which Is provided in Senator Hoar's bill.
Some changes ami modifications of that
measure may be found expedient but as
we have heretofore said. It Is In Its gen
eral terms the most practical and com
prehensive bill for the supervision and
regulation of the corioratlons and as
sociations to which It applied thus far
submitted to cnngrcns.
It's a cold day when Ike Haseall can't
turu a political trick. His resolution
directing the city attorney to withdraw
from the police commission case now
pending before the supreme court, on
the plea that the leglblature la now In
seaslon. is a sample brick of Hascnlllty.
The. pompadour councilman from the
First knows very well that the Mercer
delegation in the leclslnture is not In
the least Inclined to disturb the Mercer
Haldwln police board, and he knows,
moreover, that the title of the police
commission hangs by a very slender
thread.
Favored on the Inside,
Chicago News.
The theory of Chairman Knapp of the
Interstate Commerce commission that pub
licity Is no real remedy for bad trusts un
doubtedly has the thorough approval of a
large number aof gentlemen Intimately con
nected with such trusts.
Where Much lenrnlna; la Needed.
Brooklyn Kagle.
Vermont Is undergoing a process of edu
cation in prohibitory laws, and after tba
process is completed, It might take up the
matter of education In Its schools. They
are open from sixteen to twenty weeks a
year, so it ought not to lacture the south.
Idealizing; the Dally Grind.
. Springfield Republican.
Somebody has said that life is all In the
day's work. So It Is. To do one's best
every day. In business, in the home, in all
the Incidents and burdens of the social re
lationship, until nightfall and sleep come,
Is to live well. Bo to do for 365 days Is to
make the year pretty nearly what It ought
to be.
Turn on the Water.
Indianapolis News.
Governor General Taft of the Philippines
Is of the opinion that It may be possible
to Induce the sultan of Jolo to part with
some of the rights he claims to the Jolo
group, and thus obviate many obstacles
dov encountered. Possible? Why, It would
be easy! We didn't have much difficulty In
making Spain let go, did we?
Fine Record In floternment Business.
Minneapolis Journal.
In one particular at least business man
agement by the government compares fa
vorably with that by private persons or cor
porations, and that Is in the fidelity and In
tegrity of its employes. The postofflce
money order system last year handled $602,
e.96,930, Involving 34,127 poatofflces and 78,
619,705 different transactions; yet the total
loss from dishonesty Or carelessness of em
ployes was 1251. It Is doubtful whether any
private business management In the world
can show so good a record as this.
Valuable Snajaestlon for legislators.
Portland Oregonian.
In deciding a suit, upon a franchise tax
Justice Brewer of the United States su
preme court said: .."Whatever property Is
worth for the purpose of income and sale, it
Is also worth for the purpose of taxation.
To deny the existence of intangible prop
erty is to insult the common Intelligence
of every man." In another case Chief
Justice Fuller of the same court held that
the value of a franchise Is found by adding
the market valus of .the stock and bonds
and deducting the assessed value of the
tangible property. Herein is a valuable
suggestion for Oregon legislators.
MoTlng t'pvrard Steadily.
Detroit. Free Press.
There was never a, time before when so
great a part of the energy of all mankind
was devoted to peaceful pursuits. To be
sure, this condition, is not permanent and
no man can say, when this peace will be
shattered and the , armies ' of the nations
meet on a new Armageddon, but a condi
tion Is a condition, and whoever carefully
examines the map of tne" "hemispheres today
must carry away wlt&ityra the conviction
that, however cru4f - the . method may be,
the peoples of, the earth are slowly work
ing their,, way toward the parliament of
mankind and the federation of the world.
. Seisin Coal la Transit.
Philadelphia North American.
During the anthracite strike the railroads
commandeered coal la transit which had
been sold to dealers,'1 belonged absolutely to
the purchasers and had been entrusted to
the railroads as common carriers under con
tract to deliver it to the owners. The rail
road managers had no more right to seise
that coal than they-. had to confiscate the
baggage of passengers. The farmers of
Kansas have learned the trick of com
mandeering from the. railroads. They hold
up trains and take what coal they need, and
sometimes they offer to pay for It. Retri
bution overtakes the wicked in one way or
another In the long run.
DECLINING MKAT SITPLY.
Statistics on Available Stock and the
Effect on Prices. '
Philadelphia Press.
The prospects for. much lower prices for
meat products are not good, and some of
those Interested tn the packing buslnss as
sert that higher prices will rule In the not
distant future. This prediction Is based
largely on the faot that live stock statistics
of the world show a steady decline, while
the human race la -annstantly Increasing,
This is more particularly true of those
countries in which ' mnrt Is largely con
sumed. Asiatic races are chiefly vegeta
rian, probably due to the fact that meat
In those countries long ago became compar
atively scarce, which made It necessary to
consume Other kinds of food in Its place.
European countries, excluding Great
Britain, have less than 300.000,000 head of
cattle, sheep, goats and hogs with which
to teed 310,000,000 persons. The United
States, with a population only about one
fifth that of all Europe, hae 65 per cent
8J many cattle, 45 per cent as many sheep
and nearly as many hogs. The live stock
supply of Europe Is much less now than
formerly, while the population is much
greater. France had 1SS head of live stock
in 1S75 for each 1,000 acres of land, while
now she has only 161, although there has
been an Increase in population. Denmark
has dropped from 197 head to 115. Germany
has only one-third as many shaep as she
had twenty-five years ago, and has lost In
cattle per capita. Holland, Switzerland and
some other countries make a wome showing.
Even where there has been an Increase la
live stock it has been much less propor
ttonately than the Increase In population.
This deficiency in live stock In Europe
has caused a great demand on the Vnlted
Slates, Australia and South America to
make up the supply. But Australia has had
a remarkable decrease In the number of its
sheep in a few years. The United 8.ates
had more milch cows in 1892 than it bad
In l'JOO, and over 9,000,000 more "oxen and
other cattle" In 1E30 than In 1300. There has
been a large decline In sheep and swine,
and at tho same time there has been
very large Increase in the population. The
western lauds used for live stock have
been taken up largely by farmers, and al
together there Is no prospect of such I
surplus of aulmals (or food ad formerly ex
Isted. and this situation will not improve
much, as the land can be used for greatei
profit than that of stock raising.
Many new articles of food have come
into common uie in recent years and thero
Is no feat1 of a lack of foqd. That may
Increase greater than the population. But
the supply of meat Is not likely to Increase
to any considerable extent, while It Is cer
tain. Judging from the experience of other
uatlons, to be leas in the future in pro
portion to population than is now the case
That means higher prices. But that will
not corns Immediately.
noun Anot'T hkw yoiik.
nil
the Cwrrent of 1.1 fe In the
Metropolis.
Tersons who dropped Into the church of
Rev. Dr. Charles H. Parkhiirst on Sunday
morning and profaned the contribution box
with B-cent pieces, heard from that gentle
man with vigor and suddenness that curlej
their hair.
"These drifters, these dead-heads." s.-ild
Dr. Tarkhurst, "come Into the church of
Sabbath morning and drop a nickel In
the plate while occupying a seat In a pew
paid for by some other man. These are
the people who hear nothing In the gospel
except the words, 'without money and with
out price. Their attitude savors of so
cialism. A socialist, you will understand,
Is not a man who wants to divide bis
money with his neighbors, but a man who
wants bis neighbors to divide their money
with htm."
One frequently hears the query: "What
becomes of the unsold Christmas trees?"
If ' some of the persona curious on this
point had been on Vesey street, near Wash
ington Market, on New Year's morning,
the answer would have been apparent, re
ports the Evening Post. Nearly 100 trees,
large and small the unsold stock of "the
Farm," as that particular Christmas tree
market Is known were there, piled up
orderly. Soon a few small children ap
peared, and began to appropriate the un.
graded trees. Within fifteen minutes the
little ones were as plentiful as sparrows,
all working methodically In piling the
spruce and hemlock In a big heap. The
final result was a bonfire, such as the city
child seldom has the opportunity to enjoy.
The pollceroen on that beat looked on
laughing, unmindful of the ordinance pro
hibiting bouflrcs In the streets. "Sure, it's
only onct a year!" was his comment
Two men were walking behind an ele
gantly dreBsed woman on Fulton street the
other day, relates tho Brooklyn Kagle.
"Did orou ever aee me hypnotize a
woman?" asked one.
"Nonsense!" the other sneered.
"Bet you $2 I can make that woman
ahead of us touch both her ears before she
has gone half a(block."
"Do you know her?"
"No. Never saw her before."
"What would you do to her?"
"Nothing but walk behind her. I won't
touch her."
"What would you say to her?"
"Nothing; not a word."
"And you'll make her put both her hands
to her ears without toucMng her or speak
lns to her?"
"Yes. sir."
"Well. It'll be worth $2 to see you do it.
I'll have to go you."
"Very well! Watch now!" In a tone
loud enough far the woman to hear he said
to his companion: "Charley,-how do ou
like the new faBhion the women have of
wearing only one earring?"
Instantly the woman clapped one gloved
hand and then the other to her ears to(see
If she had lost one of her sparklers.
"It'll work every time," said the winner.
You can make good wages betting on It
if you can find suckers enough to take
you up."
The bounding ambition of the department
store knows neither pause nor fatigue. The
offering of free high-class concerts in some
of the New York stores .reached such an
altitude that Manager Grau was compelled
to Interfere to prevent the participation of
Mme. Sembrtch, Mme. Scbuman-Heink and
Messieurs Companarl and Blspbam. The
department store has already extended Its
sphere and its ultlltles until It has pro
vided for every utilitarian feminine need,
and it now proposes to furnish every means
of entertaining; Instructing and edifying its
patrons. The day Is near at hand when the
morning street car will bring both husband
and wife down town to the business centers,
he to betake himself to his office, Bhe to
enter the welcoming portals of the depart
went store, where all day long there will
be provided countless means of keeping
busy and interested and of tVvartmg tne
approach or ennui, -mere wn. oe icuiuit.
on art. on cookery, on fashions, on litera
ture: there will be gymnasiums with calls
tbenlcs and instructions in Pelsarte, In the
preservation of beauty, in halrdresslng, in
house decoration, the care of house plants.
sanitation and health; there will be con
certs, vaudeville ana moving piuiu.i-,
there will be libraries, museums, picture
galleries, reading rooms, tea rooms and
Turkish baths; there' will be a newspaper
with editions every hour. AH this, we
promise for the department store of the
future, and, as it must lnhe natural order
of things become the home of all woman
hood during the daylight hours, we see no
hindrance to the erection of a dopartment
store covering four to eight blocks, .twenty
five stories high, with thousands of apart
ments and an Immense population, with a
roof garden as large aa a city park,
churchea and schools wherein the popula
tion may find every convenience, each con
ducted with that magnificent attention to
detail which distinguishes the department
store. Insuring the comfort, health and en
joyment of Its patrons, night and day. The
Industry and sagacity that bunas up inese
wonderful hives Is worthy of a wider field
-.ad a loftier aim.
Antonio Caesoba, a fireman on the steam
ship Mexico, was severely pained yester-
day, relates the Tribune, wot at Deing pm
In a cell, although that causea some saa
reflection. It was loss of faith In humanity,
sorrow at the dousing, to speak nautically,
of the light of truth as issuing from his
lips. Arch-traitors had conspired against
him, and his story of their fell machina
tions received no credenoe. 'Twaa a aaa
day for truth. 1
Customs Inspector O. T. o isen wae on
the pier at Wall street, alongside which
Mexico lay. when he saw Antonio approach
ing. A Samson, a Oollah, a 8uodow, seemed
Antonio, with bunches of gnarled muscle
lumping out his clothes.
You're , a chesty guy," musea u eu.
"That chest expansion would put Fitislm
mons or Sharkey out of business."
Then he noticed that Antonio's legs, too,
were thoso of a Hercules, so much so that
Antonio walked as If muscle bound.
Maybe he's swelling with dropsy.
thought O Nell. "Perhaps he has ele-
phantiaeisy Anyhow, he's In a baa way.
I'll investigate."
O'Neill led Antonio Into the customs
ofllce on the pier and began to probe the
swellings. He put his hand under An-
tonio's shirt bosom and drew out a package
of cigarettes, Imported, but not In the
regular way. He continued doing so until
his arm ached, and the pile of cigarette
boxes had Increased to 600. Antonio's trous
ers, too, were fertile with cigarettes. They
yielded another crop of BOO. As the cigar
ette pile grew large Antonio grew small.
By eliminating the bunches O'Neil reduced
him to a normal girth.
Antonio was astonished, astounded and
almost asphyxiated.
"How getta I dese?" be replied to the
inspector's question. "Quien sabe? Bancta
Maria! Agalnsta mla dey consplro.
"I aleeoa in mla bunko. I waka. L feela
v,t I have da stomack ske. I feel dese
buncha. I say I go to ds doc. Enamee
dey poota dese In while I sleeps. Bimby I
r. rv aar we catcha him. knocka him
down, taka de cigarroa. Mla innocents."
He put his hand on bis heart.
Carrabo, carrambol" he aald fiercely.
"Begorro to Umbo!" said O'Neil grimly
I 'WHITTRV I. A W a or HI BISKS.
OMAHA, Jan. 7 To the Editor ef The
Bee: The wild roar of the menacing appeal
to the Infernal flat of the "Be It enacted"
curse of all good government is again
sweeping over the country in full nnd dis
cordant chorus. Statutory remedies for In
cidental evils, which are Inseparable from all
great expansions in commercial and Indus
trial development, are as thick in the air
as a London tog, which they somewhat re
semtie In their blinding effect upon the
peoiie. Presidents and ex-presidents, states
men of all ranks and parties appear to be
hot rivals In their vain attempts to prevent
by legislation over-Issue of stock and the
making of large money by the , great corpa
ratlons. Anti-trust laws are exhausting the
genius of Invention by large and small
politicians and amateur Napoleons of fin
ance in vain attempts to choke down and '
hold down American enterprise by means
cf obstruction. It strikes some observers of
the madness of the tlmea that when these j
roaring philosophers pass laws In restraint :
of corporations that ls.ue more stock thsn I
their public guardians deem necessary. It
would be !n perfect order to enact one to
abolish the fools that Invest In it. The
country needs nothing so much at this
period of wholly unprecedented prosperity
in the United States as it needs a radical
and effective anti-fool law.
Flnce the.o-called granger laws were en-
acted and promptly repealed or amended
by Wisconsin and other statea, for the !
regulation of railway freight rates, the un
written laws of business under the Influence
and controlling power of competition have
blessed and enriched our country with the
cheapest rates of transportation which tbe
world has ever known. No better proof of
the fact, which no Informed man will Ques
tion, can be found than is seen in the total
failure of the Interstate commerce law to
accomplish the main object of Its enact
ment. The essence of It was to so regula'e
railway freight rates tha: no higher rates
could be charged for a short haul than was
charged for a long ha'jl. I think there can
be no successful contradiction of the fact
that It' has utterly fulled, after many yeurs
of trial, to do more than to vex and harass
business from the beginning. And why?
The ready answer Is, simply because no
statute can be .devised which can override
the res'stless unwritten laws of business.
I was much pleased with an editorial arti
cle iu Tbe Bee of last Sunday wherein Its
readers were told of the Independent busi
ness la our country which declares to all
men that competition is as fierce now In
all walks of business, Inoludlng steers and
steel, as it ever was in any day of our
history. And, by tbe way, what has be
come of that monster, the meat trust?
Strayed, or stolen? The Idea that any nix
men or number of men, Including J. P. Mor
gan and Edward A. Cudaby and his power
ful packing associates, can control, put up
and put down at will, the prices of either
steel or steers in this country Is equally
impossible and absurd.
What this country wants Is commercial
freedom from the hindering and artificial
burdens of tariff taxation and blind fool
statesmanship, whose real foundation rests
upon governmental paternalism.
GEORGE L MILLER.
PERSONAL NOTES,
The renovated White House has thirty
one miles of wire. A good many would like
to pull It who can't.
Justin McCarthy proposes to bring his
"History of Our Times" down to the
accession of King Edward VII and subse
quently to write his Irish remlniscenses.
Prank Mitchell of Akron, O., the negro
who Is 10S years old, has used tobacco Just
100 years. A man with the vitality to live
more than 100 years ran do almost anything.
The Canadians are also embracing them
selves over last year's prosperity and
dreaming sweet dreams of an even brighter
record for the year upon which we have
Just entered.
A Cuban congressman shot and killed a
rival politician, who was also an editor.
It is understood that President Palma would
not mourn much if about three-quarters of
the politicians In Cuba were removed from
the scene.
Alderman Coughlin has decided to discard
his pea-green dress suits and other bits of
fancy wearing apparel and to don cowhide
boots, blue jeans and wlde-brlmmed straw
hats. In other words, he Is going to he a
sure-enough farmer.
Because the JT urks say "there Is no one
wise but Mahomet," the title of Dr. Henry
Van Dyke's "Story of the Other Wise Men,"
which has just been translated Into Turkish,
had to be changed to "How the Other
Scientist Was Left Behind."
It transpires that tbe ailment from which
E. J. Baldwin, better known aa "Lucky"
Baldwin, Is suffering is a malignant cancer.
The nature cf the disease has been con
cealed from his friends for some time.
There Is no hope of his recovery.
Thomas A. Cleage, the St. Louis broker
who cleaned up about $300,000 in the recent
corn corner, ' Is a musician and composer
of considerable ability. His wife is also
musical, as are his three children, two
girls and a boy. The five have organised
themselves into a little family orchestra,
but confine their performances to their own
home and invited friends.
Philip Matter, tbe wealthiest citizen xt
Marlon, Ind.. owns a building to which two
men have been running a saloon. Com
plaints reached him regarding a side en
trance to the place, so he ordered his ten
ant to close It. The saloon keeper refused
to do so, and Mr. Matter celebrated New
Year's day by hiring a carpenter to nail
up the door, standing by the mecbanlo while
the work was being done.
During These Days
of sales and bargains it will be to your advantage to look
over the many good things that are here before you decide
"where" to make the purchase. As makers of our own
clothing we claim quite an advantage over most retailers
and at our special discount of 25 per cent we claim a de
cided advantage and it would do no harm to compare our
values all classes of clothing included in this sale.
Our Furnishing Dept.
has a number of good things also. 50c neckwear, 23c.
$1.00 and $1.50 shirts, 75c. $2.00 ones $1.50 and ALL win
ter underwear at 20 per cent discount.
No Clothing Fits Like Ours.
R. S. WILCOX, Manager.
I0 FT LISTS NRARLY A IX GOXR.
Decllae ef the Party Since It HobiI
stated General Weaver la IWI.
New York Bun.
Ten years often brtug about a great
change tn American politics, but it is to
be doubted whether any similar period
has seen so sweeping a change as marks
the practical erTacement of the peoples
party (populists), organised In 1891.
In that year the popullet candidate for
president. General Weaver, polled mora
than a million votes. He was put In
nomination at a convention held at Omaha
on July 4, 190, nnd the delegates who
nominated him, Impressed with the Im
portance of the movement they were inau
gurating, declared In their platform that
"assembled upon the 116th anniversary
i a ,v . . . - j ,v
UI ln" "ec.arauou l .uuepeuueue.
Priy In America, in Its first na-
t,onaI convention. Invoking upon Its action
,ne messing or Aimignty uou. puts rortn
,n tn nm n1 thlf pf P""?10
,a, country tne loiiowiug tnc.ar.o u.
principles
The 1,000,000 votes cast for the populist
candidate for president were well dis
tributed throughout the states of the coun
try and in only two of them Delaware and
Vermont, no populist electoral ticket was
run.
'"rl7 r-"Q ' l
Kansas. 168,000. and the states carried by
th PPullts were Kaneaa. Colorado, Idaho
and Nevada. In Oregon and North Dakota
tbe populist candidates received a portion
of the electoral vote.
No outside pa, or for many years had
polled so large a vote and it was accom
panied with populist representation In both
bouses of congress.
In 1896 the populists became a part of
the fusion on Bryan. In 1900, after disas
trous political experiences meanwhile, the
surviving members of tbe organization
nominated Wharton Barker for president
and he received 207,000 votes one-fifth
Of the total cast for General Weaver.
' At last year's election the populist party,
maintaining its organization and nominat
ing candidates In eight states only, polled
20,635 votes, as follows:
Colorado 3.843
Oeorglu b.ixS
Idaho 1S3
Illinois I.bIH
Indiana 1,35
Katutas 6:5
Minnesota v 5.347
Tennessee 2,11)3
Total
SO.RtS
On the sliding scale of political dismem
berment shown by tbe populists during 'the
last year, there will probably be no popu
list party In the United Statea In 1903, and
certainly none In 1904.
POI3TKD ItlSM ARKS.
Briggs I hear you are living like a
prince.
Griggs That'a right, old renjt. I'm broke
most of the time. Brooklyn LJfe.
Cora Are those dangerous microbes that
am found In kisses?
Her Maiden Aunt They are, my dear,
when they prove to be the germs oi matri
mony. N. Y. Sun.
"Th -re In something elevating In music,"
said the artist.
"Yes," 'answered the manager. "Mtislo
ceralnly hss the effect of stimulating lofty
Ideals as to salary." Washington Star.
"I started out on the first to pay tip my
debts, and I declare I never was so tired In
my life."
"How many creditors did you pay?"
"Pay? I didn't pay any. 1 was too
tired.'1 Cleveland Plain Dealer.'
"He called me an artistic liar."
"Why, I didn't hear him use any such
language.' .
"Well, he didn't put It In Just thoee
words, but he said I had the making of a
successful diplomat in me." Chicago Post.
Washington Start "Some ..men," said
Uncle Kben, "talks so much dat dey can't
think o' ntiffln' wuf aayln', on account o'
delr own disturbance." -
Friend You seem to have as many cus
tomers rwrw as during the holidays.
Haberdasher Why, those are fellows
coming to exchange the neckties their
wives bought them for Christmas. N. Y
Bun.
TWO INKY WAYS.
Architects and Builders' Journal.
There was a man who advertised
But once a single time.
In spot obscure placed he his ad,
And paid for it a dime.
And Just because It didn't bring
Him customers by score,
"AH advertising Is a fake,"
He said, or rather swore.
He seemed to think one hammer tsp
Would drive a nail clear In;
That from a bit of tiny thread
A weaver tents could spin.
If this reasoning bright applied
To eating, doubtless he
Would claim one little bit would feed
Ten men a century.
Some day. though, he will learn that to
Make advertising pay
He'll have to add ads to his ad
And advertise each day.
WHO RELIEVES
Eye-Strain
HUTESON
213 South 16th St.
Paxton Block.