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TIIE OMAITA DAILY BEEt WEDNESDAY, JANTJATtY 118, 1903. Tiie oniaiia Daily Bee. E. ROBEWATEH, EDITOR. PCBMSHED EVERT MOKNIXO. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. rally Pre (without Sunday). One Tear.. $4.00 tally Hee and Sunday, one Year illustrated Hff, One Tear 2 ' Sunday Hee, One Year , ("" HBturUay H-e, one Yar l.W Twentieth Century farmer. One Year.. l.W DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Pally Bee (without Sunday), per copy.... 2e Dny Hee (without HundHy). per week...12o Dally Bee (including Sunday), per week..iic Sunday Bee. per copy be Kvenlng Bee (without Sunday), per week 6u Evening Bee (Including Sunday), per week 'nc Complaint of Irregularities In delivery hnuirt be addressed to City Circulation De partment. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha City Hall Building. Twen-ty-nfth and M Streets. Council Bluffs 10 Pearl Street. Chicago IMo I'nlty Building. New York :2X l'ark Row Building. W'anhington-otil Fourteenth Street. COKRESrOXDENCE. Communications relating to news and ed- Iforlal matter should le addressed: Omaha ee. Editorial Department. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION, btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, mi.! George B. Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Punday Bee printed during the month or December, 1902, was a follows: 1 aa,2Ko 17 ao.sao 1 8 1.1 20 1 81.470 4 8i,0(M t 81,040 t 81.H20 7...., JtS,HM 8 ao.tHio ao.ooo 10 8o.obo 1: ao.HHO jj ao.HTu 'll 30.040 14 ,3 IB 30,810 lg 30,010 20 !"!!!l!!!!!'8.T8o 2... iis.Too a RO.MMM 22 ao, turn 23"!" ao,Ho 24 ao,o 25. " 8O,2G0 26. ' 80.K30 27" 80.HTO 2g a, 29 30.7WO 30 8a,w gi ao,To 1 80,10 TotaY 03,04B ( Less unsold and returned copies.... 10.1a Net total sales ili'jjil Kat nverava sales .tl.o , GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. . Subscribed In my presence and sworn to fcefore me this 31t day of December, A. D. t&V. M. B. HITNQATE, (Seal) Notary Public. I . .- With all these legislatures in grinding, it is up to some ono to project a legisla tive merger. a As a matter of precaution the senate should wait grappling with the Alaskan treaty until warmer weather. If the local coal exchange is not convinced by this time that it is an odious, grinding, monopolistic trust it Is a hopeless pupil. With an overlap of fU.000,000 staring It in the face, the legislature ought to think twice before it appropriates $73, 000 for the St Ixniis show. Those bank robbers operating in Ne braska must be laboring uuder a delu slon. The great pardoner no longer 00 cuples the executive chair in this state. Most people will want more direct evi dence before they will swallow the yarn about a Michigan student being killed by overstudy. The medical books do not contain the diagnosis of any such disease. The taxpayers of Omaha look to the city council to keep the tax rate down. They have long ago given up ull idea of economy from the school board so long as the budget is made up by the present superintendent. Under the precedent established by the reform police board, patrolmen who leave their beats while on duty are docked two days pay. In the army men who desert their beats while on duty are court-martialed and drummed out of the service. , The danger Is that the fanner who responds to all these numerous calls for meetings to launch co-operative move ments will be kept busy doing nothing else, and will have to employ some one on the outside to do the co-operative .work around his farm. The redoubtable Devery will not be allowed to go Into eclipse in New York ven if It takes a court order to inject hlui again into the inner sanctuaries of Tammany hall. Without Ievery local I politics In the great metropolis might lose all its picturesqneness. The allowance for the agent of the Omaha and Winnebago reservation" has been lost in the shuttle in the lower house of congress. Nobody will mourn the loss uulcss it be the agent and the- land speculators and money changers In and about the reservation. The Douglas delegation In the house concedes that the Howell water works bill as engrossed in the senate is ille gal, but it refuses to see anything llle- .gal in the provisions of the bill that are manifestly contrary to fundamental principles and constitutional pro visions. ' A forced contribution of flOL'.OOO will be levied uihju the taxpayers of Omaha for the supiiort of the schools during the year ltKKJ. ( Toward this amount the railroads centering- lu Ouiaha would contribute the munitient sum of $471.50 ou the mileage basis as sessment. When the legislature has banished the conoratei lobby aud served notice on tho Kaldwius, Agers and their ilk that their preseuce and their advice are not ueeded jn the framing of laws for the people of Nebraska, the people of Nebraska will have greater hopes for tux reform and wholesome legisla tion lu' the interest of the common wealth. , The school board finance committee estimate the cost of free text books for the couiltyr year at fll.tNsV At this rate the school lxok trust would take $110,000 out of the city of Omaha In ten years, which would . seem to Justify the partiality of the trust managers to Omaha aud the lavish expenditure by It ageuts for courtesies and refreshments wheuever they favor Omaha with a visit. ' REVISE THE REG1STHATION LAW. TIip main object of the law requiring the registration of Totem In cities Is to prevent election frauds. Experience has demonstrated beyond a ppraflven ture that the registration lawi are lamentably ineffective and exceedingly expensive. Abundant proof of this fact Is afforded by every succeeding election In Utuahfl, Lincoln and other towns where registration machinery has been Introduced. Otlirlnally some pntection was afforded against fraudulent registration through publicity and revision of the registration lists. The first registration law, enacted more than thirty years ago exclusively for Omaha, required registrars to publish in the official newspaper of the rlty the names of registered voters, with their location by wards and residence number. Under that law the last day of registration was set apart for revision and unless voters suspected of registering under assumed names after due notice failed to appear before the registrars on re vision day their names were stricken from the roll. All this has been done away with. Publication of registered voters in the official paper hns been discontinued on the p,ca of econoD,y the purgation of the registration lists on a fixed day has also been dropped. As a natural consequence false registration has been made as easy on the first day as on the last day, which occurs only three days before election, Originally there was one registration board for each ward in this city. Now we have a board for each of the seventy-sir voting districts in the city, or a total of 228 registrars, each draw ing $3 per day, or $084 for each regis tration day, making a total of $2,052 for every election. This is a mon strosity. What Is needed for Omaha and every city where registration of voters is mandatory is a board of reg lstration composed of three men for each ward, with books for each voting district. There should also be nub Hclty through newspapers of the registration lists at least thirty days befo;- election and a revision of registration lists no later than two weeks tefore election, with a closing of the registration books Immediately after revision is completed1, followed up by a publication of the names stricken off and names added on revision day, In addition to these changes In the registration law there should be re vision of the primary election law to prevent the recurrence of the - frauds perpetrated in Omaha last fall, when more than 1,000 names were added to the registration lists on affidavits A UNIVERSAL, GOLD STANDARD. It is stated that in connection with the plans being considered by the officials of Mexico for placing that country on a gold basis, the Mexican government is tiOQ to the item of $25,000 for con taking the lead la a movement having gtructlon there is an item of $10,000 for Its object the adoption by all the countries of the world of a uniform monetary system, the. basis of which is to be the single gold standard. It is proposed to have the several countries use in their circulation as much silver as can be maintained at parity with gold, this sliver to be coined at the ratio or to l. Representative Mexicans are now in Washington urging this plan and the Mexican ambassador has recently presented a note to Secretary Hay In viting "the United States to appoint a commission to Join a similar commis sion appointed by the Mexican govern ment, to lie charged with the duty of de vising a gold standard monetary system which will be suited to the needs of the commercial world and which can be uniformly ndopted. It is said that the invitation will probably be accepted and also that the State department has re ceived assurances that the Chinese gov erument will approve the plan. It is but a question of time when the gold standard will be universal, but it may be doubted whether the Mexican proposition is at present practicable, for the reason that the cold standard na tions are not likely to disturb their pres- ent system and make a higher com- iXerclal price for silver, which would not benefit them but would be of material advantage to the countries that, like Mexico, are on a silver basis. The gold standard countries are satisfied for the present to keep silver in a subsidiary place and so far as the United States is concerned it has as much on hand as it can comfortably keep in that position. The thing for Mexico to do is to adopt the gold standard without trying any expedients. REPORT ON AaTI-TROST BILL. The report on the house anti-trust bill, as agreed upon by the Judiciary committee, presents nothing essentially new, but emphasizes and strengthens much that has been said before as to the nature of combinations commonly called trusts and the necessity for their supervision and regulation. Th,e belief is expressed that the combinations have not been organized, as is some times claimed, for the purpose of re ducing prices to the consumer, but on the contrary the controlling purpose of such organizations is the profit of the parties thereto. It is pointed out that no one can now tell to what exteut exorbitant prices are being paid, there being no authority, state or national, to give any adequate information on that point. Overcapitalization, says the re port, furnishes convenient , opportunity for concealing the profitable character of tl vuterprtse and It is asserted that I corporations have doubled their capital- Izatlon for the purpose of concealing their earnings. It is urged that publicity, while not claimed to be a cure-all, will go far toward ameliorating oppressive condi tio!) and the hope Is expressed that by Its application "the operatloo of natural laws may Ui an appreciable I degree alleviate - existing conditions." i It Is very generally admitted that pub- licity would be serviceable In correct ing some of the evils ami abuses of the combinations, but more than this is required for a complete correction of existing conditions. Something may be accomplished through the operation of natural laws, but still provision must be made for the supervision and regu lation of the great combinations by national and state authority, and it niny be confidently assumed that until this is done and the policy rigidly en forced some evils will remain. The Industrial development which the com binations represent Is in the opinion of many economists In contravention of natural laws and the collapse of some of the trusts has seemed to support this view. Yet most of them stand and apparently are having a prosperous career. Manifestly, therefore, it Is not wise to rely too confidently upon the oieratlon of natural laws for alleviat ing existing conditions. There is a great deal of evidence that these are not sufficient. Public interest in this .subject, while still strong and earnest. Is not greatly concerned with theories and academic arguments. The people are familiar with all this and what they want now is the application of a practical policy, even though it must necessarily be somewhat experimental. The combina tions are here; they are doing business and more firmly Intrenching them selves; the evils incident to them are not being remedied; they are taking unfair tribute from the people to meet the requirements of a vast overcapi talization. All this Is patent and the people ask that something be done to correct it and give them whatever pro tection against monopoly It is in the power of congress to provide. There has been enough of talk; the time has come for action. TWO MILLS ARE AMPLE. The Board of Education has adopted an estimate of expenditures for the coming year, embodying in it a demand for a direct tax levy of 2.3 mills for the school fund. This demand is uu warranted by the financial condition of the school affairs and a levy of 2 mills will produce ample revenue In addition to the income from other sources to run the schools without the slightest Impairment of their standard of efficiency. In fact, with a 2-uilll levy the school fund would not only meet every legitimate requirement for running expenses, but also leave a good margin to be applied to the ex tinguishment of the longstanding overlap. An examination of the board's estl mate in comparison with previous es iimates, appropriations - and revenues shows that the probable expenses have been systematically padded and the probable receipts other than taxes estl muted at the lowest limit. In addi- for improvements, to say nothing of $14,000 for repairs, $1,500 for architects' services and $1,850 for sites, when the law expressly limits expenditures for new buildings to $25,000 In any one year unless first authorized by special vote of the people. The items for supplies of various kinds, including furniture and fixtures, are all far in ex cess of what was spent for those pur poses last year, and so on down almost the entire list, with the result that the total of the estimate is $50,000 greater than the actual expenditures of the last school year. In view of these facts the demand for a school levy of 2.3 mills cannot be Justified. We believe the council would be fully sustained by publi sentiment if it would refuse to levy more than 2 mills for the school fund and that no court, should the matter be taken Into court, would uphold the lawless demand of the board. Two mills Is all that should have been asked and with 2 mills the work of the schools will go on unhampered in any respect If congress passes the land-leasing Proposition up, it will devolve on Tresi dent Roo8ev,lt to deal with the fencing question in nis own way subject to the laws already on the statute books. From the vigorous language used by the president in his last message no one need doubt that he will hesitate to as sume responsibility and go ahead with what he thinks the right course. One house of the Utah legislature has censured a Salt Lake newspaper for re lieving its mind with the declaration that one delegation could by changing places with Jack rabbits strengthen the body to which they belong. The cen sured editor should have been more choice In the selection of the animals for his legislative comparisons. The railroads are well represented by paid lobbyists at Lincoln engaged to see that their masters do not suffer In the new revenue law. The common eve ryday taxpayers will have to depend upon the meinlx'rs of the bouse and senate to look after their interests and protect them from the corporate tax shirkers. One thing the Lessler bribery case Is demonstrating as effectively as did the Christmas bribery charges of last year, and that Is that a choice assortment of liars is to be constantly found in the vl clnity of congress who are ready ou short notice to furnish testimony ou every side of any subject. The corporations have. a right to be heard before legislative committees when bills affecting their interests are uuder discussion, but they have no right to beset the members of the legis lature with a brilsi-distrlbuting lobby that carries on its nefarious criminal business lu the darli. Caase fur Thankfulness. HalUmore American. There is one drop of comf.irt in the bit tar cup of high prices- The speculating coal dealers cannot, with mil their efforts, be independent of the mild snaps. Some Modera Statesmen. Chicago Chronicle. As the political pot bolls faster the usual mount ot scum comes to the surface. There are individuals prancing up and down platforms instructing their fellow citizens how to vote who, at any other time, vould have heart failure at the sight of a policeman. A Derided Advantage. Brooklyn Eagle. Senator Hoar does not like it because the president expresses opinions on bills before they are passed. It hi often an ad vantage, not only to the nation, but to the senate, to have man In the White House who has a mind, and is sot afraid to let it be known. Giving; Oar Wards a Lift. New York Tribune. The senate committee on the Philippines, in recommending action to admit free of duty into those islands all materials to be used In the construction and equipment of steam and electrlo railroads for a period of five years at the discretion of the Phil ippine commitslon, has taken up a Judi cious policy. Such legislation would un doubtedly be of marked value to all the industrious and loyal inhabitants. Talne of Convlctlome. February Success, Men who do things, who achieve re sults, have strong convictions; they be lieve something in particular and believe It without reservation. A man who is willing to fight for an Idea, to sacrifice everything In order to develop it, has something definite In his life, a specific certainty that will bring him out some where in the neighborhood of success. A man without a policy, without a definite purpose, without a strong conviction of any kind, who believes a little of every thing and not much of anything, who is willing upon pressure to relinquish his opinion on any subject, to abandon any Idea he has conceived, whether It be feasi ble or not, who does not hold on to any one thing tenaciously, will never accom plish much In this world. Sample of Ghoulish Glee. New York Sun. Another farmers' trust, the Farmers' Co operative Grain and Live Stock association. has been formed, and formed with brutal disregard of the holiest feelings of a states man and a Journalist in Lincoln, Neb., the site and capital of Mr. Bryan. The Ne braska farmers are to build their own ele vators and warehouses, to market their own products, to eliminate middlemen, to force up prices and make the railroads give lower freight rates. Wicked, wicked, greedy, grasping, monopolistic Nebraska farmers! They roust be fined and punished. Publicity must glare at 'em. What un grateful dogs they are to go to work and build trusts, when the sociologists at Washington are thinking day and night how to curb and chain those malign mon sters! Women Seek a Risk? -Job. Indianapolis Journal. The decision of the Immigration com missioner to appoint four women Inspect ors whose duty It shall be board incoming steamships before their arrival In port in order to Inspect the passengers, has caused constderablo comment in New York. Even Commissioner Sargent was in doubt as to whether women could be found to accept the positions, inasmuch as the duties would Involve climbing; a long ladder from a cutter to a steamship with both vessels In motion. His doubts have been removed, however, by a host of applicants, women of all kinds expressing their willingness to undertake the work, ladder-cllmblng and all. Men are slow to learn that women are not more reluctant than themselves to do service for their country when there li a salary attached. One Way to Keep Warm. Washington Post. Coal oil that was retailed at 10 cents a gallon last June has been for some weeks selling at 15 cents. Aa everybody knows, the former price, and even the lowest pricei that prevailed at various prior periods, yielded enormous profits and piled up fabu lous fortunes for a few men. The Post has never failed to recognize all the good points of the oil trust. That It sold an excellent quality of oil at a seemingly low price we cheerfully conceded, and we paid due trib ute to the splendid business capacity of Mr. Rockefeller and his associates. But this rushing up of the cost of fuel In order to augment profits that already exceeded "the dreams of avarice" seems to us like heart less oppression of the poor. When one re members that all of those millions go to the coffers into which hundreds of millions had been gathered before this time of distress began, when one reads of or hears or sees the Bickness and death and cruel sufferings incident to lack of fuel, one cannot help thinking thoughts that had better not be printed. ' The only advantage of such thoughts is that they warm one up. MILLIONS OF TONS OF CEREALS. Development of American Agricul ture Without Parallel. Josiah Strong in Success. The story of American agriculture has been the story of our growth in population and of the extension of our national domain a record without a parallel in the history of the world. A Chicago man once said that he had lied a great many times about the growth of his city, but Providence had always quickly oome to his relief. It would take a gifted liar to overstate the growth of our agriculture or exaggerate the marvel of Its present proportions. The difficulty Is to prod imagination to any appreciation of the simple facts. I'ncle Sam already occupies the first rank among the farmers of the world In the magnitude and value or nis crops. Al though his family constitutes only one twentieth of the human race, he produces nearly one-third of the world's food supply, while Russia, which comes next as a food producer, has one-twelfth of the world's population and supplies less than one fifth of its food. Compare our wheat crop, for 1900, with that of the other leading wheat countries of the world: Country. ' Bushels. T'nited Btates WZ.T.W) KuHsia in Europe :i&.i.':t.ni)0 France 3'9.3Mt,0i I'rltlfh India li.;Va.o Oermany 141,l:,ou0 Ilunitary 135,i0.u Tialv 119,7ao.JO fc'pain l(6.(KH.iiO Argentlno 101.1'K,i) Great Ilrltain 65,3Jrt,OA The expert (not official) estimate ot our wheat crop for the last year Is 700,600,000 bushels, and the same authority places our corn crop at 2.589.951.0QO bushels, which equals the output of wheat for the entire world In 1900. We are told by government authority that our crop of cereals for a single year Is 90,000,000 tons. Let us try to get hold of these figures so that they will mean some thing to us. How long a train ot cars would be required to ship this crop, allow ing forty feet outside measurement to each car and ten tons of grain to each' It we had a double track belting the globe at the equator, these cars loaded with our grsln crop for a single year would fill both tracks solid, and then enough would be sidetracked to reach from New Ycrk to gan Francisco six times. , STATE TRESS COMMENT. Stanton Picket: The appointment of Cap tain Culver to he adjutant general of Ne braska cannot but give general satisfaction. Thus far Governor Mickey's appointments have been meritorious. Character and fit ness for the position to which the appoint ment Is made are the chief considerations. Hartlngton Herald: Those who have made a study of Nebraska legislatures con cede that the membership this session la made up of belter material than ever be fore. It has often been remarked that more than usual care was exercised In the nomi nations, and that fewer of the professional politician clase were elected thnn in former years. With this good material and the overwhelming republlcsn majority in both houses there is reason to expect the best of results. Broken Pow Republican: The land leas ing bill, which Is good In some respects, Is calculated to retard rather than build up the population in the northwestern part of the state. Much of that country can only be utilized by grazing cattle, horses and sheep. While the bill provides a fee renfal that will enable the government to realize something from it in a financial way there la a question If the government and espe cially the state, will not lose more by the bill becoming a law than should the land be held for future development by stock men, who In time will homestead all the valleys and land adjacent to streams, and finally all the rest, on which they will pay taxes to the county and state In greater amount than the government will receive by leasing It. Besides could that territory be populated with a family to every section or two with small herds of stock It would provide a much better market for the grain produced In this county than it will should there be but one ranch to every twenty sec tions. Wlsner Free Press: Two cents per acre, or $12.80 per section, as the leaning bit1 would provide for tho rental of public lands for grazing purposes, would produce a very Bllm revenue Indeed, when compared to deeded taxable land. When this small return is divided equally, the one-half for the government Irrigation fund and the other two-fourths for county and state re spectively and none whatever for school purposes It would leave those localities lamentably short on land revenues. If necessary to enlarge the territory of the Individual holder to make It rustalnlng for grazing or agricultural purposes, it would seem better to the interests of the states and counties In which these lands are lo cated to make a single homestead entry cover a section or more; eventually deeded and taxable. At the present, or if leased, an interminable barrier of wire fences reach over the country and not a habitation for miles at a stretch. Churches and schools, ex cept In an occasional hamlet, are not founded aad not needed; only in the study of nature and communion with the Deity on the broad open prairie are these priv ileges afforded the scant population. Every body except the cow man Is fenced out and the other fellow doesn't care so much be cause at present he cannot get a deed for enough land by living on It to make a living on. It Is literally out of the market and out of service except to the cattle baron and he is making tho most of the golden opportunity and Uncle Sam holds the bag. Fremont Tribune: The decision of the populist state central committee to aban don fusion in Nebraska Is an Interesting In cident of politics. The committee at Its meeting at Lincoln a few days ago prac tically agreed to do that, and there Is little doubt but that the democrats and populists will hereafter conduct their shows under separate tents. For the past twelve years the two parties have been practically one, though they have contrived to maintain dis tinct organizations. They have won eome distinct victories by co-operation, and this gave them courage to continue fusion. That is to say, they won the offices for a short while, though it cannot be said, In truth, that doing this was achieving a victory. Having the offices they also had responsi bilities and duties and these they scarcely failed to meet as they had promised and as the people, without any exaggerated Idea of their goodness, had a right to expect. Ana so they were driven from power, after a brief and unsatisfactory period ot prom tion. They have pretty generally concluded there can be no more offices for them for a few years, except here and there In a small way. and so tach party win now De con tent to "stand for principle" for a little while. If in the future there comes a panic or a drouth and the ptjple are rest less and seeking relief, under which condi tions they readily turn to anything new there may be fusion again. In the hops ef procuring the spoils of office. Meantime there will be something of a realignment of voters. Fuslonlsts have three alterna tives to go to the democratic party, train with the populists, or, better still, to ro operate with the republicans, the party In power, and thus be able to give rorco :na effect in a practical way to tneir views. PERSONAL NOTES. Senator Beverldge lives modeBtly on a small salary and accepts no railroad passes or telegraph franks. When one concern can draw Its check for $22,500,000, as J. P. Morgan & Co. have done, it indicates that there's something doing. A democratic district leader In Brooklyn refused to accept a thousand dollar stiver set the other day. Terhaps it didn't con tain a pinch bowl. United States Senator George O. Vest of Missouri and August Emmett Maxwell of Pensacola, Fla., are believed to be the only surviving members of the confederate states senate. Though the memory of Henry Ward Beecher Is held in deep veneration by Brooklyn citizens generally, they are mak ing strong objection against changing the name of Clinton street to Beecher avenue. A bill Introduced in the Connecticut house of representatives does away with the death penalty and provides that persons found guilty of murder in the first degreo shall be Imprisoned in the state prison during life and shall, when their condition permits, "spend one day in every week in a solitary chamber of reflection." Hon. James Wilson, secretary of agri culture, la to be one of the speakers at the annual convention of the Wyoming Industrial association, to be held In Chey enne, February 3 and 4. Many other speak ers, gentlemen prominent in Wyoming agri cultural, educational and political affairs, will take active part in the meetings. The plain people scored a signal tri umph In Texas. Some misguided upstarts attempted to make the inaugural ball a full-dres affair. When the boys from thu back counties heard of the move they fell upon the committee of arrangements and laid the members up for repairs. Thus the conventional swallow-tail was ripped up the back and the Lone Star state saved from disgrace. Oscar Hammerstein, the New York the ater manager, yls a gTea,t stickler for even ing dress at the play house, especially among guests of the management. "The least a deadhead can do," ho says, "Is to dress up. It makes me tired to tee a man la free seats lu a sack suit. If he and hl friend are lu eveniug dress they look like $4, even If they ain't. And another thing I don't like the Idea of critics coming to my house on first nights in other than evening clothes." ROINO AROVT EW YORK. Ripple on the Current of Life In the Metropolis. Emphatic notice has been served upon wife beaters in New York to stop such practice or take the consequences. That claw of cowardly thugs have as a rule enjoyed Immunity from punishment for their brutality because their victims re fused to proeecute and for the further reason that Imprisonment of the husband deprived the family of eupport. In most cases the Intter reason prevented adequate punishment. Hut the brutal evil thrived on leniency and other means seemed nec essary to prevent suffering among the In nocenf, while Justice got in Its ork with ' a club A fund was raised and placed In ; the keeping of a society having for Its prime object the punishment of wife-beat -crs. City magistrates have been notified hat In future they need have no fear for the families of the brutes, as the fund is sufficient to insure $7 a week for wife and iTilldren while the husband is doing time in the penitentiary. One of the first cases under the new plan was heard last week before Magistrate Higglnbotham. A man named nice was not only a habitual wlfe benter. but he would lay abed nil day and allow his wife to do washing and then take her meager earnings after inflicting brutal beatings. Magistrate Higglnbotham said In sentencing the prisoner: "Cnder a new ar rangement which has been made, Rico, we will see that your wife and family are taken care of. I am going to sentence you to six months. You are no good, and In future any wife-beater who comes before me will get the limit. You will go up on Riker's Island for six months and break stones, and when you arc released, if you touch your wife again your punishment will be more severe." Ry the passage of title of the old Bruns wick hotel site nt Fifth avenue, Twenty- sixth to Twenty-seventh streets, and ad Joining property on both sides. It now be comes a certainty that the long-talked-of proposal for the erection of a mammoth hotel of modern type on the plot will be carried through. Some additional facts nbout the plans have been made public. Th cost of the building will be approxi mately 13,500.000, making the total cost of the enterprise about $6,000,000. The Hotel Brunswick company will own and operate the hotel under the management of Oustav Rauman, proprietor of the Holland House. The building will be twenty stories high, with frontage of 197 feet on Fifth avenue and 130 feet on each street. It will contain 1,100 rooms. In view ot the fact that-the carrying charges on the land in Its present condition are very great, the work of tearing down the old building will be begun on February 1, and the new building will be started as soon after that as possible. It Is estimated that the building will be completed In two years. "The conversational versatility of your American girls astonishes me," said the Englishman who was approaching tho close of his first month In New York. "Not only do I find that In society the young women have quickness of perception and readiness of repartee, but I have found that In the downtown restaurants, whero girls are em ployed as waitresses, they are extremely handy with their retorts." "Been trying to Jolly 'em a bit, eh?" said tho college graduate, who was finishing off In Undo Jim's Wall street office. "Not at all not at all!" replied the Englishman hastily. "My observations are based on what I hear them saying to other men. The girls are quite bright, y'know." "What led you to think them otherwise?" said the' American citizen. "I did not look for the quality of glib ness In girls of that class," said the man from London. "In eating places on the other side, the waitresses never talk to you, not even after you have been going to the restaurant every day for months. Here In New York It Is vastly different. And they eeem to know where you are from, too. "I went to my usual restaurant today. There was a new girl at my table, and the one who usually waits on me was a sort of assistant head waitress. She came over to the girl at my table before I had a chance to tell what I wanted and said! " 'Bring the gent a rasher of bacon, two eggs, underdone, a toasted muffin and tea. Is there anything else?" and she looked at me. I said that would be all right, and remarked that the weather was changeable, and what do you think she said?" "Something equally bright, I suppose," remarked the college man. The Englishman eyed him a moment. "I wonder If she was poking fun at me?" he said. "Well, she Just answered: 'We have so many foreigners In New York we have to have all kinds of weather to suit 'em. This is not our day for English weather, but I hope you won't get tired waiting for your turn.' " It has been stated that the "largest check ever drawn In the history of com merclal transactions In this or any other country" was that for $22,500,000 which recently passed through the clearing house and .which was drawn by J. P. Morgan & Co. for the payment of the Lake Shore's Interest in Reading. As a matter of fact this check Is neither the largest drawn lu this country nor In Europe. A check for $23,127,016.67 was drawn by J. P. Morgan & Co. on February 6, 1901, in connection l" 'Pai oi mr. Carnegie's hold- tngs, and checks ranging from $10,000,000 to $17,000,000 have often passed through the clearing house. A check for 8,225,000 1 shilling and 6 A January Thaw has certainly commenced at our store. We are getting ready for our Spring Stock. There are many lines of merchandise and odd articles that must be closed out, and to avoid carrying them over the price has been reduced out of all order of reason. FOR INSTANCE: Children's kilt dresses that sold for $3.00, are now $1.00. Children's vestee suits that sold for $3.00 up to $9.00, are now $1.50, years 3 to 8 years. . ' . - Men's trousers that sold from $5.00 and up, are now $3 50. $2.00 Manhattan shirts, colored, are now $1.50. $1.50 and $2.00 colored shirts are now $1.00. $1.00 colored shirts, all sizes except (15), are bow 75o. $1.00 flannel night robes are now 75c. Some 60c values In suspenders at 25c. Besides the good values offered above there are others that cannot be mentioned for want of space and their limited quantity, but they are all set forth to attract you when you make us a call. No Clothing Fits Like Ours. R. S. WILCOX, Manager. renee ($41,1:5. nno) was raid In Indon at the close of the Chlno-Japanese mar ss the first installment of the war Indemnity paid by China, and son'e time afierv.ard a check for U.Oos.sr.T (about $.5,000.000) was paid In liondon by China as the final pay ment on the Indemnity to Japan. IMMMtlXi H A HIT (K WOHKMl'l, Major rhnrrh llnirr Tntkn Temper ance to ItrltUh Mace Kirnrrt. Springfield Telegraph, tVc. 17. In his very thoughtful speech at the Britain presentation dinner the other night Major Church Howe. American consul In PhetTleld. made much of the difference be- i'en he British workman and Ms Amerl- can cousin as regards drinking habits. On tho question whether, as Major Church Howe averred, the Britisher Is at a great disadvantage In this respect there may bo some difference of opinion, but Inquiry shows that however that may be, temper ance Is more widely appreciated In America than In this country. It Is a fact that tho consumption of alcohol In the Vtiltcd States Is smaller per head of the population than In any ether great non-Mohnmineihin nation. Of beer tho consumption in gal lons for each head of the population Is 13.3, against the SI. 7 of Great Britain nnd 27.5 of Germany, though it looms large against the 6.2 of France. France, however. Is not a beer-drlnklng country, and It more than makes up the difference with wine, of which its people consume 15.4 gallons per head, against the 1.45 of Germany, .39 of Great Britain and .33 of the I'nlted States, which consumes only 1.10 gallons of spirits per head, against 1.12 ot Greitt Britain, l.i't of Germany aud 2.02 of France. A start ling statement which bears directly on tho alcohol question Is that tho great railway systems of the I'nlted States are run from tho bottom nearly to the top by teetotnlcra and tho man who drinks Amis it moro diffi cult to get or to keep an onerous position, while even the circus which Is popularly erroneously supposed to be intemperate in its habits was, so far as Barnum's show was concerned, organized as a band ot tion drinkers. POINTED It El'LECTIOSS. Cayman So you don't believe me, ehT I suppose you believe that 'men are deceiver ever.' Mrs. Gayman Not at all. Sotnotlnies thev only think th?y are dangerous Philadelphia Press. A man was asked recently hy the gruff rlerk at the stamp window, alter he had deposited 2 cents, "Well, what do you want?" He answered gently, "An automobile, please." Albany Argus. , Lawyer Have you ever seen the prisoner at the bar? Witness No. sir; but I hnve seen him many times when I strongly suspected ho had been at it. Philadelphia, llullotln. "Why are you In Jail?" asked the kind hearted visitor. "Mister," was the response, "It ain't no fault of mine that I'm here. I'd leave in a minute If I could." Washington Star. "Don't think because you see a man with a button off his coat that he Is certainly a lineholor. The chances are that he is mar ried Somervillo Journal. Sllllous Everybody says he Is a genius. Cynleus Then I guess he might be. It takes genius to convince other people that you are one. Philadelphia Ilacord. "There Is no doubt about his getting rich." "What's the proof?" "He hns cut all his poor relations and puts a dollar In tho plate every Sunday." Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Did you enjoy the muslcale?" Inquired tho friend. "In a way," answered Mr. Cumrox. "It was a great deal better than listening to the conversation that would hnve occurred If there hadn't been any music." Wash lnctun Star. TUB tiOHIXJ OF TIIE OX. W. D. Nesblt In Chicago Tribune. The sorrows of those far away Are sure to touch our tender spot. "Can such things be?" we rise to say, "Is human gentleness forgot? We shudder at the direful tales That come from out the Orient We feel that tears, and niojins, and walls Have unto us a message sent. We censure dCBpots here Bnd there. Whose subjects seem to need a friend; The ships that cross the ocean bear Relief that we. In kindness, send. Wherever over there Is woe; Wherever persecutions rave, Our protestations quickly go, And cruel wrath they soon assuage. What If the sultan took his pen And wrote: "I learn with much surprise, That In your land are boys and men Who toil all day, with straining eyes; In constant fear tor limb ami life; Where dangers great urn hourly met And that their lives nre one lor.g strife Agninbt disease and death nnd debt!" What If the sultan wrote: "You must Bo less oppressive with your slaves. And deal in manner klnr" and just With those who work In living graves. You must not think a ton of coal Is equal to n ton of pelf Why, If he did! Why. bless your soul. We'd tell the fool to chase himself! Every Day's Delay means added danger to yourealth and eyesigni. We provide glasses to meet every defect of rlslon and our charges are moderate - IITr,c - J J C.HUTESON & CO., J13 S. 16th Street, Paxton Block. "tf ""rwiiifiHurr nrm H
