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TITE OMAnA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, FEIlTlUAllY 1G, 1903. Vnk ONLviiA Daily Dee. K. ROBEWATEH, KPlTOR. t'UBLISMKD EVERY MORNING. TERMS tK Si;H8CRlPTION. ajly Bee (without Hunday), One Year. .14. 00 iJaily lire and Hunday, one Vnr W Illustrated Bee. One Year I 'JO Bunday lire. On Year W Kuturuay Bee, One Year IW Twentieth Century rarmer, Una Year.. 1.00 DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Dally Eea (without Busjday), per copy.... !c Dally live (without tjunflayl. per wek...l2e 1'ally Bee (including Hununy), per week. .1.0 Hunday Jiee, per copy c Kvenlng le (without Bunday), per wecK o Evening Bee (Including Bunday), P" week , i :rAnc Complaint" of Irregularities In delivery should be addressed tu City Circulation De partment. OFFICES. Omaha Tha Bee Building. South Omani-City Hall Building, Twenty-fifth and M Streets. Council Bluffs 10 pearl Street. Chicago NM'i Vnlty Building. New Vork32 Bark Row Building. Washington 601 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and ed itorial matter rhould be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or post,-l order, payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only 2-oent stamps accepted tn pa-ment of mall accounts, perscnal checks, except on Omnha. or eastern exchange, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss.: George B. Tsachuck. secretary of Tha Bea Publishing company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full an aompiete copies of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Bunday Bea printed duung the month of January, umj, was aa joiiuw.. 1 80.42O 2 80,200 8 80,T0 17 BO.IHMJ 18 80 1J SO.MO 20. SO.B.W 4 28.805 S 80.BOO 80,520 7 30,6aO t 80,4tM t 80.4SO 10 80.8BO 11 S8.780 12 ....BO.ftOO 13 so.ono 14 80,490 15 80,570 18 8O.4T0 II... ......Sl.MO 22.. .. 24.. 25.. 26.. 17. 28.. 29.. .80,440 .S0430 ...30.T&0 ...as.Wio ...SO.BTO ...80,5T0 ...ao,4o ...8o,sao ...SO,BTO 80. II 80,10 Total Less unsold and returned copies . A ... I ..I.. .841,43 I 9875 1 ...e3i,607 '"I ""' wmivm.. Net average sale """ nrnurtlT n T7RCHUCK. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before ma this sist oay ot (Seal.) jNoiaxy ruuus. i The Fifty-seventh coDgTess la Just about entering the last quarter. Colonel Bryan's tall to arms brings his Commoner mighty near the verge of yellow. That much-discussed revenue bill rhould come In this week like a belated valentine. Minister Bowen's experience proves that for opportunities of usefulness a second-cla,s diplomatic position often outranks a first-class embassy. That Bartley cigar box has been ;layed too long In the game of, political bluff and bluster. It is high time for the legislature to call for Its contents. If ex-Treasurer Meserve wants a vin dication from the vharge Of pocketing Interest earned on deposits or state school money, now Is the time to ap ply to the legislature for It, , Senator Tillman's defense of lynch ing should occasion no surprise.. T1U- oian la perfectly capable of Justifying nuruing ai ine .ae nuu crru uu.uai- ism. no nas not gotten out 01 tne eye- xor-anye stage yet.. if una Hague iriDunai were not oc- , , .1.1 j i cas.onauy g,veu bouicu..uK io uu .u Keep It from getting rusty on inter- national law. It might not bo able to .iniiuiDer wnen. a reany important mat- J M 1. I A. I I l colne r cuuruuu' Dfioro iub uarury wuu.uicu mane goou xnmr p.ea lor re.lel. uarucy uuu.u no wn vv .reu.D luw ne is saia to nave coiiecieu on tne i-u T held for the public funds he had leaned out as state, treasurer. When the Department oC Agriculture ls established jn its new building, for whlrh rnncrreaa has aoorottiated tl.- .vm.noo. "tha enmnlalnt that agriculture la neglected by Uncle Bam, like a step- child, will no longer be nermlssible. 1. The'peopl Nebraska hare been promised constitutional revision by the most speedy method. It Is a serious rtiinatlAn' lutvanr vtlllhop a lnafltil- Ihvvi ai-raaa aMvnvva, nuv wiiv. a aa v-V"'.fc l tlonal convention furnishes the most speed and effective method. What distresses the democrats is not 4Kb aa ami1 i -a n fTt avrakc si KrMi1l An a i t, 4 an antl-truat measure, but that lta n - aetment contradicts the democratic as sernon that no republican congress would ever dare to legislate adversely to the trusts. ' - The total, niimher of linunr lWnaoa Issued, for Omaha for the current year figures: up 230. If the school board wen alive to tha interest of Jta own treasury seyeral mora concerns that transact an .extensive business ln in- toxicants on - a $10 druggists permit would be compelled to take out a $1,000 liquor license. ' For the Information of an Inquirer! Mr. Bryan announces through his paper that be Is not Interested1 either aa of - fleer or stockholder In the cotton trust! or in any other corporation. Wonder 'how Mr., Bryan managed to get rid of the stock in the World-Herald that I sins.. ...... t I . .. ..a .......... . 1. . vuv tj mavic tiiui uurr u& turn con- 1 cern. ' . That must have been a sarcastic sally when Chairman Gray of the coal j atrike commission expressed regrets that the lnng association with the lawyers . representing both contending parties which had bean so pleasant to the, arbitrators had to ba broken. LUt enlng to legal wrangling for successive weeks may perhaps have been a pleas - ant diversion, but It is' safe to assume that rot one of the arbitrators would care to undergo the pleasant experience seoona ama. TUB StW CABIXKT POST. Mr. George n. Cortelvou, who will be at the head of tha new executive de pnrtmfnt. Is well qualified for the post. It 1 said of bim tliat he possesses in a remarkable decree a faculty for sys tematizing thing and getting them lufo smooth running order. He hss shown notable executive ability In his present position and It la stated that never' la?fore have the routine affairs of the White House leen handled an they are today. The appointment of Mr. Cortelyon to a plnce in the cabinet will carry out the wish of the late Presi dent MeKluloy, who Intended to make a place for hlui In his official family. The advancement of Mr. Oortelyou to a cabinet position will complete a aetiea of promotions, remarks a Wash ington forresporident, that la not likely to be equalled for mnny years, If ever at all. Less than twelve years ago he entered the public service as a con fidential atenogrnpher for the surveyor of the port of New York, later being transferred to the poptofflce depart ment In the office of the fourth assist ant postmaster general. In is:," Mr. Cortelyou became president Clevejand'g stenographer and remained In the same capacity with President McKInley. In this capacity he baa made a host of friends among men In public life and' there Is no doubt that he will make a success as secretary of the Department of Commerce. What the public can confidently count upon Is Inat the bureau of corporations connected with the, new department will faithfully per form the duty of Investigating the or ganization, conduct and management of corporations coming within Its au thority as defined In the law. The act does not require that, the Information thus obtained shall be made public, that being left to the discretion of the president, who can be relied upon to do what he shall deem lest for tha In- terests of tho nnhll The bureau of ' corporations will exercise such a degree of supervision as should have good re uns aou u nuer trial mis IS round not to be sufficient It will be a simple matter to amend the law so as to make It stronger. Thenew cabinet post will not be a sinecure. It will be the business 'of the secretary of commerce and labor, as provldedn the act, "to foster, pro mote and 'develop the foreign and do mestic commerce, the mining, manu facturlng, shipping and fishery. Indus tries, the labor Intepr-irts, the transpor tatlon facilities and the insurance busl or lne united Btates." Here Is enough to satisfy the most ambitious worker. There will be no unnecessary aeiay in organizing the new denartment I - and getting Into operation and there Is every reason to expect that results will justify its c.-eatlon AMtiHICAN CVURSt CUMUEXDKD. The German chancellor has expressed iatlsfaction at the course of the United states in connection "with the Vene- zuelan difficulty. It transpires that the secretary of state was kept informed in regard to the German position' by the diplomatic "representative of that coun try at Washington, receiving such In roPfflatlim . .rtv,n(. ftf ,t. h(.,ni, , rt d t Bowen. This was a verv marke(, courtesy and showed how de- slrous the German government was to aroid srivlns; anv offense to the TTnitpd gtateg Tho8e hQ have endeavored to Btlr . ,, . th, COIlntJ.v n.nHr . many mu8t now KB thelr ml8take and BhouM be wne t0 admlt th around lessness of their nrofessed hollpf that GermAnv Was schemlnor tn vet a ' tor. rltorlal foothold in this hnmlsnhprn Th ?vldsnce , tnat the German gov ernment has acted In th most illrt and straightforward, manner, actuated by no other purpose' than that of se curing what aba believes to be her just "" Carl gchura has pwperly cnaracierueea as "mischievous reck lessness" the expressions against Ger- ni&nT hlch have been so freely In du,ed in.n there 8Dould noT an end. to thls ot unwarranted dis- trust and suspicion of a power that has ,ven repeated assurances of its friendship for the United States, so far " the relations of the governments are I COUCCrned. THE GOLD AND BILVXR RATIO. The president of Mexico has ap- pointed a special commission to study the silver question, with a view' to de- vising a plan for. establIUlng a stable l " .r . " ratio between gold and silver. This commission will enter upon Its work the present week aud it Is expected that Its eslou, will last several mouths. 'A City of Mexico dispatch I there' is great Interest taken there ln thl willingness shown by President Roosevelt to aid in. the solution of what J w'(1,y recognised as a very serious problem. . Ajnerlcan. financial journals are fav rble to the Idea of establishing i between gold and silver, but I ome of them potnV out that in order that measures to this end shall be ef- fectiv Mexico, as the largest producer of the debase. coinage, must consent 1 promptly to suspend the unlimited pro- duct Ion of the dollar aud this step must I be followed by the redemption in gold of her outstanding clr- culatlng coin. It will be folly I - -.1 . .. - !.., . I ( . I ueuniri , a tt-auiug uuaiicini plMr, XO I set k to establish an exchunire ratio be tween gold and silver as long as Mex too continues to keep the Oriental and the Latin American countries supplied through her" mints with the debased currency. , "Kven should the ratio of 32 to i. wblch ratio -was adopted by Japan when, that country sought to re- - ltorin her monetary systefti. be estab- I llshed through the proposed Interna 1 tlonal conferences, this ratio could not 1 long bo maintained unless Mexico co- I operated la the manner above suggested, I Is nssdlesa to say that the Mexl I can goveenntent Is not dlsuoat-d to tke any such oourse as this. .While fully realizing that some more or less radical chanire will have to be made, that gov ernment does not at present contem plate stopping the colnnge of silver. The paper we have quoted from, how ever, I undoubtedly correct In the opinion that no ratio that might be established could be maintained vhile Mexico continues to freely coin silver! aud supply It to the Oriental and Latin American ootintrlcs. There must be a check to this flood of silver In order to maintain a stable ratio between the two money metals. American Interest In this matter grows out of the situation In the Phil ippines, which Is of a nature that threat ens to cause a vast deal of trouble If relief Is uot provided. The depreciation of silver has caused a heavy loss to the Philippine government and been disastrous to' business. Undoubtedly our government can manage this matter and must take steps for prompt relief, but the proiHtsItlon tl.nt 'came from Mexico certainly merits the considera tion given It by the president and sec- retary of 'state. The problem presented Is anything but simple and now Is as favorable a time as there will ever be for giving It attention and endeavoring to find a solution. THK TVULET BILL. If the so-called Tooley bill, proposing to change the methods of apportioning the school funds to the various school! districts throughout Nebraska, could be trace1 down to Its real source, its in spiration would probably be found to have emanated from the railroad lobby Infesting the legislature at Lincoln and Its purpose to be to divert attention from the overshndowlng issue of rail road tax shirking. As there Is neither merit nor reason in the Tooley bill, there should be no need of any unneces sary alarm over it as a. menace to the revenues of the school districts which would lose by Its enactment If the state school fund is held in trust for the children of the entire state, each child of school ago has In equity the same ctaira upon it, ana xio oiscnminate I between the school children in Its An- t. yti iitMiiutrui ift-tiunc tilt" xmn.iix lit ifi Mn In rtlfTmv.nr nm. tof ..-.vat, ... I'UI 1 V. I.IU DUIli; ... . ... A ttuuiu iw n.e lauitesi aum ui lujuauce. We may be sure the clear-headed and far-sighted members of the legislature will not -want to have themselves . . lni" ri-atiounuiniy lor bucu an outrage, not only upon the present gen- eratlon of school children, but upon all iuiure generations to come. no rar as concerns the question of equitable tax-l tlon of railroad property for municipal I nni-nnao nn tho anno tw . .... . , , property within the same jurisdiction Is taxed, the state apportionment of school money has no connection with It I whatever and each nronoatHnn n-tll have to stand on Its own legs. miKRV POLITICS COMES i. fiome of our democratic friends who I prof ess to be hot for house roll No, 171 Beeni to be anxious chiefly to put the republicans In a bole for the pur pose of making political capital for their own party. The only way to in terpret their enthusiasm is that they would prefer to have. the bill killed go that they can use its failure to sand- bag the republicans rather than to have the bill pass with republicans claiming the credit for its enactment. So far as The Rp la concrnprt- tt la enlisted ln t. i l, it. i c.ju.,. ..uuu b - or principle ana not as a matter ot politics. It -would prefer to have the bill pass rather than fall, without re- gard to its effect upon politics . and , wunout regaru w wutt-u iioiiutui party contributes most to putting It through, In shirking their taxes the railroads know no party Hues. They are repub- licans in republican states and demo- crata in oemocrauc states, uney are working through republicans in Ne-1 braska now because the rermbllcana happen to ba in control of the legisla- lv ' , , ' ture. Just as"they worked through the rusionists a few years ago when the legislature was dominated by a fusion majority. It Is the people against the ,, . . . . .1 aays man lormeriy in seven, aua uo it more railroads ln the present contest andLfflrl(int,v .... mor. eh.erfuii,. The ba the .members of the legislature will have to vote not as republicans or as democrats, but as representatives of the people or as pawns for the railroad lobby. It Is- noted that the South Omaha charter bill, as it comes from the printer, is labeled as introduced "by re- quest. ii y snouia any bill supposed to represent the 'Wishes of the general nubile within the lurisdletion nffopted n tnftn.i ..k . , . .v. .' ... . ... ilUw Ulnuj luc u.. Lrparc-u oy iuc raiiroaa loDDy or iramea in some other special Interest are introduced "by re - quest?" Why should any member of the legislature endeavor to evade ..ihim. t,.r . .,.. .J. .,.:.,., ' UC"JUUCT by his constituents by recording It iu- traduced "by request," as an Intimation that it does not meet hisNown approval? If the bill Is not worth fathering, why should It be iutrodu-ed at all? vorably inclined toward the valued policy law, a bill to that effect having already passed one house, with promts- Imf prospects ln the other. We take it that the fire insurance men there are i .a... , . , ub.ub ... B.n. ..gnu-uia aea.um vaiuoti iKjucy provisions, and telling the lawmakers how such legislation Is sure to Increase fire losses and raise Insurance rates, vet annarontlv alth. ar V out the desired effect Nebraska has naa a vaiuea policy law on its statute books for years, but the Insurance men have not been able to point out a slnirle tangible example where it has ever In creased rates or stimulated arson. City Electrician Schurlg In his report to the mayor and council recommends the construction of a conduit system bv the city to carry the wires of the fire . , , ,. . , . "I uu (iuucv aiarui tirvuii, wuicn must be changed when the electric light polos and wires are removed. We are under the Impression that the city reserved the right to nse a section of the tele phone company's conduits at the time the right was granted to that pirjKra tlon to put Its wires under ground. There la no necessity of duplicating conduits all over the business area of the city so long as the capacity of ex- lstlng conduits Is not overtaxed. Nebraska should be represented at the Pt Louis exposition, lnft there Is no need of lavish appropriations for this purpose. An exposition commission of economical business men can make a creditable showing within a reasonable I limit ' " One Jewel of Consistency. Boston Transcript. When President Roosevelt preaches In favor of blS families we do at least call unu I'uusiBiem. a presiaeni w no prac tices what be preaches Is always entitled to a respectful hearing. Antlqalty of the Trust. St. iouls tilobe-Democrat. Mr. Llttleflcld has demonstrated by an appeal to hlntory that the trusts are more than 4 000 "'d. n Mr- Rockefeller guuuutu lusi congress snouia snow a decent respect for old age. A Effective Separator. Washington Post. et-riph.niilrlr -nxn-n.. .r. i.noM. ' ..u wne,. thoy expected the manipulators of the schemes to get their profits. - The bus- ,ne8 of separating paople from their money always was easy. Pnttlnar it on the Public. Philadelphia Record. Mr. Bogle, one of the largest Indiana coal operators, says the advance In wages was granted Because the public always lakes the side of the miners, and the opera tors decided to taftn the added cost of min ing out ot the publlo. Model American Character. St. Louis Republic. Among the eulogies pronounced upon Abraham Lincoln's character tha moat complete and eloquent is that contained In the wor.-ls: "He was not schooled; he was educated." Every American recognizes the truth of the condensation. There Is no north and no south In appreciation of the man whn wna ertiirnta1 In 4 h a lmHi.ii 00nduct of life. A Great mbllo Service. Indianapolis News V. t. . ....... DUl "' Kocaeieuer nas, an uninieniion ally, of course, rendered a great public service. - His attempt to dictate to the senate, and to defeat legislation Just b UB0 oppod" to it ta opmt the eyes of many people who have hitherto been akeptical even aa to the existence of such Influences as those which ha endeav- ore(1 exert. American Charity Cola Abroad. Baltimore American, American charity has again gone abroad na . conaiaeraDie sum ot money nas been sent for the relief of the famine-stricken people 0( nortberil Sweaen. It l8 hard t0 understand how auch conditions caa axis In such a country as 8weden, or how that government, with the aid of others near at hand, can fall to supply all the aid necessary. Americans will not, however. on that account hesitate to help the poor and will continue to help as long as Is necessary, REST FOR RAILROAD MEN. Movement of Moat Freight Trains Suspended on ganday. Chicago Record-Herald. The management of the Chicago and Northwestern railroad has issued an order movement or tre'gnt on sun- ments, with an exception during the present public emergency ot coal and all kinds of fuel. Pursuant to this order thousands of employes in every Drancn or me operating ueparimeut oi ine iNonnwesiern system or over 8,000 miles enjoyed on Sunday last their first Sabbath at home. The Innovation and experiment which this railroad thus Inaugurated will ba watched ! Pea that every big railway system in the coun- try wllI JoIn ,n t, promulgation of a slm liar orter so that "a Sunday at home for railroad employea" may have a fair trial. u 18 ' .Bl ,n co-operation that such reforms me1 ,nauBtry eMp,0ving more than 1,000.- ooo human beings. It Is not to be expected that this move. ment for railroad Sunday is entirely de- Tolof Poetical side. Few movements In the Interest of humanity are in faot ,QieiT eentimental. In this case the North- western officials are convinced that with a flaT or r81 tht employes of the company in mov " mac " not more n lieve that one day of rest will bring renewed nerve force, without which aa operating man u of mtle va,ue- nd that tb moral innuence win oe sucn as to maae Deiter men of their employes and consequently result in more thorough service. PERSON Al NOTES E. Lung, a wealthy Chinese merchant of Indianapolis, has been made head of tha I Chinese Masons ln this country It wll be a shock to tha temperance element In Kansas to hear that Mrs. Na tlon is unaer arrest ai w Angeies iw laecoratlng the town. Toung RocVefeUer ,g a chlp of the old block. He insists that for the 'purpose of 1 taxation, his vast wealth -is more than offset by his colossal debts. Herbert W. Bowtn, minister to Venei uela. Ju1e Taft, governor of tha Philip pines, and Judge Hunt, governor of Porto ric, were classmen at Yale and were close friends. I Francis B. Loomla, the new assistant secretary ot state, nas neia me omce oi con,ul. enelaA "?.utw "i:':!' "c! i ora vi erriti 'wuuuut rt,cuun vu I a flahastmnnl I II. mwA Xwm Pr.ll na VanarKIH ho1 . llmlte(1 trtt, on the southern railway stopped and brought ba.k twenty-five miles so that they could get aboard. Probably "1" er travelln on Paes, too. Cenenl Basil w. Puke of Louisville was I onerea me xeaerai aisirici juagesnip oi Kentucky by President Roosevelt, but de dined to accept on the ground that tte had I endorsed another man for the position. I John M. Dick, an octogenarian resident of Manslleld. O., has applied to life lnsur I rl 1 A . -II TSn t,. ..v.. i. L k. the beat Insursd man In this country. H I carries policies amounting to $l,6oo,0oo. I Lloyd Oriscom, anroute by way of hi native land to his new post as minister to Japan, has reached London from Teheran Ha says the shah of Persia has queer Ideas about eaoaranhv. The ruler emreaaad a deaire te visit the United States and I asked if he could go all tha way by the 8'berian railroad, or If It took more than "". ..."V t . X A greatly dlstreased when Minister drilcom i ealijbttoed alia. ROlI ABOIT KEW YORK. Ipplea on the rwrrrnt ol I. If In the Metropolis. Joseph William Shcppard, a devout be liever In Brahmlnlsm, gave up Ms life at a aarrin.es to his faith. For fifteen years ba lived on rice, port wine and boney, taught by tha Indian mysticism that this diet was the medium ty which he would undergo a psychic change, making food unnecessary for the preservation of the body. A week go he refused to eat. Insisting that at last his mind had absolute control of bis body and that he would live on the strength given by hia Intellect. Sheppard had every comfort ha could think of. His family begged him to go to hospital, but h refused to listen to them and scoffed at a physician's orders. "Don't tell me I need food," he said a few minutes' before his death. "I do not and I am not going to take any." Sheppard was M years of age and a suc cessful Inventor. It required a man combining tha strength of a Gandow with the agllltyiof a monkey o cross Broadway at Twenty-third street during a recent galo. To turn the corner of the Flatlroir building took the pushing power of a locomotive. Some of those who attempted the feat landed safely around the corner. Others anded somewhere half a block away, while few are still chasing the hats they neg lected to nail on their heads before essay- ng the feat. The triangular shape of the' building. Its Immense height and the amount of open space around It combined to deflect- the currents of wind to the sidewalk, where they swept around the corner and formed a whirlwind. Those who got caught In it aay It was like a Kansas cyclone. At any rate when It struck the building it created enough havoc to ause a crowd of about 600 persons to gather and watch Its pranks. The three policemen on the corner were kept busy all day ordering the crowd to move on. Several women who attempted to cross were bowled over as If they were ninepins, and one pf them fainted. She was rescued by Tollceman Slatman of the West Thirti eth street station, who carried her to the sidewalk, where she was revived. Another unfortunate who overestimated his power to buck against the wind lost his breath while In the middle ot the street and had to crawl to the sidewalk. Women's hats wcjj torn from their hearts and the number of men's hats blown away was legion. The merchants whose stores are in the vicinity of the building were dismayed. All previous efforts of the wind there, they say, are placed far In thehade. They will posh the test suit for damages) wnicn ona of them has brought against the owners of the building, although they do not see what relief this will bring In tha future, aa tha building Is up, and will probably remain. A ring of the telephone bell ln police headquarters at 3:20 o'clock d(strubed the early Sunday morning quietude of the Mul berry street building, relates the Times. "Well, what Is It," said the officer in charge. A man is setting firs to the house," came from the other end ln a low sweet voioe. That's . bad. Tell me your name and address." Tm Mrs. Annie Fleming of 108 West One Hundred and Thirteenth street," the woman aaid. "All right. Weil attend to it," the offi cer assured her. Two minutes later, away up In the West One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street sta tion Sergeant McCarthy waa giving orders to Foliceman Schemmerborn, who looked doubtful when he got bis order, but he moved quickly, just the same, because the sergeant said jhe case was urgent. He'ap peared again quite soon and with a frown assured McCarthy that "It was all a fake." Once more the telephone bell broke the stillness at' headquarters and once again the officer ln oharge sent word to Harlem. This time Foliceman Horn was' sent. Horn and Scbemmerhorn linked their efforts, and now Insisted n getting at the source of the excitement. They finally found Mrs. Fleming, demanding in no mild, uncertain tones to know just what she meant. 'it's all right, now," she said. Pressing her tor further light the two policemen were informed by Mrs. Fleming that her husband had come home "slightly under the weather," and that to frighten him ao that he would promise her to sign the pledge she had pretended that she was going to have him arreste. "He's promised now," she said, "and It's all right." The two policemen left, reserving their remarks for the street, where there was plenty of room as well as lots of air. He dashed breathlessly up the stairs at a downtown station ot the "L" and shouted between gaspa to the man at the window Gimme a ticket to Twenty-eighth street." The seller said: "Where's your money T" "How much Is It?" "Five cents." "Here it la; Twenty-eighth' street V "Pass along; don't delay the game." "But is H for Twenty-eighth street?" "Shove along, 1 say." "Don't you give me any of your sass; I asked for a ticket to Twenty-eighth street, Is this itT", Say, if you don't move along I'll call a policeman. Can't you sea you're blocking the way" "I'll stand here all day. You've got to tell me If this ticket lets me off at Twenty eighth street. I don't propose to be carried past my station. You elevated railroad chumps may run New York as you please, but I'll let you know I'm from Texas." The man behind remarked: "Well. Texas. move along and I'll explain. v You've got your Twenty-eighth street ticket, and I'm going to buy one exactly like It. In this city all ticketa look alike to us." The man was desperately sober; but he did ript intend to be "done." Prof. W. T. Hand of the Mississippi Agricultural college has been on a vUlt to Jiew York. While there an acquaintance said to him: "You do not find much ef an agricultural nature here, do you?" "Oh I am picking up a few hints," answered the professor. - "For Instance, Wall street can give me points for a lecture on watering stock; your 'tenderloin' seema to be given over to the sowing ot wild oats, and your street cars beat hay pressors and cotton gins as compressers." The tinman Faraace. Era Magasln. Some one describes the human body as "a nltrogenized mass of hydrocarbon, wBose only use Is to be burned up. . This aptly pictures tha precise truth. Life 1 combustion. " The hydrogen and carbon o the body are continually combining with oxygen in slow combustion, to produce the gentle, uniform heat ot health. If any one of the three parties to combustion I deficient, life suffers, and vitality declines The human furnace ought to receive at leaat as good treatment as a bouse heater, No 'one would think of choking off the air ffom a furnace, nor of expecting a firs to burn brightly with air that had already been passed through half a down other furnaces and thus deoxidised. Yet that absurd way is exactly how we treat the human Are. We tall to breathe fully and deeply and we stay for hours in rooms whose air has passed through the lungs of a dosea people or our tin, time and time' again and tbea ws wonder why our vital fire euros 191 DEIOSITS OFr SIRETY COJlfAJIES. nftratlnii Worthy of Consideration In Xehraaka. Portland Oregonlan. No one has yet Introduced In the legis lature a bill to require surety companies to make deposits in tho state treasury s a means of securing the fulfillment of their obligations. When some city, county or the state haa lost a few thousand dol lars through the defalcation ofan officer who has an Insolvent surety company as a bondBtnan, people will wonder why some law was not passed to protect the public under such circumstances. Aa the law now tands, a county treasurer, tax collector or other county or state officer may give n official bond with a surety company as surety, and tho county or state has no alternative but to accept the bond, even though the surety company be insolvent. The law merely requires that when the company begins doing buslnees ln the state it must have a paid-up capital of J 100 ,000. It la not even required that this capital must be unimpaired. After a company has once entered upon business in this state It may Impair Its capital and be worth nothing whatever, yet It must be accepted, as surety for public officers, administrators, trustees, etc. In case of defalcation the state or county must look outside the slate 'of Oregon for the property upon which to levy In order to enforce payment of an obligation. Insurance companies are required to de posit In the state treasury bonds to the amount of 150,000, which are held by the state aa security tor the fulfillment of the eompany's obligations. Nothing whatever Is required of surety companies, which do a very similar business. The secretary of state has twice called attention to this serious defect in tha law, but the last legislature gave no heed and the present legislature has thus far followed the ex ample of its predecessor, probably upon the theory that since no Josses have ever been sustained none ever will be. The practice of giving official bonds with surety companies ss surettee Is new, but growing rapidly. Before an Individual can be accepted as a surety he must be a cltl sen of the state and proi that he is worth double the amount for which be is a Surety. A corporation, to serve ln the same capacity, need not be worth any fhtag. By making It compulsory upon the state and county to accept such bonds with corporations as sureties the legislature conferred great advantages upon these con cerns. In addition to that, the law re quires that the fees for the surety service for trustees, administrators, etc., must be paid by the estate or trust fund. The state of New Jersey, requires a de posit of $50,000, and also provides that if any surety company wishes to withdraw from the state it must first secure sn agreement' from some other company or person to assume all Its obligations. Ore gon now has a law which provides that the statute ot limitations shall not run against the state or a county, so a similar pro vision as to the contlnuancs of the deposit should he mads. RAILROAD DEATH ROLL. Coaspleaona Difference Between Great Britain and tha United States. , Chicago Tribune. In 1901 282 passengers on American rail roads were killed by train collisions and wrecks. Not one passenger was killed on British roads. The mileage of the American railways far exceeds that of the railways of Great Britain, but the latter carry more passengers yearly than do the former. The British record 'la one which should put American railroad managers to shame. They have labored successfully to run trains as fast as they are run in England. It would have been more to the purpose it they had endeavored successfully to se cure for paasengers the same Immunity from death that British passengers enjoy. There is One conspicuous difference be tween Oreat Britain and the United States. In the one the block system is in universal use. In the other It Is In operation on only about 25,000 miles of track, which is about one-tenth of the total mileage. It Is ad mitted that that system tnds to avet ac cidents. It does not prevent them ln this country, as is shown by the recent dreadful accident on the Central .New Jersey. It was due to the fault ot the engineer In overlooking ar disregarding signals which were properly displayed. The block system has been Introduced ln the United States so recently and to so limited an extent that there are few, if any, engineers who have been brought up under It and have learned the great lesson that signals must be obeyed Immediately. The engineer on the Central New Jersey express train said ha thought the danger1 signal would turn wnlte. ir ne naa Deen nctter trained be would not have thought. He would have stopped. , After engineers have grown up under the block system there will be few, if any, serious accidents on roads where it is used. Therefore It is necessary for the roads to extend the system rapidly and give paasengers the effective protection they get ln Oreat Britain but do not get here. This will require a considerable outlay of money on the part of the rail roads, but they must reconcile themselves to the expenditure, for they must make travel safe. While Installing the block system they must Improve the system ot running trains by telegraph. There must be checks and counter checka. When a train dispatcher sends sn 'order he must make sure that it Is delivered and under stood. - Passengers on . English roads have the one great safeguard which baa been men tioned. They have still another. The men who manage English railroads and their employes are not so reckless ss the Ameri i I Caught VO II t clothes 7 the croup And it is! v 1 w J life to keep on hand a bottle of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. Just one dose at bedtime, when th'exold is threatened, will stop all future-trouble. We wish you would ask your doctor if he knows anything' better for colds, coughs, bronchitis, weaki throats and lungs. Tsieui uc, .h. j.tAVEtco.u.uas, " 1 have used Ayer's Cherry PectorsI In my family for eight years, and I know nothing could be better for the coughs snd colds of children." Mrs. W. H. Brymer, Shelby, Ala. cans. They do not take so many chances. Here, when there Is a bad accident, a coroner's Jury Investigates It after a fash Ion and that la the end of the matter. In England recklessness which has fatal con sequences meets with swift and severe pun ishment. There are real, not sham, In vestigations to find who Is at fault. Tha dread of punishment makes railway men careful, and trains are not smashed up and- passengers killed as they are here. There are many things about American railroads which their managers ran Justly feel proud of, but there ar also serious de fects whlrh must be remedied. If the man agers will not remedy them voluntarily they must bo compelled to do so. The yearly death roll Is the reproach and shame of the American railroad men. I.ISES TO A 1.AICH. 'Never Interrnnt a woman when she Is telling vou her troubles," counseled Vncle Allen Sparks. "Phe Is never so hnpyy as then." Chicago Tribune. Tommy Bnckbay Mother, Is it a "In to say rubber neek.7 Mmo. Hnckbnv It la worse man a sin. Thomas, It Is vulgar. Harvard lampoon. PlaywrJsht What do you think of my new dramaT "' Manager It nas some merit. riaywright (eagerly I Yea yeaT Manager It'a shortnesa. Detroit Free Press. "Some paople, I believe, still maintain that oil and water won't mix." "Well, that's true." "Nonaenae! Rockefeller Is a member of the Baptist church." 1'hlladelphla Frees. "Supposing you woke up some day and found yourself a millionaire what d you do?" "Oo right to sleep axaln, so that the knocking of the tax assesmore on tho door wouldn t annoy me!" Baltimore Her ald. "Bllnkershorf mixes his drinks dread fully. ' 1 saw him with an assorted load last night that would have Ulied an In ventorav blank." "Perhaps he aspires to be considered a common carrier." Cleveland Plain Dealer. Clars The truth Is, I did not love my husband at all when I married him. I married for sympathy. Ulartys Well, you have mine. Philadel phia Ledger. . ' "I've come to tell you, sir," the young man said bravely, "that I want to marry your daughter." "What?" cried Old Ooldrox. "Yes, lr; but I assure you If she had not a penny I would still want to marry her, eo " "That settles you. I don't want anoiher fool In tha family." Philadelphia Catnollo Standard. OLD (iLORY. Old Oloryl Say who By the shlpe and the crew And the Irng, blended ranks of the Grey and the lllue Who gave youy Old Glory, the name that you bear " With auch pride everywhere. As you cast yourself free to the rapturous air. And leap out full length, as we're wanting you to? Who grave you that name, with the ring of the mine, And the honor and .fame so becoming to you? Your etrlpes stroked In ripples of white and of Bed, With your stars at their glittering best overhead, By day or by n!ht The elr rlnllirhtfullaat Heht. Laughing down from their little square heaven or blue Who gave you the name of Old Glory T Say who? Who gave ton the name of Old Glory? The Old Banner lifted, and faltering then In vague lisps.- and whispers, fell silent -again. Old Glory, speak out) We are asking about How you happened to "favor" a name, so to eey. That sounds so familiar and careless and gay. As we cheer It and shout in our wild. breesy way , ' We, the crowd, every man of us, calling you - r." " i ' We, Tom. Dick and Harry, each swinging his hat, Aud hurrahing "Old Glory!" like you were our king, When, Lord, we all know, we're as com mon as sin; And yet It seems like you humor us all, And waft us your thanks, a we hail you, and fall Into line, with you Aver us, waving us on Where our glorified, sanctified betters have gone. - , And' this Is the reason we're wanting to know (And we're wanting It so! Where our own fathers went we are willing to go.) , Who gave you the name of Old Glory? Oho Who gave you the name of Old Glory? The old flag unfurled with a billowy thrill For an inntant; then wistfully sighed and was still. Old Glory, the story we're wantlnr to- hear Is what the plain facte of your christening were , For your name, just to hear It, . , Repeat it, and cheer It, la a tang to the spirit, As salt as a tear; And seeing you fly, and the boys march ing by, ' There's a shout ln the throat and a Mar in the eye. And an aching to live for you always or die; . - If, dyliitf, wa still keep you waving on high, And so, by our love For you, floating above. And tha sears .of all wars and the sorrowe thereof, Who gave you the name of Old Glory, and why Are we thrilled at the name of Old Glory? Then the old banner leaped like a sail In the blast, And fluttered an audible answer at last, And it spake, with a shake of the voice, and It said: By the driven snow white and the Hrtng blood red Of my bars, and their heaven of stars -warhead; By the symbol conjoined of them all, sky ward cast. As I float from the steeple, or flap at tha mast, Or droop o'er the sod where the Ions; grasses nod? My name Is aa old as the glory of God. So I came by the name of OLD GLORY. in the shower Damp wet feet, colds. noht cnncrJis. 1 j o - - e a part pf school life. should be a part of home I I