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THE OMAira DAILY REE: FIUDAY, NOVEMBEK 6, 1903. Tjie Omaiia Daily Bee. E. ROSEWATER, editor. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. tt1y Bee (without Stindsy). One Year.$4 00 pally Beo and Sunday. Una Year SO) Tlln.f r.t. lie rttiA Tear 2 0 Punday B, On Year , 1M Saturday w, One leiir. Twentieth Ontury Farmer. One Tear.. 1.00 DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Daily B-e (without Sunday), per ropy lc pally Io (without Buncl.iyl. per week. .12c Pally Bee (Including Sunday), per week.l7fi Sunday F, per copy 6" Evening pee (without Sunday), per week 6c Evening Bee (Including Sunday), per week 1 Complaints of Irregularities In delivery Should be addressed to City Circulation De partment. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building:. South Omaha City Hall Building:, Twenty-fifth and M street. Council Bluffs 10 Perl Street. Chicago 140 ITnlty Building. New York 2321 Park How Ikilldlng. Washington 61 Fourteenth Street. . , , CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi torial matter ahould be addressed: Omahl Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order payable to The Fee Publishing Company. Only 2-cent stamps accepted In payment of mall account. Personal checka, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCUI.ATION. BUte of Nebraaka, Douglas County, as: George B. Taachuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, ays that the actual number of full and complete copies or ine uany nimiini. Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of October. WO. was as follows: 1. e e e aWjrwnf w.ooo 17 ss,:iu 18 n,tOO 3 S 4 . T t 10.. ....... 11 12 II. 14 IS H,T4M 18 S0.3S0 37,4K 20 SO.STO 28.710 31 SO.S'Xl XH.800 22 80.T90 2IMMK 2J SM.Tlft 88.T10 24 82,82tt 20.01TO 23 XOKW ...'..SM.SOO 26 S1.1TO ai,5o v si,io. 8,o5 28 81,1H .....29,5441 29 8O.940 3M.AOO 20 40,090 itH.SSO 21 83,8 H.1 It XX,8?W Total Lass unsold and returned copies. Net total sales .033,HO . 10,10 Net average sales 29,753 OEORQE B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed In my pretence and sworn to before me this 4th day of October, A. D., JWS. H. B. HUNUATB. Judge Sullivan nerer really expected to be re-elected anyway. The Iowa Sullivan did not do no well on the home stretch of the political race track even as the Nebraska SulUran. Aa a nominating conrentlon the round table at which a few wire-pulling law yers eat their lunch dally Is not a shilling success. The repnbilcons of this county can doubtless now see the.'r mistake in not following The Bee's advice to give South Omaha one of the principal places on the county ticket Don't forget that Omaha Is actively engaged In a campaign for the establish ment of a grain market. Every enter prising cjtlzen should take, hold at once and push It along, r, John. H. Clarke; the democratic noml nee for United StatC3 senator in Ohio. Is trying to explain his eclipse In tho recent election. Why not cut It short and call it a case of "too much John son." It would be too bad If Omaha cannot scare, up a few aspirants for R, E. Leo Ilerdman's shoes as clerk of the supreme court. We ought to have repub.r.ns enough here to absorb all the salaries In the state bouse. General Warflcld'a plurality as the democratic candidate for governor of Maryland is expected to reach 8.0tX). That is not so much as to take Mary land out of the debatable territory for the presidential contest next year. If Mr.. Schwab ahould take another extended trip through Europe for the benefit of his health, we fear that the popular solicitude for information aa to his condition will' not be so Intense aa to demand dally bulletins by cable. The annual expenditure for transport ing mail in the United States is offi cially stated to be f!U.5IM,R42, 6f which the greater part is absorbed by the railroad companies. If it ever comes to postal retrenchment this item will offer an Inviting point of attack. The relief of the sausage makers' threatened strike should be hailed with satisfaction throughout the country as the saving clause for the free lunch counter. The averting of thle calamity wlil give double cause for wholesou'.ed participation in the coming Tbanksglv lhg holiday, , Colonel Bryau evidently knew what he was doing when lie gave the cold shoulder to his home state and we'nt east to lead a hand to his friend Tom Johnson. They iicjhUhI him . worse in Ohio than they did In Nebraska, al though both were lost to the democracy beyond recovery. ' i .1 I . . , 3 . Before Uncle Sam recognizes a new government In Panama he trill have tol have some; good evidence that a sub-! atantial government really exists. There h.. hn altothr t m.nv luinrr revolutions Jo South aud Central Amer ica 'to Justify action on a mere tele graphic dcniHiid. - The Real Kutste exchange has chosen a new president who will guide Its work for the coming year, The Real Estate exchange hai uiuilc a record which has given It a reputation to live up to, but we uuty bo sum that under the ad ministration of President Wallace It will take no steps backward. i1.. . Mrs. Robert J.'Burdette has come to the am-Unmce of t'olonel Henry1 Wat terson in his hitabantlng of Ihe society snoboerats of New York aud its sub urbs. Convinced as. we are that the colonel is equal to the tank all by bini s0f, we do not believe he will find It necessary to call for more volunteers. THE PAH AM A RMTVLT. The revolutionary movement In Panama does not come as a surprise. It had been predicted in the event of Ihe rejection by the Colombian congress of the canal treaty and it Is now made evident that preparations for it had IxH-n made as soon as It became ap parent that the treaty would not be rati fied The people of the Isthmus of Pannnia have most naturally leen In tensely Interested In the canal Ques tion. They realise Its great Importance and they understand that If the canal Is ever to be constructed It must lie done by the United States. All the Influence they could bring to bear at Bogota In behalf of the ratification of the treaty was employed, but neither persuasion nor threat was effective. The greed of a coterleof senators prevailed and the Colombian congress adjourned without having ratified the Hay-Herran treaty. The people of Fanning are now show ing that they were In earnest In their threat to revolt. A declaration oftlnde pendence has been proclaimed, and a provisional government set tip, which is said to have the practically unanimous support of the people. It is a most interesting situation and the course of the government of the United States in regard to it will com mand world-wide attention. This coun try has a treaty obligation in respect to the isthmus, entered into nearly sixty years ago, which requires that it elm II keep open transit across the isthmus and of course is authorized to employ force, if necessary, for tals purpose. On two or three occasions our govern ment has acted In pursunnce of this treaty and now it Is sending naval vesr sets to Panama and Colon for the pur pose of protecting American Interests and fu.lfllllng.lhe treaty obligation. This does not require that it shall interfere beyond keeping open the line of rail road. As between the revolutionists and the Colombian government it has hith erto observed strict neutrality and should continue to do so. But in the event of the people of Panama main taining the revolution and demonstra ting their ability to make It successful, what should be the answer of the United States to an appeal from them 'to recog nise their independence? This is a ques tion which may have to be seriously considered in the not remote future and whenever it shall be presented it will un doubtedly cause a good deal of discus sion among ourselves. At present there is probably a majority of our people who would not object to a recognition of the independence of Panama. They feel that the course of the Colombian congress, in not accepting the fair and liberal terms of the United States and attempting extortion, has forfeited claim to friendly consideration. On the other hand are those who believe that we should still treat Colombia, so far as any internal, troubles . of .that country are concerned, as if there was no canal question and simply perform. In a per fectly falf and Impartial way, the ob ligation imposed upon wr government by the treaty of lSlfl. We are Inclined to think that the latter Is the view of the . Washington . authorities and that consequently, nothing will ' be done by our government that might give encour agement to the revolutionary movement In Panama. AH proper effort will be made to protect . American Interests there, but the revolutionists, t Is safe io say. will receive no aid or counte nance from this government. APPEAL Foil AMtHtCAS AID. Tt-.u Chlneso minister at Washington, acting under Instructions from his gov ernment, has been earnestly endeavor ing to interest our government in China's behalf in her Manchurlan trou bles. According to Washington reports, while this government Is by no means Indifferent to the Manchurlan situation, but on the contrary feels no little con cern regarding it, yet the secretary of state Is unable to see any way in which be could properly aid China in the mat ter under present conditions. It is pointed out that the events reported as bavlnhnppened at Mukden, where Rus sia appears to be acting in a most arbi trary manner, are not looked upon with friendly eyes by our officials, hot so long as the United States has secured and re tains trade In Manchuria it will not be drawn Into the political complications of the present situation. In the early part of last month treaty liecween China and the United States was signed providing for the opening to the trade of the world of two ports tu Manchuria, one of which has since been occupied by Russia on the plea thnt the Chinese were uot preserv Ing order there. Until this treaty sbnll hitvs been ratified by the senate of the United States this government will not bo- In a position to insist upon a strict regard for its treaty rights throughout China. It Is stated that the Peking gov ernment has been tokl that infringement by Russia of American treaty rights in Manchuria will furnish, the Washington government the opportunity for at least a reiteration of Its desire for the preser- ' . : M . . I 1 , t . '1. t n ",UOB vl -" "l lt U Vty obvious that under ev Mo r Rovernment can take no action for the purpose of aiding i.iuua ill rvJsuii(, ur ivyrw hi uu:si.-i In Manchuria, however strong American sympathy with the Chinese government may he. As yet there has been no In terference on the part of Russia with American trade In Manchuria and al though there is reason for believing that eventually there will be Jnterferenco this could not Justify the United States In at present taking, a position hostile to Rrssla. Ovr government can properly act only when there has taken place au actr.al infringement of Its rights, or the manifestation of an unmistakable pur pose to do so.' Rut assuming that the treaty letween this country and China, providing for the opening of jwrts in Msnchrla,v will be ratified by the son ate, what then will the United States do in the event that Rassia undertakes to control the ports and defeat the pur- pose of the treaty, which is by no means Improbable? This is a question which it Is conceivable may cause some trou ble. In the meantime China must do the best she can, without American aid, to resist Russian encroachment, which seems to be steadily advancing. TP KLKCTWlt IJV VVUQLAS COCA TT. The outcome of the election in Douglas county, while not all that republicans had wished, is still to be regarded as a signal republican victory because the entire republican ticket, with three ex ceptions only, was successful by hand some majorities. There will doubtless be crimination and recrimination .with respect to the loss of the three places that have gone to the democrats, but it will be nearer the truth of the matter to ascribe it to the personality of the opposing candidates. None of the three successful demo cratic nominees could have won out ex cept for a personal popularity, which brought hliu votes from outside of his own party ranks. The personal strength of Broadwell, Power and Drexel was realized and recognized by the campaign managers on both sides from the start. The democrats centered all their efforts on pushing these three men ahead, while in the case of two of them the repub licans found themselves handicapped by the personal weakness of their candi dates. Each succeeding campaign rings a new change in the political kaleidoscope and the campaign Just closed in Douglas county had peculiarities not found in those that had gone before. Whether the result would have been different if it had been waged along different lines or whether the whole ticket would have been pulled through had there been a fuller registration and a fuller vote on election day are subjects on which peo ple can speculate, but can arrive at no satisfactory conclusion. ' The election shows, however, that with a united party vote Douglas county is safely republican by from 1.600 to 2,000 majority, except where the opposing candidate has some extraordinary per sonal strength. If the republicans can be kept together in a compact and bar monlous body they ' can have things about as they want them in this county, because it is plain thnt the opposition finds no solace or comfort except In re publican discord and dissension. It will devolve upon the republicans who have ben invested with official honors to discharge the duties of their respective offices ' with credit to them selves and to the party and to redeem the platform pledges made for them. By showing its ability to give the people the kind of local government they want and they are entitled to the party will establish its right to remain In the as cendancy In this city and county. ' The Bee has been asking right along through the campulgn where the demo crats would come In in the nonpartisan Judiciary bunco game even it it panned out. The election .-returns give the answer. ' Had the two republican can didates against whom the special fight was made been beaten none of the democrats would have landed, but the two places would have gone to the two republican Judges who failed of nomina tion in the republican convention and were then given nominations, on the democratic ticket. The democrats were playing to lose no matter which card was turned for trump. Omaha Is to be congratulated on the orderly character of Its election Tues day, which did not give the police occa sion to make eveu a single arrest. When a great political contest like that can be brought to a focus without auy serious disturbance of any kind it , shows a pretty good regard on the part of the public for the observance of the law. The fact that the saloons are closed during the hours when the polls mo open is no doubt a contributing factor, but the good record indicates that the liquor dealers have complied scrupu lously with the closing order. The announcement that there will be no competition between the Southern racitte and the consolidated " electric lines of California will be no surprise In view . of the fact that the owners of both are closely associated. Serious com petition between the steam' roads and the electric trolley lines bus not ma terialized in any part of the country! the development of the suburban roads serv ing simply to stimulate business for th'i regular transportation companies. It will lie no different on the Pacific coast than it is on the Atlantic seaboard. Douglas county republicans have this year regained the office of county treas urer and taken possession of the new office of county assessor. Next year they will re-establish themselves in the office of county attorney and resume control of the Board of County Com missioners. A good beginning has been made and at this rate of progress the whole county court house will again be In republican hands before very long. While the river improvement conven tions are laylug plans for the ex penditure of prospective congressional appropriations they might Include the embel'lshment of our river front, which Park Commissioner Cornish has pictured as the culmination of (Omaha's park system. Such a promise would make the river Improvement program de cidedly popular here. Tho courts might simplify matters In view of their rapidly accumulating in junctions by making the first assessment under the new revenue law themselves and thus relieve the city tax commis sioner from the confusion of dubious court orders. The construction of an assessment roll is a difficult enough task as It Is. Ire an 441a Collar. . New York Mall and Express. No trouble need be apprehended by reason of Admiral Evans' command la the far east. 1 tie la quite aware that there are other wars of keeping a door open than shooting It off the hinges. It Pays ta Do It. Saturday Evening Poet. Onoa upon a tlms opportunity failed to knock at a wise man s door. But he ad vertised for her and she cam and stayed. Partis ef Oettlast Gay. Indianapolis Journal. Nine Crow Indians killed and ten cap tured In a battle with a Wyoming sheriff a posse cornea nearer the proportions of an Indian war than anything that has oc curred for some time. Wke the colored man In race conflicts, the Indian generally gets the worat of It. Hot Air for RtKlop'i Kin. - . ,San Francisco Call. The American consul weighted with the massive mission of Uncle Sam's good fel lowship and good will to King Mertellk has carried with him as tokens of our friend ship to the Ethiopian stacks of modern firearms and Implements of agriculture. May the untutored mind of the great Mene 11k have wisdom to know which we use for ornament and which for service. Fair Play Business. McCIure'a Magatine. It Is of vast Importance to the future manhood of this country that scorn of un fairness should be universal Above all, let It be applied strenuously to unfairness In business. We are a commercial people. Our boys must go Into commerce. Our profes sions are so mingled with com mere that It Is often hard to distinguish if they be professions. If we are to wink at unsorupu lousness In commerce, then we are doomed to become a race of tricksters and manhood Is dead Within us. Tax Troubles la Caba. Philadelphia Press. The $25,000,000 which the Cuban congress authorised to be raised to pay the old sol- u.. ,n.....M. , ..vo - " 1 trouble to the Cuban government It Is an excessive amount to pay, aa oniy a iew men merited any remuneration. The money has not yet been obtained and the people object to the taxes levied to meet the Interest and to provide for a sinking fund for the loan. These taxes are gener ally stamp taxes Imposed on retailers. Those In Havana have agreed not to sell at retail any of the articles on which these taxes have been Imposed. They Include beer, spirits, sparkling wines, elder, mineral waters, cigarettes, matches, etc But this "resolve" will hardly hold out. - The de mand for beer, wine and such things is too strong to be overcome because of taxes. A half a cent a box on matches, while only B cents is charged on twenty-four bot tles of beer, shows the gross Inequality 'and Injustice of the tax. Escaping; the I'nlted States. ' Atlanta Constitution. The red thread of warning that runs throughout our consular reports from for eign countries is that the majority of them are trying to escape paying tribute to the United States. The growing wealth and power, political and commercial, of this country la oppressive to them and they are eagerly seeking ways to withdraw their contributions to" our Increasing and over shadowing Importance In world action. All foreign countries-are helping to develop whatever wheat growing territories In Aisa, or Africa, or South America that will emancipate, them' from dependence on American wheatsTo do that for England is one of the starred points of Chamberlain's protection campaign. The same thing can be said of th cptton needs of European people and their1 Vianufactorles. They are lending every,- aid .possible to create new and cheaper cotton fields in India, Egypt and 8outh Africa, snd announce fairly that they mean. i if nature and cash can work to that end, to come to the point where they can make a declaration of Independence against American' Cotton fields. SHAKIKQ IP THE POOL. President Stlckney's Effort I'proet Discrimination AsTalast Omaha. Pittsburg Dispatch. Mr. A. B. Stickney of the Chicago Great Western railroad has made what Is de jcrlbed as another "coup" that shocks the great communlty-of-lnterest arrangements, Mr. Stickney pas been a thorn In the side of the railroad combinations In many re spects, and generally by his pernicious practice of sctlng for the Interest of his corporation and the public. The nature of. the last bunch of trouble which he has preaented to the other lines illustrates the artificial nature of combine tion rates. 41 consists or establishing a through rate on (grain originating west of Omaha, consisting of the local rates to Omaha added to the through rate from Omaha east. This is not only a natural rate, free from the suspicion of favor to any locality, but It has a legitimate pur pose. Under such a rate grain can be ware housed, sold in the Omaha market and re- shipped eastJust as H Is in Kansas City What interest other railroads have In re fusing Omaha an opportunity to develop a grain market and reserving that privilege to Kansas City Is one. of the things not explained. . Tet Mr. Stlckney's stroke Is raising a row, from which we gather that the foundations, of the great railroad sys tem are In danger of upheaval and the gates of anarchy are threatening to swing wide open. A CHEAT ANKCAL. IHOWMC. Prrrloaa Metals Extracted from L'ncle I ' arm's Inferior. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. . The latest annual exhibit of gold and silver mined In the United States covers tho calendar year 1902. In the figures of the director of the mint theNtotal of gold mined In this cointry last year Is estimate at $S0.00O.OC. Colorado still holds the lead, with an ag-gregate of S,000,000. California is second, with $l,O00.0U0. Alaska Is In third place, with $t.000.000. South Dakota Is not far behind, its total almost touch ing $7,000,000. Then follow In order Mon tana, with $4,300,000. and Aflsona, $4,100,000. Next in line stand Utah, $3,500,000; Nevada, $2.SO0.CO0; Oregon. $1,800,000. and Idaho, $1,400,- 000. Eight states produced gold below $1.000.0ce. New Mexico makes a gooH show- Ing. with $&31.10w. AU the states and ter ritories, with the exception of Maryland, which mined a little gold, also produced silver last year.. The total coinage value of this fresh American silver was $71,000,000. Thus the gold and silver mined In the United States in 1903 had a total coinage value of $161,000,000. or 2$ per cent of the world's production of the two metals. Cal culated on tha basis of a century, this out put of gold and sliver Is colossal, and the tendency is to increase. Australia last year produced a little more gold than this country, but only one-seventh as much silver. Africa's gold yield for 1902 was $3,0u0.0oe and Canada's $3.000,00e. Rus sia mined gold and silver to the extent of nearly $23,000.01)0. When it comes to the accumulation of gold in tha form of money, the United States standa at the head of all nations. The gold coin and gold certlfl catea In circulation in this country Septem ber I last was $1,014,000,000. a gain In fold money In five years of $341,000,000. .When all the other mineral production of the United States la added to Its yield of tha precious metals, the steady accretion of national wealth Is aa impressive study. AHTHTTO SWIXDLES. Philadelphia Inquirer: Perhaps the time will come when ail sorts of swindlers, com mon, picturesque or srtlstlos, will be treated alike, and when there will be law to reach every class. New Tork Times: All of which gives point and force to that now claaslo ob servation of ex-Attorney General Griggs thit It was not the public at large, but the Inv istors In their securities that stood In sorest need of protection against the trusts. Washington Star: It is somewhat sad dening In the face of the shipbuilding charges to remember that a few years ago Charles M. Schwab was held up to the youth of the country as an example of what a young man could accomplish by honesty, industry and patient economy. Philadelphia Ledger: This particular swindle failed because It was undertaken too late, when the credulity of Investors had already been overstrained and the market for Indigestible securities was ex hausted. A year or two earlier, the pro moters would probably have unloaded their "wholesale plunder" and added more mil lions to the many already secured by similar means. The temporary suoress of such fraudulent promotions is much more disastrous than their failure, and for the injury they do to sound financial enterprise the great financiers who father them or who tolerate them' ought to realise their high responsibility. Brooklyn Eagle: Where are the laws that are to protect the community against swin dles of this sort? Obtaining money under false pretenses Is an offense punishable by statute. There are. various forms of this crime, such aa the confidence game 'and the selling of "gold bricks," with which the public is more familiar, but none of them at their worst can compare with an enterprise which sets out to get the pub lic's money first by selling them worthless securities and then planning to get it a second time by buying In at low figures the properties which they have sold and wrecked. Tet the law has nothing on the ,ubJelt ,0 fM M (t- to say aspect Is concerned. The trust promoter can es cape with public odium merely; his proto type la the humbler walks must go to jail. PERSOXAl, NOTES. Texas cattle, Missouri mules and Oregon railroad ties are doing the best they can to rehabilitate South Africa. Uncle Sara's debt Increased more than I2.S00.0O0 last month, but he has nearly 1400,000,000 right In his pocket In cash. If Mr. Rockefeller lives ten years longer and Increases his holdings at the present rate he will be worth two billion dollars. Mrs. Roland B. Mollneux has been mar ried to the lawyer who secured a divorce for her. Some people would do almost anything to get out of paying a lawyer his fee, 7 A huge accession to the number of office seekers must be looked for in Washington else the Pennsylvania railroad would never be Incurring Indebtedness of $14,000,000 to build the new station in the Capital City. Slgnor Baucio, an Italian musician, has concluded his task of playing on the piano for fifty consecutive hours. His ex traordinary performance was given In Baltimore theater and 2,000 persons cheered him when the time expired. One thousand employes of the United States Express company In Chicago held a Jubilee on Saturday night In honor of the recent marriage of Senator Thomas C. Piatt, president of the company, who fur nlshed the entertainment, which cost more than $2,000. George Garrett,- a large manufacturer of Iron and steel at Glasgow,' Boot land, Is visiting Washington. ' In speaking of the progress In this country, he says: "At no distant day the American Union will be at the head of all the great govern' mcnts of the world." In administering the pure food law the the secretary of agriculture causes samples to be taken from all importations of food products.' These samples are paid for by the government, and are used in the an aVysIs to determine purity. Uncle Sam has decided to establish a grocery store In Washington to dispose of the pure samples that remain after the experiments. Au thority has been granted by the .Treasury department to the Agricultural department to engage In the retail trade, and with out license the government will sell choice Imported food products at cost price. IMPORT FREIGHT RATES. Transportation Companies Asrre on Rates to the Mlssonrl River. Chicago Record-Herald. At a. recent meeting held in New York and attended by traffic officials of ail rail roads eat of the Missouri river regular and stable tariffs of rates were established on all Imports through Atlantic and Gulf ports to the middle west, taking the port of Bal tlmore as a basis or 100 per cent point. Tho steamship lines are parties to the agree' ment, so that in the future both the home and foreign producer will know exactly the relative rates they will have to pay and order and certainty will succeed tha chaos and uncertainty which have existed In the Import trade for many years. Ths most vital part of the scheme for the rearrange ment of the Import schedules is that which provides that the inland proportion of the through Import rate shall not be less than the local rate on the home manufactured product. 1 ' This will have the effect of giving the domestic-made goods a big advantage In the home markets over the Imported commodi ties. Heretofore many Import rates have eradicated the protective tariff and domes tic manufacturers were suffering accord ingly. In short the railroads had In many cases reversed the protective policy of the American government, whereas they have now placed themselves In sympathy and co-operation with It. It was through a re cent investigation .by the Interstate Com merce commission pursuant to a resolution by congress that the hitherto peculiar con dition with reference to import rates was made public. The disclosure was made during the investigation that many articles could be shipped from London, for exam ple, to Missouri river points at a less rate than the same class of goods could be shipped from the manufacturing centers of the east to the same points. It Is a self-evident fact that the raising or lowering of freight rates on Imports has a similar effect to Increasing or decreasing the protective tariff, making It possible for the former to nullify the Utter. The rail roads at last recognised the Injuntlce of the Import conditions which they had created, as well as the foolishness of suffering a big lose In revenue which was without excuse. Under the new arrangements the railroads will not only conserve the Interests of home Industries, but will also Increase their Import receipts materially. In com menting upon the revision The Globe of Toronto, Canada, says: "The foreign trade of Interior points Is more materially af fected by railway than by tariff rates, so that the trade legislation of the Trunk Una managers la of greater moment than that of congress. It Is really more Impor tant than tariff revision." Llarht Breaking! In. Kansas City Star. ' The New York bankers have die covered that the west can exist without Wsll street, a fact that the west has suspected for sev eral years. ROTftD ABOCT HEW TORK. Ripples on the Porrent of Ufa la the Metropolis. In a single hour's walk through the tower quarters of New Tork one will en counter as great a variety of races as In a tour around the world. "To Illustrate," says a Pittsburg Dispatch Mtter, "one may begin In the Turkish quarter below the Stock exchange, jump Into Syria by cross ing two streets, dash northward Into Greece, then on Into Russia, making a three-minute circuit of Italy and land finally In Jspsn by way ef China. The lamp of Aladdin could not bring about a more miraculous thing snd slrshlps of ths future will fall far short of this feat in point of time. And yet this girding of Ihe earth Is not altogether figurative. It Is the only spot on the great globe where you may mount a housetop and look down Into ten countries ten concrete and con servative nations whloh, were there a stone wall separating each from the other, could not live more Isolated and to them selves and in themselves only. "Some Idea of the cosmopolitan character of the great cast side ef the city may be had by the statement that eighty-two dia lects are spoken there. In this district there are $4,000 families, the average sise of which Is Ave members, with two board ers in addition for there are always at least two boarders in every family on the east side. The most crowded spot la any city in the world is In the northern part of this district. In the blocks bounded by Broome and Stanton and JSldrldge and Suffolk streets. Under the roof of the house at 171 Rlvlngton street there are thirty-seven families, with ISO children, eighty of whom are babies. "Race suU clde" la not encouraged on the east aide. hleh Is a world apart from most New Yorkers. They know of its situation and catch fugitive glimpses of Its life through visit to a bohemlan restaurant at nlsrht or by tours through the shops where Rus sian brasses are sold any day." 'I have come," said the young woman. when the mistress of the house came Into the sitting room wondering why a stranger had called, "to show you these photographs of your little boy taken In a donkey cart on the Mall In Central park. 1 posed him and your nurse kindly gave me your ad dress. The charge for the six pictures Is $1." The proud mother was delighted. "Take themT" she said. "Indeed I will, and yen may send me six more at the same price. It Is the best photograph of my little Ar thur I ever saw." Then, as she paid for the pictures, the mother asked: "And do you make a living at this?" "Tea," replied the girl, "and a very good one. I am going to one of the Vanderbllt houses from here with photographs that are a sure sale. I make It a practice only to take interesting children who will make pretty pictures, and children with nurses, so that I know they belong to parents who will pay me for my work. It Is very rare indeed that I meet with failure. I ran across one rich man who said that none of his children had ever been photographed, and that he intended they never should be. He gave me $6, though, to bring him the negative, and he smashed it on his door step before my face. "Sometimes I find difficulty to learn who the children are.- Most nurses will tell me when I promise them two or three pictures of themselves. I have three here now for your nurse, and since you are so pleased with the boy's picture I am sure you will forgive her. May I ask you to send thera to her? Thank you. I will bring the other photographs tomorrow. Placards and sign boards In New Tork disclose some strsnge ways of making a . living. In East Thirty-fourth street a sign In the window of a house Informs the publio that "Birds are boarded there by the day, week or month." A little further downtown a sign in a basement window announces that "Dogs' ears and tails are cut In the latest fashion," and a sign In the same locality reads: "I educate cross cats and dogs to be gentle and well behaved." "Young women are Invited to come In and learn the name and calling ef their fu ture husbands." In West Twenty-third street, near Eighth avenue. "Round shouldered people made straight" Is an an nouncement on East Nineteenth street, and near Nineteenth street, on Fourth avenue, "Perfect grace is (aught In twelve lessons" snd "satisfaction guaranteed." "Beauty pads for thin ladles" may be obtained on the Bowery, near Houston street: and not far away, "Ladles deficient In wardrobe are fashionably dressed On easy monthly In stallments." "Sore eyes In poodles effectually cured here" Is a piece of valuable information given In East Broadway. In Catherine street "Babies are hired or exchanged," and In Division street "Old sets of artlflola! teeth are bourht and sold." In Hester street "Black eyes are artfully painted over." and "False noses as good aa new and warranted to fit" are advertised near Chatham square, conveying the Impression that mayhem is not an uncommon crime In some quarters. In Chatham street the wayfarer Is told: "Dine hero and you will never dine any where else," and In Mulberry street an undertaker makes a bid for business with a sign In his window which reads: "Why walk about In misery when I can bury you decently for $1$T" . fn another month the biggest power house In the -world that to be used for generating, electricity for the New Tork subway will be completed. Some Idea of the Immensity of this building snd Its ma chinery can be appreciated when It Is known that to keep its engines running a year will require $00,000 tons ef coal. This Waltham Watches : The busy man's friend. "The Perfected Americui Witch," an ittustnled hook of interesting information ahovtt watches, will he sent free upon request, American Waltham Watch Company, ' Waltham, llass. Quality and Style First Prico Afterwards In all the Ane leathers the ingenuity of the tanner can produce. The De catur Shoe for men has the distinction of being oue shoo In Omaha direct from Maker to wearr, .Tarnam $3.50 ntid $5 In greater than the capacity f many efi Ufa country's laree coal mines, The carry- ' Ing capacity of the care which will convey mo coat rrom ui ooca in 10 ui 10$ tons per hour. All the cars are run and dumped by eleetrtolty. The coal runs from the elevated bunkers down Immense chutes to the fire rooms, where nearly 10ft men will be employed day and night shovel. Ing It Into the furnaces. The engine equip ment of the house will consist cf eight $.000 horse power, four-cylinder eompouml engines; three IS. 000 horse power, four-; cylinder triple engines, and four $.000 horse j power tubo-generators, representing a nor mal capacity of 108,000 horse power. When required this capacity can be Increased to 180.000 horse power, which Is dTOble ths normal capacity of the power house which Is now used to run the entire Manhattan elevated system. "In the studio of one of the younger ar- j tlsts ef this city," relates the Evening 1 j Post, "there Is an odd conceit In the matter ) j of decoration which catches ths eye ef . ( every one entering the piece. Upon the. studio floor near the surbaae on one side of the room Is a series of footprints ap parently made by a person with very muddy shoes. These footprints Indicate that two steps ware taken on the floor and .J that then the person making them walked 'j up the wall, as the footprints ascend that j vertical surface with the same certainty aa that whloh marked them unon tha floor. 1 '. The footprints also show clearly against, f uio wnue ox ine oeiiing. bui aaiiwayt across ths celling the pedestrian baa eastj a shoe, the shoe Itself being left in the' track It made; that its, the shoe Is fastened! , with Its sole against the celling, and the; footprints continue beyond It. The only difference now Is that one of the prints Is that of a shoe, the other that ef a bare foot- A few feet further on the walker's other shoe Is east and. like Its fellow, In fastened to the celling. And" from this point to the upper ledge of the window,' out of which the ghostly visitor passes, the footprints are those of two bsre feet. The;j Illusion Is very striking and the artist haw been asked times Innumerable how he did It, After saying that tha shoe prints were easy enough, he adds: "I made the bare 1 footprints by lying on my back on top of , a ladder and pressing my feet against the ,' celling.", ' r ' Many attractive advertising novelties ( have been seen on Broadway, but a com mercial concern In the upper part has hit upon a scheme which never falls to attract' . . T h. .It. . eiill.hlnnriaiH ' Indian, weighing 300 pounds. In front of' whom Is a typewriter on which he thumpsl I now and then. As a background a quantity! of typewriters of other makes are piled In! a heap, and the onlooker Is told that this, i Is Dart of "Chief" White Bear's "scalps", among the rival concerns. POINTED REMARKS. "Hurston, how far out In the suburbs do you live?" 1 Two pipeiuis or ronacco ana a game 01 cinch." Chicago Tribune. : "He says he's too busy to do anything." ' "I guess that's right. ' "But whst Is It be's so busy shout?" "Doing nothing." Detroit Free Press. . Soph Do you think kleptomania Is catch-1 "Fresh No. It's taking. Yale Record. "I will be very busy preparing speeches," , ' said the man who had Just been elected to congress. "My friend." answered Senator Sorghum, ,. "It Isn't preparing speeches that keeps a man in your position busy. It is hustling : for a chance to deliver them." Washington Star. 1 . "Do you drink?" Inquired . Ihe young The young man hesitated." 1 "Do you drink?" the woman repeated. "If you Insist." replied the modest young , man. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Boy My mother says there was a pound of sand in the last box of prunes you sent up. Grocer Well, you tell your mother thnt was the best scrubbing sand. She la a good customer and I threw it in. Phlladel- . phla Record. - . "So you think," said the (rood-nntured monarch, "that lt Is absolutely necessary to humbug the people with ostentatious display and false promlnes." "I do." answered the cold-blooded ad viser; "if there la anything that men seem to resent it Is taxation without mlarepre- ; sentatlon." Washington Star. 1 " Custom Made Pants,' " soliloquised the professor, observing a sign in a clothlr window. "Did It? WellT custom was In I mighty small business when It cut panta- ' loons down to pants." Chicago Tribune. , "Howie Is wasting bis talents." . . "How so?" i "With his weslth of expletives Just think what a golf player be would make." t Cleveland Plato Dealer. A LITTLB MAJf. W. F. Kirk In Milwaukee Sentinel. ; A little man dwelt in a little town . JL little over twenty years ago: He gained a little portion of renown Within tho little crowd he used to knot He wed a little maid when twenty-one. And later on they had a little son. This little man had little to regret. He had but little patience with the weak. When others fell hfa eyes were never wet. With sinners he had Utile time to speak. Instead, he went to church a little late And dropped a little nickel In the plate He drank a little coffee now and then, But little stronger liquid passed bis lips; He mingled little with Woheaiian men; Life's wine he drank in stliisy little sips. When stragglers came to him for food or With IJttle pain he shook his little head. He made a little fortune rapidly By grinding labor out of little arms, And by roreciosing a yinnj Of little mortamtes on little farms. He died and, "iieath the weeping willow bough, ; A little worm Is working on him now. $5 and $3 2) I 'i s 1 I i i t "V.