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WlMv OMAHA PAHA llKKr MONDAY, NOVOIIlKIl no, mr.t. 5 Tim Qmaiia Daily Bee. II RGBKWATER, EDITOR, PVBLA8HED EVERT MORNING. TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION. Dully linm (wilhout Sunday), On Tear.21 llJy Ue and Sunday, on Tear 00 Illustrated bor, on Tear J Fuoday (!,, year J rHtur.5y m Vrar I ' Twentieth Century Farmer, One Tear.. lt DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Pally n. (wttnout Sunday), per copy 1c Dally B (without Sunday), per werk..l2o Daily hn (including pauOaj), per week.170 Sunday ve, per copy oo Ewnlng Be (wlth'hit 8 mday). per week o Evening Be (Including ttundu)), per w-k ; le Complaints of Irregularities In delivery fconld b addressed to City Circulation De , parlmeiit. OFHCFA Omaha The Bee Building. 8rttH Omaha City Mali Building. Twenty-firth and M strta. Council Bluffs 10 Pearl Street Chlcaro lt Unity Bulldlnjr. New Vnrk ass Park Kow luitldtng. Washington ni Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to tiewa and dl torlaj inn iter should be addressed: Omana Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by drat, express or postal order payable to The Bo Publishing Company. Only 1-oent stamps accepted In payment of mill account Personal check. except on Omaha Vr eastern exchanges, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COM PANT. 8TATEMNTOFCIRCULA'rcoi'I. Stat ot Nel.raska, Douglas County, ss: Ueorg B. Tsschuck, secretary of The Be Publishing Company, being duly aworn. ay that the actual number of full and complete conies of The Dally Morning, Evening and Sunday Be printed during tb month of October, 194, was aa follows! 1 1IV04 17 SMMWO 2 218,000 lg JtO.lOO 1 SOJIHO K 8 .870 21 8O,9H0 12 SO,7IM a 38,713 24 saao JS 30AM H 2 31,170 27 81.100 2a 31, UK) 29 SO,0 80 4O,D0 tl 33,85 I. ....,7 ... .87.400 ....3H.710 ....X,800 ....KU.OOO ....SM.710 ....XO.OUO ....an. ....SU.ftOO 19..'. 11. 12 W,4o8 13 ,SUMMO 1 ..JfH.OOO li J.S.attO It Itlt Total Leas unsold and returned copies. ,VS2,U20 Net total sales 2B1,&3 Nat average tale 89,708 GEORGE B. TZ8CHUCK. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this tin day of October, A. D., Wfl. M. B. HL'MJAiH. Charley Crow Dog la said to bo the first Indian to rob a postofflce. Prob ably ho won't be "the last. There Is nn available balance of $3,500 In. the Omaha library fund. Here la a chance for a persuasive book agent Not until wo hear from the high school debater will wo know precisely what should hare ' been done about the Isthmus, The city election in South Omaha Is till four months ahead of us, but there is already much talk and some specula tlou at to the probable outcome. Six weeks hence thero will be another opportunity for the Board of County Commissioners to adopt New Year's res olutions to turn over a new leaf. The morning that the Dreyfus case is reopened is the morning a wearied pub lic would prefer to oversleep, much as it sympathizes with the captain. r If this thing keeps up there will not bo enough room in the city hall for Mayor Moores and President of the (Council Ziiuman at the same hour of the day. ... ,.. . , T ' - ' The man who writes merely, "En closed find check." expresses quite as much sympathy as he who prates of how hjs heart Is wrung by others' mlS' fortunes. Tho hand which Servla's new king is now extending in ostentatious friend ship to Uncle Sam Is a trifle too freshly stained for the old gentleman to seize it with real comfort. Some inquisitive people would like to know why Police Commissioner Broatch burned those Via Walker checks instead of depositing them in the archives of the city. , tiermany proposes to establish four more consulates la the United States, and it Is worth noting that two are to be la the gulf states, where a few years ago the' commodities Imported from Ger many would not have paid the salaries of the consuls. '' Members ot the British Parliament while in Taris, were entertained with Isolds XV. dances by ballet girls, and at a luutbeon immediately thereafter "expressed desire for closer relation be tween France and England." So, then. It la to the danseuse. rather than the diplomat, we may look for the peace of the nations. William Jennings Bryan's conference with Croker in I-omlou is apt to place Mr, Bryan in the position of one who aa gone to England to find out if he had best run for prestdent of the United States. Obviously the doctrine of doing things "without the aid or consent of hny other nation on earth" is suffering decline. General Beyes comes toproposo that th United States accept the Panama canal concession from Colombia without paying a cent to the, Republic of Colom Ma. Had f.'olonibla refrained from play lag a game of holdup, and accepted the f JO.000,000 Ikjuus offered by Uncle Sam there would have been no occasion for tieneral Keyes to pay a vUlt to tb United State. After a thorough investigation of con dltlona lu the Cripple Creek mining dls trlct (ieneral Bales has adId the Wa department that lu Ms Judgmeut ther Is nothing in the bltuatkm to warrant the calling out of regulars. The hyster leal people that denounced President Roosevelt for refusing honor a requl ttlon for regulars before the Colorado authorities Lad uitide u effort to sup prc turbaleute with the help of thti Colorado National Guard realize that they have gone tff fcalf ciskd. KW IXUiS ITJtmxiO-iJiS. TUfTerorw,. w i,,tu, roni.n. cans In the Empire state has causal ew York to be placed in the doubtful Hut for next year's national election, but these differences having beu adjusted nd harmony restored, there Is good reason to believe that the stato will be republican next November. Last week Governor Odell and Senator Piatt had a conference with lYcsldent lloneevclt the result boln that the two New York leaders reached an absolute agreement politically and will work in perfect uni son with each other and with tho presi dent Tha coj Terence is said to have been wholly satisfactory and the prom ise Is that riatt and Odell will together put forth their very best efforts to thor oughly organize the republicans of the state for next year's campaign. There has been talk of a considerable opposition in New York to Mr. Koose elt and some have ventured to predict that he would not get the delegation from his own Mtnte in the republican national convention. There is nothing to wurfant this in what was said by Odell and I'lutt after the conference. Both .declared that tho president will have tho unqualified endorsement and hearty supiort of Euipiro state repub licans. Senator I'lutt is quoted as say ing that tliero will be no contest over control of tho state convention and its delegation to the national convention will be solidly for Hoosevelt Of course In tho corporations that are understood to be unfriendly to the president and re aupposed to be laying plans with a view to compassing his defeat there are some republicans, but tho number of such, is not so lurgo as to warrant any feeling of apprehension in regard to their course. Moreover, it is quite pos sible that there has been some exag geration respecting the opposition of cer tain flnaiarlal interests to Mr. Hoosevelt. White should these interests become notably aggressive the effect might be to Induce a large portion of the inde pendent vote, which In New Y'ork num bers several hundred thousand, to sup port the republican national ticket. The feeling Is very strong thot If corpora tions make war upon the president, be cause of his expressed determination to enforce the laws, they must be de cisively rebuked by the people. The democratic success in New York f'lty by no means assures the state to hat party next yeor and now that re publican differences have been adjusted nd the leaders have pledged themselves to work together for the success of the party, it is strongly probable that New York will be in the republican column in 1IHMA A fUTlLK MfSSlOX. The special representative of Colom bin who is lav Washington for the pur pose of proposing tha Panama be re stored to Colorr'jia and of offering to our government all the canal conces sions asked, iu the treaty that was re Jected free of cost will find his mission utterly futile. "No consideration, it is entirely safe to say, will bo given to ny proposal he may make involving a change from existing conditions. It ought to be obvious to so intelligent a man as General Reyes that our govern' ment cannot recede from the position it has taken in regard to Puna inn and to say the least it is not complimentary to this government to assumo that it might be induced to change its attitude and allow Colombia to force the seceded state back Into tho union: Were the United States to do this It would be subjected to the ridicule and reproach of the civilized world and would' lose respect everywhere,' even on tho port of the Colombians themselves, tho more intelligent of whom can hnrdly seriously expect anything but failure for the Reyes' mission. Colombia, according to the statement of Its special envoy, is now willing to give the United States all the conces sions asked for in the treaty which its congress rejected without the payment of a cent The mercenary and greedy politicians of that country are too late with their offer. They were given aui pie opportunity to replenish the bunk rupt national treanury and do their country an inestimable benefit. They rejected it and now realize the great folly of having done so, but the awaken lng will do them no good. Thero Is no tempatlon In Colombia's offer to give us all we desire without charging any thing for it. The United States wants to pay for whatever it gets, but It ob jects to being hloekmalled as tho Co lombians sought to do. Our govern ment has negotiated a treaty with the new government of Panama, the first article of which pledges the United States to guarantee and maintain the new republic. That pledge will cer tainly, be faithfully fulfilled. Although the United Stutes undoubtedly coul have securefl ail the concessions pro vided for in the treaty for a much less sum of money than It U proposed to pay, yet this country will give the Re public of Panama the same amount that it stipulated to pay Colombia, thereby placing the new govenunent on a sub stantial basts financially. The representations which. Genera Reyes is authorized by his government to make to our government will . o course be listened to respectfully, but acceptance of them is quite Impossible, It seems that he hopes to obtuln the sup port of the) South and Central American governments. In this he Is also doomed to disappointment. Few of them hav any sympathy for Colombia aud these will hnrdly take a poeltlon hostile to the action 'of the United Stutes. Tl idea that any of those countries are ap prehenslve that this nut Ion may seek aggrandizement at their expense ap pears to be eutlrely buselea. At any rate none of them lias indicated such feeling. As to the Colomb an threat of forcible uieasj'-es agaltiht Pauatua it is to be regarded as mere bravado, since Colombia must fully understand tha she will not be permitted to attack the new republic or In any way imperil the enterprlw for the rarrylng out of which lanama aeciami its iroiopomienc. The calamity that has befallen the families of Omaha's gallant firemen who perished In the Ninth tdreot fire suggests the propriety of life iusuranca for every member of the fire department mod eled after the compulsory life Insurance system that has prevailed 1n Germany or all classes of public service employes during the past fifteen years. While the city charter permits the granting of pen sions to the widows of firemen who have lost their lives in the discharge of duty, life Insurance that would cover all cases f death would be far preferable. Under tie German system of compul sory life insurance the government pays one-half of the premium and the In sured pay the other half. Assume that the average age of insurable firemen U 3y years, policies insuring their lives in standard companies could readily be ob tained at a cost of $30 per $1,000, or from $75 to $so per annum for policy of $2,300. This would lnvolvo an verage premium of $73 per annum, and. If the city were to pay one-half the members of the department would be required to contribute $3 per month from their regular wages. These policies would be a valuable sset for every flremau and afford a pro tection to bis family, not only so long as bo remained in the department but fter he leaves the service, if he saw fit to keep up the policies at his own ex pense. Estimating the total membership of tho fire department at 125, the cost to the city would bo equal to $375 a month, or $4,500 per annum, a sum that the taxpayers of Omaha would cheer fully contribute for the protection of the families of men whose lives are de voted to fighting fires at the risk of life nd limb. On the otheF hand, the de duction of $3 per month from the sala ries of firemen would be no serious hard ship, especlully to the class of firemen ho have not yet contracted marriage. In nny event, the suggestion is worth considering. The scheme cannot, per haps, be put Into effect without some additional legislation In the way of mendments to the charter, but that would only be a matter of time. When it comes to the game of politics, that much caricatured individual, Mark Hanna, Is not to be outdone by any man In the land. On Tuesday last President Roosevelt entertained a delegation of labor leaders at luncheon at the White House, and on Thursday morning Sen ator Hanna entertained the same labor leaders at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in more regal stylo. The courtesies of the smooth plutocrat did not stop with the umptuous breakfast. He kept close to the labor men in the corridors of the Waldorf, and introduced them to -captains of Industry, millionaires, governors and political celebrities, so thot when the. labor men left the hotel to take, the train back for Montana they were con vlnced that the best friend tiiey had ou earth was the peacemaker from Ohio. The unqualified condemnation by the Real Estate exchange of the ordinance granting a ten-year franchise to a firm that Intends to disfigure the streets of Omaha with street corner sign poles will uieei wllli the geueial approval of oil classes of citizens. There la absolutely no excuse for granting such a concession to unybody. The only compensation the ity Is to receive Is free street signs on the advertising poles and on buildings occupying street corners. This does not mean that the company is obligated to paint, or fasten street signs on every orner, but only on such as they may see fit to occupy with their poles, that will be ornumented with advertisements that may not only offend the eye, but shock the moral sensibilities. Chicago Is now wrestling with the question whether the city has authority without a specific grant of power from the legislature to establish municipal gas and electric lighting plants that would sell light to private consumers. Inas much as Chicago already owns and op erates an extensive plant for electric street lighting, its right to dispose of part of its product to private consumers could scarcely be called in question. It is a foregone conclusion, however, that any attempt to 6iipply electric light for private consumption will be' contested by the public lighting corporations until the supreme court of Illinois affirma tively decides that the city may do for Itself and its citizens what It is author ized to do through private corporations. If Mr. Harriman keeps on building cut-offs and boring tunnels a few years longer Omaha will be absolutely midway between New York and San Francisco aud Los Angeles. Twenty years ago the distance from Omaha to Sun Francisco was 1,700 miles, while the distance to New York was 1,500 miles In round fig ures. Now the distance from Omaha to Sun Francisco Is only a fraction more than 1,600 miles, and by tho time the Los Angeles Hue, which Is now more than 2.1HJ0 miles distant from Omaha, is com pleted that city will le within 1,500 miles of Oinuha. Seven state governors have to divide honors with two race horses at the Live Stock exposition in Chicago this week But then, it is wholly a live stock show with no distinction between kinds. The governor of Utah may well bear lu mind that the safest place for a min ing strike conference la outside the guard lines and upon an eminence com manding a view of both camps. . Ixrnl Robert prefers to resign as com- insuder-in-chief before that ortVe ceases to amount to ' anything; hence his ill health is not so much of on inconven ience after all. Better Keep Out. Portland Oregonlan. Japan Is In danger of being nagged Into a war with Russia, as waa Franc Into th disastrous war with Oermany thirty year or mora age. Tb tslani emptr nds to tak Poiint tf her wle men now as never before If wof Wit a) rtiteela Must rem, It wmiM be mit Unwise f the weaker power to precipitate It. Tee rrlui t Wauite. Tom n Tnptc An unnercemu-y II la a mistake; lies art too useful to squander, "Have, Satkla' with Met" Washington rrwl. Tha restoration of th canteen In tb con gressional committee rooms Is proving so satisfactory that It Is quite prohabl th faver will be extended to U rmy. Ronaaet for Engineers. New York Tribune, That Utah "cutoff" across many mil of Salt Ink la undoubtedly a marvel as a railroad exploit Our American engineers are of this spirit th harder th task th mora eager they are to tak It up. Shaking; ke ( beatant Tree. Minneapolis Times, Again we are told that Porflrlo Diss Is about to surrender the presldonoy of Mex ico, It will take a physician's certificate that th gentleman Is In artlculo mortis to convince the world that anything of tha kind la about to happen. Not Worth the Price. Kansas City Journal. Th conviction Is growing among Amer ican , cities that national political conven tions ar not worth the guarantee de manded for them. The time may come when the big conventions will esteem it a favor to be entertained. A Satisfactory Sit oat Ion. Fhlludelphla Press. There Is a strong disposition on the part of every democrat In th country to hav his exclusive presidential nomination and to repudiate every other democrat's candidate. This is a very satisfactory situation If it only continues.'. "It Pay to Advert!." Indianapolis Journal. This Is the day ot tha press agent. The services of this functionary, formerly con fined to theatrical syndicates and corpora tions, are now In demand in every enter prise. The latest field for th press agent fa found in th advertising of cities. Philadel phia Is about to spend 2100,000 In calling th attention cf the country to herself, and At lanta, Oa., has already spent immense amounts for space In well "known publica tions. No matter what you have to tell a dog, a canal or a city It pays to advertise. A Refreshing; Innovation, Tjoiilsvuia Courier-Journal. The heirs of the late William L. Elklna are certainly notable exceptions, as heirs go nowadays. The rule is that a man Is not allowed to devise his property to charitable purposes If his kindred can prevent it. But Elklns left a codicil to his will for the es tablishment of a Masonic orphanage for girls, and althougk the codicil was legally Invalid because executed within thirty days of the death of the testator, the family Is determined that Its provisions shall be car ried out. It Is refreshing to find a family which concedes that a dead man had any right to devise his property as he chose. It Was Maanlftrent, Rat- United States Investor. The United States Steel corporation was the chef d'ouvre of the new school of finance, and, viewed In the light of more re cent events, one cannot help admiring the sweep of power Which must have been In the minds of its projectors; control the ore deposits; manage every process from mining to tha highest finished product; have as al lies great transportation corporations, and realty and construction companies; solve the problem of reajotlon'in the iron, and steel industry and make it a substantial gentle man, receiving a steady Income from year to year, Instead of being in the position either of a "prince or a pauper." It was magnificent, but time has shown that It was not economics. .BiC'I.E SAM'S LITTLE JOKE. Lamentation of Cement Barkers En. Based In the Holdup Business. Detroit Free Press. The man who wilfully deceives a guile less, confiding trust la no gentleman. And yet that Is the grave charge against Uncle Sam. The government is building a $3,000,000 dam across Salt river, Arlx., and expects to us 200,000 barrels of Portland cement In the work. The estimated coat of cement was $3 per barrel. But the cement trust unexpectedly discovered that It couldn't supply the cement at less than 29 a barrel The government didn't rebuke the cement trust nor murmur at the price. Th gov ernment simply started in to build a 2100,- 000 cement plant of Its own. Now enters th humorous element. The cement trust heard that its confidence had been betrayed. It had been given no op portunity to come In and explain how it had unintentionally overstated Its first bid It had been tricked. To Washington ruf fled cement kings ar flocking from all parts of the country to protest against this "Injustice." Congress is to be avked to pass a law "preventing the government from competing with manufacturers." Ob viously th government has no right to offer the slightest resistance to private par ties engaged in a perfectly legitimate hold up business. Obviously when the govern ment feels that it Is being shaken down It may ba allowed to expostulate quietly and politely attempting to appeal by purely argumentative method to th generosity and patriotism of the cement magnates. Beyond this the government cannot prop erly go. BORHOWMO TROVBLE. Peool with Overripe imaginations Proas la " Things." . Philadelphia Press. There are people who are already bor rowing trouble over tne responsiDiinies nd burdens which the United Btates will assume In accepting a pncurai f"""-" torate over Panama and entering on the DromDt construction of the canal. They conjure up visions of untold difficulties. If a nation were to be Influenced by that timid and hesitating spirit It would never do anything. No great undertaking Is ever projected wlttout risk of obstacles and enmnllcatlons. The American people long since determined that an Interoceanlc ranaf should be constructed and that, It should be under American control. That enter prise from the first haa Involved hasardr, difficulties and the possibility pf compile tlons. Had It been carried forward under th Colombian treaty with divided authority It would certainly have presented dellcat and troublesome questions. Th Panama affair. Instead of complica ting It, haa greatly simplified the problem and mad th pathway much plainer. OIT OP THM OHUI.ViRVij Alfred Miles, a fnmous tailor of Bond street, Ixindon. died recently, leaving fortune of l.W0,tiu. Mr. Miles, who was nou to many Americans, was fond of ro uting how n aiarieo uuKiuena vonie sin ?rara ago with a capital or jtiat sm. . -v.irlt. i.Un of aJvfrllHlntr with him wa to nrliit handbills and persuade cabmen to leave them In their vtlilclrs. Bedbugs, although they kept a family fmm leen and ruined fumltur. could not aava William C.Safford any part of his rnt fi.r aiurtmrnii in the Motel Iverne Beacon street. In the fashionable Back Ba district of Bton. Judsre Forsalth gave Judgment for th mount In dispute fl, 2 and refuaed to consider a counter claim of U (ft) made by rJalTora tor loaa m rem am Am in ViU rliUia. None of'tha Insect waa introduced aa a witness, but friend 01 Kaftord teUtt.xl that bdbua r uncora nouly numerous u in noiei. BITS or WAMinOTO.l LIFE. Mlnr a.a Incident Sketched th Spot. During President Cleveland's serond term end while republican omnia hernia wer dropping Into the basket Mark Twain was Ifvrellnf abroad and became Interested In the fate of an Amerloan consul located at a German port. The consul bad ex tended experience In th service, an ex cellent record, and for these reasons alone wns entitled to reappointment. Twain em bodied the facta In a characteristic letter, whrch he addressed to llttlo Ruth Cleve land, knowing that th letter would reach the family circle. Th ruso worked well, for the consul was undisturbed. An lncl- aeni or similar tenor Illustrating the em- I oacy of a child's pleading, comes from Washington In connection with the nomina tion of John C. Pollack for Judg of th federal bench In Kansas. The Kansas dele gation was spilt over the Judgeship. Sena tor Long and representatives Murdock snd Campbell were backing Judge Pollack, who Is a member of the stat supreme court The fight grew hot and charges sgalnst Pollock were laid befor th president. It was asserted that h had played poker with and won money from many members of th bar. But ther were other charges of a nature highly distressing to Pollock's fam ily. The president told th delegation to go to the capttnl and ballot till they could agree on a man. They went While they wer at work "Cy" Leland, Kansas republican leader, dropped In at the White Hous and began to talk to the president about the Pollock case. He told the president how distressed the Judge's family was over th charges against him and showed th presi dent a letter which th Judge had received from his little daughter, Lucille, 15 years old. who Is in Topeka. The Judge Is In Washington. Th letter read: Dear Papa: Why don't you go to the president and see him? I know he will not believe all tha nasty things said about you after you talk to.jilm. It Is a shame for those men to say what they hav about you." v After reading the letter the president rang his bell for his secretary. 'Loeb, I want you to send in th nomina tion of John C. Pollock for that federal Judgeship In Kansas," ho said: Turning to Mr. Leland the president took from his buttonhole a beautiful rose. "I want you to personally give that ros to Lucille and tell her the president of the United States sent It to her," he said. "If our children have faith In us there can be no rreat wrong In any cf us." Persons who hav found it difficult to decipher the hieroglyphics on Uncle Sam's mall boxes, which show the hours of col lection, will appreciate an automatic ar rangement which an Inspiring inventor Is JUBt now endeavoring to persuade the Post office department to adopt for Us boxes inrougnout tne length and areadth of the land. A disc revolving Inside the box bears near Its edge the hours of the several dally visits of the mail collector ture at the side of the box Is so arranged a to permit only one of these hours to be Seen at a time fmm thlx mitcMn TK. nnnn- Ing of the box by the postman causes 'tho aiso to revolve and In the little aperture ppears the hour of the next collection. The thing Is exceedinalr slmole and aa th figures on the disc are -large there can be no difficulty In determining the question wnen win this letter I am about to mall nan on its journey to Its destination?" On the 6th dav of next month Chnnnrev Pepew will formally onen the Kejutnn nf dlnner-glying In Washington by entertain lng that other hannv rranm. Thnmn c Piatt, and the latter bride. Corcoran house la to be lavishly decorated for the occasion. It would appear that Mia. Piatt looks forward to cutting a good deal of a social figure, for she I laying in quite a nupply of winter dresses. Before her mar riage she dressed simply, but soma of the coniections in her post-nuptial trousseau are said to be of an elaborate character. - - - -. . . i. ....... .j , . L. . ,W A w. i. had pulled out all tha stops and was gor geously speaking on Cuba. 'Cuba Is the land of perpetual flowers." he said, "of stately royal palms, the Bo hemia of the dreamer, generous In tropical fruits, the home for the painter and for the poet, the paradise of the islands of the sea one long, harmonious, brilliant, Inde scribable mental melody." He stopped for breath. "Hey, Bill," whispered Representative Ruppert, "better roll another pill or you can't keop It up." Senator Culberson wanted to get an ex tract from a report of the committee on foreign relations printed In the Congres sional Record, and aa a public document. Senator Cullom objected because the ex tract was too long. He suggested' that It be printed as a publlo document, but not in the Record. "Well," ss id Senator Culberson, "I guess I shall have to take what I can get." Senator Tillman hopped up. v "Hold on," he said to Culberson, "you can beat that If you read it here It must go into tha Record, and the objection of the senator from Illinois won't be any good." PERSONAL KOTES. Ther Is hope for tha south when we see that Hon. Hoke Smith and his adversary fought with their fists instead of revolvers. Mme. Wong saw a font ball game while she was back In Connecticut and politely refrains from expressing her opinion of It aa a game of civilisation. J. Wayne Ames Is dead at Gypsum City, Cal. Mr. Ames was known over a large section of the west and especially In Kan sas, as tha exact double of Abraham Lin coin. He was a newspaper man nearly all hla life. Dr. A. Koch, the professor of Journalism at the University of Heidelberg, not only lectures on Ills subject, but makes hi pupils write editorials, reports, correspond ence, bqok reviews and criticisms of enter tainments. After eight years of valuable service as librarian of th Cambridge, Mass., publlo library. William I R. Qlfford is about to sever his connection to accept the position of librarian of the Mercantile Library as sociation at St. Louis. Chicago receives meekly, though It is not cast down, th criticism of a foreigner who stood regretfully In front of one of the big skyscrapers and remarked: "The first story Is Roman, th second la Greek, the third la Greco-Roman and the fourth Is catch-as-catch-can." On a steamer over from London the other day there was only one "eligible man" and fifty-five unmarried women among the cabin passengers. We should like to se the ktnd of man who would be considered eligible after he had been discussed by flfty-flv women. The, four-ton bronze statue of th lata Oovernor H. 8. PIngTea of Michigan that will l erected In Detroit by the people of that stat will arrive In- Detroit on Fri day or Saturday of this week. It waa completed at the studio of Rudolph Belt wars, the sculptor, In Indianapolis. Th Hawaiian delegate to congress, Prince Kalaulauoale, was chatting with a friend, who said to him: "You people In congress don't ero to be accomplishing much In th way of legislation at this extra session." "No, w'r not passing many laws." said "Princ Cupid," as he Is called. "but look at th mlleag som of u draw MAIOIXO THE PIBLIC LAUD. Operations In Lo.l.Lna, Cheeked by Grand Jnry. New York Mall and Express. It Is estimated that the United Plate government now has left lon.OOO.Ota) acres of land on which, with Irrigation and other Improvements, men might live. Some of It Is very good land. Indeed, If it has water. Most of It Is poor compared with the fSti.OO.OO acres cf public land that h:n been sold or given away In forty years. Never In th history of the world has such a vast domain been distributed n this. If th Romans, after conquering Oaul, had divided all the land equally among the Inhabitant of th Italian penin sula It would have been a small trans action In real estate compared with this. And th United States did not give this land merely to Its own children. It handed It over freely to Jew and Qentlle, to Its cltlsens and to the stranger within its gates. The homestead and pre-emption laws did not operat swiftly enough In th disposi tion of this land to suit a great many peo ple. Therefor tha desert land law, the timber culture hct, the pensioner's widow and commutation provisions, were got up, to make th land go faster. It has gane much faster even than was anticipated. As things now are, It Is a matter of serious doubt whether more land has not been taken in the last five years In excess of actual and bona-flde settlement than has been taken legitimately. The way In which this vicious principle has worked Is Illustrated by the Indict ments Just found by a United States grand Jury In Louisiana. Under the "commuta tion clausb" of the homestead law, various large lumber corporations have sent the poorest sort of hirelings upon valuable pine lanus, wnere tney nave gone tnrougn tne form of settlement upon homesteads. The law provides that a settler may get a title to his whole homestead after only six months' residence by paying 21.35 an acre In sash. Instead of getting It free by stay ing on It five years. These Louisiana pine lands are worth much mora than 11.25 per acre and a cheap man's hire for six months on every quarter section. The pretended settler Is a dummy he turns hla home stead, when title Is obtained, over to the corporation. The big , companies have by this means possessed themselves of many thousands of acres of valuable timber. A prearrange, ment of the kind Is unlawful, but It is very difficult to prove th prearrangement. This method has now resulted in 220 Indictments In Louisiana which is but a beginning. If congress Is at all responsive to the public demand It will stop up all these land leaks at the regnlar session. The timber culture law has been repealed. The desert land law should be, too, and the commutation clause of the homestead act. The law should be adapted to Irrigation conditions In the arid beltwand a stop ab solutely put to the obtaining of land by any other than actual and bona-flde agri cultural settlers. DEMOCRATIC ABERATIOH. Danger of Opposing (he Administra tion's Panama Policy. Indianapolis News (Ind.). It would not be surprising If the demo crats, as Is rumored from Washington, were to array themselves as a party against the Panama canal. There have only been hopes, not acts, thus far that tho old axiom that the democratic party could be relied on to' do the wrong thing was no longer true. The temptation In the present case. If rumor be true, is too strong for that party, and unless th un expected happens it . will go off " into a mulish opposition to the country's interests Just in time to bruise the popular hop that it had awakened to sanity and been so rehabilitated tha". it might become a real factor In publlo affairs. Look at the situation! Here we have been for years trying to build an isthmian canal. We worried Great Britain and were regriy n renudlH.te our treaty with her If we wer not allowed absolute and ex clusive control of any canal. It was given to us. Then, after long debate, we came into the room of the Panama canal under the threat f the Nicaragua route. Then we were "held up" this great nation made sport of by a petty South American republic that proposed to blackmail us and make us a laughing stock before the world, after w had so truculently de clared that we and we only should bulid the canal. Then here comes the revolution by which. Panama swings free from the blackmailers and seeks our protection, and the way of the canal lies open to us. At this Juncture comes the democratic party, and, like the mugwumps, proposes to palaver about purity and legality, and that ort of thing. When we devised the greenback a a bitter war neceaslty the democratic party took the same course. Its reverence for law wa shocked to tho center. Th nation must die. If noed be, but It must not, by all that was hply. us this pestiferous paper device to save Its life. Wn did use it as a war measure. Then, having crossed the bridge In this fashion, aud no longer needing the struc ture, we proposed to tear It away. We will return now, we raid, to the era of real money. "Never," shouted the democratic party, "that flimsy piece of paper Is real money." So now, when we have found a practical way to build tha canal the democratic party shows signs of being shocked In Its reverent Instincts for purity and legality, and threatens to do Its bet to cripple us. Well, If It must be so. It must. We "reckon" this America can han dle Colombia and the democratic party at the came time, and build th canal Into th bargain. Waltham Watches Keep time. - "Ttit Perfected American Witch," in illustrated hook of bdtrtsting information bovi witches, mill be sent free apon request. Amerian Wittfum Witch Company, Wilthan, Mil. lasfMsiiWilces rt ! From Maker to You. Means Just what It says In the DECATUR STORE. We are statu d! trtbutors for the factory, AH the shapes and all the leathere-but oa!y two prices $3.50 and $5.00 1521 FarnaM i m PROBIXt TOO DEEP. Crwel rrery la th Bowel ef the Shlphnlldlnar Treat. Philadelphia North American. If the methods of Samuel Unterraey-, counsel for the c mplulnlng bondholders In the Shipyard trust Investigation, are to bo tolerated, what in th world Is to be. come of the eminent financiers who wrecked that corporation? Mr. T'ntermeyer be trayed a brutal desire to get at th fact In the cas He Insists ujKn asking ques tions which no one who acknowledges th astute Intelligence and palrlotlo enterprise of Mr, Charles M. Schwab and other gen erous distributors of watered securities can fall to regard as Impertinant. More over, this obstreperous lim ot t!K law frame his Interrogations In Ungvar, proper enough, no doubt. In t'i Tiit.l4 courts, but shocking beyotn'" .aoa'AT to the respectable, exponents of Mn Cnaccv At the hearing on Tufsrar lrt he charged that Mr. Schwab h4 tried to "bribe" Ixiwls Nixon . to agre to the Schwab plan of reorganisation. Heretofore Mr. Untermeyer has shown repeatedly a discourteous determination to find out who loaded the Shipyard trust down with crush ing Issues of stocks and bonds; ha has manifested a reprehensible curiosity to know who profited by these Issues; ht has even ventured to intimate that ther waa a conspiracy to defraud Investors. But this talk of a bribe must be regarded as outsld the limit. When a political worker offers i4n "un convinced" voter 25 or 210 for his vote, that Is a bribe; when an anxious litigant save his case by handing 226 or 2 to a Juror, that Is. a bribe; even when a few thousand change hands over a little matter of legis lation th transaction may still be called a bribe. But wheip a multl-mllllonalr suggests that he is. willing to pay ten tlms their market value for bonds if th bondholder will agree to sign away th Interests of Investors who have trusted him that Is a "business proposition." Mr. Untermeyer ought to know that HI Shameless disregard of the true meaning sf words and his dense insensibility to the privileges of able financiers will get some body Into prison if he is not checked. MIRTHFUL REMARKS. She I iuw you, sir, with that horrid widow! And I shall send back your pre ert.i ot cice. lie Cbr.'t send thm to m. Send them to the widow. Town Topics. A man recovered a verdict for 220,000 froiii a railroal for the Ions of his legs. "Lucky nog, said tne pauper. "'Poor fellow " said the millionaire Saturday Evening Post. Mrs. Buxton That hateful Mrs. Knox made a very mean- comment upon my age today. Mr. Buxton Did she say yoa wer get ting old? Mrs. Buxton No, Indeed. She said I "still looked quits young." i'lil aielphia Press. "But," they expostulated, "this Is really none of your business." "That's why it's so interesting," she re pliedChicago Post. Crabshaw Tou say you wish your Christ mas present to he a surprise, and yet you state exactly what you want me to get you. Now, now can that be a surprise? Mrs. CrabshawIt will be, my dear, If I get It. Smart Set. "The figures show," said the statistical boarder, "that there IS only one divorce In 25,000 marriages." "That's the reason, perhaps," suggested the aoubretta at the opposite side of the table, "why a divorce has such a decided advertising value." Chicago Tribune. "See here!" cried the unfortunate man who had married a widow, "It's so hard for me to pleao you, I suppose you're for ever comparing me unfavorably with No. 1. You'd like to get back to him wouldn't you?" "Oh, no," she replied sweetly. "I'd rather get forward to No. 8." Philadelphia Press. "What did you expect Whn you married me?" he demanded. ' "' "Very little," she replied poutlngly, "only that I would be permitted to do Just as & pleased." Chicago Post. The single man may seem to he Quite free from care and trouble, Until some day he ascertains That he has got a double. ' Yonkers Statesman. AT THE CORKER GROCERY. James Bartort Adams In Denver Post. These strikes throughout the country that are paralysing trade And causing stiff ring in the poorer ranks Are the result of cunning schemes adroitly planned and laid ' ThrouKh selfish alms by aaitatlng cranks. Ere long a flow of Hood will drenth our sorely stricken land, For fratricidal war we'll surely see. And capital will feel the blow of labor's miKhty hand I heard It at the corner grocery. The people are. becoming tired of Teddy's Iron rule, They think he Is too strenuously gay; He's haughty as a Janitor and stubborn as a mule And kicks like one when things' don't come his way. A great revolt Is sure to com among th rank and file. And Urover In the chair again we'll see; Th democrats will take the reins and run things fer awhile I heard It at the corner grocery. Fair Canada will soon be ours, annexed by roroa or arms. We'll capture, her as easy as you please. Then soon again the country will be rlf with war's alarms We'll scrap with Johnny Bull upon th ecus. His mla-lity men-of-war we'll crush, they'll alnk from sight before The ship that bear th banner of th free. And every foreign power will give old Urieln 8am the floor I heard It ut the comer grocery. Tho trusts will soon be throttled, corpora tions be no more, The men of millions forced to divvy up. And every hlch official who la rotten to the core Will whin for mercy like a beaten pup. Diahonest politicians to the cross-arms w 111 b huuK. Elections from rascality be free; Then will the opening odo of the mlllenlum be sung I heard It at the corner grocery. 9 sy I