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Tim OMAITA DAILY HEE: MONDAY, DECEMItER 14, 1903. The Omaha Daily Dee, ,' B. ROBEWATER, EDITOR. - . FTJBHSHED EVERT MORNING. TERMS OF SfBSCRIPTION. Dsrty Bee (without Sunday). One Tear. .MOO lslly Ho and Sunday, One Tear J-00 lllustrsted Bee, One Year J- Sunday Bee, One Year J-J Saturday Bee. On Year 5J Twentieth Century Farmer. One Tear.. 1.00 DELIVERED BT CAKKIfcrt.' . Dally Bee (without Sunday), per copy.... ?c Dally Bee (without Sunday), per week...l2e Dally Bee (including Sunday), per week.170 Sunday Bee, per ropy Pvenlng Bee (without Sunday), per week to Evening Bee (Including Sunday), per Week 10O Complaints of ' irregularities in delivery ehould be addressed to City Circulation De partment. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. ' South Omaha City Hall Building, Twen (lft h and M Bt'eets. Council Bluffs 19 Pearl Street. r.cago 1M0 Unity Building. New York MM Park Row Building. . Washington 601 Fourteenth Street CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edl 'orlal matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only 1-cent stamps accepted In payment of mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not eccepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss.t George B. Tsschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, ays that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of November, 1903, was as fol lows: 1 Sa,Tv If ,T40 80,40 17 80,160 I........SO.OOO :... OT.94 4...... .....ST.40O If BO.WO I - 80,030 30 4U.MB ....... 41.J80 21 S0.080 , 7... t... .81.7SO U T,1T t 24I,WH) Z3 ao.o.v) f 30,130 24 30,10 li) 80.JUO 25 80,000 It X0,tt6O 2S....f.... 81,130 12 2O.04O - 37 81,020 U ...40,003 2S 80,100 II 20.&1O 2T.02S li Jttt,0SO , M ..80,800 Total 082,088 I .ess unsold and returned, copies.... 10,2a Net total sales ;....022,OT8 Net average sales 80,75 GEO. B. TZ8CHUCK. Subscribed In my presence snd sworn to oeiors ma uiis sum aay oi Kovcmoer, i ii mi. M. B. HUNUATK, (Seal.) Notary Public Congressmen hope to finish the session before the convention date. . The people hope they will a lonjf while before. The federal grand jury in session here Insists that It has not quite com pleted its grand Christmas distribution of indictment bills. If Colonel Bryan's son-in-law con Unties to- receive publicity for all his doings, the newspapers may make a great man out of him yet The secrecy of ad ' executive session seems to have been . observed for. Mr. Parry's speech to Omaha business men, but he took care to reserve a leave to print. ' The selection of a secretary for the Omaha Grain exchange is another big "utep in advance. , Aaln market ?br Omaha Is slowly but surely assuming tangible form.. The republicans will not bid for the vote of Porto Rico in the presidential election, for the good reason that Porto III eo has no representation in the elec toral college. Our Douglas county bastlle will be in charge of a new jailer after the begin ning of the. new year. We doubt, how ever, wnetner mat win make It any more popular with its guests as a board ing house. ' t - - The man who spends more than his Income la bound to get into trouble, and the same rule applies to a state like Ne braska when its legislature regularly appropriates more money than the tax levy produces. When the movement for the creation of a truant officer for the country school districts In this county is sifted down it will probably show Ae fine Italian band of someone trying to carve out a lucra tive job for himself. ' Describing, his arrival from Potsdam, tlie cables state that Emperor William "walked briskly, almost Jauntily from the train, to the carriage." What the Berlin crowd really hoped was that he would stop and yawn. ' , - ' An American prima donna has piarie a great hit in opera in the liid of the Thuraohs.' If while electrifying her au dience she can also galvanise some of the mummies In neighboring tombs her reputation will be achieved. The 'mayor and council are expected to lock horns every little while over dls pnted jurisdiction of (his or that sub ject of municipal action. Whenever the vital interests of the taxpayers are at stake the mayor and council will be ex pected to get together. "" The. contribution of the Lincoln fire department to the relief fund for the benefit of the four Omaha firemen killed while oa duty is another gratifying evi dence that on some occasions the preju dice against Omaha which prevails at the state capital may be overcome. When the chairman of the Boston police commlsHiou ail vines women to ctrry arms to protect themselves against assaults by footpads we, in the far west, have a right to imagine that our cities are not quite so wild and Woolly as some of the eastern centers of culture and education.- The republican convention will not tackle the question of fair representa tion in the southern states lu which the negro vote is suppressed but that does not alter the fact that the apportion ment of fnll delegations to the black belt states, based on their congressional representation, works inequality and sa Tors very much of the stock watering of our hot air flmtniiers. This inequality must be remedied some time, no matter Low loot urn eti! day la put c5. TUB TRtATT-MAKlBQ POWKR, Senator Clapp of Minnesota is one of those who believes- that the lower branch of congress has no right nnder the constitution to pass upon any treaty, even though such treaty, as In the case of reciprocity, affects the revenues of the government In a speech In the senate last week Mr. Clapp discussed the matter, remarking that in view of the growing Importance of the question of reciprocity he thought the time has come when there should be a protest against the policy of submitting treaties, as was done with the Cuban convention. to the approval of the congress. The Minnesota senator contended that there is absolutely nothing in the pro vision of the constitution that measures for revenue' must originate in the house that bears any relation to the great mat ter of government. ' It is purely nd simply an administrative matter. He pointed out that this provision at one time came near being enlarged to em brace not only bills for revenue, but bills making appropriations. At another time it was sought to so limit the senate with reference to bills, both for appro priation and for revenue, that the senate could not alter or amend such bills. It was finally decided that the power to originate tax measures should be vested in the house,, with power in the senate to amend or modify tbem. In the opin ion of Senator Clapp the provision in regard to revenue bills and the one con ferring the treaty-making power on the president and senate can each stand by Itself; that there Is nothing necessarily irreconcilable in the two provisions, "al though, if there is, by the plainest rule of construction, as viewed by one of the authors of the instrument Itself, paramount force must be given to the latter provision" that is, to the one re lating .to, trc-aties.. .The .senator con cluded by m-ging that the senate should Insist upon the maintenanco of its right and that this policy of subjecting treaties made by the president to an act of con gress should be no longer continued. Whether or not the precedent in the case of the Cuban treaty will be fol lowed in regard to ' future reciprocity treaties it is impossible to say. - There is in the house of representatives at present a very strong sentiment favor able to that precedent and should any reciprocity agreements be presented dur ing the present congress it is very prob able that the house will urge its light to pass upon them. It is not to be doubted that in doing this it would have popular support . Unquestionably if public opin ion on the question were ascertained it would be found to be overwhelmingly In favor of the proposition that treaties affecting the revenues should receive consideration from , the lower branch of congress. The issue is an old one and of course can be sett'.ed only by the two houses. That the weight of public opin ion will eventually determine the matter in favor of the view of the bouse may be confidently predicted. '" - M ' " . V'- t 'iWBIT SUFFRAOt SUPpksSSlOIt'. At a meeting a few days ago at the Union League club of New York the committee on political reform made a report setting forth the suppression of colored suffrage in the south and declar ing that if the facts asserted in regard to this matter be true, "there, is a de liberate nullification of the constitution of the United States, a thing which no country can or ought to permit while it cherishes the idea that it is governed by law." It was further declared that if this condition exists "weare far from our great ideal, for we are a government of some of the people, by some of the people, for some of the people." The league adopted resolutions re questing the government to instruct the district attorneys in the various states where an illegal suppression of votes is alleged to prosecute every case where there has been a violation of the laws of the United States in respect of the suffrage. If adequate evidence can be obtained to justify a submission of such case to the grand Jury. Also requesting congress to investigate the charges of a suppression of votes, contrary to the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the federal constitution, and urging that In proportion to the number of voters found to be disfranchised In any state the representation of such state in con gress be reduced. j This action will be very generally ap proved by republicans and should 'be by all citizens who believe that the laws relating to the suffrage should be observed in every state of the union. The fact that hundreds of thousands of colored men in the south are deprived of the right of suffrage and that tolera tion of this injustice is naturally caus ing its extension, is so obviously a men ace to the underlying principle of our government that it ought to receive the most serious consideration. It must be confessed, however, thai It is not get ting it at 'present and there does not appear to be any promise of its having proper attention la the near future. It Is too much to expect that the utterance on the subject of even so important and influential a body as the New York Union League club will produce any marked effect or indeed do more than call momentary attention to the matter. However, it will at least remind those who are responsible for the suppression of suffrage In violation of the -constitu tion and the laws that there are soma who are not blind or. Indifferent to the wrong and Injustice being done to a large body of American cltlsens and that sooner or later the right will assert Itself and prevail. The managers of the St Louis expos! tlon are preparing to go before congress to ask for more money either In the form of a direct appropriation or As a loan to be repaid out of the gate re ceipts of the big show. The amount needed is put at four and one-half million dollars. If the exposition starts out with a mortgage on Its revenue of such colossal dimensions the stork hold era may as well prepare to abandon all expectation of jiny dividends on their contributions. PMACM RATH It R TBAS WAR. The local organization of business men and employers is . engaged in strengthening its lines and considering the question of affiliation with a na tional federation of similar associations. Whether It is to the Interest of the Omaha association to become a member of a larger body embracing the employ ers of the entire country, or to continue to act Independently ns local conditions may require, Is something for its own members to decide. The people of Omaha, however, with out regard to sympathy with organized labor or with organized capital, want to see Industrial peace preserved rather than Industrial war. Whatever is done either by the army of labor or the army of capital for the preservation of peace will be applauded and every reckless move calculated to precipitate Industrial warfare anew will be discountenanced. The experience of Omaha with Its labor troubles of 1903 was not such that a repetition is desired In 1904. The city has only begun to recover from the set back then encountered and it will re quire a continuous period of peaceful progress to get forward as far as it would have attained without Inter ruption in its steadily advancing course. Prospects for the coming year In Omaha will depend almost wholly upon the maintenance of industrial peace be tween the local organizations of employ ers and employes. For a prosperous re tall business we must have a regularly employed body of wageworkers, whose earnings constitute the life blood of local trade. . It is yet considerably in advance of the season when conditions f "labor are usually readjusted, but it is not too early to admonish all concerned to cultivate their peaceful rather than their com bative proclivities. HUT CONCLUSIVE. In connection with the questionable constitutionality of the various deputies to the governor, attention is called to a decision of the Nebraska supreme court affirming the. validity of the act cre ating the position of deputy labor com missioner. The oplnlou in the case was written by one of the supreme court commissioners and evidently passed pro forma by the judges on the. bench .be cause the teal issue turned on an en tirely different point. Be that as it may, the supreme court has been known to make itself responsible for some very strange constructions of the law and also to correct itself when its mistakes have led to ridiculous conclusions. The supreme court upheld the deputy secre taries of the State -Board of Transporta tlsn In-successive decisions, but finally when it came to a showdown knocked the pins completely ' out from under them. The principal point upon which the decision rests that annulled the rail way commissioners would if consistently applied .tip' similar (Usurpations of au thority by the legislature abolish all the other deputies to the executive state of ficers not contemplated by the constitu tion. The editor of one of our popular periodicals tries to score a point against the efficiency of our government out of the dirty condition in which our paper currency circulates. He tells us that If we were not so used to the filthy rags the government's parsimony and Insensibility to cleanliness force u to take and to carry, "we should either never handle money without ' having rubber gloves on or we should make a protest that would be effective. We have no disposition to shield the gov ernment for any blame attaching to it in the matter, but it is certain that our paper money is clean jvhen first Issued and acquires Its filth In passing from hand to band. Perhaps a crusade for greater cleanliness of the hands that perform the mechanism of circulation might have some appreciable good re sult But people as a rule are so glad to get hold of money that they neg llgently fall to resort to soap and water first as preparation for the exaltation. It must be remembered, too, that the United States circulates paper money in smaller denominations than any other great commercial nation and that money circulates here much faster than It does abroad, so that comparisons with the big paper bills of other countries are hardly fair. The condition of our paper currency can doubtless be improved, but the people will have to co-operate with the government and in fact do the larger share toward reform. . The intentions of Building . Inspector Wlthnell .for the condemnation and re moval of dangerous shacks are doubtless good, but has he counted on the court Injunctions sure to be demanded by the property owners who fall to look through the same spectacles as the building inspector; Past - experience hereabouts has' been that no obstruction' 1st ever had any serious difficulty in finding an accommodating Judge to help him out at least temporarily. The Jacksonlan club will this year move Its annual feast up a week ahead of the' birthday anniversary of Its pa tron saint to accommodate Itself to the contingencies of the oratory market If Andrew Jackson had only known of the dilemma to confront bis namesakes he would certainly have seen to it that he was born a few days earlier. The rule In the Board of Education against the use of the schools for hold ing entertainments for which an admls slon fee Is charged or soliciting money for various purposes seems to be falling again into Innocuous desuetude. The rule is a good one and should be enforced or if it is not to be enforced It should be rescinded. i i It ells t for Sewsaaaors. Minneapolis Journal. Now, here's trouble for Oeneral Mae- Arthur. A Hawaiian mllltla coloael quot him as saying that the Paa-Oarmanlo stoe trine Is growing among Oermsn-Amerlcans, few of whom volunteered la the war .with Spain." Heretofore, the poor newspaper man has usually been the . scapegoat of unwise remarks by military men. This time militia colonel will be officially dmlgn&ted as the liar. Willie Has the Price. Detroit Free Press. The Hearst presidential candidacy Is creating no little excitement In the middle west among democrats who have not yet got their winter's supply of coal In. Fatlle Opposition. Pittsburg Dispatch. Thus far all attempts to get an opposi tion candidate to Roosevelt have only re sulted In strengthening the president's hold pon the affections of the people. Every adverse boom serves to advertise his cause. Hopeless Task. Philadelphia Press. Borne of the democratle newspapers are determined that Senator Hanna shall run for the presidency, but as the democrats ave never yet made Senator Hanna run It Is pot likely they will 4iave any luck in this Instance. Perverted Seeacerlaa Phrase. Springfield Republican. Herbert Spencer was the originator of that severely overworked phrase, "the sur. vlval of the fittest." But he never approved the use to which It has often been put In the defense of all kinds of spoliation of the weak by the strong. Nor could he have given countenance ta the false meaning read into the phrase. It is not true that the word "fittest" la that connection neces sarily means "beet" Huxley once wrote that the substitution of the "survival of the fittest" for "natural selection" was unlucky," and had "dons much harm," because the fittest under some conditions may be ethically the worst, and their sur vival work toward degradation. Eneearsugement ta Desertloa. Philadelphia Record. Secretary Moody has struck upon a re markable plan for arresting the numerous desertions In the United States navy. He recommends that all deserters who may be caught within three months from their flight or such as may voluntarily return at any time shall be treated as merely having been absent without leave. Instead of checking a serious evil this would be very apt to have the opposite effect. Seamen in the navy would be very likely to avail themselves of such an Invitation to make a three months' excursion with the assur ance that nothing further would await them on capture than treatment as absentees without leave. True aad Trite. Portland Oregon Ian. . Indian agents should not be dependent for their appointment and terms of office upon considerations of partisan politics," declares the president. This is trite. It is also true. But there the matter Is very likely to rest The Indian service has long furnished safe retreat for men who, being no longer of use to their political masters, have had to be taken care of. Protest has been made year after year against placing this handicap upon the Indian service; the Justice of the plea has been acknowledged, and appointments .have been made as be fore from the ranks 'of needy Inoapables; the flotsam and Jetaam of past political campaigns. Perhaps, as some contend, the day of miracles has npt passed. In this event there may yet &e reform on this par ticular point In the Indian service.- AMERICA'S" AJTOER TEAR. Features of the Ooaatry's Baslness Operations for 1008. : . St, Louis Globe-Democrat. The fall In. the prices of stocks and the shortage in the receipts of the govern ment's treasury do not comprise anything like the whole story of the country's business operations In 1901 The figures representing the declines In stock prices have been put at several hundreds of millions of dollars. Along to the present day, with a little over five months of the fiscal year " expired, the treasury's ex penditures have exceeded Its receipts to the extent of a little over 12,000,000, al though at this time last year the rev enues were in excess of the expenses about $14,000,000. Moreover, heavy drafts on the treasury on account of the Panama canal payments will have to be made In the next few months.. These will cause such a monetary displacement that the finan ciers are beginning to calculate whether it will embarrass the money market or not. Nevertheless, the financiers and the treas ury officials are cheerful. The situation offers no special dangers to them. Some very good reasons for the cheer fulness can be cited. The crops of 1903 reach, in value, a figure never before touched. Something like $5,000,000,000 stands for the value of the t products of the soil in the present year,' as near as can be figured from the latest reports of the De partment of Agriculture. This Is so far in excess of the reduction in values on the stock exchange that 'the latter is trifling In ' the comparison. The banks' transac tions, in the aggregate, are below those of 1902, but the reduction Is chiefly in New York, where the shrinkage Is due largely to the torpor on the speculative exchanges. St. Louis, Chicago and several other large cities report gains, from week to week. as compared with last year. The earnings of the railroads continue to touch figures not previously reached. Each month shows a gain la the gross Income of the great railways, and in the net Income of some of them. Distribution is greater than ever before. There are more things to . dis tribute and the demand for them is larger than ever In the past. With the big crops of the year safe, the outlook for still larger business for the railroads In 1904 Is bright. Nobody believes that the crest of the wave In railroad Income on the present rise has yet been touched. When treasury officials and captains of Industry predict that an Improvement In conditions Is close to hand they can give good reasons for ths faith that Is In them. The estimate of the treasury chiefs la that there wilt be a surplus at the end of the fiscal year next June of $14,000,000 or $15, 000.000. This is a falling off from the $54. 000,000 surplus of last June, but It Is a fig ure that means safety. The cash balance In the treasury Is at higher figures these days than was ever before touched. Along to the present time ths gold imports have reached, in the present movement, about $15,000,000, and the Inflow is still under way. At the present high prices the cotton yield of 1303, with the by-products, will touch the $1,000,000,000 mark. There is good reason to believe that the corn yield will go to that Una In 1903. as It did In 1Mb, The $80,000,000 yield of gold for the country's mines In 190S does not' represent a gala over 1901, but It keeps the United States at the head of the Ust of producing countries. More over, with our finances on the gold an chorage, we are in a'posltlon to gst all the gold we want from the world at large at any moment of need. The flood of cash which will be throws on the market for dividend and Interest payments at the be ginning of January will start a new series of influences which promise to send ths prices of stocks up once more. The recent rally is based largely oa the approaching big supply of cash. Ia all the country' marts the bull Influences are again actively at work. ROlltD ABOUT KKW YORK. Ripples the Carreat ef Life la the Metropolis.' Nsxt Saturday the second bridge con necting New York City and Brooklyn will be officially opened with ceremonies be fitting the occasion. The sum of $30,000 has been appropriated by the dty to provide suitable trimming for the celebration. The great structure is far from being completed. however, and will have little effect In eas ing the congestion of traffic between the cities for half a year or more. Twenty years ago last May the famous Brooklyn bridge was dedicated to publio uses. Then the president of the nation was Chester A. Arthur of New Tork, who had succeeded to the office from the vice presidency, and he was the chief guest of honor at the ceremony, as President Roosevelt may be at the opening of the new bridge. Cleve land was governor of New Tork, Franklin Bdson was mayor of New Tork City and Seth Low was mayor of Brooklyn. As mayor of Greater New Tork Seth Low will officiate at the ceremonies next Saturday. "That the old bridge la far more graceful than the new," says the Tribune, "anyone can see at a glance. That the new Is much stronger and suffer will be Immediately ap parent to all visitors. It would be difficult to imagine anything less graceful than one of the new bridge towers as seen from the roadway. The vertical part below the superstructure Is entirely out of sight and the taper inward seems to throw the tower out of perpendicular with everything In, upon and under or beside the bridge. The drawing together of the cables of each pair at the center of the main span doubtless has a well ascertained engineering purpose, but that feature also tends to create or rather to confirm a feeling that the struc ture Is completely out of harmony with all the rest of the world. The angles at the anchorages, where the footways come to gether, also make things look twisted, and the lover of artistic curves and pleasing angles might as well resign himself to the remaining tortures that are In store for him at sight of the first. If he Is not proof against an attack of "nerves" he should content himself with a view broadside on from some other point than a position on the structure." One of the most .delightful rambles In New Tork City is Riverside drive, at the time when the leaves have fallen and the first touches of winter are in the air. The great, bare limbs and the over-banging branches, though not as beautiful as when decked In their leafy draperies of mid summer, do not obstruct the view and the visitor, be he driving, wheeling or walking, beholds a far-stretching panorama of river and boulevard, with Orant'a tomb, . the Soldiers' and Sailors' monument and all the other attractions of that famous and popu lar thoroughfare, unobstructed by . the dense foliage of the summer time. It is one of the resorts that does not lose Its charm with the transformation of the season. Chewing gum is to solve the problem of rapid transit In Brooklyn. The hopes of the officials of the Rapid Transit company are now resting on the soothing qualities of flavored gum and, If the experiments now being made prove successful, a long stride will have been made In modernising ordinary trolley traffic The company has placed in twenty-five cars running in various parts of the bor ough neat little penny slot machines for the purpose of finding out If the complaints of passengers may be stopped by Oiling their mouths with gum. On some of the lines the -gum. machine Is popular, al though the test was Inaugurated only three days ago. The trouble In the past has been that. when cars get stuck or blocked; or stood still, because, there ,was no, power,, or for some other reason didn't run, and a man was In a hurry to get home, he naturally growled and said unkind things about the company, which were entirely undeserved. Somebody has found out that if the kicker only had the privileges of a. slot machine he would naturally sit complacently In the car, smile, nay nothing, and chew gum. He would ba glad he was allowed to ride on the car so long as he could get a fine cud of gum to chew on, by dropping a cent In the slot, and would not mind being late for dinner, or having to stand up for an hour" or so, with some one resting on his feet. It's all a very simple psychological prob lem, the officials say,' and the wonder Is that nobody ever found It out before. Mrs. Ogden Goelet has sent to Police Commissioner Green of New Tork a check for $150 In acknowledgment of her appre ciation of the police service on the occa sion of her daughter's marriage to the duke of Roxburghe. Mrs. Goelet wished that the money should be given to the officers who were on duty at the wedding, but the police rules did not permit of this, so It was turned over to the riot relief fund. It Is understood that soma of the women who were in the crush regard this as a proper disposition of the money. REPKIXIMO yAlf ASIATIC INVASION. Remarkable Campaign Projected by mm Baropeaa Eaglaeer. Chicago Inter Ocean. Emlle Zuschlag, a Copenhagen engineer, Is trying to organise an International cam- cairn for the extermination of rats. As the brown rat now found throughout Europe and the Americas Is an Immigrant from Asia, Mr. Zuschlag's effort is really to repel an Asiatic Invasion. Prior to the eighteenth century the black rat was the only one known In Europe About 1717, a time of famine In the Indies, the brown or migratory rat began to ap pear In large numbers. Larger and stronger than his ' European cousin, he speedily displaced him in all the best feeding grounds. The European black rat was a nuisance, but the Asiatic brown rat la worse. - He Is not only destructively devouring, . but. owing to his migratory habits, he carries disease to places previously - uninfected. The appearance within the last few years of the bubonic plague where It had never before been known was due in most cases to these migratory rats. Owing to their destructive and disease bearing tendencies, Mr. Zuschlag reached the conclusion that rats ought to be sys tematically exterminated. Last year, by private subscription and publio appropria tion, a systematic campaign was carried on in Copenhagen and Fredericksburg. A bounty of t cents each was offered for dead rats delivered to the fire engine houses. The campaign lasted from August I to December V, and 103,788 rats were har vested. Although the Danee are a thrifty people, with few scruples about using public agen cies to attend to what other people are wont to consider private affairs, they do not seem to have been convinced that Mr. Zuschlag's campaign was worth what It cost. An act making ths destruction of rats a charge on the national treasury was dsfeated. Perhaps the Danes realise that It was really useless for theni to make extraordinary efforts to destroy rats, when the vacancies in the rodent ranks would certainly be filled by immigration from the Adjacent countries. Mr. Zuschlag seems to be convinced that International action Is necessary, for ht has organised an "International Associa tion for Diffusion of Information About In juries Caused by Rats." Thus he hopes ia time to be able to exterminate these Asiatic Invaders, who have overrun and possessed the soil ef Europe and all other oeuatrlea, . PfswawiasavssauBBanBBBBBBaVSsaaaaBBBBBsVHBBBS Ayers Stops fallinghair., Makes hair grow. Restores color. Cures dandruff. Could you ask any thing more? And it's so economical, too. A little of it goes a great ways. Ask any of your neighbors or friends about it. Sold all over the world for sixty years.. s 1.00 a settle. AUaraeclat. FIGHT AG.4.I59T ROOSEVELT. Demur ratio View of Wall Street's Des perate Charge. Detroit Free Press (Ind. Dem.). The last desperate effort of the presi dent's personal enemies within the repub lican party to cast off the Roosevelt yoke has proved ineffectual, and hla nomination now seems to be aasured. Within a few days administration pressure has squeesed Interviews from Senators Frye, Foraker, Hale, Beverldge, Proctor, Allison, DolUver, Piatt of New Tork and Piatt of Connecti cut, In which Mr. Roosevelt's candidacy was unqualifiedly Indorsed. Similar Inter views have been obtained from Speaker Cannon and prominent representatives In congress, and the Insurrection seems to be at an end. The last charge of the an '1-Roosevelt guard was magnificent, even If It was not war. Mr. Walter Wellman, one of the most trustworthy of the Washington cor respondents, has written an Interesting ac count of it for the Chicago Record-Herald. By means of letters sent out by E. H. Har- rlman, president of the Union Pacific Rail way company, and by others, it was deter mined that the president's popularity was waning In the west. Mr. Roosevelt was approached by a representative of the Rockefeller - Morgan - Gould - Hill-Harrlman crowd, and asked to give assurances In re gard to his policies in the event of his elec tion. The president would give, no hos tages, and frankly declared that If pledges were necessary that he would not destroy the country's business prosperity,' he was not fit to be chief executive. Following this rebuff, the financial al liance undertook to bring out Senator Hanna as a candidate. Mr. Hanna went to New York and held conferences with sev eral of the leading financiers of the metro polls. He was urged to be a candidate for president, but declined on the ground that he did not think much of a candidacy that would depend for its chief support upon Wall street and the colored delegates from the south. In the meantime every effort had been made to consolidate the antl Roosevelt sentiment snd make It effective. New York bankers Intimated to their west ern customers that business was likely to be uncertain as long aa Roosevelt was In the White House. The anti-Roosevelt newspapers redoubled their attacks on the administration. The Cincinnati - Commercial-Tribune, which was formerly edited by Perry Heath, began to warn republicans to stop, look and listen. They mlgtt nominate Roosevelt, but could they elect him? Why dinar to . an uncertainty, while Mr. Hanna was a certainty? While Foraker, Allison, Fairbanks and other good men were certainties The word was passed down the line to "hit Roosevelt." and for three weeks or more the president has been under fire every minute of the day. Many of his friends have grown anxious; but Mr. Hanna's refusal to accept the over tures of Wall street has left the opposition rlthout a candidate. While the attack was In progress, the ad ministration was strengthening Its political fort locations, and the large number of pledges that have been secured from re publican leaders make It Improbable that there will be another concerted effort to prevent Mr. Roosevelt's nomination, unless he commits a blunder that costs him the confidence of the rank and file of the party. One of the Fine Arts. Four Track News. Advertising has become one of the fine arts. More real genius Is employed In pro ducing "winning" advertisements than In any other of the branches of commerce. Vast sums of money are expended annually sums reaching way up Into the millions In Informing the public of the wares that are on the market. In putting this Infor mation before the readers, live business firms employ the best talent available, for an advertisement can be made doubly ef fective when written by one who under stands the eloquence of type. Bo It has come to be a part of the intelligent read er's duty, as well as his pleasure, to read the magazine advertisements, not only for their artistic worth, but for the fund of valuable fact they contain, especially along the line of domestic economy. A good ad vertisement is good reading. "ttothlnsr New Tader the So a." Philadelphia North American. Experiments are being made In Omaha to prove that ths American soldier can fight bard on IS cents' worth ef food a day. Experiments made In this vicinity along about 177S demonstrated that he could do It on less. Waltham Watches The best American watches. " The Perfected American Wkh," an Illustrated book of Interesting Information tiooi witches, will t sent free upon request, American WtStKun Witch Company, ' Waltham, Mass. I . - , Some men's shoes art made mostly ot wind, others of leather- The L-EOATTJB, being direct , ' . ' ' From Maker to Wsrnror. ; . - ..... are warranted by the maker through ns to be solid leather, aad not a ma chine sewed pah; In the store. ; . , " . " ' 1321 FARNAM " $3.50 and $5 Hair Vigor " Ayers Hair Vigor restored color to my gray hair and stopped it from falling out It is certainly a wonderful hair restorer." Mrs. M K. Black, West field. Pa. . 0. Ayes Oe XiswelU sfsss. PERSONAL HOTE9. -' ' King Edward's counsels to naval' officers and friends about drinking water 'Instead of wine bespeak the seal of a recent con vert. "'' '" Rev. Frank W. Gunsaulua, president ot Armour Institute In Chicago, has formally declined the presidency of Boston Univer sity. Harry Ziegler. a resident of Philadelphia and a member of the life saving guard at Atlantic City, saved fifty-two lives during six weeks of the season at that resort. Congressman Vespasian Warner of Illi nois Is a candidate for governor' on the -republican ticket. As he has had to carry that name through life he ought to get it. Blise McLaren, daughter of 811 Charles MclAren, and Margaret Hunter, daughter of Sir Robert Hunter, both of England, who are now an, a tour of this, country, were presented to President Roosevelt on Tuesday. The king of Italy's recent visit to FrSnct and England, accompanied by his' mastei of ceremonies, Count Glonottl, brought into, prominence the husband of an . Amoricau woman, who well-nigh reigns etipreme al the Italian court. Count Glonottl Is one pi the most intimate friends of the Italtnfl king and the countess, formerly Miss Kin ney of New Tork, has one ef the most en viable positions in Italy. ! ' A familiar figure In Toronto Is' Gold-win Smith. Every fine day he. takes his car riage drive and one sees a shrunken old man, as thin as he is tall, silent and grave of demeanor, preoccupied, It would, seem, with his own thoughts.. "One might tnaka the mistake of supposing," said an ob server, "that the agedj cltlsen he has cele brated his eightieth birthday was a dys peptlo pessimist, that life had lost its charm for him and that time had forgotten. him in its merciless march toward a future that Is never overtaken. Such 'Is one picture of the old professor a mental snap shot taken from a curbstone." , .. .- . , LINES TO A LAUGH. , j , "I have seen some men,'' said Uncle Eben, "dat would lose any amount o sleep serenadin' a gal, an' den refuse to git up early enough to staht de Are aftuh deys married." Washington Star. ' "The Rev. Mr. Smoothly doesn't -preach ' 'Are and brimstone' aa much from his new pulpit aa he did when he was your pastor." "No, he's getting .-more ' salary Trow." Philadelphia Press. - - - "My ancestors," he ssld, "were landed froprletors and always the leading family n the neighborhood." "Yes," said the other, man, "and what sort of neighborhood was ItT" Cleveland Plain Dealer. ; ii '" : '. !! ' ftAieifrM The glutton In the restaurant, waa. fairly throwing peaa Into hla mouth, with the result that they spilled in all "directions from an overloaded spoon. "Pardon me," said the man next tq him, politely, "but this Is no game ot table tennis.'' Chicago Post. ' "Well, well," exclaimed the bachelor friend, .seeing the baby for the first time, "Jack, he's ths dead Image of you." "Don't you believe It," replied Jack, who had been up half the night; "he's ths liv ing Image if he's anything." Indianapolis News. t . "How did you eatch that eoldr" asked the soubrette. "Sudden change In temperature," v heesed Big. Pshucks, the eminent tragedian. "Don't you remember we were roasted where we played the day before yesterday, and struck a frost here last night T" Chicago Tribune. Teas If you don't care for him. why don't you tell him so and get rid of him? Jess Oh) I don't like to at this ssason of gladness. Teas That's so. It would spoil his Christy maa.i wouldn't itt . . Jess Yes, and he er Is so fond of giving handsome presents Philadelphia Press. A girl In the conservatory Is worth two under the mistletoe. Town Topics. THE OLD DATS. J . . James Whltcomb Riley In Christmas . Collier's. . ; Th old days! the far days! . The over-dear and fair I The wild days the lost dsys How lovely they werel . The old days of morning, With the dew-di ench on the flowers -And apple buds and blossoms . , Of those old days of ours. : Then was the real gold Hpendthrlft Bummer flung; . Then wss the real song " 1 ' Thrush and robin sung! ' ' , There was never censure then,-' Only honest praise And all things were worthy of It ' ' In the old days. - ( - , There bide the true friends ' The first and the best; !..' There cllnse the green grass , ' Close where they rest: . ..' Would they were her.T No Would we were there!.... The old days the lost days ; How lovely they were! y $3 and $3.50 IK n I