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THE OMAHA DAILY REE: THUKSDAY, JANUARY 14. 1904. ft. li fnre Omaha Daily Bee. - . E. nOREWATEl EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERT MORNINO. fcixt fif RPpqt'RlFTION. Vny itee (without Pundnyt, one Year..i 2 fun:y Be. On Year ' fatiirday lve. On Year ! ; twentieth century Farmer, one Tear., l.uo DELIVERED BY CAKKit.it. Daily Re ("lihoili Say),' pef weeL.lio lu-vTJ.!"' Evening (without Sunday), per .vemng nee (ini iuuiiih cu..-. tiu, kV.. ?.....". . .. ... T.V:.."..". .: (omi.la'iWl'ii''of'lr'rVK.in.rltls In delivery should he addressed to City Circuiauou w partment. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. n-.n. South Omaha-City Hall Building, Twin ty-flfth and M Street!. Cftnm-ll HlufTs-lo Pearl Street. CmVagnlfttO Cnlty Building. . New York-233S Park Row Building. Washington 601 Fourteenth Street. f-n I'Si-o vnENCE. Communications relating to news and edi torial matter ah .&id be addressed:. omaha m7tt7ktVi ' lie. 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Subscribed In my presence and sworn to berufe iu tbl Slut day or December, A. u. 1803. - M. B. HL'NOATE, (Seal.) Notary Public. Having decided to meet at St. Louis July 0, the democrats are sure to have a warm time id their national conven tion, i The oninion is trrowlniz that mutual fire insurance comnanles elve something for nothing no oftener than the other ' The city department that managed to t..-r..it, iha van m, ulni-f rntlnna I v.i.vuu liiu j ui u ...... . v ...'.. i without an overlap Is entitled to extra credit A I on the question "Whicn is trie bigger the council or the Advisory board?" the .CDuncll has banded down a unanimous opinion in ravor or itseir. Whatever Is done by the council to olve the garbage problem, the solution should be one that will not leave . a Stench in the public nostrils. ' It may be surmised that the expert' enee of John Mitchell in the coal, strike makes him friendly disposed to arbltra- tlon, International or domestic. The World-Herald has not said any- thing for at least a week about theM Iniquitous revenue law saddled upon the taxpayers of Nebraska by the rail- . roads. I The real estate men ef Omaha are optimistic in their banquet speeches. I But tney nave a right to be optimistic. even discounting uie entuusiasm en- gendered by a squure meal. A little more prutk-e would go further than much preaching to prove the truth of the recent statement of the governor Of Kentucky that that state is one of the most lawabidlng In the union. i It Is settlea that tho aemocrata will same their presidential ticket- in St Louis, : but it is not yet announced whether they will be assigned space among the main exhibits or In the side show belt tv.in I,...,. oi, i... I ....-vw- .- I renew their wonted winter pursuits. Truce ha. been declared at r.tt and the foot ball team will A usual for Its annual defeat at the hands of the Corchuskers. I Russia's promise to respect treaties Wlth China regarding Manchuria shows that despite its disclaimer to Janan. It xpects ' to have considerable to say about the government of the disputed province. The bear that walks like a mn mnriniiatt tn. lanthon if- We now have the promise that the Fremont power canal will be completed snd la active operation within two years, cm v,e nau mat same promise more than two years ago. We all want to See the wheels go round, but la this v"T..nK ' oeaeving. The United' Btates haji been the pio- neer in International arbitration and has submitted 'more differences with other governments to arbitration than any other nation. The United States will continue to be a leader in promoting n- ternatiouaj arbitration as the safety "valve for the world's peace. General lteyes' praise of Secretary Hay as "a tine but very determined man' reinforces the opiulon our own people have had of Mr. Hay. That Is the kind of man required to handle the dellcate diplomatic negotiations that devolve upon the orelgu secretary for a great nation like the United States. ft will take some little ,tlme yet for the newspaper eonviondents and news photographers to get themselves prop- erly distributed at the strategic points bl the Seat of war. But then Russia . and Japan as belligerents would not I ttilnb.f BtArtlntf anvtlilnf ihMtil rif tha think 'of starting anything ahead of the Signal, so we may expect the ultimatum stags to last at leant a UtUo longer, TO on.T ItiDlAH IaWDK. A rrojiosltlon Is In-fore the Imllnn af f 11 1 rs oonimlttee of the house of repre- I sentatlves to open all the Indian reser-1 vatlons to settlement nrul entry, the i'i"'viijr .nun- ii inr- iiin.in iu in- i'""' ov,.r to the lndlnns or held In trust for their benefit. The proposition Is strongly endorsed by the commissioner of In-1 I jinn affairs, who thinks that the con-1 nn nf th Inillnna should h secured if I poHdllile, but if not tiie action should tflkon anyway. In regard to this a wpfltern paper remarks that it suggests the proper settlement of the whole In- dlan matter and adds: "The reserva tion system was a blunder from the start. The proper method of dealing with the Indian has always been to give him a start and let hhn work out his own salvation. Given an opportunity. an Indian can earn his own living as well as anybody. The proper oppor- tunlty to give him is to. make him go to work by tu pressure of necessity. Un- der such pressure the Indian is likely to . , . ii nniyi ,.itwrt Thorn j e. ure numbers of-them, wno luae aone so under precisely this pressure." There is no doubt that this is in ac- cord with the opinion of all who have ... .1 jjiyp,, intelligent consideration to the I Indian problem. Justice to the Indian does not require that he be maintained i.i.u. rvu h... ,. n m iMiut-n. xiiv u.-m Bruin; umi and to depend upon his own industry and thrift for a living. as tu roHBsr nssmvta. Tho policy of the government in re- Kuni to forest reserves, while very gen- orally regarded as Judicious, has met with some opposition. In his address before the stockmen's convention at t,.i.tl.,n r tw T,..,,r..i. f.F tlio Kn. A UlllllllUi VS. la, ..... .I'.ll.p.. V 1 ..u tional J.lve Stock association said. that stockmen have no objection to honest reserves, where there afe forests to pro tect or to foster the ' growth , thereof,- but where millions of acres are set apart on which there, are no trees, 'which is done only on account of the flue manipulation of some great land- graft railroad syndicate, who wish to unload their worthless holdings on a gullible government, this is the point where an American stocknian insists on rising and entering a general and also a spwial demurrer." If there is warrant for this complaint i ,.. ... i. .i i 1 1 . i. . . . ,,"lurl" 10 'i-y u-Bii.u.-, uui .. '" -"" become more necessary man ever iy reason of the irrigation policy that is lwliio' carried out hv- the federal I70V- - - - n - - - r eminent. Jn a forthcoming report by F. II. Newell, the officer in charge of the reclamation service, it will be said: ..0ne of the most important matters In connection with the permanent develop- hnent of Jhe water resources of the conn- try is the protection of the catchment basins from destructive influences. The hend t of ma of th lun)ortant stream9 aro nIreftdy ,nduded within the forest reserves - and ' some of the im portant reservoir sites ure thus guarded from injury. The forest reserve bound aries, should be extended to include, the U0 'rora T'.TT '"f part of the rainfall." It is said that the belief Is gaining ground at Washington that not only should the forest reserves be extended to this degree, but that the entire remaining public forest land should be permanently reserved and that any timber cut therefrom should be under government supervision, thus absolutely insuring the water sunnlv. I -"' 1. 1 4. v 41 l ikd iivii ii tyr o t i lira nt;n I as for municipal or any other need. ' lg pomt out tbnt the scores of denuded an(1 bare ,nollntnin ranees in western Btavte8 once woodea atte to toe bnneful option- ' our present timber laws. Perhaps some modlflca- ,on ,n the method of forest reserve ex" " .u uuuui u, lu lu uw.-ea.my oi cuiiuii- mug me general poncy, u tne wor or arid land reclamation Is td succeed. The meeting of the democratic national committee developed nothing new in re- gard to possible candidates for the pr'esl- flency and tne leaders annear to be still I ..... ... . - " Bl . " l" wup i iue uui,t a uozen thst are talked of would be the most available. Gorman seems to be BomWIiai n ine lpaa. witu Judge ariter or new lprit a close second, but it Is auite plain that the Maryland senator has lost some prestige by his course- in the senate in reuard to the Panama treaty, though It is nosslble that he will be able to recover from this before the meeting of the national convention next July. The strength of t-i. t.o4.v iu i,, i. ,n,. that he can carry New York, where he lg unquestionably popular as a jurist, but without any standing as a rx.lltloian. havlng had bnt mtle to do with politics, T1)ere doe8 uU appear to be an eager demand on the part' of Empire state democrats for the nomination of Tarker. A few neWpapers have been endeavor- ,nK t0 1)00111 h,tn' but Bg yet PrlaP "i""1"" UB u?u ao en thusiastic and it cannot uow be confi dently predicted that he will have the delegation from that state. Mr. Olney has received the endorsement of the Massachusetts democrats and it is un derstood Is willing to be a candidate for the nomination. A great many demo- I crats, however, while admitting the ability of Mr. Olney, are not pleased I with his very pronounced admiration for Mr. Cleveland and there is reason to be- Heve that his reference to his former chief in his speech at the MeClollan banquet did him no good as a possible presidential candidate. It is needless to consider Judjie Gray , among the possl- I buttles and the Hearst candidacy is very generally regarded as a Joke, though the chief of the yellow journalists of course I does not so lntemf It There is no sort I of doubt that he if very much in earnest and it is intimated that he counts iion I iha filllllkort ft tha Rrvnn flAiiionr In the svilort of the Bryan element in I the national convention. I Who will W. J. Bryan favor or the nomination Is likely to IxVome a ques ltion of t-nmmnnrilnR interest to the (h - iiKM - rat between now sml the Bssem- ,iinR pf the nntWmnl convention, lie hiis paid nothing since bis return from iiuruin - ivmcu nuiveys iut liiuuiniiuu of a preference, but It Is well under stood that neither Oorninn nor Olney would he acceptable to him. The ... . marked attention that has been shown Jin V..KV lai.lnr l.r iunl,.rn Hnmn. crats since his return shows that he is far from belhfc politically ostracized, even in what he once called "the en etny's country," and indicates that he Is still a force in the democratic party, that must be reckoned with. Now' that the place and time for the assembling of the 'democratic national convention has been arranged, It is to foe expected that the patty leaders will give more serious attention to the ques- tlon of a nresldential candidate, which at present is 'as perplexing to them as the question respecting the issues to be presented by the democracy in the cam- imiSn. TflsT MUStVlPAL BUDQtT. The various departments of city gov- ernment are engaged in formulating - their estimates of expenses for the coming year and these estimates when fitted together will form the basis of Li. ii i v . ujumiipui uuuru the amendments to the charter enacted by the lust legislature is the elimina tion of tho water fund levy, but in its place we h.-jve a new water fund to be augmented by the proceeds of a tax not exceeding $100,000, entirely in the dis cretion of the water board. The water board has already made a requisition for $25,000 for tho coming fiscal year, which must be regarded as an addi tional tax not taken care of last year when the old water fund was first dropped out. The school board also still has practically unlimited taxing power, so that the school levy, which is part of the general municipal levy, Is out side of the control of the council and may be expected to be no smaller than It was a year ago. ' On the 'other hand, the work of the various departments of the city is cer tainly not decreasing and in a number of them increased salary lists must be met -as a result of charter amendments likewise adopted by the last legislature, The possibility of a tax levy ns low as the levy for 1903 is, therefore, de- stroyed, but that is no reason why tho effort should not be made to keep the estimates down to the very lowest dl menslons with which efficiency can be maintained. The low tax rate of 1903 has unques tionably been of greatadvantage to the city and a welcome relief to the prop erty owners. , Having, had their' burden materially lightened, while they will probably realize that they cannot ex pect the same low tax rate continu ously, they will also Insist upon their right to object to a tax rate inflated be yond the necessities of the occasion. . Both the cattlemen and the sheepmen are agreed that the laws which prevent them from having free use of the pub- lie domain for grazing purposes are bad and ought to be amended. All recent legislation, however, that contemplated reasonable rentals have been rejected by the .cattle syndicates as unsatis factory because they preferred to con tlnue as they were, in disregard of the land laws, so long as the latter Were not enforced. With the prosiiect of , , , . M . . . , - . f " provisions they may prefer to modify their demands and make them more reasonable, The elevation of County Commissioner O'KeeQ'e to be chairman of the county board for-the ensuing year would in- dicute that that body as now constituted ore Bvmuathy wlth thft demands for reform and retrenchment which Mr. O'Keeffo has been voicing for the last carry 0,lt some of 1,,s ideas of economy anu DlotK "uccessiuiiy queBuonaoie jods ana Btettl8 tuat uave Deen hayla rree wt-ii rii in Tim miinrv rut a r1 na tfi ma associates will be entitled to sneelal 7 tuanks from the taxpayers of the county pay Ule b1"8' If the mayor and council can be held retHioniilblo for all the unpaid taxes tnnt are on the treasurer's books per- nnp8 we wm 1,01 ua,e 10 rP80rl 10 001 ,ectlon under the "veiigr law. All that wU1 be needed.w111 be 'or the mayor and council to order the delinquent taxes Mpro u men unve mem suea on tbelr bonds for the detlclency. The only difficulty such a plan might en counter would be the difficulty of get- cou,, tlnS any one to serve as mayor or councilman for the privilege of assum ing this responsibility. The World-Herald makes much of the probability that District Attorney Sum mers "will be discharged froui the pub lie service. 7 The truth is that Mr. Sum mers four-year term of office expired months ago and he has been holding on simply by swinging a club over the head of the department. An employe of a liiisiuess establishment who told his employer to let him out "if he dared" would not stand long on the order of his going. Vice Chairman Edmlsten of the pop- I ullst national committee is calling that body together in evident willful dlsre- gurd of the fact that there is a chalr- man of the committee, whose name would look much better at the end of the calL If Mr. Edmlsten really wants . reunion of all the uonullst elements he might set the example by a nrenara- tory merger between the vice chairman I and tli chairman. I Colonel Bryan thoughtfully delayed anxurlng at the meeting of the demo- lerntlf- nntinnnl fvmimlttp.0 until nftor It cratlc national committee until after It had concluded the business, for which lit Lad beua called together. Had be arrived sooner the couuIttee might have nsketl his advice and his old ex cuse that he was reserving his opin ions for publication in the Commoner might not have proved Serviceable. The Wkf aad tho Wherefore. Washington Tost. The Interstate Commerce Commission Is trying to ascertain why the railroads have raised rates. One reason la they think they need th money. An I aheralded Scrap. Indianapolis Journal. People have so much trouble keeping track of other and more Important things that nobody aerms to notice the nice little war which has reopened In the Balkans. While Russia has one eye on Japan and the other on England, and the rest of the world Is anxiously expecting something to happen, the Bulgarlani are quietly potting their forty .or fifty Turks a day down there In Macedonia. War Chivalry Disappearing;. Boston Transcript. Now the kaiser, whose energetic devo tion to the cause of applied science has often been hoted, has set his experts to de vising a uniform which shall render the soldier practically Indistinguishable against a field of grabs or stubble. A blend between straw color and olive green has produced the desired effect. The last shred of the old chivalry of war will disappear with the disappearing soldier. Pat on the Brakes. New York Tribune. Few winters in this country have known so many shocking disasters in times of peace. The destruction of life on traffic lines and In places of amusement has been so extensive that the American people are In no mood to listen to excuses and apologies, and insist upon the meeting out of stern, stark justice In full measure to those who have been In fault The circum stances have been exceptional, so much so that no mercy or leniency should shown to any culprit whose guilt Is made clear. A Hint for Vnele Sam. , Philadelphia Press. Germany is still anxious for more colonies, though so far they have been losing Investment for her. Her colonies now have an area of 1,024,262 square miles, and contain only 6,126 OormanB, many of whom are in government employ. It has cost the empire $76,000,000 so far to distribute and maintain that small num ber of Germans In the colonies, and the expenditure fpr thls year Is estimated to reach $5,750,000. It is rather an expensive. fad for Germany. The Inut Surrender. Philadelphia Record. The two last of the great confederate generals Longstreet and Gordon have now made the final march to . the last great camping ground on the other side of the river. Both of them were stout antagonists in war, but after the war was ended devoted followers of the flag and lovers of the union they had so fiercely fought to dissever. Both lived to see the states on either ride of Mason and Dixon's line thoroughly reconciled and reunited and a new generation of soldiers, gathered Indifferently from all parts of the union, marching side by side ur.der the Stars and Stripes to do battle against a foreign foe in behalf of their common country. Both lying" in their freshly-made graves are sharers in the sorrowing recollection of the surviving veterans of the armies they commanded and the armies they opposed. . LIKE A TVT7E THAT IS TOLD. Skyrocket Flight and Descent of the Rage Steel Trnst. v United 'states Investor. , In the year 1901 the United Btates Steel corponation was floated into the gaze of an astonished world, a billion dollar corpora tlon, with a directorate representing more wealth than had ever been assembled In a single enterprise. It was accompanied by assurances from financiers of pre-eml nence, calculated to allay the fears of any awestruck Individual who might conclude that In the sise of the new corporate craft there lurked an element of danger. It was a season of such prosperity that all things seemed possible, especially when under taken by financiers whose will was sup posed to be greater even than law. A few, It Is true, persisted In shaking their heads, and disagreeing with optimistic cap italls&tlon of the future; but they wera looked upon as persons incapable of ap preciating the marvelous strides of finance and Were told that old things had passed away, that the supreme law now waa Integration. Take any given aeries of In dustries which carried along a raw ma' terlal through several processes Into the finished product, roll them up Into one cor poration, and no "matter what the capitali sation, dividends would be forthcoming through the; saving grace of integration. That Is what the United Btates Steel corporation does. It mines its own ore. makes Its own coke, transports these pro ducts on Its own vessels and railroad to the furnaces, and finally out comes the fin Ished product. "Nothing is left to chance," said the first president of the company. Not even was there allowed to be a chance of American prosperity falling In the least degree, and even If It did, why, look at the enormous earnings of the corporation and the colossal surplus. Furthermore, what a blessing Integration waa to be to labor. Integration meant tablllty of prices; there would be no mora ruinous fluctuations of prices' that had made the Industry In the past either U... n . num.. uV,H taY.flftv nt prices assured the workman' steady work at high wages. What glowing, convincing articles did the world read about the economies oft Integration. Hundreds of In vestors -looked upon "steel common" at 45 as a good Investment, as a bargain at SO, and as a road to competency at 20. The years rolled by two of them and long years they were to some individuals. Prosperity waned, not a financier pos sessed the vaunted power of controlling the tides of the business world; the econo mies of Integration, were unmasked as ex travagancles; and the strength ef integra tion In prosperity proved to be Us weak ness In adversity. There, had been warn ings that such would be the case, but the warnings were uttered at a time when the American public was worshiping Ha new gods. When adverse times affect an inte grated Industry, the only direct saving It can effect Is a cut in labor cost, either by lowering wages or by Inventing labor- saving devices. Its raw material through the various processes costs just the same In times of low prices for finished product as In seasons of high prices, unless the wage cost la reduced. The year 1904 Is marked by a reduction of wages In the plants of the United. States Steel corporation, by a cutting of salaries, by closing t soma plants and mines, and by a passing of the dividend on the com. mon stock, due to the earnings declining over 60 per cent. But integration has not caused this ending of great expectations; If the same spirit of true economy had en tered Into the formation of the corporation and Into Its early management that pre vails today, . business reaction would not have worked such havoc. But as It is, the workman who thinks of his' high wages and the Investor who misses his dividend can exclaim with th poet unless stronger language Is preferred: Thou rt g'-ne-froiu tny gas Ilk beau tiful drtam. - ROIXD ABOlT DEW YORK. Ripples on th Carrent of I.lfe la the Metropolis. Charles T. Terkea of Thlladelphla, Chi cago and Ixindon, promoter, philanthropist and philosopher. Is doing New York for recreation, and Incidentally filling space for Interviewers. Mr. Yerkes Is a regular pay- ng mine for Interviewers, and some of his observations are worth a thought or two. Discussing th elements of success he says: America's progress Is due to the fact that her men begin the battle of life early, whea they are full of enthusiasm and en ergy, and when they are most adaptable to existing conditions In their teens. Per sonally, I think college spoils a good many young men. I think a good high school education Is preferable, rather than a col lege one for young men who have their own way to make In the world. A boy who goes Into business at IT or 19 has seven years, say, the start of the college man, and the college man must begin In a small position and at a boy's pay begin where that boy began and naturally this dissatisfies the college man. And a man dissatisfied 'Is a man that la spoiled for the dsy's work. In this, of course. I am speaking of commercial and business Ufo, along lines where experience and common sense are needed more than technical knowledge. Common sense is better than a high education, anyway. The man with com mon sense can always get an education, but the best education In the world doesn't bring you any more common sense than what you wera born with. As for success, the component parts of success are a level head, an honest Intention, industry and perseverance and this la Important Just a dash of good luck." Mr. Yerkes admited he had twelve rules for success and consented to give some of them. From somewhere In the recesses of flat-top desk he produced a worn and creased piece of paper, from which he read: "Thai, worst fooled man Is the one who fools himself." ("That's my, eleventh com mandment, he added In an aside.) "Have one object in life, follow it persistently and determinedly. If, you divide your ener gies you will not succeed." 'Do not look for what you do not wish to find," continued Mr. Yerkes. He cleared his throat and added: "Have no regrets. Loik. to the future. The past Is gone and cannot be brought back." One of the strangest occupations fol lowed by the people of the teeming east side is that of "dish lender." There aro only two men one a Hebrew rtnd the other an Italian In the business. They are lo cated In Baxter and Hester streets, re spectively. The former has his 'establish ment" In the basement of a six-story tene ment house. The place Is almost entirely lined with rows of shelves, on which are neatly arranged tea and dinner services of varied colors and patterns, besides dishes and plates of all kinds. In one corner of tho basement Is a large wooden box, di vided Into numerous partitions, for the knives, forks, spoons and other "sliver ware." Most of the borrowers are as reg ular as clockwork In their requirements on Saturdays and Sundays, marriageable daughters, maybe, whose Intended hus bands are always entertained at tea those days, accounting for this. There Is more money spent In this way among the east- slders than is generally supposed. 4 . Shoes selling for $1,000 a pair are the prod uct of a factory near Madison square. To style It a shop would be to insult the artisans employed therein. They call it a "footgear Institute" and the proprietor goes by no less a title than "curative orthope dist" The wearing of these $1,000 shoes la, in the main, a hobby, and la based on nerves gone wrong. For there are some persons, it seems, who are plagued with sensitive nerves In their feet which ache so excruciatingly that nothing can assuage the pain but shoes "prescribed" by a phy sician cobbler. The learned cobbler listens to a tale of toeache, with attending nervous disturb ances, and examines the patient's feet with critical scrutiny. Every hill and dale of the foot Is Inspected and studied, and especially Js a sharp lookout kept for the sensitive nerves, which ultimately are sure to be fcund. A volume of notes Is taken and the prospective customer naturally be comes Impressed with the severity of his allmont. Next, and what Is very Im portant, a plaster cast of the foot Is taken, and if the patient's purse Is proportioned to his plaint the physician cobbler is apt to enter a new order on his book The ahoes are made of good leather, but do not generally follow the lines of the latest fashions; rather the reverse. It all depends on the views of the healer. Some sufferers are scientifically shod In exchange for $600, $250 or even $100; but those cus tomers who prefer to pay the highest prices are satisfied with nothing less than a $1,000 pair. The shoe bills of one New Yorker- rich 'contractor who rides the orthopedic hobby, have footed up $50,000. Yet the shoes he wears are queer-looking Con trivances. , The cobbler has made a fortune and Is about to enlarge the establishment and employ additional assistants. The revival of the high heel for women, with Its at tendant train for nervous disorders, has suggested to him a new and profitable field. The only thing that perplexes him !s whether lovely women will purchase $1,600 pedal pain killers that make her feet look anything but fairylike. BuCHhe cobbler Is a man of genius, and ha awaits the issue with serenity The largest and most powerful screw drivers ever devised have Just 'been dellv ered in the vicinity of New York. The Pennsylvania railroad. In planning for Its double tube under the North river has de cided that it needed them, and the engl neerlng department, working with the con struction departmnet, has provided them. The carpenter In using the ordinary screw drivers exerts a power of about thirty pounds. The new screw driver will have power of 200,000 pounds, equal to that ex erted by 6,606 carpenters, They will drive the great piles which must be sunk under the tunnel they will. In fact, be the piles themselves. Inasmuch as about l.OOO.OOQ.OW pounda of metal will be used In the tubes a , faint Idea of what the piles will have over them can be formed. The screw driver plies are cylinders two and one-quarter feet In diameter, made of cast Iron one and oae-quarter Inches thick. They will be located every fifteen feet cen trally, so that both tubes will .be rein forced. They will be made In length short enough to be handled in the tunnel, the successive lengths being belted or? as tha pile sinks. The screwdriver, or screw point, so-called, la at the erfQ of the pile and is ao constructed that It will have one turn of twenty-one inches and' a diameter of four and three-fourths feet, Examples of the power of the screw were given recently, when It wss said that Its force would be equaled only by a weight of mo. 000 pounds placed on the pile, or It could be equaled by the power of a lever one-half mile long, at the end of which would be a man weighing 150 pounds. A touch of nature makes all passengers akin. A wagon loaded with eoal wss stalled on tha street car tracks at the foot of Am sterdam' avenue hill. The two horses could not m6ve It and tha driver was In despair "Get up to your seat and bead your horses up hill," yelled the motorman. The driver obeyd. "Now start them gently." said the man on tha platform. Xhe front of th ecar ' - rr ' . .. 'iii 'mi" i in i ' mm mmmT I i-OTbSpwtTB fW"tt..A: "FRONT - ,i I., a i touched the rear of the wagon. It began to move. The horses pulled, the car pushed, the passengers smiled, the broad face of the big driver was one .grin. At tho top of tho hill the wagon pulled out, the driver shouted his thanks, and tha car bowled merrily on. At Intervals of nhmit nni-A a tnnnlh mnm Philistine New Yorker Is moved by a great desire to take a fall out of John D. Rocks- felle ler, Jr., at the tatter's celebrated Ilibla class meetings. Tho Inspiration came laat to. a finely dressed and evlilentlv vnrv clever youth when the oil magnate's son gave a discourse on the "Puty of a Cltlsen to the State." Mr. Rockefeller's remarks were beautifully Vague, and the young New YorT rose and said "I don't think good citizens should try to avoid pnylng their taxes ry Having two or three residences or Y uam swearing-ore process. Do you, Mr. ocgefeller?" The teneher Inntr o innr breath and expelled It again without an swering, in tne meantime looking around or neip. one or the class cappers In the ludlence arose to the occasion by saying: 'It all denends On whether the Im la i,,at Mr. Rockefeller nodded annroval it hla and the discussion proceeded with thi sual deft avoidance, at live Issues If .un. pens that Mr. Rockefeller's father and un cle are Just now in controversy over their taxes. SOMETHING OIGHT TO DE DOXE. Rural Mall Carriers Entitled to m. Living; Wage. Minneapolis Tribune. The postmaster general does not agree with the recommendation of his assistant. that rural mall carriers should be permitted to add to their salaries by doing an ex press business. Mr. Payne thinks that the law which permits this ought to be repealed, and that salaries ' of carriers ought tooe raised to a living wage. It Is clear that something ought to be done, when 3,000 carriers' resigned last year be cause they could not live on their salaries. we doubt very much If congress can be brought to Increase salaries more than enough to offset the loss of giving up the llttlo local express business That would leave the carriers Just where they are now. and the sen'ico would still be crippled by continual drirtlng away . of its best, men. Wo cannot .Bee how the service suffers by letting rural carriers become carriers of the small package trade which Is con stantly going on between little village set tlers and the surrounding farms. We should think that this might be winked at In any case. What the postmaster general complains of Is. the express business that originates In cities, goes part . way by freight and the rest by rural carriers as messengers for the public. This, he says, ought to go through the malls and pay revenue to the government But If the government Is going to get more revenue out of the change, It must be more liberal In tho matter of salaries. We think an increase of at least 25 per cent ought to be the first step, leaving the question of express business to be settled afterwards, when the department has had a llttlo more experience.- PERSONAL SOTES. The contract for the equestrian statue of General Frans eigel, the hero of Pea Ridge, to be erected In New York City, has been awarded to Carl Blttner. To honor the memory of Emillo Castclar. the celebrated republican orator and former president of the Spanish Republic-,, his friends Intend to raise a monument to him In Madrid. Colonel C. M. Whelden, a member of thn staff of General Benjamin F. Butler during the civil war, on Saturday, December 26, observed his eighty-third birthday at his Tiome In Newton, Mass. Washington ,1b in an uproar because the government has decided to make Its clerks work half an hour a day longer than has been the custom. Yet a half an hour out of twenty-four Isn't very long to work. Persia's 'grand yhtler, Atabeg Axam, U only making a tour to 'Mecca, that's nil; but owing to sensational stories about the sudden death of his warmest enemy he is making the tour about 25,000 miles long. Pierre Loti has been for some time In the harbor of Constantinople as com mander of the Voutour. He is, giving his leisure hours In writing a novel, the scene of which Is placed in Persia, a country In which he spent several months three years ago. Tains Blxby, chairman of the Dawes commission, has given up his residence In Minnesota and become a citizen of the Imljan Territory, with a view to running for the United' States senate when the ter ritory Is admitted to statehood, or, as is possible, the Creek nation Is annexed to Oklahoma and that territory admitted. French physicians report an Increasing number of cases of acute nervousness which are due directly to automobillng, and they predict that with an increase of the sport will comb an Increase In the number of the cases. The sickness Is called the neurosis of anxiety, and may ba traced to the excitement and mental tension, of rapid traveling with the emotional re pression necessary to secure a reasonable feeling Of enjoyment while speeding rap idly, with risks and dangers constantly at hand.1 THIS DLUE SIGNATURE r 7 rw m BEWARE OF 'JUST AS COODSJ 0 GUARANTEES L.. .risagsfrg 1 f in ffl-r- MODELS A CLKVF.R SOOTHSAYER. Jim Hill Imagines the Hallraods Are the Whole Thing;. Chicago Rocord-Hcrald. -James 3. mil Is a clever speaker as well as an able railroad president When he tells us that railroads that "act In re straint of trad will go bmke," and when he argues that consequently no railroads ever act In restraint of trade, he almost convinces lis that all the long series of court decisions against railroad companies for just such acts are as unreal as dreams. Mr. Hill is certainly clevef. But after wa have caught our breath a few times we are apt to remember that there la a very real distinction between restraining one's own trade and restraining other people's trade, and that very often a man or a rail road company conceives that the very acts which most restrain other people's trade are most advantageous to Its own. It Is not true, however, that railroads always act in the way best calculated to build up even their own trade. There is a short-sighted point of view, as well as a long-sighted point f view. In railroad man agemt-nt. High rates and little business are very often deemed better and more profitable than .low rates and much busi ness. It used to be a common saying In California that the Southern Paclflo took the difference between the cost of produc tion and the market price for freight, and the saying Is a good enough Illustration of the grasping policy pf the compaiiy. "If a man does not prosper," says Mr. Hill, "he can move, but a railroad is there and must stay." If Mr. HUI means by this to draw clearly the Issue as to who owns the earth, the railroads or ths peo ple, he will be apt to discover before he Is done that even his own cleverness will not gain for him the answer he wishes. S.MII.ISO LIXES. "De trouble wlf tryin to keep dressed fit to kill," said Uncle Eben, "Is dat you's spendln, a heap o' time an' money foh de sake o' wakln aroun' an' beautlfyln' de In if scape, an' not nit tin' no thanks for It f'um nobody."'-Wasliington Star. . "You know, Jessie, the good book says 'Love your neighbor,' " spoke the mother to her little gfrl. "Yes, mamma; but that was written before,, the days of flats." Yonkers Statesman. .. "I didn't know you were in tha 'choir. What's your position there?" "Neutral." "How do you mean?" , "I don't Blile with either faction." Philadelphia Press. The ' Dramatist You'll find, this a very warm play colonel. ' The Manager Hush, not so loud! If the buHdlng inspectors hear you they'll insist upon opening a Couple of aisles through It and keeping all the exits wide open Cleveland Plain Dealer. "The trouble with the average servant girl Is. that she cannot remember her place." "I guess you're right. At any rate our new servant-girl went out last Thursday und forgot the way back to the house again." Philadelphia Catholic Standard. Lafayette was tendering his services. "I will not unly fight your battles," he declared, "but I will translate your menus tor you." I Rejoiced to know what they were eat ing at the Hyphen hotel, they gratefully accepted the oft'ur." Nw York Sun. "Why do you persist In saying 'widow woman' nil the time?" asked tha eg, pedHgiigue. '"Why not 'widow' alone?" "That's all right If she happens to be a i plain widow." explained the party of tho other part, "but If she's young, handsome and wealthy you'll seldom Und her alone.'" , Chicago News. , 4 HE PASStSU OF THE ARMY BEAN. (Major "W. II. Bean, chief commissary of the Department of the Missouri, has gone to Forts Leavenworth and Riley, Kansas, to test the eltlelency of fresh beef hash as an army ration.) Oh Major spare our soup, touch not a sin gle beun; In days gone by It nourished us, so pure h ml white and clean. The menu of the camp and march; the srnnd. old army bean, Has solaced many a hungry soul, to desart it now were mean. A vaunt thee with thy fresh beef hash, a mixture unforeseen, And give us back our old-time love, th sturdy army beun. Your name should be its guarantee, your ' ln.rnlty I ween. Will not be rash for fresh beef hash; ba loyal to the bean Oh trifle pot the bill of fare, whatever supervenes. Let other rations go If must, but save to us our beans. Just test your hash on Spanish dns, or hungry Philippines, Leave us our soup, tried feast of gods, our Royal Pork and Beans. 8. 8. Comfort Everybody says they ara comfortaMs and what every bodyaays Is so. Don't ask for your slss. Ask, to ba fitted The Fit Tells ' $3.50 Always Soresis Shoe Store 203 5. 15th3t Frank Wilcox. Manager. Write for tha lata catalogue. 1
