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TriE OMAITA DAILY TlEEt TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 2, 1004. ! ! 4 ! Tiie Omaiia Daily Bee. v B. ROSEWATKR, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERT MORNING. TERMS OF Bi nSCRIPTION. Dully Em (without Bunday). One Year..$M Dally Bn and Bunday. One Year Illustrated Bee, One l'wr J "J Sunday Bee, Ono Year "" Saturday Bee, One Year J Twentieth Century Farmer. One Year., l.w DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Dally Bee (without Bunday). per copy.. 2c tally Bee (without Bunday). per week...l2o Dally Bee (Including Bunday), per week.l7 Sunday Bee, per ropy J Kvenlng Bee (without Sunday), per week so Evening Bee (Including Bunday), P' Week ioc Complaints of' irregularity In delivery should be addressed to City Circulation De partment. OFFICE. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha City Hall Building. Twenty-fifth and M street. . Council Bhiffa 10 pearl Street Chicago 1640 1'nltv Building. New Tork-23 Park Row Building. Washington 5UI Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communication relating to news and edi torial matter should be addressed: Omaiia Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order payable to The Bee PuMiahlng Company, Only l-cent stamps recetvea in pay""-"' ' mail accounts. Persona'-chevKs. ejf'i'i " Omaha or eastern exchanges, not sccerted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANT. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss.i George B. Tzwhuck. secretary of The Pea Publishing Company, being duly sworn, saye that the actual number of full and omplete copies of The Dally. Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of December, 1903. was as fol low: .,. 4 ao.wis 1 90,800 f 80,010 T 80.S4O I v.ao,eeo 81,1 lO a 80a&V0 :l 80,400 13 80,400 ;l 87,010 : so.hoo IT 80,60 It SO,8TO j si. 020 to 27,020 n sijtTo S3 SO.TTO U 8O.0SO U 81.3O0 is aivoo 2S 81,200 J? MM0 18 80,7ftO 2 3O.RM0 so 33,010 II 83,400 :i so, two '. si.iuo Total 47,3M .ess unsold and rtturned copies.... 10,421 .Vet total sales .. n:il,t34 Net average sale 80,280 GEORGE B. TZ8CHUCK. Subscribed in my presence and sworn to Vfora me this Slat day of December. A. D. . M. B. HITNUATK, (Seal.) Notary Public. Keep your eye on the ground bog today. If this thing keeps up the Burlington claim agent's department will have to be' enlarged. If the Mad Mullah 'doesn't do some thing pretty soon England will be for gotten as one of the warrior powers of earth. Ten flour mills have closed down at Minneapolis for an indefinite period. Why can't some a them be induced to reopen at Omaha T If former Senator Thurston will take a few of his appointees in Nebraska with him to that new colony in Cuba mucb will be forgiven. Both sides might be Imore ready to ' light it -they could prove that the other was responsible for bringing tho horrors of war upon the world. k England may be sorry If it succeeds .In opening Thibet. The white man's burden Is heavy enough right now with out 'seeking unnecessary additions. Close study of a new edition of the life of Admiral Cervera might save the Colombian leaders much trouble In these days of distress In the South American republic. L,. T !r The Tool who mixes kerosene with gasoline Is running a close race with the Tool who didn't know It was loaded. Both have scored human lives In Ne braska during the week. Between mandamus and injunction the Judicial branch of the government of many states Is rapidly outstripping in Importanco the other branches appar ently miscalled co-ordinate. Perhaps General Reyes Is staying in the United States to be able to prove that he had no hand in the declaration of war against Panama after the people of Colombia come to their senses again. Missouri's game laws need amend ment Late dispatches show that it Is still the open season for foot ball play ers at St Louis, and one will probubly die as the result of a game played last Saturday. If the Sarpy county citizens succeed la making the county commissioners break relations with the bridge con tractors tbey might make a, little on the side by selling the formula for the work to Douglas county. Kansas has always been mnrked as volcanic on the political map and the Withdrawal of Governor Bailey from the republican gubernutorlul race only signalises one of the periodic upheavals to which Kansas Is subject. After finding bear tracks in Corea the Japanese Immediately decided to set a trap. They nearly caught the emperor of Corea, but that worthy showed his good Judgment in selecting the United States legation as, a place of retreat should the chase become too warm. Desire for political capital threatens to destroy the last of the old-Hue demo cratic doctrines. The right of the leg! lature of a sovereign state to Instruct . Its senators has been denied. And the senate Is considered the last evidence of state sovereignty In the federal gov ernmeut Former Senator John M. Thurston Is reported to have plunged into a Cuba land speculation out of which be ex pects to make millions by Inducing large parties of westerners to come and settle. It Is doubtful, however, whether Thurston will succeed auy better in booming Cut- v lauds than did his ardent admirer, the late Paul Vander voort Very few people In the far west are anxious to be CubanUed. , MA T PROYOK lit TALlA TtOB. The proposal boforo congress, to ex tend our exclusive coasting trade laws to traffic between the Philippine and this country may, It Is susrgeted. pro- oke retaliation on the part of the British government. A proposition of retalia tion against foreign restrictive shipping laws Is said to have been added to the Chamberlain scheme of protection and It is understood that the United States is .chiefly aimed at The suggestion Is to exclude foreign vessels from the carrying trade between British ports both within the kingdom and In other parts of the empire and also exclude foreign ownership in vessels engaged In this trade. The proposal is to limit the application of this policy to nations that maintain a similar policy affecting Brit ish shipping, so that the effect would be chiefly upon American shipping. It is pointed out that Grent Britain is in a position of great advantage for pur suing a retaliatory policy of this kind If her government should be induced to adopt It. She has the shipping and she can compete with the world in building nd navigating. This is undoubtedly true, but how shall we encourage the building up of our shipping Interest If we do not apply to It the protective principle, as contemplated in the Frye bill? Manifestly we mast choose be tween this and a perpetual dependence upon British and other foreign shipping. We should not be Influenced in this matter by any threats of retaliation. If that policy should be adopted by the British government a way can be found to meet it and in all probability the ultimate result would be to our ad vantage. Perhaps there are sound rea sons against applying the coasting trade laws to traffic between the Philippines nd this country, but the suggestion of British retaliation Is not one of them. A tTHULSSOMC BX AMPLE. A few days ago the New York Stock exchange ordered stricken from the list of securities that may be traded in upon the floor of the exchange an aggregate of $30,500,000, representing the stock of the American Steel Foundries company. The reason for this action was that the company, at the time of listing its se curities, made misrepresentations in re gard to Its financial condition. The company has admitted that the cash and cash assets were overstated by half a million dollars, but undertook to explain that this was due to some misunder standing. The governors of the ex change very properly declined to accept the explanation and tho result Is that the securities of the company have be come almost unsalable. ? It was a wholesome example of the way to deal with corporations which practice deception upon the public by misrepresenting their true condition and ought to have a salutary effect Fer- hnps there are other corporations whose securities are listed on the exchange that ought to be similarly treated, but however this may be the action taken in regard to the Steel Foundries com pany will tend to assure the public that representations of assets, of credit and of financial strength made to the ex change are at least generally subjected a proper Investigation. There Is reason to believe that this practice will be more rigidly followed In future than It has been hitherto and if so danger from unscrupulous promotions will be mucb reduced. The Stock exchange, if disposed to do so, can effectively safe guard the public against such corpora tions as that whose securities it dropped because of misrepresentations. It can do more in this respect than even a government publicity bureau. AS ASSMXATIOS DMCAM. In an address a few days ago before an association of Baltimore merchants and manufacturers. Representative Davis of Minnesota expressed the opinion that the present northwest ultimately, and perhaps in the not very distant future, will be extended so as to include the regions now known as Manitoba, Asslnl bola, Alberta, British Columbia and Athabaska. This would not be aeeom plished, be said, by conquest or pur chase, but by voluntary annexation, in duced by mutual benefits to be derived politically, Industrially and commer dally. Doubtless some of the constltu ents or Mr. Davis ana otners in our northwestern states entertain a like opln ion. Within the last year or two a con slderable number of people have gone from the states of the northwest into the regions named by the Minnesota con gressman, purchasing extensive farms there which they are cultivating. It has been assumed that this process of Americanizing these Canadian prov Inces would Inevitably have the effect to develop there a sentiment favorable to annexation to the United States; that the American settlers in Canadian terri tory, carrying with them love of onr Institutions and the flag, would seek to Inculcate their political views upon the Canadians and Induce them to look to connection with this republic as giving the best assurance for the promotion of their interests and welfare in all direc tions. There have come from portions of the Dominion expressions of appre hension that this might be the effect of so many Americans going Into that country as permanent settlers. Thero are many Canadians who believe that our people generally want to annex their country and these feel that the American Invasion of Canadian territory may prove to be the entering wedge In carry' lng out this desire. No one can foresee what may take place within a feneration in the rela tlons between the Dominion and the United States, but at present the Idea of annexation must be regarded a merely a dream. It Is altogether prob able that if the American people were to vote on the question of annexing Canada there would be au overwhelm lng majority In the negative, and it la absolutely certain that very few of the people of the Dominion are now favor able to anoexaUuk. - They are generally well contented with their political condi tion, they are fairly prosperous, and if they were to decide on any change It would be for national Independence. Ca nadians generally are not anient ad mirers of onr political system and meth ods. They believe that they have more real liberty than Americans do; and if they could gain free admission o bur markets for their natural products they would be perfectly satisfied as to all else, for the very large majority of them re heartily loyal to Great Britain. Bo far as tho people who have gone from our northwest Into Canada are concerned, very few If any of them care anything about the political condi tions. They are looking entirely to tho practical advantages. They may prove more or less Influential in promoting closer trade relations between the coun tries, but that they will undertake to do anything In behalf of annexation is most Improbable. TUB VA.VPAIBH FOH TAX RtFOKM. A contributor to tho last Issue of the Omaha Examiner hits the nail squarely on the head by the following pertinent inquiry: Why should the Reel Estate exchange be allowed to go out alone to do battle against the corporations for an equitable distribution of local taxation? The Real Estate exchange should have an organized ally in every square block In the city's ter ritory, men who would give It out cold that they would not stand for any further tax evasion nor for any public, officials, or private aspirants for office, who would aid In bringing it about This is the right kind of talk. The Real Estate exchange should not be compelled to battle alone for tax re form, nor should the campaign Inau gurated about two years ago be aban doned until the Issue is fought out. The Real Estate exchange has successfully prosecuted Ihe campaign for equitable taxation against the public utility cor porations and Its appeal to the courts to compel the railroads to bear their duo share of the burdens of municipal taxa tion should have ardeut supporters and Hies in every square block of the city's territory. The railroad assessment In Omaha is notoriously a' monstrosity unparalleled, we feel sure, In any other city in Amer ica. The terminal facilities, depot build ings and depot grounds of the railroads converging In Omaha at the most con servative estimate are worth not less than 125,000,000, but on the basis of the assessment made, by the Board of Equal ization, which has not only done rank Injustice to every taxpayer in Omaha, but to every taxpayer in Nebraska, these properties are assessed for per cent of their actual value. While the railroads converging in Omaha own one- fifth of the- assessed valuation of the city, they will contribute only one-fortieth of the municipal taxes toward the expenses of municipal government In round figures the taxpayers of Omaha are compelled to contribute f2.000.000 a year toward the expenses of city, county and state government Of this amount $1,000,000 represents taxes levied by the city and $1,000,000 by the county, stntol and school district As sessed at its true value ratio, the prop erty of the railroads should be taxed $400,000 per annum for state, county, city and school district purposes, but It only contributes. In round figures, $25, 000 per annum toward local self-govern ment The assessment of the street railway company, although reduced from $5,000,- 000 to $4,500,000 by the city council, compels that company to pay $90,000 for city, county, state and school district taxes within the city limits of Omaha, while the railroads only pay $25,000. The assessment of the street railway com pany Is by no means excessive or out of proportion with the assessment of the property of other corporations and pri vate Individuals, but the discrimination in favor of the railroad companies under so-called state equalization is unbear able. When the next legislature comes to revise the charter for metropolitan cities we shall expect a reconstruction of the Board of Public Works On rational lines'. The present board, con stituted of the engineer, building in spector and comptroller, was created in response to a demand for greater economy, but it has proved Itself the most expensive attempt at economy that has ever been made in this city. To be sure, we have saved the salaries of two members of the board, but we hava lost thousands upon thousands of dol lars by putting square pegs Into round holes. , A first-class bookkeeper and ex pert accountant can do excellent work ti a comptroller, but h may be abso lutely ignorant about the quality of various paving materials or the quan tities of sand, cement and water to make up a durable mortar for a sewer wall. A man may be a first-vluss builder and understand all about Who prints, but for all that be may rot possess the requisite qualifications for making up paving specifications. A good deal can be said oil both sides of the proposition to nominate a United 8tates senator by the republican state convention. But suppose thut the con vention could not agree any sooner than the last republican legislative caucus? Who would pay the board bilU? Who would furnish the cigars, the cocktails and theater tickets, even if the return passes wtus1 good for sixty days? ' Those people who look upon a nomina tion for United States senator us a step in the direction of Die election of sena tors by the people have another think coming. It is simply giving delegates the right to tell' other delegates of the people what should, be done, which is much different from the people doing the work themselves. The World-Herald's appeal for an ex presslon of popular sentiment on the proposition for a monument to Rocke feller recalls forcibly Susan B. Anthony's appeal to an Omaha audl- tcct for an expression of popular aentl ment on the woman's suffrage amend ment "Ladles and gentlemen," ex claimed Miss Anthony, "I now ask all those who favor the degradation of American women, all those who favor putting women on an equal footing with lunatics, idiots and penitentiary con victs, to rise." Only one person out of the 2,000 In that audience stood up a young lawyer whose name was Gilbert M. Hitchcock. "All those opposed will rise." Tho whole audience arose ex cepting Mr. Hitchcock. "Ladles and gentlemen," exclaimed Miss Anthony, "I thank you for this expression of an overwhelming sentiment In favor of woman suffrage In Nebraska." The report by the Omaha Bryanlte organ that G. W. Blythe of Iowa has tendered the support of the Burlington railroad to President Roosevelt should be taken with a grain of allowance. But, even if the report were true, the Trojnn at the White House will be wary of the Greeks bearing presents. The Board bf Public Works Is all torn up over paving and sewer specifications, with the city engineer on one side and the two other members the comptroller and building Inspector on the other. It has been apparent for soveral years that the Board of Public Works as now con stituted is a very costly farce. Blaine has been dead long enough to be called the originator of many ideas which were far from his mind. Once a man ceases to live his expressions bo- come dogmas to certain admirers, al though probubly the expressions have no real connection with the Idea except In the mind of tho one who quotes. Blind and Lopsided. Washington Post One peculiarity of our law Is that tho technicalities all seem to be on the side of the acoused. The Worm Will Tarn. Philadelphia Press. It Is an actual fact that some democrats are at least getting courage enough to talk at Bryan. Great American Institution. Chicago Record-Herald. Ex-Mayor Amea of Minneapolis should hurry up now and start a fund for the erection of a monument to the great Amer ican technicality. A Startling- Ontrage. Detroit Free Press. A member of the New Jersey legislature, who had no railroad pass, refused to pay his fare and was put oft the train. He In tends to sue the company, and we hope he will get a judgment. Corporation arro gance ha surpassed the bounds of tolera tion when a member of a legislature Is re fused free transportation. . Prosperity's Door of Hope. Chicago Inter Ocean. One of the strongest grounds for believ ing in the continuance of American pros perity Is the fact that no misfortune, no betrayal of trust, by acknowledged leaders, can long repress, .the energy and hope of the American people. No matter what er rors they commit and what losses they suffer, they wlaflt despair. Progressing: Crab Fashion. ' Baltimore American. The theory of a, western college authority that the method, of Sparta should be fol lowed la the destruction of human weak lings prove that anarchy Is not the only danger of our modern civilisation. To travel all these centuries simply to get back to the barbarous methods of ancient paganism Is a sort of progress which advances crab fashion.' It is simply a reverting to the primitive law of the right of the strong to destroy the weak, which doctrine It is hardly necessary to go to all the trouble and expense of founding and supporting col leges to revive. STAR-EYED GODDESS DECLAIMS. Warm Political Rhetorle from the Lips of the Fair Charmer. In Saturday's Issue of the Louisville Courier Journal Mr. Henry Watterson ad dresses two columns of remark "To the democrats of Kentucky." While Intended for local consumption, Mr. Watterson make several references to a prominent citlien of Nebraska which will be relished by patriotlo harmonlsers hereabout. For example, these: What ha Mr. Bryan been doing these same ten years? Their advent found him a bright young member of congress. By a series of accidents, culminating In a camp meeting furore at Chicago, he was snatched from obscurity and whirled heels over head into the party leadership. It need not be denied thn.t he made a most attractive fig ure, ready of tongue, resonant of voice, captivating of presence. Yet, he lost the battle or 1896. Concede It no fault' of his. He was young, ardent and he did hi best. But at this point In xvjv to show hi lack of caprclty for true lea ltHi!lp. He per sisted In the refusal in 1900 to revise the line of 1896, and lost the second battle by a yet greater majority than the flrat. He made no effort to reunlt the party. He rather repelled peace-making. All this while, however, he was feathering his own neBt, as the saying hath it. He started unknown and poor. He Is now rich and famous. He started professing the equality of all. He now sets up for a lordly dicta tor. But yesterday the party was every thing. Today It is nothing. He It 1 who Is everything. Yet, a a patriot, what sacrifices ha he made? As a general, what victories has he won? It is not alone that, preaching man against mammon and preaching It though no one had ever preached It before he appears In the courts struggling with a widow for the greater part of her hus band' estate, the will and attendant docu menta prepared by hlmaoir in his own houafc the testator not a relation, nor even an old friend but It Is riven out, and all the circumstance Ind.'cate. that he 1 mak lng common caus with a candidate who will appear before the next democratic na tional convention literally loaded down with gold; hi solo, entire strength derivable from the lavish tine of monav. Yet, all this while. Mr. Bryan la not for getting either his money Interest a the owner of a newspaper which lives on hi candidacy alone and his lecture business which can only flourish whilst hs keeps in the foreground of national affair. No party leader, from Henry Clay to James O. Blaine, ever thought of making auch draught upon the popular credulity. No party leader ever dreamed of setting up such an autocracy. It is either, R can only be either. Insanity or thrift; but I It pos sible that, without any other rhyme, or reason except the faith eure, it has power to lure to Its support any sane democrat who lovea his country and his party, and preserves In himself the least spirit of manhood, or pride or opinion? God help the party and God help fhe country If the answer to Mr. Bryan' exac tion be not Instaataneoua universal and overwaelmlnjc ROl'ND ABOVT NEW YORK. Ripple on the Current ef Life In the Metropolis. New York City magistrates report there were 23,152 more arrests In l3 than In 1902, and that drunkneness and consequently disorderly conduct furnished 18,770 of this Increase. There was a decrease ' of burglaries of IKS. The magistrates report as to probation cases as follows: "The probation law continues to work out sat isfactory results, and the officer that find It their duty are doing faithful and conscientious work. The beneficence of the law was enjoyed by t,708 individuals, of whom J.0M were males and 661 were females. At the end of the year S4S cases were still open and pending." How the mighty have fallen! For years and years, when Hugh Mclaughlin, the deposed democratic boss of Brooklyn, left on his annual trip to Florida there was always a great crowd of retainers to es cort him to the ferry house. Politicians, big and little, hung- upon his every word and played the flatterer to the great auto crat of Kings county. Last Thursday tho defeated and aged boss loft for hi southern trip. Two or three faithful adherents ac companied him to the boat, where here tofore were score to see him off. Mr. Mc Laughlin once, remarked that there Is nothing so dead as a dead politician. The laat claim against the New York Central Railroad company on account of the Park avenue tunnel disaster ha just been settled by the payment of $40,000 to the heirs of one of those killed. It has been probably the most expensive disaster ever suffered by a railroad on account of loss of lite. It ha cost the company alto gether $1,240,000 in cash payment to those Injured and to the heir of those killed. Not ao very many lives wore lost as rail road accidents go, but the road was trans porting on that particular train a large number of high-salaried men, and damages were assessed accordingly. That the rapid transit tunnel will bo warm, even In sero weather, was shown by test made last week by Chief Engineer Deyo and other experts of the Interborough company, A difference In temperature of 40 degrees was cbtalned by, thermometer tests on one of the coldest days of this win ter. On the street near City Hall park theJ temperature was 1 degree above sero, and fifty feet away, down In the siibway, the temperature was 41 degree above sero. Many peculiarities have been developed by these tests. In the first plaoe, the tun nel Is now much colder than It will be when completed.. There are hundred of openings to the street and through stairways, and the cold air from above rushes into the tunnel, but the experts declare that when these openings are closed and the tunnel Is completed the average temperature will be about SO degrees, no matter how cold it may be In the open air. The average tun nel temperature, according to tests, is now about 40 degrees when the thermometer Is below 82 on the outside. This does not vary much, even when the temperature is 1 de gree above sero on the outside. i The engineer declare that when all the openings are closed and trains are In opera tion the tunnel will be comparatively warm In winter and cool In summer. They say that New York's subway Is much larger than that of Paris, and the methods tor ventilation are better, so the air here will be far better. New York Is at present being upset by an epidemic of "skateltls." Accidents from skating on the ponds and lakes of city park ha disabled hundreds, while slippery sidewalks have done their share of evil. More people are ' hobbling around on crutches with arms In splints and exhibit ing other signs of broken or fractured members than the city has seen for many winter. Ice on the lakes Is fully a foot thick, making exceptionally fine skating, and Its glare is so enticing that far too many people are on the Ice at one time. It take an expert skater to make aafe head way, a consideration but few seem to have. Colllsons and disastrous mlxups result. Then there's work for the policeman, the ambulance and the doctor. Tha nM floors In the hulldlntrs In the wholesale Jewelry district In Maiden Lane and John street and elsewhere where man ufacturing In gold Is done on a large scale often worth small fortunes. So are the aggregate collection of dirt, rubbish and even the water In those places In which h wnrVmen wnah their hands. Small, mi nute particles of gold are constantly flying about, and settle In the noors, ceilings ana valla Rverv dav the floors are careruuy cleaned, and the dirt and rubbish Is col lected, burned and stored away. The ni-HOaa nf amid distributed In this debris may seem Infinitesimal, but In the course of a year the amount of gold lodged In it i- nnnniHnrnhln. About once a year the ashe are auctioned eft to men who make a business of buying the refuse of manufacturing Jewelers. Frequently the manufacturer get sum ranging from $4,000 to 18.000 a year from the sale of tne in cinerated dirt and rubbish. The workmen are required to wash In basins. The water is kept for a time and sold. It Invariably contains a respectable quantity of gold. T i sums obtained from tne oirt, ruD- bish and water' are frequently far below .ma tirnus-ht bv the sale or oia noor h srranlnn of walls and ceilings. This Is especially so where the buildings are old and the noor are or ion wooo.. iToan with the most scrupulous cleaning and sweeping, particles of gold lodge in the crevice and minute apertures oi tne floors, and by constant trampling sink Into the body of the wooden floor. After some years' use the floors are taken up and auctioned off and replaced by new floors. The old floor and the scrapings of a watch case factory in Brooklyn were sold not long ago for $17,000. and this Is by no means an exceptional case. Many of the factories now have specially patented devices for sucking In the flying particles of gold, but at best they are not all-aufflclent, and atoms of gold manage to escape and find sheltering places everywhere about the rooms. Japan a World Power. E W. Clement's "Handbook of Modern Japan." It I a safe commentary on the present standards of civilization that a considera tion of Japan as a world power requires soeclal attention to military and naval af fairs. It Is tatrer a strange coincidence that It was not until little Japan In 1894 showed that It oould easily overcome Im menae China that the "great power" were willing to revise their treaue with It on terms of equality and admit It to the comity of nations. And it Is another strange coincidence that It was the Boxer troubles which gaye Japan another opportunity to display ths efficiency of its military and naval organization and win such laurel sldo bv side with troop of the other "pow ers." thst Great Britain, the mightiest of them all, abandoned Ha time-honored policy of "splendid isolation" and sought Japan's assistance by means of the Anglo-Japanese alliance. It Is not, however, to be imagined that Great Britain overlooked or ignored Japan's other elements of power; but It Is quits evident thst the tatter's military and naval efficiency made a great impression on the former. Ro Stomach Troublt After tore days If you write to Drake Formula Cjoipetiy. CbiMx. fur fro bottis of Iraae J-atauMte Wlu. frios Cwusvipetiea la mOmt, . THERE IS KO SUBSTITUTE FOR mm Absolutely Pure ST S3 A MATTER OF HEALTH SUMMARY OF CANAL HrESTIOW. Resnlt from Improved Facilities for Commercial Intercourse. Everybody's Magazine. Two hundred million dollars looks llko a large Investment even for a wealthy coun try such as tho United States; but In com parison with the results that may be ac complished the expenditure is small. While It Is not recommended that tho Panama canal shall be so managed as to secure a large net revenue, our country can, if It desires to do so, easily recover In a com paratively short time the amount Invested. By spending, on an average, $20,000,000 a year for the next decade, the United States will secure a canal from which, during the succeeding twenty years, by means of moderate tolls, an Income can be obtained that will meet current expenses and return to our national treasury the entire $200,000,- 000. During those twenty years, and for all time to come, American Industries and the trade of our country and every na tion will annually derive the Immeasur able advantages resulting from ' Improved facilities for commercial Intercourse. Nor will larger commerce and greater wealth be the sole or highest gain which the world will derive. Whatever brings the people of the world closer together ad vances civilization and hastens the ulti mate triumph of Justice within and among all the nations of the earth. PERSONAL NOTES. General Wolseley says the American army la tho finest In the world. It was a pretty good one In 1776 and 1812, too, eh? Leopold Koenlg, the Russian "Sugar King," Is dead. He began life as a work man and now at the age of 83 leaves a fortune of $60,000,000.' It has come at last. The saloons in Chi cago have been ordered closed. Every thing Is now shut up except the Chicago university professors. Young Mr. Tiffany of New York, who finds that It costs him $35,000 a year to live not cpuntlng In the drinks admit that he sporids $12,000 per annum for clothe. The real reason now given for the estrangement between the emperor of Ger many and the crown prince 1 that the prince lnslcted on wearing a collar two inches high. Manila 1 to have street cars. According to some report all the work the native Manlllana do now is in the line of enforced walking. With street cars life will be come for them one grand, sweet loaf. Emperor William Is the best Shake spearean scholar in his court. He has an Intimate knowledge of the original English translation and of the splendid German translation and of the acting edition a well. The decision of the Ice trust in New York to raise prices was made at the time when the report came from the Ice fields that the ice was too thick to cut Any kind of an excuse is good enough for the Iceman. Ewlng Cockrell, son of the United State senator, has announced hi candidacy for the office of prosecuting attorney of John son county, Missouri. He has studied law for a number of years and this is his first effort to secure public office. When Charles F. Murphy, the Tammany boas, heard of Bryan's intention to deliver a campaign speech In New York last Tues day he started at once for a health resort In Michigan, having suddenly discovered that he was suffering from the strain of tha late campaign. Senator McCarren, the Brooklyn leader, fled to Albany, and there has been a general exodus of prominent local democrats In the laat few daya. Mayor McClellan could not run away at this time, but he found hla official duties so pressing that he was unable to call on Bryan. Tho other Tammany omciala were also too busy to make a trip up to Madi son square. Bryan's only callers among local democrats were the faithful Dr. John H. Glrdner and a few other persons who might be called professional Bryan men. ISTOlFTOATCOIlJGEl DON'T HACK PUT tMf MBK-Allroek's roroos Plssters sr jullr 'JA!'"!', , , . ... ... u- u i.i ulna In the eh . sprains, stino OI the joints, sere sanseles or any trouble Alleoek'-the only CoalatO? cnd SHU EM kaik5w'AttvhdxdcinyhiyAmx, IxctHeai for coolu ng Victor.Whllo a 1603 . Tixr n ivm St .re U13 7 PASSING PLEASANTRIES. Lady (looking for a cook) What made you leave your lost place? Hrldget Sure OI was tired of the respon sibilities of married life, Detroit Krce Press. "He's exceedingly candid nnd plain spoken. He doesn't care how ho ventilates his views." "No, but Instead of ventllatlnpr them, sometimes, he really ought to fumlKate them." Philadelphia, Tress, "We can't afford to rvcognlzo them. Their ancestors were In trade. "Weren't ours?" "Of course; but our trade ancestors are two generations further back than theirs." Chicago Post. "Have you ever done anything to win the gratitude of your fellow enaiitrymen?" "Certainly," answered Senator Sorghum. "Nobody can ever say that I ever made a speech that it took over three minutes to read. Washington tttar. Mrs. Bixhy Mother says that she Is golnr. to die and Join father. r Blxby I wish there was some way to give your father warning. Town Topics. "Yes," said Archimedes, "my lever Is a great contrivance. I could lift the earth with It If I could find a place to set my fulcrum." "That's nothing," the modern mechanical rmlus remarked. "If I had belting enough could run all the machinery of the world with San Domingo's revolutions." Brook lyn Eagle. He was angry. His eyes rolled madly snd hla pearly teeth were clenched. "I'll pull her hair out!" he hissed. , And Immediately he extracted from tho butter a silvery trees which he knew be longed to tho boarding house mistress. New York Sun. "Give me a reversed Kanaka," said tha man who delights to mystify waiters by giving them incomprehensible orders. "Tongue sandwich!" called out the somber ?oung man, who was paying his way hrough college by serving at a lunch oounter. Chicago Tribune. "Did Mrs. Vanmllllons receive the news of her husband's death with Christian resignation?" "How could she, poor dear, when It came so suddenly that she hadn't time to he properly fitted with a mourning gown?" Brooklyn Eagle. "In making a paste Jewel," remsrkefl the manufacturer of imitation Jewelry to his Intelligent pupil, "you first must be sure that your paste Is of the proper con sistency." "I see," quoth the apt scholar; "con sistency la a Jewel!" Cleveland Plain Dealer. "We want a man for our Information bureau," said the manager, "but he must be one who can answer all sorts of ques tions and not lose his head." "That's me," replied the applicant. "I'm the father of eight children. Philadelphia Ledger. , "Onion socials?" said Miss De Mulr. "What are they? I never heard of them before." , "One of the girls eats an onion," replied young Spoonamore, "and the young men trv to find out which girl It Is." "How do they try to find out?" "Why, In this " "How dare you. sir!" Philadelphia Press. WINTER. Bayard Taylor. The valley stream Is frozen. The hills cold and bare. And the wild white beee of winter Swarm In the darkened air. I look on the naked forest. Was it ever green in June? Did It burn with gold and crimson In the dim autumnal moon? I look on the barren meadow, Was it ever heaped with hay? Did it hide the grassy cottage Where the skylarks1 children playT I look on the desolate garden, Is It true the rose was there? And the woodbine s murky blossoms, And the hyacinth' purple hair? I look on my heart and marvel If love were ever It own If the spring of promise brightened, And the summer of paasluii shone. Is the stem of the bllns but withered. And tli root survives tha blaxt? Are the seeds of the future sleeping Under the leave of the past? Ah. yes; for a thousand Aprils The frozen germ shall grow. And the dews of a thousand summers Wait in the womb of the snow! Put an Alkock's Piaster high up on the chest. It won't cure you in a minute, but keep it - ...,. on a reasonaDie lengin or time and you wiH feel the beneficial results. For the aching bach after a Grippy Cold, nothing will benefit you as much as an Alkock's Porous Plaster. . ON AN af itmg Iran takiug cold or ovw exei genuine porou plaster. ia worlhiil) AM OTT- i I J I
