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TI1E OMAHA DAILY DKE: WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 16. 1004. Tiie OmaiU Daily Per E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERT MORNINO. TKRM8 OF SUBSCRIPTION: Dally Bee (without Sunday), one year. .$4 00 Dally IW and Sunday, one year J "J Illustrated Bee, one year Sunday Hr. one year "J Saturday Bee. on year J- Twentieth Century Farmer, one year... Id ' DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Dally Bee (without Sunday), per copy.... Tc Dally Bee (without Sunday), per week.. 12c Dally Be (Including Sunday), per week.. 17c Sunday Fee. per copy S fcvenlng tie (without Sunday), ner week. c KvenJng Mee (including Sunday., per week : 10 Complaint of Irreg ulnrlties In delivery hould be addressed to City Circulation De partment, OFFICES: Omaha The Bee bnlldlnt. South Omihi-City Hall building. Twenty fifth and M streets. Council liluffa 10 Tearl street. Chlcsgo-l) t'nltr building. New York-i12S Park Row building. Washington 5H Fourteenth treet. i CORRESPONDENCE. Commnuleatlons relating to new and edi torial mailer should be sddressed: Omaha Bee. Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft. xprrss or postsl order, payable to The Be Publishing company. Only a-eent stamp received In payment of mall account Personal, checka. except on Omaha or eastern exchangee, not accepted. the bee publishing compant. statemenTV!rcitlation. State of Nebraska. Dougiae County. .: Oeorae B. Tiecnurk. sertarv of The Bee Publishing company, . being duly aworp, "sye that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally. Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of October. 1901 was aa follows: mjtsn ' IT .i.04o J 30.800 . it. 29.1T0 S 2D.RM4I it ,,'.1,3(W 4 2tl,:iMO M 80.400 30.RAO n aw.nnn s. ........... xo.4i.io ' Ti aw.ano 7 8l,Kk Si 80,300 I 80.150 it 20,230 ao.uoo 25 2.o 10 .....tiMTO fS 2.nO 11 WMOO 2T 2O.O40 i; notion ' a..'. o,ooo 12 soao 29 jwjmmi 14 20,240 10 80,100 it ..,.m,tum . u iiti.oo IS SO.BBO - . Total..; w ..... W15.WO Lea unsold copies 10,075 Net total sales.. BO&.SMI5 Dally average ., l),aai OKO. B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me thie Kit day of October. 1904. . (Seal) it. B. HUNQATE. Notary Public. Are we to have two liHllan'suViriiers In Ibis Jloosevelfan year?. ... . The extensloh of the normal power electric lamp contract went firllmmerlupt last year nnd It should 1?' abandoned al toKether. Venezuela has driven a uewspatwr editor Into exile. That Colorado exam ple was. bound to find converts In Kouth America. . The Jackson boys' "have ' surrendered in West Virginia, but at last report former Candidate I'AVjs was still off the reservation. Orderly saloons should have no diffi culty In securing" their annual license. Dives and dens should be barred from retting a license. South dmalm a?1 wants a few charter amendments. TBe'best charter iniend roeots South Omaha could gct'would lie given under the charter for cities of the metropolitan class. .. ....... Pat Crowe is now said to be In Chi cago. Patrick should permit the. peo ple of Omaha to recover fully from the results of the election lefore starting them upon his trail ami In. Writers of Action should not over look 1ho flue opportunity 61feivd by Kus slii'ii J imposition to i ''' for evidence provi'iK i ho 'X.Ittcncc t.i i . miiese war ship with the Hull lki..i.ii ,i. Aa an unsurpassable novelty the World's fair company might use the eighteen republican electors from Mis souri as a reception comuititcc when the president visits the exposition. Refugees are wild to be suffering- In Manchuria, but with tho exception of the civil war In the United States no campaign was ever conducted wltb a special view to the benefit of the refugee. Sherman Bill, adjutant general of Coloaado, says that he will remove to Mexico when be retires from oflJoo. If this be true the democratic party eon claim thai all of Its victories are not for the worse. Now that the results are all In, the Philadelphia IirdKor ilnUs more votes cast in 'that city than there are voters, which would Indicate that the politicians of the City of Brotherly Love may not be so stow, no matter what may be Its reputation for slowness.. , A bunch of Walter Molse .license pro Uets Is overdue now at the city hall. Tb7 M ill fie withdrawn,' of course, as oon as the" saloons of the Weeping Wil low brand are duly authorised to con tlnne business. In the old way, at the old stand, for another year. It Is to' lie hoped the police commis sion will carefully digest the suggestion for vacating the saloons within the pro crllted dUtrlct and the revision of the rules governing the police on lines that will make It Impossible for patrolmen to become too familiar with the social evil. ' ' That rcrkihlican legislature which has Ihch elected In Missouri will And it bet ter politics to uphold the hands of Joe Tolk tbamto try to "play. poUdcs" M the coming session. If tiie last election lias taught anything, it Is that political parties mean less to the Ametiean voter than Integrity and ability to carry out liuuAat Intentions. t trial of the Itolbeer St 111 cuae lu SOB c'rauclsco hae brought out the fact that every person ,who did not receive as large a bequest as lie expected be llev)a the late t'aJiforula heiress to have been luaanc, while those receivlr. the greater part of the property are nrmly convinced that her mind was normal wueo she made her wLU. pvhsia will riant o.v. The statement made " by " the Rus sian ambassador at Washington, that his government Vlll pursue the war to the bitter end. was dotibtless inspired front ft. Petersburg. It Is enpeclaHy signifi cant by reason of tiie fact that there have leen reports of an intention on the part of our government fo' Invite the powers to unite in an effort to bring almut peace In the far eaut. It has leen stated that the matter was being earn estly considered by the president and secretary of state and that a proposition to be submitted to foreign governments was being formulated. (Iround for this was furiilxhed In whnt Petretnry Hay said in his address to the International Peace congress at Itoston and there have been plain Intimations from abroad that I lie t'nited States Is expected to take some step looking to the ending of hos tilities between Russia and .Is pan. If the assistance of other countries can )w obtained. Hence it Is that the Russian government has notified the world through Its representative to this coun try that, efforts to terminate the' war through mediation or Intervention will le vain and th$t there cannot le pice until Russia has conquered. This de liverance of the Russian ambassador Is 'also a response to flie recent speech of IDrd J.ansdowne, In which he suggested arbitration. ' . , It would seem that this would silence, for the tlmn being at, least, all talk of In terference in the war. There is reason te believe that Japan Is not Undisposed to consider a proposal looking to peace. That was Indicated in 'n statement made a few days ago by her minister to England. He was reported as saying that after the fall of Port Arthur he lelleved that Japan would be ready to treat for peacQ on no higher essential basis than that Russia should evacuate Manchuria. Japan also agreeing to a sim ilar evacuation. But however desirous Japan might be for peace, no country will propose Intervention against the wish of Russia, at least while conditions remain as at present. Should Port Ar thur fall and the Russian armies suffer another severe defeat, a different phase would be given to the situation and the nations might conclude that Interven tion had beconle necessary and justifi able. In such circumstances Russia, however solicitous regarding her mili tary prestige, already sadly Impaired, would perhaps yield to the demand of the nations for peace. At present, how ever, Russia feels that she may regain what she has lost and there Is a possi bility of her doing so. nt least In part. She realizes that to give up now would place her in a position before the world of Inferiority to Japan and this would not only be humiliating, but - perhaps conducive to serious domestic difficulties, for the Russian government Is even now confronted with more or less grave in ternal troubles. So for as the United States Is con cerned, It Is not called upon to take an active patt, ceftaln)yy not to fake ' the Initiative tn efforts to terminate hostili ties in .the far easU .The American, peo ple would heartily welcome the return of peace Sn that quarter of the World. They deplore the disastrous consequences of the war. But It Is not to be doubted that very generally, they feel that their government shouhd te.ke no step In re gard to tp conflict that might In the remotest (Vgree Involve It In any com plication op Impose upon It any responsi bility heyt-nd the safeguarding of Amer ican Interests. - THE RIVER AND UAltltOR BILL. The re-election to congress from the Twenty-nist district of Ohio of Repre sentative Burton, chairman of the rivers and harbors committee of the house, doubtless Insures needed appropriations for new nid continuing Improvements on the rivers and harbors of the country. The annual report of the chief of en gineers of the army states that the ex penditures for river and work during the past fiscal year aggregated a little less than $24,OOO.OUO and estimates for the ensuing fiscal year are a little over 21,- OiiO.OOO. The report presents a list of dis tricts where the engineer thinks expendi tures can profitably be uuide In the next fiscal year. Two million five hundred nnd seventy-five thousand dollars Is the estimate of the chief engineers for Mis sissippi river Improvements. No men In congress is more familiar with thie matter than Representative Burton and while he has always favored a reasonably liberal policy, he has per sistently opposed the expenditure of money where It could not be clearly shown that It would prove of general benefit. Members of 'congress who seek an appropriation for some creek or Inlet In their district that can lie made of no substantial value to commerce get no favor from the present chairman of tho house rivers and harbors committee. Of course the policy of the government In this respect will be maintained, but It should be carried out in the most prac tical way and without extravagance. HIVJSa PBOOBB98. According to the report of the United States geological survey, the mineral productions of the couutry have more than quadrupled In the last twenty-three years. This Intricate the vastness of our mineral resources and the Increasing Importance of the mining Industry as a source of national wealth. Twenty four years ago the value of the mineral products of the United States was a little over $3d&,nn0,000. The total value of the mlueral production of lOOCt was fl,4.1t,000.000. This year's production, even though there should be no' expan sion, will probably pass the $l,riOO,K,(ioo mark, at the valuea hare been Increas ing since 1901 at the rate of nearly t'JtM),. 0O0.ni o a year. Sixty-six different me tallic and nonmi'tallic products are spe cified in the list of the geological survey. There are, liesides, some tinvpeelfled min eral product which contribute about $1,000,000 to the nation's wealth an nually. The San Francisco Chronicle remarks that uli statement of the wonderful progress made In the production of the mineral fuels and base metals of the country would le complete without dtte recognition of the national policies which have been intimately associated with It and encouraged the development of the domestic industries into which the fnels and metals have so largely entered. Jt Is a noteworthy fact which should Im press Itself tiwii the mind of every thoughtful cltl7.en. th.it tlw whole of this progress In mineral production and industrial life has -occurred under the Influence of ti protective tariff directly affecting Itoth. With protection to these Interests assured for at least another five years. It Is reasonable to expect that they will continue to expand, possibly even more rapidly than they have in recent years. The great mining in dustry should certainly be solid in sup port of the protective policy, PIT 0Hjr TUB BltAKKS. , The sweeping republican victory in the state and nation is fraught with great danger to the dominant party un less its leaders profit by the experience of the past by firmly putting down, the brakes in national nnd state legislation. " (Jreater majorities brliig with them greater responsibility. Tremendous pressure for extravagant appropriations will doubtless lie brought upon the pres ent congress during, its closing session between liecemlier and Mnrt-h 4. For tunately, Speaker Cannon is a safe en gineer and may be depended upon to handle the throttle sagaciously and firmly. The coming Nebraska legislature Is overwhelmingly republican and unless wise and moderate counsels prevail there Is serious danger of reckless legis lation that would be followed up by n rebound two years hence. The coming legislature should Hot be allowed to pur sue the ostrich policy. It must not Ig nore tho fact that a well grounded feel ing of discontent prevails among the taxpayers of this state by reason of the marked Increase of tax burdens caused by excessive appropriations and tax levies. It should not consider the political landslide of November 8 as a popular ex pression of approval of legislative ex travagance. Quite the contrary, the greut body of taxpaylng citizens look to the coming legislature for a measure of relief and will expect retrenchment In every direction where retrenchment can be made without crippling state Institu tions. To begin with, the legislative sessions are altogether too expensive by reason qf. the employment of a useless swarm of clerks, deputy sergeants-at-arms, dep uty postmasters, doorkeepers, cloak room, men and professional hangers-on. By lopping off these sinecures at the out set and closing the doors against them through the entire session, the legislative expenses of the session can be reduced by thousands and thousands of dollars. The Importunate demands for raising payrolls of state Institutions should also be resisted The state can afford to provide liberally for Its educational, benevolent and reformatory Institutions, but It cannot afford to waste a dollar for the support arid maintenance of sinecures. There Is talk of contesting the election of Alva Adams, who defeated Governor Penbody in Colorado by about 10,000 plurality. In Nebraska, however, no suggestion has been made of contesting the election of Governor Mickey, who carried Nebraska by about the same plu rality. Such a thing as 10.000 votes, more or less, makes very little difference out In Colorado. Whether this deflec tion from the rectangular Idea Is due to the fluctuation In votes owing to woman's suffrage or a fluctuation In votes owing to deportations nnd whole sale Jail Incarcerations, puzzles the brain at this end of the long-distance tele phone. The deputies, bookkeepers and clerks In the city tax commissioner's and city treasurer's offices need not be perturbed over the suggestion Hint the office of the city tax commissioner be merged with the county aKSQssor's office and of the city treasurer with the county treas urer's office. The change could not take effect until after the expiration of the terms of the present Incumbents, and lu the meantime all the good men should have no difficulty In proving their right to hold their Jobs those holding sine cures will, of course, be disagreeably disturbed. Booker T. Washington advises the members of his race to be modest In their rejoicing over the result of the na tional election, but this would seem a useless piece of advice In that part of the country, where the democrats con sider the black man without any rights that a white man Is bound to respect. Ten days ago the strenuous president of the "electric lighting company publicly declared that the electric light plant rep resented an Investment of $4,000,000 and paid more taxes than any other concern In Omaha. The city Board of Review, now In session, should take due notice and goveru Itself accordingly. It has begun to dawn upon the eastern stockholder of the Omaha Electric Light and Power company that the glorious victory won last week by the strenuous president whs not as brilliant as painted. Two or three more such 120,000 victories will make the nuuual dividends look like sixpence. Mexico ha sent u delegation of ex perts to the twelfth Irrigation congress now In session at El Taso. Tex., but the Irrigation congress Is lamentably laekiug in nyaruullc Irrigation exnert from Ne braska, who plan and construct dry ditches In order to float watered atock on the Wall street canal. When the wholesale druggists have found a inesiu cf stopping the ctitttnir of prices they will hav almost uttaimxl tba dignity of a target for tho leyurt-J ment of Commerce and Ibr, which might be more disastrous than permit ting competition to regulate, prices. ( ... tin. for (he Slar-Fjed. Koulsville Courier-Journal. It's rt aood. time to remember, boys, that rhy.ilclans rny walking I the beet exer clee much better than riding in a band wagon. Let Byaewea Be Byaronea. Riltlmorc American. Victor mid vanquished have already kissed nnd made. up. . Jct hard feelings be bygones. All are in the same business beat, Htid as a matter of business It was better for our frit mla the democrats to fall than to succcd. A (lain for Political Morale. ' Hartford Courent trep.l. are not fhertding a tear ov-r the news that the Minnesota, democrat have (with much repnbllcnn assistance! elected their man to the governorship. The defeat of Dunn, whom J. J. Hill and the "ral'road Interests" shoved down the throats of the republican etnte convention. Is a distinct gain for the cau.e of political morals. Proareas, but Little (haste, Brooklyn Kugle. They are talking again of International peace conferences. They have had them already, but whenever one of the con fereea had a chip knocked from his shoul der, he forg)t that he had been at tho conference, nnd the rest of the delega tion stood around and "sicked'' him on. The human race does not change much. Enlightened Common Sense, Baltimore American. It is characteristic of Jhphii as a pro gressive nation that It, the winning power In the present war, Is the one most anxious for peace. In the dogged obstinacy of Russia, the out-of-date policy Is empha sised of a nation unable fully to appreci ate the force of nn enlightened common sense which marks the general progress of the century. Futnre Poaalbllltlra. Pittsburg Dispatch. It may be wise to wait and see If one of two democratic gubernatorial quanti ties, in Missouri and Massachusetts, re spectively, do not develop enough to mkc available presidential timber four years hence. But on the other hand there are two republican governors, In Illinois and Wisconsin, who. If they make good, may be able to match the democratic possi bilities. Tibbies' View of Democracy. Nebraska Independent. In fifty years the democratic party lias acquired a character for betrayal of prin ciples and for general Infamy. That char acter will stick to It as long aa the purty endures. The man who hopes to give it a new character, to blot out from the mem ory of men the foul and Infamous record that It has made, to clothe It In the robes of patriotism and honor, must found his faith on drcimis and nightmares. No such Idea would ever be entertained by any wall ordered brain. Republican Responsibility. Indianapolis News. We do not see how' any man, no matter how self-assured he may be, can contem plate the result of Tuesday's voting with out being almost overwhelmed with , a sense of rcsponslbftjty. Mr. Roosevelt ought to get a good deal of education out of his experience during this campaign. The people have virtually turned over the government to him aud his party without opposition, and it is now for them to say what they will do with.lt.- We ull agree that'Theodore Roosevelt Is an honest man, and bravo. That ha:.wlU prove to be also a wise one will be tba. earnest prayer ot very lover of his country. - THE NATION'S COR. CRIB. How It Mould Me'asnre lp If Piled In One Spot. New York Herald. The latest government estimate of the coin crop Indicates a yield of 2,4uS,C00,C0 bushels. ' That is a good deal of corn. Imaglna Central park's 843 acres floored over, lakes, drives and all, for one gigantic bin. It Would need to be eighty-three feet high to hold this one year's crop. 1 An average freight car will carry thirty tons. It would take over 60.0UO Ir.ight trains, each of forty cars, to cairy al that corn. A& they could hardly be run on less than one-mllo "headway," they would reach twenty miles ncron the con tinent. But the farmers know a better way cf marketing their corn. They feed It to cat tle and to pigs, forty buahels or so to the pig. and these presently become fat and waddling hogs concentrated corn for sal. This "concentrated corn," with some other food, should be distributed thla yeir among 3D.tXiO.000 hogs. A squealing, shuttl ing mass, they would till Broadway from curb to curb and uh cloee as hogs can be driven, for 23.UOU miles If Broadway were so long. But pigs don't walk to market. They go in lard and nicely packed as pork and bacon. Foreign countries pay us more than ilUO.OOJ.Ooo a year for them, to say nothing of wliut we eat at home. THE HIGHWAY TO SI 'CC'KsH. A Hnncli for Proareaslve Politicians had Others. Indianapolis News. The man who would be successful must let the world know that he wanta to suc ceed. In this day and time the gum shoe seldom treads the path to victory of one kind or unother. Who is not familiar with the mustached face and unusually high forehead of the man who is to be the next governor of Massachusetts? All of us have stn it in print practically every day for a lung time, and the west knew It as well as the east. When the democrats of Massa chusetts nominated William I.. Douglas at their candidate for governor there was no need to explain who he was. No one asked, because every one knew. And when Mr. Douglas entered hfs new sphere of activity he did not fall ln)to the ways of those who were already there. He hud methods of his own which he had tried and found effective. Printers' Ink and paste were among his most able lieutenants snd the people of , Massachusetts knew front the advertising columns of the pub lic prints, which were freely used, and from the billboards all over the state that the man who had baa successful In one way was determined to be successful In another. Mere political schemes were not depended on; statements, Interviews and the like, which ao often fall short of the multitude, were supplanted by the means which never fail to reach. The voters of Massachusetts knew this mtn who was asking for their suffrages, knew what ha had been doing all his life, because he had been telling them for years In a way that they could not help under standing. From the struggle of boyhood to the success of manhood his Ufa was something more than un open book: It was a display "ad." printed and placed so that he who ran might read snd understand. Mr. Douglas has succeeded polltt -ally as he succeeded commercially through his adver tisements. Many u nvin would like to be In his shoes today; but It must be remembered tli.it many a mun has for years been In them, and knew that he was In them. To ay that It pays tu advertise may be trite, but, Hke a g'xd many other trite things. It is true. ROOD ABOIT JEW YORK. Ripples on the arreat of Life la the Xetropolla. Charles Mellon, president of the iNiw York. New Haven A Hartford railroad, ha adopted novel means to adjust train serv ice on his road to the needs of patrons ad jacent to New York t'lty. For a long time the commuters who irside In nearby villages and do business In New York City have been In a slate of almost open war fare with the rnilroHd company over the running of trains nnd what they claim to be a lack of consideration for the best Interests of this traveling suburban popu lation. Mr. Mellen has executed a very neat flank movement which has filled the minds of the complaining cltlsens with a mingled astonishment and appreciation. He has Invited the presidents of the towns and mayors of the cities located In this terri tory to assist him In the making up of a time table which will meet the views and requirements of those who travel along Ih line. The prospect of conflicting In terests iMing harmonlied Is not promising, but Mr. Mellen will receive a large and varied stock of knowledge on how a rail road ought to be managed. One of the most complete electrical con trivances In the new subway Is a miniature telephone system that ronects all stations, yards, power houses and supply depots of both the elevated and underground roads. It has Its own central, a directory, Its complaint and managing departments, and by It any man In the 1,10 employe can be located and brought to the 'phone In less time than It take to tell. The Interbor ough system Is for fiperatlve purposes only and Is not connected with the public lines. The twenty or more famous retired prize fighters wno have made New York their home make up the moat anomalous group In the city. Nearly all of them ere physical culture instructors and at the same tlmo saloon kejers. "It Is hard for the average person to reconcile these two callings. The flooding of the Interior with whisky does not seem to be compatible with the devel opment of perfect phyilcal condition. Yet "Kid" McCoy has a "gym" and a rum shop. Bo have Tom Sharkey and Billy Madden. Sharkey adds to the absurdity of the situation by acting aa physical Instruc tor to the boys of St. Ann's parish. Im agine a mun swinging from that odious Fourteenth street resort to the gymnasium of a church! McCoy has a number of preachers among his pupil. "The lights of New York." pays the Sun, "have often been described, but they ate more wonderful In reality than they can ever be made In any description, and now In the season of shortened days Is the time to see them. "Nightfall comes before the close of biisi nen hours, and so all the hulldlngs may be seen fully lighted. The place from which to see them to the greatest advantage is the Jersey side of the North river. "The scene that moets tho eye from there across the darkened water say from the bow of a ferryboat lying in its ellp, the best point of all from which to see It is one of marvellous' splendor nnd beauty. Not even the outlines of the great build ings themselves, that are assembled on the lower end of Manhattan Island, can now be seen, but these now rise all together from the water like a great, cliff-sided promon tory, sparkling all over with lights Innu merable, renchlng to giddy heights, like a gigantic illuminated Gibraltar. "From this great, glittering mountain the lights In countless myriads stretch north ward for miles continuously, but here and there dropping into valleys of light, and here and there reached along in, plains of light,' with towering, Isolated mountainous light, with towering, isolated mountains of light rising at Irregular Intervals from the glowing lower leve-ls. Altogether it is a wonderous spectacle. "Broadway lighted up makes a brilliant show, but if one wants to see the lights of New York he should take a look at them as they appear in these days from the Jerse' shore Just after nightfall." "Kleptomania" Is becoming a source of great annoya-ice at the social functions of the women's clubs In New York City. For the last tv winters women who fre quent these gatherings have suffered losses and now scarcely an entertainment of such a character takes place that some article of value la not missing. Jeweled bat plus, purses and chatelaine bags have been pur loined. At the recent breakfast of the Women's Republican association ut Del- monleo's a sable muff was lost and at the Federation meeting at the Hotel Astor an expensive feather boa was taken,. The women are thinking o having a detective to protect them from these annoying thefts. Kven while such relics as mule cars are still seen on the streets of New York there la an official body thore which has a far eye to the future. There Is to be a spur of the subway running clear to the Bat tery, and this Is promised to be in opera tion before the grass begins to sprout In Bowling Oreen. This will connect with the Brooklyn underground and provide a con tlnous line between Coney Island and the Bronx, a distance of thirty milts. Then there are at least two more subways in Contemplation. There will be one to tap the great east side; another to drain New Jersey of Its unfortunate- thousands of commuters. All this is outside of (he Penn sylvania company's great tunnel nnd the New York & New Jersey railroad's tube under the North river. The size of the smokestacks of some of the steamships which leave the port of New York is an interesting topic among folks along shore. A convincing proof of their size Is seen in this comparison: The new East river tunnel, which the Pennsylvania railroad Is about to build, Is about the same diameter as the funnels of the Lucania and Campania; that Is twenty-one feet, it seems hard to realise that two trains of cars could run side by side through the stacks of either of these vessels If they were laid flat. To prevent the grpwing practice of pass ing worthless checks the National Hotel Keepers' association has arranged a tele graph trap for forgers. In the last few years the number of men who live by cashing valueless checks In frequent flits from city to city has greatly Increased, snd it is ugainsl this skillful class ot forgers that the present action Is chiefly directed. Tiitse nun usually wjrk In couples, one presenting the check with the suggestion that the management tele graph, a flri.i In another city to leurn If It la backed by a bank account. The sec ond plotter receives the telegram and uns wers favorably. Hereafter when checks are presented to hotel keepers In this way telegrams will bo sent to the .agents of the National association, and then the ac tual standing of the tlrm will be speedily established. Banks have also entered Into co-operation with tl I'"'1'' m,n 0,1,1 will lend assistance In the running down of checks. Another Innovation will be Introduced in many states In Beptemhef, and eventually It is planned to extend It all over the union. This Is that no hotels shall cash papfr of Btiy kind unless It Is presented with a hotel credit letter Issued by the National asso-elation ( all for a ( nshlou. Atlanta Constitution. If you know of any state of the union whl h, by any reasonable wsihl!ity, ran be classed as "doubtful," picas name It. It may break th full some. I rr.R0,L OTF.ft. Wiley Hess, leader of the Boston dym' phony orchestra, began Ms musical studies at f snd st 10 was an infant prodigy tour ing Holland. It Is propoaed. If Washington can 1 warmed up to It, to Increase the salary of the American consul at Aden, the hottest stokehole on the planet. K. M. Fowler, the wealthy lumberman, who has Just died at his home In Pasa dena. Cal.. leaving an estate worth J.1.V Onn.OOO, started as a laborer In the woods .' Michigan. John C. Cutler, republican governor-elect of Vtah, was born at "honVl.1. Knglsnd. His parents Joined the Mormon church an.l brought him to t'tah In 1. He Is a mer chant and stockholder in many I tah In dustrial concerns. Samuel II. Elrotl, the republican gover-nor-elect of South Dakota, was born In Indiana forty-six years ago, and has re sided In Dakota for twenty-two years. He Is a lawyer by profession, but dresses like a well-to-do. farmer. Strange voices have been heard In Ohio cornfields, causing huskers to rhase them selves Into the open country. It was to be expected that President Roosevelt's an nouncement of "no third term" would cause a commt.tlnn among the Buckeyes. The menu announced by Senator Piatt of New York for his Tioga breakfast to the members of the republican state organ ization, In as follows: Buckwheat cakes snd maple syrup, venison, sweet snd hard cider, and pumpkin, apple and mince pies. S. Coleridge-Tsylor, the celebrated colored composer and conductor, who Is visiting this country for the fpt time, began tho study of music at the age of 6 and finished his Instruction under Sir Charles Vllllere Stamford, the composer cf the well known opera of "Shamus O'Brien." Carry the news to advocates of the edu cational strap. A South Dakota school teacher of the male peraualafi who spanked a 15-year-old girl In the uaual way, was bounced out of the Job the morning after. It Is somewhat consoling to note In this connection thr.t might yielded to a kick. Chicago announces wUn becoming pride that It Will soon possess an ancient Baby lonian statue bearing a striking resem blance to Senator Chauncey Depew. The announcement humped along with news of a disposition on the part of New Yorkers to place the modern and the ancient on the same shelf. On election night Chairman Cowherd of the democratic congressional committee, who was In Ws '-tngton, telegraphed as follows to his wlf i their Missouri home: "Hear I am defet.ed. Hope it is ao. Will then come home and live like a white man." Next came an answer which read something like this: "One can't always be lieve the promise of a politician, but I shall be glad to see you nevertheless." C. H. Richards, a cltlxen of Milwaukee, thinks that should Governor La Follette be elected to the t'nited Slates senate John C. Sp)oner will resign from that body. Mr. Richards declares that this extreme action would be a fair Indication of the tremendous bitterness between the two men named and of the animosity that actuates their respective partisans. "Why," he siys, "I have friends whom I should not dar? to ask to dine together because they have become embroiled in the present political dissensions of Wisconsin." MR. BRYAN'S DEMOCRACY. Populist Leader Tibbies Gives Aasnr. anres to that Effect. Nebraska Independent. "Mr. Bryan himself emerges from the contest a stronger man than i he entered It. Many democrats who were honestly mistaken, and who had been led , to be lieve that Mr. fcryan was not a democrat. but was, in fact, a populist, have had their eyes opened." World-Herald. Mr. Bryan will never leave the demo ocratlc party. He will stick to it until his eyes close In death. If it should suffer defeat after defeat and its number should dwindle away until no one was left in the party except Qrover Cleveland, Judge Par ker and Dave Hill, Bryan would make the fourth man. It Is no use for subscribers to the Independent to write more letters inquiring what Mr. Bryan is going to do. He is going to stay In the democratic party. He was born there and there Is where he will die. It matters not what the democratic platforms are In the fu turethey may demand high tariffs, big standing armies, the re-establlshment of Nick Biddie s old national bank, domina tion of railroads or anything else and Mr. Bryan will be found supporting the democratic candidates. Mr. Bryan Is sim ply nn old-fashioned, dyed-in-tha-wool, rock-ribbed democrat. Populists In plan ning for the future should always tak that fact Into consideration and Indulge In no vain hopes that Mr. Bryan will ever bo any else than a democrat. Mr. Bryan got the vote of populists by deception. If In 18M or 1900 he had said to them, "I will never leave the democratic party; before I would do that I would go on the stump along with Qrover Cleve land and Dave Hill and advocate the elec tion of a Wall street, gold Standard cpn didate for the presidency," he would never have got a populist vote. But that Is Just what he did In the last campaign. Mr. Bryan is honest. Ho is afflicted with the worst form of partisan Insanity ever known In the t'nited Slates. The case is Incurable. FfTl'RE OF TWO PAR T1KS. ' Independent View of the Effect of the I phraeal. Chicago News. It may said emphatically that the president has proved himself stronger than his party. Yet the party came before the country this year In all the strength of Its successful policies and of the long-continued prosperity to which they have con tributed. This party has said that Its policies of the past would be continued snd the people apparently have approved the complacent attitude. Herein Ilea the chief danger to the party and to the country. If the former shall assume that the overwhelm ing victory of Tuesday Justifies It In con tinuing to block the way to 'the abolish ment of such special privileges as those leading up to tariff protected high prices and unlawful toll taken by means of mo nopolies established through the power of freight rate discriminations, the favor now shown to it snd Its national candidates will be withdrawn. No careful student of the situation can fall to see that this favor will flow like water Into some other quar ter unless lower tariff duties, trade reci procity, equal privileges to all shippers and other methods of relieving the people from tjie burden of unjuat charges shall be brought Into existence. To ignore refurms of thie sort while granting ship subsidies snd otherwise extending the domain of ape clal privilege must bring political dlsuater speedily to the republican organisation. Where stands the democratic party? The plans of the so-called reorgunlxers luve gone terribly wrong. Mr. Cleveland's paeans of thanksgiving and similar utter snces from the swelling bosoms of other conservative leaders have not U'n Justi fied by the sentiment within the psrty. Many of the Bryan democrats voted for' Roosevelt. Many others voted the social 1st ticket, not because they hsd become socisllr's. 'but because Ihey refused to place therein hes under toe leadership of men who had no mesauge of hope for them Lack of a well-defined Issue paralysed the parly. Bullcitude for the constitution mm CREAM 1AIWS Improves the flavor and adds to the heal th fulness of the food which, SO far as the voters could see. was not In the slightest danger did not appeal to them. The cry that the republicans nad used questionable methods In raising cam paign funds would have thrilled the people had It been substantiated by proof. With out proof It recoiled upon the accusers. So the party drifted rudderless to defeat. It remains a great party. , If Mr. Bryan shall resume the leadership one may well believe that conservative democrats will look upon him far more kindly than they have In the past. But the fate of this party In the Immediate future depends largely, as does the fate of the repuhllcaa party, upon the policy of President Roose velt and the republican congress respect ing reforms which the people demand ana to which they are entitled. SIXXV (JEMS. "How In your son doing at college?" "Well." answered the solicitous father, "he does very well in philosophy and ths dead languages. But he Is a mighty poor foot ball player." Washington Star. The girl who has to stop to tie her shoe string on the street may lie a good house keeper, but the presumption la against her. Somervllle Journal. Narcissus was gaslng at his Image In the ' water. "I may be stuck on myself, all light, nil right," he murmured, resignedly, "but I don't advertise the fnct In the drug store mirrors." Cleveland LeadeT. ' "Does the baby take after its father or Its mother?" "Neither." answered the small brother. "If you look at Its head aud eyebrows you. think it's a Japanese, and If you hear K trying tn talk you think It's a Russian." Washington Star. "Did you hear the election night re turns?" "Yes, I heard several of them stumbling along the street lu our neighborhood and , trying to And keyholes." Cleveland Leader. Knlcker There's one strange fact I've noted. Bocker What's that? Knlcker A boy Is christened with water and afterward takes booze, while a ship Is christened with booze and afterward takes to water. New York Press. Wife The woman next door got a new gown yesterday. Husband Yes, and of course you want one Just like It. Wife Don t you believe It. Hers only cost 128. Chicago News. "I never become angry because a man does not think quite as 1 do." remarked the professor; "for when I And a man who dls. agrees with me I realize, that it in probably with .difficulty that ho thinks at all." Judge.. ..i i t "I believe there Is a burglar in the house," said the wife. "Well." anawered the husband, who had lost als his money on the election, "a bur glar who doesn't know his business any better than to break into this house Is not worth bothering about." Washington Star IX STORAGE AO A IK, ' ' W. D. Nesblt in Chicago Tribune. The storage man hopped off his van snd oped the warehouse door; He stowed away one Bitter Fray, one Let- the-Kagle-Soar, - One lot of Planks, te,. Serried Ranks, one Stainlesa Honor's Wreath, , One Roorless Roorback and a Box of Hurl It In Your Teeth; - He stored a score of Open Door, a gross of Solid South, And May My Tongue Then Cleave Unto the Roof Tree of My Mouth. Across the planks with Jangling clanks hs flung some Labor's Chains; He tossed beside a Point with Pride a Ijist Drop In My Veins; The Nation's Hope he tied with rope and bore within his arms To where there loomed a mournful lot of Viewing with Alarms; A choice array of Despot's Sway and Hers We Take Our Stands He wrapped In rolls of Noble Souls and Honest Horny Hands. With Joyous grin he curried In the Pre cepts We Pursue, The Money Kings and Grafting Rings, and Common Peepul, too; One Standing Firm, a But-One-Tcrm, the Records of the Past, And put them In the corner with Our Flag's Nailed to the Mast. With hands ungloved he pushed and ahoved a gross of Campaign Lies. Together with some point and pith about Our Country's Size. When he had stowed away the lead ha shut the warehouse 6T jo'' And muttered, "VVhoo1. I'm glad we're through wltb Nineteen Hundred Four! This campaign stuff is good ennngh, but It la getting worn I noticed that the Na'l the Lie was tat tered some, and torn; But, anyhow, It's over pow, amt, been put away ' ' Until, perplexed we view the next ap proaching voting day." breaktastCOCOA it dUunguished" from Othtrt by it full flavor, delicious qual ity and absolute purity. Tkt Lvmy Jt tiff Bk uml frt. The Walter W. LowTiey Co, BOSTON, MAS. ft II 18 II II II -fefw i mm