TITE OMAIIA DAILY REE: FRIDAY, JUNE 9. 1903.
Tiie Omaiia Daily Bee.
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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
State of Nebraska, Dotiglaa County, aa. :
C. C. Rosewater, secretary ot The Bee
Publishing Company, being duly sworn,
saya that the actual number of full and
complete copies of The Dally, Morning,
Evening and Sunday P.ee printed during the
month of May. 1905, was aa follows:
1 2H,fMO n V0.R7O
2 2s,4o jg as.ftio
J Zft.lMIO 19 ;. UH.HTtO
4 2N,1.V 20 ao.lfc-K)
6 2H,U 21 3t,700
1MMM 22 20.O2O
7 ai.nso a 2,3o
8 2.S.A10 24 2,MO
9 StH.eftO 26 2H,TftU
10 2R.10U 26 21.04O
a aovioo 27 so.inu
12 XHMAO 2S 2),1I0
13 SO.HHO 29 30.8K0
14 31,5ilO 20 33,000
15 2,7tO SI 2U,02O
IS 2,4H
Total 017,(K
Lc unaold copies lO.woa
Net total sales D(7,M-
Daily average 20,2M-a
C. C. ROSEWATER,
Secretary.
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(Seal M. B. H UNGATE,
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WHEN OCT OK TOWN.
Subscribers leaving; Ike city tern,
porarlly should have The Be
mailed to them. It ta better than
a dally letter front home. Ad
dress wilt be changed aa often aa
requested.
If this railroad rate-cutting goes any
further It will sooii be eheuper to travel
111 h n to stay at home.
It begins to look an it a settlement of
the eastern war might come easier thau
a settlemeut of the Chicago strike.
It is to be hoped war maps of northern
Europe will uot be required uutll those
of Eastern Asia shall have beeu. laid
away.
South Omaha has Its eye fixed ou a
$10,(XK),000 elty tax assessment. This la
another case where performance counts
more thau prom Imps.
If coming events Cast their shadows
before, these calls from other cities
presage au early raise of the salary paid
to Omaha's public school superintendent
All eyes are on tile United States in
the pending peace movement. In this
case the hand that holds the "big stick"
Is also expected to administer the sooth
ing syrup.
Japan has an opportunity to show that
It Is generous as well as brave, but it
will not be blamed If it Insists on terms
which will make a repetition of the
present war impossible.
The Commercial club hnd the Real
Estate exchange have sympathised with
the Civic federation attorneys and the
Fontanelle club will affix its seal next
to the ready-made resolutions.
Commissioner Leupp gays that the
Winnebago Indians must work which
Is vastly different from the idea gener
ally prevailing on the reservation that
the Indians must "be worked."
American capitalists are Bald to have
offered to lend $25,000,000 to the sultan
Of Morocco Perhaps John D. Rocke
feller has found someone who has no
efcjectlong to "tainted money."
It Is Intimated that Russia Is Inclined
to think It cheaper to keep up the fight
than to pay the Indemnity asked by
Japan. But perhaps it could float bonds
easier to end the war than to continue it
Should a new Norwegian flag be flung
suddenly to the breeie a surprising num
ber of cases of short-sightedness would
be expected to develop in the eyes of
naval officers until they should bear
from their governments.
Secretary Morton is now suggested as
chairman of the executive committee of
the Equitable. Mis Nebraska friends,
however, have reason to believe he will
prefer to deal with rapid transit rather
than with rapid finance.
It is Intimated that Mr. Looinls and
Mr. Bowen will meet to talk over the
Venezuelan Incident. Secretary Taft
will probably And "sitting on the lid" an
easy task compared to acting as referee
and timekeeper at, the proposed conferences
If Commissioner Garfield has found
conditions lu the oil Industry to be sim
ilar to those discovered lu the "Beef
trust" Investigation he should publish
bis findings w hile the days are long aud
the people are buying less kerosene than
usual.
The newspaper training of Commis
sioner of Indian Affairs I.e'upp may be
counted on to make him proof against
the cheap tricks of deception that have
been played on , other government In
spectors who have visited the Winne
bago reservation to spy out the grafters.
WHAT JAPAN MAT DEMASD.
There have been many conjectures as
to what Japan may demand us terms of
peace, but so far as known there has
been no annmiuc fluent from that gov
ernment rcpanllng its Intentions. There
whs recently an Intimation that some of
the neutral governments, presumably the
l"nltKl Slates among them, had been
made acquainted with the terms which
Japan would ask In order to conclude
peace, but there has been no public state
ment of what she may demand. Cer
tain men more or less prominent In Jap
anese affairs have Iteen quoted In re
gard to the government's policy, but
while a certain amount of value is to
1 given to these statements they are
not to be accepted as by auy means
authoritative or conclusive.
What can safely be assumed is that
Japan will demand all that she deems
necessary to her future peace and se
curity. This necessarily contemplates
the elimination of Russia as au Asiatic
power. The complete surrender of Man
rhurlau territory Is of course involved.
Japan cannot tolerate Russian posses
sion of a foot of the country which that
power obtained from China and made
the basis of an attack upon the national
Integrity of Japan. Tho security of the
Island empire requires that the Russian
eviction shall le complete. Terhaps Ja
pan will be willing that China shall re
sume control of most of Manchuria, but
It Is n not unreasonable supposition that
she will desire to retain control of Tort
Arthur and the region Immediately con
tiguous to It. If Russia should be per
mitted to retain Vladivostok, by no
means certain, It would probably be with
the condition that it should cease to be
a naval base and therefore . should lie
dismantled. Indeed It Is extremely likely
that there will be Insistence on the
part of Japan upon Russia keeping en
tirely otit of the waters of Eastern Asia,
since this is manifestly essential to the
maintenance of peace and the security
of Japan. Having been driven from
the far eastern seas Russia must be
kept out of them.
A vital question is in regard to in
demnity and as to this there are various
opinions, it Is commonly believed that
the Japanese government will demand a
sufficient amount to cover all the ex
penses of tho war, nmounting now to
more than half a billion dollars. That
such a demand would be entirely justifi
able and quite In accordance with prece
dent must be admitted, yet we are In
clined to think that Japan will be dis
posed to be moderate In this matter nnd
will be governed by the advice of the
neutral powers whose counsel she will
heed. That Russia should pay the cost
of the war to Japan which she provoked
will hardly be questioned, yet Japan will
lose nothing In the world's regard by
showing magnanimity In this direction:.
We expressed the opinion a few days
ago that the efforts of President Roose
velt In the Interest of peace would not
be wholly futile and fruitless. It is al
ready evident that they are not to be.
The Russian emperor has not rejected
the overture of the American president.
The civilized world will anxiously await
the response from Toklo.
POSSIBILITY OF A NURSE REPUBLIC
Will the outcome of the issue between
Sweden and Norway be the establish
ment of a Norse republic? It is cer
tainly possible. A recent dispatch from
Copenhagen stated that the belief there
was that a republican form of govern
ment for Norway would very likely fol
low speedily after the act of dissolution
and while the later advices do uot dis
tinctly indicate a movement in this di
rection, they do quite clearly imply the
existence of a popular sentiment favor
able to the establishment of a republic,
perhaps modeled on the Swiss confedera
tion.
There is no apparent reason whv the
Norwegian people should not have a re
publican form of government. They are
qualified for it and they would be far
more secure under such government than
if they should continue to have mon
archical rule, even though such rule were
as conservative and liberal as that under
which tbey have been living. As a re
public there is every reason to think that
Norway would command the same re
spect and protection from all the Eu
ropean powers that Switzerland re
ceives. There Is no state of Europe
more secure In its autonomy than the
little Swiss republic, Its rights are re
spected by nil the nations and it Is ab
solutely safe from all Intrusion or In
vasion. Norway as a republic would
undoubtedly enjoy the same regard and
consideration. As the situation now ap
pears the dissolution of the union with
Sweden is complete and irrevocable. As
suming this to be the . case the Nor
wegian people will be wise to proceed
at once to institute a republican govern
ment.
AS TO TARIFF RETALIATION.
The question us to what position the
administration will take In regard to
tariff retaliation appears to be receiving
more or less consideration In quarters
where the subject Is of paramount Inter
est According to some reports from
Washington it appears to be the impres
sion there tliut the president will recom
mend to congress the enactment of a
tariff law with maximum and minimum
schedules, so that the government may
be enabled to retaliate upoii couutrles
which make tariff discriminations
against American products, as la pro
posed to be done by Germany, for ex-'
ample.
There has been no authoritative state
ment In regard to the position of Presi
dent Roonevelt lu this matter, but it has
leen assumed that the views expressed
by Secretary Shaw, favorable to a policy
of tariff retaliation, reflect the attitude
of the administration. This may be so,
for certainly, it is reasonable to thluk
that the secretary of the treasury would
not make a public vtterunce on a matter
of such far-reaching Importance unless
be knew the position vf the chief execu
tive. It would therefore seem safe to
say that the president U not unfavorable
to a policy of tariff retaliation and
that this question will be presented by
him to the next congress. It is a sul-
Ject of the very highest luiortauce to
American Industrial and commercial in
terests nnd should command the most
careful public consideration. It has be
come evident thnt the United States
must find some adequate means of de
fense against hostile foreign tariffs nnd
the urgency for this increases from year
to year with the growth of American
competition abroad. The plan of maxi
mum and minimum tariff schedules has
been proposed before, but it has never
received much support.
BACK TO THE FARM.
In admonishing a brace of Juvenile
offenders, whose conduct has subjected
them to police correction, to go back to
the farm. Judge Berka has sounded a
timely warning. The trend of the twen
tieth century is from the farm to the city
aud the dangers that beset the path of
the boys and girls who come alone to the
cities from the farm can scarcely be ex
aggerated. Like the moth that is at
tracted to the candle, the boys and girls
ou the farm are attracted by the allure
ments of municipal life and many are
drawn into the whirlpool of vice and
crime from which they can rarely extri
cate themselves.
Iu many instances the farmers nnd
the farmers' wives could prevent the
ruin that awaits their sons and daugh
ters who venture to seek their fortunes
In the large cities. Instead of infusing
a love of the simple life and pride in
their calling, they stimulate their crav
ing for the glamor and glitter of mu
nicipal life, omitting Its shadows and its
dark features. Many farmers who have
become landlords sublet their farms to
the tenants nnd move to the towns to give
their loys and girls an opportunity for
higher culture and more cheerful envi
ronments, with all that is Implied in city
life. They delude themselves with the
idea that the city nlone affords their
boys the opportunity to grow rich and
the girls to marry rich, but the pollre
court records show that a large percent
age of the boys and girls who come to
the city must either go back to the farm
to be cured of their infatuation or finally
land in juvenile reformatories and In
some cases in prison.
man water mark water tax.
The most burdensome exaction of the
water company durhag the past twelve
or fifteen years has been the hydrant
rental. The original contract made in
18.S0 bound the city to pay for not less
than 250 hydrants at the rate of $84 a
year per hydrant, with $00 for all hy
drants above the first 250. When the
total number of hydrants had reached
500 the city was taxed an aggregate of
$3(i,000 a year for water rent. By the
time the numler of hydrants had reached
1,000 the aggregate hydrant rental taxes
was $00,000 u year, aud ns the planting
of hydrants progressed from year to year
the water tax kept mounting; nnd by
the time it reached high water mark
three years ago the aggregate tax was
Sx'.ooo.
This is what afforded Water Bill
Howell bis opportunity for projecting
himself into the nrenn as the savior of
Omaha from excessive water taxes.
Everybody knows how Water Bill No. 1
and Water Bill No. 2 were railroaded
through the legislature on the plea that
Omaha needed relief from excessive
water taxes, but, lo nnd behold, the very
first thing out of the box is a peremptory
order to the city council from the water
board that the levy for 1905-6 shall In
clude a hydrant rental tax of $100,000
and not a penny less.
Whether this levy Is to Include the sal
aries of the members of the water board
and their special attorneys and special
engineers is not disclosed, but. Inasmuch
as the board Insists that the water com
pany shall continue the planting of new
hydrants, it is to be presumed that the
$100,000 water tax is to be exclusively
for hydrant rentals.
The beauty of the thing is also that
the taxpayer can have no relief from
this burden, even after the water works
shall have been acquired, as the Howell
Dodge water bill expressly authorises the
the bonrd to levy $100,000 for water
rental after the city has taken posses
sion of the works.
One result of the lower paving bids
this year as compared with previous
years is that the intersection fund can
bo made to spread over a wider area,
thus enabling the city to authorize con
siderable more work in street Improve
ments than would otherwise be permis
sible. Lower bids mean not only a sav
ing for the property owners, but also
more work for the contractors.
If Convict Shercliffe has really torn
himself loose from the contaminating
environments of the Iowa capital he may
be depended upon to emulate the ex
ample of the Illustrious kidnaper, Tat
Crowe, who has always kept himself lu
touch with the Omaha senior yellow by
telephone. Just ns had been done previ
ously by Charley Mosher and Joe Bartley
when they were bastiled.
By a debate of its members the Real
Estate exchange has decided that the
most valuable realty in Omaha is worth
$3,hh) a front foot. Even at that realty
values in Omaha are still well telow the
values of correspondingly located lots In
other western cities of Omaha's rank.
The time to invest Is on a rising market
aud that time is right now.
Apart from the requisition for a levy
of $100,000 water tax, the water board
bus exercised its sovereign authority by
ordering one hydi'ant removed from Pop
pleton avenue to Mauderson street, thus
relieving the council from the onerous
task of replanting a hydrant.
If the state board had' at the outset
decked to assess each of the railroad
systems operated in Nebraska as a unit
instead of attempting to figure out the
value of their main lines and branches
separately, It would have saved Itself a
great deal of perplexity.
Hard Knocks for Calamity.
Haltlmore American.
The farmers are to share In the general
prosperity In the shape of a big wheat
crop. This is really a pathetic season for
me calamity howlers.
Marvelona Self-Reatrnlnt.
Chicago Record-Herald.
Oeneral Joe Wheeler denies that ha In
tends to bo to Russia for the purpose of
getting a commission In the ciar's armv
This exhibition of self-restraint on the
part of Oeneral Joe is almost marvelous.
Indiana's Proud Record.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Indiana commission for the St. Louis
World's fair- has turned back to the state
treasury nearly llfi.nflo of the total sum ap
propriated, which was 112O.0no. The legisla
ture and governor of Indiana have done
some things thst nhni hnnM .,nj
of, but this record of honesty sets the state
ngni.
lore of Inspiration.
Roston Globe.
The author of a book attacking Christian
Science aaya that it waa written in circum
stances which he regards aa Inspirational.
"Often," he cays, "I arose at o'clock In
the morning;, Impelled as by spiritual force,
to write, and after I had written several
pages I would stop and read It over and
say. -Isn't It wonderful!'" How many lit
erary folks have felt that way!
Japan's Naval Snpremncy.
Springfield Republican.
One result of the -haitis r.e Tan...
is tO give Janan the unmiMtlnn naunl
supremacy of the orient. With the addi
tions to its neet of vessels captured from
the Ru88lans. and of near uirihlm halno-
constructed in England and in Japanese
ra. not io speak of vessels which it la
likely to build with a portion of the proba
ble war indemnity, Japan will have a more
powerful fleet than anv slne-ln nminn
cept Its English ally, could concentrate in
casiern waters.
Between Two Fires.
Philadelphia Record.
The Western Paper trust Is now between
two fires. The federal authorities are pro
ceeding against it for violating the anti
trust law, and the state attorney aeneral
Is considering tho revocation of its char
ter, in the hearing thus far the officials
of the company have evaded the mn.t
serious questions put to them by pretending
mat iney am not know or had forgotten
the matters asked about. But when hv
get Into court these officials will have lo
Improve their memories or subject them
selves to proceedings for contemnt of court
or something worse. The government has
me agreement between the Oeneral Pnner
company and the paper mills under which
the former became the Bole bnver of tii
products of the latter, and this alone would
Justify the state in taking away the char
ter It granted, without awaltina- nmm.H.
Ings In the federal court.
LIGHTING CITV STREETS.
A New Idea Given Practical Effect
In Denver.
Paul Thleman in Denver Post.
The hundreds of delegates to the con
vention of the National Electric Light
association are invited to look upon the
beginning of the truly artistic street light-
lng idea of the country an Idea, to the best
of the Post's belief, originating in Denver.
All lighting experts know the splendid
effect of the closely set gaa lamps of the
rariman boulevards they form nilles on
miles of yellow lights, so close together
that, simply as an unbroken uniformity,
they are a spectacle In themselves. In no
measure, however, detracting, by fierce
light, from the architectural beauty of the
avenues illuminated.
The most beautiful capitals' of the world
are lighted by gag not by arc lights. A
a mere tribute to the truth. It must be
said that the idea of avenues illuminated
by glaring arc lights Is peculiar to the
small town of western America and Aus
tralia and South. Africa. The beautiful
and great cities of the world do not take
to that garish form of street illumination,
though it Is considered metropolitan by the
persons who never lived in or appreciated
a large city. The man who Is devoid of
experience In the big city assumes naturally
mat tne glaring and garish arc lamps of
an Idaho mining town are the metropolitan
reatures of the world and, of course, the
real thing for Denver.
That is because he believes it la the
latest. If we way out west have any vir
tue. It Is the profound belief In what we
regard aa the latest. But, in this particular
Instance, we learn, that what was consid
ered to be the latest, is not the latest.
Arc lamps are a splendid thing in the small
towns of the mining regions of America,
Australia and Africa Unking them to the
big outside world but they won't do In
Paris, New York or Denver!
Of course, no form of lighting Is better
for the small, primitive town than the so
called 2,000-candle' power electric lamp.
But, in the great cities. It has beta found
necessary to reduce that tremendous lamp
In candle power or glaring spot effect
great spot lights destroy the splendid
vistas of costly millions costly thorough
fares, and so the illumination of the great
cities either la gas or electric lights In
opaque globes. The reasons are simple:
r'lrst uniformity.
Second Making the vista of the street
prominent rather than any particular
building.
Third Beautiful streets as a whole as
a city.
It la customary to look only at the garish
power of the light and everywhere in the
United States, gas pipe or a rude iron
arm is considered good enough to hold an
arc light In a ground glass globe they
used to be in clear glass globes.
The light effect may be all right with
opaque globes but In the daytime the
coarse iron arms, attached to beautiful
facades, destroy architectural beauty!
v e have started in Denver the idea of
the electric lamps being hung from ar
tistic fixtures. At the corner of Seven
teenth and Curtis streets the first of these
beautiful wrought Iron designs are being
put in place. The light is no greater, but
it Is artistic in Its treatment!
Seventeenth street, In Denver, will be
lined from the I'nlon depot to the Brown
Palace hotel with artistic standards and
hangers, making the avenue beautiful by
day as well as brilliantly lighted by night.
it la being done at private expense not
at the city's cost and the scheme Is the
forerunner of the demand that city light
masts and trolley poles must be beautiful!
Kude lighting effects would give more
glaring light, but the great new idea Is
to make the design decorative in daylight
and not garish by night!
Most big lighting schemes are hideous
by day.
The latest Denver idea la to line Its busi
ness streets with works of art In wrought
Iron as handsome as Interior fixtures thnt
will be a delight to the eye by day as well
as the standard holding forth brilliant
lamps by night!
By autumn there will be 10 such wrought
Iron standards along Seventeenth street-
costing $15,000 well spent from the I'nlon
station to the Brown Palace hotel, begin
ning with the electrio and bronze "Wel
come Gate."
And it waa Invented by a lawyer uot
Ugh Un J expert!
ROIND A BOtT NEW YORK.
Ripples on (he f nrrent of l.lfe In the
Metro polls.
Wall btrect breakers differ little from the
rest of mankind In their preference for In
come over outgo. Ever since the federal
war stamp tax whs repealed all dealings
has been wool and velvet for them. The
relmposltlon of a like tax by the state
ra.ises a painful surgical operation on
their purses and provokes exclamations of
wrath which the papers positively refuse
to print. It la admittedly tough on men
skilled In the art of shearing the lambs to
hand over to the state a bunch of the wool
or its equivalent, but they are doing it
with aa much grace as they can summon.
The stamps fwhlrh must be attached to each
transfer consist of six issues, comprising
the 2-cent. 10-cent, 2fl-cent, 90-cent, II and $i
variety. There Is no variation In design, the
seal of the state forming the centerpiere of
each stamp. The color of the values form
ths only difference. The 2-cent stamp Is a
simple black and white, the 10-cent stamps
are green, the 20-cent yellow, the 60-rent
brown, the 1 blue and the $2 stamps are
red. In an active market It Is not In
frequent that a brokerage house will sell
10,000 or 20,000 shares of stock to a custo
mer. To make a good delivery the broker
will have to attach ino or 2X) of the 12
stamps.
A case Is now being made up to test the
constitutionality of the stamp act.
According to figures being compiled for
the annu.il report of the New York City
postofftce for the fiscal year ending this
month, the amount of money sent to for
elgn countries by aliens and newcomers
during the last twelve months will be very
near $40,00.000.
In the last quarter $8,677,133. 2S went out
of the office to foreign countries In small
siied money orders. Superintendent El
liott of the money order department, says
the money sent out this year will be 10
per cent In advance of that sent last
year. He added:
"The money orders that go to Italy are
In larger sums than to any other country.
A great deal of money Is sent to Great
Britain, but it Is In small amounts."
During the last calendar year the total
sent out of the New York postoffice to
foreign countries was $3H,767,901.3K. To
Italy alone 229,209 orders were sent, ag
gregating $S,7S0,255.M. Nearly 600,000 money
orders were sent to Great Britain, amount
ing to $7,462,850.54. Germany came next, re
ceiving more than $3,000,000 In money orders
from the New York postoffice, and Sweden
was fourth, receiving more than $2,000,000
In small sums.
When Jimmy Hope was burled last Mon
day one of the most remarkable criminals
In the history of the United States passed
from the scene of his earthly triumphs.
Hone was a gentleman and a scholar, a
good feeder and a fine companion, the
prince of good fellows in every group. He
was a burglar de luxe; an elegant, re
fined thief who stole for art's sake rather
than for the mere pleasure of having a
lot of money. He was a full-Jeweled Crook
and he gloried In his profession. The grand
Job of his career was the looting of the
Manhattan bank In 1878. The honorarium
was an even $3,000,000, the largest sum ever
withdrawn from business with a Jimmy.
The police, with their bunglesome meth
ods, were all at sea and they never suc
ceeded In placing the basket over Mr. Hope
In connection with this enterprise. Com
pared with Jimmy Hope, Raffles, the
crasksman of fiction, was a mere robber of
milk bottles from baby carriages a cheap,
low ruffian who thought that 5,000 was
a good night's lift. When the two are
compared It is easy to laugh at Mr. Hor-
nung's hero. The eulogy pronounced on
Mr. Hope by Mr. Pat Sheedy is well worth
quoting in this connection. Mr. Sheedy
says: "Although Hope has at various
times accumulated fortunes, I a,m afraid
that he died penniless. I want to say of
Jimmy and I don't care who hears It
that he was my friend. I'm not ashamed
of it, for he was In every respect a man.
He had a brain like thnt of Daniel Web
ster, but It was misdirected. Hope had
two qualities that few men possess physi
cal and moral courage. He could fight like
a trooper; he was afraid of ho man, but if
It was up to him to apologize he waa not
afraid to do that, either."
A blllygoat, possessed of plenty of pluck,
but mighty little discretion, sauntered from
nowhere in particular to Fulton and Wash
ington streets, Jamaica. At the corner was
& crowd estimated at from 500 to 1,000 men,
boys and women, waiting for cars to carry
them to Belmont park. ,
"Mmmmaaaaa!" said Billy.
The crowd yelled a greeting. Billy
"perked up," seeming to like the crowd's
recognition of his dignity. He pondered
what would best show that he really de
served all that had come to him and more.
An approaching trolley car solved the puz
fle. Billy determined to riddle the front
end of the strange looking thing with a
hole exactly the size of himself, and ap
plied himself thereto head first.
Billy was supplied with an excellent pair
of horns, else he certainly would have been
dead ere now. for the trolley car met his
avalanche-like charge unflinchingly and
sent him rolling rapidly gutterward, while
the motorman leaned over the starboard
side and laughed.
Billy arose much crestfallen. He paid no
heed to the hoarse laughter of the race
crowd, but started rapidly off In the direc
tion of nowhere, whence he had come,
looking over his shoulder at the number
of the car as if making a mental note
preparatory to reporting the motorman.
This etory came to light In a New York
police court. A young man from Chicago
arrived In New York, hoping to obtain
work as a waiter.
He failed, and was arrested for stealing
a roll of cloth from a tailor shop in broad
daylight. He pleaded guilty to the charge
and told the following story:
"All the money I had was spent; I had
no friends to help me get work. I pawned
my overcoat and spent the money I got
on it, except 15 cents. I spent that for a
pair of pliers, which I used to rip the gold
teeth from my mouth. These cost me $75
and I pawned them for $3.50, all I could get,
and when that money was gone I had to
steal or starve.
"I went to a clothing shop, picked up a
roll of cloth In plain view of Its owners,
and stood ten feet from the door, waiting
to be sent to prison, where I would be
sure of a bed and some food."
Recorder Go IT paroled the young man and
the officials saw that he was sent to his
home in Chicago.
With an inquiring mind and a certain Im
pervlousness to heat and discomfort you
can discover not only the flowers which
are to adorn next winter's bonnets, but
the pretty flower makers as well. A! along
the south side of Washington square and
lapping over into Third and Fourth streets
west duwn to Bleecker street and West
Broadway are work rooms, big and little,
where this Interesting and picturesque trade
is quietly carried on. Some of the work
rooms are reached only by dusty stair
ways through lli-snielllng hallways. Occa
sionally a dully painted sign, "Wanted
Rose and piquet makers," tells you that
you are locating one of the places desired.
Sometimes It is a little Italian girl with
hair falling Into her eyes and a shy smile
who tells you to go up three flights and
you'll find plenty of the flower makers.
The shops are the dullest, dreariest places
in New York, despite the uses to which
they are put. Instead of a fragrance of
flowers and green things the odors cf
paint and chemicals permeate the air.
V SWIFT RAILWAY TRAVEL.
Rivalry on Eastern Lines Induces
Some Fast llnnnlni.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
When, In 1SK1, the New York Central and
tho IVnaylvania railways put on twenty
hour trains between New York and Chi
cago the country marveled. The Immediate
Incentive for these fast trains was the
Worlds fair In the Lake city, but the
trains remained long after the fair closed.
Time was cut down from two to five hour,
nd for a while each of the roads said It
made some money by the Increased speed.
But eventually the cost Of the higher
speed Impelled each roud to discontinue
these trains.
The New York Central has now cut Its
New York-Chicago time by the Twentieth
Century limited to nineteen hours, and the
Pennsylvania announces an clghteen-hour
schedule between the two points. To
show that this speed can be made safely
over the latter road It has Just made the
distance from the mouth of the Hudson to
the head of Lake Michigan In seventeen
hours In an experimental run. By cut
off's the Pennsylvania has recently short
ened its lino between New York and Chi
cago to 910 miles. The speed which the
nineteen-hnur run of the New York Can
tral represents Is much higher for thnt dis
tance than Is anything attained In Europe,
though there are trains running out from
London and Paris for a few hundred miles
which go faster for the shorter course,
The Pennsylvania's speed Is still quicker.
How the older railroaders would have
wondered could they have foreseen these
flyers of 1905! They would have been a
surprise even to the men of 1870 or 1880,
Part of the increased 8eed between
terminals, of course, Is attained by
straightening tho line and reducing the
grades. Curves are being abolished wher
ever possible, rivers are. being bridged
mountains are being tunneled, all for the
purpose of qulrkening and cheapening the
transit between Important points. Nor is
the end In sight. The railway speed war
which has been started between the two
big trunk llrwrs from New York to Chicago
Is likely to further shorten the time, un
less a railway wreck should take place
which "vould render any Increased rate of
speed perilous.
HEW YORK'S MORTfMf.F. T I W.
PERSONAL NOTES.
Many a man wrestles with the pprlng
fever pretty well until he passesa a window
filled with fishing tackle, and then he
gives In, If he Is human.
The individual who imagines Philadelphia
Is at last awake might find food for re
flection In the fact that a thief, without
Interruption, robbed a pawn shop In full
view of a crowd.
Princess Clotllde of Savoy, who married
Prince Napoleon, nephew of the great Bona
parte, is living in retirement near Turin,
one of the most pathetic figures In modern
history. Her eldest son, Trince Victor,
dreams of some day becoming emperor of
France.
Kentucky's Judiciary is noted for Its
shrewd decisions. It has Just adjudged that
the Bible Is not sectarian literature and
that It may therefore' be used in the public
schools. The same body, if we mistake
not, once sagely decided that sevenup is
not a game of chance, but of skill.
King Oecar of Sweden once passed
through a small town, festively decorated
In his honor. One stone building bore a
large transparent board, Inscribed: "Wel
come, your majesty!" "What house is
that?" asked the king. "That is the town
prison," was the answer. Whereupon his
majesty, laughing, said: "That la rather
too much politeness."
One of Carrie Nation's most tempestuous
disciples has been Myra M. Henry, whose
field of operations recently was Arkansas
City. After one of her sallies Into a saloon I
she was arrested and brought before a Jus
tice of the peace. 6he dared him to fine
her, and the magistrate promptly accom
modated her to the amount of $100 for con
tempt of court. Thereupon Myra's courage
gave way and she tearfully apologized.
His honor remitted the fine.
Features of the Mrasnre Which n
celvert EiecolUe tanctlnn.
Phllndeltihl.i Herord
Governor Hlgglns has signed the mtn'Esga
tax bill, and New York Is nh.nn t,, t,v x
very Interesting experiment in txtio-t.
At present mortgnccs are taviMo undr
the general properly rate, r, -rpt
held by exempt holders, nonresidents ei
persons whoso indebtedness is in , x,fs,
of their persons! assessment. As the pi-ip.
erty mortgaged is taxed, the mm-tKnB t,i
1.1 dotible taxation when collected, but
the great majority ef cases it Is not ,-.;-lerted,
and the rate of Interest Is lmM,t
upon the assumption that It will not i,p
collected. In the exceptional cases nh.
it Is collected It reaches the dimensions . f
confiscation. Where the Interest Is j , ;
cent and the tax rate Is !, the mortice
tax amounts to 40 per cent of the liti
Under the new law mortgages will
exempt from all taxation except nne-lu:f
of 1 per rent annually, and by means , f
the recorders' offices it Is expected t. , ,,.
lect the tax on all mortgages. Tlicv t.
Ically, then, this Is a remission of taxati :,
as the governor calls it; In practice li
an imposition of a small tax on property
that now escapes.
It will be interesting to note the lull i
ence of the tax upon rates of interest nn,i
the amount of money offered for loan, i m
the one hand it will have a tendency t,
lead lenders to demnnd one-half of I per
cent more Interest. On the other, the gn .
ernor thinks more money will be offered
under a low uniform tax than under the
present high tax, which may be evaded by
persons who are not too scrupulous, and
that this Increase of money seeking invest
ment in mortgages will counteract the other
tendency.
SAIU IN FIN.
'I'd hate to be a Rust-la n officer."
Why?"
"Because he gets blown up either b
the Japs or his government." Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
Mary Ann I've come to tell you, mum,
that the gasoline stove has gone out.
Mistress Well light it again.
Mary Ann-I can't. Sure It went out
through the roof. Cleveland Leader,
Nell You'd better come to choir rehear
sal tonight.
Belle 1 can't.
Nell You'd bettor. We're going to try a
new hymn tonight.
Belle So am 1 going to try a new him.
That's why 1 can't come Philadelphia Ledger.
'Hold up your hands!" demanded the foot
pad, suddenly emerging from the alley.
The Viftfm Ifint ti.i time in rnnlvliiff
Great beott, old chap!" exclaimed tha
footpad, lost in wonder and astonishment
as he looked at the hands, and forgetting
entirely the object of the meeting, -What
base ball club ure you kctchln' fur?"
Chicago Tribune, ,
"What has caused the delay in the con
cert?" asked the manager.
"Merely a slight misunderstanding," an
swered the conductor of the orchestra, "It
was necessary to explain to some of the
performers why Beethoven had never Joined
tho musician's union. Washington Star.
"He says he's too far gone to be re-
lormect.
delpula. 1 onker s Statesman.
A SUMMER HEROINE.
gweet Belinda had a shirt waist.
' 'Twas a peek-a-boo.
There were filagrees and posies
Where the sun shone through.
Sweet Belinda's fair complexion
Very soon began
"Twlxt the threads to be invaded
By a coat of tan.
Sweet Belinda's father labored
Patiently In town.
His expense account kept climbing;
Bank account went down.
Life so gay, one mournful morning
Ceased to be a Joke.
Telegram (collect) advised her
"Come home. Father's broke."
But she was a girl of mettle.
Did ahe pine away?
Not a minute. She is paying
All the bills today.
To behold those sunburnt tracings
Crowds In wonder come.
She's the famous tattooed lady
At the mus-e-um.
The Mystery Solved.
THE REASON FOR THE RUIN OF MUCH
COMPLICATED MACHINERY.
Man has often bppn compared to a
complicated piece of mechanism. He
is a wonderful piece of machinery, more
wonderful than anything he has ever
been able to create, and lie has created
tome remarkable things. And yet man,
the machine, is different from any other
machine. An engine, for instance, re
quires power to drive it. There must
usually be a boiler in which may be
generated the necessary steam to start
the engine and keep it going. Man
combines within himself the engine
and the boiler in one. The stoker must
keep his boiler fires free from clinkers
and ashes, and the engineer must keen
his engine clean and its parts well
oiled. So it is with that human engine
and boiler. It too must be kept free
from the accumulation of waste matter
and must be cleansed and oiled in all its
parts or else there will be a rupture of
some of the delicate adjustments.
If assimilation be not good then the
fires do not burn freely, there are ashes
and clinkers in the system. In which
case the effort to do the work required
of the human engine, the heart over
works, the liver and kidneys are put
under great strain, the bowels become
clogged. Alcoholic drinks and medi
cines are harmful because they act on
the food to render it le6S digestible. It
is easily proved, for a piece of beef if
soaked in alcohol a few hours becomes
hard and tough. Test a medicine by
adding it to the clear white of an egg.
If it instantly coagulates the proof that
it is an alcoholic compound is shown
and is transformed into hard albumen
and drops to the bottom. 77 renult
of taking an alcoholic tonic is that
animal food in contact with it remains
undigested. The person is then filling
his piece of huruau machinery with
waste matter. He clogs the blood and
the nerves, nnd the heart and the kid
neys, and the liver and the bo'vels.
lie then uvndcn uhy the vtd machine
dot not work well.' He wonders wriT
there is a wearing of parts, why all
these parts of his mechanism grind
and groan and rub, and why he cannot
get all the labor out of them that he
expects. .
Long ago
while in the
' active practice
No Mystery Hera.
of medicine among the leading families
of estern Pennsylvania, Dr. R. .
Pierce came to tne conclusion that
tonics and blood purifiers that de
pended to a certain extent on the exhil
erating effect of alcohol had an after
depressing effect little to be desired he
also found that there were wonderful
tissue-building and reconstructive vir
tues to be found in the shape of certain
roots and native medicinal plants
some of them have been known and
recogni.ed for centuries by the earl"
American Indians. They were:
Golden Seal (IluflrfixtUi CmtnilcnM).
Queen's root (SttlUnyla SylvitUxn),
Ntone root (Yilfliionli Caiuuleintls).
Clierrybark (I'mnu Vlrginisma).
JJloodroot (SanfiulnnrUi VunruirniiU).
Mandrake (I'wloiihyllum fcluiium).
By careful study and experiment Dr.
Tierce learned how best to extract the
medicinial virtues from these plants in
itiHt the right proportion to make f
life -niving tonic and blood maker,
King's nispencatory which is an ac
knowledged authority on the scientitii
value of medicines says of Queen' 'i
root: "An alterative unsurpassed bj
few if any other of the known alter
atives, most successful in skin and
scrofulous affections. Beneficial in
bronchial affections permanently cures
bronchitis an important cough rem
edycures coughs of years standing.
Aids in blood-making and nutrition."
The same author says of Wild-cherry-hark:
"This has a tonic and stimu
lating influence on the digestive ap
paratusgives tone and strength to
the system. Uuicful in fever, cough
nnd found excellent in consumption.
Stone root, he says it an alterative and
tonic stunmlaiit, valuable in larvngitis.
In speaking of KluodriHtt he snvi it stim.
ulntes digestive organs ns well as doe
Guide Seal, which cures dytptytu
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