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    T1IK OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, DECEMBER 18, IPO.").
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E ROSEWATER. EDITOR.
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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
State of Nebraska, Douglas County, as:
C. C. Rosewater. secretary of The Bee
Publishing Company. eir.c duly sworn,
says that the actual number of full and
complete copies of The Dally. Morning.
Evening and Sunday Bee printed during
the month of November, 1806, was as fol
lows?
I..- 81.1100
J ni.uo
1 31.140
JM.7KO
1 21I.6TO
no.nno
7. 3f5.1 AO
ft 34.610
8UOO
10 S 1,000
11 81. HMO
12 20.SSO
13 31 ,200
14 aijwo
15 81.430
S1.B30
17 81.TT0
18 32.BOO
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30 31JIOO
81.BOO
21 81.4.10
2) 82.M14
14 Sl.MSO
26 32.400
M SO.OSO
J7 81,000
28 31..'
81A40
80 Sl.OM
Total 4l,o0
Less unsold copies lO.JWil
Net total sales
Dally average
030.23
! 81,207
C. C. ROSEWATER,
Secretary.
Subscribed In my presence and swern te
before me this 1st day of December, ltfJi.
(Seal) M. B. HUNOATE,
Notary Public
WHEM OUT OF TOWS.
Subscribers leaving the city tent
porarlly should have Th Be
nailed to them. It Is better than
dally letter from home. Ad
dress will be chanced as often as
reo. ousted.
Ia not the Injunction business being
tllgkHy overdone In these parts?
South Omaha has more mass meetings
In a week than Omaha has In a whole
month of Sundays.
When Secretary Shaw's plan for a
more elastic currency is put into effect,
of course, our money will reach further.
Having discovered that the Eskimos
need assistance, a Massachusetts sea
man baa the foundation for another so
ciety in America.
Senator Millard got out of the inter
state commerce committee Just in the
nick of time to avoid a collision with
4 he railroad rate locomotive.
Mrs. John Blackhawk evidently thinks
the "call to the wild" la a mistake and
regrets that she barkened to the call
tiefore learning Its real Intent.
The weather man Is behaving very
nicely for the holiday trade) but Santa
Claus may have a chance to travel on
snowsboes before Christmas eve.
Thibetans have apparently learned
that it Is better to be friendly than to
tie the subject of "benevoleat asslmlla
tion" on the part of Great Britain.
The treatment accorded a self-styled
"prophet" in Kansas shows that human
nature in America and China is not so
different as many hare Imagined.
If Mr. IZarrlman does not watch out
lie will unconsciously usurp the role of
practical Joker formerly occupied with
out competition by Cbauncey Depew.
(ientlemen who contemplate robbing
Uncle Sam by fraudulent land entries
should remember that the Inability of
women to keep a secret has passed into
prbverb.
The Inability of naval officers to en
force rules of the academy goes to con
firm the belief that America's bright
naval record Is due to the men behind
the guns.' '
Omaha is to go after the 1007 raeet
ltig of the Christian Endeavorers. It It
pretty near time to put that fine Audi
torium of ours to use for the purpose
originally intended.
Two mulea bought for Ak-Sar-Ben
initiations at a cost of $00 seem to have
been sold after the show was over for
13. AVho says Ak-Sar-Ben initiations
are not strenuous?
AW Sar Ben's annual balance sheet
shows a smaller surplus In the ex
chequer than was there a year aro. Ills
royal highness should either reduce his
outgo or increase bis Income.
One of the state papers Intlniutes that
iiuprisonmept for six hours in the
Omaha club may have been pretty se
vere punishment after all. That would
depend uion the color of the chips.
Youug Mr. Hyde Insists that he has
no intention whatever of going abroad I
to live. Such an eminent financier could
never find a held of operations more
promlwlug than among the lambs that
gambol around Wall street.
(Joveruor Maroon of the l'auatna
xoue now has bis official commission
duly signed and sealed with senatorial
confirmation. . Nebraskans looking for
ward to jobs on the canal should send
1b their messaged of congratulation.
A.VtSI) TTIE LASP LAir.
Iloth the prosiilent hihI tho socrctnry
of tin- interior lmvr cnlliil the attention
f upiirtoss to (lie ilflrnhllity of i mend
ing tho 1io In nd l.i ws. Mr. II'misc
velt sniil in liN mi'Nsnee Hint recent de
velopments have given new urgency to
the need for such ehHiiges ns will fit
these laws to nctuul present conditions.
He urged that th" honest lisMVal find
rlcht use nf tlie ifiiinininie, put die. hinds
Is of fuiid.iiiient.'il importance. "The
iniquitous metiio-N ley which the monop
olizing of the public land is lieltijeT
brought iihout under the present laws
are heeomiim more generally known,
but tlip existing laws do not furnish J
effective remedies." The president np- j
prove the recommendations of the prtb-
lic Innilx inmuiissloii and says they
should be given effect.
In tils annual report Secretary Hitch-
cork recommends legislation which shall
prescribe punishment for persons who
fraudulently obtain or attempt to obtain
title to public lands. It thus appears
that the land laws make no provision
for the adequate punishment of persons
who obtain fraudulent titles to public
lands and congress should promptly
remedy the defect. The New York fun
observes that It would doubtless be a
work of time to revise properly the en
tire system of land laws, but it would
be the work of only a few minutes to
draft, and of a few days to pass, a law
providing a generous punishment for
those wtio steal or attempt to steal land
belonging to tho people. "It were as
well to provide no punishment for steal
ing from the public treasury."
The land laws are complex and anti
quated and there is abundant informa
tion readily available to congress show
ing what changes in those laws ore nec
essary in order to fit them to actual
present conditions. There is n commit
tee on public lands in the senate and
one in the house, but It would seem
that these committees have not given
that careful attention to the subject
of which they have chnrge ns its great
importance merits. They should give
early consideration to the recommendn-.
tlons of the president and secretary of
the interior, and especially should there
be no unnecessary delay in providing
proper punishment for land thieves.
The duty of promptly remedying this
defect In the laws is immediate and im
perative. TUB SASTO DOMIXQO TBKATi.
That a determined fight Is to be made
in the senate against the ratification of
the Santo Domingo treaty is already ap
parent and its rejection is quite pos
sible. The purpose of the treaty is to
approve and continue the course of the
administration in the matter of collect
ing the Dominican customs revenue. It
la not questioned that what has been
dona baa been of substantial benefit to
the black republic. As pointed out by
President Koosevelt the revenues are be
ing honestly collected by the Americans
appointed by the Dominican govern
ment and a considerable sum has al
ready been set aside for the creditors of
that country. Furthermore, "stability
and order and all the benefits of peace
art at last coming to Santo Domingo,
danger of foreign Intervention has been
suspended, and there is at last a pros
pect that all creditors will get Justice."
It la the opinion of the president that if
the arrangement ia terminated by the
failure of the treaty chaos will follow
and sooner or later this government may
be Involved ln serious difficulties with
foreign governments over the island, or
else may be forced Itself to intervene
In the Island in some unpleasant fash
ion. While the course adopted was at the
request of Santo Domingo and does not
interfere with the independence of that
republic, still there is a feeling that if
approved by treaty there will be estab
lished a precedent which may hereafter
become embarrassing and troublesome.
Those who oppose the treaty contend
that If the convention is ratified it will
establish a new policy which will radl-
Cally Change the gelations between the
ratted States and the Latin-American
'
countries. AVhat is being done to guard
against foreign intervention ln Santo
Domingo our government might be
called upon at any, time to do for other
republic In this hemisphere "Which have pltCKlng Companla are enlarging their from whom? From private citizens lnter
forelgn creditors Who want What is due , plants. Vncie Sam will have to Increase eBted n the welfare of the country? Who
them. Once It is established that the
United States Is willing to become n
collector of debts due to foreigners by
American countries the creditors of such
countries would be very likely to bring
all possible pressure to bear for the col
lection of what is due them, with a view
to forcing this government' to take ac
tion ln their behalf.
It is therefore easy
to see that having made such a prece-1
dent as the pending Santo Iomiugo
treaty contemplates our government j
might become burdened with responsi
bllltles and obligation that would prove
very troublesome.
It Is said that the administration lius
indicated a willingness to have the
treaty modified In some important re
spects, but the opiKsitIon insists that it
shall be left in its present form and this
has so far prevailed. ' A prolonged dis
cussion of the treaty, in which the re
lations of the I'ulted States and the
Latin-American rcpubllc-H will receive
very thorough, cunsideriitloii, is prom
ised. In the ineiitilinie the receivership
tm llit part of iha government iu S.'into
Iomiiio will continue, unless a stop
should lie put to it by the outbreak of
niii'ttn-r revolution In the Island.
Chicago gruin dealers nppeur to be
much wrought up over the new grnlu
rMte, which will take effect after Janu
ary 1. The adjustment. It Is suid, will
make it Impossible for Chicago buyers
to enter the Missouri river field ou equal
terms with the Missouri river buyers,
and Chlcnco grain dealers demand a re
adjustment that will permit gralz tt In
stopped in Chicago as well ss in Omnha
nnd Kansas City on its wsy to the At
lantic sealsiard. Manifestly Omaha is
to be reckoned with from now on as a
grain export mnrket.
xnrmyt small abuvt vmaua
I'roni its very Inception Omaha has
been imbued with a spirit of srlf
rellnuee nnd lmiindlcss confidence In Its
future greatness. The pioneers who
mapped the clly, fixed its boundaries
and staked out Its broad streets ex
hibited almost prophetic foresight. They
were imbued with a profound belief
that they had founded a eommerrlnl
metropolis which would grow and ex
pand with the years nnd was destined
finally to take rank among the other
great American cities.
There was nothing small about the
nun of the Tm) and "AO's, nnd their ex
ample has been an Inspiration for the
men who have rome afterward nnd
made Omaha what it is today. Few
American cities can tioast of a more
public-spirited, enterprising and progres
sive citizenship than Omaha. Whatever
they project or undertake is always on
a scale commensurate with the preten
sions of Omaha as a metropolitan city.
This broad and enlightened citizenship
was exhibited in the Transmlsslssippi
exposition, that made Omaha' famous as
the first and only exposition city that
paid back practically its entire invest
ment to the stockholders. The same
public spirit was exhibited in the erec
tion of the Auditorium and is now being
exhibited In the projected fireproof ho
tels that have become an imperative
necessity. The same spirit that has sue- ,
' '
cessfully carried through many great
enterprises is also visible in the monit-
mental structures that are now being '
erected in this city and those that are
planned to be erected within the next
two years.
It is chiefly because there is nothing
small about Omaha thnt Omaha is forg
ing ahead nnd rapidly assuming its po
sition ln the great commercial nnd in
dustrial centers of America.
Municipal ownership continues the
1
live topic Of discussion in the Improve- j ar)(J management. If ownership in trust
ment clubs. It will be remembered. ; companies cost Insurance officers their
however, that subsidized cappers put Places, ownership by railroad officers in
most -of these improvement cibs on abattol; express companies, m bag
v i gage delivery companies will be as serious
record against municipal ownership for thPm tn UM of lniliranPe fumls
when the proposition to vote bonds for a to promote a land speculation has cost
municipal electric lighting plant was up
last year.
According to Dun & Co.'s review of
trade there is unprecedented prepara
tion for the spring trade in New York.
Manhattan island has evidently been
transposed from the temperate zone to
the tropics. In these parts merchants
are still actively engaged in filling the
, ,i ,i nh.mna
uuiunwvui ucl,.uu v. """"'""'
trade.
The more the railroad attorneys and
tax agents agitate the railway tax ques
tion the more they will irritate and
exasperate the people who are com
pelled to pay their taxes because they
do not have money enough to hire law
yers and tax agents by the year.
General Manderson is a little mixed as
to his facts and considerably awry ns
to his conclusions. In the meanwhile,
the public would like to know why a
railroad should not pay its taxes just
the same as other people.
If the Swiss were up to Yankee stand
ards they would turn that hot spring in
the Simplon tunnel to account. It would
be a poor physician who could not dis
cover medicinal properties for the usual
consideration.
otra with the SI1U On.
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
We never realize what smooth talkers
our multimillionaires can be until they
are put on the stand and riven a chance
to tell things that they would rather con
ceal. The Qoees'i Favorite.
New York Sun.
With a fine perception of chivalrous char
acter and legislative possibilities, ex-Queen
. IJUuokalanl now commits her petition for
I financial relief ln the amount of lurono.OiiO
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airCCliy lO tne non. liajica . rftiiumiftB.
The Hot Pnee.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The railroads of the country have more
business than they can nunriie ana tne
his avoirdupois and fighting strength If he
expects to keep pace with the rest of our
Institutions
Dream On, Thomas.
Baltimore American.
Thomas Edison says that we are on
the verge of discoveries that will revolu
tionize the production of electricity, and
that will open up a new era of progress
.anl.m hav come tru. ... th.
past. it u worth while taking his word
for it.
Homeward Bound.
Philadelphia Record.
The enemies ot Immigration, n.ny piiWy
draw some comfort from the f.i.-t that at
this season of the year rearly as u any
"undesirable" Italians are goinir away as
arriving in Atlantic steamslilis. But to
people who find it difficult to obtain fcuffi
clent labor for their opeiailiins the natter
presents Itself in quite a li(T;veiu 1'cht.
Rebate Persecutions.
Springfield Republican.
Evidently the government is intent upon
vigorous measures to suppress railroad re-
bating. This Is Indicated by the Institu-
tlou of proceedings at tiiiiuneipiua
There
may be no success In securing convictions;
the railroads there may be innocent, as
they claim they are. but much can be done
to put down the evil by swift and relent
less action wherever a bit of evidence ap
pears on which to base It.
I'ruurrii In Irrlaatlon.
tit. Louis Globe-Democrat.
It is only three years since the Irrigation
law was passed, and already the govern
ment has constructed seventy-seven miles
ef main canal, fifty-four miles of distribut
ing system, 1st) miles of ditches. Including
dams; three and one-half miles of tunnels,
I'M miles of wagon roads. 147 bridges, a
cement mill witli a capacity of 300 barrels
a day, and many buildings incidental to
he work. In no other esse ln history
have Internal Improvements on a large
scale been pushed with equal promptness.
(old stnrnae Goods.
Chicago Chronicle.
Chief Chemist Wiley of the Department
of agriculture tolls the American Ware
housemen 8 association that they will goon
have to stamp snd sell their coM storage
goods for whst they really are. That prob
ably means that the stamping will Include
the date of plarlns In storage. Prof. Wiley
says of the prejudice agrtinst cold storage
foods: "A little of it may be just; a great
deal of it unjust." That Is a comforting as
surance, but how are e to know the cases
In which it is Just? If we can know that,
the stamping will be unnecessary. If we
tan not know It, the stamping; will not
help us any.
I lessness at Annapolis.
Chicago Chronicle.
No sooner docs Midshipman Meriwether
get off easy for Agtiting with a fellow
midshipman who died ns a result of in
juries received than we have two flagrant
cases of baaing ut the Annapolis institu
tion In violation not only of law but of
a pledge given by all midshipmen to give
up hazing. This lawlessness follows hard
on the heels of the appointment of an
investigating board "to look into tho acud
emy customs that are contrary to ref
lations or laws of the United States."
The very appointment of this cimmission
Implies a deplorable lack of discipline
and toleration of lawlessness In the acad
emy. CAMI'AIG ACiAINST BEBATKS.
Railroad Discrimination and Favor
itism Most Stop.
Philadelphia Frees.
Insurance investigation la plainly to be
followed by a period of railroad Inquiry.
The evidence in regard to railroad re
bates now before the federal grand Jury
In this city is only a part of the campaign
of the Department of Justice against nill-
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Omaha, in the southwest and on the Pa-
t.i(lc co(U)ti on the nroaj iines whu. cen.
tor in Alabama and Tennessee and now
ln thls clty stpP8 hve bepn to prose-
cute those granting rebates and those con
spiring to grant and receive them.
Public feeling and public action on this
subject cannot and will not stop with re
bates. Railroad offlcerti are aware of this.
Their abolition of railroad passes ia a rec
ognition of a new and higher code in corpo
ration management. Personal privilege and
perquisite must go.
The public has condemned Insurance of
ficers who profited y the ownership of
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bft BJt fiulnk trt mnr1fmn mllrnnrl riimntnt-x
Senator Depew public respect, ownership
ana proni oy rauroaa omcers in latin spec
ulation dependent en their own action us
railroad officers will look Just as bad when
exposed.
Insurance officers and railroad officers
alike are trustees of property belonging to
others. One as much as the other; one no
less than the other. If insurance revela-
; tions have damaged, railroad revelations of
a like character will damage In a like way.
, " ch revelations can be made they
! ar Ptty certain to come when railroad
Investlratlon fceelna as at.te legislatures
assemble. The public Is ready.
wili, this bk the; esd or itt
Practice of Securing- Political Con
tributions fmm Corporations.
Chicago . Inter Ocean.
8enator Culberson of Texas haa Intro
duced a bill which makes It a felony for an
Insurance company or any other corpora
tion to contribute money or anything of
.value toward the election of a president or
vice president of the I'nited States.
The bill also makes It a felony for any
person to knowingly use for such campaign
purposes any. money contributed by a cor
poration. The bill, finally, prescribes a
penalty ef not less than two years' or more
than twenty years' Imprisonment.
Heretofore It has been hard enough to
secure the services of workers at the polls.
as every body who has any knowledge of
the difficulties attending the management
of political campaigns can testify, even
when the Inducement Is 15 a day and the
hope of political preferment If the right
side wins. As a rule the werk of mannlmr
the polls Is shirked by those who are most
influential and active ln precinct politics,
and It becomes too eften necessary to se
lect for this purpose gentlemen who are
not on the most Intimate terms with the
best people In the district.
Harder still will It be te secure poll work
ers when It becomes a question of doing
one's duty by one's party and getting any-
w here frem two to twenty years, or not
j doing one's duty to one's party and losing
j W and' a Job In the court house or city hall.
"Tou tell me," the ward worker will say
to the ward boss
"You tell me that I will receive $5 for my
service. That Is tempting, but where did
the o come from? You got it from the
campaign committee? Yes, but where did
the campaign committee get It? How does
It happen, let me ask, that the campaign
committee haa monoy to pay for my serv
!,. ci,vrir,.n.v t-
are they? Name them. And where
.did
they get the money which they have sub
scribed to defray the campaign expenses
of our party a party for which I would
be w illing to make any reasonable sacrifice
short of going down the road for anywhere?
from two to twenty years?
"Tou tell me this money Is not tainted?
How do I know? The fact is, I suspect,
perhaps unjustly, that it is part ef a con
tribution handed in by a man who is en
gaged In a business which Is more or less
dependent upon the success of a business
which Is closely Identified with a business
that is deeply concerned in the uplift of a
business that is allied neurly or remotely
with a corporation whose business miKht be
affected by the result of this election.
"I am poor. I am ambitious. I um at
loyal partisan. I would do almost anything
to serve the gentlemen whose names appear
on this ticket. Put 1 have a wife and eleven
small children, besides a large assortment
of nephew, nieces and second cousins, de
pending upon me for support. True. i on
a general holiday would help. Every little
tiling helps. Put what would Jo be to me
or to them If as a result of accepting this
pronamy tainie.i money i snouin nave to te
j absent from the scenes of my legitimate
activity for from two to twentv years
"Desist, foul tempter! Pegone! 1 liute
like the dickens to miss a fiver which ap
parently conies so easy, but my manhood
retiels against anything that savors of any
thing like polluted currency. Go. seek one
who Is willing to surrender Ills freedom
for filthy lucre! 1 am not of that mold.
Uctter poverty and an easy conscience than
(5 for a chance of missing t v-i riliii.g that
Is likely to hapien in this int'Testing town
for the next two to twenty years."
The question is. Does Henator Culberson
realize whut will lmpl'" if his bill shall
become a law? Does he see that he is try
ing to sound the doom of the campaign
fund the doom, perhaps, of the campaign!
If he does not. some of the senators from
some of 'the other states should point out
the dajiger to him.
nnnn aboit jkw York.
Hippies on the torrent of I.lfe In
the Metropolis.
New York City boasts of many things,
and with reason, but the claim that the big
city cultivates a superior article of husband
brings Invoiunturily to mind the hlstorie
exclamation of Missouri, "You'll Have to
Show Me." This is wnat the Sun attempts
by a ci tiiparlson with other cities. Says
the Sun: "More divorces are applied lor
' and more are granted in the city of New
, York than In any other large city of the
I country, but the number of divorced men
i residing la New York Is relatively much
smaller than In in( ether very large
American city.
' lhere were. ty the last enumeration,
fewer than l.Joo divorced men here, of
whom 3S0 were in Brooklyn, while in Chi
cago the number wns nearly 2,0X1. and in
lnuiumipolls. which has less population
thun the borough of gueens, ft. There
were only 35 in (Jueens.
"Various t-.tpluuatlons of these dispari
ties are given, the most natural one of
which is that divorced men In Mew York
City remarry; In Chicago and some other
cities they don't at least not to the same
extent. New York's record ae the city
with tho smallest nuniWr of divorced men
In proportion to the whole population is
nowhere challenged."
Excavating was begun during the last
week for the erection, by William Wal
dorf Astor of an eleven story apartment
house of the first class ln the block bound
ed by Broadway. West End avenue, Seventy-eighth
and Seventy-ninth streets.
To be known as the Apthorpe apart
ments, the structure will front VAA feet in
Broadway and in West End avenue and 34S
feet in corn of the streets.
There will lie 1,400 running feel of front
age, including that of an Interior court,
and, figuring the floor splice, of each story
of the building, the architects estimate that
It will be equal in size to seven city Mocks.
One hundred and ton apartments will be
in the Apthorpe, varying ln size from six
to fourteen rooms each.
All of the large apartments will bo ln
two floors. A foyer hall, billiard room,
kitchen, dining room and servants' looms
und bath will be on one floor, while above
them will bo bedrooms, a parlor, library
and bathrooms for the tenant.
The building will have Its own electric
and Ice atorage plants, and its owner will
furnish all the refrigerating facilities of
the building.
On the eleventh floor will be the laun
dries and separate compartment for the
open air drying of clothes. Each tenant'
wash will thus be immune from another's.
At leaBt 2.W,000 will be the coBt of the
Apthorpe, ind the apartments will com
mand very high rentals.
Only thirteen babies were born on Fifth
avenue, between Washington square and
i Ninety-fifth street, this year, according to
tho city's health report. In tho John D.
Rockefeller block, bounded by Fifth and
Sixth avenues and Fifty-third and Fifty
fourth streets, the stork alighted only once.
Most of the mansions in Fifth avenue j
ijetween Forty-second and Nlncty-nltn
streets, are those of persons of great
wealth or social distinction, but only six
babies were born to that entire section.
Above Ninety-fifth street there are many
fluthouses, and the inhabitants are not so
wealthy. In thirty-eight blocks above
Ninety-fifth street, ninety-five babies were
born.
From January I to November 29, on Man
hattan Island, 55,000 babies were born, but
In tills, all of tho fashionable thorough
tares made a very poor showing. In Madl
non avenue, from Twenty-third to Fifty
ninth street, there aro only twenty-one
babies under 1 year old, yet In six blocks
on Bayard street, on the East Side, there
are 102. There aro forty mansions In Gram
ercy park, but only three of. them were
blessed with babies this year.
t one block of Fifth avenuo mansions
ih,.r U one babv to every 167 persons. In
Avenue A, on the East Side, there Is one
Infant to every thirty persons.
The officers of the New York dimity
organizations have discovered that there
was little reason for the hue and cry of
some months ago about thousands o' chil
dren going breakfastlcss to school.
The Salvation Army, Incited by this cry,
i opened a number of food kitchens in the
vicinity of the school buildings most largely
uttended by tenement children, nid tho
Hoard of Education, on the recommendation
of the charitable societies, attempted to
ascertain for itself how many children
habitually went to school without break
fast. The Charity Organization society
sums the result up ln these worda:
"In spite of the wide advertising given
to the food Btatlon through the dally press
and otherwise, very few claimants appeared
for the free breakfasts, and the Inquiry by
the Board of Education likewise fat.td to
disclose any large number of breakiastless
children."
Seven young New York millionaires Al
fred Gwynne Vanderbllt, Reginald C. Van
derbllt, Harry Payne Whitney, Charles T.
Cook, Ogden Mills, Lawrence E. f-cxton
and Horace I'orter have purchased for
nearly $1,000,000 a tract of 18) acres In the
suburbs of that city. They have organized
a syndicate In the lots, which arc on the
line of the New Haven railroad arid a line
which is about to be built.
PF-RSOVil. 'NOTES.
One way to make Christmas last nil th
year round is to give presents tuat you
have to pay for on the installm "it .Um.
John Harrison of the "8ix HuiiJred ' that
made the :'amous charge of Palnkl iva, In
the Crimean war. has just died In Delhi,
N. Y, at the age of 7S.
"Arden," the mountain homo oi' .vline. 1
Helen ModJ skh. In Santa Ana, C:il., has
been Bold to Leopold Moss of Chicago. The
piopeity It. of 12iV ai res, lar .-ly n- jun- j
tair.ous.
A telephone franchise which communities
often give away for the asking, is valued
at $7.750,0 ln New York City, and a com
pany offers to put up the rash for the priv
ilege of getting in.
Jacob Btelner of Brooklyn, has u. col-
lection of rare pistols said, by . xpvts, to
J 'no of ttlB n,,,Kt complete in rh's country.
ii" t ot in the world. His collection nprv
mils twenty years of woik.
One week ago Henry N. Rockwell of
YoilKers, I., vt da a laurosui cun'iucioi ,
and today he is a member of tlio New I
York state railroad commission, trowing I
a. salary five times as large .is a week I
ago. I
There are lour gove rnors thai served dur- I
Ins the civil war still living. William
f-'piague, whose he;n! is near Ntrr-iansetc
Pier. R. I.; Frederick Holbrook of rsrattle-
boro. Vt. ; Samuel J. Crawford of Kansas,
and John J. Ptttys of Mississippi.
Coincident with the abolition of free
passes by eastern railroads the advantages
of tho northwest nulriuclB ure exploited.
Managers of the latter route hav not de-claie-U
themselves on the pas eiilesllon,
but personal applications will be favorably
Itceived.
The mikaelo Is complaining of a salary
that is smaller than those of the nion
aicliM of several lesser European kingdoms
oi even cf the second-rate life insurance
presid -nts. lie actually gets only ibout
ll.nei.nno, supplemented by about J;,v.
flora his personal estate.
HelplHelpl
I'm Falling
Thus cried the hair. And a kind neigh
bor came to the rescue with a bottle of
Ayer's Hair Vigor. The hair was saved!
In gratitude, it grew long and heavy, and
with all the deep, rich color of early life.
Druggists have sold it in all parts of
the world for over sixty years.
The best kind of a testimonial
"Sold for over sixty years."
Kid ky the f. O. Ayr C., twell, MtM.
Also BUutUKmi of
rn.g iiBSAPARntA Fr the bloefl. ATFR'S PRI8- For eetirMpJiMot.
AYKR'S CBBB1T PECTORAL For cough. AYBR'S AGUfi CURB For malaria SMl ((,
I.OTS OK POETRY I COH.
An Knatern Tribute to the Glory of
ebrnsUn.
Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
This crop rises to Its glory in Nebraska,
as till know who have studied the exhl'ilts
of that state at the great expositions. There
have been corn palaces, and the great ears
have been shaped In forms without number;
more or less artistic. Many people upon the
prairies do their thinking In terms of corn,
as the south does witli Its cotton. In win
ter, us well us summer, corn reigns In Ne
braska. This universal Interest there has
been quickened by the Burlington railroad,
which Is to start a train called the "seed
corn specinl." which is to employ eleven
days on the line In Nebraska and northern
Kansas, starting out the lHth and ending
its run on the 30th. It is a Christmas gift
to tho farmers of those states, and the train
will be manned by specialists from the Ne
braska state farm und will be ln charge of
the railroad's Industrial agent. Tills means
corn talk by experts all along the way nnd
special trains will be run on the branch
lines to bring more farmers to the localities
where this instruction la given. Next month,
from the Kth to the Wth. there is to be the
state winter corn show at Lincoln, jointly
managed by the Nebraska Corn Improvers'
association and tho Ptate Board of Agricul
ture. Cash premiums are given to nil ex
hibits scoring over 70 points, and the oc
casion will also draw out a display of corn
planters and cultivators. Each exhibit from
the farm must consist of forty ears, grown
by the exhibitor In 1V5. The directions given
for selecting an exhibit are as full of. the
music; of nature a they can be packed, and
for that reason we reproduce them:
L Uniformity of exhibit. All the ears In
an exhibit should be uniform In size, shape,
color and indentation. Don't have some
long and some short ears. Don't have some
thick and some thin ears. Don't have some
cylindrical and some tapering ears. Don't
have some light yellow and some dark yel
low ears. Don't have some cram while and
some pearl white ears. Don't have some
rough and some smooth ears.
2. Shnpe of ear. The shape should he
cylindrical or nearly so. Ears should not
swell at the butt, nor be thicker near the
tip thnn ln the middle.
3. Color of kernels. There should lie no
white kernels on a yellow ear. There should
be no kernels showing yellow on a white
ear. The yellow on a white kernel can be
seen only below the cap. The cobs should
be uniformly red or white.
4. Market condition. The ears should be
well matured, firm and sound. There should
be no evidence of smut nor any kernels
gnawed by rata nor missing from the cob.
5. Tips of ears. Tho tips should not be too
tapering and should he well (Hied with reg
ular, uniform kernels. The cob should not
protrude beyond the kernels.
6. Butts of ears. The rows of kernels
should he even and swell out evenly be
yond the end or the cob. The shank should
not be large nor extremely small.
7. Kernel uniformity. The kernels should
be of uniform width at the top and should
have about the same indentation.
8. Kernel shape. The kernels should be as
deep as possible and tapering.
9. Space between rows. The rows of ker
nels should be close together from tip to
crown.
Itooler on Life Insurance.
F. P. Dunne lu Collier's.
If these here Inthrestin" life Insurance
scandals had come up In Merry ol' Eng
land we'd niver heerd iv thim, because
all th' boys wud be In th. House iv
Levels be this time, an' Lord Tontine
wud sit hurd on anny scheme to hav
him searched be a lawyer fr'm Bmoklv
Rut with this hee nation Iv ours som
body scents something wrong with 11
scales at th' grocery store an' whips ou
his gun, another man turns In a fli
alarm, a third fellow sets fire to th' Prcf
bvterlan church, a vigilance comity I
formed an' hangs Ivry foorth man; an
havln' started with Rockyfeller, who'i
tough an' don't mind beln' lynched, the;
fln'lly wind up with desthroyin' me be
cause th' steam laundry has sint me home
somebody else's collars.
Some (iood In Automobiles.
Brooklyn Eale.
Tliis year the Americans have invested
tW.Out.OOO In automobiles. Now for a chorus:
How many charities, how many good roads,
and how many schools you could build with
that! True; but the automobile distributes
the charity in fines: It Is a missionary for
good roads; and It disseminates an equiva
lent of Intelligence among the rural con
stabulary. Too Mt on Guard.
Chicago Record-Herald.
Thomas F. Ryan Is a giant physii'ally,
and one of the correspondents who saw
him on the stand before the Insurance in
quisitors says he looks us If he might easily
own the earth within ten years If he is
let alone. There are indications that no
body who starts out ln future to own the
earth Is likely to be let alone very long.
Coal. Wood. Coke, Kindling.
W. aell th b.et Ohio and Colorado Coals -el.an, hot, lasting:
Alao tho Illinois, Hanna, Sheridan, Walnut Block, Stoam Coal, Bto.
For general purposes, uso Chorokoo Lump, $5.80; Nut, f 5.00 per ton.
Missouri Lump, f 4.75; Largo Nut, $4.60 -makes a hot, quick fire.
Our hard coal Is tho 6C4ANT0N, tho best Pennsylvania snthraolto.
Wo slso soil Spadrs, tho hardest, and cleanest Arkansas hard oosl
All our coal hand screened snd weighed over any city scales doslrod.
COUTANT O. SQUIRES 1SST5H"
PK t LT Y FOR MORAL WnoSG.
Slunlflrant Manifestation of Agares
Ive Public Sentiment.
Chicago Chronicle.
What a storm of Indignation Is raging
' around William Ellis Corey, the president
of the t'nitrd States 6teel corporation!
What has he clone? Only this, that having
climbed to a position of great wealth by the
assistance of a faithful wife to whom he
plighted his troth when both were poor he
now craves a more ornamental head for his
household and has noted so unbecomingly
toward an actress with the same moral na
ture as his as to compel his lawful wife to
sue for a divorce.
What of It? Isn't this clone somewhere
every day in the year? Is It not generally
condoned in men of great wealth? Is it
usual -for such an escapade to shock society
nnd rupture business relations? Yet here
we have Pittsburg society slamming ita
doors In Mr. Corey's face, his own father
and mother remarking that they would not
speak a word to save him from the penl-.
tentiary and even the directors of the Steel
corporation suggesting his retirement and
announcing his successor.
This is all as it should be. The man who
puts away thf- wife of his youth and pov
erty to inarry'a beautiful adventuress is not
to be tolerated nnd it is perfectly proper
' that society should ostracize him and busi
ness men depose 'Mm.
I The only wonder is ihut this is not al
ways the result of such rcandalous Infidel
ity and Immorality. We can only say that
it is better thnt such a retribution should
occur only once In a while than never.
LAI c;niri ;a!.
She The evil that men do always lives
after them, vou know.
lie-Sure; but li s a good deal more un-"
comfortable when it gets after them.
Hoston Transcript.
! She This is the time of the year when
a woman nppreclHtes having a little money
of her own.
He 'Cm. It's the time when her' bus-'
band appreciates It, too.--Detroit Free
( Press.
"Here!" shouted the depot oiltiial, "what
do you mean by throwing those trunks
around like thail"
The baggageman gasped iu astonishment
asil several travelers pinched thenuelves
to make sure that It was leal. Then the
official spoke again to the baggageman.
"Iwin't you sue that you are making big
dents in this conen te platform ?"Kinnrt
Bet.
Distressed mother (traveling with a cry
I lug boby I Dear me! 1 don't know what to
i do with Ihis child!
Bachelor ln the next seal i Shall I open
the window for you. niacin in? New York
Mall.
: "Well, after all." slid Mrs. Nagget,
finally, "there's Just one little bit of millin-
: cry that I cleslin most "
I "And I tell you. I won't buy it for you."
' snapped Mr. Nageet.
I "No, dear, you won't be here to pay for
It. It's h widow's bonnet. "Philadelphia
, Press.
"Did the photographer take a good pic
ture of the baby?" asked the anxious
mother.
"Splendid!" replied father, showing the
proofs. "He caught one of those ex
pressions when you can t tell whether he's
laughing or crying! 'Detroit Kreee Press.
"Have you anything that will remove
wrinkles?"
"We huve some fine jack planes, ma am,
that I think would do It."
"Mercy! isn't this a drug store?"
"The druvs are over there by the soda
water fournaln. This Is the hardware
counter, nia'am." ievelnnd Plain Dealer.
MOHV OF THE 1 XWIK MV
W. D. Neshit In Chii'Sgo Tribune.
John Henry Prown. with scornful frown,
made speech unto his wlfe-i
"You've S nt six days, to my amaze
within the shopping strife,
t from your list there Is not missed one
fourth that we must buv.
,u've worked enounh. I'll get the stuff
ere you could wink your eye."
lin Henry laughed. John Henry chaffed,
when his dear wife said: ' Hee
ne time I've sjient has bowed and bent
and made a wreck if me.
ve shopped ami shopped until I dropped
from utter weariness."
ie vowed: "I II nil your Christmas bill iu
half ten hour or less."
ohn Henry Prow n then went down town
and sauntered to the store-s;
le strodu with smiles along the aisles and
rode to many floors.
Jut everywhere when he got there a crowd
of folk would stand
And keep at wuik ilie busy clerk with
peneil in her hand.
And through each door there crowded more
until the store was full;
Drown turned alirait to hasten out, and had
to push and pull.
Thc-y shoved tiim tlnough a showcase, too,
they ground him on the wall,
They punched mid pounced anil squeezed
and hounccd him like a rubber hall.
They tumbled him, and jumbled him, they
threw him to and fro
t'ntil at length he list his strength and
could no farther go.
And as he fell he knew full well his help
less form should feel
The beating bruise of women's (hoes each
with a pointed heel.
Next day he woke and faintly spoke onto
the white clad nurse:
"t'pon your life, take to my wife my
Christmas list and purse."
The nurse replied: "Your wife's outside;
for her you need not fear.
Bhe was among the crowd that swung on
you, and sent you here."