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CtY TIIE OMAHA DAILY H?"E: MONDAY, JAXU 1, 11HK. The Omaha Daily Bee K. HOSE WATER, EDITOR PL'RMHIIED EVERT MORNING. TERMS OK SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Bee (without Sunday), on year.. MOO Pally Be and Sunday, one year illustrated Be, one year 2.M Sunday Be, one year 2" Batuidny Be, one year l.&u DELIVERED BT CARRIER . Itslly Bee (Including Sunday per week. .17e Dally Bee (without Bundnyi. per week..l2 ISvenlrig Bee (without Sunday), per ek. c Kvenlng Hwi (with Sunday!, per werk...lO.- Sunday Bee. per copy 6c Address complaint of Irregularities in de livery to City Circulation Department OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha City Hall Building. Council Bluff-10 Pearl Street. hiAgo JWo Unity Building. New York lfi' Home Life, Ins. Building. Washington "1 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and ed itorial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee. Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Rem't by draft, express or postal order, pavahle to The Bee Publishing Company, only -cent stamps received as payment of mall acc.ninta. I'ersonal checks, except on thnaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss : C, C, Rosewater, secretary of 'the Bee riiHtininr rnmnnnv. heme: duly sworn. says that the actual number of full and .nmnleto cr.Dles of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the montu of December, 1!H. was aa fol lows: 1 SI,MO 2 IVJ.t 3 WKfi-JO 4 ai.iwo e ....ui.tso 17 18 19 20 21 2 24 25..:.. 2fi 2 28 2! :to Ill ...an,wM ,..3.7fO . . .arj.oao ...3.1,100 ...i,UHO It.... 7.... s.... J... In.... II.... 12.... II.... 14.... IB.... IX. . . . ....ai,oin ....82,1 AO ....SIJMM ....axsuo ....fMKIJM ,...ai,Mo ....8I.7NO ....ai.tifto ....nii4 .....ii.t;m . . . .r.j,7 io ,...H,050 ...31,7 ...aj.ato . . ..rj.oio ...Hi,KH ...ai.-io ....TJ.9IO ...ao.iso Total sw,040 I .ess unsold copies 10.HOH Net total sales ttTI.KM Dally average 31,W C. C. ROSEWATKFt. Secretary. Hubscrlbnd In my presence and sworn to before me this 31st cay of December, 1W0J. (Seal) M. B. HUNQATE. Notary Public. WHEN OCT OF TOWS. Subscriber leaving the city tem porarily .should have The See mailed to them. It la better thnn m dally letter from home. Ad dress will be changed as often aa requested. Have you turned over a new leaf? If not, why not? The battle cry of 1IHH1 Is "Up with the big stick and down with tho grafters." If you do not feel big enough to keep thope New Year's resolutions procure a surety Ixmd. 71netecn hundred and six will have to hump itself If It wants to outdo the past highwater mark of 1105 prosperity. Idaho cannot be permitted to emulate Russia in the matter of bomb throwing. Physical force has no place la American affairs. For the sake of memories of Tunis it is tobe hoped that Stephen Decatur, Jr., is not guilty of hazing; but great names cut no ice at Annapolis. According to the eminent statistician of tho World-Hernld, Wyoming bus ex ported 4,110 swine during the last year. . but Wyoming still has n few more at large. The new year will usher in a slump in tho Wall street money market, when loans will probably be obtainable at one tenth of what they commanded during the closing days of 10OS. (respondents are not going to per- j vanIa mul visited the White nouse and mit France and Germany to go to war j uft,.r a conference with Roosevelt that without letting the world know about j lm, flrst nuaouueement wns made that It. even If they are forced to make pre-1 the pPnnsylvanla company would dls dletlou and denials at least once n ,.ontii1Ue the practice of Issuing passes. veek- ! Since then many of the eastern roads " j have followed ault and at the meeting With the government farmer on the j of the western trafflc managers with the Pine Ridge reservation arrested for sub- j ,Ilter8,atp Oomuferce commission It was ornatlon of perjury it is possible that , T)t.arUl.ullv agreed that they would liuiiaus nave iceu tauguc metuous or raising money rather than of raising grain. Having outlined his policy General Ringhaui. 4he new police commissioner of New York, is now iu a position to dis cover that the commissioner proposes and the politician disHises in that com munity. - t Nebraska, with Its Italian skiea and balmy air, offers sympathy to Texas and Oklahoma where snowstorms pre vail, but It stands ready to receive re turn expressions of condolence at any moment. . When a man goes about with a big stick in his hand, says Prof. Goldwln Smith, the temptation to use It Is pretty sure to come; and there has been a great deal of temptation in these latter days, even out in the wild and wooly west. The bodyof Millionaire Street Rail way Promoter Yerkes had acarcely been deposited in its coffin when the fight over hfs fortune was begun and the prospect is that It will not end until the lawyer have secured their full share. With New Zealand foot ball players de feating all Knglaud It way be necessary for the antlpodeaus to come to America to .learn what foot ball really nieaua but they should take out accident In surance policies before the game be gins. Nebrasiia Insurance companies which talk of uiov'ug to Iowa to reduce taxes liould rei i.Uer that under the "tax ferret" law every dollar they evade 1 likely to be placed upon the assessment rolls at any time. Taxes do not always stay traded ta Iora. TBK jrffir rtAtt The revorrl of the oM fear bug twen :nao. WliHt Is thp outlook for tn now year? That Is the question that Is upper most In the mini! of everybody who thinks at ait on the proposition. Op timism Is the word that fits the present condition, so far as this country Is con cerned. We are entering, as a country, upon a new year, with all the conditions fnroraMe to the progress and prosperity of our people. What these conditions :ire everybody understands. They are not absolutely hound up In our great crops, splendid as these ore, but are also In the great educational and social progress which we have made. Today this progress Is beyond any thing that was conceived of a decade niro. The man of twenty years ago who said that Omnha would be the city It Is today would have been laughed at. Yet Nebraska and Omaha have been steadily growing, and Omnha never more rapidly thau within the Inst two or three years. So far as our own people are concerned, they must appreciate what the year that has gone has brought thein and at the same time understand what the benefits of that great fruitage means. For Nebraska It la hundreds of millions of dollars. No one can foretell the future. Whether or not the crops of next year will be more or less than they have been In the year that ends today, no one can say. But of this we can at least be sure, thnt this great land of ours, enriched In every way by the bounties of nature and absolutely beyond any danger from in ternational difficulties, will still be the first among the powers of the earth to exert Its Influence In the Interest of In ternational peace. The new yeHr brings with it no grander assurance than thnt of the American republic's devotion to the cause of the world's pence. THK RAILROAD SHIBBOLETH- It Is n very poor lawyer who cannot argue on either side of a case and he Is a very poor preacher who cannot prove any doctrine by the Bible. In antebellum times the preachers in the slave states quoted the following sen tence from the Bible in support of the cause of slavery: "Cursed be Ham. A servant of serv ants shall he be forever." The northern abolition preachers re torted by quoting: "rroclaim liberty throughout all the land, to nil the Inhabitants thereof." And so It Is with the railroads. The tnagnntes have taken their text against the free pass system out of the Bible by sandwiching the following Bible quo tations with their happy New Year greeting to all whom it may concern: "Thou shalt not pass." Numbers, xx, 18. "Suffer not a man to pass." Judges, 111, 28. "The wicked shall no more pass.'V Nnhuni, 1, IB. "Though they roar yet can they not pass." Jeremiah, v. 22. "He paid the fare and went" Jo nah, i, 8. The refrain la taken up by the rail road educational bureau and the respon sibility and odium of this new depar ture has been cast on Theodore Roose velt, at whose door all the troubles and tribulations of pass-less officialdom Is laid. For example, the railroad educational bureau credits Roosevelt with having forced the Pennsylvania and other roads to put a stop to the issue of passes to members of congress, politicians and shippers. As confirmatory of this it is given out in cold lead that several sen-1 ators declare that it was immediately after President Cassatt of the Tennsyl-1 greatly curtail transportation favors.. This new departure Is by no means startling to the public or alarming to members of congress or favored a'li'.n pers. It is one of those periodical an nuals that have emanated from the edu cational bureau with a confidential post script that placates favored politicians and legislators by the assurance that the new order Is designed to relieve the rail roads from supplying passes to numer ous dead heads who have been on their free list, but have not been In a posi tion to reciprocate. All those, however. who can return valuable se'vlce for value received will have no dift'cuUy tn getting mileage tickets or drawbacks by presenting their credentials at the tight place. TAB UR1KSTAL TBADt. Among current statistics none are more Interesting and encouraging than those which show the Increase in Ameri can trade with the Orient. According to these In ten months of this year our exports to China amounted to $50,000,- ooo. against $20.tss,oo0 in the same por tion of last year and $13,000,000 two years ago. To Japan our exports were $4,50O,OO0 this year. j$'J2,0(i0,0O0 In ten month of 1004 and $1(1,000,000 in ten months of lfHKl. These are certainly very gratifying figures, but perhaps so far as China is concerned some ex planation is needed. The boycott against American goods went Into effect last July and it la probable that a very con siderable portion of the goods which make up the statistics to the end of Oc tober Iiad been ordered before the boy cott was ordered. How much of such shipmeuts has been marketed is the queptiou. ' According to a recent authoritative statement an enormous amount of Amer- lean goods are In warehouses In China and there Is no demand for them. A few months ng there was a large Chi nese (IciiiMiid for flour from this coun try, but there Is comparatively little of It being sold at present. In view of this It Is evident thnt the export figures for China do not represent goods marketed. As to Japan the statistics are nil rislit and the fleurea for the next ten months will doubtless show a considerable In crease. THE TITS OF CA.VAf- Vcry soon after the reassembling of congress Uie Pnunma canal question will command the attention of that body and we may expect a discussion of more than ordinary Interest. A number of questions thnt have arisen will call for settlement, and not the least of these relates to whether the canal shall be at sea level or be a hick canal. Thnt is a question to be determined by congress and no one can say what the verdict will be. According to the latest information the present chief engineer of the canal is In favor of the lock plan, which menus a great deal less of expense In construc tion and n considerable less time for completing the work. The statement is that the engineer of the ommissiou Is absolutely opposed to a seft level canal and If such is the fact his Judgment should certainly have n very great in fluence upon congress. What seems to be needed In the pres ent emergency is an administrative au thority that will accomplish something. The existing conditions arc manifestly unsatisfactory and must be changed. There Is serious talk of letting the build ing of the omul by contract and this proposition will undoubtedly bo earn estly considered by congress. Thirty-two years ago the proprietor of the New York iiraphic, which has long since vanished front the journalls- ft. .L-loo sniifrbt to nttrnct world wide i ,,,-, i i i it . attention through his Graphic l.alloou. constructed for sailing across the At- lnntle throuch which he exnected to lantlC, uirougn wnu n ne extern u u revolutionize interoceanlc transit. The , , , , . , . Graphic succeeded In securiUK a vast amount of free advertising, but the Graphic balloon never inssi'd beyond . . . .. . . , Coney Island. Now anotucr enterpnsltitf Chicago journalist has ordered au air ShiD built to explore the North pole, and r.... j i- i its daring navigator, Walter Wellnuin, who, by the way, hails from Nebraska, IS instructed to report his findings by ... ... l , Wireless, WTtxiotit awaiting tne mow imi cess of being rescued by a steamship water they hate to drink and jumping off his fathe-'s middle class home one day and expressly constructed to butt against the wagon before It is fairly started. A strolled down among the docks. In an ob viclous Tolar bears and refrnctorv ice- 'Alcohol), whose, persistence for a whole scure cross street a sheriff s sale was In ," day cannot be praised too highly, wets his progress. A little sonpmaker had failed In bergs, but ( v.-hl.tle January 2. B (Reer). another mlraclo ! buslnes and was navlns; the penalty of his Houston, Tex., has been Invaded by "Carry Nation." There has been some Shedding Of red inn, nut according to the last accounts from the Texas me- tropolis its inhabitants were .still In- , . . . ... r.i .. dulging In good cheer with Kip an Winkle's toast, "Here's to your good health and your familv; muv you live long and prosper." ' ' : A, The Steel trust has raised the wages of Its employes by 10 per cent legln- nlng with the new year, and It has raised the price of its output 10 per cent In compensation for this voluntary advance. As the price of the output is more than ten times as much as Its pay roll, the trust will not suffer by its gen erosity. In the meantime. .Tone he pays the freight If the program of the attorney of the Civic Federation is carried out two- Tn r IK III 1UK BniUl'UH IIUC? lt l'- cM whe hu npiwl, ,g m I the courts, and the other one-third will be given a monopoly of the tramc, who for the time Ixing will not feel much distressed. In predicting secession of South Af rica from the British empire because the importation of Chinese coolies has brother of the Standard Oil king, has pur been prohibited a London ncwapnper chased a heql of buffalo In Iowa, which ha evidently thinks the Africander- ,mv 'ko to hi, Kansas ranch. j .. . . , , , P ., i,,,,.! Maxim Gorki Is considering a tour of th fmled to learn the less..., of the Amcri- VniM 8a(pi( ,f hp Jt can civil war. j cauBe he Is In need Of funds necessary to . . ' j the success of his paper, "New Life." lot Can't Lose Tmi. j Benjamin P. Clarke, a well known resi- Toi tlund Oregonlan. j dent of Boston, makes a practice of going The l.ongwortli-RooseveH ciiyaenient ! l n city postoffice when the last Chrlst dmply uc-s to piovo once more that there mas malls for foreign countries close anil Is no way to keep an Ohio man out of tho paying the deficiency on all matter held for White House. j Insufficient postuge. . I Very Itcv. J. J. Ryan, president of St. Inoreu.la ruhlle K.tee,... Patrick's college. Thurles. Ireland. Is visit- Minneapolis Journal. Archbishop Glennon of St. Louis. He The president has shut down on one of ! , on , , ne phU on thoae endless chain contrlbut on schemes , , rtant mU(jion H, , a dl8tlngUlllhej for a wedding present for his . auhter. ! eaucator of Irpund The president is getting to be almost a i n well liked for the things he puts a stop to j Sen",,,r Knos of Pennsylvania is setting a a. for the thins, he .una going. I '"rifle pace In the matter of hard work. He and his stenographer generally are at Painful Strain on rrti'. j wot k before 5 in the morning and !; Philadelphia Record. . breakfast time the shorthand man has work It ia aid that members of the Pennsyl vania legislature have given up their da'ly readlng of tl'.u Bible since the dectee of the railroads abolishing free transportation, The freiment Iteration of the phrase "and It came to oaxs" got upon their nerves. Dissipations of Some People. Harper's Weekly. How differently do the people of the earth take their pleasures! In a statistical book Juut issued In Madrid It la estimated that for luxuries the Spaniards spend an nually more than IKO.uK'.iaW. Of this sum IX.OCO.iO) are for cigars and cigarette. $2,000,000 for lottery tickets, $13,So0,00U for bull fights. tU.600.0CO for hollday-maJvltig and $31,000,000 to settle the wine shop reckonings. Published statistics concerning the riotous living In Boston show that the n-tivea of that plae-are more than ever debauching themselves with baked beans. A Boston dispatch says: "Ltst year they spent on their favorite diet more than the cost of two battleships, or ti,B98.272. According to the wholesale dealers, 68.&1 barrels were con sumed In that period, and the demand la Increaaing." Vali San Francisco Call. A free population, ambitious to get the benefit of its own labor and enterprise, ta the making of any country. With freedom will corn more general education and a great upraise in Melxcan life U1 result. By war of contrast Mexico and Sweden nd Norway offer an InUrestlog study. Mexico, wlt!i peonage and restricted educa tion, lias a wonderful and rich variety of natural resources. Sweden and Norway, with a cold ami rather sterile country, have, individual freedom, and are the only coun tries tn th world In which every grown man can r.-ud and write. Therefore the Scandinavians have prosperity, good homea and a general and splendid civilisation, whllo Mtxloi, with friendly climate and great natural resource, lags behind. But the signs f advancement are many and encouraging, and there Is every reason for taKliig a th.piful view of the future of our sister republic. S1MIIQ p THE LOSSF.S. Haaslnn Klanrea on Rnsalaa Losses la x the War. Minneapolis Journal. Figures Minted recently by' the Novo Vtvinya shiw that when peace was con cluded, General I.lnevltch had at his dis posal i;.5.0 officers and 917.0U) men. There were carried to the front during the war 2.tt0 officers and 1. 270,000 men, and about 80,0.) soldiers were present in Manchuria when war broke out. Making the sub tractions. It would appear that Russian losses were ai proximately 7.R00 officers and 13.t.noo men. Assuming the Japanese losses, Including Port Arthui, to have been only a fourth less than the Russian, the flower of the Jaranese standing- army must have been lost, and tl.e reports that the Island am plte was recruiting In the latter months of the war nun beyond the age of military service wen true. BIIded and gaB,olou(t )n mnitlns peace at the precise moment when Its military and n.ival prestiK? were at the highest. Russia, apparently, was In the better state to con tinue tho conflict, except for the fact, then already pari aly known In Russia at least, that the government had lost Its hold upon the people. I1K19 AMJ WETS. Cheery l.laht for Fllgrlins on the Water Wnsron. New York Sun. A certain commissioner of highways Is not worrying. The laying of burning marl goes on without literruption and the busy season of Plutonian pavers is at hand. looking with no supercilious razo from the arid land." of experience, the philosopher sees the old same going on. the old stakes on the table, Y'oung Virtue after one short, dl"y fl5ht closing her wearied wing, (Thirst and the aleatory instinct tangled up to)rRtht.r. Kr partlcular, read this notice: j To the KdiMr of the Sun: Sir Please give a ray of "B,lt on th, following: A and h afrrM, not to take a drink for sixty davs, beginning January 1. upon a forfeit of $25. ' A takes a drink on the second day of thnt month, and h, having discovered the fact, . anK ; I B relieved from the financial conse- ouence stipulated? Must A pay B $25, or is tie account balanced by the drink on the ; orcurtl me that a dMlRion on ,Ho i point would be of rather cenrl interest, I HENRY' T MASON New Tork, December 23. j Of rather general interest: So wide Is the art,a of d resolutions and so eager to fall i" fallen man. No casuist Is needed to sttle this case of two bettors unstable as tho of endurance, doesn't try to hold out. Sixty '. days In too long a campaign for him. F.- 8idPS- he Titles A. Why should B fine poor - A $25 anyway? The moment that B hear? - "ii i.iivj- vi jch ii, juj uup i y ti rushes to where they keep the paint. A owes B nothing. B owes A nothing. Their counts ate balanced. What they owe or wllVo-we the gettleinan In the white jHcket i8 Mlother matter. These compacts, whatever penalty Is nt- taehed to their forfeiture, are usually dls- ! ,a?n"" T"h U"s p'rfect 8!m I pllcity. Neither Alcohol nor Beor exneeta ' to be bound long. A knows that the throat of B burnlnB for the 0d famlllar 1lllc, u is too good a fellow to Insist upon the letter of the bond and be parched for sixty da5''' ThP wholc ',llm is hit of farce comedy. An educated connoisseur, how ever, would refrain from rum for a week or two, for a month, perhaps, so as to accen tuate tho joy of contrast. What sensation is there In falling from the height of Queen Man's instep? The serious artlft will prnc tlce prolonged abstentions; nor will he allow his will to become so infirm that he can't , leave off rum or apple pie or smoking or r,B,1 economy or any other perilous habit TJ'TC T; 1 hese wet beta nhowld be bo arranged that In nnua of ha afA.tUe .UnU A a n iL gt(kps hould tQ the prohlblUon Mal commit tee. The deserters would be fewer .en. PF.IISOSAI, ..OTF.S. One New York banker gave his cook $5,i') at Christmas, which he probably had saved In tips by dining at home. Frank Rockefeller of Cleveland, O.. enough to last him all day. Marquis dj Something or Other is of opin- i Ion that Filxslnniions should have bis face i slapped. It the marquis will undertake th task doubtless he will find Fltisimmonx willing ta waive temporarily an announced and sincere determination to retire from pugilism. . Governor John C. Brady of Alahka was once a street waif and later a missionary. He secured a university education by his own efforts, studied law, entered the minis try and went to Alaska fifteen years ai;o us a missionary. He Is now serving !i!h ninth vear aa governor. People who scoff at the goosebone and the coal bin a weather prophets may turn an admiring ear to the weatherwlse sontf " propi.n ..u .m. I th'n bouled' la hl" annual brochure. In 1 Whlch he eVuu"d'' th virtues of pale pills ior pinmsn people, are several solemn oo- servatlona on the brand of weather coming to us next year. Hereabouts a fin article will remain on tup until January 9. wheu a blizzard la due. From the 9th to the 18th aero weather is planned. Trier will be a considerable variety until February 10, when the record blizzard cf the winter will get busy and send the mercury to the bottom of th bulb. About that time Omaha has "X degrees below zero" coming to It. Of course these wea'her variations impote serious hardships on health, but all dan ger may be averted by taking pale pills and liquid dope, which th prophet will gladly exchange for coin. PHUCK OF PnOMOTF.RS. Feat ares of the Career of Trartlaa Magnate Verkea. A prima of constructive promoters set tled his account with the world when Charles T. Yerkes died. Philadelphia. Chi cago and Ixindon felt the uplift of his kill and two nations applauded and con demned In turn the methods of this daring, ruthless twentieth century promoter. Chicago and Springfield. 111., were the scenes of his greatest exploits. True, he awnkened London with his underground road and lifted the foc-enveloping transit facilities in the lirltlsu metropolis, but there was scant opportunity there to dis play his genius as a political manipulator. In Chicago ai.d the Illinois stnte capital Is where his skill daizled officialdom and dated his opponents. When In the zenith of his power and af fluence in Chicago. Yerkes closed tho Chi cago Stock exchange for three months, ca joled a legislature by his own pecull.tr methods, absolutely controlled successive Chicago boards of aldermen so that he se cured the practical ownership of the streets of that city, pumped his street railway stocks so full of water that In two-thirds of Chicago a good service was well-nigh impossible, and unloaded on his backers at a hajidsome figure nroiiertles that rn-omotlv wpnt lnto a rt.celver8iliPi anj tne wellt to to conqupr nPW WOrlds. In Chicago, where Ycrkea made his great fortune and became famous or infamous, according to the viewpoint of the commen tator, there are two capital charges ag.itnt what Is styled "the Yerkes regime," and both may bo summed up In what Chicago calls "Philadelphia methods." One of these was the noted railroad man's hnbit of pyramiding- bond iFstics, the other Ills habit of undermining state and local legislatures. An a result of both, the Philadelphia broker who came to Chicago In 1W3 with a capital of l-'O.OOO, went to London In irn" with a fortune that Is now estimated at something lika $30,&X,0(O. It was his iron nerve, that enabled him to carry through his audacious deals, and this quality wag never displayed more characteristically than on that memorable August night In 1894, after the Moore Brothers failure, when a group of bankers met at the house of the late I. D. Armour, In Chicago, to discuss a financial situation rendered additionally precarious by the amount of Y'erkes paper the leading houses were carrying. It Is a valued Chicago story that Mr. Yerkes, himself wearing a stiff little straw hat, with a gaudy ribbon at tached, saluted the solemn-faced group of financiers with the breeiy remark: "This 1 the largest collection of straw hats I ever saw at a funeral." He urged that the Stock exchango be closed outright, and when Us governors hesitated at the boldncsa of the sugges tion he declared: "Very well, open for business tomorrow, and you will clcse many of the banks of Chicago before tomorrow night." That word settled it. Terkes was born In Philadelphia In lSJi. His father wns a Quaker. He had little schooling. It Is related that when he was only 10 years old he wandered away fpim bad management or misfortune. Lltl'e Yerkes slopped and looked on. The bid ding was spiritless. Finally $17 was offered ( for nil the HOnpmnker s small Htock. It i Brriiiuu iu uiiiig 111 iiiti i uitir i ; lot of soap there to be sold for $1", so he bid $1. At this figure the soap was sold to him. He had no money, but he Induced the auctioneer to wait until he could run home. P.ushlng Into Ms father's shop he said: "Father, I want $18." "Wh-it for, my son?" "I don't want to tell you Just yet; but If you will lend trie $1S I will return it to you tomorrow." Finally Yerkes, sr., consented to this ar rangement, and the boy ran out with the ' precious Jis clasped tlphtly In his hand. He j paid for his soap and hired an expressman iu uiivp nun uiniimi wim ii in various Rro- eery stores, to which he sold it In sniiil quantities, lie paid the expressman and the follow Ini? dny gave the $18 back to his father. After this was over he had $M 1-ft aa the nt profits of the transaction. And he was only 10 years old then. Next ho entered a commission house as an apprentice clerk. Hl energy won for him a present of V.0. In 1R5S he opened an office as a stock broker and later became a banker. He innde money. Then he wus Involved In a scheme to soil the city bonds of Philadelphia on wind. The scheme collapsed and Yerkes went to prison. A board of pardons released him. After bis pardon Mr. Yerkes insisted that other charges apalnst 1.1m should be tried and In October, 1S72. he went into court and Ms general acquittal promptly followed, .'n September, 1873, city council passed an or dinance releasing Mr. Yerkes from all claims of indebtedness. i While Yerkes was In Ixindon Thomas Tower O'Connpr. Journalist ar.d member of l arl in nt poru'arlv known as "Ta-.' Pay," sketched the traits of the builder of "Tupenny tube." as the T.mdAn under ground is locully known. "When I first saw Mr. Yerkes enter the hall of the house where I met liim," wrote "Tay Pay." "I was at once pleased and surprised. I had heard o much of the rel?ntles resolution. audv.-Mv and multiform victories associ ated with his name, that I could scarcely believe that this was the dread ami dreaded man whom so many tried to beat, who had walked over so many wrecks of competition, hatred, envy, ponular hatred and condemnation. For there have been few men of his time, even In America, who have hod more bltt -r enemies have fought more terrific fights. "A man rather below the m'ddle helifht with a heavy snow-white mostiche, a pnle complexion, with that rllgM tendency to wnrd at! enlnr?ed Birth that comes with nild'I'e aee: with wMte hslr. w'th tin- dark eve, rind with ft sn't vole, uni e. s-ibdned manner-such was Mr. York's. Th flrxt, 1ml. .d the supreme and mot listing. Iin preision he nviVes upon you Is srnltv. He comes, I believe, of Quaker hi nd: and the fnee U a Oi'iker fnee; with that quiet lain which l and always re'tmlns f'e ex pression of the man or womin who h-is beinin life nm'd the prolonged n'lences ami the stern nelf-oi'",irip nnd ef-eonrol of ,h p icletv of Friends. The voice soft, low. never rsid ehove a minor lev-is H terfct aeefd w'th the .jnr';lon: and ty. rveti with f'eir eutiotia Irrmohllit v and a certein sweetness and Just the" lewt touch of mocHn humor coniflote this elc tue of one of tho s'Vnt. oolet. Iron on thnt roe te fr"i nnf r'e the cvclone In the elem-'til and Titanic wars of American Industry." Savin Common Sense. Chicago Chronicle. Livingston C. Lord, president of the Illi nois State Teachers' assoilatlon, has had the com ago to protest against the modern educational doctrine that twenty normal children should be sacrificed U get some thing into the head of one dull one or to re. claim one bad one. Mr. Lord is rich In saving common sense. It U a great plfv that we have not that kind of sense in con trol of our boards of education and the practical work of directing the schools. Music and the New Year Many people believe that the natural expression of happlnesa is music, and that the home without a Piano is a dreary place. Time was when the prohibitive cost of Pianos made It possible for only a few to have them. That time Is past. Modern methods of paymcn-s make Pianos possible almost everywhere. And time wu when homes with Pianos, but no pianists, were without music. Rut the Angelus llano Player has made performers of everybody. Our methods make even the highest priced as well as the best of the low priced Pianos obtainable by small regular payments, and you can choose between a Knabe grand at $750 and a Grand Style A upright at 1190, and in between Is the most magnificent collection of Pianos ever seen under one roof, from the most famous makers tho Knabe, Kranich & P.ach, Kimball, Bush Lane, llallet Pavls. Krell. llosre, Mathusek. Need ham, Whitney. Helnie, Cable-Nelson, Cramer and others. Or we will tune your old Piano, attaching an Angelus, and you or your children can play as well as anybody. Or we will take thevold Piano in part payment for an Angelus Piano Player at 500. $050, $750, $800 or $1,000. Special New Year Terms ray by the month or quarter if you wish. Special appointments may be arranged for any evening for the con venience of Piano buyers or Player buyers, , A. HOSPE CO. 1513 Douglas St. You must hear the Angelus. The best place to buy a Plauo. FKRSOSAI.IA' POLITICAL. Norfolk Tress: Mr. Haxter played Ajax defying the lightning, and the galleries upplauded while his ofilcinl head went Into the Junk heap. Osceola Record: If Messrs. Baxter and Mathews had any Idea that they were putting their political frnces In shape In permitting the Comstocks and Richards to put the cattle fences in shape, then they must have lost a few rails. Wayne Herald: Seeing that ' W. P. Warner Is safely fixed In the office uf United Slates marshal, the friends of Con gressman McCarthy can breathe easier. Now. If Gurncy and Boyd and Young could be shelved some way, his renonilna tion would be assured beyond a doubt. Fremont Tribune: The first volume of Morton's History of Nebraska, with which J. Sterling Morton had nothing to do, has been printed. There will be two other volumes and thi work will be completed about four years and thirty-nine days lifter ships are passing through Panama canal. Kearney Democrat: Judge Baxter ought to have known fietter than to put up the same talk about the Rlrhards-Comstork business as that advanced by Mr. Mathews. It Is a pretty hard struggle to convince Uncle Sam that a lame duck is a heslthy anlmnl, and. .yet. we are not. saying that Judge Baxter Is nt all lame, but his talk is. Bancroft Blade: Baxter says "if he re signed he would be admitting that he had not done his duty." It is not necessary for him to admit anything, for the peo ple. In one voice, will admit that it was the biggest farce ever handled In a federal court In Nebraska. The only thing to regret Is that Baxter ever received a com mission from the president. Stanton Picket : The Omaha News states that there Is a move on foot to make T. L.. Mathews the republican nominee for governor. Don't believe there is any foundation for the statement. A gj-eat many people like Mr. Mathews and feel sorry for him, but public sentiment la strongly with President Roosevelt in his efforts to enforce law. and those who feel that he was a little harsh with Mr. Mathews also feel that It was because he was wrought up over the farcical sen tence given the big cattle men, Richards and ConiFtock. and ate not Inclined to slap him for what he has and is doing. Alliance Times: Those who know Hon. William P. Warner, chairman of the re. publican state central committee, will agree absolutely with the Times that us more fitting and deserving selection could have been made for United States mar shal to 1111 the pluce of Mathews, re moved, than this young and energetic re. publican. His rise und foresight In BtaU politics have ben phenomenal. He repre sents fully and most creditably the newe'r and younger element that has been stead ily forging to the front In Nebraska and stands for clean politics and economical administration of public affairs. A bet ter and more capable man for the mur shulship does not exist within the border lines of Nebraska, and had Mr. Warner not accepted this place tendered without his request or previous knowledge there Is little doubt he would hav been Ne braska's next governor, or in soma publlo place equally aa high. Coal. Wood. Coke Kindling. W. sail th b at OhU and Colorado Coals -clean, hot, lasting: Also tho Illinois, Hanna, Sharldan, Walnut Block, Stoam Cost, Eto. For gsnersl purposss, uo Chorokoo Lump, $5.50; Nut, $5.00 por ton Missouri Lump, $4.75; Lsrgo Nut, $4.50-mskss a hot, quick fire. Our hard coal Is tho 8CAANTON, th best Pennsylvania anthracite W also sell Spadra, tho hardest, and cleanest Arkanaaa hard ooal. All our coal hand sereened snd weighed over sny olty scslos desired COUTANT fit SQUIRES 'Vi.VKo'" I .3 AM - St iO'TTuaisao' F IT COMES -fflIH(jt- FR M LAS-T l BAR'S SMILES. "You started In lire. I believe, ftn.itoi," salo tue reporter, "tt ixnir boy." "Whoever told you that, young mini." an swered Senator Ijntstmin, "lies greglousiv . 1 was the lattest buby of the iiiniii.v.' Chicago Tribune. i sre that our friend lias tuken u him. I In politics." -l am not sure," answered Senator S.m ghum. "whether he has taken a band In u or merely put ills foot in It." Washington Star. "Jngley slept In the lockup, I hellec. DiuiiK and disorderly, ch?" "Sli! He says he was guilty of srson." "What? " "IU- thinks that sounds better. Me was burning tils money, you know." Philadel phia ledger. Cholly Nitwit D'ye know, Miss Cutler, though I've only Just met you, there seems to le a er si. it of Intellectual sympathy between us. You know Just how to iiMeiil to my tastes, you know. Are you a literary woman? Doiiy Cutter No, I'm a kindergarten toucher. Cleveland Leader. McJIgger O! she's n peach Her hair is positively pure gold and ' Thingumbob b.i they say, anil t understand It. I knew her when h .in t a little girl. McJIgger Well? TiiiriKUiiihob W ell. It was merely plaii.. then -Philadelphia Press. THE XKW YEAR. W. J. Lampion In New York Sun. 1 hold Me, Ti.e New Year; The same old New Year That has been happening Every twelve months Since Julius Caesar, Ch- Pope Uregory, Or (Jeorge W asiiingtoii. Or the Declaration of Independence, Or somebody First started me In tho business Of measuring time. And I am fuller of good resolutions Than my observers are full Of eggnog Ar.d ss forth. And they last about as long, And don't taste any bettor I ' The next morning. Either. I'm l!, Though most people Ixin't spell my name that way Yet. Because they forget That I'm not 1DU6: Besides, I'm so soon begun That my name hasn't caught on; But I'll get there by and by, Just ns I have been doing Since 114 B. C. Standing at the turn of days. At the parting of the waya Of the old and of the new. I'm a guide-post to the trua, But for one day only; then ' I'm the same old year again. Same old human beings and The new year like the other klndj Same old weaknesses prevail, Same old struggle, same old fall, Rame old leaden skies of gray, Same old tiresome bills to pay. Same old pains and nam old achee. Ham old Jolts and same old breaiia. Same old rough and weary road, v Same old heavy, wearing load Sam old luck and same old Ion, Same old sorrows, sajne old cross But. Friends and fellow Travelers, Brace up; The Cub lin t all bitter. The same old friends ara with you still Same old kindly wish and will. Same old help In time of stress. Same old paths of pleasantness, Same old charity is strong, Same old hands to push along. (iet a move on; Every woman, every man; And vou'U fill The bill , Of the Maker's will If you'll do the best you can. MILLER'S STANDARD WHISKEY "Bottled in Bond" and certified by the United States Government Stamp, insuring PURITY, AOE and STRENGTH. you buy your Wines and Liquors at HILL E IV S, you will be confident of getting the RIGHT KIND atthe RIGHT rilfCES. TRADING STUMPS. WE DELIVER. MILLER'S. MUST 600D 1309 FARNAM ST. JO