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THE OMAHA DAILY DEE: FRIDAY, XOVKMItF.Ti VAH) Tm Omaha Daily Hee. FOUNDED BT F1WAHU ROSKWATF.R. VICTOR-BWKWATtn, F.DITOft. Untered at Omaha ti fflce n second :iee matter terms or subscription. Pally P (without S'asdayt, on jrMyr..H.m fiallv H ml Hunday, one year I ' Sonday He, on year t irfi Saturday Bee, on a yenr If) tiEIJVERKD BT CARRtFR. 1'nfty "Pee 'OnrlHdlmc flnndav). r weck..r IMIV He, (without H'.indav), PT , .l"o Evening pee, (without Sunday), per Week fci Kvnlng Hon (with Holiday), per Week.. 1'o Add res complaints nt irregularities in de livery to City Circulating Depart men I. OFFICIOS. OmahaThe Pr building. South OmahaCity Hall building. Council Bluffs 10 Pearl street. Chicago HMO Vntty building. New York lV't Home TJfe In. building- Washington Tn'l Fourteenth street. . CORRESPONDENCE. Communication relating to iiewa and edi torial matter should be addressed: Omaha He. Kdltorial Iepartmnt. REMITTANCES. . RerrHt'- by draft,' express or postal order parable to The Bee Publishing company. inly l-eent atamna received as payment of mall accounta. Perannnl check, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accented. Till BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. tMate f Nebraska, Douglaa Comfy, ea: Charlea C. Roeewater, general manager or The Bo Publishing co-noony, blng duly sworn, say that th actual ntimber of full and complete copies of The Daily. Mornlnif, Kveniryr and Sunday Be printed during the month at October. ltoW, wa aa tullowa: 1.... SO.SDO 17 90,830 2 ..80,800 !.. 80,830 ........ ....suooo . i 1-990 4. ........ .30,70 i'O 81.830 s.....;...'.8o,T0cr 21 i,ooo ...........Sl.TOO -it 80,850 T.t... 80,800 21 ...80390 I...... 80,070 "4 30,830 ........ ...80,890 25 31,870 10. ... 30,730- ;..........3M10 n. ...... 3o,ao :' .ai.T40 12 80,780 2 80,870 It ,31,060 28 31,800 14 ...,.8000 30 .'....81,110 li. .31,480 81 80,110 I...; ..38,000 Total 800.8SO Less uhaold copies. 10,083 Nat total tales , 360,837 Dally average 80,888 GO. ROSE WATER. . General Manager. Subscribed in rny presence and awrvrn to before mo this 1st day of Nofmhr, l". (Seal.) - M. B. HCNCiATE, Notary Public. . wiie out or tows. baerlher leavles; tha city tcm porartly ahoald hav Ta Bee msllrd to the a. Address will be rhaagred often aa requested. .Register Saturday. The report or tne formation ot a soap trust In Great Britain, will hardly exclta professional anarchists as other merger acheine nave. With Rfinwa vroxer approving; the course of "Pat" McCarreri, veteran Tammany braves mill know where to use their scalping knives. The maker ot "pure Vermont maple syrup" might take a hint from the in dictment ot that Vermont company for 1 aeiling diseased cattle1 for food. - ' The suggestion tor the abolition ot courts-martial, which comes from France, Is probably occasioned by a desire to make another Dreyfua case Impossible. ' Xow that the soldiers are Question ing the Integrity of Indian scouts, the trouble in Wyoming steins, to ' be settling' down to the ruled known of old to the pioneers. That Atlanta has sent to St. Louis to arrest a man charged with lynching negroes, Indicates an aroused state of public feeling which should make Ohio and Missouri blush. Winston Spencer Churchill, parlia mentary colonial secretary, is sched uled for a visit to the British West Indies, showing that the American idea Is finding approval abroad. Since the Indictment of the Soutu Omaha coal dealers for maintaining a subsidiary coal trust the coal men ot the two titles will feel that they have an additional bond ot sympathy. The advice to take out "hold-up in suiance" is also good for others be sides saloon keeperswha max have to do business with certain branches ot Omaha's democratic city administra tion, i Leavenworth Is to choose between Hiving . orJIuary social WkU to sol diers in uniform or feeling the result '.of an army boycott, and Kansas has another opportunity to establish a prec edent. ' . , Ak-Sar-Ben asks tho business men , o? Omaha to decide whether they want the annual carnival parades Uiadly enough to help pay for them. 'It a thing is worth having It Is worth . paying for. . .. L.. . ; The fact, that natives of Siberia are sjl in sympathy with political prison- era sentenced tothat domain- Indicates that 'the propaganda is not stopped by sentence of court and that Siberia may jet redeem Itself. The declaration of the largest divi dend In twenty-seven years by tho Pennsylvania railroad shows that 'members of the miner's union 'are not absorbing all of the advance in tho price of anthracite. In order to stand by Roosevelt you ( limit have your name properly en rolled on tho registration books and ' vote for Roosevelt candidates on elec tion day. Your last chance to regis ' ' ler comes Saturday. The necessity for reporting plans of ;the jrtoposed 'record-breaking battle abip to 'congress will take from the I'nlted States the benefit ot that secrecy which surrounds similar work l:i Europe; but. If the designers hava . made their plans Urge enough, iub U.Uty. tr be t eajttak advantage. A TliASSroftTATlOX T)1LIMMA. The facts now available retarding railroad and gesersl development up to the end of the year 1904 explain he congestion of traffic and demon strate that construction and Improve ment of transit facilities, extensive as they have latterly been, have not kept face with the growth of the country. While between 1895 and 1901 railway mileage Increased 17 per cent, number1 of cars 40 and locomotives 33 per cent, the total ton freight mileage Increased almost 100 and passenger mileage 78 per cent. Since 1004 the Increase of business has been enormously greater, while provision of facilities, because the capacity to supply rolling stock and materials waa exceeded, has been proportionately less. Bo marked and perolstent is the Insufficiency of track, cars and motive power to carry the freight and travel that tho most com petent Judge's are seriously contem plating the dilemma of a pattlal break down of the transportation system, disastrously affecting Industry until a greater expansion and better equip ment ot the roads Is had than they seem to be disposed to provide. It Is clear now that the understand ing among the roads twenty years ago to abandon and' restrict construction, particularly in the west, proceeded on other than full realization of the trans portation problem or its observance was unduly protracted. The main tenance ot excessive rates with an In finity of discriminations, with a view to exploiting other Industrial Interests or to stock jobbing manipulations, ab sorbed during the iuterval energies which should have been devoted to transportation service in it essential legitimate requirements. It was only, very recently that railroad manage ment, which has been dominated too much by selfish immediate ends, has begun to awake to the serious ex igency caused by the growth of busi ness. For several years, Indeed, actual pressure has. compelled general effort to build. Improve and equip, whereas the wisdom contemporane ously exemplified in other fields ot in dustry would hate been forehanded. ' It Is not a- mere accidental or tran sient surplus of tonnage that has to be deat with, but a rise of the level of production that is universal, per manent and stupendous. It has pilod up the revenues ot the roads till their treasuries have overflowed, bo that capital stock Inflations, no matter how extravagant, were sustained by earning power and still the dividends could be abruptly swollen as they notably have been this fall. The peril, in short, is a default of carrying capa city, because It la now reliably calcu lated that an average of 10,000 miles of new construction will be annually required through the next decade merely to provide for the Increase of business, but there Is1 no sign that the roads, although today unable to han dle the business thrust upon them, are preparing to matte any, such provision or the further enlargement of existing facilities which It Implies. : THE VERMONT MS AT SCASDAL. The scandal culminating In indict ment of high state meat Inspection of ficials and proprietors of a slaughter ing and rendering establishment in Vermont for collusion in selling large quantities of diseased meat for food Is an' a'dmonitlon of the enhanced neces sity of more stringent state inspection laws. The necessity arises from the fact that the drastic new national law li now In force barring diseased, filthy or unwholesome meats and meat prod ucts from entering into Interstate com merce, and leaving the only field In which they can be foisted upon con sumers within the state where they are slaughtered. . As under the national law the large packing houses, which necessarily de pend upon the Interstate and foreign markets, are ' under unescapable off! clal scrutiny . into every, detail ot slaughter and preparation "from hoof to can," It follows that the sole chance for disposing of meats from diseased and Mnflt animals now is to packing houses and small slaughterers not within the jurisdiction of the national law. State and municipal meat Inspection regulations as a Tula' have hitherto been notoriously iwefftcltnt and unless they are remedied the effect of the new national system will be. in part at least, merely to change route by which unwholesome meat; will be im posed upon consumers. Nothing less than the virtual reduplication of the national law In all Its provisions and enforcement within the state Jurisdic tions will meet all requirements of the situation. , J'lUf fRESIVKKTB PAX Ait A HUP. Information from authoritative quar ters establish the fact that the presl dent s visit to Panama savors not In tho least of a Junket, as, indeed, out side ot yellow Imagination no one has ever believed It would be, but Is for the purpose of facilitating most im portant and necessary canal business. With settlement of type of canal, with disposal of the preliminaries to so vast an undertaking and with arrangements for turning over constructive work to contractors, there remains no longer necessity for the elaborate staff o civil administration ot the canal zone and no successor to Governor Magoon accordingly has been appointed, what remains ot his functions having been transferred to tho chief engineer. Bu the recasting of civil administrations requiring probably additional legiBla tion from congress, in a form to bo permanent throughout the building of tho treat waterway, is one of the pressing matters that will be greatly forwarded as a result of the presl- dent's mission. f-- The trip theivrr-t planned to be one of arduous labor for tha presi dent, and la another proof ot his In tense Interest in this historic enter prise. The conviction of those near est to him may well bo accepted by the public, that he Is resolved to con centrate his energies with redoubled vigor during the remaining two years and a half of his administration to ad vance the work to the utmost, so that It will be In such a state of forward ness that none of the tremendous and exasperating problems which he. was forced to face at the outset will re main to his successor. Btoirr.vo hot asd BLuwiyo cold. For a most beautiful example nt blowing hot and blowing cold at the same time commend as to the demo crats In the present Nebraska cam paign. They have been beating the tomtom of anti-pass legislation behind andidates long recognized on the rail way free list and blowing the hornof railway regulation while secretly un der contract with the railroads to pro tect them In their tax shirking pro gram. The most nimble game ot thimble-rigging which our democratic friends, have been playing, however, s in the field contested between the liquor interests and the anti-saloon or ganizations. Here in Douglas county the demo crats are bidding strong for the sup port of everyone In any way connected with the liquor . traffic. They have put a bartender on their legislative ticket and they have been busily try- ng to make out that the safety of the liquor Interests lies in democratic suc cess. In other counties, however, where the shoe Is on the other foot, the cards are being dealt from the uhder side of the pack. Down In Jefferson county, for example, the ' democrats have endorsed the prohibition candi date for the house and are hoping to win by a fusion with the prohibition party. In Booue county the democrats have injected a third independent leg islative candidate Into the race with the idea ot corralling enough anti- saloon votes of both parties to let the democratic candidate slip in between. Coming nearer home, the democrats ot Sarpy county have nominated a candidate for the house known as an anti-saloon extremist, against whom the liberal elements who usually train with the democrats there are entering vigorous protest. With the democrats it is anything to win out a doubtful . district in , Ne braska this year. They are ready to tie up with the prohibitionists or with the saloon keepers, or with both If they can fool either, and should they accidentally succeed by such methods It would probably turn out that they had fooled both. HOW TO GKT MORE POL1CKMKX. No matter where the blame is to be placed for periodic outbreaks of law lessness and for lack bf law enforce ment from time to time, it Is univer sally agreed that Omaha needs a larger police force and that our police cannot cope satisfactorily . with . the problems before them until there are more of them. Omaha has been growing substan tlally in recent years not only 1u wealth and population, but in the dis tribution of its people over . a wider area, yet the police department Is no greater In numbers than It was a de cade ago. What has prevented Omaha from enlarging Its police force stead ily as the city has grown has been the Inability to provide the necessary funds out of the proceeds 6f city taxes, especially with the great terminal propertiea ot tne rauroaas escaping their share of municipal burdens al most' entirely. The way for Omaha to get more po licemen is to get more money into the city treasury, and the way to get more money Into the city treasury is to force the railroads to pay city taxes on their property the same as Is paid on other property within the municipal juris diction.' It the railroads paid up like other people Omaha would have an Increased tax revenue ot approxi mately $200,000 and could put on tho additional policemen which It so badly needs. Terminal taxation is, therefore, the key to the police situation in Omaha. Every'one who wants better police protection Bhould see to It by hi wot e that a legislative delegation Is sent to Lincoln from-Douglas : county which will go to the front for terminal taxa tion. Every republican legislative nominee Is pledged to this proposition, while the democratic candidates are openly lined up with the tax shirking railroads. Colonel Bryan has put In two .days la Nebraska, but,, so far as all ac counts go, he has carefully avoided saying anything about the deal made with the railroads by his brother-in-law. Chairman Alleu of the demo cratic state committee,, to protect them In their evasion of city taxes on terminal property, if Colonel Bryan would give his real opinion of, this alliance between the democrats and the railroads he .would doubtlesa con demn it In unmeasured terms. Colonel Bryan cannot afford to ignore thli question, because If ho does the peo ple will assume silence to be approval and leave him in a false position. Another move in -the direction ot more businesslike administration In the codnty court house Is to be made by requiring the district court clerk and other fee officers to report the fees earned instead of as heretofore only the fees collected. There Is no good reason why any discrlmlnatloa should be practiced In these offices as to collecting thj fees from one set of patrons and remitting them to others. If the fte officers are held responsible for all the money earned on tho books and are compelled to make a special showing for all earnings not collected, the county surely will be the gainer. It Is to be noted, however, that this advance Is made under a republican county board, whereas the previous democratic county boards paid no at tention to uncollected aad remitted fees. The grand Jury Is said to be again looking Into the county Jail feeding contract with a view to possible ad justment of the differences between the sheriff and the county. The best way to settle this Jail feeding business with a guaranty to stop all graft for the future is through a new law that will either take the feeding business over Into the bands of tho county or give it an opportunity to let the Job by contract on detailed specifications. Tho next Douglas delegation to Lin coln will bo expected to provide the necessary relief. Editor Metcalfe is breaking into print again with his "put-lt-back" plea, but not a word about tho mile age collected by Candidate Shallen berger from the government as con gressman for traveling down to Wash ington on free transportation. What is the difference in principle between collecting mileage to reimburse rail road fare never paid out and collect ing salary for a full term when elected to fill out only an unexpired part ot it 7 Remember that Omaha enjoyed complete municipal homo rule a few years ago, but that its right ot local sell-government was taken away by a democratic supreme court. In view ot this chapter In our political history It takes sublime gall for the demo crats to pose now as the champions of home rul. Alaska wants a territorial form ot government, but recent experience with federal officials that far away from homo Is not reassurlpg, and in this connection It may be mentioned that the only ones to come out of the in vestigation with honor were those ap pointed from Nebraska. Register Saturday. It will be your last chance. A Farewell performaace. Cincinnati Enquirer. tVftatever may happen at th election, let us hope that Secretary Shaw will persevere In putting rubber in the currency. Soane DISTeranee la Method. New York Commercial. Out In Omaha they arreat men for trying to steal a tleer. In New York the tiger takes car of all such politicians himself. Prefer the Greater Taak, Washington Post. Eight of the twelve members of the French cabinet are newspaper men. In this country newspaper men are satisfied to sc. Itct the victims for such positions. If tkr Hon Coald Speak! Chicago Inter Ocean. If the horse could, only snak, his opinion of the crowd that . turns out to se Mm once a year, and ,t urns Its back upon him durniff the reet,ot,fe year. Would be worth rending. . ,.. . Kettlaar Eaaerleaee. Nw York Tribune. Tile Hon. Samuel Qompers is discovcring that It la ona thing to prepare a black Hat of congressmen mid another thing to go among the voters pnd persoada them to carry the black Hating Into effect. V.'hat a nisTereare la the Moralag. . Baltimore American. . By taking up a .discussion of the candi dacy of Hearst one Bryan of Nebraska has managed to figure for a day at the top of the column In the newspapers. What a difference Just a few months make. Kaorklaa- the Mlddla Man. Brooklyn Eagle. The farmer has turned. He now fixes his prices Instead of leaving that to the market man. lie Is a trust, and can ask whatever he likes. Serves us right for so long neglecting his Interests and dis criminating In favor of the manufacturer. The Gloved Toach. Chicago Record-H raid. Instead of being fined W. 000, 000 the Stand ard Oil company, recently convicted at Find lay, O., of maintaining a combination In restraint of trade, haa been sentenced to pay a fins of 15,000 and the costs of the trial. II. II. Rogera may decide that Ohio is worthy of a place In our great union of states, after all. . PKRSOAL OTES. Mayor McClellan of New York is an in veterate novel reader. He always has a pi la of new boo lea at his elbowK wherevor hs is. Roger Pocock, founder of the Legion of Frontiersmen, has been In turn cowboy, novelist, poet, missionary and prospector. He led an expedition to the Klondike, served in the mounted police in the north west and was a scout In the Transvaal war. E,uwin eanuya, wnu Known as an author of books for boys and an authority on hunting and futhlng, baa just died of heart disease at his home In New York City. In the authorship of "I'pland Gams Birds" he was associated with President Roosevelt. Prof. Zlnno, who has made an exhaustive examination ot the ashes cast out of Vesuvius In tha recent outbreak, says that he haa found them frea from Ingredients Injurious to plant Ufa, while containing matter helpful to the growth of grapes, grau-a and vegetables. Maxim Gorky has arrived In Naplea and will shortly go to Sorrento for the purpose of completing his three-volume book on America. Ha will also writs a novel, to b milled "Fatherland," In which ha pur poses to st forth tha actual reasons for tha present disturbed conditions In Ruasla. Ha speaks enthusiastically about America and aays hie impressions were "preclae, vivid and profound." John B. Henderson, senator from Mis ourl from lttfl to 1S.S, is living in Wash ington, 80 yeara ot age. Francis li. Cock rell, whosa twenty yaara' service aa aena tor from Missouri ended last year. Is now 8 member of the Interstate Commerce com mission and 72 years of age. Dahiel T. Jewett, ex-senator from Missouri and a well known attorney in Lincoln's time, died a short time ago, aged . Carl Bihurs, aenator from Mlasouii from IMS to 1875. died recently at 77. Jewe't waa born In Mains. BVhurs in Germany. Hendt-rson in Vliginla ant Cockreli in kUssvurl ROIHn AROIT vnw YORK. Ripples tha C'arreat at Mfr la the Metropolis, rtlval candidates Itughea and Hearst sr coming down tha election pike at a kilting race. The Empire suus hna bn srous.M from Coner Island t Dunkirk, and the whMwind nnlsh of two days will b pulled off In Oreater New York Friday and Satur day. Curbstone prophets declare It Is all over but tha shouting, yet partlan of both candidates are doing ronalden-hle scouting In advance. On the Hearst side shouting Is a politics! asset, panlcn'srly Impressive In volum and duration. Enrnest followers of the Yellow Kid evidently remember the fate of the man Who enjoyed hlnvnlf Im mensely before the bull tossed htm over the fence and are giving frefl rslti to hi larious emotion In advance of Tuesday' to. Betting on Huhe continues at odds of I ta 1, although Hearst backers tried to Mutt the sporty crowd. Evervone familiar wtth the political game knows that when a candidate and his managers cry "fraud" In advance of tha bnllotlns; and declare "wa will win If we ret a filr count." It means that the party is putting rtihlons in tha proper place to soften the fall. Hearst and his boosters rvallte what is coming and strive to break the force of tha concussion by digging out of political ceme. terles thee errewsoma devices. Equally significant of Hearst's desperation Is his Increased volume of vituperation. In ona speech last Monday he coiled a domocrntio editor at Bj-racuee "a natural darned fool," denounced his opponent as "an animated feather duster," because he wears whiskers, called a Brooklyn democrat "a carrion crow" and asserted that the editor of Hie New York World "is a chronic liar." Pre viously the famous mudlark of democracy dubbed Alton B. Parker a "Croton bug" and William Travers Jerome "a political cockroach." There wr scoria of similar "complimentary," references to doniocrst who oppose Hearst, which will call forth effective response In the ballot bosrs next Tuesday, ' There ariived in New York City last week for tho Museum of Natural History U.e skeleton of a loxolophodon. It was un earthed In southern Wyoming, where the great beast roamed In lnrgo numbers many ovnturlea ago, by an c:pf-rtltlon sent out from the musevim by Prof. H. F. 0born and headed W Prof. Walter Oranrer. Spcuh Ing of the success attending bis search, Prof. Granger said: "We found the skeleton of the iarg-st mammal living at the time, and for which we made careful search. This huge mam mal was known as the loxolophodon. a mixture of elephant and rhinoceros. H had six hoi'ne two enormous ones In the back of tha skull, two smaller ooeS over the eyes and two rudimentary horns on the tip of the nose. We obtained an Interesting lot of tho skeletons of the tltanothcreR, a smaller animal than the last; numerous Mnocitnens of carnivores, inoludlng tfie larg est of the time, tha monyx: many rodent or soulrrel-llka mammals; some of tho earlier camel-like, even toed, liobted mem mnls; nn achenedon, one of the very large, even toed animals, with pig-like twin and feet, and an enrly primate lllte the lemurs, r.otharctus. In all we obtained 1'") species in the Washakie basin, ino In the Bridges basin and forty In the Wahsntch bssln. The. growth of electric light srrange. menta for advertising Is Illustrated by tne novel manner In which the iights on one of New York's newest and most conspic uous hotels are placed. These new lights consist of groups of Incandescent lamps, arranged In clusters that harmonise 'wiih the architectural style or the building be neath them, and arj? sufficiently distinctive to remain quite as conspicuous In one's me,mory as the name of the hotel Itself. This fashion of having distinctive arrange menls ot lights ri top of a building Is ona of the best possible kinds ot advertise ments, for the simple reason that they can be seen at a distance beyond whlcj any other kind. of a sign would carry. This Is capitally Illustrated by one Fifth avenue hotel that has its Moorish domes outlined In such lamps. Another on Broad- way la content with two tines of tiny lamps swinging down from the top of its center flagstaff to either corner of the roof. No one who ever sees the glltterlns lights on the huge globes on the lop of tha Hippodrome Is likely to forget them and what they stand for any more than hs would the curving lines of lights on the Brooklyn bridge. When it is considered hovtr many New Yorkers live way up" In the air, literally, the value of these distinctive lights grows In Importance. The flaxen-haired baby girl knelt beside her mother on the seat of a Bixtn avenue eievated car, and while the mother read an evening paper the youngster flattened her nose against the window and gased In silent wonder at the houses flying by. A fireman In uniform entered the car nt Fifty-ninth street and sat a few feet from the baby. Flaxenhalr straightway de serted the Joys of the passing Show to climb ' oh hands and knees over to the greater wonders of the fireman's uniform. As tha fireman put his arm around 'the child and began .to talk baby talk to It the grin of pleasure on hla face outshone the gleam ot his nickel buttons. - Th mother saw that the baby waa in good hands and with a smile turned again to her paper. At Forty-second street a -fat police sergeant entered and sat between Flaxenhalr and Its mother. The child with a crow of delight Instantly deserted the fireman for the more splendid white and gold cap and gold buttons of the sergeant and climbed aboard his knee. The humbled fireman sat glumly with lowered head and scowled at the floor. A satchel containing fl,uX .stood in a little niche at Mruauway and Tnlrty-niih atrtet for twenty minutes awaiting a claimant. Scores of persons had passed it who would not be above helping them selves had they known tno value of the contents. The policeman was serenely guiding the traffic at the crossing and a tramp was taking shelter In the doorway Just by the satchel when a rustic-looking Individual dashed madly across the street, caught up the bag and sank upon the steps with a sigh of Vellef. "Bay, what's the matter with you?" asked the policeman. "Oh," panted the stranger, "It is this absentmlndedness of mine. It'll cost tarn somethln some dsy. You see, I Was com ing down Broadway, and I was tired, so I thought I would rest the satchel here for a minute. Then I thought about soma shopping I had lo do, and I Just went across the street, forgetting all about th satchel. I waa over there about twenty minutes before I remembered and then I got nervous." "Well, I guesa you are lucky," commented tha policeman, "but I don't think tf you had lost your toothbrush and a couple of collars It would bankrupt you." "It ain't exactly toothbrushes and col lars In here," hs explained. "You see, 1 sold some property uptown here this morn ing, and they paid me In cash. There's I17.S0U In here." Dadaiaaj tha Law. Philadelphia Record. Th Pullman Car company -argues that th new railroad law has no application to its buslncHS, because sleeping and dining cars are not railroad cara, but hotels on j wheels. When th state of Illinois seeks to apply its hotel laws to the Pullman cars they suddenly becom railroad cars again. Tills Is blowing corporation hot and told air with a vtagtance. GORDON FURS 'HE name "Gordon" its worth as absolutely as the signature of the J government guarantees the value of its bonds. J You vtay. get satisfactory furs when you buy others ; when you buy Gordon Furs you are sure. 11 Blanche J9k four dtalor for GORDON FURS BI.F.CTRIC 1,1 SE ECjlir.MKNT. Important Haesttoas Raised by At laatle Cits- Disaster. New York Commerclsl. The terrible accident last Sunday on the Pennsylvania's rew electric lln from Cam don to Atlantic City la sure to bring to the front some Important questions as lo elec tric line equipments In ttielr relation to buman anlvty. At this writing It would appear that the Immediate occasion of tho accident that rrsulted In such appalling lost of life Was A displacement bf rails al a point where a drawbridge croesee a deep tidal river. That this displacement, either through the failure of the watenman on guard to properly lock the draw or through otln r causes, would have resulted In a like derailment of any Ira in electric or steam is very probable. This might even have been followed by a similar plunge of the entire train Into the waters IkjIow, but this Is seriously questioned among practical en gineers and railroad men. Throe liglit steel cars, without tho steadying Influence Of the ponderous locomotive ot the steam train, are still a novel proposition in emotgencles like the one near Atlantic City. There will be feiind plenty of practi cal railroaders, doubtless, to Itemoon the absence of a loecfmotivc as an elemo.nl of sarety In an accident of this nature,' In the way of checking the disastrous progress of the train after-the first truck has left the rail. The weight of uars, the natuitt of the door and Window faatcnlnga In their relation to the escape, of possetigors and Other Important features of ' the ' tUvtricat train's equipment, will 'now come up for practical and serious consideration In n way that Only such a " catastrophe as tlmi of Bun-lay would have precipitated. KOl RRKAT AMERICAN t"8. Coal, t orn, tottoa aad Copper Lead Ihe Pracrsalom. Wjiii 8trel jovrv.al. The four great economic wunts of th world are fuel, food, clothing and light, and the four basic commodities required to supply them ar coal, corn, cotton and copper, in each of wnlcn the United Utates hoida a first rank. Last year the coal output of the fulled States waa 3&2,ti(M,0O0 Ions. The world s production was :,ti3,0(H or more tnan a third of th world's production occurred in the United States. Next In order stands Great Britain with 239,883,000 ton, and Ger many ranks third with 173,64,oyo tons. The presence of this large measure of coal sup ply puts these three nations In tho front rank of the world's greatest Industrial powers. Corn among pur staple crops In the agri cultural economy of th United States Is the mainstay of the country's animal food supply. As a food for human consumption it olten served a pioneering purpose, be fot wheat became general as a bread food; but Its Importance lies rather In Its being the basis of the animal food supply of the country. Amerlohn agriculture with out Its corn crop would be In ljttle better position than most other countries which lack the capacity to maintain a large sup ply of live stock economy, but Is to a large extent the free working capital of the American farm. It la th most univer sal American crop, In Its relation to ani mal production and mulnt nance. It Is this crop that gives tho United States the advantage In maintaining the meat food supply and thus the physical standard ot living which counts for so much In Inter national competition. " ' Tha third great factor in American trad prosperity Is th cotton crop. No part of the world ha anything tike the natural monopoly which th southern portion of th United States enjoys In this fiber. Th exports of cotton determine tha balance of trad In favor of tha' I'nlted State almost wholly and alone. No other part of th world can grow cotton so economically nor expand the volume of production so read- Every cold room. conditions. i'--iois Tj Of...i. 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Standard on a fur garment insures j Gordon Fur Neckwear Gordon Fur are made into neckwear ot many ttjle styles that are to 4IetinctiT4 and characteristic that tho name "Gordon'' has coma to mean ks much ia fcirtiw "Worth" has long- meant in womea'i dress One of the deservedly "popular deslfrn1 1$ the Blanche, which can be had in varions furs to suit individual tastes, at prices tang ing from $15 to $50. Ily as the southern states., Industrially aa) well as agriculturally and commerolaJly, ihe entire nation enjoys a. peculiar handi cap over other nations on acvount ot it) cotton production. , .. i;. The fourth great' advantage. Which tha United States has ia In its supply Of eop per. As corn Is the basis of th meat pre duclug pre-eminence of th United State, and as cotton Is th source ot th elethlng supply of the vast majority ot th people, so copper ranks first among those agen cies which are necessary for the diffusion of light to th millions ot paopl gathered In the progressive cities of th world. Coal, corn, cotton and oopper Suggest tha enormous wealth f resources with which this nation Is endowed. Yet tnte should be looked upon ' not solely aa material means for the enrichment of ourselves, but also as the means of service Which Is In volved In the great taak of International prosperity. All these things Sr sot much the subject of boasting as th In In t Of struments for the worldwide btterront which the be.et endowed nations sr responsible trustees. ; w Xt .VIV OEMS. Mome of you girls," said Jack, "have such a vidii uloUHiy nigh opinion of tha value of j our klsree." -. v "Well." replied his sister, "a kiss I al ways worth It's faco value." Philadelphia, "Ylo's a papulnffcmn," said Hi e observer of politic, "but, b. -never .sms to b lucky. , "iso," answered iflt"f Sorghum, "h la one of the peopie. Who always nave our ad miration before ipleetf'm and our Sympa ttiieB aiter." Wneningion B'.tar. ' "I want a business suit "now." said Slopuy. 'i was tntnslng of eomcthitig in the way of n small plaid." "And I." i -piied -thi) tailor. TcSn't ht thinking of romeihmg in tne vny ot a small cliecK." I'hliaui iphlti Ldgeu Lawyer firing to pet at the facts 1 am not lnteretf.,1 in tno length of tune it look you to make rnc purchase, l frant tn know wnat the consideration wuS," Wilneps That's what I'm tryli.g to Icil you. There wasn't no coneldenttlon m all. Not a bit. I mane lilni the nnev on the spur cf the monvnt. Chicago 'tribune. 'si "Do you liellove In mnrrylnit for lov alone?" he asked. - "Oh, yes." repm-d the bright little lauy who had just returned from HoutFi ItaKota, "1 always do." Clilragn Itecorrt-iiornld. "They are talking of Killing: milk by weight." "i Mat's nothing new. We've all heard of the Milky Way.". Cleveland Plain Dealer. "What do desperadoes mean when tliey swear they arc going to ulo in their boots?" "Simply -that they ar going to-do their best to keep body and sole together." Baltimore American. "IS he Iwd hurt, doctor?" asked the man Whh the tlaming necktie. "Yes." said tne hospital surg-yon. "Hi Injuries are serious." "Think you kin save lilmt" "I hooo ho." , "Weil, do the bnt you kill, doc. Ht'f one of our fellls, and we carried the ward Iiihi time by a majority - of only On,"- Chicago Trlbun.- THK C A.XUIUATK S DAtXiHTRR. .Woman's Home Companion. . ll-r father was a candidate, . , His daughter was my love; Her face waa morning light to me, Her eyes the stars above Her father was a candidate; - , This much Is worthy note She came to me, all smiles tn state: "Pa needs tho floating vote!" "Mv dear." T said, "you cannot get This floating voter's vote Without you give him something first To make this voter float - - '- o Something to lift him up from earth And spread hla Joyous wing - , In a flight of sunny testacy Where larks and linnet sing!" -. The rogue -pollHeai, she aaw Clean through my anecdote, And blushed a bit, and archly sighed t ''So you would sell your vott" Her father was a candidate; He needed lioaters bas- ! The sweeteat lip I ever Hush! I voted for her Uad! , , : 'I i To MeaQ CoMLEco s i 3 hous has Irs Abnormal weather Inadequate stov or ' cheerful with th Turn wick high or low there's no amok and tuMli. Lasy to operate circular. Lamp ES thsttlai il-re ouMhal oa CSS ky. tlalmJ wlik laveavsd Burn. f,iw - f I n-y OU Company M V
