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TOE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONT) AT, PECEMBEIT 3, IP06. The Omaha Daily Bee. rOl.Nt.ED UK EDWARD ROB K W AT F. R. VICTOR nOHEWATKR, KVDITOR. Entered at Omaha postofflce as second class mattsr TERMS OP" SUBSCRIPTION. Daily Bm (without Sunday), one year.. $4 M Dally Bee and Bunday, one year Fundny Be, one year Saturday Jfee, one year DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Telly Pee (Including Sunday), per week. .ISO Daily BM (without Sunday), per week..Wo Kvenlns; Bee (without Bunday), per week to Evening Be (with Bunday), per week..lo Address complaints of Irregularities In de livery to City Circulating Department. offices. Omaha The Bee building. South Omaha City Hall building". Council Bluffs 10 Pearl street. Chicago imo Unity building-. ., New York-It Home Life Ina. building. Washing-ton Ml Fourteenth street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to newa and edi torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. , . . RrrW by draft, express or postal order payable to The Bee Publishing company. Only J-cent sumps received as payment ol mall accounts. Personal checks except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not eceeptea. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btste of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss: Charles C. Rosewater. general manager of The Bee Publishing company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Daily, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of November, 10, was as follows: 1 93,740 It 31,180 S 31.660 IT 11,990 I....' 31,880 1 80,O0 4 ,.. 30,600 1 31,480 t 31.070 20.. 31,770 38,100 ' 21 81,400 T 86,830 ' 22 81,130 t 33,430 21 31,300 S 31,930 24 31,880 10 i... 38,090 25 30,480 11 80,860 2 31,400 11 , 81,880 27 3L8B0 It 81,040 2 31,480 14 31,980 J9 81,680 is 8i,aao so 31,630 Total ' 161,810 Less unsold copies 3,878 Net total sales..... 343,033 Dally average 31,401 CHARLES C. ROSEWATER, General Manager. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 1st day of December, 10. (Seal) M. B. HUNOATE, ' Notary Public WHEN OUT OF TOWIt. Subscribers leaving: the city tem porarily shoald hare The Bee mailed to them. Address will be chanced as ette as requested. It bow develops that guards were used at Panama to prevent coal pass erg from working themselves to death. Testimony at Chicago would Indi cate that certain union labor leaders had taken a lesson from frenzied finan ciers. The decision of German aristocrats to raise hogs bodes ill for the pending conference for a new trade treaty with the United States. Revival of piracy in China proves that strong men exist in the empire, though thAr efforts are directed In the wrong channel. Russia may find its highest purpose is supplying arid and frigid America with seeds of grain that will grow without the minimum supply of water and heat. Buyers can help themselves and the clerks by taking first pick of the holi day offerings, and they will then have time to put their minds in a proper state for Christmas. In comparison with total deficit, Mr. Helnze's donation of $100,000 to Aetna Trust company depositors malces the value of his reputation "look like 30 cents." It denying the existence of a "Three-Kaiser league," Austria shows thaf even fear of danger to the royal prerogative Is not strong enough to allay national distrust. The Guggenheim interests have set a new precedent in the matter of float ing mining stocks, but all promoters do not have a United States senator ship for the family at stake. The mikado has undoubtedly given Russia real assistance by announcing that Japan wiy borrow no money at this time. Investors may find it better to buy Russian bonds than nothing. The report that Prussia may re establish tolls for traffic on the Rhine Is scarcely to be believed, considering the difficulty with which the "robber baron" was exterminated a few centu ries a 50. The liberal party of Great Britain seems to have decided that Ireland should have home rale on the install ment plan and from all appearances the United States will set it an object lesson In the Philippines. The decision of Cuban conservatives to hold seats in the Insular congress. la the face of a possible request for their retirement, proves that there are some people who do not realise the full scope of the Piatt amendment. Mr. Harrlman is undertaking to In gratiate himself with Illinois people by promising to pay $8,000,000 In taxes which the Illinois Central owes to the Sucker state. If Mr. Harrlman would only take steps now to have the Union Pacific pay the taxes It owes In Nebraska much would be forgiven. In acknowledging the donation of the Schiller monument by the united Oerman societies the Omaha Park board Indirectly calls attention to a neglected feature of our parks. When the Schiller statute Is set up in River view park it will be the first of its kind In the city. ' Omaha has some of the most beautiful parks In the world but they are woefully lacking In this sort of ornamentation. TRK "fTtonV SESSION The ensuing session of congress since it must terminate at farthest by constitutional amendment on March 4, or only three months hence, Is ap propriately designated the short ses sion. Of that brief period, too, two weeks or more during the holiday season is practically lost, so that for substantial purposes the session might almost as well begin the first Monday in January m on the corresponding day In December By sheer limitation of time, therefore, if for no other reason, it is not likely that the con cluding session of this congress will differ much from those of other con gresses, or that, in addition to the appropriations and routine business, many important measures of new or constructive legislation will be enacted. There is, nevertheless, profound in terest in the proceedings. In spite of the large number of laws of great im portance passed at the previous ses sion, many other measures of like character were left over. It may be safely assumed that the President will press for action on them, at the same time that he challenges the attention of congress to new subjects. I Public opinion is likewise calling more In sistently even than a year ago for pro gressive legislation. The very number of propositions that have been or will be crystalized and urged may operate to consume time and by lack of agree ment as to precedence tend to prevent action, and with the expansion of our governmental operations the mass of purely routine legislation has now grown to be so great as to facilitate obstructionist purposes at the short session. Under all the conditions, however, the session can hardly fail, even though not many measures of first Importance be consummated, to be of great im portance, especially as a preparation for the work of the next congress, as an educational influence and in a genu ine sense as a promoter of the posi tive alms embraced in President Roosevelt's program. The result will be at least to put into authentic form and reduce to specific point the meth ods which are vital for carrying on the great movement which the presi dent has led. THE JAPANESE SCHOOL QUESTION- , The Japanese school question In San Francisco, though temporarily lost sight of, is now known to be big, with serious possibilities, and to in volve serious difficulties that our gov ernment cannot evade. Popular feel ing in Japan appears to be eimply waiting In expectation that President Roosevelt will promptly see to it that all discrimination at San Francisco shall cease. But the matter cannot be bo summarily disposed of, because public opinion in that locality is prac tically unanimous, and the president has been notified that summary exer tion of national power would provoke dangerous disturbance and probably riots, of which Japanese would be the victims and which would make the situation a thousandfold worse. It Is a delicate matter, involving the pride of the most sensitive nation on earth, which has Just been victor ious in war with so powerful an em pire as Russia. It is as dangerous, too, as delicate, for the Japanese can not be disposed of as the Chinese have been. The contingency of war, though it be regarded as a remote one, is not one for even the United States to con sider lightly, but it is only one among many grave contingencies. The serious fact is that continua tion of the discrimination which local sentiment at San Francisco and gener ally on the Pacific coast demands, If the national government should act in harmony with it, would Inevitably pro voke intense bitterness in Japan and cause retaliation. Japan unquestion ably la in position to strike back moi effectively to our hurt, without show ing greater prejudice than, we are showing against the Japanese. Japan holds the gateway to the far east, over which it is of Incalculable importance that we have a friendly keeper. The advices from Washington may well be credited, that the government has in hand no other foreign question which causes so much concern, and that President Roosevelt Is giving it his closest attention. It is a discourag ing circumstance that the local au thorities and local sentiment in Cali fornia, upon which so much depends for a successful settlement, do not seem to realise how critical the situa tion is or disposed to take a broadly patriotic view of it. A KKEVED TRAIN. Generally speaking the train serv ice In and out of Omaha is excellent. The daylight arrangements could hardly be better than they are, but an improvement can be made in the serv ice at night One of the things es pecially needed is trains that will al low people from the interior of the state to spend the evening in Omaha and return to their homes after the theater. The Burlington now has such a train and people can spend the evening In Omaha attending the thea ter, or otherwise, and reach home as far as Lincoln in goou season. The Missouri Pacific has a train which takes care of its patrons in the south, and these people appreciate the con dition and reward th company by their patronage. A few years ago the Union Pacific had a similar train which was very popular, but it was abandoned be cause the eastern connections of the Union Pacific were altered and Its train schedule was arranged to suit the convenience of the Iowa roads. For several months there has been a clamor for a restoration of this train. It would be of immense value to peo ple as far west as Grand Island. The matter has been presented to the I'nlon Pacific authorities, and by each ipartment Is pronounced "a good thing," but as yet no steps have been taken to re-establish the service. A midnight train out of Omaha on the Union Pacific Just at present would be one of the most popular moves that railroad could make. cha irman burtons stand. In making public thus early his hostility to appropriations for river Improvements, either on the Missouri or on the Mississippi above St. Louis, Chairman Burton of the house rivers and harbors committee merely reiter ates with emphasis the position he has held for years, going so far as to declare that the Missouri should no longer be regarded as a navigable river. And Mr. Burton undoubtedly represents an Influential although nu merically not large element in con gress which must be reckoned' with in the movement to restore our in terior river system as an efficient fac tor in transportation. The subject Is complicated by the wastes and futilities which have char acterized so large a proportion of the national expenditures for so-called im provement of rivers and harbors. It Is notorious that unnumbered millions have been worse than wasted, public money having been apportioned as "work" in response to mere local greed and not for any substantial pur pose of navigation. It will be better to realize first than last that if the re opening of the Mississippi and its main tributaries is to be accomplished it will have to be as a great national undertaking, before which mere local Interests, grabs and electioneering schemes must give way. It will be necessary, therefore, for the people of the interior states sub stantially to agree on some specific plan demonstrably fittest for the great public purpose, some part of which can be undertaken and completed. On this basis, which presupposes subordi nation of merely local projects, their representatives in congress by combin ing could even now proceed hopefully. The very first step rouet infallibly be to eliminate the Jobs, absurdities and local schemes from the rivers and harbors bill. The beet sugar campaign In Ne braska, drawing to a close, has been one of the most profitable in the his tory of the industry although the fac tories have been hampered, as have all other Industries, by a shortage of competent help. The sugar beet has not occupied so prominent a place in Nebraska affairs of late as It once did. but the industry is on a very solid basis. Nebraska schools are to share in the prosperity which the state enjoys, the value of school lands for leasing having been more than doubled, with a corresponding Increase in revenue. The wisdom of the founders of the Ne braska school system is being exhib ited in the wealth of the magnificent heritage they secured for the children of the state. A slight decrease noted in the Omaha bank clearings reported for the week is not due to a cessation of business, but can be charged to the fact that ono of the leading banks of the city was closed on one of the bus iest days of the week owing to the death of its president. The persistency with which hogs cling to the six-dollar mark is mo,st encouraging to the farmers, many of whom can easily recall the day when they were glad to get $3. And this prosperity has come to them under re publican administration and repub lican policies. The legislature Is to be asked to take up the matter of state reports and make some provision to guard against duplication. Experience Indi cates that a properly equipped blue pencil would save the state a great deal of money if Judiciously wielded. State Treasurer Mortensen has the permanent school fund all Invested. While he has not yet been dubbed "Honest Pete." he has given the af fairs of his office such attention that his administration will stand as a model for a great many years. South Omaha merchants are enjoy ing the benefits of the interurban line which has made Bellevue and Fort Crook available as patrons. The time will come when Omaha's retail trade will be given a boost by similar means. Sympathy for City Dwellers. Indianapolis News. After reading Secretary Wilson's annual report, the liberal-minded farmer mast feel more sympathy than ever for the misera ble dwellers In cities. Indifference Drerds Trouble. Pittsburg Dispatch. The British Soap trust has been forced to dissolve by public opinion. But In this coun try our trust magnates are indifferent to public opinion until It takes the form of In dlctments. Toe the Mark. Washing-tan Star. After seeing what can happen to an entire battalion in the way of discipline. It may be assumed that the United States army will take even greater pains than before to observe the moat punctilious decorum. I'lrlnar Knnrka Afar. Indianapolis Newa It Is very creditable, of course, for those New York minister to do what they can toward the reform of the Congo Free State, but are they perfectly sure that they have done everything they can In this line that Is called for in their own city? Tillman at His Worst. Philadelphia Record. nis mnamniaiury imcago lecture Is an exhibition of Senator Tillrr.an of South Carolina, at his worst. In his publlo dis cussions of the race question he la a Ire brand and a fanatic; but It la said of him that in Ms private dealings and Inter course with black men no man la more fair jr tolerant. Rebates Marked Down. Washington Herald. The Sugar trust has been fined for ac cepting rebates, but the Bne only amounts to about one-half of the rebate. It seems that the stock of rebates Instead of being closed 6ut has simply been marked down 60 per cent. Cultivating the Orient. St. Louis Globe-Democrat American agricultural machinery is In lively demand in Manchuria, The world has learned where to buy the best plows, reapers, mowers and threshers, and must hold the door open to the American prod uct or get along with something Inferior. Slabs of the Weary t'onsanier. Kansas' City Star. Prices for food continue to rise so steadily with the volume of production In this coun try that with another bumper crop like that of this year It seems doubtful whethet people of moderate means would be able to exist at all. Not that a crop failure Is prayed for, but the weary consumer would like some kind of a change mighty well. Tardy Jeatlce. St. Louis Republic. The allowance by the War department ot claims for pay due members of Bryan's old Nebraska regiment Is an act of tardy Justice to a body of gallant soldiers who were badly treated by the studious holding of them back from the firing line during the war with Spain. Volunteers who are not allowed to fight ought at least to be fully paid. A Remote Prospect. Chicago Record-Herald. If the Waters-Pierce Oil company were to be found guilty on all the counts In the Indictments now standing against it and fined to the full extent of the law the penalties would foot up $1,530,000. That would help some but it has been estab lished that the Waters-Pierce company la a part of the Standard Oil trust, and it seldom has to pay the maximum penalty. Did Yon (Jet Yonr ha ret , Chicago Chronicle. The secretary of agriculture, Mr. Wilson, places the value of this year's farm products at $6,794,000,000 an Increase of $188,000,000 over Inst year, which surpassed any previous year. The total Is not much less than $88 for each man, woman and child In the country, and the excess over last year is not far from $6 per capita. 80 It would not make any of us rich If di vided equally, but altogether it will suffice, no doubt, to keep up the boom for a while yet. CAS CHANDLER GET BACK f Possibility of a Change In the Ifevr Hampshire denatornhlp. Washington Herald. The press representatives at the capltol, to say nothing of other groups of persons whose business or pleasure Is to follow the proceedings of congress, hope there Is solid foundation for the report that in the queer scrimmage now going on in New Hampshire over the United States senator ship Hon. William Eaton Chandler will emerge with his scrawny form enveloped in the toga. At present Mr. Chandler Is chairman of the Spanish Treaty Claims commission. He vas appointed to this po sition by President McKlnley soon after he went down to defeat in the battle which for years he had waged against the rail roads In his state, and has been continued In the office by President Roosevelt. In spite of the sharp question of veracity that arose last spring between him and the president over certain negotiations for sup port of the administration's railroad rate program, Mr. Roosevelt only a few weeks ago commissioned Mr. Chandler for an other six months' term as chairman of the claims commission. The newspaper men want him returned to the senate, because they know that If he should get back to that august tribunal there would be something doing just at those dull times when the conscript fathers are least In clined to strenuous activity. Mr. Chandler had a way about him when a member of the senate of stirring up trouble and ex citement at the most unexpected moments. When it pleased hie mood for the senate not to be quiescent or dull, he knew how to create a debate that led to turmoil. At the height of the excitement and when the senators wtere threatening to pull hair and do other unsenatorlal things to one another, the New Hampshire states man usually gilded out to the cloakroom and there held his sides to prevent them from splitting with laughter. No two men In publlo life are warmer friends than are he and Senator Tillman, but they have had some of the liveliest rows in the senate that have been witnessed there In modem times. The South Carolinian never seemed to realise that his New Hampshire chum stirred him up only to have fun. ANOTHER DEPARTMENT SCANDAL. Operations of Coal Land Grabbers Comlagr to Lih. Pittsburg Dispatch. There are two investigations going on at Salt Lake City Into the relationship existing between the railroads and the coal companies In Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada and Colorado which promise im portant results. One of these Is by the federal grand Jury; the other by Inter state Commerce Commissioner Clarke. In dictments are rumored, but are said to be withheld pending the completion of Mr. Clarke's Inquiry, which struck what looks to be a rich lead recently. Michael Myendorff, a special agent of the Land department, offered an affidavit, charging that Influential men had en deavored to dissuade him from continu ing his inquiry into the coal land frauds in Utah. He was transferred to Los Angeles and later to Portland before he could finish his work. One assertion he makes Is that Senator Warren of Wy oming warned him not to go after the Union Pacific, as he would Incur that cor poration's enmity. Warren's colleague, Clark, and Commissioner Richards of the land office are also mentioned, and Myens dorff says that charges filed by him with the Land department at Washington were suppressed. It has been publicly asserted that the I'nlon Paclflo and Rio Grande have es tablished a coal monopoly In the states mentioned so absolute that an actual famine of fuel Is now existing In The far west In Utah it is charged that through dummies who obtained grants of what were classed as agiicultura, lands, but were In reality coal lands, the railroad corporations acquired large tracts legally. It la with these charges that the federal grand jury haa been dealing. Com missioner Clarke is looking Into the dis crimination that has kept Independent; out of competition. If MyendorfTs affi davit is established it must develop a scandal as startling as that In the Post office department. The senatorial and congressional Interest disclosed In the Oregon cases was hardly peculiar to thai state, and other members may yet be called upon to answer equally grave ac cusations. If there is foundation foi the serious reflections made by Myen durff the disclosure must prove still mor. strikingly the value of the services ren dered by Secretary Hitchcock In going after frauds whose manipulations seem to have extended even lute the Interior department Itself. 8TATB PRESS COMMENT. Kearney Hub: The evidence offered by the government In the Bartlett-Rlchards land fraud trial Is exceedingly strong and apparently sufficient to secure con viction, which would be the last stroke In breaking up the cattle ring that haa dominated northwest Nebraska. The Viking: The 1 "publican party of Nebraska haa assumed a great responsi bility for the conduct and acts of the incoming legislature. This time it will more truly than ever be "weighed in the balance." We hope it will not be "found wanting," but "make good" all its antl electlon promises. Grand Island Independent: President Roosevelt's action In filling the vacancy on the civil service commission by the appointment of a democrat, thereby mak ing the commission democratic by one. Is not radical. It shows that the presi dent means what he says political affili ation should not have anything to do with the branches of the publlo service under the rules of the commission. It Is Rooseveltlan because It demonstrates thoroughly that the president Is sincere in his beliefs. . Perhaps It's an uncom mon thing to do, but it's a mighty good example to the commission Itself and to the country at large. Thurston Oasette: We wonder why a newspaper should be a railroad organ. Does the annual mileage book, valued at from fifty to one hundred dollars, act as a bribe or retaining fee? Newspapers owe their existence to the patronage rt the farmers, merchants and business men to whose Interests the railroad graft Is diametrically opposed. Two courses are left to the public In managing the rail road newspaper organ. Either furnish the editor free transportation so that he will feel under no obligation to the rail road, or withdraw all patronage from every railroad tool aijd let them look to the railroad for their entire support. Re duce their circulation and advertising to sero. Farmers and business men It Is up to you. Grand Island . Independent: Says a present day exhorter against all labor unions: "There are about seventy-eight millions of people In this country who are not members of any trust, either of labor or capital. Opposed to them are perhaps 2,000,000 of cltlsens, members of the labor organizations." This statement, unquali fied, Is contained in the "press bureau" matter of a committee of capitalists which Is trying to save the country from its American laboring men. We, believe our fair-minded readers not those who blindly assert that capital is organised and combines Its forces In a survival of the fittest but those who are open to receive evidence, will be glad to learn that there is now really only one genuine octopus in the country, only one trust, the Labor trust. The two millions of cltlsens "belong to that Iniquitous affair. The "seventy-eight millions" are free and Independent "common" people. There are no other trusts than the Labor trust at all. It is encouraging, indeed. And if you have any belated thanks to offer It certainly should be for this. Tekamah Herald: We notice that some of our weekly exchanges are affording space to railroad articles against the plank In the republican state platform favoring the taxation of railroad property for city and village purposes. The railroads are attempting to show that the kind of legis lation proposed would work an Injury to rural communities. This is not the case and they know it. Their effort Is an at tempt of willful deception. If the proposed reform measure Is enacted into law the State Board of Equalisation will assess railroad property, Just the same as they have by ascertaining the total value ot the respective lines and apportion It on the mileage basis. For instance, we will take the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha: its mileage In Nebraska Is valued at $48,600 per mile. This Includes right-of- way, equipments, terminals and stocks and bonds. One-fifth of the above value Is the assessment basis, and upon that valuation every county through which the road runs makes its levy, and will continue to do so If the proposed legislation Is enacted. The difference being that in every city or town In which the nad has depots, sidetracks and other Improvements that the city or town can assess those Improvements, and Jhat they bear the same ratio of taxatlcn lor city purposes uiil any umer property In the city bears and no more. Suppose that Tekamah had a depot and other im provements worth $50,000, the city could only assess under the present law, on the mileage basis of three-quarters of a mile, the one-fifth being $6,850. Under the new law the $00,000 improvements would be as sessed at $10,000 In addition to the value of the roadbed and proper share of equip ments and bond a. It is silly In the ex treme for these hirelings to attempt to throw dust in the eyes of those not posted on the situation. The enactment of the proposed legislation will not take a dollar from any school or road district that it now obtains under present methods, but It will require railroads to pay cities and villages on their property located within the corporate limits of each municipality, which la only Justice and a fair compensa tion for the fire and police protection which they receive. This claptrap of saying that If the republican party will enact such legislation that it will sound Its own death warrant has the earmarks of the railroad tool who pays for the space. The time Is past for such threats to have any weight. No self-respecting newspaper can afford to give space to fight the best Interests of Its subscribers. PEATCREI OP THE LOCK, CANAL. Varying; Width, Depth and Locks of Panama Ditch. Secretary Taft in the Century. The lock canal, beginning on the north shore line, has a width of 600 feet for three miles to Oatun. At Gatun there is to be a duplicate flight of three locks, which will lift the vessels up to a lake to be formed by a dam constructed at that point. The lake thus formed contains lit square miles, is thirty miles long, and at places Is eight miles wide. The eteamer channel In this lake is about twenty-three miles long. For ten miles the lake Is several miles wide, with I a depth of water, beginning at the dam, 1 of seventy-five feet, and gradually reducing and shelving back to a depth of forty-five feet. For sixteen miles the pas sage In the lake, which we shall call Gatun, has a nominal width of 1,009 feet, though It Is in most places very much wider than that. It then Is reduced to a width of too feet for nearly four miles as It approaches the higher land; It then narrows to 600 feet for nearly four miles; for nearly three miles more It hss a width of X) feet, and then for four miles a width of too feet. This carries It through the Culebra cut. Then for two miles It has a width of 3U0 feet, when a lock with a lift and descent of thirty feet Is reached at Pedro Miguel, from which there is lake navigation at flfty-flve-foot level for five miles to Bosa Hill, In which there are two locks, carrying the vessels down to the Paclflo ocean. The Yankee In German Eyes. Die Woche of Berlin. The Yankees are a Joyous people. They are before everything optimists. Why hould they not be? They dwell in a spacious land full of treasurers of the earth. They are not overladen with knowl. edge, but learn for practice, and during the greater part of the year a blue heaven stretches over them. For all those reasons the Kanaees may well laugh. The Ameri cans are, however, bora humorists ROVND ABOCT NEW YQHK. Ripples Oa the Carreat of Life la the Metropolis. The editor of a Philadelphia monthly, reared In the gentle, mannerly life hal lowed in the traditions of the Qusker City, occasionally Journeys to New York to receive a few Impressions of the stren uous pece, the uncouth speech and the long reach which takes high rank In the Justly celebrated features of the big city. The editor gets what he seeks and tells what he knows. Regarding a recent ex perience he writes: If ever a lost art was represented by a people It is the art of courtesy among those who serve the public In New York City. Motormen, conductors, cabmen, salesmen and even the policemen seem to vie with each other as to who will ex cel In the art of bad manners. Stand on a New York street corner, for Instance, and hall a trolley; car after car will whirl by you, with the motorman as absolutely regardless of you as If you did not exist. Four of these cars rushed by me the other day and I Jumped on the fifth, took my stand near the motorman, and called his attention to four women at the next corner whom he passed. "Didn't those women want to get on?" I asked. "They did," was the illuminating an swer. "Don't you stop this car when people want to get on?" -I continued. "I do when I think It's right see?" he answered, and then turning to me he po litely added: "And I can do it without your help, too," Two blocks further up and a policeman, who had boarded the car, nudged the mo torman and Indicated with a side motion of his head a man standing on the cross ing with two women, hailing the car with one hand while in the palm of the other he showed a quarter! The car stopped In stantly; the man got on the front plat form, and as he passed the motorman ha slipped the quarter Into the letter's pocket. The passenger took a seat In the car. I went In and sat next to him. "Pretty expensive that sort of thing. Isn't It?" I ventured. "It Is," said the man, "but I've found it's about the only way to ge these fiends to notice you. and I'm In a hurry." And so, I thought, it has come to this in New York 26 cents to stop a car and S cents to ride In It! I went to a theater box office and asked for two seats for the evening's perform ance and their location. "Four dollars," came the reply as two tickets were slid under the glass window. "Let me see the diagram, please," I asked. "I want to see where the seats are." "Good seats," came the answer. "Take them or leave them." "I'll answer that question, my friend," I replied, "when I see the diagram, and I'll keep this line behind me waiting until I do see it." And then there was slammed down In front of me the diagram, and the two seats were back of a post, of course!" The combined elevated and underground system of the Interborough Rapid Transit company took In 1,484,777 nickels on Mon day, November f6, and established a new record for the heaviest day of traffic More passengers were carried than ever before I in the history of the combined or separate companies. If the company were to turn the receipts for that day over to one of Its faithful dally patrons that man could ride twice a day on the subway, seven days In the week, for 2,036.4 years, and still have 430 rides or so coming to him. It's awful to think of the distance he could ride during that time, but he could be well on his way to the sun were he bound in that direction out Into the firmament. The Income for the day to the company was more than $74,000. The passengers carried on the elevate 1 lines not only exceeded the high record . for last year, but passed the record for 1 1904, which has been the banner year thus ir, snowing wiai 11 nss not oniy regainea the traffic originally lost to the subway, but Is now carrying larger crowds than ever. The elevated llnea carried 917,143 passen gers, an Increase of 88,235 over the corre sponding day last year, a gain over the best day In 1904. The subway carried 509, 034 passengers, which Is an Increase of S.1.J24 passengers over the corresponding day of last year. - On this business of one day the total revenue of the Manhattan llnea and the subway shows an Increase of $8,514.92 over the corresponding day of last year. For over a year Mrs. Rice of New York haa been trying to find some federal, stale or munlalpal official who would confess that he had the authority to stop the un necessary blowing of steam whistle In New York harbor and on the North river. Finally, with the aid of Secretary Shaw, the supervising Inspector of the steamboat Inspection service of the Second district was convinced that he had jurisdiction and an order has been issued which does all that Mrs. Rice hoped for. , According to the circular Issued, the use of sirens on merchant vessels Is strictly forbidden. Any pilot violating the order will be liable to trial for dangerous mis demeanor. Flreboate may use the siren while going to a fire, but not while re turning. Private signaling with whistles Is forbidden except In case of distress. Any pilot who uses the whistle in the future, as has been the common practice In (he past, to call the attention of watchmen or other persona on shore or on other vessels, will be liable to suspension. "Even if com pliance with this order makes it necessary to employ watchmen to call the men on the docks to make fast lines or get ready to receive freight or passengers, still this order must he obeyed." Is the emphatic language of the supervising Inspector. Sa lutes of passing vessels are to be made by the dipping of flag and not by whistles although this la put as a recommendation and not at present as a command. A man In a New York downtown office was complaining to his associates. "I live In a boarding house," he said, "that is run by the meanest wontan this side of Tophet. I haven't had a square meal for a month. She sets a fairly good table, but when I take my place I am served with a little cold meat, some stale bread, a cup of tea, ami a dab of potatoes Once I was foolish enough to think I ooul1 sneak out something after meals, but I reckoned without taking the Innate devlltrv of that woman Into consideration. Bh not only locks up the pantry good and tliht, but carries the cold chicken and other good things to her own room and Inters them In a closet. Besides, she turns GORDON FURS From a collection of 50Q0 beau tiful mink skins your mink gar ment muff or neckpiece can be of . the choicest. cmt the gaa In my room every nfKht at 8:30. and I either have to go to bed or sit In the dark." "You're a fool." Interrupted one of the men, savagely. "I wouldn't live In Such a place two seconds when New York Is lit erally running over with good boarding houses. Why don't you leave?" "I can't," sighed the man. "I'm ber hus band." Health Commissioner Posley of New York. City sounds a note of warning to auto moblllsts. He declare that speed mania and the danger attending travel at high speed are undoubtedly responsible for a condition which he describes as the ant heart and which Is liable to cause death. "Autoinoblllsts with hearts that have the slights tendency to weakness should be cautious," s:iys Bosley. "The excitement of rapid traveling out In the open causes an overstrain on the heart and If this or gan Is weak the condition of the auto moblllst Is a most dangerous one. Some thing slightly out of the ordinary, like a narrow escape from collision or the run Mug down of a man, might give the finish ing touch and death might result." PERSONAL NOTES. The burning of Yuba Dam may familiar ise a generation that knows little of Bret Harte with some of his clever verses. George B. Loighton, who Is prominently mentioned for United States senator from New Hampshire, Is 43, a Harvard man and a member of an old New Hampshire family. Ho made quite a fortune In rail ways and steel. The king of Spain's hobby Is the collec tion of coins. In his collection are mors than 50.000 specimens. Strangely enough he Is not musical, much to the regTet of his musical subjects, of which there are so many in that land of sunshine and song. Chicago people are mighty hard te please. One man quit a Job because he attracted too much attention as a hero. A school ma'am resigned because she was too at tractive. Another woman sued for a di vorce on the ground that her husband was too affectionate. ' Prof. Louis Schneider, the first director of the Marine band in Washington and the leader of the Imperial band, which was at the surrender of Sedan, haa Just died in New York. He received decorations from Napoleon II., from the king of Italy, the king of Belgium and Pope Leo XIII. George W. Smalley has been succeeded as American correspondent of the London Times by Robert P. ' Porter, ' who haa opened an office In Washington for the Thunderer. Although n Englishman by birth, Mr. Porter Is much better known In the United States . than on the other ' side of the Atlantic, In leading young Mr. Rockefeller's Bible class last Sunday Rev. Dr. Aked told a story apropos of the cold Intellectuality of Emerson. When a narrow-minded min ister said to a more liberal minister that Emerson "had surely gone to perdition" the latter replied: "If he has gone there you may be sure that he lowered the tem perature." PASSING PLEASANTRIES. "I did not suspect that your purpose In attaching me to yourself was a fell one," said the shirt reproachfully to the sewing machine. "You should remember what the poet says," retorted the sewing machine; "Things are seldom what they seam," rial tl more American. "The first day he went out with his new auto he got pulled." "For going fast?" "No: quite the opposite." , "l aon i see ' "For stopping fast; he had to hire a farmer to haul him home." Houston Post. "She has postponed her marriage date until late Jn January." "Why?" "She wants to make sure of a" Christ mas present from him." Cleveland Plain Dealer. "She dotes on heroes.'' "Then she should adore her husband." "Why, did he ever do anything heroic?" ''He (married her." Indianapolis News. Pluto was boasting of his three-headed dog. "Well. It will get left," answered his daughter's suitor. "I have only one pair of pants." Seeing that there -as not enough work to go round the o.J man stopped brag ging. New York Sun. "Refore you unfold your scheme," said the cautious rapltallHt and prospective In vestor, "you will have to promise to let me in on the ground floor." "Why er as to that," answered the pro moter, visibly embarrassed, "there Isn't going to be any ground floor. This Is a flying machine enterprise." Chicago Trib une. "I don't know what she meant, y' know." "What did she say?" "Well, 1 was snylng that I didn't feel like myself today, and, by Jovs! she con gratulated me heurtily!" Brooklyn Eagle. "I wish I had money enough to buy aa automobile." "What kind of one would you get?" "I'd get a spanking team of horses." Cleveland Plain Dealer. "How free and easy that girl is In her conversation." "Yes: she talks like a married woman," Illustrated Bits. "Lady," said Plodding Pete, "are you one o' deae people dat bates tramps?" "I am," was the prompt and decisive answer. "Wall, wouldn't you like to show your feelln's by temptln me to overeat myself an puttln' de curse of dyspepsia on me?" Washington Star. HEART'S CONTENT. Barton Grey. Far over troublous seas there Is an Isle, Above whose valleys bluest skies are bent. Where balmy breezes blow and soft suas smile Men call it Heart's Content. And every prow that rides the sea of life To that dear distant Isle is turned for eye; Through baffling calms and stormy waves of strife. Holding Its doubtful way. Oft In the midmost ocean barque meets baniue. And us they pass from each the chal lenge sent Comes back the same across the waters dark le steer for Heart's Centent" - For many an Isle there is. so like, so like The mystic goal of all that travail sore, That oft the wave worn keels on strange sands strike And And an alien shore. But ever, as the anchor drops and sails From off the storm strained yards are all unbent; From the tall masthead stlirthe watcher halls "Lo, yonderl Heart's Content!" And so once more the prow Is seaward set: Hearts still hope on, though waves roll durk around ; tnd on the stern men write the same "Regret," And fate forth, outward bound.