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TIIE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, JANUARY 3. 1907. 1 JS : 1 Tite Omaha Daily Bee. FOUNDED BT EDWARD ROS R WATER. VICTOR ROSE WATER, EDITOR. DnforM at Omaha postoffloe as second cla matter. TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION. Pally Be (without Bunday) on year... 14 00 Illr B and Sunday, on year J 00 Bunday Bee, on year $ J Saturday Bee, on year I DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Dally Be (Including Sunday), per wek..lRo iHitly Itee (without Sunday), per week.. .100 Rvnlng Bee (without Sunday), par week. So Kvenlng Be (with Sunday), per wek,...10o Addrea complaints of irregularities lit de livery to City Circulating Department. OFFICER. Omaha Th Bee Building. South Omaha City Hall Building. Council Bluff-10 Pearl Street. Chlraro lM0 Unity Building. New York 160. Home Lif In. Bulldln. Washington 604 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communication relating to news and edi torial matter ehould be addressed: Oman Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only t-cent atampa received In payment of mall acoounta. Peraonal check. eeept on Omaha or eaatem exchanges, not accepted. THE BEB PUBU8HINQ COMPANT. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Stat at Nebraska, Douglas County, : Charle C. Roaewater, general manager of The Be Publishing company, being duly worn, aay that the actval number of full and complete coplea of The Dally, Morning, JSvnlng and Sunday Be printed during the month of December, ISO, was aa ioiki l stsvo it aj70 t M,M 1 ttM t. ii.no it tijeo 4.. n,no is.... ta.rro . 1.T00 11 W ( i.eao 21 i.oo f SLS80 11 SOM t SS.M0 14 1.T1 t 10,830 IS it 10 81.T50 ! 38,110 11 80.160 IT 81.TT0 12 ..83,000 11 .81,010 It 81.000 it SMOO It 81,000 10 80400 II 80,170 II. 81,810 II. 80,400 Total. 088,300 Lsa unaold and returned coplea.. 0,841 Net total 070,140 Dally average 81,301 CHARLES C. ROSEWATER, General Manager. Bubec ri bed In my presenc and sworn to before m thla II at day of Deember, 1906. (Seal.) M. a HUNQATE, . Notary Public WHEN OUT OF TOWS. Sabserlbers lTla the elty tana. Borer II y ahonld , The Be mailed to then. Addreea will b chanced aa often sa reaeated. 'Weather condition! go far thla win ter bode trouble for the Ice man next aammer. No apples In the garden of EdenT Adam's fall can now be more easily understood by people living In Mis souri. Delaware must be entering upon a now era, since a caucus deadlock Is broken before tho legislature is even called to order. Congress starts its final session today with the probability that Sena tor Smoot will not go home sooner than his associates. Governor Folk is apparently anxious to glv(e members of the legislature so much real work that they will have no time to deal with lobbyists. Speaker Nettleton has promised to consult with all the members of the house, but he has not promised to con sult with any members of the boodle lobby. The boast that an Iowa man Is most familiar with Latin-American politics only shows the advantage of living In a state where all varieties are to be found. - Governor Pennypacker of Pennsyl vania strongly Intimates that the cap ltol commission was not too busy with the contracts to forget to prepare the whitewash. Some good is suro to come In unex pected ways out of the little fight over house organisation. It has forced most of the goats to separate from the sheep .before the gavel fell. It each otate legislature In session this winter will strive to excel all otta erp In the matter of soundness and justice or the laws It enacts, critics will have few hearers. Bids for the new Vinton school are so high that they must be rejected. It worse comes to worst the school board could erect this building without the Intervention of a contractor. A Tennessee Judge has declared tho federal employer's liability act uncon- atltutlonal, proving that some federal statutes still have difficulty in running south of Mason and Dixon's line. ; v Railroad managers of Great Britain have agreed to abolish all rebates to shippers; and as Americans have often seen similar "gentlemen's agreements' they will watch the result with inter est. Now that tho soldier who threw brick at Fort Leavenworth has been discovered, Kansas has scored a point over Texas, which is still looking for tho man behind the gun at Browns ville. The discovery that race suicide is not a crime of tho American Indian would bo good newa to the reservation "grafters ' if tho government funds were sure to continue as well as the aborigine. Tho republican state committee has been particularly unfortunate in tho treasurers selected as custodian of its funds. Two treasurers have died within the year, yet with money In the bank to the credit of the committee and with every cent scrupulously ac counted for. t& places ars nils saf s. . A CUB Alt PROTEST Actual preparations for drafting a new election law haye brought to a head an ominous movement among native Cabana for an American pro tectorate. This expression of serious distrust takes the form of numerous petitions sent direct to Washington ex tensively signed by Cuban property owners and substantial business men, virtually denying the possibility of es tablishing safo and stable government on the basis of Independence under ex isting conditions. . The business situation throughout tho Island appears at th same time to become steadily more grave,' be cause tho banks and financial Institu tions, while they have Industriously taken advantage of American occupa tion to collect debts, are quite gen erally adopting the policy of refusing to make or renew loans for the coming year. As the tobacco and sugar crops, which are tho very foundation of Cuban business and commerce, are in tho main produced on a system of ad vances ahead often even of planting, to bo repaid only after marketing, It crn be seen how fatal the industrial results of such a policy must be. But it speaks mors emphatically than any formal showing In words the ap prehension of the business and con servative classes that property and personal rights will bo Insecure the moment the strong hand of tho United States is withdrawn and the Island left at tho mercy of faction and revolutionary habit That at this Juncture this should be the attitude of so many native Cubans, whose pre- delrctlons should naturally be in favor of Independent eelf government, but who have everything to lose and noth ing to gain from an era of violence and civil commotion, Is certainly an ominous circumstance. The success .of native government must Jargely depend upon the property-owning. Industrial and profes sional classes. With their most earn est activity, the difficulties in the way of establishing such a regime aa would be tolerable, after the withdrawal of the United States from the Island, would be formidable, for the revolu tionary Impulse of, a large portion of an irresponsible and Ignorant popula tion Is known to be chronic. The pros pect lo anything but pleasing when the restraining and competent elements of native society are busying themselves to secure permanent American con trol, under the euphemism of a pro tectorate, at the very moment when their utmost endeavors are necessary for rehabilitation of the self-government which tho United States Is striv ing to lead up to. GOOD BOADS AND FHKK DKL1TKRY. . For some time signs have been mul tiplying of the Postal department's resolution to Insist upon stricter com pliance with the requirements for free mall delivery both in x city and in country. Tho withdrawal by order of tho postmaster general of freo delivery from extensive districts la New Or leans, because of the city's neglect to provide sidewalks. Is perhaps the most striking Instance, but It does not stand alone. It Is no new departmental reg ulation which requires local authori ties to keep city streets and country highways reasonably passable-and in good repair as the condition of In stalling and maintaining free mail de livery, but the regulation has never been strictly enforced. On road Improvement the good effect of establishment of rural free delivery has been In tho aggregate very great, but so rapid was the extension of the service In response to universal de mand that many routes were Installed over defective roads or roads that have since fallen into neglect. .Tho energies of the department are certain to be directed more and more to revision and correction of the routes with a view to service efficiency, one of the most important conditions of which Is good country highways, and the num ber of route discontinuances for fail ure In this respect la already Increas ing. It cannot, indeed, be gainsaid that a community which has not the public spirit and tho concern for mail service to keep Its streets and highways In convenient condition is not entitled to tho benefits of free delivery. QOVSRKUH HUOHtS' INAUGURAL The Inaugural address of Governor Hughes Is In perfect keeping with his positive character and with the post tlon taken by him in tho New York contest While recognising the fact that no panacea exists In executive or leg-mauve acuon ror an me ins or so ciety which spring from the frailties and defects of tho human nature of Its members, he sets In bold ' relief the evils which have their source In the law itself, in privileges csrelessly granted, in opportunities for private aggrandisement at the expense of the people recklessly created and in fall ure to safeguard public interests by providing means tor Jus t regulation of those enterprises which depend on the use of public franchises. His deter mination expressed firmly, but without vaunting, to devote every , power of the -executive to curb these evils, subordinating patronage to this pur-J pose instead of to partisanship, augurs well for tho sincerity of the. pledges on which Governor Hughes was elected. Such a regime in tho Empire state In which that class of abuses has ao long been conspicuous and aggravated by co-operating bosslsm and machine rule in party and government. Is notable example of the healthier public sentiment now dominant It should not omy furnish basis ror a solid re organization of the republican party 'n New York for genuine service on vital Issues, but also have far-reaching j may well be. "too. from eos,rsUv.JuV "u hardly oesded tUls'aWaucs lt u coeaaaWtmsiuts. oyostUoa - pa ru- policies through- PUBLIC SAFETT Bt PUBLIC VOXTROL. The occurrence of the frightful dis aster on the Baltimore & Ohio within undoubted exclusive national Jurladte tlon, In connection with recent fre quent like railroad accidents, bids fair to bring thorough official Inquiry into the character of precautions for the safety of the traveling public. These horrors have been happening appar ently almost as much where the man ual block system, In whole or in part, s In use as where it is not. seriously raising the question of its efficiency or of the proper use of it by the railroad companies. An Investigation by con gress or by the Interstate Commerce commission that will go to tho bottom of tho oubject Is imperatively called for by the facts and by public opinion. The financial loss to a railroad com pany In such a disaster as the one at Terra Cotta, In the District of Colum bia, is Immense, and would seem to involve a selfish Interest to provide every possible preventive device, even In absence of legal compulsion: Ex perience, however, has abundantly shown that corporation self Interest Is not adequate to tho public safety. The pressure fpr penny wise and pound foolish economies which comes down from greedy financial authority upon the operating departments of railroads Is often too great to be resisted and corrected compatibly with public safety by anything short of stringent government supervision. lit BORK STRAITS. Our amiable popoc ratio contempo rary, the World-Herald, is in sore straits over the public-ownership-of- rallroads question. Although Its ed itor has always been in sympathy with the plutocratic element of the democ racy represented by Alton B. Parker, he has tried to maintain a standing as party organ by catering whenever necessary to the so-called "allied re form forces," made up of a fusion of Bryan democrats and populists. The fusion crowd is now bent on making government ownership of railroads the issue in the next campaign and has prevailed upon Mr. Bryan to take the leadership In Its advocacy. Tho World- Herald has been asked point blank where it stands on this question and as usual tries to hedge by saying that it is opposed to anything looking to ward the public acquisition of tho railroads until after the policy of gov ernment regulation has been fully tried and found wanting. To tho question whether the World- Herald would support Colonel Bryan as the presidential candidate on a pub- Uc-ownership-of-rallroads platform an Levaslve answer is made to the effect that Bryan will not be nominated on such a platform until government con trol has proven a failure. But Mr. Bryan is on record in several of his speeches as declaring that government control cannot in the nature of things be nucreRHfn.) and tbiU'th) only solu tion Is government ownership and op eration. Acting on this cue his follow ers haye already set out to organise the government ownership propaganda, as suming that Mr. Bryan's prediction Is to be Implicitly relied upon. Naturally they are disappointed, though not sur prised, because the World-Herald will not go in with them. This puts the popocratlc organ in a very uncomforta ble position, although perhaps no more uncomfortable than It has occupied at various turns of the political road, when it has had to make sharp corners to get into line with the preaching of Its party platforms. That explains its promise to favor public ownership of railroads If Bryan is nominated on such a platform while In the Interval it will be doing everything it can to head off such an issue and thus prevent the nomination of Mr. Bryan. The police board once set 'out to rid Omaha's police force of drunkards, but has evidently reconsidered Its good resolution. For a while it summarily dismissed officers for becoming intoxi cated while on duty, but now subjects to a fine and reprimand a patrolman who was found paralyzed on the side walk and had to be taken to the po lice station in the patrol wagon. This s certainly a beautiful example to give to other members of the force and must set them to inquiring what sort of "pull" the favored drunkard has with the board. What kind of police protection may we expect from officers who are liable to be drunk when they are most needed? Our people are Justly proud of the fine record made in the statistical tabu latlon of business transactions in Omaha last year passing all previous achievements in that direction. It must not be forgotten, however, that every live city ( and town in Nebraska and Iowa and other territory more or less tributary to this city has a similar record of unparalleled prosperity to ex hlbit. Every little neighboring town has been putting up new buildings, in creasing Its bank deposits and enlarg Ing Its retail trade, all as a result of the bountiful crops bringing good prices. The prosperity of one Is the prosperity of all. Omaha voters passed on a proposl tion for a municipal electric lighting plant two years ago. when the demo crats' lined up almost solidly with the corporation republicans against mu nicipal ownership, under the pretense that wo must first acquire the water works by the proceedings pending for their purchase. Can It be that the advocates of the resubmission of the electric lighting scheme have given up all expectation of a municipally owned water works plant? Or are they aim !ly figuring on tapping another cor effect upon general out the nation. poration barrel for the benefit of the political wire-pullers and pluggers? The railroads declare It to be their purpose to enforce on all their lines, state as well as Interstate, the anti pass prohibitions of the new federal rate law without waiting for the state legislatures to enact the rule into law. Whether the railroads do this or not will in no wayrellev the law-makers Of their duty to put the promised leg islation on the statute books and make it impossible' for the railroads later to have a relapse and go back to their old and vicious habits. The district Judges have not seen fit to classify and rearrange the salaries paid the four deputies to the county attorney. Tho new county attorney seems to have entered objection be cause such a change would interfere with the redemption of promises which he had out. , The county attorney's staff should be reorganised, if neces sary, by legislative mandate. Omaha can get pretty close to the 00,000 population mark by 1910 if it goes about it in the right way. It cannot reach that position, however, by sitting still and relying solely upon the of the birth rate over the death raw. Having found Secretary of State Galusha correct In his election re turns, the legislature has given offi cial approval to the theory that all democrats may be populists, but all popullBts are not democrats. Bantlna- Precedent. Chicago Tribune. Possibly that rough rider who has re fused an office wanted to shew Mr. Roose velt that there are others who can break precedents. Two of a Kind. Washington Herald. ' . Secretary Taft and Mr. Bryan are in per fect accord concerning the grew a Impro piety of declining the presidency of the United States. Hot Air on the Wire. St Louts Republic. The United States senator who sent his speech by telephone rather than disappoint his audience Is certainly In touch with the spirit of modern Invention. Innocent Bystnnder Finish. Boston Herald. An Iowa blacksmith has Invented an armor for the rubber tirea of automobiles. The device will enable the chauffeur to cut his victim In two. If he la permitted to get a square whack at him on the street Tonic for Brala Fas Baltimore American. A modern language society In New Eng land Is to Investigate the fact whether the rruit wnicn Eve gave to Adam was really an apple, some suggesting that ahe handed him a lemon. All are convinced, however, In view of his subsequent Job, It was not a plum, Oae War to Itealtee. ' Washington Herald. After all the fuss about the policy hold er's "rights," his "Interests" and his au thority to control by his vote, the same old crowds- are to run the big life companies. Therefore, " the 'only way you can get ahead of the companies Is the old way take a policy and die right off. "Walts M Aronnd Attain, Willi." Philadelphia Record (dem). Mr. Bryan alts calmly on the fence. He will not say that he la a candidate for president nor that he la not a candidate. but he shyly observes: "Such a high honor aa the presidential 'nomination la something that no Amerclan dtlsen should decline." The bearing of this observation lays In the application on't Modeat and Fraak, Boston Transcript It Is a very frank statement that IWr. tary Taft gives out to the DUbllo with in spect to the frequent association of his name with the republican nomination tr,r the presidency. His ambition is not politl. cai, ana ne aoubta hie advisability aa a candidate for that hlah office, but in th event of his selection, improbable as It seems to him, he would not decline the honor. That appears to cover all the points and should relieve him from further speculation aa to his position. Parlla of laiilir i f Cm TT 1 f. The -assumption that the United ought, to Interfere in the affairs of the Congo tree state on the ground that we lent moral support to Its establishment is very far fetched. As a matter of fact, we did not lend moral or any other kind of support, but distinctly refused to have anything to do with African colonisation or land grabbing schemes. Under the cir cumstances It Is asklna- too much nt thi. government to butt In, and it would be very rooiiHn tor us to do an PROSPERITY FOR WORKERS. Liberal Additlone to the Payroll of Corporation. Washington Pest The workers of the country, wtth the notable exception of the government's employes, are eh&rlng to a large degree In the general prosperity. Figurea com piled by the New York Sun show that the railroads and Industrial corporations have been remarkably generous with their help during the year just cloaed. Strikes have been very few. and the advances In wages have not only been voluntary at a rule, bu eome of them have been greater than the employee had reason to expect. The raise of wagea on the Pennsylvania, being 10 per cent to employes receiving leas than f 300, amounts to 112,000,000 annually. The New Tork Central, Delaware, Lacka wanna ft Weatern, the Long Island, the Reading and other rallroade also raised wages. The United Slates Steel corpora tion has raised the wages of ordinary la borers 10 cents a day, the order affecting 70,00 tnen. The corporation has also of fered preferred stock to employes st leaa than market price. Last year, it is said, 12,214 employes purchased stock. The 1111. nols Steel company has arranged to pay out S&00.000 In Increased wages. Even the reviled Standard Oil company haa Increased wages voluntarily from t to 10 per cent, 35,000 men being affected. The Adams and American Expreaa companlea have In creased the wages of many of their em ployee. The fertile worker of New Eng land are now receiving the highest wage In the history of the buslneaa. Much of the lucreaae has been voluntary, while a part of It was wrung out by threatened strikes. In the west wages have bea rising In railroading, manufacturing and Industries generally. The south also haa ahown a ten dency to glv the laborer a ahare of Its prosperity. While the worker la at 111 un derpaid In many branches of toll, his face la turned In the right direction, and better conditions are steadily replacing the old. ROt SI) AflOlT SEW TORK. Rlooleawa Ike Torrent of I. It I the Metreoolla. "The Bridge Crush" Is one T the Bights of Greater New Tork, al one of the abominations. During the evening hours, aay from 6 to 7 o'clock, a view of the Jam on Brooklyn bridge Is much pleaaanter than an experience In It. Although facilities of travel between the two borough have been provided, the premure on the old bridge Is unrelieved. In fact, the crush steadily grows worse. One of the tubes has been Jothed under the East river. In a year trains may b carrying p"ngers through It. Tet that tunnel connection will In no way relieve the bridge crushes. This lack of relief Is easily explained. Each new avenue of connection opened up between Manhattan and Brooklyn runs In direct op poeltlbn to a certain ferry connection. When a new line Is opened traffic deserts the ferries. In sdditlon, each new connec tion develops In Brooklyn a greater growth, and poon It Is crowded to Its capacity. The line of the Union company are run ning empty. The lines of the Brooklyn and New York Ferry company, at the foot of Broadway, are also deserted. Their sen-Ice haa diminished to a minimum. The Wil liamsburg bridge competes with the Utter, the Brooklyn bridge with the former. One of New York's gigantic failures, the Williamsburg bridge, In which the city In vested ttCOOO.ono, celebrated . the third an niversary of Its opening last week. When It was thrown open for traffic In 190S It was expected that within s year the new brMsre would be In full operation. Not a single elevated train hss gone over the bridge, though the tracks of the Brooklyn Broad way elevated run alongside the plasa at the Brooklyn end. Nothing has been done to arouse the hope that the elevated tracks on the bridge will ever do anything but rust 1 The World prints statistics showing that the total Indebtedness of New York street railway companies to the city Is I23.87D,2t3. Everybody knew that the debt was well up In the millions, but Just how many millions none of the city's thousands of employes could tell offhand. The city's claims were a mass of dust and aging paper; some of them were found "dumped In a big heap In a corner of a room." They are of alf sorts claims of taxes, street car licenses, re pavement charges, percen tages on gross earnings due under the franchise. The city has received very lit tle, according to the World, from the street railway companies for years. Percentages on earnings have not been paid In some cases for a decade, and no city official seems to know why. There are claims dat ing back to lffil Street repaying claims aggregate nearly 23.600,000 In Manhattan alone. The records of these cases have been so badly kept that their legal proof In court Is doubtful. It's an 111 wind that blows nobody good," remarked a police captain the other after noon while he waa discussing the many recent gambling raids. "There Is one man in Manhattan who will net almost 2S0.0O0 out of the raids, and he Is now hoping the raids will be continued until after he has cashed in himself. The men most pleased with these raids are those closeat to the proprietors of gaming houses. The more numerous and successful the raids the more delighted are these friends of the gamblers. Why? Well, the men who manufacturer the gambling paraphernalia are keeping their ahops working night and day. That stuff, such as roulette tables,- poker chips and all the other devices used In a first class gambling house, you know, Isn't cheap, and there's big profit In it. The more smashing and burning the police do, so much better for the trade,, which 1 in a few hands. Th famous Martha Washington hotel on Ftejit Twenty-elnth. built by women, for women and managed by women, has succumbed to the blight of warring Tac tions in the management ana Is to oe leased on terms to be determined later. This ' was the conclusion of a meeting of stockholders. A discussion of the cost of llvlnn at the hotel disclosed the fact that prices had gone up all along the line since the hotel first was opened in 1903. In the course of the discussion Dr. Huntington of Grace church declared It must be confessed that the original plan of the hotel a place for professional women of moderate means, and for transients unattended by their men folk had failed, since. In order to run tho hotel wtlhout loss it had been necessary to rala tha Drlces beyond the means of the class it sought to provide for. vranv neraons widely known In New yora; City Joined together to establish this hotel for women. The Idea was philanthropic In tha'i It was planned to give a pleasant hnma and a chance for social lniercoursa at moderate coat to women who worked for livelihood. Who. Decause mey nav no relatives or come from afar, are com pelled to live In boarding houses. There wss no idea of making the hotel a charity, .n,i when the Droiect was again broached at the meeting it was bitterly fought. Since the property was bought it nas in value, and the Martha Wash ington Is now said to be worth about $1,000,- 000, this fact alone making It impraoiicaoie to run the hotel according to the original n.in The economies practiced by some of the patrons, who ordered half portions and carried food to their rooms, ueaioea h.vina- atnvea there for light cooking, re cently caused the closing of the American plan restaurant. James J. Hill, upon his return to New York City after the holidays, will take up his residence in the house which he re cently acquired there. His friends doubt i hAvlnv a house of his own here will, ict some time to come at all events, tempt him to spend more time nere tnan ne nan in h. AiL but eventually he is expected to make New York his home. Mr. Hill Is beginning to point to his 68 years and says that he Is entitled to rest from the man agement of the properties with the devel opment of which he has been so long Identified. The fact seems to be that prop ertlea like the Great Northern, which one man builds up. In the long run ere more the master' than the servant of the man who has developed them. Mr. Hilt, his friends say, would gladly give up the management of the Great Northern If the Great Northern would only let him. Shadow of the Sew Year. Springfield Republican. Terrible famines In China, such ss the one to which President Roosevelt has called the attention of the ready givers, will, never be rendered Impossible until China is covered with a network of rail roads. The means of transportation are still so crude In the greater portion of the empire that one province may starve while the adjoining one rejoices In plenty. In the present ease, the destruction by floods of crops that usually sustain mil lions if people has precipitated an acute crisis, which the Imperial government aa usual Is unable to meet with the resources st Us command. It I to Lab.. Chicago Chronicle. The keen and insatiable sense of humor of the American people never shone forth with such splendor as It does In the publi cation from ocean to ocean, of John D. Rockefeller's infantile attempt at fun when h said he was not able to afford oysters. Any person who cannot lie down and laugh himself Into apoplexy over such a sally of wit as that la not fit to live In a land of liberty and of culture. The only form of food xnado from wheat that is all nutri ment is the soda cracker, and yet the only soda cracker of which this is really true ia Uneeda Biscuit hi The I only I soda soda soda soda Tho The The I NATIONAL PERSONAL NOTE. The singer whose press agent anys she carries gems worth half a million Is sus pected of laying the groundwork for a spectaoular and convincing theft. Bailey of Texas seems to be getting his broken" fences in repair, but If he don't get to Washington pretty soon Mr. Gaines will have him erased from the payroll. Gustnve Fischer of Boston one of the best known engravers of the country.- has completed, after four years' work, engrav ing a sketch of the battle of Bunker Hill on a meerschaum pipe, which has become one of the most valuable meerschaum pipes In America. It Is proposed to erect in Dublin a new monument to Tom Moore although his poems, It Is said, "are probably less read In Dublin at this moment than at any time during the last fifty years." Mangan, an other Irish poet to whom a memorial la to be unveiled, grows more and more pop ular. A Cleveland boy who had been operated on for an Indented skull that compressed his organ of goodness became circumspect until struck on the same spot with a ham mer, which renewed the dent and turned him again Into error's ways. Perhaps the application of a shingle to some other spot would be worth trying. Robert Sliiells, a banker of Neenah, Wis., who a few days ago started on his eighty first year, drove the first survey stake for the first railroad In Wisconsin. That was In the- fall of 1849 and the line was the Milwaukee ft Waukesha, out of which the Chicago, Milwaukee & 8t. Paul road grew. Mr. Shiells had been In Wisconsin but a week following his arrival from Scotland when he became a lineman on the survey. Philadelphia has the honor of having a real man of the revolution. It has long had a society of the Bone of the American revo lution, but In the last few years It haa not had a member whose own father fought In that great war.. . Nathan Holden of No. S01S Walnut street, son of Nehemlah Holden. soldier of the revolutionary war, has filled the grp. ' The new member was borne In Farley,. Crange county, Vt, on July 4, 1817. Nehemlah Holden, his father, enlisted on April 4, 1781, In the Massachusetts troop, under Captain Phlneaa Wade and Colonel Michael Jacldsnn. He served with the troop until December 18, 17S3. INCREASE OF WAGES IS 1806. Material Contribution to the Waa-es of Workmen. Brooklyn Eagle. Not the least remarkable Industrial de velopment of the year has been the advance In wages by railroads, steel companies, textile manufacturers and other Incor porated employers. In October, November and December the Increase In wages among railroad' employes alone amounted to $100, 000,000. About all the eastern trunk, lines have Jumped the rates of pay from J to 10 per cent, while a corresponding advance ment has been made on a number of the more important routes in the south and west. The United States Stoel company, the Standard Oil company, the Consolidated Gas company and a number of other much abused .'trusts have made material con tributions to the wages of their workmeh. In a few Instances these advances will be Interpreted as a placatlon to disaffected labor on the verge of revolt. But In the majority of cases no apprehension of strikes csn be discovered and the Increases must therefore be attributed to a decent recog nition of good service faithfully rendered. One concern, at least the United States Steel company, not only encourages Its enployes by enlarging pay envelopes, but gives to each of them the privilege of sub scribing for preferred stock at lees than the market price. In W06 the preferred stock of the trust was sold to employes at par, and more than 12,000 availed them selves of the opportunities to Invest. This year the stock will be sold again at less than the market price. That is a cuetom which Is certain to make the relations of the steel company to Its employes so pro fitable that the latter will hesitate long be fore they precipitate a rupture. National prosperity Is never so clearly evidenced ss by a general advance In wages. No man capable of good work need suffer today from lack of employment. And good work was never better paid than It la now. only only only OLD people need Scoff's Emul sion bemuse age has enfeebled their blood, worn out their tissues, diminished their net-re power, and im paired their general health. Scoff's Emulsion enriches the blood, renew the tissue, restores nerve power and builds up the general health. U enables old people to throw off colds toughs, rheumatism and all winter diseases. Scoff's Emulsion makes thin babies fat, pale children roty, delicate mothers strong. It b the most nourish ing food in the world. , ALL DJtUGGUTSi SO. AND $1.00. cracker scientifically baked. cracker effectually protected, cracker ever fresh, crisp and clean, cracker good at all times. v0 In a dust faht. moisture proof package BISCUIT COMPANY WEALTH OF WESTERS STATES. Remarkable Story of Development fa Flcare. New York Bun. There hss been a wonderful growth in property values In the west since the cen sus of ll00, according to a comprehensive and useful bulletin Just Issued by the bu reau of the census. The new figure wer ascertained during 1904 and cover all kinds of property, Including real property and Improvements, live stock, farm Implements and machinery, gold and silver coin and bullion, manufacturing machinery, tools and Implements, railroads and their equip ment street railways, shipping, water works, etc. Here Is the story of develop ment In figures: Increase State. . 1904. Since im Iowa 14.048.000,000 $ tfW.onn.nna, California 4,116.0iiO,onO 897,000,(mo Minnesota l,M3,000.(niO 8?Ono.OiO Kansas 2,253,(100,000 Sll.Ono.iXlO Nebraska S.900,000,000 S3,000,00u Colorado 1,207.000,000 JOO.OOO.&O Washington l.Ool.OOO.OnO 270,000.0 Oregon 12,000,000 219,C00,fl( Montana 74,ooo,ooO 113,000.000 South Dakota 6so.om),ooo liW.OOO.ono, North Dakota 7a,0on,ooo 194.000.ons Utah 4xti. 000,000 76.00 . 000 Wyoming 329.0"W,floo 4,ioo,ona Idaho 842.000.000 67,000,000 New Mexico .ffl.0oo,000 4,Oun,0i Arizona o,ono,0i)0 43,ono.m Nevada 221,000.000 81,000,000 a Totals 223,058,000,000 $4,647,000,000 It will be noted that California leads the procession, both In present wealth and pro, portion of Increase, though the "Golden State" In 1800 was $150,000,000 behind Iowa. Minnesota has the next largest increase, $S30,OO0,000. That state's large and thrifty Scandinavian population has been a prime factor In creating the Increase. North Da kota has passed South Dakota both In in. crease and total value. Iowa haa the third largest Increase, $S80,000,000. MIRTHFIL REMARKS. Merchant-Bo you want a job as offlo boy, eh? Any previous experience? Hoy No, sir. I don't know how to do anything at an office ' -. .. . 1 Merchant I gueaa you won't do Boy 1 don't even know how to whistle. MerchantIIar.g up your hat. Cleveland Leader. "I'm Introducing an automatic machine," said the caller, "that will pay for itself in a year." "I'll take one If It will do that," promptly said the manufacturer. "If It will pay for Itself In a year?" "No; automatically puy for Itself In a year." Catholic. Standard and Times. Patient That's a conscientious nureeVhat' you selected for me, doctor. . i Physician Do you think soT I am glad to hear It." Patient Yes. 8he waked me up three times last night to take the regular dose of the aleeplng potion that you ordered. Somervllle Journal. "I won't marry him, mother. If he Is a count. All he wants me for Is my money, and he's a big fool!" , "Hush, my dear; he'd be a bigger fool to want you without a cent!" VVashtngtoa Times. "Going up!" cried Coal. "Going down!" cried Ice., The cars suddenly stopped snd a dead man was discovered wedged between them. He waa a consumer. St. Louis Post Dis patch. "What I want," said the reporter who had been sent to get an Interview out of of that deal." "That Is exactly the kind of story I am going to give you, young man," guardedly answered the financial magnate. "You will have to promise that you won't Use it on the first page." Chicago Tribune. DESERVING S. ' I Pall Mall Oasette. This Is the height of our desertsi A llttlj pity for life's hurts; i A little rain, a Utile sun, A little sleep when work Is don. A little righteous punishment, ' Lea for our deeds than their lntnt ' A ilttl pardon now and then. Because we are but struggling men. A little light to show the way, ' A little guidance when we stray A little love be for w pass To reat beneath the klrkyard grass. A little faith In days of change, . ' When life Is strk and bare and strange, A eolace when our eyes ar wel With tears of longing and regret ' True It is that we can not claim . . . t'rmeaaured recompense or blame, Beraus our way of life I small: A Uttl is the sum of All,
