Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 2, 1908)
ir THIS OMAHA DAILY BEE: TIUHSDAV. .IANIAKV 2. IPO?. Tim Omaha Daily Kee. FOUNDED BY EDWARD HOSEWATEH- VICTOR ROSE WATER. EDITOR. Entered at Omaha Postofllee as second clam mutter. TERMS OF 8t'H9CRI PTION : Dally Hee (without Sunday), one year..4.oo Dally Hee and Sunday, tuie year I on SunOsy Re, one year J Saturday lice, onu year 'W DELIVERED RV CARRIER: Dally Hea (Including; Sunday). per wc-k 1.V Daily lee iwiiaoiil Sunday i, per week-.b-c Evening Hee I ithout S.inday ). per Wfvk He Evening bee (Willi Sunday!, per wcek...l'uc Address ail miii-lainia of irregularities In delivery to City Circulation De.ariinei.i. OFFICES. Omaha The Hie Hund.ng. Bouth Omaha City Hall Hui!d.nn. Council ltluns 16 Scott Street. Chicago hit-i I'nlversily ilMins- New Vork-litS Home Lite Insurance building. Washington-'. Fourteenth Street N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to ni and edi torial matter should he addressed, Oiualiu liet, Editorial Innarfment. REMITTANCES.. Remit by draft, express or postal order fayablo to The Hie Publishing Company.' inly i-cent stamps received in payment of mail accounts, personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchange, not accepted. STATEMENT OK CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska. Douglas County. s. : Charles C. kuwlir, general manager f The Bee Publishing Company. being duly sworn, says tnat the actual number ft full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning. Evening and Kunduy Bee printed during the month of November, I!),, was s follows: 1 37,000 ! I!'3 8 37,830 IT.... 38,600 18 ? "0 4 37.480 II 8 39,680 SO. 37.00 39.690 il 3'" Mn 9i 37,300 I 37340 81 37'380 37,990 14 36,100 10 38.900 25 37,690 11 37.830 2 37,090 12 37,730 27 37,340 II 37,380 8 36,940 14 37,350 29.... 39,590 16 37,500 HO 37,590 Total 1.133,430 Cess unso-'d and returned copies. 10,168 Net Total 1,113,36a Daily average 37,108 CHARLES C. ROSE WATER, Oeneral Manager. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to fx fore me thli 2d Jay of December. 1!7. ROBERT HUNTER, Notary Public WHEN OUT OF TOW. abscrlbers leaving the city tern Borarllr shoald aars Tha Bee nailed ta them. Address will ha hanged as often aa requested. There Is a vast difference between a real sportsman and a real sport. Remnants of the "panic" will sur vive as long as people keep talking bout it. The bill collector may have another tory about the financial stringency feeing over. Officers of the navy 'are indignant t the actiyity of doctors in the service. It is very different in tiroes of war. "Bryan 4s in fine trim for the light," says the Atlanta Constitution. In ether words, he'a in trim for a trim ming, i "Give Senator Jeff Davis time to find himself," says the Richmond Times. lie may also have time to lone himself, if he wishes. "Ladles may smoke cigarettes," is a Bign Just posted in one of the most fashionable cafes in New York. Just the same, "ladies" won't. Chicago boasts of paying less for municipal government than any of the frig cities. Perhaps it also gets less even if it does not boast of it. Senator Jeff Davis asks for an ap propriation for the Arkansas Hot Springs. Since gambling was stopped there, Hot Springs needs the money. A Beet of sun worshipers hi New York la said to be gaining rapidly in membership. The followers of the Bw fad will lose most of their enthu siasm next July or August. The Globe-Democrat chortles over the announcement that 14,385 babies Here born in St. Louis in 1907. It is but fair to state that the babies had jo choice in the matter. Colonel Bryan is frankly opposed to the use of a big fund by the democratic campaign committee. The colonel has very fixed prejudices against the need less expenditure of money. 'A' correspondent wants an explana tion of "The Master Hand." Nat Good win's new play. The master hand is composed of the ace, ' king, queen, nav4 and ten of the same suit. 'X Cleveland man who drew four ttcea In a poker game dropped dead from excitement Ordinarily it Is the fellow playing against the man with Tour aces who has heart trouble. Senator Burrows suggests that Mr. justice Brewer would make a fine can didate for the presidency, and it is sus pected that at least one-ninth of the membership of the supreme court agrees with him. At a bal in Philadelphia S00 rare I butterflies were sent fluttering around and 15,000 of a new variety of roses were used In the decorations, accord lag to The Philadelphia Inquirer. That ' reporter should wake up. A photograph has been sent by wire less telegraph from Paris to Marseilles, a distance of about 700 miles. It ar rived in about as jotxl condition ad it would if it had been sent through the mails without a east iron wrapper. Governor Cummlus explains that when ha was a candidate for re-election he was not a candidate for Sena tor Allison's shoes, and that at that time he had not acquired the habit of keeking two offices at the same time. EARXlXO ntlTKR OF AMtcniCAX ha n.tr a rs. While nv'ch ha. been hoard within the last year of the obstacle the way of lirofltable operation of Ameri can railway lines, owing to federal and state legislation anrl to financial dif ficulties, the bout (Minorities on rail way matters The Wall Street Jour nal and The Hallway Age asree that "American hallways are now In better position, more worthy of confidence and of renter value than ever before In our history." Tn this connection, so It It pointed out, Is t'lfM' to compere- the earn ings of British and American railways, as Is of'on done by statisticians nnd writers on the subject. The British roads have ben established for gener ations and havev reduced the cost of maintenance and equipment to a mini mum. whl!e most of the American roads have been forced to put a large Fhare of their earnings into improve ments. An example Is cited where one eastern road has devoted more than $100,000,000 of its profits in ten years to Improvements and betterments. In spite of this heavy drain on earn ings, the dividends of American roads have been constantly Increasing during the last decade. In 1898 only 33 per cent of the capital stock of American railroads paid dividends, while for the last year dividends were paid on more than 65 per cent of the stock. In other words, only one-third of the stock earned dividends ten years ago, while at the present time fully two-thirds of the stock earns dividend. At the same time, the average rate of divi dends has increased from 4 9 per cent in 1898 to 6.2 per cent at present. With the guaranty of more business before them than they can handle for some years to come, the railways of the country have no reason for much worry over the future. A CUMMEUCIAL VltEAil. The Philadelphia Ledger becomes positively enthusiastic over the pros pect of what is going to happen to America's foreign trade within the next score of years when "the awak ening of China" becomes a realization instead of a promise. The Ledger esti mates that the increase in the world's commerce will be equal to the addition of 200,000,000 to the world's popula tion, as Ohina has 400,000,000 and will increase Its demands by fully 50 per cent when its people catch step with, the world's march of progress. The prospect Is alluring enough, but it Is something of an old dream. China has been' on the verge of "awakening" for several centuries, but somehow or other the old nation seems to plod along in the same old way, limiting its purchases from other countries to ab solute needs and apparently satisfied with its self-sufficient condition. An eminent member of congress frcjm a southern state figured out a few years ago that if the Chinese could be In duced to wear shirts two inches longer it would require many millions more yards of cotton cloth and would double the foreign demand for American cot ton. - It looked well enough on paper, but the Chinese shirts are still being cut from the Confucian pattern and China is buying but little more American cot ton than it did a decade ago. It costs nothing for American man ufacturers to speculate on the share of the increased business that will come to them when China wakes up, but they need not try to borrow any money at the banks on the strength of the prospect. American trade with China is growing and will doubtless continue to grow, but it Is idle to pre dict a 50 per cent increase at an early date. TJB OTHER SIDE. The reports sent from Italy, Sweden and other foreign countries to the ef- feet that the immigrants returning from the United States were in finan cial distress and were causing trouble at their old homes because of their de pendency have found a peculiar refuta tion from official sources. Consular agents in Italy and in nearly all of the countries which furnish the most of America's Bupply of immigrants report that the price of land has materially risen because of the demand for it by former emigrants to the United States, These men who have returned to their old homes from America are buying property and engaging in commercial enterprises and adding new life to the communities in which they locate. The foreign countries that were alarmed for fear the returning eml grants would fill the country with pauper labor haye changed their tune aud are now welcoming their prodigal sons. These returning laborers do not go back 88 they camo, with little ex cept their hope, strong hands avA will ingness to work. They go back with savings that form the nucleus of a for tune, under old world standards. They return also with broadened views and with an experience that makes them better citizens. A FIXE REPORT- The report of the special committee of the National Board of Fire Under writers on the fire hazard in Omaha must be very gratifying to our busi ness men and other owners of insuta ble property in this city. The under writers make a few criticisms of our fire-fighting facilities and more severe complaint of our building code, but, taken altogether, they give Omaha credit for enjoying not only valuable natural advantages of location, wide streets and substantial constructlou but also maintaining an efficient fire department, satisfactory water supply and other modern precautionary de vices against conflagration.- The underwriters think we oufht to spend more money in our fire depart ment, btit that is a chronic complaint and will be remedied as our resources permit. The one serious fault they find with the water supply ia that It depends upon a single main from the pumping station at Florence, to which attention has been repeatedly called, and which unfortunately cannot well be duplicated until we learn by the outcome of pending litigation whether the city or the water company is to own the water plant and pay for bet- ernients. The BiiKeKtlona of the underwriters as to Improved fire alarm iuethodjs and more up-to-date building regulations should be taken in proper spirit and acted upon by t're proper authorities. Although without positive informa tion, we venture to express the belief that few. If any, cities in the United States of Omaha's class cau boast such a creditable report, on fire hazard when tested by the standards of the fire un derwriters. rtanunwFJ) svxpay la dor. According to the Interpretation put upon -the Nebraska law by Judge Troup of the district bench, the work of a barber comes within the classifica tion of labor prohibited on Sunday. Whether the ruling in the case of a barber is to be extended to other classes of labor commonly performed on Sunday will doubtless depend upon the circumstances In each case and the notion of tho judge as to where the dividing line between necessary labor and unnecessary labor is to be drawn. The truth is that the question whether labor is necessary or not is wholly of comparative degree and must therefore always be largely within the discretion of the public officers. In biblical times, every religious holiday called for complete cessation of labor, not only by the head of the household and his family, but by the stranger within his gates, and by the man servant and the maid servant and the ox as well. In old Puritan days the God-fearing colonists not only walked to church, but would not even have the building heated, because it would require work by the janitor in feeding the stoves. The Puritan did not think it necessary to have the church made comfortable, while the modern church-goer wants all the ac cessories of heat, ventilation, music and a carriage or an automobile, or at least a street car, to carry him to and from his home. The Puritan was con tent on the Sabbath to eat cold vic tuals, cooked the day before, but we doubt whether even a judge of the dis trict court would now draw the line so fine. Coming down to brass tacks, then. the extent of the prohibition of Sunday labor must be determined by the senti ment of the community. It is notori ous that there is no demand in this city for return to puritanical ideas, ex cept on the part of a few who are clamoring for retaliation because of the enforcement of the screen pro vision of the Slocumb law. The sooner our judges and other public officials getthls into their heads the sooner will the trouble-makers stop their fool ishness and the sooner will Omaha cease to be ridiculous in the eyes of the outside world. The appearance of the name of M. F. Harrington in the list of speakers at the official Bryan dinner at Lincoln is a reminder of the Government Owner ship league, which was organized by Mr. Harrington in conjunction with Edgar Howard and H. C. Brome for the purpose of backing up Colonel Bryan in bis announced Intention of forcing the government ownership of railroads issue Into the democratic) platform. When Colonel Bryan issued his proclamation indefinitely postpon ing government ownership Edgar Howard quickly fell in line and the banquet program now warrants the in ference that Mr. Harrington has also decided to stick to Bryan and let gov ernment ownership go by the board. Douglas county has spent over $100,000 during the past year in con structing permanent roadways. The farmers of this county, doubtless, ap preciate the advantage of being yoked up with a big city that furnishes the money to pay for these Improvements. Good country roads, of course, are equally beneficial to city and country, but Douglas county farmers would be in a different situation if the west line of the county and the west line of the cities of Omaha and South Omaha were one and tha same. A committee of two clergymen rep resenting the Humane society has asked the police board to detail an officer to work under the direction of the society for the purpose of prevent ing the abuse of animals and dumb brutes. No committee of clergymen, however, has appeared anywhere to protest against the Inhuman treatment recently accorded the scarlet women when they were dragged from their houses and thrown into the gutter like dogs. The Lincoln Star's O. K. on Chancel lor E. Benjamin Andrews reads very much like the O. K. which the World- Herald put on him when he was first made chancellor of the University of Nebraska ai the urgent personal solici tation of William Jennings Bryan. NO Evening Bee tomorrow. Sub scribers will be served with The Morn ing Bee instead. The public will please take notice that tha fira underwriters' report on Omaha throws a bouquet at the police department In pronouncing police service at fires efficient. This may be taken as an unbiased opinion by strictly disinterested visitors. For some unexplained reason the report of the fire underwriters fails to feature the urgent necessity of that storage reservoir for which the water logged mariner wanted us to vote $500,000 of bonds 'immediately, if not sooner." A 1ob Angeles highbinder, ordered by Blng Kong to remove a brother named Hop Ring, made a mistake and killed Ju Tung. Mistakes of that kind are very annoying to highbinders, who object to bsing Joked about their blunders. There may be a hitch In the law r lating to tho letting of a contract for county jail feeding, but it Is a safe proposition that Douglas county will not go back to the old system of jail feeding graft. The democratic World-Herald will be terribly distressed if the republicans of Nebraska do not develop a bitter factional fight over the selection of delegates to represent them at the Chi cago convention. Emeraency Drake Averts C ollision. Springlleld Republican. "Remember," said Prosldent Mellen of the New Haven company in a speech at Providence Salurduy night, "prosperity has been assassinated and business has been Shndbugged ' and there he stopped with out naming the guilty man. As a Judge of the causes of panics we should now have something from him on the Identity of the person who assassinated prosperity in the panic of 1W7, and again in 1873 and then also In 1S'J3. I.ooklnw Uehlnd the Appeal. St. Iui Republic. When missionary appeal Is made to tiie 1'nlted States for the relief of famine suf ferers In India It does not exaggerate the guttering to. say that "hundreds of thou sands may die unless relief comes from Christian lands." It ought to come as aoon as possible. Iter on there will be time for further discussion of whether a "Chris tian land" is religious in taking great areas of heathen land out of cultivation In foodstuffs to plant it In colonial govern ment opium to be sold to other heathen. Marvels of Oar Time. BuJtlmore American. Phonograph records of the greatest sing ers of the age are to be placed In a vault in Paris, not to be disturbed' for a hundred years. The generation of that distant day will then have a chance of comparing the greatest voices of this age with their own song birds. This Is a wonderful achieve ment, and yet that time may be mt far ahead of ours In scientific marvels as we are ahead of our predecessors who met every discovery of-man or nature by hang ing or burning the unfortunate experi menter for practicing the black art. Moner Well Invested. Philadelphia Record. Money spent by the government in es tablishing forest reservations Ir in reality money saved. For every dollar paid out there Is a continuous return of value for all the years to follow. The waters aa well as the woods are conserved. The cul tivated lands are made more fruitful and more valuable by reason of the contiguity of the uncultivated lands, assuring the life of the streams and more stable and healthful climatic conditions. It Is a penny- wise and pound-foolish policy that delays action In congress favoring suitable ap propriations. FATAL R All.RO tD WRECKS, I.arare Proportion Due to Defective Discipline. New York Times. It is a reproach that persons should be killed by scores and hundreds, for causes so preventable as defective dis cipline. Yet this Is the greatest single cause of- railway disasters in the United States. The recently published report of tha Interstate ' Commerce commission groups the ten worst accidents for the last year, and not one of them Is due to mechanical failure of apparatus. Only in one was apparatus even indirectly re sponsible. Three cases remain unex plained, and inNall the rest there was preventable blameSn some part of the railway staff. The reasons assigned by the commission are, for examples, "con fusion of orders." "disregard for rules," "neglect of whistle signals," "failure to deliver orders," and so on. New York and Jersey and the District of Columbia are about tho moBt open to reproach in this connection, which is the more remarkable because they might have been looked for rather on the newer, single-track roads of western states. In fact, the danger is greatsst Jvjat where It should he least. ENTIIROXED J. FAME'S TEMPLE. "Oar Jeff" of Arkansas Hailed aa a Peerless Windjammer. New York Sun. Jeff Davis has made good. "Plum Bill" Jones of Ozark says so. The boys "tanked up" at Elk Horn tavern the night after the news reached that howling neighbor hood, and everybody took "long aweet enin' " in hls'n with a view to expedition. Throughout the foothills, aa well as further up toward the Missouri line, the snuff pots passed around with fluency and all hands "dipped" and "rubbed" In honest joy. "Our Jeff" had galloped down the main aisle of the Temple of the Octopus and brand ished his cowhide boots In the very teeth of the high priests of lllgotten wealth. He had shown the cowering n ynnirlons of capl tal what an "inshlrted champion of the particularly common people could do In the absence of the police, and the wires throb bed with rapture for the hill billiea of his native state. Hot times In the Arkansas highlands and sand hills followed the eruption of the news from Washington. Jeff had kept his prom ises, lie had proved to everybody's satis faction that a slop shop suit of clothes could easily contain a giant soul and that baggy trousers were no sign of modesty. Bo all about the gifted region from fihlloh to Lead Hill and from Marmaduka to Hickory the celebration ran on nimble feet. There may have been sorrow In Chicot and Pulaski, or peradventure in Sevier and Ouachita, but Yellvllle whooped for ecstasy and Princeton let down her back hair in genuine abandon. "Our Jeff" had made good. He had scorched and scarified the minions as even Jo Bailey had never done in those fine moments when he scorned store clothes and hated a "blled shirt" like poison. "Our Jeff" had bawled more loudly against property than even Theodore Roosevelt bad done In his most inspired ' paroxysm. And rednecked Arkansas roso to htm as so many bayou catnsh to a lump oi carrion. We think we aea in Jeff an ever gushing fountain of delight. He will not fail us as Tillman and Jo Bailey have. In him we bava the unfailing and perpetual blatherskite HOI Ml ABOIT MC'V IOIIK. Ripples oa the I nrrrnl of Life la the Metropoll. A remarkable display of public con fidence In the management of a suspended state bank was given in Harlem a f i w days ago. The state supreme court had decided that the Hamilton bank could re open. When the news reached Harlem depositors began to gather before the cur tained windows of the bank, shouting their Joy and demanding speeches of the prominent ones among them. Finally a thousand depositors, led by a loud horned band, marched to the home of W. R. Montgomery, head of their beloved Insti tution. The band played a great variety of Joyful sirs, but on the way the pro cession passed the doors of a rival bank, whereat the musicians dropped easily Into Chopin's funeral march and the celebra tors uncovered their heads In mock sorrow. At the home of Mr. Montgomery mutual confidence was pledged In an exchange of greetings. The depositors promised tc support the bank and the president prom ised thnt no one would lose anything by Its forced suspension. One woman said she would be first In line when tin' bank reopened and would deposit $145,000 she had Just made In a fortunate renl estate deal. New York's record of trnnsailantlo passenger travel, east and westbound, shows a greater volume during 1907 than at any time during the past five years. Tha total was 2.967.J28. Tle passenger movement for the year was 972. SAO greater than for the year 1906 and 1,151, 151 greater than for the year 1904. The west hound travel reached a total of 1.6119,340, which Is 200.000 in excess of the combined east and west bound travel during the year 1904. The east bound travel for the year 1907 consisted of 1, 257,328 persons. The most remarkable paseenger move ment of the year was In the east bound steerage. This reached 650,045, or 242,5t5 greater than in 1906. This entire move ment was concentrated during the last two months. The steamship line found It difficult to accommodate the rush. The Hebrew IOan association of Greater N?w York divides no profits among its stockholders, and w-as in fear of no run during the recent flurry. Its business is to loan to the deserving poor without In terest or charges of any kind. "This association," said one who Is ac quttlutud with its workings, "was formed fifteen years ago by a few public spirited citizens of the Jewish faith, on lines which have been followed for centuries In the ghettos of the larger European cities. "It began in a very modest way, with only 96 in its treasury, and did business in a dingy basement of an East Broadway tenement house. Able business manage ment, and liberal donations, have enabled it In fourteen years to erect Its own home In Second avenue. Its business has in creased year by year, until now It prides Itself on having furnished more than 15.000 loans, aggregating more than JZoCW." The operations of this bank are simple. A needy person who deserves a loan from 15 to Eo0 makes his application at the of fice, and furnishes the name and address of one or two business men of bis ac quaintance' He calls again In a few days, and If his friends have Indorsed his application for the. aum asked, ha receives the society's check for the amount. Repayments are expected In weekly or monthly Installments, so small that he Is enabled to make good use of the money so received, and Is able to repay It without great inconvenience. No charge of any sort Is made for the use of this money. The losses do not average 1 per cent of the amounts loaned. Thomas Taylor. 110 Monroe street. Ho boken, is sn American citlsen of twenty five summers, who learned a valuable les son In true Americanism and Incidentally saved his anatomy thereby from probable dents by an Indignant populace. The teacher of young Mr. Taylor was Recorder Stanton, who sentenced him to restore publicly the national emblem to a forty foot pole from which he had cut It down. Taylor, while on his way home about 8 a. m., Saturday, saw a flag floating from a pole In front of the residence of Kmllo Da Fevre at 219 Bloomfleld street. Taking out his knlfo he deliberately cut the hal yards and the flag came fluttering to the ground. Taylor's act was witnessed by Roundsman O'Donohue, who promptly ar rested him and locked him Op. When arraigned before the recorder later Taylor's only explanation was that he didn't like to see the flog flying atthat hour of the morning and It didn't appear to bo flying properly, anyway. "Taylor." said Recorder Stanton, "I aen tence you to climb to the top of that pole and nail that flag to where It was flying when you cut It down." The court ordered two policemen to ac company the prisoner to Mr. e Fevre's home. Nearly everyone In the court room followed, and outside the crowd was aug mented by dozens of men and boys who had heard of the matter. Taylor carried out orders. A Wall street broker tells a story to Illus trate the kind of speculation that Is going on at present. He related that a young school boy brought homo a Jittering report from hia teacher and his father promised him a dollar should the next report be equally good. It was even better. On re ceiving the dollar the boy went out and dhl not return for more than two hours. When his father asked him what he had bought, the reply came: "I have not bought anything; I spent all ytfternoon changing my money first into dimes, then Into nickels and then Into pennies; then back Into nickels and dimes and quarters." "What did you do that for?" asked the father. "Well, I thought somebody might make a mistake and give me too much change." The professionals are exchanging stocks among themselves In the hope that some outsider will be lured Into making a mis take. The mounted policeman stationed on Her ald square has been obliged to change his station to save his horse from being killed by kindness. For nearly a year It has been his custom to allow his mount to stand at the curb near Thirty-fourth street. The animal was popular with shoppers, and many were thfc buna and chocolate cream drops which fell to his portion. But the week before Christmas this petting In creased with tho crowds so that there was hardly a moment when the animal was not gratefully munching a ball of popcorn, a mouthful of caramels, grapes, cakes, apples or what not. And so. when tbs horse began showing signs of Indigestion the reg ulator of traffic was compelled to take him to a lesa popular corner. "Well," said the policeman, when ques tioned as to the horse's feelings, "he sulks, and can't understand that what was done was for his good. But that's the way with more things than horses." Platfers' Flttea to Iki Man. Philadelphia Press. The Kanaas republicans want Taft nomi nated on a strong platform, which la the only kind of platform that would really hold Taft. ajwaya Room far One Mare. Chicago Record-Herald. The water wagon, it appears, haa never broken down because of overload""' THE ART OF MAKING MONEY Praflta anil Losses of the I nlted states l Mint mt4 Prlntlnw Press. A remarkable thing about the 1'nlted States coining system Is that the govern ment loses money In coining cold, but makes a big profit In coining pennies. In a $10 gold piece there Is exactly $10 worth of gold and 10 per cent of copper put there to harden the precious metal. To this must be added the cost of minting. A sliver piece of money la about hnlf profit, but tha penny pays best of all. The copper disks, or blanks, for new cents are bought by the carload from a firm at Waterbury, Conn., which has a contract to supply them at the rate of $T.ani) per l.(KM. That means that the fnlted States government obtains for 7 3-10 cents the copper blanks which, by the process . of stamping, are transformed Into ono dollar's worth of pennies. Whnt becomes of the millions of pennies coined each year by the government Is an unsolved problem. To supply the demand the mint at Phfladelphla must keep on turning out new pcnnleB at an average rifle of 4,000,0l) per month. The copper cent of course has its begin ning In a copper mine. After smelting the copper Is bought by agents who sell It to the Waterbury firm In whose factory It la melted and mixed with tin and line ac cording to a recipe prescribed by the Treas ury department and then hardened and made Into bricks. These bricks are cut Into slices the thickness of a cent and the strips passed through machines which stamp out little round disks Just the size of a cent. m The blanks are next put into boxes and Bhlpped by the carload to the mint at Philadelphia, where they are stamped with the head on one side and the denomination on the other. In addition to an enormous quantity of copper cents the Philadelphia mint turns out millions upon milllions of dollars' "worth of gold and silver coins every yeur. The gold and silver bricks are cast into long strips Just tha width of the coins, and from theso strips the coin disks are cut by machines with heavy punches. Next the disks are fed Into a tube which drops them one by one between two disks. The dies come together with enormous pressure and stamp the familiar impressions seen on our coins. To make the counterfeiting of Us paper money' as difficult as possible the I'nlted States government spares absolutely no pains In the making of gold and sliver cer tificates. They are printed on peculiar paper, most difficult to Imitate. Then there are elaborate scrolls and devices covering the bill which only the most skilful en graver would attempt to duplicate. The certificate paper has silk threads run ning all through it and can be manufac tured only by powerful and expensive ma chinery, quite out of reach of tlie ordinary counterfeiter. Bo far aa known no counter feiter has ever been able to imitate this paper. Before the paper reaches the bureau of engraving and printing each piece is guarded Just as carefully as though It was already a thousand dollar bill. Thte bills are printed very carefully on small presses and then fed into curious little numbering machines which automatically stamp on the letter and number of the series. New York World. WHAT IS Jt JIT COMPBWfAATIOS t Federal Sapreme Coart Bearing; I'pon the Point. New York World. If the opinion of Judge Hough in the (Manhattan) 80-cent gas caae is correct, the opinion of Mr. Justice Peckham In the Stanislaus Irrigation case Is wrong. This caae was decided by the fnlted states supreme court on January 18, 1904, upon a question simllur to that raised in the 80-cent gas case as to the power of a legislature, or a board authorized by it. to reduce the rates of a public service corporation. The Kan Joaquin Irrigation company was incorporated In California In 1871, under an act of the legislature passed In 1853 and amended in 1882, which allowed Irrigation companies to charge certain rates. In 1885 the legislature passed a law giving boards of supervisors the power to reduce water rates. I'nder this authority the supervisors of Stanislaus county appraised the value of the Irriga tion company's investment at $337,000 and reduced the rates. The company claimed that it had actually Invested $971,11$; "that the reduced rates would not allow It a profit of per cent on this Investment, and were "confiscatory." Mr. Justice Peckiam, In his opinion, said that such a franchise "waa nothing but In the nature of a privilege." The act of Incorporation "was not Intended to form a contract," but waa the "state ment of the then pleasure of the legis lature, to so remain until subsequently altered by It." Furthermore, the court says; "It Is not confiscation, nor a taking of property without due process of law, nor a denial of the equal protettion of the laws, to fix water rates so as to give an income of 6 per cent upon the then value of the property actually used for the purpose of supplying water as provided by law." That value is stated by the court to be "the present cost of the construction of the canals, based on the prices of ma terial, supplies, and labor when the esti mate waa made." ORIENTAL PHILOSOPHY. How It Contrasts With the American Spirit. Kansas City Times. "Where? To the grave. They run there so quickly, ao breathlessly, so madly. Verily to reach that goal they do not need to hurry. They will not miss It, however slowly they may walk toward It." This extract from the newly published diary of the shah of Persia shows that the philosophy of old Omsr Khayyam is still ascendant In the land that gave It birth. Here Is the embodiment of the doc trine. "Eat, drink and be merry, for to morrow wo die." The shah waa writing of Europeans. Had he known America there is no telling how he might have mor alized. But he would have missed the goal Just aa he did. Americans are not rushing to reach the grave. They are not thinking of the grave. They are doing their utmost to get all out of life that Is coming to them. It is possible that as a people we rush too much; perhaps we would enjoy life more If we practiced greater repose. But there is something manly and fine some thing doubtless Incomprehensible to the oriental iirlnd In a spirit that eagerly ac cepts all tasks; that labora with conscious power, though sometimes with unconscious motive, to perfect the civilization of man kind and move the world farther along on its course and leave It better for the people that are to come after. tilfls for Pablle Good. New York World. The benefactions of 1906 In the 1'nlted States aggregated more than 100.0i0,0u). Those of 1907, aa far as accounted for, amount to $120,000,000. Half of this year s gifts were for "higher education," while mora that $2,000,000 went to art gallarles, museums and the like, and nearly $8.U),uQ0 to hospitals, homes and asylums. There have been critics of such a distribution of gifts. Neverthelesa. the evidence that the financial stringency has caused no suspen sion of general guod works Is gratifying. pori. t.iti. nH ARitntn. HeaeHelal InstlCatlons ftelflshness For bids in I'nlted Mates. . Chicago Uernrd-lterald. At about the time thnt the recent pivnlc began Postmaster Oeneral Meyer pointed out that If we had a postnl savings bank In this country, established on such lines n he had previously suggested, there would be little danger thnt private hoarding would take cash out of circulation at times when It was most needed. Since then tho experience of Holland, with Its government savings bank, bus amply born testimony to the truth of what tho postmaster Oeneral said. Holland felt the effects of tho general world-wide de pression to such an extent that there were heavy runs on some of Its oldest ami safest private savings Institutions. These banks did not have to suspend payments, and when the run exhausted Itself deposits began to return to them. But In the meantime the money that had been withdrawn did not go Into stock ings, stoves, tin cans and the other biding places of the boarder, but Instead It went Into the postal saving bank. In the first twenty days of November tho excess of deposits over withdrawals In that Institu tion was l,15t;.59 florins. In the corres ponding day of the Ave previous years the excess had ranged from 132.525 florins to 370.0K9 florins. Here, then, this year was sn Increase of deposits more than three times as great as In the best preceding year. Postmaater General Meyer'a proposal for a postal savings bank Is very carefully framed to prevent the cash deposited from being withdrawn from circulation. If en acted Into law It would add a distinct ele ment of strength to our financial alt nation. This congress should establish the Institu tion, the many merits of which have long since been abundantly proven. PERSONAL NOTES. "Prophets" do not agree as to 1!Vi, hut It Is easy to agree as to the "prophets." Mayor Taylor of San Francisco has sur prised and shocked the politicians by demonstrating that when hcsald he In tended to have an honest administration ho whs not Joking. Senator William P. Frye of Maine, who was recently elected president pro teni of tho senate, has. laMd thut office for a larger number of consecutive terms than did any of his predecessors. James C. Courts, who has Just received a reappointment as clerk of the appro priations committee of the house of repre sentatives, Is now serving his thirtieth year In the service of the house, having been first appointed by Representative Atkins of Tennessee In 1877. He is one of the high--Rt salaried employes in the house. Georgo H. Ross, who bHS been elected vice president In charge of all departments of the Chicago & Alton and of the Clover Iaf roads, was born In Boston In 154 and entered the railway service In 1S77 as ex pense bill clerk for the Burlington road. Since that time he has filled many places In the railway world. Mr. Ross was the man who organized the effort which the railroads are making to obtain union ter minals In Kansas City. Ho left that work to become the executive hend, under T. P. Shonts, of the Clover beat loud. Come Profits of Last Uar. Portland Oiegonlun. According to the accepted Idea of pro ferity. Illustrated by moving pictures, on the streets everybody wore silk lust jeur. The returns and dividends of the New Bedford cotton mills tell a story different from that. They show an average of 13.7.; per cent profit on a capital stock of $18. 880.000 ugainst n average raU- of 8.92 In 1900, of ti.li in 1905 and of fi.2 in 1DU4. ;ariy somebody wore cotton stuffs last year i spite of tho runtlo of silks on the streets and In the homes. The truth Is that Un people of the Tnlted States were exeep tionally well clad, whether they wore wool, silk or cotton garments. They hud clothes In abundance; the quality was good; the prices were highnd tho profits of manu facturers soared. M1IITIIKLI. REMARKS. 'Politics is getting to be wonderfully' in terestlng," said the observer. "Yes," answered Serial or Sorghum, Mt In mighty Interesting. Htil between you and me it iBn't near as much of un Investment as it used to be." Washington Star. "Did you get any useful presents?" oh, my yes!" "What were they?" "Oh, a lot of books and things I can pivo away next Christmas."-Cltveland Plain Dealer. "If the famous Ananias club gave aocl.il fund limn, 1 wonder what would be, the. favorite, instrument of entertainment " "Nuturally the lyre."-Bultimore Ameri can. "That speech," said the vociferous Htaten man, came from tho bottom of my heart " Indeed! ' rejoined the critical friend. It sounded to me as if II came entirelv from the top of the larynx. "-Philadelphia "1 did." ;;Rut now you call It 'An Autumn I-cuf.1 " Yes It was killed by a frost. "-Browning a Magazine. Philadelphia!! (to visitor) Tnlom-I. we have seen most of the objects of Inter-sf In the city, I believe-all but one. Wo will go now and visit the mint. Col tl1il..crBHH TK . . . III tP, J"-1-0"8 tlle waV '"' have s.inie- " in.-. nicago j nnune. "My boy, If you want to stay in the pub lic eye ' ' "Yes, dnd?" "Don't be a human cinder." Washington Herald. Suddenly the lone woman awoke nnd pressing a button flooded the apartment w-ith light. In the full glare stood a bur glar. - "I don't wish to alarm you," shn said to lllm. "bllt tn lllut a ml...,.-. .1... t . m mldnbfht will strike." Ito did not seem Impressed. "Are you aware," she continued, "that the coming of the hour will usher In tho new year?" Still he stood mute. "And that It will Imj leap year at that?" she added. Then It was that he flVd Into the dark ness Philadelphia ledger. LI'L lilt At K FEET. Boston Transcript.) My h a't gits sad an' loesome now W en fo' o'clock comes 'roun'. An' fru d cabin do' I heah Dat happy h a ted aoun' Ob chllluns laugliln' as dey come A-trlppln' down de street. Wlf school books undahneuf dey ahms, An' music In dey feet. A" den I tries to Jes' fo'glt An' make b'lleve dHt It's true, He's comln' fru de alleyway Wif all dem ohllluiia too; De patttah ob his 111" bar" feet, I kinder seems ter heah, An tu ns my back dat he earn' see. Dat ugly lookin' t-uli. I mos' kin see dat 111' back face Kt peepln' fru do do'. His bright eyes spa'klln' wlf delight Jes' kase Iih knows fo' sho' Dat Mammy's roas In' possum meat, An' taters, too, fo' him, An' waltln' fo' huh honey chile Huh po' 111' hungry Jim. But all dem 111' brack feet pas' by, A-tramplln' on my ha t. An' Jes' a green grabs ober dere Am all dat I Is got; Dem III' brack feet what 'longed ter ma Somehow dey couldn't stay In dls yere cabin wif we-all. So dey Jes' slipped erway. Dere'a mimic In er hajijo string, IVre'a melody In song. I tubs ter heah l mockin' bird Er sinjrtn' all day long; But all de music tn de wort' Ter me ain't half so aweet As dat af' ptttah-pattah ob A pa' ob 111' brack feel.