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New-York tribune., 1902-12-21

Mails Newfoundland by rail North sydney. and
by a this Office daily at 50
p m connecting close here every Monday Wednesday
Saturday. Mails Siiquelon by rail 10 Boston.
and thence by steamer close at this Office daily at sd
T. Mails for Cuba, BY rail to Port Tampa. Fla
thence by steamer. close this Office daily.
cept Thursday t5:29 a. m (the connecting closes
made Mondays. Wednesdays and Saturdaysl-
Mails for Mexico City. overland. unless specially ad
dressed for dispatch by steamer close at this oCs
daily except Sunday at GO and 11S0 p
Sundays { p. m. and IL 80 p H. Mails for Costa
Belize. Puerto COrtez and letter mall for GuaSe
nala, by rail Orleans. and thence by
this Office daily. except sunday. II 80
and I'll 30 ?. sundays at II p and 1113O
connecting closes here Mondays $50 m. for
Belize Cortez and letter mail for Guatemala
Tuesdays I11:30 p m for Costa Ricai- fRss-
istered mail closes at s p m previous day.
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PostOmce Notice.

read DAILY by ali interested as changes may
tmeJ .,o,
Foreign mails for the week ending December y 1so
will close promptly all -ases) at the General PosI
Malls close one hour Garner
than closing below Parcels Post mails ior
denburg - - r,--.t,-.
Regular and Supplementary mails close az ForsisIt
Station half hor later closing time shown below
except that Supplementary Mails for Europe and ent
America. Colon. close hour later AT torels"
Stationl
New-York tribune., 1902-12-21
THE WEATHER REPORT.
Yesterdays Record and To-day's Forecast

Washington Dec 2o-The South Pacific storm since
Friday nigh. has slowly from Eastern Nebraska to
the Middle Mississippi Valley with slight decrease in
Intensity and the extended into the lower lake
region and Middle States. Snow is falling in the
north nortion Of upper region, Western Mime
sofa the middle slope and Lower Missouri Valley.
Ternperatures higher from the Mississippi Valley
and rpper lake region except in interior New
York and New-England whore there has been con-
siderable fall They also fallen to 16 degrees in
the middle slope Missouri Valley changed
little elsewhere
West OF Rocky Mountains the weather has been
fair EXCEPT on with slightly higher
perat,Ires The storm continue its eastward
rnent during Sunday may be expected in New
ENGLAND. rain in the lake region and Upper
Mississippi Valley rain in the Ohio Valley the Mid
de Atlantic and north portion Of the South Atlantic
States There probably be in the greater po
ton Of the lower NeWEngland and Eastern
eHYork Elsewhere weather will be generally fair
Sunday and Monday
It will be sunday in the Mississippi. the lower
Missouri and valleys the lake region.
the Gulf States and Southwest 1t will be colder
Monday in the Middle South Atlantic States.
On the New-Engand Coast the winds will be north 10
northeast increasing force: the Middle Atlantic
Coas theyVtl brisk probably becoming higher
during Sunday; South Atlantic Coast they will be
fresh east TO the Gulf Coast fresh south to
southwest shifting northwest the west coast on
Take Michigan north, and the lower lakes
brieLz high
steamer departing Sunday for European ports will
nave fresh TO brisk winds with rain to the
Grand Banks. , -, , ,-,.-
or the Atlantic Coast from MoTehead to Eastpoft-
New-York tribune., 1902-12-21
FUNERAL OF GENERAL sWAYNE.
Full Military Honors To Be Paid in Wash
ington.

Washington Dec. 2O-ActiRg Adjutant General
Hall has issued orders that full military honors be
paid on the occasion CT the funeral of General
Wager Swayne, of the veterans Of the civil
War who d:ed in New-York Thursday, and
whose body is to be buried in the National Gene
terry at Arlington.
The religious services will be held at ST. John
Protestant Episcopal Church on Monday morning
at $50 o'clock. The funeral party will be escorted
from the church the cemetery by a large de-
tachment of troops, including a squadron OF cav
airy and a battery of artillery from Fort Myer
and A battalion of engineers from Washington Bar
racks. The honorary pallbearers will be justice
Harlan. Judge William Maury, Of the Spanish
Claims Commission; ex-senator Thurston, of Ne
braska: General Gillespie Chief of Engineers; Cen
eral Davis Judge Advocate General, and General
Breckenridge. Inspector General
New-York tribune., 1902-12-21
:. E4NDERBHT BETTER.
Bulletin Says Slight Changes -4re
EnCOurag1Rg.

The physicians who are attending Cornelius
Vanderbilt issued an encourag ging bulletin at
30 p. yesterday, at the same time announc-
ing that no more bulletins would be issued dur
ing the night. The bulletin issued at 1:3O O'Clock
follows:
Mr.. Vanderbilt is still in a critical condition
There are no new complicat tions symptoms
and whatever slight changes have occurred are
to be regarded as encouraging.
AUSTIN FLINT Jr.
f G. JANEWAY.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-21

pighest temperature yesterday. % uesIee'' 49, - y
,,. average for corresponding date OF last year
., 7.ra for corresponding date Of last tweh'S-h'e
years 81 r.,- today: brisk to high east Winds
,,ondsv colder, with rain or snow.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-21

IT'S A SHAME TO DO 1T.
But you do not want anything in the little
advertisements the narrow columns to-
day, tear the page for future needs.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-21
INsPEcTs ST. LUKE's HOSPITAL.

DR.. Lorenz and his assistant DR.. Mueller, were
entertained at luncheon by the Rev. George +.
Clover superintendent of ST. LUke's Hospital. In
New-York tribune., 1902-12-21
4 TIP

The Little Ads. of the People always ap-
pear in this section of the paper; so dont
forget next Sunday to read this part first.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-21

The service in this city will be held IN St Bar
tholomew's Church this afternoon The Ohio So
ciety. of which General Swayne was ex-president
will attend In a body.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-21
TRN AGAIN.

Maybe what YOU wanted last sunday you
People"
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The following official record from the Weather Bureau
ih ' .as IN the temperature for the last twenty
SHOW" ~ w =, comparison with corresponding date of
New-York tribune., 1902-12-21
rp,sryNE LOCAL OBSERVATIONS,

-. s,rra,n the continuous line shows the changes
In LIS ss indicated by The Trbunes self-recordng
barometer. dotted line SHOWS .ne 'e--ps - ~
So-6sa hy the local Weather Bureau
New-York tribune., 1902-12-21

The following bulletin received last night from
washington, d C. dated December 20. at $50 . m:
southeast storm warnings at Morehead washington
Section. Newport. Fort Monroe Baltt-
more Freskwater Reedy Island Port Norris Cape May,
A,ya,tjc city philadelphia. Sandy Hook and New-York
.sfor7 over middle Mississippi valley moving east,
nth high east winds, containing some rain
New-York tribune., 1902-12-21
RY EARLY MAIL TRAIN.

ted States. Canada and Ksxfco
n Mani attain and The Bronx)-
New-York tribune., 1902-12-21

Rev. stephen Merritt. the world -wide-known
undertaiser; only OF business SHAVE and
isth-st.; largest In the world. Tel. l4-1sts-st.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-10

what they are at this functional point constitute a chain that covers the southwest on the one hand and the southeast on the other, with spurs to Chicago in the northwest and to Jack sonville In the southeast. It is now 8 great alliance. and it promises to be still greater one in the near future.
 Birmingham's railroad facilities would be well.nigh perfect if the Illi- nois Central had line to the heart of the district. President Fish has tap ped coal fields in the upper edge of the district. but he has thus far failed to appreciate the tonnage that awaits his lines if he would push spur into Birmingham itself The Commercial Club should encourage and promote the coming hither of the Illinois Cen tral. It is the one thing lacking to make this districts railroad equip ment unsurpassed in the southeast. We need of course an open Warrior, but an Open Warrior would float the freights seaward only. while the railroads would continue to dis tribute our products inland.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-10
MAscAeNI IN NEW YORK.
Composer of "cavaIIerla" Receives
 Warm Welcome in U. 8.

New York, October 9.-Pietro Mascagni last night opened his American operatic tour with the performance of two of his lyrical compositions at the Metropolitan opera house, which was literally crowd ed from parquette to gallery. The audi ence gave the composer a wonderfully warm and enthusiastic reception. The evenings entertainment opened with a simple love story in one act, 'Zanett," the bill being completed with "Cavalleria Rusticana," the opera that has won for Mascagni his greatest renown. When Mascagni appeared at the conductors chair the audience arose to It's feet and cheered most heartily. He won admira- tion and appreciation by his dignified and forceful method of leadership. holding orchestra and singers in perfect control and exhibiting not the slightest eccentric ity of manner, but impressing upon the observer sense of his force and feeling. The operas were well sung and acted. The enthusiasm of the audience was par ticularly demonstrative at the conclusion of the Cavalleria intermezzo and at the end of the opera.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-10

In round figures the coal product of the country annually is S61 million tons, of which amount the anthracite operators furnished about one-sixth. The soft coal mines furnished five sixths, and if they can get cars enough they can supply the one-sixth that the hard coal operators cannot supply because their miners will not longer work at the terms offered them.
 It is not so much a question of dig ging coal, as it is of transportation to markets after the coal is ready for use. Given cars enough the soft coal operators will today agree to furnish 360 million tons of coal year, and that is all that was used last year
 One might think from the noise and turmoil that has arisen over the hard coal strike that the hard coal interest is the key to the entire fuel supply of the country, but the truth is an- thracite cuts a small figure in the sum total. More wood is today consumed for fuel purposes in the country than coal, and five pounds of bituminous coal are used where one of anthracite is consumed. It is a mistake there fore to say that a fuel famine exists in the country at large. At the most half dozen eastern states are incon- venienced and may have to adopt sub stitutes for anthracite, and that is all there is of it, and after election day we will not hear nearly so much about it as we do now.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-10
HORSE TRADING IN NEW
 YORK RAIN OR SHINE

the street and hitched to 8 heavy truck, kept just for that purpose. A driver starts of. One horse balks. .JIm.s the salesman. cries. That off horse wants to get on this side" The change Is made. Up and down the horses are driven to show the buyer all their good points. Then the rear wheels are changed to demonstrate the teams ability with a heavy load. The buyer walks out looks Into each horses mouth. inquiries the age of each feels forelegs of both and then asks the price.
 It Is the same with the trotters. sad de -.orses and coach horses. only it takes longer to close the deal than is the case with truck horses. The shrewdness played by both the buyer and the seller is one of tfie features of a horse trade. The man who gets the worst of it never complains. Instead he waits his chance to pass the bad bargain up to some one else, and so 1t goes along.
 Nearly all of the horses hauling trucks and wagons in the city have at some pe- riod of their career passed through Bulls Head. The same animal may come and go a dozen times or more, his price vary ing with each sale. This is especially so with discarded horses from the delivery department of the large dry goods stores.
 Next to Bulls Head, the place where the most horses are handled Is at the foot of West Thirty-sixth street. whence they are shipped to all points of the world. The horses are brought here by train from Ohio, Wisconsin. Illinois, Iowa and other western states, and as soon as they arrive they receive bath, arc rubbed down, watered and fed. They are then led aboard the steamship. As to the comparative cost of horses today with the price last year one instance will suf- fee. Two years ago draught horses were sold to breweries at an average of s325. Since then the price has been steadily increasing until now it IS siose tc s4oO per head
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-10
Poor Lilly Whites.

The resignation of Assistant Attor- ney Davidson simply aceentuates all other intelligence concerning the ap- pointment of Judge Roulhac to the dis. trict attorneyship. MT. Davidson was content to serve under Mr. Vaughan. a lily white, but 1t seems he is un- willing to serve under a man who has nothing in common with the new fangled party.
 MT. Davidson was acting district at- torney, standing in the line of promo tion. and President Roosevelt is a firm believer in promotions in any branch of the public service if no superior stands in the way. It is plain the lily white business was the means of Mir Davidson's undoing.
 All in all the lily whites find them selves at the outset repudiated at Washington, and this means that they will be abandoned speedily at home. J. Carter Cooke is leading a forlorn hope, and J. Winston Smith will make speeches without effect. Where J. Clyde Millar is no one seems to know. The lily whites are has beens, and not even MT. Bowron. that friend of labor. can rescue them from oblivion.
 The old guard will resume business at the Ad. Wimbs stand, and the brief career of the lily whites will be handed over to the political historian, for all that is left of 1t Is the trace, the semblance so to speak, of party, and the snapshot historian may be able to catch an impression of it be fore it fades away forever from sight and human knowledge.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-10
A FOOLISH THING.

From the Baltimore Herald.
 The Alabama mine workers who have suspended work because their employers refused to collect assessments of the Uni ted Mine Workers association for the benefit of the striking miners in Pennsyl- yania from unwilling co-laborers have done a very foolish thing. They sought to have their employers do that which was clearly illegal inasmuch as no employer has the right to withhold money due em- ployes for any purpose without written consent of the latter. Even had all the employees consented to the deduction, the refusal of the company to assume respon- sibilty for the care of the fund would not have justified a strike.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-10
From tlle New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
 E 0R6E trading in New York City
 Is a business that few persons outside those directly interested in it know anything about. Of the twenty firms in Greater New York, one concern handled 1s000 animals ih the past six months. It cares for as many as HOO at A time
 Nowhere in the United States is there more horse trading than in the East Twenty-fourth street. old Bulls Head. as 1t was called for years. That is where a man who wanted to buy a work horse went seventy-five years ago. It was there that the old-time wealthy residents went for their coach horses when the Bulls Head tavern was one of the famous stopping places of the old Third avenue stage line. In those days the horse trader sat out under the elms whiting a stick or chewing a piece of straw, many time making a dozen exchanges in a day and ending up as possessor of the same ani- maj that he had at the start and few dollars to the good.
 But it's different now Horses bring a HtEANA RaANt tAteiAA III lllG Olu udtbs III IdCLt they are dearer today than they were year ago, and there are more animals handled. The prices per head range any where from s5 to s5OOe, and the horses dealt in include all classes, work horses, trotters. coach horses, saddle horses and ponies.
 Every day. rain or shine, the horse trading business goes on. Up and down the street the animals are led, while the prospective purchaser stands in the crowd of salesmen, each one carrying a long whip and in his shirt sleeves. and listens to the various prais-s of the anil maL
 Take one day as an example of how the business is conducted. A man comes along and asks for a heavy working team. Two horses are brought out Into
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-10
Trouble at the lsihmus.

Admiral Casey, who commands the fleet in Caribbean waters, has taken the position that Colombian troops war materials shall not be transported across the isthmus by rail. His in- structions are doubtless to that effect.
 Under what treaty the administra- tion is acting is not known. The treaty of 1S46 provides that the United States shall keep railroad transit at the isthmus open without invading "the rights of sovereignty and prop erty which Colombia has in said ter ritory" President Cleveland's inter yention in 1885 helped the Colombian government, whereas Admiral Casey's efforts aid revolutionists. The Hay Pauncefote treaty says that we shall be at liberty to maintain such mill tary police along the canal as may be necessary to protect it against law lessness and disorder" As there is no canal and no canal treaty with Colom- bia, 1t is not possible that Admiral ~asey is acting under any such ex- cuse. Anticipation is sometimes a good thing, but anticipation of an Isthmian canal would be novel to say the least, especially in view of the Iact that the pending Colombian canal treaty which the senate will act on next winter provides that Colombia shall have the right freely to trans port troops by rail across the isthmus.
 Admiral Casey's order forbidding Colombian troops to cross by rail must mean that American policy in and near the isthmus is to be more vigor- ous and comprehensive than it hereto fore has been. The Colombians are protesting. They say Admiral Casey has invaded their rights of sovereignty that we are exercising police powers far beyond any precedent. and Colom- bia threatens to retaliate by withhold Ing canal rights. Thus may reopen the canal question, and the Nicaragua route may yet secure favorable hear ing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-10
The Historical Novels.

"As the New York Sun says, the au- thors of successful historical novels have had many limitations and now come imi- tations of the imitations,' said member of a literary club.
 A few days ago a Memphis man wrote to the Sun for advice. He had completed novel. full of tennessee history, but he could not find a publisher, notwith- standing the fact that he had written, according to his own statement 'an all- round good story The Memphian had been led to believe that publishers were laying awake nights, looking for just such book as he had written.
 'The Sun. in discussing the Memphians letter says: "The author without halo must expect to spend a good deal in post age stamps and shoe leather; and every body knows that some much-rejected manuscript have triumphed at last. But is the trouble with the publishers in this case or with the author? He must not lay too much stress on the candor of the re- jecting publishers. They are polite by habit and printed form. Precision in his HlSlOIlCdl lHNSSliSdllOllSt SNSh Il thSSS have lasted for six long months. is not everything. He is writing a novel, not history. Is his book informed with the historical imagination? Do the people in it live? Or has he merely mixed the im- possible fictitious with the tedious histor- teal? We must confess that we more than doubt when we read that he dis cussed the historical situation between the United States and Spain and so forth. He has no right to discuss any thing and novel readers are not the class In American history. Less history, and plenty of imagination and movement, if you please.
 Still he is sure he has written an all round good story Well, if he has; if he has blood and bones and bowels in it, he will find a publisher. But an historical novel by a new author ought to be re- markedly good. since most of the brood in the last few years have been so un- speakably paretic. Such an expression as laying awake shows that our Tennes- see friend has the true contemporary style !"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-10
WESTERN UNION REoRoANIzEp.
First Annual Meeting Since Change
 of Management.

New York, October 9.-The annual meeting of the Western Union Telegraph company was held yesterday and was exceptionally interesting because 1t was the first meeting since the cnange of ad- ministration. Col. R. C. Clowery, the new president, made his report, showing an entire reorganization of the service of the company in the eastern and southern divisions since he took charge in April By encouragement of the operating force and through the substitution of direct working circuits for repeating or relay offices reduction of $3S8, ,746 a year in operating expenses has been effected and the service greatly improved. There has been added to the system during the year 7,218 miles of wire. The total revenues for the year were s2s,073O95. total ex- penses $20, S0,766, showing an increase of net revenue over the year 1901 of $607, 0S0 The net surplus earnings of 1902 exceed those of 1901 by 42 per cent. Since Presi- dent Clowery's accession in April con- tracts have been closed with railroad companies covering over 1sSOo miles.
 The board of directors was reelected with the exception of Stuyvesant Fish. who resigned and whose place was filled by the election of John J. Mitchell of Chicago, and Howard Gould was elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of MT. Perkins.