Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 22, 1901, Page 6

6 _THE OMAHA DAILY B,Ff: ROSEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Dally Bee (without Sunday), One Year. Dally Bee and 8unday, One Year Tlustrated iee, One . ay Bee, One TR Saturday Bee, X s Twentieth Century One Year . OFFICES: Omaha: The Bee Bufldin Bouth Omana: City Hall Butidin ty-fifth and M streels Counell Bluff Pearl Btreet, Chicago: 1640 Unity Building. New York: Temple Court Washington: 501 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE Communications relating to news and edi- torial mattor should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department BUSINESS LETTERS Business letters dnd remittances should be addressed: The Bee Publishing Com- pany, Omaha REMITTANCES, Remit by draft, express or postal order, ayable to The Bee Publishing Company! nly 2-cent stamps accepted 'n paym mail accounts. Personal check: Omaha or Eastern exchanges, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION, Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, ® Georgo 3. Tzschiick, secretary of The Hee Publishiog company, being duly sworn, w that the actual number of full and plete coples of The Dally, Morning Cvening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of February, 1%1, was as follows: 20,240 ...46,060 U L .20,030 2 80 25,810 98.00 .0 200 200 160 L0 Twen- LL..45,870 Lo 25,840 emmmeann— Total . . Less unsold and returned copl Net total sales Net dally aves 0. B, TZSCHUCK, Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 4th day of March, A. D. 1801, (Beal) M. B. HUNGATE Notary rubli ——e With 6-cent hogs and cattle holding their own the farmer in the corn belt has nothing to complain of. At least nine men are waiting with much anticipation the conference of the supreme court judges next week. Kentucky sends condolences to Mil- waukee, The dwellers in the Wisconsin clty were compelled to take water for once, Omaha didn’t get the worst of that storm by a good des Reports from the north and east make our share of it seem mild, Moves in the kidnaping case are com- Ing fast now. Pat Crowe has actually been accused in court of having particl pated in the affair. If the legislature adopts the sugges- tion of the¢ committee and adjourns next Thursday, it means six days of mighty active work for the members, China is alarmed over the size of the indemuity appropriation which the pow- ers ask. China might employ ex-Sen- ator Carter to talk the bill to death. The republicans have been sitting up too many nights trying to elect two sen- ators to fall asleep and allow the fu- slonists to slip in and carry away the prize. Some of the men who have been boost- fug pork found their toes under the edge of the barrel when it dropped. Small fry have no business playing with the lLeavyweights, em—— + The day of the pot hunter in Nebraska is numbered. Under the new law, if properly enforced, the birds and fishes will have a show for their lives, and the honest sportsman will suffer nothing. Maryland has finally followed the lead of other southern states in disfranchis- ing a large part of the negro voters. Arthur P. Gorman has heen out of office for some time now aud is getting des- perate, here must Le a screw loose some- where when the legislature is required to pass at once a measure to correct manifest typographical and clerical er rors in an important weasure just en- acted Into la Andrew Carnegie makes light of the report he is to run for mayor of New York. Carnegie has had trouble enough in his day and quit business to rest. In view of these facts his denial can easlly be believed, That strike of Kansas convicts was merely another ebullition of the peculiar Kansas spirit. It was without hope from the first, but it serves to show into how many devious channels the trend of the Kansas mind can wander, Metbodist Journallsm suffered a severe loss in the death of Dr. Arthur Edwards of Chicago.” His work on the Northwest ern Christlan Advocate had endea him to thousands of members of the church, who will mourn his death as a personal loss. The Prussian Diet objects to having signs of little liver pills and Dr. Quack's curealls posted along the River Rhine at polnts where the beauty of the land- seape attracts the tourists. The Prus- slans evidently are not in touch with this utilitarian age. The liability of an electric lighting company 1o cuse of the death of a fire- man caused by a live wire during a fire I8 to be tested In the local courts. A deetslon adverse to the company way WHAT WILL THE CUBANS DO? The decislon of the Cuban constitu tlonal convention regarding the cond! tlous submitted by the United States will probably be made within the next few days. It Is announced that four of the five members of the convention spe cial committee that has been considering the American terms have agreed to a report recommending that the conven tion do not accept the terms, but leav the whole question to the future repub lie, and the opinfon is expressed b, a member of the committee that the convention will adopt the report, It is to be fnferred from this that it Is the view of the committee that the republic can be organized without ace cepting the American conditions, which Is not the view held at Washington or warranted by the language of the p amble to the amendment to the army appropriation bill. This is: “The president is hereby authorized to leaye the gov ment and control of the island of Cuba to Its people g0 soon as the government shall have been established in sald island under a constitution which, efther as a part thereof or in an ordinance appended thereto, shall define the future relations of the United States with Cuba substantially as follows.” There can be no misunderstanding the meaning of this. The obvious intention of congress was that in the event of the Cubane refusing to aceept the con ditions the Amerlean occupation should continue and control of the island withheld from its people. The Wash ington correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger says: “The understanding here Is that until the conditions are com plied with, ‘substantially,’ as prescribed in the act, the president shall retain in Cubn the military forces of the Unlted States, It 18 not required that the con- vention shall, in accepting the condi tions, adopt the exact language of the but it is required and was o in tended by congress that every one of the material or substantial conditions should be accepted before the troops of the United States shall be withdrawn by the president. The declaration of the preamble was made upon the con tention of the president and for the ex press purpose of defining under what conditions he should withdraw the troops.” It is said to be the expectation at Washington, notwithstanding unfavor- able reports from Cuba, that when It is fully realized by members of the con stitutional convention that there can he no modification of the conditions pre seribed by congress they will be nc cepted. But if, with such knowledge, they persistently refuse to aceept the conditions and proceed with the w of organizing a government, what then? Will the United States permit the con- summation of that work, or will it take forcible measures to prevent it? In other words, will this government coerce the Cubans into accepting its conditions’ 'he present indications are that these questions will have to be met and it is concelvable that they may cause no little trouble, for while the Cubans generally are undoubtedly not disposed to get into any contlict with the United States, th might vigor- ously resist coerclon. The question as to what the Cubans will do is just now of the greatest interest, AS TO RECIPROCITY WITH CANADA At a dinner of the New England Free Trade lengue a few days ago the prin- cipal address was by Hon. John Charl ton of Canada, member of the Auglo- Awerican Joint High commission. Mr. Charlton is a prominent member of the lMberal party, which le represents in Parliament, and is one of the most carn est advocates of trade reciprocity be- tween the United States and Canada, He poluted out that last year Canada took more of the exports of this coun- try than were taken by Mexico, Contral America, South Ameriea and the West Indies combined. Canadn imported from the United States goods to the value of $116,000,000, while her exports to this country were 808,000,000, of which L000,000 represented coin, bul- lion and gold dust from the Klondik He showed the difference between C(a nadian duties and the duties of the American tariff aud said: “Now we ask some slight wodification of the char- acter of your fiscal leglslation as relates to the trade between ourselves and this country., We would like not to buy less, but to sell more. Our farmers, who consume vast quantities of American manufactures, would be very happy to sell you something that is the product of their labor, and, unless they can do 80, this trade between the two countric can hardly be made to continue upon the basis it stands at present.” He de clared that Canada wants the United States to lower its tarllf and that if something s not done he belleved Canada will ralse her rates from 2 50 per cent und moke a desperate effort to produce at home the manufactured articles she now buys from this country, We do not think there is any better promise of reciprocity between Canada and the United States now than at any other time in the last twenty years, so that If the Canadian people really fancy that they might able to benefit themselves by producing, under higher tariff duties, the manufactured articles they buy of this country they should not delay In putting the experiment into effe It would seem, however, that the experience of the Canadiaus fn this matter should have convinced them of the futility of attempting to bulld up manufacturing Industries at the expense of those of the United States and under existing conditions the hopelessness of such an effort, whatever the tariff duties, wounid be greater than ever before, There Is nothing, therefore, in the menace held out by Mr. Charlton to create apprehension, Tarff dutles [ have the effect of hastening action on the proposed burlal of the wires, Reports from the packing centers show A steady decrease In the marketing of hogs, while the price for both hogs and pork I steadily climblog. The output of the packing houses, although slightly less than for last year, in still immense, Farmers with hogs are not worrylng wver the situation, high enough to shut out Amerlcan man- ufactures from the Canadian market would pot be tolerated by the peopl®, Such a policy could certainly not be helpful to the farmers, In whose behalf reciprocity is urged. The. American manufacturer would have nothing to fear from a reduction of our tariff so far as the competition of Canadian manufacturers is concerned. Absolute free trude between the two THE countries would not enable facturers of Canada to secure nny con siderable share of the Ameriean market But to lower our tariff in the interest of the farmers of the Dominlon, for which Mr. Chorlton and other ady reciprocity specially plead, s quite an other matter, We had an experience in this under the tariff act of 1804, which thousands of American farmers still re- member. Until Canada is prepared the manu ntes ¢ to make greater concesslons than she has | yet shown a willingness to do she need not hope for trade reciprocity with the | United States, CRIME. No one who has been at all faithful | In reading the newspapers during last few months can have falled to notice the unusually, large number of erimes committed during that time and the violent publie outbreaks which they have engendered. No note of petty offenses Is taken in this; in fact, it is apparent that minor infractions of the criminal law are uot £ numerous as in many other similar perfods. Mur ders in which peculiarly atroclous cir cumstances figure, robberies in which large sums are fuvolyed and in which the perpetrators exhibited great bold ness, assaults upon women and naping stand out as the most With the solitary exception of naping there would appear on the sur face no moving cauke for this epldemic of crime which has swept over the | country, The ease with which su¢h a large sum was extorted from Mr. Cudaby undoubtedly stimulated the perpetration of this class of crime, but the relentless search for the perpetra tors and the fu'lure to secure rewards elsewhere is having the effect of stop- piug this new criminal industry., Ordi narily an unusual number of murders can be accounted for by the fact that the public mind is inflamed by some great issu event, when nerves and passions are tense and it only requires the slightest provocation for passions to break their bounds. No such condition exists at present. The country Is qulet; great political or social questions divide or agitate the people. Times of great public distress, when men are out of work, hunger and possible starvation staring men in the face, a which prompt desperate men to from those who have and approy to their own use. The people of this country are today more generally em- ployed, better clothed and better fed than ever before in its history. There is 0 moving cause in this world for everything which happens, Human passions do not move as the idle eaprice of the March wind. One cause will ae- count for a portion of the crimes. The commission of one starts others along the same channel of thought and to the same ults, This will furnish the clue to the sequence of similar crimes accomplished by similar methods, but th is a broader cause beyond this. Many who have watehed the current of popular thought and the growth of cus- tom and law see the pendulum swing backward to puritanical ideas, to the theory of government which would make the law the regulator of every man’s habits and of his comings and golngs. This drift is noticeable in the closing of places of amusement, which are of themselves harmle on Sun- day; in the designation as erimes of things which the statute hooks formerly failed to recognize and the branding criminals of those who vio th laws, The men and wowen thus branded are relegated to the society of | criminals and ultimat in many in-| stances develop genuine eriminal in stinets. Such laws violate the first | principles of the correct treatment of | criminals and the eradication of crime, the object of which should be to raise up those who am not lost in erime and to put those whose cases are hopeless beyond the power of doing harm, Puritanical legislation is adding to the class which tends toward crime and froim which comes the overt act which follows in the wake of the example of others. An epidemic of crime ensues, such as is manifest in recent mouths, which subsides for a time when the strong arm of the law is reached out effectively. The correct solution o the social | problem 18 to build up to better things those who are raised in the atmosphe; of crime and pot recruit the class from those who ure not criminals by brand- ing them as such for the committing of petty offenses, or robbing them of (he opportunity for pastime and pleasures which are not harmful; to seek them with those who court pleasure and recre- ation iu defiance of law. EPIDEMICS OF ®, s o 1t is beginning to appear that the ex citement the clash between Eng land and Russin in Chia {s another case of tempest In a teapot, The trouble all arose the English proceeding to lay a short plece of track without first asking the permission of Russia, though that country protests it has no real objection to the work being done, That so much excitement conld originate from so small a cause and talk of war between the two great powers be hinted at as the outcome only serves to show that the Orlent is a powder magazine. Extreme care must be taken or else mu- tual jenlousles and suspiclons may be the spark which will cause an explosion. The United States and Japan appear to be the only ones who stand ready to turn on the hos President McKinley's trip to the T cific const I8 to be made the oceasion of a great demonstration In western eities, The loyal peopls of the great reglon he tween the Mississippl and the Pacific never tire of doing honor to the nation’ chief exccutive, and long for a chance to show him personally the loyal sup- port they accord him, notwithstanding the misrepresentation of Bryanite poll- ticlans. over over ——— Land values, in the west at least, are increasiug and there Is a growing ten dency to invest in them, The movement is not conined to the small farmer and the stockman who desires the land for his own use, but capitalists are turning that way. A deal is on foot by which a the | large corporation will purchase all the Iand holdings of the Northern Pacific rallrond and another syndicate made a bid for several million acres of Union Pactfic lauds. While the holding of such large tracts by corporations may not be advantageous, the fact that they are buying is the best evidence of the trend of public thought in regard to invest men | Right on the heels of the story that a | #¥undicate Is dealing for control of the | Northern Pacifie lands comes o report that an offer has been made for 6,000,000 acres of Union Pacitie land. These may be advertising straws, but they indieate | fairly well the interest in the west and | the desire of idle money to secure profit- | able investment St. Lotils {8 the only one of the large packing centers which did not show a decrense last week in the number of logs handled as compared with the same week last year, and that place was only able to hold its own. The farmer is not suffering any, however, as the price 18 elimbing up and the numbers go down. —_— The docks at Liverpool were lined with people waiting for the arrival of Andrew Carnegie, The fact that he several million dollars which he is pro ceeding to give awny was an Ineentive to many of the watehers who desived to get in on the ground floor with the scheme, Shrewd Hus Detroit Pross, The cashier of the Niles bank was evl- dently a shrewd business man. He man- aged to get arrested while he had money enough left to hire a lawy Good Wil of the Ravaged. Cleveland Leader. The first power to get its soldlers out of China will stand first in the goodwill of Intelligent and Influential Chinese. That means the United States Better Present n Shotgun, Kansas City Star. The attention of Morocco and Turkey s respectfully called to Peru, which has just offered to pay an American indemnity, al- though no United States warship was lyiog off the coast e ldeal in Politics. Tndianapolis Journal The ambitious young man who seekc re- nown in politics should remember that Ben Jamin Harrison always stood for purity in public affairs. He was not a demagogue. He never appealed to ignorance or preju- dice. 1f he had not been the consclentious patriot in public affairs his rare abilities would not have brought to him the re- spect of the civilized world and admiring regard of a state and nation Food for Powder Growing Searce, Philadelphia Record Within the last two months, according to War department records, 5,250 enlisted men have been secured by the federal recruiting officers. At this rate a twelve- month will have elapsed before the 35,000 new troops required shall be enrolled. The phyeical standard of the service is high| and the men who can measure up to it may easily find more useful and profitable employment than is offered in the army rank and file. Wil NeWraska Do lts D Philadelphia Press (rep.) | The regular session of the Nebraska legislature has only a few days more of life and if two United States senators arc to be elected to the vacancies now exist- ing it must be done quickly. The session opened January 1 and as the balloting for senators began the second Tuesday after organization over two monhs have been spent in vain attempts to elect. The blame of course rests with the republicans, as they have a majority in each branch of the legislature and a majority of nine on joint ballot. This deadlock is of more than orai- nary importance, as it involves two seat in the senate and with two seals now va- cant from Delaware it becomes highly de- sirable that there shall be none from N braska unfilled. The republican majority in the senate seems ample, it is true, but | future events may make the decision of im portant questions depend upon & narrow margin, The Nebraska republicans shouid remember this and without further warning proceed to the election of two United States senators. That is a part of the duty for which they were elected to the legislature, vt e Delivery and Good Roads Progress Togcther. Minneapolis Times, As General Fremont is remembered the “Pathfinder,” so Perry Heath will known some day as the “‘Rondbuilder.” mortal man has scen Mr. Heath swing a pick or filp a scraper, but ln an indirect way Perry has given the good roads move- ment & greater hoost than it has received from any other citizen in private or officia capacity. Mr. Heath has dome this by putting the rural free delivery idea into practical effect. He was not the originator of that idea, for it has been dreamt of ever since urban free delivery was first estab- lished. Mr. Heath simply induced the Postofice department to iry It. Results have been 5o satisfactory that the last con gress appropriated $3,500,000 to carry on the work beginning July 1. More than 4,000 routes have been established and 3,900 car- riers are now at work Rural free delivery has caused more let ters to be written and recelved in the agri cultural districts, more magazines and newspapers to be subscribed for, more di- rect communlcation with the markets and in fact a more intimate relationship with soclety in the broad and correct sense of the term. It is claimed In behalf of rural free delivery that it has enhanced the value of lands and of crops, in that the farmer is enabled to avail himselt of market changes to greater advantage. Rural free delivery improves the roads, for the roads must be fairly good before a route will be established. If the highways are permitted to fall into disrepair; if the bridges become unsafe, the service is witl - drawn. It follows that communities where the service has been instituted are disposed to keep their roads in good grder. There i no compulsion in the matter of free de livery. A community may have it or not, as it elects. Application for the service must be made by written petition. This s sent to the congressman of the district and by him to the Postofce department. It referred to a special agent for investiga tion and report. If he makes favorable re- port the rest is easy. The service is put in operation and then the route agent sees that the carrier is provided with stamps, money order applications and reglstry re- celpts. Proper letter boxes must be erected at the roadside, as the carriers cannot be exbected to dellver mall at the door of a house that may be a quarter of a mile from the road, with several red-eyed dogs lurking behind the lilac bushes More than 5,000,000 persons are now served by rural free delivery and the sys- tem {s only in its infancy. Some day few American farmers will be so remote from clvilization as to be deprived of this con- venfence and almost every country road will be passable for the bicycle and the auto- mobile. as be No | the GRARBERS FALL New York World: There fs a pretty stiff guaranty of peace between Great Britaln and Russia over the China grab In the hon est confession of the London Evening Star “Weo are powerless because of South Africa. We may bluster, but we cannot flght Buffalo Express: That traditional war which two anclent nations waged over an old wooden bucket would compare very well with the Anglo-Russian embroglio over a rallroad siding. The European press must have lost entirely its sense of humor to take such an affalr serlously Indianapolis Journal: The less talk of war with Russia British newspapers make the better for Great Britain, Great Britain has not yet finished a )ittle war that has been exceedingly expensive. Besides, there 18 no cause for war in China, War between two clvilized nations is not the way to settle disputes in the twentleth century, Baltimore News: Ominous growls from the Russian Bear and angry suarlings from the British Lion are the only developments in the Chinese situation. Should a squabble over the partition of the empire evolve u war between these powers, it would be a fearful penalty to pay for the Interference of foreign nations in China—even though that interference was primarily for the resciie of endangered Christians Minneapolls Journal: Not an fota of de- pendence Is to be placed upon Russian pledges and Great Britain knows that, but she is badly handicapped by the enormous expense of the South African war and the question of taxables. Yet it must be remem- bered that, after all, she is in better condl- tion to do some big and protracted fight- ing than she was a century ago when the ambition of the first Napoleon forced her to fight all Europe and run up a debt which has not yet been paid off. Baltimore Sun: When two such powerful, persistent and conscienceless land grabbers as Great Britain and Russia quarrel over the possession of property which belongs to neither the world's sympathy s not likely to be wasted on either of the disputants There is an old and homely adage to the effect that when “thieves fall out honest men get their dues.”” Unfortunately a war between the Lion and the Bear over Chirfese territory would furnish the other powers with a pretext to land-grabbing on a large scale, and the Chinese empire would prob- ably fall to pleces. It must be mortifying to Engiishmen, however, that they are fm potent to meet Russia’s aggressive policy in China. If they had not been so eager to make war upon the little Boer republics in South Africa they might be able to assert their right to a fair share of the stealing that 1s goiug on iu China. Boston Herald: It may be that move- ments are golng on at Washington of which the public is not informed and that it is the intention of our State department and of the president to make a protest against Russian control of Manchuria, which the government at St. Petersburg will con- sider too serious to pass unheeded. Such a course would be consistent with the policy to which the administration two years ago committed itself. It would a bold afirmation, but then boldness is a quality which 1s just now needed if a check is to be placed upon Russian aggression. On the other hand, If we do not futend to stay in the Asiatic game, then there Is no reason why vie should have drawn, and no reason why we should continue to hold, the Philip- pine cards. Their use might enable us to play a winning band, but if they are not to be thus used then we should never have drawn them. RCH WHEN LAND 1901, our, PERSONAL Cambridge, Mass., hopes to get enough money Some day for a Longfellow monu- ment. St. Lculs no longer has cable cars trolley became the whole transit last Friday w York has deeided to accept Mr. Carnegie’s millions, even though this may require some saving to erect a monument to the donor, by and by Thomas Jefferson once wrote to John Adams that it sometimes strengthened an argument to depart from the rules of syn- tux and drop into the vernacular President Loubet of France has conferred a gold medal on Chicf George C. Hale of the Kansas City fire brigade, which gave exhibitions at the Paris exposition The Longfellow Memorial assoclation of which Prof. Charles Eliot Norton Is pres!. dent, hopes some time, when funds suffice, to erect a monument in stone to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in Longfellow park, Brattle street, Cambridge, Mass. George B. Cortelyou, the president’s sec retary, has entire charge of the proposed 13.100-mile journey of President McKinley around the United States. He makes all the arrangements as to trains and hotels and is said to have the time tables at his fingers’ ends. The real “ortginal McKinley man” is Judge George B. Baldwin, who has just been appotuied United States consul to Nurem- berg, Germany. Judge Baldwin has been a close friend of the president for thirty years and In 1868 nominated Mr. McKinley for the first public office he ever held—that of prosecuting attorney. Tho shah of Persia bus just visited with condign punishment Minfster Assufed- bLuulab, who, duriug his majesty's European tour last year, acted as governor of Teheran and abused his position to plunder the peasantry, under the pretext of collect- ing taxes. Assut Is banished to Khorassan and condemned to fine of £120,000, Thomas Jefferson Lloyd, an assistant door- keeper of the United States senate, though in & general way totally unlike Vice Presi- dent Roosevelt, yet in some mysterious way always sirikes one as resembling the strenuous New Yorker. Visitors to the national capital often mistake his identity and cven Washington officials fall into the same error. DEADBEAT ON A THRONE, Hditor Would Do with 1 1f He Had His Way. Cleveland Leade: The officials at Washington will probably conclude that the only way to do business with the sultan of Turkey is on strictly cash basis Several months ugo when the battleship Kentucky pushed its nose into the harbor of Smyrna the sultan was reminded that he owed something llke $100,000, which was claimed as damages by American mission- arics whose property had been destroyed in Armenia. The sultan assumed a very {riendly attitude toward the officers of the Kentucky, and the American charge d'af- fair at Constantinople was at once treated with great consideration. Right there the Americans made @ mistake, They should have asked Abdul Hamid to pay at once, but they didn't. They permitted him to resort to the subterfuge of purchasing a crulser at an American shipyard, the price for which was to include the amount of the bill held by Uncle Sam. Then the Ken- tucky sailed away. Now it transpires that the cruiser is not to be purchased in America, and in con- sequence the American claim will not be pald. The sultan’s intentions may have been good, but when the German govern- ment fnsisted that he must pay for armor he bad purchased from Krupp, the gun- maker, Lefore he bought an American crulser, the Sick Man of the East threw yp his hands Now it will probably be necessary to send another warship after that $100,000, and when it arrives in a Turkish port it should demand cash and be satisfied with nothing else. NOTES, The thing for local What #n Ab STORIES OF WASHINGTON LIFE, People and v Waorthy sing Nete. OMclals of the United States treasury are liablo 1o make things uncomfortable for one of (he government engravers if they 1 trace to its source the man who, ap- parently in a epirit of fun, placed a puzzle pleture on the 1880 serles of $10 notes. In cldentally the American eagle is sald to be In o state of bigh indignation because the engraver made it look, turned upside down, like A common every-day donkey with long ears and & white nose. On the face of the bill appears an American eagle between the signatures at the bottom. There is nothing about the appearance of the bird to denote that it is differeut from the same picture appearing on the other bills, but when one turns the bill upside down the head of a donkey 100ks up plainly. The treasury officials have omitted to place an inscription on the bill, “Find the Juckass.” The absence of this has kept the matter a government secret for some time. Although the “fackass bill" has been in | raiso,” existence for saveral years, it was first dis- covered the other day by a bank clerk in Chicago, who thought it was a counterfelt and reported his discovery to the sub- treasury officials. They had been ignorant of the puzzle picture and sought informa- tion from Washington. The answer recelved was not made public except insofar as the bill was acknowledged as genuine. The full text of the message from Washington, it Is sald, was to the effect to keep the ‘‘jackass” quiet and not let the public hear its bray ing From an artistic point of graver's work is excellent. fection of puzzle creation. The head and neck of the eagle, which has a peculiar left twist, furnished the head of the jack. The light shading at the base of the wing becomes a perfect eye from the other view point. 'The thighs of the eagle form the ears of the jack. view the en- It is the per- According tg the latest official list there are 19,446 public functionaries of various kinds and degrees employed exclusively in the District of Columbia in conducting the numerous departments and bureaus of thy federal government, says the Washington correspondent of the New York Tribune These are the civillan appointees in the ex ecutive departments, and do not include senators and representatives and several hundred employes of the houses who vi- brate between the capital and their homes in other parts of the country. Nor does this aggregate include 350 or 400 army and navy officers, active and retired, who form a large permanent colony here. The monthly compensation of these 19,446 civil- ian employes amounts to $1,635,708.81. Therefore, the aggregate sum in salaries an- nually pald out in Washington by the gov- ernment disbursing clerks reaches the enor- mous total of $19,628, 5 Besides, proba- bly not less than $3.000,000 additional goes to senators and congressmen and their highly paid subordinates, and perhaps $1,250,000 more to the army and mavy offi- cials, most of whom are of high rank with large pay, there belng constantly here not less than sixty generals and admirals, ac- tive and retired. These totals form a grand aggregato of $23,878,506.72 annually paid out in Washington fn the single item of salaries. Representative Mudd of Maryland has a most engaging way of picking up odd pen- nies, relates the New York World. Stand- 1ng in the Riggs lobby the other day talk- ing with Representative Galnes of Ten- nessee, he remarked in quite an off-hand o unny about Crumpacker, ain't it?" “What's funny about Crumpacker asked Mr. Gaines, “Born in Valparaiso and lived there all bis life, almost; vet here come the Amerl- can people along and send him to the United States congress.” “Crumpacker was not born in Valp Mr. Gaines declared emphatically somewhat indignantly, for he and Crumpacker are good friends, Bet you $i he was,” replied Mr, Mudd, “Done,” sald the Teunesseean, and then Mr. Mudd drawled: By the way, there's Crumpacker over there now playing bil- liards; go and ask him.” Mr. Crumpacker looked up from his cue long enough to explain: “Certainly I was born Valparatso, Ind.” Mr. Gaines muttered something that was not a prayer and Mr. in Valparaiso— Strange afoities In some mysterlous manner develop AMONE SENALOrS, reports the St Louis Globe-Democrat correspond- ent. The scholarly Lodge of Massachusetts and Pitchfork Tillman of South Carolina are great friends. o strong Is the tle that when Tillman wanted the St. Louls World's fair bill to carry his Charleston appropriation Lodge told him he would stay with bim to the end. For some time after the polished, talented Beveridge entered the senate he was an odd one. He apparently found no congenial spirit. He seemed to care to cultivate nobody, and nobody culti- ed him. It is different now. Beveridge has found nis senatorial chum. As usual, the case is a friendship of opposites. The sonator in whom the Indiana genius has discovered comradeship is the new man from Utah, Kearns. While Beveridge was going through college and winning fame as a brilllant orator Kearns was prospectiug on a grub-stake in the Rockies and the Slerras, Beveridge burned the midnight oll over dead languages. Kearns carried a sack of flour, @ flitch of bacon and a pick into the wilderness. About the time that Indlana awoke to the intellectual merits of Beveridge, Kearns struck it rich 1n abandoned workings of an old mine. Bev- erldge is famous, but brain-weary. Kearns CONCERNING FINANCIAY HCTONS, ded Agnainst in. Infincio Investor school of Itke cures ik A Warning Note dustrin There aln whose leading tenet is that similia slmilibus curantur It to t #chool (hat the industrial trust promo belongs, with this difference, however tho medical practitioner applies his reme dies In small doses, whercas (he financia doctor admintsters his medicine in fagons Speaking generally, the trouble with industrial plant of the United States w overcapltalization; not necessarily o capitalization at the start, but overcap ization when measured by the cost of dupli caton. In the wisdom of our the proper remedy to counteract poison by administering further poison, & vot in sugar-coated pills. To be brief, prop erties already in a decadent condition haye been grouped together, and the combined capitalization watered to an almost un thinkablo extent. In the case of some lines of industry this has, for the time eliminated competition to & very consider able extent, with the prospect of very greatly stimulating it In the future. Of course, when a lot of competing plants have agrecd to pool thelr issues, resuiting in a considerable portion of them beiug closed down (thus saving a great deal of money from operation)—especially if this i« done at a period when the business of the country {s being done under extraordi narily exceptional trade conditions- it might scem that the remedy of the finan clers was truly effica The rational mind will perceive, however, on brief re flection, that this s in reality one of those poriodic attempts which financiers are con stantly making to 1ift themselves by bootstraps. There has been, we will a partial elimination of competition, in order that the competition may be greater than ever later on. Lel us suppose there are forty concerns fighting for business. New capital may perhaps hesitate to euter the fleld, even though employed on a sounder basis than {s shown in the case of the existing plants, for the reason that the whole forty may possibly be run at a loss for a time in order to force the new competitor to the wall. Let the new com petitor find himself arrayed against a con- solidation of the forty with an enormously Increased watered capltalization, and he will take heart; he had rather fight ous competitor than forty, and he knows that the combine is 50 water-logged that it cannot afford (o run at a loss for even the briefest period. is mediciia was being us. their sy, only DBACCO, What Might Hn These Indus- tries Are V¥ Coddled, Chicago Tribune A number of the Cuban correspondents of American papers agree in the statement that the Cubans will be ready to do about anything the United Stutes may ask them to do, provided they can secure special priv- {leges for their sugar and tobacco in Ameri- can markets. There fs no doubt that this is the The material advantages which the Cubans would acquire by reason of the grant to them alone of lower duties on thelr two great products would fuspire them with sentiments of keemer and more enduring gratitude than they fecl now after all the United States has done for them Last year the United States imported 00,000,000 pounds of raw sugar. Of this 000 pounds came from Cuba. The island can do much better than that. Ten years ago It gold 1,000,000,000 pounds of sugar to this country. It could produce under favoring clrcumstances more than half the sugar needed by Americans and it that sugar could be gold here at a fair price there would be continuous peace in the island. It is more: than likely that if the sugar Industry had not been 8o depressed by beet sugar competition the last Cuban re- belllon would not have broken out when it did. The simplest way to keep the peace in Cuba is to lower the duties on Cuban sugar and tobacco. But that which Is elmple s not always casy. Were a serious effort to be made to give these two Cuban products special tariff advantages the American pro- ducers of cane and beet sugar and the American tobacco growers, toi h and south, would protest vigorously at once. The beet sugar men, who last year manufactured 171,424,000 pounds, or less than one-twen- tieth of the total amount of sugar consumed In this country, would be the most vehement objectors. The probabilities are that a proposition to lower somewhat the duties on Cuban sugar and tobacco would not meet with congressional approval, but it they wero lowered Cuba would be prosperous and the Cubans pacific. CHEERFUL CHAFF case Washington Star: *1 have heard of mil- lionaires who consider it a misfortune to rich.” “Yes, and the worst of it is that they can't get any sympathy.” Chicago Record: “IUs a good idea to koep track of o ancestors.” “Any speclal reason “Yes; then we always know where to place the blame for all the bad qualities we have.” Philadelphia Times: “As an instance of remark memory, it's sald Caesar knew the nan f every man in his army.' ““Ihat's nothing. Fhere are actually peo- ple who never forget an umbrella Philadelphia Press: Towne~That Eng- 1ish friend of yours is her outspoken. He seems to think 1t proper to call a spade a spade. Browne—Oh, you're wrong there, varlably calls'it o “spide He in- Dealer: “I understand emplo of that last How dld you get the Cleveland Plain you captured the joint you smashed bartender?” inquired the interyiewer “Pounded It with n hatchet,” replied the 18 on easy street, a United States senator in search of & good time. Tho (wo senators are to spend a vacation together. Bover- idge is going to Utah to join Kearns. They will take & wagon, saddle-horses and a camping outfit and plunge into the marvel- ous country southwest of Salt Lake City It the mood for the wild life lasts they will go through to southern California, from 800 to 1,000 miles. Both are looking for- ward o the first genuine outing of their iives nator Platt of Connecticut I8 repre- sented as having had lots of quiet fun a few nights ago out of & new and inexperi- enced reporter, relates the Washington Star The senator received the card of the re porter at his hotel and ordered the young man to be shown to his rooms. The young fellow, who had just begun newspaper work, asked Senator Platt all about his op position to the appointment of Colonel Wil liam Carey Sanger as assistant secretary of war. Senator Plait's dlgnity occasionally unbends to the humorous side of things. and he at pnce saw & chance for some fun Of course, the reporter had an idea he was talking to Senator Platt of New York, The Connecticut senator proceeded to give the reporter an Interview that almost took away the breath of the young man. The interview loudly sang the praises of Sanger and pictured bim as being the only man ou earth for the position After about ten minutes the reporter timidly asked: “Why, haven't you changed your opinlon In this matter?’ Senator Platt then explained who he was, while the young man sat in & state of confusion. ere Wenther Abounds, Chicago Tribune. When the mercury dropped thirty-one de- grees In a single hour on Monday after- noon and caught hundreds of peopls with w petticoated vengeance, “Wo are weary,” de- of daneing rope. Tndiwnapolis Press clared the Chinese mandaring to the music of the concert of P “Nevertheless,” it was polnted out, “‘that weuriness will not relieve you from the usual duty of the dancers to defray the expenses of the fiddiing.” Detroit Free Press: “Cheer up,” sald the private secr “The opposition papers talked s bad ahout Washington as the papers do about you 1 know that.”” sald the statesman, "but fn those days the papers had to talk that way to hold their subscribers.” THE LAWYER'S INVOCATION, Henry Howard Brownell, on certain boughs and sprays ® bir ard to sing, And sundry flowers their heads upralse, Hall to the coming on of spring! 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