Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 19, 1901, Page 6

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE FRIDAY, APRIL. 19 1901 THE ©OMAHA DAILY BEE E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISI VERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Bee (without Sunday), One Year..$6.00 Daily Hee and sunday, One Year 500 liustrated Bee, One Year w Bunday see, ¢ enr Baturday ée, One Twentieth Century Farmer, 1w OFFICES: i Omaha: The Bee Buliding. South Omaha: City Hail sullding, Twen- ty-nith ana M Streeis. Council Blufts: 10 Pearl Street. Chicago: 164 Unity Bullding. New York: Temple Court Washington: ol Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edl- torial matter shouid ve aadressed; Omana Mee, Editorial Department, BUSINESS L RS, Business letiers and remiitances should be adaressed: The Bee Publishing Com- vany, Umahu. REMITTANCES. Remit by drati, express or postal order, Puyuvic 10 ‘the Hee Pupilshing Lompany, Unly Stamps acceptea in payment ot Al wccounts. Fersonui checks, except oil Umaha or kastern exchanges, not accopted. TUE BEE PUBLIBHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION of Nebiaska, Douglus County, 850 B. Taschiick, sceretary of ‘ihe Bee & company, being duly SWorn ways that the actual number ol full und complets copies of Daily, Morning, Eveniug and Sunday Bee printed during tfe month of March, 101, was s Lolows: Publies Less unsol et total sales Net dally average ... . GEO. B. TZSCHUCK, Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this st day of April, A. D, 1901 M. B HUNGATE, Notary Public. —— Woman's Club Chorus—Now will those naughty bill-posters be good? People are beginning to see Pat Crowe again. Wonder if this is merely the effect of spring weather The man who is forced to buy $11 hay 18 looking longingly for the time when the grass shall grow a little longer. Omaha will entertain many visitors this sumum In anticipation it should take steps to make itself presentable. The Bee seconds the motion for a first-class fireproof hLotel for Omaha. Put It down on the enterprise program. It has been at least two days since a railrond was absorbed. If the former rate is to be Kkept up the builders must hustle—material is getting short. The deadlock over the stenographers to the supreme court commissioners has finally been broken and the deadlock season may be considered at an end. e—— The government hus settled its hat- trimming case. The majority of citi- zens, however, will not know thelr fate until the bills come in the first of the month. Authorities in the fron trade predict the managers of the new steel combine will follow the practice of the Standard Oil company. If that is true, independ- ent concerns can easily see their finish, Prince Bismarck, in a public address, accuses the German emperor with tak- ing n zigzag course, Many another man has done the same thing, but they are generally all right again the next morn- ing. The Hawallan government is short of funds, The legislature has mot yet passed a revenue law, but can be de- pended on to act as soon as nothing remalns with which to pay thelr own salaries. CEEE——— One of the first fruits of over-specula- tion is seen in the wreckage of the Lewars bank, whose vice president and manager has disappeared, leaving word that the assets of the institution have been dissipated in stock-jobbing. Now 18 the time to put the brakes on, The Kansas professor who attracted attention by avowing in a public speech that men never love has been dropped from the faculty of the state normal school. He may not revise his opinions, but will certainly concede that some Kansas men have good memories, A bill has been signed by the governor of Missouri makiug a state appropriation of $1,000,000 for the Louisiana Purchase exposition at St. Louls In 1903, m- pare Missourl's liberality with the $100,- 00 appropriation begrudgingly made the Omaha exposition by the Nebraska legislature, Indications polnt to the abandonment by Kansas City of its annual Priests of Pallas parade because of insufficlent fnapcial support. . Kansas City's in: terest iu the carnival seems to have fallen so low that is is impossible to se- cure & meeting of the directors for lack of a quorum. As-Sar-Ben Is in good shape beside the Karnival Krew on the Kaw. The young duke of Man bave enlarged ideas of the income of newspaper men. The trial of a case against him showed that the duke bor- rowed §50,000 at 23 per cent interest and promised to pay it out of his salary as a correspondent of a ew York paper. Many a better newspaper wman Is unable to hypothecate his salary for A new spring sult e——————— Towa republicans will start the ball rolling in the Hawkeye state at their ate convention called for August 17, As lowa has a complete state ticket to elect this year, this will not leave too much time before election, The ten- dency, however, Is toward short cam- palgus for 1901, 48 a reaction from the long drawn perfod of politics in last year's presidential contest, hester must == | ing of an export duty on coal, which is THE BRITISH BUDGET.. The British. Parlinment reassembled yesterday and the budget for the ¢ sulng year was presented in the House f Commons by the chancellor of ex- chequer. The statement of the finan- clal condition of the government shows that there was a vet deficit last year | of mg than £265,000,000, while the estimate of expenditures for the com- | ing year is $160,000,000 in exc of that of last year. In order to meet the increased expenditure an addition is made to the income tax and a duty placed on sugar, that produced in the British West Indies not being excepted. It was expected that this departure trom British policy would be wade, but it was' thought that the colonlal sugar would ‘ be exempted from the duty Another departure is made in the lev 88 Justified not only as a revenue measure but also as a means of reducing the exportation of coal, which has ralsed the price of fuel and been somewhat embarrassing to British industries. For the reason that the consumption of beer has largely decreased no ingrease is made in the tax, while the duties on wines, tea, spirits and tobacco are un change« The new taxation is expected to yleld $55,000,000 and in addition to this In- crease of revenue the government pro- poses to borrow $300,000,000, the deficit of last year, it Is presumed, to be paid out of the latter sum. It is a question, of course, whether the estimated rev- enue from the increased taxation, ex- cept as to the income tax, can be real- ized. 1t is quite probable that the tax on sugar will operate to reduce con- sumption of that article, so that an estimate of revenue from this source based upon the amount of sugar con- sumed lust year may prove too large. dven as to the income tax realization of the expected revenue from the added tax will depend upon the degree of prosperity in the country during the ensuing year, and the promise of more prosperous conditions is not favorable, British Industries and commerce have for some time not been growing and there is no apparent improvement in the outlook. The situation in the United Kingdom is not quite so bad as that reported in Germany, but it is not of a nature to encourage expectation of any very large Increase in the rev- enues of the government. It is quite possible that the losses noted by the chancellor of the exchequer under cer- tain heads last year will be increased the coming year, while the yield from new taxation Is very likely to fall con- slderably below the estimate, conserva- tive though that may be. As to the loan of $300,000,000 whi¢h it is proposed to negotlate, doubtless a considerable part of it—perhaps at least one-third—will be placed in the United States. It has been Intimated that the visit to England of a prominent Ameri- can financler has something of this kind In view and it is by no means im- probable. English capitalists professed to be greatly aggrieved when the Brit- ish government placed part of its last loan in the United States, but it is not ilkely that any such complaint would be heard in regard to placing a portion of the new loan here, for the reason that It will probably not be possible to place all of it with British capitalists. Financial conditions in England at present are not such as to admit of this, There would be no difficulty, how- ever, In floating one-third or more of the loan In this country and th is reason to think that at least $100,- 000,000 could be taken here without any appreciable effect upon the money mar- ket. With our vast stock of gold wi can spare that amount without the least cmbarrassment in any respect. . THE INJURY OF DELAY. A dkspatch from Pekin a few days ago stated that there was much adverse comment among the military people upon the conduct of the minlsteis over the negotiations with the Chinese plenipo- tentiarfes. It was sald that ‘the dila- tory tactics ‘of the ministers have pre- vented what might have been accom- plished two months ago and even now the meetings are postponed for the most trivial causes. If ‘one of the ministers takes a notion to go'awdy for a diy or two nothing is done by the others until he returns. The Chinese minister at Washington bad a conterence with the secretary of stute a few days ago regarding the progress of negotiations at Pekin, in the course of which he is reported to bave expressed the opiuion that the de- lay in reaching a final settlement of the matters in controversy is expecially dls- wlvantageous to China, which, in his Judgment, I8 not responsible for the fallure to reach conclusions. “We have been accustomed to hea Mr. Wu is reported to have said, “that China was very slow, but in this case many months have gone by without any delay attrib- utable to China and yet without definite prospects of bringing the uegotiations to a close. This unsettled condition is very injurious to China, but it is also an iujury which affects the whole world, Take, for instance, the cotton Industry of the south, The shipments to China are vi Iarge, but they have been fall- ing off owing to the unsettled condition of affairs and the trude is seriously wenaced. The same may be said of many other branches of trade, and, in fact, the commerce of all the commercial nations of Europe, as well as America, 18 Injuriously affected by the present un- certainty of conditions in the east, What we need, and what the com mercial world needs, is stability and some definite understanding of what conditions are to be.” There is both admonition and rebuke in these observations of the Chinese minister., There is no good reason why the negotlations at Pekin should not be much farther advanced than they are and It is not to be doubted that were they in charge of practical men instead of diplomatists the matters in contro- versy would by this time be very nearly it not quite settled. It is true that the ministers are ot altogether to blame for the delay. To a very considerable extent the fault iy with the forelgn lumdm of the several governwents, which have imposed restrictions repr ntatives at Pekin at every step of the proceedings, even as to relatively Inconsequential details, instead of leav- Ing some things to their discretion, Our own government has not been faultless in this respect, though less to blame for delay than some of the others, while it nnot be alleged of the American rep- resentatives at Pekin that they bave retarded negotiations by any neglect of duty. It 18 not to be expected that the diplo- matic gentlemen at Pekin will concern thewselves about the practical consider ations at stake. The commercial side of the matter is the last one likely to receive their attention. But it would seem to be well for their governments to ren ' them that this is a very im- portai side and should not Dbe neglected, The merchants and manu- facturers of the countries having trade with Ching, who are losing by the delay of negotintions, want a settlement as soon as possible, o that trade with that empire may be resumed. The loss that has already been experienced by Buropean and American exporters to China since the beginning of the trouble in that country amounts to a very large sum, It will equal the aggregate in- demnity asked by the powers If a final gettlement with China Is delayed many more months. upon their DISTRICT COURT CLERK LAW VALID The supreme court has added its final endorsement to the validity of the law limiting the fees to be held by the clerk of the district court to $5,000 a year. The enactment of this law was brought about chiefly through the instru- mentality of The Bee and it has a right to hail this decision of the court as ending its long struggle for this reform. The general public will never appre- ciate what obstacles and corrupt intlu- ences the promoters of this much- needed legislation had to contend with and the difficulties which had to be surmounted in order to secure legisla- tive sanction to the bill. Even after the bill had run the gauntlet of the legislature the unscrupulous character of the opposition to it was manifested in bold attempts to interfere with its enrollment and later in the mutilation of the records attesting its due passage through the necessary stages. After putting up such a stubborn fight It was only natural for the in- terested officials to carry the law into the courts, under pretense that it was invalid, with the expectation of restor- ing the old order by securing a decision declaring it null and void. While the law affects principally Douglas and Lancaster countles, it is grounded on the established principle that remunera- tion of public officers should be limited. A salary of $5,000 for the clerk of the district court in Douglas county, leaving him still the highest-salaried official in the state, Is certainly amply commensu- rate with the service. To be sure, it re- duces his ability to contribute the large sums to the campaign fund that formerly made the position i political gold mine, but if honestly and economically admin- istered it ought to relieve the taxpayers materially by turning into the treasury a substantial surplus over and above all expenses, Much will depend on the wauner in which the law is observed and whether its spirit s lived up to. Inasmuch as the present incumbent of the office in this county was elected on the distinct pledge that he would recognize the validity of the law, the action of the supreme court will entail no hardship upon him. The rules lald down by the court of Spanish claims will be a sad disap- pointment to the claim agents, In mak- ing it impossible for agents to contract for and collect excessive fees the court will head off wany claims which have little or no equity, but are prosecuted as a long shot on account of the large contingent fee which the agent might otherwise exac The rule will also protect legitimate claimants from the sharks who also prey upon this class of people. The further investigation goes into the claims of ‘the varlous pretenders to the Cudaby kidnaping the more It confirms the conclusions of the Omaha police and the lines upon which they have been working. The temptation of a large reward may produce still further self- confessed kidnapers, but the evidence in the case all points one way, namely, that the perpetrator was none other than Pat Crowe, the original suspect. The treasury statement s a complete answer to the constantly reiterated charge that the adoption of the gold standard would place this country at the mercy of Europe. The present hold- ings of gold in the United States treas- ury are larger than those of any country in the world and almost as large as any two others, Instead of belug at the mercy of rope the condition is re- versed, Wil Royalty § Baltimore Ame: s J. Plerpont Morgan might do Europe a service by syndicating her several thrones on the “‘community of interest” plan, and thus put a stop to their empirical competi- tion, Where the Truse Pinches. Indianapolis News, It is sald that 17,000 employes in the Fall River district will be thrown out of em- ployment for a week or two. It is one way the trusts have of keeping down expenses and of maintaining prices. Sure to Get the Worst Baltimore American, The government has lost the hat-trim- ming case. It might have known it would get the worst of it when it began to meddle with feminine finery. There are some human rights too sacred for official interference, and a new spring hat is one of them. L ! elous Strides. San Francisco Chronicle That the Unitedl States should have taken first place in the 1ist of exporting nations last year is not so0 surprising as the fact that only @ quarter of a century ago we held the fourth position. In 1890 our ex- ports were only $845,999,603, against Great Britain’'s $1,282,474,000; in 1900 we sent do- mestic produce of all kinds to foreigners to the amount of $1,453,013,639, while the United Kingdom only exported $1.41 crease the distance between ourselves and our nearest competitor. Counter Claims Darred. Philadelphia Leadger. Right being on the side of might, it would avall China nothing to bring in a counter bill of indemnity for murder, pillage and other outrages perpetrated on her subjects by the representatives of the powers. —_— Hot Alr Tanks in Action. Washington Post. The developments in the latest Goebel conspiracy trial indicate that they have succeeded in rounding up a man who stood about the streets and talked too much about something he was not permitted to participate in. There are such men in every community. Hartfora Courant. Six years in the pemtentiary. That's the sentence passed by the United States circult court at Charleston, 8. C., on George P. McClay, pension shark. There were four counts against him and he pleaded gullty on every one of them. It would be a great thing for the country, the treasury, the old soldlers and the honest pension attorneys it all the rascals of McClay's stripe were in the penitentiary. We haven't a doubt that McClay highly dicapproves of Commissioner Evans' administration of the pension bureau. BRIGHT RECORD 1¥ CHINA, Administration’s Policy Commended by the Opposition, New York World. Mr. McKinley's Chinese policy continues to be in keeping with the very noblest tra- ditions of the republic. It is a pleasure to write 1ts latest phase—the other powers scheming for & ‘“‘grab” of $400,000,000; Mr. McKinley's agent negotlating for a reducs tion to $200,000,000 at most, and proposing to reduce the claim of the United States, which has been put to greater expense than any of the other powers except Japan, to $12,500,000 if the powers will bring the total down to $100,000,000, The Boxer movement was the direct re. sult of the greedy and inexcusable aggres slons of Britain, Russia, Germany and Japan. It did not culminate in an attack on the legations until after that bombardment of the Taku forts, in which the United States refused to take part because it was an act of open aggression. Finally the re- lief forces occupled Pekin. What followed is gradually becoming known. Dr. Seaman, a New Yorker just returned from China, says: “The Chinese were guilty of outrages upon the legations and foreigners. Yes, but these have been repaid with cruelties that make one's blood rise, atrocities that are unspeakable. In one of the ‘punitive expe- ditions’ 12,000 people were slaughtered in one day, every one Innocent, every one un- armed. Hundreds of miles of territory have been devastated and the people’s homes ruined.” Mr. Wu may well say that China's losses from the aggressions of the powers since last summer are at least double the swollen bill of expenses which the powers threaten to put in. The United States stands apart. So ad- mirable has been our conduct from diplomacy down to police work that the Chinese government is’ begging General Chaffee to leave a force of our soldiers in Pekin because it fears that chaos and atrocity will succeed peace and friendii- ness if the soldlers of any other power are substituted for ours. Morally and materlally we are galning a great advantage In China. And that be. cause we have in this fnstance not sneered at the practices and principles of our fath- “back numbe BRYANISM ANDDEMOCRACY, Will the Defeatsd Leader Permit Winners to Lead 8t. Louls Globe-Democrat, Bryan's attitude and the immediate fu- ture of the democracy are taking up con- siderable space in the newspapers of the country these days. The Springfield Re- publican, one of the papers which is just now exercised on these polints, in referring to Bryan's recent opposition to Rolla Wells in St. Louis, asks, What is he up to? It answers this query by saying: “It is a falr presumption that Mr. Bryan has de- termined to make the stiffest possible war- fare apalnst the reorganization of the democratic party by the Cleveland men." It is Inclined to think that Bryan ‘has no expectation of being nominated agaln, but doubtless he intends to have some- thing to say as to who shall be nominated and as to the principles the next conventlon shall adop! That paper says that “‘an editorship fs a bad place for a candidate, but an editorship is not so bad a place for naming candidates.” This guess that Bryan does not expect to be nominated again may or may not be correct. From present indications the names of several persons will be presented to the next democratic national convention. One of these will be Carter Harrison of Chicago. Another will be Tom L. Johnson of Cleveland. Some of the gold democratic papers are also mentioning ex-Governor and ex-Secretary Francis of Missourl in this connection, "Senator Bailey of Texas the other day proposed Mayor Harrison for the second place on tbe: ticket in 1904. Mr. Harrison is-of . presidential age, and- un- doubtedly he believes he is of presidential stature. He has gained more triumphs than Mr. Bryan had won at the time when he swept the conventlon of 1896. He has, In fact, gained more than Bryan ever won. Harrison is a decldedly important person- age. Tom Johnson is a picturesque and in- teresting individual, and it he carries out any one of the many reforms which he pro- poses he stands a chance to be a prominent figure in his party three years hence. Both these men, while supporting Bryan in 1896 and 1900, are against him on some points, and they are decidedly opposed to bringing up silver again in any canvass. Naturally they would be less obnoxious to Bryan men than a stalwart Clevelandite would be, and they would find more favor with the Cleve- land men than a stralght-out Bryanite could command. But is it cafe to assume that Bryan has given up all hope of getting the candldacy for himself again? He is young, ardent, ambitious and self-corfident. In getting the nomination for @ first term he broke some precedents. In sweeping the Kansas City convention for a second nomination he laid out a few more parallels. Perhaps he believes he can smash the rest of the similitudes and get a third candidacy. It must be remembered that he kas a hypnotic sway over his supporters such as no other man, with two exceptions--Douglas and Blaine—has ever had since the days of Clay. He thinks he is a man of destiny, and there are tens of thousands of persons in the United States who share in this be- lief. His reverse in his first battle only made him more firmly resolved to have a second one. He himself declared after the election last November that principles were eternal ,and that it his course was right in 1896 and 1900 it was right after these two defeats. His attitude then and since shows that he Is not only as combative as ever, but gives soma ground for the bellef that he will endeavor to again lead the combat, Mr. Bryan was beaten In the re. cent election in St. Lou He also met with a reverse in Chlcago, though not of such directness and dimensions as he did in this city. But let nobody make the mis- take of counting him out in the national contortions and contests of his party in 1904. He represents an element which hates the opposing faction of the democracy harder than it does the republicans, and which, though deluded and defeate: for all that is agrressive, intrepid and en- 000. The present year will probably in-|thusiastic in the democracy of today. Portland Oregonian. Natbaniel Hawthorne wrote in the Amer- lcan Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge in 1838 “The farmer who has left a good home- stead in New England to migrate to the Mississippl valley or anywhere else on this side of heaven, the fresh-cheeked youth who has gone to find his grave in New Orleans, the Yankces who have en- listed for Texas * * * what are these but & motley group of April fools?" The great west was a blank to New Eng- land in 1838, Oregon was still jointly oc- cupled by Great Britain and the United States and there were many north and south of the Mason and Dixon line who di1 not consider it worth saving for this coun- try. California and Texas had not been won from Mexico. The Mississippi valley was practically a wilderness. Illinois made its first appearance in census figures of growth in 1820, with an increase of 349.1 per cent in population in the decade. Mis- souri returned an increase of 219.3 per cent and Louislana of %98 per cent. In 1820-30 Illinols increased 185.4 per cent and in 1830-40 202.4 per cent. Missourl gained 111 per cent in 1520-30 and 173.2 per cent in 1830-40. Loulsiana added 41.1 per cert in 1820-30 and 63.4 per cent in 1830-40. No other section of the west figured in the pop- ulation Increases until 1850, when Wiscon- sin reported a gain of 886.9 per cent and Towa one of 345.8 per cent. For over fifly years the growth of the west has been tremendous. The tide of immigration first swept to the states east of the Mississippi, then over the river to Nebraska, lowa, Kansas and other states and is pushing its way over the mountains to the Pa- cifie coast. The opening of the west, with its vast areas of fertile land available for pro- duction on a large scale, ended the carecr of New England as an agricultural district. Half of New England—Maine, New Hamp- shire and Vermont—saw Its greatest in- creases in population between 1790 and | 1840; the other half—Massachusetts, Rhode and and Connecticut—has been at s best since 1840, Between, 1790 and 1500 Maine increased 57.2 per cent, New Hamp. shire and Vermont $0.8. Theee are their greatest gains in the history of American census-taking. Since 1850 have been almost at a standsti largest gain in any one decade cent in 1850-60, New Hampshire's 1890-1900 and Vermont's 4.9 in 1860-70. Maine and New Hampshire reported slight | losses of population for the decade ended in 1870 and Vermont's gains in 1860, 1880 and 1800 were imperceptible. Massachu- setts, Rhode Island and Connecticut, the manufacturing states of New England, are| growing as steadily as such substantial | western commonwealths as Illinofs, Wis- consin, Missouri and Towa. The record increases of population since 1850 have been made in the west. In 1860 | Minnesota was the banner state with 2730.7 per cent, California ond with 310.3 per cent and Oregon third with 2047 | per cent. In 1870 Nevada took the lead eith 519 per cent, Dakota in 1880 with per cent, Washington in 1880 with 365.1 per cent; Idaho, of the strictly west- ern states, led in 1900 with 91.7 per cent. | In 1840 the center of population in the United States was sixteen miles south of Clarksburg, W. Va., and in 1900 four and a halt miles west of Columbus, Ind. Be- tween 1840 and 1000 the center of popula- tion moved westward 299 miles. The longest march was eighty-one miles be- tween 1860 and 1860, and the smallest fit- teen miles between 1860 and 1500, When the manufacturing interests of what is really the west—that part of the country west of the Mississippl—are conducted on as large a scale as they are on the At- lantic seaboard, the geographical distri- bution of population will be more even, and the center of population will move to a point near the geographical center of the country. INVASION OF CANADA, Commercial Conquenta that Are Des- tined to Grow Steadily. St. Louls Globe-Demoacrat, Some of our Canadian friends are griev- | Ing over the invasion of their country by steelmakers from the United States. The Dominfon Parliament, in order that Can- ada should share, to a slight extent at! least, in the expansion in the steel man- | ufacturing industry which is under way in the United States, has offered bounties | on firon and steel made in Capada, the| rates, of course, to be somewhat higher on the product of the home ores than on that of the ores imported. This induce- ment is having some of the effect intended, but a large part of the money is com- ing to the United States capitalists. Here is a development which was not foreseen, and as a consequence there Is a demand from some sections in Canada that the bounties be abolished. It is fig- ured that on the present basis of increase the bounties will soon reach $1,000,000 u year. This Is a big sum for the treasury of Canada to pay out in addition to meet- | ing its other demands. What makes the | sum seem inordinately large is the cir- cumstance that much of the money comes to the United States. Americans have in- vested in Canadian manufactories on the strength of this inducement, and they are carrying off big profits. Canada is build- ing up its iron and steel trade, but many of the Canadians believe that so much of the benefits go to Americans that the Do- minfon 'itself cannot afford to stand the drain much longer. Of course this incursion of American capital into Canada was to have been ex- pected, The United States in recent years | has become a creditor nation. It not only | has practically enough capital to meet all | home demands, but there are hundreds of | millions of Hollars going outside of the country every year for investment. Most of the great enterprises in Mexico are financed from this side of the Rio Grande. Many of the big interests in Canada have for a long time been braced up by con- tributions from the south side of the in- ternational boundary. The United States leads the world in iron and steel produc- tlon. It is just now reaching out to bring a large part of Europe into industrial | subjection. The American trade conquests which appear to be frightening some of the gulleless persons in tlhat region ought to have been foreseen. Moreover, they are destined to increase rather than to di- minish, PERSONAL NOTES. President McKinley's trip will take him through 10,500 miles of hurrahs. Over 10,000 people contributed $40,000 to the memorial fund for the late Governor Wolcott of Massachusetts. It is not easy to carry off your weight In gold, as the robbers on the Kaiser Wil helm der Grosse appear to have discovered. Major General S. B. Young will be the guest of honor at the dinner of the Ameri- cus club of Pittsburg, on Grant's birth- day, April 27. Willlam J. Langson, secretary of the Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce, has been re-elected to the place, which he has filled for the last thirty-six years. Ex-Governor Llewellyn Powers, the new congressman from Maine, is 62 years of age and has been active in politics since 1864. He owns 170,000 acres of timber land. Mrs. Arthur Bronson, who died in Italy the other day, was a granddaughter of Joseph Rodman Drake, the American poet, and a litelong friend of the Brownings. Joseph Chamberlain, according to London gossip, 1s inclined to be superstitious, and the latest fad of this sort attributed to him is the carrying of a rabbit's foot sent him from America. Senator Foraker intends to spend the fall in Porto Rico and make a thorough study of all its industries, classes of population and its various soclal, educational and re- ligious institutions. A Chicago student dosed a number of apples with red pepper and his fellow students ate them. Then the victims turned on the joker and thrashed him within an inch of his life. E. Z Simmons, who a year ago gave to Renosha, Wis., the G. M. Simmons Memo- rial library, at a cost of $100,000 and a sol- dlers’ monument, at a cost of $10,000, is now bullding an emergency hospital for the city, at a cost of $30,000. Henry Mudge, general manager of the great Santa Fe railroad system, who now spends most of his time in Chicago, 15 a native of Kansas. He used to carry water to a section gang on the old Kansas & Southern many years ago for 50 cents a day. It is sald that he now receives a salary of $50,000 per annum. There is a Chicago soclety reporter who 1s nothing it not frank. Of the woman in the case, In announcing a recent engage- ment, he wrote that she “had the reputa- tion untll about three years ago of being the most beautiful girl In Kenwood. Of late years she has become somewhat too heavy to bear out this reputation.” Colonel Richard T. Van Horn says the name Oklahoma was frst applied to that territory in a public document in the bill he introduced In congress in 1869, for the organization of a government for the In- dlan Territory. The name was suggested |duce them to abolish or abridge it. by Colonel Ellas 8. Boudinot, the famous Cherokee, who explained that it meant “Red Man's Land.” BITS OF WASHINGTON LIFE, Scenes and Incldents Nattonal Cn s The ‘real estate rustler, as seen at short range in the corn belt, is a mild and sedate individual compared with the pusher of lots and plats at Washington. The latter is now camping on the trall of the new at- torney general, Mr. Knox Mr. Knox s credited with an abundance of the coin of the realm, and, having nearly a four-year lease of a cabinet position, the real estate man desires to set him up housekeeping in a manner commensurate with his influ- ential post in the government. Armed with maps and photographs he lles in wait in the judicial department for a chance to get the attorney's ear and tell him how to make himself comfortable. Nothing short of a $50,000 mansion will do, while $250,000 is regarded the proper figure to introduce him into swell circles. The gen- tleman from Pittsburg has been assured, should he decline to buy, that he can lease a suitable palace for about $1,000 a month. This price is considerably beyond the sal- ary of the attorney general. But salaries do not count with the real estate boomer. He banks on the opportunities of the job. Around The Department of Agriculture next year will vary the garden seed distribution with several packages of trees. Authority for this new departure was secured at a recent session of congress and an appropriation was made in the budget for the coming year. The garden seed distribution has been the | ofcial record of the unfon and confed subject of no end of ridicule and there is 10 doubt that a great deal of money iy wasted in that way, but it is nevertheless one of the most popular features of our raternal government, and members of con- gress recognize its political importance 1o such an extent that no arguments can in- The distribution of trees, however, Is Secre- tary Wilson's own idea. The people of this country have been cutting down the natural forests with so much recklessness that it has become neces- sary to start artificial ones. The division of forestry of the Agricultural department bas made a survey of the country and has ascertained the particular trees which thrive best and are most useful in each lo- cality. According to the program for the distribution of trees, next year a given number of seedlings will be allotted to each member of the house of representatives, who will be asked to furnish . list of con- stituents to whom he would itke to have them sent. The Agricultural department will do the rest. The seedlings will be grown in the propagating houses and for- warded to their destination, with specific instructions as to how they should be planted and cared for. In this way Mr. Wilson expects to start several million new trees growing throughout this country every year. When Secretary Gage was on his way to the White House to attend cabinet meet- ing the other morning, relates the Boston Transcript, he was accosted by a man in the garb of a tourlst. *‘Begging pour par- don, sir!” said the stranger in a strong English accent, and at the same time point- og toward the Washington monument, could you tell me what Is that stone needle? Mr. Gage, who is always most courteous and delights to point out ob- jects of interest to travelers, replied in this case with all appearance of solemnity: “Yes, sir. That 18 a monument to a man named Washington—George Washington. He had something to do with the early his- tory of this country.” To which the Eng- lishman solemnly replied: “Really, now! and went on his way enlightened The government's most monumental pub- Hcation s practically wompleted. It is the ata armies, and consists of 127 thick volum an index about to be printed and an atlag of 178 plates, showing maps of battlefields, routes of marches, plans of forts, etc. Volumes 112 and 113 are left open for any additional matter it may be decided tc print, if there is any such, as the plan ot the work originally contemplated 130 vol- umes. The books fill five big mall sacks. The government sells single volumes or the complete sets at the cost to manufacture Under the last act of distribution each senator, representative and delogate coives one official set and two additional sets for disposal as he may see fit. Another addition to the artistic adorn- ment of the national capital will soon be on view. A handsome monument of Jean Bap- re- | tiste de Vimeur, Comte de Rochambeau, is to be erected in Washington and will sig- nalize American gratitude to one who ren dered the young republic vital service in the hour of its peril. On March & congress passed a bill appropriating $7500 to pur chaso a replica of the original statue by Fernand Hamar. This fine work of art was unvelled at Vendome, France, last June The replica will be of bronze, about nine feet high, and will represent Count Roch- ambeau in the act of ordering the French wing of the allied army at Yorktown to attack the works of Lord Cornwallis en the morning of October 10, 1781. It will also be the work of Fernand Hamar, the deat and dumb French sculptor, who has been referred to as “the man who speaks in bronze and marble.” An allegorical group In relief on the ped- estal will indicate France (typified by a fe- male figure draped), grasping the national standard and with sword extended defend- ing and protecting the eaglo of America, which holds i its talons the shield of the original thirteen colonies, or states, blag- oned with the Stars and Stripes. The ped- estal will be of granite and the figures of bronze. Its height will be seventeen feet The total height of pedestal and statue will be twenty-six feet and its width at the base twenty feet. BREEZY AR Boston Transcript: Mr. Mann—You talk about fashionable trimming for a bonnet! Why. anything you can stick on to a bonnet s _the st Mrs, Mann—-Anything, dear, but what you have on hand. Chicago “What is the price of these glov “Two dollars,” u had some last week just ke them that you were selling for $1.99." \Bume glove, ma'am. "That was a speclal sale. ribune: Cleveland Plain Dealer: “That groat Italian tenor told me he had a mattress stuffed full of the laurel wreaths that have been glven him." “A mattress full! tire on them."” Then he ought to ve- Indianapolly Press: “If 1 were you I would take Mr. Thornton with a grain of salt,” sald Miss Frocks, “I'd_be willing to take him any w. all,” replled Miss Swayback, who much in love, v at was Pittsburg Chronicle: ~ “John,” said the long-suffering wife, as John began brushing his overcoat, ou're not golng to be out again tonight, ‘T hope.” “I hope not,” he replied, absently, *but there's _every’ prospect of it. The ' cards hiave been “running pretty bad for mo lutel Chicago Tribune: *“This idea of your tell- ing me I'm extravagant!” protested Mr. Chugwater, “when I've saved $00 in tho last ten on one item alone, by a lttle ental What item that Fwnlvr, “Cutting dow $5,000 to §1,000 Turn on the Light. Denver Post. Oh! Mr. Weather Bureau Man, can be alling you To hold the golden weather back and give us but the dross? Do you not know the people all indignantly are nailing you With spikes of angry language to the fig- urative cross? Have pity, please, shivering humanity, And let the sunshine ripple down in bright and welcome flood, Ana dry the bosom of ‘the earth and stop this rank profanity That's showered without limit on the Gol Darned Mudt is demanded Mrs, my life insurance from whatever on slime-bedecked and TO MARRY OR NOT TO MARRY, Ella Wheeler Wilcox in New York Journal. Mother says, ““Be in no hurry, Marrlage oft means care and worry. Auntle says, with manner gi “Wife I8 syrionyme for slave ve, Father asks, in tones commanding, “How does Bradstreet rate his standing?* Sister, Sighs, Grandma, near life's closing days, Murmurs “Sweet are girlhood's wi rooning to her twing, With marrlage care begins, Maud, twice widowed (“sod and grass' Looks at me and moans “Alas!"” They are six, and 1 am one, Life for me has just begun. ‘They are older, calmer, wiser, Age should aye be youth's adviser, They must know—ar ot, dear me, When in Harry's cyes see All the world of love there burning— On my six advisers turning, I make answer, “Oh, but Harry Is not like most men who marry, “Fate has offered m Life with love means a prize, paradise. “Life without it is not worth All the foollsh joys of carth.” Il they say wedding 8o In spite of 1 shall name A FINE THING Its a fine thing to not cheapen, but rather to see how much value can be put into a garment ata given price. Its not the common custom but its ours, Our spring suits at 10, $12.50, 815, $18, $20 and $25, are values that it would be hard to duplicate in the present mar- ket. No Clothing Fits Like Ours. Browning, King & Co Exclusive Clothiers and Furnishers. R. S. Wilcox, Manager.