Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 14, 1901, Page 6

THE OMAIIA DAIL BF,AE THE ©OMAHA DAILY E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. FUBLISHED EVE MORNING TERME Dally Bee (without Sur Dally Bee and ) Tllustrated Bunday Bee, ( Buturday Boe Twentleth ( DE OF S8UBSCRIPTION One Year.$6 Ye Year \‘4.\7 ntury Farmer, Year.. 1.0 IVERED BY CARRIER Bee (without Sunday), per copy... 2 Daily Bee (without Sunday), per week.. .12 Dally Bee (including per week . 17c Bunday Bee, pet opy . b Evening | (without Sunday), per week. 10c Eiening Gncluding Sunday), per week . . vogeres1be Complaints of irregularitics in deltvery uld he addressed to ity Circulation De- et Y One Dally Heo [ par OFFICES The Bee Bullding Omaha City -ifth and M streets 1l Bluffs—10 Pearl Street. Chicago—16#0 Unity Building New York—Temple Court Washington—1 Fourteenth Street CORRESPONDENCE Communications relating to news and edi- 1 matter should be addressed: Omaha Editorial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS. isiness letters and remittances should be addressed. 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If a telephone or electric lighting fran chige were worth only $100 in Omaha, wonder what it would be worth in South Omaha. No one has yet advanced a single good | reason why the funds of the county on | deposit In the banks should not draw interest for the benefit of the taxpayers, It 1s greatly to be feared that con- gress may break the record by passing & bill before the holiday vacation in ad dition to the usual appropriation of the 1bers’ own sulari — e The republic of Switzerland has Just elected a new president for the Swiss confederation who will take cha for the coming year. A change in the Swiss presidency no longer cuts much of a figure in the realm of world powers. What has become of that committee of heavy taxpayers always so much in evidence when the levy ordinance pending? Why don't these heavy tax- payers come to the front now and insist on a just valuation of the capitalized concerns for which they chiefly speak? As It being burled alive not enough for one man to endure, our self interred hypnotist has a prospect of be ing confronted on awakening with two women each claiming to be his wife. 1f he only kuew that, he might have glven orders to postpone the resurrection indetinitely. — As was to have been expected, the new Philippine tariff is denounced by the democratic opposition as another step In the well-marked line of imperial fsm. 1€ the word imperialism were cken out of the language the dem- ocrats would be In a hard row for cam paign claptrap. were The stiff sentences given the Mon tana train robbers caunght with forged banknpotes by the federal courts in Mis- gouri should have a depressing effect upon the train-robbing industry. At all| events successful train robbers will for a time consult their satety by abstain- fug from passing the queer in Missouri, they are recelving the bse ball mag nates have a right to imagine that they rank with the wost important person ages in the country. But their day of supremacy will not last long. As soon as the base ball season really opens the star player will crowd the base ball wagnate down to the bottom of the table, ‘The democratie leaders of the senate have notitied the republican members of the senate committee on organization that they do not feel ealled upon to pro- vide committee places for either Senator McLaurin of South Carolina or Senator Wellington of Maryland. A man with- out a party In the United States senale s no better off than a man without a country. E—— Delegates to the convention of the American Federation of Labor have taken decided exception to the remark by one of their number referring to his assoclates “as the common herd of dele: gates on the floor.” No delegate who did not resent this aspersion would be standing up for the wisdom' and dis- crimination of the constituency that sent him there, And now former Attorney General Churchill has emerged from obscurity and whispered some sagacious advice fnto the ear of Governor Suvage con- cerning the aspirants for places on the new fire and police commission board. Mr. Churchill's. capacity for pleking thrifty patriots for the Omaha fire and police commission is still fresh in the ‘Juemory of most of our citizens. A PERPLEXING QUESTION The question as to what shall be done in regard to commercial relations with Cuba s the most perplexing with which the government Is confronted and other is receiving so wuch attention at the national capital. The result reached by the house ways and means commit tee respecting tariff relations with the Philippines i taken to mean that there 8 no chance of any reciprocal trade arrangement with Cuba being reached during this cor It 1s pointed out that if the United States will not give one of its dependencies any such con ns as are asked for Cuba, it is not likely that favors of this sort will be bestowed on a pe on to set up a government of their own and become an independent and foreign nation, A plan has been proposed for a tem porary or provisional measure whereby Cuba shall be permitted to send her present crop of sugar into our ports, either free or at half the present rates of duty. The idea I8 to confine this measure to the crop on which grinding I8 just beginning and limit the period of its operation to perhaps six months from the date of enactment. It s stated that the president, if he shall find no impediment to such a course, may send a speclal message to congress recom mending It. Such a concession to one season's product, it is argued by the advocates of this plan, euld not possi bly jeopardize any American interest, but might it not gperate to make this year's production of sugar in the United States unprofitable to the producers? It appears highly probable that this would be the result. No one knows how much sugar there is in Cuba to be exported and it 18 very likely considerably more than this year's crop, estimated at 600,000 tons, It would seem inevitable that the admission of this sugar free or even at half the present duty must have the effect to depress the price of the home product to an extent that would leave uo profit to the producers, if indeed it did not result in actual loss to them. Another thing to be consid ered is that the sugar trust would be a great beneficiary from the proposed plan and would be provided with an ad ditional means of attack upon the do- mestle beet sugar industry. A good deal of opposition devel oped In congress to reciprocity with Cuba and while it is still possible that something will be done in the interest of the Island the question as to how far we %o In making concessions with a proper regard for our home interests is a difficult one. The position of the ways and means committee re irding tariff relations with the Philip. ping although made necessary by the “open-door” policy for which the United States stands in the far east, obviously complicates the question of commerciul relations with Cuba, since to make con cesslons to that island which we refuse to give to the Philippines, the one being foreign and the other American terri- toty, would manifestly be unfalr and none can | unjust to the latter. GERMANY AND V Whether or not ( mine to take forcible measures to col lect the debt claimed to be due from Venezueln to certaln German financiers who undertook to construct a railway in that country is said to regarded with much concern at Washington. It is stated that the North Atlantie squad von, in its southern cruise, will stop at Venezuelan port not yet deter- mined, the itinerary belng purposely left incomplete, and that the appear ance of a German squadron in Venezue: lan waters will have considerable Influ- ence in de nining the movements of our own. It has been reported that the German governmment contemplated seizing the custom house at La Guayra and col lecting the duties there and the gquestion is as to what position our government should take in such an event. If the government of nezuela owed any thing to the German government there would be no question as to the right of the latter to take forcible mensures to collect the debt, but there is said to be in the opinion of the administration a well-detined difference between collect- ing debts due from a South American country to a European country and the collecting debts due from the former to European individuals, as In the present case, According to its latest interpreta tion, contalned in the message of Presi dent Roosevelt, the Monroe doctrine does not prevent a forelgn power from coming to American shores to collect a debt by foree. “We do not guarantes sald the president, “any state against punishment it it misconduets itself, pro- vided that punishment does not take the form ,of the acquisition of territory by any non-American poyer.” Yet in the cmany will de some | cuse of debt, the nature of the obligation might make some difference, though our government would probably not hesi- tate to concede to a European govern- ment the right to compel the payment of just claims of its cltizens against an Awmerican count This right has, we believe, been questioned and probably will not be in future, since to do #0 would place our government in a position unfavorable to the enforce- ment of Awmerican claims against Euro- pean countries. Should Germany send a naval force to Venezuela for the purpose of forcibly collecting the debt claimed, our govern- ment would undoubtedly make inquiry of the German government as to whether it intended to make any perma- nent occupation and would probably in- sist upon an explicit statement of its intention, If this was found to shm- ply the collection of the debt, as no doubt would be the case, there would be no ipterference on the part of the nited States. Meanwhile President Oastro of Venezuela appears not to be seriously concerning himself about the possibility of a ( pearing in Venezuelan waters, He is reported as saying that in the event of a custom house belng selzed he will de- clare free trade at the port and in that way head off the attewpt to forcibly collect the debt, He asserts that he is not responsible for the debts incurred by bis predecessors and that this being a commercial obligation Germany should have recourse to the courts of rman squadron ap- [ i matter Is which might to international complica- | tlong, but it is likely that an amicable arrangement will be reached ——— law. The ensily MOKKE ARRANT DEMAGOGY Omaha must undergo the process of edu catic The school of experience, while it sa tear is at the same time a | very practical and effective school. At this | moment, when the people of Omaha are passing under the corporation rod, and are beginning to realize how enormous are the | burdens which the corporations seek to place upon them, the World-Herald desires to remind them of the fact that they missed a very important opportunity at the last {clty election when they permitted the pres- ent mayor to be chosen over a good citizen | like William 8. Poppleton.—World-Herald. This another striking example of the arrant demagogy that charac terized the attitude of the World-Herald in dealing with every question that af fects the public welfare. [Its outery against the enormous burdens w hich the arporations seck to place upon Omaha taxpayers Is as insincere and hypoerit feal as has been its warfare upon sta treasury embezzlers and speculators in public school funds. When the county board of equaliza- tion last summer ralsed the corporation assessments £2,000,000 and then dropped them back to the assessors’ figures, which were ridiculously low, the World Herald did not have a word to say Why Simply because the board fs democratic, and the responsibility for this flagrant abuse of the taxing power rested principally upon the party in con trol of the machinery of the county gov- ernment, Two out of the three members of the city Board of Review happen to be re- publicans, while the chairman claims to be & popocrat. Does anybody familiar with World-Herald methods and policies belleve that it would have indulged in any very serfous criticism of the board it the mujority had been democratic? Suppose, for example, that Ed Howell had been elected mayor of Omaha four years ago instead of Frank E. Moores. | Would the World-Herald have even lisped a word of condemnation if the Howell board of review had overruled a republican tax commissioner in the as sessment of the street rallway and gus compunies? | True, Omal of education & very one, is must undergo a process id it must learn to know | the difference between honest news | papers and unprincipled party organs. Whatever education the people of Omaha have Lad on the question of equitable taxation they have received | through The Bee, which is the only | paper that bas turned the searchlight of publicity upon the enormities of cor porate tax evasion whether the city councils, county boards boards of | | equalization were republican or demo cratic. If anything, The Bee has been wuch more severe in its condemnation | of republican boards of equalization thau it has of the democrats and popu lists, The Bee has always bhad the cou to denounce abuses within its own party wherever they might be found, while the World-Herald has unot only invariably sought to cover up the misdeeds and misdemennors of the members of its own party, but it has also, time and again, been the sponsor and champion of republican embezzlers and jobbers, to whom it has alw been ready to | extend ald und comfort. | In the light of its tortuous course in cennection with public plunderers and boodlers its jeremiad about the retribu tion that has overtaken the city by the election of the present mayor in place W. 8. Poppleton does not deceive any body. It Is the same old song which it | has ding-donged into the ears of our| citizens for years as an argument for turning the city over to the hungry and thirsty democratic Tammany which has been yearning to feast at the fleshpots in the elty hall. It must be highly gratifying to Judge Benjamin 8. Baker t Congressman Mercer 18 making the most strenuous exertions to secure for him an appolut ment to a New Mexican judgeship. For the pust two years almost anybody by the name of Baker was an offensive partisan in the eyes of the non-rexident representative of the First district, and the were suspicion that Judge Baker entertained un ambition to wear the globe-trotter's worn out brogans gave a conniption fit to Tom Blackburn, his falthful errand boy President Roosevelt is taking to the practice of pushing buttons to open positions and conventions just as i he were born to the art. The desire to have the president ingugurate or set in motion every great public enterprise has become contaglous. It is a pretty cus- tom, but might grow to such proportions as to become onerous to the chief execu- tive. It is safe to say, however, that so long as President Roosevelt occuples the White House he will find time to push all the buttons that may be necessary. It is intimated now that Governor Savage will not come to Omaha to give | public audience on the question of the | new fire and police commission, but will | | wait at Lincoln for the appearance of those who want to voluuteer advice. Should this prove to be correct the local railroads may look out for a run on | thelr free pass department by self-sac rificing patriots eager to connect with | the city pay roll by way of a guberna torlal appointment. British shoe -operatlves are striking against the introduction of labor-saving wachinery into the factories. It Is the same old story. The American shoe manufacturer, with his superior me- chanical facllities, is crowding the British shoemaker so hard™ that im proved machinery has become a neces- sity. The predicament of the British shoe operatives 1s deplorable, but it Is a part of the industrial evolution which they must meet. 80 By the way, the annual report of the | superintendent of schools for the year ending last June has not yet material {zed. It was supposed that after elec tion Superintendent Pearse might find time between working polities, building the auditorium, wanaging the Commer- | the | | Inctdent { the number of thirty or forty | licking them | coronation day proceeding Y BEE ATURDAY, elal elub, directing publie lectury and superintending secret discharge some of the duties for taxpayers put up £3,600 e soclotios which year From Grave to Gay, W that the ngton Star president’s messag been perused the publi temporarily neglect the utterances statesmanship and turn to the holiday vertisements w has attentively will ad When Here Are Not Me Loulsville te. Courfer-Journal Courler-Journal declines to become th divigion of the Santiago No hero ever appears herolc when he fs cashing his prize money checks The excited prize money over Old Hands at the Helm, Philadelphia Press. Speaker Henderson has followed in his full committee appointments the same con- servative and poliey which h marked all his course. His practice of re- appointment continues in this house the ef ficient organization of the last. Grent B Denge Lord I\'lhhr-n»r’uw proposes to build barbed wire troch® to protect his soldiers from the Boers. Some enterprising Ameri- can firm might secure a large and profitable order by sending a drummer to the Boer camps with a line of samples of the latest and most effective wire cutter Olling Troubled Gray Matter, Indianapolts News. 1t seems to be quite the fashion now for the trusts to quiet obstreperous democratic leaders by making them members of some corporation. Reprosentative Sulzer of New York is the latest example, having con nected himself with a Texas oil company There is nothing like the point of view for altering one's opinions. consistent " Where (he Shoe Pinches, Portland Oregonfan Bourke Cockran thinks that President Roosevelt ought to whisper in the ear of the British minister at Washington that tho United States “does not sympathize with the present scheme for the conquest of the Boers.” President Roosevelt is not likely to expose himself to the obvious retort that guerrilla warfare i3 not pleasant or profit- able in South Africa just at present, neither is it in the Philippines. ROOS| S PERSONALITY, in the Formation Romgh Rider Regiment In the current number of the Century a writer who knows him well, discussea “The Personality of President Roosevelt” and relates this {lluminating incident “He is a kind-hearted man, yet a rigld dieciplinarian, and will demand a faithful and efficlent discharge of public duties by public officials. 1 happened to be present when graduates of Harvard and other uni- versities, and western mining engincers, to collected in assistant secretary of the navy to be enlisted in the ‘Rough Rider' regiment. Mr, Roosevelt stood in front of his desk, while these earnest, manly young fellows stood ranged around three sides of his office. Addressing them in his pecu- larly quick, earnest manner, to the effect that they must not underestimate the dan- gers or difficulties they would encounter, he told them that it would probably be tha roughest experfence that they eyer had, and he wished tHem to understand that after once being &Worn in they must take whatever came wifhout grumbling. ‘Posl tively, gentlemen,*ssid he, ‘I will have no squealing;’ and he urged them, It any of them , thought they could not endure the greatest hardships, to withdraw before it was too late. “Then, turning to a pile of volumes of mounted infantry tactics, he said: ‘I will remain behind a few days and hurry for ward the equipments. You, gentlemen, hurry to San Antonio, and if you do your part toward getting the men in order and into shape, I promise to get you'into the fight. There are not emough tactics to go around, but I will distribute these, and you must read and study them on the cars’ Calling out their names, he hurled the books at the men so fast that several would be in the alr at once, the men catching them on the fly. I could seo In thelr faces that every one of them was ready to follow him to the death, “Out of the clouds of misconception and the false impressions thrown about this pleturesque figure by the paragraphers, more Interested In sen- sationalism than in reality, there suddenly emerges this intensely earnest, forceful, brave, patriotic, humanity-loving, broad- minded, non-sectional American, this pra tical idealist, to become the youngest ruler of the greatest country in the world." of the the office of the ENGLAND' T OF CLAIMS." Rush for Front Seats the € tlon Cerem Philadelphia Re The superior persons In England who have expressed their contempt for Amer- fcans because of the quadrennial assault on the White House by place hunters may be expected to experience pangs at the spectacle afforded by the peculiar British “court of claims." This Institution was established to relieve the king from the pressure for office in connection with the coronation day ceremonies. All the in- fluence which titles and moneyv can exert bas been used in behalf of persons who want to be conspicuous—or, at least, to tower above the mere spectators—on that occasion United States might profit by example and establish a “‘court to determine appointments to office. king will mow have leisure to give his mind to the question of his own dress and will escape the censure of tho office seckers who must be denied The demand for coronation day eminenc comes from bishops, earls and even young women. An American can hardly stand the struggle of bishops for the right to stand with a hand on the king's chalr, the contest of earls for the right to walk the king's of claims' in the procession carrying a silver baton, | Sir Harry Burrard the privilege of carrying the king's bow and arrows, in spite of the fact that a Mauser rifle would be more effective If his majesty should be attacked. Miss Beatrice ellows will have a grievance if she shall be refused the right to strow herbs in the king's path otesque as the m to Americans, we are not without the same spirit of self-advertising. At the time of Grant's funeral General Sher- man sald that he had received thousands of applications from persons who wanted to serve as his aldes. The prospect of appearing In uniform and riding a before a line of spectators alluring to men who had no military experience and who could ride a horse only when tled on. Still, there is a great deal in the which would be more appropriate to & circus procession than to the crowning of a limited monarch in the twentieth century. the English are willing to pay spectacular features which belong earlier period, they are not willing to relax any of their vigilance in maintaining the popular rights which have been wrested from the throne, ete has appealed for whole business may w a very for to the an D courses to ot | the cartoonists and | The badgered presidents of the | The | under- | horse | While | ECEMBER 14, 1901, LANDS THAN ovns d th present 10,000 nt estima at the whi per eld organ the were ings of Ber h he socialist the fact that Iy and superior to those who at unemployed n the other day Vorwarts were in notes me s a rule were mor physically gre | meetings of the unemployed in 189 The ilet bearing that they had not while the good clothing worn by them proved them to have pro- prosperous times for a period of | depression. Everywhere the speeches were | toilowed with the keenest attention, and A number of more or less socfalist o | lutions were unanimously | decided that, in view of the constantly or severity of the economic the Prussian and fmperial authorities should be urged to take immediate m to relieve distress. The municipal authorities were requested to proceed at once with all | contemplated building schemes, and, in- deed, to proceed with municipal works of every kind. It was also resolved pe | tition the imperial government to give its serious attention to the proposal of Herr Auer for the establishment of labor bureaus ‘I‘Y’l an imperial department of labor. Spe | clal stress was laid upon the necessity of | avolding any increase in the burdens of | the working classes through indirect taxa- tion, and espec igh any increase in the duty on the most important | saries of lite, a pollcy which, In pre: circumstances, could not fatl to be follow by most disastrous consequences. As alternative to the new tariff scheme government was urged to conclude commercial treaties with forelgn nations, o showed | 16 | most of | ided in t hope re carried. It in- crisis, to an the sound British service payers have noted that the prince of Wales fs the first heir-ap- parent to the British crown to hold an ac- tual commission {n the navy, the senfor | service on their side of the water. Hitherto the heir-apparent has been put into the army, and any naval rank he may have | held has been purely honorary. The same rule was followed in the case of the sons of the present king; Prince Edward was made a soldler, and died while major in a hussar regiment; Prince G allor and a8 commanded his own ship on a regular cruise Now, by the death of his elder brother, he becomes prince of Wales, the first of the line to be a sailor. Hitherto he has been promoted rapidly, but with a decent period of service in each rank, until he now holds the commission of a captain. Hereafter his promotion will be very rapid and his new grades will be honorary, as it will no longer be advisable for the heir to the crown to go to sea in command of a fleet, or to take the risks of & naval officer rge was made e One of the most difficult posts to fill sat- | tsfactorily in the Austro-Hungarian diplo- | matle service {s that of ambassador to the | Vatican. The approaching retirement of | the present ambassador, Count Revertera, | has made it necessary to select his suc | cessor and for a long time the matter has { been under the anxious consideration of | the minister of forelgn affairs, Count | | Goluchowski, It has been the subject of | | much speculation in diplomatic circles, as | it was known that several prominent can- | | didates had, for various reasons, been s ide. Eventually the name of Count | Nicholas Szcecsen, senior under secretary | of state for foreign affairs, began to be | mentioned. But it was thought that he was | indispensable at the Forelgn offico, where for several years he has been the minis- | ter's right-hand man. He owed that posi- tion to the high opinion Count Goluchowskl had formed of his ability when they were colleagues fn the diplomatic service abroad. But the post at the Vatican will soon be vacant and it has been decided to In- trust It to Count Szcecsen. A Hungarian {by birth and the son of a highly distin- | guished and popular Magyar, Count §: | sen is himself a man of strong individuality and & highly skilled diplomatist, qualifica- tlons which are indispensable to the suc- | cessful management of the many delicato questions with which the Austro-Hun- garian representative the Vatican, in | these days, has to deal n o- at An_ English sels has been making a { tion concerning the frequent reports of hideous barbarities practiced upon natives in the Congo Free State, and expresses the conviction that many of them are inven- tions or exaggeratlons, set afloat by dls- charged employes, from motives of personal malice, while others relate to outrages which undoubtedly occurred some years ago { He points out that In many cases the ab- sence of specified time and place makes | investigation impossible. His belief is that recently there has been a marked Improve- ment in all the conditions of government | The other day he had an interview with Mr. Mohun, formerly United States consul at Boma, but now in the service of the Congo Free State, who has just returned from a three years' sofourn in the eastern prov- ince. The latter asserts that the present administration 1s admirable; that the coun- try is quiet from Stanley Falls to Tan- ganyka; that the mative tribes appear to be Pontented and happy and are paid promptly for every pound of rubber which they bring In. In the case of murder or theft by natives the local chiefs exhibit the greatest willingness to ald in the de- tection and the punishment of the offenders. erything, he says, Is now settled upon a firm basis, business fs excellent and scandals are things of the past e The effect of fearless public eriticlam is | again in the announcement by the British govercment that the polley fn man- aging the reconcentration camps is to be radically changed. Whether placing the camps under the civil authorities would | mean anything it is too early to say, since all South Africa is now under martial law and, In fact, thewe are no civil authorities Much good, however, ought to come from | breaking up the large camps into small ones of from 2,000 to 8,000 each, since there- by the conditions should be less favorable for disease There {8 no promise to estab- lish camps at the sea coast 8o that permis slon for any reconcentrados to go to the seaconst would probably be of no particular effect in amellorating present conditions. The main argument for sea coast camps hinges on the food question in the in- terior it is more difficult to feed the in- mates of the camps. On the whole, how- ever, the government's announcement re- veals sensitiveness to the world's criticism as well as to the growing agitation against the camps in Britain itself. terial for Historical Novels, Boston Transcript, Fifty or a hundred years from now this Sampeon and Schley affair will be the foun- dation of & batoh of historical novels, for theyefill be In fashion again by that time, as we are now witnessing thelr decline. It's not difficult to tell even now before tha novel happens which of the two men will wear all the honors, even if the facts indi- cate that & good many were due the other. For one of them s invested with that in- | tangible, unacquirable something called per- | sonal magnetism, and with all that this | gitt does for the 1iving hero it does more for the dead one, leaving an undylng frag- rance to lipger about his name long {s ever written in history newspaper writer in Brus- | special investiga- | as New York World Wheat s advancing to the dollar mark, but its old friend silver is &till stubbornly striding in the other direction. l led the | was | {of electing | Senator Morgan, | senlor senator, ically pure. acid nor POLITICAL DRIFT There are only four states in the country which have more than 1,000,000 voters each New York, Pennsylvania, Ohlo and Illinols, The only member of the president’s cabi net not a native of the United States is the secretary of agriculture, James Wilson, who was born In Ayrshire, Scotland There are fewer contested present Fifty-seventh cong previous house of repres ars. There are no s in the senate Pat Garrett of New Mexico, famous as the sherift who hurried numbers of “bad” men into carly graves, is to be appointed col lector of customs at El Paso. With Garrett in charge smuggling along the Rio Grande will become an unprofitable business. Twenty-eight years ago Thomas J Creamer of New York was a member of the “orty-third congress, He has now re-em- tered public life as a representative of the Bighth district of New York. Mr, Cannon and General Ketcham are the ouly two members who served with Mr. Creamer in the Forty-third congres: The real significance of the election of General P. A. Collins as mayor of Boston by the largest plurality In twenty-five years 18 Increased taxation. The retiring admin- istration brought about increased valuation and materially increased the levy, and tho result of the election Is regarded as an emphatic protest against the growing bur- den of taxation. With the re man as a ¢ United St in in o the 1y seats ess than ntatives for thirty sorious contests for ppearance of Arthur P. Gor- ndidate for re-election to the s senate from Maryland his political partisans are not slow to discover new titles in him to popular confidence and regard It appears that Senator Gor- man was centerfielder of the old Natlonal Base Ball club and the grounds were on the White House.property in Washington. He was a good, earnest player and was one of the stars of the team There is a revival of the talk in Alabama al Joe Wheeler as United when a vacancy occurs. usually described us the 77, and his junfor col- league, nator Pettus, s 80 Senator Morgan has recently been re-clected and Senator Pettus s a candidate for another term. When the opportunity for General Wheeler will present itself ls, therefore, conjectural. He {s 65, and was gradu- ated trom West Point forty-two years ago. The libel suit against the St. Louls Re public, involving the integrity of the demo- cretic party machine in Missouri, was sud- denly dropped by the plaintiff. The inquiry went far enough into the secret deals of the party in power to reveal a close com munity of interest between democratic lead ers and the corporations, and the heat pro- voked by the testimony caused mysterious parties to turn the hose on the flames by glving the plaintiff a bunch amounting to 7,600, The Republic professes to be fnno- and very indignant States senator cent alkali e — Absolutely Pure Made from grape cream of tartar most highly refined and chem- Leaves neither in the food. Care must be taken to avoid baking pow- ders made from alum, & sold cheap, because they cost but a few cents per pound which taken in food means injury to health, uch powders are Alum is a corrosive acid, ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., 100 WILLIAM BT., NEW YORK. —_—_——_ MIRTHFUL REMARKS, mervilla Journal cataract!’’ e i caught his What @ lovely the oculst, as ho of Nlagara Falls, Chicago Post: “8he says has put his arm round her. “Oh, T don’t believe it. Why, she's been wie riding dozens of times.” no man ever Baltimore young Ab Corntossel, put myself on th this year, American: “Sary,” snickered ‘I kinder think I'll Christmas tree fer you It" you do, Ab." giggled Sary, “they’ll not take you off this year. They'll let you stay there til you git ripe enough to pick.” Wagrhington Post 1 hear poor Bl Ward's island. Light-fingercd loony alw in the papers, after he would ¢ Crib, about’ the piles of cash and valuables he had just overlooked. Brooklyn K rtha learne ssar rriet—Yes, but she is always willing to tuke w post-graduate course when there is a good looking young man to teach her, ccond-story Charlie— n the itsy house on it made Bill aglo: Constance—I thought to ‘skate while she was at Cleveland Plain most “Oh, Wh-w Why, of course Dealer: “What do you ire for Christmas, Miss Mabel? this 1s so sudden!” Hu_mean? 1 want you!" Chicago Tribune: *“The trouble with me." remarked the man in the mackintosh, “when it comes to making speeches, is that I can’'t think on m - “1 don’t wonder,” observed the tmitation sealskin cap, looking at thelr ample proportions. “'I'd be awfully embar- rassed “myself with a pair of feet like that.” the man in *hiladelphia P ce, * ¥ + Christmas present “1 will choose,” sald the ¥ “elther o wife or an automobile.’ foolish!" exclaimed the Falry Prince. “Why do you not select something that you can manage?"’ sald the Falry Hatever you want rtunate Per- ERK AND THE SHOPPERS, Kiser n the Record-Herald. v that the merry Yuletide comes he jaded clerk once more must rise As if 1o take a judgment seat And show the world that he is wise; The great, the small, the rich, the poor, All come to him to ask advice In pleking out such gifts as may Bo deemed appropriate and nice. The_happy mother blandly usks: Now. do you think this sled will suit? Or would you, if you were a boy, Prefer a tool chest of a flute The fond young hisband asks for ald In choosing stockings for his dear— The clerk must favor this or that, And always make his reasons cléar. The youthful grandma, whispering, aske It he will kindly help her choose The little coal she wants to g Or else the cunning little shoes, And he who has within his watch The pleture of a malden fair Implores the clerk to help him find Such gloves as she'll be proud to wear. But saddest of the moments which The poor k has through all the day 14 that in which some sweet, sweet girl mes trustingly to bim to say; do you--do you really think that 1, if you were he to get (his 1f you knew Holiday Haberdashery. Though ours is primarily man's store, it has very strong attractions for the women who are looking for gifts for the men and boys of the house, It is hardly possible to the great variety of v itemize, much less describe, »ful and beautiful things to be seen to the best advantage in our show cases and windows, Jo Clothing Fits Like Ours. Rrowning- King 5@ Exclusive Clothiers and Furnishers. R. S. Wilcox, Manager.