Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 29, 1902, Page 6

THE OMAHA DALy BEE B ROSEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF BUBSCRIPTION, Dally Bee (without Sunday), One Yea Dally Bee and Sunday, One Year 3 Bae Y ea Sunday Bee, Une Y Batu {nl'lee One r Twentleth Century Farmet DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Da ithout Sunday), per copy. D l; s: ;:Il)mu! Bunday), :r week Dally Bee (including SBunday), per week. Sunday Bee, per copy... Evening Bee (without Sul Evening Bee (ncluding Nomplainis "of ‘iEreguiaritios in " delivery ia"of iere -huu‘l’?u addressed u.) City Circulation De- partment. OFFICES. Omaha—The Bee Bulldi South Omaha—City Ha ty-fifth and M Streets. Council Bluffs—10 Pear] Street. Chicago—18 Unity Building. ew York—Temple Court. ‘ashington—wl Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi- torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS. Businese letters and remittances should be addressed: The Bee Publishing Com- pany, Omaha. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, ayable 10 The Bee Publishing Company. nly 2-cent stamps accepted in payment of mail accounts, Personal checks, except on Umaha or eastern exchange, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. ng. Il Bullding, Twen- STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION, Btate of Nebraska Douglas County, sa.: Geoy ‘zschick, secretary of The Bee Publis being duly sworn, numper of full and aily, Morni . says that the actual complete, coples of The D. Evening and Sunday Bee printed during t! month of February, 192, was as follows: Company, BIRNDREREEEERNES Total .. erassenns Less unsold and returned coples. Net total sales... Net dally average. 20,932 » ik GEORGE B. TZSCHUC! ubscri] In before me this'2th day of Fenriary X" . B, j{UNGATI. (Seal.) otary Public. e According to Congressman Richardson there Is something rotten in Denmark. SEE—— Mississippl reports eight inches of rain. Nebraska will take its share spread out over a little longer time. The tradesman who Introduces the practice of selling Easter hats by the pound will achieve glory over night. —_— Governor Savage's surprise party seems to have been sprung Before the date set for officially launching the secret. ————— Any candidate for office can make a platform for himself, but the platform of the republican party this year will usual be mude by the republican state convention. ¢ S If the police can resurrect and re- vivify several other Omaha people who seera to have burled themselves alive, they can put the community under last- ing obligation. — The Iowa legislature nas passed a compulsory education law. Iowa al- ready has a good record in low per cent of illiteracy, but must be striving to outclass Nebraska. EE—————— Unless the lawyers In the tax man- damus suit run out of breath, the bill of the referee will run up higher than the combined ries of the supreme court commissioners, STerp— The Turkish government has called for 90,000 more men for active duty in the army. This move would seem to in- dicate that lively times might be an- ticipated in the near future. EE—— The official estimate of the Australian wheat crop places the yleld at a little over ten bushels to the acre. If present indications hold out, Nebraska will make those figures look small. e==mmmm——— It has not been made quite row, S The recent Douglas county grand jury has been declared an illegally consti- tuted body. Just think of it, Meserve's attorneys missed one technical objection they might have used in his embezzle- went case. SEm———— Ex-Senator Allen has declared himself In other words, he is willing to be hitched on behind the democratic wagon, but is by the dem- & fusionlst, hut not an absorptionist. uwnwilling to be swallowed ocratic mule. . Syt Now that the president has signed the South Omaha bridge bill, the citizens of that town will wait with impatience and suspense the sinking of the first pler as an evidence of gooll faith on the part of the promoters. e No one would doubt for business was brisk In Omaba the jury caunot serve. SEm— Coniplaint is made because Iowa farmers who are buying out the old residents in counties on the Nebraska fees for defending the lawbreakers. T v BACK-TRAUKING REFORMERS. The attempt of the fusion reformers at Lincoln to knock out the primary election law by enjoining the registra- tion officers from propounding to voters the question refating to their party | affiliations bas fafled, as it ought to fail. The plea of the Injunction petition, which, by the way, was presented by Chairman DeFrance of the populist state committee, urged that the enrollment of party preferences ls an invasion of the right of free suffrage by prescribing an additional qualification for voting. The absurdity of such argument is plainly apparent from a reading of the law, which leaves it entirely optional for the voter to give his party afillation or not, as he sees fit. The penalty for refusing to answer the question does not relate to his right of suffrage at all, but to his right to participate in hs primaries, the design being to confine participation to avowed members of the party and to prevent men from voting at primaries of all parties. The registration of voters for primary elections is unquestionably a distinet advance toward purity in elections, and it is surprising that the fusionists, who pretend to be committed to reform, should endeavor through their party machinery to destroy a substantial reform accomplished with so much ef- fort. Nor is it clear what gain the fu- slonists could expect from the annul- ment of the primary election law and v clear whether the proposed chorus girls' pro- tective assoclation is to protect mem- bers against over-greedy managers or only agalnst occupants of the bald-head minute that it he should bappen in the criminal court room and lsten to the excuses offered why the prominent citizens drawn on bills of indictment vold will af- to the county attorney his steff, but it will be hard on counted on earning fat the return to the old system of party nominations by brute force of repub- licans, democrats and populists voting indiscriminately for delegates to all con- ventions, We do not believe any true friend of good governmeut wants to take such a backward step. Smss——p——— THE CUBAN MESSAGE. The message of President Roosevelt recommending legislation to enable the United States to maintain diplomatic and consular representation in Cuba when the new government shall have been established there makes no specific suggestion in regard to commerclal re- lations, but in the closing paragraph the president speaks of broadening and strengthening these relations, well as those of a political character, “in every proper way by conventlonal pacts with the Cubans and by wise and beneficial legislation aiming to stimulate the com- merce between the two countries, if the great task we accepted in 1898 is to be fittingly accomplished.” It is not diffi- cult to interpret this as signifying that the president has not changed from the position he stated in his message of last December in regard to Cuba, when he urged a substantial reduction in the tariff duties on Cuban imborts into the United Btates. He then sald that Cuba having affirmed in her constitution what we desired, “we are bound by every consideration of honor and expediency to pass commercial measures in the in- terest of her material well-belng.” This President Roosevelt still insists should be done, though it I8 the under- standing that he has not specifically in- dicated what he would regard as a sub- stantial tariff reduction, leaving that to be determined by congress. It has been assumed that the proposed 20 per cent reduction approved by a majority of the house republicans is acceptable to the president and it is most probable that he would approve legislation pro- viding for such reduction. - While the president will undoubtedly adhere to the opinion that something must be done for the commercial and industrial interests of Cuba, he is desirous of find- ing a way to harmonize the republicans in congress on this question and with this in view has had conferences with both the opponents and advocates of tarift concessions to Cuba. 8o far as appears he has not yet been able to make any lmpression upon the former, though a suggestion of compromise has been made in the proposition to remove the differential duty on refined sugar. This, however, has not met with much favor. The recommendations of the Cuban message congress will doubtless comply with, but whether of not what Is lm- plied in the concluding paragraph will have any effect upon the question of tariff concessions is problematical. The coming week will probably bring a test of strength on the question in the house, with what result cannot now be con- fidently predicted. e——— COMMISSIONER EVANS RESIGNS. P n Commissioner Evans has tendered his resignation, which it is an- nounced will not take effect until a posi- tion in the diplomatic service is found for him. President Roosevelt has been persistently urged, as was his predeces- sor, to remove Mr. Evans, but this he refused to do, although it has been un- derstood for some time that the com- missioner would be replaced whenever the president should be able to give him another « satisfactory ~ position. Mr. Roosevelt has shown that he has entire contidence in the ability and integrity of Commissioner Evans and that he re- gards him as entitled to a place ln the public service. He has therefore not been influenced by the pressure for the commissioner's removal and that officlal will continue to perform his present duties until he ¢an be appointed to a position In the diplomatie service, which probably will be sooun. course of the president in the case i&"highly com- plimentary to Mr. Evans. The president will have no difficulty in finding candidates for pension com: missioner. As soon as it became known, two weeks ago, that there was probabil- ity of & vacancy in the office, several men were suggested to the president and he has doubtless heard of more since thep. Now that & vacancy is fs- sured applicants will doubtless become numercls. The office of pension cow- missioner s one of the most important and exacting in the government and President Roosevelt may be expected to exercise very great care in selecting a successor to the present-incumbent. He will desire a man who is not culy capa- ble and of unimpeachable character, but who also enjoys the coufidence of the THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, Grand Army veterans, who keep a vig- flant watch over the administration of the pension bureau. He may find the matter of selection somewhat perplex- ing, but there is no doubt that he will have an abundance of material to choose from. Commissioner Evans will retire from the office with the credit of having had the confidence of two presidents, one of them a pnion soldier, and the assurance of general public approval of his ad- ministration. THE PROPOSED NEW DEPARTMENT. The senate some time since passed the bill providing for the creation of a department of commerce and labor. The house has mnot yet considered the measure, though hearings in regard to it were begun a few days ago before the committee on commerce. It would seem that congress is not in need of any further information respecting the prop- osition. The business interests of the country that ask for the new depart- ment have get forth as fully as possible the reasons for regarding It as neces- sary. The president of the Natlonal Manufacturers’ association, which has been for several years urging such a department, told the house committee that the magnitude of the manufactur- Ing interests of the country would seem to entitle them to representation in the cabinet and in the executive depart- ments, He pointed to the fact shown by the last census that during the year ended June 1, 1900, the products of the manufacturing establishments of the country exceeded in value $13,000,000,- 000. The manufacturing interests of the United States, he sald, exceed In volume and importance the industrial interests of any nation in the world, yet we have no department or bureau, as other in- dustrial countries have, specially charged with duties relating directly to these interests. Moreover, our manufacturing interests are steadily growing, thus strengthening from year to year the demand for a de- partment of the character proposed. If these great Interests would be bene- fited, as the men engaged in them and are best qualified to judge say they would, by the establishment of a de- partment of commerce and labor, there ghould be no hesitation in providing It. COST OF WELL-DEFINED RUMORS. ‘When Millard Fillmore Funkhouser mesmerized the Board of Education into adopting a resolution invoking the dis- trict court to call a grand jury to in- vestigate so-called well-defined rumors, The Bee ventured the prediction that the move would result in loading the county down with several thousand dol- lars of unnecessary costs that could Just as well be avoided by inducing the county prosecutor to file informations against all parties implicated In any criminal offense. The sequel fully sus- tains the position taken by this paper. The session of the grand jury has cost the county $4,280.80, and the expenses incurred in subsequent prosecution has added upwards of $1,000 to this outlay. While no oue cculd foresee or foretell the judiclal ruling by which all the work of the grand jury has been nulli- fied, it was well known from the outset that the street rumors upon which alone the demand for a grand jury was based had no substantial foundation. The well-defined rumors, however, served their purpose in furnishing capital for the re-election of Millard Fillmore Funkhouser, and the voters of both sexes who were credulous enough to belleve that they were rallying to the support of a great reformer have had their eye- teeth cut. They have succeeded in saddling themselves as taxpayers with $5,000 to $6,000 of debt without any- thing to show for it. o e The club women at the Nebraska cap- ital propose to push their campalgn for municipal embellishment by offering a series of prizes for the handsomest and best kept private lawns, the award to take place after the summer season is concluded. It ought not to be ecessary to put up a reward for people to beau- tify their own premises, inasmuch as they themselves reap the chief benefit, but since self-interest does not always prove a sufficient stimulus, this plan may produce good results. It is a hint, at any rate, for the Omaha club women who are working to the same end. ———— Thomas P. Kennard's moss-grown claim against the state of Nebraska for valuable services alleged to have been rendered under the Furnas contract, which caused almost as much resent- went as the Bartley pardon, has bobbed up again serenely, with interest added, If this celebrated claim is disposed of finally and forever by the supreme court its reappearance wmay confidently be looked for by the claims committee of the next legislature, aaae——1 Senator Millard bas trumped Mercer's card to increase the salary of the sur- veyor of customs at Omaba. Why Cadet Taylor's salary should be in- creased remalns to be explained. No- body conversant with the management of the office pretends that he is over- worked and nobedy contends in serious- ness that he Is underpaid. i i——— Unless congress takes a rest on pass- ing bills to remove the charge of de- sertion from military records President Roosevelt promises to make a record in the matter of vetoes, The crop of this kind of bills, if.the legislative grist is up to the normal, will easlly enable him to do it — The senate committee on rules has de- clded that neither London prize ring nor Queensberry regulations shall be ap- plicable to debates In that body. The old fogles are evidently determined to take all the spice out of senatorial life, A — A Century of Locometives. Springfield (Mass) Republican, Locomotive engineering was 100 years old last Monday. On March 24, 1502, Rich- ard Trevithick was granted a patent for “an improved steam engine, to give motion to ‘wheel carriages of every description. Here 18 & good measure of the progress of a cen- tury. The True National Philadelphia Ledger. Peace by moral suasion is the true policy of the United Stal tey. Tradition Rudely Jeered. ‘Washington Post. It appears from the experience of the school teachers we send over to the Phil- ippines that the natives don’t think much of the story of George Washington and the cherry tree. They rather look upon it as a reflection upon Geos mentality. Wh Wil Ye C) Baltimore American. An electrical expert says that every storm shows that there is no alternative between burying wires or burying citizens. Of course, every municipality must prac- tically choose which it considers the more valuable above ground, and by the contin- uance of the wires overhead the choice so far is anything but complimentary to the citizens, L, e of Better Timens. St. Louls Republic. This hopefulness of even better times than have been the rule for the last few years is a good spring medicine. Thie is no time for business pessimism. The en- ergles of the country are still operating at full tilt and getting results which surprise other nations. As long as the present conditions continue the hum of the fac- tories and crowded stores must be considered as accurate barometers of business and not mere incidents of a boom. Get nte the Bandwagon, Chicago Chronicle. It s reported in dispatches democr and populists of Nebraska, which is Mr. Bryan's state, will fuse this year on platforms and candidates. Each suc- cessive fusion of the democrats and popu- lists of Nebraska since 1896 has been fol- that the lowed by larger republis majorities. It the democrats of Neb want to gain a victory they should with the re- publicans, whose doctrines are mo more undemocratic than the doctrines of the populisf Hot Stuff Among Icebergs. New York Tribune. Canada has a superheated patriot named Gourlay, coming from Colchester, N. 8, who recently unburdened himself in Par- llament of the heroic proposition that “if it becomes necessary to fight the Yankees we will be ready in twenty-four hours and after six months of it we sball capture their capital and annex their country to Canada.” Nova Scotia is, no doubt, proud of the blue nose of Gourlay, which, thus lifted in air, &niffs the battle afar when there {sn't any or likely to be any. and it is not to be de- nied that he does that remote, unfriended, melancholy and elow province no end of credit, IMMIGRATION SCARECROW, Inconsistency of the Sons of Fermer Immigrants New Bedford (Mass.) Standard. A labor organization located in this city has endorsed a resolution reciting that “the immigration of cheap labor from the south and east of Europe is a menace to the American standard of living,” etc, Fifty y®ars or so ago other organizations, com- posed chiefly of workingmen, were passing resolutions in similar language protesting agalust immigration from other parts of Europe. Now the descendants of the men women who werethen ‘the object of attack are in turn adopting the same tac tics against people whom they regard as inferior. Fifty years hence, weé suppose, the descendants of the Hungarians and Itallans and Bohemians whose incursion is now looked upon with fear will be prote: ing against the immigration of other races who will then be “‘a menace.” It s a fact that the bringing together of men and women of many races under one form of government has produced one of the great- est and most perplexing problems of social and political and economic life that the world has ever seen. But eo far it has been proved that the worst evils are the evils which are anticipated, yet never come. Every generation has its scarecrows, and often the scarecrows are Inherited. We think in large measure this is the case with the immigration scarecrow, as is evidenced by the recurrence of the same old resolu- tions with new excuses. POLITICAL DRIFT. At last congress b tucky Moss. Dave Hill might write a book or start a weekly newspaper. The municipal budget of Greater New York for 1902 will reach the snug sum of $100,000,000. Joe Manley of Maine concludes that the post of assistant postmaster general is mot quite his st The aldermen of Boston are a unique lot, They actually voted $500 out of their own pockets to the fund for the familles of the lost life savers at Monomoy. Former Benator Pettigrew of South Da- kota is dolng pretty well, thank you. “I found,” says Mr. Pettigrew, “that there is but one step between popocracy and plu- gathered some Ken- Direct taxation in the Empire state has been reduced to thirteen hundredths of a mill. Besides there is & surplus of $7,000,- 000 in the state treasury. The fruits of republican policies are agreeable and ap- preciable. The youngest governor in:the union is the newly inaugurated governor of the state of Washiugton, Willlam McCroskey, aged 25, who recently succeeded ex-Gov- ernor Rogers. Mr, McCroskey, who s & native of Tennessee, is & son of Rev. Solon McCroskey, a Methodist clergyman. He was graduated at Grant university at Athens, John G. Milburn of Buffalo, president of the Pan-American exposition, is regarded as the first cholce for the democratic nomi- nation for governor of New York. From a Dave Hill point of view Mr. Milburn's can- didacy is particularly desirable. Having been born abroad, his success as a candi- date would not interfere with the presi- dential mow in the incubator at Wolter! As the heat of the campalgn for re- election grows, Senator Mason of Illinois finds among his coustituents a rooted dis- respect for the dignity and integrity of the upper hou: Replying to a question from & schoolmal the senator sald he was trying to make a living in an honest way in the sepate. “Well, you shouldn't have much trouble,” observed the schoolmate, “1 don't think you encounter the slightest competition."” ‘While W. J. Bryan was in Washington re- cently he dined with & bunch of congress- men and sprung & story on himself: “A while ago,” he said, “I went with a party of friends to visit the Nebraska State Asylum for the Insa: 1 became separated from my party and wandered through some of the rooms alome. An iomate ap- proached me, and, seeking to be friendly, sald: ‘What are you in here for?” ‘Be- cause I belleve in the free unlimited colnage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1,' I replied, thinking to be facetious. ‘Huh!" said the inmate, moving off in disgust, ‘you ala't erazy; you're just & plais dum foel.’ MARCH 29, OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. 1902. Finland, having been fettered, is now be- ing gagged. That is the purport of the recent action of the Russian satrap who now rules that betrayed and crushed coun- try, A large part of the Finnish press has been entirely suppressed, and all that re- mains of it has been placed under a cen- sorship more arbitrary and tyrannical than that of Russia itself. The object seems to be the complete extirpation of the Fin- nish press. That will mean not only the stifiing of the volce of Finland to the outer world, but the prevention of that commun- ity of information which has enabled the Finns to act as a nation, and a degrada- tion of the ndard of popular intelligence in Finland to something like the Russian level—briefly, to reduce the Finn to the status of a mujik. How grave a blow to Finland this suppression of the native press is may be estimated from the fact that down to the line of the Russian com- quest, three years ago, Finland had nearly two hundred and fifty periodicals and was one of the foremost natfons of Europe In respect to famillarity with current litera- ture and the news of the world. The splendid system of education, which fs now belng wrecked by Ruseia, made Finland a particularly enlightened nation. Almost everybody was well read, in current mat- ters, as well as in standard branches of education. To crush the schools and to suppress the newspapers and magazines ls to stamp out a large part of the natfonal life and to strike the deadllest blow at the Integrity of the nation. o An interesting experiment in communal life 1s to be tried in the Schlachtensee su- burb of Berlin. A large house, containing thirty reoms, situated in extensive grounds of twenty acres, has been rented by a community of mutual acquaintances, among whom are both married and single. A monthly rent of from 15 to 20 marks will be levied for each room occupied. The housekeeping will be in common and the kitchen also. One lady and one gentleman will be elected to take charge of all the concerns of the house. These oMcers will be changed weekly. A bill of fare and all other matters of interest comnected with the establishment will be posted up In the hall. For food a dally charge of 1 mark will be made. Whether so0 moderate a charge will be increased later remains to be seen. There will be a good library and a commen drawing room, writing room, working room, and a dining room. Arrange- ments are al being made for a common playground and garden. The community will consist at first of forty persons, mostly engaged in literary and artfstic pursuits. . mwh.n the census of 1901 ehowed that o d only Wbout 2% per cent In ten years there was much surprise in England because of the sharp contrast made by such galns with the very large growth of the decade preceding. An increase of 20,000,000 or more had been expected. The famine and the plague accounted, in great part for the slow expansion of the population, and it seems probable that such destroyers will continue to keep down the number of inhabitants of a poverty-stricken and dis- tressed land. Recent dispatches from La- hore, the capital of the fine provinces known as the Punjaub, state that the plague is killing 2,000 persons a day in that part of India. The pestilence spreads rap- idly and is very virulent. If the mortality from one disease should continue long at that rate in a province containing not more than 25,000,000 people, it would effectually prevent any increase in the number of in- habjtants of the Punjaub, and other parts of Inflla are poorer, less salubrious and more ero\wdcfl. Anything in the way of huge calamities is possible in that land of swarming human life, barely maintained under no! conditions and doomed to perish whefi anything goes worse than usual. British rule has done much for India, but the condition of the famous old the goal of many -of eonquerors, point of view of mere decency and regard for human life, that the possession and gov- ernment of the country place terridly heavy obligations upon it m?'fl"h In many ways the county of Longford, Ireland, has served as a prophet for the whole island. Coneequently its census re- turns are being studied with considerable apprehension by the Irish press. The county covers an area of 269,408 acres, or 1.3 per cent of the total area of the country. In 1871 it had a population of 64,501; twenty years later this had dwindled to 52,647, while returns for 1901 show As compared with the returns of 1891 the re: cent census shows a decrease at the rate of 113 per cent. The number of distinct families is returned as 9,876, the average number of persons in a family being thus 4.6, and the number of inhabited houses W 799, showing an average of 4.7 per- sons to each house. Of the 9,876 families, 8,246 or 83.6 per cent were in occupation of less than five rooms and of these 2 were occuplers of part of a room only; 480 occu- pled one room and 2,095 occupied two rooms aplece; 4,381 occuplers of three rooms amd 1,308 occuplers of four rooms. As regards the tenements of one room, there were 193 cases in which the room had only one occupant, 197 where the room had 2, 3, or 4 occupants, 62 ca: with 5, § or 7 occupunts and 9 where the occupants exceeded 7 in number, including 6 cases of § persons and 3 of § persons in the room. e It seems plain that Austria-Hungary ls Light, Sweet Wholesome Bread, Cake Delicious Pastry are more easily, speedily, unfailingly made with ROYAL BAKING POWDER Royal Baking Powder is the great- est of time and labor savers to the. pastry cook. Besides, it economizes flour, butter and eggs, and, best of all, makes the food more digestible and healthful. ‘The ‘‘Royal Baker and Pastry Cook '’ —over 8oo practical and valuable cooking re- ceipts —free to every patron. Send full address. There are cheap bakii w- ders, made lrgm .135.,’%..: their astringent and cauter- izing qualities add a dangerous element to food. ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., 100 WILLIAM 8T, NEW YORK, —eee WATTERSON'S WAR CRY. !Rlunn her =0 much as to gather wild owers and grasses and then dye them all the colors of the rainbow. St. Paul Ploneer Press: Meanwhile | ool ‘onkers atesman: ‘° ¢ to hear a what Is Henry golag to do with W. J. |0 whistie at his work, Motke." Bryan? “‘Sure, and 1 do too, for when I hear a Chicago Record-Herald: Still, this fsn't | Whistie I always shtop,” replied Mik the first time Henry Watterson has| Chicago Tribune: The battle was shift thought the republic done for. ing to another part of' mz-hnem. & Philadelphia Ledger: Editor Watterson | genarsi’ “ope’ 'this mestage (o Colone alks with the abandon of & man who has | Garshy. and don’t let the grass grow under talks with the aband & 5 K b our feet, either!" no expectation of ever belng president. N ow can o1 prevent it, geperal” re- o spectrully asked the orderly," when I am to travei by balloon?” Boston Globe: Colonel Watterson now & man on horseback where omce he saw a path through a slaughter house to a graveyard, Kansas City Journal: Colonel Watter- son waked up rather suddenly eut of a dis- turbed dream and imagined he saw a bloody shirt waving. The colonel should take a liberal dose of bromo-seltzer for that shaky feeling. Chicago Inter Ocean: Henry Watterson has returned to his muttons. For the time being he has dropped the lighter questions of politics and has taken up again “the man on horseback.’ He is seeing “mill- tary despotism' ghosts once more. Indianapolls Journal: Since Mr. Wat- terson first denounced the Goebel election law amd then applauded it because it was framed to count in the demecratic candi- dates regardless of the majority of repub- lican opponents he has been entertaining, but his eriticisms in politics or morals QUEEN OF SPRING. James Barton Adams in Denver Post. The Queen stands at the gate, The Queen of epring, And seems to hesitate To come and bring Her birds and flowers and bees, For winter's breath Yet lingers and may freeeze Her pets to death. t soon her smile so warm Will melt the frost, Her motherly alarm Be from her tossed; 8he'll deck the lawns and trees With living green, Breathe balm into the breeze, e graclous Queen; She'll paint the timid' flowers With heavenly hues And strew the vernal bowers With gems profuse, Her hand will tint the skies A _charming blue, And from their unseen eyes Bring freshening dew have no welght. As livening tears to fall Upon the earth ES TO A sMI And mystically call The seeds to birth. That lasy feeling she Will give mankind Till screwed up faces we All walk behind Our maidens’ cheaks she'll flush With bloom ‘twill take The cookle from the blush The chemists make. 8he'll cause the sigh As birds to mate And start Ike Walton's sons To dig for bait. She'll bring us hats of straw And circus socks, And place within our paw The beer that bocks. These, and a thousand more Rich blessings she Wil lay beside our door With hand most free. Hence. as a mighty throng, We'll rise and sing That grand old welcome song: , Gentle Spring!™ Philadelphia Press: “Doctor, a fri f mine has assured me that sucking lemons il prevent seasiciness. ~Ia'that ‘truet" , . provided you sit | of & ftall tree while you s ji} e thade Washington Star: “Some folks,” Uncle Eben, “is 80 terrible good natured e:: duellyf;‘llll( dd: gllpolhlonl of fo' or five 3 s dat haa o { opon RSO0 e o taks. up der “spon ones e Journal: Mrs. Crimsonbeak— CrimaonbeakoThats: Hidion sy —That's ridiculous, . C=Why s It ridlculous? ause one swallow does make Ve seen It spring from one {wig Mrs. Cobwigger—So your daugh- great admirerof nature? ey Indeed. Judge ter is a Mrs. rvenue—Yes, Nothing preparing to take every commercial ad- vantage of the growing Russian impatience with German trade methods. An Austria- Russian Commercial assoclation has been formed in Vienna, and Herr Pol, one of the staff of the Austria-Hungarian consulate in Warsaw, in an address delivered before it the other evening, explained the best method of obtaining access to the Russian mar- kets. He sald that conditions had been greatly changed by recqnt political events, and that I Russian merchants were now very reluctant to deal with the Germans. They were aware that Austria had a highly developed industry, but from lack of direct intercourse with the manufacturers did mot know how to profit by it. The Russians wished to favor Austrian industry, but de- sired that the Austrians should make the firat overtures. Herr Pol said that Austrian exporters ought to send crowds of travel- to Russia. The consular authorities at Warsaw, Moscow, Kiel d other cen- ters could render them valuable but were powerless to do anything alone. They should follow the example of the German and English by issulng a periodi- cal ia the Russian language directing atten- tion to their wares. Pric jhould be given in rubles, and it would be a great advan- tage it they were made to Include customs duty and freight. Trading circles in War- saw had long been engaged in the discus- slon of an Austro-Russian commerclal treaty. All classes declared that they werg tired of the Germans. At a later meeting for the discussion of this subject repre- sentatives of the Forelgs office, the Min- istries of Commerce and the Interior, and of the most important industrial and com- mercial associations were present. Herr 's remarks evidently ha meral ap- plication. A Melancholy Suggestion. Detroit Free Press. 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