Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 3, 1902, Page 6

e ———c— ) 6 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE THURSDAY, APRIL 1902 ‘THE OMAHA DAILY BEE I Rnflh\\ ATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS. OF SUBSCRIPTION, afly Bee (Without Sunda unday Baturday Twentleth C " DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Daily Bes (without Sunday), per copy. Dally Bee (without Sunday), per week iiy Bee (Including Sunaay), per week unday Bee, per copy.... vening Bec (withou! Sunds Evening Bee week .. Complainia of irreguiarities in deiivery shoula be addressed to City Circulation De- partment. OFFICES. Omaha—The Bee Buliding. Bouth Omaha—City Hall Bullding, Twen- ty-ntth and M Strects. Council Blufts—i0 Pear! Street. ago—164) Unity Bullding. york—Temple Court. Wathington 01 Fourteenth Btreet. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi- torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS. Businese lettcra and remittances should be addressed: The Hee Publishing Com- pany, Umahe. REMITTANCES, Remit by draft, express or postal order, ayable to The ee Publishing Company. nly 2-cent stamps accepted in payment of mll accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchange, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. (Uncluding Bunda; BTATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. '!AI‘ of Nehnskl. Douglas County, o B. Tzschuck, secretary of Publl- ing Company, belng pays that gomplete coples of Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of March, 1%2, was as follows: 1 18 19 orn, e Aoveal. numtor of tull and ERERNRRERNNS Total - Less unsold and returned coples Net total sales. .. Net dally average GEO. B. TZSCHUCK. Subacribed in my presence and sworn to before me this l’h\l d‘i GE RASMUSHEN (Beal.) Notary Publie. e —— Anything from South Omaha? April showers are now due, according to the almanac. Carrle Nation would doubtless feel worse had she not gathered in the gate receipts in advance. | When it comes to spring house clean- ing, do not forget how effective a coat of fresh paint is as a contribution to- ward brightening up the city. ‘Wonder if the delegates assembling in Louisville to organize a consolidation of all the third parties secured permis- slon in advarce of Henry Watterson. | Lincoln has bad a narrow escape from becoming another Topeka, where may- ors are horsewhipped by gentle maidens who have an acute scent for prohibition whisky joints and bootleggers. l The outcome of the South Omaha elec- tion would indicate that the Omaha ma- chine, by a long pull, a strong pull and a pull all together, as they say at sea, managed to land its candidate by an overwhelming majority. The formal call for the republican state convention has been promulgated. Those Nebraska fusion committees may now govern themselves accordingly ‘without apprehension that there Is a string tled to the action of thelr op- ponents, S It turns out that the disinterested zeal of the grocers to fight the Standard Oil pompany was not o much to relieve the public of the grinding exactions of an odlous monopoly as to force the monopoly to make concessions to the ‘ grocers, As to the. school census, Omaha tax- payers are not so much interested in the ~whg personnel of the force of enumerators as In having the work done well. The school census furnishes the gauge for our share of the state apportionment of school money. S No telegram of congratulation under date of Lincoln, Neb., has yet been ('.lnn out for publication by M. Clark of Arkansas, who has practically re- celved a certificate of election to suc- wceed to Mr. Jones' seat in the United States senate. ——— Mayor Kelly's stool pigeon did not come out of the fray with much glory, baving recelved only 25 out of 4,400 votes polled at the South Omaha elec- tion. Mr. Carley bas a good ease for beavy damages against the man who put him up for slaughter. The total net earnings of the steel combine during the first year aggregate more than $111,000,000. This certainly affords food for reflection, but it does not answer the question how much the same plants would have earned had they been operated separately without the trust organization. ——— The elghth annual conventlon of the national officlals of bureaus of labor statistics is In session in New Orleans. These statisticlans may congratulate themeelves that never before have cap- ital and labor been productive of so much wealth to furnish them material to compile into statisties. ! Des Moines has an opportunity to get reduced street rallway fares at hours when workingmen going to and from their work are the principal passengers, on condition that no other companies be granted franchises to use the streets. The Des Molnes company must be A COUPLE OF TRUST LESSONN. The disclosures just made regarding the National Asphalt and the National Salt companies are interesting and in- structive. It appears that these dis. closures ‘did not come wholly as sur prises, but they showed that the affairs of these corporations are in a far worse shape than anyone had imagined. The salt company ackmowledged heavy losses in assets for the year and a de- crease of $750,000 in surplus after a payment of £651,000 in dividends. It is stated that the surplus of the company now amounts to less than $30,000, so that there Is no likelihood of dividends the present year. The report upon the asphalt company disclosed a thoroughly rotten condition. The promoters of that corporation declared in 1900 that profits from May to December of that year were $1,500,000, when they were really but a little over $300,000. “A wild overcapitalization,” says the New York Sun, “apparently deliberate misrepre- sentation on the part of the officers of the concern as to earnings and business prospects, fixed charges at $2,150,000 a year and net earnings $350,000 a year ~that was the asphalt company.” ‘What better argument could be desired than is furnished by such facts for legislation subjecting to supervision and publicity corporations engaged in inter- state trade? With such legislation, honestly enforced, companles like the above could not exist. Their promoters and officers would not be able to mis- lead the public respecting their business affairs and attract investors by fraudu- lent statements of their prospects and earnings. Supervision and a reasonable degree of publicity would put an end to the organization of corporations unmis- takably intended, as In the case of those referred to, to defraud the public, for we suppose that none but the most credu- lous will believe that the men who or- ganized those companies were honest in their purpose and seriously thought that the business would be sufficlently profit- able to pay dividends on the greatly ex- cessive capitalization. They have un- doubtedly made money, but by methods hardly less criminal than highway rob- bery, though the law may not reach them. There are other corporations, it is not to be doubted, that are just as bad as the Natlonal Asphalt and Na- tioual Salt companies and which in due time will be compelled to disclose thelr rotteaness. Meanwhile there is no indication that these facts are attracting any attention at Washington. No step has been taken to put into the form of law the sug- gestion of President Roosevelt that pub- licity is the first essential In determin- ing how to deal with the great indus- trial combinations. If there are men in congress who belleve with the president that “in the interest of the pub- lle the government should have the right to inspect and examine the work- ings of the great corporations engaged In interstate business,” they have as yet given no sign of such belief. Per- haps something will be done before the close of the session to give effect to the president's view of what is necessary, though at present there is nothing to warrant expectation of this. —— GERMAN MEAT EXCLUSION. It is possible that the opposition of the German preserved meat dealers to the proposed exclusion from Germany of meats preserved with borax, together with the declared purpose of our gov- ernment to retaliate, may induce the German government to recede from Its decision. The German meat men assert that there is nothing Injurious in the use of borax, in which they are un- doubtedly correct, and they also assert that the proposed regulations would work them much injury, which of course is the chief consideration. They have enlisted on their side some Influ- ential newspapers, one of which shows that the menace of retallation has pro- duced some effect, remarking that Ger- man Industries “must foot the bill and recelve severe blows as a result of American reprisals for the exclusion of borax-prepared meats.” There could of course be no reasonable objection to re- prisals when our government accepted the view of the German lmperial health board in regard to the injurious nature of borax. Meanwhile American packers appear not to be particularly disturbed over the wmatter. They will doubtless wel- come the position taken by the German preserved meat dealers, because its in- tluence will be serviceable elsewhere whether or not it shall have any effect upou thelr own government. The meat exporters of this country would not suffer very serlously from loss of the Gerwan trade, but there is dauger of the condemnation of weats preserved by borax Injuring thelr trade with other countries. The attitude of the German meat men will tend to wmini- wmize this d-n'er. Em——————— PANAMA CANAL TREATY. The instrument conveying to the United States the right to construct a canal along the Panama route, which the Colomblan minister and the coun- sel for the canal company have been engaged for several weeks in prepar- fng, will be presented to the State de- partment this week. It 1s sald that the treaty contalns an unqualified state- ment showing that the officlals of the Colomblan government unite with the limfted stockholders of the new Panama Caual company and the receiver for the old company, who was recognized by the court which authorized him to deed to the United States a clear and good title to the canal property. The general counsel for the new company says the idea that a good title could not be secured to the property will be exploded by the treaty. L Whatever reason there may lave been for doubt whether a clear title could be secured would seem to have been cleared away by a recent decjsion afrgld of prospective or possible com-|of the civil tribupal of the Seine at .m»*muwmu Paris authorizing the cession to the United States of the Panama canal [otopnry. The tribunal was glven spe- clal jurisdiction by a legislative act in 1808 over all rights of action of any character whatever accruing to owners of obligations emitted by the Unlversal company of the Panama interoceanic canal and over all actions emanating from the receiver. The decislon of this tribunal therefore puts an end to all question as to title, so far as the Pan- | ama company Is concerned, and it ap- pears that the Colombian government fully concurs in the proposed cession and very earnestly desires that the United States shall accept the property and complete the canal. This being the situation, Senator Morgan and other opponents of the Panama route must find some new reason for their opposi- tion, which may be somewhat difficult iIf the terms presented by Colombia are reasonable. THE OUTCOME IN SOUTH OMAHA. The people of South Omaha are to be congratulated upon the outcome of their city election, which is the culmination of their effort to secure better municipal government. In national and state elec- tions South Omaha has always been a democratic stronghold. In 1900 it gave Bryan over 000 majority. The election of Frank Koutsky as mayor, together with most of the candidates on the re- publican city ticket, could not have been brought about without a general up- heaval among the voters impelled with a desire to redeem South Omaha from disrepute. The first victory for good government was scored in the republican primaries when Mayor Kelly and the boodle gang he represented were burled under an avalanche of votes, in spite of the fact that they had control of all the mu- nicipal and party machinery. The re- publicans rallied to Koutsky because he had a clean record and enjoyed the con- fidence of the community. When the democrats in defiance of public sentiment placed at the head of their ticket a man identified with the recent school board frauds, the better element of the party repudiated the tainted candidate and gave their sup- port to a clean republican. The attempt to stop the democratic defection by bug- bears and roorbacks failed to have its expected effect. Intelligent voters of Bouth Omaha were not to be stampeded by such stupid tactics and the tidal wave o favor of Koutsky also carried with it nearly all of his assoclates on the republican ticket. The advent of the new administration will, we confidently belleve, inaugurate a4 new era in the management of the municipal affairs of South Omaha. With the assurance of an economic and efficient ¢ity government the Magic eity should enter upon a period of unexam- pled progress and prosperity. p— THE FIRE CURONER. The proposition to create the office of fire coroner will meet with no objec tions from Omaha taxpayers, providing the creation of the office will not in- crease (he city pay roll. This can read- ily be done if the city gas inspector, who now draws $1,500 per year, is made fire coroner. At present the gas inspector's office is a sinecure that should have been abolished years ago, but if the gas inspector can be made useful as well as ornamental by performing the functions of fire coroner, he will be able to earn his salary. The duties of the fire coroner will hardly take up much of the time of any one man. His functions, as outlined in the resolution adopted by the council, will be to ascertain the causes of fire, estimating the damage and checking up the salvage. Under ordinary clreum- stances the fire coroner will probably not be employed more than four or five days a month in the inspection and checking up of salvage, Consequently his duties will not interfere in the least with those now devolving upon and pre- sumed to be performed by the gas in- spector. If the council can be induced to resist the pressure from parties who are op- posed to the inspection of explosives, the duties of the gas inspector and fire coroner might be further enlarged by charging him with the inspection of warehouses and bulldings in which ex- plosives are stored. An ounce of pre- vention is worth a pound of cure, If we can prevent fires from explosive olls and chemicals, we might save the cor- oner the trouble of Inspecting salvage besides making charges for the inspec- tion of the premises of dealers in ex- plosives pay his salary. These sugges- tions ought not to meet with opposition from the fire insurance companies, who are more interested in prevention of fires than they are in the salvage of the remnants. m—— The proposition to have Attorney General Knox come to the rescue of the club women by untangling the con- tention over the color question seems destined to prove abortive. No one has been able to discover where any legal issue is involved, as the matter of mem- bership in the club women's federation depends entirely upon their own wishes formulated into thelr constitution. The club women will have to straddle the color line if they cannot wmuster up courage enough to get on one side or the other. S The appropriation for maintaining Omaba's Indian supply depot 18 re- ported to be again in precarious condi- tlon. There Is no serlous danger, how ever, of its going by the board. Even should the senate fall to include the item in the Indian bill, Our Dave may be depended on to appear at the proper mowment after it gets into conference committee and rescue the supply depot midst sonorous stage thunder and fiery lightning flashe It is not exact to say that Cuba will on May 1 become & foreign country. Cuba is and has always been a foreign country, never having been brought un- der our sovereignty, except for purposes of occupation. Up to the present, how- ever, it bas never had a mw of | ) Minority Rule in the South Boston T Last year at the opening of the short session, almost a year before President McKinley died, and while there was at least a probability that the Hanna ship subsidy bill could be passed, and before Cuban reciprocity had even been discussed as an issue, It required all the influence of the administration to avert an inquiry as to the means, methods and extent of the disfranchisement of the colored voters of the south. There was indeed a brief and futile discussion of the matter in the house, despite the opposition of the ad- ministration leaders. who finally got the troublesome question out of the way by referring it to the committee on the census The difficulty which most troubled the McKinley administration, which had many times more influence with congress than the Roosevelt administration possesses, was the earnest conviction of such men as Mr. Crumpacker, Mr. Olmsted and others that the iseue presented by disfranchisement at the south transcended all party questions in importance and challenged the integrity of the constitution. The conclusion on which these gentlemen stood then has not been affected by anything which has oc- curred since the last session. The chal- lenge presented by oertain distranchise- ment methods followed in the south is as peremptory now as it was then. That chal- lenge is to the clause in section 2 of article xiv of the constitution—the fourteenth amendment—which says: “But when the right to vote at any elec- tion for the cholce of electors for presi- dent and vice president of the United States, representatives in congress, the executive and judiclal officers of a state, or the members of the legislature thereof, is denfed to any of the male inhabitants of such state, belng 21 years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any ranseript way abridged, except for participation in re bellion or other crime, the basis of repre sentation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens 21 years ot age in such state."” The resolution which it is proposed to bring forward as the warrant for investi- gating distranchisement provides for a gen eral inquiry and gives the opponents legilative action on this subject any oppor- tunity there may be for argument that you can do an unconetitutlonal thing in a con- stitutional way. Reduced to its last analysis the question is whether the United States by its silence shall tacitly consent to a practical modification of the constitution in intent and purpose. Sectionally consid ered the question is whether the voting millions of the north and west can afford to allow their interests to be passed upon by senators and representatives who are elected by what is and what fis intended to be the permanent, but dominant minority of the male inhabitants of the south 1t the south insists that its basis of rep- resentation In congress shall include vote- less millfons it cannot wholly escape the responsibility for ralsing the ‘“‘sectional’ fesue. To what an extent disfranchisement makes & state a close corporation is seen in the fact that Mississippl cast but 50,190 votes in 1000 in electing seven congress- men, counting all tickets. The agsregate of the votes cast for the seven successful candidates was 47,640. In Massachusetts the aggregate of all votes cast in the first and second districts alone at the same elec- tlon was 66,411, and the aggregate of the votes cast for the two successfu] candidates was 84,124. Such a contrast of bases of elec- tlon speaks for itself, both in its present aspect and probable tendency. its own. Previous to its war of libera- tion its foreign affairs were directed by and subject to the Spanish government and slnce the withdrawal of Spain it has occupled a sort of position of tutelage to the United States. On May 20 Cuba will present to us a foreign government responsible for its relations with this and other countries and our dealings with Cuba will have to be through the diplomatic arm of the government, in- stead of, as now, through the military authorities. ‘When Sloane offered himself as inde- pendent candidate for mayor in South Omaha he was boosted by the popocrats because they expected him to draw heavily from disaffected republicans. Now the same popocrats are abusing him for drawing away votes from the democratic candidate. A Revised Version. Detroit Free Press. Cecil Rhodes' last lament might more properly h‘\o been: ‘So many to do, and 80 few don Exp) Order. Philadelphia Press, Colonel Watterson has been compelled to send out a dlagram to explain what he meant. An explanation of the diagram will come later, It Waa Enough. ‘Washington Post. Many of the members of that Colorado mob were not the least bit concerned over the gullt or innocence of their vietim. It was enough for them to know that he was a Pullman porter, Is the Civil War Over? Brooklyn Eagle. Gentlemen of congress, it is not possible that over 200 worthy orptans of union sol- diers should have heen overlooked for forty years. It is too late to peneion them now. Please to consider the civil war as over. It was a crucl war and some pensions are as cruel. Effect of the Rebate. New York Tribune. Illegal rebates on rallroads have had much to do with the growth of the power of the combination which has raised the price of meats in most of the cities, towns and villages of the country. Will the In- terstate Commerce commission succeed in lessening this abuse? Freaks of Time's Whirligig. Chicago Chronicle, It has been discovered that the corona- tlon souvenir buttons Americans are eagerly buying In England were made in thig coun- try. Thus doth the whirligig of time bring a gentle revenge. It was dlscovered on the fleld of Antietam that the buttons on the gray jackets were all made in Manches- ter. Renewing Bonds of Friendship. 8t. Louls Globe-Democrat. The treaty of friendship between the United States and Spain, which only awaits the signature of the American minister in Madrid to make It effective, will give satls- faction to this country. The trade between Spain and the United States has greatly in- creased since the close of the war in 1898. It is much larger now than it was before that conflict and the general tendency fs upward. All the conditions point to a per- manent peace between the two countries. This is a source of speclal gratification to the United States. A Story with a Moral. Springfield (Mass.) Republican, The sudden pain and sorrow of the rail- way combinations over the disposition of President Roosevelt to enforce the anti- trust law recalls the case of the country- man who was grinning at the way his bull- dog got hold of people in his playful nippy sort of way, untll there happened slong a stout young fellow with a walking stick as big as his arm, which he promptly uplifted. Horror spread over the dog owner's face. “Look out,” he cried in accents of reproof “that's the way to epile dawgs, that 1s." The man with the stick allowed that he had Do particular objections to spilin’ dogs when it was necessary. The rallway people think President Roosevelt 1s an excellent intentioned young man, but given to spoil- ing things. . Tr Press. St Paul Ploneer “It did not look very large to me," J. Plerpont stand in answer to a question wbout the sald Morgan when on the witness | purchase of $26,000,000 of Northern Pacifio stocks for J. J. Hill, as to which he was twitted by the examining counsel for mot remembering all the details of the trans. action. “It did not look very large to me. The amount of cash invelved was not more than $3,000,000." Not more than $3,000,000. Just think of it! These big financiers toss their millions about with less concern than the ordinary housewife for the few dollars | with which she pays her grocery bill. But them, as It was other people’s momey, not bis own, that Morgan was talking sbout no wonder a man who s the financial agent in transactions which sometimes require the aggregation of hundreds of willions thought three million & mere bagatelle, |tere they become marketable.” NEW YORK'S EASTER PARADE. Greatest Show on Earth Favored with Smiling Skies. While all the favored land from the Alleghenies to the Rockles was storm- tossed on Easter Sunday, giving to the glad sweet song of re-awakened life and hope, the sob of rooted sorrow and making floral headwear look like thirty cents, New York reveled in genial sunshine, blue skies and balmy air. It was so unusual at this sea- son, 8o rare a emile of Providence in that locality, that the people turned out In their best clothes and paraded along the avenues for the edification of each other. “It is no exaggeration to say,” writes the corre- spondent of the Philadelphia Ledger, “that for beauty and joyousness the city surpassed itself. The churches were crowded to the doors. The music was of the highest order of excellence. The floral display was mag- nificent. The ‘parade of spring fashions' on Fifth avenue crowded that great thorough- fare from the Washington Arch to Central Park. Tens of thousands visited the ceme- teries. Others less seriously disposad spent the day on their wheels or in their autos or behind their fast horses. The Speed- way was filled. There was a notable revival of interest in wheeling amd the Coney Island bleycle path resembled the palmy days of four years ago.” ““The sight of the day," reports the New York Times, “was when the church services were over and the crowds poured into the streets. There was a tremendous crowd on Fifth avenue, but the old-time parade did Bot occur. Perbaps there were too many horses and automobiles to make the parade possible. It was impossible for one to 8ee across the street or to be seen from across the etreet, and then there was a vast horde of people out to witness the exit of the churchgoers of Fifth avenue, and the sightseers were filled with ambi- tion to show off their finery of the Bowery and Baxter street, so that fashionable people, dreading the rivalry hastened home. Few had ordered their carriages, and the hack drivers did an enormous business at rates so extravagant that they reaped a rich harvest. “In the early afternoon there was a pa- rade much like the old-time display of fashion on Fifth avenue, but it was held along the walks of Riverside Drive. Next to the fact that men of fashion have not agreed on any particular style of silk hat was the beauty of the gowns of the women. Men who are known in Wall street and at the prominent clubs paraded in their long coats of splendid fit, gray trousers and patent leather shoes. They wore in the lapels of their coats as a rule lilles of the valley, though many preferred a bunch of violets. Their clothing was singularly similar, but the man who could say that his silk hat was the right thing must have been supremely content with his own in- dividual judgment. There were tall hats that sloped toward the crown or went straight to the top in the French style, and there were low-crowned bell-shaped hats with wide brims that would look well on any caricature of John Bull, and there were all sorts of other hate.” “The Easter bounet was out in full glory and the picture hat seemed to have the best of it—not a plumed Gainsborough, but a hat with a wide brim tilted forward over the eyes and curved far back over the hair, where there was & bow with long ends, much like the affair one sees in the plctures of Jennle Lind, or perhaps better of Clara Loulse Kellogg. An equal favorite was a Spanish toque, or a headgear that woman wears on the side of her head, like a toreador. There were many other shapes, but the most of these patterns must be in the milliners' shops unsold, for the new plcture hats and the Spanish hats appear to have all been bought up before Easter. “Many women wore, even in the sun- shine, where it must have been a discom- fort, a long flowing cloak of light silk, and in many patterns, the polka-dot belng the most seen. The conspicuous thing about the wrap was the yoke. This was trimmed with expensive lace, mostly white or cream color. Women called them ‘“yokes,” but men insisted on describing them as “turn down collars running all the way round and fastening in the front.” One man in- sisted that they were like the collars worn in the time of Queen Elizabeth, with the excep- tion that the collars then stood up, and, tnstead of fastening in the front, flared at the throat." “It would be quite impossible,” says a New York letter, “to estimate with any degree of accuracy. how many milllons of dollars were spent for flowers this Easter. All that is known is that never before has there been such a lavish display. This s confirmed by the testimony of all the florists and is attested by the evidence of one's senses. The floral decorations in the churches were literally on a scale of mag- nificence. St. Patrick’s cathedral wae a field of lilles, roses and palms, two great crosses of lilies being especlally conspicu- ous. Im Bt. George's church potted geraniums were so arranged as to make a white cross against a background of red In the afternoon the pots of flowers were distributed among 1,200 children. Southern ivy covered the back of Dr. Parkhurst's church. It was noticeable that the Ber- muda lily was not as conspicuous this year formerly, but there has been a large importation of lily bulbs from Japan. These have to be cultivated for a long time be- A Why is ROYAL Baking Powder bet- ter tha.n a.ny other? Because in its mammoth works a corps of chemical experts is con- stantly employed to test every ingre- dient and supervise every process of manufacture to insure a product ab- solutely pure, wholesome and perfect in every respect. The most wholesome food and the most digestible food are made with Royal Baking Powder. ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO\, 100 WILLMM 8T., NEW YORK. WHY BEEF HAS GONE UP, Large Supply of Prosperity and Short Crop of Corn. Chicago Tribune. There has been an advance in the price of beef-—an advance which from the point of view of the consumer has no redeeming features. There are widely varying ex- planations of this rise in price. The one which seems to meet with the most favor in New York is that the Chicago packers constitute a “combine’” which has the con- sumers of the country by the throat. It Is alleged that but for this ‘“combine” the price of beet would not be o exorbitant as to make many poor New Yorkers become vegetarians much agalinet their will. The Chicago packers are accused of mak- ing money at both ends—of paying the cat- tle raisers less than a fair price for their live stock and then exacting an excessive price for their dressed meat. These pack- ers have no doubt at one time and another had their little combinations to keep down the price of cattle and keep up that of meat, but this latest advance in the price of beef is not fairly chargeabls to them. The explanation of the secretary of agricul- ture that the advance is due to a large sup- ply of prosperity and a small supply of corn is undoubtedly the correct one. When Americans are hard up they manage to live on Inferior meats or on bread and potatoes. When prosperous they demand beef. Never were there %0 many people who consider themselves entitled to demand this superior meat as there are now. Naturally this in- creasing demand has its effect on prices. There was a notable shortage In the corn crop last year. It has cost the cattle rafs- ers more to feed their cattle. Such is the demand for beef that the cattlemen are able to get back when they sell their cattle all that has been #pent on them and a good deal more. The men who own cattle are not grumbling at this time. They are not accusing the packers of robbing them, they have done when cattle on the hoof brought much less than they do now. The cattlemen are fat and saucy at this time. Americans who feel that cheap steaks and roast beef are essential to their happiness should pray for an enormous corn crop this year. In the event of such a crop it whl cost less to fatten beef and it wilj be easler for the beef lovers to get their hearts’ desire. It they must blame some- body for present high prices let it be Provi- dence, not the packers. PERSONAL NOTES. Edward Everett Hale Is now regarded as the foremost Bostonfan. When Johnnle comes marching heme from Cuba he will make two nations glad. Henry Watterson likes the United States, but not the way in which it is managed. Nelson Kneass, who wrote the music of “Ben Bolt” to the words of Thomas Dunn English, dled a vagabond. Aaron Fremch, who died in Pittsburg the other day, was the inventor of the spiral car spring now used by all raliroads, Charles Felton Pidgin, author of the well known novel “Quincy Adams Bawyer,” has invented a number of machines for the me- chanical tabulation of statistics. In honor of the accession of the young king of Spain, whose coronation takes place on May 12, the queen regent proposes that & general amnesty should be granted to all prisoners them undergoing sentence. Rudolph von Kaltenborn, one of the best known Germans in this country, died at Merrill, Wis, several days ago. He w an officer in the Hessian army and served for Prussia through the Franco-Prussian war. “Uncle Heary” Davis, printer and actor, died last week In Louisville, Ky., aged 85. He worked as a compositor before the war on the old Journal, was stage manager of the Leulsville opera house, went on the stage and for a few years taught a school of acting in Loulsville. Patrolman Jobn M. Penniman, who has eerved on the Boston police force for fifty- four years, was retired on Friday last at his own request and will hereafter receive a pensioh of $600 a year. He was the old- est officer in polnt of service in the city. His age is 79 years. A BUNCH OF SMILES. Chicago Pos grandfather?’ “He's nsulted. and he haj the good d “What's the matter with You see, he's nearly &, ppened to hear you remark that e yoang.' Judge: (1lndyfl—lu young Mr. Jackson in business for himself Ethel-Well, hardly. We gaged for two weeks now. Somerville Journal: Ned—Why don't you play golf, old man? Tom—To tell the truth, have been en- 1 haven't got the right kind of leg: Boston Transeript —Rother birth and opportunity! A man has his future in his own hands. What I am I made myself. Synnex—Oh, well; I wouldn't feel bad about {t, Horkins, 'Of course you woudn't do it again. Chicago Tribune Why do they call these congressional for appropriations rivers and harbors ‘pork’? the visitors. o1 have sometimes wondered at myself,” said Senator Lotsmun. “The calities that doi't get anything always do a lot of beefing over it.” Philadelphia Press: The tenderfoot was announcing his intention or showing the ;‘c‘mlhuh westerners a thing or two about g L, he asserted, “have plenty of dough. Don't forget that.” murmured the Mexlca “will be a nll«h"nl for us." hat's {his bill, "o fowers for asked the lrenlL.er of the arked one of that monte ou, dealer, Judge: church, $689° officlal board “That is for the plained the chafrman. did you do—try at the building. Washington Star: “What do vou think we had better do about this man who keeps saying things against you?’ et Tim Jalone,’” answered ‘the ‘practical “When the people get tired of they'll say that he's a bore probably a much-misrepre- Easter flowers,” ex- to get a hat for oliticlan earing him and that sented man. TELL THE POLICEMAN, James Barton Adams in Denver Post. If you bear a load of trouble that you think may bend you double and the burden grows no lighter a you plod along the way. day i one o sorrow and no Joy in tomorrow, .1 if the sun’ of olden promise 'sends to you no Cheery ray, not cloak® your face with msadness and_in sort of semi-madness pour your story in the ears of friends you meet upon the street— have cares too great to mention that require their whole atten- tion; g0 and sing your doleful gonf 1o the policeman on the eat Do They his shoulders _bears some burdens big as boulders and none of them cares to have you plle your own upon the load, Doesn't care to hear you chewlng at the rag In grum reviewing of" the way you feel the prickings of misfortune's cruel goad. Every man upon Though he listens ~to. vour _fretting he 5 carnestly regretting that he cannot bid you wander to the land of flery “heat— Or, to _more politely put It, he Is w you would cut it' and would g0 and tell your troubles to the copper on the beat Bear the load 'neath which you labor; do not seek to have a nelghbor g0 ahead and brush aside the thorns that in your path are thrown, although he may not show it, may not care to let you know It, you can bet your frowning features he has troubles of his own. If it gives vou satiefaction thus to keap Jour Jaw in action seek & sympathetic earer out upon the quiet street— When you see a blg star glisten there yoirll find an ear to listen and your troubles you can tell to the police- man on the beat. For, Putting off any longer what you should do right now, and that is, to buy your spring suit before they are all picked over and your size gone. 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