Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 4, 1902, Page 6

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1902 ‘THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. , EDITOR. E. ROSEWATE PUBLISHED EV Y MORNI TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, aily Bee (without Sunday), One Year ally Bee and Sunday, U Year.. Tllustrated Bee, One Year.......... Bunday Bee, One Year Baturday Bée, One Year...... Twentieth Century Farmer, One Year.. DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Batly Bee (without Sunday), per copy.. aily Bee (without Sunday), per week. Daily Bee (including Sunday), per week Bunaay Bee, per copy... Evening Bee (without Sund: | Evening Bee (ncluding 8 week . . toressscreidil Complaints ‘of irregularities in delivery | shoula ve addressed to City Circulation De- 1] rtment. Lo OFFICES. Omaha—The Bee Bullding, Bouth Omaha—City Hail Bullding, Twen- ty-frth and M Streets. Council Bluffs—10 Pear] Street. Chicago—1640 Unity Bullding. New York—Temple Court. Washington—1 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. 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Mr. Littlefield thinks the chances for the passage of the bill are good and in regard to its being obnoxious to many corporations, which of course such legis- lation would be, he remarked that they would scarcely be able to oppose the plan with any very good grace, since It is as fair to one as to another and it would be no more injurious to have a particular éorporation’s affairs known to its rivals than to have their business known to it The Littlefield bill does not go so as some may think expedient or n sary in order to secure satisfactory sults, but its author does not think it would be wise to propose a too drastic measure at the outset. Thus, for in- stance, he is of the opinion that noth- re- Omaha or eastern exchange, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. BTATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. ka, Douglas County, B. Taschick, secretary of The Bee Publmm Company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and complete coples of The Dally, Morning, Evening and SBunday Bee printed during the ; month of March, 18, Total Less unsold and returned coples.... 9,907 07,613 277 Net total sales. Net dally average. GEO. B. TZSCHUCK. Bubscribed in my presence and sworn to efore me this 3ist day of March, A. 1902 GEORGE RASMUSSEN (Beal.) Notary Publ e —————— ] Forecast of the report on the Christ- mas bribery charges—Nothing in it, — ‘When the allied reform forces and the fusion reform forces meet, then will come the tug of war. When congress gets after the alleged beef trust the beef magnates may be Ing would be galned by attaching a taxation provision to the bill as a pen- alty for refusal to submit returns, being disposed to rely very largely upon the fact that the declaration provided for in the bill was to be made under oath, although admitting that in the case of personal property and Income taxes the principle of declaration had not worked very satisfactorily. Obvlously any legis- lation of this kind should be sufficiently comprehensive to be reasonably sure of effecting the desired object, otherwise it would soon become a dead letter. However, It is gratifying to know that a serious effort is to be made to secure some legislation requiring corporations engaged In interstate comme to let the public know their financial condition and 1t Is to be hoped Mr. Littlefield will press his bill to consideration as soon as possible. e— THE CHRISTMAS CHARGES, Thus far not the slightest bit of evi dence has been found to warrant the charges made by Captain Christmas in connection with the negotiations for the sale of the Danish West Indies and it Appears entirely safe to say that none can be found. All the witnesses ex- amined by the congressional committee have testified that they had only a casual acqualntance with Christmas and had never talked with him In regard to the negotiations, or recelved any sort expected to begin beefing. Se———— Prepare for still another boost of in- surance rates to make good the loss of that famous Board Walk. The republican city machine still ap- pears to be the nightmare of the Jack- sonians and Jeffersonians of these parts, The arguments before the referee in the tax mandamus case have been con- cluded. Thank God from whom all blessings flow. — That strike on the Boston brewerles must be regarded most unfortunate when we recollect that the bock beer season is almost due. With a $250,000 Carnegie free public Jibrary to start with, the city of Havana ought to strike a good gait down the pathway of twentieth century culture. emmstp———— General Dewet has been a troublesome customer for the British ever since the commencement of the Boer unpleasant- ness and promises to keep up his record to the end. The next city election in Omaha will pecur in March, 1903, It is a trifle too early to begin to worry about the prob- able candidates who will contest for nominations next winter. s Ex-Senator Allen repudiates the Louisville reform meeting as an assem- blage of spurious populists. No reform goes for the fusion wing that does not bave the Bryan label burned in the cork and blown in the bottle. e— According to Interstate Commerce Commissioner Prouty, the rallroads of this country are now practically con- grolled by five men. Five railway kings make a full hand and they doubtless Aave their hands full also. —_— Mayor-elect Koutsky has announced that he proposes to turn over in cash to his successor as city treasurer of Bouth Omaha every cent of city money in his possession. Here is a republican example for fusion municipal reformers. Bo long as Chauncey Depew persists In going around with a chip on his shoulder he must expect his colleagues in the senate to essay to knock It off from time to time. The other senators are merely jealous of Depew and his young wife. Governor Savage has assured the As- of proposition from him. To further discredit the alleged ne- gotiator for the sale of the Islands comes an official announcement from the cap- ital of Denmark that the Danish min- istry has had no connection with Chris- mas; that the premier refused to see him when he asked for an audience and also refused to receive a.copy of a re- port by Christmas on the subject of ne- gotiations. This statement ought to be sufficlent to satisfy any reasonable per- son that tke fellow Christmas is a fraud and his allegations totally unworthy of serfous consideration by a committee of congress. Probably Mr. Richardson, the democratic house leader, who called for the investigation, belleved there was something in the charges, but he must now see that he was misled, not to say duped, and that he made a great mis- take In not sifting the matter himself Instead of rushing it upon the attention of congress upon inadequate authority. But the expectation of making a little political capital was irresistible. e THE PRESIDENT AND IRRIGATION. No one {s more earnestly In favor of the reclamation of the arid lands than President Roosevelt. This was clearly shown In his extended treatment of the subject in his first message to congress, He pointed out the benefits that would result to the whole country from the reclamation and settlement of the arld lands and showed a comprehensive fa- millarity with the question of Irrigation. It was reported recently that the presi- dent disapproved of the irrigation bill that passed the senate and 18 now In the house. He was said to have told friends of the measure who called upon him that he fully belleved in the value and necessity of the great undertaking which the bill proposed, that he thought any money judiciously expended in the creation and operation of a system of irrigation such as the supporters of the pending measurp had in view would be well Invested, and that he approved the general purpose of the bill and only eritielsed some of its provisions which he considered ill-advised. He was re- ported to have espectally disapproved of that section of the bill which places the local government of the state where irri- gation Is Intended to be ijostituted in control of 1ts operation. His argument was stated to be that works constructed at the expense of the United States gov- ernment should be under the exclusive control of that government and that every arrangement for the distribution of the water furnished by means of the irrigation canals should be made and executed under the supervision of the soclated Press agent at S8t. Joseph that every penny of the $181,000 for the em- bezzlement of which Bartley was con- victed would be repald into the state treasury. This will be gratifying news to Nebraska taxpayers, but as most of them hail from Missouri, they will have to be shown. S—— Bouth Omaba democrats are like new- born kittens. It takes nine days for them to open their eyes. Although only forty-elght hours have passed since the election, they are, however, beginning to blink apnd wonder why it was the World- Herald had not sald one word editorially in favor of the democratic city ticket during. the whele campaign. 1t will poon begin to dawn upon these hewers of wopd and drawers of water in the demo- eratlc camp that their organ resewbles the heathen Chinee, who for ways that are dark and tricks that are vain is reputed to be very peculiar, federal authorities. Later information is to the effect that the previously reported attitude of the government should be to aid irrigation In the several states and territories in such manner as will enable the people In the local communities to help them- selves, and as will stimulate needed re- forms in the state laws and regulations governing irrigation.” This doubtless is the present position of the president—that water distribution among irrigators should be left to the settlers themselves in conformity with state laws—and consequently he would not require the striking out of the sec- tlon he is reported to have especially objected to, though recommending Iite modification, which it is said will be done. The very strong argument presented by President Roosevelt for the reclama- tion of the arid lands warrants the be- llef that there will be no obstruction on his part to irrigation legislation. MUNICIPAL, OWNERSHIP TIMENT The trend of public sentiment in The legisiature of the great atate of Towa, the Massachusetts of the middle west in stock and political traditions, has passed a jolnt resolution asking congress to submit an amendment to the constitu- tion so as fo permit the election of United States senators by popular vote This is the answer of the greatest state ot the transmississipp! west to United States Senator Hoar's announcement that he will do his best to prevent the submission to the states of a constitutional amendment providing for the election of senators by the people. Senator Hoar is an old man, in his seventy-sixth year, but he may, and probably will, live to see this political re- form he opposes enacted. Outside of the United States senate it meets with no op- position from any influential faction of either party, dnd this means its enactment within ten years. The popular movement for changing the mode of election to the United States senate is due to the fact that men are sent to the senate by venal legis- latures whose ability and standing do not American cities is steadily growing in favor of the municipal ownership of | wretchedly inadequate president toward the pending bill was exaggerated and that in a couference with him of friends of the weasure it was ascertalned that it will not be nee- essary to strike out the section of the bill relating to state control and dis- tribution of water, but simply to change the phraseology. In his message Mr. Roosevelt sald: *“These Irrigation works should be built by the national govern- ment. The lands reclalmed by them should be reserved by the government for actual settlers and the cost of con- struction should so far as possible be repald by the land reclaimed. The dis- tribution of the water, the division of the streams among Irrigators, should be left to the settlers themselves in con- formity with state laws and without interference with those laws or with vested rights. The policy of the national public utilitles. At last Tuesday's elec- tion in Chicago two propositions as to municipal ownership were submitted to the voters. One of these was for an ex- pression for or against the ownerflhlp] by the city of Chicago of all street rail- roads within the corporate limits; the =econd for the ownership by the city of Obicago of the gas and electric lighting plants, said plants to furnish light, heat and power for both public and private use. While neither of these propositions carrled anything more with it than a test of public sentiment, the vote that registered the popular opinion was over- whelmingly In favor of the municipal ownership idea in spite of the declara- tion of the most widely circulated news- paper that it was impossible for the elty to acquire and operate the plants of the franchised corporations, and further- more that, even if it could do so, it would be against public policy to at- tempt it. Out of a total vote of 166,000 cast in the Chlcago election nearly 25,000 were cast in favor of municipal ownership and less than 25,000 against it, the remaining ballots being left blank. The prime cause of this popular de- mand is not 8o much because its in- auguration is expected to effect a ma- terial reduction in taxation or saving to private consumers as it is because of the general dissatisfaction with the service and the corrupt influence exerted by the franchised corporations upon municipal officials and lawmakers. The street raflways of Chicago have for years been to the public need and the tampering with legisla- tures and city councils by the street car magnates and their agents has intensi- fied public resentment. In many parts of Chicago the horse car still traverses the street and people are subjected to intense discomfort in overcrowded slow- conch cars, when they have a right to demand modern transit with subway trolleys. What is true of Chicago Is true only in lesser degree of other citles. Such unsatistactory conditions naturally stim- ulate agitation for municipal ownership, which simply voices popular discontent and offers the only hope of tangible re- lief and redress, — The minority report in the house of representatives on the proposed pure food legislation raises the old point of states rights, denying to the hational government any constitutional right to exercise such powers of regulation. This was once a much-disputed question, but the courts have passed on it repeatedly, uphoiding the federal authority under the interstate commerce clause of the constitution. The states unquestionably have the right to enforce regulation of food products within their jurisdictions, but under present industrial conditions are unable to cope with the problem in its entirety. Pending congressional pure food bills may have objectionable fea- tures, but the states rights plea will bardly make any lmpression agalust them at this stage of the proceedings. e—————— The night before the South Omaha election Constantine J. Smyth declared that in his opinion an indictment by the late grand jury was a badge of honor and a recommendation for popu- lar favor. But the court of public opin- jon, sitting in judgment on the ballot box, reversed the champion of true re- form by a most decisive majority. Once more we have another striking proof that the voice of the people I8 the volce of God — And now a famine in whisky is pre- dicted because there are only 17,000,000 gallons in sight, whereas the annual consumption is estimated at 25,000,000 gallons. Such conditions would favor a corner on whisky, but there is no call for any one man to try to get a corner on it all in himself. — Greatest Show on B Philadelphia Ledger. A debate between Henry Watterson and Benjamin F. Tillman on almost any sub- ject would interest a large portion of the population. A Stra Chicago Record-Herald. In ome of his recent speeches Colonel Henry Watterson referred to ‘“the multi- tudinous waves of the Pacific Can it be possible that the colomel is turning to water for inspiration? Same Old Story. Indlanapolis Journal. The statement that the democrats in lowa are carrying municipal elections recalls the remark of a democrat who declared that the party had a capacity for carrying elec- tions that were of no use to them. Coolness Under Fire. Philadelphia Ledger. That was & remarkably cool-headed audi- ence which escaped uninjured from a burn- ing theater in Cincinnati on Sunday. The place was crowded, standing room and all, warrant any such elevation. The legisla- tures in a number of states have elected senators whose sole claim to the honor lies In thelr wealth and their willingness to use it, directly or indirectly, to pur- chase the senatorship. A popular elec- tion would not enmtirely redeem this dis- graceful situation, but it would certainly greatly reform it. It is, of course, true that mogey can be used in popular elec- tions, as well as in legislative elections, but it cannot be so easily and so economic ally employed to obtain a sure venal re- sult. A nomination can be bought by money in a convention, but a nomination does not always mean an election. A man may buy a nomination and yet be com- pletely beaten at the polls. If a leglsla- ture {s venal, a man like Senator Clark of Montana can get the senatorship, but it is impossible to buy up an entire people. Furthermore, a strong reason for chang- ing the present mode of electing United Election of Senators Portland Oregondan (rep.) States senators is that the system does not always elect Vacancles through fallure of the legislature to elect have occurred within the last ten years In Washington, Oregon Montana, Pennaylvania, and at the time the state of Delaware Is left wholls unrepresented in the United States senato through the inability of a faction rent lex tslature to come to a decision. A system under which the non-representation of a state in the United States senate is pos eible is become vicious in its results, and needs utter reformation by absolute ex tinction. The house of representatives has four times passed a constitutional amend ment making senators elected by the pop ular vote. More than half the states through their legislatures, have asked for the adoption of this amendment, and yet Senator Hoar pleads that the amendment would be a breach of the national pledge that the equality of the states would not be destroyed without the consent of every one of them. But changing the mode of electing the senators from the legislature to the people still leaves each state with two senators in the upper branch and on exact equality. Many senators favor the amendment, and it two-thirds of the senate concur in the amendment already passed by the house, three-fourths of the states will ratity their action. The opposition of Senator Hoar is with- out foundation of fact and reason, and is very bad policy, for the states will be sure to obtain their will ultimately by the pas- sage of resolutions demanding reform at the hands of congress. The unanimity of the popular demand is attested by the fact that the Philadelphia Press, a stiff radlcal republican administra- tlon organ, pleads for the popular election of United States senators as strongly as do the independent voices of the New York Evenlng Post, the Boston Herald, the Springfield Republican and the Brooklyn Eagle. there was no sign of a panic. There would be little danger in theater fires if every audience would behave llke this. The Pe ess and His Prophet. Buffalo Express. Bryan bas moved onto his farm and Jones, J. K., of Arkansas, will oon retire to his farm. "His constituents have called him back from Washington. Thus, one by one, do the democrats retire the silver leaders. Concerning the Corn Crop. Cincinnat! Enquirer. The idea of a $100,000,000 corn trust is a practical one, if the captains of capital con- clude to bunch thelr resources for the pur- pose. The modus operandl was pointed out in the Enquirer more than two years ago. A trust for the control of all the cereal and agricultural products of the country, not by the agriculturist producers, but by the controllers of capital, is highly prob- able. When It 18 brought about the farm- ers will know more about trusts. THE ARMY AND GOOD MORALS. Secretary Root's Explicit Orders to the Men in the Tropics. Philadelphia Press. Secretary Root has struck a high and effective note in his frank and explicit order upon the moral sanitation of the army. The tropics bring o soldiers two evils, vice and liquor. ‘Both are deadly in hot climates to the white man of the tom~l perate zone. The glazing argument of evil apology for the first of these evils is that nothing better can be expected of officers or soldiers where temptation is as rife as in the tropics. - The Anglo-Indian army shows the working of this ignoble view. From 1861, when the cases of disease from vice were 160.2 per 1,000 per year among English regiments in Indla, they rose stead- 1ly for thirty years, until in 1890 they were 503.6 per 1,000 per year, and in 1895 reached 522. It is no unknown thing for half an English regiment in India cantonments to be incapacitated for duty. Out of 70,642 British soldiers serving in India only 26,247 men, or 37 per cent, had never suffered from this scourge. Our own hospitals in the winter of 1898-9 bore terrible testimony to the effect of gathering a quarter of a million men—most of them camped on our own soil—without precaution or prevention against this danger. Two courses are open. Legislation and regulation may seek by loathsome medical precautions to make vice safe. This has always falled. Tt always will fail. It never can succeed. The evidence on this head is overwhelming. The other course is an honest. honorable, open, well-planned attempt to make men better. The former plan has been tried and falled in all European armles. Secretary Root boldly, frankly and with open-minded candor, addresses himself to the second course. The experience of our coll b proved that nothing so protects the young man against temptation as rigorous, syste- matic exercise. There is evidence that at one institution systematic and competitive athletics have reduced cases of this loath- some character to one-sixth of the number twenty-five years ago. Secretary Root urges on officers a sound example and continuous efforts to interest and occupy their men with constant exer- cise and harmless amusements. His appeal is full of moral conviction, rare in the official treatment of this evil. His order would never be issued save in an army whose officers could be moved by this ring- ing appeal to the higher and better nature of men. The American public will respond with earnest and unstinted approval. i PERSONAL NOTES. D. B. Hill has to live in a house. He has no farm. C. M. Depew has quit talking entirely since his marriage. Hermann Bergmann, said to be a distant relative of the emperor of Germauy, is in the Cincinnatt workhouse. A French planist played for twenty-seven hours and four minutes and then went in- eane. The poor fellow got an overdose of his own music. Napoleon crowned himself and it looks as it Bdward VII would have to do the same, it he wishes to have the ceremony per- formed to suit him. A young man named Bell worked for $17 a week In & New York bank. Then all at once he collected eral years' salary in advance and the police were notified. President Harris of Amherst college points with pride to the fact that th re proportionately more college professors who are graduates of that institution than can be found among the graduates of any other college in the country. Dr. Willlam J. Tucker is about finisbing the first decade of his presidency of Dart- mouth college. ' When he took charge the: were 468 students and at present the num- ber is over 1,400. Over $1,500,000 has been received in endowment: Mayor Seth Low of New York City h the fire was a sensational one, filling the | chosen for his summer home & house on the theater with smoke, and especially terrify- ing since the auditorium was on the ond floor and there wi stairs to descend; yet the whole assemblage dispersed in so or- derly & manner Lhal o one was hurt and | residence, north shore of Long lsland sound, at Milton Point, near Rye. Last week he purchased & steam yacht to carry him back and forth dally between the city and bis summer - BITS OF WASHINGTON LIFE. Incidents Sketched the Spot. Four women who are prominent in offi- clal life in Washington went to a recep- tion recently, each wearing a brand new Paris costume, which she was absolutely certain was an original creation without a duplicate on this side of the Atlantic. Each on arriving at the reception was sur- prised to find that there were three other women present dressed in gown identical fn materfal, trimming, ornament and design with the one she had on. The four women were Mrs. Hitchcock, wife of the secretary of the interior; Mrs. Kean, mother of the senator from New Jersey, and Mrs. Foraker and Mrs. Hanna, the wives of the Ohio senators. Mrs. Hitch- cock purchased her gown in St. Louis, Mrs. Kearn got hers in New York, Mrs. Hanna's came from Cleveland, and Mrs. Foraker's from Cincinnati. Scenes and on Early Saturday morning the pages of the house of representatives held a mock ses- sion of the house, reports a New York World letter. They elected the oldest present | | You feel old. Hour after hour you slowly drag yourself through your work. You are tired out all the time. Night brings no rest. What is the cause of all this? Impure blood. Get rid of these impurities. Put your blood in better condition. . Build up your nerves. The doctors report to us the best of success my general healt took.” — F. B. McCRray, Tripton, Ill. “$1.00. All drugghsts. with Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. pound Concentrated Extract of Sarsaparilla. «“1 have used Arr’l Sarsaparilla in order to make my blood pure and improve . It gave me the best satisfaction of any medicine I ever It’s the only Com- J. C. AVER CO., Lowell, Mass. THE TURN G DOWN OF JON Boston Transcript: Jones of Arkansas appears to have been the victim of an oc- | topus boomerang. Washington Post: We have a notion that the election news from Arkansas stirred un the blooded heifer and the other occupants of a certain Nebraska farm. Indianapolis Journal Evidently the democrats in Arkaneas do not accept Mr. Bryan's assurance that Senator Jones' cot- ton baling combination is not‘a monopo Philadelphia Record: The defeat of Sena- tor James K. Jones in his effort to have | himselt re-elected to the senate from Ar- kansas further knocks away the underpin- ning from the Kaneas City platform. Sena- tor Jones is an old campaigner and has seen long service in congress, but his party is evidently no longer willing to follow bim in forbidden paths. Baltimore American: That he was a drag about Bryan's neck and a halter upon the party s undeniable. Had he given way to a more energetic, sympathetic and capable man the democracy would certainly have fared better. That it will profit immensely by his foreshadowed retirement; that it will have more astute leadership in the senate and that, taken all in all, the coun- try will do better for his elimination, are truths which need no argument for sub- stantiation. New 'York Sun: Unless the returns have been twisted, the Hon. James P. Clarke will succeed the Hon. James K. Jones as a senator in congress from Arkansas. As page speaker, organized, received a mes-|a Dolitical manager and weaver of rosy sage from the senate and from the president [ bulletins, Mr. Jones has been a treasure In strict parliamentary style and upani-|and a joy; and he is an amlable sort of mously adopted a resolution increasing thelr salaries from $75 to $350 a month. The proceedings were interrupted by Jerry Constantine, a house telegraph oper- ator, who appeared on the floor, waving a dollar-bill ana demanding recognition. “I move that the gentleman’s bill be lald on the table,” said a boy from Ohlo. The motion prevailed and Constantine was dragged to the bar of the house and forced to act in accordance with the motion. “I visited the house of representatives the other day,”” remarked a stranger to the Washington Star, “and I was impressed by one or two facts which interested me. chap and well liked in the senate. But it takes a ‘“slicker” man than be to be an octopus and an octopodicide, the slayer and the slain. As the bard of the Ozarks sings: Wall, Arkansaw, wail O'er the buster bust; Bury him in a bale Of the round bale trust!" CHOOSIN, THE RIGHT PATH. President Roosevelt's Action Against Corporate Lawlessnens. Minneapolis Times (ind.). It was to have been expected that the t railway millionaires would bring “In this, one of the two great legisiative | 5T°% bodies of the United States, I expected (o | SUODE Dressure to bear upon —President 2 ’ Roosevelt to change or modify his an- see a great many, the majority, in fact, of the members of venerable aspect. I could but observe the absence of gray heads among the representatives. In short, men of venerable aspect were so largely in the minority that I was at once struck with the fact. Most of the members appeared to be young men and men in or under the age of middle life. I pointed out many of the gentlemen on the floor of youthful appear- ance and asked the doorkeeper if they were really members of the house. He replied in all instances they were members and seemed surprised that I should ask the question. I consider this fact a striking i1- lustration of the possibilities for the young man in American political lite. As I am a foreigner and used to eeeing gray beards in high legislative and executive positions on the continent the contrast was the more noticeable. 1 was also informed that the bill under debate had been before the house for several days, was bitterly contested and that much feellug existed on either side. The ‘feeling’ the doorkeeper referred to wi not observerable to me. If Americans con- sider the debates in their lower house to be ‘animated’ they should see what a really ‘animated debate’ amounts to in the French Chamber of Deputies. They would expem- ence a change of mind. “I could also but remark upon the lim- ited space in the gallerles allotted to the general public, and I was informed that this space had been even more curtailed during a reconstruction of the interior of the chamber last summer. I supposed, of course, that the best part of the gallerfes would in this country be given over to the public. At every door but two I was re- fused admission except upon the production of & card or a personal identification that 1 was & member of the diplomatic corps or one of the official government family. In the space allotted to the public there were not over 100 seats, if that number. Of course, the seating capacity of the gal- lerles is not great, but the reserved spase must take up over 80 per cent, while I thought the opposite rule would be founa to be true.” The Washington correspondent of the Chicago Post says: Representative Neville of Nebraska is at least in “outward and visible showing” the most patriotic man in congress. He is so0 proud of the Stars and Stripes that he wears them all the time. On the bosom of his fine white shirt is embroidered in red, white and blue a miniature American flag, in the center of which he sticks a dlamond stud. The effect is striking and attracts much attention. Two women were wandering through the senate wing of the capitol yesterday, re- ports the Washington Post, when one of them approached Senator Hawley. “Will you please show us the president's room?" they asked. Senator Hawley not only did the honors of the president's room, but escorted them to the room of the committee on military affairs to display to the visitors the hand. some frescoes of that apartment. “Thank you very much,” said one of the women and then slipped into Senator Hawley's band a silver quarter. “My dear madam,” sald Senator Hawley. “I am one of the senators from Comnecticut and you capnot expect me to accept any- thing for dolug you a kindness “Goodness graclou: exclaimed the wom re you & semator? I thought you were a doorkeeper.” N nounced decision to prevent discrimination In rates and restraint of trade and com- merce. These millionaires are now carry- ing millions upon millions of dollars’ worth of stocks that they do not want and bought only for the purpose of gaining control of great properties and then unloading a large share of the securitles upon the public at advanced figures. The course of the De- partment of Justice, under directions from the president, has made it impossible for them to sell their securities and at the same time has cast the shadow of strong doubt upon thelr title to despotic control of the transportation service of the country. It is stated that the merger magnates have thrown, or soon will throw, down the gauntlet to the president, the challenge being “Withdraw your opposition to our plans for control and enrichment or we will defeat your ambitions to succeed yourself as president.” President Roosevelt can afford to let the gauntlet rest where it falls.. He is not re- quired to pick it up nor accept the chal- lenge. His path lies in the direction of the duty pointed out to him by the laws of the land. Involved in that duty is another, which is to obtafn a final decision as to what the laws affecting transportatien companies mean. Should President Roosevelt yleld to the milllonaires he would sign the death war- rant of his hopes to be elected president of the United States—and we belleve that the present incumbent of the White House de- sires more an indorsement at the hands of the people, a specific election to the office {an of thelr chief magistrate, than he does con- tinuance in the responsibilities of the office itself. There need be no donbt as to what course Mr. Roosevelt will elect to follow. If he should be elected president in 1904 ft will be by the people. The people will be gov erned in their election by a sentiment that is not inimical to rallways, but that is hos tile, to the limit, agalnst overcapitalization unwarranted freight and passenger tariffs destruction of competition and intc rference with trade and commerce. Judge: Nervous Lady (as a large bird flies before the vesse)—Oh, captain, is thet an omen? iy Matter-of-fact Captatn—No, that is a seagull, madame; That fat man, “stmply Knock Chicago Tribune the f k plained all out the candy machine, near an lle in| welght for the “She expects to She'll get the man after she hus made the other arrangements. Yonkers Statesman: The -Mother—Uncle Charles asked the baby what kind of eyes it_had. The Father—Just thing could tell him “Well, she did. Sh, as if the dear little sald ‘goo, goo.' " New York Sun: Violinjst m only a tenth-rate pla Manager—Never mind. You're getting tho money, and the women everywhere make i bargain-counter rush to kiss you. ‘The crities sa Brooklyn Life: “What you are actually wearing ‘is no business of” the inspectors.” ¢ aps not. But the last time 1 came a ore an alr of disdain through the custom house, and they didn't do a thing but make me pay about double duty New York Sun: Juggles—What earthly 800d resulted from the bicycle craze? Waggles—Why, man, {f they hadn't taught us to dodge while crossing the street there would be accidents every da: hundreds of auto lcago Post: ate to the stand? “T did,” answered the man who was con- ducting the investigation: “1_suppose he added a great deal to the Interest in the case?" “He did. It Is now more mysterious thun ever.” ou call that trust “BEN BO. uthor of the (Dr. Thomas Dunn_English, ! dled on” Tuesday ) famous song, “Ben Bolt, at his home at Newark, ) Oh! don't you remember sweet Alice, Ben Alice whose halr was so brown, wept with delight when you gave her a smile And trembled with f; In the old churchyar, Bolt, In a corner obscure and alone, They have fitted a slab of the granite so gray, And sweet Alice lles under the stone. 8 Wh at your frown? in the valley, Ben Under the hickory tree, Ben Bolt, Which stood at the foot of the hill, Together we've lain in the neonday shade And listened to Appleton’s mill. The mill wheel has fallen to pieces, Bolt, Ben The rafters have tumbled in, And a quiet that crawls round the walls ag vou gaze Has followed the olden ain. And dom't you remember the school, Ben i olt, With the master 8o cruel and grim, And the shaded nook in the running brook, Where the children went to swim? Grasy grows on the master's grave, Ben olt The spring of the brook is dry, And of all the boys who were schoolmates then, There are only you and I. There Is change In the things I loved, Ben Bolt They have changed from the old to the new, But 1 _fee truth There never was change in you. Twelye monthe, twenty, have passed, Ben Bolt, Since first we were friends—yet I hail Thy presence a blessing, thy presence a in the depths of my spirlt the truth, Ben Boli of the salt sea gale. are ready, want, The Popular price is/»»$15,00, See what we have at that figure, rowning- King -- @ Exclusive Clothiers and Furnishers. R. S. Wilcox, Manager. An Early Spring. It seems to be here already; but we Sois the new Spring Suit that you'll e