Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 5, 1902, Page 6

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1902. u THE ©OMAHA DALY BEE — B ROSEWATER, EDITOR. | 0 5y i bk | PUBLISHED BVE! Y MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, Paily Bee (without Sunday), One Year | ally Bee and Bunday, One ar l lilustrated Bee, One Yea Sunda, One Year aturday Bee, One Year.. entleth Century Farmer, One Year DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Daily Bee (without Sunday), per copy Dally Bee (without Sunday), per week Dally Bee (including Sunday), per week. 00 6.00 2.00 2.0 150 100 2¢ per copy..... by (without Sundav). per week.10c Uncluding Sunday), per delivery Tos! ed to City Cifculation De- ‘ OFFICES. . Omaha—The B South Omaha— | ty-fitth and M | Council Bluir Chicago—164 U \ New York—Temple Court. 1 Washi ullding. ity Hall Bullding, Twen- treets. 10 Pearl Street. ngton—wl Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi- rial matter should be addressed: Umaha ee, Editorial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS. Business letters and remittances should be uddressed: The Bee Publishing Com- pany, Omaha. REMITTANCES. Remijt by draft, express or postal order, payavle to The bee Publishing Company, UNDIMINISHED' PROSPERITY. Busline conditions throughout country ¢ represented to be highly satisfactory condition. tained. as at any previous time. try. It is stated that on nearly are practieally sold up to next October. With some of them orders are so plen- tiful that they are out of the market as sellers for the rest of this year. Thisscountry s making pig iron at the Omaha or eastern exchang t accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHIN! OMPANY. BTATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, QGeorge B. Taschuck, secretary of The Bee Publllglnl Company, being duly sworn, says that the actual numper of full and The Evening and Sunday Hee printed during the month of March, 192, was as follows: 17, gomplete coples of aily, Morning, 20,070 20,760 20,420 29,530 ? y Z-cent stamps accepted in payment of ’ mail accounts. Personal c s, except on 1 29,640 EEEEE R cnnanane - Total . .00l 017,420 Less unsold and returned cople 9,007 Net total sales. 07,613 Net daily average 20,277 GEO. B. TZSCHUCK. Bubscribed In my presence and sworn to befors me this 3ist day of March, A. D. 1802, EORGIX RASMUSHEN, (Seal.) Notary Public. e —— Missourf’s train-robbing industry ap- pears to be picking up. l This is the time to keep an eye on South Africa. All signs Indicate that there Is something doing there. l With so many hotels in Atlantic City in ashes, Our Dave may have trouble in finding accommodations this summer. l A few more flukes like the Christmas bribery yarn and that Danish West Indies purchase treaty will be forced over the line for a goal. Senator Jones of Arkansas is finding out how dearly his colleagues love him now that his constituents have deter- mined deflnitely on his retirement. !Twas ever thus. Em———————— In view of the closeness of the vote on the proposition, the people of Lincoln may as well prepare now for an annual infliction of the wet or dry question iu each succeeding municipal campaign. E— General Funston's expressed opinion of the Filipinos is not calculated to make him popular in our Orlental pos- sessions. It is plain that the general is neither a diplomat nor a politiclan, —_— Governor Savage and his uniformed staff were much in evidence at Kansas City. When it comes to staff dress parades, Missouri, with all its fuss and feathers, cannot hold a candle to Nebraska. e— People In the United States are patiently waiting for the details of Miss Stone's proposed lecture tour. It would be an inexcusable waste of capital to let all the accumulated free advertising g0 by the board. S—— The new South Omaba charter makes & quick turn in Installing the newly elected city officers in the places of re- tiring incumbents within a week after the ballots are cast. But, in this case, the sooner the better. e In the new complaints that the United Btates is not fulfilling its neutrality ob- ligations in permitting the shipment of mules from New Orleans to Cape Colony, the service rendered the Boers by the American mule in the late cap- ture of Geueral Methuen seems to be again overlooked. The promoters of the Marconl wire- less telegraph have sold thelr American rights for §4,150,000, which will doubt- less be mixed soon with an equal pro- portion of air currents and set afloat to find the lightning rods of confiding in- vestors. No immediate danger is visible of wireless communication coming much cheaper to the private patron than those that travel by metallic clreuit. a0 _ __3 President-elect Palma of Cuba is too modest ‘when he usks that the Uniteu Btates cut its tariff in two so far as it applies to. the importation of Cuban products, “just to help Cuba,” While belping Cuba it would be just as easy to go the whole length and let all COuban products in free of duty. Cuban exporters who would profit by the re- mission of dyties would doubtless ap- preciate the favor. L Omaha people with surplus capital have ll'”l been ready to plant their money ln wild-eyed mining schemes in Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, Arigona or Kamchatka that held out the promise of returning fabulous wealth. Most of these people have been bitten, but refuse to profit by experi- ence. The same money invested in Omaha enterprises might not have made them rich, but it would have ylelded them safe returns and belped to build up the city, ’ . present time at the rate of 1,500,000 tons a month, or 18,000,000 tons a year, more together than England and Germany produce. In spite of this enormous pro- duction stocks have steadily decreased and an actual famine in this most im- portant material is threatened. That the iron is going into actual consumption is shown by the fact that consumers are paying premiums in prices to get it. Great activity In building in most of the larger cities explains in part the heavy demand for iron and steel. In regard to other industries the reports are gener- ally favorable. The agricultural pro- ducers, also, are having a generous de- gree of prosperity. With a good demand for all the products of the farm prices are well maintained and profitable. The conditions are favorable to the employ- ment of labor and there is compara- tively little idleness anywhere in the country, while in a number of trades wages are better than a year ago. It is remarked by careful observers that the one cloud over the situation is the evidence revealed that some of the industrial combinations and perhaps many of them must pass before long through a period of reconstruction, re- organization, wherein many persons will be squeezed and whereby much liquida- tion must be done before these indus- trials are firmly established. The sus- picion is that they have before them the same experience which the over- exploited railway systems did between 1885 and 1895. Some of them seem to have been reckless, some incapably man- aged, some dishonestly organized and there is said to be apprehension that the banks may not have been as conserva- tive as they should have been in making loans upon these securities. The banks, however, are reported to be taking in sail, hoping that in view of the-general healthy and prosperous condition these weak spots can be repaired without causing general demoralization. Except for these weak and admittedly dangerous spots, the business situation appears to be as strong as at any time in the last five years and the outlook for a continuance of prosperity as fa- vorable. Should there be good crops this year the American people can count with confidence upon at least two or three years more of the prevailing con- ditions. o A PROFITABLE INDUSTRY. The statement by the American Beet Sugar company of last year's opera- tions shows that the industry made good progress as compared with the results of the preceding year and was fairly profitable. The estimate for the cur- rent year is favorable, the president of the company saying in his annual re- port that everything looks more prom- ising for a satisfactory campaign for 1902 than at any time in his experience, if the price of sugar be excepted. He expressed the opinion, however, that the abolition of the sugar bounties recently recommended and adopted by the Brus- sels conference will certainly tend to- ward higher prices for sugars through- out the world, as operating to reduce the production of beet sugar in the Euro- pean countries that now produce two- thirds of the world’s consumption. Ac- cording to expert opinion abread the reduction in beet planted acreage in Europe will amount to one-eighth of this year's crop, or about 800,000 tons. It belng now practically assured that no greater tariff concession on Cuban sugar than 20 per cent will be made by the present congress, there appears to be no reason why the American beet sugar industry should not continue to expand and be pushed forward even more vigorously than heretofore. There is no question that the present senti- ment of the country is largely favorable to such protection to the industry as will enable it to grow and no change in this sentiment is to be apprehended. e——— THE IMMIGRATION SERVICE. President Roosevelt's decision to re- organize the immigration service will be carried out, though a vigorous effort has been made to induce him to retain the head of that service, Terence V. It is announced that Frank P, Sargent, grand master of the Brother- and prominent among the representative la- bor leaders of the country, has notitied the president that he will accept the position of commissioner general of lm- migration and enter upon the dutles as soon as he can close up his present affairs. Successors to the immigration commissioner and his deputy at New Powderly. hood of Locomotive Firemen, York have also been selected. The president has good reasous for reorganizing this service and undoubt- edly it will be improved by the chnn‘le- n the first place it will be conducive to Pow- derly has administered. his office with a strong hand and there has been con- stant friction between him and the offi- clals at Washington having supervision The immi- gration officials at New York have been parties to this, which was necessarily Besldes It has been urged that the displacement of Powderly will offend the labor element, but he is pot a representative of this element, there having been a considera- ble. opposition to his appointment from Mr. Sergent, on the other band, s & in the personnel soon to be made. peace’ and good discipline. Mr. of the immigration bureau. a detriment to the service. this they were charged with abuses. the American Federation of Labor. the in a The gen- eral prosperity which has marked the past four or five years is well main- fome industries may be a little less active than a year ago, but most of them are finding business quite as good This 18 espe- clally true of the iron and steel indus- all ¢ | kinds of material the big steel companies thorough and conspicuous representative of organized labor and one of the most trusted men in its councils. He is re- garded as a man of excellent executive ability and it is sald was frequently consulted by President McKinley in re- gard to labor matters, The immigration service requires capa- ble, honest men, who will faithfully en- force the laws. The men whom Presi- dent Roosevelt has selected can be de- pended upon to meet this requirement, — OMAHA AND SOUTH OMAHA. Omaba and South Omaha are insep- arably linked together commercially and soclally. Whatever promotes the growth of one city promotes the growth of both and whatever injures one of them must necessarily affect the welfare of the other. While the people of South Omaha and Omaha govern themselves through separate municipal and school district officials, the line of demarcation between the two towns is only to be found on the map. That this fact is well understood by the intelligent people of both towns Is strikingly illustrated by the result of Tuesday's election in South Omaba. In the campaign preceding the election des- perate efforts were made by demagogues to foment local prejudice and array the people of one town against the other, Instead of making the fight on political lines, or on the merits of the respective tickets, the appeals on behalf of the de- feated candidate were made on the pre- sumption that there was a conspiracy in Omaha to control the city government of South Omaba to its detriment. In support of this assertion, all sorts of roorbacks and fakes were concocted and set afloat, but the people of South Omaha were not to be so easily gulled. They turned a deaf ear to the stupid canards and voted for the candidates whom they believed to be most trust- worthy. In taking this position the people of South Omaha have put their seal of con- demnation upon all marplots and politl- cal bunco steerers who seek to win favor and make political capital by raising false issues and trying to create hos- tility between two sister communities that in the future as In the past must have all interests in common, and as the years go by will be welded closer and closer together until they eventually become in name as well as in fact ene great metropolitan city. Iowa’s legislature has passed a meas- ure to raise the salary of the governor to $5,000 a year. That is certainly none too much for the executive of a great state like Iowa and the action of the legislature will surely meet with popular approval. The salary of Nebraska's governor is grossly inadequate and ought to be made more cemmensurate with the duties and responsibilities of the office, but our legislature is power- less, because the amount to be paid is fixed unconditionally by the state con- stitution, The object of the constitution makers wag doubtless to keep the ex- ecutive Independent of legislative favor, but the limit has long been outgrown. ‘While not the most crying defect of the Nebraska coustitution, the revision of the salary schedule may be included with other pressing demands that would Justify the convening of the legislature to submit needed amendments at the coming November election. Sa—— “Squatter sovereignty,” or the right of government to tax an offensive industry out of existence, which was the stock In trade of Stephen A. Douglas, 'way back in the '50s, has again become an issue in the United States senate. When Douglas was advocating that popular but exploded . doctrine its application was to be confined to the darkeys held in slavery and the mules held in invol- untary servitude in Kansas and Ne- braska—but times have changed. In our days -‘“‘squatter sovereignty” doc- trine is to be put in force in legislating beef tat out of existence when it is masquerading under false colors as butter. m— The local committee in charge of ar- rangements for the coming Christian church convention is showing the spirit that wins out. There is an old adage that the best way to get a thing done i8 to do it yourself and the members of the committee have found that the responsibility they have assumed must be met without depending on outside bodies to relieve them. Having started on the right track, there is no good reason why, with the co-operation and support of Omaha business men, which they deserve, they should not ccomplish the task to the signal credit of both themselves and Omahi ——————————= s It now transpires that the Assoclated Press reporter at St. Joseph 1s suffering from an impediment to his veracity. Governor Savage flatly contradicts the report that he ever said, or intended to be understood to say, that Joe Bartley would pay back the proceeds of the $181,000 school fund warrant which he had converted to his own use under the misapprehension that it belonged to him and not to the state of Nebraska. In this instance the unexpected has not happened, E—— The Douglas County Democracy has held another enthusiastic meeting. Whether it was over the outcome at South Omaha or over the outgo of an- other bettle of fine old Bordeaux has not transpired. It goes without saying, however, that the Douglas County Democracy is always full of pent-up enthusiasm. e m—— Both Nebraska senators have gone on record in favor of the bill to tax artl- ficlal butter out of existence. The pass- ing of the Texas steer and the cow puncher has evidently created a deep impression on the minds of Nebraska's representatives in the upper house of the national legislature. Acting Mayor Karr has ordained and proclaimed that all poles that have secured a foothold on the streets and alleys in the Sixth under the franchise of the electric ughting com- pany must put on a coat of paint or pre- pare to absquatulate. Mayor Karr wants it distinctly understood that the poles near sheeley town will be per mitted to ; mnd in an undecorated con- dition. Worked Well, Too. Philadelphia Ledger. The situation in Arkapsas seeme to be a pretty good imitation of a popular election for United States senator. Disease Yields to Treatment. Chicago Record-Herald. Secretary Hay has just induced a man not to publish a book on the Boer war. It has heretofore been supposed that nothing could arrest that disease once it got into a man's system. Knox Draws the Dead Line, Loulsville Courlfer-Journal. The attorney general may tackle the great Northern Securities company merger and any or all the trusts combined, but he will draw the line at attempting to arbi- trate a question for the Federation of Women's Clubs. Another “Crime” Discovered. Indianapolis News. Senator Patterson of Colorado has dis- covered another crime that rivals that of '73, He finds that moneyed men are becoming alarmed at the large production of gold and are doing all they can to discourage it. Nobody, it seems, was with Patterson when he made the discovery, Where is the Menace? Springfield (Mass.) Republican. The contest over the United States sen- atorship in Arkansas has really been a popular election, inasmuch as the issue was fought out in the primaries and before the people. Just where the menace to state equality in that proceeding comes in is bard to say. But Mr. Hoar may be able to point it out. Chivalry at Chivalry's Home, Philadelphia Press. A Kentucky man was late at his wed- ding last week and found that his ac- commodating sweetheart, rather than keen the guests waiting, had married another man. The groom-elect accordingly mi ried another woman and proved that, though marriage may be a lottery, there are no blanks for the man with a will. The Fly in the Olntment. 8St. Louls Post-Dispatch. According to Rev. Thomas Dixon the American people have the courage of the Celt, the nobility of the Norman, the vigor of the viking, the energy of the Angle, the tenacity of the Saxonm, the daring of the Dane, the gallantry of the Gaul, the free- dom of the Frank, the earth-hunger of the Roman and the stolcism of the Spartan, but what does all this amount to when we are assured by a& correspondent of Willlam Waldort Astor’s paper that America s “un- bearable for gentlemen?” Generosity of the Coal Barons. Springfield Republican. The anthracite coal combination. it ap- peal is to allow us a little rest from the high prices of the winter. It will gra- ciously concede’a reduction of only 50 cents a ton. from the winter maximum. and that is to last only through April. Then the rise will in for the next win- ter at the rate of(10 cents a month until the recent prices age reached again. Prices of meat continue upward course, and the cost of keeping up the fires, internal and external, 1s becoming a pretty serious problem to most people. Freaks of the Missouri. Minneapolis Tribune. The Missouri is a curious river. It plays all sorts of pranks, rising and falling with- out cause and wandering around the cou try without any regard to its natural cha nel or the citles it leaves high and dry by its vagrant babits. Not long ago the river went nearly dry for many days at Chamberlain. The people thought there was an ice gorge above and began to pre- pare for an awful flood. Instead of a flood the water gradually and naturally rose to the former level and stopped there. Now the theory is that the bottom fell out of the river somewhere and its waters poured into the bowels of the eartn until the hole was full, when they resumed their inter- rupted surface flow. No frontiersman will venture to deny this. You can belleve any- thing about the Missouri river. FIRE INSURANCE LOSSES, Somehow the Companies Flourl Wax Fat. Philadelphia Record. The recent advance in rates of fire in- surance was determined upon by the Na- tional Board of Fire Underwriters, repre- senting substantially all of the companies prepared and accustomed to tal arge risk: in this field of enterprise. In applying the the new schedule to Philadelphia, it has beem deemed prudent to leave existing rates untouched, except o far as relates to the eo-called ‘“‘conflagration district.” TIn t area of local territory, as defined by the fire insurance men, sections have been set off as hazardous or extra hazardous, and within the prescribed limits an additional premium for fire insurance Is to be ex- acted “for comflagratien hazard due to im- efficient building laws.” What is wanted {s larger receipts and less burdensome losses on the gemeral average of business and the ostensible reason for the advance in rates varies with the local conditions here and there. There is not much doubt ia well Informed cial circles that the hazards and losses of fire insurance have been largely imcreased in recent years. At the same time the business has proved sufficiently attractive to capitalists to induce the or- ganization of numerous strong underwrit- ing companies not affiliated with the na- tional board, and these outside or ‘‘non- uni assoclations will doubtless find in the situation created by the general ad- vance in rates am oppertunity for further enlargement of business operations. Under existing conditions, however, the united companies maintaining the increased rate may pelnt to statistics of fire losses throughout the country for seme years past as evidence that the charge for fire insurance should be advanced. In New York state, fer example, the met losses of the companies during the calendar year 1901 amounted to nearly $9,000,000 and dur. ing fourteen years past the net loss was over $23,000,000. Taking this as a fair illus- tration of receipts and risks throughout the country, the inadequacy of existing sched- ules of premium might be readily demon- strated But somehow the underwriting compa- ples In large measure continue to flourish and wax fat, with a gradually increasing ratio of expenses of management. Fif- teen years ago expenses of New York fre insurance companies were about 34 per cent of the premiums collected. Last year the ratio was over 38 per cent. The larger the volume of business the larger the pro- portion of gross revemue absorbed in oper- ating expenses. This reversal of a famil- far industrial rule involves a problem in financlal management certaln ere long to attract atiestion in lnsurance circles. OTHER LANDS THAN OURS, It has frequently been reported that when the triple alllance of Germany, Aus tria and Italy expired, which will be very shortly, it would not be remewed, but the understanding was that its dissolution was likely to be brought about by the with- drawal of the Itallan member of that part- nership. The latest pews upon the subject puts an entirely different aspect upon the situation and the prospect. There was a mysterious meeting at Venice a few days ago of Count von Buelow, the German chancellor, and Signor Prinetti, the Italiaa minister for foreign affairs. It was vehem- ently declared to have no official signifi- cance when attention was first directed by the newspapers to its occurrence, but it has since transpired that this denial was made in the Pickwickian sense and that as & matter of fact it was an event of the greatest importance. Count von Buelow and Signor Prinettl are now sald to have come to an understanding, the result of which is expected to be the termination of the triple alliance through the elimination of Austrij d the formation in its place of a dual alllance between Germany and Italy. This extraordinary story receives some support from the circumstance that the relations between Italy and Austria have never been of a cordial character and that at this time they are more than ever strained. The two countries have inter- ests which are absolutely irreconcilable, notably in Albania, which both of them are anxious to control, while the fact that the Austrian emperor has mever returned the call made en him by King Humbert years #go has not tended to promote that friendly feeling which should exist between powers which have agreed to act in com- mon, .. France, with the selection of Sunday, April 27, as the day for the election of the next Chamber of Deputies, enters on the last stage of the active canvass which will decide the character of the French govern- ment for four years to come. With vari- ous limitations, for the most part of small effect, ultimate power rests in France with the lower branch of the national legisla- ture. Its majority selects the ministry. It can, was shown in the case of Ci mir Perier, force even a president to re- #ign. Its power is less complete than that of the House of Commons, but it is also lees under the influence of a ruling class, and the head of the state in France, a president elected for a term, cannot exert the indefinable but powerful personal in- fluence of an BEnglish sovereign. The chamber now ending its term was elected in 1898. It contains, including colonial districts, 6584 deputles, elected in separate districts, as nearly as possible with 100,000 ef population. o Perhaps the most significant and encour- aging feature of the British financial situa- tlon which has been disclosed is to be recog- nized {n the remarkable collections made on account of the income tax. These aggre- gated $174,000,000, which was over $39,000,000 more than the year before, and which ex- ceeded by $5,000,000 the chancellor's esti- mate. This is a wonderful showing. The income tax, which had stood at 1 shilling on the pound, or at the rate of 5 per cent, ‘was increased last year to 1 shilling and 2 pence on the pound. This was an advance of 162-3 per cent, which upon the of the revenue derived from this particu- lar tax last year, that {s on $185,000,000, should have brought in additional recelpts to the amount of $22,500,000. The actual increas has been ted, was nearly $40,000,000, which represents a growth for the year in the income of the income-tax- paying community, which, after all, is a relatively small section of the population, of $325,000,000. For a small country whose possibilities of expansion are limited this s doing pretty well. - o The Chinese government has decided to adopt new mining regulatios The pro- fessed purpose is.to open the way for the granting of concesslons to foreigners. If, however, the terms are as omerous de- scribed in a Pekin dispatch, foreign ca ital will be as reluct: ever to engage in mining in China. Besides reserving for itself 26 per cent of the profits, the gov- ernment . claims 25 per cent of the output of diamonds and other gems, 15 per cent of the output of gold, silver and mer- cury, 10 per cent of the output of copper, lead and zinc, and © per cent of the output of coal and iron. In addition to these percentages of output and profits, export and likin dutl re to be imposed upon the conceesionaires. If forelgners desire to engage In mining in China, they must, therefore, submit to taxa- tion at every turn. Such a system cffers no inducement to the foreigner to apply for mining concessions. Perhaps the govern- ment expects the mew regulations to have that effect. Forelgn investment in mining h in fact, been discouraged as much as possible in all of the provin In New- chwang British merchant: ring to open some mineral deposits were forced three years ago to mine under Chinese names, and though doing so was winked at, these merchants informed Lord Charles Beresford that they were “liable to be stopped at any moment by unfriendly magistrates er competing Chln-o.". The Cologne Gazette has taken the ini- tiative in & campaign calling uhon the Ger- man goverament to intervene for the pro- tection of German bondholders who have interests in the Minas railway in Brazil and of German settlers In the Brazillan state of Minas Geraes, which is the most important interior province of the repub- lie. The German bondholders have long- standing cfaims against the government of Minas Geraes and the Gazette recommends that the imperial government adopt the method pursued by the French government, which, when the province of Bspirito Santo fafled to fulfill its obligation to French capitalists, made the federal gov- ernment responsible for the debts. As to the grievances of German settlers, the ma- jority of whose fathers bought allotments from Brazilian land owners, that is & mat- ter for imperial investigation. Many of the land titles held by the Germans have lately been disputed and in some cas the occupants have been ejected, while others have been forced to buy the land over again at a rate which takes into ac- count the improvements they themselves effected. The victims at present, it is de- clared, are reckoned by hundreds, but many thousands feel themselves threat- ened, knowing that they are at the mercy ot antl-German officl e Prince Luitpold, regent of the kingdom of Bavaria, who has just completed his §1st year, is the youngest of five heads of E: ropean states who are octogenarians. As he is the heir of his nephew, the insane king whese life can hardly be worth liv- men have often wished that his eigh- be rewarded by his succession to the full honors of the crown, but, as King Otto Is but 54 years old, this ie hardly likely. Prince Luitpold is a son of the art-loving King Louls, the victim of Lela Mobtes and & brother of King Maximilian 11 and of King Otto of Greece. He was one of the twenty-nine princes who steod around Wil- helm I when the empire was proclaimed at Versailles. His eldest son, Prince Louls, is married to Archduchess Marie of Aus- tria-Este, who is the head of the line of the elder branch of Stuart and (according to the White Rose League) queen of Great Britain and Ireland. Dr.PRICE'S CrgmBaking Powder Each time the United States Government has officially tested the baking powders the report has shown Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Powder to be of superlative leavening strength, free from alum, abso- lutely pure and wholesome. B This is gratifying, for Dr. Price’s Gream Baking Powder is depended upon by mil- lions of people to raise their daily bread. Note.—These Government inquiries alse developed the fact that there are man) mixtures upon the market made in imi tation of baking powder, but containing alum lt;v other caustic acid, whose use in dangerous, Price Baxing Powper Co, CHicago. _—P—P——AA—AAAAT A A POLITICAL DRIFT, creed)—You belleve in the resurrection of the body, Mrs, Kloppinger, do vou not? t 400 pounds)—Not this the Lord! Parishioner (wel Voting machines are to be used In future | body, doctor, than elections in New York City. Philadelphia, Press: Bathhouse John Coughlin carried me.}"vhn nnrl--!hllfe f"n'lbaflf"d"' o | he's a member of the legislature. First ward of Chicage against the allied | Y¥ou ‘don'e say? b m,“w” the imponsi- of reform. You can’t lose a gemuine | bility of avolding evil assoclations in his business was responsible for it," It is expected the Ohlo legislature at its | Brooklyn Life: “Yes. Miss Bilkins has present session will pass for submission to |really written a tale with the genuine New & vote of the people a constitutional amend- | P1gIAN atmosphere. ment to give the governor of the state the | *Oh, about nine-tenths old maid and the veto sower, rest made up of equal parts of culture, ple>~ David B. Hill favore making ex-preasi- |2"d Browning. dents life senators. If the proposition is expanded to Include defeated candidates for the presidency it would take high rank as Chicago News: “Lady,” sald the way- farer with the cinder-embellished whisk- ers, “I can't eat these scraps.’”” “You can't?”’ sald the housewife in sur- a barn-stormer. prise. "}‘\'h_v. you just l(r|1|\'| me ;|hl|l you were 80 hungry you could eat a house.' The Connecticut constitutional conventiop | W51, 7 TNITETY, YO Lo o ofterhouse.” has added to the draft of the preposed new constitution a clause giving the governor power to veto separate items in appropria- tion bills without vetoing the bills as a ‘whole. The republican state convention in Indlana will be held this year on April 23 and al- ready there is considerable rivalry over the cholce of a chairman. Both of the United States senators, Fairbanks and Beveridge, are republicans and both of them are can- didates for presiding officer. Grand Sachem Nixon plans another pow- wow of big Indlans in New York City. Braves from all the reservations are to come together for a ghost dance. Inci- dentally the Tammany chief will test Gen- eral Crook's Imdian policy, to-wit: giving the braves @ big fill before springing the treaty of peace. TILLMAN AT THE BAT. Washington March Hare. They looked extremely rocky in the senate room that day; They'd been fussing o'er the Philippines; the dickens was to pay. 8o when Spooner gpoke quite peaceably and met with no retort, A pallor wreathed the features of the patrons “of the sport.” A straggling few got up to go, leaving there the rest, With the hope that springs eternal within the human breast, For they thought if only Tillman could get a whack at that They'd put up even money now with Till- man on a bat. But suddenly McLaurin's voice across the chamber sped, And “Tillman, you're a lar!" it sounded Senatorial elections will be held in a like he ssid; Pn—! t _had lifted d they number of states this year and next, the np"“':vhffie u.:rya 'fi'm: > . % 2 ei terms expiring in March, 1903, including | There was Mac ‘a-punching Tillman, Who those ot Senators Platt of New York, Jones WA guisging wiHER I SaEL of Arkansas, Teller of Colorado, Orville H, Platt of Comnecticut, Mason of Illinofs, Fairbanks of Indiana, Allison of Iowa, Gal- linger of New Hampshire, Penrose of Penn- sylvania, McLaurin of South Carolina and Bpooner of Wisconsin. —_— LAUGHING REMARKS, From the gall'ry, black with people, went up & joyous roar, And the members in the lobby made a rush upon the floor. McLaurin cut and feinted; once more Till's Jabber flew; But ‘McLaurin countered neatly, and the gall'ry velled “Strike two!’ “Encore!"” cried then the multitude and the echo answered “‘Core!" As McLaurin with a plexus push sent Till- man to the floor. Then Tillman's face grew cold and stern; they saw his muscles strain— And they knew he'd never, never lot him- self’ be downed again. Washington Star: “What d h wiiifeiagion Niar: | “What, do you think )'mir!?' “I'm not sure,” answered the “I hope 1t will 'be an Income: Cricereeker. Chicago Post: ‘“Prosperity has ruined R Goubt: but, 1t I'm gl o0 doubt; but, 'm_glven an; ol In the matter, I'd rather bs Fuined by pros. perity than By adversity. The process is more enjoyable.” What to Eat: "1 heard a caplital joke at supper last night. Wi " “WK&‘( o "?J ® all roared. The smile is gone from both their lips; their forms are clenched; they swear— When suddenly a peacemaker does pluck apart_thc pair; And now McLaurin's pulled away from oft his gory foe, 8o only air is shattered by the force of Tiliman's bloW! Oh, somewhere in the Philippines the sun s shining bright “Oh, 1 can‘t remember, but it was a do, t seem a bit disturbed about this corke; have to laugh every time I think bioody fight of it And soldiers still are playing Tag on that far distant shore— But there's woe among the senate now, for Tillman's scrap is o'er, Chicago Tribune: The Rev. Mr. Fourthly (examining parishioner concerning the So Many People Put off their shopping until the last day of the week—that if the weather is favorable we are al- ways rushed on Saturdays. But the early comers are soonest served. We expect to find a good many men in search . of Spring Suits now. OURS, WE THINK, AT $10, $15, $20 AND $25 ARE FINER AND BETTER MADE THAN MANY CLOTHIERS CAN AFFORD TO CARRY AT THE PRICES WE CHARGE. This is the advantage of manufacturing our own goods, Superior inducements to men in all kinds of Haberdashery and Hats and Caps. No Clothing Fits Like 0ur;. ing[ing -§- @ Exclusive Clothiers and Furnishers. R. S. Wilcex, Manager. - !