Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 19, 1902, Page 6

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Despot Henderson, Now It is e—— Kaiser Wilhelm's American yacht had & meteoric time of it crossing the At- lantic. ET— Now that peace appears in sight in South Africa, mutterings of war are heard in Ireland. Eb—— The South Omaba ballot bunglers should have known better than to make re-marks with a blue pencil. . —_—_— It is an ill wind that blows nobody good. The heavy advance in the price of beef may furnish the popocrats with AS TU REPUBLICAN PROSPERITY, Five years ago the republican party resuged control of the administration of national affairs after four years of demo- cratic rule, during which the country had experienced one of the severest in- dustrial and commercial depressions in its history. When the republican party was restored to power hundreds of mills and factories were idle and hundreds of thousands of people were without em- ployment. Both our foreign and domes- tie e had made little if any progress in the preceding four years. There had been financial distrust and an indisposition on the part of capital to invest in new enterprises. The great transportation Interest was unprofitable a whole. The agricultural producers were not makiug money. The wages of labor were lower than they had been for a number of years. The consump- tion of the products of the farmm and factory had materially declined. The republican party promised to rem- edy this unhappy condition. It made provision for doing 8o as goon as possi- ble. Indeed, immediately after the elec- tion of 1806 the businéss situation began to Improve and there was a steadily rising tide of prosperity. The Industries of the country became active and con- comme tinue so. The demand for skilled labor grew until it exceeded the supply and wages increased. Our foreign and do- mestic commerce grew with unprece- dented rapidity. Transportation and agricultural production became profit- able. The consuming power of the people was greatly increased. The country is still prosperous. All industries are in actlve operation, the great iron and steel industry, which perhaps best reflects the general pros- perity, having business which assures at least another year of undiminished ac- tivity. The great transportation interest is making good earnings, which promise for the current year, if crops are fa- vorable, to equal if not exceed the high- water mark of last year. There is little idle labor in the country and in some portions the demand is in excess of the supply. The March bulletin of the New York department of labor states that during the fourth quarter of 1901 only 4.6 per cent of the members of labor or- ganizations in the state were idle as compared with 85 per cent for the same organizations in the corresponding period of the previous year, when the idleness was less than it had been in any of the preceding years. Undoubt- edly the percentage has since been re- duced and the labor situation in New York may fairly be accepted as an index for the entire country. One of the most striking results of the prosperity under republican policy during the last five years is the statis- tics of savings baunks. Equally valu- able evidence of the benefit of this policy to the agricultural producers is another paramount issue, A 15-year-old high school boy at Den- ver fell dead the other night as he was- leading his partner to a seat after a waltz, Moral: Don't waltz. e s What Js the good of nine assistant su- preme judges if the court can’t expedite decisions on an Issue that involves the whole taxing machinery of Omaha? Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock declares that all fences must come down. This will be hard on statesmen who have been trying to close the gaps In the fences around their political preserves, After mature reflection the Presby- terian council now in session at Wash- ington has reached the conclusion that the pope of Rome Is ne longer suspected of being antl-Christ, The world do move. Sesem——— 8o long as lands on the S8uth Dakota Indlan reservation can be leased for $1 per acre the proposition to lease the pub- lic domain to the stockmen at 2 cents per acre will hardly prove attractive to Uncle Samuel. —_— Stuffing the ballot box is the charge Wwhich members of the Chicago Culture * club have brought against a slster mem- ber. Thé prevailing impression among suffrage reformers has been that such naughty tricks were exclusively prac- ticed by men. me—— Mrs. Oarrie Nation has turned her back upon Nebraska. She is mad be- cause the people of Seward declined to pay her $40 for prancing on the stage in the cause of woman's right to polit- ical equality with man. There is a good deal of method in Mrs. Carrie Natiou's madness. b ———— 1f “Our Dave” must bave a sixth term in congress because he cannot afford to retire while he is under fire, he may have to Invest in a self-acting-political gatling stn that will seatter grape and cal er through the district and keep (ve under fire every two years for the Temalinder of his natural life. S Now that the war tax 1s repealed and the revenues of the government . have been reduced to the level of anticipated expenditure, the democrats in congress and out of congress are hammering at the tariff, knowing all the time that a reduction of the Income from imports ‘would bring on a deficit and force a new bond issue, ‘which would furnish much needed ammunition jn the next presi- dential campaign. e — The local democratic organ parades an editorial published at Fremont, appeal- ing to republicans of this district to re- mominate' Mercer for a sixth term. This is good democratic tactics, although it is an lmpertinence on the part of. the paper published in another congressional district. It is to the interest of demo- erats to induce republicans to nominate the weakest and most vuluerable candi- date, and it may be expected from now on until the nomination Is made that the World-Herald will keep on boosting Mercer and sandbagging all other repub- lican aspirants for the Mercer succes- slon, RS the great amount of mortgage indebt- edness paid off, aggregating hundreds of milllons of dollars. In short, there is not an industrial or commercial in- terest that has not shared in the re- markable prosperity which has pre- vailed since the republican party ve- turned to power five years ago and labor in this country is as a whole better off today than at any previous time in our history. Demagogues may sneer as they will at “republican prosperity,” but it is a most substantial fact, attested not only by indisputable statistics, but by the uni- versal personal experience of the Amerl- can people. The financial, industrial and commercial progress of the United States during the last five years is with- out a parallel in the history of any other country. E——— MORGAN ON NICARAGUA ROUTE. Senator Morgan of Alabama is the most persistent champion of the Nicara- guan canal and it is due him to say that perhaps no man in congress is bet- ter equipped than he to set forth the claims of that route. He has been studying and dwelling on it for years and in consequence he appears now to be unable to see any good or advantage in another direction, even though pointed out with clearness and precision by some of the ablest engineers in the country. This was shown in his speech on the subject Thursday, when he ex- pressed doubt as to the feasibility and practicability of the Panama canal, not- withstanding the fact that the Isthmian OCanal commission unqualifiedly pro- nounced the Panama route feasible and practicable and stated that the canal could be completed for many millions less money than the Nicaragua canal would cost. It is curfous that the com- mission appears to have overlooked a danger which the Alabama senator has discovered, that one or more dams on the Panama route might fail, with the result of heavy loss to the United States. The fact that the engineers ‘who made the investigation did not sug- gest this danger will cause many to question whether there is any sound reason for the fear which Mr, Morgan entertains. At all events we suppose that some chances would have to be taken in constructing a canal at Panama as well as on the Nicaraguan route. Mr. Morgan seems to still think that the government cannot secure a good title to the Panama route, notwith- standing the judicial authority given to the French company to sell its prop- erty and the proposition of the Colom- blan government in regard to conces- slons. It would be difficult to say what more can be desired to enable the United States to secure a good title to the property of the Pansma Canal com- pany. Mr. Morgan appears also to be in error in asserting that the canal commission had no authority to accept an offer of the Panama company, but even If it be granted that In this matter he is correct, the matter is not ma- terial. The acceptance of the offer by the commission had no binding force and it was just as well to get the offer before congress in that way as by any other. The government was in no sense committed thereby. With some of the general views of the Alabama senator can THE OMAHA DAILY agree, but he by no means demonstrates that the route he favors is the superior one. It is beginning to be sbmewhat doubtful whether there will be any canal legislation at the present session. CUUNCILMAN LOBECK'S PLAN. Councilman Lobeck has evolved a plan for reorganizing the municipal gov- ernment of Omaha, which he presented in elaborate form at the meeting of the Douglas County Democracy. According to Councilman Lobeck, our city govern men is a one-man machine which would work much better if it were converted into a nine-man machine. As a remedy for present conditions Councilman Lobeck would take the power out of the executive's hands by making all of the members of present appointive offices elective. He would elect the city engineer, city attorney, building inspector, health commissioner and incidentally also, perhaps, the presi- dent of the park commission and thus make the legs and arms of the municipal body politic independent of its head. He would abolish the fire and police commission and vest its powers and duties in the ¢ity council, thus saving the taxpayers about $4,000 per year. Mr. Lobeck's plan has had a fair trial in Omaha as well as in other cities and has everywhere been discarded because it divides responsibility, creates friction and destroys discipline in departments of the city government that should as far as possible be harmonious. The ex- perience of American cities has favored the one-man machine as against the many-headed city government, In which each officer is answerable for his con- duct only to bimself. Experience in Omaha, as everywhere else, has shown also that elective officers are in no respect superior to the appointed officers either in character or competency. Turning over the control and manage- ment of the fire and police departments to the city council might save the tax- payers several thousand dollars a year, and then again it might not. It would not give us more efficient fire and police protection, it would not give us a better grade of firemen or policemen, nor would it tend to improve the standard of the men elected to the city council. On the contrary, it would force the liquor deal- ers to take an active hand in the election of councilmen and make the councilmen simply an annex of the breweries and saloous. Every councilman would claim the appointment of his proportion of po- licemen and firemen and political ward heelers would tag at the heels of every councilman whenever there was a va- cancy in the police or fire department. If councilmen were members of the ex- cise board councilmen would expect to sample all the beer and whisky on tap as a privilege and the periodic jangle and wrangle over liquor licenses would not only demoralize the council but dis- grace the city. Mr. Lobeck, of course, anticipates that all councilmen enjoying these special privileges would always remain above femptation, but there is ground for fear that some might be tempted to Xeep their ‘bands closer to their coat tails than ordinary etiquette would warrant, At any rate, the exercise of police com- mission powers would not improve the breed of councilmen or protect the com- munity from scandal. Mr. Lobeck has been in public life long enough to know that the voters who inflict upon the community a bad one-man machine would just as readily intlict upon it a bad nine-man machine, He ought to know that the stream never rises above its source and he should know that we must first purify the source before we can expect a clean strea. The trouble with municipal governments is at the bottom and not at the top. Comptroller Westberg tries to justify his habit of meddling with other peo- ple’s business by quoting from the dic- tionary, which defines @ comptroller to be “a critic, a fault-finder, a constant censurer of public officials on behalf of the people.” This definition does not fit Mr. Westberg individually or collect- ively. If in the past he could only have found time to attend strictly to his offi- cial duties the taxpayers of Omaha would have been better off by many thousands. For example, when the de- faleation in the city treasury occurred while he was chief accountant of the comptroller, he insisted that the defal- cation was only $5,000, but when the footings of the shortage were completed they turned out to be $115,000 and the city ln the end lost $85,000 by the negli- gence or incompetency of the “‘constant censurer.” A Jug-Handle Affair, Detroit Free Press (dem.) Mr. Bryan's idea of democratic harmony 18 to have all the rest of the fellows sub- mit to him. Don't Know When He's Licked. Baltimore American. General Uribe-Uribe has suffered two de- feats. Presumably, after the enemy had whipped the first half of his name, it had to resume operations on the second. Good Thing!? Baltimore American. Uncle Sam is suffering from too much prosperity. He has more money than he knows what to do with, and more advice about getting rid of it than he can use. Henrl's Hopeless Task. Chicago News. ‘When Henry Watterson succeeds in con- victing the president of being a despot he will be entitled to curl up somewhere and dream another thrilling chapter of Amerl- can histor; Too Philadelphia Ledger. Congressional orators are mow required to deliver their speeches on Cuban recl- procity before they can be printed in the Congressional Record, but they are not obliged to certity to thelr authorship. Chinese Exclusion. Kansas City Star. The senate’'s substitute Chinese exclusion bill is altogether preferable to the house measure. The present law is sufclently drastic. That it is effective enough has been shown by the experience of the United Btates for the last ten years. The minute provisions of the bouse bill, besides belng Vparison to be made. BEE SATURDAY Live Nebra McCook—An Up-to-Date City. McCook is preeminently a railroad town and is justly entitled to the distinction of being one of the most “metropolitan” of Nebraska cities of its class. In two dec- ades here has been built an up-to-date liitle city of 3,000 alert, energetic citizens, & city with excellent waterworks and elec- tric light plants and the latest telephone system. Belng headquarters for the west- ern division of the Burlington route here are situated the headquarters bujldings, roundhouse, machine shop, blacksmith shop, storehouses, etc., in all one of the most ex- tensive rallroad plants in Nebraska outside the largest cities, and employing hundreds of men in all departments. The Burling- ton's payroll at this place is about $30,000 monthly. While this is distinctively a rail- road town it has nevertheless all the de- sirable features of any other Lustling Ne- braska city. As the county seat of Red Willow county it has the finest court house in southwestern Nebraska and its school. contalning over 700 pupils, are the pride of its people. All lines of business are repro- sented with stocks of goods which would be creditable to much larger cities and the enterprise of its business men keeos it at the head of the commeralal procession. A substantial business district is backed up by the handsomest, best-kept residence sec~ tion of any clty of its size in Nebraska. and it is in this portion of the city that APRIL 19, 1902 ska Towns the greatest activity is apparent—in faet, residence building has gone on uninterrupt- edly all winter long, employing every avail- able mechanic. McCook s becoming promi- nently known as the center and headauar- ters of the movement to encourage the growing of sugar beets in the Republican valley and uplands, and It does not require the vision of an enthusiast to see in the not distant future a beet sugar factory at tbis place—a business project which would be of the very highest importance to this portion of Nebraska and which should re- ceive every encouragement, for in this di- rection lies one of its most promising sources of success and prosperity. It may be noted with satisfaction, too, that five times last year's acreage has already been contracted for the present season. Profit- able results were obtained on the uplands as well as from Irrigation in the valley. In addition to the usual crops alfalfa has come to be one of the growing crops of this part of the Republican valley. This means an expansion of southwestern Nebraska's chiefest source of wealth, the growing of stock. It is to this end that nature has especlally smiled on this section, and along this sure road to substantial prosperity and wealth there is the most permanent devel- opment—herein are the most reliable ad- vantages to the settler and investor. F. M. KIMMBELL. at varlance with treaty provisions, were unnecessarily irritating to Chinese feel- ings. It is unfortunate that excluston is neceseary. As it is it should be carried out as decently as posslble. Charming Mountain Modesty, Denver Republican. The Republican is so much supertor to any other paper printed in the Rocky mountains that there is hardly any com- It contains at all times the fullest, the best written and the most trustworthy reports of current events and the most sensible editorial dlscuesions of questions of interest. — Going to the Bottom. Indianapolis Journal. Secretary Root's instructions to General Chaffee show that the administration in- tends to meet fearlessly the charges of cruelty in the prosecution of the war in the Phillppines. From whatever source they may come the charges are to be thor- oughly investigated, and if any are sub- stantiated those who are responsible for the cruel orders or practices will bé pun- ished. —_—— UNCLE SAM AS A FARMER. A Glimpse of Last Year's Business With Other Lands. Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune, Uncle Sam can well afford to sit on his farm fence and whittle and let nature do the rest if his agricultural enterprises turn out as well in the future as they did in the year 1901, for which he has just struck a balance in the Agricultural department, where he keeps his accounts roughly chalked up, They show that he sold to other nations during the fiscal year the largest bills of goods in any ohe year since he started the ranch, to say nothing of thd family consumption, which for 75,000,000 odd at table fs no small matter, where the very best in quality, and’ without stint- ing quantity, ‘is always freely supplied. Indeed, the ficts are freely commented upon in less fAvored households of nations that the Yaplkee people do not know what domestic economy means, and that they waste more of the necessities of life in any one year than would supply in luxury the table of thelr English or French or German cousins. In spite of waste and luxurious homs living, the United States managed to sell abroad farm products to the value of $95 000,000, an increase of over $100,000,000 the exports for 1900. Of course, there was a credit offset to this in certain lines of staple products which Uncle Sam does not raise with profit, but which the family has a taste for. They cost only the trifiing total, however, of $392,000,000, which was $28,000,000 less than the same goods cost in the year 1900. It leaves the healthy and gratifylng surplus of $560,000,000, a very comfortable margin of profit for the horny- handed cultivator of the soll. The account does not include the figures of our trade with Hawall and Porto Rico, and that for the year 1900 did. Since then the junction of these outlying islands to the home farm would properly leave them out of any calculation of what our debit and credit trade was with foreign consumers, but the business cuts a small figure anyway, as in the year 1900 our sales to these islands amounted to only about $24,000,000, while we purchased from them a beggarly $5,000,~ 000. Cotton, for the first time in several years, took the lead in our exports, followed a close second by breadstuffs, and third in order by meat products. The chief items imported and which make up $358,000,000 of the total value of $392,000,000 were sugar, coffee, hides, skins, silk, fibers (vegetable and woolen), tea, fruit, nuts, cocoa, vey ble oils, vegetables and epices, wines and spirits and seeds. The result shows Uncle Sam to be a pretty good farmer, even if his family is a trifle wasteful and extravagant. POLITICAL DRIFT, After all, Senator Jones is assured of a bale of comfort in private life. The projected statue to General Butler has been defeated by the legislature. Ma: sachusetts cannot so soon forgive the Tewksbury revelations. The legislature of Maryland assembled in extra session last Thursday for the single purpese of correcting legislative blunders committed at the regular session last win- ter. Nebraska's distinguished example is tak- i0g root in Maine. Joseph H, Manley hi invested in a farm as the first step in his campalgn for the governorship of the Pine Tree state. Voting machines were given a tria] at the city election in Hartford, Conn., on the Sth inst., and worked like a charm. In two voting precincts 2,400 voters pressed the button during the day. The assessed valuation of St. Louls real estate for the current year foots up $331,- 696,520, an increase of $15,655,330 over 1901. Valuations of quasi-public corporations and of banks and trust companies were also pushed up, making the total increase $25,- | 991,750, George S. R. Wright, a member of the Philadelphia council, has horrified the other city fathers of that most corruptly governed community by returning te the Pennsylvania railroad an annual pass which the company sent him. Mr. Wright ys he always paid his. own fare before and sees good reason why he should do so now more than ever. David B. Hill favors John G. Milburn of Buffalo as the democratic candidate for governor of New York sthte next fall. Itis intimated that Mr. Hill is guided in this matter by the fact that Milbura was born in England and therefore, even if elected, is barred by the constitution from becom ing president. The ex-senator could there- fore have the glory of favoring a winning candidate without bringing & dangerous rival ioto national view. OTHER LANDS THAN OURS, Among the seditious proclamations re- cently circulated in St. Petersburg by the students is one addressed especlally to workmen, which draws a somber picture of their wretched existence and their moral and physical degradation. The circular de- clares that the whole existing situation is due to the tyranny of the system of gov- ernment. It then proceeds to assure the working classes that what is taught them in the name of God is only a tissue of false- hood, a shameful exploitation of religion carried on for the benefit of government: priests and the holy synod; that the peo- ple In the eyes of the government repre- sent nothing more than a vile herd of ani- mals, without knowledge, will, rights or worth of any kind. But, says the circular, the students have taken into their own bands the people’s cause, in order to free the workmen from this sad state, and even though each student should have at his side ten policemen and ten gendarmes threatening him with the lash, he would none the less fulfill the task which he has taken upon himself for the good of the people. The effect of this and similar methods of agitation was clearly observ- able in the participation of the working clasdes in tho recent student demonstra- tions, In France possibly more than in any other country all organized demonstrations for the improvement of labor conditions are tainted by the extreme actions of an- archists and radical soclalists, who seize every opportunity to attack all established institutions and thus force honest and rational opposition to abuses to become identified with mob rule and violence. A serious attempt is now being made on the part of French labor organizations to elimi- nate from their ranks all extreme and revo- lutionary elements. The first national con- gress of the ““Jaunes de France,” or yellow mining syndicate, in opposition to the revo- lutionary eyndicate called the ‘‘Rouges,” or Reds, I8 now in session at the Salon des Families, in the Avenue de Saint-Mande, Paris. The delegates are numerous, rep- resenting 317 syndicates, with a total mem- bership of 201,745 miners. M. Burrin, dele- gate for Montceau, has been chosen presi- dent. The proceedings promise to be of an interesting character, for we are in the presence of an organized attempt to elimi- nate the collectivist and revolutionary ele- ment from the settlement of labor dis- putes. The riots in Belgium are much of the same character, but not yet so general or violent, as those that prevailed at the last change in the conditions of suffrage some ten years since. As at the former period there is a good deal of trouble with the purely lawless element In the cities, but apparently there is a concerted move- ment, led by the soclalists, to force the government to a wider basls of suffrage. In 1893 nominally universal suffrage was adopted, the minimum of age being fixed at 25 years. Then the number of voters was insignificant, less than 200,000 at most, and hardly more than half that at some elec- tions. The new law was calculated to in- crease this number largely. But certain classes were given what are known as sup- plemefitary votes. Two additional votes were given to married men having chil- dren, one was glven for the possession of a certain amount of property, and two were given to the graduates of the higher educational and technical Institutions. The result has been to keep the conservative party in power, though it is undoubtedly & minority of the voters. There has been for some years a vigorous agitation for the repeal of the supplemental vote and the adoption of the policy of “one man, one vote.” The struggle has been much em- bittered by the acute animosity of the so- clalists and a large part of the working- men toward the “clericals.” It is impos- sible to say what will be the Immediate outcome of the present disturbances, but it events take the same course as in 1893 the government will first suppress the dis- turbance with such success as it can at- tain, and then will yleld a more liberal suffrage. e The following is a comprehensive esti- mate of King Oscar of Sweden: King Oscar is a sallor, or rather, was one until he ascended the throne. Oscar is prob- ably-the most accomplished, as well as the most majestic, of all old world monarchs of the present time. Besides being a great traveler, Le s an suthor, & poet, & dra- matist, an artist and a composer. Indeed, most of the church music now used in Sweden 18 of his composition. Add to this that he possesses a remarkable knowledge of history, of Oriental lore, of chemistry, astronomy and other branches of science, that he 18 & clever and successful business man, that he stands six feet three in his stockings, and that he wears on nis breasi several medals, conferrea upon him prior to his succession to the throne, for saving lives at the risk of his own, and you have a monarch well worthy in every respect of occupying the throne of the Vikings of the herolc days of the Sagas. The plan of the Russian government to colonize Siberfa on an extensive scale is sald to have broken down completely in execution. The inducements offered to Rus- slan peasants were very generous, and In the last twelve months over 200,000 have crossed the Urals to make new homes for themselves. It seems, however, that insufficient provision was made for their reception and that it was impossible to take proper care of them until they had secured thelr farms and started in their new life. The result is that at least 50,000 have returned to Russia empty of pocket and ruined in health from the hardship: they underwent., Likewise has M. Witt plan for the settlement of Siberia by im- poverished nobles failed Such persons were permitted to purchase lands on the and a poor baking powder would not amount for a family’s supply to one dol- lar a year. The poor powder would cause doctors’ bills many times this. Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Powder is the most economical in the end, because it goes further in leavening and insures perfect, wholesome Used always in food. making the biscuit and cake it saves both health and money. Made from pure, grape cream of tartar, most healthful of fruit acids. Note.—You cannot, if health, afford to use cheap, low- baking powders. They are mostly, in spite of the pure food laws, made from alum, which endangers the health. All PricE Bakina Powper Co,, CHicago. ou value good ade physicians will tell you that such pow= ders food are injurious. easiest of terms, about 8,000 acres being allotted to each ong, the payments to ex- tend over thirty-seven years. Instead, however, of nobles taking advantage of this offer, these lands have been taken up by speculators and jobbers, who in many cases have resold them at ten times their original | price. But the chief obstacle Russia has to meet in the settlement of its vast Asiatic | dominion is the unwillingness of the peas- ants to live on farms. They prefer the towns and trading stations, and instead of becoming active factors in the develop- ment of the country more than often be- come charges on the government. oo Victor Emmanuel is sald to be emulative of Haroun al Raschid, and enjoys nothing more than to wander about the streets and countryside, mixing among his people, hearing good things of himself and the opposite. As Italy is supposed to be the hotbed of anarchy, the police are com- manded to keep a particularly close watch on their sovereign, so that no harm may befall him. But not a week passes that he does not elude them and get away by himself. By this means he is continually having adventures which are rarely the lot of monarchs and at the same time he gets closer to his people, more in touch with their likes and dislikes, than is usually the case with one In his position. LINES TO A SMILE. Cleveland Plain Dealer: ““The editor of the Manila Volcano has been arrested.” ““Wonder what they'll do with the crater?” Chicago Tribune: see old Skimmer- horn is up for office again. I thought he “Well, v 'far wrong. About everything he has he got out of politics.” Somerville Journal: Almost every busi- ness man by the time he gets to be 40 carrfes around| with him all the time at least one little bottle of pills, and some- times two Chicago Post: “‘Are they happily mated?" “I don't think #o. I overheard his wife telling him that she thought mourning was very becoming to her.” Philadelphla Press: Lieutenant I (sentimentally)—I've come to say by." T've been ordered to the Philippines. Miss Glddy—How Jolly! Tl be so in- teresting now to read the llsts of the killed and wounded. Baltimore News: “Young man,” sald the solemn-looking gentleman in the mrnmfi. “do you know you are on the path to quic det Itr‘;u L “T do, on? replied the youth, as he detached | himself and hastened forward, for he had | only ten minutes to spend In the quick. lunch room. | Baltimore American: ““And so,” sald the | member of "the investigating committee. | "You are ‘the gentleman' in charge of the | rogues’ gallery?" “Yes, sir,” answered the police leuten- ve are the committee on welghs and ment of the institution with the methods of congress ralsed dark suspicions In the minds of the committee. THE WASHERWOMAN. Bugene Ware (“Ironquill"), Ina very humble cot, In a rather quiet spot, In the suds and in the soap, Worked a woman, full of hope; Working, singing, all_alone, In a sort of undertone: ““With the Savior for a friend, He will keep me to the end.”” Sometimes happening along, 1 heard the semi-song, And often used to smile, More in sympathy than gulle; But I never said a_word In regard to what I heard, As she sang about her friend Who would keep her to the end. Not in sorrow nor in glee Working all day long was she, As her children, three or four, Played around her on the floof; But in monotones the song She was humming alt @ay long: “With the Savlor for a friend, He will keep me to the end.” It's a song 1 do not sing, For I scarce belleve a thing Of the miracles of old; But 1 know that her bellet Is the anodyne of grief, And will always be a friend That will keep her to the end. Just a trifle lonesome she, Just as poor as poor could be; But her spirits‘always rose, Like the bubbles in the clothes, LAnd though widowed and alone, Cheered her with the monotone, Of a Savior and a friend Who would keep her to the end, 1 have seen her rub and scrub, On a washboard in the tub, While the baby, sopped in' suds, Rolled and tumbled {n the duds; Or was paddling in the pools, With old scissors stuck in spools; of her friend er to the end. She still humming Who would keep Human hopes and human creeds Have their root on human needs; And T should not wish to strip From that washerwoman's Iip Any song that she can sing, Any hope that songs can bring; ¥or the woman has @ friend Who will keep her to the end. it's in the Quality Of Our Clothing for MEN and Boys that Make it Cheap. It is better in materials and workmanship than you'll 8 And it doesn’t cost more than the kinds that are most places. cheap only in name. Men's at Suits, $10.00 to $25.00. Boys’and Children Suits $2.50 to $18.00 The novelties in Sallor and Russian Blpuse Suits for emall boy: are extremely attractive this season, both in design and materl They will interest every mother of a boy if she desires good clotis« ing at reasonable prices. No Clothing Fits Like Ours. K 3@ Exclusive Clothiers and Furnishers. R. 8. Wilcex, Manager. Dr.PRICES - CrgpmBaking Powder The difference of cost between a good