Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 30, 1902, Page 6

| THE OMAHA DALY BEE partment. editorial matter ot THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 1902. B. ROSEW .\‘rux EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY T MORNING. TERMS OF SUBECRIPTIO) ly (without Sunday), One Year.$ Iy and Bunday, One Year lust: Bee, One . junday Meo, (ine Year. it Une Year. 'm Century Farmer, Onl‘;}t:! . DELIVERED BY CARK ly Bee (without Sunday), copy.. 3¢ ly Bee (Without Bungay), per week..lic Ay Bee ncludl m-n per 'eeknc y Bee, ening Bee Lwithout Bunday), vening - Hee Uncluding Bur ek of irreguiarities in adadressed to Uliy Clroulation DI- ornnu mh.—Tho Bee Bulldi iy fail Bullding, Twen- th Omaba- tv~nm- Afl‘ M streets. Cnmflllnl‘ ufts—i0 rear] Btreet. Chl UN‘I:'CBIIIlnIn ) okt ourt. % o0 Fourteenth Street. mNH"PONDl:NCE. Communications relating to news and shoula be saaressea: Umana Bee, watorial Department. BUBINKSS LE1TEKS, Business letters and remittances should acaressea: Ane iee Fublishing (om- pany, Omaha. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, expreas or postal order, muhlo 10 The Bee Publishing Company. Unly 3-cent stamps accepted in payment of mali aceounts. Fersonal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchange, not accepted. THE BEN PUBLISHING COMPANY. BTATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss.: rEe ‘sschuck, secrotary of Lhe Hee Publisning Company, being du Bays that the actual numper of gomplets coples of The Daily, vening and Bunday Hee printed during month of March, 1Wd, wus as follows: 29,970 w700 EER EREBERE Net wial salés. . Net dally average. GEO. B THCHUCK Ty nresence and sworn to A fl.AEMUBSEN. Notary Publie. Subscribed in before me this (Beal.) Governor Savage has cleared the po- litical atmosphere, The coming republican state conven- tion will disclose a lively race for nomination honors, just the same. Eee— That story about Bartley returning to the treasury the state money he embez- zled may uow be pul way back on the shelf. . — Postage stamps for sale at every next corner is to be Uncle Sam's business card in Omaha. No one will have any excuse now for buying something *“just a8 good.” e £ Compared with his numerous officlal proclamations and explanations, Gov- ernor Bavage's letter of withdrawal stauds out as an example, brief and to the point. — South Omaha democratic councilmen are trying to play a game of freeze-out on Mayor Koutsky by keeping away from council meetings and preventing the attendance of a quorum. — The delay In the city tax levy is lable to cause trouble for the city in meeting the Interest requirements of the munlci- pal debt. Whatever happens Omaba's credit must be protected against default- ing its obligation —_— The Union Pacific attitude on the foundry ‘controversy is the attitude of the factory magnate who Insists that there 1s nothing to arbitrate between striking operatives and the owners of the closed factory. S General MacArthur admits without compunction that he planned the opera- tion that resulted In the capture of Aguinaldo. General Funston will now have to share the credit of the exploit with his commanding officer. b e a1 The ideal system of taxation Is that in ‘which . franchised corporations are compelled to bear their full share of the tax burdens and in turn see to It that every other corporation and individual pays in the same ratio. Let each tax- payer be a' monltor for every other. = ,The suggestion that the differences be- tween the city and the Union Pacific | managers over the closing of the iron foundry be referred to the clty attorney simply means that further consideration of the subject be allowed to rest indefi lmely in one of the pigeon holes of thy Attorney Counell's desk. —_— Grover Cleveland is writing in a cur- rent periodical on the pleasures enjoyed by the serene duck hunter. But as he falls to tell how a man twice beaten for the presidency can attain the serenity acquired by a man twice elected to that office, his effusion Is not UYkely to be endorsed in the columns of the Commoner. e— Ouba’s president-elect is touring the faland in advance of taking on his new office with a view to familiarizing him- self with the conditions and needs of different sections. Not a bad idea, but & newly-elected president of the United Btatés’ would bLave to spend twelve months insead of twelve days if he undertook to follow out the example, SEE——— The cattle syndicates would like very much to head off the order of the In- terior department against the illegal fencing of the public domaln by some sort of congressional legislation hefore July 1, the date set for the fences to comle down. The prospect of the land leasing bill becownltig¢ a law, however, is not so good that it Is safe to rely on it as against the department edict OUR NAVAL STRENGTH. The common bellef regarding the rela- tive naval strength of the United States will be modified by the report of the chairman of the house naval committee, Representative Foes of IllMnole. It ap- pears that while there are 138 vessels in the navy, bullt and bullding, the real fighting strength Is eomprised in the eighteen battleships, eight armored and twenty-one protected crulsers, the re- port stating that the other ninety-one vessels would count for little in actual war. Particular reference Is made to what Germany s dolng In increasing her naval power, her program being on a much more extensive scale than that of this country and it is expected to be practically completed within the next #ix years, when the German navy will have attained really formidable propor- tions, though even then probably in- ferior to the French navy, which is also being Increased. The report of the house naval com- mittee can hardly fail to fmpress con- gress and the country with the expe- diency of continuing the buflding up of our sea power, The recommendation of the committee {8 for the construction of two more first-class battleships, two first-class armored cruisers and two gun- boats, which does not seem to be at all extravagant. It is not the policy or purpose of the United States to enter into rivalry with any other nation for naval supremacy, but we cannot afford to be altogether indifferent to what other powers are doing in the way of strengthening their sea power. How- ever little attention this country may have felt called upon in the past to give to the growth of European naval estab- lishments, our territorial expansion and the broadening of our commercial inter- ests mow require that we shall take notice of what other maritime countries are doing in this respect and practical wisdom suggests that we cannot safely permit ourselves to fall very far to the rear of such countries In sea power. 'llm yery reasonable recommendation made by the house naval committee whonld not encounter any serious oppo- sition and probably will not, since there {8 no doubt that intelligent public sen- timent throughout the country is favor- fible to increasing the naval establish- ment. E—— A SERIOUS CHARGE. The charge is made, which according to Washington advices is well founded, that the naval attache of the British embassy some time since took sound- ings in Tampa harbor and made charts locating channels by which torpedo boats may reach our stations there without using the defended approaches. It Is said that he also made close ob- servations of the fortifications of Egmont Key and in other ways secured military information which nations do not, as a rule, communicate to each other. A few days ago the charge was referred to in the Britlsh House of Com- mons and the statement made that the government bad been informed that'the allegation was unfounded. It appears, however, that the facts are sufficlently well established to have been taken under consideration by the Washington authoritles. If well founded the charge is a se- rious one, particularly so if the sound- ings and observations of the British offi- cer were taken by direction of the gov- ernment. Investigation of naval and military conditions, with a view espe- clally to discovering weak or vulnerable points, may be part of the duty of for- elgn naval and military attaches, but if so it would be well, as suggested by the Washington Post, to do away with them. The charge against the attache of the Boitish embassy should certainly be Investigated and his government called to account if it 1s responsible for his alleged work in Tampa harbor. If due to his own zeal his transfer to another field of activity would be de- sirable. — NOT VERY PERPLEXING. Members of the State Board of Equal- izatlon are reported to be seriously per- plexed over the prospective assessment of the properties and franchises of the various transportation, telegraph and telephone companies. The mere fact that the valuation of lands and live stock varies very radically need not necessarily perplex the state board. The recent decislon of the supreme court specifically instructs boards of equalization how to ascertain the value of the property and franchises of a cor- poration. When the actual value of the property and franchises has' been figured out it will be easy to strike the average at which all of their property is assessed In the various countles of the state, If, for example, that average is 30 per cent of the market value, then the railroad, télegraph and telephone properties and franchises are to be valued for taxation purposes 30 per cent of their actual or market value; if the average is only 20 per cent, then the rallroad, telegraph and telephone property is assessable 20 per cent of its actual or market value. ’ The contention that the tangible prop- erty of rallroads, telegraph or telephone companies, - namely, the right of way, depots and depot grounds, tracks and rolling stock, or the poles, wires and instruments, on the other hand, do not equal In value the aggregate of the salable or market value of the bonds and stocks of the respective companies, should no longer perplex any mem- ber of the board. The difference be- tween the value of the tangible prop- erty, real and personal, and the market value of stocks ‘and bonds has been defined by the supreme court to repre- sent the value of the franchise. Under that ruling the board has no discretion in figuring the values except so far as it fixes the standard or relative ratio of corporate taxation to the taxation of all other classes of property. When taxation in Nebraska is dis- tributed upon al classes of property without favoritish or discrimination in proportion to its vilue, ds near as can be ascertalned, will be no grounds for complaint. The main source of in- equality In taxation has not been the defective law, but partiality In the en- forcement of the law. FIRST ENFURCE THE LAWS. Honest and falthful enforcement of the laws s the duty of the executive department of the government. That duty it 1s now performing In the pro- ceedings Instituted agalnst combina tions. In his Charleston gpeech Presi- dent Roosevelt sald: “Above all, the administration of the government, the enforcement of the laws must be fair and honest. The laws are not to be administered in the interest of the poor man or the Interest of the gich man. They are simply to be administered Justly, in the Interest of each man, be he rich or be he poor, giving immunity to no violator, whatever form the viola- tion may assume. Such is the obligation of every public servant.” This is the spirit in which the ad- ministration is now acting. A Wash- ington dispatch to the Philadelphia North American reports the president as saying in effect: “The present laws in- tend to give the federal government cer- taln supervision over the operations of corporations doing an interstate com- merce business. I do not assume to know more than others who have given much study to these laws, but I do pro- pose to find out their real merits, The government has a legal department whose business it 18 to enforce these laws. There will be no lack of energy or intelligence on the part of this federal law department In trying to apply such laws. They were put there for a pur- pose and we will find out if they can accomplish what they were intended for. If they will, properly enforced, prevent a great monopoly which con- trols foodstuffs from dictating prices and defining selling districts we want to know that so that we can use them for the protection of the people.” This {8 what the legal department of the government, by direction of the presi- dent, is secking to find out and there can be no doubt of its intention to honestly and faithfully pursue the course it has taken. Every ratlonal man understands that the first step toward remedylng what- ever abuses there are resulting from the combinations is to test the applicability of existing laws. Only In this way can it be determined whether these laws are sufficient for what they were In- tended to accomplish. If it be found that they are not adequate, not broad enough to reach and remedy the evils complained of, then it is in the power of the people through their repre entatives to enact legislation that will meet the demand for a correction of abuses. It 18 not within the authority of. the execu- tive branch of the government to do more than is being done for the en- forcement of existing laws. Those who assert otherwise appeal to popular ig- norance of the powers and dutles of the executlves The most relentless foe of the combinations or trusts could do no more, as president, than is being done under the direction of Mr. Roosevelt to subject them to the laws. That the administration is thoroughly in earnest in the proceedings instituted to test the laws applicable to combina- tlons there cannot be a reasonable doubt and it can be confidently asserted that the proceedings will be pushed with all possible vigor. In the meanwhile there i8 no good reason why congress may not properly consider the question of pro- viding for the supervision and regula- tion of corporations engaged in inter- state commerce. i ‘With the party out of power some- thing i1s always wrong in present coudi- tlons. In hard times, when prices are low, industry and commerce are para- lyzed and workingmen are vainly trying to find employment to keep soul and body together, the party out of power in- sists that there i8 something wrong in the body politic which can be righted only by putting it in and turning the other fellows out. When times are good, prices are high and employment is abun- dant, then the party out of power still cries that there must be something wrong. The consumer should have lower prices—the producer should have higher prices. The wageworker should have better pay and all he needs should be cheaper. The only way to bring about this much desired condition that will fill the dinner pail and the farmer's pocket at the same time is through a change that will put the outs In and the ins out. This is the logic of the popo- cratic organs in the discussion of the Beef trust. The committee of the Omaha Woman's club that has been looking iuto the pub- lic school situation urges that “no teacher be retained who does not mani- fest by her qualifications and adapt- abllity abundant professional fitness for her work.” This is a good rule to apply, but why should it not be applied equally to the superintendent as well as to the teacher? Why should well qualified and competent teachers be subjected to the bumiliation of working under a superin- tendent who not only has no sufficient education himself, but devotes his tal- ents chiefly to promoting projects that have nothing to do with the public schools? 1Is the demand for competent teachers any more pressing than the de- mand for competent supervision? Whatever factional differences there may be among republicans of Douglas county with respett to candidates, the overshadowing lssue which must be squarely met is whether the party Is to be ruled by minority or majority. Under the arbitrary and vicious apportionment fixed by the convention of 1901 in the interest of Congressman Mercer 11,000 republicans 1o Omaha are accorded ninety delegates in the next convention, while 1,300 republicans in the country precincts are given seventy delegates and 1,800 republicans in South Omaha have but eighteen delegates. This is nothing but disfranchisement by the overthrow of the basic principle of pop- ular government. minorities to dictate its candidates In vites defeat at the polls. ——— “If the city enforces the billboard or- dinance we will be put out of business,” cries the Mulvihill company. city does not enforce the billboard ordi- nance a good many people are llable to die of heart fallure or suffer irreparable injury to their limbs whenever Omaha i8 visited by a hurricane. It may be hard for Omaha to be deprived of artis- tic posters, conveying vivid Ideas of tight rope acrobats, of thinly ciad women In flesh colors and of menagerie beasts, but for sanitary reasons and pub- lic safety the passing of the billboard will be cheerfully acquiesced in. g e——— In a letter to a Sunday school class, Admiral Dewey vouches for the historic truth that the officers and men who won the battle of Manila fought out the victory on coffee alone. In view of the brilliant result, no naval vessel of any country should fail to keep a con- stant supply of coffee available for use when the enemy heaves in sight. From all accounts it looks as if Cap- tain Christmas' claim for a slice of the Danish West Indles purchase money would hardly be worth discounting as an investment. Where Ignorance is Bliss, Chicago Record-Herald. J. P. Morgan candidly admits that he can't understand why anybody should find fault with his operations. Pierp. should take a day off and mingle with the masses. Getting ;h! Fixture H New York World, Now they are to make sugar also of corn juice. When the right combination is dis- tilled from the kernel happy man need fur- nieh only hot water and lemon juice ex- tra. dy. Poets In High Favor. Washington Post. The rumor that Hon. Johm M. Thurston was to succeed Secretary Hitchcock may have been predicated upon the notion that the administration is determined to ap- point only peets to the high offices Revising an Old Favorite. Baltimore American. We gather from Senator Beveridge's re- cent “keynote’ that he favors revising the old poem to read: 1 love to see the octopus And pat it on its head; How prettily it wags its talls Whenever it is fed. The Under Cut. Cleveland Leader. Now it is claimed that the railroads are making secret rates in violation of the in- Jjunction of the United States court. It takes mighty shrewd officials to get ahead of the average rallroad man and force him to do bueiness within the provisions of the law. Seem Know Its Friends, Chicago Chronicle. 80 far as learned no gentleman connected with the sugar trust has fallen a victim to nervous prostration as the result of the Teller resolution for an investigation of the trust's control of the Cuban eugar crop. Since the hired girl of the late Sen- ater McPherson made a large profit In sugar stock the financlers in control of that Interesting institution have had no dread of the United States senate. Re: it of Postal Reform. Chicago Chronicle. The receipts of the Postoffice department for the quarter ending March 31, exceeded the expenses. This has occurred but four times In the receipts for any quarter in the Inst eighteen y The result was largely due to the exclusion from the mails of irregular matter, mostly advertising sheets and books that are not periodical which were carried at very low poun rates. The bulky matter dumped into the mails in evasion of the laws was trans- ported at an expense of § cents a pound. The postage amounted to 1 cent a pound. With the reform of this and other abuses the Postoffice department should be self- supporting, even If the expense is $180,- 000,000 & year—twice the total cost of the government annually before the war. Sparks on the Railroad Problem. Springfield Republican. M. E. Ingalls, president of the “Big Four" railroad system, has indeed been throwing out a brilllant shower of sparks, equal to those from an old wood-burning locomotive, in considering present rallroad problems. Every one has a ten-candle power: “‘Should the western crops fall or shrink this year, the railroad earnings will fall off, economies will be practiced, purchases such as steel will be postponed, manufacs turers in turn will feel the effects, and s0 will everybody else. It is llke a cob- house, you see. Pull out one and the whole tumbles. “But it Is getting so a ratlroad president, it he wants to keep his road over night, must put It In & safe and carry the key.” GENERAL OF THE ARMY, Protest Against Forcing General Miles on the Retired List, Brooklyn Eagle. We want our history to read clean. We don't want to be hardly criticised for acts thet might as well not have been committed. The record of our army has been excellent. It has numbered, among its officers and its rank and file, men of whom we are proud. They are representa- tive Americans. Its conduct has been dis- tinguished from its inception to this day by fairness and chivalry, ell as courage. then, consider how it will read, a half century hence, it the head of that army is removed—not for cause, for no cause has been assigned, but for differences of view with the administration. General Miles is the head of the army. He holds his place, not merely by semiority, but becauee he has been & valuable man to ths service. He has never been impeached for his conduct in the Indian wars, nor for his work in the rebellion. On the contrary, his bravery and competence in all his cam- paigns has been recognized. He has but little more than a year to serve. Why not allow him to close that term? It 1s & recognized fact that he has ene- mies among the men whom he commands. He Is not & graduate of the army school. His trainiog has been chiefly that of ex- perience. He has been fighting while the cadets have been reading how to fight. He has been incautious, but when was caution the attribute of courage? He has spoken his mind, but what statute pro- vides that the commander-in-chief of our military forces shall be deprived of the liberty of opinion? Let us witbhold judg- ment, let us confess the use and the merit of the present genmeral, and let us be con- tent to pass the fact into history that no general of the United States army has ever offered occaslon for removal. Let General Miles be eral till he reaches his retiring age, which will be in a few mont! let bim do his ows retiriog, with bonors he has won. A party that allows But If the GENERAL SMITH'S DEFENS New York Sun (rep.): reaponse to the accusation brought against a man, and, we belleve, of a soldier Chicago Post (rep.): General Smith's ad- over 10 proves that war e not only what Sherman said of it, of men. St. Paul Ploneer Press (rep.): General Killing of all hostile natives of Samar over 10 years of age. His defense is the story of Balangiga's awful massacre. He was out tor revenge. Further comment may be withheld till the court-martial is through with its work. In the meantime it must be admitted that it looks as if the fierce strife in Samar had given us a Weyler who out-Weylers Weyler, as if under our flag there have been done in the Fhilippines deeds worse than those which stirred our people to righteous wrath and drove the Spaniards from Cuba. Cleveland Leader (rep.): If any paper or public leader had dared to assert that in less than four ygars from the beginning of war to stop the cruelties of the Spanish Weyler an American general would issue orders that in a wide region all natives of an island where United States troops were to servg ehould be killed, from the age of 10 upwards, and their homes destroyed, that paper or politiclan would have been exe- crated as an Insanely viclous slanderer of his own country. And now many papers and, numerous politiclans are excusing and palliating General Smith's conduct, and not without justification in the fact that he simply did the usual thing in warfare such as he was called on to wage. Possibly some good may come of this monstrous object lesson. It ought to make an im- pression deep enough to last at least a few years in any country which claims a proud place among the Christian nations of the world. Hon. T. B. Minahan, president of the American Federation of Catholic Socleties, will be tendered a reception in Boston on May 4. Prof. Woodrow Wilson of Princeton uni- versity will deliver the oration at the celebration of founder's day at Vassar col- lege on May 2. According to the Washington Times, it was a Wisconsin congressman who was caught holding a pitcher under a button on the wall in his room. under which waa written: “Push twice for water."” Edwia Hawley, who recently resigned his position as general traffic agent of the Southern Pacific to devote himself to his own business, worked first for the Erie company as errand boy at a salary of $4 a week. Adolphus Dewet, a nephew of the Boer General Dewet, who was wounded and cap- tured at the battle of Jacobsdal, and aft- erward escaped from Bermuda by swim- ming to a schooner bound for New York, arrived In Guayaquil, Ecuador, recently, He proceeded to Lima, Peru, where he will engage In mining. Among the candidates for office in the coming French elections is a grand nephew of that Brillat-Savarin, tha famoue epl- cure, who wrote a classic om cookery. His relative is opposing the re-election of Bau- din, the French minister of public works. Brillat-Savarin was a great lawyer as well as a past master In the culinary art and all his family have been lawyers. Senator Patterson was addressing his colleagues the other day In opposition to some proposed improvements in the District of Columbia. Depew wanted to know when vote would be reached and Hanna sald: T'1l tell you it you'll let me know how long Patterson will talk.” “Impossible,” sald Depew. “No man can tell how long good lawyer from the west will talk on a populistic proposition.” Until recently southern people have been divided whether to make the birthday of Generzl Lee or Jefferson Davis a confeder- ate memorlal day. Now there is a grow- ing feeling in favor of giving the honor to Davis. ‘There s a strong movement in Mississippl favoring the purchase and perpetual maintenance of the old Davis tomestead at Beauvoir. June 3 was the confederate leader’s birthday The Bee acknowlelges receipt of pland and specifications and ‘he menu card of the annual dinner of the Sheffield (England) Press club, which was pulled off April 12. Major Church Howe of Nebraska, American consul at Sheffield, was one of the guests of the occasion, and mere lords to the right of him, earls to the left of him and sirs every- where. Strange to say, the major did not make a speech during the subsequent pro- | ceedings. “ALONE, ALL ALONE.” What & Change & Few Years Have Wrought in Missouri. St. Louls Globe-Democrat, April 26 W. J. Bryan of Lincoln, Neb., spent an hour at Union etation yesterday morning on his way to Paducah, Ky., without any reception committee to see him through. Not even Moses Wetmore. It was not Mr. Bryan's first visit to Union station. On one occasion, in 1896, Mr. Bryan visited Unfon station enroute home from the Chi- cago conventlon, where he hung a rhetorical crown of thorns upon a metaphorical cross of gold. The populace refused to let him walk through the station and he was borne by six stout policemen to the upper dining room, where his frugal breakfast of tender- lotn Franch rolls and imported coffee awaited him. It was with difficulty that the police assisted by Willlam Joel Stone and Colonel Mose Wetmore, could clear & way to the ticket window, so that the walting multitude might view the Ne- braskan in the act of buying his ticket. On the subsequent occasions, both in that strenuous year and 1900, Mr. Bryan passed through Union station. His reception was always the same, consisting of enormous crowds, brass bands, Willlam Joel and Colonel Mose. So Mr. Bryan arrived at Union statlon yesterday morning. The train from Mexico, Mo., was on time and the Nebraskan stepped out upon the rear platform, as had been his wont in other days, and preparel for the entrance to the station. A crowd was there and also the police, but not for Eagerly bis eye traveled over the throng for a glimpse of the tall figure, hun- gry visage and long gray forelock of Wil- liam Joel. It was not In sight. “Ah, I remember,” soliloquized the Ne- braskan. “He s out stumping the state agalnst Andrew Carnegle’s free libraries ‘Tis enough. Let the good work go on. But where is Mose?" Again his eagle eye traveled over the hurrylog crowd. No sign of a stout gentle- man with a red face and iron-gray mus- tache. The trust-buster was not in sight With & weary sigh the man with the large mouth and rapidly thinning raven locks asked the man at the airbrake if this was really St. Louls. “You bet it 1s. cully,” was the reply, “and if youse doz't git a wiggle on you pretty quick this here car will take you down to the yards, see? With another sigh Farmer Bryan grasped his trusty gripsack and started for a stool in the lunch room. Like “patience on a brick kiln waiting for beef,”” he sat, and sat, and sat—but nobody gave him greeting. Then he hunted up a train that would take him to Paducah, “alone, all alons,” as Eddle Foy mournfully siugs. General Smith's him as the commander in Samar |s that of mission that he gave the order to kill all but that {t makes flends Jacob H. Smith admits that he ordered the get ter, hair and Long,.Rich, Heavy Hair A great many people want long, heavy hair; but how to them. The fact is, the hair needs a little help now and then. The roots require :feeding When the hair is starvecl. it stops growing, loses its lus- Ayer’s Hair Vigor is a hair- help. It feeds the hair. The stored to the natursl color. “ Your Mair Vigor is certaloly wonderful It it, that is what puzzles falls out, turns gray. grows, stops falling out, all- the gray hairs are re- r.zmm.m...m,'; AR arvggles. "~ EMMA CaLDER, New York C; 5 €. AVER CO., Lowalt, Mage. AMENDING STATE BOUNDARIES, Proposed Changes in the Western States. Philadelphia Preas, Senator Kearns of Utah has a bill in the senate to annex to Utah a section of Ari- zona, that part which lles north and west of Colorado river. Arizona is clamorous for statehood and no doubt prefers to keep its entire area. There is mo recent in- stance of a state voluntarily relinquishing any portion of its area, but the territories are usually falr game for covetous neigh- bors. Nevada has made inroads on the or- iginal area of Arizona and wanted badly to appropriate a slice of Utah before the lat- ter became a state. Washington very nearly secured that portion of Idaho im- mediately east of it; Nebraska, before the admission of the Dakotas, was an applicant In congress for a plece of Dakota Territory. Years ago Missourl, by act of congress, se- cured for itself a large plece of Nebraska Territory and brought it under the ban of slavery, contrary to the compromise of 1820. It is natural for states to seek to fm- prove their boundarles by additions of this character, but soon the opportunity to do 80 will be gone, for the few territories still remalning cannot much longer be denied statehood. Inasmuch as congress has full power to fix the boundaries of new states it 1s a pity that it has not arranged them with a clearer view to their ultimate equal- ity. Their boundaries were fixed usually with reference to their appearance on the map, without much regard to the character of the soll and its relative capacity for sustaining population. Desert states like Nevada should have been annexed to territory ca- pable of sustaining a fixed population, no matter how large it made the state. A grazing state like Wyoming should have been given a larger area. Its northern boundary should have been run up to Brit- 1sh America and western Montana coalesced with Idaho. California and Texas, both im- mense, fertile states, should have been di- vided and the arid territories of Arizona and New Mexico should be united even now and Oklahoma admitted after consoli- datlon with the Indian Territory or mot at all. Arizona, If merged with New Mexico into a single territory, could easily spare Utah the slice it covets, but as it is we doubt if Senator Keurns will be accommodated. The plece of land he wants to add to Utah 1s separated from the rest of Arizona by the Grand Chnyon of the Colorado, and no doubt its population, if it has any, woald be more conveniently placed as a part of Utah, since the deep canyon of the Colorado puts an almost impassable abyss between it and the rest of Arizona Territory. Lines of A TWELVE-BUTTON MONARCH. King Corn Plants a Sugar-Coated Pearl on His Shirtwaist, Baltimore American. In Michigan a company has been formed to produce sugar from corn. At this writ- ing the Sugar trust has not yet become alarmed, but it would be well for the magnates to keep their eyes peeled. It is designed to produce sugar, glucose, grape sugar and syrup from corn. If expecta- tions are realized, we may become inde- pendent of the trust and find a good home market for all our surplus corn. In Ken- tucky, where the natives hold a higher use can be found for corn, progress may be slow, and the Beef trust may resiat the diversion of corn from its hitherto profit- able employment of converting grain into meat, to be sold at almost prohibitive prices. But if science demonstrates that good sugar can be made out of corn, the trusts must bestir themselves. But everything must wait on experiment. It sometimes happens that rosy calcula- tions which seem to point to great wealth are not realized within the lifetime of the calculator. A few years ago it was sald that good sugar could be made cheaply from watermelons, and immediately there was excitement In Georgia. Watermelons are. however, coming from the south, and are being used in the old way. Whisky, it was reported, could also be made from watermelons. There are those now living who remem- ber how confidently it was demonstrated —on paper—that whisky could be produced trom sawdust. It was figiced out that it & man were sorely put to it for a drink he could go out in the pine woods with a saw and enjoy himself as long as he could work. The whisky was of the “‘pine-top” variety, that was used in cases of ex- tremity In the south during the civil war, and said to be somewhat injurious. It fs certain that no Kentucky colonel would ever consent to smell of sawdust whisky when the choice product of corn could be bad. The history of many of the greal coveries and inventions is that of reward after patlent effort. There is a greater promise for corn than ever. With the sugar, whisky, beef and hog men all bid- ding for corn, the inference is the price will rise. dlse CHEERY CHAFF. Adyice,” said Uncle thing else. If it's ave to give It away. Washington Star: Eben, “is like mos’ any good you_dossn: You kin giner'ly sell it Washington evote any sald the Chlcago Tribune: “George was a president who did not of his time to going fishing," cynic. ow do you know?’ © could not have been a fisherman and preserved his reputation for veracit Philadelphia Press: “What did you think of my new gags last night?' asked the comedian. ““Well,” replied_the critic. “‘there was one ing you got off that deiighted me." “What was that? “The stage." Smart Set: Mrs. Hoon (In the midst of her reading) — Ah! Mrs. - Congressman Swackhammer has started a crusade againat decollete gowns. Hoon—H'm! Ts Mre. Congressman Swackhammer sensible or skinny? Pittsburg Chroni You can always de- pend upon what a congressman tells you in & letter,” remarked Squildig “Yon can, can you?" repiled McSwilligan, sarcastically ““Yes, congressmen frank (their letters, you know.' Chicago Post: “But we can't leave ./man out of oar calculations entirely id the adyanced woman regretfully “Certainly not," admitted the ‘on was not so far advanced. “'When the any expenses to be met it s most con venient to have him around.’ Washington Star: “You are taking a great deal of Interest in society es,” answered Senator Sorghum, “I used to make fun of receptions and that sort of thing. But I declare it's something of a relief to get Into a gathering of peo- ple where nobody can make a political speech or a touch for a campaign fund.’ THE AIRS OF SPRING. Portland Oregonfan The airs of springtime that so softly play When blossoms out the red and beautious rose And all the world i gla. 1 gentle May— Vhence come they to ue earth—who knows? Who know Whence comes “Go Way Back and Sit Do The Khu)lomfl “Honeysuckle and the Bee? Whence comes “When Reuben Comes to Town? ‘Whence comes (ha song that ends “Looks Good to Me And then the echoes of the shadowy past That_float upon the breeze and every- forever” and “At “The unkard's Mother" and “The Plumber’s Prayer.’ They ripple on each passing breeze ihut blows; They drift through every door that stands They :mnllv with the perfume of the rose And fill the world with music near and far. But whence come they? on thelr way, When Spring awakens and bl Who starts them the rose is oW1 And all the world {s flushing with the May? Ah, wise I8 he, that he rematns unknown Nothing Like Them. is an expression we hear every day from people who try on our suits. There is as much difference between our clothes and the ordinary kinds of ready-to-wears as the and cotton; ours have between silk luxurious difference that snappy, look of elegance you can find nowhere else, and from $10 to $25 we can suit the most fastidious tastes, “NO CLOTHING FITS LIKE OURS. Ryrouning-King-§-@ Exclusive Clothiers and Furnishers, R. 8. Wilcax, Manager.