Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 9, 1902, Page 6

‘THE — P OMAHA DAILY BEE E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. o A 4 PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING, s TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. aily Bes (witbout Supday), One Year.$4.00 liy Bee and Sunday, Uie Year 6.0 ustrated iice, Une Year » L2 nday lee, Upe Vear.. Zw turaay Bee, ne Year........... weis L0 entieth Century Farmer, One Year. 100 DELIVERED BY CARRIER. fly Bee (without Sunday), per copy.. 2¢ ly Beo (without. Bunday). per week. 1 ally Bee (ncluding Bunday), per week delivery week ... Cnmdylnlnu of Irregularities in be addressed to City Clrculation partment. OFFICES lding. aii Bullding, Twen- 1L Blufts—10 Pearl Street. Chi 01640 Unity Building. Few York-Temple Court, ‘ashington—el Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relaung 1o news and torial matter. shouid be addressed: ha Bee, kdiloriai Lepartment. BUSIN & JRS. 1 1 ¥ ustiess nd remittances should u’m‘r ;' khe” Bee Publish ng Com: pany, Umabs. " REMITTANCES. L draft, express or postal order, 3-gent stamps “"le in payment of 860! to The Bee Publishing Company, unts. Personal checks, except on aha or eastern exchange, not accepted. 'HE BEE PUBLIBHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss.: B *Taschuck, secretary of The Bes Pul Company, being duly swor says ;.'?.“ the actual number of full a: RESE S, 8 il M N ee the month of A:ru, rsu "p‘ as follows: Total Less unsold and returnied coples. Net total rales. Net dally average ... GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Bubscribed In my presence and sworn to fi‘"‘ me this 3th day of April, A. D. (Seal.) M. B. HUNGATE, Natary Publlo. Those Olvie - Federation arbitrators may have a chance to prove their metal before long. Se————— The boy king of Spain and the girl queen of Holland are now the leading Juveniles in the cast for the royal drama. eTrEmmem————— The difference betweeén Tillman and the club women is that the latter use more polite methods to suppress the col- ored vote. Omaha is displaying its versatility as host by entertaining a variety of con- ventions of state organizations at one and the same time. From the proficlency in slate-making. #exhibited at Los Angeles the club women must have built up a little political ma- thine all of their own. If worldwide sympathy could prove an effective ' medicine Queen Wilhelmina would make the return trip to complete health by . express, Tet——— _Towa republicans will put in nomina- tion the winunlng state ticket at Des Moines July 80. 1t won't make much difference ‘whether Iowa democrats bame candidates or mot, —— Cold weat and snow are making the month of May memorable over a derge part of continental Europe. We O tuig side cannot claim a monopoly of al climatié vagaries. ! EETTmme———— With \a)) the hodpitals maintained in Omabh: ere bt to be enough to ac- .llmodlfl\):m" s elpitating a Aghf ‘déctors without pre- between rivals for ex- The World-Hdrald would much rather bave the campa! for tax reform fail #0 that it can lay| the blame on re epub- leans than to hajve 1t succeed so that the people may efyjoy some rellef, The tabular exXinit of money pald in and taken out Lt the city treasury by the local franfnised corporations com- piled by The will be handy for fu- :" referenck Cut 1t out and preserve p— Of, ¥f¢ fierce fight for endorsement United States senator in Illinols one ng can be said fn its faver—it will leave room for a senatorial dead- In the legislature if the republicans the majority of that body, as in probabllity they will. Epe—— President-elect Palma of Cuba is get- ting In touch with the people before eutering upon his officlal duties. With the known variable character of the Qubans, his greatest difficulty may be mud to be to keep ia touch with : after he is installed. - According to a vellable cable letter Bmperor Willlam wants to discourage ghe impressionist school of art. The em- must have spending an aft- in an art ¥ trylng to make out whether a spread of purple paint was intended to represent a pastoral or S Benator Tillmab again comes to the Tu syuare ibe democratic prac- of the pi fork wethed of car- elections for'the democrats in the tice with the democratic preaching about cousent of the governed is as dif- lfi‘::;he mathematical squaring of the E a1 That great dally newspaper, the Con- Record, has startled its read- ers by printing & speech of a wember of after death bad claimed him. was really, however, no need for Many of the speeches that it down the Cougressional Record L) TIMELY WARNING, It may as well be understood right now, a8 it will be understood hereafter, that the great state issue In the coming campaign in Nebraska will be corporation regulation and taxation. We do not mind giving republican lead- ers the bepefit of this timely warning. They are not to be judged by the pretenses of the platform they will adopt In June. They are to be judged by the action of the republican State Board of Bqualization, now in session In the eity of Lincoln. The republican platform, so far as state lssues are concerned, is being framed now by the members of the State Board of Equaliza- tion. Upon that platform the republican party | must stand; by that platform the repub- lican party will be judged. The republican party cannot fall to give the people reilef In the matter of rallroad taxation, through the Board of Equalization mow in session, and then by adopting a platform full of promises In June, expect to be restored to power with the understanding that, in the tuture, they will do better.—World-Herald. The republicans of Nebraska will gratefully appreciate this timely warn- Ing and look to the men whom they have honored with the most responsible positions in the state house to discharge their duty fearlessly and impartially re- gardless of pressure from the interested corporations, The declaration that the action of the State Board of Equalization in the as- sessment of rallway property will fur- nish the keynote in the coming cam- paign should not be heedlessly ignored. The paramount issue in Nebraska this year will be tax reform and the repub- licans should not be placed on the de- fensive by those in position to fnaugu- rate tax reform. While the fusionists will have noth- ing to boast of, the republicans are now in power and will be held responsible for any fallure to give the people at least a measure of relief by placing the state in condition to maintain its insti- tutions without a large annual deficit. The impression that the railroads are not bearing their just share of the tax burden in proportion to thelr actual value and earnings is not delusive. It cannot be counteracted, pointing to the fact that they have been favored with extremely low valuations in some other states. Public sentiment in all these states has been aroused to the unjust distribution of tax burdens. In the state of Minnesota, for exam- ple, where the rallroad, telegraph and telephone companies pay 8 per cent of their gross receipts, a proposition will be acted upon by the people at the mext general election to increase the rate to 4 per cent of the gross receipts, and re- publican state officers predict that the proposition will carry. In Iowa, where rallway franchises have not been considered in the assess- ment, the rallway managers themselves admit that the valuations put upon lowa railroads heretofore have been much too low as compared with the tax- able value of real estate and the de- mand is for a substantial increase in railroad assessments to conform with the marked increase in the earnings and market value of these properties. There is certainly no valid reason why the railroads of Nebraska should be ap- praised this year below their asse! ment of 1890, when the mileage was less and their equipment and physical condition incomparably poorer. =y THE ANTHRACITE SITUATION. Uncertainty still characterizes the sit- uation iu the anthracite coal region, but it would seem that a determination of the lssue canuot be much longer de- layed. What that will be cannot be pre- dicted with any degree of confidence. The efforts of the Clvic Federation| to bring about a settlement seem to have completely failed, so far as the operators are concerned, but the miners are still endeavoring to secure satisfactory con- cessions and are manifesting an en- tirely commendable spirit. It appears evident that wany of them, perhaps the majority, are anxious to avold a strike, but the operators, on the other hand, seem to be quite indifferent. This attitude may be du¢ to a bellef that a conflict at this thme would not injure the operators, but rather beuefit them by appreciating the price of coal already mined. If so it 18 & narrow view, for as the New York Times re- marks, by permitting an extensive coal strike at this time the ofwmtors will lay the axe at the root of national pros- perity, which cannot continue if the pro- ductive and distributive industries of the country are crippled. That paper tells them that they canunot safely defy public opinion, and this they will at- tempt if they permit a great strike to occur which they could have averted without disadvantage to themselves or the sacrifice of principle, It declares that such a strike at this time would be & national calamity and might very well begin the pulling down of the tow- ering tabric of our national prosperity. Should a strike be decided on it would involve 146,000 miners and ‘affect in addition 30,000 railroad employes and others. Ey—— UNITED STA1ES STILL LEADS. The United States malntains its posi- tion at the head of the world's export- ing nations, despite the temperary re- duction in the value of exports due to the shortage In corn available for ex- port. The statistics for the nine months ending with March show a drop of nearly $56,000,000 in the valge of ex- ports, but when it Is considered that the value of corn exported fell $52,000,000 below that for the corresponding period of last year, owing to the age in the supply, and t coston, ow' to a decline in price, fell §12,000,000 the ex- ports of the same period of last year, THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, 1902 clally marked characteristic of the com- merce of the United States, In com- parison with other countries, is its large excess of exports over imports. Whether or not this condition is to continue is a question, but the probabllity is that in the not remote future the excess in the value of our exports over imports will be reduced, though there is no present indication of any considerable change in this direction and it i& perhaps safe to count upon a trade balance in favor of this country for several years to come. MAKE AN IMPARTIAL REVISION. In proceeding with the assessment of franchised corporations under the order of the supreme court the council is in | duty bound to treat all corporations im- partially and with the sole view to as: certaining the taxable value of the prop- erty and franchises of each upon the basis established by the court. In reaching conclusions the council cannot be guided by any agreement made since the decision of the court between the plaintiffs and the corporations. Other taxpayers have equal rights—in fact any taxpayer would have a right to in- tervene to compel the council to carry out tbe order of the court in good faith and without partiality for or discrimina- tion against any interest. While it is true that miilions of personal property have not been returned to the tax commissioner, it would be Impossible at this stage to rectify the wrong by readjust- ment of all assessments heretofore made. The remedy for the fallure to secure full personal property returns for city taxation will be applied in next year's assessment, when the corpora- tions will be compelled to join With the real estate owners in the enforcement of equitable tax assessments for mu- nicipal purposes. With the decision of the supreme court before it, the Board of County Commissioners will be in position to re- vise the returns made by the assessors this spring so as to compel owners of personal property to contribute their Just share to the maintenance of state and county government. For this revision the county board will have am- ple time and an assurance that it will be sustained by public sentiment. —— CURRENCY FOR THE PHILIPPINES. One of the most troublesome questions in connection with the proposed Philip- pine legislation is that of providing a currency for the islands. The bill under consideration in the senate makes pro- vision for the coinage of a sllver dollar for circulation in the archipelago and in reference to this Senator Lodge, chairman of the committee on Philip- pine relations, sald: “It is always a dangerous thing to change the money standard of a people and it seemed to the committee that at this time it would be exceedingly perilous. They are now and have long been upon the single sil- ver standard, with the free coinage of Mexican dollars as the unit of value and the current coin of the island. We make no change in the standard. We simply substitute for the Mexican dollar an American Filipino dollar, to be coined at the mint of Manila and the mints of the United States, following in that respect the example of Great Britaln in Hong Kong, Siigapore and the Btraits Settlements, for which she has colned what is known as the Bom- bay dollar, which bas been of very great advantage to her and to her trade in the commerce of the east.” It is by no means certaln, however, that the proposed Filipino dollar would prove of any advantage to this country and in view of the experience with the trade dollar of 1873 it may not only fairly be doubted whether the proposed dollar would be a benefit to our com- merce in the east, but reasonably as- sumed that it might prove a disad- vantage. There is sound objection to the government adopting a currency pol- icy for the Philippines which looks to perpetuating the silver standard there. The project of free colnage proposed by the senate bill would be a serious set- back to the possibility of establishing the gold standard in the islands at any future time. It disunites our money, getting up two standards and two dif- ferent dollars, instead of maintaining one standard and a single dollar throughout all the regions over which the American flag floats. Another objection is that this money would be very likely in time to get into circulation here, there being nothlng in the bill to forbid or prevent the circula- tion of these cheap dollars in any part of the United Btates. They are essen- tially trade dollars and experience teaches that such dollars will enter into our circulation whenever it is profitable to introduce them. The fact that the mint at S8an Francisco is thrown open for the lssue of these coins to every owner of silver bullion who chooses to present it for coinage would afford op- portunity for the distribution of the pro- posed coins among ignorant people in this country. True this danger may not be very great, yet it is one to be con- sldered. The Philippine currency question has undoubtedly received very careful con- sideration from the senate committee, but some modifications of this provision of its bill appear to be necessary, par- ticularly in regard to protecting our home circulation against the possfble in- trusion of the Filipino dollar. E——————s Becretary of Agriculture Wilson does not seem to take kindly to the strictures of the Omaha Commercial club, which has been dipping into the patent medi- the entire decrease Is more than ac- cine business In the imterest of dealers counted for, in insect powder, the) secretary thioks, at the expense of farmer in whose mt of Agriculture holds its own betfer than any other Live Nebraska Towns STANTON-— Sturdy and Solid. Stanton may justly be classed among the “live Nebraska towns,” not in the boom sense, for Stanton has never experienced a boom nor suffered from a boom's after- effects. It is In no sense a “wild cat" town, nor has its growth at any time been phenomenal. Neither s it “graveyard” town which boasts only of “oldest inhabi- ' long stories and carved dry goods Stanton is the county seat of Stanton county and is situated near its geographical center, In the far-famed Elk- horn valley and on the main line of tho Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley rall- road, 106 miles northwest of Omaha. The present population of the town num- bers slightly less than 1,200 souls, exclusive of quadrupeds and chickens. As a town It is neither hoary with age nor in swaddling clothes. Early settlers back In the '60: pressing westward from West Point, d covered the present town sité, located it as homesteads and later a store and postoffice was established. This was before the com- ing of the rallroad, the depot having been erected in 1879. Bince then the growth of Stanton has been steady and secure. Stanton bas five general stores, two exclusive gro- ceries, two drug stores, two shoe stores, one restaurant and bakery, two jewelry stores, three hardware stores, two lumber yarde, two grain elevators, three blacksmith shops, two livery barns, a feed store, three barber shops, two millinery stores, two weekly newspapers, two banks, five lawyers, several real esfate firme and numerous other business enterprises. Among the in. dustries is a large five-story flouring mill, one of the finest in the state. The town is lighted by electricity and has local and long distance telephone connections, & splendid water system and & hose company. The townsite is one of the most attrac- tive along the line. To the south flows the river, and nestling in its valley and up the slope spreads the town. At the summit of a hill towers a magnificent public school bullding, while farther down the slope, with spires pointing heavenward, are Methodist, Congregational and Baptist churches. A few blocks down the valley are the Ger- man Evangelical and Lutheran edifices, while a few blocks west of the business center the Catholics bave a structure sufi- clent to their needs. Stanton citizens as a rule own their homes, and many of them ‘e elegant structures. The business men nearly all own their buildings and are pros perous and strong financially. No town can boast of fewer business failures. Stan. ton has two opera houses, a brass band, a militia company of sixty-four members and numerous fraternal organizations. In addi- tion to all these the town can boast of more handsome homes and trees, flowers and well kept lawns than most towns of its size. Crops here never fail entirely and seldom partially. The citizenship is made up of Yankees, German and a few Bohe- mians, with an occasional Irishman as sea- soning. All good citizens and with an abundance of enterprise, tempered with judgment. What do we need? A brick yard for one thing. We have the right kina of raw material and an all-absorbing home demand for the finished product. A large hotel for another. The one we have fis well managed, but too small. We need more dwellings to rent and more men for ordinary labor. We need a tearing down and moving out of a number of old frame landmarks on the business streets and new brick structures erected in their stead. ‘This {s being done each yea: nd, unaided by fire (Btanton has never had a disastrous fire), within a few more years a resident of the '#0s upon returning will scarcely recognize the place. There are.openings here in almost every calling for the right kind of people. Enterprise prospers here, for the drond there is no room. A. F. ENOS. Omaha to be only 5000 less than during the same period last year, while Kansas City shows a decline of 250,000, 8t. Joseph a decline of 19,000, St. Louls a decline of 145,000, Indianapolis a de- cline of 55,000, St. Paul a decline of 81,000 and Cincinnati a decline of 19,000, ‘When Governor Savage told the mem- bers of the Nebraska Editorial associa- tion that If he could only live his life over and had his choice of callings he would have become an editor, he doubt- less intended to be very complimentary. But if Ezra P. Savage had entered the profession with no more natural fitness for the duties and responsibilities of an editor than he brought into the gov- ernor’s chair he would, we fear, bave proved a lamentable disappointment to himself and to the profession at large. Emm——————— Aspirants for Judge Caldwell’s shoes have commenced reaching out for the strings and the man with the longest pull expects to knock the persimmons. Judge Caldwell, however, has not yet thrown off the mortal coil. E—————— A Remote Possibility. 8St. Louls Glebe-Democrat. Varlous suggestions have been made look- ing to the adoption of a civilized method of ‘warfare and it is possible that a plan may eventually be found by which nations may fight in peace. ing to Die Poor. Loulsville Courer-Journal. Andrew Carnegie has given away nearly $70,000,000 in his libraries and similar en- terprises and still is not in sight of a poor man's death. 0 wonder he is thinking of trylng invest. it in & few newspapers. Admo. hed to Go Slow. Baltimore American. We have for some time admired the ster- ling, straightforward, innocent—we might say, naive—trustfulness of Secretary Shaw. But when he prepares a circular telling women how to pack trunks we feel like advising him to devote himseelf to instruct- ing geese how to swim if he muet amuse himself along those lines. Abolishing & Private Snap. Kansas City Star. The position taken by Secretary Hitch- cock on the various graszing bills now pend- ing In congress should meet with the ap- proval of every one who is interested in the development of the west and who be- lleves in fair play toward those who look on the public domain of the country as something more than & private snap. The Price Albion Pays. Springfield Republican. The cost of the Boer war to England, supposing it to end with the current fiscal year, will be about $1,250,000,000, some two- thirds of which {8 In the form of & funded charge upon the public revenue of Great Britaln to remr’ for decades to come. This is equal to about oue-half the total interest bearing borrowings of the United States government to carry it through the great civil war. The Boer war will rank as the most expensive in almost & cemtury, with this exception. Eminent Dead of & Week. Chicago Tribune. Within a few days J. Sterling Morton, Congressman Amos J. Cummings; Thomas Wilson, at the head of the department of archaeology in the Smithsonian institution; Fraok R. Stockton, the novellst; Wulf Fries, the musician; Sol Smith Russell, the come- dian; Potter Palmer, the successful mer- chant and capitalist; Archbishop Corrigan, the Roman Catholic prelate, and Admiral Sampson, all distinguished men in their varfous department of labor, have passed away, and aow Bret Harte has joined them. Vanishing Art of Bagsase-Smashing. Boston Transcript. It is easy for a really human being to understand how a baggage handler may have his ire roused when he is faced by some of the monstrosities in the pe of trunks that now and then a traveler takes mlong. But, hitherto, he has apparently got into such a temper with these huge things, which he could not throw about as he pleased, that he has ‘“‘taken it out” on the next lght and inoffensive steamer trunk that came his way. It is easy for & truly fair person to understand this attitude, too. Some of the more liberal minded tra: who bave been able to see through the baggege man's attempt to even up have gone g0 far as to believe that the day would come when he would reach with others of us the knowledge that a waste of emergy is 85 bad s & waste of money, and worse, It seems as though the day for his learn- ing the alphabet of the creed has arrived. True, Ge is to acquire the rudimeats through the external forces comtained in orders, but sconer or later, sooner we feel sure, for the baggage handler is apt, the psychological aspect of the case will ap- peal to him and then we shall find things undisturbed and unbroken when we unpack 6 adegt this western Feform. | asuvity 1o the purchese or development of ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK. Ripples on the Current of Life in the Metropolis. Some old stagers of Tammany Hall, who tenderly cling to shattered Iidols, refuse to transfer their allegiance from Dick Croker to Lewis Nixon. What is more to the point, they pay no heed to the orders of the young leader and rudely jeer his pretensions. “The brave declaration of young Nfixon,” says one old wheelhorse, “that he would assume full personal re- sponsibility for Tammany reminds me of a ship launching I once attended: “Everything was ready to let her go, but the boss had not arrived, and no one dared go ahead without his orders. There was a gentleman a little under the ‘influ- ence,” who had lurched in to see the show. Marching up to the foreman of the yard, he steadled himself and sald: ‘My friend, what's ‘sh’'matter?” ‘The old man hasn't come, and there is no one here to take the responsibility,’ was the reply. “The other straighened up, waved his arm with an air of dignity, and sald: ‘You g0 ahead, my frien'. I'll take resphonsi~ bility!” “You mean, then,” I suggested, “that while the ‘old man' is at Wantage, young Lewlis—" “I mean that it looks like rain,” said Tammany etc., reflectively. A conductor on a Broadway car had re. fused to take a transfer the other day on the ground that it was too long after the hour punched. The passenger was politely told that under the rules he could not ac cept the transfer, reports the New York Times, and that he would have to pay his fare or leave the car. “I'll not pay and I'll not leave the car,” d the passenger savagely. I'll pay for you, then,” sald the con- ductor, ringing up the fare. “I'd rather lose 5 cents than wrangle with a passen ger.” . This would doubtless have closed the in- cident had not the irate passenger seen ‘““Abe” Hummel sittinc pposite him. To him the irate one appealed to know if he was right or wrong in refusing to pay his fare. “Do you wish my legal advice?’ asked Mr. Hummel, with a show of gravity. “I do.” “I never give legal advice without a fee.” “Well, here's a $5 bill,” sald the pas- senger, peeling off a bill from a big rol, and Dbanding it to Mr. Hummel, who promptly accepted it. “My advice is—pay your fare or get off the car.” “Is that all?" “No,” replied Mr. Hummel. Then, call- ing the conductor and handing him the bill, he remarked: “It is certainly worth that much money to find and reward a gen- tlendanly conductor.” The free lecture system of the New York public schools is a magnificent aid i’ the instruction and entertainment of the people. During the past season it has been carried into the five boroughs of Greater New York, with an attendance of almost 1,000,000, This course was begun thirteen years 480 o six school houses. There are now more than 100 places where these lectures are given. Dr. Henry M. Leipsiger, supervisor of these lectures, speaking of the good, that had come through their instrumentality, says: “New York is the ploneer in this note- worthy movement for the educatfon of grown-ups. Each year the sum appropriated for the worthy purpose has been increased, for the free lecture movement has won the appreciation not alone of the people, but of the student of education. continued, ties, but 6 per cent of the people of this country are systematically educated after leaving the common schools, so that the Inclusion of a provision for adult education in our educational chapter, is one of the most noteworthy deeds performed in the last decade of the nineteenth centuiy.” A year ago, reports a correspondent of the Philadelphia Press, the midnight light burned In the offices of brokers in the Wall street district and the clearing house clerks were reporting daily exchanges that, fter another, made new records, while ry one was rejolcing that skillful book- keepers had devised a method of clearing the sales of stocks and bonds, for, other- wise, business would have been clogged and brokers offices swamped by reason of the enormity of the tramsactions. That is not the experience this year, although ali ibe brokers and ihe specula- tors are doing better this spring than ap- peared probable in the winter. The great activity has shifted from those who deal in stocks and bonds, or who epec- ulate in the real estate activities of this city. In the offices of the title companies and of the lawyers who have systematized and epecialized couveyancing, combining it with the loaning of momey upon real es- tate or the purchese and sale of property, the activity has been as intense and has caused the six-hour business day to be for- gotten or iguored sinoce the rushing busei- ness has entalled work that is prolonged far into the evealing. There has never ccourred in New York No cures to report, dence—but talk, all ably your own doctor “1 know from settled on the lungs."— D. bc.. 3., $1.00. of testing, nothing to give you confi- truth about nearly all cough medicines. But there’s a record of 60 years of cures back of Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral. And phy- sicians endorse it, prescribe it for colds, bronchitis, and coughs of all kinds. , Prob- knows all about it— has the formula.” personal experience that Ayer's Cherry Pectoral is the best medicine in the vo:ldclol quickl no long record talk. That’s the does. Ask him. Hey up & hep eoldlhlhu’ in ll-.pN.Y. ! + C. AYER CO,, Lowell, Mass, land and improvements thereon that s comparable with that which now prevatls. In other years, in some one district, we have had intenee speculative or actual in- vestment activity that may be compared to the excitement in the financial markets of a year ago, but this year the activity is confined to no one or two dietricts, but, with a few exceptions, permeates every ward on Manhattan and much of the bor- ough of the Bronx and Brooklyn. Representative Joy of Missouri went to the White House the other day with Judge Dickson of his state, relates the Washing- ton Post. In the president’s room they met Abe Gruber, the well known New York lawyer. Mr. Joy introduced Judge Dickson to Colonel Gruber. “I met the judge many years ago,” sald Gruber with a smile. “I do not remember the occasion,” plied the judge. “You ought to,” remarked Gruber. was your office boy twenty-five ago." A characteristic story is told of this same Abe Gruber. When he was a boy looking for something to do, he saw the sign, “Boy wanted,” hanging outside of a store in New York. He picked up the sign and entered the store. The proprietor met him, “What ald yvou bring that sign in here for?" ked the storekeeper. “You won't need it any more,” said Gruber, cheerfully, “I am going to take the fob.” 1 years PERSONAL NO' The kaiser insists that all the statues to his grandfather shall be inscribed “Willlam the Great.” But a man's greatness is not settled by the flat of his grandsom or of his grandfather. President Stuyvesant Fish of the Illinols Central raliroad has established a model farm near Jackson, Miss.,, having about 10,000 acres, on which he expects to settle white farmers. Sheriff Pearson of Portland, Me., the clergyman who was elected as a joke, says that when he entered upon his labors there | were 271 open saloons in the city, and that now he'll give any one $100 who can sbow him one open in the county. “Prince Nanzeta Pahassnee Montezuma, | Tzin of Gatamo,” a strikingly handsome, | black-eyed young man of 23, carrying in his hand a cane ornamented with the anclent insignia of the Montezumas—the eagle upon the cactus—is a«figure ip the Denver hotels. The famous residence of George Vander- bilt at Asheville, N. C., known as Blltmore, is to have a rival efected by a man who | but a few weeks ago was a day laborer. Michael Minkewincz Is the name of the new capitalist, and he has fallen heir to | $2,000,000 through the death of a relative in | Germany. Senator Millard of Nebraska has very bushy and very black eyebrows. When he sits in a certain light in the senate the eye- brows shade his eyes to such an extent that it looks as If he had a pair of artistically blackened eyes. One morning recently the pecullarity was especlally noticeable, ana half a dozen senators started toward him to ask him whet| he had been fighting. The late Amos J. Cummings was the New York correspondent of the Volce, a trade union paper of Boston in the later '60s, and was at the same time employed on the New York Tribune. The story goes that Horace Greeley happening to come across some of Cummings’ letters to Bos- ton, wanted to know who he was, saying that he was @ bright writer; and, he added, “He seems to know & good deal about this office.’ OUR MAIN SOURCE OF WEALTH. Value of Farm Products Away Up in the Billlons, Chicugo Inter Ocean. During the flscal year 1901 foreign coun- tries purchased American farm produce to the value of $952,000,000, This was an fin- crease over 1900 of over $100,000,000, and was $660,000,000 in excess of our agricul- tural imports. For the eight months end- ing February, 1902, we sold abroad farm products to the vaiue of $633,678,000, giving a total for the twenty months ending with February of $1,585,673,000. Of the exports in 1901, cotton had a value of $315,105,047; breadstuffs, $275,694,615; meat products, $186,106,073; live animals, $62,068,876; dalry products, $0,403,722, The figures for breadstuffs represented the high- est value recorded since 1808. Measured in value, the exports of moat products during 1901 were the largest on record, although there was a falling off in the quantity of hog products. There was a loes of 56,080,988 pounds in bacon, an Increase of 20,167,928 pounds in hams, and an increase of 5,443,928 pounds in pickled pork. For the eight months ending February, 1902, there was a falling off of 32,000,000 pounds in our exports of bacon ms com- pared with the same months in 1901, but an increase in value. There was an increase of 22,600,000 pounds In our exports of hams and an increase in value of $1,886,000. There was a falling off of $21,600,000 in the ex- ports of breadstuffs, the marked decrease being in corn. In 1892, 79 per cent of our exports was agricultural products. There a steady decline to 66 per cent in 1897, an increase to T1 per cent in 1898, a decline to 61 per cent in 1900, and an Increase of 85 per cent in 1901. The last reports of the Agricul- tural department show that, notwithstand- ing the phenomenal increase in our manu- factures, the products ofithe farm are our main source of wealth. PASSING ASANTRIES Pthelghl Preas: "He's and lazy- looking, that's a fact, but he's wideawalke, 1 tell you." “Of eourse, but lsn't he just as wide asleep 7"’ Cleveland Plain Dealer: “I gee that the Jailed officers of the cruiser Chicago ure confined in the prison of St. Mark." I wonder 1f they will be the lions of 8t Mark's when they get back home again.' Chicago Post: “Does your husband like your cooking?”’ “Well, I'm not just sure. He says he does, but 1 notice lie Is usuaily detained at the office so late that he has to get dinner uptown whenever we are without a girl.” Washington Post: “Your friend has a very sensitive disposition."” "oy answered Miss Cayenne; “she is ensi- one of the people who assume to tive, when they are merely irascibl Philadelphla Press: Towne-I hear Nu- ritch took you to lunch at the “Walledofr' yesterday. 1 suppose he expected to cut quite a dash. Browne—Well, everyhod{ who eaw the way he handled his” knife expected him to cut quite a gash. Detroit Free Press: Miss Minx—There are some words oyer whicl always stumble. Now, for instance, do you pronounce Mephistopheles? Binks—1 don't. always mention his home address. Cleveland Plain Dealer: “A _prominent restaurant keeper in %iow Yor) hr- it jed one of the girls in his cmploy. ‘Another proof, I suppoke, of des- perate straits to which restaurant keepers are put in an effort to keep down ex- penses.” —————— SUMMER'S COMING. Tripping o'er the hilitops, GYIdan lhmun the meadows, President O. H. Harriman of the Southern Pacific rallroad Is no respecter of persons. One day last week he had appointment his office with Millionaires John W. Mackey and H. E. Huntington, but before they ar- rived Mr. Harriman was engaged in coms versation in his private office with a third person who had entered a few minutes be- fore the magnates of finance. Those gea- tlemen were, therefore, compelled to walt until the close of the pending interview, which lasted & full hour, They were furious, but their business was important and they had no recourse but to wait. They stormed & little after they had ined access to the presence they sought, but went away apparently mollified. Summertime {8 throwing Off the wintry shadows, Roses now are '“l:fl Stretching leaves yawning, Walting for the magic Of some falr June morping. Hosts of cherry blossoms Point, with snowy fin To Dame Natire's nml 3 Where their fch fruit lngess. Wealth of many ages Pationt plows are tu 8ol and warmth and For the harvest y Summers surely com Bird-songs Let s join thelr § nd fas Winside, A ure o meet her. BELLE WILLEY QUE. An Attractiv e Belt Sale We bought the entire clean up of an eastern factory—please observe it's a factory not a We secured over 100 dozen store or a merchant’s stock. ladies’ new stylish. belts, There isn’t a belt in the lot but is worth 75e —many of them are worth as much as $1.50. C Today we clear the whole lot at 53¢ and. . Some special new items Suits in pigas, duck, llnen for women—New Wash ,‘dimity and lawn. New Walking Skirts in same materials, New Wash Silk Waists—in plain white, with polka dots, white with fancy scarf collars, and solid black ~—prices $4.98, $3.75 and $2.75. Sample Sale of Wash Waists—An elegant lot of waists, mostly size 86, worth from #$1 up, all at 89¢,