Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 24, 1902, Page 6

THE “©OMAHA DAILY BEE. B. ROSEWATER, EDITOR, PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Bee (without Bunday), one Year. Dafly Bee and Bunday, One Year Llustrated Bee, One Year. Bunday Bee, One Year Saturday Bée, One Year Twentieth Ceitury Farmer, Une Yea “ DELIVERED BY CARRIER. (without Sunday), per cop Dally Bee (without Bunday), per w Daily Bee (including Sunday), per week.1lc Sunday Bee, per copy.. L Evening Bee (without Bunday), pe Evening Bee (Including Sunaiy) Tk hould be addressed to Ol Department. OFFICES. Omaha—The Bee -Building. Bauth Umahu-city Hail Suliding, Twen: bt iy 5ERsSs very Clreulation Stteet, CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and sditorial matter should be aadressed: Dmana Bee, Kditorial bepartment. BUBINESS LIT1KKS, s leurn and remitiances should Publishing ~ Com- REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, payavie o The Bee Fublisning Company! Oniy Z-cent stampy acoepted in payment of @ail accounts. Fersonal checks, except on or_eastern exchange, not accepted. THE BB EUBLIBHING COMEARY. SBTATEMENT ur CIRCHLATION. Btate of Nebraska, Dougius Coun Georgs HoTischack, segrotary’ of Lhe foe Publisning Company, being duly sworn, Says that the actual number of full and mplete co .49,560 20,540 29,550 120,650 30,500 129,500 80,420 20,460 199,560 29,608 49,5660 20,680 189,020 Total ..cvven 856,045 Less unsold and nlurud coples.. 10,101 t total zales. o -IB, Net. ;uy aversgy it Cabscribed in my mmm xore me this th M. B, HUNGAT! Notary Publl. SURNERERBEREEE FEEEESemn (Seal) e After all the corn belt is the cham- plonship belt most worth having. Ee—— It has been demonstrated in Omaha that the way to bring the tax rate down )s to bring the assessment up. — ‘Whatever happens to the garbage con- fract, the city must take some measures to enforce sanitary disposal of refuse and waste. — Agaln the end of the Boer war is in sight. It will be regarded as ended, however, only after the pact is duly signed, sealed and delivered. E——— ‘ President Loubet has drunk to the health of the czar, but no one in France has gofie into hysterics over this portent pf subjection of republic to empire. . —— A convention of Indiana republicans rame to a choice for congressional nom- Inee on the 1,012th ballot. Up to the hour of golng to press that stands as the 19802 record. S — While our Grand Army guests are ex- pressing appreclation of thelr warm welcome it is to be hoped they will con- strue the welcome into an invitation to fome to Omaha again. —— Any other people within the domain of the British empire contemplating a coup at arms is respectfully requested to hold the belligerent disposition in check until after the coronation festivi- Hes. aa———0 ‘We spurn the suggestion that the com- mencement exerclses of the Omaha High school this year be transformed into a debate on the subject: Does modern pducation provide any place for the shirt walst? Now that the smallpox contagion has Deen almost eradiceted, our amiable lo- cal contemporary is beginning a cam- paign for vaccination. That is strictly in accord with the eternal fitness of things. e—— For sale cheap—a few straight tips from the supreme court just as good as pew. Reason for selling—owner no Jonger has use for them since police pommission decision. Apply at office of Omaha F:llm. EEE— “No backward step” is the slogan raised for the bourbonized element of pur local democracy. And for fear of taking a backward step, no forward step will be ventured either, and democracy will remain fmmovable on the same old back number spot. D el It/ turps out that the lawyers have drawn out of the Fair estate merely the modest sum of about $2,000,000. 1f the awill contest could only have been kept in the courts a few years longer the lawyers might have absorbed the whole $17,000,000 at issue. A bill is to be pushed in the Cuban Parliament to extend full pardon to all Americans in prison or awaiting trial on criminal charges. Cuba would evidently Uke to be relieved of the expense of maintaining prison iomates left as a legacy to the republic. A1 It the people of Martinique are look- ing for a safe place to settle in with assurance that thrift and energy will produce profitable results, they may find a good opening here in Nebraskfl with guaranty of immunity from disturbance by volcano thrown in gratis. = Tammany 1s sald to be splitting apart. If it will only split wide open and show up the entire inside workings of the tiger some exposures might be counted on that would overshadow the dis- closures of the official investigations as Mount Pelee overshadows a skyrocket. A NEGLECTED QUESTION. Congress continues to neglect the qnes- tion of reforming the consular service and it appears to be understood that the bills for this purpose which have been introduced are shelved for this session. In this congress ignores the request of all the principal commercial bodies in the country and disregards the judg- ment of nearly everybody who has made a study of the consular service and un- derstands Its requirerdents. It is not contended by anybody that the service is not now, on the whole, more efficient and useful to the country than ever be- fore, but it is urged that such being the case offers a most auspicious oppor- tunity for inaugurating reforms that will insure permanent efliciency, retain- ing In the service those whose record and proven ability give them claim to retention and entirely divorcing the service from politics. There Is no question that the United States consular service now compares favorably with that of any other coun- try, but there can be no certainty that it will remain so if it is left open, as at present, for the exploitation of poli- ticlans. A chapge of administration at Washington three years hence might bring about a demoralization of the con- sular service by replacing most of those in the service with men wholly unac- quainted with its duties. This Is what the advocates of reform seek to prevent and it is most desirable in the interest of our growing forelgn commerce that it should be prevented. The repub- lican party has repeatedly declared in favor of reforming the consular service and it should not delay making good its implied promise to do this, CANAOA AS A CUSTOMER. Notwithstanding the fact that the Oanadan tariff discriminates in favor of British merchandise to the extent of 83 1-8 per cent, the trade of the United States with the Dominlon steadily grows. The Canadians do not feel espe- clally friendly toward this country and her statesmen are constantly deploring the fact that we maintain our farift on the products of Canada and appear in- disposed to enter into a veciprocity agreement with that country by which its agricultural products could have free access to the American market, Yet when it comes to the question of busi- ness the Canadians prefer American goods to British, the obvious reason be- ing that they are better and as cheap or cheaper. This is a condition which quite natur- ally trets the Canadian politiclans abd it s sald that the ministry views with ill-concealed dismay the growth of ex- ports from the United States to the Dominion. The question of increasing the tarif on American products is still belng more or less dlscussed and has some earnest advocates, but it is doubt- ful it popular sentiment would support the government in such a policy, which would compel the people to pay more for ‘what is imported from the United States, or buy British goods which they do not want, The situation presents a some- what perplexing dilemma for Canadian statesmen, who can expect no change in the trade relations with this country until they bave a more equitable prop- osition to submit than has yet been made, ————— TAX COMMISSIONER SHOULD DO HIS DUTY. Tax Commissioner Fleming has asked the city attorney whether he shall as- sess the railroad terminals, right-of-way and depots in Omaha for city purposes at the ratio of other property or take the state board's valuation for next year as the basis of assessment. Commis- sloner Fleming pointedly asks whether the provision of the clty charter requir- Ing the assessment of these terminals and depot grounds on the mileage basis fixed by the state board is constitutional. The answer depends upon the con- struction of the constitution relative to taxation. The constitution requires every persen or corporation to pay a tax in proportion to the value of his, her or its property and franchises. In other words, the constitution contemplates the assessment of all the property of indi- viduals and corporations on the same basis of valuation for the same specific purpose. The State Board of Equaliza- tion has assessed the rallroad terminals and depots as rallroad mileage on the basis of about 8 per cent of the value of the whole line and at about onme- fourth of 1 per cent of the value of the properties located within the city of Omaha. The tax commissioner has assessed all other property within the city of Omaha for municipal purposes at 40 per cent of their actual value. Hence, the assess- ment of the rallroad depots and termi- nals at the mileage rate fixed by the state board would not be in accordance with the constitptional provision that each corporation and individual shall pay a tax in proportion to the value of his, ber or its property and franchises. The proper course for the tax commis sloner to pursue is to assess the railroad terminals and improvements at the same ratio to their actual market value that he has assessed all the other classes of property for city taxation purposes. If the rallroad companies decline to share with other classes of property owoners their proportion of the mumicipal tax, let them appeal to the courts aud have the question settled so that we may know where we are at. This, of course, applies also to the Union Pacific bridge assessment. The attempt to repudiate the tax on the bridge, which has been levied separately for twenty-five years, should be resisted and fought out in the courts. If the bridge 18 part of the waln ilue, then the Unlon Pacific rallroad must stop its im- position of a special bridge toll of 25 cents per passeuger and 5 ceuts per 100 pounds for freight over the bridge. The laws of Nebraska, as well as the laws of lowa, prohibit a passenger charge of more than 3 cents per mlile over any raillroad within these states. If the bridge is part of the rallroad, the legal rate from Omaba to Council Bluffs is less than © ceats, according o the tax THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: measurements of the Union Pacific, which pays in Iowa at the rate of $100,- 000 per mile for two and six-tenths miles end in Nebraska at the rate of $0,800 per mile for one-sixth of a mile, In Pottawattamie county the east half of the Unlon Pacific bridge 1s assessed separately for $£84,000, in Omaha the Unlon Pacific insists that it shal be as- segsed as part of its mileage for §1,633. In view of the fact that Douglas county made a direct donation of $250,000 to the bridge on which it has already paid over $500,000 in Interest, the assessment at $1,633 Is too ratk to be submitted to with equanimity. Let the tax commissioner do his duty by the railroad as by the other classes of property owners, and If the railroads see fit to invoke the power of the courts to sustain them in tax shirking, let them do so. FRANCO-RUSSIAN FRIENDSHIP. With President Loubet the guest of the czar of Russia and a delegation of distinguished Frenchmen guests of our government, France is occupying a prominent place in international at- tention. The visit of Loubet to Russia and the enthuslastic popular reception that has been accorded him gives re- newed assurance of the cordial friend- ship between France and Russin and has a certain political significance, which is well understood in Burope and which will be regarded with especial Interest in England. The alllance be- tween Russia and France Js not a merely perfunctory affair. It Is a com- pact of the strongest character and one which promises to endure. When Great Britain and Japan made their alllance it was speedily developed how intimate and complete is the understanding be- tween France and Russia and the peo- ple of both countries are now being reassured as to the heartiness and the cordiality of the agreement between those powers, widely apart as they are in their political institutions. That the alllance has an important bearing on the peace of Europe and also upon conditions in the far east there I8 no doubt. It contemplates no ag- gressive policy in Europe or elsewhere on the part of these powers, but it stands as a check to aggressive move- ments on the part of other powers and in this serves the interests of peace both in Europe and the Orlent. It Is therefore most desirable that the alll- ance shall be maintained and of this the present assurances are as strong as possible. A double-track electric rallway from the Canadian border to the Gulf of Mexico is the latest colossal project in incubation. The enterprise is to be or- ganized the first of next month and be- fore long we will doubtless have an in- vitation to get in on the ground floor as stock subscribers at figures decidedly enticing. With the subsidence of the Texas oil fever and the collapse of bal- loon navigation the electric trolley north and south alr line ought to have the right-of-way. Omaha ought to make good headway this season In replacing remnants of ‘worn out pavements of the earlier days with substantial materials. Last year valuable time was frittered away by neglect and carelessness on the part of interested property owners who failed to perform the required legal preliminaries. If the lessons learned in the past few years are heeded, there need be no hitches this time in proceeding with the paving work. — Kansas democrats are willing to fuse with the populists provided the popu- lists allow the democrats to take the head of the ticket and most of the re- maining places of Importance. That situation is likely to develop also with the Nebraska demo-pop allles. Fusion in Kensas and Nebraska s simply a game of spolls division. emm——————— The women who constitute the city jmprovement soclety at the state capital have started the startling inquiry whence came the appallingly numerous tin cans that disfigure vacant lots on the outskirts of the city. Omaha would like the benefit of the conclusion when 1t 18 reached. —_— Rewards of Hard Luck. ‘Washington Post. Perhaps the Beef trust will explain its English prices by making liberal use of the sympathy ides. England has been haviog hard luck of lat Kansas City Sta It {s sald that the birds all left the vi- cinity of Mount Pelee just before the erup- tion, This does not ne rily prove that the birds knew more than the people. latter would have left, too, if they had possessed wings. Cineh of ¢ Chicago Chronicle. Let no one believe that the coal barons are worrying over the situation. For every dollar they are losing by the strike they will exact two from the consumer when they see it to resume operations. In the mean- time they are turning an homest dollar by “rigging” the Baltimore American. Never did or will & flag come down with more honor than the American flag when it surrendered its place yesterday to the Cuban banner. For its withdrawal was by its own volition, and a token of the greatest duty ever performed by ome natjon to an- other in the history of the world Promotion in the Navy. Louisviile Courfer Journal There is a sentiment in some quarters in tavor of & provision in the naval appropria- tion bill for the promotion of warrant offi- cers to commissioned rank. This sent- ment is sound, and ought to be strong enough to accomplish its object. The pres- ent snobblsh regulations against such pro- motions are unworthy of a democracy. spat etiving Queen, Baltimore American. The most patbetic figure of the bour is that of the queen regent of Spain. After & regency which has seen many troubles and not a few storms, in which the co- lonlal importance of Spain has been wiped out, she leaves the throne to the care of a boy when it is surrounded by dangers within and without, at & time when the most careful and cxpericnced guide i SATURDAY, needed to handle the reins of government. She has given an example of motherly devotion which the whole world appreciates, but which has not been able to avert all cause for the motherly anxiety which must still follow the advent to power of the young king. Every Pledge Redecmed. Indianapolls Journal, Yes, the flag came down In Cuba, as was promised, but it “stayed put” until all the conditions promised the world had been tulfilled. It came down in Mexico some years ago, but on terms made by the United States. To use the words of President Roosevelt, the flag will “stay put” until those who put it deem it best for the world and the American people to take it down. ty Springfleld Republican. Every drop in the price of silver means an increase in the gold value of the big indemnity that China must pay to the powers on aecount of the Boxer campalgn. The size of the debt has already Increased some $70,000,000 since the signing of the Pekin procotol because of the fall in the price of the white metal. China is on a silver basis, but the powers insisted that the country should pay in gold. A Patriot Overlooked, Chicago Chronicle. We fall to discover in the plan of polley mapped out by President Palma of Cuba any provision for the employment at the highest salary of that grand old patriot Maximo Gomes. As it is pretty well un: derstood, however, that Maximo received a comfortable sum from the United Btates government upon condition that he would refrain from etirring up the “army of 1ib- eration” to rebellion against the American provisional government, he will probably be able to live in moderate comfort until his services are desired by some other band of patriots striking for freedom. There will be quite a cold snap in Cuba when Maximo overlooks his financlal interests. Just Before the Crack of Doom. PhiladelphiaLedger, A singular phase of human nature fs shown by the private letters from Martinique written before the eruption, and now being published. It is almost in- concelvable how people can look threaten- ing death in the face and speak so calmly of it. Not all of the writers were resi- dents of volcanic countries and familar with their phenomena; many were visitors and #t would be naturally expected that these, at least, would be badly frightened and anxious to get away from such a dangerous looking place, but they wrote s if, while contemplating the possibility of destruction, they did not belleve it would come, and so remained, apparently, calm and unmoved by the volcano's dem- onstrations until the final catastrophe overtook them. It almost seems as if the first effects of the coming eruption would paralyze the sensibilities of the people. BEEF STEERS AND POLITICS. Why Nebraska Populists Decline to Censure the Beef Trus New York Commereial. ‘That there is a reai shortage of “beef cattle” at the sources of supply in the west is getting daily demonstration authentio reports from the ranges and farms come forward. As long ago as last September and Octo« ber the cattlemen realized that a scarcity of prime beef steers this spring was {nevi- table on account of the heavy cost of win- tering stock, to the advance in the price of corn ‘hay, and the far-sighted among them ar 'w reaping thelr rewards. Only a few of | cattlemen comparatively ‘were able, howsVer, to take advantage of the situation six months ago. Most of them were compelled to market their stock in the late fall. Those with capital and those who could secure the co-operation of com- mission men in getting money with which to winter their holdings are the fortunate ones: Seven cents a pound on the hoof for cattle means big profits to some of them. And, strangely enough, it is having an influence on western politics. Out in the cattle country of Nebfaska, for instance, the voters were once almost solidly fu. sloniste—that 1s, anti-republican, anti- rallroads, anti-trust, anti-monopoly, anti- money power, ‘“ant!” almost every- thing that had any substance of stability in it. But it is noted that at a meeting of the fusion state central committes last week eome democrats in that body yearned to take a fall out of the ‘“beef trust” in the shape of a denunclatory reso- lution. But their populist brethren cried “Nay, nay,” and promptly voted the proposition down. “With beef steers at T cents & pound on the hoof,” they argued, “i¢t fsn’'t safe, it isn't politic, to make that particular ‘trust’ the target of any polit- lcal attacks. re gleams of intelligence, it thus braska fusionist. He knows & good “trust” from a bad ome. THE BIG FISH AND THE LITTLE, How the Former Absorbs the Latter ‘Without Pain. United States Investor, In our day we have heard many slighting remarks made agalost that genial show- man, the late P. T. Barnum, on account of his statement that all men like to be hum- bugged. It has always eemed to us that, Mr. Barnum was treated too severely, Of course no man likes to tell himself specifically that he has been made a fool of; but for all that, most of us would prefer to be made fools of under certaln circum- stances than to act llke wise men. Most men are confirmed optimists—due no doubt in very large measure to good digestion— and nothing s more common than to hear man say that he had rather be hopeful and be taken in, than to be forever enter- talning susplcious views of things. This is no doubt an admirable trait in human pature, but it is far more calculated to create treasures in heaven for one than treasures on earth. Most of us, we sus- pect, were made for the purpose of being worked by people shrewder than ovrselv: ‘We are profoundly convinced that the big fish are created to eat the little fish. Mind appears to be gulded by laws strikingly analogous to those which operate in the domain of matter. The weaker was made place to the stronger, In the and industrial affairs of the world it 1s obviously the purpose that the many should exist for the enrichment of the few. The mass of men seem to bave a dumb recoguition of this fact. When the aver- age man comes to grief financially he takes it in very good part; it does mot occur to bhim to denounce the people who have brought him to ruin; if he can get on his feet agaln he s pretty sure to court & slmilar experience. He prefers to belleve a rose-colored story which means his cuin, rather than put any credence in severe ements which, it belleved, would mean his salvation. It is this trait in human pature which makes it so easy for our “lords of finance” and our “captains of industry” to mpart so much humor to the financial and industrial situation. They bave treated us to & good deal of it in the last few years, during their process of in- Jecting several billions of “water” into the capitalization of American industry, and they will no doubt treat us to as much more when the time comes for them to undertake the task of squeezing out all this water. Some one once sald that there nothing sure in this world but death and taxes; but we should amend this to read— “death, taxes and underwriters' fees.' MAY 24, 1902, OTHER LANDS THAN OURS, In both the civil and military life in Ger- many a temperance campaign is sald to be well under way. The other day Count Douglas Introduced a revolutionary measure in the lower house of the Prussian diet dealing with the drinking evil, the chief provisions of which are: No fusel oll will be permitted In alcoholic bevernges. The salo of alcohol will not be permitted before 7 o'clock in summer and § in winter. Alco- hol is not to be served or sold to persons under 16, or to notorious drunkards, whose pames_will be supplied to publicans by the police. The government is to arrange for public lectures setting forth the evile of intemporance, its effect on the growth of crime, etc. Institutions for the cure of drunkards are to be ralsed at the publio cost, also institutions for the care of those who have been ruined by drunken relatives, This provision refers chiefly to children, In rallway walting rooms and similar places where people congregate tracts against drunkenness are to be posted on the walla, and finally school children are to be cai tully instructed on the evils of intemper- ance. An order has just been lssued by the hereditary Prince Bernbard of Saxe- Meiningen, commander of the Sixth army corps. According to a telegram which the Lokalanzelger of Berlin recelved from Wei- mar, the chief points of the order are the following: “‘Aleohol and alcohollc drinks are forbldden on marches and during exer- clses of all kinds, and no alcoholic bever- ages whatsoever may therefore be waken in fleld flasks, nor be sold to the men. Schnapps may be served to the men up to certain specified hours in the canteens, but only in glasses, and on no account in bot- tles or other receptacle: Prince Bern- hard does not go so far as Count Hasler and a few other commanders, who have banished spirituous liquors altogether from the canteens, but further restrictions are expected. o In spite of the guarded statements of the Itallan Minister of foreign affairs on the subject of Tripoli, it is an open secret in Buropean chancellories that Italy has been for several years making preparations with a view to occupy the North African state in question. It is now saild that the occupation will only take place in case of one or two events, yiz., if French should turn the protectorate of Tunis into annexa- tlon, or in the case of material changes in the Balkans. Diplomatic negotiations on the subject were begun by the Marquis Vis. conti Venosta, when minister of forelgn affairs. Italy, it 18 sald, has secured the goodwill not only of the allied powers, but also of Russia, while a special arrange- ment exists on the subject with France, which will soon, it is anticipated, take ac- tion in Tunts, o In spite of the aseurances of the St. Petersburg press that the recent outbreak in Helsingfors was trivial in fteelf and quickly suppressed, tristworthy advices from the Finnish capital show that the whole population of the Grand Duchy still ofters firm resistance to the new army reg- ulations, promulgated with the avowed ob- Ject, Russification. Out of 857 recrults sum- moned to the levy in Helsingfors April 18, only fifty-six reported. In the afternoon of that day the Cossacks charged the public in the Senate square and the adjoining streets, using their knouts indiscriminately and knocking down everybody who could not escape. The chief sufferers were crip- ples, old persons, and children, Some of the more vigorous victims offered resist- ance and a number on both sides were wounded. The crowds declared that they would not disperse until the military were (ordered away. The burgomaster finally sue- ceeded {n persuading General Kaigorodoff to withdraw the Cossac At Viborg also the attempt to enroll the mew recruits caused some disorder and produced great jopular demonstrations against the new law. These demonstrations took place at & time when the workingmen were engaged in thelr factories, and were entirely free from any clement of rowdiness. The people who took™ part in them were drawn almost ex- clusively from among the better classes. The crowds were eventually dispersed by the police and the Cossacks, who behaved with the greatest brutality and struck down old men and women and even chil- dren with their terrible whips. The semi- officlal account which appeared in the Fin- nish Gagzette of the disorders at Helsing- fors, and which was cabled to this country, is declared to be a gross exaggeration. There can be Iittle doubt that it was intended to constitute a pretext and justi- fication for measures of increased severity against that unfortunate nation. The united opposition to the army regulations has been 80 far successful that the period for the enrollment of recruits has been prolonged to the end of June. o Further particulars have been received concerning the reorganization of the French Atlantic naval force now in aet of execu- tion by M. de Lanessan, minister of marine. The decree of the minister provided for the unlon of the regular Atlantic and Nova Scotla squadrons with the cruiser division of the northern squadron, thus forming an fmportant naval force of a very mobile and active character, supported by the northern fronclad squadron, and having Dakar, West Africa, and Fort de France, Martinique, as its basis of operations. The works at Daker are progressing rapidly, but the organiza- tion of Fort de France as a point d'appul has yet to be arranged. The decree estab- lishes only one na’ force for the Atlantle, under the orders of a vice admiral add of rear admirals. . In an address bel the East India soclation in London the other day our old friend, Sir Lepel Grifin, argued in favor of flling up Central Africa with East Indian immigrants. Of all possible, or rathel probable, immigrants talned, were the best, the most docil loyal and civilized, while the despair of statesmen and economis! supply any number of milllons to fll up the vacant places of Africa. If it were possible to provide for the immigration of & large number of suitable British colonists to South Africa to settle on the land with their families this would be the best solu- tion of the problem of the future develop- ment of the country. But South Afric was not and nover had been a favorite fleld for British Immigration and there was no reason to belleve that intending im- migrants would in the future prefer South Africa to Canads, the United States or Australia, whatever the inducements of- fered by the government. British immi- grants failing, there was no reason for the home or local governments to favor immi- gration from apy of the European nations like Italy or Germany and even if such im- migration were desirable it was very im- probable that serious European colonis would choose South Africa for their home of adoption. Effective white immigration belng impracticable, they had to consider what would take its place, aud they must remember that what Africa wanted was population. For the commercial and agri cultural development of South Africa the pative black people were useless, while the Chinamen was not a desirable settler in South Africs, though a certain number might be introduced with advantage for mining work under indenture. The only solution of the dificulty would seem to be the abandonment of the fantastic dream of South Africa s & white man's land, which it was Dot, never had been and never would be, and for the colomial and ladian gov- ROYAL BAKING POWDER Imparts that peculiar lightness, sweetness, and flavor noticed in the finest cake, short cake, biscuit, rolls, crusts, etc., which ex- pert pastry cooks declare is unobtainable by the use of any other leavening agent. Pure, healthful, highest in strength. ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., 100 WILLIAM 8T, NEW YORK, ernments to prepare on an imperial scalo a scheme of state-aided immigration of In- dian settlers, artisans and agriculturls with their wives and famill POLITICAL DRIFT, Tammany is not making a blooming suce cess of its wireless leadership. Mr. Cleveland's purchase of an exclusive fishing privilege will help to screen the sensitive public from the possibility of ece~ ing an ex-president sloshing arpund in his old clothes. The Atlanta Constitution warns the re- organizers of Massachusetts that the Dick Olney boom does not interest the south, where most of the democratic electoral votes are usually harvested. Two literary bureaus arp working over- time in behalf of rival candidates for the republican nomination for governor of Mich- igan. As both aspirants are millionaires the rival bureaus are grinding. out vast quantities of the hottest political stuff that ever fired the underbrush of the state. Some newspaper man recently quoted Senator Hanna as saying that he was in ‘mpathy with Salvation army work. This ews” goon reached the army in Wash- ington, and at once a detachment appeared In front of the senator's residence there vigorously exhorting and giving thanks for | the conversion of such a distinguished | sinner. Cuba has started out entirely wrons. There is little hope for it. The New York ' Tribune correspondent says that Mr. Bryan, who is in Havana in the capacity of special correspondent, took the trouble to send an advance agent to arrange a little banquet in his honor to be given as a spontaneous expression of Cuba’s delight in having &0 distinguished a man in its midst, but that not & blooming Cuban would have anything to do with the project. The great and only democratic leader of New York state, at whose beck and call thousands of the faithful rally, ia enjoylng Iife hugely as an English country squire. A New York Herald dispatdh from Wantage tells this soultul story: “I aaw Mr. Croker this afternoon at Wantage. He was stroll- | ing about in the gardens of his country place, Manor Farm, with his dogs at his heels. In his greatcoat, knickerbockers, leather leggings and tan-colored billycock hat, he looked the picture of & typical that of other brave men who have gives their lives for their duty. The fight of Paul Jones on Bonhomme Richard egainst Serapls, stande in his- tory as a model of valor in war against unexampled odds. But that was war, and the enemy he faced were men like himself. The captain who brought Calliope out through the hurricave in Apia harbor, when American and German war ships went to pleces on the shore like cockle shells, showed a masterly courage and ‘il in the face of danger, but captain aid men were allve and In possession of all their faculties. Captain Freeman was so burnea that Captain Cantrell, who brings the story trom his own 1ips, describes his face as “looking like varnished. teak” wherever it could be seen. His ship had only a 1ittle steam up and fts steering gear had been crippled by the burning lava. Ita decks were two feet decp with liquid ce- ment, which burned every bit of wood it touched. Then this rudderless hulk almost ran into the blazing Roraima, which held another baptism of death lke that which had killed all of the officers and crew but six, and crippled all of them. But with this crippled ship this burned and maimed captaln steamed the forty-five miles to St. Luefa. There had been forty-two of officers and crew when the cloud of fire came down upon them. There were six living at St. { Lucla and eighteen dead bodies and parts ot { bodles on the deck. Where and when ana how the rest died no one will ever know ' | exactly. They were swept up by the burn- {ing cloud like prairie stubble in a fire. | From all the horrors of the disaster, a | ready known and yet to come, the work {of this captain and the remnants of his crew will stand out crowned with a white Mght among the records of human courage and human endurance. LIVELY AND LIGHT, has noticed,” said hen a man turn up his nose, an’ talks 'bout how much he 'spises riches, he ginerally ain't got none." Detrolt Free Press: 'John, you must try ihinks she'll marry him sure.” Chicago Tribune: “Of all the dangerous fools the worst is the man whe into the barrel of & gun (o 8¢ if Tt's loaded.” “How can he be dangerous? . He seidom bothers anybody after that the we dislike him except country gentleman, and, apparently, has quite recovered from the {ll-health from | which he was suffering when in New York, for his cheeks were as ruddy as if he had never known anything but a life of ease in the country. His eyes were as bright | s if & score of years had fallen from him. He talked to me with the greatest affa bility. HEROES AMONG THE FLAMES, passing Example of Valor in the | Harbor of St. Plerre. Brooklyn Eagle. Captain Freeman's own story of his filght | with Roddam through the cloud of fire which fell upon St. Plerre has reached New York at second hand. The facts are ‘well enough authenticated to show that the | feat will stand unique in the history of he- role devotion, ewen the destruction of St. Plerre stands unique in the suddenn and completeness with which the city wai wiped out. Nothing like this wave of fire which swept down upon the town in ad- vance of the flood of lava, and which swept far out over the harbor, consuming ship- ping as if it had been waste paper, has been known in the history of disasters. And just as this cloud of fire wi un- precedented in its flerceness and the wide embrace of its sweeping arms, so the odds against which this brave man brought his ship and the five orippled men left to help work her, “out from the jaws of death, out from the mouth of hell,” stands | undertaker.” Philadelphia Cathollc Standard: “What this small space on the map near your state marked ‘R. 17" inquired the for- elgn Fhat, replieq the nr-tlnu- New Yorker, “should be R. the place is small there wa. no 100m {m' the 'P." ‘Washington Star: "Bfl you like poetry?" ‘“Yes, indeed,’ answered Mrs, Cumrox. “Prose always looks to me as if they were crowding thefr words together because they were trying to economize on paper. —Poetry looks much lavisher and elegant.” Philadelphia Pry “Mr. Youngstere," says the lady who reached the sere and yellow, but strived to retain her pristine youthfulnes ‘is a friend of my childhood.” Now, 1 know very well that the fellow is but'ss years old, yet why should I blurt out to the shrinking damse! k Haly DE° your “necand ehiidhood, thén Atlanta Constitution: “That ain't law, 1d the attorney to the Blllville justice. ‘I know It.”" replied the justice, “but | Me; an’ e' er 1 hear of you appeall from my fon T'll settle with you pei sonally. Baili elear The court!” Philadelphia Pre ‘How about the plans for your new house: have they been drawn up fo suit you yet?" 1l, no; but the; ow' many rooms »1 don't know. tryini re out how many con " Suila"around the uunly-four * vig closets my wife demand: A COQUETTE. Margaret Sangster. 1 am never in doubt of her good: am always afrald of her mflo&: 1 lm nw-r unprecedented in the annals of brave deeds. The honor roll of heroes Is too long for recital, but where the danger and the brav- ery of Captaln Freeman may have been equaled many times, there was in his case & rising above injuries which might well have proved fatal, a long endurance of tor- tul an exercise of the most acute jud, ment in the midst of mortal pain, as well as the sight of suffering which he was powerless to relleve, which sets his hero- ism apart in kind if not in degree from For willtulne Bhe is sweet with the swi flmu of epring- Mme= and a smile in an hour— ya i nlk not release from her slightest My love with the face of a flower. My love with the grace of a lly W% Sways on 1le siender Talr stem, My love with the bloom of the ‘White pearls in my life’s diadem'! You may call her coquette if it please you, Enchanting, if shy, or if bold, i nsome wee I e three, when told. 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