Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 29, 1902, Page 6

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BUSINESS LETTERE, Business letters and remittances should be addressed Bee Fublisbing Com- pany, Omaha. REMITTANCES. Remit by drafi, express or postal order, payable to The Bée Publishing Company; nly 2-cent stamps aécepted in payment of mall accounts. Ferwonal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchange, not accepted. THE BEE P Bmumu COMPANY. aw w L 1w 2¢ e arl - Btreet. STATEMENT O CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss: George B. Tascliuck, sécretary “of The Beo Puplishing Compiliy, beIng duly AWori actual numper of full and of The Daily, Morning, Evening and Bunday Bee printed during tha moAth of Getobs, I3, Was as follows) 1, . 43 | achedules, Subscribed in 1 my gmenn and sworn to before me this 8ist day of October, A. D. 1902, M. B. HUNGATE, (Seal.) Notary Publle. —— It must be about time for some of those cattle that bave been fattening on soft corn to be getting to market. " SEEm— Tom L. Johnson's phenomenal silence since election is being much commented on. Perhaps it is due to the fact that he has stopped to think. Black Hills people show signs that a situation which requires a three or four- day joumney to reach their state capital gives them that tired feellng. 1If Oolonel Mosby follows the program he has mapped out he will be busy for some months and. he will at the same time keep a lot of other people busy. SEee———— The sooher the Latin Americari coun- tries learn that the Monroe doctrine does not contemplate protection of In- ternational scullduggery the better ft ‘will be for them. The St. Louis Louisiana exposition has reached the point where members of the United Statés commission are charging the managers with inefficiency and inac- tivity. The 8t. Louls show may amount | ® to something yet. e No compromise with public land thieves appears to be the president's motto in the light of the instructions given to Colonel Mosby to see that the illegal fences come down. When Presi- dent Roosevelt gives the order he means to have it executed. Seteviechtainy The killing of sixty and capture of a like number of robbers in ome of the Philippine districts shows that the na- tive police are. rapidly acquiring clyi- lized ways. At this rate a falr degree of public- order and security ought to be established everywhere within a few — Now -that it is conceded that “Uncle Joe” Cannon s to be speaker, the press of all parties s emphasizing the fact that no suspiclon of corruption ever tainted an official act of his, And that very fact had a great deal to do with settling the lpuxeruhip contest in his favor, - m Awn we suggest that the proper Commercial club committee proceed to inquire whether Omaha is not entitled to reliéf from discriminating insurance rates as a credit for the burial of the electric. lighting wires. If it were the other way, the rates would be raised s00n enough. EEE——pm—— The constitution of Nebraska prohibits the grahting of any exclusive franchises in this state, so that the only way wo- nopely can be established is by those in possession of franchises preventing the griht of any others irrespective of the more advantageous terms the public might exact. e M the Torrens land title system, which is to be u“ul upon the coming Nebraska legislature, would reduce the amount of work in pegistering real estate transfers, it may, ook for opposition from the reg- :fi of | " office. Only If it does not deprive anyone now on the public pay roll of his job, it will be al- lowéd ta sluk or swim on its merits. b4 . E—— The United States mints ‘are now colplyg, as required by daw, 1,500,000 . slixer dollar coins, but the bullion will 5000 be exhausted. Notwithstanding the fall ih the price of silver, no peril repults to business now from silver, as-the degree of its use is strictly Nm- ited, aithough it .would still be possible for an administration, if of the radical stiverite type, by executive actlon to menace the parity of our currency. TARIFF COMMISSIUN NOT PROBABLE. There appears to be pretty general opposition among the republican mem- bers of congress to a tariff commission of the character proposed by President Roosevelt. The consensus of opinion is that ®uch a commission could have no practical result. The prevailing view is doubtless expressed by Senator Allison, who sald that there are certain Jdiffi culties In the way of the accomplish- ment of results by a commission. In the first place a bi-partisan or non- partisan commission is not to be de- #ired, In the judgment of Mr. Allison, because the republican party belng in control of both branches of congress it must -aeccept the responsibility before the people and‘ any commission ap pointed to revise the tariff should re- flect the political complexion of con- gress accurately, or its conclusions will not be accepted with any confidence whatever. The Iowa senator sald further that the tariff must be considered from a prac tical standpoint and there are so many men In congress who have made a spe- clal study of the tariff that necessarily In the end their views must prevail. “A commission would be a good thing If its decisions were at all final, but in the pature of things the purely sci- entific tariff theories of even the ablest commission would have to be examined in detall by copgress ang this simply means doing the work twice over.” Mr. Allison thought it possible that a com- mission might be authorized consisting of three re-elected members of the house ways and means committee and three members of the senate finance committee, to consider tariff revision and report to the next congress, but it is very unlikely that this will' be done. It scems an entirely safe prediction, therefore, that the prpposition for a tariff commission will have few support- ers among the majority in congress. It is also certain that no attempt will be made at the coming sesslon to revise the tariff generally or to modify any of the A few republicans have in- dicated an intention to propose changes and may do so, but they will not be able to accomplish anything. The situ- ation is in the complete control of those who believe that to undertake tariff revision at this time would be most detrimental to the business of the coun- try, and who also regard the popular verdict in the congressional elections as being distinctly agalnst any present interference with the tariff. This ques- tion will be left wholly, for the next congress to deal with and if then it shall appear that popular sentiment is largely In favor of tariff modification and conditions shall be such as to war- rant it, there is reason to expect that the law will be revised, lowerlig duties wherever it shall be deemed expedient, but preserving the principle of protec- tion for all our industries and in the interest of American labor. [ THAT BOUNDARY QUESTION. The receut statement by-an official of the Canadian government regarding its views on the Alaskan boundary matter elicited from Mr. Frederick W. Se:mrd a reply that quite effectually disposes of the Canadien claim. 1In a létter to the New York Tribune Mr. Seward points out that the chief contention of the Dominlon government, that the treaty between Great-Britain and Rus- might be construed so as to allow the British to have outlets to tidewater through the Russian territory and to own harbors on its coast, Is utterly unwarranted and untenable. As to the willingness of Canada to submit the fssue to arbitration, Mr. Seward re- marks that of course that government wants this, for in arbitration it could lose nothing and would have every- thing to gain, while the United States could gain nothing and would have everything to lose. Mr. Beward s quite correct in thinking that be voices the view of a good many other American citizens in saying that we prefer to stand upon what has al ready been decided and to maintain the boundary as we received it from Russia and as it had rested undisturbed for half a century, until Canada invented her so-called claim. The effort of the Dominion government to obtain Amer- jean territory in Alaska Is futile and it 1s not to be doubted that this is well understood by the British government. DISFRANCHISEMENT IN VIRGINIA. The npew constitution of Virginia makes a sweeplng disfranchisement of negroes. It is sald that about 150,000 negroes who voted for congressmen in that state two years ago were not per- mitted to vote this year. The question of the validity of the disfranchising provision of Virginia's constitution is to be determined by the federal courts, a case having been brought asking that the entire congressional delegation of the state be thrown out because of the illegality of the election. The Impor- tance of this can be understood when it s sald that it may bring to a con- clusive test the constitutionality of negro disfranchisement in other states of the south. It is time that this question should be judicially determined, since it Is mani- testly one of very great political im- portance. The southern states that dis- franchised negroes still have the same representation in congress and in the electoral college as before. Virginia, while refusing the suffrage to her col ored citizens, has suffered no decrease in the number of her congressmen. At the late election in Mississipyl, where most of the negroes are not permitted to vote, the rate of votes to each con- gressman was less than 3,000. That this 18 a gross injustice to the states in which the suffrage s vnrestricted is perfectly obvious and indisputable. It is an even more serious matter consid- ered in conuection with the electoral college. The declision 1n the Virginia vase will be awaited with great iuterest by sll THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, who understand the great and far reaching importance of the matter, which involves the political rights under the federal constitution of millions of cltigens. e— TAXATION OF MORTGAGES. The taxation department of the Na tional Civic federation has started out as its first step in the direction of gen- eral taxation reform to secure legislation in the different states for more uniform taxation of mortgages. In this case the problem to be solved ig that of double taxation of the same property by the state in which the mortgaged property is located and again by the state in which the holder of the mortgage re- sides. Recognizing the fact that our state revenue systems are almost entirely based upon the property taxed, the pur- pose is to have each not only confine itself to its own jurisdiction, but also to follow the same rule in determining what property is subject to taxation In its jurisdiction. The plan recommended by the tax department of the National Civie federation is for each state to tax the mortgage at the site of the mort- gaged property, either separating it as between the mortgagor and mortgagee or levying the tax exclusively against the land and leaving the parties to ad- Just the payment of the tax between themselves. In theory and also in praec- tice, when the conditions of the money market are quite free, the burden of a tax on mortgages Is shifted to the mort- gagor and must be borne by him. If there Is double taxation that fact 1s taken into consideration in the terms of the loan and the borrowing party is com- pelled elther to pay all the taxes or to pay the share of the mortgagee in the form of higher interest or harder terms. Here in Nebraska the law as strictly interpreted contemplates the taxation of the value of the mortgage in addition to the value of the land, but it has never been applied in this way. In practice, taxation in Nebraska conforms to the plan of the Civie federation by suffer- ance rather than by legal legislative en- actment. If our revenue laws are to'be revised at the coming legislative ses- slon this point should not be overlooked. PRESIDENT AND RACE ISMUE, President Roosevelt, like other presi- dents before him, finds himself involved in the vexed race question, especlally in the disposition of patronage in the south- ern states, but no president has ever | met that question with greater candor and directness. Whatever view may be taken of his position, no one will com- plain that he equivocates in his state- ment of it, and the most prejudiced critic in South Carolina will concede the president’s courage and honesty. The president's position is that the door of hope and opportunity should not be absolutely closed to citizens solely by the fact of color and race. It will be difficult to criticise it on ethical grounds or on those of reason and pub- lic policy. The real difficulty is race prejudice, which is perhaps less amena- ble to reason than any other specles of prejudice, and the president’s statement will very likely be greeted by a large element In the south with inconsiderate denunciation. But there are evidences even in the south of the growth, though it is not rapid, of a more moderate and liberal sentiment. The bugbear of the soclal equality of the races has largely disap- peared, and that of negro domination is losing its terror for many whites. The more progressive whites perceive that the return of the carpetbag regime of a third of a century ago is an utter im- possibility. In the meantime the colored race has made great progress and has produced the leadership of Booker T. Washington, who with many other able men are showing the true highway to success. It would be strange indeed if a basls were not thus being gradually laid for a better adjustment of the rela- tions of the races. The fundamental position taken by President Roosevelt is in fact the very reverse of that which the south formerly so bitterly opposed. The evil of carpet- bag government on which most stress was laid was that it resulted in po- litical preferement of the worst ele- ments of the black race. The rule laid down by the president where colored citizens are appointed is to insist on high character and good capacity. He has not crowded, and he does not pro- pose to crowd, federal places in the southern states indiscriminately with colored men, but he firmly refuses to be bound by the dictum of unreasoning race prejudice that no colored man, however high his character and ca- pacity, shall be barred solely because of his color for a chance for political recognition. The progressive spirit of the uge will vindicate that prineiple, and it is to be hoped that under chang- ing conditions even the unreasoning south may gradually come to accept it. —r————— The supreme court has expressly de- cided that for the purpose of fulfilling the conditions of the law requiring the publication of notices of liquor license applications in the newspaper of largest circulation in the county the circulations of the Evening World-Herald and of the Morning World-Herald cannot be com- bined as of one newspaper. That is not preventing the publishers of those shects trom trying to work the same old bunco game again this year. No liquor dealer should be a voluntary victim of such a hold-up. ——— When the officials of the Illinols Cen- tral entered into the scheme for pen- sioning Its employes some years ago, it was with doubt and purely as an ex- periment. It turned out, however, so satisfactory on every account that they soop greatly enlarged and perfected the plan, which is now being adopted or consldered by other rallroad companies. One of the most beneficial teatures Is the tendency to keep good men in the service, 80 that as & rule their promo- tion is more rapid than it would be If they should change frequently from one company to another. It takes time to build up the relations of confidence on which promotion so much depends, and the inducement of a pension after ten years of service and on a scale pro- portioned to average wages, causes men to think twice before going to another road for employment. In his annual report to the secretary of the treasury Director of the Mint Rob- erts recommends that the mint at New Orleans be abolished, explainiug as the redson that the capacity of the mints at San Francisco and Philadelphia and of the new mint about to be opened at Denver is sufficient to meet all the re- quirements of the government. This may throw a little light on the bunco game Congressman Mercer tried to work on the people of Omaha with his promise of a new mint to be located in this city. The government would be likely to add to the mints at its disposal while closing up one of them because of hav- ing no immediate use for it. But the cheap trick of having a bill providing for the establishment of a superfluous mint reported to the house out of cour- tesy to Its Introducer is just about Our Dave's size. gu— Booker T. Washington needs to offer no apology for giving advice and in- formation, when rmgt-stcd by the presi- dent or anybody else, regarding the in- terests of the black race. No man has reached more intelligent conclusions on that subject, nor expressed them more temperately or with better sense. S——— Northwestern's foot ball players brought two carboys of drinking water with them all the way from Evanston to Linceln but even water could not fortify them to the point of scoring against Nebraska. mess—— Another Guess Coming. Brooklyn Eagle, The Pennsylvania friends of Mr. Dalzell claim that the speakership figures eent out from Washington in favor of Mr. Cannon are merely guess work; but it seems highly probable that the Pennsylvanians will have to guess again. Shallow Grievance of Barons. Chicago Chronicle, One of the grievances of the coal barons in the arbitration business is the fact that John Mitchell “was permitted to occupy four and a half days with his testimony.” As three and a half of the four and a half days were consumed by the trust’s attorneys in cross-examination it looks as though the grievance of the barons really lay against thelr own lawyers® rather than against Mitchell. This impression is strengthened by the notorlous fact that the high-priced legal experts employed by the trust came off second best in a contest of wits with a man who never went to school after he was 14 years old. Cleveland and Third Term. Philadelphia Record. There is neither wit nor force in the sug- gestion that ex-President Cleveland's appeal to the democracy to fall back on solid ground is inspired by a desire for a third term in the White House. Those who best know Mr. Cleveland’s private inclinations and who appreciate the lofty patriotism that actuates him are sure that no such wmoition inspires his public utterances. He long ago for that matter put himself on record as opposed to third term aspirations. His ad- vice to democrats must be welghed solely by its intrinsic merit and soundness. So judged, we do not doubt it will commend itself to the fajr consideration of those to whom it {s addressed. Steel Trust Rival Springfield Republican. Any number of independent concerns are trooping Into the fleld of fron and steel production as competitiors of the big trus Many of them, considered by themselves, are large affairs; beside the huge trust the largest of them looks \small, but together they will prove formidable. The most im- portant single concern of this independent group is the Union Steel company of Pitts- burg, which has just absorbed the Sharon Steel company. Both of them have large plants for the production of various kinds of iron and steel products and both own valu- able ore beds in the Mesaba regton. Their new capitalization will probably exceed $50,000,000, and they contemplate the build- ing of an independent railroad from Pitts- burg to Lake Erie for the hauling of their ore and other materials. They say now that they expeet to live on terms of peace with the big trust, and so they will as long as present demand keeps up, which is large | enough to give plenty of work for all. But when the Inevitable slump in demand comes, there will be anything but peace in the industry, where the foundations have already been lald for a great overprodue- tion. RURAL FREE DELIVERY, Plea for Extra Allowance for Care of Carriers’ Horses. W. B. Ball of Friend, Neb., carrier on Route 1 of the rural free delivery in that vieinity, makes a strong plea for an allow- ance for the care and keep of horses in use by carriers. The arguments he presents are intended for the ears of men similarly em- ployed, but they are also of general public interest as an {llustration of the difficulties and meager emoluments of the rural mall carriers. In a letter to The Bee, Mr. Ball says in part: “Our first and greatest expense is feeding our horses, for which we should have an allowance. T belleve, taking the state over, on an average of one horse a year will be worn out by each carrier, allowing two horses to do the work. The best wagon on the market will not run over three years without extra expense for repairs. We must, as a rule, keep our horses shod if we use them as we should. We are required to wear good, respectable clothing and we must wear warm clothing. If there is a rural carrier who does not earn as much as y city carrfer who is required to keep a horse I don't know where he lives. Now I think the carriers should impress upon their congressmen the facts, not that they simply want more money, but that they earn more and that the expense is so kreat that something must be done, and the sooner the better. “I have carried the mail for two yea on Route No. 1 from Friend, Neb., and I know by experience that we need an extra allowance for expenses if we keep this up to the standard, as we are required to go in all kinds of weather and all kinds of roads 1t we fail we do not get pay for the day we miss, no matter if the roads are not pass- able “I think all carries and see if we can't not doubt we will get an extra allowarce in the future, but if it is werth more to carry the mall five years from now it is worth more right should look into this POLITICAL DRIFT. For the first time in twenty years the New York Sun is throwing bouquets at Grover Cleveland Except school taxes there is no state tax levied in New Jersey other than that de- rived from corporations. The cost of the twelfth census is now fig- ured out to have been $12,854,818, and it is further added that this is an average cost of 15% cents per capita in the United States. Dr. Bdward B. Clements, who was chosen to the legislature in Macon county, Mis- sourl, at the recent election, is the first re- publican to be elected in that county since 1868, A man dled in New York the other day whose chief distinction in life was to vote the straight party ticket ever since Andy Jackson's campaign. Out of respect for his memory his heirs refuse to embalm the feat on his tombstone. The office of superintendent of public in- struction in Colorado is held by a woman. She is a democrat. The salary is $3,000 She has been re-elected on the democ: o ticket, though the state has generally gone republican. There will be 131 new members in the next national house of representatives. The latest revision of the roll of members shows that only two parties will be represented and that there will be a republican majority of 30—there being 208 republicans and 178 democrats. The retirement from the United States senate In March next of John P. Jomes of Nevada will leave Willlam Boyd Allison of | Towa the senior senator in unbroken length of service. He first took his seat in that The carrylng out of Mr. Chamberlain's plan to visit the Uganda raflway will prob- ably place in the hands of the public more thorough information in regard to this im- portant feeder to the projected Cape-to- Cairo line than has yot been acquired. There have been two foreign office reports issued within the yesr, neither of which can be considered satiafactory. The firet gave an elaborate description of the line up to Lake Victorla, which point it was supposed to have reached December 15, 1901; the second, which bas come to hand, indicates that there remains still another year's work to do in the cobstruction of bridges and in laying the permanent way before the iine can be declared open for traffic. The speculation in land values, which set In with the beginning of the rail- way, has not only abated, but prices have gradually returned to a very little over that at which they stood when the line was commenced. Should produce coms down from Uganda in any volume, there will no doubt once more be & boom. Apart from the large permanent staff employed on the construction of the line, who were fed on rations imported by the administra- tion as part of their pay, there were many contractors and subcontractors who em- ployed large numbers of men. When these contracts terminated the importation of food stuffs and provisions for the men under them ceased. The permanent staff of the railway is also being considerably reduced. e The legalizing of the metric system of weights and measures s the purpose of a bill which is likely to be introduced at the next sesslon of the English Parllament. body March 4, 1878, and by subsequent elec~ tions has served continuously ever since. Immediately previous to that he served four terms continuously in the national house of representatives. The candidates for offices at the recent election in Kansas have been filing thelr accounts of expenses. James G. Perry, de- feated candidate for justice of the peace in Prairle townshlp, suburb of Kansas City, sald he spent 60 cents for cigars. The mai who defeated him, J. T. Barker, made this characteristic statement: “Gave nothing to nobody; made no promises; bought no ci- gars and didn't spend a cent during the campalgn.” PERSONAL NOTES, Now that Mr. Cleveland has told the democratic party what to do, it's ten to one It'l do something else. Mr. Hunter and, Mr. Fitzgerald quar- reled in Kentucky, and Mr. Hunter killed the other in Guatemala. That is carrying a feud too far. A portrait of Judge John H. Regan, the surviving member of Jefferson Davis' cab- inet, 18 to be placed in the confederate museum of history at Richmond, Va. King Charles of Portugal has a few bits of property he wants to dispose of, 80 he pald a visit to King Edward. If the latter hasn't the money Uncle Sam might buy something, islands preferred. Tolstol is apparently in robust health, it we may judge by the list of the works upon which he is engaged. He is writing a book on the eseence of religion, a novel dealing with Russia’s acquisition of the Caucasus, an eseay on the land question | and a play whose subject was taken from real life. In a habeas corpus suit for the posses- slon of a daughter, brought by the father, Judge Hiram Brownlee of Indiana ruled the other day that a mother's love and care are of more bemefit to & child than all the money, clothes or support that a father can give. The child in the case was given to her mother. James Culps, a traveling man, dled in Macon, Mo., last week and in deference to his expressed wish his funeral was con- ducted without ceremony or flowers saye a wreath made from the artificial blossoms in a hat belonging to his wife. Just before his death he requested that Mrs. Culps on the day of the fumeral play the music of his favorite hymn on the piano. The widow did s0, though almost overcome with grief. Eleanora Duse, the Italian tragedienne, was discussing woman suffrage not long ago with a male friend. The latter, by way of poking fun at the woman's rights move- ment, sald: “Man was made first, you know, and woman sprung from man. She is his inferfor or that would not be nat- ural The actress replied: “I cannot agree with you. It is natural for the flower to come after the stem, but you surely do not call that an evidence of inferiority.” PROBING THE LAND SCANDAL. on the Public Domain Attract- & Attention. St. Louls Republic. A case is now before the federal grand jury in Omaha which promises interesting developments. The western cattlemen, who have for years used the unoccupled public land for grazing purposes, are in danger of feeling the heavy hand of the govern- ment. They have pald no rent for these enormous tracts and have no property in- terest in them. With the gradual settle- ment of the western country the herding areas became more restricted, and finally the cattle growers began to fence In land to which they had no claim or title. This plain violation of law stirred up the gen- eral land office, and Colonel John S, Mosby of confederate guerrilla fame was sent west to Investigate. As the result of his report the wheels of justice have been set in motion. It has been the government's policy to hold the public lands for actual settlers under the homestead act, which limits any individual holding to 160 acres and requires actual residence thereon for & specified period. The government charges wholesale violation of these provieion The legal proceedings threaten the very existence of the great cattle growing in- dustry as at present conducted. The cattle- men have forescen and resisted the danger for years, and, it is alleged, not always by egal means. Land grabbing through what 'are known as ‘‘range widows has long been in operation. Soldiers’ widows are not required by law to live on the land they take up, but only to make oath that they want it for themselves. Certain cattlemen conceived the plan of inducing these widows to file claims to lands and then transfer the claims to themselves. It is charged that this has been done on an enormous scale, and that during the first half of November no less than 500 of these entries were made in Nebraska alone. It is the government's purpose to indict for conspiracy to defraud the cattlemen who have held out these Iinducements. Many of the “‘range widows” are also in danger, since charges of perjury will be pressed. The federal authorities claim that 90 per cent of the entries thus t were fraudulently made and that the women were not always innocent parties to the transaction. The cattlemen have bhad introduced in congress a bill providing for the leasing of public lands for grazing at 2 cents an acre, the proceeds to be devoted to irrigation purposes, and the lands to remain subject to homestead entry. Of the 500,000,000 acres and more of this land now given over to pasturage & great part is worthless for other purposes without irrigation. The plan proposed would bring in an annual irrigation fund of ever §if This is an old agitation in England, as | in other countries that are not already using the new system, but in England the movement seems recently to have gained some force. A Parliamentary com mittee that investigated the matter some years ago made a glowing report of the | advantages of the new system, finding| that in addition to the drawback to for- eign trade offered by the present system mastery in the schools of the coun- try required an additional year's time for study on the part of the children. Many bankers endorse the change as dolng away with the present cumbersome sys- tem of computation. Those in favor of the change think its Introduction, first, by legalizing it and somewhat later by mak- ing It compulsory, would involve, but 1 tle inconvenience or confusion. This, however, s regarded by many as an un- duly optimistic view, and it does seem as It the doing away with the time hon- ored pounds, shilling and pence of the Britieh nation were an operation so difi- cult as to be practically impossible, o Capetown, South Africa, {s just now a lively place, where the adventurer and the charlatan are reaping rich harvests, though | the wages for working people and arti are not nearly so inflated as they alwa have been in new and booming towns on the trontiers of civilization, and {he harvests | referred to are to that extent curtailed. | But it is the British soldier, returning to | the towh from the north for shipment b-ck to hig home, that brings most of the money” that the industrious find lyln( around. Each of these soldiers reaches the | town with from $100 to $200 in his posses- sion, and many of them are easy prey. Even the officers find the poor and expen- sive hotels and similar accommodations of the place quite luxurious after the depriva- tions they have suffered at the front. Not a few of the soldiers, robbed and rendered destitute soon after their arrival in Cape- town, have themselves turned “sandbag- gers” on thelr own account. Of course, the merchants and hotel men are making plenty of money in a legitimate sort of a way, though some of the prices are near to rob- bery, and everywhere the first-class prices are for second-class goods, service or en- tertainment. o The Berlin Soclety of Business Men and Manufacturers is an organization formed for the purpose of preventing unfair com- petition In business, and laws that have been passed by the German Parliament to that end are, under the watchful care of the soclety, being strictly enforced. In Ger- many, it is stated, a “bargain sale” must actually be a bargain sale. There Iy » heavy fine for the improper use of trade- marks or btands, for the disparagement of any other business or goods, for concealing the name of the manufacturer of goods, for changing goods from onme place to another secretly or tor betraying business secrets. It is also a misdemeanor to falsely declare that goods are sold off owing to an “ex- piration of lease,” when really they are articles specially bought for the “reduction sale;" or to state that goods are sold ‘“‘un- der cost price” when they are really sold at a profit. In such matters a fine not ex- ceeding $376 can be imposed for the first offense, and the second is punishable by imprisonment. Deception as to the quality m\ DRINKING, COOKING -AND BAKING ALWAYS USE- 0 B— WRAPPER BAKING GHOGOLATE UNEQUALLED rm PURITY, FLAVOR AND STRENGTH COSTS NO MORE THAN OTHERS GETIT AT YOUR GROCERS e — sald, and the only relief can come from placing an absolutely prohibitive tariff upon the distillations of the poppy. ve For two years the municipal council of Paris has been endeavoring to do away with the octrol or tax colleoted on certain com- modities as they enter the city, but in the been obliged to Increase the tax, always been a municipal deficit to make up, and the octrol is the most easlly applied of all taxes. This year the councilors began with thelr usual good in- tentions, then the prefect of the Seine, who is a state officlal, showed them a deficit of 7,600,000 francs, and suggested new imposts on cheese, preserves, fish and fruit, while the minister of agriculture devised means by which the mayors of the communes may within the existing law be empowered to raise taxes on bread and meat for the ben- efit of the state, Thus the city fathers, or what stands for them, imagine that the state has entered upon campaign of tyranny, and as they are nationalists by a large majority, their words of protest are bitter. LIGHT AND BRIGHT, (‘Ievel.nd Plain Dealer: Waitress (at unch stand)—Do you want to. eat ndwich here or take it with you? Genuemln—-Bvlh. his young m-n ' sald A Ay % you mi ell f him,"” rejoined “the ucd nnuuopner, i he ever amounts to anything.” -uq Washington _Star: - "Smnellmu * Uncle Eben, "a man pertends to | yoh advice, when in reality he J ter hab a'little time an’ ‘wants -um- to pay’ tention while he kicks.” Kansas City Stag: “Do ! look llke any- one you know?' asked bright Joplin Youth at a card party the other oight of a venerable old man who had been gasing at_him intently, “Yes, 1 blleve you do,” returned the old man. “‘You look like an aunt o' mine that dled’ twenty years ago. 1 b'lleve, though, that she had jist a little more mustache than you hev go 85 you playing, r. Nexdore. T Mke 1t Phllnd.ql.mn l‘nflmli(‘ Standard: don't Bkorcher," remarked Mi ““Not at ull,” rephad Skorcher, best wher yau're coasting.” “yhen I'm. coasting?" “Yes, when you keep your feet off the pedals.’” Indianapolis Nom ‘She’s evidently the apple of his DES OATMABREEL. As told by SBwan Swanson to a talented Nebraska member of the Sports Afield Family, Sports Afield for December. Aye yoost bane oop bay Minnesot! To ‘wee may Onkel Yon; Aye stop may bay Sen’ Powl a while 0ost for a little fun. Aye see may there one “oatmabeel’’— That bane de’ name you call— Exn you can took a_ral Without some horse at al 9n, Heem Hay bane a purdy naice masheen Mid roober ‘tires en things; Yoost it hem lak a vagon en’ Hay 100n yoost lak mit vings. Aye esk det man, “What mek him go?" Hay say may hald got wheeis; Hay say hay feed heem plenty oat fn' call heem ‘‘oatmabeel.” Aye say Aye know Aye bane green Bwede ont cooms fop Nord Dakot', t b'leeve hay mak heem go Aye know Ay'm green, but yoost tho same, You bate n.ay laif, ‘show me! Det man yoost laft, en’ only say, Aye bane good show mayskelf; A onch your hald "Aye dank Aye n’ lay you en des shelf. Aé. pick may oug a little stick jane layin’ in des seat; may laif, oatmabeel ot goods s also punishable by fine. ‘The government of France having deter- mined, by legislative enactment, to dimin- 1sh, if it eannot entirely abolish the drink- ing of absinthe, the absinthe users have de- termined to make reprisals and they are ating against what they term the oplum habit. ‘It absinthe makes people silly, they say, oplum makes maniacs of them. If ab- sinthe may eaffect generations to come, optum attacks the present generation. The vice has not taken serious hold upon Paris, but in the southern cities, and especially Marseilles and Toulon, it is alleged the oplum maniac is at large and the state of things 1s equal to the worst corners of any Chinese town, there being whole atr arted 00p the street! Aye holler “Whoa!" but hay don't stop— ' then, you bate may lajf! Aye weesh Aye e bly Nord Dakot' At home wit' Ann, may wife. Des ollm-becl hay boomp may oop walk on, en stoj En' Aoy may troo the window in, ff one dam butcher shop. Hay splest may nose Inv may face oop, En smesh Inl.y alm lt l may mouth En r oonch th oft A1l Gotelde oft n 8y “haid, hurt may aye so bad een one lak a beetle; ye can But only yoost a leetle, The lart Aye seen that masheen of Hay becq a boockin' still; A k hay feed too many oat ‘o that fllm oatmabeel where opium dens are to be found in every house. Men, women and children pa hours under tho Influence of the drug, it is Aye tell may wife eef Aye get well, ou bate may laif, Aye will N& monkey some anoder talm ith any oatmabeel ! GET THE BEST This doesn’t mean the most costly in clothing, if you'll comie here. If you will pay $25 for a as good a garment as can be made. Buit or Overcoat youw’ll get If $15is your limit you will find«the same perfect cut and excellent service in our line at that figure, ¥ No Clothing Fits Like OQurs K §-@ S. Wil;ox Manager.