Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 14, 1903, Page 6

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE [ARCH 14, 190 SIMPLY 4 TAX-SMIRKING DODO The rallroad representatives have pre- vafled upoh “the house, which is con- sidering the new-revenue bill, to in- corporate in it an amendment by which the State 'Board of Tridunsportation Is vested with the mssessment of all the THE ©OMANA DALY BEE. E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISUED EVERY MORNING, TERMS OF BUBSCRIPTION. Dally Bee (without Bunday), One Yéar: $4.60 Dally Bee and Bunday, One Year...... 8.0 Ulustrated Bee, One ¥ear. -: Nebraska, . irre: Bunauy Dee, Ohe Teat | rallronds opergting. in Nebr A Baturday Bee, One. Year. Yean 10| spective of whether they cross coupty Twentieth Ceritury Farmer, One Year,. 1. ol 10 ohee DELIVERED BY CARRIER. lines ‘or net. In other words, T Dally Bee (without Bunday), per copy.. 2c | ent law, which leaves for local assess i Daily Bee (without Bunday), per week..12c | Ty . vithin the Duily Bee (including Banday), per week,.1jc | ment rrilronds completely wi Bunday Bee, per copy. oot 8¢ | Jurisdiction of a single county and ven out Sunday), per week 6c el “Ilu*l‘\l;l:‘rlu:nn:(“ Bunasy), | per makes ,subject to the state board only | b e 'y | those that are In two or more counties, Complaints of irregularities in deljvery should be addressed to City Circulation De- partment. is to be changed so as to deprive the local assessing authorities of all powers over local raflroad corporations. There Is no adequate warrant or ex- cuse for this change and the pretexth urged In its support will not bear in- spection. Theé only argument made for the change is that the state board is better able to arrive at a fair valuation of this property than the local authori- ties, presumably because the state board fixes the, valuations of rdilroads which traverse two or more counties. The logie of this, however, is decidedly faulty. Nothing whatever prevents the county boards from reaching as good an estimate of the value of this property as the state board. In point of fact, the local authorities ought to be better able OFFICES. Omaha—The Bee Bullding South Umaha—City Hall Bullding, Twen- ty-fifth and M Streets. Council Bluffs—10 Pear] Street Chicago—16#0 Unity Bullding. New Vork—2328 Park ltow Huflding. | Washington—i01 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENC Communications relating to news and ed- ftorlal matter should be addressed: Omaha Editorlal Department. REMITTANCES, Remit by deaft, express or postal order, payable o The Bee Publishing Company, Only 2-cent stamps accepted in payment of mail accounts. Fersonal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exehange, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRC State of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss. George B. Tzachick, secretary of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and complete coples of The Daily, Morning, Evening and | unday Bee printed during the month of | ruary, 195, was as follow 16. 20,225 | to value rajlroads in their own county 16. | than the stute board, at a distance from o it and unfamiliar with its character, - condition and special earning powers. 20. Surely the rallronds would not prefer % to have the state board fix the assess- z: ment rather than the county boatrd undé A, less they were convinced that the state - board could be bamboozled more easily 30,640 2. into agreeing upon valuations below 30,670 2. what they should be. That there is an African in the wood plle who has not been brought out goes without saying. The object in trans- ferring the assessment of rallroads en- tirely within one county from the county board to the state board is to clinch more strongly the evasion of municipal taxes. There is no question here of distribution of terminal values or even of rolling stock, because the road Is taxable in one county juriediction only, and if the basis of valuation of state and county were approximately the same there would be no substantial dif- ference as regards state and county taxes. But by having the assessment made by the state board these local rail- roads will have the figures certified down for city taxation In the same manner as the other tax-shirking rail- roads, and If the city tax commissioners continue to assess as they have been doing, on the 100 per cent basis, while the state board under the new law will use a 20 or 25 per cent basls, these roads as well as the others will unload the greater part of their taxes onto the in- dividual property owner. The interests affected for the present are the Omaha Belt line and the Omaha Bridge and Terminal company, both of which have made strenuous efforts in the last few years to secure recognition by the state board-in order to get away from county and city assessors. There i no more reason why these two Insti- tutions, which are wholly within Doug- las county, should be assessed by the state board than that the banks, or the department stores, or the stock yards and packing houses should be likewise assessed, while the property of the home | owner and shopkeeper is left subject to full city and county taxation. The pro- posed amendment is a taxshirking scheme pure and simple and should be spewed out before the Dill is put in final form for passage. ——r— THE NEXT PRESIDENTIAL CONTEST. Although the presidential contest of 1904 is more than a year distant those who take an interest in political affairs are already iooking forward to it and calculating the chances. The Washing- ton correspondent of the New York Evening Post, who may fairly be as- sumed to look at the situation impar- tially, from a careful review of the po- litical fleld reaches the conclusion that never before in the history of the re- publican party were Its prospects of success, twenty months before the presi- dential election, so good as they are to- day. He says the republicans are ap- parently in control of all the states of the north except Nevada. “In Rhode Island the results were divided, but no one supposes that this state would be lost to the republicans in a presidential vote. Montana has recently given a republican majority of 10,000, Idaho of 5,000 and Colorado of 7,000, Maryland, in spite of its election of a democratic senator in the person of Mr. Gorman and "its new ballot law, gave a sub- stantial republican plurality on the re- cent congressional vote. Tt will require a series of political explosions to dis- lodge the republican party from its pres- ent position in season to affect the result in 1904, The democrat capable of charging the mine and touching the match has not yet been spied out by Total Less uUnsold and returned coples. Net total sales.. Net average sales. GE Subscribed in_my before me this 28th 1903, R X CHUCK. .esence and sworn to ay of February, A. D. M. B, HUNGATE, Notary Publ The weather man seems loath yet to put his cold wave flag in storage for the summer. EE—— The Ohio club banquet shows that the Ohlo man cannot be kept down no mat- ter where he is transplanted. The proper thing for the Nebraska Bryanites to do by way of retaliation is to start a movement to crush Dave Hill in New York and Arthur P. Gorman in Maryland. The promise enforce the law to against the fencing in of public land has been made several times before. The people hereabouts are from Mis- sourl on that peint. Whenever a franchised corporation pays out good money to hire lobbyists to secure a change in the method of as- sessmeut and taxation, put it down that the proposed change is designed to fa- cilitate tax-shirking. Upon second thought ex-Mayor Ames of Minneapolis bas declded to return o answer the charges made against his official conduct. Of course the fact that a requisition had been issued for his apprehension had nothing to do with his change of mind. ————— The Interview of J. Plerpont Morgan with President Roosevelt at the White House will probably start the polit- ical gossips again. But if Mr. Morgan wants anything that he ought not to have, we may be sure Mr. Roosevelt will not hesitate to say no to him. The banquet to the Methodist govern- ors at Chicago was attended by the chief executives of five states and the assertion Is made that one out of every four of all the giverncrs of the states in the American unlon are members of the Methodist church. There must be method In Methodism, Eme—————— While many things can be said against the secret session of the United States senate one thing can be said in its favor: The temptation to endless oratory is appreeiably reduced when the gallerles are cleared of spectators and nothing even to prevent fellow senators from taking to the cloak rooms. — Several thousand fnvitations are to be sent out to teachers in this section to attend the summer school of superin- tendency to be held In this city, If all these Invitations are accepted our schools will be in danger of having nothing but superintendents and prinei- pals and no instructors when the next school year opens. EEr——— The law enacted two years ago re- moving all legal executions In Nebraska from the county in which the murder was committed to the state penitentiary at Lincoln has been successfully ap- plied to the first case that has arisen since it went ‘nto force. This Is one field where the localities will not ob- ject to state assumption of dutles for- | *DServers in Washington.” Eits Mek. 4o dhoth The republican party continues strong S with the people because it has kept faith Some members of the legislature seem | With them and because the policies and to question whether Bartley was re.|Principles for which it stands have been lieved from duty In the greenhouse on | fully justified by results. All that it a properly executed certificate of par- | Promised when restored to power has don. The warden of the penitentiary | Deen more than realized aud every accepted the document without inquiry | Pledge since made in regard to the mat- as to its genulneness and that was all | trs Which affect the Interests and wel- Bartley required. If the pardon papers | fAre of all the people has been kept. were faulty it certainly was not the | Republican policles brought the country fault of his accidency, Ezra the Par-|Prosperity and are maintainhmg it. An- Qibsee. other reason why the republican party — continues strong with the people is that The Peter Cooper club has formally | they have had, in the course of the endorsed the fusion members of the Ne-'| democrats In the last congress, renewed braska Jeglslature for loyalty to the peo- | proof of the unfitness and incapacity of ple's interests as against the corpora- | that party for the duties and responsi- tives in congress have shown themselves %0 Incompetent and unpatriotic, cannot lope to win the suppart of a majority of the American people. The veteran democrat, ex-Senator Veést of Missourl, recently expressed doubt as to whether the democrats will “get together” by 1004, It Is perfectly evident that they will not, for union between the radical- fsm of Bryan and the conservatism which is best represented by Cleveland is out of the question, The republivas party wiil go into the national campaign of 1004 with as strong a clalm to popular confidence and support as it has ever had and with most substantial assurance of success, CONCESSION TO PUBLIC OPINION. The adoption by the United States senate of Senator Allison's resolution, authorizing the committee on rules to re-examine the rules of the senate, with the view to ascertaining what changes, if any, are necessary, and especially to make quiry whether it is expedient to in any way lNmit debate In the senate, and if so, to what extent, is clearly a concession to public opinion. At the same time Senator Platt of Connecticut gave notice of .a proposed modification of the rules by which three-fifths of the senate could make an order fixing the time for a vote oh a pending ques- tion and also the limit of time any sen- ator could occupy In debate pending such final vote. Since the speech of Mr. Cannon in re- gard to the unanimous consent prac- tice of the senate there has been very general discussion in the press of the rules and methods of that body and they have beed disapproved in almost every respect. While the subject Is by no means new there was never before quite as much interest taken in it as was aroused by the proceedings In the senate during the closing days of the last congress and it appears that this made an fmpression upon senators, If such men as Mr. Allison and Mr. Platt will earnestly endeavor to reform the senate rules it is not to be doubted that they can accomplish it, backed as they would be by an overwhelming popular demand for a change. The committee on rules of the senate consists of Messrs., Spooner, chairman, Aldrich, Hoar, FElkins, Teller, Cockrell and Bacon, Most of these are stiong stick- lers for the traditional parliamentary practices of the body, but they may not be disposed to wholly disregard popular sentiment. — STUDYING OUR RAILROAD METHODS. The chief Inspecting officer of Eng- lish railways, who recently investigated American rallroading, has made his re- port to the British Board of Trade. He found much of interest in the practical construction of American railroads, but concluded that little of it was avail-| - able for English use. In some of the details of railroad operation In this country the report states that we are in advance of England, but in the very important matter of safety we are far behind, While much interested in the automatic and other mechanical devices, he thought the galn was counterbal- anced by the increased risks to passen- gers and employes, which in the case of automatic signaling might be due to the weather or possibly to the failure of the mechanism. Perhaps there Is not much for Amer- fean railroad managers to learn from the management of English railways, but it Is unquestionable that 1n the matter of safety the English railroads are greatly superior. The statistics con. clusively prove this. More care is taken there than in this country. for the pro- tection of passengers. It seems there is generally better discipline on English roadg There is no doubt that in most respects American rallroads are equal or superior, to those of any other coun- try, but in the matter of safety there is room for decidea improyement. If the Elkhorn had not been absorbed in a timely manner by the Northwest- ern the attempt to smuggle through the legislature a bill to take the limit of in- debtedness off railroad corporations would pot have been suspended. The purpose of the bill was unquestionably to make way for the absorption of Ne- braska railroads by controlling or oper- ating roads’in the natume of the North. ern Securities company. If the litiga- tion still pending should turn out disas- trous to the merger interests an open- door incorporation law In Nebraska would come In handy for them to start out with anew. It will be well for the members of the legislature to keep a weather eye out anyway just to make sure that the bill in question is not res- urrected before the session closes. Of the relief funds recelved by the committee at Stockholm for the benefit of the famine sufferers in Sweden, $85 000 out of a total of $258,000 has come from the United States, In other words, nearly a third of the contributions so far have been sent by citizens of this country—for the most part by former natives Of Sweden. This certalnly speaks well not only for the generosity of our Swedish-Americans, but also of tifir thrift and industry, which has placed them in position to extend such substantial help to the r countrymen, Preparations are already under way for President Roosevelt's western tour, which is to have as its first objective point the dedication of the Louisiuna Purchase exposition at St. Louls, April 30 next. Unless the president is espe- cially fortunate he will miss greatly the d experienced services formerly rende on such occasions by Secretary Corte you as master of ceremonies en route, tions. It is to be feared that the club | bilities of government. Strietly speak- will have to reyise its blanket endorse- | ing there is not now a dewocratic party, ment before the members go home and | but factions each calling itself demo- specify more distinetly by making ex-|cratic and getting ready for a desperate ceptions of a few corporation fusionists | struggle for supremacy in the next na- who vote wrong or dodge conveniently | tional. convention. - A party so divided by getting luto ihe absenies solumi. It will take & clever man to take Mr. Cortelyou's place in this capacity. The good people of Council Bluffs are undergoing another purity spasm, grow- ing out of the demand for the strict en- and demoralized, and whose Tepresenta; | forcewent of the mulct law by which thirst-quenching stations are to be closed promptly at 10 o’clock every night and conform to Sabbath observance rules. It Is warthy of note in this con nection that the street cars between Omaha and Council Bluffs run every day in the week amd until 1 o'clock nt night ed Hold-Up, Philadelphia Press. The man who can hold up congress and get $47,000 for the job doesn't have to worry about how e is going to make a living. The Gentle Volce of Envy. Chicago Tribune. Being in & generous frame of mind, Pres- ident Franels of the Lowisiana Purchase exposition granted an interview fifty min- utes long to Emperor Willlam the other day, but other monarchs must not consider this & precedent. Mr. Francis' time is Hm- ited. —_—— Expansion in Natfonal Expenses. Boston Transcript. The expansion of this country into—not a world power, which it was before, but— a_ war power, synchronizes, with an in- crease in appropriations for 1903-04 to $753,484,018 from $611,840,708 in 1892. The increase amounts to $241,643,310, or about 50 per cent P ——— Daily Round of Warnings. Philadelphia Press. Bryan sounds a warning pretty nearly every day now, but people have got 8o hard- ened to it that they just go right on with their business, and the warning never touches them. The Nebraska bogie man ought to try and get up something that will fit the conditions of the present time Driving the Knife to the Hone, Philadelphia Record (dem.) Mr. Bryan hae said some very disagree- able things about Mr. Cleveland, but he has never said anything so keen and so delicate as Mr. Cleveland said of him. When the ex-president was asked if he thought silver would figure at all as an issue within the democratic party, he replied: “I did mot know that any one thought about silver nowadays,” Basis of Prosperity. St. Louls Globe-Democrat. \ A free trade paper puts this conundrum: “It our exports to Porto Rico can be ex- panded six times in four years by free trade, why won't a more reasonable tariff increase our exports to all the rest of the world?” Porto Rico has the benefit of an untaxed traffic with all the United States, and the advantage also of being part of a protective country, Porto Rico's pros- perity, like that of the nation generally, 18 on a protectionist b Humming with Prosperity. New York Tribune. Present conditions are not favorable to corners in wheat, in coal or in anything necessary for the comfort and sustenance of Americans. Every conspiracy to raise prices of food, fuel or clothing to exorbi- tant figures ought to fall, and is likely to fail. But in spite of the effects of the coal strike and the high prices of meats this republic in the main is buzzing and humming with prosperity. There are not nearly enough engines and' cars for the rapld handling of the large quantities of goods which are pressing upon the rail- roads. THE NATIONAL TIPPLE. it Beer Chases Coffee from the Leading Place. Springfisld Republican. Coftee grows in popular favor as a bey- erage in the United States, while tea does not. Consumption of distilled spirits holds its own per capita, also that of wines, while of malt liquors there fs a marked in- crease. The “‘statistical abstract’ of the United States just published for 1902 pre- sents a summary which makes possible the tollowing comparisons CONSUMPTION PER_CAPITA. F] El Z L ] 2 & % “suoqus ‘szonbyT IR The present average yearly consumption of tea is about one pound per capita, or less than the consumption of thirty years ago. But the per capita consumption of coffee in the same time has nearly doubled and that of beer and ale has more than doubled. As the use of wines and distilled spirits is about the rame relatively as thirty years ago, it is evident, from the malt liquor statistics, that the consumfp- tion of intoxicants generally has increased materially. POLITICAL DRIFT, Only thirty women took advantage of the right to vote for candidates for the school board nomination at the republican prima- ries in Cincinnat!.” The number of men who voted was in excess of 23,000. There have been ouly three republican mayors of Chicago in twenty-five years— John H. Roche, elected in 1887; H. Wash- burne, elected in 1891, and George B. Swift, elected in 1895. None of them had a second term. One member of the United States senate 1s 82, ten are over 70 and only seven are under §0. Of the 357 congressmen in the Fifty-seventh house there were only fifty- seven under 60. One was 80, another 76 and another 71, M. E. Ingalls, president of the Big Four rallroad, is the candidate for mayor of Cin- cinnati on the big four ticket—citizens', in- dependent, democratic and fusion ticket. His opponent is Mayor Fleishman, whose ability to “raise the dough” is an impor- tant element of success. The chaplain of the Utah house of rep- resontatives, who prayed especlally for the salvation of demoeratic members, scooted for the timber line to escape thelr wrath. The intentions of the chaplain were lauda- ble, but he should have known that the mi- nority would not take kindly to prayer as a means of salvation There are sixty-three committees in the house of representatives at Washington, and only one of them was entirely exempt from the effects of last fall's election. That is the committee on expenditures in the Treasury department, of which “Bob" Cousins of lowa is chairman. Every other to five members or at the committee lost through defeat polls. Senator Morgan of Alabama has achieved additional fame as the long cistance talker of the senate. Up to the close of his pre liminary remarks on the Panama canal March 2, he had flled pages of the Record with 216,000 words. Since the extra sesslon began he has been In a continuous state of eruption, but the overfiow has not been gathered into the Record, and history is likely to lose the sequel to his serial. It 1s & matter for congratulation, however, that while Alabama has the long distance record, Nebraska's eminence for continu- ous performance remains unsullied. Sena- tor Allen’s achievement ae yot bas 8o rival. from one in convention MURDERS HIS WHOLE FAMILY Missourl Farmer Slays Wife Children with Sledgehammer— Cuta His Own Throat. ST. LOUIS, March 13.—Adolph Krauss, a German _farmer llving twenty-one miles west of St. Louls, last night killed his wite and eix children with a sledgehammer. It is belleved Krauss suddenly became insane. After killing his family Krauss cut his throat and died today, but did not injure himselt with the hammer, as first reported. The coroper will hold an inquest today. The dead in this tragedy are: AUGUST KRAUSS, 38 years old, father and murderer. MRS. AUGUST KRAUSS, 37 years old, the wife and mother, CARRIP, aged 11. AMY, aged 9. PHILIP, aged 7. GEORGE, aged 6. MARY, aged 5. BABY BOY, aged 8 monthe B. F. Andre, postmaster at Bellefontaine, received a letter from Mrs. Krauss stating that her husband had been acting strangely and that she feared violence at his hands She asked in the letter that the local lodge of tho Modern Woodmen take steps to® protect her. In his more cheerful moments Krauss frequently told his wife, neighbors say, to keep all weapons out of his reach, ms he feared in times of despondency he might use them upon himself or on the members ot his family. LEGISLATURE IN A FIGHT Miswourl Speaker Makes Se: Charge and Blows Follow in Chamber, JEFFERSON CITY, Mo, March 13.— Speaker White Cotton took the floor today when the discussion of the Davidson school textbook bill was on In the house and made the charge that boodle was belng used to defeat the bill. As the discussion proceeded Reprementa- tive C. M, Selph of St. Louls and Door- keeper J. E. Clark became involved in con- troversy because the doorkeeper demartded Selph to keep quiet. Olark struck Selph and the house was in an uproar. Several members jumped on desks and yelled for order, Some moved to adjourn, while at least a dozen others rushed to the doorkeeper's station and took part in the row. Order was finally restored, after the apppoint- ment of a committee to assist the sergeant- at-arms in clearing the lobby and seating members. WIFE IS NOT IN THE WILL Burdick Gives Small Sum to Other Relatives, but Bulk to His Children. BUFFALO, N. Y., March 13.—The will of the late Edwin L. Burdick, murdered in his home here Friday, February 27, was made public today. He cuts off his wife, whom he was suing for divorce, without a cent. He leaves $2,600 to relatives and the rest of his property to his three children, share and share alike. The will was made December 8, 1902. Mr, Burdick names as executors Augustus B. Kellogg, George H. Dunston and George C. Miller. He names Charles Parke and Risley Tucker, his business sasociates, as guar- dians of his children. The petition for the probate cites the following as the heirs at law and next kin of Burdick: Alice H. Burdick, widow; Ma- rion Burdick, aged 15, daughter; Carroll Lewis Burdick, aged 12; Alice Hull Bur- dick, aged 10, daughter. MEXICO ASKS AMERICANS’ HELP Smeltér and Trust OfMeials and Cor- nell Professor Ald in Estab- lishing Currency. MEXICO CITY, March 13.—J. W. Jenks of Cornell, Charles A. Conant, vice president of the Morton Trust company ol New York, and Edward Brush, vice president of the American Smelting and Refining company, invited by Finance Minister Lim- antour to' study the silver situation and ald in forming a plan for giving Mexico a stable currency, were formally presented to the minister today. The conviction grows that the country will soon adopt @ modified gold standard, giving stability of value to the sliver peso. EARTH ROCKS IN FAR WEST Selsmic Disturbances Alarm Olympis, Ancoma and Seattle Res- 1dents. OLYMPIA, Wash., March 13.—An unusu- ally’ perceptible earthquake was felt here at 6:25 tonight. Buildings were shaken so that occupants ran into the streets in alarm. The principal shock was preceded by a tremor of a few seconds and followed by a elight tremor, the entire disturbance lasting nine seconds Two distinct shocks were felt in Seattle about 6:40 tonight, and Tacoma also felt the tremors. SAY JUDGES HAVE MANY WIVES Utah Press Statements Lead Speclal Grand Jury to Probe Polyg. . amy Charges. SALT LAKE CITY, March 18 At* the request of County Attorney Westervelt, three judges of the district court today galled a special grand jury to investigate the charges recently made of the practice of polygamy in this city and county. Statements in the press that local judges recently contracted plural marriages is belleved to have been Instrumental in bringing about the proposed investigation. JUDGE ORDERS A VERDICT OTHER LANDN THAN OURS, The bitterness with which the racial war- fare is waged in Bohemia fs illustrated by an incident related by a Vienna corre- spondent of the London Times. It appears that some months ago a Czech credit bank was wrecked by maladministration, for which a prominent Caech prelate was largely responsible. The affair reflected a certain amount of discredit upon the whole Crech clerical party, snd seems to have intensified its jealousy and animosity aEainst a large eavings bank in Prague, which was exceedingly prosperous and en- tirely under German control. Recently ru- mors began to prevall that this bank had lost heavily through a financial crisis in Lelpsic and w. not in a position to meet its engagements. The rumors appear to have originated, says the correspondent, in Czech clerical circles, and to have been propagated by anonymous letters and dis- patches among the Czech agricultural popu- Iation, whose savings were deposited with the bank. In consequence, a formidable run began. Fortunately, the institution possessed a eufficient reserve of cash to meet all demands, and other large financlal bodies went to its ald. Nevertheless, fore than $1,000,000 was pald out to 6,000 fright- ened depositors. The Narodni Listy, the chief youug Czech organ, expresses the hope that the prestige of the German bank has recelved a mortal blow, but has not a word to say in condemnation of the un- principled attack upon it. v The new 18,000-ton battleships which have been authorized by the British ad- miralty will carry four twelve-inch guns mounted in heavily protected turrets, fore and aft, and eight 9.2-inch guns, mounted in emaller turrets placed at the four cor- ners of the citadel, after the fashion of our earliest class of battleships. Between these guns on the open superstructure will be mounted elght twelve-pounders, four on a side. Two more will be mounted by each conning tower and eight at the bow and stern of the deck below. On the same deck will be the ten six-inch guns, the torward and aft ones placed to give end-on fire. The armor belt will be complete at the water line and vary from nine to three and a half inches. Above a complete belt of seven Inches thickness will run to the base of the after barbette. Above that will be a further belt of seven-inch plate amid- ships, protecting the six-inch guns and connecting the secondary turrets. There will be no inclined armored deck, a flat deck above .and below the armor being substituted for it. The assigned speed Is a minimum of elghteen knots and as much over as can be maraged. Municipal reform is the tople of tte hour in St. Petersburg. M. Zinovieff, the assist- ant minister of the interfor, has just pub- lished a report in which, among other things, he says that the hospitals, the water works, and eanitary matters have been mi managed most shamefully. There is noth- ing new in the statement, and nobody doubts the truth of it, but there are many different opinions as to the best way of effecting a remedy. The bureaucrats ascribe the whole mischief to the system of gov- ernment by elected representatives, and maintain that the city administration ought to be entrusted to a bureay of the Interior departmen! Unofficial opinfon, as volced by the Novoye Vremya, holds that the source of the trouble is to be sought in tho restricted franchise which practical puta A e PRICE BAKING POWDER 0O. oMicAGo customary to talk of a twd-power standard, but he thought the time had come when no & two-power standard, but a threc-power standard might be necessary. POINTED REF) TIONS, “When 1 v it Blackpool in the summer | always pay a visit to my old landledy “Well, 1 suppose it's only right that yo should pay her something, old man. ray Stories. “George," ghe sald, “what's the ils bookkeeping?"” “Why, it enables money” has gone to - nsl" she cried; “I never want to Chicago Post. ou to tell where you velled the victim. “Sce here L off part of my ear replied_the ber, coolly calm yourself. We make no charge for correcting faclal blemishes. 11 trim the other ear down to a decent Philadelphia Press “Wow “Don’t you always feel a little mean when A street car conductor overlooks you and you get your ride for nothing?' ‘Yes, ard I always spend the nickel for a clgar or something just as soon as 1 can, so as to get rid of the feeling.’ —Chicago Trib- une, Merritt—A man shouldn’t bother a woman by talking business. Cora—That's right, dear. If you business go talk to papa.—Smart Set. mean ““Why are you crying, lttle boy?" asked the tourist in Texas. ‘'Boo-hoo!” sobbed the. youngster, *de cyclone blew down every house ‘n town but one. “What one was that?" *“The school house.”—Philadelphia Record, Wife (with a determined air)—I want to see that letter. Husband—What letter? “That one you just opened I know by the handwritin Y that it is from a woman, and you turned pale when you read it. I will see it! Give it to me, sir!" “Here it is. It's your milliner's bill."— New York Weekly, - —_——— LAST MARCH. W. D. Nesbit in Chicago Tribune. (John T. Mason, 74 years old, a veteran of the civil war, was heard during the night all the authority in the hands of a small and self-interested class. Others blame the injudicious interference of the prefect. M. Zinovieff in his report expresses the pro- found conviction that the mismanagement is not the outcome of the administrative system, but of the disregard of the prin- ciples upon which it s founded. By evad- ing theee, he says, a clique of house owners have succeeded in arrogating to themsely all the powers of a dellberative, executive and supervising body. He agrees that the prefect has made many blunders, and says that he ought not to have anything to do with the local administration, having plenty of other things to attend to. o At the annual meeting of the Greek Archacological soclety M. Kavvadias gave an Interesting summary of its work during the last twelve months. Outside Greece it has made substantial progress with the excavation of the famous temple of Hera, at Samos, which Herodotus declared to be the “largest of all the temples which he had seen,” and which is nearly double the size of the Parthenon. Within the Greek kingdom the restoration of the Lion of Cherronea and the reconstruction of the celebrated temple at Bassae have been be- gun. Colonel Leake prophesied nearly a century ago that Greece, if free, could easily restore the latter bullding out of the tragments lying around it. The strength- ening of the Parthenon, the restoration of the: Erechthefon; the repairs to the wall of the Stoa of Attalos, and the building of museums at Chalkis, Nauplia, Sautorin and Mykonos complete the work of a very active year. In a few years' time the ex- cavation of the anclent market place will be begpn, as the compensation due to the owners of property on its site is found to be smaller than was expected. o The reported decision of the British goy- ernment to esfablish a new naval squadron, with headquarters on the northeast coast, independent of the regular Channel squad- ron, is the direct result, probably, of an important éonference held the other day in London, which was attended by many naval «xperts, high naval officers and prominent members of Parliament. Several of the speakers alluded openly to the Increase of the German fleet, and the necessity of | making present preparation to meet a pos- sible futura emergency. The proceedings opened with the reading of a letter from George Meredith, who wrote: ‘Germany, once foremost among the nations for intel- lectual achlevements, now spouts pan-Ger- manism over Europe, and seoks to command the North Sea. For our part we have only to take the warning they give us, and be armed, stationed and alert That is the way to prsserve the peace. Mr. Spencer Wilkinson, the well known writer on naval subjects, sald that Germany's announce- ment of her intention to create a strong ravy had awakened them to a sense of the fact that they could not have a fixed standard of naval defense. It had be The bugles pealing The bugles et of ™ singing “While ~We Were Marching Through Georgla.” Next morning he was found lifeless In his bed, his eyes wide open. A physiclan who was called state:l that the old man must have dled about the ime the song was heard by the others i1 the house.—Local news item.) “Bring the good old bugle, boys, we'll sing another song!" He heard the far-off chorus as his com- rades marched alo He heard the clank of sabre, and the jang- lng bit and epur, 3 The rumbling of the cannons, where his shouting’ messmates were; He heard the hurried hoofbel of the Ana PHiEh AT RS saw the fag, th n above he 'saw t) that beckoned him: 0, comet & . M He saw them swing along the road—not graybeards, slow and bent Ah, no." He saw the boyish ranks of his old regiment. With rhythmic tread it held its line, with fifers piping shrill; He saw the ragged cofors, that were wav- ing to him still; And calling -calling calling, came the roll- ing of the drum: “Fall in! Fall in for dress parade! The ranks are walting. Come!" The line wheeled when it neared him, and as in the light of noon He saw the forms of comrades who across the South were strewn; He saw ‘the brave companion who had battled by his The tears welle d_up again just as they aid died. : il the bugles sourided, and he heard his wartime chief in his kindest, clearest tones: “This is the last relief!" “March on!" The flag was waving and the soldiers marched away; And he went singing with them, far be- youd the Gates of D ladly and the line with N0 more gaps— ging sweetly In that benison And fifes were mad and merry, and the drums were laughing, too, For he marched beside the colors as he led the grand review! “TNE NAME IS EVERYTHING.” Esterbroo Expert ] Favorite, Over 150 other styles every pu stationers Accept no\fsubstitute. Works, Camden, N. . 36 Joha Strest, N. T ys that Indiana Conl Operators | Have Violated No Law of Ilinots, CHICAGO, March 13.—Judge Chetlain (o- day instructed the jury In the case of the Indiane coal operators to bring in a verdict | of noi guilty. The jury was then dis- | charged. The court held that if there was any vi lation of law by the operators it was,a vio- lation of the interstate law and mot the statutes of Illinols. Such being the cass the | offense should come before a federal jury. FIFTEEN DIE IN COAL MINE Wreeks Illinols Pit, Theee Outright a) Entombing Othe: Explosion Slay- ing SPRINGFIELD, Ill, March 13.—Fifteen men may have lost their lives in a mine explosion at Cardiff. 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