Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 25, 1903, Page 6

T L A AT 1 A e —tn. # s N et THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1903 THE OMAHA DAny BEE B, ROJEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily Bee (witbout Sunday), One Year..$4.0) Daily Bee and Sunday, One Year L6 Allustrated Bee, One Year .2 Bunday Bee, Uhe Year ;"' Saturday Bee, One W W eniletn Century Marmer, One Year.. 10) DELIVERED BY CARRIEXR Dally Bee (without Sinday), per copy.... 3¢ Daily Bee (without Sunday), per week...13¢ Daily Bee (including Bunday Bee, per copy vening Bec (without Evening kee (nclyding Sunday’ week i i Complaints o ahoutd be mddressed €6 e Ereulation De- rtment. (JFP’I('FS ~The Bee Bulldl Sonth omahas ity Hall ‘Bulding, Twen- Nt and M Kireets ‘Council Blufta_s0 Pear] Street. hi 7mr Unity Bullding. Now For "Park Row Buflding. Aot b g tongh1' Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Comminications relating to news and edi- toriat Mitter should be Rddreased: Omaha Beo, Editorial Departmen: RBMITTANCES. s ft, express or postal orde e Bee Publishing Company. ted in payment of Bunday), per week. .11c Suniday), per week oo per Remit by .{.bfl]' lql "llfl s acce] ~cen mall accounts 5’.:-."”;’.‘n checker except on es, 1 O Bl PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF cmcm.u;xon tat, ebrarka, Douglas Coun Beorge B Tasehiick. seenttary or e Bo I Compan 1| " m:':‘ the abtual pumper of full and Complete coples of The Dally, Morning Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of February, 1908, was as follows: 1 NENEEBESCESSER Total... Less unsold and returned copies Net total sales. .. Net average salel GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK, Bubscribed In_my presence and sworn to betore me Lnis i day of of Eebrusrdy & D. & ‘Notary Puhllm The Real Bstate exchange eainpalgn for equal taxation must be kept up without interruption. Investigation into the Stuefer bond deals ought to bring out some more wit- nesses with convenlent lapses of mem- ory. Pepapa— In the meanwhile the decision of the coal strike arbitrators Is important to the consumer chiefly as an asset for the future. If the legislature could place its 138 ears to the ground for a few seconds it might hear a slight murmur in the witral valve. A rare volume of the Bible in Anglo- Norman has just been sold for $3,050. The value ‘of the Bible as & book, how- ever, can never be measured In dollars and centl. 2 ot mum it was purely accidental that all twelve of the saloons put upder the ban by the Broatch police board happen to sell the beer of one and &e same brewery. .U The men in the firing cab are getting up steam to send the revenue bill over the tracks In the senate end of the legis- lature with clear right-of-way over all other rolling stock. Testimony In the Burdick case rein- forces the time-proved adage that it is often better to travel a thousand miles than to write a letter, even if you have to pay railroad fare. em————a—— ‘With British. consols down to the low- est point in nearly forty years, John Bull can appreciate Uncle Sam's credit that enables ‘him to float securities at ratés that would searcely. be dreamed of a decade ago. # Oh, yesl The Broatch police board is a reform. body appoluted to take the police opit of politics. Tt savors very much of the same brand of reform ladled out by the defunct bunch of non- partisan fusion reformers. Queen Lil was particularly uncom- mupicative on her homeward transit Bat, then, any one who thought he had $200,000 within his through Omaha. WILL TEST ANTI-REBATE LAW, It appears to be the purpese of some of the leading rallway companies to test the comstitutionality of the antl- rebate law. Anpouncement is made that the Lake Shore railroad is pre- pared to'make a fight over the question that it*will be backed by all the big railroads of the east which are Included in the community of interests scheme in what is known as the eastern raflroad pool. According to the report it is the intention of this pool to either dislodge the Imterstate Commerce commission from its position or to have the Elkins law declared unconstitutional. An eastern paper states that the prin- cipal fight will be against the stand taken by the commission that rates can be rajsed or lowered by a judicial ae- tion under the new law. This, it is suggested, will bring up the old fight that has been waged for years between the rallronds of the country and the Interstate Commerce commission. The success of the fight on the part of the commission, It 1s remarked, “would mean the realization of the old dream of complete government supervision of the railroad rates on interstate business, fvhile the exdct opposite is appealing to the railroads, who want to get back to the place they have occupled of making such rates as they choose as long as they lived up to the published tariffs.” So far as the constitutionality of the anti-rebate law is concerned It has al- ready been affirmed, In effect, by the supreme court of the United States. In a recent decision by the court the law was recognized In such a way as to virtually acknowledge that it is con- stitutional. ~ Still it 1s unquestionably desirable that it shall be given a thor- ough test, so that the question of con- stitutionality may be fully and finally detéermined. There has beéen generally ‘shown on the part of the rallroads a Alsposition to comply with the require- ments of the act so far as it prohibits rebates and diseriminations. < The ob- Jection of the eastern railroads, it ap- phars, is not to, this, but to the con- struction of the commission in regard to the provision relating to the making of rates. It is certainly to be desired that this shall be clearly defined by judicial decislon and no reasonable complaint can theréfore be made In regard to the pro- posed action on the part of the railroads. Let them take the matter to the courts as soon as possible and have the Issue settled without unnecessary delay. There is a very general bellef that the anti- rebate law 18 absolutely sound in prin- ciple and will be highly beneficial in op- eration, but there will be no objection to any action looking to the determina- tion of the question of its constitution- ality. . + E— EXONERATION OF GENERAL WOUD. There will be no question among fair- mirided wen s to the propriety of the actlon of Secretary Root in regard. to the _charges made against General Leon- ard Wood by the man who was chiefly responsible for the postal scandal in Cuba. The secretary of war fully ex- onerates the former governor of Cuba and states that everything contained in the charges of Rathbone was known to the authorities at Washington and un- qualifiedly approved by them. So far as General Wood is concerned his public statement respecting the accusation Is what was to have been expected, en- tirely frank and straightforward and in- viting the most thorough Investigation. It would be quite impossible for such a man as Rathbone, with the record he made in Cuba, to convince any consid- erable number of the American people that General Leonard Wood was gullty while in Cuba of conduct unworthy the position he held. His course - there throughout was marked by the highest judgment, by great executive ability and by absolute integrity. It was in all respects creditable and honorable and the distinguished reputation he made the representative of the United States in the performance of a.most. difficult and delicate task will live long in the memory of the Cuban people, to whom he showed himself a ‘most earnest and faithful friend. General Wood served the government wisely and uprightly and no defamation on the part of, those whose dishonesty he exposed md!min- ish his claim to the -re: dence of the American people. grasp, only to have it vanish as if an Emme——— empty dream, would be likely to act Ukewlse. am——— The World-Herald delights in playing It is, however, only about republicans who go wrong in officlal positions that it told us so. fail to live up to prom- 1ses made for them, as so often happens organ suddenly suffers paralysis of the tongue. the * told-you-so” rgle. When democral hereabouts, the ‘I-told-you-so" That for its school of agriculture bill. haps the demand for a musical appro priation might have met a more sym pathetic reception milk pail. Director of the Census Merriam calls the censud a decennlal snapshot of the nation, * It's lucky the framers of the constitation whe provided therein fo the epumeration of the people every ten years, out of which the census has grown, did not have spuch metaphors shot 4t them, for they would mot have | patch, which makes it possible to utilize the Information should it be found ex- pedient to do so. This measure author- The paper that declares Governor Sav- | zes the secretary of the treasury to re- age vetoed the wolf bounty appropria-|fuse entry of food supplies which the tion twe years ago should post itself | secretary of agriculture finds to be known what was meant. Se—— had ever comie hool of music scheme for the State university was evidently a buffer Per- if the curriculum taught how to get harmony out of a threshing machine or to beat time on a 4DULTERATED FOOD PRODEOTS. It is @ fact that of the food' products imported from Europe into this coun- try a great deal is adulterated. of the government chemists, mhade as the result of - very careful investigation, shows that Germany ls sending to the United States every year millions of dollars’ worth of foodstuffs into which harmful preservatives have been intro- duced. While that. country is finding fault with and diseriminating against our meats and fruits on the ground that they are deleterious to health, she is sending here food products which it has - | been demonstrated are more harmful, -|#0 far as the preservatives are con- cerned, then anything sent there from this country, thus furnishing a substan- tlal ground for retallation on our part. Doubtless other appears Germany is the chief offender. r or veto a bfll passed by the legis- | authorized the exclusion of adulterated lature, and if the wolf bounty claims | foods that might be injurious to health, up to him he could have | but it required our officials to prove that been depended on fo put them through | they were harmful. ' The gew law re- Under this statute |~ut of the primaries of all political leves them of this. of making and maintaining rates and | countries send here articles to which objection could fairly be made on this score, but so far as The iuformation obtained by the gov- ernment investigation has been kept from the public, but a bill was put through congress ot the closing hours of the session, says a Washington dis- fetaliation as to those countries which discriminate against Awerican products on the ground that they are imprre and it is highly probable that the law will be enforced if the policy of discrimina- tion is continued. SHAM REFORM DRUPS THE MASK. The sham reform police board, headed i by that political buccaneer, Willlam J. Broatch, has at last dropped the mask. When they received their commission from the hands of Ezra P. Savage the people of Nebraska in general and the citizens of Omaha in particular, were assured that the redoubtable pardon dispenser was actuated solely by a de- sire to redeem Nebraska's metropolis from maladministration, enforce public decency and morality by the suppres- slon of vice and divorce the police and fire departments from politics. Everybody in the community familiar with the deal between the bull fight governor and the corporation managers knew that no reform either in public morals, public decency or nonpartisan police supervision could be hoped for from a commission organized as an aux- {liary of the corporation combine, whose sole alm has been to subjugate and rule this community with an iron hand. For this Infamous task no fitter, man could have been chosen than Willlam J. Broatch. Unprincipled, unscrupulous and utterly indifferent to public senti- ment, this Omaha Weyler could be de- pended upon mercilessly to swing the police club over the heads of men and women who come under police surveil- lance. There were a good many people 1a Omaha, however, who did not know Broatch and his methods and there were a great many other people who be- lleved that his three colleagues In the commission would not allow themselves to become, mere puppets in his hands. These amiable people were evidently oblivious of the fact that the Broatch commission was created for a specific purpose and that purpose has no rela- tion whatever to public morals or better government. From its very inception the commis- slon has sought to curry favor with the lawless and viclous classes by the ap- pointment of police officers who had made themselves notorious by their moral depravity and licentiousness. From these belled cats the habitues of the proscribed district, male and female, have nothing to fear. During the whole eight months of its existence the sham reform commission has not done ome solitary thing for the restraint of flaunt- ing vice, nor has it made the faintest at- tempt to enforce law and order. The closing up of a dozen saloons Sat- urday night at the very time when three out of the four commissioners were carousing in a wine room attach- ment of an all-night restaurant was not merely a grandstand play to the gal- leries, but it was a bold attempt at po- litical blackmail to compel the brewers that supply beer to the resorts that were closed over Sunday to fall In with the political program of the corpbra- tions who are bent upon capturing not only the republican primaries, but also the democratic primaries, so that only men who can be depended upon to do the bidding of the corporation bosses shall be nominated for all the city offices by the two political parties, py— Few people realize what a revolution is in prospect if the South Omaha school board bill becomes a law. Up to the present time all school directors in Nebraska have served without pay, while the proposed bill fixes a salary of $300 a year for school board members. It is not that the salary cuts much figure, but that the rule of no compen- sation s broken for the first tihe and the story of the camel pushing himself into the Arab's hut is sure to be re- peated first by extending the salary at- tachment to the school boards of other cities and school districts and then screwing the salaries up so that they will become the objective point. It may be that the salaried school board is what the people want, but they should bave their eyes open to what they are getting. —— President Roosevelt on his coming western trip will discuss all the Im- portant public topies that bave had the attention of his administration during the past year. Presldent Roosevelt Is one of the public men who believe in taking the public into his confidence, and the public reciprocates by confiding the most vital interests of the country tmplicitly in him and backing up his Jjudgment with a vigorous public senti- ment. A Kansas City paper discusses in all serfousness “the decline of our legisla- tures,” which it insists have degen- erated into a haven for second-class pol- iticlans and grafters. The decline, how- ever, depends entirely on the point of view, Careful comparison covering a period of years would, we believe, dem- onstrate that legislative prices have been golng up instead of coming down. The senate committee on revenue slammed the door in the face of Tax Commissioner Fleming of Omaha, but if John N. Baldwin had rapped at the door he would have been salaamed in, although that ponderous pompadour statesman never paid a penny of taxes in Nebraska and very few pennles in Towa, whence he hails from, “Government by brewery in Omaha exclaims Mr. Broatch—un- less the brewerles are willing to orna- ment their beer kegs and beer mugs with a Broatch label and get on their knees and humbly pledge themselves to vote the primary election ticket pre- pared by the Broatch dark lantern re- formers. The test-oath primary bill is mot only a spotters’ bill, but it is a bill to bar there would be no difficulty in adopting | parties the self-respecting men who re- fuse to swallow yellow dogs just be- tanes they wear the party label. Ite design I8 to make powerless people who place good government above party spolls. Testim. of Sucee Kansas City Journal. One of the strongest testimonials to the wuccess and popularity of President Roose- velt's administration is the fact that his renomination s accepted as a foregone con- cluston, Stand from Under. Philadelphia Press. Whea Cleveland goes west into Bryan's section of the country it will be well for cautious people to move back as much as ible. It is the innocent bystander that usually gets hurt. It Was Different Then. Indianapolis Journal. The scarcity of tarm labor complained of in Nebraska was not ome of the farmer’s complaints in 1896. Still, between too many and fewer than are needed the latter is the more eneouraging indication. Master of the Situation. Cleveland Leader. The president may well be pleased with the result of the extra Hon of the wenate. It not only 4id the work he in- tended to have done, but it proved that he is largely master of the most independent and arrogant branch of congress, when he has the country behind him. n Facts Overlooked. Washington Post. The Bryanites all overlook the fact that the gentlemen who bolted in 1896 and 1900 are not endeavoring to return to a trium- phant political organization. They are try- ing to go back for the sole purpose of re- storing the democracy to the position it occupied before it became tinctured with the isms, which were so overwhelmingly re- pudiated at the poll Philadelphia Record. Secretary Root has taken the first step toward the organization of a general staff by. the {ssue of an order convening a mil- itary board, which is to detail forty-two officers from the army at large to serve In the new corps. A significant paragraph of the order is that which declares that “no applications, recommendations or let- ters except those submitted through the proper military channels of communica- tion” sball be considered by the board. This mepns that members of congress need not apply and that sons of their fathers are under Interdict, or does it mean that epplications must be made to the adjutant general, the political chief of the army? Advisers and Oandidates. ‘Washington BStar. Mr. Cleveland, as he tells us, is in poli- tics now only in an advisory capacity. So say they all, gentlemen. Mr. Bryan s not & candidate. He is only advising his party friends. And the same is true of Mr. Hill, Mr, Olney and Mr. Gorman. There are no candidates in the fleld. But of advisers the party has no lack. The woods are full of them. Turn to the north, south, and you'find them without an effort. Nevertheless, the differenna hetween an ad- viser and a candidate is so slight in exist- ing clrcumstances _that Mr. Cleveland’s three deliverances will his name out of poptilar speculation. His best fripnds will continue to rate him as the best man for next year's race. Boilin, land . Leader. Bolling, it Is agreed, will kill the germs that are found in the sewage-contaminated ‘water, but if the water {8 bolled thoroughly for & period of five minutes, as suggested by the health officer, it will be discovered that there i§ something besides germs in it ‘which should not be taken into the human stomach. Water that has bgen bolled the required time will be found, after it has cooled, to be covered with a fllthy and of- fensive-Jooking scum. This is the organic matter that is carried in eolution in the water, and it ie what gives the bolled water its slekening taste. If the boiled ‘water is put through a good fiiter, many of which can be purchased at small ¢ tively, it will come out vlear, palatable, almost - good in fact. Proposed Memorial to Sam Houston in Statuary Hall. St. Louls Globe-Democrat. The proposition to erect a memorial to Sam Houston as one of Texas' contribu- tions to Statuary hall in the capitol at Washington excites some discussion. Every- body ‘concedes the fitness of the selection, but the design to represent him in the costume of an Indian calls out a strong protest from Judge John H. Reagan. The Judge recites some o the posts which Hous- ton held and the services which he ren- dered as congressman from Tennessee, gov- ernor of that state, commander of the rev- olutionary armies which won Texas' inde- pendence, president of the Texas republic, senatof from Texas in the United States congreas and governor of Texas, and pro- tests vigorously against having him stand in Statuary ball in the garb of a Cherokee, in which tribe he lived for several yea Just before removing to Texas in the days when that locality was part of Mexico. Judge Reagan is right in his protest against this proposed travesty on the mem- ory of this distingulshed Texan. But Hous- ton rendered other services to his country than those which Judge Reagan mentions. As governor of Texas in 1860-'61 he dld g00d work for the union cause, but he was eventually overthrown by the extremis Judge Reagan and others, who hurried the state into secession. Attempting, at the opening of 1861, to prevent the calling of a conventjon which was to pass an ordinance of secession, and then, after the ordinance bad been passed, refusing to take the re- quired oath of alleglance to the confed- erate government, he aroused the hostility of the madmen who were carrying Texas in to the coalition with South Carolina and the rest of the states which had gone through the form of getting out of the union, wes deposed by the secessionists, forced into private life and died in the middle of the war which he vainly tried to avert, and which he predicted would bring ruin on his section. A tew years before that time Sam Hous- ton rendered another service to his stat and country which Judge Reagan neglects to mention. As a senator he voted the repeal of the Missouri compromi 1854, and he was the only democrat in hls ¢hamber who did this. One southern whig, Bell of Tenneesee, joined him in opposing this folly. In the house two democrate— Benton of Missouri and Millson of Virginla —also fought this political crime. These three democrats, who stood out against the predominant sentiment of their party and section and valnly tried to save their party and the country from a long train of calam- itles which this wickedness broughbt, di serve to be held 1n grateful rem brance by all genuine Americans. Judge Reagun forgets to call the attention of his countrymen to these two instances of cour- age, public spirit and foresight which were displayed by the man whose memory he .fill-lll'l hall will contain no figure ‘than that sane, patriotic and stalwart Americas, Bam Houston. TALK OF THE STATE PRESS. Ponea Journal: The longer the legisla ture works on the revenue bill the more muddled it becomes. The bil as originally drafted appealed to almost everybody as just and fair, but it has been so badly jug gled, amended and lobbled since then that it 18 liable to bear very little semblance to its former self when it is finally passed, if it ever is passed. Chadron Journal: We are in favor of the abolition of capital punishment and in substituting in Its place life-long sen- tences in the penitentiary. Nowadays a good many people seem to court and wel- come death, but those who like to look out and see staring them in the face a life sentence at hard work are not o num- erous. FHave more life sentences and a pardoning board as well. Alblon News: The Ramsey elevator bill, simlar to the Brady bill, passed the house of representatives by a unanimous vote last Tuesday. It will go to the sen- ate and will be considered In connection with Brady's bill. It is very evident that one of these bills will become a law. It is sald the railroad lobby realizing defeat in the house withdrew all objections with the hope of killing it In the senate, Alblon News: When Senator Brady's elevator bill came up in the senate the papers state that the belligerent remarks of the Boone county senator turned some against the measure, who had before been friendly. As one of a very small minority in the senate it should have been patent to the gentleman, that abuse of the ma- Jority was very poor tactics. Under the circumstances there {s not much probability of this bill becoming & law. There are some other bills covering nearly the same ground which may succeed. Hastings Tribune: We have nothing to say against the St. Louls World's falr in particular, but, generally speaking, we think there are too many world's fairs. The great number has diminished the value of the Institution. Too many world's falrs have become a great midway merely, a place of amusements which are too frivolous to be of utility, and which are not the best things in the world to promote morality, In our estimation a world's fair should be a sort of mile-stone in {nternational growth, and should occur only when spe. clal features of development warrant. As it is, no sooner does one country complete its exhibition than another pops up with a new fair. Let us have fewer, but let us have them bigger and better than ever be- fore. Gordon Journal: The legislature has passed a bill which the governor has signed that provides that in order to become a lawyer you must attend a high school at least three years and put in three years in & law school and one year in a law office, or three years in a law office, and, of course, pass examination. The law now re- quires a four years' course in a medical col- lege to become a doctor and three years’ experience in a drug store and a state ex amination to become a druggist. Every- thing tends to higher education in this country. The time is coming when a young man cannot get & job as chambermald In a livery stable unl he has a diploma from some veterinary college; draymen will be required to pass an examination in physics, and common farm hands will have to pro- duce a sheepskin, signed by the faculty of some school of agriculture and animal in- dustry. Better got a hustle on you, boys, or you will be left out in the cold without & job. PERSONAL NOTE! Nicholas I, czar of all the Russlas, works about six hours a day in donnection with affairs, of state, his salary for that time being in the neighborhaod of $80 a minute. Miss Helen Gould will defray the ex- penses of Dr. Willlam H. Tolman's trip to Europe to study conditions in the prin- cipal cities and collect material illustrative of ecomomic progress in various municl- palities. The Minneapolis district court has de- clded that the bondsmen of former Mayor Ames of that city must pay the entire cost of bringing the abstonding official back from his Maine retreat. This bill will amount to over $1,000. The beauties and versatility of court in- Junctions grow apace. An up-to-date Chi- cago judge enjoined a young wife from pull- ing her aged husband’s whiskers. As the wife is an orator of the Morgan type, she can singe the whiskers without incurring the displeasure of the court. J. B. Robinson has been a justice of the peace at Saladsburg, Pa., for just a half century and is belleved to have been In office longer than any other man in the state. By far the larger number of cases which come before him are settled amic- ably, the 'squire being & famous hand at smoothing over all sorts of disputes. ‘The city of Boston has asked Philadel phia to lend it the Liberty bell from In pendence hall for display upon the cele- bration, on June 17, of the 128th anniver- sary of the battle of Bunker Hill. The managers of the St. Louls fair also desire to have it on exhibition tI The Phl delphia custodians are loath to have the bell go out of their care. What 1s said to be the most remarkable instance of leg-pulling occurred in a New York hospital. A short leg was stretched four inches. Owing to meagre detalls it is inadvisable to make & comparison with recent surgleal operations at Jefferson City, Mo., but the fact that several legl lators changed $1,000 bills indicates ar. tistic work in leg-pulling around Missourl's state house. Marcus Braun of New York, president of the Hungarian Republican club and editor of the Hungarian-Austro Gazette, was ap- pointed speclal emigrant commissioner in Europe by the president the other da: The salary is $5,000 a year, with expenses pald. It is & position recently created re- quiring travel in Europe for the purpose of stopping on the other side the emigra- tion of anarchists and undesirable persons. It is reported in Boston that Lieutenant General Nelson A. Miles will again make that eity bis bhome upon his retirement trom mctive service in August next. He was a clerk In a store In that city from his seventeenth to his twenty-second year, and left there for the south as captain of a company in the Massachusetts Twenty-sec- ond infantry under commission issued by Governor 'Andrew /at the outbreak of the war in 1861, R IF YOU DON'T NEED ’EM We will tell you so. Statistics show that $IX OUT OF TEN headaches are caused by eye strain. Better call and see us ut your eyes. J. C. HUTESON & CO., 413 8 16th St, Paxton Block. INGTON LIFE. and Incldents Sketched on the Spot. Secretary Wilson of the Department of Agriculture, acting on the president's suge gestion, has planned an extensive inves- tigation for the purpose of determining Bow to protect American game in the territories where the authority of the national government is complete. Alaska will be invesMgated first. Already a man has been detalled to visit that territory for the purpose of making & full report upon the kind of animals and birds that are found there, and also to suggest means for their preservation. It is not the in- tention to propose to restriet the killing of birds and animals 8o as to work hard- #hips to’ people who kill them for food purposes, but it is the idea to protect the birds and other wild game from reckless shooting and slaughter. Dr. 8. Hart Mor- riam, the chlet of the division of blology, will take charge of an inquiry in Wash- ington, Oregon atd California. There are A number of government reservations in those states where wide forest areas exist. Considerable game is to be found there, and it is proposed to devise means for pro- fecting it. Game refuges will be set aside d general plans made for the increase and spread of species of birds and animals that are threatened with extinction. The Department of Agriculture officials have already done considerable work along th line proposed by the president. They are sgitating the subject of the meed for state laws to prohiblt spring shooting of game of all kinds, on the ground that this sport is the most ‘harmful of any mow indulged in by bird bunters. The department also co-operates, whenever possible, with state officers in preventing shipments of game killed out of season, and also works with private organizations for the protection of birds that are not game. A dispatch to the Chicagn Tribune re- ports that another crusade against fraud- ulent “get-rich-quick’ concerns will be instituted immediately by the Postoffice department. The companies involved are the oll, copper and gold mine corporations and similar concerns which publish allur~ ing advertisements and make representa- tions which manifestly are faudulent. This crusade by the department undoubtedly will sound the death knell of these com- panies, which have fattened on the gullible people who give up their money in the hope of securing from 30 to 100 per cent on thelr Investments. Complaint has been received by the Post- office department against some of the cop- per corporations doing busin in Mon- tana. The charge is made that these com- panfes are fraudulent on their faces, as making promises Impossible to redeem and obtaining money on false pretenses. Ofl and gold mining comp: also are In- volved In these charges, and it is anticl. pated that when the public becomes aware of the fact that these corporations will be investigated the Postoffice department will be flooded with communications contain. ing complaints of correspondents who have been swindled and who will demand the return of their money. As soon as com- plaints are recelved Investigations will be ordered, and the chief inspectors of the division of the detective force of the Post- office department will be busily engaged during the next few weeks in obtaining evidence against questionable enterprises. It sufficlent evidence is secured by the department detectives to Jjustify such action the postmaster general will ber these copper, gold mining and oil com- panies from the use of the mails. With this valuable privilege taken away it Is predicted that many,. of these fraudulent concerns will- retire from business forth- with. Those persons who have already invested money in these questionable com- panfes will undoubtedly lose a portion of it, as from what is already known the officers of these companies pay themselves large salaries and spend enormous sums in advertising. For years corporations which are outrageously over-capitalized have been doing & big business and reap- ing rich harvests. Prospectuses containing statements of notorious misrepresentations are circulated through the country and mil- lions of dollars have been poured into the coffers of these rich-quick corpora- tions. Many of them have falled and the investors have suffered a total loss. Colonel Moses C. Wetmore of St. Louls, the famous trust buster, had an experience in Washington & few days ago which con- vinced him that even the most astute “trust buster” of the west must be on his guard when he visits the east. The colonel came to Washington to witness the installation in the senate of his presidential candidate, Willlam Joel Stone. After observing the minutest detail of the event Colonel Wet- more returned to his hotel in a happler frame of mind than he enjoyed even when he gave the first fierce jab to the ootopus by selling his big tobacco factory at St. Louis to the tobacco trust. He was approached by & soft-voiced and pleasant- featured young man in the hotel corridor, who reminded the colonel that he had met him in Si. Louls a few months ago. The young man confidentially informed Colonel Wetmore that he had expected to meet & mutual friend in the hotel who was to accommodate him for & few hours with the small loan of $25, and since the mutual friend had not shown up, would Fif'y Years the Standard ORI R4y, Highest Im Fair Highest tests U.S. Bov't Chemists PRIOE BAKING POWDER OO oMieaae the colonel oblige. . Colonel Wetmore ald oblige, but when he met the allaged u(llll friend the latter reépudiated all of the borrower. The next morning lon-l Wetmore read a story of the wl.oll complaint of Representative New Jersey of the soft-voloed and flm!- visaged young man who had “touched” the St. Louis “trust buster.” Mr, Fowler had the man arrested for similar offenses. Colonel Wetmore took the first traln out of Washington. Rives, the writer, has been cutting & wide swath in Washington so- clety, where her splendid frocks ha caused no end of a sensation. A Washing- ton hostess who was entertalning & Vir- ginia aunt in the New Willard at lunch eon saw Miss Hallle Rives effulgent in a robe of silver gray cloth, with lace and fur in riotous profusion. Hallle was cer- tainly “looking fit."” The Washington wo- man pointed out the dazsling creature, but the aunt shook her head. ‘“‘Impossible!™ aid she. “An author? I don't belleve it. he doesn't look tacky and no author could possibly have so much style.” Major General 8. N. M. Young, who suc- ceeds General Miles as lieutenant general of the army next August, will be the guest of the Middlesex club, Boston, at its cele- bration of Veterans' night, March 26. Lioyd C. Griscom of Philadelphia, United States minister to Japan, has presented to the State department two lithographic coples of the original of Lincoln's Emanci- pation proclamation. LINES TO A LAUGH. It 1s & mistake to judge a man by his clothes. They may belong to his ta Somerville Journal. Aignant Nelghbor—This s the tin pan o gy Tnmm'y tied to our dog's Mn our It 'h". fige Fother (becoming eq Tommy’'s dignant DT ahall coriainiy have i En hl‘r;“ That was my best p: ne. ted Clerk—Do you solemnl mNur—!llh the truth, the whole ruth Horrifled Cae: no! I'm the lnmr for the detenle' more American. alti- x wife gave me a Pflneh clock bln.h ay present and the ec- fi'knl“lu things! 1 never v .ny!hln‘ rowne—"No time Ifke the present’ ehi— Phfluflo phia Press. Mrs. K r—At last s ring is here and the ml mmbm and plumbe;‘ are things of the )(r Kipper—Don't feel too merry. Here o‘:‘:lel"th. jceman around the corner.—De- t u follow me, me, ladles?" asked the hylle‘{ culture teacher, pausing & moment rn her rapid demonstration of exercise No. "W. follow you, madam,"” replied a mem- ber of the class, “but we can't keep up with you.”—Chicago Tribune. Do you, thlnk that riches bring happi- " ‘sald -{cklllofloll er. Bayona a bt,” answered Senator Sorghum. I can point out @ number of members of the legislature who have been mlAe happy by my money."'—Washington tar, Mrs. Uj on—Your ”lflndh'-har s an octogenarian, is he nof Mrs. Nmflch—lndu\d, he f{sn't unflhlng of the sort. He's the most truthful man gainst. —Chicago 1 ever bumped up News. A SPRING OBITUARY. 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