Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 26, 1903, Page 6

* f4ll ivalué taxdtion of the franchised THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1903 THE OMAHA DAILY Bxi E, ROSEWATER, EDITOR. UBLISHED EVERY MORNIN! TERME OF BUBSCRIPTION Dally Bee (without Sunday), One Year. 4.0 Dally Bee and Sunday, Une Year ilustrated Bee, One Year. 4 Bunday Bee, Ope Year L1 Baturday Bee, One Year . Ly Twentleth Century Farmer, One Year.. 100 DELIVERED BY CARRIER. aflly Bee (without Sunday), per copy.. Dally Bee (without Bunday), per week |z~ Daily Bee (inoiuaing Sunday), per week.. Bunday Beé, per copy Lwlthom Sinday), per week 6 ening Bes ] per‘ Evening lies Oneluding Sunday Complatiis of ifegs should be addressed to partment OFFICES. Omaha—The Bee Buildin South Omaha—City Hall Hulldln'. Twen- ty-neth and M Streets Council Bluffs—0 Pearl Street. Chicago—164 Unity Bullding. New York-—232 Park Row Bullding. Washington—1 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edl- torlal_mutter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable t) The fee Publishing Company. Only 2-cent stamps accepted in payment of mail accounts, Fersonal checks except on | Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. __THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. " STATEMENT OF CIRCULATIO Btate of Nebraska, Douglas C George B, Tzechiick, secretary Publishing’ Company, being duly sworn, says tHat the actual number of full an: complete coples of The Dally, Morning Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of February, 13, was as foll 20,160 15, 20,220 ,Il/ Clrcuation De- P Total Less unsold and returned copies Net total sales. Net average sales....... 3 GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Bubscribed in my presence and sworn ta berore me this 25ih aay o( F'brulry A. D, 1903, M, B ATE, \nll\‘) Bubiie. Are you a Gopher? l Have you signed the pledge to keep it a profound secret? Government by injunction is always the final prop for government by cor- poration. | The Bartley investigating committee appears to have cxhausted itself in a feeble effort to find nothing. | Hurry up those constitutional amend- ments. There is not much time to be lost if they are to pass before the ses- sion closes. The appointment by both houses of the legislature of committees on final adjournment s pretty good evidence of the beginning of the end. P ] Having entertained the fusion mem- bers of the legislature at lJuncheon, COolonel Bryan can now defy the dem- ocratic reorganizers to crush him in his own state at their peril. e ] The Bartley investigating committee has made its report, but as the commit- tee has not yet been discharged, the fmportant business that keeps Bartley out of the state cannot be neglected. SR p———— As long as Dr. Parkhurst and General Funston content themselves with shoot- ing paper wads at each other with the whole continent between them, their pastime is not likely to become dan- gerous. Just to keep up the excitement Great Britain will hold a court-martial on the conduct of one of its chief military commanders. From the advance news, embalmed beef and Philippine atroc- itles will not be !n the same cla . EE—— It is said that tariff reform and trust extinction are to take the place of im- periallsm and militarism on the demo- cratic program. If so, which will rank as paramount will depend upon which wing of the party holds the winning hand in the convention of 1904, g— George Gould is ambitious to make his Wabash road one of the coal lines sharing in the traffic of the anthracite region. In other words, the profits in sight from prospective coal business notwithstanding higher wages to the miners are too tempting to be resisted. e The Real Estate exchange and the Commercial club have withdrawn their cross bills in the sult for divorce. Both are supposed to be working earnestly for the advancement and prosperity of Omaha and they can certainly” accom- plish more working together than they could pulling apart; ey If we only have a few more legisia- tive committees to look into the crooked manipulations of former state treas- urers, the taxpayers of Nebraska will learn that while the treasury has been exteht of hundreds of lirs, nobedy ever bene- DBI'Y by the loss. The newly appointed assistant to the attorney general, who Is to be specially assigned td the Departrmaent of Com- merce to - enfol the law 'upon the trusts 1§’ known as a legal authority on bankruptey. Sogie of the trusts may need ap exnert in' bankruptey in run- ning up against: the prohibitions of the federal laws while President Roosevelt is at the helm:° R ——— Mark It down that. in both house and senate the chepe to turn bock on the A MENACING SITUATION. There is so intimate a connection be- tween finaneial conditions abroad and finuncial conditions: in this country that the ecxisting situation in) the English money market must command the seri- ous attention of American fibancial in- terests. The marked decline In British consols during the last few days, malinly due, as it appears, to the mone- tary stringency in the London market, is a circumstance (the significance of which should not be underestimated. It denotes a condition. which it Is not ex- travagant to say, remembering that there is stringency in other foreign money markets, constitutes' a menace to the financial affairs of the world and may prove to be the beginning of a widespread reaction, with consequences that cannot be foreseen. London advices say that the possibil- ity of consols being in the S0s has cre- at consternation, “not only among speculators and investors, but in the great banking interefts,” which have hitherto considered 90 as being- the lowest possible price’ was likely to go to. ther stated that should onsols g0 down to and remain below: 90 every British bank will be obliged to re- organize its reserve and get out new balances upon a fresh basls. There is talk of the government stepping in as a buyer of its own securities, but it is pointed out that. this would not give the needed relief, since financial lenders would doubtless withdraw loans in order to get more favorable terms else- where. At any rate the British govern- ment is hardly in a position to buy its own securities. The national exchequer has no considerable surplus that can be used In this way and besides the gov- ernment is preparing to negotiate a new loan of $150,000,000-a fact that may have & more or less decided bearing upon the decline in consols. What effect the English monetary sit- uation will have upon financial affairs in this country is uncertain, but it would seem that it must be unfavor- able and that If the stringency abroad becomes more intense it is quite possi- ble that it may have a severe effect here. There has recently been heavy borrowing of foreign money. Large sums have been drawn from abread by the higher rates of Interest here, yet the American money market is still close and will become more so If there is no more foreign money to be bor- rowed, as seems probable. It is easy to understand that this would cause a shrinkage in values and very possibly some curtailment of industrial and busi- ness activity. If there should be an ex- tensive withdrawal of foreign capital loaned here the consequences to busi- ness and prosperity migkt be serious. but so long as that capital can earn more here than abroad it will of course remain with us. There s probably nothing in the Lon- don financial situation that should cause alarm in this country, But it cer- tainly does suggest the expediency of conservatism and may well disturb those who have unduly extended credits or are heavily loaded with the secur- ities of overcapitalized combinations, — THE PRESIOENTS TRIP. A Washington dispatch to the Phila- delphia Press states that President Roosevelt I1s a good deal out of patience with the petty jealousles and saquabbles of local committees and or- ganizations in some of the citles he expects to visit on his western tour. The correspondent says the president deprecates any attempt to use his visits to exploit any factionallsm or to give his presence any political significance, as was sought to be done in Chicago. It appears that St. Paul and Minneap- olis are squabbling over the honor of entertaining the president and that there are local squabbles at other points as to how he shall be entertained. it is easy to understand that this is distasteful and annoylng to Mr. Roose- velt, who is coming west wholly for recreation and to meet the people of a section of the country in which he has long taken a great interest. Of course he will talk to the people. They ex- pect it and would not be satisfied if he did not address them. But it is en- tirely safe to say that his talk will not be political. There i no reason why it should be, Inasmuch as there Is no eam- paign this year and certainly Mr. Roosevelt does not need to talk politics at this time in order to make himself more secure in the esteem and eonfi- dence of western republicans. The president was prevented from wisiting the west last year and he now intends to fulfill the promise he then wmade. There should he nothing to cause him annoyance or embarrassment on the teip, but every, possible effort exerted to ' contribute to his pleasure. v e —— ] FOR BETTERMENT OF IRELAND. At last the secretary. for Ireland h: introduced in thé House of Commons the long-talked-of' land bill, fhe purpose of which 1s to enable Irish tenants to become owners of the lands they oc- cupy. The measire follows yery closely the terms agreed upon some time since at the Dublin conterence of landlords and tenants and which Were entirely satisfactory to the Irish political lead- ers. The proposition that the govern- ment shall make a free grapt of $60,000,- 000 for carrying out the purpose of the measure certainly ‘appears liberal and ought to have thé hoped for effect of promoting pesce and contentment in Treland. A It<is at least assumed that the new those who remained there have seen conditions grow worse from year to year. Most pathetic stories of bardship and destitution have come from Ireland iu recent years. The proposed land bill will remedy this unfortunate state of affairs, which has been a bitter re- proach to the British government, and there {8 renson to belleve that there will be a new Ireland, with an Indus- trious, thrifty and prosperous people. The proposed plan is not expected to encounter any serlous opposition, though it is not approved by a small minority of Irish peers. It is under- stood to have the indorsement of a large majority of the Irish landlords and is favored by a large section of the union- ist party In Ireland. There appears to be no doubt that it will be adopted by Parliament. CHAPTER TWELVE, It is In accord with the eternal fitness of things for the manager of the elec. trie lighting company, acting through one of its employes, to ask for an order of court restraining the city council from submitting to the voters of Omaha the proposition to grant an electrie power and light franchise and to cite chapter xil of the Compiled Statutes of 1901 as a ground for court interven- tion. Under chapter xii it 1s made unlaw- ful for any officer of the city to become interested in or In any way partake of the advantages ‘and profits of any con- tract work or letting to be made under authority of and by the city council. If this provision of the charter would invalidate the proposed franchise, as is claimed by the attorney for the electric {ighting company, the attempt to re- strain the council by injunction is a waste of energy and the employment of & member of the fire and police com- mission to procure such an ordetr a waste of corporation funds. It is passing strange, however, that the manager of the electrlc lighting company has not had his attention pre- viously called to the provisions of chap- ter xii, which makes it a misdemeanor for a member of the city council to be- come directly or indirectly interested in contracts with or the purchase and sale of material furnished to fran- chised corporations. It is a matter of notoriety that one member of the city council, who was afraid to vote for the new power and light franchise ordi- nance because it might subject him to penalties for contempt of ‘court, has been for more than a year on the pay- roll of the electric lighting company. It is a matter of notoriety also that an- other member, who entertalns such awful fears, has supplied the Thomson- Houston Electric Lighting company with thousands upon thousands of dol- lars’ worth of fuel in violation of the charter provisions. To the ordinary unsophisticated mind these employments and concessions are pothing more nor less than, downright bribery and the course of eu council- men In opposition to ‘the ‘proposed power franchise needs no other explana- tion. It is also very remarkable that in the search for a lawyer capable of citing chapter xii to the court the man- ager of the electric lighting company had to light upon a member of the police and fire commission in violation of chanter xii, when there are at least a hundred other lawyers at his com- mand who could do equally well Manifestly the astute manager wants to kill two birds with one stone. He wants to knock out the proposed power and light franchise and annex the po- lice commission for some scheme that he has up his sleeve. —_— THE NEW GUPHER KLAN. There is nothing new under the sun. Old-time politicians of Omaha doubtless remember the first underground polit- ical reform movement instituted Dby what was then known as the “Gopher Klan,” Members of that oathbound dark-lantern organization were pledged to profound secrecy and implicit obedi- ence by the head Gophers, who mas- queraded as reformers, but in reality were place hunters banded together for political spoils. When the searchlight of publicity was turned on them and thelr doings exposed to public view they dispersed like so many prairje dozl and were heard of no more. The Gophers of 1903 belong to the same species as the Gophers of 1873, Their methods and tactles are @abso- lutely the same. Their object is to go for everything in sight and out of sight, but always working in the dark. A sample brick of Gopher methods is the confidential pledge which has been ex- tenslvely circulated in this clty within the past few weeks. It reads as fol- lows: Omaha, Neb., March. ..., 1908. I hereby make application for member- ship to the “General Committee,” an or- h!ntlon for the promotion of good clean city and counly government, and whether accepted to membership or not, I hereby pledge myself to keep its workings and identity a profound eecret and will be gov- erned by the actions of eaid committee. Name. . Recommended by. The general committee 1§ run by an fnside ring known as the executive committee, made up of ple-biters and place hunters, whose teeth have been sharpened by nibbling at the big mu- nicipal and county cheese. One mem- { ber of the “General Committee” s re- puted to be 8 man who salted down $20,000 in county warrants, net profits of four years' thrift in feeding prisoners in the county jall. Another member of the “Rooters,” who was not known to Plan will operate for the betterment of corporations was sprung by a wmember of the Douglas delegation when every representative of this city and county u“m to be squarely against corporate tax evasion. That the efforts of the franchised corporations to unload upon ‘othier taxpayers have been so far is ne fault of the Don.lu “us’a Gelegation. g that - covutry, so- long -distressed by rapacions and oppressive landlordism. Under the existing system the Irish peo ple have been Imvoverished and held in bondage by the landlords, with noth- ing to encourage them to any greater effort than was necessary to obtain a bare subsistence. The country has beeu steadily depleted” of* population,” while possess a dollar of surplus whén elected to office three years ago, bought a farm last summer for 810,000 spot cash cleaneéd up from road grading and bridge buflding. Other members of the “General Committee” have lived on public pap since their nurses wiped the milk off their chins. No wonder they want thelr identity and thelr workings kept a profound secret by the recrults to the Gopher Klan, whom they are en- listing for this war and the next. If all the tenderfoot Gophers can be prevalled on to follow blindly in the path laid out for them by the committee and ask no questions, the Gopher chiefs confidently look forward to a superb repast at the municipal crib. But The Bee would enjoin upon all loyal Gophers to keep this fact a profound secret. The proposition to repay ex-State Treasurer Hill for alleged expenses in- curred in defending himself as co- respondent with the Capital National bank wreckers will not commend itself to people familiar with the case. The depository law prohibits the state treas- urer from depositing In any bank de- pository more than 10 per cent of its authorized capital. Had Treasurer Hill complied with the law his deposit In the Capital National bank would not have exceeded . $50,000 and the state could not have lost more than $40,000 at the very worst. But for reasons best known to himself Mr. Hill had more than $250,000 of state funds on deposit In the Oapital Ndtional bank when it collapsed and by his fllegal action en- tafled'a loss of $236,000 upon the state, besides the Interest and cost of prosecu- tion. It was a great streak of luck for him and his bondsmen that the jury cleared him by a Scotch verdict. It has always been suspected that the potential influence exerted by the bondsmen was responsible for this extraordinary find- ing.. Would it'not be & tremendous strain upon the generosity of the state to have to repay the expenses incurred by Mr. Hill in defending his illegal de- posit of state money ? inbiioindaisbalsnbuy The tea importers who are organizing to increase the consumption of that beverage might get some valuable point- ers from the brewers. The brewers have waged a systematic campalgn of printers’ Ink to make their brands and brews famillar throughout the land. Liberal patronage of the advertising columns of the newspapers will do as much for the tea business by popular- izing the demand. The only thing neces- sary for the tea men to do is to wake up and to adopt modern business methods. . — General Miles has made an official report of his observations on his Ori- ental trip, but it is to be kept as a confidential document. It would not do to let the Oriental monarchs know how much we know about their mili- tary establishments, They will be per- fectly welcome, Lowever, to send all the envoys they please over here to observe how Uncle Sam prepares for war, a The bill to chagge the method of ap- portioning the state school fund is a bill to hit Omaha taxpayers, but inciden- ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK. 5 es on the Current of Life in the Metropolis. “How considerate we are,” exclaimed Hon. Wheeler H. Peckham In a recent ad- dress. “We build hospitals for the poor consumptive and then we turn around and bulld skyecraping structures where con- sumption may breed so that we shall not lack for patients.” ‘“The point about this observation is only becoming apparent to New Yorkers,” writes a correspondent of the Pittsburg Dispatch. “So long as the skyscraper stood alone in the block, sur- rounded by buildings of moderate height, it was a pleasing novelty. . Its upper of- fices were must sought after, because they were light and alry. But now that the whole block is bullt up to the height of 200 or 300 feet the narrow street becomes a dark canyon, and most of the offices 80 many dark, unwholesome breeding places for the disease germ. It is hecoming really serious, éspeclally in the lower part of Manhattan, where the streets are still as narrow and crooked as when the Dutch burghers lald them out or thelr cows traced them across the open flelds. In this reglon alwo bullding sites aré most’ valuable and the reasons for stacking up as much office room as possible on a given area are most urgent. The total area of the fsland s only 12,500 acres, and that of the section below, say, Leos street, 1,152 acres. Some official statisticlan has reckoned that 101 bulldings of twelve storles or more (generally more) were nding at the beginning of the present i Fifteen more are now In process of construction at a total cost of at least $10,000,000, adding 650 acres of avallable floor space above the level of their re- spective fifth stories. Many others are projected and will be bullt as soon as the supply of structural steel shall catch up with the demand.” Dr. George F. Barker, emeritus professor of physics in the University of Pennsyl- vania, in @ lecture delivered at Columbia University last Thursday held up In his hand a diminutive glass bulb which con- tained a small quantity of a white sub- tally it also hits [ large majority of the other taxfay 'E he state. To 0 Dass 1t would be fq e?i e representatives of these other eoun #.Who would suffer also to cut . ofl tnlr own nose to spite their face.’ Not Much of a Load. Atlanta Constitution, Our army of 60,000 men costs the people Just a little less than $1 per capita per annum. This lacks a good deal of “making every taxpayer caffy a soldler on his back’ ~in fact, we are hl?dly carrying a soldier's cap aplece. —— Orucinl Test of Skill. San Francisco Call, The effort of the Agricultural department to breed a chicked without feathers is good In its way, but after all it {s nothing in comparison to the effort to produce a dem- ocratic candidate for the presidency with- out a political record. o The Universal Critic. New York World. Mr. Bryan in the role of universal critic 1s ope ‘the people are becoming accus- tomed to, but he should not object when he in turn is held.up to criticlsm. As an old laconic saying;expresses it, “He who would shun criticlfm must not be a scrib- bler; and he who would court it ‘must have great ablilities or great folly."” —— Hustle for. Your Share, Portland Oregonlan. A current circulation of $30, barring a tiny fraction, for .every man, woman and child in the commonwealth, is probably the best showing ever made by any nation —the pricesof & eow or a spring overcoat for everybody. Its: distribution is a trifle irregular, but that is like the sea's level, always in a state of disturbance and rectification. ’ Sta; to His Credit, St. Paul Ploneer Press, The readiness .with . which . President Roosevelt recedes from any position when cqgvinced that has made a. mistake Is a8 mach to be red.as his tenacity in sticking to a purpose when he knows he ip right. The Plimley case, where he with- dfew a commission’ for .an $8,000 appoint- ment after the nominee had been 'con- firmed. by ‘the segate, on & request from that body, illustrates ome characterigtic; Ris attitude in refusing to exclude negroes from office, the other. Daring Rallroad Projects. New York Tribune. With unbroken railway . connections be- tween Behring strait and Patagonia, prom- isell in mo long, gme by Speclal Commis- sloner Pepper, Céctl Rhodes' Cape to Cairo sgheme, continentally embracing as it fe, oys no monopely of grandiosity. Both are’ worthy of the enterprising period in which they origingte, the sunset and dawn of the past and rising centurles bringing richer gifts to man than any in the proces- sion trom the times of Hammurabl, and his old tables of law outdating Moses, down to the present. Missouri Showed Them. Minneapolls Times. The beet trust has been brought to a realization of the fact that the Missouri anti-trust law meéans something. It may Hot stand fhe test of the supreme court of the United States, but It certainly has been approved by the highest tribunal of the state of Missouri. Whsther ft is a rfect law or mot it is a significagt 1 cation of the trend of modern legi tan relating to combinations for the ar- bitrary control of the market for certain Bocessaries of life. It courts and Jegls- latures—to say nothing of congress—keep hammering away, such corporations as the beef trust and the authracite coal com- blue may become & little more regardful of the rights of “public in time stance. Then he ordered the lights turned off, in Havemeyer hall, where the lecture was given, took a position where all could ee his hand poised aloft, and the white bstance {n the 1fttle bulb began to gleam, a distant star will shine on a dark night or through a cloud. Then his audience went wild with applause. Prof. Barker explained that this was “radlum,” the wonderful element which was discovered recently. Before he 'made his demonstratnon he had lectured at length and shown tests on the power of cathode raye and Roentgen rays, with which he has had long expenrience. In in- troducing radium he sald the rays sent out by that element would make all other rays look like tallow dips. “Here,” he sald, “we have an element which holds within itself apparently the power to’give out rays. It overthrews all the old ideas through its conservation of energy, for its inherent power scems never to diminish. If you have respect for tho discoveries of Crooke and Roentgen you should have exceeding reverence for the wonderful powers contained in radium. “The cathode rays in the highly ex- haused atmosphere of a Cooke's tube can travel with one-tenth the speed of light, or about 70,000,000 miles a second. [The speed of the radium ray is 120,000,000 miles in a second. Yet, with all that tremendous energy within it is so harmless that I can hold it in my hand or put it {n my pocket.” Atter dwelling for some, time on the wonderful things that might have bean ac- complished by means of radium, Prof. Baker said that; unfortunately, its pros- pective usefulness was _totally, discounted by the fact that it would be almosf im- possible to produce any quantity of it that would have practical value. Prof. Barker said it was obtained from pltchblende, a mineral that is being mined only in Bo- hemia and Poland, and that it would take about 200,000 tons to produce a pound of radium. . “This little plece of the ore” sald Dr. Barker, holding a plece of pitchblende up in his hand, “contains less than one-tenth millionth of 1 per cent of radium. The largest quantity of radium I have seen was in Parfs. It welghed three centigrams, was the size of a buchshot and was valued at $20,000." The new element was discovered in 1899 by Mme. Curle, a Polish woman, and the wite of @ professor In the Ecole Industrielle of Paris, who had heen making a series of experiments with uranium. A woman lawyer. who has won her way to the front ranks and a large practice was last night telling a club of mer and women of that remarkable thing in the 1te of every lawyer—the first client. “I had been admitted but a day or so,” she sald, “when ‘Hark from the tomb a doleful sound’—literally from the Tombs, and unmistakably doleful. “It was from a man who was incar- cerated in the city prison. He had seen my name | rint, ard desired to benefit of my professional services, I declded. to g0 and see him. “I did not permit anyone to accompany me. No one should see my first attempt, or be possibly a witness to my humiliation or tallure. I carried a atter of introduc- tion to the warden, and found no difficulty in gainirg entrance to the poor, and per- haps wronged prisoner, who was awaiting my aid for his deliveran “I was ushered into a barred room, In which sat little groups of waiting people. My man was ushered in—a big, coarse uncouth fellows, who had no case what- ever, and no chance for defense, And still more than that, he had engaged three or four other lawyers, and one of them had even gone so far as to take hls case into court. “Well, 1 need not say that I was cha- grined and humiliated. I went directly home and in the privacy of my own bed room, with the door shut, I had a good cry— the first and the last I ever had in connec- tion with the practice of my profession.’ Walking up Lafayette Place, relates the Bvening Post, the city man met the starv- ing, weary, but still determined ‘seeker for work. “I've just walked in from Jamaica, sir,” said the fellow. ““I've got a friend at Elev- enth avenue and Fifty-ninth street. Which | way fs 1t? And I'm pretty hungry and| tired.”” In his hand he held a crumpled | paper with an address on it at the location mentioned. He got a nickel, so that he might ride to his friend, instead of walk and get a meal the more quickly, Half a block along a prosperous-looking merchant accosted the city man, with a smile, “Eleventh avenue and Fifty-ninth street?’ he inquired, affably. “Yes,' fectly aware that amusement. replied the city man, now per- he was the object of “That fellow's been three years going there,” explained the merchant. “I helped him on his journey about this time in 1800. Everyone knows him about here. He never gets fusther than the Broadway corver.” b/ seasonable 4 reasonable | their possession of THE OLD RELIABLE pota * Absolutely Pure THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE FRYING OUT SOME FAT. Indianapolls Journal: , The five packing houses in Missour!, which haye been fined $5,000 each because they belonged to the Beet trust, can pay their fines and go on. If they do mot pay within thirty days they will be ousted from the That s, it costs the members of a trust $5,000 each to do business in Missouri if pald to the state. When a democratic state becomes partner in a trust it cannot be so hideous as it has been painted. Philadelphta Lodger: So far as the state of Missourl 18 concerned, the members of the Beef trust are made outlaws by a judi- cial decrée, 4® they are in fact. It ls true that the payment of ‘the money fine, high as 1t 1s, will constitite a trifing penalty In comparigon’ With the enormous extortions of tie truét. Yet'he power that has im- posed this fine upon the outlaws can inflict upon them a more condign penalty should they continue to treat court decrees with contempt. Brooklyn Eagle: It they recognize the jpdgment of the court and pay their fines within thirty days they may continue to do business in the state, but not under any agreement regulating prices. If .they do not pay, their fines pr in any other way disregard the rullng of the court, they are barred from fhe Missourl markets. The decision will be gencrally approved, no matter what the comstructive effect of it may be' upon corporate enterprise and privileges. Baltimore American. With this demon- stration of the, eficiency of state laws for curbing the trusts it would not be eur- prising to see other states copying the Missouri statute. = Nor do. we know that it would be a bad.thing for them to do so. The law has operated to free the people of Missouri-from the operations of this mon- strous organization which sought to con- trol the dinner‘tables of the land. It sald to them: ‘You may do what you ‘please ¢elsewhere, but within the state of ‘Mis- sourl you shall maintain no combination for ‘the purpose of regulating tiie supply or:the. price of meat.” The fact that such a combiation: was maintained has ' béen proved, and now'the guilty trust is up for punishment. acting and enforcing similar laws, achieve the same result, there would be no occa- sion for federal interference with the trust | subject, and the trusts would quickly dis- | appear. We take off ‘our hats to Missouri and congratulate her upon her success as a trust buster, about whose effectiveness thiere is no doubt. PERSONAL NOTES. Ex-Secretary Long, who Is convalescing at St. Margaret's hospital, Boston, says he is fairly making a diet of newspapers. To Charles J. Bonaparte, a lawyer and philanthropist, has , been awarded the Laectare medal, the greatest gift of Notre Dame college. A New York gir] named Double eloped with a mnan named Wirth. He was able to_convince her that she was twice as val- | uable to him as to her parents. Willlam Roscoe Thayer, the author, of Boston, and. delegate to the-International Historical congress, which will be held in Rome In April, s arrived in that- city, A newspaper man giving testimony in Jefterson City, Mo., confessed that he had two $5.000 bills. ‘The habit of his brethren commonly s te conceal, 8o far as possible, hese considerable sums. The National Dressmakers’ association in convention assembled has decided to increago, the price of gowns from 15 to 20 per cent. This announcement coming now will be likely to belr the June matrimonial market. “It'is hard,” sighed Mrs. Hetty Green when''a ’cruel Hoboken “otficlal compelled her to pay a dog t4x of'$2. At that par- ticular ~ mioment Mrs. Green probably thought she descerned dimly the outlines of the poorhouse. M. White, the Rupsian mjnister .of finance, is en ardent temperance worker. He is a teototaler and induced the czar to decorate the men and women who are the most active in temperance work. He makes no secret of his preference for tee- totalers' in the varioys offices of the de- partment he controls. Colonel “Dan” Lamont has set a good example to the tax dodgers by writing from Egypt to the president of the tax department In New York that he would ke ,to_bave his personal property tax as- sessment kept open till he should return to the United States, as he had no wish to evade payment of taxes In New York It other states could, by en- | The colonel was assessed on $80,000 of per- sonality, and the president of the tax de- partment says: “We will walt for him." The degree of LL. D. is to be conferred upon President Roosevelt by the University of Chicago. There s a good deal of doc- toring to be done the laws, but Mr. Roose- velt has not waited for his degree before beginning practice, Toronto, Ontario, is to have an old homo gathering this summer, to last from July 1 to July 4, Inclusive. The city is expected to appropriate $5,000 for the expenses and citizens to add $10,000 more, and an earnest effort {s to be made to get as many as possible of the thousands of Canadian birth now residing in the United States to return and join in the festivities. Eight years ago Oren Root, jr, was a clerk In the office of the Metropolitan Street Rallroad company of New York. Now he is general manager, with 460 mfles of track gnd 14,000 men under his control. Mr. Root probably is the youngest rallroad manager in the world, being only 29 years old, a qulet, reticent man of whom it has | been !lld that “he can say nothing for hours.” He s a nephew of Ellhu Root, secretary of war. POINTED AND PLEASANT. “I never saw a _man wl':h such a head for iness,”” said the first h"‘Fsrr‘nQ;rz is he?" quer(nd the other. “Oh! 1'mean for our business. He's 80 very bald-headed. " Chicago Tribune. He—But you admitted to my sister yes- texday that you were in the wrong. he—Suppose I did H(-—Wq- 1 then, why won't you make up with me? She—I will as soon as you apologlze.— Philadelphia Pres: Tramp—Is dls lll yer Ter kin glmme—er cup- ful uv cold water? Kind Lady—Of course riot. You can as many cupfuls as you want.—Chics News, ““Well, suh,’ said Brother Dickey, “Br'er Williams sho' did fool ¢e balliffs one time “How come?" “Wy-—dey com. to levy on hlm‘ en foun' dat all he had roun’ de rheumatism en an- wfl-l"-Atlmu Cnuxl. | tution. L owoud to government own- form Pl fewared Senator Sorghum; “I | hola our glorious government in too much affection to run tne risk of hearing It de- nounced cked monopoly. ashing- ton Star. | . She stepj lpofl into a pl‘c. whose window | bore this legend “‘Messenger Boys Furnished.” Wnlkl ‘f up to the clerk behind a desk, shy Eet a boy any cheaper unfur- nishedt —Baitmore. A He—I met your friend Biff when I was do! in my automobile this mornlnf Ehe—Indeod' Did he say anything to you should say he ald' —Yonkers Bt 1 ran over his dog!" em. sald the optimist, dayll e sundly by and b Yes,’ the pessimist, * bet there mornlnx and evening Dbt s long, oo Philadelphia. Bre COMING OF SPRING. Alfred Tennyson. Now fades the last long streak of snow, Now burgeons every maze of quick About the flowering squares, and thick By ashen roots the violets blow. Now i) (h. ‘woodland loud and long, e distance takes a loveller hue, And drownod in yonder living blue The lark becomes a sightiess song. Now dance the lights Dn lawn and lea, The flocks are whiter down the vale, And milkier every milky sail On winding stream or distant sea; ‘Where now the seamew pipes, or dives In yonder reenln‘l'lenm and 1. ‘The happy birds, change thelr To bulld and bro hat live thelr lives “every Becomes an Apr And buds and \lossors GRAINO The coffee habit is quickly over- come by those who let Gfain-O take its pldce. If properly made it tastes like the best of coffee. No grain coffee compares with it in flavor or healthfulness. TRY IT TO-DAY. At grocers everywhere; 15¢, and 86¢. per package. “like tne re As good as there is. ... The Hat we sell at $4.00 is as zoodufi:m is, You may pay a dollar more for it at most stores, And very good Hats at $3.50, $3.00 and $2.50. « Spring Caps 50c, 76¢, $1.00, $1.25, $1.50, $2.00, etc. ‘NO CLOTHING (0) ({14 FITS LIKE OU. £ 4 4 e R 5. Wiles, Monager. —o AS e o