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E. BOSEWATEn, EDITOR.
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BTATKMENT OF CIRCULATION.
State of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss.:
George B. Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee
Publishing Company, being duly sworn,
says that the actual number of full and
complete copies of The Dally, Morning,
Evening ana Sunday Bee printed during
the mouth of May, HOI, was as follows:
l 27,-ino 16 -JT.oau
2 27,230 17 27,110
3 27,:il)0 18 27,0110
27,2:10 19 27,725
6 27,0 IS 20 20,740
6 27,:U0 21 27.0U0
7 20.H80 22 20,7110
8 .'1 1,030 23 20,740
8 27,070 21 20,400
10 20,020 2 20,3:10
11 27,050 26 27.O0O
12 27,475 27 20,300
12 27,0.10 2S...'. 20,210
1 27,6.10 29 20,180
U 27,250 3) 25,010
21 20,070
Total 843,005
Less unsold and returned copies,,.. lo,it7
Net total sale .w:i2,M18
Net dally average 20,803
GEO. B. TZSCHUCK.
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Vforo me this 31st day of May, A. D. 1901.
M. B. HUNG ATE,
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PARTIES LEAVING FOR SUMMER.
Parties leavlu-r the city for
the aunimer may' have The Hee
ent 10 them re-ralarlr by
notifying The Ilee Business
oMce, In peraon nr by mnll.
The address trill be clinnged
as often as desired.
No questioning the fnct tlmt Nebraska
has pnld Its water rent this season.
An Austrlnn plnywrlplit 1ms been dis
ciplined for ridiculing dueling. The
Austrlnns arc nppnrently unable to dis
cern the ridiculous lu life's drnnin.
It should bo distinctly understood that
the place where prize fighting can be
pulled on with Impunity Is In South
Omaha and not In the district court
rooms.
Emperor William's yacht has been
beaten In a race. Several ambitious
yachtsmen on tho other side should take
precautions against being fined for Iese
tnajestc.
Coin Harvey proposes to run for con
gress In Arkansas. As the republican
policy has made silver money as valu
able as gold, Harvey will probably pay
bis 'campaign bills In coon .skins.
Bryan thinks Mark Hanna ought to
be the republican nominee for president
In 1904. How disappointed Mr. Bryan
would be If tho republicans took him at
his word and nominated Hanna.
Tho Board of Education claims to have
lopped off $10,000 a year In the High
school. We make bold to assert that It
could lop off $10,000 a year more In the
High school and make the school better
than It Is now.
The announcement Is made that pho
tographs can bo sent by w'lreless teleg
raphy. This Is the way tho yellow
journals have been getting pictures all
the time to illustrate events happening
hundreds- of miles away. -
Some Ohio fishermen have fished up
two empty money bags marked for
Omaha and bearing the label of an ex
press company. They should at once
examine them closely to ascertain If
there Is nny private hall mark belong
ing to Pat Crowe.
To a man up a tree the performance
of the Nebraska supreme court In defy
ing the Injunction of tho federal court
looks very much like a grandstand play.
We have had threatened clashes be
tween state and federal courts before
which made more smoke than fire.
General Wood reports to the War de
partment that the Cubans are satisfied
with tho ratification of the Piatt amend
ment. This must be a matter of sec
ondary Importance, however, so long ub
the antl-admlnlstration people in this
country arc not satisfied.
An enthusiastic German broke the
window pf tho car In which the crown
prince was riding becauso he wanted to
get a better view of the prince. Tho
German railroad otllcials should wash
the windows of the cars once In a while
so that such violent measures will be
unnecessary.
Church members are not permitted to
swear, but ono of the Omaha churches,
acting on the theory that It is not well
to provoke Its members .too far, has re
quested the women to remove their bats
during the services. Tho only chance
that remains, to show off the new bonnet
Is to come late to tho services.
The supreme court of Nebraska has
handed down a decision to the effect
that a man injured on a railroad Is not
barred- from securing damages by rea
son of the fact 'that ho was riding on a
pass. It Is greatly to bo feared that
this decision will create, a new Impetus
for the pass bribe business, although no
one ever heard of any office-holder here
abouts refusing a pass because it might
deprive hliu of the privilcgo of a law
suit should he be injured while using it.
WHAT ABE IUBYOUISO TODD ABOUT ITt
The most crying need of Omaha and
Douglas county at the present moment
is relief from Inequitable and unjust as
segments, which have thrown the bur
den of government almost entirely upon
the owners of homes and small proper
ties to tho practical exemption of the
great franchleed corporations and pow
erful business concerns that in some
way or other exert a special pull with
the assessors. It devolves upon the
county board, sitting as a Board of
hquullzatlon, to redress these unques
tioned grievances.
The tax-shirking corporations will be
represented before the equalising board
by specious attorneys, who will Juggle
the figures In a labored effort to make
apparent the iwverty of their Clients,
These corporations linvo attorneys em
ployed by the year; at fat salaries, to
help them bent the tax collector, while
tho great mnss of taxpayers, who pay
on small holdings, have none to repre
sent thorn except the members of the
county board, who arc elected by their
votes for that very purpose.
Tho attorneys for the tax-shirkers will
try to make out that the property of
these great corporations is not worth a
fraction of what It Is stocked and
bonded for; they will Insist that the
value of the franchises and special priv
ileges granted to them, almost without
compensation, are for purposes of taxa
tion worth a mere bagatelle, although
they support bond Ifhuch up lu the hun
dreds of thousands of dollars; they will
try to ersuade the board to believe that
properties which have Increased sub
stantially In earning capacity are worth
less today thau they were a few years
ago.
One example only need be cited In tho
assessment of the East Omaha bridge,
which, on the books, this year, Is but
one-half of the amount at which It was
assessed in the midst of the bard times
seven years ago. Will anyone contend
that the bridge has decreased 50 per
cent lu value In that time? Yet the
county commissioners will be asked to
endorse that reduction. It is the same
with the immense pocking houses In
South Omaha, which, notwithstanding
enlargements and Improvements from
year to year, costing hundreds of thou
sands of dollars, show no change In the
figures nt which they are listed for tax
ation. The owner of a vncant lot In
Omaha or South Omaha, bringing ln.no
revenue of nny kind, is compelled to pay
taxes on the one-sixth assessment ratio,
and if he builds a cottage upon It for
his own home or for rental purposes the
assessment Is promptly Increased to cor
respond. Why should the great corpora
tions, deriving annual revenues that
give good returns on the money In
vested, be allowed to evade their tax
burdens and throw them off onto the
shoulders of small property owners?
This Is the1 situation which confronts
the county commissioners as members
of the Board of Equalization. What
are they going to do about it?
ASOTIIKH SUGAR BOUNTY CASE.
The secretary of the treasury has de
cided that beet sugut exported 'from.
Italy receives an Indirect bounty and
therefore must pay the countervailing
duty provided In our tariff when im
ported into the United States. It ap
pears that until recently Italy has pro
duced only sufficient sugar for home
consumption, but that recently there
has been n surplus and that this excess
Is bounty fed. Up to this time there
have been practically no sugar exports
to the United States, so that the ac
tion of the secretary of the treasury
seems to be precautionary.
Whether or not the Italian govern
ment will take notice of this action re
mains to be teen. It may urge that
there is not an indirect bounty, but it is
not probable it will follow the example
of Russia In retaliating by imposing
discriminatory duties upon American
products. Of all European countries
Italy can perhaps least afford to enter
upon anything like a tariff war with
the Uulted States and there is no senti
ment there, so far as we are aware, of
commercial ( hostility to this country,
nor any alarm regarding American com
petition. The matter possesses interest, how
ever, as suggesting whether It may not
be found expedient to make some modifi
cation of the countervailing sugar duty
provision of the tariff law, so as to
more specifically and clearly define its
application. For instance, the Russian
and Italian cases are not alike, yet the
countervailing duty Is held to apply to
both. The law should be more explicit
OEXERA1. CHAFFEE'S BEFOHT.
The report of General Chaffee on tho
campaign in China shows thut the state
ments of newspupcr correspondents re
garding the conduct of some of the
allies was not much If at all ex
aggerated. According to this trust
worthy authority, where one real Uoxer
was killed fifty harmless persons, t In
cluding not a fow women and children,
were slain, while thero was looting and
pillaging almost unlimited. Without, of
course, going Into details. General Chaf
fee sulllclcutly Indicates the brutal and
barbarous conduct of a portion of the
allied forces-conduct In which the
American troops did not participate and
as to which the. American commander,
regardless of military etiquette, remon
strated in no uncertain language.
A correspondent of a London paper,
writing recently of what he saw in
Pckln, bears out fully the statement of
General Chaffee. He states that after'
the allies took possession of that city
"wholesale robbery, cruelty and the rap
ing of women were going on all around;
a regular orgy of rapine surged through
tho captured city." Against this condi
tion of affairs there was raised, but one
voice of protest. Says the correspond
ent: "It Is true It was not raised by
any missionary. But there Is a- rough
looking soldier with a strong face that
looks as If It had been hewn out of a
block of red sandstone with a blunt
hatchet General Clmffqo of the United
States army. He; not content, as Sir
Alfred Gaselee was, with keeping his
own men from disgracing their coun
try's flagv wrote a letter of remonstrance
to Count Waldersee and received a snub
THE OMAHA DAILY BJBEt SATURDAY,
In return for an action which neverthe
less redounds Immensely to his credit."
The details of the outrages committed
by some of the Kuroiwan soldiers, or so
much of them as decency will permit the
telling, are yet to b-s written, but the
testimony as to their terrible character
or opncrai t nafree and other witnesses
whose trustworthiness Is unquestionable
Is quite enough to show that western
civilization has little to boast of so far
as Its morality and humanity are con
cerned. No wonder that the corre
spondent above quoted reached the con
clusion that Christianity in China has
received a staggering blow from which
It will not recover during the lives of
the present generation and that Its prog
ress In the Immediate future Is nt an
end. The Chinese have been shown
their utter helplessness before the com
bined power of the western nations, but
at the same time they have not learned
to have greater respect for the civiliza
tion, the morality and the humanity of
the Western world.
The rel-ord of General Chaffee and the
American soldiers In China Is in the
highest degree creditable and this is true
also of the Japanese soldiers, whose
commander, says Chaffee, made It
known that general war on all classes
was not Intended. The unprovoked
killing of Chinese and the looting and
pillaging, were It possible to compute
them in dollnrs, would quite offset and
probably exceed the total of the In
demnity which China Is to pay the
powers. 1
CUBAXS ABE SATISFIED.
Secretary Root has received word
from General Wood that the acceptance
of tho Piatt amendment by the Cuban
constitutional convention is satisfactory
to the people. This demonstrates that
a majority of the Cubans were with the
conservatives on this question and that
the opposition in the convention to the
amendment represented only a very
small fraction of the people.
The matter of political relations hav
ing been disposed of, the no less Impor
tant question of commercial relations Is
now uppermost In tho attention of the
Cubans and there Is naturally a good
deal of anxiety In respect to this.
As we have already noted, the com
mercial organizations In the Island are
preparing for an active campaign to se
cure a reciprocity agreement, having
sent a representative to Washington to
present Information on the subject As
soon as a government shall have been
established In Cuba It will undoubtedly
ask our government to enter into nego
tiations for a reciprocity agreement and
It is the understanding that President
McKlnley has promised this shall be
done. A reciprocity treaty, however.
must be approved by the senate and
what chance there will be of securing
the ratification of such a treaty with
Cuba Is at this time uncertain. That
there will be opposition- to It is assured,
but how strong It will bo cannot now bo
determined. It will be inspired, of
course, by th American sugar-and to
bacco Interests and these majJ be able
to secure the assistance of other inter
ests not favorable to the reciprocity
policy. It Is plain that unless some
favor Is shown the staple products of
Cuba by this country the industrial re
covery of the island will be slow and
that there will be more or less popular
discontent that may prove troublesome.
The Board of County Commissioners
of Dodge county has granted. a perpetual
franchise and right of way over the
county roads for an electric railway,
conditioned only on the building of the
proposed power canal, the consideration
for the grant being $1. This constitutes
no good reason, however, why Douglas
county should give away its franchises
without first insisting upon substantial
assurances that the road will be built
within a reasonable time, and also pro
viding for proper compensation In the
wuy of royalty whonever the business
of the road Justifies it Because Dodge
county grauts perpetual franchises, too,
is no reason why Douglas county should
Kraut perpetual franchises. No fran
chise should extend beyond the genera
tion which grants it, or fall to Include
a reversionary clause authorizing Its
purchase at an appraisement of the ac
tual value of the properties, omitting the
value of the franchise and right of way
granted by the public.
It Is to be noted that the organs which
were so reckless In their charges against
Mayor Moores in relatlou to the dis
puted claims arising out of his eight
years' incumbency as clerk of the dis
trict court have been very chary about
referring to the Judgment given to him
by the district court this week for
nearly 520,000, declared to be money
owing to him by the county for fees
earned and services rendered. During
the two political campaigns in which he
was candidate for mayor these disputed
claims furnished the basis for the re
peated malicious attacks upon his repu
tation and honesty. But now that the
court bus held for Mayor Moores these
organs have not tho decency to give him
the full benefit of the vindication.
Whllo about it the county board should
not forget that the East Omaha Bridge
and Terminal company is making an at
tempt to take Its property out of the
tax Jurisdiction of Douglas county by
listing It at ridiculously low figures as a
railroad with (he State Board of Equal
ization. This property Is wholly within
Douglas county and should be assessed
and taxed by the county authorities and
not by tho state board. The county
commissioners should see to It that the
three miles of railroad this company has
returned to the state board Is listed on
the county assessment at Its true valua
tion on the samo basis as other property.
The Impeachment proceedings against
tho South Omaha tax commissioner are
pronounced by tho managers of the
packing houses as another, hold-up, but
the South Omaha councllmeu em
phatically deny the soft Impeachment
They say they mean business and will
prove their honest Intentions when It
comes to a show down. The average
taxpayer lo South Omaha will naturally
want to know whether the rank dis
crimination against the small property
owner Is to stand without redress.
Reports from tho borderland of the
reservation In Oklahoma to be opened to
settlement soon Indicate that many of
the prospective settlers are destitute,
having nsed up what little means they
originally had while waiting for the
opeulng. The rush to this territory has
been a repetition of what has gone be
fore, and most of the would-be sooners
would have been better off had they re
mained where they were, even If tltey
should obtain land.
Pennsylvania democrats Introduced a
ballot reform bill In the legislature, but
when the republicans took It up and at
tempted to put It through, every demo
crat In tho legislature voted against It.
The buncombe mixed up with demo
cratic cries for reform constitutes nbout
O'J per ceut
The tttitle lleiltlien,
Washlnston Star.
Civilization Is shocked to learn that Chi
nese girls are often sold to tho highest bid
der and that the purchaser must produce
read cash Instead of offering a mere title.
We Can't Lose 'Em.
Washington Post.
That accident to tho transport Ingalls
was deplorable In many respects. It may
prevent the country getting rid of a bunch
of congressmen tor tho summor months.
Mldlim Hontul a Sharp Corner.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
And now comes General Grosvenor and
declares he didn't say it. But the boy that
the calf ran over wasn't restored to the
status quo by denying that be had sassed
the calf.
Premature 1'lniitlnn.
Philadelphia Record.
That wis a Parthian shot which Boss
Piatt gave Governor Odell when bo prema
turely named him for tho presidency,
Nominating candidates this year for 1001
Is a great deal like planting corn in Jan
uary.
Moderate the I'nce.
LouIbvIIIo Courier-Journal.
Uncle Sam Is going the gaits. Like any
other strapping youngster who has attained
his manhood he may not be rudely brought
to the rightabout, but hlB gait may be mod
erated. Wo may somewhat restrain what
we cannot wholly stop. Wo may exercise
an elevating and subduing influence. We
may by wisdom and prudence set the young
buck to thinking- and then trust his better
nature to do the rest.
A Test fur Tertutaler.
"Boston Herald.
One of the big life lnsuranco companies
Is going to put total abstainers in a spe
cial class of policy holders and If their
death rate proves less than the class where
drinking Is permitted a lower price for In
surance will be made them. Temperance
and virtue have their own reward, but a
tip on the side from the Insurance compa
nies will not come amiss.
Free Field, CXo Favors.
Philadelphia Ledger.
President McKlnley: 'It Is said, positively
refuses not only jtt Ose the Influence of
his office In favor ,4Jfany candidate for tho
next, presidency, b'evan to intimate his
personal preference, .If 'he has one. A
wiser course.. coufcl not be pursued. It
will not only savehTm much personal an
noyance, but wlU'recelve the approval of
the American people, who like a president
that attends to the business of governing
the whole nation and lets partisan and
personal politics alone.
A BUSINESS PROPOSITION.
Proposed neduetlon of Insurance
Itatea to Total Abstainers.
Portland Oregonlan.
According to a recent dispatch one of the
greatest lite Insurance companies of the
country, tho name of which Is not men
tioned, has recently established a total
abstinence class of policyholders, the mem
bers of which will be given lower rates
than can be. secured even by the moderate
drinker. This action was the result of a
concerted movement on the part of a num
ber of the most prominent policyholders
of the country, who represented to the
company that they, being abstainers from
all alcoholic beverages, and therefore bet
ter Insurance risks, wero' rated with drink-
In men, and that on account of this lack
of discrimination "they had to pay part of
the price of drinking Upon this showing,
after a close comparison of the records,
which was found to fully substantiate this
contention, the company consented to make
th distinction asked, and will at once form
a separate class composed of men who do
not and will not drink. Among the men
who Bought and obtained this distinction
are John Wanamaker, ex-Governor Larra
bee of Iowa, Senator Frye of Maine, Dr.
Edward Everett Hale, Booker T. Washing
ton. Anthony Comstock, Dr. Silas C. Swal
low, Senator Tillman, ex-Mayor Hewitt of
New York, ex-Sonator Peffer of Kansas and
Bishop H. M. Turner.
This action gives to total abstlnenco an
added monetary value, which, together with
the direct savings that result from not
handing money over the bar, may be re
garded as quite substantial. It, moreover,
makes official proclamation that the total
abstainer Is recognized as a roan In better
health and with better chances of long
life than the drinking man, by that most
conservative of all financial agents, the
careful, well-established life lnsuranco
company.
This view Is abundantly supported by
facts, charitably ,nnd properly concealed
from the public, perhaps, but known to
Insurance and other business men, which
underlie the verdict of death from "heart
failure" in hundreds of cases wherein men
In the prime of their years pass suddenly
from life. For a prominent Insurance com
pany to take this view and stand for It,
ordering its business relations with men in
accordance therewith, constitutes one of the
most powerful because the most practical
temperance lectures of the age. Already
self-interest, combined with the protection
of the traveling public, has discriminated
to such an extent against the drinking man
In transportation business that total ab
stinence has become a necessary passport
to employment on many of tho railroads of
the country. It Is to the monetary Interest
of men who would bold responsible and
well paid positions to retain at all times
full control of their faculties, since without
such control they cannot be trusted with
lives and property as represented by the
swiftly moving railroad train. Upon this
basis the drunkard has been eliminated,
practically speaking, from modern trans
portation business, while the drinking man
of more moderate habits Is being moved
upop from the same direction, looking ulti
mately to the same end. And now a Ufa
Insurance company proposes or consents to
place the total abstainer In a separate
class with more favorable rates. These are
plain matters of business that do not need
to be Illustrated by fervid temperance lec
tures embellished by painfully realistic
representations of the human stomsch un
dor the Influence of alcohol, but they may
be depended upon to- operate through self
interest In bebalf of sobriety.
JUNE 22, 1901.
OTIIEH liAM)S THAX OCRS.
The new Bismarck monument In Berlin,
which was unveiled Sunday, represents tho
great chancellor as a soldier. The figure
has a helmet for the head, the military
coat and a sword In the left hand. Bis
marck himself would have been pleased at
this. He waa fond of wearing his uniform
as n general nnd he liked to think of him
self as a soldier, although his whole lite
work was In the cabinet and not In the
least In the profession of arms. Thero
was a certain fitness, too, In his predilec
tion (or soldierly associations, for his
statesmanship was of an absolutist, dicta
torlal type that was military In Its spirit.
Vn Buclcw's memorial address at the dedl
catory exercises Is reported to havo ac
cepted Bismarck as the creator of German
unity In so far as any one man can be
called Its creator. That the present em
peror Is said to be displeased at the ad
dress Is not surprising, slnco the Hohen
zollerns have a Jealous family pride In
cultivating the Idea that the great man
of the epoch was the old kaiser, William I,
and not Bismarck, his chancellor. Von
Buelow Is clever and astute enough to
know that the German people will never
accept tho Hohenzollern view any more
than history will.
A correspondent of a London newspaper,
writing from Odessa, says tho continued un
rest among the Industrial classes In Russia
Is causing the liveliest concern among. the
military und civil authorities, both central
nnd provincial. This his been Increased by
the recent discovery of tho movement for n
general trades Union of all the workmen In
t',10 iron and steel factories. He says that
the government Is gradually awakening lo
a realization of the fact tbat the time Is
approaching rapidly whin It will no longer
bo sate to take tho sldo of the employers
against tho employed as a matter of courec
He quotes n significant remark made In his
presence, n short time ngo by an experi
enced Inspector of Russian factories. He
said: "If Kussla were to find herself at
war tomorrow with a great power sho
might, possibly, be .able to wago it without
any obstructive drawback In tho shape of
Internal trouble ami complication, but If
we should bo launched Into n great strug
glo at tho end, say, of the next quin
quennium, and things should drag along In
the meantime In their present precarious
and treacherous groove, then wo should re
quire a Btrong garrison In every Industrial
center of the empire. We. should want
200,000 or 300,000 troops In Finland
and 600,000 In Poland, to say noth
ing of tho requirements of the Caucasus,
Industrial discontent and political dis
affection arc, for fundamental rea
sons, you will readily understand, syn
onymous and Inseparable terms and quan
tities, as applied to tho mass of my countrymen-"
Contrary to recent forewarning from
Canea, there was no demonstration against
either Prince George or the powers when
the former opened the Cretan assembly the
other day, although many deputies and
spectators waved Greek flags. The prince,
who Is still the high commissioner of the
Island under direction of the powers, made
a long speech In which he recounted his
Journey to certain European capitals last
winter by which ho had hoped that tho
powers might bo Induced to nutborlze a
change In the status of Crete. The powers,
he said, had replied to, his representations,
tbat they would readily examine any pro
posal aiming at the Improvement of the
condition of the Island, but tbat In the cir
cumstances they were unable to sanction
any such change in the political situation.
In the meantime the powers recommended
all Cretans to abstain from premature and
Inopportune' demonstrations. 'The prince
was enthusiastically cheered as he left the
chamber, after which a resolution -as pro
posed expressing gratitude to tho powers,
and requesting them to put "the crown on
their noble philanthropic work" by granting
them union with Greece. The resolution
was Anally adopted In spite of the protests
of the Mussulman representatives present.
...
At a recent session of the Austrian
Itelcbsrath tho prime minister, Dr. von
Korber, made a statement which is regarded,
as a definition of the government's attitude
toward the "emancipation from Rome"
movement, of which so much has been
heard lately. He treated the whole matter
as one of comparatively small Importance.
There had been, he admitted, regrettablo
episodes, but they did not possess the sig
nificance which had been attached to them.
A certain number of citizens had changed'
their faith, but their number was altogether
Insufficient to Indicate the existence of any
thing like a genuine religious revolution.
Ho did not believe that the Roman Catholic
church wbb threatened In nny way. If the
present agitation should lead to tho com
mission of any Illegal acts the government
would know how to Interfere nnd would not
hesitate to do ro. Meanwhile, he depre
cated, as eminently Injudicious, any excess
of zeal on the part of the police authorities.
It will be remembered that not long ago
Archduke Ferdinand, helr-presumptlve to
the throne, denounced the "Los von Rome"
movement as 'a treasonable and seditious
movement, threatening national dissolution.
Eighteen months ago, when another fam
ine In India seemed Inevitable, a commis
sion was sent by the Indian government to
Australia to examine Into the methods of
wheat cultivation there, with a view of
their being adapted to India, tot Australian
wheat Is practically drouth and rust
proof. Tho report of the commission has
Just bean made public by the Indian gov
ernment, and whllo It declares that cli
matic and racial differences stand In the
way of a general establishment of Aus
tralian methods In India, still superior
nourishing power and greater ability to re
sist both drouth and rust can bo attained
In India by the application of the scientific
principles thot have been successfully fol
lowed In parts of the new commonwealth.
Tho process has boon one of careful arti
ficial selection by cross-fertlllzatlon and
tho repeated selection from the produce
thereof. The report recommends that this
drouth-resisting grain should be secured
for India and gron on the experimental
farms of the Agricultural department,
whjre further Improvement might still be
attained. In tho meantime, the native cul
tivators should be taught to overcome their
reluctance to embark on the Innovation
through adequate object lessons. It Is
thought that their prejudices may soon bo
overcome If a drouth-resisting wheat Is
evolved by tho department nnd grown on
government farms till the native culti
vators see for themselves that It only re
quires one slight Irrigation to three or four
demanded by the older varieties they them
selves grow.
An Undenlrnltle Chamce.
Kansas City Star.
As to the appointment of ex-CongTessroan
Poters of Kansas to succeed Pension Com
missioner H. Clay Evans, it may be said
that no man In that place who will perform
his duty to the government will give any
hotter satisfaction to the pension lawyers
and tho politicians than Commissioner
Evans has given. The only objection
against Mr. Peters Is the popular protest
against making any change In the place at
all,
What, Shake the Prophet f
Chicago Chronicle.
The suecestlon that Mayor Taci-art
of
Indlananolls be made chairman of the na
tlonal democratic committee Is a good one,
In the first place ho It a democrat. In the
second place he lives In a progressive city,
state and section. In tbe third place be
would displace Jones of Arkansas.
POLITICAL DniPT
Tho dsraocratlc Indianapolis Sentinel is
ready to shout for Chief Justice Fuller or
Justice Harlrn.
Congrcsjuian Grosvenor covered his re
treat from tho third term proposition with
a sonorous note two columns long.
The democratic Chicago Chronicle, which
steadily pulled In the traces last fall, Is
now decorating the dashboard with mule
shoe prints. The usual kicking strap falls
to restrain tho battery.
New York City had nt the beginning of
the civil war a population of about one
quarter of whot It Is at present, SOS.000.
Taxation for city purposes, now $100,000,
000, was then J5.000.000.
Perry Belmont declares that If tho demo
cratic party wants to move out of tbe
graveyard It must unload both Bryan and
Crokcr. Having relieved his mind, Perry
dodged the bricks by salting for Europe.
Ono of tho novel provisions before tho
constitutional convention of Alabama was
presentpd by Delegate Waddell of Russell
county and allows the ballot of an Ignor
ant mm la any election to count only
one-fourth of a vote.
Thero Is an election for governor of
Malno In 1902 and there are already five
candidates for tho republican nomination In
tho Held. Joseph H. Manlcy Is ono of theso.
Tho present governor of Malno when
elected In-1900 had 31,000 majority.
Governor Davis of Arkansas has an
nounced his Intention not to bo a candidate
tor United States senator. This leaves the
contest between Senator James K. Jones
and ex-Governor John P. Clarke. Both
are making an active canvass, with tho
prospect that Mr. Jones will retain his
scat.
In 1506 tho tuvlanlsts carried Colorado
by 134.000 majority. In 1I9S they carried It
by 48,000 majority, in 1&00 they carried It
by 21,000 majority and this spring the re
publicans elected n mnyor of Denver by
1,700 plurality and carried Colorado Springs
At the present rate of gain Colorado will
soon again bo a strong republican state.
Charles W. Raymond of Wotseka, 111,,
who has been appointed a federal Judgo In
tbe Indian Territory, has been prominent la
Illinois politics as a lawyer and a Judgo for
a number of years. He has lived In Iro
quois county, Illinois, since 1S73, when ho
went to Illinois from Iowa. He was ad
mitted to the bar In 1SS8 and has served as
deputy circuit clerk, master-ln-cbanccry
and circuit Judge.
The census returns giving the area of
various states show that tho ono which has
the largest amount of land under water Is
Florida and the least,' In proportion to Its
size, Wyoming. Officially, the sovereign
state of New Jersey seems to hav6 expanded
In the last ten years. It had, by the census
of 1890, a land surfaco of 7,455 square miles;
It has now 7,525, a gain of seventy miles In
ten years. New Jersey Is a state of sur
prises.
To such straits have politics come In
Pennsylvania that a member of tbe Mc
Keesport city council resigned recently
and gave this reason for his strange con
duct: "Politics Is the most corrupt thing
I have ever been mixed up with. I am
out of It forever. I have separated myself.
and my conscience Is satisfied. Others may
not agree with me, but I know that no
Christian can sit In the McKeeeport coun
cils and save his soul."
There are decidedly more advocates of
prohibition in the United States than there
are prohibitionists. In twenty of the
states of tbe country at various times In
recent years the adoption of prohibition
amendments to stato constitutions has been
submitted to the voters, and tho aggregate
vote In favor of compulsory prohibition was
1,920,000. Butjjlhf, total votsfor any pro-J
hloltion -candidate lor tne -presidency ns
never exceeded 265.000. Last year It was
only 209.000 for Woolley, the candidate for
president of tho reunited prohibitionists.
THE WAY TO SELL THINGS.
Why American Trade Lair In South
Americn.
New York Tribune.
We were speaking the other day about
tbe petty showing which the United States
makes In South American commerce, com
pared, or rather contrasted, with other na
tions. It Is a shameful fact, but 11 is a
fact, that we are outstripped by European
competitors everywhere from the Isthmus
to the Horn yes, and this side of the
Isthmus, too. Despite our contiguity with
Mexico, we sell that country only about
one-third of what It buys. A few years
ago we intervened to save Venezuela from
British aggression, but today Venezuela
buys more from Great Britain than from
us. Tbe same" is true of Colombia, of
whose Imports we contribute less than one
third. If we go further afield our showing
grows worse, as the square of tne distance
increases. Brazil Is friendly to us and
buys more of us than any other South
American country, but the J13.00O.O00 sho
pays us for goods Is only halt as much as
she pays Great Britain, and Is only an
eighth of her total expenditures for Im
port. Chill buys of us to the extent ot
$2,000,000 or J3.000.000 and or Great Britain
to the extent of $12,000,000 or more. And
as for Argentina, of her $107,000,000 ot Im
ports less than $7,000,000 come from us,
while Great Britain contributes $35,000,000.
It is tbe disgraceful fact that Great Britain
sells to Argentina alone more than the
United States sells to the entire South
American continent.
Well, what Is to bo done about It J Why,
tho way to sell to those countries Is to sell.
First of all, dismiss the crazy notion that
our protective tariff acts as a barrier
against foreign, trade. It docs no such
thing. Germany 1b more protectionist tban
we, yet her sales to South America ore
Really Good Serges
You might ns well hnve the best, und at present
prices, if you come here, they are the cheapest in price.
Our serges are of guaranteed color and materials,
and are thoroughly well made.
We have suits as low as $ld.00. A thoroughly sat
isfactory one is worth
$18.00
The best that can be made is sold at 25.00.
Lined, half lined or unlined some silk lined.
Every desirable article in summer furnidbiugs and
hats as well.
Browning, King & Co.
Exclusive Clothiers and Furnishers.
R. S. Wilcox, Manager.
far ahead of ours and are increasing by
leaps and bounds. With protectionist Ger
many frightening Cobdenlte England al
most into- a funk with her commercial rl
alry, tho twaddle about "our Chinese wal!-'
preventing oxporta would best be laid unun
the shelf. Got rid, too, of the notion tint
reciprocity Is essential to commerce. Reci
procity Is a good thing and will gre.-.t'.y
help tho extension of our export trade, but
it Is by no means necessary.
What, then, Is necessary? Above all else,
to adapt ourselves to our customers. Get
rid of tho pigheaded Idea that nil people
want, or should want, just tho sorts of
things we make for our own use and come
down to the common-sense practice of
making and selling them what they want,
not what we think they ought to want.
No matter how strange or outlandish their
tastes may seem to us our business Is to
gratify them. If they want sleeves which
will hold water and buckets that will nqt,
or If they want screws with heads on both
ends and knives without edges, In the
name of Industry and commerce let them
have them! It Is not our burlnes to culti
vate their tastes, but to supply their wants.
Ono great trouble with us Is that wo hnvo
accustomed ourselves to regard our ex
port trado as nothing but a means of get
ting rid of our domestic surplus and so
send abroad only the same kinds of goods
which we uso ot home. Other countries, on
the contrary, manufacture special lines ot
goods exclusively for the export trade.
Whllo wo aro trying to persuade South
Americans to llko the things which wo
llko Germany sends agents to find out what
South Americans like and want and then
furnishes the goods. If we want the trado
of thoeo countries we must do the same.
LINTS TO A .HMILU.
Detroit Journal: "Hn, ha! How should
we look If our necks wero indeed rubber?
"How should we do anything but look?"
Pittsburg Chronicle; "What kind of an
animal is man?" asked tho professor t-f
zoology.
"Some men are beasts of prey," rcplleti a
thoughtful student.
Philadelphia Record: "No. I'm not a
Christian Scientist." said Kandor.
"But you believe In throwing physic to the
dogs," remarked Dr. Kr&bbcd.
"Not If It happened to be your physic and
my dogs."
Judge: Crawford How do you tlcuro
that tho exhibition In Buffalo Is better than
the one they had In rarls?"
Crabshaw It doesn't cost so much to get
there."
Detroit Free Presm "Dont you think that
tho wires all ought to be put under
ground T" asked Cawker.
"Yes, and the wire-pullers, too," replied
Cumso.
Somerville Journal. "But how do you
pass your timer asked the woman from
the city of the retired business man who
had settled on a farm.
"Well," said the retired buslnets man,
I spend a good deal of It In explaining
to Inquirers how I get along out here."
Ohio State Journal: Nebb Are you ko
Ing to the trained elenhant ihnw ,rt.
crnoon?
Nobb S-I-r!
Nebb I asked If vnn wr vntni. i v.
trained elephant show.
.-soDD-.-so, sir; my party principles will
,,ub fwuib me, i urn u. oemocrat, sir.
Washington Star: "The sultan of Jolo
has given a fifty-year absolute concession
of the Island of Paragua to one of the
native princes."
"Well, say, the sultan of Jolo must think
he s the Mayor Ashbrldge of the Philip
pines." 1
Smart Set: Little Elmer-Papa, why is
It more blessed to give than to receive?
Prof. Broadhead Because, my son, If
you permit yourself to receive you are
compelled to glvo about three times as
much In return In order to properly ex
press your gratitude.
Puck: Farmer Honk What sort of peo
pie -are your cits relatives that aWvlshln'
i' m juui uuuse, LtusvjB;
Farmer Bentback (grlmly)-Aw! They're
the kind thot when they pay ye a visit
act like they wanted a receipt for It.
-iJiA Y?.rk Wekly: Mrs. Strongmlnd-
hy don 't you go to work?
Tramp Please, mum, 1 made a solemn
vow twenty years ngo that I'd never do
ahother stroke of work till women was
paid th' same wages as men.
A LASTING GAME.
Roy Parrel I Greene In Puck.
I hev watched "m playln" checkers In ths
summer, fall an' spring.
Bill Boggs. Wes Jones. Newt Lane, HI
Smith an' Jason Fox. by Jlng!
I know 'em all Jes like a book, they're
players good an' strong!
On special 'caslons they've been known t'
play the hul night long.
They gnther at the grocery as regular as
clocks
On evenin's In winter, an' they pick 'em
out n box
High enough f lay the board on. Then
wise heads begin t' pore
0 er the mystic game o' checkers there in
Silas Johnson's store.
The board they play on 's worn so that the
squares are dim. I swan!
An' the checker-men. er pieces, all their
varnished beauty's gone.
Why, I'll bet a million games hev on that
faded board been played!
No cricket ever made the Jumps them
checker-men have made!
Year In, year out. the snme-slzed crowd's
been tratherln' of nights.
An' movln' some, an' studyln more, till
Si's put out the lights.
The youngsters follow In the path their
fathers trod before.
An' keep that game o' checkers up In Silas
Johnson's store.
I've known o' folks a-moin' 'way, be gone
mnybe fer years,
An' when they'd come back vlsltln' they'd
say t' me: "It 'pears
Llko nothln" looks Jes' natural. All's
changed 'at once we knew.
Except the store they're doln' there Jes'
what they lined f do!"
You couldn't stop It If you'd try: It's Jes'
as much a part
Of life 'roun' here ,aa eatln', an' lots closer
f the heart!
1 reckon Gabriel's trump, when blown. wlll
catch at least a score
O' fellers playln' checkers there In Silas
Johnson's store.