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TOE OMAHA DAILY TIKE: TTItTfiSPAY, APHTTj n, 1002. The omaiia Daily Bee. K. ROBEWATKR, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVEltl MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, pally Bee (without Sunday), One Year. .MOO lally Hee and BuniJay, une Tear 8.00 1 Hunt rated line, One Year J n Sunday Hec, Une Year 2 I") ftaturnay Bee, One ear 1 5u Twentieth Century Farmer, One Year.. l.U DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Dally (without Sunday), per copy 2c lally He (without Sunday), per week. ...12c Ially Uc (including Bunuay). per week. .17c Bunnay Bee, per copy 6c Kvenlng Bee (without Sundavl. ner week. 10c Uvenlng Bee (including Sunday), per week 16c Complaint of Irregularities In delivery hould be addressed to City Circulation De partment. OFFICE8. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha CHy Hall Building. Twen-ty-ntth and M Streets. Council bluffs 10 Pearl Street. (. hlrago lMu Unity Building. New York Temple Court. Washington &l Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communication relating to newi and edi torial matter should be addreaaed; Omaha lieu. Editorial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS. Business letter and remittance should be add reused; The .Bee Publishing Com pan. Omaha. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, ezpreas or postal order. payable to The Bee publishing ompany, Only 2-cent stamps accepted In payment of mall accounts, personal checks, except on f maha or eastern exchange, not accepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION, fjtate of Nebraska, Douglas County, as. t George B. Txschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, pays that the actual number of full and complete) copies of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sundav Bee printed during the month of March, 1IM2, was aa follows: 1 Jltt.ttTO 17 29,530 2 1I,70 18 20,430 iftMitO 19 att.ivao 4 2,TTO 20 stu.ftoo i sw.oao zi an.nio JW,tM 22 sm.neo 1 B,20 23 ilO.ttSO JIW,4oO 24 2B.010 2U.700 25 20.S9U 10 2,400 26 2I,S00 11 2W.B00 27 2t,RNO 12 21.3TO 28 2U.B40 IS 2,840 29 2,S40 14 21,24 30 2I,IKM IS 211,870 31 2M,U4W It 20.800 Total 917,420 Lees unsold and returned copies.... ,tH7 Net total sale 7,ol3 Net dally average 2t,2T7 GEO. B. TZ8CHUCK. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this Tint day of March, A. D. 1902. GEORGE RA8MU8HEN. (Seal.) Notary Public Anything from South Omaha? April showers are now due, according to the almanac. Carrie Nation would doubtless feel vorse had she not gathered In the gate receipts In advance. When It comes to spring house clean ing, do not forget how effective a coat of fresh paint is an a contribution to ward brightening up the city. Wonder If the delegates assembling In Louisville to organize a consolidation of all the third parties secured permis sion In advad.ee of Henry Watterson. Lincoln has had a narrow escape from becoming another Topekn, where may ors are horsewhipped by gentle maidens who have an acute scent for prohibition .whisky joints and bootleggers. The outcome of the South Omaha elec tion would Indicate that the Omaha ma chine, by a long pull, a strong pull and a pull all together, as they say at sea, managed to land its candidate by an overwhelming majority. The formal call for the republican State convention has been promulgated. Those Nebraska fusion committees may now govern themselves accordingly without apprehension that there Is a trlng tied to the action of their op ponents. It turns out that the disinterested eeal of the grocers to fight the Standard Oil company was not so much to relieve the public of the grinding exactions of an odious monopoly as to force the monopoly to make concessions to the 'grocers. ) s As to the. school census, Omaha tax payers are not so much interested In the jersonnel of the force of enumerators as In having the work done well. The school census furnishes the gauge for onr share of the state apportionment of school money. No telegram of congratulation under date of IJucoln. Neb., has yet been given out for publication by Mr. Clark of Arkansas, who has practically re ceived a certificate of election to sue ceed to Mr. Jones' seat In the United States senate. Mayor Kelly's stool pigeon did not come out of the fray with much glory, having received only 25 out of 4,400 votes polled at the South Omaha elec tion. Mr. Carley has a good ease for heavy damages against the man who put him up for slaughter. The total net earnings of the steel combine during the first year aggregate more than (111,000,000. This certainly affords food for reflection, but It does not answer the question how much the same plants would have earned had they been operated separately without the trust organisation. The eighth annual convention of the national officials of bureaus of labor statistics Is In session In New Orleans. These statisticians may congratulate themselves that never before have cap ital and labor been productive of so much wealth to furnish them material to compile Into statistics. ' Dea Moines has an opportunity to get reduced street railway fares at hours when worklngmen going to and from their work are the principal passengers, on condition that no other companies be) granted franchises to use the street a The Dea Moines ' company must be afraid of prospective or possible com petition to offer such concessions volun tarily. , ;; -v. , - ' - a cvvrLE or trust lessors. The disclosures Just made regarding the National Asphalt and the National Snlt companies are interesting and In structive. It appears that those dis closures did not come wholly as sur prises, but they showed that the affairs of those corporations are In a far worse shape than anyone bad Imagined. The salt company acknowledged heavy lossos In assets for the year and a 1e- crense of $7ro.o" In surplus after a payment of $k1,inj0 lu dividends. It Is stated that the surplus of the company now amount to less than $.'n,nm, so that there Is no likelihood of dividends the present year. The roport upon the asphalt company disclosed a thoroughly rotten condition. The promoters of that corporation declared In 1900 that prollts from Mny to December of that year were $1.."iOO,hx, when they were really but a little over (30U.UU0. "A wild overcapitalization," says the New York Sun, "apparently deliberate misrepre sentation on the port of the officers of the concern ns to enrnlngs and business prosjiects, fixed charges at $2,150,000 a year and net enrnlngs 1300,000 a year that was the asphalt company." What better argument could be desired than is furnished by such facta for legislation subjecting to supervision and publicity corporations engaged In Inter state trade? With such legislation, honestly enforced, companies like the above could not exist Their promoters and officers would not be able to mis lead the public respecting their business affairs and attract investors by fraudu lent statements of their prospects and earnings. Supervision and a reasonable degree of publicity would put an end to the organization of corporations unmls tukably Intended, as In the case of those referred to, to defraud the public, for we suppose that none but the most credu lous will believe that the men who or ganized those companies were honest in their purpose and seriously thought that the business would be sufficiently profit able to pay dividends on the greatly ex cessive capitalization. They have un doubtedly mado money, but by methods hardly less criminal than highway rob bery, though the law may not reach them. There are other corporations, it is not to be doubted, that are just aa bad as the National Asphalt and Na tional Salt companies and which In due time will be compelled to disclose their rottenness. Meanwhile there is no Indication that these facts are attracting any attention at Washington. No step has been taken to put into the form of law the sug gestion of President Roosevelt that pub licity is the first essentlul In determin ing how to deal with the great Indus trial combinations. If there are men In congress who believe with the president that "In the Interest of the pub lic the government should have the right to inspect and examine the work ings of the great corporations engaged In interstate business," they have as yet given no sign of such belief. Per haps something will be done before the close of the session to give effect to the president's view of what is necessary, though at present there Is nothlug to warrant expectation of this. QEHMAN MEAT EXCLUSION. It is possible that the opposition of the German preserved meat dealers to the proposed exclusion from Germany of meats preserved with borax, together with the declared purpose of our gov ernment to retaliate, may Induce the German government to recede from Its decision. The German meat men assert that there Is nothing injurious in the use of borax, in which they are un doubtedly correct, and they also assert that the proposed regulations would work them much injury, which of course Is the chief consideration. They have enlisted on their side some Influ ential newspapers, one of which shows that the menace of retaliation has pro duced some effect, remarking that Ger man Industries "must foot the bill and receive severe blows as a result of American reprisals for the exclusion of borax-prepared meats." There could of course be no reasonable objection to re prisals when our government accepted the view of the German Imperial health board in regard to the injurious nature of borax. Meanwhile American packers appear not to be particularly disturbed over the matter. They will doubtless wel come the poult Ion taken by the German preserved meat dealers, because its In fluence will be serviceable elsewhere whether or not It shull have any effect upon their own government. The meat exporters of this country would not sutler very seriously from loss of the German trade, but there is danger of the condemnation of meats preserved by borax Injuring their trade with other countries. The attitude of the German meat men will tend to mini mize this danger. PAS AHA CABAL THE AT J. The Instrument conveying to the United States the right to construct a canal along the Panama route, which the Colombian minister and the coun sel for the canal company have been engaged for several weeks In prepar ing, will be presented to the State de partment this week. It Is said that the treaty contains an unqualified state ment showing that the officials of the Colombian government unite with the limited stockholders of the new Panama Canal company and the receiver for the old company, who was recognized by the court which authorized him to deed to the United States a clear and good title to the canal property. The general counsel for the new company says the Idea that a good title could not be secured to the property will be exploded by the treaty. Whatever reason there may have been for doubt whether a clear title could be secured would seem to have been cleared awsy by a recent decision of the civil tribunal of the Seine at Paris authorizing the cession to the United States of the Panama canal property. The tribunal whs given spe cial Jurisdiction by a legislative act in 18!t3 over all rights of action of any character whatever accruing to owners of obligations emitted by the Universal compauy of the Panama liitorooennlc muni and over all actions etuaunting from the receiver. The decision of this tribunal therefore puts an end to all question as to title, so far as the Pun ama company is concerned, and it ap wors that the Colombian government fully concurs lu the promised cession and very earnestly desires tliHt the United States shall accept the property and complete the canal. This being the situation. Senator Morgan and other opioneuts of the Panama route must find some new reason for their opiwsl tlon, which may le somewhat difficult If the terms presented by Colombia are reasonable. THE OUTCOME IX SOUTH OMA HA. The people of South Omaha are to be congratulated upon the outcome of their city election, which Is the culmination of their effort to secure better municipal government. In national and state elec tions South Omaha has always been a democratic stronghold. In 1900 It gave Bryan over 000 majority. The election of Frank Koutsky as mayor, together with most of the candidates on the re publican city ticket, could not have been brought about without a general up heaval among the voters Impelled with a desire to redeem South Omaha from disrepute. ' The first victory for good government was scored In the republican primaries when Mayor Kelly and the boodle gang he represented were burled under an avalanche of votes. In spite of the fact that they had control of all the mu nicipal and party machinery. The re publicans rallied to Koutsky because he had a clean record aud enjoyed the con fidence of the community. When the democrats in defiance? of public sentiment placed at the head of their ticket a man identified with the recent school board frauds, the better element of the party repudiated the tainted candidate and gave their sup port to a clean republican. The attempt to stop tlie democratic defection by bug bears and roorbacks failed to have Its expected effect. Intelligent voters of South Omaha were not to be stampeded by such stupid tactics and the tidal wave in favor of Koutsky also carried with It nearly all of his associates on the republican ticket The advent of the new administration will, we confidently believe, Inaugurate a new era In the management of the municipal affairs of South Omaha. With the assurance of an economic aud efficient city government the Magic city should enter upon a period of unexam pled progress andprosperlty. THE FIHE COROKER. The proposition to create the office of fire coroner will meet with no objec tion from Omaha taxpayers, providing the creation of the office will not In crease the city pay roll. This can read ily be done If the city gas inspector, who now draws $1,500 per year, is made Are coroner. At present the gas inspector's office is a sinecure that should have been abolished years ago, but If the gas inspector can be made useful as well as ornamental by performing the functions of tire coroner, he will be able to earn his salary. The duties of the fire coroner will hardly take up much of the time of any one man. His functions, as outlined in the resolution adopted by the council. will be to ascertain the causes of fire, estimating the damage and checking up the salvage. Under ordinary circum stances the fire coroner will probably not be employed more than four or five days a month in the inspection and checking up of salvage. Consequently his duties will not Interfere In the least with those now devolving upon and pre sumed to be performed by the gus In spector. If the council can be Induced to resist the pressure from parties who are op posed to the inspection of explosives, the duties of the gas Inspector and fire coroner might be further enlarged by charging him with the Inspection of warehouses and buildings In which ex plosives are stored. An ounce of pre vention is worth a pound of cure. If we can prevent fires from explosive oils and chemicals, we might save the cor oner the trouble of Inspecting salvage besides making charges for the inspec tion of the premises of dealers In ex plosives pay his salary. These sugges tions ought not to meet with opposition from the fire insurance companies, who are more Interested In prevention of fires than they are in the salvage of the remnants. The proposition to have Attorney General Knox come to the rescue of the club women by untangling the con tention over the color question seems destined to prove abortive. No one has been able to discover where any legul issue Is Involved, as the matter of mem bership lu the club women's federation depends entirely upon their own wishes formulated Into their constitution. The club women will have to straddle the color line If they cannot muster up courage euougb to get on one side or the other. The appropriation for maintaining Omaha's Indian supply depot Is re ported to be again in precarious condi tion. There Is no serious danger, how ever, of its going by the board. Even should the senate fall to Include the itein in the Indian bill, Our Dave may be depended on to appear at the proper moment after it gets into conference committee and rescue the supply depot midst sonorous stage thunder and fiery lightning flashes. It Is not exact to say that Cuba will on May 1 tiecome a foreign country. Cuba Is and has always been a foreign country, never having been brought un der our sovereignty, except for purposes of occupation. Up to the present, how ever, it has never had a fovernmeat of Minority Rule Boston T Last year at the opening of the short session, almost a year before President MrKlnley died, and while there was at least a probability that the Manna ship subsidy bill could be passed, and before Cuban reciprocity had even been discussed as an Issue, It required all the Influence of the administration to avert an Inquiry as to the means, methods and extent of the disfranchisement of the colored voters of the south. There was Indeed a brief and futile discussion of the matter In the house, despite the opposition of the ad ministration leaders, who finally got the troublesome question out of the way by referring It to the committee on the census. The difficulty which most troubled the MrKlnley administration, which had many times more influence with congress than the Roosevelt administration possesses, was the earnest conviction of such men as Mr. Crumpacker, Mr. Olmsted and others that the issue presented by disfranchisement at the south transcended all party questions In Importance and challenged the Integrity of the constitution. The conclusion on which these gentlemen stood then baa not been affected by anything which has oc curred since the last session. The chal lenge presented by certain disfranchise ment methods followed in the south is as peremptory now as It was the a. That chal lenge is to the clause in section 2 of article xlv of the constitution the fourteenth amendment which says: "But when the right to vote at any elec tion for the choice of electors for presi dent and vice president of the United States, representatives In congress, the executive and Judicial officers of a state, or the members of the legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male Inhabitants of such state, being 21 years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any Its own. Previous to Its war of libera tion Its foreign affairs were directed by and subject to the Spanish government and since the withdrawal of Spain It has occupied a sort of position of tutelage to the United States. On May 20 Cuba will present to us a foreign government responsible for Its relations with this and other countries and our dealings with Cuba will have to be through the diplomatic arm of the government In stead of, as now, through the military authorities. When Sloane offered himself as Inde pendent candidate for mayor In South Omaha he was boosted by the popoerats because they expected him to draw heavily from disaffected republicans. Now the same popoerats are abusing him for drawing away votes from the democratic candidate. A Revised Version. Detroit Free Press. Cecil Rhodes' last lament might mora properly have been: "So many to do, and so few done." Explanations in Order. Philadelphia Press, Colonel Watterson has been compelled to send out a diagram to explain what he meant. An explanation or the diagram will come later. . It Wait Enough. Washington Post. Many of the members of that Colorado mob were not the least bit concerned over the guilt or innocence of their victim. It was enough for them to know that he was a Pullman porter. Ia the Civil War Over? Brooklyn Eagle. Gentlemen of congress, it is not possible that over 200 worthy orphans of union sol diers should have been overlooked for forty year. It is too late to pension them now. Please to consider the civil war as over. It was a cruel war and some pensions are as cruel. Effect of the Rebate. New York Tribune. Illegal rebates on railroads have had much to do with the growth of the power of the combination which has raised the price of meats in most of the cities, towns and villages of the country. Will the In terstate Commerce commission succeed In lessening this abuse? Freaks of Time's Whirligig;. Chicago Chronicle. It has been discovered that the corona tion souvenir buttons Americana are eagerly buying In England were made in this, coun try. Thus doth the whirligig of time bring a gentle revenge. It was discovered on the field of Antletam that the buttons on the gray Jackets were all made in Manches ter. Itenewinar Bonds of Friendship. St. Louis Olobe-Democrat. The treaty of friendship between the United States and Spain, which only awaits the signature of the American minister In Madrid to make It effective, will give satis faction to this country. The trade between Spain and the United States has greatly in creased since the close of the war in 1898. It is much larger now than it was before that conflict and the general tendency Is upward. All the conditions point to a per manent peace between the two countries. This is a source of special gratification to the United States. A Story with a Moral, Springfield (Mass.) Republican. The sudden pain and sorrow of the rail way combinations over the disposition of President Roosevelt to enforce the anti trust law recalls the case of the country man who was grinning at the way his bull dog got hold of people In his playful nippy sort of way, until there happened along a stout young fellow with a walking stick as big as his arm, which he promptly uplifted. Horror spread over the dog owner's face. "Look out," be cried In accents of reproof, "that's the way to spile dawgs, that Is." The man with the stick allowed that he had no particular objections to spllin' dogs when It waa neceaeary. The railway people think President Roosevelt Is an excellent intentloned young man, but given to spoil ing things. How Greatness Spam Trifle. St. Paul Pioneer Tress. "It did not look very large to me," aald J. Plerpont Morgan when on the witness stand in answer to a question about tha purchase of 128,000.000 of Northern Paclflo stocks for J. J. Hill, aa to which he was twitted by the examining counael for Dot remembering all the detail of the trans action. "It did not look very large to me. The amount of cash involved was not more than f3,000.0O0." Not more than 13.000,000. Just think of It! These big financiers toss their millions about with less concern tbas the ordinary housewife for the few dollars with which. she pay her grocery bill. But then, ss it was other people's money, not bis own, that Morgan waa talking about no wonder a man who Is the financial agent la transaction which sometimes require the aggregation of hundreds of million thought tares tnUlioa a mere bagatelle. in the South ranscrtpt. way abridged, except for participation In re bellion or other crime, the basis of repre aentatlon therein shall be reduced In the proportion which the number of such male citizens rhall bear to the whole numbe of male citizens 21 years of age In such state." The resolution which it Is proposed to bring forward ss the warrant for Investl gating disfranchisement provides for a Ren eral Inquiry and gives the opponents of legislative action on this subject any oppor tunlty there may be for argument that you ran do an unronetltutlonal thing in a con stitutional way. Reduced to Its Inst analyst the question is whether the I'nlted States by its silence shall tacitly consent to a practical modification of the constitution In intent and purpose. Sectlonally cons'd ered the question is whether the voting millions of the north and west ran afford to allow their Interests to be passed upon by senators and representatives who are elected by what Is and what Is Intended to be the permanent, but dominant minority of the male Inhabitants of the smith. If the south Insists that Its basis of rep resentatlon in congress shall Include vote less millions It cannot wholly escape the responsibility for raising the "sectional' issue. To what an extent disfranchisement makes a state a close corporation is seen in the fact that Mississippi cast but 60,190 votes In 1900 in electing seven congress men, counting all tickets. The aggregate of the votes cast for the seven successful candidates was 47.549. In Massachusetts the aggregate of all votes cast in the first and second districts alone at the same elec tlon was 68.411, and the aggregate of the votes cast for the two successful candidates was 34,124. Such a contrast of bases of elec tlon speaks for Itself, both In Its present aspect and probable tendency. NEW YORK'S EASTER PARADE. Greatest Show on Earth Favored with Smiling Skle. While all the favored land from the Alleghenles to the Rockies was storm tossed on Easter Sunday, giving to the glad sweet song of re-awakened life and hope the sob of rooted sorrow and making floral head wear look like thirty cents. New York reveled in genial sunshine, blue skies and balmy air. It was so unusual at this sea son, so rare a smile of Providence in that locality, that the people turned out In their best clothes and paraded along the avenues for the edification of each other. "It Is no exaggeration to say," writes the corre spondent of the Philadelphia Ledger, "that for beauty and joyousnees the city surpassed Itself. The churches were crowded to the doors. The music was of the highest order of excellence. The floral display was mag nificent. The 'parade of spring fashions' on Fifth avenue crowded that great thorough fare from the Washington Arch to Central Park. Tens of thousands visited the ceme teries. Others less seriously disposed spent the day on their wheels or In their autos or behind their fast horses. The Speed way was filled. There was a notable revival of Interest in wheeling asd the Coney island bicycle path resembled the palmy days of four years ago." "The sight of the day," reports the New York Times, "waa when the church services were over and the crowds poured Into the streets. There was a tremendous crowd on Fifth avenue, but the old-time parade did not occur. Perhaps there were too many horses and automobiles to make the parade possible. It was Impossible for one to see across the street or to be seen from across the street, and then there was a vast horde of neonla nut in uitn... th. exit of the churchgoers of Fifth avenue. ana ine signtseers were Dlled with ambi tion to show off their finery of the Bowery and Baxter street, so that fashionable people, dreading the rivalry hastened home. Few had ordered their carriages, and the hack drivers did an enormous huuineaa at rates so extravagant that they reaped a ricn harvest. "In the early afternoon thpre WAS nam rade much like the old-time display of fashion on Fifth avenue, but it waa held along the walks of Riverside Drive. Next to the fact that men of fashion have not agreed on any particular style of silk hat waa the beauty of the gowns of the women. Men who are known in Wall street ant at the prominent clubs paraded In their long coats of splendid fit, gray trousers and patent leather shoes. They wore In the lapel of their coats as a rule lilies of the valley, though many preferred a bunch of violets. Their clothing was singularly similar, but the man who could say that his silk hat was the rlaht thins must hava been supremely content with his own In dividual judgment. There were tall hats that sloped toward the crown or went Straight to the ton In the Pronoh ,tvl. and there were low-crowned bell-shaped hats with wide brims that would look well on any caricature of John Bull, and there were all sorts of other hats." "The Easter bonnet was out In full glory and the picture bat seemed to have the best of it not a plumed Gainsborough, but a bat with a wide brim tilted forward over the eyes and curved far back over the hair, where there was a bow with long ends. much like the affair one seea in the pictures of Jennie Llnd, or perhaps better of Clara Louise Kellogg. An equal favorite was a Spanish toque, or a headgear that a woman wears on the side of her head, like a toreador. There were many other ahapes. but the most of these patterns must be In the milliners' shops unsold, for the new picture hats and the Spanish hats appear to have all been bought up before Easter. "Many women wore, even in the sun shine, where it must have been a discom fort, a long flowlsg cloak of light silk, and In many patterns, the polka-dot being the most seen. The conspicuous thing about the wrap was the yoke. This waa trimmed with expensive lace, mostly white or cream color. Women called them "yokes," but men Insisted on describing them as "turn down collars running all the way round and fastening in the front." One man In sisted that tbey were like the collar worn In the time of Queen Elizabeth, with the excep tion that the collars then stood up, and. Instead of fastening in the front, flared at the throat." "It would be quite impossible," says s New York letter, "to estimate with any degree of accuracy, how many millions of dollars were spent for flowers this Easter. All that Is known Is that never before ha there been such a lavish display. This Is confirmed by the testimony of all the florists and Is attested by the evidence of one's senses. The floral decorations In the churches were literally on a stale of mag nificence. St. Patrick's cathedral was a field of lilies, roses and palms, two great crosses of lilies being especially conspicu ous. Is St. George's church potted geraniums were so arranged ss to make a white erosa against a background of red. In the afternoon the pots of flowers were distributed among 1,200 children. Southern Ivy covered the bark of Dr. Parkhurst's church. It was noticeable that the Ber muda lily was not as conspicuous this year as formerly, but there has been a large Importation of Illy bulbs from Japan. The have to be cultivated for a long time be fore they become uarasUbls.' Why is ROYAL Baking Powder bet ter th-soi eny otker ? Because in its mammoth works a corps of chemical experts is con stantly employed to test every ingre dient and supervise every process of manufacture to insure a product ab solutely pure, wholesome and perfect in every respect. The most wholesome food and the most digestible food are made with Royal Baking Powder. WOVA.L tAKHM POWDsft. CO., too WfUhSM BTNrWYOWC WHY BEEF HAS GONE IP. Large Supply of Prosperity and Short Croa) of Corn. Chicago Tribune. There has been an advanra In tha nrii of beefan advance which from the point or view or the consumer has no redeeming features. There are wldelv varvlno- i. planatlons of this rise In price. The one wnicn seems to meet with the most favor In New York is that the Chicago packers constitute a "combine" which has the con- umers of the country by the throat. It Is illeged that but for this "romhlne" tha price of beef would not. he nnrhiunt to make many poor New Yorkers become vegetarians mucn against their will. The Chicago packers are accused nf male. ng money at both ends of navlno tha oat- He raisers less than a fair price for tholr ive stock and then exactlnv an eiroaalva price for their dressed meat. These nark. era have no doubt at one time and another bad their little combinations to keep down the price of cattle and keep up that of meat, but this latest advance In the prloe of beef Is not fairlr rhareeahla in ihim The explanation of the secretary of agricul ture mat tne advance is due to a large sup ply of prosperity and a small annnlv nf Is undoubtedly the correct one. When Americana are hard up they manage to live on inferior meat or on hreail anrf When prosperous they demand beef. Never were mere so many people who consider themselves entitled to demand this superior meat as there are now. Naturally this In creasing demand has Its effect on prices. There was a notable shnrtar. I crop last year. It baa cost the cattle rais ers more to feed their cattle. Such Is the demand for beef that the cattlemen are able to got back when they sell their cattle all that has been spent on them and a good deal more. The men who own cattle are not grumbling at thla time. The accusing the packers of robbing them, as they have done when cattle on the hoof uruugm mucn less tnan tbey do now. The cattlemen are fat and saucy at this time. Americans who feel that chssn ntanka ant roast beef are essential to their hmnin... .. should pray for an enormous corn crop this year, in me event or such a crop it will cost lees to fatten beef and if win v. easier for the beef lovers to get their neana desire. If they must blame some body for present high prices let It be Provi dence, not the packers. PERSONAL NOTES. Edward Everett Hale la now nH the foremost Bostonlan. When Johnnie comes march! Cuba he will make two nations glad. Henry Watterson likes the iTnitod ct.i.. but not the way In which it Is managed. Nelson Kneass. who wrota tha mmi Ben Bolt" to the word of Thnma. rinnn English, died a vagabond. Aaron Fresch. who died In Pttt.h.,r- k. other day, was the Inventor of the spiral car apnng now used by all railroads. Charles Felton Pidgin, author nf tha .n known novel "Quincy Adams Sswyer," has Invested a number of machines for the me chanical tabulation of ststlatics. In honor of the secession of tha king of Spain, whose coronation takes place on May 12, the queen regent proposes that a general amnesty should be granted to sll prisoners thea undergoing sentence. Rudolph von Kaltenborn. one nf tha Ka known Germans Is this country, died st Merrill. Wis., several davs ro u. an officer in tjie Hessian army and served ior rrussia through the Franco-Prussian war. 'Uncle Henry" Davis. nrint- nH died last week In Louisville. Ky., aged j! He worked as a comnoaltnr hafnpa ik. ... on the old Journal, was stage manager of No Putting off nny longer what you should do right now, and that is, to buy your npring suit before they are all picked over and your size gone. Our line and styles are limited in quantity and you need not' ex pect to Kee your suit duplicated often when you purchase here. And what you can expect and not be disappointed in in the splendid fit that always ac companies every suit of our clothes. "NO CLOTHING FITS LIKE OUItS." Hat's and FurnishingH for Men and Boys.' Excluiive Clothiers and Furnishers. n & Wilcox, Manager. the Louisville opera house, went on th stage and for a few years taught a school of acting In Louisville. Pstrolman John M. Pennlman, who has served on the Boston police fores for fifty four years, was retired on Friday last at his own request and will hereafter receive a pensloh of (600 a year. Ha was the old est officer in point of service In the city. His age Is 79 years. ' A III. M il OF SMILES. Chics go Post: "What's the matter with grandfather?" "lie s Insulted. You se, he's nearly S, and he happened to hear you remark, that the good die young." Judge: Gladys Is young Mr, Jackson In business for himself? Ethel Well, hardly. We have been en gaged for two weeks now. Somervllle Journal play golf, old man? Ned Why don't you Tom To tell the truth the right kind of legs. I haven't got Iloston Transcript: Horklns Bother birth and opportunity! A mmi ha his future In his own hands. What 1 am I made myself. Synnex Oh. well; I wouldn't feel bad about It, Horklns. Of course you woudn't do it again. Chicago Tribune: "Why do they call these congressional appropriations for rivers and harbors 'pork'?" asked one of the visitor. "I have sometimes wondered at that myself," aid Senator Ixitsmtin. "The lo calities ttmt dnii't get anything always do a lot of beefing over It." Philadelphia Press: The tenderfoot w announcing his Intention or showing the foolish westerner a thing or two about high life. "I," he asserted, "have plenty of dough. Don't forget that." "You," murmured the Mexican roonts dealer, "will be a pudding for us." Judge: "What's this Mil. 'To flowers for church, t689'." " asked the tresuer of the official boerd. i "That Is for the Easter flowers," ex plained the chairman. "What did you do try to get a hat for a, the building. m , Washington Star: "What do you think we had better do about this man who keeps saying things against you?" "1st him alone, answered the practical politician. "When the people get tired of heating him, they'll say that tie's a bore and that I'm probably a much-misrepresented man." TK1.L THE I'OliKKMAS, James Birton Adams in Denver Post. If you bear a load of trouble that you think may bend you double and the burden grows no lighter a' you plod along the way. If today is one ot sorrow and no joy in sight tomorrow, if the sun of Rolden promise sends to you no cheery ray. Do not cloak your fare with sadness and In sort of scinl-madness pour your story In the ears of friends ' you meet upon the street They have cares too great to mention that require their whole atten- tlon; go and sing yuur doleful iong to the policeman on the ' beat. Every man upon hi shoulder bears some burdens big as boulders and none of them cares to have you 1 pile your own upon the load, Doesn't care to hear you chewing at the rag In grum reviewing of tha way you feel the prickings of misfortune's cruel goad. Though he listen to- your fretting ha Is earnestly regretting that he cannot bid you wander to the land of fiery heat Or, to more politely put It, he Is wish ing you would cut it and would go and tell your troubles to the copper on the beat. Bear tha load 'neath which you labor; do not seek to have a neighbor go ahead and brush aside the thorns that In your path are thrown. For, although he may not show It, may not rare to let you know It, you ran bet your frowning features he has troubles of his own. If It gives you satisfaction thus to keen your Jaw In action seek a sympathetic hearer put upon the quiet street When you see a big star glisten there you'll find an ear to listen and your troubles you ran tell to the police man on the beat. Use I J