Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (April 4, 1902)
6 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FIUPAY, AFItTTj 4, 1002. I- The omaha Daily Bee. E. ROSEWATER. EDITOR. r PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Pally Bee (without Sunday), One Year. .$4 00 1 a 1 1 y Bee and ttunday, one Year t" Illustrated lit e, One Year 2 Sunday Bee, One Year 2.W Saturnay iiee. One liar 1ml Twentieth Century Farmer, One Year., l.uu DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Dally Bee (without Sunday), per copy 2c Dally Bee (without Sunday), per week 12c Dally Bee OncludlnK Sunday), per week.. lie Hunaay Bee, per copy bo Evening Bee (without Sundav). ner week.luc Evening Bea (Including Sunday), per week 16c Complalnta of Irregularltlea In delivery noma oe auareeaea to city circulation ue pertinent. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Bulldlna. South Omaha City Hall Building, Twen- ty-nitn and m Htreeta. Counrll bluffs 10 I'earl Street Chicago 140 Unity Building. New York Temple Court. Washington 601 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to newa and edi torial mntter should be addressed: Omaha Dee, Editorial Uepartment. BUSINESS LETTERS. Business letter and remittances should be addressed; The Bee Publishing Com pany, Omaha. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal ordeT, payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only 2-rent stamps accepted In payment of tnatl accounts, personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchange, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLlblilNU COMPANY. STATEMENT OP CIRCULATION. Stat of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss.: ' Oaorge B. Tsschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, ays that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the i jxionin oi mircn, ikta, was u tuuuwi 1 ST9.HT0 17 att.BHO 18 20,4S0 19 sr,o:io 20 2t,olM 21 Sfl.10 22 SH,KW 23 Jttt.OGO 24 a,io 26 JIH.IWO 26 29,0111) 27 W,o0 28 2O.B0 29 2H.B40 30 2I,94H) 31 2t,U40 t 2,T0O a 2tM,4itt 4 2,TT I UM.tt.tO f iitMiim 7 29.A2U t X9.4AO 9 tt,7IK 10 XU.-UiO 11 'J9,MHI 1? 2,3TO 13 28,4144) 14 2U,U0 15 10.070 111 2,flO Total Less unsold and returned copies. .U17.420 ,M)7 Net total sales Net dally average OEO. B. UOT.013 2M.277 TZHCHUCK. flubscrlhed In my presence and sworn to before me this Slut day of March, A. D. 190!. GEORGE RASMUSrfEN. (Beal.) Notary Public. Forecast of the report on the Christ mas bribery charges. Nothing In It. When the allied reform fortes and the fusion reform forces meet, then will come the tug of war. When congress gets after the alleged beef trust the lwef magnates may be expected to begin beeflug. Prepare for still another boost of In surance rates to make good the loss of that famous Board Walk. The republican city machine still ap pears to be the nightmare of the Jack aontans and Jeffersonlans of these parts. The arguments before the referee In the tax mandamus case hare been con cluded. Thank God from whom all blessings flow. That strike on the Boston breweries must be regarded most unfortunate (when we recollect that the bock beer aeason Is almost due. With a $250,000 Carnegie free public library to start with, the city of Havana Dught to strike a good gait down the pathway of twentieth century culture. General Pewet has been a troublesome customer for the British ever since the commencement of the Boer unpleasant ness and promises to keep up bis record to the end. The next city election In Omaha will Occur In March, 1003.' It Is a trifle too early to begin to worry about the prob able candidates Mho will contest for nominations next winter. Ex-Senator Allen repudiates the Louisville reform meeting as an assem blage of spurious populists. No reform goes for the fusion wlug that does not bsve the Bryan label burned in the cork And blown In the bottle. According to Interstate Commerce Commissioner Prouty, the railroads of this country are now practically con trolled by Ave men. Five railway kings make a full hand and they doubt Ions jiave their hnnds full also. Mayor-elect Koutsky has announced that he proposes to turn over In cash to his successor as city treasurer of South Omaha every cent of city money In bis possession. Here Is a republican example for fusion rauulclpal reformers. So long as Chauncey Depew persists In going around with a chip on his shoulder be must expect his colleagues In the senate to essay to knock It off from time to time. The other senators are merely Jealous of Depew and his young wife. Governor Savage has assured the As sociated Press agent at Ht. Joseph that very peuDy of the $181,ouo for the eui beulement of which Bartley was con victed would be repaid Into the state treasury. This will be gratifying uews to Nebraska taxpayers, but as most of them ball from Missouri, they will have to be shown. Sooth Omaha democrats are like new born ktttens. It takes nine days for them to open their eyes. Although only forty-eight hours have passed since the election, they are, however, beginning to blink sod wonder why It was the World Herald had not said one word editorially la favor of the democratic city ticket doling, the whole, campaign. It' will soon begin to dawn upon these hewers of !troo4 and drawers of water In the demo cratic camp that their organ resembles the heathen Chinee, who for ways that Are dark and tricks that are vain is refuted to be very peculiar. PUBLICITY FOR CORPORA TlVJtS. representative Mttlefleld of Maine has a bill providing for publicity of accounts of corporations doing an interstate bus! ness which he proposes soon to bring forward in the house. The measure vests the authority to collect corporate statistics la the secretary of the treas ury. though It Is possible that In the event of a department of commerce Iwlng created the authority would be lodged In the head of that department Mr. Llttlefleld thinks the chances for the passage of the bill are good and In regard to Its lielug obnoxious to many corporations, which of course such legis lation would be, he remarked that they would scarcely lie able to oppose the plan with any very good grace, since it is as fair to one as to another aud it would be no more injurious to have a particular corporation's affairs known to Its rivals than to have their busluess knowu to It. The Llttlellchl bill does not go so far ns some may think expedient or neces sary in order to secure satisfactory re sults, but Its author does not think It would be wise to propose a too drastic measure at the outset Thus, for in stance, he is of the opiuion that noth ing would be gained by attaching a taxation provision to the bill as a pen alty for refusal to submit returns, being disposed to rely very largely upon the fact that the declaration provided for in the bill waa to be made under oath. although admitting that In the case of personal property and income taxes the irlnclple of declaration had not worked very satisfactorily. Obviously any legis lation of this kind should be sufficiently comprehensive to be reasonably sure of effecting the desired object, otherwise it would soon become a dead letter. However, It Is gratifying to know that a serious effort Is to be made to secure some legislation requiring corporotlons engaged In Interstate commerce to let the public know their financial condition and it Is to lie hoped Mr. Llttlefleld will press his bill to consideration as soon as possible. THE CHRISTMAS CHARGES. Thus far not the slightest bit of evi dence has been found to warrant the charges made by Captain Christmas In connection with the negotiations for the sale of the Danish West Indies and It appears entirely safe to say that noue an lie round. All the witnesses ex-- amiued by the congressional committee have testified that they had onlv .i casual acquaintance with Christmas and had never talked with him lu regard to the negotiations, or received anv sort of proposition from him. To further discredit the allcired ne gotiator for the sale of the Islands comes an official announcement from the cap ital of Denmark that the Danish mln. lstry has had no connection with Chris- mas; that the premier refused to o him when he asked for an audience and also refused to receive a .copy of a re port by Christmas on the subiect of ne- gotlotlons. This statement otieht to lie sufficient to satisfy any reasonable per son that the fellow Christmas Is a fraud and his allegations totally unworthv of serious consideration by a committee of congress. Trobably Mr. Richardson, the democratic house leader, who called for the investigation, believed there was something in the charges, but he must now see that he was misled, not to sav duped, and that he made a great mis take in not sifting the matter himself Instead of rushing it upon the attention of congress upon inadequate authority. But the expectation of making a little political capital was Irresistible. THE PRESIDENT AND IRRIGATION. No one Is more earnestly In favor of the reclamation of the arid lands than President Roosevelt. This was elearlv shown In his extended treatment of the subject in his first message to congress. He pointed out the benefits that would result to the whole country from the reclamation and settlement of the arid lands and showed a comprehensive fa miliarity with the question of Irrigation. It was reiwrted recently that the presi dent disapproved of the irrigation bill that passed the senate and is now In the house. He was said to have told friends of the measure who called upon him that he fully believed In the value and necessity of the great undertaking which the bill proposed, that he thought any money Judiciously expeuded in the creation aud oiteratlou of a system of Irrigation such as the supporters of the pending measure had lu view would be well Invested, and that he approved the general purpose of the bill and only criticised some of its provisions which he considered 111-advlsed. He was re ported to have especially disapproved of that section of the bill which places the local government of the state where irri gation Is Intended to be iustltuted Jn control of Its operation. His argument was stated to be that, works constructed at the exiH-nse of the United States gov ernment should tie under the exclusive control of that government and that every arrangement' for the distribution of the water furnislied by means of the irrigation canals should be made and executed under the supervision of the federal authorities. Later luformation Is to the effect that the previously reported attitude of the president toward the peudlng bill was exaggerated aud that in a coufereuce with htm of friends of the measure It was ascertained that it will not be nec essary to strike out the section of the bill relating to state control and dis tribution of water, but simply to change the phraseology. In bis message Mr. Roosevelt said: "These Irrigation works should be built by the uatioual govern ment. The lands reclaimed by them should be reserved by the government for actual settlers aud the cost of con struction should so far as possible be repaid by the luud reclaimed. The dis tribution of the water, the division of the streams among Irrigators, should be left to the settlers themselves in con formity with state laws and without Interference with those laws or with tested rights, Jht policy of the national government should be to aid Irrigation In the several states and territories In such manner as will enable the people In the local communities to help them selves, and as will stimulate needed re forms In the state laws and regulations governing Irrigation." This doubtless Is the present position of the president that water distribution among irrigators should be left to the settlers themselves In conformity with state laws aud consequently he would not require the striking out of the sec tion he is reported to have especially objected to, though recommeudlug its modification, which It Is said will lie done. The very strong argument presented by President Roosevelt for the reclama tion of the arid lands warrants the be lief that there will be no obstruction ou his part to Irrigation legislation. MCMCIPAl. OHAEKsHP SEMTIMEX T The trend of public sentiment lu American cities is steadily growing in favor of the municipal ownership of public utilities. At lust Tuesday's elec tion In Chicago two propositions as to municipal ownership were submitted to the voters. One of these was for an ex pression for or against the ownership by the city of Chicago of all street rail roads within the corporate limits; the second for the ownership by the city of Chicago of the gas and electric lighting plants, said plants to furnish light, heat and power for both public and private use. While neither of these propositions carried anything more with It than u test of public sentiment, the vote that registered the popular opinion was over whelmingly lu favor of the municipal ownership Idea lu spite of the declara tion of the most widely circulated news paper that it was Impossible for the city to acquire and operate the plants of the franchlsed corporations, an(i further more that, even if it could do so, It would be against public jwlicy to at tempt It, Out of a total vote of 15(5,000 cast In the Chicago election nearly 125,000 were cast In favor of municipal ownership aud less than 25,000 against it, the remaining ballots being left blank. The prime cause of this popular de mand Is not so much because Its in auguration Is expected to effect a ma terial reduction in taxation or saving to private consumers as it is because of the general dissatisfaction with the service aud the corrupt Influence exerted by the franchlsed corporations upon municipal officials and lawmakers. The street railways of Chicago have for years been wretchedly inadequate to the public need and the tampering with legisla tures and city councils by the street car maguates and their agents has Intensi fied public resentment In many parts of Chicago the horse car still traverses the street and people are subjected to intense discomfort in overcrowded slow coach cars, when they have a right to demand modern transit with subway trolleys. ! What Is true of Chicago is true only in lesser degree of other cities. Such unsatisfactory conditions naturally stim ulate agitation for municipal ownership, which simply voices popular discontent and offers the ouly hope of tangible re lief and redress. The minority report in the house of representatives on the proposed pure food legislation raises the old point of states rights, denying to the national government any constitutional right to exercise such powers of regulation. This was once a much-disputed question, but the courts have passed on it repeatedly, upholding the federal authority under the interstate commerce clause of the constitution. The states uuquestiouauiy have the right to enforce regulation of food products within their Jurisdictions, but under present industrial conditions are unable to cope with the problem In Its entirety. Pending congressional pure food bills may have objectionable fea tures, but the states rights plea will hardly make any Impression against them at this stage of the proceedings. The night before the South Omaha election Constantine J. Smyth declared that in his opinion an Indictment by the late grand Jury was a badge of honor and a recommendation for popu lar favor. But the court of public opin ion, sitting in Judgment on the ballot box, reversed the champion of true re form by a most decisive majority. Once more we have another striking proof that the voice of the people Is the voice of Uod. And now a famine In whisky Is pre dicted because there are only 17,000,000 gallons in sight whereas the annual cousuuiptiou Is estimated at 25,000,000 gallons. Such conditions would favor a corner ou whisky, but there cull for any one man to try to corner on It all in himself. is no get a Ureatest Show on Earth. Philadelphia Ledger. A debate between Henry Watterson and Benjamla K. Tillman on almost any sub ject would Interest a large portion of the population. A Strange Transition. Chicago Record-Herald. In one of hla recent speeches Colonel Henry Watterson referred to "the multi tudinous waves of the Pacific sea." Can l( be possible that tbe colonel is turning to water for inspiration? Sana UI4 Story. Indianapolis Journal. The statement that the democrats In Iowa are carrying municipal elections recalls tbe remark of s democrat who declared that the party had a capacity for carrying elec tions that were of no use to them. Philadelphia, Ledger. That was g remarkably cool-beaded audi ence which escaped uninjured from s burn ing theater In Cincinnati on Eunday. Tbe place was crowded, standing room and all, the fire was s sensational one, filling the theater with smoke, and especially terrify ing since the auditorium waa on tbe aecond floor and there were stairs to descend: 7t tbe whole assemblage dispersed la so or derly, a. maoAct last o eat was fcurt aAdJreiUeacs, Election of Senators Portland The legislature of the great state of Iowa, the Massachusetts of the mlddls west In stock and political traditions, has passed a Joint resolution ask lag congress to submit an amendment to the constitu tion so as (o permit the election of I'nlted States senators by popular vote. This Is the answer of the greatest state of the tronsmlsslsslppl went to United States Senator Hoar's announcement that he will do his best to prevent the submission to the states of a constitutional amendment providing for the election of senators by the people. Senator Hoar is an old man. In his seventy-sixth year, but be may, and probably will, live to see this political re form he opposes enacted. Outside of the I'nlted States senate It meets with no op position from any influential faction of either party, a'nd this means Its enactment within ten years. The popular movement for changing the mode of election to the I'nlted States senate Is due to the fact that men are sent to the senate by venal legis latures whose ability and standing do not warrant any such elevation. The legisla tures In a number of states have elected senators whose sole claim to the honor lies In, their wealth and their willingness to use It, directly or indirectly, to pur chase the senttorsblp. A popular elec tion would not entirety redeem this dis graceful situation, but It would certainly greatly reform It It Is, of course, true that money can be used in popular elec tions, as well as in legislative elections. Kilt It PimiAt Km n ...II. anil a, a, nm I . - . ally employed to obtain a sure venal re- suit. A nomination can be bought by money In a convention, but a nomination does not always mean an election. A man may buy a nomination and yet be com- pletely beaten at the polls. If a legtala- ture is venal, a man like Senator Clark of Montana can get the senatorshlp. but .v ..upuimo m nuj up u eour. people. Furthermore, a strong reason for chang- ing the present mode of electing United there was no sign of a panic. There would be little danger in theater fires if every audience would behave like this. . The Peerless and Ills Prophet. Buffalo Express. Bryan has moved onto his farm and Jones, J. K., of Arkansas, will soon retire to bis farm. 'His constituents bave called him back from Washington. Thus, one by one, do tbe democrats retire tbe silver leaders." Concerning; the Corn Crop. Cincinnati Enquirer. The Idea of a $100,000,000 corn trust Is a practical one, if the captains of capital con clude to bunch their resources for the pur pose. The modus operandi was pointed out In the Enquirer more than two years ago. A trust for the control of ail the cereal and agricultural products of the country, not by the agriculturist producers, but by the controllers of capital, Is highly prob able. When It is brought sbout the farm ers will know more about trusts. THE ARMY AND GOOD MORALS. Secretary Root's Explicit Orders to the Men In the Tropica. Philadelphia Press. Secretary Root has struck a high and effective note In his frank and explicit order upon the moral sanitation of tbe army. ' The tropics bring to soldiers two evils, vice snd liquor. 'Both are deadly in hot climates to the white man of the tem perate zone. The glaring argument of evil apology for the- first of these evils is that nothing better can be expected of officers or soldiers where temptation Is as rife as In the tropics. - The Anglo-Indian army shows the working of this Ignoble view. From 1861, when the cases of disease from vice were 160.2 per 1,000 per year among English regiments In India, they rose stead ily for thirty years, until In 1890 they were 603.6 per 1,000 per year, and in 1895 reached 522. It is no unknown thing for half an English regiment in India cantonments to be incapacitated for duty. Out of 70,642 British soldiers serving in India only 26,247 men, or 37 per cent, had never suffered from this scourge. Our own hospitals In the winter of 1898-9 bore terrible testimony to the effect of gathering a quarter of a million men most of them camped on our own soli without precaution or prevention against this danger. Two courses are open. Legislation and regulation may seek by loathsome medical precautions to make vice safe. This haa always failed. It always will fall. It never can succeed. The evidence on this bead Is overwhelming. The other course is an honest, honorable, open, well-planned attempt to make men better.' The former plan has been tried and failed In all European armies. Secretary Root boldly, frankly and with open-minded candor, addresses himself to tbe second course. The experience of our colleges has proved that nothing so protects the young man against temptation as rigorous, syste matic exercise. There Is evidence that at one Institution systematic and competitive athletics have reduced cases of this loath some character to one-slxtb of the number twenty-five years ago. Secretary Root urges on officers a sound example and continuous efforts to Interest and occupy their men with constant exer cise and harmless amusements. His appeal Is full of moral conviction, rare In the official treatment of this evil. His order would never be Issued save in an army whose officers could be moved by this ring. Ing appeal to tbe higher and better nature of men. The American public will respond with earnest and unstinted approval. PERSONAL NOTES. D. B. Hill bas to live in a house. He has no farm. C. M. Depew has quit talking entirely since bis marriage. Hermann Bergmann, said to be a distant relative of the emperor of Germany, Is In the Cincinnati workhouse. A French pianist played for twenty-seven hours snd four minutes snd then went in sane. The poor fellow got an overdose of bis own music. Napoleon crowned himself and it looks as If Edwsrd VII would bsve to do the same. If be wishes to have the ceremony per formed to suit him. A young man named Bell worked for 117 a week In a New York bank. Then all at once be collected several years' salary In advance snd the police were notified. President Harris of Amherst college points with pride to the fact that there are proportionately more college professors wbo sre graduates of that Institution than can be found among the graduates of any other college In tb country. Dr. William J. Tucker is about finishing the first decade of his presidency of Dart mouth college. ' When be took charge there were 458 students snd st present the num ber la ever 1.400. Over 11,600,000 baa been received In endowments. Mayor Seth Low of New York City bas rbosen for bis summer borne a house on Uis north shore of Long Island sound, st Milton Point, near Rye. Last week be purchased a steam yacht to carry him back and forth dally between tbe city and bis summer Oregonlan (rep.). States senators Is that the system does not always elect. Vacancies through failure of the legislature to elect have occurred within the last ten years In Washington, Oregon Montana, Pennsylvania, and at the present time tbe state of Delaware Is left whnl'.v unrepresented In the I'nlted States senato through the Inability of a faction rent leg islature to come to a decision. A system under which the non-representation of i state In the t'nlted States senate is pos slble is become vicious In Us results, and needs utter reformation by absoluie ex tlnction. The house of representatives has four times passed a constitutional amend ment making senators elected by tbe pon mar vote. More than bait the states. through their legislatures, have asked for the adoption of this amendment, and yet Senator Hoar pleads that the amendment would be a breach of the national pledge that the equality of the states would not ue aesiroyea witnout me consent or everv one of them. But changing the mode of electing the senators from the legislature to tbe people still leaves each state with two senators In the upper branch and on an exact equality. Many senators favor the smendment, and If two-thirds of the senate concur In the smendment already passed by tbe house, three-fourths of the states will ratify their action. Tbe opposition of Senator Hoar Is with out foundation of fact and reason, and la very bad policy, for the states will be sure to obtain their will ultimately by the Das- - ... aage or resolutions demanding reform at the bands of congress. Tbe unanimity of the popular demand Is attested by the fact that the Philadelphia preM, a stiff radical republican admlnistra- tlon organ, plead, for the popular election of Unlted states 8eator9 as 8trongly as do lhe impendent voices of the New York Evening Post, the Boston Herald, the Springfield Republican Eagle, and the Brooklyn BITS OF" WASHINGTON LIFE. Scenes and Incident Sketched on the Spot. Four women who are prominent in offi cial life in Washington went to a recep tion recently, each wearing a brand new Paris costume, which she was absolutely certain was an original creation without a duplicate on this side of the Atlantic. Each on arriving at tbe reception was sur prised to find that there were three other women present dressed in gown identical In material, trimming, ornament and design with the one she had on. The four women were Mrs. Hitchcock, wife of the secretary of the Interior; Mrs. Kean, mother of the senator from New Jersey, and Mrs. Foraker and Mrs. Hanna, the wives of the Ohio senators. Mrs. Hitch cock purchased her gown in St. Louis, Mrs. Kearn got hers In New York, Mrs. Hanna's came from Cleveland, and Mrs. Foraker's from Cincinnati. Early Saturday morning the pages of the bouse of representatives held a mock ses sion of the house, reports a New York World letter. They elected the oldest page speaker, organized, received a mes sage from the senate and from the president In strict parliamentary style and unani mously adopted a resolution increasing their salaries from $75 to (350 a month. The proceedings were interrupted by Jerry Constantine, a house telegraph oper ator, who appeared on the floor, waving a dollar-bill and demanding recognition. "I move that the gentleman's bill be laid on the table," said a boy from Ohio. The motion prevailed and Constantine was dragged to the bar of the bouse and forced to act In accordance with tbe motion. "I visited the house of representatives the other day," remarked a stranger to tbe Washington Star, "and I was impressed by one or two facts which Interested me. "In this, one of the two great legislative bodies of tbe United States, I expected to see a great many, tbe majority. In fact, of the members of venerable aspect. I could but observe the absence of gray heads among the representatives. In short, men of venerable aspect were so largely In the minority that I was at once struck with tbe fact. Most of the members appeared to be young men and men in or under the age of middle life. I pointed out many of the gentlemen on the floor of youthful appear ance and asked the doorkeeper If they were really members of the bouse. He replied In all Instances they were members snd seemed surprised that I should ask the question. I consider this fact a striking il lustration of the possibilities for the young man In American political life. As I am a foreigner and used to seeing gray beards In high legislative snd executive positions on the continent the contrast was tbe more noticeable. I waa also Informed that the bill under debate had been before the house for several days, was bitterly contested and that much feeling existed on either side. The 'feeling' the doorkeeper referred to was not observerable to me. If Americans con sider the debates In their lower house to be 'animated' they should see what a really 'animated debate' amounts to in the French Chamber of Deputies:. They would expert, enc a change of mind. "I could also but remark upon the lim ited space In tbe galleries allotted to the general public, snd I was Informed that this space bad been even more curtailed during a reconstruction of the Interior of the chamber last summer. I supposed, of course, that the best part of tbe galleries would In this country be given over to the public. At every door but two I waa re fused admission except upon the production of a card or a personal Identification that I was a member of the diplomatic corps or one of the official government family. In tbe space allotted to the public there were not over 100 seats. If that number. Of course, tbe seating capacity of the gal leries Is not great, but tbe reserved spase must take up over 80 per cent, while I thought tbe opposite rule would be found to be true." The Washington correspondent of the Chicago Post says: Representative Neville of Nebraska is st least In "outward and visible showing" the most patriotic man In congress. He is so proud of tbe Stars and Stripes that be wears them all the time. On the bosom of bis fine white shirt is embroidered In red, white and blue a miniature American flag, In the center of wblcb be sticks a diamond stud. Tbe effect is striking and attracts much sttention. Two women were wandering through tbe senate wing of the capltol yesterday, re ports the Waahlngton Post, when one of them approached Senator Hawley. "Will you please show us tbe president's room?" they asked. Senator Hawley not only did the honors of tbe president's room, but escorted tbem to the room of tbe committee on military affairs to display to tbe visitors the band some frescoes of that apartment. "Thank you very much." said one of the women and then slipped into Senator Hawley'a band a silver quarter. "My dear madam," said Senator Hawley, "I am one of the senators from Connecticut sod you cannot expect me to sccept any thing for doing you a kindness." "Goodness gracious," exclaimed tbe wo ma a, "are you a senator! I thought you re a doorkeeper." , You feel old. Hour after hour you slowly drag yourself through your work. You are tired out all the time. Night brings no rest. What is the cause of all this? Impure blood. Get rid of these impurities. Put your blood in better condition. Build up your nerves. The doctors report to us the best of success with Ayer's Sarsaparilla. It's the only Com pound Concentrated Extract of Sarsaparilla. M I have used Aysr's Sarsaparilla in order to make my blood pure and improve my general health. It gave me the best satisfaction of any medicine I ever took." F. B. McCray, Tripton, III. ' A.M. All frstrhU. J. C AVF1 CO., l.U. Mtss. THE TIRMMi DOWN OF JONES. Boston Transcript: Jones of Arkansas ppears to have been the victim of an oc topus boomerang. Washington Post: We have a notion that the election news from Arkansas stirred un the blooded heifer and the other occupants of a certain Nebraska farm. Indianapolis Journal: Evidently the democrats In Arkansas do not accept Mr. Bryan's assurance that Senator Jones' cot ton baling combination Is not 'a monopoly. Philadelphia Record: The defeat of Sena tor James K. Jones in his effort to bavo himself re-elected to the senate from Ar kansas further knocks away the underpin ning from the Kansas City platform. Sena tor Jones Is an old campaigner and has seen long service in congress, but his party Is evidently no longer willing to follow bim in forbidden paths. Baltimore American: That he was a drac about Bryan's neck and a halter upon the party is undeniable. Had he given way to a more energetic, sympathetic and capable man the democracy would certainly have fared better. That It will profit Immensely by his foreshadowed retirement; that it will bave more astute leadership in the senate and that, taken all In all, the coun try will do better for bis elimination, are truths which need no argument for sub stantiation. New York Sun: Unless tho returns have been twisted, the Hon. James P. Clarke will succeed tbe Hon. James K. Jones S3 a senator In congress from Arkansas. As a political manager aud weaver of rosy bulletins, Mr. Jones has been a treasure and a Joy; and he Is an amiable sort of chap and well liked in the senate. But It takes a "slicker" man than be to be an octopus and an octopodiclde, the slayer and tbe slain. As tbe bard of the Ozarks sings: Wall, Arkansaw, wall O'er the buster bust; Bury him In a bale Of the round bale trust: (HOnl(i THE RIGHT PATH. President Roosevelt's Action Against Corporate Lawlessness. Minneapolis Times (Ind.). It was to have been expected that the great railway millionaires would bring strong pressure to bear upon President Roosevelt to change or modify his an nounced decision to prevent discrimination in rates and restraint of trade and com merce. These millionaires are now carry ing millions upon millions of dollars' worth of stocks that they do not want and bought only for the purpose of gaining control of great properties and then unloading a large share of the securities upon the public at advanced figures. The course of the De partment of Justice, under directions from the president, has made It impossible for them to sell their securities snd st thy same time has cast the shadow of strong doubt upon their title to despotic control of the transportation service of the country. It is stated that tbe merger magnates have thrown, or soon will throw, down the gauntlet to the president, the challenge being "Withdraw your opposition to our plans for control and enrichment or we will defeat your ambitions to succeed yourself as president." President Roosevelt can afford to let the gauntlet rest where It falls. . He Is not re quired to pick It up nor accept tbe chal lenge. His path lies In the direction of tbe duty pointed out to blm by the laws of the land. Involved .in that duty Is another, which Is to obtain a final derision as to what tbe laws affectlag transportation companies mean. Should President Roosevelt yield to tbe millionaires be would sign tbe death war rant of his hopes to be elected president of the United States and we believe thst the present incumbent of tbe Whits House de sires more an indorsement st the hands of tbe people, a specific election to the office An Early Spring. It seems to be here already; tut we are ready So is the new Spring Suit that you'll ' want The Popular price is$15.00s See what we have at that figure groining- Exclusive Clothiers and Furnishers. H. 3 WJlcoi, Manager. i li m of their rhlcf maglMrste. than he does con tinuance Id the responsibilities of the omYe itself. There need bp no doubt as to what course Mr. Roosevelt will elect to follow. If he should be elected president In 1904 It ill be by the people. The people will be gov erned In their election tiy a sentiment that Is not inimical to railways, hut that is hos tile, to the limit, against overcapitalization, unwarranted freight and passenger tariffs, destruction of competition and Intcrfcrcme with trade and commerce. KMII.IMJ ME. . Judge: Nervous ldy imh n In rare Mnl flies before the vessel) oh, captiUn, Is tbj an omen? Matter-nf-fai't that Is a seagull. Captain Nil, madamo; Chicago Tribune: plained the scales, all out of kelter " 'That fat man," oom "flniply knocked me Well." replied the candy machine. ne:tr ... . n. iw you can lie in weight fur the ncxi one mat comes hIoiik. Cleveland Plain I.)ealer: hiarry In June." "She expects to "Who l-j the man?" "She ll yet the man after ahe has made all the other arrangements." Yonkers Statesman: The -Mother Uncle ( harles asked the baby what kind of eyes It had. The Father-Just as if tho dear llltlo thing could tell him. "Well, she did. She said 'goo, goo.' " New York Run: Violinist The critics say I m only a tenth-rate plaver. Manager Never mind. You're getting th. money, and the women evervwhere make a bargain-counter rush to kins' vou. Brooklyn IJfe: "What you sre actually wearing Is no business of tho Inspectors." "Perhaps not. Hut the last time 1 j-anm across I wore an nlr of disdain through tho custom house, and they didn't do a thing but make me pay about double duty." New York Sun: Juggles What earthly good resulted from the bicycle Tse? Waggles Why, man, It thev ' hadn't taught us to dodge while crossing the street there would be hundreds of auto accidents every day. Chicago Post: "IHd you call that truxt magnate to the stand?" "I did," answered the man who was con ducting the InvestiRHtlim. "I suppose lie adileil a great deal to tlio Interest In the CHse?" "He did. It Is now more mysterious than ever." 'HEX BOLT." (Dr. Thomas Dunn English, author of tho famous song. "Hen Bolt." died cm Tuesday at his home ut Newark, N. J.) Oh! don't you remember sweet Alice, Bn Bolt. Sweet Alice whose hnlr whs so brown, Who wept with delight when you gave her a smile And trembled with fear at our frown? In the old churchyard In tho vaUey, Ben Holt. . In a corner obscure and alone. They have fitted a Blab of the granite so gray. Anil sweet Alice His under the stone. Under the hickory tree. Bon Bolt, Which stood at the foot of the hll. Together we've lain In the noonday shade And listened to Appleton's mill. The mill wheel has fallen to pieces, Ben , Bolt. The rafters have tumbled In. And a quiet that crawls round the walla an you gaxe H.ns followed the olden din. And don't you remember tho school. Ben Bolt, With the master so cruel and grim, And the shaded nook In the running brook, Where the children went to'swlin? Grass grows on the master's grave, Ben Bolt; The spring of the brook Is dry. And of all the boys who were schoolmates then. There are only you and I. 'u There In change In the things I loved, Ben Holt ; ' They have changed from tho old to the new. But I feel in the depths of my spirit th truth ' There never was change In you. Twelve months, twenty, have passed, Ben Bolt, Since first we were friends yet I hall Thy presence a blessing, thy presence a truth, Ben Holt of the salt sea gale. J$2 (5