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THE OMAHA DAILY BEKt MONDAY, 3IAHCII 30, 1003. Tiie Omaha Daily Bee E. ROriEWATER, EDITOR. rUBLISHKD- EVERT MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily Pee (without Sunday), One Tear..KVl Daily Hes and Sunday, one Year '" Illustrated Hee, One Year J 00 Sunday Ben, One Year J j' Saturday lu-r. One Year " Twentieth Century Farmer, One Year.. 1.00 DELIVERED BY CARIUEX Dally Bee (without Sunday), per cony.... 2c Dally Hee (without Sunday), per week.. .12c Dally Bee (Including Sunday), per week. .170 Hiinday per ropy r- Evening Bee (without Sunday), per week la Lvanlx. , I n ,l , i.l n AnndAVl. Dr Wek ,0e Complaint of irregularities In delivery Uould be addressed to CU Circulation De partment. OFFICE8. Omaha The Bee Building. Bouih Omaha City Hall Building. Twenty-fifth and M Streets. Council it hi ft iO Pearl Street. Chicago 1840 Unity Building. New York 2328 Park Row Building. Washington 601 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communication relating to news and edi torial matter should be addressed: Omaiia Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit br draft. express or postal order, payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only t-cent stamps accepted In payment of tnail aocounU. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchangee, not accepted. TUB BEE PUBL1SHINU COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CTBCTJI-ATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas f&uittr. es.i Oeorre B Tiachuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing' Cempany, being duly worn, ays that the actual number of full and fomplete eoplea of The Dally, Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee printed J '"" monin 01 soruary, uus, wm -- is. ze,z2S 1.. ....... n is 81,540 81.4WO 80,490 ...0,B70 ..80,650 it. ...81,400 ao .ai.eio U 81,670 23 JJ,315 a l,30 M. - 81,BO 25 .81,600 26 - 81,0 SO 27 31,000 28......... 81.TS0 ....H,200 ....... 80.610 10, S0.6OO 11 ...ao,Be.a U....M..80,40 U m .ftOttt40 li.....-.....8070 Total. 853,433 Leu unaol4 and returned coplee.... P.8U4 Net total aalea..... Net average galea .844.008 . SO, 145 GEORGE B. TZ8CHUCK. Subscribed in my presence and sworn to betore me ihia 2SUt day of February. A. U im. M. B. HUNOATE, ISeal.) Notary Fubllo. Tbli la where March hesitates be tween hit lion makeup and hla lamb coa tume. A $20,000,000 city hall la what Mayor Low recommends for Greater New York. After that It will bo Greatest New York. Municipal ownership Is the cry In Chi cago, too, but It la municipal ownership not of water works, but of street rail ways. If there Is anything' more than mere coincidence that the little beef trust was formed daring .Lent its significance Is not yet apparent - Fencing will hardly be such a popular pastime out In the grazing regions when the government agents start In to en force the land laws. For some Inscrutable reason the Jack aonlan ciub haa not yet Invited Grover Cleveland to atop off in Omaha aa Its guest on hla way west. . ' Now that "John Brown's Body" has gotten Into the class of "Poems you ought to know," the author of "A Hot Time" may aspire to literary Immortal ity. How much did It cost the telephone company to slip that Joker Into tho reve nue bill whereby It will be able to evade Its Just proportion of city taxes? Don't all speak at once. Aid now Admiral Dewey may Lave gotten Into trouble by talking too mnch. These military and naval officers should protect themselves by removing the reg isters from their phonographs. If John W. Gates really got the best of J. rierpont Morgan in his Louis ville & Nashville deal to the extent that he boasts, be la much smoother goods than he has usually been given credit for. ' - According to the annual report of the American Telephone company, over 3.150,000 telephones are In use In thla country subject to the Bell Interests alone. And the telephone has been util lzed for commercial purposes only for bout twenty-five years. All the privileged corporations want Is to see to It that safe men are nominated for all the offices on both city tickets. If they can restrict the voter's choice between corporation candidates, the railroads and public service companies will fee! safe either way. Our Dave has had another revelation. He would not accept a commission as mayor of Omaha If It waa offered him on a silver platter. Silver platters are not as valuable aa they used to was. Silver Is only 49 cents an ounce now. It used to be $1.29 an ounce. Colonel Bryan has been recording his experiences as a Juror, which he says convinces him more than ever of the soundness and value of the Jury system, What we Intimated at the time seems to have been quite correct in each Jury on which he served Mr. Bryan, to all Intents and purposes, was the whole Jury. Ttepresntatlve Ten Eyck has scored another victory In getting his bill through the house that will make it a penal offense to trim a horse's tail short ao long as It la attached to a living horse.. But why should Representative Ten Eyck be so tender about the horse and leave the milch cow without protec tion? . . Omaha's tight for municipal taxation of railroad property on the same basis as other property has ouly Just begun It must be carried on through the offl cers to be elected at the coining city . election. Is it any wonder the railroads are anxious to dictate the candidates again this spring Just as they named the legislative candidate last fall) 1 IsB.lOO .. ...... ao.eao 4 .80,600 .. DO SOTKItDAXQtn T7TC AUK ltDMt XTS. Now that the legislator haa rluspowd of the revenue bilL It becomes of vital moment that the cloning days of the tension be devoted to a careful confed eration of the projMsed amendments to the constitution that are to be submitted for popular ratification at tin election of 1904. The lnck of concerted action on the part of the committees of the two houses and the disposition to adopt sep arate amendments promiscuously as off ered, without relation to each other, Is liable to endanger the ratification of all the amendments. When the question of constitutional revision was before the legislature of 1895 It was the consensus of. opinion that It would be Imprudent to specify In the amendment the salaries. which the supreme Judges or the executive state officers should receive, but much wiser to leave them to be fixed by succeeding legislatures, subject to a restriction against raising or lowering except by a two-thirds vote of all the members of each house. It was also deemed pru dent to make the constitution more elas tic, so that new state offices might be created or old ones abolished by the legislature under similar requirement of a two-thirds or three-fourths tote. This rleW would doubtless still obtain if the members of the present , legislature would give the subject serious thought In other respects the amendments-submitted should be so framed as to fit In with one another to prevent possible conflict In their provisions. It should also be born In mind that the governor cannot veto any amend ment that has received the necessary three-fifths vote of both houses, or even an amendment that has been dovetailed and put through by mere concurrence of the two houses, aa was done in 1889 when two conflicting amendments were submitted chained to each other-ne to prohibit the manufacture and sale of liquor and . the other to regulate the manufacture and sale of liquor. Had both of these amendments carried, the state would have been confronted with a perplexing problem. It Is to be hoped, therefore, that the committees of the two houses to which proposed amend ments have been referred will get to gether without further delay and agree upon one set of amendments that will cover the Immediate and prospective wants of the state. A MOXOPOLT Oir STICK L. The recent course of the steel trust In acquiring competing steel companies, the merger of the constituent organisa tions of the trust and the steady ab sorption of the ore supplies, all point unmistakably'; to the monopolistic pur pose of the trust The Detroit Free rress refers to It as a "steel-riveted monopoly, absolutely proof against com petition," and says. that the trust does not have to put a dollar Into the nur- chase of Independent organisations and probably will not do bo unless they have raw material among "their assets, for the next natural move is to get all the de sirable ore. "No matter what may be said in defense of the merger, the fact remains that practically the whole Iron ana steel Industry has passed into the hands of a single corporation." The Free Press expresses the opinion that there must be some adequate and efficient control of a trust that monopo lizes the raw material and also the man ufacture of those Iron and steel pro ducts that are absolutely essential to the Industries of the nation." There is the authority of Attorney General Knox and others equally capable that It Is In the power of the government to exercise control over such corporations as the steel trust and It Is expected that the federal authorities will thoroughly in vestigate the operations of this coroora- tJon and if It be found to be violating the law, by suppressing competition or otnerwise, will Institute proceedings against it It Is quite probable that the steel trust will be among the first to re ceive attention from the new bureau of corpoitlon8, when it shall have entered upon. Its work. . , , . TO RJtLtliVIt TJ1K STHISQZSCV Secretary Shaw appears disposed to do whatever he properly and expediently can to relieve the monetary stringency. He does not intend to do anything that might promote or encourage speculation. but he is undoubtedly anxious to protect as far as bis authority will permit the legitimate business interests of ' the country. This it appears he hopes to do, at least In part, by an enlargement of the national bank currency He offers to refund Into 2 per cent bonds more of the securities of the United States specified in the act of March 14. 1900. This act authorizes the secretary of the treasury to refund Into 2 per cents, at a certain minimum valuation, the 3 per cent bonds maturing in 1908 to 1918 and the 4 per cent boads of 1907. There is outstanding of these, in round mini hers, $3."0.000.000. and the secretary pro poses to exchange $100,000,000 for the lower Interest bonds. These refunding bonds are redeemable after" April 1, 19TM), and are considered especially desirable for Investment of trust funds and for the use of nationol banking associations There appears to be some doubt as to whether this plan will be successful. under the terms prescribed by the sec retary of the treasury. It is also ques tloned whether, if the exchange Is made, It, will result In making any material addition to the currency. According to a statement from New York. Secretary Shaw does not expect that the refund ing which he proposes will of Itself throw upon the market more than $3,000,000 In actual cash, but he does expect that there will be a considerable surrender of the 3 and 4 per cent bunds. It Is doubtless good policy on the part of the government to make the ex change. It may prove helpful to the money market to a moderate extent. But the relief from this source will evi dently not be what la now Indicated will be the requirements of the market next fall. There Is very good reason to be lieve that there will be a greater strain then than was experienced last fall, un less in the meanwhile there should be a considerable shrinkage In values. There Is a disposition In certain financial cir cles to exaggerate the danger, but there Is no doubt that the situation Is not wholly satisfactory. So far as the na tional treasury Is concerned. It Is ex pected to do whatever law authorizes for relieving monetary stringency, but with a view solely to the protection of the legitimate business Interests of the country and not to encourage specula tion. irHKX JOBXHY COM Kit MARCH ISO JOMJC Ten days hence when the Douglas del egation returns from the state capital its members will be expected to answer a great many pertinent questions. The citizens of Omaha and" South Omaha, the merchants, mechanics, toilers In the workshops, packing houses and mills and the men who toil on the farm will all want to know what the delegation has accomplished during the session. They will all want to know why the delegation was so lukewarm In Its efforts to secure redress of the grievances from which Omaha has been suffering for years by reason of the Iniquitous method of railroad assessment that places a crushing burden upon the mass of tax payers while It virtually exempts the railroad corporations from their Just proportion of the public burdens. The taxpayers of Omaha will want to know what benefits they are to derive from the patched quilt charter that was logrolled through the legislature under the plea of emergency and what reforms and betterments may be expected from the hodgepodge revision of the old char ter. They will want to know why the delegation has manifested such Inex cusable Indifference to the popular de mand for a greater Omaha with home rule and the right to make Its own char ters without the interference of legisla tures. Some people In Omaha may want to know why the delegation consented to the insertion of the clause In the new revenue bill by which the telephone company Is to be assessed on the one year gross receipt basis Instead of the stocks and bonds as laid down by the supreme court There are many other questions which the delegation will have to answer when the legislative session Is over and Its members are face to face with their constituents. MKXACE TO COTTON UiDUSTRT. Widespread strikes are being threat ened In the New England cotton In dustry. The organized labor employed In the mills has demanded higher wages, on a basis of practical uniformity re gardless of differences of circumstances and conditions. The manufacturers are reported to be preparing to resist the de mands, even at the cost of shutting down their mills for an Indefinite time. If the strike should take place, which now appears very probable. It is appre hended that it would prove a very seri ous matter for all concerned and might permanently Injure the cotton Industry In that section. The New England cotton manufactur ers are encountering a very strong com petition. As the New York Journal of Commerce points out factories are mul tiplying In the south, close to the supply of material, nearer to the supply of fuel and where there Is an unorganised and cheaper labor force. The New England manufacturers cannot control the prices at which cotton goods are sold, with a growing competition in other sections, and throughout the trade in their prod ucts there la complaint of little profit Under such conditions It Is obvious that the manufacturers of New England are not In a position to make any consider able advance in wages. There is still a chance that the, matter may be arranged by some sort of compromise and a strike averted, but the spirit shown on both sides doea not give much promise of such a result If the Issue Is not ami cably settled the contest will undoubt edly be protracted, with heavy loss to both the manufaucturers and to labor. Exposition grafters are exhibiting keen interest in the appropriation for the Louisiana Purchase exposition. It is a matter of history that more than one-third of the $100,000 appropriated for the Transmlsslsslppl exposition was absorbed by political hangers-on and the sisters, cousins and aunts of the state commission. More than one-half of the $10,000 voted to Buffalo went in the same way. It is safe to predict that more than one-half of the $75,000 which It Is proposed to appropriate for the St. Louis exposition would pass through the pockets of exposition grafters. Lee Spratlen, who was appointed as a democrat on the "nonpartisan" Omaha fire and police commission by Governor Savage, has been reappointed for an other term by Governor Mickey. Mr. Spratlen, who Is the right-of-way man and gjnial lobbyist of the Burlington railroad, may always be depended upon to remain strictly nonpartisan. Like the late Jay Gould, he Is a democrat with democrats and a republican with republicans, and always for the B. & M. without an "if" or a "but." A few more holes have made their ap pearance in the Sixteenth street pave ment but the suggestion that the own ers of the abutting property take steps to have the whole street re-surfaced with the expense assessed back as in the case of the original pavement will be indignantly resented. That bow ever, is what ought to be done rather than saddle the cost of constant repair lug upon the taxpayers in general. After they utilize the Elklns anti-re bate law to make all the former pass holders pay fare, perhaps the railroads will find it possible to extend relief in the form of reduced rates to those who have been paying for the deadheads as well as for themselves all these years. Improving the Clrealatloa. San Francisco Call. Nothing ia more conducive to the circu lation of money than the spur and Inspira tion of free Institutions. Another Impor tant embezslement of public funds has beea discovered In the breesy affairs ot our new territory of Hawaii. Gets What He Pays For. Indianapolis Journal. The demoralizing effects of the "private detective" business was never more clearly shown than in the Stratton will case In Colorado, where a detective confesses to have entered the employ of both parties to the controversy In order to secure In side Information that he could dispose ot. However, anyone foolish enough to en gage the services ot an Individual In this line ot business deserves h!a fate. A Wast af Energy. Philadelphia Record (dem.). The oversealous people who want to make Mr. Cleveland president for a thltd term are sadly wasting energies that might be devoted to a better cause. They foolishly choose to overlook the unwritten two-term law ot the republic, which cannot be broken even for so good a man as Cleveland. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson fixed the limit that can never be exceeded so long as the nation shall exist, Rivalry (or Blr Fleets. Philadelphia Press. As Kaiser Wllhelm reads the English naval estimates for the year, $ 180,000,000 eleven battleships building and six more ordered and remembers that a fortnight earlier the American congress ordered five battleships and raised its naval estimates to $79,000,000, he must feel that his labor ious plan adopted three years ago to build up a great fleet that should match that of England and exceed that ot the United States has met with signal failure at the very opening of the struggle. The Clash of Ink Bottles. Detroit Free Press (dem.). It Is a sorry struggle, and the only per son who manages to keep cool In the midst of the clash of vocabularies is Mr. Cleveland himself. Through the smoke of the battle he can be seen peering anxiously at the ground to determine whether the spring angleworm has begun to bud, and over against his woodshed door, the flBhllne can be heard above the roar of the conflict champing impatiently at Its reel. Coat of Preparedness for War. Edward Everett Hale in "Lend-a-Hand." The naval and army expenditures of Eu rope In the year 1903 would build the trans continental railroads which should unite the Baltlo with the Pacific and the Medi terranean with the Cape of Good Hope. They would build these great railways twice it the world required It. Yet it Is thus far impossible to persuade one gov ernment in Europe to remit a penny's weight from its expenditure for war. And In our own administration at Washington the Department of War will cost the United States this year a thousand times as much as Its newly (formed Department ot Peace will do. Democratic) Hopelessness. New York Mall and Express. The mysterious . popularity of Judge Parker of this state as a prospective pres idential candidate is the visible emblem of democratic hopelessness and dissension. An empty honor Is , to be bestowed on a barren record. If not an empty name. We have called him the democratic John Doe, and the phrase Is gjiod enough. How much the party fears even to take up Its old shibboleth, free' trade, Is evidenced by the Chicago speech of the astute Edward M. Ehepard. He decries "a general revision of the tariff," admits "the widespread pop ular belief In protection" and would con fine the democratic attack to "the few schedules In which, through such practical monopoly, vast fortunes have been made." Limiting UeUht of Buildings. Philadelphia Record. Massachusetts has established in the Su preme court of the United States its right to limit the height of skyscrapers, even re troactively, and to take down several feet of a building in Boston which was carried up before the law was passed. New York Is seriously agitating a radical limitation upon high buildings to be erected hereafter, and has been urged thereto, not only by the New York City fire department, but by one of the. most eminent architects. and one who bos put up many tall buildings. Philadelphia was invaded rather late by the skyscraper and is In a particularly ad vantageous position for establishing a lim itation upon height. After many skricrayers have been erected it will be a more difficult problem to deal with. NOT BtSY ENOUGH FOR "PIDGIN." , Grotesqae Innovations la the Vern sc alar Proposed. New York Tribune. Americans are a busy people. But they are not, we trust, so busy as to be driven to the general use of "Pidgin" English. This expression of a pious hope Is provoked by some current discussion about the name for wireless telegraphy, and particularly by the suggestion ot a correspondent that wireless" should be adopted, as both noun and verb. Thus, our correspondent thinks we should speak of sending or receiving a "wireless," instead of a "wireless dispatch" or simply a dispatch, and should also speak ot "wirelessing" and bejng "wirelessed." He would have us conjugate the new verb "to wireless" thus: I wireless, thou wire- lessest, be wirelesses. Also: I was wire lessed, thou wast wirelessed, he was wire lessed. We should like to suggest, aa an alternative form, this: I wireless, thou throwest a fit, he drops dead. Self-respecting people will never, we be lieve, countenance such grotesque degrada tion ot their language, even though It be for the sake of saving a little breath or a few drops of Ink. It may be, as our cor respondent says, that some people use "wire" Instead of "telegraph" and "tele gram," and "typing" Instead ot "typewrit ing." They probably also write "nus" for "news," and "thru" for "through," and "nox" for knocks." There always have been and always will be freaks and cranks. But that such orthographical and etymol ogical "Pidgin" will ever receive the sanc tion of rational and educated people Is sim ply unthinkable. The excuse that we are a busy people and therefore drift rapidly to the shortest words that clearly express our meaning would not serve to justify such atrocities even If it were true. But It is not true. For these speciments of what Frenchmen sometimes call "style negre" are not the shortest words that clearly express the meaning. "Typing" is shorter than "type writing," but It does not make clear whether the operation referred to Is type writing or typesetting or printing. So a "typist" might be a typesetter aa well as a typewriter. The wretched abortion ot a word, "electrocute," which some use. Is ac tually a syllable longer than the "execute" which they ought to stick to Instead. Such examples might be multiplied. The Jargon of the careless and Illiterate is not always clear In meaning nor brief in compass. The most effective speech Is that which con forms with the established rules and prin ciples ot the langauge. It Is well to be busy. But it U not well to be too busy to write and speak correctly. Rorun Asorr hew tokk. Ripples On the Cwrreat ef Llfa la the Metropolis. There are a thousand or more vacant five or six-room flats In New York City, but so widespread and strong Is the op position of landlords to tenants with chil dren that a woman with seven children and money to pay the rent could not get one ot them.' Such Is the condition re ported by a New York newspaper. While the assertion may be exaggerated, there Is no doubt ot the existence of the feeling It represents, and It Is not confined to New York City. It presents another phase of the "large family" problem ao warmly commended by President Roosevelt and frowned upon by Miss Susan B. Anthony, Ella Darling McKllllp and others. Domestic life in hotels has become so popular in New York City that many fash ionable weddings are scheduled to take place In the leading hoetelrles there after Easter. Naturally the hotel wedding can not altogether take the place ot the ex pensive and ultra-fashionable church cere mony, with Its special choir, flower covered altar, Imposing bridal procession, brides maids, tralnbearcrs and other time honored accessories. Society will never let that go. But among persons who like to do the swell thing within a reasonable limit of expenditure the hotel wedding has got a firm foothold in the metropolis and is grow ing in favor. Following the advent ot tho new assist ant treasurer, Hamilton Fish, the task of counting 1285,000,000 in gold and silver and certificates In the sub-treasury was begun last week. The vision of so much treasure being actually handled attracts many to the building. There should be $201,000,000 In gold coin, $65,000,000 in silver dollars, $2,000,000 In minor currency and $17,000,000 In gold certificates. The gold coin Is "counted" by being weighed in the bags In which it Is kept, and only where the weight disagrees with the tally will it be necessary to actually count It. The work will occupy about two months. The wisdom that trickles from the police benches of New York City is not all Judi cial, but it is slways valuable. Thus Magistrate Poole, sitting in the Tombs court, was confronted by four men who had been arrested for playing poker on Sunday morning. After asking a number of questions ot the detectives who made the arrest, he suddenly said: "Did you count the cards?" "We did. It's a poker deck, all right; has Just fifty-two cards." "Fifty-two?" said the magistrate sharply. "There are not that many cards in a poker deck. They play the game With the sevens out. Prisoners discharged." Certain New York newspapers have lately been printing the personal views of busi ness "Napoleons" with the view to teaching the young American Idea how to shoot a million. One "successful" magnate, who has acquired a fortune that takes seven figures to indicate, says he turned the trick by devoting himself wholly to business nothing but business. "I dropped all my old friends and made no new ones," he says. "I cut out all soolal functions and never entertained myself. I didn't have time." This successful young man he Is only 30 then goes on to tell in detail how, step by step, he dried up all ths founts of human kindness in his heart and at each arid crater planted a new foundation stone for his great fortune. Josephine Dodge Daakam, the clever young' authoress who achieved some celeb rity recently by giving sage advice to women In general, is engaged to be married. The fortunate young man Is Selden Bacon, a New York lawyer. Miss Daskam will be remembered as the speaker betore a recent assemblage of the Pilgrim Mothers at the Waldorf. At that time she said: "At all times and In all places, w'omen, be good and charming. If you are good without being charming you may be altogether uninteresting. If you are charming and not good you are sure to be dangerous. The combination is the only safety for the race." Police Commissioner Greene of New York haa taken In hand those policemen who filch peanuts . and like viands from the wagons of the street peddlers. He has is sued an order against this mean form of small blackmail and directed the captains to read the same twice to the men under their command. "I appeal to the honest and self-respecting members of the force," he says, "to co-operate with me in driving out the men who thus disgrace their uni form. If this petty stealing is regarded In Its proper light by members of the force they will not associate with anyone guilty of it and will promptly report anyone sus pected of it." Forty million dollars' worth of lands and tenements in Greater New York en which taxes are In arrears will be sold this fall under an order of the comptroller. The property will not go to the purchasers in fee simple, but will be sold to them for a certain number of years, contingent upon the sum total of taxes chargeable against the property. WHAT WOl'lD ADAM SAYf Suppose Itamber One Bhoald Slse I'p Amerloaa Prosrress. Joslah Strong In Success. If Father Adam had lived fo our own times and, like ao many of his descend ants, had migrated to America, it Is not too much to say that he would tell us he had seen mora material nrovresa rinrlnv the last 100 years than during all his pre ceding life. The story of thla amazing progress Is the romance of Invention; and by far the greater part of this romance belongs to the latter half of the century. Charles W. Eliot, president of Harvard university, addressing the teachers of Con necticut a few months ago, said that within the last fifty years the world has been "made over." And this recreation of the physical world has been wrought by In vention. The miracles of steam and electricity have become so common that we have ceased to marvel at them, and every day we do things as a matter of course which, It they had been done in Old Salem Tows, would have caused the fathers to be hanged for witchcraft. If Washington could be brought back to New York be would think that. In his Journey from heaven, he had lost his way among the stars and had stumbled upon the wrong planet. Hardly lesa strange would the world of fifty years ago seam to the young people of today. It we could reverse the motion of the earth and send It spinning back a little beyond the middle of the nineteenth century, we ahould find most homes lightel with tallow candles, for not only would electrlo lighting hava gone, but also our kerosene and coal oil lamps with It In lieu of steam heat, hot water and hot air furnaces we should have to warm ourselves over a stove or before a fireplace with Ita biasing backlog. Going to bed where the temperature would very likely be below freeslDg, we ahould appreciate the warm ing pans ot our grandmothers. Our win ter table would know nothing of summer vegetables and the products of distant mar kets, for the art of canning was unknown . and cold storage had not been thought of. THAT BART1.KT CIGAR BOX. Fapllllon Times: That Bsrtley cigar bos Investigation reminds one ot sn attempt to choks a dog on butter. Aurora Republican: The committee which has been Investigating Bartley's "cigar box" will have nothing te report. The 1U on the box Is seeurely nailed down. Wayne Republican: Maybe there wasn't any "cigar box." Bartley Just plain , "took it" without the formality ot memoranda which would be awkward, you know, to leave behind. Wonder If the Investigation committee "see?" Elmcreek Beacon: The "cigar box" in vestlgatlon committee. It appears, did not find the box and only found one maa who had seen It. Ot course he bad forgotten vhether It was a stogla box or formerly contained Memmen's Plantations. Pender Republican: The committee ap pointed to investigate the Bartley "cigar box" reports that there Is no such thing In existence, but that it was probably a receptacle "like a cigar box." In other words an ordinary drawer to a safe. St. Paul Republican: Ex-Oovernor Sav age has wired the State Journal that he Is In Tacoma, Wash., and that he will re turn to Nebraska as soon as business will permit. What's the matter with continuing the life of that "cigar box" committee a few days longer? Table Rock Argus: The Bartley Investi gation developed nothing new. Very few persons had any idea that it would, for the contents of the "cigar box" were hidden so completely that the courts could not find them, and It was not expected that a legislative committee years later could do any better. York Times: At last the "cigar box" has been investigated by a legislative commit tee, and an anxious and expectant public has seen the Inside of It and the mystery Is revealed. The "cigar box" was none other than the drawer of the state treasurer's safe, says the committee. It was not a cigar box at all, but was once said to be "like a cigar box" by Governor Holcorab. The contents of the drawer were the cer tificates of deposit in state depositories held by the state treasurer. So this mare's nest has proven to contain nothing but ordinary pumpkins after all. Stanton Picket: The fact that the Bart ley Investigation has disclosed absolutely nothing beyond revealing the fact that the alleged cigar box which was supposed to contain I. O. U's. and other evidence of favors extended to numerous individuals by Joe Bartley is a myth and never ex isted. Ths evidence disclosed the fact that no one benefited by the steals except Bart ley himself. This places ex-Governor Sav age in a most unenviable light. It re moves the basis upon which pardon was alleged to have been granted. As an ex cuse for the exercising ef executive clem ency It was alleged that Bartley was not alone guilty of the crime for which he was sentenced; that he was a victim of his own generosity; ot a kindly disposition to aid friends; that others had been bene fited by the money embesaled; in short that Bartley was a martyr if not exactly a saint. The public was led to believe that proof of Bartley's generosity and of others' Indebtedness to him was actually In the hands of ths chief executive; in fact, that such proofs were in the much-discussed cigar box and subject to official Inspection upon demand. Governor Savage knew that no such cigar box existed. His private secretary, under oath, stated that It was only one ot his chiefs little Jokes. Savage knew this, and deliberately permitted the people to be deceived when a word from him would have undeceived them. Worse,' by far, he gave it as an excuse for the pardon of the most arch criminal that ever graced the Nebraska penitentiary. Bartley Is at liberty with no way of putting him back. The money he embexsled Is doubtless forever lost to the stste. For his part in the affair Savage should be made to suffer. It there Is nothing else that can be done, he should be Impeached. The legislature should act upon his case before adjourning. INFLATION BY TRUST!. One Dollar la Paper for Every Fifty Cents In Aetnal Property. Detroit Free Press. Though the Llttlefleld antl-truat bill was laid to rest In ths senate. Its author, as part of bis argument In the house, pre sented some very interesting tacts bearing upon the wisdom ot our present course and the chances of continuing the present pros perity. His facts and figures were supplied by the congressional information bureau, for the reliability and thoroughness of which he vouched. The number ot Industrial combinations, which means the unification of a number ot them engaged in .the same lines of pro duction, he. fixes at 453. The aggregate ot their common stock is $5,973,858,850; pre ferred stock, $2,091,608,820; bonds, $1,185, 774,528. making a grand total capitalization of $9,231,136,698. This amount is enormous, beyond human conception, yet It tells but a part ot the story. Taking alone the larger companies engaged In the quaal-publlc busi ness ot street railways, electrlo and gas Jlghtnlng companies, telephone and tele graph service, they represent a total capi talisation ot $1,619,697,819. Two years ago, when this feature of thf national census was made public, the en tire actual capital in land, buildings, ma chinery, material and cash, for every form ot manufacturing Institution, trust and in dependent, was less than $10,000,000,000. That is, we now have a capitalisation alone of the monopolistic combines that Is prac tically equal to the real worth of all the Industrial institutions of the country, though more than half ot them are outside of the trusts. This statement of facts Jutslfles a con clusion that the trusts as a whole are floating a dollar in stock and bonds for every 60 cents of actual property owned by them. Some are worse than others, but jo paiW)do aj iaq) iJ03 jq) U) twice what they are worth even under the liberal values returned to the census takers. 'This is an Immense flotation of paper. Most of It is traced to the capitali sing of expectations, and most of this In tangible, unsecured and problematical value Is represented in the common stock of which the investing public buys most. It Is a remarkable exhibition of managerial recklessness on the one hand and of popu lar credulity on the other. If the ex pectations that have been marketed bo realised the outside Investors will have a chance to save their money; yet, at that. It Is a strange phase of mortal judgment that will deliberately bny monopolised hopes. Waltham Watches Accurate and durable. "Tht Perfected American WikA." an Gkstrded look of inieresttng information ahoot matches, miSl ha aent free upon request, American Waltham Watch Company Waltham, Mass. . PERSONAL ROTES. Clarence Slorum, the new consul to War saw, who was appointed by President Roosevelt last week. Is a son ot the late Major Genera Slocum. An army officer In Alaska, reporting on the absence of the canteen, graphically describes the whisky of that territory at "running sixteen fights to the pint." More get-rlch-qulckert, who wanted to benefit their fellow men by giving then farms for the mere cost of drawing up ths papers, have been arrested in Chicago. With J. rierpont Morgan at the head et the syndicate owning the cup defender, one horrifying thought suggests Itself. Sup pose he decided to merge the opposing yacht Interests and abolished competition! Governor Bailey, the bachelor executive of Kansas, has decided to arrant the wishes of the Woman's Christian Temperance union and use water Instead of wine la christening the battleship named atter his state. Boston hss a street car conductor, John F. Hoar, who la also a member of the com mon council. He is noted for his politeness to the passengers who rids on bis car and they talk of sending him to the legislature la the fall. Senator Depew's One old residence in Washington Is to be torn down and sap planted with aa apartment house erected by a New York syndicate. One may sin cerely hope, however, that they will spare the venerable chestnut tree, . . Two sons of Eugene Field have arrived In New York with a comlo opera from -the pen of their father, It will be produced In the fall under the title ot "The Bucca neers." The mush? Is being written by a well-known composer of light operas. Champ Clark, the picturesque Mlsaourlan, has signed a contraot to lecture In a num ber of towns in the east and central west, concluding the tour at Shenandoah, la.. In May. He agrees with Congressman Ben ton, who said la a recent Interview that It is difficult for a member of congress to maintain himself on the $5,000 a year sal ary paid. Ths remark of Thomas J. Hughes, mayot of Seattle, when the grand Jury Indicted him for malfeasance in office was an Inter esting political observation. "If the grand jury has lndloted roe," he Is quoted as say ing, "it may as well Indict every man that voted for me. I told them how I would run the town and I have done Juat as I promised." Stern disciplinarian as he is, General Francis V. Greene, New York's commis sioner of police, has soft spots la him. Ths other night he happened In at a police sta tion Just as a pushcart man was being led away to a cell. "He'll be locked up all night, won't he?" aaked the general. "Yes, sir." "And he won't get anything to eat?" "No, sir." "That's a shame." Then ths general walked out. Five minutes later a district messenger arrived with a hot beel sandwich or two for the pushcart man. SMILING LINES. Ethel Yes, I won Charley at a euchre party. Krnle Indeed! I heard that you were awarded the booby prise. Chicago News. "Do you remember, George, what a beautiful day our wedding day was?" "Oh, come, let's talk of something pleas ant." Cleveland Plaindealer. "He Is always ready to lift np his voice In defense of his Ideas," an!d the admiring cltlsch. "Yes," answered 8cnator Sorghum, "but what Is the use of his lifting up his voice If he doesn't put up any money ?" Washing ton Star. Mr. Flirty (tauntlngly)-t saw Mrs. Berryman on the street today. She looked charming In her mourning- down.- ("'.. Mrs. Flirty (sarcastically) Indeed! It's a pity we all can't be widows. Detroit Free Press. -i. Mr. Dayman This may be a pretty fair S holograph of me, but surely my nose oesn't look like that. Mrs. Gayman (sweetly) No, but you must remember that color photography is not In general use yet, and betides red Is a very hard color to reproduce. Philadelphia Press. "Of all the cranks, my husband's the worst," exc aimed Mrs. Oadubout. "That no?" "Yes. This morning, for Instance, ha said he wished I'd occaatinHlly prepare sometning to tempt his appetite, and ha hasn't any appetite to tempt." Chicago Tribune. "Are you not glad to see the warm weather appronchlng?" "I don't know," answered Mr. Blrlus Barker. "It merely means that we will quit worrying about the coal bin and start In to study the refrigerator." Washington Star. "Well, when your wife gets started on an embarrassing subject," said the man who thought himself cute, "why don't you change the subject ?" "You don't know my wife," replied Hen peck. "8he'd simply exhsust the new sub ject and then take up the old one where she left off." Philadelphia Catholic Stand ard. "What Is a man's Ideal?" "That depend." "How do you mean?" "Why. before marriage It's the woman he's going to marry, and -ofter marriage It's some woman that he didn't marry.' Chicago Post. TUB PRICE! OF A GOWN. Brooklyn Eagle. The doctor was discouraged, for the neigh borhood was well; The rolc spared the little one, and also It befell The elders had no troubles that demanded media's skill; No one in that vicinity was even slightly ill. The doctor's wife was woiried, for she longed to have a gown; The doctor, when she mentioned It, could only darkly frown. "There Is," he said, "no chance at all of getting what you need While every person hereabout Is from all Illness freed." "Oh, woe Is me! alas! alack!" then cried the doctor's wife. "It's terrible Indeed that X should have so hard a life; I must. It seems, have patience just bs- cause you patients lark; I must, to go abroad In style, put some ens on his back." This woe she pondered deeply, but ere long was seen to smile. "I have a plan." she said at last, "that really iwmi worth while; I'll start at once a cooking school." He straightway ceased to frown. "My dear," he cried most Joyfully, "you'll surely get that gown." And so the people suffered, while the doe tor's wife In pride Paraded In the handsome gown that cnee had been denied. It cost ah, well she gained It by this heartless, mean device. And any one can see thai Indigestion was the price. I i