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Tiie Omaha Daily Bee. E. ROdEW'ATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERT MORN! NO- TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Isee (wltliout Sunday), One Year.lt.Oi Dally hee and Hnnilay, one Tear '" illustrated Hee. one Year F inrtsy Bee, One Veer hstuMay Hce, Otis Year Twentieth Century Karmer. One Tear.. 1.0) DELIVEHKD BY CARRIKH. Pally Be (without Sunday), per copy.... 2c 1 )allv U- ia-hhniil UnnHutk tWr Week. t.i'l Dally Bee ilncluulng Sunday), per weea..Lc (SunOS y Bee, per ropy J Kvenlng Bee (without Sunday), per week a Evening Bee (Including Sunday), Per, week :-,;-10c Complaints of Irref ulsrltles In delivery should bo addressed to Cil Circulation De partment. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Bulldlnr- ,,, Bouth Oiraha-Clty Hall Building, Twenty-fifth and M Streets. Council Bluffs iO Pearl Street. Chicago 1640 Unity Building. New i"urlc--232)i Park Row Hul!dmg. Washington stn Fourteenth Btreet. CORRESPONDENCE. 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Publishing Company, being duly worn; ays that the actual number ot full and complete, copies of The Dally, Morning, Kvenlng and Sunday Bee printed during the month ol March, iva. was a iui'- 1 20.81S J7 18 1 2D 21 22 23 31, TOO ..Sl.BlO ..81,730 ..C1.4J10 31,700 31, OHO 31,400 31.ftM 20,210 3X2.10 S ?,1,KM 7... ...ui.or.o I XO.170 I . :;t.i.v 10 ...31,000 ji si, mo 12 31,720 18.... 81.TR0 14.A..... 31.700 16 .20,3.-10 24 31,MO 25 16 27 28 29 30 21 ...Sl.filO . .81,710 ..81.7TO ..31.07O ..20,000 ..31,020 ..31,700 li ......B1.B40 Total Lees unsold and returned copies Net -total sales '. Net aver&sre sales ,070,0S . 10.4H1 .0(10,014 30.IXV3 UIORUI B. TZaCMUClv. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 31st day of March. A. D., IDOi. M. B. HUNGATE. (Seal.) Notary Public. 'King Edward will visit the pope. But ha will not have to go to Canossa to see him, . It Is a nonpartisan reform police com munion, with Buccaneer Broatch as the whole commission. The rallrouda and privileged corpora ' tlons against the people that Is to be the Issue of our Impending city cuiu palgn. , The aultan la Bald to be keeping faith with the powera In the enforcement of promised reforms. The aultan must know he ls being closely watched. President Roosevelt wai welcomed at Evanstan ,'to our": midst." , Too bad . Charles A. Dana Is not alive , to pass pungent comment on this performance. When It comes To ' unscrupulous dls , regard of the rights of the minority, the "antl-machlne", machine can give the old machine cords and spades and all the aces. President Roosevelt believes in ham merlng one nail at a time. His speeches on his western tour-will . each deal with only a single topic, but tbey. will deal with It In such a way that no one can mistake his position. A colored student has won one of the principal prizes for oratorical competi tion at Yale. No wonder the people of the south enter such a protest, against giving the colored youth the same educa tional advantages as the children of white parents. When It comes to. municipal owner hip, the people are quite apt to ask themselves this question: If municipal ownership of the water works is such a good thing, why is not municipal owner . ship of an electric lighting and power plant Just as good? The opening of the Mexican congress gives President Diaz occasion to remind the Mexican lawmakers that the contln uous depreciation of sliver constitutes a constant nieunce to Mexico's prosperity Silver Is a live Issue In Mexico, no mat ter how dead It Is everywhere else. Bo long as the electric lighting mo nopoly furnishes free Illumination for the Omaha hyphenated and so long as the telephone company gives that con cern free use of Its wires, any allusion to "corporation cormorants" Is treated as an old chestnut. 'Twos ever thus. It will be must gratifying to the friends of the late chalrmau of the com mlttee on publlu buildings to know that he Is about to file auother application with the city building Inspector for permit to erect a $25,001) mansion for which plans were completed on Apr fool's day, ' There seems to bo a few small que tiona of veracity between the great rail road ; magnates lu their litigation for control of the big properties they have been trying to absorb. As long as they keep within the bounds of politenexs In contradicting one auother, tho balance of peace may be held even. The local iHpcratle organ could al ways be relied upon to come to the de fense of republican crooks and outlaws. It stood in wftlt Charley Mosher and Joe Bartley, and it Is not at ail surpris ing that It stands la with Broatch and defends hi lawless methods and usurpations. Omaha now has six memliers of the water board and oue water commis sioner drawing salaries out of the city treasury, but no municipal water plant as yet. This ls the result of half baked legislation. What business man starting up a new store would hire his cWrka before Lis goods were consigned to him I . a. a A in tor owtAiuztD labor. There Is good reason for the view ex pressed hy some of the labor leaders that the decision of Judge Adams in the Wabash case Is a gain for organized la lor. It Is a gain especially In the rec ognition It gives of the right of the offi cers of labor organizations, when duly authorized, to represent such organiza tions In the statement of grievances and In efforts to have the grievances rem edied. The complaint of the railroad company rfan directed against the ac tion of the officers of the Brotherhoods of Iocoinotlve Firemen and Railroad Trainmen. It was shown that these offi cers acted In pursuance of authority conferred upon them by their respective organizations and the court held that this was ample warrant for what they did. It is ulso a gain for organized la lor In recognizing the right of the em ployes of the railroad to leave that em ployment In a Inxly If they elect to do so. It Is a further gain In the Implied declaration that It Is not a conspiracy for men In lnlmr organizations to agree upon a course of action looking to the correction of grievances and the Im provement of their condition. All this Is manifestly Important The question of the recognition of organized labor Is no longer In controversy. It has been determined by federal and state courts and sanctioned by the highest national authority, executive and Mcgls latlve. The right of men to onlte and organize for mutual protection and bet ferment ha been firmly established and perhaps will never again be seriously disputed. ; As to the obligations and re sponslbilities of organized labor there may still be some points to be settled Judicially, but In regard to these there Is a very sound and comprehensive defl nitlon In the report of the anthracite strike commission. Organized labor must respect the law and the order of j society. It must not Interfere with, the freedom of unorganized labor. "A labor or other organization," said the com mission, "whose purpose can only be ac complished by the violation of law and order of society, has no right to exist." Another declaration Is equally signifi cant: "Our language Is the lanc-iiare of free people and 'fails to furnish any forhi of speech by which the right of a citizen to work when he pleases, for whom he pleases and on what terms he pleases can be successfully denle'd." So long as organized labor employs only fair, legitimate and honorable methods for strengthening itself and bettering la bor conditions It will have the approval and support of public opinion and will grow In Influence. There has been a decided advance In popular education during the last few years respecting the rights and privi leges, as well as the duties and respon sibilities, of organized labor. We are getting nearer to a complete' and lust understanding of Its legal obligations and Its relations to public Interests. With the growth of this enlightenment there will certainly ccme a clearer ap prehension of what Is necessary to se cure and preserve Industrial peace. VAST RAILROAD IMPROVEMENTS. The Improvements that are being made by American railroads are on a vast scale and they denote the confidence of railway managers In the future of trans portation. . One of a party of English railroad officials who are examining the railway systems of this country has ex pressed amazement at the amount of money that Is being put Into Improve ments, expressing a fear that the time will come when American railroad man agements will have .trouble in paying returns on the expenditures that are be ing made. He thought that more con servatlsm now would prevent many bankruptcies In the future, 7et he found railroad managers here to have un bounded faith In the maintenance of ex Istlng conditions. The great Improvements which Amer ican railroads are making are certainly of much present benefit to the country. The large expenditures make a material contribution to the general prosperity, The confidence In the future that they denote on the part of the shrewd and able men at the head of our railroad sy tems will probably prove not to be mis taken. It Is to be expected, of course, that there will come a time, possibly not remote, when railroad traffic will not be so great as at present, but the outlook for a continuance of large transportation business Is certainly favorable. If the ahipners of the country, who are paying for the Improvement, shall ultimately get compensatory benefit, the expend! ture will have been amply Justified. KHGLAtiD'H FboD PROBLEM. According to reports from American consuls in England, great Interest con tinues to be manifested there In the question of a food sppply for the United Kingdom in time of war. About month ago a deputation of prominent men called upon Premier Balfour and urged the appointment of a, special com mission to inquire Into the question of security of the food supply in the event of war with .some; naval power. The premier expressed the opinion that the danger which would have to be met wa not the exclusion of grain and raw ma terluls necessity for the "country's sub sistence, but the cost of lntroducln them. He thought the country could get all It wanted If It was prepared to pay the price. These views, however, did not allay solicitude and discussion of the subject Is still going on, with ap parently increasing public Interest It ta pointed out that so dependent has Great Britain become, upon outside sources for her breadstuff's and meat, that war between her aud any other great lower would menace the whole of the I'ulted Kingdom with a possibility of famine. In the five years from lsytl to li)()l, which lucluded the Boer war, Eng luud Imported 75 per cent of her con sumption of wheat and flour and a'si a very large percentage of meats and other provisions. Special effort art now bolna tnarlft to arouse the neonle. par- tlcnlarly In the agricultural districts, to h the danger, which lies In a possible col- listen with a rival naval power. It Is sought to stimulate the farmers to devote I a larger acreage to wheat and go more lilteraliy Into the business of cattle-rals- Ing. No very great Improvement in the situation, however, could be made In this way, since the productive capacity of the United Kingdom cannot be very materially Increased. Perhaps the dan- per Is not exaggerated and at any rate I It should be a strong Incentive to the exertion of British Influence In behalf i of the world's peace. POLICE DEO HA DAT toy. When W. J. Broatch and his side part ners on the police board allowed the . ,. i .,, t nmih urugymi. aim - " to be hem up ty tne umaua laaery oj the tune of about f2,.VK last Decemnjr thov hnrt n rltrht to exnect that the favor would be reciprocated. This ex- , , , , plains why the M orld-Hernld tries to make light of the lndcrensnne course ' pointment and promotion of police offi cers who had scandalized the service years ago and should by right have been barred from ever again being al lowed 4 wear a policeman's uniform. TU ?act that the Infamous conduct of these men had been committed yeara ago does not make their reappointment bv the nresent commission less offen- slve. The malodorous record of Captain Haze and former Chief Slgwart was brought to the attention of the commis sion at the very outset, before they had entered upon the reorganization of the police force, and the board therefore could not plead the baby act as an ex- cuse for reinstating these men In the et-rvlpe . The. story of the Blair can-can dance may be an oia cnestnut, dui inai men- tloua public exhibition should have been bar against the reappointment of men ho took a conspicuous part In it The atory of the Day and Relchenbach cases may be an old chestnut, but the appoint ment to a police captaincy of a man who was Indirectly responsible for the tragic Incident by which a wayward girl lost her life and another wayward girl, who had been sentenced to the reform ohrvnl n rpmnnrlpH to n llfo of shame . , , ,, j 1 ' - - I muuui uc luu reinc, "'' But these are by no means the only striking examples of sham reform In Omaha. The selection of George Btryker, who had been dismissed by the county board from the superintendency of the county poor farm, to be police in- epector of pawnshops Is equally repre- lienslUle ana lnaerenslDIe. I But you can't expect to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. Nobody fa- minnr.THth th. nuthcria nf .W. t Broatch and his ideals of police govern- ment haa been in the least surprised at the dismissal or degradation of comne- tent, faithful and clean police officers r I and the re-employment of men whose records snow, tnem to do atsoonest, I vicious and unclean. I The necessity of taking serious matters " I -liiD1wy 1. m.tr-orrwl oo-otr. K tha on. I dciiuudij its iiiuo(tait.u c m, u-i u uj tuo T .. ...... I ronment on me statute dooks or ise- braska of a law providing for the com-1 Dulsorv extermination of oralrie dors. 1 When the bill was before the senate uiBi. uwi, uitu 1UM.-11 a buiv ui mock court and debated the question w'th all the levity such a fantastic proj-1 ect deserved. When It came to a roll ,, ...... call a majority of the votes were re- corded In favor of the bill purely out of a spirit of hilarity, with confident ex- pectatlon that the house would promptly consign the bill to the legislative ceme tery. Instead of meeting this expecta tion the house has given the bill its en dorsement and the governor has at tached ) i.-. official signature, so that what was supposed to be a Joke on Its author Will now become a Joke upon the neonle. We annrehend. however, that . . rt .in .r.. .w. 4 i. vv u,c wnen tney are eanea upon to pay tne blll for the prairie dog extermination. The plan to refer the beet sugar bounty claims to the courts for adjudl cation Is a good one for the claimants. All the beet sugar people are now ask ing ls the face of their original certlfl cates, whereas If they are allowed to sue In the courts they will have a right to demand Interest from the time the money became due. But why should sugar bounty claims take any different course - from other claims against the state? If one claimant ls given a rem- edy In the courts, all should have the same rlghta, for there are many debts justly owing by the state which have been similarly passed along from one legislature to another. The state should t . . not have any preferred creditors. The statement has been ventured that If the Real Estate exchange had begun to get in Its work twenty-five years . . . . . . ago Omaha would today be a city of 200,000 population. But It ls not too late to make up for lost time. By keep ing up the pace set during the last two years, the Real Estate exchange can, with the co'-operatlon of other commer cial bodies and of the people generally, pull the population mark up to 200,000 by the next census. Germany's meat Inspection law ls aimed specially at American meat ex ports, regardless of Its apparent general application. The German consumer, however, will be the one to suffer most by it, and when they realize that exclu sion of American meat products compels them to buy higher-priced but poorer home-grown meats the reaction will surely set In. Small Criabi of Comfort. Chicago Record-Herald. Out of twenty-three mayors elected In Iowa Monday th democrat got three. Mr. Brian can find the enemy', country with out going far from home. On Sensible UHn Seeker. Chicago Chronicle, On whit man la the south has common ens about th color question. A, T. Fox, candidate for the governorship of Missis "d TT1, J 'it wlt upon the conilt),moa o tta slate, Fox ask the voter to let the race question alone and devote their time to the tn- dustrlsl development ot the state. Fox ought to be elected governor In the In terest of common sense. Something err la Court Railage. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. A. Kansaa court has decided that If a railroad company has good modern appli ances and careful and competent engineers and firemen damages cannot be collected hea locomotive spark burns a planing mill, a lumber yard, a Methodist church and several minor buildings. This Is quite Important to both railroads and owners of buildings. Crashed by Asphalt Rollers. Philadelphia Record. is now conceded mat me siockb oi u eomb,nlltoa ,bst Bath frM , many dupe oi vlctlm, , phM. adelphla are utterly worthless. The ques- tlon recurs as to how much value, If any total of not quit. $30,000,000 of bond. of this swindling combination will be found to when tne concern ,hali come under the auctioneer s hammer. IA In nfanretlon New York Times. When an admiral of the United Btates navy feels an Impulse ta express an opin ion as to the ability of our fleet to wipe the German navy off the face of the sea or at least to do this with such part of that navy . as could . be sent to American waters he would do well to seek the ae elusion of an Inside room, lock tho door, stuff the keyhole with cotton, and then "V. nothing Facta -Worth Remembering. Baltimore American. The public has not yet entirely recov ered from the dazed condition of mind Into which It was thrown by the start llngly novel theory of the coal strike com mig,0n that the people have rights which employers and employes are bound to re- spect. Jhe doctrine that the public has nothing to do with labor dispute except to pay the expenses has been too long borne , ,ufferln Bnencv for the great body of consumers to realize that recognition of their existence has been demanded. Dopinsr naee Har.es. New York Tribune. Turf authorities In Europe and-America are giving careful study to the need of mora rigorous measures to prevent the use ot drugs and stimulants for Increasing the speed of horses. There never were in any preTtous time so many wealthy, prominent and honorable owners of race horses, but the amazing expansion'of the sport has . . - , . L- .-..I attracted hocks oi tuiiui-cs ra hjuij , l,.no- hlh.mlnrt.rt turfmen. These brds of prey ,h0uld have their wings clipped. ' J STERN IRRIGATION PLANS. Marnlflcent Projects i . Dimension a-d PpoDabie Co,t .ih- A,rir.n. o-rr.turv Hitchcock is bealnnlna to re allze that Irrigation of arid lands is a more costly project thsn was imagined when congress passed the Hansborough bill. The schemes embraced in that bill are a bateiie compared with the whole project. but they are sufficient to furnish some Idea of the stupendoua,.,enterprtse upon which government must emoarx u con- HnitAa Ma. nMlnv. . WhfTI that nlll WH.B paMed the estimaWf..ot the cost per acre was. )5,. while nqw, it is conceded that It cannot be less than' $12,' and may be much more. When the original price of the land added, It must its obvious that not many t as j ..tit... 'Ml I . a. kUln. OOUaimfl Beilier. Will UV lit yu.iwuu IVI . purchase. It ls alB0 ai8COvered that Irrigation by private corporations and Individuals has been done much cheaper than the work undtr t4hv,8 "IT11-, " " cune,1 I for by the fact that private enterprise has been undertaken only where it promises to be profitable, and has secured all the best sites. This would seem to suggest the wUdom of leav'ng. tno Z?oX? ,u.nder,kln to private enterprise. ins miuai acneme of tnft KOVernment contemplates the Irrt- gation of about 1,BOO,000 acres at points as far apart as the Canadian border and the Desert of Arizona. At the figures quoted above this will cost about $20,000,000, but this acreage, compared to the vast region to be irrigated, ls scarcely more than drop In a bucket. - Some of the plans are magnificent. Elvers are to be diverted and made to flow In an opposite direction into another river. The St. Marya river Is only to be partially diverted, because it flows through Canada, and Its loss mlghtxmake the Canadian ugly. Huge tunnels are to " oorea ior six miles mruuga idiiu roc. nt ,g undoubte(1,y a magnificent project. thoroughly calculated to excite the Imagt- nation and arouse the admiration. Nothing like it has been 'seen in the world In ancient or modern times, but it will be well for the public not to examine It too closely. MAKING OK A LOBBY BOSS. An Eastern Baldwin Where Bis Grip Cornea In. Indianapolis News. General Charles E. Brayton, the boss ot T) , Aa Talnn nuhllfltiAR whnt tnlvht hA called his memoirs In an Interview in the New York Evening Post. For bravado, not to brazenness. It rather pales the frank d cyn,Cai statement, of Quay Croker. -nd iugt now for particular application with us of Indianapolis; Here are a few sentences from Boss Brayton'. .tatemenl: 1 m n uorne3r ror cerlaln c,,en" na look out for their Interests before the i.i.,11M.. i .m retained .nnu.iw bv th. New York. New Haven c Hartford Rait- road company, and am usually spoken of as 'of counsel1 for that road. Of course, 1 &ao:t have nJrthln to do wltB niago suits or matters like that, but look after tnr ,nterelti !n relatl011 to grade croas- ngs and other questions where legislation is necessary. As everyone knows, I act for the Rhode Island company (street rati-, way Interests) and I have been retained in certain case, by th. Providence Telephone company. In addition to these, I have had connections, not permanent, with various companies desiring franchises, charters and things ot that sort from the legislature." Nov, we nave an Illustration of this sort of work in the last legislature, when the track elevation bill wa. up, and Mr. Cock, rum, lawyer for a railroad, was on the floor of the legislature directing legisla tion and polling votes. How It comes that special Interests have more Influence with the people', representatives than the peo ple have, Boss Brayton tells: "Well, you sea. In managing the cam paign every year, I am in a position to bs of aervlcs to men all over th .tat. I help them to get elected, and naturally many warm friendship, result; then when th.y ar In a position to repay me tbey ar glad to do It." That 1. thes special Interest procure th election of legislators, who In turn srv their masters. In this "brutally frank" statement I th whole genesis and revelation ot bosslsm. And we bav It her feeding on our Interest and relying oa snap conventions to perpetual Itself so that It caa "make good" on tbi under taking, and everything els that nay com , Its way. HIT9 or WASHINGTON LIFE. Minor Scenes and Incidents gketche on the Spot. A fascinating story of wealth scooped In from a small Investment in a mining claim was syndicated over the country recently by an enterprising California space filler. Senator Dcpew was the central figure In the story. His comfortable position on Easy street was ascribed to fortunate In vestments In mining camps, and the im pression was clearly conveyed to the reader that the road to wealth was along the Depew route without change of cars and personally conducted. As soon as the story appeared Washington correspondents rushed for the senator's home to tender congratulations and catch the festive In terview on the wing. This ls what the senator said: "The idea of. Investing In western mines and In arid lands which can be Irrigated at little cost and made to yield Ave crop a year has always beea attractive to tne. In the course of my life I have Invested In twenty-six mines and In one Irrigation farm. With one exception the mines In which I have Invested either ran out or were salted, and, In the case of the farm, water never reached It. But the Bagdad mine was a good Investment, although the story, as telegraphed from the Pacific coast, Is not exactly correct. If the sale goes through all right I shall probably re coup all my Investments of a lifetime In that sort of property. The mine has not actually been sold, but the parties have an option on it which, expires some time next month, and I understand that there Is no question about their accepting It" President Roosevelt haa made more post office appointments since he began his term of office than any of bis predecessors In the same length of time. The records of the Postofflce department says the Washington Post, show that during the first session of congress under President Roosevelt's administration he nominated 2,611 presi dential postmasters, or considerably more than enough to Oil half the presidential of fices In the country. Of these named seven teen were withdrawn, two were rejected by the senate, nineteen failed to secure con firmation, leaving 2,673 who were con firmed. That was his record up to the beginning of the second session of the Fifth-seventh congress. During the recent session many more were nominated, with only a few unconfirmed when congress ad journed on March 4. This unprecedented record has been made regardless of the trouble that Is met with In filling the southern offices, where charges and counter charges are made by factional differences that exist. The pres ident has a faculty of settling a postofflce appointment In his own decisive method. which ls a solution of the problem of the vast number appointed Soon after he became chief executive In 1901 an unusually large number of com missions had expired, which fact made t Imperative for the reappointment of many or for new appointments; besides, pros' perous times In many localities has In creased the number of presidential offices. Souvenir hunters have made so free with trifles found on table, and stand. In the Whit House that some action became necessary. One party of young women visitor recently made away with about everything , movable except the furniture. They carried off pens, pencils, pads of paper, blotters and the tops of every Ink bottle in sight. They would have taken the ink bottles, but they were filled. Sine then the waiting room ha always been kept prepared for souvenir hunter. One of the table on which writing materials were kept ha. been removed and the. other ha nothing on It but an ink bottle and a few plain card. When a caller want to All nut a card he t given a pen by an attend ant, who take It again a soon as he Is through. When Justice Day was sworn in as mem ber of the United State supreme court the other day a newspaper man happened to bear the reading of the oath as It wa. administered. The paragraph Imposing strict Justice to poor and rich alike struck the reporter a something unusual, and he wrote a nice story about the changed oath that wa. fixed up to have special appli cation on the cases of suits brought against the trust. The yarn was dressed up in an interesting fashion and made an enter taining story. It was copied and is now going the rounds among the weekly papers. As a matter of fact, the oath taken by Judge Day ls the same that every associate Justice takes, and Is Identical with that subscribed to by Justice John Marshall. It waa not changed in any respect what ever. There waa an examination at the weather bureau in Washington the other day for candidate, for the position of assistant weather observer, notes the New York World. These are some of the answers: "The dew-point ls a needle-point of steel, and Is determined by the rise and fall of a barometer." "A thunderstorm ls the burning up of the carbonaceous matter and surplus ot nitrogen of th air." "The arid region of the Untted State i. a good place for bear and other animal covered with wool; but, on account of numerous icebergs It ls not a good place for navigation, for the abode ot man or for vegetation." The following ls an er tract from a com petitor's letter: "This here letter writing ls the worst thing you could give me. In the first place, my wrist ls lame, ao I can't write; and In the second place, I'm like the sailor's par rot a hell of a thinker, but a poor talker." PEHSONAL NOTES. The fool season has already opened with eclat up In New York state, where a boat rocker succeeded In drowning four persona the other day. The declaration by an English scientist that fish is not a brain producing food Is regarded In Boston, which assume to be Intellectual, as a great tribute to the sacred cod. With President Roosevelt off on his trip to the Interior, Mrs. Roosevelt and children cruising on Mayflower and Alice in Porto Rico, the White House will be dis tressingly quiet. Here is a characteristic expression of view from Prof. Huxley, the eminent Eng lish scientist: "It Is an excellent rule always to erase anything that strikes one as particularly smart when writing." Some aaocdotlst tells a story of Wash ington Irving, who wa. fond ot the theater nd who on on occasion went into trans port over the acting of a famous woman tar, yet when an accommodating friend volunteered to Inlroduc him he Instantly replied: "Please don't. It would destroy the Illusion." Booker T. Washington ls coming to be regarded as possessing marked oratorical ability. A combination of rich, sonorous voice, excellent memory and fins sense of humor, added to large and varied Intellect ual resources, enable him always to fulfill the expectation of hi admirers, but often to surpass that point. ' President Eliot of Harvard university ls 69 year of age, but every One morning take a spin on his bicycle. Mrs. Eliot, a few years hi. Junior, usually accompanies him, tha pair look lug fresh, happy and hearty. Dr. Eliot Is a splendid example of an ex-athlete who atill keeps himself In good physical trim. Hs has been presi dent of Harvard for thirty-four year. Waltham Watches Chronicles of the time. "The PtrfedeJ American Wkh," n ti!astrted Book of Interesting information sBooi xwitches, vfSJ be sent free upon request, American Wlthm Wtkh Company Witihun, Mass GROWTH OP A WEED. Ma no (net are and Consumption of To bacco in the t'nltcd States. Boston Transcript. When Sir Walter Raleigh introduced to bacco In his native country he little dreamed of the vast commercial enterprise for which be was making an opening. When King James wrote his "Counterblast" he was antagonizing what to him was a dis gusting practice, but he had no Idea that the noxious weed was some time to become a matter of commercial warfare In his own kingdom In which the subjects of a remote successor would be worsted. The discussion of the Consolidated Tobacco company's ex pansion by Oeorge Buchanan Fife, In the March Century, reads like a romance. The conquest of the tobacco trade of the world by the American trust appears to be com plete. Its operations cover every country except those In which the business Is a government monopoly. The trust owns 131 factories In nine coun tries, with actual property valued at $161, 000,000, while the aggregate capital Involved ls $400,0000,000. Thirteen years ago It be gan Us existence 'with a capitalization of $25,000,000, only $10,000,000 of which was paid In. Having conquered America, It sougnt new fields, the most promising of which seemed to be Great Britain. In Sep tember, 1901, It purchased, for $4,250,000, a controlling interest In Ogden's, Lalmlted, of Liverpool. It Installed a Virginia expert In blending, and its business grew to such pro portions as to alarm British Interests. An English trust waa formed to fight the Amer ican trust. But It did not understand the subtle methods of It. audacious competitor. It agreed to divide among its 34,000 cus tomers during the next four year, the sum of $250,000 a year, distributed pro rata, with other bonuses to be conferred subsequently, on condition that the retailers boycott th Americans. No sooner had this circular been issued than the American company followed It with 10,000 telegrams, asking a suspension of decision until the retailer heard the counter proposition, which was to dis tribute entire net profits and $1,000,000 a year, with no boycott. This wa too much for the conservative and cautious English men, and last year they capitulated on the terms of their rivals. Now the trust has undertaken to establish a citadel In Ger many, with good prospect, of success. It will have a German name, but will be con ducted on American method, for the profit of American shareholder.. Year by year the tentacles of this colossal concern are reaching out farther and farther. Of the 290,000,000 pounds of manu factured tobacco produced yearly In this country the trust make. 225,000,000, exclu sive of snuff, cigars and cigarettes. It pro duces 1,350,000,000 cigars. Including those made in Cuba, 8,000,000,000 cigarette, and 16,000,000 pounds of snuff. It manufactures 70 per cent of all the tinfoil and has plan tations In Asia Minor for growing licorice. It has a controlling Interest In a brief pipe factory and is figuring upon possess ing Itself of the cigar box trade. The re taller, are making loud protests and com plaining that the trust 1. trying to drive them from their business. The trust make the most plausible disclaimers, as plausible as those ot the Standard Oil officials to similar charges. Yet the former Independ ent dealers find themselves gradually forced to the wall, all the same. To be sure, the basis of this vast Industry is a habit. It does not deal with the necessaries of life, like the oil trust or the beet trust, but It Involves far reaching vested interests, nevertheless. ALLUREMENTS OF BUSINESS. Lesson Drawn from the Career ol tha Lnte Gnstavna F. Swift. Kansas City Star. When the late Gustavus Franklin Swift was a barefoot boy In the town of Saga more, Mass., he vowed to hi companion that he would become a rich man thai Is, that he would amass a fortune of $75,000. That was his limit. He had little compre hension or any accumulation of money greater than this sum, and probably would have been at a loss to know what to do with the Income of a larger fortune, if th .possibilities of one had been held out to him In those day. The career of the great packer was a conspicuous example of what can be ac complished In this country by Intelligent devotion to a particular purpose. Young Swift determined to make money. He was dependent on hi own efforts. He saved his pennies, and when he had made them dollars be Invested the dollar, on a plan that enabled him to save dollars. But continuously he sought larger In vestments for his larger earnings. Ther was nothing "meteoric" about this ca reer. It was one of gradual and con servative building. From a meat trader with a distributing cart at Sagamore he went to Boston and opened a butcher shop. Then he formed a partnership and took the position of buyer. When hs could not buy satisfactorily In Boston he went to Albany. From Albany he went to Buffalo, and so by degrees found his way to Chicago, and Anally to Kansas City, so as to be nearer the source ot supplies. After making a large business In shipping live cattle, he became a packer In order to make and distribute meat more cheaply, and he was among the first to utilize to advantage all of the parts of the animal, many of which had been a total loi-s In the small business Washable 1 4m Plain white duck, neat dot pattern and fancy atripe effects, size 34 to 48 J see window $1.25 Also new Marseilles wears in neat, fancy patterns, fancy tripe and white duck and pique, ies 34 to 6a . $2.00 to $3.50 '. yo CLOTHlh'O FITS LIKE OUBS. he had conducted earlier. At his death he left a fortune at least 100 times greater than the sum fixed In his boyhood days, he gave employment to a large number ol people, he mads partners of his brothers, and as his sons grew to the age of man hood they werei taken Into the company. He leaves a great establishment, capable of making' all Its principal stockholders richer by tar than be thought he would be when he set out to make money. The life of the packer Is also an illus tration of the allurements as well as the possibilities of a business calling In this country. Oustavus Swlrt must have though) many times of the maximum .fortune he had prepared himself to make when a boy, but It is doubtful whether ha ever again set a limit for himself. He was a very generous giver, but his accumulations show that the passion for money was very great. He might have given to the city of Chi cago Just as great a benefaction In tht way of a great Industry, and be might have done as much for hi family and his relatives by a less arduous devotion to the accumulative purpose, and he certainly would have done more for himself. Mr. Swift, like so many men who have established and maintained great lndus- l.l.l - Mmmimlil pnncrnl died hefore he eoMd the netted time of sturdy con Btltutions. The brief biographic that have appeared showing his Intense application to business, make one wonder that he stood the strain as long as he did. The chance! are that from a purely personal standpoint he would have enjoyed life more and would have lived longer in that enjoyment If he ..j ....-1. li. 1 A u..lili, nut . DIU BIUCH IU IllB UUUVWI ,-J,V.L.v.t.. j that would not have been human nature,i Whether the purpose- be business reputa tion, artlstlo or professional distinction, or the mere accumulation of money, the way of the ambitious 1 to overtax the physical and mental machine. POINTED PLEASANTRIES. Doollttle What are you doing nowadays? Du Less Doing nothing. Doollttle Why not? Du Less Nothing doing. Puck. id "Do you think that you will live In th m annals of history?" "I'm sure I don't know," answered Sena tor Sorghum. "But I'll live In first-class hotels so long as I am here below." Wash ington Star. Mr. Henpeck The Idea! Here's an ac count of a man who trod on a rusty tack on the bedroom floor and got lockjaw. Mr. Henpeck Well, if that Isn't the Irony of fate. I'll bet his wife trod all around it dozens of times. Philadelphia Press. Robert He who flatters you Is yout enemy. Richard Oh, I don't know; he make you feel good. Detroit Free Press. "But," sneers the tattoed lady "the con tortionist I such a piece of vanity!" "I have never noticed It," argue the wild man. "He always seemed to me to be a perfectly modest, unassuming fellow." "Unaseumlng! exclaimed the tettoed lady.' "And half the time he Us isUnply wrapped up In himself." Judge. "Yes, Borrough does look worried these days." "Warrylng because he can't pay his debts, perhaps." "Hun! you don't know htm. If he's worry ing about debts It's because he can't con tract more." Philadelphia Press. "Charley, dear," said young Mrs. Tor kins, "I am very much grieved at your Ignorance of scriptural matters." "What do you mean?" "I overheard you telling that man at the races that there was a Jonah somewhere, but you couldn't exactly locate him. I really think It is time for you to read up a little." Chicago Poet. LONG AGO. 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