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fTTIE OMATTA DATLTT BEE: TIITJHSDAT, MAT 21, 100.1. Tiie Omaha Daily Bee K. R08E WATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORN1NO. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. relly Bf (without Sunday). One Tear. ..' IM.iy He and Hunday, una lear Illustrated Bee, One Year Sunday lift, One War Paturrlay Be, One Year Twentieth Century Farmer. One Ytar 2.m) 1 i i.uo DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Pally Bee (without Sunday), per copy lc lally Hea (without Hunday), per wet... .lie Dally Bee (Including Sunday), per wek..l7c Sunday B-e, rer copy Evening Bee (without Sunday), per wei-k c Evening; Bee (Including Sunday), per week ....le OtnplaMta of Irregularities In delivery hould ba addraaaed to CUy circulation De partment. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha-City Hall Building. Twen-ty-fifth and M Streeta. Council BlufTa 10 Pearl Street. Chicago 16H Unity Bulldln. New York 23?S Park Row Building. Waahlngton 5ol Fourteenth Street. , CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi torial mutter ahould be addreaaed: Omaha bee. Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or po (rt'r' payable to The Bee runtl'toine; Company. Only 2-rent fUmpi accepted In payment ot tnair account. Peraonal check, except on Omaha or eastern exchange, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHINO COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Stat - Nebraska. Douglas County, ss.: George B. Txachuck tecretary of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly worn, says that the actual rumber of full and complete, copies of The Dally, Morning Evening and Sunday Bee printed during tha month of April. IMS. waa aa folio we: ,.lll,UO 81.(140 ,...,.81.880 ..30.1B0 i ai.oeo 81.4HO 81,710 m.oao 31.040 81.B30 8T.1T0 , 31,070 n 8i.oio ......81.5BO si.iao ..900,800 ,. 111,423 Leaa unsold and returned copies.. Net total aalea ....l.3D,a7 Net average Bale Sl.aai GEORGE B. TZ9CHUCK. Subscribed In my preaence and aworn to before ma this 1st day of May. A. D. 1903. U. B. HUNOATE, (Seal.) Notary Public, iTbe Lincoln Star declares that the Eagles' carnlral In progress' there is a bird. Just bo the bird la not a swallow. It Is to be noted that Mayor Moores stands up with a vigilant veto without regard to whether it Is the beginning or the ending of a terra of office. The outgoing city council has held its last regular meeting. Whether It Is to bold any more Irregular meetings can not be predicted with any degree of safety. The terrible massacre of Bessarablan Jews Is . quite sufficiently horrifying without the Russian officials resorting to falsehood to excuse and gloss over the offenses. - , If the report prove true that the Union. Pacific - machinists', and boiler makers' strike has been amicably set tled everybody in Omaha will have reason for rejoicing. Congressmaif Lacey declares . the Dlngley the most perfect of any pro tective . tariff yet framed. But that should not prevent us from eventually seeking still greater perfection. Ohio Is celebrating the centennial of Its admission-into the union as a state. Nebraska will think It is showing signs of maturity when It next year cele brates the fiftieth anniversary of its organisation as a territory. An outgoing city council in the two weeks elapsing between the election and the installation of the newly chosen councllmen usually transacts more busl cess of questionable character than dur log the entire year preceding. If Russia refuses to permit acceptance of the aid voted by the Nebraska legls lature for the relief of the suffering Finns it is likely also to refuse to permit acceptance ofa the aid tendered for the relief of the suffering Jews in Bessara bia. President Roosevelt will now take in the Puget Sound country preparatory to facing about in starting back east. He will find that the northwestern corner of the country Is just as enthusiastically cordial aa the states he has already passed 'through. , South Omaha people will be called upon to approve the proiKsition for an issue of high school bonds, sewer exten sion bonds, city hall , bonds and over lap bonds. . hy not cover the town with a blanket mortgage for a million or two and be done with it? An effort is being made to organize Into a national society all the poets and humortsts of the American press. W suggest that the qualifications for eligi bility should leave it to the readers to ay whether each particular applicant is eutltted to travel in that class. The' Union ' Stock Yards company of Boutb.Onlaha bus been authorized by its stockholders to increase its capltallza tion from C.Ou.0(K) to $7.&o0.000. Now if the stock yards company will expend 11,500,000 on improvements aud enlarge ments of its plant nobody in these parts .will object. The only people who get great gobs of delight out of the strike situation at Omaha are those who run the 2x4 papers at Lincoln, who never miss a chance to take a swat at Omaha. The strike here is just their meat and they are busy exploiting it to Omaha's detriment aud the advantage of Lincoln. The propaganda against Senator Reed Bmoot of Utah aeeius to be working overtime and the senate will have Dice ' bunch of protests and renuui trances ornamented . with the official seals of various organizations and so cieties: accumulated for its entertain tnent .and Instruction by the time it 1...1....-....81.TTO . 18... t .....aa.ftoo it... I .....82,000 II... 4.. .33.230 It... I 29,110 ... ..., 31.M10 a.... 7 si.wm n... I..,, Sl.OfiO 23... 81. MO 24... 10 81,070. 25... 11 83.630 26... 12 v. ..29,410 27... IS...; .11,020 28... 14 .......ftl.0M ' ' 79... IS 81,000 to... Total.... cue vanes next .winter. . . , STRAW OS BRITISH , TH.4DB. During the Inst few years there hits been a growth of sentiment In Enitliind In favor of modifying the fiscal system of the country. A very considerable number of Englishmen hnve come to think thnt there should be some change from the free trade policy In order to better enable British Interests to com bat the protectionist policy of the con tinental countries. They question the wisdom of a principle which gives other nations free entry for their goods into England when they put up the bars against the sending of English goods to them. This sentiment appears to have been somewhat intensified if not strength ened by the proposed remission of the grain duty, levied to supply revenue for carrying on the Boer war. Some days ago Tremler Balfour addressed a'depu tntion of Influential men, representing the agricultural interest, who protested against the remission of the duty, It was pointed out that the tax bad af forded some protection to the millers and the fanners, while it had not in creased the price of bread to the con sumer, and therefore should be retained in the interest of English agriculture. Mr. Balfour's address implied that this will not be done, but he remarked that he did not Intend to say that the pres ent fiscal system was necessarily per manent.' "New conditions 'hod arisen since the old free ' trade policy was adopted "and he could .imagine ' circum stances under which Great Britain, by way of retaliation, would no longer con sent to be made a passive target for other countries living under different conditions." On the snrae day that the premier spoke Mr. Chamberlain, the colonial sec retary, made a speech to his Birming ham constituents, in which ' he very distinctly urged a change in British fiscal policy. While avowing himself free trader he objected to the ar tificial and narrow interpretation Of free trade and said: "There are two al ternatives before , you; first, to main tain the free trade policy in alt its sever ity, although it is repudiated by every other nation and your colonies; second, to Insist that we be not bound by any purely technical definition f free trade. While we seek the one chief object, the free interchange of commerce between ourselves and all the nations of the world, we will nevertheless recover our freedom, resume the power of negotia tions, and, if necessary, of retaliation." This significant utterance has created great interest not only in England, but lso upon the continent On Tuesday the question wag discussed by Lord Rosebery, former prime minister, but what he said was not of very great im portance, except in the fact that, while a well known free trader, he did not take issue in positive terms with the views of Mr. Chamberlain. All this shows a trend which is very likely to become more pronounced in the near future and it possesses a uni versal interest, because any important change in England's fiscal policy could not fall to have a wide-spread effect. The attitude of Mr. Chamberlain, whose great influence is recognlied, has at tracted serious attention on the con tinent and particularly in Germany. It is not at all probable that there will be any material change In British policy under the present ministry, but it Is quite possible that it may in the not remote ruture give place to one rep resenting the sentiment for change which now seems to be gaining ground. TO KSJOIJS HARD COAL TRUST. A Washington dispatch says that At torney General Knox will ask for an in junction against the anthracite coal trust as soon as the present inquiry is finished by the Interstate Commerce commission. That body having no au thority to apply the punitive sections of the law, will turn over the results of its Investigation to the Department of Justice and on the showing being made that the law has been violated and is still being violated the attorney general will move. The dispatch adds that the anthracite-carrying roads have been act ing under agreements which have ellmi nated all competition and brought about complete monopoly of the supply of hard coal. Presumably there have beo.i violations of law against secret rebates and the publication of freight rates The injunction that will be asked by the attorney general will forbid all these practices. . . . It is expected that within a few days there will be a judicial decision as to the authority of the Interstate Com merce Commission to require the rail roads in the anthracite coal combine to submit their records, which it is neces sary to have in order to conclusively es tablish the charge that they are in combination, tnougii there can be no reasonable doubt of this from the evi dence that has been elicited. If the de cision shall not be favorable to the com mission it is probable that the invest! gatlon will be closed and the whole matter turned over to the Department of Justice, which in that event should lose no time In taking action. Popular sentiment is more hostile toward this trust than any other and very Justly so. a tact which la doubtless understood aud appreciated at Washington. ASIA AT 1H t ZXFOSITlOS, . The promise is that not the least in terestlng feature of the Louisiana Pur chase exposition will be the contrlbu- tlons from the countries of the far east Mr. John Barrett who wag sent to those countries on behalf of the expos! tion, snyg that they will expeud the generous sum of more than $2,000,000 at St. Louis and Intend to make more comprehensive exhibits than they have ever sent to any foreign exposition. The Japanese government has decided to grant an appropriation of 00,000 and will erect a magnificent building. China has appropriated 1300,000 and will erect Ian appropriate building. Both Japan and China will be represented by Im perial communions. The Slain exhibit will coat more than $1im,xo, Ceylon has set aside $75,0iO, while other Oriental countries will take psrt on a large scale. The result will be tlint the exhibits from the Orient alone will make an exposi tion of a most attractive and Instructive character. In an Interview at Seattle Mr. Barrett said that the completion of the Louisiana rurebase exposition will be a date from which the transpacific trade will grow in leaps and lwunds. "It. will afford the first opportunity, since so much at tention has been called to the Orient for our manufacturersmerchants. Im porters and exporters to see Asia in miniature, right before their eyes, and learn the exact possibilities that exist In trade exchange." Mr. Barrett ex pressed the opinion that the great fair will demonstrate that trade with the Orient and Australasia, Instead of ap proximating $100,000,(MH), should amount to f."00,000,000. Certainly if the Asiatic exhibits are what is now promised, and there is no reason to doubt they will be, they will prove a great drawing feature nd may have Important practical results. IfO ROOM FUR DA flit' LA J TKR FACTOA'S There is a well-defined rumor that the leaders of the dark-lantern republican faction are maklug strenuous efforts to continue their organization in this city under pretext that it fills a long felt want What that want really Is, is up to date a profound secret. The rank and file of the men who were duped Into ab dicating to the gopher general committee their individual rights as republicans still remain in the dark as to the alms and objects of the head clansmen, and n all probability they never will find out The general public, and especially re publicans who are looking forward, not backward, will naturally wont to know what is to be gained either for the com munity, the state or the party by con tinuing a factional organization that car ries on Its campaigns behind closed doors and fights its battles guerilla fash ion from behind an ambush. Conceding that there may be wrongs to be righted nd reforms to be achieved in municipal, county and state government, it seems passing st range thnt these evils, griev ances or abuses cannot be publicly dis cussed and such remedies proposed as will tend to place our local or state gov ernments upon a sound moral and finan cial footing. To be more specific, what Is to be gained by a secret factional organiza tion for Omaha, for Douglas county Or for Nebraska? What good can such an organization accomplish for the repub lican party either in local, state or na tional politics? The experience of the past with all such political star-chamber clubs, orders and organizations has in variably been anything but encouraging to the true friends of good government The leaders in these underground polit ical movements have always been broken down and disgruntled politicians who had lost their foothold within their own party, or been repudiated by the people, nd who hope to regain political ascend ency by playing political mole and groundhog. Such un-American methods of cam paigning do not appeal to the masses and have no place In our political sys tem. Whenever anything goes wrong the people are always able to right It by fighting in the open. If there is real need of reform in any branch" of gov ernment it can be. achieved by public discussion and agitation. The Wisconsin legislature has finally agreed to a direct primary law long ad vocated by Governor La Follette, con ditioned, however, on its ratification first by the voters of the state at the next election. This is another example of what can be accomplished when the people are really worked up to an issue and alive to the necessity of protecting their rights. If the bill la compre hensive, without any corporation loop holes in reserve, Its final adoption by popular endorsement will be only a mat ter of time. And if Wisconsin sets the example in primary election reform other progressive states will surely fol low. New brooms usually sweep clean. The new South Omaha fire and police board is no exception. It has directed the chief of police to order all slot machines out of service except merchandise' machines atad its order has been very promptly obeyed. Within a few days all the cash slot machines of South Omaha will have been converted Into merchandise ma chtnea and the old game of chance will proceed aa usual with every package of merchandise convertible into cash at the option of the winner. The death of Chairman Jones, who engineered the work of the republican national committee on behalf of James O. Blaine for president in 18S4, will recall many interesting incidents of that memorable campaign. Had Mr. Blaine been elected instead of defeated, Mr. Jones would have occupied a posi tlon quite aa prominent as that achieved by Senator Quay under Prettl dent Harrison, or by Senator Hanua under President McKlnley. The discovery has Just been made that Colonel Bryan's real choice for presidential candidate on the demo cratic national ticket in 1004 is Chief Justice Walter Clark of the supreme court of North Carolina. It is safe to assume, however, that Colonel Bryan will have several preferred choices in cold storage for emergency use when the time comes, i Governor Mickey's first appointment on the Omaha police and fire commis tion was Lee Spratlen, the noupartltuin right-of-way agent and political pipe layer of the Burlington. If the next appointment la mad from tha same uonpartUan ranks the Oiuulia police Iwnrd will be out of politics In the sweet bye and bye, The new Asphalt trust Just organised to succeed the defunct Asphalt trust has incorporated with a capital stock of 31,K,ooo. After he experience of the Hist concern by which so many victims were bitten, the chances are that it will be hard to get many nibbles on the hook baited with new asphalt stock. Evidence of the tpllft. Chicago Inter Ocean. Things cannot be so bad aa reported In Omnha, when a church debt of (40,000 la lifted lightly In that city. A Foregone Conclusion. Kansaa City Journal. After all, the real and sensible "Iowa Idea" Is to roll up a handsome majority for the republican ticket aa often as the time arrives to vote. Great Opening llereaboats. t Denver Republican. The New York physician who says he can restore life by heart massage ought to practice on a few of the political corpses that are scattered about the country. Getting: Off Easily. New York World. The makers of agricultural Implements aay that they are "choked by thirty-three trusts." They get off easily. There are something like a thousand whose tentacles are squeezing the people. Will It Stand the Strain t Chicago Chronicle. If the writ of Injunction stands the strain to which It has been put by the Omaha judge who has restrained a woman from talking, we may safely assume that It Is In deed capable of meeting any human situation that may arise. - Answering the Last Master. St Louis Globe-Democrat. Pension office figures show that veterans of the union army are dying at the rate of nearly 40,000 a year, and the mortality among former confederates Is not much less. More than half the men who took part in the civil war have answered the last muster. ' Evils of the Contract System. Indianapolis News. There may be- some advantage In having the rural delivery service placed under the contract system, but It would appear from pant experience that such an arrangement would be productive of more evil than good. As long aa the government Is run ning the postal business of the country. It had better attend to all of it. Thirsting; for Information. Chicago Record-Herald. Mr. Bryan Is thirsting for Information. He wants to know Just what the Bryan wing will have to surrender In order to avoid Incurring the hostility of Mr. Cleve land and his followers. He wants to know In just what particulars the Kansaa City platform will have to be censored In prJer to meet the approval of the Cleveland fiction. And when these ques tions are all answered if they ever are the country will behold what a beautiful thing Is "harmony" with a large tin can to Its tall. 'i Os ly Snfety la Pnbllclty. Philadelphia Press.' I Dr. St. ' Clair McKelway- has done good service to the calling nd the profession In which he Is a distinguished member by re calling In an 'address at- Boston the funda mental necessity of publicity. Responsible government - Is Impossible . without It. Publicity Is in all administrations the meas ure of responsibility. Unless the first .la permitted, the second will not long exist. Government Is endurable only when It Is public, because unless If Is public It la not punishable. All men know this. It Is "ex posure" that kills Corruption. Secret cor ruption Is safe corruption. A bank book is Justly held a private record, but until Tweed's bank book ceased to be private Tweed did not cease to plunder. "Till wrong abandons secrecy journalism will Invade privacy. It Is not nice work, but It Is better than plunder." THROTTLED BY THE TRUSTS. Small Manufacturers Plached hy the Harvester Combine. Chicago Tribune. The petition to President Roosevelt the small manufacturers of agricultural Imple ments are algnlng la a proteat against con ditions which force the cost of production up to a point where they can do no busi ness because of a lack of customers to buy their goods. Competition with the Harves ter trust, which gets Its raw materials more cheaply, becomes impossible. Where combinations of capital have ef fected a saving In operation the difference has usually gone In part to stockholders In dividends and in part to the employee, who have combined to raise the wage scale. The consumer has not' been benefited. What ia true of the individual Is equally true of the small manufacturer. After he has paid toll to the two score trusts which produce the raw materials he uses he Is confronted by a dilemma unless he wishes to manufacture at a loss He must save on labor cut down wages or make the public pay for the Increased, cost of raw materials. It la not easy to force down wages or to make men buy when they do not wish to.. The Harvester trust was formed under just such circumstances. The constituent companies could no longer manufacture at the accustomed profit, and their directors did not believe that the farmers would pay higher prtcea for machinery. The combine tlon was formed not only to save In cost of operation, but to produce the rsw material used In the factories. As a result the Har vester trust, which makes M per cent of the agricultural machinery In the United States, la on a profitable basis. The plight of the remaining 10 per cent la set forth in the petition. The small man ufacturers say they are the commercial vaaaals of the ateel trust, which fills their orders when It chooses at Us own prices The legitimate- profits of Us business are great but It squceses a part of the divi dends on Its watered securities out of the small producers. The manufacturers can use foreign Iron and steel, both of which are Imported In large quantities. If they do tbey have to pay so high a price for them because of the duties that they are at a disadvantage when competing with foreign or domestic rivals, who can get thoae materials on better terms. Apparently the unorganised manufactur ers of harvesters and of minor farm and garden Implements cannot combine, and thus put themselves In a more advantage ous position aa regards procuring their raw materials. They are unable to protect themselves, ard because of their Inability their home and export business la Injured and the middlemen and the farmers suffer. The petitioners ask for that competition In raw materials which la the crying need of so many other manufacturers who have not yet spoken out. Through the enforcement of anti-trust laws, or (n some other way, competition In manufacturers' raw mate rials should be revived. No trust should be permitted to throttle any branch of Ameri can Industry and deprive the men engaged la It uf domestic or forelga trade. ! HOJIU HI LB IN CITIES. Denial ef tha First Law of Netere hy Political Grafters. Baltimore American. "I'nder the new municipal code for large cities In Ohio, the police department Is placed In charge of the council and a board of public safety. The council establishes the offices of the department, fixes the number of officials and patrolmen, and also the salaries. A city Is divided Into police districts, each In charge of a captain, who Is held responsible by the chief and the board for the conduct of police affairs within his district. Politics Is to be kept out of the business of protecting the people. What a revolution such a law would be In the partisan police army In St. Louis, with Its constant assessment for political Jobbery!" The above quotation Is from the edi torial columns of the Bt. Louis Globe Democrat. BL Louis, like Baltimore, pays for a police department controlled by the governor of the state. The city has no voice In Its management. The mayor has no power to. preserve peace and order or to enforce the police laws. Our citizens get Into fever heat over the outrageous denial of home rule to Ireland, yet meekly submit to the denial to them of the first law of nature the right of self-protection. New York, Philadelphia, Chicago all the large cities of the country and now the cities of Ohio, big and little, have out stripped Bt. Louis and Baltimore In this Important particular. SIMPLIFYING TITLE TRANSFER. Changes' in the Torreai System In Operation la Illinois. Chicago Tribune. Governor Yates has signed the bill amend ing the Torrens law and It will come be fore the people for their acceptance at the election of November, 1904. It em powers the probate court to compel the registration of realty of deceased persons under the Torrens system. If the judge thinks such registration would work hard ship he need not order It The object of the Torrens system Is to clear up titles; to put an official, legal seal of approval on an owner's right to his land. To have the legal machinery pass on all titles once, and thereafter to keep them clear by law, will In the long run do away, with many lawsuits. Private sano tion may be reassuring, but it cannot be so certain a thing as public sanction. Under the Torrens system a title Is ap proved by the public authorities. If the approval remains uncontested for five years It thereafter becomes uncontestable. NA land title should not be so much a matter of mystery as to require the occa sional payment of a couple of hundred dollars to a private concern for pronounc ing It sound and backing Its own judgment In the matter with a guarantee. Such Is the case at present. The title to a piece of land should be as clear and Indisputable as the title to a government bond and as easily transferable. It Is for the purpose of so clarifying land titles that the Tor rens law amendment waa passed. It Is an excellent measure. It was carefully drawn, and, as far as the human mind can Judge, will accomplish Its purpose. POLITICAL SLANG. Stsndpatters, Savrdaaters and Insur gents Are Now to the Fore. New York Sun. Each seventh year or thereabouts there is a new crop of political slang words Just aa there are other seventh year crops. The gold bug, the cuckoo, the mugwump, stal wart, . featlierhead, half-breed, repudtator, wild-cat cure-all, revisionist and . goo-goo have passed generally as political adjec tives of description in use, and they have been replaced by other adjectives which either have a new meaning or describe a new condition. A standpatter Is a political leader who finds existing conditions satisfactory for his party and does not wish to embark on any change. The originator of the expres sion was Senator Hanna In an Interview in which he advised his fellow-republicans of that state, quoting the poker-phrase, to stand pat. A aawduster Is a candidate or aspirant for office who presents the outward appearance of great popular strength or deep convic tion, but who, once subjected to a serious test, proves to be of no account a man of sawdust, who only needs a puncture to be exposed. The word had Its origin In aq In tel view at the democratic -convention at Saratoga which nominated former Comp troller Coler for governor. Commissioner Kane of Brooklyn, one of those who op posed htm, declared him to be a aawduster. An insurgent is a member of a political party in a legislative body who votes against its candidates or Its measures, while declaring that he Is still a member of the party and has no sympathy with lta party opponents. In the south the term lily-white has come Into new significance as describing a re publican who not only rejects the nomina tion of colored men on party tickets, but opposes the participation of colored electors In party organisations. Among the socialists a kangaroo is one willing to combine with the voters of an other party. PERSONAL NOTES. Bo many towns are refusing to accept Mr. Carnegie's libraries that he is likely to be driven out of the business. Chauncey Depew Is a director In sixty nine big corporations, not Including the United States Senate and the Bhinnecock Golf club. To add to the distressing situation In Denver the candy makers have Joined the strike. It Is feared that the soda water fountains will be the next to go out. A. L. Larpenteur. the oldest settler of the city of Bt. Paul. Minn., celebrated his eight ieth birthday on Saturday last. He took up his residence In the Saintly City sixty years ago. King- Edward has a decided advantage over a president In visiting the various lo calities In his realm. Ha can refuse to make speeches without the fear of losing any votes. Ellen M. Stone has filed a claim for In demnity against Turkey. Imagine the sul tan giving up any cash for auch a purpose as this, when he is three years behind with his grocery bills. The newly organised peanut trust Is dab bling In politics In eastern cities. What special privilege it seeks Is not mentioned Perhapa the promoters hanker for experi ence In shelling out. The German embassy In Washington is to do made as splendid as possible. Emperor William having given Baron Von Stern- burg carte blanche as to expenae in con nection with the redacoratlon. Thla unex pected liberality Is regarded In Washing ton as another proof that the kaiser wlahes to make a favorable Impression on America. Over this new embassy the American-born baroness will preside. The dedication of a monument to be erected at ' the ' birthplace of Prealdent Cheater Alan Arthur at Fairfield. Vt.. by the atate of Vermont, will occur aome time during the month of July, the preC'se day Vavlng not yet been fixed. The speakers will be Robert T. Lincoln of Chicago, Prealdent Arthur's secretary of war; ex Senator William E. Chandler of New Hampshire, his secretary of the navy, and others. The arrangements are In the handi of ea-Ooveraor W. W. SUckney. THE OLD iv'nH""im i IrWUfLSllll Absolutely Pure there is r:a suootitute REJECTING THE MIZZLE, . Penneylvanla Newspapers Give" the ' GoVernor the Real Thing. When Governor Pennypacker of Penn sylvania approved the act designed to muiila the press of the state he also broke Into a nest of hornets, the like of which no official of the Keystone state has ever gone against. With a unanimity hitherto unknown In the state the newspapers at tack the new law and the governor's mes sage of approval and challenge all con cerned to test the law In the courts. There Is no abatement of criticism of public officials, no desire to show the law or Its authors the slightest respect. Cartoonist Nelan of the Philadelphia North Ameri can, mentioned by the governor as an "out cast," threatens a suit for libel, mean time relieving his feelings In cartoons cal culated to make the tender-hllted governor smart with rage. The North American has also enlisted the services of cartoonists McDougall and Berryman, who are throw ing pictorial hot shot at the chief execu tive of the state. . An organisation of publishers has been formed to contest the law In the courts. As the North American was singled out by the governor as the particular offender, the publishers of the paper decline to enter the association, preferring to contest the law alone. "There are considerations involved," says the American, "which make it proper and expedient . that this news paper should meet the emergency Isolated. The North American la firmly convinced that the freedom of the press is Immovably, fixed upon the foundation of the Constitu tion of this state and of the United States, and that no law, passed In blind haste and approved in foolish rage, ean destroy that freedom. Therefore It accepts the challenge Individually and wlU fight Its battle singly." Governor Pennypacker Is a Pennsylvania dutchman whose style, of physical archi tecture provides aa Ideal basis for the. cartoonists. He Is aa ardent pursuer of the quaint and anusual bug. aa authority on , Pennsylvania history, an expert on ancestry, a botanist of repute and an In tense admirer of Senator Quay, whom he declared In a political speech during his gubernatorial campaign to be greater than "either Clay or Webster." Governor Pennypacker waa cartooned by the democratic and "Insurgent" republi can papers, as were Senators Quay and Penrose. This the governor resented and to It he refers In his apology for signing the bill. It is this apology which furnished much of the material for the present news paper war upon him. One of the cartoons drawn with serious intent represents the governor as Don Quixote charging on the ancient windmill. It should be explained that It was not the artist's Intention to represent the news papers ss windmills. The Philadelphia Press, edited by ex Postmaster General Smith, rivals the North American in pictorial and editorial con tempt and satire, and Is equally determined to force the law to a teat "The news papers of Pennsylvania, without regard to party." says the Press, -nave never wwi - nn nv nuestlon before as they are in condemning this vicious act and all who were instrumental m maaing n a t i rea-nj-ded as an assault upon all, and they are not to be expected to support those who rerusea to hbuju u them and who have sought, though vainly, to destroy their usefulness to the public. Without newspaper support few of these men would ever have reached the places from which they were enabled to strike a dastardly blow against the press, wun ....v, .imnnri now withheld they will quickly drop from public life. No meaaure that the Pennsylvania legislature over passed has left so many political wrecks in lta wake. There are not many mstncis in which the supporters of the musxler win dare affront the people by seeking re- nomlnatlon." a-k. T,nlnif Tnaulrer. a loyal party paper, treats the law wun inamtr... nrv.ii. .v,.r nanera nfttv ine ciau ui law requiring papers to publish the names and editors, the In quirer contents itself with name of the nubllsher. The sentiments or me iqu. are thus expressed: "Bays the constitution or r'" .a,... .. . ,,r,latlrn of thoughts and opinions is one of the invaluable rights of man, and every cuixm epeak. write and print on any subject be ing responsible ror ma eny. , . -. .v.. "What! A ilbel bUI mai snocaa UUi w constitution? Tlrat of all It will be necessary to declare the constitution unconstitutional. "The bill has become the plaything and the Joke of every respectable and thinking newspaper In the uniiea mai.. ..a- . . aa Penns vlvannla Is concerned. .. . ... knthar with lokee. It It naan i u - believes In liberty and Independence and stands by Its conauiuiion-given ni. a what may happen to the poll .... i. i-Aiz-ated bv the Philadelphia UClBlia " ' . Record, which says: "There Is a move ment on foot among the dally newspapers . t.v,ii.rt.inhla. Pittsburg and other cities to make no report of the machine state convention at Harrlsburg weea erier t ik. ahaence of busy special correspond ents there would be no reports of the speeches of the machine leaders lauding themselves and each other and expressing of Governor Pennypacser s apoi ogy for the muisler. The convention would thus be consigned to Cimmerian gloom. As the nominations of the convention are already slated. Including that of William P. Bnyder. one of the musslers for auditor general, the omlealon of any reports of lta proceedings would be no loss to tha public" RELIABLE LAVGHIXO REMARKS. "He Is a literary man, you sayt" .t'Well, no. He's too successful for that. I think, perhaps. It would be better to call him a writer. New York Herald. "I den't see what right you have to turn up your antennae at me, said the clam. "I nm as good as you are." "I deny It," sld the lobster. "Anybody, can be a clam, but In order to be a lobster one hue to be born a lobster." Chicago Tribune. Mrs. Smith I hate to mention it, Mrs. Brown, but I wish you'd keep your Charley oft my fence. Mrs. Brown I suppose he does annoy you, Mrs. Smith, but what am I to do? We have no fence at our house, you know, Boston Transcript. Mr. SloWun Suppose you were a man. Miss Willing, and loved a girl so much that you couldn't find words in which to ex press It, what would you doT Miss Willing Well, I'd probably lower the gas a little and say nothing. Chicago News. ' "Yes, sir, he waa obliged to go In the snake country, so he took a gallon of whisky along. ' "And how did he make out?" "Splendid 1 Got so full and wabbled so the enakea missed him every time they struck at him." Atlanta Constitution. Jenkins I think It's a splendid oppor tunity for you. . What are you going to do about It? Henpeck I haven't the slightest Idea. Jenkins But surely you can give an opinion. , ways hands down the opinion. Philadelphia tjatnono oiannaru. Well, how do you like married life?'. Inquired a friend. . . 'Not at all." replied the man who had married money and was Suffering for it, "I'm a case of matrimonial dyspepsia.' "Matrimonial dyspepsia?" "Yes. She never agrees With me; she s too rich." Chicago Post. "Has Mrs. "fones heard from her missing husband?" ... M .. "Oh, yes, he mysteriously disappeared." Chicago Record-Herald. Jolkley I submitted some humorous sketches here several days ago. They haven't appeared. Did you kill them? Edltor--I passed upon them, but I don't think that killed them. Jolkley No? " ' ' ' Editor No. I think they just died nat urally of old age. Philadelphia Press. FATE OF THE FUKHY MAW. K. J. Waterhouse In New York Times. He came to my cottage, a desolate wight. 'And his footsteps would falter and lug, And I said: "Now dismiss him at once from my sight, , For the fellow le clearly a vag." But, "Pity my sorrows," he brokenly said, "And drop a few tears If you can. For one from whom hope and ambition , - have fled, A grief-stricken humorist man. "Oh, once I knev hope," so he wearily spoKe, "And my thoughts were with humor aglow. It was I who Invented the maiden-aunt joke And the mother-ln-law bonmot But the wit has been worked by tha hu morous gang Till It's dry aa a toper at morn. And the Jokes that, ere now would explode with a bang Are held by the people in scorn. "The Joke on the plumber, that Noah first made, la dead as a porpoise or sprat. And the bill of the Iceman Is laid In the shade, A nit the coal 1nka la deucedlv flat. The bloomer girl blossomed and bloomed for awhile. And her costumes made humorists amy. But the mention no longer produces a smile. For her bloomers have faded away. "Oh, bury me where the alfalfa grows dank For I and my wit have grown equally rank. And the Joke tney cau living is piayea; And I long for a rest." Then his troubled voice broke. And our tears fell together like dew, For he sadly recalled things he'd labeled a joke. And I I remembered them. too. A CONTRAST Of the faca of a healthful woman with the face of one who la sick proves that quite often a aad face ia a sick face. Many a woman haa credit for a sunny disposition who would soon be sad of face and irritable of temper if abe bad to endure the womanly ilia which many of her sex have borne for years. Dr. Pierce'a Favorite Prescription cures the diseases which are the source of so much pain and suffering to women. It establishes regularity, dries debilitat ing drains, heals inflammation and ul ceration and cures female weakness, Mrs. Cornelia Heaaoa. of CoaUon, Boyd Co., t.. wriwa : la October ifta I gave birih to a babv and the treatment I received at the hands of the midwife hri ma with falling of the nlrraa. I had ae health to apeak at (or three years. I bad another baby which was the third child. My health began to fall aud I found myeei com pletely worn out. I had so many pains and aches my Ufa waa a bardra to me and alao to all the family, lor I waa nervous and croaa aad I con Id not sleep. Had lour doctors come to ae me but at laat found I waa slowly dying. The doctore aaid I had liver, rang and nterln trouble. 1 waa in bed for months and when I did get ap I waa a sight to heboid. I looked like a corrae walking a boat. I commenced to take Doctor rSerce'e favorite Prearriptioa, 'Golden Medical Diaoovcry ' and ' Pvllcte.' and ever since then 1 have been a well womaa. 1 have mrfcred all a woman could auner mi my monthly period until since I btran the nae of Dr. ftercc's medicines, but now I can aay I have no pun. The dark Hrrlea around my eyes arc going away and I ieel tetter in every way. My check ara red and m In a U white, but before it was aa yellow as saffron.' Accept no substitute for " Favorite Pre. scription" there ia nothing just as good for weak and sick women. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pelleta are easy and pleasant to take, A Laos cflccliv laaaUva.