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c TI1E OMAHA DAILY KEE: Fit ID AY, APRIL P, 1IHH. Tiie Omaha Daily Bee E. ROSEWATF.R, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERT MORNING. TERMS Off BCimCRIPTloN. tally Bee (without Sunrtnyt, imo Yrar. M ") Dally Hee and Sunday. One Year lllustratr-a lie. One Year.... " Punday lice. One Ye-ir " Saturday Hoe. One Yenr -: J Twentieth Century Fnrmer. One Year.. 1.00 bKLIVIIRRD HY CARRIER. niiy Hoe 'without Sunday) . per r-ony.... " nlly Roe (without Bnnilny) per f-es...lC I ally Bee (including Hunday). per weck..iic Iml X'BIIV 6unon f:v"?,?n im rithouVBVii4aV: Vrwee'k": 6c Jtfvenlng ltee (Including sunaayi, v per Complainu""ot 'WrregeVaritV In delivery I houlJ b addressed to City Circulation jaivrtment. I k ' he Lteuortment. OFFICES. ' Omaha The Bee Rullrilng. South Omaha (')ty Hall Building, Twenty-fifth and M Streets. Council Bluffs 10 Pearl Ftreet. Chicago 16m Inity Building. Now York 232 Park Row Building. Washington 6U1 Fourteenth Rtreet. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi torial matter should be addressed: Omaha iiee, Editorial Kepartment. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, IMIvnhle to Thn Pee T'nhllNhlno- Comnnny. Only 2-cent stamps received In payment of )niy -oent stamps received in payment m i fnall accounts. Personal chocks, except on I Omnha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. I TUB BEE PUBLISHING uuMFAfli. i H I STATEMENT OP CIRCULATION. I Btate of Nebraska. Douglas Countv. ss.t unorse u. Tischuck, secretary or ine wo MM&tfiTOJA' nrAotyf'nlni Ev3,anT8u'nday vXXi month of March, 1904, was as follows: 1 aWiTO 17 8"'D7"l,bo TTnltoil Hf.taa ni.ooVin.,1 frv 1 80,810 t 8xi,at 4 3O,0ttO t ....ai.iao 6 ZT.aio T .-MWO 31, IMO .TO, TOO 10 no, too 11 .10,4100 U 30.N2O U SKMKiO 14., 3U,jn 15 BO.40O 16 ao.snx 19!!!!!!!.!!!!!.sw.sto ae.ooo M OA 1fkA 72 ........... sto'.tmt u m.fMt M 2,nimi 23 30JJ1M 27 ao,H4M 28 -3M710 I 80,2 lO JO..., 80,000 I 31...! !....aw,i Total nau.ain Lfss unsold and returned copies.... 10,33 Net total sale. bi.hht JVet average sales a4Ta GEO. B. TZSCHUCK. Bubscrlbed In my presence and sworn to cerore me tms 1st day or April, a. u., itfoi. (Seal) - M. B. HUNOATE. Notary Public. April is not going to mar Its reputa tion as the month of showers. Colonel Cody's Wild West show is getting a lot of undesirable free adver- WflB conspicuously shown In the Tan tlsing these days. anm canal matter, due to the fact that Moving day is at hand in that portion of the federal building occupied by the llibtrlct attorney's office. It begins to look as though the army I Fwere about to supplant the navy in the I i press dispatches from the east Help make Omaha beautiful. Nature rt in uu its suare 11 our uousenoiuera win ut work out the necessary prelimi aries. Wansas democrats are for Hearst e boys are getting hungry and the . Wt best thing to getting the offices is stand close to the barrel 'be delay In the appraisement of the ter works forcibly ' recalls the adage on can lead a horse to water, but u can't make him drink." , Mi kino- Af Rnntn has luonin hl t. tlci.ee with bombs early. Expositions pm to be dangerous places for chief iccutives to visit nowadays. trance wants It understood that It will take more than earthouakes and volcanic eruntlons to 1ar it loose from Its possessions in the West Indies. ' . i Ilosebud Sioux are not expected to have a higher appreciation of the civil- lzation of the white man through their latest experience with rapid transit Senator Dick and Governor Herrlck are not expected to draw ammunition for future engagements from the eulogy of Senator Foraker on his late col- la2u. It is doubtless an iridescent dream, I that horoscope of the St Petersburg Daily Russ, but something worse than an alliance with tho United States may be In store for Russia. With a mayor and council once more of the same political faith. South Omaha may expect to have Its niunlci- pal affairs managed for tho next tw6 years with more expedition and less XnCUOn. The Wyoming republican convention and tlie Wisconsin republican state con vention will bo held on the same day as the Nebraska republican state con vention. Out of courtesy they might all exchange! greetings. Conditions must be serious at .Liao Yang, as lt is announced that beer which has sold for 10 cents now brings 60 cvnts a bottle. If this thing keeps up the war correspondents can hardly be considered noucoiubatants. The St Louis exposition management la to Start off its series of national con - vcntlons and congresses with a big gathering of newspaper representatives. This is the correct theory for attracting . ttteutlon sot oft the loudest firecracker first From the ease with which the Japa- ' nese are landing provisions at the mouth or the lalu the Russians must have caused those forts to be built simply as exercise for the army, or they are getting ready to take charge of the sup - pile after they have all been landed. The formal opening and dedication of the Auditorium in connection with the exercises commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the organization of Ne- brask as a territory would add to the auspldousness ot the occasion for both, The Auditorium can be made service - able by May 81. It (hat data is only fixed nd lrrVGC.tla oiuwi fclvea to criy ut tba plaa, - POLITICS J-V CUKCItKSS. The political campaign of liKVi has oM'iiPd no far aa eongrt'ts la concerned. For several weeks pnt there has leen (ll ihIhi In both houses in repnnl to the questions which are likely to com iimiid the popular Interest tluriuK the comlnir national ratnpnlKti anil those ilc Imtes are of a highly InterestltiK char acter for those who take an Interest aa moat American cltlsons 1d In pv Urn controversy. Tlie debates Litre taken a wide range and their pitrtlHnn quality has taken the iitH,t eon.prehen- . dimensions. The democrats have. jtj, their Usual policy, found fault ,w. , ,, with every course and action or tue party in power. They hare sought to show that the whole course of the re publican administration has been to the detriment of the country and especially that the present administration has been inimical to the public interests. It is an absolutely untenable position which the democriits have thus taken, but it is not reinarknblu for a party n'lilch for tronra tins heell flvlnff In th - s r - ta Intellhrpnf nnnnlnr nnlnlnn nul wnicn even xouuy uhs among its lea tiers a man who is an avowed antagonist to ,...,, , . , K l"c uuiw. .".cr,,. i u.c n is a very reinnxitADie ming tnnt a party in which . man like W. U. Hearst m le a prominent place as a pos- slble candidate for the presidency of have a claim upon the confidence and 8Unport of the American people. It " w .look l1 n insult 'to popular intelll- gence. in a debate In the national senate a . a t Iuulana mndo a moHt tolling speech in rnu - nrfl rt fniiru rf tho tipmnpratln " v piny in ine yresenv njress, iuw sutii of which was to show that it has pro posed absolutely nothing in the general public interest, its entire efforts avlug bn Pded in the direction of ob- structing republican legislation and en- deavorine to thwart efforts for the na- tlonal advancement. This is the un questionable fact. It is true that some of the democrats in congress have shown sufficient patriotism and Interest In the general welfare to refuse to an tagonize those policies which were tin- mtstakably for the general good. This the southern people compelled most of their representatives in the senate to vote for the canal treaty. But in re- gnrd to every other matter the policy of the democratic obstruction has been observed and undoubtedly will-bo to the en(. . The people will not fall to remember this. They will keep in mind the fact that the democratIc party( through ltg representatives in congress, hat shown itself to be simply a party of obstruc tion and that it has proposed nothing to rm" the on of which it to- What appeal can such a party make to the iterate of the country in the coming, campalgu? A TH1PAHTITK TA&E. The World-Herald prints what it culls an alleged "inside history" of bow the garbage contract was gotten through the council. A tripartite deal is said l" uccu "uwv' u,,ulr "ot Moores succeeded in converting iuv i.'vuuui iu mo ifuivunst? ui lur jicuir poll tan fire engine, The Bee succeeded in pulling through a padded claim for advertising, and Alonzo B. Hunt se cured th PPal a three-year con tract for the garbage monopoly. This ver flne "pun yarn ,8 of the 8ame web auu wout oi wnica so many oilier iukfb have been fabricated by the Omaha faker7 wlth,n the Past few yen"- There was 3ust about as much relation be ween tne purcuase or tue Metropolitan nre engine, tne garbage contract ana the advertising claims of The Bee as tn,r was between the electric lighting contract the sale of city , refunding bonds and the location of the pest house. The settlement of the claims of The Bee for city advertising was made by the council the first part of December. but the amount agreed upon was not inserted in the appropriation bill until the latter part of March. The settle- ment was legitimate and not excessive. I as . is maliciously intimated by .the Fakerr. While The Bee bad a rleht to charge full legal rates for all advertls-' ing after lti contract had been forcibly terminated by the legislature in April. 190 lt coiiected onIy contract rates for I tllA months of Anrll fnv nil Tiinn nml the legal rate from July to December, when Its new contract had been de clared valid by the courts and ratified by the council. The World-Herald bitd for many years previous collected full legal rates for its advertising whenever The Bee was the only official paper and tt collected nearly $800 more than The Bee ,or tho ame ofn'al advertising In "erted in both papers when two official PIers were required. This exaction lne "oriu-ueraia was enabled to make because Its columns are narrower than those of The Bee, hence Its measure- I ments made lt possible to collect a 1 larger amount for the same advertise ments. ( The award for tlie new fire engine to I the Metropolitan company was mad because it was the lowest and best bid I der, the machine being a high grade standard and the price somewhat lower than that of the lowest bid made by its competitor. The garbage contract was never thought of In connection with The Bee's claims for advertising or the purchase of the Metropolitan fire en- 1 glne. Members of the council who I voted for one did not vote for the other. while all the councllmen. excent the lone democratic, member, voted to dot the advertising claim of The Bee. Another divergence from veracity is the assertion that the rarbage contract I perpetuates a monopoly. The new con- tract makes garbage collection free for 1 all and everybody may use the dump I free of any charge. The talk about I garbage monopoly recalls the ludicrous I performance of the Fakery when U be- moaned the terrible maltrenflnent of "two poor little colored boys" who were arrested and thrown into Jail some years npo for violating the garbage ordinance. Those little Isiys proved to bo stalwart darkies between 35 and 40 years of ape. each of whom had begotten a numerous , family of little boys. Even the figures Introduced in the al leged "inside history" of the tripartite conspiracy are a Action out of whole cloth. Instead of paying 12,(K)n to the gnrbage company the city will pay Just $4.1f0 a year for the use and mainte nance of the dump free to all comers and the hauling and disposal of all dead animals found within the city limits. lint we apprehend this is not the first nor the Inst fake to be propagated by the senior yellow. A FT tit THK MKBGKH. The action of thoso engaged in the merger suit In bringing action intended to change the order of the court in rela tion to what should be done in the mat ter of the distribution of the stocks of the Northern Securities company, pre sents one of the most Important matters in the recent histories of the corpora tions. It does not necessarily open up such an issue aa that of the Northern Securities company, but. lt comes very nearly presenting a Question as vital as that Involved In the decision of the su preme court of the United States. The question involved in the action irought by the Harrlman Interest in re gard to the claim for Northern Taclflc securities Is certainly one of far-reaching importance. If the claim is sus tained it will simply mean that any rail road company can own the stock of any other railroad company, whether com peting or otherwise, without limit If this be conceded there is of course no chance of any further contest against railroad consolidation. It can go on in the future without uny limitation and in absolute defiance of any public oppo sition. lt is simply impossible that any such principle ns this 6hould prevail In this country. It is antagonistic to the vital principle of our institutions and could not be tolerated under, any circum stances. We seek the proper control and supervision of all combinations, but ab solutely within constitutional provisions. So far as the men engaged In the merger suit are concerned, their action is the most complete vindication pos sible of tlie course of the government. It is a virtual acknowledgment that the action of the government and the de cision of the supreme court of the United States were fully warranted. What may follow cannot interfere with that decision, though the latest development of the action of those Interested In the great merger contest may produce some new points in what Is certainly one of tlie most wonderful cases lu modern times. It is perfectly obvious that out of this may arise another issue that will call for the determination oT the tribunal of last resort. H The Real Estate exchange is not so sure now that the scavenger law will work just as had been expected. The exchange, If we remember rightly, en dorsed the measure when It was still pending in the legislature. The law may be a good one, but the disposition of bodies like the Real Estate exchange to voto endorsements or disapproval on the say-so of somebody, without study ing and digesting the matter thor oughly, should be repressed. South Omaha sports who staked their money on the election of Tom Hoctor are giving lt out cold that he will be counted In next Monday by the demo cratlc council. If any attempt is made to carry out such a high-handed scheme the grand Jury that will convene in Omaha next month may have something to say. General Jimlnez of Santo Domingo says he is coming to the United 'States. Wos y Gil, too, is somewhere around New York. If these two worthies can be persuaded to fight to a decision, the winner to challenge President Morales, the Santo Domingo championship might be settled. A Dim la the Bibs. . Springfield Republican. The Thibetans are queer fellows not to understand that they are being benevolently assimilated by those British machine guns. They actually defend their country against an Invader! That is what comes from not being in touch with the world. Try It and Bo Convinced. Washington Post. Russia is offering a prise ot $25,000 for some scheme of rendering alcohol non drinkable. Carrie Nation's plan of taking the bottle firmly by the neck and smashing It with a hatchet accomplishes the pur pose, and the method Is not patented. Perils of at Near View. Chicago Post. A Japanese commission Is hers studying Christianity. It we can keep It away from the lynching districts, from congress, from nuwtt of our larger municipalities, from Wall street and from a good many of our squab bling churches, Its report may not be un favorable. Mantel pal Ownership In Chteswe). Minneapolis Times. The vote on the traction questions was no great surprise. Tho companies them selves havs paved the way for municipal ownership by their shabby treatment of the city. Chicago has been battling with the outrageous impositions and Inefficiency of Its traction companies for years and now the voters of the city, by an over whelming majerlty, aro clamoring for re lief in the form of municipal ownership. A few years may pass before It Is an ac complished fact, but it Is bound to come. Independent- in Politics. Springfield (Macs.) Republican. There Is plenty of chlldltthness In politics as It enters Into ths life of the American people but thers ought to be a prevalence of sound sense as well such as la able to rise above the bllckerlngs of Its vicinage and to aim at securing the largest measure of national good. There Is something wiser and more patriotic than being a member of this party or that one tab days In the year. It la exhibited by the man who seeks, according to his own cunei-lciiv. and best Judgment, la easting- bis vote at say Mven time to do that which promises to best serve his country. He may make mis take In Judgment, but he Is true cltl-ten. . C.reat Shootlnat, This. IndlanRpolls Journal. The wonder of the world la the target practice of the Kearrage, eft Fensacola. One of Its thlrtron-lnch guns made six hits out of seven shots In less than six minutes the other day; and In the same time an eight-Inch gun made ten hits out of ten shots. Anybody want a proof? Good Word for the Doctors. Philadelphia Press. Of the peaceful callings few can show more heroisms than tho medical profes sion. Doctors are dally Imperilling their lives In experimentation and service for humanity, and when, as frequently hap pens, and as happened this week In New York, death results, the men may truly be called martyrs. "Worse Than Wasted. Cleveland Plain Dealer. It is stated that the St. Louis fulr au thorities are planning to put $500,00" into billboard advertising all over the country. This looks like a sheer waste of good money. The billboard makes Its strongest appeal to the man who doesn't read the newspapers. And the man who doesn't read tho newspapers will never find his way to tho St Louis fair. Nationality of Corruption. Springfield (Mass.) Republican. The municipal corruption writer, Lincoln Bteffenff, pays our sedate lady of Quaker town a rare compliment in comparing the corruption of American cities. He says that in New York he was told that municipal corruption was due to the Irish. But In St. Louis he found the Germans in control, and In Minneapolis the Scandina vians and New Englanders. Philadelphia he found "the purest American community of all, and the most hopeless." The Irish In New York are what might be called "head-to-foot" reformers compared with the Americans of Philadelphia. netarnlnc to the Country. Portland Orcgonlan. Ws have all become familiar In recent years with the statement that the city has absorbed the country, that urban life, with Its peculiar attractions and Industrial op portunities, has drawn heavily upon rural life, leaving large areas that were once peopled with a thrifty farming class prac tically tenantless and desolate. A late census bulletin, however, shows that a re action has been in progress during the past ten years, the effect of which has been to return city and suburban popula tion to its proper balance. According to this evidence 169 towns, centers of subur ban communities, show an increase of 38 per cent In ten years. This Is about the average Increase of the whole country. The gain In population of cities between 1880 and 1890 was 7 per cent. During the decade following lt dropped to 2.5 per cent. This Indicates that Increase In the popula tion of cities has not kept pace with that or the country. TWO KIKD9 OF SPECILATTO. The Hill Variety Prononneed Worse Than the Sully Sort. Wall Street Journal. There are a great many kinds of specula tlon. Tho cotton corner, followed by the suspension of D. J. Bully A Co.. Is one kind. In this kind a man tokos his money and his credit In both hands, adding thereto his courage, and such, knowledge as he may possess, and puts, ajj to the test. If he wins he becomes a magnate. If he loses he becomes the laughing stock of every body. Not to put too fine a point upon this dis cussion, or to waste time unnecessarily, we Jump from that end of the speculative scale to the other, and what do we find? We find gentlemen In control of financial institutions of various kinds, which havs the public's money in some form or an other. We find that these institutions pos sess largo quantities of "collateral trust bonds," made In the last few years, repre senting purchase of the stocks of one conv pany by another. We find that these gen tlemcn bought these stocks In the market and elsewhere at low prices, acting as Individuals, and not as directors, or trus tees, for their Institutions, and In due time we find them receiving collateral trust bonds for them. These bonds have turned up in the values of the Institutions for which they are trustees, or of which they are directors. We havs in mind a very notable case In connection with the pur chase of the Chicago, Burlington Qulncy road by the Northern Pacific and Great Northern. The essence of this kind of speculation Is that It Is conducted without risk, provided that those who conduct lt can manage to place themselves In a post tlon where they handle the public's money In bulk. Ot the two kinds of speculation we rather think we prefer the former. It seems to have higher qualities about it than the latter. Those who wish to know how much of the latter kind of thing has been going on In the past few years will find quite a little Information, at all events suggestive on tho point, In the list of Investments of various large Institutions, published In of flclal documents, such, for Instance, as the report made at Albany to the Insurance and banking departments. It may be added that In case of a collapse the first kind of speculation produces local and temporary dlxtnrbanpe, while the second a widespread panlo. XEOLECTED MODKRS LANGUAGE. Gems of Ennobling Thought from the Chronicles of Bus Bait. New York. Bun. Now the sap begins to stir In ths lan guage and "sporting blood" in moat of us, Quick readers of the always interesting columns of the "sporting page" are dulled by habit to the neologisms, the salient expressions, the strange, attractive lingo he language In a language. Imagine foreign scholar, familiar with the con ventional, bloodless EngllHh, compelled to translate Into French or German phrases like these: "Cardinals and Browns limbered up for the edification of not a few of the fans." "Shannon will pull off a couple of steals. "Mike does not believe In sassy taps." "Both are ripe, and the one that shows the best In warming up will be sent to ths slab." "Joe Corbett Is slightly overdrawn." "Demontrevilla comes In on bunts and can lace the ball out." "Beloved of the bleacherlte and bound to make a strong Impression with the sun gods." "A bunch of batters that will send man a pitcher to the well." "Padden should be in the games up to the handle." "An excellent receiver and appears to have a nimble think tank." "The Cardinals come home with a dean sheet" "Smoot (not the senator) knocked a few around yesterday." Here Is an adequate tongue, written by many masters and spoken by maay mil lions. Yet the haughty and absurd Kng- Ush dictionaries take little or no note of It. Dr. Jamee Augustus llrary Murray of Oxford should direct bis America "retduV to thla fruitful field ef wards. PKRSOMAL NOTi:. George K. Pcrrln, one of tho oldest law yers in Indiana and a first cousin of Ad miral George Dewey, is dead. A Yalo professor has discovered we eat too much. It looks us though he Is trying to give the quietus to the boarding house Joke; but It would be a shame to lose nn Id friend. Z. Toyosukl, a Japanese student at Har vard, Is about to set out on a 7,000-mile Journey to Japan to visit a sick father. The Japan club of Harvard gave him a farewell dinner. Paul Adam, tho French author, Is on the road to this country to study the Influ ence of French art upon American and foreign art generally, having been com missioned to do so by the minister of pub lic Instruction. M. Bnntos-Dumont, who has Just arrived at Plymouth, England, says he cannot un derstand the stories that he has been fol lowing Mlas Sprockets to Europe. He said: I do not wish to be ungallant, but the lady Is not my sweetheart." Zopher W. Brooks, a genuine son of the Revolution, celebrated his ninety-second birthday by a family reunion at tho old homestead In Hancock, N. H., the other day. Mr. Brooks Is a son of John Brooks, lieutenant In the Revolutionary war. Burton Norville Harrison, who dlod In Washington recently was ot late years known as the father of Congressman Har rison, or as Mrs. Burton Harrison's hus band. But at one time he was known by his own name as private secretary to Pres ident Jefferson Davis of the southern con federacy. Prince Cetewayo, grandson of the famous Zulu king who was captured by the Brit ish In South Africa twenty-two years ago. Is a student in London, devoting much of his time to law and history. He likes Eng land and the English, ha says, but hates their way of dressing. If the rice-eating Japanese continue to win victories from the wheat-eating Rus sians there will be almost as great re joicing In Louisiana and eastern Texas aa In Toklo. To an extent they may be claimed as victories of the rice breakfast foods over bread and beef. The people of Paris will honor George Sand by erecting a statue of the great writer to stand In the Place des Vosges, near the Victor Hugo museum. It will represent George Sand In her youth and she will be shown standing, holding sheets of manuscript and a pencil. This year Is the centennlul of her birth. Henry J. Ackcrman has been living In k dugout near Pueblo, Colo., for six years. Formerly he was a well-to-do resident of Brooklyn. In 1898, while cruising In his yacht, be met and fell In love with a young woman. ' She married another man, where upon Acker man left his home and took up his abode In his present quarters, where he has lived a hermit's life ever since. TREATED LIKE CATTLE. Mai-Treatment of Immigrants on West Bound Trains Oat of New York. Boston Globe. We have heard much of the abuse of cattle on railroad trains how they have gone mad with thirst and arrived famish ing with hunger and covered with sores. And because it was dumb cattle we have suppressed our horror and waited for ths law to come to their rescue. , But now lt happens that some of the Immigrant train running to the west have been adjudged by the officers of the gov ernment to be little more than "cattle trains," so far as the treatment of their passenger Is concerned. ... 4 One of the worst cases of neglect oc curred recently on one of the principal lines from New Tork to Chicago, Three coaches filled with Immigrants were attached to local freight trains. This caused a delay of from one to ten hours at every division, with the result that the foreigners did not reach Chicago until four days after they left New York. And what Is worse, during that time no water was furnished by tho railroad em ployes, nor did the travelers have any op portunity to replenish their stock of food, which was exhausted after the second duy. When the Immigrants, finally reached Chi cago half ot them were sick. None had eaten for over twenty-four hours, while others had been two and three days whhout food. Such Inhuman treatment of Immigrants by railroad companies has aroused the wrath of the government authorities and they have laid down rules which the rail roads must obey hereafter. To know whether any railroad Ignores or violates these the government has ordered that In spectors shall accompany trains carrying immigrants. Congress should long ago have made such shockln outrages Impossible by providing for permanent Inspectors on Immigrant trains. HERB IS IDEAL REFORM. Innovations sad Rennovntlons In , Stuffy Sleeping; Cure. New York Tribune. The welcome announcement Is made that the Pullman company, has adopted a new design for sleeping cars which will facili tate the work of the cleaners. The new cars will contain no grlllwork or carving, and the surfaces will be curved as far as possible, while a material has been selected for curtains and seat covers from which dust and dirt can be readily removed. The company believes that its ventilating ap paratus Is the best thus far devised, and will therefore make no change In that part of the equipment, but stricter orders have been Issued In respect to the disinfec tion of cars In which sick persons may have traveled. These policies have been, adopted pri marily for sanitary reasons, and are doubt less Judicious from that point of view alone. Mouldings, open work and sharp angles afford convenient lodgings to dis ease germs and easily defy the process of eviction. Thick worsteds can hardly be kept clean under the most favorable con ditions by assiduous care and a large ex pendlture of muscular energy. But the use of different forms and furnishings Is not Justified merely by considerations of health. The elaborate woodwork and dense upholstery of sleeping cars have always been offensive to persons of good Judg ment and taste, and their disappearance will enhance the pleasures or diminish the miseries of travel. But drawing room curs are usually at least as bad as sleeping cars, and we hope the Pullman company will not confine Its commendable work of reform to the latter. We hare never born able to discover any reasonable ground for the hypothesis that a traveler likes to sit on a biasing red chair In the midst of a collection of grooves and niches and gase down a vista of stuffy drapery. The up- to-date youth who persuades the man Id charge to let htm sit on a camp stool In the baggage car, especially on a fiery sum mer day. may be guilty of causing the company's rules to be violated, but he gen erally gets more for his money than his father who pays fZ for the privilege of be ing submerged In plush. If - those who are responsible for the character of the vehicle of transportation would vnrversajly adopt and adhere to a hfgh standard of simplicity, putting a pre mium on meagerneas rather than profusion. they would Cod that, they had filled a long left BITS OF WASHIXGTOS LIFE. Minor Scenes and Incidents Sketched on the Spot. Senator Chauncry IV pew Is not to be turned aside from the serious duties of statesmen by ribald wit or mocking Jest. I have enjoyed reading several of your fter-dlnner speeches." wrote a Syracuse admirer In a letter dated April 1, "but I have not had the pleasure of hearing you deliver one. I have no doubt the eloquence and charm of your delivery cannot be re produced In print. A longing desire to hear your Inspiring voice prompts me to beg an invitation the next time you de liver an address after dinner at your rail road restaurant In Syracuse. Of other honors I have had an abundance," the writer concluded; "this one I seek to round out a life of Intellectual activity and ex citement." The genial senator sternly repressed the temptation to satisfy the longing of a homo-grown sdmlrer. Before him was tho greater and more gallant task of preserv ing the cttlsenshlp of American heiresses hitched to foreign titles. He has reported to -he senate a bill Inspired by American women who have chosen husbands owing allegiance to foreign powers, but who do not wish to be cut off from tho privilege of regaining their citizenship rights In tho United States should they decide to return to this country and live. As the law now stands, any woman who shall marry a foreigner and leave the coun try to live shall forfeit her rights here. This condition of affairs is obviated by the bill reported by Mr. Depew, which pro vides that "any woman, being 21 years of age and being a bona fide resident of the United States, whose American cltlsenshlp has been lost or suspended by marriage with a foreigner, may be permitted to re sume such citizenship after she shall have declared on oath In court that lt is her in tention to resume her cltlsenshlp and to renounce forever allegiance and fidelity to any foreign country, and that she will sup port the constitution of the United States." In discussing the bill Senator Depew said: "Thers has always been a great deal of trouble in store for women who have lost their cltlsenshlp through marriages con tracted with foreigners when they have at tempted to return to this country and live under the American flag, as they did before marriage. For Instance, If a woman who marries a man of foreign title and who is subsequently divorced or enters a state of widowhood desires to come back to the United States and resume her legal resi dence here, she is barred from cltlsenshlp. The case has never been satisfactorily de termined in the courts. This bill intends to decide the case beyond question." Unless congress adjourns before long one of the annual items of repair will have to be undertaken with the house still In ses sion. The plank beneath the green baize covering on the speaaker's desk Is be ginning to splinter and crack under the vigorous hammering of the gavel. This plank Is renewed during each recess of congress, but this year, for some reason. It Is giving way sooner thart usual. By some It Is attributed to the fact that "Uncle Joe" Cannon Is speaker and that his left arm is full of vigor. Others contend it Is because the report connecting the names of members with postofflce Irregularities was laid before the house. It deeply grieved Bereno E. Payne, the republican floor leader, when Mr. Maddox of Georgia raised the point of no quorum last Saturday and thus threatened to pre vent the house from passing a lot of bills. With a heavy sigh Mr. Payne arose, steered his portly form across to the demo cratic side, and looked down on Mr. Mad dox with a pained look. Maddox," said- Payne In a seductive tone, "why do you ball things up this way Just as we are getting along so nicely T You have some secret reason, Maddox. Tell mo what it Is." "Mr. Payno," began Maddox with dig nity. Confidentially," said Mr. Payne In a wheedling voice. "I won't breathe It to a soul." 'As I was about to say, Mr. Payne" resumed Mr. Maddox. "Just among us girls," pleaded Mr. Payno. The grlszled, lean, bald-headed old con federate looked up at the large form and white head above him, and gasped a couple ot times. Then he arose. 'Mr. Speaker," said Mr. Maddox, "I withdraw the point" During the children's egg-rolling festivi ties on the White House grounds Monday afternoon the president, with Mrs. Roose velt, appeared on the balcony and was greeted with cheering and waving of hand kerchiefs. Tho president noticed a father with -tittle triplets among the merry-makers. Ho at once sent a messenger to the father to tell him to bring them up on the balcony. It was Mr. Roosevelt's intention to let them stay there only a few minutes, but when tho man told him that ha had left a pair of twins at .home and that his wife had Just given birth to another pair, tho president kept the father and his triplets on tho balcony for half an hour and in troduced them to the whole White House party. He promised to send the proud father his photograph and a letter. Major John F. Lacey, representative from Iowa and author of tho law protect ing song birds, has a cure for pneumonia which ho Is willing all the world should know. 'Take six drops of asafetlda, mix with whisky or milk, and drink before going to bed," says Major Lacey, "and you will be cured." "To bo sure," ho says, "you may smell a bit, but ' what Is that compared with pneumonia? Whisky Is better than milk, for tho milk may curdle. You know what the effect on mosquitoes is In the bouse If you start a fire and get the room full of smoke. In the. same way the powerful fumes of the asafettda drive out the germs of grip or pneumonia. They vacate tho lungs In short order, and I must say, In all candor, I admire their Judgment. I've successfully prescribed It for a number of members of congress this winter," Members of congress are extremely cau tious In their dealings with the Postofflce department since the Bristow bomb fell among them a short time ago. Represent ative Samuel L. Powers of Massachusetts referred some papers In a salary allowance case to the department on Saturday. He wrote on ths back ot them: "My name is attached to these papers with the distinct understanding that my Indorsement Is to have no influence what ever on the action of the postmaster-gen You can 'get ft cheap? About IOO tons ArkansLW Semi-Anthracite best brand, wet ttottX wsurt to carry tt over, rxrf trie) room for hard coat- Just ths thlnjr for furuaxs or beaters to tap off tlw season with. SHEIUD1N COAL OFFICE, IOCS Fcrnsia St. Tt! 127 eral." Then ho added: "If It has I wlh to Withdraw that Influence." Tho World's Fnlr special slumps will be sent from Washington to th first-class pnstofflccs of tho country on Arrll SI, but are not to be placed on sale, however, un til April 30, the day of the opening of th. exposition at St. Louis. The one-cent stamp will bear tho likeness of Rbert R. Uvlusffton. The two-oent stamp bears tho likeness of Thomas Jefferson. Tho three-cent stamp will bear the portrait of Jnmes Monroe, and tho five-cent stnmp will bo adorned with tho face of William McKlnley. Upon the ten-cent stamp there will be a msp of tho United States show ing the territory Included in the Louisiana Purchase. Some delver has ascertained that there are 1.81J members of the Smith family In the employ of the federal government, and that of the Smith, Johnson, Williams, Brown and Jones families collectively there are 4,161 enrolled. Moreover, there hns been, according to this chronicler, a mem ber of the Smith fnmliy In every congress of the United States with the solo excep tion of the Forty-ninth. Representative Griggs of Georgia- Is the greatest pntron of the American goober In congress. His average consumption Is five or six small bags a day. Rut ns ths house has no peanut counter the Georgian goes for his supply to a vender In tho sen ate restaurant. Every morning a page from the democratic cloakroom - arrears with a handful of nickels and purchHi peanuts enough to last Mr. Griggs during the afternoon and till the meeting ot con gress the next afternoon. FROM BENCH TO WHITES HOlSE. Jackson the Only Judge Ever Elected President. Now York Sun. ' Should the democratic national conven tion nominate Chief Judge Parker of New York as Its presidential candidate, he will have ths distinction of being the first Judge on the bench to be so honored. ' The first Judge to be voted for In any national convention as a presidential can didate was Judge Jbhn McLean, who wns en associate Justice of the supreme court of the United States. He was an Ohio man and his name was brought before the convention which nominated Fremont in 1856. He had been known as a Jackson democrat. He received nearly 200 votes In the convention. His candidacy was the result, to a con siderable extent, of his dissenting opinion in the celebrated Dred Scott nose. His opinion, notwithstanding his previous po litical affiliation, made him popular with the republican party, which at that time was in Its Infancy. One of the most notable candidates from the bench for the presidential nomination was Salmon P. Chase, chief Justice of tho United States supreme .court. He was ap pointed by Lincoln. In 1868 he was a can didate for the nomination. . It will be recalled that in a letter which he wrote some time before the democratic national oonventlon, Chief Justice Chsso said that while he had been acting with the republican party since it had come into existence, he had never wavered In Ms loyalty to the principles of democracy. He failed In his purpose. The failure wns not only the disappointment of his publlo life, but lt dashed to pieces the socIkI am bition of his daughter, Kate Chase Sprague, one of the most gifted women In the land. David Davis, also a Justice of the su preme court, was frequently mentioned for the presidential nomination from 1870 until the meeting of the convention two years later which committed the democratic party to tho candidacy of Horace Greeley. The candidacy of Justice Davis was still being fostered by his friends, and, lt Is said, with his consent, when Samuel J. Tllden's nosn lnation put a quietus to the presidential hope of the Jurist from Illinois, who re signed from the bench to become senator. There were two presidential candidates who had sat upon the bench before tholr nominations. One, Andrew Jackson, was electid; the other, Stephen A. Douglas, was defeated. ' The young man In politics may not re call that Jackson was a United States sena tor from Tennessee, and that In 1TD8 ho re signed his seat to accept an appointment to the supreme court bench ot his state, a place which he held for six years. John Adams was elected a member of the supreme court of Massachusetts dur ing the Revolutionary war, b't his duties as a member of tho continental congress prevented him from qualifying. Martin Van liuren, as a member of the senate of this state, was ex-ofnclo a, Ju4ge of the court of errors, which at that time was composed of certain members of the senate and the Judges of the supreme court of the state. Stephen 1 A. Douglas was the only presM dentlal candidate In the history of the country who. carried the title of Judge dur ing his candidacy.- He had been a member of the supreme' court of Illinois three years when he quit the bench to engsge in politics. WHES YOV'VK GOT A RAISE IV PAY. : Council Bluffs Nonpareil. - There's a lot of satisfaction when you've got a raisn In pay, And you whistle, in - a happy and self important way. You sort of feel like getting down and buckling to your work. For it's rising now In value and is worth too much to shirk. And you feel a little bigger snd you bunker for the fray Sort of continent and eager when you've got a ruise in pay. It may be Just a little, but It seems to be a pile. And you cIihiiko your figures over and you add 'em with a smile: A little more to lay away, a little more to Hpcnd. And if you re open hearted why, a little more to lend; And all the catles you have built for some far distant duy Seem to move a little nearer when you vs got a raise in pay. For the little extra money, however small it be It's tho 'stop between necessity and luxury, And all th roue lined raths of ease you've hoped some iluy to win Just smile st you uh you pass by and em to say, t'ome In. ' You spend It t. n times over in your mind but that's the way . A fellow has of doing when he gets s rsls In pay. Oh It means you're worth a little more; 'you'VM not len wanting time. It means you're on the ladder and are learning how to climb; And you hreutho a Utile deeper than you ever did before. ..... Ami you work a little harder and you think a little more, For work Is Just a pleasant thing and Ufa Is light and gay When you clmuUr up another round and get a raise In pay.