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10 THE OMAIIA DAILY REE; SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1901. Tim omaiia Daily bee. B. ROSE WATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERT MORNINO. TEHMS Or SUBSCRIPTION. tll! Bee (without Sunday). Off Tear..$40 knliy ne nn.1 Bifioay, unl rear...... v IfluMrated Bee. One Tear J) fl.inday P.ee. One !n? Saturday Bee. One Year iw Twentieth Ontnrv Farmer, One Year.. 1.00 DELIVERED BT CARRIER. xllv He (without Sunday). rfr crpy.. 2' Pillv Pee (without Sunday), per we.-k..l?i Dally He. (Inclddlng Sunday), per week.. lie Punrlav Bee. r-r fP 60 Evening Bm (without Sunday). I" week So Evening Dec (Including Sunday), per wc.k , 13 Complaint of Irregularity In delivery should be addressed to City Circulation department OFFICES. fOmaha The Bee T)ulldlnr. South Omaha-City Hall building, Twen- ty-nrtn ano jt street. . Council Bluffs 10 Pearl Street Chicago U Unity Building. Maw York 2VA Park Row Building. Washington .VH Fourteenth Street CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to new and dl tBMal matter should be addressed: Omaha Uee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to The Bee Publlahlnc Company. C'aly 2-cent stamps received In payment of man accounts, f-orsor.al check, except on vmana or entern exchanges, pnt sccepveo THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Dougias County, se.t George B. Tischuck. secretary of The B Fublixhlng Company, being duly sworn. W that the actual number of full and complete copies- of The Dnilv. Mornln. kivenlng and Sunday Bee prime t during lb '. 80.S40 16.., 80.2A0 1 so. 1 no it xn,mo I aa,sio it 80.KM1 4 so.iso u m.tmu 1 3o,noo k ss.kho S. 80.S70 . SI........,. 80,000 ) 8O30O 22 80,200 so.oou fci ao.ooo f O.lOO 24 M.500 10 , 8 7,100 23 SO.ttM If. 80.0OO 28 S0.H4O U 8O.OV0 27 M0340 11 S,040 28 BU.OH0 It,.... 80.1MO JO 80.1H0 It...... 80,870 tU 81U4i Total 8UU.OSO Lew unsold and returned copies.... l),bl Set total sales tts,104 Net average sales ito.sao GEO. B. TZ8CHUCK. 'Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before uio tills 2d Ctiy of May, A. l. UOi, U.Seal) M. B. HUNGATE. . Notary Public. TColoncl Bryan 1s sure the Democratic Success Icngua is beading straight for democratic defeat. a - Illinois republicans will take a week ti think It over while the candidates ajso do a little considering. ? 1 j ssa r.The question box. Is uot likely to be engrafted as a regular feature on the Ijroffrara of our republican state conven tions. (f.t teems that the Kansas City plat form is the ghost of Banquo that will riot down in the democratic piny of Hamlet. r ' t tltecent events would Indicate that Russia is wiser In trusting to the Ood oT Battles than to Its generals for the discomfiture of Its enemy. . ,To Judge from Its advice to Instructors 14 Methodist schools,1 the general con ference must believe. In the adage, close mouth shows a wise head." Reports from all over Nebraska are that crop prospects were never better at this season of the year. In other words, continued prosperity is ahead of us. lt is but natural that, having had ex perience In the real thing, a Colorado foman should forge to the front in the political arena of the Woman's Federa tion. , ( ' j e " I' l, i.ColoneI Bryan dobs hot say he will bolt the convention, but In his latest Interview he seems to leave the door oy en so he can get out in a hurry if be fc desires. Jt belligerents are turning mines loose Itf the Yellow sea to float at random, General Miles' prediction of other ca tions becoming involved In the present w,ar may yet find fulfillment ' ItU8Hla feels that the loss of Japanese vjpssels has made the enemy more nearly equal In war strength to the Muscovite empire, which Is a damaging admission for the largost country of Europe. EThe successful candidate for the re publican nomination for state auditor balls from a county that bad only three delegates to represent It in the state convention. But he made those three votes count. pow that there is- no primary election contest in tight, the Civic Federation is feeptng a wee 'still voice. It tuny be expected to break out again, however, a soon as-it sees another chance to Oiake, political capital for the spurious reformers It has reached a point where the theory of war has to give awHy to stem facts in the far east and the occasion finds both commanders apparently somewhat disconcerted which may atuount for the mutual retreats which are being heralded. ' ' he mayor of Des Motues has received a bouquet in the form of a church en dorsement of his administration. The mayor of Omaha has done lots of things at the demand of the church minister, but never ho much as got a public "thank you." . The chief c liar go brought by the local reorganise f.gnlnat the "peerless leader" Is that his devotlou to whnt be imagines to be deiuocrutle principles bus led blni to hand over or at leant to try (o .baud over nil the, putronage worth having to popullut pleblters. 4 Thibet could not tuke a more certain etep toward becoming an unwilling pnrt of the British empire tlmn by renounc ing allegiance to the central government of China, for with the retlllon of Thibet the real partition of China would begin and Britain would claim Its share. XAXOlTtLt HAILHOAU PROPS HtT. Two years ago the Bute Board of Rail road Assessment, then connituig of Governor Savage, Auditor Weston and Treasurer Htuefer, assessed the railroads of Nebraska on their tunglble property without regard to the value of their franchises. When called before the su prenie court on the application of The Bee Building company the board ad mltted that it had not taken Into ac count the value of the franchises be cause the statute was not clear regard Itijr the assessment of the franchises This action was regarded by the rail rond attorneys as a dead give-away of the case and they thereupon Induced Auditor Weston and Treasurer Stuefer to contradict their original statement in an amended answer In which they claimed to have assessed the railroad ns going properties that derived their tax able value not merely from the value of their rlght-of-wny. roadbed, rails and rolling stock, but by reason of their use as public highways.. This plea furnished the supreme court the excuse for reversing itself by re fusing to grant the writ ordering the state board to reconvene and add to the Assessment of the tangible property of railroads the valtte of their franchises based on their capitalization and earn lugs, as the court bad only a few months previously done by mandamuslng the city council of Omaha to reconvene and re-assess the street railways, water works,, gas and electric lighting com panles on their franchise, as well as on their tangible property. In reality the pretended assessment of the tangible property of the railroads of Nebraska has been a farce and a fraud for n number of years past. There Is no record in the state house to show what Value the various assessment boards bad placed upon the right-of-way, terminals, roadbed, depots and other Improvements on the right-of-way of any railroad, or upon any particular class of equipment that constitutes their rolling stock. All that the state boards had done previously was to assess rail road properties in a lump at so much per mile, with the franchise dumped In, and ench successive board simply adopted the preceding assessment with a few trifling changes. In view of the fact that the new rev enue law expressly requires the state board to include in the assessment of railroads cot merely their tangible prop erty, but also the value of their fran chises, based upon earnings and market value, it is immaterial what proportion of the total value of a railroad consti tutes the tangible and what proportion the' Intangible property, providing al ways that the aggregate valuation fairly represents the actual value of the prop erty. Inasmuch, however, as the board Is now proceeding to ascertain the value of the tangible property of each railroad despite the fact that the rolling stock of these various systems is used over the whole system, we venture to make a tew suggestions to the board. To make a correct appraisement of tangible property the board should take as its-basis tho cost of reproduction. The value of any tangible piece of prop erty Is what it would cost to reproduce It, or to buy it under existing market prices. This applies not merely to roll ing stock and trackage, .but also to the right-of-way. It .is Immaterial how much a railroad paid for its right-of-way or whether it was secured by outright donation. The question is, what could It be bought for now? But what con stitutes the right-of-way of a railroad in Nebraska? On the main line of the Union Pacific .the right-of-way Is a strip of land 400 feet wide and 407 miles long. The right-of-way of other rail roads varies from 100 to 200 feet In width. The right-of-way of most of the railroads of the country is only from 60 to 80 feet wide. Next come the valuation of the termi nals aud depot grounds. These are not merely so much acre property to be valued at farming land prices, but lands worth millions of dollars, because of their location In the business districts Of large cities, and especially their util ity for the distribution of commodities to factories, mills and jobbing bouses. Next to the right-of-way and terminals comes the roadbed. It goes without say ing that the roadbed of the Union Pa cific main line, ballasted with Wyoming granite, is worth enormously more then the roadbed of lines ballasted with lime stone, gravel or mud. The tarns radical divergence applies to the trackage of the various roads. The valuation of viaducts, culverts and bridges is alto a most serious and difficult problem, be cause nobody but an expert Is qualified to estimate the cost of their duplication. - When it comet to the rolling stock the flret question la, What la the value of a locomotive, a passenger coach, sleep ing car. or a freight car? The ouly cor rect estlmato of their value Is their present cost In the machine shop and factory. In order that the board may not bo In the dark concerning this class of tangible property,-a few figures from the reports of the various railroads nt to the prleet paid by them In 1903 for new equipment mny be of value. The Union Taclflc returns, first-class locomotives at $11,000, necond-elasa at $7,000 and third-class at $:i,0()0. The Union rnclfle purchased In 1003 forty three loeomotlret of all classes nt a cost of $724,484, or an average per locomo tive of $l,S4a4S. The Chicago & Northwestern returns its first-class locomotives at $10,000, sccondK-lnss at $7,0mj and third-class at $.VO0, but Its directors' report for 1903 shows on expenditure of $55,020 for four psssenger locomotives at $1S,7.5; $117. 451 for nlno freight locomoUves, or $1S,0U& each, and the value of new pas senger and freight cars, bult by the Chicago & Northwestern at Its own snops, which should be a fair standard for til other railroads, la a follows: Firtt-clast passenger coaches, $fl,(H5; postal cars, $tl,2tl2; combination cars, $4,500; baggage cart, fLISS; furnlturu cars, $087.&V box cars. $770, and C cars, $402.57. The Rock Island returns flrst-elnss lo coraotlres at $9,000 nd second-class at $0,000. while the Chicago, St. Paul, Mln neapolis & Omaha returns first-class lo comotives at $11,004, second class $0,73fl and thlrdlnss $2,400. The report of the Missouri Pacific directore for 1903 shows that that com paily purchased seventeen freight loco motives at $15,088 each, ,tliree Faclflc type locomotives at $17,088 nnd threo switch engines at $13,501, which shows that new first class locomotives cost at least $17,000, second-class $15,000 nnd third class $13,500. That is also the average cost of locomotives purchased by the Great Northern and Burlington The trouble with the tangible property assessment, however, will be that the returns of rolling stock are made for each system a9 a whole and the propor tion with which Nebraska Is credited Is not according to mileage, but accord Ing to wheelnge. This Is deceptive, be cause wheelnge estimates are based on the assumption that all the commodities transported over a road nre of the same value and conveyed at the same rate, and also assumes that the wheelnge of trains hauling freight over the level grades of Nebraska are the same as over the steep grades, across the moun tains of Colorado and Utah, when In fact there Is double wheelnge at one end of the rond ns compared with the other, and consequently Nebraska gets the worst of it In a wheelage estimate. k iriHVUSS'lX FACTIONAL TIGHT. The factional fight In the republican party of Wisconsin Is regrettable. It will not affect materially, if at all. the Vote for the candidates of the Chicago convention, since the factions are- not divided on presidential electors, but It may result In placing the democratic party in control of the state adminis tration nnd in electing a legislature thnt will choose a democrat to succeed Hon. Joseph V. Qunrles In the United States senate. This would be unfortunate for Wisconsin and to some extent a detri ment to the republican party at large. The ostensible ground of the fight on Governor La Follette is opposition to a third term, but It Is hardly to be doubted thnt the real reason Is the persistent effort he hns made to compel the rail roads to pay their just share of state taxation. For the last four years he has earnestly labored In this direction and has consequently Incurred the relentless enmity of the corporations and the poli ticians who are under the influence of the corporntlons. Of course there Is no open mnnifestatlon of this. ,The men who are antagonizing La Follette do not publicly proclaim that they are doing so in the interest of the corporntlons. But the connection of some of them with the railroads In the past, if not at present, Is well known and the obliga tions under which this placed them they have not forgotten. Governor La Fol lette having labored assiduously for the public Interest where this was antago nized by the corporations, there is now arrayed against him those who have profited politically or otherwise through the support of the railroads and who hope for further favors from the same source. y , ..; This , element will be responsible if Wisconsin should this year elect a'demo cratlc governor and so far as the cor porations are concerned they are doubt less quite indifferent as to the result since they are probably able to dictate who the democratic cnndldnte shall be. The republican plurality in Wisconsin in 1900 was 100,581, so that the state is absolutely safe on the presidential ticket this year and will probably give as large a plurality for Roosevelt, as it gave for McKlnley fouf years ago. It is very much to be regretted that a factional quarrel renders doubtful the election of a republican governor and legislature. ' LABOR OS' TBS JBTBMVB. The question of securing an adequate supply of labor for the construction of the Panama canal does not appear to be causing the commlsBlon any solici tude at present, yet it is by no meant certain that It may not do to when the work Is fully entered upon. The report of Colonel Black of the United States engineer corps, who baa been investi gating conditions on the isthmus, states that there are now fully 15,000 negroes there who are clamoring for an oppor tunity to work on the canal and be is of the opinion that all of the common laborers needed for the work, probably 40,000, enn be secured from the Carib bean countries. An obstacle, to this, however, It already presented vin the action of the government of Jamaica in placing a tax upon the emigration of' laborers from that Island. It Is to be noted that Jamaica tup- plied the great bulk of the labor for the operations of the French canal com pany and most of the labor now on the Isthmus came from that Island. This fact shows that few people from other parts of the West Indies could be In duced by the French canal builders to go to Pannmn, so thnt It Is by no means certain thnt many enn now be secured from this source. Indeed It Is stated thnt all the West Indian governments Just now nre very sore on the subject of labor emigration and probably strin gent legislation, designed to prevent It will be enacted In most of the Islands before the appeal for laborers for the canal Is made. A correspondent of the New 1'qrk Sun who Is evidently well In formed anys that while It may not be Impossible to obtain the necessary labor. It will certainly 1e a task of Immense difficulty and will probably cost far more than Uncle Snm expects to pay. He thinks the labor problem Is likely to dclny the work seriously. Our govern ment will doubtless be a much more liberal employer than the French coru pnny and conditions of living 011 the Isthmus will be greatly Improved, con siderations that will count heavily with the people whose labor It Is desirable to obtain. Omaha people nre thankful that the work of street repairing is under way. But the pavements ought never to have been allowed to reach the present con ditlon of bad repair, and they would not had not the warring paving contrac tors preferred to see the streets go to ruin than to let the other fellow get the job. Missouri scandals have no end. Now It Is the speaker of the house of repre sentatives who is Involved, being found guilty of mutilating the records of the supreme court. As his client was a murderer and not a St. Ixuls boodler, It Is possible that the attorney will be dleba rred. Moved to Amend. Washington Post Mr. Bryan proposes to write a book of his "Political Reminiscences." We sug gest that "Pollticnl Lamentations" would be a more appropriate title. Nothing- to Talk Aboat. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Practically all of the great questions of the day have been settled by the repub lican party. There IS no Issue before the country. No wonder Judge Parker can"t talk. Ceaseless Worry. Louisville Herald. "Most of our worry Is," according to a wise man, "due to the anticipation of things that never happen." A possible ex planation of Colonel Bryan's worry about the reorganize electing" a goldbug demo crat president of the t'nlted States. It can't happen, colonel. The Commerrlallslnar Spirit. Brooklyn Eagle. With the keenest money grabbers on earth, with the commercializing of every interest, even politics, why this urging of more commercial education? Let's have leas of that and more of the education that made moral and happy men and women. Still, If we must have bookkeep ing taught, It might as well be taught correctly. . Patriots at a. Discount. Philadelphia Press. Cuba Is having the usual trouble In mak Ing out Its pension rolls, It . borrowed 135,000,000 to pay the liberators, but when It oomes to distribute the money it finds that large proportion of the claims have been sold for 20 per cent of their face value, Whether or not to pay the men presenting the claims that rest on such transactions Is the question. About 70.009 names are on the rolls, but it la fairly certain that one- half that number represent men who never performed any eervlce for the republic. Roosevelt In the Campaign. Kansas City Journal. There Is especially little occasion for Mr, Roosevelt to participate actively In this year's contest. It has been but a short time since he mads an excellent tour of the country, and on that tour he showed himself to hundreds of thousands of his countrymen and made speeches defining his views upon almost all pending public ques tions. Those speeches, together with his previous and subsequent career, In and out of the presidency, have made his per sonality and his policies aa well known as those of any Amerloan statesman ever were. THE RESCL'S: OF NIAGARA. Raid of Promoters Cheeked by Hew York's Governor. Chicago Record-Herald. Governor Odell of New York baa not escaped without criticism because of his tolerance of certain bills of evil ante cedents that passed the general assembly, but his action In vetoing the Niagara power bill will bring him much praise, not only from his own state, but from all parts of the union. The very existence of the Amerloan falls at Niagara was threatened by as ruthless and greedy a gang of speculators in publio property as ever got together for a raid. These men desired unlimited rights to take Water from the American side of the river above the falls. They desired unlimited rights to condemn property in all part of the state In connection with their power distribution plant. And they did not pro pose to pay a cent to the state for what they Vere to receive. Had they gained their desire the American falls would soon have become nothing more than dry rock. On the Canadian side Of the faUS. the government of Ontario has granted! several power franchises, but it has taken pains to limit the amount of water that may be abstracted, and It baa secured a high rate of compensation from the companies It has chartered. Governor Odell was moved by this example, as well as by the many pro tests he received, to veto the destructive 'grab" to which the legislature had shown Itself so sympathetic It Is believed by geologists that through the natural processes of erosion the Amer loan falls will disappear in the course of some tens or hundreds of thousands of years. But surely nobody but our up-to-date American promoters and gang legis lators could possibly see In that fact an exouse for hastening the disappearance. OIK INDEPENDENCE. Almost KTerytblnn- Needed bjr the Amerloan People Prodaeed Here. New York Sun. It la the boast, especially In campaign times, of many statesmen' that If a wall should be constructed around the United Btatea, closing In the whole territory from the Atlantlo to the Paclflo and from British America to Mexico, it would be possible to grow, mine or produce every particle needed by the eighty or more millions of people of the United States without sending broad for anything. In the main, tins statement is true, and the United Btates is the only country In the world of which It Is true; but there are some Imports whloh the United States must get from abroad or do without. 1 The chief article which Is In such de mand by the people of the United States as to be, in fact, a necessity of life. Is cof fee. It is not produced here and comes almost exclusively from BraalL Another item of necessary Import is tea, not raised to any appreciable extent In the United States, but shipped here from China and Japan In almost equal amount. These are the chief items that the United States must Import, but not the only ones. Chemicals In large amount are imported Into the United Btates, and along with them drugs; Germs ny being the chief country of shipment of the former, and South Amerlcon ports for the latter. Cork and quicksilver, both from Bpaln. are not pro duced here, and a very large Item of Im port to the United Btatea la goat shins. niamonCe, spices, raw silk, sponges, rubber, furs, cocoa nuts, cocoa and some fruits are Imported into the United Btates without great competition with American products. But prsctlcnlly with these ex ceptions, the United BtsifS produces or. Is able to produce, grow, mine or manufacture everything that It needs without sending abroad for It. or without being under the necessity of buying outside of Its borne market. OTHER LARDS THAI OIRS. A report that the Russian prisoners taken by the Japanese are Poles from Warsaw recalls experiences with the Polish troops In the Russian army during the Russo Turklsh war of 1STT.' Soon after the pass age of the Danube desertions became so numerous from the Polish regiments that It began to look as If they were precon certed, there being a number of Poles In the Turkish army, some on the staff, but they were soon stopped. The scouting corps of the Turkish army to which the Polish deserters gave themselves up was composed of Circassians, who Invariably murdered them and brought In their head and rifles as evidence of having killed aa enemy. Eventually this became known la the Russian army, with the result that thi Poles became aa anti-Turkish as the Rus slans themselves. Inasmuch as It may be assumed that In the present war the Japa nese will treat humanely all Russian prls oners, the experience of the Turkish war Is not likely to be repeated, and fortunately for the Japanese, since the loyalty of all the soldiers wearing the cxar's uniform cannot be assumed. For the first time In twenty years the British Indian government has granted a remission of taxation, and a large one. At the same time the revenue has In creased In the five years of Lord Curson't reign by more than 11 per cent and the yearly budgets have shown surpluses aver aging tlS, 000,000. To Increase revenue arid at the same time to decrease taxation is great achievement. But this is not all. Gold and silver are flowing Into India from other lands at the rate of llt.OCO.OOO a year, and deposits In savings banks, of which nine-tenths are made and owned by In dians, have Increased by more than 50 per cent since 1870. The railroad system U be ing extended at the rate of nearly 1.000 miles a year and Is now paid for and yield ing a handsome profit. Such Items make a gratifying and auspicious showing. They Indicate that the Indian empire Is be'ng well governed. But there Is something more. The empire is being more and more governed not only for the Indians, but also by the Indians themselves. The Indian civil service Includes 26,908 places, with salaries of from $.100 to $4,000 a year. Of these no fewer than 16,233 are filled by na tive Indians and only 6,205 by Europeans, the other 5,420 being filled by "Eurasians." The showing on. the whole Is a vindication of the Imperial rule. It Is urged that members of Parliament should receive a salary. In order that per sons of small means may serve In that body. The agitation for a salaried House of Commons la of long standing, but the movement has mado little progress. The National Democratlo league has Issued a manifesto addressed "To the Democracy" favoring the payment of members of Parliament and their election expenses out of the public funds. The manifesto sets forth that. In view of the Impending disso lution of Parliament and the "probable ac cession to power of a liberal ministry," the time Is opportune for democratlo reforms. It Is urged that the proposal to pay mem bers Is not an untried Innovation, but a re turn to an old constitutional custom; that there can be no genuine "people's parlia ment" until this practice has boen re-estab lished. It is declared that electioneering expenses at present are alone sufficient to deter a poor man from becoming a candi date, and that Parliamentary representa tion Is a monopoly of the wealthy. It Is, therefore, demanded that the first budget In the expected new Parliament shall con tain provision for Parliamentary salaries. The democratic electorate Is called upon to exact a distinct pledge from every candl date to support measures securing the "re form." The Indications are that the prop osition will be coldly received by the elec tors, and that It will hardly rise to the dignity of an Issue. The financial burden of Great Britain is sufficiently heavy to dis courage new obligations, to say nothing of the slight appeal the proposals will make to conservative voters. It Is reported from South Africa that brigandage hat broken out In the. Trans vaal, and that a band of marauders, about 200 strong, has been operating In the moun tainous Lydenburg district In the north. It Is said to be composed of men recruited among the riff-raff of Pretoria and Johan nesburg, of whom seven were captured about the middle of last month, the re mainder breaking up Into small parties that retired Into the back country. It Is not known what Importance is to be at tached to the presence of this organization. tne authorities being very reticent on the subject; but It le,hoped that the examina tion or tne prisoner taken may give some clew to the matter. The capture of the seven men gave rise to the wildest rumors and the British government has been urged not to make any further reductions In the garrisons In South Africa for the present Efforts will be made in tha meantime to find employment for the many who have been left Stranded by the ending of the war and the slackness of work, while the habitual vagrants and undesirables, of whom there are a great number, will be deported. SM The convention recently signed In Rome on behalf of France and Italy Is of general interest. It relates to the conditions of labor of Italians In France and of French men In Italy. As there are only 10,000 French workmen In Italy, while nearlv 100,000 Italians are working In France. Italy seems to have the better of It This Is said to be the first international treaty containing mutual engagements- regarding legislation affecting labor. Neither state seeks to Interfere with the domestlo laws of the other, but each, In drafting fresh legislation, will take Into aeoount that of the other country. The adhesion of Franc to any International conference concerning the unification ef the conditions of labor will entail the adhesion of Italy, and vice versa. . Existing conditions In the two ooun tries are far from being unlrorm, and It Is recognised that an equalisation of working hours and the equal protection of women and children In all countries would be bene. ficlal In many respects. The convention prohibit night work by women and chll- flren, and the employment In factories of children under 1J years of age. It stipulates for one day's rest In the week, and the limitation to eleven hours of child labor. It will necessitate In Italy an Inspection of factories similar to that existing In other countries. Moreover, It Is agreed that aa both countries possess postofflce savings banks, a Frenchman In Italy with money In the French savings bank shall be able to secure payment of hlH deposit from the Italian savings bank, Italians In France, of Course, enjoying a similar privilege, Settlements of compensation for accident Will be effected on a similar principle. Web, Davis ns n Sleuth. Kansas City Stnr. . Ther Is no apparent reason why the stunt of Sherlock Holmes should not fit Webster Davis quite nicely. To land two Boer blackmailer the very first crack out of the boa was quite a trick. There will be persons In Kansas City who will give the hone laugh to Davis' pretensions aa a detective, because he never sucoeeded In running down the miscreant 10 shot him through the hat.' But that was different. In his testimony before the mnglstrate In New York yesterday pavls said: "About that time there was much publicity given to a story that I had received a large sum of money from the Boer government" And then he didn't deny lb 13 IjL. r vl J 3D. 1 m ill Greatest Aid to Cookery & ' With least labor and trouble it makes hot-breads, biscuit and cake of finest II flavor light, sweet, appetizing and ty issuredly digesjlend wholesome. NO NATIONAL DEFICIT. Democratlo Assertion Drawn from Overripe Imagination. Philadelphia Inquirer. It seems rather strange that the demo cratlo newspapers Juat now should be chortling with Joy over an alleged deficit In the national treasury, especially as no such deficit exists. The remarkable feature I that the democratlo party is the only one that ha ever 00 me anywhere near producing a deficit by means of legislation which destroyed not only the national In come, but the domestlo business prosperity. In the last Cleveland administration there were bonds Issued to the extent of $362,- 000,000 in a time of peace, while the Wilson- Gorman tariff bill cut revenue down to the lowest point in many years. The democratic pre Is now . declaring that there Is a deficit In the operations for this year. It Is not true. What Is meant by a deficit Is the difference between the ordinary receipt and the ordinary ex pense of government. It Is true that up to date we have paid out more money from the. treasury than has been paid Into it slnoe the beginning of tho last fiscal year, but It Is as Absurd to call that a deficit a to say that the man who In vested money in paying for Invested securi ties was losing money. The condition of the treasury last Saturday as given In the official reports showed that the receipts had been $472,000,000 and the ordinary ex penses had been $468,000,000. This latter sum Inoludes the $5,000,000 given to the St. Louis exposition, which is not an ordinary expenditure. It Is true that In addition to the above there has been expended $41, 000,00$ for the Panama canal, and $4,500,000 has been loaned to the St. Louis exposition, which I to be returned. 60 that, as a matter of fact, there Is an actual surplus for the year of several million. The canal was paid for out of the accumulated sur plus, aa every sane man knows, being so provided for In the law, and after this ha been done, and, after $180,000,000 ha been placed In the gold reserve fund, there Is still In the treasury an unexpended balance of $122,000,000. ' I Do the democrat objeot to paying for the canal? Or do they prefer that extra taxes be raised for the purpose while mil lions of money He idle in the treasury t They have been shouting themselves hoarse for years about .taxes. It Is our opinion that it was unwise to repenl many of the internal taxes two and ll"e year ago, because they were not- a I Jen to anyone and could easily have been expended to good purpose. The democrats have long decried a surplus In the treasury, yet the moment it is consumed for a good invest ment they object. The truth Is that we have now about three times as large a sur plus as Is necessary. The national taxes are low and the Income la large. The outgo Is large and every dollar expended I bringing in re sult. POMTICAL DRIFT. I a candidate for vio presidency Mr. Hltt would be a hot favorite among base ball fan. Dave Hill Is Just dumb as the sage ef Esopus, but ha i sawing considerable wood on the quiet. It la suggested that Parker and Pattlson would mske a good democratlo team. Plat form: Hush! What' th use of urging Judge Parker into a state of eruption. Mr. Bryan hat the floor. One I a-plenty. Former Senator Fetter Is said to have sheared off hi whiskers and declared tor Roosevelt. When a tinner repents all thing may be forgiven. Mr. Hearst Insists that he will not bolt the nominee of the St Loula convention. Th yellow kid is "a wise guy." It will be considerable of a task to swallow the nom ine by flcsT.es. Th Louisville Courier-Journal assert that the boomer of W. R. Hearst ars working th Blue Grass state to a nnlsh. They mak the claim "W can buy th democrat of Kentucky for $SO,0O0 and send a delegation to St. Lout Instructed for W. R. Hearst." Evidently they know the country. After op of John Sharp William' pull- and-hsul contest with republican In th house during th last session of congress Speaker Cannon said to hlml "John, what makes you such a bitter partisan r "Well, Joe," was th reply, "eomlng from you that Is certainly vary good." "Oh, never mind If food distresses you Why not take half a teaspoonful cf Horsford's Acid Phosphate in half a glass of water? It will give im mediate relief; but it must be HORSFORD'S Acid Phosphate. about me,' but tell me why you are such a partisan." The Mlssisslpplan answered gravely: "To tell you the truth, I never saw a republican until I was 21 years old and I can't get used to them, somehow." Should Congressman Hltt be chosen vies president by the republicans he will be 71 when he take the oath of office, and In hi 72d year, he having been bom January It, 1831 He will be the oldest man ever elected to the vice presidency. Elbrldge Gerry was 69 when he became vio president, and Is still the oldest man on the list of those who have held that office. Clinton, King, Wil son, Hendricks and Morton had all passed the sixtieth milestone on life's highway. The youngest vice president was John C. Breckinridge, who was 86 when he was Inaugurated. . BRIGHT ASD BREEZY. Socrates had drained the hemlock. "I thought the new cook made it so I didn't dare refuse," he said. Strange to say, history has deemed the motive suicide instead or self-preservation. New York Sun. "Once In a while.',' said Uncle Ehen, "you finds a man dat blames all his troubles on de trusts when, as a matter of fack, he done los' his money on a hosa race." Washington Star. Mrs. Upjohn (Just back from foreign tour) But I was going to tell you about tha scsraba.ua I got In Egypt. It" Mr. Gaswoll O, I used to be troubled With that when we lived In Pennsylvania. Quinine will knock it out every time." Chicago Tribune. "Tou oughter git me a Job," the office seeker said. "Why, I done the work of a dozen men fur you on election day." "You did?" replied the successful candl date. Incredulously. "Sure! I voted for you twelv times." Philadelphia Ledger. S Pronrietor What mad that customer walk outt Did you make him mad? The Clerk I don't know. He said be wanted a hat to suit his head, and I showed him a soft hat New York Com mercial. First Common Soldier Th officer rid In palace cars, and they crowd us Into boxcars. And yet they say all men are created eoual. Beoond Common Soldier 80 they are. Tommy. They're created fequal, but they're crated differently. Philadelphia Pre. "They say that lot of money 1 dropped in Wall street" "Tea?" "But I'll bet It never hit th street." "Why not?" "There are people ther who are quick enough to catch It la the sir," Chicago Post. "I have never known you to admit th you wer in the wrong." "No," answered Senator Sorghum. "In my line of business I consider It foolish to make a mistake and twice as fooliah to own up to It." Washington Star. "It's all up with me," as Port Dalny re marked when it arose and scattered Itself over the surrounding landscape. Cleveland Plain Dealer. . One of tha loveliest spot I think My vision ever saw Was when I wished an ace, to fill And got It on the draw. Yonkers Statesman. THE NORSE SIGHTING ALB. Milwaukee Sentinel. Dar ban a man named Vllllam Tell Who .ban a qvite gude snot: Ay bet yu ven he tak nice aim - He alvay hit the spot. Ay s'pose he hunting every day And killing lots of game: Ef he ban missing such a chance Ay Unk it ban a shame. Some fallers yump on him von day Ana taking mm 10 yau And tal him he skol have t6 pay Sax t'ousand dollars bail. . . Yee whls!" say Tell, "sax t'ousand ho nasi Ay ant got axty cent!" And so dey mak him breaking stones Behind big Iron fence. Den 01f Gassier y to him, "Bill, yu ban qvlte gude shot So ay kol give yu yust von chance To vlnnlng nice yaek pot, Yure son ban purty brave young kid; Ay tal yu, on .the dead. Yu skol go free ef you can shoot DIs apple oft his head." 'Yeruaalem!" say Bill, "ef you Bkol give me drenk of bock Ay bet you ay can shoot dls fruit Off little Ylmmle's block! But ef ay shoot tu low. val den Yust sidestep qvlck. by heck. Or yu skol finding little bunch Of arrows in yur neck!- 80 Olaf frame It op for Dill And Bill ha tak gude aim And shoot at little Ylmmle block Ay tal yu. he ban game. And BUI skol knocking apple off, And Tim vent back to school; But Olaf put Bill h k in y ail And tal him "April fool I