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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY. MARCH 10. 1903. Tim Omaha Daily Bee. e. rosewaYer. editor, published evehv morninu tkrm op acnacRlPTiON. Dally Bee (without Bundsy), one year..lj Dally Ree and Sunday, ona year flhiaf rmtA on VMr W u . . - . . . l.u '"'""J Of.-, viiiw Tr. i 0l Aaftirriav HaA aii VMr -91 Twentieth Century Farmer, one year.... 1.01 DELIVERED BY CARRIER. r-11.. r .i ....... On n ii v i nir ronv . . 2c ' '"III i i n II UWU t ............ ' I Pally Bee (without Sunday), per week... .120 I 'any Bee (Including Bunaayj, per wc....- Bundsy Bee, per copy ! Kvenlng Bee (without Bundsyl. per weeK ic Evening Bea (Including Sunday). per wak 1ZC 'nmptaYnts''oYYrregu7arlt1es In d'llvenr should be sddressed to City Circulation De partment. OFFICES: 'miaha-The Bee Building. , South Omaha City iiall building. Twenty, fifth and M streets. Council Bluff's 1 Pearl street. Chicago 1640 Vnlty building. New York an Park Row building. Washington-" Fourteenth street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to naws and edi torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bea, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to The Bee Publishing Company. fnly l-cent sumps reoelved In payment or mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchangee, not aeeertea. PUBLISHING tunrAni. THE BEE PCI STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Htate of Nebra. Douglas County, ss.: George B. Tischuck, secretary of The Bea Publishing Company, being duly sworn. Keys that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning, Evening nd Sunday 'e printed (luring ths month or February, l, wag as ionuw; 1 2T.AAO 2T.BOO S 2S.OOO 4 30,300 t 30.100 8T.710 7 ST.tMO t HT.WtO ii.4TO 10 ar.Tuo 11 XO.SIO 12 80.430 13 ar.ooo 14 .....2T.SOO Total Lese unsold copies Net total sale ...... .4... TW,ooo Daily average JMMSU GEO. B. TZBCHUCK. Subscribed It. my presence and sworn to before ma this 1st dov ot March. 1V06. (Seal) M. B. H UNGATE, Notary Public. 5 8T.HSIO If aT.BeW 17 2,flOO II ,...,ao,BO If SO.fltK) 20 ST.tlBO a ar.flso 2S SIT.IMO 23 27,8 40 24 2H.1M0 25 80,480 26 SO. ISO 27.... 21.. .. ..27.MO ..27.7ZO ..7V0,n8O .. 10,41 It Is a pity that Colorado cannot rub out the score and start all over again. Nebraska never had much luck In con necting with the consular service anyway. The promoters of the Omaha, Lincoln & Beatrice' railway now promise to have that line In operation by the beginning of next year. Let us hold them to It. British fishermen will take notice that Itojestvensky has started back homo and that they will be expected to capture any Japanese torpedo boats which sud denly appear. ! When Kouropatkln thinks of the re 1 ceptlon of Stoessol at St. Petersburg he :' may be excused for feeling doubtful , whether , surrender is not more to be H dreaded than useless warfare. Former A.ssjstapt .Postmaster General . BristQW must regret the fate which has 'taken him to Panama while there Is so j much to Investigate Officially at home. He would shine In that Kansas oil bear jlng. , All of Nebraska's delegation at Wash ington but Mr. Burkett failed to be, re corded against the congressional mileage jgrab because of absence from the roll call. Still that is better than being re corded for It, The United States senate will permit President Roosevelt to protect the In terests of Santo Domingo, but It had first to demonstrate that Its permission was ''necessary In order to demonstrate Its Importance. Strike breakers pu New York's sub way protected by heavy guard, may Imagine themselves In position to sym pathise with the grand dukes of Russia and. not have to stretch their Imagina tions far either. - - The Missouri legislature bus fixed on March 21 for adjournment. Tho sena torial deadlock can not have yet reached Its most acute stage, as no member of the assembly has been accused of taking a bribe for bis vote. , ' If the order to prosecute the cattle men who have failed to remove their fences from the public domain Is carried out to the letter a lot of second hand fence posts and wire will soon bo for sale cheap In western Nebraska. The people of Omaha are still waiting to learn where the World-Herald stands on tho question of preparing for the union of Omaha and South Omaha into a (ireater Omaha. But perhaps that Is a subject too near home to engage Its dls cusslou. , A WOBKISO CA BISK T. fine comment made upon the presi dent's cabinet Is that there Is absent from It the great party chieftains such as formerly, as a rule, were called to the leading places. It Is pointed1 out that most of the member of the cabinet have not been conspicuously Identified with party politics, while others have enjoyed only a local reputation and In fluence as' party leaders. An eastern paper remarks: "The Websters, Clays, Shermans, Bayards and Blalnes of party politics no longer, as President Roose velt Is shaping things, alternate be tween cabinet and senatorial positions, but tend rather to concentrate in the senate and there create a power which overshadows the whole legislative de partment and contests with the presi dent for the mastery of the executive de partment" While recognizing mopt fully the greatness of the men who occupied cabi net positions in former days, particu larly In the matter of party leadership, yet It cannot be conceded that as a whole the , body of department heads and advisers which President Roosevelt has Is greatly If at all Inferior to cabi nets In the past. What the country now needs Is not a ministry, If we may so term It, of politicians, but one of work ers, and this It has. With one or two exceptions the members of President Roosevelt's cabinet are free from politi cal ambition and are actuated by the single desire to properly perform their duties and to faithfully serve the gov ernment. They are desirous, of course, of promoting the welfare of their party, but they are not seeklng'politlcal prefer ment for themselves. Tbeir aim Is to so discharge their department duties that the administration of which they are a part shall win and deserve, the approba tion of the Intelligent Judgment of the country. ; If there Is no one among the present cabinet officers wfio quite mens-, tires up to the greatest men of a, former day. It can at least be said that they are equal to all the requirements of ex isting conditions. ' This Is all that the American people want. They are quite satisfied that the men who administer the affairs of gov ernment shall not be conspicuously iden tified with party politics, but devote themselves chiefly to the duties that de volve upon them and see to it that the business of the government is conducted honestly and faithfully. The man In public office who gives a large measure of his attention to politics will inevita bly be less efficient, less careful of the business committed to his charge, than one who gives first consideration to his practical duties. President Roosevelt's cabinet, as the country has learned. Is a working body. There are able men In It men who compare favorably In abil ity with any of their predecessors. The older members' are experienced and careful statesmen: the younger mem bers have commended themselves to the favor and confidence, of ,the president as entirely competent to properly( discharge the Important duties; they hav. , Having mode already a highly creditable record, there can be no doubt that the Roose velt cabinet will continue to merit respect and confidence of the country. The Standard OH company Is suld to bo not only willing but eager to furnish the government with all the facts re garding Its business, and It will be prob ably equally anxious for the govern ment to accept the showing without question. The democratic statesman who Is comparing the expenditures of the United States under Rooevelt and Cleveland should retnnuler that much of tho later expenditures represent In vestments, while the former were all current expeuses. The Prairie Oil company of Kansas dciitea that it Is In any way connected with the Standard Oil company, but It was apparently willing to do business on the reputation of John I. Rocke feller's concern until that course threat ened odious publicity. People who feel that the surrender of Kouroputkln would Immediately end the war should remember that the Russian forces are still over 200 miles from Russian soil, and that it is a far cry from Mukden to Harbin, where the Rus sians would be for thu first time de fending tbelr own boundaries. THE LAW AS TO HA TB REG VLA TIOS. Inasmuch as the opponents of railroad rate regulation by the legislature have brought up the decision of the United States supreme court In the Nebraska maximum freight rate cases to Impress upon the lawmakers that they have no right to pass any law regulating rail road rates, It is only fair to recall to the public mlud Just how far that de cision went. While it Is true the court declared that In fixing tariffs for local business, the through traffic is not to be considered, It went on to explain its meaning by saying that the fact that n railroad company was found upon In vestigation to derive profits enough from It Interstate business alone to cover all its nvmilug expenses and fixed charges, as well as a liberal dividend on Its stock, that would not Justify the legis lature in prescribing the local rates that would eutuil a loss upon the railroad. And vice versa, profitable local rates would not Justify the enforcement of unprofitable Interstate rates. But that the railroads should be entitled to in terstate rates high enough to pay all expenses and a reasonable return on the capital Invested, aud then also to local rates high enough to pay the same fixed charges and dividends a second time, cannot be read Into the decision. So far as legislative action Is con cerned, the important part of the Ne braska maximum freight rate decision, and the part which Is carefully covered up by the railroad spokesmen, Is the concluding paragraph, which reads as follows: We have the judgment of the State Board of Transportation, as continued In 181, that a general reduction of rates could not then have been made without Injury to the business of the state, to say nothing of the Interests of those whose means were Invested In railroad property. We are unable to find from the record before us that the situation In Nebraska had o changed In 1X93 as to Justify that being done In that year which It was not safe or Just to do In im. But it may be added that the conditions of business, so far as rallrou-) corporations a 'a concerned, have probably eh.nnged for the better since the decree below, jnd that the rates pre scribed by the statute of 1893 may now at-foj-i all the compensation to which the railroad rompunies In Nebraska are en titled as between them and the public. In anticipation, perhaps, or such a change of circumstances, and the exceptional charac ter of the litigation, the circuit court wisely provided In Its Anal decree that the defendant members of the Board of Trans portation might, "when tb circumstances have changed, so that' tho rates fixed In the said act of im shall yield to the said companies reasonable ccmpeniiallun for the services aforesaid," apply tt tne court, by bill or otherwise, as they might be ad vised, for a further order In that behalf. Of this provision of the final decree the State Board of Transportation. If so ad vised, can avail Itself. In that event, if the circuit court finds that the present condition of business la such as to admit Of the application of ( the statute to the railroad companies In queetlon without de priving them of Just compensation. It will be us duty tu discharge the injunction heretofore granted, and to make whatever order Is necessary to remove any obetruc tlon placed by the decrees In these esses In the way of the enforcement of the statute. The decree, therefore, leaves the way open for the enforcement of the maxi mum rate law still on the statute '!ooks whenever It can be shown that by rea son of the Increase of business or the reduction of curreut expenses, those rates will be compensatory. If the court ten years ago. In the midst of hard times and business stagnation, foresaw conditions that would warrant the en forcement of the rate schedule then be fore It, surely no one has a right to say that the conrt Would nullify a schedule of rates no lower now, in the height of business prosperity and trade expansion. DIPLOMATIC CHAXQtS. The changes that will soon take place In the diplomatic service are Important, chief among them being the appoint ment of Hon. Whltelaw Reld to succeed Mr. Choafe as ambassador to Great Britain. Mr. Choate has represented the United States at the British capital for the past six years and has made a most creditable record. Distinguished In the law, of scholarly attainments and an orator of exceptional talent, he has fully maintained the high standard estab lished by his most distinguished prede cessors at the English court. This standard, It can confidently be predicted, will be upheld by his successor. Mr. Reld Is well equipped for ambassadorial duties. He had diplomatic experience as minister to France and was a mem bcr of the commission which arranged terms of peace with Spain. Mr. Reld Is already well known in England, where he has been on two special missions, and his reception there as ambassador will undoubtedly be most cordial. Another Important change in diplomatic poets Is that of the appointment of Mr. Roekhlll to succeed Mr. Conger as minister to China. The latter has done good service at the Chinese capital and will become ambassador to Mexico. Mr. Roekhlll is very familiar with Chinese affairs and undoubtedly will make a most useful representative. The American diplomatic service ranks very high aud It will not deteriorate in consequence of the changes to take place. There has never been any dlffi culty and perhaps never will be In se curing capable men to represent our government at foreign capitals, but It Is becoming a question whether there should not be adopted a more liberal policy lu the matter of compensating them, so that It would not be necessary to restrict appointments to men with large private fortunes. The matter has frequently been brought to the attention of congress, but there has been little disposition shown to Increase salaries In the diplomatic service. ments were acceded to the city treasurer would be cleaned out In short meter. It is only fair to the members of the legislature who have extended an invi tation to M. F. Harrington and Edward Rosewater to appear before them and state their views on the subject of rail road rate regulatlou. and to the public as well, that they be Informed that Mr. Rosewater has been absent from the state iu tbet east for ten days and Is for that reason' unable to respond to the request. One section of the criminal code de fines the crime of "compounding a felony" and prescribes the penalty, but It seems to be a dead letter judging from reports from day to day of polio court eases that are settled and dismissed by restoration of the stolen goods or of money procured by fraud. Loaar Draw Oat. Chicago Inter Ocean. The natural assumption Is, of course, that 4 war which has nerve enough to put on a hundred-mile front Is not going to quit right away. A Graveyard Awakened. Chicago Tribune. Again, there Is Uncle Adlal Stevenson aged considerably over 80, but still peering into the future with the same alertness I watchfulness and clearness of vision that always have characterised him. A POSSIBLE COMPROMISE It Is suggested that a possible basis of compromise which will probably be heard much of when the senate commit tee on Interstate commerce' sets about the work of Investigation regarding rail way rates, is that proposed by Secretary Morton early in the last session of con gress. This was to give the roads the power to enter Into traffic agreements and to give the Interstate commission enlarged jowers over rates by permit ting it to name a just and reasonable rate for one found to be unjust and un reasonable, with a provision that the rate thus fixed, if not satisfactory to the railroads, should not go Into effect until it had been approved by the court, the railroad giving bond to reimburse shippers for any damages they might suffer from paying the higher rate pend ing the judicial proceedings. It is needless to say that, this would meet with railroad opposition, on the ground that It would involve giving the commission too much power, while It would also encounter objection from those who favor giving the commission power to fix rates and put them into effect, subject to the review of the courts afterwards. It Is pointed out that the situation In tho next congress will probably be such that the contest will have to be fought out over the direct Issue of giving the rate-fixing power to the Interstate Commerce commission, much as was proposed by the bill that passed the house, or denying it to the commission entirely. So far as public sentiment is concerned, there can be no doubt that it is at present very largely in favor of the position taken by Presi dent Roosevelt In his annual message that Is, conferring on the commission the power to revise rates and regulations, the revised rate to at once go Into effect and to stay, In effect unless and until the court of review reverses it. It is not at all probable that there will be any change from this on the part of the president and thero is reason to believe that his Influence will bo very great with the next congress. There Js no demand In Omaha fur leg islating any elected public official out of office, and for that reason the effort at Lincoln to use the merger of comity and city treasuries to oust City Treasurer Hennings before the expiration of his term will not meet with response at this end of the line. There will be plenty of work to do In closing up the city's books and records and fitting the work of the city treasurer's office Into that of the county treasurer to keep the present city treasurer and his assistants more than busy right up to the time for the Installation of the next municipal ad ministration which will be less than a year from the time the new laws can go luto effect. The improvement clubs are getting busy again aud the city council will shortly be bombarded with petitions ask ing it to plant water hydrants, lamp posts and electric lights In Increasing profuslou oo the outskirts of the city without respect to limited funds and threatening overlaps. It will take. con siderable backlntne ou the part of the eounciluicu to withstand the onslaught, but if all the demands fur these ituprove- Dlsamlned Philanthropy. Baltimore American. It eeems that the beef packers lost money after all. Can the nation have been under a dire misapprehension all this time, and have been hurling anathemas St the de voted heads of philanthropists In disguise? Johnales on the Spot. Baltimore American. A minister In New York has been telling lo.vf. ihil thav ahnulit stand between the people and the robber corporations. That Is exactly what they have been aoing an along, and catching what comes aiong Dom ways. Masterpieces of Backwardness. St. Louis Olobe-Democrt. Kouropatkln has executed two remarka ble retreats and Is now engaged; In an other masterpiece of that nature. If he can get away safely the third time, the csar should decorate him with the grand order of the Crawfleh, and allow him to re tire. Gracious Family Sentiment. ' Boston Transcript. Those who saw and those who heard of the exhibition of family sentiment that passed In public between President Roose velt and his wife and children on the great day of his life found It giving the whole celebration a warmth and a color that rounded It to a graceful symmetry that could not have been secured by any other Influence. Even' bachelors and spinsters pledged to single blessedness their whole lives through will admit the beauty of It, and grant that : the occasion would have lacked much if one of their own calling and belief had been the center of it In stead of a man with a family, and a happy family, too. OOBcers of Fosr GeTernroents. Philadelphia Record. Judge Reagan.,' of Texas, who has Just died, was credited with having held office under four natjpyiaj governments the Re public of Texas, 'the United States, the Confederacy, and again the United States. He' was the (Anted era. te postmaster gen eral and the' last sun-Ivor of the confed erate cabinet. The principal feature of his six terms In the house of representa tives was his persistent 'tight for & law regulating railroads. When congress acted, however,; it passed Senator Cul lom's Interstate' commerce bill. Judge Reagan spent four years In the senate and for fourteen years has served on the railroad commission of his state. CALL OF THE WEST. Opportunities Awaltlaar Intelligence, . Enthusiasm and Push. Kansas City Journal. There seems to be a popular revival of agitation throughout the larger cities of the east In favor of more emigration to the western states, especially among art isans and the humbler bread winners. Since the day Horace Greeley gave that historic bit of advice to the young man to "go west," there have been periodical flurries of enthusiasm among working peo ple who are tired of the ceaseless and soul-harrowing struggle for their dally bread, and who cast longing eyes to the westward where broader opportunities are ever present to help solve the problem of existence. It Is one of the Inexplicable mysteries why the tollers of our great cities remain under the domination of labor "bosilam" and wear out. tbelr unhappy lives In the almost hopeleas conditions' that surround them. The spell of the great city la strong and holds many who would be Infinitely better off In rural communities. They com plain that conditions are well nigh Intol erable, yet they prefer to .bear the Ills they have than "fly to others that they know not of." In the sordid, selfish battle for existence In the big city the poor clerk or artisan has little chance for advancement compared with the opportunities afforded by the smaller western towns. One man who ran an elevator In Chicago a few years ago broke away from thla employment and went west, and Is now the wealthiest man In a flourishing town, respected by all, happy and Independent. Speaking of his Own experience, he said: 'Had I remained In Chicago I would probably be selling papers or running an elevator In a skyscraper to this day. Ths opportunities for gaining a competence In the cities are extremely limited, and, al together, city Ufa Is not what it Is crocked up to be for the workman. Give me the smaller towns of the limitless west, with their sunshine, roominess, the genlul good fellowship of their Inhabitants, and the absence of the madding throng that makes life In a dry like Chicago resemble a hades on earth. Any man with a thimble ful of brains can succeed In the weat, If he knows how to adapt himself to conditions. He must be a worker, he must be ener getic, honest, enterprising, fearless. If he has these qualities the weat wants him, and he will win out all right." It Is a fart that almost any. young man of grit and ordinary Intelligence can make better living In the smaller towns of the west than In cities where hundreds of thousands of his fellow men are atraln Ing In ruthless competition. The ordinary laborer, while not being as well paid In the west, enjoys the advantages of cheaper coat of living. His chancea of working for himself and saving a little capital to start in business on his own account are good. Above all, he gets more out of life In the west, and earns a place In his com munity that the toller among the masses In the eaat never secures. It Is mors true now than ever that the west needs men. This need Is for the young man with the right stuff In him. The young man who has the nerve to leave the drudgery of the mill and factory and strike out for himself will succeed In the west. If ha works earnestly In his new home, within a few years he will find that he has a place In the community and has a recog nised Individuality which the factory hand or the small clerk can never know. BITS OF WHHiGTO LIFE. Minor Scenes and Incidents Sketched oa the Saot. Refore and after the presidential cere mony rf taking the oath on the east front of the capltol visitors thronged the great building, filling every available space and giving expression to varied exclamations on the Information tendered by the loquacious. One couple, a type of many, wa tdered Into statuary hall and gated al most speechless on the array of greatness In bronxe and marble. "Oh! This Is where they bury them, ain't It?" exclaimed the wife. "Well, they do look pretty dead," re plied the husband facetiously.- "My, but there is a lot of them?" Then a gleam of comprehension struck athwart her face. "I know now, this Is what they call a moslrm, and they put people In a crypt and shove -em In holes around the wall and masonry 'em In." "Tep, reckon that's It." was the simple response, and then they began to move about and examine the names on the statue. "Must be big men, members of congress, perhaps." remarked the bride. "I didn't know they burled 'em right on the spot. Do you s'pose he killed himself with that thing!" pausing before the statue of Robert Fulton, who Is lolling all over an arm chair In a most ungraceful attitude with a piece of machinery In his hand on which he gazes with an intense look which might be taken for pain. The Treasury department detectives, who have Investigated the reports that Mrs. Cas.lc Chndwlck brought from Europe at different times valuable Jewelry without paying Uncle Sam his percentage, Intimate that the famous money extroeto was flim flammed outrageously by the Jewelers of Paris. Brussels and Antwerp, who sold her bogus Jewels for hlg money. The canary diamond brooch and emerald ring which were brought back from New York by Judge F. F. Oldham of the office of the comptroller of the currency furnish an In stance of her Ignorance In this direction It will be remembered that Oldham went to New York with Collector loch to have the Jewels appraised by an expert in the cuntoms office in that city, so that the col lector might be able to fix the amount of duty that she had evodrd when they were smuggled Into the United States. Mrs Chsdwlck paid 31.0no francs In Purls for the canary diamond alone, and between 10,000 and 15,000 francs for the twenty-eight white diamonds which surround It, making a total of between XS.OOO and $9,000 In Amer ican money, for this particular article. The government expert appraised It at about 11.900 to $2,000, indicating that she paid four times Its actual value. The emerald ring furnished an even more striking evidence of her Innocence of the proper price of Jewelry. She paid 5,000 francs, according to Collector Leach, for the emerald, which weighed nearly six carats. The expert said It was worth not less than $10 nor more than $100. PERSONAL SOTES. Among those present at court Is Mia Chadwlck. a well known American. The penalty for carrying a concealed gun In Ootham Is new raised from $10 to $J0; and the law goes Into effect Immediately. The csar is snld to have dre.rlb.il him self recently as "the aaddtst man In Bu rope." The ciarlna Is anxious to spend the summer In Bngland, but she will not leave her husband to face present difficulties slor.e. Klsthlo Harjo, a Seminole Indian, siTId to have been the oldeet Indian In America, has Just died at Bhuwnee, Okl., at the age of 110. He fought against this countrv In the war of 1812, as well as In the Semi nole wars. John O'Connor, the new nationalist mem ber of Parliament from North Klldare. Is the giant of the House of Commons, stand ing 6 feet 5 Inches In his stockings. He well known lawyer, a good speaker and tells a capital story. It Is Just thlrtv-tWn T.ira alnc Anthnnv Comstock became head of the Society for the Prevention of Vice. Mr. Comstriok says that In that time he has made 2,79 arrests and proeured the destruction of ninety-two tons of Impure literature and otner unlawful mattei Captain E. Bsmardlston, at the head of the railroad department of the royal engl neers for the English government. Is In Chicago making a study of the railroads and the conditions surrounding thero. He has Just arrived In this country from Japan, where he spent six weeks. Orand Duke Michael, commander of the Russian navies, la the sailor of the Ro manoff family a Jovial, elderly bachelor, who spends as little of his time at sea as possible. He prefers city life to a life on the ocean wave, and whenever he cwti do so devotes hi" long holidays to the gayetles of Paris. CREAM - EMM Representation W. T. Tyndall of Mis souri, one of the nine republicans who were carried along by the Roosevelt tide In that state last November, has arrh-ed In Wash ington to learn the ropes. Mr. Tyndall Is a typical mountaineer, tall and straight as a pine and unused to the ways of a large city. Prior to his election to congress he had never ridden in a street car and to him an elevator existed only In the newspapers. Mr. Tyndall comes from Sparta, Taney County. Taney County has never heard the scream of tho locomotive. It Is In the middle of the Ozark district, and In that wild country Mr. Tyndall taught school for years before political lightning struck him. ' 'fhe day before the late Alexander R. Shepherd left Washington for BatopilaS, Mex., after his financial failure, he was Interviewed by a correspondent of the New York Graphic, And, among other pertinent remarks, said: "The same fellows who have hounded me out of Washington will some day Invite me back here again, and the next generation will be fair and Just enough to realize what I have done for Washington and will build a monument to remember me by." That prohecy from the lips of a wounded. half-broken-hearted man, driven from the city he regenerated, has come true sooner than he expected," writes William E. Curtis In tho Record-Herald. "The men who 'hounded' him from Washington did Invite him back within twenty years, and gave him an enthusiastic reception. He was escorted from the railway station up Pennsylvania avenue to his hotel by such procession ss attends a president On his way to the Inauguration; public meetings were held In his honor; eulogies were pronounced upon his character and achieve ments, and now. In leas than thirty years from the date of his exile, his statue, a splendid, heroic figure and an accurate portrait of the man of action is finished and ready to be sent to the foundry to be cast In Imperishable bronze. Few men ever did more for their fellow townsmen; few were ever persecuted with such relentless and vindictive persistency, but within a very short period his bitterest enemies were willing to admit that he was their bene factor and are glad to contribute money to pay for his monument. Some of the largest property holders who were most friendly with Governor Shepherd and pro fited most from his enterprises and far sightedness were the smallest contributors to the monument fund. 'The model of the statue stands In the studio of U. S. J. Dunbar, ths sculptor, out near the filtration plant. It has been finally Inspected and accepted by the committee, which Is now considering propositions from the various foundries to cast it In bronze. It represents Alexander R. Shepherd as a buRlhess man. In a busi ness garb. No toga would fit him. A frock coat would be out of place on the statue of a man whose life was given to labor and not to parade or recreation. The sculptor has caught a happy expression one that the governor used to wear when he was engaged In some congenial employ ment. No lines have been erased from his rugged face and his strong personality Is manifest In his features. He wears a cut away ront, a loose collar, a four-lit-hand tie, and holds a scroll bearing a map of the city of Washington, half-unrolled, In his hand. Representative Robinson, the well known democratic member from the Twelfth Ia dlana district, who given way in the next congress to a republican, Newton W. Gil bert, has been a member for ten years and has spent by fur the larger portion of that time in Washington. And yet he Is going to spend the next few weeks In seeing the sights In and around Washington. "I've been here the better part of ten years," he said to a friend, "but I really don't know a thing about Washington except the beaten path to and from the capltol and around the departments. There are lota of things here that I want to see and so I've decided to stay here a couple of months after congress adjourns and take In all the sights." for Preaching: and Practice. Chicago News. Perhupa the house might have gut that $190.0iO mileage grub after all If It hud not wasted so much time attacking Judge gwayne' for charging $10 a day tor expenses. Fatal Accident la Colliery. WILKKSnARRK. Pa., March S -While seven wurkmnn were IkIhh hoisted In the mniagr in the Clear Spring colliery at Went Plltaton today the rope broke and the men were huilnl to the hut trim, a dis tance of l (wl. All were killed. HILL DOWNS HAKRIMAX. Conclusion of the Legal Fight Control of .Northern Honda. Minneapolis Times. The United States supreme court has set tled the long fight between James J. Hill and E. H. Harrlman over the distribution of the assets of the Illegal Northern Se curities compaay. With unexpected prompt ness and with a unanimity of opinion rarely developed In the highest court, every contention of the Harrlman people has been denied. The victory for Hill and Morgan la complete. Mr. Harrlman .may now give his close attention to the development of his trans continental line, but he must eliminate the Northern Pacific system from all future calculations, unless he succeeds in out witting the Hill faction In another raid on the open market. The defeat will not be at all to the liking of the Harriman-Rockefeller-Vanderbllt In terests, as they wanted to form a new line across the continent with the Northwest ern, the Northern Pacific and a Vanderbllt line east of Chicago. ' In .the famous fight for control of the Northern Pacific, started by the Harrl man people in 1901, the stock of the com pany sold up to $1,000 a share. Disaster followed In the markets. A truce was se cured through the formation of the North ern Securities company ss holding corpo ration, acting as a mutual friend. Mr. Harrlman demanded that In the dis tribution of the assets of the company, as decreed by the court, he should be given the same stock that he deposited Northern Pacific shares of a face value of $82,491,671. He fought the case through the lower courts and, having lost, will be forced to accept his pro rata holdings In Northern Securities collateral, in shares selected by J. J. Hill.' The latter will see to It that there Is very little Northern Pacific In the Harrlman envelope. 1 A sharp decline In Union Pacific and Northwestern shares followed the an nouncement of the 'end of the long-drawn- out battle, but the necessary support was quickly forthcoming, with the usual rally. James J. Hill's control of. the northern lines to the Pacific has thus been re-established more securely than ever before. Improves the flavor and adds to the health fulness of the food. LINES TO A LAI GIL "Say." axked Ruffon Wrats. "la slo public utilities, too?" "Course." suld Goodman Gonwrong. "Den I'm fur de immediate ownership ef 'em, begosh." Chicago Tribune. Some (Sold Beyond Reach. Chicago Record-Herald. Two million dollars' worth of gold is used every year to fill the teeth of the American people. It must bother John Bull a good deal if he knows there is so much gold that he can't annex. Mr. Skrapps Say! Don't you know you oughn't to yawn that way? Mrs. Skrapps But 1 put my hand eVer my mouth. Ms. Skrapps Well, you ought to use something that will cover your mouth Com pletely. Philadelphia Press. "I can truthfully say," remarked a St. Petersburg official. "that nobody ever threw a bomb at me." "To what do you attribute this fact?" asked the sardonic colleague: 'popularity or unimportance?" Washington Slur. 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And thev wuz too lszv to swim! But the very day after that vessel went down The crew arrived safe In East Westchester toivn m ....... .1 t . tk.u Ruiin't ,a tn.. 4m . t- 1 ,1 ii 1 1 1 i i, ill. rt i. an . . "v. it' t. j ,v dro5!! O tinker me. tinker me unto: backache, "The Blues Both. Symptoms of Organic Derangement In Women Thousands of Sufferers Find Relief. How often do wa hear womsn say: "It seems aa though my back would break," or "Don't speak to ma, I am all out of aorta?" These sij-ni Scant remarks prove that the system requires attention. Backache and " the blues" are direct symptoms of aa inward trouble which will sooner or later declare Itself. It may be caused by diseased kidneys or some uterine derangement. Nature requires aasistanee and at once, and Lydia E Plnkham's Vegetable Con pound Instantly aaaerta iu curative powers la all those peculiar ailment of women. 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