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THE OMAIIA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY, FEBIIUATIY 25, 1002.. I. Tiie Omaha Daily Bee B. ROBE WATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVEIlY MORNINO. TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION. (Dally Bee (without Hunday), One xar..$4.X I IJ y Bee and Hunday, On Year........ t 00 IMuntrsted U, On Year J. 00 (Sunday Hi. One lrar 0O i Saturday lire, one Year 1M Twentieth Century Farmer, One Year.. 1.00 DELIVERED BY CARRIER. IDaily Bee (without Sunday), per copy... -to i)ally bj (without Hunilay), per week. ..life ally Bee (including Hunday), per week.. 17c ifunaay Bee, per copy 6c J-Jvenlng Bee (without Hunday). per week. luo -Evening Be (including Hunday), per week Me Complaint of Irregularities In delivery ehouia be addressed tu Cliy Circulation De partment. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha City Hail Building-, Twen-Xy-flfth and M Streets. Council BlurTslO Bearl Street. Chicago 1640 Unity Building. Js'ew Jfork Temple Court. .Washington 6ol Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to new and eJl Jtorial matter should be addressed: Omaha iJee, Editorial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS. Business letters and remittances should t Addressed; ihe Bee furnishing Company, jUraaha. REMITTANCES. x Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to The Be Publishing Company. Cinly -cent stamps accepted in payment of mail accounts. Personal checks, except on Kmaha or eastern exchange, not accepted, TUB BEE PUBUISHl&a COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btata of Nebraska. Douaiaa County. SSU 1 Oeorg H. Tsachuck, secretary of The Be -pubusning company, being amy sworn. Says that th actual number ol full and complete copies of The Daily, Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee printed, during th month of January, waa as lol- jows: L SO.SVO .80.810 SO.OtK 4...... SO.llO i SO.ISB SU.4BW 1 80,860 80.820 9 80,170 10 M 80,180 11 80,800 11 30,430 11 .80,470 14 80.19O ' 16 ...80,070 ia it si .an m bq iB4) I U .S0.88O D JW.aao 10 so. 100 a ao.aao a 80.4&4) a. ao.aoo m so.iso 25.... ......... .80.060 16. 80,400 27 81,160 28 SO.OBO ..83,040 so ao3 l ao.aoo I Total 4i,ioo Less unsold and returned copies.... 9,M Net total sales.., 03a.O7 Net daily average 80,U7 OEO. B. TZBCHUCK. . Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 1st day of February, A. D., 102. M. B.' HUNOATE, (Seal.) , ' Notary Public. An edict Is in order making beer the national drink while Prince Henry la our guest. Miss Stone has at last been liberated by the brigands. The cable companies will feel the effect in reduced receipts. Uncle Sam should get out an injunc tion to prevent pigeons from intimidat ing our poBtofflce clock to go on a strike. It ia to be apprehended the auditorium directory may feel it Incumbent to ap point a committee on well-defined ru mors. Senator Tillman should stick to bis pitchfork. --Ilia colleagues have never objected to its use and it has proved ef fective. - ' One swallow does not make a summer. The Commercial club must not allow itself to rest satisfied with one step in the expedition after pew mills and fac tories for Omaha. Now that Washington oratory baa aub , sided people are reminded that the Il lustrious George waa a novice In the use Of the hatchet compared with one of the present day experts. . x Society is all at sea regarding the proper thing to do in the presence of Prince Henry. The country la full of men who know what to do when dealt klnga and queens, but princes are a little new. With all the great imported musicians making tours of the west, our friends in the effete east may reasonably be ex pected soon to drop the adjectives "wild and woolly" when referring to thla sec tion of the country. Iowa merchants are petitioning the legislature to make the use of trading Stamps illegal. - If they will wait a iwhlle no law will be needed to abolish them. When a community geta bit once the game will not work any more. The people of Nebraska are waiting !wlth bated breath for the next develop-1 stent in the Fremont postorBce fight . If this silence continues the conclusion will be forced that nono of the contestants have ginger enough In them to deserve the prize. Denver is talking of breaking tradl- new cruiser named after that city with something besides a silver service. For 'Colorado people thus to abandon sliver Is nothing short of treason. Not for several years has there been reported so many soles of Nebraska land as at present People In states to the eastward are opening their eyea to what Nebraskana have long known that a Nebraska farm la a good thing to own. y The habit has obtained In Colorado mining camps of blowing up people and buildings with dynamite when they be come " distasteful to the' neighbors. Under, such conditions the wise man will move when he finds himself In dis favor. t In his latest newspaper Interview Colonel Bryan senda bis compliments to Colonel Watterson, but intimates that the loyalty of the .eminent Kentucklan to the democratic party is still under k suspicion, when viewed from the look- put of a Nebraska farm. This is the season when Omaha enter tains the visiting retail merchants from surrounding towns In quest of new stocks of goods, s The number of vis itors in the advance guard attests the prosperity which prevails In the terri tory commercially tributary to Omaha. WITHOUT JURISDICTION. . The decision of the supreme court of the United States adverse to the ap plication of tbo atate of Minnesota to file a complaint against the Northern Securities company, for the reason that the court la without Jurisdiction, will delay proceedings In the merger case, but the Minnesota authorities will take other steps and meanwhile the Depart ment of Justice Is expected to act, as already announced by Attorney General Knox. The government should soon be ready to Institute a suit to test whether the merger of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific railroads Is In viola tion of the anti-trust law of 1800, and there Is reason to believe that when proceedings are begun they will be pushed aa rapidly as practicable. It la not to be doubted that President Roose velt Is very much in earnest In this mat ter and will see to It that so far aa the legal department of the government Is concerned It shall faithfully perform Its duty. Attorney General Knox Is an able lawyer and In his Judgment the merger la illegal. The public therefore expects that he will aa soon aa possible submit the question to the courts. This matter la of Interest not merely to Minnesota, but to the entire country. It involves a question of vast and far reaching Importance the question whether such railway monopoly aa' this merger creates can be made effective. It la a question of vital concern to the public Interest and welfare and Its de- wnuiuauua bqouiu wait, no longer uhd la necessary to its "proper and adequate Judicial consideration. The people are now looking to Washington for early and vigorous action in the matter and there ia good reason to believe they will not be disappointed. RtLCASE OF MIS $ STOX&. V There will be a very general. feeling of graiincation ai-uje release oriuiss Btone, the American missionary, and -her com panion, for although it appears that so far aa physical requirements were' con cerned the captives "were well treated, it Is easy to believe that they may have suffered not a little from mental anx iety and apprehension. The statement that the capture of Mies Stone and ber companion was a political move, probably Instigated by the Macedonian committee, to which It Is said the ransom money will go, , Is very likely well founded. ' The Mace donian committee is a body of revolu tionists who aim to free Macedonia, now a part of European Turkey, from the rule of the sultan. . It baa existed for years and has made Bulgaria, espe cially Sofia, the capital, a base of opera tions. Its methods have been to se cure the intervention of the powers by agitation or insurrection in Macedonia, to the end that the powers may deprive Turkey of the province as they. de prived her of Servia, Bulgaria, Bosnia and other regions. There are many Christiana in Macedonia and the revolu tionary committee' has ' worked' the re ligious phase of the question most dili gently. The first secretary of the Amer ican legation at Constantinople, who has Just arrived in this ' country, has no doubt that the kidnaping was done for the purpose of raising money to pro mote the political work of the Mace donian committee, the American mis sionary being selected because it wasJ thought this country would give a more liberal ransom than any other and raise it more quickly. The brigands, however. did not get all they demanded and there waa a great deal of effort in securing the sum paid fo ransom. The only practical lesson which the incident sug gests is that in future American mis sionaries should be careful not to place themselves in danger of being kidnaped. STARTLING-BUT HOT TBUt. It la boldly announced In the Lincoln Journal that an attorney at the atate capital, who formerly served aa a mem ber of the supreme court commission. has made the discovery that the supreme court of Nebraska may be enlarged by the creation of additional Judgeships by simple legislative enactment and with out first waiting for a constitutional amendment. This la certainly a dis covery which would be startling, If true. It would reflect no little discredit upon the eminent constitutional law- yen who have been laboring for yeara for the enlargement of the supreme court by constitutional amendment If It were found that they, had been expending time and effort to accomplish something that was ln.no way Deeded. But an examination of the constitution laAlAOAfl lHnvlnMfl0'npAnffl that tho nM. - . - Af ,h. al,,M ate supreme judges ad libitum does not exist The argument advanced in Its favor Is said to rest upon a decision of the court rendered fifteen years ago up holding the power of the legislature to create additional district court Judge ships. In the opinion In that case the court Interjected this explanatory re mark: It ia apparent that the constitutional con ventlon Intended to provld adequate means to administer the law In all th counties ia th slate. It had already provided, la aec tlon IS. article 1 of th constitution, that "all courts shall b open and every person for any Injury don him In bis lands, goods person or reputation shall have remedy b due course of law and Justice, administered without denial or delay." Th provisions would b meaningless unless th legislature i clothed with power to furnish th necessary tribunals for th prompt disposi tion of th cases pending in th courts. What bearing thla opinion could have on' the legislative power over the au preme court Is not easily discerned. The constitution expressly authorizes the legislature by a two-thirds vote to Increase the number of judicial districts and the number of district judges any time It' sees fit not oftener than once In four years, provided only that no change in boundaries of the district shall vacate the office of any Judge. With reference to the supreme court however, the legislature Is strictly limited Section 2 of article vl reads: The supreme court - shall consist ot - thzoe Judges, majority of whom shall be necessary to form a quorum or to pronounce a deci sion.", Other sections describe how the Judges are to be elected, so that, while each serves a term of six years, one shall be elected every two years all of which provisions would be entirely out of place if the number of Judges had been left to the discretion of the legisla ture. , This so-called discovery that no con stitutional amendment Is needed to give ua a more adequate Judiciary la doubt less Intended to allay the growing de mand for constitutional revision. That demand cannot be satisfied by any ex tra constitutional makeshifts. The longer the constitutional revision Is postponed the more costly will be the experiences for which the state Is called to pay. AMERICAN HIOHT3 IN CHINA. The note addressed by our government to the governments of China and Rus sia, relative to the granting of conces sions by China In the province of Man churia, evidences the active interest and the vigilance of the Department of State respecting affairs in the far eaBt It was pointed out In the note that the conces sions referred to would constitute a dis tinct breach of the stipulations of the treaties concluded between China and the foreign powers, thereby seriously affecting the rights of American citizens in restricting their rightful trade and exposing It to being discriminated against Interfered with or otherwise eopardlzed. It was furthermore de clared that the Inevitable result of such concession must be the complete wreck the policy of absolute equality treatment to all nations re specting trade, navigation and com merce within the confines of China. was urged that the 'attain ment. by one power, of exclusive 'privi leges conflicts with the. assurances re peatedly given by the Ruaslan govern ment of Its intention to follow the policy of the open door as advocated by the government of. the United States and accepted by all the treaty powers, having commercial Interests In China. ' There may be no special -significance in the fact that the date of the Ameri can note coincides closely with that of the treaty between Great Britain and Japan, which has in view the same end. Our government knew that the treaty was being negotiated and it Is possible that this knowledge prompted the note, s being the only proper way In which our government could Indicate its sym pathy with what was being done by Great Britain and Japan for the purpose of preserving the territorial integrity of China and maintaining equality of com mercial privileges In that empire for. all nations. At all events the statement of the American position gives a force to the attitude, of the -trading powers in China that the Anglo-Japanese treaty alone could not have lent it The ef fect la to Identify the United States as fully; with the position pf Great .Britain and Japan as. if our government were, a party to the treaty,' It "recognizes the fact that the interests and aims of the three powerr, in respect to China, are the same and Is a virtual declaration of the purpose of the United States to sup port the other powers in maintaining those Interests. There Is no threat In the note, but simply a plain statement of the case and an appeal to the sense of justice and the friendship of the pow ers addressed. It is a plain and earnest diplomatic representation the signifi cance of which cannot be misunderstood. The United States wonts no exclusive concessions or privileges in China and It asks that - none shall be given to any other power. The American view was stated some time ago by Secretary Hay when he sold: "We believe that 'a fair field and no favor la all we require, and with less than that we cannot be satis-, fled.- A Russian paper recently advised the British to forget Manchuria, saying that the destiny of Manchuria was settled when the first step 'was taken for the construction of the eastern Chinese rail way and was definitely settled when Russia announced that ber troops would remain In Manchuria until China guar anteed the protection of Russian, inter "It Is a matter which will ha ests. aettled by agreement between Russia . . .4 . .... . . and China, said that paper; "the treaty Detween ureal Britain ana japan will not affect it" With those powers and k ttiw Sf.f- .v, V. . . . . . . v , . uuBHia u irvuKxueu . ner noia UDon China it is improbable that the Chinese government will make any agreement not satisfactory to the three powers. It la announced that preliminary ar rangements have been completed to com mence the work of paving promptly on the opening of the warm weather sea son. The unfortunate experience of last yea, when all the paving contracts were heia up Decause or aerecuve pea J tions until the summer was entirely passed, should not be repeated. There la no good reason wby the prospective street Improvements should not be laid out sufficiently in advance to avoid rush work in the face of cold weather, be cause rush work too often means slighted work. The statement Is made that the tax ferret law In Iowa, which has resulted in the listing of millions of dollars' worth of property which had escaped the assessors, is' driving many rich men out of the state. As a rule rich as well as poor live where they find It profitable to themselves, and it is not likely that any large number of wealthy ' people will leave Iowa for the aimple reason that they are forced to pay their due share of faxes. President Mitchell of the mine' work ers' organisation expresses the opinion that 'the arbitration committee of the Civic federation will not be .able to pre vent strikes entirely in large, industries, but that It will render, them less fre Zitiat andfBhorteclaratiojaheo-theji occur. If It can accompiisa tms mum one of the greatest steps forward In labor matters In the present generation will be taken. . On account of hla suspension from the senate the Invitation of Senator Tillman to attend the Prince Henry dinner at the White House has been cancelled. If the senator was as obstreperous when a boy ss he Is since arriving at mature years. It can be .no new experience to him to be sent from the table In dis grace. Bryan objects to the Manhattan club of New York having a hand In the fixing up of a platform for the democratic party. As the members of the Man hattan club object also to ready-made Bryan platforms, the famoua harmony dinner does not appear to have accom plished much. 4 With a municipal campaign on right In his own bailiwick It behooves the states man from South Omaha who, so gener ously volunteered to give the business men of Omaha advice as to how to apply business to politics to apply some of his principles to the political business at home, : Revlalaa- A Spell. Boston Globe. 'Will the new attorney general proceed to demonstrate, by attacking the big rail way merger la Minnesota, that his ' last nam ought to he spelled "Knocks." ' Texas Leyal to Poll." m m Kansas City Star. . Th use of twenty-two tons of silver dol lars la making a bond payment ia Texas thla week would seem te detoU that there Is one stat which, la still true to Mr. Bryan. - Fame's Bovle-rard. Washington Post ' If the American boy will apply himself closely and become great In pugllistlo cir cles, the press associations will send bul letins from his bedside when he catches a severe cold. Hot Air la Snow Pile. Chicago Chronicle. The Dominion patriot who thinks Canada can whip th United States In six months Is unfamiliar with the length of time It took to convince less than haf the United States that It was whipped. t "Foralnst the Go-rerameat," Aayfcow, Indianapolis Journal. To estimate at their true value the at tacks and criticisms of the administration I policy In the Philippines it must bo re membered that It would have been Just the same no matter what the administration had done. If It had done any of the things the "kickers" are now demanding that It do, they would have opposed and denounced it Just the same.' Force. Promotes Peace, Philadelphia Ledger. It appears , to be- certain, that. If wo Intend to keep the Philippines, we must keep them by force, and maintain a strong government there tor many years to come. The character of the work . makes It in dispensable that a large fleet ef the smaller -naval vessels shaU. be maintained, and this makes the proponed, nary, yard en a large Scale a necessity. , The present policy of bringing the vessels home for repairs la at once tod costly and .too inconvenient. More Vital Tham Greek. Brooklyn Eagle. By request of their superintendent the teachers la the publlo schools of Reading, Pa., (will read newspapers hereafter. He does not believe, that they can be well In formed or capable persona unless they And out what la going, on In the world. We are doing many things today that are far mors Important, not merely to us, but to the whole world, and to the world of the fu ture, than were done by certain Greeks and Romans, of whom one has painfully to learn In the history classes. Tyranny Rears Its) He4. Chicago Post. No more pronounced: Instance of the grinding heel of corporations crushing hon est labor could be given than the action of the brewer In cutting down the allowance of their employes' beer. Up till now the workmen have struggled along on a beg garly sixty or seventy glasses of beer a day. Now they may drink only three times, and thla at the discretion of the foreman. Can we wonder that there are serious dif ferences between capital and ' labor when such soulless oppression falls on the shoul ders of the horny-handed sons of tollt .Blessed Be Lent. ' Portland Oregonlan. With the butchers In "merger" and gro rera at war with the source of supplies. I threatening' boycott,- retaliation and all 0.mmere" 1 consumer may m uw mnmi wi iiu forty dayll. respite from feasting attorned I by Lent. At the end of that period let ua hope that the conservators and dlsbursers of our food supplies will have reached a DUH VI DLUDIUDUk W. M.w w fwv I - .. , snd have something left with which to pay taxes, not to' mention street Improvements and necessary spring clothing. AMERICA IjBAD THB WORLD. Fro-Esstaeaee of ' the Vsilte States t Ameaar Exporting- Rations. Caweland Leader. At last the United States stands at the head of the exporting nations of the world, its nroducts sold abroad la the last calen dar year having exceeded In value those of the United Klnadom by I76.ooq.ouo. tms indicates what a remarkable change naa taken place in the last decade tn the rels ttve position of the two great Industrial nations as providers for the world's mar ksta. ' Ten yeara ago 'the exports of the United Kingdom were valued at 26S.6O0,0OO In round numbers," or about ll.llo0Oa.000. Last rear they were valued at $1,865,000.- 000 In round numbers. The lacreass la ten yeara had been se small aa to be hardly worth considering. On the other hand the exports of the ' United States have Increased from tm.000.000 In 1891 to $1,438,746,081 la 1901. or more than half a billion dollars. During the last year the United 8tatea not only beat the United Kingdom, but her exports exceeded those of Germany by about f SO.SOO.OOO a month. Under the circumstances tt Is not, per haps, surprising that ' the people of the United ' States should have enjoyed a period of prosperity that haa no parallel la the history of the world, and Incidentally it may not be out of place to mention the tact that all thla has bees brought about with a protective tariff law la force U this country, with the gold standard tor the national currency, and with a repub lican president In the White House. This la worth thinking sboat, la view of the prophecies of disaster that were uttered In ISM whan It waa seen that rspjuUsiloA :QUil U1 -uocte4sClUav W1TH1J THB OPPOSITION FOLD. York Democrat: It Is hard for on to have to believe that ex-Benator Allen has a Jealous disposition, but Judging by the sneering manner In which he refers In his paper, th Madison Mall, to Hon. C. I. Smyth's candidacy for governor, that Is just what everybody will bave te believe regarding the ex-senator from Nebraska. St Paul Press: As candidates for gov rnor are being mentioned by the different parties, ther are none among th many good men mentioned that would suit us any better than ex-Congressman R. D. Suther land of Nelson, Neb. He has a clean record of four years la congress and la a staunch populist. He Is a hustling campaigner and would b a tower of strength at the head of th ticket. Columbus Telegram: Victor Vtfqualn, th magnificent democrat statesman and sol dier, has been suggested by th Nebraska City News, Fremont Herald and other abl democ ratio newspapers as on worthy the democratlo nomination for governor of Ne braska, and the Telegram unhesitatingly endorses every word which th newspapers named have uttered In hie behalf. He Is a democrat of the old school, free from cor- poratlop Influence and his record as a sol dier Is spotless. In the field of politics, he has been as ' brave as upon th . Held of battle. He has never taken orders from any railroad manager and his presence In the gubernatorial chair would be a guar anty that during his term of offloe ' the railroad managers would be relieved of th arduous task of running the affairs of state. Grand Island Democrat: Quite a number of papers throughout the state have been mentioning General Vlfquain as an avail able candidate for governor this fall. Apropos to this the foreman of the Demo crat desires to say that away back la the '70 he first made th acquaintance of th gallant Frenchman, while he was editor ef a democratlo paper and working under htm. In those days It meant some sacrifice to be an anti-republican in Nebraska. H Joined hands with the - reformers la trying to wrest our state from the clutches of the "Redeemers.'' He won a star for gallantry In the '60s, during the time that tried men's souls, and when th call te arms sounded to rescue Cuba from the grasp of Its tormentor he again went te the front and after a campaign In Cuba returned home as the idol of the gallant Third Ne braska. If it should be the fortune of th fusion party to nominate him he will have no more ardent supporter than the Demo crat. "COME ROME, FATHER, COMB HOME!" Plalatlve Cry of a Chlcaa-o Orphss- Waers Is the PareatT Th Chicago Tribune of the 23d Inst. prints a quarter page reproduction of a pnotograpn or a little girl asleep on a lounge. Nearby a dog watches the sleep ing child. Th picture Is entitled "On Guard,' and waa awarded first prise In com- petition with, seventy-five others in Illi nois. Attractive and appealing as the pic ture la, the story attached to It la more so, and should awaken Interest In every home. The child Is an orphan. . Her mother died soon after the child's birth. and the whereabouts of her father is un known. The picture was printed In the hope that It might lead to hla discovery, and the story vouched for by the Tribune, is reproduced below, for the purpose of pro moting the search for the wandering par- Fattier and children are nameless for the purpose of this story. . Perhaps only he knows why he went away from his mother less little ones.. No one Is sure that he Is living. . Bat kindred and former friends are hoping; and there la belief among them that he may be somewhere in Chicago, burled In lta cosmopolitan fastnesses of humanity, and they hope that the instincts of father hood may be awakened in htm by this like ness of another child, . grown so like hla shadowy remembrance of that one dead under the snows of a northern winter. To an enfeebled grandfather fell the care of these two babes when the father turned from them nearly three yeara ago. Lots for the eon and love for the orphaned grandchildren made wretchedness aad mis ery for the old man. "Where has papa gone?" waa the Insis tent cry of the elder babe, until the heart of the old man waa sore. Then, when the question bad been un answered for weeks, a new fear awoke In her heart. "When will papa comet" waa the wail. "When will papa comer' "Oh. some time, dear," waa the prayer of the grandfather; "some time some time. soon." But the father had not corns when, weary of waiting and watching, the child crossed over Into those green pastures which He, sunlit, by the still waters. Has she found him there? Or Is the father, in the flesh, to come to this other little pne In the flesh and, with the memory of the dead in hla heart, give to her the love of the father she has never known? That love of a father which aent hla first born into the unknown with the word, "papa" on her Hps? I adopted thla baby of th picture,' writes the foster mother of the child. -"Her i wua vu. uim of grief, and today the poor grandfather la I wearing bis lire away longing to see his I son. Thla little one bears such a wonder- ful resemblance to the older child aa she " J - reaemblanoe and by the likeness of the dog, that was the dead child's playmate, I be lieve I can And the father. "He is aomewhere in Chicago, I believe in the city or lta vicinity. He known I adopted hla child, but no one up here knows but the little one is my own and for that reason I want to find him without making publlo -the fact that the little one Is only my adopted daughter. He will recognise thla picture at once If he sees It. After advertising for him everywhere I at last thought of thla picture aad If you assist In winning him back to his father aad child I God alone will be able to repay you. Ia a motherly way she goes oa to apeak of the charms of "Dorothy," aa the child. now almost 4 yeara old. Is known: "Her father haa not sees her since she grew into an age where she waa particu larly Interesting or beautiful. I have a little one of my own now, but this strangely beautiful child la fully as dear to me as my own and unless something unusual haft- pens I never want her to know that I am I not ber mother. If In any way I can win the father back through the little one I shall teach her to love and respect him. It is that I want to do, as well as to have him be again the comfort to hla feeble old father which ho once was. "My own little one is not beautlfut, but thla child ia noticed even in large gather ings for her beauty of face and figure- She Is S years and It months old, unusually bright at learning and months ago was abls to say her multiplication table ot twos. It has alwaya aeemed aa If her Heavenly Father - had endowed her with more than the usual allowance ef graces to atone for her aad loss aad when I see the little one loved aad admired by both high and low It pleases me more than I caa tell. "1 do not wsnt the little one's Ufa marred la say way by the publicity which her life story would give her. She has relatives on both aides la Chicago and tor ail of their it aaaoc ILs mit -ontlxiniia Mrs. Kate Berg,, Secretary Ladies Aux iliary of Knights of Pythias, No. 58. Com mercial Hotel, Minneapolis, Minn., After Five Years Suffering Was Cured, by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. . " Dear Mrs. -Pinmam : Whatever virtue there! is in'ncdicme seems to be concentrated in Lydla E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. I suffered for five years with profuse and painful - menstrualiontmtil I lost flesh and strength, and life had no charms forme. '' Only three bottles of your' Vegetable Compound cured me, I became regular, without any pains, and hardly know whea I am sick. Some of my friends who hive used your Compound for uterine and ovarian troubles all have the same .good word to say f or it, and bless the day they first found it. Mrs. Kats Bsho. $5000 FORFEIT IF TUB ABOVE XJETTTER IS NOT GENUINE. When women are troubled with irregular, suppressed or painful menstruation, weakness, leucorrhoe. displacement or ulceration of the womb, that bearing-down feeling, inanimation of the ovaries, backache, ' bloating (or flatulence), general debility, indigestion, and nervous pros tration, or are beset with such symptoms as dizziness, f aintness, lassitude, excitability, irritability, nervousness, sleeplessness, melancholy, "all gone" and " want-to-be-left-alone" feelings, blues, and hopelesaneps, -they should remember there is one tried and true remedy. Xydla E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound at once removes such troubles. Refuse to buy any other medioine, for you need the best . Mrs, Plnkham Invites all stick women to write her for Advice, She has guided thousands to health. Address Lynn, Mass. enough about her told only to strengthen the resemblance which the father must see In thla photo for I feel sure he will see It. 'Then, too, I wish to Insert a 'personal' in the paper, the same Issue the picture Is printed in, for I reached him once in that way when his father waa ill aad it may do aome good again: Personal Frank, recognise your baby's picture, with Carlo, In paper. Father sick. Come. CLARA.'" Come. This ia the burden of the cry whloh haa been going up from a western city for nearly three years. A child voiced It first and when her little life had gone out In a broken wail another child child in hla sec ond childhood took It up: took It up in his childishness, with the anguish of a parent added to hla child cry. Now, when this other voice is broken, a mother heart has taken up Its burden and is calling for the living and the dead ''Come." Will he answer? There is no doubting of the welcome that awalta him. Home-coming will Involve no notoriety for him. His name is unknown to the Tribune. Only the name' and address of his dead brother's wife are given to the Tribune and they will be 'kept sacredly. Surely the meeting with a doting father cannot be looked forward to in doubt. A atster, who has written aa thle one haa written, can be only a sister In all that the word implies. Even dumb Carlo, placid and self-contained aa becomes his dignity and age, would receive him with every show of dumb delight that belongs to his faithful kind. Only In the baby eyes, round aad wide and questioning, can thla missing one tear Inquisition. " . And who, looking Into the baby taoe of the picture, could doubt the baby heart that in' spires it? "Come home! Come homel" It haa been a long, far cry, all these years. Shall it be in vain, to ue last, as It waa to that little one now over the river? PKR80WAI. MOTES. The senatorial scrap must be classed aa unDrofesslonal. The customary advance notloea were omitted. The house of representatives has made a new record, naving passeu ia private bills In thirty-seven minutes. Prlnoe Henry will listen to debates tn the senate and house. Incidentally he may be Introduced to Wheeler of Kentucky. John Hays, the first white man to dis cover the Immense copper deposits of Mich igan, still Uves la Cleveland, O., and is 17 years old. "Nourish your mind and nurse your spir its" is engraved on one ot ue seais 01 ins empress dowager of China which was sold In London last week. Senator George R. Carter of the Ha- wallan legislature, at the request of Presi dent Roosevelt, left Hawaii on February 11 for the United States to tell the president what "he knowa about Hawaiian politics. Lord Rosebery. sccordlng to T. P. O'Con nor, lives the life of a great feudal lord oa his estates. He has a host of retainers, splendid equipages and everywhere hla cor onet is in evidence. He travels from one of his great houses to another with postil There' sJJtxt&ngSo Bad fora Cough as CozgKmg Tho poorest dbctcrinf town-will tell you that, The best onevilltdlyaa he present Ayer's Cherry Pectoral for ell . throat end lung troubles. We-send doctors tho formula tor this medl-r cine. They know it's a splendid prescription for colds, bronchitis, hoarseness, and even for cca- sumption itself. I coughed terribly after havtag a tiard : attack of-la Sppa. If It had .npt been for A vr Cherry PecttwaJ,! not Relieve I -could posalbhr hVe polled fhxongh.' ' E. K Daw PrtrridejtfA-Bt., There's Nothing So . Good for a Cough as Ayer's Cherry Pectoral tie, tec, $1 St. J. C ATEt ions as If railways had not been Invented., The liberal leader la a great noble ana the people like him all the better for being apart from them in the pomp ana circum stance of hla private life. ' Senator Tillman ia not as good in a mono logue aa In debate. He is like a piece of flint that needs the contact with steel to make the aparks fly. In the senate the steel upon which Tillman flashes the moat frequently ia . Senator ' Bpooaer, The two ' men love to clash and yet there are notwo senators who like each other better. FOISTED REHARKS, Judge: Egbert Know her? ; " Filbert Yes. Fgbert Quite Well? Filbert We were throw together 'from the same automobile. Washington Start "Our delusione are the sweetest things in life," said the gentle .. optimist. "How about the man who thinks he -can sing?" asked the cynic - . . , . Boston Transcript: ' Officer Weren't you ' a trifle absent-minded when you - retired I from the field of battle in face of the or-. ders to advance? . Soldier Ob, no, not at alt. It waa ray body that was absent; my mind remained on the battlefield. .. . . Philadelphia Press: Mrs. Hauskeepi OoodnnnsI I don't know" anything- more-n-surprialng titan the way our gas bills run..-. r. Hauskeep Oh! It lent so surprls- ' ins when you consider how many . thou- -sand feet they have. Cleveland Plain Dealer: around without a hat is "Thla running pretty sure to hrlnr on rjneumonla. ' "Well, If you keep your hat on too mnoh It will cause baldness." "Will it? Well, I'd rather be a live ' Pavld B. Hill than a dead Paderewskl." Chicago Tost) "What are golna to give up In Lent?" asked the assistant rector. Bhe pondered the matter deeply for a moment. "I'll give up one of my engagement rings," she sold at lnt. "I don't think It's very nice for a girl to be engaged to two men In Lent, do your' The Smart Set: - "How did that stupid Jones ever become editor of the Comlo ' Weekly" , "That's what makee the paper comlo." ' WHO'D UE A KING? Henry E. Warner in Baltimore Neva' ' Who'd be a king, to wear A crown of gold on the thorns of oare? Who'd have at armor of purest gold And glory and station and wealth untol(L And face, on the breast of the war-curst wind A thousand deaths to his peace of mind Who'd be a king?. Who'd be a king and faint ' ' With rankling prods of a cold restraint Who'd sell himself for a proud estate And drink to the dregs of a people's hate Perchance; or quail at the war's alarms For a throne and a name and a coat-of-arma Who'd be a king? Who'd be a king, tho he The czar of earth for a time might bet Who'd lie awake thro' the solemn night And tremble and pale, with his soul affright ' At an echo faint from the streets outside Where traitors, perhaps, with the soldiers ride Who'd be a king? Who'd be a king, and sea ith cut out to eternity? . live In alternate shame and nrlde His pa Who'd To be numea neaoe on a riot s uaer Why, since you're anxious to know, Til say That I'll take the job. most any old day Sure, I'll be a klngt CO., UwsO. Mats. J saw ar mi; l a m. am - .WY AW AT ... an K WW I V M J