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Missouri's train-robbing industry ap
pears to be picking up.
This Is the time to keep an eye on
South Africa. All signs Indicate that
there Is something doing there.
With so many hotels In Atlantic City
in ashes, Our Dave may have trouble
in finding accommodations this summer.
A few more flukes like the Christmas
bribery yarn and that Danish West
Indies purchase treaty will be forced
over the line for a goal.
Senator Jones of Arkansas is finding
out hour dearly his colleagues love him
now that his constituents have deter
mined definitely on his retirement.
t'Twas ever thus.
In view of the closeness of tho vote
on the proposition, the people of Lincoln
may as well prepare now for an annual
Infliction of the wet or dry question iu
each succeeding municipal campaign.
General Funston's expressed opinion
Of the Filipinos is not calculated to
make him popular In our Oriental pos
sessions. It is plain that the general
Is neither diplomat nor a politician.
Governor Savage and his uniformed
staff were much in evidence at KanRas
City. When it comes to staff dress
parades, Missouri, with all its fuss and
feathers, cannot hold a candle to
Nebraska.
Teople In the United States are
patiently waiting for the details of Miss
Etone's proposed, lecture tour. It would
be an Inexcusable waste of capital to
let all the accumulated free advertising
go by the board.
The new South Omaha charter makes
a quick turn In installing the newly
elected city officers in the places of re
tiring Incumbents within a week after
the ballots are cast But, in this case,
the sooner the better.
In. the new complaints that the United
States U not fulfilling its neutrality ob
ligations in permitting the shipment of
mules from New Orleans to Cape
Colony, the service rendered the Boers
by the Ameiicun mule in the late cap
ture of General Methuen seems to be
again overlooked. 1
The promoters of the Marconi wire
less telegraph have sold their American
rights for $11,150,000, which will doubt
less be mixed soon with an equal pro
portion of air currents and set afloat to
find the lightning rods of confiding lu
vi'Btotu. No immediate danger Is visible
of wireless communication coming much
choapvr to the private putron than those
that travel by metallic circuit
President-elect Talma of Cuba is too
modest 'When he asks that the Unlteu
States cut its tariff in two so far as It
applies to the importation of Cuban
products, "Just to help Cuba." While
helping Cuba It would be Just as easy
to go the whole length and let all
Cuban products In free of duty. Cuban
exporters who would profit by the re-
mission of duties would doubtless ap
preciate the favor.
Omaha people with surplus capital
have always been ready to plant their
money In wild-eyed uiiulng schemes in
Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico,
ArUona or Kamchatka that held out
the promise of returning fabulous
wealth. Moot of these people have been
bitten, but refuse to profit by experi
ence. The same money Invested in
Omaha enterprises might not have made
then) rich, but It would have yielded
then safe returns aad helped to build
up tna cityf
vxdimixishkd' rnosnitiTT.
Business condition throughout the
country are represented to Iks In a
highly satisfactory condition. The gen
eral prosperity which lias marked the
past four or five years Is well main
tained. Some Industries may be a little
less active than a yenr ago, but most of
them are finding business quite as good
as at any previous time. This Is espe
cially true of the Iron nnd steel indus
try. It Is stated that on nearly all
kinds of material the Mg steel companies
are practically sold up to next October.
With some of them orders are so plen
tiful that they are out of the market
as sellers for tho rest of this year.
Thlstcounrry Is making pig Iron at the
present time at the rate of 1,500,000 tons
a month, or 18,000,000 tons a year, more
than England and Germany together
produce. In spite of this enormous pro
duction stocks have steadily decreased
and an actual famine in this most Im
portant material is threatened. That the
lrou is going into actual consumption
Is shown by the fact that consumers are
paying premiums In prices to get It
Great activity in building In most of the
larger cities explains in part the heavy
demand for iron and steel. In regard to
other industries the reports are gener
ally favorable. The agricultural pro
ducers, also, are having a generous de
gree of prosperity. With a good demand
for all the products of the farm prices
are well maintained and profitable. The
conditions are favorable to the employ
ment of labor and there Is compara
tively little Idleness anywhere lu the
country, while in a number of trades
wages are better than a year ago.
It is remarked by careful observers
that the one cloud over the Situation is
the evidence revealed that some of the
industrial combinations and perhaps
many of them must pass before long
through a period of reconstruction, re
organization, wherein many persons will
be squeezed and whereby much liquida
tion must be done before these indus
trials are firmly established. The sus
picion is that they have before them
the same experience which the over
exploited railway systems did between
1885 and 181)5. Some of them seem to
have been reckless, some incapably man
aged, some dishonestly organised and
there is said to be apprehension that the
banks may not have been as conserva
tive as they should have been in making
loans upon these securities. The banks,
however, are reported to be taking in
sail, hoping that in view of the -general
healthy and prosperous condition these
weak spots can be repaired without
causing general demoralization.
Except for these weak and admittedly
dangerous spots, the business situation
appears to be as strong as at any time
in the last five years and the outlook
for a continuance of prosperity as fa
vorable. Should there be good crops
this year the American people can count
with confidence upon at least two or
three years more of the prevailing con
ditions.
A PROFITABLE MD08TRT. "
The statement by the American Beet
Sugar company of last year's opera
tions shows that the Industry made good
progress as compared with the results
of the preceding year and was fairly
profitable. The estimate for the cur
rent year is favorable, the president of
the company saying In his annual re
port that everything looks more prom
ising for a satisfactory campaign for
1002 than at any time In his experience,
If the price of sugar be excepted. lie
expressed the opinion, however, that the
abolition of the sugar bounties recently
recommended and adopted by the Brus
sels conference will certainly tend to
ward higher prices for sugars through
out the world, as operating to reduce the
production of beet sugar in the Euro
pean countries that now produce two
thirds of the world's consumption. Ac
cording to expert opinion abroad the
reduction In beet planted acreage in
Europe will amount to one-eighth of
this year's crop, or about 800,000 tons.
It being now practically assured that
no greater turiff concession on Cuban
sugar than 20 per cent will be made
by the present congress, there appears
to be no reason why the American beet
sugar industry should not continue to
expand and be pushed forward even
more vigorously than heretofore. There
is no question that the present senti
ment of the country is largely favorable
to such protection to the industry as
will enable it to grow and no change
in this sentiment is to be apprehended.
THE IMMIGRATION H&RVICK.
President Roosevelt's decision to re
organize the , immigration sen-Ice will
be carried out, though a vigorous effort
has been made to induce him to retain
tho head of that service, Terence V.
'owderly. It is announced that Frank
'. Sargent grand master of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Firemen, and
prominent among the representative la
bor leaders of the country, has notified
the president that he will accept the
position of commissioner general of im
migration and enter upon the duties
as soon as he can close up his present
affairs.- Successors to the immigration
commissioner and his deputy at New
York have also been selected.
The president has good reasons for
reorganizing this service and undouot
edlv it will be improved by the changes
In the personnel soon to be made. In
the first place it will be conducive to
iteace" aud good " discipline. Mr. Pow-
derly has administered- his office with a
strong hand and there has been eon
stant friction between him and the offl
clals at Washington having supervision
of the Immigration bureau. The imnil
gratlon officials at New York have been
nartlea to this, which was necessarily
riotrinipnt to the service. Besides
this they were charged with abuses. It
has been urged that the displacement of
Powderly will offend the labor element,
but he is not a representative of this
element there having been a considers
ble opposition to his appointment from
the American Federation of Labor. Mr.
Sargent, a tha other band, is a
thorough and conspicuous representative
of organized labor and one of the most
trusted men In its councils. lie Is re
garded as a man of excellent executive
ability and It Is said was frequently
consulted by President McKlnley In re
gard to labor matters.
The Immigration service requires capa
ble, honest men, who will faithfully en
force the laws. The men whom Presi
dent Roosevelt tins selected can be de
pended upon to meet this requirement.
VMAltA AJSD SVVIH OMAHA.
Omaha and South Omaha are insep
arably linked together commercially and
socially. Whatever promotes the growth
of one city promotes the growth of
both and whatever Injures one of them
must necessarily affect the welfare
of the other. While the people of South
Omaha and Omaha govern themselves
through separate municipal and school
district officials, the line of demarcation
between the two towns is only to be
found on the map.
Thut this fact Is well understood by
the intelligent people of both towns is
strikingly Illustrated by the result of
Tuesday's election In South Omaha. In
the campaign preceding the election des
perate efforts were made by demagogues
to foment local prejudice and array the
people of one town against the other.
Instead of making the fight on political
Hues, or on the merits of the respective
tickets, the appeals on behalf of the de
feated candidate were made on the pre
sumption that there was a conspiracy
in Omaha to control the city government
of South Omaha to its detriment. In
support of this assertion, all sorts of
roorbacks and fakes were concocted and
set afloat, but the people of South
Omaha were not to be so easily gulled.
They turned a deaf ear to the stupid
canards and voted for the candidates
whom they believed to be most trust
worthy. In taking this position the people of
South Omaha have put their seal of con
demnation upon all marplots and politi
cal bunco eteerers who seek to win favor
and make political capital by raising
false Issues and trying to create hos
tility between two sister communities
that in the future as In the past.must
have all Interests in common, and as the
years go by will be welded closer and
closer together until they eventually
become In name as well as In fact one
great metroiolltan city.
Iowa's legislature has passed a meas
ure to raise the salary of the governor
to (5,000 a year. That is certainly none
too much for the executive of a great
state like Iowa and the action of the
legislature will surely meet with popular
approval. The salary of Nebraska's
governor is grossly inadequate aud
ought to be made more commensurate
with the duties and responsibilities of
the office, but our legislature Is power
less, because the amount to be paid is
fixed unconditionally by the state con
stitution. , The object of the constitution
makers was doubtless to keep the ex
ecutive independent of legislative favor,
but the limit has long been outgrown.
While not the most crying defect of the
Nebraska constitution, the revision of
the salary schedulo muy be included
with other pressing demands that would
Justify the convening of the legislature
to submit, needed amendments at the
coming November election.
"Suuatter sovereignty," or the right of
government to tax an offensive Industry
out of existence, which was the stock In
trade of Stephen A. Douglas, 'way back
in the '50s, has again become nu issue
in the United States senate. When
Douclus was advocating that popular
but exploded , doctrine its application
was to be confined to the darkeys Hem
lu slavery and the mules held in luvol
uutary servitude in Kansas and Ne
braskabut times have changed. In
our days "squatter sovereignty" doc
trine Is to be put in force in legislating
beef fat out of existence when it is
masquerading uuder false colors as
butter.
The local committee in charge of ar
rangements for the coming Christian
church convention Is showing the spirit
thut wins out There is an old adage
that the best way to get a thing done
ix to do it yourself and the members
of the committee have found that the
responsibility they have assumed must
be met without depending on outside
bodies to relieve them. Having started
on the right track, there is no good
reason why, with the co-operatloa and
unuort of Omaha business men, which
they deserve, they should not accomplish
the tusk to the signal credit of both
themselves and Omaha.
.
It now transpires that the Associated
Press reporter at St Joseph Is suffering
from an impediment to bis veracity.
Governor Savage flatly contradicts the
report thut he .ever said, or intended
to be understood to say, that Joe Bartley
would pay back the proceeds of the
$181,000 school fund warrant which he
bud converted to his own use under the
misapprehension that it belonged to him
and not to the state of Nebraska. In
this instance the unexpected has not
huppened.
The Douglas County Democracy has
held another enthusiastic meeting.
Whether it was over the outcome at
South Omaha or over the outgo of an
other .bottle of fine old Bordeaux has
not transpired. It goes without saying,
however, that the Douglas County
Democracy is always full of pent-up
eutbuslasui.
Both Nebraska senators have gone on
record in favor of the bill to tax arti
ficial butter out of existence. The pass
lug of the Texas steer and the cow
puncher has evidently created a deep
iiuyresblon on the minds of Nebraska's
representatives in the upper house of
the national legislature.
Acting Mayor Karr has ordained and
proclaimed that all poles that have
secured a foothold on the street and
alleys In tho Sixth , under the
franchise of the electric jghtlng com
pany must put on a coat of paint or pre
pare to absquatulate. Mayor Karr
wants It dUMnctly understood that the
poles near rheeley town will bo per
mitted to i ind In an undecorated con
dition. Worked Well, To.
Philadelphia Ledger.
The situation in Arkansas seems to be
a pretty good imitation of a popular election
for United States senator.
Disease Yields to Treatment.
Chicago Record-Herald.
Secretary Hay has just Induced a man not
to publish a book on the Boer war. It bss
heretofore been supposed that nothing could
arrest that disease once it got Into a man's
system.
Knox Drams the Dend Line.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
The attorney general may tackle the great
Northern Securities company merger and
any or all the trusts combined, but he
will draw the line at attempting to arbi
trate a question for the Federation of
Women's Clubs.
Another "Crime" Discovered.
Indianapolis News.
Senator Patterson of Colorado has dis
covered another crime that rivals that of '73.
He finds that moneyed men are becoming
alarmed at the large production of gold and
are doing all they can to discourage it.
Nobody, it seems, was with Patterson when
he made the discovery.
Where Is the Menace f
Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
The contest over the United States sen-
atorship in Arkansas has really been a
popular election. Inasmuch as the issue was
fought out in the primaries and before the
people. Just where the menace to state
equality la that proceeding comes in ts
bard to say. But Mr. Hoar may be able to
point it out.
Chivalry at Chivalry's Home.
Philadelphia Press.
A Kentucky man was late at his wed
ding last week and found that his ac
commodating sweetheart, rather than keen
the guests watting, bad married another
man. The groom-elect accordingly mar
ried another woman and proved that,
though marriage may be a lottery, there
are no blanks for the man with a will.
The Fly In the Ointment.
St Louis Post-Dispatch.
According to Rev. Thomas Dixon the
American people have the courage of the
Celt, the nobility of the Norman, the vigor
of the viking, the energy of the Angle, the
tenacity of the Saxon, the daring of the
Dane, the gallantry of the Gaul, the free
dom of the Frank, the earth-hunger of the
Roman and the stoicism of the Spartan, but
what does all this amount to when we are
assured by ' a correspondent of William
Waldorf Astor's paper that America is "un
bearable for gentlemen?"
Generosity of the Coal Barons.
Springfield Republican.
The anthracite coal combination. It an-
pears. Is to allow us a little rest from the
high prices of the winter. It will gra
ciously concede ' a reduction, of only SO
cents a ton. from the winter maximum,
and that Is to last . only through ' April.
Then the rise will begin for the next win'
ter at the rate of .19 cents a month until
the recent prices are reached again. Prices
of meat continue than- upward course, and
the cost of keeping up the fires, internal
and external, Is becoming a pretty serious
problem to most people.
Freaks of the Mlssoarl.
Minneapolis Tribune.
The Missouri is a curious river. It plays
all sorts of pranks, rising and falling with
out cause and wandering around the coun
try without any regard to its natural chan
nel or the cities it leaves high and dry
by Us vagrant habits. Not long ago the
river went nearly dry for many days at
Chamberlain. The people thought there
was an ice gorge above and began to pre
pare for an awful flood. Instead of a flood
the water gradually and naturally rose to
the former level and stopped there. Now
the theory Is that the bottom fell out of
the river somewhere and its waters poured
Into the bowels of the eartti until the bole
was full, when they resumed their inter
rupted surface flow. No frontiersman will
venture to deny this. You can believe any
thing about the Missouri river.
FIRE IXSl'RAXCB LOSSES.
Somehow the Companies Floarlsb and
Wax Fat.
Philadelphia Record.
The recent advance In rates of fire In
surance was determined upon by the Na
tional Board of Fire Underwriters, repre
senting substantially all of the- companies
prepared and accustomed to take large risks
in this field of enterprise. In applying the
the new schedule to Philadelphia, It has
beea deemed prudent to leave existing rates
uatouched, except so far as relates to the
so-called "conflagration district." In this
area of local territory, as defined by the
Are insurance men, sections have beea set
Off as hazardous or extra haiardous, and
within the prescribed limits an additional
premium for fire Insurance is to be ex
acted "for conflagration haiard due to In
efficient building laws." What Is wanted
Is larger receipts and less burdensome
losses on the general average of business
and the ostensible reason for the advance
la rates varies with the local condltlonr
here and there. '
There is not much doubt la well Informed
financial circles that the hazards and
losses of fire insurance have been largely
Increased la recent years. At the same
time the business has proved sufficiently
attractive to capitalists to induce the or
ganization of numerous strong underwrit
ing companies not affiliated with the na
tional board, and these outside or "non
union" associations will doubtless find In
the situation created by the general ad
vance in rates aa opportunity for further
enlargement of business operations. Under
existing conditions, however,, the united
companies maintaining the increased rate
may point to statistics of Ore losses
throughout the country foi some years
past as evidence that the charge for Are
Insurance should be advanced. In New
York state, far example, the set losses of
the companies during the calendar year
mi amounted to nearly $9,000,000 aad dur
ing fourteen years past the net loss was
over $23,000,000. Taking this as a fair illus
tration of receipts and risks throughout the
country, the Inadequacy of existing sched
ules of premium might be readily demon
strated. But somehow the underwriting compa
nies la large measure continue to flourish
and wax fat, with a gradually Increasing
ratio of expenses of management. Fif
teen years ago expensea of New York fre
insurance companies were about 34 per cent
of the premiums collected. Last year the
ratio was over 18 per cent. The larger
the volume of business the larger the 'pro
portion of gross revenue absorbed In oper
ating eiptasea. This reversal of a famil
iar industrial rule involves a problem in
financial management certain ere long to
attract atteatloa la Injuraacs eirclsa.
OTHER LANDS TIIAX OtHS.
It has frequently been reported that
when the triple alliance of Oermany, Aus
trla and Italy expired, which will be very
shortly. It would not be renewed, but th
understsnding was thst Its dissolution n
likely to be brought about by the with
drawal of the Italian member of that part
nershlp. The latest news upon the subject
puts sn entirely different aspect upon the
situation and the prospect. There was a
mysterious meeting at Venice a few day
ago of Count von Btielow, the German
chancellor, and Slgnor Prlnettl, the Italian
minister for foreign affairs. It was vehera
ently declared to have no official elgnln
cance when attention was first directed by
the newspapers to its occurrence, but it
has since transpired that this denial was
made In the Pickwickian sense and that as
a matter of fact It was an event of the
greatest Importance. Count von Buelow
and Slgnor Prlnettl are now said to have
come to an understanding, the result of
which Is expected to be the termination of
the triple alliance through the elimination
of Austria and the formation In its place
or a dual alliance between Germany and
Italy. This extraordinary story receives
some support from the clrcumstsnre that
tho relations between Italy and Austria
have never been of a cordial character and
that at this time they are more than ever
strained. The two countries have inter
eats which are absolutely Irreconcilable
notably in Albania, which both of them are
anxious to control, while the fact that the
Austrian emperor has sever returned the
call made en him by King Humbert years
ago has not tended to promote that
friendly feeling which should exist between
powers which have agreed to act in com
mon. France, with the aelectlon of Sunday.
April 27, as the day for the election of the
next Chamber of Deputies, enters on the
last stage of the active canvass which will
decide the character of the French govern
ment ror four years to come. With vari
ous limitations, for the most part of small
effect, ultimate power rests In France with
the lower branch of the national legisla
ture. Its majority selects the ministry.
ii can, as was shown In the case of Casl-
mlr Perler, force even a president to re
sign. Its pewer is less complete than that
or tne House of Commons, but it Is also
less under the Influence of a rulinr class.
and the head of the state in France, a
president elected for a term, cannot exert
the Indefinable but powerful personal In
fluence of an English sovereign.
The chamber now ending its term waa
elected in 1898. It contains, including
colonial districts, 684 deputies, elected in
separate districts, as nearly as possible
with 100,000 ef population.
Perhaps the most significant and encour
aging feature of the British financial situa
tion which has been disclosed ts to be recog
nized In the remarkable collections made on
account of the Income tax. These aggre
gated $174,000,000, which was over $39,000,000
more than the year before, and which ex
ceeded by $5,000,000 the chancellor's esti
mate. This is a wonderful showing. The
Income tax, which had stood at 1 shilling
on the pound, or at the rate of 5 per cent,
was increased last year to 1 shilling and 2
pence on the pound. This was an advance
of 18 2-3 per cent, which upon the basis
of the revenue derived from this particu
lar tax last year, that is on $135,000,000,
should have brought in additional receipts
to the amount of $22,500,000. The actual
Increase, as baa been stated, was nearly
$40,000,000, .which represents a growth tor
the year in the Income of the income-tax-
paying community,' which, after all, is a
relatively small section of the population,
of $325,000,000. For a small country whose
possibilities of expansion are limited this
Is doing pretty well.
The Chinese government has decided to
adopt new mining regulations. The pro
fessed purpose is to opea the way for the
granting of concessions to foreigners. If,
however, the terms are as onerous as de
scribed in a Pekln dispatch, foreign cap
ital will be as reluctant as ever to engage
in mining in China. Besides reserving tor
Itself 25 per cent of the profits, the gov
ernment, claims 25 per cent of the output
of diamonds and other gems, 15 per cent
of the output of gold, sliver and mer
cury, 10 per cent of the output
of copper, lead and zinc, and 6
per cent of the output of coal and iron.
In addition to these percentages of output
and profits, export and llkln duties are to
be Imposed upon the concessionaires. If
foreigners desire to engage in mining in
China, they must, therefore, submit to taxa
tion at every turn. Such a system cners
no Inducement to the foreigner to apply for
mining concessions. Perhaps the govern
ment expects the new regulation to have
that effect. Foreign Investment in mining
has, in fact, been discouraged as much
as nosslble in all of the provinces. In New-
chwang British merchants desiring to open
some mineral deposits were lorcea wree
years ago to mine under Chinese names,
and though doing so was winked at, these
merchants Informed Lord Charles Beresford
that they were "liable to be stopped at
say moment by unfriendly magistrates er
competing Chinese.
The Cologne Gaaette has taken the ini
tiative In a campaign calling uhon the Ger
man government to Intervene ror tne pro
tection of German bondholders who have
interests in the Mlnas railway in Brazil
and of German settlera in the Brazilian
state of Mlnas Geraes, which Is the most
Important Interior province of the repub
lic. The German bondholders have long
standing claims against the government or
Mlnas Geraes and the Gazette recommends
that the Imperial government adopt the
method pursued by the French government,
which, when the province of Esplrlto
Santo failed to fulfill its obligation to
French capitalists, made the federal gov
ernment responsible for the debts. As to
the grievances of German settlers, the ma
jority of whose fathers bought allotments
from Brazilian land owners, that is a mat
ter for imperial investigation. Many of
the land titles held by the Germans have
lately beea disputed and in some cases
the occupants have been ejected, while
others have been forced to buy the land
over again at a rate which takes Into ac
count the Improvements they themselves
effected. The victims at present, it Is de
clared, are reckoned by hundreds, but
many thousands feel themselves threat
ened, knowing that they are at the mercy
of anti-German officials.
Prince Luttpold, regent of the kingdom
of Bavaria, who has Just completed his tlst
year, Is the youngest of five heads of Eu
ropean states who are octogenarians. As
he is the heir of his nephew, the Insane
king, whose life can hardly be worth liv
ing, men have often wished that his eigh
teen years of good work as regent might
be rewarded by his succession to the full
honors of the crown, but, aa King Otto Is
but 54 years old, this is hardly likely.
Prince Lultpold Is a son of the art-loving
King Louts, the victim ef Lola Mootes
and a brother of King Maximilian II and of
King Otto of Greece. He was one of the
twenty-nine princes who stood around Wil
helm I when the empire was proclaimed
at Versailles. His eldest son. Prince Louts,
la msrried to Archduchess Marie of Aus-trta-Este,
who is the head of the line of
the elder branch of Stuart and (according
to the White Rose League) queen of Oreat
Britain and Ireland.
Cream
Baldaig Powder
Each time the United States Government
has officially tested the baking powders
the report has shown Dr. Price's Cream
Baking Powder to be of superlative
leavening strength, free from alum, abso
lutely pure and wholesome.
This is gratifying, for Dr. Price's Cream
Baking Powder is depended upon by mil
lions of people to raise their daily breads
Prici Bakino Powder Cay.
Chioaqo.
POLITICAL DRIFT.
Voting machines are to be used In future
elections In New York City.
Bathhouse John Coushlln carried the
First ward of Chics no aealnst the allied
hosts of reform. You can't lose a genuine
poet.
It la expected the Ohio leclelature at lia
present session will casa for submission to
a vote of tho people a constitutional amend
ment to give the governor of the state the
veto sower.
David B. Hill favors makina- ex-orea!-
dents life senators. If the proposition ts
expanded to Include defeated candidates for
the presidency It would take high rank as
a barn-stormer.
The Connecticut constitutional convention
has added to the draft of the DroDosed new
constitution a clause giving the governor
power to veto separate items In aDorooria-
tlon bills without vetoing the bills as a
noie. ,
The republican state convention In Tndlan
will be held this year on April 23 and al
ready there Is considerable rivalry over fh
choice of a chairman. Both of the United
States senators, Fairbanks and Beverldge,
are republicans and both of them are can
didates for presiding officer. .
Grand Sachem Nixon Diana another now.
vow of big Indians in New York City.
Braves from all the reservations are tn
come together for a ahost dance. Inci
dentally the Tammany chief will test Gen
eral urook's ladlan policy, to-wlt: giving
the braves a big fill before SDrlnalnr the
treaty of peace.
Senatorial electiona will be hM in .
number of states this year and next, the
terms expiring -In March, 1903, Including
those of Senators Piatt of New York .inn..
of Arkansas, Teller of Colorado, Orvllle H.
riatt ot Connecticut, Mason of Illinois,
Fairbanks of Indiana. Allison of Iowa ni.
linger of New Hampshire, Penrose of Penn.
syivania, Mcuaurtn of South Carolina and
Bpooner of Wisconsin.
LAl'GHINO REMARKS.
Washington Star: "What do you think
will be the outcome of this campaign of
yours?
... im not aure," answered the ofQceseeker.
"I hope it will be an income."
Chicago Post:
"Prosperity has ruined
many a man."
"No dOUbt: but. If T'm .riven anv r.Vint
In the matter, I'd rather be ruined by proa-
penty man Dy adversity. The process is
more enjoyable."
What rt Vat- T v.., . ,
at supper last night. We all roared."
"What wua lt?'T
"Oh, I can't remember, but It was a
corker: I have tn tauirh vrv iim. t KtnL-
Of it."
Chleaao Tribune: The Rev Mr nvirthiu
(examining parishioner concerning the
So Many
IFF
Put off their shopping until the last day of the
week that if the weather is favorable we are al
ways rushed on Saturdays.
But the early comers are soonest served.
We expect to find a good many men In search
. of Spring Suits now.
OURS, WE THINK, AT flO, ?15, 20
AND 25 ARE FINER AND BETTER
MADE THAN MANY CLOTITIER8
CAN AFFORD TO CARRY AT THE
PRICES WE CHARGE.
This is tte advantage of manufacturing our own
goods,
Superior inducements to men in all kinds of
Haberdashery and Hats and Caps. , . ,
No Clothing Fits Like Ours.
Exclusive Clothiers and Furnishers
H. S. Wilcox, Manager.
1)Joti. These Government inquiries also
developed the fact that there are many
mixtures upon the market made in imi
tation of baking powder, but containing
alum or other caustic acid, whose use iia
'ood is dangerous.
creed) You believe In the resurrection of
the body, Mrs. Klonplnfrer. do you notT
Parishioner (weight . pounds) Not this
body, doctor, thank the Lord!
Philadelphia Press: "There goes a man
who started life as a bartender, and now
he's a member of the legislature."
"You don't sny? I suppose the impossi
bility of avoiding evil usnorlotlons in hie
business was responsible for It,"
Prooklyn IJfe: "Yes. Miss Bllklns hss
really written n tale with the genuine New
England atmosphere."
"What's that?"
"Oh, about nine-tenths old mnid and the
rest made tip of equal parts ot Culture, pie
and Urowning."
Chlcaao News: "Lady," snld the way
farer with the clnder-embelllHhed whisk
ers, "I can't eat these scraps."
"You can't?" said the housewife tn sur
prise. "Why, you Just told me that you
were so hungry you could eat a house."
"Yes, mum; out I meant a porterhouse."
TILLMAN AT TUB RAT.
Washington March Hare.
They looked extremely rocky In the senate
room that day:
They'd been fussing o'er the Philippines;
the dickens was to pay.
So when Bpooner spoke quite peaceably and
met with no retort,
A pallor wreathed the features of the
patrons "of the sport."
A straggling few got up to go, leaving there
the rest,
With the hope that springs eternal within
the human breast.
For they thought If only Tillman could get
a whack at that
They'd put up even money now with Till
man on a bat.
But suddenly McLaurln's voice across the
chamber sped,
And "Tillman, you're a liar!" It sounded
like he said; '
Then when the dust had lifted and they
saw the gory sight" '. " -
There was Mac a-punchlng Tillman, who
was guarding with his right. , '
From the gaU'ry. black with people, 'went
up a joyous roar,
And the members in the lobby made a rush
upon the floor.
McLaurin cut and feinted; once more Tlll's
Jabber flew;
But McLo-urln countered neatly, and the
Kall'ry yelled "Strike two!'1
"Encore!" cried then the multitude and the
echo answered "Core!"
Aa McLaurin with a plexus push sent Till
man to the floor.
Then Tillman's face grew cold and stern;
they saw his muscles Mrain
And they knew he'd never, never let him
self be downed again.
The smllo Is gone from both their lips;
their forma are clenched; they swear
When suddenly a peacemaker does pluck
apart the pair;
And now McLaurln's pulled away from, oft
his gory foe.
So only air la shattered by the force of
Tillman's blovT!
Oh, somewhere In the Philippines the sun
Is shining bright;
It doesn't seem a bit disturbed about this
binody fight;
And soldiers still are playing Tag on that
far distant shore
But there's woe among the senate now, for
Tillman's scrap la o'er.
People
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