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0 TIIE OMAITA DAILY WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1002. Tiie Omaha Daily Bee E. ROSE WATER, EDITOIt. PVBI.ISHKD EVERY MORNINQ. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Pally Pee (without Sundy, One Year. MOO Pally Hee and Sunday. One Year i0 Illustrated Bee, One Year J W Sunday H, One Year 1.00 Saturday Bee, One Year loO Twentieth Century Farmer, One Year.. 100 DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Xally Bee (without Sunday), per copy.. Jc Pally Bee (without Sunday), per week. .12c iJally Bee (Including Sunday), per week.Kc Sunday Bee, per ropy &c Evening Bee (without Sunday), per week.loc Evening Bee (Including Sunday, per week lie Complaint of Irregularities In delivery ho j Id be addressed to City Circulation De partment. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha Cltv Mall Building, Twenty-fifth and M streets. Council Bluffs 10 t'earl Street. Chicago 1640 Unity Building. Mew York Temple Court. Washington 6ul Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to newa and editorial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS. Business letters and remittances should be addressed: The Bee Publishing Com pany, Omaha. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order. Payable to Tho Bee Publishing Company. Only 2-eent stamps accepted In payment of mall accounts, personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchange, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss.t George 13. Tsschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, aya that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of March, 1W2, waa aa follows: 1 at,9T0 17 2,B30 2 a,T0 It 30,430 1TU,4 IB 2O.B30 4 2U.TTO 20 ,) I Ztt.UUO 21 KU.SIO XV&W 22 XU.CWO 7 21MI20 23 StU.ttSO 2t,4AO 24 2tf,610 I Ztt.700 ' 25 KU.BItO JO.. K,SO 26 2W,0UU 11 21, BOO 27 SCU.BMO 12 2M.3TO 21 20,540 13 2.IO 29 21t,640 14 2,620 30 STO.OOO IS 20,670 31 20,44 1 av.eoo Total .....017,420 lss unsold and returned copies.... I,IH7 Net total sales 007,013 Net dally average 20,277 GEO. B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 31st day of March, A. D. 1902. OEORGE RA8MUSSEN, (Seal.) Notary Public They have a few more anarchists In Russia. David Bennett Hill hungers for har mony with a big II. Members of the Moulders' union call It a lockout Other people call It a freeze out When all other sources of revenue are exhausted John Bull cau always fall back on the Income tax. Omaha needs a garbage crematory very much. The only question Is where the money Is coming from. The open- season for bunting ducks and geese Is closed,, but the season on political canards and roorbacks has Just opened. If President Roosevelt keeps up bis fight on the trusts he may force the democrats to take the plutocrats under their protection. An all rail route through the heart of Alaska up to the Arctic circle Is to be constructed this year and summer hotels near the north pole will become the fashionable resort at no distant day. When Touias Kstrada Talma came to this country twenty-five years ago he traveled In an emigrant car. Talma's return journey as president-elect of the Cuban republic Is made In a palatial private car. While the attorneys of the Taxpayers' league are bombardlug the supreme court It will uot do to lose sight of the precinct assessors who are quietly at work listing property for next year's as sessment roll. As an argument against dispensing With kindergartens the Chicago Chron icle rites the fact that Insurance statis tics show that a large proportion of fires re started by children who are neither at school nor at work. This Is a clincher. Iowa has captured another juicy plum from the federal pie counter In the ap pointment of General J. 8. Clarksou as surveyor of customs for the port of New York. If there Is anything Iowa wants all she has to do la to ask for It. Henry Wattcrsou still Insists that the future of th republic is Imperiled by the inau on horseback, and yet Thomas Jefferson, the great patron saint whom Henry Wattersou swears by, was the only America u president who came on horseback to tie Inaugurated. The secretary of the Omaha Commer cial club and keeper of the Omaha In dian supply depot, so-called, are now In Chicago to witness the opening of bids for ludlan supplies, but their presence at the ceremony will have about the same effect as the pope's bull against the rx.met. . Representative Ray of New York, chalriuuu of the Louse committee on Judiciary, to whom was referred the resolution railing upon the attoruey gen eral for Information relative to the prosecution of the Beef trust, confidently believes that the attorney general will Immediately probe the matter of the al leged Beef trust to the tottom. We ap prehend that it will take several X-rays and the searchlight of publicity to ex pose the skeleton of that stall fed bovine. The squatter, governor of South Da kota has been appointed United States commissioner for Gregory , county for the purpose of accommodating the new aettlers who are expected to locate on the Rosebud Indian reservation during the coming summer. Nebraska's squat ter governor, the lamented Pearutan, has passed over to the happy hunting (rounds, but If he were still in the land of the living he might also have taken a Land in the distribution of the Indian That was bis favorlt pastime. PDHSVjya THE COMBINATIONS. The admlnstratlon Is pursuing the policy promised by Fresldent Roosevelt In his annual message and repeated In his Charleston address, of enforcing the law against the combinations. The United States district attorneys at Kan sas City and Chicago have been In structed to prosecute a thorough Investi gation as to the alleged beef combine, with a view to ascertaining whether the anti trust law has been violated. In a letter to the chairman of the Judiciary committee of the house of representa tives Attorney General Knox states that he has no evidence which can lie classed as legal of the existence of such a com bination, but he has directed that a thorough Investigation be made. Until this Is done of course the Department of Justice cannot determine whether steps shall be taken toward a prosecu tion. The public will heartily commend the action thus taken, from which some good results may ' reasonably be ex lccted. It may not l possible to show that there Is actually a "beef trust," but the common Impression that there is an arrangement between the leading packers to maintain and advance prices is probably well founded and If this shall be proved to be the case there is no question that they can be prosecnted under the Sherman anti trust law, on the ground that such arrangement Is a conspiracy to monopolize trade and als In restraint of trade. The law Is very clear and explicit in. regard to this. Everywhere there Is an earnest public protest against what Is believed to be the unwarranted advance In the price of meats and in taking notice of this and endeavoring to ascertain whether the advance is due to an unlawful com bination amoug packers, the adminis tration is doiug a service to the public which will be universally appreciated and which there is reason to expect will have a salutary effect THE IiVSSIAN ASSASSINATION. The assassination of the Russian minister of the Interior gives most pointed Illustration of the bitter feel ing among Russian students toward the government. Recently the students have been vigorously agitating for political and social reforms and a large number of the more radical ones have been sent to prison. In their prosecution the min ister of the Interior was especially ac tive and consequently Incurred the re lentless hatred of the student class, or that portion of them who are agitating for reforms. His assassination by one of them Is therefore a dee'd of revenge. The student class In Russia la a force which the government has constantly to reckon with. Intelligent, with Ideas of political and social progress, they exert a very considerable influence upon pub lic thought and are almost continually engaged In agitation. The government consequently finds It necessary to main tain a most careful and thorough sur veillance over them and their move ments are watched with the utmost vigilance. Their agitation, however, has not been altogether fruitless, but as sassination will certainly not Improve affairs or promote the realization of the reforms which the student class desire. On the contrary. It is likely to result In the government adopting severer measures for the repression of agita tion and more harshly punishing those who engage In Inciting popular senti ment against the existing order of things. PROTECTION SENTIMENT IN ENGLAND. There is unquestionably a growing sentiment in England against the free trade policy. A member of Parliament recently expressed the belief that a se cret ballot in the House of Commons would result In a large majority in favor of duties and London correspondents say that arguments are now constantly heard that free trade has been too long a mere fetich, that the day of pure Cob dentsm Is past and that If Cobden were alive now he would favor certain re stricted tariff measures for revenue. Articles have appeared iu leading Brit ish magazines and commanded much at tention urging that England, with its present economic policy, . could not compete with the United States and Ger many, and that she must have a pro tective tariff to save her manufactures, with which Americans and Germans now successfully compete even In her home market. , The revenue requirements of the Brit ish government, created by the costly war In South Africa, have forced It to Impose duties on soino of the neces saries of life, as sugar, flour, meal and grain. Notwithstanding the declaration J of the chancellor of the exchequer that these duties do not . violate the prin ciples of free trade, it certainly can not reasonably be contended that they are In accord with that policy. Nor Is it by any means certain that they will not have the effect, as he asserted, of In creasing the cost of food. But the lni porta ut thing Is that these duties, with the exception of .that on sugar, are likely to be permanent for not only must England have large revenues after peace, if her proposed plaus respecting South Africa are carried out, but her ag ricultural interest Is demandiug protec tion.' It Is urged In support of this de mand that the security of England is Involved In the question of Improving agricultural conditions, that more wheat must be grown and the nation mado, if itoesible, less dependent upon forelgu supplies. Political as well as economic reasons will therefore be urged in favor of maintaining the duties, which will of course have the support of the agrl cultural producers. This breach In the free trade policy havlug been made. It appears highly probable that the manu facturers will sooner or later luslst that they be given some measure of protec tion against the competition that Is not only taking trade from theui In foreign markets, but is steadily reducing their business in the home market. There are already many British manufacturers who .want this and If tb demand should become general there Is no doubt that It would be supported by British worklnginen, who could hardly fail to see that they would be benefited by protection to the home market. Sir Robert Olffen pointed out In a re cent address the need of new taxation and the possibility that It would be In direct taxation, which may fairly be ac cepted as Indicating the trend of senti ment The Innovation made by the gov ernment can hardly fall to give an Im pulse to the anti-free trade feeling and It seems a safe prediction that in the not remote future the economic policy of England will uudergo a pretty com plete change. THE CNWN PACIFIC SHOULD KEEP FA 1TB When the Union Tactile railway man agers appealed to the mayor and council for an amicable settlement of the long standing differences between the city and that corporation. The Bee voiced the sentiment of the community In sup port of the proposed adjustment Under the compact made between the contract ing parties the city of Omaha made a generous graut of right-of-way to the Union I'aclflc by vacating a large num ber of streets and alleys and the Union Pacific bound itself to construct and maintain permanent terminal machine shops and repair shops, equipped with modern machinery, at Omaha. It was clearly understood between the contracting parties that the recon structed machine shops were to Include all appliances for the construction or re pair of locomotives and cars. Including foundry work, which had for years been maintained and operated as part of the old shops. The summary abolition of the foundry and the transfer of the foundry work to Chicago has very naturally created the Impression that the Union Tactile railroad is not acting In good faith. While no specific provisions are em bodied in the contract for the main tenance and operation of the foundry as part of the machine shops, the com pany could with equal propriety aban don any other of its shops without tech nical breach of the contract. The ap prehension that such a policy could or would be adopted at any time In the fu ture Is within Itself a menace to the prosperity of Omaha. If the abandonment of the shops was really contemplated before the contract was entered Into It would have been but right and proper for the representatives of the Union Taclflc who negotiated the joint agreement to have so Informed the mayor and council. While no positive announcement has been made that the closing down of the Union Pacific foun dry la to be temporary or permanent, it is to be hoped that the Union Pacific managers will set at rest all conjecture and doubt In the premises. The Union Pacific cannot afford to break faith with Omaha any more than Omaha can afford to break faith with the Union Paeiflc. The contention before the United States supreme court over the Great Northern and Burlington merger recalls forcibly the contention over pro rata be tween the Union Pacific and Burlington railroads years ago. Whenever an effort was made to pass a pro rata bill through the legislature the Credit Moblller lobby at Lincoln would insist the redress must be sought through con gress and not through the legislature. Whenever the pro rata bill was brought before congress the Credit Moblller lobby pointed to the legislature as the only tribunal to enforce the right of the Bur lington to make reasonable traffic con nections with the Union Pacific. And this game of shuttlecock and battle dore continued until the Burlington had secured an outlet of its own. Just now the same tactics are being pursued with regard to the . Northern Securities company merger. When the Minnesota legislature was in session the lawyers of the Jim Hill syndicate de clared that the only tribunal that could deal with the question -was the United States supreme court. Now that the case is before the supreme court they claim that the only tribunal to deal with the merger Is the state legislature. The commissioners of Douglas county are making a tour of observation over all of the country roads with a view to ascertaining what repairs and improve ments will be required during the pres ent year. We are assured that the com missioners started out with a firm re solve not to sanction any additional work this year aside from what Is now mapped out Although this Is the mid dle of April, we must class this resolve with the new year's resolutions, which are usually broken before a change of the moon. It may be safely predicted that the commissioners will not be able to withstand the heavy pressure for po litical grading and bridge work that al ways comes Just before election. Joy for Smoked Haass. Philadelphia. Press. Knm noonla are not bothering so much about the price of meat since the coat of cigarettes Is being reduced. All kinds of living are not dear. Cassias Errsla 1'astlas; Shadows. Indianapolis Journal. Nebraska democrats who claim to know aay that William Jennings Bryan will be the fusion candidate tor governor In that state next fall. You can't lose William J. Aaetacr "Air" Mae Road. Brooklyn Eagle. A great national highway, 3,000 miles long, extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific, would be glorious achievement and a perfectly feasible one. We want one good road In this country, and that ought to be it. Chicago Chronicle. Rhodes' tombstone, as unlmpaastoned pos terlty will inscribe It, will perpetuate his only sentence sow remembered: "Every man has his price and I have the price." That was the fundamental maxim of Rhodes' statesmanship. Missals- Slow la Oae Thlac Philadelphia Ledger. The British Pact He cable has reached the rijt ialanda. oa its way from Australia to Canada. The Indications are that It will be A&iabed, M at work, before. Ulia country hss finished talking about who shall bulM the one proposed for eur use between the United States. Hawaii and the Philippines. Illah Tide of Heroism. Chicago Inter-Ocean. Man's chivalry toward woman has seldom been more beautifully or more heroically exemplified than in the case of Louis Hanck, who Jumped Into the Chicago river to rescue a drowning woman without wait lag to get a report from the health depart ment on the condition of the water. Warm Pare of Justice. Minneapolis Journal. The dispatch with which a cold-blooded murderer in Detroit was hurried to prison for life sets an example that cafc well be followed In other cities. Now and then there are criminal cases In which ths evi dence Is so nicely balanced that the ac cused la entitled to every delay that can possibly be wrung from the laws. But, on the other hand, there are many crimes of a flagrant nature, where the guilt of the accused Is certain, that the ends of Justice and public order are best attained by the utmost possible celerity. tlrrlna; I'p the Moaanacka. Philadelphia Record. British Self-confidence has been given an other severe shock in the appearance of American enterprise and capital to finance the London underground railway project This means more than the mere floating of the undertaking financially. It means the use of American material In the building and equipping of the road. It becomes an American enterprise, in short, and tho Lon don newspapers are again busy trying to harmonize the situation with their clalma that British commercial and financial su premacy has not been shaken very re cently. Rural Made Boxes Hans I'p. Philadelphia Record. Rural free delivery has a department string to It In the guise of an order com pelling the rurallsts to buy one out of four teen specified mall boxes, or in default thereof to suffer exclusion from the free delivery privilege. Each jolly farmer must have an Iron mall box and must buy it from one or another of the favored fourteen manufacturers. This Is regarded by the department officials as a beneficent ar rangement all around, but a senate amend ment has upset it and the fur will fly in conference committee accordingly. Think of making the free delivery privilege con tingent upon a reluctant purchase of some petty contractor's patented mall box! FATAL INITIATIONS. Too Mats "Horse Play" Causes Troable la the Camp. Brooklyn Eagle. Another case of over-initiation comes to notice in Michigan, where a dying man brought suit against the order of Modern Woodmen for $50,000 for Injuries received In the process of making him a member of the company. It cost him a leg. So It would seem that the sports of the Woodmen may be expensive to them. And they should be. Rough and tumble sport Is not neces sary to the joining of any order. Initia tions of any sort are not necessary, If It comes to that No person is better for having been made to stand oa his head in a corner, to make laughter for a crowd of hU fellows, or is wiser for having been forced to slide down a greased board Into a tub of Ice water. These things belong to the hobble-de-hoy age, and are sometimes forgiven to col lege students, but not so easily to adults. Secret societies' have nothing to tell or confer on humanity that makes any form desirable. There may be forms that are impressive, and there are some which are symbolical, but three times in four the doings of the lodge and society room are the veriest antics, and the member is se cretly ashamed of them. Indeed, one of the best reasons for secrecy Is the fear of ridicule If the public finds out how super fluous, how childish these performances are So long as the purpose of an initiation is to have a laugh at the initiate's ex pense, to exhibit him naked, dripping with water, to toss him in a blanket, to prod him and scare him, to lower him into holes by ropes, to chase him with fire, to threaten him with Swords, and to do any other of the silly things that grown men sometimes descend to, the public has no right to Inter fere. The initiate will be mortified, but be will take his revenge by initiating other people. When the performance la so savage, however, as to Imperil life and limb, the law has a right to stop it. It did so a number of years ago when the Sons ot Malta had injured and crippled a number of persons In proceedings of the most savage character. COl'HTS AS ASSESSORS. Faaetloas Aaaamrd by Ike Federal Coarts la Cktcaaro. Chicago Record-Herald. Without attempting a review of the de cision ot . Judges Qrosscup and Humphrey in reducing the reassessment of the fran chises of public service corporations lo Chicago, there Is one point about the basis which they adopted which should not be permitted to pass without pro tect. The rule fixed by the decision read as follows: "The basis shall be the true net earn ings of the several complainants for the year, covering April 1, 1900, proper allow ance being made for depreciation and re placement, but not for extensions, and re duced further by the amount of additional taxes that the enforcement of thla rule pro duces. Upon this basla the value of com plainants' capital stock. Including fran chises and tangible property, shall be cap italized on a ratio of per cent: this equalized by reduction of 30 per cent, and then divided by five." It may be questioned whether the court has not adopted an excessively high ratio (I per cent) In capitalizing the capital stock, franchises, etc., on net earnings, when private property Is capitalized on a ratio of between 4 and 6 per cent and taxed on such capitalization. But the chief ob jection to the court's rule is the SO oer cent reduction. In the layman's view there is no war rant In law or justice for any such re duction. While there was a great amount of real and personal property In Cook county assessed at less than 30 per cent below Ita full value. It was Illegally and inadequately so assessed. But If the per cent ratio of the earn ing capacity of property In Chicago were adopted to fix its assessed value It would be found that more than half of all 1- assessments in the business section of tte city were made at more than their full value. The full value, without any reduc tion of 30 per cent or any other variable percentage, must be the aim and practice of courts as well as assessors If we are ever to arrive at a just and equitable assess ment of all taxable property In. Cook county. If Judges, when assessments come be fore them tor revision, may read 20 or 30 or 60 per cent reductions Into the basis of assessment there can be no protection or appeal against assessors doing the same. The law says that the assessors shall determine and fix ' the "fair cash value." which ahall be set down In the column beaded "full value." Any departure from this basis Is fraught with Injustice and danger of Inequality, favoritism and corruption. Live Nebraska Towns Alliance Marvel of the West. Alliance, situated In Box Butte county, northwestern Nebraska, on the Billings line ot the Burlington. 361 miles from Lincoln, Is the marvel of all visitors and commercial giant of the western half of Nebraska. Founded In 1888 on unsettled prairie table land. It haa today 8,000 people and unlimited prospects for further advancement. Such progress Is a mystery to the stranger, but easily accounted for by the citizen who knows this development Is made possible by railroad Interests ever vigilant for the town's welfare, and the natural adaptabil ity of tho country surrounding Alliance for stock raising. The quality of potatoes and hay raised is exceptionally fine and the shipments of these large. Alliance has, briefly: Accredited schools with an enroll ment of over 700; nine church organizations, six of which have their own edifices; water works; electric lights; telephone system; $30,000 opera house; newspapers; pressed brick works: steam laundry; planing mill; secret societies galore; substantial business buildings and many comfortable homes. Most Important are Burlington Interests at this general division, and junction for the Denver and Guernsey lines. Here are located car, machine and repair shops and general offices of the company. The Bur lington employs in the various branches here about 600 men. the monthly payroll easily reaching 330,000. These men are an Industrious class, and It Is a fact that nearly BO per cent more of them own homes 1n Al liance than do tho company employes of other towns in the state. Freight and pas senger receipts at Alliance station have In creased three-fold in the last Ave years and now amount to over $20,000 per month. Here ail cattle from the south via Denver, or from the east and southeast by way of St. Louis, Kansaa City, Omaha and Lincoln are unloaded for feeding and Inspection. The The Nation's Growth Washington Post. Outside of such wild Actions as those of Gulliver, Munchausen and W. S. Gil bert's opera librettos, it would be difficult to And more astounding statements than the cold facts published by the Treasury department's bureau of statistics showing the progress of the United States in its material Interests In the ninetenth cen tury. In 1800 three years before expan sion began the area of the republic waa 827.844 square miles. The population was 6,308,843 a total now excelled by each of several states and much less than double the aggregate of a single city. The popu lation per square mile was 6.41. The pub lic debt was $82,976,294 and the net revenue only $10,848,749, scarcely sufficient to run a single third-class city of these days for a year. But It met all the wants of the na tion, for the net ordinary expenditure was $7,411,370, of which $2,660,879 was for the army, $8,448,716 was for the navy and $64,. 131 tor pensions. Exports were worth $70, 971,780, Imports $91,252,768. American ton nage In the foreign trade waa 669,921 tons. The number of postofflces 903. with re ceipts of $280,804. New York City requires annually for its government more than twelve times the cost of the national government In 1800, and the police department of a first-class city now calls for more money than our army and navy cost a century ago. ' In 1900 ' our area, exclusive of Alaska, Hawaii, Porto Rico, the Philippines and other insular acquisitions, had grown from 827,844 to 8,025,600 square miles. Popula tion had climbed to 76,303,387 and popula tion per square mile to 25.22, leaving plenty of room for Increase. The estimated wealth in 1900 was $94,000,000,000, but it is im possible to make a reliable estimate on that subject. The general opinion Is that IV THE Fl'SIOX FOLD. Custer County Beacon: The Beacon sug gests Judge H. M. Sullivan as a candidate for congress. If populists want a vigorous campaigner, he's the man for the place. Saline County Democrat: W. V. Allen gives It out that he is not a candidate for governor. He should be taken at his word snd it should be seen that he sticks to It. Howells Journal: The fusion press of thla district is almost a unit In favor ot the renominatlon of Congressman Robinson. His four years of faithful service have shown him to be the right man for the place.- Columbus Telegram: Several democratic newspapers are advocating the nomination of Editor Adams of the Grand Island Demo crat for lieutenant governor. Why not for governor? The signs read that in the fusion mixup this year the nominee for governor will be a democrat. Adams is worthy the place. Madison Mall: Congressman Robinson's position of ranking opposition mem ber of the committee on the revision of laws Is vitally Important. It is not often that a young member ot the house reachea this place. But Mr. Robinson's experience on the bench and bis standing at the bar no doubt convinced Speaker Henderson that his appointment would bo a wise one. to make. North Platte Tribune: While aome of the North Platte friends of Congressman Neville claim that ha will not be a candi date to succeed himself, yet there is evi dence galore that pins for his renominatlon are now being aet. During the sickness of Mr. Neville, he naturally felt pretty blue and he thought that If he recovered his strength again he would refrain from the arduous work incident to a campaign In the big Sixth district. But now that he has fully recovered and is reported to be feeling better than for many years, his hankering to continue in the harness sa a lawmaker is strong and he evidently de stres to be re-elected. It will be well, how ever, for Mr. Neville to keep out of the campaign It may endanger his health and his defeat la certain. Columbus Telegram: Hon. John C. Sprecher of 8chuyler was in the city last Saturday. He did not come on a political mission. It Is true that be is prominently mentioned as a probable fusion nominee for governor, but he is not seeking the place. It would do htm no good to seek. He could not be nominated. The corporations would not permit such a man as Sprecher, to be come governor of this state. He stands too fast by his honest convictions. Such men as Sprecher are nominated for hiah offices only when there Is a slip in the po litical machinery, and the corporations temporarily lose control of the wliei. Some day the people of Nebraska, demo crats, poputlsta and republicans, will break away from the corporation leading atrings and nominate men of the Sprecher atrlpe. But I fear that day will not come during the present year. A t'aae of Maat. Indianapolis Journal. After many statements to the contrary the commissioners of the St. Louis exposl tlon have Anally decided to postpone It till 1904. The decision la caused by the Impos slblllty of completing all the buildings by 1903, and by the general disinclination ef foreign governments to participate In the fair before 1904. The postponement ought to result In mors thorough and satisfactory preparations. stockyards have a rapacity of 125 carload, with good water, excellent quality of hay and all conveniences. Alliance la to have the largest coal wharf on the Burlington sys tem, and a large car shop Is also to be con structed. The value of company property Is now placed at $300,000. and this city is destined without doubt to become the largest railroad center In the state, with the single exception of Omaha. This will be made pos sible by the extension of the rosd from Guernsey to Salt Lake, the building from Billings to Great Palls ard connection with a narrow-gauge road Into British Colum bia, making a direct line from St. Louis, and by the construction of a line from O'Neill to Alliance, giving a direct route from Sioux City and northeast to Denver, Salt Lake and the southwest. Ths realiza tion of these plans are all strong probabil ities for the immediate future. The property valuation of Alliance for 1901 is believed to have been $1,325,000. With the bringing tnto the limits of con tiguous territory, the figures for 1902 will reach a round $2,000,000. The amount of business transacted is enormous, ranch trade coming a distance of seventy-five miles, snd many of the ranchmen making this city their homes. The field for Invest ment Is unlimited and tho returns derived from rentals offers to capital an Inviting field. One of the urgent needs of the city In a sewerage system. The climate Is Ideal and healthful, resident being espe cially Immune from pulmonary sod other disorders so prevalent in the lower lati tudes. This thriving young wonder of ths west offers advantages in the educational and social line that are unsurpassed In any city of Its size. It Invites attention and challenges comparison as a typical, huat llng city whose march forward Is bound to keep it in the van of all In the great north-we,t- HARVEY J. ELLIS. this is too high, but It Is not Improbable that It Is too low. At any rate, the flgures are too huge for comprehension by any class of citizens except astronomers. The public debt, despite great reductions from the maximum flgures, stood In 1900 at $2, 136,961,092. The net revenue had Increased to $567,240,852. the net ordinary expendi ture to $447,653,448, of which $134,774,768 was for the army, $55,963,078 for the navy and $140,877,816 for pensions. Exports In 1900 were worth $1,394,483,082; Imports, $849,941,184. American tonnage In the for eign trade was 826.694 tons. The number of postofflces waa 76.688 and the receipts therefrom were $102,354,579. We know of no better Inspiration to pa triotism than the comparison presented in those statistics. And to those who believe in special providences it should be sn In spiration to devout gratitude to see "what Ood has done for this most favored land." But there are soma Items of great Interest as showing the country's growth which did not exist or were not reported in 1800. Upon the estimate of $94,000,000,000 as the total wealth, the average wealth of every man, woman and child Is $1,235. There are 6.107,083 depositors In savings banks, who have $2,449,647,885 deposited, and there are besides $2,508,248,558 of deposits In na tional banks, exclusive of deposits with trust companies, state banks snd private banks. The money in circulation was $2, 055,150,998, averaging $26.93 to the in dividual citizen. Gold was produced to a value of $79,171,000, silver to a value of $74,533,495. It adds to the marvelouaness of the story ot this republic's growth since 1800 to remember that for four years dur ing that century we waged an enormously destructive civil war. PERSONAL NOTES. The German emperor owns 359 carriages for the use of himself and his court. Mavroyenl Bey, who was Turkish minister to Washington a few years ago, has been appointed by the sultan prince of the Island of Samoa. Ex-Secretary John W. Foster has accepted an invitation to deliver the oration at the dedication of the soldiers snd sailors' mon ument In Indianapolis, Ind., In May. George Gray Ward, who la In San Fran cisco arranging for the Great Pacific ocean cable, says that by next Thanksgiving day the United States will be doing business with Honolulu by wire. The late Dr. Thomas Dunn English was a close student of natural sciences, as well ss an accomplished mineralogist, and could go through a cabinet collection and give an expert opinion of every specimen. Allen Welsh Dalles, the 8-year-old grand son of ex-Secretary John W. Foster, has written a book entitled "The Boer War." It was printed March 15, for private circu lation, Mr. Foster acting aa publisher. Every afternoon at 2 o'clock Senator Cockrell of Missouri eats two apples. Ho is an expert regarding this fruit, and never eats it unless it shows just the proper de gree of redness and haa all external evi dences of being perfect. The Patriotic League ot the Revolution haa petitioned congress to secure a pension for Theodore R. Tlmby, who. It Is alleged, la the true inventor of the revolving turret used on Monitor In its battle with Merrl- roac. . He is a native ot Duchess county. New York. A Good Friend Don't take Aycrs" Sarsa parilla if you are well. Don't take it simply because you are sick. Take it for what the doctors recommend it and you will like it, be come fond it, for it gives health, strength, vigor. " I suflend terribly for Hralvs yrwa. rarninf to water, I lining w wvw, I men triad Avar's Avar's restored.' Mrs. J. W. riaiai, Ua&rme, Conx VM. AM THE SKI'S KNIFE Hr. EckN HteTMinon of Salt Lai City Tells How Opera tions For Ovarian Troubles May Be Avoided. "DrAR Mrs. Tiskham :T suffered erith inflammation of the ovaries and Womb for over six years. enduring arhrs and pains which none can dream of but those who have had the same expe- MRS. KCKI8 BTEVEVSOV. rlenee. Hundreds of dollars went to ths doctor and the drugjrlst. 1 was simply a walking- medicine chest snd a phys ical wreck. My sister residing- in Ohio wrote me that she bad been cured of womb trouble br nslnjr Lydia K. Plnkham's Vegetable Com. pound, and advised me to try it. I then discontinued all other medicines and gave your Vegetable Compound a thorough trial. Within four weeks Eearly all pain had left me ; I rarely had headaches, aid my nerves were in a much better condition, and I was cured in three months, and this avoided a terrible surgical operation." Mrs. Boms Stkvfnson, 250 Ho. State St., Bait Lake City, Utah. (6000 forftit If few tnllmonlal I fft gtmiln. IJemember rery -woman Is cordially Invited to write to Mrs. IMnkham if there is anything about her gymptoms sue does not understand. Mrs. PinkLam'a address Is Lynn, Mass. i.ai;iii) l ATT Kits. Judge: "Yes," says the philosophical per son, "wealth lirlriKH its disappointments." "After we lose It," puts In the material istic man. New York Sun: Juggles Is there 1ps danger in keeping an auto than a car riage? Waggles There seems to be. If you hav marriageable daughters. I haven't yet heard of a girl eloping with a chauffeur. Cleveland Plain Dealer: "I see that the chorus girls In a comio opera conipnny have struck because the manager wuntod them to pay the expense of having their costumes washed." "Well, well. And there seems to bo so little to wash, too.'' Philadelphia Press: Leading Tenor I love to sing that drinking song In the second act. Soubrette Why so? leading Tenor There's a rest almost at every bar. Washington Star: "I am writing a story of a struggling Inventor." "It won't do," answered the abruptly critical friend. "Inventors don't strugglu nowadays. They let the people who aru eager to buy stock do the struggling." Chicago Tribune; "What are you In prison for, my friend?" "Stealln' a, pin, ma'am." . n.' . . "What?" "That's right, ma'am. It had a diamond fastened at one end of it." Ohio State Journal: "Hello, buddy!" ex claimed the sprouting blade of grasa to the embryo leaflet. "Please don't shoot!" exclaimed the bud. In mock alarm. Philadelphia Press: Tess Ho told me I had a complexion like a peach. Jess Mow mean of him! Tess Mean? Jess Yes, he told mo the fuss on a peach made his blood run cold. THK FAMILY MttKTISn. Charles Sprague. We are ail here, Father, mother, Sister, brother. All who hold each other dear. Kach chair is filled; we're all at home! Tonight let no cold stranger come. It Is not often thus around Our old familiar hearth we're found. Hless, then, the meeting and the spot; For onee be every care forgot; lt gentle Peace assert her power. And kind AfTectlon rule the hour. We're all all here. We're not all here! Some are away the dead ones dear. Who thronged with us this ancient hearth And gave the hour to guileless mirth. Fate, with a stern, relentless hand. Ixtok'd In and thinn'd our little band; Some like a night-flash passed awav, And some sank lingering day bv dav; The quiet graveyard some He there And cruel Ocean has his share. We're not all here. We are all here! Even they the dead though dead, so dear Fond Memory, to her duty true, Wrings back their faded forms to view. How life-like, through th mist of years, Kach well-remembered face appears! We see them, as In times long past; From each to each kind looks are cast; We hear their words, their smiles behold; They're round us, as they were or old. We are all here. We are all here. Father, mother Sister, brother, You that I love with love so dear. This may not long of us be said; Soon must we join the gather'd drad And by the hearth we now sit round, Some other circle will be found. Oh! then, that wisdom may we know, Which yields a life of peace below! So, in the world to follow this, Mhv each repeat In words o( bliss. We're all all here! The doctors said my blood waa aV BaiaaDartll BanaparUla, and soon my health tu folly J. C AYES CO., Lewell. ftuas.
