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TTTE OMAHA DAILY' BEKt TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 1002. M 3I if ' i i i ! P 1 . t ? J 1 I I M Tire omaha Daily Bee. E. KOBE WATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF BUUSCRIHTION. Daily Bn (mtihout Hunc.av). One Year. $4 00 Ial)v Bee and ttumlav. one Year W Illustrated Bee, Onf Ifear gunday He-, one lr lw Saturday Uee, One Year l.W Twentieth Onlury Farmer, One Year.. 1 UO DELIVERED BY CARRIER, pally Bee iwlthout Sunuayj, per copy.. 2c lally Bee (.vithout Hunday), per week.. 13c Ieily Bee inducing butiuayj, per week. 17c Sunday Bee, per copy 6o Evening Bee iwlthout Sunday), per week. 10c Juverrlng Bee (.Including bunday, per week 16c Complaint! of Irregularities In delivery Should be add reused to City Circulation Lx iiartment. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. Bouth Omaha City ttail Building, Twenty-fifth and M streets. Council itlurre lt fearl Street. Chicago 1640 Unity Building. Jw l ork Temple Court. Washington Mil Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communlcatlona relating to news and editorial matter should be addreased: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS. Business letters and remittance should be addressed : The Bee Publishing Com pany, Omaha. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only 2-rent stamps accepted In payment of mall accounts. Personal checks, except on (Omaha or eastern exchange, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLJBHINU COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION, ptate of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss.t Oeorge B. Tsschuck, secretary of Toe Bee publishing Company, being duly sworn, ays that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of March, 1902, was as follows; 1 Stt,TO 17 SO.BSO 1 Xtt.TflO 18 S,4SO ( ,...X,4JO 19 ZU&iW 2M,T70 30 3,BtH i 20. (WO U 8f,S10 2l,6ttO . 22 SiW.BUO 7 at,8ao a su.eso 1 8,4A0 24 ...3tt,10 2V.TOO 26 Se.OBW 1 1W.4AO M 2,5KI 11 8,ftOO Yl 2W.MO U 2U.3TO SS 39,B40 U 29.64U 2 8O.04O 14 2,820 SO X1,BOO 1 a.70 U...... 2U,40 II 2U.600 Total '. 917,420 Le" unsold and returned copies.... ,1M7 Net total sales IH7,S18 Net dally average a,277 GEO. B. TZBCHUCK. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 3lst day of March. A. D. 102. GEORGE RASMUBSEN, (Seal.) Notary Public The coal dealer has had his day. Now the lee man will have his Inning. Brlttanla formerly ruled the wave. From now on It will be.Morgania. Walking la frond In San Francisco Just How. All of the trolley and cable car den have taken a vacation. DeWItt Talmage Is dead and burled, but his son still supplies ready-made sermons under the old contract The camphored ulster and the fumi gated fur cape have been put Into cold storage and the linen duster is called Into requisition once more. The merger of Atlantic steamship companies has not created as much of a sensation on the other side of the Atlantic as It has on this side. The foundation of the auditorium will aoon be laid, but the superstructure can not be finished unless a few more public spirited citizens come to the front with eubscrlptlous. Two miles a minute is a very com fortable gait for railroad advertising agents, but ordinary passengers travel ings at that speed might have to be trapped down to their seats. Chicago labor federationlsts want the tariff on beef repealed, but how will the repeal of the tariff on beef reduce the price of meat when the demand for the surplus cattle and beef exported to Europe from Canada, Australia and Argentine is greater than the visible supply? County Attorney Shields has Anally concluded to recognise Judge Berk a, but that will not prevent Judge Oordon from going through the motions of calling the Jwllce court to order In the vestibule of the police station Just to keep up his practice and file bis salary claim with the city council. The Chicago Janitors' Protective as sociation has established a set of rules, the first of which is as follows: "Mem bers of the Jaultors' Protective associa tion shall keep themselves as clean and tidy as circumstances will permit" The last four words are the saving clause that may save a good deal of soap. King Edward has placed 1150,000 at the disposal of the lord mayor of London to pay for a good coronation day din ner for half a million of London's poor. This royal gift will enable the impov erished population of the British capital to enjoy a feast one day this year with a starvation diet for the remalulng 304 days. ' Five buffaloes have been slaughtered to make a holiday for the confederate reteraus now assembled at Dallas, Tex., to fight over the battles of the gray against the blue. If you want to know iwhy the forlorn shorthorn buffalo was sacrificed to gratify confederate voracity Instead of the frisky long-horned Texas Steer, Just ask the Beef trust why It bag made ox meat so deur and buffalo steaks so cheap. The Intimate relation of the Sugar trust to the Cuban relief bill was shown by the aertotm break in the price of Sugar trust stock on the New York ex change Immediately after the news from Washing-ton announcing "the mishap" bad been received. The president of the sugar refining company is quoted as saying: "if the bill as passed by the bouse bet-oiuea a law the lots to the American refiners of sugar will be be tween six and eight millions of dollars annually." The question Is, Will the consumer or coupon clipper pay the jfretfhtl - ... QOTSttXUR BAVAOt AKD TBM BPKCtAL stsgrox ' The threat of Govern of Savage to call an extra session of the legislature to revise the railroad taxation lawa unless the railroad managers and republican leaders who Induced him to pardon Bart ley make good their promise Is not taken seriously by the rank and file of the Ne braska republicans. With the present temper of the party all the railroad man agers combined and all the leaders who favored Hartley's liberation could not deliver the good. If the governor's reprieve of Bartley was procured on the strength of pledges made by parties that claim to dominate the republican party, he has been bun coed. If, however, the governor is in dead earnest about raising the railroad assessments be Is In position to Inaugu rate the reform without an extra session of the legislature. The State Board of Equalization, composed of the governor, trensurer and auditor. Is empowered to fix the value of the property and fran chises of the railroads, and their assess ment stands for at least one year. When the state board convenes on May 7 it will be the duty of the governor and his associates not only to appraise the prop erty of railroad corporations, but to equalise the assessment of all other tax able property so that each Individual and corporation shall bear Its Just pro portion of the tax burdens. The comparison of the railroad assess ment of 1001 with the assessment of the preceding years affords ample Justifica tion for a material increase In the val uation of railroad property 'this year. Within the past few years the railways of Nebraska have expended many mil lions of dollars In betterments, exten sions and rolling stock. The earning ca pacity has not only been Increased, but their earnings have been larger than ever In the history of transmlsslsslppl railroading. No fair-minded person asks or expects that the 'railroads shall pay a higher proportion of taxes than owners of other property, but railroads should not ask, nor expect, the Board of Equalization to discriminate in their favor and against the owners of other taxable property. While there Is no need of an extra ses sion of the legislature for revision of railroad assessments there Is Imperative necessity of a special session of the leg islature to devise a measure for straight ening out the tangle In state finances and taking steps for the safe Investment of the permanent school fund. Above all things is the crying need of speedy con stitutional revision by the submission of amendments to enlarge the supreme court and the reorganization of the ex ecutive department based on experience and commensurate with the growth and resources of Nebraska. . Whether such a special session shall be called this spring or later on remains for the governor and his immediate advisers to determine. Suffice it to say that while the consti tution limits the debt of this , state to (100,000, the aggregate state debt now exceeds $2,000,000 and Is growing at the rare of $100,000 a year. That condition must be faced and provision must be made for funding this debt and the pro vention of future Increase. Steps must be taken to prevent the farming out of public funds for private gain, whether by bond deals or by private deposits. If Governor Savage would courage ously step forward and give the people relief he would reinstate himself In pop ular confidence and in a great measure wipe out the odium which attaches to the Bartley pardon. THK TARIFF Oy MEATS. There is a demand for the repeal of the tariff duties on meats, as a means of correcting the Increased prices for which the alleged Beef trust Is said to be responsible. The Dlngley law . pro vides that bacon and hams shall pay 5 cents per pound; fresh beef, veal, mut ton and pork 2 cents per pound; meats of all kinds, prepared or. preserved, not ' specially provided for in the act 25 per cent ad valorem; lard, 2 cents per pound; poultry, live, 3 rents per pound; dressed, 5 cents per pound. It Is urged that if these duties were repealed 'the effect would be to compel the alleged trust to reduce the price of meats, the supposition of course being that the removal of the duties would have the effect to Increase the Importa tion of meats. It Is a question, however, whether such would be the result of repealing the meat duties. Where would the meats oouie from? .During the fiscal year 1001, according to the offi cial statistics, the Importations of meat products were to the value of about $400,000, a very large part of this being in the form of meat extracts. The amount of meat Imported was extremely small, not because of the tariff, but for the reason that the production in other countries is but little in excess of the home demand and there is no profit In exportation at the cost of transportation and the risks involved. Thla is why there has been such an extensive de mand in Europe for American meats. Cattle raising la an Important industry in Argentina, but that country baa not been able to successfully compete with the United States In the European mar kets. Australia, also, Is a meat grow ing country, yet it has not been able to secure any . considerable 'share of the European trade In competition with the United States, sin view of these facta, therefore, how would a repeal of the meat duties benefit. American, consum ers? If It be said that U would have the effect to bring more , rattle - into the United States (ram panada. It Is neces sary to show that there are cattle enough in the Dominion to make any Impression upon the price here and also that the Canadians would be disposed to sell them at figures' which would break down the price In the' American market which la qnlte improbable. However unjustifiable the duties on meats may be, It la by no means ap parent that their removal would have any material effect upon the present price or tend to correct what la com monly regarded a an extortion on the i part of the packers who are believed to control the cattle market and regu late the price of meats. It is very much to be doubted whethtr repealing the meat duties would lower prices so long as there Is a foreign demand for our surplus and no other country can com pete In our borne market. rmLirnxE cosditiobs. No American citizen can be or will be Indifferent to the facts which have been brought out In regard to conditions In the Philippines. The most insistent advocates of American authority in the archipelago will demand"""that'the" ex erclse of the power of our government shall be characterized by such Justice and such absolute regard for the princi ples of our Institutions that there can be no controversy or question In regard to the purpose of our government to carry out the established policy of Amer ican Institutions. There has not up to this time been a single act or a single proposition that has not been absolutely In line with the republican character of American Institutions. The whole course of our government from the Inception of the conflict In the Philippines to the present moment has had reference to pacifica tion nnder conditions that would have been absolutely In the Interest of the natives of the Philippines. There has never been an hour since the United States, by virtue of its treaty rights, declared sovereignty over the Philip pine islands, has not been preparod to give the people of those Islands a reason able measure of self-government and to promote In all legitimate ways their desire to govern themselves, under such fair and proper conditions as the United States might require. The right of this nation to rule and govern the Philippines Is today absolutely unassailable. It Is not questioned by any government In the world and will not be. It Is acquiesced in by a majority of the Filipinos them selves. According to the latest advices practically all of those people are most willing to accept American control, hav ing become convinced that the purpose of our government is absolutely hu mane and has reference wholly to the improvement and betterment of the Is lands and their people. ' In view of this, what reasonable ex cuse Is there for opposition here to the policy of the government In regard to the Philippines? Considering the good results already attained through the application of that policy and the prom ise of still better conditions, why should it not be continued? Pacification in the Philippines is today almost an accom plished fact Only a few days ago the most persistent and active of the In surgent leaders surrendered and un qualifiedly took the oath of allegiance to the United States. There Is every reason to think that this Is practically the end of the resistance to American authority in Luzon and when we shall have made friends of the people In that island there will be little difficulty In bringing under our control the rest of the archipelago. . According to the Chicago Chronicle, which can see nothing good In anything that may be done, or left undone, by President Roosevelt the anti-trust zeal of the administration Is a mordant re flection upon previous republican ad ministrations, and especially that of Mc Klnley. Put In a nutshell, this means that you will be damned If you do and you will be damned If you don't If President Roosevelt had done nothing to check the aggression of the trusts and consummation of the railroad mergers, he, would have been denounced. Now that he Is trying to protect the country from rapacity of combines he Is being denounced. It Is to be hoped that the members of the city council will not attempt any grandstand play In the effort to bring about the reopening of the Union Pa cific foundry. Whatever action Is de cided upon should be taken only after a full conference with the Union Pacific managers and a careful inquiry as to the relative legal rights of the city and the obligations of the railroad under the contract recently entered Into. Boston has gone New York one bet ter by the attempted enforcement of the Massachusetts blue laws. As a consequence the sale of soda water and temperance drinks by drug stores was effectually stopped while whisky and beer could be sampled freely by pur chasing a S cent sandwich. As Incentive te Peace. Philadelphia Press. The bread tax in . England will probably prove the most effective blow yet struck In making aa end to the Boer war. Thos(klil friends ( newspapers. Boston Globe. The Nebraska man who wrote the sermon for his own funeral knew a thing or two. The newspapers would never lack for copy if public men were allowed to write their own obituaries. As Gaoa aa The Bmlla 'Kaa. Philadelphia. Ledger. Fast trains are indications of material progress. Prairie roads on which trains can maks ninety-eight miles an hour must be composed of something more than the traditional "right of way and two streaks ef rust." Foresees His Uwi Finish. Chicago Post. , Mr. Ware certainly takes a philosophical lew of the duties he is soon to assume as pension commissioner. The fact that he expects to see his hide decorating the back yard fence would lad lea te that he In tends to wear the sturdy footgear of Mr. Evans. "As Awful Hardship. Washington Star. The solemnity with which the possibility that the opening of the St. Louis exposi tion may be poatponed until 104 is dis cussed Is becoming amusing. Those famil iar with the circumstances of the cass an nounced more than six months ago that it would be a physical Impossibility to open it next year, and that la all Uksllheod It would not open before IMS. Meantime it la to be hoped that the various government commissioners and other salaried officers of the exposition will not become restive undsr the delay. Live Nebraska Towns Superior Superior "What's needed to make Superior a hummer?" This question, propounded to anyone on the streets of the town will fetch a sar donic grin and a laconic reply: "Rain." And It's the truth. Rain evenly dis tributed moisture throughout the crop growing period would. If assured year after year, make 8nperlor a Croesus among towns. Superior is situated so that crops are absolutely necessary to Its continued prosperity. But In the absence of any as surance that the rain goda will get busy at the proper moment the people are going ahead to make the best of things as they are. The town has enough of the usual lines of business. There are enough groceries; bet ter dry goods stores are not to be found In sny of the smaller cities; medicine, the law and other professions are well repre sented. But there is one unusual line of business which Superior would welcome with open arms and there is a strong faith among the business men that It will at some time not far distant be located here. That Is a cement works. In 189 a cement factory was located at Tankton, 8. D. A constructing engineer who was Interested in the plant had the idea that the shale from which the Port The Packers' Defense Chicago There are two sides to every case of im portance and there are mors than two to the controversy now raging about the beet question. The Tribune has do particular affection for the trust or the packers. It heartily approves of the Inquiry about to be made by ths government authorities into the workings of this combination, it there Is one. Still, it is only fair to state the packers' side of the case, which the Tri bune understands to be about aa follows: The price of the cattle on the hoof is higher than It has been for twenty years. The greatest advance has taken place In the last five weeks. The supply has diminished 1 per cent in number and 6 per cent in weight. There has been a decrease In the visible supply of marketable cattle of eight million pounds per week. In the meantime, the consumption demand Is greater than ever before. The people of the south, for example. Lave been educated In the use of fresh meat, and whereas formerly they lived mainly upon "bog and hominy," they now have beef. The big packing houses in Chicago have established branches all over the south, where formerly they had none. The export trade, until quite lately, has been larger than ever before. Ths failure of the corn crop put a good many farmers out of business as far as cattle raising is concerned. There are as many cattle in the country, but not so many In marketable condition. Cattle cannot be taken from ranges for immediate consumption. Feed ers and atockers do not help to supply the abnormal demand which exists at present In a word, the demand has finally over taken the supply. Cattle on their merits as an Investment are higher than ever be fore and they are likely to continue so for some time. Live stock received at the six principal markets during ths last six months has netted the farmer from forty to fifty million dollars more In money than last year during the same period. nd last year was a high average- year. The advance prices has come out of the consumers. It has made the farmers more prosperous. Ten years ago' there was an Investiga tion to discover -the reason for the low price of cattle, and the packers were hell responsible for it. It was charged that they bad combined to "depress prices" by controlling the markets snd refusing stock- raisers and feeders a fair price for tbelr pioducts. The complaint now Is that the same packers have combined to produce exactly the opposite result namely; to raise prices. The conditions are reversed. The farmers are getting more for their cattle than since 1882. Whereas the pack- HOIKD ABOl'T HEW YORK. Ripples -on the Current of Ufe In the Metropolis. a r,ihetlr picture of shadowed life grad ually approaching the Inevitable tragedy to hM nhurvMl almost every day In Ever green cemetery. Brooklyn, when Jonathan Reed, with feeble, tottering steps, maaes hi. wv to the tomb where rests the body of his wife. Thers have been few days since she died, nine years agP. that ne naa nt made tha tourney, hut his long pilgrim age ia near an end. It took all of his strength to open the granite door and en ter the vault ens day last week. . Nearly every day he lifts the silk craty quilt that covers the coffin and looks through the rials cover uDon the face that has lain there still and dead tor so long. "8he Is Just aa pretty as ever, ne saja. She was always the prettiest woman in the world." TiMth win not ha unwelcome to the old man. He says he is 69 and will be with Marv aoon. Hla coffin is ready for him by the side of the one in which she rests. For the nine years since tbey were n.rted h death he baa made his home In her tomb. He would sleep there It he could get permission, but. this naa been de nied. Sometimes he remains until nearly midnight. All the pretty things, all the trinkets she had, he baa carried to the tomb. Tapestries and hangings, paintings, curios, books and cushions nil nearly all the space not taken Dy we two comns. Above the coffin of bis wife, swinging la a little cage, is ths canary bird. ' Office buildings la lower Manhattan mul tiply their wonders for the ordinary New Yorker who does not go about much, eays the Evening Post.' One of the new ones embraces this variety of conveniences In every -day service: Newsstand, tobaoco counter, cafe, restaurant (with music at lunch), drug shop, press bureau, physl olans, stenographers, barber (with bis mod ern associates, the chiropodist and the manicurist), dantlst. laundry agent, cable, telegraph, automobile Information, theater agent, obttuary bureau, notary public, etc., etc. You can take an elevator to a man who will draw a will or one who will ar range a tuner ai; without going front under your own roof you may liquidate a corpora tion or buy a locomotive. There are tea elevators In a bewildering row, which an nounce their coming by electric signals, some going thirteen floors at a jump. Hav ing all this so near is what spoils the New Yorker for any othsr city la the world unlsss he Is trying to get away from It. The southeast corner of Fifth avenue and Forty-fourth street was bought today by a syndicate as a preliminary to tts im provement with a hotel which In luxury of equipment Is to vie with Pelmoalco's snd Sherry's en adjacent corners of the ave nue. The syndicate is controlled by Per clval W. Clement of Vermont, who Is also the leading spirit la the recently Incor porated New England Hotel company. The site waa purchased at a cost aot far from $1,000,000. The . hotel will probably cost , tww ra (ws I seme In Fact and in Name. land cement is made was deposited la nearly straight ridges across this con tlnent. Following this idea he made a trip across Nebraska, finding here and there outcroppings of the shale. Four miles southwest of Superior the first large deposit was found, together with a clay which is necessary In making good cement The Commercial club has been working on that proposition ever since. Portland ce ment of fine quality has been made In small experimental quantities, shafts dug to ascertain the depth of the shale banks, analyses mads, plans drawn. In fact, all the preliminary work Is accomplished, and there are now high hopes that the one thing needful money to build the plant, will soon be forthcoming. Portland cement Is a great proposition to a capitalist seeking a money-making venture. The government reports show that the Imports of cement from Europe have not diminished during the past fifteen years. During that time a number of large plants hsve been erected la the United States, but the increased uss of the cement hss kept pace with the In creased production. Small factories of all kinds will receive hearty support of the right kind from the active commercial club of this town. C. B. 8TINE. Tribune. ers tea years ago were accused of manipu lating prices so as to raid the farmers, they are now accused of putting up their prices In such a manner as to enrich the farmers and rob the retailers and consumers. The packers claim that they are between two fires, and whether prices go down quite low or up quite high tbey are equally held to blame. They allege that In Chicago, for example, there are twenty small packers who have gone out of business since January 1 be cause they cannot meet existing competton. Formerly these small packers killed 2,000 head of cattle per week, whereas now they kill only 200 or less. Beef Is sold so cheap it pays the small packers to buy directly from the big ones rather than to do business for themselves. This means that the big packers' are doing business on a small mar gin of profit or at a loas. There claim tbey are doing business at a loss. There is no patent on killing cattle, no secret about the business. Cattle can be bought In the open market and anyone with ordinary skill can butcher them and offer them for sale. The big packers make more out of their by-products than the small ones. Con sequently they can carry on business when the small ones are obliged to atop. On the other hand. If the big packers put up their prices too high they invite the competition of the small ones. There Is one thing more to be considered with reference to the price of beef. Only E6 per cent of the live weight of cattle is beef. The rest Is hides and offal. If the big packers pay a cent a pound more for cattle on the hoof than they formerly did the cost of dressed beef per pound is nearly doubled. The price of hides and offal does not lncresse In proportion to the cost of cattle on the hoof. The same is true to some extent with retailers. If they pay a cent a pound more, submitting to an ad vance, say from 9 to 10 cents, they must put up prices to consumers about 2 cents a pound, as a large part of their purchase goes to waste in the shape of bone and gristle, trimmings and scrap. The Tribune sets forth these statements as the views of an intelligent packer whom It believes to be a fair, candid, truthful man.' The public should have both sides of the case, and while the Tribune ia pub lished It ia determined that both sides In every case shall have a hearing as far as It is possible. This Is simple Justice. But we shall be glad to give space to the views of some intelligent msn controverting the statement of the packers, and shall accord aa much publicity to one side as to the other. 11,600,000 more, although persons Inter ested in the project eald that the details of the plan have not been matured. One of the rabbis of New York City discovered a most undignified error In the Columbia university seal some tlms ago. On the present seal, appears the biblical quotation, "In Lumlne Tuo Vldeblmus Lucem," "In Thy light shall we see light." At the time when this rabbi took up a printed copy of the seal, gazed at It a mo ment and found In It something amusing, the Inscription was in Hebrew. It had been used on the seal for many years and had been printed on the catalogues of the university and on other official documents. There was an Inaccuracy In the Hebrew characters. "As It is printed here," said he to the university authorities when he went to see them next day, "your motto says: "Have a piece of cold pie." "How preposterous Is a budget of $100, 000,000 for New York City may be judged by comparison with national expenditures," says the New York Press. "The cost of maintaining the government of the Vnlted States in the fiscal year of 1901 was 1510,000,000. This sum was paid for the public business in the nation of nearly 80,000,000 people, with the enormous cost of our armies and fleets, our diplo matic and consular representatives all over the world, our colonial operations, our United States courts in every state and ter ritory, our interest on the national debt, our river and harbor Improvements, con struction and maintenance of public build ings, conduct of the postofflces of ths coun try and the thousand and one Items which figure In the national appropriations. "For performing the business all over the world of 80,000,000 peopie, expenditures of 1600,000,0001 For performing the business of 1.600,000 people In the few square miles of New York City, 1100.000.000! "In' 1901 the customs receipts of the United States government were $138,000,000. The democrats and free traders denouncs thoss tariff duties as a 'tax upon the peo ple.' If the customs receipts were a tax It would be a tax on 80,000,000 people of only twice as much as the municipal tax In tha New York City budget of $100,000,000 on 8, 600,000 people! "The national expenditures of Belgium are $83,000,000 a year, of Canada $43,000,000, of China $73,000,000. of Denmark $20,000,000, of Japan $120,000,000 (with one of the finest armlss and one of the best navies in the world), of Mexico $26,000,000, of Turkey $81, 000.000, and of the Netherlands $60,000,000. "But for the 8,600,000 people of New York City a municipal budget of $100,000,000!" Tender-hearted persona In ths Hsrlem police court were shocked when Francisco Oorgla, aa aged, ahrlveled and miserable looking Italian organ grinder, wss fined $5 for begging. The white-haired old man looked appeallngly about the room and from long habit put out his hand, but quickly recovering himself and glancing uneasily at the magistrals, he brought forth a grimy old bag and counted out pennies, sickles, dimes and quarters uatll be had paid his fine. Then be paid $i also In change to eiaiontr. rress Met to lm auraflaee f V.V W".U? '4m'rirJZT.n'. I " ML nTi i O f Made of Pure Orape Cream of Tartar Safeguards the food against alum his lawyer. By this - time a crowd was about him. To ths astonishment of ths court attaches and dismay of thoss who had sympathised with him, he produced a package containing $160 In bills and a bank book on the Bank of Rome, Italy, showing he had $12,000 oa deposit there. Oorgla, who Is 60 years old, says he wilt retire from "business." He thinks a man ahould retire at 60. The beggar also volunteered the Information that he recently gave his daughter $2,000 as a wedding present. Nearly four yearn sgo Mrs. John O. Carlisle, while being driven with her hus band in a cab home, had her sealskin saque stolen. The ex-secretary caused the arrest of the cabman, who was tried for larceny, but was acquitted. Then he sued Mr. Carlisle for false Imprisonment, ask ing for $10,000 damages. The first trial re sulted In a verdict of $1,000 for the plain tiff. The second cams to an end last Fri day in a disagreement of the Jury. Eleven voted for the plaintiff, but one held out for Mr. Carlisle. There will be a third trial. ONE OF THE INCIDENTS OF WAR General llodRe on the Alleged Cruelties In the Phil ippines. In the New York Evening Post of Friday appeared the following: NEW YORK. April 17.-To the Editor of the Evening Tost: As one vhn ha. hnd some exnerimit'4 in th hai....ih.. and cruelties of war, which always prevail a laiuimign in an enemy s country, I am surprised at the nosltlnn of vnnr lournal, and Its bitterness against the al esod action nf Maine ni.nn i i... C2!LKer HnA Assistant Surgeon Lyon. j iio icBiimony or sergeant Riley, upon rrlch you base your attack on thru nfn. cers, goes to prove that they gave the water cure to a Filipino, who had been made presidents in one of the provinces by "i"- ,"ov"nrnent, who had taken the oath 2; ""tglance to our country, and then used his official position to cover his acts aa captain of an Insurgent company which wa acting In arms against our army and within our lines. Therefore, he was a traitor nnri a -tn. hi- - . , . mm u,a creiy aci was a violation of the laws of war, and branded Him nn uuuaw ana guerrilla. II these are the facts. Under tha llaaaea nf tk... officers were justified in what they did; In fact If they had shot the traitor, they would never have been railed to account, and in all probability this is what would have happened to him in the civil war. An officer has great latitude under such circumstances, and it la not safe or fair to condemn one for almost any act that de tects a traitor and spy In arms against the government which he has sworn to protect and which has put him in a position of trust. Tou ignore entirely this side of the question, and only treat Major Olenn's acta as cruelties to peaceable Filipino cltlsens. I can remember when the journals of this country upheld and applauded an officer who. In the civil war, ordered a man shot n attempted to haul down the American flag, and cannot understand the present hysterics of some joumala over the terrible violation of the lawa of war in punishing a traitor caught in tha act with the water cure only. The treatment ma v hv h..n severe, but It Is not permanently harmful. Mnjiimncn mat tneae Tearfully wrought-up Journals have no word of com mendation for our soldiers In the Philip Dines. Who have auffrerari untnM nM,.ul. assassinations, burning bv slow fires burial alive, mutilations and atrocities, who have submitted to every Indignity without re sentment or complaint, and I have been gi-tmy emuiirn over ineir excellent be havior under such trying circumstances. In their comments, these ionmala um v.,v careful not to say why theee punishments are given to such traitors, knowing well If they did our people would look linnn I He acts aa one of the necessities of war, and would wonder at the leniency of Major Qlenn and hla command. ORENVILLE M. DODGE. Don't Hesitate any longer. The weatfher you want and hare waited for has arrived, and you want to get right s into one of our spring suits if you want comfort and perfect satisfaction. They are "topaotchers" of ready-made art, quality, fit and style cannot be beat. Every gar ment made in "our own factory," and we know HOW they are made. Don't have to tell you how some one else said they were. 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