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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, Aritll, 30, 1902. 0 t " , j Tire , omaha Daily Bee, f . E. ROBEWATEK. EDITOR. f PUBLISHED EVERV MORNINO. TERMS Or SUBSCRIPTION. (Pally (without Hnaayl, On Year.M 00 0aily B and Hunday. On Year . J W) liutrad Bee, One Hear 'Sunday or Vmr Saturaay iiee. one Veer J-" twentieth Century Farmer. One Tear.. l-W DELJVKKgD BT CARRIER, pally bee twitnout 8urtjay. par copy.. c Iaily b (without b-nuay;. per weea..Uc Xa)iy bee (including nunoay), per week.llc Sunaay bee, per copy Evening bee twithout Sunday), per week.luc .Evening bee including bunaay, per week ioc Complaint! of Irregularities In delivery should be addressed to City circulation le saxtraent, offices. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha City nau building. Twenty-firth and M streets. . Council biufia Ki fearl B treat. Chicago 1 Unity Building. iMew Kork Temple Court. Washington wl Vourissnth Street. CORRESPON&KNCB. Communications relating to newa and editorial matter shoula be aaaresaea; Omana bee, exutorlal Department. bU'bliXEHd Li-l T-.Ki. Bualneaa letter and remittances should be aaaressea: lot bee fublishlng com pany, Omaha. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to 'Aha bee fuoilsnlng Company. Only l-cent atampa accepted in payment or mall aoeouiita. t-ertonal cheuke, except on Omaha or eastern sschange, not accepted. IHifibE-l ubLi&iill4 COtFA. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, as.: Oeorge b. 1'Mchuck, aeuretary ot J. he be Fubll-ning Company, being duly a worn, ays that the actual nunioer of full and complete coplea of The Daily, Morning, Evening ana Hunuay be printed during the monU) of Marcu, DM, as follow: 1 .....KH.U70 17 ,6U S ,7tH . U XO,Mt S i ... ,630 JM,TTO ZV 1IW,(HM i. ;.umju n ku.sio mv " u........,.,.vtu,aw i UVA'AO u w.uaO 2tt,4AO U 8O,)10 8W,700 1U,60 W XW.SfiO M itt(,6tM) II KW.SUw J7 M,B(HI U 8V.8T4 a 2U.B4W It ....KM, It 441 JtU,ft40 14 UU,-0 . SO W,WM 14 -J,TO U WI,4U It SU.tfOO Total , i?,sjjo Less unsold and returned copies.... tf.uoT Net tu tat sales" ; .'. IHT,0 13 Net dally average........ j. l,7T ' GEO. B. TZ8CHUCK. Subscribed In my presence and eworn to before me thla 31st day of March. A. D. I GEO ROE H ASM UBS EN, (Seal.) Notary Public Governor Kavage lias cleared the py lltlcal atnioepbere. v The coming republican state conven tion will dlmloHe a lively race for nomination honors, Just the game. That story about Hartley returning to the treasury (the Mate money he etnbez Ied may now be put way back on the shelf. ' - , Tofitage stampg for sale at every next corner is to.be Uncle Saw's business card In Omaha. . No one will have any excuse now for buying something "Just as good." Compared-with hia numerous official proclamations and explanations. Gov ernor Kavage'g letter of withdrawal stands out as an example, brief and to the point South Omaha democratic counciliuen are trying to play a game of freeze-out on, Mayor Koutsky by keeping away from council meetings and preventing the attenduuee of a quorum. The delay In the city tax levy Is liable to cause trouble for the city in meeting tne interest requirements of the ni unlet pal debt. Whatever happens Omaha's credit must be protected against default ing its obligations. The Union Pacific attitude on the foundry controversy Is the attitude of the factory magnate who Insists that there Is nothing to arbitrate between striking operatives and the owners of the dosed factory. General MacArthur admits without compunction that he planned the onera tlon'that resulted , In the capture of Agulnaldo. General Funston will now have to share the credit of the exploit .with hlg coiumuudiug officer. The Ideal System of taxation Is that in Which the. franchise! cornorations are compelled to tear their full share of the tax burdens and in turn see to it that very othes, corporation and individual payg in the same rutlo. Let each tax payer be a monitor for every other. . . , a The suggestion that the differences be- mt u me city aim me inioD I'aclnc managers over the cloning of the iron foundry be referred to the city attorney ; simply means that further consideration ; ot the subject lie allowed to rent ind..fi- nltely In one of the pigeon holes of City Attorney Uonnell a desk. ' Grove Cleveland is writing in a cur . rent periodical on the pleasures enjoyed by the serene duck hunter. But as he falls to tell how, a man twice beaten for the presidency can attain the serenity acquired by a man twice elected to that office, bis effUHlon is not ljkely to be endorsed In the columns of the Commoner. Cuba's president-elect Is touring the Island Jn advance ot taking on his new office with a view to familiarising hi im self with the conditions and needs of different sections. Not a bad Idea. but a newly-elected president of the United Btatfg would have to spend twei montha ' Insead of . twelve days If undertook to follow out the example. The cattle syndicates would like very much to head off the order of the In terior department against the Illegal fencing of the public domain by some sort or congressional legislation before July 1, the date set for the fences to come down. The prospect of the land leasing bill beoc-tiling a lav, however, la not so good that It Is safe to rely on t aa against the department edict. OCR 11 A TAL STHtltOTH. The common belief regarding the rela tive naval strength of the Un!tl States will be modified by the report of the chairman of the house naval committee. Representative Fom of Illinois, It ap pears that while there are 138 vesaels In the navy, built and building, the real fighting strength Is comprised In the eighteen battleships, eight armored and twenty-one protected cruiser, the re port stating that the other ninety-one ven8els would count for little In actual war. Particular reference Is made to what Germany Is doing In increasing her naval power, her program being on a much more extensive scale than that of this country and it la expected to be practically completed within the next six years, when the German navy will have attained really formidable propor tions, though even then probably in ferior to the French navy, which is also being Increased. The report of the house naval com mittee can hardly fail to Impress con gress and the country with the expe diency of continuing the building up of our sea power. The recommendation of the committee Is for the construction of two more first-class battleships, two first-class armored cruisers and two gun- boat, which does not seem to be at all extravagant It Is not the policy or purpose of the United States to enter Into rivalry with any other nation for naval supremacy! but we cannot afford to be altogether Indifferent to what other powers are doing In the way of strengthening their sea power. How ever little attention this country may have felt called upon In the past to give to the growth of European naval estab lishments, our territorial expansion and the broadening of our commercial Inter ests now require that we shall take notice of what other maritime countries are doing In this respect and practical wisdom suggests that we cannot safely permit ourselves to fall very far to Jhe rear of such countries In sea power. The yery reasonable recommendation made ny tne nouse navui committee should not encounter any serious oppo sition and probably will not, since there is no doubt that intelligent public sen timent throughout the country is favor able to Increasing the naval establish ment 1 '-'Hlg A SIR Of S CHAROt. The charge Is made, which according to Washington advices is well founded. thai the naval attache of the British embassy some time since took sound ings in Tampa harbor and made charts locating channels by which torpedo boats may reach our stations there without using the defended approaches. It Is said that he also made close ob servations of the - fortifications : of Egmont Key and in other ways secured military information which nations do not, as . a . rule,' communicate to . each other. A few days ago the charge was referred to In the British House of Com mons and the statement .made that . the government had been Informed thatthe allegation was unfounded. . It appears, however, that the facts sre sufficiently well established to have been taken under consideration- by the Washington authorities. - If well founded the charge is a se rious one, particularly so If the sound ings and observations of the British offi cer were taken by direction of the gov ernment Investigation of - naval and military conditions,, with a view espe cially to discovering weak or vulnerable points, may be part of the-duty of for eign naval and military attaches, - but If so It would be well, as suggested by the Washington Tost to do away with them. The charge agalnut the attache of the Boitlsh embassy should certainly be Investigated and his government ailed to account If it Is responsible for his alleged work In Tampa harbor. If due to his own teal his transfer to another field of activity would be de sirable AOT FEfiF PKRPLKZIXQ. Members of the State Board of Equal isation are reported to be seriously per plexed over the prospective assessment of the properties and franchises of the various transportation, telegraph and telephone companies. The mere fact that the valuation of lands and live stock varies very radically need not necessarily perplex the state board. The recent decision of the supreme court specifically Instructs boards of equalization how to ascertain the value of the property and franchises of a cor poration. When the actual value of the property and franchises has been figured out It will be easy to strike the average at which all of their property la assessed in the various counties of the state. If, for example, that average Is 30 per cent of the market value, then the railroad, telegraph and telephone properties and franchises are to be valued for taxation purposes 30 per cent of their actual or market value; If the average Is only 10 per cent, then the railroad, telegraph HUd telephone proierty is assessable 20 per cent of Its actual or market value. , The contention that the tangible prop erty of railroads, telegraph or telephone companies, '.namely, the right of way, depots and depot grounds, tracks and rolling stock, or the poles, wires and Instruments, on the other band, do not equal In value the aggregate of the salable or market value of the bonds and stocks of the respective companies. should no longer ierp!ex any mem ber of the board. The difference be tween the value of the tangible prop erty, real and personal, aud the market value of stocks and bonds has been defined by the supreme court to repre sent the value of the franchise. Under that ruling the board has no discretion In figuring the values except so far as it fixes the standard or relative ratio of corporate taxation to the taxation of all other classes of property. When taxation! In Nebraska Is dis tributed upon a$ classes of property without fvoritla4i or discrimination In proportion to its vllue, as near as can be ascertained, thtni will l no grounds for complaint The main source of In equality In taxation has not been the defective law, but partiality In the en forcement of the law. nnsT tsrvncK tub laws. Honest and faithful enforcement of the laws Is the duty of the executive department of the government That duty It Is now performing In the pro ceedings Instituted against combina tions. In his Charleston speech Presi dent Roosevelt said: "Above all, the administration of the government the enforcement of the laws must be fair and honest The laws are not to be administered In the Interest of the poor man or the interest of the .rich man. They are simply to be administered Justly, In the Interest of each man, be he rich or be he poor, giving Immunity to no violator, whatever form the viola tion may assume. Such is the obligation of every public servant" This Is the spirit in which the ad ministration Is now acting. A Wash ington dispatch to the Philadelphia North American reports the president as saying In effect: "The preseut laws In tend to give the federal government cer tain supervision over the operations of corporations doing an Interstate com merce business. I do not assume to know more than others who have given much study to these lows, but I do pro pose to find out their real merits. The government has a legal department whose business it is to enforce these laws. There will be no lack of energy or Intelligence on the part of this federal law department In trying to apply such laws. They were put there for u pur pose and we will find out if they can accomplish what they were intended for. If they will, properly enforced, prevent a great monopoly which con trols foodstuffs from dictating prices and defining selling districts we want to know that so that we can use them for the protection of the people." This Is what the legal department of the government by direction of the presi dent is seeking to find out and there can be no doubt of its Intention to honestly and faithfully pursue the course It has taken. Every rational man understands that the first step toward remedying what ever abuses there are resulting from the combinations is to test the applicability of existing laws. Only In this way can It bo determined whether these laws are sufficient for what they were In tended to accomplish. If it be found that they are not adequate, not broad enough to reach and remedy the evils complained of, then It Is in the power of the people through their reprt entatlves to enact legislation that will meet the demand for a correction of abuses. It Is not within the authority of the execu tive branch of the government to do more than Is being done for the en forcement of existing laws. Those who assert otherwise appeal to popular Ig norance of the powers and duties of the executlvei The moBt relentless foe of the combinations or trusts could do no more, as president than Is being done under the direction of Mr. Roosevelt to subject them to the laws. That the administration is thoroughly In earnest In the proceedings Instituted to test the laws applicable to combina tions there cannot be a reasonable doubt and it can be confidently asserted that the proceedings will be pushed with all possible vigor. In the meanwhile there is no good reason why congress may not properly consider the question of pro viding for the supervision and regula tion of corporations engaged In inter state commerce. Vith the party out of power some thing is always wrong In present condi tions. In hard times, when prices are low, Industry and commerce are para lyzed and worklngmen are vainly trying to find employment to keep bouI and body together, the party out of power In sists that there Is something wrong In the body politic which can be righted only by putting It In and turning the other fellows out When times are good, prices are high and employment Is abuu- dant then the party out of power still cries that there must be something wrong. The consumer should have lower prices the producer should have higher prices. The wageworker should have better pay and all he needs should be cheaper. The only way to bring about this much desired condition that will fill the dinner pall and the farmer's pocket at the same time Is through a change that will put the outs In and the ins out. This Is the logic of the popo cratlc organs In the discussion of the Beef trust The committee of the Omaha Woman's club that has been looking into the pub lic school situation urges that "no teacher be retained who does not mani fest by her qualifications and adapt ability abundant professional fitness for her work." This Is a good rule to apply, but why should It not be applied equally to the superintendent as well as to the teacher? Why should well qualified and competent teachers be subjected to the humiliation of working under a superin tendent who not only has no sufficient education himself, but devotes his tal ents chiefly to promoting" projects that have nothing to do with the public schools? Is the demand for competent teachers any more pressing than the de mand for competent supervision? Whatever factional differences there may be among republicans of Douglas county .with respect to candidates, the overshadowing Issue which must be squarely met Is whether the party is to be ruled by minority or majority. Under the arbitrary and vicious apportionment fixed by the convention of 1001 in the Interest of Congressman Mercer 11,000 republicans In Omaha are accorded ninety delegates In the next convention, while 1,300 republicans In the country precincts are given seventy delegates and 1,800 republicans In Houth Omaha have but eighteen delegates. This Is nothing but disfranchisement by the overthrow of the basic principle ot pop ular government A party that allows minorities to dltte Its candidates In vites defeat at the polls. "If the city enforces the billboard or dinance we will be put out of business," cries the Mulvlhlll company. But if the city does not enforce the billboard ordi-naui-e a good many people are liable to die of heart failure or suffer Irreparable Injury to their limbs whenever Omaha Is visited by a hurricane. It may be hard for Omaha to be deprived of artis tic posters, conveying vivid Ideas of tight rope acrobats, of thinly ciad women In flesh colors and of menagerie beasts, but for sanitary reasons and pub lic safety the passing of the billboard will be cheerfully acquiesced In. In a letter to a Sunday school class. Admiral Dewey vouches for the historic truth that the officers and men who won the battle of Manila fought out the victory on coffee alone. In view of the brilliant result no naval vessel of any country should full to keep a con stant supply of coffeo available for use when the enemy heaves In sight From all accounts It looks as If Cap tain Christmas' claim for a slice of the Danish West Indies purchase money would hardly t worth discounting as an investment Where Igaeranre la Biles, Chicago Record-Herald. J. P. Morgan candidly admits that ha can't understasd why anybody should find fault with hla operations. Plerp. should take a day oS and mingle with the masses. Urttlns; the Fixture Handy. New York World. Now they are to make sugar alio of corn juice. When the right combination Is dis tilled from the kernel happy man need fur nish only hot water and lemon Juice ex tra. Poets Im High Favor. ..Washington Post. The rumor that Hon. John M. Thurston was to succeed Secretary Hitchcock may have been predicated upon the notion that the administration Is determined to ap point only poets to the high offices. Revising an Old Favorite. Baltimore American. ' We gather from 8enator Beverldge's re cent "keynote" that he favors revising the old poem to read: I love to see the octopus And pat It on Its head; How prettily It wags Us tails Whenever It la fed. The ladcr Cat. Cleveland Leader. Now It Is claimed that the railroads are making secret rates in violation of the in junction of the United States court It takes mighty shrewd officials to get ahead of the average railroad man and force him to do business within the provisions of the law. Seema to Know Ita Friends. Chicago Chronicle. So far as learned no gentleman connected with the sugar trust has fallen a victim to nervous prostration as the result of the Teller resolution for an Investigation of the trust's control ot the Cuban sugar crop. Since the hired girl of tha late Sen ator McPheraon mad g large profit la augar stock the financiers in control of that interesting Institution have had no dread of the United States senate. Res-It of l'ostal Heforna. Chicago Chronicle. The receipts ot the Poetofflce department for the quarter ending March 31, exceeded the expenses. This has occurred but tour times In the receipts for any quarter In the last eighteen years. The result was largely due to the exclusion from the mails ot irregular matter, mostly advertising sheets and books that are not periodicals, which were carried at very low pound rates. The bulky matter dumped into the malls In evasion of the laws was trans ported at an expense ot t cents a pound. The postage amounted to 1 cent a pound. With tbe reform of this and other abuses the Fostofflce department should be self supporting, even If the expense is $130, 000,000 a year twice the total cost of the government annually before the war. Sparks on the Railroad Problem. Springfield Republican. M. B. Ingalls, president of the "Big Four" railroad system, has indeed been throwing out a brilliant shower of sparks, equal to those from an old wood-burning locomotive, In considering present railroad problems. Every one has a ten-candle power: "Should the western crops fall or shrink this year, the railroad earnings will fall off, economies will be practiced, purchaaet such as steel will be postponed, manufac turers In turn will feel the effects, and so will everybody else. It Is like a cob house, you see. Pull out one and the whole tumbles. "But It 1 getting so a railroad president. If he wants to keep hla road over night, must put It In a safe and carry the key." GENERA-, OF THE ARMY. Protest Against Forcing? General Miles en the Retired List. Brooklyn Eagle. We want our history to read clean. We don't want to be hardly criticised for acts that might as well not have been committed. The record of our army has been excellent. It baa numbered, among Ita offlcera and Its rank and file, men ot whom we are proud. Tbey are representa tive Americans. Its conduct has been dis tinguished from its Inception to this day by falrneaa and chivalry, as well as courage. Let us, then, conalder bow It will read, a half century hence. If the head of that army la removed not for cauae, for no cauae hae been aaslgued, but for differences of view with the administration. General Mllea Is the head of the army. He holds his place, not merely by seniority, but becauee he baa been a valuable man to tha service. He has never been Impeached for his conduct In the Indian wars, nor for his work In the rebellion. On the contrary, hla bravery and competence In ail hia cam palgna haa been recognized. He has but little more than a year to serve. Why not allow him to close that term? It la a recognlied fact that he has ene mlea among the men whom be commanda. He la not s graduate of the army school. Hi tralnlpg has been chiefly that of ex perience. He has been fighting while the cadeta have been reading bow to fight. He has been Incautious, but when was caution the attribute of courage? He baa apoken hla mind, but what statute pro vides that the commaader-ln-chlef of our military forcea ahall be deprived of the liberty of opinion? Let us withhold Judg ment, let us confess the use and the merit of the preaent general, and let us be eon tent to pass the fact Into history that no general of the United Slates army baa ever offered occaalon for removal. Let General Miles be general till be reaches bis retiring age, which will be la a few months, and let him do hla aws retiring, JfUh honors as has nog. GMKRAL SMITH'S DEFEWE. New York Sun (rep ): General Smith's reaponte to the accusation brought agalnut blm as the commander In Samar Is that ot a man, and, we believe, ot a soldier. Chicago Poet (rep.): General Smith's ad mfaalon that he gave the order to kill all over 10 proves that war la not only what Sherman aatd of It, but that It makes fiends of men. St. Taul Pioneer Press (rep.): General Jacob H. Smith admits that he ordered the killing of all hostile natives of Samar over 10 years of age. His defense is the story of Batanglga's awful massacre. He was out for revenge. Further comment may be withheld till the court-martial Is through with Its work. In the meantime It must be admitted that it looks as If the fierce strife In Samar had given us a Weyler who out-Weylera Weyler, as if under our flag there have been done in the Philippines deeds worse than those which stirred our people to righteous wrath and drove the Spaniards from Cuba. Cleveland Leader (rep.): If any paper or public leader had dared to assert that In leas than four years from the beginning of war to stop the cruelties of the Spanish Weyler sn American general would Issue orders that In a wide region all natives of an Island where United States troops were to serve should be killed, from the age of 10 upwards, and their homes destroyed, that paper or politician would have been exe crated as an Insanely vicious slanderer ot his own country. And now many papers and, numerous politicians are excusing and palliating General Smith's conduct and not without Justification In the fact that be simply did the usual thing In warfare such as be was called on to wage. Feasibly some good may come of this monstrous object lesson. It ought to make an Im pression deep enough to last at least a few years In any country which claims a proud place among the Christian nations of the world. FKHSOSAI, INOTtCS. Hon. T. B. Mlnahan, president of the American Federation of Cafholtc Societies, will be tendered a reception In Boston on May 4. Prof. Woodrow Wilson of Princeton uni versity will deliver the oration at the celebration of founder's day at Vassar col lege on May 2. According to the Washington Times, It was a Wisconsin congressman who .was caught holding a pitcher under a button on the wall In hia room, under which . waa written: "Push twice for water." Edwla Hawley, who recently resigned bis position as general traffic agent of the Southern Pacific to devote himself to his own business, worked first for the Erie company as errand boy at a salary of $4 a week. Adoipbus Dewet, a nephew of the Boer General Dewet, who was wounded and cap tured at the battle of Jacobsdal, and aft erward escaped from Bermuda by swim ming to a schooner bound for New York, arrived In Guayaquil, Ecuador, recently. He proceeded to Lima, Peru, where be will engage In mining. Among the candidates for office in the coming French elections is a grand nephew of that Brlllat-Savarln, the famous epi cure, who wrote a classic oa cookery. His relative is opposing the re-election of Bau din, the French minister of publio works. Brlllat-Savarln was a great lawyer as well as a past master In the culinary art and all hla family have been lawyers. Senator Patterson was addressing his colleagues the other day In opposition to some proposed Improvements in the District of Columbia. Depew wanted to know when a vote would be reached and Hanna aald: "I'll tell you it you'll let me know how long Patterson will talk." "Impossible," said Depew. "No man can tell how long a good lawyer from the west will talk on a popullstlc proposition." Until recently southern people have been divided whether to make the birthday of General Lee or Jefferson Davis a confeder ate memorial day. Now there Is a grow ing feeling In favor ot giving the honor to Davis. -There is a strong movement In Mississippi favoring the purchase and perpetual maintenance of the old Davis homestead at Beauvolr. June 3 was the confederate leader's birthday. The Bee acknowledges receipt of plans and specifications and the menu card of the annual dinner of the Sheffield (England) Press club, which was pulled off April 12. Major Church Howe of Nebraska. American conaul at Sheffield, was one of the guests of the occasion, and mere lorda to the right of him, earls to the left of him and sirs every where. Strange to say, the major did not make a speech during the subsequent pro ceedings. AL.OXE, ALL ALONE." What a Chansje a Few Years Have Wrought In Missouri. St. Louis Globe-Democrat, April 28. tp t vtrvsn of Lincoln. Neb., spent an hour at Union station yesterday morning on his way to Paducah, Ky., wunoui anj reception committee to aee him through. Not even Moses Wetmore. It was not Mr. Bryan's first vlalt to Union atatlon. On one occasion, in 1896. Mr. Bryan visited I'nUt, it.tinn nrnut home from the Chi cago convention, where he hung a rhetorical crown of thorns upon a metaphorical cross of gold. The populace refused to let him walk through the atatlon and he waa borne by six stout policemen to the upper dining room, where his frugal breakfast of tender loin steak, Franch rolls and .Imported coffee awaited him. It was with difficulty that the police assisted by William Joel Stone and Colonel Moao Wetmore, could clear a way to the ticket window, so that the waiting multitude might view the Ne braakan In the act of buying his ticket On the subseauent occasions, both In that strenuous year and 1900, Mr. Bryan passed through Union station. Hla reception was always the same, consisting of enormous crowds,' brass bands, William Joel and Colonel Mose. So Mr. Bryan arrived at Union station yeaterday morning. The train from Mexico, Mo., was on time and the Nebraskan stepped out upon the rear platform, as bad been his wont In other daye, and prepare-J for the entrance to the atatlon. A crowd waa there and also the police, but not for him. Eagerly bis eye traveled over the throng for a glimpse of the tail figure, hun gry visage and long gray forelock of Wil liam Joel. It waa not In algbt. "Ah, I remember," soliloquised the Ne braakan. "He la out stumping the state against .Andrew Carnegie's free libraries. 'Tis enough. Let the good work go en. But where is Mose?" Again his eagle eye traveled ever tha hurrying crowd. No algn of a atout gentle man with a red face and Iron-gray mus tache. The truat-buaier was not In alsht. With a weary algh the man with the large mouth and rapidly thinning raven locks asked the man at the airbrake if this was really St. Lou la. "You bet It la. cully." was the reply, "and if youae do-'t gtt a wiggle on you pretty quick thla hers car will take you down to the yards, aee?" With another sigh Farmer Bryan grasped his trusty gripsack and atarted for a atool In the lunch room. Like "patience on a brick kiln waiting for beef," be sat, and aat, and eat but nobody gave him greeting. Then he hunted up a train that would take him to Paducah, "alone, ail alous," as Eddls Foy mournfully slags. ( ill AMESDISQ STATE BOUNDARIES. rropoaed Changes In the Lines of Western States. Philadelphia Press. Senator Kearns of Utah has a bill in the senate to annex to Utah a section of Arl tona, that part which lies north and west of Colorado river. Ariiona Is clamorous for statehood and no doubt prefers to keep its entire area. There is ao recent In stance of a state voluntarily relinquishing any portion of Its area, but the territories are usually fair game for covetous neigh bors. Nevada has made inroads on the or iginal area of Arizona and wanted badly to appropriate a slice of Utah before the lat ter became a state. Washington very nearly secured that portion of Idaho Im mediately east of It; Nebraska, before the admission of the Dakotas, was an applicant In congress for a piece of Dakota Territory. Tears ago Missouri, by act of congress, se cured for itself a large piece of Nebraska Territory and brought it under the ban of slavery, contrary to the compromise of 1820. It is natural for states to seek to Im prove their boundaries by additions of this character, but soon the opportunity to do so will be gone, for the few territories still remaining cannot much longer be denied statehood. Inasmuch as congress has full power to fix the boundaries of new states It Is a pity that It has not arranged them with a clearer view to their ultimate equal ity. Their boundaries were fixed usually with reference to their appearance on the map, without much regard to the character of the soil aad Its relative capacity for sustaining population. Desert states like Nevada should have been annexed to territory ca pable of sustaining a fixed population, no matter how large it made the state. A grazing state like Wyoming should have been - given a larger area. Its northern boundary should have been run up to Brit ish America and western Montana coalesced with Idaho. California and Texas, both im mense, fertile states, should have been di vided and the arid territories ot Arizona and New Mexico should be united even now snd Oklahoma admitted after consoli dation with the Indian Territory or not at all. Arizona, If merged with New Mexico Into a single territory, could easily spare Utah the slice It covets, but as it is we doubt If Senator Keurns will be accommodated. The piece of land he wants to add to Utah Is separated from the rest of Arizona by the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, and no doubt its population, If It haa any, woold be more conveniently placed aa a part of Utah, since the deep canyon of the Colorado puts an almost Impassable abyss between it and the rest of Arizona Territory. A TWELVE-BITTOS MONARCH. . King; Corn Plants a Sngar-Coated Pearl on His Shirtwaist. Baltimore American. In Michigan a company has been formed to produce sugar from corn. At this writ ing the Sugar trust haa not yet become alarmed, but It would . be well for the magnates to keep their eyes peeled. It Is designed to produce sugar, glucose, grape sugar and syrup from corn. If expecta tions are realized, we may become Inde pendent of the trust and find a good home market for all our surplus corn. In Ken tucky, where the natives hold a higher uae can be found for corn, progress may be slow, and the Beef truat may resist the diversion of corn from Its hitherto profit able employment of converting grain Into meat, to bi sold at aJmost prohibitive prices. But if science demonstrates that good augar can be made out of corn, the trusts must beatlr themselves. But everything must wait on experiment It sometimes happens that rosy calcula tions which seem to point to great wealth are not realized within the lifetime of the calculator. A few years ago It was said that good sugar could be made cheaply from watermelons, and Immediately there was Nothing is an expression wo hear eTery day from people who try on our 6uits. There is aa much difference between our clothes and the ordinary kinds of ready-to-wears as the difference between silk and cotton; ours have that snappy, luxurious look of elegance you can find nowhere else, and. from 10 to 25 we can suit the most fastidious tastes. "NO CLOTHING FITS LIKE OUBS. ' - Exclusive Clothiers and Furnishers. Loncf,tRich, Heavy Hair A great many people wan long, heavy hair; but how to get it, that is what puzzles them. The fact is, the hair needs a little help now and then. The roots rpquire ;feeding. When the hair is starved, it stops growing, loses its lus ter, falls oat, turps gray. Ayer s Hair Vigor is a hair help. It feeds the hair. The hair grows, stops falling out, and ail the gray hairs arc re-, stored to the natural colors " Yoar Hair Vigor Is osjrtsldjr wondsrfal. It ka mad gran lmpreeront in my hata ts stosUuj It to. (is iMttara! eoter'and prornoting sv qgvr growth." Ex ka Caxdbi, Ntw York Cj 4w. AafrsaaMe. J, C ATT! COL, LswstV Mae. excitement In Georgia. Watermelons are. however, coming from the south, and are being used In the old way. Whisky, it was reported, could also be made from watermelons. There are those now living who remem ber how confidently It was demonstrated on paper that whisky could be produced from aawdust. It was figured out that If a man were sorely put to It for a drink he could go out in the pine woods with a saw and enjoy himself as long as he could work. The whisky was of the "pine-top" variety, that as used In cases ot ex tremity In the south during the civil war, and said to be somewhat Injurious. It is certain that no Kentucky colonel would ever consent to amell of sawdust whisky when the choice product ot corn coulJ be had. The history. of many of the great dis coveries and inventions Is that of reward after patient effort. There, Is a greater promise for corn than ever. With the sugar, whisky, beef and hog men all bid ding for corn, the inference la the price will rise. CHKERY CHAFF. Washington Star: "Advice." said Uncle Eben, "is like inns' ev'ythlng else. If it's any good you doesn' have to give It away. You kin giner'ly sell it." Chicago Tribune: "George WaKhlngton wan a president who did not devote any of his time to going fishing," said the cynic. "How do you know?" "H could not have been a fisherman and preaerved his reputation for veracity." Philadelphia Pr.'Ss- "What did you think of my new gags last night?" asked the comedian. "Well," replied the critic, "there was one thing you got off that delighted me." "What waa that?" "The stage." Smart Bet: Mrs. Hoon (In the midst of her reafllng) Ah! Mrs. Congressman Swackhammer has started a cruHaii against decollete gowns. Mr. Hoon H'mT Is Mrs. Cnngrrssmiin Swackhammer sensible or klnny? Pittsburg Chronicle: "You can always de pend upon what a congressman tells you In a letter," remarked Squlldlg. "Yon can, can you?" repllcil McSwllllgan. sarcastically. "Yes. congressmen frank their letters, you know." Chicago Post: "Hut we can't leave .man out of ojr calculations entirely," said the advanced woman regretfully. "Certainly not." admitted the one who was not so far advanced. "When there are any expenses to be met it In most con venient to have him around." Washington Star: "You are taking a great deal of Interest lit society." "Yes," answered Senator Snrghum. "I uaed to make fun of receptions and thnt sort of thing. But I declare It's something of a relief to get Into a gatherlnj? of peo ple where nobody ran make a political speech or a touch for a rainimtgn fund." THE AIRS OF MMIIX;. Portland Oregonlan. The airs of springtime that et softly play When blossoms out the rtd and be.autious rose, And all the world Is glnd i l gentle May Whence come they to ma earth who knos? Who knows? Whence comes "Oo Way Back and Sit Down." The gladsome "Honeysuckle and tha Bee?" Whence comes "When Reuben Comes to Town?" Whence comes the song that ends "Looks Good to Me?" And then the echoes of the shadowy past That float upon the breeze and every where. "Always." "Good-Bye, " "Forever" and "At Last." "The Drunkard's Mother" and "The Plumber's Prayer." They ripple on each passing breeze lhnt blows; They drilt through every door that staiiua ajar; Thev mingle with the perfume of the rone And All the world with music near and far. But whence come they? Who starts them on their way, When Spring awakens and the rose la blown. And all the world la flushing with the May? Ah, wise Is he. that he remains unknown. Like Them. , I
