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0 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE; SAT1TKDAY, MAY 17, 1902 The-Omaha Daily Bee E. ROSEWATER. EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF StTBCRIITION. fall lire (without Sunday), One Year.MOO Jjally Bee, and Sunday, One Year W Illustrated ilee, Cine Year I "0 Sunday bee, one Year 2 00 Saturday Bee, One Year 1-80 Twentieth Century Farmer. One Year. 1.00 DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Dally Ufa (without Sunday), per copy., tc Dally Dee (without Buml), per week.. lie iniily Bee (Including Sunday), per week.Hc Sunday Hoe, per copy 5o livening Iteo (without Sunday), per week.loc livening Be (Including Bunaay;, per week ISc Complaints of Irregularities In delivery should be addressed to CIV Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha The Be Building. South Omaha City Hall Building, Twenty-fifth and M street. Council Bluffs 10 Fearl Street Chicago lino Unity Building. New York Tempi Court. Washington dul Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. 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Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, Ml George jj Tsschuck, secretary of Th Be 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 lbs mouth of April, Uil. was as follows i 1 SHMHIO l. 30,030 20,680 4 2W.010 1 2t,StH ..Jt,T20 II 20,54)0 17 20.D80 U 20,040 18 20,000 20 20,000 21 20,080 7.. ..20.B1O ..2t,uio ..20,400 ..29,010 ..20,470 ...20,000 ...20,000 ...20,420 ...20,44iO ...20,0410 ...20,000 ...20,000 8.... .... 10.... 11.... 12.... 11.... 23 84 2ft 26 27 SS .81)310 14 20,080 16...... 20,480 2 20,080 0 20,020 Total 880,040 Less unsold and returned copies... 10,107 ,' -Net.,toUI 87,838 Net daily average 20,227 GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Subsorlbed In my presence and sworn to , befor thla th day of April, A. D. (Seal.) M. B. H UNGATE, . . . Notary Publlo. Thnt anthracite coal strike begins to look serious. Tbt sun's smiles are only made brigiitqr by timely rains. Nebraska has put In a claim for the vacant Beat on the court of claims. It seems that John Bull's unconditional surrender ultimatum bas gone through a revised edition. Tbey must have yellow Journalists over in Italy. The report that Mouut Vesuvius had begun unllmberlng Its ma chinery proves to be a plain ordinary fake. The cannonading off the Windward passage has been drowned out by the performances of Mont Pelee and the other members of the West Indian .volcanic troupe. ' The franchlsed corporations and their friends In the council should remember that good thing can be overdone. The people of Omaha constitute the final Aboard of review. If the'.r negotiations with the Boer ileaderg in . South Africa pan out our -.British cousins . will consummate a merger between the coronation cere monies and a peace jubilee. If the Kansas City platform Is such a perfect document. Its champions should explain more fully how It came within one' vote of falling to be endorsed by the resolutions committee of the convention. By the way, reference to the political handbooks discloses that one democratic national convention declared in Its plat form for the annexation of Cuba as a 'dependency of the United States with ,out even giving It a taste of free and In dependent government It Is Intimated that several Nebraska itowns feel slighted because they failed Ho be Included in the itinerary of Omaha's Commercial club excursionists. J They may be' sure no slight was In tended and that amends will be made at the earliest opportunity. If the members of the state board of railroad assessment, had placed their ears to the ground and listened to the murmur of the people they would not have allowed themselves to be byp notlzed.fcy the sophistry of paid cor adoration lobbyists and railroad lawyers. Cuba's new president is to grace with his presence a celebration of the Spanish colony In Havana In honor of the as ceuslou to the throne of-the-new king of Spain. Just Imagine the. hubbub that would be raised if President Roose velt were to attend a function celebrat ing the ' coronation of King Edward VIL ... President Palma of Cuba has assured Colonel Bryau that he would prefer to have remained In lite seclusion of his quiet home rather than to accept the duties devolving ou him as president of the new republic. President Palma Is nothing If not polite la thus offering soothing balm to console his dlstln Tlu&r. Farmer State Senator Nick Frits Is to be patching up his political fences. with a view to, corralling the nomination for laud commissioner on the democratic state tkkeCMr. Frits has managed to put his fences' around sev eral thousand acres of land belonging to the Indians on the Omaha reservation, and doubtless sees great possibilities In handling the state school lauds. As a fence builder he has had long and varied experience snd. ought to be an adept lu construcuat political fences. renrtTCATiya ths outrage. Under tlio statutes of Nebraska the governor, treasurer and auditor of state, constitute ft loard for the "asrmnt of the proiwrty of rnllrond and telegraph companies. It Is 'made the duty of this board to ascertain, ns far as possible, tli market value of the various elements that go Into the makeup of a railroad and list them for taxation. The board Is exjiected to ascertuiu first, the value of the right-of-way; second, the value of tho main tracks; third, the value of the side tracks; fourth, the value of depot grounds and permanent Improve ments thereon; fifth, the value of the rolling stock and equipment; and lastly the value of the franchise. It la a scandal to Nebraska that not a scrap of paper enn be found in the auditor's office that would indicate the value placed by former assessment boards upon each of these respective constituents of the railroads listed by them for assessment. The only documents on file lu the auditors office are the returns made by each of the various railroad and telegraph companies, and the aggregate value per mile at which each respective board has assessed lu a lump sum en a mileage basis the rail road tracks, tho acreage of depot grounds, depot buildings, engines, cars, etc., apparently for the purpose of mak ing It impossible to determine whether or not the appraisement of these various elements was just and equitable, or whether each successive board had been simply guessing at their value, or mak ing the assessment by agreement with the corporations as to how much they were willing to stand. It Is amazing that the present board In the face of the recent earnest remon strance, and In defiance of public opin ion, should have again repeated the outrage annually perpetrated upon the people of the state. The Increase of the grand total of railroad assessment for l'JOl by $180,000 is worse than a farce. It is a deliberate insult to the Intelli gence of the people of Nebraska. There is absolutely no excuse for such action and there can be no palliation for the Injustice done to the great mass of tax payers of the state. To make such a pitiful increase In' the assessment after a two-weeks session forcibly recalls the mountain that labored and brought forth a mouse. The ground on which members of the board Justify their action is that the rail roads are assessed us high as any other class of property and in proof of this they cite some instances where property has been returned far below the ratio set for the railroads. But these single instances do not afford a criterion to go by. Facts are stubborn things and facts are against the theory on which the board has acted in the assessment for 1002. For incontrovertible proof the board need only take a glance at the lust bienulal report of the auditor of Nebraska. The grand assessment roll for 1001 gives the valuation of all property lu Nebraska at $174,430,003.43. Of this amount $148, 007,3(13.12 represents the real and. per sonal property of (lie state exclusive of railroads. Of tba aggregate of $148,007,- 803.12 the valuation of real estate being $lH,iV2,otH) ana the valuation ot personal property $37,804,803.12. In other words the farms and town lots lu Nebraska represent more than two-thirds of all the property lu the state, exclusive of the railroads. If It be true that live stock, merchandise and other chattels have been assessed at only one-tenth, or one-fifteenth of their value in some in stances, it cannot be gainsaid that the bulk of the grand asspsmeut roll, the real estate, has been assessed at from one-fifth to one-seventh of Its market value. If there are some exceptions to this rule tbey are very rare Indeed. We make bold to assert that 13 percent of the true value is about the average of the property returned for assessment all along the Hue. The railroads aloue, however, representing as they do one fourth of the property value of the state when honestly appraised, are as sessed at about 8 per cent of their true value Instead of 13 per cent and no amount of juggling with figures and guesswork can make any Intelligent and Impartial person believe otherwise. It is hardly worth while to point out to the board of railroad assessment that It was Its imperative duty to assess the franchises with the tangible property of railroad corporations. The constitu tion positively so Instructs and while the statute does not enumerate franchises aruoug the other taxable assets of rail roads It expressly directs the assessment board to take into consideration in the assessment of Tallroads the capitalisa tion and earning of each rood. That means In plain language, the value of its franchise. Otherwise capitalization and earnings would have no more bear ing uwn the valuation of railroad prop erty than the rental of a building, which pays taxes on what" It. win sen ror whether it is vacant or occupied, whether It la imtftguged or unencum bered. i HVKICIPAL BBLf-PttCaHRVATlON. The efforts of Mayor Moores and his sssoclutes lu the city government to pro tect the city from conflagration snd ac cident by a campaign against dangerous building shacks should have the vigor ous support of all rttUus Interested In Omaha's progress. The ryiuovul of these death trsos snd timler boxes is simply a case of municipal stlf preservation for the promotion of lbs gewrsl welfare. If any hardship U Incurred by the owners of condemned building it Is self-inflicted and their private Interest should not be allowed to eudauger public safety We are all enlisted In the work of building up Omaha snd beautifying tho city. We euforca certain regulations on the erection of lie fculMlrif and taks various precaution to prtvast tha con struction of anything that might be a menace or a nuisance. But .of what avail can ba these effort If the owners of tumble-down s ha u lies and kindling wood plies can by various form of re sistance disregard the public Interests and-nullify -tha .authority tabed la city by its charter? Would not the city le held resjwnslble for damages from fire or accident arising from a building condemned but still allowed to eland? Before Omaha can be well started on the road to become a Greater Omaha It will have to weed out the cockleshells that disfigure and disgrace many of Its principal thoroughfares. i 1 1 -ss"s A BAD COAfPIOAflSC. The Bee called attention a few days ago to the attempted compromise with the bondsmen of the defaulting treasurer of Platte county, authorized by the state board under the law passed by the last legislature, by which the state was to accept $8,000 as full payment of some $13,000 owing by Tlatte county for taxes collected and embezzled. The Bee pro nounced this compromise unwarranted and Illegal because In direct contro version of an express provision of the constitution prohibiting the release or discharge of any county from Its pro portionate share of taxes to the state. Further Investigation into this case brings out Information showing that even if the state board had authority to effect a legal compromise the settlement was brought about by misrepresenta tion and the terms agreed upon wercj decidedly unfair to the state. The de faulting treasurer of Platte county was found to be short In bis accounts some $30,000, in round figures, of which $17,000 were county funds and $13,000 collection of state taxes. The embezzled money had been used for speculative investments and the pur chase of property, which the defaulter turned over to his bondsmen, and upon these assets the bondsmen realized enough to pay Flatte county in full, dollar. for dollar, and leave a surplus in their hands of $3,000. The compromise position was urged upon state officers upon the plea that the bondsmen would have to pay the entire amount and would undergo great hardship unless some remission were made. Upon the same plea they applied to the county board of Platte county for a contribu tion of $3,000 to assist in settling the state's demand and procured an ap propriation from the county treasury for $1,500. This money, together with the $3,000 on bund, made $4,500, leaving only $3,500 to be made good by the bonds men. We are reliably informed that since the compromise twenty-two of the sureties have paid in $200 apiece to relieve themselves of their obligation, producing $4,400, which, added to the $4,500, gives $8,000, which Is to be used to extinguish the state's claim of $8,000 and defray the expenses of the mediators and lawyers, who are to absorb the extra $900. This scandalous transaction should never have been countenanced. We do not believe that the compromise will hold good in law when subjected to the test of auy court, and there is no reason why the state should not prosecute Its claim for -the balance still due. THK SPAN ISH CORONA TWA. Today the young king of Spain will take the coronation oath and become the actual sovereign of the land over which bis mother has ruled as regent for sixteen years. Alfonso XIII, though still a boy In years, is said to be re markably capable and both precocious and resourceful. He Is an accomplished linguist and accounts from Madrid say that the diplomats who have met him have been astonished by the maturity of his character and the air of dignity und stateliness that distinguishes him. He bas had most careful training under the watchful and constant supervision of his mother, Maria Christina, a woman of extraordinary ability and tact, whose course throughout the troublous period of her regency has been such as to win universal admiration. It is not to be supposed that the young king knows much of statecraft, but there will be little demand upon him for the exercise of knowledge of this kind. Ills attention should be directed by those who will .give advlfe to him to practical matters, having In view the promotion of the industrial and com mercial interests of the country. Senor Sagasta, the premier, said a few -days ago that for Spain the era of military pronpnclamentos Is past and the atten tion of the people is centered In educa tion and labor. If Alfonso Is In sympa thy with the spirit of the times be will encourage this popular tendency and direct all his efforts to building up the nation within, Increasing Its prosperity and improving the material and social conditions of the people. The good wishes expressed in the let ter of President Roosevelt to King Al fonso will be cordially approved by the American people, who have the kindliest and most friendly feeling toward Spain and would be glad to see that country progressive and prosperous. It Is grati fying to know that the Spaniards cher ish no resentment toward tbl country. Our special envoy was received with marked consideration and a recent dis patch from Madrid stated that Ameri cans are treated ' with more courtesy than Englishmen and are not subject to any Indignities when traveling In Spain. The correspondent suld that the truth has been learned that the loss of unmanageable colonies Is an economic gain to the peninsula snd that It Is opening the way for financial reforms and relief from taxatiou. Spain's colo nies were for the most part a burden to her, since she found It necessary, owing to her mlsgovernment of tuein, to maintain a large military establish ment that was a heavy drain upon her resources. Besides, there was a vast amount of corruption In her public serv ice, encouraged by tba colonial policy, that can now be corrected. Spain has resources which If properly developed and utilised will make her a rich and prosperous nation and to this her states men should direct all their wisdom and energy, She no longer needs a large army4uid navy and she can never be come a great power, but It Is possible for lar to bs a country of contented. ifcffjjofful and prosperous - ppt;, oou tnanding the respect of the world by In dustry and advancement in Intellectual aud social conditions. A StESAtr OAilt. A Lancaster county Judge has enjoined the tax commissioner of Lincoln from assessing the Lincoln Gas company at its actual market value pro rata with the tax rate lmjiosed on other city prop erty on the ground that the property of the railroads Is assessed below that ratio. In the meantime the state board of railroad assessment Is being impor tuned to keep the assessment of the rail road property down at about one-twelfth of Its market value because some of the property, Including perhaps that of the Lincoln Gas company. Is assessed lower than the railroads, and because, further more, tho assessors have' failed to find some property that ought to pay taxes. If this seesaw game between the fran chlsed corporations that enjoy special privileges In the towns and the railroad corporations that enjoy special valuable privileges all over the state keeps up, this class of property will have to be put upon the free list with public schools, churches, hospitals and graveyards. It is a very poor corporation attorney who cannot figure out that someone else Is not paying quite as much tax in propor tion to his property as the corporation which has hired him to bulldoze and browbeat the assessment boards. If the attorneys of the Lincoln Gas company bad Invoked the power of the court to compel the state assessment board to raise the railroad assessment to the level of the valuation put upon the gas company's property they might have been credited with trying to do Justice to all classes of taxpayers. The Iowa representative of the Union Pacific before the State Board of Equal ization is reported to be very much shocked over the declaration of Gov ernor Cummins that Iowa railroads are not assessed high enough and will In the near future be raised to correspond somewhat with the assessed valuation of other property. The Iowa representa tive of the Union Pacific ought to have been well satisfied with his successful effort to convince the Pottawattamie county assessment board that the Union Pacific road has shrunken 33 per cent in its value from what It was for more than ten years previous to 1899. Up to 1900 the Union Pacific road was as sessed at $150,000 per mile for the two and six-one-hundredths miles which it returned in Pottawattamie county; In 1900 Its assessed value went down to $120,000, and In 1901 to $100,000 per mile, although the market value of the road bad been steadily increasing. There are some funny, funny things done by assessment boards even over in the good old state of Iowa. A party of eminent Missouri anglers have been indicted by a rural grand Jury for killing time between bites with a game of penny-ante poker, to the dis gust and dismay of the neighboring farmers. The.Jndicted anglers deserve no sympathy, "Any one Indulging In penny-ante In Missouri ought to know enough to show the Inquisitive farmers and then raise the limit Kansas City has finally pulled Itself together and determined to resurrect Its discarded carnival of the Priests of Pallas with an electrical parade al ready advertised to be "the most novel aud successful pageant ever given In the west." Kansas City will have to move rapidly to keep up with the gait set by Ak-Sar-Ben in Omaha. Andrew Carnegie's declaration that he would gladly give $20,000,000 to restore the United States to the position it oc cupied before It found the Fbillpplues on Its hands may strike a sympathetic chord with many people, but no amount of money can turn back the pages of history after they are written by the succession of eveuts. If the state Is buying bonds for the school fund on a, 3 per cent interest basis, It puts the pending proposal to re fund $208,000 of Douglas county bonds at 3 per cent In a different light A chance to save $10,000 for the taxpayers by deferring the reissue for five years should not . be thrown away by the county board. Santa Clans Recants. ' Kansas City 6tar. Senator Stewart ot Nevada declares that silver Is dead. This should be regarded as xpert testimony. An Example for the World. New York Bun. Toe Immense Impulse to help the Mar tinique people, In this country particularly, but all over the world ss well, is splendid evldencs of the bottom goodness of human nature. IMsboaestr's 1'oor Reward. Boston Transcript. That the life of the transgressor Is ht4 Is conclusively shown by the record sheet of a professions! bank thief, who during twenty-one years ot criminal Ufa passed eighteen in Jail and got by his stealings less than 12,000. Crnel aaa I a usual Paalaa eat. Washington Post. By maliciously compelling the Hon. Tom McDonald Patterson to listen to the read ing of a erlea ot his own editorials the Hon. Joseph Benson Forsker succeeded in demonstrating that tbers are tortures ten fold worse than tb water cure. Hot Work for Lawyers. Indianapolis News. It la ssld that the merger plsn msy bs withdrawn by the railroad managers snd soma other form of concerted msnsge meat substituted. In other words, tba railroads are putting their lawyers to work to discover some wsy around the law. No Hoosa for Usaaaeratloa. . Philadelphia Record. There srs limits to exaggeration. This la shown tn the narration of the awful details of tho catastrophe In the Wind ward Islands. The swift horror ot the svsnt baffles description. Out of ths sky as Instant, fumld, fiery death dropped down on sea and land. That was the end. Nothing remained an Instant later but a sweater of desd bodies festering In ths heat or furnishing food for sharks In Jjhs. adjacsal irs. v OTHER L.D9 THAI OIRS. Emperor Francis Joseph, it Is said. Is anxious that Austrla-Hunirary shouid have a larger navy. This desire of a venerable ruler so honored and beloved throughout his dominion Is a little perplexing In pres ent conditions. Of all the conspicuous na tions of Europe, Austria-Hungary has ths smallest searoast. Glance at the ocean lines of the other European powers, and then consider the limits of the tides which beat upon the marine boundaries of the dual empire. Fortresses and batteries where the waves roll upon the scanty shores of the ally of Germany and Italy may perhaps be useful, but what csn Aus tria snd Hungary expect to accomplish by pending more money upon tbelr naval establishment? Austrian war vessels fought well at Llasa, but that was long ago. limes have changed since Llssa. What can the Haps burg dynasty, with Its narrow access to salt water, hope to gain by spending the money of Its taxpayers upon new battleships? Neither Vienna nor Budapest could be captured by Ironclads In any circumstances; and surely the Hapsburg treasury la not so overflowing that Austria-Hungary can undertake ths building of a navy which could now cops successfully with that of any other Euro pean country ot the first, second or third claws in sea power. Is there not some mistake In the reports that the emperor Is desirous of the building of mors war ships? e e Ths development of Germany as a naval power is emphasized very forcibly by the fleet, under the command of Prince Henry of Prussia, which arrived in Irish waters the other day on a friendly visit It Is said to bs the most powerful aggregation of foreign wsrshlps that has ever vis ited any British or Irish port. The squad ron consists of eight Une-ot-bsttla ships In two divisions, snd three cruisers, and Is larger numerically, If not In actual power, than the British Channel squadron or the French Northern squadron. A note worthy quality of the fleet Is Its homo geneity. The four vessels of the first di vision, of the so-called Kaiser claws, are Identical In all respects, size, maneuver ing capacity, radius of action, speed and gun power. All of them are protected by the same weight of the very finest Har veylzed nickel-steel armor. Between the vessels of the second division there are certain differences, the slowest of them being unable to make more than six teen knots, as against the eighteen knots of the Kaisers. Moreover, the fleet Is prac tically new, the oldest of the first di vision vessels being only Ave years old, and the oldest of the others only ten years. Before returning to German waters the fleet will make a complete circuit of the United Kingdom. e e A correspondent of a London paper, writ ing from Moscow, says that a curious feature ot the agitation among the work ing classes in Central KUBsla Is the antl forelgn character which it is assuming. In some of the revolutionary placards Issued by the lsbor leaders the populace is ex horted to do away with the "foreign devils," a phrase apparently borrowed from the Chinese "Boxers." The line of argu ment adopted Is that foreign capitalists, engineers and managers have Invaded tba country for no other purpose than to make money out of the tolling Russian masses. Oppressed work-people are told to remember that lead and steel are cheap. This outcry against the foreigners Is re garded as the more surprising, because the movement Is at all events partly of foreign origin. The most active agents In rousing the Russian workman to a sense of bis miserable situation have been the hun dreds of well-educated men who have abandoned, their own careers In order to live among the people and teach them, not only to read and write, but the doctrines of revolutionary socialism. This teaching, however, would have bad little effect, pos sibly, hsd It not been that In most of the mills and factories the hands came into contact whh foreign workmen, from whom they heard of the rights and liberties en joyed by the laboring classes in other countries. In order to prove the supremacy of France In the automobile Held, Le Journal of Paris proves that, coal mining and the great metallurgical Industries excepted, the making of motor vehicles employs more people in France than any other Industry. All ths factories have tripled their output In the last three years. Not only Paris, but Lyons, Bordeaux, Mar seilles, Lille, Bt. Etlenne, Nantes and Rouen nave factories. Of course there Is not only the actual engineering part of the trade, but the many allied Industries which have been benefited, to consider, and. tak ing them Into account, it Is estimated that nearly 250,000 people in France are now dependent on automoblllem. The French minister of agriculture In a recent meas ure has attempted to make the automo blllst a frlsnd of the wine snd beet-root grower. After the overabundant vintages of the last two years the great question baa been to know Vhat Is to be done with the wine, while beet growing Is a very prosperous national Industry. The minister. In order to show what can.be done in ths way of utilising surplus stock, bas organ ized an International motor car contest. In which the competing carriages are to de rive their motive force from alcohol, It be ing urged that this substsnce will serve tba purpose just as well as petroleum and at a much smaller outlay. see By the death of Prince Heinrlch XXII. ot Russia, one of the thorns In ths side of German Imperialism has been removed. Although Reuse has an area of 122 square miles and a population less than 70,000, Its prince and Its people bave obstinately refused to enter into ths spirit ot the German emperor. On every occasion pos sible the prince,- when obliged to refer to ths German federation, would do so in the most conservative terms, and when speak ing of the relations between himself and the kaiser would simply Intimate that he and the king of Prussia were allies for the common defense of the Germsn federation. Heinrlch XXII. comes from a very Illus trious house, which consists ot two branches, the elder dying with him. Both branches have ever since 1700 named all their males Henry and numbered them ac cording to the dsts of birth, but on Inde pendent snd different systems. Ths law of ths elder branch is that ths numbering shall recommence after the birth of the hundredth male, who will be Henry C. This branch has, however, produced only twenty-four males In 202 years. POLITICAL DRIFT. Ohio republlcsns meet st Cleveland May 27. Lewis Nixon has discovered that an hon est man Is neither useful nor ornamental la Tammany hall. Senator Billy Mason of Illinois Is mors than ever In favor of s change in the mode of rlcetlng t'nlted States senators. David Bennett Hill has cancelled his summer vscstlon snd will employ his time In repairing political fences la New York. Of the nine members of ths supreme court all but two ars college graduates. Peckham and McKenna received their edu cation at academies. Ths chief luetics is 69 years old; Hsrlsn, 68; Gray, 74; Brown, 66; Brewer. 65; 8htras. 70; White. 67; Peckham, 64, and McKenna 69. An issue of this year's legislative contest la riwWa st the proposed extension to that CrmBaldsig Powder Each time the United States Government has officially tested the baking powders .. the report has shown Dr. Price's Cream , Baking Powder to be of superlative leavening strength, free from alum, abso lutely pure and wholesome. This is gratifying, for Dr. Price's Cream ' Baking Powder is depended upon by mil 'lions of people to raise their daily bread. Price Bakins Powder Co Cm mam. I state of the dispensary system for the state management of the sale of liquor, as al ready Installed In South Carolina. As a means of adding to the state revenue the dispensary syetem would be popular In Florida. ' Senator Piatt of New York announces that If his health remains good he may persuade himself to stand for re-election. The sen ator's slats have been on their good be havior for tw years. Although 71 past, he feels like 60. The prohibition sheriff of Cumberland county, Me., which Includes the city of Portland, swore out last year 4,834 war rants for violators of the liquor law and served 4,916. Ths total number of gallons of liquor seized was 9,553 and the fines and costs collected $29,325. Only one member of President McKlnley's original cabinet as formed tn March', 1897. now remains James W. Wilson, secretary of agriculture. Since that date there have been three secretaries of state, two each In the Departments of the Treasury, War, Navy and the Interior, three postmaster generals and three attorney generals. The state of California elects this year a governor in place of Henry T. Gage, re publican, elected in 1S98 by nearly 20,000 majority over Judge Magulre, the fusion candidate. There Is factional republican opposition to the renomlnatton of Governor Gage and In San Francisco, which casts a considerable part of the vote of California, party conditions rre mixed. Virginia Is tc .ave an improved capttol at Richmond, preserving the building around which cluster many historical asso ciations. . The legislature bas appropriated 1100,000 to modernize the old building, but It Is provided that there shall be no change In the general architectural plan. The con struction of the capltol was begun tn 1785, after a model sent from France by Thomas Jefferson. Altogether the capltol has cost $160,000 so far. A clergyman named Rose bas been nomi nated for congress by the populists of a Kansas district. Tha reverend gentleman seems to have said something which arouses doubt In the mind of State 8enator Dumont Smith, who says that Parson Rose "is a liar, .with fifteen rattles and a button." Rev. Vernon J. Ross hss lived in Newton for eight years and has been connected as evangelist with the Christian church. He was born la Jasper county, Iowa, tblrty-two years ago. W. J. Bryan and W. J. Stone will work the Megaphones at the, unveiling of the Richard P. Bland monument at Lebanon, Mo., June 17. It will be a memorial Bervlce over free silver, for one side of the monu ment contalqs the following declaration In silvered letters: "I do spea for the great masses of the Mississippi valley when I say that we will not submit to the domlna- I tlon of any political party, however much 1 we may love It, that lays the sacrificing hand upon silver and will demonetize It." Saturday a great many people devote to shopping and to make their selections for Sunday- especially the men and it's the men and boys we are after, If you are thinking of a new suit think of Browning, King & Co. If it's any kind of furnishings think of Browning, King & Co. If it's a new hat, straw or felt think of Browning, King Co. And what you can't think of you can see in our windows. No clothing fits like burs That $2;50 quick sale in our Juvenile Department lasts one more day and the suits are going fast, as are also the wool pants at 25 cents in that department. Exclusive Clothiers and Furnishers Rr Wilcox, .Manoser. Noti. These Government Inquiries s!s developed the fact that there are many mixture upon the market made in imi tation of baking powder, but containing alum or other caustic acid, whose use io 'ood is dangerous. LIMES TO A LAV OH. Harvard lampoon: Jingo What's caused the row In the Vounghub family? Bingo The better half discovered that she didn't know how the other half lived. Chicago Record-HerAM; "She always said she. preferred to be the wife of one of the plain people, but they say the man she married Is heir to a fortune." "Still, hub's got tier wish all right. I never saw a homelier chap than he is in my life." Philadelphia Press: "But the psrlor Is so awfully small," said the prospective tenant. "Yes, and the parlors In the adjoining houses are just as email," replied the agent. "That's the beauty of It. "That's not much comfort for me." "Oh! yes. You see, neither of your neigh bors has room for u piano." Chicago Tribune: "I observe," said the literary customer, "that 'concealment, like a worm I' the bud,' hath preyed 'on the damask cheek' of some of these apples. That Is a poetical quotation. I presume you have read Shakspeare?" "Red Shakespeare?" echoed the apple dealer. "No, sir. That's a variety I ve never heard of.". Philadelphia Press: "We never realize the full value of a thing until we lose it," remarked the moralist. "That's right." replied the practical msn, "especially If the thing lost was insured." OGORGIB TELLS OX PAW. S. E. Klser In the Record-Herald. I guess my paw's discouraged, from ths way he talks to maw; He says that woman's preach! n' and she's practtrln' at law; "Women gather In conventions," he com plained the other day. "And It seems there's no place hardly where they don't crowd men away; They're stenographing, you'll find 'em at the windows In the banks, The bnvs are pet tin' ousted and the girls 'flit' up th rsTilrs: " " They're . runnln' elevators, , and the nest, thing, I suppose, They'll be on the laoomotlve. fllrtln' gayly as she goes. "The girls are wearln collars like tha ones the fellows wear. And their coats are cut like men's are, next they'll shorten up their hair; I see that now they're goln' to wear Pana mas," says paw. "And they play the games the. men play It beats all I ever saw! The girls must have their highballs and they're smoking cigarettes. All the habits that the men have woman hurries up and gets; When she rides a horse she straddles, I suppose next thing we know She'll discover some concoction that'll make 'er whiskers grow." Maw had a dandy regUtn when the raglans Were In style; Her collar's made like paw's Is and it seems thnt all the while She keeps goln to some meetln' where she makes a speech or two Ahd gets wrote up in the papers all that paw does she can do! She's takln' fencln' lessons and she'a tot paw's cane and tied A fancy ribbon to It and shs holds It at her side, Up end down, when she's out walkln' so, ' at last, It's got to be ' That paw locka his Sunday trousers In the trunk and takes the key. 'I! k 4 .A"
