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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE; SAT1TKDAY, MAY 17, 1902
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George jj Tsschuck, secretary of Th Be
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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
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..20.B1O
..2t,uio
..20,400
..29,010
..20,470
...20,000
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27
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.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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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