0 THE OMAIIA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1902. The omaiia Daily Bee. K. ROSEWATEH, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERT MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Dally Bee (without Hunday), One Tear. M09 pally Bee and Bunday, una Tear 4.W siiustrated Ure, una, i ear fctunaay (iff, una tefir Baturuay nee, one tear l w ' 'i'wentleih Century 1'armer. One Tear. l.Ou DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Pl!y Ilea (without Sunday), per copy.. 2c pally Hem (without bunoay), per wevK..12c pally Bee ( including Hund:vy, per weea.li'o uniay itee, per ropy c Lvemng Bee (without Bunuay), per week.loc fevening nee (including bunuay), per weeK loo Compialnta of irregularities In delivery anouid be addressed to City Circulation department OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha City Hall Building, Twen-ty-rmh and M streets. Council Blurts lu Pearl Street. Chicago imv Unity Building. .'ew York Temple Court. Washington 6ui fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. 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Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, aye that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning, Evening ana Sunday Bee printed during the mouth at May, 1802,. was a follows: 1 21,H 17 80,500 21,4At 18 StD.SUO 2D,52o i ait.uao 4 2,USO 20 2U.UOO 30,20 Jl 2ft,04O BO.aoO 22 28,B(H 1 8O.7W0 23 29,470 2H.NHO 24 2,SMO 20,700 25 20,540 10 20,480 28 29,540 21,5S 27 20,530 12 2O.05O 28.. 20,500 M 20.63O 29 20,4.10 1 20.0.IO 30 20,000 20.570 Jl 20,010 IS 2U,ftOO Total S1U.AMI Less unaold and returned copies.... 10,700 Net total sales D0N.H80 Jfet daily average 20,310 GEO. B. TZSCHUCK, Subscribed in my presence and sworn to before me tills 31st day of May, A. D. 1901. (Seal.) m b. H UNGATE, Notary Public. Omaha's city council has evidently adopted as a new motto "Let there be light" If the days of railway pools are past, congress may as well ring off on all those bills to legalize pooling. We trust It will not come to the need of armed Intervention between the war ring officers of the local Boer relief league. President Loubet has eleven places In bis cabinet to fill. 11 ere Is where the French president gets ahead of the Amer ican president Our supreme court commissioners are complaining that they are overworked. We note, however, that none of them re threatening to resign. Senator Dietrich evidently does not yet fully appreciate the necessity of swathing his remarks In cotton so they will not collide too forcibly with the senate rules. At the court remarked In the recent decision In the Omaha police commission case, all litigation must eventually have an end but the end Is sometimes ex ceeding long drawn out. Mayor Moores should not stop with Yetoing ordinances that create overlaps. He should refuse to sign any warrant for claims against the city In excess of the limits fixed by the charter. The passing of the Philippine bill by the senate demonstrates one pleasing lesson. It shows that that august body can cut off the oratory of Its windy members If It once makes up Its mind to do so. City Treasurer Henntnga' enumera tion of the various extra services he ren ders the public for his regular charter salary entitles him to the top place on the roll of honor of conscientious public servants. The government crop report continues to give favorable account of Nebraska's crop conditions, assuring prosperity for the farmers In all our surrounding ter ritory. The trade of this section for the coming season is going to be something worth competing for. American horses had little show to win out in the Derby against the en tries from the British stables. Con sidering the triumph of the American mule in South Africa, howeVer, the Britishers may count themselves still behind in the international score. According to the report of the state auditor, more Insurance companies are working the Nebraska field and more Insurance business is being transacted la Nebraska than ever before. Put this down as another straw pointing the way the prosperity wind Is blowing. A piteous lamentation comes from the Omaha Bridge and Terminal company for fear it may have- to pay city taxes a the same basis as other property (Within the city. The Bridge and Ter minal company has been evading Its taxes successfully so long that it wants perpetual exemption. ' Shareholders In Sir Thomas Llpton's corporation are blaming the smallness Of their dividends to the over Indulgence of tne bead of the concern In his pas sion for yacht racing. But these share holders overlook all the free advertis ing Sir Thomas has gotten In whose benefits they are to reap, if the LIpton company paid for one-tenth of this ad vertising at regular newspaper rates, it would defer all dividends for some time ta come THE STATE TREASCRT EXHIBIT. State TreaKurer Stnefer's exhibit of the nuanclnl condition of the state for the six months ending May 31, 1002, conveys Interesting Information to the taxpayers of the state as to the receipts and disbursements during the last six months and the balances remaining in the various funds. For purposes of comparison with the balances In the treasury December I, 1001, which Mr. Stuefer has placed side by side, the ex hibit Is of little or no value. It simply shows that there Is now over 3O0,0OU more money in the state treasury than there was December 1 last year, and that fact Is due to Increased remittances from county treasurers. Incidentally TreasurerStuefer'B exhibit shows that the state has received $4,730 In Interest on deposits and has invested $706,022.38 in county bonds and Interest-bearing state warrants. Of a total of $3,121,F.&0.73 now held by the treasurer in trust securities for the public schools and university $1,020, 001.00 represents interest-bearing se curities purchased since the advent of the present republican state Administra tion, or nn Increase of over $800,000 In vested by the preceding administration during the same period. This creditable showing was made possible by the col lection of $657,233.72 from the sale of school lands and the redemption of more than $200,000 of county bonds held by the state for the permanent school fund. While Treasurer Stuefer points with pride to the fact that the Interest placed to the credit of the state by him on funds deposited In banks since January 31, 1001, amounts to $12,377.45, and ex ceeds by $2,037.02 the Interest paid on deposits for a similar period by his pred ecessor, he does not disclose In what banks the state funds are deposited and the amounts deposited in each bank. The exhibit also falls to show the ac tual debt of the state and the total amount of state warrants held by the state treasury among permanent school fund Investments. The statements of the state treasurer should be Just as ex plicit as regards the resources and lia bilities of the state as are the periodic statements of the secretary of the treasury concerning the national debt A GOVERNMENT CABLE. The bill providing for a transpacific cable will soon come up for considera tion In congress, this being one of the matters which the president Is under stood to be particularly anxious to have disposed of at the present session. In regard to the question whether the ca ble should be laid and controlled by the government or by a private corpora tion opinion In congress has appeared to be about equally divided, but we are inclined to think that a further discus sion of the subject will strengthen the support for a government cable. The weight of argument is certainly on that side and perhaps the strongest reason, as the New York Tribune points out, is that it Is necessary to. make the entire cable system a purely American , one, which would not be the case with either of the private companies which are ask ing congress for a contract to lay the cable. "From California to Luzon," says the Tribune, "the cable must be under ex clusive American control and at every landing place it must be on American soil and under the American flag, and It must be free to be extended at will from Luzon to China and Japan. No charter should be granted to any com pany that is not free from even a suspi cion of 'standing in with' alien con cerns. If no private company can com ply with that requirement, then the United States government should itself take the enterprise In hand." Neither of the companies proposing to lay tht cable under contract with the govern ment meets this requirement and it it manifestly one that congress should con sider. In any event, however, the proper thing Is for the government to lay and control a transpacific cable. PHILIPPINE LEGISLATION. The bill that passed the senate, tem porarily to provide for the administra tion of the affairs of civil government in the Philippine islands and for other purposes, will probably be passed by the house Of representatives without ma terial change and without unnecessary delay. The measure has been most thoroughly discussed in the senate, the country is familiar with Its character and purpose, the necessity for such legislation, if American sovereignty in the Philippines Is to be maintained and American principles of government es tablished there, is very generally con ceded. There is no apparent reason, therefore, for giving prolonged consider ation to the bill in the bouse. That this legislation will prove benefi cial to the Philippine islands and people there cannot be a reasonable doubt It will extend civil government there, it will promote industrial devolopment it will induce the Investment of capital and stimulate trade, it will advance pub lic improvements and its Influence will be In the Interest of peace and order. It is an essential step leading toward the establishment of a popular and rep resentative government The measure passed by the senate extends to the Filipinos the bill of rights of the con stitution of the United States, with the exception of trial by Jury and the right of the people to keep and bear arms. It contemplates a liberal participation of the natives In the administration of civil affairs. It provides for the protection of the people In their property rights, enables them to secure homesteads and safeguards the public lands from ex ploitation by corporations or syndi cates. In a word, the bill provides a most elaborate system of civil adminis tration for the government of the Phil ippines, which in its practical opera tion it is believed will develop the ma terial resources of the islands, advance the industrial Interests of their in habitants and promote the civilization, peace and prosperity of the whole peo ple under American sovereignty. The opposition to this legislation de mands that t&e United States shall re linquish all claim of sovereignty over and title to the Philippines and shall continue to occupy and govern the Islands only until the peoP1 thereof have established a government and given sufficient guaranties for the per formance of our treaty obligations with Spain and for the maintenance and protection of all rights which have ac crued under the authority of the United States. This Is a policy which there Is abundant reason to believe Is not ap proved by a majority of the American people. Indeed it may be confidently asserted that It would be overwhelm ingly rejected If submitted for a popular verdict. The people of Oregon have Just shown what they think of It and we venture to think that the Judgment of the people of that state reflects the opinion of most of the country. The democrats In the senate have labored most assiduously to make political capi tal by denouncing the Philippine policy of the government even attempting to dishonor the army which is upholding American sovereignty In those Islands. They have failed and upon this Issue their party will continue in the minority. PELAGIC SEALING AGAIN. Again the practice of pelagic sealing Is receiving attention at Washington, a bill having been introduced in the house of representatives in regard to the mat ter. This provides that If the United States and Great Britain cannot agree upon a plan to suppress pelagic sealing the secretary of the treasury shall be authorized to have all the seals on the Frlbilov islands excepting 1,000 males and 10,000 females killed, the proceeds from the sale of the skins to be covered into the treasury. A proposition of this kind was mode several years ago, but did not receive much consideration. Now It Is favored by the ways and means committee of the house and Is therefore likely to receive serious atten tion. The Seattle Post-In telllgencer thinks killing the seal not the most satisfac tory method of settling the matter. It says that the position which the United States has heretofore taken in regard to pelagic sealing has not only proved untenable, but its only effect has been to destroy a thriving Industry in which American citizens were engaged and to transfer the seat of that industry to British Columbia. Laws were passed substantially forbidding American ves sels or American hunters to engage In sealing on the high sea, with the re sult that the Industry was transferred to the Canadians, who It seems have recently been carrying it on with more than usual vigor, threatening the ex termination of the seal herds at no very distant time if a stop Is not put to the practice. This matter has long been a source of more or less irritating controversy and It would seem that our government should take some firm and decided stand for the protection of Its rights. The proposition to slaughter most of tho seal on our islands sounds like a surrender and should sot be adopted except as a last resort The piratical operations of the Canadian seal hunters, in their Indiscriminate slaughter, It should be possible to put a stop to and every effort should be made to do this before seriously considering the proposi tion introduced In congress. THOSE THIRTEEN POINTS. Representatives of the fire Insurance companies assert that insurance ratings In Omaha can be improved by thirteen points providing the causes for high rates are removed. The thirteen points scored against Omaha are as follows: 1. Water works not commensurate to demands by reason of Insufficient stor age capacity three points. 2. Fire hydrants too far apart, as schedule requires them to be 150 feet apart two points. 3. Insufficiency of fire department equipment two points. 4. No fire coroner two points. 5. Slack enforcement of building laws two points. 6. Overhead trolley system two points. Each polnt.representa 2 1-7 per cent In the rating; therefore the removal of all the defects would cut off 27 6-7 per cent of the standard. Most of the points raised, however, do not seem to us Jo be well taken. The storage capacity of the water works is ample. The settling basins hold 00,000,000 gallons and in case of fire water can always be pumped di rectly from the river. There is no dan ger that all the pumps , will at any one time be disabled, hence the 10,000,000 gallons in the high pressure reservoir afford no ground for an extra charge. In the greater portion of the business center of Omaha fire hydrants coma within the distance fixed by. the schedule, but Inasmuch as Intermediate hydrants can be placed at $10 a year the lack of hydrants within the business section can be supplied. It Is an open question whether a fire coroner is of any special benefit to pol icy holders even with the promised re duction of 4 per cent A firs coroner sctlng for the insurance companies would be a detriment to the Insured. In any event the city is In no position to create sn additional salaried office. The more strict enforcement of the building laws U desirable and the build ing Inspector is endeavoring to enforcs them as far as the law permits. It is doubtful, however, whether the fire un derwriters will ever be satisfied either with the building laws or their enforce ment For the present and for some years to come the abolition of the overhead trol leys la out of question, so that the two points charged against them must re main. The efficiency of ths firs department has been materially improved and the equipment will soon be increased up to full requirements. It remains to be seen, however, whether Omaha policy holders will get any benefit in the snaps of reduced fire rates. If that moaa-grown claim of Tom Kennard's which has run ths gamut bt legislature and courts in Nebraska for nearly a generation has been given a final quietus, the attorney general will have earned a vote of thanks from all taxpaylng citizens, who have no sym pathy with Jobs and grafts of the kind represented In this claim. It Is to be hoped the failure of Kennard to get his hand into the treasury will operate to discourage similar attempts by other claimants with trumped up bills for pay for services never performed. Just because ex-Senator Allen first un furled the banner of William J. Bryan for governor, Judge Edgar Howard dis countenances the suggestion with unre lenting firmness. If the populist veteran should come out for Judge Howard, the latter would doubtless Indignantly re sent the proposal. When ex-Senator Allen took Issue with Judge Howard on the color of the halo circling over the head of T. Jefferson's immortul shade, he committed the unpardonable offense. Krupp, the great German steel mas ter Is said to have perfected a projec tile that will pierce and destroy tho best and thickest armor plate he has ever turned out Ilerr Krupp la an up-to-date manufacturer. First he devises an armor plate no shell can pierce and then a shell to pierce the armor plate and will then again work up an armor plate that will resist the new projectile. This beats ping pong to say nothing of the profits. An Illinois man has been found will ing to accept the post made vacant by the death of the American consul who succumbed to the outpourings of Pelee that Inundated St Pierre. Had there been any difficulty In securing an eligi ble volunteer, we feel sure that Iowa would have come to the rescue as a last resort While explaining where it stands, the local reform organ might define Its posi tion on the action of a handful of Omaha populists appointing themselves without caucus, primary or convention to cast 128 votes in the state convention that is to determine the makeup of the "reform" ticket for Nebraska. One Thins; Agreed On. Chicago News. At any rate, everybody is agreed that the Philippines must never be admitted to the union. That la about all that has come out of the debate In the senate. Where the Statistician Comes In. Indianapolis News. To demonstrate how severe the Brltlsh Boer war has been the statistician shows that the Boers had a fighting force In all ot 60,000 men and that they lost 78,4001 Try In ST to Follow Oar Dave. Chicago Chronicle. Lieutenant Richmond Pearson Hobson will find that he can't klas his way Into congress. Numerous though his admirers may be they unforunately have no votes. Has on the Toboajaan Slide. . Brooklyn Eagle. The keynote of the current play or novel Is the incapacity or humiliation ot man. Woman domlnancy ts the theme ot drama and the foible of fiction whlob Is not very far oft from fact Blaarnantmons Crooks. Washington Post. It is so noble and magnanimous in Mr. Gaynor and Mr. Greene to offer to return to this country and stand trial provided they are permitted to select the court. They probably have their eyes on the tribunal In which those Philadelphia ballot box stutters were so handsomely vindi cated. Mercer's "Pork" Barrel. Philadelphia Record. As agreed upon in conference committee the omnibus public building bill carries $19,425,450. or nearly $4,000,000 more than the original measure reported to and passed In the bouse ot representatives. No log rolling "pie" legislation of earlier days can match this. Public building "graft era" in congress twenty or thirty years ago were content with a bill carrying $7,000,000 or $8,000,000, but that was the day of small things. When the looters survey the field and measure their opportunities they are doubtless astontshed like Warren Hastings In India, at their own moderation. Growth of Postal Bastaess. Springfield (Mass.) Republican. Nearly 1,000,000,000 more postage stamps have been Issued to the poetofflces of the United Statea since July 1 last than were Issued during the whole of tho previous fiscal year. This is not necessarily indica tive ot a great Increase in the postal busi ness. From lack of other facilities for the transmission of small sums of money by mall, stamps have come to be extensively used. But the extraordinary increaae In the demand for stamps must reflect not only the existence ot Improving conditions of prosperity among the people, but a marked tendency ot small trade through mall orders to expand. Shelve tho Pooling; Bills. Springfield (Maas.) Republican. Congress evidently might as well drop all pending bllta legalizing railroad pooling. The question is already moved back into the past as one of practical Interest, for even the railroads now manifest no great concern in the matter. They have found something more effective for the abolltloa of competition. As E. H. Harrlman said the other day at Omaha: "The days of pools and combinations are past Other conditions are coming to take their places, and the principal of them will be the cen tralization of ownerships." And be might have added that over the centralization of private ownership will stand a closer gov ernment control than ever. 'PORK" BARRELS IS DANGER. Lea-rollers In Conajreos Fear tho Pres ident's Wrath. Philadelphia North American (rep.). The political grafters la congress, who purchase support la their districts with public funds, are perturbed by rumors that the man In the White House may head up the "pork barrel" by vetoing the river and harbor grab and the public buildings steal. The promoters of these rotten swin dles are scurrying around for votes to pass them over the prealdent's veto and "teach him a lesson." There Is no other possible Issue between a log-rolling congress and the executive oa which President Roosevelt could better afford to go before the people. If he will veto the bills, and give his reasons la good, plain, Roosevelt English calling things by their right names and rowellng the ribs of thieves who exploit the public treasury for political profit public oplnloa will back him up aad teach congress a , leasoa th( it sadly needs. Spartans of the Veldt Lose and Gain. Chicago Inter-Ocean. England won has won oossesslon of th South African republics at a fearful cost; tne Boers have lost their Independence, but have won tha avmnathv of I he wnrM and in the end may bo stronger In South Africa than the victors of today. Something- Do In a; Alt the Time. Minneapolis Times. Well, the Boers have the satisfaction of knowing that they brought England to a full realization of the fact that there was a fight on. Every little while for nearly three years there has been something doing and the Boers were doing their share. A Noble Saerlflee. Baltimore American. The Boers have been conquered, but the world will always award them the highest honor for their noble struggle against such awful odda. They have made a noble sacrifice in the cauae of human liberty, and have taught Great Britain a lesson which will never be stricken from the pages ot her history. Possibilities of the Fntnro. Minneapolis Tribune. Why should not the future be theirs some day, when the British empire has begun to weaken under repeated shocks, and some sea power has grown up which may do for them what France did for ua? The beautiful dream of the United States of South Africa has been eclipsed; but observers of history regard such eclipses with the eye of science, rather than with the superstition of savages who look upon the sun as blotted out forever. Britain's Loss of Prestige. Br, Paul Pioneer-Press. The Hon of familiar fable whose paw has been caught In a trap, too petty to do serious harm, but Just strong enough to hold. Is not for a season more help less than has been the British Empire for thirty-one months. The loss In men, money and material Is as nothing to the visible loss ot prestige. This Is all balanced by the loyalty of the colonies, the proof of tbolr readiness to support the empire and the new cohesion ot a vast fabric, which, as In all welding of states, could only be made one by blood, iron and the blows ot battle on war's smoking anvil. The gain ts much. The loss also is great. Seeds of Racial Hate. I Minneapolis Journal. The great mistake in the terms of peace In South Africa Is the refusal to grant com plete amnesty and' citizenship to the Boer rebels In Cape Colony. The day will como when this refusal will be bitterly regretted. It will keep alive more than anything else the hatred of the Boer for Briton. If all causes for trouble between the races could be removed England might hope to amalga mate the Boers and British in South Africa. But with a perpetual cause for hatred of the British the Boers will keep themselves separate from the Britons. Politics in the reconstructed states will follow racial lines. A Calamitous Straggle. ' Springfield (Mass.) Republican. The British triumph over a people that all counted did not equal the population of a third-rate English city, has been won at a terrible and unprecedented cost The Boer war has cost England In hard cash nearly twice as much as did all her wars against Napoleon, the - present estimate reaching the vast sum of over $1,000,000,000.' Her sons have been slain by the thousands. Her fiscal needs have finally compelled the making of a breach In the commercial sys tem under which she controlled for a cen tury the foreign trade of the world, and she faces the economic struggle of the future with less of strength, compared with her great rivals, than ever before. Finally, and worst of all, England In these two and a half years has come to be hated by Europj as she had not been in a century. And even in America, where the old animosities were VIEWS OF A RAILROAD MAGNATE Significant Ctterances of Mr. Harrl man at Omaha. Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette. Railway Magnate Harrlman, In an Omaha Interview, sees tbe passing ot the day of pools, mergers and combines. "Other con ditions are coming to take their places and the principal will be the centralization of ownership," said Mr. Harrlman, and the greater and the leBser railway magnates with him said amen to their chief. The difficulty which Mr. Harrlman sees in the present situation of railway affairs Is in the hostility of legislatures a hostility not visible to the naked eye of tbe ordinary. all around citizen and he Insisted that railway legislation should be baaed on lines of aid. Instead of hostility, for, said Mr. Harrlman, "the railroad man la In better position to know what railroads need than legialatures generally." There has been no overwhelming amount of stuttering ob servable on the part of tho great railways in making their wants known to legisla tures, but that railway men know what they want and generally get It there Isn't the slightest ground on which to base a dispute. The statement of Mr. Harrlman, outlining a new and Important move by the' great railways, received additional strength from the conference which followed between himself. President J. J. Hill of the Northern Pacific, President Hughltt of the Chicago A Northwestern system and other omclala holding high positions In tbe railway world. It Is Important In view of the recent state ment of President Hill of his belle-r that the suit against the Northern Securities company would be decided In favor of tbe government and against the magnates In terested In the attempted merger. It is most Important in the fact that It means that railway magnatee instead of mere con trol of the great trunk lines and all their connections, are aiming at absolute owner ship a scheme only to be accomplished by wrecking processes. In which tne smaller stockholders will get the worst of It if they get anything and that what compet ing companlea may not do, under the law, by mergers they may do because of one common ownership. It legislatures will not come down to the demands of railways, the railways will rise above legislatures and congress. If they are to be disturbed In their schemes, no matter of what character, tbey will ef fect a change of present ownerships and take a short cut to a merger, which, tber believe, will be congress and legislature proof. The railways are big things, but tf they persist In running risks with legis lative and Judicial buzzsaws, they are likely to come to grief In a run that will not be ao very long. The Ohio republican plat form takes the right view ot just such propositions as that of Mr. Harrlman. It recognizes tbe necessity of co-operation to meet new conditions In tbe Industrial world, "but all combinations that stifle competition and control prices, limit pro duction or unduly increase profits or values, especially when they raise ths prices of the necessaries of life, are opposed to publlo policy and should be repressed by a stroag hand." Aad Uncle Sam's hand Is muscular. being forgotten, this war has done nothing but inflame popular feeling against every thing British, and It Is the cold truth to say that by crushing a republican nationality that had the stalwart Teutonic beginnings of a vigorous and noble civilization Eng land has made two enemies In the vast bsdy of the American ' electorate where one existed before. There are those who say that England comes out of the war stronger than she was at the beginning. But that cannot be, unless water may run up hill and men have lost all sensitiveness to the moral law. The war has been a cala mity to the whole English-speaking race and to the world, and no amount ot gold dug from the South African mines can ever efface the fact. It may be hoped that the future has In store for the British empire no similar relapse Into barbarism. A War of Conquest. Philadelphia Record. Whatever provocations may have been given by the Boers, ths war ot Great Britain on the Dutch republics was es sentially one of conquest undertaken by a strong, bullying power against a small and heroic if retrograde and uncultured people. Civilized public opinion has put such exploits under taboo, and the war was deplorable as a lapse into the Inter national Immorality ot the eighteenth century or earlier periods of human history. Great Britain can clean herself of ths dis honor Incurred only by the most honorable after-treatment of the conquered people; and even In that case a stigma will remain upon her name. Problem of Reconstruction. Chicago Tribune. Great Britain has disposed of the first great problem, that ot compelling the Boers to lay down their arms. There now awaits it the second great problem, that of gov erning the men whom only the direct need has driven to submission. It Is a problem the solution of which calls for the greatest tact, delicacy, gentle firmness, and many other qualities needed for the successful government of an unwilling people. There have been occasions when the British gov ernment or Its agents have been lacking In these qualities. Until it shall have been demonstrated that the English are able to Anglicize South Africa It will not be ex pedient to assume that Boer independence Is dead.- It may be merely sleeping. Opening; Africa to Trade. Louisville Courier-Journal. The sympathy of nations has always been with tbe burghers and the memory of their heroism will mark a permanent place In history. Economically considered, however, British domination will give an impetus to the civilization of the dark continent that promises much for It and for the world. It means free trade In Africa, and It means that anyone la welcome to help in the task of development under fair and liberal laws. The work that has been done in Egypt and the Cape will be pushed further, and In time we shall learn If so large a part of Africa Is adapted to civilization as has been claimed by Cecil Rhodes and other ex ploiters ot its vast resources. J A Costly War. Philadelphia Ledger. The Boer losses cannot be ascertained, but they probably did not have more than 70,000 men In the field, and at least 8,000 of these remain, and there are many thousands of prisoners In the hands ot the British. Up to January $1 last tbe losses of the British by death or permanent disability numbered 25,305. and the total of casualties Included 6,240 officers and 100.701 men. The war. Instead of being a "pig shooting pic nic," lasted tor two years and nearly eight months; brought mourning into nearly every household In Great Britain, and cost the people more than $1,000,000,000. For this sacrifice the nation gets possession ot the gold . and diamond fields, and can turn them over to speculators, who will proceed to fleece tbe gullible public of whatever the tax collector may have left them. That is the glorious outcome of the war, so far as Great Britain is concerned. PERSON AL NOTES. A large batch ot Missouri officials have been indicted for playing penny-ante on a fishing trip. Tbe late Dr. Thomas Dunn English will have a suitable monument erected over bis grave by the Society of American Authors, of which he was a vice president. Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) will have conferred upon him the degree of L.L. D. at the commencement exercises at the State university, Columbia, Mo. Mr. Asqulth, tha English statesman, said in a speech at a recent press banquet that nearly every member of the present British cabinet, from the premier down, had worked for the press at one time or another. William D. Arnold of Ionia, Mich., and Walter D. Arnold of Ionia, his twin brother, a" few days ago celebrated their seventy sixth birthday In the home ot the former. William had been a farmer all his life, while Walter has followed mercantile pur suits. The late Thomas Dunn English left a re quest that no reference to "Ben Bolt" be made in ths Inscription that Is to grace his monument. And yet nineteen out of every twenty persons who view his grave will say, "He wrote 'Ben Bolt,' you know." Fame of this sort stlcketb much closer than a brother. j Pension Commissioner Ware has made It a practice all his life to preserve his let ters. In his office at Topeka be bas a great letter file containing more tbaa 25,000 let ters of a private character and another file containing about as many of a business character.' He has these letters Indexed in such a manner that he can turn In stantly to any one of them by name, date or subject matter. 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They're not big enough.1' Philadelphia Press: CTushlngton Ahl your wife Is a most remarkable woman. , Henpeck Think ao? Gushlngton Indeed, I do. Don't you? Henpeck Well, Bhe certainly Is able to make more remarks than any other woman I know. Baltimore American: "A king.'" T say to the Interested listener, "Is merely an accident of birth, and so la a hod carrier." "Doubtless," puts in the quibbling per son, "you are correct, but did It ever occur to you that the parents of the hod carrier never possess an accident policy?" Ere I can frame an anawer of sufficient lntenseness he haa flitted away. Cleveland Plain' Dealer: "It Is said that the queen of Holland eats six meals a day and a great deal between meals besides." "Isn't that lovely?" "isn't what lovely?" "Why, to be a queen and eat all you want, or can, without having anybody re mind you that beefsteak coats money. Brooklyn Eagle: "What makes him glare 1n such a painful way? Why, It's worse than the bicycle face of which we used to hear so much!" "S-s-h! That'a the swelleat expression of the day. It's known as the automobile eye." A PLKA FOR PRUXE8. Washington Star. I am waiting, sadly watting, for the very worst to come, I am waiting for the wildest, weirdest woe of all the sum. They've monopolized our bread and they have cornered all the beef. Our coffee, tea and sugar they control be yond relief. And all the luxuries of life are drifting past our reach. And It doesn't do the slightest good to rise and make a speech. But while the prices soar aloft like gay and light balloons, We pauae and all are glad there's no monopoly on prunes. It is a steadfast friend that clung when fickle fortune strayed; That stalwart fruit has stanrhly stood when others fled, dismayed! Though mentioned In derisive glee; though jeered at and despised, In moments of necessity how truly Is It prised! The saccharine embellishment in which it lightly rests, Is nectar for Olympian gods to place be neath their vests! And yet It holds no haughty pose; at morn ings, nights and noons. The simplest and most frugal board Is proudly graced with prunes. Oh, mighty men of money, for whose favor kings must sue, Pray, spare this precious viand for another year or two! With golden bands our railroads tie. like mighty sheafs of steel; The ox, likewise the porker, place beneath a giant heel; But this, our Joy In fleeting youth, our prop in years mature Cv let us feel that for a little while It ts secure! . Though all our other comforts fly, as wax and wane the moons, In thla one case have pltyl Don't put up tha price of prunes! regularly sold at 75c regularly sold at 75c 4 8C fashioned slightly damaged