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TIIE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 190i I Tiie omaiia Daily Bee. E. ROSE WATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERT MORNINC3. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Tally Bee (without Sunday), One Year.M 00 Dally Bee and Sunday, One Year 'Illustrated Bee. One Year i-'V Sunday Bee, One Year Saturday Bee, One Year LW twentieth Century Farmer, One Y'ear. l.W DELIVERED BY CARRIER, 'pally Bee (without Sunday), per copy.. Jo Dally Bee (without Sunday), rxr week. .12c 'Dally Bee (Including Sunday), per week.lic Sunday Bee, per copy oo Evening Bee (without Sunday), per week.Wc Evening Bee (Including Sunday), per , week lSe : Complaints of Irregularities In delivery hould be addressed to City Circulation Department, OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha City Hall Building, Twen-'ty-flfth and M streets. . Council Bluffs 10 1'earl Street. . Chicago 1640 Unity Building. New York Temp'e Court. I Washington aul Fourteenth Street. ; CORRESPONDENCE. Communication! relating to news and 'editorial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS. ' Business letters and remittances should be addressed: The Bee Publishing Com pany, Omaha. REMITTANCES. .' Remit by draft, express or postal order, Sayable to The Bee Publishing Company, nly X-cent stamps accepted In payment of mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Dmaha or eastern exchange, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, si.: George B. Tzschuck, aecretary of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly aworn, ays that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of May, 1902, waa as follows: X. 2U,WM 17 2U.BUO I at,4JM 18 2,BUO 21,830 19 itU,30 ...... 2O.B0O 20 29.0OO 1 80,280 21 20,4O SO.800 22 2O.B0O 1 ..30.TOO 23 20,470 2D.8HO 24... 20.BNO 2,T0 25 20.R40 10 20,480 28 20,040 H 21.BS 27 20,030 2O.O0O 28 20.0KO U 2U.B30 29 20,430 1 2O.03O 80 20.0UO 20,570 81 20,810 IS 20,S(M Total B1M.MNH iss unsold and returned copies.... 10,700 Net total sales 008,889 JSet dally average 20,3 is GEO. B. TZSCHUCK, Subscribed tn my presence and sworn to before me this 31st day of May, A. D. 1901. (Seal.) l. B. H UNGATE, Notary Public. The baccalaureate sermon shows no lgns of retiring to the background. Local merchants should make the most of the enlarged train service out of Omaha. What North Sixteenth street needs Is a new pavement rather than constant patching and repatchlng. With all the Sbrinors assembled at Ban Francisco the Occident will be tem porarily transferred Into an Orient. Ex-Senator Allen still persists in booming Bryan for governor without halting either for his aid or consent Aeronautic; wonders whose airship ex ploits recently made so much talk do not seem to be flying so high of late. France has a brand new cabinet of ministers who ought to do something at onca to attract attention to them selves. Omaha will this week lavish hospital ity on the state association of under takers. And the undertaker he will do the rest. Out of deference to the yellow Jour nals Mont Pelee should subside a while and let them turn loose on the Impending coronation. It may be worth while recalling that no, new churches were dedicated until republican prosperity dispelled the pall of bard imes. It Is due to neither lockout nor strike that Omaha's public schools close down this week. They will be reopened In season without resort to arbitration. Preparations are going right along for old fashioned Fourth of July celebra tions just as If we had not been told that Independence day had been ex purged from the calendar. , John. N. Baldwin of Iowa ought to hare a special resolution of thanks ex tended to him by Nebraska republicans for the kindly and unselfish Interest he constantly manifests In Nebraska af fairs. Sessions of the county board as a board of equalisation commence this 'week. The gains made In the fight for tax reform in the city assessment roll must be riveted . down on the county assessment roll. President Burt of the Union Pacific Is credited with the ambition to shorten the time between Europe and the Orient The first step In that direction should be the cutting out of fifteen miles between Omaha and Fremont , Why worry about the possible conse quences on Wall street of the death of J. Plerpont Morgan? If that financier !la as astute as he. is credited, he will organise a company to protect all bis ether Interests against that emergency. ! Douglas county populists are Indulg ing their customary threats of what hey will do uuless the democrats come pi time with guaranties of place and profit These methods have worked in the past and ought to be successful again. l Advices from South Africa are to the effect that the only opposition to the peace terms still manifested comes from a few of the Boer women who appear to be more Irreconcilable than the men. The women unquestionably had much to da with inspiring and keeping up the courage of the Boers In their un equal fight Their reluctance to yield even after actual resistance has ceased Illustrates the strength of the devotion that attached tbeiu..to.tba-cause, PHtSlDKNT AND STRIKE. While resident Roosevelt has no legal authority to take any action In connec tion with the anthracite coal strike, he Is very properly manifesting a great deal of Interest In the contest and Is dis posed to do whatever he can to bring about an amicable settlement of the unfortunate controversy. As the dis patches have already noted the presi dent has been in conference with the commissioner of labor with a view to ascertaining what can be done and there Is a reasonable probability that some thing of a practical nature will result from this. It appears that In the law creating the department of labor the commis sioner is specially charged with author ity to Investigate the causes of and facts relating to all controversies and dis putes between employers and employes as they may occur and which may tend to Interfere with the welfare of the people of the different states. The gen eral purpose of this clause was to pro cure, for the use of congress at stated Intervals, reports on events which have passed, but the language Is so broad as to authorize an Inquiry by the com missioner while a controversy Is still In progress. It Is under this law that the president bas conferred with the com missioner of labor, but all that either can do In . the premises, so far as appears. Is to Investigate the facts and to report the same to congress. There was formerly a law under which the president might have Interfered In the anthracite coal strike, but this was re pealed some years ago and at present the president has no power to Interpose. However, there Is no reason why the commissioner of labor may not Investi gate conditions In the anthracite region and report the same to the president, who can communicate the facts to con gress, and probably this will be done. What effect such action would have Is altogether problematical, but It would at least acquaint the public with an official statement of the true character of the questions in controversy and thus enable the people to Judge fairly as to the Justice of the claims of the respec tive parties to the controversy. That It Is desirable this, should be done we think will be universally admitted and therefore the Interest which President Roosevelt Is manifesting In the matter must meet with general approbation. It ought to be safe to assume that both parties to the controversy will be glad to accept the efforts of the president of the United States to bring about a satis factory settlement. MERCER1TE SHARP PRACTICE. Three weeks ago the republican com mittee of Washington county issued a call for a delegate convention to nomi nate elective candidates on the county ticket and appoint delegates to the state, Judicial and. senatorial conven tions. The convention met at Blair Saturday, but Instead of confining Its action strictly within the limits of the call, the partisans of David -H. Mercer took snap Judgment on the republicans of Washington county by selecting fif teen delegates to the Second congres sional district convention. For this action there is absolutely no warrant in law. No call has yet been issued by the congressional committee, no apportionment of delegates has yet been made and nobody knows whether the nomination Is to be made by direct primary or by the old-time delegate con vention. The delegates to the Wash ington county convention had therefore no right to anticipate that call. The selection of these delegates was not only illegal sharp practice, but a downright Imposition upon the rank and file of republicans of Washington county, who bad not even the suspicion that the convention would attempt to take action on the choice of congress man. It Is an open question also whether a candidate nominated by the votes of the Washington county dele gates could have his name legally In serted on the official ballot as the regu lar republican nominee. The most essential requirement of the law is publicity. All primary elections and caucuses must be called at least twenty days before the convention, and the call must specifically designate the offices for which nominations are to be made, either by direct vote at the pri mary or in convention. This attempt of the Mercerltes to capture a delegation by underhanded trickery forcibly illus trates the desperation of the non-resi dent congressman and his followers. They know well that the great majority of republicans In the district do not favor Mercer's renomlnatlon for a sixth term, but they propose to force bis nom ination against the popular will and ex pose the party to the risk of defeat on election day. TBS DlSCVSSWa or RUVTKS. The argument made by Senator II anna on the isthmian canal question has un doubtedly made a favorable Impression upon the country in behalf of the Pan ama route. The facta presented by the Ohio senator are of a most convincing character and so far as they relate to the danger from volcanic conditions they have received very substantial sup port from the latest disturbances in Guatemala, which show beyond doubt that the situation in that region Is peril ous and that it would be a very grave mistake on the part of the government to expend a vast sum of money there In the construction of a canal. The argument presented by Senator Ilanna was wholly practical In character and as such will appeal to the business Judg ment of the country, rsther than to sen timental considerations. It Is Impossible to say with any de gree of certainty what the prevailing opinion In the senate Is in regard to this question, but there Is pretty good au thorlty for the opinion that there Is a majority In favor of the Panama route. According to recent advices based upon careful inquiry it appears likely that the result of the discussion wilt be the adop tion of the Spooner substitute for the pending bill, which provides for tie se lectloa by ithflk. president tf the -Panama route In case a perfect title can be se cured, ss to which there seems to be no doubt It Is expected that a vote on the question will be reached in the sen ate within the next week or ten days. lUDtAS SCMSitR HCHUOL8. A number of Institutes will be held this summer for the benefit of the teachers of the Indian. Several of these have already been ordered by the sec retary of the Interior, Including two In South Dakota in June and July and one at Minneapolis in July. Refer ring to this the Washington correspond ent of the Brooklyn Eagle says that the first Indian summer school of record, consisting of representatives from four boarding and two day schools, convened at Puyallup, Wash., In 1884. Similar meetings have been held each year since with greatly increased attendance. At the Los Angeles meeting in 1899 the teachers in the Indian service were ad mitted as a department of the Na tional Educational association, being known as the department of Indian education. The meeting of the latter at Minneapolis next month will be at tended by teachers from all over the country and its program contains pa pers, addresses and lectures by the most eminent educators In the United States. These summer schools have been of very great advantage to the cause of Indian education and are therefore en titled to every encouragement The service they have done In advancing the work of Indian education bas been recognized and cordially commended by the Interior department and there Is no doubt that the deliberations of the meetings this year .will have gratifying results. The congressional campaign commit tees of both the great parties expect to promulgate official statements of the national issues involved in the coming political contest These committees, to be sure, are actuated by the best of motives with the purpose of saving the people at large from the trouble of formulating tbelr own Issues, but the voters may want to have something to say about It themselves before they get through. These ready-made issues do not always fit in with the fashion. According to the publicity department of "the railroads of Nebraska" those public-spirited institutions have always been eager to bear their shares of the burden of government. But when the law imposed on them the duty of pro tecting their tracks across busy thor oughfares by viaducts, the city of Omaha had to fight the case clear through the supreme court of the United States In order to bave the law enforced. Spain is gradually resuming its pur chases of American wares and goods notwithstanding the prejudice created by its disastrous war with this country. Trade follows the lines of mutual ad vantage and if American - merchants can offer tempting enough bargains, no recollections of the war will long stand In the way of Spanish patronage. IHetauen'a Doable Halo. Philadelphia Frees. Lord Methuen is sure of fame la two respects. He was the first British general to get licked and the last to get captured. Footing- All the Bills. Bt. Louie Globe-Democrat' . Mr. Bull understands himself to be tbs victor, but will have to put bis South Afri can farm In order at bis owa expense. Fui the Wings, Please. Chicago Record-Herald. When a girl secures damages in a lawsuit because the jury is said to be Influenced by her beauty she Is about as near heaven as It Is possible to get without dying. PeST to Hang; Hope On. Washington Post ' The Indiana populists favor the nomina tion of Bryan In 1904. provided he will clear himself of the few slight taints of democracy he bas exhibited In the past. The Crltlo Cornered.. . Baltimore American. ' It seems like tha sarcasm of fate to see Mark Twain receiving a collegiate degree, when It bas not been so long since be waa poking fua at the people who were getting them. - Comfort (or tha Feebie-Mlnded. Ban Francisco Chronicle. It Is announced that the British authori ties bave Introduced ping-pong Into Im becile wards ot poor-houses for tha pur pose of affording the Inmates an easy and innocent amusement at a small coat 60 it seems tha game has Its value after alt Uaaarmonntable Obstacles, St. Louis Globe-Democrat I A contemporary Is satirical on the sub ject ot good crops under a republican ad ministration. The country bad good crops under the last democratlo administration, but somehow the souphouse tariff and the rest ot the misfits and general . Incompe tency beat the bounties of nature, - Looks Like the Last Straw, Baltimore American. Fate bas not forborne adding the last straw. An Irish horse ridden by a Yankee Jockey bas won the English Derby, taking the race bodily from the English scepter, As the king himself mournfully said, the superstitious could easily find an omen In this "combination of circumstances. Stirring Times la the Interior, Chicago Inter-Ocean. With Mount Redoubt, Alaska, emitting dense smoke, cinders and flames that rise for hundreds of feet and rumbling noises in Mount Tsukaba. Japan, and Mount Pelee still belching and the volcanoes ot St Via eeat la action, and Vesuvius due to arrive at any. moment. It may be said that there is something doing la the Interior of this old sphere. A New Cent err Wonder. New York Tribune. Professor . Moore, chief of the' weather bureau at Washington, declares that be has Invented a gravity apparatus which cools and cleanses the air and makes tt dry and wholesome at the same time. If the wonderful invention can accomplish every thing which the worthy professor claims for It be will make the alchemists ot an clent days, the seekers ot the philosopher's stone and of the elixir of life, the squarers of the circle, the Ponee de Leons who west in search ot the springs ot eternal youth and the discoverers ot perpetual cool ion one and all of them look like a faint and evanescent glimpse ot the shadow ot thirty ceou vanishing la the HUn . UUAce Mr. HarrimarTs Plan Philadelphia Mr. E. H. Harrlman, the head ot two great transcontinental systems, has ex presses in a publlo interview the opinion ot a large number of able railroad men, that the railroads are more competent to manage the country than the country Is to manage the railroads. Mr. Harrlman does not say this in terms, but that is what he iceana. His frank declaration Is as fol lows: "The legislation of the future must be pro-railroad Instead of antl-railroad, and It must develop confidences between the pub lic and the transportation companies. Give the railroads the opportunity to de velop their resources, to show what they can do, and legislation Is always a remedy which can be resorted to. I believe la combinations of lines, whereby the products can be transported on the lines that can do It most economically. In other words, If you can transport over comparatively straight or level raods, as against crooked and mountainous roads, you can do It cheaper. There must be some way given to compensate (hose high-grade lines. I believe commissions are things of the past I do not think transportation companies should bare to submit to dicta tion or control by bodies who do not know anything about transportation. I think now Is the time for all of us to speak out what we think. Meet the thing face to face. Bodies formed for the purpose of controlling transportation should have In them representatives of the companies whose business Is to be controlled." Practically, this is a scheme that the railroads should have the privilege both of combination and of making rates. This is today the Issue In railroad affairs. Men like Mr. Harrlman wish to have state and federal commissions abolished, no power vested In the Interstate federal commission to make rates, and, through the power of combination, rate-making vested In the railroads. Wiser men, like Mr. A. J. Cas- eatt of the Pennsylvania railroad, with a broader view, see that this power can never be granted. Such men are willing to see A GREAT LIGHT APPEARS. Indiana Democrats Torn from Dark ness to the Dawn. Detroit Free Press (dem.) The democrats of Indiana have gone up towards Damascus and seen a great light. The state convention which met at Indian apolis Wednesday, rejected both the divin ity ot free sliver and the beaven-bornness of the heaven-born ratio. In a financial plank that reads as follows: "We recognize as aa economic fact the increase of standard money arising from the vast Increased production of gold from our own and foreign mines, and the pro digious Influx of foreign gold In this country as a result of an exceptional demand for our products arising from foreign wars and other causes, and we point to the result consequent upon this Increase of the cir culating medium as a demonstration of the truth of the quantltlve theory of money." When the Indiana democrats bave finally learned that money is only a measure of value, and that the government provides only a small amount of the money actually In circulation, they will have finished the remainder of their financial education and will place the qualitative theory of money alongside of their quantitative theory. Pos sibly they have already reached that stage. No political party likes to admit that It bas been burning incense at the shrine ot false gods,' and It Is the way of man to let htraielf down as easily as possible after he has seen the-' error of bis ways. This Is all the Indiana democrats have done. Mr. Bryan will unquestionably scold them. He may bring out his bell and his book and ' bis candle and pronounce a formal anathema; but they will sur vive it. They can point to excellent precedents. The Presbyterians bave re vised the Westminster confession and ob literated Infant damnation. Even Mr. Bryan cannot claim that the Chicago platform was a more perfect piece of work than the Westminster confession, and If he is determined not to affiliate with the demo crats that prefer live Issues to dead ones, no power will seek to separate blm from his dead. The rest of the mourners, how ever, are going to trot back to town with the hearse and the gentleman from Indiana. DETHRONING KING COAL. Possible Substitute- Officially An nounced la France. New York World. We bave in this country various kings, such as cotton, oil and steel, but we bave only one tyrant coal. The Industry, the commerce, the home comfort of the wholo nation are at its mercy because we must bave it or see everything brought to a standstill. There Is only one escape from this peril ous dependence a cheap and practicable substitute. This the scientists and econo mists of the world are seeking. During the present year a special exposition was held in Berlin to show the technical uses ot alcohol. From abundant crops of potatoes vast quantities of raw alcohol have been produced. Last year Germany used over 80,000,000 gallons of it. It will run motors, furnish lighting snd beating and do cook ing. France, making similar experiments. talks of a navy run by alcohol aa oppor tunity for much Jesting, but a serious sug gestion withal. 1 Germany does not stop with the various uses ot alcohol, but Is perfecting a process whereby peat msy be pressed and converted Into briquettes which may take the place of coal. "It is expected," says Electricity, "that tbs new process will not only serve to greatly relieve the scarcity of fuel In Germany, but eventually furnish a surplus for export" But the most Interesting snd promising substitute Is snnounced in recent consular reports from France. Inventors there claim to bave succeeded in making petroleum briquettes which, as officially reported, "possess all the advantages of coal and petroleum without the Inconvenience ot either." They weigh one-half as much a coal and produce twice the beat They burn without smell or smoke, leave prac tically no residue, keep indefinitely, are clean to handle and are perfectly safe. The proceas of manufacture Is so simple that a 120,000 plant will turn out several hundred tons a day. The claims for these briquettes would seem Incredible were they not mads oa government authority. On boats, by their lighter weight and superior com bustion, they would reduce the necessary fuel cargo for a given voyage fully one half. And our consul reports that they can be used tn domestlo and Industrial work without changing furnaces or ranges. As to cost, even la this early stage of their manufacture the petroleum briquettes can be made for $14 per abort ton. 80, If our consul Is correct wa have here a substitute which at the very least would keep the price of coal under $7. not to mention Its other advantages. There Is substantial hope in these things. Mankind, so quick to find substitutes for every other necessity In its operations, bas depended too long on coal, and coal baa cost tt dear. Evury strike Is paid for by the factortee and the homes. Each strike becomes more expensive snd a grester burden on Industry and progress. The world will be better snd freer when good substitutes topple Old King Coal from hls tkr ens, . Press (rep.) the power of making rales vested la a commission. If the power ot combining and pooling Is left with the railroads.' If Mr. Harrlman or anyone else thinks that control over the profits of all .the In dustries of the country will be left In the hands of any body of railroad men or any railroad corporation he Is making a mistake quite as great if on a bloodless field, as did H. L M. George I1L The power to make ratea Is the power to tax every profit of every Industry In the United States. As long as this power Is modified and controlled by competition the publlo Is safe. If competition is to cease by consolidation the public of in duatry, trade and retail distribution Is not safe If the combined railroads have the power to make the ratea. If the railroads are permitted to exercise both these powers they will manage the country. This may suit Mr. Harrlman. He Is perfectly ready to be a benevolent railroad despot. All of them are. But this country Is not organized In order to give despots, railroad or otherwlae, a chance to show tbelr benevolence. It was made to be a govern ment of laws and not of men or of rail roads and It will remain such a govern ment In spite of the benevolent desire which Mr. Harrlman and other railroad presidents show to manage Its affairs. Railroad interests themselves sre safer with men like President A. J. Cassatt, who see clearly that In the long run the rail roads will gain by a fair recognition ot the right of the state to require railroad rates to be reasonable through methods more efficient than those ot courts. In short by a commission. A bill providing this Is before the senate. It should pass. The supreme court in its decision on the Chicago termi nal charges has again decided against in terstate commission rates. The decision now Is on a detail, but It is Just as effective as if it were on the main Issue. Congress ought not to leave the commission power less even If Mr. Harrlman and some other railroad presidents think they can do bet ter in making rates than the commission. "GO 'WAY BACK AND SIT DOWN." Minneapolis Times: Mr. Bryan bas beard from Indiana by this time and It is fair to preaume that Indiana will hear from Mr. Bryan very soon. Brooklyn Eagle: Patrick Henry McCar ren made the hit at the Harmony con ference in Albany, Monday. "Bryan should be asked to go 'way back and alt down" In case be seeks to say who shall or shall not be at the front. There was no rhetoric In that. There was some slang. Said a learned professor once to his pupils: "Slang, young gentlemen, Is sometimes the stralghtest avenue to the human heart." Louisville Courier-Journal: It is like old times to reed of the Indiana democratlo convention the old times when every In dlana democrat stood shoulder to shoulder in party line and battle line, and every foot-of Indiana ground was battleground; the old times when every democratlo face throughout the country turned intently to Indiana, watching the progress and await ing the result of the struggle there with an interest born of the knowledge that the result In Indiana Indicated and in large measure shaped the result In the nation. Surely there is nothing In portenta If the good old times bave not come again for the Indiana democracy if it Is not again to take Its place in the forefront of tho column and is not again to help win and to lead the way to victory. Indianapolis News: The platform adopted yesterday by the democrats of Indiana and the speech of Mr. Kern, chairman of tho convention, are notable chiefly - for their practical repudiation of the Bryan leader ship and their silence on the Bryan theory of finance. Mr. Kern, it Is true, mentioned the name of the Nebraskan aa one of the democratic leaders, but that is ail. The platform does not even do that He is entirely Ignored. Nor Is there any de mand for the free, unlimited and inde pendent coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 "without the aid or consent of any other nation on earth." When It Is re membered that only a few years sgo even city conventions found It necessary to re affirm the free coinage doctrine, and when men were discharged from positions In the city government because they did not be lieve In that doctrine, It will be realized that great progress bas been made. PERSONAL NOTES, Several eminent local statesmen of St. Louis bave taken French leave of the town and scooted for shelter In other climes. Prof. Michael I. Pupln of Columbia uni versity. Inventor of the ocean telephone, began bis career In America as an attend ant in a Turkish bath parlor In Brook lyn. Carl Faber of Munich, son of the famous pencil manufacturer, bas given $260,000 to the Germanlo museum at Nuremberg and to 'the Bavarian National museum at Munich. Senator Lodge Is a connoisseur on shirt designs. The other day be appeared In Washington with a shirt and vest of the same material, a delicate purple, which was woven especially tor blm. Prof. Vlrchow, the German physiologist celebrated hla eightieth birthday recently by taking a double dose of borax to prove that Its taking was a benefit to the health. He has taken a dose of borax dally for years past Notwithstanding the extraordinary efforts ot the railroads to furnish quick and luxurious transit out of the city, fifty dis quieted Chlcagoans took their departure via the suicide route during the month of May. It is mighty bard to please some people. In the autobiography which he furnished for the congressional directory Representa tive Robert W. Davis of Florida tells of his early" struggles snd subsequent achieve ments, adding this touch of gallantry: "Before reaching his majority he was mar ried to Mlas Mercer, and to her Influence Is due whatever of success he bas attained." The Twelfth New York regiment, now in camp up the Hudson near Peekaklll, has among its lieutenants Cornelius Vanderbllt and Henry Rogers Wlnthrop, who are worth, respectively, $7,500,000 and $(,000,000. The two young millionaires sleep on cots tn tents, drink their coffee out of their tin cups In the morning and eat off tin plates and declare they enjoy It to the limit. Ellen M. Stone, the missionary, who was so long the unwilling guest of Bulgarian brigands, Is about to be put into a melo drama on account of her adventures In the Balkans. - Santos-Dumont, the Brazilian balloonist; the white squadron of the Ameri can navy, American and British sailors, mountain robbers, Turkish soldiers and other picturesque features are Introduced, the dramatist evidently having determined to bave at least several thrills In each act. The tablet which ta to mark the birth place of Georje Peabody, the banker and philanthropist will be unveiled by the Peabody (Mass.) Historical society on June 16. The tablet Is ot brass and bas the fol lowing Inscription la raised letters: "Birth place of Oeorge Peabody, February II, 176, Placed by the Peabody Historical Society, June 16. 1902." This tablet will be bolted to a rough stone poet five feet out of the ground, to be set two feet Inside the fence, dtrectly la frost of the old part of tbs .bouse la whlcb Mr. Peabody was bora. one-sixth pure glycerin the best for the toilet that human skill can produce. A better is impossible tho' you pay a dollar a cake for it. Use it for toilet and bath,. Use it on the hair. Skin and hair will be as soft and smooth as silk. . JAMES 3. KIRK COMPANY, CHICAGO Whiff RflCCifltl L"01' MllIlC aAUddlall valuable) ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK. Ripples oa the Carrent of Life la the Metropolis. A pstch of resl estate rightly located In New York City rivals In productive wealth the best "strikes" in the Klondike or Crip ple Creek. Last year a department store syndicate purchased the greater portion of a block ot ground at Thirty-fourth and Broadway. A little slice of one corner. fronting sixteen feet on Broadway, re mained in possession of a non-resident. The syndicate thought that shoebox slice ot ground was within Its reach and offered $40,000, a price proportionately higher than the cost of the remainder of the block. The owner asked $50,000. The syndicate hesi tated and when It concluded to pay the price asked the owner lifted It to $75,000. For four months the syndicate dickered about the price, each delayed acceptance being met with a raise, until finally a spec ulator purchased the corner for $375,000. A few days ago this valuable corner was leased for a term of twenty years at sn annual rental of $40,000, equal to 5 per cent on $800,000. The lessee agrees to psy all taxes and make the rental clear to tha landlord. Meanwhile the department store syndicate Is giving an automatic kicker a chance to work overtime. Another hotel, designed to overshadow anything of the kind In New York, Is to be built on the site of the Plaza hotel, at a cost of $10,000,000. The greater part of this sum will be furnished. It is understood, by men whose fortunes bave been created out of the steel' industry. ' Among them are Charles M. 8chaub, president ot the steel trust; John J. Mitchell, president of the Illinois Trust and Savings bank; John W. Gates and C, A. Fleming. As it Is now planned the new hotel will have a frontage of 200 feet In the plaza, while ta Fifty-ninth street, overlooking Central park, the frontage will be 250 feet. If property for which negotiations are now pending Is obtained the frontage in Fifty- eighth street will be the same as that In Fifty-ninth, but architects are now prepar ing plans on the assumption that the struc ture will have a facing of 125 feet In Fifty- eighth street. The structure will be of twenty stories,, and In design will be In keeping with Its proportions. From the New York Life Insurance com pany the Plaza hotel has been purchased, and with it three lots In Fifty-ninth street The purchase price was $3,000,000. One of the interesting features of the purchases Is that the property was paid for with cash, making it the largest transaction of the kind that bas ever taken place In New York City. A day or two ago, relates tbs Brooklyn Eagle, Superintendent Goulden of the bureau of Incumbrances decided that a board fence extending across East Nine teenth street, near Cropsey avenue, and ad joining the Fort Lowrle hotel at Bath Beach, was maintained In opposition to the law, the street hsvlng been legally opened to Gravesend bay. . That was chapter one. Chapter two waa provided yesterday wben an Inspector from the bureau, armed with all proper au thority and an axe, strode down with ma jestic steps to Bath Beach with the Inten tion ot obeying orders and cutting away the objectionable fence. When be reached the scene of prospective action be halted in surprise. The sight which be saw was enough to make anybody bait. Astride the fence were tour women, grim looking and determined. . , "So you're going to chop this fence down. are you?" said one of the quartet. "Well, before you begin just listen to me. If you chop this fence down you've got to chop us down with it. Understand? It don't coma down under any other conditions. You hear us, don't you?" . The inspector beard and, lifting up bis feet, be departed. "You can argue wltb a man," be reported at headquarters, "but you can't argue with four women on a fene. top." 1 Curious waves cf superstition sweep at Intervals over certain sets in New York and nobody ever knows Just why they should come at ana time and not at an other. Probably the cause Is the appear ance of some especially successful medium or clairvoyant. Such a woman bas lately come on the scene, reports the New York Bun, and the story of one or two remarkable predic tions by ber has traveled among women until she is just now the most popular of all dispensers of the occult. Her modest rooms on the east side of town sr. dally sought by women who would not under ordinary circumstances be found In such a neighborhood. However popular the purveyors of the occult may become," they ar. rarely able to raise their prices beyond a certain low figure. The usual maximum , Is $1 and there Is no profit la aa attempt to charge more. Even when the medium Is most popular, the women who visit her expect her services to b. reasonable. The enly person who was ever abl. to get high prices In the city returned not long ago to London, because he realized that the end of the game, so far as he was concerned, had already been reached-. But for alx weeks before bis departure be doubled bis price sad st the rate ot $10 a sitting he was occupied all day. He waa the enly person ever able to do that ' The dsmaad tor the supernatural may be brisk, but the article Bust he Jl Wrappers exchanged for premiums. Write for list s cheap. The price has indeed much to do wltb the demand. A London clairvoyant of great vogue la his own town lately came to New York to establish himself In business. He held bis services at a high figure. After one month be reduced bis tee to one-halt of what it bad been and at tho end of the second month closed bis studio and returned to Mayfalr. RAILROADS LACK ONE THING. The Conraare to Deal Fairly an cl Squarely with the People. Chicago Chronicle. The most of what James J. Hill bas ta say in praise of the American railroad sys tem snd Its achievements is true. It Is true that we bave the best system In the world In many respects. For prompt ness snd certainty of service and for cheap ness ot transportation, distance for dis tance. It far surpasses any other system In the world. There Is no denying that. There Is good reason to believe also that In respect bottt of general excellence of service and in the moderation of average rates our system Is far better than It would have been under government ownership and far better than It soon would be If the government should acquire ownership now. While all this is true, another thine which Mr. Hill does not dwell upon is not less true. That Is, that In the matter of discriminating rates the railroad companies notoriously and habitually violate provis ions of law which they ar. bound to obey, and which they themselves admit ar. not only Just, but actually conducive to their Own Interests It obeyed to the letter. The public is willing- to give the railroad managers of the country all the credit which is justly their due. In faot, the public is proud of them as compared with the managers of roads in other parts of the world, and especially aa compared with managers of government roads. But not the less Is the publlo disposed to Insist tbst they shall obey the laws made to prevent them from doing wrong. It Is so disposed all the more strongly In view of the fact that there Is not a ahadow of a doubt that those laws are just and whole some. This la the point which now demsnds at tention, and more especially the attention of the railroad people, and it la the point which Mr. Hill found It convenient to over look In hla address before the Manufacture ers' association. READ AND LOOK PLEASANT. Brooklyn Life: Mrs. Hatterson You don't mean to say that you have no theories about the education or children? Mrs. Catteraon No. I have too many children. 1 Philadelphia RecordT'Yee," said Cholly, "I've got very extravagant Ideas." "I wouldn't worry over It," remarked Cynlcus. "You can't have many of them." Los Angelea Times: "Just as the dog grabbed me by the ankle the old man came out." "What did he iloV "Took the bark off my shins.' Washington Star: "So you bave made peace." "Yes," answered the defeated, general of a thrifty nation. "What were the terms?" "Terms, cash," was the lsconlo answer. Detroit Free Press: "Cast off by his father, he became a landscape painter." "Why did he choose that work?' "He wanted to continue drawing the green." Puck: Colonel Dobbs Dear met Hnw time goes byl I don't know any of these young people getting married nowadays. Major Hobbe I'm worse off than that I don't know any of these older people who are getting divorced. Philadelphia Press: "See ber., said illadelphla Press: "See bere, said nel Winders, angrily, "your reporter nlsed to print. ell I said at the banquet night." Colonel winders, proml inr.if. , 11 . V. . I . writ, reuou wiv eauevr. "Well," he printed only a few lines, al though my speech was quite a long effort." "Yes, but you didn't say much." SOMETHING TO FORGIVE. 8. W. GllllUn in Los Angeles Herald. You say: "Such ardent friendship is mis taken ; if you knew" There! Cloee your llris and listen: When the sky la clear and blue. When sun and birds jd dewdrops make the big world glad and bright, Would all be half so precious had there been no clouds or night? Would flowers seem so beautiful If sent from heaven above Does not their earthly origin add sympathy to love? So friendships must be human it on earth they'd thrive and live For what does friendship feed on srhea' there's nothing to forgive? How could my heart be s-entle to'ard a heart that knew no pain? Could friendship so on living If Its prof fered help were vain? Could I. were I not certain you were only human, feel The tender, sweet compassion that my worda to you reveal? Oh say not. "If you only knew" tho Father knows I know; He left Ills blessed impree on each human soul; and so My loved one must be human while upon this earth I live For earthly love grow, stronger whoa there's something to forgrra. USE ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE. A rovosr le k Iota tha ebaee. low t I I awoltM. Mrvou ssS hoi. 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