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0 THE OMAITA DAILY TtEE: FRIDAY", JANUARY 30. 1003 Tiie Omaha Daily lte& E. ROSEWATKR, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERT MORNING. 1 TERM8 OK SUBSCRIPTION, pally Hee (without Sunday), one Yrar..$4.l0 Jjaily ee H ml Holiday, tine Year Illustrated bee. one year Sunday Jiee, one Ur ISaturuay Mee. One )-ar Twentieth ('..iitiirv KarraiT, On Year il.uo l.bU l.uu s VKVl y.Hh.l) UY CARRIER, pally lw (without Humlay), per copy.... Ic laiiy Bee (without Sunday), per week. ..12c IJly lire dm lu.ilnn Bundby), jkt weck..lec Bunaay He-, per cooy fc Evening Hee (without Sunday), per week tic Evening Bee (Including Hunday), uer. week 1 00 Complaint of irregularities In delivery houlil be addressed to City Circulation De MLrtmnl. OFFICES. Omaha-The Be Building. Bouth Omaha-City Hall Building, Twn-ty-lifih and M Streets. Council Hlufrs 10 Pearl Street. ChloHgo lt.40 Tnlty Bullfllng. New York-iat Park Row building. Washington Ji F jurteenth Street. COKRESrONDENCE. Communications relating to new and ed itorial matter should e addressed: Omaha Jiee, Editorial Department. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION, fctate of Nebraska, Douglas County. sa.: George B. Tzschurk, stcretary of The He publishing company, being duly BWorn, says that the actual numbfr of full and complete aoples of The Dally, Morning, Evening and unday Bee printed during the month or Iiecember, waa as roiiow I S2.2MO 17 19 21 ..80,820 ..80,010 . ,3o,hw ..80.78O ..2H.TOO ,.ao,oo t B1.120 t 81.4TO 4 81.UUO ' f 81,040 6 81.820 I 2H.QOO I 80.1MIO SO.IMHI 10 8MSO 11 3,IKI U 8O.07O U 80,M) 14 SM.330 16 80.S10 18 80,910 21. jj 3O.N00 j'"!! 30.000 25)" 80.2M 2o!"" 3O.N30 gl 30,MT jg 28.HUB 28 aO.TOO 30 82.S20 a 30.BTO ,52,U4S , 10,181 Less unsold and returned coplea. Net total aalea Mt average sales ...B42,444 ... 3O.40J GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 31at day of December, A. u. iSni. M. B. HUNUATE, (Seal) , Notary I'ubllo. At last nccouots the Kansas tax bill endorsed by John N. Raldwln as the test thlnjr for Nebraska bad tripped up On the threshold. From the numerous wrecks reported, railroad consolidation hits evidently had bo appreciable effect In the direction of making railroad travel safer. If our supreme court commission baa ba much trouble hnnslnR on to life as It ld originally In coming Into being It has a rough road In front' of It. The pretender to the throne of Mor occo seems to be getting the worst of It Anyone pretending to such a pretended throne ought to get the worst of It Pugilist Jeffries has given a generous contribution to the Union I'aclnc strik ers' fund. When It comes to strikers, big Jeff wants to be recognized as one of them. The resolution of the Nebraska bouse lf representatives-.to exclude profes sional lobbyists from the : floor and cloak rooms was laid on the table, IWhlch goes to show that the subject Is tot debatable. The state senate has decided to sub ject the state printing board and state printing methods to the searchlight of publicity. But the alleged public print ing graft is by no means the only scan dal that needs ventilation at the bands Of the legislature. It Is In accord with the eternal fitness Cf things for BUlee Saunders to enter the arena as champion of municipal owberehlp. As member of the city council Itlllee achieved unenviable no toriety as a most pliant tool of the fran chlsed corporations. Nebraska senators have another !and Office vacancy to till, caused this time by the death of the late Incumbent. There need be no apprehension, how vrf, that a goodly supply of willing patriots will speedily presout them Belves to be drafted into the service. Complaint is made of a dearth of re frigerator cars for the transportation of tneat packing products out of South Omaha. If the weather man's cold wave only stays with us, the ordinary car ought to be refrigerator enough for the present needs of the packing bouse men. The Chadron gushers have discovered the most promising prospect for suck era on No Man's Land, which Is said to be located somewhere between the boundaries of South Ikota and Ne braska. People who have money to burn will have no tllfHculty In finding the spot The Associated Tress has deemed it of sufficient Importance to wire all over the country tlMit the Kansas day ban quet at Topeka Is to cost the guests $3 a plate.: A three-dollar banquet would be nothing extraordinary in any other fitate, but in prohibition Kansas it may require an explanation. The ne Omaha charter which Is tin flergolng preparation by the Douglas delegation in star chuuilxT session will Boon make Its appearauce and we shall presently know whether it is being framed up in the interest of ln-tter am1 mora economic muuieipal government or merely to promote the xlitUal am bit Ions of the memlera of the delega tlon. According to the World-Herald, which Iriea to emulate the New York Journal and Chicago American, a glorious vie lory has in-eu wou iy ouialia coal con timers over the local coal dealers' com bine. The coul dealers' monopoly ha capitulated aud the exchange ha agreed to change its constitution. This was a stupendous achievement. A few more such victories wfll give us free coal and the cheap power problem Is as food as solved already. . halvwixs TtiRtr. powrs. With sublime audacity John N. Bald win of Iowa, champion of railroad tax evasion In Nebraska, has pranced Into the arena with the declaration that be Is prepared tv maintain for the Union Pacific and all other railroads these three propositions: First That the railroads In Nebraska pay their full share of all taxes. Second That If Omaha be permitted to tax a greater proportion of the railroad properties than la allotted to It under the existing method of distribution of values, it must certainly to that extent reduce the revenues of the cltlea, villages and school districts outalde of Omaha, along the full length of the railroad mileage In the state. Third That there are no provisions In the existing statutes of th'a state discrim inating In favor of railroad property In the matter of any kind of taxation. The bnslc principle of our constitution Is that corjKtratlons and Individuals shall share the burdens of taxation In Just proportion to the value of their prop erty and franchises. The relative pro portion of property values Is to be as certained by the property returned for taxation and not by the estimated values of property not returned or omitted by assessors. The aggregate true value of all property in Nebraska, Including railroads, as estimated by ex perts, will range in value from $1,250, 000,000 to $1,300,000,000. The aggre gate true value of railroads in Nebraska as computed either by the market values of their stocks and bonds or by their net earnings ranges between $.T12, 000,000 and $320,000,000. In other words, the railroads of Nebraska repre sent fully 25 per cent of the aggregate value of all property in .Nebraska. The grand assessment roll of all property In Nebraska for the year 1902 Is $180,001,102 and the aggregate pro portion of railroad assessment at one fourth that amount would be $45,022, 70.8, whereas the assessment of the railroads for 1902 is only $20,580,552, or $18,433,246 less than it should be under the most liberal concession. This figure Is, however, too low by many mil lions. The assessed valuation of all property exclusive of the railroads for the year 1902 Is $153,501,640. Hence if that sum represents, as it should. three-fourths of the , total, valuation of the state, the proportion of the rail roads would be one-third of that sum. or $."1,167,213, and the grand total for all taxable property. If the railroads had been accurately assessed, would have been $204,668,857. And yet Bald win has the nerve to assert that the railroads are paying their full share of taxes. Baldwin's second proposition, that the railroads distribute among the school districts along their lines the municipal tuxes wmcn mey snirK, is ,on a par with his claim that the railroads pay their full share of all taxes. During the past ten years the railroads have beaten Omaha out of more than a mil lion dollars in taxes 'and they have beaten Lincoln out of more than a quarter of a million during the same period, but not a penny of the money ,thus filched from the taxpay ers of Omaha and Lincoln has found Its way into a aolitary school district Kvery dollar or It has gone Into the pockets of the corporation. The dis tribution theory Is a myth and nobody nows it better than Baldwin. Municipal taxes are Just as much separated from city and county taxes s would be a federal corporation tax Suppose Uncle Sam should levy a mil lion a year on the Union Pacific as a license tax. In what way would that affect the counties along , its lines and where would the counties lose a penny if the road paid such a tax or gain a dollar if the attorneys of the railroad could persuade Uncle Sam to cancel It? If there has been any distribution of the valuation of the Omaha railroad terminals, when and where did the rail roods distribute the values of the new depots and valuable Improvements made In Omaha within the past six years? Does the spirit and letter of the con stitution contemplate that the property owners in cities shall bear all the bur dens of municipal government and pay out of their own pockets hundreds of thousands of dollars a year for fire pro tection, police protection, public light ing, street repairs, sewerage and drain age, which the property of the railroads enjoys equally with them? Baldwin's third point, that there are no provisions in the existing statutes that discriminate in favor ,of railroad property in the matter of any kind of taxation, is contradicted flatly by the city charter of Omaha, which at the Instance of the railroads was doctored to tlx one standard of valuation for assessing railroad property and another standard for other corporation- ami Individual proix'rty owners. Such a lit tle thing as that would not, however, phuse the adamantine cheek of a Bald win, who would stand up and maintain with Just as much nonchalance that the sim shims in the middle of the night and the moon In the middle of the day If his corporation employers paid him for it. ' . 1KH1GA TlOX IS VtS TIG A TOA S. The agricultural appropriation bill as it passiHl the house of representatives cut down by more than half the amount allowed last year for Irrigation Invest! gatlous by the Department of Agricul ture. Secretary Wilson had asked for an increase, taking the view that his department should do more of this work now that the government has entered tiKni an Irrigation iiollcy, but the house committee on ugrlculture took the ground that there was no need of the work that has been- done by the depart' uieut along this line. It Is not denied that this work has been useful, but the committee thought it unnecessary that It be coutluued to the extent that lias lcen pursued by the lrrlgatioLihts of the department. Besides,' there are millions In the treasury available for every feature of the project and when the accumulated fund la exhausted there will have accumulated millions more for the same purpose from the sales of public lands which are by law to be applicable to works of Irrigation. This gives opportunity for building up a strong bui-eau, to which slmll le com mitted every feature of the general sub ject of Irrigation. The house committee doubtless took the proper view of the matter. The ap propriation allowed will enable tbe de partment to still moke Irrigation inves tigations, though on a much restricted scale, but ultimately this work will be done by the reclamation bureau with funds already available, so that prob ably after the present year the Depart ment of Agriculture will not have iny thlng to do with investigations. The action of the house was not from any disposition to obstruct Irrigation, but simply to moke the prosecution of the work In all Its features dependent upon the money now on baud for this pur pose and which is ample In amount for all present requirements. D1SCLVSIO A COMBISE. The investigation by a congressional committee of the New England coal sit uation disclosed the fact that a combi nation of some sort had existed be tween coal operators to raise prices. It was found that the price of coal had been more than doubled and all the evi dence elicited by the committee showed conclusively that there was an under standing among operators which hod been faithfully carried out. This Inves tigation was prosecuted in Boston and the committee will probe further into the matter at other places, where doubt less similar disclosures will be made. The facts developed regarding the coal situation In New England it is not to be doubted have been general. Cool has been withheld from both eastern and western markets by the deliberate action of the operators. Grant that the railroads were not able to transport coal to the markets as rapidly as the demand called for, yet the fact remains that at a number of points a large amount of coal was hold on the tracks for days, the pretext for this being a want of motive power, but fhe reul cause, with out question, leing nn arrangement among operators to raise prices. Every investigation clearly shows this and the more carefully and thoroughly the mat ter Is probed the more conclusive, it is safe to say, will become the evidence showing a widespread combination, em bracing both anthracite and bituminous operators, to limit supply and advance the price. Whether or not such an understand lng still exists cannot be said. Since the action of congress removing the tariff duty on coal and the Institution of investigations there has been a freer distribution of coal and while it is still scarce in many localities the situation haa materially Improved In the matter of supply. Prices, however, are quite generally maintained, though some re duction has been made in the east from the extortionate figures of a month ago and the tendency Is downward. Bettering of conditions should not halt Investigation. The congressional com mittee should go on with its inquiry and extend It beyond New Englund. It is most desirable to ascertain, if possl ble, the full extent of the combination or conspiracy which deprived the public of coal and bad such calamitous re sults. The great suffering to which millions of people have been subjected by the course of the coal operators, and the extortion that has been practiced upon others, demand that the' fullest light be thrown upon the methods of the men responsible for this state of affairs. It is too much the rule to halt Inquiry as to bad conditions when things change for the better. The pres ent cape should prove an exception. The country has had a most severe ex perience. It the responsibility for It be unmistakably fixed, to the end that provision may be made against its re currence. The conspirators may not be amenable to existing law, but the power Is somewhere to deter them from again plotting to freeze and plunder the people. Senator Dietrich says that the action of the Nebraska legislature destroys all prospect of legislation by congress at the present session for the relief of the big cattlemen who have fenced in pub lie land. The legislature apparently un derstood It this way and acted with full knowledge of the consequences. If the cattlemen prefer to toke their chances without any modification of the law, Senator Dietrich should be willing to accede to their preference, but shouli: they come to him again for assistance he will not be blamed if he is lukewarm in their cause. In these days most men die of heart failure unless they die by railroad ac cldent, and then it is the telegraph operator. But nobody blames the rail road managers for employing lxys a boys' wages to handle train dispatches which Involve responsibilities tlm should be entrusted only to men with cool beads and steady nerves, who must be paid men's wages. Three years ago Otis Ilenninga dumped Charlie Saunders, the Fifth ward candidate for treasurer, by turn ing a trick in the Ninth ward. Now (Jus Donnecken, chief aeronaut, has at tached Treasurer llennlngs to the para chute of the Saunders hnlfoon. It will be prudent for Mr. llennlngs to beware of the Greeks bearing presents. Nebraska is fast forgiug ahead of Kansas. From uow ou .men u filleted with chronic catarrh, n:eu who chew tobacco and womeu who chew guui will huve to carry a cuspidor when walking tbe streets of Fremont. Olherwibe they are liable to prosecution and luipnsou- mcnt, under the new anti-spitting ordinance. Johnay, Get Your Oaa. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Two more bank robberies In Illinois toil Nebraska were reported yesterday. Banks In the smaller towns should put themselves on a war footing. Kot Oat of the Ranalna;. Cincinnati Enquirer. The appointment of Judge Day to the su preme court serves as a reminder that Ohio Is not out of the running, to say nothing of the appropriateness of the eelec tion. Doblln In Dirt. Chicago Record-Herald. Philip Doblln seems to be a "gent" who haa been deeply wronged by somebody, but owing to his conflicting confessions Is hard to find 6ut where the guilt Ilea. Giddy Old Girl Ganhei, , Kansas City Star. Helen M. Oougar told Agutnaldo In Ma nila this week that the American people greatly admire him. Mrs. Oougar'a sum mers have been sufficient In number to warrant her not to gush. Jlnsoea Shoatt In Vain. Philadelphia Record. The administration at Washington Is giving proof of a high sense of responsi bility and duty to the country 'n refus- ng to listen to the Insensate Incitements of jingoism to causeless war. Who Can Tellf Chicago News. Maybe the New York democrats are right In thinking that tbe democracy of tbe country Imperiously demands the nomina tion of Judge Parker. Who can tell until the democracy of the country finds out who he Is T Cruel and t'nomal Punishment. New York Sun. Wisdom in South Dakota follows wisdom In Missouri. A bill has been Introduced Into the South Dakota legislature provld- ng that a man perhaps we ought to say, a fiend convicted of playing foot ball shall pay a fine of $1,000 and be Imprisoned for five years. Too mild and plgeon-llvered. The foot ball players and the spectators at the foot ball game should be condemned to read the speeches, letters and writings of the Hon. Richard Franklin Pettlgrew for the rest of their natural lives. Daronlnl Dislike of Meddlers. Chicago Chronicle. "If the press and the public will stop meddling and allow coal men to run the coal business," says a local baron with great heat and Indignation, "the fuel situ ation will eventually become normal." Very likely. The baron should, however, have patience with these meddlesome folks who are foolish enough to fear that they may freeze to death while the situation Is becoming normal in other words, while the baron and his colleagues are screwing the last poseible cent out of them. Let Jontloe Be Done Flrat. New York World. While crowds of citizens throng about tbe grave of Mr. Gonzales, the murdered South Carolina editor, It is suggested that a monument be reared to his memory. It will be time to talk of such a me morial when South Carolina baa vindi cated her name and her laws by hanging the assassin. Until then Tillman's cowardly crime will, atand. as a warning to the Journalists of, the state that, no writer may dara "to appose the ambitions of any political ruffian save at the risk of bis life. Union ot Boilnesa and Polities. Indianapolis News. The chief objection to trusts and combl nations is the demoralising apd corrupting influence that they exert in politic i influence which is felt no matter what party is in control of the government. Of course. It la said In their benair that they have to go into politics in order to protect themselves against spoliation under the form of law. But they are not content with a more defensive campaign. They strive for favors and privileges which they ought not to have, and which they can en joy only at the expense of the people, And then when they get them they fight and plot In order to prevent the withdrawal of them. ' A Proper Rebuke . New York Mall and Express. Just before tbe close of a performance In Hartford, Conn., last week Mr. E. S. Willard, the English actor now touring this country, stepped to the footlights and said to the audience: 'I have stopped the play in order that those who are desirous of leaving may do so, and leave the others to that which is their right undisturbed attention." Mr. Willard waa quite right In thus re buking the crowd that had begun their exit before the curtain had dropped. The same disturbance occurs nightly in the theaters of this city, making It difficult for the actors to go on with their parte, and almost impossible for the audience to bear them. Often the best lines of a good play are drowned in tbe rush of many to get out of the thater, regardless of the comfort of others. Mr. Wlllard's example might be followed by other actors with good results. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S TRIBUTE. Dlapnaalonate Estimate of McKlnley'a Official Career. Kansas City Star. President Roosevelt's address on the per sonal character and official career of Presi dent McKlnley, delivered on tho occasion of the celebration at Canton of the anniver sary of McKlnley'a birth, was only Inci dentally a eulogy in the accepted under standing of that term. Mr. Roosevelt Is not given to the use of extravagant terms. He is not an emotional word painter In any sense. His public speeches and state papers are Instinct with fact, with reason and with sense. What he bad to say of McKlnley was more in the nature of a dis passionate estimate than of an obvious eulogy, and yet It was both sincere and sympathetic. Probably no one who has not been called upon to discharge the dutlee and meet the Issues of the presidential office can do ab solute Justice to another who has filled the same position. President Roosevelt's esti mate of McKlnley Is doubtless higher and more positive than It would have been if he had not viewed the late president's career from the standpoint of personal experience aa well as that ot long observation. Summed up. the tribute of the present chief magistrate to his immediate predeces sor Is that MrKinley's career was in no wise due to political accident or extraordi nary opportunity; that It was of continual growth, ending logically lth the bestowal of the highest honor of the country; that In Its last stages It had to do with great and menacing events, and that in these stages it was marked by the singular suc cess that had attended the less eventful steps; that a record made in such historic times and marked by results such as have followed the McKlnley policies, is Im perishable, Inasmuch as It overcomes the animosities of partisan politics; and finally that the proof of this conclusion may be found In tbe sincere grief of the whole na tion when President McKlnley was struck dewa. noisn ahoit xkw York, Ripples on the Current of 1,1 fe In the Metropolis. In his New York letter to the Boston Globe, Joe Howard, the dean of newspaper correspondents, points out the Inconsistent action of New York authorities in assailing professional gambling, while gambling un der religious and social sanction Is undis turbed. The morality of both Is the same. "There la more gambling done every where," says the corresponilmt, "and espe cially In the churches," today than rvr. Nearly every day In every week at this sea son of the year fairs, grab-bags, lotteries and euchre parties are given In aid of this, that or the other churra. I don't believe there Is any harm In a fairly-conducted grah-bag or lottery, when everybody under stands that the object of the undertaking Is to benefit the rhurch, or even for fun alone. In spite of these laudable objects, however, Is there any contradiction of a hope In the breast of every participant that he or she -and generally she will get something tangible for an Invested some thing nominal? No one of a sensible mind objects to these diversions, although It would bo obviously absurd to contend that the motive In grab-bag or lottery Is any different from the motive In roulette playing. "Nearly every week In the season euchre parties are organized, sometimes In public placea, generally In private bouses, at which prizes are given by tho church to winners, the church benefiting by the half- dollar, dollar or two dollars paid for the tickets, which sometimes run up Into the thousands. Leaving aside for tbe moment the harmless nature of tbe game and also the motive, namely, the prize, we are con fronted with a distinct charge made twice within a week of deliberate favoritism, not to say cheating, In the distribution of the prizes. It seems to me the net Judgment of a calm observer must be that the moral tone of men and women who seek to get a considerable something for almost noth ing is on a dead level with that of men who play cards for money, whether It be in clubs, at home or in a regular gambling house." Millions of money are ready for a moving sidewalk from Hanover square. New York, across the new Brooklyn bridge to Its ter minus. It Is believed this la going to solve the problem of rapid transit in that part of New York. Cars of every sort and de scription have become Inadequate In New York, where 10,000,000 trips must be made by nearly 6,000,000 people every day, so the "Gordlan knot" Is to be cut by simply hav ing the whole street move. It has come to this at last, and may come to It In other cities. The traveler bound from Manhat tan to Brooklyn stepB on a moving side walk going two and ono-half miles nn hour, from that to one moving five miles an hour, and thence by one more gradation to tho walk moving ten miles an hour. These walks will be endless, the last one covered and seated. It can never be overrrowded, and the fare is to be 1 cent. Another ad vantage of It Is that it will not run over anybody, and It will not be limited to an "owl", schedule after 12 o'clock at night. It Js to run In a subway until it reaches the bridge, and thus will not Interfere with Street traffic. This Is no 'doubt the means of city transportation in the coming time. City people are becoming more and more Impatient of watting for cars. Thoy de mand something that moves with the promptitude and facility of their own legs. For years the mea who pick up littered paper In the city parks went about bonding their backs alt day after the vagrant scraps. Then a new man, on the second day of his engagement, came on the scene with a broomstick, in the end of which he had set a nail, with the sharpened point down ward. Ha speared a dozen pieces of paper while his . comrades were stooping for a third as many and never bent his back at all. Now all the men carry harpoons; and the worst of it was that the ingenious man never thought of a patent. A pocket edition in attire of Lord Chester Held, lS-year-old Willie Barney, who In In love with his teacher, Sadie R. Wolf of public school No. 116, at Knic kerbocker avenue and Grove street, Brooklyn, was arraigned in the Gates avenue police court charged with annoying her by firing a toy pistol at her. Master Barney was attired In neat fitting knickerbockers, pink shirt and tie to match, and his black hair was parted In the middle. When the case was called Miss Wolf was brought out of a private room. "Good morning, my dear teacher," said Barney. "Look here, young man," Interrupted Magistrate Naumer, "do you Intend to stop annoying this lady?" pointing to Miss Wolf, who is only 19 years old, and who flushed as the Judge spoke. "I never did annoy you, dear teacher, and to prove It here Is a present," said the little dude, aa he laid a pair of red silk garters, with gold buckles attached, on Miss Wolfs mink muff, "and my sister la making a nice silk skirt for you," continued young Barney, all smiles and bowing. The case was continued. Now that the Increased assessments on real estate have expanded tho city's debt limit, the old question of building a new city hall has been revived. For several years tbe city has paid high rentals for the additional' offices needed, and several ad ministrations have considered the matter of erecting a new city building. There Is no doubt one is badly needed, but tbe finan cial arrangement could not be decided upon, and rather than build a city ball that might aoon be Inadequate for tbe city's needs. It waa decided to wait. It is now stated that the subject will soon come before the Board of Estimate, and that provision will be made for a pub lic building that will cost not less than $8,000,000. The movement to erect such a building Is cited, as one of the objections to tbe increased borrowing rapacity of the municipality, but public sentiment Is gen erally in favor of the building of a city hall that wduld be creditable to the metropolis. The New Man. Chicago Chronicle. Marconi has perfected the receiver for a pocket wireless telegraph system. The transmitter la not perfected, but is prom ised at an early day. At last the poet's prediction of girdling the earth in forty minutes Is in danger of realization, tin girdle being the vibration of human l-.tarts in continuous consciousness through con tact with earth vibrations. A machine by which each spoken word can bo preserved with all Its tender shades of meunhig b.is also been perfected, and a pocket sizo will no doubt be on the market In due time. At no remote day voices at the antlpudi-a will telephone wlrelfs.il' to each listening ear. and the syllables can he made to resoun I to tbe end of time whenever desired. The man aa he treails the earth is going to 1" a lordly creature. With only one superior, the really new woman. She will huve to have a pocket. A bag will not serve. In a Sorry Fix. Minneapolis Journal. Congressman Lessler seems to be in a very grave trouble. His bribery ihurir's boomerang begins to make him look liAc that New York tullcr ho csrri-1 out a bogus burglary In order to make a hit with bla employer as the faithful servaut who put a baud of burglars to flight. SEfiLKCTKIl ALASKA. Menanrea Affect In a the Territory Re eelve Scant Attention in Conareaa. Chicago Tribune. The house cf representatives has passed a bill providing for the representation of the territory of Alaska by a delegate. This will not bo much of a gift. A delegate has Uttln Influence. Congress has so much to do that It is reluctant to give time to ter ritorial legislation, een where a delegate has eloquently set forth the pressing ne ccsslty for It. There are many things which will be more useful to Alaska than a delegate. There ie need of a land law with proper provisions for securing homesteads. Laws should be enacted for the preservation of the forests and the salmon. These are Im portant, practical questions which congress Is slow to take hold of. The old belief that all Alaska except a narrow strip along the coast la a bleak polar desert, where none but a fur trapper can earn a living, Is dying away. The discovery has been made that the Canadian northwest, once said to be untlllable. Is a fine farming region. The same discovery is being made as regards extensive Alaskan districts. It is too soon to say that all the cultivable land belonging to the government has been taken up and there can be no homesteaders. Unfortunately, owing to a lack of law, the American who goos to Alaska and at tempts to cultivate tbe soil is a mere squatter. He can get no title. The extent of the mineral wealth of Alaska is gradually being learned. The ter ritory is rich In copper and in gold, and doubtless other minerals will be found there. Mining camps will grow up Into large and permanent towns. Railroads will penetrate the territory and open It up to the miner, the farmer and the cattle raiser. There Is a great future In store for Alaska, but that future will be elow In coming If congress will do nothing to hasten the de velopment of the territory. The last con gress was with difficulty induced to make sonio provision for civil government In Alaska. The inrush of miners made it necessary to do sometjilng. There will have to be much more legislation before Alaska will have a fair chance. The terri tory has been underestimated and neglected from tho beginning. XEtiRO VOTE 171 1DO-4. Balnnce of Power Held by Colored voters in Pivotal gtntea. Leslie's Weekly. As republican supremacy In the canvass of 1904 may depend on the retention of the black vote by that party, we realize the interest which attaches in both parties to the anti-negro crusade among the southern "lily white" republicans, and to President Roosevelt's opposition to any discrimina tion on account of color. Politicians also should realize the significance of the move ment organized among the leaders of the colored race In the south to demand enact ment of a law to pension former slaves, under penalty. In case of refusal, of an appeal to tho colored voters in tbe north to bolt the republican ticket in 1904. On the basis of the vote of 1902 for congress or Btate, officers, the transfer of the negro vote, or any large section of it, from the republican to the democratic side would mean a victory for the democrats In the next presidential compalgn. . Assuming that the republicans' large ma jorities of 1896 and 1900 will vanish in 1904 with tbe disappearance of the silver issue, it Is reasonably certain that tbe swing of any large section of New York's 81,000 negro voters to the democrats, and the change, in the same direction of New Jer sey's 21,000, Rhode Island's 8,000, Dela ware's 8,000, Maryland's 60,000, West Vir ginia's 15,000, Indiana's 18,000 and Kansas' 14,000 would give the democracy the presi dent in that year. The transfer of these close states from the republican to the democratic column in 1904 would add 98 electoral votes to the 154 which they will get In any event. This would mean a total of 252, or 13 more votes than the 289 which will be a majority of the electoral college. PERSONAL NOTES. In announcing his defeat tn Colorado, Mr. Wolcott is good enough to ask the country to endure the blow aa gracefully as pos sible. The striking coal miners have vindicated their position on the wage question by vol untarily increasing the salary of President Mitchell. A professor in the University of Wisconsin has been dismissed for gambling. It is re ported that when he asked if he might In quire the reason tbe trustees answered: "You bet!" Count Bont de Castellane has been re elected to the Chamber of Deputies. His Indifferent success in other directions in spires a belief that he may develop into a statesman. - Thomas Lowry, the millionaire street car magnate of Minneapolis and St. Paul, an nounces that he is a candidate for tbe seat In the United States senate now occupied by Moses C. Clapp. There seems to be no limit to the power of a monarch. Emperor William h&e in terdicted the translation of Kipling's poetry, and the shah of Persia has pro hibited the importation of automobiles. Because It was stated that John D. Rockefeller had offered a million dollars for a new stomach, he has received hun dreds 6f "cures" by mail. If he tried to follow all the advite offered he would soon be relieved. Heinrlih Peterson, formerly a college professor In Berlin, who speaks fluently five languages. Is now employed as a mo torraan on a Chester trolley line. Which goes to show that a man with a college education la always sure of employment. Although Kdmond Rostand, the author of "Cyrano de Bergerac," was elected a mem ber of the French academy several months ago, he has not yet been officially received by that body. The reception has been re peatedly postponed until It has been Jocu larly suggested that the youngest academi cian would be the oldest before ho could sit at tho institute. It la reported from Copenhagen that on the eighty-fifth blr'hday of Klnp Christian, which occurs on April 8 next, there will be no less than three emperors In the Danish capital King Edward, the czar and the kalscr. It Is ad le 1 that preparations for the birthday festivities are being kept from the l.lng as much as possible and that the celebratlona will be of the most splendid kind. Ex-Governor Samuel J. Crawford of Kan sas has printed an urgent plea for the enactment of a bird protecting law. He eays: "llirds of every kind and variety, excipt ib' hawk and the English sparrow, are usfful, and many of them are Invalu able. Thr-y should be protected by a rigid, strlui?''t)t law with a severe penalty at tached thereto. One quail will destroy a thousand Insects In a single day, and many otli-r blrla will do an much." TowrJ tho end of the Illness which ter. mlnated the earthly career of Abram S. Hewitt the doctors (ndtavored to keep him alive by the use . oxygen. Those nearest and dt-arufct to the dylug niau assembled cliout his tied The venerable patient slowly r-iised his band, grasped tbe tube and removed It from bis mouth. "And cow," he whispered, with a flickering smile, "I am officially dead." Ilia eye l.ghted up with Its last flash and In a oiomeut be was no more. WILIj TIIE EI.ErilAST RE sTTnt Not the Party Symbol, bnt tho Real African YnrlntT. Chlcngo Inter (Venn. The Afrlran elephant, according to It. A, Bryden's survey of his condition In the current Fortnightly Review, has almost gone tho way of tho American bison. Ther are two or three herds In Cape Colony, where they have been protected since 1S30. There was, a yesr or two bro, one troop tn North Berhuanalnnd. Ono or tno small troope may bo found In northern M.tsli. ma land. A few maintain a precarious exist ence between the Zambesi mouth and th Tungwe river. Except for these poor remnants, the wild elephant hns practically ceased to ex'st south of the Zambesi and the Cunene rivers. Even beyond those streams ho hns been and Is vigorously pursued. It 1 doubtful, however. If he exists In great numbers In the dense forests of central Africa. While more or lore known nil over the continent, the region in which the elephant flourished best appears to be that whose map has recently been painted all British red. The exterminating pursuit of the African elephnnt began 2T.0 years n?o. Tho great pachyderms were then ahundant about Tnble bay. They have not been easily vanquished. "Culled from a hundred books of sport and travel, the tale of the extinction of thn elephant would," aa Mr. Bryden s.iys, "even with the most severe editing, fill two or three volumes of the most stirring epics of adventure." Even as early as 1772-75 Thun- berg and Sparrman, the Swedish travelers and scientists, found among the Boers ele phant hunters whose feats rivaled and sur passed, considering the arms they had, those of Gordon, Cummlng nnd Oswell and Selous. The elephant hns died game. Many a grave upon the veldt testifies to the fierce ness with which he has turned rpon the eager sportsman and the pitiless Ivory hunter. His tusks have been the elephant's de struction. From tbe time while men came to South Africa ivory has been demanded unceasingly. That demand still exists, snd is never likely to fall. For certain uses and pleasures of man there la really no satisfactory substitute. The clephnnt Is not like the bison able to furnish nothing but food and leather, neither superior to the flesh and hide of tho familiar ox. He has something that no other animal can supply of equal quality. Furthermore, he is a useful beast of bur. den. For many centuries he has sc-ved man In India. While his working power, weight for weight. Is not equal to that of the horse, he can do some 'hings that the horse cannot do so well. Ho can be set at work and to a certain extent left to do It by himself, as the horse cannot. Whllo It. Is often said that the African elephant la untamable, it cannot bo affirmed that any such patient effort, has been mado with him as the ancient Hindoos must have expended In domesticating their elephant. The ostrich has been reduced to practical domestication. Woman will never lack tho ornament of his plumes. Because of tho usefulness of ivory and of its producer. It would seem that tho preservation and do mestication of the African elephant might well be a commercial enterprise, whoiio profits would b slow but absolutely cer tain. Mr. Bryden expresses the opinion that "if, fifty years ago. Great Britain had suddenly extended its sway to the Zam besi, the elephant might have been saved." MIL1NH REMARKS. "I believe." said the young phvslclan "that bad cooks supply us with hair our patients." "That's right," rejoined the old doctor. "And good cookn supply us with tho other half." Modern Society. Tess Look at that glaring yellow gown Mrs. Nurltch is) wearing. Did you ever eco anything bo Impossible? Jess-.Imposslble, but not Inappropriate. That's a perfect match for her husband's bam wrapiera, you know. Philadelphia Press. "Do you know Mr. Kidder of BoBton?" asked the stranger In Italtlmore. "No." replied the extremely stout young woman. "Why?" "He told me he had a wide acquaintance In Baltimore, and 1 thought" "Sir!" Chicago Tribune. "I want to speak to the spirit of my dead BlBter," Bald the tall woman In black to the medium. "Talking now," absently replied tho latter, who had once been a "hello" girl. Kansas City Journal. Clerk Yes, sir; we'll send the coal up to day. Mr. Mllledollar An' say! have It put In with them Iron chutes. If I've gnt to pny your price for conl I wnnt the neighbor hood to know when I gets) the Btuft in. Savvy?" Judge. "Doctor," she said, irchly. "some, physi cians say kissing Isn't hfaithy, you know. What do you think of It?" "Well, really," replied the hnndsome young doctor. "I don't think you or I should attempt to decide that off-hand. Let's put our bends together and con sider." Philadelphia lYess. "Ell, Isn't this the snmo girl whose pic ture we used tho other day?" "It's the same girl, but it Isn't the same picture. " "Why not?" "We are using the other picture In tbe second part of the paper ns a portrait of that Montana feinnlo desperado." Cleve land Pluln Dealer. "Say," exclaimed the hnggard-looklng man as he dashed Into the drug store, "got any soothing syrup?" "Sure." answered tbe druggist. "What Blze bottle, please?" "Bottle, be hanged!" rejoined he of the haggard look, "liimme a two-gallon jui? full of the stuff. It's twins." Chicago News. BEAN'S AMI llltOWMNO. Tom Mnsson, Boston Is nn tho verge of a bean famine Dally Tlmen. Only three beans are left, mother, only three rhiiveli-d Inline. My brain Is getting woozy, mother, oh, think of what this nieuns. My Hrownlnpr class Is on today, whatever shall I do. With only three small beans with which to see my rondlng through? Twaa yesterday I scurried round, and fit the corner store I begged and pleaded with the clerk; he said there were no more. My spectacles hrmir limn, mother, my words are, growing thin, I dream of beans the livelong night, oh can this he a sin? Oh, mother, where's that empty pot? I'd gaze upon Its ahape. And let me have a good, sharp spoon the bottom I will scrape. Borne Inspiration there may be within tt clasfttc deep Or elsa unto that Browning class, oh mother, I can't creep! Only three beans are left mother, only three hears are left, . I've tried to beg and borrow, I've even tried by theft. Oh, Homer and Theocritus! Oh, Plato! hear my cry! I must have Leans to fill mo or else I'll surely die!" We Invite You To call on us and let in tiiow you how to huy Spectacles. There's only ouo gliwks that will fit your eye properly i-nd !f yoj don't get that one glass, your eye Is liable to b Injured. 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