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Communications relating to news and ed itorial matter should be addressed: Omana Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only I-cent stamps accepted In payment of mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchange, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OP CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, as.: George B. Tischuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and eompletj .Ar,u. . nrvi - it.. 1 1 vfnvninir. Kvenlng ana Sunday Bee printed duilns the month of t January, vn.fl, was aa iouow; 1 80,480 17. HO.OOO 28.A20 30,B40 ao.rcio 8i,nno 30,440 BO.D30 30.7SO UN.KM) 30.R70 3O.570 3O.H40 I .....aojtno I so,too 4 BH.ftOS t SO.ROO so.r.zo 7 BO.520 g 80.4IM) S0.4.HO 10 HO.BSO Jl 2S.7iO 12 30,.VH JS SO.RBO 14 3MM 15 30,370 W.... It.... 20.... SI.... 22.... 23.... 24.... 25.... 2.... 27.... 2$. 29 30,030 30. 80,570 81 30.H1O 16. 30,470 Total 041.4M Less unsold and returnsd copies.... ,8TII Net total sales 0:U,T Net average sale 30,OBl GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 31st Uny of January, A. D. 13. M. B. HUNGATE. (.Seal.) Notary Public. Tbe Omaha club women will .have committees to keep In touch with cer tain legislative measures In which they are Interested. It would not be polite, ' however, to call them "touching com wltteeg." The best wuy for the members of the Douglas delegation to show that they are on the square with the public de mand for legislation thnt will put an cud to railway tax exemption Is to do something and report progress. The thieves who broke Into the house of one of the big coal operators In Tenn sylvanla and decamped with $5,000 worth of the family plate, showed very poor Judgment They should have or ganized a scheme to tap his supply of hard coaL In the opinion of Bishop Spalding, great wealth Is almost certain to de grade Its possessor. It will take more eloquence than the bishop . possesses, however, to persuade the average man to dodge a fortune when he sees It com Ing toward him. While repairing the state's depleted finances the legislature should not over look the holes made In the skimmer by the Hartley embezzlements, the absorp tion by Meserve of Interest on public funds and the middlemen's graft on the Stuefer bond deals. The railroad tax-shirking brigade Is continuously at work in the legislative lobbies. Volunteers who are represent Ing the Interests of the people for equal taxation of railroad property with the property of Individuals must not allow themselves to lapse Into Inactivity. The ministers of Des Moines are get ting ready for another purity crusade, and will doubtless soon be beating the tomtom and crying out that Des Moines Is the wickedest city In the world. The wickedest city In the world Is always the one where the purity crusaders hap pen to be operating. It is said that Russia and Austria are threatening to convoke a European con gress to take action on the failure of Turkey to restore quiet' and order in Macedonia. So many different expedl ents have been tried on "the sick man of Europe" that a surgical operation may be the last resort. In casting about for water commis sioners. Governor Mickey must have found It hard to discover three Omaha democrats of prominence and capacity who had been allied with the regular democratic organization during the en tire period of Mr. Bryan's supremacy and therefore to have given it up. Mr. Bryan's declaration that he has felt he can no more etH'He from the work he Is now trying to do "than a man in tho peultentiary can escape the work Imposed on blm," Is a poorly chosen sftulle. Mr. Bryan ought to know that some penitentiaries ' maintain green bouses for the benefit of star boarders. President Roosevelt shows no incllna tlon to relieve the senate of the neces slty of putt luff Itself on record on the nomination of Dr. Crum by withdraw Ing the appointment If the majority of the senators want to draw the color line on positions under the federal gov ernment, we might, as well kuow who they are. Another measure to enforce the unl versa) use of automatic coupling appll noes by the railroads has passed con gress. How many more such laws will .be needed to bring about the desired reform? Congress has already enacted several automatic coupling bills, but the railroads have shown uo baste to con ply with their requirements wherever a loophole was afforded by which 'they might crawl out Kttnno faith with thc peon,. The republican party keeps faith with the people. It fulfill Its pledges to the country. Nearly fifteen years ago In Its national convention the party declared Its opposition to trust. Two years later a republican congress enacted the first antitrust law. In Its Inst national plat form the republican party condemned all conspiracies and combinations In tended to restrict business, to create nionoitolle. to limit production or to control prices, and declared In favor of such legislation "as will effectually restrain and prevent all such abuses, protect and promote competition and se cure thc rights of producers, lalwrers and all who are engaged In Industry and commerce." The fifty-seventh congress was elected on this platform and it haslkept fnlth with the people In the enactment of legislation supplementing the Interstate commerce law and the act of 1800, so that they are made much stronger and their effective enforcement rendered more certain. If not going as far as some republicans desired this legislation yet marks a decided advance. It meets the national views of the admin istration and the judgment of conserv ative business Interests. It contem plates nothing destructive or revolution ary. It Is not an assault upon the busi ness or prosperity of the country. An other antl-trust measure that passed the house unanimously Is pending In the senate. It Is a comprehensive uiens ure, but owing to the short time re maining of the session It may not be passed by this congress. It can. how ever, be considered by the next con gress If necessary. It will not be lost If It should fail of enactment by the present congress. . Of course democrats are predicting tlint the legislation passed will be Inef fective. It was to - be expected they would do this, but people who are fa mlllnr with the uniform failure of dem ocratic predictions will attach no Im portance to the latest one. The coun try has confidence that the administra tion will spare no effort to enforce this legislation and will await results. We believe that the anti-rebate bill will prove effective and we do not doubt that when the bureau of corporations In, the new department Is In operation the public will be given all proper and necessary Information In regard to the organization, conduct and management of the business of corporations, except common carriers, engaged In commerce among the states or with foreign coun tries. Let no one be disturbed by the professed apprehension of democrats that this legislation will fall of Its pur pose. rememlerlnR the persistent demo cratic cry that the republican party was controlled, by the trusts and there fore would do nothing adverse to them. THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT. The session of the. British Parliament that opened yesterday promises to have Important results, though nothing as to this Is intimated In the king's speech, which Is of the usual perfunctory char acter and gives no suggestion of what the course and policy of the ministry Is to be. In this particular the king Is merely the mouthpiece ot the cabinet and nowhere does he appear so strongly as a simple figurehead than at the opening of Parliament. The most Important work of the' ses sion will relate to Ireland and there Is promise of legislation looking to the relief of conditions in that country, which are represented to be very bad. The government will propose a measure designed to eliminate landlordism and enable the people who are cultivating the land and now paying unreasonable rental for it to become owners, the government aiding them financially. If a workable plan for this shall be put in operation It will undoubtedly be productive' of most beneficent results. material and political. Another matter of Importance that will engage the at tention of Parliament Is the educational bill, proposing some radical changes over which a vigorous contest Is ex pected. The Industrial and commercial interests of Great Britain will doubt less receive careful consideration and there may be some legislation looking to their Improvement, but those who are urging a change In the economic policy of the country are very certain to be disappointed. TROTMAO FOR A COHFCRKXCK The amendment to the Philippine cur rency bill, providing for a conference between gold and silver standard coun tries to establish a stable ratio, was adopted by . the senate without a divi sion and will doubtless be accepted by the house of representatives. As we have heretofore noted the Mexican government has appointed a commis sion to consider this matter, which will meet at once and enter upon the work. It will take a considerable time to ar range for an International conference and in the meanwhile It Is expected that the Mexican commission may be able to devise a plan for submission to the conference. ; In proponing this conference It la the purpose of Mexico and China to raise their own currencies to a fixed and per manent relation to the gold standard which Is probably the longest step to ward a gold currency of which they are capable under existing economic conditions. In the opinion of so capa ble an authority as the Financial Chron Icle It will be a step of enormous bene fit to the trade of the world if It can l successfully carried out. The money of Mexico, of China and other Oriental countries and of the nations of Latin America, will become interchangeable in value with that of the gold countries. Trade between the two will no longer Involve the risks of great fluctuations In the value of the money received for the manufactured goods exported from Europe and 1 America, the purchasing power of the silver countries will rise I by hundreds of millions, and the sta blllty of trade relations will enormously increase tlielr purchases from the manu facturing nations on the one hand and their productive power and domes tic export on the other. The Chronicle thinks It will Involve no risk for the I'nlted States to lend Its support In the thorough examination of the question and there appears to be assurances that this will be done. The proposition, it is perhaps needless to say, contemplates no change In the do mestic monetary systems of the gold standard countries. HOW SHALL Tilt PCHCHASK BK MADK1 The consensus of opinion among all classes of eltUtns and taxpayers Is in favor of the municipal ownership of the water works. We doubt very much, however, whether any considerable number of taxpayers would favor the immediate purchase of the water works unless they can be acquired at a rea sonable price. Under the contract made with the water company when its fran chise was granted the city of Omaha has a right to purchase the works at an appraised value to be fixed by three en gineers, one of these to be named by the city, one by the wnter company and the third to be chosen by the two. If the appraisement is made by these ar bitrators the city Is to pay only for the tangible property of the company with out making any allowance for the unex pired franchise. An appraisement made under these conditions can, however, only be made on or after September 4, 1003. Under the existing charter the city of Omaha Is empowered to take tho water works by condemnation under the right of eminent' domain. In taking the works by eminent domain proceedings the city would have the right to appoint nil the appraisers, but the valuntlon made by these appraisers would Include not only the tangible property but also the value of the unexpired franchise. The problem which now confronts the city is whether it shall avail Itself of the privilege embodied in the purchase clause of Its contract with .the water company, namely, to take tbe works at the price fixed by the three appraisers, or Whether It shall proceed under the right of eminent domain. The ordi nance drawn in response to the resolu tion of Councilman Hascall in conform ity with the Howell-Gilbert water works bill contemplates the purchase of the works under the three appraisers clause of the contract. This method of acquir ing the works Is doubtless most advan tageous to the water company and most dangerous to the city of Omaha. While the city and the water company each have one representative on the appraise ment board, tho chnnees are one hun dred to one that the water company will control the third man. In other words, the water company will be able to place Its own value on the works. Attorneys - who rank high at the bar contend that an acceptance of the pur chase privilege by the city binds the city to accept the valuation fixed upon the works by the arbitration board or two of the three arbitrators, even If the appraisement exceeds by two or three millions the actual value of .the works. To be sure, the city may refuse to ratify the purchase by voting down the prop osition to Issue the requisite amount of bonds. In that case the water company might Institute proceedings in the courts and under Its contract secure a Judg ment for the full valuation fixed by the appraisers. Condemnation proceedings under the right of eminent domain Iwould not In volve the city In any such risk. In the first place, the city has a right to ap point all the appraisers, and If the amount allowed for the works and the unexpired franchise is excessive the city would have the right to reject the ap praisement and have the property re appraised by a new set of appraisers. If the appraisement is satisfactory to the city and a sufficient amount o? bonds is voted to cover the full valua tion agreed upon by the appraisers the city would have the right to take pos session of the works by depositing the money In the courts, leaving the water Company the option to accept or appeal to the courts for a final adjudication of the compensation to which it would be entitled In payment for the property. The good people of Council Bluffs are having a taste of railroad tax shirking In the refusal of the Union Puciflc to pay city taxes on the east half of Its Missouri river bridjpp, on the ground that although within the city limits, It Is not receiving any benefits from the city gov ernment, which position has Just been sustained by the United States circuit court of appeals. On the same theory It would be only a question of degrees of benefit enjoyed by property subject to municipal taxation to furnish foun dation for a claim to tax exemption. How far must the city grow up toward the bridge in order to bring It within the scope of municipal taxation? Would not property In close proximity to the remote city limits and outside of the area of regulation police and fire pro tection, school facilities, etc., be entl tied to the same exemption as the rail way bridge? We believe the ruling In this case is thoroughly vicious and hope the people of Council Bluffs will carry It up for final decision by the su preme court of the United States. Tbe action of the Broatcb police board in practically forcing all the new police officers to take out bonds with a single surety company in order to favor the local agent with a forced rontrt button out of the policemen's pockets would not be serious except as an ex hlbttlon of the pernicious practices of the present board were it not that the blanket bond thus adopted Is of ques tlonable legality. Should one of the po llcemeu so bonded make a false arrest, or lay himself liable to damages In any way, we have no doubt the surety com laoy would defend a suit to recover by pleading the Insufficiency of the bond. The law contemplates a separate indi vidual security to be executed by each officer as a prerequisite to the assump tion of police duties and at the time of the anointment, and the chances are the first suit on the bond will knock the whole scheme galley west. Governor Mickey has evidently at tempted conscientiously to perform the duty imposed uxm him under the How-ell-GIlbcrt water works bill establishing a governor-appointed board of six water commissioners for the city of Omaha. No two men would probably have made the same selections, but It will be ad mitted that the appointees of the gov ernor rank well with the community in point of business ability and substantial property Interests.' If tbe water com missioners are as conscientious in the discharge of such duties as may devolve upon them as the governor has been, there will be little or no cause for com plaint. The report of the superintendent of schools submitted to the Board of Edu cation discloses the fact that at the close of last week there were In the schools of Omaha Just fifteen more pu pils than there were on the correspond ing day of the preceding year. This should give no cause for complaint but If the school attendance is substantially the same this year as It was last year, on what ground can the board Justify its estimate of school expenses for the omlnjr year so much In excess of what Is required under existing conditions? The women managers of the St. Louis exposition have decided that If they cannot have their own way they will not play at the game at all. The os tensible reason Is that the officials of the fair are opposed to the erection of special woman's building and the women think this Is denying them equality. What would the women say If the men should Insist upon having a man's building to the exclusion of the women ? Eqlpped for Ilia Task. Washington Post. Mr. Cortelyou will enjoy tbe novelty of entering the cabinet with a practical knowledge of the duties of a cabinet officer. Cruel to tho Profession. Chicago Tribune. The supreme court of North Carolina hns decided that annll- oants for license to practice law mutt be "able to write legibly and spell roasonably well." They are pretty strict down there in the old north state. While the Fish Bite. New York World. It , ia estimated that there are fifty "get-rlch-qulck" firms in New York City alone. And until the public can be taught that there Is no honest "royal, road" to . wealth all of these con cerns cannot be wiped out. Much Work and Some Play.' Philadelphia North American. It is well "known that Presi dent' Roosevelt ' Is a strenuous worker, but ' nrfbody suspected until Leslie M. Shaw so Informed en amazed world that he devotes eighteen hours out of every twenty-four to public toil. That leaves only six hours for sleep ing, eattng, riding, romping with the youngsters and getting battered up by Gen eral Wood at single stick play. Tbe presi dent must feel tempted to set General Wood on Shaw with the stoutest stick In the rack. 1 Sample of Amailng Nerve. Philadelphia North American. An attorney for the Coal trust dennunnlnv the union miners In his speech to tbe commission quoted the maxim of law that he who seeks equity must oome into court with clean banda, and asked If the hands of the miners were clean or soiled with violations of the law. PnnsMprlno- k. notoriously Illegal operation of mines by railroad corporations and the Coal trust's continuous criminal record, the nerve and effrontery of the trust lawyer in calling me court s attention to tne legal maxim must be admired. Alaska's Growing Trade. Philadelphia Press. If William H. Seward were sow alive he would have no little pleasure In recalling some of the things said against him because of the purchase of Alaska, in view of the returns of the trade of that territory. In the last six months of the calendar year, 1902, Alaska Imported from the United States $3,41 91? In merchandise and In gold and silver, and It exported to the United States $24,349,188 In value. The total trade of tho territory, foreign and domestl.!, for the six months waa 130,792,658, which is over four times as much as Seward paid for the territory. it was a spienaia '-bargain' lor the United States. Self-Preservation Anion Senators. Portland Oregonlan. Tbe United States senate stands as a solid wall against the on set of popular opinion against the con stitutional provision whereby it Is created and renewed. This la not to say that op position to an amendment to the federal constitution providing for the election of senators by popular vote Is universal among United States senators, but oppon ents of the measure are numerous enough to defeat It by tactics well known to polit ical schemers, whose first thought Is to serve their own Interests. Eventually, no doubt, the voice of tbe people will be heard upon this proposition. Otherwise another of the cherished Idols of "popular govern ment" will be shattered. - Corporate Liability. Boston Herald. The court of appeals of Albany, N. Y., has affirmed the Judrnient of tbe lower court, giving to Lottie O. Dlmon, whose husband waa killed in the so-called tunnel disaster In New York City in January, 1902, the sum of $60,000 damages and 12,185 In costs. The deceased, a man 35 years of age, was a civil engineer In tbe employ ot tbe American' Bridge company and the award waa probably based upon what bis earning power would presumably have brought in to his family bad he lived f t the regular measure of bis days. This was the first damage suit growing out of tbe tunnel disaster that baa been decided by the court of appeals, and the amount ob tained la said to be one of the largest ever given for a single death caused by a rail road accident. The case was appealed by the railroad company on the ground of ex cessive damagea granted In the lower court, but the court of appeals was unani mous In Its decision to sustain the finding. The awards that have been obtained la the rase of the explosion In tbe New York subway, a disaster which resulted la the death of a number of persons, have been even larger thaa those glvea la this tunnel accident case. ROfJD ABOtT WEW TORK. Ripples oa the t'nrreat ot Life In the Metropolis. Tlsns for the third bridge across East river have reached the picture stage. Ac cording to the prospectus It will span the river a short dlstanca above the present Brooklyn bridge, with the terminal at the Intersection of Canal street and the Bow ery, on the New' York side, and the Junc tion of Washington and Fulton streets (near the city hall), on the Brooklyn sldj. The total length. Including approaches, will be 9.900 feet, or within 600 feet of two miles, being the longest city bridge In the world. The river spsn will be 1.470 feet long. The cables will be supported by two steel towers, rising 400 feet above high water. The structure will be 100 feet wide and a "double decker." On the lower level It will carry a roadway GO feet and 6 Inches between guard rails. Four trolley tracks, two on each side of the roadway, and two promenades, 11 feet and 9 Inches wide. The upper level will carry four elevated rail road in pairs. The entire structure will be fireproof. The river span will be 135 feet above high water over tho navigable chan nels. Justice of the Peace George F. Seymour sat in his Hoboken office when a young couple entered carrying with them the usual and unmistakable evidence of desire to be made one. The Justice asked the young man's name. "Richard Mansfield," was the reply, and his honor stared for a moment aa he reflected that the noted actor must be much older than this would-be bridegroom. Then he asked the girl's name. "Maude Adams," she timidly re sponded. The Justice nearly fell out of his chair, but recovered when Informed that the pair lived In a suburb of Hoboken. Then he tied the knot, pocketed his fre and kissed the bride. Like another pled piper of Hamelln, suve that bis followers were cats Instead of ruts, Chief Piccolo Player Weller Westlnghouse Donnelly, of the United States cruiser Ra leigh, wooed a cat mascot back to the ship In presence of 200 comrades. Incidentally he charmed such a large colony of stray cats from a lumber pile on the Cob dock that his plpery had to be suppressed and tbe gangplanks pulled in. Officers as well as the men had been wor ried by an absence of twenty-four hours of the cat Portsmouth from the ship, re ports the Herald. The animal bad been shanghaied from a quiet farmhouse In New Hampshire. It was thought that he had not taken kindly to ship life and bad de serted. Chief Piccolo Player - W. W. ' Donnelly volunteered to find the eat on the dock. He had played to it many a time in the "glory hole" of the Raleigh, and he had reason to believe that his efforts bad been appreci ated. While bis doubting comrades lined the decks he climbed on top of a big lumber pile on the dock and began playing "Home, Sweet Home," on the piccolo. The sailors laughed. There was no sign of the cat. Unabashed, Donnelly drifted Into "Oome Back, My Bonnie, to Mo." and "Come for Your Coffee Now, Boys." Still there was no response, but a oommotlon began underneath the lumber pile. The piper then played "Home, Sweet Home" again. Immediately thereafter he started the strains of "Tbe Star Spangled Banner," and every sailor stared, for Portsmouth appeared crawling to him tip the woodpile, with tall proudly erect. At the same time nineteen other cats ap peared. Donnelly placed Portsmouth on to his shoulder and returned to the ship, while the stray cats In the file followed at his heels. A master-at-arms laved the day by hauling In the gangplaak. This year New York State taxpayers are asked to contribute 175,000 for the encour agement of the beet sugar Industry, as gainst $50,000 last year and $100,000 the year previous. Of this amount It Is pro posed to expend $5,000 In Instructing the farmers in beet growing; out of the re mainder tbe sugar manufacturer Is to be paid a bounty of half a cent a pound for his production. The beet sugar production In the state fell off more than one-half last year from that of 1901 and 1901 la consequence of less acreage being con tracted for and unfavorable weather con ditions. It is explained by the commlSHloner of agriculture. That official recommends that more acreage be contracted for by the . sugar mills. When there Is a largo appropriation the business of the sugar mills seems to expand, and when there is a small one their operations shrink ac cordingly. a nn of Italians are under arrest In New York tor swindling life insurance com panies out of a large sum, said to aggre gate $1,000,000. The plan nas Deen. to se cure policies on men certain not to live inns hv having the Insured person rep resented by a man In good health. An un dertaker, two physicians and others were In tha scheme, which la said to have been In operation for ten years. There Is reason to believe that some Insurance companies are often swindled in that way. New York has a magistrate who every now and then rises up to the dignity and wisdom of a "Daniel, chief of the governors over all the wise men of Babylon." He has displayed a righteousness and a fearless ness on the bench that almost excite won der In this day and generation. His hand Is always uplifted for the persecuted. Here Is a fair sample of him: When three Bow ery shop keepers were arraigned before blm for selling collars to policemen In pro hibited hours, he thundered: "Discharged! If you fellows had sold whisky instead of collars you would not have been molested!" The New York Press says that when John D. Rockefeller, Jr., swore the other day that he had debta of $400,000 he performed a surgloal operation on his conscience for the removal of a personal tax assessment. The same paper adds feelingly that "the poor young man deserves a great deal of credit for the brave show of courage which he has been making In public during these many yeara, when all the while he has been harassed by numerous creditors, yet voided the bankruptcy court and Ludlow street jail." Colonel John J. Partridge, former police commissioner, addressing the Woman's Re publican club In New York few days ago, said that in 1903 he had made more than 800 appointments "and they did not cost the men a cent." Tbe former commissioner added that, according to the computation of friend, based on the alleged previous custom of exacting payment for appoint ments and promotions, be had thus "thrown way $782,000." What Shall We Have for Dessert? This question arises in the family every day. Let us auswer it to-day. Try a delicious and healthful dessert. Pre pared In two minutes. No boiling I no baking I add boiling water and act to eooL Flavor: Lemon, Orange. Rasp berry and 6traterry. Get a package at your grocers to-daja, io eta. . TUB EDrCATIOWAI. TEST. Effect I re Opposition to the Measnre la Coneress. Philadelphia Ledger. It Is announced from Washington that It Is Impossible to secure favorable or, In deed, any consideration of the Immigration bill at the present session of congress un less the educational test feature Is elimi nated. It has been decided by the active congressional supporters of the legislation to) omit the reading and writing test and then endeavor to secure unanimous con sent for the passage of the measure. The Washington correspondent of the Boston Transcript says that serious opposition to the educational test bas been developed from several Industrial sources which wish to maintain a fresh supply ot labor. The proposition now Is to pass a bill which, while It does not exclude any new classes, changes the method of adminis tering the immigration laws in certain Im portant particulars, by which diseased, pauper and dependent Immigrants may be more effectually detected and excluded. Raising the head tax and extending tbe period of government supervision over ar rivals are among the suggested reforms, but whatever may be the bill' presented to congress, the measure will probably be materially amended before passage. The Inrush ot undesirable Immigrants from southern continental Europe will continue while American business prosper ity exists, unless the Immigration laws are radically changed. Periods of business de pression In tbe United States have been accompanied or followed almost Invari ably by a decline in the number ot foreign arrivals. A vast Influx of Immigrants Is the penalty the United States must pay for "good times." The educational test, fairly applied, would exclude the densely Ignorant, but not necessarily the most dangerous classes. It la urged that the educational test Is ap plied In some statea to voters and that the arriving foreigner could not reasonably object to a test of admission wMoh Is ex acted from American citizens before they are allowed to vote. It la urged, too, that the educational test weald prepare foreigners to become good American cltl tens. This result would not necessarily follow, for many of our most hopeless criminals are Intelligent, and' some of them highly educated. The theory Is, however, that education uplifts and Improves our rlttfcenship. Upon this foundation our common school system la' built Unfor tunately there Is no sure test by which the moral character ef the arriving im migrant can be tested. Even when the educational test Is Invoked much must be taken for granted respecting the Incoming alien. ' A STRAW FROM ILLINOIS. Demand for Election of TJnlted Statea Senators by Popular Vote. Minneapolis Tribune. Significant of the temper of the times, and of hopeful import. Is the adoption by the senate of Illinois, by a vote lacking but one of being unanimous, of a resolution demanding that congress shall call a con vention for tbe adoption of an amendment to the constitution prescribing the election of United States senators by direct vote of tho people of the states they represent. The Addlcks disgrace in Delaware, the anarchy that prevailed In Denver during the Wolcott-Teller contest a short time ago the disgusting scenes that have marked senatorial elections In Pennsylvania, In variably resulting in the election of Quay or one of his henchmen, the Montana scan dals and a dozen and one others that might be called to mind, have convinced Intelli gent voters that there should be a change. Tbe house hes passed submission resolu tions by the 'required two-thirds majority, but In each case they were defeated In the senate, a fact indicating that more than one-third of the senators are afraid to submit their claims to their constituents. It Is not likely that it will be possible to obtain the necessary two-thirds in the sen ate until the popular demand becomes so emphatic as to be Irresistible, and mean while It Is well to depend chiefly upon initiative by the states. An application by the legislatures of two thirds of the states is mandatory and con gress cannot refuse to call a convention la case of such a demand. Ratification by three-fourths of tbe states will cause still further delay, so that It Is easy to see that an expression of tbe people's will In this matter even under the most auspicious con ditions Is a matter of the Indefinite future. The question could be settled quickly If the senate would consent to the first method of amendment provided In Article 6 of the constitution. Pending a change of heart on the part of the senate, how ever, It is well for the states to take the Initiative an'. Illinois Is to be congratu lated upon the action of Its state senate. Several state legislatures and many state conventions have given expression to the will ot the people in this regard and the ball is still rolling. PERSONAL NOTES. Secretary Root has accepted an Invitation KNimnin the president on bis hunting trip to Colorado and other western states next month. John L. 8ullivan's last exhibition of his physical prowess was to stand up In the court of bankruptcy and have bis old debts knocked out. Colonel Bryan admits that he spent 120, 000 for the people's cause In 1896 and 1900. He also intimates that somebody else will have to put up the dough In 1904. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Is reported to have assured his Sunday school class re cently that kind words are the best thing to give a poor man when he asks for help. Senator-elect Ankeny ot Washington Is president of six different national banks and tbe richest capitalist in the state. He Is therefore supposed to be qualified for membership In tbe national "mllllonairea1 club." The Louisville Ministerial association la sued an appeal to the ministers of Ken tucky to deliver sermons last Bunday In deprecation of lawlessness. The appeal was occasioned, the Lexington Herald says, by 4l "uo.essnj ...KNEE PANT SALE... Over 260 pairs of Child's Knee Paste Cut and made from ends of auits la our factory, and also quite a number of broken lines of our regular stock. Are now on sale at 75c a pair. Nearly all materials are represented. 6 liea 4 years to 1 year. JfO CLOTH I XQ FITS LIKE OURS. Browning, King fir Co. R. 8. Wilcox, Myr. Rfy Years tha Standard MS Awarded Rights! Honors World's Fair Kfehist fists U.S. Gov't Chsmlsti rnioi aAKiNa mwoi oo. ohicaoo the very small percentage ef convictions for the number of murders committed In the state. ' President Koosevelt has been Invited to attend the unveiling ot the monument to be erected at Orchard Knob, oa tbe Chlcka mauga battlefield. In commemoration of the services ef Maryland's soldiers, union and confederate. In the civil war. The unveil ing will take place on July 22. A New York politician went to the presi dent last week and said: "Mr. President, I want a place. I have got good claims for one. What wllf you do for me?" "Don't see that I can do a thing," answered the president. "Choate abaolutely refuses to resign aa ambassador to England, and of course you wouldn't take anything else. Good morning." FLASHES OP FUK. A newspaper reporter will never be wholly successful unless he geta a widespread rep utation for being confoundedly Inquisitive. Somervllle Journal. Miss Kthelred They eay that a paper will keep you warm. Mr. Bym Coyne That's true, too, A sixty-day note of mine once kept me In a sweat for two months. Detroit Free Press. "Would you call this an 'open winter"?" "I don't know, but it seems to be open wide enough to have given me this ould." Philadelphia Cathollo Standard. Young Lady Were you pleased wIUv the new school, little boyf Little Boy Naw! Dey made me wash me face an when I went home de dors; bit me 'cause he didn't know me. Chicago News. "Truth lies at the bottom of a well, said the man who quotes. "Not at the bottom of an oil well, I'll bet," anrrled the man who had Invested. Baltimore Herald. "But, papa," protested the eoulfuleyed young maiden, you are unjust to Alger- . non. He hae no bad habits." "No bad habits, eh! I've noticed that he has a mighty had habit of coming around here to waste his time about four evenings In the week." Somervllle Journal. At the requeet of the confirmed dyspeptlo the operator was taking an X-ray photo graph of the seat of his trouble. "This. I suppose," snarled the sufferer, with a ghastly attempt to be facetious, "Is what might be called taking light exercise on an empty stomach." Chicago Tribune. "I am afraid your Ideas are a little hit worldy and cynical," said the friend. "Not a bit of It," answered Senator Sor- f hum. "All I want la money to give to my riflnds. But they've got to give me com plete and practical demonstration that they come up to my definition of friendship." Washington Star. "Is a historical novel one that la founded on historical facts 7" "No, my boy. A historical novel Is one that presents the facts aa the author thinks they ought to be rather than aa they are. If you stick to historical novels, my eon, you will know less of history every day you live." Chicago Post. THE FADING LIGHT OF DAY. Boston Transcript. 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