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TITE OMAITA PAITT BEE: WEDNESDAY, MATtCIl 25. 1003. The Omaha Daily Dee K. R0.1EWATER, EDITOR PUBLISHED KVERT MORNINO. TSRMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally l;ee (without Sunday), One Tcar..$4.0J Dally Kee and Sunday, One Year ' ' 111 not rated He, One Year 'JJ Sundnv bre. On Year - v' Batur.l'ny lltf, One. Year J" 'iwenlleth lntury Farmer, One Year.. 1.W DELIVERED HY CARRIKX Pally Hi- (without Sniiday). per copy.... 2c lally Hre (without Ktjntly, per week..."'! Dally he (inclunlng Bunday), per week. .170 Hundny Hoi-, per copy Evening Hee (without Sunday), per ween so Evening fces (Including Sunday). Per week . . . Complaints of Irregularities In VT should be addressed to jCIt Circulation De partment. . OFFICES. Omaht-"-The Bee Building. South Omaha-City Hall Building, Twen-tv-nitli and M Htreets. Council Bluff-iO Pearl Street Chicago Iftto L'nlty Building. New York-i lark Row Building. Washington 601 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to new and edi torial matter ahould be addressed: Omaha bee. Editorial Department. RBMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to the Bee Publishing Company. Only 2-cent stamps accepted In payment of mall accounts. Personal check-, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not; accepted. TUB BEK PUBLlHHINa COMPANY. , STATEMENT OS" CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, as.: George B Tzachuck, secretary of The Baa Publishing Company, being duly iworn. says that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally. .Morning, Evening and Sunday Fee printed during tfce month of February. laOJ. waa aa toUom: i xs.ieo U sro.-a a fto.nao 16.. 81,320 I ..., wo 17 81,540 A '...ftO.UHO 18 81.41MI a ao.-iix) 11 81,450 ; 30.ATO 20 Sl.OlO 1 aO.SIMI H 81,070 XU,1MI 22 J,S5 ... 80.U10 21 .... .81,WO 10..... SO,SOO 24 '.... .81.150 n.,... 8i,oa . 26 31,M 12...... 30.U40 M 81,80 13 30,040 27 81,M 14 .30,570 28.. .81,780 Total.... ... -.858,488 Less unsold and returned copies.... u,8Q4 Net total sale.! 4' Met average sales S0.145 nKflRflR B. TZ8CHUCK. Subscribed In my preaenoe and sworn to be tore me this totu oay of February, A. D. 1903. M. a. huinuaiu, (Seal.) Notary Public The Ileal Estate exchange campaign for eaual taxation must be kept up without interruption. Investigation into the Stuefer bond deals ought to bring out some more wit nesses with convenient lapses of mem ory. , In the meanwhile the decision of the coal strike arbitrators Is important to the consumer chiefly as an asset for the future. If the legislature could place its 133 ears to the ground fot a few seconds it might bear a slight murmur In the mitral valve. ' A rare volume of the Bible in Anglo- Norman' has just , been sold for $3,050, The value of the Bible' as-a book; how ever, can never be measured In dollars and cents. Of course it was purely accidental that all twelve of the saloons put under the ban by the Brontch police', board happen to sell the beer of one and the same brewery. The men in the firing cab are getting up steam to send the revenue bill over the tracks In the senate end of the legis lature with clear right-of-way over all other rolling stock. ' Testimony in the Burdlck case rein forces the time-proved adage that It is often better to travel a thousand miles than to write a letter, even if you have to pay railroad fare. With British conwolg down to the low est point in nearly forty years, John Bull can appreciate Uncle Sam's credit that enables him' to float, securities at-rates that would scarcely-be dreamed of, a decade ago. .,.'.- r , Oh, yes I The Broatch police board Is a reform body appointed to take the police but of. politics.' It savors very much of the' ' same brand of reform ladled out by the defunct bunch of non partisan fusion reformers. Queen Lil was particularly uncom municative on her homeward transit through Omaha. But, then, any one who thought be had f'JOO.OOO within his grasp, only to have it vanish as if an empty dream, would be likely to act likewise. , The World-Herald delights In playing the "I-told-you-so"? role. , It Is, however, only about republicans who go ' wrong In official positions that it told us so. When democrats fall to live up to prom ises made for them, as so often happens hereabouts, the ','I-told-you-so". organ suddenly suffers paralysis of the tongue. That school of, music scheme for the State university was evidently a buffer for its- school of agriculture bill. Per haps the demand for a musical appro priation might have met a more sym pathetic reception If the curriculum taught, how to get harmony out of a threshing machine or to beat time on a milk palL Director of the Census Merrinm calls the census' a deoennlal snapshot of the nation, ' It's lucky the framers of the constitution whe provided therein for the enumeration, of the people every ten years,, out of which the census has grown, did not have such metaphors shot at them, for they would not have known what waa meant. . The paper that declare Governor Sav age vetoed the wolf bounty appropria tion tws years ago should poat itself up on recent state history. Governor Savag naver ' had a chance either to alga or veto a bill passed by the legis lature, and if the wolf bounty claims Lad aver come up to him be could have boon depeadad on to put them through WltboBt IfflnVeUsT. will TtBT iitn-diwn LAW. It appears to be the purpose of some f the lending railway companies to test the conKtltutlonallty of the antl rt'bnte law. Announcement is made that the take-Shore railrond In pre pared to make a fight over the question of 'making and maintaining rates and that It -will be backed by all the big allronds of the east which are Included In the community of Interests scheme In what Is known as the eastern railroad pool. According to the report It Is the Intention of this pool to either dislodge the Interstate Commerce commission from its position or to have the Elklns law declared unconstitutional. An eastern paper states that the prin cipal fight will be against the stand taken by the commission that rates can be rnlsed or lowered by a judicial ac tion under the' new law. This, it la suggested, will bring up the old fight that has been waged for years letwepn the rallronds of the country and the Interstate Commerce commission. The success of the fight on the part of the commission. It Is , remarked, "would mean the realization of the old dream of complete government supervision of the railroad rates on Interstate business, Jvhlle the exact opposite is appealing to the railroads, who W ant to get back to the place they have occupied of making such rates as they choose as1 long as they lived up to the published tariffs." So. far as the constitutionality of the anti-rebate law is concerned it has al ready been affirmed, in effect, by the supreme court of the United States. In a recent decision by the court the law was recognized in such a way as to Virtually acknowledge that it is con stitutional. Still It Is unquestionably desirable that it shall be given a thor ough test, so that the question of con stitutionality may be fully and finally determined: There has been generally shown on the part of the railroads a disposition to comply with the require ments of the act so far as it prohibits rebates and discriminations. : The ob jection of the eastern .railroads,-it ap pears, la not to. this,, but to the con struction of the commission in regard to the provision relating to the making of rates. . It Is certainly to' be desired that this shall be clearly defined by Judicial decision and no reasonable complaint can therefore be made in regard to the pro posed action on the part of the railroads Let them take the matter to the courts as soon as possible and have the Issue settled without unnecessary delay. There is a very general belief that the anti- rebate law is absolutely sound in prin ciple and will be highly beneficial in op eration, but there will be no objection to any action looking to the determlna tlon of the question of Its constitution ality. KXONERATIOX Or QESCRAL WOOD. There will be no question among fair- minded men as to the propriety of the action of Secretary, Root JrL regard., to the charges made against .General Leon ard Wood by the man who waa chiefly responsible for the postal scandal in Cuba. The secretory of war fully ex onerates the former governor of Cuba and states that everything. contained In the charges of Rathbone was - known to the authorities at Washington and un qualifiedly approved by them. So far as General Wood Is concerned his public statement respecting the accusation is what was to have been expected, en tirely frank and straightforward and In viting the most thorough Investigation. It would be quite impossible for such a man as Rathbone, with the record he made In Cuba, to convince any corn-rid erable number of the American people that General Leonard Wood was guilty while In Cuba of conduct unworthy the position he held. JIb course there throughout was marked by the highest judgment, by great executive ability and by absolute integrity. It was in all respects creditable and honorable and the distinguished reputation he made as the representative of the United States in the performance of a. .most. difficult and delicate task will live long in the memory of the Cuban people, to whom he showed himself a most earnest and faithful friend. General .Wood ' served the government wisely and uprightly and no defamation' on the part of. those whose dishonesty lie exposed can-dimin ish hla claim to the -respect ' and..epnfl dence of the American people. V ADULTERATED FOOD PROVVCTi). It is a fact that of the food products Imported from Europe into this coun try a great deal la adulterated. A report oi tne government chemists, made as the result of ! very careful investigation, shows that Germany la sending to the United States every year millions of dollars' worth of foodstuffs into which harmful preservatives have been Intro duced. While that, country Is findlna fault with and discriminating against our meats and fruits on the ground that they are deleterious to health, she is sending here food products which It has been demonstrated are more harmful, so far as the preservatives are con cerned, than anything sent there from this country, thus furnishing a substan tial ground for retaliation on our part. Doubtlesa other countries send here articles to which objection could fairly be made on this score, but so far aa appears Germany is the chief offender. The Information obtained by the gov ernment Investigation haa been kept ironi the public, but a bill waa put through congress st the closing hours of the session, says a Washington dis patch, which makes It possible to utilize the information should It be found ex pedient to do so. This meaanre author izes the secretary of the treasury to re fuse entry of food supplies which the secretary of agriculture finds to be adulterated so -as to .be Injurious to health. There was prevlouiJy a law that authorized taa exclusion of adulterated foods that might be Injurious to health. but it required oar officials to prove that they were harmful. ' T5ie new law re Haves them of this. Under this atatnta there would be no difficulty in adopting retaliation as to those countries which discriminate against Auieikan products on the ground that they are impure and it is highly probable that the law will be enforced if the policy of discrimina tion is continued. SHAM RKfOHM DROPS THE UASK. The sham reform police board, headed by that political buccaneer, William J. Broatch, has at last dropped the mask. When they received their commission from the hands of Ezra P. Savage the people of Nebraska In general and the citizens of Omaha in particular, were assured that the redoubtable pardon dispenser was actuated solely by a de sire to redeem Nebraska's metropolis from maladministration, enforce public decency and morality by the suppres sion of vice and divorce the police and fire departments from politics. Everybody In the community familiar with the deal between the bull fight governor and the corporation managers knew that no reform either in public morals, public decency or nonpartisan police supervision could be hoped for from a commission organized as an aux iliary of the corporation combine, whose sole aim has been to subjugate and rule this community with an Iron hand. For this infamous task no fitter, man could Jiave been chosen than William J. Broatch. . Unprincipled, unscrupulous and utterly indifferent to public senti ment, this Omaha Weyler could be de pended upon mercilessly to swing the police club over the heads of men and women who come under police surveil lance There were1 a good many people la Omaha, however, who did not know Broatch and his methods and there were a great many other people who be lieved that his three colleagues In the commission would not allow themselves to become, mere puppets In his handn. These amiable people were evidently oblivious of the fact that the Broatch commission was created for a specific purpose and that purpose has no rela tlon whatever to public morals or better government From Its very Inception the commls slon has sought to curry favor with the lawless and vicious classes by the.ap polntment of police officers who had made themselves notorious by. their moral depravity and licentiousness. From these belled cats the habitues of the proscribed district, male and female, have nothing to fear. During the whole eight months of Its existence the sham reiorm commission has not done one solitary thing for the restraint of flaunt ing vice, nor has it made the faintest at tempt to enforce law and order. The closing up of a dozen saloons Sat urday night at the very time when three out of the four commissioners were carousing in a wine room attach ment of an all-night restaurant was not merely a grandstand play to the gal leclea, but it was a bold attempt at po litical blackmail to compel the brewers that supply beer to the resorts that were closed over Sunday to fall In with the political program of the corpora tions who are bent upon capturing not only the republican primaries, but also ! the democratic primaries, so that only men who can be depended upon to do the bidding of the corporation bosses shall be nominated for vll the city i offices by the two political parties. Few people realize what a revolution Is In prospect If the South Omaha school board bill becomes a law. Up to the present time all school directors In Nebraska have served without . pay, while the proposed bill fixes a salary of $300 a year for school board members. It is not that the. salary cuts much figure, but that the rule of no compen sation is broken for the first time and the etory of the camel pushing himself into the Arab's hut is sure to be re peated first by extending the salary at tachment to the school boards of other cities and school districts and then screwing the salaries up so that they will become the objective point It may be , that the salaried school board ' ia what the people want, but they should have their eyes open to what they are getting. President Roosevelt on his coming western trip will discuss all the Im portant public topics that have had the attention of hla administration during the past year. President Roosevelt Is one of the public men who believe In taking the public Into his confidence, and the public reciprocates by confiding the most vital Interests of the country implicitly In him and backing up his Judgment with a vigorous public senti ment A Kansas City paper discusses In all seriousness "the decline of our legisla tures," which It Insists have degen crated into a haven for second-class pol iticians and grafters. The decline, bow ever, depends eutlrely on the point of view. Careful comparison covering a period of years would, we believe, dem onstrate that legislative prices have been going up Instead of coming down, me senate committee on revenue slammed the door in the face of Tax Commissioner Fleming of Omaha, but If John N. Baldwin had rapped at the door he would have been salaamed in, although that ponderous pompadour statesman never paid a penny of taxes in Nebraska and very few pennies In Iowa, whence he halls from. "Government by brewery In Omaha must cease," exclaims Mr. Broatch un less the breweries are willing to orna ment their beer kegs and beer mugs with a Broatch label and get on their knees and humbly pledge themselves to vote the primary election ticket pre pared by the Broatch dark lantern re formers. The test-oath primary bill is not only a spotters' bill, but It is a bill to bar rut of tha primaries of all political parties the self respecting men who re fuse to swallow yellow dogs Just be es ti they wear tha party label. Its design la to make powerless people who place good government above party spoils.- Testimonial of "access. Kansas City Journal. One of the strongest testimonials to the success and popularity of President Roose velt's administration la the fact that his renomlnatlon Is accepted aa a foregone con clusion. Stand from ( Vader. Philadelphia Press. Whea Clereland goes west Into Bryan's section of the country it will be well for cautious people to move hack aa much as possible.. It Is the Innocent bystander that usually gets hurt. It Waa DlsTerat Thes, Indianapolis Journal. The scarcity of farm labor complained ot In Nebraska was not one ot the farmer's complaints In 1896. Still, between too many and fewer than are needed the latter Is the more encouraging indication. Master of the Bltvatloa. Cleveland Leader. The president may well be pleased with the result ot the extra session of the senate. It not only did the work he in tended to have done, but it proved that he Is largely master of the most Independent and arrogant branch of congress, when he has the country behind him. Plain Facta OTerlooke. Washington Poat. The Bryanltea all overlook the fact that the gentlemen who bolted In 1898 and 1900 are not endeavoring to return to a trium phant political organization. They are try ing to go back for the sole purpose of re storing the democracy to the position it occupied before It became tinctured with the lama which were so overwhelmingly re pudiated at the polls. Oraranlslna; the Army Stan. Philadelphia Record. Secretary Root has taken the first step toward the organization of a general staff by, the Issue of an order convening a mil itary, board, which is to detail forty-two officers from the army at large to serve in ttie new corps. A significant paragraph of the order is that which declares that "no applications, recommendations or let ters except those submitted through the proper military channels of communica tion" shall be considered by the board. This means that members ot congress need not .apply and that sons of their fathers are under Interdict, or does it mean that applications must be made to the adjutant general, the political chief of the army? Advisers and Candidates. Washington Star. Mr. Cleveland, as he tells us, Is In poli tics now only in an advisory capacity. So say they all, gentlemen. Mr. Bryan la not a candidate. - He Is only advlelna? his party friends. And the same la true of Mr. Hill, Mr. Olney and Mr. Gorman. There are no candidates in the field. But of advisers the party has no lack. The woods are full of them. Turn to the .north, south, east or west, and you' find them without an effort. Nevertheless, the different between an ad viser and a candidate ia so slight in exist ing circumstances .that Mr. Cleveland's three deliverances will not serve to take his name out of popular speculation. His best friends will oonttnue t rata him as the beat man for next year's race. Boiling; Water Net Xaeagh. Cleveland 1 Leader. Bolilna. it Is aareed., will kill the aerms that are found In the sewage-contaminated water, but if the water is boiled thoroughly for a period of five minutes, as suggeated by the health ofBcer, it will be discovered that there U something, besides germs in it which should not be taken Into the human stomach. Water that has' been boiled the required time will be found, after It has cooled, to be covered with a filthy and of fenslve-Jooklng scum. This Is the organlo matter .hat is carried In solution in the water, and it la what gives the boiled water its sickening taste. If the boiled vater Is put thrpugh a good filter, many of which can be purchased at amall cost, compara tlvely. It will come out clear, sparkling and palatable, almost as good aa spring water, in fact A, TEXAS STALWART. Proposed Memorial to Sam Honston In Stataary Hall. St Louis Globe-Democrat. Tha proposition to erect a memorial to Sam Houston aa one of Texas' contribu tlons to Statuary hall In the capltol at Washington excites some discussion. Every body concedes the fitness of the selection, but the design to represent him In the costume of an Indian calls out a strong protest from Judge John H. Reagan. The Judge recites some of the posts which Hous ton held and the services which bs ran dered as congressman from Tennessee, gov ernor of that state, commander of the rev olutionary armies which won Texas' Inde pendence, president of the Texas republic, senator from Texas in the United States congress and governor of Texas, and pro tests vigorously against having him stand In Statuary hall in the garb of a Cherokee, in which tribe he lived for several years Just before removing to Texas In the days when that locality waa part of Mexico. Judge Reagan is right in his protest againat this propoaed travesty on the mem ory of this distinguished Texan. But Hous ton rendered other services to his country than those which Judge Reagan mentions. As governor of Texas in 1860-'61 be did good work for the union cause, but he was eventually overthrown by the extremists. Judge Reagan and others, who hurried the state into secession. Attempting, at the opening of lSttl, to prevent the calling of a convention which was to pass an ordinance of secession, and then, after the ordinance had been passed, refusing to take the re quired oath ot allegiance to the confed erate government, he aroused the hostility ot the madmen who were carrying Texas In to tha coalition with South Carolina and the rest of the states which had gone through the form of getting out ot the union, was depoaed by the secessionists. forced Into private life and died In the middle of the war which he vainly tried to avert, and which he predicted would bring ruin on his section. A few years before that time Sam Hous ton rendered another service to his state and country which Judge Reagan neglects ta mention. As a senator he voted against the repeal ot the Missouri compromise In 1854, and he was the only democrat la his chamber who did thla. One southern whig. Bell of Tennetsee, Joined htm in opposing this tolly. In the house two democrat Benton ct Missouri and Mlllson of Virginia also fought this political crime. These three democrats, who stood out against the predominant sentiment of their party and sectloa and vainly tried to save their party and the country from' a long train of ca'am lt,les which this wickedness brought, de serve to be held in grateful remem brance by all genuine Americans. Judge Reagan forgets to call the attention of his countrymen to these two Instances of cour age, public spirit and foresight which ware displayed by the man whose memory he champions. Statuary hall will contain no worthier dure 'than that sane, patriotic and stalwart American, earn Houston. TALK Or THE STATIC PRESI. Ponra Jonrnat: The lonrer the leclsla- ture works on the revenue bill the more muddled It becomes. The bill as originally drafted appealed to almost everybody as Just and fair, but it has been to badly jug gled, amended and lobbied since then that It la liable to bear very little semblance to its former self when it Is finally passed. If It ever Is passed. Chadron Journal: We are In favor of the abolition of capital punishment and In substituting In Its place life-long sen tences In the penitentiary. Nowadays a good many people seem to court and wel come death, but those who like to look out and see staring them in the face a life sentence at hard work are not so num erous. Have more life sentences and a pardoning board as well. Albion News: The Ramsey elevator bill, similar to the Brady bill, passed the house of representatives by a unanimous vote last Tuesday. It will go to the sen ate and will be considered In connection with Brady's bill. It Is very evident that one of these bills will become a law. It Is said the railroad lobby realizing defeat In the house withdrew all objections with the hope ot killing it in the senate. Albion Newst When Senator Brady's elevator bill came up in the senate the papers state that the belligerent remarks of the Boone county senator turned some against the measure, who had before been friendly. As one ot a very small minority In the senate it should have been patent to the gentleman, that abuse of the ma jority was very poor tactics. Under the circumstances there is not much probability of this bill becoming a law. There are some other bills covering nearly the same ground which may succeed. Hastings Tribune: We have nothing to say against the St. Louis World's fair In particular, but, generally speaking, we think there are too many world's fairs. The great number has diminished the value of the Institution. Too many world's fairs have become a great midway merely, a place of amusements which are too frivolous to be of utility, and which are not the best things in the world to promote morality. In our estimation a world's fair should be a sort of mile-stone In International growth, and should occur only when spe cial features of development warrant. As It is, no sooner does one country complete Its exhibition than another pops up with a new fair. Let us have fewer, but let us have them bigger and better than ever be fore. Gordon Journal: The legislature has passed a bill which the governor has signed that provides that In order to become a lawyer you must attend a high school- at least three yeara and put in three years In a law school and one year In a law office, or three yeara In a law office, and, of course, paaa examination. The law now re quires a four years' course In a medical col lege to become a doctor and three years' experience in a drug store and a state ex amlnatlon to become a druggist. Every thing tends to higher education in this country. The time Is coming when a young man cannot get a Job as chambermaid in a livery stable unless he has a diploma from some veterinary college; draymen will be required to pass an examination in physics, and common farm hands will have, to pro duce a sheepskin, signed by the faculty of some school of agriculture and animal in dustry. Better get a hustle on you, boys. or you will be left out In the cold without a Job. PERSONAL NOTES. Nicholas n. czar of all the Russlaa, works abont aix hours a day in connection with affairs, of state, his salary for that time being In the neighborhood of 180 a minute. Miss Helen Gould will defray the ex penses of Dr. William H. Tolman's trip to Europe to study conditions la the prin clpal cities and collect material illustrative of economic progress in various munici palities. The Minneapolis district court haa de cided that the bondsmen of former Mayor Ames of that city must pay the entire cost of bringing the absconding official back from his Maine retreat. This bill will amount to over $1,000. The beauties and versatility of court In Junctions grow apace. An up-to-date Chi cago judge enjoined a young wife from pull ing her aged husband's whiskers. Aa the wife is an orator of the Morgan type, she can singe the whiskers without incurring the displeasure of the court. J. B. Robinson haa been a Justice of the peace at Saladsburg, Pa., for just a halt century and is believed to have been in office longer than any other man in the state. By far the larger number of cases which come before him are settled amlc ably, the 'squire being a famous hand at amoothlng over all sorts of disputes. The city of Boston haa asked Phlladel phla to lend it the Liberty bell from Inde pecdenoe hall for display upon the celo bratlon, on June 17, of the 128th anniver sary of the battle ot Bunker Hill. The managers of the St. Louis fair also desire to have it on exhibition there. The Phlla dclphla custodians are loath to have the bell go out of their care. What is said to be the most remarkable Instance of leg-pulling occurred In a New York hospital. A short leg was stretched tour inches. Owing to meagre details It is inadvisable to make a comparison with recent surgical operations at Jefferson City, Mo., but the fact that several legls lators changed $1,000 bills Indicates ar tistlc work in leg-pulling around Missouri's state house. Marcus Braun ot New Tork, president of the Hungarian Republican club and editor of the Hungarlan-Austro Gazette, was ap pointed special emigrant commissioner in Europe by the president the other day, The salary Is $5,000 a year, with expenses paid. It is a position recently created re quiring travel in Europe for the purpose of stopping on the other side the emigra tion of anarchists and undesirable persons It is reported In Boston that Lieutenant General Nelson A. Miles will again make that city tie borne upon his retirement from active service In August next. He was a clerk In a store In that city from his seventeenth to bis twenty-second year, and left there for the south as captain of a company In the Massachusetts Twenty-sec ond Infantry under commission issued by Governor 'Andrew at the outbreak of the war la 1861. addsancwddight lo pastry IF YOU DONT NEED 'EM We will tell you so. Statistics show that CIX OUT OF TKN headaches are cauaed by eye strain. Bettor call and see us about your eye. J. C. HUTESON & CO., U 8. lsth 8L, Paxtoa Block. t "V I 1 VV (tans fflb BITS OF WASHIXOTOS LIFE. Minor Srenes and tneldenta Sketched on the Spot. Secretary Wilson of the Department of Agriculture, acting on the president's sug gestion, has planned an extensive Inves tigation for the purpose of determining how to protect American rime In the terrltorlea where the authority ot the national government Is complete. Alaska will be Investigated first. Already a man has been detailed to visit that territory fur the purpose of making a full report upon the kind of animals and birds that are found there, and also to suceest means for their preservation. It Is not the In tention to propose to restrict the killing of birds and animals so as to work hard ships to' people who kill them for food purposes, but It Is the Idea to protect the birds and other wild game from reckless shooting and slaughter. Dr. S. Hart Mer rlam, the chief of the division of biology, will take charge of an Inquiry In Wash ington, Oregon and California. There are number of government reservations In those states where wide forest areas exist. Considerable game Is to be found there. and It Is proposed to devise means for pro tecting It. Game refuges will be set aside and general plans made for the increase and spread of species ot birds and animals that are threatened with extinction. The Department of Agriculture officials have already done considerable work along the line proposed by the president. They are agitating the subject of the need for state laws to prohibit spring shooting of game of all kinds, on the ground that this sport Is the most harmful of any now Indulged In by bird hunters. The department also co-operates, whenever possible, with state officers In preventing shipments of game killed out of season, and also works with private organizations for the protection ot birds that are not game. A dispatch to the Chicago Tribune re ports that another crusade against fraud ulent "get-rlch-qutck" concerns will be Instituted Immediately by the Poatofflce department. The companies Involved are the oil, copper and gold mine corporations and similar concerns which publish allur ing advertisements and make representa tions which, manifestly are faudulent This crusade by the department undoubtedly will sound the death knell of these com panies, which have fattened on the gullible people who give up their money in the hope of securing from SO to 100 per cent on their Investments. Complaint has been received by the Post- office department against some of the cop per corporations doing business In Mon tana. The charge Is made that these com panies are fraudulent on their faces, as making promises Impossible to redeem and obtaining money on false pretenses. Oil and gold mining companies also are In volved In these charges, and it is antici pated that when the public becomes aware of the fact that these corporations will be Investigated the PostofTloe department will be flooded with communications contain ing complaints of correspondents who have been swindled and who will demand the return of their money. As soon aa com plaints sre received Investigations will be ordered, and the chief Inspectors of the division of the detective force of the Poet office department will be busily engaged during the next few weeks in obtaining evidence againat questionable enterprises. If sufficient evidence is secured by the department detectives to Justify such action ' the postmaster general will bar these copper, gold mining and oil com panies from the use of the mails. With this valuable privilege taken away it is predicted that many,, of. these fraudulent concerns wlU- retire from business forth with. Those persons who have already invested money In these questionable com panies will undoubtedly lose a portion of it. as from what is already known the officers of these companies pay themselves large salaries and spend enormous sums in advertising. For years corporations which are outrageously over-capitalised have been doing a big business and reap ing rich harvests. Prospectuses containing statements of notorious misrepresentations are circulated through the country and mil lions of dollars have been poured Into tha coffers of these get-rlch-qulck corpora tions. Many of them have failed and the investors have suffered! a total loss. Colonel Moses C. Wetmora ot St Louis, the famoua trust buster, had an experience In Washington a few days ago which con vinced him that even the most astute "trust buster" of the west must be on his guard when he visits the east. The colonel came to Washington to witness the installation in the senate of his presidential candidate, William Joel Stone. After observing the minutest detail of the event Colonel Wet more returned to his' hotel in a happier frame of mind than ha enjoyed even when he gave the first fierce jab to the octopus by selling hts big tobacco factory at St. Louis to the tobaoco trust. He was approached by a soft-voiced and pleasant featured young man la the hotel corridor, who reminded the colonel that he had met htm In St. Louis a few months ago. The yonng man confidentially Informed Colonel Wetmore that he had expected to meet a mutual friend in the hotel who was to accommodate him for a few hours with the small loan of $25, and since the mutual friend had not shown up, would Walt'ham Watches, The best things going. 'The 'Perfected Amcrlatn Witch' an Uustraici book cf interesting information about ivaiches, mill be sent free upon request. American WalLham Watch Company, Waltham, llass. Nothing that's Not Good We daxrt carry tha sort of clothing tha would sand you somewhere alas far tha nsxt purchase. IV m your continued trade tha ws strrv for, and to do that yxra must be satis tied thai first time. And w can. da is with. an of our Bsnr (15 Suits if wwcsa'C SO CZOTHIXO TITS LIKE OURS. ' FIf y Years Iho Standard (IP ' . mvmm Awarded Highlit Honors JRforld's Filr KIghist tists U.S. Cov't ChimUU paiOB MARINO rOWDS OOk OHISAOO the colonel oblige. . Colonel Wetmore did oblige, but when he met the alleged; mutual friend the latter repudiated all knowledge of the borrower. The next morning Colonel Wetmore read a story of the arrest son complaint of Representative Fowler of New Jersey of the soft-voiced and pleasant vlsaged young man who had "touched" the 8t. Louis "trust buster." Mr. Fowler had the man arrested for similar offenses. Colonel Wetmora took the first train out of Washington. Halite Ermlnle Rives, the writer, has been cutting a wide swath la Washington so ciety, where her splendid frocks have caused no end of a sensation. A Washing ton hostess who was entertaining a Vir ginia aunt in the New Willard at lunch eon saw Miss Hallle Rives effulgent In a robe of silver gray cloth, with lace and fur In riotous profusion. Hallle was cer tainly "looking fit." The Washington wo man pointed out the dazsllng creature, but the aunt shook her head. "Impossible!" said she. "An author T I don't believe it. She doesn't look tacky and no author could possibly have so much style." Major General 8. N. M. Toung, who suc ceeds General Miles as lieutenant general of the army next August, will be the guest of the Middlesex club, Boston, at Its cele bration ot Veterans' night, March 26. Lloyd C. Orlscom of Philadelphia. United States minister to Japan, has presented to the State department two lithographic copies of the original of Lincoln's Emanci pation proclamation. LINES TO A LAVGII. It is a mistake to Judge a man by h.s clothes. They may belong to his taller. SomervlUe Journal. Indignant Neighbor This Is the tin pan your boy Tommy tied to our dog's tall a little while aro! .. . Tommy's Mother (becoming equally In dignant) I ahall certainly have his father whip him! That was my beat pan! Chi cago Tribune. Near-sighted Clerk Do you solemnly swear to apeak the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you . Horrified Victim Great Caesar's ghost, no! I'm the lawyer for the defenee! Haltt more American, Towns My wife gave me a French dock for a birthday present and of II the ec- eentrio 11 Ira tr things!. I never aaw anything Browne "No tlma like the present" eht Phlladelphla Press. Mrs. Kipper At last spring Is here and the coal man and plumber are things of the past. Mr. Kipper Don't feel too merry. Here comes tha Iceman around the corner. De troit Free Preas. "Do you follow me. ladles?" asked the Fihyslcsj culture teaoher, pausing a moment n her rapid demonstration of exercise No. 11 "We follow you, madam," replied a mem ber of the class, "but we can't keep up with you." Chicago Tribune. "Do you think that riches bring happi ness?" aald the philosopher. "Beyond a doibt," answered Senator Sorghum. "I can point out a number of members of the legislature who have been made happy by my money." Washington Star. Mrs. TJppeon Tour grandfather is an octogenarian, la he not? Mrs. Neurlch Indeed, he Isn't anything of the sort. He's the most truthful man I ever bumped up against Chicago News. A SPRING OBITUARY. Here lies John Ling, a poet, one of few. Who nover lied in life except In rhyme, ' But being dead, poor aoul, he has his due. We're oead sure, in a somewhat milder clime. His muse was early spring, each spring he sprung Bom rhymes about tha buds and pleasant weather. Alast poor Ling-, he lost a lob of lung While searching for hla too precocious heather. So heed ye, poets new, and ne'er deceive us With rhymes on buds and birds, six weeks too soon. Or nature In her wrath may quick re lieve us Of you and your erstwhile too early tune. Omaha. L. B. PHILLIPS. :i i.l. 1 .1 I t