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TITK OMAITA DATTT HEE: JtONDAT, APTlTTi 0f 1003 4 Tiie Omaha Daily Bee. E. R6dE WATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED BVERT MORNIXO. verms or subscription.. Dally luw (without Sundny), One Tear.. $4. T Daily Ho n1 Sunday, One Year 6 r 1 Oi 2 0) l.bu 1.0J illustrated int. one Year Hunriny lite. One Year Saturday lv-e. One Year Twentieth- Century Farmer, Oni Tear. DELIVERED BY CARRIKIt. Pally pe (without 8unday), per copy.... Jo Dally le (without Sunday), per wfk...J2c Dally Be (Including Sunday), per week..lio Hunday Br, per copy J0 Kvenlng fce (without 8undy). per week 6c Evening be (.including Sunday), Per10o Compla4ti'of Tire'gu7sritiei in delivery hould be addressed to City Circulation Da par tment. - OFFICES. Omaha Th Bee Building. South Omaha-City Hall Building, Twenty-fifth ami M Street. Council Bluffs iO Pearl Street Chicago 1640 Unity Building. New Yorlc 232 I'ark Row Building. Washington 001 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi torial miller should addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. I REMITTANCES. Remit by' draft, express or postal order, nvit.ia n The Rm Publishing Company. r, inly 8-cenr stamps accepted In payment of hbii -a . - ip.niul rhrkA. exceut on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepieu. THE BKK PUBDIBlll.NU uvaurAixi. STATEMENT OF CI RCULATION. Stat of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss.i Oeorge M. iTxschuck. secretary of lhe Be Publishing 'Company, being duly "orni aaya that the actual number of full ana complete copies of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month, of March, .waa aa iunu. , 1 ..,21,81 J. .........,.. 31,610 8 ... 3 1 f T3 Rl.OlO 5.......,,..1,030 6. . 3 lt OOO 7......,.&l,OAO 8 - M7 t ...8MlRO 10 .........at.otio ll.....3t,7l0 13. .31.TSO 13. 81, TOO 14. 3 It TOO 16 20,580 17 81,T(I 18 31.TBO JJ Rl.OHO 20 Sl,4tM a .....31,B , , 2S.210 23 ; 33,250 J4., 31,4 25 .....31,010 2o. ;..81,T40 27 r. 81.TTO 28...... S1.6TO 2 20,000 30 .. 3i,ao Jl 31,700 1 31,540 Total ,J , Less unsold and returneu copies . . Net total aalea..... .&T0,O9S . 10,481 BO,814 80,BS Net average sales.... .. GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK, Subscribed In my presence and sworn, to before me thla Slat day oi Marcn, a. v., 19u3. M. B. HUNQATK, (Seal.) Notary Public No corner on Caster eggs has yet been announced.' ' ' Iowa democrats will fight over prln clple because they have nothing else to fight for. Hoke Smith has Just taken a poke at Colonel Bryan. Hoke may be sorry he spoke. The balance sheet of the new charter amendments strikes the taxpayer on the wrong side of the ledger. No, our best Information. Is that the law to exterminate prairie dogs was not batched in secret session of the Gopher Elan. If there Is anything the railroads did not get from this session of the Nebraska legislature. It must be because they for got to ask for If SBSnXaBSBBBBgSKTSSBBl , ,. . Th debate will now begin as to whether;-President Roosevelt's, idea of the tariff ha", anything la common with th low Ml of the tariff. 1- J' The Missouri legislature lias been ad' journed for several- weeks but it left enough behind It to keep a grand jury busy for several weeks more. It looks as if a long waiting list of ambitious canal' Commissioners would have to remain on the anxious seat now until the return of the president to Washington In June. Of course there was no politics la the Omaha charter bill except to raise the salaries of a few shining lights of the "anti-machine" machine and to attach the street gang to the anti brigade. It's plain enough now, if it were not before, why John N. Baldwin and bis associated railroad lobbyists Insisted on naming the police board appointed by Governor Savage. They wanted it to reduce the city of Omaha to corporation serfdom. The newspaper correspondents aceom panylng the president will be quaran tlned on the outside of the fence while he takes his outing In the Yellowstone. The newspaper men, however, have doubtless bad tastes of absent treat ment ' before. Less than a half million dollars would put in a complete modern electric light ing plant with capacity to supply all Omaha's public and private illumination for years to come. What we now pay for electric street lamps alone would pay the Interest on the whole invest ment Forgery and alteration of railroad tickets command the solicitude of the legislature, but forgery and alteration of theater tickets, base ball tickets and circus tickets are altogether overlooked. The railroad lobby does not conceive It to be Its duty to protect any Interests but the railroads. The. five big meat packing concerns that were fined $5,000 each for violating the Missouri anti-trust law have stepped, up to the counter and forked over the cash. ' They have evidently acted on the theory that it Is cheaper to liquidate the penalty Imposed by the court than to pay lawyers' fees still bigger Just for the fun of appealing. Fortunately the constitution of Ne braska gives the governor the right to veto Individual Items of all app-opria tlon bills; in other words It leaves no room for such a thing as an omnibus appropriation bill which the governor must approve or disapprove as a whole It Is to be hoped Governor Mickey will be as courageous as was Governor Dietrich in sulking out all items which be believed to be questionable and In slating that no money be appropriated beyond the actual needs of the state's business. HAVE THAT AMKSDXtSTS. Under no consideration should the legislature let a dl an gm merit on the minor matter of advertising the pro posed ronstitutlon.il amendments pre vent the submission of the nlnrn lnvnts altogether. The amendments will httvc to be advertised to conform to tli re quirements of the constitution and it Is no more than fair that the publishers should be pnld for this service at the snme rates they would receive for 1 gal advertising from private parties. The specter of a huge advertising bill, how ever, need not frighten anyone because the excessive cost of advertising amend ments heretofore submitted has come not from excessive rates but from un necessary padding of the notices as formulated by the secretary of state. It Is quite possible by bunching all 1I proposed amendments Into a single no tice, to condense the subject matter into reasonable, space without omitting any thing contemplated by the law. For counties contalulug cities whose iieopl. read daily papers, provision should lie made for publication once each week in one or more dally papers rather than in weeklies without city subscribers Insertion In which would defeat the very object sought. ' It would be far better to pay for ad vertising the proposed amendments In twice as many newspapers as required by law to secure the publicity needed to Insure a full vote than to scrimp on ad vertising bills at the risk of. defeating all constitutional revision. To leave the constitution unchanged as it now stands or even to lose the time that would be gained by submitting the amendments at the next election rather than by some slower process will cost the taxpayers many times what is In volved In the quibbling1 over advertising rates. The expense , for publishing a dozen amendments- would be a mere drop in the bucket 'compared with the cost of publication of. a new. constitu tion which would have- to be Incurred by a constitutional convention. The most moderate estimate of advertising a new constitution in one paper In each county would be from $125,000 to $150,- 000. STABILITT OF MXfpBfj TRADE. The chief of the bureau of foreign commerce finds In his latest review of the world's trade substantial encour agement regarding the permanence of the export movement of this country in manufactured goods and of the suc cess of the American competitor in the markets of the world. lie says that not only has the foreign customer been tempted Into buying from Us, but he has been so impressed by the superior ity of things American as to bid against the . domestic purchaser, thus demon strating the fact that the export trade is to become a stable factor in the country's Industrial and "agricultural prosperity. While there has been ft subsidence of export activity in certain lines of goods In which; the home demand has in creased, It appears that there has been no general neglect of the-forelga mar ket for home market It is expected that the' large Increase of productive energy will result in over-production, which is altogether probable, but the opinion . is expressed that an antidote will be found in the progress of the American Invasion of foreign markets, which is being manifested even In such countries' as Turkey, East Africa and Korea. Chief Emory says that to this fact rather than to any diversion from the home market is due the recovery In the export of factory products. The reassuring view of the export move ment expressed by the bead of the bu reau of foreign commerce seems very likely to prove correct, since the exports thus far in the current fiscal year show & quite marked increase and there ap pears to be good reason to expect that this will be at least maintained. It Is of course necessary to- consider that foreign governments are seriously de liberating the question as to what shall ba done to check the American Invasion and this may ultimately result to the detriment of our export trade, but the promise Is that In the meantime that trade will continue to grow.' At all events the present situation li very sat isfactory and there is no necessity for borrowing trouble regarding the future. BArXOUARDISO AMERICAS LABOR. American labor has never bad a more earpest friend than President Roose velt He has always urged the duty of safeguarding that labor and making its betterment a cardinal principle In the economic policy of the country. In his first message to congress he said that with the sole exception of the farming interest no one matter is of such vital moment to our whole people as the welfare of the wageworkers. "If the farmer and the wageworker are well off, it is absolutely certain that all others will be well off, too." He de clared that our labor must be protected and that every effort of legislator and administrator should be bent to secure the permanency of the favorable con dltlons for labor that exist in this country conditions that are better than ever before In our history and far sur passing those enjoyed by the wage- workers of any other country. American workmen should regard with great Interest what was said by Mr. Hoosevelt In his speech at Minne apolis on Saturday. Referring to re publican tariff policy, he said It Is fund amentally based "upon ample recog nlUon of the difference between the cost of production that K the cost of labor here and abroad, and of the need to see to It that ouc laws shall, in no even afford advantage in our own market to foreign Industries over American In dustrles, to foreign capital over Amerl can capital, to foreign labor over our own labor." He declared that thl couutry has and needs better paid, bet ter educated, better fed and better clothed worklngmen, of a higher type, than any to be found In any foreign country. That la a view which every Intelligent citizen must approve. The prosperity of a couutry depends very largely upon the character and condl tlon of its labor. The nation that has the most Intelligent and efficient labor and pays it the best Is certain to be the most prosperous and progressive nation. This Is so obviously the fact that no argument Is needed to demon strate it to persons of ordinary Intelli gence. It Is unquestionable that our tariff policy, Is In .the Interest of American labor. Under It the worklngman of this country has attained a position ' that makes him envied the world over. It Insures employment and good wages. It stimulates Industrial development It betters the home market for our agri cultural producers. The marvelous ad vance of the United States as a man ufacturing nation attests most con rlusively tht worth of the tariff policy. As we have heretofore noted this policy is to lrave a prominent place In the next presidential campaign. The democratic party -will renew Its old tight against the protective principle. In regard to the question no class of our people have a greater interest than the wage workers, especially those who are em ployed In the manufacturing Industries. It is to the consideration of this clues that the arguments of President Hoose velt in support of the tariff policy are particularly commended. TBRRURIZIXU THE LIQEOR DEALERS In the face of the law that makes the threat to do Injury to the business of another a penal offense the acting chair man of the police commission continues to swing the police club over the heads of Omaha liquor dealers and to threaten them with police persecution If they dare to exercise their rights as Ameri can citizens at the republican primaries and coming election. While the records of the police commission do not show that any action has been taken by the board officially to authorize such fla grant lawlessness in its name, yet the fact that the associates of W. J. Broatch on the police commission have not raised their voices against the law less course that Is being pursued In their name justifies the conclusion that they are In full accord with Mr. Broatch and should be held equally responsible for bis lawless acts. Before entering upon their official du ties each member of the police board took The oath that he would In the ap pointment, discipline and discharge of police officers act without prejudice and bias and solely in the Interest of good government The fact that the board reinstated as officers some of the most notoriously disreputable men who had been dismissed by former police boards very naturally created distrust In the sincerity of Its professions In favor of reform. While everybody knows that the ' present police commission'"' was foisted upon Omaha at the dictation of the railroad managers to assist the cor porations In dominating Omaha politics of all parties, the citizens of Omaha had right to expect that some regard would be paid by the commission to the plain letter of the law. If It Is a crime for any private citizen to levy political blackmail, bow much more of a crime Is it for an officer sworn to maintain law and order? Nobody who knows William J. Broatch will be amazed at any outlaw work that he may do when he Is In public office, but yet it is simply astounding that he would threaten to punish liquor dealers with an enforcement of the law if they did not use their influence to promote his political schemes and support in the primaries and at the general election the political faction with which be Is Identified. Such threats are a public confession that outlawry will be toler ated by the present police commission, providing the law-breakers are willing to become political serfs. Is it not high time for Governor Mickey, who Is indirectly responsible for the acts of the commission whether ap pointed by him or not to issue peremp tory instructions that he will not toler ate such conduct? Is It not also about time for the county attorney to Institute proceedings against William J. Broatch and his associates for the violation of the aDtl blackmailing statute? While It is not to be expected that the terrorized saloon keepers and brewers' will enter complaint there should be no trouble In procuring prof of the lawless attempts that are being made by Broatch to co erce them In palpable violation of their rights as citizens. Charles M. Schwab while In Switzer land seems to have concelred the bril liant Idea of purchasing five $1,000 wo t lies to be presented to the five superintendents of the steel trust cor poration of which he is president, who get the most and best work out of the men employed under them. In other words this wonderful trust president expects to get returns on a $5,000 In vestment that will net him and his as sociates many times the amount he is putting In. Isn't this pretty cheap for man supposed to be on a million dollar salary? The city of Lincoln .will have an op portunity to decide for Itself at the elec tion to be held next Tuesday whether It favors the municipal ownership of elec tric lighting and whether it Is disposed to Issue bonds for the erection of an electric lighting plant or the purchase of the plant now in existence and operated by a private corporation. Manifestly the Lincoln electric lighting company does not own a majority of the Lincoln council. Omaha must look Its very best when President Roosevelt makes bis visit Three full weeks remain to make'.the needful preparations. Every property owner and householder should contrib ute bis share toward Improving the city's appearance and set about the work at once. It seems that the local democrats have troubles of their own. If by some mis hap the republicans should fail to effect their nominations promptly the demo- crats would be In a dreadful quandary to find out what to do. Fl as st Paeiaer. Philadelphia Ledger. There was a strong opposition to the ap pointment of Dr. Crura as collector of the port of Charleston, but now that he has been appointed a hundred white men have applied for positions under him. The power to dispense patronage is a powerful preju dice remover. Why rtlaeadon Hesitates. Philadelphia Press. The Increase of sharps to the amount of five billions on the New York stork ex change within the laBt Ave years affords a strong confirmation of what J. P. Morgan says of the "undigested securities" in the market. The question remains as to the capacity for healthily digesting them. Work anil anrresa. Boston Transcript. It was one of the late Mr. Swift's max ims that "You can never make a big success working for anybody else." It makes little difference now what Mr. Swift considered success. In the true sense of the word, however, you can never make any success at all without working for somebody else. No Ilandwaaron for Grover. Indianapolis News. Mr. Cleveland declines to follow the elaborate Itinerary arranged for him by rumor and says he Is going straight to St. Louis and straight back home without any side trips, extensions or bear hunts. And yet some people say he is not much of a politician. The Great America Thirst. Cleveland Leader. Last year the American people made and drank enough beer, coffee, spirits, tea. wine, cocoa and other beverages of like nature to cover two square miles of land ten feet deep. A canal more than 100 miles long, 100 feet wide and ten feet deep could have been filled with the liquids concocted to satisfy the demand for some thing beside water to supply the needs of the human body. Several such navies as that of the United States could have floated on the lake which might have been made of the alcoholic and nonalcohollo stimulants consumed. Served a Good Purpose. Detroit Free Press. Incidentally it Is worthy of note that the (Wabash) temporary Injunction seems to have resulted in positive benefits to both sides, instead of even a passing Injury to either. Having failed to establish its case of conspiracy against the officers of the brotherhood, the company Is now willing to negotiate further with its employes. While waiting for a decision from the court, the edge has worn off the One frenzy of the men, and they are willing to discuss the matter further with representatives of the company. If this restraining order finally results in a peaceful settlement of the difficulties, a plausible showing might be made that we need a little more of the government by Injunction about which so many self-appointed friends of the people are worrying. JUDGES ADAMS DECISION.. Sublimated Common Sense. Springfield (Mass.) Republican. Judge Adams' dissolution of the tempo rary Injunction restraining the organiza tion of railroad men from ordering a strike on the Wabash road Is sublimated com mon sense. The whole Injunction move was a blunder. Now. '.that the judge has done his part so wellv it Is to be hoped that the railroad company and Its employes will show equal sense and- avoid a strike by mutual concessions.--". Deceived by Railroad Lawyers. Chicago Inter Ocean. Judge Adams Js to be congratulated upon his manly admission that he was deceived by the officials and counsel of the Wabash railway. He is even to be commended for his patience In refraining from open re buke and punishment of those persons for deceiving and trifling with the court. And It is to be hoped that his painful ex perience for painful It must have been to a just judge will warn other judges against unseemly haste In granting Injunctions In labor disputes. No Surrender of Judicial Power. Chicago Chronicle. The decision does not recede one Inch from the most advanced position ot the courts in the matter of Injunctions to re strain strikes. On the contrary, the opin ion ot the court may be quoted by other Judges in defense of the most extreme ex ercise of the power of injunction to re strain strikes or to restrain anything else without giving the persons restrained any notice of opportunity to be heard and upon ex parte affidavits which would hardly war rant an arrest for petty larceny. The labor men have gained nothing but a decision that in this particular case the ex parto affidavits were not sustained upon the hearing. There is no surrender of any port of the judicial power claimed and ex ercised when the temporary injunction was Issued. Jostle for All. Pittsburg- Dispatch. This decision goes further than merely upholding the right to peacefully withdraw from employment. It sanctions the action of union officials when acting In accordance with the wishes of their members. Much has been heard of the supposed hostility ot the courts to labor, but this decision ought to be convincing that there is justice ! lor Al I e ' !h,a As the preliminary injunction was most sweeping ever Issued upon the petition of capital, its reversal is also the most far-reaching ruling upon behalf ot labor. In a way it may be taken as the last word In labor Injunctions, defining the limitations of that process. For that rea son It should act as a deterrent against fu ture attempts to settle disputes upon that line and should the more forcibly impress upon both capital and labor the wisdom of the court's advice to adjust differences upon the more logical and more profitable plan. An Error Corrected. Baltimore American. Had the rule ot the court been made permanent a precedent would have been established under which a condition ot in dustrial slavery would have been created, Labor would by the courts be dented the right to relieve itself when oppreised, and the corporations would have had open to them at all times the power to prevent labor disputes, strikes and the like by merely getting a duplication of the Wababb Injunction. They could by such a rule have kept their men at work as long as they pleased, at whatever wage they elected to pay and under such conditions ot employ ment as they might prescribe. The nils would thus have made the employer abso lute master of the employe. Any such rule would have given the radical element ot our citizenship just ground for com plaint, and the court Is to be congratulated for seeing Its error and setting Itself right The Injunction as a means for uphold Ing the law and preserving pcr.ee and pub lie order is always a legitimate instrument but when it is employed to destroy the right of free speech and action It becomes like a flaming torch, which spreads disaster wherever it touches. TAl-K OF THI3 STATU PRESS. Beaver City Times-Tribune: When the fu slonlsta had full control of the legislature they didn't do a thing. When they are In the minority they don't do a thing but pull back la the breeching and holler. St. rul Pbonogrspbr Press: John N. Baldwin Is now entitled to a long vacation after his arduous labors with the legisla ture. Though not a member of that body be has exerted more influence than tea men therein. Crete Vldette-Hersld: Oovernor Mickey Is to be commended upon the firm stand he took against a grand Sunday jamboree for the legislative adjournment day. We hope that he has established a precedent which will be followed by future legislatures. Callaway Queen: Oovernor Mickey Is certainly doing a wise thing la cutting down the appropriations made by the legis lature. Like President Roosevelt, our gov ernor has a head of his own, and we are pleased to know that he knows how to use It. Wood River Sunbeam: Tuesday Is the day the members of the legisla ture pack their knapsacks and start homeward. They have made many long and touching speeches on fusion and confusion, money end harmony, taxes and prairie dogs and each will leave Lincoln with a feeling of individual pride as he thinks of the mighty reforms be brought about. Ashland Gazette: The work ot the legis lature is now about completed, and so tar It Is such aa the people can commend. The most Important measure ot the session Is the revenue bill. This law will work a great reform in our system of collecting revenues. The test of experience may re veal Imperfections that may have to be cor rected by subsequent legislation. At all events, It Is a great Improvement over the old law. Papllllon Times: The Nebraska legisla ture has passed the measure prohibiting docking of the tall of the horse. Thus has western horse sense nut a Quietus In Ne braska upon the Imitators of English cus toms In this regard. We desire to assure King Edward and his subjects that there la nothing personal In this action. Belna adepts with the curryconjb and brush. It is our pride in grooming the animal to turn the horse out with a tail and mane that does credit to the art North Platte Telegram: One good effect of the revenue agitation la noticed In the reports of the meetings of precinct as sessors now being held over the state. The usual practice has been for these officials to meet and under the old "full valuation" law agree to assess property at one-fifth to one-twelfth of Its cash value. The reports this year Indicate a general tendency to an Increase in the valuations of personal property. Should there also be an Increase In the efforts to collect, the new revenue bill will have done a good work for the state funds before it really goes Into effect as a law. i Geneva Signal : The legislature has agreed on next Tuesday noon as the official time for adjournment, but the members do not expect the session to actually close until some time Thursday. Governor Mickey re fused to work on Sunday and be insisted on the legislature remaining in session after passing the big appropriation bills and other Important measures long enough to give htm time to approve or veto them so that the legislature would have an oppor tunity to act again If he should veto any measure. The leaders said the governor was all right in this and they have agreed te stand by htm. Springfield Monitor: The attorneys for Bartley and bis bondsmen are trying to get even with our legislators for the Investi gation deal by the Injunction route. The bluff consisted of asking the district gourt for an Injunction , restraining the issuing of warrants for salaries to members on the ground of the law being defective and that the term should be forty Instead ot sixty days and the. pay $3 Instead of $3 per day. When you strike at a man's pocket like that, even If he is a legislator, It Is a serious matter and will not be tolerated. The injunction Is for the purpose of get ting the matter before the supreme court, where it can be settled for all time to come Bloomlngtoa Advocate: The- revenue bill has passed . both branches of the legislature and will be signed by the governor. In many respects It makes radical changes from our present System of taxation, collection, etc., and leaves the matter so that a much greater am .Mint of money can be raised for public use should those who have the power to make the levies choose so to do. It pro vides for a county assessor who will have power to appoint a deputy in each town ship. It is supposed to compel the assess ment to be made on full valuation of the property throughout the state. The law will not take effect and be In operation un til next year. North Loup Loyalist: The new revenue bill has at last passed both houses, and at this writing It seems certain to receive the governor's signature and become a law be fore the end of the week. It Is not drawn to take effect until next year, which will give time for the officials to become famil iar with Its provisions. It will In some respects bring about a revolution In county elections, as it provides for a new official In each county In ths person of the county assessor, who is to work in conjunction with the county commissioners In the ap pointment of the deputy assessors, and in the supervision of the work. The county as sessors will in turn work under the super vision of the secretary of the state board, who Is expected to keep in touch with the work In all the counties. Falrbury Gazette: The legislature is to adjourn on Tuesday next. In all things ex cept the matter of fair and equitable as sessments, and the -regulation ot telephone rates, the work ot the present session has been commendable. Corporations nay fight. manipulate, confine, delay and resort to other tactics to avoid fair and just assess ments, but in the end they must come to time. In saying this, we do not lose sight of the fact that there Is a great deal of property other than railway property that Is not properly assessed, or paying its just and fair proportion of taxes. But two wrongs don't make one right. Both are wrong, unjust and unfair, and should be placed upon a fair and equitable assess ment basis a condition which does not now exist, and the Gazette fails to see how In that respect the new revenue bill affords any relief. As a political proposition, the present members of the legislature have put their party in a hole, and there Is no uss to deny it, sr to offer any apologies. The wnoie assessment legislation was a political blunder from first to last, and the Gazette has not and does not propose to stultify its records on this subject by making any apologies for members of the legislature in whom It Is Interested. The Frealdeat'a Sprlaa Vacation Philadelphia Ledger. This U the era of good trllng. There Is universal affection throughout the land for the office ot president, and there Is also, we are glad to say, respect for the man in it. It Is well that he should become well acquainted with tha country and the coun try with htm. Both Improve on clcser ae qualntanca. The president Is the repre sentative of the whole people, who are as tonlshly falrmlnded and honest In the main, and it the long journey draws the bead of the government into even more cordial relations than at present with all parts of the land the country will be the gainer with ths president. tfust Because your 1 1 . ..j.. 3 .vTA A 1 'r t T V - That's no Your father V ' druff was the beginning of baldness, so you remember his shiny scalp. Cure your dandruff and prevent baldness. Ayer's Hair Vigor cures dandruff, stops falling hair, and Keeps the scalp clean and healthy. Always restores color to gray hair. " I VIS bothered ereatlv with dandruff bottle of Ayer's Hsir Visor atocoed the dandruff."- Miss Lucila tfardv. . . ROV2VD ABOUT SEW YORK. Ripples m the Current of Life la the Metropolis. A railroad man employed on one ot the roads converging at the metropolis found a $1,000 bill on the company's premises and, being an honest man, turned It over to one of the officers. The strange tact was duly recorded by the newspapers. A large num ber of persons Immediately went through their pockets and discovered their pile short that identical bill, and set up a roar for it. One by one their claims were put In. Each was turned down soon after he turned up. The stories did not assume an air of such exactness aa would Justify the company In handing over the cash. The matter waa finallv simmered down to three men, each of whum made out a good case bn the face of It. But complications have arisen. One of these three has a creditor who did not know that he was the owner of so much money. The creditor has there fore attached the bill, and the custodian Is farther off than ever from being rid of his responsibility. "The top notch In immigration," says the New York correspondent of the IMttaburg Dispatch, "was reached Thursday, whon 10,000 Immigrants arrived at Ellis Island. It Is estimated by the authorities that the first week of April will be a record-breaking week, It being calculated from reports already received of steamers bound for this port that more than 23,000 Immigrants will land in that time. The cause ot the enor mous Increase Is believed to be the In creased demand for labor In the huge con struction enterprises that are under way In this country, or which will be started soon, such as the Pennsylvania railroad tunnel, the suhway and other tunnel work, In and near New York; the building ot the state canal, ths building of the Wabash bridge and other giant undertakings st Pittsburg, and the work of constructing the Panama canal, which the immigrants from southern, Italy seem .to be anticl patlng with keenest interest There were many Scandinavians In recent shiploads of Immigrants, though the greatest number were Italians. The Scandinavians were ap parently of a better class of people than the ordinary run of Immigrants. Many ot them wore silk hats and had bulging purses when they gathered in the big hall at Ellis Island, where their examination was held. Many of them brought large families. The children are for the most part well dressed, and showed plainly that their parents were well able to care for them.'' The Order of Acorns,' the organization of newspaper men which did such valiant work for the fusion ticket at the last mayoralty election, has now declared war on the Gas tniBt. Tha multitudes that crossed UltT Hall park one morning last week saw In front of the site of the demolished hall of records a booth that had sprung up in the night with s placard across it Inviting all gas consumers to enter and sign a me morial to ths legislature to promptly pass the municipal electric lighting bill. No document was ever more cheerfully signed. Thousands, at the risk of being late at their work, stopped long enough to affix their names to it. One of the revivals of the old fashions noticed In New York Is the tendency of business men to carry canes. Of course, there are many men who always take a cane with them when they go out, . and actors and poets would no more I go on Broadway without a cane than without hat. But it Is only of late that many hustling men ot affairs downstairs have been noticed with canes In their hands or hung over their arms, while sitting in restaurants or offices, or scurrying along Broadway and Wall street. A cane is a useful thing under some circumstances, out whether it expedites business as a rule Is an open question. The Amen Corner dinner at the Fifth Avenue hotel, April 17, Is going to be a stunning affair. Piatt and Depew, Black, Sbeehan, Gorman of Maryland, Mayor Low, District Attorney Jerome, Rev. Dr. Bur- rell. Senators Foraker and Hanna, Arch bishop Ireland, Chief Justice faraer, uen eral Chaffee, Controller Grout, R. Fulton Cutting, Secretaries Shaw and Cortelyou, Rabbi Silverman and Attorney Oeneral Cun neen ars to be present. Speeches are to b- Umlted to ten minutes, and the gavel wn. go down promptly every time. The Empire building, where the United States Steel corporation's offices ars lo cated, is to have five additional stories. This will make it ths tallest building In the world, not even excepting the para kow building, which has twenty-nine floors. In cluding those of the towers. With the addition the Empire will be S50 feet high, and a man Jumping from the room north ward would descend 100 feet before striking the tall spire of Old Trinity church across the way. Waltham Watches Instruments of precision, made perfect by machines of precision. 'The Ttrfedcd AmericsA Witch," n Wustrttei book of interesting information About vtttches, tulU be sent fret upon request, AmerlcM Willhim Witch Compiny, WiUhxm, Mass. FATHER. rjv wm w v -Be. sign you need be bald. didn't know that dan 9. 0. AyerOo.. Lowell. SUM. the falllno help' . a El Dor.3o sorWa mAT 1 i 'j i - - she; PERSONAL NOTES. - John D. Long, ex-secretary ot the navy, who has been confined to an infirmary In Boston for three months, was able to re turn to his home In Hlngham, Mass., Inst Monday. John Wanamaker having retired from publication of his department store rnagn slne is reported to be about te try his hand at running a New York dally. John has money to burn. .. . Bkre Temple, one of General Robert K. Lee's most famous scouts, is sick and pen niless In New York, He waa wounded halt a score of times in the civil war and Devar fully recovered from his Injuries. W. B. Plunkett, a wealthy manufacturer at Adams, Mass., has t.rdered a . private trolley car which will cost him 116.000. . lie Is planning trips over Massachusetts, Con necticut and New York wherever connec tions are established. It Is not thought likely that Ira I). Sankey, the evangelist, will ever regain his sight, and the members ot his family have made up their minds to what they regarj aa the Inevitable. Allen Sankey, his sen, wishes the publlo to know that the evan gelist Is not in needy circumstances The Vanderbllt or New York Central rail road system Is to be solidified, according to report. In the way of the Pennsylvania system. The authority of general officers will In thla way be extended.' George H. Daniels, now general passenger agent of the Central, will be made general passenger agent ot all the eastern lines on the system, and so on with other experienced officers. - smii.inu lim:s. "He do'ed on Alice, and would have mar ried her tut for her mother." "Ah I her mother" "Yes, her mother was still more attrac tive.' Detroit t ree Press. "Fo the's going to be married?" "Yes." "but I thought she always posed as a manhattr." - - - '-"i "Well, perhaps that's . the reason." Chi cago Post. "And all Wis rich aunt left him waa 1100? Weren't the relations between them pleas ant?" "Oh, yea, they were (.leasant enough, but there were too many of them.1' Chicago ' Tribune. Mrs. Ootrox Are you really going to move? I thought you were well satisfied with your hoiiee? Mrs. Purseproud So I am. But It Is the only way to show the neighbors all my tiew furniture. Nw York Sun. "Some folks say," remarked the newly blossomed strawberry blonde, "that dyeing the hair Injures the brain." "Yes," rejoined the hardened old bach elor, "and some other folks say that people who dye their hair are brainless." Chicago i nwi. Nell Maude has suddenly discovered that she needs exercUe, so ehe goes out for a walk evry day. Belle Yes, I heard that she had a lot of new clothes. Philadelphia Record. "I'm going to wait," sHld the misanthrope. "untU the trusts cwn everyttilng, and then I'm going to turn .hermit and live in a cave. "No ue," - answered the seml-serlous friend. "You won't be able to find a cava on any property that hiun't a 'No tres passing' sign on It." WuBhlngton Star. HANS HKEITMAKVS BAHTY. By the late Charles a. Leland. Hans Breltmann gife a Barty, Dey had blano-playln' ; I felled in lofe mlt a Merlcan Frau, , Her name va4 MadlUla Vane. She hot Haar as prown anh a pretael. Her eyes vas liimmel-pluu, Und veil dey lonket Iniio nieln. Dey shpllt mine Heart In dwo. Hans Breltmann glfe a Barty, 1 vent dere you'll be pound 1 I valzet mlt MadilJa Yane L'nd vent shplnnen round und round. 1)k portiest Krauleln In tie liaus (diiK vayed 'bout dwo hoondert pound). Uii'l afery dime she glfe a yoomp ehe makt de v'ndows sound! Hans Breltmann glfe a Barty, 1 dells you. It coat him dear; Dey rolled In more ash sefen keeks Of foost-rate 'Lager Bier, IJnd venefer dey knocks de shplcket In De DeuUchers glfea a sheer, I dink dot ao vine a Barty Neft-r cum to a net dls year. Hans Breltmann glfe a Barty; Dere all vas Haus und Braus; Ven de sooper corned In de sompaoy Did mach dcmselfs to Haus; Dey ate das Brod und Qansybruat. . De Bratwurst und Hraten feln, Und VBKh das Abendeesen down Mlt four barrels of Nuckarweln. Hans BVeltmann gife a Barty; We all rot troonk ash bigs. I tee my Mund to a Kass of Bier Uud empay It oop mit a scnwigs. Und denn I kls t mi ladllda Yane Und she schlast me on de koof Und de gompany filed mlt duple-larks Dill de coonsbtaple mads oos shtop. Hans Breltmann glfe a Barty Wo 1st dot Barty now? Wo 1st de lofely golden cloud Dot float on de moundaln's prow? Wo 1st de Hlmmelitrahlende Statu De shtar of de shplrlt's Light? All goned afay mlt de Lager Bier. Afay In de Ewlgkelt!
