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TITE OMATIA DAILY JllSE: FRIDAY, APTIIL 10, I!03. fire (Dniaha Daily: Dee v' '., tf. '. R OaU W AT E H, EDITOR, .,,7 ', ,; ,. . ,l , : . LBLJHKb fiVERT'MORNlXO. i rrt 1 1- ; T K R M 9 OK SUBSCRIPTION. Pally Pee (without Hunday), One Year.. HOI lally B-e and Sunday, One Year ' lfluntrated Be, One Year Sunday Bee. One Year Haturday Up. One Year J-' Uwentlelh Century Farmer. One Year.. 1.0J DELIVERED BY CARRIKX Dally Bee (without Rundny), per copy.... Ic Dally Bra (without Sunday), per week. ..12c Dallr Bee (Including Sunday), per week. .17c Sunday Hee, por copy 9r- Evenlng Bee (without Sunday), per week o fcventng Be (Including Sunday), per week 10a Complalnta of Irregularities In delivery hould be addressed tj Clt Circulation De partment. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha City Hall Building, Twenty-fifth and M Htreets. Council Bluffa 1 Pearl Street. Chicago 140 Unity Building. New Y ork IXM Park Row Building. Washington tot Fourteenth Street. "..'A CORRESPONDENCE. Communication relating to new and edi torial matter ehould ie addressed: Omaha Btej Editorial Department. ' - J REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or posts! order, payable to The Bee Pubiumng Company, only 1-cent stamps accepted In payment of mall accounta. Personal checks, except on Oniahm or eaatem exchangee, not accepted. T1U5 BEE PUBLISH INQ COMPANY. ' STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btata of Nebraska. Douglaa County, as.: George B. Tischuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly f.worni ays that 'the actual 'number of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of March, 1903, 1..., ....80,815. I ........81,610 I S1.T30 4.. a....... ..81,010 I 81,020 ..., 81,000 7....,..: 81,HW "' v;.:.:...;;r,,iYo-: t.. .31,000. 10 si,eoo 11. '....s...;...81,7(M ll.,..:..'.;.... .81,720 lt......, 81.TSO 14.. ..,.... .,,31. TOO 18...... 20,1580 was mm - 17... 18... 19... SI... 22... as... ..-.:. 25... 27... "28... 29... ... ... .81.TOO 81.T0O 81,0 .....81,400 81.S4JO .....SM.210 .....82J4BO 8I.04O ...,:'81,'BiO .....81,740 81.770 .... .81,070 .....20,000 81,020 81,700 n...:'.;...;.."..ai,Bo '.- Total : '...'.. '. . . ... .70,o5 Lees unsold and returned copies... 10,481 Net total' sales.... Net average sales..... 80.0BB , GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before roe this gist day of March. A. D., 190. M. B. HUNOATE. . (Seal.) Notary Public . President Roosevelt baa taken to the woods, but sot because anyone is after him, ... The twenty-eighth session of the Ne braska . legislature is no more. Obitu aries later. I Perhaps the Gophers might be able to resurrect a few of Mercer's last fall campaign cartoons. At any rate the .municipal elections knocked several political stars out' of the democratic presidential firmament. Though it's a trifle early for the tor nado season, a few healthy specimens must bare broken out of the hothouse. "Go K blind? Is the Gopher motto. Omaha people, however, have gone It blind into ' the corporation camp too often.-- - , . r- The wBtfdotf the eltr halt has not disclosed the profound "secret that the office of 'comptroller bus become a city warrant sharing shop. . - Shall the corporations own the next council as they hare the present conn cil? ' The people must' answer at the primaries "afad the yolls. " - Governor' Mickey now has it glorious opportunity to use the pruning knife on the appropriation bills with no pospl blllty of baring his vetoes overrlddea The republican party stands for a fvee ballot ..and' .an honest count. A. repub lican nomination procured by fraud or coercion- will not be worth par an a draft on republican support. Admiral, (Schley, continues to receive ovation, wherever ha navels in all sec tions cf the country. Ills popularity aeema to keep on the crest of the wave despite the shaking up of the sea. ' Senator Clark of Montana is volun teerlng to install a. street railway sys tem lit Los Angeles guaranteeing S-cent fares.. Senator Clark should not. con fine, hja operations to the Pacific coast titles. .. i . . - With King Christian of Denmark eel ebrarlbg his eighty-fifth birthday, and other crowned 'heads of Europe enjoy lng rtpe old age, modern royalty need hare tab apprehension of being dragged down by overwork to a premature grave. - It,eme- to have' come to tha point where a majority of the members of Omaha's city council do hot' dare even answer to roll call uutil they" have first secured permission from' the eorpora tlonn managers. In -what other city woipd the people tamely submit to such an outrage? , I .) , ,., .. . . - ' . It"la certainly a serious question whther Governor Mickey' really did not. do Jhe taxpaylng citizens of Nebraska morf harm than good; wtyenUhe wVjgVt of SrtiWttf .nioTffiay to .life of. . the, .dying .legislature, which would 'otherwise have snuffed it sett out last week Saturduy. Tlje supreme court Judges managed to get Jin' aome quick work iu apjKilntlng members of the uew Supreme Court commission without waiting for the ink on (he governor's signature to the bill to dry. If they acted as. quickly in dis posipg of Judicial business, there would be no eases waiting on the docket and nothing (or the commission to do. i . . - Eijcn member of the police board whefa appointed lifted up his right hand and. took a solemn oath that be would discharge bis duties lu the control of the police and fire departments without partisan purpose or personal favor. But what, are solemn oaths to political pi rate like Broatch when be baa an enemy to punish? Aud Broatch la the wUoIs police board. TUB CUMtNO ltavt. "Our republican1 friends," remarks the Brooklyn . Eagle, "will find themselves put on the aggressive or defensive, both this year and next year, on tariff ques tions and they will do well to choose which role bet lines. It will not le post poned. It will not be silenced. We do not presume any republican statesman expects to avoid tlie tariff Issue." Re publican statesmen are already showing that they neither expect nor desire to arold the tariff fsue. President Roose- relt has given his views in regard to the tariff in no uncertain or equivocal language. He regards It ns a matter to be treated from the standpoint of our business need,, always keeping in view the principle of protection. "We have prospered marvelously at home," said the president. "As a natlou we stand in the very forefront In the giant International industrial competition of the day. We cannot afford by any freak of folly to forfeit the position to which we have thus triumphantly at tained." . ! Two other republican statesmen, . Sec retaries Root and Shaw, have recently discussed the tariff and very, plainly stated their position. They are un qualifiedly for the maintenance of pro tection to our Industriesand labor. We do dot know of any republican of promi nence and Influence who Is not In favor of this. Those who urge tariff revision, as Representative Babcock and Gov ernor Cummins, do not want the aban donment of protection. There Is no reason why an' republican statesman should wish to fold the tariff Issue. The Justification, republican policy in this respect , 1s 'so complete. In the great development 'of our industries, In the rast benefits to labor, and in our wonderful commercial progress, that on no other issue can the republican party make so' strong a claim to the support of the country.- We do not think there can be a reasonable doubt that at this time a rery large majority of American voters are In accord ' with the views of the republican statesmen who hare recently discussed the .tariff We flo not believe there has been any material change in public opinion on this ques tion since the last presidential election and there Is not likely to be any before the next national election. The democratic assault on republican tariff policy will make very few con verts under existing conditions of pros perity. The second "Cleveland admin istration la still remembered by most of our people, and particularly by those employed la the manufacturing Indus tries. They do not want a repetition df the hard ' and ' bitter experience of that period of " Industrial . depression, business stagnation, idleness and wide spread distress. . Our- agricultural pro ducers, for the. last half a doten- years prosperous as nerer before, do not de sire a return to conditions , that .greatly reduced the demand for their products, sold at. prices that yielded dc profit. The farmers and the wage-workers of thla country are not yet ready to re pudiate a policy that has, been aa fruit ful of benefits, to them and It Is upon these that the' republican party confi dently relies for the defense and main tenance of protection. trso cojvtbols ram folic tt The high-handed procedure of WVJ. Broatch In ordering the police to close certain saloons and allow other saloons to remain open suggests the inquiry as to who is In control of the police. The law declares that the chief of police shall hare the supervision and control of the police and it la further expressly provided by law that the mayor shall have the superintending control of all offlcera of the city, except when other wise specially provided. It is nowhere provided that W. J. Broatch or any pther member of the board of fire and police commissioners shall direct or control police officers, but on the contrary 'It la expressly pro vided In the charter that all orders of the board relating to the direction of the police shall be given through the chief of police. It is further expressly provided that in connection with the supervision and control of the police force of the city the chief of police shall be ebj?t to the orders of the mayor, .iwmiiuuuuiug tnese ' plain pro visions of the law, Mr. Broatch has usurped the power and authority of the mayor and chief of police and has be come a law unto himself and Is assum Ing the right to use and direct the po nee rorce or the city to further bis selfish political schemes and play Into the bauds of the corporation managers J to whom he Owes his posit Ion, on the i police board. '1.' bt roRcm or bt rRAq, The corporation cohorts masquerading as aptl-machlna , purifiers openly boost that they are' determined , to . carry the republican primaries . a all,, hasarda. They make no secret ofj K that they will carry those primaries by forte or by fraud, cost what It may. Some of the :tmiet .'rntUealTleadfera v. of thiar faction iiv igne' so far1 as; Jo: penly declare 4heniBerVei la avor.-of stealing the prl liiarles by fraudulent count and certlfi cation if they caanot' 1 carried any other way. ' .' Such foolish threat indicate the weakness of thd antl-machlnc cause and the folly of the men who hope to get into office by foul means or fair. These people do not seem to realize that nomination procured by fraud will have no binding force nbon the rauk and file Of republicans. .They do. not seem to comprehend that .nominations bearing the marks of larceny would be repu dtated at the election. They do not re alize that candidates who notoriously owe their nominations to corporate bull dozing and boodle and are In advance committed to the plan of the franchlsed corporations to keep Omaha la subjec tion cannot hope to receive the support of patriotic republicans. It may be possible to secure nomlna tlons on tha republican city ticket by force and fraud. That Is the way Mer cer and the republican delegation to the legislature secured their nominations Inst fall, but It is another thing to se cure an election of candidates nomi nated by lawless agencies in a mu nicipal contest where party lines cap not be drawn tight and when public sentiment Is fully aroused by lie menace of corporation domination atil the necessity of self-preservation. CUKRCIUX ir UREAL) UTIXXKRS. When the allied corporations brought all the machinery at their command ro bear upon wage workers on their pay rolls to force the nomination of the dele gation which has so flagrantly misrep resented' Douglas' county In the legisla ture they furnished Omaha on object lesson of corporate misrule. The ques tion is, Will the bread winners of Omaha allow themselves to be'- dra gooned and coerced into supporting the corporation ticket with nu nntl-machlne label at the republican primaries? Omaha wage workers ure mostly home owners and share in common with all other "classes of citizens the burdens of taxation, only more so. Are we to witness the spectacle once more of thrifty, Industrious home owners voting themselves and the city into corporate bondage? Will the wage workers of Omaha loan themselves vol untarily or involuntarily to the nomina tion -of a mayor and council dictated by the corporations and pledged In advance to ' iniquitous . discrimination against the home owners In municipal assess ment and taxation? In the language used by The Bee Just before the last republican primaries: "Let us express the hope that Omaha wage workers will not allow themselves to be driven by corporate bosses into voting Into office men who have nothing in common with the common- people. The man who allows himself to be co erced into voting against his own con scientious convictions is no better than a slave. No. greater calamity could be fall the city of Omaha than the enslave ment of the bread winners by their task masters. The most precious heritage of American freemen is the. right to par ticipate on equal terms lb the choice of public . servants.. .The greatest.' - Injury that can be offered to the bread winner Is a command to do violence to his ow:i conscience in the exercise of the elective franchise." , WBSRK ARE THE T A.T1 Where are the republican members of the Real Estate exchange who have buttled so valiantly for equitable taxa tion in the irrepressible conflict between Omaha and -the- allied corporations? Are they going to. support delegates In the republican primary for the mofet part selected ' by the'; corporations : to nominate candidates' dictated by the corporations? '..t; . Do they propose to nullify the good work already done by . helping, the cor porations in . their desperate effort to subjugate and dominate bur whole city government for the next three years? The false issue raised in' the Interest of the corporations by the hue and cry of anti-machine and machine should not blind Intelligent men who are earnestly desirous of . promoting, the growth and prosperity of Omaha.1 The cry of Moores and antl-Moores is a side Issue. The paramount Issue of the municipal campaign is. Shall Omaha be allowed to govern itself or Shall Omaha surren der its government to corporations? TBK WATCBDOQ OF TBS CITY BALL. The Insolence of office has never been more strikingly exhibited than by the ranting and raving of Comptroller John N. .Westberg. This self-styled watch dog of the- city-hall - is throwing rocks lb all directions while he is occu pying a very frail gla&s. house. This blatant self-seeker seems to be oblivious to the fact that his rantlngs have been leniently charged up to his intemperate habits. He seems to forget that be holds his office simply by tolerance and could at any time within the past three years have ' been removed under the provision of the constitution that makes habitual drunkenness an impeachable offense. Like the vicious cripple , who never tires of saying mean things because he knows nobody will dare to touch him, Mr. Westberg has imposed upon the people who have covered bis falling with the mantle of charity. Now that be is exposed to public view in his true light, his candidacy for a fourth term will be viewed by all decent and sober cltlzeus as an impertlneuce. . Mayor Moores is squarely on record on the vital Issues that affect Omaha's Immediate present and future. He is for the fullest measure of home rule, He is for equal taxation of railroad property with that of the small home owner. He is for municipal ownership not only of water works but of lighting plant. He has shown his Independence of the franchlsed corporations on, re pen ted occasions and stood up .against Job and 'steals' whenever workexl through the city council. Where do his competitors for the republican nomlna tion, stand on these questions? Will they declare themselves ' or are they bound so tight to the railroads and the local corporations that they must try to deceive by silence? If we mistake not the people of Omaha are not disposed to go It blind this time. The arbitrary action of the central committee . in selecting all the Judges for the republican primary election from the ranks of the "anti-machine" machine was intended as a prelude to the wholesale disfranchisement of re publican voters under the "Gilbert" law. Whether the program as arranged will be carried out remains to be seen. It may be all right In doubtful cases to require the voter to state whether at the last election be generally supported the candidates of the republican party, but to maka him stats what particular candidate he voted for would be an out rage that no free American cltlxen will tolerate. It Is enrhently rumored that In some wards, notably in the First ward, an at tempt will be made by one or more of the Judges either to destroy the ballots or moke a fraudulent count aud there upon Issue certificates of election to the "antl-raachlne" delegates. lt It be understood right now that no such un lawful procedure will be allowed or tol erated, and that any Judge of election who Is a party to such a scheme will be prosecuted to the limit of the law. It Is the purpose hd spirit of the Australian ballot-law-to protect every voter In his rlghijto cast a free ballot according to the dictates of his own conscience wltliout fear or favor. Any Judge of the primary ' election who at tempts to destroy this right by requir ing any vqter to State for M hat particu lar candidate or candidates he voted at the last election will have to answer for the outroge to an Indignant people. Why are the railroads and the fran- chlsed corporations all lined up together for a change In the mayor's office? Is because of benevolent Impulses to ward the common citizen and every day taxpayer or is it because they know they can get more privileges at the ex pense of the taxpaylng citizens only by getting rid of the present mayor, who has persisted (n protecting the public Interests at every turn? The appointment of Judges for the republican prin,ary;,elections In defiance of the spirit and letter of the law which requires, an equal, ' division of election officers between contesting candidates Js Jn keeping with the un republicau methods of the dark lantern faction, that has Inaugurated the sys tem under which men who are not dis posed to vote the corporation slate are to be disfranchised. Partial and extremely unfair ruling on the part of the factional Judges of the republican primary election may be ex pected. . It should, M remembered by these Judges .that they are subject to the provisions ad penalties of the gen eral election law. In receiving, mark lug and counting ballots they should and will be held to a strict accounta bility. Great 'Week for Teacher. Philadelphia Press. ' ' Last week was a great one for the school teachers of Pennsylvania. Tha legislature decided that they should not be compelled to .work for less than i35. a month, and a Jury, of honest men In this city has decided that school -.directors who demand a part of the pay which- the teachers earn shall gov to jail. Thesa are distinct erl- deqeesof clvllliatloft, v - consider tha tobster, . ' . St.. Louis Republic. Eoila'nd's and Trance's rreatest states men are now. engaged in determining the momentous jijisstlon ;Hhether'- a lobster fs or is hot a fish. Bound up with this are international treaties and fisheries rights relatipg ta Newfoundland, It has been shown beyond question that .lobster is a sucker, which weiild "seem to support the contention that he is a fish. Larae Field to Work In. Philadelphia Record. In the latter days of this month a Ger man -commission .will arrive in this coun try to make a thorough tour of investiga tion of its agricultural conditions. Ac cording to the program of tha commission it will travel over a distance of 14.000 miles and make a study of everything re lating to American agricultural production from the east tot the , Pacific coaat. No where on thla planet could such a-com mission find so vast a field of investiga tion. . .... . Omaha's Place In . Dlrorea Statistics. . , New Jork Tribune. There are now 61,558 divorced people In tha United States,, of. whom .SJ.20S are women and 1848, men. The reason for such aa excess of women is explained on the theory. that divorced men are mora apt to remarry than .divorced women. There are rery few cltlea. In which tha number of divorced men is greater or even equal to the number of women. Omaha is tha most conspicuous, for among its Inhabitants are 249 men and Z3S women who have been sep arated from their conjugal mates by the courts. .... Tha President's Indastry. New York Sun. As the - present, series of presidential speeches broadens and grows in print, won der Increases at the marvelous industry manifested In the. undertaking; for these Important utterances on so many and such various themes of public Interest must have been maturely considered, perfected as to thought and argument, and even polished in literary form, not in a period of .com parative leisure, but during the stress ot a session . of congress that crowded Mr. Roosevelt's hours with exacting duties and unavoidable cares. . ProS Is from Pnhlle Utilities. Springfield Republican. That ridiculous and most expensive din ner on horseback given in an upper room of a fashionable New York restaurant re cently by C. K. Q. Billings Is being used, probably with effect. In some of the west ern city elections on behalf of public own ership of. street monopolies. . Billings is president 'of the' People's Oas Light and Coke company ot Chicago, and Mayor Har rison oftba$..)ty .-has been asking his audiences how; they llke tha idea of con tributing In their Ught bills to enrich priv ate individuals who go to New York to spend their monopoly profits la horse din ners and the like. The response from the audiences is generally each as to Indicate that they do not , like It at all. Oaa of tha Great Americana. Philadelphia Ledger. Tha American Philosophical society's plan to celebrate in 190 the two hundredth anniversary ot the birth or Franklin, the great founder of the society, is particularly appropriate and happy. A signer of the declaration of Independence, a stout patriot on every occaalon, a man of vast resource. whose labors la tha constitutional conven tion It Is Impossible to overestimate; wlae and skillful diplomatist, who was In strumental In bringing about the French alliance, without which the history of tha world might have been different; a sage. counselor, wit and maa of the world, he shows In his Ufa and career how It Is possible to start with nothing and from nothing, and to render great services ta his country, to "wla the world" sad gum Im mortal fame. BITS or WASHHOTOJI UFE. Minor Scenes and Incidents Sketched on tha Spot. Washington climate la not the kind that would capture the first prize as a promoter ot longevity. For variety and fickleness It stands near the head of the class and ran put up a brand of fog with Potomac trim mings rivaling the best efforts of New Tork. Nature thus strives to make the population gathered from all quarters of tha republic feel "at home" aome time. The effect on humanity has not Wen re duced to official ststlstlcr, but the fact that It can produce a deep shade of green on ex posed brome . Is a tribute to Its energy and strength. A matter of common remark among visitors Is the fact that the statue of Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Square, just opposite the White House, Is discol ored with verdigris," which not only streaks the marble pedestal, but mottles the charger upon which "Old Hickory" sits with his cocked hst uplifted, as If acknowledging the cheers of his soldiers. The verdigris comes from the bronxe of the equestrian figure. The statue of Lafayette on the southeast corner of the square Is similarly discolored, although not to the same ex tent. A New York paper printed an editorial recently the burden ot which was that sen ators and representatives In congress neg lected their legislative duties to attend so cial functions. It bewailed what it termed aping the customs of the monarchical courts of Europe, and prayed for a return to the days of "democratic simplicity," which. It averred, marked the early days of the re public The solitary Illustration ot what It meant was the citing of tradition that Thomas Jefferson rode on horseback to the capltol to be inaugurated, hitched his horse to the paling fence, while he went Inside to take the oath, and that at the close of the Inaugural ceremony he un hitched his steed, remounted and rode to the White House. The editor forgot to cite the historic fact that Washington, when president, gave levees quite as formal and ceremonious as those of the court of St. Jamea, comments the Brooklyn Eagle. The Father of his Country was an aristocrat to his finger tips. Simplicity, whether democratic or repub lican, never characterized his official or social Intercourse with his fellow citizens. His apparel was in the height of fashion ot bis day, of the finest and costliest material, and made in London. At his levees he and Mrs. - Washlngtbn stood on a dais to re ceive their guests. Washington was as scrupulous in attending to the social aa to the official duties of his high position, yet no one then or since thought of yelling functions at him. If Jefferson rode to tha capltol on horse back, as tradition says he did, it was not through any excess of democratic or repub lican "simplicity," but simply because Pennsylvania avenue, which lies In a hol low all the way from Fifteenth street to the foot of Capltol hill, was then unpaved, and In the early days of March, when the In auguration took place, was a sea of mud and impassable tor vehicles unless drawn by two or three yoke of oxen. ' Jefferson, Ilka most Americans of that day, was an accomplished horseman, and generally pre ferred riding horseback over the muddy roads of Virginia and tha boggy streets of Washington to going in any sort ot vehicle. ' Announcement that the Oak Lawn prop erty at the head' of-Connecticut avenue, Washington, will probably be purchased by one of tha foreign governments for an em bassy Is ' taken as putting ' the quietus for another decade at ieaat upon tha move ment to build a magnificent new residence for the president ot the United States and transform the White House into presiden tial offices. The report that tha Oak Lawn property was to go to the British government has been denied, but it seems to be well es tablished that the owners are negotiating with some foreign government. It is pre sumed that this is either tha Russian gov ernment or the government of France. Heretofore it has not been the custom of members of the diplomatic corps to go to the railroad station when the president has been leaving Washington, but the Ger man ambassador. Baron von Sternburg, was so cordially greeted by Mr. Roosevelt when he cama to bid the president good-bye a few days ago that his example may be fol lowed by others in the future. - It Is be lieved . that several foreign ministers re gret that they did not embrace the oppor tunity to demonstrate friendship for the chief magistrate and the United States. - j "I spoke from the same platform last autumn with a funny fellow who told the best story I heard in the campaign," said Congressman Foster of Vermont, quoted by tha Washington Post. "It was used to 11 lustrate the prevalence of good times for working men. A man had landed in San Francisco, after extensive travels, mighty close to being 1 'busted.' He had dtcided to work rather than starve, and applied to a freight office ot one of the transcontinental lines for. a place as brakeman. The road bad a job waiting for him. and he asked: " 'How much do you pay a month f " 'We don't pay by the month.' " 'How much a week?' " 'Don't pay by the week. We pay brake- men 3 cents a mile.' Our 'busted friend went to work on the first freight train east from 'Frisco. As the locomotive pulled up Into the moun tains It moved slower and slower, and the new brakeman, counting the miles, began to ba greatly dissatisfied with his job. But before reaching the summit the train broke In two. At the rate of fifty miles an hour the rear end went backing down the moun tain side. 'Don't Jump!' shouted the conductor to the new brakeman. 'Stick to it, and don't Jump.' 'Jump!' shouted back the brakeman. Well, I guess I won't Jump. What kind of a fool do you take me for, when I am mak ing 11.60 an hour?' " PERSONAL, NOTES. Secretary Root does more work than a trust magnate and gets only $8,000 a year for his services. . , President Kruger will leave Mentona, Italy, for Holland at the end of April. He Is in excellent health. China's new mluister was accompanied to Washington by forty-two Chinese diplomats and a carload of Oriental rugs. Hstty Green has surpaaaed all of tha New York millionaires In eccentricity by re fusing to pay taxes on her pet dog. Jules Simon, one of France's greatest political figures during tha second empire, will shortly be honored by a monument. Ogden Van Vogt, only 24 years old. has been elected general secretary of tha Chris tlon Endeavor societies. He lives in Wis constn. The csar of Russia intends to supplement the reforms he has just announced by abolishing tba punishment of political prisoners by exile to Siberia. William Pickens, the negro student who has been awarded the Ten Eyck prise at Yala for excellence in public apeaklng. was one of thirty-seven juniors who entered the contest. The oration which won him auch honor waa a masterly effort on political and economic conditions In Haytl and tbe lea sons which tha colored race ahould draw therefrom. Pickens' home Is Little Rock Ark,, where his father U a storekeeper Waltham Watches The observed of all observers. "The PtrfedeJ Amerkzn WjJch," n doshtitd leek of interesting information about vtchcs, xvilt bt sent fret upon request. American Wa&ham Wxtch Company?. Wattham, Hass. the: giamt steel trist. Roar It Absorbs Small Concerns and Controls the Market. V . '. Wall Street Journal. The United States Steel corporation has approximately (2,000 shareholders. Of the total number over 24,000 are preferred Shareholders and 27,000 holders of the com mon stock. . This Is an Increase ot 6,000 within three months,' with the Increase approximately divided Into 2,000 preferred and 3,000 common shareholders. If the present rate of Increase Is main tained tha total number of United States Steel shareholders will within two yean reach' 100,000, which Is the maximum figure predicted by an official of the Steel cor poration. . In' tha past year the National Tube company has effected savings ot about $200,000 annually in salaries of the export department. The removal of the export department '. ,to Pittsburg and combining It with the domestic' sales department saved about ' 2100,000, while ' the resigna tions of two successive presidents, who had' been- drawing high salaries, and the promotion of lower officials, with slight Increases In salary without filling their places, with a few other changes, made up about 1100,000 more. It Is reported that the Tube company president formerly got 250,000. Similar changes have been going on In other subsidiary companies In the Steel corporation. The main changes are due to the simplifying of the buying and new construction ' deparlmonts. Formerly the greatest ability-was required in the buy ing of pig Iron1, each company making such purchases requiring a high-priced man to look after It- Now this Is done for the whole corporation by one man. Proposed enlargements and improvements are passed on by Steel corporation officials and the presidents of all the subsidiary companies. In the selling end there have been changes, but they are not all chargeable to saving, since much of the change has been in the direction of selling mora to the large Jobbers, part of the aavlng being given to such jobbers at a lower price. Some of these subsidiaries now have, for their principal product, probably less than 100 customers each. Independent manu facturers are now in several lines competi tors of tha jobbers buying from the cor poration, rather than competitors of tha corporation Itself. The sale of the Crucible Steel company to tha United States Steel company re vived rumors that the- Jones A Laughlln company will be the next Independent con cern to go. It Is known In Inner circles that the Jones & Laughlln people have been offered a price In 6 per cent gold bonds for their plant, but they feel that it is worth more, and until the sum is raised by tha Steel corporation there will be no further negotiation. " ----- Tho sale of cruo'ble steel will cut off the only outside sources ot supply- to tha in dependent manufacturers of the country, and they will be forced to go to tha United States Steel company for material. MIGHTY TIRED AUD HUNGRY. Wavttcraon's Pica for tho Boys In the Trenchca. Louisville Courier-Journal. The ' editor of the Courier-Journal was fighting trust and trustlsm when Mr. Bryan was creeping like a snail unwillingly to school; nor was he using bows and ar rows against Mauser rifles, either. Oa tha lines of tbe Chicago platform of 1890, and of tbe Kansas City platform of 1900, Mr. Bryan led the party to a disastrous defeat,' meeting a dwindling, not a rising vote. On those lines the republicans would be assured of a victory each suc ceeding four years to the end of time. Yet, because the Courier-Journal urges the party to turn its back upon tha dissen sions which brought defeat, to plant Its feet upon high and solid ground, to set its face resolutely to the future and tha foe, this obstinate,. ill-Judging, self-important youth grown rich as a candidate for of fice, full ot the bravery of his conceit and nexperlence has the effrontery to ques tion our fidelity and our alnoerlty. Mr. Bryan speaks disdainfully of money. Money is as needful to political battles as powder and ball to real battles. Does Mr. Bryan think that Mr. Tllden waa leas democrat because he was a rich man? That Is the meaning of what he says; If a man be not a pauper ha Is a republican. In Mr. Bryan's vocabulary democracy and defeat are synonymous terms. Tha mo ment a democrat looks like a winner Mr. Bryan begins to bate and abuse him. The boys are mighty tired of it. They are hungry and thirsty. They can see noth ing in what Mr. Bryan ta driving at but continued dissension, hopeless division and certain defeat. If Mr. Bryan has his way, It Is another drubbing In 1904. If he does not get it, he means to bolt. After he has done this both wings of the party will stand even, and then they may get to gether. Before that, however, soma of us will ba dead. Hamlllatlna; Missonrl. . St. Louis Olobe-Democrat. The grand jury at Jefferson city has dropped from tbe $1,000 to $500 class. If the jury goes any lower the disclosures are likely to be humiliating. 17-? ST Our $15 Suit The beet $15 Suit of clothes la Xm erica can be found right in our store. You take no chances. Every suit made in our own factory. Tailored and trimmed in the beet of style. Easter Thougrht and Wants Provided for. KO CLOTHING FITS LIKE OURS. PROSPERITY TO COJrTIXUTffi. Coaclnsloa Ranched from the "Stane Pat' Point of View. Philadelphia Press. Tha address which Secretary Root dell ered in Boston on Thursday Is well wort attention. Speaking to the Home Mark! club, which Is devoted to upholding tb protective tariff, he naturally gave speed attention to that subject. Under the open tlon of tha commercial system embodle In the tariff law the 'people ot the Unite States are living more comfortably an happily than any other great mass of pec pie In the history of the world. But, a Mr. Root says, there may ba need ot tart: revision, though "It should not be undet taken until It becomes a real necessity." As soon aa tbe revision is decided o business uncertainty follows, tberefnrt Mr. Root thinks that "It should be don only when congress Is as free aa possibl from tbe distractions and temptations c an active, political campaign," and tha will ba after the presidential election. Tb. revision, when made, must be made by tb friends of the tariff it the protecttlve prln clple is to be maatalned. If not, and th prosperity of the nation Is to be reversed as happened under tha Cleveland admin istratlon, then the democratic party shoul be allowed to wreak Its vengeance again o: tba protective tariff. , , n iil . . n - i w m r. noia omua ox ueorgia, wuo was on. of President Cleveland's cabinet offlclalhf said In New York on Monday: "Our peopl are making money. The farmers are mak ing money, and we want that condition o affairs to continue." It necessarily follow that It will not continue if a party that ha opposed everything done to bring abou this great prosperity secures power an proceeds to tear the tariff to pieces am upaet things generally. The fact that th democrats are advocating a "revenue tariff' while at tba same time admitting the un deniable prosperity that now exists, demon v stratea their incompetency to govern ttvl country. Tariff changes can only be made safel; by tb.4 republicans. That Is squally tru of the currency and ether Important qucs tlons. The record ot the democratic part; on thesa questions has been that of dls aster. The free trade and free silver ele ment of the party controls it. But botl factions oppose a. protective tariff. SMILING LINES. Oayboy Now, If the ataak had only beet aa sweet and tender aa you I Cashier And It the butter had only beat aa fresh aa you! New York Sun. "Isheric.hr' "Rich! Why, my dear sir, he's ricl enough to feel at ease In tha United Statei senate." Chicago Post. Tha Agent I hare a chronometer hew which records tha millionth part of a seo ond of time. - The Busy Man I hsven't got that muofe time to give you. Yonkers Btatesman. Grten What are you doing now? Brown Running a grocery. Green Making a success of It? Brown Well, yes in a small weigh. Chi cago News. ( Furaer Geo w hi ax I What sort of a elgaa U thlsT Glvver Oh! I bought It tor a nickel. 1 don't just recall the brand, out I think It was named after soma bum actor. Fumer Ah! no wonder It won't draw. Philadelphia Press. "Your brother took the civil service ex amination, but he failed to guess the cor rect answer to a single question." "What did they do with nimT" "Made him a weather prophet." St. Louis Republic. Monroe had just framed hia wonderfuN ta wonderfuN trembling. I better half, J lit ua." i and, wlth- aoctnne ana net tne nations trembling "How nice!" observed his "and mother la oomlnar to visit Meekly the great man arose out a word, turned his defiance to the wall. New York Tribune. "What were you saying, Harold?" feebly asked the young woman reclining In the steamer chair. There was a pause and then the young man leaning over tha vessel's rail re sponded: "I waan't speaking, Angelina," he said. "You you misunderstood torn. -Chlcag; Tribune. J THB BABY. George MacDonald. Where did you come from, baby dear? Out of the everywhere into the here. Where did you get your eyes so blue? Out of the sky as I came through. What makea the light In them sparkle and plnT i Soma of the starry spikes left in. Where did you get that little tesr? I found it waiting when 1 gut here. What makes your forehead so smooth and high? A soft hand stroked it as I went by. What makes your cheek like a warm, wh t roaeY Something better than anyone knows. Whence that three-cornered amlla nf blla.-i? Three angels gave me at once a, kins. Where did you get that pearly ear? God spoke and it came out to hear. Where did you get those arma and hands? Love made itself Into books and baud. Feet, whence did you come, you darling things? From tha same box as the cnerubs' wings. How did they alt Just come to you? God thought about ma and so I grew. But how did you come to ua, you dear? God thought of you,-, and ao I am here. A