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n THF, OMATTA PATTV TIFF: TUESDAY, JUNE 10. 100.1. The Omaha Daily Bee. E. HOSE WATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERT MORNING. TERMS OK SUBSCRIPTION. . Fatly Hee (without Sunday), On Tf0'-?; Kaliy nee and Sunday, one ir i Illustrated Uee, One Year Sunday Uee, One Ysar Saturday Hee, One Year Twentieth Century Farmer. One Tear. .oo too I. ro l.fio too DELIVERED BY CARRlcn. Pally Bee (without flundnyi. per copy.... le ally Bc (without Sunday), per week...l3c tally He (Including Bunday). Pr week. .170 Evening He (without fliimday), per week. c Kvening Bee (Including Bunday). Pr VQIl , 1'rC Complaints' ' of irregularities In delivery should b addressed to City Circulation De partment. orriCES. Omaha The Bee Building. ' South Omaha-City Hall Building. Twenty-fifth and M Streets. Council BinfTa 10 pearl Street. Chicago 1840 (Tnlty Building. New York 232 Park Row Building. Washington 601 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi torial matter ahould be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by' draft, express or postal order, payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only J-cent stamps accepted In payment or mall account. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not sxceptea. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Bute of Nebraska, Douglas County as.: George B. Tsschurk, secretary of The Fee Putilisulng Company, being duly sworn, ays thai the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Bunday Bee printed during the month of May, uua, waa aa loiwwa I.... I.... I.... 4.... ...80,MK 17 ...., U - 81.080 U ,3,T80 jo so.two a 80.8T0 ZL 90fi0 ...,SO,TS ....80,500 I. 8W.TSO . asTo t ao,TO I. .. aoio .80,740 10 T.TT II 30,440 12 80,870 11 8U,M 14 ao,TSO 15 80.USO ,80,830 24 26 26 27 2S ..80.H30 ..80.T90 ..80,780 ..SO.OMO . .80,000 ..SlUVO SO. i...,...........aTtx 14 ....aooo Total Leas unsold and returned copies .ssa.ooo . 1034 Net total sales 843.803 Net average sales 80.43T QKOROE B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this Ust day of May, A. D. 1901. M. B. IlUNOATE, (Seal.) Notary Public We will all be pleased to call him King Peter and let It go at that No apprehension of regicides in the peaceful realm of good Ak-Sar-Ben. With the National Saengerfest on in full -blast, there should be music in the air at Baltimore. With Its strikes practically all settled. it is high time for Omaha to bucklo down to business. The BkupshUna would also confer a great favor by rearranging Its alphabet at the earliest possible day. Colonel Clown, continues to hold the helm at the Western Union, all yellow journal fakes about his enforced resig nation to the contrary notwithstanding. Government inspection and grading of hemp Is to be instituted in the Philip pines to facilitate exporting. A special grade should be established for hemp suitable for necktie parties. Now watch, the American small boy who wants to see the base ball game without going through the gate take a tip from Santos Dumont's scheme to take In the races from bis airship. Colonel Bryan may not be president of the United States, but his late law partner m ill be head consul of the Mod' ern Woodmen- of America, which Is small presidency In Itself. . When the messengers come to tell him that he has been elected king and de mand if ' he will accept. Prince Kara goorgevltch wll.1 not have to say "This lit so sudden'.'' and ask for time to think It over. Plana for the reconstruction of the Kansas City platform regardless of car penter strikes and without the aid or consent of the' boss builder are being prepared by , democratic architects in various sectlous of the country Unless the assessor of Florence pre cinct sees fit to revise his returns of the assessment of .personal property It may be Incumbent on County Attorney Enn llsh to proceed against him' In accord ance with the provisions of the criminal code. . The local democratic organ, quoting a democratic member of the South Omaha council, says that . there ure "plenty of good, Intelligent, progressive and well-informed business men even among the republicans." That Is a con cession as Is a concession. Along with the institution of the per manent teachers' list, the duty devolves upon the school board to see that ho incompetent teacher Is Invested with a claim to permanent tenure. A corps of Instructors permanently loaded up with incompetents would be a calamity to the schools. Iowa democrats are still dividing on the lines of fealty to the Kansas City platform which promises to furnish the fireworks again In their coming state con vention. If there were the ghost of a chance to elect anybody on the demo cratic ticket in Iowa the disposition to fight over dead issue would be speedily repressed. . Assistant Postmaster General Brlstow thinks rural free delivery as now in dulged is altogether too great a luxury for the Postottiee department to afford. When free delivery was started lu the cities there were also many to predict that the results would not Justify the outlay, but no one would now advise curtailment of this service. The same thing Is likely to happen with reference to the rural free delivery. The postal business it stimulates la sure eventually to bring it close to a self-supporting basis, -4 . mutrKhDKitcu.or rn wkst. In its last Issue the Wall Street Jour nal discusses the Claim that the west Is financially Independent of. the east and concludes : that It " to only measurably true.- After pointing out the command ing position ' which the west has long held 'In the polities of the nation a position certain to be maintained and strengthened that paper says that while the growth of the west in wonltA has In i measure given It financial inde pendence, the claim is sininewhat exag gerated. "There is no doubt whatever," says the Journal, "that . the west has made so much money that it has been able to pay-oft, its-Indebtedness, to the east and to acquire a large surplus but it is noticeable that it has come to jWall street to invest this surplus. Its banks and trust companies still deposit a, part tit (thelr reserves with New York institu tions in order to earn the '2,-per (cent interest paid on such deposits. More- over, they have become a fartoT In the New York money market; "by making heavy direct loans and by, purchases of mercantile paper. Western, .capitalists likewise have employed the facilities of the Wall street market Jn order b make their investments and to carry on ithelr speculations." These facts, in .the view of the Journal, show that while in one sense the west has become independent of Wall street. In another sense It still depends very largely upon it ; i As the financial center of the country Wall street will always draw capital from other sections of the country. , For purposes of speculation and for certain classes of investment those having sur plus capital will Inevitably , take It to that center.,' There will be-no dissent from the proposition of the Journal that because of powerful . mutual .interests there cannot be absolute financial inde pendenee in any section. ' Yet tt is a fact' that' the west -no longer has to rely upon the east, as formerly.-for means to carry on its business arid move Its crops, and the independence It has attained In this respect will not be lost. Western capital is steadily increasing and the promise of 'abundant crops this year holds out the assurance of a larger ac- cumulation of capital in the next twelve months than in any past year. The west is now prosperous and. if what Is promised shall be realized it will ex perience a higher measure of prosperity than it has yet known. . For the purposes of its legitimate busi ness we think the claim that the west is financially Independent ; is well founded. Its own capfrat is ample to meet the demands of legitimate- financial, industrial and commercial ppera lions and there is no doubt that it is being augmented at a satisfactory rate. There Is good reason to bellete that jlhe west will be in position next-' fall to finance the moving of the crops ' without calling upon the east for assistance, unless there should be an lrnexpected-Tiiange from .existing conditions, ' 21 A i ..? i .it a f!ft SKH VIA'8 JIBW KlIIQ. ''It required only a few'triltints'for!the Servian parliament to, choose! a new king to succeed the murdered Alexander and it was accomplished, without .the least excitement The .enthusiasm with which the people balled the event at tested the . popularity of Prince Kara georgevltch, whose title as king will be Peter I. He has bad an adventurous and checkered career, the most notable fea ture of which is a good record as a sol dier in the Franco-Prussian, war, he having ( received 'a thorough military education in ' France. : From what has been Bald of him, hev appears to, be a man who should give Servla stable and good government and promote Its ma terla I growth. . The expectation Is that Russian influence will 'now be para mount in Servian affairs and whether or not this will be of benefit to the country is d question. 7 ' As now Indicated King Peter may find the chief difficulty confronting, him that of. dealing with those who are respon slble for the murder of the late king and queen. It Js quite probable that some of the leaders in that bloody event will ask to be recognized in the new govern- ment and if the king should give any of them recognition Servla's relations with other powers might be imperiled. This Is shown In the position taken- by 'the British Foreign, office that If the new cabinet shall include, those who were in the assassinations it .would be impes slble for Great Britain to 'continue dip lomatic relations with Seryia. On the other hand the leaders la the revolt may make trouble if they are refused recog nltlon. However, a way win jdoubtless be found to arrange everything to the satisfaction of the powers and permit the little kingdom to enjoy a period of peace and do away with the unhappy conditions that have long disturbed It 1 ' THK TRVST VPPOHITIOIT. Regarding the alleged feeling of hoe tlllty to President Ropsevelt on' the part of. the men in the great, combinations, the New lork Commercial says it is convinced that the feeling has been greatly exaggerated and. that pnper is In a position to speak with some authority in the matter. While there is oe definite information that the trust people will oppose1 the president there Is little rea son to doubt that most of them are hos tile to him and that In due time this will be manifested la some unmistakable way. It Is a matter that is not causing the friends of Mr. RiKvelt any con cern or uneasiness. , They do, not fall recognise the fact tbut the' represents tives or trie great combinations are financially powerful and able to put an almost unlimited amount of money into a campaign, but as the Philadelphia Ledger remarks. In any contest fought out to a conclusion between them and the plain people of the country, they and their campaign fund) woold cut but a sorry figure. "The plain people hav the votes," says that paper; V'and they do not forget nor fall to appreciate that in fighting his winning fight againat the tnufts-aud 'vested -latarts Provident Roosevelt fouslit the plain people's bat es, and the.v love him for doing It and for thp enemies lie made by doing It." As we have heretofore tut Id. the next presidential election will be decided by the prop I e and not by the men who con trol the great corporations and combina tions. Opposition of the latter to Presi dent Roosevelt should and it Is not to e doubted will strengthen , him with the people, whose Interests and welfare he has In view In enforcing the laws gainst combinations believed to be vio- atlng the laws and doing Injury to the public. Mr. Roosevelt will Ih nominated n resjonse to a popular demand that ttests the unqualified approval of his course by the people. Opposition to his election by the combinations will only tend to make the people more earnest In his support . urKX THK STUttT IMPAIR CAMPAIGN. Now that the Board of Public Works has agreed upon its muster roll and Is ready to resume active operations, the first thing in order should be a cam- tmien "of street ' clearing and street cleaning. " Before this is begun, how ever, the board should require the vari ous '. corporations that have been en gaged In street ripping within the past year to restore ' the pavements, that have been torn up for their benefit, at their own' expense with the same ma terial that was taken up by them.-- Un less these companies are forced to put these pavements In good condition tl)e burden of repairs, which should be cheerfully borne by them in view of the valuable privileges they enjoy, mnst come out of the pockets of the tax payers. It is the manifest duty of the city authorities to enforce the city's rights gainst the corporations that have been freely permitted to dig up the streets and tear up pavements for the purpose of laying tracks, planting conduits and laying pipes and wires. Miles upon miles of good pavement have . been pulled up by the roots and the gaps In these pavements have been shiftlessly filled In with loose material. Nearly every thoroughfare in the city bears testimony to the vandalism of the ditch diggers and track layers. In every in stance promises have been made that the gashes and gaps would be filled in and the pavements replaced ns soon as the weather would permit such work to .be done with safety and dispatch, but we are now approaching midsum mer without any sufficient evidence of good faith on the part of the various public utility corporations that enjoy the privilege of occupying our streets and alleys. - The, latest excuse for putting off the repair and replacement of damaged pavements has been the lnhor trouble that made it impossible to prosecute the work with any degree of regularity and safety. . Now that the labor - troubles are happily adjusted no more excuses quid-be available. It Is not he 'city's business to restore the pavements at ifs own expense, nor is the city warranted in incurring further, risks of damage suits, -for .loss of life, limb or property by reason of defective pavements or the overflowing of sewers flooded by water that, soaks into the trenches adjacent to warehouses and store buildings. ,The public utility corporations should be re minded that there Is such n thing as riding a free gift horse to death. . What is the matter with the county assessors? Can anybody explain why their assessment returns for 1003 show a decrease of $230,181 as compared with the assessment for 1902? Has the value of farm property In Douglas county de creased 9 per cent, and where is there any evidence of a decrease in the value of personal property of nearly 10 per cent in the fourteen precincts?- Has there been any material decrease in the number or value of live stock and chat tels, and if so, when and where? How can the) assessor of Florence precinct for example, explain the slump of 7 per cent in personal property returns for this year as compared with the preced ing year? Surely there must be a screw loose somewhere. South Omaha assessors return an in crease of real estate valueg for the year 1902 of . just $2,407; multiplied by six this would represent a true value of $14,442. In view of the fact that sev eral of the packing houses have ex pended more than double that amount In improvements within the past year, and in view of the fact that the im provements In the stock yards will run several times four ciphers, and In view of the further fact that the building record of South Omaha shows very gratifying activity in home building, there must be an evident Impediment to the veracity or capacity of the assessors. Lancaster county has trouble with bridge contractors who have appro priated building material that belongs to the county for bridge construction and repairs without crediting the value of the material back to the county, But that leak after all is only a drop In the bucket, if reports of bridge depredations on the taxpayers of that couuty are to be credited. In this respect, however, Lancaster couuty is not much worse off than Douglas, where gigantic bridge construction frauds have been openly charged by at least one member of the Board of County Commissioners and never explained. Well-deflned rumors Indicate that the contention over the confirmation of the mayor's appointment of members of the Board of Review for South Omaha Is not so much because the men selected by Mayor Koutsky are Incompetent, ir relevant and immaterial as because there is a well-grounded suspicion tbat they might raise the assessment of the big. corporations somewhere nearer to the proper level. Something is evidently awry with the asaesaoca' returns for the country prt- cincts In Douglas county. It will be pretty hard to make anyone believe that the taxable property In this county out side of Oinalia and South Omaha has shrunk during the past year by 10 per cent Governor Hunt of Porto Rico reports that business conditions In that island are more prosperous than ever before. Porto Rico would have had to go a long time under Spanish rule to reach the point of progress It has niade In a few short years under the Amerlcsn flag. Time to Square Himself. . Chicago Record-Herald. By the way, how does this Karageorge vltch fellow stand on the Kansas City plat form? Who Gets the Difference f ' .St. Louts Globe-Democrat. . Recently .testimony before. the Interstate Commerce commission In New York shows the avernge cost of anthracite at tidewater to be 13.20 a ton. Consumers wonder why they are required to pay so much more for the additional transportation. "I nsUnlflrant Coincident." Chicago Chronicle. It Is an Interesting but of course entirely unnlgnlflcant coincidence that the learned Jurist who has decided that the coal barons are practically exempt from the operation of the Interstate commerce law is the same who clapped Peter Power into jail when that Individual waa attacking another trust. Raer Working; Overtime. Washington Star. It Is to be feared that the Coal trust. which wss last autumn forced by public opinion to accede to the presidents liy tervention to end the coal strike, is seeking to precipitate a conflict with the miners which will break the three yeers' agree ment formulated by the commission, and. ir It Is possible, throw the responsibility for the breach on the workers. Busy Dnys of m Basy Han. Chicago Chronicle. Brother Baer graclourly announces that he will obey such' provisions of the Interstate-commerce law as he deems constitu tional. This attitude of Brother Baer indi cates that. In addition to acting aa adviser and counselor to Omnipotence, he has like wise kindly undertaken to supervise the United States supreme court. . Brother Baer must be a busy man these days. Rare and 1'nacconntable. San Francisco Call. ' - Those who love the odd and fantastic facts of history, which serve to Illuminate and color the monotone of life, have a chance to suggest a memorial tablet for some niche In the treasury of California. The legislative committee chosen to sreet President Roosevelt -did not spend all of the money allowed and actually turned back some of It Into the treasury , vaults. "Onr Old Kentucky Home." Philadelphia Ledrer. Nothing ' could more clearly reveal the benighted condition of Breathitt countv. Kentucky, than the statement that 90 per cent or the special' venire men summoned to serve as Jurors'' In the trial of Curtis Jett and Tom White had not read any newspaper account of the killing of Mar cum, though It- eeeurnd- In their own county, and ws an event of great local In terest. ThS region should be Invaded hy school teachers; and Ofher agents of civil isation. . Growth In Cotton Exports. ,. Philadelphia Press. Under the last Cleveland administration the exports of cotton manufactures In one year Increased to the extent of ri.82.B39 over, although the exports In a year under the' Harrison administration, and that in crease was In 1896, when the days of demo cratic rule were drawing to a certain end. But under President Roosevelt the exports of cotton manufactures last year were tl5. 271,23 greater than they were under Cleve land !n 1896. That Is proof of what the future promises to the cotton growers and manufacturers under republican rule. If there were no race question In the south it would probably soon become republican. Overworked Nerve. ' Philadelphia Press. The claim of the anthracite coal roads that the United States Interstate Com merce commission has no right to see the contracts between the roads and the coal companies appears extraordinary. It Is a question yet to be passed on by the courts. There is an agreement among the various roads and mining companies fixing the price of coal. That is In contravention, p parently, of the Interstate commerce law, and all of the facts should be made known. It should not be a matter of secrecy, aa it directly affects the public. There ought to be no secrets In such a matter, and cer tainly not from the Interstate Commerce commission. 1003 AND 1883. Dlacasaloa Over Tbel Reaemblaac. and Contracts. New York Evening Post. There has been discussion In the markets. lately, as to the parallel presented by 1903 with 1883. These comparisons have been more interesting from the remarkable similarities between the years 1900-1902 In clusive, and 1S80-1882. In IPSO, as In 1900, we had a halt pending the national campaign; a fall in stocks, followed bv violent recovery after the election; an Immensely profitable grain crop, a huge export trade, apd the beginnings of a stock company C-raie. In 1KK1, as In 1901, there was a wild advance In stocks, checked by a corn crop failure and the assassination of the presi dent; an Immense Increase in consolid ations, railway "deals," and Issues of new securities. In 1882. aa In 1902, there were excited and unsettled stock markets, con stant strain on money. Imports hugely in creased, while exports decreased, and eon sequent adverse movements in exchange, .tike 1883. the present year started with an overstrained banking system, a market glutted with unsold securities, and a pro longed decline on the Stock exchange. Oth erwise, the resemblances are not so plain. Signs of serious reaction In our trade at large were already visible at this time In 1883, as they are not now. Railway rate cutting was constantly breaking out, and apprehension over the silver 6urrency was felt on every side. Nothing of this sort now exists. The second half of 1883 wss strangely Interesting. It comprised, first, the most profitable season ever witnessed In railway industry; ending, however. In a rate war It comprised, also, large Increase in ex ported merchandise end heavily decreased Imports; exports rising 177.300,000 for the full calendar year and Imports falling ff. 700,000. Whst was quite as Interesting, the full year 1888 showed decided) decrease In our loss of gold; exports decreasing $31. -Of (no from the year before, and Imports Increasing t8.snft.ono . A very serious reaction In the Iron trade was witnessed, pig Iron selling, at the year's end. SIS per ton below high level of the "boom." and steel rails 127 below It. A curious precedent. If It be a precedent, la that, despite the violent pinch In money during the spring of 188S. the highest rate en call from Septtmber ) to December U was I per oent its of wMinNTft5 t.trn. Mil Scenes and Incidents Sketched on the Spot. Pension Commissioner Ware hss a nice sense of honor which Is not sppreclated by fellow Kanaahs In the pension office. During his absence from office a few dnys ago a paper waa circulated among employes of the bureau asking for subscriptions to the relief fund for flood sufferers In the Sunflower state. Upon returning to his desk Commissioner Ware expressed disap proval with the subscription movement and peremptorily ordered that it should be stopped. In consequence he hss been made the subject of adverse criticism. In this natter the commissioner said he expected to be misunderstood. But knowing the situation and sentiment In Kansas, he be lieves he was right In stopping the sub scription. He made a liberal contribution to the fund for relief, and Is prepared to give more if It shall, be needed, but he strongly objects to having a psper circu lated among the people of the pension office. "I object," said the commissioner, "to have a subscription paper circulated in the bureau over which I preside. It might suggest to those to whom the paper was presented that If a subscription was not made those refusing would become per sona non grata with me, upon whom they look as their chief. It might be regarded as coercion. It is perfectly proper for Kansans residing In Washington to assist their fellow citlsens who may be In dis tress, and I feel the same Interest In ac complishing the largest measure of relief that others do, but I cannot consent to have a paper circulated for subscriptions In the pension office." "One of the most peculiar as well as one of the rarest plants produced by nature is the clock plant and there is only one specimen on view in the gardens of the Agricultural department," said an employe of that institution to a Washington Star man. "The clock plant la a native of Borneo, and in that country, even. It is said to he as rare as in other sections of the world. Of course, the plant derives Its name from Its peculiar habits, which are known to but a few who have not studied the plant from a scientific viewpoint. The plant has leaves of two sizes, one of which acts In the capacity of a minute hand, which keeps moving until about 4 o'clock In the afternoon, and the other keeps going until morning. The larger leaves act as the hour hands. "Starting In a position when all of the leaves He close to the stem, with the points hanging down, they rise gradually until they turn toward the top, and then they drop to their former position. It takes. the smaller leaves about one minute to, go through this performance, and the longer leaves Just about an hour. When the conditions are favorable this move ment continues throughout the entire day, but not such days as we have been having lately. "It requires good, warm sunshine for the plants to perform this function. Such days as we have been having the leaves move, but they do so In an imperfect and Irregular manner. Why, sometimes the large leaves cling so closely to the plant that It looks like a huge bundle of twigs. "The plant Is delicate and extremely hard to propagate, which accounts for the fact that we now have only one of them. We had several, but they have all died. The plant, bears a small . flower like that of a pea, and Its seed grows In a pod In the same manner. . It Is hard to get It to seed in. this country, which makes it extremely difficult to get seed for pther plals."; v-1 ; ' ' ;' v -1 Here Is a story of the president's family now 'going the rounds: "The present oc cupant of the White House until the re cent, renovation found It cramped quarters for a large family. With one or two of the little Roosevelts off at boarding school, then, were enough beds to go around, but none to spare. Well, last winter the presi dent was entertaining a foreign envoy of great state and many years, and invited him to the White House over Sunday. He was put in Ethel's room arid Ethel, when she came back from school Saturday, went to sleep with Alice, but unfortunately Kermlt did not know of this arrangement. "So, when early morning came, mindful of his strenuous Inheritance, he crept to Ethel's room with a pitcher of water, and softly opening the door without awakening the slumbering ambassador, dashed for ward and threw the Icy water over the bed with the shout: " 'Get up, you old laxy bones; get up.' "Then, when a gray head was lifted from the pillows, dripping and alarmed, the as tonishment was mutual and the departure of the youngster Instantaneous without his pitcher." In the room of one of the bureau chiefs of the Navy department a huge gong adorns the wall over the door. It has not been In use for a number of years In fact not since a certain assistant secretary of the navy retired from office and took up the practice of law. And thereby hangs a tale. It was told the Brooklyn Eagle cor respondent by one of the department em ployes as follows:, Some years ago there was a bright civil Ian employed at the Naval academy as pro fessor of mathematics. The superintendent of the academy was a capable officer, but one of the strictest men in the service. In fact, he was a perfect martinet, and, above all. things, delighted to show his authority over the unfortunate civilians under his control. So the poor civilian professor led a very unhappy life for a couple of years: A turn of the wheel of fortune brought both men to Washington some time later, and each found himself on duty In the Navy department. A happy political stroke caused the appointment of the former pro fessor of mathematics to the position of assistant secretary of the navy. The offi cer. In the meantime, had been promoted to the chlefshlp of the bureau. Things had turned completely about In the short space of a few years. The civilian official started In at once to get revenge. He ordered a monster gong placed In the room of the bureau chief In question, with a push but ton on his desk to connect with It. Every time he pressed the button the officer up stairs had to Jump up and run to the office of the assistant secretary. The latter found frequent occasion to push the button, and the gong was kept going right merrily. It waa a full-powered gong, and used to ring out with a suddenness and volume of sound that startled every' officer and clerk on that floor. The assistant secretary kept It In use all during his term of office as a con stant humiliation and reminder to his old enemy that, at last, the civilian was on top." Hon. Carroll D. Wright, chief of the De partment of Labor, has under way an ex tended Investigation of the trend of wages In the United States. Statisticians, special agents and experts of the department al ready have been on the task for nearly three months and It was expected that a preliminary, If not the final report, would be ready for publication some time during the summer. The work broadened as it advanced, however, and now Mr. Wright says It will not be finished until late in the winter and probably not until near the time when he will leave the department. When It Is done, he says, it will be well done. It Is intended that a historical record of wages be made for the last half century, which will faithfully rehearse the pay which the worklngman has received for his labor. ' Beyond this period the experts are f HJfoof .kdl Watch D0SS 8ttffmi COLO Watch Cases . yT f SolUl fold cOT lMt that I 1 T jr Ko wlibonl wwrtni too this. I 1 ' ' ssfcly protect the worts. If I I yoq want s watrh ojm for pro- I JF isctlnn, durability so Imutr, S t.11 St the Bees with the . S ' f ten Um1-tntrkatmti! . -JT , if Inilds. Head for booklet. J M i A THE KEYSTONE JS0" I V wTCH CASE CO., JT . Y fS J ' V X. fsiiassiphia, yr jr having a hard time In sernrlnv tatlatlro from which worthy deduction can be made. maeed, according to Commissioner Wright, the department has never begun a work so difficult. While he could not give the exsct per centage, the figures at hand showed that there has been a constant fnnr., in ih. general run of wages. Kach year in every industry so rar Investigated has found the worklngman getting more monev for the same amount oT work than the preceding one. PROTRCT1KO THK PI BLIC LANDS. Need ef Checking; the Grabs of Capl. , tallats aad Speculators. Minneapolis Tribune. Th crusade against monopoly of the pubUc lands by capitalists and speculators is no new thing. It only gains new Interest now from the Increased danger that this monopoly will destroy the whole heritage of the people if It be not checked. Of the three lows, whose repeal is demanded by the president and the secretary of the In terior, only one was enacted In the Interest of the people. The homestead commutation act served a good purpose In enabling settlers to ob tain title so that they could raise money on their homesteads for Improvement. But It served a much larger purpose of cor ruption In enabling fraudulent entrymen to obtain title In order to transfer It to the capitalists and speculators by whom they were klred to commit perjury. The stone and timber act and the desert land act never , were passed in the interest of the people. They were passed to serve the purpose of capitalists and speculators at a time when public opinion on this subject was languid, because so large a propor tion of the arable lands had been taken up. But the adoption of the national policy of Irrigation revives public interest In pres ervation of the land for the people, as It Increases the activity of the speculative raid upon them. Ehtries under the stone and timber act are nearly ten times what they were 'five years ago and probably the Sams' is true of the other two acts. The department believes that a large propor tion of these are fraudulent and it urges that even honest entries under these acta are opposed to public policy, now that the government has decided to redeem the arid lands for actual settlers. . The senate committee on publio lands, in Its report on the rei eal bill, points out .that presidents and secretaries of the Interior, and later secretaries of agriculture, have been urging-th repeal of H (these acta for twenty yeafS past. ""Secretary Hitch cock and President Roosevelt have been led to give more earnest attention to the matter by the fact that publio land entries Increased from 8,000,000 acres In 1898 to 19, 000,000 acres In 1902wlth'out any perceptible increase in the area of actual settlement outside of Oklahoma, where only the origi nal homestead act prevails. It is perfectly clear that .the public domain is passing Into the hands of great landed proprietors, who will reap the benefit of the national policy of Irrigation If the movement be not checked. PERSONAL NOTES. The remodeled White House contains thirty miles of wire, but Is so arranged as to be useless for a pull. There Is no distress In Kansas. The rescNied poets are already writing of "the crystal waters of the noble Kaw as they glide laughingly to the sea." Richard Carvel has been arrested In New York on a charge of extortion, which would seem to Justify him In believing that The Crisis In his affairs has arrived. A St. Louis Judge decided that a woman can lawfully extract nickels from her husband's pocket. Everything seems to be playing Into the hands of the street car companies. Morgan Necessary eloped with Pearl II oss down In the Indian Territory, and the heartless Judge sent the Lochlnvar to Jail, Insisting that Hoss stealing waa not Justifiable under any conditions. A New York Judge was recently called upon to decide that a man ninety years old has a perfect right to fall in love and get married. After a man has lived ninety years he Ought surely' to know his own mind. Governor Pennypacker of Pennsylvania delivered an address . at Lancaster the other day in which he made this extraor dinary assault on the rules of speech: "Pennsylvania will never again produce a great general, a great poet or a great statesman until the people behind them recognize their greatness when the man appears among them." Those $3.50 Suits for boys, we told you about Friday night are about gone, and if you had any idea of buying a good, strong serviceable, stylish suit for ' dress or play now is the very time to consider this offer. Nearly all of our different styles of $5.00 suits are included in this special offer of $3.50, and you can better appreciate the splen did values by making a personal visit to our store. Everything for your comfort. Easy chairs Electric fans obliging service in fact, home comfort throughout'. "NO CLOTniNO FITS LIKE OUR8.M ' groWnii2; Kmsf- ( R. S. WILCOX' Manager. ' 1 THT5 FA 1. 1. IS STOCKS. Country "Fsrlsw a Condition, Not a Theory." Philadelphia Press. The railroad plant' of the cotmtry was also expanded to a basis needed not only to handle enormous business, but the addi tional business during the last three yenr.t created by railroad expansion itself, a very considerable Item. The brfTWIInfc In our cities are all built on the basis of a boom. i . ' The three, manufacturers, railroads and buildings, are now-each of them waiting for the business and the profits which will Justify the expansion of the last three years But the Instant the 'expansion, of all three had a check In the early part of the year, there came also a check In the demand for manufactures, and this In Its turn brought one In the demand for freights. Things are worth not what ihey are valued In prospectuses and In stoclt certificates, but what 'thev , will earn. Earnings depend hot upon gross business, but upon net business. Net business has been sadly cut into by ' the fashion in which the priceof material and the rate of wages has been raised. The country therefore faces what many a man and corporation has faced, a sud den demand, an expansion to meet the demand and the discovery, when the ex pansion Is made. ' that the demand has passed. A fall under these conditions Is certain. Intrinsic values remain. The only men who will suffer will be very rich men, who have borrowed money to ' pay for what Ihey did not own. There has also. It must not be forgotten, been a prodigious conversion of 'floating capital Into fixed capital, and much of this fixed capital Is lost because the business for which It was Invested Was exaggerated exactly as the capital Invested was Itself overstated. How long the fall will last no one can say, but It really depends upon causes and conditions which are wider and more powerful than any man, however, able In banking, any corporation, however great, or any trust, however rhlghty. ' SMILING LINES. Fairy In the Pink Shirt , Waist Reggie boasts thst you're his best girl. - i Sweet Young Thing in Blue Maybe I am, but he ain't my beet feller by a long shot Chicago Tribune. f j ( "Some men," said Unole Eben, "glta a heap o'. credit foh beint good natursd when dey Is simply too laiy to look out foh delr rights. 'Washington Star. "What Is an optimist, pa?" -"An optimist Is a man who pretends to . be just as well satisfied when, the weather's bad as when "it's" good." Detroit Free Press. ..: ' "Oh, well, talk Is cheap," sneered the angry lawyer. "Not that kind," replied the Judge, promptly. "Ten dollars, please." Syracuse Herald. "So you want to see the government owning everythlngT" "I do," answered Mr. Slrlus Barker. "I'm tired of paying taxes." Washington Star. "Do you believe In the argument that a big navy tends to promote peace T" "Certainly. After a nation has built a big navy It feels too poor to Indulge In the luxury of war." Chicago Post. "Yes. I wss turned down fur dat office," said McBrlde, the ward heeler, "but I aln t no quitter. De adminlstratlon'U make a place fur me yet." , "I believe there la such a movement on foot already," said the honest . clMxen. 'I hear there's talk of building a new pen itentiary." PhtladelpldaPress. TBI PRAIRIB BTATE IN JUNE. - I've been touring round a spell an' I tho't Bout1 the folks who think they own the . gun and moon. ' , When they talked from morn till late of the beauties of their state, . I kept thinking ot the Prairie state In June. They would tell of sunshine bright and of mountain tope so white, . , . An' of orange groves an mockln birds All the while I seemed to hear the meadow Oo 'Sw'nghr ough the Prariel state In June. At a swell hotel one day I Just up an' had To "the'cKap who et his orange with a spoon; . ' - . An' he owned I'd won the race, when I asked him face to face If he'd ever seen the Prairie state in June. When my days on earth are past an'. I go to rest at last. Be the summons late or be the summons I wIlTrest contented there. In that land so bright and fair. If It s something like the Prairie state In June. A RETURNED TOURIST.