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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2. 1003.
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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
State of Nebraska, Douglas County, as.:
George B. Tischuck, secretary of The Bee
Publishing Company, being duly sworn,
ays that the actual number of full and
complete copies of The Dally Morning,
Evening nnd Sunday Bee printed during
tha month of November, 1903, waa as fol
lows: 1 2fl,07O 19 2,T4I
5 30.04O 17 HO.IGO
3 ao.ooo is shi.imo
4 .i7.4;o i9 .'..so,aao
t ,.80,o:iO 30 40,IS5
,...41.1HO 21 30.0HO
7 '....Sl.TIMI 22 3T.1TO
g ZU.MOO 23 3O.O.10
I 80,120 24 30.1W)
10 ,...., aM 25 80.HM
11 ,...)4l.ttk 28... 81, l.0
12 a,940 27 31,020
13 40,tn. 2H 30,100
14 .....Sn.NIO 28 T,05
u Ko.ono ao ao,aoo
Total.. Ha,nS
Les unsold and returned copies..., lO.KtM
Net total sales . ii:t.T:
Net average sales.... i SO.TOS
GEO. B. TZ8CHUCK.
Subscribed in my presence and sworn to
before me this 3oih day of November, A.
li. lSnl , .Jl. B. HUNOATE,
(Seal.) Notary Public.
Colon It quiet. ,And Bogota is daxcd.
Manila, determined to. be fashionable,
ha a its own boodling eases.
Grand Rapids does not enjoy a mo
nopoly of all the graftera and boodlera,
by any means.
Nebraska's growth and prosperity Is
reflected by the increase in Jnternal rev
enue collections.
The street corner advertising scheme
has flashed in the pan, or rather it was
muffed out by public opinion.
The people of. Grand Rapids, Mich.,
will require no evangelist to convert
them In favor of municipal ownership.
The heirs of the late General Drake
will . take the position that he waa
merely Joking when he made hla wlll.x
Two guerilla bands are active in
Buena Ventura. It requires only one
more to get up a South American revo
lution.
The industrial trust promoters, who
are now on a vacation, do not expec
to resume active operations before the
next presidential election.
Latest advices from Wall street indi
cate that money has been wanted in
New York this fall not so much to move
the crops as to move the stocks.
It Auditor Weston bad 'kept out of
the banking business, at least outside of
his own state, he would not have been
pinched by Wyoming sheep ticks.
There are several well-defined rumors
afloat in South Omaha concerning ' re
cent deals between corporations and
city officials that would Justify a grand
jury investigation.
State oil inspection pays. For the
past six months the oil inspectors have
collected enough to pay their salaries'
and turn in 13,000 of a surplus Into the
atate treasury, but alas, the consumer
had to pay the freight.
Harmony is said to have been restored
between the Great Western and its com
petitory in the matter of grain rates,
but is that the kind of harmony Mr,
Stick ney warbled to the Omaha bus!
cess men Just before taking?
Reduced to equations, the Union Pa
ciflc'a live stock report for Nebraska
shows two beeves, nearly two hogs,
nearly a quarter of mutton and about
three-quarters of a horse or mule for
every man, woman and child in the
state.
The Omaha Woman's club proposes
to petition for the expulsion of Suioot
of Utah from the United States senate,
but what does the Woman's Club pro
pose to do about Senator Piatt T That
case of cruel abandonment comes
nearer borne.
It is to be regretted that Fourth As
Distant Poatmuster General Hrlstow
failed to transmit with hla report a good
photograph of himself. The pictures
that have appeared simultaneously with
the report in many of the big dallies do
hlui great injustice.
Horatio S. Rubeua tells the senate
committee ho could not accept Genera
Wood's statement concerning anything
the general is interested in. This is ho
nearly equivalent to calling a military
man a liar thai the result probably will
be the same If ever they meet.
This Is by no means the first time that
several hundred dollars worth of post
age stamps have mysteriously disap
peared from the Omaha pottothVe.
Former Postmaster Casper. K. Yost wa
a sufferer to the extent of 0t, if mem
cry serves ua correctly.
The spwlnl pnvnjr from Colombia,
irnoral Reyes, lins been Informed In re
gard to Ma standing In relation to tlita
government. He will be accorded at
tention only In the event of his propos
ing to arrange peace teruia between Co
lombia nnd Panama. Aa lie baa no au-
horlly from his government to do this,
bnt on the contrary la distinctly rharged
with the duty of endeavoring to have
the "new republic restored to Colombia,
the position respecting him taken by
the Washington authorities leaves him
nothing to do not even the privilege of
presenting what he waa instructed to
convey to our government.
There la nothing surprising In this at
titude. We pointed out when General
Reyes reached Washington that his
mission would necessarily prove futile,
that It waa lmioHslble for our govern
ment to consider any proposition In
volving the restoration of Fanama to
'olombln. The moment the new re
public waa recognised by the United
States our government assumed an ir
revocable obligation to observe and If
need Im protect the Independence of
'annma. This obligation waa empha-
I zed In the treaty negotiated with the
new republio and which undoubtedly
will be at once ratified by that govern
ment. The Colombian authorities doubt
less felt that it was necessary to make
some effort to recover Panama. Popular
clamor demanded It. But It la hardly
conceivable that they could have had
any serious expectation of accompllsh-
ng anything. They are almplemlnded.
Indeed, If they did not realize that the
opportunity they had thrown away was
gone forever and that nothing they
might offer could exert any influence.
A a waa said by an official of the De
partment of State, the sole concern of
this country la to maintain peace Jn
Panama and there Is no doubt that it
will take whatever measures may be
found necessary to do this. American
Interests there are too important to al
low them to be Imperiled by war on the
Isthmus. The wise course for Colombia
la to accept the situation without mak
ing any trouble and effect a settlement
with Panama, in doing which she can
have the good offlcea of the United
states If desired.
CANADA'S PRKMIKR AT TAVl.T.
Chntrmun Tayne of the house ways
nd means committee iolnted out in a
recent speech that Canada's premier,
Sir Wilfrid Laurler, is responsible for
the fact that nothing has been done
looking to the reconvening of the Joint
high commission. It appears that as
soon as the report was made in regard
to the boundary decision, Senator Fair
banks, chairman of. the American mem
bers of the Joint high commission, wrote
to the Canadian premier asking him
about the meeting of the commission
and whether he could fix a time for
reconvening it. Mr. Payne stated that
he understood no result has ever come
of that communication, Premier Laurler
having not even deigned to acknowl
edge it
The chairman of the ways and means
committee suggested that perhaps the
Canadian officials have not recovered
from the sorenesa caused by the boun
dary decision and expressed the opinion
that "it Is not a good time to negotiate
reciprocity treaties when one side la
feeling a good deal of sorenesa over a
recent decision against them." If the
government of Canada desires the re
convening of the Joint high commission
It has simply to iudicate the fact and
suggest a time for the meeting and un
doubtedly that body will be called to
gether. The failure of Premier Laurler,
however, to answer the letter of Senator
Fairbanks appears to show that Canada
is not anxious to have the consideration
of issues between that country and
the United States resumed. Under the
circumstances, therefore, there is no
good reason why our government
should take any action in the matter, as
proposed in the resolution of Mr. Wll
Hams, the leader of the house demo
crats. Mr. Payne very proierly de
clined to report that resolution from his
committee and we venture to think
that the democrats will not make further
effort in this direction, eager as they now
profess to be for reciprocity with
Canada.
QVLSTIOXISO THtl THCSTS.
The bureau of corporations in the De
partment of Commerce has sent out a
list of questions to all the combinations
engaged in Interstate or foreign com
merce. The questions cover their capi
talization and other financial items. It
is stated that only one corporation, the
Standard Oil company, has refused to
answer any questions. A Washington
dispatch says that information of the
attitude of the company has bceti con
veyed to high officials of the govern
ment. Including the president, and It is
thought that Commissioner Garfleld will
take legal means to compel the company
to answer.
It waa of course expected that the law
requiring corporations to report their
fluaucial condition to the uew bureau
would be tested in the courts and the fact
that the first and the most monopolistic
of the trusts has refused to answer the
questions authorized by the law is no
surprising, in view of the circumstance
that the president of the Standard Oi
company endeavored to defeat the legls
latlon creating the bureau of corpora
tlons. It is remembered that when the
bill was ptuding the chief pll magnate
brought his influence to bear In opixisl
tion to it, so that the present action o
the company lu denying the authority
of the government to Inquire into It
business was to have been looked for.
There should U no hesitation ou the
part of the coinrlssloner rif the bureau
of conoratlnns in taking steps to etuu
pel answers to the questions upon which
he desires information. It U bis plain
and Imperative duty to do, this and
with the least possible delay, so that
It may speedily be determined by the
court whether or nut there is power In
the government to require the trusts to
furnish information as to the char-
cter of their organization, their flnun
lal condition and their method of do
ing business.
When this matter was before congress
It was the general opinion that tinder
the constitutional provision in regard to
regulating commerce between the slates
nd with foreign nations congress' has
t;ie power to require such an Investiga
tion of corporations as the new bureau
is authorized to make. Intelligent pub-
lb'' 'opinion concurs In this view. It is
necessary that the question shall be
parsed upon Judicially and this Miwlil
le done with the least possible deity.
The most powerful of all the trusts h.iv
iug challenged the right of the federal
government to inquire into its nffnlfs
the challenge should be promptly met
nd we believe It safe to assume that It
will be. As the Philadelphia Ledger
remarks, the Issue joined has more than
technical importance and the adminis
tration will have public sympathy In
its efforts to enforce the law or else to
secure a law that can be enforced.
DECIDEDLY QUtSTlUXABLK.
The extension of the contract with the
Omaha Water company for sup
plying South Omaha with fire hydrants
for the next ten years Is sure to com
plicate the negotiations for the acquisi
tion of the water works plant by the
city of Omaha. It is a matter of no-
orlety in South Omaha, as well as In
Omaha, that the contract between
Omaha and the -water works company
will expire absolutely in 11)08, and con
sequently less than five years before
the ten-year ext-islon would termlnale.
It la a matter of notoriety in South
Omaha, as well as in Omaha, that the
last legislature enacted a law to "ompel
he city of Omaha to exercise Its right
to take over the water works at an ap
praisement of its plant and without
paying for the franchise after Septem
ber 10, 1903. Under this act appraisers
lave been appointed and the work of as
sessing the value of the property Is ex
pected to be finished in the very near
future. Should the city of Omaha ratify
the appraisement and vote the water
wcrks bonds to pay the appraised va
It will naturally be compelled either to
acquire that part of the plant located In
South Omaha or to operate the same
under the new contract for the nexf
ten years.
If the South Omaha section of the
plant Is purchased the water company
will have the right to Include the value
of its plant and the value of the unex
pired franchise in South Omaha, or the
unexpired contract on the sum total to
be paid by Omaha. The appraisement
of this part of the plant would not,
however,, be compulsory under the
original contract, but would be a matter
of mutual agreement' If the appraise
ment of the South Omaha franchise is
excessive it will be a source of conten
tion in the courts and may block for
years the annexation of the two cities.
which ought to be expedited in the in
terest of good government and for the
benefit of the taxpayers of both towns.
From every point of view the ex
tension of the water works contract in
South Omaha at this time must be re
garded as a questionable measure and
of doubtful validity. If the extension
of the Mater company's contract con
stitutes an extension of its franchise
the people of South Omaha ought to
have had, a word to say before the
mayor and council clinched the com
pact. If it la not a legal franchise the
water company will still claim that
It la a valuable asset which Omaha
must pay for In the final settlement
TUB ASSI AL ht'LOVP:
The protest tiled by the World-Herald
with the Board of Fire and Foliee Com
missioners against granting licenses to
applicants who have advertised their
notices lu The Evenlug Bee, under pre
text that the Omaha Daily World-IIer
aid has the largest circulation in Doug
las county, la nothing more nor less than
attempted blackmail. In the first place,
no such newspaper as the Dally World
Herald has ever been published. There
Is an Omaha Evening World-Herald and
an Omaha Morning World-Herald, and
the supreme court of Nebraska decided
five years ago that the combination of
the circulations of these two papers,
having separate Jlsts of subscribers,
could not be used for legal advertising.
The fact that the Omaha Evening
World-Herald has been one of the offl
clal papers of Omaha for several years
and was a bidder for the official adver
tlsiug last summer U an open admission
on the part of its publishers that it Is a
separate newspaper and cannot be com
bined with any other paper for legal ad
vertislng. No claim is made or can be
made for the Omaha Evening World
Herald or for the Omaha Morning
World-Herald that either of these pub
lications have the largest circulation In
Douglus county. As a matter of fact,
both of these papers combined do not
huVe as large a bona fide circulation in
Douglas county by several thousand as
The Omaha Evening Bee.
Iu the city advertising contest before
the council the affidavit of its clrcula
tlon manager did not claim. within 40
per cent as large a carrier delivery clr
dilation for the Evening World-Herald
in Omaha as was proved up for The
Evening Bee within the city of Omaha
by its carriers and verified by its books.
All the World-Herald pretends to claim
In that coutest Is that Its bid for city
advertising was lower thau that of The
Bee.
And there never bos been a day
within the pant twenty-five years that
The Omaha Evening Bee did not have
a larger bona fide circulation by sev
eral thousand thau any other newspaper
published In Omaha.
The attempt to browbeat and bull
doze the liquor dealers and druggists to
patronize two or more paper and to
hand over $10 for advertising they do
not need will not serve the require
ments of the law, and make them under
threats of protest la no better than
would be a highwayman's threat to com
pel a wayfarer to give up his pocket
book at the muzzle of a revolver. Brew
ers, saloon keepers and druggists who
re willing to make an annual Christ
mas present of $10 to the World-Herald
as an evidence of their esteem and good
will have a perfect right to do so, but
contributions extorted by threat of pro
test when there is no excuse for them,
and when there Is absolutely no ground
for protest, are Intolerable and should
be frowned down.
The Union Pacific la said to con
template' a shorter route from Omaha
to Fremont. By all odds the shortest
route from Omaha to Fremont would
be the original Peter A. Dey line, by
which Omaha would be brought within
thirty miles of Fremont. Such a line
would be sixteen miles shorter than the
pew Northwestern Omaha Fremont
line. If It Is worth millions to the
Union Pacific to shorten its line five or
ten miles In the Rockies, it surely is
worth millions to cut sixteen miles of
the "ox-bow" out of its main line be
tween the Missouri river and the Platte
valley.
The announcement that the .decision
of the revenue law contest case will go
over until the next sitting of the su
preme court, December 15, Is a disap
pointment. Why the attorneys repre
senting the property owners and cor
porations that assail the validity of the
new revenue law should have delayed
their briefs and compel the supreme
court to keep the people In suspense is
incomprehensible.
The American people will rejoice to
know that King Menelik has extended
a royal African welcome to American
Consul Skinner ou his arrival at Jibou
tll, Somaliland, and we feel sure that
the Abyssinlans both male a?d female
will heartily Join with Menelik in ex
tending their warm hospitality to the
bold American who is willing to entomb
himself for a few years in that delight
ful country.
Is the annual game of stand and de
liver to which Omaha liquor dealers
and druggists have been subjected
at the hands of the Omaha double
endcr to be repeated?
Who Are Genuine Democrats f
. Chicago Chronicle.
If the genuine democrats of the country
cannot have Grover Cleveland for A. leader
next year they should be careful to select
somebody who will represent as strongly
as possible the principles which have been
and still are associated with his name.
Variety la the Spice, Etc.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Uncle Sam is about as inconstant as
Byron's moon. A- few years ago he was
paying attention to the queen of the Pa
cific Isles, later he kept steady company
with the gem of the Antilles, and now he
is shining up to the dusky maid of the
Caribbean. "
Harmony and Peace.
" Baltimore American.
While the present administration and the
labor organisations differ somewhat in
their views on certain questions, there are
such frank relations existing between
them that there . will be no falling out
during .the process of reaching an under
standing. . -
Turn on the Light.
New York Tribune.
That strange, forbidden land, Thibet,
may ere long have Its mysteries explored
for the benefit of the race and the progress
of civilisation. The day has gone by for
.permit kingdoms anywhere upon this
terrestrial ball. Turn on the flashlights
and let ua see what they may disclose!
Juat tike the Mao.
Baltimore American.
Nearly a thousand policemen, detectives
and secret agents failed to protect Frest
dent Roosevelt from the approach of a
crank, and it waa more good luck than
their management that the crank happened
to be on harmless thoughts Intent. And
the troop of defenders a thousand strong
showed they were true sons of Adam by
laying all the blame on a woman.
Railroads and Dividends.
Chicago Record-Herald.
Although exact figures cannot be had he.
fore the close of the year. It la known thai
the gross revenues of the railroads l.avi
Increased materially during 1903, and will
prooably average $9,000 per mile. If. there
fore, earnings should fall off as badly as
In 1893 they would be reduced to about
$7,830 per mile, which Is about the figure
or 1900. For the latter year the average
dividend rate was 2.42 per cent, as against
2.93 for 1902. The surplus for the year, how
ever, shows, that net earnings could have
decreased 20 per cent before it would have
been dissipated. It must also be remem
bered that railroads are now in better po
sition than ever in their history to operate
economically and withstand a long siege ol
business depression. The conclusion would
therefore, seem to be warranted that the
power or the railroads to pay present divl
dends is not likely to be affected bv uri
verse business conditions.
8TAM1 FHOM I.VDER,
High Living and Right Thinking
Menaced by a Boon In Saaerkrant
Chicago Record-Herald.
Important new comes from Philadelphia
to the effect that there is a strong hull
movement in sauerkraut. The sauerkraut
bears are on the run, and December sauer
kraut is now quoted in Philadelphia, the
sauerkraut center of the country, at 130 a
ton, having rapidly gone up from tt. This
sudden soaring of sauerkraut doesn't ap
pear to be the result' of a corner. It is, ac
cording to direct information from the
sauerkraut exchange, due to a scarcity of
raw material. One of the sauerkraut bulla
in an Interview with a Philadelphia Press
reporter said:
"Cabbage has become extremely scarce
and the best stack has advanced in a short
time more than M per cent, and as a con
sequence the sauerkraut market, which has
heretofore teen dull and featureless on ac
count of the mild and open weather, is be
coming unusually firm, and western sauer
kraut by the barrel in car lota la going tip
In price, with a prospect of very high va!
uer when the demand la good." :
People who have been caught short of
sauerkraut are naturally hastening to
cover, and there is really no telling ho
high the bulls will send It before being
satisPed. Phlladelphlana have been pretty
hard hit by the slumps in steel and Penn
sylvania railway stocks, and it ia barely
possible that they will try to get even on
sauerkraut. If they do the man who has a
barrel or two of sauerkraut In his cellar
now may be abla to purchase himself a
, titled son-in-law by next apring.
ROt D ABOtT NEW tOHK.
t
Rlnples on the Current of Life In
the Metropolis.
An appraisement of tbj estate of the late
Colli P. Huntington, famous railroad
magnate, has been made public In New
Tork. It shows the real and personal prop
erty in New Tork state left by Huntington
to he worth I28.301.7C5.
Ever since the death of Mr. Huntington,
hlch occurred suddenly of heart disease
on the night of August 14, 19i0, while he
waa staying at his Adirondack preserve,
Pine Knot, near Racquette Lake, N. Y., ef
forts have been made to keep the exact
condition of the eotate from the public. Re
peated efforts were made by people who
said they were creditors to compel the ex
ecutors to render an accounting of their
trust, but all of them failed, the court
holding that they wero not creditors and
were not entitled to an accounting.
The gross personal estate of Mr. Hunt
ington, according to tho appraisement,
amounts to S35.S94.5S6 In this state. The
gross real estate Is reported to be worth
$1. 796,223. The total amount of the deduc
tions to be made for debts, claims, no-
value stocks and bonds, etc., Is $9.0R9,0t6.
No Illustration of the waste of human
life Is more striking than the fact that in
New Tork City during the last year 63S
Individuals have been killed in traffic acci
dents. How reckless we are as to human
lives Is shown by the comparative figures
for London, where In a larger city there
have been only 158 deaths In the same way.
It ia said that the Merchants' Association
of New Tork has resolved to pursue reform
work In this matter by all the methods In
Its power, especially by such devices as
may prevent the unnecessary number of
accidents. The use of a new fender, for In
stance, on trolley cars. Is to be encouraged,
which has been in successful use in Liver
pool, England.
The attention of an early morning
crowd on Columbus avenue today , was
attracted by a large tomcat perched on a
girder of the elevated road directly under
neath the ties. He had evidently been
there most of the night, and looked badly
scared. '
What excited the crowd was the narrow
escape the animal had every time he tried
to climb up to the track. Time and again
he would poke his head up and duck Just
as a train roared over him. Between at
tempts he sat and mewed. It was a thirty
foot jump or a climb down an iron pillar.
A changing crowd that kept growing
watched the cat for three hours. Finally
Jesse Emery, an expressman, who once
was In the navy, came along. , He Jumped
off his wagon and started up the Iron pillar.
He took a rope with him to lasso the feline,
but found he didn't need it.
Emery climbed sallor-fashlon up the pil
lar and then along the lower girder, while
the trains roared over his head. When he
grabbed the cat there was a yell of delight
from the crowd, and another when he
dropped the rescued animal Into a blanket
which two men and two small boys held.
The cat landed on his feet, and with a
spring Jumped out of the blanket. He
didn't stop to thank his rescuer. The
rescuer jumped onto his wagon, said
Ferget it" to the crowd, and the incident
was closed.
William R. Hearst, owner of the Ameri
can and Journal, has secured the block
bounded by Broadway. Eighth evenue,
Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth streets. On
this great Site, comprising about fourteen
lots of land, he will erect a huge office
building. The price Is more than $1,200,000.
The new Hearst building will be a half
mile farther north than the new Times
building and a mile from the Herald. This
will leave- the Tribune, the Sun and the
World rather lonesome sentinels on news
paper row.
Life In a New York City after one
month's experience has lost Its charm for
Willie Robinson of Sandy Mush, Buncombe
county, N. C.
With an occasional quilting party cr
husking bee, lie is satisfied that as long
as he lives he will be able to endure exist
ence without again venturing into the
snares and pitfalls set by wicked men for
guileless youth in the great world that lies
beyond Sandy Mush.
Considering that Willie dreamtd of re
turning to his historic home with untold
wealth bulging from every pocket, it Is
somewhat pitiful to have to relate the sad
story cf the leavctaklng of hla ambitions.
If he had been even a bit -leisurely In
speeding on his way there would be oppor
tunity to commend his courage. But with
frightened glance now and then over his
shoulder, he made a dash for the first train.
He had been freed from the House of De
tention barely an hour before he waa on
his way.
If It had not been that he was compelled
to appear in the court of general sessions
against two men whom a month ago he
had rated as his dearest friends, he would
not have allowed himself even this delay.
Fortunately for Willie's peace of mind,
his friends, Frederick Williams and Edward
Wilson, whose advertisement of the wealth
to be obtained by following their advice had
lured Willie to New York, pleaded guilty
to a swindling charge, and were at once
sentenced to three years In Sing Sing.
Vvarlv evrrvthlns in New York has mvs
tified Willie It is all so different from life
In Sandy Mush but nothing has surprised
him more than his hotel experience, as he
believes his stay in the House of Detention
tovhave been.
"The folks down !n Sandy Mush surely
will wonder when I tell them how I stayed
at a hotel for a month for nothing and
waa paid 50 cenU a day besides," he said.
Young Wllllum H. Vanderbilt arrived at
the mature age of 2 on Wednesday last and
the important event was celebrated In old
English fashion by the servants and
tenants at Oakland farm. Long Island.
There were feasting and merry-making for
everybody, the affair being under the
management of the English butler, who
was ably seconded by the troop of under
servants, nearly all of whom are also
English, for most of the housemaids and
other domostics In Fifth avenue mansions
are from "the other side" nowadays
Home-grown cltlxens of New York do not
receive half the consideration accorded the
new-comers from the sore spots of Europe.
Recently the Board of Aldermen passed a
resolution authorising a sale of corporate
stock to the amount of 11.000.800. the
proceeds to be used for the Park depart
ment. Nine-tenths of this will be spent
on the eastslde of this great Atlantic sea
board the dumping ground for "Europe's
human slag. Books, fresh air and leUura
are the alchemic ingredients used for the
purpose of transmuting the waste piles
iv.to golden American cltlsenphlp.
Competition In CoWee.
Philadelphia Record.
The story that a syndicate hat got con
trol of the whole Porto Rlcan coffee crop
and purposes to market It here In com
petition with the Brazilian coffee suggests
that at last somebody In the Island has
discovered what Is the matter with Porto
Rico's chief product. It Is not the trans
fer of the island from Spain to the United
States that has changed conditions for
the worse, but the excessive production in
Brssil, which hat dpri-ased the pilre of all
coffees. Porto Rlcan coffee has got to be
sold in competition with - Brastlian coffee
if It Is to be sold at all, and the merchants
of the island seem at last to be waking
up to this fact.
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PERSONAL OTKS.
W. 8. Gilbert, the famous librettist of
comic opera, has just passed hla 67th birth
day, but still insists that he Is young and
In his prime. He has not had a day's sick
ness In a dozen years past.
Lieutenant General 8. B. M. Young, who
was confirmed by the senate a few days
ago, will reach the retiring age on January
9 next. This will make a vacancy as chief
of the general staff. It has been announced
that Major General Adna R. Chaffee will
be appointed to the vacancy.
Reed. Knox, whq has been acting as con
fidential clerk for his father, the United
States attorney general, has resigned from
the Department of Justice and will devote
his time to the Knox farm of 3iO acres at
Valley Forge. Father and son will engage
In the business of raising blooded cattle.
The date selected for the next annual
national encampment of the Grant, Army
of the Republic, In Boston, Is the week be
ginning Monday, August 15. The grand
parade will be held on Tuesday, and It Is
expected that nearly or quite lOO.ono veter
ans will appear In it. It Is Intended to
make the route of the parade a short one,
that the old soldiers may go over It with
out too great fatigue.
Seven members of the present house of
representatives served as soldiers In the
war with Spain. They are: Charles Dick,
Nineteenth Ohio district; Arlosta A. Wiley.
Second Alabama; Butler Amos, Fifth Mass
achusetts; August P. Gardner, Sixth Mass
achusetts; William Hughes, Sixth New
Jersey; Francis B. Harrison, Thirteenth
New York, and Wyatt Aiken, Third South
Carolina. They ranged In military rank
from private to lieutenant colonel.
The young king of Italy Is supposed to
owe not a little of his physical activity and
hardihood to Colonel Oslo, a grim old sol
dier to .whom he was turned over at the
age of 12. Previous to that time he had
been In charge of nurses and governesses.
Colonel Oslo put him through a course of
sprouts designed to counteract his delicacy
of health, his nervous Irritability and his
whimsicality. If he had a cold he had to
rise at the usual hour, bathe and go
through the ordinary grind. The colonel
dinned Into his head that if he were a
donkey he would not be the less a donkey
for being a king's son. Most of his pre
cepts were In this spirit and his young
charge has developed into a rather unusu
ally serious-minded sovereign.
INFORMATION HEFt BED.
Slandnrd OH Company Turns Down a
Polite Reejoest.
Chicago Tribune, '
The Standard Oil company has refused to
give the Information about Its affairs asked
for by the commissioner of corporations.
The questions are not of a searching na
ture. They call for the capitalisation of a
company and some further Information
about its financial status Many large cor
porations have answered them without ob
jection. Presumably the Standard Oil com
pany does not believe that compliance with
the request of the commissioner of corpora
tions will injure Its business In any way,
but the company resents the suggestion
that even a government official shall know
anything about its affairs. It wishes them
to be a secret to all except the few men
who are at the head of the corporation.
Seemingly it Is resolved to dispute the
right of the national government to call on
corporation which are national In their
scope for information as to their financial
and other affairs. The company's lawyers
may plend that the guaranty of the con
stitution that "the right of the people to be
secure In their persons, houses, papers and
effects against unreasonable searches and
selsures shall not be violated" applies to
the request for Information. This plea was
made in a suit brought against a concern
which had refused to answer some queries
of census officials. The Judge before whom
it waa tried said: "There may be a limit
to the power of congress to compel a cltl
sen to disclose Information concerning his
business undertakings and the matiner in
which they are carried on." He said'a'so
that as regards railroad, telegraph and In
surance companies "the public good re
quires that wholesome and strict supervi
sion should be exercised, and all the Infor
mation needed aa a basis for such regula
tion should be produced when required."
Why does not a great monopoly like the
Standard Oil company need regulation as
much as a railroad does? If there are limits
to the Information which the government
can lawfully demand of that monopoly the
supreme court should be asked to define
them. Doubtless suit will be brought for
that purpose if the company persists in its
refusal.
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BHYA AMOSQ THE GOI.DBl QS.
Chicago Tribune: Mr.
'. Bryan has made I
he English. It ever
resident again it la
ill run better in
a good impression on tin
he Is a candidate for president agal
highly probable he wilt run better
England than In this country.
Baltimore American: Mr. Bryan will
make a good Impression In England If he
keeps on being facetious. It Is only In
the role of comedian that the good
natured Nebraskan has ever shone even
In his own country. The trouble always
begins when he shows signs of wanting
people to take him seriously.
Chicago Inter Ocean: The English won
der why it Is that the United States did
not elect William Jennings Bryan to the
presidency, in view of the fact that he has
a superb command of language. They do
not seem to understand that something
more than language la demanded over hers
In a case of this kind. It is all very well
for a president to know how to talk, but
he should also know what he Is talking
about.
KHnsas City Times: A few years ago
Mr. Bryan would have scorned the thought,
or, at least, the act of going abroad and
hobnobbing with the titled men of England
as a piece of rank toadyism unbecoming
a representative of the "plain people."
But since the plain people have enriched
him by paying to hear his lectures and
buying his spellbinding In book forns'"
Mr. Bryan has done many things that he
did not countenance in the days when he
championed . what he called ."the down- -trodden
.masses."
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BRIGHT AND BREEZY.
All the girls who are dangerous don't
have golden hair hanging down their
backs. Somerville Journal.
"Sometimes," said Uncle Eben. "a man
thinks he's devoutly thankful when he's
Jes' feelln" a low-down satisfaction In belli'
luckier dan his neighbors."
"Think of a woman with her social re
sponsibilities having a child!"
"Disgraceful! But they say she is fonl
of it." .
"That's the strange part. She Is almost
like a mother to it. Town Topics.
"An' how's yer husband the day?" asked
Mrs. Rafferty of Mrs. Muldoon.
"Sure, an' he's no better," replied Mrs.
Muldoon. "The doctor's afraid morality
will set In." Detroit Free Preas.
"Don't you believe, then, that 'public
office ia a public trust ?' "
"O! sure. It's very like a trust. Soma
fellows reem to have a regular monopoly
of it." Chicago Tribune.
"Elect me president of the United
States" said the prohibition candidate,
"and I will guarantee that my secretary of
uio-ircaaui' anaii see max in. money mar
ket never gets, tight.'! Brooklyn Life. -
He followed Lee and Jackson
As brave as brave could be;
Left one leg in Virginia,
One arm in Tennessee.
He was a private in the ranks
No history tells his story;
Stacked arms at last on Jordan's banks.
And went to heaven for glory.
Atlanta Constitution.
INCLK HENRY'S OPTIMISM.
S. E. Klser in the Record-Herald.
I don't pretend to say that things are all
right here below,
Thero s few folks that have angels' wings,
there's gobs of sin and woe;
The man's a fool that shets his eyes and
says there's nothing wrong
It ain't the good chap gits the prise, unless
he's big and strong;
This here old world ain't heaven ylt. It's
full of wrongs today
But I've the faith to think we'll git 'em
straightened out some way.
I don't uphold the man who stands around
and talks of love
And sort of folds his peaceful hands and
thinks that up above
There's One who guides us, wet or dry,
who's plannln' for us hero
And who will reach out by and by and
make sin disappear
I don't believe that kind of stuff, but
believe some day
We'll have the grit and wit enough to
clear the wrongs away.
I don't deny that God is there he may be
watchln", too;
But don't let's leave to His kind care tho
work we ought to do;
If He'd Intended to take hold and banish
all the woe.
It seems to me that He'd of rolled the
clouds back long ago
I don't believe that He's Inclined to clear
the wrongs away,
But I believe He'll let us find out how our
selves, some day.
Some people think It'aln't Jest right to not
slug happy songs
About a sky that's always bright, a world
that's free from wrongs;
But I can't, somehow, seem to think It's
noble not to care,
Or that the wrongs at which you wink
don't keep on beln' there
The world ln't Parmllse Just ylt, there's
sin to wash away.
But I believe we'll have the grit to clean
It up some day.
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