Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, March 23, 1904, Page 6, Image 6
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T.OK A ...S0.AIM It 81,030 IS 80,200 - Total STT.iao I.esa unsold and returned copies.... t,48 Vet total amies '. ...B6T,4T9 Nat average sales 2,913 '' OEO. B. TZBCHUCiC Subscribed In my presence and sworn , to 'for me this 1st day of March, A. D. .104. M. B. HUNGATB. 'Seal) Notary Public. Now that Colonel Bryan has returned to Nebraska, the democratic Insurgents v.lll promptly grovel In the duet Dancer from blizzards Is not past. Georgia announces that Its peach crop will be the. largest In the history of the hlate. " ' The .civilization of Japan Is unques I unable since' It Is able to 'find a gang ft boodlera In its legislature even during var. times. The fully failure has demonstrated !ie fact that speculation has less effect tiwlay upon legitimate business than i-ver before. . If General Kouropatkln blows as hard r, fter he reaches Manchuria as he does S i starting tha Japanese will have to t ike to the cyclone cellar. .. With the memory of Kelff and Klshl rsff fresh in the minds of the public, tmplalnt of Japanese cruelties comes r.ith poor grace from Russia, Counting tnatroctod delegates, the Ne &ptskTdldate tor-, vice- president on .tTejubllcan ticket, Ja. several , laps i. head of most of his competitors. yyf A a ?: i - If Voula appear from the evidence of first Assistant Postmaster General Y.'ynne members of congress would not I ave got what they did not want had x'.iej Jnot insisted, upon receiving it If there are no sinecures in Washing ton,, the public service will surely suffer ' hUe. the 'Burton trial is in progress in i;t.; Lla,'from the number of govern ment : employes summoned there' to testify. . ' ; ' The ,local democracy furnishes some striking examples of the damage fac tional political clubs can do to the cause f party pceeBa..JlThey are not exam ples that should incite imitation by re publicans. ' , , .with Premier Combes and Premier I'.alfour both facing a disappearing ma ,'jrity favorable to them In their parlla i lents the bond of sympathy between Hie governments of France and England Is increasing. It is quite in keeping with the eternal Ttnes of things that the head ,of the (plum smugglers should lead the latest utbreak against Christians tn Chlua. A Christian nation is said to have forced i lie opium traffic upon China, Having learned that the 'sultan of I'nlu was not unduly excited when told that the treaty between his august per t onallty and the United States had been Abrogated, the public can return to con t uiplation of the war in the Orient with equanimity. English class distinction comes to notice frequently, but never so forcibly If recent years as at the death of the iluko of Cambridge, whose son is not ti be permitted to inherit bis title be cause his mother was not a member c f any royal family. If the school board would wait until .Mr. Pearse had made his departure ;rom the city before undertaking to nil the vacancy created by his transfer to Milwaukee it might be in better posl lion to act in tha interests of the tax payers and patrons of the schools free from dictation by the departing politi cian. The declaration by one of the city (ouncllmen that the council is con Mantly violating the city charter is i ardly Justification of another charter !i fraction, but quite the contrary, uuould call for a cessation of the dis regard of charter provisions. If the loundl can with impunity refuse to observe the charter lit one connection, it , an do the same in all things. The only safety for the taxpayers Ilea In the strict enforcement of the laws II in ' Itlug tha authority of their publl erranta. TUB WAR tITVATlOlt. .The seeker after . something definite nd trustworthy in regard to operations In the far east will find little in the cur rent dixpn tches, and that not of a na ture to throw much light upon the sit uation. The correspondents are occa sionally able to send a few facts of In terest, but for the most part their dls pntches are made up of guesses and con jectures, while the military experts who offer explanations of the probable plans of the' belligerents are necessarily all at sea, baring no definite information as to military movements, or only of the most fragmentary character. The se crecy maintained by both combatants In respect to their land operations, when so many alert and eager news seekers are about. Is really quite remarkable and must be exceedingly exasperating to the correspondents. That there is a fine game of strategy In progress Is not to be doubted and that It must Hiion bring on a clash that may have a very important bearing uion tho subsequent campaign Is equally certain. The experts continue of the opinion that the Russian plan Is to remain on the de fensive for the present and this view finds support in the statement that the campaign of the commander-in-chief is based upon awaiting the enemy at Muk den and Harbin, the latter in the very center of Manchuria. Assuming this to be the plan and that the Japanese fol low the retiring Russians, attacking them in their entrenched positions, the armies of Japan will lose heavily. It eenis improbable, however, that they will do this, though It is to be consid ered that the longer the Japanese delay to strike the stronger the enemy will grow, for the Russians are being steadily reinforced and appear to bare an abun dance of supplies. ' Still as we. have an Id pretty much all that comes from the seat of war Is con jecture," the only certain thing being that both belligerents are concentrating great armies It will undoubtedly add to the history of war another chapter of nota ble valor. A9 UHT1MILT MUVM. It is possible, as reported, that the British government is sounding the pow ers, including the . United States, to as certain whether they will entertain a Joint movement for ending the war In the east. The statement Is made that the matter has been submitted to the Department of State, In a message from the ambassador of the United States to England, and that after having been considered by the cabinet it was given out that our government does not be lieve that either Russia or Japan Is ready now to welcome even a tender of good offices for the ending of the war and It will take no part In any move ment for that purpose until it has direct assurances from both the powers at war that it would be advisable to do so. Ac cording to one ' report the feeling in Washington is that it is inopportune even to discuss the matter, because it is likely to offend either Russia or Japan, and especially the former, because of her reverses and her sensitive feeling toward this country.. It .is perfectly easy to understand that Great Britain should desire to bring about, )f possible,' a termination of the far eastern war. There is some reason to apprehend that she may be drawn into that conflict and Great Britain does not want war. Her financial, industrial and commercial conditions all require that she shall be at peace. But it ought to be plain to her ruling statesmen that the suggestion of mediation or interven tion at this time has no possible chance of being seriously considered by either belligerent nor will there be any chance until they have done some hard fighting and suffered severely. At present each confident of success and therefore unwilling to listen to any proposal for settlement of their quarrel otherwise than by the arbitrament of arms. Be sides, as matters stand peace could now be negotiated on a basis but slightly, if at all, different from the situation be fore the outbreak of hostilities. Perhaps sooner or later, before they have become quite exhausted, both nations will listen to a proposal of mediation, but that time Is mmewhat remote. The war will go on at least until some decisive turning point in the land campaign Is reached, LKT TBB AUTl-TRVST LAW tSTAHD There is a disposition in some quar ters to urge more or less radical changes in the Sherman anti-trust law, On the part of some of the advocates of amending the law it is declared to have become Important and necessary, in view of the decision in the merger case, that the act be amended to exclude rail roads specifically from its provisions. Those who take this view hold that the roads should be allowed to consolidate to any extent they wish, but not per mltted to make what rates they please, the power to regulate rates and charges to be vested in the interstate commerce commlsalon. This is not a new sugges tion and it has never been favorably re garded, by the public, perhaps because there is lack of confidence that the com mission could always be depended upon to conserve the public Interests: If the railroads were allowed to consolidate to any extent they wish it is more than probable that they would be allowed to make the rates they wished. At all events there would be danger of this. It is stated that there la a certain con tingent among the congress attorneys who believe that the anti-trust la should be amended by the Insertion of the word "reasonable" before 'restraint of trade." They urge that the act crudely drawn and that the word "reasonable" was omitted from the text through an error. They further assert that the merger decision,' while demon nt rat lug beyond question 'the attitud of the court at present will not prove a sufficiently clear cut precedent to serve as a guide to subordinate courts In the future and might even ba versed by the supreme court itself were its present personnel to change. This pan hardly be regarded as a valid reason for amending the act as proposed. Laws are not to be changed simply because of the possibility that their Judicial In terpretation at one time may be over thrown or reversed at some future time. The Foraker bill. Introduced before the merger decision was announced, rovided for amending the anti-trust law so as to exclude from Its application reasonable" restraint of trade. It met with very little public approval and al most none at all In congress. Possibly there are a few more now who will re gard It with favor, but It Is safe to say that there Is an overwhelming senti ment for letting the act of 1890 stand s It is, lest by changing the law It should be weakened, as most probably would be the case. The highest tribunal has now established a precedent for con struing the law in "accordance" with the Intention of Its framers and its decision generally accepted as pre-eminently ut. It has produced no disturbance nd none Is likely to come from It The, scope and application or the anti-trust law have been very fully and clearly denned and are well understood. There ia an end to mergers, at least for a long time. No corporation engaged In trade nioDg the states can have any difficulty lu determining whether Its operations are In conformity with the law or In violation of It. The supreme court de cision leaves no room for doubt on any essential point It is satisfactory to the intelligent Judgment of the country and this Is strongly against any tampering with the law. war THIS BDHRSl At the meeting of the school board Monday the resignation of Superintend ent of Schools Pearse was officially ten dered and accepted, to take effect April 1, and at the same meeting an attempt waa made to force the selection of W. W. Stetson of Maine as his successor. This precipitate action seems to have been taken, notwithstanding the fact that Mr. Stetson had not applied for the position and no one knew whether he was even a receptive candidate, while a number of , formal applications from other educators were on file en titled to at least respectful considera tion. The Bee is not prepared to Judge whether Mr. Stetson is, or is not pre eminently qualified for the position of superintendent of our city schools. He may be just the man we want and he may be Just the man we do not want The chief objection to his elec tion at this time Is that no one knows anything definite about him, except that he is at present state superintendent of Maine and Is a professional lecturer on pedagogy before teachers' Institutes and associations that see fit to hire him. To invest him with the responsible duties as head of our school system on the mere voucher of the out-going superintendent would, in our opinion, be a decidedly hazardous venture. In view of the fact that Mr. Stetson Is adver tised to address the spring meetings of several of the Nebraska district teachers' meetings, and will be in the state on this business within the month, it would seem to be advisable, if he is to be. seriously' considered, to wait until he arrives ant let him speak for him self. So far as the public schools of Omaha are concerned, they will not suffer no ticeably by being temporarily without a bead, and may even show improve ment when the teachers and principals are nelleved of the Incubus now holding them down and obstructing their best efforts. The regular teachers in primary and grammar grades have been the saviors of Omaha's public school sys tem and there is no immediate danger of the schools becoming demoralized or inefficient because of the lack of an ornamental superintendent for the next three months. In choosing a new superintendent there la, therefore, no call for haste nor excuse for snap Judgment or underground methods. If Mr. Stet son has the stuff in him for a city super intendent he will himself prefer to have all the preliminaries straight and above hoard and walk into the office as if it be longed to him instead of sneaking in under cover. The Bee last Saturday commented editorially on the local school superfu- tendency situation as follows: It is given out that tha school board will ba tn no hurry whatever to select the suc cessor to Superintendent Pearse. who va cates his position April 1. It will be well to take this announcement with a grain of .It, for it will not be surprising to sea a little ring get together under. Its cover and try to push a secretly selected favorite In on short notice. Six members of the school board, at its meeting Monday night sprang a dark horse candidate for superintendent and tried to carry bis election by rush line tactics. Predictions sometimes come true, especially when based upon a knowledge of the forces at work and their customary methods. Beslobbering resolutions, lauding Su perintendent Fearse as a great educator, whose merits have been Insufficiently recognized, have been adopted by unanl mous vote of the school board probably because no members present thought It worth while to record themselves in the negative. This certificate of character will now be framed and exhibited by Mr. Pearse as his professional diploma, Every one in Omaha who understands the conditions appreciates the fact that the whole thing is a huge Joke, but un informed people outside will take it in earnest The barm will be done when they find out the character and caliber of the man and Omaha becomes a laugh ing stock for the ease with which it Is galled. Building Inspector Wlthnell and City Comptroller Lobeck have a long story to tell in defense of their conduct In rou nection with the paving specifications. They do not explain to the public, how, ever, why they could not have told this story before the council Investigators instead of waiting until after the coun cil report had been made and adopted. The local Bryanlte organ forgets to explain that President Teeters of the Board of University Regents, whom it takes so severely to task for defend ing the Rockefeller gift Is also a prod uct of fusion reform for which that paper is largely responsible. t'aaerataaas Hla Party. Kansas City Journal. Mr. Hearst seems to have properly esti mated the cumber of Itching palms In tha democratic party. Ha Is gathering In dele gates at a rata which Is causing panic among tha respectable leaders of the party. del Baay, Please! Cincinnati Enquirer. Possibly too much has been printed about the war In the east. If the men who are running the conflict on both aides can get notoriety without doing anything, they may ba content. If their names can be kept out of the papers for a while they may get to fighting In earnest and make some news that will be worth reading. Thinks the Spell Is Broken. Philadelphia Record. Nebraska ia no longer hypnotized. In stead of holding the democratic convention on All Fools' day, as the Bryanltes de sired, It will hold It June 1, by which time most of the' states will have held their conventions and seleoted their dele gates. Nebraska no longer aspires to con trol the democratic party. Pneumonia Wmrm Thaua War. New York Press. Can it be possible that 6.000 persons In New York have died of pneumonia since December 1? There was a four years' war between sections of this country, and in all that time doctors did not treat a single case of pneumonia. No soldiers ever suffered more from exposure, with the posHlble exception of the French in the re treat from Moscow. But even among those hopeless followers of the mighty Napoleon pneumonia was unknown. Physicians let us die in swarms right here tn our warm houses of a disease that did not kill a sol dier in the longest, bloodiest wars of his tory. Restraints of Trade. New York Tiroes. The supreme court, expressing Its opinion by the pen of Justice Harlan In the North ern Securities case, makes a fetich et competition and In effect declares that the strong arm of the federal government should be stretched forth to Interpose the shield of the law wherever a community finds itself "at the mercy" of a single rail road corporation which has obtained su premacy In the Interstate commerce of, that region. The states and cities which He "at the mercy" of the railroads brought Into one system by the Northern Securities merger, are growing rich and prosperous. Pitch restraints of trade fls have been im poeed upon them by this railroad system have by an astoniahlng paradox augmented their commercial exchanges and fostered their industries, while at the same time organising an constituting a great high way of trade between the vast fields of production in the heart of this continent and the markets of the distant east. "Home; Sweet Homer Philadelphia Ledger. What a picture of delightful domesticity Is that presented Jay the telegram reporting the return of the president of the Mormon church, Joseph F. Smith, to the bosom of his families 1, We are a home-loving people, and tears must rise unbidden at the vision of fire Watting, smiling wives and of thirty-four . chubby little . arms stretched out to greet the husband and father returning to his happy homes. It is bad enough when called away on busi ness to sigh for one's fireside and easy chair; but to think of sighing for five fire sides and five easy chairs! It was a busy day for Smith when he got back, but he Is an old hand and appointed the Bee Hive house as a rendeivous and then in a car riage made a systematlo round of his houses. But the picture to dwell on, with four dosen lumps in your throat Is that of the first greeting, when five wives and thirty-four children embraced the return ing traveler and wondered what he had brought them. That should melt many a heart In this city of homes. THE DECISION SUITS THEM. RatlrMd Mannar era A P plan 4 tha Wreck af tha Merger. New York Evening Post Attorney General Knox made one very striking remark In his comment on tha de cision. It was this: "My views on the decision cannot be bet ter expressed than in the language of one of the best known railroad presidents of the United States upon the occasion of the decision In favor of the government In the court below. He said: The decision is sound law, good sense, for the advantage of all legitimate Interests and for the ooun try's welfare, and voices the Judgment of probably nine-tenths of the most cense rva- tlve business men of the country. " Much curiosity has been expressed in railway circles as to who was the railway president whom the attorney general cited. The guesses of people more or less behind the scenes chiefly converged on the execu tive heads of two very large and Important railways in the nearer northwest. It was said this week, not disrespectfully, that the language quoted was that of a "railway man of the old school." This description used to mean to the financial community, three years or so ago, a person of obstinate opinions, who had been left behind in the progress of events; It is coming nowadays rather generally to mean a person who kept his head when other people were going mad: and the guess is for that reason interesting. But aa a matter of fact, citations by the attorney general were not necessary. A reasonably thorough canvass of responsible railway officials, made both before and since Monday's decision was given out, showed remarkable unanimity of opinion, that opinion approving a Judgment against the Northern Securities combination. The following statement of views Is fairly typt cal; It comes from a quarter which may be said to represent both important railway and Important banking Interests: "It Is clearly evident that the Northern Securi ties company must be dissolved, without any trifling and in good faith. In my opin ion the decision ' will ultimately result In good to all railroads. It may have a de pressing effect until It la thoroughly under stood, hut eventually It will mean that the railroads will develop and expand along lines that are natural. It means, of course the survival of the Attest: but so does everything elsa in this life." One railway officer among thoaa talked with this week. and only one, troubled himself to go Into the question of the usefulness of the Northern Securities, snd of the theory era bodied In It, aa a restraint to speculative assaults on permanency of railway manage ment. It la. In fact, no secret, to any one familiar with the talk of railway cir cles, that the high grade, practical operat ing men, proud of their own achievement and aware of their system's peculiar quail ties, have chafed from the first under this theory of sweeping everything Into a huge conglomerate, where .no one would really know who ruled, and where the good work would have to ah are the fortunes of the bad. KUTt Or WAAIIlHGTOlf IJFK. Miner tee-nee an laeldenta Sketched the Sont. Hon. Joseph I Brlstow of Kansas, whose record ss fourth ssslstant postmas ter general, commands national attention, has under his direction the largest body of men in the government service. There are at least 100,000 men under his control. Including all fourth-class postmasters, tha city letter carriers snd the rural carriers, besides the route Inspectors, special agents anl division superintendents. Originally, the fourth assistant had (0.000 fourth-class postmasters under htm, but when the In vestigation was commenced last year there were turned over to htm JO.ono city letter carriers and about 15,000 rural carriers and 175 Inspectors, special agents and division superintendents. v With the exception of the fourth-class postmasters, all of these were formerly under the first assistant postmaster gen eral. They were continued under his Jurisdiction In the appropriation bills. The free delivery service and the clerks were formerly under the first assistant; now he has 23,000 clerks and 5,000 post masters of the first, second and third class under him. The second ssslstant has 11.000 people under him in the railway mall service, while the third assistant postmas ter general has only the 100 clerks in his bureau and a few superintendents In the registry department Speaker Cannon never falls to show a good-natured contempt for the senate, though he- confines his flippant allusions to Informal conversations, and does not, aa Mr. Reed was wont to do, carry ridi cule of "the hlgest legislative body on earth" Into his formal utterances. The other day he met Mr. Frye on Pennsylvania avenue, Washington, and ral lied the acting president of the "upper house" ppon the decision of that body to put in another clock. "Hello, Frye. Hear you're going to have two clocks In your chamber. What's in the wind?" - "Why, you see, our present clock Is at the rear of the chamber, facing me, and senators are tired of turning around to consult It. Besides, Cannon, we don't want you to be able to say that the senate Is al ways looking backward." "Thank Ood for that! I was afraid that If you got in two clocks you'd have too much time on your hands, and Ood knows what that means to the country." One of the Important Items of the United States army commissary Is candy, and why not? If Uncle Sam can supply United States senators with free quinine pills SO. 000 of them there need he no criticism of candy for our soldiers. In fact, noth ing can be too good for them. The only question to be asked is whether it is good candy or not. We want no glucose and white earth' served out to our hoys In blue or khaki tn the far off Philippines and In sweltering Panama. None but the best. In lace paper trimmed boxes, tied with gold cord, will do. We'd ratfeer see them eating candy than drinking vino. There would be no great complaint If lee cream were served every day at mess. The army of the Philippines will suppress as many Moro Insurrections with Ice cream as without It. A Spartan diet does not necessarily make a Spartan. Our soldiers won in 1861-1RR4, not because of hard tack, but In spite of Itr they mjght have won more quickly on roast beef and apple dumplings If they could have been had. With 100 rounds of ammunition and twenty rounds of butter scotch there Is no telling what young Americans might do. Why dont they try It instead of all these hashes and pemmlcans and other things which Inspire do enthusiasm? When Hoke Smith was secretary of the Interior he was especially generous to Georgians In the matter of department clerkships. It was generally conceded that around the patent, pension and land office one could not throw a stick without hit ting a Georgian. Senator Voortiees. of Indiana had been trying to place one or two Hoosler constituents, but had failed. One day the senator came along, whistling "Marching Through Georgia" and keeping step to the tuna "What are you doing that for?" asked Hoke Smith. "Just can't help It' said Senator Voorhees. "This is Just like marching through Georgia to come through your department." He got the appointments that day. Secretary Hay's million dollar apartment house, Stonelelgh Court, threatens to drive htm to something or somewhere. That Is, the tenants do. Here Is an Instance of the secretary's distractions due to his owner ship of the apartment house: He was called up on the telephone the other night. The voice at the other end of the line said: 'Hello, Mr. Secretary, I live in one of the apartments In Stonelelgh Court, and our dumbwaiter is out of order. Please come over and have it fixed right away." That Is only a sample. He's always getting the same sort of complaints. Mr. Hay turned the renting of the apartments over to a firm of agents. His tenants in sist on doing business direct with the secretary of state. He Is called out of bed to hear complaints about gas stoves and elevators and ail kinds of things, and he Is besieged In his office by tenants who want things done. Mr. Hay figured on leaving the mag nificent Stonelelgh Court as an Investment for his children. When he was building It the contractors struck a marsh under the foundations and were obliged to ex cavate fourteen feet deeper than they ex pected to and put In piling. This cost Mr. Hay $300.000' In excess of the sum he had decided to put Into his house, but that is a minor matter when compared with the friendly tenants who want to take their complaints and suggestions to the man who owns the building. Representative Cowherd of Missouri has a constituent who has for years been trying to procure a pension as a daughter of a soldier. At first she asserted her father served In the Mexican war, then In the Seminole war, and finally In the war of 1812. She wrote Mr. Cowherd that a man having the same name aa her father served In the war of 1812, and he wrote her that It required something more than a mere name to get a pension, and to send some addi tional facta. In reply he received this: "My father was of medium height, had black hair, couldn't slut one eye without shutting the other and knew nothing about music." Prof. Wiley, chief of the bureau of chem istry In the Agricultural department, and something of a humorist, was before the bouse agricultural committee. "What is a sctentlflo agriculturist?" Inquired one of the rural members, desirous of anllghtment and also of drawing the professor out. "A scientific agriculturist," replied Prof. Wiley sagely, 'Is a gentleman in the employ of the government who can make f2 grow on an appropriation bill where only fl grew before." A Penetrating Prna. Mexican Herald. The fun poked at Ruaslan names la rather provincial. Many English proper names must seem quite as odd and mlrth-pro- voklng to the Russians as theirs do to us. No Russian would write "Cholmondeley" and pronounce It "Chumley." or "Beau champ" and call It "Beechem." And what would a Rusalan of cultivation say to the Virginia family "En roughly," who pro nounce it Unrfcy T Get well before you have to think of weak lungs, bronchi tis, pleurisy, or consumption. Take the medicine all good doctors prescribe. Made y . C. Ayoe Oe.. Xmvellt 1 Ala auuwniettireM i ATRft'S BATO TTOOK-Por the hair. AYBR'g 8AR8APAR1LLA For the Mood. Cherry AS IT LOOKS NOW. Forecast of n Prospective Scene at the St. Lonls Convention. Washington! Post. On the assumption that Mr. Bryan .is an honest man, what must be the gauge of his Intellectual capacity as tested by his views on the great issue that waa permanently settled by his first defeat, almost eight years ago? In the year of our Lord 1904, after Mr. Bryan has en Joyed more than seven years of plenty and has waxed fat in purse as a direct result of that sockdolager tha only presi dential candidate in our history who was enriched by being voted down and fully six years after the silver cause became a horror to most of those who had sup ported it, "the peerleas leader" calls on the party which he can never lead again to rise up and ahout: "We demand the free and unlimited coinage of both sliver and gold at the present legal rate of 16 to 1, without waiting for the aid or con sent of any other nation." Only a ghost, and a demented ghost at that, could be imagined to utter that cry from the grave of a long-burled is sue. A herd of wild asses. Joining in one long, loud-ringing bray, would nicely typify a so-called donvoorvtio convention that should perpetrate such a hideous bawl as that in 1904. PKHSO.VAX, NOTES. A New York broker has obtained a $12,(S00 verdict In a suit against Russell Sage. It is quite evident that "Uncle Russell" is getting old. Boris Sarafoff, leader of the Macedonians, will conduct the spring Insurrection In an automobile. This promises to change the Macedonian cry to a toot. Allen P. Lovejoy of Janes vllle, Wis., has Just died. He leaves an estate valued at about 110,000,000 and was the richest man In Wisconsin outside of Milwaukee. His fortune was chiefly accumulated In lumber ing operations. Mr. Rockefeller stands in public, estima tion as a man who Is probably as willing as any of the big financiers to profit by his opportunities, but everybody will admit that In cornering the violet market he has shown himself the king of the bunch. E. P. Harris of Topeka, the only living man who set type on the first paper pub lished In Kansas, has been celebrating his semi-centennial as a printer. For fifty years he ftas worked continuously at his trade, and is still able to turn out a re spectable "string." John Morley, M, P., the distinguished llteratteur and biographer of Gladstone, Is the great-grandson of Duncan McAllum, a Methodist preacher, and the grand nephew of Dr. Daniel McAllum, also a Methodist preacher. His mother was a Methodist class leader. M. Paderewski,. the pianist, who has been touring Russia, has been expelled from the country at twenty-four hours' notice. The reason for such action, acoordlng to a Vienna version,' is that at a special au dience with the ciar the pianist corrected his majesty, saying: "I am a Pole, but not a Russian." New York physicians report that a great many of their pneumonia patients are bach elor men and maids who are of the roomer" class ard have little or no home care. On this account tney neea closer at tention than home patients. All the hospi tals in the city are full and have been for months. Bellevue and its allied institutions turned away from eighty to 100 patients for a week. There are more John Browns than any other name in the new city directory of Philadelphia, but they lead the John Smiths by only one. There are 316 John Browns and 816 John Smiths. Among the 600,000 names recorded are 1,200 Whites, 4E0 Blacks, 9 Greens, 1 Red, 17 Blues and 6 Lavenders. V.aV ll'l HI 1 W V Pure &nd Unmixed. Delicate Aroma. Really Cheapest In Use. ct8eat & Don't be deceived by a little sunshine. It's a trifle early yet for EASTER BUNNET8. Bay lSiii!i i That's the fuel for these equinoctial storms. Nut, $6.00 for cook ing. Lump, ?6.50 for all heaters. Clean aa hard coal and last; Just aa long. VICTOR WHITE COAL CO., 1603 Faraam. Tel. 127. s at, SOe., si.oo. oM tat M years. ATHR'f Mil rVw eensMnatie. ATatt'j AflUs) OCRS Wm swkarw asd arse. Pectoral In the bird Une there are Canary, Robin, Eagle, Crow, Hawk, Sparrow, Buizard, Peacock and Bantam, Water Engineer Alfred M, Quick of li;il timore estimates that 60,000,000 gallons ot water were thrown upon the flumes during the great fire of last month in that city. JABS OF TUB JOKERS, "Do you think you have written any lines that will live'" she asked the famous author. "Yes," he replied, "I have sent some private and confidential lotters to mv friends which they will probably publish after my death." New York Sun. Dick Why did you ask her to "slug': Surely you can't enjoy that caterwauliiiK. Ned No, but It is always such a keen delight to hear her stop! Bomer vllle Jour-. nal. "Are you still making visits to youi dent 1st ? "No." "How's that?" "Oh, nothing, only I ran out of teeth." Detroit Free Press, Jones Is your son fond of literature? Jenkins Immoderately, I've known him to read some of his own articles. Boston Transcript. "Mrs. Gaddlo That's tha lady tn the cor ner house called upon me today," snld Mrs. Newcome on the evening of their first day In Lonesomehurnt, "and she tells me , all the people are like one big family here." "Ah! yes," replied her husband; always knocking each other." Philadelphia Catho lic Standard. "The trouble with Corea," said the pro gressive diplomat, "is that it la too slow." "Blow!" replied the emperor, "you wrong ns. Any country that can Jump from fatty degeneration into nervous prostration as quickly as we did Is pretty rapid," Wash ington Star. "I'll trouble you to hand over your watch." said the courteous footpad. "No trouble at all, I assure you," returned the equally courteous cltlien. "It's one of those dollar watches that's guaranteed to run one year, and the year's up." Indian apolis Bun. "I must warn you, Bridget," said Mrs. Nurltch, "to see that the peas are thor- ougniy masneo. 'Washed. It is?" remarked the new cook In surprise. "Yes; Mr. Nurltch Is so hJghstrung, you know, they make him nervous when they roll off his knife." Philadelphia Press. - . Patron I'll have a piece of pumpkin pie. Walter Punkln plef- Yes, sir. . Patron Pump-kin Pie. Walter Oh, yes, sir. Think the Boston club will have any chance o' wlnnln' tha pennant this year? Philadelphia Lodger. THB PROPOSAL AND PAPA. Pittsburg Post... Lord Fucaah had with ease obtained Mias Ostorbllt's consent; And so the next day alt ho" It rslned- To see her pa he went. The peer, with . reverios of "dough," And the impending bliss He'd have In spending it, you know, this. ' like steps tha Went Her pa received his lordship's newa With manner sternly grim; American men thus ran his views Were good enough for him. Lord Fucash ventured on a sneer- Papa, with ne'er a mlae, His Drogans planted, and tha peer Came tha like eogatttltcat