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TITE OMAHA DAILY I1EE: THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1903. TitE Omaha Daily Dee E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERT MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Fally Be (without Sunday), one year.. MOO 'ally Bee and Sunday, one year f 00 Illustrated Bee, on year ttn Sunday Bee. one year f-W Saturday Hee. nna vear IM Twentieth Century Farmer, one year.. 100 DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Dally Bee (without Sunday), per copy.. Ic Dally Bee (without Stinriavl. ier week. .12c pally bee (Including Sunday), per week. 17c Evening Bee (without Sunday), per week. 7c evening uee (including Bunaayj, per week Wo Sunday Bee, per copy &J Complaint of Irregularities in delivery should be addressed to City Circulation De partment . OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha City Hall building. Twenty flfth and M streets. Council Bluffs 10 Pearl street Chicago ltou Unity building. . New Tork-1509 Home Life Inn. building, i Washington 6ol Fourteenth street. CORRESPONDENCE. ' Communications relating to new and edi torial matter should be addreaeed: Omaha J3ee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only 2-cent stamps received In payment of tnall accounts Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accented. TH13 BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OS CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County. C. C. Rosewater, secretary of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning, Evening- and Sunday Bee printed during the cionm oi May, ihjo, was aa iouows; 1 2S.04O ' i 8M.40W . I SN,OtN '4 88, ISO 6 UH,40 Ztt.UBO T S1.RSO 8 SH.BIO '9 8H.40O 0 38,100 U no.aoo K 2S.U40 13 80.S30 14 81.MO IS X8.70O 16 28,400 Total 917.WM) Leu unsold copies , lO.Otttf 17 2O.B70 U JM,10 )9 SM.SAO 20 110,200 21 81.TOO 2J 20,020 23.. 4 as.sso 24 28,510 26 28,7541 26 S,04O 27 BO.IBO 28 20.110 29 8A.80O 30 SH.OOO 81 2U.02U Net total sales OT.BO-t Daily average J,2 C. C. ROSEWATER, Secretary. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before mo this 31st day ot May, lit. (Seal) M, B. HL'NOATH, Notary Public - WHEN OUT Of TOWJ. Saboartbera leaving tao city tm. yorarlly should bar The Be mailed to them. It la better than a dally letter from - home. Ad dress will bo changed a often as reoaested. ' Are we to havo a sane and safe cele bration of the Fourth of July hi Omaha? If not, why not? Tlppo Tib is dead. One by one the landmarks are passing and Africa may again hare to be explored. The June rise docs not seem to hare any depressing effect upon the value of the submarine lots adjacent to River Tiew park. ' .' . . It is to be noted that Omaha te show ing up all right in the statistical com pilations no matter uy what yardstick It is measured. Generals Linevitch and Oyama appar ently have not been notified of pending peace negotiations. Is .the mistake of New Orleans to be repeated? Since the Chicago strike has been de clared "unimportant" by the teamsters' union a similar decree from the em plovers' association is in order. - It is not necessarily the Vj-cent-a-mlle rate that attracts the fraternities of axe men any more than the product of Lake Michigan that made Milwaukee famous. SthtXCTIXO A MttTINU PLACE. 1 It would seem that there should Ik? no serious difficulty in selecting a place tot the taeetlng of eace plenipoten tiaries of Kuasia and Japan, yet the question appears to bo rauxlng some little perplexity, though Jt i a . detail which Is not at all likely to interfere with an arrangement- vt negotiations. While admittedly an important detail it Is hardly to be regarded as vital. It is obvious, however, that it would not be Judicious to select the capital of either the ally of Husfia or the ally of Japan. It is mauifently desirable that the place chosen for the meeting of the representatives of the two powers should be in a country whose government ' !s friendly to both and where there will be no Influence partial to either. N bile the sentiment in France Is favorable to peace, being especially strong with the financial interests there, still the popu lar feeling is pro-Russian and Japan has very good reasous for distrusting the French. On the other hand, public sen timent in England is almost wholly with Japan and would doubtless be exerted, were the peace conference held in Lon don, In support of whatever demands the Japanese government might make. Therefore Russia would prefer almost any place,' even one In the far east, to the British capital. There are other points in Europe, among them The Hague, which ought to be acceptable to both Russia and Japan, and perhaps the city where six years ago the arbitration convention was held will finally be chosen. Un doubtedly Washington would be entirely satisfactory to the contending powers, so far as freedom from outside influence is concerned. There Is no doubt that the plenipotentiaries would be enabled to carry ou their deliberations there without the slightest interference or em barrassment from expressions of public opinion. But there is objection, it ap pears, to the climate of our' national capital In midsummer. It certainly la to President Roosevelt In behalf of a modification of the practices under the exclusion law. It is not contemplated to open the doors to Chinese laborers, but simply not to close them against the classes that are exempt under the law, such as merchants, students and those who come here to Investigate industrial and commercial conditions. We do not know that the president can take any action to remedy the practices com plained of, but he can urge upon con gress remedial legislation and this will doubtless be done. Meanwhile American trade is likely to' suffer a considerable loss which It will l)e difficult to regain. ARE THEY IS DEAD EARNEST. All the rallwuy magnates and heavy shippers who uppeared before the senate committee on interstate commerce In op position to the proposed extension of the powers of the Interstate Commerce com mission, and all the railway organs and circulating press ageuts concur that the greatest 'evils now complained of iu rail way transportation are those growing out of the private car line and private terminal track and sidetrack systems, which are not subject to supervision by the Interstate Commerce commission. We are told that the private car lines, private terminal track and sidetrack sys tems are devices by which the greatest discriminations nro made and rebates given. The method of evading the law against prohibiting rebates is very sim ple. The shipper pays his freight to the railroad company. The charge so paid is the lawful tariff rate plus the regular charge for the use of the private car. The railroad company in turn settles with the private car company. Finally the private car company pays to the shipper the rebate previously granted to him. The shipper having been assured of his rebute in advance of the transpor tation has been able to calculate In his own transactions the ultimate return to himself of the amount agreed upon. By waukee excursion rate, even at standing room only. The best way the Commercial club of South Omaha can promote the interests of South Omnha is for Its members to jolu the Ouuihn Commercial club In a body. This Is an age of concentration and consolidation. In union there is strength. With a view to suppressing revolu tionary movements the cxar has Just de creed that the newspapers shall men tion no unauthorised meetings. He might as well try to stop the circulation of a book by excluding it from all pub lic libraries. Diplomats at Peking are pessimistic regarding peace between Japan and Rus sia for the reason, evidently, thut the empress has' not been notified to recog nize the paramount Interests of either combatant iu another Chinese province. "Nobody now goes to East St. Louis on Sunday to evade the saloon closing law," says the Globo-Democrat which would indicate that business has been resumed at the old stand without the in tervention of the St Ixwls police. A Hopeful Prospect. Chicago Record-Herald. Mr. Cleveland la doubtless going into the Equitable with the hope that It will be less bothersome than that Connecticut es tate has been to Mr. Bryan. Something- for Anxiety of Mind. Chicago Tribune. All the Japanese are asking now of Rus sia is compliance with the original de mands, somewhat amplified, and a trlflo of 1060,000,000 to assist In meeting the cost occasioned by the long delay this device, his goods have been trans- hot there at this season of the year, yet porte,i at less rate than those of his corn not insufferably so. JKt as we have petltor and he has enjoyed an advantage said, this matter of selecting a place for over hlm to tnnt extent the peace negotiations Is not really vital It lg pointed out by the railroad mag- and doubtless will not prove an obsta- nateg an otller known fores of dls- cle to the progress of arrangements for crimtnntlon and preference between shlp- the conference. There Is no lack or per8 nre now forDtdden by the Elkins proper places, among which the capital jftw and summary methods of procedure of the United States Is in some respects by tho courts are provided with penalties the most desirable. Its selection would seemingly adequate to deter such prac- be reasonably certain if negotiations tices. This sounds very plausible and were to take place at any otner tnan reassuring, providing always the railroad managers. are In dead earnest about abol ishing all discriminations and favoritism between shippers. There is, however, a well-grounded suspicion that they favor the supervision, regulation or suppres- A Nearby Possibility Washington Post. Secretary Wilson of the Department of Agriculture predicts that the time will soon come when Americans will have to tand for a rise in the price of bread. In that case the economically Inclined will have to eat cake. the midsummer season. Where the Railroads Failed. New York Tribune. More than 200 officers of state savings banks were present at the annual meeting n New York, and there waa laid on the table a resolution opposing the further grant of powers to the Interstate Commerce commission for the regulation of railways. Our steel highways have increased so enor mously in power in recent years that the attitude of the president with regard to their government has undoubtedly the sup' port of a large majority of the voters of the country. The Omaha Manufacturers' associa tion has been launched to manufacture sentiment favorable to the patronage of borne Industry. It's a good thing push It along. Unfortunately for King Oscar, there are no Norwegian Insurance companies requiring distinguished former officials on the board of directors at large sal aries. . It should be impressed on the gradu ating class of Omaha High school that the three .'r do not stand for "rah 1 rah! rah!" but. for "readiu', ritin' and 'rlthmetlc.". OUR CANADIAN TRADE. Statistics of our trade with Canada Just given out show an increasing con sumption by that country of American 6lon of tho prlvRte car jineg wlth a men products, xnere nas Deen a most nota-1 taj reservation oie growia in ui export iroui uie lncentlve for rebates was the off! United States to the Dominion in the d(ll CTaft Vulnerable railroad magnates last few years, and It Is noteworthy and trafflc managers were inveigled into that while this increase has been going 8llent partnerships with mining syndi- on tne import into uanaua rrom me categ iumber barons, cattle barons, grain unitea Kingdom nave naa only a mod- eievator companies, stock yards com erate growth, notwithstanding the fact panics, not to mention the Standard Oil that British manufactures . are favored and Bteel truRt ByndiCates, and last, but by tne Canadian tariff to the extent or not ,ea9t Bleeping car companies, ex jwh per cent n is aiso Buown inac pregs companies, fast freight lines and importa into tne unitea Mates rrom terminal transfer concerns, canaaa nave aiso grown, inougn at a j, there any likelihood that the men much slower pace. Both as regards im- ln control will sacrifice their private in- ports and exports our trade with Can- terests in order to carry out the spirit as ada in the present fiscal year has broken we)J ng lctter of tne jaw prohibiting all previous records. " '. rebates and discriminations by public The large balance.. In favor of this carriers? In most cases the interests country end the fact that It has been they have acquired, which came to them steadily growing for a number of years either by gift or payment of nominal snouio, it would seem, be entirely sat- amounts, are now immensely valuable lsfactory to American manufacturers, worth many millions ln fact Are they especially in view of the fact that there ready to part with all the valuable eon is no longer being heard any complaint cessions they have made to private car from the Canadians. Whether or not iiaPS flnd auxiliary carriers in order to they are content with the situation they make peace with the people who are corn- are not openly finding fault,, while so pelled to patronize the railroads? far as reciprocity sentiment is con- This Is the question that presents It cerned It appearev to have utterly dls- self Just now to an intelligent public, appeared. It would seem that the Can- that views with natural suspicion the adians have concluded either that it is harmonizing declarations of the railroad not desirable or Is Impracticable, but at spokesmen who claim to entertain such any rate the subject Is no longer being grave apprehensions for the stability of seriously considered by them, ..There Is American commerce if congress should no reason to apprehend that the United see fit to carry into effect the Roosevelt States will lose, at least in the near fu-1 program substantially embodied in the ture, any of its large export trade with bill that passed the lower house during the Dominion, which for the current the last session of the fifty-eighth con- fiscal year will amount to about $140,- gress. 000,000, giving a balance Of trade In If Japan did not hold Russia's prom le to "evacuate. Manchuria in OctQber" It might not Insist so strongly upon spe cific terms of the protocol for a meeting of plenipotentiaries. ' The water board knows already that It will need exactly $100,000 raised from city taxes for the year 1008. If th money Js not all required to pay hydrant rental. It can v used up for attorney's fees. A Kansas City Judge declares IVat "the law means Just what it says," but supreme courts' will . probably continue to proclaim that the law means Just what the majority of the Judges read Into it . By the way, has anyone seen the printed volume of Nebraska session laws which should have been distributed two weeks ago according to constitu tionai mandate I is tni anotner case where the constitution doesn't count? Cynical Crlllo of Speech, New York Tribune. Henry James thinks that "the common schools and the newspapers are too often Influences which keep our speech crude, untidy and careless." Doubtless there Is room for much Improvement in both com mon schools and newspapers, but did Mr, James ever stop to think what kind of a speech we should have If it were not for the common schools and the newspapers? The mass of our people would probably be talking a hundred dialects, almost unintel ligible to the cultivated speaker of the Eng lish, language. ,., , . 1 " j Working; a Tb'f rteen-Ineh Gun. Leslie's Weekly. To see a thlrteen-lnch gun loaded and fired Is a sight not to be forgotten. The projectile is thirteen Inches ln diameter. about three feet ln length, and weighs 1,100 pounds. The powder charge for target prac tice Is 250 pounds. The cost for each shot Is about $500. When all is ready on the range, the signal siren sounds, there Is a blinding flash, a roar like thunder, and a Jarring shock; then you hear the whining screech of the shell, for all the world like fast express rounding a sharp curve. The projectile Is visible almost from the time It leaves the gun; you.,-see It rip through the target and strike the water beyond, throw ing up a column of liquid many feet high. The shell skips, much like the flat stone skipper" of our boyhood, and again a column of water shoots up two miles or more farther out, to be repeated time and again. The shell in Its flight can be watched without the aid of a glass for eight miles or more In clear weather. favor of this country of over, $80,000,000. CONSIDERING EXCLUSION. President Roosevelt having had his at tention called to the.harsh enforcement , ltg water rate8 to con8Umers. besides Kansas 'City acquired Its municipal water works ten years ago for $3,100,000, and this very low price enabled Kansas City to make a reduction of 15 per cent of the Chinese exclusion law, has taken the matter under consideration and it wat discussed at the cublnet meeting on TUesday. The statement is made that the president, being desirous of promot ing the export trade of American manu- rellevlng the taxpayers from hydrant rental. Consequently Kansas City is satisfied even though It had to vote $1,100,000 of bonds last year for the en largement of its works and the substitu tlon of new machinery for worn-out ma facturers, will give the exclusion ques- Chiuery. If Omaha could buy its works tlon tne carerui attention wnicn its im- for $3,io0,000, It also could afford to vote portance, at least from the commercial $i,ioo,000. more for enlargement nd point or view, manirestiy cans ror. improvements and be satisfied with the Mr. Roosevelt is undoubtedly, aware result The question Is, what will the of the fact that there is an organized appraisement be? movement of Chinese luercnant guilds to Doycott American gooes ana mat us Competitive bids for lighting Omaha effect is already being felt The mer- streets might be feasible under certain chants of China identified with this coitions if we could get a rivalry be- movement refuse to handle goods of tweeu gas and electric light. But how American orlgla and it Is reported that we can have competitive bids on gas uiaese pap wui not nuveruse Amen- lamps alone without first granting a can' goods. A meeting of the Shanghai franchise to a competing gas company commercial guild a snort tune ago re- wlli require elucidation. solved to boycott an goods coming from this country, refuse to unload Amort-1 There Is still some doubt as to where can cargoes from steamers, to order no I the senators making up the senate rail more goods from American., merchants, I road committee that is to report on Pres and furthermore to urge the imperial ident Roosevelt's rate regulation recom Following the Inauguration of free baths, free libraries and all-night res taurants on passenger trains, the man ager of some railroad may endeavor to make a hit with the public by dbrUanU lng its tax bureau and hoisting a sign, "Tho Road that Pays lu Taxes." Prtnrfdeut Roosevelt refused to see a delegation of business men who came tr protect against paying tribal taxes In the Indian Territory. If this thing continues the Indian will coma to be lieve he has some rights which a white man la bound to respect, ad the "race o,uestloun, may take on a different hue. r government to refuse passports to all American citleenn if the; proposed new treaty was signed. A newspaper corre spondent at Shanghai remarks that peo ple In America may incline to laugh at the power of a guild, but it Is anything but a laughing matter, as these guilds, or chambers of commerce', are very pow erful and have enough power to coin pletely boycott American interests in China to such an extent that It will en tirely ruin American enterprise ln the far east American . cotton manufacturers and mendatlous are at. There is no doubt. however, where the people of Nebraska are at on that subject. Having defeated the "organization,1 Mayor Weaver is framing up a fight on what some term "vested rights" of pub lic service corporations. Phlladelphi courts will soon have a chance to pass upon the legal aspects of the mayor' reform ideas. The exodu,s from Egypt some twenty five hundred years ago will not be a clr- exporters to the Chinese markets have cumstance compared to the exodus from been stirred to action by this movement I Nebraska within the next few days on hostile to their trade and have appealed the Vj-cvut a-nille to Chicago and Mil state: railroad laws. Features of the Lows Enacted In Wis consin and Minnesota. Minneapolis Journal. The LaFollette campaign has resulted ln the adoption of a strong railroad commis sion law for Wisconsin, which Is being gen erally commented upon as a sample of ad vanced legislation. It Is particularly in teresting because It embodies the Ideas of Wisconsin's senator-elect, who is expected to be a strong upholder of the Roosevelt policy ln the upper house. The Wisconsin law Is better than Minne sota's ln one Important particular, 'me commission there Is appointed by the gov ernor and not elected by the people. The general verdict In Minnesota Is that the elective commission Is not a success. Its members are nominated at the end of state convention sessions, ln a hurry and as a re suit of trades, and they are elected as a matter of course. When the governor was made responsible for the commission he waa pt to pick out high-grade men and see to it that they attended to their duties. His administration was apt to stand or fall on the record of the commission. In other respects. Wisconsin's law does not go as far as the legislation secured last winter for Minnesota. The Wisconsin com mission will have the power to fix rates, either upon complaint or upon Ita own mo tion. That' power ha been In the hands of the Minnesota commission for over a de cade. The legislature last winter went still further, and provided that In Minnesota railroads must not alter rates or classifica tions, either up or down, without the con sent of the commission. This adds vastly to the state's poweg, for It makes every rate change an act Of the commission-and gives It a check upon every Interstate tariff. This power needs to be exercised with great discretion. It Is said that Oovernor LaFollette thought Strongly of adding such a feature to the Wisconsin law, but con cluded that he had taken a long enough step for one session. In this forbearance he was undoubtedly wise, for a new com mission, with everything to learn about Its duties and about the problem of rate mak ing, would be swamped by the work the Minnesota law Imposes. It could not pos sibly give proper attention and study to each Individual case, and Ita hearings and decisions would be farcical. Minnesota has a veteran commission, and no better place could be found to give the system a trial Chairman Mills has served almost continu ously for twelve years and C. F. Staples more than four years, W. 11 Young being the only Inexperienced man of the three The ratemaklng power within the state of Minnesota, has been placed ln the fiands of these three men, subject only to review by the courts, and the result of their labors will be watched with Interest If they are successful Wisconsin will, no doubt, profit by their example. BITS OP WASHlSnTO LIFE. Minor Scenes and incidents Sketched on tho Spot. Officials of the Navy department who are reported diligently seeking the cause of the alarming Increase of desertions from the navy might discover a sharp beam of light In the reports of dressy functions ob served last Sunday at the lirooklyn navy yard. Although Sunday In the yard Is presumed to be a day of peaceful rest fur officers and, men. It proved to be a strenu ous dress parade. Each of the 4.0U0 officers and blue jackets constituting the crews of five flrst-class battleships and one gunboat were obliged to change their uniforms hvo times. The reason of so much changing ot dress was due to the regulation which re quires that each officer and man must at all timea wear a uniform to conform with that worn by the commanding or senior officer of the fleet or squadron. The ohanges began at reveille, when a signal from the Alabama showed that the commanding officer was going to breakfast dressed in blue. This information was quickly wig-wagged to all the ships, and when the men lined up for the mess each of them was clad In the blue uniform of the service. About 10 o'clock another signal was wig wagged from the flagship. The signal was to the effect that the ranking officer was wearing a white cap. Ten minutes later all the officers and nearly 8,600 men had discarded their caps of blue and had reap peared ln enps made of pure white duck. . At lunch hour the men were required to hastily don white duck uniforms and vest, and they had to substitute a blue cap for the white. Then, at sundown, the white uniform gave place to the blue. Chief Clerk William II. Bayly of tho pen sion office at Washington has been making a canvass of the clerks fur the purpose of ascertaining the former occupations of em ployes. His Investigation shows that this department Is a veritable burying ground of disappointed hopes. Of the 1,200 clerks nearly 400 hud prepared themselves for the profession of law, mediolne or theology. Forty of them had been authors, forty three were editors, eighteen were editors and publishers, 151 were newspaper corre spondents, thirty-three were magazine writ ers and a total of 144 held college or uni versity diplomas. Among the men now passing on war claims who formerly held military titles are one major general, one adjutant general, five brigadier gecnrals, eight colonels, seven lieutenant colonels, twelve majors, forty-eight captains, eighty lieutenants and eight second lieutenants. There are nine ex-members of houses of representatives of various states and four ex-senators on the rolls. Eighteen Justices of the peace have found resting places In the pension office, along with Ave county judges, seven probate Judges, three police Judges and twelve sheriffs. Twenty-ono former surgeons, two bankers and six dentists and two elocutionists are now delving over claims for back pay and bounty. Teaching seems to be an unprofit able calling, for no less than 4G7 of tlio 1,200 clerks In the pension office were for merly engaged ln that profession. Commissioner of Corporations Garfield has undertaken a work equal in Importance to any he has begun since taking his pres ent position. It is the compilation of tho anti-trust laws of the different states of the union. The work, when completed, will represent an Immense amount of labor and be invaluable as a text book for those in terested ln anti-trust laws. Agents of the Department of Commerce and Ijibor have been securing and compiling the anti-trust laws of the different states. These have now been forwarded to Mr'. Garfield, who will reviso and abridge them so that they all may go Into a single volume. The work will be completed and ready for distribu tion within several months. The bronze doors for the east front of the capitol at Washington, designed in 1868, have been completed by Melzar H. Mosman and are on exhibition at his works in Chicapee, Miss. Not until 1902 did con gress appropriate the $40,000 necessary for the work, which has occupied two years. The doors weigh two tons each and swing almost noiselessly. There are four panels In relief ln each door. The panels of the left-hand door represent the massacre at Wyoming, the battle of Lexington, the presentation of a flag to Colonel Moultrie of South Carolina nd the death of General Montgomery at Quebec. The historical scenes depicted on the panels of the right-hand door are the reading of the Declaration of Independence, the signing of the treaty of peace at Paris and Benjamin Franklin ln his study. Tho backs of the massive doors are plain bronze. The doors are fourteen and one-half feet high and have a total width of six and one-half feet. They will be placed in posi tion this summer. CASK AOAIST THE PACKEBS. Law Officers 1 snrp a Koaetlnn of tho Grand Jnry. Chicago Chronicle. It Is reported from Washington that At torney General Moody, Assistant Attorney General Tagln and District Attorney Mor rison have not yet finished reading and analysing the testimony of witnesses who apienred against tho beef packers before the fnlted States grand Jury In Chicago. Mr. Moody Is quoted aa saying that they havo not yet reached a conclusion as to recommending that Indictments be found agnlnst any person or persons. His assist ant, Mr. Pagln, has said tlmt If any in dictments are returned they will be few In number. It Is further stated that some Influential persons are urging Mr. Moody to exercise conservatism ln dealing with tho Ueef trust cases. To most people outside of officials and Interested persons It looks ns though all who had been concerned ln the prosecution ot the packers had taken more than enough time to exerclKe conservatism. Tho business was taken ln hand so long ago that it Is hard to remember when within a month or so. The grand Jury heard a cloud of wit nesses and then it did not uct upon tho evi dence. AH of that was taken to Washing ton, where the attorney general, an asulst ant and the district attorney for the Chi cago district have been reading It all over, analyzing it and taking plenty of time with a view to deciding whether anybody shall be Indicted and who, If anybody. It is supposed to be the duty of the grand jury to puss on the evidence, and decide whether or not to indict any one and return bills or drop the accusations according to Its own judgment, but it seems that ln these cases the grand Jury is a mere dummy and the law officers of tho govern ment only are to do the whole business, merely using tho grand Jury to register their decisions as the electoral collegu reg isters a decision already made at a presi dential election. Such being the caso, it is hardly possible to find a reasonable, excuse for the long delay. It the law officers have It all to do they can be reasonably expeditious. They might easily have mado an end of the business long ago and they ought to have done so. If the district attorney needed the as sistance of one or more officers of the De partment of Justice they might have been sent here from Washington to hear the evidence as it was given. Then a decision could have been reached In short ordor. This long delay does not look much like truo conservatism. It looks like some thing not so laudable. It looks like a de liberate policy of delay and drag along ln order to weary the public Into placid acquiescence in whatever the law officers may eventually decide to do. It looks like an attempt to create an Impression that the evidence was very damaging to the packers, but not strong enough to warrant indictments. The packers are entitled to protection against this sort of Scotch verdict. Both the packers and the public are entitled to the benefit of reasonable expedition. The public has a right to know If the packers are guilty and the packers have a right either to the vindication implied by prompt refusal to Indict or to an opportunity to expose the worthlessness of the evidence against them in open court. "There appears to be a widespread im pression," says the Baltimore American, "that Charles J. Bonaparte, President Roosevelt's new secretary of. the navy and future attorney general, is the first Cath olic to enter a president's cabinet. This is an error. Robert J. Wynne, whom Presi dent Roosevelt appointed postmaster gen eral Just before the last national election and whom he has since made consul gen eral to London, the best-paying position In the gift of the president. Is an earnest Catholic. President McKlnley also ap. pointed a Catholic to his cabinet, Represa. tlve McKenna of California, who be came his attorney general. Subsequently Mr. McKlnley promoted Attorney General McKenna to the supreme bench, where Mr, McKenna found a Catholic colleague In Justice White of Louisiana, whom Presi dent Cleveland had appointed to the bench Not only are all these gentlemen Catholics, but all of them are earnest and devout In tholr attendance on their religious duties as Is Mr. Roosevelt ln his devotion. The wife of Mr. Bonaparte Is not a Cathollo, however, but Is a member of the fashiona ble Unitarian church ln Baltimore." Clarence J. Norment, president of the Central National bank of Washington, re cently told how he got even with a man who was his teacher ln the days of his youth, and who used to wield the birch with frequency and vigor. Mr. Norment says that as a boy he hated this man fiercely, and vowed that if he ever reached the years of manhood he would lick him within an Inch of his life. Not long ago a prominent lawyer entered the bank and Introduced to Mr. Norment a man from the upper part of Maryland, who wanted a favor. Mr. Norment Immediately recognised his old master. "Are you Mr. Blank, who taught school at such a place T Tou areT Well, do you remember how you beat me for no reason at all. Just because you were bigger; how you kept me in when I wanted to play ball, how you wrote notes to my father and got me more lickings? I bet you remember every bit. Well, I made a vow that If I ever met you when I got to be a man I'd whip you. If I had to go to Jail for a month. Now get ready." Mr. Norment got up In a threatening atti tude and the former teacher was livid with fear, and the lawyer speechless with aston ishment. Then Mr. Norment laughed and they ail understood, but the fright Mr. Norment gave tna dominie made up' for ail his grlov , anoe PERSONAL NOTES, An Illinois representative has declined to be renominated because "a congretsmiAi Is nothing except a pension agent and a so licitor of postoffice Jobs." Mr. Potter, director of public safety in Philadelphia, has stopped the sale of chances on a brick house offered ln a raffle by the Catholic Church of the Ascension, He holds that It la a lottery. Trinity college of Hartford, Conn., will shortly send out a fully equipped eighty-ton coasting schooner for the purpose of study ing oceanography and marine biology, at tho head of which will be President Luther. No American university has made a similar attempt. The new speaker of the House of Com mons, James William Lowther, comes of one of the most ancient families of Eng land, for when Sir Richard Lowther was high sheriff of Cumberland ln the eighth and ninth of Elizabeth, he was the thir tieth knight in succession. There Is mingled Joy and sadness in a Washington Episcopal choir. The soprano has married the bass soloist; two other singers have married each other, and a fifth has married somebody outside the choir. Then they all resigned together, and the rector is probably wondering whether It mightn't be a good plan to start ail over again with a boy choir. Dr. E. P. Henson delivered a' lecture on the subject of "Fools" at the Lakcvlew as sembly grounds. South Framlngham, Mass. Bishop Vincent, who was presiding. Intro duced the speaker, saying: "We are about to listen to a lecture on fools by one of the greatest (here the bishop paused, while the audience broke Into an uproar of laughter, and then continued) the great est lecturers of modern times." Dr. Hen son, nowise nonplused, rose and said: "Ladles and Gentlemen, I am not as great a fool as our Bishop Vincent (here a pause and more laughter from the audience, and then the doctor etfrttlnued) would have you believe." WHERE A PROBE IS REEDED, Sample Instance of Railroad TalaO Overflowing with Water, Minneapolis Journal. The Chicago Tribune reports that the State Rallwuy commlHlon of Illinois will probe the capitalization of thn Chicago & Alton Railway company. It the facts are as set forth In that paper, the probe la needed. Tho Chicago & Alton has two organisa tions, a railway compnny owning fifty three miles ot the road and a railroad company owning KI4 miles. They have been merged by the railway company acquiring) S8 per cent of the stock of the railroad company and guaranteeing its bonds. This Institution, with lis less than l,i") miles of road, has a capitalization of Ilr3.l.u0 In round figures, or nt the rate of t!:'2,o a mile. This Is In startling contrast vvltli tho capitalization of the Chicago, Putlinton Ik Qulncy of 134.0X) a mile, the Milwaukee sys tem, X.U.00O a mile, nnd even the Illinois Central of $71,000 a mile. It is pointed t,tl that the Central has exivenoive terminals, while the Alton does not enter any birce city over Its own tracks nor havo a depot In any of them. Tho Alton's gro.s earnings for the ye;r ending Juno 30, 1!K)4, wero IU.431MM) uml lis operating expenses $7.5.'Sl.noo. After paying the fixed charges on i7.000,000 of bonds there was left only JHIO.OHO available for dividends upon the outstanding 41,0i0,000 of stock. This amounts to only about 2 per cent. But If the road were capitalized upon Its actual cost of somewhere between litO.OOO and 135.000 a mile, the dividends would bo nearly 15 per cent. If the road Could double Its present stock dividend it would still seem stnnll ami qulto reason able, but as a matter of fact, It would be doubling not 2.25 per cent, but 15 per cent, which Is quite another story. The Issue has lwen imule against thla tremendous overcapitalization by the Ship pers association, which will attack tho validity of three-quarters ot tho capitaliza tion of the Alton. FLASHES OK Ft , "Well, anyway," said Rounder, finally "we men are more charitable than yoti women." "Nonsense!" replied his wife, witherlngly, "cliMiity begins at home, not at the club, Philadelphia Ledger. rest Friend Are you going away for a this summer? Henpecked Man No, we're Just going awuy thut's all. Detroit Free Press. Search almost any man who Is over 45, and you will find a little box of dyHpepxta, tablets somewhere ln his pockets. Somer villo Journal. Mrs. BifTson My husband Is really tha neatest man I ever saw! Mr. Bangs I should say he was! You ought to see the way he cleaned me up'." Detroit Free Press. Howell Don't you wish you could live your lite over again? Powell Well, 1 should say notl I've got a twenty-year endowment policy maturing next month. Judfc'o. Mrs. Paddock I thought Bobble had a system for pluylng the races. Mr. Paddock Ho had, but he bet on a horse named Snrsaparllla and It cleaned his system out. Puck. "Sam, do you believe there's luck la a rabbit's foot?" "No, sail. I doesn't." "Why not, Sam?" "Kttse I carried one when I dun got mar ried." Yonkers Statesman. "What's the matter with that fellow over there?" asked the first mosquito, Indicating another member of the tribe. "Oh! he's crazy," replied the second mos quito. "He's a vegetarian." Philadelphia, Press. Mother John, have you made any ar rangements for the children on the Fourth of July? Father Yes; I've taken out accident poli cies for every one of Uiem. Detroit Free Press. ' SWEET UIRL GKADl'ATB, Hilton R. Greer in Sunday Magazine White as a lily that uplifts Its face From some unsunned retreat. She takes us captive with a witching grace. Half-hesitant, all sweet. And though 'tis passing atrange that on fair head Cun prison such a store Of knowledge gleaned by sages, age dead Of ilwp and classic lore, Yet let us deem her fit Interpreter Of problems Intricate, And with glad voices cry: "AH hall to her. The sweet girl graduate!" , With modest mien and fearing, faltering feet, She seeks the lighted stage. And reads in accents tremulously sweet Her essay's scented page; She tells of tasks performed, of dutlea done, And of that ardent flame Which prompts the soul to win to goals unwor. Far on the heights of Famec She claims, thougli school-time studies now are o'er, That lessons new await Dim down the misty meads that stretch before The Bweet girl graduate. i Ah, grant her hopeful heart may nevatf know The beat of sorrow's rain! That she may drain np bitter cup of woa. Nor tread red thorns of pain! God grant henceforward that her foot steps fare Through sunlit garden ways, Down paths of pcacofulnesa where blos soms rare Make redolent her days! That Time's harsh finger touqh each cling ing tress With smoothlngs delicate! That Fate may bless and Fortune's smllea caress The sweet girl graduate! as Ivasas tsAaal ,Is the choice of those who really care for the health fulness and preservation;, of their skin. IMade in a factory with with more than half a cen tury of experience and reputation behind it. 3 Perfumed with the odor of natural flowers. JAMES S. KIRK & CO.
