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. TIIE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 190ft, The Omaha Daily Dee. K. ROSE WATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERT MORNING. . TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION,, Pally Pee (without Sunday), n year, Pally Hea unit Sunday, on year lllutnited Bee, oim year Monday Be, on far Saturday Bee, one year i no 150 l.M DELIVERED BT CARRIER. PsHv Pe (Including Sunday), per wek..l" IslliRee (without Sunday), per week...llB Evening Bee (without Sunday), per w", Evening Ilea (with Sunday), par week.,..10o Sunday Bee, per ropy "'m AMrfn complaints of Irregularities In de livery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. "maha The Pee Building. South Omaha City Hall Building. I'ouncll Bluffs 10 Pearl Street. hi' oo-iMO Unity Building. Nw York 1.VM Jlome Life Ina. Building. Washington 601 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communication! relating to new and dl tonal matter should he addressed: Oman Hee. Kdltoiial Department. . . REMITTANCES. V Remit by draft, express or postal order pivable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only 2-rent stamp received aa payment of mail aceounta. Personal checka, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. THW BEK PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska. Douglas County, s.: C. C. Rosewater, aecretary of The Bea Publishing Company, being duly aworn, eavs that the actual numbet of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning, Kvcnlng and Sunday ilea printed during the month of February, IK, wti aa fol- lowa: 1 31,0.10 t S1.MO s aajfoo i mjt'M 6 fti.Tao I 31.TIO T Sl.BAO I . SI, 4 AO t S1.400 id sa.Tso n ,ooo 12 31,ftB( 13 , A1.2&0 14 31,20 IS 1C 17 1 1t 30 11 22 S1.B60 SSMO ss.seo SM.SAO 81,390 SI, TO , S Mo . SUSRO 2S 1,430 24 BS.OBO 23 a,ao SU.WO 27 Sl30 28 SlMtO Total ST8.S10 Les unaold copie 9,103 Net total aalea 80O.O4 Dally average 1,ST4 C. C. ROSEWATER, Secretary. Subscribed In my presence and aworn to before ma tbla 21 h day of February, 190. iSeaU Notary Public. WHRS OUT OF TOWS. Sabserlbers leaving? th city tem porarily ahoald fcaT The Bea mailed to tfcesn. Address wilt vbaaced a ftea aa reejaeatod. Jefferson Davis wftl be the new sen ator from Arkansas. Senator Tillman will have to look to bis laurels. . General Hulpoff' of Russia Is said to be pessimistic regarding his country's future. The general might take a hint from hla name.' UuHmiin moderates would seem to have1 an excellent opportunity at present If there are enough of them to keep out of Jail. Now that Iowa promises to investigate its Insurance companies, our Ilawkeye friends may lind aome recreation from the business of politic. Since Midshipman Meriwether has been permitted to resign from Anna polls some other midshipmen may re cret their hazing was so mild. The destruction of an irrigatiou dam in Wyoming by high water may cause eastern congressmen to wonder why the dam should be thought necessary. lu' thellght of 'the report of Mr, fierce. Chinese dislike for America Keems to have been warranted from the character of aome of our consuls. DouglaH county will have to have a new court house before long, but there will have to be a substantial agreement upon a single plan of operations before any steps are taken. trom the opposition the Moors are now showing to the plans of the del gates at Algeclras It Is evident that the sultan has heretofore been counting on division among hla would-be masters, Now that coal miners have approved the action of their scale committee and operators hae approved the action of their scale committee. It will surely Uiae wine men to avert a strike. Every one concedes that ITennings has made the lcst city treasurer Omaha has ever had. Ills promotion to be mayor would give Omaha a chief ex ecutlre who would measure up with the tiest. NeliruKka may be fortunate after oil in the discovery of coal at Peru on the eve of a strike In the old mining districts; but work should be rushed If owners expect to profit by the Impend lug fuel shortage. . . OBBBBnBBBjBBBnBtBBaBBJBBnBa) Hy all the rules of the political game Broatcu la, In honor bound to abide by the endorsement of Benson as the can dj.lnte of the fontanellea, which he also ought for himself. But Broatch never had any political honor. A the primary election campaign draws near Its close, look out for the i.aual campaign fakes and roorbacks. Him favorite trick of the campaign fakir Is to hold back his stage thunder until it l too late to expose It or answer it. Perhaps Governor Cummins refused lu eugage In Jolut debate with George l. Perkins that he could have more time to devote to Senator Elklns. It Is not the wo rut thing to have one's an t;igonlNt at the end of a telegraph wire. With the suggestion of a new 2"J,0() ton liattlcehlp to be built by the Tnitetl States the RrHlxli government will learn tlmt It inuxt Increase Its shipbuilding fat-flit ica If it la to keep ahead of the Washington newspaper correspondents. It uitist have made feeuator Cuiber tun feel peculiar to have the stock rais ers of hla state send hlin a memorial to paas the Hcpburu bill as it stands the day after he had kIiowu to bis own ut Wftu't'on how the measure should be fiZXATOR KXOX'S SrCKCH. Senator Knox's speech tske such radical nd. sweeping ground agsinst the Dolllver-Hepburn rate bill a apparently to pat him In opposition to the whole movement which It represents. Aa a lawyer of consplcnotis ability, as a mem ber of the cabinet, for a long time at. the head of the Department of Justice, It waa expected h"t Mr. Knox would, aa a member of the senate, render valuable assistance In perfecting legislation em bodying the policy of the president, with whom he had been po Intimately asso ciated. The extreme ground of oppo sition thereto which he now takca la correspondingly dlsappolatlng. . The weight of the Pennsylvania sen ator's argument goea for allowance of the utmost possible subordination and complication of the Interstate Commerce commission, with the courts. That la precisely the evil, Inseparable from the delays, expenses and other difficulties which It la one of the paramount alms of the people to get rid. of, and hla pro test against the Dolllver-IIepburn bill la In effect that It attempts to afford re lief In this particular. While no one asserts that Judicial re view of the rates and ordera of the com. mission can be altogether abolished, for the federal constitution Interdicts con fiscatory action, yet between confisca tion of railroad property on the one hand and extortionate rates on the other, there la a wide field as to which there Is no constitutional requirement for Judicial review. It Is precisely within this field that judicial Interposition has been found to be so vexatious and de structive of public Interest. It Is a fair Inference that the railroad corporations want Judicial Jurisdiction extended ,to the utmost over this field, not to pro mote, but to defeat the ends of equity aa between them arid the public, and they are now for that reaaon concen trating every effort In the senate upon this point THE CANAL IXVKSTIOATIoy. A The senate committee having Juris diction over the Panama canal, after a mountain labor of investigation, seems about to give birth to even less than a mouse, a disagreement ou the capital point, the type of canal being fore shadowed by Washington advices. The administration had gone vigorously for ward under 'the law by which lu spite of urgent representations congress at the last 'session had failed to give the executive sufficient powers, and through the majority of the advisory board of engineers had reached a conclusion favorable to a lock as against a sea level canal. But the senate committee took upon Itself to open afresh and re consider the whole subject, going even Into the. engineering techulcal minutiae and all sorts of collateral questions of management. ' There may have been no design on the part of the committee or of any Influence behind It to embarrass the administra tion or to delay the work on the Isthmus, but Its Investigating digression was planned at a time when a large part of the senate was under serious suspicion of entertaining design to embroil and discredit , the executive department, by covert if not by open means. Whether so Intended or not, the scope and method of the Investigation have necessarily lnv plied a certain lack of confidence In the results reached by the admlnistra tlon In the canal enterprise. A failure of the committee to act on the type of canal after such an Investi gation would be tantamount to throw Ing the responsibility back upon the ad ministration. The work cannot be held In suspense a year for another session of congress. Its action one way or the other being doubtful even then. Ruch procrastination would defer the enter prise to another generation If it should not altogether defeat It If. however, the senate Inquisition comes to nothing and congress now fails to act, as seems the probable out come, the country will Vest on the as surance that President Roosevelt will not for a moment shrink from his re sponsibility, but will a-0 straightforward under such powers as the existing laws confer upon him, deciding' questions as they arise and actually constructing the canal, which Is the thing the American people want done. TH: PKRKIS8 LARCEXY CASE. The arrest of George W. Perklus, late first vice president of the New York Life Insurance company, ou a charge of grand larceny growing out of con tributions from that company's funds to the , national republican committee, means a conclusive test of the criminal aect of the case. The prominence of the defendaut as well as of bis asso ciates in Insurance, political and gen eral business circles, rendered such test Inevitable In existing state of pub lic feeling and under all . the other ex traordinary condition. The criminal question having been mooted specifically and eunsplcuouslv before a grand jury and a judge, to fail to bring it to de cislve Issue, eveu If there were no doubt that a criminal prosecution would fall for lack of legal merit, would be to ex cite suspicion la many quarters of favoritism to promlneut personages, or at least certainly to omi opportunity to lulachievotiM sensationalists. There I no one now to defend the practice of Interference by public cor porations through large money contrltiu tlons to political campaign committees, and least of all in caae of funds of the special trust character lu the keeping of life Insurance companies. Rarely has there been such universal agreement on any Klnt of public policy as lately on this point, eveu among thone who as Insurance and other corporatiou official and party managers have engaged lu the practice or lu oue way or another j connived at it Nor will Intelligent sad candid minds be less agreed that such contributions made with honest In tent, although the policy be harmful and Indefensible, and possibly subject to civil liability, lack the essentials of larceny under the law as It is usually understood, although appropriation of the funds with felonious Intent would 1 within the criminal boundary. It Is opportune to call a halt to cor poration money connection with party organization. The practice had become prevalent among all the Important cam paign committees. Those of the one great party not lees than those of the other have Importuned and pressed, sometimes threateningly the controlling officials of corporations for such con tributions, and It has been no uncommon occurrence that the latter-would con tribute to both party committees at the same time. And it Is well to remember that the practice has obtained, not ouly In the case of great corporations like the life Insurance concerns in. national contests, but also In Innumerable smaller corporations of- every description In state, county and municipal politics. Anythlngthat helps on the movement to put the axe to the root of this upas tree that has grown so vast and so deadly will Inure to the public good. The mere raising of the criminal ques tion In the case of so conspicuous an Individual as the late vice president of the New York Life, although few seriously believe there was in fact criminal Intent in his case, will tend to enforce powerfully the point of policy upon the public mind. TBS tWTS BOLTERS. Although Broatch In his candidacy for the mayoralty nomination repre sents those who are clamoring for a wide open town, and Benson stands committed to a platform of Puritanical law enforcement they both stand on common ground as twin bolters. It Is said of Broatch that since his first term as mayor nineteen years ago. be has not voted for a single repub lican candidate for that office, except when be himself was running for It When Frank B. Moores was elected Broatch barricaded himself In the clty hall and refused to surrender until com-I-elled to do so by court .order. Ills treachery to Lininger, his secret knifing of Bemis and his open espousal of the democratic candidates against Moores are on record. A typical example Is found In the following; letter, which Broatch published over his own name In the local democratic organ, pledging himself to W. S. Poppleton for mayor In 1900: OMAHA. March 4. 1900.-TO the Editor of the World-Herald: Dear 81r In the isaue of this morning The Bee charged me with being the source of your Information respecting your articles on what occurred at the reception of Admiral Bchley by the Loyal Legion. Tou know this to be falsa and X sale you to deny It editorially. I have too high a regard for the "Military Order bt the Loyal Legion" to drag It Into the mire ot politics, but aa The Bee has taken occasion to deny the truthfulness of the atatements of what happened at the ttme'ptated I think I am justified tn writing this letter. I waa present at the recep tion to Admiral Bchley and heard th paper read by Mr. Mooiea. It waa too Indecent for publication and shocked every one at that largely attended meeting. One com panion from slater city said that hi two young sona entertained a very exalted idea of the Loyal Legion and wished to attend one of Ita gatherings. The father, think ing it a fitting occasion, brought hia -two on and afterwards aald that he blushed with shame and could not look his boys In the face. At a aubsequent meeting a committee was appointed and made a report, which waa unanimously adopted. This re port demanded an apology from Companion Moore, which he ha not yet made. I shall vote for Mr. Poppleton because I be lieve him to be a clean, capable man and more likely to promote the Interest of our community. I am, a republican and be lieve in the national policy of my party. I do not believe that In refusing to sub ordinate the beat Interests ot Omaha to personal ambition I am damaging the fu ture of my party. v W. J. BROATCH. As to Benson's record as a bolter, only recent history need be cited. Three years ago be went Into the republican convention with oue ward behind him and when his followers failed to buy the second delegate needed to give them control, be bad himself projected as an Independent candidate and got upon the ticket by means of a populist nom ination for the express purpose of beat ing the republican nominee. Widely divergent as Broatch and Ben son are In their professed ideas of the kind of government Omaha should have, they are alike in this, that If either Is nominated he will be kept busy explain ing his record as a bolter and lose to a large extent the force and influence which the nomlnatiouaught to give. The World Herald thinks it seea in the re-election of the democratic mayor of Council Bluffs a fine example for the democrats of South Omaha to fol low next week. It Is notorious that the Council Bluffs mayor was re-elected by the gamblers of Council Bluffs, who have been unmolested and want to con tinue unmolested. The advice of the World-Herald, therefore, Is nothing more nor less than advice to South Omaha to vote for a resumption of open gambling. We doubt whether South Omaha la disposed to take this sort of advice. When the charter was up for revision The Bee took the position that the city attorneyship ought to have remained an appointive office and It still believes it should be appointive. The new char ter, however, makes it elective and Im poses upon the voters the duty of se lecting the most competent attorney for the plate from among t'te candidates presented. On the question of compe tency It should not be hard to Judge. Advisers of the csar are certainly en titled to the palm for a-3Miful aUtee- nianshlp for the way they haudled the recent "rebellion." which waa ren lered J futile, U!e soldiers were practical'' all In the east Now they are ready with a reorganised army to face any Internal disturbance. If Governor Mickey Is still unper puaded that his iwllce commissioner, Broatch, Is dragging tin jolIce and fire departments Into politics, he Is cor dially Invited to come to Omaha and satisfy himself by personal observation. There are. none so blind as those who will not see. The so-called Good Government league has discovered that it made several nils takes In the ratings accorded candi dates In Its book on the political race track and is trying to correct them. The voters at the primary and nt the election will correct the rest of the mis takes. j pice of Variety. Chicago News. There appear to be only eighty-seven va rieties of rate regulation calling for at tention In the senate. Instead of ninety, as there would have been but for three va cancies. A Ball's Ke. Boston Transcript. "Standard Oil Owns the Republic" makes a striking headline and one that Is true In at least a limited sense. The mystery of the ownership of the Republic Oil com pany has been cleared up. A DIATereaee. Chicago Record-Herald, The release of the packers would be all that their friends could desire if they had proved their innocence Instead of merely establishing a legal right to protection against their own' testimony. Tke Aadarloaa Pltrhforker. Springfield Republican. , Senator Tillman sets up his "cornfield law" against the constitutional law of tha great Jurists, much to tneir astonishment. It Is only another of tha senator's audaci ties, but It help to clrrtfy the discussion. Rate Ftearalatlon In Caaada. New York Tribune. Blr Thomae O'Bhaughnessy, president of the Canadian Pacific railway, thinks Amer ican railroad "are makitia altogether too much opposition to the proposed legisla tion." He says the people are entitled to regulate rates and that government regula tion of rate In Canada ".a aatlsfactory to both the railroad and tne shipper." It begin to look as If we might have to change a famous saying to read, "They or der these things better In Canada." Coal Pllea Ripe for Ralae. Springfield Republican. To reassure the public, and a well per haps to caution the miner, the anthracite coal operator make announcement that they have within a radius of 100 miles from New York City a reserve supply of over ,000,009 tons of merchantable coal. This In nearly a fifth of a whole year' need, and If account be made of stocks In dealers' hands It Is possible that two-fifth of a year' requirement may exist above ground. If there I a strike it will assist the operator In disposing of this large surplus stock at much better price than ttiy would other wise get. They will gam more from It than the miners ari. IMPEMD1X4 JPOSTAl. CONGRESS. latportance of tlie Forthcoming: Sea loati'lav Rome. TroxJN. Y.) Times. Great Interest will be taken in the Universal postal congress to be held In Rome early next month. Thl will be the sixth of these gathering, the first of which waa In Berne, Switzerland, In 187S. That assemblage marked a , departure which has borne most important fruit and which ha led to increasingly beneficent reaulta. The International Postal union as It now exist haa been a potent in strumentality In drawing the various coun tries ot the earth together In a fellow ship of Interests and purposes. It was most fitting that the. postal system a now perfected and carrying with It vast good to the world, should huve originated in the sturdy little republic In which also there began that admirable organization known aa the Red Cross society, whose symbol on th battlefield and in the plague spots of the glob I the promise of humanity and tender care,. to the yV-aat diminution of death and suffering. While there I' no fixed law governing the matter, there i a sort of understand ing that the postal congresses shall b called at Intervals of about three year. A a fact, however, only five of thee confer ences have been held, the coming one form ing th sixth. Various reasona have led to the postponement of the congress from time to time, the principal causes being other affair which have occupied the time and thought of a number of government. Until the season waa propitious and con venient Italy, on which devolved the ob ligation and responsibilities of host, did not feel Justified in extending th cus tomary Invitation. But obstacle seem to have been cleared away, the notice haa been given in due and regular form and the assemblage will be held In accordance with the method made and provided. All the leading nation will be represented by delegate carefully selected with a view to obtaining the most practical returna from the congress. Those sent on behalf of the United States are Captain N. M. Brook, Chief of the Foreign Division of the Post office department, and Edward Roaewater, editor of The Omaha .pee. Captain Brook 1 a gentleman of long experience In hla official dutlea and haa been a member of all the preceding postal congresses; hence he may be regarded as especially fitted for the work before him. Mr. Rosewater, with close knowledge of postal needs, will ably support his colleague. Several mattera are mentioned a likely to come before the congress, In which the proceedings are quite ure to be deliberate, owing to the diversity of language spoken. which will require translation and com parison In order that there may be no mis understanding as to whatever agreement are reached. One of the subjecta quite cer tain to come up la the devising of a unl. yersal postage stamp that Is. one that will be accepted In any of the countries in eluded in the postal union aa a fair equiv alent for the amount of postage that would b charged on a letter mailed there. The situation Is Illustrated by an analysis made by careful observer, who notes that while on a letter going from the United States to France or Germany the American pays five cents, on a letter taking a correspond ing course the Englishman pay two pence half penny, on a letter from France to the United States or England the Frenchman pay twenty-five centime and the German who mail from hla country a missive go ing to either of the other three pays twenty pfennigs. None of the foreign sum men tioned la precisely equal to five cent. The object of the movement for the Interna tional poatage stamp la to equalise the cost of mailing a letter from one country to another. Tber are numerous oilier topic sched uled for consideration, and the time of th eongrea I likely to be well occupied. JuoainsT from the outcome of thooe that have preceded, a great deal of permanent guu-J aa affecting Uve International trans- porta ".on of mall may b anticipated. THE MAX FROM MISSOIRI. aoaaelhlnata 'the Man Who Psmred the Standard OH as-anr. "I n neither a professional reformer nor a trust buster. I am attorney general of the te of Missouri, and such 1 propose to see that all corporations which do business within our border keep within the law." This l the declaration of Herbert S. Hadley, the young lawyer who pursued the magnates ot the Standard OH com pany and compelled them to admit that the company owned and controlled th Waters-Fierce nd the Republic Oil com panies, who with the controlling company monopollfd the oil market of Missouri. Mr. Hadley. who Is barely J4 year of ae, had been pitted against an array of legal talent representing the best that the Oil trust Can gather. The aggregnte yearly Income from the practice ot the gentle men opposed to him Is estimated to be something like IRflO.ivo. A ttorney general of Missouri Mr. Hadley draw a salary of l3,ono a year. Thete Is an Interesting story shout the way In which Mr. Hadley happened to run across the trail of Standard Oil In Ills state, says the New York Times. It was during a legislative Investigation last spring of terminal chnrges t St. Louis and he wa counsel for' the lnvesttatlng com mittee. The manager of the Waters-Pierce Oil company was testifying. He accident ally let slip the Information that the Stand ard Oil company had no agency In Bt. Louis. That was enough for the attorney gen eral. "Doesn't it strike you as strange," h demanded, quick as a flash, "that you have no competition in this field from the Stand ard T' The manager couldn't soe anything pecu liar about the monopoly enjoyed by th Waters-Pierce company, but a few days later, while In Kansas City, the attorney general learned that the concorn wa not represented there, rutting two and two together he decided that there waa om relation between the companies and be fore he was through he had learned that the Republic was also In the combine and. with two smaller concerns, were Standard pawn. Then came th quo warranto proceedings to forfeit the charter of the Water-Plerc company, which Is a Missouri concern, and cancel the license of the Republic Oil company and the Standard Oil company of Indiana. On the heels of this proceeding cam an application for an Injunction re straining the Standard of Indiana and the Watera-Plerce company from dividing up tlie state, and the Republic and lesser con cern from operating at all. The iniunctlon was granted temporarily and is now in force. "It will continue In force," Mr. Hadley says: "They don't want to fight It. Why, the time wa when a man would have to go fifty miles in Missouri to get Ills oil, no matter if there was a station half a mile away. Now one can buy oil wherever it ia for sale. There I no longer any uch thing a a division of territory. When I get through there will no longer be any such thing a an Oil trust. It may take time, but I've four years to keep after them." Herbert 8. Hadley was born In Ofcithe, Kan., in 1871. HI father waa In the milling business and owned several farms. Young Hadley commenced his education In the ptathe public schools. Then he went to the Btate university at Lawrence. Finally he entered the law school at the University of Chicago, where he waa graduated In 18W. r Immediately he entered private practice in Kansaa City. He had made himself heard from when, in 1898, he wa appointed flrt assistant to the city counselor. After two yers In this, position, during which time he began to take part In politic, he w elected prosecuting attorney. - During his tenure in this office he successfully procecuted th Lulu Kennedy case, which wa heard throughout the country. His term over, he went back into practice for himself and wa appointed a attorney to te Kansas City street railway. When the republican convention of Mla- souri wa held last year he wa enjoying a practice of Jl 5,000 or mono a vear. and waa a power In the counsel of' his party. He attended the convention, having no Idea whatever of seeking office. This Is th way be tell of hi nomination and election: 'Ther were three or four candidates for attorney general. None of them seemed to be satisfactory, and I waa going up front to try and have a name withdrawn when they caught sight of me. The first thing I knew I waa nominated, and before I oould protest I wa picked up bodily and carried to the rear of the room. I couldn't get back until the voting had commenced, the other candidate having withdrawn. Then I saw I was In for It. "Party leader urged me not to decline the nomination. They said It would be, a mistake, and that I could withdraw later. In a moment of weakness I agreed to thl proposition. Then I went home, and when I saw how my friends felt about It, I be gan to think that i ought to run. Tbe same party leader told me to make the race and If by any chance, I waa elected, I could resign fterwrd. "When I decided to make th race I ran the best I knew how. On election day, after casting my vote early, I went out hunting. Hunting la my favorite recrea tion. I was in the thick of a covey of quail, way out in the woods, when a man on horseback rode pp to me and gave me a telegram from my wife, back in Kansas City. The operator had mixed the message up, and all that I could make out wa 'come home at once.' I was pretty badly acared for a minute, for I have two little ones at my house, and I feared that one of them waa sick. "I go on my horse and galloped back to the nearest telephone station. While I wa trying to get Kansaa City I heard a man talking outside the booth, " 'It does beat hell," he wa saying, 't never believed the republicans would carry Missouri.' "Dropping the telephone anf telling the 1 operator to call me if she got Kansas City. 1 I ran out to where the man wasstanding. j " 'What's that about the- republicana ; carrying Missouri?' I asked. 1 " That's all,' he answered. 'Maybe Joe i Folk alipped In, but if he did he waa the only democrat." j . " 'Look here, my friends.' I told him, 1 that' pretty serious for me." 1 " 'It' a serious proposition for the whole ) damned state,' the man aald, ruefully. "That's the first I knew of my election. I got Kansas City and found my wife wanted to tell me ot my election. I went into office to stay there, the Idea of resign ing not appealing to me, and ther I am. I'm going to stick to It and do my vary best to enforce the laws. I guess that' about all there ia to say." Mr. Hadley's wife ia a newspaper wom an. Bhe was a Mlsa Agnea Lee when he married her four years ago a graduate of Vaaaar. The older of the two children ia a boy, t year old. The, la girl a year and a half younger. Hard and Heated. Baltimore American. Judging from th aumarou conference over th situation and th difficulty of reaching an agreement, coal ia a very hard ubjwct to dl;ua even when It I soft. il CIw f ssi sw aa w wesat aa aa aa A pure, cream free from alum and phosphates No acid but that of grapes whicr is pure, pleasant and healthful enter j into Dr. Price's Baking Powder Fruit acids are accounted by hygi enists the most important of the elements of the food of man and of these the acid of the grape is most prominent Dr Price's Qcam Baking Powder is not only the most efficient and per fect of leavening agents, , but owing to its constituents is likewise promotive of health, RICE BAKING POWDER CO., CHICAOO. GIVES HIMS-ELF A WAT. ' I alqae Answer of a Senator te Iowa's Governor. Kansas City Times. Governor Cummin of Iowa criticised th senate, especially the senate committee' Investigation of th railroad business. Senator Klklns replied to Cummin, and Cummins, In turn, replied to Blklns. Now ElklnSv once more answer th Iowa gov ernor, and thl answer 1 quite unique. He protests that he I not partial tn the rail roads, and calls attention to th Elklns anti-rebate law as evidence. That Is good evidence, but It Is on th other aide. That law eliminated the criminal clauae of th old Interstate commerce act, and that elimination was worth more to railway of ficial than they lost through any restric tion that th law haa imposed. Mr. Blklns also say that hi Interests a a shipper are aa ten to on compared with hla Interests as a railroad man, which fact h think should show "conclusively" that he I not on the side of the rail roads. And In claiming this conclusion, Mr. ,Elklns admit that he would be In fluenced In the senate by hia Interest, whatever they might be. Piatt wa mora candid when he said hi duty to th ex press company of which he I president cme first and his duty to the country came second. Elklns also sys he and hla en tire committee voted favorably on the Tlll-rAan-reeolutlon to Investigate certain rail road. That vote was calculated to make eenttment favorable to Mr. Elklna' re-election in Wet Verglnia, a thing that la wor rying the aenator considerably Just now. Besides, It la possible that some men voted for that resolution believing that it would be a good thing for the official of the railways Involved. At least no less a person than President Roosevelt ha de clared that, if congress would carry for ward th proposed investigation, the pro ceeding might render Immune from crim inal punishment all the official who should give avidenc in uch an Investigation. Who know Just why Elkins voted for that resolution? But finally, Elklns make a strong point In having secured from Mr. Cummin th admission that ex-Senator Faulkner, a railway attorney, sat behind him (Klklns), not at his right when th Investigation wa In progress. That I significant. It must b conceded that it make a great difference where th prompter takes up hi position in some public performances. In conclusion, however, it may be re marked that when th senate want a de fender It ehould not call on Senator El klna, and If possible It should put n in junction on his appearance In that capacity. PERSONAL NOTES. Count no actress a star who haa not had an operation for appendicitis 1 th pres ent theatrical rule. The editor ot th 1st of Pines Appeal, on of th beat caper on the Island. Is Arthur E. Willis, formerly a native of Butler. Mo. Sir John Sinclair, a BcotUsh baronet, haa preaented gramophones and records to 100 asylums and other Institutions, on condi tion that they are played to the inmate for half an hour every day. What punles the man of th house or the Janitor 1 the fact that, though, ac cording to temperature record, the winter waa extraordinarily mild, th furnace ha consumed about the usual amount of coal. M. R. Ivey ot Ottawa I the only man In Kansaa who raise his own orangea. H ha a tree that haa been producing the fruit for several year paat and that haa raised a crop of eighteen or twenty oranges last year. The orangea are not as large as the commercial fruit, but are of good flavor. Th tree is of th Mediterranean variety. Frederick Holbrook of Vermont, who re cently passed hts ninety-third birthday, 1 th only on of the famous "war govern ors" now aurvlvlng. H stood with Gen eral Curtln of Pennsylvania and Andrew of Massachusetts as on ot the stauncheet supporters of the Lincoln admiaistratlon when It most needed such support aa they could give. It was at the Port Arthur atege. during th assault on the celebrated Ml metei hiU. which coat the Japanese so many men. Befor sending forth to certain death a regiment held until then In reaerve. Gen era! Nogl, addressing tne coionei, aaia: "Your regiment la the first in all this world." "General," replied ' th officer, gravely, "It will be the first In th other." Coal. Wood. W. .ell th. best Ohl. and Color... Coal.-oleaii, hot, laetlnf,: AIM Reck S prlng, lllln.ls, Haitn., Sheridan, Walnut Block, It. For general purposes, us. Cherokee Lump, $f.S0 Nut, SS.OOperton Mlaaoirl Lump, S4.7S Large Nut, 4.80-maka hot, sjulok fire. Our h.rtl ooal I. th. CRANTOM, the boat Pennsylvania anthracite W. .loo Mil para, the hardest and .loanoat Arkansas hard eel All our ooal hand MrMnod and weighed over any olty Male. .Mired COUTAHT Cl SQUIRES of tartar powder, IS IT A SVRRESDERt aBBBaaBB) Frealdcat Mellen's Ragle Blast Soand Like a Retreat. Minneapolis Journal. The addr of Mr. Mellon before the Art club of Boston sound Ilk the bugl calling a retreat. Mr. Mellen practically v ay th jig I up, th management ol railroad is to be radically changed and the railroad managers who have committed none of the offenses which It cannot bt denied have been committed, will bt thrown down along with those who have. It la Impossible. Mr. Mellen say, to allay th suspicion which haa been excited. It I too late for promises. The publio will have regulation., It look aa though President Mellen wert trying to excite sympathy for soma un known railroad president who have dy only their duty and conducted their r5"u& road according to th beat Idea of busl- ness. But I it necessary? It doe nut appear that such an Individual haa any thing to fear from government rate mak ing. Tn fact, he Is one of those who Is going to profit by It. He I no longer ' to be overwhelmed by th stock-Jobbing railroad president. ' He I going to have the powerful arm of th government to support him in a square deal. If th aquar deal haa not prevailed in th railroad world, the president who yearn for it hould welcome the assistance ot th gov ernment. Secretly tney probably do, but outwardly they must maintain a semblance of being aalnst "government Interference with private rights." This la to placate and keep off their backs the stock-Jobbing presidents who would come down on them Ilk the Assyrian if railroad legislation should fall In congress. Mr. Mellen's speech might easily be Interpreted aa that of a railroad man who hoped congrea would paa th rat bill, and be quick about it. . flashes or na. "I want to buy an auto, but 1 don't kno wnat make to get. "But it doesn't matter much, doe It? According to the advertisements they're all "best.' "Philadelphia Catholic Standard. "Ar you handling Senator Bunoomb' peeoh? ' asked the managing editor. "Tea," replied the copy editor, "I'm Juat writing th bead. Let see, 'Glittering Generalities' would be Just the thing, but It's too long." "Abbreviate It. - Make it 'Hot Air.' " Cleveland Leader. "Macintosh boasts a good deal about hia family, doean't he?" "Tea, I think he claim the head of his family wa th original Macintosh that Noah had with him during that rainy sea son." Philadelphia Ledger. "It broaden one' horison, o to speak, doea It not," Inquired the man who was studying municipal oondltlona, "to serve th city In the capacity of alderman?" "I don't know about that," answered the other man; "but I have noticed that it gen erally broaden hla equator." Chicago Tri bune. Farmer But are you wlllln' to work? Tramp Why er yes Farmer Good! Now. that's th right spirit. Tramp Tea. the spirit Is wlllln', but dat's about all. Philadelphia Press. "Gee! Some of these roustabouts are strong. See how easily that fellow raise tht barrel of buckwheat flour." That a n trouble. That a sell-raising buck wheat. 'Cleveland Leader. THE GALLERY GOD. Baltimore American. None of your modern play for hltn. With your pusslea of lire to ponder; 1 None of your mase of aubtle talk, ' wonder Vv, U'h.t In lh world's all the talking about. vL ' J And why the act s nothing but chatter; j Oh, none of your typea ana your problem I for him. I matter. But give him th real, good, old-fashioned kind. With plenty of blood and thunder. Where the lovers so true are by father o cruel Relentlessly plucked asunder. Give him a heroine lovely as day: No virtue e'er heard of refuse her; And do not forget. If you value your life. The villain who fierce at ill pursue her. Bring on a hero as valiant a Mars. Who can carve up ten men unassisted All at once in a fight, with sword, dagger or knife. Or with Just hia strong right arm up lifted. Let him go through Impossible danger galore. Fortune fleeing, til at last he tree It Then ask your "cachet" from the gallery god, For he knows a good play when b it- Coke. Kindling. 14C. PAJtRAM i 1 1 n