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    . TIIE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 190ft,
The Omaha Daily Dee.
K. ROSE WATER, EDITOR.
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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. . .
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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.
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of the food of man and of these the acid
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Dr Price's Qcam Baking Powder
is not only the most efficient and per
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of health,
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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
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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.
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