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10 TilK OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATl'RDAY, APKIL 7, 190R. Tiie Omaha Daily Bee. E. ROHKWATFR F.DITOR. Pl'ULJSHED EVERT MOHNMNO. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. I'ally Hi (without Piinduy), ono year..$tn) imlly Hce and Sunday, on year 6 'n Illustrated Bee, one yrar , J i Sunday Hee. on .yrar J M Saturday line, out year 160 KELIVEHKD nT CARRIER. rHy Pee (including Sunday), pr week. 17c Imlly lie (without Sunday), per week. .12-1 Evening Jtea (without Sunday), per week tic Kvenlng Hee (with Sunday), per week.JOc Sunday ftee, 'r-r copy 6c Address eorhplafrils of Irregularities In de livery to City Circulation Lcpartment. offices. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omahn City Hall Building. t'mincll BlufTs-lS Pearl Ptreet. 'hless.rv lfitt t'nlty Building. New York 1(V Home Life Inn. Building. Washington 11 Fourteenth Ptreet. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi torial mutter should be. sddressed:. Omaba Jiee, Kditoiial Department. . REMITTANCES. Hem! bv dt-Hft," express or postal order pnysble to The Bee Publishing Company, only ;-c!nt Mumps received as payment ot mull acrnunts Personal checks, except on Om.il'a or eautern Mi'lmnge; not accepted. . Tim. BEE rCUUSHLNa COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCT.IATION. S'oic of Nebraska,' Douglas County, sS : '. C KosewRter, general manager of The P.ee Pub Mailing Company, being duly sworn, says that tho actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the monrn of March. HU, was as roiiows: 1 8I.IV40 17 :.M.iao an.2o 19 81,400 30 81.2B0 21 81,120 12.... 31.020 23 8ei,30 24 82,124 25 211.1 rw 26 81,210 27 81,OBO 28 81.U40 2 SI.KKO 3 82,120 4 21,nM S ni.4oO 8 81.4TO 7 ai,i:io S 31,3-W 9 SI.ST'e io &3,(S4 n t,l(M i: si,2oo 13 82,070 14 81,410 ij ni.ino 10 31,300 21 82,130 10 81,4.'M Total 107,4nO Lsa unsold copies 10,741 Net total sales o,7( Daily average 81,151 C. C. ROSE WATER, Oeneral Manager. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before in this 31st day of March, 19S. (Seal) M. B. HC NO ATE, - Notary Public. WHEN OIT OP TOW. Snba?.rlbra leaving the city tern porarlly should have The Bee mailed to them. Address will be changed often aa requested. Now that "the lid is on" at Hot Springs, Ark., no one can doubt that the world is growing better. Vesuvius promises to show how it lui Hed Pompeii, but the Italians do not st-eni anxious for the demonstration. The greatest apparent miracle Dowle could work at Zlon would be to make his rebellious followers return and kneel at his feet. When IJermany has solved the prob lem of the "sweat shop," It will confer a favor on America by telling how It was done. . "Jim" Dahlman Is now a candidate for mayor with a full-fledged platform upon which he has taken a stand with hit eyes shut. Before Russia opens the second con ference at The Hague, the czar might devote a little attention to restoring peace at home. Senator Dolliver has followed an un friendly precedent. He should have been ready to name bis "railroad sen ators" or have said nothing about them. The Interstate Commerce commission is to begin Its coal inquiry at Philadel phia, evidently under the impression that the corporations of that city are as sleepy as the people. Every candidate, without regard to politics, seeking office at the Impending city election will have to answer a whole lot of questions to tell "where he is at" before the campaign Is ended. Senator Elklns wants It understood that he is as much of a representative of the people as any other senator. But rue senator from West Virginia ha not made public his definition of "the people.'" Lieutenant Governor Herrlott gets Into the Iowa gubernatorial campaign Just In time to be a chopping block for the partisans of both of the other candidates, but he gives an opportunity to make a compromise. The people of Omaha will not elect either a city treasurer or a tax com mlssioner this spring. The board of canvassers decided this point aud the supreme court Immediately affirmed its aecisioD by wireless telegraphy. The republican slate committee ha taken action to bring the ouestion ratifying tie railway commission amend uieni to a .-ocus in state convention It remains now for the democrats and pop ..it.... hi. -...I ... . to lane a stand for or against to projvosed constitutional amendment and they will have to fish or cut bait. Since owners of transcontinental Hu have practically secured control of the western lines to the gulf, prospects for direct trade between the MIhsIkhIi t alley and South America are better aud the meeting iu progress at N ew Orleans may work out some good the traiiKiuissIsfclppi states as well the manufacturer of the east. to a The location of the republican state convention at Lincoln instead of a Omaha is unquestionably new evidence of old time prejudice throughout the state against Omaha. It Ik notice also that If Omaha M'ants to keep the 1'nited States senatorship, which it has had hince the admission of Nebraska to state. hood. It will have to present a candidate who Is acceptable to the republicans In the state outside of Omaha. THE RErVBLICAS STATK C0XVIST1OX The state convention for which th ill liss Just been ordered will 1 in rniin.r respects, one of the most Im portant conventions ever held by Ne braska republicans. Id nddltlun to pre senting a ticket of candidates for the tiMial state offices, the convention will nominate three rail way commissioners and endorse a candidate for Vnlted Ktates senator. The proposition to secure mi expres sion of preference of the rank and file of the party by direct primary rote this year has Nen rejected, forcing republi cans who wish to hare a roice In the nominations to assert themselves through the existing machinery of the party which bag heretofore been ma nipulated for the most part In the in terest of the railroads and allied corpora tions by their retained political agents. The rank and file of the republican party of Nebraska must be made to realize the danger that will beset the party If they do not meet these responsi bilities. The atmosphere is charged with public sentiment attuned to President Roose velt's program for a square deal and set against the perpetuation of railroad domination In government affairs. This Is true not only with reference to the officials In the stato house and the posi tions on the proposed new railway com mission, but most emphatically of the United States senatorship, which has within it the possibility of determining the result of far reaching national legislation. Notwithstanding the flattering ma- ority given to Tresident Roosevelt and again to the republican candidate last year, the election of a republican ticket and a republican legislature this year Is by no means assured. In fact, the significance of the majority for Roose- relt suggests what may happen should the nominees this year be at rariance with his firm position for corporation repression and control. The state committee has wisely fixed the date of the convention far enough ahead to give ample time for thorough discussion and agitation: Republicans of every county in the state must be fully awakened to the Issues. If the rank and file of Nebraska republicans are permitted to voice their sentiments and make their will effective, there need be no fear that the action of their con vention will be ratified at the polls. JOIST DEBATE IS IOWA. The contest between Governor Cum mins and nou. George D. Perkins for the republican nomination for the Iowa governorship has reached the Joint de bate stage in spite of the governor's refusal two weeks ago to accept hi competitor's challenge for a series of meetings, including every congressional district In the state. Matters having so shaped that appointments were an nounced for the two leaders at the same town and date,, and the meetings being then merged, the people, for once at least, will have the opportunity of hear ing the case of each aspirant presented when the other is present to correct any misstatements, extravagances and er rors. This direct collision at Spirit Itke on the 14th Inst, ought to help mate rially to clear away the mist of vague and Indefinite assertion which ha hung over the pre-conventlon contest In Iowa Governor Cummins, who Is now setT' lng his fifth consecutive year, has the reputation of an able orator and con troversinllst and could have no better chance to put forth effectively at this stage of the contest before his party the specific reforms in state legislation and administration for which be asks to have his term of office prolonged to seven years; or, If he la unable to do so and has Indefensibly fnlle In five years of power with friendly legisla tures and state boards of assessment to do what he proposes to do In the fu ture, Mr. Perkins will not lack oppor tunity to bring out these facts to his own advantage. For a state so conservative aud even tempered ns Iowa has been a contest fairly opening with a clinch between the chief rivals for party honors seems distinctly novel and Interesting. The result might possibly be so Interesting as to raise a popular demand for the extension of the same method nil over the state. A Sty ATE TICTIOS Senatorial traditions and fictions tri nmphed In the end In the lively ex change between Senator Dolliver and a bevy of senators indignant because be had declared that he had "as good a right to consult with the president of the United States on the rate tjuestloa ns certain senators had to consult with presidents of railroad companies," Just as they triumphed two weeks before la a similar episode when Senator Raynor asserted that "the rate struggle In the senate is a contest butween the rail toads ami the people." In both cases senators wero promptly on the floor to challenge any statement Impugning the motives of honorable senators aud de manding what particular ones were meant. Both scenes wound up, after mutual discharges of guarded sarcasm. with ample formal disclaimers of im putation of impropriety to any senator, However stub avoidance of plain speaking may please senators, the com try is all the time iH-comius less dis postrt to tolerate the cherished lictious of that super-eminent Usly. ono o which is that Its uiciiiImt r-ecesei'!l: stund on a plane of ethics ami ostrlot Ism t.s Mfly to be affected bv sordid or commonplace interests. This tVtloii may lie especially convenient for uniiiv senators at this juuctuie when the re verse of It Is notoriously and obvlouely true iu the struggle for rate -ontrol, bu for that very reason it is fspevLtUs Irritating to . the public, who are too seriously Interested In hard facts to be amused or deceived by preposterous fictions. " The fact Is. as Senator Itolliver stated that senators who are consulting and representing the interests of railroad presidents took occasion to throw con- enipt upon the president of the I'nlted States for consulting with senators in lie interest of the people, and ns Sen ator Rarnor stated, that the. strong hope and hold of the railroad corpora tions in their effort to defeat effective public control Is the senate. This fact s known everywhere In and out of the senate and the only place it Is not and cannot 1w spoken of, according to the good old honest custom of calling a spade a spade. Is the floor of the senate Itself. HARD COAL. MISERS ASD OPERATORS. The proposal of the representatives of union workers in anthracite mines to submit their differences with the oper ators to the Board of Conciliation pro vided for by the Roosevelt commission must be taken as another indication that the parties to the dispute may each agreement, although perhaps ou materially different conditions from those implied in this proposal. It ex pressly excludes from arbitration the period during which the findings as to wages shall be effective by limiting It to" March 3, )0o8, which, as the oper ators point out, is a presidential j-enr. The union miners evidently foresee that no board of arbitration of the character to which this dispute would lie referred, with Justice Gray or his appointee at its head, would be likely to fix a period ending at such a time, and the oper ators may bo expected to insist that the question of period as well as of wages be referred if it cannot lo other wise fixed to eud outside of a presiden tial year. How far the objection of the oper ators to that part of the miners' pro posal which would carry the question of the "closed" mine before arbitrators will be Insisted upon can only be guessed. But the Roosevelt commis sion's finding against the miners, hold ing that "the right to remain at work where others have ceased to work or to engage anew in work which others have abandoned Is part of the personal liberty of a citizen that can never be surrendered, and every infringement thereof merits and should receive the stern denouncement of the lw," would almost certainly lw followed by another nrbltrating hoard now. Practically, therefore, the miners would hardly gain nor the operators lose by Including this question In the arbitration list, except so far as the implications of the mere formal fact of arbitrating it at all are concerned. There seems, Indeed, for the iriost part to be more bluff than substance In the assertions of both sides to this con tention. In point of fact both parties are immeasurably more Interested In preventing than in permitting a pro tracted labor war. The hard coal miners never before were so prosperous, so well paid or employed under conditions In general so favorable to them. No secret is made of the fact that many of their original demands were made for con troversial advantage and with no ex- pectatHn that they could be secured On the other hand, the operators are confronted with the peril of enormous permanent loss of market in case a long strike should again call bituminous coal to be substituted for anthracite, to say nothing of Immediate and direct strike Injury. The soft coal supply will now In due time resume normal volume. In a large sense both the miners and the operators of the 4mrd coal region have a common competitive interest which a break be tween them at this time would sacrifice, and this Is really the best guarantee, of a settlement. Omaha is always thankful for small favors in the direction of improved pas seuger train facilities, but What It lacki most is trains going out after 11 o'clock at night that would enable people within a radius of 10 miles to spend the even ings here and get home before morning. In this respect Omaha Is not as well off as It was two or three years ago. A little pressure at the right place might restore the traiu service that was aban doned wheu new managements adopted the policy of making the people wait for full tralnloads. The last of the litigation arising out of the biennial election laws has filially been disposed of. The biennial election law was a chimera from the start and The Bee pointed out while the bill wits pending the constitutional bars to Its success. If biennial elections are wanted the way to get theiu will be by amending the constitution. The (teople do not take kindly to any scheme to pro long the terms of public officers by leg islation. The OmahA Commercial club has a great opportunity before It in promoting the location of new enterprises in this city. Conditions were never more fa vorable for such work than they are right now, but results cannot be accom plished without systematic effort, nor can any substantial gains be made by chasing air bubbles. Chancellor von Buelow Is recovering from his Illness and people may now realize that the stroke was one of state-craft-as well as of dVsesse. vince Ger many has forgotten ull that the socialist sMaker said In his attack on the gov ernment. It is certainly rich and racy for G. M. Hitchcock to help formulate a demo cratic platfunn promising municipal ownership of electric lighting when only last year through his paper be helped defeat the proportion to establish a un nlclpal electric lighting plant. A little back-tracking like that, however, is nothing for the local democratic organ, which has quite a record of such per formances. Representative Iodge suggests sev eral desirable amendments for his direct primary law, but bis proposal to return to the rotation of names on the ballot will hardly strike anyone as feasible ot practicable. If any rotating is to be done It will have to bo according to some more simple plan than that which was originally engrafted on the law and was rejected by -the supreme court. At any rate It will be generally ad mitted that senators who confer with the president are more likely to strike a popular chord than those who confer with railroad officials, even If they do not receive aa much "expert advice." Saperflnoas Prerlaloaa. Chicago Mews. A law explicitly providing that a rail way's "constitutional rights" slmll not be taken away may be a good thing, but Is It nut a little superfluous? Shortest oa Record, Philadelphia Ledger. Kansas republicans have adopted a plat form of sis words. No plank can be taken from that. The most It could possibly yield would be a splinter. Crop Pallare Fenced In. Washington Post. Secretary Wilson says there will be no more crop failures. StUI, there will be drouths and chinch bugs and all kinds ot crop-destroying evils In the Chicago grain pit, as heretofore. A Perilous Perch. Cleveland Leader. "Conservatives" Is whnt some of the news dispatches call the rnllroad senators. Con servative they certainly think they are, but the name hardly nils the bill. Is It con servatism to sit on a safety valve? Patriotism. St. Louis Republic. 'You are the boat American In the room," said President Roosevelt as he was Intro duced to the mother of fourteen children In the presence of a group of senators. The senate has not given birth to anything In a long time. Nation's Role aa Peacemaker. ' New York Tribune. America has played the role of peace maker at Algeclras as successfully, tf not so dramatically, aa at Portsmouth. Tha role Is a pleasing one, and happily Amer ica, by Its freedom from "entangling alli ances," is admirably situated for its per formance. Method la Her Madness. Boston Transcript. Investigators of postal frauds have dis covered that an inmate of an insane asy lum has been colnlna- a modest fortune hv corresponding with various Individuals in tne outside world "with a view to matri mony." Nominally these others were not Insane. They were simply foolish which Is thus shown to be occasionally very much worse. . Fooling Himself. Portland Ortgonlan. Senator Elklns proclaims himself a friend of the people and. insists that his efforts for the amendment of the rate bill are for the purpose of making it strong. Just the same, we have not heard of the railroads being very much displeased with him. On a question as Important as this, if the railroads are not displeased the people should be. Elklns will not fool any one but himself. Material for National ladlgnatlon. Bpringfleld Republican. Since the year began concerns having a capitalization of S 1,000,000 or more each have been incorporated In the United States to the extent of an aggregate nom inal capital of about $900,0uo,0io. That Is at the rate of $3,600,000,000 a year, and it Is confined only to a part of the Industry of the country. Wealth production is un questionably proceeding on a great scale and prospects are brilliant, but this manu facture of Inflated corporate securities is proceeding a little beyond even distant prospects. It Is likely to bring about an other attack of Indigestion. political, DRIFT. The lid la on tight In Seattle. Shaking dice and slot machines are on the outlaw list. Milwaukee and Kansas City, Kan., each plucked a majority rose last Tuesday. Roth were well rooted. One retired Involuntarily, the other resigned. Oral Quotations current in New Jersey show that slate senators have tumblud from the $1,000 class to the $200 class. Bust ness la slow at bargain figures. "Resolved, that we leave well enough alone," Is the pithy platform adopted by the republicans of Trego county, Kansas. The "bleeding commonwealth" shows symptoms of content. Second only to the shake-up last fall was the experience of Philadelphia last Tues day, when the. select and common councils organised with reform leaders in control. The old regime expired without a kick. Cincinnati has not fully ecovered from the shock produced by ex-treasurers restor. lng to the county treasury $211,000 in real money. The sum represents the "pick ings" of the treasurers, while In office. With Governor Jeff Davis on the high road to the I'nlted States senate, it is likely that Governor Vardaman will push for a seat in "the rnost august assemblage In the world." The senate hungers for variety. Mayor-elect Decker of Milwaukee is a surprising young hustler. lie led a for lorn hope for the republicans and beat old campaigners hands down. Becker la the son of a tobacco manufacturer and cam put km cigars, corncob pipes and chewing tobacco boosttd lilm Into office. Senator William P. Fry of Maine, in a long Interview In a Boston paper of Sunday, says he does nut regret giving up his law business, which would have made him rich, whereas ha .is poor, for a public career where he has lived In pleaauant surround ings and found infinite aUla tlon In the honors and confidence which his state has giyen him. The reforming mayor of Schenectady, N. Y., is an artist with lids to burn. Having regulated the saloon business to a finish, he has turned Me attention to peanut rutiaiter whistles, ragtime music, curbstone lecturers, guarreling wives, mashers and public dance. When the mayor finishes I he Job he will 1m ready for a gildrd halo and celestial wings. In Novemlier. New York will elect a gov- j ernor, a lieulensnt-governor, secretary of state, comptroller, treasurer, attorney-general and state engineer and surveyor, also an entirely, new legislature, comncscd of fifty-one renutors and l.'o assemblymen, be sides thirty-seven representatives in con gress aud a dosen justices of the supreme court. The entire control of the State gov. ernment will be at staJta, N ROYAL Baking Powder is indispens able to the prepara tion of the finest cake, hot-breads, OTHER LANDS THA OIHS. Regardless of Its complexion and limita tions, the spproachlng meeting of Russia s first parliament will mark a political epoch In the history of the empire. The Douma, as It Is named, convenes in the Taurlde palace, St. Petersburg, May 10. The whole centrBl portion of the palace will be used. It' is a hall about as large as the house of representatives In Washington, and Is entirely decorated in white and adorned with frescoes from Potemkln's time, while behind the president's seat and facing the representatives Is a large bow window looking out on a garden. The seats and desks of the representatives have been arranged around the hall, tier on tier, as In a theater. The tribune from which the members wift address the House is In the center, and on each side of It are two seats for the secretaries of the Douma. The president's chair Is behind the tribune, as are also the places for the ministers aud their assistants and the press. There are 664 seats for representatives, and under each Is a ventilator. The desks have sliding tops, which will thus do away with the banging of lids, to which turbulent parllamentarists might re sort. No place has been made for Ink wells, which are not to be permitted, and the rep resentatives will have to make pencil notes. The co-operative wholesale and retRll etore system In England continues to grow and flourish, according to a Manchester let ter to the New York Journal of Commerce. More than 2.000,000 people, most of them heads of families, are members of these as sociations, which number some 2.500. anj the continued eatenslon of the movement demonstrates Its success. Present yearly sales aggregate some $500,000,000. During the last year covered by the report the Manchester Wholesale Co-operative society made a net profit of 28 per cent on Its share capital of $5,216,658; while another large co operative wholesale concern, the Scottish society, made a net profit of 77 per cent. These wholesale concerns are principal sources of supply for the local co-operative societies, which so far as a rule command the confidence of worklngmen as to be In trusted with their savings to a large extent, a . It seems pretty clear that although peace has been preserved outwardly in Shanghai, since bluiSickets from the foreign men-of-war put an end to the recent rioting, the Chinese are still smarting under a sense of Injustice which may result in more serious trouble later on. A long memorial from the Board of Punishments with reference to the mixed court dispute approves tho Im perial rescript of January 14 supporting the views of the Nanking Viceroy. It to tally Ignores the fact , that the administra tion, of the settlement at Shanghai has been veated in the foreign community tor fifty j'Bars: asserts the right of Chinese officials to the Independent conduct of mat ters relating to the trial and Imprisonment of native offenders: and with this object In view orders the Immediate construction of a native prison In place of the municipal Jail. Although the latter is always open to Inspection, and an Influential Chinese committee recently admitted that there was no fault to find with it, the memorial de sccibes tha foreigners' treatment of pris oners as pitlessly severe. Moreover, the Chinese Patriotic society publicly com mends the native magistrates whose action led to the riots as deserving the warmest gratitude of their countrymen. At first sight there is something comic In the no tion of Chinamen complaining of the cruel treatment of criminals by Europeans, but it has been explained that the separate cell system is to the Oriental mind a terrible infliction. Naples is In danger of losing her pre eminence aS the most thickly populated city In Italy. The returns. Just published for December 31, lWfi, place the number of In habitants at &N6.fe9, while the population of Milan stands at 644,372. The figures are significant. Only a few years ago Naples was more than lOOOuO ahead of the Iajiu bard capital, and now the difference Is re duced to gt.ono. At this rate, the next cen sus is likely to put Milan tn the first place. The cause of the decline In Naples is not altogether clear. Authorities say that the absence of hygienic precautions sends up the death rate; yet doctors who have prac tised in Naples are loud In praise of Its health-giving climate. One influential fac tor In tha casa Is said to le (he Increased cost of living In Naples and the con sequent lowering In the standard of nour ishment attainable by the poor. Two pounds of meat may be bought in Milan for i& cents; In Naples they will cost nearly twice as much; while at the same time the average wage In Naples is only three-lift hit of that prevailing In Milan. Side by side with the revolutionary activ ity In Russia there Is a steady movement for the organisation and spread of higher education among the working c'.axses. Not long ago at a meeting- of the Society of Civil Engineers in fit. Petersburg the ques tion of organising a pan-Russian society for the founding of popular universities was re vived. This proixjsition has found support not only from private persons, various soci eties and profeksional organizations, but also from the St. Petersburg Town Council. Tlia w ri . rolls and muffins. No other baking powder equals it in strength, purity and wholcsomeness. ROYAL HAS HO SUBSTiT&TtZ ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO NEW YOB minister of public Instruction promised help, but no money, A temporary bureau was opened and lectures were to begin not later than the first day In Lnt. Under the pres idency of Prof. E. P. Tarhitnoff the pro grams of the five faculties social economy, mathematics, natural sciences, human sci ences and technical wet arranged, and lecture hours have been fixed for the bene fit of the working men on week days In the evenings and on Sundays and holidays dur ing the morning and afternoon. The ques tion of fees was a dlfflcilt one to decide. The final agreement wns that for every two-hour lecture a fee of u copecks, rather more than 2 cents, should be charged. At the present moment there are only thirteen lecture halls In the city, but this Is a diffi culty that may be overcome in more ways than ono. Although travelers entering Paris at any of the great railway stations may lcjng con tinue In happy Ignorance of the word "octroi," tourists In conch or motor car are not so fortunate. They have to take their place amid long rows of carts, carriages and motor cars In front of the miniature custom houses at the Porte Maillot or the Porte de Vlncennes or at any of the numer ous Inlets to the city and there pay their toll if they happen to have with them dutiable commodities. It is a municipal tax that is levied, a survival of feudalism, suffered to exist simply because the Pa risians themselves are not bothered with It. These Parisians, with characteristic hatred for direct taxation and a weakness for In direct, pay 40 francs a head every year toward tha octroi. This octroi brings Into the municipal cof fers $30 noo.ono per annum. If It is to be abolished, as has often been suggested, how Is the deficit to be made up? Here Is the scheme of M. Chautard. He proposes to save $6,000,000 by putting off the payment of the city debt and to farm out to the state the dues on alcoholic liquors, which would make up the balance of $14,000,000. Another scheme is to have the octroi applied only to people and goods entering Parts by rail, the railway companies to bear the cost of collection. PROBLEMS 151 COAL. COST. System of Arithmetic by Which Ike Ctrusamer la "Soaked." New York Times. After laborious study of tha figures pre sented by the coal operators to show what would happen to the consumer of anthra cite if the demand of the miners for higher wages were granted, one at least seizes upon two comparatively simple statements: Tho labor cost of each ton of anthracite would be Increased 61.8 cents, and It would be neoessary to advance the retail pries $1.20. We have called these statements simple, but that Is not to say that they are comprehensible not easily comprehen sible, that is, by any mind not that of an "operator." The mere Ignorant man with a furnace and a wife and a few children to keep warm therewith feels a shamefaced Inclination to wonder why an Increase of cost amounting to Sl.$ cent at one end of the coal business should necessitate an ad vance so much greater at the other, which happens to be his eud. Remembering that the famine prices fixed during the last strike have been pretty firmly maintained ever since, he almost wonders why, In case of another Btrike settlement, he should have to pay what seems to him more than twice Its expense to the owners Of ' the mines. These, however, are problems in Browning, Ming x Co OUCIIIATOBS AND SOLE MaKEIS tit RALf SIZES IN CLOTHING. Got a Boy? More than one? Makes no difference, tho,' how many, we want to do business with you. The more boys the more business. This is the time of the year. Easter Time when a boy wants some new clothes. Have you ever tried our kind! If not you have missed the best to be had. Bring hiin here for asuit, a hat, rait, underwear, shirts, waists, liosierv or dresed at Kast- any article i tertaining to Haster wear for the T. " said Mau . ..... tfrumn I. , inVfl Hill fill (Iron. j half the r me " f Fliteenth and j Douglas Sts. Broadway at l&ad Strl KCW Makes the lightest most delicious and tasty hot biscuit high finance, and they cannot be expected to work out according to the ordinary rules Of nrllhmetlo. The d (Terence Is all beau tifully explained in the proclemation of the operators, and It would be too much to ask them to supply both the e xplanation and the Intelligence to comprehend It. .That "the consumer always pays" is n law of i nature, and nobody thinks of findln;; fault with It; In time, presumably, the consumer will get used to paying twice, and he o.'glit to be happy over the general admission in I the upper circles that It Is not well to e". -I act "more than the traffic wilt bear." To i be sure, more ofien is exacted, for awhile. but such unpleasant thlns usually happen when that Is done that It is considered hnl form and unwise policy, evert by- "oper ators." LIGHT All) I.1VKLV. "Does your rheumatism bother you much?" "1 should say It did. Every Idiot I meet asks questions about it. Philadelphia Press. "I want to know," said the irate matron, "how much money my husband drew out of this bank last week!" "I can't give you that information, ma'am," answered the man In the cage. "You're the paying teller, aren't you?" "Yes, but I'm not tha telling payer." Chicago Tribune. "You were at the opening performance of Ranter's new play, 1 hear. Did It go off smoothly T" "Well, I noticed one bad break." . . "Yes?1' "Yes. it broke right between his eyea and the yolk splashed all over bis face." Philadelphia Press. "The village isn't what it nsed to be many of the old landmarks ire gone.'.' , "Frlnetance?" "Well, the town pump Is one." "That ain't no landmark. That's a water mark." Cleveland Leader. "What we want." said the practical poli tician, "Is a safe man." "And what is your Idea of a safe man?' "One who won't give up anything except in response to our combination." Washing ton Star. HCBA1YAT OF TUB IOWA DRCMMKH. Chicago News. A song of leathern grip and sample case, The amlle-that-won't, eta, on the face. The luxuries of travel and hotel, Tha bunko crowd that seeks tus every place. A railroad train that's 'most a fortnight late Five hours of crawling through the Hawk- , With brakeme'n bawling Blpppp!" so you I will know - . He means "Otturawa" oh, .this life is I great) - ' ' A hotel bus that never boasted springs. Though It haa known three-score of falls and things; A blank-faced porter with a fooliah star Such diszy Joys our daily routina brings. And eke a clerk that doesn't seem to know That when a man haa been two daya or so Vpon a freight train in a close caboose ' lie needs some sleep to keep him on the go. ! This clerk (black curss of Shleliegh on his i tribe!) A half an hour after you Inscribe , Your name upon the greasy page Inquires: ' "Je-wsnt-a-roomT" You hats him for bis gibs. I Ha takes you to a stall that's two-by-four. Containing one cheap chair and maybe more, I A stand that like a weeping-willow sways i On crasy legs you wonder that we roar? A slop Jar, cracked and lidless, stands be side . , Th .uihitinil with ona tinv towel BUD- I plied . . . . And one small cake of soap that la as bars I As granite this the oell where I reside. OMAHA NEB. YOBIi ,
