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6 T1IR OMAHA DAILY BKE: THUIJSDAV. Al'IUL 12. 1POfT. Tite-Omaha Daily Dee. - lR. ROSEWATEh. EDITOR. PUBLJBHED EVERT MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Islly Be (without Sunday), ona year.. $4. W Ially Bee and Bundav. ona year tW Illustrated Bee, ona year t tD Sunday Bf, ona fnir J50 Saturday Bee. one year 10 DELIVERED BT CARRIER. 1'ally Be (Including Sunday), per week. 17c. Dally Bee (without Sundari. Der weeh..lJo Evening Bee (wltliout Piinday), per awlt So .venins Bee (w'th Sunday). per wm..to Sunday Bee, per copy Address complaints of Irregularities In oe livery 10 city Circulation ueparimeni. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha City Hall Building. Council Bluffs 10 Pearl Street. Chlcaao If40 t'nttv Building. rfw tnt-jvt Mom ilfa ins. nuiiaina. Washington tfl Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Commnlotlona relating to new! and edl torial matter should ba addressed: Omaha iiee, t-oitorlftl rcrartmnt. REMITTANCES. Remit, b draft, eiDtess of postal order payable to The He Publishing company. Only I -cent stamp received aa payment of mall accounts. Personal checks, ezeept on I Omaha or ewstern exchanges, not accepted. THE BEH rUBUBHINu WMCAKI. STATEMENT OF CIRCUIATION. Stat of Nehraak Tinualaa County, as.! C. C. Roaewater, genera.! manager of Th we Publishing Company, being amy iworn, aya that tha aotual number of full and complete conlea of Tha Dally. Morning. Evening and Sunday Be printed during tha month of March, 19ns, was a ioiiows; 1 ...S1.B40 17 3K.120 ,..81, MO ..M.190 ..gtt.OOO ..81,ftO ..31,470 ,. .81,030 ,..81.80 ,. .81,370 ...82,000 ...20.100 ..81JMO ..aaiTo 18.. IS.., ).. .., 22.. 23.. 14.. 26.. 36.. 27.. 28.. ..20,200 .. .81,400 ...S1.200 .. .81,180 ...81,n20 ...RJUlftO ...H2.120 I 11 :2 13 211,1 AO 3,2, ..81,000 .81340 ..81.2MO 8.... 14 81,410 ;6 81, ISO II 31,440 80 81.800 81 82.130 Total 0O7.4AO Leg unsold copies 10,741 Net total sales IMKi.TOO Dally average 81,161 C. C. ROSEWATER. General Manager, Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 8lst aay or Marcn, ism. (Seal) M. B. HUNQATB, Notary Publio. WHEN enf OF TOWS. Subscribers leaving; the elty tern porarlly ahonla have. The Bee mailed to them. Addreaa will be changed ae oftea aa requested. The man who could demonstrate hta ability to "put on the lid" at Naples could doubtless get any office within the gift of the king. Pat Crowe shows the result of lila experience with Omaha Juries by re fusing to prosecute tha employe alleged to have "tapped his till." Before fixing penalties for sounding discordant notes In the new Russian congress the power which wields the baton should be determined. Advices from Manchuria indicate that so far as the fate of that province is concerned diplomacy must accomplish what arms failed to perform. Now that both Senators Knox and La Pollette have congratulated Senator Bailey on his speech, the silence of Sen ator Aldrlch Is more observable. . It Is safe to say Attorney Morrison will use' no private Information from packers in his latest crusade against alleged irregularities at Chicago. The discovery that turbine wheels are easily broken shows that inventors still have a wide field of operation In tho matter of power for modern warships. With Witte and Durnovo both out of the czar's cabinet, the representatives of the people may be permitted to guess at the intentions of the ruler until his plans are perfected. Officers of the refrigerating depart ment of the Burlington are supposed to be meeting at Lincoln to talk over the summer schedules. Look out for a cold wave from the south. The political pronundamento of Lieu tenant Governor Herrfott as candidate for governor of Iowa has been Issued and can be summarized: "When you get through fighting pick a man not in the fight," " Fortupstely the grand Jury will meet within the month, when ample oppor tunity will be given to locate responsl bllity for the doctoring of those bal lots. The guilty parties need expect no favor from any one. With a law requiring six mouths be tween divorce and remarriage In Ne braska there can be little doubt as to the reasons impelling Council Bluffs ministers, to reject a proposition against ecclesiastical marriages of divorcees As long as a decision of Chief Justice Marshall can be cited In favor of con gresslonaj action on the present freight rate bill friends of the supreme court need leve no fear of the power of that IkmI.v being curtailed, as tho great chief justice was always jealous of the pre rogatlyes of the court. Although the first of May Is not yet here, Omaha Is already involved In sev eral minor wage disputes in the build lng trades preliminary to the opening of the active building season. It it to he hoped these differences will all be speedily adjusted, so that the work of Improvement wider way will suffer no serious Interruption. Never since the office of ciiy -omp t roller was created have the people of Omaha had before them a candidate for the position really qualified for li as an export accountant by profession and experience as they now have in W Krnest Johnson, the republican nominee If spec'' fitness for the office were the sole moving '"consideration Mr. . John sou's election would be unanimous. JVCKKTIXO MAI. VbXTr.ZTAXTV T'i reply of the anthrarlte dictator to the revised proposal of the union miners narrows and define tha Issue between them. So far as wages are concerned both sides profess readiness to arbitrate, but the miners want a new board Of arbitration, while the operators Insist that the same board which ex haustively studied the subject three years ago shall have the decision of tin wage scale now, and that when sonxed It shall stand for three years Instead of only on year. As both parties agree to arbitral revision of the wage scale, there seema to be no substantial Impediment to a reference, assuming them to be sincere, and It la not easy to see why the term of effect as well as' the scale could not be Included. But the real point back of all in this controversy Is not a mere question of wage-scale, but the desire of the miners on the one hand to reopen certain ques lions wnicn Tlie Itooseveil artmrating onmmla.lon ,1rl.l1 .Jvop.pI. to them and the resolute purpose of the opera tors on th other hand to prevent any men thing:. The paramount object of the miners Is the unionizing, of the mines or closing; them to all miners not mem hers of their organization, Including the subsidiary demand that the operators shall collect union dues out of wages on behalf of the union organization The Roosevelt commission In its award emphatically rejected the principle of the ''closed'' mine, and if reconvened would undoubtedly repeat that finding, As a matter of controversial tactics the operators seem distinctly to have turned the flank of the miners by the counter proposal of arbitrating the wage scale before the Roosevelt commission In fact the whole dispute tends more and more to appear In the light of a series of maneuvers for advantage of position. And the public will not be so greatly concerned as to the result as between the Jockeying contestants, so long as its owu Interest, which is in comparably greater than that of either or both of them, Is not subordinated and sacrificed, MAXIM GORKY. The arrival of Maxim Gorky, the noted Russian novelist and revolution ist, In this country has excited some newspaper discussion as to whether ai an alleged anarchist be should be ex cluded from our ports under a. statute enacted a few years ago, and is even said to be vexing some official minds at Washington. Yet, however forceful and extreme bts protests against a gov ernment tyrannical and corrupt to the core may have been, It does not appear In the slightest that he would be a riia- turblng or dangeroU(, faeton nPrei or that he comes with - any such purpose, or indeed that he would not prove an interesting and helpful character undei the social conditions he will find here which embody in large part the liberal alms for which he lias been persecuted In his own country. If we can tolerate the reckless and vicious use of the "muck rake," the indiscriminate calumniation of. our own government and public charac- ters and no one calls in question the legal right of practically limitless agita tlon of this sort It is bard to see what Justification can be found for arbitra tor exclusion of the self-sacrificing Russian litterateur who is conceded to be a man of unblemished Integrity, who certainly has neither committed nor conceived any crime against our laws, whose only crime in his borne country is that he bas Indignantly protested be cause the ruling tyrants would not yield a small fraction of the liberty which it Is the main object of our institutions to establish. It Is well enough and even necessary to bar out foreign criminals and noto riously dangerous men who would come hither only to make liberty a means of offense. But the laws for this purpose were never Intended to thrust back a high-minded author and Intrepid as sorter of human rights like Maxim Gorky, and they cannot be rightly used for an end so repugnant to the genius and traditions of our people. BAILEY'S C0S8TITUTI0XAL PUIXT- The view which Senator Bailey of Texas bas urged since the opening of the rate bill debate and which he has again set forth with great force, that congress has complete power over the Jurisdiction and procedure of Inferior federal courts, has been gaining ac ceptance in the senate and In public opinion. It is conceded that congress cannot alter the Jurisdiction of the su preme court, which Is conferred direct by the constitution Itself, but it also j ytumr iuai ctiiigrt-s HUHII IiaVP power to constitute tribunals Inferior to the supreme court." This grant is In cluded In the enumeration of the powers of congress. In the article dealing with the Judiciary It is provided that "the judicial power of the I'nlted States shall be vested in one supreme court and In such inferior courts as the con gress may from time to time ordain aud establish." The practical xlnt Is that Senator Bailey's interpretation open wide the door for congress to destroy absolutely the Injunction jsiwer of the district and circuit courts, so far as suspending the rates fixed by the Interstate Commerce commission pending judicial review thereof Is concerned. This would solve one of the most formidable problems lu the effort for more efficient railroad con trol, which Is to prevent the Intermina ble and extensive delays Inseparable from judicial dealing with this subject. The position held by mauy other able lawyer is the exact reverse, deuylng outright to congress authority to annul the injunction power of "Inferior courts" any more than of the supreme court. In which, !the Judicial power of the United States" Is vested by article lil of tfie fonstltntftin: the" ower granted tn emigres In article 1 "to constitute inferior tribunals" having no reference to the former, and being the grant un der which congress lies constituted a variety of tribunals, like tribunals for adjusting claims, from which the power of Injunction and other like powers could lie withheld. Such "tribunals." according to tills view, are not "courts" In the constitutional sense, which vests In a court, when congress ordains it. all the common law nnd historic powers, including that of Injunction, as they were understood when the constitution was adopted. Such a construction, although It Iihs been quite commonly entertained or as sumed, would obviously put a straight Jacket Uon congress so far as coucerus putting Into effect commlsslon-flicd rates until the courts on appeal should finally have passed upon them. And, with Its companion theory that every point In rate proceedings Is? fore the Interstate Commerce commission must lie appealable and retriable In the courts, the unescapable result would be to throw the whole subject of rate regu lation ami railroad control In general over into the exclusive disposal of the courts, In fact transforming com mission proceedings Into an additional source of delay, confusion, cost and ag gravation. Although the issue of constitutional construction Is so radical and sweeping that It must finally go to the supreme court for settlement, Senator Bniley has done valuable service In enforcing upon the attention of the senate nnd the pub lic an alternative view under which tills issue can be raised. MERGER OF THE TR EASVR1 E S. The merger of the treasuries of the city of Omaha and the county of Doug las, provided for in the chatter enacted by the last legislature, Is now an ac complished fact. From now on the county treasurer, as ex-officlo city treasurer aud ex-offlcio school district treasurer, will collect and disburse the taxes and other revenues of the city of Omaha and administer the city's bonded aud financial interests In addi tion to his administration of the couuty finances. . This is a great step in the direction of consolidation of city and county gov ernments, which The Bee has for years advocated and which was finally brought to a 'lead largely through its efforts. There I. no question but what a great deal of money and labor has lieen wasted by the duplication of va rious parts of our machinery of local government. If It were possible to con solidate completely the management of city and county affairs, It would be wonderfully profitable to the taxpayers. This has been done In many other cities, but in this state such a complete con solidation would lie impossible without a prior amendment of our state consti tution. Nothing prevents, however, the mer ger of certain departments of local gov ernment on the same lines as the pres ent merger of the treasuries, and on this point the recent decision of the su preme court is conclusive. There Is no good reason, for example, now that we have abolished separate assessment of property for municipal taxation aud Joined the functions of collecting and disbursing the public money, why the merger Idea should not be propagated still further by the creation of a single auditing department for both city and county, and the merger of the prosecu tion machinery of both the city and county aud possibly of the public works business relating to the maintenance of streets and roads. The increased outlay for salaries aris ing from the duplication of offices is even less important than the confusion and waste of time It entails upon those who have business to transact with both city and county and want to trans- act it In the quickest aud most effective way. Unless we are greatly mistaken, the merger of the treasuries will afford such an example" of convenience to the taxpayers that the pressure for further consolidation will shortlr become steadily greater until It is Irresistible. Under the provision of the Dodge pri mary law, weighting the value of a member of the party committee propor tionately to the votes cast In the dis trict he represents, the voting strength of memWrs of the new republican city committee will vary from 1 to . That, however. Is the correct principle of representation for a political organ ization, aiming to reflect correctly the sentiment of the rank and file. It Is a great Improvement on the old days, when, for example, the old Sixth ward with l.SSi republican voters had no more voice in conventions and commit tees than C'lontarf ant F.ast flmaha pro- clnets. eastliia- less than 1i r.,..l.ll..a - votes together. The democratic mouthpiece is, as usual, trying to throw dust Into peo ple's eyes by pretending that if the re publican candidates win out In the coin ing city election it will le a corpora tion victory, while if the dmiioeratic candidates win it will be an anti-corporation victory. Since when did "Jim" get into the antl-forKiration class? Up to date, whenever the corporations had anything they wanted done with the help of democrats, they always felt free to go to Dahlman for aid aud never had any trouble in making satisfactory arrangements. Congressman Kennedy has Introduced a bill for the quartermaster's depot which Omaha should have had long ago. This depot was really In our grasp at one time, but was pushed sway by "Our Dave" because he feared the ed itor of The Bee might get some of the credit for lis e.stablinhment rt Is to be hoped the bill will fare better at ll hands of this congress, although it Is plainly too late to secure action at the present session. Two custodians of voting machines at per day each have been duly ap pointed for the coming city election, and Inasmuch as no limit hss lieen placed on the number of days, they may lie depended upon to qualify wltliout delay. Without thee special custodians there would lie grave danger of the machine? getting their backs up and walking away. The World-Herald seems to be very touchy nlHiut that platform which ".Ilm" Inhlman was compelled to gulp down with his eyes shut. The real nuestlon Is. What would the platform have con tained If Pahlman had made It himself, according to his own viewa. without In terference or advice. Instead of having It done by proxy? The discovery that Iowa is annually losing large sums of money on Its but ter and eggs reminds one of the an nouncement made by an appointee of (Jovernor Boies that the farmers were losing money on corn: but In spite of these discoveries by the experts Iowa farmers continue to get rich. City Electrician Miehaelsen has a plan for replacing gasoline lamps on the outskirts with electric light "with out additional cost." We have seen these transformations In the past, but when the bills have come in the stipula tion about no Increase of expense has been forgetfully overlooked. Independent coal miners evidently lie lieve the consumers should Is fined for not assisting in the annihilation of the miners' union: but it Is barely possible that, should the union die, some nlhet excuse would be discovered for main taining prices. Another Immunity Bath. Washington Post. Railroad presidents will lie pleased to learn that It la not a crime to be caught talking with a United States senator. lip for Food Faddists. Philadelphia Press. There are new and gigantic possibilities to our breakfast food Industry in the an nouncement that fourteen entombed French miners lived for twenty days on hay. Sla-alfleant Combination. Indianapolis News. Eventually it may come to be called the Ixing-Knox amendment, which, Judging from the noise r-mftnaling from the na tional capital, would not be an inapproprl- te title. A Doubtful Statement. San FranciHco Chronicle. A Washington dispatch states that the president Intends to score the writers in the magazines and other publications who have been creating the impression that there la political corruption In congress and elsewhere In the national government. We doubt the slatament. The president la too well informed to hold publications responsible for an 'Impression which Is derived from direct observation. So long aa the corporations directly control the election of congressmen and senators, and th e latter control appointments, Just that long will the people think that things are going wrong, and the sHencing of the printing presses would not change the opinion. Imprisonment" for Corpora I Ion a. Springfield Republican. Why may not a corporation be Imprisoned to all Intents and purposes as well aa an Individual? is the question thrown out in a Chicago communication to the Green Bag. a legal publication of Boston. In im prisoning a man, the state merely takes away his liberty, his earning power and his material ambitions for the time of the sentence. If, then, an offending corpora tion were closed up for a certain period of time, or Its earnings were appropriated by the state, it would In effect undergo a pun ishment similar to that inflicted by Im prisonment of -a person. It is a startling suggestion, but not many "Imprisonments" of corporations would be required to make law-breaking very Infrequent, where now It la Impudently common. OMAHA THKX AM) MIW, Far Fetched Sobs for the Day a When Shirts Were scaree. Chicago Inter Ocean. In a petition for divorce filed In Omaha, Mrs. Amelia Rainey charge that her hus band, Alvira S. Rainey, possesses and hab itually wears NO ahlrts of various colors and materials. Nothing has happened In Omaha since the close of the Trans-Mississippi exposition, which goes far! her than this toward prov ing that In many respects that city is far In the lead of its pretentious rivals along the water front of the Big Muddy, for who ever heard of a man In Sioux City, St. Jo seph or Kansas City accumulating aa many shirts aa did Mr. Rainey. Time was In Omaha, and that not so very long ago. when It was thought a great thing If one had a change of shirts for Sundays and holidays. This was when the mighty west was in the building, and when hick- vaa in iiib iiuiiuing. anu wnen men- ory was the material In vogue. Li.tic by lime, nowever, -as the country oiieurd up, ,.i ,j . . , iiiw trnuuii i- uifi won a nre ami mere, . ., , ... , . and HOW and I Ifll linn ,-hrke,l fxr ylr nil . ' calico to feel the pulse of the community, . " ,u,,ur" """. -no .n "., laughl(M. ,., ,xpin.d ,e house will ! . ".....:..'' one nun i w iiii me milieu ooeoin o . Bai, to appear. At first, ami until Mrangers, attracted j thither by tint I'lilnn I'ui ifli' and Geoige Francis Train, intrmlured new anil uplift ing thoughts. It as customary for the founders of the best families in Omaha to go without shirt collars, and, when season able, in shirt sleeves. Forty years ago, or therealx.uls, It was a beautiful sight to aalk up Fai nam vtnot in Oiniiha of a sum mer's evening and find t lie merchants, ol IhiIohs and coulless, sitting on dry goods boxes and discussing the prospect of an other paying load coming over on the ferry fiom Council Bluffs. l'.very thing hss changed since then ex cept the hut winds and the dust from the river bottom. These will ever remain the same. But since the citizens of Omaha have now formed the habit of acq tiring more than two shirts on the average, since some of them are able to keep aa many a a dozen, and ainre. as we see by Mrs. Kain ey s petition, that at least one has ly. the hot winds and the bottom dust storms du not make so much difference. Yet there must be among t lie old settlers of Omaha sevenl founders of the best fam ilies mho recall with sighs the good old days when they found social enjoyment and healthful mental recreation while wailing for their shirts to dry, down on the river kmU, after the regiilarsemi-weekly swim. BITS V W ASHIKTO I.IFK. liner Sreaea and InHdenta Saetehed on the Spot. With ceremonies appropriate to the oc casion and an addresu by President Roose velt, the cornerstone of tho new house of representatives office building will be laid n-xt Saturday. A distinguished company of public officials and members of the diplomatic corps will witness the proceed ings. The building is directly smith of the house wing of the capitol, about lf yards distant, and occupies a square. It lil contain 410 office rooms, which means .1 room for each representative In congress and delegate, and leaves vacant nineteen rooms for a future growth In the member ship of the house through a reapp(rll,i. ment of districts or the admission of new states. The houso annex and the senate office building, which Is also under con struction at the opposite end of the plnxn, are being put up to provide for the mem bers of the national legislature quarters absolutely needed for the efficient transac tion of public business. The house annex was started first and Is In a more advanced stage of construction than the senate building, though the cornerstone of the latter may bo ready to put in place next fall. The two buildings together contem plate an outlay of about lio.oon.ono. In sIm and design they are Identical. They occupy positions balanced In their relation to the capitol and are planned to fit Into a gen eral architectural scheme. The height of the buildings has been restricted that they may not overpower the capltot, and they have been kept simple In design, without pediments, domes or other accen tuated points to prevent their detracting from the effect of the capitol building. Clio building la planned In the form of a hollow square, the open part In the center being a court nearly Son feet across. In conformity with the capitol building the principal front of the house office building will show three stories above ground. The offices on each floor are arranged in a dou ble row, separated by a corridor twelve feet wide. The outer row of offices faces the four streets, while the Inner rows open on the court. Four stories ate devoted to offices, Including the basement. The office rooms will lie supplied with tempered fresh air and will be artificially ventilated, but there will be nothing In the finish or ap pointments of these rooms to distinguish them from the rooms In any well equipped office building. The other day. when the senate was not in session, Senator Spooner had occasion to visit the chamber. To his astonishment the pages ten In number were holding a stormy senatorial session, with a black eyed little Ohloan In the vice president's chair. Another page was clamoring for recognition; another was standing on a senator's chair. Senator Spooner smiled and walked to his seat in the center aisle. "Mr. Presi dent," he began dlgnlflsdly. Quick as a Hash came' t lie answer, which nearly stunned the Wisconsin statesman: "The senator from Wisconsin," solemnly replied the page In the chair. "Don't you think, there is a good deal of confusion In the chamber. Mr. President, " said the senator from the Badger state When he had recovered his equanimity. The page brought down Vice President Fairbank's gavel with a resounding whack. "There certainly Is; the senate must be In order" and Spooner fled precipitately. When John Sharp Williams was fighting to get the quarantine bill through the house the other day the Texas delegation fought it tooth and nail. They denounced It aa a violation of the constitution aud to a man predicted the downfall of that ven erable document if the bill passed. The house, however, passed It. An hour or so later Mr. Williams bumped up against Mr. I Slayden of Texas in the cloak toom Bla den looked at Williams with aad reproach, but spoke not. Williams looked back at Sladen apologetically. Then he placed bis hand on the Texan's shoulder. "Slayden." he said, comfortingly, "cheer up. Tomor row 1 am going to Introduce a bill to re enact the constitution." Secretary Taft does not agree with his chief Hi the matter of the so-called anti race suicide theory. In discussing Senator Scott's bill to Increase the pay of lieuten ants, captains and majors In the navy. Secretary Taft said that he thought that the pay of these officers was now too low, but he was not prepared to approve of the increase at this Wine. The secretary declared that it seemed to hlni that young leutenants should not burden themselves with wives on the pres ent pay. General Corbin's recent utter ances on this subject possibly went too far In suggesting that young officers he pro hibited from marrying, but they were worth discussion at least. Secretary Taft said that he would like to see the pay of the noncommissioned officers raised, and dwelt on the value of the "old sergeant" who remained in the service on through his long and useful life, oftentimes teach ing the young lieutenant how to handle his men and become valuable officer. The fact that so niHiiy such men stayed In the service seemed to him to show that army life was attractive to level-headed men. Suspension day in the national house of representatlve is a time when rules go by the board. It la always a period of re- luxation among rnemliers, for nobody pays attention to the measure under consul eration unless it happens to he his own. This was the situation the other day and Speaker I'nnnon vainly tried to restore something like order. Tho talk and hardly "b'""l '"Shter went on and final l ncie joe vuiim mm luvuni i house, waiting- B" and by the house be- i , . . t0 'J'Zl'Z 1 one null, inn that the speaker was on his i . . , , ., , D . f-et and looking rather ugly. Presently , , . i . . , : there was absolute ailence. Mr. Cannon ' 11 i banged his desk once more and said: !, fly(i ,.,.,.,.,, now resume business." There was a g-n eral laush. and for us much as minutes the members were good. fifteen There are signs that Alice ltigworth is bringing up her husband properly. In fact, tho Idea Is afloot In Washington that lit is fairly well tamed alrendy. He has gone shopping with his wife more than once. "To be sine." says an official In one of til" departments, "he went shopning with her before she was his wife, hut that doesn't count. It's the shopping he bus done aim then that niakea or breaks the record. The antenuptial shopping was expected. The postnuptial well, until it Is done the tam ing has not been accomplished. The 'ash Ington rule for Judging whether the hus band has lieen tamed is to invito hitn to go shopping in one of Hie d partuient stores before lunch. If he goes bo has been broken to harness.'' General J. Warren Kiefer of Ohio, who speaks on all subjects, was submitting his dally remarks. "What do you think of that?" Congressman Bartletl of Georgiu asked Hedge of Iowa. "He Is the most ef fective speaker 1 know of," Mr. Hedge said. "His, speech purposes the reduction of the reprrsentiitloii in the house and It has succeeded. Counting ourselves and the general there are exactly elevtn represent atives iu tbe Uian.ber." L I M' lll!!JBA.Li WALTHAM WATCHES. Setting the time in every country on the globe. "The Perfected AmericM WLh." n illustnteJ book f interesting Information tbovt tvttches, free trpon request. AMERICAN WALTHAM WATCH COMPANY. WALTHAM, MASS. PFRSOV4L OTES. Where do you suppose Dowle's siicceesur, Vollva. came from? Italy? pain? Mex ico? South America? No. From Indians. Dr. William Klllol Griffith, the first white man to go to the Interior of Japan and the one who established the present school sys tem In that country, is In New York. Six thousand Invitations have been sent out by the Navy department to attend the patriotic services at the final burial cere monies of John Paul Jonea on the 24th at Annapolis. Rear Admiral Brevoe De La Payrere. with three warships, will repre sent France. King Edward VII Is the uncle of the em peror of Germany, will soon be the uncle of the queen of Spain, is already the uncle of the crown prince of Roumanla, the czarina, the crown princesa of Greece and the crown princess of Sweden, and is the father of the queen of Norway. In one of his recent lectures on Pluto before a roomful of fsshionable London women Dr. Emll Releli defined happiness as "the Interworld between two tinhappl nesscs." For "real happiness," he said, "can be experienced only by those who have passed through real trouble." Clark Bell, president of the Medlco-Iegal society of New York, has received a com mission from the State department an nouncing his appointment as delegate from the I'nlted States to the International Medical Congress, which meets In Lisbon on April 19 to Prof. A. B. MacDonald has been appointed to represent the New York university medical faculty. Colonel Kdwln B. Hay, In addressing the Washington Bank Clerks' assoclatlou lust week, said: "I think we have the crudest handwriting in the cabinet now that wo have had In many years. We do not see now. the beautiful writing that was so i common In the time of Alexander Hamil ton and George Washington. The trouble is we are all in a hurry." SEW F.P.A OF FRANCHISES. Pablle Privileges No Lonaer Granted , for the Asklna. Philadelphia Ledger. The spectacle of a mayor of Philadelphia returning to the city councils without his approval an ordinance authorizing the ex tension of an existing street railway line because It "contained no conditions or re strictions protecting the Interests" of the city, and that of a telephone corporation negotiating with the municipal authorities of New York as to the terms upon which a franchise shall Issue, are hopeful signs of the times. These Incidents are Indica tive not only of a more Intelligent appre ciation of the value of franchises, but of an Intention to surround them with such conditions as shall check the power of the corporations and Insure to t lie public ade quate service and compensation. They are the direct fruit of the great civic revival which is passing over this country. The causes which have brought about this remsrkable change In the attitude of the public toward the public service fran chises are varied and complicated, an awakened public conscience being but one of many. That tho latter has had much to do with It Is not to be denied, but the wealth of the corporations holding fran chises, their arrogant Interference in the affairs of state and municipal government, and the corrupting methods which have too often attended their operations, have been equally potent in grousing the people of this country to the value of the privileges which In the past were either given away or stolen by dishonest representatives. Thus the motives for the awakening have boon mixed ones, but the benefit to the public la likely to be the same, and It Is safe to assume that th era of unrestricted franchises hss passed swsy In this coun try, never to return. t Corrupting corporation Influences have not yet been eliminated by any means, but the Important fact Is that the public la no longer Ignorant or Indifferent. Th terms of franchises, the compensation guaranteed to the public treasury, the provisions for the retention of public control and owner ship, are all matters of popular Interest and scrutiny, and the lawmskers end fran. I rr,,, tranters disregarding this chaneed j (.on,)(,n will do so at their peril. This I mlpriV gtut affairs mny not go verv far t--w-rd remedying the blunders and crimes of the ixiKt. but ! their repetition In th fufire 'Ml lie iffrctUHllv prevented the gain will be well Korft while. -nam aviT - " -rr Tlit For Thin, Poor Blood You can trust a medicine tested sixty years! Sixty years of experience, think of that! Experience with Ayer's Sar saparilla; the original Sarsaparilla; the Sarsaparilla the doctors endorse for thin blood, weak nerves, general de bility. What does your doctor say? We have no secrets We publish the formulas of all our medicines. - U.-it bj th J. O. ayr Ct., Lessll, atsss. , ilw kwuftotumt r aYSB'3 Ball VIGOR -Per the kair. ATBI'S POtS-Por eeattissttM. atg'gClieKRYPECTOBALPMeoa(Bs. ATkg'SaGUSCUSrM ultrusaairj. JJ THE WAV TO FORCE ACTIOS. Klertlon of Senators by at Vote of the Teople. Minneapolis Journal. The following states of the union hare presented resolutions or memorials to con gress, through their legislatures, asking for an amendment to the constitution by which, senators will be made elective by popular vote: " . California, Idaho, Illinois. Indiana, Iowa, Kansaa. Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, New York, Ohio. Oregon, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming. Montana, Utah, Florida, North Carolina, North Dakota, Nevada, Pennsylvania. Tennessee South Dakota, Colorado, Michigan, Nebraska and Missouri. Twenty-eight out of forty-five states, or very near two-thlrda of the whole number, have thus gone on record, some of them two or three times.' Congress hss turned a deaf ear to all the petitions and memor ials and as long as the senate Is ruled by hide-bound conservatism, It will never vol untarily submit such an amendment. There is a way to compel action and it Is about time for a forward movement all along the line. If trie legislatures of two thirds of the states request it, congress Is compelled to call a constitutional conven tion for th purpose of submitting amend ments. A number of the states In the list given. Including Mennesota, have put their resolutions In that form, but others have been content with the plain memorial. If thirty of the states take extreme action the question will no longer He In the discretion of congress. It will go Instead to a consti tutional convention, which may propose still other amendments, but will certainly submit one for popular election of senators. The amendment will then become operative when ratified by the( legislature of three fourths of the ststes thirty-four out of the present forty-flve, ' . State legislatures have been slow to act, and naturally. Th amendment strikes at one of the great perogatives of ,the. legisla ture and but for the pressure of public entlment. few legislatures would take ac tion at all. There is no question about the desire of the people for such an amend ment. In order to get what they want, however. It Is sometimes necessary for the people to show their representatives that they mean business. FLASHES OF FI X. '"What do you women's rights women want, anyhow'" . . - "To-be tlaleffre nTeTi ftothinf more." "Ah! Come In and have a drink and a cigar on me." Cleveland Lesder. ... "You say that man Is cmeiked?" ' "Crooked! echoed Bronco Bob. "Why he couldn't play solitaire without dealing off the bottom of the deck." Weahlostou Star. . . Mr. Buttln What la the moat difficult part of a newspaper humorist's work? Mr. Jokesmith To live up to the salary he tells the other fellows he's getting. Cleveland 1eader. Stlnjay How do you like the cigar? Thst brand was especially recommended by my physician. Knox What's the matter? Why doesn't he let you u.e tobacco? Philadelphia Ledger. "Yes, I want a bookkeeper, but you look so very seedy." 'Well. I'm Just out of the hospital, sir, where I came pretty near being planted." Cleveland Plain Dealer. "I suppose you regard your election as a mark of confidence and esteem. " "Yes," answered the politician; "it shows conclusively that I stand well with tha boss In our district. "Washington Stsr. vbsi vn s. r From 'Maeauley'B ' "Pompeii. " ' . Oh. land to mem'ry and to freedom deaf. Lund of the melting lyre and conquering spear. Land of the vine clad hill, the frsgrsnt grove, Of arts and arms, of genius and ef love. Hear, fairest Italy. The leaves scarce rustled in the sighing breeze; - In azure dimples curled the sparkling sens. And as the golden title of light they qua If 4. Campania's sunny meads and vineyard lough d. While glamed each lighten'd oak and giant pine, On the far sides of swsrthy Apennlns. Saw ye how wild, how red, how broad a light Burst on the darkness of that midday night. As fierce Vesuvius scatter d o'er the vale His drifted flames and sheets of burning hall. Shook hell's wan lightenlngs from his blazing cone. And k( Med heaven with meteors not Its own? (
