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'10 TIIE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, FEHRUAUY 16, 1907. The Omaha Daily Dee. FOUNDED BT EDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. EJr.tered at Omaha postoftlc s second class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION ' rlly rii (without Bundny) one yesr...JW Dully bee and Sunday, one year rundnv Uo, one year J Saturday Hee, one year M DELIVERED Y CARRIER. Dally Hr (Including Sunday. er wwk..ljc Dally Hee (without Sundnyt. Pr week... 100 Evenlns, Bee (without Sunday), per w-ek. Sc Svenina liee (with Sunday) per week....l Ad'irena o.nipalnts of Irregularities tn Oe llvery to City Circulating; Department OFFICES. Omaha The Roe Building. South Omaha City Hall Hulldlntv ' Council Bluffs 10 Irl Street. t'hlrno-.) I'nlty HulMlng. New Vork Krfis Home Life In. Pnlldlnf. Washington Bfll Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Comunlratlons relating to news and edi torial matter shxiilfl be addressed: Omana . Ike, Edltorlnl Department. REMITTANCES. Remit hy draft, oxnress or postal order, nayible to The Bee Publishing Compftny. Only J-rent stamps received In payment or mall account, pers.mnl check, except on Omaha or eatern exrhahgrs. iKt accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHINO COMPANY. STATEMENT OT CIRCULATION. tste.nf Nebraska. Douglaa County, a: - Charts C Roeewater. general manager of The Bee Publishing company, helrfg duly worn, eaya that the actual number of full ' and complete copies of The Dally. Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of January. 1307. waa a ionowe; t. , 30,900 17 31,970 t 33,680 1 31,970 4 31,960 t 31,660 80,600 7... 3L950 1 39,800 t 32,360 10 33,040 11 31,070 It ...33,050 11 30,400 14 ...31,730 14 '...31,930 31,990 19 .31,780 20 30,300 Jl .31,900 It ..83,050 H 31,840 24 '.....31,780 2 J .-...31,700 2 31,830 27 30,500 21. 31,830 29 31,663 10 81,330 tl 31,630 II 33,180 Total. . ...... 989,480 Leaa unaold and returned copies.. 9,134 Net total 973,348 Dally average 31,398 CHARLES C. ROSEWATER. General Manager. Subscribed fn my preaonce and aworn to before me thla 3 1 at day of January, 1907. (Seal) ROBERT HUNTER, ' Notary Public. Subscribers leaving: the city tem porarily ahonld have The Re mailed to them. Address will be chanced as often aa requested. Evidence, is . accumulating that the ground hog made a mistake. Life at Lincoln hotels la undoubt edly leading many a legislator into line with the antl-tlpplng bill. General Kuropatkln assigns about every reason except Feld Marshal Oyama for the defeat of Russia in the IJuss-Jap war. Cuba expects Governor Magoon to do something for Cuba aa soon aa con gress adjourns. The Cuban opinion -of congress Is no new. KanBas has a bill providing for municipal cemeteries. This looks like running a municipal ownership business into the ground. - ' Eastern cities are making a good deal of fuss over the establishment of all night banks. Council Bluffs has had several of them in operation for years. Mayor Jim put in his little plug at Lincoln on the charter amendment, but he made the mistake of securing only fusion opposition to changes pro posed.' More Indian lands in South Dakota ,are to be opened o settlement. This means an extension of Omaha's "sphere of Influence" in the business world. Dr. Wiley, the government chemist, is now assorting and labeling the va rious brands of disease germs that lurk, in ice cream. Boil your ice cream. The American Tariff commission has returned from Berlin, bringing a per sonally conducted expense account and report of progress, with a request to sit again. A Wall street report says the clear ings house banks "lost 112,000,000 last week." The' matter might fie serious if Wall street's losses were-In real money. The senate chamber at Washington is to be fl re-proof cOi during the com ing vacation. Is. U a .precaution' against the coming of Senator Jeff Davis of Arkansas? Congress has refused to pass a na tional child labor bill but offenders might be punished by having Senator Beveridge's 110-column speech on the subject read to them. A London scientist predicts an earthquake for Illinois, but former Senator. "Billy" Mason and, former Governor "blck" Yates may fool him by refusing to start anything. Mr. Cone of Saunders persists In allowing a partisan seal to outrjm hie calmer Judgment. A safety valve of some sort would render him a more effective "leader of the opposition." Speaker Cannon says the ship sub sidy bill must wait until it has more public opinion at its back. Tariff re vision will please move np a little and make room on the bench for ship sub sidy. . The' Concessional Record is "hot printing a word about the Thaw trial, the editor evidently' feeling that the reports of 'Tillman's speeches and Sen ator Foraker'a conduct of the Browns ville investigation are sensational enough for his needs. wf e.t railroad Doctors disagree. The president, the congress and the state legislatures may reasonably be excused for falling, to find a common ground for the solution of some of the vexed problems connected with the transportation interests of the coun try, when such eminent lights' in the railroad world as E. II. Harrfnian and James J. Hill come to a parting of the ways in an attempt to place thej responsibility for the congestion of traffic, the car shortage and other present day evils of railroad manage ment against which the shippers and consumers are loudly protesting. Mr. Hill, who was a railroad builder before he became a railroad manipu lator, contends that the development of the transportation facilities of the country has not kept pace with the growth of business demanding such facilities. He Insists that new rail road construction has not kept pace with the expansion of business in other lines and that 100,000 miles of new rails would not more than place the railroads of the country on a level with the business of the country. He offers rather convincing figures in support of his contention by showing that the business of the country has Increased a hundredfold in the last ten years as against an increase of but 21 per cent in railroad mileage. Mr. Harriman takes square Issue with Mr. Hill on this proposition and declares that the facilities of the" railroads have increased in a larger ratio in the last ten years than has the volume of busi ness and tht the shipping public is to blame for the congestion of traffic, the car shortage and other ills that are hampering the commerce of the nation today. , Much 'depends upon the viewpoint. Both Mr. Hill and Mr. Harriman may have grounds for their contention, but Mr. Hill supports his arguments by statistics, while Mr. Harriman con tents himself with assertions. Mr. Hill has spent most of the aejive years ot his life in the country now clamoring for relief from existing transportation ills, while Mr. Harrlman's chief suc cess has been won as a railroad finan cier. Harriman looks at conditions from the Wall street viewpoint. Hill keeps his feet west of the Alleghenles. In the meantime, the merchants of the great empire in the west and northwest are unable to get cars to carry their goods from the eastern market, while the grain men and stockmen ore compelled to suffer an noyance and financial loss by the fail ure of the railroad companies to fur nish prompt and ample facilities for the transportation of their traffic to profitable markets. The shipper, ham pered and hurt byMnsufflcJent railroad facilities, will have little patience with Mr. Hill and Mr. Harriman in their academic, discussions of the causes of existing traffic congestion, but will con tinue to use every effort and influence to secure, from whatever source, the relief that is Imperative Jrom ejclstlng conditions. TAXI ICO BPECCLATIOy. The tax of 25 cents which the 'Mis souri legislature has just levied ou each transaction in commodities for fu ture delivery on boards of trade or In bucket shops was undoubtedly sug gested by the New York law specially taxing 2 cents a share on transfers of stocks. There Is, however, a material difference of method. The New York tax bears proportionately to the value transferred on the number of shares, while the Missouri law fixes the tax at 26 cents on a transaction whether the value involved be $100 or $100,000. The principle Involved in special tax ation of such dealings for future deliv ery, the great bulk of which are purely speculative 'has, been fully .vindicated by the courts. The New York law evoked most vehement protest, but it was mainly from the comparatively small class who as middlemen thrive on the volume of such speculation, and they exhaustively litigated the law only to have the court of appeals uphold it in its length and breadth. Experi ence has confirmed public satisfaction since the New York tax yields an an nual revenue of about $8,000,000. ' In point of fact such special taxation does not fall on the boards of trade or the bucket shops, but for the most part Is ultimately charged back to the spec ulators' themselves. The former would be affected by material reduction of the volume of speculation only, where the tax is severe. But a moderate tax act ing "proportionately to values on the New York model would likely be a bet ter revenue producer and more work able than the arbitrary Missouri levy. TROVBLE IN CVBA. The ugly circumstances that have In fluenced Secretary Taft to annul Gov ernor Magoon.'s recent order doubling the Cuban rural guards are not cal culated to hasten the withdrawal of the United States from tho Island. The order was of course Intended to strengthen public authority against discontent and disorder and pave the way for elections setting up a stable government. But this waa precisely what the restle spirits and habitual revolutionists who overthrew the Palma government did not want The object of these patriots is control for themselves ot the spoils, and the or ganization of a strong native force to maintain a native government against revolutionary outbreaks fhrew the rev olution marplots into convulsl6ns. The rescinding of the order strength ening the Cuban rural guards, how ever, does not mean surrender to the malcontents and agitators, although they were foolish enough to Imagine that to be the meaning. They are now beginning to awake to the fact that the strong arm of law and order will simply continue to be represented by the American army and navy, in stead of proposed strengthened native forces. The United States has as sumed the obligation of protecting property and public order, and It was for this purpose that It reluctantly In tervened and it will not and cannot rightfully lesve the Island until the continuance of such protection under native anspices is thoroughly assured. It Is not a hopeful sign that revolu tionary Influences are strong enough to compel the abandonment ofso Impor tant a step. The result necessarily de fers . the withdrawal of the United States army. It also explains why the property owning, commercial, indus trial and professional classes on the Island, whether native or foreign, have from the first been distrustful of in dependent Cuban government and are becoming everyday more converted to the Idea of permanent American occu pation, as the condition of stable and wholesome government. (BJWOKED OVT. Whatever else may have been ac complished by the public hearing at Lincoln on the terminal taxation bills, it has produced at least one good re sult it has smoked out the paid spokesman of the tax-shirking rail roads on their main line of defense. Up to the present the railroad lob byists afnet publicity agents have In sisted that terminal taxation for munic ipal purposes would simply transfer to the big cities taxes now paid by their roads into the treasuries of rural counties and school districts. They have assumed the' unselfish and pa triotic role of protecting the rural districts from spoliation by over reaching municipalities, although at the same time insisting that the rail ioads would not be directly concerned or affected. If these apologists for railroad tax-snirKing were to De De- lleved, it was nothing to the roads where they might have to pay their taxes, but they would much prefer to pay them In remote corners of the stafe. When driven Into the corner,' how ever, the railroad representatives have been forced to admit publicly that it would make a great deal of difference to them if they, were compelled under the proposed terminal tax bills to pay city taxes which they now evade. One or two of them, more frank than the others, were even forced to admit that the little cities and villages would not only lose nothing by ter minal taxation, but that they might in fact be gainers thereby, as well as the big cities containing the more valuable terminals. The issue is therefore simplified Into an effort on the part of the railroads to, perpetuate an unjust and inexcus able condition by which they have for years succeeded In escaping their fair share of city taxes, and in sp doing unloading the burden . which , they ought to bear on to the shoulders of other property owners, who have to pay city taxes and other taxes without any recourse. With the Issue thus plainly put, the cause of equal taxation can not suffer. . .' . San Francisco notifies Mayor Schmlts that if he concedes anything in the Japanese fight he need not come home from Washington. Re membering the number of Indictments pending against him In San Francisco it is difficult tp understand why Schmltz should want to go home. The charge that woman has no busi ness ability falls in face of the record of a California girl who married a man who had lost ( both legs and an arm in a railroad accident and then managed a case which resulted in a verdict of $100,000 damages against the company. ' Nebraska farmers .are learning pew tricks rapidly. 'The latest is against the Sugar trust. Whenever the sugar company does not care to buy the beets the farmer feeds them to his cattle and realizes more than $5 a ton. ( The president received a number of valentines of the offensively comic variety. Some Sherlock Holmes should Investigate and see if Senator Foraker has any ink on the left side of the big finger of his right hand. Value of a Stiff Blaff. Philadelphia Record. Tha evidences are wanting that the Japa nese have as much respect for other na tions as they are In the habit of exacting for themselves. Outgo aad Income. Pittsburg Dispatch. It does sound a little cynical for tho news columns to report at the end of the week that John D. Rockefeller makes his big gift, that the prices of refined petrol eum and its products are put up a half cent. 4 Greatest of Projected Reforms. St. Louis Globe-Democrat, A politician's trust Is about to-be organ ized In Washington to control the prices ot room and board during, the meetings of congress. Government ownership of hash erles will be the next step of reform. ForrlKaera la Aurrlris Trusts. Baltimore News. Federal Indictments at Savannah against the alleged Turpentine Jrust bring out the fact that Antwerp and London concerns were In the combination. There must have been something In our laws peculiarly favorable 'to the torganlxaflon of trusts when foreign capital was attracted to methods that were not practicable In Its own horn Aelda. Neallavaco of Taxpayers. San Francisco Chronicle. Most of the tlma the people pay precious little attention to what is done with the money gathered from them by the tax col lector. They grumble when they are railed upon to. pay the Mils;' perhaps their "grouch" Uikis rhre or tour days while they are reflecting upon the necessity of tepplng up to the captain's office to settle; hut when that Is ine they let things slide. The taxpayers' control of the purse strings Is beautiful In theory, but It does not work out In practice Just as the eloquent eulo gists of popular government pretend. Vanishing; War rioada. Roston Transcript. It certainly looTts as If Callfoonla had agreed to sound the "cense firing" signal. This and the announcement of Sir Wilfrid Laurler that Canada will never willingly make war on the I'nltid States ought to open the way for whlte-wlnged peace to assert Its supremacy and dissipate the war clouds on the horlson. mhlch, begin ning no larger than a man's hand, have nerer Increased their Initial dimensions. Penetratlnar a Mystery. Chicago Chronicle. Very little of the earth's surface remains unexplored. Thirty years ago Mme. Bla vatsky located her "Mahatma Koot Homi" In an oasis of the desert of Oobl, deeming that neighborhood pretty secure from the Invasion of the curious. Yet Svcn Hedln has now twice crossed the desert of Oobl and Mr. Landor has also explored It. It may be said Incidentally that they saw nothing of Koot Homl or. his oasis. The Circumstance Indicates that he who would create a land of mystery ought to locate it on another planet. Any place on this sphere Is' likely to be Invaded by restless people of the Hedln type. The llnnrer nnd the llnnted. Baltimore American. Prof. Thomas of Chicago university fame thinks the ancient mode of capturing wives by force preferrable to modern Institutions of matrimony. Bernard Shaw, who can give Chicago professors cards and spades on the whole art of getting notoriety with out waiting, advances the theory that Irt modern society woman Is the hunter and man the game she mercilessly tracks down, peers of Scotland and Ireland. The full These two gentlemen might Join forces ln!n"Renibly contains 3 princes of the blrod evolving a theory of social revolution which I royal, 2 archbishops, 22 dukes, 23 mat takes the race back to theprlmltlve days, I quisles, 124 enrls, 40 viscount. 24 bishops. were It not for the opposing fact that un der primitive conditions the race has no use for freak theorists, poets of passion or the performing clowns of dramatic litera ture. Rossdlnt'Ont Pensloa I.earlslat Ion. Philadelphia Record. The service pension act Just signed by the president provides that soldiers and sailors of the Mexican and civil wars hav ing reached the age of 62 years shall re ceive $12 a month; 70 years, 116; 75 years, $20; the pension to commence ' from the date of filing the application. There can be no accurate estimate of the amount of money 'which will be needed to cover the additional charge upon the treasury made necessary by this legislation. There is no doubt, however, that It will serve aa a precedent for future pension legislation for the aged sun-Ivors of later wars. It rounds out and completes a policy of grateful recognition for warlike service on land and sea without parallel In any other country. Shooting t p Fort Brona, ' , Philadelphia Record. Mingo Sanders' testimony la quite unlike any testimony obtained by Colonel Oar lington or Major Blocksom or Mr. Purdy. It Is highly picturesque. According to him Fort Brown was attacked by the popula tion of Brownsville. The gallant men of the Twenty-fifth Infantry were panic stricken. Some of them fell upon their knees and prayed for deliverance. Others shouted to have the lights put out, as they were drawing the Are of the enemy, The heroic sergeant ordered the men to fall In, and not fall down, and assured them It was better to die In the ranks than anywhere else. The guna were locked up, the cus todian of the keya could not be found, and Lieutenant Greer the , sergeant says he recognized the-voice ordered . that the racks be broken. Sergeant Mingo Banders has been In the army R long time and borne a good reputation and he wants to get back Into the army. v MAKIXU THIS GOODS MOVE. A Merchant's fhanare from Window Morns to Newspaper Advertising. 'The Autobiography of a Business Man," In Everybody's Magazine, recounts with tare simplicity the development ct the bust- naam Ufa rt Tn.n Mii.p.w a Chlnaon V. i. I., , - dasher. Chief among the Incidents of hU career Is the transition from window .l.iw to newspaper advertising, the Impulse the down everybody and eyerytmng wn.cn change gave his business and the C0B stands In Its way. I hope that thta demon sequent expansion of business and adver- trat,n not a temporary burst of pa tlBl trlotlsm. but that It represents the fixed "For a number cf years." he says. "I determination of my people to stand to advortlsed only In my windows and in some ether taT a whlch contributes to the of the street cars, because I did not feel 1 &rY nd &"1 e" ?"r ""'"" that I could afford to advertise In the dally ! "many has learned he ort of victory, and papers. Two year, ago last September I . 1 hftve no ubt U will tlnue to . th was having a cravenette coat sale, and I i Brt lt haB learne"- ' succeeded In selling for .a couple cf weeks ' about fifty coats a day. I thought I would Probably one of the most notable results try a column ad In one of 'the evening of the return- of the liberals to power In papers. The next day this column ad a'p- I England Is In the progress that has been peared' in one of the evening papers, and. j made toward the establishment of repre by the bye, it was not the one that has the sentatlve government In the former Boer largest circulation in Chlcigo; I selected colonies. Bo long as the Chnmherloin party the paper that this ad appeared tn because was In the ascendancy It was te be ex they gave me a low rate, but they agreed pected from Its associations and hahit of to give my ad a good position In the paer. J thought that the Interests responsible for The result waa that the next day the sales, the extermination of the Boer republics whioh formerly had been about fifty coats i would have matter their own way in the a day, Jurped to 142, and In fifty daya-f-sold , Transvaal. But with the entrance of the over 3,500 rain coats. -for rne rear roiiowinr mat sale I ern. i tinued to advertise In tliln nne miw,p Tji.t fall I felt that I could afford to Invest, say, about $5,000 in advertising In some of the other papers. I used three morning papers and three evening papers, the best In Chi cago. The results have been something phenomenal. 1 did not have to Invest the $o,0rX). The profits came back from the newspaper advertising before th-lr bills came In, and I do not figure today that I ' have a dollar invested In advertising. In my opinion the only way to advertlxe is to give them plain, common-sense talk. Tell them the truth. Do not get a customer to come to your tore and find that you have faked him. for that Is poor adver tising, besides being dishonesty. "Most of the advertisers nowadays seem to think that they must hunt the dictionary through for all the large words they cm find. I rend an article a short time ago In a Chicago paper that stated that tho ad vertising man of nowadays and In the fu ture must be of necessity, a college graduate, I wanted to reply to It, and I wnuld have done so, only the newspaper would have thought that I wus trying to advertise Tom. I do not believe that a c liege graduate is as well fitted to be an adver tising man aa the man who knows enly how he write good, plain? common sense. I left school when 1 was 13 years of age, and it is just aa easy for me to sit down and write an ad as it Is to rmoke a cigar, be cause lt Is so easy to tell the truth In small words." 'hlssass Works rirrer Prasd. SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 15.-A private detective Mgency and the police depart ments of Oakland and 8an Francisco are endeavoring to locate in China nn Amei. Ican-born Mongolian. Wno Ang by name, who recently Vuixed a draft from $ ti tri.Ojo, secured a bill of exchange for the latter sum from an O.ikland bank, sailed Herons the Pacific and cashed the draft in Hong Kong. The police theory is tliat the Chi naman worked with a confederate In the person of a man named Woods. The Job began In the state of Kentucky, whers Woods bought a draft for $ on the Una over National hank of New York. The draft was transferred to Woo Ang from all appearances. Whether Woods or the Chi naman did the raising Is not known. But Woo cashed his hill of exchange In Hong Kong before the fraud was discovered, and beyond tha fact that h a in China the detectives tuiv no clue to uls whereabouts. OTHER LD THA Ot R. The dominant note struck by the min isters on the reassembling of the British Parliament Is a determination to 'deal" with tha House of Lords. All other ques tions am necessarily subordinate to that of mending or ending the veto power of herediUry legislators. Just what mess, ures wlil be adopted to secure the end desired has not been disclosed. Evidently the ministers fully realise the gravity of the lf.rue and the difficulties Involved. ' No matter what legislative means may be adopted by the Commons, 'the measure must receive tha approval of the peers, and there is no likelihood that the upper house, as now constituted, will vote to diminish Its powc-r. TWs fact was made clear and unejo!vooal In the sacond rejec tion of the education bill. Then the peers gave the Cnmmoiu to understand that It proposed to exercise its prerogatives un deterred by ministerial threats, and de fiantly challenged an appeal to the country on that Issue. A fate similar to that of i the education bill awaits every Important measure of reform on the liberal party program. Home rule for Ireland, land legislation and fiscal reform will receive scant consideration from- the tory ma jority In the upper house. Confronted hy obstructive tactics against progressive legis lation the liberal party must change the character of the House of Lords or cease to be a party of constructive statesman ship. , Whether the change will come by creating a sufficient number of new peers to evercome the tory majority or by an appeal to the country, time will deter mine. The situation possesses elements of a political upheaval, the development of which will be followed with keen Interest. The House of Lords consists of the spiritual lords of England, the temporal peers of England, Great Britain and the United Kingdom nnd of the representative 33S barons and 14 Scotch and 28 Irish repre sentative poors, making a total of 818. The conservative or tory party has a clear ma jority 4t the membership, 347. Affiliating with them are 125 unionists. The liberals' strength Is only 91; 45 are classed as In dependent and 10 are minors. The great preponderance of the tory strength In the upper chamber readily explains why lib eral party measures are pounced upon and deformed beyond recognition. Even whore party expediency does net Influence action, the nn-ture of the measures proposed by the liberals, designed to promote the gen eral welfare, constitute a menace to the privileged class which Is resented with the arrogance of false pride. A nation which boasts of being In the van rf progress, "the torch-bearer of civilization," presents the paradox of .possessing a chamber of hereditary legislators less responsive to the electoral will than any similar body cf the 1 nations of Europe. The French Senate Is ! changeable practically at the will of the i ministry. So are the members of the Bundesrath of Germany. The upper houses of Austria, Italy and Spain are amenable to the will of the respective governments. Among all the chambers of arlstocrscy that of Great Britain stands alone on the highway of progress defying the onward rush of the locomotive. ' Far different from the rmrllsmentnrv situation In Great Britain Is that Which will greet the German government .on the assembling of the Reichstag next Tuesday. The response of the country to the appeal of the emperor's ministers was an em phatic epdorsement of the Imperial policy of colonial expansion, nnd the "measures to provide the necessary revenue. The most remarkable feature of the elections Is the tremendous losses suffered by the socialist party. Its strength of seventy-nine In the old Reichstag diminishing to forty-three In the new. Every other party represented scored a gain. That, the government Is ex ceedingly pleased with the certainty of : strong working majority In the Reichstag was made apparent by the remarkable stump speech of the kals'or. delivered In response to the cheers -ot partisans In Berlin. It Is worth repenting: "I thank you from my heart for your ovation. The result of the election shows the truth of the. chancellor's words that Germany can ride In the saddle, and if my people remain united, both cf high and ,ow and all confessions of faith It nPl on r,de ut. know" h?w to .r r-rsold . Transvaal, uui wmi hip rnuimt 1 liberal government better days were pre I ccn- dieted for the Boers. So it has come about I that renresentatlve government Is to bo established much sooner than had been considered possible even by tho most opti mistic. The new 'constitution of the colony provides for the election of a legislative assembly of sixty-nine members, the elec torate Including all males, except negroes over 21 year. Returns from the first electlon show a clear majority for the Boers, who will have the satisfaction of Initiating legislation lor the protection and preservation of the homes they vullantly fought for. The echo of a shot fired In the middle of the" eighteenth century was heard In the Paris law courts the other d:iy. In 1757 the Dauphin son of LouIb XV. shot and killed a courtier. Yves de la Boissiere do Chambors, and a perpetual pension of $1,200 was awarded to his family. The Dauphin was out ostensibly to shoot game, but either the rabbits were scarce or his royal highness got tired of shooting them.- but he announced hla desire to vary the sport by blowing off the end of a courtier's mustache. The selected victim knelt for the ordeal, the heir apparent rested hi clumsy flint-lock on the man's shoulder and fired. I'niuckily. M. de Chambors ap peared at that moment, and received the whole of the charge at close quarters, even the wadding, it Is said, enterng the body I The Chan7bors' pension was one of three which was not abolished at the revolution, and of late years the 6.000 fruncs, honorably paid by successive governments. was divided between two direct descendants. One of them died recently, but the treasury refused to pay his share of the pension tu the survivor. The survivor brought an action, and the other day Judgment was Elven In his favor. Fare Harks of Civilisation. Chicago Record-Herald. , Another of the benefits of civilisation has betn shewn at JnJUinapolis. where a num ber of girls have been disfigured for life by being branded with acids during their lmtiatii n Into the Alpha Garni Tau society. In heathen countries no such refine 1 methods of branding can tx practiced. They have no acids. POLITICAL DRIFT. Senator Bailey asserts that the unwi it ten law of Texas la all right In his rase. Mr. Hearst Is convinced that $25.000 Is to mtieh to pay for the exercise of run ning for governor and favors ,t Hmtt on the campaign expenses of candidates. The legislature of Nevada has passed a bill declaring It to be a crime for any legislator or official of the state to ac cept, a railroad rass fr reduced rates. Among the superior qualities conceded to Frank O. Bridges, senator-elect from New Jersey, Is his ability to dodge a sub poena server of an investigating com mittee. 1 A member of the Wisconsin legislature has Introduced a bill requiring bed cloth ing In hotels and boarding houses to be nine feet long, In order to prevent unduo exposure of rulled limbs. The legislature of Illinois, liks tlint of Nebraska, la wrestling with an employers' liability bill aimed at railroad relief de partments. The lower house almost un animously advanced the measure for pas sage". Fred A. Busse, postmaster of Chicago, has concluded ta stand for the republi can nomination for mayor. Judging by his picture Mr. Busse would be more com fortable sitting down. His physique Is built on the Taft order. Carter Harrison thinks that Chicago does not need a business man as mayor so t much as a man who has had some experience as mayor; and as UdWard F. Dunne thoroughly agrees with him, the situation remains pretty much as it was before. , General Grosvenor's succ-ssor-elect has had his first experience ' in Washington. He looked over a small but comforlabk suite of rrpms at a hotel, and, favorably Impressed, asked the price. When" told that It was $1,000, a month he concluded that his education ns a statesman would have to take a freslf start. William Rudolph Benkert of Daven port, la., has Issued a call for a conven tion to be held May 1 to organise the Christian party. He has constructed a platform which has In it the Ten Com mandments, prohibition, government own ership, woman suffrage and uniform di vorce. SQI ADKHI PiriLIC LA0. Eastera View of Western Land Grab, blnir Operations. Baltimore American. A western senator made an Intemperate attack the"" other day on the Interior de partment. He charged, among other things, thnt It had arraigned the whole community for fraud In connection with the public lands. Of course, this . was a huge hyperbole, but the senator must have hlmnelf known that lt was not so Im possible as It appeared on Its face. There are communities In the far west where the relations between government lands and the people are badly confused In the public mind. Public lands and Indian re servations are assumed to be the people's lands, and by an easy transition they be came the property of Individuals. This has been the greatest obstruction to the enforcement of the land laws for gen erations, and ,has been the main cause of the rapid absorption of these lands by the people. When mineral or metallic wealth has been discovered on the Indian reserva tions, for instance, it has been immediately claimed by the people of these commun ities, and they have been excluded with the utmost difficulty, and sometimes after serious encounters. Of course, the people reflect to a large extent the sentiments of the entire community, and It Is against the rigid enforcement of the land laws with regard ta both the public' lands and the Indian reservations. It Is a fiction In some Western communi AH OUSECLEAMNG mn OW that we the work of rearranging our store for the greaterronvenience of our customers we are offering almost our entire stock of Men's Suits and Overcoats at reductions in prices that must presently trans: fer these goods to the possession of several hundred owners. Our Children's Clothing has been re duced to keep step with the present sale of men's suits and overcoats. ' The established high character of our Suits and Overcoats for men. boys and children is what gives emphasis to those reduced prices. P. S. Mallory Cravenette Spring Hats have arrived. rowning, Ming & Co RS. WILCOX, Manager. Abraham Lihcoln said: ''You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time." The Piano dealer who pays commissions and has a flldloi? price fools some of the people. He gets that small percentage wbo 'seem to love to be humbugged. For it is humbugging for a dealer to put a price upon a Piano which be will got if he can, all the time expecting to come down $50 or f 160 if the cus- tomer is a good bargain driver. . It is humbugging for a dealer to pay commissions to people for sending or taking customers to his store. , The Hospe Piano store Is the only one In the west that pays no commission and that has one price. , I We Save You S50 to $150 on a Piano A. HOSPE CO. 1515 Douglas St. ii -- . a. .11 - i i THINK AHEAD AND PLAN AHEAD 18 WHAT YOU'LL NEED LATER ON. GET IT NOW , ties that public lands belong not rttily to the people, but to any Individual among the people whu may choose to enter and occupy them. By this fwllacy all kinds of fraudulent devices cf land frrsbbers and sharks have been at least condoned, and It has been possible to rob the government of a hose empire This Is an obstacle to a Judicious land policy which has existed for fully three-quarters of a century, and It has grown so formidable that any attempt to enforce the laws with rigor and effect, and preserve to the- peorle the scant rem nants, must be msde In the face of. It and directly against It. . It Is well nigh Impossible toVxpect popu lar sympathy or approval of such a policy In the far west, but as the government lands are the lands of the whole people ot the t'nltrd States, and the Indian reserva tions belong to the Iiullnns, it Is gratifying to'note that n honest effort Is being made In that direction, even at this late date. What Is left, though very small In com parison with what has been squandered, Is still valuable In many ways, and will be of groat service, not only In our own genera tion, but to those who succeed us. It is well worthy of the determined efforts of the government. LAIOHI3H I.ISF.S. "I understand Mrs. Croaker Is a great one f r asking the loan of thinRs." "Indeed she Is. I believe If he had nothing else to apk for, she would ac tually try to borrow trouble."wHltlmora American. "You ugly thing!" exclaimed the giraffe. "I may not l a prise beauty." retorted the camel, "but- I don't look like a crosa between a stepladder and a kangaroo. Chicago Tribune. "Do you wish." asked young Mr. Sap hedde, after the girl had promised to be his. "to hear the story of my life?" "Henvens. no!" she replied; "1 should bn so shocked that I could never look you In the face again." Chicago Record-Herald. "1 don't know why, but I always fed as If young Sorted otmht to havo a "To lxt' sign hanging on him." "Perhaps It Is because he always has such a vacant air about him." Washington lleruld. i v "Of course," snld Miss Gausslp,' "soma of the stories you hear are not worth be lieving." "No," remarked Miss Knox, "they're, merely worth repeating, ehT" Cathollo Standard and Times. ' Towtip T had the worst luck with thst old unibrella of mine last evening at 'ha concert. I put It In the stand with tha others , , Browne And when you went to get It It was gone, eh? Towne No; hang It! it was the only one left. I didn't get a shot at the others. Philadelphia Press. "I suppose you are glad to get Willie back, Mrs. Dutt.nn. He didn't stay ,lond with the circus, did he?" "Indeed he didn't. Willie Is too tender hearted. They found hiin one day in the rhinoceros' cage putting court plaster ou the cracks In the animal's hide, and they fired him." Chicago Tribune. BK1TEH THAU GLORY. . 8. E. Klser In the Record-Herald, lie wooed her when her hair was brown And when her waist was slim, When every other boy In town Was envious of hini. He walked with her in country lanes When she was young and glad And youth and strength and hope and health Composed the sum of "all the wealth That he had ever had. - He won her when her heart was light And when her laugh was gay. v nen every oay wasxiair ana urigm And care was far away. He claimed her as his own when aha Regarded him as one For whom the fates had much In store. Whom men would honor more and more For great things nobly done. He has not won the world's applause. She knows he never can; His step Is slower than lt was, But he's an honest man. She wears the bloom of youth no mora. Yet side by side they fare, Poor, bent old husband and gray wife. Along the humble walks of life. And still are lovers there. ' are in , the midst of j VICTOR WHITE COAL CO., 1605 Farnarn -Tel. Doug. 127 i. v