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10 TIIE OMAHA DAILY BEE; SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1907. t i-i :' .4 . 4 (, ; .1 The Omaha Daily Bee rOL'NDttB BT EDWARD ROSffWATER. VICTOR ROfiEWATER, EDITOR. Ktvterd at Omaha postofflo M second class matter. TERM a OP SUBSCRIPTION. Pally Fee (without Bunday), one year.. WW Illr Hoe and Bunday, on year .. 00 Bund Bee, one year t60 Saturday Be, "ne year 1 60 DKL1VERHD B CARRIER. Tally Bee (Including Sunday), per week.. Mo Illy ) (without Sunday), per week.. ..loo Kvenlng Fee (without Sunday), per week. So Evening Dee (with Sunday), per week.,..10o a in re us complaint or irrcmiiarttiea in ae llvery to City Circulation department. orncra. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha City Hall Building. Council Bluffs 10 Pearl Street.. Chlcaso 1640 Unity Hulldlng. New Vork-IK Home Ufa Insurance B'.dg. Washington tul Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. . Communication relating to newt and ed itorial matter ahould be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. , REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or poatal order, rayahle to The Bee Publishing Company, mly 2-cent a tamp received In payment of mall account. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eaatern eiehange, not accepted. TUB BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT Or CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, aa: Charlea C Rnsewater, general mnnsger of The Bee Publishing company, being duly worn, aays that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of February, 1907, waa aa follow: 1 ; 81,800 16 IUBII l aieo IT 80,3o 1 80,100 IS 88,630 4 81,630 It.;........ 88,080 B S1.6G0 IS 38,680 8 81,670 11 83,470 1 88,180 82 38,460 ..A. 81,660 It 38,060 I.... 83,180 14 30,630 It. 80,490 15....'...... 33,080 it.. ai.rso ss 81,860 it 81,670 IT 80,060 13 ..... 81,840 28 38,130 14.. T 8M40 15. ... . 81,860 Total... t. 896,780 Less unaold and returned coplea... 6,763 Net total , 886,957 Dally average.. 31,077 . , CHARLES E. ROSETWATERv Oeneral Manager. Subscribed In my presence and -worn to before me thla 1st day of March. 1907. (Baal) . M. B. H UNGATE, Notary Public. . WHE.1 OCT OF TOIW. '. Safcserlbers leavtaa; the eltr tem. orarfly ehanld have The Be ehaaarea arte aa .vested. Exports are testifying . that Harry Thaw's pulse and Impulse are both erratic. ' ' It might help some If the railroads were required to" supply each purchaser of a ticket with an accident policy. At any rate,-engineers of the" army assigned to duty at Panama are im mune from the ravages of the resigns . tlon microbe.' The base bail schedules are out and the office boy may now arrange the dates for the death of his grandmoth ers next summer. Honduras and Nicaragua are express ing fear that. somebody will get hurt if President Roosevelt does not hurry, up and Intervene.. ' . ' The men who stole $173,000 from the subtreasury at Chicago may argue that they were Just trying to help Vncle Earn get rid of his surplus. The member of the legislature who is tempted to yield to the blandish ments of the lobbyist should remember that he. has to go home some time. So far as methods for the accomplish ment of his plans were concerned, Mr. Harrlman evidently recognised the Chicago A Alton as "The Oniy TVay." Members of the Water board will be allowed to continue to draw pay for managing a municipal water works plant which the city has not yet ac quired. , V Having had their salaries Increased " ' by 50 per cent, the congressmen 'have ' - bravely killed the anti-tipplng and anU-UpplIng bills in the District of Col ,v umbla. . " Woo Ang of San Francisco raised a check for $8, to $8,000 and got away with th4r.ny. No wonder 8an Fran- clscans are opposed to the education of " the Chinese. , Editor-Congressman Hitchcock has now doubtless squared himself for the aid and comfort that he - gave" the A. P. A.'s through his newspaper when , the fight was on. , Senator t Bailey of Texas has ex plained about everything, after a fash Ion, except why a Standard, Oil mag cate happened to loan him a large sum of money without Interest. ,. It would be interesting to know how much 8herlff McDonald collected from the state as mileage for trips traveled on free passes during his previous .in cumbency of the sheriff's office. Some railroads of the Rocky moun tain region still insist that the passen gers should be required pa pay an ex tra tat for the privilege of looking out the car window at the scenery. St Petersburg cables state that the 'officers criticised in Kouropatkln's book now want to fight It Is too bad for Russia that they did not feel that way while the war with Japan was on. Only 658 bills Introduced Into the lower house, of the Nebraska leElsla ture this year.' The f uslonlsts beat that record .by running far Into the s hundreds when they last controlled the house. The railroads ought to equip every one of their local freight solicitors with their new pamphlet 'entitled "Omaha The Sponge," for use when soliciting business from Omaha uianii lecturer and jobbers ... W110LESALK JUD HKTAIZa t In the discussion of the I -cent pas senger fare proposition Nebraska rail road spokesmen hate made a great deal about the difference In doing business wholesale and retail. They admit that tbelr proclamation of the forthcoming sale of a I-cent Inter changeable 2,000-mile book while the rate bills were pending was a tactical blunder because It showed that they are willing to carry a traveling man tor I cents a mile, providing he has bought a mileage book, while Insisting on exacting I cents from a fellow pas senger sitting in the same seat , Unable to justify their position by asserting that it costs more to carry the man, provided with a mileage book than It does to carry the man who bought his ticket at the station, the railroad' representatives have argued: First' that mileage book passengers agree to travel 8,000 miles during the year; .second, tha they constitute a Class especially whom the railroads like to favor because they stimulate and Influence freight traffic; ' third, that the railroads get the better of It by - having the use of the money re quired to be paid In advance for the mileage books. . . In all of this there Is a great deal of epecloua argument In the first place, the mileage book passengers .are for the ' most part commercial tallers who do not pay their, fares themselves, but who charge them back, to the houses for which they, travel, rTh traveling men would continue to make their r6unds irrespective of the rate of fate, whether t cents or 2tt cents, or even 8 cents, and the cost la collected back fh the expense account and made good out of the sales to customers. As to Influencing freight shipments by concessions on mileage books, no rail road would dare i to make that point In courts because It would be pleading a form of rebate strictly forbidden by the interstate law. The . only valid point made, therefore, is that con tained in the claim of the roads that they get more than I cents per mile for mileage book travel because they have the use of the money paid In ad vance. ' '" But -this advantage la greatly exag gerated. The railroads" own figures indicate that the life of a 8, 00 0-mile book Is eight months, so that, assum ing that It is used up proportionately during that time, they have the use of, the purchase price ISO, of which 9.50 Is refunded for an average period of four months. If the money Is worth to them 8 per cent, they get 1 additional on each 1,000 miles. Reduced- to a mileage basis, thla would mean that the fare oh a 1. 000-mlle in terchangeable book is equivalent to a flat rate of .8 1-20 cents-per mile. It remains to be seen how much fight the railroads will put up for the 1-20 of a cent If it is not made up to, them by Increased travel or In soma other way. THK DATK OS PACRtlfO PRODUCTS. The senate has amended - the agri cultural appropriation bill by adding a; provision requiring the packers of meat and meat products to date their cans. This has been one of the hotly contested points in all of the legisla tion affecting the packing house indus try, and opposition to the can-dating provision was so strong last year that It waa nqt Incorporated, In the original Inspection law. The packers are still bitterly opposing the adoption of the provision, but the sentiment In the bouse" Is so strong that the senate pro vision will likely be accepted. The meat packers ,ot the' country have shown a disposition to accept the provisions of the inspection law as passed at the last session, most 6f them having expressed their entire sat isfaction with It and voluntarily of fered' aid in Its enforcement They realize the benefit accruing to their trade b having their products placed on the market with the government's certificate of purity on their labels. They have, however, persistently op posed the proposition to have- the cans labeled, showing the date' of packing, their contention being that if the con tents were properly prepared and canned they would not deteriorate by age. Purchasers of canned meat products, however, would undoubtedly appreciate having some means of as certaining the vintage year of canned meat products. Under the old order, the purchaser bought canned . meat products at bia own rlskl If the con Cents of a can, when opened, furnished evidence of antiquity, it was the pur chaser's Joss. Under the proposed provision he Will have but to use his eyes to ascertain if the goods he Is buying were canned thla season or years ago. Packers and grocers who have large stocks of canned meat products In their possession might suffer some loss incident to the disposition of this old stock when the new law becomes operative, as the public will want none but the dated cans as soon as they are placed on the market. In the - end, however, the packers will gain by the can-dating provision, as It shduld re sult In completely regaining for their products the confidence that had been seriously shattered by last year's dis closures and creating a farther demand for them they could . not gtherwtse stimulate. This confidence has ' been restored in the matter of fresh meats, and the enforcement of dating will surely bring the canned product Into equal favor. , It is interesting to note In this con nection that the British government has just renewed an order for 15,000, 000 worth of canned meats from a Chicago firm, after having once re voked the order. . A special agent of ,th4 British government made, a care ful inspection of the packing plant hav ing the order and reported that It was temarkably clean. This Is a . very practical result of the government's Inspection laws which are proving ben eficial to the meat Industry as well as to the public. i '- KKIiHAtKAa RKW tXDIRAL JVDOt. The new federal Judgeship for the district of Nebraska just created by congressional act has been filled by the appointment of Thomas C. Mungef of Lincoln. . y, , . The new judge Is a lawyer of long standing practice, yet still in the prime of life, thus conforming" to the prefer Once of President Roosevelt for judges who give reasonable assurance of long service on the bench. Even during the brisk competition for the place nothing has been said by other as pirants disparaging of Judge Munger beyond caliliig attention to' his com paratively meager practice In the fed eral courts. It is admitted that at the local 'bar and before the state courts he has always stood . high. It Is to be presumed that the. new judge will take the dockets to be heard In the southern division, his selection being unquestionably in recognition of the claims of the South Platte country as distinguished . from the territory north of that dividing line. It is here that he la better known personally to the other members of the profession, but the lawyers in the north divisions may expect to have an opportunity oc casionally to get In touch with htm, as nothing In the new law confines either of the two judges to any particular division. The federal judgeship carries with it a life tenure and. Js supposed to remove the occupant entirely from the field of politics. It. may be confidently ex pected that. Judge Munger will bend every energy, to make good In his new position, and in so doing will only meet the expectations of his friends. tANTODOMlSQO TRXATY RATlntD. . President Roosevelt has achieved an other triumph over senate opponent ot some of his policies by securing a ratification of the treaty between the United States and Santo Domingo, which has been hanging fire in the sen ate for more than a year. The original treaty was opposed by some senators) both republican and democratic,' be cause they feared it Involved An. alli ance of the entangling brand, but the successful operation of the modus vlvendl, substituted by the president when the ratification of the treaty waa withheld, served to end hostility to the agreement between the United States and the Dominican republio and- the senate has finally agreed to the plan which the executive established with out'Waltlng for the ratification of the treaty. The disposal of this measure removes all probability ot -an extra session of the congress, about which there has been considerable specula tion, v , As the prime features of the treaty have been in operation, under the pres ident's orders, for nearly two years, the effect of the formally ratified doc ument may be easily forecasted since the treaty merely gives legal validity to ah arrangement based on expedi ency, The record shows that much has been accomplished In the way of pulling Santo Domingo out of the mire ot bad debts and unstable government by American Intervention. Placing the collection ot customs in the bands of American officials for the purpose of providing a fund for the payment of obligations of the republic removes the danger of revolutions which used to occur in the Island every time the customs authorities were found to have a tew extra dollars in their possession. Under the new treaty It Is stipulated that the American government shall have charge of the customs collections until the debts of the Island have been extinguished. This, at the ' present rate, will require American supervis ion ot Dominican revenues for twenty years or more, by which time the Dominicans should have learned the lesson of good government and be )n position to manage their.own affairs. The enforcement of the treaty obliga tions will mean a brighter day for the Island, assuring a removal of the archaic conditions that have prevailed In Santo Domingo for generations. Whatever the effect 'of the treaty may be on this country, it will undoubtedly prove a good thing for the Dominicans. CHVRCBGROirTHAltD BIBLE ttXADISQ. s Ministers of the gospel are responsi ble for the oft-repeated assertion that tbe United States Is ceasing to be a Christian nation. The charge baa been made jtdd reiterated by enthusiastic pulpiteers and by writers in religious periodicals until many good people, have come to believe it and to bemoan the fate they, are confident awaits a nation that becomes first indifferent, then negligent 'and finally hostile to Its re ligious duties. Perhaps It Is natural for the preacher of the gospel fired with seal inhls cause, to be Impatient tor better results and to feel that his efforts re not sufficiently productive of desired results, and finally to be come' convinced that the powers of evil are In the ascendancy-In his community and In the nation. Under such condi tions he is apt to voice his-fear that the nation is ceasing to be Christian, but tbe facta are all against him. The growth ot the churches of the coon try, In ministers and membership, is greater than ever before and In full keeping with America's progress and development In secular affairs. Dr. H. K. Carroll, one ot the editors ot the-Christian Advocate, has just published a table of church statistics showing that at the end ot last year there were In the United States 169, 508 ministers, 807,707 congregations and a membership of 82,288,668, an increase for tbe year of 4,800 minis ters, 8,686 congregations and 870,689 members. The . church membership was divided as follows: Catholics, 11,148,465; Methodists (17 bodies). 6,661.891; Baptists (14 bodies), 5,140,770; Lutherans (28 bodies), 1,967,488 1 Presbyterians (12 bodies), 1,771,877;' Protestant Episcopal (2 bodies), 846,492; Congregational, 694,923, and Ihe balance divided among a. score of other denominations, with membership ranging from a few hundred to 600,000. Each of the prominent denominations showed a large Increase In membership, with the exception of the Friends, which lost slightly,, and the Unitarians, which re mained stationary. According to these figures, 40 per cent of- the American people are Iden tified with some Christian church. No other country shows so large a per cent of Its adult population taking active interest In church wVk. al though Comparisons to America's dis advantage are sometimes made with other countries in which church bap tism Is used In the preparation of sta tistics, regardless- of the fact that a majority of those baptized fall to be come Identified with church work or church membership In after life.. Dr. Carroll's figures furnish emphatic refutation of the charge that America IS ceasing to be a Christian nation. It goes without saying that South Omaha public school teachers serl ously object to having their pay raised to a level with that of Omaha school teaohers .and to being protected by civil service against personal or polit ical eviction from their jobs, as Omaha school teachers are protected. It Is to be noted that the pamphlet, "Omaha The Sponge," Is signed only by the tax commissioners ot the Union Pacific and of the Burlington and not by the tax commissioner of the North western. Bre'r Fox Ben White is too shrewd to get caught in a trap like that. Colonel William J. Bryan does not think much t people who leave their fortunes so that not one dollar can get outside of the circle of blood relation ship. Presumably this Is a hint 19 Colonel Bryan's family as to what they may look for when they read his will. Lyonella Fredgunda Cuthberga Ethel- swytha Ideth Grace Monica de Orellana Plantaganet Tollema:he was married the other day in Surrey, England. The telegraph editor and the proof reader join in a vote of thanks to her 1 f orJ changing her name( ' The house comml(tee on deficiency claims has squeezed out one-third of the sheriff's bill tor feeding state pris oners 'as pure graft' Even then, of the amount allowed, as much more represents pure . profit for the Jail kitchen. Before . becoming alarmed over a financier's predictions of a panic, wis dom and caution wilt suggest an In vestigation as to what hjs Interest 1b in stocks ''that may be Influenced on Wall treet i A Hot FlnUb, Cleveland Leader. Harriman'a atatemeht that he Intends to retire In another year Indicates that he expeota to keep up a terrific pace mean while. He'll have to, if he gets all tn rest pf the railroads in twelve months. back Tame to Ikt Pro!. Baltimore American. 1 Kallroada in Nebraaka will have to pay tax arrears to the state amounting to three millions. In the general upheaval of things nowadays back taxes seem com ing to the front Their Tara Will Coaae. Chicago Tribune. "While paying hla reapects to the molly coddle the president might have uttered a few earnest worda concerning the geexer, tbe alob, the mutt, the pleface, the fink, and the cheap skate. Beautiful la Theory. New Tork Commercial. Mr. HarrlmaiV theory that combination of railroads means lower rates proves how the world lags along In a rut and refuaes to accept a new scientific discovery. If -we could believe that all the rest would be easy. . Hlatorr Ilepeata Iteelf. Bt. Loul Qlote-Democrat. , la 1873 the, granger members of the Iowa leglal&ture enacted a maximum freight law that is being' used aa a model by the legis lature of 1807. Everybody, poked fun at the grangers, but they were only about thirty-four years, ahead of time. Jaat One More Chicago Record-Herald. M. E. Ingaila, former president of the Big Four, aays there are tos many million aires In this country. Every man. who la struggling alcmg on a small salary believea that there ought to be at least one more millionaire In thla country to make it an ideal spot Some Itemed r Imperative. Baltimore merlcan. ' If there la any force in public opinion and any authority in .the government to atop the appalling ataughter by the rail roads It ought to be done. It seems an absurdity to say there la no aucb means and that nobody is to blame for the fast recurring wrecks. Aaelher Treaaary Raid. Chicago Chronicle. Before the National Educational aaaocla- tton goes to oongresa for an annual appro priation of some millions of dollars in aid of public schools it would do well to con sider the fact that the money In the na tional treaaury, as well as that In the state treasuries, comes from the earnings of the people and that It la obtained by less Just and equitable modes of taxation. Thus ivery shifting of burdens from the state treeaurles to th national treaaury involves more Injustice. It seems to be necessary to remind people now and then that the money In the national treaaury does not coiue from foreigners or from the clouds. ' OTHER XAMnS THAN Ot'ttS. The remorseless sweep of war over the Bwth African republics flve years ago wrought changes hardly more notable than the political reconstruction of the country. The first election since the war resulted In - giving control of the country to the Boers, who, though defeated on the battle field, score a triumph through the Instru mentalities of peace. There are at present four parties In the Transvaal, three of Whtoh are composed of - English speaking men. The leading party Is called ' the progressive, and la representative ot the mine owners, merchants and professional men. Directly opposed to the progressive party Is Het Volk, the Boer party, repre senting the farmers and the Dutch speak. Inf element of the country. Were the line drawn distinctly between these two parties the English would have won easily. But there were other elements to decide the Issue. The second English party, the na tionalist composed of native born colonials, and an English labor party. Joined forces with Het Volk and voted and worked for the Dutch nominees.1 The result was an overwhelming defeat for the English brought about by English votes. Ueneral lxuls Botha, the new prime minister, hero of Splon Kop, Is a broad-gauge, level headed leader. Qolonel Secretary Smuts was a general during the war and formerly was state's secretary in the government of President Kruger. .Minister of Justice de Vllllers was attorney general during the late' war. The liberal government In Great Britain Is giving an exhibition of concilia tion toward and trust In a conquered peo ple that cannot easily be paralleled, and there is reason to believe, that their policy of granting self-government under the crown, to the colony won at such tremen dous cost in war, will be vindicated In the end. The Frenoh ministry In Its hunt for trouble promises to go against the real article at an early day. It la proposed to regulate the tipping system, which has at tained perfection as a gouge In Paris. Within a month the chamber will consider a measure Jo prevent cafe proprietors from taking fees from waiters for the privilege of serving In their establishments. In the fashionable restaurants the waiters make so much money in tips from wealthy custo mers that their employers demand as much as to or even 80 francs a day as their share of the tips. But for this systemj which Is a regular part of boulevard econ omy, waiting would be the most lucrative f6rra of labor In the city. Speaking of the Americans' dislike of tipping, it Is In order to remind them of the fact that they are themselves very much to blame. They have always given tips In "Vrance, but until Americans .came over there every year with their wealth, which they seem only too anxious to get rid of, the amount they tipped waiters was so small as to be of no consequence whatever, and the wait ers originally did not expect any more from strangers than they were used to getting from their countrymen. V Orientally benighted Persia persists In showing the way to occidental Russia In the matter of working a new legislative system. From occasional dispatches we learn that there is agood deal of quar reling and maneuvering at . Teheran, but on the whole no more than Is to be ex pected from a healthy young Parliament, which must make a trial of Its 'strength It It would not grow up to be a coward and a weakling. The shah seems, to be acting In perfect good faith. His conduct Indeed, presents a marked contrast to the futile waverings and hesitations of his royal brother, Nicholas II. It Is'vustomary to excuse the latter on the ground that the sovereign Is helpless 'When surrounded by a camarilla of self-seeking politicians. Tet the same situation presented Itself before the new shah, and was met with manly resolution. Several high people at court, we are told. Interested-In maintaining the eld regime, sought to secure1 the open ad hesion of the present shah, then heir to the throne, whose views were believed to be antl-llberal. Immediately there waa formed. In rejoinder, a vast conspiracy, modeled after the famous assassins of the middle ages, and having for Its object the forcible removal of any person hostile to the liberal cause. A critical situation thus arose. But on hla arrivat In Teheran the prince In unmistakable terms announced to a deputation of the Chamber his absolute adherence to tbe constitution and to prog ress, and "from that day there were no more reactionaries." The Irish Belfast seems to be rivaling the Scottish Glasgow In the alarming mor tality from spotted fever," and the fact that a naval commission has been ap pointed to Inoulre Into the situation indi cates a preva a of unsanitary conditions along the waur front of each city. Tbe pest, which Is still called "spotted fever" In the cable dispatches. Is actually cerebro spinal meningitis. Mail advice show that the disease has also made Its appearanoe in Dublin and Edinburgh. ' Although spo radic cases are on record in these cities for the IgiMt few years, March, April and May of 1.406 showed a veritable epidemic in the Scottish city, whlc then drew Atten tion to several Interesting points.' Eighty per cent of the cases were found to be under ten years of age, and nearly all came from the poorer sections of the lty. Olas-1 gow observers have also noticed a number of chronic cases, 60 per cent of thsm run ning Intermittently "for four or five weeks, while one was discharged from the Bel vldere hospital after. 163 days. Tbe Glas gow authorities are now using a serum treatment, but it Is too early to 'discuss Its merKs. Other treatment Is mainly .pal liative, and recoveries In Glasgow are usually aaid to be complete, although tem porary deafness and some paralysis have been noted. The fact that the disease at tacks Infants of the poorest class and dur ing the coolest months of the year la taken as a sign that depreased vitality Invite contagion mors, thon anything else. The health authorities have therefore appealed to the charitable authoritiea to procure food, (clothing and heat for those families which Include very young children that ars In a state of poverty and want The position of the children of those Danes in the fron)Ier districts of Schles wlg, who, after the annexation of Schles-wlg-Holstein by Prussia In l&tt, selected a Danish nationality, gave rise to questions of peculiar difficulty. The peace of Vienna of October , 1864, gave th Danes In the annexed territories the Tight of choosing their nationality, and article v of th Peace of Prague concluded between Prus sia and Austria arranged for th eventual restitution of the northern districts of Bchleswlg to Denmark If a majority of the inhabitants should' declare In favor cf It Prussia and Germany evaded a plebiscite, and In .1S7 the provision for It was re scinded by a special agreement between Germany and Austria. Ths question of tbe Sobleswig Danes by -option, however, con tinued to cause trouble and unrest In the frontier dlstrlots of the province. Th Dan ish party argueCthat Denmark not having been a party to the Austro-Oerman agree ment of 1878, was not bound by It terms. Tbe question of the nationality of the chil dren of the Schleswlg Danes, therefore, re mained troublesome. In Prussia these chil dren were not regarded as Prussians, and In Denmark they wr not allowed to count aa Danes. In tbe event of their spuieioa by Ut Prussian authorities th Danish I I government refused to permit them to ntr Denmsrk. The new Danlnh nationality law of 1KSS modified this situation by admitting as Danes children of this olaas who were born subsequently to the enactment of the law, but It left the older children of the "optants" Hi their, unsettled position. . BARKING VP THR WROSQ TREK. Assaalta ( Western Senators oa See- rvtory Itltrhewek. Brooklyn Eagle.. Senator Clark ot Wyoming did not dis tinguish himself In his recent assault upon the secretary of th Interior. Mr. Clark Is chairman of the select committee of the senate which waa charged with the duty of Investigating the condition of the In dians In the Indian territory. As th re sult of experience, obtained In that work, Mr. Clark claims to have discovered that Mr.- Hitchcock's management of th For estry bureau Is entirely wrong. He com plain because of the autocratic power vested In th head of the bureau to with draw graslng lands from settlement and to. lease them Instead of selling them to cattle raisers and ranchmen. Several western senators directly or In directly sustained Senator Clark In his at tack upon th secretary and the forestry system. One of these, Mr. Warren, also of Wyoming, has been charged with fenc ing In public- lands for his own use, con trary to the Intent of the lew. He thinks that charge emanated from Secretary Hitchcock, Perhaps It did. He declares it to be false. Possibly It Is, but Mr. Hitch cock has made few charges that have not been proved, and he has Qio.de a good many during his tarsi of office, much to the dis gust, distress and humiliation of 'several alleged statesmen from Mr.' Warren's neigh borhood. - - " Against what Mr. Clark charged and Mr. Clark's supporters echoed may here be set the tribute of Mr. Spoonor. Of Mr. Hitch cock the senior senator from Wisconsin said: - "He Is the taost conscientious and pains taking public jervnnt who ever occupied that office. He Is honest. He may make mistakes; we all make mistakes; but he has made a reoord unequalled by any ot his predecessors, and one that will not be equaled by his successors." What Mr. Spooner declared ot Mr. Hitch cock's character and record will be In dorsed by every unprejudiced observer of that gentleman's career a a cabinet officer under the two presidencies of Mr. McKlnley and the two presidencies of Mr. Roosevelt. What he predicted for Mr. Hitchcock from the comparisons at the future must await the verification of Urns. One thing Is very clearly established nowyMr. -Hitchcock Is marvelously fortunate In the enemies he ha mad. Every claim Jumper, every land thief, every timber grabber, every coal stealer, every gratter Illegally fattening his cattle and his' pocket book ft government expense Is his sworn foe. In assailing him Mr. Clark and his associates are barking up the wrong tree. ' .FROM HIGH TO LOW, . Examples of Railroad Magnates De moralise Employes.' New Tork World. President Truesdale of 1 ths Delaware Lackawanna A Western Railroad company complained In an Interview that Increase In th pay of employes had not been fol lowed by better .'service. . There. Is evidence to support hi case. The service Is worse rather than . better. Apparently the em ploy Is following the bad example of his superiors. . ; , . His opportunities are necessarily limited. The humble brakeman' cannot emulate Mr. Harrlman by selling to th Equitable and New York Life Insurance companies for 93 and 96 Alton bonds that cost him only 66. He cannot use th, treasury funds of th railroad corporation for speculative pur poses.' He cannot' Issue flOO.OOO.OOO worth of bonds to buy stock in - other railroads. Tli ere are no Union Paclo melons for him to cut Th best he can do Is to exact the highest possible wages and give the least possible rturn m the way of service. Even this ha td be donen a crude, clumsy way which Is almost ridiculous In comparison with the methods of his employers. Tet there was a tlms when the railroad employes were the most competent most faithful and best disciplined body ot men In the Industrial army. They took pride In their work. But their employer were watching th ties, the tracks, the locomo tives and the cars instead of watching th stock ticker. The demoralisation of the employ began with the demoralisation of the management. If will end when the Wall street demoralisation of the manage ment ends. Railroad Rearalatloa 1) Caaada. ' Baltimore News. The Canadian Railroad commission wields soma power. The Canadian Pacific has a special Immigration rate of 1 cent a mile from Montreal to Calgary, In the Canadian northwest, but then the rate goes up to 4 cent a mils. In pursuance of an agreement with tbe Amsrioan ' roads handling' Immi gration iramo to the extreme northwest. Now th Canadian Railroad commission ha reduced the rate west or Calgary to cents a mile, and the Western Lines Pas senger Association of the American Rail roads Is confronted with the need of im mediate action to meet th competition. An Interesting feature of th situation la that, It Is generally admitted tha what the Ca nadian Railroad commission says goes, and there la nothing left for ths railroads con cerned but to obey. The probable result will be lower rates on American lines also. Wasroa Vmm la the Rear. Indianapolis News. With the average railroad employ ac complishing ft per cent more In th move ment of passengers and 70 per cent more In the movement of freight than In ItfiO, it would appear that ther la something be sides th cost of living that wage haven't kept up with. Do You Know What It Is- You can hear it Saturday evening at HOSPE'S Piano Rooms. The greatest musical instrument the world has eer known. . v You and friends cordially invited. a. hospe: co. . , . 1515 Douglas ' Comparisons Are Odious Wo Olmply Day IS SEST. OOOO FOR ALL, PURPOSES. TRY IT VICTOR WHITE COAL CO.r U05 rirtiara-Tel. fcuj. 121 ' POUTICAI, DRIFT. Governor Hanly of Indiana ha auto graphed th l-cent passenger far bill. Mr. Cleveland's suggestion of disfran chising bachelor come too late to mak David Bennett Hill alt up and say some-, thing. Judge Dunne of San Francisco, strangely Indifferent to the acclaim of th multltudo, propose to treat Mayor Schmlta a he would "any other defendant charged with crlm." Th ergeknt-at-armS of th Iowa legisla ture arrested a minister charged with lob bying for a Sunday rest law. "This season promises to be the most unprofitable en lobbyists ever Encountered. ' Jsmes a Martine, the "farmer orator" of New Jersey, enjoys the dUtlnotlon of having been th candidate or his party the democratic for almost every offlc his county and senate district for th I thirty years without ever having won. Hats off to Walter Preston Brownlow, member of congress from th First district of Tennessee, a man of rare forbearance and one who has saved th government as much money, perhaps, as any other. Mr. Brownlow has been a member of con gress for ten years and yet he never mad a speech before last Saturday. Speaker Cannon, was In a facetious mood when he arrived at the capltol th other ! morning. Th keen wintry air that pre- v-iiiti vuiniuo minru iu inviKorai mm. Meeting a prominent democratic member from the' sunny south In the Marble room, "Uncle Joe" clapped htm on "the back and aid: "I say, old man, are you not ashamed to be a democrat!" "Well, no, Mr. Speaker," replied the representative from the southland, straightening himself up. "I cannot say that I am. But,". he added, aft-r a slight pause, "whsn I consider th tendency of the times I often think that I am a fool not to loin youuarty. How- ' .,'nK T A.-lr n n T -. at tn hMbIh virinw k.J honest, rather than become rich and a republican." "The gentleman's time has expired," said "Uncle Joe," as he mad his way to th speaker's room. . . POINTED PLEASANTRIES. ' "Can you give me a good Illustration ot the harmony of OpposltesT" "Certainly. The Indorsement of a red hat by papal bull." Baltimore American. "Do you think your name will be handed down in history?'' , "I can't discuss that" answered Senator Sorghum. "I'm too busy keeping It front being passed up by th legislature." Washington Star. "I have heard It said that Mlbbsley'a for tune is close to S1.OUO.000." . "Correct aa biases. It consists of the two ciphers that 'follow Immediately after th aecimai point. --Chicago Tribune. , "Henry, I can't make over this bonnet for another Easter." "All right, dear" responded tha press humorist. "I'll see If I can't make over a few of last year's Easter Jokes." Wash ington Herald. Mrs. Gasser I was outspoken In my Sen timents at the club this afternoon. Mr. Gaaser I can't believe it! Who out spoke yon, my dear? Puck. "I'm told." said Miss Pepprjy, "that your bride Is very pretty." "Yes. Indeed!" replied Mr. Con Beet; "several of the guests at the ceremony were pleased to call It 'a wedding of beauty and brains.' " "Really? She must be a remarkable woman to-have beauty and brains, too." Philadelphia Press. "I know a man who Is responsible for a big Jail delivery, and yet has escaped with out even question." "Hs must have a very strong- pull." "No. be hasn't any. He Is merely th letter carrier on that post.'VWashlngton Herald. 1 Upgardsoi You're acting like a lunatic. What's the matter? Exaggerated ego or brain storm? Atom Worse than either! Just got 3 hard knock on my crasy bone! Cnlci3 t iriDune. " "Have yod made any effort to Impress the correctness of your opinions on the minas ot your constituents? ' "It Is not necessary," answered Senator Sorghum. "I never utter any opinions un tll I am stirs the majority of my constitu ents have already Indorsed them." Wash ington Star. AN I'VE GOT HOME. Carrie Jacobs-Bond in the Housekeeper. Been a traveltn' moat a year, ' Been a powerful way from here, Seen some sights I won't forget Heard soma sounds I'm hearln yet But now I'm homev Been to cities strange and new, fome I liked, but Just a few; ' till, there's none of 'em can be, What this old farm is to me, 'Cause It's my home. There's my sxe beside' the tree Seems to sort o' beckon mej Wonder ff I've clean forgot How to sliver off a knot Since I left home? 'V How I'm lovln' ' every sound! Acorns droppln' on the ground Sounds like musio In my ear. Kind o' slngin' Joy and cheer 'Cause I've got home. Is there anything o good As beln' home an' understood? Folks don't criticise your ways. Where they've known you all their days Right in your home. Well I'm thankln God for this I've been liked (enough to miss) In the place I love the best 1 And I've Just come back to rest x An' stay at home. ' Office Furniture and IvfUautlihtf Devices .. Desks.. .ns rtlrr nsVe II laches lesfl-hlgh grsde, speciaL.25.50 U for Cemslst Offle Outfit Orchard &Wilfcetni Carpet Co. : ?