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THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JUNE 2, 1907. ft . D Chases f Dirt l Old Dutch Cleanser . Is the most economical of all cleaners. This new cleanser takes the j:lace of soap,soap-pow-tiers, scouring-brickA and metal polishes, and doc all their work taster, quicker and beUer. vSaves Work If It talces.all the hard work out of keeping things clean. Re quires onlv half t!ie labor nec essary with old-style cleaners. r 'T- 'fit vSaves Time It works Vnuch quicker than any other cleaner rapidly ab sorbing: dirt in every form and carrying it away, leaving every thing scrupulously clean. , vSaves Cash It saves the cost cf buying several different old-style clean ers, because it does everything cleans, scrubs, scours and polishes. 1 Largm Siftlng-top Can Jt mil Grocers') The Cudahy Packing Co. South Omaha, Itch. FIGHTING KITCHEN' CRAFT Fw Tork Objects to Flan that Eicteedi Abroad. - COOK WANTS COMMISSION ON BILLS Tradesmen and Employers Alike Taking- Mrfi to End (he Practice, hat the Power of the Cook la Great. , NEW TORK. June l.-Qraft below atalrt la not at all a new feature of domestic conomj-, It flourished under another name In England Ions before It sprouted In this country. Now urfder Ita twentieth century name It flourish alike In Europe and In the United Stater, but with this dlfferenoe: In England, and especially In London, craft In the kitchen la tolerated practically without protest, whereas In New York householders kick good and hard. If un- avalltngly, against the- practice. It Is a much quoted statement that the prince of Wales' commissary department furnishes the moat notable example In England of Kraft below stairs, every servant connected with It exacting a commission from the tradespeople he patronizes, and that tha prtnro of Wales accepts tha situation phllo soiitcally without protest. In New York the wealthier and more prominent the householder the more cer tain he Is, If he suspects graft In the kitchen, to want to fight It. . Fortunately for hla peace of mind, he doesn't always suspect It when It really, exists for the reason that the tradespeople generally keep quiet, believing that It Is better to bear the Ills they have than flee to others they know not or. Many a dealer in meata, was an Invalid, bothered; neither did ha want tough meata served on his table and tough meat was the reason given by tha housekeeper for asking him to buy else where. Ha realised that probably tha meata had purposely been spoiled In ths cooking and that the chef and the house keeper were In league, but he didn't want to discharge either and what could ha do? he asked. 'He could do nothing, I told him, undar the circumstances but continue to order from the new butcher. I might send him the tonderest of meat and poultry, but It wouldn't be firat-claas when It reached his table. Cook Ftxea the Meat. Tea. Indeed, It's easy enough to spoil a good steak In the cooking. We km.vr that to our cost. A hotel which we had served faithfully for several years recently got a new chef who demanded of us a 10 per cent commission, saying his prede cessor told him that was the sum we al lowed him. " "You're a liar,' told the man. 'We never have allowed and never will allow any of our customers a commission.' " I'll flx you,' he said. "id he did. Within a week we had lost the custom of that hotel. When I wrote to the- proprietor for an explanation he sent back word CALM OF THE JAPANESE If llwy Didn't l.br in Hew Tork it Was Warder. IACK OF INTEREST IN SIGHTS fXPLAINEO War Time Kiperletieea that Failed to Cause the Men of Klppoa to Shew Emotion Typical Instances of Phleam. 99 NEW YORK, June 1 -When the sailors and officers from the Japanese cruisers Tsukuba and Chltose saw New York from the top of rubberneck wagons they gave not as much outward manifestations of enthusiasm as a group of up-state folks from Cayuga county might have done. They looked at the high buildings, took In the sights of Broadway and siiw the sub way Jams all this with the calm of one who had been a part of these things for years. Yet no one out of 600 of these little men had ever before seen a building higher than five storlrs; probably there were fifty who One of your steaks served ! 1d'ad of subway trains; It Is posslblo - ' ..., t ..Mn' ret mv "" uuini mill rj nan teeth through It. - "The chef probably seared a fine steak and plunged It In a pall of cold water be fore broiling to a finish and then served It to the proprietor. Such treatment would make the choicest of meat as tough as shoe leather, and I don't wonder that the boss was alarmed for the reputation of his hotel. But that steak cut us oft from a monthly bill 'of $2,000. ' "Perhaps one of the most curious cases we ever had to deal with was In connec- poultry, game, etc.. regularly hands over "or. with a woman cook. Her mistress Is IOc "E-Z"WaIkers tot Hard Workers I All Solid EverywhereNo ShoaMy Anywhere. Adequately represents ths quality of our E-Z" WALKER SHOES for Farmers and Mechanics. This lint of shoes bat proven a remarkable teller with as and the demand steadily Increases. "E-Z" WALKERS ara made fa both plain and Up tot and la widths from C to Doable E, thus enabling the foot to be perfectly fitted. "E-Z" WALKER shoes are-so evenly balanced as to wear out completely before giving away. Mads Jtor bard, knocks, wear and service. . ., Tell your dealer you want "E-Z WALKERS.. If be has none, writs as. We'll learn why and teU yon where to get them. You can't "to wrong" in these shoes. F. P. Klrkendall & Co. Omaha, Nebraska. Wettern Made tor Western Trade 11 jyADE in so Many styles and shapes that you are always sure to get the hat that is - Becoming part of his profits to chefs, butlprs and housekeepers rather than run the risk of having his sales diminished. It la known, too, that some dealers even try to secure patronage on this basis. Graft at the Hotels. There la a steward In one of the hotels who makes no secret of the fact that he Is a 6 per cent man and yet he Is besieged by tradespeople anxious to secure his cus tom. It has been like that for years, but of late there haa come a change. In some cases chefs and their associates have carried the game further than some tradespeople are willing to play It. Con sequently tradesmen are showing a dispo sition to follow the read of an uptown firm dealing In market supplies which for many years has enforced a hard and fast rule against giving commissions, no matter what the alia of a customer's bill may be. Tfils firm has Instituted a system which not only prevents graft In the shop, but also acquaints employers with the grafting prac tices of their servants. The shop Is patronised by many prominent families of New York and Its supplies are sent to the country llbuses of customers In Newport, Tuxedo, Bar Harbor,. Aiken, Washington and elsewhere. The order de partment books . register more . than 900 names. They would register more were it not that every now and then la customer closos an account at the Instigation of a chef, butler or housekeeper with an Itching palm. Experience of an Honest Dealer. The motto of the house, as a member of the Arm made clear, Is "millions for de fense If necessary, but not 1 cent for trib ute," Said he:. "Notwithstanding the losses Incurred by reason of this policy from time to time we still maintain that It Is the most beneficial one both to our patrons and ourselves. In opening an account we always send out a circular letter which Includes this clause: " 'We believe you know that our method of transacting business does not permit of paying commissions to any servant In order to retain the custom of our patrons. This tends to prevent waste and dishonesty In the household of every customer wa serve. Should you agree with us In this matter we would esteem It a favor to hear from you. "There la the result," and he produced a two foot high stack of letter congratu lating the Arm on the stand It had taken. He showed also a drawer filled with In dexed cards there were 200 of - them or more bearing the names of servants who A had demanded anywhere from 6 to 10 per j cent commission on the purchasers of their employers and giving the result of the re fusal to comply with the demand. By means of these' records the Arm has often been able to prove that tho trade of certain customers haa been taken else where after a commission was refused their chefs or butlers, and they have sometimes been the means of Inducing the mistress of an establishment to do her own ordering. Records of Grafters. V'lt's a great pity," the dealer went on, "that so few rich women attend to thta part of the household shopping. There Is one of the mast fashionable women In New York and a lady every Inch of her. We had been serving this patron satisfactorily for several years, therefore I was aston ished to have her account closed without a word of explanation. Instead of writing I personally called to see her and received with the greatest cordiality. " "I did not know until yesterday,' she ridden In an automobile somewhere In Shanghai, where the roads are wide enough. Suspecting these facts In part, there wero some New Yorkers who wondered petu lantly why the Japanese visitors did not go Into spasms of astonishment at the won ders of the city. The reason why none of the Japanese stretched his neck or cracked hie mouth over New York City is the same one that Impels little Kato, the rickshaw man, to smile should you suddenly toll him that his father haa died. The same impulse masks the face of Tsuru-san, who brings the stranger his tea In the Fujlya hotel, should he gallantly try to tell her that the cherry blossoms In her hair but make her the more beautiful. Those who go out from the west to live I In Japan learn one lesson before all others. was ana inai is mat a Japanese faco can bo as blank as a stripped signboard In a rainstorm, and to expect any show of any emotion from a Japanese Is to ask tho began apologetically. 'what a mistake I had made, and I might never have found j impossible. It out but for an old employe In whom I! At no tIme did strangers marvel more place the greatest confidence.' "This employe. It seems, had distrusted the new cook ever since her arrival three months before, about which time her mis tress had begun to complain of the meat and poultry served on the table, and she noticed that the cook had a long call more than once from a butcher In the nejghbor- hood. One day a-polled chicken was served on the dinner table and that ended It. Orders were given not to buy another ounce of meat at our place. "It was the trusted employe who got at the .secret of the chicken. It had been sent by the rival butcher, together with a flve-dollar bill and the request to serve the chicken In place of the chicken from the usual place. But It was only a bare chance that caught tho cook at her game and saved our reputation. "In a similar case which came to our knowledge a cook was asked to substitute two old fowls for two flne young masting chicken, and she was promised a big com mission If she diverted her employer's trade away from us. This she refused to do. Any Old Cook Will Graft. "The desire for graft Is not confined to cooks of any one nationality I find. Ida, a big Swede who was engaged by a family we had served for eight years, cams Into the office one day and coolly demanded her commission. She refused to give any other name than Ida. "I explained our ' Invariable rule. She got op, fixed me with her eye and said meaningly: . If you won't remember me I'll remember you,' and she did. About ten days later her employer stopped buy ing of us and would give no explanation of her action further than to say that she supposed she had the right to buy wher ever she pleased. "We had the same experience with a Japanese cook who asked for a commis sion of 110 a month. A week later his employer stopped his account here, giving as a reason 'tough steaks.' "Not long ago I read In a newspaper how a Chinaman now employed In a res taurant had boasted In public of getting even with a butcher who refused him a commission. Well, the butcher In question Is tho proprietor of this store and I re member the Chinaman very well. "He slid In one day after the noiseless fashion of Chinamen and let me under stand that he had come for a good aired commission. He knew as well as I did that his employer's monthly bill was about SfiOO. When I repeated to him the In variable formula he said with a leer: 'Oh, velly well, velly well." and slid out fts THE LAUNDRY THAT KNOWS HOW. Knows how to do up collurs without breaking the edges. Knows how to give your linen stiffness that is flexible and lasting not harsh and crackly. K.iows how to delivsp ladies summer wearing apparsl in an immaculate condition without crushing. J . r 'W,H If'! i" ''.ir fi II "The New Evans' Qfy IJ Zl"mmlf jh want to b convinced that wf "know HnfOy "how,'1 seni u? $our bun Us next time. SteQm Laundry Corrpany ESTABLISHED 1876 ALLAN B. HAMILTON, Manager. 207-9-11 South 11th. 'Phone Douglas 254 no graft In buying nockwear and millinery i noiselessly as he came, . and other finery because the Wearer picks It out for herself. She doesn't depend on her maid to do It. I "How am I able to get these records? ' Well, generally like this: Every employe In the store knows the rules and what to ! do when approached for a commission. ! "Instead of saying 'We don't give com- missions,' ha sends the applicant upstairs to the office, where the head of tha clerical BLOOD POISON IpMaUr sua trmiuntlr cuna by kNDUN SALVs, Um imM ninxlir srr HHonM tor BLOOO POISUN, UANOKIINB, .FUISONUI'S JUT Bg, CAN Can. PlMfLB.il. ml: INDIAN SALVC la puroijr v.geubla, noa-solaoo-an ota b UImb Uitanu.117 u w.U m bs HteraUr. ' Dos'l uii jour tlm ud mauf mwlBMatlns sits worth: m Initiation.. Yoar seur r. frni4.il K w. 4o aot tffMt a, eur. Ob sal at all druigl.ia. or will ba aaat aadar lain aaalas wrpr upaa rrc.lpt ot 1.S. FPFF A x. M aooufh to eoiiTlnoa '-" Foil ot la "" aucrlt ot INDIAN SALVS, will bo aant to yon fro. uoou reralot ot ise, wiileh a?a tor tho ' eoat ot nailloc. Wo will aloa aaod fwu our booklet op ta?l dlataoea, aS toatlnaa lUla. INMAN SALVF FEUICUIBS CO., In., 18 Galia A... BrookJra, N. T. Schaefer Cut Price Druggist, Uta ana Btug-lis its Omaha, Vets. Mend ana make you" own HAHNES8. Use odd lines and straps. No stitching or riveting. Great money (avers. Send for :stali)gu and prices today. TUH ItOVAL lHCKIJC COMTANY, 1116 Farnam St.. OMAHA. AGENTS WiNTED si SCHOOLS A"D COLLEGES. Browne!! (Ia!l A boardlnr and (day Pchool for You i Women and Qlrls. ttulents holrilnar cer tificate coverluc In full the entrance re quirements of tha t'niv. fit Nebraska or of Iowa, aif admitted without examination to Junior rar of advance course. Certi ficate In eull- preparatory cuurae admits to Vaasar. Welle.ley smith, Mt. Holyoka. )V nivi, .f NB.br,;a- t!1u,v ot Wt.con.ln and t'niv. lit hk-ajo.) Ecpttonal ad . Nanuses I .Music, Art and Domestic Be lone. Well equipped ryninaslum and outdoor sports, students mothered sym pathetically by women of large pra?tlcal asperlence with fftrls In that highly Im portant formative period betweeo four teen and twenty-one years of age. fraud (or Illustrated Year Book, force receives him and asks at once for Ms nam and address. In1 some cases a man or woman healtates about giving his or hr name on which the clerk says, 'If you can't tell me who you are I can't talk to you.' As a rule the grafters demand a fixed sum. ' ' "On one occasion the chef of a cuetomor whose bill averages 1800 a month th year round demanded a 10 per cont commission. and went off vowing; vengeance when we refused It. Another demanded HO a month; a third said a t &er cent commis sion had been paid him by every butcher his master had ever dealt with and when he was turned down he tried to- "aompro mlae on a handsome present at Christmas. On roan said he would expect us to send a joint of beef to his own house for his family's consumption once a week. This la th sort of thins; we are up ajralnat all th time. , Instance ef tha Wark. "Here la a record which threw a good deal of light on a transaction which hap pened last month. One of our best custo mers stopped buying all of a sudden. As Is our custom, we wrote a letter asking for hU reasons and for any complaint he might, have to make. The family was oc cupying just then a house at Tuxedo. "Back came a letter from the head of th house referring us to his housekeeper and giving her name, I wrote to th housekeeper In the same strain and got no reply. hardly expected that I would get an answer when I found that th housekeeper's nam was the same as that of a cook who a year or more ago asked us for a 10 per cent commission pa pur chases made for her employer and who went Into a rag when refused and man aged te et Jirh employer to stop trading her two weeks later. "During th Interval th cook evidently had changed her occupation 1 to that of housekeeper and, finding that ' her em ployer ws buying hla meats and poultry at a place which would allow her no com mission, she put a stop to It. I wrote all tahte to her employer and got a letter back asking mr advice. H old not want to bay his wit, wh "About two weeks later his employer's name was no longer on our books. I knew we had the Chinaman to thnnk for It. but what I did not know until I re.rt his own version of the affair was' how he managed his end so oulckly. It was sim ple enough. JTe served to his employer the cuts ordered for the servants' table and to the servants th cuts Intended for stairs." up- LEGALITY OF UNI0N UPHELD Illinois Appellate Conrt Passes on . Presbyterian and Cumberland - Charch Consolidation. over the Impassibility of the Japanese than during the' tense days of the war when hundreds of men were leaving railway stations throughout Japan, never to re turn. When it is recorded how Jananese parents walked to the stations with their conscript son, flying banners of death over his head In the belief that he would never return and smiled with elaborate politeness when the new soldiers were whisked off to the war, then It. will be borne In on the Impatient Manhattanlte that there was no reason why a Japanese sailor should ex hibit interest In New York. After the great battle of Japan Sea the Japanese newspapers and Illustrated ma gazines told a story of the fight that Is typical of Japanese phlegm. It was on the deck of Admiral Togo's flagship, the Mikasa, that the sailors assembled Just when the fleet was leaving the Corean port of Masamptio to meet the advancing Russians in Tsushima. ' One of the ship's surgeons brought out a goto, or elongated harp, very mueh like the cither, and with the Instrument In front of him he sat down and played songs Of the countryside. They were homely songsr"such as the fishermen sing when they pull In their nets or the sendos chant over the sweeps of their sampans. All of the crew came In on the chorus, swinging through the quavering measures with strong voices. - ' Tot two hours the ship's surgeon chanted the songs and the sailors joined In. Then every man was ordered to his post. The surgeon laid out his knives and bandages, the gunner hoisted up his ammunition, the battle was Joined and they fought for three days. ) Another Incident Illustrative of the studied calm which has been so long a part of the Japanese code of politeness as to be Ingrained In the character of the Nip ponese was furnished when the secret police suddenly descended upon the house Of a foreigner in Toklo and arrested him on a charge of furnishing military secrets to the French government. The foreigner had once served as military instructor In the budding Japanese army, had received a decoration from the eaiperor and was in every way to be counted one of the most Influential foreigners In the Japanese capi tal. The government spies did not make a move until the letters they had Intercepted showed conclusively that the man was guilty. It was dangerous to arrest him, because at that time relations between his country and the government of Japan were at a aevere strain. When the decision to act was Anally reached a squad of soldiers and officers went to the home of the suspect. The man was in bed at the time. He was told by his Japanese servant that an officer from the government wanted to see him; the name of the officer was familiar to the foreigner. He dressed and went down Into the library of his room, where the lone officer whose name had been given him was sit ting. Tea was ordered according to Japa nese etiquette and the two sat talking of commonplaces for nigh an hour. Then a second Japanese officer appeared at the door with a bundle of papers In his hands and notified the foreigner that. greatly as he regretted being the bearer i 1 1 ii 1 a . 1 months later there was another procession. At tho close of hostilities all tho Russian prisoners In Japan were herded toReth-r at the various ports an-.l shlppi-d to Vladi vostok. It was one of the many consign ments of thes prisoners that suddenly appeared from nowhere early one morning and lined up along the Iiund awaiting transport to the big Russian troopship In the harbor. The presenece of some 5.000 of their late enemies right In plain sight where every sendo and coal heaver along the harbor front could see them did not affect the brown cltlsens of Yokohama In the least. A small fringe of boys and fisher girls hung around the flanks of the big, un kempt Rusians, staring not Impolitely up Into the bearded faces of the giants. Borne brought flowers and cigarettes. But- there was no crowd. Even while the Japanese were going on their way without offering the Rusians any embarrassment some of the women of tho English settlement on the bluff canio down In their carriages and passed tho ragged line in review, halting their car riages now and then to take a snapshot of some dejected group. LLL 1 r 1 L . . J JOYS OF CHIN WHISKERS price of b;:ef is raised Facter Charrti afore t Betailer, who ill ii Turn Boost RESULT OF PCST-V.0H7EM INSPECTION ROW nnle Reduces Kale of She Cattle, Ad vancing; Steers, and Mr. Com mon People Will Pay the Freight. 8PRINOFTEIJ5, in.. June 1. 80 far a the appellate court of thei Third district of Illinois is concerned, the legality of the union of the Presbyterian and the Cum berland Presbyterian churches Is sustained. The court handed down a decision today affirming the decision of the circuit court of Macon county, which had refused to Issue an Injunction, filed by Joseph Russell and other members of the Cumberland Presbyterian church, to restrain J. B. Hail and other commissioners of the Presby terian church from perfecting the union of the two churches. The appellate court holds that the civil courts have no power or authority to prevent by Injunction the union of the two. bodies, that the question Is one for the ecclesiastical courts to de termine. DENTISTRY TOOTH TALK NO. 119 v Th gentle art of Valnlssn la D.atlatry la a lost art so (a as most dentists practice it. X wish to say, however, that pain lessness 1 what I strtv (or la "very dental operation, lammttr, pleas, X am not putting forth cheap prices aa an la das em eat, hat rAXJtXXIS, CUA.TX.Y opera- ConaoU Blnff Man Provea Thetr Valne as Promoter of Health. And now a new hope will take posses sion of the man who has tried everything else and failed to feel as well as be feels he ought to feel these beautiful spring days. He was rapidly reaching the point where there seemed to be nothing else he could do, or could quit doing, and even though ha may not elect to follow In the footsteps of James W. Main of Council Bluffs, la., the knowledge that there Is still left one other thing which he can do, or can quit doing, will no doubt act as a tonto on his system, and cheer him up, and help him to get more out of this vernal awakening than he otherwise would. In all probability Mr. Main of Council Bluffs passed through the same series of ordeals before he finally reached the de cision which has had so much to do In the way of making htm a better and a happier man for the last thirty-five years. No doubt he tried all sorts of spring medicines, and found that each of them helped him for a time, as he afterward discovered that he received pronounced benefit from quitting thvm one after another. In all likelihood h was Immensely .benefited when he broke the pernicious coffee, habit, and when h ceased to drink water while eat ing, or to eat while thinking. It would bi Impossible for anybody to say whether he would have felt as well as he felt previous to the time when he made the last great change In his way of living it he had not done or ceased to do all these things. But the time came when he was called upon to do something more. The time came when he had to decide between his trl-weekly shave and the general state of his feelings, for he found that notwith standing the gains he had made by rea son of the sacrifice he had previously made, there was one other thing which he must do in order to feel as well as he felt he had - a right to feel. That was to throw away his rasor. And when the con viction camo upon him that this was th thing for him to do he did not hesitate a moment. It was before the days of safety razors, and his razor was one that had been in the family since the revolu tionary war perlid, but he threw It away. - That was thlrtjk-five years ago, and since then no razor has ever touched his face. In a few years, we are told, his whiskers reached his waist, and he concealed them under his coat. Then they reached his knees, and he had to button his vest and trousers over them. Now they are aeven feet long, he Is 70 years old, and he has enjoyed the very best of health ever since he quit shaving. Mr. Main Is spoken of everywhere In Council Bluffs as an exemplary citizen. He has always voted the straight repub lican ticket. Nothing would Induce him to read a low-price, high-class eastern muckraking magazine. This year he has The flght between the pacaers and cattle, men over tho post-mortem Inspection of she cattle lias at last been hooked onto Mr. Common People. Vp goes the price of meat several notches more. This was particularly noticeable In the local market Saturday on tho better cuts of beef and was atrlbuted to the flght now on between the packers and the stock men consequent upon the packers' refusal to pay for cows or heifers until th post mortem Inspection. From all the local markets except a few of the largest which professed to believe their size gave them Immunity, came the cry of Increased prices on beef. "The price to us of the better cuts of beef has gone up from one-half cent to a cent In the last few days," said Mr. John son of the Johnson & Qoodlett company. "The price to me has been raised about 1 cent a pound on the better cuts In three days," said F. W. Apel, a small dealer. "And they have not given mo all I or dered. They filled only a part of my order, saying they were short of those cuts." Even Chnck doe Vp. At the Farnam street market of Julius Drelfuss an advance of 2 centa was re ported on all the better cuts such as loin and beef ribs. Even on chuck steak the price had advanced t cents. "We have not yet raised the price to the consumer," was the statement made every where. "That probably will be done begin ning with next week unless ther is a let up In the pressure being put on us by the packers and there Is little likelihood of that." N The price of Iamb has now reached a high water mark in the last few weeks. It now sells at 14 and IB cents to the dealer. The fact that the cattlemen, refuse to submit to tn post-mortem Inspection has reduced the purchase of she cattle and run the price of steers up. With this com bination of clrcumstancea the packers hav what they regard as a good excuse for boosting prices and In the end MrCommon People pays the freight. What the Packers Says. Mr. Johns of the manager's office of Bwift & Co., had this to say on the sub ject: "Naturally, our selling prices bear a uni form ratio to the prices which we have to pay for cattle onf the hoof; and this relation la quoted weekly In the market reports. It Is a peculiar fact, however, that the net average price per hundred dur ing the week previous to the Issuance of the order in question was $7.61, but during the week beginning .May 26 the price was 17.47, a decrease In the price to th re tailer of 4 cents per hundred. There may be an Increase In the price during the eom Ing we.'k and probably there will be a difference of several cents. The full effect of any general rise In the purchasing de partment can not b felt much earlier than one week after such a rise." Manager Culver of the Omaha Packing company, on the same subject, said: "There will be an advance to the retail Consumers of beef for several reasons. First, that the retailers will have to bur steer atuff now because there la no covr stuff, and the price on steer beef Is al ways higher. Tho price of steers had ad vanced from 10 per cent to 30 per cent, and this will cause a similar advance In tha prices. An advance In the price of stock on the hoof means more than exactly tha same per cent of advance to the consumer, for the raise la on the whole carcass In the first Instance, but only on the part ON fered for beef in the second. Twenty per cent advance In live stock would mean about 36 per cent advance In beef. Thera Is no strife between the packers and tha commission men. We have simply coma to the point where there must be a stop to the losses which we suffer from tha precipitation of diseased stuff on thts markets." . Bids for Fresh Beef for the Array. Proposals for the supply of fresh beef for the military posts In the Department of the Missouri for the ensuing six months were opened Friday evening at th offlc of Captain T. B. Hacker, chief commis sary, Department of the Missouri. Tha proposals called for about 2,000,000 pounds ! of beef. The bidders were the packing houses of Chicago, St. Louis, South Omaha, Kansas City and Denver. Tne bids will have to be approved by the department commander before being made public Lo cal bidders In the vicinity of Forts Rob- Inspn ad Mackenzie were awarded the con tracts fpr those posts. ST. LOUIS, June 1. Consumers were re quired to pay advances today ranging from 1 to 6 centa a pound for beef, as a result of tho contest between the packers" and the live stock dealers on account of tha refusal of the packers to pay for cows and heifers until after the government Inspection that follows the killing. The ad vance to the consumer today followed th raise of 1H centa a pound on beef car. casses by the packers yesterday. made one of the best gardens In his part of unpleasant news, It was his painful duty of Council Bluffs, and he Is particularly to Inform him that he was under arrest on the charge of being a spy. The papers the second officer carried fn his hand were from the x private desk of the foreigner, which had been thoroughly sesrehed during the time that the first officer entertained the owner of the house over tha morning tea. When the accused man was led out of the house on the way to prison he found a large crowd of the curious gathered In front of his gato, attracted hither by the news of his impending arrest. All among tha crowd who knew the prisoner bowed and smiled a customary greeting as he passed. Those who recall the scenes pf excite ment and bubbling patriotism enacted In luck with string beans and. radishes. While he does not agree with the president on every point, yet he may be accounted among the warmest supporters of th ad minlstraHon, and he never mUses a circus Chicago Inter Ocean, MORE OF CONGO ATROCITIES -- Farther Revelations Made of Method Employed In Rabber Trad la Africa. LONDON, June 1. (Special.) - Further revelations of the administrative methods of the Congo Free State are contained In the reports from the British consular off! New York and other large cities when ! clal who recently made inspection tours In troops left for the front during the Spanish war would have been shocked could they have seen the apparent apathy that char acterised the departure of great bodies of troops from Japanese ports. When the army of Invasion left Yokohama for Bag the country, which have Just oeen made public In a White paper, Mr. Armstrong, the vice consul at Lo. poldsvllle, reports that he Is forced to the conclusion that the condition of the people In th Anglo-Belgian India Rubber com LOOKING FOR A REVOLUTION Returning Pre-byterlan Missionary Dlsrnssea Condition Kow Exist, laar In Chinese Empire. BAN FRANCISCO, June I. Dr. K. CJ. Machle, a Presbyterian missionary, ar rived on the steamer Doric en rout to hla former home In Cincinnati. He coma from L.ien Chow, close to the borders of Hunan province fynd 200 miles by water from Can ton. 'He 'returns alone, for his wife and 10-year-old daughter were murdered by th Chinese by the uprising of th antt Chrtstlans on October 18, 1906. He says ha believes there will be another rising of the natives before many months. In con sequence of the efforts to overthrow th present Manchu dynasty and plac a Chines on the throne. Thousands of tha natives, he says, are uneasy and dare not express opinions on either side. OR. FICKES, P""t 'Phont Doug. lit. Ill Bh Bid. hallen there was not so much stir In town I pany's territory Is deplorsble, and although those living In the vicinity or tne mission stations are, comparatively speaking, safe from 111 treatment by the rubber agents and their armed sentries, those In other parts are subjected to the gravest abuses. "Th people live in a state of uncertainty as to the advent of police officials and sol diers - who Invariably chase them from their abodes and destroy their huts. No chang In the existing system can be looked for until a more reasonable ayatem of taxation la adopted. 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