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HIE OMAHA DAILY BEE; FRIDAY, MARCH 13, ' 1903.
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STATEMENT OT" CIRCULATION. ..
State of Nebraska, Douglas Coutny, ss.1
George B. TsoHiuck. treaaurer of The
Baa Publishing company, being duly sworn,
says that tUe actual number of full and
template copies of Tha Daily. Morning,
Evening and Sunday Bee printed during
tha month of February, 10, waa as fol
lows; i
I ,s. M.TM 1 35,100
I BS.S0O 17 M300
t M.iao ii e,tao
4... C40 II 38.T30
I ;.. tMii 19.. 3e,soo
M.0TO 31...;....... 88,340
7 B,M0 11........... t90
I .. t4M30 St..,'. 86,000
86,000 14 88,300
10 86,800 IS 30,670
11 M.100 it 80,40
It SJOO IT.... 86.880
II M.900 21 38,380
14 88,100 2.... 86,850
II NJU
Totals 1,048,60
Leas unsold and returned coplea.. 8,437
Net total ,v 1,033,113
Dally average.... 88,831
GEORGE B. TZ8CHUCK,
Treaaurer.
Subscribed In my presence and sworn
to before ma this 2d day of March, 1101.
ROBERT HUNTER.
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"Fridajr tha Thirteenth."
Up to date congress has not passed
much ot anything but tbrea months'
time. '
Latest reports Indicate that China
Is not awakening, but just talking In
her sleep. 4
Governor Fort of New Jersey re
fuses to be held from the delegation
to tha Chicago convention.
Omaha Is again sustaining Its repu
tation as a convention city.
Oklahoma has also asked for a re
served seat In the Taft bandwagon.
Tha choice places are going rapidly.
The price of seats on the New York
Stock exchange Is going up rapidly as
tha lamb-shearing soason approaches. -
Senator Foraker says he will attend
no conventions this year. The con
ventions have already attended to him.
"The weakness of the democratic
party Is not due to a lack of principle,"
Bays Colonel Bryan. No. To a lack
ot votes.
March is Secretary Taft's lucky
month, and the other eleven have been
reasonably good to him.
The pastor of a church at Syracuse,
N. Y.. Is in trouble because he asked
a young lady for a kiss. Served him
right lie shouldn't have asked. '
"Governor Johnson refuses to dis
cuss politics," says a St. Paul dispatch.
Governor Johnson is apparently deter
mined to appear as different as pos
sible. Tha platform adopted by the repub
licans of OLIo does not meet the ap
proval of the energetic editor of the
Omaha doub)e-ender; It was scarcely
Intended to.
.' Omaha will stand for almost any
reasonable sort ot touch by tha
weather man. The brand of climate
he has served for the visitors to the
city has been of the beet. .
Texas republicans are to hold a ban
quet at Houston tonight Texan re
publicans have become very proud
since they are numerically strong
enough to hold a banquet
Some qpmplaint is betng made be
cause congress has raised the pay of
the army In hard times. It should be
remembered that the army had small
pay when times were good.
After a heated debate the Oklahoma
legislature defeated a resolution pro
hibiting members from eating popcorn
during the sessions. The peanut's
place -In politics is threatened.
Mr. Bryan is not entitled to all ot
the credit for the election of a repub
lican United States senator from Ken
tucky. Governor Beckham, the dem
ocratic candidate, helped some.
The prohibition party In California
la charged with accepting campaign
funds from patent medicine manufac
turers. There's apparently no cure
for the California brand ot graft
Tha debate between the coal power
and the water power factions will be
et service to Omaha. It the advocates
on either side are able to convince the
general ssUe tbat Omaha hag cheap
" ' ' i . I , 2 .
TUK WHMMT OUJXOOK.
While It Is too early to estimate the
harvest yield, reports of the condition
ot the wheat crop of the country, se
cured by the government Department
of Agriculture, are most encouraging.
Uncertainty always hovers over a
wheat field until the cro? has been
harvested, bt Secretary Wilson's ex
perts are keenly alive to the fact that
this is the critical period for the win
ter wheat crop, which is Just now be
ginning Its spring growth In the more
southern sections. The reports indi
cate an unusually promising condition
of the crop in every lection Of the
wheat belt. Abundant snows fell dur
ing the winter months and notice is
taken of a pleasing absence of exces
sive cold weather and destructive
winds. The soil Is in practically per
fect condition. . 1
The outlook is particularly pleasing,
as statistics show that the surplus of
the 1907 crop still remaining' this
country Is much smaller than theayjpr
age. The foreign and home demand
Is getting heavier each year and, how
ever abundant the coming year's crop
may be, there is a certainty that the
market price will not be low. Every
favorable report on the condition of
the wheat crop is a. word of cheer to
the western farmers.
DSFORTfSQ CH1U1XAL lM3tlQHAItT8.
Robert Watchora, commissioner of
Immigration at New York, has made
suggestion of amendment to the im
migration laws that is receiving very
favorable consideration by the commit
tees of congress that are Investigating
Immigration conditions and preparing
new legislation to be offered at the
present session. Mr. Watchorn's rec
ommendation Is that the law be
amended so that any Immigrant who
commits a crime within three years
after landing In this country may be
deported. . Under the existing law im
migrants may be deported it within
three years after they 'have been ad
mitted It is learned that they bad
been criminals before coming here.
Records show that but few aliens
have been deported on account of
crimes committed by them in their na
tive lands before coming to this coun
try. Evidence ot such criminality
comes to light now and then, but the
accused men usually plead their of
fense was political and the American
authorities are slow to exhibit any
particular activity In prosecution of
such cases. The amendment proposed
by Mr. Watchorn appears to the point.
The behavior of aliens after arriving
In this country is a matter that con
cerns tha police authorities and the
adoption and enforcement of such an
amendment to tha immigration laws
would at least serve to place Immi
grants upon their good behavior for
three years after their arrival. Even
a foreigner with the anarchistic taint
and the hate ot authority In hla heart
Is Quite apt to take, a different view
ot things after he has complied with
the law-for three years and has had
time to get an Idea of American Insti
tutions. AfB. BRYA1TB CVRRKttCT TLAW.
Members of congress who are devot
ing thought to plans for the Improve
ment ot the American currency sys
tem, with the view to adding the ele
ment pf elasticity In times ot emer
gency, are apparently going right
along In their efforts to frame the sort
of a measure desired out of the Ald
rlch and Fowler bills now pending In
congress, unmindful of the fact, that
Mr. Bryan, in the Nebraska demo
cratic platform, has offered a solution
of the problem. Mr. Bryan has never
failed to have a remedy for currency
Ills, even It the congress and the peo
ple do seem loth to adopt it. The na
tion rejected hiB free silver panacea,
but he la not discouraged. He has an
entirely new scheme ot finance. He
proposes to have the government en
gage In the banking business, loan
money and issue currency to meet
financial emergencies. His plan, aa
outlined in tha Nebraska democratic
platform, is as follows:
Wa opposa both tba Aldrtch and tha
fowler bill, and believe that In so far
as tba needs of commerce require nn
emergency currency, audi currency ahould
be Issued and controlled by the federal
government, and that It should be loaned
upon adequate security and at. a rate of
Interest which will compel Its retirement
when the emergency la passed.
This la In effect a reiteration of tbe
Ocala platform of the populists, ex
cept that Mr. Bryan has eliminated
the provision requiring subtreaaurles
to give warehouse receipts on farm
produce. It Is a reversal to the oM
Idea that all the government needs. 4o
produce money is swlft-runnlng,4rint
ing presses with a plentiful fjftiply of
paper and colored inks. The Bryan
plan would put the currency and bank
ing systems ot tha country under polit
ical control and would create a tre
mendous machine for extending favors
and upsetting industrial - and com
mercial conditions. It would place the
banking business In the hands of pol
iticians, who would not ba lending or
issuing their own money, but, would
be conducting the financial bunlnesg ot
the nation , in response tp public
clamor. Fear of personal loss Is one
of the greatest restraining Influences
In the business operations ot a banker
and Is one of tha safest guarantees ot
prudent banking. This element of re
straint would not be. felt by a govern
ment official making loans or Issuing
currency. ' There would ba a lack of
that, keen aenaa of responsibility to
stockholders and patrons that serves
to strengthen every trained banker.
Banking fa not a government functloa.
Tha general appreciation ot this fact
la probabll what prevents congress
men from dropping their present cur-
Y
rency bills and welcoming tha Bryan
plan.
BCILD FOR THE rUTVRK.
The debate Involving tha Douglas
county court house has reached a cer
tain definite point. All sides to the
controversy admit that the present
structure does not contain sufficient
room to accommodate the officers and
Institutions supposed to be housed
therein. For many years Douglas
county hM bfen compelled to rent
quarters outside of the county build
ing for court and other purposes. The
late grand Jury made a report which
merely echoed a Berles of similar re
ports that have been made periodically
for almost twenty years. It will,
therefore, be conceded without argu
ment that Douglas county stands in
need of both a new court house and a
Jail.
The method of procedure Is the
question open at present. Whether
the county commissioners shall sub
mit a proposition having In view the
erection of a building of sufficient ca
pacity to care not only for the imme
diate requirements, but, as far as is
prudently possible, to anticipate the
future, or whether an appropriation
for temporary repairs and extensions
shall be made. Is to be decided. A
very respectable faction has declared
Itself as being opposed at the present
time to the issuance of bonds sufficient
to carry the larger scheme. This ele
ment reasons that by the expenditure
of a considerably smaller sum of
money the present court house can be
so added to as to accommodate the im
mediate needs ot the county. The
difficulty here is that the expenditure
suggested is temporary and makes no
provision whatever for the future. It
la upt unreasonable to expect that the
hope of Omaha's citizenship will be In
some measure, at least, realized. If
this be true, In another decade the re
modeled court house will be as utterly
Inadequate as the present structure.
Good business Judgment suggests
the 1 anticipation of future require
ments as far aa possible. The pro
posal of the county commissioners
will, In general terms, commend itself
ns being one along sound lines. It it
is as prudently worked out In its de
tails as It has been In Us outline form
It should meet with very little opposi
tion. The county business requires
better quarters. 1 The need for a new
court house la Imperative. The
county jail Is a disgrace in many ways.
The present Board of County Commis
sioners is moving carefully In the mat
ter, but believes It necessary to take
action at an early date. In this posi
tion It has the support of the citizen
ship generally. One thing must be
kept in mind the move for better
court house and jail accommodations
must In no way, however remote, be
Involved In real estate speculation.
' JDVLT PoajOFFICB MKSSEIfQERM.
Postmaster General Meyer's recent
order providing for the gradual elim
ination of boys as messengers In the
postofflce special delivery service is
being very warmly approved by re
form organizations. Under the new
order of tha postmaster general va
cancies in the ranks of the special
messengers shall not be filled, but the
work of special delivery will be turned
over to the substitute carriers.
Aside from the desire of tha post
master general to save the special mes
sengers from exposure to possibly con
taminating influences, a danger fre
quently exaggerated by advocates ot
reform of thla character, the order Is
a stop In the right direction. The
substitute carriers in most of the
larger cities are kept on small pay
and often have to serve a long time
before they are assigned to regular
duty. The nature ot their work la
such that they. must give most of their
time to It, whether employment Is reg
ular or Infrequent Under tha circum
stances tha additional compensation
they may earn as special messengers
wl make their positions more at
tractive and give them a training that
will better equip them for the duties
of a regular carrier.
Uncle Sam's quartermaster's depart
ment la finding it advantageous to buy
more and more all tba time on the
Omaha market The action of the
army in this respect ought to be a
good guide for the Indian bureau and
serve to check the persistent effort ot
eastern cities to obliterate Omaha
from una commercial map. Tha ad
vantages of the local market are such
aa readily commend theselves to pru
dent buyers and only the selfish atti
tude ot the New York Jobbers preventrl
Omaha from being the chief Indian
supply depot in the United States.
TexanB to the number of 10,000
have resolved to keep Senator Bailey
from going to the Denver convention.
It is not believed, however, that the
factional row In tha democratlo camp
will keep the Texas electoral rota from
going to Mr. Bryan.
William D. Howells is said to have
explained the entire American polit
ical situation to tha king of Italy In
an hour'a conversation. Many mem
bers 'of congress take more time than
that telling why they are opposed to
an elastic currency.
Tha attorney general and tha chair
man ot the State Railway commission
are) undecided aa to whose appropria
tion should ba charged with tha coat
of railway prosecutions. - Both partiaa
ara agreed that the public must pay It
t -r -
Tha operation ot law is slowly but
eurely stripping the romance from tha
mysterious patient at a local hospital.
It may yefba developed that fca-'to
4
merely a representative ot the com
mon, or garden, variety of burglar.
The Department of Commerce and
Labor Is now Investigating Nebraska
for undesirable foreigners,. The In
quiry will develop the fact that Ne
braska has fewer undesirable cltisena
than any ether state In the union.
In selecting a candidate for the
presidency oa the Independence ticket
Mr. Hearst may not remember that he
has been more successful in getting
votes tor other candidates than in rap
turing them for himself.
Hetty Green says she would rather
her daughter would marry a newspa
per man than a foreign nobleman be
cause newspaper men are not spend
thrifts. For obvious reasons, they
are not.
Remembering that majority of
63,876 against him in 1896 and the
one of 77,660 against him In 1900,
Mr. Bryan may decide that he 1b not
figuring much on Minnesota this year,
anyway.
Board Without Coat.
Chicago Tribune.
A clever anarchist In Omaha has suc
ceeded In providing himself with free board
and lodging for the rest of tha winter.
Trlbate to a, Paaslaar Male.
Philadelphia Ledger.
An army poet out west half-masted the
for flag In honor of a mule. While the
army la at the present low ebb the loss of
a working member Is felt."
Dlffereaca la Party Coaveatlons,
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
It Is a compliment to tha republican na
tional convention that Ita action la con
ceded to be subject to Its own decision.
The case with Mr. Bryan's oon vent Ion Is
entirely different. Everybody knows what
It will be, and only a minority care.
Brighter Fare oa Situation.
Bprlngfleld Republican.
Notwithstanding that last year's wheat
crop was a short one, the quantity on hand
with the farmers Is about up to the aver
age for the season, according to the De
partment of Agriculture's estimates, and
this In spite of the fact that wheat has
bean exported in very considerable volume
at tha high prices growing out of the crop
shortage. A year ago the estimated amount
of wheat In farmers' hands was 206,644,000
bushols, which was much above the aver
age, and to that large aurplus carried over
from the year before is due the fact that
an average quantity ot 148,721,000 bushels is
now left over from a short crop. This puts
a brighter face upon the agricultural situa
tion as the country Approaches the begin
ning of a new crop year.
THE) WORLD'S GOOD WILL.
facie Barn's Friendly Relations with
tha Rest of Mankind.
American Review ot Reviews. i
Ten years ago we destroyed two Spanish
fleets. Europe looked on with a new kind
of respect for Yankee energy and power,
but with considerableapprehension as to
the imperial alma oft; the stitesmen at
Washington. The respect for American
power has not dtmmtshed, but tha appre
hension aa to American alma has almost
wholly passed away. It was necessary for
us to build the Panama canal -upon a strip
of ground under our-own control. But
nobody now supposes that we intend to use
the canal as a vantage point for conquest.
We do not wish to acquire any territory
lying to the southward. Wa do wish, on
tha other hand, to aoqutre such prestige
and influence for peace, good order and
financial responsibility aa will quite trans
form the Central American states, and will
In due time sat Venesuela and Colombia
upon new lines of advance. Already the
feeling against us in Colombia on account
of our part in the establishment of the
Republic of Panama la fast disappearing as
the work progresses In swift and orderly
fashion on the Isthmus. The day la near
at hand when every intelligent man In Co
lombia will sea that we are conferring un
speakable benefits upon his country by
spending several hundred millions for a
waterway to unite tha two coasts of the
only Bouth American country that Ilea upon
both oceans. With tbe great republics of
Brasll. tha Argentina and Chile wa ara es
tablishing tha most harmonious relations
upon a basis of mutual appreciation and
good will auch aa has never existed before.
At tba present moment It is tha general
opinion that even between Spain and this
country there la a more cordial and prac
tical friendship than had existed at any
previous . time. From . the period when
South America and Mexico broke away
from Spain until tha inevitable lose ot Cuba
occurred there waa always eome strain be
tween Washington and Madrid, because of
preaent or prospective troubles In tha Weat
Indies. ' '
DEATH RATE AMONG THE STATES
Satlafaetory Showing- of Improred
General Uealth.
Bprlngfleld (Mass.) Republican.
The federal census bureau is now making
yearly reports on mortality statistics from
such states and cltlea aa maintain a care
fully conducted registration of deaths and
the causes thereof. This so-called registra
tion area was very small when tha bureau
began Its work several years ago, but It
18 being constsntly enlarged, and for the
report for 1906 Issued recently It embraces
fifteen states, the District of Columbia, and
seventy-seven registration cltlea In non
registration states. These states and cltlea
had In 1906 an estimated population of about
41,000,000, or nearly one-half the population
of the continental United States. The reg
istration area is Mni steadily extended.
Tha average death-rate for all the atatea
in the registration district was 16.1 in 1906,
compared with 161 In 1905, and K.I for the
average annual rate from 1901 to 1906.
These are very low figures. They compare
favorably with present death rates In for
eign countries. But It Is when this present
death rate of 161, over an erea peopled by
above 40,000,000 persons, Is placed In com
parison with ratea which used to prevail in
tha earlier half of tha last century, that the
progreaa of mankind In mastering the forces
which produce prematura death la made
impressively manifest. As this census bu
reau report says, "tha tendency In tha
larger countries with a population of sim
ilar character to that of tha United State
now seems toward an annual death rata of
about 1 per 1.000 or leas." '
Next to pulmonary tuberculosis as a chief
cause of death comes pneumonia with a
rata of 111 per 100.000 of population, fol
lowed by heart disease, lsD.7; diarrhea and
vnturltls. 13.1; Brlght's disease and ne
phritis, 89.1; apoplexy, 71 A and oaneer, 70.1
A generally inoreaslng mortality rata from
cancer la Indicated for areas where sta
tistics for a series of years ara available.
and tha report says tbat this Is true of for
eign countries aa well. It la a dlseaae
against which medical science seems to be
making no headway, and we ara left aa
much in tha dark respecting tbe reasons for
Ita increaee as respecting rts nature and tha
pteaiig of eombattrng hv --
HITS OP WASHISOTOX LIFE.
Minor areata and laeldeata Bketehed
tha Boot.
Just aa the 'mothers' occury tha eentcr
of tha stage and the front page ot Wash
ington papers, a new club of "daughters''
flutter across tha beams of tha limelight.
Tha new organisation Is composed ot the
daughters of senators and representatives
and Its declared purpose Is to promote So
ciability and unify tha Influence ot tha
feminine branch of tha congressional family.
This makea tha second organisation of
young women launched In Washington thla
year, tha first being tha Society of Naval
Sponsors. Already tha national capital Is
headquarters for tha Daughters of the
American Revolution, has ona or more
chapters of Colonial dames, federation
branches, and others enough to atford
ample room for feminine activities. The
permanency of the "Daughters of Senators
and Representatives" seems assured. Every
congressional election will bring to Its mem
bership new blood and beauty and keep It In
an attractive atate of youthful bloom.
According to statistics of more or less
accuracy, every third man in the United
States senate Is a millionaire, and ona in
every twenty-seven In the house of repre
sentatives Is rated In the tame category.
The senate millionaires are:
Simon Gupjfrenhelm, Colorado 1 60.noo.000
Isaac Stephenson, Wisconsin 80.COO.000
Stephen U. Elklns, Weat Virginia. Sti.tO
Kelson W. Aldrlch, Rhode Island. 12.0d0.o00
John Kenn, New Jersey 10.0u0.000
Redfield Proctor, Vermont S.WiO.OUO
Henry A. DuPont, Delaware 7.OUU.OO0
Jonathan Hourre, Jr., Oregon 6.000,000
Francis O. Newlands, Nevada ,onn.ono
Chauncey M. Depew, New York... 6.00O.0U0
George P. Wetmore, Rhode Island. 6.000.UOO
Morgan G. Bulkeley, Cohneotlcut.. S,0iiO,0U0
Levi Ankeny, Washington S.OOO.ouO
George 8. Nixon, Nevada S.OUO.UOO
VV. Murray Crane, Massachusetts. I.000.0U0
Eugene Hale, Maine S.OOO.OUO
George C. Perkins, California 3.0UO.OUO
Francis E. Warren, Wyoming 2.000.0UO
Nathan 13. Scott, Went Virginia.... 2.000.000
Philander C. Knox, .Pennsylvania. 2.000,000
Joeeph B. Foraker, Ohio 1,000,000
Henry Cabot Iie Massachusetts l.SOO.OiX)
Thomas C. Piatt, New York l.OtO.OiiO
Joseph W. Bailey, Texas l.OOO.OOv
Albert J. Hopkins, Illinois I.OQO.O11O
Thomas S. Martin, Virginia l.OOO.OuO
Harry A. Richardson, Delawsre... 1.000.000
William Alden Smith, Michigan.... 1,X),OHO
Frank ObacliaU Brlggs, New Jersey 1,000,000
Robert L. Owen. Oklahoma l.flno.OflO
Boise Penrose, Pennslyvanla l.OOO.ooO
Reed Smoot, Utah 1,000,000
Total 1210,600.000
In the house the millionaire list comprises:
John E. Andrus, New York. .......$ S5.000.000
William B. McKInley, Illinois 15,J00,000
George F. Huff, Pennslyvanla.... 10.000,W
Frank O. Lowden, Illinois 6,000,000
Everls A. Hayes, California 8,000,000
Daniel F. Lafean, Pennsylvania... S.000,000
Joseph G. Cannon, Illinois 10M),0O0
w vtmirW. Puckran. New York.... 1.500.000
Llewellyn Powers. Maine 1,000,000
Marlln E. Olmsted, Pennsylvania, l.ow.uw
Mm. W. Foulkrod, Pennsylvania.. I,000,0u0
Martin B. Madden, Illinois 1,000,000
1. 1. u Unrrimn. New York 1.000.000
John W. Weeks. Pennsylvania.... LO00.0O0
Totals 8.10,000
Representative Bourke Cockran of New
York la one of the orators of the house.
Almost every one In any way connected
with that anlondld institution upon the
hill, says the Washington Herald, knows
that Mr. Cockran is one of tha great
sneakers who are now playing politics
through the Congressional Record.
Being an' orator himself, Mr. Cockrau
likes to hear the rhetoric ot others, whether
thv ha democrats or republicans. When
he Is Interested In a subject under dlaotrs-
inn Mr. Cockran leans forward atten
tively In hla seat, turns toward the speaiter,
and becomes abaprbed In listening.
At times, however, the tumultuous
fnrrnta the courtesy flue to speakers
and resolves itself into a committee of
the whole house for the making or noise.
Then Mr. Cockran's otherwise urbane coun-
tnnnnra s-athnrs ution It a frown of vast
nrnnnrtlons. He taos the air nervously
with Ma eveelasses for nerhans a minute
or two, thinking, no doubt, what rank lack
of propriety is being displayed all about
him. Finally he loses all patience, turns
toward the chairman, and. In his best Eng
lish accent, he says, incisively:
"Cawn't we have order, Mr. cnairmanr"
Senator Allison of Iowa, the dean of
the senate. Is a warm friend of the senate
pages. For many years, through his ef
forts, Iowa has been represented among
the boys who do the senatore' errands.
Some years ago Senator Allison had one
of the pages detailed to attend the door of
the committee on appropriations. This com
mittee attracts many persons who are a
source of great annoyance to the chair
man, and It requires the exercise of much
diplomacy oil the part of the doorkeeper
to keep out persons who would bore the
chairman, and admit those whose business
Is Important and whom "tbe chairman de
sires to aaa.
The new page was Instructed In his du
ties, and in the two or three weeks that
followed Senator Allison had fewer unde
sirable callera than ever before. One day,
as tha aged senator was leaving the com
mittee room, he asked the little chap to
tell him how he succeeded In turning away
so many visitors.
"Why, I say you're not in," was the
reply.
"And sometimes I am in when you tell
them thisT" asked Mr. Allison.
"Yea, sir, aakl the page, "if I'm certain
It is somebody you don't want to see."
"But that's lying," said the senator, "and
it's not right for little boys to tell lies.
Never tell a lie, evert to save 'me."
"Well, shall I let them all go In to aee
you?" asked tha page.
Mr. Allison hesitated. To reply in tha
affirmative would mean that ha would
have no privacy or peace in hla committee
om.
No. I wouldn't let them all in," aaid tha
senator slowly. "But after this, when I'm
In the room and there is a caller wnom
you ara certain I do not wish to see, you
may say, 'No, he's not In,' and then whis
per to yourself, 'to you.' But don't tell
any more Ilea."
Tha current issue of the government blue
book for 1908 contains the names of 806,141
employes, of whom 106,444 are In the postal
service and 1J.898 In the railway mall aerv-
tca. Tha number employed at Washington
Is aa foftnwe, according to departmenta
with the amount of cornpenaatlon for eacn:
No. ot am- Amount
r4nvea. dlnburtf.fi.
Executive office 41 68,743
IMpartment 01 ainie
Treasury department ...... 6.9MI 7,8. J46
War department MM l.3.:n'
Department of Justice.... 4M 77S.0t
Poatofflce department 1,4 - 1.667,13
r . . . . Ok. A k- 1 K.'M
wavy aepaniiHm
1, .. , ... Inl.rlir a 7KU K Arf RMO
IIVIHIIIIIIVII. V. .... -. -'
Department of Agriculture I.3W i.&v.M
Ijibor L673 t(W6.0
Interstate Commerce com
mission - 0 41R.eeo
u..n ki...l. intwlnn IHt ISO
Government printing office I.M i7.
Smithsonian institution .... .t4
Isthmian Canal oommlaalon 1U3 160,940
State, War ana jsavy
K.MMtnv 107 110.160
Government of the District
trict Ot iwiumvia. ,uo .!, 104
Total
.a.947 t31.l41,SS
Bryeo to Vlalt Oanvantlan.
WASHINGTON, March 11 Ambassador
Jamea Bryce of Great Brltlaa hopes to at
tend the aeasiene of both tha republican
national convention at Chicago, and tbe
democratic convention at Denver' aa a
spectator. He feels confident of betng able
ta get to tha Chloare' convention, but la
not bo certain that ha can get te Denver.
We Pay $2.10
We could buy hams as low as 30c pei
bushel, yet wc pay seven times thai
A certain toil in Michiganrich in nitrogen, produces
the best beans grown. That is where we get ours.
We get only the whitest, the plumpest, the fullest
grown. Ouri are picked out by hand from the choicest
part of the crop.
It is easy to see is it not t why some baked beans may
cost a little less than Van Camp's.
We pay $3.45 for the ripe tomatoes
used to make a barrel of our sauce
Yet we could buy tomato juice for 75c per barrel.
Cheap sauce is made from tomatoes picked green, and
ripened in shipment. But such sauce is flat. Some is made .
from scraps of k canning factory. Such sauce is not rich.
Ours is made only from whole tomatoes ripened oa the
Tines picked when the juice fairly sparkles.
Van Camp's pork and beans
baked with tomato sauce
Our ovens are heated to 245 degrees. That heat it es
sential to make beans digestible, end no home can apply it.
We bake in live steam. Thus we bake the beans well
without browning or bursting. The result is that nutty
flavor.
We bake the beans, the tomato sauce and -the pork all
together. Thus we get our delicious blend.
Keep a dozen cans in the house a
delicious meal is then always ready
Perhaps you eat beans once a week now. You will want
them every day when you once. know Van Camp's.
Beans are 84 per cent nutriment. They supply about the
same food value as meat, at a far lower cost.
And think how convenient. Put the can in hot water,
and you have a' steaming hot meal in ten minutes. '
10, 15 and Z6f per can.
Van Camp Packing Company, Indianapolis, In J.
BRIBERY AND BUSINESS.
Criminality of Pay Ins Commlaalona to
Purchasing; Aajents.
New York Tribune,
It la stern Justice, but perfect justice for
all its sternness, that baa Just been meted
out by ' the appellate division of the su
preme court to business men who sell goods
by corrupting their patrons' purchasing
agents. The decision, which reverses pre
vlous judgments of 'two lower courts and
brings Joy to every commercial buyer,
holds that a mercTiant need neither re
turn nor pay for gobtis bought by an em
ploye or purchasing agent whom the seller
of such goods haa bribed. The most In
teresting feature of thla opinion, apart
from Ita practical bearings, is 4n Interpre
tation of tha effect which tha criminal dis
position of goods has upon their owner
ship. By allowing the recipient of goods
fraudulently sold to him to keep them
without paying a cent for them the court
Implies that a eitlsen tan no more estab
lish title to property disposed of criminally
than he can to property acquired crimin
ally. Tho status of the property involved
prior to or apart from tha criminal aot of
disposal cannot be Introduced In the suit
for recovery, and. by the rule of posses
sion, the holder of goods thus sold becomes
their owner.
By thus virtually placing the bribe giving
merchant or selling agent in the same
category with the thief the court haa
brought about a most wholesome reform.
The urgent need of eliminating corruption
from the business world was felt by tho
legislature In 1906, when that body enacted
aectlon 884 of tha present penal code, de
claring tha bribery of buying agents a mis
demeanor. Practically every business man
In this part of the country Is able to tes
tify out of his own experience to the prev
alence of this demoralising and costly prac
tice. Probably If all the Intrigues of the
last twenty years could be miraculously
laid bare no small percentage of the In
creased cost of living would be found to
have this knavery aa Its direct cause.
Heaven and common aenae know that
many lines of trade are congested with
hosts of superfluous middlemen, who load
their own living expenses on tha unhappy
consumer. The bribe giving agent and tha
bribe taking agent are superfluous middle
men, and obnoxious enough as such; but,
being also dishonest, they ara not entitled
to a whit of the mercy shown toward the
unnecessary factors who honestly Intrude
between producers and consumers. When
we learn that thievish purchasing agents
receive from 5 per cent to 10 per cent of
tha value of their purchase tha prospects
of better times ara greatly brightened by
the appellate division's ruling. Fancy tha
difference in retail prices which tha ex
termination of these plunderers might en
tail! That their extermination la finally at
hand ia now possible. For what merchant
will fall hereafter to forbid his selling
agents, under penalties most dire, from "ac
celerating" trade by methods exposing him
to heavy, Irretrievable losses?
PERSONAL, NOTES.
Vendors of nerve tonics cannot do busi
ness with tha Merchants National bank for
several days.
Mlsa Clara Clemens, tha contralto, daugh
ter of Mark Twain is about to leave on aa
extended tour through tha aouth and middle
west, accompanied by Miss Marie Nichols,
violinist.
Mrs. Otto EL Forater, on behalf of the
women of St. Louis, has aent to Mrs. Theo
dora Roosevelt a formal Invitation urging
that she visit Bt. Louis when she makes
her proposed pleasure trip on the yacht
Mayflower to the Quit of Mexico and some
dlatanco up tha Mississippi river.
Justice O. W. Holmes of the United States
supreme court has purchased the home of
hla father, tha famous poet. Oliver Wendell
Holmes, known aa tha Marshall estate. In
Beverly Farms, owing to the deep and abid
ing affection he has for the beautiful spot,
because of tha tender associations that
have clung to It from tba time tbe "Auto
crat of tha Breakfast Table" made It his
summer home.
Former Judge Francis 3. Wing of Cleve
land recently fUed a voluntary petition In
bankruptcy in tha United State district
court, over which ba presided up to two
years ago. Hla liabilities wera stated to be
U.ia and a sen a 14.166. When Jadge Wing
realgned from tha federal bench of the
Northern district of Ohio ba beoatn an
attorney for Caaalo M. Chedwlck, who later
waa convicted la tba same oouO
WHAT STANDS IX THE WAT.
Favorable Business Conditions En
counter One Obatarle.
Wall Street, Journal.
Thla Is the state of things: We have
naa our jiquiaauon ana panic, wa have
squeeced the water out of capitalisation.
Wo have got rid of r' dangerous Inflation.
Wa have had a house cleaning in banking.
Everybody now wants a return to "good
times." Everybody Is anxious for a re
viving trade, for tha opening of factories,
for the full employment of freight curs
and for the maintenance of profits and
wages. There is nothing which the people
as a whote are so eager about as that.
There - would seem to be no reason why
thelF-.aaplratlons should not be gratified.
Apparently ihera la no ( famine -or .other
normal business conditions exoept one thing.
We now have money enough, and credit
enough and transportation facilities -enough
for a revival.
What then Is there in the way?
Just this: Politics.
LAUGHING MATTER.
"Experience," said the sag. "Is the best
teacher." ,
"Yes," answered the sad-eyed speoulator,
"and It gets larger cash contributions than
any other educational Institution In the
country." Chicago Record-Herald. '
-"Subbube declares." said Coakley, "that
out his way one night last week the tem
perature dropped ' to sero."
"That's nothing," said Joakley,
"What's nothing?"
"Zero." Philadelphia Press.
"You and your husband seem to be very
popular In society." said the lady who lived
In the flat below. "You are out nearly
every night."
"Oh, It Isn't society that keeps us out.
We merely prefer vaudeville to some of
the pianolas In this building." Chicago
Keoord-Heraid.
"She has a very versatile pen."
"Yes, I've seen her use It for pulling cu:
basting threads and manicuring her nalU. '
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
1 ' T am Inrrv tn !niVllilranl.nrta uni. 1 ' b .. I I
the policeman, "but your machine was go
ing forty miles an hour."
"Hnn't .nnlnirl. ' 1 I
bllt. "Always do your duty. John, go Hunt
along with the officer and be fined." Phil-
"Wa don't hear so much ahuut a-raft in
publio matters as we did," remarked the
cltlsen. "I regard that as a v.rv fav
orable condition."
'It Is a favorable condition" renlle.1
rcii.iur niuii, nose matters were be
coming altogether too public for a spell.''
Puck.
First Spanish Admiral They are saying
In the United .States that the American
navy was shlmefully Inefficient In their
war with us. What do you suppose would
happen If their navy was competent?
Sucond Ditto Thuy wouldn't have any
work left to do but annex Mars. Baltimore
American.
"Did you ever make . money In litera
ture?" "Not ao much as outside of it," responded
the popular author. "You see. I do bank
big aa a side line." Philadelphia Ledger.
A SUHDAY SCHOOL SCHOLAR.
J. M. Lcmls in Houston Post.
"The little church away back home," you
hear tha poets sins;
Oh, I wouldn't Interrupt them, and I
wouldn't do a thing
To Interfere with mualc, for I like It, yea,
I do.
But their singing of the churches and tha '
Reminds ne of the Sunday school, tha ona
I used to know.
To whu h my parents sent me, but to which '
I dldn t go;
Reminds me of the penny that they gave
me, and which I
Spent for candy 'round the corner while
the Sunday school went shy.
Whatever any othsr boy did I did some
thing worse;
Won't some one Immortalise tha thlnas I
did in lilting verse?
Each medal for attendance that I wore
upon my breaat
Meant a flifht for its possession, meant a
trembling also lest
Tba boy I robbed of it night go an tell
my daddy how
I bad acquired it, and-Oee, I see the
stable now
My daddy used to take me to, his hand
clinched In my scruff.
And well, his arm was young and strong
and holdback straps are tough.
wilderness.
Beneath the shading boughs of which us
reuowe would unareaa
In thoaa far daya, now stands alone; tha
wUderneaa is aona.
Tha sycamore now shades a bench, and'
irons tne oencn a lawn -Runa
to a home that perches like a bird- '
house on a knoll.
And the old scenes are altered til I cau't
Pick on tha tree on which I carved a girl's
nam long ago. -
I'd taka a Urki for aaa day Jlks thoaa X
uaod to kJiuwl j ,
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