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TUP. OMAHA DAILY HEK: SATUKDAY, FEBKUAUY ' 13. 1900. 9" 12 Tiie Omaiia Daily Del FOUNDED Bt EDWARD ROSKWATER VICTOR ROBBWATER, EDITOR. Kntered at Omihi postofflce as second' clasa matter. TERMS OF UTTRWRimON. PsIIy tee (without Sunday), on year..4QQ Dally Mee and Sunday, on year 110 DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Psllr Pee tlncludlng Htinday), pr wek..lSo Dally Hee (without rtiinrtav), per week.. .We Kvenlng Km (without Sunday), per wk So Evening Hee twlth Hunday), par week...inc Sunday Boo. one year ti-W Saturday Hee, on year 1 60 Address all complaints of Irregularities In delivery to City Circulation Department. orncnu. Omahs-Th Bee Bunding. Bnuth Omaha Twenty-fourth and N. Council H hi f fa-IS Beott Street Unroln 6U Little Building. Chicago 154.S Marquette Building. New York Rooma U01-1103 No. 34 Wait Twenty-third Street. Washington 726 Fourteenth Street. N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communication relating to newa and effl lorial matter ahould be addreaaed: Oman bee. Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit hy draft, express or poatal order payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only 2-cent stamps received In payment of mall accounts. Personal ehecka, except on Omaha or eaatern exchanges, not accepted. STATEMENT OP CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, as.: Georgro B. Tsschuck, treasurer of The Bee Publlahlng company, being duly a worn, aaya that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee printed durtn tha month of January, 110, was ae louowa. I... 18,800 IT 88,100 II 88,80 19 S8380 20.......... 39,090 21 39.180 22 39,030 21 38,880 24.. 37,800 ii 39,010 26 39,030 27 89,84 21 38,900 29 39,030 80 38,600 21 37,700 S 38,830 1 88,300 4 38.100 88,010 t 37,860 1 38,400 88,360 38,400 10 88,800 11 38,310 12 88,370 11 38,090 14..... 38,870 It 38,690 18 3830 Total 1,196,130 Leas unsold and returned coplea. 10,418 Nat total !l,18S,71 Dally average , 38,846 OEORQK B. TZSCHUCK, Treasurer. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before ma this 2d Jay of February. 1V. itieal) M. P. WALKER, Notary Public WHEJT OUT OF TOWS. Sabaerlhere leaTlaa- tbe city tem porarily should have Tha Be mailed theaa. Addreea will be rhaagee. mm mtfm mm requested. A dual tariff Is now offered as a substitute for the tariff duel. Much will bo forgiven If February will quit this blowing about Its record. Only a few days left for additions to the "Mentioned-for-the-Cabtnet" 'club. ... The Mad Mullah has broken out again and is acting like a Nevada agi tator. The cold wave supply far exceeds the demand barrlug Icemen and coal dealers. ' California is learning that common sense is the best antidote for Japano phobla. A New Jersey poet has been at tacked by a bear. The poet is com mon prey. Strange how many of our friends so long concealed the fact that they were crackerbox cronies of Abe Lincoln. : What else could be expected from a democratic legislature in which poli tics and patronage are the paramount Issues? A New Orleans patrolman arrested his wife by mistake. . His only safety for a time will be to wear his uniform at home. - Kansas City has one cause for con gratulation. Its Union depot was not damaged by either of the recent heavy windstorms. , Now that both houses have voted to give Mr. Taft 112,000 for automobiles, the big stick may be displaced by the big "Honk." j Jack Binns has refused to go on the vaudeville stage or the lecture plat form. Possibly he would like a place In the cabinet. "Canada Is literally saturated with American influence and the Imperial sentiment is waning," says a London paper. Let It wane. Senator Tillman has been unusually alow in congratulating California and Nevada on their efforts to make the race question a national issue. Having failed to pass any anti-Japanese legislation, the California law makers may now turn their attention to th,e length of hotel bed sheets. Secretary Cortelyou will at least break a precedent if he fails to go from1 the Treasury department to the head of some big banking house. The report . that the Japanese gov ernment had' sent a "warning" to the' authorities at Washington would be mighty Important. If It were true. A section of Pharaoh's heart show log signs of senile calcification baa been exhibited in London, proving that there was good reason for the old comparison,- "harder than Pharaoh's heart." I Mrs. Carrie Nation's assertion that she has been stricken dumb by the wickedness of London will be accepted with, the usual allowance for oxaggera tlon. A dumb Carrie Nation la incon celvable." Whatever muali-fpl bonds have been retired by Omaha have been paid off with the money brought la by the scavenger tax law, and the scavenger tax law Is wholly a republican measure. THK RKVHNUf.S AMD THE DKfKlT. While it Is daily becoming more ap parent that congress must soon make some fundamental changes In the rev enue system without, entire reliance upon customs duties and internal revenue collections, some opponents of tariff revision are endeavoring to use the present low state of the treasury as an argument against any reduction of the tariff schedules. Bankers' cir culars and standpat newspapers are calling special attention to the in crease of expenses over receipts and speculating as to how long It will be before the government Is compelled to issue bonds, restore the war taxes or resort to direct taxation. The facts, however, do not warrant this alarm. It is true that the Income of the na tional treasury is running behind the outgo. January ended with a deficit; of $15,000,000, bringing the total deficit to date up to about $80,000, 000. Secretary Cortelyou estimates that it will be about $114,000,000 at the end of the fiscal year on June 30. Secretary Cortelyou asserts that the ordinary revenues are ample for the ordinary expenses of the government, but Insufficient to meet extraordinary expenses, such as the Panama ranal and other permanent public works or to meet the various extravagances of congress. If the cost of public Im provements were provided for by bond issues, Mr. Cortelyou contends, the $600,000,000 a year derived in the regular course of business should be ample for the legitimate expenses of the government. There is little prospect of marked Increase in government receipts until the tariff bill shall have been disposed of at the special session, but the Im provement ought to be rapid, so far as customs duties are concerned. Lit tle increase Is expected In internal revenue receipts, owing to the loss of the tax In southern prohibition states. With ordinary economy in the prepa ration of appropriation bills the reve nues from the usual sources should be adequate to all regular and rea sonable demands. Instead of looking for new objects of taxation, congress might better hold down expenditures, just as a business man or a corpora tion would do under like conditions. On this point Mr. Cortelyou well says: There have been, under many adminis trations, excessive expenditures, due to one cause or another. The time may come when a session of the congress will be given over largely to the consideration of ways and means to reduce the operat ing expenses of the government, and If It does come and patriotic and discrim inating judgment la brought to bear on the problem, we shall see a saving of many millions of dollars with no sacrifice of efficiency of administration. Few do mestic reforms would do so much to set the people an example of good business and ecoDotnlcal government. BANKRUPTCY LA W A MEND SIR X TS. It is a matter of some surprise that a bill to repeal the bankruptcy law should receive the votes' of 112 mem bers of the bijuse of congress to 182 opposing repeal. Bills calling for the repeal of the bankruptcy law have been offered every session since s the measure was enacted, but they have never had any considerable support until this time. The voto indicates, perhaps, the necessity for amending the law somewhat in lino a least with a bill to that end which . has been passed by the house. ' The amendments recommended do not In any sense change the character or purpose of the present law, but are Intended solely to meet conditions which the administration of the law in the last ten years have developed. The existing law raises some ques tions as to what corporations may be proceeded against. An amendment removes this uncertainty by exempting only ' municipal, railroad. Insurance and banking corporations. Another amendment provides for the relief of honest debtors from being declared bankrupt after proceedings have been commenced by allowing compromises with the creditors under the approval of the court. All of the amendments are framed to clear up uncertainties and to Increase the effectiveness of the law in the Interest of debtor and creditors alike. The law will be greatly strengthened a'nd much of the present opposition to it removed If the senate adopts the house amend ments to It at the present session. SUCCESSION TO THE . PRESIDENCY. Congress is again on the edge of taking the preliminary steps for an amendment to the federal constitution to provide for the succession in case of the death of the president-elect, of the vice president-elect, or of both, be tween the-election in November and the Inauguration date on March 4 of the succeeding year. As the law' now stands' there is a great : question whether the presidency would go to Mr.1 Sherman," in "case of Mr. Taft'e death before March 4, and there is no provision for the succession in case both Mr. Taft and Mr. Sherman should die before March" 4. The senate has passed the resolu tion offered by Senator Knox, calling for the ratification by the legislatures of three-fourths of the states of an amendment - remedying -this defect. The proposed amendment la a fol lows: In all caaea not provided for by article 2, clause . of the constitution, where there la no person entitled to discharge the duties of the office of the prealdept the same shall devolve upon the vlca president. The congress may provide for the caae where there la no person entitled to hold the office of. president or vice president, declaring what officer ahall then act as president, and such officer shaJl act ac cordingly until the disability shall be re moved or a president shall be elected. The house haa under consideration resolution by Mr. Burke of Penn sylvania which Is Identical with the senate resolution except that It adds this clause, "And the congress may provide by law for a special election when deemed advisable." The coun try may not alway have immunity from surh contingencies as are con templated In the proposed amendment and the sensible thing to do would be to provide against surh risks. I.V THK RIGHT DIRECTION. The new deputy food commissioner has made a definite statement of his Intentions to enforce the provisions of the Nebraska pure food law without favoritism or discrimination and at the same time to construe doubtful points in the law In a way to make it conform as nearly as possible with the provisions of the national pure food law. This is in line with the position taken by The Bee for uniform state and federal food regulations instead of strained applications of our law at variance with the laws that apply to the same business In other states anct to interstate business. The people of Nebraska are entitled to have protec tion against misrepresentation, fraud and adulteration of foodstuffs, whether produced or manufactured at home or shipped in from abroad, but there should be no handicap put on domestic production by needless and annoying regulations from which their competi tors in other states are free, nor should there be any discrimination barring out of Nebraska wholesome food products that conform to the na tional law and are freely received elsewhere throughout the country. The manufacture and trade in food stuffs is one of the most important branches of our national commerce and uniform laws governing this trade be tween the states is as Important for both consumers and producers as uni form laws governing all our commer cial relations, which would, as every one knows, be seriously impaired if every state undertook to set up its own Independent and conflicting standards. The World-Herald denounces An drew Carnegie as a benefactor, "who now uses his charity as a cloak to cover the dead bodies at Homestead, the thieving iniquities of the steel schedules, the groans of ruined com petitors and the complaints of a pil laged public." Were any of these in dictments less flagrant when Mr. Bryan solicited and secured Carnegie money for a public library at Lincoln and the World-Herald claimed for Mr. Bryan credit for the achievement? , Referring to the democratic plat form pledge for economy, the local democratic organ asks, "Is a demo cratic legislature going to keep that pledge or violate it." Present pros pects are that a democratic legislature is going to violate it and that most of the democratic law-makers regard the pledge as having been made only for Why the repeal of the law merging the offices of city and county comp troller should not bo accompanied by the repeal of the merger of city and county treasurers and city and county assessors Is not clear. If the desire is simply to make more pie for the faithful there is no reason for taking only half a bite. If Nebraska's state labor commis sioner Is going to run a free employ ment bureau he should have an ap propriation to pay for his newspaper advertising. There is no good reason why he should be paid a nice salary for his part in this laudable work, while the country newspapers get nothing for pushing it along. In accepting his third presidential nomination Mr. Bryan declared that he would be bound by his - platform both as to what it contains and what it omits. Will he be bound by his Nebraska democratic legislature both as to its sins of commission and sins of omission? A British army officer reports that it Is not unusual for a British regi ment to consume 80,000 packages of cigarettes a month. While that may be rough on the soldiers, it is a good thing for the Match trust. Cornell university has dropped 163 students who failed to pass their mid winter examinations. The country will not suffer if students learn that It Is not as hard to get out of a university as it is to get in. ' General Miles la reported to have bought several new uniforms. He must be preparing to resume his for mer, custom of. calling at the White House, after March 4. Scientists have decided that the man who does not possess 6,000 red corpuscles to each cubio centimeter of his blood is a victim of anemia. Count your red corpuscles. The district court haa refused to grant a decree to another applicant for divorce. This deserves to be chron icled under the heading, "Happenings Rare and Unique." A1 New York preacher . says that Sodom U not far from New York. We have been confident all along that someone would discover the real truth about Jersey City. The report of the Lemp divorce caae in St, Louis would Indicate that St, Louis is making a determined effort to get into the Chicago and Pittsburg class. Mr. Roosevelt refused to accept $10,000 left to him in a will. Mr. Bryan failed to gat $50,000 which he thought was left to hljui la a will. WTHKR ItMK TH( III Rn, King Edward a visit to Berliiw the tirat In twenty-one years, ahould be productive of good for both Germany and Urrat Britain. The jingoes of both countries have been and are now persistent and audacious In their attempts to ferment 111 wlll and provoke trouble. The vlslta of the British king to other European rulers long' before hia call on Emperor William have been a pretext for much baiting In Germany. In Its efforts to popularize tha naval program of the kaiser, the German Naval league cites the naval activities of Great Britain, emphasising the fact that Englishmen pay 96 marks per capita for national defense while the per capita In Germany is only 49 marks. Therefore, patriotic Germans must make greater sac rifices for the national weel. In England Jingoism la far past the line of sanity. Newspapers which readily scent profit lb a popular agitation, encouraged by Inter ested business promoters, are demanding increased military and naval forces. The Invasion scare haa been dramatized by the up-to-the-minute managers, elaborately staged, and. la packing box offices with easy money. In both inalancea the ulterior note la heard above the common clatter. Army and navy officers actively encourage the agitation as a means of Increasing their respective establishments. Imposing heavier burdens on productive toll while the public Is confused by appeals to na tional pride. To both nations an under standing would be of Incalculable benefit In banishing senseless Jingoism and In con serving the world's peace. King Kdward's triumphs In hypnotising pugnacious rivals will be as successful at Berlin aa he has been at Paris and St. Petersburg. The recently deposed Chinese minister. Tuan Shlh Kal. ' had an effective way of convincing rebellious subjects of the error of their ways.' John Cowen. former editor of the Chinese Times in Teln-tsln, in a letter to the London Spectator, gives high Chinese authority for this characteristic anecdote: "In 1900 four boxer delegates visited Yuan, then governor of the Shan tung province, at his yamen, and begged his support for the anti-foreign movement. ' Tuan had good cause to be Aggrieved with the foreigner, for it was front Shantung province that the colony of Kla-chun and the part of Tslng-tao had been taken by force. He resisted the appeals of the boxer delegates, however, on the grounds that the movement was revolutionary and that It would Involve Its adherents lu warfare. The delegates replied that the movement could not be called revolutionary when It had the support of the throne, and as re gards an appeal to arms the bixers were rendered by their religious charms immune from danger from sword or gun. The con versation took place at a meal in Tuan's yamen. On Its conclusion Tuan invited his visitors Into a courtyard. Here he had them tied up to four pillars, and a detach ment of soldiers, armed with rifles and ball cartridges, were marched in. 'We will now test your Immunity from bullet wounds.' said Tuan. 'and after that I will send my answer to your leaders.' The order wi given to fire, and he four dead bodies were cent out to the boxer camp for answer." Kir Horace Plunkett of Omaha and Ireland commissioner of the Congested District Board of his native land, stated In an ad dress before an agricultural association In Birmingham, the other day, that In the matter of organisation the farmers of Ireland were far ahead of those In Great Britain. It had become, he said, the settled policy In Ireland of all recent governments to expropriate the land' of the upper classes so that the1 fhiet assets of tha hational wealth might be handed over to the peasant proprietor. It had now been (Uncovered that the amount of land to be transferred had been greatly underesti mated, and that many more millions would be required to ' complete the transaction. The gteat point was to get as aoon as pos sible to the final basts of occupying owner ship. Ho himself believed that if the coun try was decently governed for the next twenty years all the money which had been advanced would bo absolutely secure. He went on to describe the steadily progressive movement In Ireland during the last twenty years, toward fitting the rural communities for the agrarian revolution, by technical education, business organisation and' the restoring of social life on the land. Very nearly l.Oto farmers' societies, with a membership of 100,000, had been formed, and the societies were doing a turnover today greatly In excess of two . million pounds sterling, and the rate of progress was accelerating every day. Since tho Irish farmers had taken to co-operating they had become far more influential both In local affairs and In parliamentary repre sentation. ' The British lnaome tax, now not only the heaviest, but the hardest and most Inquisitorial in the world, is one of the sources of national revenue which the ministry contemplates Increasing to meet part of a deficit of 1100,000,000 or more. "1 he three-year average having been dona away with," says Casscll'a Journal, "a man now la aascased on hia profits or gains during the year of assessment. The death duties are a tearful burden on all claases. Since they were Imposed In ISM, they bave yielded over 260,000,000 pounds sterling. Many landed estates have paid twice or three times within five or six years, with the result that they are utterly crippled, live houses have gone to ruin, and hundreds of agricultural laborers have been thrown out of employment." The con templated Increase of the tax will strike the weathy class In a lender spot, and la likely to arouse fierce opposition in the House of Lords, possibly driving the mem bers to the extremity of rejecting the en tire budget. General Kouropalkln's assertion that the Russian government of Manchuria, be for.) the war with Japan, was honeycombed with corruption finds ready confirmation in the conviction of Major-General Alexleff and his dismissal from the army for accepting a bribe from a firm of British gunmakera. Alexleff was military governor nf fill the Russian possessions In the far eaat at the time of the war with Japan, and was largely instrumental In convincing the government at Bt. Petersburg that Kussian arms Would drive Japan off the map. In the dismal morning ef tho day after tha government recurred to the prophecies of Alexleff and In seeking an explanation of hia lack of foresight, discovered his trail of graft. t For the first time In many years the French birth rate showa an upward ten dency. The Journal Official publishes tUa returns Just Usued for the first six months of 1IWS. They show a considerable im provement on the figures for the corres ponding period of 1907, when the death exceeded the births by 64,007. This time the births have exceeded the deaths by 11.096. The difference Is not only due to the fact that the death rate la lower, but alao to a net increase of nearly l.Ouo births. The marriages of the first alx months numbered 1(3,496, agalnat 1M.0B1 In the same period in llu7. Divorces In IMS show an Increaae of ninety-one. The Tamps points out that the deoreaae of about W.ouo la tha number ef deaths Is the mala cause ef the Im proved, position, fPlr The only baldng powder made from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar -made from grapes Royal Baking Powder conveys to food the most healthful of fruit properties and renders it superior in flavor and wholesomeness NEBRASKA PRESS CO MM EXT, Hastings Tribune: Governor Shallenberger says he favors nonpartisan management of slate Institutions. Well, the governor has had the opportunity of putting his words to action and demonstrating to all Nebraska that lie Is sincere In his belief. But. well, perhaps he has forgotten It. Columbus Journal: The "reform" legis lature aent a Junketing party of eighteen members to "Inspect" the Norfolk hospital for insane. The little excursion cost the state about $250. There Isn't any difference between a democrat and republican when It comes to gadding about over the state apendlng the people's money foolishly. Blue Springs Sentinel: Of course a lobbyist ought to be tagged. He ought to have little silver bells hanging from his ears so as to not only fr'ghten away spooks, but as a means of alarm as he approaches the legislative member to awaken him from his sleep to get up and prepare for busi ness. By all means let the tagging bill go through. Columbus Tribune: The democratic news papers of the state are kept busy apologis ing for the present legislature and explain ing Its Intent, but It Is very evident that most of the follows are kept busy trying to find or make new pcsitlnns for some of the politicians. For a lot of reformers this body seems to be the greatest fake of all. We had hoped that they really meant what they advocated before election. A Iris worth Star Journal: It Is all good and proper to adopt tho Oregon plan for a senatorial primary, aa that cinches It. But no one-ahould forget that the republican party In Nebraska has adopted that plan already and put It Into practical effect several years ago. The Oregon plan will not change things very materially, but lot it go on the statute books It la all right The people should rule, and the closer we get nominations and elections to the people, the better for all. ' Culbertson Banner: The real ('est of the character of legislation to be had from this session will begin to show In the near future, when each house lias before It the measures originating in the other and passed by the other body. Such bills re quire only the approval of the governor to make them laws and when that stage of the Journey la reached, as It will be soon, the evidence will be at hand aa to what may be expected from thla session. The political bias and intentions of the majority are already displayed and the test of busi ness intentiens need not be long awaited. Beatrice Express: Constituents of mem bers of the legislature would probably Ilk to know whether they are liable to be arreVted as unlawful lobbyists if they Journey to Lincoln to look on and admire their lawmakers, and incidentally advlsi with them as. a matter of form and to manifest friendly Interest. It would be un pleasant to be dragged before the bar of the house on a charge of violating the law which recognizes and legalises lobbying, especially If there were no intent beyond trying to make the members believe their measures and parliamentary tactics were thoroughly understood and had aroused universal Interest. Stromshurg News: If the present legis lature does not soon get down to real law making the state will get the opinion that they are there merely for partisan pur poses and spoila. Any lawmaker should bo ashamed to possess the narrowness to Introduce a bill to transfer a certain duty from another officer to the governor simply because It Involves patronage and the gov ernor Is democratic and the ifficer who now has the patronage to bestow la a republi can. Such laws work both ways. Tills year It benefits one party, the next yeai It benefits the other. Laws covering special caeca should rarely ho passed and laws ot and for partisans, class laws and laws con ferring special privileges never. Hunch for Harvard Mea. Boston Herald. It Is an extended and comprehensive tour of the country that President Eltt starts out uin today, covering as It will sec tion of the western and southern portions of the country. Considering the circum stances under which It Is made and the fact that It Is the last Journey he will make during his prenklency of Harvard, It is afo to antlciatfl that It will par take of the nature of a triumphal prog ress fro.ii si art to finl.ih. Safeguarding Life at Sea. . Baltimore American. The bill Introduced In congress making It mandutory for aeugoing veswela carry ing passengers to be equipped with wire less telegraphy ought to be unnecessary. So potent a means of saving life as this system has been proved ought to suggest itself. But, unfortunately, experience shows that the sanctity of human life Is Judged in modem commercialism Ilka any other thing by Its coat. Sharp t'oanaetltloa la Prospect. Washington Herald. It is said Mr. Harrlman is laying his plans carefully to make the Panama canal look like JO cents aa a business proposi tion when It shall have been finished. This certainly puts It up to the canal to do Its very best by us- Start laewallst. Washington Post. If Admiral Evans la right in his predic tion that Japan and Russia will soon again be at war. Uncle Sam will have a Titanic Job keeping Nevada out of tha scrap. Tbroassi tha Ulasa Darkly. Washington Post. The Japanese bugaboo is drifting east ward. Nebraska U now seeing tbiuga. MOM, Baldng Powder Absolutely Pare POLITICAL DRIFT. Mr. Tart's scr.tence.V officially confirmed, amounts to four years at hard labor. The name of the new lieutenant governor of Missouri, Mr. Graelli h. Is properly pro nounced y giving a short hiccough Just before aaylng "nwllch." In Missouri they will show you. Secretary Cortelyou Is now slated for tha presidency of a New York gas oompVny. He will be in agreeable working company. Mr. Corulyou bears some resemblance to reliable gas meters. He talks rarely, but points out the tesult. Most of the politicians Interested in the approaching municipal campaign in New York City are up a tree as to whether the candidates should be business mon or law yers. Opinion seems to be about evenly divided on the subject. It was a Washington newspaper man. Wolff Smith, who stumbled on to the con stitutional Impediment In the case of Sen ator Knox and the emolumeutj ot his coining cabinet position. Newspaper men are usually awake while others sleep. Boston's noted prosecutor, J. B. Moras, twice plected to office aa an Independent, died In . Arizona last Saturday. Moran dearly loved a political, legal or physical ccrap, and thla talent made him a tem porary favorite In the town of John I. Sullivan. Politicians are sometimica the victims ef queer tricks. On of the friends of Mayor Wittpenn of Jersey city visited his honor's office one day last week and invited htm to luncheon. In the course of their talk, while eating, the visitor made it knowa that he would like an appointment, which the mayor aaid he was unable to provide. Wheri luncheon was over the visitor hur riedly departed, leaving the chMk for the mayor to pay. William Loeb, Jr., who in all probability la to be the collector of the port of New York to succeed Colonel Fowler, Is 1) years old. He wao born In Albany at Ger man parentage. Like his predecessor, George B. Cortelyou, who was secretary to Fresldent McKlnley, Mr. Loeb is one of the most efficient shorthand writers In tho country. Ho has been a newspaper corre spondent and at one time was Bishop Doane's amanuensis. Then ho became a law reporter and was associated with Eu gene Burllngame, Garrett J. Benson and other republicans In the erganliitlo of Albany county. NEW HO.VOHS FOR Kl. t'ORX. Possibilities as a Sugar Prodacer Pointed Oat. Everybody knowa that corn ia the chief agricultural commodity ot this country and that the annual crop of about 2,00,000,000 bushels is one ot our greatest sources ot wealth. Through the combined efforts of scientists and practical agriculturists it has seemed as If the grain had been brought to the highest possible development, and all that r-jniains Is to induce all growers to take advantage of the methods which will produce the largest and best grain. Noverthelest, If the claims of an "open letter" by F. L. Stewart of Pennsylvania are trus "King Corn" must be glvea still higher honors. It depends entirely upon the will of tho grower, Mr. Stewart de clares, whether the corn produces grain or becomes a rival of the cane and, beet aa a producer of sugar, with valuable by-pro ducts. , Simply by the removal ot tha Immature ear from the stalk at the proper time, ac cording to Mr. Stewart, tha corn plant becomes practically sugar cane. "The direct result," he says, "Is an indefinite prolonga tion of the life of tho plant, and a gradual but constant accumulation of augsr ' until it reaches a point when It equals the aver age In the sugar cane and the beet." It Is claimed that when so cultivated the cornstalk will contain 8S per cent of Juice, with an average sugar content of U per cent, which would give a yield of from ISO to 200 pounds of raw sugar to the ton. In addition, the solid substance of the stalk yields an average ot 200 pounds of refined COUTAfJT & SQUIRES 4 Our Carbon Soft Coal la icollont for cooking and hoat- iOHl '"a"- Clpan, Quick, Hot and Lasting. Wo havo aold eoal in Omaha 25 yoara, and wo know tho Carbon to bo tho boat Coal ovor offorod horo for tho prlco-SB. 50 par ton. Wo alao aoll Ohio, Rock Springs, Hanna, Chorokoo, Walnut Block, Coko, " ana ninaung. uur nara voai vanla coal inod. wo aall tha bott Climax Nut, f4. 50-Lump, 55.00. Te!s: Doug. 930; Ind. A-3930. 1PECIIAJL, SALE of Boys9 amcl Youtlhs' Suits and Overcoats for SlO.OO ; WORTH UP TO 320.00 'BrQwningJdng fffi'CQmnisnv R. S. WILCOX. Man&xer pulp, or colluosa to the ton. Tho green ear products, including husks and footstalks, contain about 30 per cent ef their weight of fermentable matter, converted Into, about halt its wnlght of alcohol of K de grees proof, having a residua of about IS per cent of pulp, and about halt that amount ot rluhly albuminous feed stuff. The national commission tor tho conserv ation of our national resources, recently appointed by the president, has been aakerii to promote the development ot this plan for making sugar from corn and utilising the by-products. Whether It will pay our farmers better to grow corn for tho grain or for sugar Is a question tlirt can be answered only by putting It to test. SAID IN FUN. "Pon't you belelvo In getting next to tho soil?" "Sure, If you get next so mm to strike pay dirt." Baltimore American. The man acquitted of murder on the plea of insanity aat fretfully in tho asylum. "I guess I was crajy alter ail," he aald, "although at the time I thought It a bluff. Anybody but a lunatlo would have pleaded the unwritten law and gona about his business. "Philadelphia Ledger. "Do your mean, to send any valentines this year?" aald one young man. "No," answered the other. "Valentines always miss their object. A girl la almost sure to laugh at tho sentimental ones and cry about the comics." Washington Star. "Have any of you farmers been uplifted: aa yet?" "Yep," answered Mr. Corntoasel.. "Day before yesterday 81 Slmllng was hit from behind by an automobile. Washington Btar. She (complalnlngly). Before out mar riage you said my pathway through life should be strewn with roses. ' He Yes, darling, but you know roses havo thorns and 1 didn't realise then what thin shoes you women wear. Boston Traacript. The ltentenant rushed to the bridge and saluted. "Captain," ho shouted for tha roar f the artlllary was deafening "the enemy has got our range:" The captain frowned. "Curse tho luck," he growled. "Now how can tho cook, get dinner?" Cleveland Leader. "W ho is tne negincxea looaing ucue ooy with dirt over his face?" t "He is the child of the noted astrono mer who lives over the way." "Oh, ia he. Come here, sonny. Run home and tell your father ho doean't need hia telescope It he wants to see spots on the aon." oaltlmore American. "You refuse me because I havo a' title," said tho count, bitterly, "but I will relin quish it. I will become a plain citisen." "How nobio ot you," responded tho Amer ican heiress. "I. too, feel called uupon to make a aacrifice. I will relinquish my fortune, and Why he's gone.." Philadel phia Ledger , THREE CHUKKS FOR TUB COCHTRY I Baltimore Sun, Country going to pieces? Not on your life! She's there, With the sunlight over her streaming And a poaey upon her hair! Her hand on the engine's throttle. Her banner above her brow; And she never has done much bettor Than she's doing now! Country going to thunder? Everything wrong? Uet out! ; She never was feeling finer, And sho knows what she's about! Her plowshares waiting and ready; Her mill wheela, hear them roar; And she's making a home for the people. The rich and poorl Nothing wrong with tho country, Doing her best and, say! Her worst Is a dern sight better Than anyone's beat hurrayl Country going to plecea? There's another think coming to you; lli r red cheeks never looked sweeter. Her eyes mora blue! What If they do talk nonsense. And congress will waste Its time; Congress Is not the country, l Our gjorioui and sublime. ' 1 Oil, the sunbeams (Town her splendor, And her feet are on the roae. And the hearto of tho bravo attend net Where'er ahe goesl Don't you bother about her, Sho'a climbing the hills ail right, With a dream in Iit eyes of glory, A smile on her lips of light. Country going to plecea? Not on your life! She's fine. With the folds of her flag around her, Its stars ashinel ia tno Bcranton-th bast Pannayl- Arkanaaa Anthraolto, $9.00, and Office, 1406 Farnam Gt.