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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY. MA KOI I 2. 1W9. Tite Omaha Daily Dee. FOUNDED BT EDWARD ROBBWATEU VICTOR ROBXWATER. EDITOR. Entered at Omaha postofflce M second class matter. TERMS Or SUBSCRIPTION. Daily Be (without Sunday), on year.. .M OO Dally Be and Sunday, one year 100 DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Dally Bea 'Including Sunday), per week ISo rlly Bea (without Sunday), per week.. 10J Evening Bee (without Sunday), per week to Evening- Bee wlth Sunday), per we.. 10r Sunday Bee, on year $2 M Saturday Bee, on year 1.50 Address all complaints of Irregularities In delivery to City utrculatlnn Department. offices. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha Twenty-fourth and N. Council Bluffs It Scott Street. Lincoln 61 Little Building. Chicago IMS Marquette Building. New York Rnoma 1101-1103 No. 14 Wit Thirty-third Street. Washington 736 Fourteenth Street, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communlratlnna relating to newa and edi torial matter should be sddretsed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only J-cent stamp received In payment of mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Htste of Nebraska. Douglas County, ss.: Onrge R. Ts.ichuck. treasurer of The Bee Publishing company, being duly aworn, says that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of February, rJCS. was as follows: 1 I 39,810 2 , 88,170 8 38,000 4 8t,M0 S 39,000 6 aajso 7 37,000 I ss.aso S 39,880 In 38,80 II 30,00 .2 38,830 13 38,780 14 37,300 15 88,860 1 38,080 17 38.T70 It M.8BO 1 38,880 20 38,080 21 37,100 22 40,880 23 38,880 24 38,380 25 38410 2 38,380 27 38,030 28 37,190 Total .1,087,080 Less unsold and returned copies. MM Net Totsl 1,077,048 Dally average 38,468 GEO. B. TZSCHUCK, Treasurer. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to Wore me this 1st day of March, 1908. M. P. WALKER, (8eal) Notary Public. WHEW OUT OP TOWN, ftanarrlbera leaving the elty tem porarlly shonld have The Bee mailed to them. Addreas will be changed often as requested. Speaking of bard luck, an ossified man In Chicago fell and broke his leg. The Indian Is to be removed from the copper cent. Poor Lo Is rapidly disappearing. The funny part about the high price of wheat Is that It is captured by per sons who never had any wheat. The shah of Persia has advertised a lot of his paintings for sale. His rug supply must be running low. Tbey are having an awful time down In Tennessee trying to find out whether it is a crime to kill an editor. Mr. Harrtruan, in a Texts tent, says he is trying to get close to nature. Nature will be wise to look up Us rail roads. It Is not expected that the bank guaranty law, if passed, will do any good, and there Is a suspicion that It may do great harm. Biiver wag never cut out for a monetary standard," says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. No, It was cut out as a monetary standard. It 1b predicted that the legislature will not remain In session many days after the pay stops. The hope Is Just as strong as the prediction. "Berryman'a filing for mayor will make the other democratic candidates loosen up," says an evening paper Possibly that was the Intention. Governor Shallenberger's colonels will have no cause to complain of lack of exercise If the governor keeps on accepting Invitations to banquets. The British suffragettes have re fused to give bonds for their good be havior, probably on the theory that a suffragette la not expected to behave, It is announced that the trust con trols 78 per cent of the tobacco out put of the nation. This, of course, does not affect the cigarette smokers. A New York paper Is devoting col umns to explaining why the Steel trust cut prices. The simple explana tion Is that the trust wanted the busi ness. The World-Herald admits that there is a possibility of the legislature pass ing a bill to which Mr. Bryan is op posed. Somebody's hold must have slipped. The Conistock lode has produced $600,000,000 In fifty years and the fact is to be made the occasion for a celebration. The American hen does that every year and never crows about It. The Detroit Newa wants to know why school books should cost twice as much in Michigan as in Indiana or Ohio. Chances are It is because the Book trust has found that Michigan is easy .1 It la said that Mr. Bryan does not want to run for president again, but , wants to name the candidate. In that :ase we suggest that he name Mr. Taft - lust for the credit of picking a win aer once. Henry ,' Phtppa. the philanthropist, baa given Johns Hopkins university 11,000,000 for tho study of Insanity. If any men from Johns Hopkins are found hanging around the legislative kalis their presence will be explained. The Courts and the Trusts. Democrats of the Bryan school who ave been contending that the Judic iary of the nation was not disposed to deal severely with any of the unlawful trusts must find a causo for disap pointment in the several cases recently IspoaeS of by the supreme court of the United States to the marked dis comfiture of some of the big combina tions. It Is true that some of the ntl-trust prosecutions begun within tho last three or four years have not been pressed to successful Issue, but aa rapidly as these cases reach the federal supreme court they are being passed upon in a manner that is highly satisfactory to the administration and to those who have worked so indus triously for the curbing of unlawful combinations and the strict enforce ment of the federal laws. In the last decisions of the supreme court three cases against the New York Central, charged with rebating, were decided against the company and fine of some millions of dollars Im posed. In one of the cases, the rail road Offers a new argument to the ef fect that congress had no authority to Impute criminal offenses to a corpor ation, prosecute and convict It on crim inal charges and Inflict the penalty of nes, thereby punishing the "innocent stockholders". and depriving them of property without due process of law. The nine Judges of the supreme court were unanimously against the com pany, Justice Day holding that where crime consists in purposely doing things prohibited by law under pen- Hy there Is no reason why corpora tions may not be held responsible and charged with the purpose and knowl edge of their agents acting within the authority conferred upon them." This appears to be the last recourse of the corporations that have tried to defeat the purpose of the Elklns law and the theory that a corporation can commit no crime must be abandoned. The second decision, sustaining the anti-trust laws of the state of Arkan sas, is the strongest pronouncement yet made by the federal supreme court upon the right of states to define and regulate the operations of corpora tions within their borders. In the case under hearing the supreme court decided that the state authorities had full power to call for the books of the offending company, a packing concern, and to allow the state authorities to examine the records for the purpose of ascertaining whether the state Miws were being violated, through a combi nation of packers to fix the prices. These decisions, coupled with the rulings in the Missouri and Texas cases furnish notice to the ble cor poration that the laws for the protec tion of the public are valid and that the disposition of the courts of the country is in favor of their enforce ment. The fight has been a long and tedious one, but the victory is resting with the people. Steel Prices and the Tariff. The somewhat startling develop ments In the steel war are certain to have an effect on the attitude of con gress when the time comes to revise the tariff at the special session. The big Steel trust has been the target at which the darts of democratic spell binders has been aimed for several' years and the country has about reached the conclusion that the tariff on steel Is something of a luxury, not needed for the protection of the in dustry In this country. Mr. Carnegie and Mr. Gary have done much to strengthen this opinion by declaring that the tariff was needed for the benefit of the struggling Independent concerns and not for the projection of the United 8tates Steel corporation. Mr. Carnegte has declared that the big company could stand to have the duties on steel cut in twain. Mr. Gary, testifying before- the ways and means committee In December Bald: As a fair-minded cltlsen, I would have you impose a . tax which would protect our competitors, even If we did not need It- It Is a fact that we have been friendly and of benefit to our competitors, not simply because wa are ao much better than anybody else, but aa a matter of policy. It la good business policy for us to pay heed to others. Including our competitors and our customers, the government and the public generally. It is a good business policy. Conditions have changed since De cember. The Steel trust refused to lower any prices and the Independents co-operated for a time. Recently the demand of trade have become in sistent and the independents went Into business on their own account and be gan slashing the scheduled prices, as a result getting the lion's share of the business. After holding out for months, the Steel trust decided to get Into the price slashing game. With in the last fortnight the trust has cut prices from 10 to 40 per cerrt on many lines and its agents have been in structed to "Get the business." The war is on in earnest and structural steel la being offered at lower prices than have obtained since the organl- cation of the trust. Just what effect this cutting will have on the steel busi ness of the country remains to be de veloped, but it begins to look very much like a war for the extermination by the trust of the independent con cerns that refused to adhere to the "gentlemen's agreement" to keep prices up. That the Steel trust Is in position to carry on such a war Is In dicated by the answer of Judge Gary to the question asked by one of the ways and means committee, "Have you such a hold on the market that you could drive your competitors out of business?" Judge Gary ans wered: Quit likely. That may be true. I will not aay that la la not frue. I will not aay that in competition wa could not drive a good many of our competitors cut of busi ness. When the smoke of the price war shall have cleared away It may be seen whether the Steel trust Is In posi tion to suppress competition and put the Independents out of business. It has some marked advantages In this line of business through Its ownership of the ore mines, means of trans portation and different sources of supply. If It succeeds in killing off competition at home, congress can do nothing short of reducing the tariff on steel to the point of forcing the trust to come Into competition with foreign markets In order that the con sumers In this country may not be placed wholly at the mercy of one corporation. Farmers at Jurymen. Much comment and criticism Is sure to be heard of the action of Judge Anderson of the federal court at Chi cago In dismissing a jury panel com posed almost entirely of farmers and Insisting that the panel called to try the case of the government against the Standard Oil company should have some "business men" on It. - The learned judge did not assert that the farmers would be prejudiced against the Oil trust, but no other in ference from his action Is left. The question then arlBes, Is the farmer sup posed to be more prejudiced against the corporation than business men would be? Prejudice against the Standard Oil company is not confined to farmers or any other class but, rightly or wrongly, is generally prev alent. Nor will it be admitted that business men are any better qualified than farmers to weigh the evidence and return a verdict in accordance with the law and the facts. The aver age farmer of this day is something of a business man himself and fully as competent as the small merchant or other brand of business man to give intelligent verdicts when the facts and the law are before him. One of the convictions of Caleb Powers, charged with the Ooebel murder, was reversed by the supreme court of Kentucky be cause the trial judge had the attorneys for the prosecution exclude all re publicans from the Jury. If the Jury system is to last Buch rulings as that of Judge Anderson will have to be abandoned. The Bleached Flour Ruling. The Department of Agriculture is evidently determined to rigidly en force Its ruling preventing the bleach ing of wheat flour. In face of the strong opposition offered by certain manufacturers and millers. Secretary Wilson has made this plain in answer to a rule to show cause. In the federal court, why a writ of mandamus should not be issued to prevent htm from prosecuting violations of the anti bleachlng order recently promulgated by the department. The mandamus was asked by a St. Louis concern which alleges that it makes machinery used In the pleach ing process, and that If the order is carried out Kb business will be entirely destroyed. Secretary Wilson replies by declaring the request for the man damus a "meddlesome intrusion" and stating that flour bleached by the use of nitrogen peroxide is lowered In quality and is deleterious to health. The process, he declares, is a violation of the pure food law and must be abolished. Taking it for granted that the de partment is right about the harmful effects of the bleaching process the secretary will be commended for en forcing the ruling. The millers will not suffer If they are all compelled to abandon the process and all furnish flour of the natural color. The makers of the machinery for the bleaching process will of course lose, but their profit or loss should not be considered when the question of the public health Is involved. The Court House Contract. Opening bids for a million-dollar public buldlng is a really momentous occasion in a city the size of Omaha. It means that the people who make up the citizenship of the county are In terested to the extent of authorizing a very large expenditure for public uses. It also means that these people are interested in seeing that the money they have authorized is properly ex pended and that full value is given in the end. It is not anticipated that any scandal of graft will attach to the construction of the new county build ing, but it is certain that the expendi tures will be carefully scrutinized and the work of construction will be watched very closely. This Is not be cause of any suspicion that may exist in the minds of the public, but be cause of the great interest that Is felt in the work, and because the people want to see Douglas county have the very best court house that can be built under existing conditions for a million dollars. Mr. Bryan's conscience was per fectly clear when he took m6ney from Andrew Carnegie, the Ironmaster, but it rises In mighty Indignation at the thought of taking money from An drew Carnegie, the millionaire philan thropist. Verily, such a conscience is a good thing for a democratic politi cian. Just because he appears to have been neglected and is really entitled to occasional -mention, it is hereby announced that James Schoolcraft 8herman will be Inaugurated aa vice president of the United States at noon on Thursday of this week. Washing ton (D. C.) papers please copy. A citizen Inquires to know of the Water board what it has done with the money. This citizen ought to In terview the Water board's attorneys, who have taken trips to Europe and S otherwise disported themselves since entering Into this profitable employment. Bishop Scannell might not have been surprised at the news he received from home while In mid-ocean, but this doesn't mean that he was at all pleased. Omaha would much rather not get on the wireless report than to have such a fame. The Douglas county democrats came up from Lincoln Sunday to consult the home folks and returned each more than ever convinced that he Is righT and this does not heal the division. The rule of the people is certainly wonderful In Its application. The stock yards delegation at Lin coln would feel much better If it had been able to'push the Omaha city charter a little faster. It looks now as if the farmers had soaped the track. It has been decided that the Oil trust may be fined $720,000 Instead of $29,240,000. The question Is not bo much what the trust may be fined as what It can be compelled to pay. Mr... Bryan will please notice that the United States supreme court has taken whacks at two more trusts. Mr. Bryan has never had sufficient con fidence in the Judiciary. While the price of steel rails re mains firm steel billets have been re duced by $16 a ton, so those who do not care much for rails can gorge themselves on billets. Jim Ham Lewis has been posing for years as a representative of the "plain peepul," and now some thief comes along and robs his wife of $10,000 worth of diamonds. Mr. Franklin MacVeagh will be the busiest member of Mr. Taft's cabinet If he succeeds in escaping without being known as the secretary of the deficit. An Expensive Shady Usrnr. Boston Herald. Isn't Is about time for the railroads to give up rebating as an expensive as well as an Illegitimate game? They get caught aa often as they play it, and the size of the fines makes large holes In the net receipts that should go to the stockholders. There Are Other Ways. (.Indianapolis News. However, If Senator Burkett'a plan for the readjustment of the senate committees Is adopted, doubtless the resourceful sena tors will be able to devise some other means of being too busy to report a bill that doesn't appear to be quite timely to the management. An Ironical Coincidence. New York Evening Post. By an Ironical coincidence the issue of The Omaha Bee for February 22 printed next to its account of the mob attack upon Greeks some selections from Washington's farewell address, ending with this sen tence: "It Is, Indeed, little else than a name, where the government Is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to confine each member of the aoclety within the limits prescribed by the laws.and to maintain all in the secure and tranquil en joyment of the rights of person and prop erly." ' Abanrd Limitations. New York Tribune. Congress now tries to lay down a hard nd fast rule compelling the assignment of a certain percentage of the marine corps to battleships and armored cruisers, and rescinding the appropriation for the sup port of the marine corps If that percentage should not be maintained mathematically for every single day between July 1, 1909, and July 1, 1910. The Impropriety of such a provision Is self-apparent. If the battle ships and armored cruisers do not happen at any time to carry detachments of ma rines equal to per cent of their comple ments, the pay of the whole marine corps officers and.men for the rest of the year Is to be forfeited. It la a ridiculous pro posal. Kernel of the Trouble. Boston Transcript. The race war In South Omaha Is an In dication that the opposition to alien par ticipation In Industries in the west Is not confined to Asiatics, but extends to the most ancient and famous of European civ ilisations, to a people of a nation that stood in the forefront of art and letters when the ancestors of most of us were bar barians. In our exclusive theories, care has been taken to differentiate between white men and" brown or yellow men, but when we get to the real kernel of this hostile sentiment we find It appllea to most of the newcomers, especially to those who work in groups. The west has ben badly bitten by this prejudice and seems determined In many ways to make trouble for the Wash ington government. PERSONAL NOTES. Bunau-Varllla says the Panama Canal cannot be built. He seems to aspire to the Poultney Blgelow class. Kentucky's governor has pardoned an editor who has been found guilty of telling the truth about certain evildoers, this act of the executive giving morals a consid erable boost. On Lincoln's birthday the venerable Alphonso Steele of Mixta, Texas, sole sur vivor of th4 battle of San Jacinto, ad dressed the Teias legislature, at Austin, by Invitation of that body. Old uncle Isaac Stevenson still lacks nine votes of election to the senate in Wis consin on a nomination which cost him over $100,000. Some additional charge, per haps, for delivery of the goods. Bourke Cochran and Mrs. Cockran like life at Washington so well that Mr. Cock ran Is trying to get one of the newly created Jobs In the Interstate Commerce commission so that he may stay there after March 4. Tyler W. Parker of Montgomery City, Mo., who has the distinction of setting type with Mark Twain, more than fifty years ago, has celebrated his fifty-sixth anniversary "at the case " and Is probably the oldest printer in point of service in the United States. That foods properly canned do not de teriorate with age was a statement made at a dinner of canners In Chicago a few days ago. "Suppose a customer desired a can of corn on February 22, I9D," said one of the speakers, "and was given corn canned In 1808. It would be rejected with a demand for' something fresher,' and although the 18C8 article would be found aa trash aa that of 1K. It would be lost." It Is not worth while trying the earning process on the speaker. Hla freshness will endure, Inaugural Balls The Washington Social Brent f Other Tears and the One of Thursday Wight. The huge court of the Pension building In Washington, the favored home of In augural balls for twenty yeats past, la naw being transformed Into a terpsichorean fairyland by scores of decorators and drapers. Twenty thousand dollars will be expended In decorations. Between 7.100 and in.000 Incandescent bulbs will shed their lights on the scene. The floral scheme In cludes Z.OHO blooming plants, 800 cases of southern amilax, hundreda of blooming rose bushes and thousands of cut flowers. The first ball held on the occasion of the Inauguration of a president in IS09 Just a rentuiy ago was In honor of Madison's first inauguration. The ball was held at Long's hotel, and was a very brilliant af fair, being, as the records say, graced hy the "fair sex." Madison was attended by ex-Fresldent Jefferson, and all the foreign ministers were present. At James Madlron's second lnaguratlon, In 1813. the ball was held at Davis', now the Metropolitan hotel. It was attended by the elite of the city, together with all thoae of high official dignity. The ball given at the first Inauguration of James Monroe, In 1817, was also held at Davis' hotel. It was reported as the finest company ever assembled In Wash ington on such an occasion. The second inauguration of Monroe seems to have passed unmarked by a ball; at least there la no printed record of one. On the occasion of John Qulncy Adams' Inauguration, In 1825, the ball was held at the assembly rooms at Eleventh street and the Avenue. The president attended, and the ball was a brilliant and select affair. It was said of J. Q. Adams that he was the most perfect host, except Millard Fill more, the north ever gave to the presi dency until the daya of Chester A. Arthur. And the ball took much of Its luster from hla sparkling personality. At Andrew Jackson's Inauguration no ball was held, as his wife had recently died. One cruel historian declares Mrs. Jackson died of Joy at her husband's elec tion, but she broke her heart with brood ing over the slanderous gossip of the op ponents of "Old Hickory's" campaign. At the second Inauguration Andrew Jack son, having lived down his grief, attended the ball given In honor of the occasion. It was the finest the country had seen. It waa held at the Central Masonic hall, on the north side of Pennsylvania avenue, nesr Four-and-a-half street. Jackson and all the foreign ministers were In attend ance. In 1837 there were two balls held In honor of Martin Van Buren's Inauguration one at Carual's fashionable rooms and the other at the Assembly rooms. The president only attended the one at Carusi's, and he was accompanied by public officials and officers of distinction. When General W. H. Harrison was in augurated. In 1841, three balls were held to celebrate the occasion And the strenu ous old soldier attended all three of them. One was held at Carusi's, afterward Kernan's; one at Central Masonic hall, later the site of the Globe printing office, In Pennsylvania avenue, and one at the Assembly rooms. In Louisiana avenue, be tween Fifth and Sixth streets northwest. At tho latter place the general danced with the charming Mrs. Gales, wife of Washington's foremost editor. In 1846 James K. Polk waa Inaugurated, and two balls, were held, one at the Na tional theater In Louisiana avenue, the other at the ever-popular Carusi's. The price of the tickets at the latter place for the ball was tlo, an enormous price for those days, and It is not mentioned thav Polk attended either'. President Zachary Taylor had his Inaugu ration marked by three balls. For the first time Judiciary square was the scene of the entertainment. A temporary build ing, with the Imposing name of Grand Salon, was erected there. The president and Vice President Fillmore attended all three balls. Pierce was Inaugurated In 1853, but no ball waa held probably from sympathy with the sorrow that clouded his whole administration. His only son had been killed at his mother's side. In a railroad accident two months before, and Mrs. Pierce waa seriously Injured also. In fact, she was "a perpetual Invalid for almost the whole term" In consequence. James Buchanan took the oath of office March 4, 1867. The city did honor to the occasion by a great ball, again In a tem porary building In Judiciary Square, near city hall. Thts hall was decorated lavishly with flags of all nations end the celling be ing covered with white cloth, studded with stars of gold. It was considered quit ele gant In effect. Miss Harriet Lane accom panied her uncle. President Buchanan, and the great occasion was long spoken of by thoae who enjoyed It. When Lincoln was Inaugurated the first time the same site was used in Judiciary square, but Lincoln did not attend and the ball was so little patronised aa to be al most a fnllure, but four years later, on the second Inauguration of Lincoln, the ball was of the most brilliant character. The president and his lady were present and the occasion was long remembered aa the beginning of a new era In Washing ton entertainments. This second ball was held in the model room of the patent office, the first occasion when a government building was utilixed for a ball. When V. 8. Grant was inaugurated, tn 1869, the government again contributed the use of a building the north wing of the trcusury department. President and Mra. Grant and Vice President Colfax and lady and distinguished officers of the army and iavy made the occasion unique among balls In Washington. But at the ball marking the aecond Irian guratlon of Grant, though the president waa no leas the popular hero than before, the ball was a failure. It had been planned on a acale of the greatest magnificence. In a temporary building again In Judiciary square, but the weather was bitter cold and the building of such flimsy material that the participants suffered Intensely nd retired early. When Rutherford B. Hayes waa inaugu rated, in 1877, no ball was held. When James A. Garfield succeeded him. four years later, the ball was held in the unfinished Museum building of the Smith' r nian institution. This was a beautiful ball President Cleveland was the first one to be favored with a ball In the Pun si on building. More than 8,000 persons attended the ball, and half as many more wanted to get into the gorgeously decorated hall From 1S85 to the present time the Pension office has been the only place used for these recurring events. Merely a Reaalader. Chicago Record-Herald. The president of Panama says there are liars In our national house of representa tives. We don't believe, however, that he says It merely for the purpose of furnish Ing Information that he thinks the people of this roimtrv lark. i florae xfisffia'" tious ft The only baking powder made from Royal drape Cream of Tortar SI a J from Crapu 11 EI, TED Ol'T BY THE COIRTS. Draws Teeth of the Penal Knartenent Against Rebating. rittsburg Dispatch. The ruling of Judge Anderson In the Standard Oil trial at Chicago as to what constitutes the unit or separate offense in preferential rate gives an eminent Illustra tion of the way In which the law to prevent such abuses can be reduced to Its lowest terms by Judicial construction. The ruling Is not final, even In trial court, but II gives a very positive Indication of how that court will finally hold under the Grosscup decision, and the difficulty of getting the Grosscup ruling reviewed by the supreme court has already been notably lllust rated. It may be accepted, therefore, as prac tically settled that the law for the north western circuit is that the unit Is neither the carload nor the tralnload shipment, but the entire total of shipments between the dates at which the railroad and the favored shipper make flnAl and full settle ment of freight hills. It Is self-evident that this construction reduces the maxi mum penalty to a limit that constitutes no deterrent to the practice. All that Is neceseary Is to extend the co-operation be tween railroad and favored shipper that always exists ln such cases to make the settlements so far apart that the profit from the rebate shall be greater than the fine, even If all the canes of rebating are discovered. We do not undertake to dispute with district end circuit courts that this is a possible construction of the law. It has to be conceded that the act contains no express provision that either the carload or train load shall be the unit. But what can be affirmed Is that congress in passing the act understood that the carload was al ready established as the unit. If we are not mistaken cases have been affirmed by the supreme court In which the carload unit) has been so taken. Two other things are equally Indisput able. One Is that this construction draws the teeth of the penal enactment against rebating. The other Is the obvious import ance of having this point settled by a direct ruling of the supreme court, no that the law, whatever It la, shall be known and uniform In all Judicial districts. CONSTRICTIVE WORK. Notable Feature nf the Present Trade Kltvatlon. Cincinnati Enquirer. The most notable feature of the trade improvement now In progress throughout the United States Is that of construction work. We refer not only to the vaat schemes of the great railway systems, which are so far advanced as to call for almost Im mediate orders for material and supplies, but to the building operations In the great cities, the extensive governmental, na tlonal, state and municipal outlays for ,varlous public enterprises, and the many millions of dollars of construction entered Into by private Investors In electric work and the other mlllloms by Individual owners throughout the agricultural districts for home and farm betterments. These In the aggregate swell the Invest ments and the current and future expendi tures to a tremendous aggregate and be token an energy and a seild wave of prog ress of greater force and wider spread com pass than this country has. ever witnessed In Its history. It Is true that the manufacturing dis tricts are unsettled by the proposal of tariff revision, and probably will be so until after definite action has been taken thereon by congress. Once that la out of the way the pent up cash In the banks belonging to manu facturing corporations will be loosened up and rapidly find Its way through the thous ands rivulets to the great stream of active money and general circulation. It will then be advance all along the line tn financial, commercial and Industrial af fairs. The reports of all the business agencies show a solid, safe and sure foundation for legitimate business enterprises. The life blood, nay, It may be termed, the whole body of sound business, Is de pendent upon full and ample supply of cash to uphold and sustain the volume and force of trade movements. That this country posserses now in greater amounts than ever before, and the best assurance of all Is that the amount of actual money In our circulation Is steadily Increasing. It seems now that as spring opens up the worklngmen of the country will be fully employed, and employed by July In greater numbers than even before the late mone tary atrlngency. There exista no doubt of the splendid condition of the agricultural districts. Those districts through their prosperity Let 'cm come wlille the Mm lasts. You can't set a limit to a griddle cake appetite when Kuo on the table. The best syrup for every purpose. In atr-tight A two log and aodf nts 08 COSJM RUINING COMPANY New Yavk Food is more tasteful. Viralthful and nutri when raised with X BT 81 - - have carried tha whole country safely ' through period of weakness In the cities that would have proved disastrous to thf republic but for the extraordinary finan cial atrength. of the farmers. .Now that the cities are forging ahead In conjunction with the country It gives a certainty and com plete assurance of fine times. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S RECORD A Great Champion and Exemplar of American Democracy. Chicago Tribune. In many details of hla multifarious art! v. Hies Mr. Roosevelt has erred. To err I human. He has fallen short and failed. He has never faltered. Aa Lincoln did before him, he has known how to meet overmas tering necessity with opportunism, but he has not taken his eye from his choaen goal nor relaxed the iron of his determination. His devotion to the national Ideal; his fervent patriotism, have been an Inspira tion to his generation and . will be a last ing example to posterity. No president no patriot has ever put away power In a nobler spirit nor with a firmer will than he when he refused 8T re-eloctlon that would have come In spite of reiterated pledge and refusal had he not opposed to It the full force of his .Influence. A great, champion, conservator' and exemplar tfl American democracy, Theodore Roosevelt has been the captain of his people, and In the house of the lowly, as In the house of the strong, he has been the mighty prophet of a better day. " BREEZY TRIFLES. Two muscular Individuals were hammer ing at each other in the ring. ' Horrible!" ejaculated a .tender-hearted spectator. "Horrible, nothing," said a regular pa tron. "If you want to see a real scrap get next to them when, they divide tha purse." Philadelphia Ledger. Mrs. Jawback I Suppose you consider your Judgment far superior1 to mine? Mr. Jawback No, my. dear. We proved the contrary when we chose to marry each other. Cleveland Leader. "Did you ever vote for-anything you did not understand?" "Yes," answered Senator Sorghum. "By avoiding too Intimate a knowledge of some matters I have been able tn vote without too much wear and tear on my conscience." Washington Star., ; Facetious Foreigner Aw, ' me good man., pardon my Ignorance -of .' geography, but will you kindly tell. me what the capital u'J this country It? ".' , Solemn-Faced Yankee d've forgot how much It is, mister, but Plerp Morgan hs. the handlln' of most of ft, I believe. Chi-1 csgo Trlbunev '- t-t Ju4i-fu. "No," said the candid .kleptomaniac, "when I'm arrested for pilfering I never give my real name. It would compromise too many people. "Indeed, and what la your name?" In quired the magistrate. ' "John Smith." Philadelphia InqulrfT i "I can't understand how you tell the age of a horse by looking at his teeth," said the city girl. "I cant tell Jlst exactly," replied the old farmer. "But If he lies false teeth I know he ain't no colt.". Chicago News. "There Is one thing1 which Is puxxllng me," said Nettle, pensively. "What Is that?" asked Pauline, helpfullv. "Whether or not," replied Nettle, with far-off speculation In her eyes, "the navy widows wear sea weeds. "--Baltimore Amer ican. "What do you think of the claim they are putting forth now, that Adam waa a democrat? asked the doctor. "Well," said the professor, after a pro found mental struggle ' with "the question, he seemed to be opposed to a centralised government, and In carrying out his theo ries he certainly did raise Cain." Chicago Tribune. BEWITCHED. Houston Poet. The new Direct oira Gowns are gone. And In their place The softest lawn Doth wrap fair Phyllis Round about; Her snowy shoulders Peeping out Through meshes Of tha peek-a-boo Seem dimpling At the sight of you; There la a wondrous Light that lies And wlmplea In Fair Phyllis' eyes. And Phyllis' cheeka Art round and fair, And there Is gold In Phyllis luilr. And there's a dimple Lurking In Her rounded, saucy, Tilted chin; Her teeth are rows Of rarest pearls. And ahe's the sweetest Of all girls! I shall not see Thoae charms again Till winter time Comes drifting In; For summer's here. My eyes can cruise No higher than That peek-a-boos. tint: toe, 25c, 30c rtdpei for coat- - mtklng $nl reauetf. PRODUCTS mm r --an sFk- .Avi i mr-.0- -nwr Js ml
