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TI1E OMAHA DAILY REE: MONDAY, MAV 8 1005.. ie Omaha Daily Bee. E. ROBEWATUR. EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNtMO. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Daily Bee (without ftunday), en year.. MOO IVlljr He and Sunday, on year., U0 Illustrated Bee, on year t 80 Sunday Bee, one year 2W i-aturday Bee, on year 1 W Twentieth Century Farmer, on year.. 1.09 DELIVERED BT CARRIER. ' Pally Be (without Sunday), per copy.. 2c iMilly Wee (without Bunday), per weeK..llc J."ally Be (including Bunday), per week.liO f.venlng Be (without Bunday), per week. 70 Evening Be (Including Bunday), per wa Lo Sunday Bee, per copy o ' Complaint of Irregularities In delivery should b addre4 to City Circulation De partment. offices. , 6mha Th Be Building. "outh Omaha City Hail building, Twanty Bfta ed M street. . Council Blurts 10 Pearl street. Chloego Unity building. ' ; Jttw York lfin Horn Llf In, building. . Washington Ml Fourteenth mtxt. CORRESPONDENCE. ' , " . Communication relating to news and edi torial matter ahoulrt b addreaaed: Omaha Be, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. if Remit by draft, express or postal order, parable to The Be Publishing Company. Only 1-cent stamps received, In payment ot Biail accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchange, not accepted. iTHB BBB PUBLISHING COMPANY. 4 STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Stats of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss.: C. C. Rosewater, scretary of Th Be Publishing Company, being duly sworn says that -th actual lumber of full and onmplet eople of Th Dally. Morning, Evening and Bunday Be printed during the room a oi April, itpun, was a iuuu. ; ai.oflo . 1 81,000 1 SH.180 . SS.1M 84,100 ...... ,ioo T....4. aiMao I k no.sao k wm) 10 T,TO n s,ito it .... 8.4fc II US.lftO u.. ih,oo a aouu Total BW,aO Less unsold copies ,TB3 Net total sales... Dally average ... J( efl.OOO 17 S8,8B IS SMTO ST.060 JO 28,100 a....... siMuto 32 BO, ISO SS 81,TT0 2..... 28,000 28 28,OSO 29 8S.OO0 J7 38,150 29 JM,aoo 29 , 80,100 SO,..., 82,100 ; ...87,T , 80,8X1 C. C. ROSEWATER. 'J' Secretary, ' Subscribed In my presence and sworn to lfore ip this Ml oay oi aaay. w. (Seal) M. B. HUKuAiis, Notary Public ''Is not Mr. Iter's ice factory ft. little premature In this frigid month of May? The council Is to adopt new paving 'specifications next week. Tlie question Js, bow long will tney stay adopted! Nebraska fame wardens are expected to keep a sut.rp outlook' for President Koooevejt s train as It rolls across the state. i ' Secretary Taft will now demonstrate bis ability to "get off the lid" without lotting the box open wider than prudence would Justify. WAIT ISO FOR THE BATTLE. With great Interest and no little anxi ety the world awaits the meeting of Lb a hostile squadrons now maneuvering; in the eastern teAs. There is very little Information Jn regard to their where abouts and ludeed nothing absolutely definite. A Junction of the two divisions of the Russian fleet seems to have been effected and it la said that the naval authorities at 8t Petersburg are en couraged nnd confident Nothing comes from Tokio to convey any Information as to where the Japanese fleet Is. The presumption Is that it is somewhere in the China sea, but all that can confi dently be assumed is that Admiral Togo Is keeping track of the enemy and Is ready to strike when the opportunity comes. The Russians being united may force a battle, but the probability Is that the Japanese commander will select his own time and place for the inevitable fight and that he will have made the most complete preparation possible for It, fully comprehending what the result will mean. It has been suggested that Togo is laying a trap for the Russians, but it is not well to count upon anything of this kind or to undervalue the ability of the RuBslun commander to . guard against being trapped. The fact appears to be that great caution is being ob served on both sides and the reasonable conclusion seems to be that ,wnen the fleets meet it will be under conditions which will test to the utmost their fight ing powers. Meanwhile there is reported from Manchuria a renewal of military . ac tivity that will direct interest again, in that direction. It has seemed for some time that neither army was doing much, but it now appears that the Japanese commander bns not been - idle and is prepared to deliver another blow. The probability is that during the period of apparent inactivity the Japanese army has been reinforced in men and muni tlons of war and Is In all respects very much stronger than it was immediately after its last 'victory. It is also likely that the Russian army has been ma terlally. strengthened. The prospect therefore, is for another great battle In northern Manchuria, perhaps-more san guinary than any yet fought Should the Japanese arms again be victorious It may result. in driving the Russians entirely out of Manchuria. The battle that will be decisive in its result, how ever, is to be fought on the sea and when or where that will be fought no man can tell, though it would seem it cannot be much longer deferred. prohibition prohibit in Topeka, at least same as plec of improved rel estate for the time being, but after th storm I that doe not produce an income, ha lilnwn over the hootlecrffera and Jolntlsts will gradually resume business The general tpproprlatlou bill Jot at their old stands Jurt as they have P""1 b tbf c,tr council of Bt Louis done in the larger town, of the state of nkn proTlalon for expenditures dur- V.ln-. in anlte of the vlellnnce of citv n nBca' Tp aggregates marshals, sheriffs and the state constab-1 wo."""- "mount ai.o.n o u do at we aisponai or tne ponce Doara tor expenses of the police department and Mir TEST KXCLVSloy LAW. is to oe expenaea ror me re- According to report the Chinese minis-1 moval and destruction of garbage. Al ter to this country is contemplating I Uiougn Bt ixuis nas nve times tne pop- mnklng a test' in the courts of the law ulatlon of Omaha, ft comparison of rela- excluding certain of his countrymen tlve municipal expenditures would lndl- from admission to the United Bute. It cate that Omaha is not s badly gor Is stated that he has Issued a circular 1 erned as it might be, Chinese Lu this country asking ulary. to all that he be furnished with reports of cases of applicants who have been de nied admission- to this country and of all deportations on the ground of non registration!, also for an estimate of the amount of damages to the applicants for such refusal of admission and for the deportations. It is stated that the minister holds that the acts of the United States officials, under the law and in view of the termi nation of the treaty and after the re jection' of the proposed consent of the Chinese government to reasonable ex clusion to be hostile to a friendly nation. It is not known what course will be taken for testing the law, but the fact that such a thing is proposed is interest ing. It shows that the Chinese govern ment 14 evidently taking a very lively j There is no doubt whatever that the $100,000,000 of preferred stock about to be issued by the Union Pacific will be snapped up on short notice. The ques tion that Interests Omaha in connection with this stock issue Is what proportion of the proceeds will be expended in this city and vicinity for the enlargement of the machine shops, new railroad head quarters, improvement of terminal facili ties and the much needed double-track short cut to Fremont Let Other D th Worrying. ' Chicago Record-Herald. "Few. rich men," says Dr. Gladden, "es cape being desplseoVV And fewer still seem to be lying awake at night thinking of th desplsers. Silly Ideas Polat Jallward. Chicago Chronicle. interest in the exclusion question and ,eotor wno pteads that ietrtLVL&ei onIy is apparently uetenainea not to con-1 the rich is entirely In harmony with that tinue to complacently submit to a policy I modern school of ethics, now fashionable, of discrimination nealnst its neoDle WBIC11 teache tnat property Is robbery and which it regards as unfair and essen tially unfriendly. It is significant as Intimating a purpose on the part of that government to manifest its displeasure in a practical way and this is the point which is likely to especially command the attention of those Interests that have trade with China and are looking for ward to its enlargement These will undoubtedly see In the step taken' by the Chinese minister presumably by 'dl- thrlft a crime. BararalM Price Dlaralty. ' ' ' Baltimore American. A solemn suit in th federal courts, con ducted with all due dignity and decorum, over 46 cents duty on. a 60-cent souvenii spoon, shows that even the majesty of th law and government may take the one step from tho sublime to th ridiculous. y. , "Let Is Alone." Bpringfleld Republican. The railroad man who criticised the Each- oar Grapes, Washlneton Post. "A real democrat.!' says Charles A. Towne, "is a man who refrains from in. fusing his own personality Into the details of government." It has been a good while. come to think of It, sine a democrat has had a chance to infuse his personality Into FAKE MIST RESUMES FREE CUISAOE. Simultaneous with the advent l Mr. Hitchcock at the helm of the editorial columns of the World-Herald has begun the free and unlimited coinage of fakes Now that a French foreign official has I from the fakery.. Perhaps the most seen fit to praise British rule in India 1 idiotic fake that has emanated from that the Franco-Russian alliance may be con-1 source within the last ten years is the sidered really strained. I pictorial roorback representing County Treasurer Fink as havlnir in Drosnect an The Kansas supreme court has decided nm of r,fl.000 a vear. after the con- that whisky is pot "property." This golldat,on of cltT .nd county treas- pens a wide opportunity in that state nrle( fako ,s Btuck t0 yym e per. iwnn abilfriAii AnA war Vl W Aw- rtonrtAn I ,..') tut ",u,"ul ' " I slstency. worthy of a better cause. Any tO be thirsty. ',. , I aohnrj hnv ahlo in- mad th nrnvlnlona of the charter and statutes would know Judging by.their published correspond- hotter . ence. neither Mr. Iledln nor Dr, Nansen ( The charter xpre88ly Umlte ,,. will -come nearer reaching their goal in ,owance t0 county treaBUrer for act itatecraft than they, did in their polar ag M exfflclo cIty treaBurer to $1,000 rection of his government the promise Townsend bill, before the Elklns committee, of some form of retaliation if the policy ffJImf m"",? th? U w,ou,d ,result. !? ena" , , lew litigation, and require at least two or Of exclusion as now enforced is ad- thre supreme court decisions to determine hered to, and it will not be surprising I what it meant, should try to frame a rail- if these interests shall unite in ursrinir rd la that wouldn't. that the policy be modified, at. least to the extent of withdrawing restrictions upon merchants, Investigators and stu dents from China, confining exclusion entirely to laborers, which it Is under stood the Chinese government does not object, to. There is no doubt as to tho right of ne details of government. our government to exclude from the country any people whose coming here the congress may think undesirable, That is ar, inherent right of all govern ments, to be exercised as they may think expedient or as their interests dictate. There may be phases of the Chinese exclusion law, as asserted, that will not stand a test in the courts, but the general principle cannot be success fully-assailed. What is being done Is the enforcement of a discrimination which thp Chinese government protests against as unjust and what this country bos to consider is whether we should continue this policy in its present form Wanted Hospitable Jail. Minneapolis Journal. "Railroad managers are telling the Elklns committee that there Is plenty of law to prevent rebates. There Is plenty ot th kind of law which fines railroad managers 150 for a 16,000 rebate. Ayhat w are looking for Is a law which will open hospitable jails to managers who persist in violating th law. ... tr- , - Freasted Flnaaee Fiction. . . Cincinnati Enquirer. Let not the plodding, .citizen who goes to his trad or profession every, day, and to church once on Sunday, and takes a walk into the green fields iSonday afternoon, get. ting enough money to keep himself and his family fairly well fed, housed and clothed. at the risk of losing the friendship of ftnd ! "P th children well enough China, Inviting retaliation and impairing to go to sohool go into the "blues" our chances for, securing trade in that explorations. per annum, payable quarterly. The state law governing county treasurers ' ex pressly provides that in counties having a population fit over 70,000 the treas urer shall receive a salary of $3,000 per annum and no more. The state law also expressly provides that the percentages ThA Wnrlit-Tloralil minima tn ha In telephonic communion with Pat Crowe. Perfectly natural. It used to be in tele phonic communion with Charley Mosher nd Joe Bartley. . If the "reciprocity war" Instituted by and for the collection of delinquent Germany and Newfoundland becomes 7 Bn8 P"a lnTO "e counir "jieneral the Deonle of the United States fee fund nd ut ' wh,cn salaries .will see the advantage of having the 01 lne measurer ana nis ciems are to best home market on earth. ' 06 Pald- ond the surplus, if any, must oe turnea into tne general iunu oi tne The real reason on the part of France countT and not lnt0 the V" the empire. That the matter is of very con- the market Beloved brother, not afl of siderable importance we think will be the stories are true.. Perhaps a large ma generally admitted. Jorlty of them are -notion. Operating in wan aireei cauera mucn iuaa oi siepp, ana denies a great K.iny men the serenity and contentment of wholesome old age. And then the time is so 'short. ' Chicago appears to be as much agi tated over bills pending before the Illi nois legislature as it is over the team' sters' strike. Among the proposed meas ures that seem to shock the Chicago Tbe Kernel of the Qaeatton. Kansas City Star. Before the senate committee on Interatata mossbacks are the electricity bills, which commerce recently, ex-Senator Harris made authorize the city to sell surplus electric I an apt and convlntfr.fr reply to the catch current generated by the municipal lleht- Question propounded by Senator Elklns. 1,, Tl .n,.ln. I Juu "" commission nx f."-- your rates If you were In th railroad bust Bgumsi mese measures is presenxea in ne,,r inquired th sapient statesman from one of the Chicago dailies, which de-1 West Virginia. "My idea la," replied the clures that "the sale of current during Kansas, "that a man who goes Into the 'for an understanding with Great Britain 1ft now apparent Gold has been dis covered In.. Madagascar, and France without doubt desires to keep it treasurer, Instead of drawing $50,000 a year out of the city and county hopper, County Treasurer Fink will, after tbe merger of city ' and county treasuries, receive If "Elijah" Dowle can float ZIon gold Just $4,000 a year as his salary from tho bonds among the unbelievers bis post- city and county, which is exactly the sal tJon as prophet will be more firmly estab-1 ary now paid to the city treasurer. Tbe llsbed in the business world and the saving effected by the consolidation will future of his enterprise completely as- therefore be equal to $3,000 a year, the cured. I present salary' of the county treasurer, and the saving effected by the reduction ' An English-woman has donated her of the clerical force aggregating from fentlre fortune to Albanian revolution- $10,000 to $15,000 a year more. Consid 'lata, with the hope of posing as princess erable saving will also be effected on -Of that land. The American idea of the payroll for duplicate tax collectors. buying a title already established is the The only mistake The Bee made In tho better one. I dissection of the Fink salary fake has been the assumption that the county Creosoted wooden block pavemeut treasurer's salary is still $2,500 instead niaye have the right of way in Paris, 0f $3,000. This errorfwe cheerfully cor London and other European cities, but I - t In Omaha the mere mention of wooden .tiock is enougu to revive unpleasant Prohibition in topeka. memories. I That, prohibition does not prohibit I where it is not sustained by public sen Possibly tbe. Omaha Grain exchange I tlment has time and again been demon can make arrangements with the late strated. Only a few weeks ago the Postmaster Crowe for the deflection of I sheriffs of the various counties in the the Great Northern over the rlght-of-1 state of Maine made simultaneous raids way of the Sioux City, interurbun, of I upon the Joints that hud been tolerated which Mr. Crowe is the president lu Portland, Bangor gnd other towns in that state, notwithstanding the fact Only three weeks remain for the coun- that prohibition has been the law of the cl) to. make up its mind about the boun- land in the "Pine Tree state" for more daries of tbe twelve wards into which than fifty years. the city is to do reuistricted. As there The periodical discovery that the are ftteen different plans for redUtrict- liquor traffic has been carried on in the leg, the members of the council will I capital city of Kansas almost without have 14-15 pusil to solve. restraint iu defiance of the provisions of flirt ICanaSa fVtnatlttitlnn an1 tha In wa ' Governor Cummins of Iowa would Unacted under it is, therefore, not sur 'have ftn easier time In spreading bis prising. Inquiries instituted by Gov tllef in Canadian reciprocity had he ernor Hoch develop the fact that the mu the CC-operation Of those In authority in nieinal authorities of Toiwta ha1 a mn. IftintI, At ruiant m a. It I,. I . . . . ., . . .. .... v. . .vum. .a uo i mai unaerstunuing wiui me- joints Dy couia convert tne American congress which they were to be permitted to oner- amlA thurt t lid I u n 11 ri 1 M ii Pn,tlim.nt I i , . j ... ..' . i n it, uv uiTuiK u i rt? til ii J h luonui liriupr the name of "a fine." which In realltv ' Chicago negroes who protest against ... -vulval, n. k-., the lmiortutWu of brethren coming in protection had been guaranteed to all i tAU f .1.. a . I wrB uuu.uia iw iwr.mr, win nave the Illicit dealers In liquor so long as a uuu uwv ujvu uiw iwiuuw ui uiuoe i paid their monthly fines, ireaay mere s.-eru to nave a more in- The determination of Governor Hoch telllgent view of the "race" quentlou to suppress the Topeka Joints and boot than inauy f the so-called experts of J leggers, notwithstanding the compact the ''superior" race. wltii municipal ftuthorlUes, may make making 11,000,000 or so at a single turn of -'BOt'HD ABOIT HBW TOSK. Itlppl th Cerrent t Life la the Metropolis. The finest and most profitable line of graft outside of politics In New York City Is begging. According to an official of the Charity Organisation society there Is scarcely a week that some mendicant does not spring some Ingenious plan with which to elude detection and ei tract money from generous people. Frequently a professional beggar Is - a partner In ft saloon or some other profitable business and most of them have bank accounts. These men have re duced graft mendicancy to a system that th police assigned to the work are unable to break up, although the Charity Organi sation society convicts nearly 1,000 beggars ft year out of an average of 1.960 arrests for mendicancy alone. Th remainder are put to work, even though it is necessary sometimes to send a street ctippl to a hospital and compel him to ' submit to ft surgical operation In order to enable Mm to work. On former New Tork mendicant with his crooked feet made straight, la now earning (11.60 a week in a mill. The detectives of th police beggar squad run acroas soma queer characters. It Is only - ft few months ago that they broke up ft family In New Tork that had beeq living at the rate of $10,000 a year on the thrift of other persons. They discovered ft beggar known aa "King ot the Blinks," owning tenement In Chrystle and Forsyth streets. He Is reported to be the man who first divided the city Into begging districts, sending separate beggars to each locality day and night, and compelling mendicants to "keep off the grass" belonging to the Other fellow. There are more men beg gars than women, a fid mors child beggars than both put together. There ar plenty of old curiosity shops In New Tork where It would be difficult to find an article which is what It pretends to be. Th persistent credulity of their customers must be a sore temptation even to honest deale-s. Of old curiosity shops r 1 Tho Wonderful Growlli " v v ; of ;' Calnimet IBaldinij Powder Is due to Its Perfect Quality ', 'end .' Moderate Price Used In Millions of Homes- STATE PRESS COMMENT, Sterling Record: Whether or not th country needs public ownership of public utilities, it certainly doe need public own ership of public officials. St Paul Republican: If anything more were needed to disgust ordinary people with state normal schools, th constant Intrigue and scandal ' which has surrounded ' Peru from Its birth, and which now threatens to blight the Kearney institution before it is opened, would do the business. It It Is ab solutely necessary for the state to grant In general It may be fairly estimated that I special privileges to the teaching protes ts per cent of the objects offered are spur ious, expressly manufactured for sale or "fa led" In- some way. The ingenuity of the forger Is unlimited. Furniture, prints, china, plotures, plate, armor, Ivory, brons and tapestry ail ar successfully 1ml- slon, a policy which we believe Is based upon false premises and fundamentally wrong. It should at least see that these training schools are kept free from political Influences. ' The spectacle of Tom Majors, John N. Baldwin and 4 choice coterie of tated. "Antique" armor and metal work of I other professional wirepullers bartering for all kinds are made in Birmingham. Spur ious antique china come from Franca, Holland and Germany. The spurious print Is perhaps th commonest trap ot all, The erase of the colored print" is Just now with us, and th demand for examples the superintendency of the new school 1 not particularly edifying to those who be lieve that our educational institutions should be surrounded by pure moral atmosphere. McCook Tribune: That Nebraska Would be of th celebrated engravings of the eight- I th great gainer for having larger men In eenth century exceeds the supply a nun dredfold. These ar exceedingly scarce. consequently th market Is flooded with reprints and reproductions. Several 'firms are engaged In producing them, and they cost the dealer in "objects of art" from seven and sixpence to a pound a piece. Usually the paper is manipulated to give it th appearance of age, or the print Is put into an old frame. It is certain that countless numbers of them ar sold as originals. A reprint has this excuse, that. though subsequently "touched" by a mor modem hand it is an impression taken from the original copper plate, but it can not, of course, be compared with the orig inal prints from th graver of Bartoloszl, Ward. Schlavonettl, Valentin, Green, Clpranl or John Raphael Smith. A reprint. however, still contains some of the original lines. A reproduction Is merely a copy, every lln of which, aided by photography, has been traced by ft modern hand. Its public service I admitted by all at all familiar with the situation familiar with the men and who make them. But before the state can hope to draw into Its service men of larger accomplishment and higher char acter It will have to arrange a few prelim inaries of importance: It will be necessary to make public life more attractive for such men. Adequate salaries will have to be voted. The bosses, "local interests," corporate domination, "certain localities," etc., will have to be cut out of our political life In a large measure. Nebraska voters will have to take charge of the elective ma chinery of the state, and not let out the contract as at present to the trusts and corporations and politicians to nominate and elect the lawmakers and executives. And the grafters -will have to be crucified. the day would displace a certain num ber of private steam or electric plants, throwing out of employment some en- railroad business enter Into a contract to discharge a public service subject to regu lation and control and invests his money with this understanding. " The gist of the gineers and firemen, make ft reduction matter is packed into' that sentence. Th in the number of teamsters and possibly 'fpIy ,1ow " '"1",tlnto th true re,a- . . , . , . . Won of the railroad business) to the public reduce the coal bills to some manufac- .ri .. ..k turers." , That is to eay, there will be slon of the special pleader who Is conduct. less coal hauled and fewer firemen and engineers and laborers employed during the day in private plants if the city is permitted to sell current to the consum ers. Suppose all these awful omens were to come true, would not reduced cost of power be followed by more em ployment and lower prices for con sumers? ', ing the inquiry en behalf of the senate of th United States. HILL'S DBFENSB OF REBATES. Systematic Efforts to Confas sad Ularepreaeul th Iaan. Chicago Inter Ocean. President James J. Hill of the Great Northern railway made befor tho senate committee on Wednesday what he seemed to think an ingenious and complete defense of discrimination and rebating In railway rates. The facts of th case that he cited were briefly as follows: ' . When the Great Northern reached " th stat of Washington It was found that th chief product for Interstate commerce tber was lumber. .The rat was then SO cent. and the Washington producers could not raacft the eastern market. Mr. Hill cut the rate to to cents, thereby obtaining eastward freight for his cars and opening an eastern Aft eastern weekly publication in forms its readers that "western farmers are in possession of remarkably ad vanced surroundings; with farm tele phones and rural delivery lines covering tbe plains region, even up to tbe foot hills of the Rockies, with dally papers delivered to their doors with almost the promptness with which the city sub- mark.t for Washington lumber. scrlbers are served, it needs but the This was a discrimination, Mr. Hill says. bringing of the most advanced agrlcul-1 'nst the lumber producers at th east tnral education to them to malt thorn rn nd of hl" roafl- Th- wr charged it . - 4. .. , . I more for hauling the same weight of lura " v e I ber an equal distance. In effect, a rebate unexcelled by their brethren of the soil anywhere." If the brethren of the east will only take ft tour of the west they will find that neluer are the westem farmers lacking in advanced agricul tural education, but that on the con- granted to th Washington lumbermen But not only the railway, but th whole country benefited by th Increased supply of lumber thus mad generally available. All of which is true enough as fas ar It goes. But this is not th kind of dlscrlnv nation and rebating to which th publlo Chronlo cynic as to th honesty of New York's policemen wer put to con fusion th ' other day when Commissioner McAdoo received air envelop containing a 120 gold certificate from an automoblllst, who signed himself "Humiliation." A not with -th money read: '"I was stopped on Broadway for speeding my automobile by pbllceman 8067. I told him that I did not know that I waa exceeding the limit and a friend with m corroborated my state ment. Th Doilceman Insisted, however. I offered IS If he would not press the cas. Th. policeman indignantly refused the money, . and gave ma th worst dressing down I have ever received In my life. He then let me go. I wish to give my evidence that all policemen ar not grafters." The steeple-Jack la not the only work man who needs a steady nerve. The other day a big safe wns being hoisted to th tenth stonr of a building, and was wen up when th ropes stuck in th pulley, Befor the safe could be moved it was necessary for a man to climb up the rope band over hand, like a monkey, with the safe hanging over. him. A crowd stood breathlessly watching him'. When at last ha slid down the. crowd said,. "Ah!" in unison and breathed freely again. The man himself thought nothing of It. "On of th risks of th business," h said, as be took hold of the rop and helped tbe others hoist the safe. Th price for asphalt paving in New York has dropped to a record figure. Bids received for a large amount of paving in Brooklyn mean In many cases that .th city will pay only fl.J9 a square yard for phalt laid upon Its concrete foundation. Thlk Is the lowest price known In th history of this city for asphalt upon con crete. The average price for 190S, after the asphalt trust had been dispersed, was 2.0ttt s square yard. The lowest pric heretofore paid by .the city for a yard of asphalt pavement on concrete foundation tl.tS. Ther is talk of a cut to at least 11.10 a square yard. The Barber com pany, continuing the fight by cutting the ground from under tts local competitors, In many instances. Is the lowest bidder upon more than half of the new contract, which will aggregate over 11,000,000. Her heavy head of hair and a celluloid comb saved the life, tn all probability, of Mary Russo, a 21-year-old Italian girl, when she waa struck with an ax during a fight among a score of Italian men and women. Antonio Marsilllello was arraigned on a charge of felonious assault, preferred by. th woman. The girl was biedlng from a scalp wound received, she said, from a blow by Marsllllello's ax. She was taken to the Presbyterian hospital, where the surgeons found her hair partly cut through and the heavy celluloid comb she wore smished, showing that but for th resist ance the hair and the comb offered th ax would hav split her skull. east trary their schools of agriculture are "W0- 11 WM n stifling of competl , tn h . . . , I tlon, but an tabllshment of competition, quite up to the best in the eaat When ,t dld not drtv, Mlnne80ta It comes to posting up on agriculture, out of the market. It merely let th Wash it is mighty seldom the west has to go I tngton lumbermen into the markets. Tbe Kino er discrimination ana rebating te which the publlo objecta, and which make It feel that thr ought to b gov. ernmsftt regulation of railway rate, Is that practiced by th Santa F. Ther railway revenue was not Increased, but diminished. Thar competitors ol th Colorado Fuel and Iron oompony were not let Into a mar, kC ' Thei competition was not established with benefit to th public, but killed to th publlo Injury. -Th sooner such Iarg-alsed men as Mr, Hill ceas trying t confus the publlo by calling different things by th earn nam th sooner also Mr. Hill gets out of th de. luslon that anybody la trying to tsk his property away from him, and so ceases to msk remark about "strewing th country with ODrps" th better for th country, for railway Interest, and especially for railway magnate Governor Mickey is to be commended for the position he has taken in the as sessment of the bridge and terminals of the Illinois Central railroad. Tbe duty of the state assessment board is to ap praise the tangible property of the rail roads at its true value that Is, the amount it ran be duplicated for. In ad dition to this tbe board is expected to assess the value of tbe franchise. If Its earnings do not yield ft sufficient amount to pay interest on the capital Actually Invested the franchise has comparatively small value, or possibly no value, but tbe tangible property Is taxable Just the DEMAND FOR BIGGER MEIf. Position of The Bee Endorsed and Re laforced with Additional Reasons. Columbus Telegram. In a recent article touching the personnel of Nebraska's officials "in the state and in the national congreas The Omaha Bee, la mented the fact that our state has not been In the hab.lt of exalting the really strong men to publlo office. And the lamen tation is not untimely. . Without display ot partisan feeling the Telegram asserts that in few instances hav Nebraakans of real intellectual merit been recognised, po litically, in Nebraska. AniJ why? There must be a reason. Some contend that th strong men, the learned men. the clean men, refuse to accept political nomlna. tions, simply because the official pay Is so small that the cannot afford to abandon private for publlo careers. Perhaps that Is true, to a degree, but aa the Telegram view the record we cannot accept that reason as the best one. The shameful fact is that many of the best men In the state are repelled from political walks by reason of the faot that In order to win in politics. at the convention, particularly, they must first procure the favor of certain corpora. tions. Self-respecting men do not like to enter the game of politics bound hand and foot to the political management of some railroad corporation. Such men, with laudable political ambitions, have often said goodby to ambition, knowing that In order to win their way to ambition's 'goal In this state they must first make offering of allegiance upon the railroad altar, Smaller men, with less self-respect, ac cepted the decree which good men spurned. and the result) has been the election to Office of men unworthy the., high stations to which they have been called. It Is not our purpose to inaiviauause. n is nm necessary. The average Nebraskan feels and knows that many of the best publlo office have been, and now are occupied by men of small intellectuat-and moral stature. The Bee does well to call attention to the small stature of the' men who hold office by the grace of the voters of Ne braska, but it should go further and tell the people that there can be no hope for relief until the voters shall awak to a sens of ' duty; the performance of which will take control of party convention out of railroad hands. ' PERSONAL ROTES. baby-mobile, met an old sweetheart dn't blush. 1 Denver ctolms the coolest man In ft young husband who, on his first trip aa chauffeur of his and dldn'l A rise Of 35 per cent in the price of pork in Germany, owing to. a shortage of hogs caused by the drouth of laat year, la giving the anti-agrarians their Innings. The owners of a theater Juet, constructed In Goshen, Ind., have decided to call th house the Jefferson theater. This will b the first city in the country to pay such tribute to th memory of th dead actor. Commodore Sommervill Nicholson, ft re tired officer of the navy, who Just died In Washington, was In the naval service over fifty years, and during the famous expedi tion of Commodore Perry to Japan In U&t Nicholson Was navigation officer of Perry's flagship.. During th course , of a recent lecture Rev. Dr. Anna Shaw stated that for ft long time woman's stature has been Increasing, while that of man has shown an opposite tendency, and she attributes the decrees of the men's stature to th exceasiv use of tobacco. In Wlnflekt, Kan., a thief 'was promised his freedom by the county commissioners if he could run fifty yards in six seconds, and pay th costs In th cas. The man ran th fifty yards in th stipulated time, but he had attained such momentum that he could not stop to pay the costs. The sultan ot Turkey strenuously objects to darkness and his apartments in th palace and the surrounding gardens a well are flooded with l)ght every night. H 1s read to sleep by a brother or favorlt Serv ant, and if he dreams an Interpreter is sum moned directly he awakes to explain th meaning of the dream to him.. A Jersey woman . seeking - a divorce, nnurAd an Averflnwlna mnajtura of wlfelv patboa into the words: , "Befor I mar ried . him, your honor, he ran afUr m morning, noon and night., Now h sits smoking, his pipe and I can't make him budge." , Man's inhumanity to woman continues an inspiring , subject for pot not otherwise engaged. - i POINTED REMARKS. , "Over In Germany they are -circulating ft sensational report that a8.000,000 ha been stolen from the United States treasury by burglars. ..-. r. v-r- "My, my, but Isn't that an Insult to on gressT'VCleveland Plain' Dealer. "Do you expect Charley t6 catch any thing on his flatting trip?" said young Mrs. Torkins' mother. "No," was the reply. "He's been vacci nated and took ten grain of quinine befor he started." Washington Star. "Since my daughter got her piano," said the woman next door, "she plays all th day ion Ooes she 'really queried Mrs. Knox, "or ' play r do long?" Philadelphia Ledger. all d&y loner oca it merely seem Lottie Dottle Scadds haa roora'nerv than anyone L know. Tottle what's she done? Lottie Her father expostulated with her on her extravagant habits, snd she told him he ought to be thankful to have a daughter who was such a wealthy helresal Cleveland Leader. , . "That man," said the proud friend, "went Into politics a poor man' and came out of it a poor man." "Well," answered Senator Sorghum, "all I can say Is that there must have been con tributory negligence on .his part." Wash lngtonvtar. ' "Of course, th earrings. ar quit pretty," he said, with Just a tinge or aisappoinu icDOln ment, "but the atones are very mall." . "But, my dear," replied Mr. Phoxy, "If they were any larger they'd be all out of Sroportlon to the alae of your ears." Pblla elphla Preat. you . tried your luck In Wall "Have street?" "-Kin Km T mram mn nnAtnfr tvt,A once.'' Chicago Record-Herald. " THE AUTOMOBILE. M. C. Ballard In the Inter Ooean. When Bellerophon seised the rem And strld the ribs of Pegasus, . He conquerd no more fair domain Than modern actence yield to us. But now we aklm the city streets, , Instead of asure akle abnv; While still tbe wandering Prlnoess greet And riders die for love. And still chimeras, grim and vast As In the ancient days, arise. And Knights must battle, fear-aghast, S Nor fail the high emprise. John D. Rockefeller Is not the dull, dry lecturer at-his Sunday school soma would believe. He like a good story, and be tells one well. When he essay the Irish dialect, If hid behind a screen from his auditors, they would, bellev h waa a true son of th Emerald lale. On hi last visit to his class he told of a Celt who had heard of his (Rockefeller's) enormous wealth. A man was telling him about It. " Why, do you see that clock? pointing to an eight-day affair that was ticking away on the mantelpiece. I do,' says Pat. 'Well, every time that pendulum swings Rockefeller gets 110.' " Well.' said Pat 'I'll atop aom of his money today: I'll atop th clock.' " Crewel the t'eater ef the Stag. Chicago Chronicle. , There may be some plausibility la th suggestion that Messrs. Togo and Rojast vensky ar postponing their a tar engage ment until th teamatr' strike Is settled. High-class performers naturally object to having th attention of th audience dis tracted by ld show attract lone when they occupy th ntr of th stag. Vant to try an experiment? en take any one of the hundreds of new medicines on the market. AW come, they go, and are soon forgotten. Or want to be cured? Then take a medicine that has been tested and tried, generation after genera tion. A medicine that has been a household remedy for sixty years. Ayer's Sarsaparilla. . , Intelligent, ing more and this old standard preparation. - , thoughtful more upon