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If! TIIE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, MAY 25. 1007. Tim -Omaha Daily. DeI FOL'NDliD BY LLWARD ItOSRWATEIU VICT ' ROSEWATER, EDITOR. . K.ntcrfd nt Omaha postofllce as aecond cIumi matter. TERMS OF Sl.RfiCRlPTION. rn!1jr Ufa (without Sunday), ona year. .U 00 I'ulljr Jto nnJ Sunday ono year 6" Hiinday Ue, one your 2-0 Saturday liee, ore year 1.60 UKLlVKItKD UV CARR1F.R. Lfilly life (Including Sunday), per week. .15c I 'ally Jio (without Hunilnyl, per week...hc Kvenlng Hee (without 8uiulnyi, per weck.fio JCvnlnn lice (Willi Sunday), per wfck lio Address all rnmplalntii of lircgu In lit 111 delivery to City (irrulntion lepurtnient. OFFICES. Omnha Tho 13" j'.uiliilnr?. South Otnulia city Hall Building. Council I tin rr.i 15 Scott Street. i'hlcngo--p'.l Cnltv KulMlng. New York Home Life Insurance Bldg. Washington ni Fourteenth Street. CORRKSrONDliNXB. Communications relating to news and edl totlal matter should be addressed. Omaha lite. Editorial iJepartment. REMITTANCES. lmlt by draft, express or postal order, pnyahlo to The I!ee l'ubllshlng Company. Only 2-cent stamps received In payment of mall accounts. 1'ersonsl chocks, except on Omnh.'i' or eastern cxrhrmpe, not accepted. THE I:EE l'LTtLlSHING COMPANY, STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Stato of Nebraska. Douglas County, ss. Charles C. R. sewnter, general manager of The Hee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, savs that the actual number, of full and complete copies of The Pally. Morning. Evening and Fundny Fee prlrted during the month of April, 19i7, wa aa follows: 1 33,670 17..... 35,090 5 34,090 II. 38,090 8 34,110 It 34.B40 4 34.390 SO 3S.010 6 34,330 21 33,350 C 34,330 22 35,090 T 31,400 23 33,300 34,380 24 35,430 34,450 25 - 35,470 10 34,500 28 iiJ,340 11 34.410 27 38,630 12 35,730 13 . 34,600 13 35,530 2D... 35,510 14 33,400 80 35,650 16 34,690 1 34,830 Total 1,038.410 Less unsold and returned coplea. 9.8C4 Net total 1,038,640 Daily average '. 34,384 CHARLES C. ROSKWATU R, General Manager. Subscribed In mv presence and swum to before me this 30th flavor April, 1907. (Seal) M. It. HI'NQATR, Notary Public. W1IKJI OIT OK TOWJJ. Subscribers leaving; the city tena purnrlly abnald have The Der mailed to them. Address will be changed aa often na requested. Perhaps with a little darning, the winter flannels may hiBt until June. The federal authorities In Chicago have sat upon the church pew trust. It is up to Abe Uuef to write a testi monial to the grand Jury that cured him c an itching palm. That trusty old agent of peaco, "Manana," has postpoucd the war be tween Mexico and Guatemala. "Mako San Francisco fireproof," says the Chronicle of that city. Bet ter make it Kraft proof as a starter. By the aid of 'plentiful rains we will aow be given a practical demonstra tion of the recuperative power of Ne braska crops. That correnpondent who reports an Interview in which "Uncle Joe" Can non Bays he Is atlll a standpatter has a queer idea of news. May Irwin is to marry again. While May Is 64 and weighs almost as much as Secretary Taft, her bank account is remarkably handsome. The purchasing a-gent of the Pan ama Canal commloslon Is going to re sign. The resignation green bug is Btill working overtime at Panama. "Is it a Bin to sell soda water on Sunday?" asks the Baltimore Sun. It Is not only a Bin, but almost a crime, to sell Bomo kinds of It on any day. Never mind. If Lincoln will organ ize a trade excursion to Mexico or Panama, Omaha will outer no objec tions to Governor Sheldon going along. "Boss", Cox ot Ohio has recanted and says he will not endorse Taft. There la a suspicion now that Cox really wants to help the secretary of war. By the time he gets his Jury ready Sheriff -Shad" Hodgln of Boise will be in position to make an accurate estimate ot the male population of Idaho. Japan has placed $12,000,000 in orders for Bteel rails with American firms and now wants $2,000,000 worth of American locomotives right away. Banzai. "We want Immigrants from Mis souri with long ears and lively heels," fays Tom Watson's Weekly Jefferson Ian. Mr. Watson ought to know there are only a few live democrats left in Missouri. A, Washington clergyman asserts that the residents of the capital pay little attention to Sunday. All days are like Sunday In Washington when congress is not in session. Tho excursion traffic on the Mis souri river at Omaha is about to open. The date for opening the Missouri river freight traffic In and out ot the port of Omaha has not yet been defi nitely fixed. Colonel Watterson says his sole po litical ambition Is to produce harmony among the warring factions of democracy. Should he succeed he should get the Nobel peace prlie with out a contest Another Nebraska land office ap pointee has resigned. The event is worth noting because most of the offi cial exits from Nebraska land offices of late have been without the oppor tunity to resign, - - - . tlKFEKBtXO TAIilfT HEV1SIOK. While nator Allison and a few other leaders In republican councils apsert that tariff revision will be one of tho Issues In the coming presiden tial campaign, It Is pretty generally accepted to be a part of the adminis tration program to defer specific ac tion on the subject until after the next session of congress, or at least until final a(t!oahas been taken upon other Issues which President Roosevelt has niade paramount for his administra tion. The tentative program provides for'the possible appointment of a tariff commission, some time during the life of the Sixtieth congress, with a view of bringing the revision question up for final action at an extra session of the congress to be chosen at the presi dential election next year. But there Is a healthy prospect that this program will be disarranged and at least one phase of the tariff question forced upon the attention of congress at its next session. The standpatters have already sounded an alarm and are marshalling their forces for an assault at tho coming session upon the tariff "tigreemeht" made with Germany through the State department. Provisions of the tariff agreement with Germany are well understood. The United States, by operation of one of the provisions of the Dlngley bill, has made tariff concessions on spark ling wines and other products Im ported from Germany, while Germany, In return, removes the maximum tariff rates from American meats and other foodstuffs. The administration at Washington deemed it necessary to make this agreement In order to avoid a tariff war with Germany. The standpatters take the position that no such agreement should have been made without the sanction of con gress. They Insist that while the con cessions made are not sufficient to cause worry, they constitute "a breach with princlplo" and should never have been nindo without congressional con sent. They assert that congress will not ratify the action of the president and the State department any more than It will adopt the Kasson reciproc ity treaties which have been slumber ing in senate pigeonholes for a half dozen years. The Btrategic advantage of the situ ation, always as important in politics as in other kinds of warfare, rests with the revisionists. The stand patters must assume the burden of the attack, Instead of having the advan tage of being on the defensive, as has heretofore been the case. They have been accustomed to playing the wait ing game, but they will now be com pelled to take the aggressive, if they are dissatisfied with what has been done. The administration i3 in posi tion to become a standpatter on its action by simply urging the fact that the tariff agreement with Germany was necessary to prevent a disastrous trade war and was forced upon the executive by the failure of congress to give remedial legislation on the sub ject as proposed in the Payne bill, and provided for in the pending reciprocity treaties. The situation will compel the standpatters to accept the German reciprocity agreement and thus allow the first break In the tariff wall or by opposing the measure to force upon congress a consideration of tariff re vision measures at least two years be fore the scheduled time. WOMEN AS BFEADWlKKERS. A wide field for study and specula tion is opened by the Census bureau's bulletin showing the number of women breadwinners In America. According to che figures furnished more than one-half ot the 23,485,599 women in continental America, as shown by the census of 1900, are at work in wage earning avocations. The deduction of 361,840 negro women who are em-, ployed on the farms in southern states still leaves a total of more than 14, 500,000 women engaged in gainful pursuits. Making a further deduction of 338,144 dressmakers, 327,200 teach ers, 328,935 laundresses, 14G.928 housekeepers and 456,405 domestic servants as these occupations are ac cepted as logical and natural for women there remain. In round num bers, 13,000,000 women engaged in other pursuits, for the most part in competition with men. Women have invaded the bread winning field in all but nine of the 303 occupations in which the wage earners of the country are engaged. Five of them are employed as pilots, eighty-eight in different capacities in the train service, forty-three as cab drivers,, six as ship carpenters, two as roofers, 18 5 as blacksmiths, 503 ma chinists, thirty-one as coke burners and eleven as well borers. The cen sus bulletin does not enumerate the nine occupations in which women have not engaged and the average person will have some difficulty in picking them out, after looking over the 11 Bt of positions held by the so-called weaker sex. Grave diggers, brewers and chimney sweepers seem to have escaped this form of competition in their work. The number ot women at work more than doubled in the twenty years from 1880 to 1900, and in that time a marked change has taken plaoe in the attitude of men toward the in vasion of the wage-earning field by women. For many years the labor organizations and men wage earners generally exhibited strong opposition to the employment of women in any of the trades or occupation, in com petition with men. Much of the op position was based onthe fact that women usually received less wage than was given men for like employ ment, bat back of that was a general sentiment that "woman's place is in the home," and her every attempt to shatter that long cherished notion was revolutionary. Such opposition has largely disappeared and woman's right to engage in wage-earning pursuits is now well established. How much of the changed condition is due to the fact that the supply of male wage earners Is wholly Inadequate to the demands of ruodwrn business conditions and how much to development of the Inde pendent spirit among women who are now self-supporting cannot be easily determined. Both factors have doubt less figured in the production of the existing situation. The importance of the part played by women in the wage earning field can be Imagined only by picturing the result If the 13,000,000 clerks, stenographers saleswomen and women employed In like capacities should suddenly decide that "woman's sphere is the home." OMAHA'S rul'VLATlOK. The publication of a new city direc tory furnishes occasion for fresh com putations as to Omaha's present pop ulation. The directory makers by an arbitrary multiplication of the number of names Inserted In their volume draw the conclusion that within tho municipal boundaries of. Omaha there are living 142,560 men, women and children, and within the municipal boundaries of South Omaha 30,330, making a total for the two cities of 172,890. The accuracy of populations esti mated upon city directory basis will naturally be questioned, but they may be useful by comparison with other figures obtained In other ways. The federal census bureau In Its last bulle tin gave estimates for Omaha and South Omaha that probably err In the direction of conservatism as much as the directory estimates go to the op posite extreme. According to the cen sus computation, Omnha In 1906 was credited with a population of 124,167 and Sofl'th Omaha with a population of 36,765, making a total of 160,932. The totals of the census takers and of the directory makers are not so far apart, all things considered. The cen sus people probably overestimated South Omaha and underestimated Omaha, while the directory men un derestimated South Omaha and over estimated Omaha. The census bureau has taken an increase ratio derived from previous census figures and ap plied it to the results of the last enu meration of 1900 uniformly year by year by assuming the same rate of growth since that time. It Is safe to say that Omaha has grown In population faster since the year 1900 than it did in the decade between 1890 and 1900, and unler.s we experience a setback entirely unfore seen this will be conclusively proved by the next census. If before that time Omaha and South Omaha can come to a mutual understanding for consolidation, the 200,000 mark for 1910 will not be an impossibility. FEDERAL COKTlWL OF HEALTH. President Roosevelt has given his ruo;al support to a movement started a year or more ago looking to the es tablishment by congress of a national department of health, to have general control and regulation of quarantine, contagious diseases and all matters af fecting the public health. In a letter to Prof. Irving Fisher of Yale, one of the promoters of the movement, Presi dent Roosevelt declares, "The aid of the federal government Is necessary to supplement the work of local and state boards of health. Federal activity in these matters has already developed greatly, until It now includes quaran tine, meat Inspection, pure food admin istration and the investigation of the condition of child labor. It is my own hope that these Important activities may still be further developed." While declining to commit himself to the ap proval ot any specific form of legisla tion, the president heartily commends the endeavors of the committee. The national health is physically the greatest national asset and its pre servation and improvement Is greatly to be desired. But attempt at far reaching legislation on the subject will be certain to arouse opposition from all those already in arms against what they term the tendency toward cen tralization in our government. How ever, the advocates of the new depar ture have some cogent arguments to Bupport their views. They cite the fact that while the government, through Its Department of Agriculture, spends $7, 000,000 annually on plant health and animal health.lt does not directly appro priate one cent to promote the physical well-being of babies. In ten years the Department of Agriculture has spent $46,000,000 in saving plants from ex terminating pests, but not a dollar has gone out of the national treasury to alleviate or cure diseases ot the heart or kidneys, which causo the death of 2,000,000 persons annually. Thou sands have been spent by the govern ment to stamp out cholera among swine, but nothing to stamp out tuber culosis or pneumonia. The more advanced scientists and physicians of the country contend that tuberculosis is curable and that most ot the diseases which cause so many deaths each year are preventable. The advocates of the new departure want the government to become as con cerned over means of protecting and improving human life as It has been over plant and animal life. They ask appropriations for investigations into the causes and remedies tor human diseases and to place the results within the reach of all medical practitioners; this to be supplemented by a campaign of public education in sanitation, hy giene and better modes of living. Bills will be presented to congress at the next sasslon which will at least serve to bring this Important subject to the attention of the people. The republican state league of Georgia has decided that so federal office holders shall bo sent from that state as delegates to the republican national convention. The republicans must have been making great gains in Georgia If there Is enough of them outside the office-holding contingent to form a delegation to a national convention. The State Hoard of Assessment should Inform Itself from all possible sources that may throw light upon the value of the railroad property which it is called upon to assess. When considering the appeals of the railroad representatives for reductions, how ever, it should remember that the as sessment of 1904 went all the way up to the United States supreme court and withstood every attack. If any railroad in Nebraska Is worth less to day than it was three years 'ago it must be due to some special conditions or hidden changes, and the burden of proof devolves upon the railroads. The democratic Woi ld-Herald again rushes editorially to the defense ot the hlckory-shlrted statesman from Ne maha. Once beforo when It cham pioned his cause it charged the repub lican Hate comniltteo $75 a day for editorial space. Wonder If the pres ent bouquets are thrown in for good measuni or are to be billed at the old rate. Omaha banks show up magnificently In the compilation of returns to the last comptroller's call. The banks could not make such reassuring ex hibits except for the healthy and pros perous business conditions prevailing locally and In the whole territory cen tering commercially around this point. Th acquittal of Pat Crowe In Iowa, following his two time acquittals in Nebraska, suggests the propriety of another repetition of that famous lec ture by one of our distinguished re formers entitled "The Crime of Two States. That Kentucky friend who calls the World-fJerald "the leading Bryan pa per In the country," cannot be a regu lar subscriber to that paper, or he has missed several numbers, notably those issued about the time the "sting of ingratitude" got In its work. Mr. Roosevelt has agreed to take a trip down the Mississippi next fall for the purpose of familiarizing himself with the Inland waterways. Mr. Bryan can save him one Journey by telling him all about Salt creek. St. Louis has discovered that 200 saloons of that city are located within 600 feet of the parks in violation of the law. Of course, the only thing for St. Louis to do In a case of that kind If to move the parks. I A Pittsburg man who was eating breakfast when his house caught fire had the table removed to the yard and finished his meal there while the house burned. That holds the record as a compliment to home cooking. Overlooked In Hosh. Baltimore American. It has been called to public attention that among the overflow of names of the young Prince Alfonso of Spain was not Included that ol! Gastonlo. A Thundering; Solute. Chicago Inter Ocean. The Cannon boom reverberates through out the land, but, fortunately, It Is a Can non boom that makes for concord, peace and brotherly love In O. O. P. aira over whelming majorities later on. Cnmpalffiia Long Ilrnnn Out. Philadelphia Record. The longest presldontlal compatgn In the history of the country begun its saturnalia of hard cider and raccoon skins with the nomination of the elder Harrison at Har risburg In November. 1S39. But the cam paign of 190S has already begun and will proceed without Interruption until the eve of the election, nearly eighteen months hence. Scoring; on the Corporations. Springfield Republican. It Is to be noted that Mr. Roosevelt's ad. ministration Is scoring point unpn point In the prosecution of tho railroads and trusts under the rebate and anti-trust laws. Sev eral railroads have lately admitted their guilt in connection with the Sugar trust rebate cases anil have been paying fines ranging from $20,000 to 1120.000 each, the latest company to plead guilty being the Rock Island. A dozen concerns making .up the school furniture trust have also been forced Into a plea of guilty of viola ting the federal anti-trust law and paid fines. The fines are rather small, to be sure, ranging from 1500 to $5,000, but they may have an exemplary effect. It la all quite helpful to the public revenue and no doubt also helpful In breaking up rebate and other monopolistic practices. ACTIVITIES OF TIIR GBEEST HUG. Beats the Gold Boar aa a Money Maker In the Wheat Pit. New York World. Aa an agency which has dona much to make dollar wheat possible, tha "green bug" will deserve aoine of the respect given the gold bug. Where this Insect destroyer originally came from seems not to be known. It Is not strictly a new comer, having first been Been In this coun try In 1888. In 1S90 It did damage In the winter wheat fields of Texas. Oklahoma, Indian Territory, Kansas, Nebraska and southern Indiana and Illlnola. Its present activity followed the warm weather of March. Wlil the 'green bug" Invade tha east, as the potato bug did? That Insect, first dis covered In the Rocky mountains, reached a point 100 miles west of Omaha In 1859. Two years later It Invaded Iowa and In 1841 crossed the Mississippi. From that base of operations It consumed ten yeara In reaching the Atlantic seaboard. The migrations of Insects present many parallels to those of the races of man. The gypsy moth, Introduced Into Med ford, Mass., In l! for laboratory experi ments with silkworms, has since become widely distributed. The blacktall moth was recently reported to have arrived In Nova Scotia. Against tho Invasion of the green bug science has an ally In tha parasite bees which prey upon It. Two thousand boxes of these defenders have been distributed by the Entomological department of the Kansas State university with good re sults. But are these tiny legionaries equal to tha task of staying tha advance of the insect Goths and Vandal $ Tike Momey siderable. Royal is economical, because it pos sesses more leavening power and goes further. OTIIEn I.ADI T1IA OIBS. The unanimous decision of tho Irish na tional convention at Dublin In favor of re jecting tho "Installment of home rule'1 em bodied In the Blrrell bill .materially strengthens the position of the Irish na tionalist party at home and correspondingly menaces the life of the liberal ministry. Had the home rule members of Parliament compromised the aspirations of their countrymen by accepting tho proposed measure, there Is no doubt tho decision would have caused dissensions In tlio home rule ranks as disheartening as those follow ing the downfall of Charles Steward Par nell. A formidable section of radical Ireland represented by the Sinn FVIn move ment vigorously oppose, the policy of Irish Parliamentary politics In London, contend ing that no good comes from Westminster, and urging Instead the Hungarian policy of combatting Knglish misrule by Irish public opinion directed by Irish representative con ventions. The action of tho Publln con vention spikes the guns of the Sinn Felners and fortifies the position of the Irish na tionalist. It renmlns to be seen whether they will Immediately antagonize the liberal ministry. Good policy will prompt support of various reform measures de manded by sections of the liberal party friendly to home rule. At the samo time it Is unlikely that John Redmond and his followers Will let pass nn opportunity to take a fall out of the three members of the ministry who aro held responsible for the makeshift Irish bill. While the ministry lias a majorly Independent of the home rule vote, It Is not sufficiently large or certnln to warrant a challenge to the Irish. With the House of Iords opposed to the liberal party program, the Irish members dissat isfied, and the ministry divided on essential party policies, It is apparent the liberal party, unable to secure results, cannot long endure. With characteristic shrewdness the Clemenceau ministry played tho leading! party factions of France one apalnst the other and secured a vote of confidence by a substantial majority. The courageous opposition of tho premier to the program of the socialists brought to the support of the ministry conservatives of all sections. The rigorous manner In which the menacing May day demonstrations wero handled and the expressed determination of the govern ment to prevent labor union domination In governmental affairs, proved effective. rallying cries for all factions opposed to socialistic demands. By one clever stroke the ministry cut loose from radicalism and secured a free hand firmly to deal with Its former domlnerlng allies. But other trou bles are muliplylng. The pending" Income tax scheme, unless radically changed, promises to autagonlze the conservative elements which made possible the vote 'of confidence. More menacing, however. Is the outbreak of vine growers of southern France, whoBe industry Is threatened with extinction hy reason of the great Increase of chemical wine with a beet sugar basis. Adulterated wine Is now so common In France and so much cheaper than tho genuine wine that vine growers are forced out of the market and ruin Impends. Be tween (50,000 and 80,000 people of the vine districts assembled at Perplgnan last Sun day to demonstrate peacerully that they must have relief or starve. Such a demon stration of rural workers cannot bo Ignored with safety by the government. When to this we add tho exasperation of federated labor It must be admitted that conditions In France are decidedly volcanic. A letter from Odessa, published tn Lon don, comments upon the manner In which the ownership of the land In Russia Is passing out of the hands of the nobility. The writer remarks that the process of expropriation has continued since the early seventies, when the Improvident nobles had already squandered the greater part of the compensatory payments made to them In virtue of serf emancipation. From some data Just purchased by tho Ministry of Agriculture and Imperial Domains, It ap pears that during the last twenty-eight years the nobles In fifty governments of Buropean Russia have lost, by voluntary or obligatory sale, through foreclosures of tho Nobles' bank, SO per cent of their landed holdings, the chief purchasers being the land, or peasants' banks. In the course of last year alone the peasants' banks ac quired no fewer than 80,146,358 acres, of which 18.900.S13 acres were formerly owned by noblo proprietors. In 1877 the whole landed properties of the nobles aggregated 182.750,000 acres; at the end of last year fl00) tho aggregate was 71.D0O.0ii0 acres. The Nobles' hank was created by Alexan der III for the special purpose of redeem ing the heavily mortgaged estates of tho nobles, but. In the result, and to nobody's surprise, that Institution has completed, or Is completing, the bankruptcy of the class It was Intended to save. It enabled the nobles further to mortgage their estates on exceptionally easy terms and, aa a rule, the money thus raised was, Instead of be ing put Into the soil, wasted foolishly. No less than fortyslx statea will bo rep resented at the coming peace conference at The Hague. The problem of finding ac commodations for the diplomatists and thnlr staffs, together with the crowd of Journalists, International busybodles, and mere sightseers who will follow In their train, will be a bard one for the little Dutch capital. -Several of the delegates have arranged to stop at Scheventngnn, which Is only a quarter of an hour's run by electric train from the Beat of the con ference. Indeed. Schevenlngen should profit richly by the Influx of visitors. Its pleas ant sea breezes and other delights may do something toward promoting the cause of peace. Visitors from the old world are nowadays greatly disappointed, however, to find this great watering place of Queen WUhelmlna'a dnuuii bo m idernlsed and transformed that It la sometimes railed the Atlantic City of northern Europe. Board walks, sun parlors, Iron piers and Ferris wheels abound and are pointed nut to the American visitor by the proud Dutch aa marks of their energy and enterprise. Tn the course of a remarkable article In Aprleton's magazine for June. ThomaB F. Millard tells some strange truths about Japan. Incidentally he says: "The tre mendous Impulse given to commercial and Industrial activities In Japan since the war has attracted much attention and been the cause of much comment, usually optimis tic. Since peace was declared (taking the latest official statement) there have been 114 new enterprises capitalized or old copl- j Savlaa by the use of Royal Baking Powder is con tallzatlons Increased, with an aggregate capital of Sin7.15L.S14 gold. This Is nearly one-third the total capitalized Industry of tho country previous to the war. The en terprises represented In this enormous capi talization cover a wide field, but they nearly all belong In the category of what may be termed modern Industries, in tho sense applied In Japan. For Instance, there aro fifty-one new electrical companies, with an aggregate capital of o5.000.000 gold: ten new navigation and dock companies, with a total capltnl of I30.000.no0; fine new In surance companies, with a total capital of $7,500,000. New banking concerns aggregate a capital of Jll.ooo.ooo. There are eleven new stenm railway companies, with $10, OrO.fyio enpitnl; fourteen new mining com panies, with Jfi.soe.non capital: while old corporations have Increased their capital $T4,Of)O.0TO. To many of' them direct govern ment assistance Is bclnrr nlven. while nearly all of them hnve had or bone to secure stimulation through the government by Indirect methods." POLITICAL DRIFT. The forcible bounce of a majority of th school board of Chicago Is until to he due to "too much Knflewsklacklng." The leglslnture of Illinois passed appro priation bills ngirregatlng $21,00.?!n. though the revenue of tho rtate Is only $,250,0n) per annum. Isaac Stephenson, senator-elect of Wis consin, will be 7S years of nge on June 1S. Besides his years he has accumulated sev eral million dollars. Tom Tnggart. chairman of tho demo cratic national committee, Is living quietly In Indiana so quietly that democrats have stopped tossing bricks at him. A Pennsylvania man died In a fit of un controllable laughter, provoked. It Is claimed, by the report that the state hotise grafters would refund the money. Two John F. Fltzgeralds are scheduled as candidates for mayor of Boston. One holds the Job at present, the other Is a roofer anxious to get In on the ground floor. Governor Hughes of New York Is pur suing reform policies and securing results on the lines followed hy his predecessors, Cleveland and Roosevelt, which led to the White House. Under the new Chicago charter, to be submitted to the voters In September, al dermen elected In 1909 and thereafter are to receive $3,500 a year. The Chicago coun cil at present ranks among the highest salaried bodies of the kind In the world. Tho charter also Increases the term of aldermen to four years. There Is a rumor In Inner circles In New York that Whitelaw Reld Is to soon re sign his offlc as ambassador to England and return to America because of business reasons demanding his presence here. Mr. Reld, It will be ' remembered, married a daughter of D. O. Mills, who has Immense business Interests In America and who Is getting to be an old man. Mayor Busse 6f Chicago, after listening to appeals for municipal regulation of children, handed the delegation this Im pressive suggestion: "On the subject of reform, I'll tell you, gentlemen, my. Ideas. I was born In North Clark street and reared there. And when I became unruly and wouldn't mind my mother she told father and he took a bed shit to mo. That's the thing the bed slat, more bed slat by the parents and less reform by law." Experimental Variety. Washington Post. Although Dr. Osier has declared that only four drugs are of any benefit to man kind, most members of the profession will continue to fire from six to eight different kinds Into u. i a time in the hope that at least one will take effect. Full mm 1 our name, at whatever price, is the very best that can be sold for the money. The grade of cloth and the degree of tailoring determine the price, but the style and the fit are in every suit, and full value in honest service Suits $15 to $40 Our lints all bear our trade mark, and while they are not made by us, they are made esjiecially for us by tho leading manufacturers, and you get full value in them just the same as in our Clothing. S2.50 to S6.0G Try Ono of Our $3.00 Specials Browning, King & Co E. S. WILCOX Manager. a PROBLEM OK II AII.KO All VALVES. Tnsk of (irent Mnanltnde nnd DlfH cnlty. Wall Street Journal. When Henry C. Adams, statistician of the Interstule t'nnmirriv commission, who hll be.4i studying the problem of rallroaol valuation for years, says that he know ot no subject in which n man can become more mixed than that, surely those people who are deciding the question offhand aa If It was the easiest thlnn In the world, are opening themselves to ridicule. Mr. Adam study of the subject lias led him to the conclusion that If there Is to be a fruitful valuation. It must be a federal valuation In order to make the results uniform throughout the country. Tbero ran bo no doubt that Mr. Adams Is right In this. That Is the reason why President Roosevelt la considering federal valuation of railroads. Perhaps he may say something on the sub ject In his Memorial day address. BREE7.V THIFLK. "F.verybody has more or less trouble." "Yes," answered the observant woman. "If a man can't find anything else to worrv him he goes to a ball game and geta highly Indignant at the umpire." Wash ington Star. "K the telegraphers do strike, they might to rind It an easy mutter to get along while they are Idle." "How is that?" "Why, aren't they used to living on 'tick?' "Baltimore American. President Lincoln lnld down tho news paper he was reading and took a turn about the room. "I reckon," he said, with his whimsical smile, "tiny call me 'Honest Abe' to dis tingulsh me from the other Abes." Chi cago Tribune. Hondurans were still fighting. "What's the row about?" asked an ob server. "Hasn't peace been declared?" "Believe It lias." replied a soldier, reach ing for a cartiidKe; "but we thought then we were out of ammunition." PhlladelplU Ledger. "Well," said Cassidy, " 'tis too bad that none av u;i kin iver be as good as soma people think we sh'u'd be." "Aye!" replied Caney, "but 'tis consolln to think that none av us kin ever be aa bad as some people think we are." Phil adelphia Iress A RHAPSODY OF THE ROCKIES. Twilight on the mountains far distant bells a-twlnkllng, Where straying herds haste, seeking homeward trails; Far o'er the snowy crests tho llttlo stars come twinkling, As fast the glow of crimson sunset pales. And as the dusk on plney slopes fast fulleth, A The mountains creep more closer, fold ing In, Till we pillow tired heads on the vastnesa of her bosom. And tho creatures of tho night their prowis oegin. IT. Mldnteht on the mountains all ominous In silence, Far-reaciiing slopes lead up to Star-lit heights; The watch fires on the ledges bespeak S grim surveillance. Where the yelp of vundal mountain beast aft rights; And the camper on his cot draws yet mora close the blankets And shivers as the fitful night winds rlsa And chase mysterious phantoms round the windows of his cabin, 'Till sleep brings Its b:.edlctlon to his eyes. III. Morning on tho mountains tho soft gray mists a-llftlng From velvet bIo)h-b atoueh with rosy glow. With ever-st retching uunbeams a-lllterlng and sifting, Until thev reach the farthest fair pinna cles of snow. Again the t inkl.-t Inkle of bells from ver dant valleys Strikes latent chords and sets the heart a-tune; Oh, morning In the mountalna-what bairn for sordid wivtehea! We long for you, will wake for you not yet, but Boon. Omaha. BAYOLL NE TRELB. Value HATEVER of unprepared ness there was at Easter, there is none here now that the spring has really reached this latitude And every garment that bears