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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.
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South Otnulia city Hall Building.
Council I tin rr.i 15 Scott Street.
i'hlcngo--p'.l Cnltv KulMlng.
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CORRKSrONDliNXB.
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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
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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.
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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
