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STATEMENT OP CIRCULATION.
Gtate of Nebraska, Douglas county, :
Charles C. l'.oeewat.r general manager
of The ! Publlahlng Company, being
duly sworn, says that the actual number
of full and complete copies of The Dally,
Mnrnlyg. Evening and Sunday Bee printed
during the month of June, 1WJ. w"
follows:
1 96,530 IT M.480
2 36,500 II 36,490
1 38,820 I 38,400
4 38,880 20 38,310
i 38,410 n ae.aao
t 36,810 22 36.510
7 36,030 23 38,730
36,800 24 38,800
9 38,900 I 36,900
10 38,880 28 3660
11 38,930 27 36,570
12 36,830 . . 28 36,470
It 38,840 29 38,880
14 38,830 20 36,860
15 37,170
18 35,800 Total ... 1,094 J30
Less unsold and returned copies.. 10,389
Net total 1,083,831
Dally average 38,137
CHVhL.aS ROSEWATER,
. General Manager.
Subscribed In my presence ana sworn to
before me this 1st day of July, 1907.
(Seal) M. B. HUNG ATH,
Notary Public.
Wit Kit OUT Or TOWN.
abarribers leaving; the elty tea
pornrily should bar The Be
mailed to theaa. Addreaa will be
chanced aa often as requested.
Tolstoi predicts the downfall of the
United States. Tolstoi talks a llttlo
like James J. Hill.
Xlkola Tesla saya he can talk to
Mare. Let him do It and give the
earth a rest.
"Georgia republlcans should not
complain," says the Brooklyn Eagie.
So there are two of thern now, are
there?
It may devalop In the end that the
Ink manufacturers started the war
scare between Japan and the United
States.
Count fionl Is making renewed over
tures for a reconciliation with his
American wife. The count misses his
meat ticket.
Since they got rid of Schmitz and
Reuf San Franciscans are not so anx
ious to have the Japanese come over
and capture the town.
Charleston, 8. C, has erected a mon
ument to a negro barber of that city.
He must have achieved distinction by
dying a natural death.
"Is oratory declining?" asks an ex
change. Chautauqua managers have
testimony that oratory always accepts,
if the fee is satisfactory.
Senator Piatt says he would act very
differently If he had his life to live
over again. Any different conduct on
his part would be an Improvement.
A Philadelphia crook has confessed
to sixty robberies, which is a pretty
big record, considering the fact that
he had no contracts on the state cap
Itol building.
The builders of Omaha who ara
falling by the wayside one by one at
least have the satisfaction of knowing
that their work was well started and
will be continued.
Senator Piatt received many tele
grams of congratulation on his seventy-fourth
birthday. He would re
ceive stl'l more by responding to the
request to resign from the senate.
The Pittsburg Elks aent to the con
vention at Philadelphia wearing tux
edo suite, cpera hats and white spats.
It matters little what the Tittsburg
fellows wear so long as they do not act
like Pittsbursers. .
The late William A. Paxton began to
earn his own living by the sweat of
his brow at the age r-f 13. Wonder
' how far he would have gotten had our
present child labor law been on the
statute bor!-.. in those days?
Mexico's minister ot finance savs
that politics and railroads have been
divorced In Mexico. If that plan is
ever attempted in ttU country a lot of
politicians will. make an awful fight
against the railroads for alimony.
A Syracuse minister proposes to In
stall a soda fountain in his church and
serve soft drinks free during the sum
mer season. He must figure that such
a scheme N easier than to try to put
Cti into bl sermons In hot weather.
W. L. Jones announces his candi
dacy for the United States senate for
the state ot Washington. Hit strong
card is that he has been in congress
far tan year and has never been ac
cused of complicity In any Pacific coast
land frauds.
jcdoe LiNDtKra diatbibk.
Judge Den 13. Llndsey of Denver has
evidently been studying Senator Till
man's methods of Increasing receipts
at the box office on his lecturing tours.
Judge Llndsey has the lecture habit
and Is in demand at Chautauqua meet
ings, where his address? on Juvenile
court work and reform movements for
the betterment, of the condition of the
children In large cities have proved
deservedly popular, but of late he has
pitched his oratorical note to a shriek
and Is ranting about a demand for the
gallows as proper punishment for some
of bis political opponents. In a recent
Chautauqua address Judge Llndsey
declared that Senator Guggenheim and
"BIH" Evans, a political boss in Colo
rado, ought to be banged and deserved
hanging more than the self-confessed
murderer and all roufid criminal ex
pert, Harry Orchard, does. Here is
LI nd sey's .reason for wanting to pans
sentence of capital punishment upon
Senator Guggenheim and Mr. Evans:
Simon Guggenheim absolutely bought his
way into the United States senate yes,
bought. William O. Rvans gav him the
election because Guggenheim furnlahed ihe
money to make Evans political master of
the political ring that has throttled the
atate. Evans made a deal with Guggenheim
by which Guggenheim put up the money
to carry on the Peabody campaign and the
last campaign and Guggenheim got his
senatorshlp.
Colorado has been a hotbed of Jum
bled politics for a good many years.
When the party lines were broken up
by the free silver fight In 1896 every
aspirant to political leadership went
out and organized a party of his own.
In one election In Denver thirty-six
different tickets were In (he field and
no man who succeeded in election ever
felt that he owed responsibility to any
political party. If the faction that
had nominated him became dissatisfied
with his conduct, he organized a fac
tion of his own. As a result political
and official corruption ran riot and in
dependent responsible citizenship was
for a time unable to enforce the con
ditions of civilized society.
With the pasRing of the silver fad
political realignment was resumed and
Simon Guggenheim became his party's
choice for United States senator. Sen
ator GuKpenhelm Is a very wealthy
man, which Is still considered some
thing of a crime among certain politi
cal circles In Colorado. This partic
ular fortune, or a large share of !t,
was made In the mining and smelting
business In Colorado. When elected
to the United States senate Senator
Guggenheim withdrew from all con
nection with the smelting combine and
haa announced his Intention to keep
his political and business connections
divorced.
Another feature of the Colorado po
litical situation may, however, throw
a light on Judge Llndsey's hostility to
Senator Guggenheim. Evidently de
delved by an Idea of his immense popu
larity In tha state, Llndsey was a can
candidate for governor. He was nomi
nated on a. Civic Federation ticket and
endorsed by a number of so-called re
form organizations. He made the
race, but was overwhelmingly de
feated In the election that resulted In
sending Mr. Guggenheim to the senate.
There is room for political reform In
Colorado, but It will not be accom
plished by mere rhetorical exaggera
tion. - CHAyCE FOR A DUO FALL.
Collier's Weekly has Issued an Invi
tation for a dog fall by asking the
question, "Which Is the dog town?"
The question thus propounded Is
prompted by a letter from a St. Paul
man, who writes that although un
familiar with the canine statistics of
the country generally, he feels con
vinced that his town can boast more
dogs to the block than any city In the
country. Collier's discusses this
seasonable suggestion with dogmatic
profundity and declares, that on this
proud boast that St. Paul has more
dogs than any other city In the coun
try It would like to hear from Minne
apolis. h The challenge should be carried at
once to Mayor "Jim," so that he may
unllmber his lariat and enter Omaha
In thlsy competition. Omaha must
have more dogs to the square inch per
capita of population than any other
rity. At any rate the Omaha dog
has made more nolHe and has come In
for more attention relatively to popu
lation thin the dogs dwelling In any
other city. If Mayor "Jim" does his
duty both St. Paul and Minneapolis
will have to tall up the rear.
THE JK.lLOVST OF CITIES.
The latest illustration of the Jeal
ousy ot cities is furnished by Seattle's
experience in entertaining Vice Presi
dent Fairbanks at the Christian En
deavor convention. Tacoma and Port
land have ' been in the dumps ever
since Seattle secured the convention
and have let pass no opportunity to
extend invitations to tha delegates to
the convention to come over, after the
work was done, and see a couple of
real live towns. Covert intimations
were offered that the delegates had
best go armed and leave their val
uables, barring actual expense money,
with friend at somo civilized town like
Portland or Tacoma.
Under such circumstances, of course,
it was incumbent upon Seattle to put
It best foot forward for the vice pres
ident. The chairman of the reception
committee therefore sent a letter to
each member of the committee request
ing him to appear in a silk hat and
frock coat, or a "Prince Albert" as it
is still called In Seattle, and to be
sure to have his trousers properly
creased. Reasons are not furnished for
the failure of the committeemen to
respond to the request The fact re
mains that but one man appeared In
a silk hat and frock coat. Dut that
saved the day, In a measure, and the
man was promptly placed at the head
of the receiving line. Tacoma and
Portland have been rebuked. But now
comes a Tacoma paper, offering to fur
nish proof that the person with the
tall hat wse not a member of the re
ception committee at all and not even
a cltlsen of Seattle, but was a plain
corn doctor from Yakima hired for the
occasion.
It is up to Seattle to meet and refute
this slander. If necessary, the vice
president should be Invited to another
reception If for no other purpose than
to allow Seattle to prove that It Is able,
on occasion, to crown Itself with the
silken lid of substantlnl citizenship.
ANOTHER RV1LDRR OF OMAHA.
In the death of William A. Paxton
another builder of Omaha is called to
whom the people of this city for all
time to come will always be In debt.
William A. Paxton not only had faith
in Omaha, but backed his faith by his
works, especially in the struggling
days when It took courage to have
even faith. That he profited by his
foresight and enterprise goes without
saying, but It was to a large extent
because he, like others of the pioneers,
bullded better than he knew. .
His contributions to the Greater
Omaha will remain for several genera
tions to come In the form of substan
tial buildings and successful business
ventures. His participation In official
public life was of comparatively small
moment, yet as a member of the legis
lature he twice represented the busi
ness interests of Omaha and Douglas
county, and as one of the board of di
rectors also helped to guide that great
public undertaking, the Transmlssls
slppl exposition.
The passing of William A. Paxton
lengthens the list of prominent build
ers of Omaha who have ceased their
labors within the last two or three
years, and of all the names is by no
means the least.
LIFE IXSVRAXCF. Is TWO STATES.
The two states of Texas and Wis
consin are Just now serving as experi
mental practice grounds for new ideas
In life insurance regulation, from
which other states will be free to draw
lessons for their own guidance In the
future.i
Twenty-one life Insurance companies
Incorporated outside, but transacting
business In Texas, have withdrawn
from the state on account of the meas
ure passed by the recent legislature
requiring all foreign stock or mutual
Insurance companies to Invest and keep
Invested within the state at least 75
per cent of the legal reserve belonging
to policies written on the lives of citi
zens of Texas. Wisconsin has passed
a law similar to that adopted in Texas,
but even moro stringent In some pro
visions. One of the largest life Insur
ance companies in the world, organized
under the laws of Wisconsin and with
headquarters at Milwaukee, announces
that It will cease doing business in
Wisconsin because In the Judgment of
Its officers It cannot comply with the
provisions of the new law without l
great detriment to its policyholders
elsewhere.
The contention of the state law
makers and authorities In both Texas
and Wisconsin is that they have gone
no further than to afford proper safe
guard to policyholders, while the in
surance companies Insist that to com
ply with their requirements would be
to sacrifice the interests of policy
holders In other states for those of
policyholders in these states. There Is
no question but if the reserves on
policies had to be In large proportion
Invested In the states in which they
are written the field for high finance
on the part of the Insurance officers
would be greatly limited, If not en
tirely wiped out. It is possible that
some of the new insurance laws are
calculated to work a hardship upon
policyholders, but that is often the
way of the legislative pendulum, which
may be counted on to swing back Into
equilibrium If It develops that It has
been carried too far.
The size of the different tax levies
demanded by the various local author
ities will have something to do with
the disposition of the taxpayers to vote
bonds whose proceeds are to be spent
under their direction. If the city
council Increases the city levy materi
ally, or If the school board falls to re
duce Its levy to correspond with Its
Increased revenues from other sources,
requests for bond Issues for city and
school district will be very closely
scrutinized.
Governor Hoke Smith has signed a
prohibition law passed by the Georgia
legislature and will now have to close
up the bar In the Piedmont hotel at
Atlanta, which he owns. The bar is
said to b making $50,000 a year and
Hoke Is not a rich man. The prohl
bltlonints should waste no more time
looking for a presidential candidate
for next year.
The railroads are advertising Ne
braska as a great dairy and butter
producing state and at the same time
they are proposing to change the rates
for transporting cream in such a way
as to seriously embarra.es these very
Industries. Hardly conHistent.
Because the asbessments of Omaha
business houses do not show the same
rate of increase the last two years as
do the asMesauients of some Lincoln
business houses, tha Llncolnltes are
complaining of over-valuation. That
conclusion, however, does not neces
sarily follow. The Lincoln assess
ments may have been way below the
mark two years ago.
Allowing twenty-five copies ot the
session laws for Douglas county, con
taining approximately an eighth ot the
state's population, out of an edition
of 3,500 savors something of rubbing
It in. As these session laws are paid
for by appropriation of the state treas
ury, Douglas county really pays for at
least 400 of them.
Colonel Watterson selects Governor
Johnson ot Minnesota for the demo
cratic presidential nomination, but
says "he must look to Colonel Bryan
to get him the nomination." If Gov
ernor Johnson has any other business
on hand he may go right on with It In
stead of straining his eyes looking -to
Mr. Bryan for the nomination.
The last fatal auto accident chron
icled in the dispatches la traceable di
rectly to failure to carry lights. 8ome
ot the autos speeding around Omaha
after dark are without lights and are
Inviting the same kind of catastrophe.
The requirement of lights on autos
after nightfall should be rigidly en
forced and no excuses accepted.
The railroads got permission from
the Interstate Commerce commission
to put In reduced Interstate passenger
fares on three days' notice. A little
while ago they were telling us that it
would take thirty days to make a
change in interstate passenger rates.
That story will not go another time.
Colonel Watterson admits that hta
presidential , dark horse . is Governor
Johnson of Minnesota, and Johnson
eays his boom is not worrying him.
The purpose of the boom, and Colonel
Watterson'e championship of it, was
not to worry Governor Johnson, but to
worry Colonel Bryan.
A few democrats ambitious to run
for office in Douglas county this fall
have dug themselves out of the slough
of despond. A democrat has to take
a bracer first in order to Imbibe any
encouragement from the political sit
uation in this county.
Can Court Enforce Decreet
Indianapolis News.
And yet the decision of the Nebraska
supreme court that the wife and not the
mother-in-law is the boss of tha bouse
may not simplify the situation for the
embarrassed husband.
What's th VseT
St. Louis Republic
A railroad president announces that his
road is out of politics and done with lob
bying. Well, really, when you come to
think of it, there doesn't seem to be any
thing left to fight for.
A Political Omelette.
St. Louts Globe-Democrat.
The youngest son Of the late General
Grant la a democrat and wants to be pres
ident. That is what "Jeff Peters", would
call "an omelette." Can't imagine a Grant
with so Indiscreet and contradictory ambi
tion. Home Thin as to Bora.
Brooklyn Eagle.
We have anthracite enough to last for
seventy odd years. Away with care! We
can burn wood. But the wood will all play
out in thirty years! Oh, well, any old thing
will do. Our millionaires have trunks full
of money. Let us burn that.
Back to First Principles.
Boston Herald.
The incidental remark of the Inter
state Commerce commissioners that Is the
function of the railroads to furnish
transportation reads like a Joke at first
sight, thought the context shows that It
Is really Intended to be serious. .The com
missioners aeem to be harking back to the
fundamentals.
Flllnnoa nt Yaie.
Leslie's Weekly.
One of the pleasant est features to Sec
retary Taft of the Tale commencement,
which he attended, was the announcement
that two Filipinos whom he had sent to tho
university had captured 'the leading
scholarship honors of the senior class.
These capable young students from our
Asiatic possessions are Jose Escaler and
Mariano Honrade de Joys. Their success
will aid In creating a higher respect for
their race among Americans.
Constitutional Kinks In Oklahoma.
Kansas City Times.
The constitutional convention which has
just ended Its second session In Oklahoma
made one commendable change In the orig
inal draft of the constitution. The first
provision denied the right of suffrage to
soldiers and sailors, and the convention has
amended thla provision to grant them the
right to vote. There Is really no good
reason to deny the right of suffrage to an
American cltixen unless h has committed
some greatee offense than that of enlisting
to flght for his country.
XAVAL ACCIDENTS.
Melancholy Record of Battleship In
Pvnr Years.
New York Evening Post.
Sixty-one officers and men killed In flvs
accidents since January IT, 10S that Is the
sad story of the navy's battleships. In
each case the' scene has been the turret
of a battleship. Nine men were killed on
the Massachusetts, flv an th Iowa, thir
ty-two on the Missouri, seven on the Krar
sarge and now eight or more on the
Georgia. In addition the muxslea of three
guns of the Iowa were blown off on two oc
casions, fortunately without loss of life.
This Is a sickening record, particularly by
contrast with the navy's Immunity during
the war with Spain and the hostilities In
the Philippine. The heavy-armored cruis
ers and the monitors havs gone through
their target prsetloe unscathed, and, what
Is even mure striking, socldents of just this
kind do nojt seem to occur on fore'gn bat
tleships. We. do nor recall a similar d's
aster In the German or French navies and
the English service has been nearly as ex
empt. All three have had their losses of
life in other ways by the explosion of a
magazine on the French battleship Jena,
by the sinking of torpedo boats, subma
rines, etc. Obviously, th new type of war
ship menaces those who control its terri
ble forces as well a possible enemies. But
whatever the reason for the misfortunes
of tiie American navy any disposition to
severe criticism. If sueh there be anywhere,
must yield to deep regret and sympathy
for the relatives of th dead. The officers
of the navy may be relied upon to do their
utmost to prevent any recurrence of Such
ghastly mishaps.
OTHER L4Xn THAW Ot BJ.
Hope springs eternal In the home rule
breast. Defeat may follow defeat and dis
appointment chill the warm blood of Irish
men, native cheer and hope sustain tlicm
In a contest that would crush the spirit of
a less sanguine race. John Redmond, leader
of the Irish Parliamentary, party In the
House of Commons, sends a message of en
couragement to friends of the cause In the
United States. "Some unthinking persons
Imagine, " he saya, " that we have to com
mence the struggle over agin. Thla is a
mistake. Ireland has the British democracy
at its back today In numbers and in force
of sincerity unequajrd In our time or In our
generation. To maintain this friendship and
to go on consolidating It will be our aim
and ambition." In assuming a position of
antagonism to both political parties Mr.
Redmond says "we are only reverting to
the fighting tactics of ParnelVs day." An
Impressive demonstration of this aggressive
policy was shown in the recent by-election
in Durham, where the home rule vote was
diverted from the liberal party, resulting In
the election of th labor party candidate,
practically a gain of a vote for homo rule.
While the main, proposition Is shelved for a
time the present ministry Is pressing for
ward the work of land reform. The evicted
tenants' bill recently passed by a vote of
S15 to 98 Is an encouraging evidence of good
will. If sanctioned by the House of Irds
It will bring about the reinstatement of
2,000 evicted tenants. But the striking fea
ture of the policy embodied In the bill Is the
compulsory dispossession of landlords who
have hitherto refused to sell. Supplement
ing other reforms grudgingly dragged from
Parliament, they furnish evidence of prog
ress and aid substantially In paving tho
way for legislative Independence In Ire
land.
,
Under tho heading, "Truth, Not Poetry,"
a correspondent at Yokohama writes to a
Munich paper about the Japanese: "Too
bad that In the Interest of truth one must
shatter the poetry with which we have sur
rounded Japan and Its Inhabitants. That
the country and the people are Interesting
to the Europeans no one can deny. Neither
can there be any doubt as to the great dif
ference between their social and their busi
ness methods and ours. All this fascinates
for a time, but when one knows that he
must remain here for years, and when in
order to become better acquainted With his
neighbors he studies them and finds that
they are undesirable companions he soon
forgets tha romance of novelty in the con
templation of stern truth. This reveals the
Japanese as untruthful and Insincere. While
they can be affable and pleasant, I beilleve
they are Incapable of real friendship toward
white people; their sense of humor Is un
developed and their smile Is meaningless,
except that It Implies what they do not
feel. In conversing with them one always
feels that they say what they think will
make a good Impression, regardless of their
own feelings. They look upon the European
as an Intruder, toward whom they ara
polite for selfish reasons only."
It appears that part, at least, of the In
surrectionary movement that has been go
ing on In India Is the work of agitators
in the United States. This fact was brought
out In the trial at Lahore, of a number of
Hindus, charged with being concerned in
the publication in the vernacular newspa
per India of an article Inciting the native
army to mutiny. The evidence showed
that the article in question was not writ
ten locally, but was received from a sedi
tious organization in America. ,The article
was headed "To the Native Forces In
India." Another article, published In the
Calcutta newspaper, Bende Mataram, con
tained seditious utterances of so gross a
character that, although It was read In
court, the official Civil and Military Ga
zette did not reproduce It. A hundred
thousand copies of this article were printed
and distributed. The writers of the Arya
BamaJ, a society which professedly exists
for the carrying out of Hindu religious re
forms, and of which Lajpat Ral was one of
the leading lights, were employed to trans
late the article Into the vernacular of the
Hindu peasantry. It was printed, not at
the offices of India at Gujranwala (Punjab),
but at those of another Journal, the Hin
dustan, In Lahore, really a Joint concern,
though the two newspapers are opposed to
each otBer editorially. This maneuver was
Intended to mislead the secret police, but
detectives searched both offices and thus
proved the connection.
There Is apparently no set boundary to
the reach of municipal ownership In Eu
rope. Having bought out the principal
funeral companies in Vienna and assumed
the responsibility for carrying on tho un
dertaking business of the whole city, the
municipality haa decided to go a step fur
ther by Introducing a system of burial In
surance covering not only the cost of tho
funeral and of the grave, but also, when
desired, the erection of, a suitable monu
ment In addition. All this Is to be carried
out through the medium of the Emperor
Francis Joseph Jubilee Life Insurance com
pany, an Institution which forms yet an
other department of the city's municipal
activity. The Insured must be between the
ages of 18 and (0. In good health and not
engaged In any dangerous occupation. In
the event of death occurring within six
months from the date of Insurance the
policy will be void and the premiums paid
will be returned. By payment of a capital
sum the company will agree to keep, graves
In order and to decorate and Illuminate
them on the feast of All Souls In every year
so long as the cemetery Is In existence.
Under the new British workman's com
pensation act, passed by the present British
government and In operation since July 1,
employers are liable for accidents to r. It
persons employed In manual labor, all do
mestic servants and all other employes who
ar not paid more than 11.260 a year. An
accident that Incapacitates entitles the In
jured employe to compensation amounting
to one-half his weekly earnings, but not to
exceed $ a week. The allowance goes on
as long as the Incapacitation lasts, but may
be replaced by tho purchase of an annuity
amounting to 75 per cent of the annual
value of the weekly payment. When death
results from an accident the employer
must pay compensation ranging from $700
to H.joO to dependents or heirs. If thor
are any, or Jf) ror medical or funeral ex
penses where there are no dependents. This
set Is a practical Illustration of the riurse
recommended by President Roosevelt In one
of his Jamestown addresses. The Imme
diate practical effect of It Is to raise wages
by whatever amount represents the cost of
Insurance against th losses which employ
ers may Incur under the provisions of the
act. In th eventual .adjustment this cost
of Insurance may or. may nut be deducted
from wages. There are mills and factor'.ej
In this country now which Insure all their
employes against accident. Some of them
deduct the coat of the premiums of such
Insurance from wages; some do not; that
Is a mater of bargaining. Such Insurance,
when voluntarily undertaken. Is an excel
lent thing, whoever pays for It. but, of
course, It adds to the cost of manufacture.
Mlsnn of Prdaaosaes.
Portland Oregonlaa.
What a mess the National Educational as
sociation has made out of nothing. After
resolving In favor of simplified spelling. It
asks the secretary when he publishes the
proceedings to employ approved nineteenth
century models or discredited twentieth
century Improvements to suit his fast. It
basn't th courage of It convictions
POLITICAL DRIFT.
Lieutenant Oovernor Sherman Is going
about Illinois attarklng Roosevelt policies
and boosting Speaker Cannon as a presi
dential candidate,
Oovernor Hoke Smith of Georgia has
signed a prohibition bill which closes his
famous Piedmont hotel bar In Atlanta. One
hundred and thirty oountlea In the atate
had already voted to go "dry."
The state of Wisconsin Is following Mas
sachusetts In the matter of preventing
stock watering of public-service corpora
tions to the extent of requiring permission
from the State Railroad commission and
forbidding sales of new stock in any case
at less than par.
It has fallen to the lot of Miss Kale Ber
nard o Oklahoma City to be the flint
woman candidate for state office In Okla
homa. Miss Bernard was nominated for
commissioner of charities and correction
on the democratic ticket In the recent prl.
marles. She lud no opposition.
The Missouri milliners Invited Oovernor
Folk to their convention and he failed to
come, pleading that he didn't get the in
vitation. When the situation became un
pleasantly warm for him he laid the blame
for the loss of the Invitation on his private
secretary. And yet some people say he Is
not training for the presidency.
The pathos of neglect Is rarely shown
as keenly as In the case of Senator
Thomas Collier Piatt. The famous "easy
boss" of New York passed his seventy
fourth milestone last week, and none of the
thousands who formerly served him paid
him the tribute of a call, nis mind Is
clear, but his form has wasted almost to a
shadow of his former self.
Oovernor Hughes deals a sharp crack at
Superintendent Kelsey of the New Tork
Insurance department by vetoing the Item
appropriating $15,000 to pay the three law
yers that Kelsey hired when the governor
made his charges to the legislature as to
the commissioner's Incompetence. Kelsey
needed no lawyers. To ask the state to
pay their bills Is a new sort of Impudence
that the governor sttnglngly rebukes.
INTERSTATE TWO-C'E.T RATK.
Increased Business Banish In a the
Ghost of Losses.
Bt. Louis Republic.
While the 2-cent passenger rates are un
der test It Is Interesting to note that the
Interstate Commerce commission haa been
Informed by the western roads that 2 cents
will be the rate for Interstate trips In Mis
souri, Illinois, Iowa and Minnesota after
July 16, and that the rate will he 21 cents
for Interstate trips In some other parts of
the west after July 20.
It Is "only by thus extending the tow rate
to travel between neighboring states that
ljs merits or demerits can be fully ascer
tained. The states mentioned are divided
by natural or Imaginary lines for purposes
of government only. The ties of kinship
and friendship between them are many and
strong. The occasions for travel from one
to another are numerous. The Inducement
of the low rate Is likely to Increase thj
number of short Interstate trips to an ex
tent that will be gratifying to the passenger
agents. It is at least well worth while for
the roads to make the experiment.
The farmers and townspeople of the
west, though prosperous, have not money
to burn. Though addicted to the "travel
habit" which pervades all parts of this
country, their appreciation of the neces
sity for economy In travel Is shown by
their waiting In the past, for the excur
ston rates of one arid a third fares for the
round trip, this amounting to f cents a
mile for the round trip, when th regular
rate Is 3 cents a mile.
With a flat 2-cent rate In effect, people
who cannot take advantage of the special
I mminn ran travel cheanlr when and
where they want to. And there are some
Indications which the Republic has found
around the St. 4,ou1s Union station, that
the travel will be so Increased the road
will ho well satisfied to accept 2 cents a
mile and say no more about it.
KXPA1VSION OF THK CORX CROP.
Increase In Son thern Aereasre a Warn
ing to the West.
Wall Street Journal. t
Our corn crop now covers the largest area
planted In any single farm product In any
one country of which there Is any record,
not even excepting Russia. We have now
under corn less than 2.000,000 acre short of
100,000,000 acres.
The Increase of corn acreage by 1,361,000
acres over last year is confined almost
wholly to the surplus corn states of the
west and to the southern or southwestern
states. Iowa, which stood first last year in
the size of the crop, Inrreaaed her acreage
1 per cent, Nebraska 2 per cent, Missouri 1
per ceht, Kansas 4 per cent and Arkansas 4
per cent. Indian territory extends her acre
age 6 per cent over last year, Oklahoma 20
per cent and Texas 7 per cent. In the older
southern slates Georgia added 2 per cent.
South Carolina 2 per cent, Louisiana i
per cent, while Alabama and Mississippi as
well as Virginia lost ene point In the area
under cultivation.
These percentages show clearly enough
that under more or less unfavorable condl
tlona of starting the crop the chances are
In favor of the states where corn Is a spe
cialty on the One hand and among states
which have the advantage of an earlier
season on the other. t
Nothing could be more gratifying than to
see the south and the southwest put a
larger acreage Into corn. There Is no better
market for corn than the southern states,
where consumption for human food and
animal feeding la Increasing year by year
with the growth In population and the
greater Importance attached to live stock.
Furthermore, the lands of the south are
eminently adapted to a considerable en
largement of acreage In corn without
trenching on ether crops. Finally, the In
crease of corn scresge there wsrns tho
west that It must, prepare Itself for keener
competition In disposing of Its surplus In
southern markets.
NONE BETTER
EST where there
perhaps to use an invidious superlutive. Hut
surely, we may say there is no better clothing
ready to wear than that made by drowning,
King & Co. And, now, when you can buy this
kind of clothing at the big reduction of 20 per
cent, it will pay you to buy a suit it will be
just as good next spring.
We have some broken lines of wash vesta
that are slightly soiled, which we are closing out at $1,50
thebe formerly sold fo- $2.50, $3.00 and $3.50.
From 8 to 9 o'clock Saturday evening we will sell any
of our $1.00 neckties at 50o.
WE CLOSE AT 9 O'CLOCK SATURDAY
Browning, King & Co
R. S. WILCOX, Manager.
BRIXO Cl'BA CI.ORIl.
Railroad Esteasloa Pat lalan
Wlthla Few Hoara Ride.
Chicago Trlbuna,
The skipper who sailed In a fog V'i
Wlnstanley and his men building the fl'
Edilystone lighthouse asked on reaching
port. "What manner of wen are thesi
that build upon the sea?" The fisherman
far out at sea who discovers In the d!stano
a fast express train running over the watei
will be even more surprised If not prepared
hy previous knowledge. Yet this sight wlli
not he an unusual one when the railroad
from Miami to Key West Is completed.
It gives an Idea of the value of th
Cuban trade to consider this expenditure
of millions of dollars simply to bring Ha
vana a littl closer to the United States.
When the railroad Is complrted It Willi b
possible to enter a slerplng car In Chios.1
or New York, be hurried to Key West by
rail, and then, after a ferry ride of four
or five hours, step out of the car at Ha
vana. Seventy-five miles of the railroad to
Key West will bn over embankments or
concreje arches where sheets of water now
extend. Fifty miles more Is through swamps
or over small Islands where before there
was no thoroughfare. The expense of the
undertaking Is so great that It would have
been difficult to secure the sanction of a
board of directors less dominated by one
man than the directors of the Florida EasTl
Coast railway. The returna. however, will!
be amply remunerative.
With Cuba only a few hours distant the
bonds between the lBland and the United
States will tend to grow closer. The dis
tance between Havana and Key West Is
not to be reckoned In miles, but In hours,
and the adoption of turbine st unships
will further reduce this distance. Trans
portation by water 1s In general cheaper
than transportation by rail, but the volumo
of our trade with Cuba has become so
large that tlffie Is money, and the hours
saved will be worth more than the higher
rate charged. For that matter, It Is not
certain that the rate will not be lower.
The avoidance of charges for unloading
and reloading will, If the ferry scheme
proves successful, result In an Important
saving. It la probably true of trade be
tween the United States and Cuba as It Is
of trade between the United States and
Europe, that on certain classes of frelnht
the greater part of the cost Is Incurred In
getting the goods from tho car to the
boat.
The Increasing commercial Intimacy be-V
tween the United States and Cuba may not 1
be represented Immediately by closer polltl-V
cat ties, but the flag Is certain to follow
trade in this case in the due course of time.
SMILUVtJ l.I.VKS.
"That yacht Is flying a flag of distress."
"What does It signal?"
"Wants to know If we have a corkscrew
aboard." Pittsburg Post.
"Gracious!" exclaimed the aweltorlng
tourist. "Is this ihe kind of weather you
have all summer?"
"Certainly not," replied the native, "why,
we have half a dozen different kind! every
day." Indianapolis News.
"Is Mr. Bllgglns a good golf player?"
"No," answered Miss Cheyenne, "I hap
pened to be sufficiently near to hear his
language when he made a bad stroke.
He may bo an expert player, but he Is not
a good one." Washington Star.
"Do you think," said the Mikado to hla
faithful Pooh-Bah, "that the Americana
really can fight?"
"If you ask; me not In view of my mani
fold dignities, but 'as a plain, thinking
man." answered Pooh-Bah, cautiously, "I
must anv it Inrtlra Ilk it tt-in t&'nv th.v vat I
the Spanish navy that sinking feeling." j
Baltimore American.
"Ouchl" complained the
scales In the railroad station.
automVi
"these I at
men will be the ruin of me. That last
one simply put me on the bum."
"Well. ' replied the chewlntr gum ma
chine, "now you can He in weight for tha
next one." Catholic Standard and Times,
"You have no art In your country!" eg
claimed the European superclllouHly.
"Haven't, eh!" answered Mr. t'umrni,
reaching for his check book. "Why for the
last five years we have been buying old
masters faster than you fellows can paint
'cm." Washington Star.
"What are you working up now?" asked
the Inquisitive reader.
"Well," replied the special magazine
writer, "I'm trying to get a line on an un
known hero who deserves something hand
some at President Roosevelt's hands."
"Who Is he?"
"The husband of the Old Woman Who
Lived in a Shoe." Philadelphia Press.
IIE.PEt'KED.
Joe Cone In Judge.
A half a hundred hens one day I
At least the story goes 1
Talked o'er their rights and wrongs, and
then
In hot rebellion rose.
The rooster had been lord of all
A cruel tyrant he.
i They sought to take him down a pes
Or two, or mayb tnree.
One squawk, then at him did they fly
And picked and scratched like mad.
They drove him here and dragged him
there.
And used him very bad.
The wrath of months fell on his head;
The Job was very clean.
He looked as though he'd filtered through
A harvesting machine.
And since that day the world has com
To this conclusion terse:
A henpecked man looks had enough,
A henpecked rooster worso.
HAND
SAPOLIO
FOR TOILET AND BATH
It makes the toilet something to be en.
Joyed. It removes all stains and roughness,
prevents prickly heat and chafing, and
leaves th skin white, soft, healthy. In the
bath it brings a glow and exhilaration which
no common soap ran equal. Imparting the
vigor and life sensation of a mild TuriiaU
tath. All GnocEr and Druogists.
is so much good clothing is