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TIIE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1907 t t , I i t 5. t f, I H H is 1 Ti ie Omaha Daily Bee. lOtTNDED BY HOWARD ROSHTWATBR. VICTOR ROSE WATER, EDITOR. rTntered at Omtht post office as second class matter. Terms or Ri'nsrnjpTioN. rll1r Pa I It ), B,in1aVl nn v-ar 14ftf Dally lien and Sunday, one year . nummr nee. one year I BO Saturday Hf, one year 1.60 t DELIVHRKD BY CARRIER. Dally Ilee (including Sunday), per weak.. Ho I atly He (without Sunday , per we-k..loc Evening Dee (without Sunday), per week c - Evening Bee (with Sunday), per wk..lOc Address all complaints of Irregularities Id delivery to City Cln-ulatlon Department. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha City Hall Building. Council IllufTa 15 flrott Street. Chicago 10W Cnlty Building. New fork lb Home Ufe Insurance Bldg. Washington 601 Fourteenth Street. CORRHSPONDENCE. Comrminlratlona relating to new and edi torial matter should he addreased, Omaba Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express" or postal order payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only 1-cent stamps received In payment of mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchange, not accepted. STATEMENT OP- CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas county, ssl Charles C. Knsewater, general manager -of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and complete cr-rles of The Dally Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of July, 107, u as follows: 1 36,240 IT ,700 S 30,190 II 86,480 I 86,180 1 10 4 36,500 (0 86,680 85,840 tl 38,800 ( 88,40 tl 87,870 7 88,600 23 36,670 36,900 24 86,630 36,910 St 36,430 10 36,340 21 88,400 11........ 86,430 17 86,700 11........ 36,330 28 88,400 U 86,340 2 41,370 14 86,600 SO 36,880 16. 86.780 II 86,890 1 36,660 Total 1,133,330 lyem unsold and returned copies.. 10,338 Net total 1,131,888 Dally average 86,13 CHARLES C. ROSEWATDH, General Manager. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before ma this 1st day of August, 1907. iS'-al; M. B. IlLNQATE, ' Notary Public. 'WHEN OUT OF TOWN. Subscribers leaving the elty teas pnrarlly should have Tha Bee mailed to them. Address will be chanced as often as request Manufacturing 1 flourishing In all lines, except, possibly, the manufac ture of uanlcs. Sympathy will be withheld from the Chicago Joker who wa8 slugged for asking "Wire they striking?" Colonel Watterson declares that party government Is a humbug. The outs usually feel that way about It. Mayor "Jim" has flunked In a broncho-busting bout. That'8 not the only place Mayor' "Jim" has flunked. "Western farmers are ' not ' gam blers," says a New York paper. ' 'But they won their bet against the green bug. Tho telegraph companies and the operators have adopted one political tactic. Both sides are claiming every thing. "Graft exists everywhere," says Senator LaFollette. Graft, like every other evil, exists only where It is tol erated. General Corbln says he would not refuse a nomination for congress. Cer tainly not. General Corbln 18 a native of Ohio. Colouel Bryan has been asking Mr, Taft a lot of questions, but probably is no more satisfied now that he has the answers. No matter what may happen to the telegraph operators, the comlo-opera-tors will begin drawing salary with the opening of the season in Septem ber. Married men are not as enthusiastic over this Invention of a shirt without buttons as they would be over the In vention of a shirtwaist without but tons. The time is about up for the with drawal of candidates filed for the com ing primary. The voters, however, will do some forcible elimination a lit tle later. It is pretty near time for the mem bers of the do-nothing Water board to hold another meeting and vote the law yers and the engineering experts some more money. . Secretary Taft admits that he gained weight while In Canada. There would be nothing to this presidential race If Mr, Taft could gain speed as easily as be gains weight. After a tour of the world, Colonel Bryan made'a speech in favor of gov ernment ownership. Secretary Taft has made his address on the subject before he started. According to John Sharp Williams, the 20,000 populists in Mississippi all voted against him. It la a little unus ual to And a democrat complaining against the populists. Four national banks are doing busi ness in South Omaha and only five in Omaha. Either South Omaha must be above par or Omaha below par on the bankers' bulletin board. Secretary Taft is going ' to Yellow stone park for a rest, but may, of course, do a little work in tha Iff saving line if any pretty waitress hap pens to fall into the lake while be is la Um vicluity.t secret nr TArr$ pla ttorm. ' The address of Secretary Taft to the Buckeye Republican club of Columbus will be accepted, as it wai designed, as a keynote utterance, outlining the plat form upon which he will ask for the republican nomination for the presi dency. Easily the busiest roan in Presi dent Roosevelt' official family, eliarged with the administration of the War department, the Panama canal con struction, the development of the plan of government of the Philippines, sponsor for the administration's po sition in Cuba and avowedly the spokesman of the president on a num ber of absorbing Issues, Secretary Taft has refrained from confusing his per sonal and political ambitions with af fairs of the government. In his tour of the country, in various capacities, he has declined to discuss hla candidacy for the presidential nomination, re ferring all questioners to bis speech scheduled for delivery at Columbus. This address, therefore, gives us the political views of William Howard Taft as presidential aspirant, rather than of Mr. Taft, a member of the president's cabinet. The distinguishing feature of Mr. Taft's Columbus deliverance Is direct ness. Ponderoue in speech, as In per son, he Is more direct even than the president In defining his attitude on Usues demanding the attention and thought of tho people. He unhesitat ingly adopts the "Roosevelt policies" of administration and makes very clear, so that none may misunderstand or misconstrue, what his policy will be If commissioned to carry those policies to consummation. From no other source has the achievements of the Roosevelt administration been so ad mirably and forcibly reviewed and emphasized. Mr. Taft has analyzed every step taken by the present ad ministration to ascertain the evils from which the public has suffered and to correct them, by congressional legis lation and by legal proceedings in the courts. He indorses every movement made In these directions and urges further legislation and legal action looking to the final eradication of re bates, discriminations, trust extortions and unlawful methods by which com binations have fattened at the expense of the people. Colonel Bryan has for some time been nurllng Interrogations at Mr. Taft relative to the latter's position on public, questions. The answer Is direct and specific. Mr. Taft exposes the fallacy of Colonel Bryan's attitude on government ownership, railway rate regulation, trust suppression, Initiative and referendum and other questions which the democratic leader has put forward as Important or paramount. Neither Colonel Bryan, his democratlo supporters nor the general public can longer profess to doubt where Mr. Taft stands on the Issues of the hour, Mr. Taft is the one republican prom inent in the public eye who has made his position on the tariff plain and clear. While declaring himself a sin cere believer in the efficacy of the pro tective system, he avows unequivocally his belief that the time has come for revising existing tariff schedules to the point that the duty on imported arti cles should not exceed materially the difference of cost of production in this country and abroad. He1 expressly de clares that the next national conven tion of the republican party ebould Pledge revision of the tariff to be undertaken as soon as possible after the presidential election. With Secretary Taft so squarely on record on the vital points involved, the other candidates for presidential preferment will have to come ouj in the open and be equally frank In tell ing Just where they stand or suffer the consequences of suspicion that always attaches to reticence and evasion. THB PUPS FULVRK. Wall street is making a determined effort to attribute the falluro of the Pope Manufacturing company to tight ness of , the money market, due to alarm over the attitude of the federal administration ' toward - corporations. Investigation, however, shows the Pope failure bears no relation whatever o the "panic" on change. Cause for the appointment of a receiver for the con cern is found in the reports of the officials on the assets and liabilities of the corporation. The .Pope people have simply paid the penalty or overcapitalization. Their company was capitalized for $22,500, 000. of which $2,390,976 was of first preferred stock, with a guaranteed 6 per cent cumulative dividend, and 18,633,100 of second preferred stock with a 5 per cent cumulative dividend, and the balance in common stock. The net earnings were 150,003 in 1904, $23,859 in 1905 and $23,860 in 1906. The remarkable Industrial develop ment of the country in the last few years has opened a field for capital at highly profitable interest rates and the result has been that overcapital ized concerns like the Pope Manufac turing company have been unable to secure money, the margin of proilt not bolng attractive. The company failed to make adequate provision for work ing capital, but had trusted to financ ing a season's business through ban's: loans. The vicious "cumulative divi dend" proviso, which makes one year's unpaid dividends a charge against the future business of the company also contributed toward embarrassment when it was necessary to aak a new loan. If tha reports of the officials showing assets about eight time as largo as liabilities prove correct the financial embarrassment which has caused the appointment of a receiver need not be more than temporary. The trouble only exposes and emphasises another error in the methods of Industrial man agement employed by some of the captains of high finance. Jilt RAIL WAT COMMISSIOSKRSIUP. Republicans of Nebraska will at the coming state-wide primary nominate a candidate for railway commissioner to fill out the unexpired term to which Robert Cowell was elected last year. While three candidates have filed their names as aspirants to this position, a tacit obligation exists to renominate Henry T. Clarke, Jr., who was ap pointed ad interim to the place by Governor Sheldon at the time Mr. Cowell retired. Mr. Clarke received this special con sideration at the hands of the governor In recognition of the record he had made at two sessions of the legisla ture, and particularly of hla energetic efforts along with other party leaders to make sure that every platform pledge upon which the republicans had been elected should be redeemed in spirit as well as In letter. Since his appointment by Governor Sheldon Mr. Clarke has been laboring faithfully as a member of the commis sion, bearing his full share of the on erous and responsible work devolving upon him and his associates. This work has been only begun, but the ex perience he has already acquired au not fall to be of advantage to the pub lic as against any new man who would have to start at tha beginning. Under these circumstances, with no objection being raised against Mr. Clarke on the score of ability or fidel ity, It would certainly not be compli mentary to Governor Sheldon for re publicans to refuse a nomination to the man whom he had appointed. Mr, Clarke ought to have had his nomination without even competition, but inaamueh as he must win out over rival candidates he should have a good, big vote as a mark of approval by the people of Governor Sheldon's selection and as an endorsement of the redemption of last year's platform pledges. nwixa A FBKB WORSB. The Bee has several times passed comment on the unreasonable demands for free advertising which are con stantly being made on every newspa per. The same Idea finds striking re enforcement In the following expres sion from the Beatrice Times: People who are not familiar with news paper offices can have no conception ot the extent or this begging. The beggars rep resent different enterprises some purely business, as advertising agents asking for the Insertion, free of charge, of complimen tary notices of the schemes of their pa tronsi some religious, as a request to boost the work of some denomination In a cer tain quarter; some educational, as asking for a wrlteup of the contemplated location or change In location of a college or uni versity; some 'of quasl-publls Interest; some of purely private concern. And there are others. Some newspapermen bite at a lot Of this begging. Otherwise, Its supply would cease -or decline In volume. ' There are certain things in the town and county where a newspaper Is published that must be noticed without pay, Within certain bounds this is right. But this horde of foreign beggars should be knocked out. Newspapers must do the knocking If it Is ever done. The worthy, newspaper, Instead of being a free packhorse, Is a moulder of public opinion, a monitor, a guide; and one of Its very next acts should be to guide the professional beggars to a realising sense of the beggars' utter littleness. What is true of the papers in the small towns Is true In accentuated de gree of the bigger papers in the larger town's. But the expectation that this abuse can be corrected by educating the people up to a better conception of the function of a. newspaper is hardly Justified, The newspapers, big and little, will have to protect themselves only by turning down each unjustifia ble demand for a free ride as it is made. It is figured that the encampment of the Nebraska National Guard cost something over $2,000 ar day, which for the week will amount to more than $12,000. This is the cost to the Btate irrespective of what the guards men and visiting friends may have spent. As a business proposition the location of the encampment ought to be worth going after, yet Omaha let it go by default this time when it could have been had for the asking. The St. Gaudens designs for the new gold coins may not be accepted because the projection upon the coin is a bag relief which would prevent the coins from being stacked in a pile. The American people will not want to be bothered with gold coins that can not be stacked up as evenly and easily as Joker chips. The amlabie democratic World Herald continues to sound the praises of all the fusion candidates for the supreme Judgeship nomination, bot refuses point blank to say which should have the preference. And the democratic editor-congressman enjoy ing himself In Paris 4,000 miles away. Douglas county republicans seem to have missed the chance of a lifetime In not having a candidate for supreme judge this year. There is no telling when the state will be again in a mood to concede this office to this county. One ot the St, Louis boodlers, hav ing served his term in the penitentiary, la now on the vaudeville stage. He ought to let bygones be bygones in stead of seeking such means of re venging himself on the public. ' According to the report of the In ternational. Society of State and Mu nicipal Building, commissioners, nine tenths of the fires in the United States are preventable. This means that the fire loss in the nation would be about $20,000,000 annually instead of $200, 000,000, f proper precautions were observed In building methods and in fire preventives. Such an addition to the wealth of the nation would be worth while, if the people were not too busy to think of It and make it possible. The Department of Agriculture has Just ordered printed another edition of 2 60,000 copies of "Special Diseases of the Horse." Who was it said the automobile was going to put the horse out of business? The Department of Justice will not proceed against the Coffin trust until other trust cases have been disposed of. The Coffin trust is naturally the last thing a man should worry about. Some strikers are entitled to sym pathy and somt are not. It depends entirely upon the merits of what they are striking fpr and the methods em ployed to enforce their dmands. It is officially announced that the railroads will fight the reduction on grain rates proposed by the Nebraska Railway commission. The announce ment Is entirely superfluous. Inquiring Reader: No, we can't tell you why It should be necessary to have Farnam street torn up for four blocks before the contractor begins to lay the new pavement. Merely a Thought. St. Louis Republic. . ' Mrs. Eddy seems to be demonstrating enough "mortal mind" to put Increasing difficulties In the way of those who are trying to get her mortal money. Seasonable SuKsreatlon. Minneapolis Journal. While the strike Is on and the telegraph subject la under discussion we may be pardoned for suggesting that telegraph tolls In the United States are too high. One Blmlis of Assimilation. New Tork Tribune. American administration has brought to the Philippines one blessing whloh even the most peevish crltlo will And It hard to regret. Never before have the Inhabitants been so free from eptdamlo diseases as they are now. Too Mil oh Luxury, Wall Street Journal. The first Important failure of the season Is that of a conoern manufacturing the most expensive luxury known to man. Luxuries are largely responsible for the lack of the present investment power. It Is not surprising that they are the first to feel the effect of the strain In tha money market Golden Anniversary of the Cable, New York Tribune. Just fifty years ago, August 5, 1S67, tho laying of the first Atlantic cable was started at Valentla, Ireland, The project was conceived in 1853, but It was not until four years later that the work was begun. The original projectors Were Americans, In cluding Prof. 8. P. B. Morse, Peter Cooper, Cyrus W. Field. Moses Taylor and others. The vessels employed to lay the cable were the Niagara and the Susquehanna of the United States navy and the British vessels Leopr.rd and Agamemnon. After sailing a few miles the cable snapped.' This was soon repaired, but on August 11, after 600 miles of wire had been cut, It snapped again, and the vessels returned to Ply mouth. In June of the following year a second attempt failed through a violent storm. The third voyage was successful. Junction of the continents was completed by 2,050 miles of wire from Ireland to New foundland on August 6, 1861. PERSONAL NOTES. Again the Irony of fate. A steeple Jack who for many years has hazarded hla life climbing steeples and flagpoles, fell a dis tance of six feet the other day and died from the effects of the fall. General William Birney, who served with honor during the civil war, has Just died at Forest Glen, Md. lie was a native of Alabama, and was a scholar, author, editor and teacher, as well as a soldier, Hon. Ezra Rust, a millionaire lumber man and philanthropist, has offered to do nate $60,000 to the city of Saginaw. Mich., for the boautlflcatlon of Rust Island park. He presented the park , to the city two years ago. A delegation of French scientists and en gineers, headed by Arthur Malllet, who translated Into French the works of An drew Carnegie, have arrived In America to learn something of tha Workings of the steel Industry. Leslie M. Shaw, former secretary of the treasury, Is busily engaged In Washing, ton, with his son, Earl, and a corps of stenographers, In preparing a literary "something," of Just what character even his closo friends are unable to say. Edward M. Morgan, who has been ap pointed postmaster of New York, started thirty-four years ago as a temporary let ter carrier In the postofflce. He Is the first postmaster In the history of the New York office who has worked his way up from the bottom and filled successively every place In the local service. Cleveland points with pride to Its free dom from "mad dog" scares this summer, due to the fact, stated by a correspondent, that Cleveland Is not bothered by pounds or the dogs pestered by dogcatchers or muzzles. A dog tax Is exacted, but there is no d;ath penalty for non-payment. Lost dogs are cared for by the Humane society and homes secured for them. In case a person, is bitten the Board of Health pro vides serum and treatment free. Kansas Is. perhaps the only state In the unlun that can boast oft a cltlsen who declined a seat In the United States senate and thrust aside a nomination for governor that would have been the equivalent of election. This extraordinary man Is the Hon. Foster Dwlglit Cobura. secretary of the State Board of Agriculture. For years his sole ambition has been the booming of the sunflower state, and he did espe cially guod work In this line during tue World's fair at St. Louis. The report that Bill Quantrlll, the no torious guerrilla of the civil war, was still In the land of the living, was taken seriously by many war veterans and called out emphatic contradictions. In a bock entitled "Civil War Sketches." published by the Nebraska Commandery of the Loyal Legion In 1902, Captain H. E- Palmer of Omaha asserts that Quantrlll died In Louis ville. Ky., In February, U66. subsequently continuing the statement of 8. H. Morrison In his letter of the 12th Inst, published In The Bee. Captain Palmar, as an officer of the Eleventh Kansas Cavalry, put In many a strenuous day chasing the Quan trlll band, and had every reason for keep ing flrmly in mlad the time and the olr cumsuncee of U bioo&x raider's death. ROUND ABOt'T NEW YORK. Ripples on the Current of Life In the Metropolis. The laborers who have been building the Bvlmont tunnel under East river at New York, and who have been designated "sand hogs" by flippant writers, were given a banquet the other day In honor of the complrtlon of the Job and the making of world's record. The banquet was held In the engineer's shack over a shaft at tha New York end of the tunnel. The guests did not wear "blled shirts," Just common wmrklng shirts, and the speeches wcro equally plain and sleeveless. Here Is sample: "Gentlemen and sand hogs," said the superintendent of shaft No. 2, "I nlvlr made a speech In me life, but I have had the bends. I nlver saw the Job or the man I was afraid of. We stacked up agin a hard Job In this tunnel. We got away with It. We got the world's record what more do ye wantT" Apropos of the approaching demolition of New York's Chinatown, It is Interesting to know that the first Chinaman to take uv his abode In New York, whose name Is writ at all large In local annals, has ar rived In a sailing ship from around the Horn about fifteen years previous to the ad vent of the tea store In Mott street, and his Career had not been one to preposies the citizens or the police In favor of his fellow countrymen. "He wss Qulmbo Appo," says Frank Marshall White, In Harper's Weekly, "a man of exceptional Intelligence, but a fiend when drunk which waa most of the time that he was out of prison. Hq married a white wife and killed her, saving - hla neck by a plea of self defense, but being sentenced to ten years' Imprisonment. Being, as has been said, an Intelligent man, Appo became a convert to Christianity In the Tombs, and his con verters secured his pardon after he hnd served only a year or two of his sentence. He married attain, another white woman: attempted to kill her, and served a sentence of one year. On his release he murdered a Pole, and was sent to prison for five years; and, completing his sentence, was convicted of manslaughter for killing another white woman and given a seven years' term, but died Insane before It was completed. Appo bequeathed to the state one son, a con genital criminal, who spent most of his life In prison, and finally died In an Insane asylum, like his father." The sight of several large cats rolling around on the sidewalk In an ecstaoy of Joy at Sixth avenue and Twenty-sixth street the other night drew a crowd In a few minutes. When there must have been more than 600 persons trying to .patch a look at tha cats a quiet looking old man who had been standing unobserved in a nearby doorway stepped out carrying a bag, and, facing the crowd, began; "Ladles and gentlemen, I have here for sale a whole bag of catnip, and for 10 cents will sell you enough to make your cat happy for life. You see how these cuts enjoy It. Well, yours ' will do the same. These cats don't belong to me, but smelt the catnip and are having the time of their lives. You will have to hurry, as In fifteen minutes more I will have all the cats In the neighborhood around here." In a few minutes he had sold his entire stock and hurried out of the crowd and disappeared. A remarkable engineering feat in under way on Sixth avenue, between Twelfth and Thirty-third streets, where the McAdoo tunnel swings up town. In order to bore to the avenue It was necessary to practically suspend In the air the elevated railway, tha surface railway, the street Itself and Its many gas, sewer, water and other mains. The elevated road, bereft of Its former masonry props, has been lifted up bodily by means of huge double steel girders clamped to Its pillars, while the street, sur face railways and mains have been shored tip by wooden beams, erected simultaneously with the progress of the bore. Also at the same time a new sewerage system Is being built and gas and water mains temporarily displaced, awaiting the completion of the tunnel. "Make me up a package of tobaoeo ac cording to the formula used by Edwin Booth," said the man with the southern accent. "That is the third man who has asked for that kind of tobacco today," said the dealer, quoted by the Sun. "It Is strange that people from remote parts of the coun try as well as New Yorkers make a fad ot buying the same brand of tobaooo that Booth smoked. And It Isn't always the Booth mixture that they want. I have filed away formulas for mixing the fav orite tobacco of many famous persons. Smokers the country over have heard of this collection of recipes and one feature of every man's trip to New York Is to try a pipeful of some big man's favorite to bacco. In most cases the special mlxturo Is so strong that the nerves of the average smoker cannot stand It. He has to give up after a few plpefuls and go back to a popular mixture, but he has the satisfaction of having had the experience." A New York curio collector reports ad unprecedented demand for false teeth. "It Is the teeth of famous personages deceased that are wanted," he said. "I don't know for sure what started the boom In artificial teeth. Ever since I have been In this business I have had occasional re quests from eccentric patrons for a set of somebody's teeth, but In the last few months Inquiries have simply poured In concerning the teeth of" men prominent In the last century. I am Inclined to think that this craze for teeth has been stimu lated by the report that Washington's ftoJse teoth had been stolen out of a mu seum In Baltimore." . The outside pf a store In Broadway Just below Twenty-third street has lately been painted with what looks like dark tinted gold paint; this front presents an appear ance such as it would have If It had been covered with gold leaf and then lacquered, the effnet being striking and attractive, In Broadway above Twenty-third street there Is now a store front painted blue, and a little further along on the great thorough fare below Thirty-fourth street Is a hotel well known In the city to which j alntrrs are now applying a coat of green. It Is easy to Imagine Broadway with all its buildings painted in varied high colors a cross section rainbow. The matron of a New York home for Im migrant girls discovered that one young woman who had spent eight nights In the Institution was not In reality a newcomer, but had had several Jobs In New York. "Why did you come here and try to pass yourself off as an inexperienced girlT" "So I'd get better treatment from my next employer," said the maid. "Onsen girls oi all nationalities are humored much mure than girls who are supposed to be used to New York ways. They don't have to work so hard, because the mistress ef the house. In breaking them In, does half the work herself." waii Stroet BlaCJs Failure. Indianapolis News. But It does seem as if Wall street ought to have learned from the failure of thi former made-to-order panics that It couldn't make such bluffs go In this day of skeptic lam. Hit Leaks la the Tanks. Cleveland Leader. The market value of Standard Oil stock has fallen nearly MOO.OOP. JOO below the high est record ever made. That sounds terrific, but there's over tun&fiJM Wf An Increase of over 25 in To Policy Holders Tk. Mutual Life Insurance Company has paid more in dividends to policy holders other company in the world. Since orCanizition turned in dividend! over $ 118,000,000. As a rei inr.rma.mA r-aminM snd decreased expenses t' dividends to policy holders 1905, will be 25 to 30 The Mutual Life Insurance Company r feels sure its policy-holders will be pleased with this great re duction in cost. The news may be doubly welcome now when increased cost in other lines seems everywhere the order of the day. If you have others for whose continued care you are concerned, you should learn for yourself how and how cheaply it staunchest life insurance The Time to For the new forms The Mutual Life ef New Or STANHOrE FLEMING, Manager, First National Bank Bldg., Corner 13th and Farnam Street, Omaha, yea. FOR UNIVERSITY REGEXTS. Nebraska Farmer: George Coupland an nounces his candidacy for regent of the Btate university under most auspicious cir cumstances. Those who know him best are his vouchers. Loup City Northwestern: If Charles D. Anderson Is elected regent, as he certainly will be, he will be found to be broad enough to reach over the entire state and honest and brave enough to do right at all times. Dakota County Record: Charles B. An derson of Crete Is a candidate for the re publican nomination for regent ot the State university, and it Is doubtful If a better selection could be made In the state for the office. Lincoln News: When a man like C. B. Anderson of Crete allows himself to be drafted as a candidate for public office, the voters, taxpayers and friends of educa tion in Nebraska cannot afford to let the opportunity for securing his services pass. Crete Democrat: Our townsman, C. B. Anderson, Is a candidate for nomination for regent of the university. If elected Mr. Anderson will bring to the board a wide experience in business lines, an en ergy which when applied to the manage ment of the financial affairs of the uni versity will have weight in the right di rection. Nellgh Leader: The announcement that George Coupland of this county will be a candidate for the republican nomination of regent of the State university has been, graciously received by a very large proportion of the strong and Influential papers of the state and Is not confined to this portion of 'Nebraska, but is pronounced as' Well : in the more southern portions of the state. Grand Island Independent: Hon. Charles B. Anderson of Crete, an ex-senator, one of the first republicans of Nebraska to ad vocate the present progressive policies of the party and a closo associate of Governor Sheldon, is a candidate for university re gent. Every republican in the county, be llevlnpr In the Roosevelt policies and the Dollcles which have been In vogue during the last State legislative assembly should vote for Mr. Anderson at the primaries. Ord Quiz: The consent f C. B. Anderson of Crete to stand on the republican ticket for the payless but very Important posi tion of regent of the State university is a thing that the public may congratulate Itself over. AMERICAN TRIALS. Contrasts Between Criminal Pro cedure Here and Abroad.) , Portland Oregonlan. A number of recent notable trials In Eng land and Germany call attention to the contrast between criminal procedure here and in some foreign countries. For one thing, they seem to, be able to get a Jury with a good deal less expenditure of time and trouble than it costs us. An English Jury was secured In two minutes In a case of the sort where our courts spend weeks or months over the business. All parties were satisfied and there is no complaint that Justice was not done. We have carried the privilege of chal lenging Jurors to an absurd extreme. As practiced. It benefits nobody, dt grades the Jury system and perverts Justice. Ameri can practice also belittles the Judge too much. In some states he Is not permitted to comment on the evidence or expound the law to the Jury. He Is reduced to an umpire, whose sole duty Is to settle dis putes between the lawyers. In Englsnd the Judge may examine the accused in open court, asking any questions which he Many newspapers copy matter from Everybody's Magazine and give credit. This is as it should oe and we like it Many more copy our special articles, which we have spent good time and money to obtain,' and modestly credit them to "a certain" magazine that is, they use our brains as a filler for their columns at no cost to themselves, and when it comes to mentioning where they got it, they suddenly become shy ThU gives um a $harp pain ' To these one-sided admirers we wish to say that "a certain" important article in the September Number, by "a certain" important personage, has been pro tected by every means known to us. Those whose custom it is to give credit are invited to help them selves, the others are anxiously warned to LOOK OUT FOR THE ENGINE Wfi EN Ttf E BElLR tfG Dividends New York anjr i re- fly ual thu year, on policies issued more thin in 1906, in can be guaranteed oy tna company in the world. Act is NOW. of policies write to Insurance Company York. N. Y. thinks will elicit the truth. Here there la the same kind of an examination, but It Is made by the police, sometimes with great brutality, in a secret dungoon. Whloh Id fairer to the prisoner? The English prosecuting officer acknowl edges a duty both to the state and the prisoner. He Is as eager to free an inno cent man as to convict the guilty. He id esteemed for his fairness and love of Jua tlce and the whole purpose of the trial la to establish the truth. Here the prose cuting officer cares only to convict and the defense only to acquit, both equally re gardless of Justice and the public welfare. The trial degenerates into a duel between the lawyers and the merit of the case re calves but slight attention, It In commonly said by our thoughtful writers on Jurisprudence that we sacrlfloe the public to the prisoner In our courts. The fact seems rather to be that we sao rlfle both the public and the prisoner to the lawyers. MEItHY JINGLES. "Yea." said the fussy citizen.' "I have Just ordered a patent coal bin. It looks to me like a good thing. What do you put your coal in?" "The furnace," the other man sadly re plied. Cleveland Plain Dealer, "Gee, wllllklnst" exclaimed Farmer Kqrn top, after listening to the story, "he must be a regular dead beat." "Huh!" snorted the victim, "he's a blame sight worsu'n that. He's a live one,"- I'iiiladelpUia Jfress. Customer Have you any tartar emetic Druggist's Boy (rummaging through the shelves) No, sir, but we've got something Just as bud. Chicago Tribune, "He doesn't seem to have any business sense." ' v'iNo, He'd try to sell safety razors at negro dance." Chicago Record-Herald. Mrs. Goodheart So you won't chop the wood? The Hobo No, lady. I'm a kleptomaniac I'm afraid I might steal some of it. Har per's Weekly. "Mankind," moralized Unole Allen Sparks. "Is made up of good men, fair to medium men, plain sinners, desrate sl-ners, aban doned criminals, and the man who sits op. poslte you at a restaurant table iuid coughs at you," Chicago Tribune. "His wife writes from a summer resort that she has seen the great sea serpent, "That's nothing. Kver since she and her mother left he has been seeing twenty snakes to their one." Atlanta Constitution. THE WAN WITH THE CHIP. Baltimore American. He always had something to grumble about, Had this man with a chip on hla about dcr; . . The world to the dogs was going, no dmrht. To the mail with a chip on his shoulder. Nobodv was honest, nobody was square. He found traits to "do" hlra were laid everywhere; Nobodv he met with would deal with hint fair, Thought the man with the chip on W shoulder. He looked out for trouble as farmers) to rain. The man with the chip on his shoulder! He searched every pleasure to find bidden pain, : The man with a chip on hla shoaMer. The clouds were too dark or the sun was) too bright, No matter what happened, it never was right; . When peace was prevailing he spoiled farm fight. The man with a chin on his shoulden, The deed might be right, but he thougtz motive wrong. The man with a chip on his shoulder; He was sure right and honor were bought for a song. The man with a chip on his shoulder. He thinks he's the champion mankind moat needs. That the world Is dependent on him an4 his deeds; But he' ti") worst pest that sooietg breds Thu man with a chip on his shoulden - y V, I 1 '