c THE OMAHA DAILY DEE: WEDNESDAY. OCTOHEK 9, 1007. The Omaha Daily Bee, FOUNDED BT EDWARD ROSE WATER. VICTOR R08EWATER, EDITOR. Entered at Omaha Postofflc M second claaa matttr. TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION. Dally nm (without Bundav), one year.. $4 00 I'ailv Bee and un4ny, one year f "0 Sunday Bee. one rear 1M Saturday Be, one year 1W ! DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Dally Bee (tnrludlnc Sunday), per week..l&e I 'ally Bee (without Sunday), per wek..ire Kvenlng Bee (without Hunday), per week be Evening He (with Sunday), per week...l0o , Addrea all complaint of Irregularities In iellvery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. . Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha City Hall Building. Cnui.cll Bluff H Scott Street. Chicago 1M0 Unity Building. New Tork-lSO. Home Lilt Insurance Bid. ashlngton tOl Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to newa and edi torial matter ahould be addressed, Omaha Be. Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only J-cent stamps received In payment of mall account. Personal checks, except Mi Omaha or eastern exchange, not accepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska. Douglas county, : Charles C. Roswaler, general manager of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly aworn, says that the actual number pf full and complete copies of Tha Dally , Miming, Evening and Sunday pee printed iKrrlng tha month of September, 107. wii as follows: t .. M.700 Is S,680 I M.A40 IT S,S0 I., 3300 II 8,0 i.i SS.SB0 II M.S09 .. 94,360 SO .. H S6.940 I1......Y... ,T0 ....., o, 90,HW 21...... 38,800 21 I 88,14,. J4 it 38,830 it....... 7 ..... , ,o ' 34,940 21 38,830 , . 7,S80 , . . 38,830 38,630 38,380 11 38,470 21.......... 36,130 12.......:.. 38,970 2T .. 38,000 II 3e,OS0 21 38,880 14... 36,810 ! 33,800 it .... . . . .'. ; as,4O0 ' to . . two Total 1,03,4T0 Less unsold and returned copies. . 8.837 r Net. total V. . . V. ... . . . 1.083,889 Pally average ..i. 88,118 . CHARLES C. ROSEWATER. . ! .General Manager. . Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me. thla 10th day of Septem ber, 1 01. . loeal) , M. B. HUNOATE, ' , Notary Public WHEN OUT OF TOWN. abecrtbers leafing- the city tint : norarlly shoal have Tho Baa mallea to thoaa. Address will b changed as often, ae re.nesea. Alaska appears to be 'the favorite place to put Nebraska politicians In cold storage."-'" Lincoln is agitating for "Owl cars" to run all night. ' We thought the lid -tyas on at Lincoln. , The corn exposition In Chicago Is designed to prove that it pays to raise more corn and less earn. ' A London medical journal insists that the prettiest girls are the stupid est. They can afford to be. ' "A wifo should take a deep Interest &-lc her husband's affairs," says a .wornan't r pg -w-rttar. - As if the didn't. It is announced that the sultan of Moron!) has been' compelled, to pawn the royal Jewelry. '..The sultan has one hundred wives. , The temperance advocates will prob ably make the most of the report that the president Is, going through the south, "loaded for bear." "Nine marriages out of ten are un happy," says Lillian Russell, who is entitled to the respect due to the per son speaking from experience. "Look aloft, but keep an eye on your earthly path," says the Baltimore American. Tee, try it and see how quickly you will become cross-eyed. W. E. Corey denies the report that he Js is going to resign the presidency of the Steel trust. Why should he? It pays well and apparently takes 'but little of his time, . . "Taft Is In the lead," says the Bos toil Transcript.. Yes, and even . If he does not run very fast ha fills the road so it will be difficult for any other runner to get by. him. :' "Make Kansas City a good place to lU'O" has-been adopted as the slogan of the commercial club of that' city. Still, little good comes of aUenipta to accomplish tho Impossible. , The Canadian manufacturers want a tariff wall so high that the Yankees ran not, climb over it. It would be built but for the fact that the Canadian consumers think differently about it. 1 The New York Herald says that It the price of food products keeps on go ing up the "dollar dinners" of Democ racy will-consist of soup and nuts. Not much. ' The democrats have bad too much soup. . Bishop Moore says that Methodist ministers should' wear well-tailored clothes and collars that fit. The col lar part may be arranged, but the average Methodist minister hesitates. it his present salary, to go into debt to the tailors. Nine of the twenty-one candidates Dominated for city offices In Cincinnati have resigned because the convention was run In an "autocratic" manner by the- democratic . bosses. Incidentally none of the nine had a ghost of a Aanct) of election. Dr. Pollls of Germany Is la this country to study the Weather bureau ; system. That is a sample of wasted effort.. Under our form of govern went the American weather Is fully protected from competition with the oauper weather of Europe. ItOS PARTIS AS SHIP BUXCOMBK. It Is plain that the campaign for the fusion nominee for supreme Judge Is to be urged on a plea for nonpartlsan shlp on the supreme bench. Judge Loom Is, himself, gave the rue for this In his speech to the democratic state convention, when he said: 1 believe that public confidence In the court of any state la strengthened by the fact -that the Judge of that court are not alt of the same political party. ' Following this tip, the democratic World-Herald, after attacking Judge Reese as the republican nominee, de clares: Added to thla Is tha argument for a non partisan Judiciary; In other worda, a Judi ciary In which both parties have representa tion. What buncombe this sudden conver sion of hide-bound democrats to the principle of nonpartlsanshlp Is may be more readily understood by reviewing a little recent history In .Nebfciska politics. 'The demo-pop fuslonlsts first secured a place on the supreme bench in 1897, when they secured one of the three judgeships by the election of Judge Sullivan over Judge Post. Two years later they captured a sec ond place by the election of Judge Holcomb over Judge Reese. With the court thus consisting of two fuslonlsts and one republican, the nonpartlsan shlp Idea would have required that the third place continue to be occupied by a republican judge. When the time came, however,, to choose another Supreme Judge in 1901 the nonpartlsanshlp of the democrats and populists was strikingly noticeable by its absence. The republicans nom inated Judge Sedgwick, who at that time was serving as a member of the supreme court commission, to which he had been appointed by the unani mous aBgent of the entire supreme bench, including the two fusion Judges. His judicial qualiflcatlohs.were not at Issue and the argument for a nonpar tisan Judiciary,' "in other words,, a Ju diciary In which both parties have a epresentatlon," demanded his unani mous election to the place about to be vacated by the retiring republican Judge. But did the fuslonlsts rise above partisanship and 'endorse the candidacy, of Judge Sedgwick in order to keep the court from becoming wholly partisan? "Not at all. They immediately put their party labels on Judge Hollenbeck, a dyed-in-the-wool democrat, as the fusion nominee for supreme judge and fought just as hard to exclude the republicans from any representation on the supreme bench as they are fighting now to smuggle in another democrat. 1 This record fully exposes the hollow- ness of demo-pop nonpartlsanshlp. When the bench is occupied by repub licans the demo-pop spokesmen beg the people not to allow the court to be made up of Judges all from the same party. But when there ls; a prospect of filling the whole bench with fuslon ista. nonDartlsanshlo is thrown to the winds and . the- Jjartj ikes' "are strictly arawn. 11 tub soutrt akj"tbb Jrsoao. While the charge of Senator Till man that the "ignoramusses up north" do not know anything about 'the real merits of the race problem In the south may nave a sugnt foundation; even a northern "ignoramus" may understand some things and draw reasonably Intel ligent conclusions when facts are of fered so they can not be misunder stood. ' Two Instances of the southern method of dealing with the negro ques tion are at hand. The New Orleans Picayune publishes the official resolu tions adopted by the democratic state central committee of Louisiana,, from which . these significant excerpts are taken: Whereas, The forthcoming primary elec tion to select a candidate for governor and other state offices to compose the demo cratic ticket, is distinctly a whit demo cratic primary election; and. Whereas, It la the purpose and spirit of tha primary election law (Act No. 49 of 1906) that only white democrats should vote and participate in said election. The resolution then goes on to de fine the methods for conducting the primary election. The Louisiana dem ocrata are not bashful about making their position clear on the negro ques tlon. In most southern states the ne groes have been deprived of the fran chlse by means of certain state consti tutional amendments or legislative en actments providing tests with which the negroes cannot comply. In most of the states, however, the laws stlp ulate certain educational or property qualifications, under which some few negroes may vote. The Louisiana dem orrats, however, have put the "No negro need apply" sign up in plain sight. Their action is a conclusive an swer to all claims advanced by the TiUmans that the negro Is not deprived of his political rights In the south merely because of his color. The second illustration Is furnished by the Atlanta Journal, through whose advertising columns - J. F. Monk of Mountrle, Ga., offers a reward of 25 for the return to him of two negroes, Jim Williams and Frank Stafford by name. Pictures of the negroes are printed in the advertisement, with a minute description of their physical de fects and peculiarities. Williams is described as a "short, chunky build and walks a little stove up," while Stafford la branded as being "pigeon toed, but very pleasing looking." Mr Monk failed to furnish any reason for offering !6 for the return of the ne groes. He does not appear to be a sheriff or other official, but the adver tlsement leaves the Inference that he looks upon the negroes as his personal property and has advertised for them as he would for estrsy cattle. The offer reads like the old "For Sale" ad vertlsements of ante-bellum days when negroes were sold on the auction blocks to the highest bidders. Ex posures have been made recently of the "slave camps" In the lumber regions of Georgia and other southern states, and a suspicion attaches that the claim of the advertiser against the negroes Is based on one of those mysterious con tracts by which negro prisoners are farmed out to contractors on terms that make them practically slaves. The south may persist in dealing in its own way with the negro problem, but it should cease complaining be cause its way elicits no applause from the. north. SHOBT CROPS AKD PRICES. Measurements have succeeded esti mates in the ' matter of the national wheat crop and reasonably accurate figures are now possible as to the value of the year's yield. It now appears that the year's harvest is of more con cern to the deficiency nations than the surplus countries have been accus tomed to meet with in many years. The public has become so imbued with the thought of bumper crops as a sure sign of prosperity that a short crop suggests the reverse, but such is not necessarily the case.. The price is more important than the volume, and all In dications are that the yield of the pres ent year will return more to the Amer ican grower in dollars and cents than did the crops of some bumper years. Under normal agricultural condi tions in this country, importers have had the benefit of a pressing surplus. American growers have been compelled to sell their wheat at prices fixed ac cording to foreign demand, but the world's shortage of wheat this year gives the seller the advantage in the international markets. Reports show the production of wheat in Australia, Argentina, India and in nearly all of the foreign countries to be less than It has been for years, with the result that the bidding for America's surplus, available for export, will be keen and spirited. Wheat, as well as other farm products, at present prices will bring the farmers a financial return that will more than offset any deficiency in the yield. SENATOR BORAH'S CHAROSS Senator Borah of Idaho, acquitted recently by a Jury of a charge of con spiracy to defraud the government of public lands, has adopted a queer method of celebrating his victory. In a formal speech, reviewing the trial, he makes a vicious assault upon the fed eral government's methods of enforc ing the land laws, particularly the stone and timber enactments. He even charges the prosecution in his case of 'corrupt motives," and intimates that the land officials at Washington have been guilty of conspiracy to punish cer tain federal officials who have not done their bidding. In the course of this ad dress he says: ' The atone and timber 'law la a piece of In famy' as administered by the government. The government makes a man swear that he doesn't take land on speculation, . and the department construes this to mean that he. must not take It with a view of selling it. There is not a man In the Department of the Interior, and presumably none In the Department of Justice, but who knows full well that ninety-nine men Or women out of 100 take up theae claims with no other view than to sell them as soon as they get title. Notwithstanding the government continues to iasue final recelDts. and thus connives at tne doing of that which it afterward seeks to visit upon someone as a fraud. It is generally admitted in official cir cles that the stone and timber law was a mistake. Its object, to allow actual settlers to secure lands not suitable for agricultural purposes, but valuable for timber and grazing purposes, was en tirely lost sight of by the land syndi cates and timber combines, which took advantage of the opportunities offered to secure control of vast areas of tim ber land by inducing persons to eater upon them and then sell their titles to the combines. The prosecution of these timber thieves by the government has resulted solely from an attempt to en force the land laws in the Interest of those for whose benefit they were in tended. Senator Borah's address makes it plain that his sympathies are with the syndlcatea whom he served as an attorney. His vindication would have looked better to the public eye if he had not marred it by his picture of the land grabbers as sorely persecuted in nocents. Our amiable .democratic contem porary answers in the affirmative this question, propounded' by an out-of-town inquirer: Did tha way the democratic party man aged the last primary ticket and election Improve sr lessen his (tha voter'a) oppor tunltlesT The answer must, however, be Re garded in the abstract rather than in the concrete. Here in Omaha and Douglas county the democratic bosses got together even before the filings were closed and fixed up a slate that left the rank and file of the democrats not even as much to say in the selec tion of their candidates as they had under the old1 cut and dried convention game. Carried out In spirit aa well as in letter, the direct primary will improve the individual voter'a oppor tunlty, but the democratic program circumvents the law. Colonel Bryan says that when he ad dresses some college students in Wash ington on November 25 he will make an important political announcement Is If possible that he is going to declare himself a'candldate for the presidency? The school board will start some thing if it responds to the demand made for a refund of license money paid by a concern since gone into bankruptcy. With a precedent estab lished along this line applications for refunds on all kinds of pretexts will become the regular thing. If the holder of a liquor license has any claim for a rebate for unused time It will be well for him to establish his rights first in court. General Barry Is to be congratula ted on having had his claim allowed by the federal government for services as adjutant general during the Spanish-American war. Although he atayed at home, General Barry did just as much fighting against the Spaniards as did several other distin guished Nebraska volunteers who won high military titles in that terrible conflict. Lincoln is taking a tip from Omaha by sending a' trade excursion up to the Black Hills. We sincerely hope the Lincoln excursionists will get a warper reception everywhere than was ac corded the Omaha trade boosters the last time they took a look In at Lin coln. ' The litigation over freight rates in Nebraska is showing up the railway community of Interests in a most illu minating manner. It has made attor neys for all the roads without excep tion come out in the open without even the excuse that they are trying to protect "the dear farmer." The resolution to submit to the vot ers a proposition to issue $600,000 of school bonds Is exceeding indefinite as to the use to which the money is to be put. More detailed Information would be greatly appreciated, especially by taxpaytng voters. ' Bolh the United States senators from Nebraska volunteer to go to the front for Omaha whenever necessary, although neither makes his home here. Perhaps it would be well to start a lit tle competition between them to see which will deliver the most goods. . H. Alabama is to have an extra session of Its legislature and another extra session is also promliied for Illinois. Members of the Nebraska legislature should hold themselves in reserve for a possible emergency call. Colonel Watterson warns Colonel Bryan not to discuss government own ership of railways in his speeches In Kentucky. The warning is unneces sary, as Colonel Bryan is doing his best to forget that issue. Secretary Wilson proposes to make two bolls of cotton grow where one grew before. Now if he can make one boll weevil rrow where two grew be fore, the soutn win rise up and can him blesBed. A New York paper accuses a Cana dian paper of stealing jokes from Lon don Punch. ' The editor who finds a Joke In Pun'chU entitled to take it under the rights of discovery. CaTa He- Da It. Pittsburg Dispatch. It Is now up to Secretary Taft to Induce the Filipinos to feel as friendly toward us as the Japanese do. Thrift ttcta a Knock. Indianapolis Newa. Seems aa If the government were very unpatriotic to ship coal in foreign vessels rather than let Itself be soaked by . thrifty Americans. v I OI Favorite la DUls. Baltimore American. Writings of prehistoric man have been found In Wyoming, and great things are expected tram their deciphering. Probably when this Is done tha writings will be found to be ancient mother-in-law Jokes or letters to the public of "Veritas" and Tro ZJono rutilico." Wall Worth While. Kansas City Times. An administration that has Its secretary Of war . restoring good will in Asia, Its sec retary of state In Mexico arranging for per manent order in Central America, and Its chief executive exploiting Inland water navigation at home is an administration decidedly worth while. Taklasr a Lena; Chance. Washington Times. Nebraska la solid fur Roosevelt, but declared for Taft. according . to Senator Burkett. The senator usually knows what he Is talking about and we will take hie word for the Nebraska aituation moat any time, but he's taking a long chance If Taft should be elected. 'For the Stomach's Sake." , Brooklyn Eagle. It Is believed that Secretary Taft drank nothing stronger' than aakl at tha private luncheon with the mikado. And as aakl has not yet been made a political issue In thla country, - his Indulgence will have no evil consequences except the taste of stale but ternuts which aakl usually leaves In the mouth. i .' DESTROYING TUB TARES. Discovery of av Solatlon Strong Cstifk to Destroy Weeds. New York Timea. The parable of the wheat and tha tares Hill retain Its universal truth even after It la no longer necessary to let grain and weeds "grow together until the harvest." But In Wisconsin, It Is credibly reported, the farmers spray their standing wheat, oata and 'barley with a solution of Iron sulphate that, while It does not Injure the grains, does Utterly destroy the eighty spe cies of wild mustard, the yellow dock, the cockle weed, - Spanish needles, Canada thistles and daisies In their midst, at a coat for labor and material of about "5 cents an acre. Turnlpa, which belong to the mustard family, are killed by the spray, but ex periments at German and English agricul tural atatlona, aupplemented by those .con ducted thla aeasuB on farms In Wisconsin and Minnesota by Prof. R. A. Moore of the department of agronomy In Wisconsin university, seem, to show that cereals re main unharmed by a aolutton strong enough to destroy the weeda within sixteen hours of Ha application. Perennials such as tha Canada thistle, whose roots send up new ahoota. require treatment each season until Anally exterminated. Weeda destroy JO per cent of the crops of the country. . Wisconsin university haa already Invented the formaldehyde treat ment for amut In grain. But If tha Iron sulphate spraying will rid farm lands of tha staple weeds, this Institution will have dona tha country great service ROl'XU ABOUT IBW VORK. niaaJee on tho Cwrront of Life In tho - Metropolis. Official Ufa In New York City lacks pre cious few of the conveniences which public money commands. Though here and there mule cats traverse obscure thoroughfares, there is nothing ancient or "pokey" about fhe means whereby officials scoot whither duly of pleasure falls. During the present year the municipal authorities have bought twenty-three automobiles of twenty differ ent makes, kinds and prices, ranging from the t990 runabout type to tha fT.ono foreign car. Thin tidy garageful coat 153,000 In round numbers, and new machines sre be ing ordered right along at the rate of about one a week. Applications are now in for some twenty or more new cars, and at the present rate the record this year will be about fifty machlnea at a .coat of 11 20.O10. The city first began to purchase auto mobiles for the use of officials about IMS. Blnce that time over seventy machines have been acquired, at a eost of about IIKO.000. There was little pretense at any time that the circumstances under which cars were bought were exceptional. When the head of a department wanted an expensive car for his own use, or for the use of the higher official of his department, he simply went to the board of estimate and apportionment and got permission to buy what he wanted by private sale. Somewhere about $125,000 worth of expensive cars have been pur chased In this manner In the last four years. Cheaper cars of the runabout variety have simply been bought as a matter of course by all tha departments year after year. Out of all the machlnea that have been pur chased, there are only about sixty now In actual use. Moat of the others have gone to the Junk shop long before their time. The long-talked-of taximeter cabs have at last been put in service In New To'rk City, and they should be made a success if the co-operattoii of the public la secured. That co-operation will consist in a rigorous determination to pay only the charge regis tered on the dial of the taximeter, for It la only by this means that extortion on the part of the drivers can be prevented. A scale of charges has been adopted that Is comparatively low for New Tork, and the expressions of opinion that were heard the first day of the employment of the new cabs forecast the success of the undertak ing. Fifty cabs are now In service, and more will be added gradually. All ferriage or bridge tolls are paid by the passenger, and If the cab la discharged north of One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street or out side the borough of Manhattan return fare Is paid by the ; passenger at the rate of 40 cents per mile to the center of the city. Forty-second and Broadway. In case of accident, which may be caused by a punc tured tire or something of that nature, the driver presses down the lever which sends out the words, "Not recording." The pas senger can then leave, if necessary, paying the recorded price. A red flag In upright position shows that a cab la dlaeasvaged, and turned down to a horlaontal position that It Is not for hire. , Every day, shout noontime, one may see a company of rest Indians, dressed In highly colored garments, walking west through Forty-second street. They con stitute a . part of the Hippodrome per formance. The picturesque costumes, the pslnt, beaded belts snd jackets and the feathers naturally'sttract much attention, and many people wonder what "Poor Lo" may be doing In New Tork in such num bers. A practical joker, who saw a group of well dressed foreigners looking at the Indians from the Grand Central, station a few days ago, volunteered the Infor mation that they were the chiefs of the various tribes who lived near Nsw Tork snd that they had to come to the city at stated periods ,,to report about their people and to assure the authorities of their loyalty. The Information was eagerly ab sorbed, and might have furnished material for some Interesting, letters .and news paper items if a charitable vltlsen had not destroyed the romance by telling tha truth. The exterior of a fashionable Broadway shop near Madison square has recently been painted with what look, nice riartr. tinted gold paint; this front presents an appearance such as It would have had it been covered with gold leaf and then lacquered, the effect being striking and at tractive. In Broadway, above Twenty third street, there Is now a store painted blue, and a-llttl farther along the great morougnrare, below Twenty-fourth street. Is a hotel well known In the city to which painters are applying a coat of green. It la eaay to Imagine Broadway with all Us buildings nalnted In vat-tart hi.h i . . . . vuwn a cross-section rainbow. One of the occasional visitors to the ennef room where, the government la trvin n gather evidence to dissolve the "Oil trust" is Teddy Roosevelt, the sleek-looking mem ber of the rat exterminating work in the postoffice building, for whose support the government makes a yearly appropriation of 150. Despite his name the black and wane cat snows no Dreferenca for itk. aide of the counsel table. Though evidently disinclined to accept the friendly overtures of John G. Milbtirn, the Standard's chief counsel, Teddy took a great liking for Wade Hampton, the general auditor of the "truat." He lay close to him for the better part of a session before Mr. Hampton went on the stand and showed such a distressing lack of memorr about a certain letter that everybody In the court room smiled. Teddy was not present during that ordeal, and has not since been seen In company of the Standard's general auditor. Singing for the various phonographic com panies has come to be quite a source of income with many arand onera art lot They get fabulous prices for a few minutes' work, as their records are extremely popu lar, and some of them sell at the nrie nf an orcheatra seat at the opera house. Some v . . . ... CllUUgll in thla way almost to equal their salaries for stage appearance, but what la not gen erally known la that some of them have two names for public purposes. They will sing under their own name an operatic selection from some production In which the publlo knowa them well, and then will render a popular ballad or atandard song, using another name. These latter records are not so expensive as the operatic se lections with the popular name, but the vole la just the same. That New Tork City Is an empire in It self aeema more than ever emphasised by the demand of Police Commissioner Bing ham for l.tov more policemen and for 12. 041,000 to spend. A table submitted to the Board of (Estimates la dealgned to show how inadequate the present force is. Out of 1.135 men to cover l.t&S day potts only K3 were available last Wednesday. Of 2,11 to cover 1.77 night posts on Tuesday only 1.8S4 were available. On special details 110 men are engaged. Tht a small army of men should be necessary to keep order In New Tork ralsea it to one of the petty members of the German empire. Where tho Shoe f laches. Philadelphia Record. ' Farmers In Minnesota have pledgtd themselves not to sell wheat for less than tl.Zt, and farmers In Georgia sre bound not to sell cotton for less than It cents. But they all loathe trusts and they de mand drastic leslslation to punish the raacala who auppreas competition and maintain high prices. rMiigF(JiIa" is the most efficient and perfect of leavening agents MADE FROM PURE CREAM OF TARTAR No alum, lime PERSONAL NOTE". In a small New Jersey town the tax collector was directed to sell the village lockup, but as the prisoners didn't want to move, they persuaded him to postpone the sale. Probably no man In Vermont raised a larger crop of strawberries this year than did Walter F. Walker of Dummerston, who harvested 16.000 quarts, or 600 bushels, In thirteen days. Th C. C. 'Oulbert property In Bridge water, Mass., has changed hands for the first time since revolutionary days. It has been handed down from generation to generation In the Cary family. There has Just entered the School of Commerce and Finance of New York university, Mr. Enkl Rl. the son of one of the three wealthiest families In Japan, who is preparing thus to take charge of hla father's and his grandfather's great tea and oil Interests. In connection with' Lusltanla's ocean speed records the new KUlarney express trains of the Great Western railway, which make the 262 miles between Paddtngton station and Fishguard harbor In five hours without a stop, adds a new plume to Brit ish speed records on land. The . president has directed tho appoint ment of Colonel Charles 8. Smith, ordl nace department, to be brigadier general on the retirement of Colonel Godfrey, Octo ber . 1907, and wishes it announced that the appointment Is made in recognition of Colonel Smith's exceptional services In connection with the establishment of the coast defenses of the United States and the supply of the artillery service with modern armament. Colonel Smith will have but little more than two months' service In his new grade, because he will retire on account of age December 2 next. Ot'R "Ol ERLLXURIOl-g" STATION. Unwholesome Feat ore . of Too Macli Prosperity.' Chicago News. In a letter of congratulation to a civilian marksman who had won distinguished hon ors President Roosevelt the other day de clared that this country had an "over luxurious" civilisation. Now M. E. Ingalla, banker and railroad president, has been telling the American Bankers' association that the people of this nation In their daily lives are "extravagant." Mr. Ingalla, like many other observers. Is Impressed by th enormous sums paid out for automobiles. He reminded the bankers that a yeas ago he told them that 1100,000,000 had been expended for these ma chines by the people of the United States during the preceding year or two. He ad ded that the rate of expenditure had gone on Increasing. The man who has not paid for the automobile flios along with the richest, happy In his exhlbltlon'of "conspic uous waste." Pedestrians who scurry from tha street crossings st his coming are tempted In their turn to strain their credit to buy"b!g red machines. But unrestrained Indulgence In the automobile habit is only on of many signs of the prevailing passion for luxury at high cost. Extravagances are possible to the msny because of the great prosperity of the na tion and the broad sea of credit into which th cltsen may plunge snd be refreshed. But when the shock of unsettled business conditions comes at soma future time and the sea of credit freeses over there will be a lamentable readjustment of condition. The prudent man will take thought of the unpleasant "possibilities which the future holds and will not mortgage It for purposes of "conspicuous waste." Mr. Ingalls, whose advice is usually sound, tells tha bankers of the country to exercise great care In extending credit until the people quit squandering their sub stance on mere extravagances and begin to turn a larger share of It back to Indus try. Certainly th custodians of the peo ple's surplus wealth owe a duty to th na tion In putting a check upon th luxurious ness which cripples productive enterprises by withdrawing needed support from them. If th peopl of th United States are to have the richest life possible they will use th nation's great productive power, after th conveniences and comforts have been gained, to secure leisure for wholesome recreation and for active participation in the duties of cttlsenshlp, including that of Improving the condition of the less fortu nate of their fellows. Mere luxurlousness, If sown broadcast In thrift's uprooted fields, must bring an abundant harvest of evils. Facts Without Frills Just 'as th lens of a camera gathers the rays of th sun and focuses them at a single point, so the A. Hasp Company has gath ered 'the best parlors and concentrated them on th floors of this big store. Pianos are her front th beat factories in the world pianos which hav ean. International as well as national reputation. External signs are ofttlmes delusive; one must know mora about th piano he buys than he can ascertain by a superficial ex amination. Many instruments may have a fin exterior appear ance, but varnish and handsome finish can gloss over inferiorities that II beneath. Every piano sold In this store Is backed up first by the rsbuta ' tlon of Its makers, and then by our own personal guarantee. In th least expensive or the most costly you are certain to get as much real quality as the smount you psy would buy anywhere la the United States. ' No piano purchaser should feel satlafWd unless positive that . th price he give Is th lowest price obtainable. No piano purchaser should feel satisfied unless positive no other person could get. a lower price. The Hospe One-Price, No-Commlsston plan Is a posi tive assurance of this v Us your discretion if you Intend to buy a piano. Select th store wher pianos are beat and prices lowest. Do this and you'll com to lioepe's. ' W are factory distributers for th Kranlch 4c Bach, Krakauer, ' , Hallat A Davis, Bush Lane, Kimball, H. P. Nelson, Cable-Nel- 1 son, Conwsy, Cramer, etc. tf you cannot call, write for catalogue? and prices. v A. Hospe Goriapany iR15 We Do Expcrt Tunlna.and Repalrlnfj or ammonia. . M ERR V JINGLES. "What does old Sympcr e a cash regis ter fort He's the only person in his plai-o nf business that handles, a cent of tha money." "I know It. but old Pymper won't trut even himself." Philadelphia Press. The Old Man (to prodigal son) I bate) te disappoint you, my boy. but the beef trust has boosted prices so alnce you went away that 1 couldn't afford a fatted calf. Puck. "De sayln' 'business Is business' Is all right In Its place," said Uncle Eben, "but a lot o' people Is In danger of letting It take de place of de intlre ten command inents." Washington Star, "Alcohol will furnish Uie power of the future," said the engineer. "Well." replied the motorist: "I hope It won t affect the running near of a ma chine like it does a man's legs." Chicago Record-Herald. Boy Papa, you're putting a layer of big applea In the center of the barrel. What's thut for? Honest Fruit Packer It's th square thing to do, Johnny. Besides, wa some times cut a hole in the side of a barrel, halfway down, to show the customers that we don't put the littls applos In th mid dle. Chicago Tribune. A WOMAN'S ASSURANCE!. Adelaide Ann Proctor. I will not let you say a woman's part Must be to give exclusive love alone, Dearest, although I love you so, my heait Answers a thousand claims besides your own. I love what do I not love? Earth, and sir Find apace within my heart, and myriad thlnga You wouid not deign to heed are cherlahed there. ' And vibrate on Its very Inmost strings. 'I love tha Summer, with her ebb snd Hon I Of light and warmth, and music, that ! have nursed Her tender buds to blossoms and you know It waa In Summer that I aaw you first. I love the Winter dearly, too but then I owe It so much; on a Winter's day. Bleak, cold and stormy, you returned again When you had been those weary months away. I love the stars like friends; so msny nights I gased at thorn, when you were far from me, Till I grew blind with tears those far-off. lights Could watch you, whom I longed in vain to see. t I love the flowers; happy hours He Bhut up-within your petals close and fasti V.a !., , A n ... . ... 1, J r Keep every fragment of the golden past, I love, too, to be loved; all loving praise ' Seems like a crown upon my life to make It better worth the giving, and to raise Still nearer to your own the heart you take. . j'love all 'good and 'noble feo'uls-l-t heard 9 One speak of you but lately, and for days," :Uniy lu inula in n, my kiui -was surreal I In tender memory of such generous praise, I I love all those who love you, all who owe ' Comfort to you; and can And regret Eveu for those poorer hearts who once I could know. And once could love you, and can now forget. Well, Is my heart so narrow I who spare Love for all these T Do I not even hold My favorite books In special tender care, And prise them as a miser does his gold? The poets that you used to read to me While Summer twilight -faded In the sky; But most of all. I think, Aurora Leigh, Because because do you remember whyt i Will you be jealous? Did you not guess be fore I loved so many things? Still' you the best: ' ' Dearest, remember that I love you more, O, more a thousand times, than all th restl Differing in Every Respect Flavoring v.m. Extracts .'Sa differ in every respect from all others. They are more uniform, more economical, as it requires but a small quantity to impart the desired flavor. They are true to nature, as they are made from the fruit. '