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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FKIDAY, JANTAKY 27. 1005. Tiie Omaha Daily Bee K. ROSKWATER. KDITOR- PIBIJSHED EVERY MORNING. TKRMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. lailv Roe tmlthout Sunday!, one year. $4 Daily Re mid Sunday, one year Illustrated Bee. one year ; "' Sunday fit-. one. year ; Hiitiirdnv H. one year 'iwentleth fenturv Farmer, one year... i.'-" DEIUVERKD BV CARRIER. Dally Bee (without Himdayi. per copy Dall'v Bee (without Sunday, per week..uc 1hIIv Bee (including Sunday), per week..l.C N'iii'lfiy Bee, per iiy 5" livening Mee Ith.-Tir Sunday i. pT week fc J-Aentng Bee (including. Sunday!. Ir wik i :r,Tiii.luliit' 'of " trrf.ruliril- In "vf r' should be addressed to City Circulation De partment. OFFICES. nmaha-The Ree Building Houth Omaha-CHv Hall building. TumiI) -fifth and M streets Council Bluffs i Pearl street, i 'hlcago ! I'nity building New Vork i'S Park Row building. Washington 6o1 Fourteenth street. 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SI l,470 1 8N.7SO Total 821.780 Lews unsold copies lo.iao tntil aal.a . Dally average itu.40o UKOIUiK B. W1H CK. Hubecrlliod In my presence Htid sworn to before me thlB 31st day of December, 1MX. (Seal; Si. B. HC NO ATE. Notary Public. WalkltiK Is good, healthful exercise. It wouldn't hurt runny of us If hp had more of It. Cavlte septus to be struggling to show tlint Siininr Ik not thn worst division of tho Philippine inlands. At last Denver newspapers are happy. In St. IVtorslitirg I hoy have found n city to draw attention away from their own. The recent storm in the east seems to have been tin hard on schooners as though It )iad orljtinuted In Mthvnukee. KushU uVea a vote of thanks to .lapan for keeping out of battle until ponce la declared ut St. Peternburtt and Moncow. Several recomineudutlona In Uoveruor Mickey' uieHsnp1 appear to have been overlooked by leKltdatlve- members. Head It over' once more. It Is probable that the Stoennel eourt innrtlal at St. Petersburg will now be postponed . long euoutih to permit army officers to recover their nerve. The public resolution to decrease the ncrea;e of cotton may cause several "cannle". planters to plant an extra field In order to meet the threatened shortage. There Is an apparent demand In (Mnaha and Nebraska for the voting ma chine, but absolutely no call for the Ice machine at least during the present season. ' ' The Imputation that Great HrltHln Is In any way responsible for the Russian riots has In It more potentialities for war than any number of Dogger bank Incidents. Troops have been called out to pre serve order at tbe Hungarian elections, but until It Is known who the soldiers favor It may be difficult to predict the result of the contest. Japanese have set the educated pris oners of war to teaching their more Ig norant fellows to read and write. Their hatred of Russian Institutions is proved now beyond tiuestlon. The Philadelphia Ledger suggests that after President Roosevelt has straight ened 'out the political complications In Santo Domingo he may be sufficiently experienced to win in a similar struggle ut Phlludelphla. The city of Lincoln Is erecting a mu nicipal electric lighting plant. Why not a governor-appointed board of salaried electric lighting commissioners Independ ent of and paramount to the mayor ami council ur.d every other city official? The only hope Nebraska demo pop have ot ever getting back into political power is through division In republican ranks. That explains why the local dcmo-Hp organisation Is ko anxious to project the local option Issue lo the fore front. German mine owners have Indicated lliclr willingness to abide by tbe result of a parliamentary inquiry Into the cause of the present strike. It looks as If the example of President Roosevelt In Pennsylvania were not to be lost upon the world. The presence of yellow ferer ou au American maii-of-WHr stationed at the canal Bone will probn ldy.es use renewed activity lu effort to eradicate the disease lu that .territory, and with the experi ences gained In Cubn success Is proba bly only a question of time. The only wonder is that the cold weather doea not produce more loss of properly from flrf considering the usual disregard of ordinary precautions lit the management of atOTes. furnaces and other beating apparatus. A periodic Inspection of the source- of beat supply la better than ft flr insurance peltry. 7HK ur.rBins hatk bill. The measure framed by Representa tive Hepburn for the regulation of rail way rates will not have the approval of all who want additional legislation to protect the public against nnfair and un reasonable rates, but It rei-oguize the existence of certain abuses that need to 1k remedied and is a step toward the at tainment of what the public demands In the way of relief. The measure provides for doing away with the present commission and the appointment of a larger one whose mem bers shall draw more salary than the present commissioners. It Is assumed that this Increase In compensation will secure ns members of the commission men of expert knowledge In regard to railway rates and that tbe findings of such a commission would rarely be ob jected to by the railroads. As ft matter of fact the oxirience of the present commissioners has given the expert knowledge In regard to rates, so that probably nothing would be gained by re placing them with new men. However, that does not constitute a serious objec tlon to this provision of the bill. The measure further provides for a court of commerce, to be made up each year by assignment of five of the circuit Judges by the chief Justice of the United States supreme court. It Is provided that the proposed new court shall hold four reg ular sessions each year In Washington city, for reviewing the action of the In terstate commission. The decrees of this court nre not to be final, but an appeal from them may be taken to the supreme court. In this respect the Hepburn bill Is less satisfactory than that of Repre sentative Townsend of Michigan, which creates a special court to take exclusive Jurisdiction of cases arising under the Interstate commerce law and makes Its decisions final. I'nder the operation of the Townsend bill there would be qnlck decrees, whereas the Hepburn measure, allowing npeal from the special court, would defer final decisions for perhaps several years. This Is a manifest defect In the latter bill, which In some other particulars Is commendable. It Is said that the Hepburn Mil has re ceived the approval of Attorney General Moody, who Is presumed to reflect the views of President Roosevelt, but for this there Is no warrant. Manifestly the Hepburn bill Is a compromlse'tneasure. As to the prospect for the enactment of the proposed legislation, lite consensus of opinion nppenrs to be that nothing will-be done at the present session. The Hepburn bill may pass the house, but there Is no probability of that or any like measure getting tli rough the senate, where the Influence of the railroads Is being strongly and no doubt effectively exerted to prevent any legislation by this congress for railway rate regulation. CAX OMA HA TBUST OMA HA t The city of Omaha Is a corporation own ing tangible property valued at more than $120,000,000. The right of Uia owners of this property to mtinnaje the affairs of the cor poration has been established, by precedent. ufagV and law and up to "The im"h"a"a never,, been questioned, denied or abridged. To make It plain, the olty of Omaha ever since it secured Its first charter has en Joyed the same rights that, are conceded to semi -public or private corporations, namely, the right of Its owners or stockholders to control the affairs of the corporation through directors, truateee or managers of their own choosing and responsible to them for the efficient and. honest -administration of corporate affairs. In other words, all the charters ever en acted for Omaha by succeeding legislatures have recognized primarily that the tax payers, who are stockholders in the cor poration, had a right to designate through the ballot box the men who were to con duct the affairs of the corporation. And now It Is proposed by a man who Is not known to be the owner of a foot of real estate In Omaha and has not paid a dollar of personal taxes In Omaha to invoke the charter-making power to constitute an other man, who la not a stockholder In the corporation of Omaha, to appoint for Omaha u board of directors with exclusive power to negotiate, acquire and supervise and manage property of the corporation of millions of dollars in value. It Is propoaed further that this Irrespon sible board appointed by an outsider shall have the right to appoint a general man ager for this property at auch salary aa It may see fit to fix for any length of time without the consent of the stockholders or the officers of the corporation. Now, sup pose that anybody should propose to the legislature to enact a law that would au thorise the governor to appoint a board of directora or trustees for any other corpora tion whether lta property was assessed at only tl.ono or tl.O0O.OH0. Who would dare atand up and Justify such a measure under pretext that the stockholders of the cor poration could not be trusted to select honest and capable men to manage Its af fairs? What would be thought of a propo altion that the directora appointed by the governor to manage the affulrs of tbe cor poration should be clothed with the right to appoint their own Successors without the consent of the governor or of anybody else, and should moreover have the right to ap point a high-salaried general manager for the corporation before It had acquired any plant or property to manage? Surely, such a proportion would not be countenanced by any legislature and would not receive en dorsement by any body of business men or property owners, whatever Its promise of advantage might be. Ar.J yet, this Is pre cisely what la proposed by the water works bill. Is there any other olty In America that would not protect lta right to self government? Haa any other city in Amer lea ever been placed In such a humiliating position aa to stand self-confessed of dis honesty. Imbecility and moral cowardice that it would not reaent the attempt to take fiom It .Its Inherent right of self-government? Grant that municipal ownership of the water works lias become a paramount necessity, why should not the people of Omaha have the right to elect the water commission and why should they be com pelled to pay a high-salaried commissioner before they have purchased the works? Cannot Omaha truat Omaha? The above edltarlal on the compulsory water works purchase bill Is repro duced from the editorial page of The Hee of January 1M, IIKKI. The views then expressed apply mure forcibly to water works bill No. 2, now pending in both houses of the legislature, than to the original water bill. Not only docs the revised water bill attempt to legal ize the appointment of the 'exlsllnc; water board, which Is of questionable constitutionality, but Its powers would be enormously enlarged thereby, ami the right of the eople to self-government correspondingly abridged. Ilia new water bill creates i corpora- tlon within the corporation and divesta the citizens of Omaha of every vestige of authority in dealing with the water works purchase problem. Not only Is the water board given exclusive power to accept or reject the findings of the appraisers appointed under the original contract with the water company, bnt It Is also given exclusive power to modify or extend tbe present contract with the water company on any terms, however onerous they may be. In other words, the water board Is empowered under this bill to make a new contract for !W, 100 or even 500 years, on any terms It chooses to accept, without let or bin drance and without saying "by your leave"' to the people of Omaha. But this Is not all. Under the new water bill the board Is empowered to call elections, Issue bonds and levy taxes Irrespective of the mayor and council It Is empowered to Impose a tax upon the property owners of Omaha aggre gating up to $100,000 for hydrant rental after the city has acquired the water works, although the interest, upon the water bonds will have to be paid by the taxpayers the same as the Interest on any other bonded municipal debt. Are the citizens of Omaha prepared to abdicate all their rights of self-gov eminent to an Irresponsible hoard no matter how prominent Its members may be commercially, socially or politically? Are the people of Omahn to have noth ing to say about the most momentous public utility question with which they have ever been confronted, or are ever again likely to be confronted? a roLicv or VOXCILTATIUS. In discussing the Russian situation a few days ago we said that the wise lH)licy for the government would be otw of conciliation. That Klicy has been adopted and there is reason to believe will bo adhered to. The proclamations Issued to the workmen of St. Petersburg and Moscow, assuring them of protection If they return to work and promising to relieve the conditions of which they com plain, have already had a good effect. A number of workmen have returned to the employments they abandoned and it Is expected that more will do so at the beginning of next week. There is nat urally more or less want of confidence In the government's promise of relief, but it Is probable that the authorities, fully realising as they must tbe gravity of the situation, will take prompt steps for the fulfillment of the assurances they have given. If they do this a complete restoration of quiet and order will fol low, so far as the labor element Is con cerned. Agitation for political reforms, how ever, will not be discontinued. That has taken so Arm a hold upon a large portion of the people, Including many belonging to the better and more Intelligent classes, that It Is certain to go on until the gov ernment Institutes the reformat that are demanded.' " The declarations of the Zemstvos have beeti made with profound eartiesfuess and they will not le with drawn or materially modified. They are fair and reasonable, they nre In accord with the spirit of the age and they appeal with great force to all Russians who have the Intelligence to comprehend them. Russia's Internal troubles are not yet ended. The government has checked what seemed to be Incipient revolution, but Its method of doing this was so se vere and relentless as to Incite among a large portion of the people a stronger hostility to the rule of the bureaucracy and a firmer determination to seek relief from that rule. Thus while the Indica tions are that the workmen of St. Peters burg and Moscow have been so far re assured that no further serious disturb ance on their part is to be apprehended, the spirit of revolt against oppressive and despotic political conditions Is still active and may be confidently expected to assert Itself whenever the opportunity shall offer. No one can foresee when this may happen, but everylxsly realizes, perhaps no one more clearly than the czar himself, that millions of the people of Russia, particularly among the con qered races, are bitterly antagonistic to the government and are prepared to make any sacrifice for Its overthrow. Even in the army this feeling prevails to a greater or less extent, so that the government Is not confident that in a vital emergency all of the army, could be depended upon to support It against the people. There Is a quite general Impression that the czar himself Is not unwilling to respond to the popular demand for re forms., but does not possess the force and firmness lo override the will of the grand dukes and the other reactionaries who surround him. He now has an op portunity lo demonstrate that his pro fessed love for his people Is sincere and If he shall fall to do this he will Invite further trouble and ultimate disaster to the Romanoff rule. tine of the Douglas delegation who has Introduced a bill to abolish gov-eruor-nppolnted police boards In South Omaha justifies the measure with the assertion that he Is a believer In mu nicipal home rule. - Municipal home rule is a gooil slogan to stick to and the law milkers will lie called on to apply the principle to several bills now pending that deprive Omaha of Its rights of local self-government. It was eminently proper for the new county board to make haste slowly lu the selection of men lo manage and su pervise county Institutions and public buildings, but. there Is no good reason why a Istard four-fifths republican should deadlock Indefinitely ami atsll promised reforms lu the administration of county affulrs. It was to have been expected that the water board, which has already drawn $10,000 out of the city treasury for doiug nothing, would petition the legis lature to continue It In power, but it Is simply amazing that its members, who are responsible to nobody and remor- J able by nobody, would ask tbe legisla ture for exclusive power to extend the water works coutract without even sub mitting the question to the mayor and council or the people of Omaha, as well as the people of South Omaha, who are also concerned In the new law. If any member of the Douglas delega tion had announced during the cam paign that he would favor or support a mvlsion of the water works bill on tbe lines embodied In the Dodge water bill he would have leen snowed under so deep that the trumpet of Gabriel could not have resurrected him. A .New Paint at Mew. Chicago News. For once the Russian authorities are dis posed to underestimate the losses inflicted by their troops. Second the Motion. Chicago Inter Ocean. So far his testimony warrants the belief that any time he would like to have an "h" placed after the last letter of his name. Senator Smoot'a reiftiest will be cheerfully granted. Tin fnr Speculators. Cleveland Ieader. Henry Clews is earnest and grave In his advice to the speculating public at large to be very cautious In Its Btock Investments In these days of unrest abroad and of pros pectlve antl-rallroad, antl-tmsf and antl tariff legislation. Mr. Clews' advice should be heeded, as he has all the logic on his side. One War In Economise. Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune. According to former Senator Manderaon, now an active railway magnate. It costs the railways of the country I4M1.OOO.00O every ten years to refit their tracks with ties. If the railways will urge wise forestry leglsla tlon they will aid themselves In reduction of expenses and cause a kindlier feeling for them everywhere. The Crime of the Century. Frederic Harrison In Fortnightly Review. We are. In fact. In the backwash of a most wanton, costly, Inglorious war (with the Boers), In which we have made our selves a laughing stock and an approbrlum to the civilised world, disorganized our finances, our trade and our political lnstl tutlons. And for what? Twenty thousand British lives, 220,000,000 of sterling money sunk In turning a fine land Into a howling wilderness, In making a chaos In South Africa, in ruining English lalor and handing over gangs of Chinese slaves to Koamopolitan gold hunters. The Cry for Delay. Springfield Republican. The railroads are putting forth great ef fort all around to prevent rate-control leg islation at Washington. The Erie company, for example. Is sending out appeals broad cast to business organisations and other Interests, that pressure be brought to bear on congressmen to secure delay, if not de feat, for any such meas-ures. Of course, the cry for delay has for Its ultlmute purpose the prevention of all effective legislation whatsoever. It begins to look as though the roads were willing to admit their charges will not stand Investigation on the score of reasonableness. I.AKOI.I.K.TTK IS THK S K A TK. Inspiring? Record of Wisconsin's New Senator. Kansas , City Star. As colleague to,jrt,r. . Spooner, Governor I.aFollette would be,n interesting addi tion to the United States senate. Though he Is represented by his opponents In Wis consin aa a demagogue without convic tions, the governor, evidently has the con fidence o the people to an extraordinary degree and his election to the senate would be an emphatic declaration from his state in favor of more direct popular control of the upper house. The career of Mr. LaFollete has been watched with Interest by the whole coun try. The fact that single-handed, without money or influence, he was able to defeat powerful political dynasty has revealed his ability as a fighter. The nation will be curious to observe whether the same qualities that made him strong In the state will make him a factor in that exclusive body at Washington which regards Itself as the guardian of the country's destinies. Whatever may be Mr. LaFollette'a auc cesa as senator, the nation has become so accustomed to seeing great corporate In terests control the. election of representa tives to tho upper house that It will be disposed to welcome the choice of a man pre-eminently of the people. BRYA AT THE WHITE HOI SK. "Wrinkled Front of Political Asperity Smoothed Strangely." New York Sun. Apt parallels and differences might be found between the Monroe era of good feel ing and the Roosevelt era of feeling good. The relation between the "sections" Is kindlier than It has been within living mem ory. The wrinkled front of political as perity has been smoothed strangely. The republicans and the demoncrats are as brothers. It is a time of truce and sweet ness, a love feast. The only hate, aside from the universal conventional hatred of the trustswhich hate themselves, doubtless must be be tween the domocratlc "reurganlzers" and the great Bryanized bulk of the democracy. Perhaps it la exaggeration to call this a hate. The "reorganiiers" have disappeared. The Bryan democrats are so glad because Roosevelt was elected that they can afford to forgive the builders of the house of bunco at St. Louis. Can a man be un grateful to those who have given him the chance to say, for four years at least, "I told you so?" So it was pleasant for Mr. Bryan to call at the White House. He likes the archi tecture and situation of that building. He lias no objection to being there himself. And it Is pleasant for everybody to see Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Bryan hobnobbing. Mr. Roosevelt's rod seems to have swallowed Mr. Bryan's, but the latter dcesn't complain. They are both genuine popular leaders, lu their way. Each may be said not only to be "greater than Ills party," but to be his party. Mr. Roosevelt, however, has won much or mwt of his popular support and dleplaed his original and consummate po litical talent . wlille doing the work, usu ally so fruit fel In enmities, of un adminis tration. Will Mr. BryW, the man of eloquence, ever get a chance to figure aa a man of action urn would he be successful In that role? Even Jefferson's executive talent has been attacked, and the Ne braska Jefferson was hardly brilliant in his military campaigns. Certain traveling sociologists hold that fraternity Is the great American trait. Are you a "good fellow?" That is the supreme question. Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Bryan arc thoroughly good fellows. A people of good fellows ap!iiei'iates this and like to see Its favorites, politics :art, shaking hands with each other, for a change. The finest old popular print, au to speak, of the senate of the last thirty years shows the bandanna'd Old Roman with his Insepar able Mr. Edmund. A gentle gurgling la heard from the cloak room and the sternest dry feels that the sound has an Innocence aa of a 4rook or sylvan spilng. The meeting of Mr. Rooseevlt and Mr. Bryan la part of the general political g'Xd natura now en view. noun a not t srw iork. Ripples n n the Cnrrent of 1.1 fe In the Mel ronolla. "Is tlicro n married man In all Gretter New York who Is perfectly contented with his lot?" This Is the question hurled by a local bachelor at the great tribe of race savers In Gotham and vicinity and he supple ments the conundrum with an effer of ll.OiiO for an affirmative demonstration. Behind the cynical offer of a prise In cold cash there Is evidently comprehen sive knowledge of existing conditions. Bachelors are not overgenerous with their money, and this one's pile Is reasonably safe. Married men as a rule are obllrert to shovel the snow off thrlr respective sidewalks. New York has had a dose large, husky snowfalls this winter. It follows that mighty few married men are perfectly contented with the lot they shovel on. What lends poignant grief to the situation Is that it costs good money to get away from their afflictions. A remarkable ending of s dAm.ige suit rame In New York when a Jury gave Mrs. Cary W. Hart a verdict of JJ0.00O against the Metropolitan Street railway. She sued to recover $J6.ono for Injuries sustained In a collision. When the case had been given to the Jury the lawyers got toeher to try to agree on a settlement. On nehnlf of the railroad company, It was argued that ITOW was a fair amount of damages. But Mrs. Hart's attorney declared that she should have at least $5,000. Again the law yers hurriedly discussed a settlement, and as a compromise, the company's represen tative offered to pay $4,750. This was the company's high water mark. It was ex plained, but counsel for Mrs. Hart would not accept less than lo.oon. As the. last call was lelng made, the foreman an nounced tlint the Jury had found In favor of Mrs. Hart to the extent of $20,000. "A grosser or more Inexcusable nbuse of police power has not occurred within our knowledge than the arrest and Imprison ment of an aged couple In New York a few days ago on a charge of thoft." says Leslie's Weekly. "When the case came up for trial In the police court It appeared that the old couple were honest, Indu trious and worthy people, wholly Innocent of crime or of anything that should have provoked a suspicion of wrongdoing. The wife, over "0 years of age, had a harmless mania for buying trifles at bargain coun ters, and when these .were brought to her little flat she stored the packages away. A spiteful neighbor who had missed some article accused the old couple of theft, and acting on this Information the police haled the man and wife to the station and 1h ked them up In separate cells and carted eff a wagon load of packages found in the room under the belief that they had made "a great haul" of stolen goods. When detectives were summoned to trace the goods It was found that they had all been paid for. This investigation consumed five days, the old couple remaining In jail meanwhile. After their discharge In court the Hged wife was told that she and her husband had been accused of theft, and the poor creature was so overcome with grief that she fainted." There are over 800 second-hand stores on the Bowery. Most of them are pawn shops and pawn brokers' salesrooms. Between Park Row and Cooper t'nlon there Is one great mart for second-hand revolvers and guns. In every other window they are hung In festoons, and only those who do not appreciate the fact that there are about 200,000 shady characters constantly In New York are apt to wonder where the market for theae weapons cornea from. The foreigners ot southern Europe carry pis tols or knives almost to a man. When ever they become hard tip the first thing they part with Is the gun. Dead game sports will pawn their revolvers first, then their pins, then their watches; but the shooting Iron always goes first. Probably a thousand purchases and sales of re volvers of all patterns are made dally in the Bowery. They range In price from IS cents to $10. There was a little Portia at the bar In the criminal court the other day, and she won her case aa easily as Shakespeare's heroine confounded the wily Shylock. Mary Hor nesa was her name and her age 11 years. Her mother had had a neighbor, a Mrs. Hosko, arrested for assault and battery. Mary told her achool teacher about the affair, and asked to be excused for the day aa her mother waa too poor to employ a lawyer, and, besides, she could not speak English. The little girl said that she must be her mother's lawyer. When the case was called, the youthful advocate walked to the Judge's desk, and, standing on tiptoe, began her statement. "If you please, Mr. Judge," she said. "I'm Just a little girl, but I'm the only lawyer my mother's got. I have every thing written down here," and she unrolled a paper, revealing six pages of legible writ ing, a brief which, the judge said later, waa a masterpiece. It was a simple story, detailing an Intertenement warfare, In which Mrs. Ilosko was pictured as the ag gressor and Mrs. Horness a a the victim. Mrs. Hosko's lawyer made a strong plea for his client, but the Judge decided against him and placed the woman under bond to keep the peace. Mary thanked the court and walked .proudly out of the room. "New York at first glance is ugly." says a writer in Harper's Magazine, "and It Is not until you become Intimate with her moods and ways that you begin to discern a subtle beauty lurking somewhere in this ugliness a beauty suddenly coming to life for one short hour in the day, and vanish ing aa quietly. The more one loiters through the side streets of the city the more one begins to feel the elusive character of this picturesque element, and the longer he will avoid coming to hasty conclusions regard ing the latent significance of certain street corners, which under ordinary conditions seem commonplace enough; corners that one might pass a dozen tlmea a day with out a suggestion of an artistic motive, un til aome happy Incident brings you face to face with your subject perhaps in the early morning or on a late autumn afternoon, at Its "heure magique." when your battered tenement or disreputable Junk-shop Is transformed, and you are confident that it compares favorably with the btst that Paris or Iondon can offer." An uhsorbed-in-each-olher young couple and a quick-witted truck driver made a mo mentary bright spot in the dull routine of J prosaic Park Row. The couple, earnestly engaged in conversation, narrowly escaped walking Into the truck croKSing their path. A shout of warning halted them with a be wildered expression, which the driver heightened by remarking loudly, but lu a confidential manner: "Hey! Youse hud better talk that over at horns Sunday. Seel" Hecklrss Speed. Chicago Post. One of the extraordinary results of auto mobHe development is found In the reckless readiness with which many men undertake the guidance of machines In which the power uf the motor Is equal to that of a high-class locomotive. They would hesitate to take the throttle of an expreair train engine running on rallsr but they feel en tirely capable of the task of handling a mechanism of even greater power on a country road. Thence result such deaths as that of young Croker and his chauffeur re cently In Florida Not alone for the safety of the public, but In the Interest of the automnhlllsts themselves a limit should he put upon the speed with which the racing cars may be run. mm Greatest Aid to Cookery With least labor and trouble it makes hot-breads, biscuit and cake of finest flavor light, sweet, appetizing and assuredly digestible and wholesome. Price baking PKHSOI, (ITKS. - -"" The ethical culture lectuier of New York who wants the virtuous to ostracize the wicked Is the kind of a man who would expect to see the tail wag the dog. Dr. Wiley's poison squad lias been seeing pink elephants Hnd blue sheep as a result of talking formaldehyde. Thus science is constantly Improving old-fashioned meth ods. A Chicago man who raised nineteen chil dren on $ a week now snys they a 10 tilled with ingratitude. Well, they couldn't have been filled with much else at the present price of eatables, The government has now paid out $185,000 to reimburse confederates for horses and pistols taken after the Appomattox sur render. We hope this will be used to buy mules and plowehures, not more horses and tistols. President Roosevelt lias departed from the social usages of many years in becom ing a dinner guest at the house of the vice president elect. For thirty years It lias been the custom for the president lo do no dining out. A number of Texas business men have formed a stock company to drain Collins lake, down In the Lone Star state, lu hope of finding $100,000 In Mexican coins sup posed to have been dumped there In the early days. With that nice little nest egg these enterprising spirits may feel encour aged to try squeezing gold from the waters of the gulf. Colonel Perclval C. Pope, who will bo re- I tired next month with the rank of briga dier general, waa born in the Charlestown navy yard, where his mother's father was marine commandant. Oddly enough Col onel Pope has been ordered to Charles town navy yard to await Ma retirement, which will take place February He entered the marine corps at the outbreak of the civil war and has served on a number of war vessels In many parts of the world. PISHING A KOOI THING. Kew Jersey I-ansha nnd Grows Fat on Trnat Tames. Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. The Inaugural address of Governor Stokes of New Jersey is very much In the nature, of a "view with alarm on the question or the trusts, the ease with which New Jersey has manufactured them and the comforta ble revenues It hae derived from the Indus trynow seriously threatened with control. that would control In fact as well as In name. If New Jersey corporations, with powers not possessed by corporations nor by citizens of other states, had confined their field of operation to New Jersey there would he little interest taken In the address of Governor Stokes. But It has turned out corporations while the applicant waited, vested In them extra ordinary powers, capitalized them nt any amount, provided convenient stock-Issuing clauses and sent them Into other states practically to work their will and Hsk tho authorities what they proposed to do about It. As they proposed to do nothing about It, or aa they did nothing about It, the sub ject was taken up In the report of Commis sioner Garfield, and Governor Htokes ad vises New Jersey to take to the heaviest foliage before the storm breaks. He Is wise. New Jersey derives 75 iier cent of Its In come from corporation fees and 'licenses and no direct tax is levied by the state. New Jersey Is growing fat on the proceeds of the Infant Industry of corporation mak ing, and haa 110 desire to give up that which THI DOtt o Aytra Cherry Pectoral 40!0nM HUM ' . nitunwi IIUII tf .lUllMS ..ISltl'Vt it Nsl 4 Sl 1 y r, I fr t ... M lW IM....4M fnm r I Ml,. .- M f J W fc-, Kmc! w. M t, I' . .1 tfu.U-t.U .I... w,m -ik r,4jl Jiik 'J'"1rcA' '-. Ww list 11 1,1 J(J,,11AlJ Powotn Co.. Chioaoo. ', Is good. Nevertheless, Governor Stokes strongly advises careful revision of the cor poration laws of the state In order that ob jectlonahlo features may be removed and that the corporation made In New Jersey may rest assured that the warranty of be ing I ni mu no from federal legislation will be all sufficient. He urges that "New Jersey should lead tho way along the path of an enlightened public sentiment upon this important sub ject, anticipating the action of the federal government in establishing a high standard of corporate enactments." All of which shows that the old sinner. New Jersey, la scared and that the popular feeling on the trust question Is stronger than the trust would be willing to admit. POIXT1CU I'l.KASVNTHIES. Tommy-Pa, I smoked your pipe today. Pa-What? Tommy You said it would make me sick, but it didn't. Pa You mlsunderetiMid me, my son, I said I'd make you sick. Hand me that strap. Philadelphia Press. Knlc ker Do you think it will be hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven? Rocker Not if they Judge lilm by the taxes he pays. New York Sun. Violet Isn't your father generous to glre you such a big allowance.' Clarissa Oh, 1 don't know; he's pretty shrewd, you know. I hoard him tell mother that it was a good deal cheaper than giving me money whenever I asked for It. Detroit Free Press. "I suppose the czar was thankful fnr one thing, at least, when those bullets whistled over hla hwtd." "What was thai?" "Thankful that-he wasn't 'any tmilr."-k'' Cleveland Plain Dealer. . n Orpheus was leading Proserpina from Krelius when he forgot bis orders and looked hack to see If she was following. Instantly she vanished, and aa the singes; was thrust out again Into the cold world one mocking echo shivered his very soul: "iUib-ber!" New York Times. Mahomet's coffin had Just been suspended in the air. "It was his own idea." they said; "you see lie used to live in a Harlem flat." Thus did the prophet save space. New York Sun. "What do you think ought to be done about the tariff?" . "This," answered the statesman. "Is not the stage of the proceedings at which I do my thinking. I am one of the people who sit back until It is all over and then tell whut was done wrong." Washington Star. I)' AXiKI.O-S AXO A RACK. T. A. Daly In Philadelphia Standard, You theenka bayrausn I no speaks. Da. ing'aise so goods like yotl I gatta da playnta "beeg ehecka" For try be American too. You theenka Italia no gooda. You snteza at Naple an' Rome, An' say: "Deeaa foreigners ahoulda Ko maka for stayln' at home. Decs count ra ees ours an' we not la Want peopla like datt In dees place. No room for nohoddu we gotta But Angi lo-Snxolia race." Great Angelo-flnxona place! I kneela. I keesa da groun'l Ah! I n m not wan o' dees race. Ail' so 1 ,1ns' hlda my face An' gona way hacks seet down. Wan time, so da heestoriea wrota, limit A ugelo-Haxona man Gat Angelo-Haxoua boata An' com' for deescover dees lan'. Crlstof ro Colombo hees llama; For Angelo-Haxona crown From Genoa ceety he cams Great Angelo-Haxona town! How mooch you inns' thanka da Ijorda He t.ika da notion to roam. An' uoliodda geevln' heem order For maka heem stayln' at home. Great Angelo-Haxona place! I kneela. 1 keesa da grouiL'! Ah! I am not wan o' dees race, An' so I Jus' hlda my face An' gona way bucka seet down. Do not undervalue the services of a skilful phy sician. Even the best medicine cannot take the place of the family doctor. Therefore we say: Con sult your physician freely about your case and ask him what he thinks about your taking Ayer's Cherry Pectoral for your cough. If he says take it, then take it. If he says do not take it, then follow his advice. atee jr J. O. Ar.r C. . lw,!l. Mate. Aim aaaulk.iurers ef ATBR'i PILLi- For cesttipatlos. ATEK'8 HAIR VIGOR -For the fcilr. AYEg'S BABtaPARILLA For tat bias. ATER'f AOUS CORkV-For malaria sa eg a. I