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THE 0MA11A DAILY BEE: FRIDAY. MAY 5. 1A03. The Omaha Daily Jee. K. nOPKWATER, EDITOR. PCBLISHKD EVERT MURNINO. TERMM OF 8I BSCR1PTION: Daily Hee i without Hunilayi. one year. .M.on Dally Hce and Hunday. one year S.mi Illustrated Hrt, one year 1!. Sunday Hee, un year 't 01 Saturday Bee, one year 1 oO Tmcntifth Onturv Farmer. ' one yeHr.. 1 DKLIVKRKU 11V CARRIKK. lally Bee i without Sunday i. per ropy.. 2c Dll Hu twithnui Hunuay). per w er a . . 1 Jr. I)lly Bee (including Hunday i, per week. 17a Krenlng Bee (without fluncltiyi, per week. iu Kvenlug Bee (including Hunriayj, per wee It lie Sunday He'1, per ropy c Complaints of Irregularities In delivery should be addressed to City Circulation Du psrtment. OFFICKS. Omaha The Bee Building. rinuih Omaha-City Hall building, Twenty fifth ami M atreeta. Council Bluffs in Pearl street. I 'hlrago 161 1'nltv building. New York 1.V Home Life Ins. building. Washington SM Fourteenth street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Kditorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft. express or postal order, payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only 2-cent stamp received In payment of mall accounts. Personal check, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. smrrr.Rn wast to re hkard. There was recently notd some t-om-plaint thnt tli senate Interstate com ment' eiuiinilltee had not railed upon any but railroad nidi In the hearings re garding railroad rate regulation. It wm tlMn stated that no Invitation to npiesr Ix'fore the committee hntl Ismi extended to menibors of the Interstate Commerce i-omuiis-lon. other advocate of govern ment rate making: or to shipper, the time of the senate committee since the hearing liegiui being thken tip with listening to the views, already qnite well known, of rnllrond managers and at torneys,, w hich were sent broadcast over the country In the press dispatches. These opinions are all In one direction and have been obtained from men known to le unqualifiedly opposed to the regulation of railroad rates by the government. It would seem that the time had come for the committee to get the views of shippers and the latter are demanding through their national organization that they shall be heard. Whether or not this is to be granted remains to be seen. It Is reported that the demand from the shippers occasioned some sur prise among the members Of the senate STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. .State of NnViKkn. Douglas County, ss.: C. O. Rosewater. secretary of The Be committee, who had understood that the j'uDilsning company, peing auiy aworn, ejs that the actual rumber ol run and complete copies of The Dally, Morning. Evening and Suntlav Bee printed during the month of April. I'.m, was aa rouowi: 1.. 2.. 3.. .. r... .. 7.. ft.. at, oho 31.050 :tx,io 2H.100 as, too a,i:to so.nzo in 17 18 19 JO 21 shippers had made their case and rested. It would lie. Interesting to learn where they found any warrant 'for this Idea. The instructions of the senate to Its com mittee on interstate commerce contcm- ST.950 plated a general and Impartial hearing 4.1.IIOO 2M.3TO 2H.1O0 on the subject and not merely aseertniu- 9 , ... ao.ano 10.......'.,.. 37.970 11., v,.. SIH.1TO li. StS,400 is...; 8S,IIM 14. 2U.OOO 16 30,l 3N.HRO so.iso ment of the views of railroad represent;! 23 si.tto tives. The obvious purpose was to obtain : 2'o5o I tne 'u"w,t possible expression of opinion m as.ono on both sides of the question. Of course the attitude of the great majority of us' 30.100 shippers was well known, but so also 30 a:,io was that of the railroad managers and Total 8HD.430 attorneys, so that there was Just as good Leas unaold copies reason , why the committee should give Net total sales 7t,KiT I hearings to the former as to the latter. Daily average UO,33l Ag . ni.TtM. of fart thpr no ro(,i C. ROSEWATER. .. , , ... Secretary, necessity for the Inquiry, which was ar- Hubscrlbid In my presence and sworn t I ronpd hv the rsllronrl senntrs rather before me this 1st day of May. 1906. irangea oy me rauroaa senators ratner tBeal) . M. B. HUNOATB. I for the purpose or aeferring legislation 'Notary rUDlIC. I M,.lnir eatlennt en tan thin tnf aa. l l I i b)miiiviu i uuiviiii l u iv u iiiiiu a,vra. curing new information. The president of the National Associa tion of Shippers has asked for an op portunity to be heard. It is presumed that the request will be granted, since to deny It would be regarded by the pub lic as Very distinctly find conclusively Mr.' Hitchcock Is very mad at County Treasurer Fink. That's very evident. 'Now' for a campaign against danger- oiis billboards before any more people arc killed or maimed. . Fort rronk and Bellevue are to be "howlng that the sympathy of the senate annexed to Greater Omaha by electric wmnUttoe Is rather with the railroads street railway before the snow flies. Tnan wml Tne P?"- " appears rrom reports tnar. ronator i-.iKins. cnairman or iSince Kansas City saloons were the committee, is not disposed to extend tlosed on Sunday people are finding the hearing ho as to give the shippers alligators in the Missouri river at Leav- ii opportunity to state their side of tbe en worth. Jljl may not be the Japauese synonym for "Jingo," but editorials from a Tokto newspaper of that name would indicate that it might be. When the county board .gets through $vlth its new broom 'ut the county hos pital. It will find ileuty of exercixe for .It in the court hotiM. , A- Omaha'g immediate want is flonrlng mills and cereal mills. When the mills are set' to grinding, the money coined in the mints will circulate. cose, but he. may not be able to control the decision of the committee In the mat ter. At all events, the public would like to hear what the advocates of govern ment rate making have to say in reply to what has been submitted by the rail road representatives and It is undeniably the duty of the committee to give the shippers the opportunity they ask. If It hall fall to do this there can be but one reasonable conclusion and that Is I that the committee Is pHrtia! to the rail road view. leading In this provision? It was esti mated by the framers of the charter that the levy for city taxes would ag gregate l.HHi.0H a year, of which 9) per cent, or about fl,UKsi, would be collectable, and 1 per cent on l,(k0,ls0. viz., $10,XX). would be ample to pay the additional clerical force needed by the county treasurer to keep the city treas urers books and make the collections. But supiHise that the percentage al lowance under the state law should ag gregate $2r.nxt a year, the money must go to the county and not to the treas urer. In a nutshell. It Is Immaterial whether the percentnge fixed by the charter governs or- whether the per centage fixed by the state law for otWr treasurers is applicable also to Douglas county, all the county treasurer can col lect for his services as city treasurer ex offlelo Is $1,000 a year, which added to his salary as county treasurer, $'-'.500 a year, would still pay him $500 less for his services as both county and city treasurer than is now paid to the city treasurer alone. When It Is borne In mind that the county board Is empowered to designate the number of clerks to be employed and fix the salaries to be paid In the county treasurer's office, the Intimation that Kink would "swell his revenues by assessing the taxpayers all the traffic? will bear"' is absolutely inexcusable. Tretty soon we will have a legal de partment for the park board, a legal de partment for the library board, a legal department for the police board and a legal department for the health board, but even then there will not be enough provender In sight for all the lawyers In waiting. trreat Brits In would not be surprised to learn that while It ha been endeav oring to force Admiral rtojestvensky from French waters Admiral Nebago toff has been using British waters In which to prepare bis ships for battle; but England, was always able to be dis creetly ignorant at the proper time. Too (inoit to Paaa t a. Chicago Record-Herald. Mr. Alexander Is said to have been ycry much affected when he was requested by the Frlck committee to resign. Mr. Alex ander's salary as president of the Equitable Is 1100,000 a year. A Forgotten Pall. Baltimore American. The governor of Pennsylvania has vetoed a bill providing a heavy penalty for the un licensed practice of dentistry. Evidently, the governor never has had a tooth pulled by a man who did not know hl business. PRKSWBXT AXD THIS STRIKE It is understood that President Roose velt will receive a petition In behalf of the striking teamsters on his arrival in Chicago, but it is not probable that he will take any action respecting the strike, as suggested by the Federation of Labor of that city. While the situa tion Is certainly serious, it is a purely local conflict and therefore to be dealt with by the municipal and state au thorities only, so long as there Is no in terference with any federal Interests. It Is not to be doubted that Mr. Boosevelt deplores, In common with all good citi zens, tho violence and bloodshed which have made this teamsters' strike one of the worst in this respect the country has ever known, but It Is a matter that does not call for any action on the part of the nation's chief executive, unless the situation should get beyond the control of the authorities of Chicago and of Illi nois and the federul government should be asked by them to Interfere, which is not likely to happen What was done by Fresldent Roosevelt during the authracite coal strike was Justified by the fact that it affected tens of thousands of persons and great In dustries all, over the country. It was much more than a local trouble. The president declined to interfere In the Colorado miners' conflict, because the state was competent to deal with it. For the same reason he will not Interfere In tbe Chicago strike so long as no federal Interest is assailed or Imperilled. I'erllons Liberty for Poor l.o. Philadelphia Ledger. The I'nlted States 8upreme court has Just decided that a land-owing Indian, whose holdings have been allotted to him in severalty, Is a eitlicn In the full sense of the word, and that therefore It is no crlma to 'sell him whisky. Everybody who knows the Indian can see the land-owing ones without the land soon. Lmi to Jamestown Shorr. Buffalo Express. General Fltzhugh Lees death Is a severe loss to the proposed Jamestown exposition, which he had been engaged In promoting. He waa depended upon to persuade the various states to help along the exposition by appropriations, and later on he was ex pected to go abroad to promote Its Inter ests. No one Is left In Virginia who can take his place In such a business. The work, however, will go on. and the cele bration of the landing at Jamestown will be held according to the program. BI SIK)S SIDK OF THE CASE. A MALICIOUSLY FALSE ALARM- Ever since Couuty Treasurer Fink thwarted the conspiracy of the late democratic county board to publish the Chicago may find that It made a mis take lu sending for an expert from Glas gow. In place of an expert from St. scavenger tax list In the World-Herald Petersburg. at the full legal rate, although ft had previously held a contract for such nub- -ow mat Assistant casmer Uoil Is In nations at about one-third of the legal iiuido we may icarn wnetner President rate. Treasurer Fink has become h tar Blgelow really lost bis money in wheat g(.t of abuse for the World-Herald uu- or merely In hlgu living. Warsaw is not to be outstripped by Chicago. The strikers there are now stopping cabs on the thoroughfares and making the occupants walk home. der every Imaginable pretext. Scarcely a day has passed within the past six by way of Suez and the longer distances THE ASIATIC MARKET- A former member of the Japanese cab inet, now in 'this country for the purpose of studying the economic; conditions with particular reference to the commerce of the far east, is of the opinion that fol lowing the close of the war the oppor tunities for the United States to estab lish a glowing and profitable trade in the Asiatic, countries will be of the best and especially so because It can be done on reciprocal lines. As a result of his investigations here so fur he predicted that the United States will find Asia its best market, better even than Europe. He pointed out Unit from the Pacific coast to China we have a voyuge through the temperate zone, instead of BITS OF WAHIrTO i.trR. Chicago Nhould take Its census at once before one-half of the population kills the other half and while the imported men are In a condition to be counted. If ' resolutions will do It, the Great Northern cutoff will deflect in two direc tions at the same time and turn a sharp angle somewhere within the city limits of Omaha, Vice President Fairbanks says he be lieves In publicity for railway business; we are told: months that Mr. Fink bos not been the object of attack lu some form from that sheet, either through Its rcpor torlal or editorial columns. The very latest assault has taken, the shape of a sensational screed which fairly Illustrates the conscienceless war fare that is being waged against Mr. Fink. According to the World-Herald: The expense of consolidating the offices of city and county treasurer commence to stagger Omaha taxpayers. Instead of an expenditure of $26,000 for managing the city finances the taxpayera will have to pay 166.000 a year, and the people are beginning to open their eyes aa to what it costs to ha ye Fink ex-offlclo treasurer. In support of this startling revelation hut tbe distinguished vice president never had experience with politics lu Nebraska. "Tom" Lawson will never rest until he stands In the same relation to the captains of finance as the long range forecasters stand to the United States weather bureau. County Treasurer Fink la not disposed to overtook an opportunity to swell his revenues by assessing the taxpayera all the traffic will bear. It happens that the provisions of the general revenue law were In no way re pealed or aet aside, and it la provided that where a county treasurer acts aa treasurer for a village or municipality, he shall re ceive ! per cent for collecting taxes. Hantd on recent years, the current and delin quent city tax collections will closely ap proximate $1. 5O0.600, on which 2 per cent would be $30,000. In addition to this the county treasurer is to receive a salary of $1,000 for hit extra work, making a total After all. It Is better for the yellows tu blot out fifteen lives with red Ink and then reduce the death loss to three than to report only three killed when the real number is tifteeu. Correspondent in. southern Kansas persist lu confusing pipe dreams and pile lines, although the Standard Oil company has never been known to In- expense to the city under the new ar- vest In the former. I rangement of $5.o0O for having the county treasurer act aa city treasurer, Instead of $25,000 a year, aa It was before. If the World-Herald had not been bent upon black-washing Mr. Fink it might readily have ascertained that there is no foundation whatever for Its charges and Insinuations. The section of the new charter bearing upon the emoluments of the county treasurer for the collection aud disbursement of city funds reads as follows: The county In which such city (of the metropolitan class) la located shall receive I aa full compensation for the collection and disbursement of all funds of the city and expenses thereof an amount equal to 1 per President Fish of the Illinois Ceutral e!!n!.of th mount ci'' Buch amount predict. ,h, America will have to look iot ' h. lo Europe- for the solution of some of able monthly. No other compensation, or expenses or salary shall be paid by such city to such county or to any county offl cer or. employe for the collection or dis bursement of taxes, assesaments or reve nues of the city, except the aum of $1.(i00, which shall he paid to the county treaa urer aa additional salary and shall be paid quarterly. Provided, that no compensation shall be allowed upon the amount of money turned over to the county treasurer aa ex-offlclo city treasurer by the city treasurer or any city officer, cor upon the proceeds of the sale of any bonds Issued and sold by the there anything confusing or mis- which European nations must send their goods. He believes that in the next five or ten years American trade with the far east will cxpund with enormous ra pidity, particularly with Japan. Undoubtedly there are substantial rea sons for this view. The United 'States has some advantages over European commercial rivals in the competition for Asiatic trade and it Is to be expected that our enterprising merchants and manufacturers will take advantage of these. But In order that we may secure the greatest benefits that may be had we must be careful to maintain and cul tivate the friendship of the oriental countries and at present there is a ten dency In a section of thls country nwoy from this. Not only do we adhere to a rigid exclusion policy in regard to the Chinese, but it is seriously proposed to extend It to the Japanese. It is hardly probable that If this should be done our expectations in regard to the future of trade with the Asiatic countries could be reullzed. If indeed we should not lose a large part of what we now have. We shall encounter vigorous competition for that trade and a great deal will depend upon maintaining friendly relations. title eucountenug a senteuce of seven years In the penitentiary for falsi fying the books of the Obcrlin bank, former Cashier Spear probably wishes he hud been content with ordinary profits on money In place of reuchlug for irldes- ent commissions. its transportation problems. Home rail "way presidents apparently think tbe l''ttroMau experiences can serve only us horrible examples. The Irrepressible conflict over the lo cation of new ttrv engine houses has been temporarily postponed by the dia vovery that there are no new fire 'engine houses to be built until another bond proposition has been submitted and rat ified by a two third majority of the vote on the propositi The State Board of Assessment ap pears to be staggered and puzzled over the returns made by the Omaha Bridge & Terminal company, which reminds us of Balzac's romance of "the Jackass skin" that keeps shrinking, shrinking, shrinking, until It Is ho larger than an ordinary purse. Why tbe board does not put a quietus on the masquerade seems incomprehensible. Everybody in Omaha and most everybody lu Ne braska knows that the Illinois Central railroad has absorbed the Bridge & Ter inlnol company, and the Terminal com pany Is Just as much a part of the Illinois Central as the Omaha & South western is a part of the Burlington system. The man who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before Is a human benefactor, but the public official who plants one fire hydrant where none stood liefore will be entitled to the everlasting gratitude of several generations, provided he shall do so when there is no money lu sight to pay for It. Tbe city now has a legal department for the mayor and council, a legal de. partment for the school hoard and a legal department for tbe water board. Pertinent Question Raised by the Insurance Fnas, fit. Louis Republic. Just how "honestly" can the people's de ooslts be invested? Is a question growing naturally out of our observance of the Equltable's internecine fuss. Behind a board of directors having large deposits In charge presses the enormous necessity of making the money "pay ils way" In a complex world of Investment, and before It lies the vast heckonlng op portunity of incidental prrsimil profit, with the law of the land aiding and abetting the temptation by defining what may be done In many Instances, nnd with nothing save ethical consideration to restrain the money ambition of the individuals. More things than kissing go by favors In this world, as the editor of Life suggests, and a great insurance Institution with $Ti00,O00,00O to Invest has a big stock of favors constantly on hand. How can it be otherwise than that some of the in cidental benefits should be turned to ac count by the men who have the favors to distribute? The money, which has to be Invested In something, la extremely likely In some instances. If not In many, to be Invested In things which the directors have favored, for reasons beyond and addition to a desire to eeaiure a return for the depositors or policy holders. . Loans are likely to be made to tjoncerns which directors prefer. A thousand and one partial. Interested and profitable trankctlona are possible to the directors, which transactions are not in con flict with the usual custom and the estab lished rights of depositors and are well with in the "rules ot the game." In how far are such Interested and profitable operations right, and, what Is of more practical Im portance, to what extent can they be pre vented If they are not right? Is the public entitled to all of the indirect as well as the direct profits accruing frcm the Investment of Its funds? Theoretically it is. since the public is supposed to pay directly and by way of premium for hav ing its money cared for by the insurance method: Independently of the theory that the public supplies the wherewltfi to make profit possible, and Is therefore entitled to whatever is realized. The companies' expresa contracts with the public very nat urally do not specify the compensation which the companies are to receive, but these contracts are baaed upon what has grown up to be the Implied agreement that compensation Is to be measured by the precise "cost of Insurance," or rather in cluded within the cost of insurance, the latter being supposed to cover the element of risk and the expense of handling the money. While the public is entitled to rely upon the Implied as well as the express agree ment, ran It construe Its contract to comprehend obligations on the part of the directors and officers beyond thoae of car rying on the regular Insurance business? And If so. does the public pay for what It demands? It would not aeem that the price of a policy, tn business fairness, entitles the buyer to the sen-Ices of emi nent financiers and financial operations in addition to the services of strict Insurance management. If he buys the Independent services extending outside of the business of insuring him and performing other stated pecuniary obligations, certainly nothing la said about It expressly or Im plied In the agreement upon which his ex press contract Is based. He pays for a legitimately condtirted Insurance business on the safest possible basis, and when he gets that he gets all to which a business Interpretation of his position entitles him. It the policy holder's money were "risked" In outside transactions he would be en titled to the benefits unquestionably, and whether he voluntarily assented to the speculative enterprise or not. Does It not follow that when his money ' is "Invested." In the proper sense of the term, the direc tors and officers have fulfilled their obli gations? The Incidental and Indirect bene fits of Investment are not comprehensible within the terms of the contract, or possi ble of definition. Yet It must be acknowl edged that the benefits logically result both from the thing Invested and from the manner of investing It; the depositors' money making profit, possible for the Insur ance manager, and vice versa a consider, tlon which removes the diacusslon from the plane of -business Interpretation to a plane Of abstract fairness and ethics. But it Is doubtful whether the problem Is soluble upon any other terms than thoia of busi ness. Common sense dictates that the policy holder conatder the business aspect of what has vaguely become an Issue between him and the Inauranca companies. What dors he pay for, what does he get, and what can he expect beyond It? Strict com pliance with the law and with his con tractual and business rights he should de mand. But he must be prepared to allow for the margin of human nature which enters Inevitably Into the management of Insurance companies, as Into every other transaction or incident of life. It Is prob able that, allowing for the margin of human error, the interests of the average policy holder have been as well cared for aa the Interests of men In general who pay somebody else lu take tare of their money. Minor Scenes and Incidents sketched on the Spot. A story Is current In Washington, sup ported by documentary evidence, tie signed to prove that Vice President Kalrb.inks Is thoroughly serious In planning lot- the presidential succession and accepts the sarcasm and raillery of acquaintances as solemn contributions to his candidacy. The Brooklyn Kagle correspondent tells how William K. Chandler, president of the fipanlsh Claims commission. In his mirth ful moods. Jollies aspirants for the presl dency, and on a recent occasion penned and triplicated a letter In these words: "Mv lear Mr. Secretary Shaw: I deslro to Inform you that It seems to me you ought to be the next president of the I'nlted Htates. Your long devotion to the principles of the republican party, with your eminent fitness for the position, high Integrity, and the faith and confidence which the people of the country repose In you, make you the logical presidential candidate of the party of which you are today the most distinguished leader. Yours very sincerely, WILLIAM K. CHANDLER. "P. 8. No. 1 I have written similar let ters to Vice President Fairbanks and Sen ator Foraker. "P. 8. No. 'J Please don't forget me. "W. E. C." Mr. Shaw and Mr. Foraker answered In kind, but the correspondent avers that Mr. Fairbanks replied in this dignified fashion: "He sincerely thanked ex-Senator Chandler for his cordial endorsement and promise of support, appreciating thor oughly what this mennt at the hands of a man possessing the great Influence of tjie New Hampshire republican. He then added: 'I am also pleased to learn that you have Informed Secretary Slinw and Senator Foraker regarding your attitude toward me and the presidential nomina tion.' " Mr. Fairbanks may be as solemn and serious minded as charged, but the last quoted sentence shows considerable clever ness In turning the Joke on the author and rivals. ( The auditors of the various departments of the government are lynx-eyed In their keenness to discover errors In the ac counts that are presented to them, nnd they are like ferrets after a rat In the accounts of employes who have traveled out of Washington for the government. Some time ago an official of one of the departments who Is the happy owner of a railroad pass hail occasion to go from Washington to a town In Iowa. Anxious to save money for the government, this official used his pass from Washington to Chicago, and thence to the town in Iowa, and. after completing his work there, back to Chicago At Chicago he found that the train of the road whose pass he held would not bring him back to Washington In tltie to attend to certain work de manding his attention, and he accordingly bought a ticket on another road which ran a limited train making much better time, but charging 5 extra above the regular fare. When he made out his statement of expenditures It read like this: "Washington to Chicago no charge. "Chicago to Res Moines no charge. "Des Moines to Chicago no charge. "Chicago to Washington $22 ($5 extra for limited.!" He had hardly sent In his account to the auditor of his department when he was summoned to that official's office for an explanation of the extra charge of $6. "Don't you see," he explained, "that 1 have saved the government $54 In not charging anything from Washington to Des Moines, and from Des Moines back to Chi cago. Can't the government allow me these $6 for the limited when It saves $5t on Other, railroad fares and when I spent the extra five ''simply because I- wanted . to hurry back to my work?" "There is nothing In the Treasury rules about spending $6 for the limited." replied the auditor. "If you had spent the $54 for railroad fare It would have been allowed. You will have to refund the $5." nrct i.atiox or railroads. Organisation of a Powerfol Corn palaa Against It. San Francisco Chronicle. It is announced that the western rail roads are creating a western bureau to co-operate with the eastern bureau now for some time In a state of active erup tion in disseminating literature In opposi tion to the proposal to endow the Inter state Commerce commission with authority to reduce rates round, after due hearing, to be unreasonable. The president Is out spoken In favof of conferring that power, nnd the last house ot representatives passed a bill In accordance with his reommendn Hons. The next house la morally certain to re-ensct the same bill or Its equivalent, and will be called In extra session. In Oc tober, mcinly for that purpose. The last hope of th railroads Is In the aenste, and It Is becoming evident that that will fall In the face of the tremendous popular pressure for regulation. For years the railroad Companies have been aowing the wind, and are now dismayed at the harvest which they are about to reap. Hence the organisation of these bureaus to appeal to the people themselves by means of litera ture prepared for the purpose, and dis seminated so far as possible through the press. There Is no objection to that. Every Hog must have his day, and the railroads, cer tainly, are entitled to a fair hearing. But they would gel far more of their literature republished and read were It not for the conviction that where they are spending one dollar In literature lo convince the people they are spending ten dollars to maintain their grip on the legislature, con gress and the courts. 8o long as the "legal departments" of railroad corporations de vote their main energies to the nomination and election to office of persons whom they believe they can control the public will remain In a state of mind which will make them very suspicious of the literary arguments. Incidentally, while we do not assume to advise those astute gentlemen, we may say that if they would agree on exactly what they wish to say, put that In one document and circulate that and nothing else, it would be a great relief to everybody and probably of more advantage to themselves. Those who are on their mailing lists have long since ceased, from sheer weariness, to even look at the un ceasing succession of documents. PF.HSOVA1. .NOTKS. . Hiram Cronk, the only survivor of the war of 1812, is now being utilized as an ad vertisement for whisky. George A. Wilbur, associate Justice of the supreme court of Massachusetts, has re signed after serving as Judge for forty years and on the supreme bench over twenty years. The Young Women's Christian association building at Lxiwell, Mass., to which Fred erick Fanning Ayer gave $65,000 for its building, will be dedicated on May 10, with Miss Helen Gould as a guest. The oldest editor In Missouri is Lewis Lampkln of the Lees Summit Journal, who has Just celebrated his seventy-third birth day. During sixty years of life he has been In the newspaper business. Eugene F. Ware, the Kansas poet, is not aware that It Is Incumbent upon him to provide a portrait of himself to be placed In the office of commissioner of pensions along with those of his predecessors, and he refuses to do so. While on his way last Sunday to a church some distance out of town Mayor Berry of Chester, Ta., saw several boys and men gambling on the outskirts of the city. He stopped his team and gave the Sab bath breakers some gooa auvue. His honor was a Methodist preacher at one time. Mrs. John W. Mackay wore at the Wlckes-Haven wedding in New York last week collection of pearls' worth $840,000 one rope of 300, valued at $200,000; two strings, one of which cost $250,000 and tho other $300,000; a brooch of five pink pearls, $50,000, and two earrings of black pearls, $40,000. The members of congress who have ac cepted the Invitation of Secretary Taft to accompany him to the Philippines this sum mer have been making a strange inquiry of Mr. Carpenter, Secretary Taft's private secretary, who has charge of the details of the trip. The members ask about their quarters on the railroads and the steamers, and invariably after each inquiry conies an other as to where Representative Sereno E. Payne Is to be located and a request to be as far away from his as possible. This query puzzled Mr. Carpenter for a time, when he asked one of the party what It meant, and It was explained to him that Mr. Payne Is noted as the champion snorer of the t'nited States. Those who have gone on trips with Mr. Payne can testify as to his championship in this matter, and it has become a Joke with the older members of congress that In every party of which Mr. Payne Is a member-goes on an excursion by rail his confreres overwhelm him with entreaties to accept the drawing room of the sleeping car, and he nearly always ac commodates them. Mr. Payne is not at all bashful of his accomplishment, nor Is he sensitive when his talents In this direction are exploited. He takes the jokes In good heart, and he never Interferes with the plana of his colleagues when they seek to find him isolated quarters in the sleepers or on shipboard. Mr. Payne annually re celves several hundred cures for the malady of anorlng. Moat of the gifts come from members of congress who have spent sleep less nlghta when they were his traveling companions. But no one has noted any Improvment in Mr. Payne from the reme dies sent him. They are now saying that If the Philippines excursionists run Into a fog on the Pacific there will he no need for the steamer to use Its fog horn, because Payne's snoring will be warning to ships. General Grpsvernor, who Is a great stickler for strict postal laws, waa talk ing In Washington, the other day about the violation of the postal laws in the way of fraud letters and circulars. "There Is no scheme so absurd that will hot lure money out of the hard working and the credulous." said the Ohio con gresaman. Particularly will those schemes take which promise swift and remunera tive returns from little . labor and capital. This question was discussed one day In Columbus by a lot of men, and a young newspaper man said that a printed advertisement, whether sent througn the mails or Inserted in the paper, would al ways be respectfully received, and an swered with money, too. He said he would make a bet on the the Issue and we could $11 frame aa foolish a proposition aa we wanted. After some debate the young man decided to put an advertise ment In the paper which stated that If the reader would enclose 60 cents and her address to a certain druggist in the city he would, on receipt of the same, send her a formula by which she could make one pound of pure, wholsome butter out of one pint of skimmed milk. In three days time, letters poured Into that druggist shop like a rain In Apr!!, and every letter had en closed 54 cents. Then the young man got cared. The druggist became furious fqr fear of being arrested for getting money under false pretenses. The managing ed itor of the paper on which the young man waa employed got hold of the story and told him that he would have to return everyone of those SO-cent pieces and a full explanation of the hoax, or he would lose hla job and perhaps face other unpleasant things. It took the Joker nearly six weeks to straighten things out. and all the money he m-1 on the bet he lost on the returi postage." fifty Years ho Standard DACWffi Made from pure cream off tartar derived from grapes. MIII IMi I.IM-'.S. She Is a telephone girl's occupation a profession or a business? He Neither; it s a vailing. Chic me News "What do you find the most trying thii g about being rich?" ."Saving no to people who want to he j me double my pile." Chicago Record-1 lor-aid. "Don't you feel deeply .Impressed by tin halls of congress?" "I don't know." answered Senator Sor ghum, thoughtfully, "The hauls made then don't strike mo as being, nearly as hirgf ai formerly." ashlngtiui Star. "So the lawyers gt most all the cstr.e Did Kthcl get anything? ' oh. yes. She got one of the lawers.' Juilge. "Thiv have arresied hint, have thej: What is the amount of the defalcation?" "No one know, but It must he rnntmous He can remember where $lu.wXl of It piil' Chicago Tribune. THIS HIM DOWX. 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Study well your pleading lover, Or vbu may too late discover , That he'll place ntore' horl1s' thilh rosea In your crown. And If anything about him Gives you slightest cause to doubt him. Do It In a gentle way, but turn him down pACTS IN NATURE Learn The Truth. ia not afraid to oublish the truth it the man who . will be honored by his countryman. Every person who neeila a tonic and health-builder at this tiao will recognize the merit ol this mediclW which Dr. Pierce offers you the in gradients of which he is not afraid or ashamed to put in the lime-light of pub licity. From the pure fountain of nature flows the stream of energy and health, which renews and invigorates our race. In every period of the world'a progress men have received their greatest strength and Inspiration direct from nature. It j is the greatest teacher and developer of mankind. Not only do we get inspira tion from nature, out health as well. To live in the open, in the sunshine, in the fields or woods, drinking pure air into the lungs, ia best for those who have the opportunity. For people who are run-down, nervous, suffering from occasional indigestion or dyspepsia, headaches, night-sweats, whose machin ery baa become worn, it becomes neces sary to turn to some tonic or strength ens which will help them to get on their feet and put the body into its Siroper condition. For centuries it has een known that nature's most valuable tealth-giving agents are found in plants . and roots. Some forty year ago Dr. R, V. Pierce, consulting physician to the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, at Buffalo, N. 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