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Tnn OMAHA DAILY HEE: MONDAY, JULY 10, 1903. Tlte Omaha Daily Dee. E. ROPEWATFR, EDITOR. rUBMSHED EVERT MORNING. i TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily Pee (without Sunday), one ear...M) Daily Lee and Sunday, cine year i ' Illustrated Bee, one year !" Sunday He. on year IW Saturday liee, on your I M Twentieth Onlury Farmer, on year.... LOW DELIVERED BY CARR1KR. Patty Bee (without Sunday), per copy-- f'ally Hw (without Sunday), per week, lallv Tim lineliwllri RnniUvl Ier Week llo 17J Evening Pee (without Sunday!, per week Jc Evening Bee (Including Sunday), per week 12c Sunday He. per copy 60 Complaints of Irregularities In delivery should he addressed to City Circulation De partment. OFFICES. Omaha The Pre Building. South Omaha City Hall building, Twenty fifth and M strata. Council Bluffs 10 Pearl street. Chicago liMtt I'nlty building. Nw York 15ti9 Home Life Insurance building. Washington Ml Fourteenth street CORRESPONDENCE. 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S1.8HO g 2U,IM0 s ao.ino 10 ii,io II ,IWH 12 SW.TIO is.; it,7o 14 ai,7(io li.. 21,0SO 16 8,H0 17...M 3IMHO 18 20.0(H) J 9 M30 20 20.THO 21 so.oso 22 HO.Ulk) 23 80.4IM) 24 Sl.itOO 25 liOJMIO 2ii 21,7SO 27 SW.T30 28 JSW.T.IO 29 W.TBO 80 2W.700 Total DO4.O30 Lees unsold copies 0,1)44 Net total sales MM.IOO Dally average 2,8oa C. C. ROSEWATER. . Secretary. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me th's 7th day of July, 19H6. (Seal) M. B. HUNUATE, Notary Public. WHEN Ol'T OF TOWH. . gnbscrlbers leavlnsl the city tem porarily shoald have The Bee mailed to them. It la better than , dally letter from home. Ad dress will be chanced aa often as requested. A campaign against croakers by the Omaha Commerclnl club Is In order. Tbe June rise of the Missouri river has arrived In July like May bugs In June. Inspecting voting inncklnes will prove to be a most profitable industry for tbe commission. Fiom now until tbe spring election councllmanlc candidates will be the star ntti actions In all the improvement clubs. Dispatches from Persia would indicate that tbe reincarnation of the spirit of "VStM ajjout due on s.Pjd Ughtlp ground. ' Those fellows who fought Are In Ne : vada with champagne and beer were even too much afraid of water to suit the average Kentuckian. With Root, Taft and Shaw all "men tldnedV . for president, President Roose velt should have three cabinet officers, at least, working for "records." Now that the Fontanelle governors have conferred In star chamber, the re opening of the political rendering works may be looked for at an early day. Mayor Moores will become very un popular at certain hotel bars If be keeps this thing up. Wliy can't a thirsty coun cilman indulge without being scolded? Foreigners will have less objection to tbe closing of certain parts of Russia to them since tbe members of the royal family arc also restricted in their move ments. : jilr. Devlin says he will pay every dol lar he owes, and Treasurer Kelly of Kansas undoubtedly wishes he would begin before tbe ' examiners complete their report. ., If the park commission desires to make an approximate estimate of the value of those submarine lots in front of River- view park now is the proper time to take deep sea soundings. The Twelfth Ward Federation of Im- provement Clubs baa tackled the delicate subject of "Holy Smoke" that kills all .vegetation except weeds la the neigh borhood of the brick yards. The Lewis and Clarke exposition is al ready up against the usual diversion of an insurrection among the concession' aires. An exposition without a Midway rebellion would not be the real thing, With all tbe big guns shooting off at the mid summer Chautauqua, provpects of arousing interest in the political cam paign in the fall become poorer. After bearing tbe big noises, the little fire crackers will be in danger of getting scant attention. That was a deep game the water board played on the appraisers when It Inveigled them to come to Omaha at $35 a day each and expenses, then served them with a restraining order to stop them from further proceeding until the courts could determine what they bad a right to determine. Members of the New York court which baa decreed theatrical agencies to be no different from the ordinary employment bureaus will do well to keen, away from the footllght fraternity. To put a young woman seeking a job as a chorus girl 011 the same plane as one looking for em ployment In domestic service is an at front that will not be lightly forgotten. TMC VMXESK noTCOTT. The action tnkch by President Iloose v'lt for a loss rliild enforcement of the Chinese exclusion net wns expected to have the effect of checking the move ment organized by the merchants of China OKiIiiHt Alnerlcnn goods, and the order Issued by the Chinese government against the tioycott spienrs to have had to some extent the desired effect. Put It Is not to 1k supposed that the movement tins stopped or Is likely to do so until tha Chinese are Wtter nsured thnn at pres ent that the exclusion law will not here after Ik? as harshly enforced as It has been for several years. The president of the Chinese Iteform association, now in this country, says the action of Mr. Roosevelt is not wholly satisfactory to the Chinese people, who are "rapidly becoming more and more enlightened aud will insist upon being treated exactly in the same manner as the most forward nations, or the boycott which has leen declared against Ameri can goods will spread and be rigidly en forced over the entire Chinese empire." What great many of our people seem not to understand is that China is mov ing and that her people are becoming more enlightened In regard to the rest of the world and the important part they fire destined to play In world affairs. They are beginning to hnve a higher ap preciation of themselves and quite natur ally to expect better consideration than they have been getting from others. Europeans in China who are careful and Intelligent observers note that all the way to the western lorder of the em pire the people have been stirred in a re markable degree by the events of the war. The remarkable success of Japan has inspired the Chinese and let! them to believe that they too may accomplish great things if they will reform their methods and emulate the example of the Japanese in the adoption of western methods. The imperial edict ordering that schools be established in all the larger towns for Instruction in western learning and science is being carried rap idly into effect It is stated that In scores of cities throughout central China large buildings hnve been secured or are eing built for the purposes of these schools. The high military officials of China have come to recognize the fact that under the old policy the country will be left hopelessly behind Japan. They re therefore in favor of reform and anx ious that the people should acquire all the helpful lessons that the Occident has to teach them. Thus with stcndlly growing Interest the people of China, for centuries In Iso lation and indifferent to what was going on in the outside world, are giving atten tion to western ways and becoming Im bued with Ideas to which' hitherto they have been utter strangers. Their diplo matic representatives in foreign lands, their students and their travelers have carried to them Information which has caused an awakening and the work of re form already begun will go forward, as suring In the coming years great olmnges, ; The China of today will not complacently submit to treatment which ten years ago It stood with little or no tajniplaint. '-It has come, or is rapidly coming, to a sense of Its importance and its rights as a nation and it intends to demnnd just and respectable considera tion. The country that wants Its trade must treat it fairly. The feeling in China at present is that this is not; being done by the United States and in conse quence her merchants have entered upon a policy of retaliation which probably will be adhered to until the cause of it Is removed. "JOKES BE FAYS THE FREIGHT." The game of shuttleoock and battle- door between the Omuha Water board and the Omaha 'Water company is being played with skill and tact on both sides, First the water board starts an in junction; then the water compuny trumps the card by mandamus; then the water board gets a restraining order and the water company counters by another, while the lawyers on both sides, like tbe rats In the big cheese, are getting their 011. Just as everybody is on tip-toe, ex pectlng the appraisers to make their final report, up Jumps the water board with a restraining order prohibiting the appraisers from taking into cousidera tlon tha value of the plant at South Omaha, Dundee, East Omaha and the Bnrt street pumping station, as well as a part of tbe town of Florence. Then the appraisers, who have been drawing $50 a day each out of tbe city treasury, fall back and retire in good order to their respective homes to guess again, and the lawyers of the water company set all their typewriters in mo tion to convince the court that the water board is off its base. When the returns are all in it will bo found that the water board is not off the city pay roll. On the contrary, It is drawing its salaries with great regti larity and dispatch, although It has no water works to manage and is not likely to have for another year or two, as might have been foreseen by anybody with a thimble full of brains. All the same, "Jones he pays the freight." While the city Is being bombarded and fusilladed about excessive water rates and hydrant rentals the taxpayers have been looted to the tune of $25,000 to pay tbe expenses incidental to the appraise ment, and the end is not much nearer than at the beginning. All these bless ings we owe to that eminent navigator and smokeless powder hero and veteran of two bills R. P. Howell. "Praise God from whom all blessings flow." With the Japanese on the Island of Sakhalin the peace conference at Wash ington become more Interesting, as the impression is general that the Japs will decline to surrender anything they may occupy when fighting stops. (If in the course of human events the water works appraiser should happen, as It were, to complete their work altout the lime the merger waa to be effected between Omaha and South Omaha, what kind of an order would the court have to give to reappraise the water plant with South Omaha dumped In? VI It FuHEIUS JiKl'I;. There continues to Ik criticism of the foreign service of the United States, par ticularly the consular branch of it, and It Is understood that AssiMtunt Secretary of State Loomis Is to make an investigation ami report to the president, It Is pre sumed for the purpose of enabling the latter to fhke action for the betterment of the foreign service. The administra tion has shown n great deal of Interest in this direction and with good results, but It is evident that the president Is not satisfied that all has been done which can be accomplished for Improving the service, The Philadelphia Press quotes Senator Depew as saying that the average Amer ican consul does not understand the purpose for which be has been sent abrood. "He appreciates the 'honor' and swells up under it, but Is neither alert observing nor studious of our opportuni ties. Generally, he says that he isn't paid enough to hustle." The senator points out that these conditions are due entirely to the faults of our system, by which politics Is allowed to overshadow competency. He urges that we must be gin on new lines and must train men to fill these posts, pay them better and In sure them permanency and advancement If they show ability and enthusiasm In their duties. "In other words, we must Inaugurate a training school for future consular and diplomatic employes of the United States. We cannot hold our own with- the better-equipped service of com mercial and political rivals unless we have the right kind of agents in all parts of the world." As Mr. Depew has had ample oppor tunities for making himself familiar with our foreign service what he says respecting it must be accepted as author itative, yet It must be admitted that many of our consuls are capable and are faithful and zealous In the performance of their duties. Terhaps on the whole the consular service of the United States compares favorably with that of any other, but undoubtedly it can be im proved. REVOLUTIOSS KEVER GO BACKWARD- Greut reforms vitally affecting the public welfare move in waves, like epidemics. This is again forcibly illus trated by the popular wave against frenzied financiering, boodllug, grafting and, - lust but not least, railroad puss bribery by which lawmakers, judicial and administrative officers, have been demoralized. When Governor La Follette inaugu rated his campaign against all these abuses' he stood alone umong western governors, but his example has been fol lowed by Folk of Missouri, Hoch of Kanaas, Deneen of Illinois and, more re cently still, by Governor Uunley of Indiana. In a speech made last Wednesday at Terre Haute Governor Hunley branded the pass system as downright bribery. He declared that the contention of rail road officials, tbut passes given to legis lators and. other public officials as mere complimentary gratuities for whlch no return la expected, is utterly groundless. Governor Hahley struck the nail on tlio head when he suid that the railroads are managed by shrewd men . who put the company's pusses as well as its cash where they think it will do the most good. If they did not expect passes issued to public offlcluls to serve their company's Interests they would not issue them. Inasmuch as they continue, year after year, to issue them, returns must be received, and received necessarily at tbe expense of thp people. According to the conception of Gov ernor Hanley, the whole system is rad ically vicious and lawless and its sup pression has become imperative for pub lic safety and good government. It goes without saying that the suppression of the railroad passes and the suppression of the corporation lobby would do more to purify politics than any other measure of reform agitated at this time. It will be observed that the French approval of a tunnel through Mont Blanc does not go to the extent, of raising cash for the enterprise. The Panama scandal is too recent and Great Rrltaln controls Sues. The next French engineering feat may be expected where France stands no chance to lose. As long as M. Jaures prints bis "speech" in French the Berlin police may be able to control the situation, but suppressing a plea for universal peace is hardly in accord with the iopular tend ency of the day, which seems to be to talk for peace and fight like demons. Political labor "grafters" seem to be as active In Great Britain as in the United States, considering their opportunities, but the British will never know the full beauties of the system until they have quadrennlul elections. The organization in one of our Ne brask counties of an anti-horse thieving association reminds us that the refine ments of frenzied finance have not yet entirely supplanted the old-time outlaw. Short Kad of I.onar llaala. St. Louis 01obe-remocrat. The brokenbank at Toneka was run by a man with twenty-five other enterpriser on his hands. When there are so many Iron In the (r It should be only a short dls lance between coaling stations. Trlple-Polated Sarrasm. St. Paul Pioneer-Press. . As neat a bit of triple-pointed sarcasm as has of late been flung from any pen is that of Joseph Conrad, when, in the North American Review, he speaks of "Industrial Ism and Commercialism ploking up coins behind the severe and disdainful fig ure of Science, whose giant strides have widened for us the horlson ot the universe by some three inches." "Mere I.aere Overthrown. Kansas City Star. It Is probable that John F. Wallace, the former chief engineer of the Panama canal, will look upon Ellha Root as foolish. He reUno.uiabes a law practice worth IA0.OOO t year to become a cabinet member at t.ttxi a year. Still It would be more Important by far to know what Mr. Root thinks of Wallace. Ilrtnn for One, Fit AH. Portland Ore-"nlan. The purest treasure mortal times affords Is spotless reputation; that away, Men are but si Med loam and painted clay, Safe Poller to Follow. Pittsburg- Dlspnth. If the new secretary of state will follow the policies of the late Secretary Hay there need be little fear of America becom ing seriously Involved with any nation. Good Work on Sntall Salaries. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Fabulous salaries do not always attract the best men for a particular line of work. Admiral Togo's pay Is only 13.000 a year and Christopher Columbus discovered America while working; for the pa'lry sum of IK a month. Dravrlna; It Pretty Fine. Chicago Chronicle. The tainted money proposition has been raised out In Ossawatomle Kan., where the newspapers object to the city authorities receiving fines from Illegal lljuor sellers. This Is drawing It pretty fine. On the same theory the police courts would have to g-o out of business or else Impose Jail sen tences only. Like most other manifesta tions of moral hysterics, the tainted money Idea will eventually reduce Itself to an ab surdity and then peter out. rRltSOSAL. SOTKS. Bad river. In South Dakota, seems to deserve the name which was long ago bestowed upon It. If the busy statistician is right New York's yearly tips to Its waiters would wipe out the deficit In the national treas ury and leave $1,250,000 or so to help our educational institutions make both ends meet. II. A. Pledsoe, son of the man whose life suggested to John Hay the poem, "Jim Bludso of the Prairie Belle," Is living In Denver. The elder Bledsoe lived in War saw nearly all his life, and was a famous character among river men In the old days. The old man, who died three months ago, always kept up correspondence with Mr. Hay. King Edward receives dally no fewer than S.000 newspapers and 1,000 letters, while tha ciar and the Gorman emperor receive each from 600 to TOO letters and appeals. The king of Italy Is troubled by about BOO and Queen Wllhelmlna from 100 to 150. All these, however, are put In the shade by the pope, who holds first place with from 22,000 to 23.0C0 letters every day. ' Gifford rinchot, chief of the forest serv ice of the United States, adopted the pro fession of forestry immediately after grad uating at Tale in 18S9, and has been work ing at it ever since. His grandfather was a soldier under Napoleon, who was forced to leave France after the restoration and settled early in the nineteenth century in the northeastern corner of Pennsylvania. Captain N. M. Brooks, superintendent of foreign mails in the Postofflce department of the government, was born on the same day as President McKlnley. They were each the seventh child of their parents, entered the army together at the age of 18, and were mustered out of the Service on the same day. On July SI Captain Brooks will have seen thirty-three years continuous service in the Postofflce depart ment. The Elks of Texas have gone to the na tional reunion at Buffalo with an attractive offer which they hope will carry the next meeting of the grand lodge to Dallas. They are willing to spend $30,000 In exhibiting the Lone Star state to their northern brethren. One of the propositions Is to run a special train to "Mexico and to carry visiting Elks to the' chief , cities ot ths state. n ' I.OOKIMU TOWARD DESTINY. ProKress of tbe World as Reflected la Amerlcaa Relations. Goodwin's Salt Lake Weekly. The representatives of two great empires are about to meet in our country's capital to try to arrange a peace. It Is a strange fact that our country should have been se lected for such a purpose ours the only really great republic in the world. It em phasises the fact that our nation has be come a world power In the world's esti mation. On the eastern continent the Cau casian is confronting the Mongolian, the Indian and Malay. With Japan triumphant it will not be many years until It will be found that almost Imperceptibly Its genius has Infused China with a spirit of aggres siveness, and that its myriads have been trained in the arts of both peace and war. It was In anticipation of this that the Ger man emperor, not long since, expressed sympathy for Russia, adding: "Russia is fighting Europe's battle." That Is, In fancy he saw the Asian hive swarming In ter rible competition for the world's trade. If not in arms, for the western world's con quest Asia and Europe are joined, but we are so situated that we look to the east for Europe, to the west for Asia. Plan as wa may we can no longer keep our sphere, of Influence to ourselves. This time two great empires seek our shores to find a place In which to arbitrate their differences. Next time our nation will have to be the arbitrator. Looking around over our country a won derful spectacle is presented. Our harvests are feeding half the world; our textiles supply half the world's looms; our mines are yielding such a tremendous volume of wealth that soon, of the gold and silver of the world, our country will possess a vastly undue proportion of the whole. Moreover, of the world's strong races a host equal in numbers to the armies of Russia and Japan are landing upon our shores annually from foreign countries and merging with our people. Keeping in mind that God was watching at Valley Forge, at Saratoga and Yorktown; thut He was watching at Lundy's Lane and New Or leans; that Ue was watching when Texas and California and the treasure-laden desert were wrenched from Mexico to become a part of our republic; that He was about Vlcksburg and Gettysburg and Appomatox, that our republic might be saved, Intact; that He turned the missiles aside from our ships In Manila bay and off Santiago it would be Impossible not to believe that a purpose was behind the creation aof our great republic. To our dimmed eyes It looks as though that purpose was to revert the rule of the ages. In all the past among the nations a few people have been every thing, .the masses nothing. Is that this present purpoue to prove that man is noth ing, the people everything; that is, that there Is to be a readjustment and a level ingthat the grosser forces are to wither and that heart and brain are to rule ihe world? And Is there not a purpose In filling our land at the same time with an irre sistible host of people and with inestimable treasures? Does it not mean that our coun try is o be the final arbiter between the east and the west, and that our tree of liberty is to expand until a reconciled world shall rest under Its benign shade? Who knows? Put the possibility should cause our peo ple to be more perfect themselves In all the arts of both peace and war; that we may never be caught unprepared; that the manhood of tha nation be all the time kept alert and equipped to the very highest point of efficiency, and every man in the republic trained to think that the safety and glory of the country rests In part upon himself, and that a failure on his part to make the very best of himself would be a reproach to the fathers, a dishonor to the i ROtSD ABOtT JKW YORK. Ripples oa tbe Current of Ufe In tbe Metropolis, The lux rate for this year In Greater New York has been pulled down from $1.51 on the $1iX valuation to $1.47. The prime cause of the reduction is the great Increase In the assessment roll, amounting to $.T1.- ""O.rtO over lust year. Renl estato vnlua tlons Increased $3ti,nno,(ioo and personal property $',000,000. The total assessment roll fur the greater city Is $.".912.orVOo. The budget for this year Is $109,817,595. The general fund will this year sscregate, It Is estimated, $:2.79.02, leaving $J-,M8.590 to be raised by taxation. Among the highest assessments which have been held on the personal tax rolls are: Andrew Carnegie, $.,ono,on0; John D. Rockefeller, $2,500,000; Russell Sage. $2.0OJ.. 0tP0; Alice O. Vanderbilt, $l,00n,000; William K. Vunderbtlt, $1, 00,000, while an assess, ment of $l(to,ono on John R. Piatt also stands. There are many once famous people living In New York whose names have almost faded from memory. It is only when they become seriously ill or die that the public Is reminded of their existence. Old General Sickles, hero of Gettysburg, has not been mentioned in the newspapers here for two years, yet he continues to move about in his old haunts. General Egan of "embalmed beef" fame during the Spanish-American war, has a quiet homo on Madison avenue. A short time ago his existence was revealed through a com plaint made by him at the police station. The llitlo boys In the neighborhood made too much noise for" the old gentleman. Mrs. Jefferson Davis, .widow of the con federate president, Is living quietly at the Jlotel Gerard. She Is 80 years of age and very feeble. . When she is w ell enough she finds her greatest pleasure in the visits which southerners pay to her, and when her strength allows she rarely refuses to see any southern woman who pays this visit of respect and Interest. She can move only with the aid of a cane. Surrogate Fitzgerald Is considering the case of Samuel Fales Dunlap, an octo genarian who died last March. Mr. Dun- lap had lived In his house for many years alone with the servants. Ho left two wills, disposing of his estate of more than $1,000,000. One is dated October 25, 1903, and makes a cousin, Haliburton Fales, the solo beneficiary. The other will Is dated Janu ary 2, 1904. In it William Haliburton. Samuel w. and Joseph Brldgeham, also cousins, are named, with Rose Ealden, who for many years was Dunlap's house keeper. Haliburton Fales is made residuary legatee. The three cousins other than Fales contest the 1904 will on the ground that Dunlap was Incompetent. One of the witnesses was Dr. Edward P. Fowler, who was Dunlap's physician for forty years. He said his old friend had eccentric habits. Mr. Dunlap woro his hat and his coat in the house until he went ts bed, and would buy a suit of clothes only once in fifteen years. Dr. Fowler was asked to what extent Mr. Dunlap used In toxicants. "I have known him to drink a pint of brandy, a half pint of whisky and a bottle of champagne In twenty-four hours," said Dr. Fowler. "This he did almost daily." "It has long been known that the popu lation of no great city would increase, or even remain stationary, but for the Inces sant influx of newcomers from the rural districts or from foreign countries," says Harper's Weekly. "This seems to be pe culiarly true of New York. As Dr. John 11. Glrdner puts It In his book entitled New-Yorkltls, the Inhabitants of the Amer ican metropolis are driving themselves and being driven like beasts of burden. 'They work like dynamos all day, and play like Idiots all night.' The reports of the health department show that the number of sud den deaths in New York has recently in creased out of all proportion to the growth In population. Thus, In 1904, it seems that 8,000 persons fell dead, or died soon after they were stricken an Increase of BOO over New York's record in the previous year. In the first three months of 1906 no fewer than 1,700 cases of this character were re ported, and as these figures were for cold months, when the brain or the heart is not as liable to crack as ft la In hot weather. it is expected that the victims of living at high pressure will number In the present year more than twice as many as they did in 1904." "The man or woman who has never been across," said an officer of a transatlantic liner, "Is delighted when friends send of ferings of flowers before the boat sails at times so many of them as to leave no place for a steamer trunk. "The novice holds onto them until they are SO withered as to have lost their beauty or until the odor makes him sick. But the old traveler has learned a better wsy. "He waits until the generous- friends have gone down the gang plank and then quietly heaves the whole bunch overboard. The result is that he has all the room that belongs to him and la saved no end of discomfort and annoyance. The flowers are not lost, aa boatmen hover about the big liners In the harbor and pick them up and carry thera to the city to be sold again." The tallest structure In the world is soon to be erected In New York. When completed It will occupy the space at the southeast corner of Twenty-fourth street and Madison avenue, where Dr. Parkhurst's church now stands. The Metropolitan Life Insurance com pany will erect this magnificent tower, which will be higher than Washington mon ument. Plans for Its construction are now under consideration by the company. All the land in the block, which Is 425 feet long and 197 feet 6 Inches wide. Is owned by the company. When the land was acquired it was necessary to buy one of New York's most famous residences and three other old familiar structures, tho Lyceum theater, the Academy of De sign and the Madison Square Presbyterian church. The last is still standing. It Is on this site that the tallest struc ture in the world is to be erected. Ac cording to the present plans the tower will bear about the same relation to the main building that the Madison Square tower does to the Madison Square Garden building. The site of the Metropolitan s tower has a frontage of seventy-five feet on Madison avenue and 150 feet on Twenty fourth street. This will give a base area of about 11,250 square feet, which Is con siderably more than that of the Washington monument. There will be offices in the tower and, of course, elevators. There will be an observatory at the top. surmounted by a huge flagstaff. The distance from the sidewalk to the top of the tower will be 660 feet. Private tar Abuses. Springfield Republican. A decision of some importance is that Just rendered by the Interstate Commerce com mission In the case of charges made by the Pere Marquette and Michigan Central roads for transportation and refrigeration of fruit In private cars. It is held that the rail roads are required by common law to fur nish rultable transportation facilities, and accordingly when the rouds neglect to pro vide refrigerator cars of their own, but de pend upon private cars, they are none the less responsible for the service and the charges imposed. Hence the charges come under the eenpe of the interstate act and are subject to leguhitlon like any other m i-oa ThiM n, ems to be sound reason- I ing, and If It holds good, a way is opened I without special legislation to deal with 4Li?rlvat car abuse. , out t twWr- mil TfTi7V fr WW i STATR PRESS COMMENT. Bchuyler Free Lance: Down In the First congressional district the democrats are running a goldbug democrat of corporation Ideas and sympathies for congress and then on top of that run him on a Roose velt platform. The democrats are ever liable to do ridiculous things. Schuyler Free Lance: While this editor Is not an admirer of Mickey and don't like his personality and some of his narrow views, and while we have "roasted" him time" and again for his acts, yet we have ever said that he was a clean man and was giving the state a business adminis tration and on top of that can say to his credit that he stands for the people and right as against railroad tax shirking. And so we say, Good for Governor Mickey! David City Banner: "Mr. Pollard," says the York Democrat, "will doubtless use his annual to travel over the district advocat ing the anti-pass platform of tho Falls City convention." If he does he ought to be defeated. We have no use for a repub lican who will accept and use a pnss and advocnte an anti-pass law. A republican politician who will do that Is acting like the average "reform" politician. We have no uso for a hypocrite. Schuyler Free Lance: The officials of the state who organized and pooled Interests to get the biennial election law passed last winter by the legislature, and then put up additional funds to carry their end through the supreme court, did not get any returns for their money. Tho supreme court de clared the act unconstitutional, and so all those court house follows will not got that additional year In office, as they fully ex pected, and are out their costs besides. The best way to got a longer term in office is to serve tho people well and have them re-elect you. Holdrege Citizen: For a week or two post an agency at Omaha has been flooding the offices of the country newspapers with clips claiming to prove how great a hard ship It would be' on the country if the Interstate Commerce commission was given power to regulate railroad rates where there was injustice done. But few, if any, of the papers have printed these arguments, as most of the papers doubtless realize that there has been much Injustice done under the present system. It is hard to make the masses of the people feel that there is any danger of the railroads suffer ing from the president's plan of regulating the railroad rates when it is proven that an injustice has been done. Albion Argus: Thomas D. Worrall Is manufacturing some very interesting read ing these times. In prosecuting the Grain trust he has undertaken a mighty big job. As he has been one of them for several years he ought to have a good Idea aa to what he can do. But after all it takes nerve for a common man with a few thou sands to back up against a combine of several millions. Some peculiar develop ments have already come forth. Some of the very farmers' elevator companies that have been organized to fight the trust are found to have been working with It. Some of these farmers, when put on the stand, refused to testify lest they incriminate themselves for violating the anti-trust law I Don't that Jar you? , Howells Journal: There is a concern at Omaha whose envelope has the card "Rathom &. Crawford, Columbia, News bureau, 915 New York Life Bldg., Omaha, Neb.," that is wasting a lot of postage on this office. Every day or two we re ceive a Job lot of "ready made" editorial from them dealing with the Esch-Townsend bill. We have ideas of our own on the subject ot railroad legislation and a will ingness to express them when occasion de mands. We are not a railroad hater who would confiscate the property of the great corporations, nor are we one of the gang who wear the railroad collar and sneeze whenever a corporation lawyer takes snuff. We believe that freight rates should bo regulated by state and nation, rates made J that would pay a fair profit upon the money Invested in rauroaa property auer the water has been wrung out of the bonds issued at its building. Government regu lation of rallrouds must come, government ownership ought not to. The railroads are making a gTeat mistake In fighting gov ernment control, and if they persist in the fight they may drive the people to govern ment ownership as a last reBort. Therfc are no teen remedies in family medicine. we might mention r li 1 '. TBsssjrrM-' mmm , , -. " aw Hi K A FN 7 V yellow dock root, stillingia root, buck- thorn barK, senna leaves, DurdocK. root, clmi- li last t f?fnoo rnnt rinftinnn Kflrlc ntivrnl rwr4 I I Ayer's Sarsaparilla is certainly a medicine, a genuine medicine, a doctor's medicine. ' SUA. ter M. O. Arr0.. LWU. SMS. awe s,..uisVifcujrs of ATTB'S SATS VIGOR For tbe a IT. ATI S a PULa Tor osatin.ttaa Tho Wonderful Growth ol Caluimet IPowdeL? Is due to its Perfect Quallly and Moderate Price Used In Millions of Homes PASSING PLEASANTRIES. Penner What, then, do you consider ths best method of keeping books? Rorroughs There's only one surs way. Penner What' that? Borroughs Forget to return them. Cleve land Plain Dealer. The first dear girl was showing her new engagement ring. "Don't you admire his taste?" she asked. "Y-yes, answered dear girl No. I "As fnr as Jewelry is concerned I do." Detroit Tribune. "Mrs. Starvem made that new boarder squopio into that hall bedroom." "Well. I haven't heard any complaint from him there." "Of course not; why. there Isn't any room for complaint." Philadelphia ledger. "Try to forget me," she said with a look of pity. "How can I?" he miserably answered, "aa long as I have to make monthly payments on the things I have presented to you?" Chicago Record-Herald. "A government official la but a servant of tho people," said the man with old-fashioned Ideas. "Yes," answered Senator Sorghum. "The trouble Is that in so many cases the tips amount to more than the regular wages.' Washington Star. "There's a case of poetlo Justice!" "What Is?" "Dr. Doseham wrote a powerful antl vlvlsectlon article for the papers and all his medical acquaintances have cut him!" Cleveland Leader. "You do not seem to attach much Impor tance to polMlcal enthusiasm." "No," answered Senator Sorghum, "I have observed that one friend can holler and make as much noise as twenty people who have settled down In a determination to vote agalnBt you." Washington Star. POWER OF ADVERTISING. W. J. Lampton In New York Bun.. There used to be a man who lived In Skeetersvllle, N. J. . Who opened up a little store And went to making hay. The country round about was good, Tho people sure but slow, And Bllllngton, which was his name. Set out to make thera go. The old time town Of SkeetersvlUa Was dead enough to skin When Bllllngton took hold but say, He got a hold to win. He introduced a line of g-oods That made tha people stare. And when they came to take a look , They found the prices fair. ' ' ' And then they bought and business boomed And Bllllngton did more Than anybody ever did In that town with a store, , But what he did was not enough To suit his growing size. And Bllllngton of Skeetersvllle J use yearned to advertise. He yearned to see his dazzling ads Glow in the business sky. Attracting people everywhere To come his way to buy. ( But, lo, the town of Skeetersvllle, Tis pity to confess, Had never fc t a long felt want To have a printing press. So Bllllngton turned to at once To soe what he could get, And pretty soon the people had The Skeetersvllle Gazette. And Bllllngton was in It, big; Such advertising ways Were never known to Skeetersvllle As BUlingtop's displays. The old time merchants saw the ads Of Bllllngton, and they Began to uso a line or two To make their business pay. The town began to get alive. Its shell bean to crack. And every now and then you'd hear The moss fall off Us back. And outside, people on the look For better means to fill Their empty coffers, thought they'd take A chance at Skeetersvlllo. Ths town was growing good and strong; Another paper came To meet the advertisers' wants And spread the city's fame. The town grew onr. No power could thwart The enterprise and will Of Hillington et at., and yet They called it Skeetersvllle. Then Bllllngton broke loose and said. The old name ought to go. And something b adopted whluh Would let the whole world knew It was a hustling sort of town. Where thins were on the run And in two minutes Hkeetersville Was changed to BiUington. ;W?WrfSJSI!S 'i'.V.-y '.'.'.-' less than four this standard Among them sarsaparilla root ) a) sff