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TITR OMAHA DAILY DEEi SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1905. Tik Omaha Daily Bee. B. ROSEWATER, EMTOH. PUBLISHED EVERT MORNING. TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION. ftf!r (without Sunday), on year;. 24 0 NUlr Be Anil r)unday, on yr IM Illustrated Bee, on year .. I W .. i.to .. l.M runnsy B", on TfV , patiirday Ee. on vr twentieth Century Farmer, one year... DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Pally P-a (without Sunday), p' opr. Pally Beo (without KnndnrY. Der wh Pally Be (Including Sunday), per week.. 17a Evening Bee (without Sunday ), per week To Evening Be (Including Sunday), per week He Sunday Bt, per copy la Complaint of Irregularities In dsllvery should be addressed to City circulation I- partment. OFFICES'. Omaha Tli Bee Building. South Omaha City Hall Building, Twenty-fifth and M treets. CounHI BlnfTs 10 Pesrl street, Chicago-lino I'nlty Building. New York ISO Horn Lif Insurance Building. Washington 1 FouHeenth trt. CORRESPONDENCE. 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RO0SWATER, Becretary. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 7th day ot auiy, tSeal) M. B. HUNOATE, Notary Public WHEN OUT OF TOW. Mi-iber IvaTtaaT Jt lr rmrtlr sksnlsV havs Tas BS tailed to then. It la fcetter thaa tally letter (re as home. Ad dress will be ehaaged as sites as reeiaeated. : That clock with 1U $1,000 ticks should bp kept In good repair for future use. College executives may prepare to make anotlicr "touch." The use of ker osene at New Ortehns is unprecedented. It la to be hoped that while the Ben nington investigation will be rigid, it will be elastic enough to cover all the facts. Secretary Wilson seems resolved that (he only grafting permitted in the Agri cultural department shall be In the hor ticultural branch. . The valuiiUou of taxable property In the city ot Lincoln Is sadly out of Joint with the boasted population census re cently taken In that city. .When the new city charter appears In book form it Is to be hoped It will be a better Job than the chapter as It appears In the rolume of session laws. If the members of the Zionist congress do their fighting before they begin the work of colonization the real colonists may have a more peaceful time. From the action of southern towns It would appear that the mosquito theory of the spread of yellow fever Is believed only while the disease Is In another coun ty. Omaha Is to receive u vlalt from the Interstate Commerce commission at an early day, which Indicates that Omaha Is attracting some attention as a grain market. . 'The report that Prince Ferdinand of Koumanta has resolved to declare his In. dependence of Turkey August 2 gives the war correspondent another chance far a Job. If Bclp Dundy can be Induced to come back to Omaha and take charge of the Auditorium for a year or two his name iwlll be Inscribed on the roil as OmabVa public benefactor. A mutiny on the part of a few Pan ama police has been suppressed. In the aid days of the Isthmus this would ha to been heralded to the world as a "revolu tion" tipped In the bud. Now that It Is seml-officlally an nounced that both Komura and Wltte dictated the terms of their appolutinemt as peace plenipotentiaries the public will haTe more hope of seeing an agreement reached. Marquis Ito prepared and recited an original poem upon occasion of the visit of Secretary Toft and .Miss Roosevelt to .Japan Unfortunately. Japanese voters are so scarce In this country that the effusion will hardly have much In fluence on the next presidential cam paign. ' By raising the assessments of persona property by several million dollars the Btate Board of Equalisation la not hurt tng the railroads. The higher all other classes f property la assessed the lower will be the forced contributions of the railroads te the aggregate sum required for maintaining state and county gov ernment. Major Gillette, the man selected from the regular army to report upon Phila delphia's water system, la the officer wto probed the 'Savannah scandal re sulting la tha eonviction of Captain Car ter and the flight of Greene and Oaynor. It is possible the major will consider that work light before be untaogles'ihe .Quaker City snarl . . TT VMtAH RtStRVATlOX The opening of the Uintah reservation In Utah, for which all the preparations will be made, probably will be marked by a repetition of the struggle and ex cltement which has characterised tuo opening of other Indian reservations, though, the attractions In the present caw seern not to be so great as In some of the preceding openings. According to the commissioner of the land office, speaking from Information obtained from the agents of the office, who have Inspected the lands, there are not over B00 claims on which anybody can live. He Is reported as saying that undoubt edly t great many people who make filings will be disappointed and In an Interview he especially warns old sol dlers who may be contemplating taking up land In the reservation. The com mlssloner Is quoted as follows: "I don't want to see people disappointed. At every drawing I ever attended there have been a lot of disappointed people such disappointments would be partlc ulnrly pathetic In the case of old sol dlers. If these registrations are to be undertaken In good faith there will be disappointments; If not In good faith, they are speculative and ought to be discouraged for that reason." On the other hand It Is said that the reservation contains a great deal of good land aud has resources of very con slderable value. Meanwhile there Is a good deal of complaint In Utah regard ing the course of the commissioner of the general Jand office. lie la charged with having so expressed himself as to practically warn away Gentile migra tion to Utah to secure lands In the res ervation and so strong Is the feeling that a petition to President Roosevelt Is being signed asking that Commissioner Richards be removed. In a late Issue the Salt Lake Tribune vehemently de nounces the commissioner and urges bis removal. It Is unfortunate that there should have arisen any trouble of this kind, but It probably will have no ap preciable effect upon those who are In tending to secure lands In the Uintah reservation. The area to be opened Is extensive and undoubtedly there will be a demand for every acre of It. WESTERN Oil DE VELOPMEST- . It Is announced thut negotiations have been virtually concluded for the finan cing of a great oil company and pipe line project for the Indian Territory and Kansas oil fields. The statement la that options have been taken on terri tory with a dally production of 10,000 barrels' and arrangements have- been made for a pipe line from Chanute, Kan., to Port Arthur, on the Gulf of Mexico, where the Gulf Refining com- pnny has a monster refinery. A ritts- burg paper of a few days ago reports the arrival in that city of prominent oil producers from the Kansas and Indian Territory fields with the purpose of clos ing a deal for their properties. It was understood that a bond Issue for $7,000.- 000 Will be underwritten by a Pittsburg trust company to provide funds, for the building of a C50-mlle pipe line from the fields to the Gulf refinery, yhlch has a dally capacity of 12.000 barrels. It has heretofore been supplied from the Texas oil field. The syndicate is said to be composed of men who are abundantly able to carry out the project and who will have no difficulty In securing whatever finan cial aid they may require, if the ar rangement Is consummated, of which there appears to be no doubt, there will follow a rapid development of the oil fields of Kansas and the Indian Terri tory, the value of which has not yet been fully demonstrated. The syndi cate, If ita project is put Into effect, will become a competitor of the Standard un less it should form some sort of alli ance with the trust, which Is of course possible. Indeed It may turn out that the Standard is . behind the project, though there is nothing at present to Indicate this. Suspicion that such may be the case, however, is altogether nat ural, smce It would be quite In line with the policy and practice of the trust. At all events the rapid development of these western oil fields Is assured, with great material benefit to the regions produclng'the oil. PROPOSED BASK LEGISLATION That congress will be ura-nd to mnv. souie modlflcatlous of the national bank ing law, with a view to imposing restric tions upon the officers and directors of uniiKg m the matter of loans ...! . dorsemenu, Is, Indicated in reports from uasoingtou, It Is stated tlint tiwae.ir officials are considering the matter and one of the suggestions Is that there should be added to the bank statement au item which will show clearly the ag gregate amount of money loaned by each and every bonk to Its directors, and also the amount of paper which they have endorsed In their own Institutions. It Is pointed-out that auh data Is now conveyed to the comp troller's office In the regular process of nan examinations, but the offl hn. nn power beyond tlie enforcement of the 1. A At. . auu tue iaw nas no provision as to tho amount of endorsements that may be mode by a bank officer on paper held by hla own Institution. In the Judgment of treasure- nfflnioi. what Is needed now la such tairai rr,,-t slon as will warn the public as to con- oinons in banks which, although not In violation of the law. are not wise. It is reujsrked that could these h public by the Insertion of an Item In the nana statements showing s-mea iit,ni. tie ot officers, people would have a val- uaoie cneclt upon the onerattnus -" wa. uir Institution. It Is the opinion th thi- would largely diminish the nrsunt it The suggestion seems Judicious and we can conceive or no reasonable objection to it It is perhaps true that ds a rule ban officers are careful to keep within safe limits in the matter of loans and endorsements In their own institutions. wit it would manifestly be wis t some well established policy that could e uuirormiy enforced. That the pub lic Is entitled to such information as the proposed plan would furnish will not be serleusly questioned. RKSrOSSIRlLITr OF AVTOMOBILISTS A few days ago the Illinois supreme court rendered a decision involving the liability of automobllltts for Injuries growing out of illegal driving of their vehicles. While this decision may not directly affect the autottiobllists in other states. It establishes a precedent that will doubtless be followed by the courts of other states and communities that have enacted laws regulating the speed of automobiles. The case in point was one where an automobile being driven faster than fif teen miles an hour, the limit prohibited by the statute of Illinois, met a carriage drawn by a team of mules, which bo- came frightened and upset the carriage, seriously Injuring some of Its occupants. The Illinois supreme court holds that the automoblllst had a right to use the state highways, but must exercise reasonable care and caution for the safety of others and must not violate the state law regu latlng the speed of automobiles. The attorneys for the defense lh' this case objected to the law as unconstltu tlonal on the ground that It was "class" legislation, but the court brjished this ob jection aside with the declaration that the state properly exercised Its police powers by regulating the limit of any or all vehicles for the general protection of the community. The court In Its lengthy opinion also declares that no driver of a horse need signal to the automoblllst, but that the latter must exercise reasonable care and diligence In the propulsion of his machine and dde how far what he Is doing Is endangering others and If possible avoid such a result Incidentally the court holds that the required care and diligence must be rea sonable for an automobile driver, that Is to say, he must give due consideration to the nature of his vehicle. Racing and speeding with machines beyond the limit fixed by law la, therefore, a risk which automobllist8 assume and they conse quently become responsible for any In- Jury or damage Inflicted when they are speeding in violation of the law. With these responsibilities constantly In view the owners and drivers of automobiles will be more apt to keep within the bounds ofsafety and of the law. After all, John T. Cathers has ren dered this city Invaluable services In bringing his suit against the municipal authorities. The testimony has thor oughly exploded those well-defined ru mors that a small army of roustabouts and vagabonds had been placed u'non the municipal payroll during the last municipal campaign for no other purpose than to vote for the mnchlne candidates at the republican primaries. That story was a good enough Morgan, but had not the slightest foundation in fact While there may have been a technical viola tion of the provisions of the charter of 1003 that had gone Into effect only a few days previously, requiring the names of all persons employed In street clean ing to be submitted to l council by the Board of Public Works and con firmed before they were elltrible to do work, no testimony bearing out the as sertion that hundreds of men, bad been placed on the payroll who performed no work has been produced, but on the con trary, It has been shown that every em ploye was made to earn bis wages by labor on the streets. The Chlcugo liar association has de clared war against lawless constables genuine and bogus which, like the anti graft epidemic, may spread over the country. It appears that constabulary functions are being exercised la Chicago not merely by men who have a right to wear a star beneath their coat but also by Individuals who formerly were con stables and continue to act as a mere matter of habit and also because they are enabled by personating a constable to extract Involuntary contributions from people who do not know better. To put an end to this abuse the Chicago Bar association has opened a campaign against predatory and lawless men who are over-reaching their authority as con stables and men who are playing con stable without having any authority. There are doubtless other cities where a similar movement would not be out of order. Some of the suggestions and recom mendations embodied In the annual re port of Fire Chief Campion of Chicago might be profitably digested by the mu nicipal authorities of Omaha. The Chi cago fire chief suggests among other things that fire escapes be placed on all public and private school buildings and hospitals; that balcony fire escapes be placed on all buildings above two storliw used for hotel purposes and that a bureau of combustibles be established to regu late the storing and handling of explo sives and inflammable material. Omaha may not require a bureau of combusti bles, but It should by all means have one or more Inspectors of explosives aud pluces where explosive materials are stored, and the first step In that direction must be taken by the enactment of an ordinance establishing the requisite regu lations. This summury discontinuance of tha grading of streets and alleys for the re maining five months of the year, by rea son of a shortage of funds in the city treasury and kinks In the new charter, will not seriously Interfere with contem plated public improvements during the present season. What Omaha Just now needs more than bringlng; streets to grade is paving streets that are already to grade. N Nebraska trust busters are searching the state capitol with fine tooth combs to find laws that will enable them to successfully prosecute the combines In restraint of competition. The trust busters should encounter no difficulty in finding antJ-comblne laws In the vaults of the secretary of state, which are over fluwlnf with laws that have remained a dead letter. The greatest trouble to be encountered by the trust busters Is not the lack of laws, but the lack of officials endowed with sufficient backbone and Integrity to enforce them. The discovers of graft lu the plant bureau of the Agricultural department Is suggestive of. graft Ini the annual dis tribution of garden sass, and Incident ally It also suggests a cause for part of the large deficit In the receipts In the Postofflee department If the United States government Is to prevent the "civilised" Indians from paying taxes for the support of the state and county governments It should at least set aside money to pay court ex penses occasioned by these wards of the government Chicago's experience with the acquisi tion of street railways reminds us very much of Omaha's experience with the acquisition f the water works'. In both cities the lawyers are reaping g golden harvest while the people are waiting for developments. The statement by the division hehd of the society of railway mall clerks that he could not tell how certain funds were expended and retain his position, would Indicate that there' are people, who still think that the offense Is In being discov ered. Faal Mortons Pittance. Chicago News. -At his own request Paul Morton's salary has been cut. Me will have to worry along somehow on only $30,000 a year. Basis for Oaessvrork. Indianapolis News. The war. It I laid, costs Japan 1,000,000 a day. It began about a year and a half ago. By putting two and two together, Russia ought to be able to Bet some Idea of the sice of the loan it will have to se gollate. ' Why Havana Smiles. New Tork World. A curious feature of ths present proceed ings Is the declaration of a quarantine by Havana against New Orleans. Of old the Cuban city was an annual hotbed of fever. Ita present healthfulness and assurance ar the results of the efficient work In sanita tion promoted in the half dozen years lno the American occupation. Interest la Crop Report. Milwaukee Wisconsin. People who have suggested the abolition ot government crop reporting do not rep resent the majority of the dealers, to say nothing of the vast farming . community, which ha a very material concern in the crop condition and outlook throughout the united States, but which could not main tain private statisticians to report upon the subject as the speculators did before the government took the matter into its hands for the benefit of the whole people. Patriotism and Foolishness. Portland Ortgonlan. Patriotism runs high In some hearts. At New Tork two men are dying and a third Is seriously wounded as the result Of sn argument over the relative merits of Nor way and Sweden. In Portland a Russian laborer killed himself because of the poor Showing made by hi fellow-countrymen who are battling with; the Japanese. Bo far a coud , be learned, the pause of Russia, Norway and Sweden 1 still comparatively unaided by this sacrifice" on the part of their scattered son. MEXICAN MONETARY REFORM. Last Lltsjerlns; Arnment Lost to Free Silver Fanatics. Philadelphia Record. Without much sound of trumpets the government of Mexico puMu operation the gold standard about two months ago, and already .the beneficial effect of the change are felt In all branches ot business, Consul Griffiths, at Matamoras, writes to the Stat department at Washington that the new measure of value Is most satisfactory to business men, especially In the industrial and commercial centers of the republic. The transition from silver to gold has been accomplished with , little disturbance, and has been accompanied with a degree of confidence In business stability hitherto un known In Mexico. In some portions of the Interior the popu latlon Is accommcdatlng Itself to the change more slowly, but even there It good re sults are becoming realised. What greatly promoted the financial reform was the policy of the government In spreading In formation of the Impending . change throughout the republic. Besides, while the gold standard .was generally advocated by the newspaper, press there wa no or ganised party resistance to It adoption, and few demagogues to preach the blessing and beauty of tho double etandard to open mouthed audience. With the uccesful adoption of the gold standard in Mexico the last lingering argument 1 lost to th fanatic of free llver In thl country, If any uch still exist. niPKiUXQ GRAIN WEALTH. What the Harvest for tha Present Year Means to Americans. Boston Transcript. Leaving government crop reports out of question as not being satisfactory evi dence at present, it is very generally agreed that there will be a great wheat crop thl year. Th Indicated yield Is said to be the largest for a decade, although middle of July report do not mean o very much, a the critical period of th crop ba not yet passed, and there may be rust, drouth, hot winds and storms to reduce the totat In a measurable degree before harvest time. There will be the usual number of conflicting rumors regarding the condition of wheat, and th speculator will make merry, as usual, over these reports, but in any event the crop will urely be one to tax the reeource of the railroad which hav to move it. The price this year are at a point wher many farmer would like to mov their crop promptly, and there will be plenty of money In th country to do It, according to the recent bank tatement, but the problem of securing car will com up this season Just as urely a It ha don lu th past. Th railroad In th wheat belt have the crop a their largest Item of freight, yet the moving of the crop does not occupy more than a few months of the year at most, and there Is alwsy a problem before the railroad manager to know how large an equipment to maintain for such business. Obviously a company cannot be required to hav ears enough to move th whole wheat crop of the northwest at once. Nor can It insist upon 1U right to do the grain carrying business with an equipment which is only equal to the demand for about nln months of tb year. Th question of equipment Is not to be settled by legis lation, because th maximum needs vary from year to year. Probably the com panies will continue to do In ths future as they have done In U past keep only oca a number of grsin cars as will move an amount at on time which will keep the grumbling down to a level below r surt la fcastll kalsXatloa , OTHER LANDS THA OCRS. As Premier Balfour himself put the mat ter tersely In ths House of Commons, the present political situation Is "not sn oc casion, when resignation or the dissolution of Parliament would be In accordance with constitutional prsotlcs and precedent." The government for which Its ministry stand ponsor found a majority against It, It Is trus, on a division of the hrfuse one dsy last week. But the question under consid eration was not on of prime Importance, and the vote was forced at a Urns mani festly favorable for the opposition. It was, In fact, nothing but a rather shrewd trick played by the ot position for making the ministerial party show a sign of weakness. As a matter of fact Prime Minister Bal four's party still has nearly 100 majority In the House of Commons. To resign and dissolve Parliament under such circum stances would be the supremest folly. The German army maneuvers this year are to be conducted with a close approxima tion to the secrecy with which the Jap- anese succeeded so well In enveloping their . . . . ' land and sea operat on. The western gov- ernmenta ar all eager to out th wing of modern newspaper publicity In military af fair, now that the thing ha been done In the far east. The effort cannot b mad under appropriate conditions until th next war between western power come on, and then It will be found, prob ably, that the remarkable Japanese sue cess In maintaining almost a perfect screen about their operations cannot be parallelnd owing to the different characters of occl dental and oriental peoples, and the loca tion of the theater of war In 'countries which would afford far greater means of communicating information than the dis tant plains of Manchuria. The Japanese were specially favored In their efforts to maintain secrecy by distance, popular tern' perament and language. It Is believed In Berlin that German financiers are quietly exerting a great deal of pressure upon Russia In favor of an early peace. Like their French con freres, the Gorman bankers now have a larga Interest in th Russian national debt and they hav no desire to see that In terest Jeopardised by 'a great internal up heaval. It Is not surprising, therefore, to learn that Privy Councillor von Men delssohn, the head of one of the largest Berlin banking houses. Joined M. Witt as he crossed the Russian boundary en route to Pari, and accompanied him as far as the French frontier. What has Impressed Germany Is, however. Heir von Mea delssohn's Immediate call upon Buelow, who thu obtained direct Information of the Russian peace delegate's attitude. When M. Wltte reached Paris he was undoubt edly similarly approached by French bank ers, and their representations of the neces sity of peace were without any questldn even more urgent than those of Herr von Mendelssohn. Thus, beside the German em peror, there are Immensely powerful influ ences assisting the Japanese peace dele gates In the game of bluffing which la to begin at Portsmouth. But the knowledge of this shtmld not lead the Japanese en voys to press too far, or to insist upon too large an Indemnity, After a quarter of a century, without general public notice, the Mosquito king dom, that little corner of the world, has been given a definite status in the affairs of nations. For the second time Great Brit ain formally renounces It protectorate over the Mosquito coast, and thl time It Is done without reservation and not subject to such specific engagements and condition as those contained In the Managua treaty of 1880. The second treaty of Managua was entered Into April 9, 1903, between the English plenipotentiary and the presi dent of Nicaragua. It abrogates the treaty of January 28, I860, and recognizes the absolute sovereignty ot Nicaragua over ths whole Mosquito coast and the former Mosquito reservation. Thl appears to be the final settlement of a question that ba been a diplomatic thorn for more than a century. On everal occasion it almost brought on war between this country and England. Once It went to a court of Inter national arbitration, when the emperor of Austria wa called upon to determine the relationship of Nicaragua' sovereignty and the Mosquito Indians' rights of self-government, which were specifically provided In the treaty of 1800. - A Paris correspondent of one of the Lon don papers, who has been Seeking the opin ions of hi acquaintance concerning the final outcome of the new measure for the separation of church and state, declare that It 1 difficult to And two Frenchmen who think alike on the subject. He says that some of the deputies who voted for th measure are already beginning to feel rather doubtful as to whether they have adopted the wisest political course. Some of the extremists are professing anxiety lest sufficient precautions should not have been taken to prevent the church from be coming a menace to republican Institutions. They fear that with Increased freedom of action, It may become a greater power In the land than ever. Others, who voted for separation with the Idea of pleasing their constituents, ars not now quite so ure, he lay, that they have not offended 1 them. Personally hs Is convinced, he adds. that even If tho measure should become a law during the life of the present Parlia ment, it will be a long time before any at tempt will b made to enforce all Its provi sion. Th French naval authorities have de termined to put armor on soma of their new torpedo-boat destroyers. Th expert ment will be made In the case of two of the fifteen boats which are to be laid down this year. Nothing of the kind has been attempted before In the French navy. The armor Is to be from lVa Inches to 2 Inches In thickness, and to cover all th vital part. It is calculated that this will be sufficient to give protection from projec tiles of 1 85-lnch and 124-Inch guns at any distance, and from projectiles of I-lnch guns fired at a dlstanoe of from 2,000 to J, 000 yards. The two boats will each have a displacement of 470 tons, against the 450 tons - of the unarmored boats. The speed will be twenty-five knots, against twenty-seven; but the new craft will be steadier and probably will b almost If not quit as fast as th other boats In a heavy sea. Business Before Congress. New York Olobe. The business regarded this yar as par ticularly pressing by the president Is rail road legislation. It Is likely, however, that the exigency of the Panama situation will temporarily push thl toplo aside. And If th president, a ha been reported, intend to free hi mind In hi message on Insur ance matters, here w shall have a topic. It may be predicted, upon which congressional oratory will expend Itself. Ths cotton scandal Is likely to come up for renewed ailing. It may be assumed that with theas, and others which may com up inviting tongue loosening, th extra session will be so prolonged that again ther will be only a metaphysical recess. Oa tha Boaalaartoa's RoU. Oakland Tribune. Th Bennington was a small - ship, yet Its muster roll bears remarkable testimony to th homogeneity of the American people. It has enlisted mea from soma thirty rates, th majority of them Inland. Evsry southern stat except two contributed to th crew, and oddly enough only two of th la New England state, formerly ths great recrnltliut arouod ta aur navy, had PLKA9 FOR TUB POLIC Y HOLDER. Waltlav for the Rest. Milwaukee Bentlnel. And th policy holders ot the other big eastern life Insurance companies are won dering what will pop out when their lids are removed. The tlms Is com for a showdown all around. What Mtefct Bs Spared. Washington Post. The talk of doing away with life Insur ance agent Is Interesting. But the aver age policy holder would rather see some of the men dispensed with who draw much larger salaries and who do not come around with good stories and passable cigars. Federal Rraalatlnn Feasible. New York American. New Zealand met the extortion of the Insurance companies by going into the life insurance business as a function of the state. Perhaps now that the rlaht of tha United AtAtAB ti nmflw.1 I . ! . - M ' ,.,,. . , . roaa rates Is established It may be pos- . - . ., slbls for the federal government to secure authority to regulate Insurance rate a well, Mast Soaad the Depths. Chicago Record-Herald. If tha job Is to be done by the Invest! gating committee of th New York legis lature It must be done thoroughly. Other wise the real, work will, remain for a fur ther Investigation under federal auspices. Sooner .or later the very bottom must be sounded., The millions of policy holder will not forget. They will not becom quiescent so long a part of the work 1 till unaccomplished. Dlfllpaltlea la the Way Springfield Republican. When it come to the remedle for these evils In life Insurance, th commissioner Is a little sparing of suggestions. It is always In order to consider the question of limiting th expenses of companies. which must become the main point of at tack if present abuses are to be entirely uprooted, but what state supervision can do about it remains an unanswered ques tion. If the companies will not move themselves, no one state will be able to do much throuirh mere supervisory action The further difficulty Is mentioned of re stricting the field of Investment, by one state, of companies doing' business In all state. PERffONAL PARAGRAPHS. As a smoker of strong cigars there are few who can toe the line with Rear Ad miral Schley. Leonid Andreyev I a new Russian au thor whose work Is taking its place along side ot Gorky In popularity. A now proposed, the monument to Joseph JV-fferson for Richmond, Va., will be a character portrait, representing him as Rip Van Winkle. William S. Dalilba, president of the Amer ican Chamber of Commerce of Paris, re cently received the French cross of the Legion of Honor. Prof. Cleveland Abbe Is dean of the United States weather bureau' scientific corps, and occupies the editorship of the Monthly Meteorological Review. Victor Herbert is spending the month of July at his summer home on Lake Placid. He has Just finished an opera called "Dolly Dollars," and is at work on two others, one for Fritz! Scheff. Prior to Assistant Attorney General James C. McReynoMn rolnr to Washing ton he was professor of taw In Vanderbllt university, where he lectured on bills and notes and corporation. Prof. t. P." Todd of Amherst college will leave New Tork tomorrow for Tripoli tn his eighth eclipse expedition. He ha secured the services abroad of a civil engineer and photographer to assist hint. Colonel Jamc R, Randall, the well known Southern author and, veteran Journalist, for jAP,v . , , , .... . has accepted the editorship of the "Morning btar," a Catholic paper published at New Orleans. The original captain's commission Is sued to John Paul Jones In Philadelphia, In 1778, is owned by Joseph A. Newton, of Haverhill, Mass., hla father having found It In a second-hand book store In Baltimore. John Butler Burke who, through th discovery of raldographs has suddenly become the most-talked-of man of sci ence In the United Kingdom, ts an Irish man by birth, and took his degree at Trinity college when but 20 years old. It Is not generally known that Dr. Wash ington Gladden who has so vigorously scored th church for 1U acceptance of "tainted" money and John D. Rockefeller were country boy together In Tioga county. new xorx, attended adjoining district schools, and frequently met in rival spelling bees. Eugene Rlchter, the great German radical who has recently gone blind, was a thorn In the flesh of Prince Bismarck. No mem ber of th Reichstag was more dreaded by the "Iron Chancellor," and no other mem ber so often caused him to lose his temper. This wa largely due to Rlchter' extra ordinary command of figure and flnanoe. Colonel G.W. Darling of Dayton, O., recent ly sent hi discharge papers to Washington for correction. . He ha Just received them together with a voucher for about $200, clothing money which was due him during his term of service. This was the first in timation that Colonel Darling had that any thing was coming to htm. While In service he wa so smajl that his mother made hla clothing and the government furnished him none. Browning, Ming x Co CLOTHING. FURNISHINGS, AND HATS WAIT NO LONGER Have you neglected to buy a lightweight suit? NOW IS YOUR TIME. "At the right cloth iers," said Beau Bmm mel. "men wha come to look remain to buy." Fifteen tli and Douglas Sis, ml Slad Straa NEW trtlONISH AND ITS MKRITS. Some Lesson of the Chlcnso Strtk for Oraaalsed labor's I'ses. Chics to Chronicle. Without abatlrg In the slightest degree the opposition which Is due to lawlessness under the cloak of trades unionism It Is fair and proper to concede the advantages of unionism without lawlessness. The business houses which are taking back their old teamsters ar doing so be cause the old men are tnort efficient than the temporary substitutes who were hired during the strike. There can be no doubt of that. Membership In a union Involves a certain sense of responsibility, and whlls this re sponsibility has been disregarded by a pro portion of unionists It Is recognised by a larger proportion of them. I'nlon men are, as a reneral thing, actual cltlserts and permanent residents of the place where they are employed. Nonunion men are more likely to be unsettled In their habitation and consequently less to be relied upon In the long run. This Is a free country and every man Is entitled to earn his living whether h Is a union man or a nonunion man. Ttrer Is ho reason why the open shop principle should not be accepted by unionists, because, other things being equal, the unionist will al way enjoy an advantage over . the non unionist In securing and retaining work. This Is one of the benefits of organisation. The average employer will prefer union labor because. If the union be wisely and honestly conducted, he has to deal with a centralised, responsible authority instead of with Individual workmen who are re sponslble to no one save themselves. It Is altogether likely, therefore, that the union teamsters who have been on strike will In a majority of coses be restored to their old positions within a comparatively short time. This will happen because, in pit of their mistakes, due In great part ts Inefficient leadership, the strikers are, after all, more valuable to their employers than new men can be. We may be sure, too, that the lesson of the strive will not be lost upon the strikers and that unionism In this town will be ths better for the demonstration that It cannot win in an unrighteous cause, though It will triumph when the right ts on Its side. SMILES FOR SATVHDAY. This conversation Is said to have taken lace hetween a Guthrie ball player and a mrtender: "Is vou eot any smokln' tobacco?" asked the ball player. The nartender am not reply at once, and the question was repeated. I am t said l ain t, retorted the bar tender. 'I ain't nst yo' If yo' ain't. I ast vo' If you 1. Yo' U, ain't yo'?" Kansas City Journal. Kind-hearted Woman Come back at 7 o'clock tonight. ' Ht'KKar impossible, madam. I belonar to the union and they don't allow u to work overtime. Meggendorfer Blatter. 'Really, deacon." said Rev. Mr. Ooodlev. "you'd better take something: for that cold." Thanks. Said Deacon Slve. absent- mindedly, "I don't care if I r that la. 1 m thinking of taking a little aulnlne." Philadelphia Ledger. 'Yes " said the crooked legislator. "I'm oposed to the bill at present, but I'd change my mind for, say H.OuO." "Indeed!" replied the lobbyist, "f don't doubt that such an exchange would ben efit you. Your mind doesn't appear to be worth that much." Philadelphia Pres. Wlsrwng Why do you Insist unon carrv. Inr vnilr shirt twtm fmm , . lann,. I stend of having it sent? liarduppe Ho that folks will know I have two. Philadelphia Record. Johnny I lest can't rememher hm blamed hist'ry dates. How do you di It. Bill? Bill It's dead easy. Whv. if It's 104 fer Instance, I Jest remember the time when de Giants beat de Athletics 18 to 4. Council Bluffs NonparelJ.. Nell Isn't she a peculiar girl? She wouldn't look at him when he was rich, but now, after he's lost all his money, she accepts him. Belle Well, you know how crssv mnm 0.mn..lse.t0 Kt anythlnsr that's reduced. i. .1 ,u ii uiuimaiu aim I lines. It doesn't seem to do much good to ar rest either the chauffeur or owner of a speeding automobile." "Well, wouldn't it be a (rood Idea If ths police made a change and arrested the odor? That at least would be a nubllo benefit." Town Topics. "I see," said the old colored deaoon. dey gwlneter have a 'clips er de mwaV i.-ni mini uey Buy. "Yes; en how merciful of Providence ter put a shadder over It la dia ho weather!" Atlanta Constitution. Mrs. Nurltch Mebbe we'd oughter get one 0 "r?nl"y escutcheons" there' so much talk about. Every swell house seems to have one. I wonder what It is iMrNV'!fch"ln' KUP,, "escutcheon" Is Ledger "skeleton." Philadelphia TAKING A SUMMER REST. They told him that he needed rest He hurried far away. Where o'er the ocean's foamy crest The wholesome breezes play. He shot the chutes, he looped the looot He Joined the mazy dance; He saw the sideshow minstrel troupe And watched the ponies prance. He ate hot sausages and things He ne'er had seen before: He won a cane by throwing rings L.iiit aims were sore. He walked the boardwalk all day long And heard the musln nlav Where rival orwans big and strong In discord grind away. He drank long mixtures filled with tea. Ate lobsters and sardines; He dallied with the rards and dice aiiu tuuyeu ins Slot machines. Hf, trl?2 ? IfMp. .h" "ce ,n vain He did his level best- He had to hurry home apsln uccauw n neeaoa rest. ' Washington Star, f We have marked down every suit In the house, and you can certainly find a bar gain If you don't delay. Suits that were $2-5.00, are now $15.00 and 120.00. 4 Suits that were $20.00, are now $12s0 and $16 50 Suits that were $18.00, are now $12JiO and $13,00 j Suits that were $15.00, are now " $10.00 and $12.60 Straw Hats are half price and less. 6oc and 75c Neckwear marked down to 25c, Negligee Shirts, Hosiery. Underwear and other articles the weather demands can ba found at a saving now. OMAHA NEB. 7 YORK