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iHE CM ATT A DAITA BEE: MONDAY, AtOrST 14, lf05.: Tite Omaha Daily Bee. E. ROSEWATEH. EDITOR. FCBLIBHED EVERT MORNING. TERMS OF HL'BBCRIPTIW. Dally Bee (without Sunday), one year.. $4 00 I 'ally Re and Sunday, ona year M Illustrated Bee, on year iri Sunday Bee. una year Saturday p, one year 1 w Twentieth Century Fanner, ona year.,.. l.M DELIVRRRD DT CARRIER. Tally Jloe (without Sunday). per ropy.... Jo Illy Bee (without Sunday). er week. ..12c Daily Bee (Including Sunday), per week. .1.0 Evening pee (without Sunday), per week 10 Evening Ilea (Including Sunday), per week Sunday Bee, per copy o Complaint of Irregularities In deliver should be addrcaaed to City Circulation De partment. OFFICES. Omaha Tha Bee Building. South Omaha City Hall Building. Twen-ty-flfth and M streets. Council Bluffs 10 Pearl street. Chicago 1M0 Cnlty Building. New York 1500 Homa Ufa Insurant Bulldlnr. Washington VI Fourteenth street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi torial matter should )e addressed: Omaha Be, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only I-cent stamps received In payment of mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. BTATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss. t C. C. Rosewater, secretary of The Be Publishing Company, being duly swosn, says that the actual numoer of full and complete copies of Tha Dally, Morning, Evening and. Sunday Bee printed during tha month of July, 1906, was as follows: 1 81.310 17 2M.430 t SA.2UO II .eW 1 2fl,M 1 2H.S10 4 80,100 20 JM.IOO I Stt.TAO n SW.300 2,UnO '22 2O.OT0 7 SM.BftO 23 JtH.ROO 1 80,000 24 1W.070 S,lBO 25 2H.1T0 10 SH.OOO 28 ,10 U 2N.B40 27 2M.I50 II ) 2ft,WtO 28 Sft.lHO It..., SK.DOO 29 I,400 U SH,TH 80 1W,0 15 3t0,86O 81 T,10 u x,iso twK.zau Loss unsold copies B.M15 Net total sales 8a,4i Dally average C. C. ROBE WATER, Secretary. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before m this 31st dny of July. 1906. iBeal) M. B. 11 UNGATE. v ' Notary Public WHEN OUT OF TOWN. Saasertbars leavlnar taa city tem porarily shoal kal Tk Bsc mailed to tueia. It la better thaa tally letter from kosao. Ad dress wtU bo ehaaitd mm oftea as reaestU Is there anybody on the Water board except U. U. Howell? If so, will he please make.it kuowu liy.some sign. The news that the sugar rate war la ended would be of greater Importance were not the western fruit crop a prac tical failure. After reading President Roosevelt's Chautauqua address, the trust magnates are not likely to like him any more than they did before. Before the North Sixteenth Street Im provement club realises Its Ideals Pros pect Hill and 'Forest Lawn will hare to be reinforced by a few more mossbucks. Lincoln is agitating for a park "some where near', the centet ,of population." Take a bint from Omaha's experience and let the farm lands remain planted to corn. In the recent automobile experiences of Earl Klser and Barney Old field ad mirers of foot ball may find a field of congenial sport while the gridiron is out of season. , The defeat of a regular army team by Iowa guardsmen at the rifle competition la one of the Incidents whtch go to show wihy the citizen soldiery are the real bul warks of the nation. Now that an ex-clerk has been ar rested for stealing records of Winnebago Indian land allotments. Commissioner Leupp has a good excuse to open up the entire matter for investigation. The proposition to Introduce cooking In country schools would have more merit If the farm girls, as a rule, did not study practical cooling at home for at least twelve months In the year. Omaha to Los Angeles without change la a novel sensation, but it seems to have created less sensation than is antici pated when Omaha la connected with Lincoln direct by the Internrban. If It Is necessary to have a few more special newspaper correspondents at Portsmouth to save the peace negotia tions, the peace commissioners should not hesitate to make their requests, M. Wltte complains because the Jap anese bound him to secrecy on the sub Joe of the negotiation. M. Wltte should leave Russian talking to the warriors who have so far teen unable to do much else. Aa usual, the Nebraska 1006 fctata fair is advertised to be bigger, better and busier than ever. It ought to be be cause It has a better and more prosper ous state behind It than It ever bad be fore. It eooaa as U Ua daily reports of new yellow fever cases at New Orleans were Increasing. Perhaps, however, the figures only. Indicate that before the government authorities took, charge all the cases were sot listed. n Suppose the courts should happen, aa it were, to knock out the primary elec tion law, would the candidates have to apply tor a. mandamus to compel the county elerk to pay them back their en trance feet What will Judge (Gordon say to his baaao-profundo competitor for the nomi nation of police Judge on the democratic ticket? By the way, la- It not funny that the aotaocraU have always got to go to (fee reptbUcaS) emmp for Candida tea. ormEf t tenter. The statement that M. Wltte is op hiso1 to the (lTV!irH-e of secrecy re Knnllng the prueceilftip of the peace conference will cause sine surprise, it having lern unilerstixHl liefore the meet ing that the Ilusslan envoys were quite as desirous as ttione of Japan that the details of the deliberations should not Ik' given to the public, but that a mere statement should Le made from day to day, as should le agreed uion by both sides, showing the status of the negotia tions. The position In this matter of the chief Russian plenipotentiary is likely to be generally commended. He is reported as saying that his government baa noth ing to conceal and wants its attitude clearly set before the world. "We have nothing to conceal and nothing to fear,'' he is quoted as having declared. This willingness for publicity has not hitherto characterized Russian diplomacy. In the present Instance it appears to be prompted by a feeling that publicity is necessary to enable the Russians to show the world the true character of the issue between the belligerents and to place their country in a position to obtain a Just verdict from the rest of mankind. We think It Is not to be doubted that the world is now pretty thoroughly informed as to the real na ture of the Issue between Russia and Japan. It has not forgotten the very earnest efforts that were made by the latter nation to effect an agreement that would have averted hostilities. It re members very clearly the prolonged ne gotiations nt Toklo and the scheming for delay employed by the Russian govern ment while it was vigorously strength ening its military and naval power in the far east." All this Is history and Jus tifies the clnlm of Japan that the war was forced upon her. It Is absurd for RusRla to assort that she was not pre paring for possible hostilities when she was aendlng great numbers of troops into Manchuria as rapidly as they could bo transported and augmenting her naval strength in Asiatic waters. As to these facts, therefore, the world Is fully enlightened and they amply Jus tify Japan's course.- Such being the case, there does not appear to be any sound reason for the requirement of the Japanese envoys that the negotiations at Portsmouth shall be kept secret. They have nothing to lose through giving them the fullest publicity. The Japanese have shown most excellent-Judgment In cloak ing with secrecy their military opera tions. That policy has been of the greot est Importance and value to them. But In the contest of diplomacy now going on there Is no need of withholding from an anxious world complete information as to the progress of the negotiations. Japan can afford to do this. Her cause has right and Justice on its side, the sympathy of nearly all the nations Is with her and she would run no risk In letting the world know what reasons and arguments she has to offer In support of the conditions to peace which she de mands. If the Russian envoys really de sire publicity for the proceedings of the conference it should be conceded by Japan's representatives, whose cause cannot be benefited by secrecy or in jured by letting all men know what muy be urged In its support. NO CAUSE FOR ALARM- There Is no cause for serious alurm over the heavy influx of immigration Into the United States, nor Is there any sound reason for the enactment of dras tic laws to stem the tide of Immigration. The tide will stem Itself by the natural law of supply and demand, which gov erns in the matter of immigration as it does all economic problems. There never was a time in the history of this country when labor was In such general demand and there never was a time when It was better paid, notwithstand ing the heavy influx of immigrants made up chiefly of artisans, laborers and farmers. It la not more drastic laws we want, but a better enforcement of the laws we have. We already exclude under our existing laws criminals, the Insane and persons afflicted with Incurable disease. We also exclude paupers and contract laborers. During the past year, al though the laws are not over-rlgldly en forced, more than 12,000 Immigrants who landed In New Tork were refused admission and compelled to return to their native countries by reason of their belonging to the forbidden classes. In an article contributed to a recent number of Collier's Mr. Brandenburg, who has made a special study of immi gration, tells of socio of the conditions that he personally had to bear In the steerage quarters of some transatlantic steamships. On one of these vessels he and bis wife, crossing the ocean from New Tork to Naples, suffered from the lack of suitable places to eat and sleep. On the return voyage In another vessel their experience among the crowded Im migrants who were forced to remain In the midst of filth, to breathe foul air and to sleep without privacy was revolting. All this may be true. The steamship lines carrying Immigrants from Italy to America may be defective In ventila tion and cleanliness, and the same con ditions may exist on other lines, but against this we have the report of Col lector Stranahan of New York, showing that during the three fiscal years ending June 30 last nearly 2.000,000 steerage passengers embarked from the ports of Europe for New York, of whom 423 died on the voyage, or atiout twenty-two deaths for each 100.000 passengers. Al lowing twelve days for the average voy age, the number Is equivalent to an an nual death rate of about six and one- half per 1.000. The last federal census shows the an nual death rate per 1.000 In New York City was 20 per cent; in Washington 22 and the lowest rate for large American cities St Paul, Minn., and Portland, Ore. were 9tfc per cent Of the steer age passengers 81,873 were babe under 1 year, and one and one-third died out of every 1,000 children under 8 years. Otly one steerage paaoenger died on shlpNiard from accident, twenty-three commit Nil suicide and seven disap peared. These figures would Indicate that the death rate among steerage pas senger iuimigrauts was, if anything, lower thau the average death rate In New York and other American cities. The same nuniler would In all probabil ity have died had they been left at home. The alarmists who view a great menace to America In this heavy influx of Immigration seem to le oblivious of the fact that these people, as a class, are sturdy, hard-working and thrifty, and In the end their coining creates an In creased demand for the products of the soil, mill and factory, and is largely re sonsIble for the prosperity which this country now enjoys. THK MIT ORLEANS SITUATION- While there Is reported to be more hopeful feeling at New Orleans, It can not be said that there Is any substantial Improvement in the situation. It Is ev ident that much more efficient work is being done in combatting the yellow fever than before the federal authorities took control and this may reasonably be expected to In a short time prove ef fective in checking the disease, which it appears has been restricted to an area beyond which It is not likely to pass. There has been Instituted a thoroughly methodical system of dealing with the situation which cannot fall to ha-ve bene ficial results, the large task of disinfec tion being prosecuted with vigor by the marine hospital service. The arrange ments for fighting the disease appear to be almost perfectly organized. Among the regulations Is one prohibit ing the shipment of bananas out of New Orleans to any point and it Is said that the effect of this order will be to abso lutely stifle the fruit trade of that city. In other respects its commerce has suf fered a great deal of Injury and it will probably be a long time until New Or leans recovers the trade it has lost In this respect the epidemic Is causing greut hardship to many business men and wage earners. Oifoe rid of the dis ease, however, a vigorous effort will be made to place the trade of the city where It was before the fever broke out. The business diverted to other points cannot be recovered at once, but New Orleans possesses advantages which will assert themselves and bring back to her gradu ally the commerce that bos gone else where. That city Is the principal ocean gateway of the Mississippi valley aud therefore Is certain to always have a large trade. Her foreign commerce In the lost fiscal year, ending with June, ranked third In the list of the country's ports and In exports alone New Orleans was second. She probably will not main tain this position at the close of the cur rent fiscal year, but there con bo no doubt that she will regain It within the next two or three years. No one, It is safe to say, will now question, certainly no citizen of the af flicted city, thot a grave mistake was made in not sooner calling upon the fed eral authorities, nor is there likely to be heard In future from that quarter any opposition to a national quarantine serv ice, against which Louisiana has fought In the past. An object lesson is how pre sented which is pretty certain to effectu ally wipe out the state sovereignty trumpery so far as the question of na tional quarantine Is concerned. While the final run in the mayornlity race Is still In the dim distant future, the alignment of the trotters and pacers Is becoming quite entertaining, if not Interesting. At several of the lmprove men club picnics Wlllard W. Slabaugh and Erastus A. Benson are running neck and neck, and the boys hollering, "What Is the matter with Slabaugh ?" Several .presidential possibilities ore expected to attend the National Reci procity conference that is to be held at Chicago this week, but they will have to exhibit a great deal of strennosity. The American people have become used to the Rooseveltlan pace, and candi dates who tread on velvet will be ruled off the tro :k. British cotton brokers who want to bar Americans from their association should remember that they may be cut ting off valuable tips on the condition of the market It is an odd coincidence that the proposition to bar Americans was not advanced until after the' leak In the statistical report was discovered. For once Nebraska has an attorney general who fluds no difficulty In earn ing his salary for the people and then some. A lawyer of equal ability doing the same work for a private corioration that Attorney General Brown Is doing for the state would command a salary five toten times as large. Is it not alwut time for the commis sioners of Pouglaa county to readjust the precinct boundaries within the city of Omaha to correspond with the new ward boundaries? Unless this Is done there is liable to be a great deal of con fusion and contention during the coming campaign. The battleship Kansas, over whose prow a bottle of water was broken, is the first vessel to be christened in that manner. Kansuns evidently find It so difficult to secure champagne that they had not the heart to waste It on Insensi ble iron. v Before losing sleep over Douglas county tax rolls the members of the State Board of Equalization might study the conservative returns of the census bureau showing bow far they fell short of the legal requirements in the rail road assessment For profound foresight and hindsight commend us to the forecasts of the New York commercial agencies. One of these tells the country with due solemnity that farmers are busy iu harvest work just now and retail trade Is naturally quiet The railroad are trylug bard to side track the demand fur rate regulating legislation by boosting along oil sorts of minor Issues. It Is an old game with the railroad iolltliaiis. but It docs not ol ways work successfully. Wonder if ex-t'ongressinau Hitchcock will condescend to accept the commis sion which Governor Mickey has ten dered him as one of the delegates to the forthcoming rcproclty convention? Or perhaps his cartoonist won't let him. The plumbing Inspector has resigned because he could not Induce the council to allow him two horses, and the city has now been three days without a plumbing insector. What are we com ing to, anyway? Assertions that Old Stick. Indianapolis News. Still It must be remembered that" on sev eral occasions heretofore Russia has defi nitely and emphatically made statements concerning Its own actions which were not wholly borne out by subsequent events. Comlnar Oar Way. Baltimore American. China wants that railroad and the Chi nese minister has gone to see the president about It. The nation nowadays that wants anything of an International character has tens to see I'ncle Bam first. As general adviser In world affairs and referee of everybody's business that gentleman Is getting astonishingly popular. Pastmaatera In Graft. Chicago Inter Ocean. It grates upon our finer sensibilities to be told t,hat graft was rocognixed as a fine art among the fathers of the country. However this may be, and however much we may have advaneed In the practice of It since the time of the fathers, a casual perusal of the Butler report on graft In South Africa will prove to the most confirmed believer In the superiority of the Amer icsn system that the English are 110 years ahead of us In this particular. Re-na Variations In Sonimer Time. Now York Tribune. The news for the last few days has fur nished more than the usual variety of hsppentngs, Including among others the adventures of a girl breaking her neck looking at the moon over her left shoulder, of a mnn sneezing so hard as to dislocate his cervical vertebrae and of a young man at Matawan last Saturday who threw a ball so hard that he broke his arm. It Is to be feared that in certain particulars many persons are Inclined to overdo the strenuous life. Better take things a lit tle easier during "the. good old summer time." PERSOXAL XOTKS. "Sim Dlpp Is again In our midst," ex claims an Oklahoma paper. -"Sim would cut more Ice among the ladles If he would disguise himself In a clean shirt"." William A. Clark, United States senator from Montana, has furnished the necessary funds to defray the expenses of an expedi tion to explore the unknown mountains of his state. Postmaster General Cortelyou has begun his annual vacation and will be absent from the department for about six weeks. He will spend a few days on Long Island, after .which his plans are indefinite. The late John Hay willed his unpublished manuscripts to his elrfest daughter, Mrs. Payne Whitney, who has Inherited her father's literary tastes. Mr. and Mrs. Whit ney, who were on their way to Europe when Mr. Hay died, are expected to ar rive home this wetfy. The verity of the .familiar dictum "Slmllla slmlllbus curantur'K Is being practically demonstrated by a Xew Tork dentist who has Installed an automatic piano to reel off ragtime to tha accompaniment of his murderous buzzer. He finds that his pa tients forget their molar nd tjilnk only of wrecking the piano. Among the latest governmental depart ments accused of graft we note with sorrow the New York State Hoard of Barber Ex aminers. All over the country the barbers will probably get themselves In such a lather of excitement over these tidings that timid gentlemen will have to wear beards or learn to shave themselves. They have a story In New York of an English gardener who was brought over by one of the newly rich. The employer had several unmarried daughters and the gar dener was told to devote most of his time to the tennis lawn. He Is a gardener of the old school and before long became dis gusted on noticing how many young men came to tennis and tea. He resigned his position and on being asked for a reason said: "Well, sir, this is not 'ortlcultura I'm doln'. It's mere "usbandry." TAMA JIM'S LATEST TRIIMPH. Secretary Wilson riorka Another Itarel for Ilroir of AKrleultnre. Topeka Capital. Petty grafting In crop reporting and the consequent assaults from the cotton grow ing. section are not going to rattle Secre tary Wilson's department of agriculture. It goes serenely on with Its great work. In the midst of the barking and snapping, as If unconscious of the pack of enemies on his trail. Secretary Wilson chooses an auspicious time to make an Important announcement of another great American agrfr-tilture triumph. - Preliminary Investigations have been completed and It Is announced that "Amer ica In a few years hence will be produc ing camembert, rocqiiefort, brie and llm burger cheese In great quantities." Tho department has let down the bars and will admit nillk-givlng goats to importation, BwJfS e.nd other goats heretofore having been strictly ruled out because vt the prevalence of the foot and mouth disease for a century past In their neighborhood. A Washington dispatch says that the Harlem goat, known In song and story, will be eclipsed when the brie, llmhur ger, camembert and rocquefort gnats ar rive. A quarantine station for foreign goats will be maintained, and they will soon be coming over In droves. The new American cheese Industry will immediately spring forth, as it were like Minerva, full fledged, from the brain of Secretary Wilson, the farmer's friend. Connoisseurs are aware that goats are not the only requisite for making the cheeses mentioned. There are other thing Deces sary to produce the aromatic Swiss and French artlile. Among these are germs, and the department has for some time been experimenting and claims to be able to put otit a germ that ripens and gives the distinctive flavor to camembert and llmburger that la so delicious to the edu cated palate and nostril. The new Amer ican germ is said to be a real find. It putrefies the cheese enough without over doing It. It makes the cheese smell just loud enough and stops short of raising a worae stench than these cheeses In their perfection ought to raise. Not only goats but Swiss and other Im migrants will be attracted to the country by the new cheese Industry. It promises to put the cap sheaf on tha long and honorable administration of Secretary Wil son. Hs will go out of office at the close of his term In a blase of glory. In tha words of Pean Swift, adapted to tha occa Ion, tha man who causes an agricultural smell to arise In places where no smell arose before. Is of mora service to his country than all tha race politicians put together. 1 IIE C EK AT rORTMOt Til. The Peace Fnvojs as They Appear hen OA Duty. The eyes of the world nre centered on Portsmouth, watching engerly the progress of the negotiations for peace between Itus- la and Jnpsn. The outcome of the de liberations of the envoys Is the chief con cern of mankind and every art and word likely to foreshadow the result holds the faculties and energies of correspondents on the spot. Some, however, have eyes and ears for minor scenes, which form a background for the world-absorbing pic ture and Illuminate the personal trials of the commissioners. A correspondent of the New York Commercial sketches their ap pearance In these words: "M. de Wltte exteriorly appears to be an essy-golng personage of decidedly demo cratic habit, and about the last man one would suspect of being the "hope of Rus sia.' As for dubbing him the 'Russian Bismarck" the analogy Js forced. I saw Bismarck In Berlin ten years ago. Though much older than M. Wltte Is today, the German was a far more commanding fig ure and had a stateliness of carriage, a refinement of bearing, a grandeur of style that are quite lacking In Wltte. "Not that the Russian Is ordinary. But there are many members of the American congress, especially In the senate, who could give the cxar'a 'courier' cards and spades, so to sneak, and beat 'him In the game of Imposing looks. The bridge of his nose seems broken In, and the profile Is insignificant. There Is a frequent dilation of the nostril. "Wltte loses a good deal by a stoop In the shoulders not to say a curved back. He Is as Indifferent to dress Speaker Cannon, and his eyes suggest dimly those of the late 'Ben' Butler. If I may go so far, I venture the opinion that the suit he wore when he arrived at the Hotel Wentworth could have been duplicated on tho Bowery for $20. The trousers wese a fit companion to the overalls Rudyard Kip ling wears In the Doubleday, Fage & Co. photograph of the poet." Such idiosyncrasies do not strike one as appropriate to the "indispensable minister of 'Great Russia,' " But, perhaps, they may be the "outward and visible sign" of a faith In liberalism such as the world knows Is his. Wltte is not the Bismarck of Russia, but rather the Thiers. His viewpoint Is French, his manner Is French. It remains to be seen whether, like Thiers, he can con ciliate an enemy and then rehabilitate a shattered state. Baron Komura is so ugly that he Is handsome. The face Is fascinating. You gaze In wonderment at the seams, the distortion, the painful cadaverousness. It is the face of an animated mummy from the catacombs. Save for Its excessive ema ciation, it Is the face of the frightful mon stersgoblins and griffins which the ori entals work upon their pottery as orna mental devices to attract the Caucasian buyer and scare away the fiends. Yet, as you watch It, It grows upon you and becomes strangely luminous. One of the cleverest newspaper artists In New York followed Komura about for three days to catch his "natural expres sions." Then he transferred them to paper and submitted them to the Times. If his statements are correct, the functionary to whom the drawings were handed shouted with Joy at the realism and accuracy of the work. "My boy. they are incompar able. Never saw anything better. The Jap anese envoy to the life!" Elated by the victory, the artist told his friends to buy the Sunday edition. With his mall next day came a note from the editorial department dashing down all hopes. The "editorial council,'' while rec ognizing the Ufellkeness of the sketches, had decided not to use them, because the startling resemblance to Komura would be apt to give offense to the Japanese. So perished the Joyous fabric of a con scientious artist. His drawings were not within the rule of "all the news that's nt to print." One of them I have seen a copy, rather. He calls It "Komura In repose." It would frighten a nervous Infant Into fits. It was worth while to stand among the Portsmouth women and listen to their com ments upon the specimens of the two great Asiatic races, Christian and pagan. These women, bear In mind, are of the revolutionary stock, of the Puritan stock. of the God-fearing stock. They live In a town where there Is a church In every street and where liquor saloons are as rare as black swans, and where It Is not good form to be out of doors after i p. m., and where elderly maiden ladles are large landed proprietors and set the fash Ions In drefcs and deportment. They know, too, that under the pagan religion of Japan and the social cede of the island empire woman Is rated distinctly an In ferior being. But, with quick feminine intuitions to guide them, the dames of Portsmouth, ma trons and maids, resolved informally that they would take their chances of respect ful treatment with avowed exponents of heathenism, rather than with a race whose diplomacy clad in all the paraphernalia of Paris and Instinct with the cynicism of the blase men of the world flowers in such a collection of elegant dilletantes as make up the staff of Wltte and Rosen. Preceding one of the public receptions tendered to the envoys, Congressman Sul loway was the cynosure of many eyes. His towering figure attracted the admiring glances of, half a hundred women from Boston and more remote points, who were not familiar with the features of all great Americans and had rather crude notions as to the features of a few celebrated for eigners. They leveled lorgnettes at Mr. Sulloway and crowded forward delightedly. He took the homage as only a congressman could calmly, as a thing of right bestowed. Finally a rretty woman, bolder than the others, pushed near enough to him to hear what he was saying to the forelgn-Tokltig person with him, and starting back to her friends, exclaimed: "Why. I thought the papers said he did not speak English. How absurd they are sometimes. M. de Wltte speaks beautiful English." Not until then was Mr. Sulloway aware of the misunderstanding and. blushing for the first time In his life, he grasped the arm of Senator Galllnger and both left the crowd. Everybody, Including the hotel people, had expected that the Japanese and Rus sians would dine In their apartments. Chefs had been Imported from New York and an especial draft of waiters had been made. But early Japanese arrivals told the hotel manager that the Japanese would dine in the large public dining room, and the Russians when they heaxd of It promptly followed suit. Therefore, to the great delight of the 0 or 4ou summer guests at the hotel, shortly after their arrival little Baron Komura, accompanied by Minister Takahlra and the staff of the envoys, marched Into tha big dining room on the first floor In single file and were placed at a long table In the mid dle of tha room. When they were seated, with Baron Knmura at the head of the table, and Minister Takahlra on his right hand and Counselor Dennlaon on his left, there were Just thirteen at the table. Several counts were made to verify this, and finally someone spoke to the baron about It. He did not understand, and did not care. The Japanese ate their dinner undismayed by the superstition. They ate heartily, too, and had several bottles of wtus btwaen them, Fop Health CaflmDnrnet!: oakiogf Powder "Best Used in Millions of Homes. STATE TIIF.SS COMMENT. Bnrwell Tribune: The Tribune doesn't know that he would accept it, but the gubernatorial chair should be offered Hon. Peter Mortensen. Kearney Democrat: Tho Omaha Bee says the Coal and Li'mber trusts are squirming lest the grain suits are only a prelude of what Is In store for them. It 'cm squirm; the peoplo have been squirming for many years. Papllllon Republican: Talking about trusts and such things the question comes to us, "Iid you ever try to buy coal In Omaha?" The coal men there have a combine protected by an 8-lnch Ironclad agreement. There Is room for Investiga tions In the metropolis of Nebraska. Madison Star-Mall: The democrats' state convention has been called for September 10 at Lincoln. Are the democrats of Madi son county going to hold a county con vention or will some' gentleman move to make It unanimous and let the repub licans have the whole d btisltv'ss. Alliance Times: Circumstances alter cases. Ex-Senator ex-general solicitor of the I'nlon Pacific Thurston expresses the belief that there Is "need of more stringent laws to govern the operation of public service corporations." People generally would have been more tickled to hear him say that when he was In the senate. St. Edwards Sun: Down with state or county ofliclals and memlers of the legis lature using railroad passes; down with men who are not known to be for "sobri ety, fidelity to the peoplo, for honesty and progress." The time Is past when the voters sre going to stand for every man nominated Just because lie Is selected by the republican or democratic parties. Blue Springs Sentinel: There are a few newspaper men In the ptate who think It real cute to show people by their adver tising columns how to evade the nnti clgarette law because no state law can In fringe upon lnter-state commerce. One sec tion of the law, however, Is especially drawn to administer Justice to those who seek to evade the law and there is going to be a surprise party In tho state some of these days. Burwell Tribune: Congressman Kinknld was In town Thursday night. He reports flourishing conditions over the big Sixth and expresses great confidence In the fu ture of this part of the state. He Is get ting around over the district, meeting as many of his constituents as possible, to learn tha needs, In the way of legisla tion, of the district. The Judge is a hard worker In the Interest of his people and should be kept In his present position, un less It should transpire that he could be given a seat In the upper house of con gress. He Is entirely worthy of It and the state would be honored by putting him there. York Times: AH the hubbub about pri mary elections in this state originated In Lincoln, with men who seek party control and who would be very glad to eliminate as much of the country representation In the conventions as possible. The leaders outside of the large cities depend upon tho representatives of the rural precincts for their strength and with that cut off they would be powerless in the hands of the city manipulators. Let one of these city fel lows go Into the country precinct In this county and find the men who, in threshing time, are going to organize a primary elec tion, get the booths ready and act as Judges and clerks. Then let him find out how many will lenve their employment to go to the town hall to vote. One fall election a year Is enough for them, and It requires some hustling to get them out to that. They will turn out to a caucus In the even ing when there Is nothing to do but to get together and select their delegates to the convention, but tha primary election would be a failure and the precinct would go un represented In the convention. York Times: The Fremont Tribune thinks "party lines do not bind as closely as they once did." This conclusion Is ar rived at after meditating on the conver sion of such eminent men as Judge Duflle and Judge Ames to the republican faith. It Is true the democratic harnebS haB been pretty badly shattered and there Is hardly enough of it left to hold any but the most docile. It gafls a high- spirited and self-respecting democrat to be hitched up with Jackasses and bron Sixty years of experience with Ayer's Sarsa pirillal Think of that! Think of the millions of people who have been cured by fhis medicine! If despondent, down-hearted, discouraged, and almost ready to give up, this splendid old family medicine will prove the silver lining to your dark and dismal, cloud. Ask your doctor. Kd hr C. are o , Lowell, Mass. Aise atiutMturrt of AYSB'I lira TIOoW For tk stir. AVER'S PILLS For eeostfpatioa., Alaa'B caakSf FaCTOaAir-Vw Maghs. AIMii'S AGUM Cllk tot atalana a&4 arsa. and Economy two By Test. chos, who are always kicking the tugs loose and the biltchen off. It Is no won der they get out as soon as they are left without hitching. We have not noticed any tendency on the part of republicans to break away lntely. Have you? Hastings Tribune: The Omaha Bee's editorial showing that school matters ought to be without the pale of polities, or without tho prejudice of It, Is perti nent utterance on a vital subject. If there Is any sfyir In which qualification alone should bo the only passiiort to eli gibility In aspirants tho eilticatlimil Insti tution Is that affair. That partisan or other Influence should place unqualified men In relation to education Is a menace to civilization, or to that part of civiliza tion fur which schools and educntion are responsible. A IiiemlM-r of a school board or n teacher or any other officer f'f the school system who Is Influenced by any motive other than the benefit of the In stitution Is not In tho position to render mete service. The Interference of ex traneous Influences, also the very moderate salaries usually paid teachers tend to keep the best qualifltd men and women away from tho schools which is a loss to the growth and advancement of com munities. But how to change a system which Is the outgrowth of years Is quite another matter. MM I I.I Mi REMARKS. "But,"persb ted the bridegroom during their little quarrel, "you promised to love, honor Mint obey me." ".Maybe I din," replied tho bible,' 'but X had my lingers crossed." I'nlludcijini.i Uler. He You married me fur my moneyl glie Well, what If I did? I didn't get It! Isn't that punishment enough ? Detroit Free Press. Instructor (at night school) The lesson speaks of "character building." How should one go to work to build a charac ter? , Shaggy Haired Young Man Don't stick too close to your lines. Try to work In a lot of fresli gags every night, and play to the galleries. Chicago Tribune. McFluh Your wife seems to be quite in dustrious. Hleeth You bet your life she Is, She's busy from morning until night hunting up odd lobs nliout the houso for nie to do. Philadelphia Press. "But do you think, young man," said Her Father, "thut you can afford to many?" "Oh. yes.'slr!" responded the young man, cheerfully. "I have a friend who Is a preacher, und he'll do It cheap I" Cleveland Leader. First Millionaire Do you regret your tainted money? Second Millionaire Nope; the second gen eration will lose that taint, and the third will lose the money. New Y6rk Sun. Teacher (of class In xoology) What Is the proof that n sponge Is a living animal? Young Man with the Hail Eye A nmn is a living animal. Many men are sponges. Therefore a sponge is a living animal. Chicago Tribune. "Was their marriage a secret affair?" "I should sny sol The groom didn't even know of It till she'd lined him up for the ceremony." Detroit Free Press. "I never thought," said the conceited lecturer, "that my voice would fill that hall." "No," replied the candid man. "I thought at one time It would empty it" Philadelphia ledger. A LITTLE GUM. I KNKW. Sunset Magazine. There was once a Utile girl I knew With dark hair braided down her back; She lived next door, as some girls do. And I couldn't help seeing she had a knack For washing the steps and tending tha flowers (For the house was a little way from oursj. I couldn't help hearing the pleasant sound That dishes make when they touch tha ; a r. I wasn't the kind to hang around, But 1 saw and heard as a fellow can (And she was a girl about as spry As a trout thut leaps to snap the fly). And when the windows were opened wlda She made the beds and swept the floor, Dusted the things on every side, And thro' the open kitchen door I saw hrr sllr the pudding und rake. And make the coffee and broil the steak. You know I surely could hear and sea (Their house of course not far away). And I wasn't as dumb as some might be, rut I managed once some words to say, And so concluded a fresh combine She moved from their house Into mine.
