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filE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1903. -4 Tite Omaiia Daily Bee B. ROS.SWATHR. EDITOR. PUBLISHED BVEnT MORITING. TERM8 OF SUBSCRIPTION. Pally Ileo (Without BJiMlav), on year. .MOT Daily Itc- and Bu.iday, on year 6 '0 Illustrated J)e, on ye.r t M fcundnv Hen, on year 2-r Saturday Ufa, oe year l-M Twentieth Century Farmer, one year..., 100 DELIVERED II CAl'.RIKR. Daily He (without Bunl y). pir Dally T;e (without Sunday), per eipv,,,, 2c werk,..12o Pliy Re (Including dunriay), per week.. 17a Evening Uee (without Sunday). per Vf-k 7o Evening Une (Including Sunday'. per week 12c Sunday Bee, prr copy Fo Cf.riplalnt of Irregularities In delivery should be addressed to City Circulation De partment. OFFTCFfl. Omaha The Bee nulldlng. South Omaha City H&n Building, Twen-ty-fifth and M treet. Connril muffs 10 Pearl s'-et. Ohtasgo 189 I'nl'y Hul'dlng. New York 1500 Home Life , Iniranc Building.- Washington BTO Fourteenth street. 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SO.lOO I..'. , O.T5 6 ZflUMiO 7 2H.ONO t no.ixM 9 2,ico 10 2H.GOO 11 ...4, 2M,U4S) 11 2S.OOO 13 H.fK 14 as,7io 15 2,&60 17 88.430 IS SW.OHO 19 2S.BI0 10 .4,100 21 88.800 23 .T3 2J 28.0OO 24 2J4.070 15 88,170 26 28,160 27 88,130 2S 8,10 29 S,40O 50 . 88,4U 51 27,010 16 28,1311 Totals Ma,x;io Less nnsold copies .tltt Net total sale KM2.410 Daily average itn,cn C. C. ROSffiWATER, Seciotary. Subscribed In my presence ana swoin to before me this 31st day of July, 1906. (Seal) U. B. H UNGATE, Notary Public WHKll OUT OK TOWN. Subscribers leaving the city tem porarily nhonld bite Tha Be Mailed to them. It ia better than dally letter from home. Ad dress will ! changed a often as requested. The western grain crop, like the auto mobile, requires no outside help to move It In tho language of the ringside, Japan professes to be ready to fight to a finish In Manchuria if it cannot win on points at Portsmouth. President Shea. tot. the (Julcngo team sters will be 'fortunate If he finds no bit ter dregs In the bottom of tlie loving-cup recently presented to him Before the Ixmd of the new plumbing Inspector Is approved he should be re quested'tof Stipulate w4ieniier he" Will ex pect the city to furnish him one horso or two horses. As long as Kussla and Japan are Jeal ous of each other's power Teklp? can afford to rest easy.- China's real danger will come when the belligerents are be come allies. Since It bas been ascertained that tho Standard Oil company did not use short measure at Kansas City, Kansas looks with suspicion on Missouri's warfare upon the "trust." It may be noted that despite their "religious frenzy," those Doukholwrs never undertake a inarch without cloth ing when the mercury reaches its winter quarters In Canada. As long us everts adhere to the mos quito theory for5 yellow fever New Or leans can claim superiority over Wash ington, as typhoid ferer is still attribu ted to mere lack of cleanliness. While the subject of reciprocity Is be ing considered a plan to provide recipro cal relations between the Interstate com merce Tom missions and federal courts with a penchant for injunctions might not be out of order. By all means bring the next meeting of the League of Municipalities to Omaha. It ouizlit not to mt much to entertain the visitors thnn to rv tho , - i expenses of three delegates sent to rep resent Omaha at some other place. ' In first ascertaining where they can gree, before deciding upon the points upon whicli they cannot agree, the peace envoys may have been moved by a desire to give the press correspondents an op pbrtunity to earn their expense money. If the plan to secure larger appropria tions for the Improvement of the inter nal waterways of the nation meets with success the Missouri will continue to vindicate Its right to designation as a navigable stream as long as there are funds Id sight Dr. Miller says that our cornfield parks will name day prove a priceless asset to the city. If they ever again within twenty-five years reach the price which the city was buncoed into paying for them a few years ago our taxpayers msy consider themselves lucky. Tbe official description of Ak-Sar-Ben's coming street fair is an "Oriental Carnival . and Industrial Exposition." The Civic Federation should at once ap point a committee to Inspect the oriental features of the show and decide whether , they . will pass muster under the rules and regulations. . It is reported that Governor, lloch of v Kansas had made ail arrangements to yleVfi-be battleship Kansas before the launchl? If the contractors had not per- pitted llm m wtPr ta place of wine ta the crtany. Water was permitted as4 Katf thua ved from another rnooBESs at Portsmouth. V'hnt has thus far' been accomplished by tbe peace conference Is encouraging, but It by no means gives assurance tint peac will result. The minor points thnt have been apreed upon were not et ected to cause any serious controversy. While they Involve concessions on the part of Itussla tat are fatal to her hopes in the far east, they really mean no surrender of rnytlilug leyond what Japan had already won, so that as a mat ter of fact Russia has not given up any thing. She has simply admitted her losses and in doing this China rather than Japan is the gainer, since tho con cessions made are chle3y In the interest of the former. In this respect the Japa nese envoys have done what was ex pected of them. It has been understood that it was the policy of that country to turn over Manchuria to China and the action of the envoys at Portsmouth shows that this is what Japan iutends. Both Itussla and J-npan are to withdraw from the Chinese pro.vlnce, but this does not necessarily mean that Japanese in fluence Cere Will cease. It can very confidently be predicted that in the fu ture administration of affairs In Man churia the counsel of Japan will be sought nnd will have a very decided, weight. The really vital issues are yet to be discussed and there Is still fear that upon these a rupture may occur. The Japanese demands for Indemnity and for tho cession of the island of Sakhalin are the rocks upon which the conference may be wrecked., There can bo no ques tion as to the Justness of these demands. Japan ought to be reimbursed for the money cost of the war. IIer claim in tills respect Is as good as was that, of Oermany against France or Russia against Turkey. As to the Island which Is a part of her conquest, her claim to it is clear aud Russia can offer no sound reason for not recognizing it. Sakhalin Is a part of the Japanese archipelago and formerly was so recognized. Rus sia obtained possession of the island at a time when Japan was too weak to de fend her rights there. She is now In possession and is perfectly able to hold what she has secured. That she is firmly determined to do so there appears to be no doubt and ft is not an unsaf" predic tion that Russia will agree to the ces sion of the Island rather than by refusing to do so make inevitable a continuance of the war. A still more difficult issue is In regard to the payment of an in demnity nnd it is generally feared that upon this a rupture may come. Whether or not Japan will Insist upon a money payment to reimburse her for the ex penses of tho war, or will accept some thing in lieu of cash, there is at present no indication.- It is possible that the Japanese envoys are not absolutely com mitted to insistence upon a money pay ment, but may have an alternative prop osition which Russia can accept. When the peace conference- met there was a feeling of apprehension that it would not ' last beyond a week. That time has gone by and the outlook for a favorable result hns become more fa vorable, though the more formidable ob stacles to peace are yet to be encoun tered. The situation, however, is by no means hopeless. IN THE ANTHRACITE BEQION. There is reported to be some unrest In tbe anthracite coal region and there is apprehension that when the present arrangement, mude after the strike of 1902 between the operators and miners, expires there will be another great con flict. Certain circumstances are noted as Indicating a trend in this direction, especially the fact that the miners are endeavoring to strengthen their organ ization, which was considerably weak ened by the strike of three years ago, aud are steadily accumulating a fund which is believed to be Intended for use in another contest. If their demands should not be compiled with. A few days ago President Roosevelt addressed the mine workers, but his re marks had no reference to their rela tions with the employers and said noth ing as to the existence of any dissatis faction or unrest. Referring to the situ ation the Philadelphia Ledger says: "The accumulation of funds in the mine union treasury and other straws give ground for the uneasy feeling which exists throughout tho whole hard coal region and for the fear that another strike is contemplated. Such a resort to force, .... . t . i .. . .. .. .. t-i i. .. i nun mv itPBUiiB Ul LUQ Mini Birinu uuu after the wholesome and beneficent re sults of the creation of the conciliation board, would be nothing less than an atrocious crime. This view will tx very generally approved. If the anthracite miners should rrovoke another conflict they will find that they will be without the public sympathy which they had in their last contention. What they should seek to do is to extend tbe present agreement, which has worked well for all concerned. UAXIMVM AND MINIMUM RA1IS. It la not improbable that the Chicago reciprocity conference will consider the expediency of recommending to congress the adoption of a maximum and mini mum tariff, such as most of the Eu ropean countries have, as the most prac tical plan for meeting the foreign tariffs, This system la now employed by a num ber of European countries and is under stood to operate very satisfactorily. The New York Commercial remarks that of the countries that now employ tbe max! mum and minimum system France is perhaps the most prominent That country adopted the system thirteen years ago aud Russia a year later. The new German tariff Is of like character. Under this system two rates of duly are fixed on each article in the tariff. The higher rate Is the one that fixes the maximum extent to which an Imported article may be taxed; the lower one five the minimum extent to which the duty may be lowered by commercial treaty Under the new German tariff those coun tries which have entered into commer cial Ueatka with that nation wl'Z et the benefit of the minimum ratc, while to all others tho higher rates will apply and the United States Is among these. It is this fact which causes so great sn Interest to be felt here in regard to tho effect upon our trade of (eriuauy's tariff, uuless we can negotiate a treaty with that country that will entli'e us to the lower rates, and it was with a view to promoting such a treaty that the Chi cago conference was called. It li Inter esting to note thnt the Canadian govern ment has a maximum and minimum tariff under consideration. That it will sooner or later receive attent'oii from congress is very probable. TAKE CARE OF 1HE STREETS. The municipal asphalt repair plant Is making rupid and gratifying headway in restoring our asphalt pavements to their original state of smoothness aud beauty and it will be a matter of only a short time when all the holes that have been disfiguring our asphalt surfaced streets will be a thing of the past, to the great delight of all. The next thing, however. Is to make sure that our pavements do not again lapse into such frightful con dition. There is no good reason whatever why with reasonable precautions and prompt replacement of worn spots our asphalt pavements should not be kept constantly In a first-class state of repair. The dif ficulty In the past bas been not so much a lack of rules and regulations as a reck less disregard of them. Whether the re sponsibility for past neglect lies with the warring paving contractors, bent upon preventing rivals from doing the work each thinks he should have, or upon the various franchised corporations that cut into the streets to lay railway tracks or to make connections with their piping systems, does not matter now, but for the future tho responsibility should be located and the remedy applied. It Is true that the council and engi neering department have recently pro mulgated new regulations governing the cutting of pavements nnd more partic ularly the depositing of forfeit money to cover the cost of repairing. No permis sion should be given to cut into any pavement unless it Is amply proved that the proposed cutting Is necessary. Our pavements have been too often chopped up without any reasonable excuse, or when there has been good reason, either through Ignorance or Incapacity, a much larger area has been destroyed than re quired. The streets of the.cltj constitute part of the permanent plant of the commu nity just the same as the floors of a house for the Individual householder. No private Individual would tolerate the wanton disfigurement of a hardwood floor in his hall, nor would he permit the worn-out floor to go unrepaired until It became positively dangerous. The peo ple of Omaha have put hundreds of thou sands of dollars Into the paving of their streets and unless these pavements are properly safeguarded and kept In con stant repair they are deprived of the only returns, upon their Investment that they can have, namely, the advantages accruing to a well paved city by facili tating traffic of all kinds. One of the grave charges brought against the distinguished N'ebraskan ap pointed to the bench in Arizona is that he makes It his habit to sit with bis feet on his desk, forcing the visiting attor neys to talk to the soles of his shoes in stead of to his head. The good people of Arizona evidently do not know how to take to imported Nebraska customs, or to realize that some people find it easier to absorb legal lore from the feet up than from the head down. The Judge who sits habitually with his feet on his desk surely must be subject to Impeach ment for violating his oath of office. City Attorney Breen advises the coun cil that he proposes to resist the pay ment of the water hydrant bill at the In stance of the Water board on the ground that the water company is not furnish ing the goods as per contract City At torney Breen, however, has taken no step to stop the payment of salaries to members of the Water board, although overwhelming proof could be readily furnished that they are not doing a sin gle stroke to entitle them to the money. State Treasurer Mortensen Is taking up general fund warrants right along, but every time money is paid out to liquidate general fund obligations it sim ply piles up In the school fund which has been holding these warrants for Invest ment. The problem of school fund In vestment Is sure to become more and more acute as the state pays off its float ing debt. A former candidate for the nomination for governor explains that he is not cul tivating his aspirations Just now be cause "the psychological moment" has not arrived. With most of the political place hunters the psychological moment either cuts no figure or they delude themselves Into the belief that it travels with them as their constant companion. It may be all right for the Nebraska Insurance department to check up the in surance companies licensed to do busi ness in this state, but please see to it that we have no repetition of the graft that was worked under this guise under the last fusion administration of the in surance department. The limit. Topeka State Journal. If Miss Tarbell keeps on unearthing Mr. Rockefeller's past It may be discovered that he la eligible to a seat in tbe United States senate. oothlasr the Wonnda. Chicago News. As compensation for not calling It an "Indemnity" Japan may feel it necessary to put the figure for a "reimbursement" a little higher. Stepping- on Tender Tees. Washington Post. "Some corporations exhaust every effort which can be suggested by the highest ability or secured by the most lavish ex penditure of money to defeat the purposes of the laws on the statute books," says ta rrcskieutj and beef trusty tbs io trust, the salt trust, tfie steel trust, and all the other trusts rise up and exclaim In chorus, "Who, mer Clear (' of "Uave To." Chicago Record-Herald. Thomas A. Kdlson says: "I do not like to deal with men whose lives are devoted to getting money." Neither does any of the rest of us, but most of us have to. (astro tiettlnar Wise. Chicago Record-Herald, v It is altogether likely that President Castro of Venetuela has succeeded by this time In acquiring a thorough understanding of what President Roosevelt meant when he said this government would not go to war for the purpose of helping anyother country to avoid the payment of its debts. Cabinet Hnmors Overdone. New Tork Tribune. The persistency with which It Is reported from day to day that this or that cabinet officer will resign gives those officials more than their share of summer work In dally denying tho dally reports. Ttys is a time big with events, but apparently there are still some Industrious people whose energlea are only partially utilized, hence they are compelled to resort to surmise In order to give vent to their abounding energy to call it by a euphemistic name. Sidetracking; PrtTate Cars. Springfield Republican. New legislation may not be needed to enable the Interstate Commerce commission to drive the private car lines either out of business entirely or under the regulative power of the commission. As a result of notice given by the commission that rail roads having exclusive contracts with prlvata car lines will be held responsible for all rates charged, the Michigan Central, the Union Pacific and the Pere Marquette roads have decided that they will not re new their contracts with the private car monopolies, but will provide their Own cars for the transportation of fruits and other perishable products. That will be a step in the right direction and should become gen eral. High Level in Greed. St. Taul Pioneer Press. Another instance of the greed, corporate and Individual, which every now and then blocks the beneficent extension of govern ment Irrigation works is cited by the Ta coma Ledger In the esse of the Palouse valley, state of Washington. That valley was selected by the government engineers as the site of a reservoir which should Irrigate 100,000 acres or more. As soon as this was known the. Oregon Railway & Navigation company ran a railroad through the valley; and it now demands such a price for Its right of way or for remov ing its tracks to a more elevated site that the project has been practically abandoned. Most railroad officials seem to comprehend that the development of the territory they serve Is of more Importance to them than the getting of a speculative price for a special strip of land: but In this Instance the greed of the corporation seems to have clouded its Judgment. It may well be doubted if such an exercise of the state's delegated power of eminent domain as is witnessed in this Instance was ever con templated In the railroad statutes of Wash ington. In the Rood Old Days. Philadelphia North American. The North American doesn't take much stock in the "good old days" Idea. It be lieves that, on the whole, the "good old days" were no better than the bad young ones. In a good many aspects they were very much worse. - But occasionally the past forces conces sion of its superiority. An Instance ln'pofnt Is to be found in a case recorded in ' the. North American of August t 1MB.' According to English- ad vices then published, three' persons had been "convicted for polling fictitious votes for Sir Francis Burdett at the late Middle sex election." The members of this Interesting trio were sentenced to one., month "in his majesty's gaol of Newgate," at the expiration of which time they were banished from Great Britain for sevem years. . On June 27, 1905, three men were con victed of "polling' fictitious votes" at a late Philadelphia election. They were sen tenced, two of them to five months In Jail and to pay a dne of $600, the other to four months in Jail and to pay a fine of $360. Whatever may be the comparative merits of the places and times In other respects, it must be admitted that there was a clearer conception of the enormity of the crime against the ballot In London In 1806 than there appears to be In Philadelphia In 1905, To that extent a Blgh for the "good old days" Is Justified. , WU AND THE BOYCOTT. Former Minister from China Files a Diplomatic Denial. Baltimore American. A very Interesting Interview recently cabled from Peking giving the views of Mr. Wu Ting-fang, former minister to the United States, but now vice president of the Board of Foreign Affairs of his government, was undoubtedly the clearest expression yet made public of the remedy demanded by CMna for the strained re lations with this 'country which have led to an extraordinary boycott against Ameri cans and American products. Mr. Wu says that the boycott has assumed sur prising proportions, students being especi ally consplcious In the demonstrations, but all classes, even the retiring Chinese woman, taking part and creating a senti ment that will be hard to allay. The ex-minister declares China does not make a single demand that any reasonable American should find objectionable. It la not expected that now or at any time the coolie element will be admitted into the United States, but It Is Insisted, and will be Insisted In any further convention which Is agreed to, that all other classes of Chinese, the "superior Chinese," as Mr. Wu phrases it, shall be permitted to come and go like any other foreigners of similar station. Furthermore China will Insist that immigration to the Hawllan islands shall be unrestricted, as Chinese labor is needed there, and' that there shall be free Intercourse with the Philippines, as those Islands have always been' a field for Chinese operations. There can be little doubt that In any new convention with China this govenment will cordially grant the desired freedom to all classes of Chinese with tho exception of the coolies, and, that as President Roose velt has already specifically ordered, there shall be no longer that offensive detention and examination at ports of entry which In great measure is responsible for the ex isting unfriendliness. Incidents which led up to this, and which finally resulted In decision by the supreme court, were due .to the Ignorance or excessive seal of the govenment officials and should never have occurred. As to the unrestricted- admission of Chinese to Hawaii and the Philippines, that is a question which must depend upon whether such freedom of Intercourse would hasten or retard the development of those Islands. That the most generous treatment will be accorded In this field will not be doubted, and a decision will be reached In acaprd with the advice of Secretary Taft and other officials best Informed of the conditions. It la of much Importance that action be taken early as possible. Ex Mlnlster Wu plainly assert that the anti- American boycott Is almost wholly due to a feeling that the United States govern ment Is Indifferent, and that, in fact, there is 111 He prospect t concession te Chinese e I SUUUit"U BOIXn ABOIT HEW TORK. Ripples s the Current of Lit la the Metropolis. Wife desertion Is crowding divorces for the record In New York City. Both evils are classed as grave menaces to domestic life. While strenuous efforts are put forth to check divorce, there is no adequate remedy for wife desertion. One day last week a crowd of over 100 deserted wives and a mob of children appeared In one of the police courts, each woman demanding a warrant for her husband, charging de sertion and nonsupport. Magistrate Pool Issued twenty-five warrants, the remaining cases going over for Investigation. Later, In discussing the problem, the magistrate said: "The large number of cases thn,t are com ing before magistrates in the police courts show the grave nature of the problem that the lawmakers must face. "When a man tires of a wife, or Is at tracted by a pretty face, ait that he has to do is to refuse to support his wife, and then when she has him summoned before me, he can give a bond for the payment of a weekly sum and go free of Interference from the woman or from the law. I am glad to say that In the largest number of cases that appear before me the husband is of foreign birth. "A serious side to the problem Is that women appeal to the police court for aid only when they have exhausted every other means of bringing the husband back to them. "When a woman appeals to me for aid I only can summon the husband and force him to give a bond for the payment of a stated sum each week. If he refuses I can send him to the workhouse. Many prefer to go to the workhouse to paying their wives anything at all." "Do wives often abandon their hus bands?" "No, not once in 10,000 times, I should say from my experience. Certainly such Instances among the class of people with whom we deal are rare. I do not at this time personally recall such a case." According to the city magistrates, about half of all the wives who are abandoned In New York remain self-supporting, al though they drag along on miserable pit tances. The other half are taken care of either by the city, in its public charitable institutions, or by churches or private In stitutional charity. The children thus for saken by their fathers are, In a large num ber of cases, placed In asylums, from where they are frequently sent to remote parts of the country .and are forever lost to ths parents. They were a bridal pair, and it was evident that while he had been In New York before this was her first trip, for he pointed out the objects of interest with the skill of the rubberneck lecturer as the car went up Broadway. Just behind them was a man whose tem per must have been spoiled by a bad break fast or an extra good supper the night be fore. His short temper shrank visibly as the Uttlo bride wound her fingers about hubby's index finger as he pointed out the sights. Block after block passed, and the man would raise a finger toward some object of Interest, only to have a fluttering hand encircle the pointer as the bride gushed over the wonders of the town. At last it became too much for the man with tho grouch. 'Say," he began, addressing the bride groom, "I can stand It If you've gotter hold hands, but for the sake of the rest of us don't do It on the Installment plan like that." - The stupendous scale of the tunneling operations which are now going on In and about New York will not be understood until the tunnels themselves are In opera tion, and then the very ease of transporta tion ,will lessen the appreciation of the work accomplished. Merely In preparing the approaches to Its tunnel under the North river, the Pennsylvania road will build a roadbed across eight miles of swamp and blast a tunnel a mile long through' an Intervening hill. The construc tion of the roadbed through this swamp, together with similar operations by other railroad systems, is expected, to reclaim a large extent of low lying land, now the breeding place of countless mosquitoes, and thus to work a double blessing. The plan of work Is said to Indicate that Jersey City will lose much of Its Importance as a ter minal. Thrown overboard. Imprisoned In a heavy Iron cage, by its master, a steerage pas senger on the French liner Oascogne. Just before It left Its pier, a green and red Mexican parrot forced Itself between the bars of the cage after It had sunk beneath the surface, and, rising to the air, began screaming In Spanish to be saved. An Irish longshoreman, who had seen the bit of green disappearing, put out In a row boat and saved the bird when it came to the surface. Perched on Its rescuer's shoulder. the parrot swore terrible Spanish oaths at Its owner, who could be seen at the steerage rail as the Gascogne put out. The long shoreman helped the parrot out in choice Celtic. The bird's owner, Balvatore Damato, re cently arrived from the city of Mexico on his way back to his home In Naples, with the savings of several years of railroad building In his pockets. He had the parrot, which he called Francesca, the name of the wife he left In Naples, In a .heavy Iron wire cage. When he boarded the Oascogne he was told that there would be a charge of i for the parrot on the voyage. This angered Balvatore, who threw the cage, parrot ' and all, over the rail. Francesca rose in a second and began yelling In Spanish: 'Get m out of here I Oet me out ef here" "There's a new faker In the subway, and his special victims ax southerners of the old schpol. He is a versatile negro, with the stamp of the old-time darky upon him," said a commuter, quoted by the New York Sun. "I've een him work hi game several times, and It's the easiest work any man of his color does north of Mason and Dixon's line. He hangs around th Grand" Central station until he spies soma southern tourist coming In from some northern trip. He can spot them every time. More than this, nearly every southerner carries a satchel, always tagged with his name and that of his town and state. "That subway grafter keep hi eye peeled for the tag. About a week, ago a big slouch-hatted man and a quaint little old-fashioned woman boarded the down town train. The man carried a bag marked Petersburg, Va.' The darky, who always manage somehow to get a seat, eyed th tag, then got to hi feet, seemingly with great fa la. " 'Hab dls here seat fo' de missus Squire,' said th colored man, doffing hi hat. " "Where did you come from?' aked th big man. 'You're the first polite darky I've run across.' " 'Ah in frum Virginia, Squire, ah wish to de good Lawd aw wus back dere again.' That was worth Just a half dollar to th old darky, and a sympathetic, prosperous looking man hanging on to a strap added a quarter. "The last time I saw that grafter he waa telling a man with 'Islington, Ky.,' on hi grip,' 'Ah'm frum Kalntuck myself, n' fo Gawd ef I ever get back der ah won't leave fur nuthln' but heaben.' I started In to disillusion the Blue-Orass colonel and found that Kentucky happened to be th old faker gaouin uativ slat. How we gained the confidence of the people in our sales By doing just exactly as wo advertised by giving them the values that we state by having the goods to deliver at the bona fide reductions that we claim by making a plain statement of facts by offering reg ular merchandise that this store can back up with its guarantee and not goods that were made for special sale purposes and now when we say special prices the buying public know that it means a reduction from the regular selling price. Just now its our REMOVAL SALE AND EVERYTHING IN THE HOUSE IS RE DUCED IN PRICE. Each and every department full of genuine bargains. Surely an excellent purchasing opportunity. Orchard & Wilhelm Carpet Qo. PERSONAL HOTKS, That Chelago girl who won a husband by cooking him a good dinner unconsciously answered the paramount question the women's clubs were wrangling over. A railroad conductor recently refused to honor the pass of Congressman Frank L. Dixon of Illinois on account of Mr. Dixon's youthful appearance. A friend of the con gressman's on the train convinced the con ductor that Mr. Dixon was old enough to sit In the house. Prof. N. A. Cobb of Spencer, Mass., who was formerly In the employ of the Aus tralian government in New South Wales, Is on his way to the Hawaiian islands, where he goes In behalf of the United States government to instruct the natives In scientific farming. William J. Palmer, the founder of Colo rado City, Colo., ha given to that city $1,000,000 or more In the way of parks, largo sums to its charitable institutions, built a driveway up the Bear canyon and now has bought up another large tract of ground with the intention of turning it into a park. It 1 not generally known that Dr. Wash ington Gladden who has so vigorously scored the church for Its acceptance of "tainted" money and John D. Rockefeller were country boys together In Tioga county. New York, attended adjoining dis trict schools and frequently met In rival spelling bees. Miss Marie Corelll has Imported Into 6tratford-on-Avon a real Venetian gondola and a real Venetian gondolier, dressed in proper costume, and on moonlight nights Miss Corelll sail about on the hlstorct Avon. It 1 said the gondola is a work of art, beautifully carved, and with the em blems of Venice and th Adriatic In raised bronse. Senator Proctor of Vermont 1 reported to have said that the finest speech he ever made consisted of only four words. Sena tor Hoar In a speech in the course of which he chaffed good-naturedly the senator from the Orean Mountain state, made this little thrust: "No man in Vermont f allowed to vote unless he has made $5,000 trading with Massachusetts people." Senator Proc tor retorted: "And we all vote." HIS OWN PREMIER. President Roosevelt's Activity In the World's Diplomacy. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. When Louis XIV was saying, Just after the death of his great subordinate and master, Masarin, that hereafter he would be his own premier, how small he would have appeared in his own estimation could Jie have taken a glance prophetically at the head of the American government of few centuries later! With a readiness and an adequacy which is almost comic in Its completeness, President Roosevelt Is his own premier these days. His own Masarin, Secretary Root, Is not dead, but he Is off la the wilds of Labrador, beyond the reach of even the wireless telegraph, whll Taft, who used to alt on the lid with as much effectiveness as ever Louis' Col bert or Luvols did, is oft on the other side of the globe. All by himself, Mr. Roosevelt Is th en tire American government these day, and, according to some competent critic, he 1 playing hi role well. The London Time, referring to the affair on the May flower, In which he brought the Japanese and the Russian peace commissioner to gether, and put them In good humor with each other and with all the world, said that scene would live In history, and added: '."The president ha performed hi part with perfect Judgment and tact," and re marked further that. "Whatever may be the outcome of the negotiations, civilized them by the For over half a century Ayer's Hair Vigor has been sold in every civilized land on the face of the globe. Is not this long, unbroken history of success the very best Kind of a testimonial? Ksos by ths '. O. Arr O. . Lowell. KaM. Also nu0lurrs of ATEB'S 6AR8APARILtA-For tbe Hood. arut a coakkT puciomurot mankind will not forget or undervalue the part which he played in bringing them about." And no other American official, o far as the general public can see, has been close enough to the front In any stape of the proceedings leading tip to the con ference to shine even with a reflected light. Louis would have been still more envious could he have foreseen all the opportuni ties for big international deals which are coming to his great American Imitator. All the world want to enter Into an al liance with the United State. Russia Is proposing such a league. A sweibund with Germany has been talked of. Triple al liances with England and France or with England and Japan are being mentioned as possibilities. The obsequiousness to Louis vhich the British public used to see In their own Charles II has a counterpart In the attitude which more than one of ths world's 'crown wearers of today have been showing toward the president of the United States. 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