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TUB DM AM A DAILY HKKt TUfiSDAlf, AUUUJST IT-', 1WX Tire Omaha . Daily Bee. K ROPEWATCIl, EDITOR. rBLI8HKD EVERT MORNING. TERMS OF BLBfCRlPTION. JPadr Hm (without Sunday p. oni year. II 00 lKliy He and Hunday. oni year O0 llluatrated Hee. on ar 2 oO Sunday He, one year 1W Saturday 4, uni year 1 " Twtntieln Century Varmer. one year.. IW DIUV KR0 BY CARRIER. IIIy' r IwlUwut Sunday), per rory--lelly Bee (without Hunriay, per week. .12c L)Mly Bee (Including Hunday, per week..l?e livening Bp (without Bunday), pi Week 7c fcvening Dm (Including Sunday), per '.week Sunday Bee, per ropy c Complaints of Irregularities In delivery hould be addressed to City Circulation De partment. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha City Hall Building, Twenty-fifth and M streets. V Council Bluffs 10 Pearl street. Chicago 1H40 fnlty Building. New York 1600 Home Ufa Insurant Bulldlna-. Washington 0t Fourteenth street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi torial matter should fee addressed: Otoaha bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES Remit by draft, express or postal ordT, payable to The Bee Publishing Company, unly 2-eent stamps received In payment ot mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION, tate at Nebraska, Douglas county, ss. : C C Rosewater, secretary of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, ays that the actual number of full and Complete copies of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of July, 19& was as follows: t I. . ai.Hio n i.-,4ju t S,200 g 9A.ONO I Sv.SOO 9 28,510 4....t 80,100 20 2H.100 I ..... 29,750 . 11 28,300 ...; 28,65(r" 2t 2O.6T0 1 28.UAO tt 2S.0O0 1 80,000 24 2M.OTO .,...28,160 25 28,170 10 88,000 c 26 28,180 II. .., I 28,640 - 27 28,130 12 t,. 28,000 28 28,100 It 28.ltlH 28 20,400 14 28.710 30 28,4.10 U 20,880 tl 27,010 U 28,130 . Totals 8.23U Less unsold copies v t,e)15 Net total sales 882,418 lajly averaga 8S.400 C. C. ROSEWATER, Secretary. Subscribed In' my presence and sworn to before me this first day of July, 1906. (Seal) M... B. HL'NQATE, t Notary Public. WHEX Ol'T OF TOWS. Rabacrlbers tearing the city tern Siorarlly ' ahaald hare The Bee nailed to them. It Is better then dally letter from home. Ad dress will be chanced as oftea as requested. A "famine" of grain curs at tbe pres ent time uiujr make an active demand for stuck cars later. It Is hardly probable, In the light of history, that Turkey will Join the powers in a demand for Immediate peuce iu the fur east. Ambassador Conger might have speci fied whether he "sido-stepped" that spe cial mission to China or was unable to catch it Envoys awaiting instructions from their government glow 'that "full pow ers to negdflate" are not always what the seem. After the gus inijpect.or gets through testing gas meters In the basement of the city hull be might more up into the council chamber. An Omaha divine takes exception to Sunday golf playing., The ministers are evidently feeling the effects of golf as a counter attraction. Tublic confidence In tig ability of General. Line v itch to hold Uyaraa would be greater hud not his immediate prede cessor sent similar messages. With a case' of yellow fever reported in Missouri, it 'will be strange If the health officers of Iowa and Nebraska cannot be frightened into print. In 'view of the resignation of Lord Curson in India some of our democratic stump orators can probably sell to the British opposition a lurge number of well-worn speeches on the subject of "Imperialism." Indians who are demanding separate statehood for Indian territory evidently desire to show the palefaces how well they have learned the lesson of politics; nd the first goaj is to make as inauy offices as poHsible. According to experts the foreign in Ttders will have to find work for the Chinese before they can sell a large amount of goods lu that country which (Will probably' allay the fears of many regarding the -boycott. , Poland has a strike precipitated be cause Polish, people will not be permit ted te elect delegates to the Russian na tional congress. They should wait until fhey find out If representation in that congress is worth the trouble. : Now that a number of negro miners have teen stopied on the way from the south to mines at Zlegler, JH., because tbe authorities of the state fear yellow fever, .voting Mr. Letter may have a hard time attributing an outbreak of this disease to the Miners' union. News from-Rerlin thut Germany will Support the action of President Roose velt iu the matter of the peace negotia tions would show that the JapRe of the commercial treaty does not sever pleas ant relations lietween the countries de !it the claims made thut commercial ism dictates all governmental policies in these latter days. The democratic ex-congressman from this district tries to poke fun at lJls re publican ucceor for declaring at thf recirootty convention that ho lsrno coward even though he is a congress man. The democratic ex-congressn!-was duly commissioned 1.7 Goveriiof Mlrkey ss one of the delegates frooi Ne braska, but he has not yet given the -koa whj hs failed to show up. THE MILITAHT The military Influence Is very power ful st 8t. Petersburg and the lDdlcat4os are that It l now being strongly eierten ngslnst peace. It appears to lx also In evidence st Portsmouth. The state ment Is made that General Llnevltcli has expressed absolute confidence In vic tory and since the conference began he and his generals have pot only reassured the cssr that the army was never 1n better condition, but have sent messages to M. Wltte Imploring him not to make peace. According to the. report they de mand an opportunity- to retrieve the "honor and prestige" of the army and It Is observed that "In a country where the army Is the bulwark of the govern ment the wishes of its generals are not likely to be disregarded by their sover eign." That the cxar is in sympathy with the desire of the array to retrieve Its lost prestige Is not to be doubted, but In view of the failure of past assur auces from his generals he may have some misgivings as to what they now tell him regarding their ability to defeat the enemy. He can hardly fall to call to mind tbe boastful declarations and promises of Kouropatkln and others whose carefully prepared plans proved futile and whose armies were beaten in every important engagement. These also, it will be remembered, assured the czar that their forces were In the best possible condition and could be de pended njion to sustain the honor and prestige of the arny. It is doubtless a fact that the Russian army kr Manchuria was never in better condition than at present. It has been reorganized since occupying its present position and has received large rein forcements. The most trustworthy esti mates place Its strength at nearly half a million men, well equipped in all re spects. It Is an army composed largely of yeterans and is capable of doing tre mendous fighting. They occupy a strong position. But while the Russians have been strengthening themselves the Japanese have not teen less active in augmenting their army and increasing its equipment. There Js reason to be lieve that both in men and in guns' they are superior to the Russians, while at least equal In organization and in cour age and fortitude. Judged by results Oyama and his subordinate command ers are much greater generals than their opponents. They have shown the high est ability as strategists and tacticians. The Japanese do riot boast, but they are not lacking in confidence. What they have already accomplished cer talirly Justifies them in feeling that if the war goes on they will win other vie tories. In a receut interview the Japa nese minister to London said: "If the war continues our forces will capture Vladivostok and Harbin, taking by force territory of greater value thon the pay ments demanded by Japan, after which our army will Intrench an advantageous line, from which It will require treble the number of the enemy to dislodge us." This indicates the Japanese plan if the war goes on and it is altogether probable that she could carry -it out. If she should do so It would force Russia to fight an offensive campaign, entailing a greater strain upon her than she is now experiencing. ' In the event of the military Influence prevailing with the cxar and defeating the efforts of peace, it Is most probable that the Japanese will force a general engagement without 'elay. Undoubt edly they are fully prepared to do this and are quite as eager for it as the Rus sians profess to be, and the very gen eral belief, outside of Russia is that the result would be another great victory for Japan. No step back Ward. The late fusion candidate for gov ernor, who, since his defeat a year ago, has acquired a weekly newspaper, is trying to raise an issue on the abolition of the county asseswar and the restora tion of the discarded system of assess ment for taxation by, elective precinct assessors. After devoting several col umns to fault-finding over special griev ances disclosed by the state assessment, he comes to the conclusion that this is "the" remedy for existing "Intolerable" conditions, and clinches the argument by declaring dramatically that "the new revenue law and those charged with its enforcement stand condemned before thet people of Nebraska." The trouble with chronic office seeking reformers who are playing only to the gallery is that they do not go below the surface and Jump at conclusions even before the symptoms of development. Although there Is still much room for improvement, we have no healtstion In saying that careful study discloses this year's assessment of taxable property lu Nebraska o be nearer the relative true value than last year's assessment, and last year's assessment to be much In advance of the assessment of the previ ous year. If We compare the present assessment of taxable proierty In Ne braska with the assessment made tinder fusion regime, it will be found that the progress made in tlie direction of equity has been still more remarkable. Railroad property Is still greatly un dervalued In Nebraska, but the railroads will pay more In proportion to their bold lugs under the new revenue law as en forced ty those, charged with Its execu tion than they did before the new reve nue law was enacted. Bo far, also, as local assessments are concerned the county assessor system has so far been a great improvement. It is safe to say that In the great majority of Nebraska counties the county assessor Is far better qoullnod for his work than were the average precinct assessors who were elected under the old system. The great indictment of our old rev enue law' was that It produced a com petitive contest in undervaluation, each precinct assessor trying to do a Bttle bet ter by those who elected him in order that they might not get the worst of It U comparison with neighboring pre cincts. If the tendency tow ard such n dervslnatlpn hss not byen entirely elim inated by the county assessor plan. It still has been reduced to a competition between only ninety county assessors lnstesd of a competition between some 1,000 precinct assessors. All this, en tirely aside from the very material sav ing in the expense of making assess ments by elective precinct assessors. As we have already said, there ore, doubtless, several places in the new rev enue law that can be bettered,-but the aboUtipn of the county assessor to re turn to the' elective precinct assessors would te a distinct step backward. AS TO A TARIFF COMMISSION. The old idea of a permanent tariff commission, to be created by congress and appointed by the president, was re vived by the Chicago reciprocity con ference. It resolved that "the question of schedules and items to be considered in such reciprocal concessions (under a dual tariff) preferably be suggested by a permanent tariff commission, to le created by congress and oppolnted by the president, which shall consist of economic, industrial and commercial ex perts." We will not venture to say how many times such a commission has been proposed, but It is one of the academic devices that have never attained popu larity. It is not at all probabje that congress wll ever creute such a body and even if it should it is not likely, Judging from past experiences, to pay much attention to its suggestions. There is of course something to be said in support of the idea of a perma nent tariff commission. Such a tody composed of economic, industrial and commercial experts, who would give dis interested consideration to the tariff from a national point of view, might prove very serviceable, but the first dif ficulty to be encountered would be In finding men of that kind men who would not bo more or less under the control of sectlonul influences or of in terests with which they were or hud been Identified. A tariff commission would of course be made up of men selected from every section of the coun try and of different political affiliations, so that on most, matters there would be likely to be wide difference of views. However, it is safe to say that this is one of the suggestions of the conference "which will get no attention from con gress. That body is very Jealous of its prerogatives and will not confer any of them, at least so far as the tariff is concerned, upon a commission. FOB A Ml It ISO DEPARTMENT. . The mining interests are persistent in urging the creatl.i of a deportment of the federal government to look after the industry of mining ami they suc ceeded in getting an endorsement of the proposition from the Transmissis slppl commercial congress. The matter was forcibly presented to that body by the president of the American mining congress, who said he believed the great mining industry can be uplifted and the American people thereby blessed by a mining department on as great scale os the Agricultural department "I be lieve," he said, "that 'a' department of mining would bring to 'the prospector, the forerunner of promise, and the miner, scientific information and would return to the American people a far richer legacy than the Department of Agriculture is bringing and will bring." The government Is not neglecting the mining interests of the country. The value and importance of the mining In dustry has long been recognized and there is a bureau intended to give at tention to it and which is performing this function. Perhaps a department, whose chief would have a seat in the cublnet, would be able to do more to promote the development of the industry than can be done by a bureau, but there is a pretty strong popular sentiment against creating any more executive de partments and we apprehend It will be a very long time before there is another one created. Everybody desires that the t mining Interest shall continue to grow and as rapidly as possible. It Is a source of wealth to the country and of prosperity to hundreds of thousands of people. The industry is growing and will continue to grow, perhaps quite as vigorously as if it was represented by a department at Washington instead of a bureau. ,The announcement aid to have be'en made by Judge Barnes that the North Platte will concede tp the South Platte the supreme Judgeship nomination to be made in the coming republican state convention seems to have been a trifle premature. Omaha and Douglas county belong geographically to the North Platte and they never yet went Into a state convention without asking for the best place in sight, or something equally as good. "Does anyliody discover anywhere anything to indicate that the railroad machine Is losing Its grip on republican organization In Nebraska?" asks the local demo-pop newspaper mouthpiece. Does anylody discover anywhere anything to Indicate that the rollroad machine would not have as good a grip on a restored fusion administration In Nebraska as it bad on the old dislodged fusion state house gang? The state's attorneys who ure moving to have the Nebraska Inheritance tax law enforced on estates probated in tills county call attention to the fact that the United States supreme court has upheld laws of substantially the same tenor, but our learned county Judge some time ago declared the law unconstitutional. No decision of the United States supreme court could be expected to cut any figure with him. It Is gratifying to note that building activity in Omaha continues unabated. Incidentally, however, we could get along very well without having any more one-story shacks erected along our principal business thorough fores. Some of tbe populist organs through the stats do not take kindly to tbe issue f a call for a populist state convention to meet at the same time and place as the democratic state convention. The fusion habit, however, has gotten so strong with those In charge of the party machinery that the populists, cannot shake lt off no matter how often they announce that each time Is the last time. If the new primary election law knocks out one of the old registration days as contended, what is there to show which one is knocked out? For convenience sake It would be better to abolish the last registration day the reg istration day fixed for the Saturday be fore election and to keep those that come earlier. Since President Castro has been able to place orders for war material In Eu rope it is evident that either there Is some confidence in him in that quarter, or manufacturers of firearms expect the United States to play Again the part of constable and collection agent. A Manifest Rrror, Washington Post. It may be all rlg-ht to close the mint at Philadelphia, but we protest asalnst the government explaining- the action by declaring that "there Is no demajj for gold or sliver coin.", Better Go Slow. San Francisco Chronicle. It is Intimated that al? the army officers mixed up In tha Taggart scandal will be cashiered. The authorities should proceed with patience. It Is never wise, even In time of peace, to hastily Impair the strength of military organization. 1V I,ed la World. Boston Herald. Statistics are now brought forward to show that America has supplanted France as the leader In the motor car Industry. Not only does the United States supply 95 per cent of the cars now In this country, but American manufacturers are now ship ping cars all over the world. So we forge ahead as a world power. Impressions that Last. Baltimore American. Governor Hoch on his visit to Atlantln City encountered some other surprises be sides those received from the breaking whltecaps. His hotel bill for one day took the whole of his salary as governor for one week and made an impress on his mind that may tinge the official remarks when he enas in tils next annual message tp the state legislature. A Melancholy Finish. Boston Transcript. A man who had been In tha enlrt nih of '49, had survived shlrjwreck off Hnuth America, had escaped by tbe smallest pos- ioie margin rrom a burning hotel, and rad lived to tell the tale of his escane from a serious mine disaster, was finally killed xne otner day by a locomotive. It was a conventional ending to a romantic exist ence. He was walking the track. Corporations Here and Abroad. 'Philadelphia Press. The United Btates has in the aggregate about the total wealth of Great Britain and Germany combined. These two countries have, one an aggregate wealth of about 180,- 000,000,000 and ihe other of about $50,000,- 000,000. The aggregate wealth of the United States Is about HOO.OOO.000,000. The orguniiaUoa of companies, however, goes on far more actively In this country man In either,,. In Germany In 1904 there were 104 companies Incorporated, with a capital of 3S,4.74,rOO, In England there were J.478 companies organised, with a nominal capital of $416,000,000. In the United States In 1904, $429,000,000 6f new bonds and $120,- 000,000 of hew tocka were listed on the New Yoric Stock Exchange, or $549,000,000, a larger sum than the aggregate capital of all the companies, . listed or unlisted, both In England and Germany. But these American figures only Include the new securities actually listed on the New Tork Stock Exchange. If ll the com panies organized in this country were in cluded, the aggregate would be far larger Each year probably sees In this country, as far as one can Judge, from partloal figures. about four tlmee as much corporate capital launched as In both France and England combined. PERSONAL NOTES. Mr. Ion Perdlonrls, who 'was lately In peril' In Morocco, Is now spending the sum mer among the automobiles of the Berk shlres. ' Ida Tarbell says it Is Mr. Rockefeller's desire to live to be very old and very rich. Ru'.ell Sage seems to cherish a similar ambition. Corporal "Jim" Tanner believes he will win In the race for commander-in-chief of the Graryl Army of the Republic with votes to spare.. ... . John I. Rockefeller, having taken a course ot the iTarbell. cold-feet cure with out any visible 'benefit, Is now taking the Knelpe wet-feet oure In a wan smile and a white bathrobe on the banks of the Hud son. t When Ohio points with virtuous satisfac tion to thirteen bankers In Its state prison. New York feels that It Is going the Buck eye state several better by pointing to 193 lawyers in durance vile In the Empire state. Every one Is ' familiar with Wlllard's famous painting, "Yankee Doodle." Of the three men who figure as the drummers and the flfer Harry ;K. Devereux of Cleveland, Is the only one now living. He was the model for the bey of the trio. Dr. Douglas Hyde of French Park, Ire land, the distinguished Irish scholar and poet. Is coming here this fall en a lec turing tour. Df. Hyde la president of the Gaelic league, a body which has done much to preserve the Irish language as a spoken tongue and to create a new litera ture in Irish. Mayor Rose of Kansas City, Kan., has requested owners of vacant lots In that city to allow them to be used as play grounds for Children. If the request Is granted the mayor says he will have the street department clean the lots and pre pare them for playgrounds, where - the small boys will be allowed to congregate. An eastern woman who has added five to her century ( of years, and admits It, says the secret of her long" lire and un varying cheerfulness Is that she did her own housework. In this manner she escaped the terrors of hired help and preserved the bloom of youth long after her contempo raries took shelter beneath the willows. What an old-fashioned dame she Is! For some time Miss Helen Gould has been quietly conducting a charity at Liberty, N. V., and only her most Intimate friends have known of this particular philanthropy. At a farm near Liberty she has for years been caring for a number of poor children, but now it Is learned that elsewhere In that vicinity she entertains groups of about a dosen children for periods of three weeks. A cold-hearted Pittsburg man wants a divorce from Ma wife, accusing her of un seemly levity while he was sick. It appears that the madame often. sat on the foot of the sick m in s bed and jollied him by ask ing which 0? the town's undertakers he would prefer for his last trip. Just like other men, he took offense and got well. Now the ungal'ant cuss would reward loving care and forethought by shaking the source. Tbe ' mean thing! ' RAILROAD ACCIDENTS COMPARED. Qrltlah and Aaserlraa Rererds Coa eealments of Ihe Former. A comparison of the ofOVIat records of accidents on American and British rail roads for the year 1904 la not complimen tary to American railroad management. According to the ' statistics ot the Inter state commerce commission one passenger was killed for every l,fi22.2C7 carried in the United Btates and one for every 199,75R,ooo carried In Great Britain. The number of passengers Injured was one In every 78.623 carried In the Vnlted States and one In every J,!44,472 carried In Great Britain. The official statutes further show that In 1904 $.632 railroad employes were killed nnd 67,067 Injured in the United Btates against seven killed and 114 injured In Great Britain. These comparative figures. If correct, are an Indictment of the reckless mnn mo ment of railroads In this country. 80 start ling is the discrepancy between the records that the reader Involuntarily asks whether the first Is not excessive and the second a partial one. The difference In the physi cal condition of the roarln Rnd f mart-. tiv operating department can acarcely be great enough to produce tha wide di vergence in the record. , v tf u. uis vi j 1 'tj Democrat, writing from London, presents some facta hearlnr nr .1... mortality records of the railroads In both countries. He shows the methods of con cealment and elimination by which the rmiroans or ureat Britain are made to ap pear SO much safer fur trvolr thon Y. railroads of the United States. He says: i nrough the eourtcsv of a hih nmviat of the British government I was permit ted to see the preliminary report of the board of trade statistics giving the num bers of those who were killed or Injured on British railways during 1904. It showed tnat the railway death roll Inst vnr amounted to 1.158, and that 18,749 persons were more or less grievously injured. 1 nese figures mav be tnknn nnrrmt If the report had been allowed to go forth without alteration everybody would know the true situation. And UttlA TKTAtllft Vn heard about the alleged marvelous Im munity irom clangor enjoyed by those who travel In the antiquated, stuffy and Incom modious carriages of the British railway companies. But before It cohM he taanorf to parliament It had to undergo some won- aerous cnanges at the hands of expert sta tistical manipulators. I b vance sheets of that report. The original compilation has been cut up Into sections, and the casualties distributed under vari ous headings devised, no doubt, to relieve the railroads of as much responsibility as possible for them and fool the public. And In the process many of the killed and In. Jured disappear altogether." In the introduction this statement Is made: "The danger of railway traveling has been reduced to such a point that In 1904 the chances against a passenger be ing killed in the course of a given Jour ney were more than 200,000,000 to 1." That statement will be quoted far and wide as proof of the worn -ous vigilance and efficiency f British railway officials In safeguarding the lives of passengers. It will be conr-md with the mortuary rec ords of Am can railways, with results overwhelmingly In favor of the English syi-iem of transit. But the statement Is absurdly false. It is based on "doctored" figures. It Is amaslng that a high-salaried British official should have the audacity to make It, and to ask Parliament and the British public to believe It. w'ht.i the same report In which It appears furnishes conclusive proof of Its mendacity. A foundation for It Is obtained by a process of elimination which makes It ap pear, as set forth in one of the tables, that only six passengers were killed through "train accidents." And only these six are allowed to count In reaching the comforting conclusion that a passenger In an English railway train runs only one chance In 200.000,000 of being killed. But there were 109 other passengers killed, according to the official report, by "acci dents from other causes." Nine of them, for Instance, lost their lives through "pas senger trains or parts of passenger trains leaving the rails." Thirty-three were killed by "falling out of carriages during the running of trains." This is due to the subdivision of cars on British railways Into small compartments, with doors on either side. Railway attendants bang them to as trains leave the stations, but often they fall to close them securely, and the luckless Individual who chances to lean against one that hasn't been fastened finds it a veritable death trap. One passenger In every 39,000,000 runs the risk of being killed In this way on an English railway. But he doesn't figure among those who are killed by "train accidents." What are vaguely termed "other accidents" account for the death of twenty-one of tha ex cluded 109. The same methd Is adopted In dealing with railway employes who are killed or Injured. Only seven of them figure as being killed by "train accidents." To other causes variously classified are at tributed the deaths of 4"9. The "grand total" of the official report, which is sup posed to Include all casualties on railroads, shows 1.0E9 killed and (,2RS Injured. By some statistical hocus pocus ninety-nine deaths -hat appeared In the preliminary report have been dropped out, and the number of those Injured has been dimin ished by over 12,000. British railway companies obtain their earnings chiefly from their passenger traffic. The accident statistics relating to them are distorted In their Interests. By some mysterious method they control the system under which they are tabulated. The board of trade statisticians who com pile the figures are not responsible for It. They view with disgust the botch that Is made of their labors by the higher officials. One of the compilers, with whom I dis cussed the burlesque official report, told me that he had visited the United States a few years ago and Inspected the rail ways there to obtain points for parlia mentary railway legislation. "I found." he said, "that American roads are far superior to ours so far as appli ances for the protection of life are con cerned. The report which I was Instru mental In drawing up bore fruit In an act for the prevention of accidents on English railways. But as passed It was a very Imperfect measure. It made no provision for automatic car couplers, such as are used on American railways. The hand coupling process employed here Is respon sible for fully $0 per cent of the fatalities among railway employes. Railway com panies bitterly oppose all attempts to com pel them to adopt appliances and methods that will render the roads safer. Their In fluence In Parliament, where many of the members are railway directors, is great. And as long as our figures are distorted to make It appear that English railways are miracles of safety there la small chance of arousing public opinion on the subject." Beats All Creation. St. Louis Republic The Interstate Commerce commission's report showing 297.073 miles of railroad in the United States must Include all sidings, switches, double track reduced to single, and so forth. The actual length of our railroads Is something less than 710.000 miles, which is about two-fifths the entire railroad mileage of the world. It la 30.000 more miles than all Europe has, about four times the mileage of all Asia and seven times that of South America. Surely America beats creatloti far traveling and swapping products. Get a copy of the September number of Everybody's Magazine at the newsdealer's. Read it. If you don't like it, write a sensible, abusive letter to the publishers. It will be appreciated. Everybody's Magazine has a larger circulation than that of any other general magazine. Sold by all newsdealers, at 15 cts. per copy. THY IT. THE RAILROADS AJID TUB PEOPLE. Central City Record: There is 'such a strong feeling in the Btate against public officials being the recipients of railway passes that many of the leading repub lican papers are demanding that the next candidate for supreme Judge be a lawyer who does not ride on a pass. If the con vention should stick for that kind of a candidate It will more than likely find Itself compelled to leave the place vacant. Bradshaw Republican: A large number of our exchanges have done us the courtesy to reprint oar suggestion to call a meeting of editors to discuss the evils of the "free pass" question. The Omaha Bee and Lin coln Star were among them. Our editorial brethren have our sincere thanks. We are In real earnest In thinking something should be done, and that the republican press should be the prime and foremost movers in this mission of reform. Columbus Journal: The World-Herald la out again with Its basket gathering edi torial chips from repybllcan newspapers In IU annual attempt to start a "smudge" to "smoke out" some of the republican tate officers. The learned editor of the "senior yellow" should have discovered be fore this that these chips are smokeless. He will have to burn up those railroad assessment records made by a fusion ad ministration before he can start much of a smoke In the republican cam Albion Argus: The Chicago ft North western paid Its tax when It should, but we are Informed that the Union Pacific has not yet paid. Some of our business men seem to think it would be the right thing to have all their freight come over the Chicago & Northwestern until such time as the Union Pacific might find It to Its Interest to pay Its taxes like other folks. While a boycott Is unlawful, yet it would be funny If all the business men would happen to be seised with the same Idea and make a peculiar coincidence. Alliance Times: The Omaha Bee is wait ing to see how many of the 991 delegates to the Nebraska state democratic conven tion pay their railroad fares. It Is to be hoped The Bee will be able to make an accurate count. The democrats will need to be as "strenuous" surely on the pass issue as the republicans, and the result of the canvas will Interest everybody. It would be Just as well, too, to keep tab on the republican convention. The public is quite Interested In the question as to how much the politicians' of both parties really mean It. Columbus Journal: WWle the railroads are doubtless right In pointing out. that there are dangers in vesting the rate making power In a political commission, yet the public woul be open to fewer dan gers under a oompetent commission whose duty It would be to secure the public the lowest possible rates, consistent with a fair and reasonable profit on Investment, than they are now under a few railroad presidents whose salary and reputation are In direct proportion to their ability to col lect the highest rates the traffic will bear. The railroads are entitled to a fair and Impartial hearing, but they may as well save their "red flags." The people are with Roosevelt on the question. They will give the railroads a square deal, but they don't want the railroads to do ,ajl the "dealing." MC5IICIPAL OWNERSHIP. EihaniHre Investigation Planned by the National Civic Federation. Pittsburg Dispatch. It will prove gratifying to those who have for years felt that municipal owner- shin of rjublia utilities would solve city franchise problems to learn that an exhaus tive Investigation of the subject, both in this country and abroad, is being under taken by the Executive Council .of the National Civic Federation at the Instigation of its departments of Industrial Economics and Trade Agreements. A committee com posed of the most representative men of all classes in every section of the United States who have been brought faoe to face with municipal problems has been ap pointed, and the Intention is to send abroad a sub-committee, accompanied by experts for the purpose of studying thoroughly the effects of the various systems and the pos sibility of the successful operation In this country. There are few In this country who have given the subject any study who sre con vinced that municipal ownership will not result In art expansion of present evils rather than a solution of them. Political This your head to the left? Then there's no use trying. 'It's too late! Noth ing in the world can make hair grow on a bald scalp that has been smooth and shiny for years. It's too late I No use trying now I Or is this yours to the right? Good. Only look out for dandruff I It leads straight to baldness. But there's use trying now, for Ayer's Hair Vigor cures dandruff, keeps the scalp clean and healthy, SUA by ths . O. aTtT.a AtsPintA-rer tae SliwS. ATkB'g Casks t-kClOftAL Per CMtas. conditions are to different In the United States compared with European municipali ties that even those who have placed In successful operation abroad public utilities under muncipal and even government guid ance have been forced to admit that nftt-r an American Investigation that polltlcsl machines nnd the opportunity for graft would bo strengthened by the addition of municipal corporations with their heavy revenues and their armies of employes ithi would add to the campaigning strength of the rings and bosses. The National Clvlo Federation however. Is seeking light In the most sensible way. It was selected a committee whose report will be above reproach and whoso conclus ions can be regarded In po other light thnn that of wise conservatism. Nothlog of tan gible and practical worth to the various municipalities may result from the Investi gation, but the careful study of the great and growing question by men of such abil ity and standing as those selected cannot but result In a wider knowledge of the sub ject of undoubted good. It Is certainly a step forward In reaching a practical under standing of a problem which has threatened for some time to become a national Issue. LIKKS TO A SMILE. .lGo,!,lfer 0,(1 Muntoburn Is so rich now that I suppose he Indulges himself In the luxury of giving a million to some strug gling Institution now and then. ( ioFP h Cl nv IF.', mrt . 1 . JaT, hV,''. t0 lv WB-y scrut lulled Lit lulled take It. isUmary ..... ......... i . , unuio uii y wjuy will Chicago Tribune. The Cannibal King-Take that mis? aw a v. chef What's the trouble, sire? The Cannibal King lie s tainted.-Brook-lyn Life. Proud Father We have spent ,00O t: our daughter's voice. Neighbor Dear me, and is it Incurable ? New lorlt Sun. Miss Wytheropp Mr. Newcnme remarked to you that I didn't show my sgc, didn't he" Miss Knox Not exnctlv; he R.iid you were careful to conceal It. Philadelphia Press. "Naw!" sold the head waiter, "that mn? that Jest went out ain't worth much." "How do you know 7" Inquired the favor ite customer. "Oh. it s easy for us waiters to take a man s measure." "I suppose you measure him from tip to tip, eh? ' Philadelphia Ledger. "Two things muke my wife awful mad." What are they: "To get ready for company that don't come and to have company come when she Isn't ready." Philadelphia Inquirer. Mother (reproachfully, to her small son) Jamie, where have .you been all after- Jamie (uneasily) At Sunday school, mamma. Mother Then how is it you are wet and smell so of flshT Jamie (In desperation) Well, you see. I ve been studying about Jonah and the whale, and well I guess It came oft on my clothes. Harper's Weekly. TUB MORMNQ A FT Kit. James Barton Adams In Denver Post. "There is no fool like an old tool!" when the siren on him smiles, And around him casts the network of her fascinating wiles, He forgets his hoary whiskers and hi straggling locks of gray, And in apelng youth and vigor gets ridicu lously gay. He Imagines she Is smitten with his many manly charms, And is longing for the clasp of his emacia ' ted arms; Longing for his age-dried kisses that would rail upon her lips From a pair as far from ripeness as a pair ot mca ry cnips. "There Is no fool like an old fool:" though me juiniv ue sun una ary, Though of ardent, manly energy and vigor he Is shy, Though his shoulders may be drooping and his sight be growing dim. He Imagines there's a fountain of perpe tual youth In him. He will meet the amlls of siren with an age-enfeebled grin, And will stroke the bunch of whiskers, tlme-frostbltten, on his chin. And his eyes will try to goo-goo, try t answer to the goo Of the goo-goo, shy and tempting, In hei yes of liquid blue. jiirr is no iooi use an oia looi: ' as hi signs each asked-for check; ' Deeper sinks the dart of Cupid in th wrinkles on his neck. For the sly god when ths granddad with the siren plays a part, Never aims his pointed arrows at the old enfeebled heart. Then there eomea ths sad awakening from his Idlotlo dream. And he learns that lovely women are not always what they seem; As he figures up his losses, he remarks with surly grunch: There is no fool like an old fool, and I guess I lead the bunch!" and checks falling hair. Are O. , LawsII, auiolurY. ml I ATSS'S PILLS-Fsr eesitisatt. aKkH'S A6U8 CUxS-fw oialaos aas Sg.