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TITE OMAITA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 100X TtiE Omaha Daily Dee. , E. ROSE WATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Pally Bps (without Sunday). one year.. $4. 00 I'Slly Bee and Sunday, one year.. O0 Illustrated lief, one rrtr IM Bucnlay Bm, onr year tW Saturday Bmi, one year I S"1 Twentieth Century Farmer, one year.. 100 DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Daily Be (without Sunday), per copy.. 1c Dally Pee (without Sunday), per week.. lie lliy Bee (Including Sunday, per week. .17c Evening Bee (without Sunday), per week 7c Evening; Wee (Including Sunday), Per week 12c Eunday Bee, per copy 6 Complaints of Irreirularltlee In delivery should te addressed to City Circulation De partment. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building-. South Omaha city Hall Building, Twen-ty-nrth and M streets. Council Bluffs 10 Pearl street. Chicago 140 ITnlty Building. New York 1500 Home Lite Insurance Building Washington--m Fourteenth street. CORRESPONDENCE. 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The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the monm or jury, lSffc, was as ioiiows : 91.X1Q 17 2A,4a 7 Xn,Kt 2U.MUO 4 20,100 I 20.TAO 28.WIO T 28,OHO I SO.OOO 28.10O 10 ItH.OOO II JlS.tWO It SS.OOO U 2.00 14... 88,710 U 2,830 U U8.1HO 18 1.0?H) 19 2.510 26 2A.10U 0 28,300 t2 2.(I70 13 8S.BO0 24 2H.070 25 2S.170 W 28,1(10 27 28,13(1 28 2SJ.1UO 19 20,400 (0 28,430 81 27,910 8U.2:i) Less unsold copies 9.810 Net total sale 882.41D Dally avenge 28.4UO C C. ROSE WATER, Secretary. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this first day of July, 1806. (Seal) M. B. HUNGATE, Notary Public WHET OUT OF TOWN. Subscribers leaving; the city tent forarlly should have The Bee Mailed tv them. It Is better than a dally letter from home. Ad dress will be chanced aa often aa requested. Nebraska will soon discover the real effect of tbe wur iu the orient upou the price of gralu aud live stock. This Is tbe season of .Nebraska's most bountiful crops and the crop of candi dates for office is also holding Its own. Since peace is assured In Asia, Com missioner Garlleld will llnd an Inter ested public awaiting that "oil" report. Norway and Swollen when In confer ence assembled might keep one eye on Washington and tbe other on the dove of peace. . ! With Secretary Taft started for home, the public may expect soon to learn the effect of tropical climate on a presiden tial bee. Manufacturers of war material may till find a market In Russia, but In all probability the goods will not be con signed direct. Omaha may have fewer banks since the recent bank merger, but every bank in Omaha is doing more business than It ever did before. Tbe next Installment of litigation aris ing out of tbe biennial elections law will have to tell us whether we elect a new register of deeds this year or not With another naval collier ashore It is "up to" tbe department to secure a new chart of tbe Atlantic coast or get officers who can be guided by those lu use. If tbe yellow fever germ has been dis covered In face of the declaration by scientists that there is no yellow fever germ but we will wait for confirmatory information. Tbe launching of the battleship Ver mont failed to evoke tbe Interest which accompanied the launching of tbe Kan sas, but then there was no one to object to the destruction of chnmpngne. Seeing Omaha from auto cars will doubtless put this city In the same class with other progressive cities. The most popular way of seeing Omaha, however, will continue to be t y electric trolley. Several new varieties of fish are to be introduced Into Nebraska by the flab and game commissioner. Feople with fish to fry will take notice. So will get-rlch-qalck schemers looking for suckers. . . i Now that a leading Japanese financier ays his country was not fighting to se cure an indemnity,' it may be suspected that the first terms were offered Just to learn bow badly Russia thought itself hurt. While the establishment of school bouses on the canal soue is a step In tbe light direction, It Is to be hoped that this is sot laying those foundations for work on the canal of which Chairman Shouts spoke. The lone democratic member of the city council declares that he would not accept the Job of mayor for $10,000 a year. There is no 1 mined 1st danger of tbe salary .attached to the position being Cat lied above that figure. Now that Baron Kaneko of Japan has explained his presence In this Country it is seen that the president's time was not .entirety occupied with the Ports mouth conference when talking to Japa nese ehrwya. -The 'mikado has chosen the psychological moment to secure tiltaiM feellnf with fuels Bam. JAPANESE IMXIGRATIOX. Those who have professed to be ap prehensive that after the close of the war there would Le a great rush of Japanese to the United States may be expt'ted to now renew their demand for restrictive legislation with redoubled vigor. The agitation, for this has al ready1 begun In California and it will not be surprising if It shall become greatly Intensified between now and the meeting of congress, so as to attract the attention of the entire country to the question of excluding Japanese. The demand that this be done has some support now outside of Callfornis, but we venture to think that the very general Judgment Is that w,e cannot apply to Japan the policy we have been applying to the Chinese, with the result of creating a movement hostile to our' trade interests which forced a modifica tion of the harsh methods of our immi gration authorities. Those who talk of Japanese exclusion should reflect that Japnn Is a very different country from China and must hereafter be dealt with as a world power of the first magnitude, capable of enforcing fair treatment from other nations. Japan has attained a position that entitles her to claim equal ity among the family of nations and we may be sure she will make the claim and Insist upon Its being respected. If, therefore, we should discriminate against her people she would not hesi tate, strong as her present friendship Is for the United States, to resent It and persistence in the discrimination would Inevitably result In making her an enemy. That would be fatal to our commercial Interests and hopes In Asia, where from now on the Influence of Japan will be greater than that of any other country. It Is of course possible that Japanese Immigration will Increase somewhat. It Is said that from 1.000 to 1,500 are now entering this country every mouth. But It Is not likely that this Immigration will become so large as to be a source of anxiety or trouble. In the development of her Industries and commerce Japan will .have use at home for her people and then new fields for their enterprise and industry will be opened In Corea and Manchuria fields quite as Inviting for those people as the United States. The Japanese prefer to remain In or near their own country and with the opportunities that will now be open to them It Is not at all probable that there wlH be any very great exodus from Japan. Moreover the Japanese will now have a greater pride than ever In their native land and therefore will desire to remain there. The numler of those people now In the United States is not more than 100.000, the immigration of years. They are now entering the coun try, according to reports, at the rate of from 10,000 to 15,000 a year. There Is certainly nothing In this to alarm anybody. At all events, It Is safe to say that there will be no legislation for the ex clusion of Japanese. We shall not ap ply to the leading power of Asia, a power whose friendship Is most neces sary to us, tbe policy of discrimination which we are applying to China. .To do so would be to invite and assure dis aster to our interests In that quarter of tbe world. Japan must be treated as an equal if we would not have her an enemy. TBE APPROPRUTIOSS COMMITTEE The most Important committee of the next house of representatives will .un questionably be tbe committee on ap propriations. There Is a very general sentiment for reduction in the expendi tures of the government and It Is under stood that Speuker Canuou, whose re election is of course assured, is one of the leaders in congress who are in ac cord with this sentiment The treasury deficit at the end of the last fiscal year and the certainty of an additional deficit at the close of the current year, makes an imperative demand for either a re duction of expenses or an Increase in revenue. In order to obtain more revenue two plans are urged one tho lowering of tariff duties and the other Imposing additional Internal taxes. It appears that neither plan Is favored by the republican leaders In congress. Speaker Cannon Is known to be uncom promisingly opposed to revising the tariff and It Is safe to say that the re publicans he appoints on the ways and means committee will be In full accord with his position. The senate leaders are also against any tariff changes. In regard to Increasing internal taxes It is doubtless realised that such a course at this time would be very unpopular and somewhat basardous from a political point of view, since It would furnish capital to the opposition to tbe reput llcan party. It would be very difficult to give reasons satisfactory to tbe people for Increasing taxation a time of peace, when there is no extraordinary demand upon the public treasury. Consequently an effort will be made to cut down ex penditures wherever it can be done with out impairing the efficiency of the public service. It will be the task of the com mittee on appropriations to determine where reductions can Judiciously be made. There is already being manifested a good deal of interest in regard to who may be selected as chairman of the bouse committee on appropriations. There are several men being talked of as possibilities, all of them of long ex perience in congress and pretty well known to the country. One of these, Representative McCleary of Minnesota, wss second an tbe appropriations com mittee In tbe last congress, which gives him a good claim to consideration, and besides he is thoroughly familiar with the duties of the committee. Another Is Representative Burton of Ohio, who for several congresses has been chair man of the committee on rivers and harbors and Is one af the ablest men in the house. Mr. Burton Is for Judicious economy in public expenditures and if he should be placed at the bead of (he appropriations committee would exrt a strong Influence favorable to economy. Representative Palzell of Pennsylvania Is also spoken of and his chiaices for receiving the appointment are thought to be very good, as he Is undor!td to have the backtng of the detention of his state. Mr. Dalzcll Is ono. of the recognised republican leaders lu the house. Perhaps none of these will be selected for chairman of the appropria tions committee, but either of them Is fully qualified for the position. It cm be confidently assumed that Spenktr Cannon will make up the coiiimlttee wjlh a view to reducing expenses wher ever practicable and no one kno'-s bet ter than he where reductions can Jddl l ously be made. BT DISTRICTS OR AT LARQEl The decision of Judge Rodlck granting the mandamus applied for to compel the county clerk to put the names of candi dates for county commissioner on the official ballot at the coming primary holds that county commissioners are to be elected In Douglas county this year as usual. It holds more than this, how ever, in that it proceeds on the theory that the law which the last legislature undertook to Incorporate Into the stat utes is part and parcel of the biennial election law declared unconstitutional by tho supreme court, and therefore falls with It In its entirety. This raises the question now how these commissioners are to be nomi nated whether the county clerk Is to put the candidates' names on the official ballots for all voting districts through out the county or on those only com prised within the commissioner district. If the ntw law had been lu any part sustained and held defective only Inso far as It attempted to do away with the election of commissioners this year. there would have been no misunder standing, because It provides expressly that the commissioners shall be nomi nated "by each of said districts, but shall be elected by the qualified electors of the entire county." The difficulty here would be that encountered In the change of ward and precinct boundaries by the city council and the failure of the county board up to this time to re construct the commissioner districts to conform to the new ward lines. But the old law, to which the election now reverts, does not say that commis sioners shall be nominated "by the dis trict," but merely "from the district," although It specifically provides that they are to be elected by the county at large. The intention of the legislature of 1903, which engrafted this change on the law, was to make the election of county commissioners in Douglas county correspond to the election of mem bers of the city council In Omaha, In which case the councilman Is required to reside In a particular district, but Is still not a ward councilman, but a coun-cllman-at-large. The Dodge primary law Is plainly drawn with the Idea that the same constituency that is to elect shall also nominate, and so far as it applies to county commissioners, It will have to be applied later to members of the city council. If the commissioners are to be nominated this fall by the district only and then elected by the entire county, candidates for the council next spring will expect to be nominated by the wards only, although required to run the gauntlet of the whole city for elec tion. Such a construction of the law would put us back precisely where we were before the present makeup of the coun cil and relegate us again, to all Intents and purposes, to a system of ward coun cllmen. The decision of this Question. therefore, as regards the nomination of county commissioners Involves points of more than ordinary importance, and those who have to decide it should real lie fully the consequences of deciding It one way or the other. When Mayor Moores comes to recount the achievements of his administration In Its dealings with the public service corporations, the showing of reduced charges for street, lamps, smaller tele phone tolls and lower gas rates will make up the most gratifying page from the standpoint of the people who pay the bills. The discovery has been made that tho number of civil actions on the docket of our district court is gradually increasing from term to term. The dockets can get a good deal .longer, however, without overworking the Judges, court stenogra phers or bailiffs sufficiently to force any of them to resign. The public school teuthers are getting ready to resume work at the old stand promptly on the opening day of the new school year. Some of the pupils, as usual, will feel free to extend their va cations as long as the truant officer will permit them to fight shy of the school room. Our Council Bluffs friends across the river are having trouble with paving contractors and Omaha people will sym pathlre with them to the full extent of the occasion In recollection of our own unpleasant experience In that line. If the Young Men's Christian associa tion's announced expectation to be In its new building by March 1 next is to be realized, the contractors will have to work by the clock that ticked off dollars a thousand times In five minutes. Chlan Leads a Trump. Washington Btar. China is no weakling- In a bargain. It Is willing to buy all the American goods It can consume, provided It Is allowed to send over men to draw the wages for manu facturing them. . Sltrtc Work of Canadians. Baltimore American. Canada has more than one scheme for gathering American dollars. We know what a tight grip the Dominion keeps on the absconding American boodler who es capes with cash across the border, but the Canadians recently sprung a new extrac tlon method by Imposing an Income tax on some thirty United States government en glneers employed on the improvement plans of the Detroit river. Being near the Can adian line the United States employes found It convenient to live In a Csnadlan town. A Canadian tax collector discovered their sal aries from a government blue book and the engineers have paid under protest. Those enterprising Canucks will annex us yet. If we don't watch out. Intestine- In n Snre Thing. New Tork Tribune. There are now five transatlantic cables, the shore end of the fifth having been landed at Canso, N. B., the other day. Apparently the promoters of cables have no Intention of going out of business In the near future on account of the wireless telegraph. Cheering; Words for llankryfi, Indianapolis News. Iowa should not be unduly alarmed about Its loss of population. With its large rep resentation In the cabinet naturally a good many of Its people are sojourning In the District of Columbia. But they will come back all right. Fosslbly rather soon. Judg ing from the look of some things. The "t'nsnlarled lawyer.' Springfield Republican. The president of the American bar asso ciation, like any lawyer, takes pride In his honored profession. No one will quarrel, perhaps, with his description of the lawyer as "the minister of a week-day 'ethics," since the mere phrase Implies that week day ethics are strikingly different from Sunday ethics. But the people will rise as one man In protest against his tribute t'j the lawyer as "the unsalaried educator of the public." A moral educator the lawyer may be, but "unsalaried" can only be con strued In the sense that the lawyer "socks It" to the world In his fees. I.onar Roll of Women Teachers. Boston Transcript. Four-fifths of the teachers In the United States, according to a recent census bul letin, are women, and there are more teachers In this country than there are clergymen, lawyers and physicians to gether. In the proportion of women teach ers to tho whole number of teachers em ployed the United States leads the world. although in nearly every clvlllred country the greater part of the teaching Is done by women. This Is In line with tho general tendency toward tho advancement of woman to a better place In this country. In 1W0 the number of women In paying positions In this country was 3,914,571, and In 19X this number had Increased to 8.S2!), 807. However, as the number of men In paying positions has also Increased in the same time, It must not be accepted as cer tain that women are going to crowd men out of positions In Intellectual employment altogether. Hiding; the Empire's Wound. Leslie's Weekly. Notwithstanding the policy of deceit and prevarication adopted by the Japanese War department toward even Its own peaple, as well as the outside world. In regard to the losses sustained In battles on land and sea, the truth Is leaking out, which shows that Japan has not come out of these conflicts In such fine shape as It would have the general public believe. It now transpires, for Instance, ' that the converted cruiser Nippon was so badly damaged by the shells of, the Russian warships In the battle of the Sea of Japan that It was found nec essary to run the vessel ashore to save It from being a total loss. Knowledge of such disasters as this coming after the official reports given out by the Japanese government. In which It Is made to appear that they have come out of the con flict with practically no loss or damage at all, does not tend to enhance the re spect or confidence In the future dealings of that power with other nations. It will give rise to t; - entirely Just and rational suspicion that'rt nation which Indulges In such unwarrantable and unnecessary trickery and falsification In time of war cannot be trusted In a time of peace. CHAGIXO' HAlGrRATIOX DATE. State Governors l ine T'p In Favor of Retiring March 4. New York Tribune. We are glad to learn that the agitation for a constitutional amendment changing the date of the presidential Inauguration, revived In Washington last March, Is mak ing substantial headway. Our Washington dispatches report that forty-one governors of states and territories have agreed to serve on the committee which will draw the necessary amendment and urge Its ac ceptance by congress and Its ratification by the state legislatures. The committee will organize In November and will, ask the Fifty-ninth congress to approve and submit the amendment as soon as practica ble. The change proposed whatever may be Its exact and final form will not take effect until 1913. so that ample time will be given for all the states to act. The leg islatures of Mississippi and Louisiana will not meet again In regular session until 1908. Virginia's legislature, if it adjourns next year before an amendment can be submitted. wlllf not meet again until 1910. It Is apparent .therefore, that the change desired can be effected only tardily, and that the committee Is wise both in plan ning far ahead and In making a start as early as possible. The letters written by the governors who have accepted appointments to the commit tee show that the reform proposed com mends itself to general favor. The Wash ington members of the committee seem to have emphasized successfully the desirabil ity of escaping the perils and discomforts of a midwinter inauguration. They cited the fatalities due to exposure on March 4 last, though the last Inauguration day, compared with many others, was clement and genial. Three distinguished partici pants In the ceremonies sacrificed their lives this year to the exigencies of an unseasonable outdoor spectacle. Manuel de Asplroi. the ambassador of Mexico; Senator William B. Bate of Tennessee, and Justice Lawrence Weldon of the United States court of claims, required by ett quetto to take part in the exercises on the Cupltol steps, all died aa a result of illness there contracted. The public is beginning to realize that It is both cruel and sense less to invite end In a measure compel the Justices of the supreme court, the other Justices resident in Washington, the diplomatic corps, the cabinet and tbe mem bers of both branches of congress to sit or stand unsheltered through what la often a half-hour ceremonial in a drenching rain. The perils and annoyances of auch a stupid adherence to tradition and the dis comforts caused to the thousands who gather In. Washington to enjoy the inaug uration display are accepted by the state executives' generally as sufficient ground for reforming our badly regulated political calendar. We hope, however, that If the calendar la to be revised, congress will accept no surh compromise aa merely postponing the date of the inauguration for seven or eight weeks, without actually changing the data on which the terms of the new president and the new congress begin. If a presi dent takes office on March 4 and one con gress gives way for another on that date, March 4 most remain the pivotal day in our political year, and to celebrate an an niversary two months after It has really occurred hardly aecorda with American standards of fltnees and practical aenae. We might aa well postdate the Christmas holidays and celebrate them In April or May. It is as highly desirable to lengthen the present ahort session of congress as it is to escape the annoyances of a winter season inauguration, and the shifting of the division line betmeen presidential terms frcr) March 4 to April 30 would kill both birds with one stone. niTS OF W.eiuGTOS MFBJ. Minor Scenes nml Incidents Sketched on the Spot. James Rankin Young, chief of the dead letter office, Is the busiest man In Washing ton. He likes work. Some months ago he went In search of more business and got more than he bargained for. The bulk of It is foreign postcards calculated to rupture the moral tone of the mall service. Every day witnesses the destruction of 3,000 post cards bearing pictures and photographs that are suggestive and Indecent. The traffic in these cards is something enormous, and the. present season has witnessed the production of more objec tionable pictures than ever before. The craze for sending postcards as souvenirs of places and events has been taken ad vantage of by manufacturers and dealers to turn out specimens that are risque and some of them positively Indecent. To the credit of American printers and dealers in postcards It can be said that a very small percentage of those declared unmailablo are of domestic production. The country haa been flooded, however, with cards made In Germany and Franco, scarcely one of which Is allowed to reach Its destination through the United States malls. The figures of the Internal Revenue Bureau, Just made up, indicate that Amer icans are drinking more beer than whisky each year. The preliminary report of Commissioner Yerkes for the fiscal year shows that the consumption of whisky was materially less and that of beer much greater than in the previous year. There were withdrawn for consumption during the year, of distilled spirits other than made from fruits, 116.143,732 gallons, as against 116,848,372 gallons in the fiscal year 1904. This Is a decrease In whisky con sumed of 704,040 gallons. There was like wise a decrease, in the quantity of fruit spirits consumed, the total for the last fiscal year having been 1.605,021 gallons, agalnat 1,637,303 gallons In the year before. The consumption of beer was 49,459,540 barrels for the last fiscal year, against 48,208,133 barrels in 1904. The increase Is 1,261,407 barrels, each barrel containing 31 gallons. The first lady of the land, Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, evidently has a very exalted Idea of the responsibilities resting upon her In the way of setting an example to the rest of the women of the nation. Mrs. Roosevelt not only has a large family, of which she takes tho best of care, but she emphasizes the domestic phase of life even In connection with the White House. In order that there may be less expenditure of energy In the kitchen of this establish ment, the wife of the president has superin tended an entirely new arrangement of things, and when she leaves the mansion she will have the satisfaction of knowing that she has left an enduring mark of her regime. It has been a matter of comment that the ladles who have occupied the White House have been able to do so little to make the kitchen arrangements more In keeping with the progress of the world In that respect. The guests and the vege tables have been obliged to enter the dining room together for many years and no one seemed to think It possible to change the order of things. Not so Mrs. Roosevelt. She decided that there should be new kitchens, one for her own family cooking and one for the state dinners that are required of the chief executive. More over, Mrs. Roosevelt didn't see any sense In keeping a big retinue of servants for these special events, so she has her own cook and servants, and when the other kitchen Is used for state functions, it la In charge of a caterer. A well known senator who Is a great Smoker and naturally fond of good cigars, was in Washington the other day on his way to one of the northern summer re sorts. While walking down Pennsylvania avenue with his secretary he met a con stituent whom he recently had appointed to a government position. The constituent naturally was much pleased to see the senator, and after conversing for some time, was about to take his leave when he took a large susplclous-looklng cigar out of his pocket and handed It to the senator, asking him if he would accept it. The senator thanked him, and being some what suspicious himself of the cigar, re marked: "If you will allow me, I will put this In my pocket and smoke It after I have had lunch." The constituent ac quiesced and bade the senator goodby. After walking about a block the Benator took the cigar out of his pocket and of fered it to his secretary. The secretary laughed and said: "Benator, you never ought to look a gift horse In the mouth." whereupon the senator said: "isor snouia you ever put a gift cigar In your mouth." But the secretary smoked the cigar. The wife of a well known officer In Washington recently advertised for a cook. Though the establishment presided over Dy the officer's wife Is In accord witn ineir undisputed social position, yet It is by no means pretentious, for the naval man has no means aside from his salary, con sequently, when one applicant for the po sition of cook announced to the wife that her price would be $50 a month she was told that such wages were out of the ques tion. The cook, not deigning to notice the remark, went on at length to give her superior qualifications, touching especially on her ability to get up smart luncheons and dinners. Again the lady of the house said that she would not pay $30 for a cook. Seeing that her determination was unalterable, the applicant for the place pre pared to take her departure. As she was nearlng the door sne remarKea, puiron- izlngly: "I "e! You are trying u live- within your Income! Postmaster General Cortelyou has com pleted a new form of money order which if it does not defy forgery, will make forgeries and alterations extremely diffi cult. Twice before, since the postal money order system was established, in 1864, haa the style of the order been changed once in 1894 and again in 1897. These changes were made not to prevent forgeries but to simplify the system. Now the system is so simple that it has been found neces sary to make It more Intricate. The scheme of the forgers and raisers has been to purchase an order for 25 or 60 cents, payable to theinaelves, under flc tttlous names. Then they eraae the amount with acid and fill in any amount they de sire, usually between 350 and $100. Then going to a merchant they will purchase 6 or $10 worth of goods and tender the money order In payment, receiving the change, which representa the net profit to the crook. A money order Is usually looked upon as a certificate of deposit, showing that the bearer has the amount named In the order on deposit with the government. Consequently it has been an easy matter to "work" the merchants. When the mer chant takes the order to the postoffloe to have it cashed he discovers the swindle. With the new scheme the department hopea to prevent thla sort of crooked work. and It haa been Intimated that among other changes the exact amount of the order will be "plugged" out with a punch similar to thoae now used by banks. Go Higher. San Francisco Chronicle. It may be very gratifying to energetlo re formers to find that there are occasional convictions of men who have acted fraudu lently in acquiring timber lands, but no real solid good will be effected until the owners of big traeta wrongfully acquired are compelled to dlsforge their suallnga. SIDELIGHT" Ol THE TCT. Minneapolis Journal: One of the most serious results of peace Is that the war cor respondents will come home and be mus tered out. Chicago Tribune: Excitable Frenchmen who have lent money to Russia may be pardone.i for Indulging In a few wild antics of Joy at this Juncture. Philadelphia Record: There is no funda mental difference between diplomacy and horse trading. How one fellow may get the better of the other fellow Is the whole game. Chicago Record-Herald: General Llne vltch will probably never get done talking of the things he would have done to tho Japs If the war had only been allowed to go on. Kansas City Times: As tbe Americans are not familiar with the profanity used by the Japanese, It would be useless to specu late as to what Oyama will say when he hears about the peace agreement. Chicago Inter Ocean: If Mr. Rockefeller had stepped In with his usual Impetuosity and offered to pay that Indemnity, Japan would be hnndlcapped for some years to come with the burden of tainted money. As It Is, only the missionaries In Japan will have any of It. rER0AI. KOTE9. It might be a good thing If there were an early morning eclipse oftener. Then more people might get acquainted with the beauties of a sunrise. H. M. Bronson, who has Just been made general passenger agent of the Big Four system, has been with that company for the last fifty-two years. Mr. Rockefeller may go unshod Into the dewy grass on a summer morning for his health s sake. But for all that the Chicago university entertains no fears that he is going to get cold feet. General Herman Haupt of Washington Is the oldest living graduate of West Point Military academy and a man distinguished in civil war military history and In rail way and engineering circles. General Haupt graduated from West Point in 1835 In the same class with General Meade. Hennlker Heaton, who has done so much for the cheapening of postal communica tion in Great Britain, urges the formation of a league to make the penny post uni versal. It Is, he says, absurd to charge two-pence half-penny for a letter to Calais dr to New York, when a letter to Canada can pass through New York for a penny. A "close observer" In Gotham notes the passing of; the cigar store Indian and the development, In place of him, of cigar store ballet girls, negroes, Turks and even Ad miral Deweys. The barber's striped pole and the apothecary's mortar and pestle are about the only pieces of symbolic sign making of which the public never seems to grow weary. Wllkes-Barre, Pa., is hereafter to be so spelled by the postal authorities, thus giv ing Colonel Barre his rightful value In ths combination with Colonel Wilkes that orig inated the name of the town, as an equal compliment to each of these two gentle men. Custom has- for a long time written It Wllkesbarre, and so given one of the colonels hardly more importance than a vermiform appendix. IS THERE TOO MUCH MONEY? Prosperity Forces av Steady and Rapid Increase In the Circulation. St. Louis Globe Democrat. For several years past there has been a steady and rapid Increase in the circula tion. In every element of the currency except silver in its various shapes there has beo.i a great gain. The increase in July amounted to over $8,100,000. The bank note circulation is at the highest figure ever touched. ' It amounts to $487,000,000, or double what It was six years ago. At ths time of Bryan's first nomination the aggre gate circulation was $1,606,000,000. It was $26.O00,O0Q at the beginning of the present month. There are persons who think that this Increase in the currency has been carried to a harmful extent. They are probably mistaken, however. Tbe expansion has been much faster than In population. While the circulation per capita was $21.10 on July 1, 1S96, Just before Bryan swept the Chicago convention with his "cross of gold" speech, it was $31,29 at the beginning of August 1906. This is a vast Increase. It more than meets the demands of the pop ulists for a currency which keeps up with the population in its rate of growth. Cur rency, under the nonpopulist conditions which the republicans have established, has far surpassed population In its rate of in crease. It la growing so fast, in fact that some of the experts are saying that the growth portends disaster. But the money in circulation has not In creased faster than general business. As measured by the volume of bank clear ings and pig Iron production, the circulation has not kept pace with the country's trade. The average prices of the staple commod ities have Increased In recent years, which may or may not be in consequence of the growth in the circulation. An increase in the volume of money has a tendency some times to cheapen money and to send the price of commodities up. In the present case, however, the prosperity which tbe country haa had for several years must be conceded to have had an effect in advanc ing the price of staple articles. Prosperity has brought an Increased demand for every thing, and this can account for a good deal of the advance. There Is no good reason to suppose that a harmful Inflation of the currency la taking place. The United States Is not injured yet in any perceptible degree by the great Increase in Its circulating medium, Of have it. ested, talk ATlt'S ABSAP4KILLA. AIBB't RAJ it V100B. FEDEHtl, ntnA(K coTnoi. American liar Aaanrlntlnn Refases to Indorse the Movement. Springfield (Mass ) Republican. The American Bar assoclntlon refuses toX Indorse the federal Insurance supervision movement, and thereby gives to It a weak ening blow. Nor, under the circumstance, could the bar association well do otherwise. The United States supreme court has clearly and repeatedly ruled that Insurance contracts do nut constitute Interstate com merce, and therefore do not come under the regulative power of congress; and an association of lawyers, above any other body of men, must hrsltate to appear In the light of advising congress to do wr.( the supreme court has snld It cannot cnn.( stltutlonally do. And this seems to be tl-, exact reason why the association declined to accept a committee report favoring such a course. Meantime the report stands uncontra dicted that President Roosevelt has com mitted himself to recommend to congress what the bar association of the country cannot find warrant for recommending In any due regard for the constitution of the United Slates or respect Tor tt expoun.ler on the supreme bench. This might seem to place the administration In a somewhat awkward position. It held In the case of an Income tnx law, It would be charged with "attacking the supreme court." Held In the case of federal supervision of In surance, it Is still more obviously and flagrantly attacking the court, for the su preme court was closely divided and had reversed Itself on the Income tax, while It has consistently ruled against national Insurance supervision. If the movement headed by Senator Dry den of one Insurance company, and James M. Beck of another, has been scotched, policyholders will have no great cause for regret. It had been taken up on behalf of an autocratic control of the companies rather than for the policyholders. It alms to rid the managements of the prying ac tivities of many state inquisitors, but not at all to bring about such a genuine reform In life Insurance as a reduction of extrava gant and burdensome office and agency ex penses. When It presenta Itself as a movement on behalf of such a reform, It can interest edly be taken up by policyholders and car ried forward through a constitutional amendment, but not until then; and not until U ts made to appeal strongly to pol icyholders Is it likely to succeed. FLEETING FIN. He What did you do with that tainted monev your uncle gave vouT She I salted it down, of course Detroit Free Press. "They paid him a big salary, didn't ineyr- That's :'a what he said." Cleveland Tlaln Dealer. "He's quite wealthy and prominent now," said Mrs. Starvem, ''and they say he rose practically from nothing." "Well, well," remarked Mr. Starboard, "that's Just what I rose from at the break fast table this morning." Philadelphia Ledser. "What's this coupon?" asked the man who had Just rented the automobile. "Why," replied the proprietor, "that's the accident policy that goea with the ma chine." Detroit Free Press. First Magnate Why didn't you take Guglns into your new Ice trust? Second Magnate Oh, he's too cblcken henrted. First Magnate Chicken-hearted, Is he? Second Magnate Sure. Why. I'll bet that feller haa sent conscience money to the United States treasury. Louisville Coujrler- Journal. Sir Walter Raleigh threw down the cloak. "Very pretty," murmured Elizabeth ab sently, "but I'd like to see the one .on the top shelf." Suddenly remembering that she wasn't shopping, ahe had to be content with what was snown. xppincou a juagaxine. The conversation had become slightly per sonal. "You lunkhead!" exclaimed the man with the rotund face. "If you had any concep tion of the properties of matter you would know that It has all the characteristics of what we call mind. Matter, sir. thinks! It thinks!" "I wonder," snorted the other man, "what the rest of your face thinks of that big red nose of yours!" Chicago Tribune. "There Is one thing about our waning democracy that greatly pleases me." "And what Is that?" "It Is the fact that when it comes to giv ing a girl a seat In a street car, the prettv girl has the call over the merely rich girl every time." Cleveland Plain Dealer. SIGNS OF THE TIMES. W. J. Lampton In New York Sun. Oh, say, young man of skimpy scads Now is the time to buy The things that you have got to wear Next year unless you die. f Go to the shop where hats are sold And you will see a sign Which reads a little bit like this: "Straw hats now 49." Seek out the shop where clothes are sold At prices which were great And you will see nice suits thus marked: "Your choice, 8.48." Another window shows this sign; "Come In, if you're alive, . And buy our 25-cent ties, Reduced to two for 6." The chap whd handled summer shirts Of every known design Haa got this signal to the front: "Fine shirts at 89." The shoe man gets Into the push With this sign at his door: "These russet shoes, 1 99; Marked down from 3 and 4." Here shines a window like the flag. In red and white and blue, And lettered thus: "Gauze underwear, A whole suit. 32." At every ahop you'll find the same. And If you're wise enough. You'll hardly wait until next year To buy your aummer stuff. ri. course consumption can be cured. Modern medicine teaches it.' No one longer doubts it. Babies have it. Young mothers The aged have it. None are exempt. For over 50 years doctors have prescribed Ayer's Cherry Pectoral for this disease. It quiets the cough, controls the inflammation. If inter this over with yourdoctor. Made y tka . O. Arer Oa., Levau, alias, -aim ai.imf.atmrara ef ATtR'l Qtn ecu. ATtS rlLLA.
