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THE OMAHA DAILY PEE; THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1005. The Omaha Daily Bee. E. ROSEWATKR, KDITOR. PUBLISHED EVKRY MOBNINO. TERMS OF flfllSCRIPTION. Daily Pm (wlthMit Sunday), ono year.. 14 00 Dally Bee ami Sunday, one year .U0 Illustrated Mee, gnu year 2 50 Sunday Br", onu year if. 30 Saturday He, one year l.W Twentieth Century Farmer, one year... 1.U0 DEMVKRED BY CARRIER. Ifilly Bo (without Sunday), per copy... 2c Ially Bee (without Sunday), per week. . .K'o Dally Hee (including Sunday), per week.. 17c Evening H'e (without Hundav). per Week 70 Evening Bee Including Sunday), per week K'o Punday per copy to Complaint of Irregularities In delivery should be addressed to City Circulation De part menu OFFICES. Omaha The Hee Building. fouth Omaha City Hall Building, Twin-ty-flfth end M atreeta. Council Wort's in Pearl afreet. Chicago 1 Unity Building. New York lift) Home DJfe Insurance Building. Washington H1 Fourteenth afreet. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi torial matter should Ixt addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only I-cent stamps received In payment of mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss. : George B. Tsschuck, treasurer of The Ueo Publishing Company, being duly sworn. Bay , that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning, Evening anj Hunday Hee printed during the monin oi August, 1306, was as follows 1 itM,MM) 2 ZH.OHO 17. . .30,000 18... IV... 20... .ao.oiio .U1.4T0 I 27,90 4. KfMMO t !TO,U4M 0 .10,050 7 00,040 8 2ft,M(M I iiO.INH) 10 ..),H.'W 11 so.onu 11 3i,:io 13 iwaio U .....no.oio U x,uh Id W,HtM Totals Less unsold copies . ii mt.HHO 22 ao.ooo 23 HO, 110 24 ao.ioo 23 80,110 2 81,71:0 27 JJtt.OJH) 28 30,100 28 32,tt(t0 10 3O.710 81 30,6 NO .930,250 . 11,410 Net total sales 918,834 Dally average 2U.0-M) GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK, Treasurer. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me tills hist day of August, 19U6. (Seal) M. B. HUNGATE, Notary Pubilo. WHEN OliT OF TOWH. akscrlbers leaving; the city tern uorarlly should have The Bee mailed to them. It la better than dally letter fro a home. Ad dress will be changed as often, as reqnested. Injunctlona nutl n-struinlng orders come easy In those purt. In Baku it In no longer necessary to scratch a Russian to find a Tartar. The Armenians are finding, them with rifles. Emperor William announces a Dew transatlantic boat race for next year. Ho Is evidently bent on heading off any fur ther advertising of British tea. With news a week old coming from Japan it would seem that the press cen sor does not "consltle'r his duties ended .with the signing of tha treaty of peace. The demand for separate trials shows that while the alleged "Beef trust" mem bers may have been willing to stand to gether they are not willing to fall to gether. 4 With 50,000 out of 00,000 illegal voters dropped from the rolls at Philadelphia, the survivors will be in danger of being overworked when election 'day rolls around. The civilized world would be pleased to see a fight to the finish between the yel low fever mosquito and the cholera germ, on condition that they would se lect a desert island for the contest. The sultan of Morocco should not make the mistake of thinking that he can follow the plan of the sultan of Turkey. Ills territory does not protect British possessions from Russian aggression. Now that a Harvard professor has ad vanced the theory that the moon was once a part of the earth, Jules Verne may become an astronomical authority as well as a writer of entertaining fic tion. Since Japanese mobs have attacked the government newspaper office and thrown rocks at law officers the mikado and the czar may understand one another better than before the cruel war began. . . ' That St. Louis Judge who reduced the demand for compensation of a bank re ceiver from 110,000 to $2,500 is evidently more anxious for a clear conscience than a resolution of approval from a bar as sociation. The recent death of Alexunder Camp bell, who for many years was the politi cal railroad autocrat of the Republican valley, recalls forcibly the brass band and the gravel train that made populism dominant In Nebraska. "ou cannot have good government un less you put good men Into office, and yop cannot get good men into office un less the cltiiens who favor good govern ment participate actively in the nomina tion of candidate lu the primary elec tion. All municipal boards or departments that want to spend more money than is appropriated and evade the charter pro hibition on overlaps are advised to get on the good side of the city attorney, who has vested himself with the power to suspend objectionable charter provi sions at will. Omaha public schools open with a prospect of a bigger enrollment of pupils for the coming year than ever before. There ought to be more children in our schools because there are more people withiu the limits of the school district, and the natural growth of the school en rollment only renem the growth of the GUAMAyTKcisa lift orr.v poor The chief concern of the United States lu the fur east is that the principle of the open door for trade, to which this eoun try was successful in committing the powers, shall be observed. There has lxcn some misgiving lu regard to this, Even among American officials the belief has obtained that the Japanese' would wish to keep the Manchurlan and Corean markets for tiiolr own products. This idea Is said to have lopn fostered by the inquiries of various alleged invest! gators who huve gone to the far east aud have returned with this Impression In their minds. They regarded the Chinese Itoycott on American goods as a symp tom of what might be expected farther north. It has been thought that Amerl can goods would, if not practically ex eluded, be made the subject of discrimi nation, or at all events would lack pro tection, and that the manufacturing in terests of Japan would lead that country to countenance at least such hostility to American commerce. Japan, however, was one of the first countries to subscribe to the principle of the open door when presented to the na tions by our government and there has been no indication since that she is not still favorable to It. The Japanese posi tion was undoubtedly reflected in the re cent declaration of Count Okuma, for mer premier nnd a most influential statesman, that "under all circumstances the principle of the open door must bo guaranteed. Even mor conclusive evi dence of Japan's attltudt?, so far as Man churia is concerned. Is furnished in the treaty of pence. The fifth article of that convention reads: "The govern ments of Russia and Japan engage them selves reciprocally not to put any ob stacles to the general measures (which shall be alike for all nations) that Chlr. may take for the development of the commerce nnd industries of Manchuria." As China Is committed to the open door and has commercial treaties which rec ognize that principle, there can be no doubt that she will do nothing in contra vention of it In the measures she may adopt for developing Manchurlan indus tries and commerce. Moreover, the most potent influence with China will now be exerted by Japan and as that country will need the open door its influence will cast for it. It will thus work not alone for its own interests but for the interests of all countries having or seeking trade with that part of the Chinese empire. The situation is somewhat different in regard to Corea, which will pass entirely nnd practically unconditionally under Japanese control, but it is not at all likely that the open door principle will be Ig nored as to that country, for It will man ifestly be to the interest of Japan to develop It industrially and commercially as rapidly as possible nnd progress would necessarily be retarded by closing its markets to the rest of the world. There is no substantial reason, there fore, for any apprehension regarding the open door principle in the far east. Japan will be found, there can be no doubt, thoroughly nnd consistently friendly to that principle, to which she is now fully committed. DEM A KDS OF COAL MAERS. The present agreement between the anthracite coal miners and the operators, eutered Into pursuant to the award of the strike commission appointed by Pres ident Roosevelt In 1902, will terminate at the end of next March. While It ap pears to have worked well thus far, the Indications are that there is a pretty gen eral sentiment among the miners un favorable to renewing it and an agita tion has been started for presenting new demands to the operators, among them one for an eight-hour day and another for recognition of the union. A conven tion of the miners is to be held next month to consider and act upon these demands and in the meantime Vigorous effort is being made to increase the membership of the union and of course its financial resources. Although there is no threat of another strike and Mr. John Mitchell, the presi dent of the United Mine Workers of America, has declared that a strike Is not contemplated. If a majority of the miners at their convention approve the demands and insist upon them, as prob ably they will, a repetition of the con flict of three years ago will be very likely to occur. That the operators ex pect It is inferred from the fact that they are accumulating an unusual sup ply of coal. Without expressing an opinion regarding the demands of the miners, It may be Bald that another such conflict as that of 1002 would be very generally deplored and It Is very ear nestly to be hoped that a way will be found to avert It. The disastrous lesson of that strike should not be so soon for gotten by either the miners or the oper ators, as it certainly has not been by the consumers of anthracite coal. TBI RATIONAL PR1XTIXQ OFFICE. The government maintains at Wash ington a printing establishment at an annual cost of about $7,000,000. For years it has been quite the most Inde pendent part of the public service, get ting little if any supervision from the executive branch of the government and receiving appropriations from congress without inquiry as to whether the money was being judiciously expended or not. The public printer has been sovereign within his jurisdiction, exercising un restricted authority except so far as he was required to conform to the civil service regulations that were extended to the establishment a few years ago. Quite naturally factions have been cre ated among the hundreds of employes and trouble has necessarily resulted. A short time ago what Is known as the Keep commission, appointed by the president to make a general Investiga tion of the working methods In the sev eral departments, directed its attention to the government printing office. Its report made to President Roosevelt hns not been given to the public, but It Is understood to , have found conditions such as to call for re forma, Subsequent to the lav estimation tj the cvmmUsion there developed an issue between the public printer and several of his subonll nates, resulting in an effort on the part of the former to remove the subordl nates. The president hns now taken a hand In the matter nnd It Is announced that the government printing office will soon have a new head. That a Wianpp Is necessary there can bo no doubt and that It will result In needed reforms Is rea sonably to be expected. Undoubtedly the cost of the office can bo considerably re duced without m the least Impairing its efficiency or the quality of Its work. It Is not unlikely that the disclosures will lend to nu effort In congress to abolish the office. the cotjvrr campaios- From now on until the 7th of Novem ber interest in the county camimlgn will continue to grow notwithstanding the fact that our merchants, manufacturers and wage' workers have never been so busy as they sre this season. With no greut national or state issue involved In the contest, 'the off-year campaign will very naturally center upon the character of the candidates who are to fill the ad ministrative and Judicial positions that touch the pocket of every taxpayer and concern directly every man, woman aud child In the community, beginning with the sheriff, who is charged with the maintenance of law and order, tliesafe- keeping of prisoners and serving th( mandates of the courts, and ending up with the police Judge and Justices of the peace, who administer Justice nnd very often injustice to the greut mass of the people. The candidates to be nominated at the Joint primary on September 19 will make either for good government or bad gov ernment, according to their respective capacity nnd Integrity. It is Idle for people who desire the affairs of the county administered on business princi ples to complain about extravagance and wastefulness after the men who are to administer the affairs of the county have been nominated and elected. It Is the privilege under the direct primary sys tem for every citizen to register his choice of candidates through the ballot box, and it is the duty of all citizens who want better government aud more effi cient service to toko an nctlve part In the primaries, so that the beat men of each party thnt are available for the po sitions shall lie selected. If it is foolish to lock the bsrn after the horse Is stolen, It Is more foolish for the man wh has the right of suffrage to berate politics and decry our political system because there Is neglect In the discharge of official duty and unfair and untrustworthy men have been put for ward for offices that have the manage ment of $150,000,000 worth 6f property and the custody of millions of dollars' worth of funds and trust funds. The axiom that politics is business and business is politics, as well, is absolutely true. Business men who periodically growl nnd howl about grafters nnd tnx eaters have themselves to blame If they are the victims of over-taxation and em bezzlement. It Is the business of busi ness men as well as of wage workers to acquaint themselves with the character and record of every candidate for office before he Is nomlnnted and It Is the In terest as well as the duty of every good citizen to exercise sound discretion in making up his choice of candidates at the primary. The periodic outcry about political chicanery and the rottenness of politics Is puerile. Our government Is Just what the people make it. If Incom petency and corruption predominate In office the fault Is with the people who have access to the ballot box. The stream never rises above Its source. Whatever may be thought of the mo tives that have Impelled John T. Gathers to enter periodic protests with the mayor and council against the transfer of funds In the city treasury lu violation of the express provisions of the charter, his pro test commends itself as timely and emi nently proper. If the charter limitations upon the expenditure of municipal funds are ill-advised or wrong the responsibil ity is with the law-makers, but so long as these limitations are on the statute books all departments of the municipal govern ment are behind to live up to them. In the language of General Grant, "The way to make a bad luw odious is to en force it." From the point of view of the taxpayer the provisions of the charter that set npnrt fixed sums of money for each of the various branches of the city government and prohibit their transfer to any other fund are in the interest of economy and a preventive of extrava gance and wastefulness. It behooves the munlotpnl authorities to cut their garments according to their cloth. The trades union workingmen of Omaha have decided by referendum to mnke up a variegated ticket selected from among the candidates of the differ ent parties after the primary election. That Is very much like putting the cart In front of the horse. If the candidates nominated by the various political par ties for any particular office shall hap pen, in the language of the lawyers, to be incompetent, irrelevant and imma terial, the trades union voters will have Hobson's choice. Instead of waiting un til after the primaries the proper policy would have been for every trades union ist to take an active part at the pri maries with the party with which he affiliates so as to nominate the best men available under the new primary law, which at best restricts his choice to the candidates willing to plank down the bonus for the privilege of having their names printed on the ticket. George W. Berge has nritten a book on the free pass bribery system. Mr. Berge has wasted a good deal of time. If he had copied the editorials on pass bribery that appeared in The Omaha Bee in the '70s and '80s and down to the present day he would have covered the entire subject The Interested parties who have been resenting tha intimation that the block udlnx of tha contract for sua street li'ut- Ing Is simply the old fight between the electric light company and the gss com psny broken out anew will now have n hard time convincing even themselves. The enforced resignation of Tubllc Printer Palmer, following his confllc with su!ordlnntes, may siiow employes In other departments that they enn tell talcs out of school without bringing run Ishnient upon themselves provided they can prove what they say. The late storm on the great lakes shows how little progress has been made In the matter of overcoming the dangers of the deep. As a rule the old-fashioned sailing vessels seem to have fared bet ter than the monsters of steel nnd stenm. Colonel Bryan, has postponed his world-girdling trip so ns to enable him to nttend the democratic state conven tion before setting forth. He may also lie depended on to curtail his travels, if necessary, to get back In time to attend the convention next year. Down to Hard Pan, New Tork Tribune. After all that has been said and done, the cold truth of the matter seems to be that combination of water wagon and brewery truck won't work, . Small Change on Hand. Chicago Inter-Ocean. While there may be a deficiency In the revenues this year, It Is cheering to learn that there Is a cssh balance of over ITH.IOO, OCO In the national treasury. A 4-rlons I'ndertaltlnaj. Chleaso Tribune. It Is proposed that when Indian territory becomes a state It shall bear the name of Bequoyah. The object of this probably la to secure the admission of tha letter "q' Into the union. v . - : tt.. a reaceroaaer avaiiaoie. Pittsburg Dispatch. When Secretary Shaw and Governor Cum mine have fought their controversy to the point where it needs to be stopped every one knows where the services of an expe rienced and energetic peacemaker can be secured. Left His Pile Behind. Brooklyn Eagle. Tamagno. the tenor, died worth several millions because he did his own wash ing and cooked his own maccaroni and never allowed himself to have a good time. Lots of people In this country have not the making ot Italian tenors, thank goodness. An Impressive Corn Pile, Baltimore American. If the frosts will only stay off a few days longer Iowa alone Is promising a corn crop this year of 408.000,000 bushels. Neither Nebraska or Kansas will bow down to Iowa when It comes to figuring up corn totals. and, therefore, the assurance Is certain that the corn figures from the west will look impressive. Handling; It with Gloves. Chicago' Record-Herald. Coffee seems to be the tempter of Ameri can statesmen tills year. Every time the federal deficit forces Itself unpleasantly on the attention some one remarks how easy it would be to tax coffee and wipe out not only, the deficit i hut also the anxieties and perils of revision. Congressman Mc Cleary of Minnesota Is one of the latest to . make stiggoatlons In this direction, though he cautiously refrains from com mitting himself. . How Watch 'Era Move. Springfield Republican. On of the conditions under which the English took Wel-hal-Wel, the Chinese naval station on the Yellow sea, was that they should keep It as long as Russia held Port Arthur, directly opposite. The course of the British government now that Port Arthur, has been emptied of Russians, for all time apparently, will be observed by a world that probably does not expect the promise to be kept. The opportunity is an excellent one to prove that the English are capable of hauling down their flag. Can't Keep 'Em Down. Portland Oregonlan. Young Kermlt Roosevelt made a great hit on a Burlington " train by giving up his lower berth to an aged couple and taking an upper. An enthusiastic press dispatch describes him as the hero of the hour. No doubt. But Master Roosevelt Is young and so he Is able to sleep well anywhere. Be sides, an upper berth Is Just as good, or bad, as any berth on a railroad train after you get in It, a popular Impression to the con trary notwithstanding. Besides, again, It seems to run In the Roosevelt family never to stay down below when It Is possible to go higher. After all, then, the sacrifice was not great. It was simply unusual. BLESSING OP THE NlTtSE. Invaluable Service Rendered to the Fever Stricken. Baltimore News. As the yellow fever in New Orleans and vicinity draws to Its probable wane one fact sticks out, and that Is that yellow fever, like smallpox, Is losing Its terrors. From the first the death rate has been re markably low when compared with the scourge of 11(78 and the visitation of Nor folk. To date, in 1,878 cases there have been but 271 deaths. How far has the re duction In the death rate been due to progress In medical science and how far to other conditions? In every place where yellow fever has developed careful nursing seems to have been one of the main friends ot convalescence. Is not the nurse entitled to a largo share of the credit? The doctor would certainly lose none of his glory by its bestowal. Is yellow fever so terrible as It has been thought? In the, great plague, so vividly Impressed upon the memories of those who were there, the Streets were cemeteries, every passing wagon was a hearse, every house was a house of mourning. It used to be so with smallpox, but that disease has failed to terrify for years, and Its chief dread Is Its repulslveness. Even the fear of pltmarks has been lessened by the cer tainty that with proper nursing these will be but slight, If they come at all. What professional nurse does not hall with some thing of professional delight an Interesting case of typhoid? The rising and falling of the chart, the fascinating changes of conditions from day to day, seem to have a subtle charm for the nurse who loves her calling. How long has it been since friends and relatives fled the smallpox with fear and trembling? The leper who shrank by the roadside and warned the world away, from his contaminating presence was not mors dreaded than the victim of that dis ease which In the years of- scientific ad vancement has dwindled in tearfulness to Just the extent that the science of nursing has advanced. All honor, then, to the nurse. Attack the source, slaughter the stegomyla, screen the cisterns, wash the streets, fumigate the trains, quarantine the boats, burn the bananas, but don't forget the nurse. She brings relief to the watchers and comfort to the sufferer, and In thousands of cases decides la his favor the baJanoa of Ufa and death. ROITVD AflOt'T JEW YORK. Ripples on the (nrrent of Life In tha Metropolis. George Washington riunkltt, a Tarn many leader. Is the reputed author of I 'ii in wnicn ne discourses volubly on t'laiiicai politics ana furnishes an answer to the question so often fired St the late Ross Croker, "Where did you get It?" rose in tne usual political way from a butcher boy at Washington market to a Tammany leader and a two-times millionaire. In politics he never failed to "deliver the goods'1 and got his share of the spoils. One of his accomplishments of which he boasts is that of holding four offices and drawing the salaries In one year without overtaxing his strength. jne opportunities for "honest graft" nunkltt Illustrates In this wayi "A big city like New York or Philadel phia or Chicago might be compared with a sort of Garden of Eden from a nolltlcal point of view. Its an orchard full of beautiful apple trees. One of them has got a big sign on It marked 'Penal Code Tree Poison.' The other trees have lots of apples on them for all. Yet the fools go to the penal code tree. WhyT For the reason, I guess, that a cracky child reiuses to eat good food and chews up a box of matches with relish. "I never had any temptation to touch the penal code tree. The other apples are good enough for me, and O Lord, ho many of them there are In a big city. The Philadelphians run uo against the penal code. Tammany don't. The Phlladel phlans ain't satisfied with robbing the bank of all Its gold and paper money. They stay to pick up the nickels and pennies, and the cop comes and nabs them. Tammany ain't no such fool. "Why, I remember about fifteen or twenty years ago a republican superintend ent of the Philadelphia almshouse stole the tine roof off the building and sold It for Junk. That was carrying things to ex cess. There's a limit to everything n seems like they can t be cool and mod erate." DAntonlo Attlilo, civil engineer bv pro fession and masher because his . soul la Just full of romance, presented a dilapi dated appearance when he was arraigned In the Adams street court. Brooklyn, charged by Miss Helen George. 17 veara old and unusually handsome, with having louowea ana forced his attention upon her. With a broken nose, torn clothes, with out crtfvat or collar, his eves hiniian. and cheeks cut. Attillo stood before Ma. Istrate Steers and told how he was a stranger in a strange land and had been set upon and beaten, all because he asked passing girl a question. "I am employed In an express brokers office In Beekman street. Manhattan Miss George said. "I went out to lunch at noon yesterday. This man was standing outside my place and followed me. He spoke to me, Jostled me and did everything possible to strike up an acquaintance. I repulsed his every effort. Just as soon as reached my home my brother came out and confronted him. I was very frightened. Then the crowd seeing the lndlanlties to which I had been subjected JumDed on him and gave him a good beating. I am going tO put a StOD to New Turk 1T,0.l,cr- It 1 have to undergo the difficulty and notoriety of having ono arrested every time I am accosted by them. They are the most pernicious people In the world. I will press every charge I make, and if every other girl would do the same thing the crowded cars on the bridge would not be the place where young business girls and women are subjected to humiliation and Indignity." aiuiio was nem In 1100 bail for six months. with a promise of being sent to Drison for tne next offense. While the antl-tlpplng law does not nm. hlblt the giving of a gratuity to a waiter, it furnishes a bulwark behind which the non-tipper may hide. Consequently a heavy falling off In tins all over New York Is reported. Men who have been In the habit of reluctantly part ing with a dime to the waiter who served tneir luncheon failed to "give ud." Whiio they were eating, they talked loudlv of the new bill and Its provisions, with the apparent Intention of giving the waiter. the impression that It Is a crime to take tip. A waiter In a restaurant In tha nnanci.1 district, who had taken special pains to procure a hurry-up lunch for a busy man. showed surprise as the busy man picked up his check without leaving the accus tomed tlr.. Thousands of persons will not tip as much as they have heretofore. The new law gives them an excuse that makes them brave enough to defy the waiters disgusted glare. Bellevue hospital, New York's famous In stitution for th care of the sick, la to have a new and magnificent building, com plete In every detail of its equipment and costing S,600,000. The contract to erect the southeast wing of the great building at a cost of S50.00u-one-tenth of the appropria tion for the entire structure has already been awarded. With the completion of the entire struc ture Bellevue will be one of the foremost hospitals In the world In size and material equipment. It has been a leader In medical advancement and International reputation for a long time. To be an Interne In Belle vue and get some of his earljf medical training there has represented the highest ambition of the younger physician In Amer ica, and those who were fortunate enough to have been on the hospital staff possessed from that, fact an Indorsement which made It comparatively easy to build up a fine practice. The original plans of McKlm. Mead A White, the architects, were for a more Im posing hospital, with an Impressive dome surmounting a grand central pavilion, or rotunda, in which would be the administra tion headquarters and offices of the hos pital stafr. The original estimate for all this was 111,900,000. But after extended de liberations the board of trustees suggested that the dome and some of the minor de tails, moldings, ornamentations and the like be omitted. This reduced the cost of the hospital to IS.&no.OuO, which amount was accepted and ratified by New York City. It happened In an uptown Broadway res taurant. He and she used to dine together every night in a quiet domestic way, for they had oily lately been married. Bhe was a strict teetotaler, while he well, he wasn't exactly. They Invariably occupied the same table and were waited upon by the same waiter. They drank ginger ale with their meal, but hubby, by the aid of a tip. Inveigled the waiter Into putting a good horn of whisky Into his soft drink every night. All went well until one ev.n Ing the wife was more than ordinarily thirsty. Finishing her glass of ginger ale, she reached over for her husband's glass, and before he could stop her she had taken a good average sip from It. She Coughed and sputtered, gave the waiter a glance that frose what was left of the liquid, and the subsequent proceedings In terested only the husband. Medical scientists have had their atten tion directed to Charles C'anepl, I years old. In Yonkers, who has been In an un broken, trancelike sleep for more than four months. On April t, while whirling around a lamppost, he became diisy and fell. He struck on the back of his head. Two days later he complained of pains In the head and within a few minutes lapsed Into a stats of unconsciousness, from which he has not awakened. liquids poured Into his stomach bavs sustained Ue. ,' tj,ii JtA T'H'ljl'lj!!,: fi ! U ' "0 O -3 TRI D0t Arsr Oharry Pectoral M-M ISt . . . 40 W TS Smjm ') nuM IS fmn M . . t I KnnM taw flfM .IIMItSM 4 fn m . I tt 1 1 ymn ... 1 0 trm - IfMr M....4M) S ansa P PERSONAL NOTES. A telephone has been Installed In the papal apartments in the Vatican. Plus X did not take kindly to this Innovation at first, but has found it entirely necessary. Dr. John Warner, a wealthy physician of Clinton,' 111., has given to I)e Witt county, that state, a first-class hospital, which has cost him 128,000, and he will endow the institution liberally. Mrs. Mildred Dewey, wife of Admiral Dewey, has returned to the Twenty- eighth Alabama regiment the flag captured at Orchard Knob during tho civil war by her first husband, General Hazcn. Daniel W. Baker of Maryland, who has Just been made district attorney for the District of Columbia, is a member of the law faculty of Georgetown university, being Instructor In several important branches. He succeeded the late Judgo Jeremiah Wilson in the chair. Miss Alice Roosevelt's portrait on a Japa nese post card is the latest tribute of the mikado's people to the president's daugh ter. The picture shows Miss Roosevelt wearing a long white coat and a white hat trimmed with owl's head and wings. Underneath is a Japanese inscription ex plaining that she is the American prin cess. A Parisian Journal wonders what Nobel would do were he still living. He was a Swede, but he put the assignment of the Nobel prizes In the hands of the Norwe gian Storthing, for the express purpose of bringing "these two hostile brothers" Into friendlier relations. The question arises whether the Swedish parliament will not now disregard Nobel's directions and itself assume charge of the funds. King Alfonso of Spain Is a versatile sportsman. His skill with the automobile Is well known. Besides, he Is a good shot. Recently, he went to a pigeon shooting match at Jaucales. where the shooting was for two prises of a silver cup and a silver box given by himself. The result was that tha king won his own first prize, with twenty-three birds, while Senor Mendosa took second with twenty-two. His majesty's competitors shot as sportsmen or as cour tiers. RAILROAD MISREPRESENTATION I'ntrnthfal Statement of the Rate Regulation Issue. Chicago Tribune. A leading western railroad has been making a canvass of seven states and five territories In which -it does business,' for the pretended purpose of ascertaining the sentiment of their business men on the subject of railway rate regulation. The question, "Do you favor giving the Inter state Commerce commission the absolute power to fix all Interstate rates and to establish the relation of rates between all localities?" Was sent out, accompanied by a circular letter explaining that the power described was that which President Roosevelt and the other advocates of rate legislation propose to confer upon the Interstate Commerce commission. It Is claimed that 70 per cent of the business men Interrogated answered In the negative, and this Is represented as showing that western sentiment Is opposed to the ad ministration's rate policy. As a matter of fact, the results of tho canvass, admitting them to be correctly stated which, under the circumstances. Is a large concession show nothing at all unless It Is that TO per cent of the men In terviewed are opposed to a policy which neither President Roosevelt nor anybody else Is advocating. The assertion that It Is proposed to "give the Interstate Com merce commission the absolute power to fix all interstate rates" Is a bald and fla grant misrepresentation. The Interstate Commerce commission at the present tlmo has the power to order a reduction in any railway' rate which It finds, after hearing, to be unreasonable, but It has not power to fix what It may consider a reasonable rate. If, under existing law, a railroad refuses I 111 Browning, ICing & Co CLOTHING. rUKNISHINCS, AND BATS "Man wants but little hert be low, but vanU thai little right" tail Btau lirummelL Fllteentli and j Douglas Sts. t way sit 1 2nd Street NEW W Do not undervalue the services of a skilful phy sician. Even the best medicine cannot take the place of the family doctor. Therefore we say: Con sult your physician freely about your case and ask him what he thinks about your taking Ayer's Cherry Pectoral for your cough. If he says take it, then take it. If he says do not take it, then follow his advice. Made ay tka t. o. Att Ca , Levcii, Mass. Alto aanafoturre of AVER'S PILLS Par coastlpatles. AYBR'8 HA IK VICOR-Por tas hair. AVER'S S ARSAPARILLA For tho blood. AYBR'8 AOOB CURSFor malaria and agas. to make a reduction In a rate which tha commission has pronounced unreasonable, the shipper must continue to pay the un reasonable rute until he shall have gon to the trouble and expense of getting t!ie federal courts to give effect to the com mission's order. What President Roosevelt proposes Is that the existing law shall be so amended as to give the commission power, after formal hearing of all parties, not only to condemn an unreasonable rati', but also to fix what It shall consider a reasonable ono, and he would have the new rate go into effect at once and stay In effect unless the courts, at the Instance of the railroads, shall condemn It as con fiscatory. The Interstate Commerce' commission, under the amended law, fur front having "absolute power" over all rates, would have only a qualified power over some rates. It would have no power at all over any rates except those regarding which formal complaint was made by shlDncrs. and Its exercise of Its power over them would always be subject to the approval of the courts. The railroads can prevent the people from recognizing the substan tial Justice of this policy only by a cam paign of misrepresentation which clouds and cpnfuses the real Issue. MIIITHFIL REMARKS. "Hardhead gives very largely to charity, i he so philanthropic?" "No. Ms Cont rlhlltlnn. a r a In hat..-.. Is of conscience money." Detroit Free Press. 'I understand that whenever an Aator bllt baby Is born It gets a 5,O0O cradle." "Well, It certainly must take lots of rocks' to keep that cradle going." Cleve land Leader. "So you feel that your automobile Is per fectly safe?" "Most of the time when It is In the re pair shop." Washington Star. "And so," remarked the Judge, "you say the Iron entered your soul, flow did It happen?" "Well," replied thn plaintiff, "I think the beginning of It was when she stuck her hatpin Into me." Chicago Record-Herald. McBluff Yes, o" course, the alligator is an ambidextrous animal. Newltt You mean "amphibious." "Am bidextrous" means dextrous with either right or left hand. McBlufr That's Jest what I mean. He's Jest as dextrous to bite ofT your right ns your left hand. Philadelphia Catholic Stan dard. Sweltering Stranger (at Cactus Crossing) When on earth doea the next train leave this sun-baked, heaven forsaken realon? Alkali Ike Wall, stranger, we has each a right to his opinion on thet subject, them thet knows declares it hikes nut rmt jest arter the enjine. New York Times. "Yes," the old Indian fighter was saying, "the whole secret of success agin the red vurmlnts wuz Jest to profit by experience. The Sioux done sometnln' to me onct that they could never do again." "What was that?" Inquired the Interested youth. 'lliey scalped me." Philadelphia Ledger. TO A NEW BABY. S. W. 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