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10 THE OMAIIA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, IDOo. Tim Omaiia Daily Dee. E. ROSEWATF.R, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Pally Bee. (without Sunday), one year. .84.00 Dully Pee tnil Sunday, one year ) Illustrated Bee. one year , 2 50 Sunday lief, one year t 50 Saturday Bee, one yrar 1 50 DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Dally Bee twlthout Sunday), per we.-1c.12o l.miv Be (Including Sunday), per week.lc Kveiilna; Be (without Sunday), per weea.ac Ereninn Bee (with Punday), per week. ...100 Sunday Bee, per copy oo Address romplalnts f Irregularities in de livery to Cliy Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha Tho Bee Bullying. South Omaha City Hall Bulldlr.g. Council BlufT'-lO Pearl Street. ( hicuco 16-W I'nity Building. New York loi) Home Life Ins. Buildltif. Washington 501 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating- to new and ed itorial I matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, p.iyable to The Bee Publishing Company. inly 2-rent stamps received as payment of mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha, or eastern exchanges, riot accepted. THE BEE Pl'BLISUlNa COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nchrask, DoukIss County, . : C. C. Rosewater, secretary of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, fays that the actual number of full and 'ntnpleie conies of Th Dally. Morning, F.venlng and 8umlav 'Doe printed during he month of October, 1906, wai as fol lows: i 82,100 n so.nno : i JMI.TOO IS SWMWJO i so.nno is uo.nBO 4 S1.320 20 841.020 6 81.220 a 81.810 8..1 81.B20 22 S1).50 7 32.41 a 80.9T0 30.1120 24 80,ftO 9 81,0.10 26 81,100 10 Sl.lOO 26 SO.feWO n 3i.iro 27 ao.oio 12... 80.710 2S ai,Ho 13 80.H20 29 80.T00 :i ni .mo jo si.ooo 15 HO, tftO 31 80.1MK) iti au.Too Total D03.H40 Less unsold coplea 104)51 Net total sales T..,ns.S4 Dally average 80.T1T C. C. ROSE WATER, Secretary. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to berire me tins Slsi oay or octoDer. (Seal) M. B. HUNQATB. Notary Publlo. WHEN OUT OF TOWH. Subscribers leaving- the city tem porarily should have The Dea mailed to them. It la better than a dally letter from home. Ad does will be changed as often as reqneated. If Georgetown university cannot "purify" athletics It may be able to civil ize some of the athletes. The linaneiul stau-uiuut Nof W. R. Hearst will be even more Interesting after he has concluded his contest. With a United States warship headed for the Baltic sea, the Russian reform movement may grow less frothy and more steady. In the order restricting army laun dries to army work some people may hoc a probability of a further washing of dirty lfncn. The reduction In the salary of resi dent MoCurdy comes just In time to dis appoint those who looked to him for Christ man presents. Spain will Issue Invitations to the Moroccan tninference, but France and Germany feel that they will be the real hosts when the delegates arrive. That Fourth ward councllmanlc va cancy continues to be vacaut, with the chief result that tho city Is saving one ninth of Its councllninnic salary roll. The alleged Illegal voter who forfeited ft bond of $3,000 rather than face a New York judge must have feared that his mode of operation would be discovered. Considering the fact that milk inspec tion In Omaha Is admittedly less thor ough than It should be, the vital statis tic of the city still, entitle it to claim recognition as a health report Now that bis campaign expeustf ac count of over $05,000 has been made public, M& Hearst may not be surprised to be invited to' move to Montana niii become candidate for the United States senate. Since the appraisers have begun to examine the gifts received by Miss Roosevelt on ber visit to Asia she can gain a more adequate ideti of the esti mation in which she is held by the Orientals. Secretary Hitchcock docs not seem to appreciate the difficulty two cattle bar ons, who have been operating a little ranch of 212,000 acres, would have to raise $300 apiece to pay the fine for Ille gal fencing. If the reorted revolt iu the Russian army in Manchuria is true, the new gov ernment Is to be congratulated as the resnltant slaughter will have saved the peuse of bringing a lot of mutinous soldiers bome. The Burllngtou railroad has signed up , wlta the Brotherhood of Locomotive En gineers after twenty years of disagree ment Peace evidently bath her vic tories no lees renowned than war in the labor world, too. "Policy holder protective commit tees" are to succeed the paid lobbyist! of one New York life Insurance com pany. As long as the money conies the crooked legislator will not object to the channel through which It lows. Real estate values lu Omaha are still decidedly moderate compared with what similarly located real estate brings In other cities of Omaha's class. Realty values here have risen materially during the last few years and are still rising, and there are big profit to be made by those who Invest In Omaha real estate before the prices go higher. AMEBICAXS tVH COX8VL8 The position taken by Secretary Root, that only .American citizens should be appointed to the consular service, will be very generally" approved. According to the statement made by an oimii.l of the" Department of State there are 557 meu of foreign birth and foreign citizenship Holding places in the United States consular service, 80 per cent of whom have no sympathy with our Institutions and policies, and 70 per cent of whqra, from a natural condition of tilings, are opposed to the expansion of American trade. There are 20o for eigners occupying our' consular agen cies, out of a total of 3IKV. and 120 for eigners occupy onr consular clerkships out of n total of 180. In Germany, ac cording to this authority, 60 per cent of our vice and deputy consulKhlps are In the hand of foreigners, while in the British Empire we have 114 vice and deputy consuls, 8.1 of whom belong to all kinds of nationalities except our own. One hnndred and fifty important vice consulships are occupied by for eigners, who have free access to all the secrets of trade documents, as well as all secrets contained in the Invoices of their neighbors. It Is perfectly obvious that under such a system the interests of American ex porters will not be as well taken care of as they would be if tho consular posi tions were filled only by American citi zens, whose interest as well as whose duty it would be to zealously work for the promotion of our foreign trade. In an address some time since before the National Business League an Ameri can manufacturer who bud traveled extensively abroad said: "During my visits to our consuls I found several men of foreign birth and citizenship) oc cupying subordinate positions, and In some Instances the consuls themselves were of, foreign birth. It goes without saying that these men cannot be as well qualified for such positions as the native-born American, not alone because the command of our language is Inade quate, but for the more important rea son that for the most part they have but a limited knowledge of our laws and customs and no proper conception of the spirit of our institutions." He expressed the opinion that for these and other reasons foreigners should not be appointed to positions on our consular staff. .We believe that none of the other great commercial nations has foreigners In its consular service. The course that has been adopted by Secretary Root in fhls very Important matter is unquestionably wise. . It is pointed out that owing to the small compensation in some of the minor con sular posts It may be difficult to find American citizens to accept them, but this can easily be remedied by congress. The work of consular reorganization and reform is making progress. TBEASVRT ASD MVXEY MAHKET The disturbance In the New York money market a few days ago, due to the fall of bank reserves to less than 25 per cent of outstanding deposit lia bilities, was accounted for by specula tive conditions In the stock market. While the situation was by no means as dangerous as was commonly thou&ht, as shown by the fact that normal con ditions have already been restored, yet it afforded an opportunity for an appeal to the national treasury to come to the relief of the money market, as is usual iu such cases. To this appeal the secretary of the treasury declined to respond, on the ground that there was no menace of Injury to the legitimate business of the country and It Is not the duty of the national treasury to aid speculation. This Is .not a new position for Secre tary Shaw and now as hitherto it will be approved by all conservative finan ciers and by the Industrial and commer cial Interests generally. In a financial ex igency threatening injury to the regular business of the country, It would, under existing conditions, be the plain duty of ' he national treasury to afford whatever relief it properly could. This it has done repeatedly and undoubtedly will again do. But it should not nnder any cir cumstances lend Itself to the promotion or encouragement of speculation in stocks or any other direction. If the banks allow themselves,' as has recently been done, to go to unwarranted and dangerous lengths In aiding speculation they should suffer the consequences. The law is plain and specific in regard t the reserve they are required to maintain and they know the penalty prescribed for the violation of the law. When, therefore, they disregard this the banks should be held to a rigid responsibility, and it Is not to be doubted that if this were done there would be an end to Infractions of the law. - Secretary Shaw has In this matter taken the proper course. He stands ready to do whatever may be found ex pedient or necessary In the interest of the legitimate business of the country, but he declines to permit the national treasury to aid in promoting simulation or to give relief to those who afford sucb aid.. Some of his predecessors were less careful and conservative In this respect than they should have been, but the judicious example set by the present secretary ot the treasury Is very likely to be followed in the future. The attitude of Secretary Sbaw has forced liquidation to the Ioks of speculators, but It bus caused uo Injury to regular business. The Bee U in receipt of a letter from one of Us South Omaha subscribers, tak ing issue with the report that the tide of sentiment agalust annexation Is slowly receding in South Omaha, and declaring that annexation will never be done by the i-ousent of that city. We have uo doubt there are some Irrectmcllubles in South Omaha who would want to main- tain separate city government, even If Omaha should grow to surround its southern neighbor completely. We ap prehend, however, tlyit this question will be determined, when It comes to lie de termined, by the wishes of a majority of the people affected, and It Is only a question of time when those who favor coiiHolidatlon will be In the majority. THE STAY-AT-HOME WTE The compilation of the complete re turns of the election just held In Ne braska affords the basis for an approxi mate estimate of the stay-at-home vote. The total vote polled In all tho election precincts lu the state this year aggre gates but a little more than 175,0 0. The total vote illed in Nebrasku in the presidential election lust year was but a few short of 225,000, so that the stay-at-home vote at the last election can bo roughly given us TiO.Oim) in round figures. In other words, more tlnin one voter to every four and a half 'who participated in the presidential election failed to ex ercise his rights of suffrage at the recent election. That the result of the electlou would have liceu changed had all of those stay-at-home votes been polled Is not to be believed for a moment, but, on the con-' trary, there Is little room for doubt that a large majority of them, If cast, would have been recorded for tho republican candidates and would have gone to swell their majorities by many thou sands. . On the face of the fijrures It would ap pear that the republicans with a plural- j Ity of neorly 23.0(10 out of a total of 175,000 votes have things practically their own way, and this Is unquestiona bly true as respects any Issue embodied In what is known as the "Roosevelt Program." That Nebraska is not so overwhelmingly republican on locnl Is sues, however. Is plain enough from the fact that comparatl rely few counties are to be found in the state In which the democrats, or fusion opposition, did not elect one or more county officers over re publicans who were weak of disreputa ble, and on that account could not com mand the full party strength. The lesson of the election returns is that Nebraska is firmly republican, but not so firmly set that republicans can with impunity fly In the face of popular sentiment upon current Issues, or "flaunt candidates who have forfeited popular confidence. Douglas county is one of the counties said to be backward iu reporting the election returns on state officers to the state canvassing board. There is no good reason why Douglas county should be among the last to report, but on the contrary every reason why it should be the first to report. The voting machines have expedited the counting and prompt canvass of the returns should give the result officially within forty-eight hours after the time set by the law for begin ning the canvass. In view of the fact that the county board has not money enough at Its dis posal to pay current salaries through the year, the necessity of retrenchment and economy must be apparent. The place to begin is with the sheriff's prison feed ing graft, by which the taxpayers are paying three times as much to feed pris oners in the county jail as they pay to feed prisoners lu the city Jail. The wife of the missiug former audi tor of tiie Equitable Life Is in Canada, but as she says nothing of her husband, it is probuble that he has not recovered from the modesty which assailed him when asked to tell what he knew about the affairs of the company. Wise nieu who have erved as insur ance commissioners of a number of states will begin to prepare statements of their relations with New York com panies so both sides of the story may be heard at the same time. California now claims the floor. I " The way resolutions are coming In from commercial bodies lu different parts of the state John N. Baldwin may have to amend his declaration that there Is no "deep-seated" demaud for rate reg ulation in Nebraska by using wmie other I Qualifying adjective. The itemized rejiorts of the various political committees active in the con duct of the late campaign will be due shortly and people will then know which of the animals bitched to the pie wagon are the dead horses. Is the Chars Protest New York Herald. Governor Mickey thanks heaven that the people have risen against "graft," and this proves the charge that the Ne braskan is not a politician. There's the Hah. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The prince of Battenberg remarked that a fleet within range 6f New York could do the city enormous damage. He made no reference to the hot time an enemy will have before getting within shooting distance. A Mysterlon Omlaaloa. Washington Star. That Governor Pennypacker appreciates the seriousness of the situation Is proved by the fact that his long list of sugges tions does not Include a demand for fur ther protection against Journalistic affronts to his personal dignity. Demonstration that Dlda't Pay. Philadelphia Ledger. The boy who tried to reform Wall street methods by demonstrating the ease of stealing, will serve fourteen months In an Institution devoted to reforming his style of reformers. Meanwhile Wall street is about the same as ever. Flocklna Toward a Feast. Philadelphia Record. It la intimated that the spollsmongera of the national capital are looking for ward to the organisation or a grand cor poration lobby to aatch the progress of railroad frelpht legixlHtion In the coming si-ssiau of consi'es- but it the lobby job hunters be depending on this lobby they are likely 'to starve or freeie before the end of the winter. Where the Poll Kalis. Indianapolis News. Before hustling around to get Influence In favor of your appointment to a consu lar position, don't forget that an exam ination concerning your fitness stands be tween you and It. four preliminary ac tivity might be merely energy uselessly expended. Ripe tor Funeral. St. Louis Republic. Following closely upon the Kansas pro posal to nominate Roosevelt for a third term the failure of the fusion ticket In Nebraska Is n strong hint tu the populists everywhere that they might as well dis band. There Is not enough vitality left In them to a (Ton! an excuse for a dicker with either of the great political parties. A Delusive Idea. Chicago Chronicle. Vice President Fairbanks, In addressing the Touna- Men's Christian association of Indianapolis on Sunday, said: "Our safety lies In an educated cltlsenshlp." It would have been much more appropriate on such an occasion, as well as much more agree able to the truth, to say: "Our safety lies In a virtuous cltiienshlp." The Idea that education can preserve American Institu tions Is delusive. What threatens us Is no$ Ignorance, but dishonesty, and we find to our sorrow that rascality . Is. as common among the educated classes as among the Ignorant, even if it takes on a different lorm. BATE HEGl I.ATIO A KID WAGES. Mistaken Views Iteaardinc' the Presi dent's Policy. Indianapolis News. We would suggest to the employes of the railroads that they ought to be very sure of their ground before they enlist in the campaign against the policy of rate regu lation. The theory of the engineers, fire men, switchmen, conductors and trainmen, whose organizations have protested to the president against regulation, Is that regula tion means reduction of rates, and that reduction of rutcs mcansa reduction of wages. But this argument is logical In form rather than In substance. For what Is proposed, Is not a reduction, but an equalization of rates, and a guarantee of fair treatment to all people interested. We believe that the adoption of the president'; policy would have the effect of largely Increasing the earnings of the railroads. It will hardly be maintained that the roads have made money by paying millions of dollars in rebates to the Standard Oil com pany, the packing companies and other large shippers. All this has been Just so much money lost to the rallroada. Now It Is proposed to stop this re'bate business and to put an end to the private terminal and private car line abuses which are slmbly schemes for getting rebates Indi rectly. In our opinion railroad earnings would be largely Increased under a system of fair, honest and open competition. This is the view of the president. In his reply to the protest of the employes, he said that It was not his purpose, or the purpose of those who agreed with him. to do anything that might Injure the railroads or the country or their employes. What was aimed at was perfectly fair treatment for all classes, railroads, shippers and employes. The president, very correctly, we think, argued that the proposed legislation would not necessarily mean a reduction In rail road rates, and he suggested that the mem bers of the protesting delegation were pro ceeding on a wrong understanding of the situation. j I '.''; There will be an attempt made to show that the president and those supportlpg him are the enemies of the railroads. But the president is not an enemy of the railroads. The people generally are not hostile to them. In certain sections of the country where railroad exactions and dis criminations have been great there Is un doubtedly a feeling of hostility to the roads, but for that the roads In thofce localities, and not all the railroads, are themselves responsible. It Is not proposed that regu lation sliall be prescribed by the enemies of the railroads. On the contrary, the co operation of the roads themselves Is greatly to be desired. It Is a great mistake to as sume that every one who favors stricter control of rates is an enemy of the rail roads. PIKERS PIXK FOR FREEDOM. Revolution Classed as "Interaatlonal a Petty Larceny." Chicago Chronicle. One of the strangest of American pro clivities is that to "go on arguing the case after the court has decided It," as It was phrased by the pioneer governor of Illinois, John Reynolds, who observed It while Illi nois was yet a territory. It Is not. therefore, a new thing that haa cropped out in the sensational report that the people of the Isle of Pines, always an appanage of Cuba, have declared the island Independent of Cuba and have sent to Waxhington and demanded that the United States shall "resume" control. "Resume" covers tho pretext for this claim. It was contended that because Bpaln ceded to this country "Porto Rico and the other Islands" under Its control and "re linquished" Cuba without mention of other Islands, therefore the Isle of Pines came to us, though always a part of Cuba under Spain. The claim was urged (by Americans who had bought property there) before the War department In February, 1903, when Mr. Root was Its head, and he promptly de cided that we never had or clalmod any title; that the phrase "Porto Rico and the other islands" In the Paris treaty meant the small Islands always recognised as part of Porto Rico. Of course, to "relinquish Cuba" was to relinquish all that Spain had governed as Cuba, and that Included not only the l4!e of Pines but also twelve or thirteen hun dred other Islands fringing the Cuban coast, the Isle of Pines the largest of all. If the Isle of Pines was included among "the other Islands" of the treaty so were the other thirteen hundred. The claim Is and waa always absurd, but though we, through Secretary Root as . aforesaid, promptly repudiated it Cuba waa uneasy, and five months later, when buying by treaty from Cuba two naval stations, we made another treaty formally declaring the little Island a part of Cuba, gave to Cuba a kind of quit claim deed, and that is now before the senate. General Wood may have told the Ameri cans who went to the isle that "r doubt the United States would retain the' Island." He is inclined to talk too much, but he can not have guaranteed it as Is now said. If he did his guaranty was utterly without value. He had no right to do anything of the kind and they must have known It. No doubt the United States will stand by their guaranty In the treaty with Cuba of protection of the personal and property rights "of Americans, but that guaranty waa not nf any right to rebel or secede or turn filibuster Id any shape, and If they have tried to do so they must face the legitimate consequences. It may be that Cuba, and with it the Isle of Pines, will in the fullness of time gravi tate Into this union, but If so the move ment must come from there freely and covering the whole Cuban Jurisdiction, To listen to the proposition in this piecemeal way would be a kind of International petty larctr;". OTHER l-ADS THAN OCR. Lord Charles Btresford, commander of the British Mediterranean squadron, fully realises that good marksmanship Is one of the most essential requisites to naval vic tory. Ha has always exhibited the liveliest Interest In all questions relating to 'gun nery, and he has just created a precedent for the encouragement of gunners. On the centenary of the battle of Trafalgar he held a land .review of 1,000 seamen and marines at Malta. The procession, by his orders, waa led by a company of se lected gunlayers, both seamen and marines; next came a company of engine room ar tificers; then a company of artisans, and then a company of signalmen. Following these four companies marched the four battalions of seamen, stokers and marines. This Is the first time in the history of the British nayy that the gunlayers have been recognized as the most Important body of men In the fleet; and It Is expected that the example set In the Mediterranean will be followed elsewhere. In giving them the post of honor, irrespective of their rank of grade, Lord Beresford furnished an ob ject lesson which is not likely to bo mis understood. Since he has been In command the ship flying his flag has always been at the top of the shooting list, and this year his flagship made a record with twelve-Inch guns which haa never been ap proached by any other British man-of-war. Australian statesmen are Just waking up to the fact that their efforts to exclude undesirable immigrant and protect the home labor market have resulted in stop ping Immigration, of all sorts Into the country. During the ten years 1881-01 Aus tralia received 376, 6f$ Immigrants. In tho nttt decade the newcomers amounted to but 26,615, and during the years 1901-03 the total of new cltltens thus gained was 66. During 1903 and 1904 the country actually lost nearly ,00u more citizens by emigration than it gained by Immigration. Canada received In the sartle two years some J60.000 new settlers, nearly 100,000 of whom came from the United Kingdom. The Austral ian .federal premier, Mr. Deakln, has taken up the question and promises a complete overhauling of the Land department and a drastic revision of the land acts. Model farms have been established, and he hopes to throw open to new settlers many of the fertile areas locked up by the government through unnecessary restrictions. Having triumphed over Russia and forced It to abandon Manchuria, Japan Is 'now taking lime by the forelock to carry out Its poorly concealed plans for tho abso lute absorption of the Hermit Kingdom, According to a Seoul dispatch, Marquis Ito is now there to unfold Japan's plans to the Corean emperor. The report assumes that a Japanese protectorate will at once be established over tho country; but there is little room for doubt that it will he established In a form which will be equiva lent to annexation, for the protectorate is to be backed by an army of occupation and the Immediate assumption of naval control of Chemulpo, the Corean capital's port of entry. The Corean emperor Is said to have anticipated Japan's intentions by sending secret agents to the United States and to the European courts to enlist their Inter vention. The mission Is sure to fall, for the United States has no interest in the preservation of Corean independence, and, with Great Britain, it is practically pledged to give Japan a free hand, while the Euro pean powers are too much engrossed at present with their domestic affairs to In terfere. According to a Japanese gentleman, bis countrymen are at present suffering from an " absolute mental famine. " They are rapidly learning English and other for eign languages, but have almost no good foreign books In the country. Their own modern literature may be described as stlmewhat resembling the French novels that farm the staple of the foreign liter ature as yet in circulation. Mr. Takakusu, professor of Sanscrit at the University of Toklo and director of the College of For eign languages, who was chiefly Instru mental in securing the late Max Muller s large library for Japan, desires to estab lish a lending and clrculat'ing foreign li brary In Toklo, and sends a plea to Eng land for "tho books that you have read." A committee In London, Including among others the master of the Temple, the edi tor of the Contemporary Review, Mrs. Max Muller and a mfember of the Japanese lega tion, haa taken tho matter up and already sent off to Japan 1,250 volumes. A request from the JaDanese oromoters of the scheme, which will flatter some people and amuse others, accompanies that for book namely, that the donors will also send photograph with their name and ad dresses. These will ultimately be formed Into albums at the library in Toklo and be kept on exhibition, Tflnnwav and Aldwvch. the thorough fare recently opened In London by King Edward, cost over Jt.gi,ow, ana is par ticularly Interesting because of Us sub surface construction, say the Engineering Record. The complete avenue is inree- quarter of a mile long and 100 feet wide except for a short distance, where ipe width Is reduced to eighty feet. The road way is sixty feet wide and ha a double trark electric railway under it center and a pipe gallery and sewer under each side. Each sidewalk is twenty feet wide anu under a part of It are the house vaults, connected with the pipe gallery by con duits at frequent Intervals. Property worth 100.000 for taxation purposes was con demned for this work. In the construction It was necessary to excavate 300,000 cubic yard of material and gJ.OOO cubic yards of concrete. OXi.OOO brick. 1,000.000 wood pav ing blocks, 13,000 square yard of asphalt, 1,600 tons of granite, 16.000 'ton of cement. 9i0'1O ton of gravel, J.OOO ton of teel and 1,300 ton of cast Iron were employed. Pabllcltr that Failed. Springfield Republican. A certain railroad publicity bureau, lo cated In Chicago, and with branch offices throughout the middle west, whose mis sion has been to spread the propaganda against President Roosevelt' rate regu lation program, has been closed by those who chartered H. It Is even claimed that the maintenance of this bureau cost th different roads assessed nearly fOOO.OOO. The crisis came mhen a Western newspa per, who editor had been offered re muneration If he would print a editorial the matter sent out by th bureau, col-' lected evidence agalnat th person who made th offer, and used th whol front page of hi paper in exposing th man and the scheme. When copies of that exposure reached the railroad president they de cided that the venture was a losing one, and closed the bureau. This Is a belated and forced evidence of returning good sense. Such bureau are still active In th east, and they ar doing more than any other one thing to discredit the cause of the railroad with the newspaper and the people. San Francisco Chronicle. Another gentleman of an Inventive turn of mind ha discovered the secret of perpetual motion and has found men of wealth to back him with large sums of money. He may hav devised some method of producing power cheaply, hut the as sociation of th term "perpetual motion" with what he has done anggests th ad vent at another Keeley mutur man. For E A few small biscuits easily made with Royal Baking Powder. Make them small as small round as a napkin ring. Mix and bake just before the meal. Serve hot. ' Nothing better for a light dessert than these little hot biscuits with butter and honey, marmalade or jam. You must use Itoyal Baking Ppwder to get them right. ROYAL SAKINQ POWDER CO., NE YORK POLITICAL DRIFT. The late defunct In Philadelphia threaUn to upset the band wagon In their haste to get. A patriotic ifflceholtler In Kansas ha gone Into court to establish his right to a salary of tl a year. Havlng Just pulled off a scrap for state offices, Boston now lines tip for a municipal row to keep Its hands In. Tls an ill wind that blows nobody good, The republicans of Cincinnati saved the office of overseer of the poor from the wreck. Mayor McClellan swear that he didn't j spend a cent for camnaiim menses. T-tn i got a mighty hot run for the money drawn - . ' from other pockets. The coming man for democratic leader in New York state is former Congressman Burton Harrison. He' is young, attractive and a smooth public orator. Merely to prove that "an honest ballot and a fair count ' means just what the words imply, Philadelphia has sent three j crooked election officers to the penitentiary, A parody of a popular song entitled "Everybody Work, but Mother" defeated a republican county officeholder in Penn- sylvania who had provided place for his family. They say In Kentucky that the day of Senator Blackburn' political career are numbered very short, now that the elec- tion show him to be without adequate sup port in the legislature for re-election to the senate. Jude Pay nter, his rival, claims D, . . .. . 81 out of 110 democratic votes. oays me new ioik tivening ivonu: "Suppose the chief evangel of Mr. Hearst campaign were known to have bet booked for $38,000 at odds which would have netted him 1240.000 had his emnlover won. would It hava the effect of Increasing tho pitch of his cry for a, recount of the mayoralty bal- lotr Governor Pennypacker haa called the Pennsylvania legislature together for the purpose of effecting some reform decreed at the ballot box. Last winter when this same body was in session it was necessary to telegraph to an absent leader in Florida w prevent ma pa.BBUsn ui n uijihiaiuuh win. . uiii. lied. ber Word came back and the bill was ki Now some optimists expect the member , will act on their own judgment, as the leaders are too 111 to boss the jobs. BIAHKKTADLIS COR. Great Abundance for Horn) and Foreign Needs. Baltimore American. The November report from the Bureau Statistics, Department of Agriculture, fixe with practical certainty that the corn crop of this year wlil break all previous record both In the largeness of yield and in the general average quality of the grain. Th average quality of a cereal crop Is a matter that 1 not usually given much thought outside tho circle that are directly Inter ested in the marketing of the grains, but quality Is a factor that plays an Immense part In determining th available grain supply of every year. Grain must coma up to. some of the stipulated grades, or else it is not marketable at all, and In some year bad weather conditions reduce the crops of marketable grain. Immensely. Tho general average In corn quality this year la placed at 90.6. a compared with 86.3 last year. 8J.1 In 1903 and 80.7 In 1902. . This, of course, mean that a much greater proportion of the Immense crop of Z.707,93.54O bushel will be marketable than of any other corn crop of recent year. Accepting the government figure a accur ate, the 'crop la on the face of the returns about 260,000,000 buahels larger that the greatest previous yield. Whet In addition to this excess, it is figured that the present year crop Is from i per cent to 10 per cent more available for marketing, the fact must be quickly recognized that during the rext six month thia country will have Come Now Own Up You don't like those gray hairs, do you? And your husband certainly doesn't like them. Then why not try a bottle of Ayer's Hair Vigor? It restores color to gray hair every time, all the deep, rich color of early life. And it cures dandruff also.' The best kind of a testimonial "Sold for over sixty years" Mxl. by th. . o. l,n C... Xwll. Km. Ala HuulHiwfri ef AYZR'C 64R8APA8U.LA Foe tk kloed. ATKR'I riLLS-Var oaUatla. AVeK'(,tUMiV PkCTORAL rwCMfh. ATgg'R AGUBCDKB For Bavlana tadaga. reQLkfe.st Luncheon or Tea j corn to sell, but not, fortunately, as was ' the case some ten or twelve years aco. corn to burn. Four per cent seems Uke-a small Item, but when a 4 per cent Increase In marketable corn Is run through a produc tion of 2,70O,CO0,OTO It amounts to 108.000.tW bushels, and that. It must be conceded, is by no rr.eans a small Item. But, not wit h- standing the immense American crop, and the hlsh average marketable condition, the price of corn remains persistently """d half-dollar mark In the eastern markets, which seems to indicate a most hoPeful combination of circumstance for i llle larmer. I.AVGHISG GAR. I ,r,I , ,. . , . , , Did you say your husband Was out look- ! lng for work?" No. I believe he', not Innlflnv at w.1r There are some men digging a cellar down nt the corner and he doesn't seem able to get any further." Philadelphia Ledger. "What a sensitive, delicate thing she Is'" "Mercy, yes. Why, she can't wcht a sailor hat without getting seasick." Clei'eland Leader. j "That girl has me where she wants me. ' f16 me out and always sees rlmrht of moei,uiinnrt1eXe?n',ah',h';,r,ryd" """" "Say, what are you a telescope ?" Phllu- del p liia- Press. "Why Is that missionary mwklng uch a row? asked the African monarch. ties comnlalnlne." nniMMH ih canni bal chef, "about the manner in which we draw the color line." Washington Star. I Wicks Hear what SnlfTklns did when the j collection plate came around to him In i church last Sunday? HickNo. Dropped a button In. t .. 1 nnse. ' Wicks Not even that. He lenned ever and whispered. "I paid the pastor's fun- mm HitriniriK in ino car. We 11 call It square." Philadelphia Ledger. A "In!!7"an J.ldllJ!r wl,.n n Irishman , S'dTsay hi s wt. said? W Bllow'' , fHi. aa von see thair1 . . "To be sure Ol do." replied Pat. "And where would you be if the lie gallows had its due?" "OTd be riding alone,' adelphlu Ledger. replied Pat. Phll- "I caught that street car conductor who ow .m money on tho car platform last you gpyour money?" I "No, he did the samo thing . debtors do." my other "What's that?" "Put me off. "Cleveland Plain Dealer. The tenderfoot had ascertained the price of a ticket to the east. - "It s too much." ho said. "Ian't there a cslner office near here?" "Ye sir," answered the ticket agent at pory Gulch, pointing to a collection of tepee on the other side of the railway , track. There a scalper over there that of goes by the name of Long Knife. He'll be glad to accommodate you, Here's your cflanae.' HOW TUB ROW BEGAlf. Denver Republican. Hades popped In Cactu Center, when, Jest like sr catapult. The life Insurance question hit us on the 19th ult: It began when Gila Hawkins said Insurance i men was thieves- j Said the hull cadoodle of 'em would stuff ace up their sleeve. Utt wa, took up by Slim Johnson, who', been wrttln' risks in town, before we cleared the barroom there ! BHm Kinto h" offlc"n an' he got , four on the way, 1 " nne Ola una, tralllir arter, few wlth hot" Mlrr' winged a I So we laid siege to the office, an1 punctured Sllm's tous-h hide. An' laid him and Gila Hawkins, with their wounds dressed, side by .Id-., An' old Hawkins got to laughin', lyin' stretched out on the bed. But at laat he cheeked his snicker, An" before hi last breath, said: "I apologize, most humble, Slim, as fur as you're concerned, But I Jest can't help alaughln' at the trick that you have turned; Fer you've dealt your graftin' bosses quit a hard financial blew The Joke Is on you, Johnson I'm Insured with you, you know."
