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THE ON.AIIA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, DECEMBER .9, 11)05. 10 The Omaiia Daily Dee. K. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERT MORNINO. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Pally Bee (without Sunday), one jrear.TV SO Iallr Bee and Sunday, one far ( 00 Illustrated Be, on year IM Sunday Bee, one year J W Saturday Hoe, one year 1M DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Dally Be (Including Sunday), per week. .170 Dally Bee (without Sunday), per week..l2e Kvenlng Bee (without Sunday), per week (.c Kvenlng Bee (with Sunday), per week...l! Sunday Bee, per copy Address complaints of Irregularities In de livery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha The "See ' Building. South Omaha City Hall Building. ('ounell Bluffs 10 Pearl Street. Chicago 1640 Unity Building. New York 1W0 Home Ufe Ins. Building. , Washington fiOl Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. , Communications relating to news and ed itorial matter .should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. ... . REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only 2-cent stamps received as 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: C. C. Rosewater, secretary of The Bee Publishing Compsny. being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and rnmplete copies of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of November, 1906, was as fol low: 1. aiJioo It 81.880 17 31.TT0 18.. 8S.BAO If 30,860 20 81.800 21 SlOO 21 81,480 M 82.8RO 24 31,8.10 JS 88.400 H 2W.0S0 27 81,600 28 '. 81.880 29 81.B40 0 81,080 : si.iio 3 81.14ft 4 81.TKO s sm.sro 8 ao.ono 7 8K.1SO S 34.610 8tJtOO in 8i,ow 11 Rl.AMI 12 SO.BKO 11 81.200 14 1USO 15 81,480 Total 94,o Lass unsold copies 10,312 Net total sales nan,2-lH Dally averag 81.SWT C. C. ROSEWATER, Secretary. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 1st day of December. 1906. (Seal) M. B. HUNQATE, NoUry Public. WHEN OUT OF TOWN, labeerlbera leaving- the clty'teaa porarllr should bate The Bee mailed to them. It la better than a dally letter from home. Ad dress will be chanced aa often as reacsted. - When It conies to luck the lion, r, Crowe can claim to be strictly In It The county Jail graft should turn over a new leaf without waiting for the New Yenr'g bells. Andrew Carnegie has the advantage of being able to sec both sides of the Immigration question. There is no question, however, that rollceman Jackson was actually puuc tured by a bullet fired from some one's, revolver. Senator Burton of Kausas way not regret being stricken from seuate com mittees so long as he is not stricken from the payroll. When the governors of Ak-Sar-Bcn meet again they will have a right tq repeat what the governor of North Caro lina said to the governor of South Caro Una. With Porto lllco asking for a duty on coffee and the Philippines asking for free trade In sugar the lnsulars will have to "get together'' or let the white roan's breakfast, alone. Omaha already knows that 1005 will bo slated as Its record-breaker, but that is no reason why there should be any let-up In Omaha's campaign of push, energy and enterprise. In refusing to receive from the United States the cost of discovering the body of John Paul Jones Ambassador Porter again makes it Impossible to prove that republics are not ungrateful. It Is possible that people paying high prices for call money think the business interests of the country are suffering, hut Secretary Shaw has developed the Missouri quality that has to be shown. When any dally newspaper published iu Lincoln opposes au extra session of the legislature, ;uo matter for what pur pose, )t la a safe wager that some cor porate interest la behind the objection. Russian revolutionists are said to be attacking the credit of the nation, but (hey can never be accused Of doing their worst In this 'direction until they emu late Nebraska railroads and refuse to puytbelr taxes. And now we are told that there is hardly an act of the last Nebraska legis lature that will staud the test of tbo courts. Hardly as lwl as that. The iKKlge primary election law has run the gauntlet successfully. Death sometimes travels too slowly. Had it arrived two years ago the trans gression of Senator Mitchell would have' been burled and his name remem bered -with respect In the state which he helped to develop. With Senator Millard at the head of the Panama cauul committee and Gov ernor t'hurlea E. Magoon as chief execu tive of Panama, there Is fair prospect that Nebraska will secure its full quota in the membership of Uncle Sam's Isth mian canal brigade. There was a manifest reasonable doubt in the minds of the Jury that tried Pat Crowe as to whether he fired the shot that wonuded Officer Jackson, hut there la bo reasonable doubt about the part he played In the Cudahy klduaplng rase. For all that, it will be very dim vult to convince the next Jury. CLOSER TRADE COXXECTlOltS. Among the significant auggeotlons of the president's message is the following: "Having in view even larger considera tions of policy than those of a purely economic nature, It would, In my Judg ment, be well to endeavor to bring about closer commercial connections with the other peoples of this continent." It Is a not unreasonable inference that In this Mr. Roosevelt had Canada particularly in mind, since the question of closer trade relations with that country has long been a matter of serious considera tion, especially In New England and a part of the northwest, and cannot have failed to receive the attention of the president. If this Inference to correct, tie con clusion must be that the president Is fa vorable to steps being taken with a view to the negotiation of an agreement with the Dominion government for closer trade relations and is prepared to approve any action which congress might take In this direction. It is a po sition which certainly was not expected, the very general opinion being that the administration was not. in sympathy with the reciprocity demand respecting Canada and would under no circum stances favor this government taking the initiative in behalf of reciprocity. Evidently very strong influences have been exerted with Mr. Roosevelt to in duce him to adopt this attitude, which Is not In accord with the general repub lican sentiment. The "larger considers (Jons of policy than those of a purely economic nature" obviously refer to the more friendly re lations reasonably expected to result from closer trade relations. There Is no question, of course, as to the potency of commerce In promoting, international amity, but nations, and especially this nation, cannot, afford, to. makany. great sacrifices in order to secure such friend ship. So far as Canada is concerned she does not want a reciprocity arrangement with the United States except at a ma terial sacrifice on the part of this coun try. A reciprocity treaty which would be acceptable to Canada would give her natural products free access to our mar kets, but would give no advantage, to our manufactures in her markets. She would continue to protect her own man ufactures and to maintain the preferen tial tariff In favor of those of England. Thus American agricultural producers would be subjected to .a more or less damaging Canadian competition, with out any compensating benefit or advan tage to American manufacturers. Canada is not seeking reciprocity with" the United States. . Only the farmers of Ontario are In favor of It and their In fluence la not very great. The far more influential manufacturers do not want reciprocity, but are seeking A larger measure of protection. It Is not likely that the president's suggestion In regard to this matter will receive - serious con sideratloir In congress. . . OOVERJSOR MICKEY. AUD .THE POLICE BOARD, The only excuse for clothing the gov ernor with the power to appoint boards of fire and police- commissioners for cities of the metropolitan class was to exercise the police powers "of the state more efficiently for the enforcement of law and order than would be possible where the police force is subject to local political influence In the discbarge of its duties. The object of the law that con fers upon the governor-appointed police commission the powers to license, super vise and control the liquor traffic within the city was chiefly designed to divorce the city council from saloon politics and place the responsibility for the surveil lance of saloons with the same authority that supervises the police. . In exercising the power of appointing police commissions the governor natur ally becomes responsible for the conduct of his appointees and the discharge of their official functions and the policy they pursue as an excise board, Just us ho la held responsible for the manage ment of state institutions. The gov ernor, for example, appoints the warden and ' deputy wardens of the peniten tiaries and the superintendents of state reformatories for Incorrigible boys and glils. ne is Justly held responsible by the people for the good or bad conduct of bla appointees and the treatment of convicts or refractory minors In those institutions. Governor Mickey's attitude In connec tion with the Omaha police commission, namely, that any policy It may see fit to pursue In the supervision of the liquor traffic has his. approval is contrary to the intent of the law and in subversion of good government. " '- Governor Mickey labors under the de lusion that his relation to the police com mission differs in no respect with his relation to the sheriff of Douglas county and the mayor of Omaha who are charged with the maintenance of law and order under the statutes aui city charter. ifoth or . uieo officers are elected by the people and their removal fan be only by inipeaehhieut or Indict ment. The governor cannot even sub Ieud them for misdemeanors or failure to perform their official duties, whereas the police commission are his creature, subject to his direction and removable by ltlni for neglect of duty, or willful disregard of the laws. It is the plain duty of the governor to instruct the polb-e commlssloo as to the policy they are to pursue with regard to the licensing of saloons iu conjuuctirhi With or iu proximity to disorderly re sorts. It 1 bis duty to Instruct the po lice board to divorce the liquor traffic from Indecency by refusing licenses to all saloons deicndeut for their patronage upon habitual outlawsi That duty he cannot shirk by expressing confidence In the integrity and Judgment of his commission. The position Uken by the majority of the commission' that resorts patronized by footpads, . toughs and degraded women must! be maintained in order to satlRfy the wants of the people who fre quent the proscribed district Is an insult to common Intelligence. The assertion of the commission that saloons patron ized by the vilest and most vicious class of men and women of all colors niut be maintained In the proscriled district for the benefit of the colored people of Omaha Is an indictment of the better element of that race. The law-abiding people of Omaha want the liquor traffic divorced from criminal vice. In other words, they draw the line between orderly and decent sa loons and resorts that live entirely upon the patronage of the outlaw classes. The policy of the police commission lias been to license promiscuously tough Joints and criminal resorts that have figured in the police court year in and year out. It remains for Governor Mickey to order a reversal of this policy. A GOOD EXAMPLE. The management of the Pennsylvania railroad has decided to issue no more passes after the first of next year. The whole system is to be abolished and the general wipe-out is to include every one except employes of the road. An official Of the road Is quoted as saying that the Issuing of passes has been so much abused that the advisability" of abolish ing the whole business has been under consideration for several yeors and ho expressed the opinion that the position taken by the company will have Its ef fect on other railroads and that It will not be long until others take the same action. He stated that political and so cial considerations are not to count, the decision applying to all legislative, con gressional and Judicial passes In fact, every sort of free transportation, no matter for what punose, and no matter who la Involved. The action is final and all-embracing and there will be no ex ceptions. It Is a good example and It Is not to be doubted that the Tenusylvania com pany v.will faithfully adhere to its ac tion. Unquestionably It will,' find it profitable to do so, besides being; relieved of a great deal of annoyance from pass seekers. That other roads will follow can be safely assumed. FUR JAPANESE EXCLUSION. The California senators and repre sentatives have agreed on, a bill provid ing for the exclusion of Japanese and Coreaus from the United States. It is proposed by the measure to extend to those people all of the laws now in force In the United States and its territories excluding Chinese laborers. The state ment Is made that there are 00,000 Jap, anese in caurornia ana nearly jtxuxiu in the entire country. Also that during the last year more than 8,000 Japanese came here from the Hawaiian Islands. It Is the understanding that the gov ernment of Japan is hot averse to an arrangement foj,the exclusion of Japa nese laborers tQva this country, but it can be confidently -predicted that It would not tamely submit to having the merchants, travelers and 'students of Japan subjected to such treatment ns those classes from- China have had to submit to up to the time that President Roosevelt directed the immigration au thorities to modify their methods in re gard to Chinese coming to the United States. Japan will have use for all her working people and undoubtedly will earnestly endeavor to keep them at borne, so that perhaps she will uot ob ject to any legislation by this country that will aid her In doing this. But it is sa(e to say she will demand for those of her people who are not laborers equality of ' treatment with like classes from other countries. An this demand will not be disregarded, for we cannot well afford .to make an Issue over this matter with Japan at the risk of impairing the frlendlyelatlons with that nation. It turns out that Superintendent Mc Brlen, who Is making such a fuss about contributing to party campaign funds, really paid in only $'0 Instead of $100 on the $200 which was apportioned as his share when he himself was a candi date on the ticket last year. The thing for Mr. McBrieu to do Is to pay up his own obligations before assunilng to re lieve his appointees of theirs. Andrew Carnegie's head Is level on the Immigration problem when he declares that the prime test that we should exact from immigrants is, "Has a man the ambition to enjoy the rights of American cittcensUlp? lias he Uie habit of so briety and frugality to save the sum necessary for him to rench this port and is he skillful enough to earn that sur plus r The iwwera of Edrope need not be surprised If the "sop thrown to the van ity of the sultan" ln the modification of the Macedonian demands returns as an obstacle when the representative of Turkey holds the balance of power be tween the conflicting Interests of the other nations in the board of control. Now that the government is endeavor ing to arrange the grazing on forest re serves to the satisfaction of stockmen there may be hope for a satisfactory so lution of the problem of grazing on the prairies, but' piobably not until inter ested parties understand that existing lawa were made to be enforced. Seeossarr Prceantloa. Kansas City Journal. Admiral Togo Is going to bring his fleet and make the 1'i.lted States a social visit. But it Is understood that whatever dental work he may nerd will be- attended to In Japan before starting. hanglasj Inaoarnratloa Data. Boston Transcript. The national committee on the proposed change of date of inauguration day haa derided on the last Thursday In April as preferable to the present date. . The change seems to be Inevitable, and, ss somebody's term must be lengthened that much to effect It, why shouldn't It be made during the present administration when everybody Is so well satisfied with trie chief executive? Seeklna a Milder rili te. Imllannpnlts News. That report that the ctar contemplates leaving home for a spell does not, when everything Is taken Into consideration, seem unreasonable. Looks as If It were going to be a very disagreeable winter In Rus sia. Heeding the Voice of the People. New Tork Tribune. Speaker Cannon's reference. In his speech ccepting the speakership, to the house aa 'the only place where the voice of the j people, without Intervening machinery, may express Itself," was a hit at bossism. or rather at the shade of bossism. But at present the people are expressing their opinions everywhere on ail subjects with out regard to "Intervening machinery." Brilliant Hopes Shadowed. Baltimore American. The report of the expected flight of the ciar'a family from Russia lays sad em phasis on the ending of the brilliant hopes for the ardently desired and long-prayed-for baby heir to the throne. Instead of being born to one of the most powerful S,nd richest crowns of Europe, he seems now destined in the first few months of his life to begin a career of exile and disap pointment. Indeed, the most pathetic fig ure In Russia today is this tiny victim of the Irony of fate. MWhat a Fall. Mr ( onnlrr mn." Philadelphia Record. It was hardly necessary for Senators Piatt and Depew to deny that they have any intention of resigning their seata In congress. But with what a diminution of political power and prestige do the two senators, of the Empire state enter upon the present session! Piatt's loss of Influ ence Is such that It might be quite possible to establish a national as well as Interna tional parcels post In spite of his opposi tion as head of an express company. The experiment Is at least worth an effort. Leap Whea the, Alarm Starts. Chicago Chronicle. The alarm signal of a draught is a sneeze, which Is a spasmodic effort of nature to start up th circulation and re lieve the congestion. A person may be far gone toward contracting a cold before he sneeses, but the moment he gets this warn ing he should change his position, look around for the draught and move out of It or protect himself against It. A draught Is something to be sneesed at and to be avoided. Draughts cause more deaths than war, whiskey, foot ball, consumption and yellow fever put together. TIIK GOVERNMENT I ACTION'. Minneapolis Journal a message, but the Any one may write president gets his printed. Chicago News: Vncle Tim Hill lias only to read-that part of the message dealing with railroads .to feel surer than ever that the nation la going to the bowwows. Chicago Tribune: President Roosevelt thinks a few doses of ''minimum," taken as "maxlniUm," will CUre the rate discrim ination evil. It looks like a good prescrip tion. . Springfield Republican: The moat be coming feature of theVopenlng of congress was that there were no flowers. Congress has its weaknesses and limitations, but It la not a funeral, ' ' Philadelphia Record: Not less than S00 bills were Introduced In. congress on the first day of the session, and It is probable that few of them will see the light at the last day of the session. Chicago Chronicle: The recommendations of the president's commission with respect to our naturalization laws are deserving of the serious' attention of congress. They seem well calculated to secure a proper discrimination In the making of citizens by adoption and to prevent the operation of naturalization, mills In our large eitles just before the occurrence of Important elec tlons. ....... PROFITS AXD TUB SI ARK DEAL. Why Railroad Managers ghoald Sap port Hate Reatnlatton. Kansas City Star. Railroad men are not essentially differ ent from other classes of business men. At least, moat of them Would prefer to conduot their affairs honestly and abova board if that policy were aa profitable, or believed to be as profitable, aa evading the law in order to "get business." Yet It is surprising how few of the men en gaged ln the railroad business have come out openly ln favor of such laws as would enforce fair play among transportation companies and between these corporations and all the shippers. It Is particularly gratifying, therefore, to note the position of Mr. Walter Chadwlck Noyes, president of the New Ixindon Northern Railroad company, in his book Issued under the title of "American Railroad Rates." The keynote to Mr. Noyes' book Is found In this excerst: "The obligation of the railroads under existing conditions to unite In the move ment for conservative legislation is as clear as the necessity for such legislation. -The railroads should perceive that they are not merely private corporationsthat their In terests are bound up with those of the public. Instead of assailing all propositions of rate regulation, they should Join In an effort to ascertain that which is most judi cious. That railroad official serves the In terests of his stockholders best ln the long run who never fails to appreciate the rights of the people. A contented public along Its lines Is the best asset of a railroad company. The real secret of railway discrimination is the dlstruvt that railroad men have for . - one another. In only one Instance haa there been a public showing of the cost to iho railroads in the rebating system. Wiscon sin, In the course of a general tax investi gation, found that the railroads, in that state alone, and ln a period of a little more than Ave years, paid to favored shippers a naggregate of 47,000,000 In concessions If the average per state was fi.OuO.OOO per year, that would be a total of StS.uiO.OuO p.r year, paid to big shippers alone, ai.d the probabilities are that the total is consider ably In excess of this amount, and this Is only a part of the losses through dis crimination. Railroads favor the bigger shipping .centers. Just as they uo the big shippers. Now all of these concessions are either a dead loss, or the losses are offset by ex cessive charges to small shippers and small communities. It either case the railroads permit themselves to be Instruments of evil when, if they conducted their business on fair competitive lines, they would conserve their own Interest and those of the public at large. Why should the men engaged In the transportation business make them selves the chief rellarx-e tf Insatiate money Bends like Rockefeller, Carnegie Mid Ar mour In their amassment of excessive fortunes and their dangerous concentration of wealth? Every railway official who la honnkt, or who would rather be honest than dishoneat, ought to welcome the enactment of Just rate laws and the Imposition of the severest possible penalties for the violation ot those laws. OTHER LADS TH AM OtHS. The Slavic population of Russia Is divided Into three branches, the great Russian, the little Russian and the white Russian. Of these the great Russian Is by far pre dominant, numbering more than 40.000,000 and occupying the whole valley of the Volga, a large part of the basin of the Don and extending westward to the Dnie per and Dvlna rivers. Tolstoi, with whose picture In peasant costume every one Is familiar. Is both physically and tempera mentally the typical great Russian. With bis stalwart frame, his light brown hair and beard, his mild blue or ,gray eye, broad face and gentle expression and his belted blouse overhanging his trousers, the great Russian meets you everywhere In the Kingdom. Not only In his original home, but in Vladivostok, throughout Siberia and central Asia, on the shores of the Black sea and of the Sea of Azov, he Is sure to greet you with the offer of broad shoulders or of his swift droshky for the transporta tion of your luggage and your person. The little Russian, next In Importance of the Slavic population, aften has dark hair and dark eyes, supposed by some to have come through a slight Intermixture of Tartar blood, but In general his characteristics, are similar to those of bis brothers In great Russia. He Is, however, cleaner In ap pearance add ma.iner of living and his vil lages show signs of greater prosperity. The Cossacks of the Don and the Ural are simply the frontiersmen of Russia, with such modifications aa border life produces In all Classen of people. One aspect of the present widespread agitation of the meat question In Germany deserves more than passing notice. It Is the extent to which Germany In recent UoiL order is evidently Intended to apply Id aena years has. In spite of Its somewhat limited ,.., , ,h. tors and representatives In congress as well area and a naturally poor soil, been able Owing to his advancing ears and the legislature and also to , ., . ,r nitinn with meat dut es of h i position, Senator Depew Is " ln the MX legislature, ana also to to supply Its large population with meat. ' sneeehes Jule and politicians of high and low de While it Is certainly true that the supply obliged to umit ills arter dinner speeches haa been insufficient and has given rise to . t0 ' home- Convention gatherings will also be af- an unmistakable demand for a more lib- The aldermen of Indianapolis have fgctcd. as political clubs will not oe so anx- era! policy In the admission of foreign boosted their salaries om il0 to 1200 a meats, practically an tne came ana nogs used ror meats in uermany are raiscu within the empire. While England, with a meat consumption reckoned at 112 pounds per capita annually, as against ninety-two pounds per capita in Germany, lrrVports about 90 per cent of Its meat supply. Ger many's Importations ln recent years, have been comparatively Insignificant. Thus, with a population of perhaps quite CO.O0O.0O0 : people, the Importation' of live stock for j slaughtering purposes during the first six months of the current year Included IT7.494 cattle, 33,756 hogs and 6M sheep. To the traveler passing through Germany, who rarely sees swine at all and, except In rare cases, never sees live stock of any kind on pasture. It would seem Incredible that such large quantities of cattle( hogs and sheep are produced. The kaiser expects to celebrate his sliver wedding on January 27 next' and It had been the Intention to make the occasion one of great splpndor and festivity. All the sovereigns of Europe were to be In vited to be present at the rejoicings and no effort was to be spared to render the anniversary notable. Suddenly the pro gram has been changed. IntimatlonB have been communicated to the different govern ments of the kaiser's preference for a quiet and unostentatious commemoration of the day. They have been told that it is to be an exclusively private and family af fair, and therefore that no Invitations will be sent to foreign officials or even to the members of reigning families. The kaiser and his relatives are going to have a nice little domestic gathering all by themselves, and what happens at the assemblage wU be nobody's business. There is no secret about the motives which Induced "this change of program. It was allowed to become known several days ago that neither King Edward nor Queen Alexandra had any Idea of attending the silver wedding of their nephew In case they were invited, and It was pretty clearly understood that they would not be so much as represented. All the members of the British royal fam ily were to have some reason for being unable to visit Berlin and Potsdam, and so far as Great Britain was concerned the silver wedding was to bo left severely alone. It was because this abstention would have marred the harmony fJf the rejoicings and Increased a friction between the two coun tries which is already a cause of dis quieting apprehensions that the kaiser has mads the published variation in the pro gram and that he showed his good sense in doing so Is undeniable. Nothing can p more erroneous, says a Sevastopol correspondent, than the Impres sion which is conveyed by picturing the Russian as a "bear," for, really, he la a gentle creature, overflowing with sympathy, and this Is the basis of his most character istic faults. Beggars are everywhere toler ated. They line the approaches to every church and stretch out their appealing hands from every Corner. Nor are they rudely thrust aside by any. Their very numbers Indicate the consideration with which they are treated. The exile, as ne starts for Siberia, Is universally looked upon as morn unfortunate than criminal, and is the recipient of many parting gifts. In Siberia itself the free settler ever leaves some bread and water outside his door that the fugitive from justice may find refreshment In his lonely night marches. It was in obedience to this sentimentality of the people at large that capital punish ment was abolished in Russia 260 years ago. eince that time even the most hardened murderers have never been sentenced to more than twenty years in prison. The few executions which take place ln Russia are under the extreme enforcement ot martial law. , Trie Japanese are making provision against whatever possibilities of danger the coming years may bring by the adoption of a naval program which even a first class European power might hesitate to under take. One of their nv at authoritative news- papers, the JIJI Biilmpo. asserts mat tne Japane.e navy of the future will consist of battleships dirplactng 22.000 tons, with a speed of twenty knots and an armament of fourteen twelve-inch guns, and of cruis ers of 16.000 tons and a twenty-flve-knot speed capacity, but this is an aspiration which there Is no present thought of realiz ing. What the Admiralty has actually pro posed and what Wis Diet is confidently ex pected to sanction Is the building of two is,000-ton battlerhipa and of four 14,0u0-ton cruisers, all of which are to be laid down In Japanese yards. Two battleships having a displacement of 16,400 tons, the Kashlma and Katori, were begun last year and sre now nearlng completion by a British Ann, so that the Japanese are not likely soon to lose the position of a first-class naval power which they won during the late conflict. Oettlnar Wis. , Plttaburg Dispatch. Senator Elkiua has discovered that the president does not wish to vest In the Interstate Commerce commission the arbi trary and uncontrolled power to tlx rates. Everybody else discovered that a lung time ago except the railroads and their re tainers. Greeks Bearing; Girts. Kanaas City Star. A word of caution in regard to the Greeks bearing gifts can certainly be ven tured without Implying th least doubt concerning the sincerity of the erstwhile (allway senators who are lowering their gonfalons to Preslint Roosevelt. When using baking powder it is always econ omy to buy the Royal Royal makes the finest, most wholesome and de licious food. POLITICAL DRIFT. It cost the Philadelphia reform party (125,000 to make that successful campaign. Congressman William R. 8mlth of Texas represents the biggest district In the big gest state as well as the largest family In lh anrM ' .....,.., - " - ' '" I; i - - " "..w The positive assertion that more money was spent to elect Grover Cleveland In ir man any presidential canoiaaie oeiore or since Justifies the suspicion that roon eyed men are "dead easy." John W. Kern, a former democratic can didate for governor, is credited with the statement that In one Indiana county with 4,000 votes there are 3,000 purchasable demo crats and republicans, about equally divided as to numbers. Pennsylvania has a fiscal Income of $24. 000,000 and a cash surplus of $10,000,000. The lawmakers could not dispose of it satisfac torily at the regular session and an extra session had to be called to relieve the state treasury. The prescription Is warranted to reach the F;iot. Philadelphia reformers are not satisfied with throwing the so-called gang out Into a cold world. Indictments have been re turned against five prominent ex-office holders and contractors which are de signed to hold thera for a while and take them In again. Ex-Speaker Klefcr of Ohio, who reap pears in congress after an absence of twenty-five years, finds no one on the democratic side of the house who was there when he presided over It. But on the republican side are five Cannon and Hltt of Illinois, Hepburn of Iowa, and Ketcham and Wadsworth of New York. ABOLITION OK FHHG PASSES. v Pennsylvania Railroad Startles av 'Uoit of Deneflclarles. . Philadelphia Rocord. Perhaps the most crushing blow admini stered ln recent years to the Penrose-Durham- state machine more disastrous. In fact, than the defeat of "Errand Boy'' Plummer lm the atate treasury fight. Is concealed In aa order Issued yesterday from the main office of the Pennsylvania Rail road company. .This order cuts oft all the free transportation that has been such an important, factor ln the work of the state and local political organizations and means that the bosses themselves, as well as their satellites, will in future pay their railroad fares or else refrain from travel. Follow ing Is the official and far-reaching order: In view of the general agitation on the subject of legislation on railroad rates and the abolition of all forms of rebates and concessions It has been decided by the man agement of the Pennsylvania railroad that all forms of tree transportation will be discontinued after the end of the present year." , Officials of the railroad company declined to discuss the order, declaring that It ex plained Itself, but admitted that Its pro visions would be strictly enfdVced and that It had particular reference to transportation courtesies that have heretofore been classed as "Judicial,' "legitimate" and political." As the Penrose organization In ' the state and the Durham-McNIchol gang In the city have both banked heavily on the support and co-operation of the Pennsylvania rail- 1 roadi iong a powerful factor In political affairs, no expert knowledge Is required for a realisation of the sweeping effeot Browning, Ming & Co ORIGINATORS AND SOLE MAKEtS OF HALF SIZES IN CLOTHING. "Fashion." said Beau Brummet, "Is a tiring of the old and a crav ing for ths new." Fifteenth and Douglas Sts. I Broadway at 2n4 Street NEW Coal. Wood. Coke, Kindlinc- W. ..II th. b?t Ohl. grid Colorado Coalo -el.an, hot, lasting: Also tho Illinois, Hanns, Shsrldan, Walnut Block, ttaam Coal, Kto. For g.n.ral purpos.s, uso Chorokso Lump, fS.50 Nut, 98.00 par ton. Missouri Lump, S4.7S) Largo Nut, 94.80 -makes hot, quick fir.! Our hard ooal Is tho 8CHANT0N, tho bast Pennsylvania anthraolts Wo also sail Spadra, tho hardaat, and eloanaat Arkanaao hard ooal All our coal hand seroonod and wslghad ovar any olty aoal.a doslrod. COUTAFJT CL SQUIRES "tf.::".".!" of a curtailment of ths long-enjoyed trans portation graft. For some time the pass svU has been under consideration by the trunk' line offi cials, and yesterday's order was the result. Having boldly taken the lead, the Pennsyl vania railroad officials, while they say no 1 Tnmt I v Q irr.unifint haa hi,ll reached. S vt- Hti einort th their action will bo fol- , - b th ,h commn,)ia ooeraUn wlthln the ...... of Pennsylvania. Ttaa ,n!llBt upon cailh payments tor the transnortatlon furnished and even the In- 1 .-,, rrnwr1. nt Washington and Har- j rlsburr are ,IkeIjp to be materially reduced. No onKer w1, WBrd bosses, councllmen and legislators have annual passes with which to oblige their constituents and help friendly traveling salesmen keep down their expense' account. SAID IX rex. Mrs. IJams How are you getting along with that new kitchen girl of yours? Mrs. rpmore 'Sh! She might hear you. This is her afternoon In. Philadelphia Record-Herald. "Can I smoke here?" Inquired the rude youth who was railing on the Boston girl. "Sir," she replied coldly, "you can smoke here as you may smoke 'hereafter,' but you may not smoke here." Philadelphia Ledger. "Yes, I saw the famous necklace of black pearls." "What did It look like?" "Well, to my mind It resembled nothing so much as a string of shoe buttons." Cleveland Plain Dealer. "I understand your life Insurance com pany regarded you aa an exceptionally good risk." "No," answered the displeased policy holder. "I wasn't any risk. I was a sure thing." Washington Star. Guest (at a house warming party) Thats Congressman Beegum, one of our shrewdest young politicians. You never catch that fellow off his base. He knows what the people think about public ques tions. He always has his ear to th ground. Stranger His ear certainly looks like It. Chicago Tribune. "Yes," said the political boss, "we'll have to give Crookley this nomination.". "But," protested the neophyte, "why not Goodley? He's better able to fill the of fice." 1 "Perhaps, but Crookley Is better able to get It." Philadelphia Cathollo Standard. - f "Tour appalling Ignorance Interests me. For the sake of the experience, I'd give $100 to be as big a fool as you are for flv minutes." "Yes, and the rest of your life you could boast of having had one lucid Interval." Cleveland Leader. THE GOSPEL OF LA Vii HTE WL, . w A. J. Waterhouse In Success. Gospel of laughter, he preached It to tne, Man who once troubled and wearied him self. Keep the world smiling and glad, said he; Mirth is a helpful, benevolent elf. Ha, ha, ha! ha. ha, ha! ho, ho, ho. ho! Never keep worry and bother about; Smile at your trouble. It's likely to go Laughter's spontaneous; tears ara squeezed out. Gospel of laughter: World wants to laugh So said my teacher, and . he ought to o'erfed on adversity's chaff; Wishes its rlsibles given a show. Ha, ha. ha! ha, ha. ha! ho, ho, ho, ho! This Is the creed that sets trouble to rout. Makes us forget the cares that we know Laughter's spontaneous; tears are squeezed out. Gospel of laughter: World has a song; Tune your soul to It, it's easy to catch. Better go cheery and smiling along; Dimples of laughter find thousands to match. Ha. ha, ha! ha, ha, ha! ho, ho, ho, hoi Fling a defiance ha, ha, ha! to doubt; Never give worry ho, ho, ho! a show Laughter's spontaneous; tears art squeezed out. IT LIES CLOSE TO OUR HEART This Overcoat Question. We planned to have the best Overcoats Ln town. We think we have got. them. We have been working out the Over coat problem for a long time. And now we have an Overcoat for every man's form for every man's notion for every man's purse. We've got an Overcoat for you. Costs nothing to look at it, and only a moderate price to wear it. $15.00 AND UP FOR LUXURIOUS OVERCOATS. OMAIIA NED. W YORK rsttsary. Caspsr