Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 31, 1906)
THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1!M)6. I: THE OMAHA DAILY BEE E. ROS4WATER. EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION. Daily Bee (Without Sunday), on year ItKlly Bn and Sunday, one year .W Illustrated Bee, one year w Sunday Bee, one year jf-jj baturaay Be, one year DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Ially Bee (Including 8unday per wsk..l7o Dally Bee (without Sunday. per weea.-lUc Kvenlng Bee (without Sunday), per ww c Evening Beo (with Sunday), per wee..lo Sunday Bee, per copy Address complainta of Irregularities In de livery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha The Be Building. Houtn Omaha City Hull Building. Council Bluffs 10 Pearl Street. Chicago lMii Unity Building. New York If Home lilfe ln. Building. Washington-Mil Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communication relating to newt and ed itorial matter should te addressed: Omaha lies. Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or poatul order, payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only I-cent stamp received as payment of mall accounts personal checks, ex-vpt on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. 1 HE BEE PLBE1HH1.NO COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Plate of Nebraska, Douglas County. .: C. C. Rosewater, secretary of Tne Be Publishing company, brio 4ul sworn, says that the actual numbei of "ill and complete copies of The Dallv. Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the montn of December, lfc'j, was as fol lows: 1 31.040 17 ao.ozo 2 , iVJ.T-tO Is Sl.HSO I. :.......kmwo is ai.TTo 4 si, Brio jo aa.aao 6 ai.7M si.. ai.oao HlfHtO 22 3'i.lOO 7 ......... aa.ian 28 :..a-.i.oMo , 31,A4M M ,.3,OBO I a'J.SOO 26 M.7H0 10 .10,130 26.., a'i.210 ji 3 1, mo . sr.. aa,oio 14 31, THO 28 a?,OOU II 8 LOGO 2 81,040 14 31.M0O SO 33.910 15 ai,T30 & 80,100 16 83.T10 Total 9f0,40 Less unsold copies 10,808 Net total sales 971.833 Daily average 81,340 C. C ROSEWATER, Secretary. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 21st day of December, 1906. (Seal) jt. B. H UNGATE, Notary Public. WHEN OUT OF TOWN. Sabaerlbers leaving the city tem porarily should hare The Be mailed to them. Address will be changed as often aa requested. Terhaps it would be more precise to refer to them as the "Fontanelle high binders" instead of as the "Fontanelle Bcalpers." Congressman Townsend approves the Hepburn freight rata bill with almost as much enthusiasm as though It were the ono which bore his signature. A resident of KishlnefiT says the way to settle the problem of the Jew in Russia I for all Jews to leave the country. But where would they go? As an ardent supporter of Judge Par ker for president Jim Hill Las a right to be pessimistic, but he may continue to enjoy his share of the prevailing pros perity. The Iowa idea of holding Insurance investigations Whlnd closed doors may possibly make for better conditions, but It is more probable to result in louder charges of "graft." Now that the two stockgrowers' asso ciations have combined some way should be devised to prevent Bheepmen from committing suicide by "trespassing" upon land claimed by cattlemen. Massachusetts negroes who ask Vir ginia to pass a civil rights law before they will take part in the Jamestown exposition must aim to cut down the attendance from other southern states. Frederick VUl starts out with a bet ter understanding with his subjects than that possessed by his father when be came to the Danish throne, but be will be fortunate If he closes hla reign so uni versally, esteemed as King Christian. That Chicago grain broker who admits 7,1100,0(10 bushels of grain were shipped from his elevators while warehouse re ceipts for the amount were not taken up may occasion demand for an Investi gation to show Just how far the Vvlsible supply" statements represent real gralu. Since a Sioux Indian has filed a vol untary petition in bankruptcy, specula tors on the reservation may be com pelled to adopt more rapid methods of separating the aborigine from his wealth before tho Dakota precedent becomes popular. The fact that one branch of the Stand ard Oil compuuy has decided to quit tho Illinois. Held rather tbau make a fight for the business lu the courts gives ground for suspicion that the lawyers drfpalr of circumventing the Illinois autl-tvust laws. Coventor Magoon of the l'unnina atrip expects to visit Nebraska before his return to the Isthmus Just to keep in touch with bis owu state, A lot of Nebraska patriots willing to serve I'ncle Bum, providing soft berths can be fouud for them, would like to keep In touch with Governor Magoou. : l .. If the puckers' idea that the Depart ment of Justice bhould be kept In the dark by other departments of govern went as to violations of law should be made the rule, criminals would be tempted to outdo each other In their endeavors to confide the story of their crimes to some federal official. The frUate Hoard of Assessment Is en deavoring to formulate rules for the guidance of county assessor that will bring about a uniform assessment on the basis of full cash value. . If the state board would give an object lessou first, by assessing the railroad property up to Its full cash value, the exajnple would dou Mies bar the desired effect. THK IXSVRASrE (WtTESTlOX. Tli convention to bo held In Chicago to consider the question of legislation for the better supervision ami regula tion of the life insurance busluoss should huve important results. The chief ob ject of the convention Is to promote uniform state legislation, bo fur as this may lie practicable, respecting; life In surance. It 1 the very general opinion that there is little probability of any thing being doue by congress, that na tional regulation Is a remote possibility, but It 1 felt that a good deal may be accomplished for the correction of mis management and other defects In the insurance business which have recently been disclosed If the states will Improve their legislation and as far as practica ble adopt a uniform code respecting life Insurance. The matter Is one In which a very large proportion of the people are deeply interested and the time Is opportune for such a movement as will be Inaugu rated by the Insurance convention. Al ready In a number of states the question of changing the Insurance laws, so as to secure more careful supervision and regulation, is receiving earnest consider ation and Improvement In the laws may be confidently expected. The conven tion at Chicago, which will be com? posed of men familiar with the subject ought to exert a great influence in pro moting the needed legislation. . FREE ALCOHOL IX THE ARTS. The dotnand for free alcohol In the arts and Industries of the country Is ugain ttelng urged upon the attention of congress. The house ways and means committee will have hearings on the question. A number of bills relating to the matter have been introduced, but it Is said that none of them Is consid ered satisfactory. Either they provide for tax-free alcohol only in those in dustries which consume the alcohol on the premises in the industrial process in which it is employed, or they provide insufficiently for the control of the al cohol freed from taxation, or they are defective In some other way. It is said that the ways and means committee will undoubtedly report a bill and the out look for such a measure Is thought to be good. The Influences that are working for free alcohol in the arts and industries are represented to bo stronger than ever before. Not only the manufacturers are asking the legislation, but farmers who have learned how greut a variety of their products may be made avail able for the making of alcohol are co operating with those engaged in the arts and Industries. It Is urged that the present tax of 2.07 per gallon on alcohol, which is equal to more than 1,000 er cent of its cost, effectively prevents the use of alcohol Industrially. It Is further argued in support of the legislation asked for that the abolition of tho tax on alcohol which is prac tically made undrlukable would make little difference in the internal revenue, but would result in an enormous stimu lation of new Industries and the cheap ening of many products to the making of which alcohol Is on essential. With the manufacturing and agricultural in terests united lu favor of free alcohol there is strong probability of congress heeding the demand. THE TREATY-MAKISO POWER- It Is somewhat remarkable that at this time there should be any contro versy in regard to the treaty-making power under the constitution, and yet the subject has recently been discussed in the United States senate, in relation to the Santo Domingo treaty. The opin ion has been expressed that in negotiat ing that treaty, without the "advice nd consent of the senate," the president went beyond bis authority. In bis very clear exposition of the constitutional pro vision relating to the negotiation of treaties, Senator Spooner argued that the senate has nothing whatever to do with negotiating treaties, or the conduct of our foreign intercourse and relations, save the exercise of the one constitu tional function of advice and consent which the constitution requires as a precedent condition to the making of a treaty." He pointed out that from the founda tion of the government it has been con ceded in practice and in theory that the constitution vesta the power of negotia tion and the various phases of the con duct of our foreign relations exclusively In the president. He does not exercise that constitutional iower, nor can he be made to do it, under the tutelage or guardianship of the senate or of the house or of the senate and house com bined. In the negotiation of a treaty the president may employ such agencies as he' chooses and neither congress nor the senate has any concern as to whom he chooses, when a - treaty has been negotiated and sent to the senate the Jurisdiction of that body attaches and its power begins. Until then the mut ter Is wholly lu the hands of the ex ecutive. Nor does the power of the president lu regard to treaty-making end here, for even after ratification by the senate he cun put a treaty in bis desk and never let it see the light of day. He may send a treaty to the senate one day and withdraw It the day after. He may negotiate aud sign a proposed treaty and not send it to the senate. "We as the seuate, a part of the treaty making power," said Mr. Spoouer, "have no more right under the constitution to iuvade the prerogative of the president to dual with our foreign relations, to conduct them, to negotiate treaties, and that U not all the conduct of our for eign relations I not limited to the nego tiation of treaties we have uo more light under the constitution to invade that prerogative than he has to invade the prerogative of legislation." There can be no question that these are torrect view of the constitutional power of the president in the negotiation ot treaties. They are warranted by the plain language of th constitution and by practice since the foundation of the government. Whatever may be thought, therefore, regarding the wis dom or expediency of the treaty nego tiated with Rnnto Domingo, unquestion ably the president acted In the matter wlthlu bis constitutional authority, which does not require that be ask the advice and consent of the senate In ad vance of negotiations. Only when the convention was sent to the senate did the Jurisdiction of that lody regarding it begin, and In the exercise of Its right to ratify or reject the senate is as inde pendent of the executive as he is Inde pendent of It In the matter of negotiation. METHODS OF THE SEW MACHINE. Not long ago The Bee characterized the new political machine, now focused In the Fontanelle club, as the same old gang of political renegades and discred ited politicians masquerading as puri fiers and reformers, but with the cov eted spoils aa their paramount Issue. Tho declaration of faith and pledge of support which one of the Fontanelle governors has been presenting for signa ture to aspiring candidates for mu nicipal honors as a prerequisite to con sideration for Fontanelle endorsement lets In new light on the methods of this band of political banditti. This document lays down the doctrine of spoils politics In Its baldest form. No one Is to be given the label of the new machine who does not, (1) Swear loyalty to and active as sistance In maintaining the supremacy of the organization. (2) Enthusiastic support of Its policies as formulated and outlined by the little, executive committee Junta. (3) Transfer lu advance to the Fonta nelle machine all patronage devolving upon the office In case of election. (4) Dive the machine manipulators an exclusive patent right to collect money In the Interest of his candidacy and to spend it or put It into their own pockets as they may see fit The dark lantern ways of the old A. P. A. are not a marker to the iron clad rules of the new Fontanelle ma chine. Tho leaders of the A. P. A. used to sell A. P. A. support at auction to (he highest bidder, but the members occasionally had something to say as to whom they would support and what policies they should pursue. The new machine relieves the members of the Fontanelle club of all necessity of think ing for themselves or of choosing be tween candidates. The executive, com mittee and the governors do all this for them and trade their votes en bloc to the candidate who promises to deliver the biggest consignment of official pa tronage. It will be up to the 'republicans of Omaha who vote at the coming primary to say whether they want to hand the party over bag and baggage to such a bunch of mercenary spollsmongers. The state auditor deserves credit for getting after another end of the sher iff a graft In cutting down on the bills rendered to the state for feeding pris oners after conviction and sentence, previous to incarceration in the peniten tiary and for fake bills for mileage when all the traveling Is done on free passes. It Is notorious that the sheriffs of Douglas county, in particular, have in the past worked this graft to a finish. The law fixes thirty days as the limit when convicts should be taken (to the state prison after sentence, but the sheriff always keeps each prisoner in the county Jail the entire thirty days for the purpose of collecting an exorbi tant board bill for him from the state. The Jall-feeding graft worked on the state would be bigger than the Jall feeding graft worked on the county were not the county prisoners so much more numerous and their terms of Im prisonment on the average louger. It is high time to cut all the graft out of the sheriffs office and confine that offi cial to the salary stipulated by law. Even then there will be no difficulty in securing plenty of well qualified men to serve as sheriff. That great fake reformer, Dr. A. B. Somers, is trying to prevail on tha Omaha Woman's club to help him work out some of his petty revenge upon Governor Mickey for separating him from the State Board of Health and at fthe same time uncoupling the good doc tor's brother-in-law from the comforta ble salary he was drawing as the paid representative of the board. There are doubtless lots of abuses which require the attention of the state health author ities and some against which the club wouien could well co-operate, but these abuses do not seem to have teeu any more sei'louBly molested while Dr. Som ers was on the board. Had he been re appointed and had his brother-in-law been continued on the payroll, it U very doubtful if he would have appeared be fore the women with his tale of woe. Principal Waterhouse of the High school continue to bewail the excessive truancy among the pupils of that Insti tution. It seems to us that there Is something radically wrong on the side of moral instruction in . our public schools if they cannot impress the chil dren that truancy, with its trail of lying and deceit. Is a species of dishonesty as much to be avoided a pilfering aud stealing. Eveu though the parents be delinquent in their share of the disci pline, there i uo reason why the school authorities should also be at fault. The park commissioners are anxious to repress real estate speculation along the routes of proposed boulevards. If the cost of constructing and maintain ing our boulevard were assessed back to the abutting property on the same principle as the cost of paving ordinary streets, the "pedal privilege enjoyed bj lioulevard property over other property would not constitute so great an Incen tive for speculation. A session of the United States fed eral court for the district of Nebraska Is Whig held in Lincoln this week, with only one case on the docket for trial. And yet a bill Is lieing pushed lu con gress to divide Nebraska Into two fed oral court districts and thus provide a second court, with Its permanent seat at the state capital. Our democratic ex -congressman wants all the responsibility of municipal gov ernment centered in the mayor. "Elect a man mayor," he declares publicly, "and Invest him with autocratic power." The only thing lackiug in a recommen dation that our last democratic cou gressman be the first autocrat of the muyor's chair. Contractors express wllllnguesa to bid on canal work only after the gov ernment has ascertained by experience the cost of digging, but by that time the government may conclude to com plete the big ditch without the assistance of the men who are willing to take chances only on a sure thing. Specific for Strikes. Chicago Reeord-Herald., They need no Injunctions In China. Rail way employes at Hankow threatened to strike and tho viceroy announced that every striker would he beheaded. It was not law, but It "went." Khtnlnsjr Kiamples of Harmony. Philadelphia Record. The spectacle of General Frederick Dent Urant standing under the confederate flag and eulogising Robert E. Lee la a demon stration of harmonization that could not have been seen In any other country. One Salary Enough. St. Ixiuls Republic. For the best engineering skill, coupled with high executive ability, the 130,000 a year which Chairman Shonts receives from the government seems not at all too much; but it is not easy to see how he can earn that and at the same time give to other affairs enough of his time to toe worth 112,000 a year which he draws from a rail road. The task at Panama Is great enough to absorb the undivided thought and at tention of the best engineer that can be put In charge of It. MnssllnsT an Editor. Boston Transcript. John Temple Graves, the editor of the At lanta News, who aspires to enter the senate from Georgia, has had a quarrel with his business manager and as a consequence has been enjoined by the superior court from yli. the editorial columns of his paper for the advancement of his candidacy aud for reproducing laudatory comments from other papers, and la not permitted to declare for or agalnBt either one or the other candidate for governor. Abont all there- Is left for hlin to talk about Is negro colonisation and the weather. Joe Wheeler, American. Hartford Courant (Rep.). Forty-odd years ago Joe Wheeler was not liked In these parts. ' When our people came across his name In the dispatches, their eyes did not Mght -tip with kindliness; quite the contrary. Toda'y these old, passionate animosities are aafc forgotten or but hulf rcmembered dream. Tanks and Johnny Rebs, we are all Americans. If the wishes of his countrymen here in the north had availed, Joe Wheeler would still be with us. The sympathy and affection that kept watch at hla bedside were bounded only by the bounds of the undivided and indi visible republic. South and north, east and west are fellow-mourners at his grave. Record Speed of Antomoblles. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. In making a mile In 284 seconds an automobile In the Florida races last week achieved an average speed for the whole distance of 187 feet per second. At this rate a journey from St. Louis to Chicago would take only two hours and a halt, and one between St. Louis and New Tork could easily be completed between breakfast and supper. The latest automobile record has never been equaled by a locomotive, and the swiftest torpedo boat and Lou Dillon are only one-third or one-fourth as fast. The Germans, experimenting with electric power on a straight, specially prepared track, have no proof that they can attain the speed made on the Florida beach by a steam automobile. POWER OP SLACi. Types of Expression Which Tlcltl the Ears of th Multitude. Philadelphia Record. Much of the popularity of Mr. Roosevolt with the "man on the street" Is due to the facility with which he uses his language. The phrase borrowed from the national game by the late Senator Hunna was a potent political warcry because It appealed to the emotions of the vust multitude of men who have at one time or another "stood pat." Not less powerful In Its ap peal to fond memories and a universal emotion Is the president's pet phrase, also borrowed from the card table, of th "square deal." We are a little apt to feel that the language used by Addison and Sheridan and Burke, by Benjamin Franklin and James Russell Lowell, Is "hifalutin;" we do not use it and It falls as coldly on our ears as a . foreign language. But It warms the cockles of our hearts to be ad dressed by great men in the simple tongue In which we communicate with our associ ate In the shop or our neighbor In the trol ley car. When the president of the United States telegraphs to the Rough Rider gov. ernor of Arizona: "Your speech covers tbs ground; you will deliver the goods," we ar conscious of standing on common ground with the great ones of earth, and when ho drops the "Executive Mansion" and sub stitutes ths "White House'" he makes us feel at home with him. General Bingham of the United States engineers recently master of ceremonies at ths Whit House and now commissioner of police in New York, has this easy command of th popular vocabulary. He installed himself In office by swearing by the nine gods of war that the police officers had got to deal with him "on the level," and If the adjuration savor somewhat of the classics, filtered through th "Lays of Ancient Roma," th concluding phrase. In its sim ple, homely language, went straight to the heart of every man on the force, and every man off It, also. The other day he had a captain on trial before him and th ac cused was represented by counsel. When th learned ex-judge began to read a legal authority Commissioner Bingham admon ished him to "cut that out." The former occupant of the bench replied with great dignity: "I have conducted many import ant cases and have just held on of th most Important" but th commissioner in terrupted with th terse and forceful re tort: "Oh, rats!" ' Th commissioner's vocabulary would not have been mor succinct and vigorous had he been a Rough Rider. H possesses one of the most Important elements of popularity. ROl NO ABOI T SEW YORK. Ripples a the t nrrent ot l ife la tho Metropolis. Considerable anxiety nils the editorial sanctum ot cinch publications in New York aa a result of the showing In court of the methods of the publishers of Town Topics. It Is well understood by people out for the stuff that "little old New York" is over crowded with "easy marks," and that a commonplace artist can convert gold bricks Into cash there much more readily than in so-called "provlnilal communities." The trial proved that "easy marks" were Just as numerous in high circles and gave up with greater liberality than the less eminent gudgeon, demonstrating that there Is a soft spot In the average mortal which responds to the right touch. Within two months a dosen publications of the clubbing order hav been put out cf business and others are on th brink. Two vampire sheets calling them selves financial papers, two society papers, one sandbagging political enterprise and one representing itself as an organ for newspaper writers have all fallen before the white light of publicity. They were all alike In the main point- They used print era Ink for blackmailing purposes. Th basis of operations la that every man ha one or two chapter In his life that h would prefer to keep from the public. They rrtay not be. and probably ar not. crim inal; they may not b even shameful; but. so the blackmailer reckons, they are such that th man would give up money rather than to see them published. Confronted with such a proposition, the person black mailed has his choice of two courses. He may put his neck In the yok of black mall and enter upon the thorny path which leads to misery and Ignoble servi tude; or ho may call up the district at torney on the telephone and so Invoke the aid of the law. Of the hundreds of liersons approached during the past few years only two had the nerve to come out In the open. The rest paid up. Some of the prominent members of New York' "400" are not to be Invited to the ball which is to be held at the historic old Astor house. New York, some time in April, thus setting a new precedent in metropolitan social circles. This Is the sec- ond hard blow that Gotham society has received this season, Mrs. John Jacob Astor some time ago having reduced the social scale to seventy-nine. This time the mer cury of social supremacy will fall even lower, for but few members of the recog nised leaders of society will be Invited ,' to this ball on affair that will be the j greatest and most fashionable of It kind In th history of New York. The ball room of th Astor house, which is now used aa a dining room, has an Interesting history. It was there that Prince de Joln ville of the court of France was entertained about the year 1840, or shortly after the house was built. Other noted people of this and other countries have also helped to make the place famous. In a desperate fight with a bulldog John L,, a black cat. wrecked the Keystone restaurant In One Hundred and Twenty fifth street, between Park and Madison avenues, smashing stacks of dishes and routing score of patrons. Two men were bitten. Walter Robinson, a prleflghtor, known In the ring as "Spike" Robinson, owns the res taurant, and there were several pugilists present when the ftght took place. The troublo started when "Dick" Lauer saun tered In the place, with a vicious looking bulldog. - John L., the cat, was asleep In the kitchen, when Lauer and the dog entered and the dog oon made a dash in thut di rection. Lauer was just finishing a tale of the prowess of tho dog when there wan a crash in the kitchen and the dog ap peared, with the cat, furred for action. In hot pursuit. Dishes that were nicely stacked on the luncheon bar struck tho floor with a crash; coffee urns, glasses and pitchers were smashed to fragments. Robinson quickly pictured himself a bank rupt and he implored Lauer to get the dog out of the place. The dog finally sprang on the bar, spilling a plate of soup over two men and bringing down another pile of crockery. Robinson made a kick at the cat as it jumped from the bar after the dog, but in stead of landing on the cat Robinson' foot hit the dog. The animal sank its teeth In Robinson's leg and only let go when John ! tt bouncod on its head. Another man was bitten and then everyone rushod for the street. Seeing the way clear the dog also dashed out and John L. was left alone in th wreckage. If plans of the Ftlcde Globe Tower com pany are carried out Coney Island Will soon present to th world Its crowning wonder in I the shape of an amusement tower 700 feet nign, to contain at various aiuiuues ruui garden, hippodrome, dance hall, revolving cafe, observatory, palm garden and other amusement feature hundreds of feat in th air. It Is to be located in Surf avenue and is expected to be ready for the public in 1907. It will hav a diameter of 100 feet and con tain 500.000 square feet of floor apace. Th hippodrome will be SM feet above th ground, th cafe and dance hall too feet, th palm garden 400 feet and so on until th ob servatory and wireless telegraph station are reached, nearly an eighth of a mile above the noisy throng In Coney's thoroughfare. It will be the tallest and largest struotur of its kind ever erected and will be the first object seen by ocean traveler aa they ap proach New York. Ten of the largest elec tric elevators In th world will be built to lift and lower the crowds and It 1 estimated that the tower will hav a capacity for all the people who ar likely to visit it. The cost will be about 11.000.000. Ten cents is to be the admission fee and It Is calculated that the earning capacity ot the enterprise will be 11 .SCI, 000 each season, while the operating expenses are figured out at only $ao,70. In the top of the structure are to be a government weather bureau and the largest searchlights in the world. On floor, several hundred feet above terra firiua, will be devoted to a roller skating rink and music will be heard in all of the principal places of amusement. The entire structure Is to b festooned with electric lights. With all the marks of a full-blooded Sioux John Howard, 20 years old, an Indian, ap pealed to I'nlted States Commissioner LInsly Row In Jersey City Friday for as sistance In returning to the Pin Ridge agency In South Dakota. Howard is tall and straight, with the copper-colored skin and straight, coarse black hair of an aborigine. He said he came east with the "Young Buffalo" theatrical company, which recen'ly played In Jersey City. Under his Indian nam of Starlight he did "a dance and walk around" on the stage, he said. The mana ger was too strict to suit him. Th rule which he thought particularly hard was that h should speak to no one In English, which he speaks correctly. He could never find a way to get money enouah to go back home while he was with the company. So In Jersey City h got a Job taking cars of a horse, but he has not succeeded In getting any money ahead for a start for th wst. Praetlr Koorfcs Theory. Baltimore American. Just after young Mr. Rockefeller ha been telUng hi Sunday school class that a 11 is never justifiable, th Standard Oil has been caught In one. This Is very sad and Indicates that Mr. Rockefeller' activity as a moral agent Is entirely too restricted In the narrow confines uf a Sundav tw! Does your baking: powder contain alum ? Look upon the label. Use only a powder whose label shows it to be made with cream of tartar. NOTE Safety lies in buying only the Royal Baking Powder, which is the best cream of tartar baking powder that can be had STATE PRESS COMMENT. Springfield Monitor: Since giving up their passes four months ago tho state officials have paid out about t$X for railroad fare. They probably don't do the traveling they did on free transporatlon. Springfield Monitor: The Independent telephone men are In Lincoln this week talking shop and buckling on their armor to tackle the next legislature for access to Omaha without having to go through the city council, which would be a very ex pensive method. North riatte Tribune: Two pledges that should be required of the successful candi date for United States senator ar that h will stand pat with President Roosevelt in the demand for a "square deal" for th people and that he will favor a constitu tions! amendment providing for the election of Fnlted States senators by a direct vote of the peenle. Norfolk Press: The next republican atat convention will settle whether republican supremacy Is to continue In Nebraska. The party is now enjoying a partial divorce from the railroads. The next convention will de termine whether the separation Is to be a permanent one or not. If the divorce is made complete, the ticket nominated will he elected, and IT the pledges made to the people are kept the state will con tinue to go republican. If, on the other hand, the convention is subservient to the railroads, defeat will follow, and It will be n long time before the republicans win another victory In this state. Friend Telegraph: The times In which any man should be supported for the legis lature or soma state office solely on the statement that he Is a good fellow are past and gone. These good fellows usually have their pockets stuffed with railroad passe. They are the good fellow which have been picked out by the corporations to do their bidding In every instance. How many of thes good fellows has Baline county sent- to the legislature during the past thirty years, and how many of them have voted with the corporations In every Instance where the interests of these cor porations come In conflict with those of the people who supported them as good fel lows? St. Paul Republican: After a few mor boys have been hung for murder, perhaps the great reading public will realise the enormity of-the offense committed by "yel low Journals" which popularize such crimes by methods used in the case of the Chicago car barn bandits, and which ar now being repeated upon th quartet of young des peradoes who killed a saloonkeeper in Omaha the other night. Not until the peo ple have emphatically Indicated their dis approval ot such a policy by withholding their patronage will a reform be inaug urated. The old-fashioned dime novel never Inspired half as many crimes as the sensational sheets of these latter days, which, under the guise of legitimate news, print the pictures of the accused together with a lot of silly gush which Is calculated to make seml-heroea or, at least, martyrs, of them. PERSONAL. NOTES. The longest tunnel in the world Is open. It is twelve and one-quarter mile long, and the first train through the Slmplon made th Journey in thirty-fire minutes. Eight revolvers were picked up on the battleground where rival Chinese societies of New York had been having an argument. The Chinaman is always serious In his debates. Unprecedented cold In the city of Mexloo and summer heat In th towns of th Do minion of Canada. Nature seems to hav turned her steam heat in this direction to the neglect Of generally favored locali ties. Mm. Melba possesses such a retentive memory that ah can learn an entire opera In a week. 8h doe much of her studying In bed, where she Is far from noise, but th airs are chiefly mastered while she is walk ing or driving. It Is Jacob Rlls, the sociologist, who tells a "meanest man" story of the veteran bookkeeper, who, on the completion of a quarter of a century of faithful service, received from his employer a bulky sealed envelope, wbtch, on opening, was found to contain the photograph of his employer. A he looked at It In silence, the banker No Secrets To Hide We have nothing to conceal; no secrets to hide! We publish the formulas of all our medicines. You will find these in Ayer's Almanac lor 1906; or write us and we will send them to you. Then show the formulas to your doctor, and ask him what he thinks of them. If he says they are good medicines, then use them. If he has anything better, then use his. Get well as soon as you can, that's the point! asked: "Well, George, what do you think of It?" With trembling voice th old book keeper replied: "It Is just Ilk you, sir." I Richard Croker' heart, like Colonel Tell of Yellvllle, still beats warmly for hi na tive land, as he refused to renounce his American citizenship and stand for Parlia ment from an Irish constituency. Lieutenant Brugere, eon of General Bru gere, commander-in-chief of the Frenoh army, having accepted the Invitation x- . tended to him by the American authorities to attend the Infantry and cavalry school at Fort Leavenworth, Kaa., has been or dered to the United States. Through the death several days ago of Rev. Sir George Croxton Shlffiier, rector of Hamsey, Sussex, England, another titled American woman Is added to th peerage. Captain Shlffner, who succeeds to hi fath er' baronetcy, married in 1M4 Elsie, a daughter of Ogden Barrows of Nswport, ! Yosahuro V. Suglta of Toklo, ha been given th chair of language and literature of Japan at th University of Notre Dam. He Is th son of a wealthy Japanese coal merchant. He is 30 years old, speaks and writes English fluently, Is a brilliant French conversationalist, and In bearing Is studious and thoughtful. I.MOIIING REMARKS. "A little knowledge Is a dangerous thing," said the man who quotes. "Yes," answered Menator Sorghum, "espe cially when It's something that a queer publisher happens to know about you." Washington Star. "Do you really believe, doctor, that smok ing tends to shorten one's days?" "It all depends." "Depends upon what?" "Well, If you've been accustomed to smoking and suddenly stop it will make the days seem horribly long." Philadelphia Press. "If you are going to remain In public life you must do something to attract at tention." . "If I don't attract attention I don't get re-elected and if I do attract attention It's 10 to 1 I'll he Investigated, so what'm I goln' to do?" Houston Post. . "I am here to press my suit," began the young man. "Why, didn't the man you hired it of. attend to that?" asked the girl. This comment seemed to him brutal, and so changed the trend of his thoughts that there was nothing doing. Philadelphia Ledger. "You ask twice ss much as we usually pay for a testimonial for our remedy," said, the advertising agent of the patent medi cine company. "It's worth twice as much," responded tho other man. "All my life I have been know nas a total abstainer." Chicago Tribune. ( Tho Judge But, If you tooted your horn, how Is it that the plaintiff did not hear you in time to get out of the way? Th Defendant I am convinced, your honor, that the accldt-nt was due entirely to the Inferior velocity of sound. Brooklyn Life. "There!" said Mrs. Lushman, "I just saw Mr. Tipple staggering Into his house with his head cut and his clothes covered with mud. That's the result of too much ll-.uor." "No, my dear," replied Lushman, "It's the result of not enough liquor. If he'd had more they'd hav had to sand him home safely in a cab." Philadelphia Press. LAST IXSl'RAXCB LEAF, ' v Indianapolis News. ' - ' I saw him once befor " . In the easy days of yoro Would you think - . That In those times he was great Ere put by the hand of fata) On tho blink? They say that In his print Ere Investigation time Called him down. Not a chestlrr man was found , , By the riier on his round Through the town. Rut now he wslks the streets, And be looks at all he meets Sad and wan; And he shakes Ms worried head That It seems an if he said; "They ar on!" Now he's not so long on tin. For his graft hut worn thin From the gaff; And when he la on trie rack. And his memory shows a lack. They just laugh. People merely sit and grin At his former game of skin While he there. Rut lis little family gam And the profits of the same? Gone, for fair! . j.s 3. 0. Ar Co., Lewall, Mas. J