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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, FERKUAItt 10, 190G. The Omaha Paily Dee. K. ROSE WATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERT MORNING. TERM8 OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Bee (without Sunday), one ear..tjti0 Dally Bee and Sunday, one year J ' Illustrated Bee. one ear J jj Sunday B. on year Saturdsy Bee, one year 1-w DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Dally Bee (Including Sunday), pT week.. IT: Dsllv Bee (without Sunday), per week..K; Evening Bee (without Sunday), per week Evening Bee twlth Sunday), per t. Siinrisr Bee. per copy .... nc Address complaint of Irregularities In de livery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. fimaha The Bee Building. South Omaha City Hall Building. Council Bluff 10 Pearl Street. Chicago 1640 Unity Building. New York l.V Home Life In. Building-. Waahlngtnn 601 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. CnmmurriVatlnna relating to new and ed itorial matter should be addressed : Omaha Bee. Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit hy draft.-expres or potal order payable to The Bee Publishing Company, only t-cent stamp received as payment of mall account. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. THH BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss.: C. C. RoSewster. secretary of The Bee Publishing company, being duly eworn. says that the actual numlr of full and complete copies of The Dally. Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of January, ISO, wn as followa: i. itaMiivo 17.. .......... ai,o i B1ATO 18... .i 31.7TO -1 Sl.TMt 1 B1.450 4.. 3I.TTO 30 8a.sno 81,M30 21 3O.10O IBMWM E 1,W T SO.10O LS 31,M 1 31.T.K) :'4 31.470 t 81.44MO SS 3t,5TO 10 2,0K SI 81.410 H BI.IVRO 27 SS.MO ii. ; si,iw at n,o 11 32,4441 aiJIBtt 14 StO.HMI 30 B1.BHO 15 31.MTO 81 31.BBO IS 31.TTO Total i,ooa,4fn Less unsold. copies ll,oa Net total sales tMKI.eB'J Dally averogo., 841,014 C. C. ROSE WATER. i Secretary. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me thia 31st day of January, im. (Seal) M. P.. HUNGATE. Notary Public. WHK OtT OF TOWS. aharlber leavta- the pity tem porarily should have The Bee nailed e thenn ' Address ' trill ' be I'kasKfa as often as requested. . . . Is 11 ic re any neetl of Interstate rail way rcptiliitlini? Ask the Omaha Ciraln exchange. ' ' Friends of J.Iui. l)ublinan arc udvertls liifc him its "a nian of gast-lroa nerve." Some others think so, too. hi the first round In Iowa a ''stauil liatter" defeated a "tariff-ripper.'' Sec it tnry Slia w. Ih Hlill on the niitp. The only penalty Inflicted on rat Crone tvas when he was summarily cut off from slinking lmhds with the jury after Uie verdict was rendered. '' If It la true that the democrats have agreed on Jim Dahliuan and none other t run for mayor, why go through the cimtly farce of a nomination primary? x II. Clay IMcrce has offennl to testify In the Missouri oil ' hearing;, showing that at least one man In the alleged "trust" lias some respect for public opinion. With mail trains running so fast that letters cannot he distributed letween stations it would appear that trans continental railway time Is approaching its limit. . ' The yellow Journals blame the travesty of Justice in the Crowe case on every thing but themselves, but the general public traces the yellow Juries to the yellow Journals. Irish home rulers who are making public Premier Campbell Batuierman's record ou Irish politics may find that the personal and official desires of the premier are things apart. Omaha's clearing Louse exhibit for the past week, with 24 per cent Increase over the corresponding period last win ter, Indicates that Omaha's commercial growth is by leaps and bounds. Kansas has sued the state treasurer on his bond for a 10,000 shortage. As there are 305 bondsmen to divide the loss among them, Kansas may ite more fortunate than Nebraska in making the suit stick. Suppose any of the Fontanel! candi dates should not accord fully with that postprandial platform adopted after tb fact? Would the governors he able to pry them loose and scratch their uaraes off the slate? Only two weeks more for aspiring pa. trtots to offer their services as couucll men to ths city by filing for he coming primaries. If It were yet two mouths we might have the entire population en rolled on the official ballot. Omaha goes steadily forward as a grain market. Omaha Is the natural dis trlbuting point for the richest grain and wheat Huntry in the world, and noth ing can prevent it from becoming one of the greatest grain markets In the world. According td the World Herald, the eotnptrollershlp and building inspector ship are conceded to Ixbeck and Wlth nell, respectively, on account of the ex ceptional records they have made during the past terms. That depends entirely iiKin the point of view. The county Jail feeding graft at 35 ents per day for each person is the same graft. In smaller degree, as at 45 cents a day for each person. Prisoners In the city Juil are being boarded at 1(1 cents a day, and there is no excuse nor reason for such disparity between the two boarding houses. T A RIFF WAR MAY RE AVERTED. There appears to lie still a possibility that the threatened tariff War between tJermany ami the I'nlted states may lie averted. A recent rojtort from Berlin stated that an arrangement, for a-pro visional tariff with this country was practically assure and that It would tie valid for ne year niwl provide for the treatment of American iniKrt accord ing to the regulations Of the draft of the new tierman tariff, while the t'nlted States will grant Oenuan Imports cer tain facilities in the matter of custom house formalities. . There has been no official continuation of this, but .there is said to Ik a feeling in Washington, in both executive and congressional circles, that this will be the outcome. It is stated that those who are in close touch with the Oernlan situation con tinue to give this as their opinion. There Is some surprise expressed for the reason that no official disposition, to offer important concessions to (ternntny bis jet lieen Indicated. Only ten days remain before the new tariff goes luto effect, so that If any urrangemeut Is to be made there is no time to lose. In order to avert tariff war the Reichstag would have to au thorize the government to nrrange tariff relations with the United States for a specific limited period, which would tie short enough to preserve Its provisional character and long enough to negotiate a real treaty of commerce. Whether or not the Reichstag is disposed to do this there is no information at hand upon which to base an opinion, but there Is good reason to believe that the German government is really anxious to avoid a tariff war and will accept reasonable concessions In order to do so. A tariff war would not only result lu compelling the German people to pay more for their foodstuffs, but. In the event of congress adopting retaliatory legislation, by imposing ou German manufactures duties 25 per cent higher than the pres ent rates, the Germans would lose al most the whole of their' export trade to this country. Of course the United States would also lose trade, but hardly to the extent that ' Germany' would. However, a tariff war would be exceed ingly unfortunate for both countries, not alone from the commercial wint of vltjw, but as well because of the effect It would almost certainly have upon the existing friendly relations between the two countries. It is very much to be hoped that a satisfactory arrange ment will be reached. FOR VXIFORM DIVORCE LAWS. " The convention to be held In Wash ington city to consider the subject of uniform divorce laws will be composed of delegates from all the states but two or three. Some of the staterepresenta tlves are men prominent In ecclesiasti cal circles and there are others who are widely kuown from having taken an active part in the movement for uni form divorce laws. It. is therefore to be expected that the deliberations of the convention or conference will be of a very interesting character and that Its conclusions will exert a considerable in? fluence. It Is said that President Roose velt takes a good deal of interest in the matter and while he will not actively participate in the convention he will be consulted and may have a hand In draft ing the divorce law to be presented to the legislative bodies of, the different states. .That the question is important will be very generally admitted. The facility with which divorce can lie obtained tn some of the states is a reproach and the consequent multiplicity of divorces is re garded by many as a stigma upon our people and a grave danger to society. It would lie, anticipating too much to look to this conference to cure all the Ills which have arisen under the present unsatisfactory conditions, but It, is not too much to expect great progress toward reform. Since there cannot be a national divorce law without on amendment to the constitution giving congress authority to enact such a law, and there Is no probability of this being done, an earnest effort should be made to secure uniform state laws regarding divorce, based upon, sound principles that will safeguard the marriage rela tion by making it very difficult to dis solve it. To bring about such a ref ormation Is the object of the, conference and there Is reason to believe that it will give a decided1 Impetus to the movement In this direction. .4 REFORM LEGISLATURE. When the Pennsylvania legislature was called In extra session last month to consider certain reforms urgently de manded by the people it was not gen erally expected to accomplish much. It had shown no dlosltlon at the regular session to Institute reforms and it was reasonably apprehended that the same men would show no change at the spe cial session. The results, however, again demonstrate the potency of the popular voice. The Philadelphia Press says that no session of the Pennsylvania legisla ture ever did so much for the people in so short a rime, and the Record remarks that a great stride forward has been made In sulwtituting self rule for tioss rule In the state. It points out that provision has beeu made for clarifying and purifying the primary action of parties, for purging. Hie body of the electorate, for eliminating fraud at the ballot tox. and for preventing the Illicit use of money In jHilitlcs. What the legislature did ' is thus summed up: The authority and reou slbllity of the chief magistrate of Phila delphia have lieen restored: tle way has lvn opcjml for Greater Pittsburg: the state treasury Wilnuccs have Is? n safe guarded: a uniform primary electiou system and personal registration have been provided: the tee system lu state offices has been alnjlished; the Phlla delphia civil service is put under the merit system; the corrupt use of money in politics Is made more dangerous and pernicious activity prohibited under proper penalties. These are reforms which cannot fail to prove of gTent benefit. They restore to the hands of the people complete control of public affairs. Rarely has there been a more striking illustration of the force of pul llc opinion. It Is another assurance that whenever the s?ople In any part of this country earnestly demand reforms In polllicnt conditions and methods of ad ministration they will obtain them. .4 TRAVESTV OX JUSTH E. The acquittal of Pnt Crowe ou the charge of highway l-obln-ry In the fa mous Gudahy kidnaping case is a trav esty on justice and a reflect ion upon the moral Integrity, of every man and woman In Ouinha. The testimony In the case left not even the remotest shadow of a doubt of Pat Crowe's par ticipation In the heinous crime with which he was charged, and while there may have been some technical flaw lu the statutes relating to the particular crime with which Crowe was charged, which might have afforded a pretext for a disagreement ns to the law, there was absolutely no excuse or palliation for h verdict of acquittal. Up to the time of the trial some doubt existed in the minds of many people, not only abroad, but even here lu Omaha, as to the various stories that had teen set afloat about the kidnaping of young Cudahy, particularly as regards the pay ment of $5,000 for his ransom, but the story related under oath on the witness stand by Edward Cudahy, the Identifica tion of Crowe by several credible wit nesses as the chief actor In the das tardly plot and the introduction of Crowe's confession In his own hand writing over his own name should have removed the last vestige of doubt from the minds of any Juryman who might have been inclined to give the benefit of the doubt to the accused. How It was possible to get twelve men to concur in a declaration of "not guilly" passes comprehension. TAKIXO CARE OF ITS PEOPLE. The Italian government will estab lish in New York a labor exchange for the benefit of Its people who come to this country. It is pointed out that at present the condition of the Italian im migrants is not wholly satisfactory. They have a strong Inclination to gather in colonies in large cities. Under the padrone system, which is still in opera tion, large numbers are sent to work for big contractors. Few settle in the agricultural districts and efforts to in duce them to go into the southern states, where there is a demand for their labor, have not been very successful. The purpose in establishing a labor exchange is to remedy these conditions. It will keep In touch with employers of labor in the west and south and send Italians to them. It will see that the workmen receive good treatment and fair wages. Agents will" go among the immigrants, both at the home' ports and in New York, directing them to avoid the padrones and apply to the exchange for work. There can be no doubt that this plan will result beneficially to the Immigrants from Italy, many of whom under existing conditions are vlctlrarzed by the padrones and are otherwise Im posed upon by tbelr own countrymen here. It will Insure their better dis tribution and be helpful In other re spects. It Is a practical plan and may be adopted by some other countries after its advantages have been demon strated. The Bee finds t has made a mistake and cheerfully prints the subjoined cor rection. We recently likened the meet ing of stockmen that condemned this paper for its attitude toward the lnnd fencers to the three tailors of Tooley street, whereas, we are now informed that there were four of them. Our correspondent also denies that the senti ments ascribed to him are expressions of his own but rather in quotations of what others had told him. Here Is his letter In full: MULLEN. Neb.. Feb. . To the Editor of The Boe: In your letter of February ( declining to publish an article sent you by myself, you make a direct misstate ment, which as long as It was only a private letter I concluded to overlook. In The Bee of February 15 you publish the same. If you will dig up my letter you will find I did not 'express" myself as you state, but directly the opposite. Your letter also implies I had accused you of making misstatementa In regard to thia country. This I also deny. If you are willing to correct misstate nients, as you say you are, here Is a good place to show It. In your Tooley street slap at the stock men of Hjoker county you are off again -there was four of them. W. K. BOWER 8. George II. Maxwell, head of the so called International Irrigation league, maintained, operated and sultsldlxed hy sundry and various land grant railroads, declares that 1 lie pending statehood bill contains the biggest land steal of any measure he ever saw. He refers to the grants made to the new slates for edu cational purpose, public buildings, state reformatories, etc. Possibly the great Irrigationist had in bis mind's eye some scheme to annex these lauds to the rail way land grant domain, but inasmuch as the new states are, like all other TraiiMutsHourl states, predestined to ls railroad provinces for many years to come, the patron of high finance Irriga tion need not tie seriously alarmed. The stiH-k of the railroads oerating In these states will lie Irrigated iu Wall street Just the same. i I the new consular bill Is actually signed Nebraskaus will never admit that Church Howe's mascot lias failed him. Premising Te Mack. Washington Post. Senator Islge proves that snilioad rates are lower In this country than in countries where the rales are controlled by the gov- I eminent. That kind of argument Is lia ble to make the railroads want government control. at Hta Style. Chicago News. President Roosevelt's announcement that he has not backed down on the railway rate proposition was superfluous. He Is a poor hand at hacking down. The Simple l ife. Chicago Record -Hera Id. When one chooses the simple life for himself, It may or may not be cheap; but the Omaha school trustee who recommends It to the teachers forgets that no manner of life that Is forced on one can ever be felt as simple. I'rraohea Mis tlws Sermon. Philadelphia Press. There Is something exceedingly pathetic In the fate of Mr. McCall. the late presi dent of the New York' Life Insurance company. As he lies at the point of death It Is Impossible not to feci the touch of sympathy, and It Is at the same time Im possible not to recognise the admonition. The swift fatality preaches Its own sermon. llnntlna- for naer Meat. Minneapolis Journal. Divine Right Haer, having learned that the Pennsylvania legislature was about to order an investigation of the ownership of coal mines by the Reading system, issued a statement accusing the members of Ig norance of the constitution and general cussedness In doubting his eminent au thority In the matter of fixing the price of coal. It set-tn that the legislature waa premature In asserting Its ambition to run the state of Pennsylvania. Mr. Baer has not resigned. l oose Talk of Army Officers. San Francisco Chronicle. There Is a good deal of loose talk In dulged In by army officers respecting the attitude of the United States toward China, but Its sincerity may well be called Inta question. It Is absurd for any one to urge that It Is our duty to preserve order lu China, or to interfere In any manner with the political concerns of the Chinese. Those who do so are not thinking of American interests; they have nothing else in mind than the possibility of personal advancement at the expense of the people of the United States. I'nele Sam's Strong Boa. San Francisco Chronicle. The colossal holdings of Uncle Sam's strong box excite the Interest and per haps the envy of the rest of the world. Never before was there so great a quantity of the precious metals gathered in one place, and subject to a single control, as there Is now iu the treasury at Washing ton, which now holds the enormous sum of 11,287,064.032 in gold and silver coin and bul lion. It Is lucky for modern, civilisation that there are no outlying barbarians ready to be tempted by the possibility of capturing this vast hoard. Inconsistent Critics. Brooklyn Eagle. The Impossibility of making others think the same as we do is illustrated by cur rent American criticisms of the Spaniards for liking bull fights. . The Spaniards can not understand why. many Americans and Englishmen like prise fights, and why many more of them like foot ball. The attempt to strain one nation through the sensibili ties of another can never be checked. It Is part of the Indestructible desire to mind other people's business, and of that form of egotism which regards the prescription of our taste to others as an exercise of missionary activity. ', Crrattan of Wealth. New York World. All the gold produced from all the mines of the Transvaal last", year amounted to only llOt.oOO.OOO In value. Ita production cost the lives of kafflrs and coolies, to gether with the loss of parliamentary seats and much political chicanery In Eng land. In New York two men by a private agree ment for the merger of city traction Inter ests added $108,000,000 to the face value of the certificates of wealth In which Wall street duals. In the transaction not a life waa lost or a widow left to mourn, though In the morality involved the honors are perhaps easy. How simple and effective the American process by comparison with the ruder methods of the Rand! "Water Is best," said Pindar. Its usefulness in the creation of fictitious wealth is unexcelled. Massachusetts Takes a Fall. Springfield Republican. Judge Orosscup -of the United States cir cuit court repeated In an address on cor poration reform a day or two ago what he has previously said regarding the loose ness of corporation charter laws as found In New Jersey and some other states: "Actually, five men can sit around a table, put 11 in the center, organise a cor poration calling for a million dollars worth of capital, re-pocket the dollar and go home after sending a certificate ef Incor poration to the secretary of the state with a $1,000,000 enterprise ready to launch." Such a state, he added, puts its seal upon a concern that lies the moment it leaves the stste secretary' office, but while he Included New Jersey and most other states' In this Indictment he made an ex ception of Massachusetts. Why Massa chusetts? The Judge evidently is thinking Of this state as It was before the enact ment of the business corporation law of J903. which lowered the commonwealth to the New Jersey level. It Is now possible to incorporate a wind-bag In Massachu setts as In New Jersey. COVER MUST" POSTAL LOSS. I ncle Sain Sinks Money, Other atluna Make a ProSt. Cincinnati Enquirer. According to the International post bu reau, taking all the postofnees of the world, the I'nlted States shows the l' avlest uss from the management of Its postal af fairs, and Great Britain the largest profits. Nineteen hundred and three la the last year for which figures for comparison are available, and for that year we ran behind I4.JC9.000. while Ureat Britain showed a net profit of 2J,0n0,0CO, and Russia. Ger many and France each about 114.000,000. Due to the large and rapid Increase of rural delivery since 9n3 our deficit has grown to at least three times whst It was then, and there are other reasons for our unfavorable showing, the principal ones being the larger compensation we pay em ployes and the extensive areas we have to cover which are thinly populated. The highest paid postmaster In England re ceives about tfi.OflO a year, clerks from tJua to 11,800, carriers In the larger cities $400, and in the smaller onea and rural car riers from PfiO to 76. British postage. Is cheaper than ours. For t cents letters weighing up to four ounces ore carried, with 1 cent additional for each two addi tional sullies and every registered news paper goes for I cent, regardless of weight. Anything mailable Is carried by parcel post for ( cents a pound and cents for each additional pound up to eleven, which Is the limit. Anything ran he registered for 4 rents, and the government Insures regis tered matter up to fcS In value (or that sum. By paying i cents for each addi tional C0 lu value Insurance up to fluO may be had. Newapapera nuy be for warded without additional pustxge. which la not the case with us. and postal orders cost S rents for IS vrdvrs. SKVITOR I.OD4.R OTNAPS HIMSF.I.r. America a and tiermta freight Rates Springfield (Msss.) Republican. Transportation conditions as between Eu ropean and American railroad are so dif ferent In many particular that compari son of superficial facts and conclusions therefrom are to be made with great cau tion. If, for example, the average freight rate on the Ocrman state roads Is double that of the United States roads, nothing Is necessarily proved thereby either against government rate fixing on a uniform prln clple or for the present American policy of letting the roads make what rates they please and build up what a spokesman for the roads lias described as a "heleroge neous mass of discriminations." Nevertheless Senator Lodge, In his note worthy speech of Monday, does nuvke such a comparison of surface facts and doe draw rather sweeping conclusions there from In favor of a let-alone policy In the United States. He presents a table which shows among other thing that the aver age American freight rate Is 0.7H cents per ton per utile, while the average German rate Is 1.22 cents. And the Senator proceeds to say: "This table shows, what I hav already stated, that our railroad freight rates are the lowest In existence. The, fact that rates are lower here than In any other country and that, as the table shows, they have steadily declined, taken lu conjunction with the very moderate returns on the cap ital invested In railroad property, Is proof sufficient that there can be but little suf fering fionf excessive rates and that when rates have been excessive they cannot have been of long continuance except under very pculiar conditions. It may, I think, be safely asserted that If there was no griev ance to be dealt with except excessive rates there would be no need of any legis lation whatver." It shduld be remarked In passing that if American rates on the average are not excessive, it by no means follows that they are reasonable and Just In all particulars, or do not stand in need of readjustments under the direction of the public authority. They may be unfairly low In some cases, and unjustly high in others, and such Is unquestionably the fact, and warrant ac cordingly exists for public intervention. But Mr. Lodge still appeals to the fact that the German average la much higher than the American rate. It Is somewhat unfortunate for him that on the very day of delivering his speech the American papers should have published a cabled sum mary of the findings of two Prussian state commissioners sent lo the United States In 1!4 to study American railroads. Their report says that while nominally the aver age Prussian freight rate Is 1.3 cents, against 0.78 cents for the United States, the actual comparison. If conditions were equal ised, would be a United Slates average of 1.44 cents per ton per mile, against O.X cents for Prussia. They explain this con clusion by saying that the American roads Include freight carried for themselves, which is not the case In Prussia; that the American statistics exclude high-class goods carried at high rates by the express com panies, which Is not the case in Prussia, and that the American roads receive large sums for carrying the mails and the Prus sian roads next to nothing. It should further be added If evidence presented at the American house committee hearings on the subject Is to be relied upon that the European rates Include costs of dray&ge of goods to and from stations, which is not the case in the United States. And again it la to be considered that Ger man railroad traffic, as in the cage of other European railroads, consists largely of high-class local tonnage, contrasting with the fact that much of the traffic of American roads is of low-class, bulky ar ticles hauled over lung distances at low cost. No one reading Mr. Lodge's speech will accuse him of unfairness, but a com prehensive view of the problem would have compelled a note of this point particularly and included a reference to the fact that railroads situated as is the New Haven company, which have a comparatively large short-distance traffic In high-class good, corresponding more nearly to European conditions, show an average freight rate much higher that of the New Haven com pany in 1304 being 1.41' cents per ton mile, compared with the Prussian rate of l.H cents. If express and drayage charges were Included In the New Haven's exhibit, far more unfavorable of course would be the comparison with Prussia. Mr. Lodge makes a comparison with Eu rope based on deceptive data, and con cludes therefrom that the policy of public control or rates is unfavorable for the people, and that they are better off with out it. If that conclusion properly follows from the facts as he gives them, then Just as forcibly it is proved by the true facia that public control of rates Is desirable from the standpoint of the people. PRINTERS' 1K IV CHI A. Publicity as a speelflc for the Ilia ef the Empire. Philadelphia Press. The shadow -of coming event point toward China. The significant incidents of the last six months In that unwieldy empire are reminders served upon clvillxu. tlon that Instead of breaking up China Is waking up. A portentous restlessness Is seething In the vast maxs of Its hundreds of millions of population. Most of China's latest troubles may lie broadly diagnosed as growing pains. It Is developing something akin to a national consciousness. A sort of patriotism which Is as likely to make itself felt hy antl forelfrn outrages aa in any other manner la being evinced in remotely separated portions of the empire. The day for wise counsels has come, and here is how the editor of the South China Daily Journal litters them: "A good newspaper Is worth many gun boats at the present time. Good news papers, free and untrammeled. can do much for China. They stand with one hand upon the pulse of the people at home and the other upon the puis,- of foreign sentiment with regard to China. Publicity is the enemy of deception, false hood and knavery, and the friend of virtue and truth. And so we see that lu thoae countries where the ruler are fattening at the expense of the people It has been a settled policy to gag the press, and by this means to screen from the people the light of truth, which I un attribute of their growth." v The likelihood of China' ever running amuck, which as a possibility is exceed ingly remote, would lie removed from the field of consideration If this editor's level headed advice could be followed. A good newspaper Is more effective than an army corps as a civillzer. It the Chinaman give attendance to reading and he will died bis fanaticism in short order. The men who at this Juncture give to China the newspapers it needs will deserve to go down In Its history not only as patriots, but also as friends of civilisation. Mar's Horrors Shadow Peace. Philadelphia Record. Peace cum none too soon for either bel ligerent. The Japanese famine has become so severe that the president has invited Americans to extend relief. Russia has not asked for foreign assistance, but there was a crop failure In several provinces and the harvest was hardly over when Russian papers declared that famine was stalking through the land. Delicate Children The children cannot possibly have good health unless the bowels arc in proper condition. A sluggish liver gives a coated tongue, bad breath, con stipated bowels. Correct all these by giving small doses of Ayer's Pills. Genuine liver pills, gently laxative. We have no secrets We publish the formulas of all our medicines, Maa lave I. O. Ays C Lswsll, Mesa. . ais HuiAmnn sf ATBI't IA1 Tltm-Vsr tke hair. ATBK'aCkmrrPKCTOSAL-yereeagU. A TIB'S BAMAPAJULLA-rw tks Meet. ATsa'S AflUB CDTLg frr malaria esc agw. POLITICAL POUTERS. Bancroft Blade: Senator Millard ha had his ear to the ground, but he ie so far from the people that he failed to hear the rumbling until It was everlastingly too late. Tekamah Journal: It begins to have the appearance that the editor of The Omaha Bee I not at all unfavorable to the Idea of the senatorial toga being again dropped upon the shoulders of an Oniaha cltlxen provided that gentleman be himself. And the state could fare much worse. Albion News: The supreme court having decided that all our anti-trust laws arc constitutional and enforclble, we hope to see the lumber, coal, Insurance and other combination brought to time. Attorney General Brown Is not going to have much time to run for United State senator dur ing the next few months. Fremont Herald:' A dumocratlc victory In Omaha In May would practically assure a democratic victory In the state In No vember. The democracy of Omnha has a magnificent opportunity to win a better place In the opinion of the democracy of the state. That better place can be won by making a mayor out of Jim Dahlinan and by taking all the Omaha offices out of the hands of the old machine. If Omaha democrat will do this the next democratic state convention will accord to the dele gation from Douglas a better welcome than It has known In a dozen years. Wayne Herald: The Herald does not want Nebraska's next United States Sena tor to be the pliant tool of any man, men or corporations, neither does It want him to be a crank, an antl, one of those extremists who can ee no good In or ganised capital or men pulling together for legitimate accomplishments. It wants him to be a big. brainy fellow, broad in his views and full to the chin of pure Americanism, one with the capacity to see things in the broad light of common sense and with the manliness lo stand pat against extremists or wrong doers, ho matter who they are. Aurora Republican: The Republican be lieves with other of Its contemporaries that if Norri Brown and Peter Mortensen desire to be considered as candidates for the offices for which they have been men tioned they should get out from under cover and say o. We are In hearty ac cord with the policy of permitting the office to seek the man, but when the man Is found he ought to be prompt to say whether he I agreeable or not. If Messrs. Brown and Mortensen would announc Hielr candidacy for the office of United State senator and governor and launch a bold and aggressive campaign at this time they would stand in a much better light with the people and the political at mosphere might be wonderfully clarified. Aurora Republican: Nebraska demo crats are dlscusir.g the feasibility of nom inating a candidate for United States sen ator In state convention. The nomination of 'Senator Burkett by that method proved so successful and so satlafac.tory to the people generally that the democrat. In keeping with their practice of emulation of things republican, are seriously consider ing trying the method. The nomination of a United States senator by the conven tion method is a long step In the direc tion of purification In politics and Is far ahead of the legislative method which long go received the seal of popular dlsap- provsl. Until the election of senators by direct vote of the people is made the method by law or common consent, the convention method will suffice as the next best plan. Fremont Tribune: In the face of Benu- tor Millard's recent assurances that he is an administration pet and that he will be found supporting administration measures It develops that hi successor on the com mute on interstate commerce. Mr. Crane of Massachusetts, is lining up against the sdmlnistratlon. Senator Millard has als assured us that lie got off of that com mittee so as to get on the committee on public lands and buildings. Ierause the people of NeniasKS were reu-nm i.i federal bulldlnss. In other worn, tne sen ator could have remained on the commerce committee had he wanted to do o. hut he chose to get off because the railroads wanted him to do, that. He put In a part of the summer on the commerce commit tee hearing evidence, but quit before he wa ready to use It. York Times: The Omaha Examiner nomi nate Hon. John I Webster for the United States senate. John L. Webster i such good senatorial timber that the people alwsya feel safe with him in reserve for any emergency thut may arise. It Is unl- ersally agreed that he possesses the quall-H flcatlons and It has been so agreed for twenty-five years. There is no fault with Mr. Webster, but be ha a misfortune. He appears cold and distant. The "boys- call him an aristocrat. He Is plebeian enough In sentiment and feeling and In action as well, but he does not look It. He is an honest man. a brainy man and a scholar. He Is likewise a statesman of no mean attainments. He would be a credit to Massachusetts in the United State sen ate, and had he resided in that state might have teullsed his ambition long ago. Web ster never received many vote for senator. Coal. Wood. Coke, Kindling. uu. .n th k. Ohla and Colorado CmIi -cltin. hot. lasting: . .. mi. a1 Manna. Sheridan. For gnral purp)... ua. Ch.rok.. Lump, fS.BO; Nut, fS.OO p.r ton Missouri Lump, $4.78; Largo Nut, S4.S0-makoo a hot, quick fir. Our hard coal lath. SCRANTON, tha boat Pennsylvania anthraolta Wo alao ooll Spadra, tho hard. at and oloanoat Arkanaaa ' hard ooal All our ooal hand ooroonod and wolghod ovor any city ooaloc d.alr.d COUTANT a SQUIRES "".""."i," but there were always a lot of members of the legislature who were admirers ef him and who would willingly have voted for him had not some other and warmer candi date stepped between them. Everbody feels that Nebraska would lie well represent el were he in the senate. PKRSOVAL VOTES. James Henry Hnilth of New York has given $500,000 to St. Luke's hospital. Chi cago, as a building fund. The hospital Is one of the leading institutions of Its kind. - The notion that the Japs learn, and keep on learning. Is confirmed by the recent appearance In the Island kingdom of a Beer trust, formed from three fcrewery companies the Nippon, the Sapporo and the Osaka. General Bell, ex-xdjulaut general of Col orado, who was with Roosevelt's Rough Riders in Cuba, Is alKiut to go on the stage. In a melodrama. He will wear the ll.txni uniform which he liad made when adjutant general of his state. 8enutor W. A. Clark has loaned to tin Corcoran gallery. Washington, fifty-six ex traoidlnarily interesting and . valuuble paintings from his private collection which have been congregated in a single room and formed into a special exhibit. A Maine paper recently attributed to Gen eral Miles the familiar saying that the only good Indian is a dead Indian. (Tenors I Miles, who knows Indisns better. than most people who speak ill of fheni, promptly wrote that he was "never the author of any such Inhuman, brutal and truthless statement." Dr. D mglas Hyde, the Garlic revivalist, is scheduled for a dozen lectures ami speeches. In colleges snd in public, ou the. Pacific coast. Ills Itinerary embraces San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley. SacrameiiJo, San Jose and Los Angeles, the date f,r the last named city being March 11, Hit delivered three lectures 'n the- University t of California last week and a public ,-ad, dress in San Francisco yesterday. POIVTRD Pl.F.AS AM HIF.S. Diamonds hud Just gone up again. Sill! the household did not despair. "Perhaps these liarons don't know." he reflected, "that coal Is carhon. too." Phil adelphia ledger. decent restaurant in this village? Native Urchin Yes'r. an' they re wantln' a waiter, too. You're Jlst In time fur the Job." Chicago Tribune. Mr. Rnrem Could I see Miss Pilihs? Maid Faix! That's what she waa won derin as ye come acrost the street. Mr. Borem Ah! then she's In. Maid Yes, but she's not at home. Cleveland Leader. Jack (during their quarrel! Now. let me explain. May I want to say something first. Jack Ail right. I'm all ear. May 1 know It. No doubt tint's why your parents called you "Jack." Phila delphia Press. "Been living in the same house twenty- , four years, have you?" . "Substantially the same. Of course we've had to enlarge the attic two or' three times to accommodate the worn out fur niture and the old books and magazine, but that's almut alt the changea we have made." Chicago Tribune.. "When we first got married my wir and I quarreled for a year about whether we should buy an automobile or a horse and buggy." "Una ,1,I vnil settle it?" "We compromised on a. baby carriage." - Philadelphia Press SI MKT V THE BKSICIt VATIOI. Denver Republican. ', Red glows the sun on the smoke- browned top of the teepee. ' Cold Is the plain Id the dying light of day ; Fsint comes the Vail of the pappnose. III and sleepy. r And weary are the feet that seek the white man's way. .- ; Think -ye. O strong, that tb task jre set my kindred Can he done as a lesson that one masters in a day? How can we travel, swift of foot and all unhindered. On your put lis unfamiliar, to ycjur spur of aye and nay? Years have we lived, a our ancestors have taught us: ' ' '. Now all must change we must live the wiilte man's life: Anger ye show land there what harm l wrought us!) If we leap not. full armed, In your world of stress and strife. Years have we roamed, aa our fathers roamed before us. On the plains ye he swallowed tn your never sated greed; . I no call heard from (he dead and gone who bore Ita lia ve our forebears left no message for the red man's breed? No, we must ken all your complex life on Instant M'e must know your maae of Isw, snd must single truth from lies; Sink we or swim ( All. the end Is not far distant:) , m Tour race will not linger, nor 'lend ear unto our cries. So bring out the drum let It rouse the Sod den village: Iet It bring forth the dancer to the campflre's flaming wood; It It cull up the days of the hunt, and war and pillage If red men must aie. lei mem am rm men should! Walnut Block. St.am Coal. Eta. .