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4 THK OMAHA DAILY HKE: MONDAY. FEBKUAKY 2G. 190G. The Omaha Daily Bee. E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERT MORNING. TERMS OK SUBSCRIPTION. Ually Be (Without Sunday), on year. .$4.00 Dally Mm and Sunday, one year ' illustrated Bee, one year Sunday bee, one year Saturday Bee, one year ' 1H l9 l.W DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Dally Be) (Including Sunday), per week..l7s Dally Be (without Sunday, per week..l;(a Evening Bee (without Sunday), per week 4o Evening Bee (with Sunday), per week..lOo Sunday Bee, per copy V, Address complaint of irregularities In de livery to City Circulation Department. OFFICE3. Omaha The Bee Rulldlng. South Omaha City Hall Building, ij Council Bluffs 14 Pearl Street. Chicago 1W0 Cnlty Building. New York lVm Home Lite Ins. Building. Washlngton-01 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. " Communleatlona relating to news and ed Itorlal matter should be addressed: Oman Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit bv draft, express or post"' order payable to. The Bee Publishing Company. Only J-cent" stamps received as payment of mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT or CIRCULATION. Stat of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss.: C. C Rosewater, secretary of The Bee Publishing company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally. Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month r January. i06wjj as ioiiows: 1 .. MJIM It Sl.BOO 2 JI1,T0 I 31.TMO 4 81.TTO t , 81,KM X2,AW T 30.1BO 81,730 3I.H1H) 10 32.WW u i,nao lj 31.TTO ) 81.4SO 20 82,240 a ao.ioo 2J S1.44IO 23 31.4KIO 24 81.47" 21 31.BTO 2 31.410 2J 32.320 13.. 13.. 14.. IS.. 10.. A... !... . 0... II... :o,omo 31,35 31.3HO 31, SAO S2.440 au.oao 81,NT0 ai.rro Total.... .1,003,400 Less unsold copies. Net total sales.. , UU2.4SJ a,oit Dally average. C. C. ROSE WATER, Secretary. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 31st day of January. ISMS. (Seal) M. B. H UNGATE, Notary Public. WHEN OCT OP TOWJT. Subscribers leaving; the city tern pernrlly ehonld have The Be mailed to them. Address will be changed as often as requested. - 1 ..' . l j Let us hope that the bituminous coal minors In the enut are willing to acc ept h compromise. It would do much toward preventing trouble In the west. The most gratifying sign of the sub stantial growth of Oniulm is the marked Increase in the. number of small fac tories and Industrial establishments. Senator Aldrich will probably find that It takes more strenuous work than un loading the report of the Hepburn 1)111 onto Senator Tillman to defeat the measure. I'resldent Roosevelt is happily situ ated In that there Is no north, no south, no party and no faction permitted to .divide the friend of hi railroad rate measure. , With German officers going to Japan to study the art Of war there i greater hope for peace along the Rhine, as they will probably learn that the profit of war go to noncombatantH. The liquor dealer expect fo get an other compromise out of the Civic Fed eration. The difficulty is that no con promise agreement one year can be re lied upon to Insure against the next year's demands. The Iowa legislature threatens to In vestigate the lobby. As the Insurance "investigation" I being held Itchlnd closed doors, the lobbyists, hoping for similar treatment, do not seem to be greatly alarmed. That reciprocal Insurance tax may do its part toward placing Nebraska within the constitutional provisions on the sub ject of public debt. The debt could easily be wiped out were all eoriorate tax shirkers to pay up. We are assured by parties who claim to be on the inside that the Burlington will maintain strict neutrality betwecu all the candidates for municipal office this spring by keeping its hands out. Rut what about I.ee Spratlen? The battle cry of "Smash the Mimics iHmnlson machine," which has served Omaha sham reformers .for a number of year past. Is heard no longer in the land since the chief machinists have Joined in the cry of "nroatch and Re form." The candidacy of William J. Broatch threatens to 1k a repetition of the drama of "The Texas Steer." In that play the .candidate for congress boasted that he came by his place to congress honestly ttecause he paid for every vote he re wired." Representative tacy's effort to declare forfeited land giauted to railroads which exist only on paper will be. de nounced a anothiy blow to "vested rights" br the people' who went to the expense of filing Incorporation, papers Just to get the laiuL- , t'lucinnatl bankers may be couvluced that they were performing a public aervjee when they subsidized a county treasurer. The same was pleaded by the beads of life Insurance companies with reference to legislators, but the public will hardly lie couvluced. The ' Bensonlaus propose to capture the republican primaries by a gopher campaign, but men nominated by secret political clubs In star chamber naturally grouse the suspicion that they are play big a confidence game. In politics pub licity is the best guaranty of good faith. The man who aspire to be the custo dian of a public trust should stand out la the open. , OUR FoREMX TRADE GR9W7.V0. Iurlng the first seven months of the current fiscal year the foreign commerce of the) United Ptntes broke all record. It averaged f2TiO.CXX),0wj a month and should thle rate continue during the re-" mnlnder of the year, which there Is good reason to expect it will, the total will be greater than has been reached In any previous year In the history of our for eign trade. The Increase has 1kcii In twth imports and exports, but more especially In the latter, which were fTO.OnO.Otm greater than In the corre sponding months of the preceding fiscal year. The Increase in the value of im ports was nearly as large as that of exports. This was chiefly In manufac turers' materials and finished manu factures, while the Increase In exporta tion occurred mainly In agricultural! products and manufactures. There has been a- marked Increase in the amount of breadstuff and provisions shipped abroad, this Itelng. of course, to the direct benefit of American farmers. The Increase in exports of foodstuffs Is widely distributed, but is particularly marked In the exports to the United Kingdom. Germany has also been a liberal buyer, due to the expectation of her merchants that the new tariff would become operative against American goods on March 1. They must now hare on hand very large stocks of bread stuffs and provisions and now that the tariff is not to at once become effective against these articles It is probable that the (ierma'n merchants will suffer some Joss. The United Kingdom is still far in the lead of every other country as a buyer of American products, taking four times as much as Germany and six times as much as France. While the demand from the United Kingdom Is very likely to be maintained and even Increased. It Is to be expected that the German demand will now fall off, owing to the large supplies of foodstuffs that have been accumulated.' This, however, will not be a serious matter and Is not likely to have any effect here upon the prices of breadstuff and provisions. The growth of our foreign trade Is highly gratifying. It Is conclusive evi dence of national prosperity. The in crease in imports Is not less assuring as to prosperity than the growth In ex ports, particularly that portion which represent the materials of manufac tures. 1 LOXO-t'ELT WAST. Oiinilm has for years ranked high as a distributing center, but while its rail way facilities are superior to those of many cities of five or six times Its pop ulation, its facilities for the distribution of mail into Its tributary trade territory are utterly inadequate. Every other city of equal commercial im)ortance enjoys the benefits of fast mail service expressly arranged with a view to an early distribution of the newspapers published therein, but Omaha is almost barred out from the interior of Ne braska and western Iowa by the lack of proper mall facilities. ' It Is a mutter of notoriety, for exam- le, that Chicago newspapers reach towns ou the Northwestern system at the same time with Omaha papers of the same date, while Omaha morning papers do not reach many points 100 miles east or west before noon. The fast mail trains, which originate in Chi cago, are expedited westward this side of the Missouri with great dispatch, but Omaha newspapers designed for the same town on the Northwestern, Bur llngton, Union Faeifie and Missouri Tu clflc lines do not leave Omaha until any where from 7 to 10 a. in. It is passing strange nobody in or out of the Fostotfiee department ha yet lHen able to explain why Omaha should not have the lament of fast mall trains leaving this city within from one to two hours of the hour of newspaper publica tion. The newspapers of St. Ixiuls, Kansas City, St. Faul and Minneapolis are all transmitted by fast mail, leaving these distribution poiuts before day break, but when Omaha appeal for the same service the requisition 1 turned down for lack of appropriation. ThI discrimination doe not merely affect the Omaha morning dallle, but It affect every business man in the city of Omaha. Experience has shown that the people In any locality are largely influenced in their trade relations through the newspapers they read. It goes without saying that the merchant who read an Omaha paper i more likely to make his purchases in Omaha than the merchant who reads Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, St. Faul or Min neapolis dallies. ' ' This effect U even more marked In new trade territory. The newspaper that reaches a place first Is the paper the people patronize most, and the mer chants whose advertisements reach the people iu these localities are the mer chants who are mostly patronized. Wllltng or unwilling, people are largely Influenced unconsciously by tho news papers they read, not only In their po litical views or preferences on any par ticular issue, but also in their mercan tile dealings. The fact that Omaha Is lamentably lacking in fast mail facill ties ha heeu a damaging factor in the past and will so continue lu the future until the want is adequately supplied unras MsxDixo laws. The California Bar association has en tered upon the work of reformiug the laws of that state regulating court pro cedure both in civil and criminal cases, It U proposed to make such changes in the laws as will expedite trials and put an end to some of the grosser abuses In criminal cases, both In the trial courts and In proceedings on appeal. Among the suggestions made at a recent meet ing of the association were some looking- to ine elimination of "professional" Jurors, ou account of the belief. that many of them re easily corrupt!. The example of the bar association of California might very wel be fol lowed lu uiwt of the states, the law's delay is a matter that hat been much discussed, but very little has been done with a view to remedying it. Some of the ablest jurists in the country have urged reform In this direction, but with out effect. It Is a question, however, of such manifest Importance that it is certain to continue to command atten tion. The fault Is growing more serious from year to year and it is not to be doubted that In time there will Ik? a change which will place the administra tion of Justice in the United States on n better basis by doing away with prac tices that retard the course of Justice and not Infrequently entirely defeat it. XEW ACUAXCES PttSSlBLE. It is not at all probable that there will be a w,ar over Morocco In the event of a failure of the Algeciras conference to settle the controversy between France and Germany. While the kaiser is cling ing obstinately to his contention, there Is no reason to think that he has any desire to provoke hostilities, for It must be obvious to him that .to do so would doubtless bring upon him the displeasure of most of Europe and thus place Ger many at a disadvantage. But what seems quite possible is that some new alliances may be formed in the not remote future. Rtissia feels ex ceedingly friendly toward Germany and undoubtedly the feeling Is mutual. It Is said that England is also bidding for Russian friendship. Tho relations be tween the two countries have for a long time not been altogether cordial, and there nre questions in dispute which cannot be settled off hand, but the new British ministry Is manifesting a dis position to have them disposed of and it is altogether likely that it will find Russia willing to meet it half way. There are some who think that the Franco-Russian alliance will not long continue, though there is no present indi cation of n wish on either side to aban don it. A a matter of fact the alliance has not been of any substantial value to Russia and of no very great advan tage to France, though it serves as a certain protection to the' latter. It Is the opinion of careful students of European political conditions that In feeling and the community of interests which underlies alliances Germany and Russia are drifting together and France Is drawing near Great Britain. Un doubtedly Japan, the new great power, would welcome the change which some time seems to bo foreshadowed In Eu ropean alliances. The Japanese have reason to dislike Germany's ambitions in China and would probably welcome Franco as n virtual partner with Eng land in the Anglo-Japanese alliance. There may be very important changes In the relations of European nations within the next few years. The county treasurer at Cincinnati publicly admits that he has received $120,000 rake-off from deposits of public money in his custody. We used to have that sort of work right here in Omaha, but there never has been even a suspicion of farming out the public money under either County Treasurer Fluk or City Treasurer Ilenniugs. The opinion of Fresldent Hadlcy of Yale on the Hepburn bill might be thus summarized: Let the people have the law, for it will do no good, and they might pas a good law If they don't get this one. The crie of the railroad cham pions, however, show that they do not have full confidence In Ir. Hartley's conclusions. "A square deal for everyliody and special favor to none" Is the platform on wuicli Augustus II. Iienning pre sent himself to the citizens of Omaha a a candidate for mayor. And the best guaranty that Ilenniugs will do after election what he stand for lie fore eloc tlon Is his record. Omaha's fire department is playing in better luck than Omaha's police de partment. The police are kept busy. while the flremeu are thanking their stars that they have had nothing In the shape of a great conflagration for a whole year. One Square Deal. Minneapolis Journal. The senate has given us the square deal for once at least. The pure food bill went through yesterday by an almost unanimous vote. tantionarr slaranla. Washington Post Some representatives are not yet ready to discuss their chances for re-election preferring to wait until the " sixe of the public building bill has been decided upon. He Who loki May See. Kansas City Star. Some points of the rate issue are ob scure to the layman, but there Is nothing obscure In a division that leaves all the manifest champions of railway privileges ou the one aide and the president and Ills truest support .-rs on the other. He Didn't Fool the People.' Minneapolis Journal. General Groavenor, one of the leading "statesmen" of the house, voted for the railroad rate bill, but criticised the claim that there was any popular demand for the legislation. He declared that public sentiment had been manufactured by poll ticians and newspapers who misunderstood President Roosevelt's attitude and had gone off on the wrong tangent, lie char acterized the agitation as the "greatest fake Issue that had ever been launched to fool the people." Thursday General Oro venor's constituents refused him a re nomination. Tainted, Money front China.' Springfield Republican. The payment by China of an extortionate indemnity on account of the boxer up rising In 1800 has been a disgrace to the Christian powers. During Secretary Huy's last year or two In the State department his conscience troubled him because, after paying up alL .the American claims for damage iecelved In China during the uxer disturbances, there remained over fcM.CuO.OOO of the total indemnity of C5.000, 000 coming to the United State. The sug gestion was made that the sum in excess of the legitimate claims should b turned back to China. And why not? Doe noi represent ex tort ion 7 It M to be re gretted that Congressman Hull recently In the bouee culded aUnlaUr KovahUl for favoring the restoration of the money, and advised that It be used In building Amer ican warships. Here Is an opportunity to cultivate China's good will and clear our pockets of tainted money. I'roMna Into Monopolies, Philadelphia Record. The house of representatives is going to seek for a little more Information than the senate decided on. The committee on nterstate and foreign commerce has agreed o amend the senate resolution for an in- estlgatlon of railroad discriminations and monopolies In coal and oil by provision for an Inquiry into the ownership of coal and ron companies. The country might Just as well understand what are coal com panies and whHt are oil companies and what are railroad companies. Power of the Independent Voter. Cleveland Leader. Clearly, men count more than ever be fore Mn politics. Party labels are of less mportance. In the estimation of .Ihe pub lic, than at any time In many years. The Independent voter conies near ruling the country by his control of the balance of power In great cities and states. The law of self-preservation will force party man agers to 'put their best men forward In nominating tickets henceforth. Even when nd where they dislike to do It. the alternative will compel them to select such candidates. The penalty for refusal Is de feat. A Dishonored Jory. Washington Post. The acquittal of Kidnaper Crowe at Omaha is a dark stain upon the legal re cords of the nation. It is a direct blow at ustlce, an overthrowal of law. No ver dict ever rendered so openly protected a criminal. No decision by a Jury ever more boldly attacked the very foundation of law and order. It flings open to despoilers the door of the cabin as well as the sate of the mansion. It pierces the hearts of fath ers and mothers from the humblest to the highest home In the land. The verdict Itself Is a crime against every honest Amer ican citizen, against every American house hold. TEMPER VKBSIS HI IM0S. Action of Ohio Railroad Manager Dae to Temporary Irritation. New York Tribune. The Ohio railroads which threaten at onco to revenge themselves and reimburse themselves for the 2-cent a mile rate law by cutting off all excursion tickets will probably find that the expedient Is as un profitable financially as killing the goose that lays the golden egg. and as painful revengefully as cutting off one's own noso to spite one's face. Railroads do not make excursion rates out of disinterested love and affection, but to stimulate travel. They find It pays to make a special train rate if they can induce a hundred persons to travel who would not otherwise use their cars. It is a matter of pure business enterprise. and, in spite of irritation over the 2-cent rate, the railroads before long will be issu ing commutation tickets and telling the rent payers of Cleveland and Cincinnati of the charms of the suburbs which they can reach for 10 cents and have homes of their own with grass for the children to play on. So, too, they will be offering round trip tickets at reduced rates to state fairs, firemen's conventions and church con gresses. Temper Is all very well In its way, and injured dignity Is highly Impressive, but business Is business, and the general pas senger agent who can make two passengers grow where one grew before will continue to be honored in Ohio and elsewhere, even though congress and state legislatures dare to regulate rates. Commuters and aspir ants for cheap slgh,tgeeing may keep calm. In spite of government "oppression of transportation enterprises. , (OMMOV CARRIER AND DEALER. oond Prlnrlple. Chicago Tribune. A common carrier In Interstate com merce must not engage In trade. A rail road which transports coal, giain and other commodities must not traffic In them. That Is the logical conclusion of the de cision of the United States supreme court In the Chesapeake & Ohio case. The prin ciple Is a sound one. and public Tiollcy de mands that It be made a rule of action. One Business Enough. New York Herald. The important thing is the leaning of the court to the principle of British de cisions that to deal In the commodities it transports is incompatible 'with the func tions of a common carrier. Railway com panies that are. engaged in this dual busi ness may be expected to loudly protest, but there will be found nothing revolu tionary or confiscatory In the doctrine should It be carried into practical effect as the result of 6ther suits or further legislation. Decisive Ruling. Boston Transcript. Nothing could be more decisive as to the intent of the Interstate commerce act to prevent discriminations than this ruling of the supreme court. It refers only to common carriers, but If a common carrier Is un.ible to relieve himself of the obliga tions Imposed by the Interstate commerce act by calling himself a dealer, is It more likely that the transportation company can relieve itself of the obligations of the common carrier by calling itself something else? Back to Legitimate Husluraa. Philadelphia Record. The decision of the supreme Court, If vigorously enforced, furnishes the sure means of dissolving this combination of coal carrying companies against the pub He. Wten they understand that as com mon carriers they must make common rates, and cannot discriminate in favor of themselves, they will no longer be able to confound cost of mining and freight and fix an arbitrary price for both. When brought back to their only legitimate bus! ness of transportation (In Interstate com merce) their interest in the business of mining will cease. Controlling Duty of Hallrooda. New York Tribune. The supreme court's view is that it Is the railroad's first and controlling duty to be a carrier,' and that functions which un fit It to deal Impartially with shippers should be curtailed or surrendered. Trans portation should be divorced from industry, for the union of the two interests can only lead, as the court rightly says, to "a bio lute monopoly." There has been too great a tendency on the part of the railroads to expand and diversify their Interest. The supreme court's decision point to a future limitation of railroad functions to a nar rower and more legitimate field. More Light Seeded. New York Sun. It may be premature to assume that the recent decision establishes the principle that a railroad cannot be now a carrier now a dealer. The Interpretation seems rather to be that some roads cannot, while some roads can; and against the two classes of coal carrying roads federal authority, in the enforcement of the law's provisions for bidding discrimination In rates for carry Ing coal, must use In the on case an in strument of discipline which is not avail able In the other. The situation is inter- stin and mav need mure judicial light. ROISD ABOIT JEW YORK. Ripple on the Current of Life la the Metropolis. The Industry of curing every 111 the flesh Is heir to with liquid dope out of a com mon bottle apparently has reached the limit in New York. During a hearing Into the operations of the "Force of Life" com pany, a concern whlth claimed to raise the dead, a woman mixer of the elixir testi fied that patients were given three grades of dope, but that each grade was taken from a tank containing common water, and not very clean at that. The grading was done with artistic labels. How well the company succeeded In raising the dead Is not in evidence, but the managers "raised the wind" to the amount of several hun dred thousand dollars. A motion is In order to amend the Fnriium maxim, "A fool Is born every minute." The record outruns the time limit. Enthusiastic and not at till bashful about his musical ability, Jansky Rigo, the gipsy violinist, who acquired world-wide fame several years ago by his marriage to the Princess Chltnay. formerly Clara Ward of Detroit, reached New York last week. Rlgo declined to talk of the Princess Chlmay, but he held forth at langth on the subject of his musical prowess. "I am a great musician." he said. "I am a great success. I will bring a wonder to the American people with my playing. The American people nevalr heard something like what I will play before. I will astound them!" P.lgo was asked If he still considered him self a married man. "I do not know." he replied. "I do not know what the princess has done. I do not know whether I am divorced or not." It was reported aboard the ship that Rlgo was much in the company of a woman somewhat resembling the Princess Chlmay on the trip across. At last accounts the woman was appearing In a Paris concert hall. Hundreds of men of national fame are walking the streets of New York daily without attracting the least attention. Grover Cleveland tomes up from Princeton about once a month, but his appearance on tho street never excites comment. At tho Waldorf there are frequently a half-doxen United States senators, a butclt of gov ernors and bundles of congressmen, but they pass unnoticed in the throng. Former Mayor VanWyck Is seen along Broadway or Fifth avenue every day, but not one in 10,000 New Yorkers recognize him. Former Senator Towne, Bourke Cockran, William Sulzer and other New York congressmen never attract the least notice. Once In a great while some one will say, "There goes Depew," or "Ain't old Tom Piatt looking feeble?" but this Is the extent of it. Four New York lawyers who are now serving prison sentences, Robert A. Am nion, James 8. Aldcrdice, Martin Conlon and Henry Gerner, have been disbarred from practice In the federal counts. United States District Judge George L. Holt dis barred them on an application made In be half of the Merchants' Protective associa tion. Amnion Is serving a ten-year term, hav ing been convicted of complicity in the Franklin syndicate swindle, known as the SUO per cent scheme. Alderdlce was sen tenced last summer to eighteen years' im prisonment for forgery. Conlon is serving a two-year sentence, after being convicted of larceny from a client. Gerner, who Is now nearly 70 years old, is serving an eighteen-year sentence for subornation of perjury. A West Side minister who lias solemnized many marriages was called Into his study the other day by a couple, relates the Sun. The clergyman listened to the young man's brief explanation of their errand. 'So," he said, "you want to get married. do you?" To his surprise the prospective bride as sumed the responsibility of replying to this remark. "Ho does," she said. "And how about yourself?" asked, the minister. "Have you any obj ciions to the union?" 'None," she said, "except those found in the ceremony. I have been studying up on the subject and I find that all marriage services employ the ten,, 'woman.' I de cidedly object to that. I have never been used to being called a woman. I am from Alabama. Down in our part of the country nobody ever thinks of saying anything but iady.' I have been spoken of as a lady all my life If you can change that to 'lady' I am willing to go ahead." The clergyman finally overcame his aston ishment sufficiently to explain that that concession was not possible. After arguing for an hour he finally modified her hostil ity to the word "woman" and persuaded her to go through tho ceremony. Loaves of bread of special makes are now displayed nt the grocery counters in white paper wrappings, put on before they cool at the ovens. "This means, I suppose," said a contem plative grocer, "that bread bakers are to follow the fashions set ty cracker bakers. Twenty years ago all crackers came to us loose, ten years ago In glass fronted boxes and now the crackers come In Individual packuges, of any quantity wanted, and put up as neatly as a pound of bonbon. The loaves wrapped In paper have made a hit and trade rivalry will probably make other bakers follow suit." A prominent New York lawyer has pub licly made the statement that a search through the criminal records of New York state will show that no murderer ha ever been executed for his crime, provided he was rich or had a strong political Influence. At a meeting held the other evening where the question of the abolition of the death penalty was under discussion It was discovered that the audience, several hun dred in number, were almost unanimous In favor of an abolition of this form of punishment. Forty-nine years ago the coiner of Broad way and Thirty-fourth streets, New York, was bought by the Tabernacle church for $78.0(10. Four or five years ago the church sold the property for $1,300,000. The buyer paid S14O.O0O for two small lots in the rear and then sold what had cost him $1,41,000 for about $2,000,000. This property ha again changed hands, and while there Is no au thoritative statement of the price it Is understood to have been In the neighbor hood of $J,500.0i. Time Saving Devices. Philadelphia Record. For some years engine have been taking water without stopping and mall cars have been picking up mall sacks from posts without so much a a pause. Now an ap pliance for coaling engine without stop ping ha been Invented and experiments with It are said to have been satisfactory. The next Improvement to save the running time of train will be a device for throw ing passengers on board and off without stopping. Bark to rirst Principle. Boston Transcript. The railroad cry out for mercy, but there is none to show mercy. They must not sell coal, they must not charge more than 3 cents a mile, and the gentleman from Kansas say that they must net fall under the control of Standard Oil. Soon only the transportation business will be left for thaiu. Do Please Your Hair Don't have a falling out with your hair." It might leave you! Then what? Better please it by giving it a good hair-food Ayer's Hair Vigor. The hair stops coming out, becomes soft and smooth, and all the deep, rich color of youth comes back to gray hair. The best kind of a testimonial- . " Sold for over sixty years." Mad y tk 3. O. aysr Co., twtU. Msss. Alee stsaaiaetarsn r ATBR'8 6AB8APAKILLA For ths kleoa. ATKR'S PILLS-For eenstipatlei. ATBR'S CHJBHT PECTORAL For cough. ATBR'8 AOCB CURBFet maUrla ga. POINTERS O MCBHASKA POLITICS Central City Nonpareil: The trouble with Senator Millard Is this: He Is for the president's rate bill and his other policies because the people whom he asks to re elect him are for the same policies and not because he thinks the policies are right. Kearney Hub: The Aurora Republican thinks that if Peter Mortensen or Norris Brown want to be candidates for gov ernor and senator they should "get out from under cover and say so." But really, why should they? Is It not Just a well, even though you are willing, to first let the people Indicate somewhat of their de sire? This plan is sometimes called hav ing the office seek the man, and it Is not a bad plan by any manner of means. Wayne Herald: Some of the newspapers tell us that Peter Mortensen, the present state treasurer and who aspires to be the successor of John Mickey as governor of Nebraska, is absolutely owned and con trolled by the railroads and other allied Interests. We had alw-ys looked upon Peter as a pretty good, honest, square old chap and are hardly prepared to believe that he Is owned or controlled by any per son or number of persons, but before mak ing any breaks along this line it would be well to look the old fellow up and find out Just how he does stand. There are so many strings to most of the fellows who seek office that it Is mighty difficult to tell Just which one to support at any time, and under existing conditions more than ordi nary care should be exercised In this Important matter. Waterloo Goiette: The republican papers over the state, apparently with a few ex ceptions, have gone daft over the work of Norris Brown in the railroad cases which recently were decided favorable to the slate, in the matter of tax payments, and want to send the doughty attorney general to the United States senate. We have no special Interest In tbe senatorshlp from an editorial standpoint, although having our personal preference, but there are two rea sons that appeal to us why Norris Brown should remain where he is In the service of the state, because of the good he has accomplished and can accomplish, for there Is much yet to be done. The other reason Is because there are older men In Ne braska, from point of residence and serv ice to the party and state, and who could accomplish as much, no doubt, for the peoplo as a member of the upper house of congress. Being an editor our preference naturally runs to the species and we're not so sure but that Editor Hammond of Fremont would be our choice, especially were Editor Rosewater of our own county out of tho race. Yet in all candor, we must say that the latter is the best equipped man In the state for good work in the directions niilch his Inclinations lead him; and that he is a great and good man is demonstrated by the fact that like all prophets he Is not without honor in his own home. But what Is Omaha only a name Edward Rosewater belongs to Ne braska, Should it transpire, however, thst a democrat must be selected, why there is Kditor Bryan and Editor Hitchcock and Editor Howard, all good men and great democrats. Or if neither, why "Senator" Sorenson of the Examiner would fill the bill and bring honor to the profesh. But by ail means let Norris -Brown pound away at the railroad they need it. Fremont Tribune: In a short time the republican state central committee will be called together for the purpose of selecting a date snd place for the next convention and determining upon a basis of representa tion. It will also be called upon to desig nate the office for which candidates are to be seleoted by that convention. In the performance of this latter duty will arise the question as to whether the precedent established two years ago with respect to a senatorial candidate shall be repeated. There were some Interests that wer by no means satisfied with the procedure snd these same Interests are not yet recon ciled to the plan. Occasionally It Is heard that the railroads are going to fight the plan this year. They are admittedly less potential in the selection of a senator by the convention method than they are when It is left open to the legislature. For this reason they naturally prefer the 'latter plan. How the slat committee stands on this question Is not known. There are those who believe a majority of the mem bers are against it. It Is quite clear that If they are opposed to the nominating plan they are not in harmony with the majority of the people of this state, of the repub licans of Nebraska. And If the committee falls to recommend the nomination of a senator It will take the first step toward Inviting defeat. It will be due notice to the people that the convention lias been manipulated against tbe interests of the party and the public. This would not only bring reproach upon every candidate named by the convention for any office, but It would mean a handicap, perhaps a fatal one, for every nominee for the legislature. Public sentiment demands that tbe state central commute Include a senator In Its list of nominations and that the Burkett experiment be continued as a fixed policy of the party. Every republican paper In Coal. Wood. W. s.ll th. best Ohio and Colored. Co.1. ol.an, hot, lasting: Also tho Illinois, Hanna, Shorldan, Walnut Block, Stoam Coal, Klo. For (antral purpoaos, uao Chorokoo Lump, fS.SOi Nut, fS.OOparton Mlaaourl Lump, $4.78 Largo Nut, 94.60-mak.a a hot, quick ftro. Our hard ooal la tha CRANTOft, tha baat Pennsylvania anthracite Wo alao aall Spadra, tho hardaat and claaneat Arkanaaa hard ooal All our coal hand ooraonod and weighed over any oHy ooaloa dealred COUTANT d the state can perform a party service by emphasising this demand. PERSONAL XOTES. The supreme court, too, Is out for the "sr.uare deal." Twenty-nine or thirty women were elected school directors in Philadelphia re cently. Samuel S. Howland has given to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New Tork, a collection of old laces, Including twenty nine pieces of great antiquity. The City of Mexico has passed an ordi nance to close the saloons at. 9 p. m. Ther arc 6,746 Americans In the city, but they ought to be able to get enough before cur few rings. Mark Twain had himself photographed recently, and he sent one of the pictures to a friend with this note: "Take note oC this, Frank I.awrance, old friend of mine: To be good is noble, but to teach others :iow to be good la nobler and no trouble. S. L. Clemens." F. G. Shaffer, a Colorado millionaire min ing man, has taken the guardianship of a tribe of Indians. Gratitude for Services rendered his father when the latter was a mere child piompted him to look up tho lingering remnant of the once powerful Pottawatomie tribe and give them a homo. Two congiessmen were discussing the re cent White House wedding. One said to the other: "What does the president think of his new son-in-law?" Oh, lie's pretty well satisfied," said tho other. "Long-worth, Is a Harvard man and a republican, but ha has one Inexcusable defect. In the presi dent's mind; he wasn't a Rough Rider." Mr. Carnegie told an aspiring congrega tion that if they would raise $W0 toward the purchase of an organ he would sea what could he done. When the sum had been raised he informed the congregation that they did not need a larger organ than this would bu'., Between his spell of ac tive charltf Tllr.''"Crneg(o v4carly loves a Joke. ' : LIKES TO A I. At Gil. ,' "Talk about dreams coming true t dreamed last night that a burglar entered my room, took my watch from the dresser and sneaked out oetore I could catch him. I woke up, Jumped out of, bed and, looked for the watch." "Was It gone?" "No, but it was going." Philadelphia Press. The distinguished citizen had returned from a trip abroad. "Did the old world give you the glad hand?" they asked him. "O, yes," he said; "or, rather, it gave tn the expectant hand. It wasn't the glad hand until I had put the tip into it." Chicago. Tribune. "Hello, Bill, old man! Well, well! I haven't seen you since the old days, when we used to run around together." "No, Jack. Ah, those old days! What a fool I used to be then!" "I tell you, I'm glad to you. You haven't changed a bit, old man." Philadel phia Ledger. "Gracious!" exclaimed Mrs.' Locutte' quiet husband, "that decollelte gown , Is rather ultra." "But don't I look well in It?" she de manded. i "Doubtless; but, to my mind, you're too far out of It." Philadelphia Press. THE BRIDAL VEIL. ' Alice Carey. We're married, they say, and you think you have won me Well, take this white veil from my head and look on ine. Here's matter to vex you and matter to grieve you. Here s doubt to distrust you and faith. t believe you I am all, as you see, common earth,' com mon dew; Be wary and mould me to roses, not true! Ah! shake out the filmy thing, fold after fold. And see If you have ine to keep and to hold Look close on my heart see worst of Its sinning It is not yours toduy for yesterday's win ning The past Is not 'mine I am too proud to borrow You must grow to new heights if I love you tomorrow. We're murrled! I'm plighted to hold U8 your praises, As the turf at your feet does its handful of daisies; That way lies my honor my pathway tof pride; But, mai n you, if greener grass grow either side. I shall know It, and keeping the body with you, Shall walk In my spirit with feet on the dew. We're married! Oh, pray that our love so not tail! I have wing fastened down bidden undrr my veil! They are subtle as light you can never undo them. And swift In their flight you can never pursue them; And spite of all clasping, snd spite of all bands, I slip like a shadow, dream, from your hand. Nay, call me not cruel, and fear not to take me. I am yours for a lifetime, to be what you make me, To wear tny whit veil for a sign or a cover, As you shall be proven my lord or mr lover, A cover for peace thai Is dead, or a token Of bliss that can never be written vr spoken. Coke. Kindling. SQUIRES 140S FAR NAM Phono 990.