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lllE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 28. MOfi. The Omaha Daily Dee. E. IIOBEWATER, EDITOR. Pl'HLlSHED EVERT MORNINO. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, tmllv Ilea (jvlihoul shmtlav). one vear. .14.00 Dally lien and Sunday, one year ' Illustrated Wee, one ear HiiiiiImv Hea. nnl vcar Saturday Uee, on year 1 DELIVERED BY CARRIER. lally Bee (including Sunday). pr week.. 13 Dally Hoe (wlliiout BunUay). per wefK.-lic Evening liee (without BumiHy), per w"elt,: Evening Bee (with Hundayj. per wcek..l0o Hunrtay Bee, per copy '.'"j00 Address complaint of Irregularities In do. livery to City circulation Department OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. Bouth Omaha City Hall Building. Council Bluffs 10 Pearl Htret. Chlcago-lMu Unity Building. New York 15Nl Home Life Ins. Building. Washington 601 Fourteenth Btrect. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to new and d Itorlal matter should be addressed; Omaha Bee. Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only J-cent stamps received as payment of mull accounts. Peraonal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska. Dnuglaa County, C. C. Boscwater, secretary of The Bee Publishing company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and complete copies of Tbe Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of January, 1908. was as follows: 1 nfl.nnu 17 3i.o 2 81.0TO 1 Bl.TTO 8I.7NO IS fit.4W 4 J11.T70 !12,240 s si,k-io a so.ino C S2.(MM 22 S1.IO 7 ao.ino a ai.tnio 5 1,T0 24 S1.4TO I S1.01K) 2fi SI.5TO 10 aa.OitO 20 H1.410 11 ai.OJtO 27 32.JW0 II Jtl.UUO 28 3O.0HO 13 , 32,440 29 8I.8BO 14 21),lt;iO SO S1.3HO is 3i70 . si ai.sr.o 1 81.T70 Total l,0O3.4fM Less unsold copies 11,o:h Net total sales 92.48'J Dally average Ki.ol-i C. C. ROSE WATER. Secretary. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me tills aist day of January. IPOS. (Seal) M. B. HUNGATE, Notary Public. WIIEX OIT OF TOW!, nbscrlbers leaving the city tern porarlly should have The Bee mailed to them. Address will be changed aa often as requested. . . If Home one will only perfert an In vention of wlrvh'HH telephony, the prob lem of the entrance of the Independents into Omnhn nilKht he quickly solved. Don't all talk at onee. The viceroy of Clinton, who i giving a lil to lioycottcrs, lives too near the const for such n policy. He shouhl leave nntl-foielKii Hiritution to those beyond the raiiRc of n warship's puns. . From the hysterical fits it Is causing the local popocratle orjtnn to throw', the candidacy of Nonls .Itrowu for the I'lilted Stales t-enate ruip-t be decidedly distressing to democratic aspirations. The czar of Hussla wants peace tween (Jermiiny and France, at least until he can float another loan. Terhaps he feurs that even the victorious nation In such a fight would have little cash to spare.- 'Tom" I-nwson's faith In that commit tee of governors which will handle the life Insurance proxies sent to hlni shows that despite his disappointing associa tion with frenzied financiers he has not lost all hope In humanity. President Roosevelt has again taken a hand In the trouble between the miners and mine operators. He evidently be lieve! It the duty of the United States to keep open the mills and the mints will tbeu rare for themselves. Judging by his own official record, the spirit of David B. Henderson will be well satisfied to know that mem bers of congress from Iowa are attend ing to public business rather than taking funeral junket in bis name. Although the entries for the municipal race track are not closed, a few with drawals are beginning to be recorded. Before the gong sounds there will be further voluntary withdrawals and also several compulsory retirements. Capitalists asked to Invest money to develop the hemp fields of Mindanao should remember that their money Is closer to them and returns much more certain when invested to develop the western half of the United States. Now thst the Missouri supreme court has spoken. Justice (iildersleeve of New York will have to discover another reason why Mr. Rogers should not be compelled to answer questions or Mr. Rogers will have to Join Rockefeller lu his house of silence. Four life Insurance companies are going to quit doing business In Missouri rather than comply with the rigid re quirements of the Insurance department. TW Insurance company that is not good enough to do business In Missouri will probably have to show somebody to prove Itself good enough to do business 1b other states.. Every now and then we get evidences of a growing sentiment In South Omuba In favor of solving the perplexing ques tions with which the people there are distressed by annexation to Omaha. If South Omaha were part of Omaha the controversy over the city hall site, with all its criminations and odor of graft, would have en obviated. , Who says Omaha is lacking In public fplrlt and liberality when so many pro jects that depend uixn public contribu tions are being successfully floated al most at the same time? We venture to ssy that In no other city of Omaha's Ylaas could soliciting committees for so inany building enterprises accomplish the results th-t have been recorded in Vuiul during the past twelve month. RATE RKfiVLATlOX 7.Y OHIO. The legislature of Ohio having passed a law prescribing a 2-cent fare on the railroBds In the state has now under consideration a bill for the further regulation of rates. The Cleveland Leader states that it Is modeled some what on the Wisconsin law which (lor ernor LaFollette was Instrumental In framing and getting through the legisla ture. It provides for the creation of a railroad commission of three members, the commissioners to be appointed by the governor and subject to removal by him for cause at any time. This body Is to exercise supervision over all railroad trattle and charges In Ohio. It must take cognizance of complaints of nnjust, oppressive, discriminating or unlawful rates, rules; or exactions of whatever kind. It may fix rates, subject to re view by the courts, for any service ren dered by railroad companies or other common carriers. Rates and regulations so established are to stand until or un less altered by judicial decree. No In junction is to be operative against a rate fixed by the commission, pending a hearing in open court. All subsidiary or auxiliary companies connected with the traffic of railroads and their service to the public are cov ered by the bill. It prohibits all forms of discrimination and requires the full est publicity as to rates. Departures from the established schedule, except for charity, government service, the transportation of the household goods of employes of common carriers, or changes open to all comers, as in the case of public excursions, are strictly forbidden. It Is made a misdemeanor knowingly to accept any rebate or dis criminating rate. For many years there has been little complaint In Ohio regard ing the railroads, but the people of that state evidently have concluded that there Is necessity for a better system of railroad regulation. Tim bill now be fore the legislature will doubtless be passed. Meanwhile the railroads pro pose to contest the 2-cent fare law and It Is needless to say will make every possible effort to defeat the rate regu lation bill. TO AVERT A STRIKE. President Roosevelt's letter to John Mitchell urging that another effort be made to avert a strike of coal miners, is timely and should have a good effect. The public will concur in the view ex pressed by the president that a strike such as is threatened is a menace to the peace and general welfare of the country. If It should become general, embracing both the bituminous and an thracite miners, and be prolonged. It Is scarcely possible to estimate the dis astrous and calamitous consequences. It would be very likely to practically par alyse the industries of the country, causing a loss to these in comparison with which the losses of operators and miners would be Inconsequential. Mil lions of people employed In the in dustries would undoubtedly be affected, for while the present stock of coal Is reported to be large it is probably not more than sufficient to supply the de mand for a few weeks. Such a conflict would be deplorable from every point of view and no effort should be spared to avert It. There is reason to at least hope that the conven tion of operators and miners to be held next month will be able to come to an agreement. It Is stated that the bitumi nous coal operators are disposed to make concessions and It Is thought that the miners will be found willing to meet them at least half way. It should be the earnest desire and effort of both sides to preserve industrial peace, so that- the prosperous conditions which now prevail may be continued. The timely Interven tion of President Roosevelt is to be heartily commended. RAILROAD COAL MONOPOLY. It appears probable that In the In vestigation of the alleged railroad coal monopoly little difficulty will be found lu obtaining evidence to sustain the charge. Almost every day there is fur nished testimony that such a monopoly exists and that the Injury and Injustice resulting from it are sufficiently serious to justify investigation. One of the independent coal companies of West Vr ginla, lu a letter to Representative Hughes of that state, alleges that for a long time officials of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad have held stock In a coal company and owing to the Intimate re lations between the company and the railroad officials the condition of the independent operators has become well nigh Insufferable. The statement is made that many of the independent operators have been forced to sell out and many more are hanging onto projerty so handicapped that it cannot be sold. While the railroad coal company's mines run fairly full always and their annual statements show large profits, the inde pendent operators, many of them with very up-to-date plants, have during the same years made serious losses, greatly impaired their capital and contracted ruinous debts. The letter points out bow Impossible it Is for Independent operators to compete with the railroad companies, while unfair discriminations are practiced by the latter. It Is reason ably lielieved that the policy of the rail road officials is to force the Independent ojierators to sell out to them. This re lates to the bituminous coal fields of Pennsylvania. West Virginia and Vir giula. but a very similar situation exists in the anthracite field, where the inde pendent operators are completely at the mercy of the railroads. The latter own most of the mines and It has been re peatedly howD that they continually discriminate agnlust the independent mine owners In the matter of transporta tion, thereby having an advantage which Is very nearly destructive of com "'litlon. While the proposed Investigation will extend to both the bituminous and the anthracite roads ami thefe Is no doubt thst congress csn take action regarding the former, there is a question whether It can do anything respecting the latter, owing to the fact that the owning and mining of coal by the anthracite roads Is authorized by their charters. It there fore appears to be a matter which can be dealt with only by the state of Penn sylvania. It is held that the recent de cision of the supreme court of the United States in the Chesapeake & Ohio rail road esse does not apply to the Penn sylvania anthracite roads. That it ap plies to the bituminous coal monopoly established by a combination of rail roads seems, however, to be unquestion able, and there is apparently no good reason why proceedings should not be at once Instituted to break up the- com bination and destroy the monopoly. The evidence at hand would seem to be sufficient, without further Investigation, to warrant such action. Meanwhile the railroads in the combination are con tinuing their discriminations and exac tions, in unmistakable violation of the law and to the serious Injury of the business of the independent operators, who manifestly have a Just claim to protection against the monopoly. YELLOW PLAYS ASD YELLOW PAPERS. Bishop Scannell's scathing arraign ment of the demoralizing play has evoked an approving response from the people of this community who are thor oughly Impressed with the vlclousness, especially for young people, of many of the shows that are being put before the public. In these days. The yellow theater, however, Is not doing one-tenth the damage to the mor als of the people that Is being done by the yellow press. We have examples right here In Omaha of yellow journal ism of the most Jaundiced hue, injecting dally doses of poison virus into every household to which they are admitted. Their glorification of crime gives stand ing examples for the Imitation of Young America, who get the Idea from these pictorial police gazettes that the hard ened outlaw Is a hero and the night prowling burglar a patriotic citizen. Their degrading descriptions of revolt ing vice are cunningly pictured In al luring colors as invitations to the young to Join in the dizzy throng. The yel low backed dime novels, which children of old were ashamed to be caught read ing, find daily counterparts, in the fic tion columns of these yellow sheets that pass the door of too many homes with out question. Day in and day out, these yellows preach the gospel of discontent and stir up the prejudices of poor against rich. False notions of what constitute suc cess are Inculcated and appeals made to the lowest passions. That such seeds should tend to germinate Into a morbid sentiment and create nn atmosphere in the community dangerous to healthy thought and righteous living is Inevita ble. If, as, the good bishop admonishes, It Is incumbent upon parents to forbid their boys and girls attending lurid melodramas and watching the vulgar display of cheap actresses, is it not equally their duty to protect them from the Infection of immorality through print nnd picture, disguised In the name of a dally newspaper? While the peo ple of Omaha have their attention di rected to the perils of the yellow play, let them ponder also on the perils of the yellow paper and take precaution against the poison of the one aa much as against the poison of the other. Omaha has always taken pride In the advancement of the sons of Omaha, and it is this pride In his achievements that makes Omaha mourn the death of Henry Rustln, one of Its sons cut off in the fullness of a bright future. Mr. Rustln made a name as an expert in electrical illumination that secured for him recognition as an authority not only in this country, but abroad ns well. It is significant that the experience gained by hlra in connection with our own Omaha Exposition laid the foundation for his wider field of work, aud had hla health and strength been spared there Is no telling to what lofty heights ho would have risen. The demand for a workhouse In which offenders receiving sentences In the po lice court can be made useful to the ex tent at least of earning their board is still unsatisfied. A city workhouse would soon pay for itself as a financial proposition, to say nothing of the re lief It would afford the police as a bogey to vagrants, from which the criminals are recruited, who are always attracted to a place where they can live without labor and always fight shy of a place where they may be compelled to work for a living. In nine cases out of tei the alleged protests on behalf of property owners against the Issue of liquor license for a location within the business district is purely a masquerade of a rival brewer or saloon keeper to prevent tbe advent of a competitor into bis vicinity. The attorneys who appear for the protest ants In these cases are usually the same who appear for the defense In other protest cases and their Identity is a dead give-away of the real parties to the controversy. Senators who transferred the fight on the railroad rate question from the com mittee room to the senate chamber have done much to keep Interest in the sub ject alive and to place all the professed friends of tbe measure on the firing line, where they will have to make good their professions. Senator Morgan's remarks in tbe com mittee room would indicate that he bad uot forgiven tbe men who made the Nicaragua canal impossible, and that he Intel nils In k Impertinent questions until some of his colleagues are sorry he was not permitted to have his way. The fact that several British distillers have ltoen fined for manufacturing spur ious Irish and Scotch whisky will prob ably have no effect on the price of '"high balls" In America, ns Americans can supply all deficits In Importations with domestic liquor equally bad. City Attorney Breen is quoted as sagely advising saloon keepers "to obey the law us they find It so long as the Civic Federation says that It must be obeyed." In other words, he puts it up to them to make another compromise at the first opportunity. Motto for All Prophets. New York Tribune. Some one ought to Call President John Mitchells attention to the old adage, "Don't prophesy unless you know." Perquisites of Affability. Indianapolis News. Another evidence of what an able and af fable public official may accomplish Is shown by the testimony of the county treasurer at Cincinnati that ho gathered In between $15,000 and fc,000 "gratuities" without the least eftort In a year and a half. Sighs for the Lnrklees. Chicago Tribune. While sounding tho praises of the Amer ican hen for tho noble manner In which she has risen or sat down to the emer gency this winter, let us not forget to emit a sigh of sympathy for the man who oc cupies a cave of gloom In the center of a cold storage epg warehouse. General Please Don't I Portland Oregonlan. General Hates, the new head of the army. Is the first unmarried man who has held that position In fifty years. It may be hoped that h" will riot bo flattered and cajoled (as other men near the head of the army and navy In recent years have been) Into a late marriage with a young woman who will draw a pension a full generation after his death. A Rare Achievement. Pittsburg- Dispatch. The evidence that the Panama Canal commission bought steel rails from Amer ican mills for $1.60 to : per ton less than the American railroads have to pay puts that trust practice In a new light. It Is so unusual for the United States to get sup plies cheaper than other purchasers, and especially to get ahead of the railroads, that It deserves especial congratulations for owning an enterprise outside Its own territory. The Poetry of Romance. Washington Post. The day on which the wedding of Theo dore Roosevelt's daughter took place was heaven made. Night's curtain melted un der the early glints of gold low down In the east, there came a few moments of coloring such as sometimes marks the palette of a painter of pictures, and then the splendid burst of light as the sun climbed to its place in stately procession' until It had reached Its icnlth nnd be stowed Its full, voluptuous kiss upon the earth. Out of the northland came a sweetly tempering breexe, fanning cheeks already aglow and brightening eyes as If with lovc llght. All the world was athrob and vi brant with a holy Joy. Man Uoontcd by Ills Clothes. Memphis Scimitar. We now ikno;sVhy the Scepter is slowly passing from theliianda of the masculine. It Is because of his clothes. Miss Agnes Reppllcr, a Philadelphia es sayist and club woman, says so. She says so long as men wore costumes that "Interpreted their strength, enhanced their persuasiveness and concealed their shortcomings," so long women accepted them as masters. When men rashly abandoned the bright costumes that charmed the other sex they saw their finish. Miss Reppller thinks women were wise as serpents In not abating glad clothes, or words to that effect. Dress enhances woman's beauty and coijceals her defects. Her garb Is her weapon. She is following nature, as the bright-plumaged birds, and nature gives her ascendancy. And there you are. The situation seems hopeless. Either men must go back to velvet knee breeches and gold buckles, slashed doublet, lace trimmings, feathered hat and lingerie or let woman go on dominating. It Is up to man. THK DISGRACE OP OMAHA I. na met eristic rJaatrrn tomraeni on the Crone Verdict. Brooklyn Eagle. ' Several years ago' a noted thief and desperado numed Pat Crowe stole a child from Mr. Cudaliy of Omaha and held him for ransom. The money was paid, tho child waa liberated and Crowe fled the country, but recently cam back and be gan again to make his living by acts of dishonesty and violence. Having been caught he waa put on trial In Omaha. The trial resulted In complete proof of his guilt in the kidnaping cose, a letter hav ing been found that involved a full con fession. In face of the evidence a Jury of Omaha men has set theman free, and the mob In the court room,, that had ex pected the verdict, broke out cheering as the ruflian was acquitted. This is an extraordinary Incident to have occurred in a land of enlightenment, where the laws are supposed to reflect at least an ordinary morality, and where the courts are thought to be agencies of justice. It seemed hardly less remarkable to the peo ple of Omaha than to the rest of us. The day after the verdict became known the papers were filled with denunciations of the jury by representative citizens and the unpopularity of the jurors Is hardly less than that of Crowe. Indignation after ward, however, does not relieve Omaha from the responsibility for having turned over jury service to men of that caliber. The city must take responsibility for Its jurymen as well as for Its elected officials. The reason for the acquittal of Crowe Is to be considered, however, and it Is that many people hate Mr. Cudahy because he is a member of a trust that charges too much for beef. Because they hate the victim of a crime they will encourage meaner criminals to perpetrate other crimes against him, and. Incidentally, en courage brute conduct In the whole class to which Crowe belongs. Perhaps no mem ber of the Jury would steal Mr. Cudahy's son, or his money, yet, like a coward, he will stand for theft and outrage so long as Mr. Cudahy is the victim. Mr. Cudahy's business and personality had nothing to do with the question at Issue. It was the duty of the Jury to find In accordance with the fdence. and It would have been Its duty just the same had a child of Pat Crowe been stolen, instead of the son of a millionaire. Child stealing Is absolutely unforgivable and merits death. If Mr. Cudahy Is punishable for having raised the cost of meat let him be punished In the regular way. But after this exhibition of baseness and unlntelllgence, can we count on a rou t la punlsn hlra? Oinsha has Uiiraced civilisation. 1 AM MY GOSSIP H YVAMIIM.TOV arrent Events (.leaned from the Army and vy Register. There will be special Interest attache.' to the march of the Twelfth and Nine tenth batteries of field artillery from Fort Douglas, I'tah, to Fort D. A. Russell, Wya, It Is Intended that this transfer of artillery commands should be effected about Mare'i 1. but that was before it was decided to have the batteries proceed to their new station by marching. With the new plans In view it will be necessary to delay the departure of tiie batteries from Fort Doui; las for several weeks. The trip Is notable as being the first long distance mountain march of field battery. The route will In clude the use of the old Mormon trail across Utah and Wyoming. There continues to be confirmation of the very favorable Impressions entertained liy Aimy commissaries regarding the llreles cooker. The trials of that device of the dimensions and equipment sufficient to provide prepared food for an entire com pany, have been going on at Fort Riley and Captain Murray of the subsistence de partment, who takes a personal Interest In the work, reports very satisfactory re suits under the varying conditions of place and weather calculated to test the efficiency of the system. Tho latest experiments have been, conducted with the teinperaturo of 18 degrees and the subsistence officer hopes to have a bllixard on hand before the end of the season so the cooker may bo operated under the least favorable cir cumstances of climate. The results con tinue to be satisfactory. The general staff of the army has fol lowed Its well detlned policy In relation to the. wearing of badges with the uniform of the service. Last week the general staff had under consideration the recom mendation of Judge Advocate Oeneral Davis which was not In favor of the wear ing of tho insignia of the Society of Colonial Wars by officers of the army who may be members of that organization. It was considered that such a proposition Is contrary to the policy of tho War de partment to add to the number of society budges which officers and enlisted men are permitted to wear on their uniforms, it being very properly considered that there may be with great profit to personal ap pearance a limitation In authorized decora tion of this sort. Moreover, In this par ticular Instance the general staff remarked that It would be considered Inappropriate to wear on the uniform of the army any bndso that Included service under a flag other than that of the United States. A new feature, or at least a new term, crept Into the field equipment of the Ameri can soldier the other day when the secre tary of war approved of an order, officially known as Q. O. 23, War department, Feb ruary 2, 19i6, prescribing the arms and equipment of a soldier In the field, In cluding the kit of the infantryman and the calvaryman. Among tho articles men tioned as tho Authorized or prescribed kit of the enlisted man of the Infantry and cavalry arms In the field waa an "iron ration," a term which was described moro adequately by the parallietical titlo "emergency ration." This Is the first time anyone, outside of the general staff where the order originated, ever heard of an "Iron ration" In the United States army. It may be explained only on the ground that the title has been borrowed, with quite impartial appreciation of things European, from the ration or portion of the Germans, who have a three-day packet of food for the soldier In the field In time of emergency, which ration is known as the "elserne portion," or tho Iron ration, supposed to be so called because Its issue and use are governed by certain iron-clad rules naturally attached to the employ ment of such restricted provisions of tho troops. Tho United States army Is, ap parently, to have this "iron ration" In stead of the emergency ration, the composi tion being unchanged. BIG STICK AM) ITIK HFOR1C Washington Post: The pitchfork and the big stick are burled together, and two strange bedfellows again Illustrate the mys terious ways of Providence and politics. Kansas City Star: The president seems to be of the opinion that a "party" rate bill without any power to regulate the rail roads would be of precious little value to the republican organization. The fact that Aldrich and his heelers In the senate take issue with him has not weakened his po sition to a degree that Is perceptible to the people. Wall Street Journal: The report of the senate committee on Interstate commerce in favor of the Hepburn railway rate bill is a great triumph for President Roosevelt. The selection of Senator Tillman, who is the bitterest personal critic of the president, to take charge of the rate bill In the senate. Is a triumph for Senator Aldrich and other republican enemies of the president's rail way rate policy. Which Is the greater triumph? Indianapolis News: There may be a shrewd trick in putting Tillman, disliked by the president. In charge of the rate bill. But Tillman refuses to be considered a joke; and if his colleagues really put him forward In the hope that his prominence In connection with the measure would dis credit it, they are very like to find that they have overreached themselves. The aver age American citizen does not -take kindly to Joking and trickery In the conduct and discussion of tremendously serious affairs, and the people are very much in earnest on the rate question. PKRSONAI. XOTES. Dr. John C. Spry, who had a national reputation as an alienist and neurologist, has Just died in Chicago. An Iihaca woman has decided that as a descendant of Sir Francis Drake she will accept a fortune of 131.000,000 he Is said to have left. Net ions like this will crvs out In families absolutely without any taint of lusanity. Dr. Koch, the famous German e-inntlst. Is to toke charge of an expe.lltton to in vesligtite Bleeping sickness In German East Airlca. The Ocrrrau colonial department has abutted I3C0.00U toward the exoonss of t-e c jireitlt.on. Former President Cleveland has sold his farm lying a ehort distance outside of Princeton. He bought the farm soon after golnx there to live and intended to mako It an Industrial farm for poor boys. The proj ect proved a failure. Cor.spl" uoua by its absence from the c-tryo of a venel alxiut to Ivave the yort ot Brston for the familiar west coast of Africa Is Mrdford run. They say that lha brews of Munich and pllsener are now the porular drinks amng the heathen in the trcpical belt. Prof. Wllhelm Ostwald ot the University of I.elpslc. who has just returned home, after delivering a course of lectures at Harvard, gave us his impression of Amer ican student lift: "The personal Interest of the itudunts. next to their studies. Is concentrated alone on sport, which draws their attention altogether from Intellectual or aesthetic pursuits." William Waldorf Astor's son, John Jacob, who has just joined the British army. Is being tried nut as a lieutenant in the Life Guards, the crack cavalry regiment of the r.wvlce. An officer In one of the aristo cratic regiments must have a private In come running from 1500 to fcO.OO a year. The high figure Is a moderate estimate for Dainty Foods Demand It TN EVERY Receipt that calls for cream A of tartar, soda, or baking powder, use the Royal Baking Powder. Better results will be obtained because of the absolute purity and great leavening strength of the Royal. It will make the food lighter, sweeter, of finer flavor, more digestible and wholesome. It is always reliable and uni form in its work. ' Alum and phosphate baking powders some of them sold at the same price and some of them cheaper will make neither dainty nor wholesome food. ROVAJ. BAKINQ POWDER CO., NEW YORK STATE PRF.Rft COMMENT. Friend Telegraph: The State Journal says that Omaha Is making a bid for the criminal classes that they will not be slow to take advantage of. It strikes us that Lincoln is not so slow In that respect, in asmuch as the county attorney turned a "nigger" murderer loose without even a trial, Columbus Journal: In the matter of rate regulation, besides being weak and worth less the proposed railroad commission bill apparently vests the commission with no authority over express, telegraph and tele phone companies, over which It Is just as Important for the public to hold a restrain ing hand aa it Is the railroads. Llndsey Opinion: The Omaha Commer cial club has passed a set of resolutions asking congress to pass a bill to permit leasing of the public lands. How many of the club's members were ever west of Norfolk or know anything about the conditions aside from what has been told them by the representativees of the cattle Interests? Fremont Herald: The Omaha authorities are treating the Nebraska Telephone com pany Just as the country member of the legislature has been treating the railroad company for many years. The railroads have given tho members' free passes', and in return for the favor the members have killed all legislation not approved by tho railroad attorneys. Columbus Telegram: The Telephone trust is today breeding the same kind ofi trouble for Omaha which was many years ago bred for that city by the Banking trust. The greedy bankers of Omaha got together and began charging exchange against the checks from all the country hanks. Kansas City took advantage of the situation, threw down the bars, in vited a flood of deposits from Nebraska banks and holds them to the present day. It is almost remarkable that at the present time 20 per cent ot Nebraska bankers are carrying balances in the Kansas City banks. Omaha ought to have every dollar of that Nebraska money which now lodges In the vaults of the Kansas City banking houses, and might have had every dollar of It If he Omaha Bank trust had not driven It away from Omaha. It Is not too late for Omaha to wake up and win better stock of the confidence of Ne- braskans. All the state would be friendly to Omaha if It did not shun the friendship of the state so often. In this teleohoue business Omaha Is putting the loyalty of its outside friends to the severest test yet imposed. When the average American citi zen addresses anybody he expects an an swer; and when a person addressed re fuses to reply to a civil question there is liable to be a fight. Weeping Water Herald: The question of the independent telephone companies being admitted Into Omaha is being agitated by the Commercial club of that city and the wholesalers are directly interested in the matter. So far the breach between the Ne braska and Independent companies is as wide as ever. The former states that It has never yet connected with Independent lines, and intimates that it don't care to. and that it will either buy or sell. With a company rated In the millions and control ling the powers that be. It is a hard propo sition for outside companies to be admitted into the Inner circle except they pay the price, unless the business men of Omaha go after them and stay after them until they put to rout the councllmen who are agalni-t the movement. It is undoubtedly true that If the business men In the towns over the state could secure connection with Omaha wholesale houses through the Independent nystem, that many more order would go in, hut to have to leave their places of busi ness and wait some times an hour for con nection over the Nebraska system neces sitates too much tlmrt and trouh! for the average business man. If the ineenecdent people should get Into the metropolis It will be demanded that they have equally good service as the Nebraska copper wires and Ask Your OwnDoctor If he tells you to take Ayer's Cherry Pectoral for your severe cough or bronchial trouble, then take it. If he has anything .better, then take that, only get well as soon as possible, that's the object. Doctors have pre scribed this medicine for sixty years. We have no secrets! We publish the formulas of all our medicines. Um ay tte . O. Ar AIM BIIMI aTSB-a I ATS TIOOR-Iof the aaif. , ATKB'i gAiBaPAKILA-rsf tka Meat. good phones. If every business man who mails an order to a wholesale house adds a line to the effect that he wants connec tion over the Independent line It will help a great deal. Competition lowers prices, and In this fight you have all to win and nothing to lose. Fremont Herald: The Herald would Ilk to see a 2-cent passenger law enacted Ir) Nebraska. The railroads say this la a new state; that some parts of the stn'.e are sparsely settled and that they cannot afford to carry people for less than I cent per mile. We contend that under the present system the railroads of Nebraska do not get an average of 2 cents per mile In money for the passengers carried. Two would suit all the people except those who get the passes. The railroads alaa say that if the 2-cent law should be an acted In Nebraska it would be necessary to quit granting special rates to stale conventions of all kinds. The people woull not grumble at that, either. What the people do want Is a fair local passenger' rate and the proof that everybody ireaiea anse in the matter of payln tare. I.AIGIIIG OAS. . The groundhog merely retreated further Into his hole. "I said 1 wouldn't come out again for all weeks, he grumbled: "and I won t!" i I anting for fresh air, and fanning himself with his paws, he lay down and tried to go to simp again. Chicago Tribune. , Mattle Neigh Hurrah! Gum la getting cheaper. Irtola Dora How do you know? Mattle Neigh Don't you see that sign In the drug store window? "Gum Drops Five Cents." Cleveland Leader. Hicks What did she say? WtnkS uIlD IuIWa.1 fnr on t,A.. . . half. I . " . ' HickaxC.know. bu wtisj MM-roVaav? Iclcft T'tn ,lna.rw4 it I 1 1 .. . Bomervllle Journal. . She f pettishly) I don't aee why It is you And poker so fascinating. Her Husband It's the nueena In tha 4.t my dear. They remind me so much of you! Philadelphia Ledger. Miss Gabbell I'm stronger than tun mrm anyway. I can step up to a horizontal bar and chin it sixteen times. Miss Chilllcnn I have nn ilnukl r.t It 1 believe you could step up to that or any thing else and chin it all day long.-In-dianapolis News. "Yes." said the Chlcagoan. "he's got the queerest way o' drlnkln' his coffee." "Out of his saucer. I suppose." responded I enn. Of course, but I say he does It In a queer way. He holds his thumb under nea.th and his four fingers on top of the rim. 'Philadelphia Catholic Standard. v The attorney waa trying to ascertain the qualifications of the man In. the ehalr for Jury service. me ak yo"- Mr- Pankey." ha said. "If you know anything" "NO. Sir'" Intermnt Ari th nan I v. - limn, tutu 01 oeing questioned. v e 11 ias mm, your honor," aald t viiurnry. lnicago JTIDUne, A QIHSTIO OF TIME. Waahlngton Star. When first the statesman bold arrives He tella ua what he'll do To charge the current of men's Uvea In luwt a week or two. thousand politicians In the state are rld-(V f Ing on annual passes and 20.000 other pen J pie are given trip passes every year, li " a 2-cent passenger law would cause the fT railroads to cut off these passes, thtt V. And presently, ihoiurh naught can ahake Ai The courage he will show, '2 1 He says that he suspects 'twill take sti Z And then he gives with some aegret Kxprenlon to a fear; ' J But he avers he conquer yet; p perhaps within a year. "I And afler that he nays he e ! 1 Here the pathetic 'iurh A That for such great reforms as these A decade's not too much. And when his hair is tinged with white, With heart still stanch nnd good. He's sure thai thing will all come right JUKt as he said they wo'ild. Though people siod art vice neglect And reason oft an.l, ' Next gem-ration wilt terfe-t The things o'erlocked by this. UviU, at. SI1WI ATIB' PILL-For eoaatipatloa. ATIB't AOUB CO - atalana. aa4 affa. s cr f J "A 3 V'