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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY, MARCH f, 1!0(T. Tim Omaha Daily Bee. K. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Bee (without Sunday), one year In il V He and Sunday, one year , Illustrated H-e, one year HiinrtHf H-e, one year Saturday B-e, one year isn fj 1.50 DELIVERED UY CARRIER. Iallv Hee. (including Sunday), per week.. 17c I'lllr Hoe (without Sunday), per week.. ..lie Evening H-e (without Sunday), per week. M Evening Bee (with Sunday), per week. ...10c Sunday Bee. per copv 60 Address complaint of Irregularities In de livery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. i iiniilia The Bee Building. H-nili utna ha City Hall Building. coiinril Bluff -() I'eurl Street. Mi-ao lt.lo Cnlty Building. New York Home IJfe Ins. Rullding. Washington Ml Fourteenth Street. CURRESrONDENCE. Oiminunlratlons relating to news and ed Itorlal matter should be addressed: Omaha ilie, lidJlorlal Department. REMITTANCES. 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Subscribed In my presence and sworn to b.'fore mo this 2Mb day of, February, 19ut. (Seal) M. B. HUNUATE. Notary Public. MHKS OIT OP TOWX. Snhacrlbers leaving; Ike city tem porarily should have The) Bee mailed to them. Address will be ehauiced aa often as requested. "Mitko Oiuubu too Lot for crliniuuls." Itut you cannot do It by electing Walter Molse's niiii) for innyor. The greatest shortcoming of the 1m-li-ii(liiiK democratic love feast, wo fenr, w III Ih tho (leiirth of pie to puns around unions Hie Nebraska faithful. If John . Rockefeller (1H8 not do something to stop this decline In prices on Willi street lie tuny And his vacation cost inn him more than he expected. Now that the house, of representatives la short of work the members of con gress in IkIi t net rid of their stock cam paign speeches before the busy seusou lit-Klnn apiin. .1 list lee Otitic rslccvo' hits attain post poned the oil hearing In New York. This should Kive II. II. lingers time to be come "wise" to the situation and to run while he him a chance. The Htissian I'tlmr leader who com muted suicide to prov his honesty may have conformed to Russian standards, but in America self-destruction Is more usually taken as an admission of gnllt. '.Make Omaha too hot for criminals," is a Kood slogan, but In the Interval It would lie a good Idea to put the brakes mi the dally police gazettes that are breeding new criminals among us every day. It Is hardly befitting for any news paper published at Hastings to berate Omaha as a hot bed of lawlessness be fore the shrieks of the poor Chinaman recently tortured by Hastings hoodlums have died away. It remained for a German scholar to discover an official phase to the trip of Miss Roosevelt to the fur east. In America the belief has been that it proved to lie more o matter of sentiment thau of statecraft The czar has decided that hereafter Vladivostok shall le a port of entry. His proclamation may lie more effective than the effort of the mikado, who attempted to make it a port of entry for hU war ships uot so long ago. A Russian "blue' cross society has la'eu organized to care for persons af fected by present trouble In that laud. Apparently the word "ml" has a mean ing, to Russians not generally recog' ul.ed In other lands. If the telephone situation in Omaha has itccp simplified Into a demand for an additional telephone franchise, pure and .simple, mid an abandonment of the couipnlsory' connection foolishness, one step in advance has been taken. The generous concession of the rail Kinds In granting a special rate of a fare and a third to Lincoln for the gathering of the leaders of the democratic claus insures attendance of every self lui (xirtant democrat who ran scrape op a free pass. , Archbishop Glen no u of St Louis has taken tip the cry of, Bishop Scannell against the demoralizing influences of the yellow play. The objectionable (heater is not confined to any one city uor U the problem presented by It iu 5kny way a local one. J. The Railway Age calls upou Trent dent Roosevelt to take a decided staud tm the railway rale bill. If the special pletuler of the railway iuterests have Ut liccn doing a lot of unnecessary )toutlug. the Railway Age Is about the oiily railway com-vrn which has not found out that the president has not only takeu a position, but that the posl Uuu la well deuued. ITXL THF.r MAKE QO(r1 A pow-wow of so-called democratic leaders Is about to be held at Lincoln to outline the party iollrj in Nebraska and discuss plans for the coming cam paign. This meeting will give the democrats an opportunity to make good, If they are so disposed, on some of the promises made to the people in their lust state platform. Among the resolu tions promulgated by the democratic convention last fall were the following: We favor the passage at the next session of Nebraska's legislature of a law provid ing for the nomination of candidates for public office by the direct primary system. We fnvor the election of United States senators by direct vote of the people ns the only means of bringing that body Into harmony with the -oters. At the coming election the people of Nebraska will choose a candidate for United States senator, as well as can didates for otiier state offices. In mak ing their selection they will. In all probability, have to choose between nominees of the two great parties the republican and the democratic. If the democrats mean what they say In their platform they will let the rank and file of their party have something to say as to who shall be their nomi nees for these offices. True, their plat form declaration relates to n law pro viding for nominations by direct pri mary, but ther is nothing whatever to hinder the present party organiza tion putting Into effect at once ft rea sonably efficient direct priuinry system. The democratic organizations in the southern states have worked out and put Into operation direct primary sys tems of their own by which democratic candidates for 1'nlted States senator, as well as for state offices, are regu larly chosen without any legal legisla tive enactment on the subject. What has lwen done by the democratic or ganizations In Arkansas, Virginia, Mis sissippi and Georgia can be done In Nebraska. If the democrats sincerely favor the election of United States sen ators by direct vote, how can they op pose the nomination of their own can didates for United States senator by direct vote, and how can they escape the charge of indulging in political clap trap If they nullify their own conven tion declarations? Nebraska democrats have the chance to make the first move. Will they take it, or will they, as usual, dodge behind some frivolous pretext? FRAXCHISE I'illl'il TIOXS. The Illusory and protean character of a franchise Is freshly Illustrated by the valuations Insisted upon by a proprie tary corporation for the very different purposes of selling and of listing for taxation. The New York Central Rail road company officially demands the sum of $100,000,000 as the price of legal condemnation 'of Its franchise for the use of certain Important streets of New York City as right-of-way, and stands In open court with drawn sword to re sist any lesser compensation. Last year the state board assessed the same fran chise at $1,480,000, In spite of the com pany's vehement protestation that such assessment Is excessive and confisca tory, and the company Is today in court resisting the enforcement of valuation at that figure, for taxation as strenu- otisly'as It Is at the same time Insisting as a seller upon the higher price. The New York case Is notable, but not unique. It by no means snrpasses the preposterous feat of the Nebraska railroads which on a notorious occasion established In court by their own wit nesses the fact that the total value of their terminals and rights-of-way in Omaha was In excess of $20,000,000 and later caused the same value to vanish utterly from the assessment roll under pretense of distributing it on a mileage basis throughout the state. Perhapg some day a rule may be found good enough to work loth ways on the franchise chameleon. XO TERRITORIAL LTMIT The assumption that a president of the United States Is not permitted by the constitution to go outside of the na tlonal jurisdiction, although entertained quite commonly. Is not well founded There Is nothing whatsoever In the su preme law to prevent President Roose velt from visiting Kmperor William on German soil, or In fact from passing our own frontier into foreign parts whenever ho may have occasion or de sire so to do. The only constitutional provision liear Ing even remotely on this question Is the one which 'specifies that in case of the president's "iuubillty to dis charge the twers nnd duties of said office the same shall devolve on the vice president." There hns lxen spec ulation, for the most part of a far fetched and hair-splitting character, on the point whether absence of the presi dent from his country constitutes' "ina bility" to discharge the duties of his office. But obviously and by agree ment of competent minds mere ab sence I by Itself would not create the condition that would devolve the presi dential powers on the vice president The president might be abroad under conditions which would constitute dis ability, and those conditions were In comparably more conceivable In 1787 than they are In the present state of communications and international com ity. Indeed, disability might then easily have arisen from an absence which did not take the presideut ont of territory now included In our coun try. The president U commander-in- hief of the army and navy. If we Mipisme him to take command lu iiei-son and military necessity to require him to cross the boundary there would result this absurdity, from the familiar error as to the constitution, that that act ipso facto would work temporary forfeiture of office and he would cease to be com-r-suder-le-chlef , , . But such views W-hmg to the realm of speculation and have no practical bear ing whatever. If Theodore Roosevelt should visit Germany he would lie there as much president of the United States as William would le emperor of Ger many while a visitor here. JOHX Af. SCHOFlELlK The death of General .lohn M. Scho tleld removes the last of the regular army officers who achieved high rank and fame during the civil war. He will be associated In history with the brilliant group of successful soldiers of that period, whose most conspicuous figures are Grant, Sherman, Sheridan and Thomas. None of these served continuously so long In the regular armj- or In such varied employments as General Schofleld, who entered the military academy at West Point as a cadet In 1840 and did not retire till 1805, when as lieutenant general he hnd long been the ranking officer of the army. General Schofleld's enreer during the civil war demonstrated that he was an accomplished soldier, of solid Judgment, as well ns of brilliant initiative and dash, and never failing In emergency. From the outbreak to the close of the war he was therefore Invariably chosen for serious and difficult duty. The Im portance of his service, although under stood by nil special students, has never received the popular recognition It de served. Hut it Is known that It was Schofleld who broke the backbone of Hood's army In the desperate fighting at Franklin, Teun., and there paved the way for its complete annihilation a little later by the national forces con centrated under Thomas at Nashville. It was a critical time In the great na tional struggle, when the fierce-fighting rebel general. Hood, a classmate of Schofleld at West roint, swept north from Atlanta In the fall of 1804 against Sherman's communications, aiming at an objective lieyond the Ohio. Schofleld was ordered to oppose him, so ns to gain time to gather the detachments scattered over that region Into an effect ive force. The masterly skill with which he conducted his retreat and nil the collateral movements, until he was able to turn and strike Hood at Frank lin Is now acknowledged by military critics to be one of the finest demonstra tions of generalship In -the war. Nor was the fatal force of the blow there struck fully revealed till manv years afterward, when the confederate war records were published. The ultimate result was to clear the whole interior of the country and set Sherman free In his famous march to the sea. By such achievement Schofleld rose from the rank of captain to that of major general In the regular army be fore the close of the civil war. Ills military services after the war were Important and honorable. Besides be ing a typical fighter he was a gentle man of learning and culture. He acted ns secretary of war at a difficult time toward the close of Johnson's adminis tration and filled many other Important assignments at home and abroad, al ways with credit. A challenge to mortal combat is in order between the city attorney of South Omaha and the city attorney of Omaha. Nothing less thau blood ven geance can wipe out the affront con lained in the declaration of the South Omaha city attorney that he does not give n fig leaf for the opinion of the Omaha city attorney as to the meaning of the law governing the appointment of judges and clerks of primary elections, A mere disagreement on legal technical ities might be passed up as harmless, but the South Omaha city attorney publicly adds that the Omaha city at torney had given out eight or ten opin ions on the election law which had all been turned down by the supreme court, Intimating that the only safe rule to follow Is to ascertain how the Omaha city attorney coustrues the law and then read it the other way. When doc tors disagree we know "what to do, but when lawyers accuse each other of knowing no law we are all up a stump. Here is another iwlitical howdy-do. A factional schism Is threatened among the socialists of Omaha, who are deny lug the right of one another to liear the party standard without first paying dues to the International organization. The socialists have slept upon their rights by not registering written remon s trances within three days against the filings that are now questioned. The state of Nebraska does not recognize pre-payment of dues to any society as one of the qualifications for office. We might, however, have had an Interest ing session over a contest for the use of the party name and at the same time obtain some additional light as to Just what makes a man a socialist. The suggestion that the. money raised In aid of Japanese sufferers be used to buy corn In America to be sent to Japau conies from Michigan. The shipment might also be made In American ships. thus eucouraging another American in dustry, but as the Japanese are not fa miliar with the use of maize the gift would savor too much of selfishness to be appreciated. Ills Real Motive. Washington Post. Dr. Hadley, president of Yale, says the Hepburn bill la "Illogical and impracti cable," but he would like to see It paaaed by congress. In other words, he wants th supreme court to earn its wages. The t'rarlal Teat. Chicago News. Judge Eandls has ruled that the Intur state Commercv commission has power ti compel witnesses to answer questions. Now all that It needs la power to compel them to tell the truth. Praetleal Theft. Philadelphia Record. The giving of a rebate to one customer that Is denied to other customers on similar terms by a public service cor poration 1 a practical theft.. If It be done with the -consent of the corporation the stealing comes out of the pockets o competitors who are unequally served. If It be done without the consent of the cor poration Its stockholders are robbed. The penalty should be made to fit the crime fine and Imprisonment, especially Imprison ment. A few rebaters In Jail, there would be an end of rebating. flattery for m Purpose. Chicago Chronicle. And now comes our old and excellent friend James Rryce of the new British cabinet with the highly flattering assur ance that Vncle Sam Is just the rerson to deal with the slrk man and "do something for the Armenians." It Is the fashion these days for European statesmen who have hot Jobs to do and would rather not burn their own fingers to pass them along to the "new world power" with some compli mentary remarks to the effect that It Is Just the expert to do them all with neat ness and dispatch. But It was hardly to have been expected that Mr. Bryce would urn the sick man over to us In this smil ing fashion. Seaalble and Sound. Springfield (Mass.) Republican. What Senator TUIman, the new manager of the president's rate measure, says of the Interstate Commerce commission is worth considering: Rut, for one, I am not Inclined to ac cord to the members of the Interstate Com merce commission any less patriotism or good judgment thnn is accorded to the judges on the bench. They, In both In stances, are appointed by the president and confirmed by the senate, and I think on can he trusted as well as the other. I do not fear that this commission Is going to establish rates that will be confiscatory, and I think we will be able to trust the commission." vt iiu all respect for their honors on the bench. It Is hardly republican or demo cratic or sensible to suppose that the courts are the only repositories In the gov ernment of a sense of justice or disposition to deal fairly. RAILROAD MOTOR CARS. Progress of Experiments with Sub stitutes for Steam Power. New York Tribune. Railway managers In this country and Kurope have for several years been wrestling with the Question how to trans port passenger trains on branch roads where the traffic Is so light that the use of the ordinary locomotive is a piece of extravagance. On such lines It evidently would pay to run electric cars, operated from a distant station by means of a third rail or overhead wire. For more reasons than one It would not pay to run electric ears operated from a distant station by means of a third rail or overhead wire. For moro reasons than one It would be In advisable to abandon the service alto gether. The only other plan which has been suggested is to provide single cars with their own propelling mechanism; but, while the scheme Itself is rational and com mendable, there la much diversity of opinion about the best means of carrying it Into execution. No less than four meth ods are now being tried, and there Is yet no agreement among engineers on any one of them. Perhaps the least promising one, which Is still regarded with favor on the continent of Europe relies on the storage battery. British railroad men have shown a preference for small steam engines. In the United States two other systems are now being tested. The I'nlon Pacific and some other western roads are experiment ing, or Intending to experiment, with simple gasoline engines, while certain eastern roads are looking into the merits of a com bination of gasoline, dynamo and electric motor. It is worthy of note, however, that two or three different ways of making such a combination have been proposed. In Its last Issue the Railroad Gazette makes a suggestion to American railroad men. It first points out, as the Tribune has already done, that both of the plans which are on trial In the United States have up to the present time been open to criticism. With the gasoline engine pure nd simple speed regulation has been found unexpectedly difficult. The gasoline electric mechanism is needlessly compli cated and expensive. What Is more, the Internal combustion engine has practically no reserve of power. It cannot meet an extra, tax on a heavy grade, as the steam engine does. Accordingly, the Railroad Gazette thinks It possible that the steam motor ma eventually carry off the honors. To be sure, It has not yet proved an over whelming success In England, but our con temporary believes that the chief fault Is with the kind of boiler that has hitherto been most extensively used. Surprise Is ex pressed that no experiments have been made with a steam car equipped with a flash" holler. Precedents established by the steam automobile encourage a hope that a railway coach can be designed which will develop the necessary speed at the start. To Insure a test of the mechanism here recommended co-operation between car builders, engine builders and railway com panies Is necessary, but the venture would probably not prove very expensive. It la to be hoped that the spirit of enterprise among the men most Interested In the mat ter has not all been expended on the ex periments already in progress. The broader the field of investigation the better the promise of satisfactory results. It would not he strange If the clew offered by the Railroad Gasette should lead the way out ot the labyrinth of existing uncertainty. PERSONAL XUTKH, With a salary of 150,000 a year, Engineer Wallace, late of the canal, will have small dtmculty in smothering any lingering re. gret. President Roosevelt has reappointed lion. Edward T. Kent as Chief Justice of Arlxo ua. He comes ot a family of eminent jur ists and Is an Indefatigable student. President Roosevelt s favorite breakfast Is corn pone with New Orleans mulasses, bacon, watercress and a big baked potato. He likes beans If they are served the Uua ton way, a habit which survives his old Harvard days. The law nrm of Putnam & Putnam, In Westtield, Mass., consists of husband and wife. Mis. Putnam was admitted to the bar last week. She began the study of law three years ago out ot Interest In her bum band's profession and soon decided to try fur the bar. Spencer Eddy, first secretary of the American embassy at St. Petersburg, has arrived In Chicago to spend three weeks with his parents. He will be married to Miss Eurline bpreckiea of San Francisco, lu London about April zu and will begin tils diplomatic duties at the Russian capital again May 1. The royal family of Sweden, Spain and Italy all own lots In New York. Kaiser Wd helm owns sevrrl parcels of New lork land and has been for some years a heavy in vestor in western property. The king of England inherited from his mother a piece of real estate on Nassau street In Nes York. King Edward owns some thousands of acres of western land. The National Educational association will soon have a chance to change the spelling of several English word, such change hav ing been recommended by a committee of school superintendents. If the change Is adopted for our public schools, the young will flnd spelling quite a new business but our nstlve tung will presumably be red with enuf additional plesure to make us for get how ruf and tuf it seemed lu the U-gin- ning. HIT OF Hr.4IIISHTO LIFE. Minor Scenes and Incidents Sketched on the Spot. Persistent agitation and Insistent publlo sentiment travels a rocky road before It I crystallised In legislation at Washington. The atmosphere at the national capital repels the fresh, pure sir of the country. The element of Its markeup Is contentment with what Is. But changes are brought about which startle and amase the special Interests entrenched In Washington. The great est change wrought In recent years concerns the regulation of railroad rates. "Three years ago, when I first came here," says Congressman Townsend of Michigan, "my views on the railroad Question were Jeered at. This winter the whole country has seen a scramble for the honor of being known as the author of a rate bill that has even the smallest chance of passage. Three years ago so many of my colleagues laughed at me that I wondered whether I was really so outlandish In my Ideas of what the lawmaking power ought to do to curb the growing and Illegal power of the corporations that had been chartered for the most beneficent purpose of all that of making it possible for persons and prop erty to be transported to the best market, no matter how far away that might be." "Less than three years ago," writes a correspondent of the Pittsburg Dispatch, "Robert Marlon IjiFollette was a good deal of a joke In this part of the country. But he Is not a Joke today. When he rose In his place In the senate yesterday every line In his face indicated full comprehen sion on his part of the fact that times have changed and that this Is the day of the men who have insisted for years that there Is need of reform In the management of public utility corporations. The populists have ceased to be a political entity. They have not one man In either house of con gress calling himself a populist. But their Ideas are there, just as a few years ago the long-bearded Peffer, the sour-looking Pettlgrew, the noisy William Vincent Allen and a handful of others were there In the flesh. They talked, incoherently of course, about the abuses of the railroads, whereupon everybody laughed at them. "The hurt that the abuses of power by railroad officials is now doing was not so perceptible then as now. Men who were being squeesed thought the squeezing was only temporary and that by their own efforts they would be able to bring about proper conditions. Now, however, as the Federal Coal company asserted, the exac tions of, the railroad officials Interested In Industries along the lines they manage are turning some ot the most substantial citi zens Into agitators. "But nobody laughed when Senator La Follette said that the two railroads that cross Indlun Territory are trying to steal the very valuable coal lands in their terri tory. LaFollette stood up In the senate confident of himself and defiant toward the rules and usages of the senate which seek to deprive a new senator of two or three years of his first term the very years when his ideas are still those he received during his contact with the people. 'LaFollette stood up wearing the air of a man who told those around him that he had a commission from the people and that as he had most recently come from them his right to speak was really better than that of those who had been there longer. Every word he said came forth as if crowded out by the vast store back of it struggling for exit. Ills effort waa to say as much In as few words as possible, so As tf get them said in the time he could spare to devote to that part of his work. He made motions, demanded a roll call and acted just as if he had been In the senate for years, knew all his rights and proposed to have them. 'And what a voice is that of LaFollette! Resonant as a silver bell and as clear as tho clearest crystal. It Is no trick for a public speaker to make himself heard all over the senate chamber by raising his voice a little. LaFollette, however, did not appear to lift his voice at all. He ap peared to be talking in a conversational tone, but there never was the slightest trouble in hearing him. He talks like a man who will always have something worth while to say. His first essay into the tur moil of the senate indicates that he will make good in that body all the promises that have been made for him." Representative Capron of Rhode Island sent a bundle of government seeds to a rich friend of his who lives at Pawtucket. The friend grew some carrots and a few days ago sent to Capron two of the oar. rots and a sample of what a gentleman farmer can do with the seeds of his country. He also wrote a long joking let ter asking for more seeds. This was Representative Capron's reply: "Dear Sir: Acknowledging your es teemed favor, with two specimens of two carat carrots, I feel It my duty to inform you that our beneflclent Uncle Samuel sends out two general kinds of seed; on to actual farmers and those who need food products for actual needs as such: the other to debutante and dilettante agri culturists who enjoy experimentation with fertilizers, and whom a paternal govern ment hopes to Induce to actually, . practi cally, personally perform with a hope to keep down the weeds which would choke the growth of hoped-for crops, as well as to eliminate the weeds of error from the heart of the would-be bucolic cltisen. "Properly manured and cultivated these carrots would have attained a growth of from two to four feet in length and twelve to twenty inches circumference. I beg you, therefore, not to become discouraged, but to plant the several varieties I shall send you as early as January 20. Carrots should be planted four feet below the sur face and the trenches filled with fertiliser one foot below and one foot above the seeds. "Until the middle of April irrigate with distilled hot water or hot Scotch, twice dally. Salt and pepper according to taste. A chain fall Is commonly used In pulling these vegetables. The Department of Ag riculture confidently expects much of you and requests further reports. Sincerely yours. A. B. CAPRON." Representative Castor of Pennsylvania, who died yesterday and In whose memory the house adjourned today, was a tailor. When he waa first elected a Philadelphia correspondent wanted to write a sketch about him. He asked a Phlladelphlan who Castor was. "Why," said the Phlladelphlans, "Castor Is a 'brltches'-bullder." Whereupon the correspondent wrote a glowing article about Representative Cas tor, "who," he said, "made his fortune and acquired much reputation as a builder of bridges." Because of his youthful appearance. Con gressman Dawes of Ohio has been a vic tim of embarrassing circumstances mora than once since his arrival In Washington. The other day be was struggling through a crowd which hung around the main en trance to the house, when an assistant doorkeeper called to one of the attaches: "Say, stop that young fellow. Don't let hlra In there." Explanations followed, and Mr. Dawes, looking five years younger than ever because of his blushing cheeks, hurried Inside. ' Time Will Tell. St. Louis Globe Democrat. The last time Senator TUIman spoke on the administration he shedi tears. There is no telling who will weep over tils manage u.ent of the rale bilL . Fifty Years OEAM A Cream of Tartar Powder rJlado From Grapco No Alum STATE) PRESS COMMENT. Arcadia Champion: Omnha is having a city campaign that is attracting- attention. It takes In the state adminlslrtions of for mer Governor Savage and Governor Mickey In Its scope, and Is the usual fight between decency and a wide open policy in the city affairs. Rosewater Is the man who Is lead ing In the fight for a better condition of things, and we hope and believe that he will win. Chappell Register: Many of the poli ticians of the west end of the state. In replying to candidates for state office who have asked for support, have made it plain to them that they would support no one who was not In favor of redisricting the senatorial and representative districts. This is a good plan and every man in the west ern part of the state especially and some of the eastern counties should see to It that this was made one of the Issues of the fall election. Kearney Hub: Tho Omaha Bee Is qulto right In declaring that no half-way meas ure will settle the telephone controversy In Omaha and that an actual settlement means either one company or two com panies. Then It follows quite naturally that a monopoly of the telephone business of the largest city In the state cannot be held a great while longer by the Bell com pany. The business men of that city and especially the city councllmen will probably make this discovery at the eleventh hour. Central City Record: This paper has never had much use for Senator Dietrich, but It Is now willing to give him a good long credit mark for at least one highly creditable action. A few nights ago a gang of drunken ruffians in Hastings Jumped on to an Inoffensive Chinaman of that city and nearly killed him, ,poundlng him up In a most brutal fashion. For the detection and conviction of the miscreants the senator has offered a liberal reward. We have no doubt the senator will willingly pay the sum offered, and we hop he will have a chance to do so. If ever we feel called upon to comment caustically upon Dietrich in the future this act of his will incline us to mellow somewhat our remarks. RATE DiscniMiNno. Learnl' Knoekont for Coal Dealing! Railroads. Chicago News. The decision Just rendered by the United States supreme court in the case of the Chesapeake & Ohio is likely to have an important bearing not only on railways that mine coal, but also on any companies that carry their own commodities by rail. The principles laid down In the decision are of wide application. The Chesapeake A Ohio had contracted to buy coal In West Virginia, transport it to Connecticut and deliver It there at 12.75 a ton. At this rate, the rond, after paying for the coal at the mines, received only 28 cents a ton for transportation, though the published rates for the distance are $1.45 a ton. The In terstate Commerce commission brought suit for a violation of the act forbidding a de parture from the published rate. The supreme court In passing upon the case grants the Injunction sought by the commission and lays down the broad prin ciple that a carrier "may not take Itself from out the statute simply by electing to be a dealer and transporting a commodity In that character." The prohibition against charging less than the published rates Is held to be all-embracing, applying to every method of dealing by which the forbidden result could be brought about. Th fact that the road giving a low rate substan tially amounting to a rebate In this form waa the only one to suffer loss does not alter the character of Its offense as a violation of law. Furthermore, the court points out, any road Indulging In such practices would be able "to concentrate In Its pwn hands the products which were held for shipment along Its line and to make It, therefore, the sole purchaser thereof and the sole seller at the place For Coughs and Colds There is a remedy over sixty years old Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. Of course you have heard of it, probably have used it. Once in the family, it stays; the one household remedy for coughs and colds. Ask your own doctor about it. Do as he says. Wc have no secrets We publish the formulas of all our medicines. SUee y the . O. Art Oe., Lewell, Msu. Alee ataufmrs f ATBI'f MAIM TlOOa Fer tks eau. AYSK'S PULa-fer eosjttMtlM. AUKa ilUtfUlUi- et tks kleos. A TUB'S A0UB COkJt-Fef auterta sal ifM. tho Standard where the products were to be marketed In other words, to create an absolute monopoly." It remains to be seen how far this de cision affects companies which, like thu beef-packing corporation or the Pennsyl vania coal roads, actually produce the commodities that they ship and do not merely buy them. The prlnolplu laid down, however, trenches closely upon that In volved In these other cases. It dedans substantially that any practice whk-h "di rectly or Indirectly" admits of a rebate or preferential rate or other discrimination Is an instrument of monopoly and there fore Illegal. Apparently that would stump as Illegal any arrangement by which a reduction of rates Is hidden away In tin form of a reduced price of the commodity transported to the consumer. Taken in conjunction with other court decixlons, the opinion Is gratifying as calculated to strengthen the hands of the Interstate Commerce commission and as denoting the breadth of the powers which congress may delegate to that body. PASS1. Pl.KASAXTRIF.S. "And you are ready to forgive you; daughter for eloping with me, sir." "Yes, I'll treat her kindly. The poor sill will be sufficiently punlKtied In having you for a husband." Cleveland Leader. Mistress Whom can you give as a n ference? New Girl Shure, here's the folne wan vex wrote yersllf Bix mouths ago. New York Sun. "Lady," said Meandering Mike, "I'd like to trust to yer generosity fur somethln' to eat." "You're the same man that I gave a meal to day before yesterday." "I am. I couldn't keep away from de cookln'." Washington Star. "George, what Is all this talk about a uniform divorce bill? What is a uniform divorce ?" "It's a technical term, my dear. Just as soon as the bill becomes a law people who get divorces will have to wear a uniform." "Well, Well. Isn't that a shame?" Cleve land Plain Dealer. "In these days of wholesale adulteration how is one to distinguish the bogus article from the genuine?" "Y'ou can't. The manufacturers are sharp enouKh nowadays to charge Just as much for it." Chicago Tribune. Mr. Stoplate That lamp appears to be going out. Mihs Tersllep And yet they wiy inan imate objecta have no Intelligence! Cleve land Leader. "Oh. George!" sighed the romantic girl, "I wish you were like the old-time knights: I wish you'd do something brave to show your love for me." "Grarlous!" cried her fiance, haven't I agreed to marry yon. and me only gettlnK $30 a week?" Philadelphia Ledger. AS IT UOKS. New York Times. This world Is such a Joyous place There's naught but pleasure in It! (I have neuralKla In my face Excuse me just a minute.) The whole earth teems with fragrant bliss For good all things are turning (Now what confounded news is this? They say my home Is burning.) Rare treasures lie on every hand Karth flows with milk and honey; (You'll have to let that old bill stand I haven't any money.) Love lives enshrined In every heart. And virtue is a Jewel. (My wife and I have got to part There's going to be a duel.) Sweet fancies still In childhood lurk-. Our Infants, how they court them! (Those kids of mine have got to work They know I can't support them.) How sweetly time may ring its clilmsl Old age, how grand, how pleasant! (That old man's been In Jul! three limes. And should be there at present.) How gently doth remembrance speak Of those in death now lying. (That skinflint. Jones, who died lust week- What wondrous Kick, his dying!) How beautiful Is life! How gay! What rapture to be living! (If poets care not what they say And readers are forgiven.) T r i