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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1IKMT. The Omaha Daily Bee. E. ROBEWATER. EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERT MORNING. TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION. Dally B-e (without Sunday), one year. ..MOO I'slly Kee and Sunday, one year Illustrated Bee. one year IW Ktindny,IIe, one year IM Saturday Bee, one year ISO t DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Dally Bee (Including Sunday), per week..l7o Dully Bee (without Sunday), per wp ...j Kvenlna- Bre (without Sunday), per week. o Evening Hoe (with Sunday), per week. ...10c Hunrtay Bee, wr copy oa Address complaint of irregularities in de livery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omntia City Hall Building. Council Bluffs 10 Pearl Street. hlajigo iwo Unity Building. New Ynrk-lS. Home Life Ins. Building. 1'-.UI r , i tL Oteul CORRESPONDENCE. Communlcatlona relating to news and ed itorial matter should be addressed: Omaha lire. Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, espress or postal order payable to The Bee Publishing Company. 'nly J-rent stamps received a payment of hum I accounts. Personal checks, except on Onwha or eastern ectian(tes, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Doug'aa County. ss: f. rr. Roaewater, aecretary of The Bee Publishing company, being duly sworn, says that the actual numner of full and complete coplea of The Dally. Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month -of February, WO, wu aa fol lows 1... 81.4UIO 15 81.860 I....' 81.MO 1 3340 i. at.Boo n aao I 2,830 It JM,J0 1 81,780 1 81,800 ...., II 1,710 20.. 81.STO 7...U S1.5VM) 81,820 I Sl.-tRO 22 SUMO t 81,490 23 81,430 It 33,720 M 82.0BO 11 SO.eOO 26 2D.2SO 12 81,3(10 24 81,300 13 Illl tl 81.4AO 14 81,200 28 , 81,380 Total Less unsold copies .... 878.210 9,lii Net total sales 8H,04M Daily average 81,374 C. C. ROBEWATER Secretary. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 2Sth day of February, (Seal) M. B. HUNQATE. Notary Public. WHG.1 OCT OF TOWN. Subscribers leaving the city tem porarily ahoald bar The Bee mailed to them. Address will be chaaaied as often aa requested. Nebraska democracy has stated iu Iosltlou outside the pasture and ex (MMliiiKly hungry. ('Iialriimn Hhonts Is playing safe when he says he will be governed by the wishes of President Roosevelt. Senator Roott has maintained the tra ditions of West Virginia, but the life of I hose traditions may he cut short be fore very long. Iu all probability the rentier axiom that "dead ' men tell no tales," had something to do with the return of An drew Hamilton. New York boast 12,000 policemen. Aud yet even they could not prevent a boy from being Crowe-uaped In mid day and held for a 120,000 rausom. The tear Is evidently of the opinion that although he will let the people chirp at the horses he must continue to drive the team to pave It from destruc tion. tjrent Britain wants equal treatment with Germany In the matter of trade with the United States, but as it has little more to give It Is hard to make a trade. , Wyoming Is complaining of the in crease of predatory animals. It was supposed the Nebraska wolf bounty had lured them all over to our side of the boundary. Senator Dolllvers remark, "Every Iowa man has done his duty," Is one that V'ould also sound well for the Ne brnsktt congressional delegation when It Is put In the balance. The proposition to employ as chief of Hi Moroccan police force an army offi cer from neither France nor Germany may give mi opportunity to some Amer ican who wants his star to shine under tropla skies The Grain exchange has made a re markable showing of business for Its second." year. If It can keep up this puce It will have 'all the others dis tanced before It celebrates many more anniversaries. The Omaha fakcries should take out a patent for Increasing their circula tion by a systematic process of Blow! Blow! JrlLOW! It Is so easy to count four pages for a paper and double chalk mark the tally. i We ar told by the senior Omahn fakery that during the month of Feb ruary It beat Its own record in lung expansion and circulation paddlug by 3,000 Inches. That boats the census padder of IKK) out of sight With a Georgia man selected to lead lite democratic congressional campaign, the country may expect a revival of state's rights doctrines as opposed to certain popular demauds but not in the north until after the votes are counted. 1 The last time be aspired to nomina It ion, the local democratic organ bolted J Tom Uoctor in advance and said ha I was not entitled to the support of any true democrat. Wonder what it will '.do now that he has corralled the demo Vratlc nomination for mayor of Koutu Omaha? The New York grand Jury which asked advice of a Judge regarding the wisdom of returning indictments . igalnst certain persons preseuted to 'ihetu by the district attorney showed a 'disposition to W fair, but grand juries have resHnsibiiitics which they must -discharge and which Ihry t-auuot uu kd tu the court. MflHT OF WA Y FOR THK RA TF. HILL. What can le accomplished by the pressure of public opinion Is again aeon In the fact that the rate bill has practi cally been given right-of-way over the senatorial trunk line to which It was transferred after emerging from the honse of representatives. There is no question but that the orig inal plan of the railroad engineers was to sidetrack the measure and to break down its running schedule by sending It over roundabout routes in hope that it would be stalled on the sidings and never reach the destination terminal. The railway conductors In the senate, however, have not ltecn able to execute their orders, but. on the contrary, have been compelled to come out In the open and attempt to flag the rate bill on the main track. The result Is that the other measures pending before the senate, although many of them are of great public im portance, will have to be waved aside until the rate bill controversy Is dis posed of one way or the other. When It comes to a showdown, unless conditions change materially In the Interval, the rate bill special will go right through without stopping more than once or twice for water or throwing out any considerable amount of ballast. PROGRESS OF PRIMARY REFORM. The discussions of reform of the pri mary and election laws at the second annual conference under the auspices of the National Civic federation have been instructive. President Oscar S. Strauss, in his opening remarks, George Fred Rush of Chicago, who drafted the first primary law of Illinois, and Speaker Lenroot of the Wisconsin as sembly In carefully prepared addresses gave forceful and cheering accounts of progress in the movement to make gov ernment more directly responsive to the people by getting rid of election and nominating methods which are so no toriously abused by the manipulations of party bosses and representatives of special Interests. The Important fact stands out In these accounts that experience under the di rect primary, so far as It has gone In Wisconsin. Illinois and elsewhere. Is en couraging to those who have led In the arduous struggle with the forces fight ing to keep the direction of public af fairs as far as possible from the hands of the people. The very adoption of the primary reform by legal mandate has been a signal defeat of those cor rupting forces, for they have Invariably resisted it with all the formidable pow ers at their command. It is not sur prising that the evidence of the neces sity of the change thus furnished by Its enemies should be reinforced by the tes timony of its friends as to Its beneficial results. Such conferences connot fall to accel erate the movement for free and cleansed primaries which Is going for ward so rapidly In many of the states which have not yet embodied the reform In law. It Is noteworthy that already there Is nowhere a community which has not been stirred by the agitation for primary reform and very few Indeed In which the question has not yet be come a Hvo political lssne. STATE AFTER ISTERSTATE. The action of the lower house of the Ohio legislature, which by an over whelming vote has passed a measure creating a state railroad rate commis sion clothed with plenary powers to deal with the whole subject, only antic ipates by a short time what will be done under one form or another by many other states In the union. Some states, indeed, have already long since made much progress In actual control of transportation rates within their sev eral Jurisdictions and iu the correction therein of wrongful discriminations and other abuses, but in point of fact most of the early state commissioner laws and laws purjortlng to regulate rates, although accomplishing some good, have not gone to the root of the matter. The difference between these earlier attempts aud the state rate legislation which is sure as fate now to follow is that the public will no longer le satis fied, with anything short of veritable and absolutely enforclble control of the carrier tolls exacted from the earning capacity of the whole community. The day has gone by when the mere legal form or promise of control without sub stantial effect will suffice. The meas ure passed by the Ohio house under takes to reach, with reference to state hauls and rates, the same ends which the champions of public control have in view with reference to Interstate com merce. Obviously the nation-wide strug gle to reduce transportation corpora tions to subordination would prove In large part futile If It should stop with the .enactment of the most stringent measure which Is likely to pass congress, and If It were not supplemented by bringing the full ower of the several states to bear on railroad freight and other charges within their exclusive Jur isdictionespecially of states like Ne braska where such arbitrary over charges and discriminations on local hauls are extorted now, as they have been from the beginning, and where anything looking toward public control has been utiiforiuly lmotent and far cical. One of the most effective wetiKna heretofore of the corporations for fight ing separate state effort to regulate local charges Is falling from their hand. For with iiational control established the corporations cannot effectually pun ish a state by arbitrarily raising luter tate charges on the commodities in which it may be vitally Interested, as they were formerly wont to threaten and do with great effect. And with the states following in u,P wake of the great movement now rearing Its crisis st Washington li nil! lie liiiKKhle to t cuitcentratc aa effectively as formerly the corporation powers of resist; noe In nnv on state. 11H ATS THE MATTER WITH OMAHAt While Omaha has made greater strides In commercial and Industrial growth during the past two years than during -any period of Its history, and while more buildings of every description are being erected In Omaha within the past year than in any other city of Its population In the country, there Is an undercurrent of dissatisfaction with existing condi tions In this community that should I proted. The recent murderous assault upon Frank N. Clarke In the very heart of the city by highwaymen strongly confirms the prevailing Impression that Omaha Is badly policed. Just as periodic losses by fire have created the impression that Omaha's fire department Is lacking Iu efficiency. There Is a chronic complaint that the streets of Omaha are not as clean as those of other cities, and com plaints are frequently heard that Omaha streets are not rb well lighted as those of other cities. That there Is n great deal more truth than oetry Iu these complaints must be conceded by all who are. familiar with existing conditions. The question is, Who is to blame and where Is the rem edy? Conceding that other cities much letter policed than Omaha are Infested by highwaymen and their people like wise subjected to murderous assuults, It Is true nevertheless that Omaha is la mentably lacklug in police protection. For example. New York has one police man to every 600 Inhabitants; Chicago one policeman to every 703 Inhabitants, while Omaha has but one policeman to every 1,250 Inhabitants. The same dis proportion exists between the fire de partment of Omaha aud those of other American cities. Why cannot Omaha increase its police force? Why can't it increase its fire fighting force? Simply because It does not raise a sufficient amount of taxes to meet these demands. Why can't Omaha raise more taxes? Because its property owners are already bearing their full proportion of taxes, and, lastly, because the railroads refuse to pay their due projiorlion of the burden of municipal taxes. If the railroads were made to pay the s line proportion of taxes In Omaha that are levied against other property of equal value, Omaha could add 100 more men to Its police force and still have $110,ooo left In Its treasury for other punmses. If the railroads paid their Just proportion of taxes in Omaha, Omaha could Increase its police force 100 and Its Are force 100 and still have f-io.000 to spr.re for street cleaning. This Is the unvarnished truth. Con ceding that the railroads have done much toward the upbuilding of Omaha there Is no good reason why they should not pay their just share of the expense of maintaining police protection, fire protection, " street cleaning and street lighting. j Governor Mickey is now at the head of the Methodist Hospital association, but he keeps discreetly mum about the campaign now being conducted by his police commissioner, with headquarters In a gambling house and hind quarters In the vilest of Omaha's dram shops, while the police are using their clubs to make converts. Possibly this Is be cause the Broatch. campaign is expected to furnish a goodly number of patients for the hospital. .Tint Dahlman, the prospective candi date for mayor of Omaha, was the shin ing light of Nebraska democracy at the Lincoln Jamboree which fired off the keynote of opposition to corporation and railroad rule. That was enough to make a horse laugh, let alone Jim Pnhl inau's groomcrs, Lee Spratlen and Wal ter Molse, those rock-rooted, copper bottomed, granite-buttressed antl-rall-road democrats. Four hundred of the party leaders of Nebraska democracy have stated their position in the irrepressible conflict of 100(1. Their keynote Is opposition to corporation and railroad rule in the political affairs that interest the people. That suggests nn Impertinent query: How many of the "400" really paid their railroad fares to Lincoln In hard cash? Omaha Is looking for all the new In dustries it can get, but it has already built too many air castles ou paper. Every legitimate enterprise whose promoters mean business will have respectful consideration, but the hot-air artists will do us a favor by glvlug Omaha a wide lerth. South Omaha seems to have polled nearly 3.000 votes at Its municipal primary under the new direct nomina tion law. This is a pretty good per centage. If Omaha scores as well at Its coming primary it will poll between 0,000 and 10,000 votes. Those Hungarian miners who are re turning to their native land to avoid trouble during the prospective strike In Pennsylvania may le jumping from the frying pan Into Uie fire, unless reports from Budapest exaggerate the situation. President Stiekney was a potential factor In the establishment of the Omaha Grain exchange, but those promised cereal and flour mills have not yet materialized, probably Itecause the mills of the gods grind slowly. laaiaaallaa; Trvahle. Washington Post. There ia a mysterious split In the ranks of the Chinese imperial conunlsaloners visiting- this countr)'. Evidently the American highball ia gfttlns in Its work on the tem pers of the commissioners In their chats before breakfast. Prosperity Baalahrs the lleSrtt. San Francisco Chronicle, The deficit has been wiped out and the government is again working on a surplus basis, bow it mill be la order for the papers which were picturing; the dire con sequences certain to result from running the government with a deficit staring the country in the face to turn about and di late upon the mcnare to our Institutions contained In an overflowing treasury. Twklast a Tumble. Chicago Record-Herald. Kansas City people are mad because a man who announced that he was going to build an elcven-etory theater there has made his building only three stories In height. They are probably afraid Omaha will hear about it. laternatlnnal (iaine of See-San-. Baltimore American. Hope and fenr seem to be playing a regu lar eeaw game at the conference at Alge clras. One day harmony la assured and the next war between Germany and Franeo appears Inevitable, while in the next report the clouds are clearing away, with Indica tions of rrgathcrlng. In the meantime the Moroccans themselves seem to be much like the flowers that bloom In the spring they have nothing to do with the case. SrEI.I.IXi RKFORM. More to Dispense with t aeleas Letters In Words. Washington Star. The National Educational association Is In session at Louisville. In the course of an informal discussion of spelling reform a resolution was adopted requesting the association to order the following twelve phonetic words used hereafter In all Its publications: "Blsness" for business, "enuf" for enough, "f ether" for feather, "mesure" for measure; "plesure" for pleasure, "red" for read, "ruf" for rough, rirauC for trough, "thru" for through. 'tuf" for tough, "tung" for tongue, "yung" for young. There Is no question of the plain logic of the spoiling reform proposition. It ap peals to the reason. Its advocates can talk Into silence anyone who undertakes to defend the present arbltrar unsystematic code of symbols on the ground of science. Yet when all Is said and done, the oppo nent of the reform has only to say that the thing cannot be done by law or rcsol'i tlon, and that ends the debate. Custom Is the determining factor. If the National Educational association adopts these twelve phonetic spellings and sticks to them, and then If the text book publishers agree to adopt them, and if the teachers strictly follow the books and the children are not corrected at home, and If there is no prohi bition of the process by statute, the next generation will probably write somewhat aa follows: Klsness over for the day, the yung woman set forth for plesure. She put on a hat with a red fether and mesured her way to ward the country, passing thru a tuf part of the town, where the yungsters crowded about the horse traufs, their tungs send ing forth ruf words which she had never red without 'blushing. Could we ever get used to such spelling? Of course we could. We can get used to anything. We acquire a taste for caviare occasionally, and most of us are now able to visualize John D. Rockefeller with a wig Instead of a bald pale. But In this matter of spelling reform It Is always to be said that the adoption of the plain and simple combinations of common sense will, at one fell swoop, destroy the llns which now are drawn between certain social groups. No longer can the good spellers lift their eyebrows In mute scorn of the poor spellers, casting them into outer darkness. No more will misspelled letters be Joyfully read aloud In newspaper offices as a diversion from the weary grind of the day's work. Great reforms are always costly. the: railroad iostktio. Slanlflranee of the Struagle for Jadtclat Hevlew. Minneapolis Journal. The controversy rages now around that provision of the Hepburn bill which limits the courts to passing upon the law and does not include an invitation to roam over the whole field pf facts in determining whether the commission did right. If the bill is passed as it stands, there might be many rates fixed by the commission which the courts will not interfere with, because they are not at all confiscatory, and the proceedings have been regularly taken. As a mutter of fact, however, the commission would, In this realm of discretion, make very few rates. The railroads knowing that the commission had the power to make and enforce reasonable rates, would save their fuce by making the reasonable rates themselves. On the other hand, If the sonata succeeds In emasculating the bill so as to provide that every rate made by the commission shall start a new lawsuit, the railroads will have no incentive to make reasonable rates. They will make unrea sonable or discriminating rates, as they choose, and figure on reaping the reward of their Industry while their lawyers are carrying suits through the courts. To guard this feature of the review business, Mr. Bpooner lias suggested an amendment which provides that in case of an appeal by a railroad from a commission-made rate, the railroad shall put up in court for each shipper the difference between Its rate and the commission rate, to be turned back to the shipper or the railroad when the case is finally adjudicated. The weakness of this scheme Is that the complications would be endless, and tho cases of Joint rates beyond human Ingenuity to fathom. The significance of all these amendments Is that the railroads seem to prefer some sort of court to pass upon their matters than the commission. Perhaps this is be cause, with the commission, it would bo one short, sharp buolnesslike decision, while In a court many subsidiary questions could be lugged In to prolong the Interesting proceedings and make the shipper wish ha had never gone to law. Under the court-review plan. It is the shipper who niakea the rate by making the legal fight. Under the Hepburn bill, it is the commission which makes the rate by making It. The railroads seem determined to shift the burden to the shippers because they know how to handle them. The essen tial injustice of the government pretending to regulate rates and then shunting the whole burden upon the already-drooping shoulders of the shippers Is what sticks out in all thesa so-called court-review amendments. A DIMPLE MAKER. Find a child with dimples and chubby arms and legs and you find a healthy child. Find one with drawn face and poor, thin body and yoj see one that needs Scoit's Emulsion. Your doctor will no doubt tell you the chili is fat-starved its food is not nourishing it. Nothing helps these thin, pale children like Scott's Emulsion. It contains the very element of fat they need. It supplies them with a per feet and quickly digested nourishment Scott's Emul sion brings dimples and rounded limbs. SCOTT lOWVt, es tmA Siraet, Hum Vj bits of wahhivjtoi i.irr.. 1lr Seeaes mn Inrldents Sketched oa the Spot. An Ohio minister. Rev. Wilbur F. Crafts. sektng a wider field for his skill as a re. former, blossom) d out In Washington a year ago as superintendent of "The First Christian Lobby" ever established at the national capital. The nature of his graft was not apparent at the time, later. how ever. It became so conspicuous that the I'ostofTlce department assayed to reform the reformer. The crafty Crafts 'was dis covered using the congressional frank In forwarding literature through the mails and the authorities stopped the game with a heavy hand. Mr. Craft had been a familiar figure around committee rooms at the captlol, and succedded In having printed In com mittee hearings no end of matter exploit ing his own works and views. The book was mode up by reprinting these hearings, together with extracts from speeches and congressional documents. The volumes were sent out under Representative Gil lette's frank, which Is marked "part of the congressional record." . To every person to whom the book was sent was also sent a letter under regular pstage stating that If the recipient chose to keep the book he might send 35 cents "for the good of the cause" to the Inter national Reform bureau. Otherwise the re cipient should return the book under n frank which was enclosed with It. The book was about half an inch thick. The postage, If paid, would have been considerable. The Washington Times proposes ex-Governor Larrabce of Iowa as a member of the new Interstate Commerce commission, on account of his activities In securing the passage in Iowa of a model law on which much of the celebrated granger leg islation of several decades ago was pat terned. Without commenting on Governor Larrabee's fitness or lack of It, for this post. It li Interesting to note that he Is a one-eyed man, and so Is Mr, Tillman, the titular leader In the rate fight on the floor of the senate. The prominence of two men thus afflicted In the present controversy, suggests the old saying that among the blind the one-eyed man Is king. But It has always been said of Larrabee by his friends In Iowa that he could see a great many things wjth his solitary eye. The senate In Washington had Just come out of executive session the other evenlrfg and several members were seen to be smok ing, among them Mr, La Follette of Wis consin. Senator Pettus of Alabama stepped up to him and said: "My dear boy, I am the oldest senator In years, as you are the youngest In service." "That's nicely said, senator," replied La Follette, smiling, "Yes, well, now, let me tell you something," replied Pettus. "You are re vealing the secrets of the executive ses sion when you finish that cigar after the doors are opened." Both laughed heartily. "One thing more," continued the old man. "I don't let out any secrets that way, be cause I take my tobacco another way. 8ee?" and shifting a lump from his right to his left cheek he stalked Into the cloak room. The most entertaining places In Wash ington are the galleries of the Senate and house, where the unlntroduced public are allowed to sit, drinking in wisdom as rap idly as It Is distilled by the law makers. If the correspondents in the press galleries could penetrate as deeply Into the hearts and minds of the statesmen, and could read as readily the deep significance of their most trivial actions on the floor as the acute Intelligence of the great un combed., the newspapers of the land would be filled each day with highly entertaining dissertations on national affairs, instead of an accurate and sometimes tedious rec ord of what really takes place. On a day when the senate was waiting for the rail way rate bill and had nothing to do of any moment, it was killing time through the operation of certain minor routine legis lative processes. Only a few senators were on the floor, barely enough to give life to the fiction that the august bodv was In deliberative session. One drowsy correspondent sat above the vice presi dent's chair, dreamily making wretched caricatures of Eugene Hale. The whole place was as peaceful and quiet and som nolent as a barnyard on a midsummer afternoon. While traveling In a Pullman car not long ago Congressman Hardwlck of Geor gia, the smallest man In the house, found himself fellow passenger with a well dressed, quiet-lnoktng negro. This was not agreeable to the Georgian, who was fur ther riled on seeing the colored man In the dining car. He and the darky re turned to the Pullman about the same time and then Mr. Hardwlck went to the conductor and asked that the negro be put out of the ear. "We can't do that, sir," the conductor answered. "Well, If that fresh nigger gets near me I'm going to wipe up the car with him." declared the Georgian. "I won't have him around me. Who Is the black rascal?" "That's Joe Gans. champion light weight Diurtllst." answered the conductor, and Mr. Hardwlck concluded not to "wipe up the car", with his quiet looking fellow passenger. While discussion of a military bill was progressing In the national house of rep resentatives the members were trying to understand what was meant by "fire con trol of field artillery." Several army cap tains were in the gallery. One member frankly asked what was meant by "fire control" and Congressman Parker of ti committee on military affairs said he would explain, having seen It work a few days before. "The signal corps men," he said, "lay a little telegraph line in Uie field which operates by telephone. Then they have a little bit of a spyglass up at the top of the hill which they level like a transit. They take a sight on the enemy and then take another on a church steeple In the rear and then they know the dis tance. Bo the gunner shoots over the Mil and hits his mark without seeing it." Then the army officers retired in disgust. Some congressional visitors at the White House asked President Roosevelt whether It was true that President Baer of the Reading road was coining to Washington to consult him about the proposed coal strike. "Not that I know of," said ths president. "I think It Is most unlikely. Although Baer Is a brother of mine in the Dutch Reformed church, I think he al ways crosses himself whenever he thinks of me or hears my name :.nt!oned." flood Work of m Novice. PhlladHlphla Record. "1-a Follette I a forceful, resourceful man, who needs watching." Maid Senator Aldrlch at the close of Friday's d-'hate on the bill relating to the five rlvllli.-d In dian tribes: and there wus truth In the remark. The senator from Wisconsin has broken through the time-honored custom, which dooms novitiates to a period of Im potent silence. He has Jumped Into the senatorial forum armed cap-a-pie and Is making his Individuality frit. He did not succeed In wrltjng Into the bill a prohibi tion of the ownership of coal mines by rail road companies or their stockholders, but he did prevent the adoption of an amend ment to the bill which would have sanc tioned continuance af the policy of selling coal lands In the Indian Territory to trans portation companies. A pretty good day's work for a uovicr ( WALTHAM WATCHES. Mechanical skill and knowledge have made them the best in the world. 7Ti "Rhjtnidt" movement Is ptrticaUrly recommended made In ? sites. I'EHSOV!, SOTKS. Having tried palmistry, crystal gating, Christian Science, bridge and party polities, London society is about to study Plato. Mrs. Hanna has decided to sell Glenmere, the beautiful country home of the late Senator Hanna, near Cleveland, O. She will live In New York with her son. Jan Kubellk. when In New York, lives in a private car at One Hundred and Six tieth street, preferring to do so rather than live at one of the best New York hotels. Prof. L. Gaurrlgue, a prominent French physician, who has made recently some Important discoveries In the treatment of tuberculosis. Is soon to be a visitor In New Yor!:. Foon Chook, a naturalised Chinaman In Mexico, Is said to be a millionaire. He went to Mexico from California twenty years ago to work as a cook for a railway construction company. Baron Sonninn, the new Italian premier, is of Jewish extraction on his father's side. His mother was an ICnglish Protestant. The baron's writings on agrarian questions have attracted much attention. He was the founder of the "Giornale d Italia." It Is reported from Dresden that Germany will witness a public auction that Is prob ably unique. The house at Elsenbach in which Martin Luther lived from Hits to luOl, being then a youth of from 16 to 18, Is to be offered for sole, together with all the historical objects and documents asso ciated with Luther and his period which it contuins. A SCAMDALOl 9 sTGESTIO.. Opponents of the Square Ileal Shutnv Short Deck. Pittsburg Dispatch. It is reported in Washington that sena tors opposed to the president's rate regula tion policy have made a proposition to him thut if he will accept their amendments to the rate bill they will see that the Domin ican treaty and Philippine tariff bill, now sidetracked and practically doomed to de feat, are extricated and passed. It Is also reported that the president has indignantly spurned the scandalous suggestion. One reason for discrediting this story is the improbability that any senator would care to Incur the vigorous denunciation which the president would be likely to let loose upon the proposer of such' a dishon orable compromise. There would be also the possibility that, as In the beef case and some others, the president might make tho whole story public, placing the traders In a most unpleasant predicament. But aside from that it Is only too humlliatingly prob able that the report may be correct. Deals and trades have not been unknown in the senate. The public is familiar with the use to which the statehood bill and others have been put to obstruct legislation obnoxious to the dominant element. This offer to pass bills that have been held up and the Implied threat to kill them If the president does not accept the deal are In keeping with the record of managing senators. If such an offer has been made the presi dent will perform a service by making pub lic the details of the attempted deal. Men who would thus misuse public measures for the furtherance of personal ends should suffer the reprobation they deserve. Browning, King & Co ORIGINATORS AND SOLE MAKERS Of HALF SIZES IN CLOTHING. FUleenth and Douglas Sis I uuuyias ijia. Broadway al tlm Mrl NEW Just As We Expected Our special sale of New and Used Pianos was indeed a special opportunity to save money for those who could possibly arrange to buy now. There are still many of thoso special pood bargains. No one will be disappointed, though it may require a special effort to come in and investigate. Recent developments show that the commlbslon-glvers and takers are still hard at work. If where the customer bhould buy was left to them, there would bo a poor show for anyone to get a piano at a fair price, because this commission arrangement, both the part you know of and the part thnt is concealed from you, adds the commis sion -to the price of the piano and the customer pays It. We pay no commission. Our prices are so low wu could not afford it if we wanted to. We give the commission to the customer. A.HOSPE CO, It CuM 141c to joiu I he Siiet-t luic KLASIIKS OF Ft . "He was greatly Impressed by that plump MIms Williams " "I thouKht he would be." "Yes, she fell on him when they went skating." Cleveland Plain Dealer. "John, do you ever play cards for money?" "No. ma'am. I sometimes think I do, but It's always the other man that does it." Cleveland Leader. "I see," remarked Towne. "that a great statistician says considerably more than hnlf the population of the world is fem inine." "Ridiculous!" retorted Browne. "If that was so. how would he account for the fact that 'one-half of the world doesn't know how the other half lives?" Philadelphia Press. "Do you think your constituents endorse your opinions on this bill?" "I hope not," answered Senator Sorghum. "I have done my best to keep them from finding out what my opinions are." Wash ington Star, "Wife," said the comical cobbler, "you'd bettor get, ready for the poorhouse." "Why?" demanded the good woman. "Because," replied the cobbler, "I have lost my awl." Philadelphia Press. Toss He Insisted upon kissing me good night when he left. Jess The Ideal Wasn't that odd? Toss I don't know whether It was odd or even. I didn't, keep count. Cleveland Leader, "What makes you think this house was formerly used as a boarding house for school teachers?" asked the agent, showing a prospective tenant through the vacant house. 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