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HIE OMAHA DAILY HKE: MONDAY, MAKCJl Jo, 1WG. 4. E 1 - The Omaha Daily Bee. I ! I I I I I I 1 ' K. ROBEWATER. EDITOR. riBLISHED EVERT MORNING. TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION. T IT v Be-, (without Sunday), one ye sr. . . Dallv Bee and Bunriay, one year Illustrated Bee, on year A jJ-W flundsy Bee. on year j- Palurday Bee. one year Lull DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Tally V .including Sunday), per week. .17c Kelly Be (without Bun. lay). per week...l-c Evening Pee (without Sunday), per week bo Evening !? (with Sunday), per week....lfe Hunriay Bee, per ropy V", Address complaints of Irregularities In de livery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha The Be Building.' , Boutli Omaha City Hall Building. Counrll Bluffs 10 Pearl StreeU t 'hicago 1M0 Cnlty Building. New York lol Home Life Ins. Building. Washington 601 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. t'nmrniinlcations relating to newa and edi torial matter ahntild be addressed: Omaha. Itee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit try draft, express or postal order payable to 'J lie Bee Publishing Company. Only 2-cent stamps received as payment of niail accounts, personal checks, except on (Una ha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. THE BKK PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Plate of Nebraska, Douglns County, ss.: (. C. Rosewater, secretary of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, nova that the actual nutiiner of full and completa copies of The Dally, Morning. Kvenlng and Sunday Bee printed during the month of February, 1W6. '" Iowa: 1 :u,ono 15 si.aao 2 m,M( 16 M.040 i 3U.V04I 17 33.3K 4 J0I.S2O 18 2V,iHW i 31,780 1 81,390 3I.THI 3) 81,870 7 S1.5.V) 21 81.8UO t 31,40 22 31.2BO :tl.41M 13 31.480 to :u,T2 : 3a,oiM II aw.tMH -J, St,2GO 12 3l..l."it -Ji 31.8UO Vi 3I,aiK :7 81,430 14 ai.UUO a 31.SXO Total '. 7.ail Less unsold copies 11,182 Net totnl sales S(10,04S Dally average, 31,374 C. C. ROSEWATER. Secretary. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 28lli day of February. IMC. tSeal) M. it. Hl NuATE, Notary Public. W1IE OIT OF TOWN. Subscribers leaving- tbe city tem porarily shoalit have The Be mailed to then. Address will be Ocneral Rothn has advised the Boers to maintain the peace. Evidently the physical force campaign in Kinsiit is Scaring fruit.' Those land fencers made the mistake nf their lives in not preparing for 1"-! inunlty when Colonel Moshy lirst began his Investigation. Between the threat of a coal famine mid the threat of nn ice famine, it Is up to the weather man to help us steer lietwecn tbe shoals. lrNh stork growers complain of the . low price of cattle. Wonder If they, too, feel that they are forced to sell to an Immune combination. ' The election of Andrew Hamilton as ptvstdcpt uf.the Albany club is a fitting tribute to the man who lnought so much "easy money" to the New York capital. If Andrew Carnegie desires the Eng lish language to more nearly approxi mate, the Doric of Scotland this new spelling idea may be the first attack on the system. . Father O'llrien of Toledo advises Irish men to stay at home. ' It Is safe to say, however,, that he Is happy to think at least one man he knows did not act on Hint advice. Probably an enforced modification of base ball rules will follow the decision of the Chicago court awarding $10,(riQ to h man hit by a batted ball. Home runs may lie barred. Men who, with slauder, villlnVatlon and abuse, helped to whiten prema turely the hairs uf Mayor Moores while alive will proceetkto pay tribute to his good qualities now that he Is dead. The alleged Nebraskan who created excitement by riding a horse over seats In a London park wilt have to prove bis place- of residence. Such libels on the -Autelope state should not go unchal lenged. IVrhaps patent medicine men who ob ject to taklug their petrous into their confidence want only to lie placeil on the same footing with physicians whose prescriptions con be read only by the li'ttlated. , The way to get that much needed city workhouse is to keep on ogitatlng for it. It will never come if It is left to the hoboes and suspicious characters who would be candidates fur workhouse sentences. It should not be overlooked thatuudcr the direct noiuiuatlou system the voters get two shots to their bow. If any bad foul birds smuggle themselves Into nomi nation certificate they will have to run the gauntlet again at the election. The Commercial club Is bestirring It- aelf again to bring new Industries to Omaha. The field was never more promising than it la today. The new enterprise that links its foituues with Omaha and grows up with our city will hart; no cause to regret it. 1 he slate-makers are at work and be fore another week is up slates galore will have been launched on a defense less Community. The alate that tells, however, will tie the aisle made up by the majority of the individual citixens in the secrecy of the voting booth. . Tluj Crceiie and Oaynor ruse U mi last Hearing the end at Suvauuah, but al ready it has lost Interest Iu the light of niore Imtsirtsnt conspiracies against the goveriiment, so that what promised to be a hearing of luernuliotul interest bas developed into it commonplace natter. EFFECT OF THE 1MMCXITT DECISIOX Tho decision of .TikIkp Humphrey In tin- Ixv f imck cm' Im InvolvM tlie govennuput hi a illloiuiiiH, tbe serious ness of which iiih.v naturally Is for the time exaggerate! liy tin oxocutlv'' ofH ti.il. but which lias already caused theiu to tail a halt In luvestlKatlng the meth ods of new Doiiartuieiit of Com merce. YVheu that depart wont wa cre ated there were irrent expectations of lM-neflt from the Inquiry for which it elaborately provided luto 1 he operations of great corporations and trusts as re gards Information of sociological Inter est and valuable as a basis for legisla tion. Therefore the law provided amply for compelling the officers mvd agents of corporations to testify and give to the government access to all records and means of Information, and the new de partment was no sooner organized thau it began to employ these powers in in vestigating the bl packing corporations, under express requirement of congress by resolution, although prior to that time the Department of Justice was independently preparing to prosecute criminally officers of the same corpora tions tinder the anti trust law. Obviously, if compliance with the re quirements of the Department of Com merce for Information confers Immunity iu criminal cases involving the same subject matter as Judge Humphrey seems to hold broadly. It will be neces sary for the government to proceed with great caution. Indiscriminate em ployment of the powers of that dtmrt ment would simply be to raise Impass able harriers across the path of the Department of Justice in pursuit of the very class of offenders whom the public interest requires to Vie punished and the punishment of whom has been found exceedingly difficult under the most f a vora ble ciroumsta nces. The effect of the original procedure of the Department of - Commerce lias proved fatal In the criminal cases against the packers, to which the De partment of Justice devoted so much energy, but fortunately that procedure had not been taken with most of the great trade combinations which are be lieved to have violated the autl-trust law and other laws to prevent restraint of trade. Some of the Standard Oil officials may also escape, but the Sugar, Steel. Tobacco, Lumber and Taper trusts and a great number of Others are T(t ,, Ut attack through Indictment ,,f their officers ami agents for any crlinl- nal acts of which they have been guilty. In short, under Judge Humphrey's de rision it Is necessary for both depart ments' to act iu harmony with reference to Immunity. The Department of Com merce, in ail Its Investigations in which the question of criminal prosecution may jiossibly arise, will have to take care not to sacrifice the Interests of the Depart ment of Justice. The general line of Inquiry Is already foreshadowed by the reports from Washington to the effect that Commissioner Garfield will keep a record of the action of his bureau touch ing corporation-witnesses, and these will be summoned only by subpoena and after scrutiny of the effect of Immunity In each case, thus saving the rights of the government for criminal prosecution or securing minimum sacrifice of these rights. While valuable public Information may thus lie delayed or harrowed for .a time, indispensable legal testimony will be saved, but there seems to be for the government no other way out. SEA'S BLE THE A TMEXT OF UAZIXO The senate bill as amended by the house provides for more ratloual deal ing with the hazing nuisance iu mill tnry and naval academies. Not the least cause of the trouble at Annapolis has. been the couulrauce of both the siq-erior officers and the cadet officers, who lu many cases. If ijot habitually, hae refused to report even the most flagraut violations of the law. It would have been impossible for "the unwritten code," which from lieginning to end" is a gross and palpable subversion of the law of the land, to be carried to the extremes lately revealed without the virtual co-operation Of those In authority at the naval academy. The pending bill makes negligence or connivance on their part a serious matter. The existing law feuds to aggravate the evils of the hazing system by ignor ing the difference between mere boyish pranks of the midshipmen which, though offenses against discipline, do not de serve extreme punishment, and grave violations which Justly deserve and re quire expulsion. Thus the law became practically a dead letter as to all of fenses, grave s well as trivial. The new measure will lie more enforceable by luaklug the punishment fit the crime and prescribing dismissal only for fla grant violations. .MER.VAfE.VrS Xf'ED OF APPEAL- Congress will come short of its duty If it fails promptly to confer iqion the government the right Of appeal from the decisions of the lower federal courts In crpninai cases, it is strauge that so obvious and detriments! an omission ahould have been tolerated so long, but there Is now iu congress n bill, which was Introduced at the iustance of the Department of Justice and which w'll be vigorously pressed, providing that the I tilted States shall have the same rllit of review by writ of error that Is given to the defendant. The lack of the right which this bill would confer now prevents the govern ment from apiwallug Judge Humphrey's derision lu the beef packers' Indictment to ihe supreme court, a decision which the attorney general Vrofesses to 1h lieve that court would reverse if the question could only lie got l-fore It. Besides, the existing state of the law tends to confusion jsiid even conflict of opiulou among the federal courts in this class of cases, or a decision of a district circuit court may le followed ss a precedent by other district aud circuit courts, and yet after a long time l held erroneously by the supreme court. It would lie of exceeding value If the government could take the legal ques tion passed tijHHi by Judge Humphrey and have It promptly adjudicated ouce and for all. Iiecause not only the opera tions of the Department of Justice, but also legislation, are Involved In such a settlement. No right of a defendant Is coutravened by granting appeal to the government, because he cannot lie twice put lu Jeop ardy. The lower court's decision, though found on appeal to ,be erroneous, would be conclusive as to the defendant. Hut appeal might save the public Interest. MAYOR 7.1MMAS. By virtue of the law of successiou em liodled in the city charter, the office of mayor has with the death of Mayor Moores passed to Harry B. Zimmau, who was elected by the people to serve as councilman from the Third ward and in that capacity was three years ago chosen president of the council by his associates. It is true that there li a question as to how long under the law Mayor Zininian will have a right to oc cupy the position of chief executive of the city, but whether he is to be mayor for two days, or for two weeks, or fur two months, he will durlug that time be invested with full powers and responsl billties attaching to the office. Mayor Zininian should be mayor iu every sense of the word every minute of the time that he Is clothed with the official title and prove to the people of Omaha that he is equal to the emer gency, which has been thrust upon him. He has 1mcu in close enough touch with J municipal affairs as councilman for six years and as acting mayor for much of that time to know how a mayor should net and what a mayor should do. He knows that the mayor is the responsible head of the entire executive branch of the city government, that he Is the law enforcing officer, the sole source of or ders for tbe police department and en titled to oliodlenee by every one of the appointive officers so far as their duties are not expressly preseriled by law. Mayor Zlmman knows, too, by per sonal observation and contact that at tills very time the police club Is being swung high-handed and the machinery of the police court perverted In the In terest of Broatch as police commissioner, who, taking advantage of the confine ment of Mayor Moores to the sick room, has usurped the mayor's authority and prerogative over the police department. It is the 'duty of Mayor Zimmau first and above all to assert himself as the chief law-enforcing officer of the city and to stop at once the misuse of the jiolice and police court machinery for personal political ends. Mayor Zininian is a young man with his political future before him. We feel sure his highest ambition will be to make n creditable record as mayor, no matter how brief his tenure Of office may be. Such an opportunity comes seldom to a man without seeking It. The people expect much of him and we trust they will not be disappointed. The special registration of voters for the coming primary has been completed and by the terms of the law the list of names of those specially . rgistered or supplied with removal certificates will be officially published In The Bee. It will be the duty of every good citizen to peruse these lists carefully, especially the names of those residing in his neigh borhood, and make sure that no one has been enrolled for the primary who Is not rightfully eutltled to vote. After all. publicity Is the surest safeguard against registration and election frauds, as It Is against corporate abuses and government maladministration. Senator Millard has allowed Senator Burkett's Judicial division bill to go through the senate without even a re monstrance, notwithstanding the fact that it Is admitted to be detrimental to Omaha as the seat of federal court busi ness. The bill failed of passage in previous congresses and no one here abouts can see any more urgent demand for It now, except among aspirants for the new Jobs it would create, than there was before, , As was to have been expected, the Fontanelle campaign managers are en deavorlng to resurrect the "Immediate" compulsory purchase of the water works as an Issue In the primary con test. The "immediate" acquisition of the water works, which was begun more than three years ago, has been hanging fire so long that it will take more than an ordinary battery to gal vanize it one more. The opponents of Henulugs for m.tyor are resort iug dally to lower and more despicable campaign methods. Anonymous attacks of lilielous charac ter In MilltIcs correspond to gorilla om-bUM-.tdes and poisoned arrows in war fare. I'eople who feel they cannot win except by the use of- such weapons must lie, indeed, in sore straits. The liraisilisn crown has been re covered, but not by the mau who lost it. Crowns have only historic value in all purta of the Western hemisphere, even Canada looking upou'them as something to be endured rather thau admired. A Possible Daaarer. Washington Post. The "Immunity bath" might become very popular among trust niagnatea, but for the dangi r of things coming out in the wash. o Tlsae for Bide laaaea. Indianapolis News. Governor Cummins' attitude would seem to Imply that any attempt on the part of gtnator Eikins to butt into his third term campaign will be wholly unaurcesaf ul. I a Aaalasl It. Pittsburg Dispatch. Between the well known fact that (vr- poratlona have uu auuls and the newly discovered one that the members of them have no responsibility, II begins to look as if reform were once more up against It In quite the usual way. Dolus Qalte Well, Thaak na. St. Louis Olobe-Deniocrat. All the railroads now operating through out the country show a fine Increuse In monthly earnings. They are evidently try ing to get all they can out of the business before the day of confiscation. Tnarhed en a Tender Spot. Indianapolis News. Somehow there seems to be an under current of feeling In Senator Elklns' letter to Governor Cummins, which Indicates that the Senator has received a wound which he doesn't care to exhibit frankly. Ready to Make the Teal. Baltimore American. A man of millions In the west sas that millionaires can lie happy .though rich. He will find a few millions of his fellnw-citi-sens anxious to test the case practically, so as to decide between the two opposite views as to the happiness conferred by money. One Too Many for Ohio. Chicago Record-Herald. In Mr. aForakcr's humble opinion Tuft should take that place on the supreme bench. As the senator looks at It, there Is but on Ohio man who can fairly be con sidered as a presidential candidate, but modesty forbids him from mentioning the gentleman's name. Hancombe Coats Moaey. Philadelphia Record. The free seeds distributed by congress cost $90,000, but the expense Incurred In putting them in packages, mailing and carrying them at postal ratea la not less than 1500,000. Buncombe Is a dear com modity In whatever form it shows Itself. Diplomacy's Saall Pace. Chicago Inter Ocean. The trouble aeems to have grown out of the fact that the Algeclras delegates either were misinformed or they misun derstood their respective governments. When they are told that their appoint ments are not for life or during good behavior they will do something and ad journ. ltoekefeller Can Tome Out. 81. Iuis Globe-Democrat. The decision of Judge Humphrey In the cases of the meat packers Is that the men at the head of the corporations, and doing Its work, cannot be convicted of violations of the trust laws, but that the corporations themselves can be, and. In effect, have been. Mr. Rockefeller may come out of hiding when he hears that there Is a chance for the Standard Oil company to make a -vicarious atonement for him , If anybody can And It at home. The Man Who "Rolls" Cigarettes. Kansas City Star. It haa been ruled by the supreme court of Nebraska that the anti-cigarette law in that state is valid except as It applies to the sort which the smoker "rolls" himself. It might be construed as contempt of court to tell the truth about the kind of 'coffin nails" which cigarette smokers fashion with their pwn fingers. But it seems to be nothing short of a public duty to say that there is no hope for a man after he begina to "roll" cigarettes. Ballroad Reprisal. Springfield Republican. So determined are the Ohio railroads to give the people of the state no better than the maximum S-cent rate Imposed by recent legislative act, that they are considering the withdrawal of excursion tlcketa sold at one and a third of the regularfare whether such excuraiona extend beyond Ohio or not. It Is obviously rplts and net reason which governs In this consideration. If the ex cursions were not profitable they would never have been persisted In, and if they are now withdrawn a source of gain to the roada will be abandoned. Cutting off one's nose to spite the face is not a policy that will long possess the Ohio railroads. PAY OF I MTED STATES SOLIHKIIS Plausible Reaaoaa In Support of an Increaae. Review of Reviews. Plantation negroes are better paid than our soldiers. The latter pay is $13 per month, or 43'i cents per day. By add ing the average allowance of 15 cents per day for clothing and 1 cents for the ra tion, we have the total of "6'i cents per day, which Is less than any class of labor quoted. Even the general laborer, with out any special skill of any kind, com mands an average wage of H.36 per day, and the ordinary farm laborer M cents for four roontha and $1.53 during the harvest time. The lowest wages paid to any class of labor In the Vnlted States, bo far as I am able to find from the statistics of the Department of Labor, is that paid to the plantation negro laborers of the cane fields of Loulnlana. For the years of 1889 to 1901. the average, wages paid to them at Calumet, La., were as follows: Cultivating season, men. without board, 76 cents per day; grinding season, men without board, $1.25 per day; general aver, age, $1 per day. The laborers are furnished with houses. -gardens and given othe privileges, be aides being allowed Saturday ufternuona off two or three times per month. From this it will lie seen that the lowest aud most Ignorant class of negro labor In the country is better paid than the private soldier In the army. The negro requires little clothing, whereas the soldier must always be decently dresaed. The negro gets his Baturduy mid Sunday holidays, whereas the soldier Is on duty at all times, by night as well as by day. In addition, the aoldler Is at all times sub ject to orders which nnjr cause him to give up hia life In their execution. This should be worth something to him, as in surance conipanlea recognise this risk by charging him extra premiums. It is truq that the government provides for the re tirement of the soldier after thirty years' service, with three-fourths of his pay on the active list, a privilege which, the or dinary does not enjoy, but the percentage of men .who avail themselves of this ben efit is so small, under present conditions, and the reward so distant and remote, that It doea not figure largely In the actual computation of the soldier's pay. Even hoepital accomuiociatloiia and med icines, which are, furnished to the soldier free, are now being provided by many of the large industrial corporations without charge to their employes. Medical atten tion Is provided by tnai.y for the sick, schools are maintained for I lie young, comfortable quarters constructed for liv ing purposes, hours of lalior reduced and other inducements offered which make the lot of the laborer far more easy and at tractive than ever lfoi-v. Hut the py of the soldier teni.iins practically the same as It was twenty years ago. This proa, peroua period lu pur country's history as yet makes no corresiiondlng betterment for the pay of the soldier, and he is the only one' who has not shared In the general prosperity. The -pay of the private, cor porah and sergeant of the tine la the same aa tliat fixed by congress July 1, 1871. What wonder that noncommissioned offi cers or privates who are discharged with excellent character do not re-enlist, when they can find other employment at higher ages, fewer real riot ions and more at- tractive Inducements. rafter ninnRaK. People Who Preyed t loa the Pablle Hashing; for t'orer. The beneficent effect of Investigation and publicity is not confined to Insursnce cir cles In New York. Other states and com munities Imbued with the right spirit are vigorously applying the probe and achiev Ing results as unexpected as they are gratifying. Three conspicuous Instances of good results flowing from vigorous Inves tigation of public affairs have been given meager mention In the dispatches. Phil, adelphla has turned the tables on the franchise grabbers who thought they had the community by the throat. Fee grab bers In office In Cincinnati are returning the funds, they grabbed, and a like epi demic Is spreading in Indians as a result of the campaign of Governor Hanly against officeholders who farmed state funds for their own benefit. The Philadelphia Rapid Transit com pany, caught In a trap that menaced Its existence, has signed papers disgorging franchlea acquired from the city before the reform wave et In. The Market street subway was to lie finished In three years. Extension after extension was granted and work went on leisurely. The last exten sion of Urn' expires this April. Vnless another extension Is granted, this fran chise and others expire. The political revolution swept away the support the rspld transit company had depended upon, and this week It faced the veto of the subwsy extension, saw the Philadelphia & Western throw off Its mask and awoke with a bump. To save Itself from ruin, tlie rapid transit company today gave an astonish ing example of self-sacrifice. It agrees to complete within three years s subway tin der Market street, from Fifteenth street to the Delaware river: a subway under Brood street, from Walnut north to the end of the opened street; a subway under Walnut street, from Broad to Fifth, under Fifth street to Arch, and under Arch street to Broad; nn elevated road from South street and Delaware avenue to Frankford. besides relinquishing several Important franchises nnd to pay the city $4nO,omi. All franchises vacated by the rapid transit company will be taken up by the Philadelphia A. Western, whose tracks now run from Parkersburg. Pa., to Sixty third and Market street. Fifty miles away from Parkersburg at Hanover, Pa., runs the Western Maryland, a Wabash connec tion. The compan agrees to give the city 6 per cent of the gross revenue derived from the lines. The vacated franchises were part of tlie famous franchise steal of 1901, when the late 'Al" Johnson, brother of the mayor of Cleveland, sought to obtain street railway rights In the city. Johnson surveyed the streets, mapped out the lines, and, by using virtually all of the unoccupied streets suit able for car line?, worked out a compre hensive system of subways and surface roads. He applied for his franchise, but the re publican machine refused to listen to him. Instead a number of politicians formed a paper corporation. They went to Harrls burg, the legislature railroaded through the corporate grants and Governor Stone signed the bill In the dead of night, after the mid night session of the legislature. The city councils here were then called into extra session and granted franchises covering every unoccupied street In the city absolutely free. Ex-Postmsster General John Wanamaker led a sensational fight against the steal and made a formal offer to Mayor Ashbridge of $,300.(100 to be paid Into the city treasury If the franchises should bo given to him In stead of the Mack-Foerderer politicians ask ing for them. The mayor flung the offer to the ground and signed the ordinances in spite of a storm of public protest. The politicians, holding the franchises st once began to bargain with the Widener Elklns Interests owning the Union Traction company, and finally sold their easily ac quired new franchises to the Wldener-Elk-ins people for $1,500,000, practically all of It clear profit upon a political holdup. The Cnlon Traction company merged It pelf Into the new company and after long delay set out to build the Market Street Elevated and Subway system upon one of the grants. None of the other grants ever was utilised, and In order to hold the Mar ket street franchise the company has now- been forced to relinquish over half of the franchises It was forced Into buying. The senate Investigation into the rule of graft In Cincinnati and Hamilton county is bearing much fruit. Cox and his pals laughed at the Inquiry when first begun and some of the bankers Involved elevated themselves on airy dignity and refused to tell what they knew. But when the grand Jury became inquisitive the laugh vanished and dignity dropped to zero. Ist Tues day County Treasurer Hynicka, who ad mitted receiving "gratuities" from bankers sent to the county prosecutor a check for tiS.iXO with a letter saying the check was to secure the county In case it Is deter mined throi'h court proceedings or other wise that the money belonged to the county Later In the day former County Treasurer Tllden R. French deposited, subject to the order of the county prosecutor, under the same conditions, a check for Ho.oOO. Following the receipt of these payments the prosecutor was called up by telephone by Rankin Jones, attorney for ex-Treasurer John II. Gibson, and Informed that the last named would send his check as soon as it was determined what sum he had received aa compensation from the banks. Mr. Jones said Gibson was In Battle Creek, Mich. The county prosecutor thinks the amount Gib son will return is between $Wxi and $.V),0fl0. The conviction of Stats Auditor Shirley of Indiana on the charge of pocketing the fees of the office and loaning state money for personal profit Is supplemented by a demand on Ills predecessors In the same office to call at the state house and square accounts. Acojrdlng to the report sub mitted to Governor Hanly by the com mittee investigating the slate auditor's office. J. O. Henderson and A. C. Imlly. former auditors, owe the state Sltj.C.61. Of this sum Mr. Henderson Is charged wilh $111, Vii. and Mr. Dally with $i3."W7. Both deny that they owe the state anything, though each professes a willingness to adjust whatever Indebtedness there may be found to be. The governor has In structed the attorney general to institute proceedings for the recovery of these amounts, and this will be done by Mr. I Miller unless a satisfactory answer Is re I celved from the men wilhln a reasonable time. The charge ia that Mr. Henderson aud Mr. Dally retained for themselves a com mission of 10 per cent on Insurance feep that they had no light, to collect, as the fees iu question should have been paid directly to tne state treasurer. The other items are interest and feea which, it is alirged. that neither man bad a right to re. celve. Considering 'the outcome of Shirley's case, it is likely Henderson and Daily will be glad to settle on a money basis. Senator Culberson walked Into the sen ate restaurant and saw Senator Dolliver sitting at a table with some friends. The Iowa man looked up as the Texan entered and said: "Come over here, Culbersou and Join us." Senator Culberson crossed the room and said: "Good morning, senator; how are you?" "Just and reasonable," answered Dolliver. "if "'it 'lllv remunerate?." 1854-I906 WALTHAM WATCHES Have stood the test of time. "The Perfected American Witch," n Illustrated book of interesting information about nvttches. free upon request. AMERICAN WALTHAM WATCH COMPANY, WALTHAM, MASS. ' JOH M. THAI F.R. Leigh World: Every Nebraskan feels the loss of a true and tried friend. Blue Springs Sentinel: The slate loses a grand old Nebraskan In his death. Stiomsburg News: He died beloved and honored by his fellow liitxuns of every party and creed. Bi'libner News: As a whole, his career was such as to win for hhn the respect of the citizens of the state. York Times: His was an active and hon orable career, more than half a century of which was spent In Nebraska. Stanton Phket: General Thayer was a worthy citizen nnd statesman and wil ever be remembered by many Nebraskuns. Crete Vlilette-llerald : One of the best things that can be said of General Thayer Is that he died a comparatively poor mau. Gibbon Reporter: Nebraska has lost another of Its most distinguished citizens. His memory will ever be cherished by Ne braska people. Beatrice Times: He was old In years nnd In that glory which transmits Its radiance to those whom he leaves behind and to fu ture generations. Holdrege Progress: The memory of hia long, useful life will remain a monument to the purl he played In making the his tory of Nebraska. Taylor Clarion: Jnlin.M. Thayer occupies a place in the history of Nebraska and In the affections ot Its people which no other man ever did or ever can claim. Stanton Register: A brave soldier of tlie civil war and a statesman of force and abil ity. As governor, he was above the aver age. He was one ot Nebraska's great men. Kearney Hub: He was Jast an honeBl, earnest man, performing each duty consci entiously and righteously. This was enough and constitutes his most enduring monu ment. Columbus Journal: No Nebraskan has ever died leaving a richer heritage of all the virtues that tend to Inspire better liv ing In private life and higher ideals in pub lic service. Bloomlngton Advocate: General Thayer has beery "a conspicuous character in the growth and development of thla state and we believe has been free from corruption of any kind. Nebraska pity Tribune: A brave and loyal soldier, a conscientious public official, an upright and honorable citizen, hia nuine will ever hold an assured place In the his tory of his adopted state. Hastings Tribune: In many ways General Thayer was Nebraska's most Illustrious cit izen. His life was almost wholly given to public service, in civic and military affairs, and he died an honored and respected man. Columbus Telegram: When the history of Nebraska shall have been written, and written true, Its pages will be illuminated by portrayal of the deeds of valor per formed on the sanguinary field of war by John M. Thayer, by recital of his actw of kindness and of mercy toward his fellow men and by ills record of honor In the chair of the state and in the halls of congress. 'PRISTS ATTACKING HEPIBMCAX" Importaace of Xest Fall's Political Battle. St. Louis Globe-Deniorrat. There are Intimations from Washington, New Y'ork and Chicago that the heads of the great combines are to take a hand against the republican party in the con gressional canvass of 190. It Is easy to be lieve this. Trust ism at this moment Is fighting for its life. It Is being assailed by the whole power and Influence of the Roosevelt administration. Behind Roosevelt and Moody stand the ".OTO.OoO republicans of thr I'nited States. Ready also to aid tlie republicans If the- trusts show any sign of getting tlie upper hand In the congres sional election stand hundreda of thousands of democrats, who recognize thut ' osc velt and the republican party are fighting the battles of the 85,OiMW of American people. It Is a republican administration which Is making the light for the people uinst the heads of the great combines, and these magnates will use all their resources In chicane and wealth to strike down the republican party In the election a few months hence. A defeat for Ihe republicans this year would, as the trust bosses reason, not only put the republicans out of power In congress during the second half of Ronse vels's term, but excite popular distrust against him, and tic his hands in his fight against the lawbreakers. The trusts have no grudge against the democratic parly. In tlie part of tlie second Cleveland admin istration in which tlie democracy had not only the president, but hot It branches of congress and the entire machinery of tlie federal government. It did . nothing to molest the combines or to make them afraid. I'nder deiuiM iallr' sway loilay th republican antitrust act of 1WX. which Roosevelt is enforcing, would is- as' (lead as it was in 18M-7. when Cleveland was in power. A victory for the democracy this year would be a victory for trust ism in the most offensive shape iu which It chii present itself. Behind every democratic candidate for cengress w'll stand Itie re sources and tlie power of the packers' com bine, for the Hills and tlie Morgans of the Northern Securities compuny, which Roose velt overthrew in l'.M: and tlie real of tho aggregations of consolidated capital whose existence will be meiieced if the r publicans win. Against tlie liunded barons of corpor ate greed the republican parly Is hattlliui for the Industrial freedom of Su.l"i,n) of Americans In the congressional canvass of 19u. and the fight which it is preparing to put up and tlie principles which will Involved w ill make the contest memorable. Coal. Wood. Wa II th best Ohio an Al H L. A I 1)11 . l ID r vv n esrinisi niinvit, nanna, onvi u a 11 , if iiihi biwr. for gonaral urg, ut Chrok Lump, 99.50; Nul, $5. CO par ton Ml'irl Lump, 94.7S; Larg Nut, 94.50-mak a hot, qulok fir. Our hartf al la tria SCXANrOl, th baat Pennsylvania anthraeita W ala ll Spadra, th harrjaat and clanat Arkanaaa hard al All ur eal hand aernd and vl(hd evr any city aeal 4alrd coutant Q. squires v0;.:;".?;" PF.ROVE OTE. Secretary Taft has reduced Ills . weight nearly fifty pounds. When he gets lid of seventeen pounds more one of his ambi tions will have been realized, ss thst will bring him down to an even !"0. Two Minneapolis men, Charles E. and Frederick It. Burch, have Just made rub llc their plans for a dash for the north pole during the present year In nn he autolKiat, on which thry have been working for some time. Captain Bailey K. Ashford has had so much success fighting the "lazy bug" in Porto Rico that Government Agent Harris has been sent to the Island to be Instrtn-teil In his methods with a iw of Introducing them among tlie men digging the Panama canal. The Ohio tramp, who, having been con verted, desires to pay for the rides he hsd Btolen on freight trains finds the corpora lion responsive. It Is now making out his bill Ht first-class rales, although he usually rotfe on a brake beam. In fairness, some thing should lie deducted for the times he got kicked oft.' A party of visitors to Washington were taken In to see the supreme court. They stood for a few moments and gazed with awe on that distinguished Isjdy. "What do you think ot them, Johnny?" asked the fond papa in the putty of his son. "Why." Johnny replied. "I think' they look like a tree, full of owls." Pictures of Mary Ellen Iase attached to a patent medicine ad yanks memory bark to when Mary got her picture In the pa pers without the risk of taking a pill. Tltn shattered the hopes and theories of the distinguished populist and her pictured looks proves she takes her medicine like the rest of the tribe. Captain Joseph Burger of St. Paul be lieves he reached the rank of captain younger than any other man 111 America. He enllst'd in lsfil, when 13 years old. lu his second engagement at Dalton, On., he lost his left arm, besides receiving wounds In his right arm and leg. He wa promoted to captaincy at the ago of 1. Lucius Ttittlc, president of the Bnstoi Jk tl.iln. I. . . . , . ..A,,.,., iminoi, nun jin-r eeicnraieu 111s win uiimuMy. ne is one ot ine moil active business men in New England never misses a day from his office, holds a high rank as a public speaker and his views on public questions of the day are always Impartial and carry admitted au thority. l.K.HT AM BRIGHT. "Do you take me for an ostrich?" cried the fussy husband who had Just found a cherry stone lu tlie pie. "No," replied the fenrless young wife. "An ostrich can hide his head. You can't hide yours because your eara are too long." Cleveland Iiuln Dealer. The Roman soldiers hud completed the be nevolent asslmlllation of Carthage. "Now, then." gloated Sclpio Africanus, "perhaps those Phoenicians that set tie, this town will be able to see their Phoenlsli, eh?" Yet the Romans gave a tremendous blow out In honor of this barbarian when he returned home! Chicago Tribune. "Mrs.-Pufnvigh still retains some vestlgfs"' of her former beauty." "Eh! Where are they?" "In the photographs she had taken thirty years ago." Cleveland Pluin Dealer. Irute Customer There's more water in the milk you sell than any I ever saw! Imperturbable Milkman That only shows, ma'am, that you never opened a cocoamil. Chicago Tribune. Tho Flirt Congratulate me. The Bachelor Really? "Yea, I'm going to be married." "I'm to glad." "Are you. really?" "Yes. really! You know, I was alwaes a little afraid of you." Yonkera States man. A smart young fellow called out to a farmer who was sowing sed In his field, "Well done, old fellow, you sow, I reap the fruits." "Maybe you will." said the farmer, "for I'm sowing hemp," Harper s Weekly. Mr. Stoplate Dear me, what lime Is It? Alias Tersleep It Isn't. Mr. Stoplate Eh? 1 don't Miss Tersleeii It isn't nine at all I think It must be eternity. Cleveland Leader. "And now." said -the woman lecturer, glancing ut her notes, "I approach a more difficult problem. What shall we do witli our bad bovs?" ' "Spank 'em. ma'am. siank "em!" yelled an enthusiastic but old fashioned man lu tho audience. Chicago Tribune. "They tell me," said Thompson, "that you apiieared at tlie fancy dress ball aa a full fledged hiiihlander." "Not kilty." replied Hillings, who Is es teemed a great wit. Cleveland Plain Dealer. THE CAIV HIS ART. New York Sun. From out her little dinner pail She took a rookie plump and brown; She slipped it underneath my desk Ami 1. a bumpkin and a clown. Forthwith pioieeiled to invite My appetite und dull Its smart; But ere I out it out of sight 1 saw it bore a candy heart. Ah! When her glossy pigtail curl Made way for frizzes, why deny She managed both by hook or crook To pass me comfits on the sly? At recess when we tttood apart And wove tlie duisy chain, ah! she Broke with her teeth the candy heart And gave the better half to ine. And when the dally lessons were All Saul and done und put away, le und put away, And we strolled hand In hand nlong The maple lane at close of day We leaned upon the rustic rail To watch tlie rivulets Is-low Scatter I heir hubbies In the trail Of the pule moonlight's silver glow. Toiiighl, the little candy heart 1 find among niv treasures: A something sacred, ah! It aeems Tu me a kiss from paradise. A anly heart, h golden trees. Ah! as my fingers gently twine The vilkeii curl with soft caress. My bpa they sigh: "Sweetheart of irilne. Coke. Kindling. Colorado Coala -eUan, hot, lasting: - M. L- I J UU.UmI DU.L Via
