THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1906.
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7 ai,.io 23 JIH.530
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II 2,100 27 SI ,050
12 81,200 28 r 810
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14 81,4lO JO 81,300
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16 31.430
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WHEN OIT OP TOWN,
sabsribers leaving the city tern
porarlly shoald have The Bea
sailed to them. Address will be
Arbor day In bearing la sight and
Omaha Is still In need of further em
bellishment by tree planting.
Between the Zionists in Chicago and
the Mormons In Utah the apostolic dis
card Is nsaumlng alarming proportions.
Colorado politics continues to mystify
residents of other states. A federal
judge out there has now resigned his
office.
Neapolitans may now realize the full
meaning of the popular expression of
being "between the devil and the deep.
blue sea.. , .
Chicago preachers who took Dowie
as a subject' for Sunday serruous
eemed to realize the difference between
prophets and profits.
Apparently the arrest of liberal can
didates and roters by the Russian gov
ernment had the usual effect of the
campaign roorback In America.
Senator Millard explains that bis pres
ent home, visit Is strictly on business.
But he may perhaps be persuaded to
talk a little politics between times.
The arrest of a Massachusetts man
for not turning money over to a cam
paign fund may cause George W. Ter
kins to wonder at the vagaries of fate.
In the light of the pleadings at Kan
as City that trip of a United States
Judge as the guest of Missouri railroad
attorneys promises likewise to become
historical.
Still another eouncllmanic candidate
declares under oath that be got his nom
(nation without paying out a cent But
it will not do to examine these gift
horses too closely.
If It Is true that New York democrats
are declaring for Mr. Bryan, he may
find, the "enemy's country" catching
him in the rear when he begins hi tri
umphal march upon Gotham.
Former Senator Allen is now In favor
of a convention nomination for United
States senator. When be himself wns
a candidate latt time, however, he was
decidedly opposed to It. It evidently
makes a difference.
. The postponement of the coal confer
ence at New York for twenty-four hours
would Indicate that the majority of
operators have a little contest of their
own to settle before they, present a
united front to the miners.
With the United State. Great Britain
and Germany all requesting the czai
to change the date of the second con
ference at The Hague, be may conclude
the true Interests of peace can be fos
tered by talking about It later.
John l. Rockefeller has made his re
apiearance in New "York. Ills retire
ment mast have been caused by a fear
that Standard Oil employes would
learn bow little he kuew of how the
business was being conducted.
Kvery railroad doing business la
Ne
braska filing its returns for assessment
with the state board shows Increa
sed
earnings and Increased profits.
The
kick against increased valuation w
ill
iowever. be. just as strong- as of old
An Oklahoma district attorney U ac
cused of adjourning a session of the
grand Jury before a witness summoned
by the attorney general could rejsjrt. If
the (act are established it will be easy
to foretell the uext lauding place of the
tig. stick.
3dR BR YA y ASA CnSSERYATtrE"
The article In a magazine for" the cur
rent month In which Mr. Bryan dwells
on the excellencies of Individualism In
contrast with socialism conies at an op
portune moment for those who are Just
now preparing to press him upon the
attention of the democratic party and
the country in the character of "a con
servative." It Is true that his niagasine
treatise deals with the subject from a
theoretical standpoint, but Its generali
ties and catchwords nevertheless chime
with the Increasing apprehensions of
many thoughtful men In the democratic
party whose aversion to Mr. Bryan In
the past was caused by his radicalism.
, It Is curious to note with what cau
tion and calculation Mr. Bryan's spe
cial partisans, many of them old time
supporters because of his very radi
calism, are at this time emphasizing
every possible point and appearance of
hlm in the contrary character, and that
his public deliverances now and for
some time past have smoothed the way
for them. And It may bo fairly ad
mitted that while the general public at
titude toward vital questions has been
materially modified in a decade, so Mr.
Bryan's outlook may also have been
modified, and there Is little question
that the tendency toward this opinion
Is increasing in a conservative element
In his party.
At any rate a very considerable tacti
cal advantage seems likely to result to
Mr. Bryan so far as practical demo
cratic politics ts concerned. For, what
ever alteration may have occurred in
his favor in "conservative" quarters, he
has, so far, apparently, committed him
self in no way that forfeits the support
of the legions who in the past have fol
lowed him because of his radicalism
and co-operation with socialistic ele
ments. It will certainly be interesting
to observe at this Juncture, when his
rarty Is beginning to cast the horoscope,
how far Mr. Bryan can be successfully
exploited as a conservative bulwark
against socialistic excess without ex
citing the apprehension and resentment
of the radical hosts of which he was In
18'.H3 and 1000 at once the leader and
the idol.
WHAT OF THK POPVLISTSt
So far' as is ascertainable, no steps
have yet been taken for the presenta
tion of a populist ticket for the coming
election In Nebraska. For years the
populists have been going through the
motion of nominating a fusion ticket in
conjunction with the democrats, but
more recently the populist conventions,
which formerly overshadowed those of
the other allies, have lapsed Into a mere
handful of delegates, while democratic
conventions have monopolized the main
tent
Do the populists, or what there is left
of them, intend to go through the same
performance again this year, or aire thy
ready to recognize the stern realities
and withdraw from' the "stage? Here
in Omaha and Douglas county, neither
last fall nor this spring have the popu
lists, who once presented a fair front
been brash enough to put candidates
bearing their party banner on the
ticket and the same is true, so we are
told, in many other counties throughout
the state.
The fact la that so long as the re
publicans of Nebraska adhere firmly to
the Roosevelt program, the old line in-
llsts find more to attract them into the
republican ranks than to remain in alli
ance with the democrats. As an effec
tive, indeiendent force In politics, how
ever, the populist organisation has
been dissipated. Nothing but the gross
est mistake on the part of the repub
licans could cause it to revive its
strength. The greater part of the old
populist party was originally driven out
of the republican party because of dis
satisfaction, not so much with repub
lican policies as with republican party
management and party candidates, and
most of them who have come buck of
late for a trial will stay in the repub
lican fold permanently. If not aguln
driven away.
CORP iR A TIOS FCSDS AST) PA R Tl KS.
All legislative bodies ought to pro
hibit under severe penalties the us of
corporation funds for political purposes
of any kind. Public opinion Is practic
ally unanimous as to the demoral)y.in(
effect of such contributions, and in the
light of the disclosures of the past year,
showing how baleful Is the intimate re
lation between corporation funds iu the
hands of party committees and candi
dates and corporation funds In the
hands of legislative lobbyists, no one
wonld now have the hardihood to de
fend them. The seat of the evil is more
particularly in coqiorations wbU-b by
their very nature or by mere bulk
of their operations assume the character
of public institutions, but there is no
need of limiting the prohibitions of the
law to any particular class of corpora
tions. The law will be more effective
In such a matter if Its provisions are
simple and sweeping.
No one proposes to Infringe the right
of the citizen to contribute to the pollt
ical party of his choice for any legltl
mate purpose. His right la indlsputa
ble. It la the corporation contribution
that infringes that right, liecause the
stockholders of a railroad, telegraph or
bank company or the policyholders of
a life insurance company entrust their
money to the corporation for the spe
cific purosee of the business carried on,
and are sure to llong to differeut polit
ical parties. If there were no other
objection, it Is a flagrant breach of
trust to devote the money of one stock
holder to promote the oppofite political
purposes of another. As a matter of
fact in the use of coriioratlon funds In
politics Is almost Invariably for pur
poes hostile to the Interests of the
great majority of all snx-kholder.
Public policy requires that political
activity shall emanate and be sustained
from citizens as Individuals and that it
shall be divorced to the utmost extent
possible from those great corporate
iKxiies which, created by law for cer
tain specific purposes, it Is supremely
linMrtnnt should be held In subjection
to law. And every corporation, railroad
or other, under the Jurisdiction of the
national government, should be aa rig
orously prohibited as coriwratlons under
that of state governments from divert
ing so much as one penny of Its funds
to the nses of political parties under
any pretense whatever.
XF.OAT1VE CRITICISM OF RATK BILL.
An extraordinary feature of the sen
ate debate on the Dolliver-Hepburn bill
Is the failure of those who are recog
nized as Its most positive opponents to
agree and put forth their chief objec
tions in amendment form. Month after
month such opponents have busied
themselves with destructive criticism,
but they have so far persistently
avoided constructive co-operation.
At the outset Senator Foraker, ex
pressing the legal view which embodies
the substance of the extreme railroad
corporation opposition, made an elab
orate argument the logical conclusion
of which denies the whole scheme of
rate control either by congress directly
or through the medium of any executive
commission. But Senator Foraker him
self and the coterie of senators who re
gard the subject from the same stand
point have perceived all the way
through that the passage of a regula
tion measure is Inevitable, and, along
with other senators who profess to
favor such a measure, have directed
their efforts to magnify the faults of
the measure devised by the friends of
the president's policy with bis encour
agement.
The two points upon which the brunt
of attack has fallen are Judicial review
of commission-fixed rates and their sus
pension by judicial order pending ap
peal to the courts. Senators Foraker,
Culberson, Knox, Spooner, Bailey and
others, including the very ablest law
yers In the senate, have elaborated at
great length constitutional arguments
against, the rate bill on these two cap
ltal points, some Insisting that It is ab
solutely void for failure to provide spe
cifically for court review and that a pro
vision prohibiting suspension of rates by
court would be void, but most of them
holding that congress has power in one
degree or another to define both appeal
from the commission and the enjoining
of its rates while appeal Is being tried.
The bill was drawn in the form In
which it is before the senate and is de
fended by its foremost friends, on the
ground, as Is familiarly known, that
the constitutional right of appeal to the
courts exists independent of any spe
cific provision by congress therefor and
that the constitutional minimum of re
view Is all that should be allowed, since
Judicial delays and incapacity to deal
effectively with the rate subject in its
length and breadth is one of the great
est evils from which the public has suf
fered. The country has not failed to note
that these senatorial critics, while cry
ing out so loudly and ingeniously
against what they assert should not be
in the bill as it stands, either refuse to
formulate or are Incapable of formu
latlng a substitute provision that would
be free from objections. The Impres
sion Is deepening as this negative and
destructive criticism is persisted in
that their hostility really goes to the
very essence of the measure and that
they have no substitute for Its chal
lenged features which they dared to
submit to the same thorough and delib
erate public Judgment before which the
pending measure itself was fairly placed
at the very beginning of the session.
The friends of a great measure of
public policy may properly and honestly
seek to perfect It but only enemies and
that sort of weak-hearted friends who
are tools in the hands of enemies con
fine their energies exclusively to nega
tion and destructive criticism.
It is to be hoped the city and county
authorities will get together on the as
slgnment of quarters for the con soli
dated city and county treasuries. The
financial department of our local gov
ernment comes in close contact with i
greater number of individual citizen
than the other departments and it ought
to le made as easy as possible for
people to come in and pay their taxes
The natural location for the merged
treasuries Is lu the rooms in the clt
hall now occupied by the city treasurer.
These should afford ample space for the
enlarged work after merger.
An ordinance submitting the question
of voting bonds for a city workhouse
has at last been prepared for Introduc
tion Into the council. To get It through
and submit it according to the pro
visions of the charter will require
prompt action, as notice of not less than
ten days must be given the voters. We
see no reason, however, why there
should be any opposition anywhere to
the submission of this proposition, ex
cept possibly from the beneficiaries of
the Jail feeding graft, which might not
be so lucrative if the city made its pris
oners work out their board.
With the pure food bill as a "flller'
in the bouse this week congressmen
will be given an opportunity to express
themselves on a subject which may In
terest their constituents just before the
electious, but if they desire to make the
best Impression they will enact the law
and talk later.
. The agent who sold the voting ma
chines that will be used at our coin!
ng
election is trying to make people
Here that machine voting conduce
be
to scratched tickets. In the light of ex
pertence already bad It will be bard to
make this story go down. The ma
chines as now set unquestionably "on-
duce to straight party voting. The only
way to give an Independent candidate
an equal chance with a party candidate
Is to take off the stralgnt ticket lever
and make every voter Indicate sepa
rately bis choice of candidates for every
office
As Interpreted by one of its god
fathers, the democratic city platform
demand for municipal ownership of
pnbllc utilities means that municipal
ownership Is to be held In abeyance
until the acquisition of the water plant,
and, Innsmuch as the In'st promise for
completion of the water works purchase
puts It off from two to three years yet
and probably Into the city administra
tion to be elected In 1!!1, people may
Judge how little substance there is In
such platform declarations at this time.
The World-Herald attempts to jus
tify its flagrant inconsistency between
preaching and practice of municipal
ownership by asserting that while it
has always believed in the theory, It is
opposed to applying It to more than one
thing at a time. It forgets to say that
in the application the fake municipal
ownership advocates have put the big
gest and toughest Job first, so as to
postpone Indefinitely all the little ones
that could have been completed In short
time with ease.
What They Hanker For.
Chicago News.
It Is said that President Roosevelt is
preparing to roast some of the magazine
writers who have been looking tnto things
in Washington. In their wildest dreams
they could hardly have hoped for such ad
vertising. St. Paul Pioneer Press.
The slings and arrows of outrageous
fortune still assail the fallen magnate of
the New Tork Mutual, poor Richard A.
McCurdy. To escape them he fled with
his family to Europe. But even thither,
on the wings of the lightning. Is borne
the announcement that a poem written
by him before the day of discomposing
"Investigations." has been sold at auction
for thirty cents!
Perplexities of "n Loral Issue."
Chicago Chronicle.
Mr. McCall of Massachusetts has been
trying to get the tariff revisionists In con
gress to act together and finds, it Is said,
that he can not because In different locali
ties they can not Agree on what should be
revised Massachusetts wanting free hides
and the central west not wanting hides
free, for example. What a curious re
minder this Is of the universal guffaw that
once greeted General Hancock's dictum that
the tariff Is "a local Issue." Would these
gentlemen laugh so loud now?
KIcklnsT on Carnegie Money.
Philadelphia Record.
In Guthrie Center, Iowa, the feeling
against the crime of being rich is ss strong
as It was In the fight over sllverlsm. The
town has refused by a popular vote to ac
cept $5,000 from Mr. Carnegie for a library
on the ground that his money Is tainted.
Women cast nearly half the votes and did
most of the work;, their acute moral sense
was particularly aroused against the ac
ceptance of money from an eastern pluto
crat. And yet Mr. Carnegie Is not a trust
magnate: he broke the steel rail trust and
the steel beam trust and refused to go
Into the Bteel trust or to take its stock In
payment for his property when he sold out.
It Is true he 1s guilty of being very rich,
but he Is only ss rich as he can be and the
same Is true of every other man. As he
Is trying to divest himself of his gold and
his guilt, It seems as If the good women of
Guthrie Center might have consented to
relieve him of (5,000.
HOUSE STILL I! THE LEAD.
Preachment on the Animal and His
Mechanical Rival.
Cincinnati Enaulrer.
The automobile has not discouraged the
useful animal, the horse. Official reports
show that th equina Is still paramount.
In 1906 there were 17,067,702 horses In tha
United States, against 14,213,837 In 1SS0. The
export price averaged J3U6.98 last year,
against 1174.50 In 1S92. The horse Is flesh,
blood and intelligence, and people cf natu
ral and practical predilections can have an
affection for him. He has tha graces of
instinct, and if he gets proper attention is
a thing of beauty and satisfaction. The
spread of the automobile is amazing, but it
is still to a great degree a fad and a toy.
It is a product of prosperous times, when
men are making money and have the means
of treating themselves to novelties. Its
best use is for heavy delivery transporta
tion In cities, but it has nothing to oom
mend It over the horse for family driving
or pleasure riding. It goes faster than the
patient, four-footed beast, but the horse is
as rapid as Is necessary. It goes at as
great a pace as ought to be permitted In
the streets of a city, and Is less tempestu
ous than the bellowing and snorting motor.
Anyboy with human Instincts can acquire
a positive affection for a faithful horse,
but who could love a greasy automobile,
with its absurd noises, gaseous wheexlng
and noxious odors? The horse, the noblest
of all beasts If, indeed. It is not a shame
to call it a beast is a creature of bounti
ful and beautiful nature, while the horse
less wagon Is a senseless, ponderous ma
chine that is not bridle wise, snd has to
be guided at every motion by a man In a
spectacular overcoat and wearing on his
eyes horrid goggles. The automobile has
not advanced much save in devilment. It
Is still largely a vehicle for the transpor
tation of grotesque- exhibitions. Loyalty
to the horse la a sign of the best human
temperament. He la one of the pioneers
of civilisation, as well aa one of Its great
est finishers.
BOTH FOOD
AND MEDICINE.
We like best to call Scott's
Emulsion a food-medicine. It
is a term that aptly describes
the character ana action of
our Emulsion. More than a
edicine more than a food.
et combining the vital prin
ciples of both. It is for this
reason that Scott's Emulsion
has a distinct and special
value in all wasting diseases.
There is nothing better to
remedy the troubles of im
perfect growth and delicate
health in children. The action
of Scott's Emulsion is just as
effective in treating weak
ness and wasting in adults.
SCOTT ft aOWNK, as tmti . Keo Vent
ARM V CiOSSIP IX WASHISUTOV
(arrest Events Ulenned from the
Army and Navy Restlater.
There la under consideration the project
of withdrawing the signal corps from Benl
ria Barracks, Cat. The corps has at that
place a supply depot from which material
Is sent to signal corps commands on the
Pacific coast and In the Plllippines. Com
Danles E and H of the corps are on dutv
at Benlcla and much work of an experi
mental character has been conducted, and
more has been In contemplation, at that
place. If Benlcla Barracks Is abandoned
by the signal corps, which seems probable
at this time, the corps will concentrate its
depots and Its facilities for experimentation
at Omaha, Neb., retaining, of course. Fort
Wood. N. T., which Is a source of supply
tor the signal corps In the east and where
is on duty company G.
Much interest attache to the experience
of the company of signal corps men who
this week have started out from Fort
Leavenworth, Kan., under the command of
Captain William Mitchell of the corps for
a tour of duty on the target range. Last
year was the first season when the signal
corps command at Leavenworth took part
In the rifle competition. The men did so
well that It has been determined to con
tinue this work and it is expected that dur
ing this season the signal corps men will
make even a better showing than they did
last year.
The War department Is In receipt ot ap
plication for mileage claimed by officers
who are now on the retired list and who
feel that they are entitled to mileage which
appears to have been paid General Leonard
Wood under circumstances that seem to
Justify a similar disbursement of public
money In the rase of the claimants. It Is
likely that nothing will be done In these
cases since there were very good reasons
for the action originally taken In denying
mileage. The conditions are not understood
to constitute a new situation In any respect.
The claim for mileage which may be re
ceived will have to be filed.
Army signal officers have been engaged
this week on experiments with the pyro
technic form of signalling with which there
has been some -work between this city, Fort
Washington, Alexandria and other places
In the neighborhood. In the tests which
were held there wss signalling by bombs
by daylight as well as after dark, the
former Including the discharge of smoke
bombs or devices which carry and expose
to view smoke of different colors, to be
observed at a distance to ascertain with
what effect that system may be employed
In, communication. There were further
tests also with bombs and rockets at night.
Bo far as the experiments have gone there
Is a demonstration of the bomb as com
pared with any other conveyor. It Is found
to be more reliable. The army signal of
fice has accumulated a supply of pyrotech
nics put up In hermetically sealed tin cans
as a protection against the weather.
THIS COUNTRY IS ALL RIGHT.
Conditions Which Pnt the Calamity
Howler Ont of Baslnesa.
Washington Post.
The advent of spring finds the people ot
this country in the heart of an era of mar
velous prosperity which, for duration and
scope, will remain one of the wonders of
history. No brighter period is recorded In
the story of any nation than the past half
doxen years in the United States, and no
such progress noted before. Beginning with
wonderful crops, the era of prosperity has
developed still greater yields and tilled more
fields, until the world has been astonished
by the output of foodstuffs from American
farms. Railroads have wrestled with tha
problem of moving these crops and the
task of extending their lines into new sec
tions that have begun to swell the torrent
of production. They have succeeded only
passably in handling the enormous business
that has been offered.
Industry of every kind Is now Intensely
active. It was thought that the limit of ac
tivity had been reached last year, but the
prospects are favorable for still greater ex
pansion In 1906. Manufacturers are per
plexed In finding ways and means to en
large the capacity of their plants. Skilled
labor of all kinds Is employed and unskilled
labor is busy In a thousand directions, dig
ging and clearing the way for their more
expert brethren. Communications are ex
tending, the building trades are overworked,
factories are behind with their orders, trol
ley lines are knitting city and country with
Incredible rapidity and every city In the
country, without exception, la Increasing
in population and wealth. The bank clear
ings of cities east and west, north and
south, are heavier than ever before. The
postal business Is greater. The bank de
posits are larger. Every test of business
activity, when applied to these times.
proves that the United States Is in better
physical and financial condition than ever
before. The country find Itself confronted,
not with the task of making a living, but
the greater task of keeping Its head above
the rising flood of good times.
With such a situation at the beginning
of another season that promises to be
greater than those that have gone before,
it is not surprising that the people have
little time or inclination to listen to the
calamity howler or his little brother the
professional graft hunter. The country is
all right and everybody knows It.
PERSONAL NOTES.
Secretary Root announces that In mak
ing his trip to South America next summer
he will go clear around that continent, com
ing up the west coast and crossing the
Isthmus.
Hilarious news comes from Oklahoma.
Joe Sober, Henry Stud, Rev. Gripe,
Grandma Root and Charlie Loveless have
organised a co-operative domestic estab
lishment at Enid.
Congressman Weeks has given to his
native town. Lancaster, N. H., the sum of
$115,000 for the erection of a library in
memory of his father, William Weeks, who
was a life-long resident of the town.
The emperor of China has a household
consisting of 500 persons, including thirty
bearers of state umbrellas, an eaual num
ber of fanbearer. thirty physicians and
surgeons, seventy-five astrologers, seventy
six cooks and sixty priest
Notwithstanding and nevertheless, the
new business 6f the life- Insurance compan
ies of the United States, amounting to $2,
400,000,000 in 19(16, waa as large as the entire
foreign commerce of the United States, In
cluding both Imports and exports.
For holding up a 10-year-old girl and tak
ing her penny a New York court gave the
youthful highwayman three years In the
reform school. If this rate is followed in
penallslpg crooked captains of finance In
that locality an expert accountant will be
required to figure out the limit.
In appreciation of the services rendered
the city of New Orleans In the stamping
out of yellow fever, the citizens presented
Surgeon J. II. White, of the United States
Public Health and Marine Hospital service,
with the most exquisite silver set ever
given to an Individual in that city.
M. E. Palr.n-do, the New York orocess
server, who succeeded in delivering sub
poenss to H. H. Rogers and all the other
big men In the Standard Oil company, with
the exception of John D. Rockefeller, looks
the Ideal of the "gentleman" stage detec
tive. Tall, athletic, apparently well edu
cated, wltti the easy manners of a man vf
the world and a face of some refinement
and great shrewdness.
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MILLIONS COMIXG IX.
Stream of Immlarratloa Rising; lllahrr
Than Krtr Before.
New York World.
A million immigrants and more will come
to the United States this year. Last year's
total waa l.(0S,4fl, and the 190 arrivals have
been thus tar Id excess ot the record.
Yet even these numbers are not so great
In proportion to the wealth, population and
assimilative power of the nation as were
the numbers that came after the discovery
of gold half a century ago. The 427,000 Im
migrants of 1854 and even the 788,000 of lf&2
were more numerous In proportion to the
population of the country at those periods
thsn this year's total can possibly be to
our present population.
So vast a shifting of the peoples of the
earth demands our closest scrutiny. Few
national needs are so pressing as the need
of scanning, directing, distributing, protect
ing and educating this throng of newcomers
and the need of Inspiring them with the
Ideals of true democracy.
The wider distribution of the Immigrants
noted last year is most gratifying. For the
first time the south drew more of the In
coming host than did the Rocky mountain
and far western region. There Is no "Immi
gration problem," but the distribution of
Immigration Is one of the most difficult of
the minor problems which the coming of a
plethora even of welcome guests entails.
INCREASED IDE OF NARCOTICS.
Moral Degradation Brought On by the
Drnar Habit.
Baltimore American.
Something like a general effort has been
made recently to surround the sale of cer
tain dangerous drugs with stricter regu
lations. Before several legislatures in ses
sion similar bills regulating the retailing
of cocaine, morphia, etc., have been intro
duced. It is cocaine, especially, that seems
In recent years to have come into wide
spread use as a nerve stimulant, and the
wreck and wretchedness that have fol
lowed the general spread of the cocaine
habit in certain spheres of city life are
worse thsn follow in ths wake of pesti
lence or famine; the moral degradation
brought on by the drug habit is infinitely
worse.
A bill regulating the ssle of dangerous
drugs is pending before the state legisla
ture of New York, and a manufacturing
chemist testifying before a senate com
mittee declared that over SO per cent of
all the cocaine at present manufactured
In this country is converted to Illicit use.
He stated also that fully 130 or the 200
girls now in Chinatown, New York City,
some of them not more than 14 years old,
are confirmed victims ot cocaine. This
most powerful and terrible of narcotics
Is said to be commonly peddled by pe
destrians 'in the Chinese and other slum
quarters of New Tork. The terrible fas
cination of the drug, once the habit is
acquired, never loses Its grip on the vic
tim. In the course ot the inquiry Into
the probable extent of the use of narcotics
by the New York legislative committee
some surprising statistics were brought
out. In Vermont, for instance, where the
entire population is only S50.000, there is
sold during each month 1.300,000 doses of
narcotic drugs. That constitutes an aver
age of nearly ten doses monthly to every
tnaji, woman and child in the state. The
ratio Is astounding, any how the total
Of narcotics consumed may be distributed.
whether to few or to many of the popula
tion. All of these drugs, tha. are so generally
misused, properly used are considered by
medical science to be of high benefit to
the human race, and cocaine, especially.
Is regarded a boon to suffering humanity.
There are laws now in practically every
state which are supposed to restrain snd
limit the sale and common use of all
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and insures safety to life of mother and child, and leaves her in
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THE FRENCH DRY CLEANING WORKS
will five JJi rrosi receipts to the building fund'
1903 r.rmm St Phon Dough$ 4m
dangerous narcotics, but the terrible spread
of the drug habit grows more widespread
year by year. It is said that In certain
districts of New York there are rftnil
resorts pretending to .be ordinary drug
stores that not only gain a llveiihond
almost exclusively by selling drugs to "th
fiends," but there is said to be evidence
that some of these places distribute cocaine
free to nnntiscrs and thus build ouimi
by fostering the habit. There are few more
serious problems with which benevolent
effort Is attempting to grapple then Is this
constantly Increasing tendency to the us
of narcotics.
MIRTHFIL REMARKS.
"My, O my! I've got to raise J.M) for a
week or so, and I haven't got a cent. Sav.
lend me ten, will youT"
"Sure, here you are."
"Thanks. Ray or this Is onlv a dime"
"Well, that's ten cents. Isn't It?" I'hlln
delphia Press.
PJones Do you believe that cures can be
wrought by the laying on of hands?
Ksniith Yep. That's the way I cured my
boy of the cigarette habit. Cleveland
Leader.
"Do you think Methuselah was happy In
his old age?"
"Certainly. Nobody came at him with
any Intimations that he ought to be retired
ot 70." Washington Star.
"So the old man married at lam. He was
a hero of three wars, wasn't he?"
"Yes, and I guess he wearied of too much
peace." Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Mr. Skrapps You women all have Hie
same fault You can't pass a, shop that hnn
bonnets In the window without looking In.
Mrs. fikrapps So different from vmi men.
You can't pass a shop that has bottle in
the window without going In. Philadelphia
Ixdger.
"Yes. madam," said the doctor, "your
htisbnnd needs a reBt."
"I know, doctor," replied Mrs. Nagget,
"but he won't listen to me."
"Don't compel him to listen to you. That's
the sort of rest he needs most." Philadel
phia Press.
"So you regard that officeholder ss a po
litical accident?" "Ho Is worse than an
accident." answered Fenntor Sorghum.
"He's a catastrophe." Washington Star.
"How cheerful you look this morning,
dear," said the sick man as his wife hus
tled about the room. "You act as If vou
thought I were going to get well."
"Ah, dearest," she answered, turning to
press her lips upon his brow, "hope has re
turned to me. The surgeon who was to per
form the operation fell last night and broke
his arm." Chicago Record-Herald.
FOLDED HANDS.
Margaret E. Sangster,
Pale, withered hands, that more than four
score years
Had wrought for others, soothed the hurt
of tears,
Rocked children's cradles, eased the fever'a
smart,
Dropped balm of love In many an aching
heart; ,
Now, stlrless, folded, like wan rose leaves
pressed
Above the snow and silence of her breast.
In mute appeal they told of labors done.
And well-earned rest that came at sot of
sun.
From the worn brow the lines of care had
swept.
As if an angel's kiss, the while she slept.
Had smoothed the cobweb wrinkles qui'e
away.
And given back the peace of childhood day.
And on the Hps the faint smile almost said:
"None know life's secret but the hapi-y
dead."
So. gazing where she lay. we knew that
pAln,
And parting could not cleave her soul sgsln.
And we were sure that they who saw hrr
last
In that dim vista which we call the past.
Who never knew her old and laid aside.
Remembering best the maiden and the
bride,
Had sprung to greet her with the olden
epf ech,
The dear, sweet names no later lore can
teach.
And "welcome home!" they cried, and
grasped her hands.
Bo dwells the mother in the best of lsnds.
And many other painful and serious
ailments from which most mothers
suffer, can be avoided by the use of
MOlDiri l-neif. This great remedy
is a God-send to women, carrying
them through their most critical
ordeal witri saft
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