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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY, MAY 1. lOOff. The Omaiia, Daily Bee. E. ROSBWATBR, EDITOR. PUBLISHED BV6RT MORNING. TRR.M8 OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally fle (without Sunday), one year..$l"0 Daily H! and Bunday. one year (00 Illustrated Bee. on yesr I fl Sunday Bee, one y-enr ISO Saturday Be, one yr 1 60 DELIVERED RY CARRIER. Dally Be (Including Phinday), per wee k.lTc Pally Bee (without Sunday). per week Uc Kvenln Dpi (without Bunriayt, per week. 6o. K.ventng Kee (with Sunday), per week. ...10c Sunday Be, per copy c Address ciwuplalnls of Irregularities In do llvery to Cltf Circulation Department. OFFICK8. Omaha The Building. South Omaha City Hal! Building. Council Hluffn 10 Pearl Street. Chicago 140 Unltv Building. New York 1M Horn" Ufe Ins. Building. Washington m Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communication relating to news and edi torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. . . REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order payable to The Hee funuaning ompny. Only l-rent stamps reoelved as payment of mall account, personal cnecas, except oh Omaha or eastern exchangee, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Dooglaa County, s : C. C. Rose water, general manager of The Bee Publishing company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of April, 190B, was as iohowb 1 2OMt 16 JU.ROO 17 81.410 1 S1.4HO 1 81.400 4 84.TWO I SI ,20 t 81,20 7 82.10(1 8, 4l10W 81.40U 10 81. WH) H 8 1,4 ) 12 81 ,8.10 18 81,170 14 82,iOO 15 8O.1O0 18 1 Zl...... 22 23 ...4.VHIO ...40,210 ...4l.fT0 ...4WWO ...8H.030 24 81.3 OO 5 t.4IU .... ..31,470 27 aijiao 28 82,aro 20 8H,200 30.. St.'BflO Total....!...- 1.041.800 Less unsold copies 12..173 Net total Sales laf,HH Dally average 84,20 C. C. R08E WATER, General Manager. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 30th day of April, 1906. (Seal) M. B. HUNOATE, Notary Public. WHEK OCT OF TOWS1, gabsarlbers leaving; city teas porarlly akoald have The Me Baalled t them. Asdresa will be From the business point of view, Ben sou unquestionably outmeasures Iahl mnn. X vote for Harry B. Ztuiniau Is a vote to endorse the record of a fearless and conscientious public servant. Nebraska's "million-dollar rains" have started. California may keep Its two-hundred-mlllion-dollar earthquakes. That fata! fight between New Mexi can educators still leaves the territory ahead of Kentucky In the feud class. Millet's Man wlthtbe Hoe" has been destroyed", "but Markham's lines will live thus does poesy score over pointing. Whatever, else you do, vote for Charles II. . Wlthnell for building in spector and against the Incompetent Butler. The fans plainly want Sunday games continued, but they do not want any one to Interrupt the game on Sunday or any other day. While King Edward Is wading through the mud at Vesuvius he may recall a British parliamentary cam palgn and feel at home. , Don't forget to vote "yes" on the in tersection paving bonds. By carrying these bonds $350,000 of street Improve ments will be set In 'motion. After Salt Francisco hns subsisted on army rations for a while some civilians will have more intelligent sympathy for the men behind the pork and beans. Thanks to the voting machine, we may 'be sure of having the returns in early, so that those destined to political death need endure no long drawn agony. ' Press dispatch esnnounce that Mr. Bryan1 spoke at Jerusalem. The speak ing would bare been taken as a matter of course had it only been announced that he was present W. W. BiugLam led the procession of couucllraanic candidates In the repub lican primaries, and It will not be sur prising' If r he leads the whole proces sion again at the election. If California congressmen bad imagined, that $2,000,000 appropriated for earthquake sufferers would be mainly a matter of bookkeeping, per bapa the requisitions would have been larger. Be sure to vote for W. Ernest Johnsou for city comptroller. He ta an expert . accountant, who knows his business and can b -depended on to keep check on v the city's income and outgo in the In terest of the taxpayers. Continental Euroe is an armed camp with troops in readiness until May day agitation has been calmed; but even In Europe the idea is growing that gov ernment must depend for success upon something more than standing armies. The senate faces ten days' more talk before starting to vote on the railroad rate bill. The intervening time will he taken by many roemlers of the upiier bouse in devising means to satisfy lotb their constituents and their employers. Charley WiUiuell has been a pretty good building inspector. With him con Unued in office life and property will be safe against rotten construction, whereas with inspection by the incom petent Butler no one would know when the next building waa going to fall slows) James e. nnrrt. With the death of James E. Bovd Nebraska's only democratic governor has passed to the great beyond. Gov ernor Boyd occupies a unique plnce In Nebraska's political history. Elected, to be chief executive In the most bitter and hotly contested enmpstgn ever waged In the state, his eligibility was questioned because he could not prove that either he or his father had ever become naturalized cltlxens and the case appealed to the supreme court of the United States became epoch-making In the constitutional law of Ameiicnn cltlsenshlp. It was Anally decided in his favor, although by a divided court, and he Succeeded to the executive pre rogatives, serving out the remainder of his term without seeking re-election. As governor his veto of the Newtierry bill, regulating railroad rates In the face of an Intense popular demonstration In favor of ltt showed him to be a mnn of determination and firmness. Intent upon doing his duty as he saw it, regardless of public clamor or approval. An In tense partisan and a devoted democrat, James E. Boyd In Inter years attained to recognition In the national councils of the party. Had Nebraska been a democratic state he would doubtless have occupied higher official position. In Omaha Governor Boyd will be, re membered as n sturdy pioneer, Imbued to the core with the public spirit and enterprise which has helped to build the city great. At all times he was ready to respond to every call In the public Interest. Ills pork packing establish ment was the forerunner of the great hog and cattle market at South Omaha and the huge plants there which now transform every part of these animals Into articles of food consumption. He gave Omaha Its first home for the drama worthy of the name and when that was destroyed by fire replaced It with an other still more handsome theater. His activity In local politics was but Inci dental to his leadership In industry, al though he, was several times honored nnd once elected mayor at a critical period of the city's career. That Governor Boyd and Governor Thayer, the two figures In a stirring chapter of Nebraska's history, should both answer the summons within the month, the former at the age of 72 and the other at the age ot 80 years. Is In deed a remarkable coincidence. Gov ernor Boyd has been honored In life and his memory will be long cherished and always respected. Rate bill amendments. It Is generally recognized that debate in the senate on the rate bill has been exhausted so far as any influence on the vote Is concerned, and public inter est is now turning to the division of the senate, which can hardly be long de layed. The whole result will virtually turn on the fate of the amendments, because the full strength of the opposi tion to rate control has .been laid out so to alter the original Dolllver-Hepburn bill. If possible, as to emasculate or to reduce its effect to the utmost possible minimum. The real test will come on a com paratively few of the seventy amend ments that are pending, and probably on the question of a broad or limited judi cial review. As is familiarly known, the bill makes no express provision for ap peal to the courts, Intending to leave parties in Interest to their rights under the constitution, but the president and those who are acting positively with him are ready to consent to Incorporation in the bill of acknowledgment In terms of constitutional right of appeal from the rates and orders of the commission. The opposition, on the contrary. Insists on the broadest possible appeal, its aim being in effect to lodge the rate making power with the courts instead of the commission, because If no rate which is objectionable to the railroads can be effective until it shall have been carried up on appeal through the courts and Anally passed upon by the supreme court of the United States, the courts are the real rate-making power, and the in terminame neiay in tneir processes would in large part preclude remedy so far as the public la concerned. Practically, therefore, it la reasonable to anticipate that the contest will be mainly settled by the decision on the judicial review feature. If those who stand with the president are able. to de feat wide open review amendment, they will be able to defeat all the other nu merous amendments the purpose or ef fect of which Is to weaken the measure. This one critical point settled, the rest should be easily and quickly disposed of. PROTECT WIFE AND CHILDREN. At the outset of the municipal cam palgn. The Bee declared that on their merits the republican nominees as whole would appeal to the voters much more forcibly than the democratic noml nees. There is one noticeably flagrant misfit on the republican ticket in the candidacy of John II. Butler for build lug Inspector. Butler is a political carjH'nter. who has never had anything to do with the construction of the modern type of buildings and could not qualify for the office under the charter if he were elected. ' v Ou the proper Inspection of buildings hangs the-questlou of life or death of dear ones. To vote for a notorious In competent like Butler for this office is to vote danger to wife and children and to invite building collapses and death trap fires. In this there Is no politics. Even the Good Governmen league has refused to endorse Butler, But, though It were a political mat ter, Butler has no claim upon repub lican votes, because three years ago, without the slightest excuse, he ran for the same office by petition for no pur pose but to beat the republican nominee. against whom no word could be said la addition to this, Butler has been a pcTH-tual office seeker and a chronic bolter. ' No one, ou the other band, questions the ability of Building Inspector wlth nell. who Is up for reelection. As wilding Inspector he has set bis author ity against flimsy construction, and the building catastrophes we have had since his Incumbency have been only In cases where he was overruled and overridden by the council. There Is criticism of his action as memler of the Board of Public Works but the new charter abol ished that board and the building In spector will hereafter have nothing to do with public works' contractors. With the San Francisco earthquake disaster vividly before them, Omaha citizens, who put life and property above politics, will vote against Butler nd Incompetency in the building in- pectlon department and for Wltbnell nd ssfety for themselves and their families. THE IOWA CONTEST. The intensity of the contest for the Iowa republican nomination for gov ernor, which Is without parallel In the history of purty politics In that state. does not diminish, but rather increases s the contest progresses. Though four spirants entered the field, the struggle has been reduced practically to a ques tion between Governor Cummins, who seeks a third term, and ex-Cougress-man George, I). Perkins, editor of the Sioux City Journal, long known as one of theablest and staunchest republican leaders. The campaign has developed the fact that Governor Cummins is backed by one of the most powerful and highly or ganized political mnchlnes ever con structed in the west, which he has been aauMimn.lv V.,,iMiri,, fro ti, ninn,.nt I ' he became governor more than five years ago. He engaged actively in the canvass for renominatlon soon after the legislature convened last winter and every energy of his machine, which em braces . the whole state patronage, has been Increasingly devoted to its promo tion. On the other hand, the Terklns following shows formidable strength, al though it has not so far shown the activity and close knit organization of the Cummins machine, nor has the cam- sign of the former so far disclosed a plan as systematic and prearranged as that of the latter. Although the state convention will not be held till near the middle of August, county conventions or primaries have been held In about one-fourth of the counties of the state. The fact that the most of the conventions so far held have been In the extreme northern and north western parts of the state, which are recognized as Cummins strongholds, has given him an apparent lead In the dele gates already chosen, and the holding of conventions in these counties at so early a date was evidently for the pur-, pose of nmklng such a. showing. . Very1 few conventions have yet been held ill the southern and central portions of the state, where antl-Cummlns and antl thlrd term sentiment Is known to.be strongest, and where conventions have been held therein the trend of sentiment has been favorable to Terklns. The outcome of this arduous and ex citing preconventlon contest rests with the seventy to seventy-flva conntlee whose cftnvenrlons are srTll In the fu ture and most of which have not yet been even called. No such competition for mastery between rival aspirants and factions was ever before waged in Iowa, heretofore always conspicuous as a state of steady political habits, but as the field of doubtful and debatable counties nar rows the struggle Is almost certain to become even more Intense and exciting. NO BENSON-WATTLES TIE-CP. The World-Herald is endeavoring at the eleventh hour to prejudice Benson by proclaiming that there is a Benson- Wattles tleup, and that the election of Benson to be mayor means the sup port of Benson and the Fontanelles for a delegation to the republican state convention for G. W. Wattles for sen ator. While this sounds plausible enough, it does not square with the declarations made by Mr. Benson. Mr. Benson has declared that If he Is elected mayor there will be no factional politics in the city hall. He has pledged his word that as mayor he will see to It that the influence of his administration is not to be used for or against any republican candidate for senator. He Insists that while he does not control or claim to control the Fontanelles, the Fontanelles will not control him. . He has made these declarations and pledges of bis own volition and his word ought to be good. No republican, therefore, should allow himself to be stampeded by the World Herald's story of a Benson-Wattles tieup. - , Another of the huge Jokes developed by the municipal campaign Is the nd dress by It. B. Howell on "The Neces sity of adhering to the old party, which has done so much for us all." This ap peal would come with a good .deal bet ter grace from some other person than Howell, who has leen drawing pay for doing nothing as a member of the Water board by virtue of a deal with the democrats two years ago involving a complete sell-out of the regular repub lican nominees. A man whose last pollt leal performance was as disgraceful as this should keep still when the question of adhering to the republican party is up for discussion. The late fusion candidate for gov ernor, George W. Berge, refuses point blank to be side-trucked to the job of attorney general and Insists that if he was good enough to lead the democratic forces two years ago, tley bave no right to bar hi in out now because be claims to be still a popullsti1- Mr. Berge will st- Mr. learn, however. In due tii;?e that the democrats have no use for Mm or any other' populist when some democrat wants the same place. ( Frank CraTrford. on the republican ticket for councilman from the Elev enth ward. Is a young mnn of fine prom ise. His npixtncnt Is trying to make capital against him because he does not happen to reside lit the center ot the ward. Mr. Cram ford, however, I broad enough to look after the Interests In the council not only of all purls of his ward, but of the whole city, afid no one should pay any attention to such frivolous charges against him. The fate"ofHenry tloH should re mind bank clerks that they are subject to orders of bank presidents only when those orders are legal, but It Is still Im probable that many of them will retain positions If they question each act of the head of the concern unless taken Into his confidence. When those Adams county farmers go on a strike next year unions whose ruembers are not Interested lu dollar wheat may strain a point to pass resolu tions of sympathy, but they may find It hard to detect "scab" wheat In their flour. Distributing? (he lxd. Philadelphia Press. The tosses suffered by the Insurance com panies In San Francisco are being assessed upon the rest of the country by an lncrense In rates. This la where pretty nearly everybody contributes whether willing or not. Keeplna; Tab on Senators. Portland Oregonlan. Will all this debate In the senate over the railway rate bill really change a vote? If any man now on the side of the people " on the other side of the fence will it not lend a color of suspicion that some ln- ..,,, ninr. t(r,, ,hjin n,torv has been at work? Minister Thompson as Hoat. Springfield Republican. The new United States embassador to Mexico, David E. Thompson, gave a re ception to the members of the American colony In the City of Mexico recently, Mrs. Thompson receiving with him. It was an elaborate occasion and Uncle Sam's new representative made a favorable Impression. It Is to be hoped that this was mutual. Thnnaerlnar In the Index. Chicago Chronicle. Democrats sometimes forget "where they are at." In a moment of aberration the other day Congressman Williams, address ing the republicans, said: "If you don't revise the tariff we will. If you don't ad mit Oklahoma and Indian Territory we will. If you don't pass a just and reason able rate bill we will." This was brave talk, truly, for the leader of a party which has dwindled to such an extent that It does not have members enough to man the com mittees. Meeting; Conditions with n Will. Sacramento, (Cal.) Union. While recognising the set-back that Cal ifornia has received, we do not, therefore. Intend to be discouraged or disheartened. Sentiment wljl playjlts part, but It Is equally certain that oommon sense .and sterling values will play their parts. Our fields are quite as fertile as ever they were and our mines as rich. We will build up what has been torn down and we will do It with such hearty good-will as to advertise our con fidence and to compel admiration. We have not suffered more than Charleston suffered and Charleston has nothing but harmless scars to show for her calamity. Missouri has built up again and outlived her trouble and California will do the same. Leaders In the Crista. Sprlngfleld Republican. There are undoubtedly 100 officers In the United States army who would have acted as promptly, energetically and efficiently as General Kunston did In the crisis of earthquake and conflagration, but that fact detracts In no measure from the credit due Funston. He was there and It appears that he rose to the occasion. This Is said with the more pleasure because the gen eral has not always excited one's admira tion. Nor, at this time, should It be for gotten who was mayor of San Francisco. There has been nothing In the dispatches thus far to Indicate that Mayor Schmltx, the labor union mayor," . failed In the terrible emergency that confronted him, The police snd fire department were under his control and If they co-operated with the United States soldiers without serious friction, credit belongs to Schmlts as well ss to Funston. Fl EL PROM ALCOHOL. Possibilities of the Measure Pending In Consrreaa. Washington Post. There Is a strong promise of great and gooC rerults from the passage of the free alcohol bill which the house hfcs sent to the senate. There is no good reason to doubt that It will boeoini a !a-v. howe'Atr strongly it may be opposed by the Stan dard Oil company. That corporation has abundant cause to Mage war against it on business principles. Free alcohol la not only a menace to the Standard Oil Interests, but to a less, but still consid erable, degree to the coal combine. The pending bill abolishes the tax on "denatur lsed" alcohol. "Denaturixed" alcohol is alcohol made undrlnkable and uneombtn- sble In beverages. In his talk In support of thla measure before the ways snd means committee, Secretary Wilson of -the Agricultural department showed that the soil could be made to produce In alcohol all the fuel thai the country needs, and added: "The northern states could readily de pend upon the white potato as a source of heat and light, the southern states upon the yam and the sweet potato, and the western atatea upon the sugar beet. The average amount of sugar and starch which goes to waste In the stalks of In dlan corn annually would make 100 gal Ions of commercial alcohol per acre. When we consider that the number of acres In Indian corn is approximately loo.000.OdO, It la seen that the quantity of alcohol that la lft In the stalka is so large as to be almost leyond the grasp of our con ception." Need there be any longer a distressful apprehension of the woes that will come upon the people when the supply of coal Is exhausted? Need the millions be af flicted by Inordinate demands of the coa combine or by strikes of miners or lock outs by operators ? Alcohol can be pro duced at very small cost, ani In practl rally unlimited quantities. It Is in all things, that grow. In both the vegetable and animal kingdoms. It has been the source both of great evil and of grea goid to mankind.' Hereafter It promises to swell immeasurably the credit side cf the sccount. Meanwhile, there Is prob ably much more than a bare possibility that practical science will be able to store the surplus heat of the summer's sun shine and render It available for all th purposes served by fuel. ARM! (.OSSIP 151 WASHHOTO. .Wallers nf Interest (Cleaned from ts Army and Navy Renlaler. A syMematlc and Complete test of the eight or ten military balloons whkh are kept at Henlcla, Cal., and Omahs, Neb., by the army signal corps Is In contem plation. Military ballooning is a subjee: which has ben taken up by the foreign experts and their work has been carefully reported by our representative abroad. It is found that comparatively little progress has been made In this work beyond the organisation, maintenance and training of a ballon personnel. In work of this sort the. efforts of the signal" corps officers are being directed to the development of Im proved facilities for producing hydrogen In the field and transporting the equipment. There hns been more or less prejudice, naturally, against military ballooning, but It Is believed that this Is a necessary feature which should be fully developed ; and under control. It Is to this end that the tests at Omaha and Benicla are being planned. In the meantime negotiations are proceeding with military balloon-makers in France for the acquisition of two or three of the latest type of that aerial vehicle. The army signal office will purchase a new French captive balloon of the latest type, one of light weight and small volume, designed partly for use with the advance guard and In expeditionary work, where rapidity of operation Is essential. The bal loon is made of silk, covered with several coats of varnish and finished with a special preparation, to which has Anally been ap plied an entirely new material known ss radio-solar, a composition of aluminium silver, which has the effect of making the balloon impervious to the penetration of gas and gives to the exterior surface a protection against the Influence of the sun's rays. It has been found In other balloons without this protective covering that the heat of the aun upon the large body has an appreciable effect upon the balloon. It is one of the curious and al together unaccountable results of inter departmental administration that the signal corps must pay out of its meager funds SO per cent of the valuation of the Imported balloon as duty to the customs division of the Treasury department, the article being classified as a silk fabric. The balloon will probably be sent to the signal corps depot at Omaha. The army signal office continues to re ceive sample telescopes, some of which the best of them. It may as well be ad mitted come from foreign sources, notably Germany. These are of the latest pattern and are of the type of adjustable power, being of great efficiency and much superior to any of the telescopes hitherto used. They are Incased In leather holders In a way which makes a part of the case also an outer section of the telescope. The Im provements which have' been made In that article are notable and have materially added to 'the value of the telescope as an instrument of observation In the field under the most adverse circumstances. The army list and directory for April, which was Issued from the military secre tary's office on the 10th Inst., contains two new featjres, adding to the value of this monthly publication and completing the monthly record of officers of the army. The relative rank of officers Is given for the entire service, forming a useful com pilation. In connection with the lineal rank of officers of cavalry, artillery. Infantry and Philippine scouts, which latter In formation has been a feature of the direc tory for some time. The relative rank shows s vscancy In the grade of lieutenant general, as on the date to which this list was corrected General Corbln had not been confirmed as of that rank. The directory shows the relative position of 8 major gen erals, 28 brigadier generals, 128 lieutenant colonels, 356 majors, 1,197 captains, 1.0M first lieutenants and 841 second lieutenants. Officers on special duty which carries with It an Increase of rank, such as those first lieutenants who are serving with Philip pine scouts with the rank of captain, offi cers detailed as judges advocate, chief of public buildings snd grounds, chief of the Insular bureau, the chief and the assistant chief of Philippine constabulary, etc., have had their names placed In italics In the rank which they temporarily hold by vir tue of their duties, and their names are Included In the grades of the arm to which they belong respectively. It Is probable that something will be done by congress during the present session to provide foreign service pay so as to cover the claims of officers and enlisted men of the army for periods In transit. The act of June JO. 1902, provided such pay for officers and men serving beyond the limits of the United States. This legisla tion has never been repealed, but In mak ing the appropriation In 1904 congress al lotted for foreign service pay only In the Philippines, China, Guam, Alaska and Panama, leaving the provisions of the act of 1902 on the statute books. The present army appropriation act has been so amended as to provide for the difference between the two acts of congress since July 1, 1908, and restores the provisions of the act of June 80, 1902. There are many claims for pay or for difference of pay In the two conditions, and these will prob ably be favorably acted upon at an early day. There Is some chance of an Increase In the commutation of quarters for army offi cers. The subject will receive further consideration from the senate military com mittee snd It Is possible that the argu ments which have been presented by Pay master General Dodge will bear fruit. The recommendation was made for this In crease last year and again before the house military committee during the present session, but without effect. The sign that the senate military committee Is disposed to consider the matter Is a gratifying piece of Information for the mili tary personnel. It Is proposed to allow second lieutenant two rooms and to In crease the allowance by one room for each succeeding grade. o Cnnae for 111-FeellngT. Philadelphia Record. The sympathetic nations of Europe need take no umbrage at the courteous refusal of the American people to accept their aid for the aufferera of 8n Francisco. While always ready to extend a hand to help the needy and distressed of other nations, the American people are fully capable of taking care of their own. Brondanoare Charity. New York Post. When the Chinese merchants turned over their contribution to the mayor yesterday and were asked If It was to be devoted ex pressly to the relief of their countrymen In Snn Francisco, the spokesman replied: "No, for all: for American man, too." Some what pathetic, this, coming from almost the only race none of whom may become an "American man, too." Hnmlllntlns; Rape Antipathy. Chicago Chronicle. The fact that the president deemed It necessary to direct that reUef be extended to the suffering Chinese of San Francisco ss well as to other sufferers la a humlllat Ing commentary upon race antipathy pre vailing among some people who consider themselves enlightened Americana. The statement that the national authorities tn San Francisco seised a ship from China laden with rice and tea snd had ths cargo tlstributed among the suffering refugees Chinatown la gratifying by contrast. Badger Wisconsin's Best OMAHA BOTTLING At I nnnn riasfinvn all uituu biuKtb WEBSTER SENATORIAL BOOM. Humboldt Leader: The talk of John L. Webster for senator Is more or less of a Joke to those who talk It, and la not con sidered serious by sny of the hearers. Gothenburg Independent: The people over the state prefer a conservstlve banker to represent them In Washington at all times than to an oratorical John L. Web ster. O'Neill Independent: One hundred repub licans In Omaha have launched a boom for cheap wheat Webster for Fnlted States senator. Well, he would make as honest a senator as Brown and much more bril liant. Bancroft Blade: John L. Webster's boom for the United States senate has not been taken very seriously outside of the Fontan els headquarters. He has trained too long with the corporate Interests to form new habits, and we can't afford to do sny specu lating at this stage of the game. Weeping Water Herald: There may have been a time In years gone by when John L. Webster would have made a better United States senator than E. J. Burkett, but Senator Burkett Is now a better fitted, more progressive man than our railroad friend, John L. Webster. The latter never did and never will have the confidence of the people. Blair Pilot: Should Nebraska send John t. Webster to the United States senate she would always be proud of the act. Webster ta one of the brainiest men In Ne braska and ranks with the ablest men now in the national upper house. The Pilot hopes that Nebraska will change her policy and for once send a real brainy man to the senate. Schuyler Free Ince: And now John L. Webster of Omaha, has launched his boom for United States senator, the first launch ing he bnp done since he was in the vice presidential sea two years ago. We do not see how John L. missed one year without a launch. Nebraska is not electing coipor atlon lawyers to the senate this time, so Webster, won't do. Cosad Tribune: The latest entry Into the senatorial race Is John L. Webster of Omaha. If the announcement Is given a cordial reception by the people of the state orders will be sent out from the railroad headquarters and all the boys will be expected to get In line. Editors hold ing juicy transportation will proceed to tell of the distinguished services of Gen eral Webster. In the meantime Senator Millard will remain In the race until Web ster, like Wattles and Greene, has had his try out. The case Is getting desperate. Broken Bow Republican: John L. Web ster Is one of our most able lawyers of the state, well qualified to All with credit any position within the gift of the public. But as he is regarded as a corporation lawyer his friends are making a mistake In bringing him out this year. Th facts are the nominees of the republi can party for the legislature, state offices. congressman and the United States senate must be men who are not associated with the corporation Influences, men who have the ability to make themselves heard and In whom the voters have confidence. PERSONAL NOTES. Frederick VIII. the new king of Denmark, Is said to be in the habit of inviting editors of leading political organs to attend at the castle to discuss the different political Is sues of the day. Some esteemed and enterprising contem poraries employed pictures of Baltimore with San Francisco labels. Others, by some quirk of conscience, were led to Imagine their illustrations. It Is time for somebody to remark that the voters of the sixth Alabama district In preferring Richmond P. Hobson to the veteran Bankhead. made a Hobson's choice when It was really the choice of Hobson. George Gerhardt of Florence, Mass., fought for two years In the French army under Napolean III In his efforts to redeem his waning fortunes which accumulated In the Franco-Prussian war. He emigrated to this country twenty-four years ago. Not least among the disastrous results of the Ban Francisco earthquake Is the appearance of 100 "separate and distinct" books, each giving the "only true account" of. the "seismic cataclysm" and each 'handsomely bound, beautifully Illustrated and a great moneymaker." Mme. Duse, who has a strong aversion to being Interviewed, was recently beaten by the Copenhagen reporters. One acted ss waiter at the hotel, another acted as shoe maker's assistant, a third drove her cab and a fourth was assistant stags machin ist and all used bits of conversation for long Interviews. NdD All(S(D)hQ)l For a long time we have been firmly determined to produce all our medicines entirety free from alcohol, and thereby forever remove the very l"t objection that any one could possibly have to theie superior remedies. This determina tion has resulted in ths most complete victory. A.uers Sarsaparilla J Non-alcoholic The only Sarsaparilla In! the world entirely free from alco hol. Destined to become th one great family medicine of the age. Contains ill ths tonic, alterative, and curative properties of the o!J Sarsepaiilla, yet entirely free from alcohol In any form. ' Ayers Cherry Pectoral rio)p-ilcoholic The latest discover': inj therapeutics show that In nearly every disease of tit throat snd lungs the patient 1 (ar better off without aicohoi man with it. The question of your taking a pletely separated from the quest) in We Banish Alcohol. We Urge You 6 H : ) ' 13 r mid CO., Distributors. a 4 a t n n u uent uouie PRAISE FOR THE RAILROADS. Their Part In Snrrorlnst the Afflicted In Snn Kraaelieo. Baltimore American. Could the sum total of the nation's gen erosity to the needy In 8n Francisco be ascertained It would be found that the largest contributions have been made, not by the United States government, not by the great metropolis of the Empire state, with Its hundreds of millionaires, but by the railroHd companies, objects of many unjust attacks as well of some complaints that are well founded. Tralnlond offer tralnload of supplies snd provisions were hauled without charge and all schedules were adjusted so ss to speed the relief stores to their destination. The value In dollars and cents of thls service reaches Into the millions, whether esti mated In rate schedule figures or at actual cost to the railroad companies. It Is sai.l that the Harriman roads alone are render ing a service that Is worth 175,000 a day and that the aggregate sum of their con tributions Is over two millions. Other roads will, perhaps, bring the total to four millions. Of course, these gifts are not as spec tacular as the drafting of a $100,000 check, which may be reproduced In a newspaper, but they are In every way worthy of respectful attention. They show that the railroads are ' not quite so black as ther are painted. LAIGHIXG LIKES. Cervantes was revising the proof sheets of "Don Quixote " "Because," he explained, "my publishers can't afford to hire a knight editor." Then, remembering that he had to be his own horse editor as well, he corrected a typographical error In the name of Roxl nantc. Chicago Tribune. "The policeman says you were acting like a crazy clown." "Yea, your honor. I was giving an lmper- DUIIBIIUII, Bll. "What were you Impersonating?" "I was lmDersonatlnar mn nHiivr slr."- Plevelnnrt t'luin TAU ).. Mlss Knox Yes, he actually said your cheeks were like roses Miss Passay (coyly delighted) Oh. come, now, that's laying It on pretty thick. Miss Knox Ves, he remarked that about li, ioo. i-nnaaeipnia iTess. ifiiiLii i me men or renuia mrtn inn mo iiri-emiies oi me, exclaimed ins stu dious young woman. "Yes," answered Mr.' Cumrox, "and In nearly every case It was because thfy didn't know how to advertise." Washing ton Star. "Why don't you marry?" "Don't need a wife I've got oodles of money." "Hiit how can money take the place of a wife?" "Well. It talks, doesn't it?" Cleveland Leader. Jinks' ffow's your wife? Blnks My wife is lost to sight, to memory dear. Jinks Why. my dear fellow, I never heard your wife was dead. Blnks She isn't. I'm paving her S50 a week alimony. Brooklyn Life. "It's nice to be happily married," argued he. "But it is no longer, stylish," retorted she. And that settled it. Louisville Courler Journak "Do not despair," began the moralist, ' you know, as the old saying goes, "oppor tunity knocks' " "Yea," interrupted the pessimist, portunlty knocks; at least It has never boosted me." Philadelphia Press. Police Magistrate This Is not the first time you have been before me, but you have given a different name from the one you gave me the other time. V Vagrant Dat a all right, y'r honor. W'en de wind changes Its direction It changes Its name, doesn't It? Chicago Tribune. LOVER'S LAKE. Arthur Gulterman In Scrlbner's. It goes beneath a checkered arch Of leaf and sunlight, oak and larch; Athwart a mead of meadow sweet, A field of Illy bordered whent; Through groves of bridal birch It turns And mossy hollows, deep In ferns; Then up a hill and down a glen, From Nowhere out and hack again; And many feet have worn It plain That .errant way of Lovers' Lane. There, unafraid, the wood-folk plaj; There wanton briers dip and sway To catch and keeD whatever comes o mane mucn wors for clumsy thumb wi juicing truss ana lacing snoe Such tasks as lovers love to do. Of tales there told with eye or tongue iitou iiui iru it ye were young Nor yet of castles reared In Spain By architects of Lovers' Lane. If Lovers' I.ane ye wander through, That roadway's rule la "two by two," Although the path la wondrous straight; For here's a hedge, and there's a gate, A brook, a stile, a quaking moaa. The strong must help the weak to arose; Then, deep In shade ere set of sur- Its dells are never safe for one. Still (must the sorry truth be knossn?) In Lovers' Lane I walk alone! 'coholic stimulant thus becomes com- of your taking soy of cur medicines. We Publish Our Formulas. Consult Your Doctor. C. AYER CO., Lowell, Mass. r 1 .n