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THE OVtAIIA' DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, MAY 2. 1906, r The Omaha Daily Dee. B. ROS1TWATER, EDITOR. PCBLISHED EVERT MORNINO. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Bee (without Sunday), one year..' Pally lie and Sunday, on year 00 Illustrated Bee. one year H u Sunday Bee, one year I " Saturday Bee, one year 1M DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Dally Be. (Including Sunday), per week. .l?e Pslly Bee (without Sunday), per week....Uc Evening Pea (without Sunday), per week, c Kvenlng Bee (with Sunday), per week....l Simdsy Bee, per copy fcc Address complaJnta of lrreg-ulsrltles In de livery to City Circulation Department. OFFICE8. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha City Hall Building. Council Blurt 10 Fearl Street. Chicago 140 Unity Building. New York lfio Home lAtm Ins. Building. Waahlngton 601 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to newa and edi torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only -cent stamps received aa payment of mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLJ8H1NQ COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, sa ; C, C. Rosewater, general manager of The Be Publishing company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally, MornlnK, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of April. 190. was as follows- 1 aO.VUt 16 81rTOO I,-, 81.44M 17 31,410 I JI1.400 IS 4S.840 4 S4.7WO 19 40,240 I Sl,2ftO 30 4,70 81,20 21 4JMIO 7 83.10O 22.., SH.030 g.: 4,ioo' 3 iKV,nq 81,400 24 SlJtrtO 10 81,800 25 81.4B0 II, ni,4W 26 31.4T0 81,330 27 ...81,B0 IS 81,17V 2S 32,370 14 82.100 29 8H4K) 15. ...,100 30 ,...81,660 Total , 1,041,300 Less unsold copies 13,373 Net iotal sales 1,0H.H8 Daily average 84,3W C. C. R08E WATER, General Manager. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before in this SOU day of April, 190S. (Seal) M. B. HUNOATE, Notary Public'. wbii our or towi. Safes srlkers leaving; tfce Its- teas orarlly eneald have Tne Bee sailed to theaa. Address will ke For beet election returns always read The Bet. But what wore could Banker Borrow bave expected with that name? A vacancy on the Water board . at good pay and no specially onerous du ties awaits some democrat who has the pull. San Francisco refugees, who seem to have a decided distaste to living on reg ular army rations, forget that it U the food of heroes. . Now that an automobile has mved a bank from falling, &ome depositors In Ohio will have more leniency toward people arrested for fast driving. It Is doubtful which Is doing Governor Cummins the greatest damage in Iowa at the present time, the enmity of Ben ator Elklns or the friendship of John Sharp William. It remains to be seen bow far the strike of sailors on the Great Lakes will affect railroad rates; but It is highly probable that the' rebatera will know the mMt about it The Grim Reaper is doing fast work with shining marks in' his harvesting in these parts. Two former governors and one mayor within a month is some what out of the ordinary. Th expulslonTallegeoT" anarchists from France shows that the government is more lenient with them than with royalists, ' who are contemplating in prison the enormity of their unbelief. Chairman Phelan's reference to the governmental guarantee on Pacific rail road bonds ts unfortunate unless the city by the Golden Gate contemplates going Into the hands of a receiver. Kentucky has surely recovered from the shock of the California disaster. Dis patches from Breathitt county indicate that normal conditions prevail, one fam ily being besieged In its home by another. Now, If Omaha and South Omaha bad only I'been ' consolidated, no one would ever bave undertaken to make the point against a candidate for office that he wa engaged in business in South Omaaa Instead of Omaha. The report that the upper Yukon river has been rendered as aafe as a canal ut an outlay of $175,000 would Indicate that Canada can give the United States valuable pointers on expenditure of the anuual river and harbor appropriations. A Peoria department store manager baa Issued an order forbidding female employes from having pockets in the dresses. If this store detective can find the prohibited pockets he will prove himself the superior of the average Sher lock Holmes. It U announced that Russia will start an ofllclal newspaper distinct from the Official Gaxette. Iteceut developments have no doubt converted the cxar to liellef In the power of the press; but to be powerful It must be free and this ts kf.uivtbluff beyond Russian understand Iuk l'roru the fact that Baltimore tt Ohio railroad officials have withdrawn from ulldi&ry coal companies the only In f.Ti'fice la that the legal department tldnks If has discovered a means of a it iiiplishlng I in liar results by another ri'erhml. It Is a poor corporation lawyer wb-t cannot devise a plausible plan of Evading the law, at least temporarily. (n.vRir.se to date. With five full months of the session of congress, gone and a point already reached within a few weeks of the or dinary time of adjournment, a fact not heretofore much noted namely, that practically no legislation has yet lieen fliillietl--Ia rising conspicuous In tlw i public mind. Congress met with a numlicr of ques tions of great Importance before It to be dealt with. In addition to the para mount public demand for more efficient and thorough control of transportation corporations. Among these were the Panama canal, a matter requiring Im mediate action; the statehood question. Philippine legislation. Chinese exclusion and the Santo lKmlngo treaty, besides not a few other subjects of grent but not so pressing concern. Not a single measure among all of them has been affirmatively and finally acted upon, and every large measure like that for the government of the Philippines or that for the admission of the four remaining territories which has passed one or the other of the two branches of congress, has developed such wide antagonisms between them as at best to require most serious effort for reconciliation! Every thing remains to be done, even where agreement between; the house and the senate Is possible. That Important find vital part of the work of congress which relates to ap propriations still remains unfinished. Of all the great appropriation bills only one has as yet been finally acted on, and consideration of some of the rest is yet to be begun. If congress had the rest of Its business out of the way It would take weeks of continuous 'labor to dispose of the appropriations alone. It la certainly high time for congress to move. True, the fault does not lie so much with the house, which In good time sent not a few measures to the senate, where they have been held up, but whoever deserves the blame the fact remains that months have passed and the business of the session has not been transacted. The republicans as the party In control will be held respon sible by the country for any ultimate default, and it is worth while to re member that campaign preliminaries are already In progress in the congres sional districts. CLOSE OF RATE QESERAL DEBATE. The public will receive with a sense of relief the announcement that the sen ate has agreed to begin Friday on amendments to the rate bill, although there was failure to agree on a date cer tain for voting on the bill Itself. Ob jection to fixing a voting date on (he lat ter amounts simply to refusal to put an absolute limit on debate on the amend ments. The order of the senate, how ever, establishes an Important limit on the debate, since It must proceed under the fifteen-minute rule. With that re striction on a speech, discussion of an amendment cannot be very greatly pro tracted. Many of the pending amend ments are not likely to be discussed at all under the fifteen-minute rule, and with the disposal of a few of the prln clpal amendments It should not take long In the natural course of things to reach final vote on the bill Itself. There has been already too much de lay in disposing of this paramount pub lic business, and the responsibility Is absolutely flxed( upon the represent atives of corporation Interest In the sen ate beyond their power to obscure or es- cape from the fact. If they have not been able during ail the long delay to make effective conspiracy for defeating or seriously weakening the rata bill, no further delay would avail for that pur pose. Agreement to close the general debate may therefore be taken as con elusive evidence that the lines In the senate have been drawn and that In the existing frame of the public mind final action cannot now be staved off beyond a comparatively few days. DIVVRC1KQ RAILROAD AND COAL. The sudden disposal by the Baltimore & Ohio railroad of its majority holdings of the stock of coal company owning and operating mines on its lines prob ably foreshadows like action on the part of many other roads. The public la awakening to the fact that severance of railroad proprietary interest In ship ping corporations is absolutely essential to legitimate common carrier service. The Investigation ordered by congress has hardly been begun by the Inter state Commerce commission before abuses of the grossest and most widely extended character were disclosed in the relations between the railroads and the coal companies. Many of these practices are violations of the anti-trust and inter state commerce laws, involving directly or Indirectly prohibited discriminations and conKpiraeiea In restraint of trade, and It Is undoubtedly the newly opened prospect that such offenses will be pun Ished that has Impelled the Baltimore & Ohio to purge Itnelf of direct proprietary complications. rublle policy Imperatively demands that common carrier service be open to all on equal terms, and under existing conditions It Is Incompatible with proprietary Interest as a shipper which Inevitably tempts to discriminate against other shippers. It Is not merely the rate-mak'lng power which enables 'the officers of a railroad company to crush one shipper and aggrandise another, but the same result can be readied by manipulating cur supply and trackage connections and In Innumerable other ways. Aud beyond all these means rail road companies have been able througli subsidiary coal companies to manlpulat prices in the coal market so as to ae cure the effect of rebstes and other in tolerable abuses while ostensible con forming to the law. a practice which th supreme court has recently condemned as equally a violation of law and liable to injunction. Many of the aiont grind - Ing and dangerous monopolies that exist today grow out of this tap root of per verted transportation corporation power. It Is an encouraging sign when one of the great roads of the eastern coal region divests Itself of the complication Involved in being a shipper of conl over Its own lines In competition with other shippers who are at Its mercy, but It Is only a beginning of one of the greatest and most needed reforms In the history of railroads. There remains that vast field of questionable use of transporta tion power by railroad officials for their personal profit, wronging both the pub lic and the railroad companies, the ef fects of which are similar to those of mixed proprietary Interests of transpor tation and shipping companies. So widely ramified are these kindred abuses nd so Immense are the wrongful profits from them that the struggle for sub stantial reform will to long and arduous even after the roads begin to yield to public opinion and the power of the gov ernment. SEPARATE MCXIC1PAL ELECTOA'S. One thing which the city campaigu Just concluded in Omaha has effectively demonstrated Is that the purpose sought by the separation of our municipal elec tions from the general elections has been pretty thoroughly accomplished. The object of the separate municipal elections Is to divorce municipal politics from partisan politics. City govern ment, according to the advocates of separate municipal elections, Is a mat ter of purely local concern and should not be In any way dependent upon the fortunes of state and national politics. The effect upon the local government and not upon the relative strength or weakness of the respective political or ganizations in future contests should, they Insist be the guiding force. In the recent city campaign there is no question that party lines have been more largely obliterated than usual and that the division between the advocates of opposing candidates has been de termined by other considerations than mere party name. While the strength of party fealty is do donbt great and will account in large measure for the general lineup on one side or the other, It has not proved the controlling factor with those who believe themselves di rectly Involved In the issues on which the candidates have divided. At all events, the outcome can hardly be ascribed to the intrusion of partisan politics, nor pointed by any one as a purely party victory, although the cam paign has been carried on by the reg ular party machinery and under the regular party names. Had the city election, on the other hand, been part and parcel with the regular election for state, county and congressional offices in the fall, the force of party fealty would unquestionably have found much greater play. The Washington correspondent of our amiable democratic contemporary should get In touch with the Omaha end of his wire. With reference to an alleged Invitation to Senator LaFollette to speak for the republican city ticket In our municipal campaign, he wastes telegraph tolls to say that "certain It la nobody could be found here in Wash ington with knowledge of Nebraska conditions, and especially of Omaha conditions, who thinks It good business to go outside for talent to handle the Omaha election." He should have been told that the democrats have been lm porting speakers from out In the state and all the way from Wyoming to boost their candidate. The transfer of Commissioner Me Yann from the Commercial clnb to the Grain exchange is the former's loss and the latter's gain, but simply places the services of a capable official where be can exercise his ability In a more ef fective manner for the good of our business community. Mr. Mcvann has made good In most cases in his negotiations with the railroads on be half of the Commercial club, and It is this which commends him to the Grain exchange people. The Commer clal club will have to look hard to find a successor to fill his place satlsfac torily. The death of John II. McColl at Lex ington removes another prominent fig ure In Nebraska politics. "Jack" Mc Coll, as he was familiarly known, waa the republican candidate for governor In IKK), but went down under the tidal wave of Bryanlsm which swept, the state In that year. He served in the legislature and several other public capacities and made a host of friends who will sincerely mourn his death. As a prophet who Is a prophet George W. Berge, who ran for governor as the populist candidate two years ago, is predicting in an Interview "that the next presideut will be a democrat and the next congress will be demo cratic." It will be remembered that Mr. Berge during his campaign pre dicted bis own election with equal If not greater posltiveness. It appears from the statement of Sec retary Taft that the government will pay for the transportation of govern nieut supplies to San Francisco, el though material donated directly by the ptople was carried free. While there was no reason why railroads should be continued to give full transportation fa vilifies, it is difficult to see why such distinction Is made. Omaha's participation lu the work relief for the San Francisco earth quake and fire sufferers haa for the time resolved itself Into taking care of the refugees on their way to frlcuds In the east. This la Just as import an work as that of relieving those who 1 remain ii au I'raucjsco, aud those who help out In it will be deserving of highest praise. New Tork Tribune. The varied details of the Franklin cele bration seem now to have been grace fully concluded, and the good old doctor may be considered as securely enrolled mong the Immortals aa securely aa ' he has been for the last hundred years and more. Blew the l.ld OS. New Tork Tribune. The . changes In Vesuvius reported by Prof. Matteuccl testify Impressively to the forces recently at work there. His con firmation of the statement that the vol cano Is much lower than It wa before the eruption la especially significant. So gentle la the outward slope of the mountain, that a lose of 800 feet from the top represent! the removal of an enormous amount of material. So Time tor Word Spinning. Boston Transcript. How superior is the brief statement In the newspapers of E. H. Harrlman con cerning the frightful dangers and neces sities of the situation at San Francisco to most of the word spinning about It. A man doesn't accomplish what Harrlman has achieved through any multiplication of words. It Is done by his capacity for see ing things In the large, and then putting them in a nutshell. International Postal Change. '- Boston Globe. The. universal postal congress, now in session at Rome, la rtot likely to reduce the international letter rate, but it la prob able that the proposition that the maxi mum of weight be Increased to 20 grams (five-sevenths of an ounce) will be ac cepted. It s a pity that the rate Is not to be reduced, especially since the next meeting of the congress will not be held until MI, in Australia. The Hpooaer Idea. Minneapolis Tribune. Senator Spooner's Idea Is that while congress may create courts. It cannot destroy them. A court once created goes on forever. This la exactly the kind of a court the railroads- are looking for and they hope Senator Spooner will succeed In having the rate bill referred to a tribunal which will not be precipitate about Its decisions. About the Second Fourth of July In the twenty-first century would suit them to a t. Tar a on the Meat. Baltimore American. No honest public officer need fear the at tack of newspapers, magazines or book scoring, and, Instead of kicking at the press, he should be glad to court, and even defy, investigation and publicity. No man or party In this nation can mucxle the preas for one day, and thoae who attempt suppression of ' Investigation will be maahed. Turn on the X-rays and let us see the Inside workings of the political skeletons. Who's who? Flgarlna- on the Losses. , New York Sun. It will probably turn out that the net sum paid by the insurance companies will not fall much short of 1150.000,000; It may considerably exceed that amount. In any event the net loss to the property owners of Ban Francisco -'can scarcely fall below $200,000,000. Under the circumstances It Is fortunate that the prospective retlef funds are also of unprecedented proportions. A long time passed-before the Chicago relief funds exceeded H.WO.HOO. Within four days a larger sum had ''been promised to San Francisco, - .v.". j.ii. " " - . - Some Good from Evil. SprlngOeld Republican. It Is being pointed out for the consola tion of . the people - about Vesuvius that lava, like adversity, has Its uses- It makes, for instanae, a very beautiful glass of extraordinary lightness. But curioualy every volcano sends out a special brand of lava with qualities of Its own. which can only be discovered by experience. The rich plains of Sicily owe much of their fertility to decomposed lava, and In South America volcanic soil Is found to be the best In the world for coffee srowlnr. though nervous planters would rather take the soil without the volcano. Progressive Inheritance Taxes. Chicago Record-Herald. If President Roosevelt some day in the future decides that the time has come to 'formulate a system" for progressive In heritance taxes he will And plenty of ma terial to aid him on the technical side in the experiences of many other coun tries with their progressive taxation. The Income tax Is forbidden to our federal government until the constitution is amended or the supreme court reverses Itself, hut the Inheritance tax Is within the power of congress to impose. These two forms of taxation can be made to do each other's work without great difficulty. It the president's plan should, however, ever be adopted In so radical a form that It would strike very deeply Into the greater estates so aa to permanently decrease their Is-, then the tablea will be turned, and European nations, will have to get their lessons from us. HFLIE.MK AlOQ THE STATES. President Roosevelt's Recoaimenda tloas Command Ardent Snpport. Boston Transcript rep.). Whatever may be. said of President Roose velt's Influence with congress, or lack of Influence, it seems clear that his recom mendations have great weight with the lawmakers in the state capitals, to whom these are not addressed, but who often fmd a way, as they believe, of carrying out Mr. Roosevelt's Ideas in spirit. His recent ill advised utterances regarding a federal Inheritance tax. It may safely be said, will have no effect upon congTesa, but these are strengthening-the arm of the lawmakers In varloua, states who have for years been pushing for the adoption of this form of taxation. His attitude makes it harder for republican members of these legisla tures to stand cut against this class of measures. ' It is the same with the railroad rate regulation campaign. In which the presi dent has not the slightest desire for further sctlon on the part of the states, seeing, as he must that this In most cases degenerates Into a form of local protection of the most regrettable, character. He asks for na tional , regulation., nd ' while the senate hesitates, last winter .and this, the' state legislatures move trlskly In giving their equivalent to what-he wants, as they un derstand It. An Important historical mo ograph might be written upon the relation of a presidait of tha I'nlted States -to the state legislature a new subject. Al though he addresses to them no message. hia Influent wih them. . because they are so much nearer the people and farther from the Waahlngton political atmosphere. usually hostile to him, la conspicuously great. And there la a crrUtln kinship between state and national Questions, and an even rioter relation liwn these issues on which congress, by the president's reeom mendatlon. IrgUUtra for the District 0f Columbia and the territories No account of Roosevelt's adinWilsfation will be coin plete which dea'a cniy with his power over congress: there .ro forty-five little con gresss: the tout 'of whose action provea an extremely tuicortaat part la making the hlslury ol eur'wa Units. ROtftn AROtT KW TORK. Rlooles on the t orrent of I I fe la th Metro noils. The curtain waa rung down on the clos ing scene of a blighted wedding when a Brooklyn court granted a decree of di vorce to a Brooklyn woman last Saturday. The marriage took place on New Tear's day. 19rtt. and waa quite a social event, the bride Telonglng to a fine family, and the bridegroom supposed to be of good character and family. During the wedding reception at the home of the brlde'e par ents, an uncle of the bridegroom, acci dentally learning of the marriage, ap peared at the Joyous festivities and de nounced his nephew as sn Impostor and criminal, unfit to associate with decent people. The bridegroom admitted all the charges made by his uncle and, hurriedly putting on his hat snd coat, fled from the house. Jumping Into the carriage that had been awaiting him and his bride, he disap peared. On' the same night he took flight from the city, and ever since his where abouts have been unknown. It was some time before the proceedings for the annul ment of the marriage weie Instituted, and it was only a few months ago that the plaintiff received permission to have the complaint served by publication, so that the secret of the bride's unhappy marriage has been confined for such a long period to a very small number of her friends. There are two carpenter mechanics on the east side of Manhattan who make a specialty of constructing heavy doors nnd secret exits for pool rooms and gambling houses. "Old Jack" Woods of the Bowery has been In that line of work for twenty years and his only recognised rival. Sing Oow, does most of his building for the Chinatown gambling dens. The police find themselves up against a tough proposition when they start to smash down doors built by "Old Jack" for a pool room. These doors are usually from ten to fifteen Inches thick of sheet Iron and solid wood. This year the cunning Jack has added a four-Inch thickness of solid rubber and when the police axes and sledge ham mers strike the door they will rebound. I was knocked clean off my feet the first time I struck one of the rubber doors," said Detective McGee of the "ten derloin." "The force of my blow striking the sheet Iron, wood and rubber drove me back five feet at least." Woods charges from 125 to 100 for his doors and the poolroom owners say that they save money even if they hold back the police raiders for five minutes. It gives them time to destroy racing sheets and other dangerous evidence. The sheet Iron and wood doors are stout enough to keep the police sledge hammers at work for five or eight minutes and the rubber doors are counted upon to make a delay of twelve to fifteen minutes. In Chinatown the most pusxling secret exits from gaming places are found. The underground passages, the pie gow re sorts, dark tunnels and the "get-a-ways" of the fantan resorts are a source of con stant annoyance to the police, and when they raid they usually find the places de serted save for a lone watchman or an Innocent-eyed celestial. Captain John W. O'Connor, csar of the Chinatown district, has discovered a piece of remarkable carpenter work done by Sing Oow at 11 Pell street. There are two long tunnels with sliding doors, rope lad ders through shafts leading to the roof and basement, secret rooms and false walls and floor. ' Sing Oow came to New Tork City from San Francisco two years ago with the reputation of being the most expert Chi nese carpenter In Chinatown of that city. The celestial gamblers have kept htm busy ever since. An Instrument Intended to record the exact distance traveled by a carriage or automobile and the exact fare which the passenger Is required to pay, will shortly be seen In New Tork City. The device was Introduced In Paris over a year ago, and has since been adopted In the other leading European cities, more than ,000 being In use in the French capital. The machine not only protects the patrons of caba from extortion, but Is also a check on the driver for the owner. While driv ing the Instrument Is worked by one of the wheels, and while the vehicle is stand ing the time Is recorded by clockwork, thereby reckoning the fare for the Journey according to the distance, and the fare for the waiting according to the thne. Already an electric cab company here has arranged for 400 machines. An Irishman who fears that the fame of hia fellow countrymen had suffered by the account of the Scotchman's experience at Ellis Island, brought this story fresh from Panama: "There's an Irish boss named Clancy In charge of a lot of native laborers employed on the big ditch. He's struggling with Spanish and la very proud of knowing a for'n language. One morn ing not- a laborer showed up. Clancy fretted and fumed all day. Next morning they appeared as usual, explaining sheep ishly that It had been Fiesta of Neustra Senora de la Chandelabra and they couldn't possibly work on a holy day. Well, lt'a all right,' aald Clancy, "but when ye savvy In the noches that ye can trabajar on the manana, why the hell don't ye heblar" Greater New York presents many inter esting extremes In the way of urban prog ress, none of them so striking, however, as its transportation facilities, which, be ginning with the archaic horse car, runs the gamut of more advanced methods of passenger transportation cables, under ground trolley, overhead trolley, third rail, storage battery, and the like. It re mains for the "annexed district" north of the Harlem to contribute a transit ser vice, which waa old. you might say, when eld Wouter Van Twlller passed Judgment on the erring burgers of New Amsterdam. It is a horse car line running from Bar tow to City Island, a distance of about three miles, winding its dreamy way along hedge lines, lanes, dusty highways, and meadow green. The cars, of which there are two In every-day service although twelve can be utilised in emergency are not more than twelve feet long and not six feet wide. They are so old that they bulge like a basket when the seats are filled, and when It rains hard the passen gers usually leave the car and walk the drops of wster being decidedly preferred to the miniature deluess not so minia ture, after all which each quirk and turn of the car precipitates Inward. Two mild horses are attached to each car, and If they do not sleep throughout their plod ding Journey to and from the depot, ap pearancea are deceitful. The fare Is 10 cents. Fifty years ago the late August Belmont sold' for 16.000 a certain plot of land at the corner of Fifth avenue and Thirty-fifth atreet. There Is every reason to suppose that Mr. Belmont secured what he con sidered a fair price for the property and none for supposing that he did njt exercise in the sale lils well known shrewdness aud good Judgment. Yet the same land was purchased a year ago for tl.KO.iriO, and now a building la to be erected upon It rur whlrk a tenant has already been found at aa annual rental of $171,000 for a term of twenty-one yvars. t.so4 nnd Oar SasTrr Alike. 81. Ljuis Globe-Democrat. More than eighty churchea and build ings devoted to religious activity were destroyed l. San Francisco. The idea that the city was pagan as U a Sy U a mistake. CtldlR RtUllffRS tl nn r It is put up under the chemist, from the finest Insuring the user lt?ht. wholesome, easilv rllretwl tnnA Therefore. CAIL'JlKT physicians and Chemists. Porfoct In Quality Economical In Uco lYIodorato Calnmet Is so carefully and neutralisation of the Ingredients lore. iooa prepared wun sjaiumel Is tree from Rochelle Salts, Alum, or any mlurlons substance. "For your stomach's a. sake" nee Calumet. For economy's take buy Calaaaei. oi aia w j m . . aS1 iiran - jarlous to health PKRSOSAI. NOTES. A marked boom In summer engagements is projected In Chicago. One thousand more benches are to be placed In the parks. The reputation of Texas, the land of dead shots, Is ruined. A sheriff at Oak woods flred several times at a mob, but could not hit a man. Mayor Johnson of Cleveland thinks he has invented a machine, that will travel six miles a minute. That's about his regular gait when headed toward an office. The divorce decision of the federal su preme court haa not checked the activity of Dakota courts. The stock on hand will keep the mills busy for some time to come. The Princess En a and future queen of Spain Is said to have received three bap tisms Into as many different faiths. It remains to he seen whether the last o :e will take. When Herr Conried rr.et his singers upon 1 their arrival at New Tork from San Fran cisco, he waa kissed by the whole bunch. men snd all, thus experiencing an addi tional horror. John Temple Graves. In his new dally paper. The Georgian, has announced his withdrawal from the race against Senator A. O. Bacon for the t'nlted States senate from Georgia. The sympathy of Portland, Ore., for Ban Francisco is Intense. Its housewives have been asked to bake their own bread that the public bakeries may devote all .their energies to providing for the stricken city. The way that senators look at each oth er's efforts at argument showed Itself In a remark Tillman made when he entered the senate and saw Spooner speaking Jn reply to Bailey. "Anybody can talk up a hill." said Tillman, "but Spooner has got to talk up a precipice." The new French president ts deeply at tached to his umbrella, which accom panies him on every occasion and Is likely from now on to become a favorite subject for French political caricaturists, much like the collar of Mr. Gladstone or the monocle of Mr. Chamberlain. William C. Brown, who has Just been chosen first vice president of the New York Central lines, with a salary of I7S.O0O, the beet paid vice president of a railroad In the United States, ' was In the early 70' s a telegraph operstor snd messenger boy .In Sioux City, la., receiving messages and delivering them himself. The late Prof. Pierre Curie, discoverer of radium, as a boy seemed so stupid at school that his parents withdrew him and put him under a private tutor. All through his years of study. Including the final preparations for the arts degree, he was hampered by the necessity of studying uncongenial subjects. It was only when he was free to follow his natural bent that his powers were manifested. A naval officer had been tried for drunk enness and the report of the court martial waa before Secretary Bonaparte. Some friends of the officer, who is really a good fellow and a line officer, but too popular for his own well being, went before the secre tary to save him. "You see, Mr. Secre tary," said one of them. "In my opinion this sentence Is unjust. Do you know what his trouble IsT" "Yes," said the secretary, "thirst." PANEGYRIST OF THE HEX. Las laeaa Trthete to the Bird that Broke the East Combine. Boston Transcript. Mr. Dawson of Iowa may be as patriotic a man aa sits In congress. It la fair to assume that he waa carried by the glow of economic enthusiasm rather farther than he Intended when he Intimated that the American hen Is worthier of pictorial honor than the American eagle. Said Mr. Dawson: "We hear 'a great dee.) on this floor about the glory of the American eagle, and artists In the past liave pa.nted the beauties of the birds of ylumnue, but, Mr. Chairman, the American hen is entitled to a modest tribute for her Industry, her use fulness and productivity. "( Applause.) But Mr. Dawson before charging artists with "undue discrimination" should reflect on the different pictorial possibilities of these two noble birds. The eagle "Sailing with supreme dominion Through the aiure depth of air" leaves the hen out of sight, and appeals to the artlstlcs temperament to rise to the oc casion. The American hen Is a bird which, as Mr. Dawson told an enraptured house, "can produce wealth equal to the capital stock of all the banks In the New York clearing house In three months and have a week to spare." But here possibilities In art have obvious limits. The People are Than Craft The people are always right deceive them for awhile by false statements and false promises; by craftily devised baits, such as commissions (sometimes openly, gener ally secretly) paid to alleged friends for bringing In customers, and by a sliding price, which he juggles up and down, according to the cred ulity of the customer. But ere long that sort of a merchant finds his proper level and the graft he practiced proved his undoing. In the Hospe store each piano la marked with ita one lowest price and we cannot reduce It because all discounts have already been figured off and the marked price la the net cash price. For the same reason we cannot pay commissions. Our prices are ao low we cannot afford to. The new piano we aell for 190.00 bas never been equaled, and U Is fam ously known that no pianos In the world are aa good aa Knabe, Kran Ich & Bach. Kimball, Hallet-Davls, Hospe, Krell, Cable Nelson, Wesser Bros.. Whitney, Hlnse. Burton. Cramer and others. A. HOSPE CO., 1513 Douglas St. Omaha. 82 Years of I ninterrupted Koccess. CALUMET pnnnpn x at m m n ska supervision of a com net en t materials nossibla to newt is recommended bv ladlnvi In Prico scientifically prepared that the Is absolutely perfect. There- ir may BUDRtance tn- found in Calumet, APPOMATTOX t'Ol'RT HOISE. Historic Snrrender Hoase m Plaything of Speenlators. Washington Post. The American people have not been neg lectful In commemorating famous places and dlatlgulshed men. Since the shaft on Bunker Hill rose at Boston Innumerable other monuments of varied form and pur pose have sprung up all over the land, 'and congress In recent years has purchased and set apart several of the great battlefields of the civil war, where for generationa to come our descendants will gather to recall American courage and manhood and to be reminded what It cost to save the republic alive. It Is not a little remarkable that the place which by common consent would be agreed upon as the most interesting and memor able of the entire conflict. Appomattox Courthouse, has been left to the mercy of speculators, or the chances and mutations of ordinary country property, of no special value or significance. There Is no occasion for the purchase of any large amount of land there. Let the government acquire for the country '.he McLean house, and a few acres about It. and restore it as nearly as possible to Its condition when Grant and Lee met there; not as a lasting memorial of tha eurrendr of the south, but to commemorate the cul mination of the great struggle on that very spot and to recall the presence there of the two great actors In the mighty drama, who, when the hour struck, took the center of the stage together and proclaimed peace aa the curtain fell upon the closing scene. PASSING PLEASANTRIES. Attendant In this padded cell we have a newspaper humorist. Visitor Poor chap! And what Is the de lusion? Attendant He thinks he has money vieveiajia ieaaer. , "A -1 1 r 1 n 1 1 IVifnr nhnut m man that hn. a lot of stock In a Are insurance company." . remaraea t. ncie Allen BparKS, "la that a I big fire generally gives him cold feet." J I Chicago Tribune. . "When do you consider a man at his prime of life?" "When he's old enough to quit writing poetry and not to old to begin writing love letters to his stenographer." Philadelphia Press. "Have you had any trouble with your heart?" "Not lately. I'm living with my third wife." Cleveland Plaindealer. Still, it Is only natural that Mark Twain should favor funetlc spelling. Washington Post. She I agree with Cowper I hate a man who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. He So do I. It spoils 'em for bait. Cleveland Leader. "The average woman, of course, has no head for figures." "Oh, I don't know. She has s head for other women's figures; at any rate, when ever they pass they mske her turn It." Philadelphia Ledger. "The midgets Insisted upon being mar ried on the beach. They walked way out to the fringe of water and there were united." "Curious affair, wasn't It." "Yes. case of low tied." Cleveland Plain dealer. LITTLE JEAN. American Family Magaslne. t She was wedded last night Little Jean In a satin gown, white. All a-sheen. And a heaven Joy burned In her eyes as she turned From the chancel a bride And tha man at her side Led her out like a queen Little Jean! She has gone far away Little Jean, And a tale grave-and-gay Do I glan, Aa I stand at the door Of the room where no more She will come for the white. Happy thoughts, golden-bright. Of a maiden's heart, sweet and serene Little Jean. Like a casket bereft Little Jean, Is the wee room you left Yester-e'en! Ah. the low, empty chair. And the long mirror there. And the dainty white bed. Where you knelt aa you said Your last maiden prayer, all unseen Little Jean! But my heart la content. Little Jean, For the way that you went. Dear, I ween, la a path blossom-strown. And you walk not alone Human love and divine 'Hound you fondly entwine. And an angel's white wings Jean! are your Always Greater or Gratt. In the long run. A merchant rear c v. c i i i