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THK OMAHA DAILY BEE: (FRIDAY, MAY 11, 100& The Omaha Daily Del. E. ROSEWAtF-R. EDTTOR. PUBLISHED EVERT MORNING. TERMS OF fM BW RIPTION. Dslly B.- (without Pundiyt, one yrr..U l'aily Bee and Sunday, -dim year 00 Illustrated Be, one year J Monday Bf. one year M Bntuidny Bee, on year 1 ' DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Dally Bee (Including Sunday), per week.. 17c Dally Bee (without Sunday), per week. ...12c Kvenlng Bee (without Sunday), per week. c Evening Hee (mlth Sunday), per week....lo Sunday Bee, per copy Address complaints of Irregulsrltlee In do liveiy to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building South Omaha City Hall Building. . Council Bluff 10 Pearl Street. Chicago 1M0 Unity Building. Nw York 16n Home Life Ins. Building. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to newa and ejl tnrlal matter should be addressed: Omaha ltee. Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order payable to The Bee Publishing Company. OnJy 2-cent stamps received aa payment of nsll account. Personal rhecks, except on .Omaha or eastern exchange, not aecepteu. , THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. I Tha Bee Publishing company, being duly aworn. says that the actTi.il number of full and "complete copies of The Dally, Morning, Kvenlng and Sunday Bee printed during the month of April.. 1M. waa aa fotlows- 1 16 3I.300 i 81,4(10 17 31,410 I S 1,400 18.,, 4 S4.7S0 1 4910 I ......... ai,o 4o 4S.S7U 31,20 fl 48JMM) J 32,100 12 8,00 1 411,100 21 8B.5WO .31,400 24 81,80 10 ........31,aH 26 31.430 U SI.4M) 26 31.4TH 12 ...,8l,a.tO 27 31.530 U ai.lTO 2 3VI,.I70 14 , 82,100 2 3S,3CK1 IS 20,100 SO Sl.OOO Total 1,041.800 l.ss unsold copies 12.3T2 Net total sales l2H.Mt Daily average 84.20U C. C. ROSE WATER. Qeneral Manager, bubscrlbod in my presence and sworn lu ueloro me this lutb uay of April, 1!K. tbeal) M O. H UNGATE. Notary public. whki oct or Tunx, abs3ribers Intiig Ike alts' tern Murartly iknld hi Tli lie untied. 4n tnsnt.v , Address will be -uanen nften mm rtascittd, 'Longshoremen have declared their strike oft pending negotiations. The miners' example Is contagions. Now that a NicaraguaI mlnUter has IjCtn assassinated some people will foresee the ultimate extension of the canal zone. ' The attack upon the Salvation Army will do that organization littlo harm until the critics have demonstrated a better - way. The stubbornness of Attorney Croni well may be due to the fact that the old Panama Canal company still owes htni his bill. ' . . - ' "Whatever else it may do, the grand Jury will have no difficulty n piling up a good bill of witness fees for the cdunty to pay.. , i. -. . .. Advices from Paris show that while the French duel may be a harmless recreation, the French street fight Is the "real thing.','; If China succeed! In Its attempt to 'tontrol Its own customs houses it will have taken a long step in the direc tion of real Independence. t Kansas was the first state beard at the Chicago oil hearing. The Jay hawkers are evidently becoming jeal ous of the record made by Missouri. .. t Mr. Cleveland's experience with the Oemocratid party scarcely qualifies him to pose as a specialist before the con ference of charities and corrections. , , Bandits who find .Canada a better field of operation than the United 'States have struck a blow at the pop iular American Idea of law enforce ment across the border. The derision of the receivers of the Traders Insurance company to make all San Francisco claimants prove their cases In "court means that what (the policyholders lose will go in law yers' fees. That British commercial agent who analyzed the prosperity of the United States may not have intended to bol ster up the. contention of. Joe Cham berlain, but be seems to have done so just the same.' "We who are about to die, salute thee," was not the language of the autocrat of all the Russlas, and his ac tions on his way to the capital Indi cated a determination (hat it should not come true." The railroads are preparing for a big Invasion of land seekers when the Shoshone reservation is thrown open jo settlement. No one, however, who has a good Nebraska farm which Is producing fat annual dividends will care to give up a sure thing for an un certainty. The allegation of bribery in the .'Massachusetts legislature roues at a time to throw doubt upon the claims of New England statesmen who, lu the railroad debates have strongly In timated that pure and disinterested patriotism Is to fce particularly found east of the Alleghenies. AH the shafts of ridicule of the dem ocratic World-Herald, formerly di rected against Buster Norrls Brown, will now be aimed at Edward Rose water. Should any! other formidable candidate emerge on the republican side he, will also get his share ol the dw'mocratic booibarduieut. just An ric.4so.vabla;." One of the Important changes to be made in the rate bill by the syiate will be striking out the words "end fairly remunerative" from the provis ion which makes it the duty of the Interstate Commerce commission "to determine and prescribe what will, 1n Its judgment, be the just and reason able and fairly remunerative rate." The change removes a doubt widely entertained among advocates of rate control as to the effect of the bill In the form in which it came from the house. For the cancelled phrase naturally suggests the refinements as to "remunerative" or 'compensatory" rates which some of the Inferior fed eral courts have indulged in during a long series of years, especially with reference to the earlier statutes of the several states for regulating and con trolling railroad charges. Not a few of these state rate statutes were an nulled or suspended in the course of the old dilatory court procedure on the score that they deprived the car rier companies of a "fairly remuner ative" return for their services, back of which, too, was the assumption in some cases of total stock and bonds, without sufficient regard to the true Investment or value of the property, as a basis of computing returns. The requirement that rates be just and reasonable has a more settled legal sense, for those are the terms that have been customarily and tech nically employed in the common law. Unless the words "fairly remunera tive" are mere surplusage, which alone would warrant erasure, they could be potent'only for advantage to the cor poration Interest in litigation. They might at least serve to prolong con troversy. Back of all remains the unescapable fact that the true value of the carrier properties must ultimately be got at as a basis of rates. Arbitrary capital ization at two or three times that value Is obviously not "a Just and reasonable" basis for rates, but ex cessive and extortionate on the rate paying public. doctor day repudiated. The sensational assault of Chancellor Day of the Syracuse (N. Y.) university upon President Roosevelt has called down upon him emphatic condemna tion, not. only from his own denomi nation, but also from men of standing in all religious denominations. Fair and frank criticism of public officials, however exalted their places may be, is not to be deprecated, but when a minister of the gospel so far forgets propriety as to rush sensationally be fore the public denouncing the presi dent of the United States as an "an archist," he Invites the castlgatlon which Is being promptly administered to him by his fellow ministers, who feel that otherwise the odium of (his transgression might rest', upon them. The puntshrSent may be safely left in their hands. '. .. The outbreak of Dr. Day. however disgraceful to him, serves at least one useful purpose , in bringing out con spicuously the fact of the existence of a profound conviction that the strug gle led by President Roosevelt for commercial and Industrial fair deal ing Is equally important on the moral side. In condemning the assault Bishop Hartsell of the Methodist church, the same as a multitude of other clergymen, plants himself ' on that broad ground, and declares: VI think that In this industrial crisis the president has acted as providentially as did Washington In the early days of the republic, or as did Lincoln and Grant during the era of civil strife. He is the man of the hour." At root the question involved in restraint of great corporations, trusts and trade combinations by public authority, Is one of right reaching into the depths of moral Instinct and conviction, and the Instant response to Dr. Day shows only how utterly and insanely he him self has offended moral sentiment. PREPOSTEROUS PARTISAN ATTACK. The ' preposterous, character 1 of the attack of the democratic press on the rate measure is exposed more clearly every day by the course of events at Washington. Partisan eagerness simply overreached Itself when late last week it seized upon one feature of the Allison suggestion of a basis of agreement to excite popular preju dice and to Impugn the good faith of President Roosevelt. Yet within three days the grotesque absurdity of such tactics Is demon strated. The fragment of the Allison basis, namely, the clause which strictly limited jurisdiction of suits brought against the Interstate Com merce commission, was only one of a series of six separate propositions of vast Importance for making specific and irresistibly enforclble the vast new powers conferred by the measure upon the commission for control of railroad rates and service, every sin gle one of which is a signal victory for public Interest over the corpora tion element that 'inside and outside of congress has sought to defeat this great popular movement. No other president of any party, nor the demo cratic party In all its history, has been able to bring about the one-hundredth part of what the rate bill with these so-called Allison propositions assure the country for the repression of trans portation abuses under public control. When the chorus of partisan news paper misrepresentation and detrac tion was sent up, in order. If possible, to forestall deliberate public Judgment on the full farts, even the Allison preliminary suggestion as to jurisdic tion had not been Introduced in the senate, nor the other Important speci fications as to restriction of injunction Kwer, appeal direct to the supreme court, etc., or put In form to be intro duced. Nevertheless, all thie vital conditions, forced upon the opposition to rate control, are comprehended within the agreement with which Alli son's name is associated now made definite and sure to be Incorporated in the law. Beyond that, the friends of the measure have gone on In their ef fort to add such features as control of oil pipe lines, prohibition of free passes and stopping common carriers from continuing In competition as shippers or producers of coal and other commodities. That the purpose of sensational newspaper organs to deceive and prejudice the public wss deliberate is demonstrated by the fart that they are persisting and becoming' even more reckless in the very fare of the de veloped truth. It is & calculated at tempt to mislead the Ignorant, for by no possibility could men of ordinary intelligence be thus deceived, and It discloses the opposition tactics to be employed in the political contest this year. It necessarily involves Indls- crlmlnate arralgnment of President Roosevelt and assault tyion his hon- esty. .V AUSPICIOUS BKOIXXIXO. The open meeting held In his home city to endorse the candidacy of Ed ward Rosewater for United States sen ator from Nebraska is an auspicious beginning. Nothing exemplifies Mr. Rosewater'a standing in the commu nity so characteristically as the cosmo politan attendance upon this meeting. All classes of the community and all elements of the party were represented and added their testimony to the fact that the chosen candidate is a man of the people, in thorough touch with the people and always accessible to all of them high or low, rich or poor, in fluential or friendless. Nothing could so strikingly reinforce the statement of the speaker that if elected Mr. Rose- water would be a senator for all Ne braska rather than for any one city or any one faction, or even for one polit ical party. The movement to make Mr. Rose water senator will be as broad as the state of Nebraska and as all-incluBlve of different elements as the popu lation of the state. The people have reached the point where they want a man to represent them in the senate who stands for something at home and who is known abroad, whose work will reflect credit upon the state, and who can be depended on to be heard from in' the Interest of the people when he gets there. The World-Herald repeat deliber ately its exploded falsehood about Mr. Rosewater drawing $7,000 from the government for his services as rep resentative of the United States at the Postal Congress at Rome. When It first uttered this fiction It fixed the amount at S10.000 and elicited a letter of correction which was printed In that paper calling attention to the fact that the whole appropriation for the rep resentation of the United States at the Postal Congress is $5,000, which sum is to take care of the traveling ex penses, clerical help and living ex penses of two delegates at Rome for more than two months. This appro priation was made by the congress of which 0. M. Hitchcock was a member, and he, doubtless, voted for It. The uncompromising hostility of Mr. Hitch cock's paper to Mr.1 Rosewater'a candi dacy to the senate Is expected, but he should notMndulge in such bare-faced misrepresentations at this stage of the game. The address of our fellow townsman. Ralph W.- Breckenrldge, before the students of the State university, charg ing: that the state Insurance depart ments for the roost part were engaged in holding up the big insurance com- nanies. will probably call for some thing more explicit. We know that the Nebraska insurance department waa at one time engaged In this sort of business under a fusion administra tion, but no such complaints have been made In recent years. Policy holder in Nebraska want the protection of rigid inspection, but they are against hoi duns and graft either by the lnsur ance magnates or the supervising offi cials. If there is any foundation for comnlalnt against the Nebraska de partment Mi. Breckenrldge should come out with It. II not, ne snouia except Nebraska In so many words. The Commercial club wants a new rommiasloner. It wants a live one who will be wide awake at every turn of the road to see that Omaha does not get the worst of It from the railroads as compsred with rival Industrial and commercial centers. Keep the United States senatorshlp m rvnuaias county by lining up with the supporters of Edward Rosewater for the republican nomination for the United States senate. He is the only Omaha candidate who has a substan tial following in the state at large. The mysterious disappearance of one poll book of the late municipal elec tlon calls for the Importation of an other bunch of private detective luths from Chicago. It must be an other conspiracy to steal the election. With Senator Millard and Senator Burked both representing the same people and the aame state, tt Is cer tainly strange that they ahould be found so often voting upon opposite sides of the same measure. Entitled te KefaBtt. Pittsburg Dispatch. If the Standard Oil company put anything into that campaign fund and caa shew docu ments to the affect that it was to have Its own way under the administration, it mast feel as If It waa entitled to a rebate on thai payment aloe r KDW.RII ROaRWATKR FOR S K VTOH Jla.es Tklnaa Well. Heatings Tribune (Rep ). One thing la certain, and that Is Mr. Rosewater la a man who does things ami when he does them he generally doea thorn well. The announcement of hla candidacy mesns that henceforth there will be some thing doing In the free-for-all race fo: senatorial honors. Sentiment Coaataatly (irnnlni. Nebraska Politician (Rep.). The sentlmerlt for Mr. Rosewater Is grow- ' Ing at a rapid rate. Rrveral of the-news-pspers which formerly were supporting Rrown now have gone over to the Omaha mnn. A declaration of his Intentions should be msde by Mr. Rosewater soon. Preferred of Cmaha Mett. Grand Iland Independent (Rep.). The Independent, speaking not for the republicans of Hall county and, of course. assuredly not for any other party but only for Itself. Is yet confident that It voices the sentiment of the Independent repub llcana In the declaration that If the suc cessor of Senator Millard must he one of the' Omaha gentlemen so far namsd Mil lard, Webster, Wattles or Rosewater theirs will be Rosewater. Rut the prefer ence of many republicans that Is to say. their Individual preference, unhampered and unmodified by any diplomatic sugges tions about local Interests still seems to be and will undoubtedly remain very fa vorable to the nomination by the state con vention of Hon. Norrls Brown. Democrats Are Matching. Fremont Herald (Dem.). The democrats will take as much Interest as republicans In this fight, because the result will have great bearing upon the attitude of Nebraska democrats. If at the dste of the democratic state convention the signs shall Indicate that Rosewater csn control the republican convention, and secure a nomination for senator, perhaps some democratic leaders may be slow to desire a democratic nomination for that high office, knowing and tearing the popu larity of Mr. Rosewater for the people. On the other hand, if at the time of the assembling of delegates to the democratic state convention (which meets a week In advance of the republican gathering) It shall appear that Rosewafer cannot win the nomination, then there will be a pretty fight for the democratic nomination for senator, and, Indeed, for all the stste offices, because the triumph of the railroad machine over the anti-monopoly element will so disgust the republicans who are free from corporations that they will Join hands with the democrats and utterly rout and overthrow the railroad machine which has for so many years controlled the poll tics of the state. Oaly Formidable Candidate. Norfolk Press (rep.). If Mr. Rosewater can convince the re publicans of his own county thst ha Is the logical candidate for them to present to the stata convention he will become the only really formidable candidate In the conven tion against Norrls Brown. Lacking the support of his own county, his candidacy would be a failure, as will be the candidacy of Douglas county .men other than Mr. Rosewater. Between Rosewater and Brown. Fremont Tribune (rep.). When the senatorial fight narrows down between Brown and Rosewater the offend. Ing railroads will be as between the devil and the deep, blue sea. I lugnence . that Connts. Bloux, City Tribune (rep.). A. big consideration in favor of Rose water with the republicans who have out loose from the railway leading strings Is the fact that he Is a power at Washington and has frequently been credited with more Influence at the White House than both senators together have. Stands I p for Convlctlona. Davenport Democrat. Mr. Rosewater has many friends in Ne braska, but while he has been making them he has turned out his share of ene mies. This proves that he hss convictions and stands up for them regardless of the eat. Mountain Peak Among Anthills. York Times (rep.). It will be Interesting to watch the king makers struggle to get Edward Rosewater out of their way. He has been formally announced as a candidate for the United States senate by The Omaha Bee. The coterie who have undertaken to dictate all the candidates of the republican party In this state have donned the mask of anti monopoly. Independent politics and loose party lines. In alt this Edward Rosewater Is no amall fish. For more than a quar ter of a century he has consistently op posed corporations, criticised the railroads and fought combinations and trusts. ' He la the Nestor of ail this sort of thing. If that Is to be the policy of the republican party in this state'all eye and all hearts will turn instinctively to the first and fore most champion of those sentiments, the big whale among the minnows. Everyone has recognised Mr. Rosewater'a ability and ac knowledged his sincerity. If Nebraska wants a "free lance" candidate; one who thinks a republican has a right to sup port democrats under the plea that they are better men than the nominees of his own party, one who if fearless, Indepen dent and savagely anti-monopoly, there la but one, looming up above all others like a lofty mountain peak In a field of ant hills, and his jname. Is Edward Rosewater. PERSONAL NOTES. The chauffeur employed by H. H. Rogers has been arrested for overspeedlng. Of course, he blames Commissioner Oarfleld. Mayor Fitzgerald of Boston intends to establish a bureau' of publicity to make the attractiveness of his city better known. Frsnk D. Millet, the well known war correspondent and mural painter, la now said to be designing a series of war medals for the federal government. Dr. F. A. Cook, the New Tork ex plorer, has left New York for Alaska to renew bis efforts of 1S04 to reach the peak of Mount McKiniey, the second highest point In the world. ' Antonio Valencia, an Italian boy, was a stowaway on board a steamer which ar rived In New York a few days ago. This was his fourth appearance In the rola and he is now on his way back to Oenoa, hav ing been deported as on ths three former occasions. J. D. Tant of Quaunah, Tex., Is arranging for the establishment of a colony of Amer ican farmers la the state of Honors. Mexico. They will go from Texas, Kentucky and Tennessee. Only those having resources sufficient to maintain them for a couple of years while the land Is being Improved will be, acceptable as colonists. '. During the voting on amendments pro posed to the railway rats bill In the senate former Senator Pugh of Alabama entered the chamber and took a seat behind Sen ator TUIman. Ha waa quickly joined by Senator Morgan ef Alabama and the two were chatting together when Senator Pet tus of Alabama Joined the group. The com bined ages of the three men Is Kl years. Pugh la Morgan It and Pettus S6 years old. "There's a One bunch of boys," said Senator Beverldge. the youngest member ( I be senate, as fc tassed. not Ml AHOIT F.W OWK. nil Metropolis. - A remarkable exhibition of greed not down In the bills was given by sn audience st a benefit performsnce for tho fun Francisco sufferers in which all available stsrs In the profession In New York City participated. The net proceeds are put as high as I3S.00O, besting all previous records. The performance lasted thirteen hours, beginning at 11 In the morning and continued until mid night. , The purpose of the length of thA per formance was two-fold to give all the stars a place on the progrsm and to ac spmmodate the thousands who purchased tickets. The understanding had been that those who came early would leave In time to give others a chance In the evening, so that there could be an Interval for venti lating the house, but they declined to leave. They came before the curtain was up, and they remained until It was down. They had brought luncheon with them and the baby, with a bottle of milk to sustsln and soothe Its savage breast. The suggestion of the management that they retire was laughed to scorn. The police were poohpoohed out of the way. The result wss that fully 10,000 persons who had bought tickets. Intending to come In the evening, were unable to enter. That JO. 000 residents of Manhattan Bor ough alone will be unhoused by the busi ness expansion this year Is said to be a conservative estimate. Although the building season has been under wsy but a few weeks, plans have been filed since the first of the yesr for more than 120, 000,000 In mercantile construction. This covers a period of four months. The year's heavy work has not appeared as yet In recorded plans. It Is figured that theyconstructlon of the year will reach 176,000,000. This compares with $29,438, 000 for the 221 business buildings which were built last year; $17,256,600 for 18 In 1904; t20.8I8.000 for 213 structures during 1908, and $30,191,000 for 200 new business buildings In 1902. In central districts old dwellings and (lata are being demolished to make sites for business structures. Even In the northern sections of Manhattan, where the neighborhood, character promises to remstn residential for many decades, new llathouses are planned with stores. It Is the exception for builders to erect fiathouses without stores, and whole blocks of old fiathouses are being altered to provide for stores on the street floors. They do not fear robbers at the all-night bank which opened Its doors on the flrst of this month. Saturday night a rather seedy looking stranger entered the place and It was obvious he had been tasting of the Water that makes one want another kind of water, the morning after. Casting a glance about the place he remarked: ,"8o this Is the all-night bank. Is it? Well, say," turning to one of the clerks, "I don't think It would be such a tough proposition to touch this Joint for all you've got In It. Hey?" "Don't, eh?" responded the clerk. "Just look here, my friend," and he directed the stranger to each of the twelve little win dows looking out from the seml-clrcular enclosure which Is arranged In the place. At each of these windows appeared the face of a man assigned to some special branch of theibuslness and close to each of these faces, pointing out at the potential robber, was a big repeating revolver, which automatically fires ten shots at a single pressure of the trigger. The stranger "saw." One of the great holders of Manhuttan real estate about whom the public seldom hears is. ill mi Mary Q. . Plnckney. She owns' over $12,000,000 worth of Manhattan property and each month her agents col lect about, $86,000 for her In rents. Miss Plnckney Is so rich and so. wise that she maintains a block in The Bronx as a "farm," and although real estate experts declare this block to be worth a million and a half. It Is down on the tax books as a "farm." and nothing more. Miss Plnckney is the great bugbear of the tax department of the city, for she makes it an Invariable rule never to pay any taxea or assessments until the last moment before her property Is to be sold by the city for unpaid taxes. She has followed this custom tor decades, being willing to be charged 7 per cent Interest on the taxes when she knows the . value of her land Is running up at the rate -ot 30 per cent a year. At one time the city paid .$1,128,000 to her for a portion of her holdings needed for St. Nicholas park. 8he Is a niece of Watt, the Inventor, whose large holdings of land in New York were the foundation of her fortune. With Miss Plnckney, seven other person and estates hold $230,000,000 of New York real estate, with an aggregate monthfy rent roll of $2,500,000. William Waldorf and John Jacob Astor are credited with $100, 000,000 each; the Goelet estate owns $30. 000,000 In houses and land; Elbridge T. Gerry, $26,000,000; the Eno estate, $12,000,. 000, and the Clark and Hammersley es tates $10,000,000 each. The Astor Joint rent roll Is half as great as that of the entire income of the kingdom of Greece and bears about the same proportion to that of the little kingdom of Denmark. It Is far larger than that of Servla, Bulgaria, Montenegro and a lot of other principali ties. Two women chartered a touring auto mobile In New York the other day and started for an airing. After going smoothly for a short distance they stopped at a curb and sent the chauffeur to a theater office to purchase tickets for the evening enter tainment. In his brief absence the ma chine got restive snd sputtered and aplt viciously and set bystanders to wondering a hundred, as they had wondered a hun dred times before, what would happen It an aihomlblle got tired of "standing hitched." They soon had a demonstration. The machine took a sudden start and rushed up the street drlverless, and with out the slightest notion as to the direction it should take. It was rspld and eccentric In Its movements, and consternation was on the faces of the onlookers. What did the women do? Why, Just what any other human and sensible woman, not skilled In athletics or automobile driving, would do. They simply screamed. After the auto mobile had rushed up and down and diag onally several times one of the women threw herself Incontinently to the ground, but the other one held on till the insclilna was smaahed In an unsuccessful butting match with a stone wall. The occupants were not seriously Injured. Fellowship In Ironbl. New lork Tribune. The nations have a sort of fellowship In bearing the "white man's burden." British South Africa Is bothered with the Zulus, German Southwest Africa Is Involved In tedious wsr with the Hottentots. Holland's Acheen wsr drags on toward its half cen tury and America now and then has to suppress some obstreperous outlaws In ths Philippines. Harvest for tbo law, era. Chtcsgo Record-Herald. On of ths questions to be decided at Ban Francisco Is this: "Did the earthquake or the Or cause the damage?" People who succeeded In having their buildings photo graphed between ths time when the 'quake took place and the moment when the names reached them may be abls to save a good deal In lawyers' fcta. Weak Lungs Bronchitis For over sixty years doctors have en dorsed Ayers Cherry Pectoral for coughs, colds, weak lungs, bronchitis, consumption. Cures hard cases, des perate cases, old case's. You can trust a medicine the best doctors approve. Ask your doctor all about it. ' We have no secrets We publish the formulas of all our medicines. Mads kg ths J. C. Ayer Os., Lowell, Msss, AIM atanufMtirs sf . ATTR'S RATH YlOOR For tbs hair. ATKR'S PILLS- For CMStipStlss. AYER'S SARSAPARILLA-Fsr the blood. AVER'S AOCK CDR For malaria umt art. STANDARD HOT STIFF. Cleveland Plain Dealer: The general Im pression seems to be that the latest White rouse bomb was a stunner. Brooklyn Eagle: It the Standard Oil could get at that "little villa In the( woods," where the president catches his breath for a new round, it would need to be incased In steel armor plate. Chicago Record-Herald: The Standard Oil company's attorneys declare that they will prepare a statement In which Commis sioner Garneld's allegations will be em phatically denied. This is almost terrible. If true. Baltimore American: The result of the president's Standard Oil message Is the awakening of the great corporations to a feeling of respect for public opinion. It no longer treats charges with silent con tempt. Elaborate explanations and de fenses are made, and It will In the future employ the services of a press agent. Its officers now appear to doubt that they are greater than the government of the I'nlted States. - Springfield Republican: Just as the Standard Oil officials are asserting with solemn face that their business Is entirely Ignorant of railroad favors not open to their competitors, the Sugar trust Is pre sented by jtjfederal grand Jury as an ha bitual beneficiary of secret -rates and re bates. We are therefore asked t believe that the Bugar trust la smarter or more unscrupulous than the Oil trust, and this Is asking ahnost too much. New York Times: There can be no re treat now. The president must go ahead. The people would be Justly angered by a fiasco like that of the Star Route prosecu tions. If Mr. Garfield Is right about his proofs the law has been violated. If the administration la In earnest It must see to It that the guilty are punished. The per sons suspected or accused are probably aware that earnestness Is a pretty notable quality In Theodore Roosevelt's makeup. ; Philadelphia Record: The two most reti cent combinations are ths Standard Oil trust and the Sugar trust. The latter would not answer the census questions or comply with the Massachusetts law In the matter of reports, and it is evidently superior to law, for it haa not been dislodged from Its positions. The Standard Oil Is traded ' In on the curb" because It will not disclose the very modest amount of Information necessary to have Its stock listed. But Commissioner Garfield's report unlocked the lips of the petrolemum sphinx and it now condescends to talk back. Pay of .Cabinet Members. New York Sun. The question is not whether a cabinet officer is underpaid because his salary la less than the Income of a trust manager, or of a grand opera tenor, or of a winning Jockey; the question is whether $8,000 a year Is fair compensation, considering the fact that It la a distinction to be a cabinet officer. If the salary were large enough to be a temptation, weight of money would put Inferior men into the cabinet. But when English secretaries are paid three times as much as American cabinet officers. and New York supreme court Justices twice as much, and governors more, the I'nlted States is not giving tts heads of depart ments a square deal when It keeps their salaries down to a sum which was not enough for the support of an establish ment In Washington when fixed by con gress, and Is woefully Inadequate now. Contributions to Abnnl'a Unlety. Chicago Inter Ocean. The sultan of Turkey Is again receiving ultimatums, a fact which will probably necessitate the erection of another ulti matum storage addition to the Imperial palace. The ultimatums which he received a year or so ago greatly crowded all the space remaining after the ultlmatuma re ceived the previous year had been pigeon holed. rowning, btlGINATORS AND SOLE MAKERS Start to Finish The man who buys his Spring Suit from Browning, King"& Com pany knows precisely who made it from the designing and cutting to the sewing and tailoring. lie can't be sure of these facts in any other store. No outside "Sweat-Shop" work, every detail under our own roof. There isn't any better clothing than we make. Suits, $15 to $30. Fifteenth and Douglas Sis. W7 roodwojr nl lla4 fttrowt tYTTW BREEZY LINES. No. sir." declared Bras. "I owe noth ing to any man." "Oh, yes, you do," retorted Wise. "No. sir!" "Oh, yes, you owe an apology to every man who has to listen to you blow." Philadelphia Press. George III wss wondering how the apple got Into the dumpling. "That's essy." replied the court, "but how do you suppose the twenty got tacked onto the III?" Whereat the unfortunate monarch was only more mystified. New York Sun. Mamma (returning from church) -Why, Willie, take your wheel Into the back yard. You must not play in the front yard on Sunday. Willie protest ingly) But, mamma. Isn't It Sunday In the back yard, too? Llp plncott's Magaslne. Girl with the Lillian Russell Complexion What would you do if an awfully rich man, old enough to be your grandfather, should ask you to marry him? Girl with the r ay Templeton Bmlle I pre sume I should do Just what you are going to do. dear. But I'm awfully sorry for Jack. When la It .to come, off? Chicago iriDune. Mrs. Whyte Is your husband even tem pered? Mrs. Browne Well, yes, X suppose so. Sometimes he's even bad tempered. Bomervllle Journal. The aeronaut had announced his Inten tion of crossing the Atlantlo by a bal loon. "What are your prospects?" asked s friend? "Fine," responded the enthusiast.. "All I have to do Is to provide a bslloon. Th ocean Is already there, you know." Phila delphia Ledgr. Of course, even the girl who says enthu siastically "Isn't that dear!" may have a little common sense In other waya. Bomer vllle Journal. "I'd like to pay you something extra," said the customer, "but see that sign." He pointed to the printed notice. "No tips must be accepted In this barbei shop." "Whist," said the barber, "that's a tic from the boss, and It's agin the ruls tfl accept It." Philadelphia Ledger. . ' ' r ' "v"' SAW FRANCISCO. . - (After Bret Harts.) Joseph Dann Miller In New York Bun. t'ndaunted by the blows of fate, Thou sittest at the western gate. The shadow of the horror spent. Thou guardest still our continent. Gather thy dead a nation's dead For we who bend above thy head And bring of aid for thy behest. Know not of esst, nor south, nor west. Of our sbundsnce take, that thou May'at rise and front with dauntieas brow Once more the future big with fate, O warder of our western gate. She rlaea with the hope that thrills. And builds new watch fires on her hills And 'mid her desolation stsnds. Her ruined palaces and lands, Her scattered people all the gray i Burned blocks of homes that stretch awa). And templea lying crushed end prons. Of twisted iron, shapeless stone. As If some mighty Thor had hurled His hammer 'gainst the western world! But rising now from Wr dlsmsy. She bares her forehead to the day, Her form no longer crushed and bowed, Our risen sister, fair and proud. ; Now In a vision see arlss ' A city In a fairer guise. Purged by the fire and chastened; shs Guards, as of old, our western aea, . But built anew of what Is best In ardent manhood, quickened seat. For what appeals to mind and heart, A nobler culture, finer art. Whom higher alms and dreams Insplro, Out of the earthquake and the fire, . Out of the terror and the flame; purged of the tslnt of ancient shams, , With all her ancient glory lit ' By newer glories wed with It, .. , . ... ' v - And charms of finer graces lent, , New warder of a continent. King i Co tt Atf SUES IN CLOTUINC ' "Tlit rn name tnu! stand for Ins actual per formanc, $aid Hean Brumnul, "is (As warns to ttoear by. " OMAHA NED, YORK rsnttsarw.Cnanear JL