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THE OMAIIA
DAILY BEEs SATUHDAY, MAY 12. 1906.
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C. C. ROSE WATER,
General Manager.
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before me this 0tb day of April, irotl.
Ueal) M. B. H UNGATE,
Notary public.
WHG1 OlT OF T()W,
tabs bikers leaving; tfce city tern
Morarlly shoald have The Hre.
mailed ta Uem. Address will be
changed as aftea aa rvaovated.
Constitutional democrats . in the
Duma fem torn between a desire to
say what they think and a ' wish to
keep out of prison.
. Russian revolutionists should not
build their hopes toohlgh. So long as
the Duma has no check on the money
drawer the cear Is still the autocrat.
The railroad company which bor
rows money to pay dividends need not
be siii-pilsed at the appearance of a re
ceiver, but that i no excuse for evad
ing taxes.
San Franciscans may be pleased to
learn that the tax records are safe, but
I hey would probably be better pleased
to know where to get the money for the
collectors.
While congressmen are studying the
Missouri river at Kansas City they
should remember that the further up
the stream repairs begin the longer
they will last.
Mayor-elect Duhlman says he wants
to hear from the people before he
makes his appointments. He is sure
to hear from them after he makes his
ppolntmenta.
Loral produce dealers are trying to
Inaugurate a new system for buying
eggs. A new system for persuading
the hens to lay all the year round
would help It along.
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The reort that other Zulus are Join
ing Bombaata on the borders of Natal
means thr.t natives of South Africa
have failed to take to heart the history
of the American Indian.
Senator Allison's proverbial caution
did not fall him at the critical moment
and his friends may rest assured that
he fully understands the effect of all
amendments rra Introduces.
The boys' play in the canvassing ol
the vote of the recent city election has
gone already too far. An election Is
k serious matter and should be car
ried to Its completion In a serious
way.
It might be well to enact laws re
quiring fiduciary officers to keep trust
funds separated from their private
cash, and then public money could not
disappear without the custodian's
knowledge.
According to advices from Wash
ington, the various Nebraska con
gressmen evince a disposition to keep
out of the senatorial fight. When
their turns come, however, they will
want every one to get Into their fight.
Italian socialist delegates have re
signed from Parliament because they
could not have one of their bills con
sidered. If this plan should obtain In
the United States "Uncle Joe" Cannon
would have to change his tactics or
preside over empty benches.
Candidates' expense accounts under
oath and guaranty of notarial seal
are being filed. We have no hesita
tion in saying that the tallest lying
of the city campaign is embodied In
these sworn statements, made with a
mental reservation of forgetfulness.
The only way to keep the ,1'nited
States senatorshl)) In Douglas county
Is for 'Dons?;! county republicans to
go down republican convention
for one rr.a... Putting two strings to
the bow would leave Douglas county
up la the air with the usual result of
gettlag Lothlnf.
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AEtftfASKA BAXKRRX O.Y AftKT
urrexct.
The section of the Nebraska Bank
ers' association which has been In ses
sion at Hastings in Its resolutions
makes the same expression as other
sections have made of disapproval of
the system of asset currency In the
various forms In which It has been
proposed, and it is noteworthy that the
meeting in the same connection em
phasized Its "allegiance to conservative
principles in all lines of banking." In
thus speaking Nebraska bankers voice
the prevailing and growing sentiment,
not only of western bankers, but also
of substantial western business men
generally.
Aside from other objections to the
scheme of asset-backed notes In the
existing conditions of this country, it
Is significant that the demand for a
more "elastic," or rather a more "ex
pansive" currency comes mainly from
eastern quarters where banking Inter
ests have for years notoriously become
complicated, and often embarrassed, in
speculation. Whatever may be the op
eration of an asset basis of circulating
hotes In the form and under the con
servative restraints of the Scotch sys
tem, its tendency in this country could
not be good. Conservative western In
terests can not regard without suspic
ion clamor for bank notes based on
commerclnl credits, instead of national
credit In the form of national bonds,
when it originates in the same quarter
whence forever arises clamor for the
government to come with treasury sur
plus deposits to the aid of eastern
financial Institutions that have over
dabbled and overloaned to speculators,
promoters, manufacturers of securities
and manipulators of stock markets.
Our Nebraska and western bankers
are becoming every day the custodians
of a greater loan fund, which repre
sents the net surplus savings of the
legitimate, prosperous industry of a
rich agricultural region and not mere
lucky turns of hazardous speculation
nor the results of financial legerde
main and overreaching promotion. The
spirit of honest saving Is Inherently
conservative, and it is a reassuring fact
of national significance that western
bunkers are more and more reflecting
that spirit, and bo becoming a correc
tive influence and safeguard against
well defined unsound tendencies in
eastern banking.
THE rirE LIXE t f.Vf if.
The testimony of E. P. Ripley, pies
Ident of the Santa Fe, before the Inter
state Commerce commission in the oil,
investigation, opens up broad vistas of
pertinent practical Information, par
ticularly showing how railroad rates
and pipe lines are the two halves of
the monopoly scissors that cuts compe
tition into shreds.
First Mr. Ripley testifies that his
company granted for a ridiculous pit
tance the use of its right-of-way in
Kansas, and from Kansas City to Chi
cago, for a pipe line to the Standard
Oil company. Curious that a great
railroad company should donate its
right-of-way virtually as a canal
through which every barrel of oil Is a
subtraction from the freight of that
lallroad.
Then this question was put to Mr.
Ripley: "Did you raise the oil rate In
Kansas when the pipe line was put in?"
"We did." replied Mr. Ripley. Cer
tainly, Independent oil companies, not
having pipe lines, were thereupon re
quired to pay a higher rate on oil in
barrels and tanks. It Is no wonder tho
road has since "carried no oil." Com
petition -could not go against such a
sure-thing game.
But gasoline and other by-products
in the process of refining petroleum,
which - are an. extensive and enor
mously profitable part of Standard
Oil business, cannot be pumped
through, the oil pipe line. So this
question was put to Mr. Ripley: "When
the crude oil was piped the railroad
rate was raised, but the rate on gas
oil was lowered, it being shipped;
isn't that so?" Mr. Ripley's answer
was, "Yes."
In short, between pipe line and rail
road rate manipulation every bole was
plugged against competition with
Standard Oil, and against producers of
crude oil on one hand and consumers
on the other. And td triple-lock the
monopoly trap Mr. Ripley's testimony
further discloses that his company is
at the same time bound by contract
with the Standard Oil for the lubricat
ing oils of which every great railroad
Is an immense user.
The "lead pipe cinch" in the light of
this oil investigation now only starting
begins to appear stale and unprofitable
in comparison with the pipe-line cinch.
GOLD DHAFT O.V THE WORLD.
No such draft upon the hard cash
resources of the world was ever be
fore made within the same time by
this country aa has been made the last
tew weeks to meet an extraordinary
emergency in our money centers. In
cluding $15,000,000 which the Bank of
Frame has Just arranged to release for
the purpose of meeting the require
ments of New Yory gold importers, the
aggregate engagements of gold for im
port from April 18 to May 10 mounts
up to f 62.O0O.OUO, a large part having
been engaged since the San Francisco
disaster. The great stock and securities
markets of the east were already over
strained for funds to support credits
and prices, involving, of course, the
supply for commercial and industrial
uses, when earthquake and fire caused
a sudden and tremendous destruction
of values which put corresponding ad
ditional pressure on our financial in
stitutions for immediate relief.
How quickly available the great
manses of the world's ready money has
been in this emergency is thus signally
shown by the record of gold import en
gagements from London and Paris.
The means for buttressing the fabric
of our credits and relieving dangerous
strain near the breaking point cotiM
come hither freely and amply only for
profit on the basis of security. The
world's surplus gold moves now to
this country and now to that as there
Is local emergency and demand, caus
ing profit to its owners In the transfer,
provided Inexorably that the country
needing it is on a sound monetary
and business basis, rendering such use,
which is practically a loan, safe to the
lender. The world does not part with
its good money, no matter what the
local reed, save for its full worth or
on the certainty of getting it back with
interest.
Nothing could more forcefully dem
onstrate the solidity of our general
financial and industrial position than
the Instant response which the custodl
ians of the world's hard money .surplus
have Just made to so prodigious an
emergency draft.
FOOLISH TALK,
All this talk about trying to evade
the result of the recent municipal
election is foolish talk. The Bee sup
ported Mr. Benson for mayor, but he
was beaten i oy a decisive majority.
The people of Omaha expressed them
selves as favoring the transfer of the
city hall from the present republican
incumbents to the democratic officials
elect, and that expression should be
respected, even if there were loop
holes In the law by which it could be
nullified.
When James E. Boyd was elected
governor of Nebraska, on the face Of
the returns. The Bee took tssue with
those who advised Governor Thayer
to hold onto the office, notwithstand
ing the fact that he had not been a
candidate and had not been voted for,
and this precipitated the only serious
difference between The Bee and the
late Governor Thayer. In the present
instance, no one republican or
democrat could afford to take any
city office to which some one else was
chosen by the people and to which
he would be entitled to a commission
had the election been held strictly
according to the specific provisions of
a valid law.
So far as the voting machine is
concerned, it has been used here in
two successive elections without ques
tion, and may as well be considered
ae an established precedent. If the
law should be contested and declared
void, it would only pave the way for
Its re-enactment with the faults cor
rected. Any one stirring up resistance
to the edict registered by the people
on the voting machine will be stirring
up only fruitless trouble.
The disclosures in the Minnesota
Insurance case trumps the assertion
of Ralph W. Breckenrldge In his ad
dress at Lincoln the other day that
most of the state insurance depart
ments have been engaged in holding
up the insurance , companies. It is
reassuring, however, for Mr. Brecken
rldge to say that so far as be knows
the Nebraska Insurance department
as now conducted has not been Im
plicated in these practices. Ne
braska insurance laws may need
strengthening, but the best laws will
miscarry under corrupt officials, while
poor laws may be made to work fairly
well under conscientious and honest
official supervision.
A new candidate for the fusion
nomination for governor is said to be
looming up on the horizon in the per
son of Dr. P. L. Hall, formerly chair
man of the democratic state commit
tee. Dr. Hall is a full-fledged banker,
and the very fact that he is considered
within the rsnge of possibilities for
the "allied reform forces" must mean
that the. "crime of '"I" has been
eclipsed.
Returning travelers from the Puget
Sound country, where everything is
supposed to be on the boom, insist
that Omaha still looks better to them
than the coast cities. Omaha's growth
is of the substantial kind that will
not slip back aa compared with spec
ulative inflation, liable to collapse any
time.
Since Tewfik Pasha has failed to
have the Egyptian matter compromised
it is probable that Turkey will with
draw its troops, but there may be a
new foreign minister at Constanti
nople. Dowie and Voliva have agreed as to
the administration of the finances of
Zion. The thought of the cash box
passing into the hands of strangers had
a pacifying effect on the prophets.
Maiiae Reward line.
Minneapolis Journal.
Now arises the question: How will Cum
mins indicate his gratitude to Klkins for
his part In the renomlnatlon of the Iowa
governor?
ltd Resalta Always l eant r
IndianapoHs New.
Borne criticism may be offered as to the
Standard's methods of doing business, hut
It must be admitted that it gets what la
enthusiastically known nowadays as "re
sults." Optimism la the Haddle.
Chicago Record-Herald.
Secretary Wilson says the country is
going to have a rex-ord breaking crop this
year. The pessimists will now begin to be
unhappy because no big war la going on
and because In consequence there can be
no unurual demand for our products
abroad.
Boston Transcript.
We arc Hearing the point where tiie vari
ous putts of the human anatomy ran be
taken apart, like the mechanism of a
watch, and put In good running order
gain. Kven missing cogs, wheels or levers
can be supplied. The removal of a part
of g New York girl's spine, where a bullet
had plerved the spinal column, and the
splicing of the removed vertebrae, so that
she is as good as new. Is the latest triumph
of surgical science.
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EDWARD ROHEWITER FOR Bit TOR
Metier Klann.
Uncoln Star (Rep ).
Kvldently the announcement comes like a
thunderbolt to some of the little fellows
who had thought there were going to be
no very heavy-weights In the aren. and
that therefore they had a chance. Roe
weter is a heavy-weight and there are few
men of his class among politician In the
state. When he starts out for the nomina
tion every one knows by the past whit
kind of a fight the man mut make who
beats him. Therefore, the little "favorite
sons" of different localities will quietly con
clude to wait, for s more suspicious season
to try for the senate. No men Is better
known In Nebraska than Rosewater and
few Nebrssks men are ss well known
throughout the country.
Hardeet to Beat.
Holdrege Progress dep.).
From the Indications, Omaha will have
s many candidates for this office ss there
are factions In the party In that town.
Mr. Ro-e water will be the "hardest hor.e
to beat" In the race.
ftlaaria with the Pensile.
Holdrege Progress (Rp...
Mr. Rosewater I one of the most strik
ing characters In the political and-fndu-trial
history of Nebraska. As the editor of
The Omaha Dally Bee he has been promi
nent In all of Its political activity for the
past quarter of a century. While a staunch
nd consistent republican he has always
been a strong anti-monopolist, held him
self Independent of the corr.uptlenlst ele
ment of the party and lies stood with the
people.
The Progress, while It as formerly pub
lished as a populist paper, has even been an
admirer of Mr. Rosewater for his Indomit
able courage and absolute fearlessness ami
the Progress believes that today Mr. Rose
water Is the logical republican candidate
for senatorshlp and It believes that if the
next legislature should choose Mr. Rose
water that the state will be more credltoblv
snd more ably represented In the national
congress than by any who have gone
there, with the possible exception of ex-Ben-ator
W. V. Allen. Mr. Rosewater has ha.l
an experience which peculiarly qualifies
him for th office of Vnlted Slates sena
tor and, too, as we view him, he would
take a personal pride In representing his
state In the halls of congress in a manner
which should elicit the hearty commenda
tion and endorsement .of the people of Ne
braska regardless of partisan bias. Mr.
Rosewater may not be a fluent orator, but
few men are more resourceful or familiar
with public questions. It is equally true
that no man In Nebraska has so thorough
a knowledge of the needs of the state, with
whose development he has been so promi
nently Identified.
Would Serve People Best.
TsWnee Press (Dem.).
Public announcement is made of the can
didacy of Edward Rosewster for United
States senator. If a republican Is to be
elected, by all means give us the editor of
The Bee. He could better serve the people
than any other person in tho long list Of
aspirants.
Mare of a Following;.
1 Blslr Courier tRep.).
Many of the newspaper boys have said
complimentary things about the venerable
editor and there Is no question but that he
will have a respectable following, at least.
In the coming state convention, particularly
If he csn obtain the delegation from Doug
las county.
"' Mirh la Favor.
Humboldt Trader (Rep.).
' Formal announcement of the condidacy
of Hon. Kdward Rosewater of Omaha for
United States senator has been made and
the proposition is meeting with much more
fuvor than has been accorded Mr. Rose
water's political aspirations In the pest.
Perhaps the reason lies in the fact that
many who opposed him in the past fel
that they might have done better for the
state by granting ;hat he and his friends
asked.
Ideal Meatal Equipment.
Trkamah Journal (Rep.).
The republican newspaper fraternity to a
large extent are desirous of having Ne
braska ably represented In the United
States senate. They feel that Mr. Rose
water carries with him a force and In
fluence whose strength will count for Ne
braska. He has been so independent and
fearless in his attitude on public questions
that the people are desirous of having him
where he can do still greater good. He
Is not a radical, neither does he. possess a
mind flighty or erratic. Possessed of solid,
mature Judgment and thoroughly capable
of exercising that judgment on public mat
ters, he can not help being considered a
candidate of ideal mental equipment and
temperament.
Most Suitable for Senator.
Wlsner Press (Rep.).
Nebraska is at last coming to her senses
s to the most suitable material for t'tiltod
States senator. She was a good while about
It, but if the faith that Is in her now is
put to the purpose Kdwnrd Rosewater will
All the position.
o Question of Superiority.
Norfolk News (Rep.i.
The announcement of the candidacy of
Kdward Rosewater for United States sena
tor from Nebraska will have the effect of
taking very much of the wind out of the
sails of the Norrls Brown boom. Mr. Rose
water and Mr. Brown stand practically
upon the same platform snd for the same
principles. The difference comes In the
fact that, where Mr. Brown has been ad
vocating these principles for merely a few
moons, Mr. Rosewater has been hammering
away tirelessly and eff'otlvely for the past
thirty years, and where Mr. Brown hus
practically never been heard of until the
past few years and now only In the state of
Nebruvka, Mr. Roues, ater's acquaintance
extends to all portions of the United ft ites
as well as throughout Nebraska, snd lie
has done things before, not oniy In the
service of his state, but elso for the United
States. Tluie ran be no question as to
the superiority of Mr. Roue water, snd the
Brown boomers have a very Justifiable at
tack of the blues as a result of the Omaha
editor's announcement.
Oatsuokea Independents.
Clarkaoii Herald (Dem.).
There are few abler men in the state, and
we know of no man who has done more for
the upbuilding of Nebraska and the central
west. The Bee editor la not of our politi
cal faith. ilia political creed snd ours
Would I'luai) in the first line, but we do
admire the man and his fesrlesa, outspoken
independence, und if a republican must rep
resent Nebraska in the United States sen
ate, nothing would please us more than to
see Mr. Rosewater named for the place.
Head and ghoaldrrs 0er All.
Tekaniuh Herald (Rep.).
There Is no dearth of senstorlal candi
dates in Omaha, the latest announcement
being Edward Rosewater. who towers head
and shoulders above the bunch.
Indication of Sacess.
Plaiimnouth Journal (Dm ).
The Fontanelie club of Omaha Is up in
arms against Edward Rosewater for United
States senator. This is aa Indication of
Mr. Rowatti su:ceft.
OTHER Lrft TH HR.
At the reeent congress uf Oermsn his
torians at Stuttgart, Prof. Melnecke of
Freiburg read a notable paper on "Oer
many snd Prussia In the Nineteenth Cen
tury." The gist of his argument was that
the present position of the Prussian state
and Its exceptional power within the frame
work of the Oerman empire had led to
grave evils, some of which had been fore
seen by many of the nrlelnnl advocates of
German unity. For instance, the concur
rent existence of n Prussian snd an Im
perial Parliament in Berlin bad led to a
kind of "parliamentary hypertrophy."
which Treltechke predicated and which Bis
marck, who was no friend of effective par
liamentary government, may in tils heart of
hearts, said the professor, have had no de
sire to avert. The Rlsmarcklsn constitu
tion of the empire. Prof. Meinecke urged,
had 'undoubtedly left Important problems
unsolved, and the difficulty Which several
of the pre-Blsmarcklan constitutionalists
had apprehended the preponderance of
Prussia, and particularly of Prussia, rnt
of the Elbe had become a grave feature
of the situation. Even Stein himself did
not think that the permanent maintenance
of Prussia, which had been described as
sn "artificial state." ought to stand in the
way of the foundation of a united Germany.
Apparently, said the professor, the Prus
sian Incubus is still one of the most se
rious drawbacks with which the constitu
tional organism of the empire has to con
tend. There it a revival In Cairo of the old idea
once supported by Lord Dufferln of having
an Egyptian Parllsment formed along tho
lines of the French Chamber of Deputies.
As It Is now, the General Assembly, which
Is nominally 'the legislative department of
tha Egyptian government, has no power to
go beyond the veto of the khedlve, and
the khedlve Is kept within the very narrow
limits laid down by the actual British vice
roy of Egypt, who bears the modest official
title of agent snd consul genersl.
Three friends of the khedjve, Abbes
Hilmi; two of whom are editors nf local
papers, have revived the agitation in favor
of home rule. One is Sheikh All Tussuf.
editor and proprietor of the Mouawttd, the
most widely read and Influential paper In
the east: another Is the editor of the Iwn.
These three men, although bitterly hostile
to each other, are all self-proclaimed nnd
enlightened Egyptian patriots.
The British contingent in Cairo is said to
desire a locsl Parliament quite as much as
til Egyptians themselves. But It does not
desire It under such auspices. And the
present agitation for home rule is generally
looked upon as a scheme for renewing the
old relations with the porte rather than
one giving the Egyptians autonomous gov
ernment under progressive British auspices.
"It will probably surprise many people
to know." says the Dundee Advertiser,
"that there are at least lUtcen groups in
the House of Commons which have sep.
arate organisations. First, of course, there
are the 'liberals with adjectives;1 then
there are the conservatives, under Mr. Balfour-
leadership; the liberal unionists, who
follow Mr. Chamberlain; the free trade
unionists, who regard the duke of Deven
lilie as their chief, and the Irish prange
men, who have Colonel Saunderson as
chairman. The Irish nationalists, of
course, follow Mr. Redmond, while the
Welsh, members look to Sir A. Thomas
when they are acting together, and most
of the 'Scottish liberal members to Mr.
Cromble. who wss elected chairman only
a few days ago. Leaving national groups,
we have the labor members, under Mr.
Kelr Hurdle, and then the trade union
members, led by Mr.' Enoch Edwards. Very
shortly we may have a third labor party,
hut this will concern Itself with Scottish
questions only. Besides all these we have
advanced radicals, under the leadership of
Sir Charles Dilke; a liberal agriculturist
group, under Mr. Channlng; friends of In
dia, under Mr. Schwann; service members,
under Colonel Long, and medical members,
under Sir W. Foster."
It seems pretty plain that the old age
pensions bill, which wan adopted by the
French Chamber, was passed simply as an
electioneering measure and not with any
idea of Its ever becoming law, at all events
in Its present shspe. The committee which
drafted the bill estimated the necessary
capital at W.000,000.000. This wss to be fur
nished, first, by the compulsory contribu
tion of 2 per cent of the wages of all the
wage-earning population, men and women;
second, by an equal sum to be contributed
by the employers, and, third, by a contribu
tion from the state. When inquiry was
made as to the number of wage-earning
persons who would contribute, and the
amount Of their wages, and also how many
would bo likely to reach the age of o
years, the pension age, no statistics could
be found to furnish even sn approximate
answer. The committee of the Chamber es
timated that the minimum number who
would live to receive pensions would be
u8,000 and the maximum 3.31K,OnO. This left
a margin of no fewer than 2.44t.000 persons.
Tsklng the minimum figure, the annual
amount to be paid in pensions could not be
less than 312.4M,OXi francs, or about W2.000,.
OnO, while the maximum would be 1,193,
70,0U0 francs, or about 1240,000,000. It Is
clear that no measure contemplating the
possibilities of such enormous and incal
culable discrepsncles in the expenses could
be deemed practical.
A correspondent writes from Cairo that
Egypt Is being visited by the greatest
land boom known to Its existence. Dur
ing the last few months a feverish ex
change of ownership In land has taken
place, which has resulted In Increased liti
gation, owing to the fact tluit the land
agencies which have been most active were
unacquainted with the Moslem law of pre
emption. An effort is now making to have
the law abrogated.
Not long ago the Mena House lintel was
purchased by a Cairo syndicate. A native
doctor, whoKc. house and garden adjoined
the property, put in a 'claim for pre-emption.
The syndicate accused him of lielng
merely the creature of a rival agency, and
as he could not prove that It was his In
tention to run the hotel himself after he
had acquired It, he was nonsuited.
Cairo snd Alexandria papers are filled
with advertisements of real estate sales,
and It Is reported on good authority th;it
one of the new foreign ag-n. ies recently
netted lOu per cent In a deal which went
Into five flguics of Egyptian pounds.
. a.
Students of female emancipation may tie
Interested to learn from the report of the
National Council of Women In Norway
that that country hus recognised the rig). I
of women to sit on a jury: that the Storth
ing recenly nominated a wonati as the
winner of the Nobel prise, and that a
school has been started to Inxtruct young
girls iu the reHpunslbillties of citixeiixhip
as well aa in the cure of children. It la
also learned that a number of women who
voted for the separation of Norway from
Ewedeti was greater than that of the men.
These snd other facts of similar charac
ter were brought out at a recent meeting
of the Women's Institute in lndon, w here
one of the speakers, a Mrs. Fitiglhbon,
who claimed to belong to the race "of
Vikings of Brltlah North America." as
serted that Canadian women were in a po
sition to rule Canada owing to their ad
vanced views and perfect eigsnlaatlon the
moment au entering wedge could be made
by which lhy might gain 'he sower tf
suffrage.
POLITICAL DRIFT.
After -an experience of a year the New
Tork legislature repeated the mortgage tex
law. substituting for It a recording fee.
The republican congressional campaign
committee Is to adopt as Its slogan for this
Mil's congressional elections: "Stand by
Roosevelt'."
Attorney General Wade Ellis of Ohio Is
going to give the Standard Oil people a
run for their money In that state. Bucking
combines Is a favorite form of exercise for
Mr. Ellis.
Elections for stale nmtWa incur Id
twenty-nine states this year, and the terms
of thirty United States senators expire on
Msrrh 4. 1 fa T.
A Brooklyn councilman, who per')"tently
refused to take sn Interest in public con
tracts. Is said by his assoclatrs to be sTiilty
of "a breach of ethics." Evidently he Is
very lonesome.
Orsft exposures in Cincinnati are held
responsible for Increased consumption of
liquor on both sides of the Rhine. As a
mesns of drowning trouble booxe hits not
yet achieved a reputation for success.
City employes of Pittsburg won't gt free
passes to anything while George Wllklns
Guthrie is mayor of that town. He has
Issued an order cutting off free circus
tickets, which must have been tegarded m
graft.
The attorney general of Illinois com
putes that the Illinois Central Railroad
company owes the state back taxes on
llOfi.Ooo.ooo of stocks and bonds snd has
politely Invited the company to come In
and settle.
Governor Paulson, democratic executive
of Ohio, urged the legislature to practice
economy In appropriating public funds.
The republican assembly respected his ap
peals, but the democratic senate increaxed
the appropriations to the extent of Jl,StV.0l0
above any previous legislative record.
Under the provisions of the anti-lobby law
pnsseU by the New York legislature re
cently all lobbyists must be registered with
the secretary of state. The first to comply
with the enactment was Rev. A. S. Gregg,
representative of the International reform
bureau. Dr. Gregg certified that he is paid
to promote legislation for the suppression
of gambling and other forms of vice.
General Sickles, who has been a member
of the New York Board of Aldermen, pooh
poohs the proposed doubling of the sal
aries of the aldermen. In fact, he says
that $1,000 a year was more than generous
payment, "hut now that the board has been
stripped of the franchise-granting power
which means practically the 'only power It
ever had 1 can't for the life of me see
where It Is entitled to any psy at all."
Genersl Sickles is away behind the times.
WESTER FARM MORTdKlKK.
Prosperity Modifies the Exactions f
the Money Leaders.
Review Of Reviews.
Western farmers have grown rather par
ticular about their Indebtedness. One of
the common requirements of the modern
mortgage is that the mortgsgee shall ac
cept any portion of the principal at the
time of any interest payment. This means
that the harvesting of a good wheat crop
or the fortunate sale of a bunch of cattle
may wipe out the debt, and the loan agent
must find another borrower. However, one
insurance company has IO,000,000 In western
farm mortgage loans, and the . Interest
thereon Is sufficient to pay all Its death
losses. Another company has 99.nao.0tri) in
these loans, scattered over the Mississippi
valley. The larger sums are. in Illinois,
with about lAOOO.OOO; Minnesota, with $10,
(100.000; Missouri, $11,000,000; Iowa. $10,700,
000; Ohio, $,io,000. and lesser amounts in
a doxen other states. U places approxi
mately 4.000 farm mortgage loans every
year, and has in Its history loaned $250.
000,000 in this way, with practically no loss.
A report In the Annals of the American
Academy of Science gives the amount of
mortgages held by the life Insurance com
panies at $W.ti32..VW, or 27.7 per cent of
the companies' assets. This, however. In
cludes loans of city property as well ss
those on farms. The percentage Is second
only to that Invested In bonds. Indicating
the partiality for this form of Investment
by the moat conservative of investors.
The Insurance company loan Is ssfe
guarded In every possible way. The inter
rogatories of the application cover four
large pages and Include everything from
the site of the borrower's family to the
use he proposes to make of the money.
They even Inquire Into his habits and his
standing in the community, for the well
informed Investor realises that the best
part of his security is the personality of
tho borrower.
Thus It happens that the Insurance com
panies have few foreclosures and prac
tically no losses on this class nf Invest
ments. Of recent years the value of land
lias increased so rapidly that evory loan
made, as these Investments are, on a basis
of 40 per cent of real value became "gilt
edged" and was. the beet possible security.
CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?
Buy a New Pi.no on
ONE
PRICE
HO
COMMISSIONS 8me alleg6d ,r'nd otyourt for bringing you to our
The Hoape store is the only one-price no-commission paying piano store
in Omaha and the west.
VK SAVE VOl SO TO flSO OX A PIANO.
A. H0SPE CO. ls,5DoS
11K8T PIANO TUNING, a.30.
The Black and White
and the color Pictures displayed iu Hospe's windows are just a few
samples of the stock of Art Pictures you can view in the many picture
cases lined up at the side walls Iu the store.
Just think it over "Ten Thousand" different reproductions, as
well as original paintings, to look at.
JUST FOR THE ASKING.
We will gladly show you our beautiful stovk, "Buy or no buy."
Our new spring Picture Frame stock will surprise you, for the
many new novel design are tempting, and we are making frames
every minute for the last 32 years. t
A. HOSPE CO.
1513 Douglas Ctreet.
MIL10 B KM ARK.
"Where sre you going this summer?"
"No place. I've absolutely - nothing to
wear, my dear."
"Well, you could stsy on the beach all
day and go to dances every night, couldn't
you?" Cleveland leader.
"I'm quite l,.ken with the new governess."
said (layman's wife. "She certainly does
darn bcautllul."
"She Is, Indeed." exclaimed Gaynmn,
dreamily.-Philadelphia Ledger.
"Dere ain't nobodv dst can't brsg a little
bit about something." said Meanderlnii
Mike.
"Dat's right," answered Plodding Pete
"Take ynu an' me. fur Instance. We never
get mixed up In no labor rlota. do we?"
Washington Star.
"I'm told that the little bov that Jennie
picked t'p In the streets turns out to be
the kidnaped heir nf a large estate. Is that
so?"
"Tes."
"Mercy me! And did he give Jenny any
thing?" , ,. , , .
"Nothing but the measles.' -Cleveland
Tlaln Dealer.
"Your father ohlcets to that young man
of yours." said the willful girl's mother.
"That's too bad." replied the girl, "be
cause I like father and I want to con
tinue to do so." Philadelphia. Press.
Redd How does your new automobile
work?
Greene Well. I broke a record today.
"Indeed?"
"Yes, 1 was under it for three hours
and eighteen minutes, frying to get the
blame thing to go!" Yonkers states-
man.
Teas Mav Brtghtley's novel is out.
Have you read it?
jrfn yes. Bv the way, May Is IS years
old. Did you know that before?
Xess no: how do you know It?
joss That's the sge of her heroine.
Philadelphia Press.
"You ask me If I ever failed In any role
I attempted," repeuted the great actor.
Yes, once, when I tried to look like a
sobr r.-.sn."
"Whv." exclaimed his friend, "you re el
ways sober. You never did drink, did
you-" . . ...
"No. but on this occsslon I was taking
two drunken friends home." PhllndelphU
Catholic Standard.
SPRISO FKVER.
It is 10 o'clock
An' no bait oin't dug.
An' there ain't no Joy
In the old brown Jug.
An' there ain't no tellm"
How tired I he;
Oh. hee-oh-helgh-oh
My oh me!
An' I'm noddln' here
With a derned ol' book
When I ought to be
In a bayou-crook.
Where the shadows sre,
An' sun-flecks fall
Like blobs o' gold.
And the wild birds call.
It, Is most too late
For to go out now
An' there ain't no bolt
Dug, anyhow;
An' If 'twan't too late.
It seems to me
I'm too derned lssy oh
My on gee!
I'm goln' to sprswl
Here on the floor.
An' not give a thought
To the fish no more;
And sleep snd dresm.
Till the shadows fall.
That I'm flshln' out
Where the wild birds call.
Yes. It seems to me
That's the best way
For to spend a warm,
Old springtime day;
Just lyln' around
The house like me '
Oh hee helgh-o-
Oh, my oh gee!
Oh. dem It all.
I'm a weary duck!
I s'pose I'm mlssin'
Some dandy luck,
Where the fishes bite
An' the breexes blow.
But I'm goln" to sleep
Oh hee heigh o!
Gordon Hats .
are either soft
or stiff.
The Gordon '
Soft Hat is
very soft and
never gets stiff.
The Gordon
Stiff Hat is
very stiff and
never gets soft
Either Gordon
$3.oo
$5. Monthly Payments.
To succeed with one price makes It vitally essential
that the one price is a fair price. We can't start
out with offering a easterner a piano at $300, and,
not making a sale at that, follow the person to tha
door and say: "Beind It's you, we'll Uke $165."
We must have a winning price at the start or we
do little selling.
Again, one price means that we can't tack on some
thing in order to allow you a high price for your
rM nlnnn nr sn we ran nav a biz commission tC
OMAHA. NEB.
PIANOS KFPAlRfcU.
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