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THE OMAIIA DAILY DEE: WEDNXSDAY, MAY 30, 1906. Ti re -Omaha Daily. Ber E. BOSBWATEB, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERT MORNING., Fntered lit Orr.aha PostofTice as second claes mall matter. TERMS OF Bt'BBCRIPTlON. Pally Hee (without Runday). one year..4) Lallr Bee and 8unday, on year ftundar He. one year J Saturday Bee. on year w UELIVERKD BT CARRIER. Pally Bee (Including Sunday), per week.lTe Illy Hee (without Sunday), per week...l.c Evening Bee (without Sunday), per Evening He (with Sunday), per week. ..10c Sunday Bee. per copy y; r"V A-lrfress complilnts of irregularities In de livery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha ( ItyHall Building. Council Bluffa-1 Pearl Street. Chicago n Cnlty Building. New York IV Home Life Ins. Building. Washington 401 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communication! relating to news and edi torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Beer Editorial leprtmcnt. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft. express or postal order payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only i-cerit stamps received aa payment ot mall accounts I'ersonsl check, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. THE BEE PL'BL.rSHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF PUBLICATION. .. State of Nebraska. Doulaa County, aa: C. C. Rnsewater, general manager of The Bee t'ublmhlng Company, being duly worn, says that the actual numuer of full ana complete copies of The Dally, Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of April. 190. l as 'ollow mtjtso l jijw" I..... aU,44W I atoo i t .ai.2o i ,...ai,:to ....32.1UO f 4U.10O 17 at.siu II ;..43,840 U 40,20 10 48.8T0 tl 46C4H J2 38,030 a 85.BOO U 81,8 GO tt 81.4AU M ,.31.470 . n 8i,cao 3k 82,370 t 8H.SOO W 81,000 ....81.400 ....81,M0 ....Ul,4M ....Hl.llO ....S2,tttU ....UW.lOO ... 10... 11... IX... 13... 14... IS... ToUl 1,041.800 Leea unsold coplaa .. i72 Net total sales ljOXH.VHH Daily average 84JM) C. C. ROSE WATER, General Manager. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before ma this Sinn day of April, Itxot. (Seal) M. B. HUNOATE, Notary Public. WltKff OCT OP TOWN. . Sabacrlbers leavac the) city tems orarlly should have The Be Mailed to them. Addreas will be Now for a tug of war between the new democratic mayor and the new democratic council. : It looks as If Mayor Dahlman would have a fine chance to put a piece ot that famous backbone on exhibition right at the start. It Is to be hoped the weather man will be kind to the veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic in their Memorial day celebration. The Water boat d has. been holding another "executive" " session. The water works appraisers seem to be holding no sessions at all. , The "Jim crow' car is giving the rate bill conferees some difficulty That is one feature of the rate bill that is sure to be settled by loeal ap plication. It should be remembered that the election officers Indicted by the grand jury Include democrats as well as le publicans, so that if there is any po litical capital to be made out of It the honors are divided. Insurance companies are readjust Ing Pacific coast schedules and Los Angeles gets the first raise. This Is the natural outcome of the San Fran Cisco disaster. The companies must recoup somewhere. A Kansas City murderess is now oc cupying Governor Folk's attention Singularly enough, the women who write on the case do not want woman rights extended in this Instance. She killed her husband. Stricter police supervision of public dance Is demanded, but the difficulty Is to bnake a police force of less than 100 men do duty for a city of 125,000 people scattered over twenty-five square miles of territory. uovernor Magoon Is also com rnander of the United States naval and marine forces In Panama waters This Is not likely to reassure the Pan ama patriots who are anxious to con duct a revolution Instead of an elec tion. ' , . The grand Jury should be Invoked at onceto find out which of the demo cratic members of the council violated his solemn oath not to reveal anythln said or done at the democratic council caucus and make the punishment fit the crime. The czar's determination to over look the protest from the Duma re minds one somewhat of the attitude assumed by certain contumaciou trusts toward the United States gov eminent a few months ago. And the ctaf Is quite likely to end Just as the trusts have ended. Spain Is bestowing considerable at tention on Old Glory at Madrid Just now. It the same feeling had pre vailed a few years ago a great deal Of trouble would have been saved both countries, and Alfonso might be ruler over a much larger domain, not to sptak ot being an admiral ot a real navy. It the meat Inspection bill pendln In congress becemes law the business ot meat Inspection in South Omaha will take on a material impetus with a corresponding Increase In the num. Ur of people employed in the ins pec tioa department In the Interval will probably keep the civil service ex mlner busy tor awhile. MEMORIAL VAT. For the first time In Ita history Memorial day la to be observed with out reference to what has hitherto been one of Ita significant features. Instead of mourning by the graves of the soldiers who have camped on the, other side, today we are asked to re joice that they strove and conquered In that dark time when the existence of the union was in doubt. Flags to day will be run tip to the top of the staff, and will there float, proudly em blematic of the country whose sons gave ud all that it might live. "The world will little heed nor long remem ber what we say here," quoth Lincoln, but It can never forget what they did here." And we are Just now com mencing to realize the vastness of their achievement, and to enjoy the first fruits of that terrible conflict ut of which emerged a new birth of liberty. The Grand Army of the Republic s slowly marching into the silent be yond; the gray-haired, bent and broken veterans who stand today around the graves of those comrades who, have passed are but the lingering remnant of that grand array which moved in obedience to the will of Grant, the mightiest agency for hu man advancement ever organized by man. But they have done their work and are happy in the knowledge that their glorious sacrifice was not in vain. They stand beside the flower-decked tomb conscious of the fact that in the time to come, when they are no longer with us, their sons and their sons' sons will stand beside those graves and again dedicate themselves to the cause of human liberty and righteous government. This is the lesson of Memorial day. It is no longer an occasion of mourn ing for those who are dead, but a day of rejoicing that the army of the union triumphed In the cause of right. PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD TROUBLES. The hurried return from Europe of President Cassatt of the Pennsyl vania railroad, the bold banquet speech attack by George F. Baer of the Reading, one of the great con stituent companies of the Pennsyl vania system, on the management ot the latter, and the powerful organized movement among its stock and bond holders for a thorough reorganiza tion ousting the Cassatt regime, are swift consequences of the Interstate Commerce Commission investigation of far-reaching significance of which the end is not yet in sight. It is important to remember that the Pennsylvania railroad is the greatest corporation, not only in the United States, but also In the world, greater by far than any of the big life Insurance companies and greater even than the Standard Oil octopus. Its stock and bond capital now reaches the enormous total of $594,399,797, of which over $300,000.0130 His been added since January 1 , 1 90 27 so amazingly rapid has ' been its' expan sion during the last few years." So profoundly Important and im pressive upon the real owners of this great property, the holders of Its stocks and bonds, of whom there are many thousands in this country and abroad, have been the revelations re garding the doings of Its officers and agents, that a speedy reorganization Is already regarded as certain in com parison with which the overhauling of the big life companies' is insignificant. The indisputable fact that its admin istration has been permeated by a system of graft which prostituted its functions as a great Instrument of transportation so far as the public was concerned Infallibly raises pre sumption that the interests of Its real owners have also been sacrificed. They are compelled to act in sheer self -de tense. With the owners of this foremost rati road property aroused, with public opinion Informed and on the alert as never before, with the amplified powers of .public authority coming into fuller play, the beginning of the end of many grave transportation abuses is at hand. FREE ALCOHOL BILL PASSES. . The bill exempting undrlnkable alcohol from taxation is now prac tic ally on the statute book; the house having agreed to the senate amend ments and the measure already having been sent to the president, who Is sure to approve it. The changes made In the senate are not material, the chief one substituting January 1 next for September 1 as the date for the new law to go into errect. ine intervening time was found on careful consideration to be none too long to dispose ot the pre llmlnarles, and no objection was made in conference on behalf of the house to this change. The main criticism of the new law aa passecV that it is too loosely drawn, really rests on the fact that It leaves wide discretion to the Treasury department. Congress has not under taken to outline administrative details, not limiting the size or location of the distilleries nor even specifying the ma terials or mode of denaturlzing al cohol. The efficiency ot the law will there fore depend in large measure on the disposition of the Internal revenue of ficials. While, of .course. It is incum bent on them to prevent frauds on the revenue, a thing that hat not been found at all difficult In Germany, Belgium and Great Britain, it is obvious that they could by excessive requirements greatly limit the pro duction and Increase the cost of de naturized alcohol for consumers, and thus In part defeat the purpose of the law, and Indeed, of the very discretion allowed to the Treasury department. The public will expect and require a liberal administration, with the min imum of restrictions consistent with safety from excise frauds and the ut most possible facility for manufac ture and sale of alcohol for other than drinking purposes. It Is especially de sirable that arrangements be made which will permit such distilling to be carried on in factories In states like Nebraska, near to the source of the grain and other raw materials and where also so much of the distilled product Is required for consumption. SLAUGHTER HOUSE AND MEATlNSrEC' TION. It would be unfortunate If a furious contention should be forced in con gress over the question of Inspection of slaughter houses, because Interests which are not to blame for abuses would be certain to suffer seriously. The fact Is known and officially proved, although the president is properly withholding the proofs from publication, that in some places parts of the process of slaughter and prep aration of meat products are con ducted under unsanitary and other wise offensive conditions, and the meat Inspection bill, which has been attached In the senate as a rider to the agricultural appropriation bill, was drawn to remedy those conditions. The primary design of the existing inspection law had reference only to American farm and packing house in terests in the foreign meat market, as several of the chief European nations had put In force outright prohibitory edicts, or inspection regulations which in practical effect approached more or less to prohibition, and very. Injurious to our trade. For packers now to carry to extremes a war to defeat a fair Inspection of slaughter conditions and meats for domestic consumption would be to invite exposures, many of them sensational, partial and exagger ated that could not fail to have a bad effect among foreign consumers and might easily revive the anti-American agitation and restrictions so disas trous ten or fifteen years ago. The cost of inspection, although a considerable factor, is small in com parison with the cost of an uncom promising fight against it. The ob ject being to protect the public health. It can be plausibly contended that It should be borne by the public, If not wholly a least in part. At any rate that point, which is made so much of by those resisting the bill, is a matter of detail that ought to be capable ot amicable settlement. The substantial packing and live stock interests are really above all others concerned in a removal of abuses and prevention ot their recur rence. Thorough official inspection is bound to come soon, even If It be pos sible to defeat it at this session. The only alternatives are to consent now to inspection or a little later to have perhaps a more rigid system after needless .conflict and counter charges which will cause much damage to live stock and meat Industries. BUILD FROM FOUNDATION UP. Omaha's material growth Is very much in evidence now in the erection of new buildings ot all kinds. In the retail section stores and office build ings are going up, conforming to the most modern lines of achitecture and construction. The wholesale district has been practically remodeled, con stituting now a new city ot warehouses In itself, with location specially adapted to the trackage and transpor tation, facilities. The residence sub urbs and outskirts are dotted with few bouses ranging from small dwellings and modest tenements to palatial man sions. New church buildings and school buildings present themselves here and there either completed or in course of erection. In tact, the new buildings of comparative recent con struction bear a large ratio to the old buildings that have been Inherited from the era before the present re vival. Omaha, however, must, to keep up with this material growth, keep pace In population growth. We roust have people here to patronize the big and little retail stores, to occupy all the new dwellings as well as the old ones, to fill the churches and schools and to form a substantial foundation for the jobbing and transportation business. The essential prerequisite of popula tion growth is employment for wage workers, and this employment must not be confined to the building trades, but must take the form of steady work all-the-year-round In mill and factory as well as wholesale and retail busi ness. The real key to the situation is the development of our manufacturing in dustry, and the natural direction for this development is In the transforma tion ot the raw products ot the field and ranch in our tributary territory Into finished products for consump tion. The question of cheap fuel and cheap power is an all-Important one. The introduction of new and modern processes and the utilization of the bi-products of the, factories we already have are also factors in the problem. Omaha does not want to shoot ahead now merely to stand still later or drop backward. The way to make sure of continuous and steady growth is to provide as we go along the sub stantial groundwork of profitable em ployment for labor In mills and fac tories. The taxpayers of Douglas county have invested a great deal of money In payments for the country roadways but little has been done to keep these paved roads in good repair. An in spection ot all the county pavements with a report on their condition and estimate of the cost of restoring them to first-class condition should be or dered by the county board. An ln- vestment ot several hundred thousand dollars In permanent Improvements like this would justify the expenditure of a few thousands for proper main tenance. According to the local democratic organ the new council has had another conference to assure the public the members are still bent on carrying out the platform pledges on which they were elected to the crossing of an I and the dotting ot a T. It they will make this declaration every week for the three years they are in office they may succeed In convincing themselves before they retire to private life that they meant what the platform makers said for them. , The unanimous report of the house committee on labor recommending for passage the eight-hour bill is one ot the greatest victories won by or ganized labor In years. The bill was vehemently opposed by the various or ganizations of business men and man ufacturers, and .s energetically sup ported by the organizations of work Ingmen. Items Included in the sundry civil bill give assurance that Uncle Sam Is not going to abandon any needed in ternal improvements Just because he is also engaged In a big Job of canal digging. Perusal of the appropria tion bills is a good way to get a no tion of the extent of the United States. Congressman Stilzer ot New York asks that the president make public the report of the government's agents on the packing houses. It he will but bide his time the facts will be given the public, but not specially for the benefit of the democratic campaign committee. Attorney Cromwell and Senator Morgan are still at It with as little apparent sign ot conclusion as when they began. The daily fencing match between these masters of verbal dodg ing has done much to relieve the pres ent session of congress of Its tedium. President Stlckney of the Great Western is said o have referred to Omaha In a recent banquet speech as "the great future city" on his line. Omaha's future greatness is not to be discounted, but neither Is Omaha's present greatness to be disparaged. Senator Allison's Talent. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Senator Allison Is one of the most useful men In public life. He Is always ready with a can of oil to lubricate the turbulent Am Agreeable Snbatltnte. Baltimore American. Passing the lie . has ceased to be the main occupation of senators at Washing ton, and passing bills has become an agree able substitute. Aspirant for Mesial. ' Washington Post. It begins to look 'as If the Hon. Charles A. Towns, who - threatened to "expose" President 'Roosevelt,' Is also In danger of receiving a call from the committee having in charge the distribution of those Ananias medals. . Don't Get Caaght. Philadelphia Record. It may be possible that there are In the United States senate direct representatives of Insurance, express, railway," oil, beef, steel and mining companies whose Illicit gains are magnificent beside the smaller graft of Burton of Kansas. But Burton has been caught tn the act, and the method of the catch has been pronounced flawless by the supreme court. Away with him! The rogue who makes such a botch of his grafting as to bring him within the grip of the penal statutes la a bungler and a peril to his fellow senators as well as a disgrace to the nation. Away with him! Mllltonntrea and Professors, New York Sun. Any "milllanaire" who endows a college or founds a chair under the Impression that his opinions will be taught therein must be an ass. Bom professors are "queer critters," but as a class they are demo cratic and independent They think too much of their opinions to borrow anybody else's, and. being mostly poor and proud folk themselves, they especially despise the rich. No doubt tbere are a few college presidents who will toady for a big gift or legacy, but the professors are mostly a stiff-necked generation. In the few re ported caaes of Interference personal grudge or crankiness haa been at the bot tom of the trouble. Amaalnar Marina Procession. Portland Oregonlan. The fleets of the world which roam the seven seas occasionally bunch up In soma prominent port or passageway like the Sues canal and make an Imposing show ing. But In point of magnitude almost any of these marine processions fall short of that unending commercial parade which Is forever steaming down the great lakea and through the canala The Immensity of this traffic la reflected In the official flgurea for April. 1906, for the "Soo" canal alone. During the thirty days of last month 1.079 vessels of z.OOC.MO tons net register and carrying 1,(13,287 tons of freight passed through this great waterway. Nearly one. half of thla traffic was Iron ore, with coal to the extent of about 650,000 tons second In prominence and grain and flour next on the list. The a. A. R.'s Forty tears. Leslie's Weekly. An especial interest has been taken In the Memorial day celebrations this year all over the country from the fact that this will be the fortieth anniversary of the formation of the Grand Army of the Re public. At Decatur, 111., on April f, 18S6, was organised the first Grand Army of the Republlo post, and the first national encampment took place In November of that year at Indianapolis. Since then the order has extended to every state and ter ritory of the I'nlted Btates from Florida to Alaeka, and Ita national encampments have been held In placea aa widely sepa rated aa Portland. Me., Boston. Phils, delphla and Washington on (he Atlantic coast and San Francisco on the country's western verge. As its membership Is restricted to ex soldiers and ex-aallors on the union side during the rlvil war, which closed forty' one years ago, the Grand Army of the Re public's roll is constantly diminishing, and must vanish altogether before many more years pass. At this writing the order numbers about Z24.000 men, and there are about 10.000 deaths In their ranks every year. The percentage of these rapidly in creases frosn year to yeas'. storno AiiotT raw towk. Ripples Ike rsrreat of Life In the Metropolis. An edict having all the elements of a millinery disturbance has been Issued by Commissioner Whipple of the State Forest, Fish and Qama department. He has noti fied all whom It may concern that he Is going to see the laws enforced which pro rides that no more must feathered things adorn the headgear of women In the Em pire state. The Indians may wear feathers, but the lovely women will be obliged to go about with their bonnets untrlmmed ex cept for flowers and ribbons. But Just wait until the milliners get after the com missioner they say. The penalty of each violation of the law Is a fine of V and an additional (26 for each bird or part thereof sold. It will be, therefore: Fine of t for each part of an ostrich sold. No one buys an entire ostrich to decorate a hat with. Fine of $25 for each part of an slhatross. heron, condor, duck, eagle, etc., sold. One of the sights of New York Is to see the departure of an ocean steamer. The wharf Is always crowded with kissing and weeping friends' and everything Is bustle and hustle to get the vessel away on time. Just as the liner gets In midstream some belated passenger comes rushing down the dock only to learn that steamers, as well as time, tide and railroad trains, wait for no man. Prominent among the passengers who walked up the gang plank of the Bavole recently was a long-legged man clad In a yellow stilt and a silk hat. He hod two truck loads of baggage, and at the end of a rope he dragged a rebellious collie dog. He hauled the animal up the slope and handed It over to the ship's butcher, one of hose perquisites is the care of dogs and other live stock. Just before the ship sailed there came a wall from Its vitals and five seconds later a wild-eyed collie shot down the gang plank and hit the high spots of the pier toward the street. After him, his hat flying at the end of a tether and his yellow fcoat standing out behind like a board, tore the owner. The collie had a good lead and at West street he turned south. His master, reaching the corner, turned in his gullelessness and be gan a long race after an imaginary dog In the direction of the North Pole. By standers captured the dog and brought htm back after fifteen minutes' chase. Just as his master was returning to the dock. Dur ing the chase the man In the suit went loco and tore his hair because he hsd been detained. The Savoie straightened out In midstream and started for Europe. The man sat down on a coll of rope with a maniacal stare. Then somebody suggested a tug. The man rose and yelled to a puffing rat of a tug that was hauling a coal barge. "Fifty dollars If you put me aboard that ship." There was a sudden frantic scrambling as the crew cut loose the haws ers and the craft filled Its furnaces. The man and the dog leaped aboard, the tug started with a shriek and a hldeoua snort ing. Far down the bay a man In a yellow suit raced to the side of the liner. He caught the ladder, and with the dog under his arms, wormed up the side just before the big ship put on Its high speed for the long stretch across the Atlantic. For some days' of last week a young Italian girl was on trial In a New Tork City court for the murder of her uncle and aunt, upon whom she turned after a year of unspeakable abuse at their hands. The trial attracted a large audience dally. conspicuous feature being the presence of many women, evidently of some degree of refinement and social position. The tes timony, as was expected, was of the most revolting nature. It was so shocking that It could not be printed In even the. most lurid of the metropolitan' "yellows." It was so bad. Indeed, that a woman reporter . for one of these sensational sheets fainted. Tet not one of the feminine auditors left the court room. , Adolf S. Ochs and. Joseph Pulltxer, the leading Hebrew Journalists of New Tork City, are now both In Europe. Bach "has made a large fortune the former out of the New York Times and the latter out of the World. Each has built a grand building for his paper, and each building la In Itself a fortune. Each bought his paper when It was In a decline and then brought It up to Its present great value. Pulltxer, though feeble in health and nearly blind. Is In tensely ambitious. He was the first man to erect a steel skyscraper for a news paper, and, now that Ochs haa excelled him by the New York Times building, will enlarge and thus retain his distinction. For this purpose he has bought the ad jacent property, and the new structure will be the most perfect newspaper building In the city. Albert Pulltxer. brother . of Joseph, In tends starting a dally. Twenty years ago he published the Journal, which ha aold to John R. McLean, who afterward sold to Hearst. He may find the busineaa much more difficult now. When Albert was con ducting the Journal and Joseph the World they were battling for success, this being the first time two brothers were thus en gaged in newspaper rivalry. Albert's paper waa bright and lively, but Joaeph had a clearer Idea of the business, and therefore made a better success. Albert really did well to sell out, but he has become tired of Idleness and pines for newspaper ex citement, of ' which he will now have plenty. Apropos of the drift of population to New York's suburban boroughs, It Is esti mated that the Brooklyn of 1920 will have a larger population than Chicago and Philadelphia combined today. In the last twenty-five years Brooklyn haa more than doubled In population, springing from 690,000 In 1880 to l.tOO.000 at the close of 1906. As It grew nearly as much In the last five years aa It did In the preceding ten, and aa It la building up at an astonishing rate, the prediction that It will have nearly t.000.000 population In 1930 seems conserv ative. Nineteen hundred and Ave was the banner year In the history of building In Brook lyn, structures costing more than 161,000,000 being erected within the twelve months. As nearly all of theee buildings were for residential purposes, the total represents a great number of structures. Many persona expect last year's record to be eclipsed by thla season's operations. There Is the most decided activity In every section of the borough, as well as In all of the suburban places. No one dis trict has a monopoly of the growth. The sound of the hammer and the saw la to be heard everywhere. A builder In one district decided to Introduce the Phila delphia style of house to see how It would suit Brooklynltes. He planned to build three aa samples. He sold all of them before the foundations were finished. Chief Engineer Crouibauer of Brooklyn waa looking for a chauffeur and from a Hat of elvtl service eliglbles picked the man at the top, Patrick Maher. He sent for Maher and offered him the Job. "What's the salary?" asked Maher. "Three dollars a day," waa the reply. "I don't think I can take that," said Maber. "Have you got a better Job?'' asked Crouibauer. "I think ao." replied Maher. solemnly. "What la It?" "Oh." explained Maher, Tm battalion chief In the fire department and I get IS. a year." Maher said he was In the hsblt of tahtng a civil service examination occasionally to keep his mental machinery from getting rusty. Busiest Lumber Yard in Town. Ul7hy? Selling everything way below cost 3 Our Old Yard, 13th and Davenport. big, nice, clean stock; can't afford to move it to our new yard. Come and get bargains-only come quick. C. B. OIETZ LUMBER CO. 1214 Farnam Street Tel. Couglas 35 FAVORITISM If TH SrORTATIO Abnndaat Kvldenee of Gross Discrim ination. Philadelphia" Record. Private shippers of coal and oil hsve for years complained that they were the sub jects of discrimination In the Interest of competing concerns owned wholly or largely by the railroad company Itself. Congress ordered the Investigation to determine If thla were the case and there has been abundant evidence that It Is, and that this Is not limited to one company. The Balti more A Ohio haa already been convlrted of this sort of dlecrlmlnstlon and the Chesa peake A Ohio was convicted of It, not In hearings before the Interstate Commerce commission, but before the courts tn litiga tion which resched the supreme court a few weeks ago. The shipper Is not much Interested In the favors shown to an Individual railroad official. He Is vitally Interested In favors shown by the railroad company Itself to an other shipper. It makes no difference to him whether the favored shipper Is owned by the railroad company or only partly owned by a railroad official; It Is the dis crimination made by the railroad company that affects him. If a railroad company Is in the habit of discriminating In favor of shipping In terests which It owns. Is it not almo.t Inevitable that Its employes will make discriminations In favor of companies In which they hold stocks, especially If they got tnose stocks for nothing? "Like master, like man." The railroad officials are pretty likely to do what the company that employs them does; they take the pace that la set for them by their em ployer. What the law has to deal with Is not the private character of the railroad man but the practices of the railroad company. The public does not care how easily the railroad men come' by their wealth, but It cares a great deal whether all shippers are treated alike. What we need Is not a law attempting to regulate the kind of Investments a railroad man may make, or the persons from whom he msy accept presents, but as complete a divorce as can be effected by law between the transporta tion and the producing Interests, and a stringent enforcement of the law against discriminations. This Is only Incidentally a war on private graft; It is primarily a war on the abuse of corporate power. PERSONAL NOTES. Mr. Cassatt seems to have heard the call ot the wild. Perhaps Standard OH never Invented any thing, but It never failed to recognise a good thing on eight. In view of the approaching royal marriage little Spanish children have decided that it Is not respectful te count off "Ena, mena. mona, ml." Now Qoremykln Is reported as In a re signing mood. This seems to be regarded as "the time for disappearing" by Russian statesmen In responsible positions. Another hotel where George Washington was entertained has been sold In New York City. From the number of hostelries that claim this distinction. George must have been considerable of a rounder. It la said that the csar of Russia receives from his subjects through the post no fewer than over 100 petitions every day of his life. The majority of these documents before reaching the monarch's hands are examined by a confidential secretary. A western senator haa a brother who Is in the livestock business. The brother sent a letter to the stateaman a few days ago that was entirely typewritten, even to the signature. The statesman was mad. He thought It an outrage for hla brother to write to him Uke that and not even sign the letter and he sent a bitter protest. This was the reply he received: "Dear Jim: Cheer up. I am so busy that I never use a pen except for sheep." Browning, King & Co MIGINATOIS AND SOLE MAKE1S Of IALF SIZES IN CLOTMNO. STORE CLOSED In accordance with our usual custom this store will be closed at noon on "Wednesday (Decoration Day) in honor of the dead soldiers of this great republic' Filteenth and Douglas Sts. BroaSwnr at find Stroox MEW Buy the PianoToday It's a wonderful opportunity the Hospe plan (Ives to the people of this vicinity. A large saving to each customer, the certainty of getting a piano exactly as represented, and the knowledge that nobody else got it for a cent less than you paid, the tremendous stock from which to make a selection over 300 palnoa, from twenty different makers every piano marked in plain figures at its lowest net cash price, the same to the rich as to the poor; with the privilege of buying on payments without any advance in cost. Ail these things make it easy, safe and economical to buy a piano at the Hospe store. If we paid commissions we could not do this. Don't allow any would-be friend to take you elsewhere to buy a piano. No one who has your best Interests at heart would advise you to buy a piano anywhere but at the Hospe store. Our six piano warerooms are full of the most beautiful pianos. Our salesmen will be on band to show you through. You'll be surprised at how good a piano you can buy at f 175, 10, $210, 4245, etc. Monthly settlements of $C, $7 and f I a month make it easy. Don't put it off any longer. Buy today. A. HOSPE CO. 1513 Douglas Street Omaha, Nebraska Costs you nothing to see oar Art Pictures.' Ask to bo showm. LAVflHIXO I.IKES. ''"Do you think It right for a husband to dcnert his wife In any emergency?'' "1 don t know about that, only this morning I left my own wife crying for help." Baltimore America!). "Iid you ever buy any gold bricks?" "No," nncwrred Farmer Corntosael. "I never exnctly bought Hny gold bricks. But I've bought ticapa of canned pesa and pat ent butter to 1 retailed to summer board ers." Washington Star. Mrs. Braggltt I got so much sttentlon that positively aometimoa I foel that social duty la a perfect elephant on my hands. Mlas Sharp At least, dear, it's a comfort to know that tne no r beast has plenty of room. Baltimore American. "Darling." murmured the fiancee, ten derly, "what would you do If I ahouid die?'" j "Ownest," responded, the kmppy man, even more tenrirly, "I should make every effort to get away from tne office ami at tend the funeral. Cleveland Leader. i "A woman can emiure more than a man," remarked Mr. Meekton's wife. 1 "That's right, Henrietta, " was the reply. I "Look at tne Ice cream soda water and lobster salad she can endure without Hlnch , Ing." Washington Star. , "Juat look at those pretty white flowers . on that plant. Lovely, ain't they?" i "Yes. but they don t stay on long." "Why, Isn't that strange?" "No, It's quite natural. They're bachelor buttons." Philadelphia Press. THE DRIM OF '01. Lowell Otis Reese in Leslie's Weekly. Down amid the silent multitude the march- I ing thousands come , To the hollow modulation of an ancient army drum; ' To the beat, bea.t, beat of a thousand loyal l feet. And the rumble and the grumble of a cais son and a gun. At the head a tattered banner flutters proudly in the air, Borne along by one old veteran with silver grizzled hair. Keeping time with martial feet down the bunting-laden street. To the hum and the thrum of the drum of '61. Comes a picture, as I listen to the rhyth mical refrain. Of a aoldler starting warward loan a shady country lane; From afar the echoes come of the old re cruiting drum. And they speak a message to him of the triumph to be won. Louder yet the calling thunder, and his feet exultant bound In a patriotic frenzy at the glory of the sound; 'TIs the call of ancient Thor, Snd he marches on to- war To the hum and the thrum of the drum of '6J. Quick another picture hurries, and I See tho bot)e reek Where the battery is crashing and the shrapnel Is a-shrlek. Till the earth and heavens rock from the fury of the shock And the rumble and the grumble of the caisson and the gun. . Oh, the terror of the. battle I But above the song of hell '" -r '. . In barbaric notes that louder o'er the de- vastatlon swell, . . . Calling martyrs to the death in the can non's bitter breath, Comes the hum and the thrum of the drum of "til. Ah. the horror of the battlefield when every gun Is still When the moon In silent pity looks across tho eastern hill 1 With a tramp, tramp, tramp, through the half-deserted camp, Oo the weary stretcher-bearers, for the l . bloody worx. is aone. All about are anattereo neings wnicn oui i yesterday were "men ; Now their martial song la ended; they will never march again With a tramp of eager feet down the far-off village street. To the hum and the thrum of the drum of '61. Now the peaceful psgeant passes, and the picture of the fray. Like the deadly atrlfe of yesterday, forever fades away; Peace with gentle hand smooths ' down Hate's unforgiving frown. For the Quarrel has ended and the Blue and Oray are one. On the grave of friend and enemy wa have the blossoms spread Loyal friend and gallant enemy, now com rade with the dead. Hark I tho tramp of solemn feet dies away adown the street, To the hum and the thrum of the drum of '61. OMAIIA .NEB. W YORK factory. Cooaxr Mar