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    THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: "WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 190ff.
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C C R08EWATER.
General Manager. -.jiihacrlbed
In my presence and aworn to
before me thla 4th day of June, 1808.
eealj . M. B. H UNGATE,
: '. ' Notary Public
WHEN OCT Olf TOWH,
anbarilbera leaving thai city tem
porarily ahoald hart Tn Be
mailed to them. Addrcaa will be
t'baugd aa often a requested.
Inspection of the "antl" list of dele
gates Indicates 4hat -everybody filed
but father-in-law.
Had . the sultan . of Turkey really
wanted Mr. Bryan to accept a decora
tion he would have presented one of
silver Instead of gold.
No one can deny that physicians are
self-sacrificing since the American
Medical association has declared in fa
vor of pure food laws.
The Department of Agriculture will
' probably feel like .offering a vote of
thanks to Governor Hoch. who dls
covered, rnatprle prober in F.D. Co-
burn.
. The delay in the rebate cases at Kan
sas City is not without compensation,
as the public will have an opportunity
to digest one sensation before the next
Is offered.
Ilnd there been no time limit on
the filing, the whole roster of regis
tered republican voters might have
had their names printed on the pri-
uary ballot.
' It Joseph Chamberlain does not try
to profit politically out of these Amer
lean Industrial disclosures he Is not
the astute politician he has been cred
lted with being.
Subsequent earthquake shocks at
San Francisco are said to have done
no damage. According to all reports
the big earthquake did not leave much
. .to be damaged.
Perhaps Mr. Cassatt was also ignor
ant of the contract by which the Penn
sylvania road secured without cost
stocks 'and bonds in a favored coal
mining; company. .
Those who would criticise Russia
peasants for their socialistic Ideas
. should remember that "paternalism
is not foreign to the traditional idea of
' government in Russia.
Some Ohio coal miners are evidently
of the opinion that active service
better than encampments for the atate
guard but some method should be de
vised to make the fighters foot the
.bills.
Perhaps the greatest favor which
could ba bestowed upon that Spanish
regiment whose members were killed
by a bomb intended for the king would
be to send them to a station as far aa
possible from the throne.
, Mayor Dunne may have had an ul
terior motive In asking for assistance
from the Agriculture department in
another investigation of the packing
"houses. Conflicting opinions by gov
ernment . experts are not uncommon
and might help out.
1 The secretary of the State Board
Health' recommends the revocation
i a certificate to practice medicine
. Nebraska. It remains to be seen, ho
ever, whether the board will act
the recommendation of the secretary.
It is seldom Indeed that a professional
man has been disbarred in this state.
. The addition ot more than f 1,600
- 000 to the assessment ot realty In
Omaha, representing new buildings
.completed or in- the course of con
structlon. re-enforces what has been
''said about the wonderful building ex
pansion of this city. It must be re
membered. too. that this is a net In
'crease, allowing for the deduction of
destroyed property and deterioration
THE OflfffJO.Y ELICTIOS.
The returns from tht Oregon election
are worthy of the attention of repub-
Icans In every state, for they indicate
the necessity of special care In the se
lection of party candidates this year.
The democrat candidate for governor.
who two yearn ago Just managed to
pull through notwithstanding the
Roosevelt plurality of 42.934 at the
same time, is re-elected by an in
creased vote, and there has been an
arduous struggle In the congressional
districts In spite of the fact that the
republicans put forward what were
considered their strongest candidates.
This election Is only one among a
multitude of signs that the coming
campaign and election will not be per
functory and that It Is not safe for
republicans to rest upon the mere fact
of the Immense Roosevelt majority two
years ago. The wave that swept over
the country did not represent a ver
dict on mere traditional party divi
sions, but. on the contrary, a pop
ular sentiment wiping out those dis
tinctions because it found in Theodore
Roosevelt and his program the answer
and reflection of its desires and pur
poses. The Oregon republicans, although
they have had a solid congressional
delegation elected by safe majorities
and a state legislature almost exclu
sively republican in both branches,
would have been defeated in Monday's
election if they had not put themselves
in line with Roosevelt republicanism by
nominating candidates and proclaiming
platform purposes that genuinely em
body its spirit. The significance of
the vote Is that the people demand men
who will stand with Roosevelt.
Two years ago a multitude of re
publican candidates were simply car
ried to success on the Roosevelt tide
and without specific inquiry and test
of their individual merits. Roosevelt
will not be formally at the head of the
ticket this year, but popular demand
for sincere support of his policy and
attitude on vital questions will have
to be met by the character of each can
didate in all the states just as has been
the case in Oregon. .Tho only "afe
course for republicans lies in meeting
this demand squarely and beyond the
possibility of doubt or cavil.
ARTHUR PCE GORMAN.
The death of Arthur Pue Gorman re
moves a forceful factor from the field
of public life. Whatever view or preju
dice may exist as to his character, it
will not be disputed that for a score
of years he was one ot the command
ing figures in the senate, with an In
fluence reaching far out upon politics
and general affairs.
Like most strong men Senator Gor
man had many enemies and like all
masterful party leaders and managers
he was the subject of unceasing criti
cism. How much ot the xrltlclsm was
indiscriminate, mistaken ir . vengeful,
it Is not possible yet to.judge, but
LLi . death has Instantly caused con
temporaries who- knew him and his
work best, and many of whom were his
antagonists, to emphasize many traits
and virtues which in the heat ot parti
san or factional controversy were pop
ularly at least not so well understood.
No small part of his success as a leader
in congress and in the great political
party with which he had lifelong iden
tification was due to the friendships
which his amiable and winning per
sonality drew to him.
Senator Gorman belonged to a group
of powerful leaders in both the great
political parties whose Influence upon
the course ot events has been so
marked during the last two or three
decades. Many of them have now
passed away and the tendency of the
times favors leadership of a different
type. Senator Gorman's .influence had
shown signs of waning for several
years, and Indeed he never regained
the prestige he had at the time of his
memorable break with President Cleve
land. THJE DOCTORS FOB PURS FOOD.
The memorial of the American Med
ical association commending the efforts
of the administration and congress, to
protect the public against adulterated
foods. Impure drugs and fraudulent
products and " urging the immediate
passage of the pending pure food bill,
will stimulate public sentiment in that
direction.
The Insistent demand that has arisen
upon the disclosure of conditions in
the preparation of meats and by-products
in the industries around the Chi
cago stock yards gained much of Its
force from the rapid previous growth
of sentiment on the general subject of
pure food. Indeed, such sentiment Is
only one phase of the comprehensive
awakening of public conscience which
requires a higher standard of morality
in the commercial as well as In the
political world, refusing to tolerate dis
honesty in labels, weights and quality
of foods any more than graft In great
corporations and in the operations of
government.
The expression of the great national
medical association' is especially ap
propriate and effective because its
members are necessarily brought into
contact with the evils which arise, to
use their own words, "from manufac
turtng and selling rotten and poisonous
foods and liquors with which to make
the well sick and adulterated medicines
with which to make tbe sick sicker
It corroborates and enforces In the
strongest possible manner the necessity
of compulsory protection against fraud
and Imposition.
It has not been the custom ot the
American Medical association, a most
conservative body, to Interfere actively
in legislative matters. The strong
terms of the memorial to congress and
the even stronger language which was
employed In the discussion of the sub
Ject by delegates to the annual meeting
Impart additional significance to their
present action.
COnURX OF KANSAS-
By hitting upon Coburn of Kansas
as the man to fill the seat in the
United State senate made vacant by
the resignation of Senator Burton
Governor Hoch has, indeed, struck a
happy solution of his dilemma, al
though Mr. Coburn's hesitancy about
accepting indicates that the governor
is not completely out of the woods.
Senator Coburn, as he will be should
he assent, would be a typical repre
sentative of Kansas In the national leg
islature and more particularly of its
agricultural side. He Is known most
widely as one of the highest recognized
authorities on agricultural statistics,
having made a world-wide reputation
as secretary of tbe Kansas State Board
of Agriculture and as an agricultural
expert generally. Coburn ot Kansas
is a name to conjure by among farm
ers and live stock breeders, not only
in his own state, but throughout the
entire west.
While the honor bestowed upon him
would carry wlthlt senatorial service
only until the legislature should elect
next winter, with no certainty that
he would be given another commission
to succeed himself, still his occupancy
for even so short a time of the Burton
seat would do more to purge it of its
blemish than could the selection of
any other distinguished Kansan who
is available.
DESPERATION TACTICS.
The desperation to which the sore
head "antls" are driven In their frenzy
to beat Edward Rosewater for senator
Is best shown by the tactics to which
they are resorting. Knowing in ad
vance that' they cannot win out In any
fair fight, they are trying to get a jug
gled primary ballot, with a view to
disfranchising a majority of the repub
lican voters of Douglas county by com
pelling them to pick out of a long list
201 names of delegates and mark them
with 201 separate crosses.
The disastrous consequences of such
a course does not phase these political
wreckers. A ballot such as they are
demanding would make it absolutely
impossible for Douglas county repub
licans ever to get a solid delegation in
any convention in the future state,
congressional or judicial. except by
unanimous consent. With the cer
tainty of a split delegation in every
convention, Douglas county would be
practically ruled off the political map
and would never get any recognition
in the way of nominations or honors
beyond such crumbs as the rest of the
state were willing to give it.
The present primary law applies to
Douglas county only. It was spon
sored by the "antl" members of the
last legislature and enacted at their
request. The legislature consists of
133 members, "of wlilch only twelve
come from this county.1 so that it Is
eo37 to see what would happen if we
fenced ourselves out of all conventions.
No legislature would ever consent to
amend or modify the law to put Doug
las county on the map again,, and the
result would be that the outside coun
ties would do all the business in state,
congressional and judicial conventions,
leaving Douglas county republicans to
look on as spectators on the bleachers.
' Of course a little thing like this does
not bother the "anything-to-beat-Rose-
water" crowd. To gain their point
now they would be glad to abdicate
Douglas county's participation in state
politics for all future time.
Down at Lincoln an Interesting point
is raised as to whether the parties
who bought for $1,000 an unused
franchise ot a defunct street railway
acquired along with it a Judgment
pending against it for $7,000 for the
cost of paving that had been assessed
up to the old concern. The franchise
might be estimated to be worth the
$1,000, but will hardly measure Into
the $8,000 figure. Whatever the pur
chasers of the sleeping franchise may
have got, they have evidently loaded
themselves down with a nice law suit
and several fat attorneys' fees.
The club women seem to have de
veloped a political campaign for the
election of officers for their general
federation, notwithstanding the ex
clusion of woman's suffrage from the
discussions. When It comes to pulling
political wires, the club women will
be found to have learned a whole lot
in the school of experience.
Of course Nebraska democrats will
send a'delegation to New York to Join
In the home coming reception to Col
onel Bryan. The only question is
whether the delegation should be
headed by Success Leaguers, Jackson,
lans or County Democracy-ltes.
A reduction of more than $400,000
in the state debt within six months is
a pretty good showing, for which
credit will have to be divided between
Treasurer Mortensen, who handled the
money, and the last legislature, which
made the appropriations.
Because the Chicago packing houses
are under a cloud is no good reason
why people should be disturbed about
the products of the packing houses at
South Omaha. No novelist haa found
material for a "Jungle" at South
Omaha.
Growing; Prosy Habit.
Milwaukee Journal.
The proxy habit la growing fast sine
railway passes to political atata conven
tions have been cut off. But the railroads
will get their men out juat the aame.
Rmpnn.lon ot Ksporta.
Washington Btar.
Tht statU'lcal bureaus of the govern
ment are making up their table showing
th number of. Hues In which our exports
have lurried dur ng the lat "seal year.
They should uol evcrluuk th fact w
have broken all records In exporting Ufa
Insurance officials and legislative ageni.
Hot Jearasl.
Brooklyn Eagle.
The railroad business is becoming too
much of an excitement in thla country.
Railroad presidents with worn nerves are
advised to Interest themselves In the
freight line ' through ' Labrador. There's
peace up there, and no congress.
Smoke 'Cm Oat.
Brooklyn Eagle.
Now It la the tobacco trust that must
show Its puces. It Is hoped that the Investi
gators will be able to discover why a
cigar that would have been dear at B centa
a few years ago now sells for 10 at least.
It appears to, for somebody probably buys
It.
Experience aa a Teacher.
Baltimore American.
The next time the cxar haa a popular
election for a parliament he will consult
a few American boss nuthorltles op the
way to do It. Posalbly on account of the
novelty of the thing, the people managed
It this time, but with a little experience
such a mistake ought not to happen again.
RAILROAD EVOI.ITIOS.
Ancient Ideas of Personal Property
.Hopelessly Shattered.
Philadelphia Press.
Thirty and forty yeara ago men like Cor
nelius Vanderbllt. In New York. Robert
S. Garrett of Baltimore and Mr. Chapln. In
Massachusetts, treated as If they were per
sonal property the railroads In which they
owned a controlling Interest of the stock
personally. In their own right.
Twenty and twenty-five years ago. when
these and other lines Went Into the hands
of corporations, the president, the directors
and the officers of these corporations
treated the railroad aa If It was the sole
and exclusive property of the corporation.
The railroad today has reached Its second
stage of evolution. ' Tts directors and Its
offlcera are being brought under a direct,
public responsibility as Immediate, as con'
ppicumis and as well established as that of
a public official.
What was done as a matter of course
by the men who had begun with the stage
coach period -and looked on the railroad
as a sort of enlarged stage coach, which
they could drive at will, became Impos
sible when the corporation came.
What haa been done under the corpora
tion without question haa become Impos
sible under present conditions. Railroad
officers must accommodate themselves to
the change. Many will suffer. Some men
will be punished and have already been
punished by publicity for things which no
one looked upon as wrong when they did
them. But this is Inevitable. It has gone
on before the public In the last year In
Insurance. It ia going on now In railroads.
EASr MOSEY.
Example of the Profits of Fleecing
Lambs on Wall Street.
. Philadelphia Ledger..
Somewhat, lesa taan three years ago a
New York broker failed for $2,000,000. He
was obliged to compromise with his cred
itors for 60 centa on the dollar. Recently
he mailed to these .creditor checks repre
senting the 81,000,000,, to which claim had
been relinquished by them, together with
Interest on, the aums. Because the man
chose to pay bis just debts and did so when
he was able, the term "conscience money"
haa been applied to the amount voluntarily
su.Tendered. Th,ls does not aeem to be the
proper term. The desire to pay a debt Is a
natural prompting. If the example ot a
man who does fh(s when, he vmlght evade
It Is deemed extraordinary, the general vir
tue Is assumed o, be at a low plane.
3 he astonishing, feature of the case is that
a broker, even,' operating In New York, and
starting from .the. basis of the clean sweep
caused by failure, could In less than three
years have "made" a million, to donate to
creditors, besides a presumable Income
sufficient for jiving meanwhile In the stylu
befitting a New .York broker. There arises
the old question, this time not In malice or
aspersion, but a mere expression of desire
to know: "Mr. Broker, where did you get
it?" ,.
Golden showers descending upon the spec
ulator who deala In the money, earned by
others must remain more or lees of a mys
tery to the others. By laboring for decades
a merchant build, up a great business and
becomes a multl-mllllonatre, nobody be
grudging him hla good fortune. Through
a tangible process of development the b1""k
smlth grows Into the manufacturer, the me
chanic Into the builder, tolling for a life
time to acquire the wealth that falls to a
Wall street operator In a season. Some
body, shrewd and perhaps not nice aa to
method, obtains the monopoly of oil. An
other recognises In a mere prospect hole
the latent potency of a productive mine.
Their wealth Is no puzzlement. But the
broker piling up millions a year ia a prob
lem. ...
WHERE THE BLAMES LIES.
States Held Responsible for Exlatenre
of Corporate Wrongs.
Washington Post.
The responsibility for most of the
wrongs with which corporations are
charged, and ot which, aa events have
shown, they are actually guilty, rests
primarily and Chiefly with the states. Had
the states been faithful in the exercise
of tholr reserved powers, had they domi
nated Instead of being dominated by the
corporations, the public would not have
been preyed upon by railroad corporations,
by the coal combine, the Standard Oil
trust,' the meat packers, or any other com
bination In restraint of trade. Many states
have been guilty of worse than mere neg
lect of duty, because their people have
elected and ro-elected year after year legis
lator who desired and used their positions
for personal profit by dlahonest relations
with corporations. If the corporations did
not make the first advance by asking legis
lation at the hands of these corruptionists,
they would threaten them with legislation
Inimical to corporation lntereata. Not
many year age a bill was put through
the Illinois legislature which, according
to the most reliable authority, cost trac
tion interests In Chicago about a million
dollars. It waa not only put through both
houses, but It was algned by the governor.
The law thus enacted was not carried
Into effect, for the reason that the people
of Chicago convinced the aldermen of that
city that their peraonal safety would be
jeopardized by any action on their part
that would permit the corporations that
bribed the legislators to pass the act to
get the benefit of their purchase. The
world knows that for many yeara the
legislature of Missouri was an open mar
ket for the sale of legislative favors. Of
New York a scarcely lesa discreditable
story haa become history. As to Pennsyl
vania, It may be said that, for most of
the time during the past sixty years,
the people have held second place In legisla
tive consideration. And something akin to
that la true aa to several other states
If the reserved powers of the state had
been faithfully employed there would have
been comparatively little necessity for con
gress to assert power that had lain dor
mant for almont a century the power to
regulate commerce between the atates.
The Interstate commerce act of 188" waa
the first general attempt to make use of
that nlnety-elght-year-old authority. And
the court of last resort devoted much of
its tl've for several years to trimming that
act down to constitutional limitation.
Such may be the destiny of other set
Intended to utilize that authorisation.
ROISD ABOCT SEW YORK.
Ripple on the Cnrrent ot Life In the
Metropolis.
Optimistic people who cherished the be
lief that New York was free from the
taint of corporate graft may as well bow
their heads and look elsewhere for a shin
ing model. The big town follows In the
paths trodden by Philadelphia and Chicago.
The chief difference Is that New York
known graft I water.
In some sections of the greater olty pri
vate water companies supply those In need
of the article. Hpre and there the pipes
of the private companies and the pipes
of the municipal plant parallel and Inter
sect. In some mysterious way these pipes
got mixed up, and some of the pipes of the
private companies plugged holes In the
pipes of the city and drew sustenance
therefrom. At one point a four-Inch private
main tapped an eight-Inch city main and
distributed the stolen fluid where It would
do the moat good. With equal generosity
the city purchased the water from the com
pany at the rate of 105 for each 1.000,000
gallons. Thus the city supplied the water
and bought it back again, thereby enabling
the private company to do business at both
ends and the middle Just how long ago
the tap was made could not be ascertained,
as there Is no record In the water supply
department of any permit to lay the outlaw
main, but Judging by the condition of the
pipe and the fact that no one could be
found In the neighborhood who remembered
when It was put down. It Is believed to
have been taking water from the city at the
rate of 150,000 gallons a day at least for a
great many years.
A New York appellate court ha affirmed
the ruling of a lower court to the effect
that a traction company cannot compel
Its passengers to ask for transfer upon
paying fares. This case has been fought
by the corporation In the hope of securing
a Judicial affirmation of the rule which
Is In vogue In many cities, including Wash
ington on one of the traction systems, and
It la expected that further appeals will be
taken. The upper court declared:
"A railway company may, under the
statutes and the terms of Its charter, pro
vide reasonable regulations for the pub
lie convenience, but It would require a vivid
Imagination to suppose that the rule of the
companies as to the granting of trans
fers carries out any such lawful purpose.
This Is not such a regulation a would
promote the convenience of the public, and
the company might as well adopt a rule
requiring that a passenger should ask for
a transfer after he had ridden Ave blocks,
as adopt a rule of this character."
According to Mayor McClellan It took
51,146 persons to run the city government
last year. The salaries paid to these em
ployes waa $64,304,547.62. The pay roll Is as
great as the cost of the United States army.
In spite of the fact that the great ma
jority of city employee earn their money
far more easily than they could in private
life, the Tammany heads of departments
are constantly Increasing salaries. In the
month of last December they raised th
wages of men under them $190,000. Last
week the Board of Aldermen, who had
been getting $1,000 a year, decided thla
waa not enough for their hard work and
Increased the ante to $2,000 per annum.
The police now cost the city $13,000,000
a year, and, according to Commlsatoner
Bingham, more than 1,000 ot them at th
time he took office were practically of no
use, being sidetracked to easy berths,
where they would not have to "beat the
pave." The street cleaning department,
which is now being probed by the Board of
AlAermen on charges of graft and ex
travagance, costs New Yorker . nearly
$6,000,000 a year. This Is at the rate of
$1.50 for each man, woman and child in
all New York. " ''
When the plan now partially carried out
o r,A h,inv r.nMlv nushed forward are
completed, New York city will possess
along the eastern snore or tne nuason river
one of the longest, costliest and most at
tractive driveways In the world.
- Riverside drive begin at Seventy-second
street and 1 carried over a great arch at
Ninety-sixth Btreet, along the banks of the
Hudson, until It merges Into Riverside park
In which stands the magnificent monument
of President Grant
North of Riverside park. Just beyond
Grant's tomb, there I a long viaduct span
ning the valley and reaching "from One
Hundred and Twenty-eighth Btreet to One
Hundred and Thirty-fifth stfeet.
This 1 not a awing bridge, as crosses
no water, but is a wide and architec
turally beautiful structure that hldel from
view the scene of bulnes carried on In
the buildings beneath.
At the northern end of the bridge there
is now under construction a continuous
winding driveway, crosaed by no atreets,
but connecting with several, leading up
to the brow of the hill at On Hundred
and Fifty-ninth treet.
At this 'point the driveway end with
Lafayette boulevard, a beautifully shaded
and winding thoroughfare upon which are
many handsome semi-suburban residences.
It Is touched by one or two smaller parks,
and now the proposition is made to throw
a bridge across the valley at Dykeman
Btreet. which will extend Riverside drive
so that It will be In direct connection with
the Henry Hudson Memorial viaduct which
has been already planned for. This new
connection Is to be a magnificent masonry
viaduct to cost $2,000,000.
When the Waldorf-Astoria wae finished
a few years ago many persons thought
that New York had big hotels enougn ana
that those built subsequently would find
that they had overestimated the demand
for roomn. But those theorists were all
wrong. The Increase In the number of
first-class hotels has not "lessened In any
degree the business of the old timers, and
the newcomers soon find that they have
all the guests they can care for.
"The demand for good accommodations
still exceeds the supply." said a manager
recently. "New York Is becoming more
and more of a hotel town all the time.
Many of the richer New Yorkers now spend
so much of the year out of th city that
they are not keeping their town houses
open, preferring to have an apartment
In one of the newer hotels which they can
occupy at a moment ! notice. Then they
feel at home when they run Into town for
a day or two without the trouble and ex
pense of opening up a big town house.
Canal Digging and Coat.
Philadelphia Record.
At laat we have an authoritative state
ment a to the length of time required
to build the Panama canal on the plan
In favor with the present administration
at Washington. Chairman Shonts declares
It will take twelve years. But how Is this
statement to be reconciled wfch the claim
that the cost of completing the work will
not exceed $14".000.nn0? The appropriations
for the current year amount to over
$3.ftl0,0fO; and the work is not even in full
blast. It would be filr to assume that
when the steam shovels and dredges get
into full swing the annual appropriations
will be even larger. If $2.0ai,0O0 be a fair
yearly average, however, twelve years'
operations would cost over $300,000,000 more,
than twice the sum estimated.
Peril of tho Jnnorrnt Bystander.
Ht. Ioula Glob Democrat.
Japan has formulated a plan to compel
China to stand the expense of the Russo
Japanese war. Th Innocent bystander la
always In peril.
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IT'S LIKE BALING
OCEAN WITH A
to try to move a big stock of lumber with teams. So
we're Felling it olT in lots to suit at our oid yard 13th and
California ISts. Trices way below coft, but it's got to go
before July 1st, all clean, nice new stock. Come and get
it quick.
C. N. DBETZ
1214 FARNAM.
THE NATIONAL fllRPl.lg.
Magnificence of t'nrle Snm's Income
and Outgo.
Philadelphia Press.
It Is now near enough to the end of the
fiscal year to forecast with fair accuracy
what Cncle Sam's books will show on
June 30. The government's Income on that
day will have exceeded the outlay by a
snug margin. For the eleven months thit
have closed the surplus In round figures
was $6,000,000. Besides that, the treasury.
should be Credited with $.000.000 or more
which has been expended upon the Panama
canal and which will be returned when that
great project Is finally financed by the sale
of bonds.
When It Is remembered what this coun
try' enormous expenses amount to, the
fact that the nation meets every dollar of
obligation out of revenue without adding to
the national debt I most gratifying. Ami
th figures dealt with are magnificent In
proportions. The public Income will for
the year" approximate $00,000,000.
Once the billion dollar congress waa used
as a term of reproach, but every congress
now wears more than a billion-dollar label.
But bo well are the federal tajtes distributed
that the burden is carried without a mur
mur anywhere. A rapidly growing navy,
postal facilities that In some respects ex
ceed those of any other land, and pensions
that are unrivaled for generosity in the
world's hlRtory, consume a big share of
the country's revenue. As all the 80,000,000
of people benefit by these distributions In
one way or another they don't begrudge a
dollar that th fathers at Washington
spend.
PKRSOV4.L, NOTKS.
Dwellers of flats In Washington are re
quired to wear rubber heela. Of course
they are provided with rubber necks also.
It 1 ' estimated by a Wall stre-t
authority that Rockefeller' 3tandard Oil
stock bring him in nearly $47,000 for
every business day In the year.
Oalllard Hunt, the chief of the Pass
port bureau, says he never waa a busy
aa at present, and estimate that hi de
partment tht year will Issue between
20,000 and 26,000 passports.
Senator Tillman, Elkins and Cullom,
the senate conferees on the rate bill, had
a meeting to discuss procedure and all
that. "I uggest." said Tillman, "that a
disinterested bystander be appointed to
search us for gun."
General Bingham, police commissioner
of New York, In reply to a reporter' ques
tion, acknowledged that he had been
offered bribe a good many times mora
than he' could count He was asked If
there was any truth In the story that a
prominent gambler had sent him a box of
cigar under the lid of which waa a
brand new $1,000 bill. The commis
sioner said It wasn't exactly that way,
but there was some foundation for the
story.
Browning, Ming & Go
ORIGINATORS AND SOLE MAKERS Of IALP SIZES IN CL0T1HN0.
"A man can hav
no greater satis
faction," said Beau
BrummeV, "than
In knowing he la
properly batted."
Fifteenth and
Douglas Sts.
Brnntwajr at SZnd Street
Instruments of Exceptional Beauty,
for Bridal and Graduation Gifts. .
Putting behind us the five months of the year that seem to b
only preparatory for the one month In which are truly the "rarest"
days and in which is concentrated more ot absorbing Interest more
events that will live in the memory as long as life lasiswe stand on
the threshold of "Leafy June" and are thankful that we tan bring to
those who enter a new life whether It be fr6ru single to married
happiness or whether It be from college to civic fife or from inter
mediate schools to the pleasures of summer tp those we are able to
offer Instruments for which art has done as much ashaa Nature don
for beautiful June pianos that are keyed in harmony with the mu
sic of the month. ,
We realize that nothing is too good for those whose lives prac
tically begin with the coming month, nor too good for the friends
who are Interested in their future. '
It does not mean that all must have KnabVpianos though we
would wish for every bride that she might be fortunate enough to
get a Knabe Mlgnon Grand but whether the amount, expended is
$145 or $1,000 the Hospe one-price noncommlssTon'pUn Of telling
guarantees the best values here. "
Every grade of piano Is found in our warerom in such number
and in such variety as can not be found elsewhere in the United
States, from the famous KNABES at $450 magnificent KIM
BALLS at $355, the lasting CABLE-NELSON at 276, the old re
liable STANDARD WE3F.R at $230. the wonderful CRAMER at
$190, those extraordinary RIDDLE pianos at $l4it ' A','
Every instrument a gem in its rlas. a special selection of kit
kind. Every piano marked at the lowest cash price. Time pay
ments as low as $6, $7. $8 and $10 a month. .... .
A. HOGPC CO.. 1513 DOUGLAS STREET.
F THE
EASPOON
LUMBER CO.
TEL. DOUGLAS 35.
SMIM3G RRMARKB.
"Yes." said the man who was beginning
to sour on the national sport. "It's interest
ing sometluirs, but Ixise ball nowadays Is
becoming very dirty."
"l!" exclaimed hls 'tetr companion. "I
understand now why all those players ar
wearing glovea." 1'iilladelphla Press.
"A man In politics should have lots of
friends, shouldn't he?"
"It depends. " answered Benator Sorghum,
OU
"on whether they are mends wno want
to do something tor you or who want you .
to do aomethlng for them." Washington
Star. j
"I suppose It's, always hog-kllllng time In
your town. Miss Packer?" sneered the New
Yorker. !
"Oh. yes," replied the fair visitor from j
t inclnnatt; "nut aon t lei tnai nep you
from visiting us. We alway protect our
guests." Philadelphia Ledger.
Visitor Do your various women's club
fraternize with one another?
Boston Girl Certainly not. That would
be philologlrallv Impossible. . Occasionally,
however, we sororiae. Chicago Tribune.
"Here you!" growled the fat man In the
corner seat of the crowded oar, "my feet
are not there to stand on!"-
"That'a so." replied the quiet offender,
"since you're sitting down you don't need
'em for that purpose, do you?" Philadel
phia Catholic Standard,, .
Senior Partner So that nw salesman's
gone, eh? Why. I thought he wa a most
careful, painstaking man ,
Junior Partner I found him most palns
glvlng. He gave me so many I Just fired
him. Philadelphia Tresw.
Applicant I wa looking for a treatise on
"Pure Canned Food," but I can't find it on
this shelf. A. ' . .
Librarian Ixwk for It under the head of
"Fiction." Cleveland leader.
Deacon Giles Doctor1, there's a' "question
I have been wanting to ask you. In what
language did the a speak to Balaam?
The Rev. Dr. Fourthly In It own lan
guage. Balaam had been making an ss
of himself and he had no -trouble, In un
derstanding. Chicago Trlbun.
OVER TUB HILLS..
Eugene Field. '
Over the hill and far away .
A little boy steals from hla morning' pjay,
And under the blossoming apple tree
He lies and he dreams of the things to be;
Of battles fought, and of victories wor.
Of wrongs oerthrown and of great deed
done
Ot the valor that he shall prove soma day.
Over .the hills and far away
Over th hill and far away I -
Over th hills and far away
It's oh, for the toll of the livelong day!
But It mattered not to the soul aflame
With a love for rlche and power and
fame! ... t
On, oh, man, while the. sun 1 high
On to the oertan Joys that He
Yonder where blaseth the noon of day I
Over the hill nd far away . ..
Over the Mlla and far away I
Ovet thft btn and1 fariawayrvT veft J it.
An old man llngera at close of flay;
Now that his Journey Is almost don. -His
battlea fought and hi vietorl won
The okl-tlme honesty and truth,
The trustfulnes and th friend of youth,
Home and mother where are they!
Over th hllle and faT awy?
Over th hills and far away I
YOUR COMFORT
DEMANDS A STRAW HAT
A cool head cultivates a calm,
contented mind.
Yon can have both by rearing
one of our " . ', "
STRAW DATS
"We have every block that is de
sirable, and weVe a hat especially
for you. Better come and try it
on-$l, $1.50,, $2, $2.50, $3, $3.50.
Panamas, $5, $6, $7.50.
OMAHA
NEB
Factnry, Cpr Saunr
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and depreciation fit old buildings.
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