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THE OMAItX DAILY BKEt THURSDAY, JULY 5, 190(1. i x r i t Tiie Omaiia Daily Dee. E. ROSEWATER EDITOR. Entered at Omaha Postofrlc a ooid claa matter. - TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Bn (without Sunday), on year- Dally Be and Sunday, on yaar J Sunday Bee, on yaar rJJ Saturday Bee, ona year i wl DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Daily Baa (including Sunday), par week.lio Daily Be (without Sunday), per cvtuuif witnout aunoay), par weea. Evening Be (with Sunday), per week. .100 Sunday Mac, per cjy v:"'"'JH Address camplaJnta of Irregularis In 0 llvery to City Circulation Department. offices. Omaha Tha Baa Bulldln. South Omaha City Hail Building. Council Bluff 10 Pearl Street. Chlcaao 4ie I'nlty Bulldtnf. ..i- N tork-lM Home Ufa Ina. Building. Washington 01 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to new and edi torial matter ihould le addresd: Oman Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order payable to Tha Be Publishing Company. Only lcnt stamp received aa payment of mart account. Personal check. P,."n Omaha or etrn exchanges, not accepteo. THE BEE PUBLI8HINU COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Stat of Nebraska, Dougla County, a. C C Rosewater, general man" r i month of Jun. 106. waa aa follow: ... 3X.T80 s :. 3a,10 I 30,780 ai.tso I si,sao sa.070 7 M.010 I.. 31,900 30,410 10 S0,80 U 39,300 U 31,89.0 It 31310 14 31,830 16 31370 Total Leas unsold cople 1 33,460 17 30,800 It'. 31,980 19 31,810 '20 82,000 21 31,40 22 31,880 21 89370 21 30,340 "5 31,793 2$ 31300 27 31350 21 31,780 29 31,700 30 39,250 , .354,150 ,. 10,493 Net total sale M3354 Dally average 31,465 C. C BOSEWATKR, .... General Manager. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before na this 10th day of June. IPOS. (Seal) I M. B. Ht'NOATK. Notary Public. WHEN OUT Or TOWS, abaerlber leavtasr b city tern porarlly should ksT The Be mailed to them. Address will be ehaaa4 aa oftea aa requested. That circular saw ballot evidently turned out to be a buzz saw. Perhaps son-in-law: will take the next Fontanelle endorsement. Governor Cummins la the latest to proclaim that .there Is nothing to ar bitrate. r ' I It win not be possible to "count the boat" of the Fourth of July until the doctors' bills are presented. Russian soldiers ordered not to read newspapers may be pardoned for be lieving any story Insurrectionary lead era may tell them. The present outbreak of, cholera in the Philippines will probably make the most radical insurrectionist an "amlgo" while the danger lasts. Ambassador Reld'a chief duty In London this aeason seems to be to pro vide a place of rest for distinguished Americans on their travels. Col. Bryan's desire to leave the nom ination for president open until next year shows that he wants his boom to escape the chilling frosts of winter. Now that the Breathitt county mur der cases have reached the "confes sion" stage, Kenruckiana may admit that family feuds are not entirely jus tifiable. Lincoln has been suffering from a shortage of water. How fortunate tha. this calamity did not befall while the 'legislative solqpa were, in session at the capital. ' ' It la said that neither Senator Bailey nor . William R. Hearst, are In con tempt of the house by reason of the'lr verbal pyrotechnics, but it la plain that each Is In contempt of the other. Indications are that the guardian spirit of French Lick springs will be too busy In Indiana courts to give the "glad hand" to the world-renowned democrat who will reach home In Aug ust. The alleged discovery of a plot at Seattje to assassinate the Emperor of Germany may show only that the "yel low Journalists" and International de tectlve agencies have formed a com bination. In some of our cities and towns the privilege of being the iceman carries with It some severe responsibilities tneee days, among them ot paying fines and serving sentences for violat ing conspiracy laws. A deadlock after 1,800 ballots In a vain endeavor to nominate a legislative ' candidate Is another novelty of the Iofa campaign. The deadlock bust cess: however, does not usually work out profitably. The school board la aimlag to make the new Vinton school a model school lu tiding la all respects. This Is laudable ambition. Buildings that house several hundred school children large part of each day through the rr should be constructed with spe cial reference to absolute aafety and perfect sanitation. In the light of the returns, the fan tastic tales sponsored by the senior Omaha yellow about the consternation caused by the loop-tho-loop sample bal lot which was to give the Fontanelle a victory la the primaries as easy as rolling oft log are Indeed amusing, though not much more so than most o Uat pprV political fakes. The Baa Publishing company, worn, ear that the actual number or nm and complete copies of The Dally, looming. Evening and Sunday Bee printed during THK VOlCS or DOVOLAS COVXTT. Douglas roantr has spoken and In no uncertain terms. It haa Instructed Its delegation to the republican state convention for Edward Rosewater for United States senator by electing the solid Rosewater delegation. Although It was freely predicted that the dele gation was sure to be divided as a re sult of factional opposition fortified with the rotation ballot, the lowest man on the Rosewater ticket has nearly 1,000 votes more than the high est man of the opposition, so that there can be no dispute or cavil. The result Is more signal even than It appears on the surface. No one not actually In touch with the conditions presented by the "ro tation" ballot can appreciate the dif ficulties and obstructlona set In the way of a full expression of the will of the rank and file of the party. That nearly 4,000 voters should have over come these obstacles and asserted their rights in spite of all hindrance testifies to the determination and loyalty of Douglas county republicans. That of those voting two-thirds have recorded themselves for the Rosewater list of delegates from top to bottom, to be sure that every one of the eighty-three votes allotted to this county in the re publican state convention be cast for their preferred candidate for senator, is proof positive that the sentiment for Mr. Rosewater for senator in Douglas county is overwhelming and widespread. Had the primary elec tion been conducted so that the aver age voter could register hla choice with reasonable ease and precision, the vote would beyond question have been half again aa large and the preponder ant majority for the Rosewater dele gation still further emphasized. The result is notice to republicans throughout Nebraska that Douglas county will present and give solid backing to the candidacy of Mr. Rose water for the convention's endorse ment and that no other Omaha candi date will have any following in the delegation. While this was practically assured In advance, republicans else where may now proceed with precise knowledge of this situation and will without doubt be strongly impressed by it. PACKIXQ HOUSES XOT THE WORST. Immense as will be the Improvement n meat food resulting from the' new Inspection law, there is good reason for believing It will be a small part of the aggregate benefits flowing from the agitation in which it originated, since public opinion and authority are now urrlng with equal rigor towards the processes of manufacture and handling all the common foods. The very first move ot the Chicago sanitary inspection service to In quire into the bakeries has dis closed conditions which rival the abuses found in the packing industry there.' It demonstrates that In the bread and pastry supply the various unsanitary practices and surroundings which startled the public in the official report of the Chicago packing plants are duplicated so that sweeping re forms have already been ordered and are to be enforced by the local authori ties which In large part have exclusive urlsdlctton ot this trade. Equally bad conditions as to filth and revolting methods and materials are aaid to exist in the preparation of many other food articles of common consumption, sorqe of which are wholly or mainly outside of the domain of .na tional authority, and against which therefore the public must depend for protection upon state and local au thority. The real value of the meat Inspec tion agitation accordingly Is the im petus given to demand for publicity concerning the whole subject and for sweeping reforms over the whole field ot food supply. There is already a pronounced disposition of the public mind that the meat packing conditions were made to appear pre-eminently bad only because they were first exposed, and that the publicity given them has already produced salutary reforms In many other fields. THS APPROPRUTIOXS. The fascination of hi ere bigness Is such in this country that the first im pulse of many is to credit and almost to welcome the current newspaper af firmation of "a bllllob dollar appro priation." It is an untrue statement, however, and grossly misrepresents the facts. It Is true that the total appro priations at the late session are very large, footing up $880,183,301, but of this amount only $741,000,000 Is to be met out of the revenues of the fiscal year, which began July K About $35,000,000. of which $16,- 000.000 la on account of the Pamana canal. Is deficiencies, or expenses of the last fiscal year which ended June 30, while there should be a deduction of $57,000,000 for the sinking fund, which Is a matter of aiscretlon with the Secretary of the Treasury. Other Items, like $22,000,000 to bo paid out of deposits of national banks in re demption of circulating notes, and $28,458,415 reimbursable to the treas ury out of Isthmian canal bonds, all appropriated for, and altogether ag gregating $139,000,000. are to be de ducted from the total amount of ap proprlatlons, - In order to understand their true nature and effect. It Is therefore estimated that the current revenues will leave a surplus of at least $20,000,000 over the expenses of the fiscal year now Just begun. It la noteworthy that tn the care fully prepared statement, Issued on be half of the minority party at the close of the session, not a single Important authorised expenditure Is criticised or attacked, but the subject Is dismissed with the vague general allegation of "extravagance" against the approprla- tlons as a whole. , But as the late Speaker Reed on a notable occasion a decade and a half ago declared, extrav agance is a question of items, and not of total, because if the Items are proper and necessary the total, whatever It may be. Is lesltlmete. The partisan opposition la confronted with the fact that the main item of Increase have been forced by such legislation as the rate control, meat inspection and pure food acts, which the people of the United States without regard to party distinction Imperatively demanded, and for which the democratic represen tatives in congress themselves In largo part voted. MR. RRTAX AT LUXDOX In his Fourth of July address In London on "The White Man's Burden" Mr. Bryan was good-natured and con siderate enough o recommend only what everybody favors, or at least only for what it is customary for everybody in public to declare his favor. It is not the easiest thing in the world for an American, whose words will be closely scanned as in the case of Mr. Bryan, on the pre-eminent day of national effervescence, to pick a neutral subject or to confine himself to sentiments which will pass muster In a foreign presence, particularly If it be a British presence. It is obvious that Mr. Bryan took no little pains In sorting over his homilies for such material. Nevertheless, apart from the mere matter of convenience, It may be well occasionally to emphasize, as Mr. Bryan does, the duty of altruism on the part of the robust, aggressive and progressive western nations in dealing with the decadent or Inferior peoples In other parts of the world with whom they are coming every day into more direct and Intimate relations. It all comes down to right rather than might as the true rule. In point of fact, however, we Americans have not made so good a fist of it the last three cen turies In dealing with the Indian and the negro as to be in very good position to lecture white mankind in general. In all such situations It Is generally deemed prudent not to come within gun shot of anything practical as Mr. Bryan was politely careful to do In drawing plans and specifications for his London performance. DISCREDITIXq THE DIRECT PRIMARY. The worst feature of the "rotation" ballot outrage inflicted upon the voters of Douglas county in their primary election is that it is sure to discredit the direct primary and to operate as a distinct setback to primary election reform, not only here, but throughout the state. The object of direct primary legisla tion is to bring the choice of party nominees closer to the people by en abling the rank and file ot each party to express themselves as between as pirants for nomination. If the direct primary can be twisted around and dis torted so7 as to defeat its very object and confuse and disfranchise the voters rather than to help them register their will, advocates of direct primary legis lation will get a cold shoulder when they appear before the legislature to urge their plan upon representatives of other counties and especially of rural districts. The direct primary is in a great deal more danger from its false friends than it is from Its open enemies. If the people are disgusted with it where It is tried, those who are reluctant about making an experiment will be all the more apprehensive about it and those who have opposed It constantly will have another club put In their hands to help them beat It back. In a word the direct primary law. which in Nebraska was enacted for Douglas county alone In order to prove Its beneficence to the remainder of the state, is in danger of having exactly the opposite effect, not because of any Inherent defects, but because of per verted application. Over in Iowa the laws enacted by the last legislature go into effect this week. In that state bills passed with the emergency clause must be given publicity by newspaper advertising be fore it goes Into effect so the people may know what the provisions are, while the other laws passed without the emergency clause are published In book form before they take effect. Some such arrangement as this ought to be adopted by Nebraska, where fre quently new laws go Into operation be fore the people affected by them have any opportunity of finding out what they really are. When the decision was handed down at the instigation of the Fontanelles inflicting the voters with the rotation ballot, The Bee pointed out the only remedy within reach, which was to re sent the outrage and rebuke its per petrators by electing the Rosewater delegates at whatever cost of time and effort. This advice must have struck the popular chord. Starting on the Fourth of July, Sec retary Root may be able to carry the spirit bf responsible independence through South America, but he will remember that the American Fourth ot July has claimed more victims than the average South American revolution. The local democratic organ takes great comfort in what It thinks are signs that the republican party la dis integrating and sure to split as the democratic party split ten years ago In this case, however, it is the wish that la father to the thought. The Water board lawyers naturally want to appeal the decision in the water rate case up to the United States supreme court. But Omaha'a expert ence with aupreme court litigation teaches that the path ! long -and devious. The quickest way to settle the question of water ratea would be to hurry up the appraisement of the water plant so that the city can either take over the works itself or force the water company to satisfactory terms. The prospects are good for Douglas county taking In $100,000 for the road fund from the inheritance tax when payments are made on estates now pending settlement. Douglas county will soon have as fine a system of roadways connecting all parts of the county as Is to be found anywhere If this money Is wisely spent in pursuance of some definite plan. The month ot June, 1906, shows an increase of nearly 10 per cent In the births recorded In Omaha as compared with the same month la9t year. If Omaha could keep up this gait a 2 50, 000 population Is sure to come in a not too distant time. Perhaps members of the Russian cabinet would be pleased to retire, but the trouble eems to be to find men willing to serve as targets for the duma, for there Is no telling when the scream of the bomb will succeed the roar of the orators. Now thp.t San Francisco policyhold ers have started suits against insur ance companies, the relative damage of fire and earthquake in the disaster will be legally established if an un prejudiced judge and Jury cau be se cured. Half the republicans of Douglas county were disfranchised by the "ro tation" outrage. Just picture what the result of the primary would have been had every voter been accorded a full and free expression of his will. Experience for the Asking. Washington Post. "We know how to accumulate wealth, but not how to distribute It," nays Ben. ator Elklns. There are hundreds of young men who would be glad to give the senator the benefit of their experience In that line. Knows a Good Thin at. Baltimore American. It la evident that France did not pay serious attention to tha prediction that congressional legislation and the activity of muckrake would bring ruin to Ameri can Industries, else France would not have been so eager to Invest It dollars on this side of the pond. The Limit la Politeness. Chicago Record-Herald. Justice Brewer of the United States su preme court recently aaid: "Becretary'Taft I the politest man alive. I hear that re cently he arose In a street car and gave his seat to three women." It will have to be admitted that the man who does such a noble thing must be the possessor of true greatness. Record of a. Great Congress. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Except tn tha first congress of rebellion days, that which met under Lincoln's call on July 4, 1861, no session ot any congress since that which opened at Waahlngton' Inauguration in 17&a placed so many meas ures of Important constructive legislation on the statute book as did the session which ended Baturday. Vncle Bans' Balance Sheet. Boaton. Transcript. The United States treasury close the fiscal year with a surplus ot 225,000,000, a against a deficit a year ago of almost the same proportion. The Increaae In cus tom receipts largely accounts for the dif ference, exceeding as they do thoae of the preceding fiscal year by $40,000,000. Internal revenue receipt have been 117.000.000 more than In the twelve month before. Expen diture this year and last have run singu larly close together, the difference being less than 22,000.000. MR. ROOSEVELT'S BEST WORK. Vigorous Enforcement of lawi Al ready on the Statute Book. New York World (dent.). Mr. Roosevelt would be more than human If he could CQnoeal hi elation over the achievement of a congress that ha evi denced almost phonographlo fidelity to the wishes of the president. The sentiment of the country 1 undoubtedly la acoord with him in praising congreae for what It has done concerning which Mr. Roosevelt might aay, "All of which I saw and a great part of which I waa." But the president In hi exultant procla mation waa restrained by modeaty perhaps from calling attention to what historians are likely to regard aa the beat work of hi administration not legislation, but the progress made in enforcing law already on the statute book. Congress baa for. twenty year been mak ing laws to restrain organised wealth and will be paaalng new law along the same line for decade te come, but Mr. Rooae velt la the first president to make a con siderable progress In the matter of en forcing this legislation. In replying to a senate resolution At torney Moody haa laaued a statement show ing that under tha Elkin anti-rebate law the Department of Justice ha already ob tained thirty-six indictment and nine con victions, with only two acquittals and three cases nolle prossed. In view of the fact that It haa been hardly more than a year since the administration began to make serious efforts to enforce this law, a really great work haa been accomplished. If tha president continues this vigor it will be matter of only a few months before he will have destroyed the Iniquitous rebate system root and branch. The rebate rase represent but ona set of activities. Only a few day ago Mr. Moody began more than thirty suit against railroad companies for violating the aafety appliance law. an act which haa been virtu ally a dead letter. Tha cases are not per haps of the first importance, but they re veal a healthy determination to execute law regardleaa of tha wealth of the de fendanta, The aame thing must be said of the administration's campaign against the Paper trust, tha Drug trust and the Fertl User trust By relentless prosecution of rich offender Secretary Hitchcock haa all but destroyed tha business of stealing government land The Poatofnos department haa pursued Burton until he haa been at last driven out of the United States senate and Is In a fair way to go to prison. Ia the railroad rata matter. In the Investigation of the coal road by the Interstate Commerce commis sion, in tha Investigation of tha packing houses. In tha preparation for prosecuting the Standard Oil company, tha edmlnlatr. tlon haa ahown a spirit that Is not dls mayed by the power of organised capital. The president la actuallslng the "square deal" which makes every man equal before the law. Even Mr. Roosevelt' blttereet opponent could not minimi the healthful Influence upon public, sentiment ot these activities A WARIIIO TO FARMERS. Lesson of Land Speculation, "l et Well F.ioath .Alene." Under the title, "The Wild iJind t'r.nxe." Robert O. Markay presents In folller's Weekly seasonable and suggestive advice, emphasising his conclusions with fact from the melancholy history of farmer lsnd erase. "Let well enough alone" Is his warning signal. "If you have 'a good farm don't be anxious to leave It and follow the gilded promise of the lsnd agent as th moth follow the flame. While citing Iowa aa an example, the fact apply with equal force to farmers In Nebraska and adjoining Mate. "Pome Iowa farmers were rich, contented and harpy." say Mr. Mackny, referring to former booms; "they were blessed with abundant crop their granaries bursting with corn and "whetU. and they had cattle and sheep upon a thousand hill. They had money out ot Interest and stored In banks and safety vaults, waiting for profitable investment. They were the hnpplest, most contented people to be found In our broad don'aln. "It wa then the tempter came and spread out before these simple, thrifty formers the alluring bait of cheap lands and large profits. Idle money In time grows restless congested money break Its bound peri odically. Just where It will drift no man can tell it may be real estate, the Klon dike or Wall Rtreet stocks. Let It once break Its bound. It spread out in a reck less fashion, uncontrolled by argument or men past experience. The Iowa news paper were paid well for advertising the land schemes, nnd circular were mailed to the chief towns to whet the appetite, with the desired result that the farmer became land hungry, the banker became land hun gry. Master minds were among the land promoters, and. the banker once in the tolls, the great body of the prosperous farmer would be an easy prey. Iowa lands had been purchased, years before, for a mere song, and the farmers knew how rapidly their lands advanced In price; crop waa added to crop till men sud denly found themselves rich. Is It any wonder that cheap land were an alluring bait to men with such an experience be hind them? 'Cheap land.' 'wild lands." waa the cry; and the land sharks had a supply of million of acres of very cheap lands, very wild land. All the way from Wisconsin to far western Canada large bodies of land were extolled In dulcet tone that charmed the listeners and won the attention of the Iowa people. It was a music to the ears of the easy speculators that were In evidence all over Iowa. The price of land ranged all the way from 75 cents to 110 per acre, but these lands were not the rich acres of loam that gave fame and riches to Iowa. Men did not stop to Investigate; It was not Intended they should Time was limited; the flood was carrying people on to the rainbow land of the country, later on known as 'get-rlch- qulck' land. It was a harvest for the lumber barons of Wisconsin and Michigan. Cut-over stumpage was at last to be hoisted on an unsuspecting people; and vast tract of swamp lands, for years the paradise of the polsy frog and sandhill crane, were now to be sold to the syndicate and re tailed by them at enormous profits to the small dealer. The scheme was a long time hatching; It wa now tipe. The rail road were carrying thousands Into Wis consin, Dakota and tha Canadian north west; trains were crowded to their utmost capacity such was the curtain raiser to a drama and tragedy that. In Its last act, brought sorrow and death to many happy home in Iowa. "Since the day of Klondike tn '97, no stampede ha surpassed the mad rush of these land-hungry men. The day of awak ening came, which waa more rapid and deadly In Its work of demoralisation than the building of a boom. The former work lowly Into confidence, the latter drop a with a paralytic stroke that cause stupe faction bordering on Insanity. The wild lands that had been sold on easy payment paper with straw men on the notes, the mortgage and the agreement these were In turn sold to the bank. Here wa a non producing asset on almost worthless lands. The true character of these lands was practically unknown to the bankers; specu lation was running at such a pace that the bankers showed about as little Judgment as the mass of the people. "I was never in a boom yet that banks were not more or less Involved and fre quently the heaviest loser. Farms that never carried a mortgage before, in all the years past, were mortgaged by Iowa farm er In order to get Into the chase after wild land. It' hard to write this of the staid, conservative farming class, but It's true. The day of reckoning came, and It was a cruel awakening, carrying with it th lesson that the slow, conservative course of building a fortune Is the winner. The bank paper was due, and who wa to meet It? In most case the men had van ished and th land wa worthies. The banks, one after another, began to cloee their door. The final climax waa that forty banks failed In Iowa In one year with lia bilities of tll.000.000 and no less than eight bank officials committed suicide a record never before reached In Iowa. I do not claim that all this loss of. life and money was chargeable to the mad speculation in wild lands speculation In stocks added to the disaster but the chief cause was the wild land erase. Iowa has rich and bound- lea recuperative powers, and In a few, year aha will make good her losers, and the severe lesarms her people have learned will not have been tn vain." PERSONAL NOTES. People are Justified in scoffing at the In sanity dodge of criminals. In the present New Tork case, however, experts claim there I reaaon for it. Th Pittsburger curled his moustache. W. E. Henry, who ha been for nine years librarian of the Indiana state library and made It one of the best of It kind In th country, 1 to become librarian of the University of Washington at Seattle. Makers of artificial Ice In St. Louis re mind their patron with congealed pathos that the unexampled greed of coal dealer compelled them to put up the price of Ice. It' a mighty poor excuse that won't lubri cate a clrch. William T. Vernon of Kansas City, the new registrar of th treasury, has been given the degree of LL. D. by Wilberforce university of Xenla, Ohio, an Institution under the supervision of th African Metho dist Episcopal church. Secretary Root haa selected W. T. Sher man Doyle, an attorney of Washington, to accompany him to South America as his secretary. He la a fluent speaker of the Spanish language and assisted In the de termination of the American claims against Veneauela. There are twenty-flv working Journalists In th British House of Commons besides a dozen who have retired from newspaper work. Eight of them find time to act In an editorial capacity In addition to their Parliamentary duties. They are no mere figurehead editor either, for they Include such men a th ever-energetle T. P. O'Connor, Kelr Hardle, who produces "The Labor Leader;" Dr. Macnamar, the leading light of "The Schoolmaster." and Harry Marks, who edits and owns a daily financial paper. Of th Irish party, nine maintain thm.ii by newspaper work, and on. Mr. Veagtt. ' Urn held a seat la ta press gallery. TheFood to Dank On mouth. It Is sold la two-pound packages, honest weight, aad a package, easily prepared, will make yon 12 pounds ot creamy, white load, never sticky or lumpy. Twelve pounds ef tha ordinary 10 cant ready U serve food usually costs you about L32 Kat PLilabury's. The delicious, nourishing, white heart of the wheal berry that's aTL Mo secret process, and than bank the difference vis (ILK). Sensible people are Dot willing to trifle with th quality of their food. sure ef its quality whan it is il JlBrJUJJlJUalWJl tJH vm Best BrriakfAAtCrririn)!! . Ask ' Your VITOS Grocer KATIRAMZATIOX LAW. Borne Restrictions Based on Langnnave Knowledge. Philadelphia Record. With some excellent feature the natural ization bill has gone to the prsldrnt for approval, with the provision that no for eigner who cannot spenk English shall ! admitted to American cltltenBhlp. The knowledge of the langunge of a country lx. of course, very useful; but It Is absurd j pretend that a man cannot be a good cltl len without such attainment. There are mills in Pittsburg In which the English language Is hardly heard spoken once in a wrrk. How are the foreign-born work men In these mill to acquire sufncliT.t knowledge of English to qualify themselves for American citizenship? Many a fore'gn born Inhabitant familiar with all the learn ing of the sages has been at war with the king's English all his life, hut he can not be admitted to cltiaenshlp under this bill with a glib fellow who has leurn'-d to talk English, like a parrot. Not much more than a generation ago a language known as "Pennsylvania Dutch" was alone spoken or understood in some portion of this state. Were the "Penn sylvania Dutch" untlt for American citizen ship? That is what some of their degen erate descendants seem to think. The other day the house passed a bill to nil m It into the union the territory of New Mexico, most of whose native Inhabitants are j Ignorant of the English language that in terpreters are required in nil official ami Judicial proceedings. But In the estimation of the house that passed this naturalization bill the New Mexicans, who are totally Innocent of English, possess complete quail ficatlons for citizenship, while Italians and Hungarians are to be debarred from nat uralization If they have not been able to acquire the art of speaking English. The truth Is that this provision springs from tho same spirit of nattvlsm that dictated tho anti-Immigration bill that ha fallen in the house of It friends. CHANCB FOR PI RE FOOD. Effective Checks on Adulteration Pro. vided by Law. New York Tribune. Th pur food law aa Anally enacted com bines many of the best features of the sen ate and house measures and eliminates most of the loopholes to which attention was called while the question was under discussion. The house provision Is adopted adding cocaine, heroin, chloroform, chloral hydrate, acetanllld and some other sub stances to the senate's list of Ingredients of remedies the quantities of which must be stated on the label. A the senate re quired this statement only concerning al cohol and opium and Its derivatives, a great improvement in the bill passed as a safeT guard against the stimulation of drug hab it Is evident. At the same time the house amendment, which, while making this ad vance, left open the door to the use of al cohol In patent medicine by allowing It to be present without declaration in the quantities regularly prescribed as a solvent or preservative Is eliminated. After this legislation becomes effectlva, therefore, the use of these drugs even in the minutest quantity'in patent medicines must be made public. All drugs, under this law, must conform to the standard of the pharmacopoeia, or else be plainly labeled a of a different standard, and they will be regarded .m mlsbranded If any statement concerning their character Is false. Food products will also be considered as' mlsbranded If any false statement Is made upon the pack age as to their character or place of origin, or any misstatement aa to their weight. Borne criticism haa been made of the elim ination from the act of the house provision that the secretary of agriculture should de termine standards for various articles, and that on application of the manufacturer an article complying with the standard might bear the label, "United States Standard." We doubt, however. If this Is really a dis advantage. The act Itself prescribes the standards and calls upon the Department of Agriculture to make analyses and order the prosecution of all who fall to observe the law. The secretary's standards con cerning the use of preservative In food The Doctor Asks "Are your bowels regular?" He knows that daily action of the bowels is absolutely essential to health. Then keep your liver active and your bowels regular by taking small laxative doses of Ayer's Pills. Just one pill at bed time is enough, just one. Wc have no secrets! We publish the formulas of all our medicines. Mad g Ike . O. Aye O.. tVeveU. Has. ATTB'S III nOOB-Var th hair. AI'5ikAJ,AILLA-st taskleoA, Story f ihthhft PUlsbnrrr' Best S. X ltr Breakfast Food sw ab) ct yem re frat money la the bank, and at the same time a delicious (bod Into your Yoa are a t iixwvri2jjjri bll T Food ylTc might be made the excuse for evading th law. Likewise hi brand might be used a the beef 'Inspection label has been used, for advertising purposes, though the goods manufactured for the nmrket were Inferior to the samples submitted for Inspection. Anyhow, the validity of the standards set by the secretary of agriculture would have to be tried out In tho courts, and It is probably Just as well to go back to the law itself for the standards. If the provisions of this law are strictly enforced It should prove adequate to stop at least the great bulk of the adulteration of foods and drugs. The chief anxiety of those who hope for relief from the deceit which faces them at every turn and makes them almost despair of getting what they pay for Is lest th" act be not adequately enforced. Puhllc opinion should be awake on this subject to support the Department of Agriculture In Its Investigation and to Insist that retail dealers shall so far a possible safeguard their patron and re fuse to handle goods concerning which there Is any doubt. With a good law te back him the consumer can do a great deal to put down the evils of adulteration. If he I not Interested, the complaints of th chemist are likely to receive only perfune tory attention from prosecuting officers. j LINES TO A LAKill. I "I wouldn't he surprised." said the Arctlo explorer, "to se the automobile Introduced here some day." i "Don't believe It." replied the wise native, i "the faithful dog of these parts will con tinue to be the Esklmotor." Philadelphia Press. ! "I see that our eolleoirue hns changed his opinion." said the statesman. "I don't think he has changed his opin- ' Ion." answered Senator Sorghum. "He merely tlnds It expedient to express a dif ferent view of the subject." Washington : Star. "What are you laughing at?" I "See thl box? I'm on my way to get a dozen husky bees for my mother-in-law. Ch. Utm thm rhniimall.tn ' I I vein n n I Dealer. Charitable Visitor You astonish me. Mra. Dooley, when you say your husband gets drunk and beats you. He told me that hi was on the water wagon. Mrs. D. Sure, and that don't kape hlra from the drink, ma'am. He drives a street sprinkler. Ealtlmore American. "I hear such ound In the summer night,: said the romantic young poet, "that I can not sleep for listening to them. There seemi to be eternal barriers between my soul ana Its slumbers." v "I guess it's the caterwauls on the bach fence," suggested the practical friend. Baltimore American. i Father There is one thing I don't like about that young man of yours. Mmdy. Daughter What Is that, father? Father There does not seem to b much get-up-and-go about hlra. Balti more American. I JOHNNY'S CELEBRATION. i . ' Bomerville Journal. Johnny saved his money for the JoyouJ , holiday (Johnny was a patriotic boy). To have a celebration In the good old ' fashioned way. ' Little thinking whom he might annoy. , Being very prudent, and earning all hi could, When the day before the Fourth had come Johnny found himself three-dollars-sixty to tne goon. "Gee:" said he, "I'll make things hum!"' Johnny bought some firecracker seven Inches long. Bought some Roman candles snd a can. Bought him a toy pistol (didn't know 'twas wrong), Bought some rocket, filled with golden rain. Bought a lot of cartridges! a detonating bomb. Bought some powder for his father's gun. When at last the long-awaited holiday had come, "Now," said he, "we'll have ome fun!" Johnny celebrated In the good old-fashioned way. Started with a bang soon after four, Singed his eyebrows off at ten, but th doctors say Perhaps In course of time he'll have some more. Burned his Angers bad at twelve, showed a lot of sand, Kept on banging Just the same, but whn He set a cannon cracker off at six and held It in his hand The celebration stopped right then! AYIk'S CEERRT PXCTORAL-Foc eor. AIBJt'i AGUBCU&U-Foi nalan a afa. V