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4 TTTK OMAHA DAILY BEEi WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 1903. The Omaha Daily Bee. E. ROSEWATER. EDITOR. Entered at Omaha Postofflcn aa second Class matter. . TTRM8 6s I'BHCRIPTION. Dslly Bee (without Swnrtay). one yeer..$4 Dnllir Bee and Sunday, on year j J Sunday Use, an year.. " Saturday Bee, on year. -M EELIVERED BT CARRIER. (including Sunday), per week..l7 relly He (without Sundar). per wek..llo Evening Bee (without Sunday). PT weak. o Evening Nm (with Sunday), per week..l0o Sunday Bm. par oopy Address complaints of Irregularities In de livery to City Circulation Department. orncES. Omaha Tha Baa Building. South Omaha City Hall Building. Council Bluffs 10 Peerl Street. Chicago U40 fnlty Building. New York 1S Hum, Life Inn. Building. Washington eol Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communleatlone relating to newa and edi torial matter ahould be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order Payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only 1-cont stamps received aa payment of mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or esstern exchanges, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANT. STATEMENT or CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska. Douglas County, as: C. C. Rosewaier, general manager of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly aworn. says that tha actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally. Morning, Evening and Sunday Bea printed during me montn of June, lfos, was aa ioiiows 1.730 sa.sio 80,70 81,850 81,880 I a Veessssseeo n.070 3,010 1,00 88,410 T I 10 30.M0 ii sa.300 It 11,830 II l SLsao II 81,870 Total lss unsold coplea., Not total sales Dally average .. 843,864 81.485 C. C. ROSE WATER. General Manager. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this loth day of June. 1908. Seal.) M. B. HUNOATE, Notary Public. WHEN OCT OP TOW. Subscribers leaving; tbe city teaa porarily ehonld have Tha Ba mailed to them. Addreaa will ba esssged aa oftea aa repaired. Ak-8ar-Ben's weekly kindergarten Is the rhost popular Bummer school on the board. It Beemt to be a race between death and Uncle Sam In the Oregon land fraud cases. Mr. Grammer of the Lake Shore evidently prefers to pose as the "miss ing link" than as the scapegoat. Lawyers jealous of the reputation of their . profession cannot be pleased with revelations In the Hartje case. Bids for John R. Walsh's railroads may show that the Chicago banker's chief mistake was being ahead of his time, ' . , -. Advices from Lincoln furnish a re minder that Dcuglas county Is not the only place In Nebraska where fierce factional fights can be waged. It remains to be seen if proceedings at Cleveland will bring Rockefeller back from Europe as quick as the Philadelphia hearing brought Cassatt. Now that an Omaha man Is taking part In the attempt to bring peace to Central America the negotiations thould succeed for the glory of Ne braska. Puttie: If It takes three years to get a report from two of the water works appraisers, how much longer rhould It take to get a report from the third appraiser? Judge Frater of Pittsburg must vant to preserve the prestige of his court as a news center from the men who seem determined to "scoop" the judge on Hartje testimony. in ignoring the advice of his minis ters after refusing to permit them to resign, the czar shows that he has about the same idea of government as the majority of his subjects. The decision of the widow of a mis sionary killed In Persia not to accept an Indemnity for fear it will injure the missionary cause shows that the spirit of sacrifice is not entirely lost. There must be still a remnant of competition In the coal business, else the school bosrd would not be able to get bids a shade lower than the best bids on coal secured by the county board. With the race problem projecting Itself Into the session of the Elks at Denver the delegates may discover the effect of high altitude on the temper and have a better understanding of "trouble" news from Colorado. The appeal of the Alton road from the Chicago decision may help the gov ernment get a final adjudication of the law but it gives no assurance that prosecutions under the statute will be suspended until the supreme court acts. The coroner's jury In Great Britain which laid responsibility for the Sal isbury wreck on the railroad after It had admitted the fet showed Its con fidence In the company's judgment and may have desired to prevent a change ot mind. The youngsters at Omaha's Juvenile City turned down the proposition for soman's suffrage without apparent :ompunctlon. - It Is to be hoped thla exhibition of Ingratitude will not kill off the ardor ot the club women in the tause of the children's play grounds and tuvenlle courts. It nlnss IT 80,800 II 1,80 19seaneese SXaSlO 10 sa.ooo 11 8L840 31,860 38,870 14 30,840 31,780 81,800 ST 3160 II 31,760 19 31,700 18 83,800 864,150 10,498 CO.ritH.VCE OVER StWRATE LAW. The great Importance of the changes made by the new rate control law Is certified by the conference of the chief freight and legal officials of all the railroad companies having lines west of Chicago with respect to Its require ments and the methods necessary to comply with them. The companies thus recognise that their relations to the government and the public are seriously altered, and that they must pepare to conform to changed condi tions during the short time elapsing before the new law goes Into effect. It Is suggestive that there are, ac cording to reports of the conference, almost as many diverse views of the effect of the law as there are repre sentatives In the meeting. The fact, therefore, that a strong effort Is being made to reach agreement among the different carrier companies as to the attitude they shall assume towards the new legislation Is full of significance both for the authorities charged with the enforcement of the law and for the public which had a definite purpose In demanding the legislation. Though they may not see It, nothing could be more detrimental to the true Interest of the transportation corpora tions themselves than to refuse to sub mit In good faith to tha substantial purpose of the law, to seek with the vast power which Is theirs to nullify or to minimise the effect of the law or to make common cause In a pro tracted and destructive campaign of litigation. That no small part of the effort to amend the measure during Its slow progress through congress was devoted to opening the way for such obstructionist tactics. Is beyond doubt. It might be possible to raise In the courts a variety of constitutional and other questions the settlement of which would certainly consume a great deal of time whntever the final decision might be, depriving the public in large part of the benefit of the law In the meantime, and which might by judicial fallibility or miscarriage cripple the law In some of Its important pro visions. It Is, however, on every score to be earnestly hoped that the transporta tion companies now endeavoring to concert a program will not assume a recalcitrant attitude. That would be only to fan public feeling Into a flame and to precipitate a more critical Issue. The paramount purpose of the law to abolish utterly many long standing abuses and practices Is obvi ous and least of all can be mistaken by the carrier corporations. It is up to them now to demonstrate that they submit to that purpose In Its broadest sense, and distinctly and promptly to aid rather than obstruct Its consum mation. HOMESTEADS AKD IRRIGATION. The opening to homestead entry of the million acres of the Wind River reservation In Wyoming -enforces at tention to the fact that the public domain still available for free homes Is largely confined to the region of in sufficient rainfall. From the Canadian to the Mexican boundary line most of the good government land suitable for general farming purposes without artificial water supply has already been taken. There are Indeed, areas which by special methods not required In the great rain belt to the east can be profitably cultivated, but relatively to the unoccupied dry portion they are of small extent. It Is suggestive of the change of the conditions which up to this time have confronted the movement of popula tion westward across the continent that elaborate arrangements are being now made in advance of the homestead filings to irrigate the Wind River tract. In fact the homestead law would be futile without reclamation of the land by Irrigation. The homestead question Is thus rapidly becoming practically a ques tion of Irrigation. .The government Indeed, under the initiative of Presi dent Roosevelt, took up that subject in the last congress in a broad way, none too quickly, and In spite of the energetic administration of the Irriga tion law the probability is that the pressure of population for homes within the dry region may soon outrun the means of reclamation. THE STANDARD OIL PROSKCCTIOSS. Ordinarily this is the quiet season at Washington, but the government is taking no vacation so far as the effort to bring to book powerful violators of the anti-trust and anti-rebate laws is concerned. On the contrary, efforts which have been in progress tor weeks by the Department of Justice to secure a stranglehold especially on the Stand ard OH are now redoubled. It had leason through Commissioner Gar field's report and other circumstances to believe that the oil octopus. In con federation with the transporting com panies from Cleveland, O.. one ot the great oil refining centers, had had the benefit of illegal discriminations, disastrous alike to competitors and to the consuming public, and since before the adjournment of congress the whole machinery of the legal department of the government has been directed to the purpose of developing a case there not so much against minor agenta as against chief responsible conspirators themselves, and the representatives of the government. In spite of the formld able obstacles thrown in their way, are shown by reliable reports to be permitting no midsummer relaxation to weaken or retard the prosecution. It Is the very hardest kind of work the government Is engaged upon In this persistent effort against the mightiest corporations In the country, notwithstanding the fact that it has to be done out of the public sight. It Is all the harder because so little ot ( the public encouragement and sustain lng force that were marshalled behind the more obvlons Issue lately before congress Is forthcoming while the un seen work goes quietly on, and there Is even a disposition In many quarters to belittle and misrepresent what ts being done. But Just such labor Is Indispensable If the proofs against I strongly Intrenched violators are to be secured and put in the required legal form. And the fact that the adminis tration Is permitting no cessation In the arduous task Is one that thought ful and Just men ought not to forget. STTEF.P BEFORE TOCR OW.V Don7 In politics as In social life there ure always busy-bodies who seek 10 ue their brooms on their neighbors' porches while the dirt is ankle deep In front of their own doors. This fact Is strikingly illustrated by the World-Herald, which la devoting Its entire time and space to stirring up the dust before the republican edifice while the democratic front yard is lit tered with garbage. It Is amatlng, for example, that the democratic organ has been able to discover the machinations and con spiracies by which the railroads are trying to capture and dominate the re publican state convention, nominate a set of dummies for state officers and fill the legislature with brass-collared henchmen. Not a word, however, about the machinations and conspiracies that are being hatched by the corporation bosses to capture the democratic state convention and nominate a set of sham' reformers and bogus anti monopolists who would do their bid ding If they are elected. Not a word either about the plot hatched by the corporation bosses to get friendly democrats nominated In republican districts and democratic corporation men In democratic dis tricts so as to throttle all legislation that may be offensive and enact only legislation In the interest of the cor porations. Incidentally the democratic organ probably has never heard of the well defined rumor that Mr. Hitchcock Is behind this plot In order that he may get the support of the corporations for his own candidacy at the proper time as a reward for hammering away at the repulican candidates who are not satisfactory to the corporations. Republican county conventions are are almost all of them going on record In favor of endorsing the constitu tional amendment for a state railway commission.' Endorsement by the state convention will record all the straight party votes for the adoption of the amendment. Should the demo crats and populists likewise declare In favor of the amendment In their state conventions the straight party votes of all parties would be recorded for it and Its ratification at the polls be prac tically assured. It Is up to the demo crats to declare themselves in their conventions, especially in view of the fact that the democratic county con ventions so far held have passed no such resolutions. The county board may make the an nual financial reports of county offices correspond with a fiscal year the same as the calendar year used by the city, but the real difficulty is that the tax levies for city and county are made at different times and the revenues be come available at different months ot the year. A complete unification of city and county finances Is impossible until the tax levies of both are consoli dated so as to become payable, delin quent and available for drawing war rants at the same time for both city and county. To accomplish this, however, will require legislation and the removal of several obstacles be fore the legislature can be procured to act. The democratic city council has agreed to authorize the employment of an expert accountant to check up the records of the officers who retired with the advent of the new adminis tration. This cannot but be regarded as a reflection upon the work of the city comptroller's office, although that office has been presided over for the last three years by a democratic in cumbent who was re-elected and Is, therefore, a part of the present demo cratic regime. But perhaps the move Is designed merely to furnish some good democrat with a well compen sated job at the expense of the tax payers. Mayor Dahlman Is said to be much more generous with his pardons to police court offenders than was his predecessor. Mayor Moores, although the latter at various times was ac cused of being too lenient with the prisoners. The effect of the promis cuous exercise of the mayor's pardon ing power will be seen and felt by the school board when It figures up the revenue for the year from police court fines which under the constitution go to the support of the schools. While expressing their preferences aa between different candidatea for the republican nomination for United Statea senate, Nebraska republicans must not forget to pledge their legls latlve nominees to support and vote for the senatorial candidate who shall be endorsed by the state convention To make the popular choice effective it must have legislative ratification afterward. South Omaha'a Board of Education has set a ahlning example by fixing the annual tax levy for the coming year at S mills less than the levy of last year. There is no threatening danger, however, ot the habit beconi nt contagious. CAMPAIGN HARTS EwPTT. Preelene Little Mnney I la Slant fnr Political Heelers. Chicago Chronicle. Although the bill prohibiting corporations from contributing to campaign funds failed to pass, at the last session of congress, th, ia mil tn rr that the ex- cneqU.r of either party will be "tainted" to any great extent by corporate contribu tions this fall. On the contrary, the party managers are likely to be hard put to It for funds with which to meet the mot ordinary and nec essary expenses, nnd there are many such expenses despite th conventional notion that all money used In political campaigns Is necessarily ti-ed for corrupt purposes. With the accustomed contributions from corporate sources cut off the campaign will have to be conducted with unprecedented economy. There Is little doubt that the corporate contributions win be missing. and for ob vious reasons. In the first place, the corporations never have been anxious to give their money away. If they have contributed to polit ical funds It has been because pressure he been brought to bear upon them to do so. They have been cajoled or threatened Into contributing. They will be glad of an ex cuse to discontinue their contributions and nobody can deny that they now have excel lent reasons. When the politicians come around asking for th usual donation the corporation managers can and will r'nt to the fact that neither party has been especially con siderate of corporate enterprises lately and that there Is small Indication of greater consideration In the future. Why. they will ask, should the corporations give money for thelf own undoing? It will be bard for the collectors to give a satisfactory an swer. It will be Just as hard for them to argue away the fact that most of the alleged cor ruption which has been so loudly de nounced during the Inst year or two has been laid at the door of the corporations. "If we withhold our contributions we can hardly be accused of corruption." will be the natural assumption of the corporation managers; "you will have to get along without our contribution this year." Finally and decisively, the corporation people will remind the political solicitors that certain corporation managers have been threatened with the penitentiary for disbursing trie money of the stockholders to campaign directors and they will simply decline to take any such chances them selves. That will probably settle it. At any rate, the party war chest that re ceives anything In the line of corporation contributions will be an exception. This will be a year when the party patriot can show his fealty hy going down Into bis own Individual pocket. Otherwise the campaign Ib likely to languish for lack of eteam. THE APPARENTLY DROWSED. !red of 3 en -re I Instruction I" Trent, sirnt of Cases, New York Bun. The resuscitation of a boy who had been under water twenty-three minutes ought to bring forcibly . to public attention the need of general Instruction In the treatment of the apparently, drowned. Although knowledge regarding first aid to the In jured Is common. 'there Is still too wide a prevalence of old-fashioned notions about rolling a half drowned person on a barrel, a proceeding which Is likely to finish him. If submersion has not already done bo. There is no difficulty In learning what to do for the apparently drowned. Numer ous books contain directions and any phy sician will gladly tell hla frlende and pa tients the routine. The vital point la the necessity of continuing the movements for the restoration of breathing much longer than they are generally continued. . It Is true that persons submerged four or Ave minutes are not usually restored, but many cases are on record In which this result has been accomplished after the pa tient haa been under water for as much as twenty minutes. The Instructions given for both the Sylvester and the Howard meth ods, which are regarded aa the beat, direct the operatora to continue the movements for artificial breathing for not -less than two houra. If breathing Is not previously restored. The operators In the ease re ferred to succeeded after efforts lasting one hour and forty-eight minutes. It la natural that those laboring over one apparently drowned should lose hope If no result Is accomplished In an hour, and in the majority of casea their despair would be well grounded. But no one can tell when he haa the exceptional case un der hla treatment, and therefore he should not give up until the limit of possibility Is reached. The Man Behind the Shovel. Chicago Chronicle. In the last analysis it is the man behind the gun or behind the shovel who does the work. The commanders of military or In dustrial enterprises may plan never so wisely, but lacking the actual muscle power, they can accomplish nothing. Sec retary Taft's warning to Impatient people that . they must not expect the Isthmian canal to be completed in a Jiffy Is based upon the difficulties In the labor proposi tion. And as the work proceeds we shall realise more and more fully that the canal Is not so much a matter of engineering or financing as of pure thewe and sinews, No Ingenious device will ever fully replace the human machine. Coming Ont In the Open. San Francisco Chronicle. Railroad men are now declaring that they mean to change their methods, and that hereafter. Instead of protecting of fenders against the law by silence, they will bring them to Justice. It Is high time such resolve was formed and acted upon. It waa a curious code of honor which pre vented men from informing on lawbreak ers, and Its effect was to Involve railroad men In the suspicion that all were equally guilty of rebating and of committing other offenses. Thla KB ComlnK Onr Way, Boston Trsnscript. T'ncle Sam has another Island to look after. One haa been thrown up to him off Alarka. It came out of the aea as the result of submarine volcanic action, and Is near Boraslov Island. The waters around the island were still at the boiling point when the pews of its appearance waa brought to I'nalaska by fishermen. To get Into hot water, however, when we under take to manage more islands seems to be a normal condition with ua. As Good as a Mint. Chicago Record-Herald. A Kansaa City lcoman admits that he made a profit of $4o,0M ',n one year on an Inveatment of $ijoo. Heretofore we have had aome doubts concerning the truth of all theae stories about the Icemen. Publicity l nuecessary. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Devils In all forma are to be eliminated from advertising matter distributed by the National Bill Posters' association. Satan has been in business here so long he doesn't need any advertising. One of Prosperity's Mana. New York World. Postal receipts for June at the fifty largest offices show a gain of IMl.OO over the like month In 1M A nation's happl nesa and prosperity can be measured by the I letters it write orn about sew tork. Rllea n the Current f . a the Metropolis. The American Ire company, which en Joys a monopoly of the business in Greater New York, Is In an exceedingly happy mood Just now. Outwardly It presents a cool. Imposing front; Inwardly It chuckles gleefully and gathers In the roin. But Its glee is more difficult to control than the price of ice and soms of It overflows for public consumption. The other day the com pan tickled Its patmne with this no tire: ,-To discourage the consumption of Ice as much ss possible, the price of Ice to all consumers, evcept private families, will be IS cents a hundred pounds after July IS, Instesd of SO cents." The excuse offered by the trust for the boosting of the price Is that there Is a shortage In their Ice houses snd that un less the consumption of Ice Is msterlally reduced the company will be wholly with out Ice In the latter part of the summer. The notice phtlsnthropically states thst unless the price of ice Is Immediately In creased the people will be left without any ire at all In a short time. In a notice sent out on May 25 the trust cautioned consumers to be careful and economical In the use of Ice, and in this last notice the company says that Its cau tion wsb not heeded and that the con sumption of Ice In June was greater than In the same month last year. The first definite step In the light of the Independent dealers against the Ice trust was taken last week In Brooklyn, when plans were perfected which It Is hoped will free the Independent Brooklyn dealers and the residents of the borough from the clutches of the combine. One hundred and fifty thousand dollars was pledged toward the movement. Now that Brooklyn haa taken the Initiative It Is understood that the Independent deslers of Manhattan will get together and adopt similar plans. To begin with, the erection of a plant for the manufacture of artificial Ice waa decided upon. This plant, which will be run the year round, will coat $2o0.ono. Of this amount $150,000 has already been pledged by persons whose namea were withheld. The other $100,000 will he raised by the sale of stock to the Independent dealers at $100 a share. The $150,000 guaranteed In advance eliin fnates any neceaalty for delay, and the work will be begun on the plant within the month. Its exact site has not yet been determined upon, but it will probably be built somewhere In South Brooklyn. It was also decided to construct three docks for the reception of Ice from Inde pendent cutters up the Hudson. One of these docks will be built In Walisbout ba sin, another on the Gowanus canal at Sixth street and the third on the bay front, between Twenty-fifth and Thirty ninth streets. The money for these docks will be subscribed by the dealers and storage facilities will be provided from the same sourre. All told, the preliminaries' for the fight which It is proposed to moke will require about $300,000. "Your honor," complained Mrs. Mary De metrls to Recorder Lasarus In court at Bayonne, N. J., "my husband here came home, picked a quarrel with me and struck me In the face several times. I did not give him any provocation, but tried to pacify him." Recorder Lasarus, who hates a wlfe beater, , Is fond of ordering punishments which are strange, but therefore more likely to be remembered. '7 am going to rid this city of men who beat their wives." said he, scowling at De motrls, who looked shame-faced. "And to begin I will give all such who are brought before me a doae of their own medicine. "Mrs. Demetria, I want you to take your husband Into the next room. There you will strike him In the face aa hard and as often as he struck you. Perhapa the shame of It will cure him of the more shameful habit of beating you. Are you willing to do as I bid, or do you want me to send one of our healthiest policemen to carry out the sentence f" Mrs. DametrlB cast a frightened glance at her husband, then looked at the recorder, who nodded reassuringly to her. "I will do It, Judge,'' said she, and walked Into the ante-room. Demetria followed meekly; ahe closed the door behind them. Every one In the court room listened In tently for a moment. Then "amacjc!" "whack!" severs! times repeated sounded In the next room. The door opened and Mrs. Demetrls, smiling, as If her bruises pained her no more, appeared. Then came Demetrls, on whose red cheeks the marks left by his wife's hands were plain. "I hope this will be a lesson to yuu, De metrls," said the recorder. "I am certain the punishment hurt your wife more than you. Go home and ba good to her.'' They went away together, she smiling and whispering to him, he shaking his head negatively aa If denying that her slaps hurt her more than him. No large city of the world has so many Islands within Its municipal boundaries as New York, reports the Sun. Some of these Islands are mere dots. Others are large enough to have almost the dimensions of cities. Governors Island, with an area of seventy acres, is the property of the Federal Government and Is aasessed at $5,000,000 by the city, which Is $80,000 an acre, and aa land values go within New York that fig ure Is low. Blackwell'a Island, which covers 124 acres, Is valued at $12,000,000, which Is at the rate of nearly $97,000 an acre. Ward's Island Is valued at $9,000,000 and Randall's at $5,000, 000. North Brother Island la valued at $220,000, Rlker s Island at $037,000 and Hart's Island at $.150,000. The most Important of the Islands In cluded within the boundaries of the Greater New York ia. of courae, Manhattan Island. the value of which Is practically Incal culable. It is at least $5,000,000,000; how much more Is conjectural. The Borough of Brooklyn Includes Coney Island. The whole of the Borough of Rich mond Is an island, an island valued by the city for tax purposes at about $60,000,000. The area of Staten Island la 26,000 acres, which la almost three times the slse of Manhattan. So deeply infatuated was Franceica Rap- pa lo pf Brooklyn with Qlacomo Randaszo, a well-to-do merchant agalnat whom she had permitted a breach of promise suit to go by default, that she married him by proxy, hiring a friend to Impersonate her sweetheart. The romance of Miss Rappalo was made public In court In a confession she made In an action brought by Kandaxso to have a marriage certificate which has been issued In his name declared void, and to have It Judicially established that in the event of his death Miss Rappalo was not hla widow The marriage ceremony, according to Miss Rappalo's aflidnvit, was performed by Rev, A. Iopono, at the Church of the Holy Rosary, No. 172 Humboldt street. Ran dssso was Impersonated hy an acquaintance of Miss Rappalo. to whom she paid $10. A certificate of marriage waa filed with tha health department, and an official trans crtpt of It mas sent bv Miss Rappalo to the town in which she was born In Italy. The certificate of marriage waa recorded In Rome by the Italian government authori ties. Had It not been for the merest chance Randaixo would. In the eyes of the Italian government, have been the husband of Mlaa Rappalo, to whom he had never been mar. rted, A friend of Kandaaao's was present Rietmmandid fey Imflng phyilclim tni cbimlsts HAI BAKING has obtained the confidence 1. It complies with the Pure 2. It is the only hieh-rrrnde j. it is not maae ny a linking . Food prepared with it is free 5. It is the strongest Baking Powder cn the market. 9I.OOO.OO given for any Injurious to health found ttt Calomel Is so csrefnllv snd scientifically prepared t'int the seutrsliratioa of the ingredients Is absolutely perfect. Therefore, lood prepared with Calumet Is free from Rochelle Salts, Alum or any Injurious substsoce. All Grocers are Authorized le Guarantee this. Calonaet Baking Powder costs little. Costs a little more thso the cheap. Id furious powders now on the market, but Is a big saving ever the trust Try Calumet C when the marriage certificate was presented for recording. This friend Immediately wrote Randatxo. congratulating him on his marriage. An explanation followed. Justice Maddox of the supreme court, In declaring the marriage certificate fraudulent, enjoined Miss Rappalo from at any time representing herself as the wife of Randazto. The aftermath of the roof garden tragedy In New York furnishes a striking example of vanity In news. Just because the tragedy happened In Kew York, newspaper readers are treated dally with chronicles of the movements of the Interested parties, the gabble of the lawyers, suppositious Inter views with nobodies one dsy and contradic tions the next, Snd other gossip of no In terest to any one outside of the New York tenderloin. The editor of the dispatches appears to be Impressed with the Idea that the oountry Is famishing for tenderloin hot air. Such stuff may ault the tastea of New Yorkers. West of the Hudson It nauseates healthy stomachs. PATENT RIGHTS IN NEBRASKA. "Opportunities" In Which the ProSta Are One-Slded. New York Evening Post. A correspondent of The Omaha Bee calls ttention to neglected opportunities for selling "patent rights" In Nebraska. There are three-quarters of a million of American patents, and It would be possible to dispose of the "rights" for each In every one of Nebraska a ninety counties, yet there are only 4.047 patent rights listed In the state. However, It Is quality that counts, and If the example cited la really typical of the sort of rights sold, Nebraska need not be ashamed. A villager hired a stranger to saw hla wood, as the story goes. Presently the stranger confessed the reason for his poverty. He had spent his substance working out an Invention for keeping horses off the barb-wire fences. Such a device would be useful Indeed In a country where valuable horses oome home gashed and torn, and preaently the villager paid $2,000 for the right to sell the Invention in Nebraska- The aample was sent later. It was a sign board to be hung on the fence, and read as follows: NOTICE TO HORSES: DANGEROUS KEEP AWAY. With the sign bosrd came a pair of spec tacles for the use of near-sighted horses. There Is at least one man who did not neglect the "opportunities" In Nebraska. PERSOIAI. NOTES. M. Delcaase, ex-Mlnlster of Foreign Af faire of France, Intenda to visit the United States soon. Walter Graham Blackie of Blackle & Bona, the Scottish publishers, died the other day at the age of $1. Besides I.atln and Greek he read German, French, Italian, Spanish, Danish, Norse and Dutch, Prof. Thomas H. Teegan of the Central Training school, Dublin, Ireland, has Just arrived In America to obtain objecta of historical Interest for the International ex hibition to be held In Dublin In 1907. Dr. 8. Weir Mitchell, In writing, trusts but little to dictation, writing nearly all he has to say, then aubmtttlng the manuscript for a type-written copy. Four or five clean copies are nothing unusual In the prepara tion of a manuscript. Nathan Hawk, a veteran of the Mexican war and the man who In 1848 first brought east news of the California gold discoveries. Is a hale and hearty cltlsen of Folsom, California. He lives a few miles from the spot where James Marshall dug up the first gold found In the state. Senator Piatt of New York haa so far re covered hla health aa to take up hla resi dence at the Manhattan Beach hotel, where In former years he was wont to hold Sun day conferences with his political friends. It Is understood that theae famoua "Sunday school classes" will be resumed. The Interstate commerce commission Is trying to get Prof. Henry C. Adams, holder of the chair of economlca and finance In the University of Michigan, to devise a unl form system of bookkeeping for railroads required by the law. He will accept If he can arrange for leave of absence from the university for two yesrs. Cause of Headaches You must look well after the condi tion of your liver and bowels. Unless there is daily action of the bowels, poisonous products are absorbed, caus ing headaches, biliousness, nausea, dyspepsia. Ayer's Pills are liver pills; all vegetable, mildly laxative. We have no secrets We publish the formulas of all our medicines. IfaSe ay (fee J. O. Afw Co., Lowsll Mesa. AIM Manarsalurcrs or ATTO'S SATB VIGOR Per tee kair. ATE2'6CUEBRT PECTORAL Fot eaagaa. AY&B8 8AiaAPABltI.A-Fo tae blood. ATEB'8 AGUECUKB-Poi saalanaaadagasv FIVE REASONS WHY 1 1 (TIFT POWDER of the public. Food Laws of all states. Powder sold at a moderate price.' I -owner i rut. from Rochelle Salts or Alum. substance) Calumet powders. MRRRY JUtil.E. "That fellow Just sits still and lookl pieassnt, but I bet he's a bird." "Yes, a sort of stool pigeon." Bsltunor American. "Do you enjoy delivering speeches to youi constituents?" "Oh. yes." answered the stateaman, "only It hurts nie to have aome of them aay that speeches are the only kind of goods I can be relied on to deliver." Washington Star. "And you you cannot live unless I marry you." "1 cannot." "What will you do?" "Keep on boarding," answered the young man gloomily. "There's nothing slse." Philadelphia Press. "Yes, my family is at Ithsrgy beach. They write that they are Bleeping every night" "Ah, the same old story! Under blankets, eh?" "No; thla Is a new story. They write that they are sleeping under difficulties." Louis ville Courier-Journal. "Tour Honor, our client cannot be guilty. We contend that he Is Insane." "But the defendant himself ssys he Is of sound mind." "It Is largely upon that clrcumstsnce, your honor, we base our claim that his In sanity Is advanced and apparent." Phila delphia Ledger. "The lat time I passed through here," said the traveling man, "she waa grieving for her husband, who had Just died. I suppose she's resigned now." "Resigned," echoed the native. "That's a new way of expressing It. Yea, she's married again." Philadelphia Press. . "What I Mke about Jones Is the 'go' he has about him," remarked pater families. "What I like about him," murmured the daughter, 'Is his staging power." Baltimore American. Maud Muller was at It "I wish this muck rake huslnes would blow over. The paragraphers are getting too freah." . . Dropping her rake she threw a potato at the Judge, who Just rode past. Milwau kee Sentinel. The Preacher And now, brethren, re member that we must all appear before that dread tribunal where all our mis deeds shall be brought to light The Hearer Great seottl Is this muck raking being taken up by the churches, tooT-neveland Leader. "So vou don't envy any of the world's men of genius V "No," answered Mr. Cumrox, "I admire them, but I don't envy 'em. A genlua la a man who gets a monument after hi'i diid -Instead of three aquare meals a day while he's living." Washington Star. "Tour dpg haa perfectly beautiful teeth," said the caller, trying to be agreeable How do you know?" asked the pretty "He shows them to me every time I oome Press ' w" tbt reply. Detroit Free THE SHEEP HERDER'S BATTUE. Denver Republican. Wa call him Loco Johnson, but we say It mighty low. Since he broke the cowman's deadline over here In Idaho; And now he takes his wagon into any country strange. For the 46 he carries won the freedom of the range. He was called upon, waa Johnson, by a masked and well heeled bunch, ' And was told he'd crossed the deadline and had better take their hunch; He be called upon nest mornln' If he didn't pull his freight And then they shot tils collie and advised him not to wait. Well, old Johnson s eyes waa blatln' when he looked at his dead pup, -And them cowboys never figured on the row they'd started up; The herder spent the long night pllin' stones on Sugar Butte, Till he'd built himself a breastwork, where a man could rest and shoot. Them cowboys come at sunup, and thty thought old Loco'd fled. And the rifles started talkln and the sheep was faliin' dead; But from that tix-re fort of Loco's come a 4Vs loud cracka, And every time It spoke once dropped a puncher in his tracks. They tried to charge the fortress, but thty left four cowboys dead On the slopes of that there hillside, with old Loco overhead; And that gun kept up its talkln'. like it never Tost Its breath. And Its line of conversation was upon the theme of death. Well, they gathered up their remnants, and waa glad to get away, And, then he saw lie d won It, old Johnson knelt to pray; And he marched on, with his woollies, blacln' trail for other bands. For he'd broke the blromln' daadllne' twtxt the sheep and rattle lands ssasM