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THK OMAHA DAILY BEEs MONDAY, JULY SO, 1P0G. i w . . . . Tiie Omaha Daily Due. E. RIIPF.WATKR, F.PITOR. F.ntered at Omaha Poslotllc as second class matter. TERMS OF SI BfH RU'TiON. tvilly Hee without KinrlH, one year..l0 I 'any bee and ttumlay, otw yeat 6 Sunnnjr P.ee, one year J-&U Saturday He, i,i e year 16" lF,UVKKfc.L BY CARRIER. Daily bee (Including Sunday), pr week.. lie paliy He twitnout Bundayl, per week..Uc Evening H (althouf Hundsyt. per week -Kvenlng hea (with BuiKkayi. per week..luc Sunday Hee, per ropy So AddreM complaint! if Irregularities In de livery to City Circulation Uepertment. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. ' South Omaha city Hail Building. Council Bluff 10 Pearl Street. C'hloaao IMo Unity Huildlng. New York 15 Home Lire ina. Building W aehiogton 601 Fourteenth Street. COKKESPONDKNCB. Communlcatlona relating to new and edi torial matter anould he addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Lepartment. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order I Eayahl to The Bee Pubiisnlng Company. . inly 2-cent stamps received aa payment of man accounts, t'eraonai checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. TUB BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. . STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraaka, Uouglaa County, aa: C. C. Rosewater, general manager of The Bee Publishing Company, be in duly sworn, ays that the actual number full and complete copies of The Pally. Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed dnrlng the monio or June, in, was aa follows: 1 X,780 1 M.S10 S0.TM 4 31360 1180 S&.070 T sa.oio a i, too 38,410 10 80,SBO 11... r aa,aoo II 81,BflO la S1310 14 u,sao li SM70 It. 32,40 30.BO0 11.980 S1.810 33,000 If... II... !... II... 11 S1.M0 11 31360 U 33,370 14 30,340 21... 31,730 2 31,800 IT 81,850 2 31,780 21... 31,700 10 83,850 Totai 54.109 Lea unsold copies 10,484 Nat totai aajea M3.SS4 Pally avaraga ... M C. C. ROBE WATER, General Manager. Subscribed la my presence and sworn ta) before ma this Hn day of June. UK. (Baal ) M. B. H UNGATE. Notary Publlo. WHEN OCT OF TOWN. Sabaerlner leaving the elty tem porarily honla hair The Be aalled to these. Address will be aaagea as oftesi as repaired. The Increasing use of mica In the arts promises yet to justify those ten derfeet who .mistake the glittering scales for gold. Maxim Gorky's appeal to the Amer ican people would hare been more ef fective had he not first shocked public sentiment here. If the gulf stream carries out Us threat to homestead in Labrador the north pole when discovered may turn out to be a tropical palm. witn a formidable miners strike pending, Tonopah, Nev., emerges from the rank of a bonanza camp to that of a regular mining district. Having emerged with flying colors from th Dreyfus episode, France will bow attack a real problem that of revising tts system of taxation. tus scaeme tovput a municipal tea plant In the o)J .market'.hduse must have emaaated from someone who has had a hot time in that vicinity. Russell Sage's caution continued to the last since he left but $30,000,000 of his $70,000,000 estate in securities not Touched for by Uncle Sam. turn nuu isiana rue a nas come down from Its high horse. Score one for the combined efforts of the Omaha Commercial club and the Omaha Grain frv- t . -. - . . exchange. That former procurator of the holy synod who is said to be the power be hind the Russian throne can never break into the headlines until he short ens his name. How thoughtful In the people of Hot Springs to have extended their hospitality to the Omaha trade excur slonlsta )n the form of an invitation V take a bath. With the British in South Africa xpresrlng fear of both the Boers and the labor members of Parliament very indication is that they are plan Sing a scheme they want to keep dark Theatrical managers who are offering an engagement to Mrs. Haitje may dis cover that American theatergoers are now demanding more than a dlrorce court record from their footlight fa vorites. The State Association of Nebraska Sheriffs has been holding a meeting. The sheriffs seem to have discreetly refrained from expressing their disap proval of the Juvenile court officers' Innovation, but they doubtless thought It Just the same. The announcement from Berlin that the Hamburg-American line has made traffic arrangement with the Gould roads on international shipments may mean that a plan has been discovered to absorb rebates on shipments beyond the Jurisdiction of Tncle Sam's courts. Trom the protest of Rev. Savldge against the doctrine of nonreslstent submission of wife to husband It is fair to assume that the good pastor's wide reputation as the marrying min ister is built up in part, at least, by the omission of the injunction "to obey" from the ceremony. The present month Is expected to see the last of gasoline street lighting in Omaha. The extermination of the gasoline street lamp, .however, means simply that the money heretofore paid out to gasoline contractors will be di vided between the Electric Light com pany and the Gas company. Tut tnirA FKrrm.irAy ro.tricvTin.T. The preliminaries to the Iowa repub lican convention reveal a critical situ ation In the llawkeye siate. The ante convention tanraRR bis been eiceed Ingly bitter between the adherents of Governor Cutnmlns. who Is demanding rennmlnatlon for a third term, and his opponent, who are chiefly grouped around the leadership of Hon. George D. Perkins. The uncompromisingly hos tile spirit that seems to be still rising on the ere of the contention Is alto gether unprecedented In Iowa, where republican leadership has long been notably for conservatism, self-restraint and subordination of personal ambi tion! and factional Interests. It will be unfortunate for the party, not only in Iowa but far beyond Its boundaries. It the convention is per mitted to meet before a substantial basis of settlement is reached by the contending factions whereby union and harmony shall be secured for Its ticket and platform. Iowa has for years been Justly regarded as the republican Gib raltar in the west. Its factional troubles must of course be settled by Iowa republicans themselves, but the republicans of the country have a right to expect that such troubles will be safely and loyally settled. AS EMBARRASSED OPPOSITION. Now that the political campaign Is about to open throughout the country the difficulties before the opposition sre' beginning to dawn upon its lead ers. It is significant that up to this late hour the democratic managers have not been able to agree on the line of attack, and not one of them has yet been able to specify any Issue that impresses the public as dominant on which appeal can be confidently made i an opposition party policy. Against this extraordinary negative weakness and vacillation the repub lican position has just been sharply and conclusively stated, after a con ference between the party leaders and the president himself, being no less than a bold, straightforward challenge to the Interest and deliberate judg ment of the country on the record of congress and the administration the last two years as the positive prooLof what may be expected the next two years. There is no dodging, no "doubt, no fear. It Is impossible to conceive a stronger contrast than that which to day exists between the two parties as they front the electorate for another verdict st the polls. The record on. which the republicans stand consists of great "results actually achieved and not merely promises, in eluding the successful enactment Into law under President Roosevelt's lead ership of the historic measure for con trol of railroad rates and services, meat Inspection, pure food, denatur Ized alcohol. Panama canal and other important acts of progressive policy on vital questions, as well as the un precedented impetus given to enforce ment of law upon all. the rich and the poof, the strong and the weak alike. The opposition is in no position to assail the record, for during the whole, session of congress it dared not Join IsRir against any one of the sal ient, measures, but was compelled actually or Inferentially to approve most of them. The truth Is that, having no positive, practical program of its own by which to stand or fall, the hope of the oppo sition was that the republican party's effort to put such a program through successfully would collapse, that It would break down under factional quarrel and thus give the democracy a C hance in this contest, not through its own merit, but through republican failure. But the republican record nevertheless stands plainly written and the country Is now invited to vote with the record before its eyes. This towering fact so embarrasses the op position at the threshold of the cam paign that it is unable to decide which way to face. stays or jc. axcipatiox. The signal victory won by the busi ness men qf Omaha as organized in the Commercial club and Grain exchange In forcing the Rook' Island railroad to rescind its discriminating elevation al lowances in favor of Kansas City is sig nificant of more than appears on the surface. This speedy outcome in favor of Omaha is due without r.uestion largely to the fact that the combined Influence of these two trade organiza tions was brought to bear at the vital spot, and that they were backed in their decision by the united snd deter mined business interests of the city. It surely is gratifying to know that our business men rsn be lined up1 with out a break In a fight for Omaha's rights as sgalnst a powerful railroad corporation. That this has not been so St all times in the past will explain many of the disadvantages Omaha has been compelled to suffer at the hands of the railroads as compared with more favored competitors. It is a matter of notoriety that too often when an issue was joined be tween Omaha and one or more of the railroads enjoying Omaha's patronage, the forces that should be unanimously for Omaha have been divided and the railroads have seldom failed to find champions Inside of our commercial bodies, who ought to be talking the other way. Whether the existence of special pleaders for the railroads among our business men Is to be ac counted for by the enjoyment of re bates, the expectation of future favors, or the fear of unjust discrimination, is not material. N On frequent occasions business men, who ought to know better, have pub licly asserted that the interests of the railroads and of Omaha are identical, and that the railroad managers should be promptly given anything they might ask tor. relying on them to take ar of Omaha out of the goodness of their hearta. We hare Just had a striking emmple where the Interests of Omaha an of the railroads were not Identical nd where Omaha has had to fight for Itg rlghta. It is to be hored that the response made by our business men In this In stance Is not to be exceptional, but that the signs of emancipation from railroad Influence may prore real and lasting. The Commercial club and the Grain exchange should co-operate with the railroads In anything and erery thing that promlsps mutual benefit, but they should also be free to fight against the railroads without entang ling alliances whenever the railroads undertake to give Omaha the worst of It as againstMts rival cities. TRiiCBLS AHEAD. The menace to democratic peace in volved in the designs of William R. Heal st on the New York governorship 1 a condition, and not a theory. It Is the porn around which the politics of the Empire state, and to no small ex tent calculations regarding national politics, are now revolving. Murphy, the Tammany leader, Judge Parker and Colonel Bryan himself having al most simultaneously betrayed how par amount' they regard it at this juncture. But Mr. Bryan manifests much more nervousness than Judge Parker over the Hearst peril, taking especial pains through trans-Atlantic signals to em phasize his Invincible determination upon his return to "act entirely inde pendently of any local party troubles In New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and other states In which he Intends to speak," and "not to take sides for or against the governorship canvass of W. R. Hearst." Beyond all ques tion, if he should secure the nomina tion for governor, carrying with it seizure of the party organization, and specifically if by any means he should be elected. Hearst would at once be come a portentous factor in the na tional situation which otherwise gives promise of budding charmingly for the Nebraska statesman. And all accounts agree that the Hearst movement, now coming to a head in New York, is really formidable and that it wUl require the positive, combined and uncom.' promising opposition of the more sub stantial democratic elements through out the state to defeat it. But Judge Parker, unembarrassed now by the restraints that bind a pres idential aspirant, meets the situation squarely and throws down the gauntlet to the threatening Hearst crusade. calling all genuine democrats to ag gresslve war against it. An arduous struggle thus Is Impending and may be expected to be at its hottest about the time Colonel Bryan lands. It is furthermore typical of what may hap pen in a good many other states. If it is bis notion to hold aloof from the play of antagonistic forces struggling for maatery within the party. It may easily happen that the perfume of re eeption bouquets may ere long wane in its stern realization of things. Former Senator William V. Allen In declaring his determination not to al low his name to be considered as i candidate for congress in the Third Nebraska district keeps on referring to the populists and democrats as "fusionists." From this it is easy to sec that the program arranged by the leaders for this year contemplates go ing. through the same old farce of a double nomination of the same ticket under two party labels with the Idea of fooling someone into the belief that two separate and distinct parties still exist. The only people likely to be fooled, however, are those who put up the fusion job. The Washington correspondents are again amusing themselves reconstruct ing President Roosevelt's cabinet for him, but as they kindly reserve to the president the right to ratify the selec tions, no great harm will be done to any one except so far as they may raise false hopes in the breasts of ambitious statesmen not warned against over valuing the gratuitous mentioning of their names. The army, detachments marching to the instruction camps should find the practice thus acquired to be of as great if not greater value than the maneu vers in which they will engage at their point of destination. Marching re quires ss much discipline snd endur ance of the soldier as fighting, and in time of war the soldier does far more marching than he does actual fighting. The army best on the march Is usually the army best in action. Announcement comes that Con gressman Klnkaid has assurances from Secretary Tsft that Fort Niobrara his not been abandoned as a military sta tion, although the troops formerly sta tioned there have been transferred. The right kind or pressure energet ically applied at the proper point should be able to put Fort Niobrara back on the military map In spite of a'l obstacles. Officers of the Omaha Water com pany awwrt that no new appraiser will be appointed on the part of the water company in response to the demand of the Water board, unless under stress of a court order. If this means more fees for the lawyers for milking the cow, the move for a second ap praisement board will doubtless be ac complishing Its purpose. And now It is proposed to have the speclully employed expert accountant prolong his pull at the salary roll by checking up the city comptroller. The next thing will be to have a second ex pert to check up expert No. 1 and so on ad Infinitum as long as the money available in the city treasury holds oat OIK MVSICIP4L rAIURC. I lly t award Haa Prove Itself lS for tts reaction. Philadelphia Press. Whn Galveston, Tea , was wiped oft the face of the earth by a storm-driven flood of water from the Oulf of Metro the prohlem of reconstruction presented Itself. To facilitate the great work ahead of her she got rid of that municipal encum brance and dead weight, her city council. The elty waa Intrusted to the government of four commissioners, with such gritlfy- Ing results that the city of Houston. Tex., has concluded to adopt" the same system. Without wslting for a tidal wave to wipe Its municipal council out of existence ITonston has abolished It and adopted gov ernment by a commission. Memphis for many years dispensed with the conven tional machinery of city government, and thrived tinder Its unique organisation of a taxing district. The city of Washington the model of all these efforts. It ha proven that a city can get along ex ceedingly well without having a popularly elected council to misgovern and harass It. Popular government In this country haa a single demonstrated failure charged against it, and that Is city councils, alder men or by whatever name the body chosen to legislate for the city la called. It la everywhere a standing obstruction to good municipal government. The municipal legislature Is a source of constant com plaint and frequent scandal In almost every city. Occasionally It Is reformed. but to keep It reformed requires a con tinuity of effort and Interest that voters are not eo.ua! to. Galveston waa convinced that In her extremity a city council would be an un endurable nuisance, so it was wiped out. Houston adjudged It a nuisance at any time, and has decided to do without It hereafter. Southerners are conservative In spirit, but there are men of force In these Texas cities who do not scruple to abol ish an ancient Institution In municipal gov ernment when convinced that It Is Inef ficient, obstructive, dilatory, unintelligent and often mercenary and corrupt. PERSONAL KOTKS. M. Nosskoff, a south aide (Pittsburg) barber, last year offered a free hair-cut to all boys and girls under IS years, and h had 2,0110 children as customers. Tomorrow he will begin his second annual free cut. Alfred 6. Niles, who has Just been ap pointed to a vaoancy on the supreme bench of Baltimore city by Qovernor Wartleld, la a native of York. Pa., and a brother of H. C. Nlles, state chairman of the Lincoln party. Kanaas was the first state In the union to adopt constitutional prohibition and Sena tor Benson, the successor of Burton, was one of the three lawyers In the state senate In 1881 who framed the first prohibition law Kansaa ever bad. Ellhu Root, secretary of war, used to be a golf player. He was one of the founders of the Nassau club. He quit playing golf when he came to Washington and began riding horseback. The president says golf la a "grandmother's game." Dr. Lilllae Hamilton looked after the health of the late ameer of Afghanistan, Incidentally writing him up, and now Dr Alice Van Ingen Winter has been ap pointed palace physician by the present ameer. Her daughter, a trained nurse, la with her at Cabul. Archbibhop Ireland haa accepted an ap polntment as aide-de-camp on the staff of Commander-in-Chief Tanner, and will ride In his carriage In the Grand Army of the Republic parade at Minneapolis on August 16. Archbishop Ireland served in the civil war as chaplain of the fifth Minnesota regiment. Accurate tab has been kept on Baron Rosen, the Ruasian ambassador, since ha arrived In Washington and nobody ever saw him without a clga in his mouth or In his hand, Just read;, to put into his mouth, except when he was at a state function or dining, and then he always smokes between courses. 'A notable confirmation, took place recently In Dublin at the procathedral. Archbiabop Walsh conferred the sacrament of con firmation on , nearly L.000 children. The actual conferring laated two hours and the ceremony was concluded by the admlnls teiing of the temperance pledge and i strong exhortation to the children to faith fully discharge all their religious duties. Dollar and the Dinner. Minneapolis Journal. When you find that the dollar is not so strong and does not gq as far as it for merly did there may be some consolation in the exact statistics. Dun's Index figures show that the buying value of the dollar you pay now is to the buying value of the dollar you borrowed a year ago aa M.S12 is to 105.216; by so much have prices Increased in the year past. There la some hope in the fact that June showed a decline. On June 1 the Index number waa 106.794, and on July 1 It was but 106. ;i I f'laaslfled Shopping;. New York Tribune. The Boston Herald tells a story of woman who went to the book departmen of a big modern store and Inaulred for "Crabbe's Tales," and was po'tfly In formed that fish and provisions were on the ground floor. That's the beauty of shopping In Boston. They have everything so well classified. Still, would not a card catalogue be better? It certainly would save the time of the Intelligent clerk, and perhaps the temper of the customer who happens to want "Crabbe's Tales." Williams In a Walk. New York Sun. The Hon. John Sharp .Williams of Yazoo has been renominated fer congress. He haa the surest thing In America. The vote In the Eighth Mississippi district In Iff waa ISM for Wllllame. Down there the feudal or patrlarchlal system, or whatever it may be called, obtalna as nowhere else In the civilised world ; and yet Hinds, Madison Rankin, Warren and Yasno rountlea are so full of negroes that a white face looks like polished Ivory. Senatorial Verbaslty. Boston Tranacrlpt. Iye1 Ankeny. the senator from Washing ton, on being Interviewed, admits that he haa sometlmaa thought that Dolllver, I Follette and such orators lose much of the effect of their speeches by talking too long. Out of the mouths of babes and Ankenys rometh wisdom. Kmhlena of Democracy. San Francisco Call. In his last letter from Egypt Mr. Brya says "the donkey poor, patient creator hsa not changed materially in 4.000 years. He learns nothing and forgets nothing and Is the emblem of the democratic party Uatherlasr of th Relatives. Cleveland Plain Dealer. That the scattered relatives of the lat Russell gage will promptly make them selvea known la beyond question. And the legal profession has good cause to be de lighted over the uprising. One ThlnsT Sage Did. Milwaukee Sentinel. In avoiding the chorua girl habit the late Russell Sage set a shining example to torn of our modern financiers. Well rise ta Start. Chicago Tribune. Anyhow the liO.OuC.OOO Brick trust starts ut wits a good supply of rock, F. BR 4 K 4 PKtTORttt. Plr. Kearney Huh (rep). The Omaha Bee comes out squarely and emphatically against a possible dark horse or the senate. The contest la between Rosewater and Brown, and the Indications re that the latter will lead when the cotin- es have all been heard from, but no mat ter how that may be, the Issue should be settled squarely between them, and any other course will not be satisfactory to he masses of republicans or to those other partisans who have a minority Interest Irj the senatorshlp. Pioneer la the Movement. Norfolk News (rep.). In the matter of Instructions on United States senator, which has become so pop ular with county conventions this year, there Is a strong sentiment to give the county to Hon. Edward Rosewater of Omaha. .It Is believed that If the true sentiment of the county as a whole Is ex pressed by the delegates at the convention such Instructions will be given. Mr. Rose- ater has been advocating anti-monopoly measures for the past third of a century In Nebraska, and now that publlo senti ment has come to his way of thinking It seems but Just and fair that he be given the benefit of the sentiment which he has been largely Influential In building up. A Few Fakes CorrecteS. Fomeroy (la.) Herald (rep.). The Register-leader likens the campaign In Nebraska with that of Iowa, that Ne braska has taken the fever from the progressives" of this state, headed by Governor Cummins. The Register-leader in Just as far off on this as It Is In gen eral. According to this highly enlightened eheet, Norrls Brown is the "progressive," fighting for the United States senatorshlp. s against Edward Rosewater of The Omaha Bee, a corporation tool. Never was a newspaper farther from tha truth or had less foundations for Its sallies. n the first place Nebraska Is not taking pattern from Iowa upon any of these ques- lons advocated by Governor Cummins and his followers. As to railway rates, the proper control of railroads by legislation. tc, Nebraska has Advocated toes ques tions for thirty-five years, it might truth fully be said It has always been a ques tion at Issue In that state since It has been a state. In the second place, Edward Rosewater, through the columns of The Bee, was the rlglnal champion of that cause, the leader. persistent and perpetual champion ef It. He has been so, even harshly and arbi trarily. And now for this Des Moines paper, to thus brand an old war horse. It is just a little too much. Nebraska has advocated the primary law for years. It Is not new there, and copied from Governor Cummins. Nebraska re publicans were advocating a primary law while Governor Cummins was a corpora tion attorney and was elected governor ss such. The theories of Governor Cummins have all been spread over Nebraska long years ago. His tariff ripping policy, free silver dogmas, Canadian reciprocity, were all hashed and rehashed over Nebraska by Bryan, Allen, Jim Weaver, Mary Ellen Lease, Sockless Simpson, the Texas cyclone and a host of other populists. All of these dogmas were ground Into mince meat long ago In Nebraska. Gov. ernor Cummins haa just simply picked up hese old dried and wind-tossed popullstlc particles from Kansaa and Nebraska and Is now trying to make palatable pie of them upon which Cummins can ride Into office. That Is all. Aa to tha fight between Brown and Rose water, we have nothing special here to say. Both ar virtually upon the same sine. urown is a Drignt young lowa boy man, who has done good services for the state aa Nebraska's attorney general. Rose water has pegged away on the same Una for thlrty-flve years. The corporations will probably Una up between them be cause tbey cannot do better. But the Reg. ister-Ieader better "go away back and wit down'' and not try to palm another fake upon the people. Rosewater waa at the helm when the Register-Leader wasn't. Anti-Railroad Sentiment Strong. Holdrege Cltlsen (rep.). , There Is a strong feeling throughout the state that the railroad politician and man ipulator should take a back seat this year In the primary elections held In Douglas county last week Rosewater won a great victory and will have the solid Douglas county vote In hie vest pocket to help carry out his aspirations for United States sen ator. This makes him a strong candidate In the state convention. Whether it Is true or not that Rosewater Is backed by the railroad politicians, as is charged In soma quarters, certain It is that he hitherto has fought the railroads and In former years they would likely have opposed him. It Is true, however, that the anti-railroad fac tion Is massing Itself behind the banner of Norrls Brown, and whichever of these men Is selected aa the senatorial candidate at the state convention will show that the antl-rallroad sentiment Is stronger than ever before in this state. Aa to Dark Horses Nebraaka City Tribune (rep.). Mr. Rosewater la out In a strong editorial in The Bee objecting to any "dark horse" feature In the senatorial race. He does not specifically state whether he includes the 'Brown" horse In the general classification of "dark" horses or not, but It Is to be supposed that he does. It might be guessed under the clrcumstancea that nothing short of a peroxide blonde horse would fit Mr. Rosewater s rules of a "fair entry" prin cipally because there are none such snd under the running rulea Mr. R. could canter over the course on race day and pull down the purse aa fairly won. There Is no ob Jectlon In these quarters to sny man win ning, but let us have a genuine rare with all the horses that rare to enter In It. Park hor". I'sht horses, runners, trotters and pacers, snd may the beat horse win. A f.et-Together Saggeeilea. Crete Vldette-Herald (rep). Why cannot the Roaewater and Brown delegates to the state convention hold caucus and "reason together," possibly they could agree on E. Roaewater for sen ator and Norrls Brown for attorney general, Brown has commenced the work of enforc Ing the laws, give him a second term and allow him to complete the good work. Mr. Rosewater Is getting pretty well along in years and donbtless would not want the senatorshlp but one term. Mr. Brown Is a young man and. In six years from now, could take the auccessnrshtp to Mr. Rose water with grace and otentty. This would be a double victory for the people of the state. Narrowing Dowa. David City Banner (rep ). At the present time the situation appeara to have narrowed down between Brown and Roaewater. While thai paper la for Brown, thla paper can heartily support Mr. Roaewater should the convention endorse bim. Roaewater Seatlsaeat Predominates Madison Chronicle (rep.). Although the convention took no action regarding the United States senatorshlp, yet it was apparent that the Roaewater sentiment predominated and that he would have been tha choice of th convention had It come te vet. INDIA AND CEYLON Tea : There la no guesswork in buying Tetloy's Tea, as every housewife tfho has tried it knows. Given a fair trial, it will prove its superiority over all. McCORD, BRADY & CO., Wholesale Agents, Omaha. BITS OP WAIHGTO I.1FK. j orne Ripples on the t'vrrent of Exist ' enee at the National Capital. I Greater salaries for the higher govern ment positions, where executive ability Is required, and lower ones for the lower positions, which are considered to be too highly paid, together with a regular sys tem of promotion, will be the report of the Keep commission to the president. Uncle Sam Is a hard taskmaster, and pays poor salaries for the higher posi tions, where, though great ability Is re quired, the compensation Is nothing like as large as that paid by business Arms. On the other hand, salaries attached to the lower positions, where ordinary ability s required, are much larger than those paid In the commercial world for similar posts. This will be the verdict of the Keep commission, appointed by President Roosevelt to make an Investigation for the purpose of placing the government depart ments on s modern business basis, and to provide for the readjuatment of salaries. The facts mentioned have been brought out In the report of the Keep subcom mittee on the adjustment of salaries. The report will show that In cities like Philadelphia and New York Uncle Sam pays poorly to the lower position. The report will also say that In many inatancea the government has lost the services of valuable clerks because there was no incentive for the clerk of large ability to remain In the national service where political Influence Is neceasary to secure advancement to positions that re quire confirmation by th senate. An adjustment of salaries can. It Is be lieved, be effected without Increasing th appropriation for the clerical force, aa the cut In the lower grades will offset the Increase In the higher. Secretary of th Treasury Shaw found out one day last week that he Is absent minded. A week ago, wishing to talk over some official matters with Commissioner Garfield, of the Corporation Bureau, be scribbled off an Invitation to luncheon and mailed It. This was the last he thought of the matter until today, when he reoelved letter addressed "L.. M. Shaw, Des Moines, la." The letter had been orig inally posted In Washington and then for warded from Iowa back to the secretary here. "By Jingo!" exclaimed Mr. Shaw ("Jingo" being his worst cuss word), "that Is as perfect an Imitation of my signature as I ever saw." Thereupon he opened the envelope and out dropped the Invitation to Mr. Qnrfleld. "If a fellow's bills were only mailed to him by aa absent-minded person as did that Job," remarked Mr. Shaw with a smile, "what an Ideal world this would bar- Announcement was made at the Carnegie Institution In Washing-ton of Important scientific developments by the experts of this organisation, which will have a far reaching effect on mankind. As a result of Initial investigations under taken by sclent. sts employed by the Car negie institution. It will be possible within the next year or two to reduce by one day the time required by transatlantic steamers In making the trip from New York to Europe. The time between San Francisco and the orient will be cut down between two and three days. Two years ago the Carnegie institution purchased and outfitted the Oalilee, a sail ing ship, for the purpose of making a mag netic aurvey around the globe. The work of the surveyors haa progressed far enough to determine that all the existing charts of lines of equal magnetic variation are Incorrect, especially those of the Pacific ocean. From San Francisco to Honolulu they are systematically off from one to two degrees. Tha scientists on the Galrtce are also determining the influence of steel construction on variatlona of the com pass. A table of variations is being pre pared whlrh, with the new and correct charts which will be Issued, will enable mariners to steer an absolute course dur ing rains and foga when no sun observation can be taken, and with an accurate knowl edge of the degree of variation in the compass. The young couples of the southeast are beginning to believe that the old aaylng, "All th world loves a lover," Is contrary to fact. The edict has gone forth from police headquarters that all spooning" In the triangle at Fourteenth street and Mas sachusetts avenue southeast must stop. And It has stopped. Recently the sleuths of the Fifth precinct police station have stood St th entrances to the triangle and not a couple has entered the conftnea of the plot. Ever since the triangle was opened to th For the Children To succeed these days you must have plenty of grit, courage, strength. How is it with the children? Are they thin, pale, delicate? Do not forget Ayer's Sarsaparilla. You know it makes" the blood pure and rich, and builds up the general health. Sold for 60 years. We have no secrets! We publish the formulas of all our medicines. SUa kg the . O. Are O.. Lewell, BUM. Ala M fiom t f AYIS'i lAfl TIOOl ?er th hair. mi l PILLS - eeastlMtie. ATSS'SCHSKST FTCTOKAL Vet cga. AIEa'S AGIIBCUM-Fw xaajaMaasaft. public, twenty-seven years ago. It has been considered an Ideal place for ."spooners." Night after night, when the shades of darkness hud enshrouded the city, count less couples from the southeast section have wended their way to the triangle. There, under the trees they have whis pered sweet nothings. But that la a story of other days. No longer do the young folks of the southeast hasten from their homes after supper to meet their loved ones at some corner and then hurry to the triangle. The power tbat be have put an end temporarily to lovemaklng In the southeast. Hut this, say the young couples, will not be for long. Iove will find a way. They hope fbr a place where the cops of, the Fifth precinct polh-e station cannot enter and outlaw as they did the trystlng places in the triangle. Old Aunt Vlney Field, a colored mammy whom her dsuighter, Ellen Bowers, ss was 118 years old, died recently at her home, 215 Virginia avenue southeast. Kllen claims that her mother clearly remembered George Washington, and had often told of events of that period. The aged woman waa burled by the district government. Aunt Vlney waa born, her daughter rnys. In 1786. She was the Have of Henry Field of Madison county, Virginia, and renin Inert In his household until the time uf the Mexican war, when she was sold. During the time she lived with the family of Mr. Field she saw and heard much of General Washington, and she often related his deeds to her children and grandchildren. At the beginning of the civil war she be longed to Sinclair Bouton of Madison county, but when freed went to Tennessee. Ten years later she came to this city and lived here until her death. She Is sur vived by her daughter, with whom she lived, and one son. Willis Field. 1 " POR A RUG MONDAY. Esmeralda Fanny Is taking lessons on the violin. I suppose she wsnts to develop her arms. Gwendolen That's where you foonle. She Is taking up the violin because she has well developed arms. Chicago Tribune. "You've read his novel. Is It a love story?" "Yes, If intended to be. There's a young naval officer In it and a cad and an Idiotic chump" "But what'i the hero like?" "I'm telling you. The hero Is all. three of them." Philadelphia Public ledger. Church Going to Chicago, I hear? Gotham Yes. I have to start tndav. Church You'll go on the train that's only one night on the road, I suppose? Gotham No: the train T sro on will be two nights on the road. You see, 1 want to put If off as long as possible: Yonker Statesman. Sport I suppose most of this race sui cide business Is in the summer? Statistlelsn I do not know of any auch Hmntl U'hvt Sport Well, the only track' that drte much In the winter Is at New Orleans, and there atn't many of the boys that go broke down there. Cleveland leader. "I've half a mind to go Into the peek ing business. I wonder if there Is any thing In canned meats?" "If you have been resiling the papers lately you ought to know that there Is." Houston Post. "Hang ItV angrily exclaimed the un successful contributor. "I don't s'pe there's anything I could write that yoi'd accept." "I reckon not." replied the country edi tor; I don't s'pose yon could write s check for a year's subscription, could ye?' Philadelphia Record. "And you will not reproach m for not being of noble lineage," said the senti mental heiress. "Certainly not," answered Count F-.irash. "I prefer you so. People of noble llie are now-a-days seldom dlatlnpiilshed by the pecuniary plentltude which your fsthr" enjoys." Washington Star. THK OI.II I.OVE LETTER. Written for The Bee. Mere is the letter, but where Is the hana That traced these rftffertlonnte lines? I pause and I wonder while mutely 1 stand And the light of fond memory shines. Here is the letter, but where is th heart That beat In its tranpnris of bliss? When It felt that these lines of Itself were a part. And It sweetened each word with a kiss. Here Is the letter, but where Is the soul That lighted thoxe beautiful eye? That shone like the planets that over me roll When night spreads her sapphlrene skies. Here Is the letter, but where Is the voire I hsrd like the notes of a dove? That once nmde my heart in it sorrow rejoice. And I drank from the Chalice of I.ove. Here Is the letter, snd to that will I cling, And feast on its contents for sye. Till the angel of death In Its mercy shnll bring The good thst has vanished awsv. Rev. George W. Crofts. Wegt Point, Neb.