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4 TITE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1905. Ti ie. Omaha Daily Bee. E.. ROSBWATEB, EDITOR. Entered at Omaha poatomo as aeoond elaa matter. TftUlS OP FUBSCRIPTION. Ially (without Sunday), on yr..HO lJljr be and Sunday, on rear W Sunday Bee, on year f M Saturday Bee, on year VM DELIVERED BI CARRIER. Dally Br (Including Sunday), Pr week. .170 Ually Br (without Sunday), per week..l Kvenlng p (without Sunday), per week 0 Evening & (with Sunday), per week..lOo Bunday Bm pr opy Address complaint of Irregularltle In de livery t City Clreulatlnn Department. , offices. Omaha Th Be Building. South Omaha City Hail Building. Council Bluff 10 Pearl fltreeC Chlcagc1 Unity Building. New Terk US"" Horn Lite In. Building washing-tore-Ml Fourteenth Street. . CORRESPONDENCE. Commsnloations relating to new and edi torial matter should b addressed: Oman Be. Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft. express 'or postal order Payable, to The Bee Publishing Company. Only t-oent stamps received a payment of mall account. Personal check. except op Omaha or essrern exchange, not accepted. THE BTEB PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska. Douglas County, : C C, Rowatr, general manager 01 The Be Puallshlnr company, being duly worn, aay that the actual lumber or full and complete eople of The Dally, Morning. Evening and Sunoay Bee printed during the month of July, 10 wa aa follow!, 1 00,140 IT susao I ;... SL710 II SX.830 83,630 . S1.SS0 4 saoo o slmo 83,800 11 sa,4ao SLMO II SO.SO0 I saao ti si,7M s , aojoo 14 ai,8o S1.M0 II S1.630 II SLMO II SLS70 II. .. SLMO IT..- S1.7B0 II S3.6M II M.1M II S3.300 II 80,60 It S4.000 10 81,830 II SO.4O0 11 81,10 ii saoo v Total ...MT.MO Le unsold cople , 10.BSS Net total salts S?B,M Dally average L6l C C ROSEWATER, Oeneral Manager. Subscribed In my preeence and won 40 before me una list aay oc juiy. . (Seal.) M. ii. HLiNUAlJU Notary Public. f WHEN OUT OF TOW. gnnaorla-er lea Via a- the etty tas rarity hemld fcav The Bee Mail tm them. Address will b aaaasr1 mm eftea as repaired. Now tht DIm Debar Is out of jail, Cassis Chadwick wiU have to look to ber laurels. The average American will pay little attention to any dispute of Chairman Shonts and Mr. Gorapers provided the Panama canal is dug. With two receivers of the defunct Chicago .bank quarreling, creditors might aa well give up hope of divi dends on their claims, The sultan of Morocco evidently be lieves It Is better to. change his capital than to change his policy, but he may find It necessary to do both. The selection of a grand duke to represent the czar in ; th conference with King- Edward and Emperor Wil liam indicates that the government of Russia Is still a family affair. The -sultan's illness came at an op portune, time if he really has a desire to avoid greeting 'the new American ambassador; but Mr. Leishman would receive Just as warm a welcome from a new sultan.'. If the government carries out its in tention of building irrigation ditches in the west without letting contracts it may train in a force of men which will be useful In the final work on the Panama canal. That thirteen- of the applicants for certificates from the Nebraska Board of Pharmacy should have failed to paM the examination furnishes con elusive proof again that the cabalistic anmber Is unlucky. Recruiting officers of the navy are going to try to attract enlistments here In Omaha by the moving picture device Now if the army recruiting officers win only follow suit we may have a continuous performance. Heports of the Rock Island and 111! sols Central roads for last year show gratifying results, but the railroad re ports tor next year will be more inter esting the first to show the effect of the new rate regulation laws. At least' one of the new democratic members. of the; city council seems tc nave trouble in digesting that plat form which all the candidates swal lowed with their eyes shut when tht municipal campaign wu on. Since Secretary Root's visit to South America France has discovered that the Latin republics owe much to Eu rope but.' dating from the death oi Garibaldi,' it will be difficult to find the man to whom the debt is due. Before ' advancing too far on their program of conciliation members of the Ruwian "Octoberlst" party might profitably study the history of the French revolution with particular ref erenee to the fate of the Girondists. Suits have been brought against the railroads to recover penalties for vio lations of the federal safety appliance act The same safety appliance law supposed to ornament the Nebraska statutes, but It reposes peacefully alongside of the nd-treat law. ReVrMenUttve Dodge. In his little proclamation accompanying his filing certificate tor renomlnatlon, Is densely silent about "Howell water bill No. I." which he sponsored In the legislature to make sure that the Immediate and compulsory purchase of the water plant should not go by the board Perhapa that is one part of his legis lative record to which he will not In sist pojaUng with pride A STASD FAT CAMPAIGN. In the reiterated assurance by Chair man Sherman, of the' congressional national committee, after another con ference with President ilobeevelt, that 'the campaign text book will be a stand-pat document.' the term "stand pat" Is, of course, employed in a broad sense, with special reference to. the record of the administration and of congress at its last seaelon. In short, the party will go before the people on Its freshly made record, .as the late Senator Hanna six years ago proposed to go on the record of the then expir ing congress, including particularly the Dlngley tariff act. when be declared. 'We shall stand pat." In the nature of the case there Is nc alternative, nnless the party should re solve expressly or Impliedly to repudi ate its own record and the president and to appear before the people con fessing unworthlness. The strongest claim it has for the renewal of public confidence is precisely the legislative and administrative results which, un der the leadership of Theodore Roose velt, have been accomplished. He was elected two years ago by a phenomenal popular majority because his program contemplated such results, and in for warding them he has received up, to the present time not less notable evi denced of popular approval. As two years of the president's term yet remain, during which be was com missioned in 1904 to carry out the pro gram of subordinating the representa tives of centralised wealth, corporate and individual, to the equal rules of Justice and public welfare the para mount issue necessarily must be whether the people In the coming elec tion will on the record sustain him and his party. .-. As to the tariff, the president could 'stand pat" on his epochal effort to control corporations, for which the people commissioned him to the White House, and refuse to be diverted from it or embroiled In a general tariff re vision for which the. people are not yet urgently pressing ahead of the other great work in hand. The strate gical strength of President Roosevelt's position, as emphasised by the stand pat campaign book which is to be is sued with his approval, ia becoming more apparent every day as the contest progresses. For the opposition is un able to Join issue as a party on any one important measure or point in the work of the late session of congress, most of which they were forced by public opinion actually to support. FORFEITURE! OF NATURALIZATION. There will be no little objection to enforcement In the United States of the policy indorsed by the pan-American conference whereby a naturalized citizen is to be presumed to have for feited citizenship If he " renews resi dence In his native country for two years. There are doubtless . special reasons why some of Ihe American re publics, parties to the conference, de sire such a rule, but such reasons have not been apparent In our experience. According to our practice and senti ment, naturalization wipes out utterly distinction as to rights and privileges between native born and foreign bocn citizens. It would hardly be proposed seriously here that a native-born . citl- sen should forfeit citizenship on a presumed abandonment by resi dence abroad for two years or any other period, and It would be generally regarded as an unjustifiable discrim ination to inflict' such a consequence upon others who have In good faith acquired our citizenship. So far as the United States is con cerned, the government has been sub jected to interminable annoyance and at times to serious embarrassment by persons of foreign 'birth who. have neither sought nor used citizenship in good . faith, but subsequent residence In the land of their nativity, is not a satisfactory test of, good faith, and In our circumstances at least is one of the least of the difficulties. ' LABOR FOR.THH cifAU) The labor question is proving for us as it did for the French one of the most formidable Involved -in Panama canal construction. The labor, skilled and unskilled, has air- to be .imported because it does not exist on the isth mus. It is utterly Impossible to secure the amount required, or even a small fraction In the United States,1 In spite of the high wages and other induce ments offered It. has been,, found ex tremely difficult to get competent men to accept the more desirable places or skilled labor for the Indispensable placM. " v ' But the great problem, of course, Is common labor, tor which tens of thou sands are required. . White men. whether of the United States' or any other country, simply will not do the work, and the only possible supply In the neighborhood 1s the black popu lation in the mainland countries or the Islands of the Carrlbean Ma.' They are native to the climate, and thou sands of them have been employed by the' government in the operations since it took over the work from the French But they are unreliable and their effi ciency from one irremovable cause or another is extremely low. If the government Is forced to depend on them, years will be added to the period of construction and unnumbered millions to its cost. This Is the extremity which bu driven the, government to seek for a better labor supply among the Chi nese. It Is known that.' while endur ing the climate better even than the blacks, they are Incomparably more efficient aa common laborers. It Is lav possible, at least for a long time, to render healthful or even tolerable to whites the conditions onder which the common laborers will be employed, al though In the towna and ia a largo part of the canal tone Mnltatloa' hu accomplished wonders. Dut malaria Infested jungles and swamps stretch far on either side of the line of exca vation. The Chinese are said to be the only efficient tollers that are Immune to such conditions. The very" words, "Chinese," "coolies" and "contract labor" grate on popular prejudice, but Intelligent people in con sidering this great national undertak ing will look below the surface to the substance and face the facts squarely. This Is what the administration is do ing in response to the Imperious de mand that the canal be verily finished at the earliest possible day and by the most effective means. 90 FIFTT'TKAR FRASCHISE. When the Omaha Gas company un dertook to railroad a fifty-year exten-. ston of Its franchise through the city council some twelve years ago The 1 Bee voiced the overwhelming public j sentiment with a vigorous protest against the fifty-year term, as well as several other odious features, and after a stubbornly contested bout In the courts the gas compsny was compelled to abandon Its effort and content Itself with a twenty-five-year extension. Without entering into the merits or demerits of the dual telephone scheme, the same arguments which told so et-! fectlvely against the fifty-year gas franchise apply Just as strongly against any fifty-year franchise, whether for telephone, electric light, gas or street railway 'service. Fifty years goes far beyond the next gen eration. No one can foresee what will occur before that period shall have ex pired, apd the present mayor and council have no right now to tie up those who are to come after them for fifty years. One of the points made by the city In the recent water works litigation to set aside the maximum rate schedule exacted by the water company from private consumers was that the twenty-five years which this schedule was to continue constituted an unrea sonable length of time, and while the court did not sustain the contention, It would have done so. In all prob ability, had the period been fifty years instead of twenty-five years. . If twenty-five years were as long as our people were willing' to extend the gas franchise, reserving the right to make a new extension under more fa vorable terms at the end of that time, it should be the limit for every fran chise ever granted by the city. It it should be deemed desirable to give our streets over to a second telephone company the city surely should not be required to wait more than twenty five years to get a readjustment of the terms to conform to conditions as they then may exist. In twenty-five years any franchlsed corporation might be glad to stipulate for another twenty-five years at five times the royalties it is now willing to pay. If Omaha grows as it should grow it will be a city of not less lhan 150,000 at the end of twenty-five years, and it would be rash to venture a guess as to its probable wealth and population at the end of fifty years. To ask for a fifty-year mortgage on Omaha's future growth seems to us to. be overstepping all bounds. The court decision at Kansas City adverse to the claim of a party com mittee to require a voter to declare that he had cast a straight party bal lot at the preceding eleclon as a pre requisite to voting at a primary elec tion is interesting in recalling the Gil bert test oath law put through the Nebraska legislature four years ago by the so-called "antis." This law under took to require the voter on oath to attest that he had voted for a majority of the party nominees at the preceding election. If the straight party ticket qualification la void, as now Judicially declared, because it violates the m- crecy of the ballot, a declaration as tc a . majority of the candidates on the ticket would equally violate the se crecy of the ballot Fortunately, this Gilbert test oath law has been super seded. It will be conceded that It is perfectly proper for the legislature or party committees to require, as is now required in Nebraska, a declaration of affiliation with a particular party so, as to prevent voters from participating in primary elections of more than one party, but they have no right to pry into any ballot cast at a previous elec tion. According to a call duly Issued the socialists of Douglas county will hold a couuty convention for the purpose of nominating the legislative and county ticket. What status the noml nees of this convention will have un der the new primary election law, which j bars names going on a ticket at party nominees except as chosea by direct primary, remains to be seen. It the socialists can ignore the com pulsory features of the primary elec tion law, so can all the other political parties. There is no question but that Omaha's sewerage system must be ex tended ultimately to cover all parts of the Inhabited area within the munici pal limits, but the work of extension must be done as resources at our. com mand for that purpose permit. Rome was not built In a day, and neither will be a complete sewerage system In Omaha. The Colorado election case has so far proven that a woman voted after having been given a tax receipt on property she did not own. Evidently the equal suffrage experiment Is sev eral points to the bad in lta effort to "elevate the ballot." The democratic state convention meets at Lincoln- today. , If the railroad end of the democracy la In control it will paas by the nomination of a candidate for United States sena tor and head the state ticket with some good, aafe corporation man, un der the plea that he must be a demo crat and not a populist. Governor Mickey Is now trying tc distinguish between his responsibility as father of the South Omaha police commission and his responsibility as father of the Omaha police commis sion. The difficulty Is to figure out which are the stepchildren. Upton Sinclair says he will prepare a book dealing with the private llvet of Pittsburg millionaires, but he will probably find that the divorce courts have "scooped" him on the facts and that Anthony Corhstock's censorship is waiting for his fiction. - Back to Ft ret Prlaelalea. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Happy th man who lives in a shirt sleeves neighborhood. 1 Hick Art la Pare reel. Washington Post. Speaking of pure food, statistics show that 118,706,600 pig's feet were pickled In 1105,' and the soutlook for a bumper crop this year ia good. Prorogation tor Betas; Good. Cleveland Newa. As the Sugar trust had ample warning of an Impending Investigation no doubt it will be found to hava been leading a strictly righteous life lately in the matter Of rebates. , Governor - Maa-ooa la DemaaC. Brooklyn Eagle. Governor Magoon's success In placating the Panaraana Is great enough to war rant lending him around to all our col onies In turn. Oh, If wa could borrow him for New York! 8as;eatlTa Naval Leasoaa. Pittsburg ' Dispatch. Perhaps one reason why American battle ships run aground, collide and explode their guns Is to Impress on the American nation the salutary lesson that they can destroy themselves and each other without entailing the additional cost in Ufa and money of going to war. The Matarlaar Crap. Chicago Chronicle. An estimate based on the government crop reports for August places the yield of all cereals thla year at 4,421,000,000 bush els, against 4,511,000,000 bushels last year. This is a difference, of only 15,000,000 bushels against this year, which will be the second in the records of the country In point of abundance of cereals If the estimate provea correct Taken at Their Word. Philadelphia Record. During the Campaign In Iowa the rail roads were so lntemperately eager to 'de feat Governor Cummins that they circu lated the statement that the governor had not Increased their assessments as muoh as he had increased the assessments of farm property. NIt'vas the worst case of biting off one's nose to spite one's face that could be Imagined. They did not beat the governor, and now ha and the execu tive council have taken their own word for It and added 14,000,000 to their assessed valuation, so that they will pay nearly 1150,000 a year for 'the Idiocy of accusing him of partiality to themselves. THE CAVSjjallp .THE PARTY.. , Roosevelt Polities Will Prevail Loagr " After 10OS. Ptlladelphla Press. Associate Justice Brewer Af the supreme court Is added to those who have In the last week repeated what the Press author!. tatlvely recorded still earlier, that Presi dent Roosevelt will not be a candidate for re-electron two years hence. The president has passed his word to his fellow cltlsen., Fie will keep It. His pur pose will not change. Like his illustrious predecessor, Washington, Theodore Roose velt knows that to a republic no one man is 'ever necessary.- When only one man Is available to become Its chief executive a country has ceased to be a republic, and when a party has but one man with whom It can carry the country that party ha ceased to be a great national force. This Is not true of the republican party. It has not been. It will not be. Cause and party are more than men. President Roosevelt haa launched a great cause. He haa begun the application of the twin American principles of the su premacy of law and the equality of rights to the control of great corporations, and the work he has begun will be completed. It is not dependent on any one man; but the candidate selected mnst represent the cause, Inspire the party and be .himself. In his own person, record and associations, a nleda-e that he Understands the task. Is equal to It and has full sympathy - with and understanding of the policy of the present administration. Bucb a candidate will be found, he win be nominated and he will be elected. The executor of President Roosevelt's political testament as he retires from the great work he has done Is not going to be selected by the democratic party. REPV'BLICAIt .POLICIES APPLIED. . ' ' Effective Restriction on the Power of Corporation. Philadelphia Press. : i Five years ago' when the Bteel trust was organised with its 11,500,000,000 of capital. It was a wide and general Impression at home and abroad that railroad and trust together could override the lsw, control legislation and dominate the situation, as far as the consumer waa concerned. When the republican party began a year later, under the Inspiration of Theodore Roosevelt's speeches and his leadership, to demand that corporations should be brought under full control of the law many 'disbelieved and mora scoffed. A large crop of ; cartoons showing "the trusts" treating any regulation of corpora tion by the republican party as a hug and Incredible joke. No trust haa that view today. No rail road doubts that the law ia supreme. No head of 'any great trust or railroad 1 treating public opinion aa something that can be neglected or met by buying up a legislature. The entire national horlsen gives proof of the new power and pe Uncy of law In regulating corporate ac tion. No coal corporation this year eared lightly to force a atrlke. After on set of Ice dealers had faced the penitentiary In toledo the various los combinations In our large cities stopped advancing the prlo of Ice. Railroad rebates to trust have stopped, after the conviction and the legislation of the apring. Seventeen suit were begun last week for failures to pro vide safety brakes. Every railroad em ploy has a new right to sue for damages when Injured through the negligence or a co-employee In Interstste commerce. Th Beef trust I seeking and accepting a drastic Inspection. Even the Standard Oil trust has become spolegetlc and Issues a atatement once a week appealing to public opinion. The big Insurance com panles ar under the curb of law. AD around, thanks to Roosevelt's republican policy, the grest corporations are under a new legal sentroL ROlD A BO IT NEW TORK. ' Rlaale oa the Correal of 1.1 fe la the Metroaolls. The growing do of concrete as a build ing material In New Tork city haa broken the brlckmakera' combine and materially reduced the demand for bricklayers. An Idea of the rapid extension of concrete as a building material may be had from the statement that It Is belng'used In 00 build ings now under construction. The fall In the price of brick haa approximated 50 per cent. The Bun regards the change from rtone and brick to concrete aa promising an early reduction In the exeesslve rents now txacted, baaing Its hope on the greater economy of the latter material. Bpeaklng about the altitude of New Tork rents, the Press says, "Owners of apart ment houses In New Tork have adopted apparently for all time the renting plan of sky-touching office Structures In the com mercial and financial quarters. Inquire of the agent of a scraper, 'How much rent? He may say, 'Five dollars a foot.' He means IS a. square foot, so thst an office 10x15 will cost you 7M a year. I'ntll very recently apartmenta were rented 'en bloc,' aa we would aay In Paris. So much for this flat, so much for that. But, bless you, while wa have not yet arrived at a matter of square feet In the hire of a domicile. It Is put to us by the up-to-date agent or Janitor that we shall pay so much a room. Tou want a seven-room flat. Oh, very well. Th price Is HO a room each month, or 1210 a month for the apartment, "Never speak of a fashionable residence In a pigeon box as a flat.' Nothing over til a month Is a flat TJp among the elect we aay 'apartment." To speak of a 'ten ement' In high life Is to refer to a sort of morgue In the University Settlement, where wealthy heiresses with nothing else to do to while away their time make acquaint ance of poor young men with an eye to windward and finally marry them willy nilly to startle the world with their saintly emotionalism. Apartment life Is amaslngly popular, particularly among those who like to shup up shop In the summer and free as a bird Hit to the mountains. To several thousand people In thla city from SJ.000 to $9,000 annual rent for an apartment Is a mere bagatelle. They get the equivalent." West street. In New Tork, presents a network- nf ni,n and docks for Its whole length, says Leslie's Weekly. Most of the great steamship and railway transporta tion companies have their pier terminals there, and other steamship companies have built their terminals on the New Jersey shore opposite; so that all transatlantic, and a lirt, share of the continental trav elers must cross West street In coming to or leaving We etty. When one considers the great number of short-trip travelers, Including commuters, who daily make their way In' and out of the metropolis across thla busy thoroughfare, a faint Idea of lta Importance may be gained. Manhattan Island has thirty-two miles of water-front, and th city of New Tork derives, approx imately, three and one-nair minion aouar vearlv In rentals from Its docks and fer ries. Of this greaw revenue the West street section, from the Battery to ana inciuumg the new marginal street which extends from Oansevoort street to Tweuty-thlrd street, yields almost two-thirds. In this section the Pennsylvania Railroad Com pany alono pays the city more than 1223.000 a year for the privilege of maintaining Its freight and passenger terminals. The White .. a,rf? fkrJk Star Steamship company is paying ,uuv apiece yearly for two piers. riFMt.r New Tork drinks a million and a half fluart of milk a day. drinks milk shipped from six different state, milk that nnmea from Barms as far as oo mueo away, almost on the border of Canada, and It takes the cows of .o to farms' to supply.. It all. .' Th milk . that comes from a, distance of 400 mile Is nraniicaiiv th asm that that comes from Dutchess county. New Tork. because ih milk from the far point Is shipped at I o'clock one morning on a milk express train and reaches there for use in next morning. Tt ia the milk of the morning or tne shipping and of the night before. The milk sent from Dutchess county is snipped at night and la the milk of that morning mnA' nfn nf the nlaht before. Th con sequence Is that ther -is practically no difference of the the age or tne mux irom the two places when It arrives In New Tork. ivith everv year the Department of vraih ,mwi more and more strict In Its care of the clty'a milk supply. This year It has doubled the number of inspectors In Its employ, and is carrying on a mucn more vigorous campaign than ever, before, perhaps for that reason, or for that coupled with the other forcee constantly at work tn lank after the needs of the babies of th poor, there haa been a decided decreaae in the rate of Infant mortality during tne summer. Th New Tork polloe department is to nter new and Imposing headquarters within the year. The big building Is al ready so far constructed as to give an Idea of what It will be like when completed. To Judge from photographs, It should b the finest police building In th world, and thus suit the familiar, but not always de served title of th New Tork force. Th building extends from Grand to Broome street, la seven stories high and Is buUt in the Georgian atyla of architecture with base of Barre granite and superstructure of Indiana limestone. Such a structure ought to withstand the reverberations of Commissioner Bingham's "damns," and In cidentally add to the pride and self-respect of the fore. The death of Russell Bags brings Into the financial world a new figure. He is Charles W. Osborne, a quiet, unostentatious, little, old man, who was years Cage's cashier on a salary of $5,000 a year. As one of his executors now he will get fees that will run In the hundred thousand, and as executive head Of the money-lending busi ness of his money-hoarding master before him, h will have financiers kow-towing to him dally. He la now In his ITth year, a rather slen der man of about the average height His head Is surmounted by an aureole of snow white hair, and he wears a mustache, which haa also taken on th frost of ag. But his complexion Is ruddy and his eyes hav a way of sparkling. None who knows htm ever remember to hav sen him when ha did not have a smile and a pleasant word. Carta for Stock la Transit. Baltimore American. Another peril confronts th food supply of th people In the attempt, luckily un. uoneeaful so far, to vad th law pro viding for th feeding and watering of caul in transit Th condition of ani mate kept for a considerable time, especially In hot weather, without food and water cannot certainly be such as Is desirable tor human food, but those In charge of transportation of th cattle show thsmaalvea aa mora than willing to tak this risk to serve, their own Inter ests and convenience. ' Perlik th Thoashtl . . Brooklyn Eagle. What, what what? Mr. Bryaa tn travel la a privet cart Car owned by a wicked president af a wicked railroad? Com moner, and capitalist to ride on the sam bench? Nay, nay! The triumphal car for Mr. Bryan should b a Jaggarnaut aa autotaobtl vn, careering over the proa trete nasg eX financial tnl.iuHr, Culh Rlllltm if klDIt BAKING It Is Put tit) under the chemist, from the finest Insnrlnir the user lie-tit Therefore. t'ALI IIRT Perfect In Quality Economical In Uon Moderate In Price Calnwiet U o carefully and Scientifically prepared that tha eutralltatloa el tb intredleats U sbstfotelrrtact Tha! tore, food prepared with Calosaet is free from Rech.il. stT Alum, ar aay taiurioas substance. MFr year aioanarhta sake" Calnmak tot sooaomv . t. r-i . 1 1 ,000.00 gtvo junou to beallh DIFFERENTIALS TO THE SEABOARD. Problem of Adjostlaa; Grain Rate tn the Half and the Atlantic. Wall Street Journal. One of the most persistent questions In railway practice is that of differentials to and from the seaboard. The primary mar kets accumulate larg quantltle of grain destined for export For this movement outward the gulf ports and the Atlantic coast ports compete. Every yesr, and often several times a year, there is an upsetting of rates, resulting in fierce com petition for control of this freight. Rail way men have aa often gotten together and patched up sosie kind of an understand ing. It does not,' however, last very long, and the problem is still with us and will probably come before the Interstate Com merce Commission for further adjudica tion. Heretofore, the efforts to equalise Join: hauls to foreign markets by combining shorter rail hauls with the longer ocean hauls has been the basis on which adjust ment have temporarily held. It la doubt ful, however, whether the ocean haul can, under the Jurisdiction of. the Interstate Commerce Commission, be properly tsken into account because the constitution pro hibits discrimination against ports In rate making. If not . the question resolves Itself largely into one of operative distances or rates on a mileage basis. In that ease, the gulf ports would have considerable advan tage, within certain territory, especially that south and west of th Missouri river. On fundamental . difficulty In the rela tion of gulf to Atlantle port competition lies In the southwestern shifting of the grain area. Wheat Is grown now regu larly aa far south as th center of Texas, and corn as a factor for export Is becoming of Increasing importance tn the southwest. Th Missouri river Is looked upon as some thing of a dividing line between the gulf lines and th Atlantic coast trunk line territory; but here again such-a market as Chicago comes Into account. The rail roads leading to Chicago do not wish to see their grain freight decline, and ao make all possible efforts to gain control of the movement of grain from portions of th Missouri territory. The grain-dealing con cerns at. Chicago hav recently, combined to prevent that market from declining as a grain center.- This means, a still more Intense competition wltfc gulf-feeding lines. No one knows as yet what developments will occur; but th question seems to be almost as far from solution as It was several years ago. One hopeful prospect lies In the fact that several of the lines running west' from Chicago have estab lished their connections with the gulf, and are therefore more nearly In control of the situation than when they had only on market to serv. There I still, however, enough difference In control of freight lines to make this one of the most dlfllcult questions of railway adjustment. PERSONAL NOTES. A statue of George Washington will be unveiled In Budapest, September It, being the gift of Hungarian citlsena of this country. Eighteen officials at an expense of tt audited a blll of I cents for New Tork city, Thursday. We can say little for the economy of that transaction, but the sys tem is beautiful. Mia Ida Simonton of Pittsburg Is going to Africa, to learn the monkey language. But why go so far, Idaf Ther ought to be enough of them In your home town to furnish you linguistic material. The . suit of that daughter-in-law of a Pittsburg millionaire for $500,000 which waa Instituted In a New Tork court the other day recalls the fact that when a Pittsburg man goes gunning for trouble he Invariably heads for New York. The Secretary of th Treasury haa awarded life-saving medals to Emlle M. Wagner and Harry H. Klttel. coxswains on the battleships Alabama and Kear arge, respectively. Both men rescued shipmates who bad been carried over board. Thar Is a law 1n China, enacted sev eral centuries ago, which provldea that when a bank falls th heads of Its officials shall be cut off and deposited with tb rest of Its assets. There hav been no bank failures in China since this law went Into effect Major Oeneral A. W. Oreely, who has been in' command Of the Pacific division, arrived in Washington and will leave tn a short time for Atlantle City, where he will Join hi family. Later he will go Into th Whit mountains for a short vaca tion. On September 16 General Oreely mill go to St Louis to tak command of the Northern division. Better Thin Expected That's what a man said who came from out ot town to take advan tage of THE GKKAT MIU-Sl'MMEK PIA-NO HALE. The Pianos were better. in appearance, tone and condition than was expected; everyone says the same thing. There are many spleodld bargains and you will be surprised at the quality of the following, consider ing prices: $260 Kimball Upright, used, only ..... ...... .$100 $350 Vose & Sons, good condition, only .$145 $250 Whitney Upright, Grand, only .$150 $325 Herlich, Rosewood Upright Grand ...$H0 $250 AVallworth Upright Grand, mahogany. ..... .'.$165 $300 Irving, Cottage Upright -...".$190 $700 'Steinway, Upright Grand . ..,.,..$400 $375 Chickering Piano $ 95 $250 Burton Upwright Grand $175 $400 Sohmner .......,..$ 65 510 SENDS $S, $6, 7. $8or$l0 Menthly Sstttcs tb BaUac. Remember the special aale includes a great many new-Pianos st special low prices. It's an education to come and look them over. Don't delay. A. H0SPE CALUMET; POWDER surMnrialn rJt - material haku v,ni - .. . ;i ji . - . la nmn,n, a-a k i.. ' -wu.MUWt VJ HKUOI for any sobstano la fonodia Calaaset. Dt'XfMV DIRECTORS OP BANKS. Chleaco Variety Mar Ornamental Than Vsefnl. Chicago News. The public Is ssaured by a leading banker of this city that bank examinations cannot "prevent a thief from stealing -if you give . him a chance." Th moral la. of course, not to make bsnk president or bank cashiers eut of thieves. . V But the general public, from whose ranks -come the bank depositor, does not ap point bank presidents and bank cashiers and maintain them Hi office. Depositors merely push their spare-. money .through the teller's window, hoping to be able to get It later when they call for It. Then i they go away, leaving the bank directors I and the official bank examiner ostensibly on guard. The bank examiner does not employ th 1 president and the cashier. That Is th ' task of the director.' Those mysterious personages go through th formality one ' a year of electing th bank official. Ther Is a popular tradition that they also super visa all loans and In general guard th patrons of the Institution against the pos sibility of loss. The frequent discoveries of looted banks where the most reckless ' mismanagement has prevailed for, years In dicate that bank directors really hav no duties or else that many of them par no attention to such duties as they bav. , How would It do for the grand Jury to , round up th bank director In this com munity and make an effort to discover what each one of them really doe to merit hi title? There la good reason, to think that a considerable proportion of them are wicked hams. All of that class ought to be exposed and driven out. LAUGHING OAS. "How did you com out with that in- ' vestment of voura In suburban lot?" "I didn't. I'm all in." Baltlmor Amer. . lean. KnicKerHow old Is Jones? ' , Bocker-rOoIng on foot ball, and his father Is over tennla. New York Sun. Coakley-They say, you know, that a cat haa nine lives. Joakley-But If It's a very young cat ' It has more. ' - ' Coakley Nonsense! i Joakley-Oh, yes. a eat has nln live and a klt-ten.-Chlcago Chronicle. ' t'l ' ii v j- . a-. ' -R h IaaI.. a . ... . . psssed him awhile ago." That accounts for his looking so eut Up ' when I met him." Baltimore American. "You hear so many people quoting about the way of the tranagraaaor What doea it mean, anyway?" "My dear air, the 'weigh of the trans gressor la usually about l.Soo pounds of coal to the ton." Philadelphia Ledger. Blnka-I see that a pair of shoes can be made by machinery In sixteen minutes." . Jinks And I ve got a boy who can kick to pieces a pair of that kind In eleven mln Dealer twent'r seconds. Cleveland Plain First Bald-Headed Man-No file or mo-' qultoea bothered my bald head this sum mer. Second BaJd-Headod Man What did yeu .r!1 ,P"M-Haded Man-Had a spMer'' web tattooed on my bald Spot. New York tJJ!,tStVbV your Pinion of th rfed? neVr WIW" 10 et "- Th Bachelor-I'm not qualified to ex pr5J" !n op'n'n on the. subject. The Maid-Why, ar you prejudiced? The Bchelor-No. but I've never Men uch a type Philadelphia Press. OLD TIMES, OLD FRIE.DS,LD LOVE Eugene Field. There are no days like the good old days The day when we were youthful! When humankind were pure ot mind. And speech and deeds were truthful: Before a lov for ordid gold Became man s ruling passion. And before each dame and maid becaina Slav to th tyrant. Faahlonl mcmlam There are no girls Ilk th good old girls As buxom and smart, and clean of heart As the Lord knew how to make 'eml t jury win nun in spim ana common sense. And piety all supporting They could bake and brew, and had taught school, too, And they made such likely courtin'l - Ther ar no boy Ilk the good old boy When w were boy together! When the grass was sweet to tb brown . bare feet That dimpled the laughing heather; When the pewe ang to the summer dawn Of the bee In the Dlllowy clover. Or down by the mill the whip-poor-will ' Echoed his night song over. There Is no love ilk the good old love: The love that mother gave us! We are old, old men, yet we pine again For that precious grace Ood save Us I Bo we dream and dream of the good old tlniea, And our hearts grow tenderer, fonder. As thoite dear old dreams bring soothing gleams nr heavan awav err r onder. -A ONE HOME! CO., LVu5,. & Striet