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TlIE OMAllA DAILY UKE: 'FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1906. ' Tim Omaiu Daily Del E. ROSEWATER. EDITOR. Entered at Omaha Teutonic as second Clasa matter. TERM3 OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Bee (without Sunday), on year.. 84. 00 Dally iiee and Bunda). on ear Sunday Bw, on year M Saturday iiee, ona er .0 lELIVERfcD 11T CARRIER. Dallv Bee (in?ltd,ng 8i:ndv), per week..17e Pally Bee (without Sunday), .er w k..U: fcvenlng I ee (without fluntiay), rr "k Be Evening Bee (with Sunday), per week....:0n Surdity lire,. ,oi- eniy a1 Address eomp'alnia of Irregularities In de llvary to City Circulation lJepai tment. OFFICES. Omaha The Re Hulldlnj. Sou'h Omaha Citv Hall Kulldlng. Council Uluflf. 10 Feirl Street. Chicago lt,4. fnlty Uul'.dlng. New York 180. Home Lite ins. Building. Washington-Sol Fourteenth Btreet. CORRESPONDENCE. Cnmmunlcatlona relating to news and edl torial matter should be addressed: Oman , Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order payable to The Boa Publishing Company. Only f-cent stamps received aa payment ot mall account a. lemonm checss. except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accept.ju THIS BEB PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btata of Nebraska, Douglas County, aa: C. C. Roeater. gf.-i.ial mannger or The Be Publishing company, being ou.y sworn, saya that the annual number of full and complete coplea of The Morning, Kvenlng and s.iroay ia P""1 during tb mon lonlb of July, waa loiJows: 1.. 30,140 8 81,710 I.. 83,830 4.... 38,900 1 3900 31,860 T 33,280 1 30,800 1 31,880 10 31,550 11 31,630 11 '. 33,580 18 ' &MO 14 S4,0b0 It ... 30,400 14.......... 8,tO0 t ' . Total ... -..V 17 31.630 il ai.uao II i 20,,.., 31.480 1 32,4 JO 22 33.300 2 31,VbO 24 31,880 15 31,830 25 31,570 7 81.780 21 33,100 24 VOtbSO 19 kU.tUO II.. 8110 ,f7M Leas unsold coplea.......... Nat total aalea, 7e,84 Dally average 81.015 C. C. ROSE WATER, General Manager. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me thia gist day of July, 180. . (Seal.) M- B. HUNUATK, Notary public WHGK OtT 0V TOWN. - Subscribers leavlnsT the city tem porarily ehoold hare The He " Mailed to them. Address will ha BllsBgaVf'f C Bf Oil 9 sal efts sFCQ B8svK9js) The welcome home which O. M. Hitchcock extends to William Bryan 1 embodied in Just one lice. Shakespeare revised: Some men are horn great, some Achieve great ness and some rope In greatness with a lariat. A "silver" party still exists in Ne vada, but It will hardly occupy a front seat In . the next . democratic national convention. Now that Premier. Stolypln has en gaged In a contest with the court camarilla the czar should begin to look for his successor. The "next thing on the program should ne a rousing home coming re ception, with brass band and fireworks Accompaniment, for Mayor "Jim." ' When the American Bar association shall have drafted a' uniform law on the subject of divorce., it may' locate the real trouble with the laws regula ting marriage. 1 Persons contemplating building should lay In full supplies of cement before the United States makes re quisition, for those lpO.000 car loads needed at Panama. ' In. arguing that the present system of administration of Justice Is behind the ttmeai Judge Pound puts In a strong bid for the hearty approval of ' lawyers and laymen alike. To make sure of utilizing the best method of securing notice during .the Bryan reception, Mn Hearst was con splcuous by his absence. Another 'sting of ingratitude" may be swell ing.. ' , '. ".' v " ' Colonel Bryan thinks It wrong for 'men to use their ballots to advance their material welfare; but It would certainly be foolish for them to .vote to destroy their own legitimate Inter ests. If the , commission to delimit the Turko-Euigarlan boundary , is success ful In Its i" undertaking, . the United States ma gala as Immigrants those who find their occupation gone with the passing of the fight. Russla'a determination to borrow $14,000,000 to be used in aiding sub jects suffering from crop failures is proof positive that the czar realizes that a man cannot be huagry and well disposed at the ranie time. The startling discovery has been made at Lincoln by emissaries of the fusion "office seeking combine that the republican state committee "belongs to i the Northwestern " railroad." We shall see what we shall see. Russian peasants who are devising a 'plan to exclude Jews from civil tights are doing as much to support the assertion that the people of tkat nation are not ready for self-government as the. bomb throwers. "Jim" Dahluiau 'has lassoed Bryan, a la Buffalo Bill. This cot only makes "Jim" famous tor all time, but estab lishes for blm a high salaried position in reserve In Buffalo Bill's Great Wild West Menagerie and Hippodrome. Colonel Bryan, has become very cau tious in the matter ot political prognostications, refusing now to ven ture any predictions as to the chances of democratic success two years hence. Colonel . Bryan evidently remembers several predictions made la Uxues past that went astray, nnr ax's troyut-c6MxoKrEKcn. Bryan's home-coming speech, deliv ered at New York, reveals both new and old phases ot hie character. That Colonel Bryan's horizon has been broadened by his tour of the world Is evidenced in man ways. He has been impressed as never before with the overshadowing importance of the great world problem of banishing the grim specter of war and preserving peace between nations. He sees clearly that the United States in Its newly achieved position as a world power must 'take a constantly greater and greater part In the solution of these problems. He sees, also, that many of the questions he had previously been discussing as peculiar to our country are really common to all civilized countries and sometimes International in their scope and can be finally set tled only by the combined action of all the progressive nations. - On the old subjects, however,' which have been at issue here in recent political campaigns, Colonel Bryan's attitude is apparently unchanged. He does not recant on his free silver fal lacy. He persists in denying the valid ity of the underlying principle of the protective tariff. He remains wedded to his vagary of state-owned railroads and he declares that efforts to regu late trusts and combines are futile and must give way to their absolute ex termination. He emphasizes war against trusts and monopolies as the keynote the paramount issue as It were overshadowing all others. Strangely enough, throughout the en tire address with all its wide range, he gives half-veiled credit to President Roosevelt for the notable achievements already ' made toward - curblnj the trusts and abating corporate abuses, although at the same time intimating that in the execution ot his program the president has adopted democratic instead of republican doctrine.' - Another thing that' must strike ev ery one forcibly Is the undisguised partisan flavor of the speech. People had been led to believe that the home coming reception, to Mr. Bryan was to be largely of a non-partisan character - the spontaneous popular outburst In tribute to the return of & distln- guiHhed : American citizen. Colonel Bryan, however, has Belied the op portunity to preach a partisan demo cratic sermon plainly purposed to bid for votes for democratic candi dates In . the pending congressional elections. We believe he would have appealed much more strongly to the whole American people had he confined himself strictly within non-partisan lines and demonstrated that he could on such an occasion rise above the narrow limits of petty politics. A SENSIBLE DECISION. The ruling of the acting secretary of the Department of Commerce and La bor in favor of the appeal for the ad mission to this country of the refugee Jewish children orphaned by the mas sacre of their parents will strike one and all as a sensible decision. These children gathered together In Russia by a philanthropic American woman and brought to this country under as surance that homes would be found for them by different societies under the guidance of the United Hebrew charities, had been shut out by the im migration officers under a technical In terpretation of the lawJ Not only this, but they were ordered deported back to their point of embarkation under the personal, conduct of the self-sacrificing woman who had brought them out ot Russia and safely across the ocean. 1 It certainly was stretching things a great deal for the Immigration inspec tors to assume that these children come under the prohibition against persons likely to 'become dependents and public charges within, the year. While It Is true that they are not self supporting, there is. no doubt but that they will be properly taken care of and eventually make good. Intelligent and Industrious citizens.. This view of the matter seems to have prevailed finally with the officials at Washington. Who have overruled the subordinates In the Immigration office. , '.' .". By this decision has been averted a blot upon our civilization, had these Innocent Outcasts found our doors closed against them. Our Immigra tion laws are rightly Intended to keep' out all dangerous persons and to pro tect our own people from being bur dened with the dependent classes of Europe, who should be provided for in their own country. But they were never Intended to heap additional hardships upon the well meaning vic tims of foreign despotisms and they should be constantly administered in broad-minded enlightenment. o special interest jenata. Former Senator' Kearns.of Utah in a letter made public through the Salt Lake Tribune Is urging with much plausibility that the next vacancy on the supreme bench of the United States be filled by the appointment of a jurist familiar with the mining law In recog nition of the great mining Industry ot the wet, which he says Is sure to de velop and expand to far greater Im portance than it now commands. The uext few years, he declares, will wit ness mining litigation of such tremen dous Importance that it would seem to be not only a propriety, but almost obligatory that membots of congress from the vest bring It to the atten tion of the. president that "the very na ture ot things suggests the calling ot a mining lawyer, to the supreme bench." The mining states may have a claim to recognition In the constitution of the supreme court fcad they doubtless have lawyers of learning and ability, who would make valued judges upon the bench, but the appointment ct a member of the supreme court simply to provide for prospective mining liti gation would be the beginning of spe cial interest Judges, setting a prece dent from which there might be no escape nntll the whole court were ap portioned out and distributed along similar lines. If we were to have one Judge for mining law, the next demand would be for one Judge for maritime law, another for Insurance law. an other for corporation law, another for real estate law, another for labor law, and so on until the homogeneous character of the court would be com pletely destroyed. The fact that au applicant for a Su preme court place has the special ad vantage of long practice In mining law should be no bar to his consideration and might be to his credit, but that could not be his' aole or even chief recommendation. We have no doubt that the president will look to the great west for the Infusion of new blood In the supreme court because the western lawyers' and judges, like the western lawmakers, have as a rule a broader horizon and wider ex perience than the highly specialized practitioners ot the east and are at the same time more closely in touch with the prevailing tendencies of pop ular sentiment. But the supreme court which, since the foundation of the republic, has occupied such a unique position by reason of the high charac ter and exceptional personnel-' of Its membership, cannot and will not be allowed to become a special Interest tribunal.' . ANOTHER FALSE ALARM. Another false alarm has been sounded from the state Capitol. It Is given out that the railroads will en deavor with might and main to prevent the adoption of the constitutional amendment providing for an elective railroad commission. There is abso lutely no foundation tor this ill-defined rumor. The railroads are not In the least perturbed over the prospects of a railroad commission. - They could have beaten the amendment when it was pending before the last legislature, and they might have blocked Its en dorsement by the democratic it not by the republican convention. 1 Exactly twenty years ago a constitu tional amendment creating an elective railway commission was submitted to the people of Nebraska and over whelmingly defeated, because a large majority of the voters entertained the opinion that the railroad commission would be controlled by the railroads and become an Impediment to railroad regulation and excessive exactions In stead of standing for the people. Within less than three months after the amendment had been voted down by the people, a railroad commission was created by the legislature, under the whip and spur, of the railroad lobby, and the popular fears were fully confirmed by lamentable and costly ex perience. ''The State Board trt Trans portation, - as it was Bubaequently called, was made up chiefly of railroad tools like Gilchrist and Fake Reformer. Joe Johnson. .Instead of protecting the people "against the rapacity of the public carriers, the board became a wind-break against legislative regula tion. - When the maximum rate law, known as the Newberry bill.- waa en acted, the boa d of transportation was charged specially with the enforcement ot the law. Thereupon the railroads induced the supreme court to snuff It ut for fear Its members might not. stay bought or might be spurred by ambition for higher offices to exercise their authority to the Injury of the roads. Inasmuch as the paralytic maxi mum rate law expressly designates a state board of transportation as the motive power for Its enforcement, the new railroad commission will hardly be available for enforcing the maxi mum rate law until the provisions of the rate law are amended so as to de volve upon the railroad commission the powera and duties that would be exercised by the State Board of Trans portation. It goes without saying that the railroads will. not press the button to have thia change made, but will en deavor to make the commission a dead letter by preventing legislative re vision of the maximum rate law. to conform to existing conditions and classifications, or conferring upon the commission all the powers now exer cised by the Interstate Commerce com mission In relation to interstate rail way traffic. The people, ot Nebraska must see to It that the next legislature is not controlled by the railroad lobby. More than usual complaint Is being made ot lack of habitable houses in I Omaha that can be had at moderate rentals. This means that Investment J tn-thla rla tit bulldimr Imrjrovementa ' gives aura promise ot being profitable and such an . Inviting opportunity ought to attract capitalists who know a good thing when they see it. The democratic World-Herald ad mits that George L. Sheldon Is a man big enough to be governor, but at tempts to magnify the alze of the democratic nominee. It Is not likely, however, that the people of Nebraska will this year permit their vision to be distorted by any political oculist. .Attorney General .Brown has as sured Governor Mickey that he has authority to remove hta police board appointees In. both Omaha and South. Omaha.' Every one has known this all tha time. There la no question about the governor's ' authority but only abput, the governor's nerve. The newly elected chairman of the republican elate committee has very properly resigned his position, oq the i state payroll as deputy In the attor-J ney general's office In order that be may devote his entire time and atten tion to the management of the cam paign. We apprehend, however, that he has arranged to keep the avenue of retreat -open, so that ha can resume his official position after election, un less he ! promoted to "something better." ', ... . Omaha hag contributed one ot the new members of the general council of the American Bar association. The American Bar association has drawn on the Omaha bar on various occasions and never had any difficulties in hav ing ita requisitions satisfactorily hon ored. One ot Frank Hippie's remarks was that no man who used tobacco In any form could be really honest and many people are now Inclined to believe that at least one who abhorred the weed could fall in honesty at the critical time. . . President Palma's experience In the United States should have been ot ad vantage to him as president of peace ful Cuba, but something has destroyed hta power to control the tropical mind when the trumpet calls for insurrec-! tlon. ' . When Secretary Root returns from his visit to South American republics he may be surprised to learn that Colonel Bryan has endorsed his Idea of never using the United States army or navy for the collection of debts. Mo Place Like Home. ' Kansas City Times. "What Is horn without Bryan?" asks the Nebraska delegation which recalls that Nebraska voted to keep him at home in 1800. ....... Giving; ' Themselves Away. Chicago Record-Herald, Hearst says "Jerome Is endowed with the soul of a lackey." Jerome says "Hearst Is Intellectually sterile. Socially vulgar and morally obtuse." The New Tork campaign Is going to be a strain on the language. Caba's llttmate Safety. Baltimore American. Notwithstanding the slight unpleasant ness that exists In. Cuba, the bonds of that country are bringing a higher pries than ever before. Wall street evidently real ises that . the . Piatt amendment affords pretty safe insurance against a successful revolution. Too Mach Watered Capital. 1 Chicago Chronicle. According to a statement just published by the dlreoors ot the census there was an Increase ot more than 41 per cent In tha capital Invested. In our manufacturing In dustries between 1900 and 1906.. In the same tlne. the value of' manufactured products . Increased not quite 80 per cent. These figures '.'seem "to indicate that the Increase In capital.' was largely due to overcapitalization of trusts. The value of products should ..Increase faster than the actual capital .invested. It may be . re marked, too, , that prices wert higher last year than In 1900. , ' Hav-e the Railroads Chanced f Springfield (Mass.) Republican. ' The railroads 'Vers not noticeably active li giving peeiaf'1 fates to Bryan gather ing In sM otMdeso. ( Nowv'tioreverf the are not merely, giving "special lew - rates to tha .wekoomo' home at New York, but the most unusual rats ef about one fare for the round , trip. .. This Is. causing re mark. Borne people are asking - whether the roads areUrylng to turn the welcome to Bryan Into rebuke for Roosevelt It may' be supposed, however, that they are not preparing to make Bryan their special candidate for the presidency. They can hardly prefer 'a' policy of more or less limited public' ownership 'of railroads to a very mild policy ot public regulation. Poor Cvaatry for Croakers. Baltimore American. A country which was not dismayed when earthquake and Are devastated Ban Fran-. Cisco, but which was able to spare a few million dollars, not spent for automobiles, for the relief ot the sufferers from that calamity; a country which Is yearly mak ing investments In . railroads, factories, farms and home's1 at a rate which keeps every man able and willing to work busy at wages far more remunerative than those paid In Europe,' a country which Is-constantly Increasing 1 Its argrtcultural and manufacturing exports; a country which yearly absorbs over a million Immigrants; a country which can obtain a premium for bonds which pay -S per cent Interest Is a very uncongenial country for pessimists, political or otherwise. SOCTH AMERICAN CALAMITY. Barthcjaakcs Resoarkahle for Persist ' ae aad Area .Covered. To appreciate the probable severity ot the great selsmlo upheaval on the west coast of South America it Is only necessary to compare the, estent of the affected area with that involved In the Baa franotsco disaster. Making due allowance -for feasi ble exaggerations. It appears certain that the territory In which there have been dis turbances of convulsive force is excep tionally larger Valparaiso sustained the greatest destruction, but Santiago, which lies to the southeast somewhat more than forty miles, has also suffered severely, as has the town of Ban Felipe, about 100 miles to the north ef the latter city. More re markable than all. the shock was felt on the lower aide ol the Cordilleras, In the Argentine Republic. Tucurnan. ona of tha towns said to be, destroyed, lies nearly 300 miles Inland from the coast. The disturbance appear to have been as remarkable for their persistence as for the area covered.. The reports from "Val paraiso speak ot "the- great earthquakes which have shaken the city since Thurs day night" and -other dispatches Indicate that there has been a series of heavy shocks. A succession of minor earthquakes, due to the settling of the faculty strata suddenly thrown out of position. Is a com mon feature of great seismic upheavals, but in this case- the afterahocka appear to have rivaled the first in severity. - As this calamity fellows closely upon the California earthquake, the conclusion Is natural that the Poclflo coasts of ths two Americas are undergoing some extensive process of readjustment, due to the slipping away of broken portions of the earth's crust to hew centers of rest. Whether the process has been completed or Is to Con tinue, making Its presence known by other disturbing phenomena, selamio or voloanic, la, of course, pure conjecture. The losses, of life and property of Chile are enormously heavy. The season Is winter and the homeless thouaanda doubtless are doomed to great suffering. - rVery part of the civilised world must do what it can to j relieve the wants of the distressed Chile ans. The desire or the United States to tWih ctor relations with the South ,noul(, ,ead (h, of m, nation (a sW, uberally for the henent of the earthi quake sufferers. . , ,' v not jrn Anot r itr.w tork. hSTr "flryaa'a Home Folks" Are tola the Big ToVra. Tomorrow and the days to follow we'll make this old tewa ait up and take notice,' aid the major-domo of ths Nebraska party when they landed In New Tork Sunday night." The major Is a prophet. He knew what was coming. New Tork Is taking considerable notice, and In a spirit of eamersderie which la In striking contrast with a similar historic event of ten year ago. Local papers make much of the bunch, greedily publish what they aay and, tell what they are doing. The World prints a group picture of six of the Nebraska mayors, with a drawing of Mayor Dahlman at the end of a lariat yanking Bryan oft his ahlp. Our Jim's picture, "made In Omaha," decorates the Herald's pages, coupled with a pen drawing of his honor, W. r. Oreon and Matt Miller. One may readily Infer, reading between the linea, that the boys are having ths time of their lives and Impressing all who get next to them that, while not the whole show, they are the only part of it Worth the price. Early Monday morning the boys pinned on their coata white silk badges telling every one that they were "Bryan's Horns Folks" and then slowly melted away In small groups to see the town. The Bun says Mayor Dahlmsh stayed home In. the headquarters along with Press Agent J. W, Cutright, Mayor F. W. Brown of Lincoln arid the rest., of the democratic seven to shake hands with the Nebraska boys now of New Tork who might stray In. The cowboy mayor then explained the Ne braskans' views of Wall street. "Young man, they'd akin a nea for Its tilde and tallow. These corporations are the Worst ever. And 1 11 give you a tip that everybody out home's afraid that we'll get stood up and trimmed of our valuables down there. "As for there being so much wealth down there," continued Mayor Jim, pushing back his sombrero, "we've got more wealth growing right up out of the ground out west than you have hers In al Wall street." Some one wondered If Mayor Jim could still use a rope as he had In the days he rode the range. "Sure thing," he replied. "What's more, I'm dead willing to show you fellows here In the east the proper way to rope a steer or anything else at any time. I didn't bring my rope with me. but I'm going to get one here tomorrow and I'll bet you 1100 to 850 that I can rope anything that comes within throwing distance." No one took up the cowboy mayor In his wager, but after a discussion he promised to give a roping exhibition on Broadway or Fifth avenue before he leaves New Tork and Just let the natives here see what It looks like. The seven mayors were somewhat miffed because the mayor of New Tork did not call and welcome the prairie state digni taries. Mayor Brown of Lincoln is quoted by the Tribune: "If seven New Tork state mayors should come to Lincoln, the mayor of that city would meet them with automobiles. Instead ot sending, a colored porter to Instruct them with reference to their baggage." But they put aside their feelings and led the procession 'to the New Tork city hall. This is what happened, according to the Globe: Between fifty and sixty of the visiting Nebraskans went down to the city hall to see Acting Mayor McQowan. No less than eighteen ot these fifty or sixty look like Bryan himself, and a . good many ot the eighteen could be mistaken for him by a man who didn't know the statesman very well. Only a couple wore whiskers. When one of tae mayors was asked why they were ail smooth-faced, as In old Roman days, he refilled! .. . .. . ... ."Well, you see, we've been photographed so ..rnwiy times , wl&h whiskers that' we shaved .aft the hair oft eur physiognomies, and now we can have more pictures taken and look a leetle different." Mayor James C Dahlman of Omaha In troduced a few of. them, but, with these few exceptions, every man introduced him self. Borne ot them said, "Hello, Mr Mayor 1" and some said, "How d'yl" A . bald-headed, little . man shook the mayor's hand. ''I'm Doo Miller from David City." ha said. The man was Justice Nathaniel Miller, but eleven ot the Nebraskans, when aaked who he was, said simplyi That's Nat Miller. . He's a bully fel low.". Miller owns something like 80,000 acres pf land out near David City. One of the Omaha pilgrims was singled out by a Tribune reporter for an Inter view. The reporter wanted a candid, ex pression of opinion about the metropolis as it appeared to the westerner, and got rt One nervy paragraph of the Interview will dot "We've been riding around town today on street cars and eutomobtles look ing over your people. The only things we shied at were your old horse cars. Wi don't have anything like "em In Nebraska. I haven't any desire to make you feel had, but I do not mind saying right here that the people met with In the streets of New Tork, compared with the people of Nebraska, are much Inferior. They are Inferior In looks, pnyelque, apparel, and. Judging from facial expressions. In character. Ton are handling the raw product of cltlaenshlp, and perhaps you are doing as well as you can, but It la the raw product ttom southern Europe, and soras of It Is pretty raw at that. We read of ynur rlotaover B-cent fares, ted by city offlclala; of your ballot box stuffing at election time;' an4 "atterlv. of the Hue of Hearst: and, to be nerfectly frank with yon, those thins-s make us tired. They make -us think . that the next ' train for Omaha Is about the best thing you have here." These and other remarks nettled some of the natlvee. provoking a sharp editorial In . the Olsbe. "In no spirit of levity." says the aggrieved editor, "and with a keen sense of the personal' danger in volved in any sort of adverse comment on the LaTrlnt Lous, Hair.Trlgger Toms, and Broncho Bills who have recently Invaded this peaceful city, carrying the above ban ner. It must be confessed that they have laid themselves open to some - criticism from a social point of view. "It Is hardly recessary to say thst when a man goes visiting he Is not expected to stand on his host's front steps and shed tears of Joy every time another guest ar rives. He may be glad to see blm, de- j lighted. In fsct, but It Is part of the most primitive politeness and good breeding to let the owner of the bouse do the osten tatious welcoming. If by any unfortunate mischance it so happens thst ths host Is not particularly glad to see the later comer, and refuses to hang out flags, hire the bsnd, and otherwise celebrate his arrival. It Is plainly still the part of the well bred man to stifle his own delight "If he will he can subsequently seek a quiet corner and express his pleasure to the other visitor In an unobtrusive man ner. Perhaps an even better solution of such a situation would be for the en thusiastic one to postpone the celebrating until he could do It In his own house. The analogy holda good for cities as wsll as private establishments, Ths place where the 'Bryan Home Folks band caa wel come Bryan In ths most effective ' and appropriate way Is tew hum.' " Ths early resolve to pass up Hearst was later reconsidered and an official call was mads on the' progenitor ef ths yellow kid. A correspondent ' thus describes the vent: The Bryan home folks had pleasant that wlte Mr. , Hearst, . Among them were Mayor 3. C. I aimed ef Orhaka, Jailge Edgar- Ho Ward of' Columbus and Daniel Stevens of Fremont. Neb. There were fifty Nebraskanl In the parly. Hearst Wore his long frock coat with sweeping tails and tlie black siring tie relieving an expanse of white shirt bosom, the cos tume of statecraft he now mostly affects, and his appearance evidently pleased the westerner. "You are not so terrible as you have been painted." said one of his vlaUois, and Hearst promptly replied: "t should hope hot." In ths course ot Ma conversation Judge Howard, the spokesman of the delegation, said he and his rrlends were glad to talk with a man who had done so much for the cause of the people. Hearst told him he talked like a reformer, whereupon the Ne braskan said: "No, not like a reformer, surely.1 Jerome Is a reformer. -This pleased Hearst Immehsely, as Jer ome, upon his reputation as a reformer, promisee to be one of the strong candidates for the governorship this fall. OFFICIAL gPELLISO REFORMS. everal Dlstlaa-alshed Precedents tor Roosevelt's Order. New Tork Bun. The late 'Emperor Claudius of unhallowed memory, whatever his moral deficiencies and deplorable domestic relations, waa a man of -learning. He had the backing of the philologists of his day when by an Im perial edict he added three tetters to tte alphabet of the Roman empire. Tet neither the authority of science nor autocratic power made any Impression on the lan guage. In the flush of a great national victory the late Kaiser Wllhelm I decreed an Im proved spelling for the new Germany by ths advice of his philologlans. It was In culcated officially and officiously and was j spread through the newly aroused patriotic sentiment. Some books, no doubt, are now J printed In it. for Germans are persistent, but ta srreat tnatnrit nf rt.nn.ii KnAka Is not. nor are tha newsnenars. nnr la tha ! spelling found In the speeches and decrees of the great kaiser's Imperial grandson. France, too, Is dissatisfied with Its spell Ins;, with reason, as all who have had to learn French will admit. At the Instigation' of the most eminent philologists successive ministers of education In recent years have tinkered with the spelling and the gram mar and Isaued edicts that tMlr Improve ment should be taught and used officially. This has made a lot ot trouble for un fortunate school teachers and has muddled poor little children, but We have not no ticed that the French of newspapers or books has changed. ' Our own delightful English offers a fruit ful field for the reformer. There wss Dr. Nosb Webster with his numerous sugges tions, some of them sensible and some of them not. It Is nearly eighty years since his dictionary appeared, and yet hot even the simplest of. his Improvements, like center for oentre and theater, has been accepted generally. Thirty years ago the greatest American philologists. Including Francis A. March, Francis James Child and William D. Whitney, spoke out for re formed spelling and agreed to enforce It, and English scholars like Dr. W. W. Bkeat Joined In the crusade. Have they succeeded In forcing a single simplified form Into common use? Of the 800 words tiat Mr. Carnegie has taken under his wing, a good many were adopted In America long before the re formers arose. It Is rather late In the day to warn any one but an Anglophobe not to write labour or candour, though we fancy enough people still read their Bibles to make anything but Bavtous look strange. There' are .plenty -of -words' In ; It 'Of" such restricted use that nobody oaree much how they are spelled, and It Is a long time since a final e appeared on dactyl or deposit. Here In New Tork we distinguish between controller and the comptroller. ' TVie effective power of President Roose velt's ukase will have to be measured from a much more - limited - number ef words. Will frequent perusal of his messages lead to (be adoption of ads, carest, dscalog, crusht, gssel, ktst. whlpt, the, thru, cust and damdT It It does, he may toast that he ' Is greater than - Claudius - and the philologists. PERSONAL NOTES. Baltimore follows New York by estab lishing an all-night bank. Emma Calve, the ope ratio singer, Is fol lowing her usual summer custom of enter taining every week at her home at Avig non, twenty working girls from Parts. Ths silver lining to San Francisco's cloud of quake and fire has been discovered by an ' American consul In China, who declares that the catastrophe has halted the boy cott against American goods. A bogus baron arrested In Hamburg on the charge of deserting his wife has been released, the court .holding that he la not culpable, under German law. The kaiser should get busy and change the law. In fourteen months New York's stock transfer tax produced a revenue of 87,000,000, all of whloh goes Into the State treassry. Rural lawmakers were not as guileless as pictured when .they decreed the pasters for Wall street. Undoubtedly the world's greatest author ity on earthquakes la Prof. F. Omort of the Imperial university of Toklo. Since his re turn from California, where he examined selsmlo conditions thoroughly, he has sent back a series of valuable helps on the eon struction of earthquake-proof buildings. He Is planning a. trip to Chile. . . Justice Brewer's Joking tribute to Secre tary , Taft's politeness, to ths effect that the secretary tave up his seat in a street car to three women, has traveled all over America and has now crossed the seas, but It had Its suggestion In the story of ths Irishman, who, when a stout lady entered the car, said: "I will be one of two Jlntle men to get up and give the lady a seat." The state revenues of Sunny Italy have not yielded a surplus to suit the emperor's taste, so he started an Investigation and discovered that members of the Garibaldi legion did not separate themselves from the pension list when death called. them hence. While only. 131 genuine survivors were discovered, pensions were drawn by treble that number. Thereupon the em peror pitilessly smote the grafters. INDIA AND An airtight packet of Purity, Boquet, Flavor, TCoonowy. That's what you get rhen you buy Tetley'a Tea. Insist that your grocer glvs It to you. McCORD-BEADY CO., Wholesale Agents, Omaha. " ' mrificiPAL ic PtAT. i ( tin that the Qwestloa Sheatd Be tavetta-etsvd. ' New York Medtcaf Journal. j The nest Of the summer, wfth the In ereaslng scarcity and advancing price of Ice, reminds one of the great role Ice plays In the trearrrient' of sick and convnlescmf persons. Not long ago we referred to the question of water meters In New Tork.i Municipal governments have seen the wts- dom of owning water reservoirs an. I sup-; plying their Mttsens with this grent tie-! cesslty of life. The supply- should not be stinted; each household, even the pooreM, should have .ample fitcltltlea for bathing. Hardly leas Important are the prodnotlor and delivery of plenty of ice, at a mo,'. erate price, to every household. In su h great centers iof population as New York-I soiuieiy necessary to nave enmign issto preserv articles of food, not' only In th stores of the purveyors, especially the re tail distributers, but else In. the pantries of the hdusewrves. , Borne of the arest hos pitals have their own Ice prints, but It l; i .. . . . mi i?rsvi.iuuiw ijr viu.imr)- nnusrnoianrs lot have them. If a member of a family should become sick,' tee Is often as much cs1ted for as drugs. . As the prloe of Ice stands at present,. It seems to have become luxury. It Is questionable If our cities should not build their own Ice plants and sell the product at a price which will par only the interest on the Invested capital and the cost of manufacturing and delivering. Other cities have proved the possibility of operating street enrs, light plants, etc., and the neighboring city of Mount Vernon Is taking steps . toward a municipal lea plant. New York la at present experiment ing with the management of g ferry. Evert the best laws In reference to the trusts are not able to cope with these com binations. The Meat trust can be curbed only by I'nl ted States laws, and tha Ice trust Is neither better nor worse than the beef octopus. An ounce of prevention Is worth a pound of cure, 'The vldeant eon. sules ne quid res publics detrimentl taplnt" may be applied to our Ice question, and should stimulate the governing bodies of our cities, especially New Tork, to investi gate this Important, . question . and act upon iu M.IGHTV HARD TASK. I How Caa Presldeat Roosevelt Please DverybodyT New York . Tribune. How hard It Is. for a president to please everybody! Here Is the , Central Labor union ot antl-lmperlallstlo Boston re solving and protesting against the selection of Labor day for a naval review, which it denounces ss "an advertising display of the latest Improved methods . for killing our fellow human beings on a day which should .be devoted to the pursuits - of peace." And our esteemed contemporary. ths New Tork Times, mildly censures Mr, Roosevelt for ordering, the review held off Oyster Bay "for his private and personal deteoUUon, where practically, nobody else can see It," Instead of oft Coney Island or Rockawsy Beaoh, or In the North river, where the tolling millions of New York and the surrounding country whose taste In butchery, by tha way, seems to be different from that of their Massachusetts bretnrerJ I -wouia nave a chance to see the ships' mat are our pride and defense. It looks as If the only really safe thing for-the 1 1 president to do oq Labor day would wvuiv mw-w b, tvi. ev I to steal off In a rowboat with II Ills WJW I and play Indian. . MERRY JINGLES. '"Wsll" said poor Subbubs, In despair. "I'm .Jl2:u.t..,Pr broke- The wolf Is st the door." Well." remarked his optlmlstJo wife, "If ilf.,r,."y ,h,re ""' toscars bill ooilleotors' awayi'i-phlladelphla ledger. Old Hunks-Borne time I think I am In a"4,.5r..0' lo'n my memory entirely. Old Krusty-Don't let that worry you. Nobody that might happen to find It would want to keep U Cleveland Leader. JTVp. why do people call Jollying 'soft "Because there Is so much lie about It. my son." Philadelphia Press. Enthuslastlo Rooter (In grand stand) Isn't thst pitcher In splendid shape today, though I The Young Woman In splendid shape I I think he's the awkwardest and most un gainly looking human being I ever saw In my life. Chicago Tribune. Big Dealer (belligerently) Do you mean to accuse me of giving you abort weight on that salmon? Little Customer (meekly) I merely re marked there was something -fishy about your scales. Baltimore. American. Jefferson had just written the Declara tion of Independence. "But," cried the bumptious ones, "you didn't spell It acoordlng to . Brsnder Matthews." . . Owing to this oversight . they seriously doubted if the document could be of sny benefit to mankind. New York Sun. F. nicker Whet Is the cheapest' way to re pair an sutof Bocker Dynamite It and buy 'a new one. New York Sun. "There's one good thing about this hot ! weather." observed Uncle Jerry Peebles, j "You caa wear a shirt a ' whole week if you like, and when you say you put It on eleso this , mornin' .nobody knows; whether you're lyln' or not,' Chicago Tribune. ' ' i "Don't vou want me to bestow a little money here and there," ssld the trusty lieutenant, "so as to get you a reputation aa a philanthropist'1 "Don't think of It," answered Scnstor Sorghum. ."People don't seem to care how much money you store away. It's only when you try to be generous with It that they begin to criticise." Washington Stsr. BECAISB THEY TOLD IS BO. 8. K. Riser In ths Record Herald The foolish blunders that we make Would seldom leave us long In woe If other people didn't take Buch pains to say they told us so; , And yet, 'tis better for that they Should tell us then to stand and blink And, out of pity, fall to say . The things ws alwaya know they think. When Cousin John or l?ncl' Joe Bays, after we have corns to grief; "Well, now, you know. I told you so. Oh, what a pleasure and relief It Is to carelessly reply, - ' Pretendlna we are undismayed, . That brave men only dare to try. While timid ones, siana, nac airsm. We might sit weakly down and fret Instead of striving still to climb, If people never came to let . ITS know they'd warned ua In good tlma We conouer often to confound - Those whose advice we held too low. God bless tbs ones who come s round To tall us that tbsy told us so. CEYLON I J