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THE' OMAHA DAILY BKU: WKDXKSDAV. OCTOUKi: 2-1, - lOOfi The Omaha Daily linn POI NDED BT EDWARD ROSKWATKR. VICTOR r.OSEWATER, EDITOR. r tared at Omaha poslofflc as (second ilass matter. TERMS OF SI.'BSCRlP'l'lON. 1 i y Bee (without Mjii.lav). one yff..WI" I'aily Jiee mxt Sunday, one year Snr.iy It.., on year " biiumtay Bet. one year DKLIViiRKD l)Y CARR1KK. I'nily ( tlmiudlng Sunday), per wek..l8o Dully Wee (without Futility), per week. ..We fcvenmij Bee (without bunoayt. .er week a hvenlng Be (with Sunday;, per wMk...l'i Hjnday Bee, per copy Address complaint of irrsguiarltle In d-llcr- to City tirculal Ion Derailment. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee building. South Omaha City Hull building. Council Bluffe 10 Pearl street. Chicago Vn!i building. New York 15" Home Life In, building. Washington 61 Fourteenth street. CORRESPONDENCE 'omnunlcutiun rdnllng to new and edi torial matter should be addrtwit: Omaha lice. Editorial Department. REMITTANCF.S. Remit by draft, express or postal order payable to 'J'he Bee Publishing company. nly 1-cent stampa recelvd J 'nient of mail account. Pergonal check, cvopi till mh or eastern fji'hjnt", n't accept d. THE BEfc; PI. BL1BH IN? COMPANY., STATEMENT OF CIHCl 1-ATION. tftste of Nebraska. Douglas r:niniy. Charles C. Rosewater, general rntnaW of The Bee Publishing cominy. being duly sworn, uv that the l"iuul numbr of full nil ruhiplete copies o( The Datiy. Morntn. ICvenlng and Sunday Bee print crt it'i'ing the month of September, 1, was .-is fol. lows: 1... ....,. 34,430 1 80,370 .. 30,360 17 30,560 I 31.0EO II 30,710 4 30,890 It 30,860 30,370 20 30.M0 30,730 :l. k. 30,040 1 30,480 12 41,140 I 30,040 It 30,410 1 30,470 14 30.710 10 30,84:0 tl 30,590 11 30,340 24 30,040 12 i... .30,430 21 v. 80160 It 30,310 21 M.670 14 ,...30,600 lit 35,600 It ....30,860 tt .30,600 Total ., S7,56 Lees , unsold coplea. t.601 Nat total aalea 037.843 I'ally avarsg . 30,911 CHARLES C ROSKWATKK. General Maoagur. Subscribed In my preaenra and awor.i to befors ma tola lat day of . October. l0S. (Seal.) M. B. HUNGATX. Notary Pub. la. WHE.1 OCT OF TOWH. Snbaerlkx-ra leoTlng tha city tea liorarlly ahoald have Tha Baa mailed I then. Address wUI ha .According to advices, of the weather man, "lt'B cool lu Colorado." Have you registered? If not. not It down that Friday. Is. the. iiext registra tion day., ' ; . EvU Kins Ak-Sar-Ben hat to take a back seat this -week Jur the berlbboned equine prise winner. " .-.. .: Secretary Bhaw baa apparently dis covered; that there la more elasticity possible under pretent eurrenoy laws than, b&nkeos have realized. ' The operating department of rail roads In the northwest have the double and novel duty now of fighting freshets and bllizards at the same time. Qeatlemen honored by invitations to talk: to the Interstste Commerce com mission should be careful to see thst the Immunity . bath. Is properly pre pared. Remember, that every one who wishes to vote at the coming election and at subsequent primaries must register anew. , No previous registra tion will hold, good this year. - With no extradition treaty between Cuba and Venezuela, President Castro might turn the defaulting banker into an asset to be traded for claims filed by foreign concession holders. In combining the duties of. minister of. the interior with the duties of premier, M. Clemenceau intimates po litely that the real problems of Prance do not extend beyond its borders. - An Indiana commission has decided that life Insurance companies have too much money but they canaot blame . Ihe life Insurance officials who did their best to distribute the surplus. When the "Beef trust" transfers its headquarters to Great Britain a new chapter in International law may have to be written and the conference at The Hague may bo forced to take on Icg'slative functions. As representative In congreua Candi date Shallenberger drew pay for two years and mileage to reimburse him for railroad fare never paid out. Did any one ever hear of any anti-pass bill Introduce! by Shallenberger? , The suggestion that the United States may be made defendant In dam age suits because it Is enforcing the eight-hour law would be more Im portant had the law not been on the books before the contracts were let. The Interstate Commerce couimis ..ioo. digging into grain business re bates and manipulations has been striking pay dirt la Chicago and Kan sas City. It will be surprising if it does not strike pay dirt also In Omaha. That Kansas City tlevstor man who declares he will, go the limit to drive the "shovel" man out of the grain busi ness may have the courage of his con vktions, but he Is more likely caus ing trouble for those who hold the sums sentiment but are. ketping quiet about It. ' lon't forget that several boud prop ortions are to be submitted at the coming elaotlon on which depend the continuation of ptrtlle Improvements In Omaha next year. It la Impossible to build more fen and pave more Meets uuicas the money is voted to ! fray the city's sharo of tha expanse. me a vs. Itinerary rf V". . Prjnn: Lincoln, Saturday, November 3, H p. ni.; aubject, trTina." All will agree tbat Colonel Bryan could not have selected a more appro priate subject for the concluding speech of his cnmpnlgti efforts. If he makes fttll ue of Ms opportunities he should develop isome very Interesting and soporific Ihcninhtn. I'nder his skillful toiiKue the beau tiful dream of 186 can be worked Into a word painting of silvery line by lib eral quotations from his speeches of that year predicting all sorts of calam ities In case the gold standard should be riveted upon the nation by the votes of the people. The beautiful dream of 1900, which was started off amid such spectacular Btage settings, run be pictured us a sweet memorled allegory over which the awful spectre of militarism stands guard. The beautiful dream of 1904 should furnish material for another Interest ing chapter, including Colonel Bryan's endorsement of Alton B. Parker and his outspoken predictions of Parker success. The beautiful dream of government ownership of railroads as It blossomed out iu the Madison Square Garden ad dress, followed with a train of explana tions and equivocations, could be used to lead up to the peroration. The beautiful dream of 1908. unfor tunately, tail come In only as a phan tom ship yet dlni on the horizon, whose direction It Is impossible to determine so early. Dreaming, however. Is a harmless entertainment, and' If Colonel Bryan can help others to get the same satis faction out of his dreams that be does he will, at least, . contribute to the world's contentment. SPECULATIOX ABOUT HVllllLS. The sensational exploitation which has been begun of Charles K. Hughes aa the choice of President Roosevelt and his intimates forspresldentlal nom ination is to be dismissed as unjust both to Mr. Hughes and the president. Absolutely no sign has been given, forth by either to warrant such Imputation, but all the proofs demonstrate that both are absorbed in earnest effort to meet the real business in hand, namely, saving. the great state of New; York from the blight and disgrace of Hearst Ism, without ulterior partisan purpose. Mr. Hughes, loyally responded to the public demand for his leadership in the emergency, a"nd It Is known that the president not only sympathized with but took the initiative in promoting that demand. The character of Mr. Hughes.'who has always been the re verse of an ' ambitious politician, and who has now taken active part In poli tics reluctantly and only from a sense of duty, ought' to discredit all such stories end speculations. v ': ; The president may be, ' as . repre sented, confident that Hughes will be overwhelmingly elected governor, and that the circumstances of election and his record as governor will perforce give him such prestige aa to compel consideration in connection with the presidency. This prospect, lpdeed, may. be assumed to be what has set the political astrologlsts . to work.-. The president, however, has been charac teristically occupied with the realities and the duties of the hour in New York, letting the nominative contin gencies of the coming two years take care, of themselves, and Mr. Hughes has fairly earned the credit of acting in the same spirit, thereby greatly strengthening himself In public estima tion. MBit treasury proposal. The arrangement just announced by Secretary Shaw is' another step In the progressive policy of positive treasury influence which he has pursued with reference to general finance, thla time aiming for the utmost limit of currency elasticity under the national banking law. That limit, so far aa the practical vicissitudes of business demand are concerned. Is very small, but the secre tary's plan contemplates within It an addition of .118,000,000 to the total issue of national bank notes for a period of over six months, to that ex tent relieving the existing strain for currency by substituting other securi ties for national bonds now held by the treasury for deposits of surplus revenue with the banks, those bonds still to remain with the treasury as security for additional bank notes to be taken out to that amount. The secretary thus recognizes the fact that gold Importation .'has reached Its end and announces cessation of his facili tating concessions. . At this point an important defect of the national banking law Is encoun tered, namely, the requirement that national bank notes once Issued cannot be surrendered for retirement In excess of $S, 000, 000 a month. The practical result is to prevent rapid expansion of bank note volume to meet auch recur rent demand as now . exists because eader the $8,000,000 retirement limit per month the volume cannot be corre spondingly contracted when the de mand for currency falls off, as it usu ally does a few months later. In short, the national banks in taking out notes are restrained by having to keep them out for a long time without regard to fluctuating business needs. The secretary's proposal ingeniously provides that 118,000,000 or note cir culation. If taken out. shall be sur rendered at the rate of $3,000,000 per month on call after March IS, wbeu the money stringency will presumably have ceased, the ideutbal national bonds now to be released at becurlty for surplus dtponlis thus being re stored to tbmt u .se Ilia discretion under the law In retiring notes Is uir queatlonably ample to make the pUu lorkUe la UiU necessary point, be cause ho is authorized to determine what notes offered for retirement shall be accepted. Time and srrIii presidents In mes sages and secretaries of the treasury In reports have urg?d a change In the legal limitation on retirement of note circulation, but though such amend ment has been pressed In congress snd Its urgency Is obvious, nothing has ever come oT It. This neglect, too, has been In face of the fact that the law Is a limitation on currency elasticity, which is the desideratum for which there has all the time been so much clamor. PRKSlVE.yT liTILL. TUOVO II AT PA XA MA With the completion of plans for the president's visit to Panama the time honored contention is being reiterated that every absence beyond the national frontier constitutes disability for the functions of chief executive. The con stitution, however, is silent on the precise point, merely providing that the vice president shall succeed In case of the death or disability of the presi dent. It contains absolutely nothing to restrain the occupant of the White House within our territorial bound aries, nor to Indicate thut the mere act of going beyond them renders. him less president. The reasoulng of those who main tain the contrary Is far fetched and fanciful. It Is not necessary for re buttal to resort to the point that the president on a United States warship, though at sea. Is legally within the national jurisdiction, or the other point that ttt Panama be would still be wlthln'lt, althouah both points might be valid enough. Apart from techni calities, sound common sense is satis fied with the complete, self-sustaining, continuous operation of the govern ment iu full vigor during such a visit, without the sllghtestjoccaslon for even nominal transfer to his constitutional successor. Certainly a variety of circumstances, besides that of death, are conceivable which would constitute disability, call ing for devolution of presidential func tions upon the vice president, hut these circumstances might occur within as well as without the national bound aries or Jurisdiction. Whenever they Eiall occur tle good judgment of those with whom the decision properly be longs may be safely trusted for action adequate to the case. It is significant that in that sane and responsible quar ter no question is raised with reference to the president's contemplated de parture for Panama, hut only by the Impractical type of patriots who are ever prone to cross a river that either does not exist or before they come to It. and who put more sensible people to the trouble of reminding them that with Theodore Roosevelt at Panama, as president of the UnlteTx States on proper business of the nation, "the government at Washington still lives" Just the Mine as when he Is at Oyster Bay or in the White House Itself. , A BACK-HANDED BOOST. Colonel Bryan's "Commoner" In Its last issue puts In this beautiful boost for the democratic candidate for con gress in the Second Nebraska district: In the Second district Gilbert M. Hitch cock has every assurance of aurcesa. His record whila In ooniraaa Is a guaranty of what his aervlcat will be If again elected. Thla comes from the pea of Richard L. Metcalfe, who, as editor of the World-Herald, was associated with Mr. Hitchcock intimately during the two years he served in congress. Knowing what a blank Congressman Hitchcock made of his congressional record, Mr. Metcalfe feels perfectly safe in saying "his record while In congress Is a guaranty of what hits services will be If again elected." It should be remembered, however, that Mr. Hitchcock, hlmaelf, has given his own testimony as to what might be expected of him If given an opportu nity to repeat his previous do-nothing achievements In Waahlngton. Writing to the secretary of the Nebraska Asso ciation of Poatmasters, under date of January 4, 1904, In response to a re quest for assistance toward getting allowances to postmasters for clerk hire gauged according to the official salary of the postmaster, he declared over his own signature: "I think I am not guilty of any breach of eonddenca In adviaing you that the ad vocacy or opposition, or even vote, of the me.Tibara of the minority In tha house will cut very Uttla fifura In deciding this ques tion, for tha republican brethren, sxercla Ins to tha fullest axtent the powra of tha majority, settle ail matters of this sort In committee and leave to tha minority tnembara tha more harmless function of distributing eaed. My sympathies are nat urally with tha third clasa poatmasters. To my oartaJn knowledge they do not roll in luxury, and moat of them perform thalr du. Uaa faithfully to tha government and to the satisfaction of tha people. If they ask me for garden , seed . I win respond, but when they ask me for salaries and allow anoea, I must, during the present admin istration refer them to tha O. O. P. Mr. Metcalfe surely knew what he was saying when he declared. ."His record while in congress is a guaranty of what hla services will be if again elected." South, Omaha also had complete mu nicipal borne rule up to the time the present governor-appointed police board - was established by law four years ago, but Inasmuch as South Omaha waa then under a republican mayor and council, the World-Herald forgot to enter protest against depriv ing the good people thereof their right of self-government. It Is differ ent now since South Omaha has a democratic mayor and council. Judge Holcomb ' teenis to disagree with Candidate Abbott's assertion that all that is needed to bring the railroads to time iu Nebraska is to gal vanize the old maximum freight rate law, which whs iut to sleep with the abolition of the State Board of Trans portation. It Is reasonable to suppose glno thst Governor Holoomb's messsge to the legislature In which he took the position that the maximum frelcbt rate law was beyond resurrectlbn was for mulsted under the advice and with the approval of the then attorney general, who was none other than that eminent democrat, the Honorable Constantlne J. Smyth. If such Is the rase Candi date Abbott might invite former Attor ney General Smyth to hold a Joint de bate with htm. The Bee has favored municipal home rule steadfastly and consistently ever since it was demonstrated that the appointment of police boards by the governor did not remove them from the whirlpool of politics. It op posed the subjection of the police board to the governor and It also op posed the appointment of a water board by the governor, but these cam paigns for home rule have always been In the face of determined opposition from the democratic World-Herald. Now that the democrats have a mayor. Candidate Hitchcock's World-Herald has turned a political somersault and suddenly discovered that municipal home rule Is the demand of the hour. It is said thut Colonel Bryan re signed his commission iu the army and hurried to Washington to help rat ify the treaty annexing the Philippines In order to force a political issue over the demand for Independence for the Islands on which be thought he might win in the election. It must be on the same theory that the supreme court of Nebraska, when under democratic con trol, took municipal home rule away from Omaha In order to furnish politi cal capital for the democrats whenever they might be, its now, desperately hard up, for an Issue. Nebraska grain dealers who have been shipping to Kansas City may not have been surprised to learn that they were selling In a "loaded" market, but the publication of the fact will at least make them wary about taking chances in the future. Interstato Commerce Commissioner Clark seems to be learning for the first time that many merchants are as successful because of what they do not know as for what they have learned especially when on the witness stand.' Speculator Knocked. New York Tribune, . The Bank of England seems to have some notions of Its own as to how fur It Is wise to encourage speculation, ami, as might be expected, they are conserva tive. Wsitlns Orar Matter. Cleveland leader. Those who are busy laying out the fu ture of President Roosevelt should pause to reflect that he' Is likely to take as strenuou a part 'lri. that as he does In most things. Tke Ka Drink BUI. . Philadelphia Record. Tha national ( drink ' bill . looks a . good deal like that of Sir John Fnlstaff, In which the disproportion between bread and sack aroused the Indignation of Prince Hal, who waa not an abstemious person. It Is computed that' the country spent. In 1!W6, 1771. Oof). 000 for beer, SW.OnO.ort) for whisky snd tw.non.noo for wine,- an aggre gate for alcoholic' 'drinks of tl,32.nnn.ono. The total for tea. .coffee and cocoa was t-'iO.OCO.OtO. It la to be feared that some people drink more alcohol than 1 neces sary, and possibly more than is good for them. Palhaa of Joe Balle. St. T-ouis Olobe Democrat. Senator Halley said to hla Texas con stituents In a recept speech: "When I work one-half of my time for you for 16.000 a year, don't you think I ought to be permitted to work the other half of my time for Mrs.' Ratley and the boys? Do you think a man's fit to be your senator who. In order to occupy that high place In his middle age, will take his wife's feeble hand and. with tottering steps, lead her to the poorhouae when they are Old?" This Is a dark picture of congres sional Indigence, but plenty of Texana would ba willing to accept a senatorshlp and forego big fees from any questionable Source. ' CONCKA1.ED WfcAPOS." True atare of the tVrna . t'oan mltted by the Treats. Cleveland Leader. Attorney General Ellis has coinud a phrase In sneaking of tha effect of the case decided against the Standard Oil company at Flndlay. which Is strikingly pithy and Illuminating. "In my Judgi mailt." said the attorney general of Ohio, "what will ultimately be accomplished will ba tha putting an end forever to tha decoy and fictitious companlea owned by the Standard Oil compiiiiy In fact, but pretending to ba independent and used aa a concealed weapon to destroy competition." "Concealed weapon" goes to the mark. It brings out of the brutal field of per sonal violence lnta the less openly de structive, but none the leas ruthleaa war fare of predatory business, an expression which areryone understands. There ha long been need of making clearer to the average clttsen the- true nature of the wronga committed by trusta of capital against their trade and Industrial rival. "Concealed weapons will go far toward accomplishing that end. It la manifestly evil and Illegal for any business concern to do In ecret what It might not lawfully do In the open. It la also clear that the state can not tolerate false pretenses In tra.V and the fraudulent use of dovoy corporations for the purpose of monopoly. Every com pany must be compelled to do business In Ha awn character, nut through dummies, under fictitious names and by alejlth. Take away from tha truats the use of concealed weapons, the pistol and the dagger of trade, and they will be com pelled to oby tha lawa. Thy cannot hope to be permitted openly to vlulate the atatutes designed to enforce fair play In conimereu and Industry. . No railroad would rver Biake publlf. dim rtmlnatlon between rival ahlpptrs In freight ralea ur in at onmodatlons afforded for th,r bus!- When President Roosevelt demands and Insists upon the "square deal" he alms at exavtly the same end which Attorney (ieiieral Ellla penelvra requires the strict enforcement of laws afalnst "cvucialed weapons" In trade. Both flslit for Jus lice nothing more than that foundation for all human galua wluclt are Worth tha winning. lKSVYI.V44a: C ALTAIC Holiest (nates Fsserlenred In the State for Many Years. Ftir the first time In many years Penn sylvania has a campaign for state offices that Is the real thing. 11 is up to tha New York standard In personalities, but exceeds tfio Fmplre state In personal bit terness, political vituperation and charges of wholeMle graft. In former campaigns under the regime of Matthew Stanley Quay an overwhelming republican major ity under the guidance of a master poli ticians met the onsets of ths opposition without batting an eye and Invariably routed the enemy. But the man who "shook the plum tree" Is no more Snd the Hate machine has no expert at the lever. Besides that the machine Is so burdened with public loot that it cannot hide the goods, several vital cogs have been knocked off and to all appearances Is destined fcr the Junk pile. The regular republican candidate for governor Is Bdwln 8. Stuart or Phila delphia. Pitied sgaliist Mm Is Louis Emery. Jr., a so-called Lincoln republican brought to tha front by the reformers of Phila delphia and endorsed by the democratic state convention. Roth the regular and the fusion parties- are pressing the contest wlUi great vigor. But the regular re publican organisation la seriously handi capped by the disclosures of extravagance siid graft In the construction of the atate rrpltol. In which 9.ono.000 was expended for trimmings In excess of a specific ap propriates, of H.non.OOO. The only defense offered Is Governor Pennypacker's declara tion that Pennsylvania Is a rich state and the best is none too good for It. The explanation does not still criticism and condemnation, which has forced Mr. Stuart to take notice. In a recent speech ha said: "It has been said the money for fur nishing the new capltol has been spent without a specific appropriation for that purpose. While It perhap may have been done under the law, such a policy Is wrong. Nobody , composed of three, four or five men, 1 don't care how honest they ar or how high their Integrity may be. should be permitted to spend t!,OQft,i)00 unless they first have a specific. Itemised appropria tion from the legislature. If elected gov ernor I propose to recommend to the next regislatur that such large sums of money csn' be spent only after an Itemised ap propriation lias been made, elating clearly what It Is to be spent for and bow much Is to be spent for each and every Item. Such a policy, to my mind, is In accord with good business principles, which is the way the business of the stats should be conducted." Fusion candidate Eipery la slashing mem bers of the machine right and left. In one of hrs speeches he asserted that State Sen ator James P. McNIchol. a member of the Philadelphia combine, bought for tlS.ono each two democratic members of the leg. islature whose votes were necosssry to elect Senator Quay In ISM. Senator Mo. Nlchol retaliated by starting civil and criminal suits against Emery, claiming tfoA.OOO damages. Dr. Silas C. Swallow, prohibition candi date for president In 1904. la prancing around In the campaign as usual, this time talking loudly for the machine. Ist Thursday Charles Emory Smith, editor of the Philadelphia Tress, took the preacher politician In hand and roasted him to a finish In a column editorial. The occasion for the roast wts the publication In the Press of an abstract of a speech delivered by Jeremiah 8. Black, candidate fdr lleu tennnt governor on the Lincoln party ticket, in which Black declared that Swal low had been found guilty of lying and had been defrocked by his church. In a letter to the Press Dr. Swallow declared the statement a falsehood snd asked tor a corrrctlcn. "It happened," snys the Press, "that Dr. Swallow's letter fell Into the hands of those who did not know tha facts, and, accepting Dr. Swallow's deutal as trustworthy, the 'correction' was made as requested. By this deception the Press was placed In a fnlse position, and we now proceed to place this lying hypocrite in his true position. His denisl was s conscious misrepresentation, based on the catch that the verdict of guilty of lying and the sen tence of "defrocking" were pronounced, not by the conference, but by a committee with Judicial powers acting on behalf of the conference. In essence and substance the statement of Mr. Black was true. Dr. Swallow was convicted of lying; he was defrocked'; he was held by the church au. thorltlea to the reprobation of the church, and he now aggravates his original wrong of lying by the superadded ofTense of willful deception. Dr. Swallow has deill erately tried to deceive and mislead the Press, and that game, he will find, cannot be tried with Impunity. He lias under taken, for reasons which can well be un derstood, to villify and traduce public men the latchet of whose shoes he Is unworthy to unloose, and his base conduct not merely justifies, but In the public Interest del. lands that be shall ba stripped of the cloak of decency and aunctlty under which ha masquerades. He has not only been pronounced guilty of being a liar and li beller, but be is an impious and blasphe mous hypocrite, and in the Interest of the church and state alike he should ha laid bare as the hideous and loathsome thing he Is, so that men will avoid him as they would avoid a leper." Dv. Swallow thinks this Is more thsn a man ran bear patiently and win's a large bunch of Smith's money to soothe his wound". PKRBO'VAL OTES. The German emperor has more servants In his employ thsn any other monarch. Altogether they number over t,0iio, about two-thirds of them being women. Caruso, the marvelous tenor, undoubt edly broke all rerords In curtain cslls, when recently st a performance of "Pagllaoei" Rt the Hamburg Btadt theater he waa called out thirty-two times. Caruso Is already on hla way to New York. "Flngy" Conners of Buffalo, nominal chairman of the New York state demo cratic committee, realises that he Is llttie more than a figurehead. A few days ago ha almost acknowledged us much to a friend by saying: "Thla ain't no campaign- It's a Punch and Judy show and I'm Judy." fcir Thomas Llpton, replying to a female Interviewer who questioned htm on tha sub ject of his matrimonial Intentions, replied that he would have married long ago If he had only been a Mormon. This reculli the reply made by Sir Richard Burton, the famous oriental traveler, to an anxious moth-r who asked him what hla Intentions were concerning hla daughter. "Ah, madam." as id Wli Richard. "In a country Itke Great Britain where a man la allowed but one wife at a time he cannot be too careful." Alfred Muk-y, tUe British philanthro pist, who U about to send sue British school teachers to the Cnlted State to atudy American school methods, reached New York on Thursday. The teachers will ariiva in ',u of five, the first five reachl.ig New York In about thie weeks. Shrtiuui JalsltigrHO Gaekwvr, sou of the tialiar&Jah Ouekwar of Baroda, who re cently vIMted this country, has arrived in Cambridge ai,d will enter Harvard a soon aa It Is settled thut i .- fllla the nevesaary requirements. This ia the first time that ,tn I ml I mi prince has come over to com plete an education at au Amiicau Institu tion of learning. A i "S yew DICTirJCTIVCLY A CREAM OS? TARTAR DA.CirJC POWDER Royal does not contain an atom of . . ' phosphatide acid (which Is the product of bones digested in sul phuric acid) or of alum (which ia one-third sulphuric acid) substan- . ct adopted for other baking pow ders because of their cheapness : DOTAL SAKINft SOWCM CO.. NSW YCS.K. TAFTPS STRAIGHT TALK. Trneh Vlad t abaa Officials Kit I and Take .Xoilre An Interesting sidelight on the dramatic culmination Of the recent unpleasantness In Cuba Is contributed by Mr. William Inglts, special correspondent In Cuba for Harper's Meekly, In a vivid article In the October So Issue of the weekly. On the evening of September as "omlnotia date, a" Messrs. Tsft and F-aeon called at the palace. President Pal ma and' his cabinet rer wsitlng In the red room. "Secretary Taft proposed that the president should remain In office,, that all the members of his cabinet should resign, that new con gresslonsl elections should be held forth with, snd that the constitution should be amended so as to give autonomy to Cuban cities. Mr. Tart's lone waa kindly, but there , could ba no doubt of hla firmness, "Don Toinas Estrada Palma listened to the big American at first in absolute silence. ' He could not believe that this official, called In to drive away the hated Asaldos, was now proposing to drive away his own officers, leaving him. ths presi dent, alone and helpless be fore the Cuban people. For a time It seemed Impossible for him to speak. Then, " 'I cannot accept this solution of our difficulties, sir.' he ssid, his voice trem bling, but soon gaining strength. 'We owe It to our patriotism to stand firm.' "'Mr. President,' urged Secretary Taft. and hla manner was that of a lawyer seek ing to convince a misguided client, 'there romea a time when patriotism demands a sacrifice ' " 'Mr. Secretary," the aged president In terrupted, 'I do not Intend to take any lessons in patriotism from you." Then ha remained silent, oversome by emotion. Secretary Taft made no reply to ths angry outburst. "Secretary O'Farrll, av small and bitter man. had a speech to make and here was hla opportunity. ' -"'Is It for this.'- he cried, 'that you American have corns here? :Ve could ! have settled this matter ourselves, put down the revolution unaided. ' Yet you eom here and deal 'with men In arms against the government.' ' . "Everybody knows, of course" that the government could not have put down the revolution In 100 year. Dr. O'Farrll knew this better, perhaps, . than any one else, but he was busy about his honor, and he must mske a demonstration, so there wss bo use In being concerned about facts. But he was not to go without a reply. " 'Such acts as yours.' said Mr. Tsft. 'are killing the Republic of Cuba.' For ten minutes the big secretsry related to the small and bitter man the facts he had learned about fraud, violence and assassination In the lute elections. He did not devote any time to esssys about honor or patriotism, but ha pointed out the cold truth as to the elections, and the truth silenced the honorable and patriotic Secretary O'Farrll. Trasredy of tbe Lester. Chicago Chronicle. That unfortunate creature George Ra schld, the Syrian Irpsr. has at last found a blessed releaa? from his suffering's. He lies dead in bis lonely hut nesr Wheeling, W. Va In this .twentieth century of the Christian era, In a ChrWlan country and In tha midst of a civilised people he was hunted from place to place like a wild beast until timid charity give him a hove! on a barren hillside in which to die. Many hero medals were gven out the ether day, but among them was none for the succorer of tha leper beoausw there was none to succor him. Be Patient and t.nk Pleasant St. Louis Republic. The congestion on , western railroads la growing worse. The shortage of cars Is hampering business and unsettling mar kets. It la Interesting, however, aa show ing that what appeared to ba almoat ex travagent preparations for the movement of crops were far short of actual require ments. Besldca, It ia pleasanter to behold a shortage of cars to move the crops than to see an overplus of cars and a de ficiency of crops. A Yellow Mil Innovation. Philadelphia Record. , To William R. Hearst alone belongs the prestige of having organised a political trust of Which he Is the sole stockholder and 'proprietor. KNADE CABINET GRAND $450 When you consider a piano purchase, the first thought is of the best a Knabe and after that what you can get for a little less money, pr on easier terms, or at greater exchange advantage. It Is not a question of finding something equal to the Knabe; it is hesitation between the best thing money can buy and an lndugesce of temporary convenience. . but there is one thing you should steadily Veep In nilnd, end thst is that It Is the less first cost of the other piano that makes It posalble to offer you s greater inducement of any kind and this latts first cot means Itna dual vrlue. , A Knsbe will glva the longest aud most satisfactory service, and always bring a good price, however old. -- Knabe Mlgnon Grand, the supreme small grsnd. the smallest re-al grand, 750. Knabe Cabinet Grand superior to grand of other makers, $40. . " A. HOSPE CO.. l513Doui!!a3St. w Have 1 our Piano Tuned, Ouly $2.50 AlTIOARY HiVl.. Attention failed to Oreraaeenla tla In Lands. Springfield Republican. The president of the Illinois Central rosd. Ktuyvesant Fish, says In a New Tork in terview that he never before saw , the west so prosperous ss it Is, now; and. In deed, "every lHly, everywhere I have been, has all the business in hand and in sight that he can take care of for a long' time to come." But for all that he sees "clouds gathering." referring especlttlly to over- speculation In stocks and suburban real estate. What he sayt In regard to land speculation Is quite In line with the ob servation of other conservative financiers"? "Not especially In Chicago, but all through the west. I ' observed the asms tendency as In New York to oyerspeculate In land adjacent to cities. If the -shifting of the centers of population and our new wealth are sufficient to maintain the In flated prices 'no harm may he done. Other wise a lot of middle class business rpen snd young salaried men of more thsn average enterprise are going to get hurt. The diversion of population from the' cen ters to outlying area la In Itself a good thing. It lt the result ' largely of the automobile and the trolley car. But when land Is selling for ' tVM) ' to t1.oiH'a foot that recently sold for $100 to a0 an acre, the buyers are on dangerous ground. In many cases. The old story is- liable to' re peat Itself." ' "'' Mr. Klsh finds that the west Is not taking much Interest In politics this fall-peofle being too busy milking money: and Ti does not regard this as a pood sign. Thera la the possibility that much the same feeling of apathy prevail here in the east, and this Is a condition favorable for candidate of the Hearst snd Morsn type. PAMIXG rLKAATRIF.a. A trolley collided with a milk wagon and sent the milk splsshlrtg on the- pavement Soon a crowd, gathered. "Goodnesw!'.'- ex claimed a nmn,."Vbat snrswful wate!" A sfout lady turned arid glared at him. "f,,- i.. . i. . . .. - i- snapped. Llpplnoott'e lagnzlne. . - "Did you know tuat politicians have a particular kind of sweets to which they are partial?" "I didn't ktow It about politicians' es pecially. Wrhat Is the klnd?,r "Candled dates, of course." Philadelphia Press. "It's dreadful queer, mid the housewife, "that the potatoes you bring me nhould ba so much bigger at the top of the sack than they are at the bottom." "Not at all, nwm." said the honest farmer; "It's Jest thin a-wav. Potatoes Is arowin' so fast Jent now thet by tha time I dig a sackful the last ones dug is ever so much blgger"n the fust ones." Harper a Weekly. , , , "My dear," said the candidate, who hsif arrived home after the returns from JS, precincts had been reported, "1 have won a great moral victory."- . "Oh," she replied, "then the other man must have received moat of the votes." Chicago Record-Herald. : ' "This," exclaimed the guide,' as they stood at last on the summit of the ma jestic; Himalayas, "Is the roof of tha world.'.' -. - . "It Is. hey," panted tha American trav eler. "Well, It s a blamed rough job of ahinglin'." Cleveland Leader. "Were ygu ever really glad to hang a man?" "Only rmce," answered the sheriff, "I had prepared him - a hearty breakfast of Bleak, eggs, potatoes, waffles and coffee." "Year" "And the Infernal l.tgrat demanded stewed oats Instead." Philadelphia Press. EQI'I 9 REGIT. , . , . The automobile turned up Its nose At the horse left far In tha rear,' And the landscape waa rent with a forcible scent As Hie way farer Bighrd, "Oh, degr,'' The auto Just aneerd at each bore aa it leered. ' . i And exclaimed. "Go back to the farm:" Bui the burse kept Its pace Wltli g cailn equina grace. Nor showed the bast bit of alarm. Bald the horse. "Don't you ttrk," and he gava a aly wink. "This week .is the Horse Show In town? Then I'll be the leader and you tha rs- ced-r. . So Just go way back and sit. down." "Go d'wri to the- stock yards and take your old smell. It will match their chol-e eau-de-cologns. There s no place tor you In this week's grcjid review. For 1 in king and I'll king It alone." BAYOLL N'TRtLLlB. Omaha. Oct. 21.