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4 THE OMAHA DATLY BEE: FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1W7. The Omaha Daily Bee FOUNDED BT EDWARD ROSE WATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. JOnfered at Omaha postoffle aa second t!in matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. hnC T lthn.it Hnnriavl one year...H Dally flee anil Bundny, one year undsv Bee, one year Saturday Km. one J ear IM 1.M DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Tally Bee (Including Sunday), per week..lje fally Hee (without Sunday), per ic...iw Evening Be (without Sunday). per week, so Evening Bee (with Sunday), per Addrese complaints of Irregularities in oe livery to City Circulating Department. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. Pouth Omaha City Hall Building. Council Bhiffa 10 Tearl Street. Chtcaso liart Unity Building. , New Vork-lBfla Home Life Ins. Building. Washington Ml Fourteenth Street. . CORRESPONDENCE. Communication relating to news and edi torial matter should be addreseed: Omana Bee. Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, exrrea or postal order, payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only 2 -cent itampt racelved In payment or mall accounta. personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not ac-eptea. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT Of CIRCULATION. Stale of Nebraska, Douglaa County, as; Chark C. Rosewrtter, general manager Of The Bee. Publishing company, being duly worn, says that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Runday Pee printed during the noma or uecember, lltOS. was as iomw. 3MT0 80,880 17 38,870 II 31,780 II 31,760 20 38,870 tl 31,830 2 J 31,800 2 30,860 24 31,710 li 31,800 it 73,120 17 31,770 21 31.810 31.880 10 30,300 1 S1.810 1 J1.T10 .......... 91,700 81.680 1 81,880 I ta.oeo 1 80,630 18 11,750 li ta.iso 12 83,050 11 91,880 14 81,690 1 88,170 II 1 30,400 Total Las unsold and returned copies. , 31,810 ,888,380 , 8,841 Nat total 873,148 Dally average 81,381 CHARLES C. ROSE WATER, Oeneral Manager. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before ma this slat day of December, 1801 (Seal.) M. B. H UNGATE, Notary Public. WHEN OUT Or. TOWM. Sabscrlbars leavlna? the city tem porarily shoald hare Tle Bee mailed to tbem. Address will be cbaaaed aa oftea aa requested. Japan's Intention of sending ships to Jamestown indicates that Its Indig nation la not strong enough to pass the Rocky mountains. The grim reaper With bis sickle seems to be particularly active in hit ting at shining marks hereabouts at the outset of 107. "" It la hard to tell which will make them mors trouble the foolhardlnesa of the liquor dealers themselves or the reckless teal of fool, friends. Now that 'Cuban, politicians , have takon to fighting with fists rather than with machetes, there can be no doubt of the spread of American ideas on the Island. ,V- -."" Mayor Dunne's opposition to an Im mediate settlement of the Chicago street car question Indicates that he finds it easier to make a new ticket than a new issue. me "Iowa idea" of etates' rights is scarcely compatible with that held south of Mason and Dixon's line, but Iowa la not going to lose its reputa tlon for originality. . .. It does not necessarily follow that the democratic senators who are de fending the president's course in the Brownsville affair have Joined - the "third term leajue." In suggesting amendments to the eaeral constitution as a remedy for existing evils Governor Cummins may be right, but he Is taking the longest route to the object desired. ine announcement that energetic measures would end the Moroccan re bellion in a short time would be more Important If it were shown that the sultan could become energetic. The eagerness of certain members of the legislature to investigate ru mored charges against the conduct of his office by the last attorney general seems to have been suddenly abated - Panama hotel keepers who object to competition by. Uncle Sam should either provide a better meal at a lower price than obtains at the government hostelry or accept the situation with out protest The positive announcement that In surance companies pay no losses at Kingston leaves San Francisco some prospect Of getting. a settlement: but earthquake Insurance offers a field for speculation if not for fortune. Our democratic council abolished the gag Inspector's office in order to get rid of a distasteful incumbent and now re-establishes It under a new name. The pretense of retrenchment and economy has been thrown to the winds. Senator Burkett seems to be partlc . ularly apprehensive for fear his new Judicial division Jobs may not mater lalixe before the 4th of March, .after which he might have a colleague un willing to let him have his own way altogether in selecting the recipients .of the favors. ' It is suggested that Iowa is getting the best of it la providing the birth place of Nebraska senators. Illinois however, has also given us several while the outgoing senator is a Cana dlan by birth. But the day is sure to come wheo a. native Nebraskaa will represent his state in the upper branch ot the national legislature. THE KIQSTO DtftJSTM The worst fears awakened by the first vague earthquake reports from Jamaica are shown by later advices to be more than warranted. The details reveal a typical earthquake C'.saster at Kingston, the chief city of the Island, the shock that wrecked the buildings baring been followed by the horror of fire, panic and disorder. Though the city was not so great as San Fran cisco or Valparaiso, It was a thriving and populous conwnunlty and the re ports indicate the same conditions of human suffering and need as In the two memorable earthquake horrors of last year. The world's sympathy and Impulse to succor the stricken community are as quick and generous now as then. It Is especially fit that our government should take Instant steps towards re lief because relief can reach the vic tims earliest from us, and In such ter rible catastrophes it Is speedy relief that counts. Though Kingston Is a possession of a foreign nation, there can In this day among civilized peoples be no foreign ers In case of overwhelming misfor tune and suffering. The people of the United States will heartily approve the prompt action of their government and congress can be counted on to validate and amplify it as the exigency may require. SECRETARY KUUT8 VISIT. If Secretary Root can In his visit to Canada duplicate or approximate the success of . hlB South - American tour notable practical results for both coun tries will follow certainly though per haps not immediately. For no one is blind to the fact that this visit, though it is one of courtesy, is directed by far deeper motives. Unquestionably gen eral feeling in Canada towards .the United States is far from, cordial, not only because of belief that in settle ment of most important questions here tofore the former got the worBt of It, but 'also' because irritating4 disputes hare been permitted to drag along for generations and are still unsettled. It is the disposition or the Roosevelt ad ministration in general and of the State department In particular, under Ellhu Root conclusively to dispose of such matters. One grave difficulty in adjusting re lations with Canada has always been that they could not be directly dealt with, but everything had to be done through London. The Canadians thus ave naturally felt that their substan tial interests have , been sacrificed by th.i British government through desire to conciliate Americans 'even though the fact might be the reverse. It would be a plausible explanation, if there were not many known proofs, that the secretary's visit will enable him better to ascertain directly though infor mally Just what the Canadians Want In the important negotiations soon' to be carried 'on through the regular diplo matic channels, including an effort for reciprocal tariff concessions. The last has indeed been considered as weii-nign nopeiess, Decause me Canadians are committed to the policy of holding their market for their own manufactures, while free or freer ex change of agricultural commodities would not be reciprocally advantage ous, the Americans having vne oniy large market therefor. But Secretary Root's diplomacy is the only way to results, if any be possible, and it at least promises to promote cordiality and good will and thus to prevent the more intense tariff strife that has been threatened: StQRKQATlKQ MINERAL VALVES. A precedent of far-reaching Import would be aet by embodying in law the recommendation of the special senate committee in favor of selling for set tlement only the surface of the 600,000 acres ot land in Indian territory that were withdrawn from sale two years ago, reserving all mineral rights lor the benefit of the five civilised tribes, owners in fee. The principle Is not less applicable to. the remainder of the public domain, and in aome re spects the circumstances there render resort to it even more necessary. The withdrawal of the lands In ques tion was caused by the rapid monopo lization of .their coal, oil and gas re sources under the terms on which ab solute title could be acquired. It be came apparent that great corporations would certainly make effective through those forms conspiracy to secure title to all the most valuable land for prac tically the price of the surface, al though the coal alone is worth many times as much, and that the Indians thus defrauded In the first Instance, would thereby alBo be perpetually sub jected to the exactions of fuel monopoly. Summary withdrawal from sale saved the mineral values only temporarily, but the recommended measure proposes to save them per manently, since tbe profits when real lied are to Inure to the Indian owners the government acting merely as tru tee. Not to speak of other minerals monopolization of coal and iron has already reached In this country a point gravely challenging public attention the Steel trust having got control ot far more than halt the known work able iron deposits. Indeed, there Is only a relatively small proportion of coal and Iron lands not now in the grip of corporations which, by the com nlnation processes lately operating so rapidly, might conceivably establish absolute monopoly. It is therefore high time to consider protection ot public Interest in mineral resources still held under government title against power ful and grasping corporation monopoly specially when it is found necessary to employ this principle on. so Urge scale in the case of Indian tribal lands The incalculable value of tne atake Is forcibly shown by .tne uesperate methods resorted to for monopoly sels ure of the people's heritage, the elabo rate frauds perjuries and other crimes under the land laws lately exposed centering In this purpose. It Is pre posterous that land worth hundreds and even thousands of dollars an acre should be exposed to the ' grasp of monopoly at the pittance fixed by law for the surface soil, which often no one would take even as a gift for cul tivation. The mineral value no less than the soil value Is the property of the people, and at least as to those fundamental minerals selected for monopoly exploitation should be equally guarded. MAKE CITY ATTOBSET AFW1KT1VE. While the' members of the Douglas delegation are considering amendments to the Omaha city charter they should by all means make; the city attorney again appointive. When this position was made elec tive by the revision four years ago, The Bee voiced objections to Buch a change and the disadvantages then foreshadowed have become realities through actual experience. In the first place, great difficulty Is encountered in getting a lawyer ot tbe first rank and of such ability as the city should, command to seek election to this office. In tbe second place, the city attorney should be the close legal adviser of the mayor as well as the law officer of a municipal corporation, and as such should be able - to maintain intimate relations with the mayor. The possi bility of the election of a republican mayor and a democratic city attorney, each suspicious of the other and at variance in matters of public policy, pointed out when this matter was up before, actually came to pass with un- satisfactory if 'not disastrous results for all concerned. And at our last city election, which resulted in the choice of a democratic mayor, only the tralght party lever of the Toting ma chine saved him from being yoked up with a republican city attorney. 1 The Bee Is not advocating action de signed to legislate the present city at torney out of hls office, but It is advo cating action that will enable the next mayor to appoint his own city attorney. It is notorious that the change of this office from appointive to elective was Inspired by particular animus against the then incumbent, who would not now resume the office under any con siderations. Having accomplished what was Intended, although at great cost to the taxpayers, no special obstacle should stand in the way of giving the appointment of the city attorney back into the banda of the mayor. Representative Cone has hit a sound trail in pushing his plan for reform in the publication of the legislative Jour nal! The 'printing of these Journals day by day to be corrected and bound up into a complete volume later should not only give the taxpayers a substan tial saving in cost, but also bring the printed volumes of the session laws out within a comparatively few days after adjournment. The law provides for this publication within ninety days, but the requirement has been chron ically neglected and often it has been six months-to a year before the legis lative records were accessible. Mr Cone should keep at it until he accom plishes his object. While the legislature is in session at least one defect of the Nebraska In heritance tax law should be corrected. As that law now stands public be quests are mulcted for the inheritance tax the same as bequests to private in stitutions and individuals. A bequest of the late Frank Murphy, for exam ple, giving $10,000 to the Omaha pub lic library, underwent shrinkage to the amount of the inheritance tax per centage before coming under control ot the Public Library board. There is no good reason why, when the whole bequest goes to the public, a part of It should be diverted to some iise not in tended or contemplated by the donor. Members of the democratic clpy council are now playing to the galleries by proposing a municipal electric light ing plant. The proposition waa put up to the people two years ago, but the democrats were all against it and took the money of tha electric lighting mo nopoly to boost the campaign of the democratic candidates. The excuse then was that the city should first complete Its pending purchase of the water works and the purchase of the water works Is still pending. Senator Millard is entitled to com mendation for gracefully congratulat ing his successor after the election is over. He should, however, have per formed this act in the republican state convention when the delegates gave the nomination to another after a con test which he had himself entered and watched from a seat on the stage. Senators who are certain that Secre tary Hitchcock haa violated the law in creating a forest ' reserve should re member that his act perhaps prevented flagrant law defiance by others for the Indian Territory has seldom re garded land laws as binding. Unless It is positively shown that the child , labor law will not prevent feeding bogs, milking cows and hoeing the vegetable garden after the regular farm work is done it will have diffi culty In passing a farmer legislature by unanimous vote. Tbe report that the Chineae govern ment is to discharge an official because he appointed a relative -as secretary In dicates that nepotism Is to have no 1 place la the new order something which ' may surprise American office holders. Take tbe abort V.nA. t Chicago n.crd-Herald. The Standard Oil crowd may be fined IM.0OMW by (he Ohio courts. Don't, how ever, make any big w&gera that the maxi mum penalties will ha imposed. A Fortnnat Keeape. Baltimore American. . While the congressional pnrty of Investi gators were on the Isthmus of ranama an alligator tried to eat one of the members. Roth the . alligator and the congressman were saved. Prnfltleaa Badness. Indianapolis" News. Sometimes It almost seems as If the senate might be better engaged than In J party he will at last come to the loader wrangling over th race question In a way j ahlp. Ills fight against Mr. Bailey may trot that doesn't accomplish anything except be entirely won at present, because It la rouse tha Ire of the members. Hitting- the tagsr rile. St. Louis Republic. The siia-ar combine may be sued for I7),000,0no on the charge of effecting the financial ruin of a competitor. Thle time an awakened public Is taking the place of the government as propecutor. . Ahead of the Jadare. Washington Post. Chief Justice Fuller says when he gts ready to retire from the supreme bench he will be the first to know It. Still, from the reports In- circulation, the newspaper men have beat him to It. Right la His l.fae. Kansas City Times. While' the peril of .'the' adventure must have been disquieting. Mr. Bryan must, nevertheless, have found hts runaway ex perience In Spokane, Wash., both exhil arating and novel. The Nebraska states man should try a sleigh the next time he runs for the presidency. It goes faster. Hard Times for Political Bosses. Baltimore American. The bosses everywhere are looking blue at the public sentiment and the consequent laws curtailing "fat" opportunities: poli ticians are ataylng away from legislative assemblies because passes are no longer easy to get; publicity and Investigation are cutting off various sources of comfortable incomes without work, and It looks really aa though politics aa a trade Is not sharing In the reneral prosperity of the business of the country. , Senator Alison to the Fore. Cincinnati Enquirer. , Senator Allison of Iowa waa kept home for a month after the opening at of congress by Illness. His condition such as to give grave apprehension. was He has taken his seat again, however, and haa shown his old aptness for public busi ness. Tha first thing he did was to sit nrmly but amiably on the house provision for the Increase of certain salaries. Mr. Allison la ona of the few of our construc tive statesmen. And he la not without accomplishments In destruction. Who will wear the senate's watchdog collar when Mr. Allison retires ,to. the seclusion of an honorable age? ' CANADA'S ANTI-STRIKE BILL. How the Dominion Proposes' to Deal with Labor Dlapates. Pittsburg Dispatch. Tha Canadian Minister of Labor haa In troduced Into tha Dominion Parliament a compulsory arbitration bill, supported by tha labor organisations, which, If enaoted, will furnish an Interesting experiment In labor legislation. ; Boards of Investigation and conciliation are to be appointed, consisting of ona repre sentative chosen by each aide and the third by those two or by the minister of labor. The bill will make It an offense for any person to Incite others to declare or continue a strike tor lockout prior to or pending a reference of the dispute to a board of conciliation or Investigation. The finding of the board may be accepted or rejected, so that the bill really provides for compulsory Investigation only. But ex perience has been that where an attempt haa been made to have a fair discussion of trade disputes settlement has Usually fol lowed. In obstinate cases the investigation and the publication of the commission's finding would do much to force a settle ment by the pressure of public opinion. A notable point la the authority conferred upon the board of Investigation to summon witnesses, place them under oath and com pel them to produce documents or to com mit them for contempt As the labor organizations ara supporting the bill. Its chances of passage ara excel lent. Ita provisions are fair and It avoids the difficulties and defects of most other compulsory arbitration bills. Its effect will be watched with Interest In this oountry. A DEUGHTFIL CASIIST. California View of Traffic Manager Stabbs aa a Witness. Ban Francisco Call. Mr. J. C. Btubba, the able traffic director of tha Harrlman system, Is always Inter esting, If It were only for tha humorous Ingenuity with which the contrives to obscure a subject and baffle Inquiry which he deems Impertinent. Whether It ba a reporter putting Inconvenient questions or an Interstate commerce commissioner making uncomfortable Inquiries about law breaking traffic managers, . Mr. Stubba pursues hla easy way of talking about something else. No man haa ever yet nailed SiUbbi to the cross. "Competition among railroads! Why, bless your soul, Mr. Commissioner, the Southern Pacific beats the band aa an all- round competitor for everything In sight." Buch waa the general tenor of hla evldenoe before the Interstate Commerce commis sion In Chicago on Wednesday. Of course It waa quite evident that Mr. Btubba waa J talking of one thing and the commissioners i of another, although they both uaed tha same name for two distinct and separate Ideas. When Mr. Btubbs speaka of com petition he confines the word to service. The commissioners were talking about com petition In rates. 'Mr. Hill," aald the wltneas, "Is prob ably tha leading railroad man In this coun try, and he cannot. If he would, destroy competition between the Great Northern and Northern Pacific. He must employ vice presidents and general managers. Theee men have their imputations to uphold or to construct. They will work for their own lines against the other line. and com petition la Inevitable. If Hill should take that spirit out of his men ha might aa well hand their management over to a tlOO clerk." All that la very pretty, but If any of these skillful and able railroad men under Hill should presume to make an open cut In rates he would be Incontinently dismissed. Indeed, Mr. Btubba. In a moment of unex pected candor, admitted aa much when ha aald he dared not change run without consultation with hla "eompetttore." This form of competition he Jurtiflt a a ona of the penalties of civilization. "A railroad." he explains. "Is just aa in dependent as any member of society can be. Every man In the community la compelled to forego a portion of hla natural rights for the good cf the whole. I sea no dif ference In this case." . Is not that admirable casuistry? A rail road la compelled to break the law by way of paying the debt It owes to society! M-. Stubba Is quite aa entertaining aa the Im moral monster of a Punch and Judy show. BIT" OF WA'HI-ftTO I.IFK. Minor Scene's sad laeldeata Sketched j an tbe 9 ant. I Democratic harmony In the halla of congress la not sufficiently cohesive to turn the edge of a cheeao knife. Efforts to cut the ground from under John Sharp Wil liams, minority leader In the house of rep resentatives, though unsuccessful, served to uncover the prevailing factional spirit among democratic statesmen. "Back of tha opposition to Mr. Williams,"' writes the Washington correspondent of the Balti more American, "Is tha same Influence that la threatening the political future of Senator Bailey fr Texas. Mr. William Randolph Hearst Is engaged In the busl- l nesa of killing off. poltlcally. every proml- I ncnt democrat In this country who Is cp ' posed to him, so that by the gradual elimination of Vie able men allll left In tha possible that Mr. Bnlley may be re-elected. I but the Texan senator's prestige has un- aouDieaiy neen ssmy aiminisnea ana ne will no longer be the commanding figure In the councils of the democratic party that he has been heretofore. Mr. Williams will probably be defeated In hts contest for the senatorahlp, and If Mr. Hearst ran elect Champ Clark minority leader, he will have practically destroyed another pbwerful enemy. With these two men out of the way Mr. Hearst will continue picking out, one by one, the few great men still left In the party until he himself will obtain the leadership through the destruction of the best element of the democratic party, and thus at last. In 1912, secure the demo cratic nomination for the presidency, tha goal of his ambition." Representative John Garner, of the Brownsville district, has easier access to the presidential ear than has any other Texas stateman. This was the case even before the nations were excited to fever heat over the Twenty-fifth Infantry Inci dent. Mr. Garner called at the executive offices yesterday with a picture of one of his constituents, Bill Wright of Atnacosa county, surrounded' by his fourteen chil dren. He showed It with pride to the president. "You can see from thle that there Is no race suicide In Texas," said Mr. Garner. "Bill Wright, as you can see from his picture. Is still a young man, and his wife Is still a young woman and a good-looking one, too. The fourteen chil dren you see In the picture are all theirs." "Fine! Fine!" exclaimed the president "That's what I call a fair to mlddlln' slsed family. Bill Wright Is the sort of citizen we need In this country, and he's raising the right sort, too, I dare say." "You can bet he la," replied Mr. Gar ner. "Bill Wright's a stanch democrat, and all those nine boys of his you see In the picture will be democratic voters In Texaa after a while." , "Ah!" said the president. "Ah!" said the congressman. "I understand now what Is going on In Texaa," volunteered the president. "Yes, sir," assented the congressman; "this shows that we are Increasing the democratic majority In Texaa all tha time." "Perhaps so," somewhat dubiously agreed tha president. In a speech the other day Senator Daniel of Virginia referred to the Philippines and pronounced the last syllable of the name as though he meant a certain kind of tree. The prevailing pronunciation of the syl lable Is "peena," of course, and someone asked Mr. Daniel aa to hla authority for the new reading. "I think," answered the Virginia senator, "that the authorities are silent oh the subject. It Is merely a matter of Individual taste. By the way, did you ever hear anyone speak of the 'Isle of Peens' In referring to tha little Island off the coast of Cubat Not Well, why don't you Invoke your ruleT This seems to be an age for go-as-you-please spelling. Why not extend the same liberty to tha matter of pronunciation? The main thing after all Is to make one's self understood." Major George W. Evans, chief of the division of finance and disbursement. Department of tha Io'erlor. waa congrat ulated by the head of the department this week because In the twenty-three years that he haa held the position, under six teen different secretaries of the Interior, he has never made an error In his ac counts, although he has handled several hundred millions. Prior to hla appoint ment as a messenger boy In the depart ment In 1864 he waa a newsboy with the army of tha Potomac. He was present at the theater when Lincoln was assassinated, spoke to Booth the day of the asaasinatlon In front of the theater, attended the trial of the conspirators and witnessed their execution. , With Representative Capron of Rhode Island presiding, the house on Saturday last broke even Its own record in tha matter of pension legislation. In exactly ona hour and thirty-five minutes by the clock (28 special pension bills were passed. Had the clerk been able to read tha titles faster there Is no doubt that a greater number would have been passed. How many hun dreds of thousanda of dollars will be eventually paid out of tha treasury under the terms of this record-breaking legisla tion cannot now be eatlmated, as the total amount will, of course, depend upon tha length of time tha beneficiaries will sur vive. No objection was raised to any of the bills. It will take almost aa much time for tha president to affix hla signature to the bills aa waa consumed In paaslng thank Senators Morgan and Pettus of Alabama are always pointed out to gallery visitors aa the two oldest members of tha body. In point of years, but It la not generally known that for over -half a century their friendship has been like that of a Damon nri PvthlasA Tha home nf M.k f M Selma and they practiced .law In the same courts long before the civil war. In which both won distinction. Each wstches the health of the other now with an Interest that la genuine and that haa a touoh of pathos. Their ahadows are lengthening to ward tha east, but they gase upon tha re ceding sun with steady eyea and hearts un afraid. Senator Depew's automobile ran Into a dirt cart In Washington the other day and tha darky driving the cart waa thrown to the street. "No, air I ain't hurt," tha darky aald, clambering back on the seat of his dirt cart. "I ain't hurt a bit." "Well. If there's any trouble notify Sena tor Depew." aome ona In the automobile told the darky. "Lordy! Lardy! I'ae Jes' about dead!" tha driver yelled, on learning tha ownership of the motor car. "I'se got palna In man hald and back something dreadful, and I'se got a misery In my side what' awful." Tha man raised such a wall that he waa taken to the hospital, where It was found that bis Injuries were trifling. Senator Allison of Iowa met with a most flattering reception the other morning, when, for the first time this aeaalon. he appeared in hla aeat. Democrats and re publicans vied with each other In con gratulating tha dean of tha aenata on his recovery. Tha Iowa ststesman waa much affected by the warmth of his reception. Hla voice trembled and he swallowed a lump In hla throat several times. During Senator Allison's thirty-three years of con tinuous service in the avpate he haa never mlsaed being present at tha opening of a session until this one. Perfect Womanhood The greatest menaea to woman's permanent happiness in life ia the suffering that comes from some de rail cement of the feminine organs. Many thousanda of women have realised this too late to aave tbelr health, barel in time to aave their lives. To be a successful wife, to retain the lore and admiration of her hus band, should be a woman's constant study. If a woman finds that her ener rlesare flagging, that aha get easily tired, dark shadows appear nndar her eyes, she haa baekache, bead ache, bearing-down sensationa, ner vousness. Irregularities or the "blues," she should start at once to build up her system by a tonlo with speoifle powers, such aa Lydia E. Pinkham's the a-reet woman's remedy for woman's ills, made only of roots and herbs. It cures Female Complaints, such aa Dragging Sensationa, Weak Back, Falling and Displacements Inflammation and Ulceration, and all Organ lo Diseaaea, and is Invaluable in the Change of Life.. It dissolves and Expels Tumors at an early stage. Subdues Falntness. Nervous Prostration, Exhaustion, and strengthens and tones the Stomach. Cures Headache, Oeneral Debility. Indigestion, and invlgoratea the whole female avsem. It is an excellent remedy for derangements of the Kidneys n either sex. PERSONAL NOTKS. It Is Interesting to Imagine the disturb ance they could create If the 800 widows of the shah of Persia were to take It Into their heads to make It unpleasant for his successor. William Baoh, sr., of Bloomlngton, 111., la the last survivor of the union guard that stood watch over President Jefferson Davis when he waa confined at Fortress Monroe at the close of the civil war. The venerable John W. Hutchinson, the "bard of High Rock," the only survivor of the famous Hutchinson quartet, which by Ita patriotic songs stirred the hearta of departing regiments during the civil war, haa Just celebrated his eighty-sixth birth day anniversary at Lynn, Mass. Ramon Plna, the new rpanlsh minister to I lie United Btatea, Is 47 years old, and haa been In the Spanish diplomatic service nee he waa 22 yeara old. It Is understood that his appointment to 'Washington la a re ward for his services to the government as secretary to the Algeclraa conference. In the Brooklyn public library there la a young woman In charge of the department tot the blind, who has been sightless since her fifth year. Her name Is Beryl H. Clark. Out of about 1.000 aightless persons In her city nearly 100 of these are members of her department. One of Miss Clark's pupils is 60 years old. Hudson Maxim, the Inventor, haa con cluded experiments from which he asserts that the range of naval torpedoes will be doubled and naval warfare revolutionised. The Invention is a self-propelled torpedo, which Is driven by steam generated In the burning by explosives carried within the torpedo In conoentrated form. Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet of New York, now almost 80 years of age. a grandnephew of tha Irish patriot, Robert Emmet, and who has been made a count of the Order of St. Gregory by the pops, Is aa authority on .questions of Irish history and . has dis tinguished himself during a long and hon orable life In the field of literature and his torical research. Rev. Oliver Dyer, the first person to mas ter stenography In the United States, an as sociate editor with Robert Bonner In pub lishing tha New Tork Ledger, and an Inti mate of many prominent statesmen, and a well known author, has Just died In Boston at the age of 72. He learned stenography In England personally from Isaac Pitman and was the first stenographer Jn tha United Btatea aenata. His protege. Murphy, for merly his office boy, became the fastest stenographer In tha world . ROCKEFELLER'S RAKE-OFF. Pro8t on the I'nloa Paelfle Loan Not laaanal. New Tork Evening Poat. The very Interesting ' disclosures at the Interstate Commerce commission hearing respecting the fs.000.000 loan made by Wil liam Rockefeller to the Union Pacific tn 1839 have excited varied comment. He ad vanced 88,000,000 In cash and agreed to pay tll.2SO.000 fourteen months later for 800,000 shares of Southern Pacific stock which the Union . Pacific management apparently wanted to gat rid of temporarily so aa to enable it to deny In court that It exer cised a controlling Interest In the Southern Pacific property. Six months before the date set tor the company to buy back tha stock Mr. Rockefeller offered to "reduce the commission agreed upon to five-eighths of 1 per cent, or 2187,000," If the Harrlman Interest took up the loan then. This they did, and tha transaction waa cloaed, Mr. Rockefeller receiving his W. 000. 000 back with t per eent Interest, besides tha commlsalon. Tha question which mora particularly In terested the banking community waa tha rata of tha commission originally agreed upon and what other conditions. If any, governed the extraordinary contract. There are, perhaps, not mora than twenty or thirty men in tha United States able to make a 6.000,000 loan at short notion. None, van of these. Is apt to have that amount of cash, but they possess the sort of cot lateral that a bank always accepts without queatlon. During tha money stringency of 1903, tha very date of tha Rockefeller loan, tha Virginia-Carolina Chemical company was forced to pay something like It per cent for a 26,000.000 loan. At that time tha sum waa advanced by half a dosen banking Interests, who professed to think they were doing tha company a favor by taking tha loan on even these terms. When Ruasell Saga wsa In active busi ness he was usually the first man appealed to for large loans on the "double-quick" basis. This venerable expert often re ceived such propositions cordially, for the collateral was usually ample and tha rate moat profitable. He would have taken leis than tlST.OOS. Tette INDIA AND CEYLON Always pleases the moat critical taste. Its exquisite flavor, double strrngtb and absolute purity place It ia a claaa by fcuHf. McCORD-BRADY CO.," Wholesale Agenta, 'Omaha. fv-K ... v 1 Vegetable Compound IKDAY CLOSING - OF POSTOFF1CF.8. Senator Bnrkrtt'e Proposition Prow vokea Gentle .Sarcasm. Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. If Senator Burkett of Nebraaka Is In deep and deadly earnest In desiring to - bring about blue law observance of Sunday by closing the p"tofflces pa that day, he la not going far enough. His proposed, bill haa that one object In view the prevention of mall delivery on Sunday and, of course, he Is also moved to the deepest depths by the additional labor placed or the clerks In attendance at the windows. So far as the additional labor la an element. It la not observable that clerks are threatening to resign because of an hour's work on Sun day. But that Is another and a minor consid eration of the senator from Nebraska. Ue objects on high moral principle to keeping a postofftce open ru Sunday. But why not prevent mall coaches being hauled on Sunday from, a paint. In onn state to a point in another? Why net, In fact, Incorporate In his bill a provision stopping the running ,pf all trains on Sun day? Why not stf'P passenger, or mall traffic between Washington, In the District of Columbia and Alexandria, In the State of Virginia? These things are as. innately wicked aa opening a .postoffloe on, Sunday for a brief hour for the convenience bt the public, and he would tie 'very much mora consistent In his war on wickedness on the Sabbath. It is not probable the congress will enact his bill Into law, but he ought to play the limit If a gentleman so austere aa the aenator from Nebraaka knows the meaning of the term. " "' "' ' ' "" ' SMIIJKO LINES. "If roil don't quit eating so ' much, Johnny," exclaimed Mrs. Ijipsling. horrified at the gluttonous propensities of . her youngest, "the first thing you know you'll be a regular filibuster!" Chicago Tribune. '.'What do- you. think of h! ..mova.otJha London dressmakers to revive the hour glass figure for women?" "I think It Is because they want' the snnd." Baltimore American. , , Ethel la Dolly's fiance very old? Edith Awfully! Why, folks are begin ning to tell him that ha doesn't look old. Judge. . .',..,. Wise Why on earth did you-- speak of Skinner as "a bad Kg" before Barnes? Don't you realise how aenaltive Barnes might be? Dubley Why so? Is Bnrnes related to Skinner? Wise Oh, It isn't that; but Barnes la an actor. Philadelphia Press. Senator Tillman had lust described him self as a cornfield lawyer. "Hayfleld man. hay.'r Interrupted a Voice from the gallery. "You don't use a pitch fork In a cornfield. " Aa gently as possible they thrust the farmer forth. Philadelphia Ledger. Boms (struggling author In search of material for detective story) Captain, give me the particulars of the tjlggeet Job of shoplifting that ever came under your no tice. - Captain of Police Well, I remember One that happened along In the 'Mis. ' A' fellow put a can of dynamite under a little drv goods store and touched It off.1 it cleaned nit the entire establishment. Chicago Tribune. PH1SCK GOOD-KER-NOTHIN'. Under the pines by the river, ' ' Up on the bluffs so high; . Away from the strife an' the motion Pf life Watchln' the boats go by. Down on the aand by the river, Where the waveleta lap on the shore, Lyln' there flshln' an' dreamin' an' wlahln'l Olad to be lasy though poor.' High on some moss-covered boulder. On Nature's own couches to He, Hummln' sweet tunes to the softest ef moons, Watchln' tha cloudlets fly. Down by the brook In the meader. Deep In a tangle of grass, Lyln" there snorln', creation lgnortn', Walten' fer trouble to pass. Out on tha rocks by the ocean, ' , ' , Watchln' the dash of the s-3iay; 1 Benin' there bllnkln', too Issy fer tninain', Waltin'. fer care, to g' way. In the crowded parka of the city He haa no Inclination to stop. For he has pallpltetion at - the slightest vibration That aounda like tha tread of a pop. So deep In the forest s-hidln". Away from the restless throng, Not stewln' nor frfttln,', but simply far gettln', ..,.- . v Waltin' fer toll to g' long. On the friendly rocks by the river", . They found hla poor body at last v Asleep on a boulder," but tha pig hts ha grown colder. .--,. And the Angel of .Death , had .passed. So under the sod In the 'graveyard,' v With never a headstone at all, L Hla toes to th dalslas In that orthodox way of his . He's altln" the last trumpet call; Omaha. January,' 1S07. . T- 8 R n