Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, January 30, 1907, Page 4, Image 4
THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY HO, 1907, The Omaha Daily Bee i - tm - - fOt'NDElV BY EDWARiJ ROSEWATER. . : VICTOH ROSEWATER. EDITOR. Kntered nt Omaha postofllcs aa second class matter. 1 -- i TKRMS JOK. SUBSCRIPTION. iMIly He (wlthnet ffunday) one year1.. .$400 Dally Bff and Sunday, otio year .' fftinnay lie., ono year IW Saturday liee, one year LW DKL.IVKHEU BY CARRIER. Dully Hee (Including Sunday), per week..l5o Illy IW (without Sunday), per wek.,.10e Evening H-e (without Bunday), per week. Sc Evening Hee (with Sunday) per week....l"C Addreaa nr-mpaJnta of Irregularities in de livery to City Circulating Department. , OFFICES. Omaha Tlia Bo Building. South Omaha City Hall Itulldlng. 'Council Hluffs 10 Pcsrl Street. I hlra'f--Ml Utlily liutldlng. New Vnrk 1MM Hom Life Ins. Building. Waehlngtnn fcik Fourteenth- Street. ,' CORRESroNDBNCK. Comuntcatlons relating to news and -editorial? matter should be addressed: Omaht B-eri5dltorlar Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, ejtfcresa or postal order, payable to Tha Bee Publishing Company. Only 2-oent stamp rerelved In piyment of mull accounts. I'ersiwial checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, nut accepted. TUB BEK ri BUSHlNO COMPANY. STATEMENT dFClRCTLATlON, Btftt. Nebraska, TxltglaS County, ss: Charlea C. Hosewater, general manager of The Bee Publishing company, being duly twnrn, aaya that the, actual number of full and rnmplfte copies- of The Dally. M rnlng, Kveninsj and Sunday Bee printed during the month of December, If, waa as follow: 1 ........ 31,870 2 . 30,980 1 31,010 4....V..,. 31,710 I 31,700 ..(...,.. S1.690 7 ... . 3180 3 33,080 9.: 30,830 10 31,760 11 33,180 12 33,080 13 31,880 14 31,680 15 33,170 It 30,400 Total , 17 33,873 1 31.TB0 19..... 31,760 20 32,670 1 21 31.080 .J2 31.000 . 23 303&0 24 81,710 25 3130 .24 33,130 27 31,770 28 31,610 29 31,830 SO 30,8 OU 31 3M10 . . .889,380 Less unsold and returned copies.. 8,341 Net total 873,148 Dally average. 31,391 ' .CHARLES C. ROSEWATER, General Manager. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me Uils 31st day of December, U:o4. (Seal.) M. B. HITNOATB, Notary Public. 1VHEK OIT OF TOWS. SebaeXbers leaving- tlij city tem porarily should have The Ilee. mailed 4o them. Addreaa will be ehauited aa often ''requested. 'Tbe-Oetman Socialist may find In terest In the history of the populist party. . ; ' , The country will soon know how much Ice Secretary Root cut- In Canada. , " Boston has a man 63 year of age who Bays he nerer told, a. He In his life. He's a bachelor, of course. - One danger, is that tae average con gressman, U apt to thlnH he must talk nore to earn that Increase In pay. y Senator Morgan has issued another bulletln.Jn ihichiHi". pjonilaes' toJtlljf Panama scandals faster than the icon tractors can d4g dlrt v' " ' ' ,.A photographer has been rejected a . Thaw., juror photographer could be expected to return a verdict against ou6: hisbest' customers." Chancellor Day of , the Syracuse uni versity will probably', not stop untti he succeeds" In organizing sine Society for the Alleviation of I AJIgent Trusts. . : T Carter Ufrrlson. Says he Is not cer tain that tef wants to be mayor of Chicago again. ' In other words, he Is iiot certain that he can be elected. ' Hon. "BUly" MaaorTu living In Chi cago and probably lamenting the fact he got out of the senate before an ef fort' waa made to organise that body Into a minstrel troupe. George B. cWtelycru Is said to owe bis rise In life to his habit of listening to everybody and never saying a word. He Is alBO different, from Colonel Br) an in other respects. ' Dispatches state that Ooldfleld Is so overcrowded that It, is hard to find a place to sleep. The condition would be more serious If It were safe to sleep In Ooldfleld, anyway. In response to criticisms for having borrowed money from a Standard Oil magnate Senator aijey replies that when he wants to '-borrow money he always goes to a man who has It. ), Chicago attributes its 6,000 scarlet (ever cases to the Ue of Infected milk, but the country will be slow to be lieve that Chicago uses milk to an ex tent to warrant that much illness. Mr. Cone of Saunders is finding the billet of opposition leader in the bouse at Lincoln a sinecure in one re gard, at least. He meets opposition to about everything he proposes doing. The National Co-Operator declares that "There would be more Rockefel lers In the world if the young men would devote as much time to money nmklng as they do to love-making. " perhaps, but is anybody clamoring for any more Rockefellers? ' Representative , Phil Campbell of Kansas has attacked the weather bureau reports. Insisting that there Is nothing like as much wind la Kansas as there used to be. Still, the weather bureau is not supposed to know that the populist party In Kansas has dis banded. Having decently provided for the Ice crop, the weather man is now pay ing some attention to the winter wheat, i While the snow blanket has not yet attained a depth that is alarm lag, the 4actthat -It exists at all is an .eaeou raging sign. The Nebraska cli mate Is certainly vindicating IU. S ej- fl good refyMktlon this year. i HltiK 8PECVLATT0X CnAKB. ' The craie for mining speculation is unabated and seems even to be spread ing, In spite of collapse of .several not able schemes and other warnings within a month or two. The difficulty ia that the general public, not to speak of the Ignorant and gullible element, falls to distinguish between successful and legitimate mining enterprise and the myriad schemes seductively ex ploited by promoters for the exclusive purpose of overreaching "Investors." The craze Is stimulated by exagger ated stories of results In the numerous I mam AXmtwtntm .Km t n a KaaM nnanat I the last few years. And rarely In our history has, there been such a boom of actuaj Investment and development In gold, copper, silver and other locations. But there great -successes have been brought about by the application of the soundest business principles and expert knowledge. The Schwabs, Gug genheims and Clarks leave nothing to gueas In their mining undertakings, and yet these are the examples that are perverted " by ' unscrupulous schemers to Influence public Imagina tion and awake false hopes. Investigation makes It. reasonably certain that not one out of a hundred of the mining schemes that are now so profusely advertised is based even on a half rational prospect, and in a far smaller proportion Is there the slightest purpose - of actual develop ment. Practically the sole Investment Is the advertising and the sole design Is to mine the pockets of "suckers." In nine cases out of ten they will never see their money again. And yet un numbered millions of dollars have al ready gone Into these Iridescent Im possibilities, and more . Is going1 into them all the time. The worst of It Is that In part this money is sacrificed from those who can 111 afford to lose It, but much, too, comes from fairly well-to-do people to whom prosperity has brought a surplus. - - - It Is, of course, impossible to predict just wheu general disillusionment will come, but speculative ocl lapse is abso lutely Inevitable, and It is toow prob ably not very remote and that, too, without regard to the conditions In genuine mining industry, which are solid and expansive. BVSIXESS FAlLtTRI! LKSSOKS. , . The business failures last year were astonishingly small, whether as regards number, amount of total -liabilities or proportion to the aggregate of business firms and corporations, and is thus in direct line with the previous record for a series of years. The facta contradict the assertion that' the majority of those who go into business ultimately fall. It is a noteworthy suggestion of the prevailing prosperity that In a total of. 1,500,000 corporations, firms -and indi viduals engaged in buslnesi only one out Of each 160 failed during the year, the smallest proportion in-aquarter of a century. And a large portion of the total liabilities were due to a few trust companies and banks In which there had been fraud or gross mismanage ment. . The- further fact Is. worthy of atten tion that the percentage of failures among firms employing small capital is materially smaller than the year before,- and that it has been steadily de creasing the last' six or eight years. This fact, contrary tola general im pression. Indicates that the stress of commercial conditions 1b not so severe on the smaller as on the larger con cerns, and that the former are holding their ground In spite of centralizing tendencies. The failure record of last year and recent years of course does not mean' that recurrence of commercial depres sion Is impossible. ' The facts, how ever, do signally reflect souo-d and im proved business conditions, and raise the strong presumption of conservatism in yielding credits and of the perma nent attainment of a higher standard of methods in the commercial com munity, which tends effectually to re duce the rate of business mortality.. ISCBKAS1SO MOXKlTAHD TAtLlSO MABKET- The rapid accumulation of money in New York by return of crop advances to the Interior and a tumbling stock market, carrying down the: whole line of quotations, even of the standard railroad companies, are two conspicu ous facts at present and since the open ing of the year. Within two weeks the loan market conditions at that great center have been .apparently reversed by a net gain of $29,000,000 to bank cash and nearly $19,000,000 to surplus reserve. It had been anticipated that such conditions would relieve the se vere stringency caused by immerse drafts for the crop movement and that expectation was played to the limit by the great combinations that have been manipulating the stock market. No such result, however, Is visible or likely soon to follow. The serious truth seems to be that this veYy manipulation. Involving the operations, the dividend declarations and the general financing of some of the greatest railroad properties the last three to six months have profoundly affected public opinion. These revela tions through official and indubitable instrumentalities have naturally ex cited the suspicions of the investing public by deatrvxicg confidence tn the ordinary basis for calculations, so it is disposed to stand aloof, and a multi tude who ordinarily, would now be buy ing are selling. There Is a similar at titude abroad, thus clotting for the time an Important alternative avenue. The saving condition' however, is thst neither at-home nor abroad Is the conviction of the validity of our unlver MJ J,t,'si,..r'.!r.5nii?' P.8S.V Cnc Mhe outlook shaken at all, nor U there any- thing to shake It, There Is simply cau tion and withholding on the part of the general public, upon whom In the last analysis the course of things In the great financial and speculative markets depends, In spite of the deep schemes of the most powerful manipulators. BAlUiOADS AS COAL MISS OWSERS. Government officials sometimes move in a mysterious way their duties to perform, as Illustrated, for In stance, In the partial report of the In te. state Commerce commission, which has been Investigating charges of combinations between railroads and coal companies. The report Is an in teresting one, so far as it goes, but it halts, like a Berlal story, Just when the situation develops thrilling features and the Indications are that one more turn would unmask the vil lain and give justice her victory. The coiiimlssion's report is "to be con tinued in our next." The commission reports that it se cured testimony showing discrimina tion in rates to shippers, graft among high officials, entangling alliances be tween mine owners and railway au thorities, combinations in restraint of competition and about everything pro hibited by the Sherman act, the Elktns act and the railway rate bill passed last session. The usual recommenda tions follow. Publicity is urged in the matter of car distribution, honest rat ing in the capacity of mines is de manded, the use of "private" cars by coal companies Is prohibited and a general recommendation is made pro hibiting railroad companies or other common carriers from having any In terest, directly or indirectly, in the ownership or operation of any' coal mine. All this would be decidedly prom ising of action looking to the abate ment of one of the great evils In the fuel problems of the country were it not for the fact that the investiga tions and recommendations apply only to a soft coal combine in the Virginia and West Virginia districts. The big offender,' the Pennsylvania anthracite trust, does not figure In the Investiga tion or in the findings of the commis sion. The Coal Strike commission ap pointed by President Roosevelt to Bet tie the strike in the anthracite regions in Pennsylvania In the winter of 1902 presented a mass of evidence calcu lated to show that the coal combine, headed by Deacon Baer, president of the Reading railway, practically con trolled every anthracite mine in the country. The demand was for the Imme diate further investigation and prose cution of the combine, but the enthu siasm over the settlement of the strike burled everything at the time, and no action was taken. Since that Investi gation the Department of Justice has been urged to conduct a prosecution of the anthracite trust, but has Inti mated that 1t vas not able to establish positive proof of the combination, al though' convinced of its existence. Promise remains, howevor, of ulti mate action In this direction. A . member of the Interstate Com merce commission in discussing the subject 'calls attention to a clause In tho railway rate bill which provides that after May 1, 1908, It shall be un lawful for any railroad company or other Interstate common carrier "to transport any article or commodity, other than timber and the manufac tured products thereof, manufactured, mined or produced by it, or under Its authority, or which it may cwn, In whole or in part, or in which It may have- any interest, direct or indirect." This provision is aimed directly at the Coal trust. Even if the authorities are not convinced that the railroads own the coal mines they are going to abol ish such ownership. a uorse um The railroads. Although not explained at the time In the dispatches describing the argu ment of the Nebraska railroad tax cases before the United States supreme court, the hearing there developed a horse on the railroads that Is too good to be kept out of print It will be remembered that when the tax cases were set for argument last October the railroad attorneys de veloped a deep-seated aversion to talk ing to a court made up of only eight judges, and because of the weighty constitutional points Involved, insisted on the case going over until the bench should be filled by the appointment of a judge to the vacancy then existing. When the president announced bis in tention td name Attorney General Moody to be associate justice of the supreme court the railroads and cor porations generally promptly . took an Inventory of the senate to see If they could prevent his confirmation, but failing to find the necessary votes con cluded to reconcile themselves to the Inevitable. It so transpired, therefore, that when the Nebraska railroad tax cases were set for hearing this month the vacancy on the bench was filled, but not filled with a Judge to the liking of the railroad attorneys. On call of the case Hon. C. J. Greene opened for the railroads, representing the Burlington, and was followed by Hon. John N. Baldwin, representing the Union Pa cific. Scarcely had Baldwin pro ceeded far enough to Identify himself and his client than Justice Moody in terrupted to say that be was the owner of some few shares of Union Pacific stock, and being Interested to that ex tent In one of the parties to the suit, he would sit In the case, but would take no part In adjudicating It. So after sparring for wind and post- ponlng the hearing three months, the brilliant railroad attorneys found themselves' compelled to submit their arguments to a court composed of only eight Judges, and the same eight judges before whom they would have argued it last October. Unless something at present unfore seen turns up, the controversy over the location, of the gas tanks Is about ended, the city council having agreed on the passage of the Brucker bill that will permit the' construction of addi tional holders on the present site. The settlement of this question Is one of great Interest to citizens dependent on gas for fuel and lighting purposes. The fact that the storage capacity of the present plant Is limited to a very few hours' extra supply makes the Im mediate construction of new holders Imperative. Residents In the Immedi ate vicinity of the present plant may feel that an Imposition has been put upon them, but the general impression will be that It Is better to have what ever nuisance exists in connection with the gas plant concentrated at one place rather than distributed throughout the city, thus centering the evil. Nebraska Is somewhat surprised at the receipt from the general govern ment of a Bum of money on account of forest reserve fund. Governor Shel don has asked the legislature to adopt some law to dispose of the cash In hand. It .is respectfully suggested that Forester Harrison of York has offered very attractive and appar ently reasonable solution, and that the money be used as the first step In a scientific forestration of the now bar ren sand hill region. This is feasible and sensible, and a little money ex pended on It now will bring untold In crease In years to come. South Omaha business men of real prudence and foresight are unanimous In the support of the Greater Omaha proposition. In fact, the matter has progressed already to that stage where the only serious opposition to the union of the two cities is that of the men directly concerned In prevent ing consolidation because of their per sonal Interests. Those who are wise are making a calculation on the exist ence of Greater Omaha within a rea sonably short time. The debate on the statewide pri mary bill Indicates that there is a much deeper Interest in that measure than some of its scoffing detractors would have bad the public think. Dif ference of opinion . regarding the de tails of such an Important measure Is only natural and out of the debate is certain to emerge a bill that will fairly represent the united wisdom of the leaders of Nebraska thought. Members of the city council have some generally gopd ideas on the sign question. If theyr.can only crystallize them Into such laws as will prevent disfigurement of the city by some of the banners now'stretched before the public gaze they .w4il .be accomplishing a real advance ,,fo: the "Omaha beau tiful." . ' ' The fire" cantaluB presented their case to the Commercial club with the same eloquent arguments , they used at Lincoln, but It does not appear that they convinced the business men as readily as they did the legislators. Miss Slmonton.;Of Pittsburg, who started for Sonth Africa to study the language and habits of monkeys, is Branding the winter In Paris. She may be able to accomplish her pur pose without going to Africa. I Chairman Shonts told the Knife and Fork club , at Kansas City how the Panama - canal should be dug. The Information might be more effective If furnished to the Pick and Shovel club. .1 Paas It I'd. New York Herald. How can our western contemporaries con tinue to prate of prosperity when New York City aldermen are quoted at 3500 a head? Paas Vp th I.aarel. New York Sun. As a missionary fcf peace and good will to all dwellers In the western hemisphere, north and south, Saxon, Oltlo and Latin, Mr. Root takes the laurel. Cornea High, bait It'a Our Blse. Philadelphia Record. It coats to be a world power. .The navy appropriation agreed upon by the house committee on naval, affairs foots up 396,000,-' 000. This Includes $10,000,000 for another new monster battleship. - Aa I'aeoaacloas Haatorlat. ' Qprlnsfleld Republican. Almost the only man In the Vnlted States today, besides President Roosevelt, who sets fully reported when he delivers a speech la Chancellor Day of Syracuse. The chancellor has no rival as the defender of "predatory wealth," In which he re joices; indeed, he walked In and took pos session of a roBtrum which all others had abandoned, and one of hla orations Is now a novelty which puts htm In the A class as an after-dinner speaker. If BUI Nye were alive, the two would make a good team for the circuit BUI reading some choice selections from his own writings and the chancellor speaklug some of hla great thoughts on the modern martyrs, the per secuted corporations and trusts. , Empty Sacks aad Crime. Portland Oregohlan. When Benjamin franklin said that It Is hard for an empty sack to stand straight, ha spoke without . foreseeing some of the disclosures of the modern grand Jury, the Insurance Investigating commission and the Interstate Commerce .commission. He would not write such a proverb In these days, were he living, for the evidence now at hand shows that it la no harder for an empty sack to stand straight than it Is for those that are commonly reputed to be full. In fact. If accurate statistics could be compiled, they would undoubtedly show that there is more crookedness among the rich than among tha poor. Very few men ever beoome so rich that they are willing to claaa themaelvea with the people rep resented by the sacks that are full, and, tn the effort to get more, they are as likely to resort to dishonesty and trickery as the man who Is pour anough to be hungry and til clad. Franklin was a wise man, but he was a little short on information when he wryle the firyyecb abwui auuity ROI'SD A HOI T MCW tORK. 1 Hippies on the Carrent of Life la the Metropolis. Vleltnra to New York who have pre served mental photograph of "the finest" on duty nil Rroadway, by enlarfrlng the picture two-foVl . will obtain an accurate perspective view of the Importance of the officers on duty at the Thaw trial. Their cheat measurement overlaps that of the Broadway sciuad and Its lofty curves out shines the best effort of pouter pigeons. "Chesty" doesn't do them Justice. There are Just half a million people who would like to see the performance, hut the of ficers have said no. Only scant f armed with special pertnlta can pass, the doors. Atl others encounter a frown as crushing as a road roller. The Philadelphia Ivlger correspondent points out that "Greater New . York has during the last five years built 1(1.158 flat houses, furnishing homes for 585,031 ten ants. The cost for construction has been $3!t0,51!,596. When the cost of land Is In cluded the total Investment has reached tl.000.oi10.000. The Investment to house each person has been $1,710. If eaeh tenant has paid, on the average, 10 per cent a year for housing accommodations, the annual rent which such an investment demands from each tenant Is $171. From the fig ures of the past five years, and from cur rent Information .as to the immediate fu ture. It Is believed New York reached the top of Its flat-building wave in l!n. The construction of flats gained steadily In vol ume during the decade preceding 1. It receded sharply In 190$. Brooklyn's rise as a flat-house center has been steady and rapid. It has met with no reaction. The growth has been due to the Increasing ac cessibility of Brooklyn land to persons who have business In Manhattan. Brook lyn built ISO flat houses for 2.784 tenants In 1902. In 1903 the construction was 657 flat houses for 7.6:3 tenants. The next year produced 1,433 houses for 34,002 tenants. During 1906 2,884 flat houses were built for 64,888 tenants. Last year the output was 3,230 flat houses fpr 67,383 tenants. Bronx and Queons boroughs have shown similar steady development." A bill that will cause every title and tUle Insurance company in the state to rise up In arms has been Introduced In the legisla ture. It provides for the so-called Tor rens system of recording titles to real es tate. Under that system the guarantee of a title would rest with the state, and once a title was registered there would not be the endless searching that now goes On. Any court owner can register his title. A court proceeding is had, the title searched and established In the owner and a certlfl ate of title Is Issued to him. Ail liens and Incumbrances must be noted upon the cer tificate and nothing can be a Hen if it Is not so noted. This system does away with the necessity for searching a title. The system has been in operation in Australia and almost all of the English colonies tor many years. It Is now used In England, where It ia compulsory. A grocer on the upper east side has adopted the plan practised by the large dry goods houses. He has his windows deco rated In white and a sign In the center reads: "Our Great Annual White Sale: Sugar id cents for 2 lbs., Flour 15c. a bag, 8tarch 10c. a pkg-." followed by a long list of "white" goods marked down for this event. The widespread popularity of the Teddy bear has pluyed hob with the "bear skin" market In New York. Long before Teddy bears were even thought of the soft, fur like cloth from which they are made was christened "bearskin," and la ao known In the dry goods world. It la largely used -for making coats, for small children. Manu facturers of Teddy Dears are aoie 10 uo such large quantities of It that their orders get a preference over the usual orders from mercantile houses. As a result there is a scarcity of the cloth in the trade and local wholesalers are driven to distraction to find a way to ap pease their clamoring customers. They are able only partly to till all orders for the stuff, while the factories are working over time to produce 1L 1 One of the large department stores of Brooklyn sold during the holiday season, 20,000 "Teddy" bears. A buyer in Germany in the fall purchased what he believed would see them through. They were snapped up in a tew days, and a second order was cabled. Originally they wero culled "cubby" bears, but when Paul Piper Invented the cult of the "Teddy bears" the name was changed by general consent. It 1j doubtful whether Mr. Piper secured any benefit from the hundreds of thousands of bears sold, but he certainly did from the "Teddy bear" books, many thousands of which have been marketed. There are no seaaons for the New York merchant. Spring flowers bloom in the florist's window In midwinter and the dry goods stores show lingerie frocks and fur coats side by side. The markets are full of new potatoes, strawberries, artichokes, mint, spring lamb and other delicacies of the early summer, and the shops are per fect mountains of thin muslin underwear, which by common custom Is always dis played the day after Christmas. Daisies, sweet peaa and white lilacs appear at all the florists' and the furnishings for sum mer cottages are being prepared for Im mediate display. Plans for a twenty-two-story building for . the New York Sun have been pre pared by a firm of New York architects by the order of William M. La (Tan, pub lisher of the Bun. But whether a twenty-two-story building, or any other, shall be built soon or ever to take the place of the old Sun building Mr. La (Tan does not him self know. For more than twenty years plans have been ordered from time to time for a new building. The old Sun building was once the wig wam of Tammany hall. The late Charles A. Dana used to say that It was big enough for the purposes of Ms newspaper and that he didn't care to go Into office renting. But the land was cheaper In his days than It is now. The Service I'raalon Bill. Philadelphia Ledger. It Is a matter of great Interest to many thousand survivors of the civil war whether the house shall pass the service pension bill recently passed by the senate. It is said that the house committee on In valid pensions favors the measure, but Is waiting to be assured before reporting the bill that the house organisation will per mit the legislation to be completed at this session. Over 260.0U0 prest-m pensioners will be affected by the proposed service pension law, and tn addition to these there are upward of 100,000 civil war veterans who are not now receiving any pension. It la estimated that there will be living on June 31, 1907, 782,722 survivors. The number of pensioners on fhe rolls at that date would not exceed 675.0UO. The projected legisla tion would add $15.0ud,000 a year to the federal appropriations, probably for five years, from which time the pension roll would rapidly diminish. DUerlsalaatloa Aaralaat Soldiers. New York Tribune. The War department Is quite light in re fusing to accept as final the Judgment of a New York state magistrate that discrim ination against soldiers because of the uni form they wear Is lrgal. It la to be hoped the department will carry tha matter to higher courts and not let It rest untU the honor of. the nation! uniform has bees vindicated. rK.HOVl, AM) OT1IKBW1SB. New Tork spice has pushed Jamaica gin ger off the front page. Dr. Felix Adler declares that the dealra for wealth Is a form of Insanity. "What a crasy world, my masters!" Out In California automobiles are known aa "cough-carts" because their trail makes lungers sit up and take police. With 148 newspapers reporting that New York trial readers are assured of getting the whole truth and then some. Grief over the , failure of Renator Till man's minstrel show has been checked by assurances of a raise at the box office. Senator Bailey saved his face and 1)1" seat by demonstrating to suspicions Texans that he never wore a claw-hammer coat. The automatic divorce plan proposed In France would never do In a strenuous re public, A wait of three years would drive American divorce courts out of business. "There la nothing sensational," says a Chicago paper, "In obeying the ten com mandments." But they lack the Imprima tur of the I. M. O. and the approval of the referendum. There is one woman in Texas who may walk fifty miles In 'one direction without stepping off her own land. Too much exer olsa for the pleasure of talking over the back fence. Publlo response tot the fierce criticism of the opera "Salome" In New York Is mani fested tn the advance sale of all seats for six additional performances. Unable to get Into the criminal court New Yorkers turn to "Salome" for overripe pleasure. Archer M. Huntington has Just been elected president of the American Geo graphical society to take the place of Com. mander Peary, resigned. He Is a son of Collls P. Huntington, has written consider able. Is an authority on Spanish literature and founded and Is the president of the Hispanic Society of America. A St. Louis minister defined a heresy trial by denying that Gehenna was un charted by ancient and modern geogra pliers. According to his Information the hot place was right on- this footstool and those who sought a dress rehearsal could readily find it before the regular performance. The-report ' that the lid Waa securely on In St. Louis needs further confirmation. Governor Buchtel of Colorado, Methodist minister and college president, is the chief promoter of a stag social to be pulled off tomorrow evening in a Denver hotel. '"I want this occasion," he says, "to be one of rollicking fun. Life is strenuous and business is serious, so when we have this dinner, I want It to be In the best of fel lowship. The members of the legislature. Justices of the supreme court and all state officials have been invited. An exception will have to be made in the case of the superintendent of publlo instruction, who will be excused to attend a meeting of the woman's club." The excluded officer Is a woman. BELATED ORIEF. Orerflorrloa Tear Darts that Might Be Cheeked by Action. Philadelphia Press. The Congressional Record Issued lust Monday morning is filled with the appre ciative lament of members of the house of representatives for the death of William H. Bate, "late a senator from the State of Tennessee." The same Issue contain the belated speeches of several senators on the same subject delivered January 17, 1907. Senator Bate died March t, 1906, almost two years ago. The pious grief of his col leagues has been kept In cold storage an unusually long time, waiting, we assume, a convenient time for its public manifesta tion. The written speeches are probably none the worse, and -the poetical extracts with which the speeches are freely sprink led are none the less fresh because of the delay In the delivery. The house wisely chose the Sabbath day for Its mortuary addresses, deeming It. In tha condition of Its business, a work of necessity and mercy not to waste a week day In the expression of grief so long post mortem. Senator Bate fell a victim to the per nicious custom of holding an outdoor pa geant and Inauguration ceremonies on the 4th of March. The pneumonia weather so common at that period has caused many deaths. It Is especially perilous to men past the meridian of life and with lowered vitality. Yet the bill to change Inaugura tion day to the more clement period at the close of April appears to be almost as dead aa Senator Bate. Apparently congress , would rather lose some of Its members occasionally and mourn their death . at some convenient period two years later than to change in auguration day to April SO, that propitious time o4 year when George Washington took the oath of office as the first president of the United States. During Alterations 'HILE we are improving the ar rangement of our store for the public convenience we must necessarily put our customers to some inconvenience meanwhile. But perhaps the big reductions we -are making in all depart ments will help to overcome the annoyance of shopping while the workmen are tempo rarily a good deal in the way. There are lots of good bargains in your size in those suits and overcoats, at $1250 that formerly sold from $1! to $257 ; Browning, King & Co R. S. WILCOX. M n er Last Yea.r We Scvved to Pia.ivo Buyers $75,000 In the year 1906 we sold 1,000 palnos. I'pon each piano aold ws saved the customer between $."50 and $1(50, that In, comparing our price with the prices rise-where for Instruments of like quality.- Out, reckoning that the average saving was only $.V), It amounted tn the year to the enormous sum of $75,000. v We not only sell at the lowewt prices, but the pianos we sell are the best In the world. . , - .. One price and no commission have much to do- with the low price at which we sell pianos. t ' j . , , A. HOSPE CO., 1513 Douglas SU . nooKri:LT' ttcK in. Ilarrlmaa Hevelatloa Ms the rians of Kaokera. New Tork World. .The groat difficulty expet'enced by con servative republicans of the standlrg nf Senator Foraker and Senator Scott, wh are willing to stxke their own popiilorltv on the chance of rescuing the republic.) n party from the clutches of Rooeeveltism. Is that Just when their plans are all lnl.l their corporation friends desert fiein. For Instance, they had every right t ex pect Mr. Ibirrrtnan'a stendfust support. They and their fellow believers in con flltutloniil principles' hnd done what they could to prevent President Roosevelt froin putting the railroads tinder strict feder.il control. A grate t-rlmt had been com mltted against property right's In the nan-,, of the administration. Unfortunately Mr Harrtman get caught In a series of un lawful trifflc contracts and scandulou stock manipulations Just at the hour s.-t for the deliverance Of their party fnm ti e hands of rate law radicals. Mr. Koki( and Mr. Rockefeller turn out to be Mr. Hsrrlmnn's accessories. ' Their Btaivitrd Oil trust la also, nipped by the admi:ii tratlon at the business of -rebating and brought Into the criminal courts. Who knows when Mr. Harrlmnn will land there Think what a disappointment it means to the conservative leaders of the senate! The country was beginning to be bored by President Roosevelt's fidgety ways. The negro vote was lining up. The republican national committed was as good as cap tured. Wall street was In ambush, every knife sharpened and every check book within reach. Foraker and Scott had been ntted for bright new uniforms. All at once. Mr. Roosevelt, Instead of throwing up his hands at the first signs of a sharp ncht, comes Into camp With Harrlmnn and half a doien Standard OU bonkers and directors In tow. How Is any party to bs seriously saved when such things happen and people greet with enthusiastic ap plause Interruptions not provided for In the program? l.AKilllWG GAS. "Ever seen n Indian policeman?" naked the passenger wlth-he bristling musuche "Yes," sh id the passenger with the skull cap. "I used to know one In Omaha. "How did he look In uniform?" "Much like the ordinary copper, only a little more copper colored, of course.' Chicago Tribune. "I had such a good offer," said Mr. Shonts to the Interviewer, "that I Could not decline It." .... "Kut when Mr. Wallace" "Mr Wallace's offer Involved n salary far lesa than mine," explained the spenker coldly, with a glance toward the door not to be mistaken. Philadelphia Ledger. "Miss Gabber waa so cold yesterday she could not speak." , , "Aw, g, wan!" Cleveland Plain-Dealer. American aristocracy had Just appeared on the scene. It viewed with haughty mien the common herd, and yet gave largess. ' , "I do this," arlstociacy explained, "lest the populace, taking umbrage, make ado over the fact that my grandfather peddled clams." Philadelphia Ledger. "Is It hard to get into polltlcsT" aaked the ambitious youth. "Sometimes." my son, answered Senator Sorghum; "but never as hard aa to get out gracefully." Washington Star. "If you will Invest rOOO.1 said the pro moter, confidently, "I will pay you 6 per cent a month." "Kut for how many months?" "Oh, for ten, say. That will be $500. I need the other $500 In my business." Philadelphia Press. "There's a man who could be one of tha country's greatest poets It he wished." "And he isn't?" "No." "Introduce me." Cleveland Press. "My wife," complained Farmer Fodder shucks. "Is allers klckln" about somethln'. Wheh the sun don'e ' shrne. khai gets; the blues. An', by Heck! when the sun does shine, she complains becus it fades the carpet!" Cleveland Leader. THIS KICK ICRS' LXV B. New York Sun. They kick when it'e dry, they kick when It's wet. They kick when It's warm, they kick when It's cold, They kick at the storm or the summer time fold; They kick at the rain, they kick at the snow. They kick at the pain of the rheumatlo woe; They kick at the fun and the laughter aloud. They kick at the sun and they' kick at the cloud. Thev kick at the drink, they kick at the dust. They kick when they shrink, they kick when they bust; They kick if they fall, they kick If they rise, They kick good and tall at the' stars In the skies; Thev kick if they're sick, they kick if they're well, Thev kick till the kick kicks them out of this earth.