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10 TIIE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1907. The Omaha Daily Pes FOl'NDKD DT EDWARD ROSBWATBR. VICTOH ROBEWATER, EDITOR. Entered at Omaha poatofflc aa cond claM matter. ' TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. JOalljr Be (without Sunday) on year. . .$400 (.ally Hea and Sunday, one year Bunnay Bee, one, year J W (iiUurniiy Be, nun fear DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Dally Be (Including Sunday),, per week. .15c bally Hee (without Sunday), par week...l0o Evenlna; Boa (without Sunday), par weak. 80 Kvenirig Bee (with Sunday) per week....l ' A(1i1ikh ocmpalnt tf Irregularity la de livery to tiiy circulating uepannieni. OFFICES. Omaha The Be Bulldlnf. South Omaha City Hall Building. Council Bluff 19 Tear- Street. Chicago ibj Unity Building. . New Vorh 16 Horn Ufa Ina. Building. Washington 601 Fourteenth Street CORRESPONDENCE. . Comunlcetlons relating to new and dl torlal matter ehould be addreaaed: Omaha Kee. Editorial Department. . REMITTANCES. Remit by draft. eapres or poatal order, payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only -cnt stamp received In payment of mall account. 1'ersonal check, eacept on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. . STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Stat of Nebraska. Douglaa County, a: Charlee C. Roseweter, general manager of The Bee Publishing company, being duly aworn, aaya that tha actual number of full and complete cople of Tha Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during tha month of January. 111, wa aa follow: i so,oo n W70 .j....: a.eso il ax,to 3 tl,70 v 1 81.T80 4 si,mo to o,aoo ., S1.0M tl i.l,O0 S0,00 It M.080 7 l,tB0 tt iX,640 I Sl,a00 14 31,780 a,880 tl i.'o io 99,040 t..( ai,ao 11 11,870 H... 80,800 11 M,0S0 tl., 31,830 It 00,400 19 81,680 14 81,780 10..... 81,390 IS 81,930 II 81,890 II 89,190 Total........, , 999,480 Lea unaold and returned coplea.. 9,134 Net total 973,944 Dally average 81,301 CHARLES C. ROBEWATER, General Manager. Subscribed In my presence and aworn to before me this Slit day of January, 107. (Seal) ROBERT HUNTER. Nptary Public. WHIM OUT OE- TOWN. Subscriber learta; the city tem 9orarlly shoald hnv TU Be nailed to them. Address will b changed aa often aa reqnested. Good morning, Mr. Groundhog, your shadow on straight? Is A. Anvil, who has been appointed to an office in Philadelphia, seems to bo alrtady getting his share of hammer ing. In patting his cabinet officers on the stump In a campaign, the kaiser only followed a distinguished American precedent As to the construction of lnterurban trolley lines, The Bee's advice lq to get tho lines built ' first and to regulate them afterward. ' ( It the faith healers win their fight to escape subjection to medical super vision they will be confirmed in tie faith stronger than ever. P"""nnssnnBBmBBann) "Dryden Qr. Nobody" Is the cry of the senator's supporters for re-election In New Jersey, and the opponents seem to prefer the" substitute. Peary might keep In practice for his north pole trips by making, a dash, with a fuel supply, for some of those icelocked towns in North Dakota and Montana. - . i ' The Department of Justice at Wash ington intimates that as soon as it jan And a bteathlng spell from the rush of other business it is going to wind up the Watch trust The Dahlman Democracy is to start a newspaper, which is to serve as the official mouthpiece of "his honor" and hla administration. Now will the World-Herald be good? , ... If the Thaws had been as particular about - their . associates as they are about Jurymen, Pittsburg might" have been spared a lot of advertisement of the kind that does not pay. It Governor Sheldon did not know that pending charges . against the Omaha Board of Fire and Police Com missioners were bequeathed to him by his 'predecease .he doubtless knowi It now. One good feature of the 'tariff agree ment between the United States and Germany Is -that it can not be com pleted by the commission In time to be killed by the senate at the present session. It might be well to show what harm, it any, the contributors to the demo cratic campaign fund last year did be fore asking Chairman Griggs of the congressional committee to publish their names. . The Arkansas legislature has passed a law fixing passenger fares on rail, roads in that stale at I eenta a mile. Patrons of Arkansas passenger .trains will still think they ought to be paid instead of paying. , ' "Will anyone be Interested in a two years' debate in the magaxlnes between Colonel Bryan and Senator Bev ertdge?" asks the Philadelphia Press. Certainly, Colonel' Bryan and Senator Beverldge will be. , This proposition of the Postal com mission to exclude from aeoond-class mail privileges newspapers 'Consisting wholly or substantially of fiction" would make it. hard sledding for some of the New York yellows, as-well as for some similar publications nearer boma TBI JTgW rnuBlBlTIOX. , Prohibition fanatics are again urg ing upon tile legislature the enactment of their county option bill. Aside from the manifest unfairness of the bill as drawn, giving the temperance people, as one of Its advocates de clares, "two cracks at the llifuor men Instead of one," the measure Is de signed simply to bring about prohibi tion In a new form and to do away entirely with the present Blocumb.law, which Is the true embodiment of local option. Members of the legislature can with profit review the history of Nebraska with respect to the regulation of the liquor traffic The Sloenmb law was enacted In 1881,xnaklng this etate par excellence the high license state and putting It far In advance of other state which were then grappling, Or have since grappled, with this problem. The prohibitionists, however, contin ued their agitation until in 1890 they secured, with the help of the railroads that wanted to divert attention from themselves, the , submission of an amendment grafting that policy upon the constitution. As might have been expected, the amendment was overwhelmingly snowed under at the polls, but In the .landslide that burled prohibition the republican candidate tor governor was carried down as well and enough vot ers of .foreign extraction driven Into the ranks of the ' democracy to make Nebraska' a doubtful state for years. The stand taken by the republican party in favor of sound money and against repudiation laid the foundation for winning them back, and the cour ageous assaults of President Roosevelt upon gigantic trust evils -and upon bus by lawless railroad combina tions formed the capstone of their eon version. The Bee does not hesitate to express the opinion that In the' recent enmpaign enough foreign-born voters rallied to the standard of -George L. Sheldon to give him the majority by which he was elected over his fusion opponent, while the prohibitionists cast their ,f,100 votes, as usual, for their own prohibition nominee. Before yielding to the new prohibi tion republican members of the legis lature should ask themselves whether they went to drive all the foreign-born voters, who have broad views on per sonal liberty and sumptuary laws, burk into the democratic fold whether they want the republican party to be known , as a prohibition party ond assume all the risks which such aBtip would surely tnvolvet JfH. BRIAV'H NEXT "OPtHflACk" The intimation that Mr. ' Bryan is about to "open the campaign of 1808" with a series of 'magazine articles ex cites lively reflections, though ' of; a diverse character, among republicans and democrats. The .reports are alto gether credible that 1 tha Nebraska leader has been earnestly advised by some of the' most ' astute men of his party by no means to do anything of the sort while others in still greater numbers have expressed to him grave doubt of the policy of such deliver ances at this time. It Is not recorded, however, that political adversaries of light and leading share In such ap prehensions. In that quarter, on the contrary, the forthcoming series seems only to arouse enthusiasm. It has not been many 'months since Colonel Bryan, after cireum-travellng the world, landed at New York, with no end of preliminary red fire and elaborate staging, to open the campaign ot 1908, as the public was given to understand, and on that occasion the opener turned out . to D a hybrid of national and state ownership of rail roads, plans and specifications as usual being omitted. 'Possibly What followed the campaign opening last summer may account for the variant frames of mind in which democrats and repub licans now await the colonel's cam paign reopening. :' KTF0RT TO AVOW TARIFT LAW. : The official .statement given out by the American and German tariff com missioners Upon the completion of their ' work makes it clear, that they have negotiated no commercial treaty. Abundant reasons existed. In addition to the lack of authority which they specify, why: the should. not draft a treaty Congress . is so exceedingly Jealous ot its prerogatives In such mat ters that conclusions reached through executive Initiative, no matter how sound they may be, are apt, to be re ceived with prejudice, and in this, case legislative action la necessary. ta carry them out. There" is a general. feeling that this In large part explains how the series ot reciprocity treaties carefully wrought out under McKlnley and Roosevelt came to be hung up In the senate and even denied consideration. But It Is also apparent that the com missioners "have 'come to ' an under standing on a basis for a customs ar rangement between the two countries and have acquired information regard ing each, others positions that can hardly fail to be of vital importance to the legislatures ot both for reach ing a satisfactory adjustment. The commissioners on the part of both gov ernments are experts and authorities In the subject matter, very much of which has not been well understood In either country by their legislators. Nearly a year agothe German gov ernment adgpted a widely variant maximum and minimum scheme of tariff rates, the latter, of course, to apply to ImpoVts from countries where German goods were admitted under satisfactory conditions. Important provisions of our customs laws, mainly administrative features, were obnox ious, so that we were menaced with exaction of the maximum rates, which are enormously higher than those ot the old German tariff, Itself one of the highest in the world. They especially boar disastrously on American meats and meat products. And this threat ened maximum was only suspended for a period of months to allow an effort through a Joint commission to pave the way for an accommodation. The commissioners in their statement do not, of course, define the results of their conferences, but their statements are entitled In due course to serious consideration both by congress and by the country at large. National pride Is always exceedingly sensitive. We are naturally irritated at what seems to us the perverse attitude In Germany. It is likely, too, that In the last resort we should be able to Inflict more hurt than could- be Inflicted upon us. But a tariff war Vould Inevitably injure both, and after grave industrial losses had been suffered mutual agreement would have to be reached. The ad ministration has been wise to endeavor to solve the difficulty before rather than after a commercial war. sous help for irgrtB5 mrrns. The form In which the rivers and harbors bill has been turned over to congress from the committee, with Items aggregating 1300,000 for Im provement of the Missouri river, al lows more for this purpose than it was at first disposed to allow, but far less than the Missouri valley states feel themselves Justly entitled to. Lett to Itself the committee would not have broken In any degree the neglect in which the Missouri channel has fallen for many years. The awakening of the business com munities ot the Interior states gen erally to the Importance of river trans portation and their earnest efforts to secure from congress corresponding aid has thus at least made a beginning, small though it Is. . The clearing of snags from the channel should tend to encourage the movement here and at other points to get river freight lines started. The main difficulties probably will be encountered in the first steps of substantial restoration of naviga tion, but every boat and every ton of freight will broaden the basis for fur ther national aid. tt is, Indeed, along this Jine that Chairman Burton of the rivers and harbors committee has been induced to modify his hostile attitude, as he clearly Indicates In his allusions to the preliminary efforts at Omaha and Kan sas City to i revive river traffic. He concedes that a fair trial should be given an,d that commercial conditions now Seem ripe to develop and maintain navigation. Moreover, there are unmistakable signs that the- whole Interior Is lining up for its essential common interest in. water freights. The communities that will be served by the main tribu taries of the Mississippi have their sev eral local Interests, but they are real izing as never before that co-operation Is absolutely essential to the Interest of each. . Some beginning having been made,' which-was probably all that could be expected at this session, a solid union of these mid-continent states in congress for ' their water transportation needs may In due time prove Irresistible. According to tho railway regulation bill drafted by the Joint committee, each member of the Nebraska Railroad commission "before entering upon the duties of his office" shall subscribe to the usual oath and in addition swear "that he Is not directly or Indirectly Interested In any railroad, the bonds, stocks, mortgages, securities, contracts or earnings of any railway company or -common carrier." In other words. If the law goes through as thus worded the commissioners elected last Novem ber will not bo clothed with official powers until they take the new a'nd revised oath of office. All the racket then raised over Commissioner Cowell's failure to line up with the other state officers at the tlm they were formally Inducted Into their places was nothing but a flash In the pan. The number of inmates of th sol diers' homes maintained by our state Is steadily Increasing. This is quite natural, however, In view of the fact that the surviving veterans of the war are reaching the advanced age when they find themselves dependent as well j as cut on irom irienas ana relatives. The state however, will have to look forward to the time not very far dis tant when these, soldiers' homes wtll gradually lose their population, which probably -has now about reached its maximum. Th decision of the county board to kep records of all county employes with a view to Intelligent action on applicationa for promotions and salary Increases is a step in .the right direc tion. But when the records show that the employe Is not earning his money the board should not heaitate to de mote him Into private life. The license fee scheme ot regulating the ice business may solve the difficulty which created such a large area of un pleasantness In Omaha during , the heated months ot last year. Whatever remedy Is to be provided, however, should be provided at the beginning of the summer season' rather than at Its close. 'Democrats and populists have been calling for direct primary legislation In their state platforms year after year, not only In Nebraska, but, In tusny other states.-. It is a poor time for democrats aad populist members ot the legislature to begin backsliding on thl proposition. . Washington correspondents are send ing out the usual scare about the pros pect of aa uktra aeasiqn. one to the failure of the congress to pass certain appropriation bills. One sure remedy lor tms ott-recurrmg situation wouia be the adoption of a rule requiring the legislative appropriation bill, carrying the money for salaries of members, to be considered only after the disposi tion of the other appropriation measures. A semi-official organ at the City ot Mexico declares that war between the United States and Japan Is inevitable. Mexico and San , Francisco may feel that way about It,, but they will have to convert Toklo and Washington be fore they have a fulfillment ot the pre diction. If It costs $ BOO a year to take care of each pupil In the Nebraska Institute for the Blind, the state could without doubt save money by sending these un fortunates to the best private school for blind Instruction and pay all their expenses. A call for a house caucus of repub licans to consider tariff revision failed because of Inability to secure the nec essary fifty signatures to the petition. Really but one signature to such a pe tition is necessary that ot Speaker Cannon. Well, Hardly. Cleveland Leader. Nebraska ha an excitement about a "girl witch" who e"t spells over young men. Great Bcott! la this Nebraska's first experience? Hand I'p the Haloa. Pittsburg Dispatch, tf h wav tf compulsory gpodne keeps on the railroad magnates may become so good that they will have difficulty in recog nizing themselves. Cravrflahlnsr. Chicago Record-Herald. Swettenham haa apologised and' with draw his letter to Admiral Davla. H ha not, however, gone so far a to recall the admiral's war ships and bluejackets. Otllnsr the Machinery. New Tork Evening Post. The senate committee has reported favor ably tho bill giving the government th right of appeal in criminal Case. It is wall to hav everything ready for the next quad of trust magnates. A Hlat from Berlin. Washington Herald. 1 We respectfully call the attention of the anti-Roosevelt contingent to th fact that Emperor William discharged th entire Ralchstag without honor; and Just e what th people did about It! A Melancholy Poaalbllltr. Springfield Republican. , The most unfortunate consequence ;of th Interstate commission's -arraignment of the Standard Oil company la likely to be an other eruption from Chancellor Day of Syracuse university, tf the commission had only thought of that It might hav decided to suppress Its report Road -to Poatal Bconoan?. Indianapolis News. The request of First Assistant Postmas. ter-Oenerfcl Hltchoock for an additional appropriation of , 150,000 fo meet Increas ing expenses for the .current year natur ally remind one that there 1 still an ex cellent opportunity to aid the department In Its economics by abolishing th congres sional frank. Too Small for Showdown. New Tork Tribune. Chairman ftrlni of th democratic con- greasional committee declines to make pub lic th accounts of tne commute tor tne last campaign, but Say that th reoelpts were "email." We1 trust that no subscriber has asked for reimbursement on th ground that the management didn't give him a run for his money.' . . partf r'a Land Roar. Chicago News. Senator Carter of Montana say that Sec retary Hitchcock by hi suspicious meth ods in connection with land patent 1 driving 'American settlers Into Canada, to tha great lots ot this country. Still th secretary ha caught om pretty fierce n.rimena of land thieves In th far west. o be haa reason for being suspicious up to a certain point. Paradox In Military Discipline. Philadelphia Record. Military clrcl hav bea convulsed over a ' caa of . dlaoiplln that recall th prob l.m f tha Irrealstlbl fore meeting th Immovable obstacle. An officer ordered an enlisted man to go to church, and th man refused. Th officer had no right to give the order, but the enlisted man had no right to refuse. This extraordinary situa tion ha been solved, by . transferring th nllatad man 'to another post as a mark ot disapproval, and sanding th officer to another post on temporary duty. GOVERNOR CIMM1NS' IDEAS. Need el Revising th Federal Obm tttntlea. ' Chicago News. Governor. Cummins of Iowa make soma striking comment on th federal constitu tion, which come as a reply to observation recently made by Secretary Root. Th Ut ter declares that unless each of th states takes up th work of governing In th In terests of the family of state at th point wher th national, goverpm'nt leavea off amendment to th aonatltutlon enlarging th federal powers will surely follow. Oov erndr Cummins ha been In th van of state officers' who hav tried to do just what Secretary Root urge. Now, he says: "Our forefathers mad (or ua a government, na tional and state,, putting into it a genius that dwarfs every other effort of its kind, but the country to be governed haa escaped from th government established to manage It and la running wild." It Is significant ot th present trend of vents that Governor Cummins comes out unequivocally for amendments to the fed eral constitution. Among others, he wants an amendment "that will give th Interstate commerce clause scop enough to enable congreM to control and regulate things which th development of commerce hav tiatlonalirod." The governor of Iowa has had perlnce in regard to the difficulties of state control. The railroads crossing Iowa, for (sample, have exercised for years, by rr.eana cf pollt cal attorneys strung aloig their routes, a notorious proprietorship over the public affairs of the stat. Yet none of these rosds ha a terminus In Iowa, so that nearly every article of commerce handltd by them crosses th state bound aries on Its way to market and therefore la subject to national laws. Thus Governor Cummins ha been led to ae clearly the results of corporate nationalising of busi ness enterprises. While Important amendments to th fed eral constitution are desirable, no state should slacken and every state should In crease It effort to do Its full duty by Itself and th rest et U atioa OTHER LANDI THIK OIK 9 fttwlallsm. a a pel!lel force In the af fair of Europe, encountered emphatic re buff in Germany and Great Britain within, ten day. Hitherto the social democratic party has been a growing power In Ger many and was represented by -venty-nln deputies In the last Reichstag. In the elec tions held January 36 the party suffered a nt loes o nineteen seat, while other p.rty division of the German electorate held their strength or made oubatanjial gain Th country sustained the ministry and practically endorsed the Imperial colonial policy. Second balloting will be held In about 10 constituencies on the tith Inst., as none of the candidates received a majority on the first ballot. The second election elim inates all but the two candidate receiving th highest vote in the first ballot. Th dis patches Indicate that the custom of center ing on one candidate all opposition to the socialists will be pursued with Increased Seal next Tuesday, and it Is calculated that the result will still further diminish social istic strength In th new Reichstag. The losses are not due to declne of the party numerically. In that respect the socialist made a slight gain. But the opposition rallied a much larger percentage or th to'al vote and thus swept the clce consttu encles. Equally significant and more em phatic was the rout of the democrats In their attempt to convert th trnde union of Great Britain Into a socialistic propaganda. The proposition brought before the general conference of the unions was decisively de feated. Both events ore" of International Interest. They indicate clearly that In the two most progressive nations of Europ socialism la not making srlnus headway and Is mainly a political refuge for the dis contented. . Th chronic dissatisfaction with the way education, particularly primary education, Is managed in Ireland has been growing more and more Insistent every year for twenty year past, and a pretty general i and formidable agitation Is now grilng on all over Ireland at once demanding a rad ical reform In the whole system of educa tion in Ireland without any Interference with Its religious quality. As Ftephen Gwynn, who Is a Gaelic lemruer and also a member of Parliament, said at a recent big meeting in Wleklow demanding mora pay for teachera, "Why should the govern ment pamper Its (Cast'e) policemen arwl starve its teachers? After a policeman In l fifteen years In the service he may get a pension for himself, his wife and family, while a schoolmaster's pension does not be gin till h has given forty year of hard service, with no civil right and no emolu ments of any kind." Th present division of the exchequer grants for schools (80 per cent to England, 11 to Scotland and I to Ireland) bears no proportion to the taxe collected, the pop ulation or the peculiar needs of the re spective countrls. The teachers of Ireland 1 the national school teiche--im the worst pnld of any civilised country In the world. What lt wanted Is a school board elected by th people and answerable to public opinion. The Imperial bureau of statistics of Jnrn has Just Issued it annual report for the year 19s. delayed because of the war with Russia. It statistics of marring and di vorce are particularly Interesting. There were 570.91 marriages In that year and S, SW divorce, or about one divorce to six marriages, and It is presumable that this proportion does not differ much from other years. The returns show that, whll mar riages may take place . when the man Is between the age of IS and 14 nd the Woman between 11 and li years, these ex ceedlngly youthful alliance are very rare. With men man-la re is most . frequent be tween 24 and SB. and with women between 20 and 21. Three-fourths of th men are married between 20 and SX and the same proportion of the women between IS an1 28 years.' Divorces are In' almost all In stances the result of mutual consent. Out of the 68.S92 divorces, only 1R8 were due to causes which cftm within th legal code. Divorces by mutualeonsent apparently be gin quite soon after marriage. There were In 19S S78 cf these In less than on rrvorth after marriage, and before six month were over the number had increased to 4,'4S. The total of divorces for the first year was 11.730, thence proceeding on ' a declining rstlo so thst the number of divorcer of tbos who had lived together less than five years was 41.0M. the remaining ffj.CCO rep resenting a longer continuance of wedded life, A letler In the London Spectator fur nishes some very Interesting Information concerning th result of state-aided In surance In Germany. Tt appear that about on German in five Is insured for sicsness, one in inree ror acciaent ana on In four for Infirmity or old age. Every year nearly tl2S.ooO.000 Is paid to sick. In jured, Infirm or old persons.- Of this amount 982.600,000 Is found by employer, 1R1.2SO.000 by Insured person and 112,226,000 by the state. Every Insured working woman who Is confined receive an allowance for six weeks.' The-system of Insurance for In firmity ha had vory remarkable results. It Is, of course, much better for a person disabled by some cause other than old age, a well as for the community, that he or eh should be enabled to resume work; and as the law permits the Insur ance associations either to treat Infirm per sona In sanatoria, or. to give them pen sions, a large number of sanatoria have been erected all over the land. A very j larg proportion of sufferer who apply for ! allowances have tuberculosis. Among men : from 99 to 24 who are Incapacitated, about ' ES per cent suffer from it. No less than seventy-four open-air sanatoria hav been 1 built for the treatment of these patients. ' On an average each victim remains under treatment about three months. In 102 10.518 persons suffering from tuberculosis, and 11,431 suffering from other diseases, were treated under the insurance law. The proportion of tuberculosis patients who re gain power to work for a living la more than 75 cent, but ' a ' good many relapse when they return to their crowded dwell ings and to hard work. Tet at the end of four t yea re after treatment 81 per cent of the patients were able to work. LARD GRABBERS BALKED. President Stands by Preseeator In Oregon. Springfield Republican. Prealdent Roosevelt Is determined to hav th services of W. C, Bristol as United States district attorney for Oregon. He haa notified members of the Judiciary com mittee of the senate, which haa reported adversely on the confirmation of Mr. Bris tol, that he will reappoint hi man aa soon a obngrea adjourns, with th view of keeping him In office until th land fraud cases in Oregon are disposed of. Thla will be disappointing , news to th land grab bers, who have been determined thst Bris tol should not prosecute these casea. Pop ular sentiment will be emphatically upon th side of th president in this ljsus. By reappointing Bristol at th expiration of thl session of congress the president can keep htm In office another year without confirmation, and in spite of those western senators who hav barlded together after a fashion thst does not command reapect. It Is safe to Infer that Mr. Bristol is In dorsed by Mr. Hrney, and .that be 1 th man for th Job. Governor of Tntalla Comes. SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. l.-Tbe Oceanic liner Sierra, arriving 'yesterday from Syd ney, had among It passengers Commander C. B. T. Moor. U. S. N . who Is governor of th American island of Tutulla, Samoa. H la on aa emclai Ul to Wutiingto, DAAA VA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAt? 1 RBi 8 3 Absolutely Pure. 4 6 M C J T V V V V V V V V V POLITICAL DRIFT. Mlssourtans are talking seriously of In vesting 15,000,000 In new cap'tot building. In the language of Rev. Jasper, "da world do move." Senator John Drydon of New Jersey con tinues five votes short of an election, and all tha rocks In his Gibraltar are of no avail so far. Carter Harrison continues sunning him self in California and listening for a loud call to "come- home, honey," and run for mayor ot Chicago. Religious revivals are bring held In many parts of the country, the churches deeming It necessary to put forth special exertions while the state legislatures are In session. Pennsylvania's magnificent capitol build ing, price $13,000,000, promises to be a Joy forever for those on the Inside. "The pay roll of employes taking care of the building foots up tSl.OOO a year. Washington's Gridiron club tears aside the veil of secrecy thrown around execu tive sessions of the sonate. Perhaps the senators at the laat gridiron function Im proved the opportunity to reciprocate. Regulars and reform republicans am lined up again In Philadelphia In what I promises to be a hot fight for mayor. The organization nominee Is John E. Reyburn. His opponent Is Vllllam Potter, formerly superintendent of. city police under Mayor Weaver. He Is a republican, endorsed by the city and democratic parties. Tho elec tion will be held February 19. Senator Piatt's express company ha left Its old headquarters at 49 Broadway, New Vork. which used to be known to every politician in the state a th throne room Of the boss. Th express company Is now at t Trinity place, and Senator Piatt's poli tical number Is now 23. Senator Wlnthrop Murray Crane ot Massachusetts, Just re-elected. Is known In select national republican circles as a smoother out of wrinkles for President Roosevelt, 'it was Senator Crane who brought tha president and ex-Governor Frank S. Black of New Tork into accord In the spring of 1904 so that Mr. Black placed the president In nomination at the national convention In June of that year. Baby Former In Trouble. DE3 MOINES, la.,' Feb. l.-Mrs. Fred West, proprietor of a "baby farm," was arrested on a charge of murder In the first degree today. It being alleged that she put an Infant to death by means of laudanum because of It blindness. Affidavits were with tha local maflrlatrat in 'which It , chared th,t the bodies of a numb.r of Infants born at Mrs. West' home were burned In the , furnace and ' the ashes dumped In a cinder ptle. Mrs. West was placed In ' the county Jail. Eh ' will be given a preliminary examination tomorrow. tU ROYAL GAKINO POWOtR CO, KTW YOf K. Your Money's Worth HE successful merchant . nowadays does not pretend to give impossible values for your money "but a full dollar's worth for a dollar is the worth for a dollar in Suits and Overcoats. We are shewing a beautiful line of new spring Shirts, in soft and pleated bosoms, Browning, Ming tk Co ' E. S. WILCOX, Manager. Every Knab'e Piano is Twice-Made Firs, in designingeticcording to the inflexible laws of science; then in construction, when it (s refined by the brain of genius directing the hand of the Bkilled artisan. The first work is the basis of the great Knabe endur ance; the second includes that law-free impress of true art that gives the Knabe personalityand sets it apart the supreme musical instrument. If a Knabe could be made by the. simple rule of weight and measure, there' would be no difference in pianos. - -... ' The dual effort of the Knabe means to you a dual - value. In no other purchasable thing is there a value like the Knabe Cabinet Grand at $450 or a Knabe Mig non Grand at $750. The finest upright and the amallest real grand. ' ,. A. Pp f.A WE WANT YOU TO KNO 0W SHECwl'D IS AGAIN IN THI MARKET AFTER THREE MONTHS' ABSBatrsr VICTOR WHITE COAL CO.. 1605 F4.hXAM STREET. TEL C0U2LA3 127 The Careful Housewife uses no other. V ? V V ? V V V V f V O BRRGEY THIFI.Kft. "And what wer the provisions of your 'uncles will?" ' "That I should hav all he left after th payment of his Just debts." "Ah, very good of the old man, wasn't It? What. did he have?" "Just debts." Judge. "I see," said the hesd bookkeeper, "that congress has raised Its own wages. " "eo. congress Is becoming Just as pnw erful as the heaJ of a life Insurance company.'- Chicago Reird-Herald. Pqulgg I never saw a man so com fletcly Immersed In his bttslnrss aa Jotiea, hat new neighbor acmes the way. Snungns That so? What's his line? SquaRgs He's a swimming teacher. Gltt up. Toledo Blade. "Srrlggs can tell the temperatures by th Sound of creaking wagons. "That's nothing. I can tell It by a noise less us bill." Clavelsnd Plain Dealer. Cholly The dentist told me I had a larg cavity that needed filling. Ethel Did he recommend any special course of study ? Cincinnati Commercial. Marks Taking a wife Is something ilk eating mushrooms. Pnrka How so? Marks You've got to await results before you can be absolutely sure you've taken the right kind. Boston Transcript. ' ' Mrs. Crimaonlieak Intoxication Is so common In Stockholm that a special car for topers must be attached to all suburban trains going from that city. Mr. Crlmsonbeatr Tank cars are not un known In this country, my dear.--Tonkers Statesman. "Mlstah Cahmark?" "What Is It. Mlstah InfMocutah?" "How would you do a lightning change act?" "Why, tap the Till, man; haw, haw!" Atlanta Journal. ART 15 OMAHA. Kent Packard In Boston Record. "Omnhs Ana prohibited pictures of Van Dyke and Rubens as indecent." News Item. Th painter's banished from thy store Omaha, my Omaha, No art Is now allowed by law Omaha, strange Omaha. Rubens and Van Dyke get the hook, At portraits now you cannot look Your art Is but a sealed bonk 1 Omaha, queer Omaha. ' It. But postern stilt adorn your town Omaha, fly Omaha. Of Fairbanks twlna and Buster Brown Omaha, shocked Omaha. Somehow the eight of poster's flare. Just suits your, breesy western air (Though srtlets rave and tear their hair) Omaha, pure Omaha. ; III. Perhaps you follow Springfield's load Omaha, fine Omaha. Such conduct then Is meet Indeed, Omaha, rum Omaha. But Comatnck's quiet, doesn't talk; At Rubens work there Is no balk. Still Omaha Is not New Tork, Omaha, wild Omaha. basis of this business. Just now, with our Alteration Sale, it's a little better than a dollar's 5I3 Douglas Street THAT THE GENUINE