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The Omaha Daily. Reel founded bidwar?) fobewateb. victor Roe ewa te r, editor. Entrd at Omaha poetofBo aa seoond class matter. TERMS OF" SUBSCRIPTION, pslly Pes (without Punday), on year. . llly Hoe and Bundarx on ! Bunriay Km, on year I Saturday 1H on ysar 1M DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Pslly B (Including ".iinday), pr wek..15o Ially He (without fiundny), per wwk loo ' F.venlng P- (without Huntay, par weak. o fcventn (with Bunrtayl, Pr week... .100 Addree complaint of lrr-ulrltla In de livery to City Circulation Department. OFFICE. Omaha-Th Dm Building. South Omaha City Hall Building. Council Bluffs 10 Pesrl etreet. ( hlcaan ttrto Vmtr Building. N-w York 1S Horn Ufa Iniiursnr Bldg. Washington M FourtMnth Street. CORRE8PONDEKCE. Communications relating to news and ed itorial matter should ba addressed: Omaha Iee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, gayable to The Bm Publishing Company, nly J-cent stamps recelred In payment or mall account a. Personal checks, except on Omaha or-eaatern exchange, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMFANT. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Bute of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss: ., Charles C Roaewater. general manager I of The Bee Publlahlng company, being duly sworn, says that th actual number of full land complete copies of Ths Dally, Morning, Evening snd Sunday Pee printed d'irlns th .month of February. 107. wss as follows: A 1 1,00 1 . 31,t0 r J., IMN 17 W0 '... ,4 tO.100 II 9.39 . 4 si.sao it... .. w.oao I ,sso to oajso . 1,70 tl S3.4TO T 38,140 II.... 89,400 ' I. i,sao ii sa,oo .. ga.iao 14 o,eao 10 80,450 IS 88,000 11 81.T50 14 81,800 It 81,870 IT 88,050 .13 SL840 It 38.130 14 ...... 81,840 1 " II 8160 Total 898.T10 Less unsold and returned copies... 8,783 Net total... '. mWt Dally average.... S1.6TT CHARLES B. ROSEWATER, General Manager. Subscribed In my preeenc and sworn to : before m this 1st day of March I)?. (Seal) M. B. HUNQATR. Notary Publlo. WHBlf OVT OF TOWS. Subscriber. leatTlagt tha elty teas, porarlly saaald kav Ta Be sailed - taene. Address will a ebaasrad aa aftea sis raated. The Reuf's off, according to rsporU from Sau Francisco. . Flans for hazing Senator LaFollette at the last session of the congress aeem to have miscarried. Another objection to the unwritten law Is that the victim of it never gets a chance to appeal. It is a mistake to display scorn for the coal man. He may be delivering your ice a few' weeks later. Some senators who leavs congress take to the lecture platform; others remain in Washington .as lobbyist.' . Honduras and Nicaragua intimate that they will quit fighting unless the world hurries up and takes some notice of them. ' -''-'- The modesty of Sheriff McDonald In asking the state to pay him only one dollar for what cost him a nickel Is remarkable. , " v" It may yet be necessary to induce Mr. Harriman to take charge of the , Panama canal. He would soon get water into it Senator Bpooner has given publlo opinion a Jolt by announcing that it is necessary for him to resign from the senate in order to get rich. Mme. Nordlca saw a bull fight at El Paso and gave the victorious matador a roll of bills. Even stage money is sometimes useful for advertising pur poses. The South Omaha Fire and Police board has reached the phase of utility attained by the Omaha Water board some months ago. It has nothing to do but sign the payroll. 'The fuslonlsts in the legislature are doing about what might have been ex pected of them, They are aiding the railroads now la every way possible to defeat terminal taxation. The Iook trust has had lu'own way in South Dakota and the schools of that state will continue to be the orev of the great publishing company for two years longer, at least. A New York paper has located Bourke Cock ran and prints his picture standing by the pyramids in Egypt It is hardly necessary to state that the pyramids appear insignificant. . "MaSasBasaJsaiassaaassj The hack drivers employed by the sheriff should be proceeded against for discriminating in their tariff. They harge so much more for hauling con lets than they do for hauling others Wist the imposition Is notable. ITerr Bartb has informed the Reich tag that there will be no real reform In Germany until the democratic fac tions get' together. The split in the democratic party appears to be inter national Instead of purely local. Tbe fact that the Methodist taosplt al shows an excess of receipts over r-endltures should be taken as'an ex ad- aitlonal proof of the great prosperity pf Nebraska rather than an indication 9f the unusual demand for admission to the hospitals. - la response to an ppal by the barbers, the Indiana legislature passed I bill closing the shaving parlors on tunday, Then another bU wss passed prohibiting Sunday base ball and the larbrr now have a Sunday holiday tnd don't know what to do with It .. tooir Ant ah. The legislature of Nebraska baa reached a point where every member of the republican majority, which charged with the responsibility for the measures It enacts or fsU to enact. should look ahead. It Is useless to attempt to disguise the fact that the work of the present legislature will be an Important and In all probability a deciding factor In the election that will determine whether or not Nebraska shall be In the repub lican column when the next president comes to be chosen. Passing by the election, this rear which because of its comparative un importance will have small significance. the real fight will be to re-elect Gov ernor Sheldon two rears hence and to cast Nebraska's electoral vote for the republican presidential nominee. Unless conditions change materially the leadership of the opposition will be centered in none other than William J. Bryan, and it will devolve upon Gov ernor pheldcn by his personality and by the record of achievement of him salt and of the present Nebraska legis lature to convince the people of this state that It is their duty and to their interest to remain loyal to the repub lican principles and republican candi dates. If Governor Sheldon can come before the people and say to them, "Here Is what we promised." and "Here is our fulfillment of those promises," success will be assured. ' If be is compelled to appeal for popular support over a leg islative record of broken faith and dis regarded pledgee, it will be difficult for him, or for any other republican In any way responsible, to secure a renewed tenure of office. ". . It should be remembered, too, that the importance of the situation in front of us far transcends the question of re publican supremacy in Nebraska. The election of the next president of the United States may turn upon' the rotes of Nebraska's members of the electoral college and the election of a democratic president would mean the transfer of the whole executive branch of the fed eral 'govern met t to democratic hands, with consequences Incalculable and far-reaching. It rests with the republican legisla ture to say whether the campaign of 1908 shall be reasonably safe sailing or whether the party shall be loaded down with an extra hasardous risk that will make the outcome doubtful, If not foredoomed. COST OF THE PmLIPPllSIS. In an apparent preparation for launching a campaign of charges of extravagance) against the administra tion at Washington, some of the demo cratic leaders have been making an effort to secure a detailed statement of the cost of maintaining the govern ment of the Philippines. . In the. clos ing days of congress Mr. Clay of Georgia Introduced a resolution In the senate calling 'for Information as to the' cost of the Philippines to date. A. similar resolution was offered in the bouse by Mr. Clark of Florida, but both resolutions were voted down, the administration leaders explaining that all the data desired could be found in the annual and printed reports of the bureau of insular affairs and the re ports of the War department. Some of the anti-imperialists in New Eng land have taken fresh courage from this movement In. congress and are beginning to send' out statistics show ing the enormous sums of money drawn from the treasuries of France, Germany and Italy in carrying out the colonial policies of those governments. The new issue promises to be short lived. The records of the' govern ment dealings with the Philippines are public and open, and. nothing con talned In them can be construed, even by tortuous methods familiar to poli ticians, into a charge of extravagance. The congress originally voted $10,000, 000 to Spain, as a result of a com promise, the United States refusing to recognUe the bonded publications of the Philippine islands before our pos session of them. Another appropriation of 11,000,000. was made for relief of famine sufferers in the Philippines several years ago. 1 That is - the total of American expenditures In the Phil Ipptnes, except for the maintenance of the army and navy forces on duty ' In the islands. The govern ment of theThlllpplne Islands levies its own (taxes and meets all expenses incident to. the administration of civil government, including ihe Improve ment of rivers and harbors, the main titan nf HvhthmiaM. marina hos pital and quarantine . services, maintenance of poet office and telegraph systems, and all the expensea of the home government, In addition, a sys tem of municipal government has been devised by which the different towns and cities construct and maintain their own light and water plants and other public utilities, all of which are pai from revenues obtained by island tax atlon. The Philippines have borne these ex penditures and are yet able to show considerable surplus revenues, which will be devoted from time to time to further Internal improvements. The only tax on the American government is for the increased cost of malnte-' nance of troops in the Philippines over that In the United States, obviously an insignificant sum. The proposed anti Imperialist campaign alleging ex travagance of expenditures for the Philippines i lft wRbout a leg to stand on. 1 The discovery of a court decision supporting terminal taxation should not be deemed cause for especial won J? der. The principle involved Is one so TIIE OMAHA i- il - J - i s clear and so well established that it admits of no dispute. It merely re quires tbst giant corporations pay taxes on exactly the same basis as the humbler citlsens of the community in which they have their residence. No hardship is worked on anyone through the application of the- simple and equitable principle that taxation must be equally distributed on all property. rVRTVXKS III TARM LAfiDS. Preliminary bulletins of the census department on the value of farm lands In America show an increase In the first six years of the present century that is simply beyond comprehension, even in these prosperous times, when millions and billions are words that roll trippingly from the tongue and figure prominently in tables showing the nation's development in different lines. The bulletin estimates the value of American farms on December II. 106, at $28,000,000,000, an increase-of more than $7,600,000,000 since 1900. The best estimates of the total aggregate wealth of the nation, with the beginning of 1907, Is about $126,000,000,000. On this basis the farm lands of the country represent a strong one-fifth of the total national wealth, not counting the farm prod ucts, stock and other equipment that make a total almost equal to the value of the real estate. ' Compared with the mere advance In value of farm lands In six years, $7,600,000,000, the other transactions and wealth showings in various lines seem really puny. The entire capital of all the national banks in the coun try 1b less than one-eighth the sum lepresented by the increased value of American farms. The increase Is ex ceeded only by the capitalization of the American railroads, including watered stock and the enlargements due to modern methods of railroad financier ing. Even at that the increase in farm values for six years amounts to more than 60 per cent of the over capitalized railroads of the country. The .value of the American farms la about equal to the total of governmen tal expenditures for all purposes since the establishment of the republic. While the increase . in farm values for the last six-year period has been remarkable, the record will doubtless be surpassed In, the future. Farming is rapidly being reduced to a science. Old-time methods of robbing and Im poverishing the soil have been aban doned and succeeded by Intelligent management which is resulting in in creased productiveness each year, without injury to the soil. Farm work under the new condltlpns has lost Its terror and become one of the most attractive fields of human endeavor. The old-time worry about the young men leaving the farm for work in the cities has lost Its charm. Statistics show that there has been a constant and rapid increase in the farm popula tion, from 10,487.000 in 1900 to more than 11,600,000 in 1906. The man whose future prosperity is apparently assured is the American farmer and owner of American farm lands. ah to Tixrrr or pfbposi." -Mr. E H. Harriman has made a dis covery that will give surprise to cer tain senators of the United States. He says, in an interview, that President Roosevelt needs mental discipline and that he "Is capable of doing great things if there were mere fixity of purpose." Admitting that President Roosevelt is highly Impulsive, that be Inaugurates movements that he does not press to a conclusion, and that in a few rare Instance he has apparently retreated from or abandoned positions taken'' on more or less important ques tions, the record of his five and a half years in the White House and his pub lic service in other capacities fails to reveal any lack of that' desired "fixity of purpose" In the championship of policies to which he has been com mitted.. ' As police commissioner of New York Mr. Roosevelt exhibited a fixity of purpose that established a number of desirable reforms In the police sys tem of the metropolis and made him highly unpopular with the machine re publicans of the city and state. As assistant secretary of the- navy he showed a fixity of purpose strong enough to cut red tape that sur rounded the ways and means of mak ing provision for the war with Spain He displayed some fixity of purpose, generally recognized, at San Juan and on other Cuban battlefields. As .gov ernor of New York, his fixity of pur pose so annoyed the ringleaders of the republican machine that Senator Piatt forced the vice presidential ' nomina tion upon him to "get rid of him." When he became president he found a senate openly hostile to him on many issues, Senators of both par ties were against him on the creation of the army general staff bill, the Cu ban reciprocity measure, railroad rate; egtslation, the meat lnsiiectlon laws. e pure food bill, the measures look- InVto saving the public coal and tlm- bet lands, the Santo Domingo treaty, thtllaws limiting the time of railway employes and scores of other meas ures that were first recommended by the president then championed by hi Hi by different methods of publicity and finally accepted by the legislative branch of the government. The chief element instrumental In securing the enactment of these measures Into leg islation has been President Roose velt's "fixity of purpose," and If Mr. Harriman does not know It. the con gress and the people do. , , ' The freight rate on hardware from St Louis to Kansas City is 4 6 cents a hundred. Fifty years ago, when ship- DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, - a - j j.i ,i .' menta were made by the Missouri river, the rate was 30 cents a hun dred. That's one reason St Louis and Kansas City shippers are working for the re-establishment of steamer service between the two cities on the Missouri river. .Whether or not the unit system of distribution of railroad assessment be legal, It will have a much more direct effect upon the taxes paid to school dis tricts than terminal taxation possibly could. Country members who are in terested In protecting their school dis trict Incomes from this so'urce shonld scrutinize this matter very closely.'; The fact that the Wilson resolution has the undisguised support of the railroads should render It suspicious, at least to the members who favor terminal taxa tion. The craze for platting additions In the boom days of the '80's, and the disastrous results which folldwed, should not be forgotten by the real estate vendors who are busy now cut ting up farms into acre lots for subur ban residences. A great many desir able plots of ground are still vacant in Omaha, silent reminders of an ex perience that ought to teach it own lesson. . ' The New York Central threatens to put In a twenty-eight-hour schedule In place of Its eighteen-hour train be tween New York and Chicago if a 2-cent fare law is put Into effect. That would give the passengers an op portunity to walk around those wreck- producing curves. Omaha's halt century of municipal life has been appropriately observed. It is now In order to turn thought to the future rather than to the past, and to labor that Omaha of fifty years from now will be as far ahead of the I-rosent as Omaha today is ahead of fifty years ago. The Postoffice department has de cided that half of the face of postal cards may be used for writing other than the address. The decision will prove a hardship to some rural post masters who have not . time to read all the postal cards with writing on only one side. The. legislature, having provided against the unlawful killing of deer, elk, antelope and beaver, should try to make some provision for the protection of Hons, tigers and elephants, which are almost aa numerous rn Nebraska as the animals especially protected. The railway commission bill ha gone through its period of Incubation In the house and is not satisfactory to the fuslonlsts. This ought to recom mend it to the majority members of the legislature. - BlCkt Kin of Tralataar. Baltimore American. , Members of ths tntrsta,te Commerce commission ought to know enough about tb business by this tlm to become presi dents of railroads If they so desired. - Preparing? for Bis; Bwalasss. St. Lous Globe-Democrat Two of th big western railroads an nounce that they will double-track their lines during ths year 1907. Maybe this extra facility Is thought to be necessary In order to acoommodat tb vast Increase of business promised under th t-cent rat law. Fool Frleads ef Soldiers. Kansas City Times. Th canteen at th National Soldiers' horn In Leavenworth was closed Sunday. Th proceeds from the csntsen were used for the maintenance of a theater, band, baa ban team and other entertainments for the old soldiers. If congress really loves the old soldier It should be brave enough to deliver him from his fool friends. Oaaka Oacs Ahead, Mlaas Skyseraper. Springfield Republican. Th cancelling of th contract for th proposed twelre-story Union Pacific offlc building in Omaha was ordered by Mr. Har riman himself becaus th courts bad com palled th railroad to pay Nebraska 11.000, MO In taxes and because ' th Nebraska legislature had passed a t-cent fare bill. If Nebraska cannot hav vrythlng, th stat will manage to .survive without tb skyscraper PERSONAL' ROTES. Justice must be had though th sky scrapers fall. Whistling the swan song of th dying congress doubtless thrilled the hearts of returned members, but who can portray ths motions of members doomed to absent treatment! Over seventy years a blacksmith Is th remarkable record of Elijah Bunker, of Belgrade. Ms., who has just sold out his setabllshment there. On of his sons has worked at ths forge for nearly half a cen tury. Tb Panama canal recruiting station at. Washlngtoa Intimates that persons striv ing to reduos their surplus flesh by exer olaa can rnoelv scientific treatment by ap plying to th manager of ths shovel brigade on the canal sone. . Uncle Sam's sleuths are working over' tlms la Chicago on ths subtreasury loss of W.'.OOO and ths kidnaped mail wagon, from which 85.000 was extracted. Th crooks ars l still out of sight,, but ths detectives ar getting a good run for th money. Managers of th operating department of th New York Central equipped an electric train similar to ths one wrecked and dashed around "Death Curve" at an eighty-five-mjle gait. But tbelr courage failed to affect tb verdict of th coroner's Jury holding the officials of ths road TesponlibJe for th disaster. . ' Tb Danish minister of agriculture. Oit Hansen. Is ons of the most popular and democratic of the public men of his coun try. His daughter, desiring to learn practi cal housekeeping, with ths consent of htr fa I her, went to Germany and engaged as a cook at a modest stipend at ths home of a small government suployt. Charles W.' Mors of Bath. Ms., within a week has brought to a focus th plans of a lifetime which put him in control of practi cally . all ths Atlantic seaboard steam Maria transportation lines. Mors is no th controlling factor In ths 180.000,000 con cern eorporately known as th Consolidated Btsssnahlp oompany. Hs began his bual ness career by aeUlng peaaits on steam boats running out of bis fcobM cMy MARCH 7, 1907. HARItt' J RCPOIS. riasw Raait Observettaas f tk Calossas af Roads, Th appearanc of Bdward H. Harriman In th spotlight of th Interstate Commerce commlaalon and his story of railroad man agement opnd ths floodgate ef news paper comment and -oastlgation. Hs Is pictured and painted aa th past master of railroad concentration snd manlpulsTlon and financial wtaSrd Whoa lightest touch makes Wall street throw: a fit. There Is a marked difference, between Harriman In action snd Harriman in repose. Respecting th tatter, little is ' known because when he shuns business affairs and retires to the privacy of his horn his doings eras to Interest reporters. It was th good fortune of Frederick Palmer to be a fellow passenger with Hsrrlman In bis trip from Yokohama to Ban Francisco and had abun dant opportunity to observe his traits at close rang. In th current Issu of Col lier's Weekly Mr. Palmer gives th result of his observations and Impressions, which hav timely Interest Just now. i Harriman has th most concentrated men tality of any man I hav ever met, de clares Mr. Palmed ' Tou do not have to, romoV layers of pose, of fatty egoism and glad-hsndlsm In order to get at ths real Harriman, who Is as different from the creature ef popular conception as front the creature of his own conception. The creature of popular conception Is a sinister, frigid, heartless product to meet the mar ket dmand about a personality which has been Inaccessible. It Is thts Harriman of whom w har In a recent editorial: Ther Is on th Union Paclflo a special engineer, expert In rounding curves easily and putting on brakes softly, who always draws Mr. Harriman' train. This engineer made a record-breaking run to Ban Fran cisco shortly after th earthquake. . Mr. Harriman has never shaken hands with this man; h has never given him a nod." My first glance of ths real man was on -a voyage. When th ocean la th Pacific, and ther ar few people aboard. you learn your fellow passengers pretty well; so you did on this occasion. Includ ing two United States senators. Harri man spent more tlm with th engineer than with . them. As for th editorial, he changed engineers at each division. and he could not sit up all night to shake hands with alU , We started from Yokohama with the Idea of beating th record to Ban Fran cisco. A smooth sea all th way meant an even chance of success. This disappeared for everybody except Harriman when the first three days wars entirely unpropltlous I think that h thought we must succeed becaus he himself was aboard. When some on offered him a bet of 12,000 to tl.OOfl that he would fail he took It. Then he started out to win th bet with all th seat that he has shown In obtaining control over a nw railroad. Fair weather broke the next day and continued. W began to feel that th quiet little man was putting demoniacal energr Into th stokers and Into th very engines; By th dramatic spec of a few minutes he won. Harriman never advertised th fact that he gav th g.OOO to th angina room crew. Winning was the point iri mind. On th whole, h was th least obtrusive of any great millionaire with whom I hav ever com In contact Whether h Is doing a kindness or doing business, hs never use words where thought or action will take their place. I noticed that when h told a steward to move a woman's ohalr to a bettor position It was In an underton of brevity, Th woman did not know of his thoughtfulnas.' 8h would If James J. Hill bad been In Harriman' s place. Pier pont' Morgan's politeness would hav had th aplomb of a Jove. -' " The two senators were always ready to pick up Harriman' handkerchief, although they war on record aa trusts buatare. When you cut away their egoism and glad-hand-lam, -th skeleton that remained consisted merely of a rubber backbone and floating rfbs. .On on occasion Senator N , look ing around for an audlsnoa, engaged Harri man In discussion of th rat problem. , It was th encounter of a rapier and a pillow full ef words. ' Besides, Harriman was not arguing; he was telling us. Whan h works Mr. Harriman works hard, and hs rests aa energetically. All his vast Interest engage htm during four days of th week. Bujt those ar busy days. When I asked an attendant what tlm this and that bead went. out to lunch th answr was: "Ob, h does not go out to lunch. At least not when Harriman himself ' is working. Th remaining three days are usually passed at Ardan, In Oranga, county, New York, where he has a little farm of a, 000 acres, and he may enjoy his lov of horse and other outdoor hobbles. Thar Is no excess of working coats which organisation can save on this estate, you may b aura. A funicular rail road carries material up ths mountain for th big house he Is building. He has mad curves and grade to his heart's con tent on -his privet roads. Hs haa an Ardsn Farms company, a Wood Cutting oompany and an Orange County Construc tion company for road butldlngwall unique in which he prescribed methods of con duct till thsy wer working smoothly and paying good dividends. "Ths Impetus, th plan of his enter prises, publlo or private, larg or small, always comes from th Harriman mind. He has a boys' club in Tompkins square, New York, housed In a building of his own arection; membership 10,000; dues 1 cant a year; member promptly dropped for non payment. The boys simply nav a aaaitay good tlm. "You can Imagine bow the man who went Into a broker's offlo at 14 sought 'to give any budding East Bid Harriman th chance to enjoy th good tlm which aa a boy he himself had mlasad. At the outset h used to spend many evenings working and playing with them. Now tb organi sation runs itself. It was in tb oours of developing bis boys' club that hs met Mrs. Harriman for th first tlm. Th beauty of his bom Ufa Is a proverb among all who know ths family. It la simple and un. affected, And ths closest com rude he has in or out of tb business world I his daugh ter Mary." Strasale far a Issara Deal. 8U Louis Republic Private capital, no less than ths publlo money of stat and national governments, baa ben poured out copiously In building up a system of land transportation that no totals nearly half ths rail mlleag of ths world. With th exception of a road that Is still ownd by ths State of Georgia and another byth stat of North Caro lina, practically all th roads built out right by th several states or with stats or federal aid hav passed under private control. Ths antagonism which Mr. Harri man cites takes Its lis hot In th desire of government to raoovar possession, but t secur adequate servtc at equltaiil rates in behalf of ths people in their inter change of commerce. rorlaaalt Delay. Chicago. Nfcws. RepresenUtlvs Tawney haa discovered that ths national treasury will have a sur plus of t20,noQ.OOO next year In spit of th big approprlstlons. It is a good thing hs did not mention It until congress was on the point of quitting or tb money would not have been thsr th next tlm he luvkad. f ' ' ECHOES OF PRESS COYKMT!0. Humboldt Lander: Th members of the Nebraska. Praaa association will long . re member ths hospitality of th Omaha newapapsr folks, on account of th nu merous court! shown them on th oc casion of their annual meeting In that city. . Central City Nonpareil: With carcely an exception th member of th 1ltorlal association, which met lay Omaha last week, expressed themselves a . satisfied with th present arrangement of paying oaah for railroad transportation. Th ma Jorlty thought tb new system would b a good business proposition, whll thos who felt that they would stand to los by th Chang aocepted th r roe pert of a loss with the reeling that th principle Involved was worth sacrificing for. Bhetton Clipper: Th people of Omaha showed that they appreciated th presence of the editors and their wive and did much to make their stay In th metropolis a pleasant on. As th entire tlm of th two days waa fully occupied In th business of th meeting ther was but llttl tlm tor social features. Th Omaha Be tendered th members a theater party Tuesday night at th Burwood and Wednesday night they were guests of the local committee at a theater party at th Orpheum. Valley Knterprta! Th Omaha commit tee and nawspaper people did themselves proud last week In entertaining th Ne braska Press association, and that meet ing Will long be remembered aa a ilcasant vent In ths lives of the Nebraska editors. The first evening In th city th entire association mambers wer guests of .The Omsha Dally Bee at a theater party, and that, too, was an enjoyable treat to th publishers and their ladle. Beside all ths nice thing received at th hands of our metropolis w wer Invited to re turn to tbat city for our annual meet two years hence. Ponca Journal: Very few of th Ne braska editor seemed to stay away from th Omaha meeting on account of th new regulations concerning railroad far. No pain had been taken to bring In noted outside speakers, aa Is often don to swell th attendance, and yet th nwspapr people gathered In large numbers and had a good meeting all th way through. Their final goodby to th exchange advertising ticket has been uttered In a clsar vole And without a tear. Nearly all of tham expect th new arrangement to be perma nent, and ar glad that It has come to pass, together with the anti-pass senti ment, th reduced passenger far, railroad regulation and other things that mak for cleaner volltloa and better government. Alnsworth Star-Journal: Th pres of Nebraska haa been passless for close onto twenty years. Thsr was a time In th history of Nebraska when th newspapers all had passes. But ,that day was a long tlm ago. For nearly twenty years every newspaper man In thla stat haa paid full far, and oftentimes much mor than full far. If he ha paid It In advertising, what was th difference? Advertising Is all th nawspaper man has to sail. It Is his stock In trade. This writer Is dead tired of thts talk of passes" for a news paper man, and he Is heartily glad that th legislature haa don something that eventually will take away that talk. Of course It will tak som tlm there will yet be chumps Ilk our ready print man who wlU talk of a "Passless Preaa." But van h will learn better by and by, or, if h don't w will get a club. Th meet ings war well attended and th Interest was greater than usual. A start was mads toward getting stat action on th out side advertising. And that was good. Th outsid advertiser comes here and wants to get Into our papers for about on-third th rates paid by our' horn merchants. H succeeds m many .coses; and then h puts his Anger to his nose when w talk of regular rate.' If W can have a stat oommltt to attend to this" outsid ad vertising we will all get -good rates, as tby cannot afford to boycott th state. PLAYING WITH EDGED TOOLS. Railroad Magraatee Pattlagr C Das. gjereaa Blasts. Ban Francisco Chronicle. Tb railroad managers ar playing with edged tools. Thsy may not realls th fact but If is always dangerous to put up such bluffs as Mr. Hill recently attempted. There . Is always a disposition to tak prominent man seriously, and when they say that capitalists ar showing a disposi tion to pull In their horns, many ar ready to act on th hint who would not other wise have thought ef doing so. Mr. Hill and th other alarmists In hi class ar not really afraid that th legltlmat business don by tb railroads of th country will be Interfered with. They know that th desire to Injur doe not exist, and that th only thing connected with railroading that Is menaced Is th Improper manipula tion of th securities and properties of th great transportation companies. Their pro test is against any Interference whatever. When thsy find It unavailing they will go on and run their roads and gst reasonable returns on their. Investments, but In th meantime they may aroua a feeling of In security by their InJuJlctoua and pessimistic prediction, which may mak prophets of thsm in spit of themselves. I , 1 Positive A soda cracker should tious and wholesome from wheat s Comparative - But ordinary soda crackers absorb moist ure, collect dust and become stale and soggy long before they reach your table. There Is however, one ; v 4 Superlative soda cracker at once so pure, so clean, so crisp and nourishing that it stands alone in its supreme excellence the came, is Uneoda ; Biscuit . H& In n dust r tight ' qJ moisturt proof packagi. NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY . &xl7i5S 'Smoothes Away Housekeepers' Troubles CLEAN AND HOT, BStT COAL MINED IN WVOMINO VICTOR WHITE COAL WHRW MAG ATMS rALL OIT. la((Mlv lafarsaatloa Reaohes the gpeatatara. Kan an a City Rtar. Iters comes Mr. El H. Harriman, captain of Industry, snd publicly accuse Mr. Btuy. veaant Finn, also' Industrial captain and former .business Wc1ate, at dlsbonorabl practices. Mr. Fish, ha say, a president of th minol Central railroad, used th funds tf the corporation for his personal gain. In reply Comes Mr. Btuyvsaant Fish with th obvious retort that-he had don nothing which, Mr. Harriman bd not dor. repeatedly and on a larger seal. Further, he asserts that Mr. Harriman hd desired to manage th Illinois Central not for th benefit of Its stockholders, , but for ' tb advantage of the Union FaoMc. To go no, further . Into th numerous charges' snd counter charges regarding th business chiefs of th .country. Isn't It rather astonishing that they 'should keep Instating that the government Shall giv them a free hand and permit, them to con duct their operallona as they pleas without supervision? Doesn't it Indicate a'dcgr well, of assurance on, .their part to feel aggrieved becaus the nation seek to keep them within certain limits of safety snd refuses to giv them their head since thsy show nothing but suspicion for each othert Would It not b amaslng to ask th gov ernmsnt to trust th "captain,"". In vlW of the abounding lack of confidence they seem to cherish for one snothsrT ' CHI KK8 OF MIRTH. "Do you belleV th world I growing more honest T ' ... "Well," answered Farmer Comtossel, "so many people are reading th newspapers now that It's harder to work any kind of a crooked game than aver before. I don t know that th world Is gstUn' mor hon est, but th peopl certainly ar harder te foot." Washington Btar. "Mr. Oreatman, this Is Mr. Blmpson." "Delighted to , know you, Mr. Simpson, By the Vi V should happen to met rou on the street you mustn't mind It If don't recognise you at . first sight, I hav a wretched memory for faces." "I hv an equally poor memory for names. Mr. Mr. I've forgotten yours al ready l1' Chicago Tribune. "Tou sy you lov me, but I must have a man not of words, but of deeds." "Heroic deeds, you mesnT" "Not exactly. Real estate ones will do. Baltimore American. v Knlcker Th president says th enlhp can't afford to turn out man who shrink from a llttl physical pain. j r Bockcr Th dental colleges doa't-rNw York Bun. "When do you expect to get that ques tion settled?" - ' "I don't know that I want It settled, answered 8enator Sorghum. "My very best speeches are mads .on that question." Washington Post. s . t - She Whst was that noise I beard when you cams int He I really couldn't say, dear, whether It was the night falling or th day break ing. Baltimore American. , "I sea," ah said, looking up from th paper, "that In battle married man are more courageous than single ones." "Huh!" responded her husband, 'the mar ried men ar merely reckless." Needless to say the brute was then and there called down. Philadelphia Ledger. t Th famous orator had Just asked the only girl in ths world to marry him. "I know," ah said, with a mischievous sparkle In her eyes, "that you have deliv ered many notable orations, yet I take it th speech you hav tuat made me la your maiden effort." Washington Herald. Mamma Nonsense, child! To want to get married at 15 why, it's ridiculous. Daughter It's perfectly natural Whjr, my first ancestor rot married when she was a day old! Philadelphia Press. THB YILLACB MERCHANT. ' Joe Cbne' tit Nw Torst 8uni r Upon th quiet 'Village street"''' with slanting stoop and open door, Those nanes are raaura for dhmlaF.' Through which acaroa. shbias tfi lightLS fl day. .... r Behold tb simple' country itor. ' ' f About th door ar grouped tha things) , Moat useful for tha farmer's, needs; Borne rake and hoes,' an ax and epadsk Borne kegs of nails on which ar laid' A box or two of garden seed, Long shalvas of canned stuffs rraet thaqa Each counter, too, is burdened arell Whll fruits and spices, coffee,' teas And scores of other things Ilk these Bend forth a most inviting smalt Th merchant, now a man of years, Behind th counter spends each day. Or labors o'sr some musty book With slow and scrutinising look To keep a Just account alway. Began he her when but a boy, He looks with prtds around nig store: No groat commercial ventur bis, A simple, honest trade If is Hs seeks enough and nothing mora. . "j i . Ha n'r has been to foreign lands, . Nor yearned his neighbor to excel; - '" In honest toll he's passed his days In giving yet not asking prats - And served his township long and wU. On Sunday he Is found at ehUrch,- "r The same receive his loving car :' A claaa of "trusting boys Is his, . , And In ths midweek service HI volo Is heard in song and prayer. '' Now who successful mora than. h,i, And who mor worthy of a 'namef' No statesman, prophet, bard or sag 1 " In this or any future age . Shall mor dasorv enduring fam. Upon th quiet vniag street '"''"'' This man has built his monument . . No tower of stone, a simple store. An honest II and nothing moi 'Who would not be Ilk him, 'content? ' ' be the most nutri of all foods made CO., U05 rareara-TeL Cszj. 127 : : i A1 . . w"7 i A 1 t I i ii ,j j -t