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10 TUE OMAIIA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1907. Tiie Omaha Daily Bee. FOUNDED BT EDWARD ROSETWATKR. VICTOR R08EWATFR, rJMTOR. Entr4 at Omaha ptofBc a eoond tlaa matter. TEAMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily P (without Sunday), on fi..KW lnJlr He and Rundav. on year Sunday ona yaar IM atuidf Bm, cna yr IN DELIVER CD BT CARRIER. Dally Be (Including; Sunday), prt wek..l5fl Dally He (without Sunday), par wek....l0e Evening- Baa (without Sunday), par weak. Evening Bra (with Sunday), par week.... 100 Address eomphtlnta of Irrfgularlttra In Sa livary to City Circulation Department - OFFICE. Omaha The Be Building. &uih Omaha City Hall Building. Council Bluffs 10 rarl Street. Chlcagw 140 Cnitv Building. New Vork ISO Horn Life Iiuuranr Bldg. Washington Sill Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to new and ed itorial matter should tie addreesed: Omaha iiee. Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, axpreee or poetal order, payable to The Bee Publishing Company. (my lcent at am pa received In payment or mall accounts. Perannal check, eacept on 1 Omaha or eastern eichnnge, not accepted. TIIE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraeka, Douglaa County, eel t rrles C Rneewster, general manager of The Bee Publinhlng company, being duly sworn, any that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning, E": enlng and Sunday Pee printed during the nonth of February. IMC. was aa follows: i '.. smoo it n.eso f 8160 IT aOSSO I..,. sosioo it sa,eso 4 Bi.eso it sa,co I S1.S80 JO..... 33,880 11 33,470 30,460 1 33,060 4 30,630 6 33,080 26 31,000 IT 83,080 tk 83.130 , Sl.STO T 33,180 I S1.6M 1 38,10 ' Id.......... 30,450 .11. 31,780 ' It 31,870 11 31340 U 3LB40 IS. 31,800 Total. , .38,TI0 , . 3.703 ' Leas unsold and returned ooplaa. 1 Net total.. 833,387 ' Dally : average 31,677 CHARLES C. ROSE WATER, Oeneral ManageY. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to ', before ma this 1st day of March. 1KT. (Beal) M. B. H UNGATES. Notary Publlo. WHJEK OUT Or TOW. Subscribers lea via the elty tim orarllr shanl , have The Be mailed to theaa. Addeeaa will be Hansen1 aa timi aa eqaeateg. 2o street car strike In Omaha tor the present. Base ball players are In training. Bo are the rooters. - Paradoxically speaking, a closed primary means a wide-open primary. Senator Spooner says he resigned In order to look out for his own Interest. Also his own principal. "A successful man has no chance these days," says Mr. Harrlman. Then how does he happen to be successful T Evelyn Thaw's hint that it her hus band is convicted she will return to the stage ought to help the defense some. .... These Insurance laws propose re forms, in about everything except the amount the policyholder has to pay in premiums. If imported divorce suits continue to run amuck in Omaha courts, divorce importations from abroad may even tually cease. The late congress passed a bill for the relief of A. Boose of South Caro lina, who should be able now to live up to his name. While Mrs. Eddy is reputed to be worth millions, she pays taxes on only a few thousands. Just another triumph of mind over matter. Mr. Rockefeller says he Is preparing a new surprise for the country. It can not be an increase in the price of oil. for that no longer causes surprise. If King Edward has engaged a spe cial sleeping room in a hotel at Blarrlts for his favorite Irish terrier, how close does that come to being a mollycoddle! The closing days of congress were enlivened by Senator Piatt's statement that no report of his resignation should be believed unless it came direct from the coroner. The Filipino will have to go to work now. The government has made easy for him to mortgage his farm and a mortgage on the farm is a great in ' centlve to Industry. By adding 17,000,000 acres of public lands to the forest reserves, President Roosevelt has done much toward mak lng It Impossible for the timber thieves to yield to temptation. The new federal Judge In the district of Nebraska Is "posting up on his d ties. The lawyers who are to practice before him will do well to post up little on their duties as well. Iouglaa county will have to have a new Jail before many years. In the Interval It Is the -part of economy to spend no more than necessary dn the present county jail building. BraslI, too, has ordered a battleship of the Dreadnaught type. Uncle Sam will not care If tho fad becomes popular aa to relieve him of the nsoes sit of acting as policeman for Latin-American countries. the South Omaha has Juit gone through a strenuous primary contest to deter mine who should be school board eau dldates, the primary being followed up with a recount on demand of defeated competitors. Tor a Job that carries no salary, membership In -the South Omaha school board seems to be at high premium. HARR1MA BARIIOXT. The American people will have cause for rejoicing If Edward H. Her man actually represents, as he inti mates he does, the desire of the rail ay presidents and railway manipula tors of the country to quit antagonis ing the federal and state governments and to co-operate with them for the mutual benefit of the public and the railway owners. It may seem like a case ot eleventh-hour repentance on the part of the railway managers, but there Is accepted scriptural warrant for receiving the prodigal son and It Is safe to assert that there will he no hesitancy in extending the hand ot fellowship to Mr.) Harrlman and his associates If they x proceed, with the usual seal of new converts, to demon strate by deeds the genuineness of their present professions. With the. ring, of sincerity and ad miration-provoking frankness, Mr. Har rlman admits the truth of practically all the charges that have been made against the present day system of rail road operation, In which the rights and wishes of the public and the law making powers .. have been Ignored, scorned or openly -opposed. "AH of Us' he says, "should have considered the possible effects ot this agitation before It was begun or before condi tions that made Its growth possible were allowed to continue.", He admits that if the railways and the elected representatives, of the people had met on common ground years ago and co operated for mutual benefit no one would be worrying over the situation It is today. None will deny the soundness of Mr. Harrtman's conten tion on that point. Had the spirit which now apparently moves him al ways dominated the railroad managers of the country, there would have been no populist party, no rising tide of protest against railroad discrimination in business and railroad domination in politics that has finally given the trans portation magnates a good wetting and threatened to submerge some of them. His blunt confession that "the railroad policy of the past has been a mistaken one" will be cheerfully accepted by the public, which has been aware of the fact for a long time. Perhaps it . were better, however, to retrain from taunting Mr. Harrlman and his associates for having been so slow to recognise facts that seem to have escaped none but themselves. Mr. Harrtman's assertion that he is "ready to make the advance in a scheme of co-operation between the government and tne railways my chief Interest," may be accepted as an earnest of good intentions, the redemption ot which will depend on htm and his associates. The American people, individually and In representative bodies, are patient and long suffering, slow to anger, mighty when aroused, , but quick to forgive when its wrongs are righted. If Mr. Harrlman makes a determined and vigorous start on the promised journey toward railroad reform the public will meet him half way. FRAHCtri THREAT OF TARIFF WA The cabled announcement that the executive branch of the French gov ernment Is preparing to enforce its maximum tariff rates on American products not specifically exempted by existing agreements appears, in the light of recent developments at Wash ington, to be a move on the diplomatic chess board, rather than a threatened tariff war., The cabled statement is to the effect that the maximum tariff rates will be applied on American products unless congress at once ratifies the reciprocity treaty with France that has been hidden in a senate pigeon hole for several years, or unless Secretary of State Root gives the French govern ment some assurance that the treaty will soon be ratified. , Tho French threat acquires a new significance in view of the fact that It follows close on the heels ot an an nouncement that Secretary Root and Ambassador Sternberg have Just signed an agreement continuing the modus vivendl between the United States and Germany for at least another year, thus heading off a tariff war between those countries, implied In a. threat made by the Oerman government about a year ago unless congress should take action looking to the making o( reciprocity treaty with Germany. In the agreement signed by Secretary Root and Baron Sternberg, the United States makes tariff concessions on a number of German products, notably on wines, brandies, paintings and atatuary, and France naturally wants protection against what would appear to be discrimination in favor ot Oerman trade. The United States, however, is not justly chargeable with discrimination, because France may share in similar concessions by signing a similar agree ment and making concessions deemed necessary by the administration at Washington. The principal conces sion asked of Francs by this country Is that American live cattle and dressed meats be admitted by the French gov ernment under the rigorous exatnlna tlon and precautions provided by our pure food law and the Inspection regu lation! of the Department of Agricul ture, while the French government de clines to accept this Inspection as suffi clent, the proposed trade agreement re maining suspended pending further ne gotiations Our trade with France Is much less thsa with Germany. Exports to France In 1906 aggregated I97.8I2.480. with Imports about the same, while our ex ports to Germany for the same period amounted to $114,741,101 and our 1m ports from Germany amounted - to 1S5.143.S06. leavlns a balance of trade with Germany in our favor of about $100,000,000. In a tariff war with France, the United 8tates would gain about as much as it would lose In a commercial way, but It would also gain by better trade relations with Oer many. France clearly has the worst of the argument, and under the circum stances will hardly declare a tariff war upon us. TROUBLE tit THE FVSIOS CAMP. Discussing the debate on tho primary election bill the democratic World Herald In its legislative correspond ence refers to Cone of Saunders as "the nominal but discredited leader of the fusion members," and goes on to say: Incidentally tha consideration of the pri mary bill marked the transfer of the man tle of leadership of fusion members from the shoulders of Mr. Cone to those Of Quackenbush. In spite of the party plat form declaration for a direct primary bill Mr. Cone was ohe of those who attempted to line tha fusion members against tha bill. HIS attempt was a signal failure. All of which must be interesting to republicans as well as democrats. To what extent Cone of Saunders has been discredited as the minority leader we are not apprised, but the principle ap plies to all political parties that good leadership means good faith with the people. So far as proposed reform legisla tion is concerned, all the members of the legislature are committed by the party platforms upon which the laat political battle was fought In Nebraska on all the main points. The only pos sible exception, terminal taxation, while in the republican platform and not in the democratic platform, has been part of the democratic program. Four, years ago the minority members offered a terminal taxation plank as an amendment to the then pending rev enue bill and made it the issue for a party vote. - If fidelity to promises is to be eri forced, every member of the legisla ture, who is not directly or Indirectly subsidized by the railroads, will be found lined up on the side of the peo ple on every platform pledge proposi tion. A GOOD EttDIKQ. Irrespective of the matters In con-; troversy between the- street railway company and its union employes, the people of Omaha generally have a right to congratulate themselves on escaping a street railway strike at thia time. Ordinarily Ae Interest of the publlo in uninterrupted street railway service far overshadows the interest of either the employers or the employes. The street railway strike is costly to the whole community, inconveniencing traffic and impeding business. As a rule, a street railway strike involves disturbance and disorder even with the best of intentions and of discipline on the part of the strikers. While all strikes necessarily . disjoint industry and block progress to a larger or smaller degree, the street railway strike almost invariably produces more serious results and affects a wider area. The very facts which make a street railway strike particularly ominous make the averting ot such S strike all the more gratifying. ' The street' rail way company deserves credit for re dressing such grievances of its em ployes as were real and the employes deserve credit for taking the substance without fighting over shadows. ABVMKQ PKKSION LIBERALITY. President Roosevelt has notified members of the senate and house pen slon committees that a halt must be called in the matter of private pension bills, which . the congress has been turning out by the thousands at recent sessions. Necessity of -such retrench ment is impressed upon the president by the record ot the session just closed in passing 7,000 private pension bills and leaving an additional 14,000 on the calendar wlthodt action. As each bill provides for an appropriation of an av erage of $24 a month, the measures passed by the congress call for an an nual expenditure of $2,016,000 in add! tlon to the sum already appropriated under the provisions of the exceedingly liberal pension laws now in force. The total appropriation for pensions for the fiscal year ending June 20. 1908, is $145,000,000, an Increase ot $6,000, 000 in the last four years, in face of the fact that the number of pensioners Is rapidly decreasing every year, Investigation shows that a majority of the private pension bills are passed after the pension bureau has rejected the original claims of the applicants In many cases, the rejection Is due to inability to jr-ssent properly certified records, but in many others the bills are passed at the request of members of congress. In fact, the private pen slon bill has become a recognised part of congressional perquisites, if the term may be used in that connection It Is even charged that In the house a custom has been established of decld lng at the beginning of the session just how many private pension bills each member may hnve favorably considered by the committee. The president's contention is that the new service pension law, granting a pension of $12 a month to veterans of the Mexican and civil wara when 62 years of age, $15 when 70 and $20 when 75, Is liberal enough to cover all needs ot veterans, not already pro vided for by laws giving Increased allowances to dependents and sufferers from disabilities incurred In the serv Ice. The president's position Is en dorsed by Senator McCumber. chair man of the senate committee on pen sions, w ho has agreed to present a rule at the opening. of the next session for s more rigid lnspectl6n of private pen ( ,ion bills. The record is sufficient evi denes of the desire of the republican party to deal liberally with the veter ans, and the president's decision prop erly alms to prevent what threatens to become a serious abuse of the spirit ot liberality in. pensions. The railroads may declare all ex cursion rates and convention conces sions off because of the 2-cent fare law, but it does not follow that such orders will be permanent The rail roads, for example, made a one-tare excursion for Ak-Sar-Ben last year, which made the rate 1 cents per mile. If it paid the railroads to carry passengers for 1 V cents per mile last year there Is no good reason why It should not pay them to do the same thing 'again this year. The railroads do not run excursions for the benefit of the excursionists, but because It Is profitable to the railroad, and they will probably find It profitable to put In excursion rates ou proper occasions under a 2-cent fare law just as they did before under a 8-cent fare law. The state senate has turned down the recommendation of Governor Shel don for an amendment to the revenue law governing the taxation of mort gages as real estate at the place where the mortgaged property Is located. The governor Is right, because our present system unquestionably Inflicts double taxation. . It will evidently take considerably more agitation, how ever, to educate the average law maker up to the point where he .can see the necessity of a change to cor rect this Injustice. . . Secretary Taft may be endangering his presidential boom by figuring on some compromise by which the Cubans shall be allowed to continue their in dulgence in cock fighting.- It may be embarrassing to him to have the oppo sition caricature him In the act of fastening the gaffs on a game bird and tossing it into the pit. The learned treatise on "The Omaha Sponge" Is signed by the tax cominls bloner of the Union Pacific and of the Burlington. In the meanwhile, how ever, these two systems are sponging all the benefits of city government for their property in Omaha and compell ing the other taxpayers to foot the bills. The thrifty railroads are taking care while paying up their back taxes not to let the penalty clause run against them any further than abso lutely necessary. The various coun ties throughout Nebraska, however, are disposed to be generous In this matter without rubbing it In. "When will the Thaw trial end?" asks an eastern exchange. We do not know, but It will get back page space commencing the day after the umpire comes out and yells "batter up." Violent Separation Averted. Baltimore American. The thrilling melodrama of kidnaping a cengreeeman In the very capUol Itself and Ms rescue In the nick of time by tha con stitution, so preventing him from being parted from his mileage, Is one of the In cidents of the dying congress which senti ment will love to recall. A Reekonlnar Some Day. Cincinnati Enquirer. Perhaps the testimony of Mr. Harrlman Is a wholesome lesson to those who have looked with complacence on the mad rush to mammoth fortunes and have considered the Harrlman methods as a part of the general prosperity which everybody Is ex pected to rejoice over. 8ure as little apples were not made by human hands there will be a reckoning some day. There will be great excitement, but not much merriment. Promoting; Predatory Corporations. Philadelphia Press. Some states. Ilka Delaware, shamelessly issue circulars and pamphlets offering cheap facilities for organising corporations under laws which, hold no one responsible. New Jersey Is another partner In a thous and Iniquitous schemes, and It has not even the poor excuse of poverty. Maine and West Virginia are two notorious sinners. No state haa a moral right to issue these predatory charters. If the work continues and scandal after scandal appears, some way will be found to and a national evil. The bent way would be for the states to have sound corporation laws. The worst way would be by federal action. But some way will be found. As long as the statea furnish these corporation "Jim mies" professional corporation criminals will use them. POLITICAL DRIFT. President Roosevelt made a notable rec ord in sending thirty-seven messages to the second session of congress. k Abe Ruef of Ban Franolsco, notorious as a political boss, does not present an Im posing figure as a fugitive from Justice. Some envious critics of Secretary Shaw suggest that the two doxen silver plates presented to htm will be appropriate re positories for presidential lemons. Another state capitol (It Jit Is on In Cali fornia. The legislature passed a bill sub mitting to a vote of tha people at the next general election the question of removing the state house from Sacramento to Berke ley. Shaw, Shonts and Spooner go to New York for larger salaries. 126,000, (30,000 and XiO.OflO, respectively, per annum. Tbe stroke of the dollar mark on the bow of their names Is as magical to greatness as to tha small fry. In about elxty working days congress appropriated an average of 116.000,000 a day. lifted tha salaries of members SS.tt per cent and expectorated 1.000, ono words 'rep resenting a greater variety of mental ful mlnatlona and brain storms than alienists have dreamed of. Tha Fifty-ninth congress made two rec ords one for legislation, the other for ap propriations At Its first session It passed tha rate bill, tha pure food bill, the meat Inspection bill, the free alcohol bill and others of lesser Importance. At Its second seaaloa It passed appropriation bills aggre gating t91S.0UO.O00. Lewis Btuyvesant Chsnler, lieutenant governor of New York 'state, having as serted that "the state of New York la naturally democratic," It is recalled that only four times In tha laat fifty years has It given Its electoral vote to a democratic presidential candidate J n 168 to Horatio Seymour, la UTS to Samuel J. THJen, in ISM to drover Cleveland, and again to drover Cleveland in Ut)t OTHER LAUDS THA OlftS. Tha sweeping overthrow of tha progressive or municipal ownership party In the elec tion for members of the London county council Is generally regarded aa a blow, while local questions were controlling In fluences In the rout of the party In power, the torles hall tha result aa a demon stration of revulsion of the national, senti ment, which returned the liberal party to power by an overwhelming majority. Inoreaaed local taxation rendered necessary by vast and varied public Improvements and the usual accusations of extravagance embittered the tax paying classes. The conscience of the pocketbook was rudely touched and the tax payers became a unit against the authors of Increased taxation. Tha election, taken alone, would not war rant the claim that It reflects national sentiment. Ha significance Ilea In the fact that It follows on the heels of two by-elections for members of Parliament In which tha liberal candidates were defeated In party strongholds. It was to ba expected that some reaction would set In after the liberal tidal wave, but the ebb tide is much stronger than the supporters of the government anticipated. Naturally the ef fect to strengthen tory opposition to all Important measures sanctioned by the min istry and make the tory majority In the House of Lords mora determined In forcing the government to appeal to the country There Is little hope, therefore, that any Important ministerial measure will be ap proved by the peers, while the temper of the country squints toward the torles. The new scheme of national taxation In France which has been submitted to the chambers differs from the present system chiefly In substituting an Income tax for the personal tax and the tax on doors and windows. The Increase In the total revenue Is estimated at 4,000,000 francs. How the Income tax scheme will work out In practical operation Is a perplexing question. The scheme proposed is a com plicated one. The rate Is progressive, but not uniform. It varies In proportion to the Income and In proportion to the population of cities and towns. The larger the city the higher Is the amount of Income ex empt, ranging from $200 In communities of J.00O people to $400 In Parts. It la more than likely the Income tax scheme Is pur posely complicated and confusing in order to prevent serious opposition and enable the ministry to secure much needed 'In crease of revenue without endangering Its tenure of office. As exemplars of thrift the people ot France have no superiors. Saving is a national trait. Wealth la dif fused to a far greater extent than In Eng land or the United States. Four-fifths of the capital ot the country Is held by people of moderate circumstances down almost to the level of poverty. Among the working Classes wages range from $1.10 to $1.90 a day for skilled labor while the cost of food, according to the American consul at Nantes, will average up to the American prices. Rents alone are low. The Imposi tion of additional burdenr. on producers of such limited wage approaches a national crime and transforms thrift into personal sacrifice for government revenue. Commenting upon the new law of public meetings In France, the Paris correspon dent of the London Times writes: "After more than twenty-five years of agitation In press and Parliament, Frenchmen have finally supplemented the liberty of speech a liberty which, In the absence of a good libel law, is even excessive by liberty of public meetings. Since 1881 the French ad ministration ha rigorously clung to Its right to grant or withhold authorisation for tha gatherings of French citizens. No dozen people could be convened in public without the risk of being sent about their business, unless previously they had made formal notification to the police. A pri mordial right was thus hampered by a reg ulation which waa by no meana a mere matter of administrative red tape. It was a survival of imperialist methods and part and parcel of the system of centralisation which Is traditional In the French state. The new- bill changes all that. It Is a tri umph for Individual liberty at the expense of the principle of state Intervention. It marks an almost revolutionary advance In social reform In France. Even If the Clemenceau ministry had done nothing else this measure would suffice to mark Its term of office." The Italian premier, Signer Olollttl, con tinues to assure the Chamber that the gov ernment Is keenly alive to the necessity of reform In the national railroad service. The other day he definitely pledged him self tn Ivrlalatlon to reaulate the service of the railways and institute a permanent parliamentary commission or surveillance. He declared that the administration rlg nrnuslv nunlshed any derelictions of duty on the part of railway servants, and In one matter alone, tha neglect to warm carriages, had Inflicted 306 fines. It was from, no want of care and will on the part of tha management, he said, that railway inmnvMilfiuvi existed. His protestations. however, were rather coldly received by the Chamber, which has had plenty of prom ises before. Meanwnue tne service seems to grow worse every day. Complaints rw.nr in from all parts of the country of the Injury dona to commerce. In Milan and Turin Industries are seriously ham pered by the difficulty of obtaining cool. Deputies from north Italy describe the sit uation as Intolerable. There is a growing conviction that the chief cause of trouble Is to be sought In the complete demoralisa tion of the whole body ot railroad officials, great and small, and that there will be no Improvement In the situation except through reorganisation. ' "It la estimated that a professional man in Jo nan can live, with his wife, in com fort on $250 a year," says the Reader Maga xlne. "This means one large divisible apartment, a small kitchen, a bathroom, a study and a storeroom; a charming gar den, one servant and surroundings of great refinement. Mats are the covering of the floor, of course; pillows the seats; table iinan (a aurjerfluous where lacquered trays and paper napkins are used; personal laun. dry la at lta minimum where two hot baths a day are In custom. .The fagots used In cooking are not much larger than a man's finger, and fuel tor Ironing Is unnecessary where clothes are stretched properly upon a frame. Perfect privacy Is one of the imiiriaa nt this minute menace, for a hlfth bamboo fence shuts off the view of strang ers. Each article of the house is carru;iy selected, and some of them are of rare beauty and of durability that permits them to be handed on from one generation to an other. No waste takes place, for every crumb of the food prepared is eab-n. Flowers are tha chief decoration, and tha science of flowers is a part of the accom plishments of the lady of tha house." A Real National Loss. Philadelphia Record (dem.). The resignation of Senator Spooner of Wisconsin, it la no exaggeration to say, diminishes by more than one-elghty-elghlh part tha brain weight, of the senatorial body. His retirement is greatly to b re grttted. HU partisanship, waa sometimes extreme, but It was curbed by a degree of ability that held him aloof from pettifog glng expedients. ' Sasovth nn4 Kspedltlons. Baltimore American. The neatness and dispatch with which the president, added those 17,006, GoO sexes of forest land In tha national reservations must be a . source of delight to all who appreciate the magician's- trick of "now von sea it and now you don't." IWAL Makes delicious hot biscuit, griddle cakes, rolls and muffins An absolutely pure, cream of tartar powder. ROYAL BKIN(1 POWOta CO., NtWVORK. COST OF I1AI L11G CROPS. Flarores Which Amne Eloquently for netter Ronds, Chicago Tribune. Few people have any appreciation of the outlay which is nrrrsnnry on the part of the farmer to haul his crops from the farm to the point of shipment. The sight of wagons on the wny to town Is one which is familiar In the country districts. That a farmer must have wagons and teams is taken far granted wtlhout any considera tion of what such an equipment means in the way of Initial cost or of what It repre sents In dollars and cents In connection with the farm profits. The Department of Agriculture has pub lished a bulletin upon the subject, "Cost of Hauling Crops from Farms to Shipping Points," which reveals some surprising facts. The method of compilation Illus trates the work of tho department In the interest of the farmers, and the results of the study suggest the enormous saving which might be effected under Improved facilities for transportation. A circular letter sent to 2,900 correspond ents of the department brought answers from residents In 1,894 counties. The ques tions asked Included the weight of the average load, the- number of horses or mules used for hauling such a lid, the cost of hiring a team for tha purpose, the greatest distance to a shipping point, the principal farm products hauled, and the time ordinarily taken for the round trip. Using the Information gained from these answers, an expert has prepared tables showing the cost of hauling the principal crops to the nearest shipping point. Taking the more common products for Illustration. It Is shown that nearly $29,000,000 was spent In a single year to get the corn crop shipped, this Item representing nearly 10 per cent of the value of the average load carried. In the case of wheat the aggre gate cost was nearly $22,000,000, or a little over 7 per cent of the value of the load. Taking twelve of the principal products the aggregate cost of hauling to a place of shipment was $73,000,000, this making no ac count of the expense of hauling grain to mill. Such a large outlay In a given year haa lta own eloquent language of the saving from better roads, which would allow larger loads or fewer horses. No better argument could be made In favor of good roads than this table of figures. The statistics Indicate also the possible saving through the development of freight carry ing trolley lines, bringing the farmer nearer to the point of shipment. With an annual outlay of $78,000,000 for hauling $1,600,000,000 worth of ordinary products, it is plain that the saving secured by improvement of transportation facilities would be enor mous. Did Yon Get Yours t . . Washington Herald. A statistical sharp has figured It that the dividends to be deolared In March "will provide $8 cents for every Inhabitant of the United Slates. We would not advise any one to lose any sleep waiting for their 98, however. THE NEW ERE are and Overcoats for spring in very fetching designs and pat terns. There are half a dozen distinctly original models to suit the individual tastes of old and young. And the fabrics this, season are. beautiful in pattern. Hats, Cloves, Scarfs and Fancy Shirts In Fine Selections Browning, King & Co E. S. WILCOX, Manager. Greatest Piano Values Ever Known Our Great Push Sale The disposal of sjilendld lines of New Pianos, fine sample In struments from many makers, savings of $100 to $200 orf some styles and kinds. These are the special values that make Piano customers. New 173 Piano for.. $145 New 230 Pianos for..$lQ5 New $300 Piano for. . $ 100 ew 350 'uo 'or- S210 These sre brand new Piano of well-known makes. They mast be seen to he appreciated. $10 seuds one home. $5 per month pays for It. Wfl offer, during our great Push Bale, the following Bargains In Used Pianos i KNAPE Piano, upright, case in fine shape, interior as good as ever, only $M0. Terms Cash $15, then $8 per month.' KIMBALL Piano, walnut upright, nearly new, fully . guaranteed, $205. Terms $15 cash, $7 per month. EMERSON Piano, rosewood upright, In good shape, good for ten years, $176. Terms $10 cash and $6 per month. HF.RL1CH Piano, upright, ebony case, a beautiful Instrument, looks like a $800 Piano, only $165, Terms $10 cash and $5 per month. HINE3 & CO., walnut case upright Piano, looks like new, only $165. $10 cashiaml $5 per month. HARR1NQTON, nearly new upright Piano, only $187. On small payments. A. 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