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CharleC. Itnsewater. general manager oi
The Dea Publishing Company, being duly
worn, savs that the actual number or mil
ind rrmpjete coplra of The Dully. Morning.
Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the
tionth of March. 1"7, was aa followa:
l aa.oao i 33 ,90
a aa.aio ii
30,300 20 33,930
4 38.190 21 33,340
t 33.180 22 93390
31.970 21..." 93690
T 31.BB0 24 30,400
1 31,860 25 34,040
3140 26 33,990
10 ... 30,400 27 33,860
U 33,370 2 33.790
12 31,670 2 34,130
11 33,690 30 33,880
14..... 33,640 11 30,650
1 33,680 1 '
11 33,330 Total 1,00840
IT... 30,410
Less unao.d and returned copies. 0,184
Net Total 999,376
Dally averare .33,237
CHARLES C. ROSE WATER,
General Manager.
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The new mayor of Chicago Is a baH
hcaded bachelor. But he cau't throw
a rope like our Mayor "Jim."
"Women as secret service agouti have
but one fault," says a Brit'.sn army
offlcer. Can you guess what It is?
The Isle of Pines Is threatening to re
volt again. It will be Cuba's duty to
send a policeman over there this time.
Senator Foraker is defending his pub
lic record In Ohio. Even the senator
seems to recognlae that his record
needs defense.
The newspaper that goes Into the
home should be a newspaper which
may be read by old and young without
contamination.
Scientists have not yet decided
whether this early winter Is due to sun
spots or to the premature launching of
presidential booms.
The fact that Carrie Nation has re
fused an offer of marriage la not nearly
so remarkable as the Implication that
she has received an offer.
Farmers throughout the country will
be surprised to learn that the. green
bug Is destroying the wheat crop on
the Chicago grain exchange.
For some unaccountable reason, the
record falls to show who tire represent
ing the Maxims and the Krapps at the
peace congress In New York.
Andrew Carnegie refers to Emperor
William as the greatest man of the age,
thus disproving the assertion that the
Scotch sense of humor Is not keen.
Delegates to the peace congress In
session In New York seem to agree
pretty generally that the dove of peace
should wear armor plate a little longer.
The promised moral clean-up for
Omaha Is In progress. It la to be
noted, however,' that the police are
taking their orders from the police
board.
Washington seems to have the only
base ball team In the country that Is
opening the season In form. It retains
its proud position at the bottom of the
percentage column.
By a new wage scale, diamond cut
ters will receive from $43 to $90 a
week. The plumber and the school
janitor can no longer, boast being the
highest paid workmen.
"Wall street will bow to the west,"
says E. H. Gary, chairman of the steel
trust. If It does. It will be In danger
of getting snubbed for Its attempt to
crape an acquaintance.
Whlld Mr.. Bryan seems to have the
lead for the democratic presidential
nomination, the matter will not be set
tled until James K. Jones of Arkansas
makes signs of being satisfied.
A financial organ states that Wall
street Is learning how to squeeze the
water out of stocks. The Important
lesson for Wall street to l?arn, how
ever, Is how to keep from putting water
Into stocks.'
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Ex-Governor Larrabe of Iowa ven
tures the opinion that the railroads
have not been badly treated by the
state legislation as yet enacted. . 80
far as Nebraska legislation Is con
cerned, a lot of railway officials are
of like opinion, although they do not
dare to express themselvaa openly.
. LOyo-DTAXrK PTAJKSHAfiUHir.
Intfodurtv! 8s "a man who lias given
powerful aid to the puV.'nty move
ment," Col. W. J. Bryan of Nebraska
addressed the spex-lal meeting of the
National Publicity Law 01 z.tuUation In
New York and told what be thought
the national law on thatsulject omht
to be. He argued that ever contribu
tion above a specified mln'im: m (should
be made public before el:tlon.i: both
by the committees receiving It and oy
the person or corporation making It
and he would make fallu'e to comply
with such requirements a penal .fteitse.
Col. Bryan's enthusiasm In New York
for publicity of political campaign
funds, commendable as It miy be, only
illustrates enew his long-distance
statesmanship so often cxeinp'lfieil on
other questions as well. All advocate,
of election reform agree that national
legislation on such subjects must, to
be effective and far-reaching, be supple
mented and strengthened by legislative
action by the states. The history of
such reform legislation, In fact, shows
Its origin In state laws to ue later en
larged Into federal enactment ha a re
sult of public sentiment and demand
following the -demonstration of it ef
ficiency within state lines. But Col.
Bryan seems to have overlooked all
this. For Beveral months this winter
the Nebraska legislature was in session
only & few miles from Col. Bryan's
home. His own party was represented
In the membership of the legislature
and a large majority of tho stale law
makers, without regard to party af
filiations, were devoting their best
energies to the framing and improve
ment of laws relating to railroads, cor
porations and kindred subjects which
Col. Bryan has been eloquently advo
cating at banquet boards and from k-c-tuse
platforms. Yet the record fa'ls
to disclose any effort, spoken or writ
ten, on his part that would suggest or
ajd legislative action along the Hues
dear to his political heart.
Nebraska, It is true, has a corrupt
practices act which requires the j-ub-llcity
of campaign expenditures after
election. The sentiment of the state
undoubtedly favors further strengthen
ing Its provisions in the interest of
honest .elections. Had Col. Bryan of
fered the advice In Lincoln that he did
In New York, asking an amendment of
the law to require the publication of
these contributions before election, in
stead of after, there is little doubt that
the suggestion would have been favor
ably acted upon. Nebraska has led
in taking advanced steps in re
form legislation relating to rnllvay
rates, taxation and control of corpora
tions, but it has done so without per
sonal encouragement from Col. Bryan,
who prefers to preach to wav-from-
home audiences rather than to help put
his ideas in practice among his neigh
bors.
Long-distance statesmanship, like
long-distance marksmanship and long
distance weather forecasting, is not
often effective.
WALL STREET CATCHES A TARTAR.
Troublous times are in store for
those captains of high finance whose
headquarters for gudgeons are located
in Wall street. They got along pretty
well as long as they baited their traps
for lambs of the male species, but busi
ness has been a little dull and they
have yielded to the temptation to go
out of their usual field of operations to
set a net for the women. In the near-
panic, recently manufactured to order
by these high financiers for the purpose
of scaring the country and stampeding
the president, the Daughters of the
American Revolution were caught In
the slump in speculative securities, and
now there must be a day of reckoning.
The Daughters of the American Revo
lution have a very healthy fund for the
completion and equipment of Conti
nental Hall, the home) of the organiza
tion, in process of construction at
Washington. This money was con
tributed by chapters of the society
throughout the country and the fund
was sufficient to carry out the work for
which it was designed. But the twen
tieth century business microbe got busy
with the officials of the organization
who decided to make a little velvet for
the organization by investing the sur
plus funds. "On the best financial ad
vice," according to an official report of
the treasurer, the officers invested
$24,447.10 in railway bonds, and, quot
ing again, "the society has made what
appears to be an ill-advised purchase
of railroad bonds which have suffered
a general decline along with the gen
eral depression of the market."
Matters . might be smoothed over if
nothing but the apparent money loss
were involved, but the trouble does not
end there. Daughters who refuse to
recognize ' any distinction between
bonds and stocks and who shudder to
hear a woman talking about "the gen
eral depression of the market" have
whispered the suspicion, in strict con
fidence, that some of the officers en
gaged la stock gambling have been
trying to bull the bond market with the
untainted funds of the Daughters of
the Amerclan Revolution. With such
a rumor afloat, the officials were next
openly charged with being no better
than E. H. Harriman, J. Plerpont
Morgan or John W. Gates. The ac
cused naturally assert that the con
troversy has been started for political
purposes and that the treasurer's re
port will show the investments all
right. In the meantime, the Daugh
ters of the American Revolution con
vention has been worked up to white
heat over the alleged disclosures.' A
crusade against stock gambling is al
most certain to follow add the Wall
street smart set will be made to rue
the day that it decided to make a little
easy money from the women. The
TIIE OMAHA
Daughters of the American Revolution
come from fighting stock and if they
decide to go on the war path, Wall
street might as well elope up shop and
take a long vacation In Europe.
BARKISU VP TVK WROXU THEl.
Ex-Senator William y. Allen is
plainly barking up the wrong tree in
his promised contest of the new Ne
braska direct primary election law. Ex
Senator ATlen Is quoted as saying:
There are aeveral unconstitutional fea
tures, the chief one of which, la that the
law requites a voter to disclose hla party
Identity. This Infringes on the Australian
ballot principle of secrecy and Is to that
extent a restriction of suffrage, which the
constitution fin bids.
So good a lawyer as ex-Senator
Allen ought to know that this same
feature of a closed primary was em
braced in the law enacted two years
ago to govern primary elections In
Douglas county, and that this law was
upheld by the supreme court of Ne
braska In a decision covering, among
other things, the very point which he
raises. The conclusion of the court, as
stated in a unanimous opinion handed
down In November, 1905, in the case
known as the State against Drexel, is
given in the syllabus as follows:
The provision of the act under consider
ation, making; the right of an elector to
participate In a primary election to depend
upon his party affiliation, is a legitimate
exvrclse of legslatlve power In no way
conflicting with the fundamental law guar
anteeing freedom In the exercise of the
elective franchise.
The court discusses thoroughly the
Issues involved and cites the decision
of other courts supporting its position,
and leaves no room for further dis
pute over the desirability or validity
of a requirement restricting participa
tion In the nomination of party candi
dates to the declared membership of
each respective party.
There may be some minor provisions
of the primary law which are defective
or conflicting, particularly the at
tempted rotation ballot discrimination
against Douglas county, which will be
Judicially "annulled. But the principle
underlying the scheme of direct popu
lar nominations has already gone
through the fire of court scrutiny in
this state and it has come out un
scathed. THE AUH1CVLTCRAL OUTLOOK.
The farmer is the object of intense
interest Just now and the markets and
business centers of the world are show
ing keen concern in every report that
comes from the farm concerning the
condition of planted crops and the pros
pects for those that are placed In the
ground later on. Grain speculators
and stock jobbers generally appreciate
the extent of this interest In the farmer
and his doings and, as a natural re
sult, the country must be prepared to
see reports of the most conflicting
character concerning crop conditions.
An illustration is furnished in a report
Just sent from Chicago to the financial
press in New York alleging that 2,000,
008 acres of wheat have been aban
doned in the southwestern states be
cause of the ravages of the green bug
and other pests and by reason of dam
age to the crop by cold weather and
other injurious conditions.
This Js the critical season of the
year for wheat and oats. A favorable
spring means a healthy, vigorous plant
and an abundant harvest, under nor
mal conditions, while a cold, dry spring
may mean a reduced yield. However,
it is impossible to learn crop condi
tions by studying the weather map and
it Is unsafe to give heed to the Chicago
reports, which ane usually furnished
by grain speculators and whether they
are good or bad depends upon whether
the concern furnishing the reports is
on the bull or the 'bear side of the
market. "Farmer" Coburn, the fa
mous agricultural expert in Kansas,
declares that the reports of the rav
ages of the green bug in that state
are grossly exaggerated and that the
crop has not been damaged . by the
weather conditions. This is in keeping
with the government report, which in
dicates a wheat crop of 118,000,000
bushels for KansaB, as compared with
94,000,000 indicated in April a year
ago. ' Both government and prtvate re
ports indicate a decreased winter wheat
crop in Texas and Oklahoma, but the
amonnt of the loss is not considerable.
All reports agree that the Nebraska
crop is in magnificent condition.
The government's report for April
indicates an increase of 5 per cent in
quality of the winter wheat crop over
the ten-year average, and all indica
tions point to a bumper yield. All
grain crops, by reports from various
sources, promise better than for the
record-breaking production of last year
and there is nothing in the agricultural
outlook to Indicate anything but in
creased prosperity for the farmer and
the nation. Unless there la more than
the normal number of accidents and
untoward conditions within the next
few months. It is a safe proposition to
discount and discredit the scare crop
reports sent out from .Chicago.
The Nebraska supreme court com
mission has encountered a small
shake-up in its membership. It the
proposed constitutional amendment
to enlarge the supreme court is voted
through the election next year, the su
preme court commission will then be
a thing of the past. It is admittedly
a makeshift to be borne with only as
a temporary necessity.
Governor Buchtel of Colorado has
vetoed an anti-fusion bill because of
his belief that any law preventing a
candidate having hla name placed on
thu official ballot under as many party
labels as he can procure is an unwar
ranted restriction upon the freedom
of popular choice Of public officials.
What would the Colorado rovernor do
DAILY BEE: THURSDAY,
with a bill barring all party labels
from the official ballot, such as Is ad
vocated as the Ideal ballot by the ex
tremists of political reform?
Colonel Bryan wants to treat violators
of campaign publicity laws as crimi
nals and put them behind prison bars.
If he started out with all who have
violated the corrupt practices act,
which has been on the statute books
of his home state of Nebraska since
1899, he would soon have to visit a
whole lot of his political friends out
at the penitentiary.
The World-Herald now calls upon
the mayor a fid council to pass the
proper ordinance "to revive the system
of monthly fines" on fallen women.
It remains to be seen whether the
democratic mayor and council will
take orders from the local democratic
organ any more now than they did
before the new police commission was
appointed.
The railroad lawyers have discov
ered'a little line in Indiana,' twelve
miles long, which they think offers
them favorable conditions to get away
from a 2-cent fare. We presume that
if necessary they will organize and
build twelve-mile railroads in every
state in the union which has set the
2-cent maximum for hauling passen
gers. , Ex-Senator Allen is said to be bent
on going into the courts to have the
direct primary law declared unconsti
tutional. This Bame law, to all practi
cal Intents and purposes, has been in
effect and operation in Douglas county
for two years, but, strange to say, it
never evoked the hostility of ex-Senator
Allen.
The number of things BInger Her
mann, former commissioner of the
general land office, "can not remem
ber," in the trial of the case against
him in Washington, ehowB that he waa
cut out for a trust magnate instead of
a mere politician.
Charles M. Schwab has departed from
the usual custom of the steel trust
philanthropists. He gave his sister
$2,000,000 as a wedding present with
out attaching the condition that her
husband should raise a like amount.
The fact that President Roosevelt
disclaims knowing anything about it
may interfere with that program which
has him down for a speech in Norway
in March, 1909, to acknowledge receipt
of the Nobel peace prize.
A New York minister who went slum
ming and got into a fight with a police
man has been deposed. Ministers
should do their fighting with members
of the choir and leave policemen alone.
Reveralnsr Naval Proarrama.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
One way to disarm would be to make
the battleships progressively smaller. The
powerful tendency In the other direction
keeps considerably ahead of The Hague
proceedings.
EnHaThtenment from Inexperience.
Cleveland Leader,
The conference of the National Congress
of Mothers, which Is to be held In Los
Angeles this year, will be addressed by
at least four spinsters and eight men. The
married women and presumptive mothers on
the program will be decidedly in the mi
nority. However, the father of his country
was childless.
A Presalnc Necessity.
Baltimore American.
A romantic wedding of two among the
party is one result of Speaker Cannon's
trip to Panama. Taking this in connec
tion with the remarkable hymeneal epi
demic following Secretary Taffs famous
trip, the president should really suggest
adding an official bureau of heart throbs
to the Interior department.
Graft. Large and Small.
Chicago Chronicle.
Some forma of graft attain, a" certale re
spectability through prescription and cus
tom, but nothing can dignify the small
and petty acquisitiveness which Impelled
an ex-congressman and ex-commlsaloner of
the land office to "split" the pay of his
committee clerk, retaining half of it him
self. As for the practice of charging the
government 13 per day while on vacation,
that is not graft, but something that falls
under the statutes relating to petty lar
ceny. It is marvelous what small and dan
gerous things some men will do for a few
dirty dollars.
Germany's Friendship.
Chicago Chronicle.
Charlemagne Tower'e declaration at the
German banquet in New York that there
is a marked growth in the feeling of good
will between the United States and Ger
many was not a mere perfunctory conven
tionality, but a statement of fact. There Is
a better understanding between the two
nations than ever before.
There Is more than one reason for it.
but without mincing words it may be said
that Americans have grown to appreciate
German good will because.lt is dependable,
while the friendship of our British friends
Is subject to fluctuations of a well known
kind. Germany, for Instance, has never,
while loudly proclaiming Its affection for
us, entered Into an alliance with heathens
binding it to make war upon ua In cer
tain contingencies.
That la why the understanding between
the American republic and the German
empire becomes stronger.'
Standard Brnnd of Caat. ,
Springfield Republican.
Not the least of the Standard Oil com
pany's offenses Is the spirit of cant which
seems to posaeaa Its whole officialdom from
Mr. Rockefeller down. Thue Mr. Rogers,
In a highly optimistic Interview on the
business outlook, given to the Baltimore
Manufactufere' Record, speaks of being a
great believer in Providence, of the petro
leum Industry aa being "ful of providen
tial happenings," of petroleum as being the
greatest clviliser outside of the Christian
religion ever known to humanity, and so
on. Hence Providence must be responsible
tor the Standard Oil trust and all Its
doings, and Messrs Rocksfeller and Rogers
are but the humble Instruments of Provi
dence In carry out It decrees, which In
clude Inordinate profits and accumulation
of wealth for. themselvea. The intimation
aeema clear that the elate and federal gov
ernments are on the wrong track In prose
cuting the company or any of its officials
for any of Its doings or misdoings. Provi
dence Is the real culprit.
AFRIL 18, 1907.
A BOSEWATKR MONrMKftT.
Bloomneld Monitor: It seems a pity that
Kdward Rneewater could not have lived
another year and to har realised person
ally the magnitude of the harvest gathered
from the political eeed sown by him dur
ing the turbulent years that are gone. It
was a harvest of political good, perhaps
even rreater than wr his for" an
ticipations; yet comes as a fitting climax,
a crowning triumph of his life's work.
Grand Island Independent: The Hastings
Tribune suggests that a meeting of news
paper publishers over the state be called
to take up the proposition of collecting
a fund with which to build a monument to
the memory of Edward Rose water. It
calls attention to his great work and his
magnificent services to the state. The sug
gestion certainly Is one that should receive
the thoughtful consideration cf the news
paper fraternity.
Beatrice Express: The Hastings Dally
Tribune suggests a movement for the
worthy purpose of erecting a suitable monu
ment in memory of the late Edward Rose
water. Aa a leader In progressive Journal
lam and as an Indomitable and consistent
champion of the right, Mr. Rosewater won
deserved distinction and honor. To his en
during monument of laudable deeds should
most fittingly be added one of marble show
ing the esteem and appreciation of admir
ing citizens.
Fremont Herald: There have been pro
posed, within the last year, monuments to
men far less deserving infinitely less in
fluential In shaping matters of public policy
than Edward Rosewater, who with all his
faults, his bitter animosities, his rancor
and venom and his sometimes unscrupulous
political warfare, waa a magnificent force
for certain reforms, a great champion of
the oppressed and a friend to the young
man. Basing his plea for a monument on
the -ground that Mr. Rosewater was the
most potent agency for reforms In railroad
legislation. Editor Breede Is not unreason
able, and good citizens will be found in
every hamlet and township of Nebraska
who will contribute to such a movement.
O'Neill Frontier: A paper at Hastings has
started a movement to raise funds for the
erection of a monument to the memory of
the late Edward Rosewater. The sug
gestion comes from a Camden, N. J., paper,
which is quoted as saying: "A grateful
republic erects statues In honor of Its
martial heroes. Its presidents and other
statesmen. If the state of Nebraska Is
grateful for the valuable public service
rendered by Editor Rosewater It should
honor his memory by erecting a statue
testifying to future generations that In the
days of corporation domination an honest
and Incorruptible tribute of the people was
not wanting, nor a champion to battle with
special privilege in order to gain equal
rights for aH." Nebraska people will gen
erally endorse the movement, and will no
doubt. If It becomes organised, contribute
liberally to the fulfillment of the object.
Beatrice Sun: It has been suggested that
the people of the state of Nebraska erect
a monument to the memory of Edward
Rosewater In recognition of his services to
the people In the fight he made In their be
half In compelling the railroads to con
tribute their share to the burden of the
state government The matter was first
suggested by the Camden, N. J., Post, and
has the Indorsement of the Hastings Dally
Tribune and other papers of the state.
Those familiar with the career of the great
editor know that he inaugurated the fight
fifteen years ago. and that up to the time
of his death he was most Insistent in
season and out of season, that the railroads
should nay tares the sme as other cor
porations and individuals upon the value of
their property. The late legislature passea
a bill that will put into effect the Ideas
advocated by Mr. Rosewater, and the Post
Is of the opinion that If the people of Ne
braska are grateful they will erect a monu
ment to the memory of Edward Rosewater,
Let the work proceed.
Columbus Telegram: A monument to an
editor! That sounds like a strange propo
sition In Nebraska, and yet that is what
the editors of this state are going to do,
They are planning to raise a statue In
honor bf the late Edward Rosewater, the
veteran editor of The Omaha Bee. To
Editor Adam Breede of the Hastings
Tribune belongs the honor of launching
the proposition far a Rosewater monument.
He takes the position that practically all
the .good legislation enacted by the late
legislature was . a harvest gleaned from
the field where Edward Rosewater had
labored for so many years. And this U the
right view of the case. Edward Rose
water had his faults, and yet with all his
faults he was the real force which moved
the republican party toward every good
position it ever assumed in Nebraska. It
is true that many times he waa compelled
by circumstances to appear as If in ool-
luslon with venal corporate Interests, In
order to accomplish results, and often he
was the object of suspicion on the part of
those who had anti-monopoly leanings.
But It Is our desire that when we shall be
called away from earth our life and life
work may be Judged as a whole, rather
than that certain days and deeds In our
life shall be selected from which and upon
which to form estimate of Its worth. And
so we prefer to estimate the life and the
life work of Edward Rosewater. And thus
estimating the life of Mr. Rosewater, we
shall reach the unalterable conclusion that
he did more than any other Nebraskan In
the work of building a shield of law be
tween the people and the confiscating cor
porations. The Telegram is not an advo
cate of material monuments to the memory
of men. We hold the better monuments to
be those which mortals build for them
selves in the hearts of their fellows. Ed
ward Rosewater 'bullded many such In the
hearts of Nebraakana who labored with
him In the cause of better state govern
ment. And yet to those who are not averse
to rearing statues of stone or of bronxe In
honor of their dead, we may well say that
as man and as cltlsen Edward Rosewater
earned by his works all of honor men may
pay by rearing beat of sculptor's art above
the spot where he sleeps the last ajeep.
' PERSONAL NOTES.
The rumor thtat the Standard people are
to be fined fc,0O0,0u0 must be an oll-plpe
dream.
It was the otherwise respectable Boston
Globe which committed this offense first:
'Hooeler candidate? Fairbanks."
George E. Taylor, who ran for president
three year ago on the national liberty
party platform, is at present a member of
the police force of Ottumwa, la.
When Maarten Maartens landed In New
Turk the other day the fact leaked out
that his real name is Joust Marius Wlllein
Van der Poorten-Schwarts. It is the part
of wisdom to- leave surplus baggage at
home.
Robert W. Patterson, who for a num
ber of years has been editor of the Chi
cago Tribune, succeeding In that position
his famous father-lnlaw, the late Joseph
M. Medlll, has divided his duties among
two or three of bis staff and has practically
withdrawn from the Joet. He expects to
live In Washington and is now In Europe.
The seventy-fifth anniversary of the
founding of the Alpha Delta Phi society
will be held in connection with the annual
convention of that fraternity, under the
aiutplce of the executive council. In New
York. April 17 to 20. Inclusive, The occasion
will alao be taken advantage of to honor
Rev. Dr. Edward Everett HUe. one of the
oldest members of the fraternity, who has
Just celebrated the iUh anniversary, of hla
birth.
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Best Policy for Corporations Seeking;
Publle Favors.
Collier's Weekly.
In Pittsburg, within a month, a council
man has been sentenced to three years in
the penitentiary for soliciting a bribe of
170,000 from a railroad seeking a city fran
chise. Within the same period another
corporation seeking a franchise the Pitts
burg Subway company has adopted a
policy, novel, not only In Pittsburg, but
In every olty where corporations desire
privileges. The first element of the Pitts
burg Subway company's course Is the re
fusal to engage In any back-stairs, resr-
ailey relations with thrifty councilman,
hard-working politicians, vr go-betweens
of any sort. The money which would have
gone to these has been invested In large
blocks of advertising space In all the Pitts
burg papers. Therein, from day to day,
the corporation has made Its plain appeal,
telling the terms it asks and the terms it
offers. It explains, for Instance, that the
life of the franchise is limited to fifty years
as against S98 years for the charters of the
present Pittsburg street car companies.
For the straightforwardness of Its methods
the Subway company deserves well of the
Pittsburg public which will doubtless en
courage honesty by seeing that any coun
cilman who opposes the company does so
on grounds of public conviction and not
of personal thrift To this experiment we
commend the attention of every life insur
ance company, public service corporation,
or other company doing business with a
state legislature or a city council. For any
corporation willing to tell the public what
It desires, this Is the honest way, and Is
destined to become the meet effective way.
SCHOOL, KHATEHMTIBI.
Stat Lealslatnrea Easel Laws to End
' ' Them.
Chicago Record-Herald.
1 The spread of the movement to suppress
high school fraternities is really one of the
most remarkable manifestations in the ac
tivity of state legislatures this ' winter.
State after state has passed legislation
which will put an end to them. Where
school boards have acted on their own re
sponsibility state supreme courts have sus
tained them, but the legislatures follow
along in order to leave no possible room
for doubt. The Minnesota senate is the
latest to act.
The spread of repressive legislation Is,
of course, the direct result of the rapid
spread of the fraternities themselves, nd It
Is a proof that there Is still a large amount
of common sense in our legislatures, bow
ever much they are decried by theorists
who think that they are overactive. Col
lege fraternities were opposed by many edu
cators, but they had a real work to do,
and the policy of suppression with respect
to them has failed. But in the high schools
the case Is entirely different. Aping the
college societies, the high school societies
have managed to secure a maximum of
evil with a minimum of good! And, there
fore, they go.
Par-Fttrhtil Assumption.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
Still, when - you observe the size of the
republican 'plurality in New York In 1904.
It does not seem quite so positive that those
corporate contributions rescued Roosevelt
from Ignominious defeat.
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Mead of Mis Class
lO COLLEGE MAN WANTS TO BE 1UDIC-
V, IV I
ULOUS IN HIS DRESS.
HE WOULD BE, HOWEVER, IF HALF
TIIE PICTURES OF SO CALLED "COL
LEGE CLOTHES" THAT ARE ADVER
TISED WERE TRUE TO LIFE.
BUT HE MUST HAVE STYLE, AND
HE AND HIS FELLOWS GO A LONO
WAi TOWARD SETTING THU si'iiB UK
YOUNG MEN.
IT IS UP TO US TO FOLLOW HIS LEAD AND
THE STUDENT WHO GETS HIS CLOTHING OF'
BROWNING, KING & COMPANY IS SURE TO BE, IN
THE MATTER OF DRESS AT LEAST, AT TIIE HEAD
OF HIS CLASS.
IT IS UP TO US TO FOLLOW HIS LEAD, AND
EVERYTHING ELSE IN FURNISHINGS OF THE
MOST TASTEFUL SELECTION.
Browning,
R. 8. WILCOX Manager.
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Alum Is ned In sonic baking pow
ders and in most of the so-called
phosphate powders, because it is
cheap, and makea a cheaper pow
der. But slum Is a corrosive which,
taken in food, acts injuriously upon
the stomach, liver and kidneys.
.POINTED PL.KA9AKTRIKJI.
"That horse thief over there la a great
stickler for correct English."
"He la?'
"Yes. He always finds fault with the
Judge's sentences." Cleveland I'laln Dealer.
"My heart was In my throat for a while,
but at last It resumed its normal position."
"And then?"
"I breathed easier." Washington Herald.
"I see that an eminent physician declares
that two hours of sleep before mldntght
are worth more than six after that hour."
"Nonsense! Two hours of sleep after
you're called in the morning are worth
more than anything elae." Philadelphia
Press.
"What do you regard as the most diffi
cult character In Bliakespenre?"
'The ghost," answered Mr. Stormlngton
Barnes.
"In -namletT' "
"No. On pay day." Washington Star.
"Slow?" said the Central American to the
visitor from the United States. "We slow?
Show me another country that can have
two revolutions a week."
The Yankee was baffled. Philadelphia
Ledger.
"What your town needs most," said the
traveling man. "Is a hotel with all the
comforts of home"
"Not much!'' Interrupted the native, who
wlas having trouble with servants; "a
home with all the comfirts of n hotel la
what most of us need." Philadelphia
Press.
THE OIXD APPLE WOMAN.
T. A. Daly In Catholic Standard.
WM her basket of apples comes Nora
McHugh.
Wld her candles an' cakes an' wan thins
an' another,
But the best thfng she brings to commind
her to you
Is the smile In her eyes that no throublj
can smother.
An' the wit that's at home In the tip of
her tongue
Has a freshness unknown to her candy
and cake;
Though her wares had been stale since
- ould Nora was youn?,
There is little complaint you'd be carln'
to make.
Well I mind, on a day, I complained of a
worm
That I found in an apple, near bitten In
i two.
'"But suppose ye had bit it, an" where d be
the harm.
For, shure, this isn't Friday," said Nora
McHugh.
O Nora McHugh, you've the blarneyln'
twist In you.
Where is the anger could drame o' reslstm'
you?
Falx, we'll be sp'llln' you,
Blind to the guilt In you,
While there's a smile In you,
Nora McHugh.
It was Mistress De Vere, that's so proud
of her name,
Fell to boastln' wan day of her kin In the
peerage
Though there's some o' thlm same, years
ago whin they came
To this glorious land, was contint wld
the steerage
An' she bragged of her ancestry, Norman
an' Dane,
An' the like furrln ancients that's thought
to be swell.
"Now. I hope." said ould Nora, "yeMl no,
think me vain.
Fur it's llttlo I care fur ancistry mesel's
But wld all o' your pedigree, ma'am, . I be
lieve Tie niesel' can go back a bit further
than you,
Fur In me you perceive a desclndant of
Eve.
The first apple woman," said Nora Mo
Hugh. O Nora McHuich. slch owdaclous frivolity
How can you dare to be jokin' the quality!
Still, we'll bo Bp'llin' you.
Blind to the guilt In you.
While there's a smile In you,
Nora McHugh. ,
King & Co
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