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TIIE OMAHA DAILY I3EE: FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1907.
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8TATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
tate of Nebraska. Dougla County. s:
Chnrlea C. Kosewater, ireneral manager fr
.The I Publishing Comnnny. being duly
worn, unys that the actual number or lull
Ind complete coplei of The Dally. Morning,
Evening and Rundav Bee printed during th
ronth Of March. W7, wa a follow:
1 32.0B0 IS 93890
1 39.110 1 83'3,
1 80.B00 0 33.930
4 32,190 II ,'3
1 33,120 12 333t,(
31.970 13 33,690
1 31,860 24 a0'4S0
31.BS0 26 34,040
31,340 2 B3.990
10 30,400 T M0
11 32.370 28 33.790
IS 3170 29 34,130
It 38,590 0 33,860
14 32,640 tl 30,800
li 82,080 "
1 33.220 Total 1,008,S6Q
IT 30,410
Lea unsold and returned ooptea. . 8,184
Net Total .999,378
Dally average .32.237
CHARLE9 C. ROSE WATER,
General Manager.
Subscribed In my presence and sworn to
before me thl let day of April, 107.
(Seal) M. B. H UNO ATE.
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W11BJ OCT OF TOWN.
Subscribers leaving the city tesa
porarlly should have Tha Be
nailed in them. Addreaa will be
changed a often aa reaaeated.
Speaking of those abdication ru
nors, the czar is something of a stand
patter himself.
Mayor "Jim" evidently forgot to get
Judge Kedick'a O. K. to hla famous
log-muzsllng proclamation.
Colonel George Harvey ia assuming
he role of a railroad rate and defying
Ae president to regulate him.
A blanket of snow in the middle of
April is a little out ot the ordinary
ven for Nebraska's erratic weather.
The author ot "Florodora" Is dead,
but several hundred members of the
original "Florodora" sextette are still
living. , . ... -
It is a little rough on the umpire to
be compelled to use a snow shovel In
stead of a broom In cleaning off the
home plate.
According to speculators in Chicago,
nearly the entire corn crop, which has
not been planted, has been injured by
frost and cut worms.
The fruit crop in this section is,
doubtless, all killed, but the fruit crop,
like the proverbial cat, sometimes de
velops more than one life.
The country's Weary Willies will
probably head for Kansas City, Kan.
The courts there are looking for men
to act as receivers for the breweries.
A New York legislator wants auto
mobiles equipped with fenders. Some
of them should be required also to
carry a Burgeon and a trained nurse.
The roan who last fall predicted an
open winter can learn something to
his disadvantage by calling upon any
of the base ball managers of the coun
try. Russia now proposes to build a few
battleships larger than those planned
ty Japan. Russia's chief naval need,
however, is a few battleship command
era of the Japanese type.
Before the preliminaries for Jha
next democratic national convention
have all been disposed of, it might be
well to find out what silver ratio Uncle
Horace Doles ot Iowa is favoring this
year.
The Omaha City mission has been
distributing free seeds to children for
back-yard cultivation during the sum
mer. Is this not poaching upon the
exclusive preserves of the only demo
cratic congressman from Nebraska?
President Woodrow Wilson of
Princeton says tho tobacco chewers do
the most thinking. Dr. Wilson was
recently nominated for the presidency
by Harper's Weekly and is apparently
trying to capture the crossroads store
vote.
The unfortunate ttiln about Judge Red
ick's decision la that It gives every rur
an excuse to bark at the mayor. World'
Herald.
Still more unfortunate is it that
some ot them occupying democratic
kennels have not seen fit to wait for
the excuse.
The edict against free street railway
paes reached Ouaba a little late, be
cause the street railway passes here
were cut off some time ago. It will
probably serve, however, to help the
street railway company at Lincoln to
reduce Its deadhead list, which was
abnormally swollen while tha legisla
ture was In session.
a rrR rorcLATiox guess.
The official bulletin of the census
bureau, containing its estimates of pop
ulation for the year 1906, as compared
with the census figures of 1900, is
open to severe criticism so far as it re
lates to Nebraska. This bulletin gives
the population of Nebraska for 1906
at 1,068,484, as compared with the
census population in 1900 of 1,066,
300, being an Increase for sis years of
only 2,184. The ridiculousness of
this estimate is quickly seen when
taken in connection with the figures
for the three cities in Nebraska hav
ing more than 8,000 inhabitants In
1900, upon which new estimates have
also been made, as follows:
Citlea. 1906. 1900. Inc.
Omnha 124,167 102.515 21.012
Lincoln 4S,:32 40.1C9 8.063
South Omaha Jo. 705 26,001 10.764
Total 209.164 lf.8, 728 40.4J9
In other words, while three cities in
Nebraska are credited with In
creasing their population in the six
years between 1900 and 1906 by 40,
439, the increase for the whole state
Is estimated at 2,184, which would
mean an actual loss of population out
side of these cities of more than 38,
000. That no such loss has taken place,
but that, on the contrary, the popula
tion growth has been reasonably uni
form throughout Nebraska is well
known to every one conversant with
conditions here. In fact, large
stretches ot previously unoccupied
public land have been taken up in
northwestern Nebraska since the last
census, and the rate of population
growth is unquestionably greater in
that section than elsewhere.
The fallacy of the census estimate
can be detected in the accompanying
explanation made by the bureau offi
cials. They describe their method aa
the "arithmetical method," namely,
"that the growth in each year is equal
to one-tenth of the decennial increase
between the two previous censuses."
What they have done, therefore, is to
credit Nebraska for each year since
1900 with one-tenth of the Increase
shown between the census figures of
1890 and 1900.
It is, however, notorious that the
1890 figures were unconscionably
padded. The census bureau itself
takes cognizance of this in its esti
mates of city population by correcting
the 1890 figures for Omaha, Lincoln
and South Omaha, as indicated by a
footnote which reads: "Census 1890
defective; population in 1890 esti
mated as mean between 1880 and
1900." To get down to bedrock, it has
cut off 73,759 of the population ac
corded to these three cities by the 1890
census takers. It has neglected, how
ever, to make any deduction from tho
1890 figures for the state, although
they Include what was deducted for
these cities.
It is safe to say that the Nebraska
census inflation of, 1890 for the whole
state was not less than 100,000, so
that we actually had approximately
962,656 people Instead of 1,062,656,
as was then claimed. The annual in
crease for the decennial period between
1890 and 1900 thus corrected would
be 10,864, giving Nebraska a total
population increase for the six years
since 1900 of 62,186, and making the
1906 population approximately 1,12 8,
4 86. This surely is much nearer to
the facts than the recent census bu
reau estimate.
cawaioii funds is exglativ.
The British House of Commons has
been wrestling with the question of
corporation contributions to campaign
funds and has taken summary action
to eliminate such influences from fu
ture elections. The matter came up
in Parliament as an echo of the recent
municipal elections In London In which
the London ft Northwestern railway
actively supported the ticket of the
moderates. In the debate in the Com
mons, it developed that the London
corporation followed methods very like
the tactics of our railroads in American
politics. It was explained that the
railway company had contributed
$5,000 to tha moderates, charging the
item as "sundry payments not classed,"
which appears to be the British equiv
alent of "legal expenses" in" this coun
try. Representatives of the railway
company explained that the contribu
tion had been made on a promUe to
reduce the tax rate on railway property.
When the London & Northwestern
railway came before the House of Com
mons with a bill for some desired legis
lation, Mr. Trevelyan offered the fol
lowing resolution, which was adopted
without opposition, after a general dis
cussion: That no bill can be satisfactory to thl
house which confer increased powers on
a . railway company created by act of
Parliament which haa subscribed out ot
Ha corporate funds to a party organisa
tion. The remedy for the evil of corpora
tion contributions to political campaign
funds set forth in the Trevelyan reso
lution suggests a way of strengthening
the American methods Qf accomplish
ing a similar result. Congress has al
ready passed a law prohibiting na
tional banks from contributing to any
campaign fund and forbidding all cor
porations from contributing to cam
paign funds for elections at which
federal officials are chosen. It is also
practically assured that the next con
gress will enact legislation requiring
tha publicity ot all donations to na
tional campaign funds, thus supple
menting tha corrupt practices acts now
In force In many states. The British,
however, require all corporations to
make financial statements annually to
the government, by which such con
tributions are disclosed.
The United States already requires
national bank to furnish this Infor
mation to the bank examiners, and
similar laws relating to other banks
are In force in most of the states. A
federal law subjecting interstate rail
way corporations to like examination,
supplemented by state legislation re
quiring similar accounting of expendi
tures by local public service corpora
tions, would let tho light In on corpora
tion contributions for political pur
poses and promptly put an end to pro
hibited activity In politics.
AS AN IXTiEX VF rROSPKRlTT.
Students of economic conditions
have long agreed that the Import trade
is one of the best indices of the com
mercial conditions of a country. This
Is particularly true in the United 8tates
where the imports, as a rule, come
under the head 'of luxuries, and are
the first to show a decrease on the ap
proach of hard times, or of any condi
tion that makes retrenchment neces
sary. According to 'this index, the
United States Is refuting all conten
tions of political and financial fore
casters, who profess to see conditions
ahead which demand a reefing of com
mercial and Industrial sails for a finan
cial storm.
Advance figures from the bureau of
statistics for the month of March and
nine months of the fiscal year show
n unusual increase in our foreign
trade, particularly In Imports. For
the month of March our Imports
amounted to $133,323,085, the largest
on record with the one exception of
December of last year, and exceeded
the record of March of last year by
more than 120,000,000. Imports for
nine months of the fiscal year ag
gregated $1,066,059,911, as compared
with $913,557,097 for the same nine
months of last year, or about double
the gain made last year over the Corre
sponding nine months ending March,
1905.
The report of our exports la not bo
flattering. For the month of March
American exports were valued at $102,-
689,950, compared with $145,510,707
in March, 1906, and the total for the
nine months was $1,451,904,971, as
compared with $1,343,902,090 for the
corresponding nine months of last
year. The excess of exports was less
by halt than our increase in imports.
The figures ehow, so far as completed,
that the American farmer is still re
sponsible for the bulk of our export
trade, nearly two-thirds of the exports
for March being in fhe, form of do
mestic breadstuffs, meat and dairy pro
ducts, food animalB, cotton and mineral
oil. The exports In principal lines
were: Breadstuffs. $14,233,462; meat
and dairy products, $18,732,938; cat
tle, sheep and bogs, $3,385,699. For
the nine months exports ot these com
modities were: Breadstuffs, $135,891,
019; meat and dairy products, $131,
208,335; food animals, $24,774,285.
While detailed figures have not been
compiled, the preliminary statistics
are sufficient to show that Uncle Sam
continues to hold his own In the
world's markets aa both buyer and
seller. -
A ROY AL FLVSti.
Crowned heads of Europe are seeing
things at night just now and sending
out intimations that the world has
an erroneous opinion of the real char
acter of King Edward of England. It
1b hinted that instead of being a well
groomed portly old gentleman who
smokes Baron Rothschild's $2 cigars,
attends stock shows and allows his
picture to be used as a model tor
Flttem's $3 hats, the British ruler is
really a war lord In disguise scheming
to disrupt the Triple Alliance, the
three-king combination that has held
the ace in the royal game for a great
many years. The origin of this attack
of royal fidgets is found in the com
ing meeting between King Edward ot
England and King Victor Emmanuel of
Italy, which is attracting much atten
tion and more -speculation all over Eu
rope. A regular near-nightmare over the
affair is on In Germany, the semi
official Berlin press insisting that King
Edward wants to upset the European
equilibrium, or, as the politicians in this
country would have it, is heading a
gigantic conspiracy to defeat the poli
cies of the Wllhelmlache administra
tion. With true German fairness, how
ever, the Berlin press warns the Royal
Briton that the plot has been discov
ered and he acts at his own peril.
"War with Germany would be danger
ous for any opponent or any coalition
of opponents," says the Berlin organ,
taking mental measurement of the
kaiser's stack of chips and preparing to
call any bluff that may be made.
The situation in France Is less ex
citing, but equally interesting. Johnny
Crapaud is in the glory seat and does
not have to draw cards until the Ger
man on his right decides whether he
will call, raise or break np the game.
Ho is finding much satisfaction In
watching the German's discomfort and
uneasiness and Is rather disposed to
encourage King Edward to go ahead
and get a little foreign capital onto the
table for future division.
In the meantime, Rome is In sup
pressed excitement. King Victor
Emmanuel has been invited to take a
hand but, according to latest advices,
has not been informed what the limit
la to be, whether marked cards will
be barred or it provision is to be made
for a Jack-pot
All conditions are ripe for an exciting
session and the rest of the world
will be keenly Interested until It is
ascertained whether the game really Is
for blood or just another exhibition of
royal four-flushing.
City Prosecutor Daniel enters a soft
I denial to tha Impeachment that he Is
on salary from a guaranty company
that ftells ball bonds to bad women.
If so, the local agent ot the bond com
pany has been taking undue advantage
of the city prosecutor's Innocence by
using his name to advertise the busi
ness. Rut ender such cortditinna si
lence Is usually taken to glv consent
Ex-Senator Allen's announcement
that he Intends to appeal to the courts
to knock out the new primary law on
the ground of unconstitutionality and
his declaration that he is against direct
nominations, anyway, do not Jibe very
well with the standing professions of
the populist party. Nebraska popu
lists have for years Insisted that they
want the selection of public officers
brought as close home to the people as
possible, and they have advocated the
Initiative and referendum, urged the
direct popular choice of United States
senators and in their last state plat
form declared unequivocally for a pri
mary election law to govern nomina
tions for all offices. Why has ex
Senator Allen waited so long before
protesting against the public declara
tions of his own party?
In his address at a democratic din
ner In New York, Colonel Harvey ex
pressed the fear that "the American
people, deluded by the marvelous spec
tacle of blatant probity yawping from
the pinnacle of self-appreciation, Btand
ready to welcome the destruction of
the very fabric of free institutions."
When Colonel Harvey was younger
and lived up In Vermont he used to
drink sassafras tea when he got to
feeling like that.
The high financiers in New York
who have been predicting hard times
and using as an indication of strin
gency the fact that the Bank of Eng
land had Increased Its discount rates
to 6 per cent, are up against it again.
The Bank of England has recovered
from its attack of fidgets and has re
duced its discount rate to 4H Per cent.
The tax committee of the Real Es
tate exchange, which has waved off a
banquet In honor of Its efforts for ter
minal taxation, is very modest. The
members of the Douglas delegation,
who. were also Instrumental In that
notable achievement, could properly
come In for a little evidence of appre
ciation. Colonel Bryan advocates an inter
national agreement against the loaning
of money to nations that are at war.
This plan prepumably could be as aptly
described as a financial combine In re
straint of trade in war loans or as a
gigantic blacklist to destroy the credit
of striking nations that resort to vio
lence. The Agricultural department at
Washington has issued a bulletin advis
ing farmers not to kill skunks, as they
are great destroyers of Insects. The
farmers will take more kindly to the
advice If the Agricultural department
can discover . a brand of denatured
skunks.
The State Railway commission
wants to compel the railroads to ad
vertise their 2-cent rates through Ne
braska, so that through passengers
may have the benefit of enforced
reductions. This is a little like rub
bing it in.
Goes to the Roots.
New York Post.
' Our out-of-door president must be ac
knowledged tho bet writer of Arbor day
proclamation that ever occupied tho White
House.
A Great and Good Friend.
Washington Herald.
The supreme court of the United 8tatea
is still our great and good friend. It ha
Just decided that the Isle of Pines la not
our property.
More "Plee of Pence."
Philadelphia Record.
Japan joins In the general movement for
the abolition of war by launching a battle
ship which will carry four 11-lnch, twelve
10-lnch and twelve 4.7-Inch guns. This ar
gument for peace can only be overcome by
some other piece of steel logic concluding
with twelve 12-inch and four 10-Inch guns.
A DanKerona Vocation.
Portland Oregonlan.
The railway mall clerk la the one servant
of the government and the people who I
practically always under fire. He la in,
the thick and thin of every wreck of a
mall train, and either emerge from the
debris of splintered cars seriously Injured
or hi body I taken from the wreck by
pitying hands. Aa a public servant who
take his life In hi hand with hi voca
tion, he should receive a liberal salary
from the government and the Just appre
ciation of the public.
Federal Valuation of Railroads.
Springfield Republican.
Word comes by way of Washington that
the railroad are beginning to think better
of the plan of federal valuation of the
physical property of the companies. It I
another case of falling back upon state
rights for protection agalnet federal ag
gression only to find that the state are
likely to prove more aggressive than the
nation. Several of fie state. Minnesota,
the Dakota, Oregon and other, have
passed law providing for such a state
valuation, following the example of Mich
igan and Wisconsin: and the road are
concluding that they will fare more Justly
In thl particular at the hand of the na
tional authority. That I quit probable.
Rivalry In Kaval roaitrirtloa.
Philadelphia Record.
Special effort are being made by the
navy to complete war vessel now under
construction, and It I believed that In a
year the United State will hav twenty
ilve battleship, in round ngure w snail
then be on a level with either Germany or
Franca, or not far behind either, and w
hall not be very distant from the date
when w shall be aecond on the aea to
England alone. If the president 1 light,
that a pistol In a man' pocket make him
peaceful, and a big navy prevents war, we
may congratulate ourselves upon the near
approach of assured peooe. It Is possible
that the huste of the Navy department la
due to apprehensions that the Peace con
gress at The Hague will result in a Umlta-
1 tlou ot armament.
A'UTEHe4RY or E RT1IO.I" A K H
Dimeter at Ran rnsrlae Tear A
Teeterday.
At 1:14 on the morning of April W one
year ago, occurred the first of a aerlea of
earthquake shock which laid the torch
to San Francisco and reduced two-third
or the city to ashes. Mont of the city wa
asleep at that fateful hour. Night workers,
drowsy loiterers and a few policemen were
on the buslnen street, their weary foot
fall being the only sound that broke the
stillness of the dawning hour. Suddenly,
say an account written at the time, a
low rumbling aound wa heard. A quiver
swept through the city. Part of the wall
of the Ferry building tower dropped with
a crash. The clock stopped at 6:14 a. m.
In Market treet rows of wall wayed
and toppled and fell for hundred of feet
on the tangled mas of teams, wagon and
men, crushing out Uvea. Horse broke
from the vehicle and dashed In all direc
tions; electric wires, brought down by fly
ing cornice and brick, pattered In the
Street.
Men were thrown to the ground: wall
weie torn from building; sleeping person
were thrown out of beds.
The earth In places rose In wave like
a troubled sea. In the Mission district
crevices opened. The Valencia hotel, an
old and rather fragile frame structure at
Eighteenth and Valencia streets, dropped
Into the earth until only a portion ot the
upper tory could be aeen, and that a
tangled mas of ruins. When the fire
wept over It later, thl formed the funeral
pyre for score of bodies.
Houses rocked on their foundations and
were thrown against one another, some
being crushed like eggshell In the col
lision. The old Cosmopolitan hotel, Fifth and
Mission streets, dropped into a heap of
debris, crushing the life out of Its occu
pant. The dome of the olty hall, reared after
year of labor, was torn aunder; pillar
with brick and etone fell with their
heavy crash adding to the din of the earth
quake. Debris burled the Emergency hospital,
where there were ten Insane patients, with
their attendants. A steward was crushed
lifeless under the mass, which cut off es
cape of all Inmates. The manlaca, roused
In instant terror, beat the bars of their
cells, tore their hair and clawed their
flesh. They were found later by a po
liceman, who, aided by paser-by, dug
them out and transferred them to another
hospital.
Tho Hall of Justice and the city Jail be
gan to drop to piece. Startled prisoners
cursed or called for deliverance, but their
cries were In vain.
All over the city men, women and chil
dren poured Into the street like ant.
In quick succession came other rumbling
noises, accompanied by violent vibration.
The streets all over the city became In
stantly crowded with a confused and ex
cited mass of person running Into one an
other, dodging the flying debri and the
puttering wire. Borne were barefooted
and In night clothe. Some were gro
tesquely arrayed. Mothers, wearing little
to protect them from the night air, sought
to comfort crylmj children who clung to
them. The throng stampeded In the center
of the treet. to the public quares and
to the parka all filled with terror of an
other chock.
Fifteen minutes after the first shock, a
person on any hill overlooking the city
could see little tongue of flame appearing
In a doxen places in the Mission district.
South of Market street flame began to
spread with widening circle toward each
other. ...
Fire raged for two days and two night.
Sweeping from the water front over the
business section every building In It path
was destroyed or gutted. Nob Hill and
Telegraph Hill, dotted with, home of rich
and poor, were stripped. All modern ap
pliance for fighting fire were rendered use
less by broken water mains, and dynamite,
the last resource, was freely used to check
the advance of the flame, but It availed
little until the wide Van Ness avenue was
reached. The total area burned waa about
1,000 acre, containing 620 city block and
about 25,000 buildings, one-half of them
reldence. Insurance on the property de
stroyed approximated $235,000,000 and the
total value wa put at $350,000,000. In
surance to the amount of $180,000,000 haa
been paid.
A marvelou transformation has been
wrought over the ruin of a year ago.
The work of reconstruction include tem
porary and permanent building, the latter
embracing seven tructure of reinforced
concrete and eighteen class A steel struc
ture. Building permit aggregating
$75,000,000 have been Issued In a year. Or
ganised labor ha reaped by far th great
est returns In the reconstruction of the
new San Francisco. Wages for the time
being have passed all records of th(,lr kind
In the country. Before the Are, aay Jan
uary 1, 1S08, there were 14.644 union labor
er engaged in the various trades. The
wage paid them amounted to $57,701 per
day. The total membership of the ame
trad 08 January 1 lat waa 28.4C9, and the
total amount paid them In dally wage
amounted to $143,629. Of thl the 16,500 car
penters received almost $56,768 per day; the
1,806 bricklayer and mason. $14,4S8 per
day; the 1.800 painter, $6,100 each day. In
lee than elxty day after the fire the
wages of common laborer went from $3
to $2.50. bricklayer from $7 to $8, and In
tha case of fast worker $9; electrician
from $3.50 to $C; plumber from $5 to $6 and
$7, representing an Increase of from 15 to
45 per cent. Union labor ha increased
more than 10 per cent la number lnco
the above figure were taken and wage In
certain lines, notably the plumber, have
also increased.
At the present rate of reconstruction it
is estimated that the business section of
the city will be practically built up solid
In another year. More than one-half of It
haa already been rebuilt.
San FrancUco Is now a great city. At th
close of the year 1306 the bank clearances
were practically $2,000,000,000, an Increaae
of .9S per cent over th previous year,
and howlng th city In it uppoedly
crippled condition to be equal In a budnea
way to Pittsburg, the greatest manufactur
ing and commercial center of all cltle of
it claaa In th world. Th bank clearances
for February, 1907. were $194,294,366.9$, show
ing an Increa of 24.S per cent over Febru
ary, 1904. In thl connection It should be
noted that insurance money, which at no
time cut very much figure in returns, was
practically no factor at all In February.
There are hundred of cargoea of steam
and sallng vessel en route to Ban Fran
cisco from practically all parte of the earth.
March t wa th great cleaning up day of
gan Tanciaco, wlicii fcr cUlscr.s Tsl'-n
tartly turned out by the ten of thousand
to clear th sidewalk of debris through
out th burned district. Men of all ta
tlon and classes In life worked aid by
side, to the end that the sidewalk and
treet might be a clean and open to
travel as they were before the fire. Con
tractor gave their team and wagon to
haul away the wat material. The work
wa efficiently organised and atrenuously
carried on. Th resulting change, asp,
dally In the appearance of th sidewalks,
waa marveluu.
KenftAKKA rnrss comrt.
Columbus Telegram: On of the most
complicated rle"'" f legislation ever en
acted by a Nebraska legislature ia tha new
primary law. Under that taw every nom
ination for a state, county or district nom
ination must be made next fall. We have
heard It said that this new law will prove
a bonanta for the newspaper, but we are
unable to locite the bonanxa In any sec
tion of the bill, for nowhere can we nnd
a sentence calling for any part the news
paper shall play under tha new program.
Crete Vldette Herald: Adam McMullen
aaya that the new primary law will give
I the newspaper too much power. He ay
that it confer upon them the privilege of
naming candidate and In securing their
election. A we have not read the law In
full we cannot speak advisedly on thla
matter. But from what we know of the
newspaper men In Nebraska, and the
slight acquaintance of Mr. McMullen,
gleaned from hla record In the legislature,
we think It I far better for the state to
have public officials selected by the news
paper than to hav them picked out by
political pilots of th McMullen brand.
Valley Enterprlae: The trlklng, un
usual and commendable feature In the last
legislature la th fact that party lines
were forgotten and each representative of
the people seemed to be laboring for tha
common good of hi constituent. That
alone 1 a great reform and hould not
be overlooked. A to law enacted, we
believe most of them are good, wholesomo
law, for the beat Interest of our oltl
sens. and will produce good fruit In year
to come. Stand up for Nebraska an.l
paste thla In your hat: Democrat, popu
list, aa well a the prepubllcan pres,
denominate the Nebraska law-makers of
107 as the "reform legislature."
Kearney Hub: It la announced that the
regent of the Nebraska State university
have agreed upon an advance of salary for
all of the profesaor In the institution, after
which there will be funds enough (added
to the separate appropriation for that pur
pose) to erect the desired engineering build
ing. A week ago some of the Lincoln news
papers were declaring that a body blow
had been dealt to the unlveralty because
some of It appropriations had been re
duced, and the Hub did not believe that
the senator who were doing th reducing
were partle to uch a despicable act, but
had an Intelligent Idea that the reduction
could be made without Injury to the insti
tution. And so It seem.
Columbus Journal: The people of Platte
county owe a debt of gratitude to Senator
Byrne and Representative Grelg for the
good work they have helped to accomplish
In Lincoln during the last sixty day.
Like the republican legislator, they have
redeemed their platform pledgee by stand
ing by the measure they believed to be In
the Interest of the people, regardless of
whether those measure originated In re
publican or democratc hands. The repub
lican of Platte county, we believe, will
join the Tribune In extending congratula
tions to "Johnnie" Byrne and "Jim"
Grelg, and the democrat of Platte county,
we believe, are broad enough to join us
in congratulating a republican legislature
for doing more for the people of Nebraska
than all the previous legislature combined.
Grand Island Independent: While It will
be generally regretted locally that Gover
nor Sheldon felt Impelled, by the condi
tion ot the state's finances, to veto the
appropriation of $26,000 for an officer'
butdlng for the Soldiers' Home, as a matter
of policy his position will not, at least, be
everely criticised. The approval of $9,500
appropriated for additional hospital room
would seem to Indicate that the governor
had thoroughly looked into the condition
of affairs. While there Is a certain need
of better facilities for the officer, the ad
dition to the hospital wa by far more
necessary. While we are not a familiar
with the condition at Kearney and Bea
trice, the executive veto of $86,000 for the
former and $35,000 for the latter were prob
ably made for similar reason. On the
whole, over the tate, the determination
of the governor to keep the appropriations
well within the eetlmated revenues. In or
der to decrease rather than Increase the
state's Indebtedness, will be heartily ap
proved. LOW RATH MORIS Bl'SIXKSS.
Prospective Bbowlnsr of the Two-Cent
Rate la Nebraska.
San Francisco Chronicle.
While no official ngure are yet available,
it 1 stated on what see ma to be good
authority that the receipt from paasfen
ger by the Nebraska railroads have not
fallen off. but rather Increased, since the
law fixing fares at t cents pr mile went
Into operation. If the receipts have held
their own and the cost ot service has not
lncreaaed, the railroad have evidently suf
fered no loss. We may eareiy , assume inai
no extra train hav been put on and the
cot of hauling an extra oar could make
very little difference In the amount of the
coal bill. If a 2-cent fare Involves no loss
in Nebraska, it may be expected to yield a
large profit over existing rates In most
of the states. There are but eventoen
state and territories whose density of
population I le than that of Nebraska,
which I 13.8 Inhabitants to the square mile,
aa against 102 In Ohio, 152.6 in New York,
and so on up to 407 In Rhode Island. In
New York the t-cent rate ha been In
operation many years, with no complaint
that It has not been remunerative, and It
ha been stated that no resietance to the
law would be attempted in Ohio. It Is to
be remembered that the population of Ne
braska Is largely concentrated in the east
ern part of the state, where the density
may nearly equal that of most part of
Ohio, and the loss or gain in the Tarsely
settled western districts would not count
much anyway. Passenger traffic men
understand very well that the reduction of
rate induce extra travel ufflcient to
make the traffic highly remunerative, a Is
hown by the very low rate regularly
made for excursion. They do not seem to
believe that uch a reduction will make a
large permanent Increaae gf travel except
In dense populations. We driubt whether
any traffic man would expect anything but
a shrinkage of net Income from the adop
tion of a t-cent rate In Nebraeka. Should
It turn out otherwise, th traffic men will
have to confess that they have been
taught wisdom out of the mouths of
economlo babes and suckling.
INDIA AND CEYLON
T(B(DJ
Appeals to thooe acrnstomed to the beat. Its uniformity Is one of
th reaaons that baa contributed largely to it popularity.
McCOED-BEADY CO, Wholesale Agents, Om&Jas
' PERSONAL AI OTHF.IIWHB,
Michigan ha Joined the pmoeaaloQ wt
Mate that have panned t-cent far laws.
The brewery goat 1 not a wis aa ri
look In his picture. Too much enow ea
hi whisker.
"Peace! There Is no peace." Th
Daughter ot the American Revolution r
fuse ti disarm.
The uces of the peace conference can
not be established unleea Colonel Harvey
agree to come In.
Montana' lone bandit who held up a
tage got $,0"0 worth of stage money, but
It waa the real thing.
fh simplified spelling board adjourned
hurriedly when the sporting editors cut
loose with bus ball lingo.
Importations from Italy to the United
Slates are growing steadily, but there are
no red hats among the conslgnmenta.
Present predictions of disaster to the
fruit crop In the Missouri vslley will look
painfully silly when the clouds roll by.
The grateful cltlsen of Brownsville, Te
have made President Roosevelt a present
of a big stick adorned with precious stones.
Colonel Harvey's bid for admission Into
the Amalgamated Order of Ananias hasn't
been welcomed with sufficient enthusiasm
to Insure unanimous election.
A Missouri man who worked In a powder
mill a quarter of a century and lived be
side, it for an equal number of year died
peacefully In hi bed of old age.
In view of the fact that seventy-three
different grade of cocktail are dispensed
in New York City, it I asy to under
stand why brainstorm abound on th
island.
In addition to libraries, Institutes, hero
medal and things, Mr. Carnegie is now
distributing dlplodocl among his favorites,
Dlplodocl are article of prehistoric vint
age, but are not In the breakfast food
class.
The federal court of appeal affirm the
fine of $M,000 Imposed on official of the
Chicago A Alton railroad who manipulated
rate schedules for the Oil trut. It's
mighty hard for a railroad man to help a
friend nowaday.
John O'Leary is dead of old age In Dublin,
lie wa once Internationally famous aa a
Fenian leader and laid plans to capture
Queen Victoria during her visit to Ireland
In 1849 and hold her prisoner in the Wlck
low mountain until the ransom of Irian
freedom was paid. Fifteen yeara after th
frustration of this scheme O'Leary served
five year In prison for complicity In Fenian
doing. At the time of hi death ha was
connected with a newspaper.
Colonel Hugh L. Scott, rteiw superintend
ent of the United States Military academy
at West Point, owea much of hla marked
success in the army to his peculiar facility
for mastering the aign language employed
by the Indians In thla country and other
semi-savage folk when on the warpath. It
Is said that Colonel Scott has Instituted an
Investigation to learn If there Is not suf
ficient similarity between the sign lan
guage ot all semi-savage people to denote
that these method of communication had
a oomnvon origin back In the distant past.
POINTED PLEASANTRIES.
"It's hard," said the sentimental land
lady, at the dinner table, ' to think that
this poor little lamb should be destroyed
In Its youth just to cater to our appetites."
"Yea," replied the smart boarder, strug
gling with his portion, "It i tough." Phil
adelphia Proa.
"My plea to the Jury," boasted the voting
lawyer, "was more than four hours' long.
"Humph!" replied the experienced attor
ney, "nnd the verdict was In your favor.
The other side couldnt have had any case
at all." Chicago Record-Herald.
Judge Bluegrass Colonel Gore, let me In
troduce my friend. Colonel Hlood."
Colonel Ooro Dellshted to know you,
colonel. Will you join me ln-er-aomethlng
red? Chicago Tribune.!.: ;. . .
The Captain Please, sir, your wife has
fallen overbonrd.
Owner-Confound it! Another of those
sinking spell of her! Harper's Weekly..
Weary Walker-Say, did yer ever lose yer
appetite?
Hungry Hawkes I did onct. One day a
kind lady gev me a square meal an' fur
ten or fifteen minutes after It I didn't
car fur food at all Washington Herald.
"But," protested Miss Jokeley, "I assure
you the stories I've leen telling you were
original with me. I shouldn't think a gen
tleman would doubt my word."
"Well." replied Urightley "I consider It
more gentlemanly to doubt your word than
to believe you old enough to have origi
nated those Btorles." Catholic Standard.
"Troubles." said Uncle F.ben, "Is sumpln'
Illte children. It's kind o' hard to make a
man realize dat anybody's mounts to much
ceppln' his own. "Washing-ton Star.
"You shouldn't have hit that man who
called you a liar."
"Shouldn't, hey?"
"No, you should have demanded the proof
and If he could not produce It he would
have been brunded as the falsifier."
"That's all right ethlcallv. but I knew he
had the rroof." Philadelphia Ledger.
AN OLD D'GERRYTYPE.
Cella M. Robinson In New York Sun.
It's Jest an' ol' d gerrytype 'twas taken
years Bii o,
When yo' ma was young an' pretty, an'
yo' d;tldy was a beau.
("An" yo' dadily was a han'some chap,"
says ma, "I'll hi v you know I")
Thnr warn't a gal In Tikevllle could hold a
ciiiiclle. child.
To yo' ma, though she was heady to put
It kinder nilM!
("La! hrndy, 1 Miould say bo!" say ma; "I
sure wa wild!"
We uster go to slngln' school, an' many a
time I've hed
A fit for fear yo' ma would choose another
beau Instead.
("You alius knowed I liked you best," any
ma, a-glttln' red.)
Now. Sally thai an' Lucy' kinder pretty
In their way,
But yo' ma was like a blushln' roe
a-blooinla' In the May.
An' her eye waa bright es dl-mond. (Says
tua, "Now, Jim do, pray!")
It' gospel truth I'm tellln', an' you know
it. Bally Ann,
An" when you up an' married me I wa a
prldeful man!
(Says ma, "You shuck jest like a leaf, an'
I could svurcely i.tan'l")
I reckon pho-to-graphy I pow'ful hard to
bat.
But thla here of d'gerrytype I surely
mighty sweet!
("Le's S'-e!" riri ma. "thet Dolly Varden
frock is kinder neat!")
You all may hev' mo' manner an' you
know a' awful pile,
But you ain't ei pretty es yo' ma, nor
he'n't got her style!
("Now, hush slrh nonsense, Jim!" ays ma
but alie gave him sioh a smile')