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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, MAY 13, 1907. The Omaha Daily Dee Founded bt edward rosewateb yictok r06ewater. editor. Entered t Omaha postoOle as second etnas matter. . . TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily Be (without Sundar). on year. .$400 J'atlv Bee end Sunday on year 8 ' Sunday Bee. one yax I to Haturday Bee, on year l.U DELIVERED BY CARRIER, pally Bee (Including Sunday). per Week. .15 Daliy Bee (without Sunday), per week...li)o Kvsnlng He (without Sunday), per week. o Evening Be (with Sunday;, per week....lOo Address complaint of Irregularities In delivery to City Circulation Department OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. Bouth Omaha City Hall Building. Council BlufTa 10 Pearl Street. Chloego-Uw Unity Building. New York If Home 1.1 fa Ineuranc Bldg. Washington 601 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to newa and ed itorial matter should be addressed. Omaha Be. Editorial Department REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or poatal order, payable to The Be Publishing Company. Only 8-cent stamps received In payment of mall accounts. Personal check, except 'on Omaha or MMfrn exchange, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. . 8TATEMEWT OF CIRCULATION. Btat of Nebraska, Douglas County, a. -harlea C. Rosewater, general manager Of The Bee Publishing Company, being nuly aworn. says that the actual number ff full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Be printed during th month of April, 107. was as follows: 3,870 IT 88,00 34.090 It 35,090 34,110 It 34.80 84,30 tO 35,010 34,330 tl 33,350 34,330 2i 85,090 31,400 85,300 34,2 JO 14 35,430 84,460 26 35,470 34,500 If 3o,340 34,410 17 36,630 35,790 28 34,600 36,680 29 35,610 39,400 '30 85,660 34,690 84,880 Total 1,038,410 Less, unsold and rturnA copies. 8,86 Net total , 1,088,548 Dai ly average , . 4 - 34,384 CHARLES C. ROSE WATER, General Manager. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before m this 10th day of April.' 1907. Seal.) , M. B. H UNGATE. Notary Public. WHEX OCT OP TOWH. Subscriber leaving the city tern, novarlly should hav Th Bee mallea to then. Address will Mr. Hearst says he "will not stand for the democratic party." Will he lie for It? It Is one thine to put a muzzle on the dog and another thing to make him keep it on straight. Senator Foraker has- decided to try and save his own political scalp rather than to try to get Taffg. The Barns-O'Brien prize fight Is acknowledged to . have heen a fake. The novelty lies n the admission'. Secretary Taft. is reported to be quite sanguine of carrying Ohio, In spite of the fact that "Boss" Cox has declared for him. " , . Alfred Austin hag -"written another sprlrfg poem and Miss Spring wilt probably 'be "hot enough about It to make herself felt. Officials of the Drug trust have not only proved that they never had a' trust, ' but ' have also formally , agreed not to do It again. . The country 1b prepared to stand about anything in the Haywood trial at Boise, eept testimony by alienists and brainstorm specialists. Edgar Howard now says that while he "positively knows" all about that midnight meeting that never happened he won't tell. Let It go at that The leaders . of . the anti-Roosevelt campaign In the republican ranks would feel better satisfied It they could muster more privates and fewer gen erals. " i i The father of Vice President Fairbanks-was a wagon maker. The vice president, ha done something in that line, too." He has built himself a band wagon; , Lincoln has Just dedicated a pleas ure ground under the name of Ante lope park. Now, wont someone please donate a few antelope to browse on Its graasT . King Ak-Sar-Ben Is almost ready to start tho wheels again for hla 1907 In itiations. The victims should take places at the training tables without delay. , : t . . Joe CanUllion and his Washington players are advised to read the news papers long enough to learn that base ball is a really popular sport In this country, , , ' .- The government pays nearly 12,000, 000 a year for keeping Us lighthouses whitewashed. The cost of whitewash used in other federal departments Is not known. When the Union Paclflo sella all Its 1100,000,000 bond issue it ought to be able to scrape together the money needed to go ahead with its proposed new headquarters building here in Omaha. "The president puts otT the promised announcement that he positively will not accept a nomination for a third term," says the St. Louis Republic. On the contrary; the president made his positive announcement to that effect on the night of 1904 election. An Australian has succeeded In writ ing 10,061 words on a common postal card. The man who writes thai many words on a postal card, engraves the Lord's prayer on a pin head or raises whiskers seven feet long, Is never wted for any other achievement. TMC CAPITULATION OF FORAKER- Lovers of a nifty political fight must be disappointed at the conduct of Jos eph Benson Foraker, United States senator from Ohio, who has thrown np the eponge before the end of the first round. After years of apparently spe cial training In the senate to make him heir to the opposition to Presi dent Roosevelt's policies. Senator For aker was unanimously selected by anti Roosevelt folks to lead the flght against a continuance of the policies to which the party has become pledged through President Roosevelt's efforts and leadership. The opportunity for a test came in Ohio, where Senator Foraker started his own presidential boom and sought to deliver a blow to the president by taking the Ohio dele gation away from Secretary Taft, gen erally accepted as representing the president's Ideas In his candidacy for the republican nomination next year. All the preliminaries were . arranged and Indications pointed to a contest that would result In the elimination of either Foraker or Taft from na tional politic. Then Foraker quit. According to Ohio advlcee, Foraker's capitulation is complete, If not humlll atlng. He has agreed to withdraw his opposition to Taft's plans to secure the republican delegation from Ohio in the national convention and haa asked nothing in return, except that the Taft supporters pursue a "hands off" policy In Foraker's fight for re-election to the United States senate. The Taf ties InslBt they have refused to make any promises or to go further than to In tlmato an Intention to confine their activities to promoting the Taft presi dential boom, leaving the . Btate con test to be waged On Its own Issues. The Taft element is against Foraker and will stay against him, though It may not be active In efforts to defeat his re-election. .-.,. ' ' Regardless of the effect of the For aker surrender on the booms of other presidential aspirants, the country will be tempted to withdraw faith In Fora ker's reputation a a fighter. In this case, his fire alarm haa turned out to be a false alarm. He invited the country to watch a fight and then gave them an exhibition of foot racing that makes him eligible to member ship in the Quitters' club. "WEST AND NORTH OF WALL STREET. After .returning to New York from a trip over the country .west of the Mississippi, Stuyvesant Fish,, the rail road magnate, sums up the business situation in the. statement: "The country la all right, west and north of Wall street." In other words, Mr. Fish has endorsed The Bee's observa tion that the pessimism belt Is limited to the boundaries of New York City and Its suburbs. "West and north of Wall street". the people refuse to be panic stricken because of Jate ,frosU, unseasonable weather or a slump in un digested securities. The Interests west and north of Wall street are Industrial and commercial, rather than specula tive and they are busy producing wealth rather than dissipating It, - May's lightning change from a spring to a eummer month promises to clear away all cause for alarm over the crops.' Low temperature alone has held back the prospects and from now on everything In the field Is confidently expected to catch the growing fever and make up for lost time. "West and north of Wall street," the people are straining every energy to develop their opportunities for taking advantage of the Splendid demand at good prices for the products of the field and factory. Outside of Wall street, the country la attending to business. BURTVB'8 DKMAKDS FOR HEFORM. . Joseph Ralph Burton, one-time sen ator of the United States from Kan sas,, and convicted of complicity In a get-rlch-quick scheme, haa turned to a new role as publisher of a paper at Abilene, entitled . "Home Rule," In which he is calling attention to the defects in our present system of gov ernment and pointing the way to re form. His first point - of attack la the present system of distributing fed eral patronage, the former senator con tending that the congressman who goes to the White House to secure the appointment of a constituent, virtually accepts a bribe and sells himself. On thie point. Editor Burton says: Th present policy makes th president of th United States a bribe-giver and a bribe-taker every day In the year, a bribe giver and a bribe-taker Involving greater moral turpitude than If th bribery had been accomplished with th us of money. When a congressman sell his convictions on legislation to th president for th posiomce or van district. It la a worse crime than If h had bought them with his own money outright.' When a senator takes th oath of offlo at th Whit House Instead of at th senate, both be and th president commit a worse crime than If they had trafficked their official preroga tives and powers In money. The method of distributing, federal patronage haa always been subject to more or less adverse criticism of this kind, but as yet no better scheme has been devised. Each year, however, shows a marked tendency toward re moval of federal offices from party politics, and a more general adoption of the merit system In making ap pointments and promotions. The en tire consular service has been put on a -civil service basis and more than 10 per cent of the federal employes are In the classified service. Fourth class postmasters, whose appointment Bur toa. considers a srecies of bribery, now serve during good behavior and satis factory serrke and are no longer sub ject to removal at the expiration of their four-year terms. There la less use today of the federal patronage In advancing partisan interests than ever before In the country's history. It is admitted, too, that most of the members of congress who urge the ap pointment of men to federal positions are honestly anxious to have mea of merit selected and it Is known that President Roosevelt has always taken a determined stand agalnBt appointing men solely on account of their politi cal backing. Mr. Burton's record In the senate furnishes sufficient proof that he looked upon the disposition of federal patronage from a different viewpoint then than he does now. MAKE IT THOROIQH. The decision of the building Inspec tor, In view of the recent building col lapse, to make a new examination of all the warehouses and buildings used by Jobbers and manufacturers In which heavy weights are stored Is a move in the right direction, provided the in spection is comprehensive and thor ough. A great many plans for building en largements and extensions are passed by the building inspector's office on the theory that the premises are to be subjected only to the pressure of ordi nary uses, to be later devoted to some purpose not originally contemplated. While It Is by no means established that overloading caused the building reforred to to fall, no unnecessary risk should be taken by which repetition of such accidents would be invited and in all probability with much more calami tous results. In this connection it is not out of place to reiterate a demand several times voiced by The Bee for more strict regulation of the storage of ex plosives within the area crowded with business blocks. Should by chance such a collapse occur in any building used for the storage of high explosives in large quantities the loss of life and the wreck and ruin of property sure to ensue would be Incalculable. We doubt If a city of the size and preten sions of Omaha exlBts anywhere which has been so lax and negligent in the exercise of precautions for its own pro tection against accidents of this sort. So we say, make the inspection of buildings thorough and have it accom panied by a strict enforcement of reasonable rules against reconatruc- j tlon calculated to weaken the supports. against overloading and also against the storage of dangerous explosives in the downtown business center. The supreme court has Incorporated Into a decision the authoritative asser tion that one of the main objects of the Slocumb law Is to establish the princi ple of local option. With local option established by the Slocumb law, every community in Nebraska ought to be able to regulate the liquor traffic for Itself In Its own way without any further legislation. The Illinois 2-cent fare law makes the maximum enforclble only when tickets are purchased by the passenger before he enters the train. The Ne braska 2-cent fare law makes no such condition. Railroad conductors in Ne braska evidently are not held under the same suspicion as railroad conduc tors In Illinois. Local coal dealers declare they are laying In their supplies early in order to protect their patrons against the ex action of scarcity prices from those who come late. The patrons will find out how much protection they get when they come to buy their coal later In the season. In honor of the birth of the heir ap parent to the Spanish throne King Al fonso has liberated several thousand prisoners by special pardon. Mayor Jim" does not require any such ex cuse tor the use of his pardoning pen to liberate Inmates of our local jails. In the old days, housewives cleaned house thoroughly once a year. Now they keep them clean all the time. That Is one difference between house wives and city administrations. "People get funny ideas in America" says oeorge uernara snaw. sun, Americana have an Idea that Shaw brought hie with him. None like them were ever known in America. Colonel Watteraon's assertion that President Roosevelt could not get an other nomination If he wanted it may start something. The president Is slow to take a dare. An Atlantic City paper notes the ar rival there of "Mr. and Mrs. Flusher and their two children." The four Flushers ought to feel at home at Atlantlo City. If the railroads are not Issuing any passes forbidden by the Nebraska anti pass law, why should they object to filing the list of the pass holders as the law requires? Bnppoa th Rnll Broke. Chicago Tribune. That new Invention, th gyrcscoptq rail way motor that runs on on rail and bal ances Itself without any assistance, will work all right until something happens to the motor and th fly wheels stop bussing. proa frftdon t Swelldom. Chicago Reoord Herald. Oorg Orant Mason, who Inherits th bulk of th "Silent" Smith fortune, ha decided to mov from Aberdeen, S. D., to New Tork. Evidently Mr. Maaon ha no Aealre to aetabUsh a reputation for eccen tricity by declining to go to Nw Tork to spend It. Omitted Information. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Mr. Bryan declare that If he wer worth a million h would not. If elected president, aocept th suJy of tb offic. A- Mr. Bryan Is raking In 1775 a rHght on th Veo ture platform he ought to mention th sdie of what he considers a modest competency. Road to Popular Favor. Chicago News. Unfortunately for the octopus, every time Its gets Jolted by the administration the latter becomes more popular, and1 la aware of the fact. Needed Expansion. Philadelphia Press. The Investigation of the capltol job may not be finished before the legislature ad journs, but the legislature can go ahead and have th penitentiaries enlarged. Preparing far Troeble In Cuba. New Tork Evening Post. It Is not generally known, perhaps, that the United States army Is just completing a map of every Inch of the Island of Cuba for use In case It ever becomes necessary for the American government to occupy the country by force. The engineer corps of the army has been devoting most of Its attention to tho undertaking since last fall, two of the three battalions having been at work on the inland In the last hnlf of that lp-'rlod. Not a nook or co-r.er, not a traveled road or an obscure trail has escaped the mapmakers. The strange part of It Is that the Cuban government haa aided the work In every way it could, giving orders to the rural guards and local officers In far-away towns to facilitate the engineers' opera tions whenever possible. A Costly Defl. Springfield Republican. . Southern railroads, In consequence of the Interstate commission's ruling that party rates musrt be open to the publlo as well aa to theatrical companies, have concluded to withdraw such rates altogether. Th roads of the Western Passenger association, how ever1, have decided to Ignore the commis sion 8 ruling and let the question go to the courts for determination. They hold that the commission's Interpretation of th law Is Incorrect. This Is a challenge as to Its power which the commission can hardly afford to pass over. Under the new law, when the commission has made an order or ruling, It Is Incumbent upon the roads affected to obey the name until It has been suspended by a court of competent Juris diction. They should therefore take this order to the courts before undertaking to Ignore or disobey It. But the old habit of snapping their fingers at the commission has become so well settled with the rail roads that It Is not wonderful If they can not readily get over It. Indulgence of It, however. Is l'kely to prove much mora costly now than formerly. GOOD THING AM ROUD. Two-Cent Passensre-r Rates a Boost for Co tin try and Railroads. St Louis Republic. Now the Illinois senate, following the lead of the house, has passed the- 2-cent rallrond fare bill. Missouri, Nebraska and other states have passed such laws and within a few months the reduced rate will be effective throughout a large part of the growing middle west. That the results of this legislation will greatly contribute to the upbuilding of this territory there seems no doubt Cheaper transportation, pas senger or freight, means greater activity. It means a livelier and healthier circulation, a more vigorous and fruitful Ufa. As for the other th railroad side of the matter, we hear less- -And less about th Injury done to the railroads by the 2-cent legislation. It appears that th railroads have decided to accept the inevitable In good grace and to devote their surplus en ergies to preparing for the Increased pas senger traffla which , must begin with the operation of th Jaw. . With the abolition of passes, the dolng.-away of a system Df favoritism and ..discrimination, the roads should find themselves able to carry at a profit for 1 cerus 'a mile the man who travels only 100 miles Just aa they hav for years carried the man who traveled 1,000 miloa. Viewed from the standpoint of enlighten ment as to railroad methods and profits recently attained by the public. It seems that the 1-cent legislation 1 comes at th psychological moment In the development of tho roads and the country which they have made and which baa made them what they are. FINANCIAL) 81 Pit EM ACT. Th West No Lonsrer Dependent b East. Holland In Philadelphia Press. John W. Gates, speaking for ptiullca- i tlon a day or two ago, mentioned the independence of what Is still called "the west" with respect to money or loan able capital. Mr. Gates spoke with en thusiasm of the magnificent deportits re ported by th banks of Chicago, approxi mating, as he said, the deposits of New York City banks. These depo-iits ar very large and they ar relatively matched by the splendid gains In de posits reported by banks of other -titles of th west. The Illustration would have been better made perhaps had Mr. Gates spoken with more detail so that It would be known whether h referred to the gross deposits as reported by the Chi cago banks, making comparison by th associated banks of New York City. Her th reports made to the clearing house each week tell , only of i,et de posits. The understanding Is that th Chicago banks report gross deposits. Some of our banks would b able to re port many millions more than ha clear- Ing hquse sheets show if the figure told of gross Instead of net deposits. It prob ably would make a difference In the fig ures of the City bank alone of soma $30,000,000 or $40,000,000. However, there Is a better way of prov ing the accuracy of Mr. Gates state ment. Until within a year or two ther always began in tb west In the spring months a current, so rapidly 1 Ircruailng that It becomes majestic In volume, that bore to th banks of New York City great funds that had been accumulated by the western banks. That currant waa suddenly checked, turned upon Itself by the beginning of August. It told th story of th splendid ebb and' flow of funds, reflecting agricultural " Snd com mercial and market conditions throuynjut the United States. It served ' to swell greatly the reports made by the New York banks of their deposits from about the middle of March until approximately the first of August. As recently as four years ago the banks of this city wwre able to report an In crease of deposits of nearly $80,000,000 in the spring and early summxr, not Including In that Increase the gains from local business. Every dollar of that came from western banks. But that was the climax year for movement of lunds of that kind. The west began In 1904 to discover unequaled opportunities for utilising Its own capital. In the spring months two years ago the banks of this city received from the west an aggre gate of only a Uttl over $12,000,400, and last year th current was completely re versed early In the spring, ther being an outflow of New York funds to th west of nearly $6,000,000. That, In part. Is explained by the sudden exigencies created by th San Francisco dls.stor. This history tells of th comltg of a new era and reports It even hior ac curately than Mr. Gates did. In old relations hav ceased. The west Is In possession of surplus capital represent ing Its own Industries and Investments and no longer needs to turn to New York, either for borrowed funds or for a nmrk.t for unusable funds la, the ; rlufc of the uar. VICTIM OF PARTY fTHI. Pathetic Rlatory and Death of Farmer Senator Ron of Kansas. In an unpretentious cottage home sur rounded by fruit orchard and alfalfa farm, close by Albuquerque, New Mexico, death ended the troubled life of Edmund Gibson Ross, former senator from Kan sas, and on of the seven republican sen ator whose vote defeated the Impeach ment of President Andrew Johnson. Mr. Ross was over SO years of age. To th present generation he was practically un known. Thirty-nine years ago his name was known throughout the land and was execrated to a degree Incomprehensible to those who hav not. felt or witnessed the passions engendered by the dvU war. Six other republicans voted "not guilty" with Senator Rosa None of them suffered the sting of publlo reproach as deeply as Ross, who, hailing from Kansas, was ostracised with th venom characteristic of "the bleeding commonwealth." In congress Senator Ross waa a strong party man. Throughout the long fight over th reconstruction measures, h was a radical of the strictest sect. In this he well represented th Intense spirit then dominant In Kansas, and was thoroughly popular with th people and his party as sociates In th senate. He was obedient to caucus mandates. He had shown no Indication of aspiring to leadership. His future waa full of promise. When the congressional leaders at length determined upon th Impeachment of the president, they never doubted that they could rely upon th Kansas senator to the utmost. It was woll understood that several re publican senators Wer not kindly disposed toward such a drastic measure as Im peachment, and toward the end of the trial. Senators Fessenden, Fowler, Grimes, Henderson. Trumbull and Van Winkl an nounced their opposition to conviction upon any of th charges, and several others did not believe there was any evidence to sustain several of them. This rendered It necessary that- every other republican should vote for Impeachment, If a con viction be had, and at this point the at titude of Senator Ross became a source of uneasiness to the Impeachment man agers Letters and marked editorials advising Mr. Ross how to vote reached him by tho thousand. Trusted messengers bore him significant messages of "bushels of money." Party leaders labored with him. Re-election or political ruin were held up as the alternatives. But to no avail. Hs adhered to his determination , to decide the case upon Its merits as best he could and refused to commit himself. He was torn between his antipathy to th presi dent, his deep political prejudice, his am bitions, and his deslr to oonform to the wishes of his state on the one hand and the conviction slowly forcing Itself upon him on the other that whatever the mis takes and follies of Mr. Johnson, he was not guilty of the high crimes and misde meanors In office with which he was charged nor to warrant his expulsion from his high office. This refusal to commit himself In ad vance mad Senator Ross the marked man of that trial. When the vote was taken on th famous eleventh article of Im peachment, which comprises the sub stance of all the other charges, on May 16, 1R68, the eyes of the whole nation were upon him. It waa felt that the Issue rested upon his vote. And It waa true. When he Joined his "Insurgent" colleagues In voting "not guilty," furnishing th vote which ' aoquitted th president, the fury of th ad vocate of conviction burst about his head In a storm th like of which has never assailed any other publlo man. ' He was mad a scapegoat. Th alleged political Ins of the antl Impeachment republicans wer loaded upon his back . and h was driven Into th wilderness of obscurity. Upon his retirement In 1871 th former senator - mad several successive news paper ventures In Kansas, all of whioh proved failures, and but a short time sufficed to find htm again eking out a precarious existence "at th case," as In hi early manhood. In 1882 he removed to Albuquerque and shortly afterward be- cam foreman of the job department of one of the local newspapers, where he re mained for th next three years. Smarting under the fierce denunciation leveled at him by his party organs, lead era, and conventions. It was not unnatural that Mr Ross should hav Joined the liberal republican movement of 1872 and through that have drifted Into general accord with the democratic party. Hav ing done so. President Cleveland was able In 1886 partially to rward him for his services and sacrifices seventeen year be fore by making him governor of New Mex ico. Upon his retirement in 1889 Governor Ross fitted up a small job office In Albu querque. Much of th tim he was th only workman mployed. In th humble rou tine of printing letterheads, circulars and 1 sale bills h SDnt th next ten years. Dur ing this time Albuquerque enjoyed the dla tlnctlon of containing the only printing office In th country wherein th types were set and the presses run by the hand of a former United State senator. 8ix years ago he sold his plant and pur chased a small fruit and alfalfa farm in the edge of town. Here, In a little Mex ican abode house surrounded by tree, but j otherwise typical of th dull, gloomy, for bidding realdenee of the southwestern na tive, he has spent the sunset year of th life In which romance and pathos hav been more strangely blended than In any other of which recorded history keeps the story. WHE1 PLAINS WERE B1TFFALOED Official Mention of an Incident Forty Years Old. Boston Transcript Apropos th recent purchase by the Cana dian government of on of the few sur viving herds of buffalo In the United States, there Is on reoord at the War department. Waihlngton. a document bearing witness to how plentiful the animals were within th memory of many men now living. It Is th "return" for several rounds of cannon am munition expended In Kansas In 186T to divert th cours of a great herd of buffalo that was bearing down towards a camp of soldiers with a force that threatened ti overwhelm It. At least on officer I allv Who saw thes shots fired, and h describes the herd as literally reaching aa far as the eye could see. It was a long time In passing the ramp, whose occupants watched It In sller.ee, awed t-y the spectacle. General Philip St. George Crook, who died but a few years ago at a very advanced ag. one halted a regiment of cavalry on the plains to permit a grat herd of antelope to pass, and he waj not a man easily halted when 011 dutv. His humanity Impelled him to withhold th regiment from mangling and maiming th antelop. which wr allowed tho right-of-way. Illinois' Favorite- Boa. Chicago Chronicle. Illinois will undoubtedly present th name of Mr. Cannon to th convention, but whether h win or not th wost will nam th candidate. With Illinois preMntln Cannon, Indiana backing Fairbanks and Ohio supporting Taft, th eastern man who ha design upon ta nomination wtll hav to get up very early In th morning and stay up late at night. Tb year 1 wtll be a year for th (Htm aocUca of th re publican party. NRBRASKA PRF. COM W KIT. Wlsner Republics n: "What Is your opin ion of Jim DahlmanT" asks Plxby. He's a hard nut. Papllllon Times (dem.): "What Is your private opinion of Jim DahlmanT" asks Hi-other Blxby of the State Journal. No, thank you! W do not Indulg In that kind of language. Falrbury Journal: Peter Jaroen la out In another open letter, criticising the reform ers. Peter should have left the blamed old party, any way, when It went off and left him In 1K9. Peter was for free sliver that year before th convention: so wns the writer, but Peter made the mistake of his ! life by staying with the party. Now the party ha gone off and left him again and there Is nothing for Peter to do but make money and write letter. Norfolk rress: The fellows who have longing eyes flxel on the pie counter are finding much fault because Governor Shel don la so pestiferously slow In making ap pointments. It Is vn reported that two or three chap hav got tired of waiting snd gona horn and went to work. The state government. In the meantime, la run ning right along at a steady jog and no accidents have happened, so the governor can hardly be censured for not getting a swifter move on th pie machine. York Republican: It Is much like playing us for children to try to make us bellev that there la anything In recent railroad legislation to warrant th Rurllngton man agement In violating th square promts made by th road' officials last year. Tork wants that new depot The present depot and grounds are disgraceful to the town and disgraceful to the peopl who permit themselves to be worked by false promises (if they decide to do so). Th people con tributary to this station pay Into the cof fers of the road a sum not less, and prob ably greater, than tlSO.OOO every year. They ar entitled to demand soma ordinary com forts and decencies In th place where they go to transect this great volume of busi ness, and whioh now affords neither. A fair, square promise Is something to be not lightly broken, even by railroad officials. Individuals doing business In such a man ner would shortly And that ther 1 neither money nor favor In It. and that they must keep good their promises. The rule that la good for Indlvtduals ought to be good for railroads, too. Wood River Interests: Interests would be pleased If some one of th big daily papers would publish the monthly statement filed by the railroads with the railway commis sion, giving the names of all persons hold ing passes, or to whom th railroads have Issued passes, and specifying the kind of employment and the class designated for which the pass has been given. There ar broad rumors afloat that there are flagrant violations of the anti-pass law. It la an Im portant thing to enact anti-pass legislation, but the meat In tho cocoanut Is the enforce ment of It. If the law la Ignored and evaded and our executive officials wink the other eye at these violations. It Is cer tain that those who really and truly be lieve that the railroad pas Is one of the most potent factors In corrupting politics, are being made monkey of. Interests, for one, believes that the anti-pass law should be enforced or that our public offi cials and the people generally should frankly declare that It Is a good thing to talk and to resolut about, but a poor thing to put Into personal practice. Bchuyler Free Lance: W must correct Editor Green of the Crelghton Liberal as to one statement, and that his remark that the Free Lance editor supported Sheldon for governor last fall to sort of offset the fact that all the democratlo state ticket was supported but governor and that ex ception was mad to keep this paper some what In the non-partisan and independent line. Nothing could be wider the mark. W supported the democratlo state ticket because we considered It made up Of th best material from a people's standpoint except governor and on that was for Shel don because we considered him better than Shallenberger. In th first place, th cor poration element In that democratlo state convention downed George W. Berg and with Shallenberger and the corporation ele ment supported Shallenberger Instead of Sheldon. Sheldon's record In two senatorial i terms and the platform he proposed run nlng on for governor was not to the liking of th railroads. Mr. Shallenberger Is a good citizen and talked well during the campaign and ran on an excellent platform, but w did not like the element responsible for his nomination. While we know th : brewery and liquor Interests generally sup. ported Shallenberger, that did. not Influence us In any way and we do not blame those Interests for taking part In a campaign, as It touches their Interest 41ESTION OF LEGAL ETHICS. Lofty Ideal Varan Common Practice of th Profession. Pittsburg Dispatch. Justice Brewer of th United States su preme court Is something of an expert on legal ethics. - It Is not therefore a rash and unhallowed lay opinion. Invading th sacred precincts of the law, which criticises the practice of eminent lawyars In permitting themselves to be retained by trusts and combinations to show how they may get around th laws against restraint of trade. It Is a Judge of the highest court In th land who says that th honesty of such counsel is "a negative honesty," and ap peal to every lawyer to "have the courage to say to his client, 'It may be legal, but It is dishonest, and I will hav nothing to do with If " Th appeal will go unanswered until either "the higher standard of professional ethics" which Justice Brewer Invokes or direct pen alties Imposed by statute mak It hazard ous for lawyars to advise rich clients how to get around th letter of the law to defeat Its Intent. This Is Inevitable because of a natural operation evidenced In the spread of unscrupulous trust and combination methoda But of th need of Justice Brewer's call for a higher standard there waa a striking vldenc almost contemporary with his ut terance. It ta presumable that a jurist who has been distinguished by appointment and service on th United State district bench la, constructively at least, a lawyer of high standing, versed In th ethic of th profession and of a character that should insure his living up to tho rules of conduct. Yet only last week a lawysr who had occupied the United Statas bench in a neighboring district mad or permit ted th publlo announcemant that h had organised th means by which a monopoly of a food staple can b maintained with out coming Into conflict with th United Btate statute, though violating both its Intent and thst of ths principle of common law, antedating th existence of this na tion! W may well doubt th law proof armor of th contemplated monopoly In beans. But when a lawyer of that standing de clares That he has bean giving his Ugal abilities to the attainment of that purpose It shows either that th practice whioh Justice Brewer opposes 1 well rotted In th profession or that an unfavorable ex emplar of professional ethics was In past years appointed to th United States dtatrtot bench. A Favorite Pastime, New York Commercial. After careful Investigation of the subject w dlsoover that the favorite pastime of prominent Aiuerioan bus la t bottom nUlUuuairea. , rUDKRAt CHILD LABOR MdMRT. Plan for a Thoronnh, Nation-Wide la realisation. Chicago Record-Herald. Commissioner Nelll of the bureau of labor has been mapping out the plan of work for the Investigation of the labor of women and children for which congress haa mad an appropriation of H&O.OnO. Before long h will send a few men into the field to mak experimental researches with a view to de termining Just what can best bo accom plished by tho bigger force of probably 1T4 men which will be sent out later on. lly next winter he expects to have all his material In hand, and soon after that he expects to be able to make a full report to congress. The Investigation will be broader than any heretofore made, sine It will not b confined to strictly Industrial facta but will seek to determine the effects of labor on the physical, Intellectual and moral 111 of women and children. For Instance, ex aminations will be made of th records of houses of correction and of police court to find how many children appearing In them hnv been workers, and what. If any, connection can be traced between their work and their delinquency. The facta about children will he sought first, and then those about women. It is not thought possible to make aa complete an Investigation as Is deslrabl with the money appropriated, and conse quently tho work will be confined to such fields aa enn be finished with the appro priation. If then further work Is neces sary, an additional grant of funds will be asked. Tho facts gathered by the department will be available for the use not only of congress but also of state legislatures. If. however, state legislatures continue to fol low as narrow and selfish a policy a Is being followed, for Instance, this year by the Illinois legislature with reference to labor measures of all kinds, then federal legislation will become Inevitable. The question as to whether such legislation properly belongs In the field of the federal government will sink to a purely academic question before the pressing need for reg. ulatlon, If th states do not act as thy should. PERSONAL AND OTHKRWUK. For the present Madrid ceases to be what John Hay described, "th dreariest capital 1n Europe." A little son shine doa the business. One of the moat Interesting literary shrine In England, the house In which Daniel Defoe penned the greater part of "Robinson Crusoe," la about to be torn down to made way for modern dwellings Sweden has sent a commissioner to this country, E. H. Thornberg. He has com to 'study the emigration question In an at tempt to stem the tide of young men and women who are leaving hla country. Most of them have money. Agamya Grau Paramahamea, a Hindu philosopher, has arrived In New York with the avowed Intention of making the Gothnmltes happy. Somebody hinted to him that happiness by the route of un happtness Is an American Idea, and th pundit, after a cruise through Wall street, has about agreed with hi Informant. Louis Scherff, democratic mayor of Marlon, O., haa resigned as trustee of the Epworth Methodist Episcopal church k). ' cause the members of that congregation tried to coerce him Into stopping Sunday base ball. The ball park is outside th city limits. Mayor Scherff Is said to hav been threatened with a church trial and so resigned aa trustee. Prof. Edwin Maxey of th University of Nebraska contributes to the Green Bag', for May an article on "The Constitutionals" Ity of the Beveridge Child Labor Law.ta The writer . .contend . . that -, th , measure proposed by the Indiana senator would noi be constitutional unless the supreme court changes Its view as to what constitutes "commerce," but argues that it would stand the test of the highest court as an exerols of pollc power. Several deci sions are quoted to sustain the professor's argument A report printed In pamphlet form of the work of the corporation which had charge of th funds contributed for th relief of Bon Francisco last year shows In detail the receipts and disbursements up to March 19, lv7. The gross receipts of both relief and Red cross runas $8 119 751 and disbursements 8e.W7.714.81. leaving a balance of $1,162,038.08. Th re port states that with the exception of one or two Isolated cases, where remit tances wtent astray, "every dollar re mitted has been received and accounted for." LAtGHINQ OAS. n do wish." said Mrs. Stiles, "that you'd try to keep yourself neater.' "But my dear," protested her husband, "you r not so careful" I'm not? 1m certainly more careful of my clothe than you" "That's Just it. You should b mor careful of in." Philadelphia Press. "Get Into that balloon or 1 11 tan you good and plenty," remarked the lrssclbl aeronaut to his son. "Dad," said the fearless youngster, yoa mak m soar."-Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Is anyon waiting on youT" asked th haughty saleslad:', finally condescending to notlc the shopping person. "I'm afraid not," iplld the latter. My husband was I left him outaide but I in afraid lies become disgusted and gone home." Catholic Standard and Tinie. Reporter Senator, In your candid Jdi ment, what will he the ultimate renult M the Panama canal? Eminent Statesman My boy, I think on of it most remarkable results will """"J every man prominently connected witn 11 will get a better Job somewhere els. Chicago Tribune. "Hav you ever tried to convince your constituent that you were another Daniel Webster?" . .... "No." answered Senator Borghum: 'what my constituents want Is appropriations, not literature." Washington Biar. "I have made up my mind to get mar ried." "You'd better make up your face also, dear." Balllnior American. Mrs. Kawler My husband occasionally takes a preparation for his headache, but It's a queer sort of stuff, and 1 don't re member how h pronounces it. Mrs. Crossway If It's llks what my hus band takes he pronounces It brandy and soda. Chicago Tribune. HOW PA FIXED TIIH LAWN MOWR t Kansas City Times. We got our old lawn mower out Hut It would hardly run a bit. "We'll have to get It fixed," says Ma. But Pa says, "I can tinker It; It's wssteful, this extravagance. So get some oil, a wrench and nie; I'll fix It up th sams ss new In only Just a Uttl while." "ft, keerful, SI," says Ma, but Pa Jest looked at her and kinder sniffed. "I know what I'm about," says he, "At ruin' things; I got a girt. You Just take Tommy off to church, And when you r hum again you'll so Thkt I can do things mighty well When no one's by to pester me." I begged to stay a-hlpln Pa Because 1 like to hear Mm cuss, . But had to SJ to Hunday school An' couldn't wait to see the muss. I cuuldn't stay there, tho , but S.ieaked Away, and run for home like Nd. I didn't dure to go In, but peeked At Pa frum round behind th shd. And ther Was Pa his Sunday pants Locked like he'd taken Hit in to wlp An engine with: bed tore his shirt And bit the stem clean off file pipe; He klckvd th tiling and hurt his corn, 1 rrnn run and got the tin, andwowl When h got through he grinned and yell frt, "Dogguii you, guess I VI Lied yuu no.4 i 1 1