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THE OMAHA DAILY BEEt MONDAY, MAY 20, 1007. The Omaha Daily Bel roUNDEU) BY EDWARD ROSEWATEH VICTOR ROBE WATER. EDITOR. Entered at Omaha postofflc econ. tu matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, pally Bee (without Sunday), en MT..M-M l'aily fcf and Hunday on yar -Jf bunuay Bee, on year kxtturuay on yar DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Dally bco (Including Sunday), par wak..IS Lnlly Be (without Bunoay), per wek-..l Evening Be (without Sunday), per week. 40 Evening Be (with Sunday;, par week luo Addreaa complaints of Irragularttle In delivery to City Circulation Departmeat. OKFICE3. Omaha Th Bee Building. 6outh Omaha city Hall Building. Council Bluffs 16 Bcott Street. Chlcago-H(0 Unity Building. New York IMS Horns Life Insuranc Bid. Washlngton-601 Fourteenth 6 treat. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating- to news and ed itorial matter should be addressed. Omaha Bee, Editorial Deportment. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, Payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only 2-cent stamps received In payment of tiiall accounts. Personal check, except on Omaha or eastern eirhenge, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMFANT. BTATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Stat of Nebraska. Douglas County, as, Charles C. Rosewatar, . general manager of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, nay that th actual number JJ full and complete roplea ol rh Dally, Morning. Evening and Sunday Be printed during th month of April. 107. was as follows: 1 33.670 2 84.090 34,110 34.3M 34,330 34,330 7 31,400 34,380 34.4S0 10 34,800 11 34,410 i 3s,rao 11 38,890 1 33,400 1 34,690 1 34.830 17 38,090 g 38,090 J9 34.840 0 38,010 tl 83,380 12 38.090 IS 08,300 S4 88,40 tl 38,470 St 80,340 17 38,830 21 34,800 29 38,810 19 38,860 Total 1,038,410 Less unsold and returned copies. 8,864 Net total ; 1.088.B46 Dally average 84,984 CHARLES C. ROSEWATEH, General Manager. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me tbla 10th day of April. 1907. (Seal.) M. U. HUNQA.TB. Notary Publla WHISK OCT OF TOW, bserlber leavlaa; th elty temt porarllly .14 have Th Be nailed to tfccaa. Addre will hm Any age la apparently a marrying age tor an actress. , The late spring has not Injured the crop of stories about possible wheat (amines. "Money Is a menace." says Colonel Watterson. Possibly, but most people are brave. It should be safe now tor King Ak-Sar-Bea to put his great fur coat in cold storage. Washington papers are confident the town will see some mighty good ball playing before, the season Is over. By the visiting teamsT It Is not too late for Mr. Bryan to amend his statement about the price of wheat and the price of silver always being linked together. The population of Idaho is 165,000, so every man in the state has a pretty good chance of being drawn on the Haywood Jury panel. . "PltUburg must have a new deal," Bays a paper of that city. The trouble with Pittsburg deals is that there are too many Jokers in the pack. Honors are even. ... Senator Piatt eays he never was a Roosevelt man and no one can accuse the president of ever having been a Piatt man. "Lynching Is going out of fashion In the south." says an Alabama paper. Reports now Indicate that mobs are using dynamite Instead of the rope. Scientists now assert that fish can not hear. In view of the tall stories tld about them, deafness In fish must be looked upon as a blessing rather than affliction. . The retiring deputy labor commis sioner explains that he la resigning to take a position for a window shade company. Just so it Is not a fire escape company. Latest reports are that Mr. Bryan weighs 235 pounds. But he still looks that "after taking" picture in an anti fat advertisement, when compared with Secretary Taft. The minister who united In marriage Mr. Corey and Miss Mabelle Oilman , at tl.,000 per is now explaining. He ought to admit he needed the money and let It go at that. It is a common thing now for Omaha's weekly bank clearings to mount up close to the 111.000.000 ' mark. Omaha is bound to keep in good company in the clearing house table. f Fortunately for the people outside i of the penitentiaries, Iowa Is to have a new law, going Into effect next July, 1 which la expected to put some limits on the free distribution of paroles and pardons by the governor. v Washington society Is trying to ad vance the cause of temperance by giv ing up wine at dinner. It will be remembered that Washington society declared It vulgar to serve butter at dinner when butter cost 60 cents a pound. It now appears that the new crown ,m!ii'o of Spain will be christened Al fonroPio Chrlstlno Eduardo Francisco Uulilermo Carlos Enrique Eugino Fertamio Antonio Vensncler Capet. Later his chums will call him "Fatty" or "Film" or "Euorty," as his physique BtSCLlS OF MEAT INSrKCTWS. A conference at Chicago of the chief meat Inspectors of the Department of Agriculture comes as a reminder of an almost forgotten Incident, a bo at a year old, that almost robbed Amer icans of their appetite for meat The publio has apparently forgotten or grown Indifferent to the exposures which created so much excitement a year ago, but the report of Dr1. Melvln, chief of the bureau of animal Industry, furnishes ample Justification for the restoration of national confidence In the meat supply. All the chief Inspec tors reported that the most wholesome results have followed the enforcement and operation of the new meat inspec tion law and the consequent protection of the domestic. as welj as the foreign customers. Since the agitation, ac cording to the official report, the pack ers have spent "millions of dollars" in new, modernized, scientifically sani tated buildings, equipped with devices and conveniences for the workers, and every precaution has been taken to make the product of the packing house wholesome. ' In reviewing the work of the Inspec tion service. Secretary Wilson declares "The American people may rest assured that they are getting the healthiest and best meats supplied to any coun try In the world. Conditions have been bettered to such an extent that people may be certain that they are getting clean meat when it comes from a firm whose packing houses are under federal lnspeotion." This official view Is supported by the results of private Investigations made by foreign buyers of American packing house products. All agree that the present system of Inspection is genuine and efficient, thus completely vindicating the rather radical methods employed by the ad ministration to arouse the public and congress to the action necessary for the eradication of packing house abuses. TAXJNQ GOVERNMENT BONDS. The supreme court of the United States has balked the authorities of the state of Iowa in an effort to levy a tax on government bonds, bringing up an old question in a new form and thus finally disposing of It. The Iowa state law provides that "shares of stock of state and savings banks and loan and trust companies shall be assessed to such banks and loan and trust com panies and not to individual stock holders." The upholders of the law contended that this was a tax upon the property of the banks and loan companies and not a tax upon government bonds, al though such bonds might form a large or small share of the property of the banks. In the test of the case in the state acourts, it was shown that the savings banks held a goodly amount of government bonds and the intima tion was offered that this securities were placed In that form for' the pur pose of evading taxes, the supreme court held that the purpose of exempt ing government bonds from taxation was to protect the national credit, otherwise the national securities might easily be taxed whenever they were held by a corporation. Congress has never empowered the states to levy taxes en government bonds and the supreme court questions the authority of congress to bestow such power, even if it were so disposed. The decision settles the law for all time to be that United States bonds are not taxable, but are to be deducted from returns of taxable property, whether of a corporation-or an indi vidual. '' The court holds, properly, that if states could tax government bonds at all they might tax them at any rate and thus impair if not destroy the national credit. The decision, however, does not apply to taxes levied on bank shaies against the individual owners as is done in Nebraska and many other states, although some of the dividends of the stock may be earned by investments in government bonds as part of the bank's assets. CHICAGO'S SEW CITY C04BTIR. Chicago has been celebrating the en actment by the legislature of a new city charter, which is to be submitted for ratification at a special election next September and from which all sorts of municipal blessings are ex pected to flow. The new Chicago charter works many changes in existing organisa tion of the city government, particu larly by consolidating the powers and responsibilities. Heretofore municipal authority in Chicago has been out up between numerous independent local governments, including a Board of Ed ucation, township boards, park boards and similar subdivisions, each op erating on its own account. This au thority Is to be centered in the mayor and his appointees and the mayor's office Is to be' further strengthened by extending the term to four years. The mayor and council will continue as the source of local legislation with certain amplified powers and increased sala ries. Civil service requirements are extended into practically all branches of the municipal employment and an effort is made to make civil service effective by creating a civil service commission vested with full powers. Outside ef Its peculiarly local pro visions the significant feature of Chi cago's new city charter Is that it pro ceeds along established lines rather than by striking out by the path that Is achieving popularity elsewhere un der the name of the "Galveston plan," or "commission idea." The scheme of municipal government by general committee, consisting of a mayor and some half docen elective members, among whom the different depart ments are parcelled out for super vision and control, evidently failed to attract favorable attention from thoso who framed Chicago's new charter. As a consequence the charter makers have preferred to cling close to the normal form of municipal government that has been evolved in this country In the belief that .Chicago's municipal salvation can be achieved without too many radical changes at oie time. It is taken for granted In Chicago that the charter will be approved by the voters and go into effect at the ap pointed time. Actual experiment alone wtll demonstrate how far it will help the city to respond to the growing demands upon its municipal government. IN MEMORY OF MISS ANTHONY. The announcement that a fund of $60,000 has been raised for the pur pose of carrying out the plans of Susan B Anthony for further advancement of the cause of equal suffrage, to which she devoted the energies of her busy life, comes suddenly upn the general public, because practically no reports of progress on securing the fund had been made. In that respect, its collec tion has been a marked Innovation from the usual In such cases. It ap pears that less than a year ago, and Just a short time before her death, Miss Anthony confided her Ideas for future work In the suffrage movement and expressed a fear that the resources would not be forthcoming to carry It on. A few close friends took up the matter and the $60,000 necessary to carry out Miss Anthony's plans and thus perpetuate her memory was sub scribed by less than twenty-five per sons. As widely as a majority of the peo ple of the country differed in opinion from Miss Anthony, her methods of campaign were never censured. She was a fighter, but she understood hu man nature and never resorted to ques tionable methods, such as have recently brought the British suffragettes Into ridicule, to the Irreparable Injury to their cause. The collection of ' the fund, designed not only to perpetuate her name but to put Into execution the plans she had formed for the realization of- her most cherished hopes, honors her memory in a pecu liarly fitting fashion. PENALTY FOR PISTOL TOTINO. The Texas legislature, which had a regular saturnalia of reform, has dis covered that one of its enactments has failed in accomplishing the good intended. After deciding that bed sheets in hotels of the state should be at least eight feet long, the legisla ture passed a law designed to put an end to the pistol carrying habit, which had become something of a menace to the general welfare. With that object in view, a law was passed imposing a tax of 50 per cent on the gross sale of firearms, and already it has been dem onstrated that it takes more than a legislative enactment to break the Texans of a chronic habit. The shoot ing iron dealers have' discovered easy methods of evading the law. The steady patron of the pistol counter is taken into confidence and induced to pay $5 to (25 for a cake of soap or a shaving brush and the pistol is thrown in as a premium. In that way both the seller and the buyer save the increased price that would result from compli ance with the state law. Texas has made the mistake of going about it in the wrong way to break up a bad habit. A law requiring the dealer in firearms to secure a license and. to report his sales to the authori ties would furniBh the police with an accurate list of pistol toters. Then, a law prohibiting the carrying of con cealed weapons, If enforced, would soon end the pernicious and foolish practice. The city authorities In New York are vigorously enforcing such an edict with most satisfactory results In the reduction of the number of homicides. Texas has made the error of underestimating the fertility of the inventive genius that produces loop holes for law evasion. One railroad has filed with the State Railway commission its full list of free passes Issued during the month recovered by Its report The passes Is sued during the rarticular month, how ever, ar,e not all the pasties outstand ing which may be used for free rides within the boundaries of Nebraska and whose use for that purpose is prohib ited by our anti-pass law. Holders of annuals Issued before the new law went Into effect are in position to ride free between points on lines in this state and the Intent of the law con templates publicity of the names of all present pass holders no matter when they received their pasteboards. .The story about a cyclone that picked up a school house in an Illinois town, carried it out a few miles and then restored It to its original location without injuring the building or inter-, fering with the recitations in progress will make interesting reading down east, but will not create even a ripple of surprise or Interest In the west. The story originated in Kansas some years ago, when the correspondent who afterwards achieved fame as the Chefoo liar wss working on a Wichita newspaper. According to the brief filed by our Water board attorneys In the last water works case, there never was any Intention on the part of the city to buy the water plant unless It could be had for leas than $8,000,000. What for have ww been paying salaries to all these do-nothing water commissioners and their engineering experts and blgh-prlced attorneys all these four years? Iowa club women at the Iowa state federation meeting were told that the responsibility refits upon them for ralo lng the standard of our newspapers. If that ts tho case the continued con tagion of yellow Jourstls In Cciata. j scattering broadcast filthy fakes and pouring the poison of sensationalism Into the homes, must be laid up to the women shirking their responsibilities. No man has any right to hold the office of sheriff In Douglas county un less he Is content with the salary and emoluments allowed by law and will ing to turn into the treasury all money that properly belongs to the taxpayers received for Jail accommodations fur nished prisoners from the outside. The only democrat ever elected at torney general In Nebraska has se cured an Injunction from a district court Judge o prevent his neighbor's chickens from digging worms in his front yard. What has become of the democratic platform plank denouncing government by injunction? . Expert horticulturists stake their reputations on the declaration that fruit trees In this vicinity will yield a fair crop, Jack Frost to the contrary notwithstanding. That news should be as welcome as tidings of dollar wheat. There seems to be dsngor that Mayor "Jim" will be as generous with his permits for street signs forbidden by ordinance as he Is with pardons for Jail prisoners. A summary of the graft scandal In San Francisco shows that Abe Ruef did not do It, but Is sorry he got caught and Is now lying about his pals. Walt Till the Monarch Speak. St. Louis Republic. Dollar wheat la having his day now. Walt till w hoar from old King Corn. . A Reannnahle Probability. i . Philadelphia Press. In all probability there will be no short age In the wheat crop except for trading purposes. Overflowing the nonndary. St. Louis Democrat. Business condition are so good In United States that prosperity has the ex panded Into Canada, Cuba, Panama and Mexico. Too Slow In Daeklag, Chicago Chronicle. - In its practice teats the naval submarine boat Octopus has beaten all records for quick diving. The Standard Oil octopus used to have a high reputation in that line, but it lately seems unable to duclt quickly enough to escape the fire of the Department of Justice. Reform la the Air. New Yosk Tribune. In passing a bill making it a misdemeanor to amok a cigarette in publio the Wis consin State assembly takes the lead in championing man' Inalienable right to freeh atmosphere. The s next step may be the compulsory canning of the chewing gum breath. At last it may be said with perfect truth that reform Is In the air. Confeasloa Good fov itbe Coannlr Kansas CHyj. Star. ... . ' No matter whe t a wan - baa been' be fore, you cannot, get. away from the fact that he is rendering a great service to oclety and morality wjien, he does .what Abraham Kuef I doing in Ban Francisco. To Judge the value of Ruef's confession and his evidence against other, one must lay aside alt consideration of. hi personal motives whether they . Jbe those of cow ardice, revenge and penitence. The Im portant fact is that In such a, comprehen sive sytem .of graft as that operated . In San Francisco the whol truth cannot be known until some man who has partici pated in the benefit of the system tells what he knows. -4 PERSONAL ROTES. Thomaa F. Walsh, the Colorado mining king, studied under a tutor for several years after he made his fortune to correct the defects in his early education. Senator Nixon of Nevada, who used to be a telegraph operator, ..found some gold mines and now ha so much money that he frankly admits he can't count It. The Academle des Belle Lettre of Paris ha awarded 2,000 of the 1,000 franca of th Prix Loubet to Henry Ylgnaud, secretary of the American embassy, for his book on Columbus. The decoration of the Order of the Morn, Ing Sun was conferred upon Dr. Louis Klopsch, editor of the ,. Christian Herald, In New York, by Baron Takewo Osawa, personal envoy of the Japanese emperor. The decoration la conferred upon Dr. Klopsch in recognition of the work done by him In relieving famine sufferers In Japan last year. More than $260,000 was raised by th Christian Herald for this pur pose. Ban Francisco Is sorely troubled with labor unrest and racket, but the city will not know what a real strike Is until a bunch of Chicago teamster are imported. The proposed monument to BUI Nye, to be erected by the Press Humorist' asso ciation, represents a fine spirit of fra ternity among the t smtle-makers of the land. Surviving members of th famous "party liars" of Laramie may b depended on to fatten the fund. II. B. Irving and his Urother, Laurence, are to publish a biography of the late Sir Henry Irving. No leas than all book have been written about Sir Henry alnce his death and there are at least two other to followone by Austin Brereton and an other by Joseph Hutton. Th final life by the sons will not be published for several years and for satisfactory reason. It promises to be an Important book, for both sons have demonstrated that they have literary ability. TUB STANDARD MIST. Rockefeller' Oil Bnalarsa Oatrank a Hold Mia. Wall Street Journal. The directors of the Standard Oil com pany have declared a quarterly dividend of 19 per share, the same amount that was paid in the corresponding quarter last year. This compare with tlS three months ago. The Standard Oil dividend Is payable June 15 to stock of record May 30. The dividend record of the Standari Oil company from 1898 to the present follows: Amount vear. Dividend, disbursed 117 23.7i.O 1i6 I'M isr.1 lftc'I 1S!)8 . 40 . . 34 . 44 . 46 . 48 . 4H . 13 . 3J W 20O 43.123.4i0 44.1)0 47.O40.&0 47,(V40.'Jil S..HOOno 1 Total :.. . fJSP.4KI.70i) Aa shown by the foregoing figures, th Standard OH company has disbursed t3S0. 4,7e) to shareholders over a period of nine and one-half yeara. By the close of ths year disbursements will have reached nearly $:ro oro (V 0. or f.vir t'rrrs the out standing capital stock of th curpjrutlon. ROtSD AHOIT SEW YORK. Ripple oa the Current of I.lfe la th Metropolis. Th depth of romantic pathos In humble life wa sounded In the metropolis Inst Wednesday, when Jim Pair, the blind fiddler of TorkMlle, wa fnunrt dead on a doorstep In Fifty-first street. Pelrts him wa th old fiddle and In his cloyed hand a scrap of whit pare pricked with odd looking and apparently meaningless points here and there. No on know that the crap of paper contained the secret of Blind Jim' life and death no on except Mrs. Donnelly, th woman with whom Jim boarded at H EaM Forty-ninth stre-t. The moment she saw It she exclaimed: "Why, It's one of the letters that Jim gets now and then. It s written In the blind script." And In a moment It was translated. "Dear Jim." It ran. "You mustn't wait for me any longer. I've morrled the other one. I'm sorry, Jim. but he played the organ so beautiful. Yours, MAQOIE." "I guess It's the same girl he ha been writing to for these mny years," said Mrs. Donnelly to the Sun reporter. "She lives out In Jersey somewhere, and he's been In love with her ever since they got ac quainted In the blind school up on Amster dam avenue, where Jim learned to read and write the. blind alphabet. She's blind, too, and J1m- thought he was going to marry her eome day. At leaat so he's hinted to me, without ever lotting on a word about her name or address. "Jim lived with us here going on fifteen years, but we never learned the girl ad dress. Jim was supported by relatives in Brooklyn and around. But he didn't sit here and Just lay around like many a blind and many a seeing man with money from the folks would do. An that's how h came to get the name of Jim the Fiddler. "Yesterday he got a letter. I saw him after he reads It. His face was as gray as i).ior-o gma ana smiling just a minute before. He Sticks the letter in his pocket. Picks up his fiddle and goes out. He played along tho street corners all day. Last night he came in, went out this morning with never a word to me, and Just as If he didn't know what to do any more. I couldn't think what was the matter. He must havo sat down to read tho last letter. That was the one he had In his hand. It Jut broke his heart. He waited twenty-seven years for that girl and twenty-seven year I long time." New York has recently found out a thing or two about Indians' all by Itself. It knows one thing that It neither got from "Wild Dick" novels nor a hurried trip west; It has een Indians-bucks, squaws and papoose -on It streets since last October, and will testify that there is not an ounce of ill temper left In these hefty aborigines. These Indlans-rome ISO of them-are playing at the Hippodrome. They go about Broadway and other prominent streets In full regalia and war paint and, though bound on the most peaceful and personal mission mere buying of chewing gum, cigarettes or "fire-water"-lnvarlably they are attended by youngster who ought to be cuffed and spanked. The kiddles follow the Indian to the door of a shop, wait patiently until they come out again, attach themselves to the Indians' heel and, with Imitations of warwhoop and ghost dances, do their best to make the red men's life in New York a burden to them. Strangely enough, the In dians never do anything but wear a tor mented look when they are molested by "d an" An Indian, indeed, I deserving of a feather for bravery after h has hit th trail on Broadway. Hamilton Fish has held the office of as sistant treasurer of th United State. In charge of the subtreanury in New York. His term expiree soon and, although he ha been appointed as hi own successor, the Immense Job of counting th money In th vault of th gray old building on Wall street must again b performed. Mr. Fish doe not wish to give himself a receipt for the cash supposed to be on hand miles he know that It Is all there. Th work began reoently. Ten experts ar at it assisted by more than a drten laborer who work it Is to do th heavy lifting. There I some weight about 11.000, 000,000. In the vault there are 1250,000.000 of which 174,000,000 are in silver oolns, weighing more than 2,000 tons, and $178,000,000 of gold, which weighs 860 tons. More than a month's time will be consumed In the count. In a Broadway car long pat midnight a robust, motherly woman sat with a well- grown boy of about 15 beside her. The boy had fallen asleep and his head rested heav ily agalnnt her shoulder. A man entering the car wa cordially greeted by the woman and wa about to slap the boy on th knee when the mother Interposed. "Don't wake him," he pleaded. "He' so big now that he . is ashamed of doing childish things. This is the first time In a year that he ha been my baby boy again. Let me enjoy It. For several day a tall, poorly dressed but well set up man stood In Park Row, where every man and woman participat ing At the two dally Brooklyn bridge rushes could see him. Suspended by a cord about his neck was a white placard two feet square, bearing the following in crudely executed lettering: I WANT WORK. NO GRAFTRR. NO APOLOGIES. Th candor of the man and the simplicity of his appeal lifted him Immediately from th status of the ordinary street fakir. Score of sympathetic pedestrians stopped and talked with hlra. To each questioner he. would say: "My name is H. W. Leonard. I cam from Cincinnati five month ago. I am not educated, but I am honest, and I can work. I am not a mechanic. I have no trade, but I have my health and muat upport myself. I lost a place becnuae my hands were Injured in a gas explosion. I am well again and want a Job. I propose to stand here until th right man come along." He waited two day. As usual, he stood by the bridge this morning displaying hi placarded appeal. From the Jostling thou sands there emerged a middle-aged man and woman. The stopped In front of Leonard. He bowed. "Have you got a Job down your way for an able-bodied man?" he asked. The man asked a question which parted Leonard's lips Into a double dental grin. "Are you sure you want me? Tbank Ood. I knew It would come." he was heard to say. The reply of the couple was lost In the clatter of the street. In an Instant Leonard removed the placard from his neck, folded It under his arm and trudged down Nassau street after th man and woman. Activities of Weatera Woiaea. Cleveland Plain Dealer. In Iowa a woman captured a burglar by merely hanging on to him and then turned him over to the police, but In Nebraska a woman married the burglar ah captured. Let' hope the Nebraska burglar will never envy the Iowa one. The Price of Peace. Indianapolis News. The hotel rooms of the American dele- filial it TV, I ( U .1 1 . r..nn. , ,, umi. ana service, koobs s ir peace la to be more expensive than war. Whr Spring Healtnte. Minneapolis Journal. Omaha Is holding a popular voting con test for Queen of My. Now you know why spring failed to get a quorum this year. mrnxxmoBmamaaet Women Avoid Operations When a woman sofferlnu from female tronbl Is told that an oper ation Is necessary, It, of course, frightens her. The very thoupht of the hospital, the operating table and the knife strikes terror to her heart. It Is quite troe that these troub les mar reach a stage where an ope ration is the only resource, but a great many women hare bet-n cured by Lydla E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound after an operation has been decided npon as the only enre. The strongest and most grateful statements possible to make come from women who by taking- Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound made from native roots and herbs, have escaped serious operations, M evidenced by M iss Rose Moore's wise, of 307 V. 80th St., N.Y. She wrttes:- Dear Mrs. Plnkham:-"Lydla E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has cured me of the very worst form of female trouble and I wish to express to yon my deepest gratitude. I suffered Intensely for two years so that I was unable to attend to my duties and was a burden to my family. I doctored and doctored with only temporary relief and constantly objecting to an operation which I was advised to undergo. I decided to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound; it cured me of the terrible trouble and I am now in better health than I have been for many years." This and oUer such cases should encourage every woman to try L7 dia B. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound before she submits to an operation. Mrs. Pinkham's Standing Invitation to Women Women suffering from any form of female weakness are invited to promptly communicate with Mrs. Pink ham, at Lynn, Mass, From the symptoms given, the trouble may way of recovery advised. MEN WASTED. Sign of the Time Saga-eating- Melan choly Portents. Washington Herald. Within the last few years the feminine part of the world has made such progress that It has almost seemed as If mere man were to be shut out altogether. Of course, a "nice" man, with real money, can even yet find a niche, but many modern women think, undoubtedly, that the money would be much nicer without the man. It Is all right for a man to buy a sixty horsepower automobile, but, having bought It, the woman can run It with as much skill as he can. She may say she had a better time without him, too. In every walk of life, these modern day, we find women holding more than their own. They are beating the men clerks; they make the best nurses; they are at torney !n our courts; they are skillful doctors, and, more recently, they have taken to cab driving, and seem to do It well. The only gleam of hope we poor men have had recently comes from the Con gregational church, which Issues an ap peal that "men are wanted In the church, and at once, to supplement female grace and devotion with masculine vigor and dlreotness." So there Is hope for tis after all. Along the path of Congregationalism the women still need us, and, perhaps. If we are good, they will allow us to see them home. SELFISHNESS nos NOT PAV. Oreed Shrivels the Baal aid Make Failure Certnln. Wall Street Journal. Governor Hughes ha coined a telling plgram in th following word: ."Government doe not exist for parties and parties do not exist for the exclusive benefit of their member. A party that Is thinking of Itself alone is doomed to failure." This Is putting government - by parties on a high plane. A party that Is thinking of itself alone Is a party of bosses and spoil. A party that exist for the country and not primarily for Itself In a party which puts principles above men and poli cies above spoils. Governor Hughes' epigram applies equally to Individual as to parties. It Is as true of an Individual aa It ts of a party, that It is doomed to failure If thinking of self alone. There is not In th whole world a mora lonesome Individual than th man who 1 wholly salflsh, nor is there anyone who contains more elements of failure. True success depends upon thinking of other as well aa for one's self. It de pends upon reciprocity. It mean an out giving as well aa an Intaklng. WHEAT STATISTICS OF WORLD. Informing Figure oa the Production of Wheat. . New Tork Sun. It may help us to appreciate the grav ity of the report that come from almost all wheat statistic of th world. In 1906, according to a report of the United States Department of Agriculture, there was pro duced In all countries of the globe, taken together, 8,877,400.000 bushels of wheat. To this aggregate we confine ourselves for the moment to countries that have a sur plus for export Australasia contributed 8S,74E,0OO; Hungary, 167,512,000; British India, 281,163,000; European and Astatic Russia, about 600,000.000, and the United States, 802,979,000, That is to say, we garnered In th year named almost 160,000,000 bushels M the Heat Wm it's ' wanted, m its wanted A hot stove in a hot kitchen makes a hot eoolr. 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This year It srem practically sure that Russia, Roumanla and Hungary will have no wheat to export and that consequently we shall have no competitors except British India, Argentina and Canada. Bhall we have any wheat to spare? Dur ing the fiscal lear ended June 90, IBOft, w sent abroad a little less than 36,000.000 of wheat and a little less than 14,000.000 barrels of wheat Hour. Evidently, In view of the shortage In our own crops, we shall ,not be able this year to do much If any thing toward making good the deficit In the supplies of foreign countries. The day Indeed seems fast approaching when in normal years the whole of our wheat crop will be needed for home consumption. LAIGHIXG GAS. Wonderful," said the professor, "Is the strength of the huinan Jaw." "And," added the married man, "think of its tlrelesnness I" Washington Herald. "What was your strike about, anyway!" The man who was laying brick paused an Inntant. "About a week, I think," he responded, putting a brick In place. 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