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i OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, MAY 31. 190', The Omaha Daily Uel FOVSDRU BY EDWARD ROSK WATER. VICTOR R08E WATER, EDITOR. F.ntered at Omaha postufflce as second class matter. TERMS OF B INSCRIPTION. I'aily Bee ' without 8u:. day), one year..4oa lnlly life wnd Sunday one year 0 Sundny lire. on year J-50 Saturday Ilea, one year 1.60 DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Pally Roe (Including Sunday), per wek,.15e Dally Mm (without Sunday), per week...le Evening Pre (without Sundny), per week So Evening Bee (with Sunday), per week lOo Address all complaints of Irregularities In delivery to City Circulation Department OFFICES. Omaha The Bee duildlng. South Omaha-City Hall Building. council Miurrs 16 Scott Street. 'hlcngo-lh t "f ilt y Building:. New York l Home I.tfe Insurance Bldg. Washington 5ol Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications flat Inn to news and edi torial matter should be addteased. Omaha Dee, Editorial Deportment. REMITTANCES. Vniit by draft, fxprcs or postal order, payable to The Bee rubllshlng Company. Only 2-cent stumps recrnvt-d In payment of m.ill accounts. 1'ersonal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchnnxe, not scopted. THE BEE Fl'BMfllUNG COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CtTtCVtATION. State of Nebraska. Douglas County, ss. Charles C. RnsewaMr, general manager of The B-e Publishing- Company, being duly sworn, savs that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dftlly, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during; the month of April, 1907, was as followa: 1 33,670 17 38,0 2 34,090 II 13,090 34,110 1 44.S40 34.30 10 33,010 34,330 !1 33,350 34,330 2 2 33.090 1 31,400 tS 93,300 34.380 it 33,430 ,. 34,483 26 33,470 10 34,300 24 J,340 11 34,410 27 35,330 12 33,730 21 34,800 IS 33.630 26 33,510 14 33,400 10 83,630 16 ,. 34,090 1 34,880 Total 1,033.410 Leas unsold" and returned copies. 3,864 Net total l,oa,541 Dally Average 34,884 CHARLES C. ROSE WATER, General Manager. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me thla 30th day of April, IVY!. (Seal) M. B. H I' NO ATE, Notary Public. WHES Ol'T OF TOWS. Subscribers leaving; the city teas porarily aboald hare Th Ber mailed to them. Address 111 be chanced as often aa requested. Publicity isn't a bad thing, even for a paBbholder. "We drink too much," Bays the Los Angeles Express. Why don't you swear off? . Fashion has decreed a "boat hat" for the ladies. It goes with the Mar. ecl waves. John Brick and Minnie Batt have teen married in New York. Write your own ticket. May Irwin's husband will have to take her name if he want's to become known in the world. The oldest Inhabitant can hereafter point to 1907 aa the year the Tom and Jerry season lasted until June 1. It is reported that the word "thou sand" is mlspelled in the new $1,000 gold certificates. Had you noticed ltt The weather bureau haa done more effective work than the Department of Justice in putting the Ice trust to the bad. "The way to go to sleep," "says a Kansas editor, "is to think of nothing." In other words, read a modern society novel. For a real exclusive organization the palm would certainly go to the "Society of the Unlndlcted" in San Francisco. Henry C. Frick denies that he is going to give Pittsburg a $5,000,000 tit "gallery. He's decided to make it $10,000,000. Omaha Is-again the storm center of rival power propositions. Any or all of these will be welcome, if they will only take on definite shape. Abe Hummel has been assigned to duty in the bakery department of the prison at Blackwell's Island. Abe has had experience in handling the dough. The Real Estate exchange has been given some instructions in the matter of making wills, but most of Its mem bers are devoting their time to making money. Senator Daniel of Virginia refuses to become a candidate for the demo cratic presidential nomination. Sena tor Daniel knows a low bridge when he sees it. iciress-wj paid $1. still strong. Corey paid $1,000,000 for one the other day and now Howard Gould is willing to pay $1,000,000 to get rid of one. Senator Gallinger says the repub licans of New Hampshire are resting this year. It is tiresome work to whip that lonesome New Hampshire demo crat every two years. Secretary Root Is expected to act as pilot of the international peace confer Once at The Hague. The task is a difficult one, as the road to universal peace Is filled with uncharted rocks. Strawberry growers ar complain ing because they cannot get earn enough to haul their crop to market. Thla is the same crop which waa com pletely destroyed by frost a few. weeks ago. Chairman Allen of the democratic state committee may have sent, back the pass; but he certainly did what he could to deserve It. His efforts dur ing the last state campaign were about worth a, yiu. rrtr.siDEnrs iiAtLirAr rnnnHAM. Speculation that has been rife for some months as to the policy that President Roosevelt will pursue In urg fng further regulation and control of the railway business of the country was set at rest yesterday, when the president took occasion to devote prac tirally all of his Memorial day address at Indianapolis to a discussion of the question. His address leaves no doubt In the minds of raliway managers as to what they may expect from the pres ent administration at Washington. The program Is complete and clearly de fined. The president outlines it, in brief, as follows: 1. Full federal power of supervision and control over the railways doing an Inter state commerce business. 2. Federal supervision over the future is suance of stocks and bonds by railway companies. S. Frank publicity of all matters pertaining- to railways which would-be Investors and the public have a right to know. 4. Law prohibiting railroads from using; their rapltnl for anything but the trans portation business. 5. Fixing of the physical valuation of rail ways by the Interstate Commerce commis sion. . Inspection hy federal authorities of all hooka and accounts, to the minutest detail, of the railway companies. 7. Giving" railways power to acquire com peting lines and make traffic agreements, when these are In the Interests of the gen eral public as well as of the railroad com panies making them. Members of the Interstate Commerce commission and others in the confi dence of the administration have al ready given rather direct intimation of some of the cardinal features of the president's plan, but the announce ment of his complete program must be of keenest interest to railway managers and the general public. In the discus sion on the subject in the last few months, the leading railway men of the country have practically endorsed mtmt of the propositions laid down by the president, in his declaration of policy, and it is not thought that much opposi tion will be offered to legislative enact ment of his suggestions. The policy, as outlined, contains a remedy for each of the abuses which railway men admit have been practiced under existing laws. The proposition to give the federal government supervis ion over future issues of stocks and bonds of railway companies would fur nish an effective and immediate means of eliminating the evil of stock water ing and manipulation. The valuation of the railway properties would give a quasl-government endorsement of. value to the appraised raliway securi ties. If the valuation Is made within the next few years, with railroads in the most prosperous condition possible, no railway could complain, as it would Becure a rating for its securities that undoubtedly would be an extremely liberal valuation. This would prove of great value to the stockholders. Legis lation has been enacted in the past looking to the protection of the ship per, the patron and the employe of the railways, but the interests of the stockholder and investor have been Ig nored. The enactment of the proposed law would remedy that defect. The public will most cordially en dorse, even if the raliway managers do not, the proposition to prevent railways from using their capital for anythfng other than the business of transporta tion Such a law would serve to dis courage the railway magnate whose only concern with railroads is to man ipulate their Btock and securities. It would put a stop to the too common practice of loading railway corpora tions with obligations, the product of which goes into the pockets of the stock Jobbers Instead of into the better ment of the roads, the enlargement of facilities and to the benefit of the pub lic and the shareholder. The divorce of the railway business from the brok erage business would be a dlBtlnct gain to the genera) public. In return for these radical reforms, the president makes a concession that has long been sought by railway man agers. While the public sentiment has been strongly pronounced against rail way pooling and acquisition of com peting lines, raliway managers have always contended that such agree ments were their' only protection against the evil of rebating and were necessary for profitable raliway opera tion. The president recommends that pooling agreements and the acquisition of competing lines be "permitted and encouraged to make such agreements when these are in the interest of the general public as well as of the rail roads making them. These agreements should, of course, be made public in the minutest detail, and should be sub ject to securing the previous assent of the Interstate Commerce commission." Under such conditions and restrictions, it is possible that the objections to pooling may be removed. The president's program Is complete and comprehensive and the public will unhesitatingly share his belief that Its enactment into congressional legisla tion will end the demands in some of the states for "unreasonable legisla tion" and result, In the end, In decided benefits to the shipping public, the stockholders and to the railroads them selves. EXEFC18R FOR ABUT VFFICKRS. Army officers who allow themselves to become victims of the lazy germ, and have accumulated surplus avoirdu pois in the dull ltmtlne of barrack lite have been warned by President Roose velt that they must do something, and that promptly, If they want to escape the odium of being ranked as molly coddles. Reports made to the War de partment show that many of the field officers in the American army are poor riders and that hoisemanship is becom ing a lost art In the service. The pres ident, himself an expert horseman and familiar with the benefits of horseback riding, has issued an order dlrc-dnp the secretary of war to apply liereafter a practical test of the horsemanship of the field officers of the Infantry, artil lery and cavalry of the army. He also desires a biennial test of the physical rondltlon and skill In horsemanship of all field officers of the line. Nothing but good for the service can come from the enforcement of this or der. The country will remember its humiliation a few years ago when the reports came about a famous general, now dead, leading his forces against Santiago an! directing the charge from the seat of a buckboard built on large lines to accommodate his bulk. It may remember, too, of the stories that came about the same time of an epi demic of seasickness among naval offi cers who had spent so much time at roller-top desks, on detached duty at Washington, that they had lost com plete control of their sea legs. The president's new order may, be a little hard on the officers who hive allowed themselves to be built on the Ilnc9 of a Rartlett pear, and t may be rough on the horses, for a time, but It Is cer tain eventui:1y to result in the im provement oi the service. orpoRTVxnr for reform. If the democratic administration of Omaha is really in earnest in its pro testations of reform ample opportunity is afforded it In directions toward which It has not as yet turned its face. Some of these avenues for improve ment lead directly to an Increase in revenue. One has to do with the bill board proposition. Omaha, like most of the large cities of the United States, has suffered from the billboard nuisance. It is not im probable that Omaha has suffered out of all proportion. Two of the con cerns Interested in this Industry, if it may be called an Industry, operate here, and quite a rivalry exists be tween them as to which shall control. As a result about every available space In the city is decorated with one of the unsightly structures. These flaunt their glaring hldeousness wherever one can go. The modest "billboard" of early experience haa gone, and now It Is two, three and even four stories high. If only the outrage to the esthetic sense of the community were involved that would be enough to warrant the suppression as far as possible of the billboard, and its restriction both in size and location. But more thau this, the billboard is a menace to life, limb and health. The city has been mulcted in a considerable sum on account of a billboard accident, with no prospect 6f recovery from the owners and users of the signboard that blew over and crippled a former mayor. The au thorities have again and again called attention, to the various nuisances that are concealed on vacant lots back of the towering structures that ecreen frort general view the premises back of them. Weeds and rubbish and filth accumulate, and even worse. In other cities ordinances and regu lations for the control of the billboard have been adopted. Los Angeles draws a very considerable revenue from the twenty-five miles of bill boards existing there, but Omaha gets not 1 cent. Why does not the city council quit chasing rainbows long enough to pass an ordinance reguJ latlng the size and location of bill boards for Omaha, and providing for a license fee that shall bring to the city some revenue from a source that is now entirely neglected? . MR. TAFT At THS TARIFF. There seems to be no escape from adopting G rover Cleveland's suggestion to make the tariff an important, if not the paramount, Issue in the next presi dential campaign. In this case, how ever, the republicans and not the dem ocrats appear to be taking the aggres sive on the suggestion of the sage of Princeton, While the standpatters have been persistently endeavoring to prevent the question of tariff revision from coming prominently into the next campaign, some of their leaders are perhaps Inadvertently forcing the Issue. Following the standpatters' protest against the new tariff agreement with Germany, the American Protective Tariff league, the very Cobden of the protective tariff principle in America, has assailed Secretary Taft as an eco nomic heretic because he la on record in favor of tariff revision. "Taft has advocated free trade with the Philip pines, and that eliminates Taft from the presidential contest," says Theo dore Justice, a director of the Ameri can Tariff league. But Mr. Taft has gone further than that. He is one of the few conspicuous -republicans who has publicly declared In favor of a re vision of the tariff schedules. In an address at Bath, Me., September 5, 1906, Secretary Taft said: Speaking- my Individual opinion, and for no one else, I believe that since the pas sage .of the Dlngley bill there has been a chance In the business conditions of the country, making It wise and Just to revise the existing tariff. The sentiment In favor of a revision of the tariff Is growing tn the republican party, and in the near future the members of the party will doubtless be able to agree 'on a reasonable plan. How soon the feeling In favor of revision shall crystallise Into action cannot be fore told, but it Is certain to come, and with It those schedules of the tariff which have Inequalities and are excessive will be read justed. The reasonable prospect of a re vision of the tariff by the republican party on conservative lines should certainly be greatly preferred by those who favor re vision, and yet believe In the protective system, to legislation which Is always threatened by the Incoming of a democratic congress and a democratic administration. To make his economic heresy more pronounced and offensive in the eyes of the American Protective Tariff league Secretary Taft gave an au thorized" Interview in Washington on May 26, 1907. in which he said: I am a tariff revisionist. No man ran win the next election who does not favor changes In the tariff. I agree with the po sition tukco by the American Manufactur ers' association, which recently declared In favor nf a revision. Mr. Taft. while he may arouse the hostility of the American Protective Tariff league and the other leaders of the standpatters, Is clearly within party lines in advocating his policy of tariff reform. The republican party is pledged to a revision of the tariff "when revision can be accomplished without Injury to home Industries." The sentiment of the country Is un doubtedly In favor of a revision of the tariff and a relaxation of some of the absurd restrictions Imposed on foreign trade. It Is here predicted that before the next presidential campaign Is well under way the party leaders will dis cover that the people believe the time has come for the republican party to carry out Its pledges for tariff revision. Our amiable popocratlc contem porary Is very much exercised over what It denominates "The Bee's oppo sition to dollar gna." As a matter of fact The Bee is Just as deeply Inter ested In dollar gas as any other citizen of Omaha, for the proposed reduction means quite a saving to this paper as well as to the other citizens. But The Bee Is far more concerned In preserv ing the credit of the city than In effect ing a slight saving on Its gas bill. Mayor Jim and his associates In the democratic administration might have known, and should have known, when they were making their campaign promises that dollar gas was Impossi ble of achievement under the fran chise. The present agitation' Is not undertaken In good faith and has not been ridiculed by The Bee. The ridic ulousness of the proposition has been pointed out. That Is all. Crelghton law school haB graduated Its first class with formalities fitting and appropriate. The event is of more than passing interest because it marks the advance Omaha is making in an educational way. It is possible now for a student to fit himself for medicine, the ministry or the law without leaving Omaha, and graduates from the local institutions are recog nized as being fully equipped in their respective professions. Two hundred and twelve graduates from the Omaha High school is an ad dition to the potential citizenship of no mean proportion. If these boys and girls have been properly trained and have given close attention to the in struction they have received the com munity will later enjoy, a return on the investment far in excess of ordi nary Interest. Cut-Off Lake park is getting a lot of free advertising Just now. The same arguments are being advanced that a few years ago were used to induce Omaha to invest large sums of money in lands that have not since shown the wisdom of the purchase. It will pay the Park board to move with cautlou in this matter. An Illinois legislator proposes that no more laws be enacted for ten years and, meanwhile, the people should be taught to obey those already in exist ence. It would be cheaper and more effective to repeal the laws in existence and start all over again. John Jenkins Is the latest Nebras kan in the foreign service of the gov ernment to be investigated. After he has cleared himself Vlth the State de partment he will probably find time to make another effort to collect pay for that Panama hat. "There are other things In spring besides love and poetry," says the Chi cago Examiner, whose editor doubtless has been reading of pneumonia, green bugs, house cleaning, dog muzzling ordinances and aenemlo presidential booms. A Cowraureons Prophet. Chicago Inter Ocean. The time is coming, nevertheless, when remarks concerning the regrettable ab sence of heat In the atmosphere will not be nearly so plentiful as they are now. An Impertinent Question. Indianapolis News. But If the railroads can't raise freight rates In order to share In the "phenomenal prosperity," how are they going to ar range to separate us from our money T The Real Home Makers. Brooklyn Eagle. Nearly 6,000,000 women are working for wages In the United States. Perhaps 10,000,000 are working without wages. If not for the joy of working. The American home Is neither deserted nor obsolete. A Popular Move. New York World. Complaints have been filed with the In terstate Commerce commission against the PuHrrtan company, alleging that Its rates are unjust and unreasonable. An Investi gation of Pullman rates and service will be received with shouts of approval from the traveling public. If there is a living American who has no grievance against the Pullman company it Is because he has never ridden in one of Us cars. SpeelHe fur Lynrhlng, New York Sun. Suit for damages has been brought by the widow of a man lynched in Mississippi against a railroad company wnieh supplied a special train to carry the lynchers to the scene of the crime. Damages are put at 1100,000. Recently several sheriffs who failed to protect prisoners in their care have been called to account In the civil courts. The game of lynching may become an expensive sport, instead of the cheapest of pastimes. When It does there will be a considerable decrease In the number of Its victims. Where Reform Is Needed. Baltimore American, "Vncle Joe" Cannon has come to the relief of a suffering public by proposing to cut the appropriation of the weather bureau If tt cannot give the people any more de cent spring weather than this. Collusion Is beginning to be suspected with the Coal trust In the matter. If the doughty speaker succeeds In reforming this Important branch of the public service and organizing a sun shine department, warranted to work at bast three given days in a month, he will be nominated for the presidency la one grand, general rush. ROl n ASOIT NEW YORK. Ripples its) the Carre! of Life In the Metropolis. A flaming spot light Is turned on the tlp- i ping business In New York, revesllng the seamy side of the disgusting graft which la steadily assuming on this side of the Atlantic all the arrogance of the foreign ! holdup. A row Is on between the hotel porters, the heads of the profession Insist ing on a larger percentage of the graft than the small fry Is disposed to give up. j Thn porter who carries your trunk down j stairs and to whom you have paid some j thing for the service, says that when be I reaches the ground floor "the first thing he sees Is the head porter's paw" and of courae that raw has to be filled. ' "We carry the trunks," says another abused mortal, "and the bisa carries the tips." This Is one side of the esse, and It remains to be seen what the boss has to say for himself. Kla words are words of wisdom. Here they are: "These men have no cause for complaint. We get them the Jobs and pick out the live patrons for them. Why shouldn't we receive some little reward? The fault is not with us, but with the public. They should give more liberally." The public must put up the cash or put up with the Indignities of greedy menials. Plans have been filed by the Pennsyl vania railroad for the steel viaduct and bridge that will connect the Ixing Island and Pennsylvania 4lnes at the liOng Island City terminus of the tunnel with the New York, New Haven & Hartford tracks In the Bronx. It will be the longest and heaviest steel bridge In the world. HO.OOO tons of steel being used In Its construction. The plans for the bridge show a steel arch span of 1,000 feet between abutments. These abutments are monumental stone towers, dividing the arch bridge proper from the steel viaduct that forms ap proaches to It. Granite at the base, molded concrete above, the towers will rise to a height of 200 feet and will contain rooms needed for railroad operation. The tracks themselves, 140 feet nuovq the water, will 1 pass through the steel arches that rise 150 feet higher. Some of the steel members will be nine feet in diameter and weigh 100 tons each. Beside planning a bridge of ample strength the company has endeavored to make It a thing of beauty. The huge arches will be erected In the same manner as the double cantilever bridge on Blackwell's Island? The carry ing capacity. It Is said, will be twenty times greater than that of the Brooklyn bridge. It Is announced that the rest of the con necting railroad will be of most substantial construction and there will be no level crossings. About three years will be neces sary for the completion of the whole work. Of the four tracks two will be for passen gers and two for freight. A man who happened to be dining tn the company of a number of other men, all of whom were strangers to him, asked his right-hand neighbor which of the guests was a lawyer. "I don't know," said the neighbor. "I'm not aware that any man here Is a lawyer." "Well, somebody Is, and all the rest of those fellows know It," said the stranger. "They haven't talked about anything' all evening but prospective lawsuits. That Is a sure sign of the presence of a lawyer. .You may set me down among total stran gers anywhere and I'll soon find out whether there Is a member of tha bar tn the crowd or not. The conversation of the nonlegal contingent Invariably gives It away. If they begin to discuss personal grievances and business and domeatto dif ferences, Inquiring in an apparently dis interested way as to the rights of the con testing parties. It Is plain that they are subtly angling for free legal advice. The funny part of it la that no matter how shrewd a lawyer may be he Is quite likely to be drawn Into the discussion, and the first thing he, knows he expresses an opin ion that may be of Inestimable value to the sponge who has been fishing for ad vice. Doctors, and In fact all professional men, are 'frequently Induced by skillful conversationalists to part with valuable information, but lawyers are the easiest victims." Just then the red bearded man at the end of the table settled a question with an air of authority. "Ah," said the stranger. "What did I tell you? There Is the lawyer." Alexis Allladln. the leader of the Russian Duma's labor party, was marveling In New York at the strength of the labor unions of America. "Now that I grasp the size and power of these unions," he said, "I see the point of a story that I failed to understand coming over on the boat. An American woman told me this story. She said that a young bride was found, one afternoon, cry ing bitterly In the smoking room of her club, 'Why, my dear,' said an elderly ma tron, 'what Is the matter with you?" 'Oh,' sobbed the bride, I am going to ' leave George. Dear me, I am gojng straight back home to mother.' 'What?1 exclaimed the matron, "has George already proved un kind? Well, they're all alike, my--' But the weeping bride Interrupted her. 'No," she said, her shoulders shaking with grief, 'George Is a dear. He's perfect. But that brute of a Henry Bimmons has refused to buy Mrs. Bimmons a new dinner gown, and district i of the Amalgamated Wives' union hss been ordered out on strike.' " A middle-aged woman who looked re spectable entered an. Eighth avenue car with a forty-pound dachshund in her arms. When she sat down with the animal across her lap it overlapped even her broad pro portions. The head rested on the knee of the man on the left. The tall flapped against the newspaper held before the face of the man on the right. ' The first man pushed the head of the dog away from him. Tha woman scowled. The second man gave the tall a pull. The woman looked at him and glared. The people opposite snickered. In a moment ! the tall was again against the newspaper. "Madam," said the man behind It, "will you please keep your dog'a tall out of my face?" "You are no gentleman," snapped the woman. "I gucas you left your manners at home," "I am not expected to bring my manners Into a cattle car," said the man. "That's what women like you are making of the street cats nowadays." , The man on the other side was less gen tle. "If you don't keep that dog's head out of my lap," he said, "I'll wring its neck " The conductor came up. "Madam," he I said, "you will have to keep that dog on i your lap and not annoy other people, or i take him off the car." "I'll get off here," she said, indignantly. "I am used to the company of gentlemen, not brutes!" "Except dogs," said the msn with the newspaper, and everybody laughed. New Yorkers on June 1 are to have a trial of the taximeter cab. On that date the New York Transportation company will equip 160 of its electric cabs with taximeters. In addition to placing these meters on their electric cabs, the com pany will shortly put on a large number of Imported gasoline taximeter cabs. I'nder the taximeter schedule cab rates will be lowered very considerably by the trans portation company. Ths rate In outline will be 10 cents for each six minutes of time while the cab la waiting for the patron, and ten cents for each fifth of a mile I'our blocks; while It Is running. MOTHERHOOD The first requisite of a good mother Is goot health, and the ex perience of maternity should not be approached without careful physical preparation, aa a woman who is in good physical cond'.tion tranamita to her children the blessing of a good constitution. Preparation for healthy mater nity is accomplished by Lvdia K. Pinkhatn's Vegetable Oimnnimrl which Is made from native root and herbs, more auooeaafuUy than by any other medicine lecause it gives' tone aud strength to the entire feminine orpanism. curing- displacements, ul ceration and inflammation, and the result is less suffering and more f(iU III. tjf )Cm Lydia E. Pinkliam'sVegetable Compound has been the standby of American mothers In preparing for childbirth. NotewhntMrs ,IamesChestr of427 W. 3.1th St.. New York says in this J.ctr: Iar Mrs. Pinkhnm:-"I wish every expectant mother knew about Lvdia E. PinlthnoVs Vcpetable Compound. A neighbor who had learned f 'fr08 Ta,'"s is trying' period of a woman's life nrgred me to try it and I did so, and I cannot sav enough In rerard to the good it did me. I recovered quickly and am in the best of health now." Lydia B. Pinkham s Vegetable Compound is certainly a successful reDi u 'r the Peculisr weaknesses and ailments of women. It has cured almost every form of Female Complaint. Prasrg-lngRensa. t ons. Weak Hack, Falling and replacement. Inflammation, Ulcera tions and Orpanie Dlscaaca of Women and la invaluable la preparing for Childbirth and during; the Change of Life. Mrs. Pinkhatn's Standing: Invitation to Women sntienngr from any form of female weakness are invited to write Mrs. Pinkharu, at Lynn, Mass Her advice is free. PKH0Af. SOTKs. The latest souvenir hunter aboard a tnnn-of-war secured a gold watch, the spoons of the officers' mesa not being available. Large quantities of trouble are being pre pared for Sir Anthony Patrick McPonnell, under secretary to the lord lieutenant of Ireland. Instead of shamrocks, reul ones. Pupils of a school near Pittsburg are piqued because a colored boy carried off class honors, but a proper pride should prevent thenr f rom showing their wounds. A fashion Journal says that "for the summer of 1P07. flannels will be not only the most comfortable, but the correct thing." Those who are still wearing their winter stock will please take notice. Dan R. Hanna, son of the late senator. Is about to erect a costly monument of gray granite at his Cottuge Hill farm, Ravenna, to the memory of "Bapton Dia mond," an Imported bull that was the pride of his famous shorthorn stables and was prixe winner at leading stock shows In the country. Former Senator Cockrell of Missouri, now a member of the Interstate Commerce com mission, has regularly resumed his official labors after an Illness of several months He Is described as a regular glutton for work, and during his live consecutive terms In the senate he was credited with wnrk'ng more hours every ' day than any other member of that body. Abraham L. Lawshe, the new third as sistant postmaster general. Is a practical publisher, who Is also an experienced postal administrator. It Is presumed that the branch of the service' over which hn presides will be conducted In rational and business-like fashion. He began his busi ness life as a printer In a little Indiana town, and after a few years established the Journal In Converse, Ind which he conducted until ho was appointed post master of the place by President Harrison In im. . , CALIFORNIA POLITICS. . .. Krnlts of Railroad Domination In Governmental Affairs. . "' Sacramento Union. , It has long been known that whatever Influence succeeded in reducing Ban Fran cisco to political submission could "do business" with the political department of the Southern Pacific company, but It has only been suspected not certainly known that It could bo done on a cash basis. To be sure. It has long been known that gentlemen with legislative aspirations could be financed for their expense accounts by that department, and there have been rea sons for suspecting that congressional can didates could be capitalized In the -same way, but that conventions were bought outright with money as well aa with politi cal patronage, has not been generally be lieved, although a rumor was rife at the Santa Crux convention that the department In question had Invested 130,000 In the San Francisco delegation. This appears, from the alleged testimony of Abe Ruef, to have been a mistake. It was only 114,000. Accepting what Abe Ruef Is reported to have confessed as true, political conditions In California are as unwholesome aa they can be. Our political system has been debauched. The people's delegates have been seduced, and the trust the people have placed In their leaders has been miserably betrayed. Our whole political fabric Is rotten to the core. Men of California, what are you going to do about It? Now, If Si'hmltx and Ruef were paid $14,00ft for the votes of the San Francisco delegation. In order to defeat the nomina tion of George C. Pardee for1 governor, that money was not Mr. Herrin's money. It came from a higher source and with a proper authorisation to pay that sum. Justice demands that the Infamy be traced to Its source, and that the man, or group of men. who authorised the contributions be brought to book. The punishment should not be meted out merely to agents, but to principals as well aa to agents. Public in terest requires that the light be let Into all of these transactions and the men shown up. Not only do the rascals need to be turned out, but the public wants and must have, a look at the political bookaof the political department of the Custom Shirts 0 one can fail to discover the beauties in the exhibition of Custom Made Shirts now on view in our windows. These 22 examples of the work of our own Shirt factory are made for a customer and are shown with his iermisiion. We will take your measure for n single shirt as a sreciinen, if you like, and hold your patterns $2.50 to $12.00 Browning, King & Co E. S. WILCOX Manager. tat in MRS. JAMES STER children healthy at birth. For mora Southern Pacific company. No nul whose reputations are demolished. health of the commonwealth requires searching Inspection with the X-ray. There Is no question that the poll:ii bureau of the Southern Pacific compare admirably conducted. There Is no d 'j that every dollar expended can be f accounted for. Every man, who waa financed by It has his history ticketed Indexed. Nothing short of the publlcatld of that record will subserve the Inteivi 1 1 of a purged and purified commonwealt! !' Such a publication may send many a ImlJ f lie patriot Into political oblivion, but ' him go. He can be spared. 8uhaervlen- to plutocratic domination Is treason to tha f state, and treason must be made odloui.!' LAtfilllXO OAS. Visiting Microbe How do you manage live? You don't cat the paper Itself, il you 7 Resident Microbe (on old dollar hllln I live on the unearned Increment. Chlcuol Tribune. N 1 "Mr. Crusty, I am collecting for th' foreign heathens. What shall I put you I aown for: Unt .. 1 i a t i ' anyining. Washington Herald. iNo, sain the tiresome man. "1 ne"rfi knew a woman who could tell a stt well. Most women appreciate the fM ? mat they can t and lun t try "Yes," interrupted the weary listen" and some men don't appreciate the futt: that they -an t and are very trying. Philadelphia Press. "Why Is not your nation more musical?" "Well," answered the Amerlcsn, "we un doubtedly have good voices. Hut I supprs) we use moat of them up cheering at ben ball games." Washington Star. "What other qualifications have you fit the place?" asked the merchant. "Well," began the applicant, "my frlenli tell me I have a contented disposition, and" "You won't do," replied the merchant "we want a man with a discontented disposition: one that will hustle." Oatholo Standard and Times. . Hawkins O. well, Bjenks Isn t such S bad fellow, after all. . Dawklns What makes you say that? Hawkins Well, he -wouldn't lend me tf. $10 that I asked him for, but he didn't tak advantage of the opportunity to give TrA good advice Somervllle Journal. "It doesn't seem tif have done Crabb ! any good to Join church. He appears to be grouchler than ever since he got re ligion." "I don't believe he's got It at all. Til, bet what he takes for religion Is mere dyspepsia." Baltimore American. ' "What would you say If I told you otirli city of Pittsburgh waa really getting good 7' "Holy smoke!" Philadelphia Ledger. "Do you ever Issue accident policies t base ball umpires?" anxiously Inquired th caller. "To be aure we do," answered tha msn Inside the railing, his face expanding wltl) a large and genial smile. "Just make out . your" "That's all I wanted to know," Interrupted ' the other. "A company that will do thel ! can't get my application. Good day!"-:b i cago Tribune. f THE COTTAGE HOME. . J. M. Lewis In Houston Post. If there be ' Always for me - ', A cottage 'neath A trailing vine. And babies of mine Romping, before that cottage door, I shall not wish for any more. Where moon flowers ope. And where a slope . I Runs, sunward down, I ' To find green trees, s I And birds and bees, ' Where pussy willows bud and fluff. These ahull be riches and enuugh. Where enda each day f In gold ' and gray, ' Where birds sing sweet And swing down low Aa breezes blow; ) Give me but these I shall not can For other riches anywhere. I shall not need To hold the deed To all of hill. And slope and moor, - ' Before my door; ... Just simply that my eyes may see . Will be all and enough for me. Just vines to twins 'Round cot of mine. Babes and their mother By the door. Just that no more-; Just love and laughter nlghta a kiss There Is no greater wealth than thla. tor tuture orders- CHE