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OMAHA
DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, MAY 31. 190',
The Omaha Daily Uel
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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-
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