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THE OMAIIA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1907. rim Omaha Daily Dti FOUNDED BT EDWARD ROSEWATIR. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. ' Entered at Omaha post office M second class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally He . without Sunday), one year. .M M lJnlljr bee nci Sunday one jraar Sunday Bee, one year .... 1-5 Saturday bee. one year IW WLIVEKED BT CARRIER. Dally B (including Sunday), per week..le Dally bee (without Sunday), per week. ..loo Evening Bee (without Sunday), per week.o Evening Bee (with Sunday;, per week. ...loo Address all complaint of irregularities In dt-livery to City Circulation Department OFFICES. Omaha Tke Bee iluildlng. South Omaha City Hall Building. Council Blurts 15 Scott Street. ( hlrnao-lMO Unity Building. New Y ork Ifre Home Life Insurance Bid! Washington-Mi Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Cnmmunlntlons relating to news and edi torial matter ihould be addressed. Omaha Bee, Editorial Department REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, ex preen or postal order, rayahle to The Use Publishing Company. Only f-cent stamps received In payment of mall Accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchange, not accepted. STATEMENT OV CTRCf tiATTON. State of Nebraska, Douglas County. s. Charles C. Rosewater. general manager of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, aavs that the actual number of full and complete copies of Tha Dally, Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee prlnttd during tha month of May, 107. waa aa xouows: 1 38.680 8 38,810 t -. . 88,890 4 38,410 8 84,300 88,680 1 35,480 ' 1 85,580 , 38,730 10 35,890 11. 35,390 11 34,850 II .... 38,430 14 38,380 IS. 38,330 1 38,460 17 85,360 IS.. 81.780 1 83,800 20 38,370 i.' 3,eao tt 88,610 35,800 14... . ;. !... ft... 85,830 88,800 84,800 88,480 88,610 21. 29 36,010 10.. 38,830 1 35,810 Total... 1.096,080 Less unsold and returned copies 9,667 Net total 1,080,353 Daily average. .,. j ...... .v., . 33,063 CHARLES C. ROSEWATER, , Oeneral Manager. Subscribed In my presence and cworn to before me tbla list daycf May, 1907. (Seal) M. B. H UNGATE, Notaiy Public WHEJI OUT OF TOWS, Sobaerlbers lea ina-the city teas. porartly should ksvt The Bee mailed to Ihem. Address will be changed aa often aa renaested. A fortune awaits the inventor of a waterproof straw bat. Ag a "booster" Governor Sheldon Is entitled to an honorary degree. A former pal of Harry Orchard is fcald to have committed gulclde. Bet ter late than never. Nebraska Eagles will hold their next annual meeting at Alliance. They will have to fly to get there. . A member of the Russian Duma Is no' longer looked upon by tha life, in surance companies as a good risk. No matter what the future may have lu i8tor for him, Secretary 'Taft will always know that Omaha -Is oa.the map. Omaha's dog-muzzle controversy Is to go np to the supreme court. That ought to hold the learned Judges-for a while. Kurokl Is said to know but four English words, one of which Is "How". It la probable that another of them 1b "Hero's". . ' ' The defense in. that trial at Boise will call 200 witnesses to prove that Harry Orchard Is a liar. Seems un necessary. It might be easier to prove that Harry Orchard Is a liar If all the men he claims to have aasassinated were not very dead. Russian delegates to the peace con ference at The Hague will not try to press samples of their home brand on their colleagues. " According to William Dean How ells, it Is a crime for a poet to accept pay for his poems. Most poets can plead not guilty. Women's organizations In Sweden are designated as "Dammklubs". Some American husbands think; the same way about them. Maine Is making official effort to re plenish its supply of lobsters, while other sections of the country are ani iou to get rid of theirs. Oklahoma is talking about sending a blind man to the United States sen ate. There are no blind men in the eenats now, but plenty who are abort sighted. Mayor SrtamlU of San Francisco complains he has not received Justice. It would sound more reasonable were h o complain because be has re ceived Justice. The sultan of Morocco has agreed to pardon Raisull, the bandit, If ho will leave the country. This looks like an open affront to other powers that have shown extreme friendliness to Morocco. " ' " ' ' Wheat advanced 2 cents a bushel In Chicago on the report that the ther mometer was standing at 100 in the shade in Kansas. Chicago, of course, understands that cool, rainy weather :s wanted In the wheat belt during the harvesting season. ' - Railroad lawyers want the supremo court of Nebraska to mandamus tho State Board of Assessment to tel '.hem how the 1907 valuation of the1 roads was floured out. Somehow the Impression prevails that that Is Just what the railroads pay big salaries to their expert tax agenu for. cbrER.Yfft Hraura msd .vr. art as. The railroad managers In Nw York doubtless will.be surprised to learn from W. J. Bryan of Nebraska that the 2-cent fare law in New York was vetoed by Governor Hughes because "the railroads have such an enormous Influence in politics." In a letter to an officer of the National Travelers' Protective association Mr. Bryan criti cises the governor's veto, declaring that it gives the benefit of the doubt to the railroads and that, too, where the railroads are protected by an ap peal to the courts, whereas the people have no appeal. Mr. Bryan concludes his letter with the assertive prediction that "the next governor of New York will not veto a 2-cent rate bill." Possibly It would be unfair to charge Mr, Bryan with Ignorance of existing conditions In New York and the Impelling motive that caused Gov ernor Hughes to Veto the 2-cent rate bill passed by the New York assembly, but It Is difficult to furnish any other plausible excuse for his effort to make political capital by a misinterpretation pf tha veto and the, facts surrounding It. Governor Hughes had succeeded In securing the passage by the legisla ture of the public utilities bill. This provided for the appointment of a commission which will have full and complete control of all transportation affairs and the regulation and super vision of every franchlsed corporation In the state, with power to reduce and adjust rates and schedules, without appeal to courts or subjection to any delay, Although a 2-cent law would have given immediate relief, still the veto of the' measure' leaves the com mission a free hand in dealing with all the transportation problems In the state. If the public utilities commission In New York does Its duty Mr. Bryarf probably will see tho fulfillment of his prediction that "the next governor of New York will not veto a 2-cent rate bill," because before another governor of New York Is elected the commission will have dealt with the transporta tion problems of the state so as to re move all occasion for a 2-cent rate bill. This evidently is the aim and inten tion of GOejrnor Hughes and his suc cess in forcing his policies holds out promise that the commission, which will be directly responsible to him, will put New York In the list of progressive states, along with those that have reached the goal by outright legislation. PVRHV1KO TUB H7SB COVRSK. Tho local brewers are certainly pur suing the wise course in preparing to accept the provisions of the Gibson law, which goes Into effect next month, and to conform to its - requirements, althongh they may think them un hecessarlly drastic. ' , ,..The Gibson law, purports to divorce the ' business of manufacturing and wholesaling of malt -and spirituous liquors from the retail liquor traffic. To accomplish this It prohibits under severe penalties any brewer or manu facturer from being Interested finan cially In procuring the-"license for a re tail dealer, and it likewise prohibits the officers, employes or agents of any corporation manufacturing malt or spirituous liquors from holding or leasing any real estate .'used for the purpose ot retail liquor traffic. ' : The argument that commended this bill most to the lawmakers was that it would put the licenses to sell liquor In the hands of more responsible par ties by requiring each licensee to op erate on his own account rather than as tho agent or employe of a brewery. While The Bee at that time expressed Its doubts whether any material im provement would be effected along this line by such a law, and there is also Involved a disputed question of discrimination in the matter of prop erty rights, stilt the determination ot the brewers to adjust their business to the new conditions ought to count In their favor as evidence of a disposi tion to submit to such regulations as the people Insist are necessary for the protection ot the community. The brewers, of course, are acting under legal advice and are protecting their property interests as far as possible, but their effort to comply with the new legislation ought to serve well to fore stall further restrictive liquor legisla tion, except so far as demanded to remedy specific abuses. rjSSJKO Of THE LOTTERY. Government secret service officials participated the other i night In the flnal elimination and extinction ot the old Louisiana lottery, the greatest gaming Institution in American his tory, when they destroyed, at Wil mington, Del., the plates, books and other paraphernalia that had been used in the operation of the Honduras lottery, the successor of the old New Orleans institution. The officials of tho Honduras company, in addition to paying fines to the federal govern ment, amounting to about $250,000, agreed to tho destruction of the ma terial equipment of the company. The government's fight against the lottery : business has been persistent and vigorous. In tho olden days the Louisiana lottery was recognized by the state of Louisiana and bought its recognition by the payment ot moncy enough almost to 'support the state government. Two confederate veter ans. Generals Beauregard and Early, lent their names as officials and, while some show of fairness la tho drawings was made by tho semi-state super vision, the lottery made millions for its promoters millions taken from the people of the country, principally 'from tha " o . . - 'J - w ears ago the malls were closed to lot tery tickets, but tho express compan ies furnished a ready substitute and it was not until 1893 that the company was forced to remove Its headquarters from New Orleans to Honduras. It la but five years since the United States supreme court upheld the con stitutionality of the anti-lottery law which prohibited tho express compan ies from transporting the tickets. Since that time the lottery business has been conducted by stealth, until now IT has been entirely abolished. The wage earner will be the direct gainer by the abolition of the lottery. It Is no secret that the millions that were garnered by the lottery kings each month came from the workmen and worklngwomen of the country almost exclusively. The way was made easy, even after the postal ban had been placed on the business, for those who wanted "to get something for nothing" to part with fl or 2 a month In exchange for a ticket that vouched for anticipatory riches until the monthly drawing was held. The law has stopped this special form of gam tiling. It has not, of course, sup pressed the gambling Instinct, but It. has made it more difficult to gratify It. However, the professional gam bler will not be cast down. They have an abiding faith in the truth of their adago that "a sucker is born every minute" and thaj they may be trusted to devise some .new scheme periodically to deprive the gullible of their surplus earnings. RA1LHAK EARXIXGS FoA MAY.- Preliminary reports made by sixty seven of the big railways of the coun try for the month of May contain a most gratifying indication of increased earnings in every department of rail road transportation and from every section of the country. The roads in cluded In the report show an increase in gross earnings, compared with May, 1906 an exceedingly prosperous year of $10,889,344, or nearly IB per cent. The sixty-seven roads figuring In the compilation are scattered throughout the country, giving assur ance that the complete) returns from all the roads will show corresponding gains in gross earnings. The figures are particularly signifi cant In view pf the fact that the earn ings of the railroads in May of last year were unusually large, being over $9,000,000, or 13 per cent greater than for 1905, in which year they were nearly $4,000,000 more than the earnings for May, 1904. The increase for May of the present year, therefore, la cumulative, showing larger earnings over a long series of gains, extending back for more than ten years. Rail Way managers have been contending that the increased operating expenses, due to higher wages and larger cost of materials, threatened to make railroad Operation unprofitable, but the pre liminary Veports for May are reassur ing to employes, Investors and railway managers. - - Give the managers of the street rail Way company credit for adjusting sat isfactorily the differences growing ont of the proposed erection of a new car barn In the close neighborhood of the St. Joseph's hospital. The street rail way company has agreed to sell the property In question to the hospital at tho original purchase price and to find another site for Its car barn. This putcome Is the result of the advice of The Bee that the parties enter Into negotiations direct before asking In tervention from the outside. ' Secretary Taft declared to his Omaha hearers that he had left pieces of his voice planted at railroad stop ping point b from one end of Nebraska to the other. It Nebraska soil and Climate work uppn this seed as It does upon the corn and wheat the secretary may expect to garner a rich harvest If he will only come back In the fall. Governor HuKhes of New York has signed a bill calling for a recount of tha votes in New York City by which Mayor McClellan got his office. New Yorkers appear to be quite anxious that Mr. Hearst shall have credentials to the office, after the term to which he was elected has expired. Paving contractors are being un mercifully roasted In the city council for the bad condition of our streets. While the contractors are not to be exculpated, that part of the blame at taching to the council is not to be re moved by Jumping the contractors. It is reported officially that Manila's streets have been kept so clean that contagious diseases are now entirely unknown there. A good many Ameri can cities might be Improved by be ing placed under a colonial form of government. Colonel Alexander Troup, leader of the Bryan forces in Connecticut, says that Colonel Bryan, If nominated, could be elected "at the present time." Pos sibly. Colonel Bryan has no difficulty In being nominated at any time except in November. Kansas City la whooping it up al ready to secure the next republican national convention. The only seri ous obstacle in Kansas City's way is a little village called Chicago on the southwest corner of Lake Michigan. The enforcement of a wide tire reg ulation on all vehicles doing heavy hauling would be the most practicable precaution for the "protection of our street pavements after their surface shall have been once restored. At any rate, that Chicago actress who announced her engagement to Montgomery Ward, Jr.. got a lot ot mighty good advertising out ot It be- fore the public learned that there Is no Montgomery Ward, Jr. The public lands convention In ses sion at Denver lacks several familiar faces which would be seen there but for pressing engagements elsewhere due to the activity of the federal grand Juries and courts. Governor Sheldon met the governors of all the states but one traversed by the Omaha trade excursion to the Puget Sound country. And the Ne braska governor did not suffer by com parison In any case. The first official act of United States Senator Bankhead of Alabama should be to write a letter of thinks to Rich mond Pearson HobBon for defeating him for congress. Possible t han are of Tone. Indianapolis Newa. With that Nebraska Injunction to compel the railroads to obaerve the 2-cent fare and other recent laws. It seems possible that we shall also hear aome government-by-lnjunctlon complaints ' from the rail roads. Jarred at tha- Dead Line. Waahlngtan Herald. The president left for his summer vacation-last Wednesday. 'Almost Immediately the weather man turned on the safety valve and has been dealing out fine and dandy weather since. He knew when he had reached tha dead line, all right. Piece of lod Lark. Springfield Republican. The fire on the president from Denver this week will be one of his pieces of good luck. The United States, east of the Rocky mountains, Is substantially solid for a de cent public land and forestry policy. Olf ford Plnchot ought to have even more rope. Vocal Scrap In Slant. Baltimore American. It Is reported that a hot fight Is ex pected In tha peace conference. After all the education and reason of the present ape there Is no denying the primitive prin ciple that the desire to see a fight springs eternal In the human breast, and the more talking about stopping fighting Invariably precipitates combats. Merely Hot Air. Kansas City Star. The agreement reached between roada and the state of Missouri that the 2-cent fare law la to be by the roads and given a test for of three months. The Nebraska been In operation for about three Have you heard of any Nebraska being "confiscated." the rail provides accepted a period law has months, railroads A National Banquet. Philadelphia Record. We do not work our political system with absolute exactitude, but on the whole we govern ourselves welt and deserve the handsome bouquet handed to us by Am bassador Bryce when In a speech In Indian Territory he aald: "The American people have shown ability, for self-government greater than any people on earth." We t'nn't , I, one Him. Chicago Inter Ocean. We desire to commend to the attention of the American people a gentleman who, though possessed of great fortune and In charge of mighty. Interests, and recently disappointed and disheartened In many ways, has never tor moment entertained the thought of leaving tha country. We allude, of course, to .James J. Hill. He may complain, but he .intends to stick. Times Have Chanced. Brooklyn Eagle. In tha daya of President Grant much disagreeable comment was heard because ha used a government dlapatch boat to make a vacation run down the Potomac. Today nearly every member of tha cabinet uses the nations ships whenever he please. The whereabouts of Secretary Metcalf, for example, had not been known for several days, although he was away on a "Junket" aboard tha Dolphin the very vessel, by the way, that poor old John Roach built and Secretary Robeson waa accused of "permitting" President Grant to use on one or two occasions! Verily, times have changed; but some of us with memories marvel thereat. Decrease In Stock Watering;. Springfield Republican. Railroads and Industrial companies hava so far this year authorized new security Issues to tha amount of $1,106,738,900, ac cording to a compilation made by the New York Journal of Commerce. Thla la a quar ter of a billion dollars In excess of such Is sues made during tha same time last year. There are also other striking differences. Four-fifths of the borrowing this year la by railroads, and tha uae of short-time ! notes paying a high rata of interest, little 1 known last year, has been resorted to this : year to tha extent of nearly half a billion I dollars. It la no credit to the financial man agement of our railroads that there should ! be auch a scramble for funds when the j mti 'v 1 j v, (luMiii.B. lkuai ex haustion. COSTLY "MORAL VPI.IFT." What the Manufacturer Are Doing; to the Consumer. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Who la the burden-bearer now? Who buys the state-lnapected cow? Who always auffers, anyhow? Why, ha th,e wight of slanting brow consumer! Consumer has clamored for pure food, for railroad regu lation, for honesty in office and all the vir tues In the calendar, and he is getting them, and great la the bill thereof. Virtue comes high. The producer and the manufacturer, ao long as they trafficked without restraint, and might adulterate and change, were comparatively generous to consumer, but now, accustomed to large profits, and dented the privilege of substitution, they extort the same profit, though the "goods" are better. Consumer Is become aa a fine grist between tha upper and neither mill atone. ' , He begina to fear that he cannot afford thla general honesty. lit salary. has not been raised, though his expenses hava been doubled. Something seems to be wrong There la a hitch in the icheme of things. Meat goes up ( cents a pound, and the' tra ditional price of thread 4 cents a spool, farea to a revolutionary 6, Invading the dims that must soon dlslntregate. House rent and clothing soar skyward. And to complaint the gloating answer la: "Well, you clamored for purity now you've got It and must pay for It!" "By what compulsion, muat?" Doea civ ilisation make honesty-a finable offense? If so. It were better to practice guile and daTk deceits. Consumer vainly grumbles, fancying that for him there Is no relief, because he cannot "organise" to realat hla Ofprussora who form pools and trusts. But ha la already organised Into a moat powerful trust. Consumer la "govern ment." In that he la a majority, and thla la a country of majority rule. Let htm not be frightened at the cry of "paternalism.-' He la tha parent. Hla la tha hand to do tha apanktng. He la large and all-powerful. Lt hire be also discreet and valiant. J ROl'XD ABOUT SfBW YORK. Rlpplea oa the rurrtnl of Life la tho Metropolis. The shrinkage of stocks and bonds noted In Wall street quotations bothers the swell spenders of New York In an aggravating manner. The loss of ao much water, formerly convertible In cash and constitut ing the ballast of stock Jobbing craft, causes a painful vacuum In the purses of the proud. "Thousands of rich New York ers," reports a correspondent, "have found it necessary to reduce their expendlturea or. at least, to refrain from the lavish squandering of money that marked the days of high prices In Wall street. Jewelers, florists ami other shopkeepers whose pa trons are almost exclusively the rich or well-to-do have suffered most, while talt ors, milliners and dry goods men have felt the effect of the economy of their wealthy custdWrs. and they have also suffered from the backward weather. "For the first time In their lives many well-known New Torkers have had to dig down In their safe deposit boxes and drag forth gilt-edge securities as collateral for depleted margins during the slump In stocks. Many will have to economlre for a long time to come to recoup the losses they sustained In the recent Wall street financial whirlwind. A large number of the fash ionables have decided to cut down their ex penses In Newport this summer or cut out Newport altogether for 10O7. It Is predicted that the gaieties at many resorts will be curtailed this season because of the 'rich man's panic v The small booklet which Police Commis sioner Bingham has had prepared for the convenience and instruction of the public contains a number of suggestions that could be heeded profitably In any city. In the opening paragraph the telephone number at police headquarters Is given with thla advice: "In case of trouble call this num ber and help will reach you quicker than In any other way." Of course headquarters are connected with all the police stations, and the operator In charge can send help Immediately from the one nearest to tha scene of trouble. This further advice is given: "Speak distinctly, and tell the op erator In as few words as possible what the trouble Is. He will render you all the necessary assistance. In case of complaint write directly to the police commissioner and mark the envelope 'personal.' When you write be clear and definite. Give the date, hour and shield number of the police man concerned. Also the names of wit nesses." The task of examining the enormous funda of Uncle Sam stored away in the Wall street subtreasury by representatives of the United Statea Treasury department, has been completed. The examination re vealed the fact that .fi77,8G6.1WV26 cash, which waa reported on hand at the close of busfness on May It has balanced to the penny. Of this great amount HO.900,000 In gold certificates were examined. Stored away In baga containing 5,000 each was found 1178, 125,000 In gold coin. And In bags containing $1,000 each were found 174,598,000 In silver dollars. Fractional silver coins amounted to $1,208,000, In nickels and pennies $179,000 were counted. That made a total In tha values of $56,010,OfiO. The balance of the vast amounts were made up In tellers' caah of gold certificates, legal tender notes and various other klnda of money. During the examination about 2.000 ton of silver dollars were examined and counted. In gold coin, 250 tona ware sim ilarly gone over. In order to accomplish thla work Deputy Assistant Treasurer Bants, who started the work on May IS, had with him eighteen as sistants from Washington, and they were aided by twenty-five man who ware em ployed In New York. Collecting transfers has become a fad, and those who are gathering cigar bands, etc., will find themselves behind tha times. The. rapidly changing transfer systems on tho different lines of greater New York al waya calls for printing of new transfers, so that a complete collection will Be quite bulky. Than the little tickets make quita Interesting reading, especially tho latest on the Brooklyn Rapid Transit. Again, when a collection la well under way, It takes only a little study to figure out how a per son could ride continuously for many hours. The large red-ink signs at tha bridge and In the cars In Brooklyn, re garding arrest for transferring a transfer, may, however, detar some from becoming collectors. One hundred thousand dollars for a coal chute is the price which the owners of the New Hotel Plksa have not healtated to pay In order to have the proper facilities for feeding the furnaces of their great hotel, which Is now nearlng completion. for tha chute and ash dump haa beenmade by testing down the five-story brown atone front dwelling wnicn wrmen atood at No. IS West Fifty-eighth street. The coal will be put Into the cellar and bunkera from the pavement. On the site of the dwelling has been built a structure of steel beama, which are to form tha skeleton of the receptacle for the aehes. Carts can be backed In there from the atreet to receive the refuse from the fur naces. It was Impossible to find any leas expensive method of attending to the fuel service for the hotel. This Is the second most costly coal hole In New York, the hlgheat priced one being that of the Broad Exchange building at 41 Broad atreet, for which $,00 was paid. Passengers on the Philadelphia of the American line, which arrived In New York Saturday from Southampton and Cher bourg, told of a remarkable mirage they had Been at aea. For more than hour and a half on Friday morning they watched the steamship Lorraine of the French line, out of Bight under the horizon ahead of them, appear as If suspended Inverted In the sky. The Bight drew ail of the paa sengers on deck, and according to James L. Rodgers, United States consul general at Shanghai, It was the most uncanny sight he had ever witnessed. "It was about 8;30 o'clock In the morn ing," he aald, "and the sea waa compar atively smooth, with a hase hanging over It. We could aee the black smoke of the Lorraine ahead, but tta hull waa below the horlxon. Suddenly In the heavens above the line of smoke appeared a second black cloud,' and the entire lines of the steamship quickly followed upside down. There waa the French liner complete In every detail, steaming away to the west ward, but ifke the 'Flying Dutchman' a veritable phantom. The mirage laated for an hour and a half, and at the time the Lorraine waa about twenty-rive miles ahead of us." One of the hardeat drinkers In Brooklyn boasts truthfully that he never gets drunk. His friends marvel at his capacity and hla apparent Immunity from the Intoxicat ing effect of alcohol. He can drink a quart of whisky In an evening and go home so ber. The strangest thing Is that ha is al ways at hla business early every morning, looking bright and fresh. "It's not any physiological condition of immunity," he explained to a Brooklyn Eagle reporter. "It s Just olive oil. Maybe you've noticed that I mix a little oil In my drinks occasionally. Whenever I find that whisky Is beginning to produce more than a good stimulating effect I take olive oil with every drink and an occasional hooker of the oil list It. PROPITMCSa SAVING. Types of Thrift that Prove a Waste f Time. i Chicago Tribune. One of the characteristics of a careful housekeeper, a careful workman, or a thrifty person of any kind was once scrupulous attention to saving every hit of material, raw or manufartured. With the Improvement of mechanical processes the time has come when mat, rial things, once costly, are cheaper thiin human labor. The youth who paused to pick up a pin on the sidewalk la no longer the tyne of thrift, but the man who values his time too highly to waste It on a Irltlo. A reason given by good authority for an Increase,! consumption of nails In this country In that formerly a workman on a ladder or scaffolding who dropped a nail would get down and pick It up; now It Is cheaper to save the workman's time and let the nail go. Thomas A. Edison wears a cheap watch. When It wears out he throws It away and gets another. A watch can be bought for $1 which will keep good time for two or three years. It would cost more to repair It than to buy a new one. A pair of smoked glasses can be bought for a ouarter. It would take $1 worth of an optician's time to match and replace one broken lens in the 26 cent pair. Children's clothing can be bought ready made at less than the re tall price of tha material and when the clothing Is shoddy It Is cheaper to throw it away than to hire a seamstress. A woman who loves to sew counts her time as worth nothing may save money for her family, but a woman may often do more for her family In other ways than In stick ing to the needle all day. To keep abreast of the world's thought, to be an Intel lectual help to her children, to cultivate pleasant aoclal relations which may be useful to her family, to keep her health and strength so that she may be a com panion In their Joys and sorrows Is worth more to them than the few pennlea saved by exhausting toll, except when there la desperate poverty. Sometimes there Is an exception to the principle that time Is more expensive than matter. The Poatofftce department haa Just ordered mail clerk to untie and save twine used In tying bundles Instead of throwing It away. For years It has been considered cheaper to let It go, but the rise In the price of Jute and hemp to double former prices makes It seem to the department better to save the twine. It may be doubted whether this is a real exception. The figures showing the total amount of twine used during a year are formidable, but economy In the use of time is of even greater Importance to the success of the postal service. HILL'S PEARLS OF THOVGHT. Tosses a Ranch of Wisdom to Edi torial Writers. New York World. Is there no power In the Interstate Com merce commission to deal summarily with certain "darn-fool editorial writers" who are Interfering with Interstate traffic In James J. Hill's pearls of wisdom and counsel? They are worse than rebatera. Witness this Interview telegraphed yesterday from Chicago: "No, no," he exclaimed hastily; "I want to keep out of the papers entirely. I do not want to be In the limelight any more." "This Is so sudden," It was suggested. Mr. Hill shot a suspicious glance at the reporter and retorted: "The fool newspapers are to blame." "What have they been doing now?" he was asked. "They go and print something which they know to be true and In favor of the rail roads," replied Mr. Hill, "and then some darn-fool editorial writer puts a piece In the paper poking at the railroad man who said It. I suppose they think that smart." The airy persiflage of the editorial writers la no adequate substitute for Mr. Hill's commentaries on men and things. The country has come to rely upon him for guidance whenever Mr. Roosevelt's well springs of advice are resisting a drouth. He Is the good, gray captain of Industry who tells us when prosperity has reached its flood tide; what the green bugs are do ing In Kansas, how Harrlman ought to run his railroads, what the Interstate com merce clause of the constitution t really means, what a corn-fed steer ought to weigh, how newspapers should discuss publla questions, what the chances are of wet weather In harvest time and what the effect of an Immunity bath la likely to be on the circulation of the blood. 'Twere a grievous wrong to tha country to dry up this fountain of comfort and counsel. . PERSONAL NOTES. - France will be afraid to ta'-e a sip of its own wine after It has listened to the re marks of Expert Wiley. John F. Stevens, late of the Panama canal and now engaged In making a valua tion of President Mellen's railroad systems, Is reported aa likely to be added to the management of the Northern Pacific, though not as president. Newspapers friendly to William Alden Smith of Michigan,' who succeeded to the senatorial seat of the late Russel A. Alger, are suggesting that the republicans could do no better than to nominate the new senator tor vice president next year. Colonel William C. Qorgas, the United Statea commissioner In the canal sone. told the Cornell medical graduates that within the next two or three centuries "the centers of wealth, civilisation and population will be In the tropica, as they were In the dawn of man's history." Dr. Marvin Chapln, who died recently In Chicago at the age of 8t, waa given up by two physicians forty years ago as hope lessly 111 with consumption. He went to the Ohio oil fields, roughed It for a few years and oompletaly regained hla health. It la aald that he treated himself with crude oil. Mayor Dablman's crusade against dogs ought to secure a fresh hold and popular favor by the sad experiences of an Illinois man. While going through the exerciae of pulling a tight shirt over his head the land lady's pet lisle "bit him eight times be tween the chiffonier and the front hall." The region between the "chiffonier and the front hall" la presumed to be the tenderest part of the human anatomy. Notwithstand ing the excruciating pain the victim kept hla shirt, on. For Young Men THERS HAVE SAID TRUE, THAT THE 8UITS THAT WE ARE MAKING FOR BOT8 OF FROM 7 TO 16 YEARS, FIT BETTER AND ARE BETTER MADE IN EVERY RESPECT THAN ANY OTHER CLOTHINO ON THE MARKET. WE'D LIKE YOUR JUDGMENT OF THE MATTER AND THAT OF YOUR BOY. TWO-PIECE SUITS, WITHV QUARTER OR HALF LINED COAT. FOR YOUNG MEN: lit to J6. owning, E. S. WILCOX, Manager. STATE, rilF.a COMMENT. Verdlgre Citlien: Just to give you an Idea of the way real estate prlcea are sour ing we wish to chII your attention to a transfer recently made In which H iy Mil. Harvey and wife sells to Henry F. Pteln hausen 320 acres of tnnd In Walnut town ship, consideration $10,000. About five years ago the writer used up many pounds of horse flesh in his efforts to sell this same tract of land for $1.0X. Do you suppoe thnt men's associates have anything to do with Increasing the value of land? Juniata Ilrrald: Like every other town Hastings haa some "easy" marks for busU ness men. A short time ago some fel low worked a lot of them on a big poster directory, and as a free premium threw In an alleged directory of business men of surrounding towns. A glance at Juniata's "directory" Is sufficient to make a Russian laugh. Most of them have been out of business for nearly ten years. But some people can't be convinced that newspaper advertising Is the beat. They'll bite oa anything a fakir shows them though. Pawnee press: "Yes, we are In the midst of a horse famine, all -right," said Adam Bents of Falrbury while tn this city recently. "Three tlmea as many horses are demanded as are received, and prices are high everywhere. The farmers, it seems, have quit breeding horses. Thsy thought for a time that automobiles and bicycles were going to relegate the horse to the rear, and they thought they could put their money Into something more profitable than breeding horses. The Boer war first and then the Japanese war cleaned out all the extra horses In the country and helped to bring about a famine. I believe prices are likely to go higher." Mr. Bents Is one of the most reliable horse buyers In Nebraska, honorable and straightforward, on whose word and Judg ment you can always depend. This can not be sold of some other dealers. Weeping Water Republican: If pub lished reports are true, and we have heard no denial of them by the rartles Inter ested, there are several county attorneys snd county Judges In Nebraska who carry passes on one or another of the various railroads. They surely ought to know enough law to know that they are vio lating the law every day they carry tha pasteboards. If they dont know It, they ought to be taught. If a man Is serving the people of a county as their Judge or attorney and Is receiving a salary there for, he has no moral or legal right to accept a pass from any railroad. If any of our county officials carry one why don't they hand It back? ' For the Common Good. Pprlngfleld Republican. ' The attack on the administration's land and forestry policy at tjie publtc lands convention In Denver next week Is liable to be severe, for the policy Is very unpop ular In the states moat affected. In view of the Importance of the Issue, especially In Its larger aspects, the administration adopts an excellent righting policy tn Bend ing able spokesmen and defenders to tha convention. Secretaries Garfield and Wil son, Commissioner Bellinger and Chief For ester Plnchot will be there to make tha sessions doubly Interesting. Some ot the president's acts may be hard to defend In law, but the general tenor of hla policy haa been for the good of the greatest num ber and for coming generations. 8tNY GEMS. Redd Did you hear those chickens Wo nearly ran over Just now? Greene-O, was that what waa the mat ter? They made as much noise as If one of 'em had Just laid an egg! Yonkers Statesman. "I never saw a man who was so fond of entertaining aa Henpeck 1b. It's really remarkable." "Oh,, that's not so strange. You see his wife Is quite pleasant to him when there'a company In the house." Philadelphia Press. "Society drorrcd the De Lacya because they had a skeleton In their closet, I un derstand?" "No, because they didn't keep It there. Cleveland Leader. "I think It waa hoiiid of the government to class tobacco aa a necessity," she said. "Don't agree with you," replied her hus band. "Certainly It's a necessity. What else would we make cigars of?" Naturally, this was only the beginning of the argument. Philadelphia Ledger. "He Insists that he will not use any money In his campaign." "Yes," answered Senator Sorghum, "but I cannot be sure whether ho is tremen dously conscientious or merely cautious and economical." Washington Star. "Norah, I don't want to see you kissing that 'cousin' of youra in tle kitchen any more." "if ye'U kindly cough before ye open th' dure, mum, ye won't aee me kissing lm, alther." Chicago Tribune. "I understand that there are a great many Shaker settlements In this section of the country." "Thar do be consld'rable chills uround yar, stranger." Baltimore American. Guest, to .lonesome looking man In the corner: "Awf ly stupid aft air, don't you think?" "No doubt of It." "No man would ever dream of giving a mixed up thing ot this sort." "That'a what I told my wife." "Have I met your wife?" "Very likely. She's the woman that's giving the party." Cleveland Plain Dealer. THE MIGRATORY INSTINCT. The blrdllngs In the autumn Sought southern skies straightway When Jack Frost Intimated That he had coma to stay: O'erhead we saw them marching. These armies of the air, Beuking new homes, new suns, new skies. In summer lands somewhere. But now, when snows are melting; And springtime winds set In, These hordes from sunny southland Their great Inllus besisjl. . The robin and the blue mrJ Are scouts for all the rest, And we greet each one returning To the old home nest. Her thoughts took airy pinions When autumn days grew chill; They flew In all dlrectlone t And some are flying still; To cverv publication These blrdllngs took their flight. Like Noah's dove, far-seeking Some soil on which to light. But, lo. each one returneth And they keep returning still, A withered wisp of gratitude Within each slender bill; No ray of hope discerning 6ure 'tie no theme ftir Jeat When these blrdllnga keep returning - To tha old home neat. Omaha. . -BAYOLL NB TRELB. IT, AND WE BELIEVE IT TO BE Ming & Co