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    THE OMAIIA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1907.
rim Omaha Daily Dti
FOUNDED BT EDWARD ROSEWATIR.
VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. '
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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. -
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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