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nm OMAHA DAILY BEE? FRIDAY, JUNK "JH, 1P07.
The Omaiia Daily Bee.
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BTATKMENT 6F CIRCULATION.
State if Nebraska. Douglas county, :
f'riares ('. Jtnaewster, general manager
of The Be Publishing Company, being
duly wwoiti. says that the actual number
of fulr and complete copies of The Dally,
Morning, ICvenlng- and Sunday Bee printed
during the month of May, 1907. wi aa
follow
88,760
33,600
20 35,370
1 39,630
it 33,810
;i 83,600
24 35,630
5 3S.B09
2 34.600
21 33,430
33,610
It 3,010
10 83,620
11 38,810
. 33,810
. 31990
4....; iMIO
I SO00
f...... u,sea
35.480
I....! 33,630
I....! U8,780
II.... 33,0(0
11.... 36,380
ll UitM
It...,...,.. 38,429
14 83,360
II 85.330
16 33.460 Total.
IT.... 38,960
Less untold and returned copies
Net total 1.089.3S3
t)lly average. 33,063
CHARLIES. C. ROHR WATER,
General Manager.
8uba"rlbed In my presence and sworn to
before me this Hat day of May. 1IK7.
(Seal.) M. B. H UNGATE.
Notary Public.
WHEW Ol'T OP TOWN. ' "
, abeerlners leavlnar olty lem-pot-arlly
shonjd. . Tha Be
mailed to them. Address will be
chnn fed aa often aa reqeesred.
It seems only natural that the Um
brella trust should thrive on watered
stock.
; Ralaull, this Morocco bandit; Is com
trig to America to engage In business.
lit) Would be at home In Wall street.
Old Aesop. It will be remembered,
wa the first nature fakir, but he was
honest and labeled his productions as
fable. ' -
The dispatches tell about a "Kansas
Hamlet Drops Into a River." That
fate would be none too severe for some
Hsnilets.
It j may be just a coincidence that
the (lose of the theatrical season and
8 drop In the price of cloves come to
gether this year.
No matter what, the warshlna may
cost, the public will hope that Uncle
Pom will never get his money out of
them by nsln- them.
asaaasaaJSBwanwasaaaalaaaaaaaaseaaaMMaaaah
Cbnaul DehlsGn writes from Ger
many about a new style of fan.' An
other sign that the Germans are tak
ing in Interest In base ball.
1,066,690
8,667
Colonel Colt now expresses regret and In the meantime attorneys and
that he withdrew from the senatorial j hotel keepers who have profited
race In Rhode Island. Many of these largely by the get-separated-quick bus
political guns' go off at half-cock. j loess are calling attention to the new
,- 1 measure urging possible applicants for
The Baltimore Sun Baya that ; divorce to lose no time in filing their
Thomas Jefferson -ws not the equal j cases.'
of Mr. Bryan as an orator.' ' The Stm j Formal announcement has also been
and Mr. Bryan agree on some proposl- j made by the divorce lawyers and their
H0?"-' ',' r s I associates thfct no effort will be spared
1 to accomplish the defeat of the new
Announcement Is made that Omaha ! ,aWi at the erection and In the courts,
will celebrate the Fourth of July at ff th. nAnnta ,. rh,P .nnrovi How-
m n, . . .. .. .
riurenue. r lorence usea to ceienrate
In Omaha so perhaps turning the ta
ble Is only fair play.'
, The meat packers and the live stock
cinimlsslon men would do well to try
to' get together. Their mutual Inter
ests far overshadow the points of con-
tnHnw Ka( w ruin V.M
Parents who will take the trouble
to read the newspapers of July 5 In
in past year may change the plans
'hey are making for their children's
celebration of the Fourth.
A Chicago woman started some talk
y taking her pet calf for an automo
Mle ride. It ia not unusua.1 to see
togs, lobsters and clams in automo
Blles, but calves are nht often thus ex
3Md. it the paid attorney for the slot ma
jhine owners only succeeds In getting
Snsl action of the Police board de
ferred a few weeks longer the profits
a the slot machine gambling in the
Interval will more than offset his at
torney's fees.
The newly elected president of the
Nebraska Association of Postmasters
Ittlngly acknowledged the compliment
is "aa unexpected honor." although
be had previously written letters to all
the) po3tmaster6 in hie section to be
iurej and be present to help Aa the job.
Still. It may have been unexpected.
Secretary Wilson refers to Kansas
36 aa arid state. The secretary once
rfueed to include Nebraska in the
corn belt Ha must have one of those
old school leographlaa ta which every
thing between the Missouri river and
tbo Rod mountain! is printed ia yel
low and labeled "The Great Amerlcaa
Oeaorfc."
RAILROAD TALVATIOfr AttD RATKS.
'Members of the 'Nebraska State
Railroad commission are suggesting
the desirability of an official valuation
of railroad property in this state as a
basis of rate-making. One appraise
ment of railroad property has already
been made for purposes of taxation,
but the railroad men would naturally
contend that it would be unfair to
figure their earnings upon such an es
timated capitalization. While the
railroad managers are constantly as
serting that there Is a full dollar's
worth of property behind every dollar
of stocks and bonds secured, by that
property, they are nevertheless en
deavoring to create the Impression
that rates have no relation to valua
tion or capitalization. In an address
recently delivered by Stuyvesant Fish
at Columbia university, giving the con
clusions of his practical experience in
tallroading, this declaration was
made:
Much haa been said of late of a proposed
valuation of the railroads, although It Is
admitted on all hands that the capitalisa
tion of railroads has, and can have, no
bearing whatever on the rates charged.
Morever, In whatever manner a valuation
may be made. It must In greater or less de
gree be boned on earning power, which In
turn rests on the rates charged. Hence the
predication of rates on a valuation would
be working around In a circle.
All of which is Interesting no mat
ter how illogical. Mr. Fish would
argue that value is equal to capital
and capital rests on earning power or
rates charged, and, therefore, it makes
no difference what the valuation is
because the rates will be unaffected.
Strangely enough, however, this is
not the position formerly maintained
on behalf of the railroads. When the
Nebraska maximum freight rate cases
were contested in the courts some
twelve years ago the foundation of the
injunction againet enforcement of the
rate schedule was the plea that it
would be confiscatory in yielding in
sufficient earnings for reasonable re
turns on the capital invested. And
the bulk of the evidence taVen in
those cases consisted of the testimony
of expert witnesses called by the rail
roads to prove the greatest possible
valuation of the property involved to
Justify, higher ratee than the legal
maximum. If it were admitted "that
the capitalization of the roads has and
can have no bearing whatever on the
rates charged," the railroads Involved
In the Nebraska maximum rate cases
went to a great deol of trouble for
nothing.
Of course, it was not admitted then,
and It is not admitted now, that the
rates are absolutely distinct and Inde
pendent of capitalization. The fixed
charges and the operation chargeB
must both be covered out of the
earnings and the question of reasona
ble rates Is Inextricably intertwined
with the question of reasonable profits.
SUU1I1 DAKOTA'S DIVORCE MECCA.
Sioux Falls, S. D., is having a regu
lar bargain counter ruBh these days In
the divorce line. Dispatches state
that the court dockets are already
overburdened with cases and new suits
are being filed every day. It is all
due to advertising of the tact that the
Dakota legislature has passed a meas
ure amending the existing divorce
statutes by requiring a residence of
one vear Instead of six months. The
new law will not become effective,
however, until It has been nut through j
law wlll not l.Rcnmn pffect VP. I
the Initiative and referendum routine, I
... r -ii-
ever, there ie no question of the atti
tude of the people and It Is refreshing
to note that they are becoming much
Wrought up over the action of the (
lawyers and the landlords to advertise
South Dakota's divorce shame to the
world. The state has already had too i
much advertising of that kind and the
public sentiment apparently la shaped
for a knockout blow to the divorce evil
In Its stronghold.
The tendency all over the country is
toward stricter divorce laws and a
more rigid enforcement of existing re
quirements on the subject. It will be
a big card for South Dsikota when the
mention of its name will suggest some
thing other than Its laxity in divorce
laws.
.VCOTZ.VIC.JiSS JOfl4CCO
Not satisfied with trying to compel
Its subjects to acquire a taste for
grapeless wine, the French govern
ment is making a determined effort to
put a nicotlneless tobacco upon the
market. Some scientist' has discov
ered a plan for removing nicotine from
the tobacco plant and has convinced
the authorities that all the peculiar
Ills from which French smokers suffer,
like tobacco heart, varicose veins, tu
berculosis and inability to pay the
rent, are due to nicotine In tobacco,
and the government, ever eager to do
something for the amelioration of suf
fering mankind, has decreed that the
nicotlneless smoke must become the
vogue.
Americans may continue to get their
champagne, automobiles, elbow-length
gloves, sardines, Easter bonnets and
other emotions from France, but
the American smoker will balk at
the invitation to adopt the nicotlne
less smoke. Perhaps It would be bet
ter for him It he did not smoke at all.
Imt so long as he persists in Indulging
the habit he will draw the line at de
natured cigars. He can remember
when he got a nicotlneless smoke from
corp silk, grapevine, weeds that had
a pith to them and other substances
dear to the heart and memory of the
American boy, but he long since lost
his taste for that kind of thing. To
him nicotlnelens tobacco will be classed
with the saltless egg, root beer, alco
holless whisky, seedless apples and
other luxuries that are flat, stale and
unprofitable, fit only for mollycoddles.
He will cling to nicotine that gives the
cigar its flavor and boquet and the pipe
its twang and odor.
AMERICA A 1SD THE DmAOO DOCTRIXE.
South American delegates to the
peace conference at The Hague are re
ported to be much perturbed over the
probable attitude of the United States
toward the proposition of Bonth Amer
ica to have the Drago doctrine ac
cepted by the conference. General
Porter, one of the United Statea dele
gates, notified the conference that his
country would present an agreement
to introduce some limitations on the
using of force for the collection of con
tractual, public and ordinary debts.
The words "some limitations" are con
strued by the -South American coun
tries to mean that the United Statea la
not prepared to go to the full limit of
the Drago definition. The principal
for which Dr. Drago has asked recog
nition by the conference is as follows:
That the public debt cannot occasion
armed Intervention nor even the actual
occupation of the territory of American na
tlona by a European powor.
Dr. Drago and other South American
statesmen contend that the Drago doc
trine is in full accord with and Supple
mental to the Monroe doctrine and
that the United States should strongly
champion the measure In the peace
conference. President Roosevelt and
Secretary Root, while not denying the
value of such a doctrine, have reserved
the right, to withhold positive cham
pionship V it at The Hague.
The debt collecting methods of cer
tain European countries have caused
much trouble in South America in the
past. For. years Venezuela was the
storm center of demonstrations made
by foreign powers seeking recognition
of financial claims. After the blockade
at Caracas in 1902, the claims against
Hon and since that time the use of
battleships In the collection of foreign
debts has been practically abandoned.
The United States has headed off
several complications of this kind , by
taking charge of affairs, as at Santo
Domingo, and requiring the govern
ments to , meet their obligations to
foreign powers. This has made Uncle
Earn a sort of a South American police
man and while it ha prevented for
eign nations from indulging the habit
of sending battleships to collect debts,
after padding the claims sufficiently to
cover the cost of the naval demonstra
tion, the South American republics
still fear that unless an International
agreement, along the Drago doctrine
lines, is effected foreign countries may
yet use the excuse of debt to secure
territorial rights in South America.
' The Panamerlcan conference at Rio
last summer endorsed the Drago doc
trine and the mere fact that the United
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modified form of the proposition to
The Hague conference opens the way
for pressing Its discussion. Nothing In
existing conditions Justifies the feare
of the South Amerclan countries that
the United States will allow foreign
powers to secure territorial acquisi
tions on American soil under any pre
text. S.4JV FRASCISCOH AFFLICTWXSi
Citizens of San Francisco have come
to General Fred Funston's way of
thinking and have decided against a
Fourth of July parade. Some of
those who have taken charge of the
. ..
city and its management, since the un-
horsing of Schmitz, Ruef and their fel
low grafters, frankly admit that the
"unwhlpped mob," of which General
Funston complained, Is too large and
too unruiy to warrant them In subject- j
lng civilians to its attacks. While the
prees and the leading citizens are dis-
( posed to criticise General Funston for
j his harsh reference, they admit that
he simply called attention to a condi
tion of which they have been painfully
aware, though powerless to prevent,
under the municipal maladministra
tions from which the city has Buffered
for years.
It will not do, as has been attempted
In certain directions, to construe Gen
eral Funston's remark to be an Insult
to labor organizations or to "the com
mon people." He has explained, and
San Franciscans understand it, that
he did not have labor organizations or
i plain citizens in mind when he wrote
that letter to the citizens' commltee
refusing to allow the federal troops to
take part In the Fourth of July parade
and be subjected to the Jeers of the
"unwhlpped mob." He referred to the
thousands of men In San Francisco,
composed of the scum of all nations,
who looted during the earthquake and
later amused themselves perpetrating
outrages upon the persons and prop
erty of Chinees and Japanese residents.
The "unwhlpped mob'" is distinctively
San Franciscan. It has no counterpart
In the country unless It is found, on a
smaller scale, In the Monk Eastman
gang and like organizations of hood
lum cutthroats that exist In New York
City. No decent citizen anywhere can
take offense at Funston's character
ization of that type of San Francisco's
rehideuts. San Francisco has had more
than Us shaie of afriicilucs, and not
the least of these is the "unwhlpped
mob."
When the 2-cent fare law was be
fore the Nebraska legislature the rail
road spokesmen declared that the pas
senger rate depended entirely upon
the density of population. Now the
president of the Illinois Central say's
he does not believe the population of
Illinois will warrant a 2-cent rate and
a little while ago railroad representa
tives Insisted that the population of
New York would not warrant a 2-cent
rate. Will some Intelligent railroad
man please tell us how dense the pop
ulation must be to warrant a 2-cent
passenger fare?
Former Republican State Chairman
Burgess has at last landed the lucra
tive position of surveyor of customs
and custodian of the federal building
at Lincoln. His predecessor as state
chairman Is clerk of the state supreme
court; his successor Is United States
marshal, and the present republican
state chairman Is In line for another
federal Job. With such Inspiration no
trouble should be experienced In get
ting good men to serve as republican
Btate chairman in Nebraska.
Mr. Hearst says he will oppose Mr.
Bryan for the democratic nomination
next year, but has not decided whom
he will support. It Is safe to predict
that he will be found supporting a
multi-millionaire, a native of Califor
nia, who owns a string of newspapers,
has served In congress and been de
feated for mayor of New York City
and governor of the state, and who is
known to have the backing of the
Hearst Independence league.
The power canal may be on. the pro
gram for the Omaha of the future, but
that Is no reason why we should not
put forth every effort right now to
secure new factories and mills that
are necessary to furnish employment
as the baBls of a growing population.
Omaha boasts of many successful man
ufacturing institutions, built up under
nxlsUng conditions, and there is still
room for more.
Something must be done soon to
ward more rigid enforcement of the
speed limit on reckless automobile
drivers. Minor accidents are happen
ing every day on our Omaha streets
through carelessness of automobillsts
and more serious casualties are inev
itable unless repressive measures are
taken.
There are a lot of people In Omaha
quite able to contribute to the Young
Men's Christian association building
fund who have not yet done so. If
they would give as generously as did
those who made up the original build
ing fund a successful Issue of the pres
ent soliciting campaign would be as
sured. The most Independent people In
Omaha today are the building contrac
tors and building trades workmen.
They all have so many orders ahead
j that they feel they are doing a favor
In taking on new work. This appar
ently Is another penalty of prosperity.
The genuineness of the Oklahoma
democracy can be no longer In ques-
tlon. The state convention oi tne
J pflrty hftB Bpm an(J each Blde u accu8.
lng the other of being false to th
principles of the party of Jefferson,
Bryan and O. Cleveland.
Carrie Nation has been again ar
rested for creating a row In a Wash
ington saloon. Apparently Carrie can
rot go Into a saloon and get her drink
and go on about hef business. She
ought to sign the pledge.'
The attorney general of Ohio says
the trusts do not object to being fined,
because they make the people pay the
fines. The Ohio attorney has learned
something other people have known
"""
elnce the origin of trusts:
Scientists describe a skull found in
Kansas as belonging to some man who
"had a very small brain pan, but a
powerfully developed Jaw." The de
scription fits plenty of living men in
Kftnsas and elsewhere.
Look Omt for Number Os.
Kansas City Times.
. Railroad ticket agents claim that the
traveling public Is buying 2-cent fare tickets
In preference to Interstate tickets at the
old rate. Borne of them seem to be ral
Vexed about It.
A Kitoek Com In a".
Washington Post.
If Mr. Roosevelt locates the party who
atarted that story to the effect that he
advised the Georgia day oratora to "cut
It out," he may make use of the "short,
ugly word" once more.
o More Loot In Onn..
8t. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The amount, principal und Interest, the
UnlUd Btalos will remit to China on ac
count of the Boxer Claims is tLT.OuO.UOu.
V'ucle 8a ni wants no money in the till that
has taint of an overcharge.
Same Old Solo.
St. Louts Globe-Democrat.
A Bryan boomer says: "The republicans
have no Idea how the spirit lias spread.
They will wake up to a great surprise."
How familiar this sounds. And, when No
vember came, how It snowed.
Hoost for Parcel Tost.
Minneapolis Journal.
Indirectly some boneflt to the country at
large la l!k-ly to result from the action
j the Adams Express company In hand
ing its stockholders that t24,W(UO0 In the
form of a forty-yrar bond Issue, though
not, perhaps. In the way that the direc
tors of the company figured upon. The
agitation for a government parcels p(ml
has received Impetus.' Alsi there la
.tsppsitlOh to Inquire more clos:y Into
the rales charged by tle express carriers,
whith are said to be exorbitant In tuanv
Instances,
BITS OP WASHINGTON I.IPK.
Minor KrtsM and tnrldenta Sketched
on the Boot.
rubllc men who eert masterful Influ
ence wl'hln their respective spheres rarely
are masters of themselves. Habit masters
the individual. There Is Seen tnry Taft.
masterful in many ways, though not a
master of the brenkfa.t hah't. Despite the
morning grip of Minneapolis fare, the
secretary halted In St. l.ouls ene dav last
week long enough to stow away a I2.8S
breakfast a fit. lunula break I est at that.
Coincident with this heroic, tribute to the
power of habit comes a veracious account
of former Senator Cockrell's tobopRnn slide
to old habits. Missouri's venerable sage,
having recovered from siege of slcknes,
falls back on peanuts and apples as tho
diet of wiseacres. Senator Conkrvll says
he believes there la more nutriment In a
sack of peanuts than In a pound of beef
steak and that they are easier to get. Last
winter when he was stricken with Illness
Ms physician ordered him to drop apples
and peanuts for a while. It was a hard
task. Recently when he was advised that
he could resume his favorite bill of fare he
was hapfler than a boy with his first pair
of red-top boots.
Up to the time of the present adminis
tration, saya a Washington letter. It was a
rare thing for the president of the United
States to call at private houses or to ac
cept Invitations to social functions given
therein. President Chester Allan Arthur,
being a widower, a man of the world and
a warm admirer of the fair sex, went about
somewhat unceremoniously among his
cronies and without getting Into serious
trouble but once and President McKlnley,
having long been a resident of Washington,
occasionally accepted invitations to semi
official social functions, such as the late
Senator Morrill's annual birthday parties.
Presidents Harrison and Cleveland, how
ever, drew the line quite tautly at private
Invitations, the one because, perhaps, he
Was alwaya "on his dignity," the latter
because, posslhly, he was glad of any ex
cuse, as "sasslety" was not his long suit.
The rule of etiquet that a president should
extend but not receive Invitations held to
gether fairly well down to the early days
of the Roosevelt administration. It Is
well remembered here what consternation
was caused when on one historic day, after
the president had led Prince Henry of
Pr.'sHa all ever the sul urban hills on horse
back in a veritable downpour of rain And
finally deposited him, soaked to his royal
skin, at the German embassy, Mr. Roose
velt drew rein under the porta cochere of
the British embassy and went In to make
a friendly call on his friend. Sir Michael
Herbert, who was then in the first stages
of the disease that a few years later car
ried him to his grave.
Afterward, however, the president got
Into' the habit of dropping In at the Hay's,
the Lodge's and elsewhere unheralded. The
hosts here, however, were public men, but
Mr. Roosevelt no longer demands even that
excuse for his violations of presidential
etiquet. He goes to private houses when
ever the spirit moves him. .
War Is on between James Wilson, secre
tary of agriculture, and F. D. Coburn, aec
retary of the Kansas Board of Agriculture.
Kansas Is greatly Interested In the out
come. When the rest of the country hears
about the conflict it, too, will alt up and
take notice.
Two years ago, relates the Washington
Herald, Secretary Wilson put Kansas In
the class of "arid" states. Kansas got
wildly excited over this aspersion on Its
fertility and Secretary Coburn promptly Is
sued a pamphlet showing that Kansas pro
duced more stuff than Iowa, the home of
Mr. Wilson. .
These Jabs at Iowa hurt Mr. Wilson.
He Is on the trail of Coburn. It Is said
that he intends to show that Coburn Isn't
such a leading agricultural expert. Accord
ing to the story told In Washington, agents
of the Agricultural department are watch
ing everything Coburn does and will report
to the secretary.
When the green bug was devastating
the Kansas wheat fields recently Secre
tary WIlHon. out of the goodness of his
heart, decided to give the Kansas farmers
some advice as to how to beat the
"greenle" In the future. He wrote a letter
to Coburn and asked that It be printed In
the Kansas, papers. As he perused the of
ficial document from the Department of
Agriculture Coburn's ryes lighted up with
a gleam of triumph.
Secretary Wilson advised farmers to
plant turkey red wheat. He said that In
1SA7 he made some experiments and found
that turkey red spread out and withstood
the ravages of bugs better than any other
variety. Coburn printed the Wilson letter
all right. He saw to It that It was given
the widest aort of, publicity. Then he gave
out a statement himself, showing that 'fo
the last twenty years Kansas had produced
practically no other kind of wheat but tur
key red.
Millers and wheat growers all over the
country began to poke fun at "Farmer
Wilson for making experiments in 1P97 with
turkey red wheat, which Kansas had grown
successfully and almost exclusively for a
decade before.
For the federal Agricultural department
to be held up as ten years behind the times
grated on Mr. WilBon's nerves. In fact It
was the straw that broke the camel's back.
The last package of charred embers Iden
tified as burnt money from the San Fran
cisco disaster has been examined and
paaaed upon by experts of the redemption
division of the Cnited Statea treasury In
Washington and the most stupendous task
In all the history of that department com
pleted. Mra. A. E. iBrown, burnt money
expert, has passed on each bill submitted,
and It has been given her approval anj
redeemed, or haa been declared undecipher
able and remained aa so much ash, value
less. Crisp new bills to an amount estimated
aa high aa half a million dollars have been
Issued from the treasury to replace the
packages of ashes sent to Washington by
the bereft In the stricken city, and hearts
have been made glad by the replacing In
its original value of that which had been
regarded aa Irretrievably lost.
The largest consignments of bills came
from the business and banking houses, but
these were the least troublesome. Lnter
came the smaller ami unta from private In
dividuals, frayed, torn and unrecognizable.
Gold, silver and currency were melted Into
a mas sthat could not be made out, and to
get at the value contained was almost Im
possible. The loss of the Individual n San Fran
cisco was greatly lessened by the Tact that
gold and silver are the pocket change on
the pacific coast, and these are less de
structible than Is currency. Had the tire
occurred in an eastern city, where little
other than paper money Is carried, the
personal loss would have been greater. The
redemption of coin Is a matter handled at
the various mints, however, and not In the
reckoning of the redemption division of the
treasury.
For every bill redeemed and for the un
raveling of every knot in the deciphering
of the problem If Identifying the money, not
only of this fire, hut of every other package
of damaged money received from any part
of the nation, one person Is directly re
sponsible, and that person Is a comely
j woman of middle age-Mrs. A. K. Rrown.
j the most skilled burnt money expert la the
1 world
MRS. CE. FINK
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
la an honest, tried and true remedy of unquestionable therapeutic value.
This medicine made from native roots and herbs contains no narcotloa
or other harmful drugs and today holds tho record for the largest number
of actual cures of female diseases of any medicine the world haa ever
known, and thousands of voluntary testimonials are on file ia the
laboratory at Lynn, Mass., which testify to Its wonderful value.
Mrs. C. E. Fink, of Carnegie, Pa., writes: Dear Mrs. Pink ham: "I
wish every suffering woman would take Lydia E. Ptnkham's Vegetable
Compound and write to you for advice. It has done nic a world of good
and what It has sceompllehed for me I know It. will do for others.
When women are troubled with Irregularities, Displacements, Ulcer
ation, Inflammation, Backache, Nervous Prostration, they should re
member there is one tried and true remedy, Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege
table Compound.
Mrs. Pinkham's Standing Invitation to Women
Women suffering from any form of female weakness are invited to
write Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn. Mass. Out of her vast volume of ex
perience she probably haa the very
rKRKONAl, WOTE9.
The Carl Schurs memorial fund now
amounts to t76H.
Nobody ever thinks of the June bride
groom, yet there are Just as many of him
as of the June bride.
On the flrst of July Boston receives a
voluntary reduction In the price of gas,
from 8S cents to 80 cents a thousand.
Since Anthony Comstock, In the attitude
of being good, has appeared at Coney
Island, that resort may be regarded as
really open for the season.
A Kansas man thinks lie has invented a
machine whereby natural gas can be
greatly compressed. The campaign already
gives opportunity for 'testing It.
The new golf champion of Massachusetts
Is teacher of a private school overlooking
a golf course. His present form Is prob
ably due to playing all the time, even be
tween recitations.
Through the intercession of Augustus St.
Gaudens himself the park board of Chi
cago has been persuaded to let a copy be
made of the famous 8t. Gaudens Lincoln
statute In Lincoln park, Chicago, to be
placed at the Lincoln farm, near Hodgens
vtlle, Ky.
The Navy Department has bestowed the
West Indies campaign medal upon Rear
Admiral B. H. McCalla, retired, for rescue
work done In close proximity to the burn
ing ships after the battle of Santiago, July
3, 1898. Admiral McCalla Is now living In
Santa Barbara, Cal,
A Chicago woman obtained a decree of
divorce Saturday night Just three hours
after she had made up her mind to have
matrimonial bonds broken. On. Sunday
night "a prominent banker" of Chicago
went to a dinner party attired In white
evening dress. . Chicago Is never out of the
headlines. ,
The dedication of the obelisk erected In
Buffalo by that city and .the state of J4ew
York as a memorial to the late President
McKlnley will occur the nret week In Sep
tember. The monument commission haa
not aet the exact date, which will depend
to some extent on the plans of President
Roosevelt, Governor Hughes and other
prominent men who will be asked to attend j
the dedication and deliver addresses.
MUNICIPAL ACCOUNTING.
Inaugaratloa of a t'nlforra System
In Iowa Towns and Cities.
Municipal Journal and Engineer.
On April 6, 190C, there was approved an
act providing for municipal accounting
which Is required to be adopted In all
cities and towns of that state on and after
April 1 of this year. The results of this
will not, of course, be available for more
than a year to come, and consequently can
not yet be used as an argument In favor
of such a law. To most of those who have
to deal with statistics, however, such an
argument Is not required and It hardly
snema possible that advantages will not be
realised from a law of- this kind, however
Imperfect, which would not be obtained
under the present confusion of methods
and lack of method.
The act provides that the chief account
ing and warrant Issuing officer of each
city and town (auditor or clerk) shall pre
pare and publish the annuul report of its
financial condition and transactions, and
that all boards, departments and offices of
a municipality which handle public funds
shall, within thirty days from the expira
tion of their fiscal year, file a report of
their transactions In a form prescribed by
law; failure to file such report being madu
a mlsdeameannr, and the auditor or clerk
are to Institute legal proceedings to enforce
such reports. If the city has 6,000 popula
tion or more, the annual report must be
printed In pamphlet form, at least 600
j copies being printed at the expense of tho
city, in smaller emea me pumisnmg or
pamphlet reports Is optional. On or before
the first day of July a certified copy of the
report shall be forwarded to the state aud
itor, who shall print,' on or before Decem
ber 1. 3,000 copies of a state report contain
ing the reports of all cities and towns of
the state. To Insure uniformity, the state
auditor shall formulate and prescribe a
system of municipal accounts. In preparing
which he shall be assisted by an advisory
committee of from five to seven municipal
JUNE ! JUNE! JUNE!
THE MONTH OF ROSES, BRIDES AND PIANOS
And what so rare as a day in June
Whether we look or whether we listen , ,
We hear life murmur or see it glUten.
That's what James Russell Lowell
wrote. In his beautiful poem on June
be transcribed Into words the music
be heard In the June air, the Jun?
flowers, the June heavens. He foun 1
the whole earth In tune and heard
singing from the souls of every liv
ing thing In nature's great family.
Truly June Is the month of mul.'.
It Is the month when flowers awake
from the bllsht of winter, breath
again and exivnd In the Joy of living.
It Is the month of poetry, of "fly. It
Is the month of the fairest of all fair
beings the June bride.
And If June suggests music, why
should It not sugytat a Piano, a nesr
Piano? What gift In the whole long
list of appropriate things would b
more appreciated by her who is to
A. H0SPE CO, 1513 Douglas Street
v;
ONE PRICE
HEALTH OF WOMEN
In this nineteenth century toVeep
np with the march of progress every
power of woman is strained to It
utmost, and the tax upon her physi
cal system Is tar preater than ever.
In the good old-fashioned days of
our grandmothers few ding were
used In medicines. Thcjr relied upon
roots and herbs to cure weaknesses
and dlscM. and their knowledfre of
roots and herbs was far greater
than that of women today.
It was In this stndy of roots and
herb that Lydla E. Pinkham, of
Lynn, Mass , discovered and gave
to the women of the world a remedy
more potent and efficacious than
any combination of drugs.
knowledge that will help your eaae.
accountants. In which It shall be the en
deavor to adopt, as far as practicable, the
latest and most approved methods of
municipal accounting. The auditor shall
appoint one or more examiners of muni
cipal accounts, who shall, at least once In
two years, examine., audit and report upon
the financial condition and transactions of
all cities of S.onu population Or more, these
examiners having the customary power
over witnesses, etc. The compensation of
said examiners ia fixed at the rldicuously
Inadequate sum of 35 per day. Any city
or town of loss than 6,000 population may
have its finances examined and reported
upon by the state examiner upon applica
tion; also, upon petition of fifty or more
taxpayers of any city or town and the
approval of the state auditor, special exam
inations may be made for stated reasons.
ill K K It Y JINGLEM.
"Joslah," said Mra. Chugwater, wiping
her spectacles, "base ball muat bo an awlul
cruel game. This paper says a man named
Smith was pounded all over the lot. And I
guess It muat have been true, for It says
that In the next Imiing he died at second -base.
Chicago Tribune.
"How's things In Lonelyvllle?" asked the '
first farmer.
"Everybody's on the Jump," replied the.
second farmer proudly.
"Then the automohlles have struck your
town, too, have they ? " Yonkers States
man. "Jones Is the most prominent member of
our golf club."
"Why. he can't play golf.
"No. but he always pays his dues." .
Cleveland Leader.
"Newllved has' sold his house, hasn't
he?" said Cltlman.
"Not at all," replied Hubbubs. "
"Why, he told me this morning that he
didn't own It now."
"O! he merely means that they've: got a
servant girl now." Philadelphia Press.
"Brethren," said the Rev. Mr. Goodman,
bringing his sermon to a close when
scarcely half way through It, "It Is too hot
this morning far m to preaohvand tel'ou
to listen. We will sing 'From Greenland's
Icy Mountains,' omitting all but the first
stanta, and be dismissed." Chicago Trib
une. Police Justice Instead of spending your
time and money in the saloons', why don't
you try to make your home pleasant and
attractive? , .
Dejected Old Bum I do, your honor. I
stay away from It all I can. Chicago
Tribune.
"It was unlucky that he should die Just
after he was married."
"Oh, 1 don't know," replied Old Grouch,
"it might have been worse."
"I don't see how It well could be."
"He might have lived." Houston Post
"I see vou have a bundle there. Not get
ting ready for the Fourth so early?"
"k'es."
"Roman candles and firecrackers, eh?"
"Nope. Wltiiihasel and arnica." Cleve
land Plain Dealer.
"This painting," said the art dealer, In
dicating un exquisite marine view, "Is
valued at IM.OOO."
"Vou don't say," remarked the stock
broker. "H'm: there's a lot of water in
It, isn't .there?" Philadelphia Press.
"Why do poets wear long hair?" asked
the magaslne rtaJur.
"I never thought about that," answered
Mr. Cumrox. "The most mysterious thing
about 'em to me la why they should writ
poetry." Washington Star.
AT.
Musical Chronicle.
The hen remarked to the muley cow,
As she cackled her dally lay,
(That Is. the hen cackled) "It's funny bow .
I'm good for an egg a day. .
I'm a fool to do It, for what do I gett
My food and my lodging. My! ,
But the poodle geta that he's the house
hold pet,
And he has never laid a single egg yet
Not even when eggs are high."
The muley cow remarked to the hen.
As she masticated her cud,
(That Is, the cow did) "Well, what then?
You quit, and your name Is mud.
I'm good for eight gallons of uilk.each
dav,
And I'm given my stable and grub:
But the parrot gets that much. anyway
All she can gobble and what does she pay?
Not a dribble of milk, the dub!"
But the hired man remarked to the pair,
"You get all that's cumin' to you.
The poodle does tricks, an' the parrot ktB
swear.
Which Is better th'n you km dp. -You're
neceaaary. but what's the uae
O' bewallln' your dally part?
You're bourgeois workin's your only es
cuae;
You can t do nothln' but Just, produce
What them fellers does Is Art!"
begin the new life of connubial hap
piness? To wtmt one thing cllngS
more sentiment than a Piano which
was a wrdiiitiK gin? How often V"U
have heard acme elderly matron refer
In tender worda to I lie fine old Inatru
nient that waa a fathers gift to her
on her wedding day.
A Piano is the moat appropriate
present lor u- 1 -1 sun Its ifl-i-slc
will understand better than any
thing else poHaloly could the secret
of her soul In the new environment
he p.l.out to enter.
In the Hoape store lire the beat Pi
anos. They are sold undi-r the falrent
syatfm. The prices on them, ara the
lowest and there ia great variety
from whlcn to select. Come now and
chouse.
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