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10 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, JUtY 6, 1907. 'Vim Omaha Daily Kee. " FOUNDED BT EDWARD BOSK WATER. - VICTOR ROSE WATER, EDITOR. F.ntered at Omaha post office a econd wn rnatter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. -aily Uc (without Sunday), one year..tW laul Ilea and Sunday, one year "0 Sunday Bee. one year 2 Saturday Wee, one year 1 DEt.l Vl-'UKD BY" CARRIER. r-n1y Bra (Including Sunday), per week..lTc Ialry Bee (without Sunday), per week. ..loo Evening Fee (without 8unda . P week. c fcvenlng Be (with hundayt, per week....lc . Address all Complaints et Jrregularitle In delivery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. ! Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha City Hall Building. . Council Bluff 16 Scott Btreev ; Chicago UXO Unity Building-. , New York 1M Home Life Insurance Bldg. Washlngtonfiftl Fourteenth mreet. t CORRESPONDENCE. " Coniitiunlcallofia relating ta new and edi torial matter should he sddressed, Omaha Boe. Editorial Department. ! - - REMITTANCES. . , Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to The Bee Publishing Company, pnly !-cent stamp received In payment of htall accounts. Paraonal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchange not accepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. 8tate of Nebraska Douglas county, ss: Charles C. Bosewater, general manager rf The Bee Publishing Company, being dill sworn, Sy8 that the actual number rf full and complete cople of The Dally, Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month. of June, 1907, waa aa follows! - ' ' ' '. l. a,830 17 S,40 ': SS.BCO II , I BS.SftO . . Ill , 88,480 4........ S6,0 10 M.310 6 BS.410 II 36.830 6 36.810 12 86,610 ' T 36,630 ' ' 21 18,790 I 36,800 24 36,900 .' 35,800 15 36,880 19., 86,660 21 89.880 11 36,930 27 36,870 12 86,830 21 36,470 13..., 36,640 - 2 36460 14.... 38,930 IS 38,880 15 37,170 16 88,1100 Total ... i,o4,aao Leal unsold and returned copies.. '10,388 Nat total 1,083,831 Daily average... N 36,137 CHAPLK8 C ROSEWATER, General Manager. Subscribed in my presence and sworn to before mi this 1st day of July, 1807. (Seal) jj. B. HUNUATB, Notary Public. WHS OUT OK TOWN. ' abserlber lea-flaa; the city tent, porarllr lliU aav . The Be mailed to theaa. Addreaa will eaaaareel aa aftau as requested. The great American crops seem to have survived the cold spring. Speculatora ar apparently trying, to coach wheat for the balloon races. Mark Twain has visited Marie Cor elll. Mark will never get too old to enjoy a joke. "Taft Is a man of splendid poise" says an Ohio exchange. Also of splen did avoirdupois. ' ; ' The Washington base ball team cel ebrated the Fourth of July, as usuali by exploding twice. ,. - TDe rtalav ha, tatrsmA 1 . ..,..,1., thai It 'is Just" as dangerous to have soup in you as to be in the soup. Mr. Rockefeller may agree to tell how much he has if the court will not be too curious about how he got It. Wonder if it would have been as safe ani sane to Omaha had Mayor "Jim" stayed at home for the Fourth? The defense at Boise la calling many witnesses to prove that Harry Orchard is a liar. Looks like a waste of time. He concedes It. Wizard Burbank promises to pro due aa odorless onion. First let him prod nee odorless cabbage for. use by the family on the floor below. The Philadelphia - Inquirer asks, "What is a progressive democrat?" A progressive democrat is a democrat who votes the republican ticket. Uncle Sam Is sending his warships to the Pacific Just as corroborative tes timony la support , of the claim that there is going to be no trouble with Javan. Congressman Llttlefleld of Maine de nree the report that he Is to retire. He appreciates the value of his tltje In securing profitable t lecture engage ments. Chicago Is not very enthusiastic over the prospect of the 2 -cent passenger rate law. It will furnish another In ducement for people to get away from Chicago. A white man has been lynched by a Georgia mob. Sometimes when a Geor gia mob starts out It Is unable to And a negro, and has to take something equally as good. 1 Editor Watterson insists that If Mr, Bryan Is going to be a candidate he should quit talking. Mr. Bryan natur ally will refuse to pay any attention to such an Impossible proposition. it has been discovered that the rem iniscences of Ellen Terry, now being printed In a magailne, were printed twelve years ago In another magailne That la all right. Ellen la just retpoud tng te an encore. The great tenor, Caruso, has been decorated., by King Edward. That euint to furnish balm and solace for the fancied grievances which distressed the Italian bo keenly when he was here la Omaha last spring. . New Tork republicans are becoming quite enthusiastic 'over the Hughes boom for the presidency. The machine leaders In both tho big parties are cer tui a that Hughes Is just the man to rua tlln at Washington, or any place elae except at Albany - . - THE ARilT'S DKFKC1S. Army and official circles are seri ously discussing the assertion m&de the other day by Major General J. Franklin Dell, chief of staff, that "there Is something radically wrong with the army." Tho mere fact that a high officer of the service openly makes such a statement Is pretty convincing proof that there is something wrong. ' The army officer's entire training and teaching Is to accept his duty un complainingly, like a soldier. Of late, however, many men prominent In the service have been voicing their discon tent and reports from barracks throughout the country indicate that the, men are disgruntled and the ef ficiency of the service threatened with impairment unless the causes of dis content are eliminated. Secretary Taft has been studying the situation and has 'reported to President Roosevelt tbat these are the marked defects In the army service: Inadequate pay for officers and enlisted men. Insufficiency of officers. Weakness In the present general Staff system. Unsatisfactory condition of the medical corps. Defective system of detailing officers to the general staff and staff corps. Inadequacy of the army ration. Absence of the army canteen. It la, announced from Washington that the administration will recom mend to congress comprehensive leg islation dealing with the whole army question. In the last year over 10,000 men deserted from the army and there were 61,000 coUrts-martial, although there fere but 61,000 men in the army. Secretary Taft has notified army offi cials that military courts are not cre ated to Increase the number of trlalB and that they have been too busy In holding trials for trivial offenses. Dis satisfaction among the men is traced chiefly to the low pay. It Is said to be well nigh Impossible to secure recruits when farmers are offering two or three times as much for workmen as the government pays its soldiers. The In sufficiency of officers is charged to the same cause. Army officers are accept ing employment' with private concerns where the pay Is much better than the service affords, and the ranks at West Point show many vacancies where us ually there is an overflow of ambitious applicants. In both the army and the navy the demand is for more surgeons and physicians, but unsatisfied owing to the opportunities for more lucrative practice in private life. Congress will be urged to provide for a general increase of pay for offi cers and men In all branches of the service. The measures will have the support of the administration , and of congressmen who feel that while the army, la something of a useless neces sity, .times .of peace, Its efficiency must not be Impaired. '" THflT TTLIP1NOS ON TMAV. a Ervlng Winslow has resumed active operations from his Boston headquar ters, in, pushing his publicity campaign in behalf of Immediate independence for the "downtrodden" Filipinos. Colonel Bryan of Nebraska has come to WInslow's support to the extent of offering verbal encouragement In sup port of a change from the present ad ministration policy in dealing with one of the vexed problems acquired as a result of the war with Spain. Colonel Bryan Is not ready to go as far as Winslow and turn the archipelago over to the natives, but he insists that the United States should pursue the same policy In the Philippines that tt has adopted In Cuba. Secretary Taft, who has been a sort of foster father of the Filipinos, has cheerfully, If unneces-. a&rily, given heed to the complaints of theee special friends of the "down trodden" and. replies that the Filipinos are not yet ready for self-government and that It would be nothing short of a crime tor the United States to cut them adrift prematurely and let them shift for themselves. While these fault-finders are de manding attention and offering criti cisms, the administration is going along with plans that promise ' early fulfilment of all pledges to give the Filipinos an opportunity to participate in their own government, with com plete autonomy as the ultimate object. The first native legislative assembly In the Philippines will be elected Jnly SO. It will consist of eighty-one members, to be voted for by all adult male In habitants over 23 year of age, able to read or write either English or Span ish, who pay as much as 80 pesos a year In taxes and who have not borne arms against the United States since May, 1201. The acts of the' legislature become effective only when approved by the Philippine commission, which Is appointed by the president of the United Statea and upon which the no. tlve 'Filipinos have a liberal represen tation! poionel Bryan and some of his anti Imperialist friends declare tfcat this step is far too short toward Independ ence' for the Filipinos, but the natives ot the Islands are apparently well sat isfied with It. Tbey realize and appro elate the manner In which their pow ers have been constantly enlarged. They have been given almost complete control in the municipal governments and tha patriotic Islanders are gratified that their success In local affairs has been great enough to justify the United States in extending their franchise and giving them a chance to participate la the affair of their general government. This substantial evidence of the" good faith of the American government has doe much to produce tranquillity in the island and remove latent hostility to American domination. The success of the new experiment may be expected at Wt te baaUn the time whea the Filipinos may enjoy complete Inde pendence, under the fostering care of the United States, to safeguard Amer ican Interests in the archipelago and prevent spoliation by any foreign power. INTERSTATE IWlhCSKT FARES. . Interstate 2-cent passenger fares, at least from the Missouri river eastward, are plainly on the program for early delivery. Interstate 2-cent fares are coming hbt because the railroads want to give them, but because they find themselves compelled by the necessi ties of the situation to put them into effect. i The interstate 2-cent fares are com ing by grace of the passenger and op erating departments In spite of the op position or indifference of the law de partments, which are reserving the right to argue in court that they are confiscatory The enforcement of the 2-cent fare laws, fixing this maximum limit on the charge to be exacted for transporting passengers between polnta within state boundaries, has made it practically impossible to charge more than 2 cents a mile for carrying a pas senger across state lines. The refusal of the railroads so far to make interstate 2-cent rates has been unquestionably for the purpose Of annoying the travelling public and making the new legislation as odious as possible. That by this method the railroads have succeeded in embar rassing and Irritating their patrons goes without Baying, but while doing so they have at the same time bur dened and irritated their own ticket sellers, conductors, baggagemen and operating employes equally, If not more, than the public. The interstate 2-cent fare will be even more of a re lief to the railroad men than It will be to. the passengers. - The railroad managers might have foreseen this outcome and, by bowing to the inevitable gracefully, might have secured some kind of a credit mark In the public estimation." 'The prospects now are that the railroads will put In interstate 2-cent fares with out getting a "Thank you" for It. ... J STOCKS, VOX XT AKD BONDS. Wall street and New York had: some thing of a shock the other day. when bids were opened for . the sale of an Issue of $29,000,000 In New York City bonds bearing 4 per cent Interest. It was the last business day of June and, with many millions of dollars to be dis tributed In dividends, Wall street had been planning for a big splurge In stocks as a result of the Investment of these dividend earning, and brokers were confidently predicting that the bond market, which has .been showing signs of depression for some time, would certainly improve with the re lease of so much money for immedi ate Investment Contrary - to all pre dictions and expectations, bids were received for but $2, 500,000 of the 29,000,000 bond Ibsub, and the stocks that had been carried upon the antici pation of renewed strength In the bond market suffered a sharp decline. Financial experts are trying to ex plain that the failure of the bonds to find a demand is due to a general reel ing of distrust In the country over in vestments in any class of securities. Nothing could be further from the facts. The eple and only reason why New York City's 4 per cent bonds do not find ready buyers Is that money in these busy days Is worth more than 4 per cent In New York. Railroad com panies, whose securities are fully as safe as those of New York City, which already has a bonded debt of 1560, 000,000, are Increasing their dividend rates to 8 and 10 per cent. Many in dustrial enterprises, solidly backed and highly prosperous, are paying better than 6 per cent and the demand for money for railroad improvements and equipment has caused several of the leading railroads to Issue short-time notea on which an Interest of 6 or 7 per cent is being paid.' Enterprises of great moment are being launched and pushed in all sections of the country, creating a demand for large volumes of money at highly attractive interest rates. So long as these conditions ob tain there will be no brisk demand for 4 per cent bonds of New York City or any other city. When the crops have been moved and the agricultural wealth of the country smelted Into cash,' the surplus seeking investment will doubtless be large enough to give a better and stronger tone to the municipal bond market, which Is now suffering from the general prosperity of the country. The construction by toleration of the city authorities of wooden booths and stands on our most prominent bus iness corners for the sale of fireworks puts Omaha la the class of small vil lages and towns.. Is It not high time for the mayor and council to announce positively that no such infraction of the building ordinances will be again permitted? Unless aome such action Is taken the same presHure will be brought next for Ak-8ar-Ben week and the city exhibited to visitors at its worst Just when it ought to look Its best It Is said that the state authorities do not understand the action of tho railroads trying to get all the litigation involving the new rate laws trans ferred to the federal courts. That Is easily understood.. The railroads have always regarded the federal eoarta as more friendly to them la their efforts to evade state laws. Tho famous Ne braska maximum freight rate cases wt re brought In the federal court. The law requiring the railroads to build viaduct over their tracka la Omaha waa resisted in the federal courts. More " recently the railroad taxes throughout Nebraska were staved off for three successive years by Injunc tion proceedings in the federal courts. If It were only for the opportunities offered for dilatory motions and de lays the railroads would prefer the federal courts. Something must have slipped a cog In the railroad machinery in our neigh boring state of Iowa, where the 2 cent fare law has been allowed to go Into effect notwithstanding the appli cation of two of the railroads for fed eral restraining orders because Judge Smith McPherson happened to be in Kansas City and, therefore, unable to sign the necessary documents. Judge McPherson ought to be more careful about his movements at critical mo ments hereafter. Iowa has a new law Just going Into effect, which requires the Imposition of the maximum penalty on every criminal convicted of crime subject only to parole or pardon under speci fied conditions. The idea back of the law Is that It Will keep professional criminals , out of Iowa. If It works out that way a lot of other states will be copying this Iowa Idea. ,, Our amiable democratic contem porary thinks It has discovered a re semblance between John D. Rockefel ler and Pat Crowe. The one would, doubtless, like to see a resemblance in bank accounts and the ethef a resem blance In physique. The only real re semblance so far, however, isia Im munity. An "old-fashioned" Fourth of July celebration was pulled off at Florence. The only thing missing to restore the good old days waa a caravan of Mor mons setting out to cross the plains In prairie schooners headed for the prom ised land In the valley of tho ureal Salt Lake. The republican state committee of Rhode Island has endorsed Senator Wetmore for re-election. All that re mains for Senator Wetmore now Is to secure the endorsement of Senator Al drich and a majority of the legislative votes. Mr.. Harrlmaa has ordered that the press hereafter be supplied with full accounts of accidents occur In g on the railroads of which he is the head. Mr. Harriman refers, of course, to the physical, not the financial, accidents. The Dahlman democracy lost Its chance of a lifetime in failing to out shine Tammany hall with 4 Fourth' of July celebration. Didn't "Tom" Jef ferson, the boss democrat, write the Declaration of Independence? " " Dan Hanna'e divorces are said to have cost him over $500,000. They have also cost hira the respect ot a good many people who have wanted to think well of Mark Hanna'a son. A bookmaker was relieved ot 26,000 by a pickpocket while returning from the races. That adage about there be ing honor among them does not always hold good. This Will Help Some. Kansas City fitar. The Iowa supreme court repudiated the "unwritten law" and administered a atern rebuke to a lawyer who baaed his plea upon ft. This will help aome, although the su preme court of Iowa has no jurisdiction In either Virginia or New Tork. Forecasting Clock. Pittsburg Dispatch. About that refusal of the Pennsylvania democracy to endorse Colonel Bryan for the presidential nomination we violate no con fidence In adding that If the Nebraskan per alsts In running he will not get Pennsyl vania's electoral vote, either. Dsklmsa'i Still Haat. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. One of Mr. Bryan'a confidential political friends tn Nebraska has gone to Wyoming to look after the delegation from that statu. A shade of anxiety Is noted at Lincoln since the Pennsylvania democratlo conven tion declined to commit Itself for 1906. Fakes of tke "Silly Season." ' New York World. The complete, explicit and uncompromis ing denial from Oyster Bay of the report that the Navy department was about to concentrate heavy fleet In the Pacific Is most gratifying. A "silly season" that leads to untrue warlike reports of a semi official nature Is something worse than merely silly. Tarsi Om the Llsrht. San Ftanclsco Chronicle. The general solicitor ot the Union Paclfle railroad announces that the corporation will fight the 2:cent fare law because "taxes and all other operating expenses have In creased" to Such an extent that a further reduction of freight and fare rates "would spell ruin." If the Union Pacific sticks to this determination attd forces an lnvestlga tlon ef Its earning capacity, some Interest ing things may be developed, not lesat among which will be, data which will en able outsiders to determine whether ail the claims of prosperity which have done so much to boost J he stock of the corporation have a solid basla. Railroad Aoelaeat KeKaalfclllty. Boston TrtnscrlpL Publicity, If the Union Pacific manage ment means all It says, will go a long way toward reducing the sinister roll of railway accidents In Western America. The ostrich Ilk policy of official silence la the face of thee disaster la futile anyway, as every raUway manager know. If the blame la on the road or Ita employee, the most pru dent, as well as the honorable,' thing la to make a clean breast of It Reckless engi neers, train hands and switchmen will take a great deal more care, and have a more uncomfortable sense of responslbUlty If they know, that tn caae of a blunder tbey are not going to be shielded by the man aajement. One of the Union Pacific officers declares that more than K per rent of seri ous collisions are due to the aegllgence or sheer disobedience of employes. But the railroads themaelvea, by their policy ot hushing up the facts after a disaster, must really shoulder most of the blame for this. OTHER LADS THAI OCRS. Premier Clemenceau'S successive victories over the opposition of warring political groups In the French assembly discredit the various prophecies of an early downfall. No French ministry In recent year ha faced greater and more difficult situations points within the state are enjoying Ita eub and survived. The more desperate appear ( ctantial benefits. The volume of passenger the controversy and the clamor, the greater j truffle will Increase so greatly that the I the victory. In little more than half a maris will be nnnble to prove that the law year the ministry grappled with ths peril-I has Injured them. ous problem of church separation and The reduction of local rates tn Illinois church confiscation. Next came the wide- and aome other states necessitates a reduc- spread unrest of labor unions, culminating tn strikes In Paris and elsewhere, Sharply following waa the vigorous suppression of the attempt te organise the civil employes of the government Into labor unions. These questions have scarcely been disposed of i rnust bo filed with the Interstate commerce when the wine growers" troubles assumed , commission. The esstern roads are In no ominous proportions. Like the others. It to fll thir w-hedulea. They say was met with a determined show of mill- the hv e"Prt clprk tary power and the tendency to outlawry:0" them for w"?pk"- but tnBt tn,', vigorously checked. While with one hand b thrh tor ome ,lrn" "ne- Tnl the ministry sternly repressed disorder, with the other came practical evidence of conciliation In the form of law designed to . relieve the distress. From each contest Mte . , . . , . imniBiry emeraeu sirongrr in ine Bupptiri l of the assembly. The man who was feared and hailed a "a smasher of ministries" prove himself In power a master hand In playing one group against the other, flout ing the radicals on occaalon and command ing the solid support of the conservative masses. Even thnuzh all the ministerial policies may not be commendable, Clemen-' ceau's masterful handling of his political force command admiration. The portly, well-groomed ruler of Portu gal, King Carlo, went looking for trouble as a diversion and secured a large assort ment. Emulating Ciar Nicholas' treatment of the Duma, Carlos suspended the sitting of the. Cortes and proceeded to run public affairs without the advice or consent of representatives of the people. At this psyaohologlcai moment dormant republican- Ism took on new life and added a few men acing eomplicatlona to the klng'a troubles. The council of state also protested against the prorogation of the Cortes. It re minded the king that there Is an extremely reactionary party tn Portugal that would be ready to make common cause with any element of the Opposition, republican or otherwise, to drive him or his ' from the throne. Thl party, commonly called the legitimist, I also looally known as the "Mlguellte." They support, so far as thay dare, the claim of Dora Miguel, the de scendant of the deposed and banished King Miguel of seventy years ago. The present representative of the exiled king call him self In private the king of Portugal, but. being an officer In the Austrian army, does not parade this title In public. He contents himself with that of duke of Braganza, which the Portuguese law does not reo ognlse, a it belongs to the eldest son of the king de facto. It Is at present borne by Prince Luia Philippe, the eldest son of King Carlos. The situation leavea the king the choice of a backdown or abdication. During the first three and a half month ,Vu" U WR " ' Tf " J to" . . . . . ,Att af'i Uffl was worth to attempt TO es of 1907 the death from the plague In India totalled 194,000, the heaviest monthly mor tality yet reported during the epidemic. According to the Indian World thl would appear to show that the present year will exhibit a record number of deaths. Ths plague records, for the ten years October, 1906, to December, 1906, show that there waa w, iu uwvmwr, jtw, snow mat mura waa large annual Increase from 1901 to 1904. the deaths numbering 274.000 In 1901, (77,000 tn 1907. 667,000 in 1903 and 1,022,003 In Hot, the worst year In ten years. There Was a small decrease In 1906, the death falling to 961,000. and a large decrease in 190ti, when they were only 332.0CO. death, for the' Whole ten year, numbered shown in tha. two years 1906 and 190C ha not, unfortunately, been maintained. From the first appearance of the disease up to the year 1901 the mortality was greatest In the Bombay presidency, but from 190! onward, with one exception, the worst area haa been the Punjab, and In 190 the deaths m the latter province alone numbered 9C4.62S. Letters are beginning to appear In the London press advocating the passage of a law prohibiting the sale of absinthe In the British dominions. Already there I a con siderable consumption of the stuff In Lon don, chiefly In the hotels and restaurants . frequented by foreigners, although the de mand for It Is by no means entirely con fined te these establishment. On the Con tinent of Europe the movement to sup press the vice of absinthe drinking ha ac quired much strength. The aale of the drug ha been stopped in Belgium, and In the. canton of Vaud and Geneva, In Switzer land. In Alsace a movement haa been be gun toward a similar end, and In France the matter is now before the chambers. A special committee of thirty-three mem ber haa "reported In favor of the total pro hibition of absinthe, and a measure to that effect Is likely to be presented to Parlia ment within a limited time. Petition have been signed all over the country, and prom inent men In all divisions ot society are adding their signature. The consumption of absinthe In France ha risen in twenty year from 1,248,000 gallons a year to 4.4x6, (00 gallons. M. Henri Robert, a well known criminal barrister, sayst "Alchohollsm I the chief cause of the Increase of crimin ality." Dr. Bertlllon says: "You condemn murder; condemn the absinthe that causea It." Slgnor Matteuccl, director of the observ atory on Mount Vesuvius, ha recently published In the Bulletin of the Italian Geographical Society some details of the eruption of the volcano in 1P04. The west aide of the cone ha fallen in to a depth of S20 feet, or about the equivalent of one-tenth the total height of the mountain. The part tbat have fallen in represent .a bulk of about a hundred million cubic yarda of rock. The crater, which prior to ISO had a depth of about a thousand yards, la Bow cut down to from (00 to 700. Thl rhaaia 4u capable of holding 84.030,000 cubic yarda of rock a flarure far below tha aa riert measurements. In ths eruption of 1X4 there wafe only one lava stream. Last year there were seven that covered S76 acre of land.. How Twa-Cent Lav Works. Springfield Republican. The three month' trial of the Missouri t-cent fare law la only about a week old, but 1 so far proving far less Injurious to the railroad than the latter asserted tt would be. Indeed, travel has so largely In creased under the lower rate that pas senger revenue are a large as they were before. We can hardly suppose that the public Is making a concerted effort to prove the railroad contention false, and In that case tha test suggested by Judge McPher son ot the United State court may quite possibly dispose of the railroad opposition entirely. Pear Pcrtsadtn floate, Philadelphia Record. Our army officers profess to be surprised that a protest should com from The Hagrue against the bullet tbey have Just Invented for use In the latest pattern of our peace argument. But there I ample ground for the pretest. It la not denied that these bul lets would Inflict pain, and probably dis ability, and possible death. la the Intareata of humanity our ordnario officers should invent another bullet. Or they might adopt the en recently Introduced In Franca to make pistol duels entirely safe. I IOWER THE INTERSTATE RATK9 PWIafal Work Over a Simple Jok In Maltlallratloa. Chicago Tribune. The Illinois Z-cent fsre law went Into ef fect Monday. Person traveling between tlon of Interstate rates. When Illinois, In diana, Michigan and Ohio come down to a S-cent basis the fares to eastern points have to be trimmed down. Before a new Interstate rate can be put In operation It. I means that men going back and forth be tween ..Chicago and the seaboard will not get the Immediate benefit of the low rate ' l" 7 i . T .u i The work over which the expert rat clerks are spending; so much time seem to call only for the expertnea of a common place arithmetician. A certain number of miles has to be multiplied by two and a certain sum by three. The sum Is the fare. All that I needed Is simple multiplication. . T new rate ought te have ben In read iness for filing before this. They would have been if It "bad been a matter of an Increase Instead of a decrease. There Is no excuse for the dilatory methods ot the east ern roads. Their only object is to get a little more money out of the public. The Interstate Commerce commission ought to give them a strong hint to finish their sum in simple multiplication and file the new fate so that people who re going east or coming west this month can have the good of them. LAND THUCVliin PUNISHED. Saoceaa of tke Omaha Prosecutions Viewed from a Dlataare. Brooklyn Eagle. The sentencing of three more men to prison by the United 61 s tee court at Omaha brings to ah end the prosecutions, in the most extensive conspiracy- to steal gov ernment land with which the administra tion ha had to deal. Some mllllofla acre of grating land In western Nebraska were Involved. Two' land companies were organized to wrest these from the government domain, and turn them over to private speculation. . Veteran of the civil war were secured to file claim on this land, perfect title at the expense ot the companies and then aell out to? the tat ter for a few hundred dollar. The old soldiers' homes In Varloua state were In vaded to secure these veteran clalman', many of whom appeared on the witness stand against the men who organized the conspiracy and .Induced them to Join In It. In fact, no bona flde settler could make an entry on the lands. The exploiting com panies are said to have fenced In a ranga territory nearly as large as Massachusetts tabllsh a homestead. The -casea of tne claimants who came under the companies' auspices, stood, of course, on a different basis. Through them the companies hoped to gain a title to as much a possible of the vast domain. The matter did not work out that way, i . . , . , I however. Bona fide settlers who could not ret at the land complained, the conspiracy of the cattle-companies wa exposed, nine of the leading men of' the companle. have been given Jail aentences accompanied by fine, a United State district attorney and a United Statea marshal have been dla-1 iSLX "co".' .lne homesteader. PERSONA!, NOTES. Since a St. Iouls doctor has fasted thirty one day and feel strong, the nd-breakfat faddist does seem to have a leg to stand on. Iookout for a cyclone disturbance in the aouthwest originating In Oklahoma. A Washington census official declined to as sign any women '.clerk to Oklahoma on the ground that It 1 "too wild and wooly for Washington girl." Miss Elizabeth Ney, a noted sculptor, ha jut died at Austin, Tex. Her father was a nephew of the distinguished Marshal Nay of France. Among the great men who at to Miss Ney were Von Humboldt. Von Leiblg, Jacob Grlnim. Schopenhauer, Joa chim. Garibaldi and Bismarck. The convention of state legislatures which Is to assemble at the Jamestown exposi tion, ha Invited Jose de Diego, speaker of the Porto Rlcan house of delegate, poet, lawyer and politician, to attend the meet ing. The statu of Porto Bioo will be the ubject on which de Diego will address the convention. Abbe Felix Klein, a widely known author, ha sailed from Paris for the United State. He ha long taken an active Interest In American affair. He Is one of the most Intellectual of the French clerical, a mem ber of the faculty of the University of Pari, and an author whose work have recently been crowned by the French academy. S. W. therton, the twenty time over millionaire of Chicago, and the founder of Chicago' great Union Stock yard ystem, wa born on a farm m New Tork state, where h labored until he wa a young man, when he went to Chicago. Although he hold membership in a number of the exclusive club of Chicago, home life Is more attractive, and lie srmnd more time at home than any other Chicago man of like' mean. SDBfHER TOYS OT only have we whatever the Summer Boys need in Cloth ing, Hat3 and Furnishings, but exactly what they think they want. 1 They are exacting critics and we have considered their boyish desires. Norfolk, Sailor Waists In all wool or washable fabrics, made to withstand the wear and tear of the woods or the wash tub. Shirts, Shirtwaists. Sweaters, Under. weaP everything, in fact, for town and country. Browning, King 1 Co It. 6. WILCOX, Manager A RAILROAD SCAJCDAl. Flrat-Claaa Rates, Tklra-Claaa Aeeom- Chlcago Record-Herald. The first-class passenger far from New Tork to Philadelphia la It. The Immi grant fare la also 12 25. The flrst-clasa fare to Washington I .0. The immi grant fare I J5 a The flrst-cln passenger rides In swift trains with the best cars the railroad can provide. The Immigrant ride on slow train In any old coaches the company fln.ls avallahle, often without the services of either porter or brakeman to give hltn advice, and often he ta packed o closely with his fellows that there are not sett enough to go around. On long Journeys he la lUCkV If he ran intlrh m tian on tha dirty car floor. Sometime the Car In. which he rides do not even have wash-J stand. ' An Immigration Inspector accompanied KM N Immigrants from Kills Island to Phllndel phla a week ae;o yesterday. They waltod four hours at Jersey City for their train. Then they were packed Into seven coaches, without seat enough to go around snd with only three attendant. They were promised through transportation to tha west, but at Philadelphia they were routed out at 1:16 In the morning and put on an other train, where they were still further compressed In six ooaches. All this and more was shown In testi mony before a special examiner of the la- . terstate Commerce commlsnKm at New Tork last week. It was likewise shown that while first-class rate had been re duced In 190, immigrant rates had been, materially Increased. The general pas senger traffic munager of one great rod, being asked for the reason of the Increase, replied: "I Suppose it was to get a little more money out of that cluss of business." The American spirit of fair play Teb?!s at Such conditions. Immigrants do not de mand first-class nceomrmxlutlons, and would not pay for them If tliey were given a choice. Hut to charge them flrst-clas 1 rate and give them worse than third-clat accommodation Is Intolerable. After the facts had Men shown at the hearing the legal representatives of a num ber df rallr.iads present agreed that ac tion wns needed on their part. They asked for a postponement of the hearing in order to consult on a rearrangement of rate. Such action was to their oredlt, and In part offset the original fault It la to be hoped that the rates will he placed on a thor oughly equitable basis without any further Insistence by the government. PASSING PLEASANTRIES. He For a rich girl, Miss Mlllyun has Very little pomp about her. She Good giaclous, Oeorge, did you ever look at her halrf Baltimore American. Newton had. just' discovered what mads the apple fall. "Hut," they asked, "do you know what manes It attractive to the small boy whun it Is green?" The great scientist waa fain to give It up. New York Sun. "Politician refused a pasa." "I don't take no stock in that head-line," i declared Fanner Oales. I "You don't understand," explained Farmer Haves. 'It was the railroad com- pany that done itecord-herald. the refusing." Chicago Isn't tt funny when a man buys a new automobile he Immediately becomes so proud of It?" "Oh, I don't know; 'pride goes before a fall,' you know." PhUadelphla Press. - "Ha Rosclu Smith a good role In tl at play?" "Good, but rather exacting' "In what way?" . "He plays a dual role and ngnt mree. Baltimore American. "That Miss Winkler Is the most conceii girl I ever met." "How so?" - "Somebody said In her presence that the planet Mara was trying to signal ua, and She immediately looked self-conscious." Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Do you think there Is any danger ot race suicide?" asked the apprehensive citi zen. "No." answered the man with several email boys; "but it's lucky that the Fourth, of July doe not come oftener." Washing ton Star. mmL THK Bl'RY WIFE. T. A. Daly in Catholic Standard. See dat. Slgnor? See, dere she go. Ah, .look, she wave her hand! She Rosa; dat's my wife, you know. Oh I g-rauda girl, my frand. Eea notheeng look to me so sweet An' mak' me feel so good ' Like Rosa welkin" down da street Weeth blgga loada wood. So eaay.weeth ett on her head. She eesa sweeng along. Tou theenk eet eea a hat eenatead Eh, how eea dat for atrong? I no could find een all da worl', You Justa bat my life! Anocider soocha flna girl Like Rosa for da wife. Eh? Sure, I gatta mon' enough. Eh? W'ata for I mak Her carry home sooch heavy stuff? Oh. my, you are meestak , I do not mak" her do dee theeng. 1 might be- a cop J might even be da keeng 1 no could smak' her atop. She like for.doln' deesa way Bhe gat her work to do For keep her beezy alia day, So Ilka me an' you. Eh? Sure she ees Eetallan, An' I am proud-Eh? W att "Bhe no be ood 'Martcau So long she doln' dat?" I s'posa w't you say ees true, But den, you see, Slgnor Ees piaynta theeng dat ah might de Eea.gona hurt her more. Of course, lorn' day I want dat she Be gooda 'Merlcan, 'But not ao good dat she weel be A shame of Dagoman. Bom' Merlcana girls, of course, Dey theenk dey are ao good, Dey redder work for gat divorce Eenatead for carry wood! So, notheeng look to me so sweet An' mak' me feel ao good. Like Rosa walkln' down da street ' ' Weeth blgga loada wood. and Russian Blouse