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: CHARLES C. ROSE WATER,
I General Manager.
' ubscrlbed In my presence and aworn to
: ire m thla 1st day of July, 1107.
I iml) M. B. HUNUATB,
i Notary Public.
wiiejc out or towjt.
)brlhr tearing; tka city tam
ararglr should ksrt Tha Be
.ailed to them. Address . will ha
mm often mm reaeete4.
Ir. Rockefeller dodges a Judge's
thtons as easily as he does a process
'r.
The Great Silence" Is the title of
.ew political norel. It probably
Is with some one's presidential
stn.
the Judge who is hearing that mur-
trial out at Boise might also write
ry Interesting article on "Liars I
Met."
jhe new Tolume of Nebraska session
is said to be on the way. . The
la themselves have already arrived
all force and effect.
ihe Standard Oil company Is said to
pltterly opposed to Secretary Taft'a
jildacy. Mr. Taft Is almost as lucky
President Roosevelt.
dltor Watterson apparently wants
country to understand tkat there
i difference between getting back
Jie Constitution n4. getting back
ndglng from the . returns from
jr cities, that anti-slot machine or
is about two or three years behind
idule time in making Omaha on its
e.
oet Laureate Austin says he sees
ling funny about Mark Twain. On
other hand, Twain thinks Austin
he funniest man he has met in
ope.
overnor Johnson of, Minnesota is
ng to make the country believe that
, emocratlc presidential nomination
,1d come to him as an unexpected
isure.
English authorities .who thought
dlt Ralsujl , was ;;tian of honor
discovered him to . be a man of
lor, enjoying a Joke at England's
nee. ,'
J it Is a little rough on those naval
era to be ordered to the Pacific
as the social' season at Newport,
b-agantett and"Rar Harbor is get-
he report that a Kansas housewife
a narrow eecap from death while
.hlng dishes Is significant only as
jwlng that; there still Is Kansas
ewlfe who washes dishes.
4
Guatemala dispatch states that
.lie the government is at sea. It is
wlng up fortifications." The gov
nent should not have swallowed
iflcationa before starting on a sea
i th There will be unlimited posslbllt-
for American trade in eastern
tu opotamla," . writes an American
WS4U.1. The American consul Is at-
s as full of hope as a democrat In
ber.
j be city of San Francisco has asked
3 federal courts to define Its rights
r the treaties with Japan. San
'toclsco Is trying to make the world
Neve that, like' Mr. Rockefeller, if
bei as been doing wrong it did not
b" r- .
!he banking ourcs of the world
Tv.j 890 was estimated bi Statistician
JtthaU to t m.m.OoVoOO. The
wooing retire 0f the UnfVd States
Qil07 le,timated at $l.JM.o00.
u W-rr than that of th world
nnta years ago. That's going
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IKXdf AND TCBKBrCLOXIS.
For the sake of the good name of
Texas and the proverbial hospitality
and kind-heartedness of iU people, it
is hoped It Is not true that the health
authorities of the state have decided to
quarantine against victims of tubercu
losis. It Is reported that the authori
ties of San Antonio have ordered all
consumptives to leave the hospitals
of the city and shift for themselves.
If such action has really been taken,
the authorities are guilty of flagrant
inhumanity which will bring upon
them the condemnation of Intelligent
citizens everywhere. Great strides
have been made In the last few years
In the science of treating tubercu
losis. Physicians now recognize It as
a communicable disease, but as no one
contends It Is contagious, 'like yellow
fever, diphtheria, smallpox and simlftr
111s, all will regret the action of the
Texas authorities In refusing to treat
sufferers from tuberculosis In a civil
ised manner. Medical authorities agree
that sufferers from the disease, are
greatly benefited by living in a), 'dy
climate, like that of western Texas,
Arlsona and some parts of Colorado.
To refuse them the right to live In
such 'regions Is to encourage the dis
ease and to hasten death of sufferers
from It. It would have been much
mora In keeping with the real Texas
spirit to have constructed tubercu
losis hospitals where sufferers from
the disease might be treated on ad
vanced lines, without danger to any
other class of, people. The attempt to
establish a quarantine against con
sumptives Is abominable and not In
line with common decency.
KfiCOV ft AO 1X0 A THUST.
Alaskan newspapers from Fairbanks
and Nome offer a. novelty In the form
of a request to the officials of the De
partment of Justice at Washington not
to interfere with the plans of the pro
moters who are charged , with having
secured almost complete control of the ;
mines, steamship companies,' fisheries
and development companies of Alaska.
The contention Is made that truBt
methods are almost essential for' the
development of the marvelous re
sources of the territory. One of the
papers says:
The time has gone when the Individual
miner can make the claims do much more
than pay expenses. The placer deposits
are practically workad out, and It Is now
up to some corporation to Install modern
machinery, at the cost of millions, to de
velop the country. This will do more for
tha development of the Interior of Alaska
tlian anything else. . .
The trust magnates concerned -are
said to have spent $10,000,000 in se
curing placer claims and to have In
vested more than $5,000,000 In ma
chinery and equipment, while It is pro
posed to spend as mucu more in de
veloping transportation facilities. It Is
asserted that they are offering to work
claims they do not own on a percent
age basis and to have outlined a plan
which will make it unnecessary and
unprofitable for any individual miner
to work his own property. The pe
culiar feature of the situation IS that
the individual miners appear to like
the prospect. They foreseo, they say,
a development of the country in the
next ten years, that cou,ld not have
been accomplished In a half century
under the old system. It Is at least a
novelty to find Individual producers
encouraging the operations of a gi
gantic trust designed to eliminate
them. '' ''--' '
CAJCIM) rt An tXD mas.
It is ' clearly evident that John D.
Rockefeller has been grossly misrep
resented by the American press and
the part of the administration charged
with the prosecution of violators of
the law. For years the public has had
the picture held before it of a John D.
Rockefeller, the very personification of
business acumen and . commercial
shrewdness, a man whose fertile brain
never grew weary of devising plans
and ways and means for cornering the
oil supply of the world, gobbling Up
railroads 'and transportation com
panies, monopolising pipe lines and
refineries and extending the tentacles
of the huge octopus until they prom
ised to hold the entire commercial.
industrial, educational, religious and
social world In thejr grasp. Now we
have It On Mr. Rockefeller's own word
that he Is not that kind of a man at
all, but, on the contrary, la the. vic
tim of conditions over which he .has
no control, the scapegoat tf designing
men.
All this is shown by Mr. Rockefel
ler's testimony before Judge Landls
In the federal court at Chicago, In an
Inquiry Instituted by Judge Landls for
the purpose of ascertaining something
.about the financial resources of the
Standard Oil company, which had been
found guilty on 1,416 counts of vio
lating the federal anti-rebate law.
Judge Landls may assess fines amount
ing to $39,000,000 against the defend
ant corporation, and he naturally
wanted to learn from its responsible
heads whether the Standard had that
amount to spare without impairing its
capital stock or Injuring Its vested
rights and dividend-earning power.
Mr. Rockefeller's testimony Is pathet
ically frank, being largely In the na
ture ot an admission of bis Ignorance.
In a rather hesitating manner Mr.
Rockefeller hag confessed that he had
been Informed, whether -officially or
by newspaper report be was not cer
tain, that an organization known' as
the Standard Oil company existed and
that he was president of it. He be
lieved, or was at Wat under the Im
pression, that the business of the com
pany was to deal in oil, refine it and
sell It. He waa not at all sure 'about
the facta, but had a fixed Impression
that such was the rase. He had an
ImpreMlon also that the capital stock
of the company was about $100,000,
000, and he had been told, or at least
led to believe, that the company paid
about. 40 per cent annually In divi
dends. As to the matter of subsidiary
companies, tank lines, oil wsgons,
railroad stocks and side Issues of that
kind, Mr. Rockefeller was painfully
and visibly embarrassed. He did not
relish the Idea of exposing his Ig
norance, but finally confessed that he
knew nothing about such affairs and
would not know a rebate If he met it
In the road. The stony-hearted court
finally relented and refused to parade
Mr. Rockefellers lack of knowledge
to the morbid crowd.
It ia plain enough now that a group
of unscrupulous business buccaneers,
known In Wall street as "the Stand
ard Oil crowd," has taken advantage
of Mr. Rockefeller. These men have
worked up a great Interest that yields
about $30,000,000 annually as Mr.
Rockefeller's percentage of the game.
For ten years they have taken about
$320,000 annually In rebates, a total
of $3,200,000, and have stuffed the
bulk of It Into Mr. Rockefeller's bank
credit without his knowledge. They
have bought and sold railroads, banks,
tank linos, pipe lines, legislatures and
courts without letting Mr. Rockefeller
know anything about their doings.
They have mercilessly Imposed on a
harmless old man. The sympathy of
the country will go out to Mr. Rocke
feller. Yes? No?
A (10 )D SVOOKSTION.
The good roads movement la largely a
matter of education and Illustration. The
value of good roads Is generally recognlied,
but o many people do not know how ex
ceedingly good they are, or how very valua
ble they can be made,' to both the merchant
In town and the farmer in the country, that
there must bo more or less of a "showing"
process in order to Interest the Indifferent
and convert the doubters.
It is almost necessary for the business
man In cities and towns to take the lead In
this movement. After a sample road has
been built the farmers will readily see and
appreciate Its value and the cause ot good
roads will go forward In earnest.
Lincoln and the' surrounding country are
sadly deficient In this work. What Wo heed
hero Is a model turnpike leading out Of tha
city to a point like Beatrice, or Omaha, or
Nebraska City. One good turnpike would
lead to others, and In the building of the
first one the energetic men of Lincoln would
do well to take the lead. Lincoln Star.
This is a good suggestion which we
promptly and heartily endorse. A
model turnpike connecting Omaha and
Lincoln, and eventually Beatrice,
would not only work wonders in facil
itating Intercourse and traffic between
the cities, but would also serve a great
purpose as a model for the extension
ot good roads throughout this entire
section.
The real question is the practical
one of how to secure the means and
set the necessary machinery in motion
for'a continuous turnpike of first-class
construction, properly maintained,
running through several counties, each
under separate and distinct local au
thorities. So far as Douglas county
Is concerned it is already paving a
number of radiating roads leading out
from Omaha and South Omaha and
one could easily be brought down to
the ' Sarpy county line. Lancaster
county could, doubtless, also find its
Inheritance tax Sufficiently productive
to take care ot Its share of the work.
In the intervening counties, however,
more difficulty would be encountered.
If it were possible to prevail on the
federal government to build a stretch
of this turnpike as a model road under
the direction of the division of public
roads of the Department of Agricul
ture, the problem might be solved.
The suggestion is surely worth
working on as offering one enterprise
in which Omaha (nd Lincoln could to
mutual advantage Join hand. .
XK1T ARQUMF.NT FOR OLD MEASURES.
The recent distribution of colossal
dividends by certain express, companies
promises to furnish new argument for
several old measures which have been
before the public for some time.
The business of express companies
yielding such astounding profits Is va
riegated In its nature, but in all their
activities express companies are merely
parasites on other corporations. On
the one side the express companies
poach upon the banks and upon the
money order business of the postofflce
In selling exchange and transmitting
money from place to place. Tho bank
ers are properly objecting to the bank
ing operations of the express compan
ies and the postal authorities are like
wise waking up to the fact that more
liberal money order and postal note
facilities are needed to accommodate
those who should be patrons of this
division of the department. '
In the transmission of packages ex
press companies deprive the railroads
of the highest class freight traffic and
usury the functions of the parcehOat
which should be performed by the gov
ernment. So far as the express com.;
panles are really railroad corporations
in di.igulse or ate owned as side lines
by the railroad manipulators who thus
monopolize some fat pickings to the
exclusion of minority stock holders,
the railroads will not object notwith
standing the apparent conflict of inter
ests. There Is no reason, however,
why the lailroad operated legitimately
for Its owners should give to the ex
press companies the cream of the
traffic without adequate returns.
So far as the parcels post Is con
cerned, that would have been inaugu
iatd ere this except for the opposition
of the small merchants in the country.
This opposition, In large part sincere,
has been adroitly worked ud and stlm
ujated by express company Vmlssaries.
In all probability the small merchants
would share In the benefits of the par
cels pobt the same as other people and
the only sufferers would be the express
companies, who would be driven back
to their legitimate field if they have
one. Lifting the curtain on the inor
dinate earnings of the exprww business
may open the eyes of these well inten
tloned opponents of the parcels post
to the extent to which they are being
Imposed upon and used by shrewd
Wall street grafters.
At all events, we may confidently
expect renewed Impetus to the move
ment for the parcels post and probably
hand ln hand with that a systematic
effort to force reductions In excessive
charges exacted for transmission of
packages by express.
The Department of the Missouri,
with its headquarters at Omaha, prom
ises to regain its old-time position of
Importance in the military administra
tion of the country. This department,
although not likely to require military
guardianship, in the very nature of
things offers great ' advantages for
maintaining, drilling and disciplining
the troops in the time of' peace ad
vantages which the government should
utilize to the fullest extent. ' .
' Nebraska democrats will not carry
out their scheme to hold a state con
vention to anticipate and evade the
primary election law, but they will try
to steer the machine through their
state committee which is soon to meet
to lay out plans and specifications.
What about the populists as their al
lies in the great fusion reform combi
nation? Tho voting machine will be on band
ready to do business at the November
election notwithstanding, the excessive
number of offices to be .'voted for In
this county. Without the machine it
would be absolutely impossible to ac
commodate all those entitled to vote
with the small number of voting dis
tricts into which Omaha is divided.
The vice president of the Nebraska
Government Ownership of Railroads
league forgot to deny that his trip to
Europe was for the purpose of gather
ing information to support the demand
of the league for Immediate, if not
sooner, purchase and operation of all
the railroad systems in the country by
the federal government.
A plot to prevent Bryan from get
ting the Iowa delegation to the demo
cratic national convention next year Is
said to have been, uncovered. Why
Bhould anyone think It worth while to
expose such a conspiracy when Mr.
Bryan's nomination is so thoroughly
assured with or without support from
the Hawkeye State? s
Railroad travel out of Omaha Is so
congested that long lines, of people are
kept almost constantly! waiting in front
of the ticket windows at the looal sta
tions during the hours VMen trains ftrd
departing. It is up to tfie railroads to
hire additional ticket sellers and open
up more ticket windows.. , .
Cement is not building material ac
cording to the dictionary used by
freight agents of Nebraska railroads.
But It would be hard on any of these
faithful railroad employes if he should
be promoted to a station In some other
state and take his Nebraska dictionary
along with him.
The railroads have puc In a trans
ferable 2-cent thousand-mile book for
use In Nebraska. All they have to do
now is to buy a rubber Itamp and
mark each of the books "Go6d for c6n
tlnuous passage on any part of our
system east of the Rocky mountains."
Ambassador Aokl say's Japan will
not look upon the strengthening of the
American naval forces ln the Pacific
as an unfriendly act; in other words,
Japan is too wise to resent , what It
cannot prevent. ;
While it does not say so in that
many words, the Steel trust leaves the
Inference that it cannot be expected to
make good raila so long as it can get
a profit of 48 per cent out of the In
different kind.
Japanese newspapers , are talking
about "making the American eagle
scream." The Japs should know that
while tho American eagie occasionally
screams, it never screaniB from fear.
The chairman of the democratic state
committee In Massachusetts has de
serted and Joined the Hearst Inde
pendence league. Probably he prefers
a meal ticket to a forlorn hope.
Wkt M ill root 1h aiiir
Philadelphia Preaa
If tha Japaneae are really going to Insist
upon a scrimmage with this country they
must not expect to borrow the money of
us to pay their part of tha expenses of it.
An Kfes Hrrak,
Minneapolis Journal.
Mr. Tauje of Japan cornea with tha cheer
ing Intelligence that Japan has no present
Intention of wiping us off the map. Same
here. 'We have no yearning to occupy
Toklo with an expeditionary force.
Dtveralous of HoraJtr.
Chicago Record-Herald.
Emperor William is planning a state visit
to tils uncle, King Edward. Ha can do
thla owing to tha fact that, the people who
wera going to make England and Oermany
right have given It up and are now trying
to pull off a war between tha United Statn-a
and Japan.
StlsTenlnar l' IHvorce l.awa.
Nw Tork Tribune.
Sioux Falls Is doing a rushing divorce
business pending a stiffening up of Bout!.
Dakota's divorce laws. -The legislature
pasited a stricter law, but It haa to go to
the people on a referendum. Meanwhile,
trentendoua busineaa. It Is aald that South
Dakolana are surloua la their resolution to
checks the export divorce evil. They are
actually going to Insist that unhappy vis
itor from a knew here shall stay a whole
year in the state before getting thaur free
dom from the chain
ROt'D ABOVT SEW YORK.
Ripples the arreat ( I.I fa la tha
Metraatolta.
Tha famous Fifth Avenue hotel. New
Tork City, has been sold for 7.0.tt to
a real eatata syndicate, which will erect
a modern office building on tba site when
the lease of the present tenants expire, m
about a year. The old hotel waa opened
for business August M, 19. and was a
sucoeaa from the start. Men of note from
all over the world made It their head
quarters when they cama to New Tork,
financial deals of great Importance wera
consummated there, and as politicians
came to frequent tha place many a plot
was hatched In Its corridors. This was
even before the "Amen Corner" waa es
tablished by the republican politicians and
Thomas C. Piatt, then republican boss ot
the state, held sway In the nook, ha made
famous.
It waa at the Peabody dinner at tha
Fifth Avenue, ln 1867, the movement to
nominate Grant for the presidency was
started. Other political deals followed until
the place became identical with tha re
publican party. Grant waa sheltered by
Its roof, aa were other presidents, foreign
ers of note, men of letters, and men and
women famous In many fields. When tha
prince of Walea visited New Tork on his
American tour he stayed there.
The first regiment of volunteers recruited
for the union army at the outbreak of tha
civil war stopped at tha Fifth Avenue on
Its way aouth from New England, and
after that, all through the war, military
and naval officers and civil leaders made
the place a rendesvoua. Every one who
wished to keep in touch with events of tha
day frequented Its corridors.
She waa a tiny bit of a maid of thraa or
four summers, all ruffles and lace and
floppy lingerie hat. Every woman In tha
car made overtures to attract a smile from
her, but ahe was aa self-possessed as a
belle of several seasons, holdlna- herself
proudly aloof from tha attentions of admir
ers.
At Sixtieth street a young man about
It yeara old came Into tha car and sat next
to Mistress Flufflneai. He waa a Clean
cut, manly young fellow, and tha hitherto
haughty maiden melted at onca before his
charms. Bhe leaned far In his direction
and peeped out from under her hat up
Into his eyes. Then she patted his knee:
The young chap blushed. The Interested
women surrounding him smiled at his naive
discomfiture and at the transformation In
the baby, whose- mother could not restrain
her from her attempts to make love to th
youth. He assumed for a while to Ignore
the little pata until at last the irrepressible
bent over and, looking straight Into the
clear brown eyes, murmured sweetly:
t-my Doy: rmy Doyi
There was nothing to do but to join
In - the general outburst of sympathetic
laughter, and the young man aurrendered.
A minute later she was seated Jn tils lap
Intently studying tha illustrations In a
magazine which he had been carrying. Oc
casionally ahe paused to stroke the youth's
arm or to give fussy little dabs 'St. his
necktie, blissfully disregarding her hero's
blushes and repeating aoftly now and then,
"Pltty boyl Pltty boy!"
The possibilities of Greater New Tork's
growth Is beyond conjecture, says tha Naw
Broadway Magazine. Its tide of humanity
la always on the flood, and an estimate of
what its multitude will be In the future
la apt to err .on the lesser side. Greater
New Tork has now a population estimated
at a tr(fle over 4,000,CO0. Statistician Cor
thell, last year, estimated the ratio of In-
craase to be. per cent pee'year, or 46
per cent a decade Sufficient to carry New
Tork over the 8,000,000 mark In less than
ten years.
This wonderfully rapid growth thSt IS
Just making Itself manlfaat is", of necessity,
suburban In character. Manhattan Is al
ready crowded to Its limits. Its develop,
ment has spread In every direction pos
sible from the Battery to Harlem river;
there la now but one other way to grow,
and that is akyward. ,J
At New Tories growing rata Of Increase
It will pass London before 1920, but London
proper will still have nearly twice tha popu
lation of Manhattan, because It has the
square mile In which to accommodate Its
people, Tha city and county of London
Include about 117 square miles, against
only forty for Manhattan; Greater London
covers 680 square miles, against the 327
In Greater New Tork.
Thus far In 1907 Brooklyn builders have
filed plans for more homes at a greater
cost than Manhattan builders. In ' tha.
same period Queens has filed plans for
mora homes than Bronx. . v.
The Manhattan figures for building of
all classes were 140,147,000, a decrease from
last year of nearly 129,000,000. The shrink'
age waa largely In big flat houses. In
Bronx, alao, flat building has declined and
the total of new plans dropped from
$'.4,600,000 to in.ooo.ooo.
In Brooklyn the total of buildings planned
was t34.3R.OCO-less than $8,000,000 behind
Manhattan and $10,000,000 ahead of last year.
Much of the Manhattan building iss of a
business character. Brooklyn Is building
more homoa of all classes. The Queens
figures were $U.C0O,O0O, $8,000,000 more than
last year.
The prevailing type of home In Brooklyn
and Queens Is tha small one-family or
two-family house.
Barber shops In the theatrical and hotel
dlstrlats are evidently making an effort to
cope with the complex "tip" problem. Own
ers of shops have at last discovered that
tho obsequious and fawning barber Is be
coming unpopular and that tha average
customer detests tha boot licking to extract
4 from him an -extra large tip. This sort Of
thing suits the man who has plenty of
money and Is fond of spreading It around,
but It drives away tha steady trade that
counta. Recently a barber Opened a for-
geoua place in the Rlalto and advertised
that no tips would be received. But os
tentatious patrons Insisted on feeing 'tha
men. so now he has taken down his non
tlpplng sign and advertlaea "all tips 10
cents." Thla gives tha man on tha street
an exact Idea of what hla shava and halrr
cut will coat him, and In consequence tha
shop ia crowded all the time. Other barbers
are advertising combination tickets. These
are sold to a customer at a definite amount
and entitle the customer to so many shaves
or haircuts or both, In some caaes twelve
ahavea ur seven haircuts for $1.80.
Jul I.Ike Japan's Kick.
Boston Transcript.
And now there Is tha prospect of an Inter,
national complication which may cause us
to understand Japan's poattlon. The Amer
ican ambaaaador to Italy haa notified the
Italian government that tha United States
protests against American theological stu
dents In Home being mobbed to make an
anti-clerical holiday.
Overleaping th Barriers.
St. Louis Ulobe-Demoorat.
Under the new national law that has just
taken effect tha head tax on an Immigrant
la $4, and tha iaea to be excluded as
dangeroua to the public health are enlarged.
Naturalization laws have ceased to ba tha
sport of corrupt ward politicians.' And yet
tit arrivals are running at. tha rate of
more lliau a million a year.
TDK RAILROAD AHO TUB PKOFI.R
Columbus Journal: Tha Stromaburg
News says, a certain Individual of that
town went to Omaha and called on tha
Union Pacific management, and as a re
sult, there will ba better train service for
that town. One man change a whole time
table! Well, I gueas nit!
Norfolk Preaa: "Tha only thing tor the
railroads to do Is Yo fight And tha fight
will ba begun with all possible dispatch."
That la what John N. Baldwin, general
attorney for the Union Pacific railway, la
quoted aa saying. It was not a wise re
mark. - Tha feeling among tha people
against tha railway corporations Is In
tense, snd Is Justified by past defiance of
both law and public sentiment by railway
managers, and the talk that Baldwin puts
up only encourages tha people to take
another shot at him. ,
Aurora Sun; Talk about' robbery ' In
transportation charges, wa think Tha
Omaha Bee has dug up tha worst ever
when It shows In an editorial where tha
Adams Express company since is has not
only paid an annual dividend on the
$12,000,000 stock, .but has alao accumulated
a surplus of $a4,000,000. It Seems to ua
that It la about time that the people and
our government take this particular en
terprise In hand and conduct the same tor
tha benefit of tha people, controlled and
operated by tha government.
Kearney Democrat: Our State Railroad
commission has been so busy arranging
rates for hauling sand from one sandhill
to another that It overlooked tha fact that
the railroads have been charging $4.S0 a
ton for hauling coal too miles and only
$2.26 a ton tor hauling It 800 mllea. And
It required a hard prodding from an oil
merchant to make tha commission under
stand that tha rates on petroleum In Ne
braska Is 24 cents a 100 pounds per 100
miles, while In Iowa the rata Is 1$ cents;
In Missouri, 11.78 cents; and In Kansas, only
f cants.
Fullerton News-Journal: Owing to tha
new law, tha rallroada have ordered all tel
ephones out of tha depots along tha branch.
It they keep them they have to pay, hence
tha order to take them out. Thla action on
lha part of tha railroad company wilt work
a great hardship on our people. Tha depot
ia so far from town and the trains run so
Irregularly that theTravellng public will ba
put to additional disadvantage. We wonder
that A great big corporation, that depends
upon th public for all Its revenue, would
allow such a small matter to stand between
It and a little favor at th hands of th
people. '
Beatrice Express: Doubtless on Import
ant reason Why tha Interests of. the public
and the railroads are making slow prog
ress ' toward co-operation and harmony Is
due to domination of the latter by eastern
capitalists who are not In personal touch
with conditions In the west and who nar
rowly figure on the rate of Interest their
investments will make, with little thought
of the, needs and demafids of the public. If
the western representatives of the roads
who appreciate the situation, but who are
subject to the circumscribed vision of
their eastern superiors could direct Instead
of follow orders,' railroad problems could
be more easily and amicably ' solved, to the
sdvantage alike of transportation com
panies and the public.
EXPRESS "FRAWKS" MUST GO.
Officials of the Companies Warned
Against Discrimination.
Chicago Tribune.
. The express companlea aay that a
"frank" Is the same aa a "pass." Tha law
officers of the national government say It
la not. The courts have been appealed to
Tor a. decision. rt it vshsJl .be against the
companies they will be guilty of discrim
ination and subject to fines.
The railroad rat law Includes express
companies among common carriers. They
were common carriers before the law was
enacted, but they wer mentioned In it so
as to bring them clearly under the Jurisdic
tion of the Interstate Commerce commis
sion. Tha law permits the common car
riers usually called railroads to give passes
or free transportation to their own offlcera
and employes and those of other roads. The
express companies find In this provision,
their authority for giving franks to the
officers and employes of express, railroad,
and other transportation companies. With
those franks tha officers and employes In
question get free transportation for their
merchandise. The express companies admit
that a paaa carrlea human beings and a
frank goods and chattels, but they con
tend that that Is an unimportant difference.
If this question were left to the public It
would ba deelded agalnat the. eampanies.
The average man Is against discrimina
tions by any public service corporation. He
oannot aee why th officers of railroad com
panies should hav their goods carried free
of charge by express companlea. He can
see no motive for It unless It ba to secure
batten terms for tha express companies
from - the railroads. -Than tt would b a
kind of bribery.
Tha law permits a railroad to give passes
to tha employes of Its own and other roads.
That Is a discrimination agalnat tha travel
ing public, but tha law has sanctioned It
The law should not ba expanded by con
struction ao aa to let In other and mora
offensive forms 6f discrimination. Manifestly
4 B sn your guard against
substitution. There are many
so-called "witch-haul'' soaps,
artificially colored grsan. of
fered aa "Just as good, "
ej Pond's Extract Soap U guar,
en lead under Pure Foods and
Drut Act, June 30, 1906 ei
purs as Its cream-white color
Indteaua. Tha name appear
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ARMOUR & COMPANY
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tba etpraa oompant bar not equity on
thalr side, and tha courts probably will da- .
ctda that tha law Is against them.
EKSOXAL. ttOTK.
McClure's Magailne withdraws Ellen
Terry's autobiography aa being the same
already printed. Well, you. couldn't expect
her to lead a double HfcT
An Interesting feature of the robbery of a
New Jersey judge of his railway : paa Is
Ita failure to dovetail with the thaqry ,'bet
everybody pays fare now or walks.
Following the failure of th negotiations
to consolidate the Commercial and the Con
tinental National banks of Chicago. It la
! reported that George E. Roberts, director
of the United State mint, la to become
I the president of tha Commercial National,
to succeed the lata Jama H. Ecklea.
Tha king of Slam, when visiting Roekilde
cathedral, Copenhagen, several days ago,
was measured on tha historical column on
which the height of nearly all tha -sovereigns
of Europe la engraved. He proved
to ba of exactly the same height aa the
rsar, when the latter waa measured there
ten years ago.
On of th most unique figures In tha.
Mississippi political campaign la Hon. Lu- ;
ther Manahlp, a well-known lecturer and
public entertainer who Is a candidate for
lieutenant governor. His claim to public. .
renown Is not based solely en work In
the lecture field, for he has, been promi
nent In public Ufa for the past twenty
years.
Frau Coelma Wagner, who for many
years has ruled tha destinies of Bayreuth,
enjoying absolute authority In the. .manage
ment of th famous music drama eatlvaia '
there, has formally announced bar purpoa
of retiring from active control and has se
lected aa her successors her son Siegfried
and Frau Louisa Reus Belce, a Dresden
concert singer. The woman will hav a
large share In th control of th festivals,
which thus will remain to a great .extent
under feminine management. '
FLASHES OF FII.V.
"Is he very wealthy?" asked one neigh
bor. "I don't think so," answered the other.
"I have never heard of hla having appendi
citis, and there havevbeen no proceas serv
ers hanging about hla place. ' Washington
Star.
I Dr. Long, argument having grown warm,
I characterised Naturalist Burroughs as a
! woodohuck.
"Ha," retorted Burroughs, "mora of your
1 nature faking. The woodchuck has (our
i legs and climbs a tree."
After thla he regarded tne wnoie contro
versy as settled. Philadelphia Ledger. ,
"Come, Gwendolen. We'H never get half
through this collection If you stop so long
to look at each painting.
"But, mamma, this is a picture of Eva
In the Garden of Eden and her air is ar
ranged In the moat beautiful Marcel waves
you ever saw." Chicago Tribune,, . . .
"Tou'v got a new typewriter girl I sea."
Tes."
"Is she bright?"
"Well. I don't know whether H's Inten-
tional, but ahe aeema to be a female Jostt .
Billings. Baltimore American.
She Dearest, have you no rural relations
we could visit during the heated term?
He Tes, darling, but their terms are so
summary. Chicago Record-Herald. '
Our great Mother Nature had. Just pro- ,
duced a freak In the shape of a three
legged chicken.
"Ha," snkl she, with beetling brow, "let ,
me hear Teddy Roosevelt call me a faker
now." Philadelphia Preee.
"What made Brown marry that widow?"
"Did you ever drop a penny In a weigh
Ing machine and .then tlnd th thing,
wouldn't work?"
"Tea."
"That's th reason."
"What do you mean?"
"Couldn't get a weigh." Denver Post. .
FOR A SMALL BOY.
Samuel McCoy In Scrlbner's. '
O Prairie, Mother of my We'stl r! i 'vil
Take this small waif to your broad breast! .
Let his feet love your changeless ways.
To teach him firmness all his days;
Let your fields, stretching to tlje sky.
That sets no boundary to the eye.
Give him their own deep breath of view.
The largeness of the cloudltsa blue;
Give him to drink your freshening ibreatnj
That will not brook a thought of death
So he may go eternal young !
Along your marshes, that have flung
Their yellowing willows' draperies
To the keen sweetness of the breexa; ,
And, prodigal of 'April hours.
Take benediction of her showers;
And when across the prairies come '
The yellowhammer'a fife and drum,
Then let him wander as he will.
From hill to ever-rising hill,
From your spring mornings, warm ani
bright,
Surcharged with quivering, living light."
Until the hazy sun at last ...
Withdrawa and leaves the pallid, vast
' i
Immensity of sky and moor - .j-r
And gray dusk closing swift and inrt.,.,,.,.
In quiet let him bow his fac4'"' -vr.
Before the presence In that apace .
When ghoatly white tha primrose stands.
The spirit of your twilight lands; ' ' '
See the pale jewel of tha evening skies
And hear the meadow's drowsy cries,
And, last sweat challenge through tha dark-
The clear, thin whistle of. the lark. .
Bo, prairie that I loved and blessed,'" -The
boy may know your wax la beat .
Skin Rashes
-Disappear...".;.
Eaema, chafing. Irritations, rough
ness,' redness, coarseness of skirl
fretted baby skin Is healed, and Mi-
lady's complexion takes the vhltcness
and glow of health vlth the use of
Pond's
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' G, A nev substance Is formed by add
ing Pond's Extract to Pure Soap
vlth a result which is neither Soap nor
Lotion, but a cleansing balm andfcuro,
that goes deep Into every pore, driving
out every Impurity and toning Ivery
..gland stimulating each tiny under
lying blood vessel, and setting ' the '
nerves a-tingle with health.
Clt soothes the most Irritated sur;v
faces, and Its antiseptic qualities make
it a preventive as well as a corrective
of Infection. ; ,
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