THE OMAIIA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, li)07.
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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
State of Nebraska. Dougla county, aa:
Charles C. Roewatr, general manager
of The Bee Publishing Company, being
duly sworn, aay that the actual number
of full and complete copies of Tha Dally,
Morning, livening and Sunday Bee printed
during the month of June, 1W7, waa as
follows
I ,B30 17 3S,40
88, COO II g,40
1 36,810 tt ,480
4 36,690 20 36,310
I 36,410 n se.sao
t . 36,810 II 36,816
f 96,630 ' ft M.TM
t , 36,800 24 8)6,600
1 3S.BO0 2i 86,880
10 36,660 '!........ 36,060
11. 36,630 21 36,870
12 36,890 21 86,470
It 36,640 23 36,680
14 36,990 SO 36,960
16........ 37,170 '
It........ ' 88,900 Total.. .1,04,990
Les unsold and returned copies.
10,389
Net total 1,083,831
Dally average.......... 36,197
CHARLES C. ROSE WATER,
General Manager.
Subscribed In my presence and sworn to
before me this 1st day of July, 107.
(Seal) M. B. Hl'NUATE,
, Notary Public
WHEN OUT OP TOWN.
Subscriber leavlasr the city tern,
porurlly shoald have Tha Be
mailed to theaa. Addreaa will be
Mayor "Jim'! had better hurry home
if he expecta to find the dog muszlea
till on straight, ,
Mayor Schmlt of San Francisco
will not spend any portion of his sum
mer In Europe thla year.
Our battleehlpe in the Pacific will
constitute no menace to Japan, unless
Japan ia looking for trouble.
Of course Mark Twain la having a
good time In Europe.' His 'old ones
are aa good aa new over there.
Secretary Taft ia doing hla best to
live down the fact that he waa bora
in town Instead of In a prairie sod
house. . -.. -
Probably Mr. Rockefeller is too busy
to attend one of those night schools
where the art of restoring lost memory
Is taught.
Slot machine gambling must go.
The Bee has hammered on this propo
sition until It has become an accom
plished fact.
A shower of fish and pink bugs is
reported from ..Kansas, where efforts
are still , being made to enforce the
prohibition law.
"Many a dishonest railroad fortune
Is made by robbing the stockholders,"
says Stuyvesant Flah. Evidently all
Blsh stories are not Ilea.
With James J. Hill gone to Labrador
for the summer, the country may have
to worry along without any panic pre
dictions for a couple of months.
Senator Beverldge aays he will do
no more talking this summer. The
Society for the Suppression of Unnec
essary' Noises may now take Its vaca
tion. Mayor Schmlti of San Francisco
may plead hot weather as the excuse
for getting his pompadour cut and
having his , pugnacloua whiskers re
moved. ' '
"Boston will have cheaper gas" was
announced In the same newspapers
that reported the arrival home of Tom
Lawsoa ; from hla' European visit.
Coincidence :
Only ona more day for the Young
Men's Christian - association building
fund campaign.. If your name is not
on the list of contributors now Is the
time to speak up. ;
. That little insurrection in the Ne
braska state penitentiary must have
been specially" timed by the convicts
tq get a enforced vacation from hard
labor jdirlag the heated spell.
A Connecticut hen is credited with
having laid an egg with the words
"Three Times Out" on it. Mr. Bryan
may flnd pore significance In the In
cident than' President Roosevelt.
Lightning, struck, a. railroad brake
man In Indiana and melted the money
In hie pocket. Lightning haa to be
mighty quick to get a brakenian'a
money before he melts it himself.
A veracloua chronicler aaya that John
O. Rockefeller finds greatest pleasure
In throwing off hla buatneaa cares and
playing peekaboo and hide and seek
la the nursery with hla grandchildren.
Bo he waa Just practicing up for a
hide and aeek game whea he dodged
dc: subpoena servers.
a rtAni.Es r?o rcrroR.
Credit for the conviction of Eugene
Sen rait 1, the mayor of San Francisco,
Abe Ruef, the city's political boss, and
the unearthing of evidence which must
eventually lead to uprooting the neat
of grafters who hare looted the Cali
fornia metropolis for years, must be
accorded to the fullest degree to Fran
cis J. Heney, special counsel for the
city In the conduct of the prosecu
tions. It la true Heney has had the
moral and financial backing of aome
of the most representative cltltens of
San Francisco, but it la likewise true
that some of thla support was offered
with a suspicion that It was backed
by ulterior motives and that aome
plana and methods of the prosecution,
aa outlined by Heney, have not met
their cordial Indorsement. He has had
enough backbone, however, to Insist
upon conducting the prosecution ' In
his own way, and the results furnish
sufficient vindication of the wiadom of
his plan.
Heney la a product of the west. He
baa been a machinist's helper, a cow
boy, a worker on a ranch and has
achieved hla prominence unaided. He
first came into notice aa a' prosecutor
of the criminals in the Oregon land
frauds and waa rewarded by an ap
pointment aa United States attorney
for Oregon. It is no longer a secret
that a federal judgeship of life tenure
was assured him aa a reward for hla
service, but he declined It to take up
the work of extinguishing graft and
corruption in San Francisco.
The one significant feature of
Heney'a work has been his contentlon
that the evils from which American
municipalities have suffered S Is law
defiance. He contends that there Is
no need for new lawa; that the exist
ing enactments are sufficiently broad
In their scope to cause proper pun
ishment to be visited upon every vio
lator of the law. In the land fraud
prosecutions and in the trial of the
San Francisco cases Heney has in
sisted that the crying need was not
for new enactments, but for an hon
est 'prosecution under existing laws.
He hag Justified his contentions and
must be given the lion's share of the
credit for the promised reawakening
of the aense of civic duty and civic
pride In San Francisco.
TUOSS LOST TWO MLtWXB. '
Financial organs of Wall street have
been compiling statistics since the
close of the fiscal year on June SO and
are making a doleful showing of the
shrinking of securities and stocks
within the last year. The statisticians
very generally agree that the loss In
values has exceeded $2,000,000,000,
and they are unable to figure It out
In any way to show any, result other
than that the country is 2,000,0o0,
000 poorer than it was before the
crusade against watered stock -and
Illegal manipulation by captains of
high finance was started. jS
The trouble with these loss estimates
Is that they are wholly fictitious. The
country haa lost nothing, but has
gained steadily during the last year
in every sort 6f material wealth. Fac
tories are working overtime every
where, merchants are busier than ever
before In their experience, railroads
can not care for the business offered.
banks are filled with money and every
dollar of capital Invested In legltjmate
business or enterprise Is producing
solid joturns. The loss of J2.000.000.-
000 on the Wall street blackboard
simply represents what the speculators
would have earned had their plans not
miscarried. Intrinsic values have been
maintained or increased everywhere.
Speculative values may have suffered,
but the country Is no loser.
AMBASSADOR HRTCB'8 ALIBI.
The American people, who have a
warm spot In their hearts for Am
bassador Bryce, will be glad to learn
that he haa spoiled a splendid summer
story by denying in toto the report
that ho had expressed an opinion of
the merits of the Oklahoma constitu
tion. Efforts are being made to in
duce the administration at Washington,
to reject the constitution prepared ijy
the Guthrie convention, on the ground
that it la too full of questionable mat
ters that should have been dealt with
by the state legislature and not by the
constitutional convention. In the
midst of the discussion of the subject
came an alleged interview with Am
bassador Bryce, in which he was
quoted as having fully Indorsed the
constitution and declared it to be ad
mirable In every respect. Washington
correspondents eagerly seized upon the
report and painted pretty pictures of
Ambassador Bryce going home to Eng
land, discredited as was Lord Sack-vllle-Weat
once upon a time.
Utterances of diplomats at Washing
ton are taken with great seriousness.
If Mr. Bryce had said what he was
quoted aa saying, the correspondents
warned the reading public not to be
surprised If the fleet of battleships
now enroute to the Pacific should re
ceive orders to change course and pul
off a naval demonstration In some
English port. But the crisis haa been
happily averted. From his summer
home at Intervale, N. H., Ambassador
Bryce haa seat this message to a New
York paper:
Statements you quote aa attributed to
me regarding merits of Oklahoma 'con
stitution wholly unfounded. I Invariably
refuae to express my opinions on Its
provisions, as I have Invariably refused
to aay anything whatever on any Amer
ican political queatlon since I cams to
tha United States In official capacity.
The handa-across-the-aea may remain
clasped and the battleships may go
on to the Pacific, just to give Jinan
a chance to show whether It likes It or
not. So far as Ambassador Bryce Is
concerned, he has proved an alibi and
convinced the public that he will take
no back seat In refusing to tell what
he knows or thinks. From a diplo
matic standpoint the Oklahoma con
stitution la a closed Incident.
A GOOD MOTS.
Tho Board of Fire and Police Com
mlsstonera has made a good move in
Issuing orders Intended to put an end
to slot machine gambling In Omaha.
The automatic gambling device has
had a similar career in nearly all
cities where It has been Introduced
and for a longer or shorter time held
Its own until suppressed by law. The
first form was what waa called the
money machine, which was nothing
but a roulette wheel, with the player
making It telf-operatlve. The money
machine purported to be nothing but
a gambling device and under stress of
public opinion voiced In Omaha, chiefly
by The Bee, was soon forced out of
the community. It remained, how
ever, notwithstanding our protests, In
a modified form under pretense of re
turning to the players, not a money
price, but an uncertain value of mer
chandise In exchange.
The element of chance, the demoral
izing influence and the temptation to
young folks to take their first lessons
In gambling upon It, still brought this
merchandise machine within the scope
of the laws against gambling, but the
persistent pressure of the beneficiaries
of Its profits seems to have been po
tent up to this time In securing Inac
tion of the authorities. What this
pressure must have been upon the
present board, as well as previous
ones, may be gathered from the state
ment made, upon good authority, that
the owner of one cigar store in Omaha
has been cleaning up $1,000 a month
out of his battery of slot machines.
The members of the polce board
will, without question, find that the
people of Omaha, exclusive of those
sharing In the profits, are thoroughly
with them In their anti-slot machine'
edict and will be glad to have Omaha
placed In the list of cities which have
weeded out this pernicious evil.
The British government has given
notable recognition of the excellence
of American agricultural education
and teaching by eruplojvlng, at a salary
of 110,000 a year, Prof. A. E. Parr
of the Iowa State Agricultural college
a director of agriculture and animal
Industry for India. It Is encouraging
to note that our scientific agricultural
education is being appreciated and
recognized. .
It is said that the express companies
will not set up a cry of confiscation,
but will rely on alleged technical de
fects In the law to render them Im
mune from the penalties prescribed by
the ' Nebraska rate reduction law.
Technical defenses are dangerous,
even if successful, In ibis class of cases,
because the defects can be readily
cured by another legislature.
Our old friend. Carroll O. Pearse,
has been elected to a vacancy In the
bpard of trustees of the National Edu
cational association, his predecessor
having graduated Into a penitentiary
at Jollet, 111. It govs without saying
that there was no politics in according
this great distinction to Superin
tendent Pearse, now of Milwaukee.
It will be well for our county com
missioners to keep an eye on the state
assessment when up for revision by
the State Board of Equalization. Doug
las county wants to do the right thing
In tho way of bearing its proper share
of tax burdens, but it also wants just
as good treatment as any other county
In Nebraska.
There is much debate in the press
and in official circlea as to the advis
ability of violating naval traditions by
sending a big fleet of battleships to
the Pacific. However, when such ac
tion -is decided upon, it U nobody's
business but our own, and no other
natlonhaa any right to take excep
tions. Our new primary election law pro
vides for nominating candidates on all
party tickets on one and the same day.
This will be hard on the democrats,
who'wlll no longer be able to wait to
see what the republicans have done
and then try to cover the supposed
weak spots.
South Omaha's municipal budget
calls for $163,000, of which nearly
$52,000, oralmost one-third, Is set
aside for Interest. This looks as if
the ratio of fixed charges to running
expenses were pretty high for a city
of South Omaha's size.
'Colonel Bryan denies that he ever
said President Roosevelt was as good
a democrat as he himself. No one la a
democrat who waa qualified to vote
when Bryan ran for the presidency
and refused then to vote the demo
cratic ticket.
Having rescued aglrl from drowning
in a lake In the Yellowstone park.
Mr. Fairbanks has. utterjy confused
critics who have sought to compare
him unfavorably with some of the
more strenuous candidates.
"Everything at Washington Is now
in the hands of rhief cierks." says the
New York World. An exceptiou should
be - noted, for the Washington base
, ball team, which st ems to' be In the
hands of the mollycoddles
, The seismograph at th? Washington
weather bureau has recorded b earth
quake, but has failed to locate it. The
j seismograph has possibly mistaken the
Knox presidential boom for an unlo
cated earthquake.
If the people In neighboring towna
In Iowa and Nebraska do not take
proper precautions' the slot machines
ordered out of Omaha will soon be do
ing business again at new stands In
country stores.
Am Optical Inapreealoa. '
Washington Post.
The administration seems to have con
cluded that a good look at some of our
battleahtpa will cure that restlessness of
Japan's.
A basin Coafldence.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
It Is In order now to flnd out who has
been abusing Mr. Rockefeller's confidence
by making htm rich without hla knowledge
or conaent.
Consolation I'rlsea.
Brooklyn Eagle.
Nineteen American war correspondents
are decorated by the mikado. That la a
delicate way of compensating them for the
prohibition that kept them always some
mile removed from the front.
Activities of the Jingoes.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
It Is not at all a hazardous prophecy that
when the Jingoes have got our battleship
fleet In the Pactflo they will not lose time
In discovering German, French or British
designs that demand Ha Immediate preaenoe
In the Atlantic. And the fact la that we
have got enough ships to serve all legiti
mate purposes on both oceans.
Vanishing Reminder of Misfortune.
San Francisco Chronicle. ,
The refugee campa will soon be a thing
of the past. With their dlsappearanoe will
vanish one of the moat painful reminders
of the great conflagration. The fact that
those In charge flnd It expedient to close up
the campa In the parks glvea assurance
that there Is now ample provision for the
housing of all the Inhabitants of tha city.
Oatpat of New Securities.
Wall Street Journal.
Curiously enough, the output of new se
curities of the first half of the new calendar
year Is Just about as large as tha total
exports of the United States to Europe
for the entire fiscal year, estimating those
of June at about tf.00O,ono. The grand total
of the securities 4asued between January
1 and July 1, 1907. waa tl.z78.728,000. though
only about t800.000.000 of these have been
marketed, the othera remaining to be sold.
Exports to Europe, on the basis of the June
estimate, should be 1,2H6.000,000. Compari
son of the largest commercial movement of
the country for a year with the enormous
Issues of securities, 60 per cent, of which are
for railroads alone,. Indicates how exten
sive consumers of capital tha American
railroads really are.
Peculiar Name of Jarige Land I.
Boston Transcript.
Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landls. who
has compelled the great Rockefeller to
come Into court, la aald to have been named
In commemoration of the battle In which
hla father waa wounded. Aa that engage
ment occurred in 1864, and Judge Landls
waa born in 18e, his peculiar name cannot
have been bestowed 'on the apur of the mo
ment. A similar Instance of peculiar pa
ternal choloe in naming a child Is exhibited
in the case of Captain Malvern Hilt Bar
num of the regular army. His father
must have had some reason akin to that
of the elder Landls, for while the battle
was fought In 1862. Catitaln Rarmim w.
not born until fourteen months afterwards.
Possibly there are mllltarv aMoclat1nna
which civilians Cannot undnrainmt tht
make certain event's of peculiar significance
in tne lives of, veterans. This supposition
Is strengthened by the fact that a few veara
ago there lived In Boston two colored men,
brothers, sons of a .veteran, who bore, re
spectively, the given names of "Army-of-the-Pptomac"
and 'Sixth Corns." .
DIVIDI.NO PROFITS WITH PI B I.IC
Boston Gas at Eighty Cents Will Pny
Nine Per Cent Dividend, i
Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
The Boston Consolidate .am nrmnan
announces a further reduction In the
price of gas to 80 cent. Thl la of inter
est not only as to the operation of sliding
scaie, dui as an example of profit In low
priced gas for the edification of other gas
companies and other communities, if we
mistake not thla I tha Inwe.i r,r-rm .t
which manufactured gas has been aold In
me united states, and It la evidently the
belief of the company that It can pay t per
cent on the capitalisation at auch a price.
unaer tne Sliding scale law the standard
price la 90 cents and tha ilanHarK AiviAm.
7 per cent. Every five-cent reduction In
price entitles the company to add 1 per
cent to lta dividend rate. It went to 85
cents ana 8 per cent soon after coming
under the sliding eoale experiment. It now
goea,to 80 centa. and presumably for the
reason that It would Increase the dividend
rate and la certain of its ability to do so
at the lower price. : Thla la the great merit
of the sliding acale that It forr. tha onm.
pany automatically to lower prices through
wie ueaire 10 increase lta divisible profits.
PACIFIC NAVAL PARADE.
Plain Dntr.
New Tork World (dem.).
One simple, plain duty now confronts the
president. U Is to announce officially, au
thoritatively, flatly ' and positively that the
North Atlantic fleet will not be aent to the
PaclAc. A Hint to Japan,
St. Louis Republic (dem.).
Parading a fleet will not teach cocky little
Japan the aort of lesson she seems to have
coining to her. Wo are no Jingo, but why
bother about her at all unless we are suffi
ciently Interested to abandon dreas parade
and put en our fatigue unlfornteT
Slleaelag Htaehlevana Talk.
Boston Transcript (rep.).
V Yet, be the cot what It may. thla move
ment, once decided on, must be sustained
by the loyal public opinion of America.
With sixteen American battleehlpe In the
Pacific, added to the three already there,
there will be not the ahadow of a pretext
for thla mischievous talk of a sudden at
tack by Jaran, provoked by our weakness
and unpreparedneas.
Mlatrraa of the Paelfle.
Cleveland Plain Dealer (dem.).
When the armada of battleship and
armored cruisers stearrs trrjugh the Stralti
of Magellan, In that moment Japan, now
the distress of the Pacific, will lore her
control of the orient. America, through tta
flouting war f"rco. w!ll he In a roltlon to
dornlna"? the w rld's steal at wafer say i n 1
command respect and enforce authority In
Anla.
Needed Halltibteamr a t.
Cleveland Leader (rep ). ,
What the prealdcnt will accompllah by
ending the biggest big stick the I'nlted
6la.t poswg?a around South America Is
the Instant enlightenment of p all-fry
Japanese pollttciuna and tho Japanese rab
ble concerning the atrvngth and attitude of
the American republic. He will also truaH
away any cobwebe of doubt which may
have Interfered with the view of Pac!Hc
condition and chances from European
capital
TASDARD OIL PROFITS.
Masniaeeat Crop of Melons Cat la
Tan Years.
On the afternoon of the day made his
toric by the appearance of John D. Rock
efeller, president of the Standard OH com
pany, on the witness stand of the federal
court at Chicago, the Wall Street Journal
printed a greater variety of Standard In
formation than tha president of tha com
pany Imparted to the Inquisitive judge.
Mr. Rockefeller knew that the Standard
Oil company waa capitalised for about
1100.000.000. On thla capital tha Journal
shows there has been paid as dividends In
ten years the huge sum of 1364,000,000 to
holders of M) per cent of the stock. Ac
cording to the Journal's Information fifteen
Individuals or estatea, baaed oil estimated
holdings prevloua to the formation of tha
Standard OH company of New Jersey, con
trol more than 90 per cent of the stock of
the corporation, They have received over
the last ten years dividends aggregating
1384,0(4,000, or an average of (36,400,400 a
ear.
The average yearly dividend on Standard
Oil stock over the last ten years was $4.04
a share, so that the entire dividends on
the authorised capitalisation of 1100,000,000
for the ten yeara ending December 11,
1907, will have reached $404,000,000, of which
all but $39.9P.0OO has been or will be credit
ed to the fifteen Individuals or estates In
question,
The following table gives the holding of
tha leading shareholders, based on tha cap
italisation of $70,000,COO prevloua to the for
mation of the Standard Oil company of
New Jersey, the dividends received by each
per year and, total dividends over the last
ten years on an authorized capital stock of
$100,000,000:
Per Cent Dividend Dividends
Name. Stock Owned. Per Year. Ten Yr.
J. D. Rockefeller.. 27. 4 11,(9,00 $110,690,010
W. C. Andrews.... 2.8 1,131.30 11,31t.00
Charles Pratt 7.7 .HO.WiO Sl.llS.OOO
H. H. Rotters 3 6 1.0M,4"0 10,604.000
Wm. Rockefeller.. 4.6 1,868.40) 18.584,OlM
O. B. Jennings Z.3 .2s2.Pno
Estate John Macy. 1.6 l.Oin.nno lO.loo.flOO
J. A. Bostwlck 4 1.979.6CO 19.7KOO
Chas. Lockhart.... 1.9 1,576,60 15.7W,000
W. O. Warden 4.2 1.6f.fH0 16.SW.flO0
J. V. Harkness M 1393,600 3,9S.0OO
H. M. Flagler 8.6 .474.4"0 34.744.000
O.H.Payne 7.1 2.8S8.4O0 ' JS.W4.fo0
John Huntlnaton... 1.7 6H6.8H0 ,8SS.oni
J. J. Vandergrlft.... 1.4 665,600 6,6'6,000
Totals ..
Deceased.
90.1 136,400,400 I364.0o4.000
It Is fair to assume that there haa been
a readjustment of Standard Oil holdings
since the capital stock waa Increaaed to
1100,000,000, through ordinary market chan
nels, .private tranafers of stock and the
shifting of shares resulting from deaths.
It win be observed from the above table
that John D. Rockefeller owned 27.4 pet
cent of the capital stock of the Standard
Oil company and that apparently he has
received an average of more than 111,000,000
a year on 'the shares over .the last ten
years. It has been said that Mr. Rocke
feller has largely Increased his holdings
since then, but no confirmation of thla
atatement has been obtained.
H. H. Roger Is down for 2.6 per cent of
the capital stock of the Standard Oil com
pany. Twelve of the above stockholders
have received In dividends over the last ten
years more than 11,000,000 a year; four have
been receiving at the rate of more than
13,000,000 a year; one more than IS.OOO.OOu a
year and three less than 11,000,000 a year.
The net earnings of the Standard Oil
company for aome time past have been far
In excess of dividend requirements and It
Is suppoaed to have a big surplus. It has
been said that the Standard Oil company
will make no change, in its dividend policy
until It ha cleared Itself of tha chain of
litigation surrounding It. If the corporation
comes out victorious stockholders expect to
receive greater- benefits in the way of dis
bursements. It Is admitted that the busi
ness of the Standard OH company has been
breaking all records, which would Indicate
that It Is In a better position to pay larger
dividends than It was In 1900. 1901, 1902 and
1903, when dividends were respectively 148,
148, 145 and 144.
Baaed on John D. Rockefeller's possible
holdings of 27.4 per cent, his share of the
dividends over the last nine and one-half
years on Btandard Oil stock outstanding,
amounting to approximately 198,000,000, were
as follows:
Am'tof Tol. Am't Rockefeller's
Year. Dividend. Dlsh'd. Share.
1907 124 12S.3ft2.000 1 8.431,8(10
1906 40 39.200.000 10,7r0,0
19f 40 J,2M,000 10.780.CO0
1904 36 36,2X0,000 9.692,0i 0
1W3 44 43.123.000 11.8tf.00
!! 45 44.lil0.000 12,127.500
1S01 48 47,040,000 12.M6.MK
1900 48 47.040,030 12,936,(00
1P99 83 82,340,0O 8.S94.510
UM 30 29,400,000 1,0,00J
Total .' 11C4.530.6C0.
So far this year.
The Standard OH company paya more to
Its shareholders than any corporation In
existence. It disbursement of t40,o:0,0C0 a
year exceed the present dividend payment
of the United States Steel corporation by
more than 14,500,000 a year. However, an
Increase of 1 per cent a year In the divi
dend on United States Steel common
would make the dividend of the Steel cor
poration larger than those of the Standard
Oil company.
PERSONAL NOTBi.
O, welcome change! Tired of having their
diamonds stolen, the actresses fye now be
ing disinherited by their millionaire uncle.
Rockefeller presented at court, attended
by guards, retainer, reporter, etc., -end
wearing a wig to express hi reverence for
the law.
Five rich Plttsburgera losing t260,0CO at
faro constituted an unusually thrilling ex
hibition of fool and their money being
yanked asunder.
A Flndlay, O., gtrl waa kind to a atrange
woman three yeara ago, and ha just re
ceived 130,000 for It, the woman being even
stranger than supposed.
James R. OarHeld. aecretary of the In
terior, will visit Carlabad, N. M., August
2t to Inspect the government Itrlnatlon
project. He will be accompanied by F. H.
Howell, chief engineer of the reclamation
aervlce, and other official.
J. W. Reer of Wet View. Pa., haa one
of the most valuable libraries of short
hand work In the world. He ha book
and pamphlet on the aubject by the thous
ands and they Include practically all the
aystema Invented since the year 1700
Governor Hoke Smith, of Georgia, ha
elected a newspaper man aa hla private
aecretary. Hla name Is Joalah Anderson
Carter, and he has been managing editor
of the Atlanta,, Journal and haa been con
nected with the Savannah Press and the
Atlanta Newa.
Howard O. Sprogle, of Chicago, ha been
appointed attorney for the CKU , Service
ommlsalon. He waa born In Franklin,
Pa.. In IW. and atudied law at the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania. For a number of
years after graduating he was engaged In
newspaper work and for a time wa city
editor of the Philadelphia Press. He has
practiced law In thia elate, Illinois, Col
orado and Virginia.
Major H. F. Hodge of the army en
gineer coypi. ha been aelected as pur
chasing agent for the Istlimlan,canal coin
mlsalon He la regarded as Hprcially well
equipped for his new responsibilities, aa
he haa had considerable exr-rlence wttli
contract practice and with iilllrailon
for supplies and lervlce. He I a Maa
attihuaett man and a graduate of ih
military academy of tha clas of 181.
BACKACHE AUD
DESPONDENCY
Are both symptom of orf anio de
rangement, and nature's wamrnf to
eroanea of a ire-able whiok wiU soon
er or later declare itself.
llow of tea do we hear women sT,
"It seems as though my back would
break." Yet they continue to draff
along: and Buffer with aohes in the
small of the back , pain low down In
the aide, dragging sensations, aerr
ouaness and no ambition.
Ther de not reallxe that the back
Is the main-spring of woman sorgn lfnja.NAGEI
ktm and quickly Indicate bv aching . j K-aIi,..
a diseased condition of the feminine onjrane or kidneys, and that ahea
and pains will eon tin ae until the cause la reaaoTed.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
mad from natlre root and herbe has been for manr
mSmSS remedy in snch caaea. No otiter medicine has auch a record
of cures of feminine Hla. v v ,.T M
Mlsa Lena, Nag-el. of 117 Morgan St., Bnffalo, N. Y., writes: I waa
completely worn ont and on the Terge of nerroue prostration Myteck
Sched all the time. I had dread ruf periods of pain. as subject to fit
of crylntr and extreme nerronsneae. and waa always weak and tired.
Lydia if Pinkhama VegeUble Cotnponn completely cured me.-
Lrdla K. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound oares Female Complalnta,
ench as Backache, railing and Displacement, and all Organic Da
Dissolves and erpels Tumor at an earl f -tag. H
tones the Stomach? Cures Headache aad Indigestion and Invigorates
the whole feminine BTtm.
Mrs. Pinkham's 5tandlng Invitation to Women
Women sntterln from any form of female weakness ax inrlted to
- . . . ' . .
writ Mr Klnkham. Lynn. maaa.
NEBRASKA PRESS CvMHKKT,
Papllllon Time: The Columbus power
j canal has been financed and operations
have been about to be commenced as often
as the Omaha, Lincoln A Beatrice Inter
urban railway. But we are atlll hopeful;
Rome was not built In a day.
Beatrice Sun: Hastings, not to be out
done by such village aa Omaha and Lin
coln. Is planning a trade excursion Into
southwestern Nebraska and northwest Kan-
mi In the Interest of it wholesale houses.
The Commercial club of that city has the
matter in charge and that means something
will be done.
Halbrook Observer The aound of the
sickle Is now being heard and keeps our
hardware merchants busy loading wagon
with twine as they come In. The wheat
crops In Furnas, Frontier and Gosper coun
ties will be far above the average this year.
In driving over the county we have seen
some fields that will yield forty bushels or
more to the acre. .
Alliance Times The way everything I
being "painted red" about Alliance the past
few days does not indicate drunks and a
big time, neither Fourtft. of July patriotism.
It ia simply the way In which gasoline
cans must be decorated under the provi
sions of the new law becoming effective
July 1. The servant girl in Nebraska, who
'lids the fire with gasoline in future, must
ether be color blind or deliberately Intend
ing suicide.
Humphrey Democrat: When the people
are made to understand that It really costs
more time and money to travel over a poor
road than it does to travel over a good one
they will be less Inclined to begrudge the
expense of good roads. The Democrat has
for the last several years endeavored to
cause the farmers of this neighborhood to
take more of an Interest In their roada. In
many Instances we feel that we have suc
ceeded aomewhat In bringing about better
roads, but In moit casts all Jhat we have
said has had little If any effect. Poor roada
are the expensive things that curse a coun
try district.
Stanton Picket; At Omaha the Edward
Rosewater scholarship has been awarded
to a high school boy, the son of a mechanic.
While Edward Rosewater, the great and
talnnted editor of the Bee la dead, his mem
ory Uvea and will continue for ages. In
his will he bequeathed a portion of hla for
tune to the education of worthy young
men. In that will It waa provided that the
proceeds of a block of Bee stock should be
usod for this purpose. One young man
has been given a scholarship and as time
passes, there will be other. Unlike many
of the rich men of Omaha, where Edward
Rosewater died, he did not leave his entire
fortune to relatives, but placed a portion
of It where It would help othera who were
willing to help themselves.
Central City Record Thomas M. Hunt
ington and Ami B. Tldd stole about all the
land In two counllea of Nebraska. There
were thousands of acres of It, worth a
large sum of money. They .were tried and
convicted. Their sentence was 11,000 each
and three month in th county Jail. Now,
the Record doesn't like to flnd any fault
with our courts, and perhaps the sentence
was all the law allowed, but It strikes us
that such a penalty was a mockery. If
th men had broken into a house and stolen
a trifling -amount of property, or If they
had gone Into a pasture and walked off
with a horse worth 160, th penitentiary
would have opened wlda Its doors for them
for a number of yeara. As it Is, they steal
land worth a hundred times the other prop
erty, and do the atat far more damage.
TItese lot Days
HOPPING is a pleasure under one of our many
fana which. : makes our store the coolest in
Omaha, and if while here you should buy some
of our light weight underwear the kind with
out sleeves and knee length drawers, you never
will be troubled with the heat.
Our assortment of Bathing Suits U now com
plete, $1.00 to $3.00.
In Our Children's
Department
We are offering two big specials for Wednesday:
No. 1 All our Children's Wash Suits go at a reduction of
25 per cent.
No. 2 We have a few broken lines of the celebrated Star
Blouse Waists. About 20 dozen in all, in neat and dark
effects, which we will sell at half price. $1.50 Blouse
Waists 75c. $1.00 Blouse Waists 50c. .
Mothers should not miss this opiortunity to fix the' boy
out for the summer. .
Browning, King .& Co
R. S. WILCOX, Manager. : .
.1 1 m
ncr wiw
yet escap with a fine for which we suppose
they care but little, and get off with a
Jail sentence, and a brief one at that, in
stead of a penitentiary aentenc. ' Verily,
justice la blind a a bat.
Fremont Herald: The Herald desires to
toa a nosegay In the direction of Omaha
for Robert Coweil, head of the Kllpatrlik
dry goods emporium and member of the
Fire and Police commission of Nebraska's
metropolis. Mr. Coweil Is he who declined
to serve on the railroad commission, after
being duly elected and qualified o to do,
and he has In other way held aloof from
bad company. ' Ha haa always stood for
high Ideals In the civic life, and has In so
many ways demonstrated his fitness for any
poiiltlon In the gift of the state that an ac
tual expression of our regard for Mr. Cow
ell might seem fulsome, ao we restrict these
words to a hearty Commendation of hla
unqualified and unequivocal atand against
tha slot machine. Good for Robert Coweil,
FLASHES OF FI N.
"I don't believe you ever work," said th
charitable citizen.
"Well," responded the beggar, pocketing
a dime, "I Juat worked you, didn't 17"
Philadelphia Ledger.
The Doctor You undortand, don't you,
that this Is only to be ued externally?
The Patient's Wife Sure, air, I alius
makea him get out o' bed to drink it
Harper's Weekly. ,
"I believe It's a fact thnt a man must
get to be at least 80 before he really knows
anything." 1
"Ye, and he must be at least 4" befor
he learn to quit telilng what he know."
Philadelphia Preaa.
"Paw, what I a
church conference'
"A yellow legged
Chicago Tribune.
' ley delegate' to a
chicken, my son."
"Doctors never bleed people now, do .
they?" Y
"Great Scott, man! did you never have
nn of thm nnri vou a hill ?"-Rnlt Imore 1
! American. '
"Who "discovered America?" asked th
teacher. .
"Columbua dlacovered It," answered tha
boy whose father 1 under suspicion of
graft; "but he didn't know how to get the
money out of It." Washington Star.
Mr. Flatwell (hi first Atlantic vnvas
Do you know. Mary, that this ship burns
tons of coal every day?
Mrs. Flatwell Wllllnm Honry, have you
been letting the Janitor stuff you with any
such fairy tale aa that? Puck.
MY DOG AND I.
Michigan Farmer.
When living aecme but little worth,
And all things go awry,
I close the door, we Journey forth
My dog and II
For books and pena we leave behind,
But little careth he,
Hla one great joy of life la just
To be with me.
He notes by Just one upward glance
My mental attltudij.-'
As on we go past laughing stream
. And singing wood. . . ,
The soft wlnda have a magic touch
That brlnge to care release.
The treea are vocal with delight.
The rivers sing of peace.
How good It Is to be alive!
Nature, the healer strong,
Has aet each pulse with life athrlll
And Joy and song.
Discouragement! 'Twill but a name,
And all things that annoy,
Out In the lovely world of June
Llf aeemeth only Joy!
And ere we reach the busy town,
Like birds my troubles fly.
We are two comrade glad of heart
My dog and I'.