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State of Nebraska, Douglaa county, :
I Charles C. Rosewater, general manager
of The Bee Publishing Company, being
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of full and complete copies of The Dally,
fMorning. Evening and Sunday Bee printed
during the month of June, 17, wi as
if ol lows:
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30,630 1 34,480
4 30,690 20 36,310
1 36,410 11 36.890
30,810 2... 36,610
7 36,680 It 36,780
1 34.800 24 38,900
36,900 23 36,600
10 36.600 26 36,680
11 36,930 27 36,870
12 36,620 21.., 96,470
It -00, 840 19 36,860
14 36.980 'tO 36,960
16 , 37,170 f
It 35,800 Total... 1,094,820
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CHARLES C. ROSE WATER,
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WHEW OUT Or TOWJT.
Subscribers leaving; lit city tanw
porarlly shoald sst Tko Br .
mailed to fneut. Address will bo
changed na often mm renneated.
Mayor "Jim" will bo back home by
hext week, and then Omaha will again
ae on the map.
Harry Orchard's confession does not
ook as good as it did when he sold it
lo the Pinkertons.
Mr. Rockefeller Is 68 years old and
Uld to "look younger than ho is." He
8 also richer than he looks. 1
Omaha's evicted slot machines may
And a haven of refuge in our sister city
f Council Bluffs, just across the river.
The transfer of the flower of the
kavy to the Pacific robs the Jamestown
deposition of Ha biggest drawing card.
A Georgia gentleman shot the post-
naster because the mail was late.
LThoae Georgians are a punctilious
fiet.
y Forty residents of Washington have
taken out bathing permits. Washi
ngton has a population of about 300,
00. 'i
i ) Tom Lawson says King Edward Is
gracious and democratic. Lawson
: nust have unloaded some copper stock
I n the king. -
1 1 Experts claim that staircases are
,; xpanded by heat. Ever notice how
1 .inch Inniror tha atolra or.. In T..1
nan in January?
Thomas Fortune Ryan has been
lected chief of the Virginia fox hun-
ars. He is already chief of the Wall
treet lamb hunters.
"John D. Rockefeller does not know
nything," gays an exchange. Oh,
tea ne aoes. tie Knows enough not
toll what he knows.
It ia hoped that the Japanese under
hand, as well as the American reading
ublic does, how little there it to this
pldsummer war talk.
William Randolph Hearst proposes
D start a naner In Tnkln Tklt wmM
ilvo Japan an opportunity to get ao-
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uaiuivu wuu mo mi yruow peril.
Booker Washington quotes the
resident as saying that he "likes his
bb." The list of men who would like
be president's Job is getting longer
very day.
Jess R. Grant is seeking the demo-
jrwic nomination for th presidency,
lis came ia not calculated to arouse
athustasra In southern democrats of
he old school.
A Montana man who stole twenty
actions of land has paid a floe of f 700
nd spent twenty-four hours tn jail,
le may still figure that he got his
ind at a rare bargain.
1 Senator Tillman is planning a lec-
ur tour of the Pacific coast If Ja
an hears of that in time it will not
necessary tor Uncle Sam to send
py battleships to the Pacific.
The police board wants it distinctly
nderstood that its anti-slot machine
Jider means Just what It says. Public
ambling, no matter what Its disguise,
ill not be tolerated In Omaha.
Omaha Is still suffering from a
"rtlty of rentable dwellings. As
Here are more houses here than ever.
Kls Is conclusive proof that the num-
r of people to be housed is steadily
crewdug '
A TotCK fH'tJI TrTal TOWS.
The Philippine problem has broken
out again In Boston, although the rest
of the country has long since quit
worrying about the matter. ' Over In
Luior.,' in Panay, even in Samar, the
Filipinos are humping themselves In
the harvest fields, gathering rice,
breaking hemp, curing tobacco, pro
ducing sugar, cocoa and the other
products of the island and preparing
to exchange them for good money,
guaranteed by the United States.
Their children are attending; the pub
lic schools, taught by American teach
ers. Some are winning prizes at Yale
and other American universities, pre
paratory to returning home to Join in
edncatlng their fellows to a realisa
tion of their present blessings and the
possibility of development, under the
beneflclent protection of the United
States, with Philippine autonomy and
Independence as the final goal. Na
tives of ability are holding court In
the islands, filling municipal offices
and taking an active part in the
process of Philippine evolution. .
In this country the mass of people
have almost forgotten that such a
thing 'as the Philippine problem ex
isted. The cry of militarism was
smothered by an avalanche of ballots
In November, 1900, and all efforts to
resuscitate It as an issue have since
proved futile. The country has dem
onstrated Its faith in the wisdom oH
the administration's policy for the
Filipinos by refusing to be disturbed
by the croaking of the discontented
and by rejecting every attempt to
make the problem a question of par
tisan politics.
But Moorfleld Story - and Ervtng
Window of Boston, the surviving
members of the Antl-Imperlallst
league, refuse to be reconciled. They
persist In remaining off the reserva
tion and decline to come in for the
rations. They have Just Issued a soul
stirring appeal, referring to "the enor
mous sacrifice of life and treasure to
defend a territory whose Inhabitants
are discontented with their relations
to the United States," and demanding
"a pledge of early and complete inde
pendence) to the Philippines;"
The Philippines are not discontented
with their relatlgn to the Vn'tel
States, which disposes of that part of
the appeal. The pledge of early In
dependence to the Filipinos has al
ready been given and progress toward
that consummation has been rapid
in the last two or three years. The
Flllplnoa will elect representatives to
their first national assembly, on July
30. The assembly will meet in Octo
ber and the Filipinos will be given a
practically dominating voice for self
government. If the experiment Is a
success,' and Indications are that It
will be, complete autonomy and Inde
pendence for tlje Philippines will not
be long delayed.
If ORE MM.O.V CVTTiyO.
The Safety Car Heating and Light
ing company la the latest organization
to announce that its profits from op
erating a railroad side line have be
come so large as to make necessary
some action to dispose of an unwieldy
surplus. This company controls the
Plntsch lights, so generally used on
passenger trains, and alto has a prac
tical monopoly on the system of steam
heating used on most railroads. Al
though paying 18 per cent dividends
for several years, the company has
accumulated a comfortable surplus of
$5,000,000, Just equal to the capital
stock, which must be distributed. A
proposition has been placed before the
shareholders, to be voted upon July
16, to double the capital stock. It Is
not contended that the company has
any call for largely Increased expendi
tures. The Increase of the capital
stock from ft, 000, 000 to $10,000,000
will not cost any stockholder a cent,
each shareholder simply being asked
to take two shares in place of one In
order to dispose of these accumulated
profits.
In view of recent exposures of rail
way methods It will not surprise the
public to learn that most of the stock
of the Safety Car Heating and Light
ing company is owned by railroad offi
cials. One of the directors is a direc
tor In the Standard Coupler company
and the Railway Steel Spring company
and one of them Is a director In ten
railway companies. Another director
Is secretary of most of the Gould rail-'
ways and nearly all of the officials are
more or less prominent in railway cir
cles. The company furnishes Plntsch
lights for 23.000 passenger cars In
America and for 110,000 in the world,
in addition to heating 11,000 passen
ger cars on American railways. The
stock of the. company, with a par value
of $100 a share, Is quoted-at $275 a
share and la obtainable only by those
on the Inside.
In these days of big. financial deals
a $5,000,000 divvy does not attract
much attention, but the significance
of this melon cutting proposition lies
In the fact that it adds but another to
the list of .companies, controlled by
railroad officials, that make enormous
sums of money out of the railroads
for service which the railroads should
themselves perform and money which
goes to railroad officials instead of to
the railroad stockholders. Railroads
ran heat and light their own cars, Just
as they can operate their own sleeping
cars and express cars. Instead -of fat
tening the purses of parasite corpora
tions at the expense of railroad stock
holders. Electricity Is "considered
safer and cheaper than gas and steam
for heating and lighting railroad
trains, with power for it generated by
the engine, but so long as railroad offi
cials, hold stock in fancy dividend
I paying sldxahows they are at no loss
for argument to show why electricity
is wholly impracticable for railway
use.
The demand of the day for publicity
concerning the operations of quasi
public corporations Is producing much
very Interesting Information touching
the methods employed by tricky finan
ciers to secure the cream and butter
from the rajjroad churning, leaving
the ordinary stockholders the whey
and skimmed milk.
KEEPIXO THE CUVRTS BUST.
It is already evident that the grist
of new laws ground out by the recent
Nebraska legislature- will keep the
courts busy for some time to come.
This, however, is inevitable and always
on the boards whenever any great
number of Important reform measures
are put -upon the statute books.
These new laws affect Interests of
all sorts and ramifications and inter
fere seriously with established meth
ods ef doing business. It is perfectly
natural, therefore, that these laws
should be tried 6ut by test cases In the
courts, not only to make sure whether
or not they are free from Invalidating
nefects, but also to secure judicial con
struction of obscure provisions or ap
parently conflicting requirements.
Some of this legislation may fall when
subjected to the rigid fire required by
the ordeal of the law, but even in such
cases litigation will bring out decisions
showing up the weak spots and point
ing the way for strengthening or
remedy.
' Lawyers have no hesitation in find
ing legal loopholes for their clients
wherever possible, irrespective of the
public interest, and the utmost vig
ilance and persevering attention to
duty on the part of the state's legal
representatives will be necessary to
preserve what has been gained as a
result of the reform movement which
culminated In the late legislature. 'The
motto of tho law-makers was "A
square deal for everybody," and the
same rule should apply In testing the
results of their labors In the courts.
A fBCOWD MARCH TO THE SEA.
Enlightened men of the new south
can not share in the protests that are
being sent from Chattanooga and
other southern cities, expressing the
"great indignation of prominent con
federates" over the announcement that
thirty officers from the staff school
at Fort Leavenworth have started to
march from Chattanooga to the sea,
covering the route taken by General
Sherman during the civil war. These
"prominent confederates" profess to
believe that the action of the author
ities at Washington In directing this
movement is an insult to the south
designed to open the wounds of" the
civH war and humiliate the men who
fought for the lost cause. j
The storm of indignation se im-.
aglne, will be found to be but a little
whirlwind, started by some of the
over-zealous professional veterans,
found in both the south and the
north. Ministering time has healed
all wounds caused by the civil war,
except those deliberately kept open
for a purpose. The. valor of the men
who wore the gray is recognized by
none more keenly than the men of the
north who fought and toiled and
hoped and bled in the battle lines of
the two armies. The north respects
the fighting qualities of the confed
erate veterans as it reveres the mem
ory of lta own dead and has shown
its willingness to forgive and forget.
Cnder such conditions, the mere ex
pression by "prominent confederates"
of indignation over the proposed
movement Is an uncalled for reflec
tion on those of the south who have
outgrown such pettiness.
Sherman's march to the sea Is in
delibly in the books as one of the
greatest achievements of military
history and there Is nothing inappro
priate that the army officers of the
day should familiarize themselves
with it by going over the route, study
ing the difficulties encountered and
learning by intimate contact the Im
portant military lesson to be learned.
There Is no more occasion for the
south to be offended at the proposed
movement than for the north to take
umbrage when the veterans who at
tended the confederate reunion at
Richmond the other day marched
through the streets of Washington,
wearing their rusty gray uniforms,
bearing their rickety muskets and
displaying their tattered battle flags.
The Union Pacific Is supposed to get
55 per cent of the receipts for express
business over Its lines. It also holds In
Its treasury 40 per cent of the stock of
the Pacific Express company, which has
the exclusive contract to do business on
the Union Pacific system. In other
words, it gets 65 per cent of the gross
receipts and then an additional 40 per
cent of the profits on express business.
Is it surprising that protest emanates
from that quarter against a compulsory
2 5 per cent reduction on local express
rates by operation of the law enacted
by the last Nebraska legislature?
The attendance at the National Edu
cational association meeting at Los
Angeles Is far abort of the usual mark.
These great conventions should be held
closer to the geographical renter of
the country rather than on the rim,
and wheu It comes to convenience of
location and equal accessibility to
everybody Omaha Is an Ideal eonven-
I tlon city.
Our amiable "democratic contempo
rary has made the startling discovery
that "Omaha's streets are Inexcusably
dirty." And to think of it happening
under a democratic city administration
which has been In absolute control of
the city cleaning department for more
than a year.
The city treasurer has rash items
belonging to the city of more than
$1,000,000. This is a lot of money
to keep on deposit in the banks draw
ing only 3 per cent interest, when the
taxpayers from whom it Is, gathered
could use it to betteradvantage in
their own enterprises. The weak part
of our municipal revenue system Is
that It piles up money In the treasury
at one period of the year and lets it
run low at another. A system that
would bring In money In a reasonably
steady stream as needed would be a
great Improvement.
The Commercial club executive com
mittee has trumped The Bee's remon
strance against the erection of wooden
sidewalk stands and booths In the re
tail business district by special permit
suspending the requirements of the
building ordinances. With a little re
inforcement upon the boasted backbone
of the mayor a prospective repetition
of this disgraceful business during Ak-Sar-Ben
carnival can be prevented.
The city council will divide Itself
into sub-committees to wait personally
upon property owners whose signatures
are necessary to petitions for paving
before the down town streets can be re
surfaced. Some discrimination should
be exercised in sending these council-
manic missionaries out. The wrong
councilman making the call will do
more harm than good.
Mr. Bryan says he would solve the
trust problem "by sending John D.
Rockefeller and a dozen other trust
magnates to prison for a long term of
years. If he were president ne wouia
probably decree the laws under which
such action could be taken.
England wants the consent of .the
Pennsylvania legislature to place a
bust of William Penn In Westminster
Abbey. All England has to do to get
favorable action on anything it wants
from the Pennsylvania legislature Is
to pay the price.
The report that the United State?
had bought Lower California from
Mexico has been verified except for
the minor facts that Mexico does not
want to sell the country and the
United States does not want to buy it.
Ho Karn Uhe to Quit.
Indianapolis News.
The sagacious foresight which Mr. Rocke
feller displayed some ten years ago when
he 'quit knowing anything about the affairs
of the Standard Is now amply demon
strated. A l,oni Felt Want.
Kansas City Journal.
Manufacturers say that the pure food law
will make higher prices' for foodstuffs,
liquors and drugs. T Of course everything
makes higher price. 1 ' Will nothing ever
happen any more to make lower prices?
Make the Cltr Par.
8an Francisco Chronicle.
No right-minded person will object to
the Japanese bringing suits for damages
inflicted upon them by riotous persons. It
Is the business of our police to afford the
subjects of the mikado protection while
they are permitted to sojourn with us, and
If they fall to prevent the destructive at
tacks of rowdies on the persons or busi
ness of the Japanese the city should be
penalised for maintaining an Inefficient
peace force.
Kansas City Star.
Attorney General Bonaparte's plan of
using the process of Injunction to control
tho trusts has the exceeding great merit of
contrast to the employment of the Injunc
tion by the trusts to control the govern
ment. It Is quite in line with the forward
march of events that now the most effec
tive branch of the government, the Ju
diciary, should be appealed to on behalf of
the co-ordinate departments Instead of
against them.
Habitat of tbe Bnalneaa Boom.
Wall Street Journal.
Railroad earnings continue to make a re
markable showing, while, except for a little
backwardness In orders, tho great steel In
dustry is as vigorous aa ever, and all pro
ducers of the raw or finished product ap
parently have plenty of work , In .hand.
From the showing of bank clearings all over
the countrx any hesitation In business ap
pears to be In the district bo ween New
York and Chicago, and especially the east ern
portion. Buslnexs In the west, the mid
die west, and the south is booming, with
more fear of a scarcity of labor than of
orders.
TRVIJIfi TO l.OK THEIR CASE.
Perallar Pnaltlon of Minnesota Rail
roads la Court.
Minneapolis Journal.
The Minnesota railroads are occupying a
peculiar position before the public In the
stockholders' injunction suits. They are
defendants In these actions, and yet the
head officials of the roads are coming to
the support of the plaintiffs with affidavits
showing why the plaintiffs should win and
the roads should be enjoined.
If the railroad ofuctals were not acces
sories before the fact In these stockholders'
suits, as has been freely charged, they arc
certainly accessories after the fact, and, aa
far as the railroad defendants are con
cerned, the suits are "friendly" and the
defense will aid and abet the plaintiffs.
Consistency Is a Jewel of little esteem In
affairs like this. The heads of the railroad
companies were ready to compromise last
winter on a basis of reductions Just as
heavy as those that are now contested.
After the legislature passed tho 2-cent fare
law and the commodity rate law. three of
the roads announced publicly that they
would accept them, and all of them obeyed
the 2-cent fare law, without any attempt
to tent lta merits In the courts, Btlll other
roads prepared tariffs under the new
freight law and filed them.
Now come the officials atth affidavits to
show that the reduction they had agreed
to would actually conflscato the property
of the stockholders. Why d'dn't they go
Into the state courts with such a ahowlng
aa that. If tlwy were mindful of the In
terest of the stockholders Why should
It be necessary to go through all this com
plicated machinery of Injunction suits by
individual stockholders against an arm of
defendants, when the state courts were
ready at Land to administer Justice
ll 1 kitatnl a vjucir affairs.
MILLIOXB WILL IPEKT,
Spleadld rtraalta from the Work t
tko Agrrlcalt aral Department.
New Tork Times.
Secretary Wilson's department has spent
nearly HO.ftiO.OOO In the fiscal year Just
ended. What has It to show for the ap
propriation? The secretary states that besides execu
ting tho federal laws under Its charge
the1 department haa saved "millions of dol
lars" to the American people by discoveries
made by Its scientists within a twelve
month. The patents for these discoveries
are "dedicated to the government," to be
used without payment of royalty by Its
officers and cltltens. He estimate that the
mere Invention by Acting Chief Marlon
Dorset t of the litochemlc division of an
Ink suitable for stamping carcasses passed
In meat Inspection will save between 830,
UOU and io. tun) next year, and a "propor
tionately larger sum annually as the amount
of government-Inspected meat Increases."
Dr. Allerton 8. Cushman discovered the
principle of extracting potash fertlllter
from feldspathlc rocks and Chief Gallo
way of the Bureau of Plant Industry Is
experimenting with the fertiliser in the
tobacco fields of Connecticut. The t'nlted
States will Import no more potash from
Germany. Dr. Cushman haa also Invented
a new process Increasing the durability of
fence wire, and along the same lines has
"Investigated the subject of preventing the
rusting of all exposed metals, Including
steel rails." For such services, which add
directly to the weath of the nation, this
official Is paid no more than his salary.
Secretary Wilson might have multiplied
his Instances. The department's Investment
of $2,000 away back In 184 introducing sor
ghum from China and France, produces
yearly crops valued at KO.OOO.OOO. Kafllr
corn was Imported Into the semi-arid lands
of the southwest at an expense of $6,000;
the value of the present crop Is over $16,
000,000. The hardy durum or "macaroni" wheat,
which Mr. M. A. Carlcton Introduced from
Russia with an original outlay of $10,000,
now flourishes In the dry lands of the
northwest, with a crop worth $26,000,000,
where no other wheat can live.
The government's importation of Japan
ese klushu rice haa stimulated the Increase
In this staple from a total of 180,000,000
pounds In 1S99 to 660,0(0.000 pounds in 1904.
Supposing only half of this Increase Is di
rectly due to the Introduction of the short
kerneled rice Incidentally reducing the per
cent of breakage In milling from 40 to 10
It adds $3,000,000 annually to the nation's In
come. The annual crop of "Swedish select"
oats In Wisconsin is valued at $1,01X1.000, In
troduced at a cost of $6,006.
Among a bewildering variety of exotlo
fruits and nuts Introduced and acclima
tised by the Agricultural department, the
navel orange last year Increased the wealth
of California alone $8,000,000. About (,
500.000 has been spent In the work of plant
and fruit introduction, with an estimated
financial advantage to the country of $100,
000,000. IMMIGRANT AMERICANIZATION.
Wkr Scandinavian Prefer to "peak
Kasrllsh After Their Arrival.
Brandcr Matthews in the Century.
Among the Immigrants themselves tha
process of Americanization Is sometimes ex
traordinarily swift. It did not taka long
for Gallatin and Agarslz and Schurs to
make themselves at home here, and the
less gifted and the less well educated
foreigner has an even stronger Incentive
to get out of his old-world shell. When the
late Prof. Boyesen went to Minnesota
he was surprised to find that his fellow
Scandlnavlans preferred to speak EnglLsh
even to him; and it was explained to him
that the use of their native tongues would
reveal their peasant origin, and thua.tesMfy
to their social inferiority to a gentleman
who hgd been graduated from the Univer
sity of I'psala, whereas the use of English
lifted them all to the lofty tableland of
American cltlsenshlp.
The process of assimilation, at work now
urder our own eyes, was visible also to
our fathers and to our forefathers. Indeed,
there la no sponger phenomenon In all
the marvelous ory of civilization than
this very proce .-, thla Americanization of
countless aliens, generations after gen
eration, with no violent modification
of American Ideals. Three centuries ago,
"men of sturdy English fiber began to
come in search of mental, religious and
economic freedom," as an acute student
of social conditions has phrased It. "Dar
ing men In search of new experiences came
as adventurers and discoverers. Men of
moral daring came In search of religious
and civic freedom. Men of IndUBtrlal and
commercial daring came In search of larger
opportunity. These men established Ideals
and aet standards and created tendencies
for a nation." These standards, these
Ideals, these tendencies still survive after
almost three hundred years, modified a
little, no doubt, but developed only, not
radically transformed, and never re
nounced. The American of today, what
ever hla descent, haa most of tha charac
teristics of the American of yesterday.
Ideals endure, and aspirations have not
been blunted by time or turned aside by
alien Influences.
( PKRONAL SiOTEH.
If, as Tolstoi thinks, this country Is
going to smash because of Its reprehensible
conduct, what form of punlehment would
be adequate for Russia?
Mrs. Helen W. Rojrers, chief probation
officer of the Juvenile court of Indianap
olis, has left that city for a tour of Europo
with a view to studying Juvenile court and
probation work In some of the European
countries.
"Fighting Bob" Evans will he In com
mand of the battleships that are to be
transferred from the Atlantic to the Pa
cific. If "Fighting Bob" evor lets loose his
vocal batteries at the Japs they will learn
something about the real horrors of war.
For collecting W.000 life Insurance In a
caae where no legal Intervention waa
necessary, a New Tork lawyer charged a
widow $1,086.79. While the court ordered
htm to rer to re all but $20, for some reason
there has bean no suggestion of disbar
ment. William H. Newman, president of tha
Now York Central railroad, probably Is a
director In more corporations than any
other man in the Empire state. Tha total
number of seats held by him la 119, thir
teen of which have ben taken on since the
first of the present year.
John W. Riddle la tha only bachelor
among the American ambassadors. He Is
popular at the rxar'a eourt and speaks
Russian fluently, being one of the few In
tha diplomatic service who have mastered
the language. The Turkish language he
easily learned when he was secretary of
the legation at Constantinople.
The widow of Aupuste Bartholin, the
creator of the Statue of LJIerty, New Tork
harbor, In addition to giving a collection of
art treasures to the town of Colmar,
Alsace, her husband's native birthplace,
has presented to the munlrlpsl authorities
at Colmar H,0 to be uted In founding a
Bartholdl museum.
Tw Can i'lar lh Uuit.
Brooklyn Eagle.
After all. Japan has no intention of In
stituting a boycott against American goods.
Jai'an has sense enough to know that boy
cotting ia a gams at which two cau play.
IT Or WASHtNaTOX 1.1 FK.
Minor Seeaea and Incidents Sketched
n the Snot.
Here and there In this land of the free,
particularly In the eastern states, federal
Judges acquire the habit of assuming that
tho Judiciary "boss the ranch" when housed
In federal buildings. There Is whera tha
Judges get off. .Federal buildings are con
trolled by the Treasury department, and
officials of that department often are
obliged to read a section or two of law for
the benefit of the Judges. Several Interest
ing Incidents of the kind are cited by tha
Washington Post.
A federal Judge In New England went
so far recently as to Imprison for contempt
j the custodian of a federal building who
had removed some of the judge s Belong
ings from a room in the building. The
Treasury department promptly notified tha
Department of Justice and suggested that
the Judge was evidently not aware of the
law which gives the Treasury department
control over the appointment of space
among the government's tenants, a law In
tended to meet Just such emergenclea as
that presented by the arbitrary New Eng
land Judge.
Judge Lacomb of New Tork got Into a
dispute once with the Treasury depart
ment over an order laaued . to the cus-
I . . , i i ... i . , Mmnvil tyf certain
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patent models from a room adjoining tha
court room in the postofflce building. He
insisted that tha court had control of
tha building. He pointed out that the build
ing was officially designated aa "United
States court house and postofflce," and In
asmuch as the court house was mentioned
first the court. If ho deemed it necessary,
could occupy tha whole building to the ex
clusion ot tha poatofflce.
It became necessary finally to call Judge
Laoomb's attention to the lease for tha
site, which provided that If It should ever
be used for other than postofflce purposes
the title would resort to the grantor. This
effectually squelched the encroachment of
Judicial authority.
The most recent case of the kind has
come to light In Maoon, Qa. When the
government began the erection of a new
public building at Maoon on tha old site,
the federal tenants were transferred to
a new office building a few blocks away,
where the Treasury department rented two
floors. Harry Btlllwell Edwards, the author,
Is postmaster and ex-offlcla custodian. Hav
ing seconded tha nomination of President
Roosevelt at the last national convention,
he is supposed to have a drag equal to'
that of John Temple Graves.
The local lodge of Elks had quarters on
the seventh floor of tha building. Mr. Ed
wards engaged tha fifth and sixth floors.
The Elks of Macon stay up late nights and
also play billiards. Fearing that the bil
liards might disturb Judge Emory Speer of
the federal court, Custodian Edwards
thoughtfully placed him on the fifth floor.
The judge did not like this, because, ac
cording to what thoaa who pretend to
know say, he discovered that the sixth
floor commanded a better view of the sun
set. Therefore the Judge was shifted to
tha sixth floor by the author-postmaster-
oustodtan. Now the Judge wants the Elks
ousted, but the latter refuse and tbe Treas
ury officials are again hunting up soma law
to sweeten the temper of tha judge.
Secretary Taft has been asked to restore
tha name of Jefferson Davis on tha tablet
on tha great span over tha upper Potomac
river, known as Cabin John's bridge. This
bridge was constructed by the government
when Davis waa secretary of war, and, as
was the custom, his name waa chiseled
Into a large tabltt along with those of othsr
officials of the day. During tha civil war
Secretary of the Ipterlor Caleb Smith gave
orders that the name be effaced and a
union soldier scaled tbe bridge and struck
It out.
Recently the Daughters of th Confed
eracy took up the matter of having the
name restored to the plate.
No decision has been reached aa to what
shall be done. After the war the large oil
painting of Davis which hung In tha ante,
room of the secretary of war, with pic
tures of other secretaries, was turned to
the wall. It remained In that position for
years until returning good feeling In tha
north Induced the officials to change Its
face forward again.
Uncle Sam has probably the greatest
hoard of gold at the present day of any
nation in the world. The supply of the
yellow metal In the vaults of the Treasury
department Is rapidly reaching the billion
dollar mark. There Is, In the first place,
the permanent gold reserve of $150,000,000
held against the greenbacks In circulation.
Then there is In the division of redemption
tha Impressive sum of 9671344,000, againat
which are Issued an equivalent amount of
gold certificates now in circulation, and In
the general fund there Is gold coin and
bullion to the amount of $76,010,000, against
which there are about $TS.OuO,O00 gold certifi
cates. Jn addition to all thia gold there
are standard silver dollars and sliver bul
lion amounting to nearly $10,000,099 more, so
that the treasury Is well supplied with hard
cash. Indeed.
The congressional library at Washington
will Install a department whera phono
graphic reourds of speeches of statesmen
and distinguished persona will be preserved
for the benefit of future generations. The
government recently received a record con
taining an address mad by the German
ei 1 1 pei or. and this led to tha suggestion
that tha utterances of other statesmen
might be preserved In the same way.
The. government will soon be owning and
operating two railroads In Washington, and
underground railroads st that. However,
their proportions will he such that tley will
not have much bearing on the problem of
government ownership of railroads In gen
eral. They will run from the capltol to tha
adjoining new office buildings for the sen
ators and representatlvea. In each case a
distance of only a few hundred feet.
BEWARE
"JUST AS
Everv first class manufactured com
modity Is Imitated. Go Into the major
ity of stores, ask for a good top grade
article and If they haven't it In stock
Isn't this what they say:
"No, Sir, we haven't that, but we've
some 'just as good,' "
But beware of the "Jut as good"
things. In most Instances there is
nothing "Just as good."
In pianos more than any other art
Icle are people deceived by dealers
selling the "Just as good" kind.
Ask. for a Kranlch & Bach In nearly
a&y piano store and usually you will be
told that they have "Just aa good" as
. I T. 1..,. JL Dnnk f m II m -J V A V,11
I a little money besides. Ask for a Bueb
& Lane or a Kimball and you will gel
the same sort of a reply.
A. I10SPE COMPANY,
We do expert Piano
ONE
PRICE.
KISQ COR.V9 DAVCHTEH.
Her Uoldesj Taascl Halted as the Na
tional Flower.
Washington Post.
The suggestion by Assistant Socretnry
Hsys of the Department of Agriculture
that the corn tsssel should be adopted as
the "national flower" Is worthy of all ac
ceptation If there Is any doubt about lha
right of corn to be called the king of tha
vegetable kingdom. There are a dozen rea
sons why the tassel should be chosen, to
one In favor of any other candidate. A
million happy Jaws will suspend their at
tack upon steaming cobs and shout for
the plumy tansel. Thousands of spoons
will suspend shove breakfast dishes while
shrill cries arise In celebration of the na
tional food. Regiments and brigades will
rally to the support of any movement that
has for Its object the glorification of hoe
cake, pone, hominy, and all other blessings
derived from corn. The sadness of thoso
mournful words "it might have been" Is
Infinitely more pathetic when the phrasa
is applied to good old I'ncln Ned:
He had no teeth for to eat the corn caka.
So he had to let the corn cake go.
The poet rightly perceived In Its exquisite
pathos the Isolation of I'ncle Ned. In this
couplet the singer sounds the utter depths
of woe. The words haunt every true Amer
ican, and will haunt him till he dies. May
all honest men be spared the fate ot old
Uncle Nod!
One of the chief reasons why tha world
should honor the memory of Christopher
Columlms Is the fact that corn Is a native
ot the land he discovered. Borne of tha
results of Columbus' haphazard western
tour have not been particularly praise
worthy, but they are more than offset by
the gift of corn. Considered from any
standpoint utilitarian, esthetic, financial,
artistic, poetic, or any other corn meets
all requirements. It Is useful, moral, prof
itable, beautiful and good. The Indian
deemed it a gift of his God. and he was
not wrong. Nothing about com Is useless.
The stalk will become valuable for paper,
if it is not already so. The kernel feeds
the world. Tha cob keeps countless prairie
homes warm. The tassel, graceful daugh
ter of the tall and bannered army of tha
field. Is peculiarly the emblem of frultful
ness, peace and happiness. If it were neces
sary that a "national flower" should ha
formally chosen, the corn tassel would run
away ahead of the ticket. Rut such a,
course Is not necessary. Corn Is king, and
his daughter takes her proper place by
divine right.
POINTED REMARKS.
"Do you think there is any use of a
man's trying to avoid taking orders from
a boss In politics?" asked the young
statesman.
"There's only one way." answered Sen
ator Sorghum, "and that Is to be a boss
yourself." Waahington Star.
"Of course," said the funny boarder from
the city, "you've got a condensed milk
cow."
"Waal, we did have,"' replied the bright
farmer, "but the heat expanded her this
summer." Philadelphia Press.
"You ought to go to the dentist with that
tooth."
"I wonder what hour I would be most
likely to find him out ?" Houston Post.
He So Smythe has been run over by an
automobile, eh! How did It happen"?
ha The poor fellow was stooping over
to pick up a horshoe for luck. Smart Set.
"It Is stated that Saturn's rings hsve,
disappeared.
"That means a clean municipal govern
ment hereafter. I suppon Where la
Saturn?" Cleveland Plain Dealer.
"Mr. Brown," said the collector, "I have
a little bill fur you."
"You can taka it away. This Is the day
I'm Jones."
"Hut, but"
"But nothing. You'd better read up on
Psychology." Philadelphia Ledger.
The Magistrate Are you guilty or not?
The Prisoner Well, your honor. 1 think
I am, but I'd like to be tried to mak
sura. Harper's Weekly.
Brigga: Her Is a statement saying that
there are 26,0(X).OuO widows In India.
Rlgge I've always understood they had
widow to burn. Cleveland Plain Dealtir.
"Pop," said the smart hopeful, "what
do they clean tha teeth of a winter gala
with?"
"I don't know, hut I sunnoeo with aa
lo pick, my son." Baltimore American. .
"Ot course." said the serene statesman,
I am the logical candidate."
"Pcrhapa, said Snator Sorghum. "But
?ou want to remember that when It come
o tallying up votes it's mathematics and
not logic that counts." Washington Star.
TDK U1KL. 1 CALICO.
Minna Irving In Munsey's.
I called en a friend, and his sisters war
there
A bevy of beautiful gtrls.
There were Maud with a rose In her tresses
of gold.
And Madge with a necklace of pearls.
And Mllly, a beauty with melting black
yes.
And Mvra with ringlets of brown;
And apart from tho rest, In a seat by tha
door,
Sweet Ruth In a caflco gown.
There were satins and velvets and chiffons
and silks.
And lncrn and ribbons galore,
But 1 looked at the maid who waa youngest
of all,
And the neat frock she modestly wor.
It spoke to my soul of a cottage afar
From the worry and haste of the town.
And lo, to preside o'er tha coffee and
cream
A girl In a calico gownl
It waa patterned all over, that ralte
dress.
With sprays of most delicate pink;
And the walt oh, ao trim and so slender
was bound
With a plain satin ribbon, I think.
I could tell you the number of ruffles It
had.
For 1 boldly marched up and sat down,
With a thrill of delight, on a chair by the
side
Of the girl in the calico gown.
A look and a word, and a blush and a
smile
A meeting next day on the street
A call and a question, a kles and a rtnc
And my happiness soon was complete.
I married in haste, but shull never repent.
For love la my scepter and crown
In the rose-embowered cottage ot which
she Is queen
The girl in the calico, gown.
OF THE
GOOD"
Don't be deluded. No piano buyer
yet has been satisfied with the "Just
as good" kind. Nowhere In the world
Is a piano made that Is the equal of
the Kranlch & Bach and, therefore, no
where In the world Is a piano sold that
comes up to Its standard likewise. It
tbe earth be wa relied, from end to end
an Instrument to compare with tha
Bush & Lane, at lta price, cannot pos
sibly be discovered.' As for the Klm-
ball It, too, is in a class by itself, tbe
best value out of Chicago.
Careful Investigation will prove that
we sell the best and that our prices ar
the? lowest; two good reasons why you
should buy here. Come In and see the
magnificent Pianos we sell at $10, 6,
$7 and IS monthly.
Don't be persuaded to obligate your
self until ou have had an opportunity
to examine our splendid offerings.
1513 Douglas St.
Tuning and Repairing,
NO COMMISSION.
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