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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (July 17, 1907)
Tim Omaha Daily Dee FOL'KDKD BY EDWARD tlOBEWATER, MUTOR ROPE WATER, EDITOR. Entered at Omaha postofflce a econd clasa matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Bee (without 8unday). one yar..$4. Lull Bee and Sunday, one year -WJ Sunday Bee, one year Saturday Bee, cma year DELIVERED BY CARRIER. i Dally Be (Including Sunday), per week..ltc Dally Bea (without Sunday), per week...lOc Evening Be (without Sunday), per week. Je Evening Bee (with Sunday), per week....lOo Address all complalnU ct Irregularitie In delivery to City Circulation Department OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha City Hall Building. Council Bluff lu Scott Street. Ch'caffo KMO Unity Building. New York-1508 Home Life Insurance Bldg. Washington 601 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communlcattone relating to new and edi torial matter should be addreaeed, Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only 3-cent atamp received In payment or mall accounts, personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchange, not accepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska. Dougla county, a: Charles C. Roaewater general manager of The Bee Publishing Company, being h the actual number of full and complete copies of Th Dally, Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of Jnne, lu7, was a follows S6.B30 3CBM 36,680 36,690 36,410 6,810 17........ 36,480 1 86,490 If 36,480 0 36,310 jl 36.330 ,2 36,610 1J 35,780 J 4 38,300 !........ 80,680 28 36.5D0 7 36,630 8. . 10'. 11. 12. 12. 36,800 . . . 36,800 38,660 . . . 6.630 . . . 86,830 36,640 7. 21. 36,570 36,470 a 36,860 ; 14........ 38,930 to. 33,890 IB. 16. 37,170 35,800 Total . , .1,094,330 . 10,389 Less unsold and returned coplea. Net total Dally average .... 1,083,831 88,137 . ROSrWATER, Oaaeral Manager. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 1st day of July, 1907. (Seal) M. B. HUNOATB, Notary Public. when out ar TOWN. Snbarrlber leaving; the city tern, porarlly should have The Be mailed thesa. AaSresa will he change a often aa re,aest4. "Who Is stronger asks tbe Nashville what? than Bryan?" American. At Attorney General Bonaparte is go ing to tnake the Tobacco trust smoke up, aa fast as he can find a match. Howard Qould denies the report that his yacht 1b for sale. It la his wife that he Is trying to dispose of. It is proposed to change the names of the Postal and Western Union Tele graph companies. How would Damon and Pythias do? A Texas judge has ruled that a ta ble fork Is not a deadTy weapon.' "Tne table fork Is used for purely ornamen tal purposes in Texas. These unusually severe thunder storms hereabouts must be simply reverberations of Japanese artillery practice up In the clouds. Ambassador Reld is said to be tired of his London post. It Is no violation of confidence to state that Senator De pew"" 'vbuld accept the place. Secretary Taft says there is no graft at Panama. The evidence seems to be conclusive that Panama is different from any other part of the country. The Congo country has no objection to Belgium, but draws the line against annexation to King Leopold. The Congo Is becoming wise, If not civil ized. If the offlelaU of the Tobacco trust cannot be sent to Jail they might be punished by being compelled to smoke some of the cigars they put on the market. "I am rapidly becoming more con servative," says Colonel Bryan. It will be Jut bis luck to become real conservative and then discover that the people have become radical. Judge Highly of Oklahoma City has decided that if the girl Is willing a man may bug nor at any time or place without fracturing community peace. Oklahoma la still bidding for Immi gration. Governor Vardaman says he would rather live with Jeff Davis under tbe Btara and bars than with Prealdent Roosevelt under the Btara and stripes. It must be said for Vardaman that he seem to know hla place. Th membership committee of the Commercial dub has set Its counting machine for the 1,000 mark. With local business conditions as prosper ouB.aa they are that ought to be a comparatively easy task. "We have money enough to move the crop," says the St. Louis Post Dispatch. ' That's good. When Wall street get ready with, its annual ap peal for money to move the crops the application can be made to the Post Dispatch instead of to the Treasury department at Washington. The Topeka Herald, one of th brightest papers of the Kansas capital, has suspended, and all because the people persisted ta believing the paper was controlled. If not owned, by spe cial railroad and other corporation In terests. The Chicago Chronicle re cently died from a similar complaint. The brass-collared editor bas outlived bis ksefulness. PITT THE POOR TAX ttCFEA VCRA TS, The tart bureaucrats of tho railroads doing business in Nebraska are ttytng desperately to earn their money and make James J. Hill and E. H. Harrl man believe that they are a necessary j and profitable adjunct of every well equipped railroad. The only way they can Justify their retention and lay the foundation for future recogni tion In the form of increased pay is to enable the railroads to escape their fair share of taxes. The fertile brains of the tax bureaucrats ' never cease working at new scheme to accomplish this laudable object. Formerly the railroads used to keep their assessments down by controlling the assessing boards, . currying friend ship with free passes and campaign contributions, if not by more insidious inducements. Later they tried the method of refusing to pay their taxes and appealing to the federal courts to help them out. Their latest plan of operations Is by filing protests against the assessment returns for the whole state and asking the State Board of Equalization to raise the value of all property not owned by the railroads 20 to 30 per cent on these general ac cusations. These successive steps ar all part of the same game of railway tax shirk ing. The request to increase the as sessment of the state as a whole Is the same thing as the request already denied to lower the assessment of the railroads. The State Board of As sessment, which fixed the railway val uation, Is made up of the same mem bership as the State Board of Equali zation, which passes on the grand as sessment roll, and having threshed this question out once, the ntembers of the board will doubtless know how to deal with the tax-shirking rail roads' new remonstrance upon Its merits. THE FJJfA KCIAL TEST. The best proof of the shallowness of all this talk of a war between the United States and Japan Is found lu. the quotations In the world's money markets. Capital Is proverbially timid, but European capital Is posi tively cowardly and hides at each hint of international complications that have the remotest basis in fact. An uprising In the Transvaal or India would send British consols down a few points and French bonds would fluctuate like the thermometer in April with every report of trouble In Morocco, the Congo or In any other country In which French Interests He. Russian securities, held In Paris, Ber lin and London, bob up or down every time a bomb la thrown at a grand duke or some of the czar's loving sub jects go out and sack a town or start a mutiny in the army. Japan has had experience with bonds and their relation to operations In the field:' Japanese BeturUles.went up or down during that long siege at Port Ar thur and In the Manchurlan campaign, the ticker bounding with rumored vic tories and scurrying to cover with each hint of reverses to tbe mlkado'a forces. In the present flurry the stock mar kets of Europe and America show that Japanese bonds hae been unin fluenced by loose-tongue talk of con flict between Japan and the United States. Japan has Issued bonds for nearly $1,000,000,000, at interest varying from 4 to 6 per cent, and the 6 per cent Issues are In good demand In all the financial centers of tbe world at about par. They have not fluc tuated at all during the war scare. If there bad been at any time any basis for the war rumors, the Japanese bonds would have gone tumbling in the world's markets. The country need not worry about a war' so long as the ticker refuses to be scared. DISTRIBUTING THE 1MM10RAXT8. The division of Information of the Bureau of Immigration at Washington has adopted a plan which promises to be of real value to the employers of the country and to do much toward solving the problem of a proper dis tribution of Immigrant labor, which bas been and is one of the greatest difficulties to be contended with In the entire Immigrant question. Its chief, Mr, Powderly, has directed a letter to employers of labor throughout the country requesting them to provide his division with any Information In their posse salon that may be of value to the work he is directing. In the letter he says: W wish to know how many men you can find employment for, the class or clse of labor required, wage paid, whether you provide quarter for work men, and. If o, the kind and rent of aame; whether head of famine or single men would be preferred; also th nation ality or nationalities beat calculated to do the work In hand. We submit th fore going a a basis for your reply, but leave it to you to supply any other Information you wish. If strike, lockouts, boycotts, or blacklist ar In progress or contem plated, w would appreciate facts concern ing aame. It Is perhaps a little astonishing that some plan of this kind wbb not adopted long ago by the Immigration authorities. The congestion of immi grants In the large cities has been a social and Industrial menace for many years, during all of which there has been a constant and growing demand from all sections of the country for more laborers. The arriving laborers usually expect to find work as soon as they leave th decks of their ships, and they linger In New York and other ports largely because of Inability to reach tbe fields awaiting them or lg norance as to the need of their serv Ices elsewhere. Employers through' out the country should be prompt In giving tbe Information requested. It promises to be of mutual advantage to the employers, the Immigrants, the l-ureau at Washington and the cities in which Immigrants now congest the ' tenement districts because they do not know what else to do. The Informa tion concerning the class of labor re quired may save much confusion, an noyance and loss by preventing me chanics from being sent to the wheat fields and agricultural laborers to the factories. Co-operation In the plan will make the immigration bureau something better than a detective corpH, charged with the duty of ln spiTtlrg; immigrants for Infectious dis eases and concealed weapons. OUT BEADY tVR THE DRAFT- In the face of the proclamation of war with Japan tired off by the mili tary editor of the World-Herald, noth ing remains for the good people of Omaha but to get ready for the draft. Although the double-shotted editorial has been condensed to single column measure, the situation Is none the less serious and critical. A terrible con dition has been laid bare by the dis covery through long distance tele scope, sighted from one of the signal corps balloons at Fort Omaha, that 9,000 Japanese veterans of tho war with Russia are now stationed along the Mexican border and that 30,000 Japanese, many of whom have arms, are within the confines of the United States well up toward the southwest ern corner. "It sounds like wild talk," admits the World-Herald's military expert, but he gravely asks himself, "Are they coming as farmers and laborers, as they seem, or are they coming because they are sent?" We await the answer In breathless expectancy. But, worse than that, the "highest authorities" are on record that "Japa nese with cameras have been detected In the neighborhood of military bases In various sections, including Omaha." Of course, all of this "seems prepos terous at first blush." The World Herald's military expert, however, has blushed several times and sagely con cludes that this "Justifies the suspi cion" that something is "barely possi ble." In which we all concur. The only reassuring circumstance of the whqle situation is that the World-Herald's military editor has fortified himself with chasse-pots, Ink pots and paste pots and Is confident he can withstand the siege no matter how long relief may be delayed. The county board Is said to be get ting ready to demand payment from the cities of Omaha and South Omaha for boarding prisoners sentenced to the county Jail for infractions of city Ordinances Involving something like $40,000. The sheriff's Jall-feedlng graft, which has mulcted the county for about twice what the cost of prison board should be, has correspondingly Inflated this claim of the county against the city. When the Jall-feed lng graft shall have been abolished and the meals furnished by contract, the city will share the benefits of tho long delayed reform the same aa the county. When the Independent Telephone franchise was pending The Bee placed ltbelf squarely against any franchise privileges for a period longer than twenty-five years and the telephone franchise was promptly curtailed from fifty years to twenty-five years. Wfcat applies to the city applies equally to the county. No franchise right should be granted under any pretext exceed ing twenty-five years. The fact that the people have made mistakes In the past by giving long time or perpetual franchises Is no excuse for repeating the mistake now. The revenues of the school district of Omaha during the last fiscal year foot up over $700,000, none of which came as proceeds of bond sales. The expenditures of the school district are more than two-thirds of the expendi tures of the city, although the propor tion of the money raised by taxation Is considerably smaller. The school budget plainly otters a wide field for careful financiering. Attorney General Thompson has ruled that no name can go on more than one primary election ballot be cause no person can affiliate with two political parties at the same time. Preposterous! Every fusion candi date, for office In Nebraska since free silver daya has ridden both horses even when going In opposite directions. Edward M. Shepard proposes to hsve tbe stock of corporation divided into a certain number of shares with out par value. Mr. Shepard may be accommodated In Wall street or on the mining exchanges, where he can find all kinds of stocks without par or any other value. The new primary election law re quires a filing fee of $10 for each candidate's name to go on the official primary ballot. It remains to be seen whether the socialists will again con test this feature of the law on the ground that It keeps them off the ballot. The Pullman company Is said to be willing to compromise Its differences with the Interstate Commerce commis sion. The company will probably agree to put another stepladder In each car for use of the upper berth patrons. When the 2-cent fare law was up before the legislature tbe railroad spokesmen declared that such a law would be all right for densely popu lated states like Pennsylvania and New York, but was altogether unjust for a sparsely populated state like Ne braska. The railroad magnates down east, however, will not even admit that a 2-cent fare Is all right In Penn sylvania and New York, which again convicts the western "lawyers and sub ordinates" . of misrepresentation, If not prevarication. A new commandant for the High school cadets has been duly, commis sioned by the school board. It is to . , , . . , , I be hoped the board will have better luck this time than it has had In this connection on one or two previous oc caslona. President Roosevelt has not made the railroads feel any more kindly to ward him by his action in turning back to the federal treasury some $lS,0yO0 which congress appropriated for bis traveling expenses. Peary threatens to make his dash for the North Pole with an insufficient stock of provisions, If the $100,000 he needs Is not contributed promptly. Peary has been credited with being a daring, not a daffy, explorer. Buuqnets for Reporters. Baltimore American. There I no proof that the maxim "The pen I mlghter than the sword'' has been translated Into the Japanese language, but Judging from Admiral Yamamoto's remark to the newspaper men upon landing he seems to have heard about It. An Instructive Finish. ( Washington Herald. 11 r. Carnegie says It Is a disgrace to die rich, and Dr. Wiley says It Is a disgrace to die under 100. The public will watch with great Interest the finish of these em inent gentlemen before deciding that they are physicians willing to take their own medicine. (nlllnt Out (onalltatlonal Novelties. New York Tribune. Ret and reflection seem to have done t$e Oklahoma constitutional convention a great deal of good. It Is now taking the bark track on some of its novelties In legal and constitutional science. The new state ought to be content to begin hourekeeplng In a modest, decorous and non-sensatlonal way. Seeking; the I nattalnable. " Philadelphia Press. Colonel Bryan declared In hi last Chau tauqua speech that the democratic party united would surely, win the next presiden tial election. Doe Cononel Bryan know any one who can unite the party? There Isn't (he least chance that any one will bo able to do It as long a Colonel Bryan I In good working order. Hope of tho Harvest. Wall Street Journal. The most censorious can find nothing to quarrel with In the railroad earnings. These are wonderfully , well maintained, while there seem no question that many in- i dustrlal concerns recorded In the last quar ter the best three months' showing) of their existence. Consumer of copper are In clined to hold off and there 1 a little simi lar hesitation traceable among purchasers of manufactured etcel. The business of the country, however, continues large, while every day lnce the government crop report was compiled has probably helped cereals and cotton.. It need hardly be Bald again how aorely we aced at present such con vertible wealth as. the harvest represent. Hlatorte "Stnr-apang-led Banner." New York Tribune. The placing on public exhibition of the very flag which Inspired the writing of "The Star Spangled Banner" Is an agree able incident, both because of the vener able and precious character of the rello and because of Its historic lnstructlveneis. We have for three generations been a accustomed to the flag of thirteen stripe that few ever .think, and, Indeed, many do now know, that the "broad stripes" which "through the perilous fight o'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly trenmlng" were not thirteen, but fifteen stripes which wai displayed on "Old Iron- aides" and all through some of the most heroic passages in our history. THE LATE COLONEL HOGELAD. Tribute to the I.lfe Work of News boys' Friend. Springfield (Mass) Republican. A word of comment Is In order upon th death, some little time ago. In a littl room In a hotel In Omaha of Colonel Alex- der Hogeland of Kentucky, who gave up forty year of his life to advocating th curfew law and to friendly oversight and care for newsboys and other lads who were In the way of finding the wrong kind of training In th eltv atrets In this work during the prosecution of which Colonel Hogeland went from city to city all over the country, he spent what money he pos sessed, and then continued to work In straitened circumstances, Individuals who appreciated Colonel Hogeland' desire to miske good men out of the boy of th streets sent him money now and then, and ha managed to live and continued hi labors, for hi personal want were few. It will be remembered that Springfield adoption of the curfew bell was the result of a visit from Colonel Hogeland. He was a man of education and refinement, with a good record of service In the civil war, and he had engaging personal qualities that appealed to boy, Thar I no record of the number of street boy who owed their start in life to this man, who pasaed away at the age of 75 year, but there must have been very many such. PACKER AND RAXCHMAX. Stock Yards Contreveray Viewed at Distance. New York Tribune. Th difficulties of "drawing the Una some where" are beautifully Illustrated In the so-called "post-mortem inspection" con troversy now raging between the llv tork eommlsaslon men and the meat packer. The packer have been demanding the privilege of being excused from paying for cattle found after slaughter to be dis eased. The ranchmen and their commis sion agents object to this, urging that the packers have no reason to demand mor than a rigid ante-mortem' Inspection and the right to tag all suspected cattle and turn them over to the government Inspec tors, to be handled for the account of the owner on the same terms on which diseased cattle are now handled. The rule of th caveat emptor I hard to apply here satisfactorily, because of th long range of the modern microscope. Shall a diseased steer be one who manifest some symptom of decrepitude while (till a sleerf Or shall It be onejwllose carcass, under th Argus eyes of the biological mlscro scope, Is found tainted with wicked bacilli T Or shall It be one which cause gout In the granchlldren of thoae who eat of It? If the pure food theory la applied consistently, the packer ought to be re lieved of the trouble of paying for cattle causing 111 health at any point In hlatory. This goes to prove that pur food cannot 1 b manufactured aad ud by purs reason. ROI XD ABOI'T NKW YORK. Ripple on the torrent ofI.lfe In th Metropolla. Bunches of money from the treasury of Greater New York look mighty gocd to land owner of th right-of-way for th Catakllt mountain water route which the city ha started. So good In fact that they can't get too much of It. One owner of a farm of 240 acre, bought for less than $6,000 Just, before the official map of the route was riled, wants the city to hand him $.45,00n for ten and a half acres of this prle property. As a meai rf fortifying his claim the owner has lad over th aqueduct route on his farm a V i i Mj auurutii i runic uri lie cordurov wlth ra. tak en from some Jur.k pile, and locally known as th Holdup A Sklncm traction system. It starts In a gully and endr at the top of a knoll. Besides the railroad the owner exploits a "Medicated spring" wh'ch he believe will help soothe hi Itching plam. "The whole bualnea would be farcical," say the New York Tribune, "but for th fact that Mayor McClellan, Corporation Counsel Pendleton and Henry T. Dykman, counsel specially retained to protect the city's Interests In Westchester and Putnam counties, have learned beyond the shadow of a doubt that there I a movement amounting to a practical conspiracy nn foot among certain lawyer to compel the city to pay extortionate prices for right-of-way along the Catsklll aqueduct." The rascals who tamper with the food products even In the face" of stringent laws and vigorous prosecutions, are at 111 active, and heavy fine are staring some of them In the face. A lot of dealer whose product go to all classes of people have been detected In the adulteration of cream by the wholessle. They purchase light cream by the forty gallon can and ad to It enough gelatine to give It the appearance of heavy cream; not only adulterating, but adding to the bulk. This mixture is put up In jars, and de livered to the consumers as rich, butter fat cream. A New Jersey dealer has been arrested by the stale Department of Agriculture on the charge of selling oleomargarine for pure butter to restaurants and boarding house keepers at Coney Island and at other places on Long Island. This butter Imita tion Is absolutely forbidden to be sold un der the laws of the state of New York, even though It be plainly marked for what It is. w It was In th Rlalto, where are to be seen thousands of those unfortunate ship that pass In the night, at a point whera every man Is likely to be accosted by wan dering objects. A blind mendicant, crippled and with death's pallor on his brow, sat on the sidewalk turning an old hurdy-gurdy. Women stopped snd listened as th beggar sang an accompaniment to the tune he was playing, lped away a tear, threw a coin Into his tin cup and then hastened along. Here Is what he sang and played: Just tell them that you saw me. And they will-know the rest. Just tell them that I'm looking well, you know. And whisper. If you get a chance, To mother dear and say I love her as I did long year ago. The Ellnd Men' club of New York City holds a meeting twice each month. It Is made up not only of those who cannot see, but has an associate membership open to those who can see who desire to be of financial aid to the organization. The secretary Is a blind man, who keep his records by what Is known as the "New York point," which consists of pricking cardboards with an Instrument resembling an awl. The reader passes hi finger tips over the raised portion, which he trans lates with ease. The club la talking of a house con structed especially for their needs. In which the member can enjoy the benefit of a gymnasium, swimming pool, reading room, etc. Said a man who was' present at a recent meeting of the club: "The mem ber crave companionship. The club grati fies the craving. "One of the peculiar sights of a gath ering of the organization la to see blind men during the Intermission feeling their way up and down th aisles of the hall, and calling out th name of friends to ascer tain if they are present. "A meeting of the Club 1 beyond doubt a bright spot In the lives of men who lt In darkne." With all the hue and cry about the In flux of Italian Immigrant on Is inclined to estimate the number of sons of Saturnta, Oenotrla, Auaonla and Hesperla now In America high In the million; and It Is, Indeed, surprising to learn that we have with us all told fewer than '," Italians. These fellow eorr her to work. They enter walks of life whichmany other for eigners sneer at, but they hustle and get there In the end. While the Greeks. are gradually crowding them out of the fruit business In New York and other large cities, the Italian always finds something to do, and doe It. All he demands Is a good bos and prompt pay. Properly treated he 1 as willing as a dog to do his tunt. Take him all In all he has become J.acf0TJn our nnereial life. New York 1 fairly alive with Italian barbers. These men are active, polite and competent. They will start a shop with one chair and In a few years have ten chair, with a long string of regular cus tomer dancing attendance. A a rule they are too smart to play favorites. Each eua. tomer In hi turn, regardless of wealth, ! creed or class. An Italian who came here j fourteen year ago with nothing but grit ; and a clean desire to get along has made himself so popular and successful, that he I the foremoat bidder for the two big barber shops to be opened In th Manhat tan1 Terminal building. Just now there I an epidemic of visitors In the financial district, and they do not all arrive by the sightseeing wagons, by any maans. The aubtreasury I mor of a Mecca for these pilgrim than th Stock exchange. Every oourtesy I shown to vis itor In that Institution, and they receive much valuable Information and many di rection. Occasionally a particularly green speci men falls Into the hand of th Philistines, or rank outsider who happen to be on the step of the (ubtreasury or In th corri. dor. One such couple was In th hands of a broker' clerk a day or ago. who pent about twenty minute pointing out In tho paaalng crowd all th Wall street no table of whom they had ever heard. Wall of a Pinched Smoker. St. Loul Republic. Havana' striking cigarmaker hav se cured a ralae In wage, which mean that cigars will cost more money. Thl will be a great benefit to those abstemious person who ar getting rich by saving st th rata of what they would spend If they were smoking. To us weaker and Indulgent mortal less frugal It will mean either that we content ourselves with a poorer quality of the filthy weed at the same old price or that we stick to the old brand at th ex pense of moving Into neighborhood where we ran save more money on rent. rwrlas th Trent Habit. Indianapolis New. Th Ohio method of busting a trust by sentencing th member of It to six month In th workhouse look If It ought to be pretty effective, though, of course, It take all th humor out of th situation from th trust point of view. Women Avoid Operations When a woman sufferlrtf; from female trouble Is told that an oper ation ie necessary, It, of course, frlgjitens her. The very thought of the hospital, the operating- table and the knife strikes terror to her heart. It Is quite true that these troub les may reach a stage where an ope ration Is the only resource, but a great many women have been cured by Lydia E. Ptnkhams Vegetable Compound after an operation has been decided noon as the only eure. The strongest and most grateful statements possible to make come from women who by taking; Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound jmade from native roots and herbs, have escaped serious operations, aa evidenced by Mlas Rose Moore's case, of 807 W. 6th St., N.Y. She wrl test Dear Mrs. Plnkham:-,'Lvdla E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has eured ms of the very worst form of female trouble and I wish to express to you my deepest gratitude. I suffered intensely for two years so that I was unable to attend to nay duties and was a burden to my family. I doctored and doctored with only temporary relief and constantly objecting to an operation which I was advised to undergo. I decided to try Lydia E. Plnkham s Vegetable Compound; nod I am now la better health than ' This and other such cases should dia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound before she submits to an operation. Mrs. Pinkham'5 Standing Invitation to Women Women sufferinfr from any form of female weakness are invited to nromutlv communicate with Sirs. Pinkham. at Lynn, Mass. From the symptoms given, the trouble may be way of recovery advised. WORDS AND MELODY OF SOIVO. fine of Composers Overshadowed in Public. Estimation. Boston Transcript. Now that Washington has received the dug at Fort McHenry that Inspired Francis Scott Key t write the poem, "The 8tar Bpangled Banner," let us hope that It will not forget the composer of that melody which had been sung to the words of "To Anacreon In Heaven" for forty years be fore Key received his Inspiration. Because It was a popular melody Key directed his words to be sung to It. Good authority attribute the melody to John Stafford Smith, an English composer famous for his catches and glees. Until Key selected It as the musical vehicle for hi verses, "To Anacreon In Heaven" was regarded a the choicest "selection" for after-dinner choris ter, because everybody knew It. It trlkes us that composers faro rather hard In the popular adoration of certain melodies that become national, for while everybody re calls the words few remember the name or recognize the talent of the music maker. The words of "Home, Sweet Home" are not beyond the capabilities of the most commonplace rhymester. Everybody attrib ute "Home, Sweet Home" to John Howard Payne, Insensibly confounding the poem and the melody. It Is the equlslte beauty of the latter that has made "Home. Sweet Home" the hymn of the Anglo-Saxon. Sir Henry Bishop solemnly affirmed that he "composed" It and certainly It Immediately attained an Immense vogue In London when sung as a solo In his opera of "Clarl, or the Maid of Milan," produced In 1823. PER SON AI, NOTES. In one of his pert paragraph Henry Wat terson affirms that John D. Rockefeller Is "the most distinguished knownothlng party" of modern times. The board of director of the National Education association have voted to re sume the spelling of the word "through," "though" nd "thorough." Who will carry the new to Oyster Bay. We note, with pleasure and congratula tions, the wedding. In Kansas, of Mr. Singer and Miss Nightingale. This Is pecu liar, because the lady Is the first night ingale we evr heard of who whs not a lnger to start with. The Thaws have sold 1,000 acre of rich coal -land for $2,000,000, to raise mnniy further to defend Harry Thaw, for firing a pistol, with fatal effect, under peculiar circumstances. "Behold how great a matter a little Are klndleth." The date for tho dedication of the Mc Klnley monument, at Buffalo, N. Y.. ha been fixed for September 6. Governor Hughe and hla staff will be Invited, and various other Ktate and national dignitaries, both military and civil. Prof. Frit Knorr, of the Colorado Agri cultural college-, haa found tobacco grow. Ing wild In the Montexuma valley of that state. He believes that tobacco was raised extenalvely In tho Montezuma valley years ago by the cliff dwellera. The czar and czarina of Russia ara both extremely fond of music. Prof, l.eopold Auer, the Russian court vlol'nlst, says that the czarina I a gifted pianist, nd tht her majeaty play the piano so well that If she were In another suheri of life and became a professional she would win great fame. It I reported that Senator Bacon of Georgia, now the leading democrat In the senate on question of fore'gn policy, has lost all or nearly all of the modest fortune he had saved. He wa said to be worth bout 176,01 A half of which was Invested in a bank In Macon. Ga., which has now failed so disastrously that It Is feared that stockholder must be heavily assessed In order to pay the depositors. The attempted escape of Oeronlmo bring to light the fact that since hi Involuntary close touch with modern elvl'lsitlon Lo, the poor Indian, Is feeling the we'glit of soma of th white men's burdsn. HI eighth wife ha left htm. no pardon fol lowed hi conversion to th president church and th rellgloua elomrnt both of the white and hla own people who might do him some good have Incontinently taken offense at hi drinking too much to par ticipate In temperano service. Still Going On UR semi-annual clearing sale of spr'ng and summer clothing is still going on now is the time to get fitted out for your vacation trip. 20 discount on all men's, boys and children's light weight clothing, this in cludes everything in the house in spring and'summer clothing. YV Close Saturday Cvanlng at 9 O'clock Browning, King & Co R. S. WILCOX, Manager. MISS ROSE MOORE It cured roe of the terrible trouble I have been for many vears." encourage every woman to try Ly located and the quickest and surest RESTRICTION OF BILLBOARDS. Victory for Herniation Scored Is m DalTalo Conrt. New York Outlook. The campaign for the restriction of th bill-board evil ha scored a great victory In the opinion delivered lately by Judge Har.ee of the fntted State district court at Buffalo. For several years Corporation Counsel Dlesbecker of Buffalo ha been seeking to give force and effect to the or dinance which prohibits and punishes th erection of bill-boards of upwards of a , height of seven feel. One concern ha been lighting the legislation, as It ha all such legislation everywhere. In the suit which It brought, Judge Ilazee handed down a decision holding that the ordinance 1 a valid exercise of the city police power and that Its enforcement does not Interfere with the constitutional rights of the com pany. Moreover, ho goes further, and de clares that the Judgment In the state court rendered some time since la a bar to the maintenance of the suit In the federal court and Is one to which the court 1 bound to give the same effect as the court of the state would give It. It Is a signifi cant and suggestive victory for the people. KLASIIKS OF VI S. "If these trousers don't fit." said Mr. Meekuni, "my wife will send nie back with them." "Why, I supposed they were fqr you," said the tailor, wrapping them up. Chicago Tribune. Snoggs My daughter Is going to marry young Scroggs. Boggs Why, I thought you hated him. Snoggs I io. This Is a scheme of mine to have my wife become his mother-in-law. Cleveland Leader. "Remarkable phenomenon in our neigh- Dornnoq mis morning. "SoT" "Yep. The Ice man left hailstones es as b as hen s eggs! Cleveland Leader. Aa the Ark floated on the flrat waters of the deluge Noah slammed and locked the door with such .evident aatlnractlon that Mr1. Noah., naturally Hsked what we Hie matter. "I have antedated the twentieth century." chuckled the patriarch; "I have qiieerel the L'mbrella trutit." Baltimore American. Othello had Just smothered Desdomon with a pillow. "And yet," he testified, "she uad to swathe herself In three nuto veils and de clare that the air was fine." Herewith all awreed thai the episode wa accidental. Harper's Hazar. Thla Is the conversation that took Plana i over the wire aa reported by the girl at the central station: I "Say, Orace, I want to explain " ' "Who la this?" j "This is Tom." "Well, meet me face to face If you've got anything to say to me. CJood liyel" Chicago i rinune. IN THE li.ltillT. Chicago Post. When the children coiiiO home In twi light, come home from the field and the street, Come home irom the patha that have tempted the reckleaaly brave little feet, Come home from the aun and the shadow, come home with their laughter )r tears, They ilnd In the home place a balsam for all of their freta and their fears. The lamplight gives all of them welcome; not one will be turned from the door; Their footsteps make merriest music ai soft they trip on the floor, And sheltering arms creep around them and fingers of love drive away The stains of the tears and the frowning that somehow have come wlU tit day. And sll of the children they know ft, they knew that when tlllaht com , With stars creeping out through the hazes. w hen all of the le s hush their hum. When over the hills and the valle eih bird flutter home to Its nest. They know that the playtime I ended, that home and Ita shelter la best. And some have been given to mischief, and some have been truant and wrong, And some have been gentle and k'nlly and cheery, with laughter and eong But they that were bad aro forgiven, and tiiey that e good given pralne, And all ore rejoiced when they K'Uher at home through their dovli.ua way. I wonder and wonder and wonder If we with our codes and our creeds. If we with our Jeers and our Julenv n'S of words and of dreams and of deeds, Will find when we c.irne In the twilight, a-neary of life and Its way. That we come as good and bad children creep home at the end of the duy.