THE OMAHA DAILY BEE- FRIDAY, JULY 10. 1007.
Tiir, Omaha Daily Bee
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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
Stale of Nebraska, Dmiglas county, ss:
Chariot C. Hosewster general manager
of The Bee Pub!lshin Company, being
duly sworn, says that tho actual number
of full and complete copies of The Dally,
Morning, E'en1rjr and Sunday Bee printed
during tha month of June, JW7, was as
follows:
1 38,830 IT 36,480
t 35,800 It 8,490
t 38,630 19 36,480
4 36,890 20 36,310
6 36,410 21 36.020
6 36,810 12 36,810
7 36 630 22 38,730
36,800 24 36,900
9 38,900 25 38,880
10 38,860 24........ 36,680
11 36,930 2? 36,670
12 36,830 28 36,470
38,840 2 3660
14 36,930 20 38,980
16 37,170'
16 38,800 Total. . .1,094,820
. Leas unsold and returned copies. . 10,389
Net total 1,083,831
Dally araraga 36,137
CUihLa.B ROSEWATER,
General Manager.
Subscribed In my presence and sworn to
before ma this lat day of July, 1907.
(Seen) M. B. HUNUATE,
Notary Public
WHEN OUT OP TOWN.
f barrlbera leaving; the city tern
norarlly should kave Tha Be
uail4 to then. Address will be
ehaagrd aa eftem as requested.
What about that long promised new
mllUou-dollar fireproof hotel?
Cuban workmen are to be paid lu
American money, but the flag does not
always follow the dollar.
The Tobacco trust Is making over
tures for a pipe of peace smoke with
the Department of Justice.
Robert Plgg has been convicted of
highway robbery in Kansas and, of
course, will be sent to the pen.
That trial will soon be over at Boise
and the country Is still more or less in
the dark as to what It was all about.
"Because" is about the best answer
to questions why the United States is
pending a fleet of battleships to the
raclflc.
Prof. Starr of the University of Chi
cago declares that dog meat is as pala
table as mutton. lie is welcome to
our share.
President Fallleres must be glad to
know that the French anarchists are
no better marksmen than the profes
sional duelists of Paris.
1 John Sharp Williams, the minority
leader in congress, calls upon the dem
ocrats to "emphasize the things we
agree upon." What are they?
Havana cigar makers have won their
fight to be paid in American money.
They will probably continue to make
the Havana cigars of American to
bacco. -
Diplomatic negotiations have re
stored peace between Panama and Co
lombia one more. These countries
are always friendly when both are
broke.
The weather man who is predicting
a mild, pleasant October for this year
apparently . forgets that the second
Thaw trial Is scheduled for that
month. '
Colonel Watterson may continue to
talk about his presidential dark horse,
but at the proper time the democratic
party will bo found following the same
old donkey.
Colonel Bryan's criticism of the new
senator from Alabama is explained
The new senator is outspoken in bis
opposition to government ownership
of railroads.
President Winchell of the Rock
Island says the railroads are going to
abolish their lobby. The people and
the- legislatures beat the railroads to
It In most of the states.
Sixty-five lives have been lost in
gunnery practice on American war
ships in the last five years. There
was but one fatality in the naval bat
tle In the war with Spain.
Moorflcld Story and Irving Winslow
will b grieved to learn that the Fill
pinos are making it plain that they
would stand by the United States In
case of a war between this nation and
Japan.
Sheriff McDonald has been so ac
customed to padding his bills for Jail
feeding that he has again been filing
claims under oath for keeping state
prisoners at prices In excess of what
the law allows. It Is about time to
clean the gratters out of the sheriff's
fflce
what rutr ahc cnjr.vw at.
Because the railroads are putting in
interstate 2-cent fares for passengers
traversing the states in which 2-cent
faro laws have been enacted does not
mean that they have concluded to ac
cept the situation and to submit to
rate reduction. On the contrary, the
offer of 2-cent interstate fares, it
rightly understood, is simply one pre
liminary step for contesting all the 2
cent fare laws. This is clearly shown
by a confidential letter published in
the Railway Ago, written by the gen
eral agent of the Southwestern passen
ger mileage bureau, with special refer
ence to the 2-cent fare law in Missouri,
In which he says:
It Is particularly desired that. In a con
fidential way, you should bring this matter
to the attention of your lines, In order that
they may arrange to have Interstate fares,
baaed on the supplements to the various
Missouri rate sheets, which are now being
Issued, put Into effect and used In the pub
lication of Interstate fares from points in
the territory under your jurisdiction at tha
earliest possible moment.
Tha 2-cent fare law In the state of Mis
souri Is on trial for period of ninety days
and It Is the opinion of the counsel and
managing officers that, unless interstate
fares to and through Missouri are reduced
at as early a date as possible, tho business
passing through Missouri naturally will do
so upon local tickets, thus unduly Increas
ing the earnings of the lines under the
local Missouri 2-cent law.
The Railway Age, which voices the
railroad side of all these controversies,
adds for Itself that, as the 2-cCnt fares
have been put in effect in the various
states, other reduced rates have been
abolished, and that the object In doing
so is to make a fair test of the effect
of the rates exactly as they are pre
scribed by law.
The public should understand that
the railroads granting 2-cent"lnterstate
rates apparently of their own accord
are not acting as philanthropists or as
public benefactors, nor "even because
convinced that it Is the better business
policy, but simply for the purpose of
retaining within interstate classifica
tion travel that might be diverted to
Intrastate classification by people tak
ing advantage of the laws governing
local passenger rates.
The railroad lawyers were sadly dis
appointed when the returns from pas
senger business under 2-cent fare laws
showed up bigger than they had been
previous to the enactment of thpse
lawj. They will again be disappointed
if the reduced interstate rate shows
that tha railroads can still make a
fair profit on the business because of
increased travel. Should they, how
ever, be able to draw the shadow of
an argument from impaired passenger
receipts at the reduced rates they will
be promptly in court asking to have
all the 2-cent fare legislation set aside,
and they will raise their Interstate
rates again at the first excuse.
I -
, THE DEMOCRATIC ISSUES.
Congressman John Sharp Williams
of Mississippi, leader of the minority
in the bouse of representatives and
candidate for election to the United
States senate, has Just issued a stir
I ring appeal to democrats to get to
gether and iorm a compact, ngnling
organization for work in the next
presidential campaign. His plan for
this Is simple and, if adopted, would
doubtless be very effective. He de
clares that all that is necessary is for
'the democracy to emphasize the
things we agree upon and forget the
things we do not agree upon." As
soon a4 that is done, in the opinion
of Mr. Williams, the beginning of the
end of republican party rule will be
marked.
Granting, for the sake of argument,
that it would be possible for the dem
ocrats to follow Mr. Williams' advice
and forget the things they do not
agree upon an exceedingly long list
it would be Interesting to observe
their effort to "emphasize the things
they agree upon." Where will the
start be made? The old state's rights
doctrine has held the remnants of the
party together In many a crisis when
the members differed on almost every
other Issue of dissension in the ranks.
Mr. Bryan favors the national child
labor bill, which southern democratic
leaders denounce as the most danger
ous attack yet made on the cherished
doctrine of state's rights. This Is
clearly one of the things that can not
be "emphasized" in the proposed har
mony meeting of the democracy.
The democrats can see breakers
ahead in any effort to emphasize the
party position on railroads and trusts.
The rank and file of the party through
out the country is making little effort
to withhold Us approval of President
Roosevelt's course and policy on those
subjects. Mr. Bryan, however, has
declared that the proper regulation of
the railway can come only through
government ownership, and every
democrat in the nation who has influ
ence enough to command a hearing
has voiced an indignant protest against
that proposition.
Free silver and antl-ImperlalUm are
too dead for even "emphasis" pur
poses and Colonel Bryan's initiative
and referendum proposition Is making
but feeble headway against adverse
winds. The tariff is about the only
issue of general interest left, and on
that the democrats are hopelessly
d (Tided. Mr. Cleveland wants tariff
reform made the paramount Issue, and
tor that reason. If for no other. Mr.
Bryan places it in about third or
fourth place among things he would
emphasise. Louisiana protests against
any change in the tariff on sugar
Texas clamors for protection for wool
and lumber. Alabama wants the duty
maintained on Iron and steel Mary
land and Virginia champion protection
for tobacco growers, and nearly every
state in the rejavenated south has
some special Interest which demands
protection through tariff laws for de
velopment. The outlook for the adoption of Con
gressman Williams' program is not en
couraging. Denunciation of the chinch
bug and the federal treasury surplus
are about the only things upon which
the democrats can agree and -emphasize.
LOYALTY OF THE FILWISOS.
The Filipino press, notably some of
the native newspapers not fully recon
ciled to the American occupation of
the islands, is taking an exceedingly
keen interest In the wholesale rumors
of war between the United States and
Japan, and, almost without an excep
tion, the editorial expressions of these
papers teem with evidence of loyalty to
the United States, In the event of a
possible conflict The situation is a
little remarkable, in view of the fact
that the Filipinos, like the Japanese,
are Malay descendants, among whom
racial feeling is usually rery strong.
Though torn bv factional dissensions,
they usually stand together like broth
ers in defense of race and racial in
terests.
These expressions from the Filipinos
are clearly due to the campaign of
education carried on since our first
occupancy of the archipelago. The
natives educated In the American
schools understand clearly the differ
ences between th9 government of the
United States and of other countries.
They have learned of Japanese
methods in Formosa, Corea and Man
churia and appreciate the fact that
Japanese possession or domination of
the islands would mean the absolute
elimination of the native Filipino In
governmental affairs. On the other
hand, the American administration
has provided for an election this
month of a native Filipino assembly
to give the Philippines a larger meas
ure of self-government than is enjoyed
by any colonial dependency except
possibly Canada and Australia. They
appreciate, also, that the formation of
the Filipino legislature is only the
forerunner of other plans which our
government has for granting more
complete autonomy. The showing of
loyalty to the United States is specially
gratifying, as indicating that the Fili
pinos understand the educational and
legislative experimental work being
done In their behalf too well to be de
ceived by Jlngolsts In Japan or in this
country.
THE SEW DEAL AT FA KAMA.
In a quiet but highly effective man
ner President Roosevelt and Secretary
Taft have accomplished an almost
complete reorganization of the official
forces on the Panama canal and have
adopted a hew system that promises
better results in expediting work with
a marked reduction in expenses. The
final vestige of the Sbonts regime has
been removed by a recent order ot the
president transferring the purchase of
materials and supplies for the Isth
mian Canal commission to the War
department. Under the old order
Chairman Shonta had organized a de
partment of purchase and supplies,
with a high-salaried chief and liberally
paid assistants, including disbursing
clerks, auditors and practically a
duplication of tho working force- re
quired for one of the big departments
of the government at Washington. All
thU work had to be andlted and su
pervised In the regular channels at
Washington, entailing a double ex
pense, which has now been eliminated.
As an illustration, the accounts of the
auditor of the canal commission, who
received a salary of $12,000 per an
num, were revised and audited by an
official ot the War department, who
receives $4,000 per "annum.
The new plans are admitted to be
more logical and workable than any
yet followed in the preliminary and
more or less experimental work of get
ting the canal enterprise under way.
Experienced army engineers in charge
have had their powers enlarged and
much has already been accomplished
toward removing the strange 'Incon
sistencies and peculiar situations
which have recurred periodically dur
ing the past few years In canal man
agement. Congress has been some
what restless from dissatisfaction
with the conduct of affairs on the
Isthmus, but has not interfered, chiefly
because the critics ot the methods em
ployed had nothing better to offer, and
were content to express their dissatis
faction of conditions without suggest
ing available remedies for the evils
decried. When the president and Sec
retary Taft next report to congress
they hope to show that the cause tor
criticism has been removed and that
a complete reorganization has been
effected on the isthmus.
There is no question but what the
democrats, who injected an amend
ment Into the direct primary law In
transit through the legislature,
thought they were opening the door
to perpetual 'fusion In Nebraska, but
whether they really opened the door
is not so clear. If a candidate for
nomination can affiliate with more
than one party, why cannot the lndl
vldual voter also affiliate with more
than one party and ask the primary
election officer for two ballots Instead
of one? A court decision on some ot
these mooted questions would not hurt
anything, anyway.
Members of tbe Omaha city council
say they 'will cot repeat the mistake
they made last year cf cutting down
the tax levy below actual requirements
for current expenses of municipal gov
ernment. They want to fix the tax
rate to raise $60,000 more than last
time. This Is going it a little strong.
Mayor "Jim"' may have something to
say about it before final action.
Water Commissioner 'Dave"
O'Brien has been having a loud time
in Philadelphia attending the big ses
sion of the Elks. "Dave" will not
havo nerve enough, however, to ask
the Water board to reimburse him for
his expenses on pretext that he is con
sulting Philadelphia engineers on the
subject of water supply.
Douglas county's assessment shows
an increase of almost 10 per cent on
the various items of personal prop
erty, which are subject to annual re
valuation. The increase made in the
tallroad assessment so far as this
county Is concerned does not put the
railroads at any serious disadvantage.
The democratic World-Herald has
discovered that Attorney General
Thompson "has writ himself down an
ass" by his "preposterous interpreta
tion" of the new primary law. Had
he only read the law the way tho dem
ocrats want him to read it he would
have been "a wise and learned Judge."
Cuban saloon keepers have been Im
posed upon by American soldiers who
have had their bar bills charged to
Mr. Carnegie, Mr. Rockefeller and
other American millionaires. As a re
sult of the swindle American million
aires will hereafter have to pay spot
cash for their drinks in Cuba.
Senator LaFollette declares that the
"country Is run by Chauncey Depew
and seventy-five other men, all bad."
This will be surprising news to Depew,
who has not, been able for several
years to get even a fourth-class post
master appointed.
-' ' i
Attorney Wright of the Water board
has charged the taxpayers up with $20
as his. expenses for two trips to Chi
cago. The railroads fare alone for
one trip to Chicago and return would
be $25.50. Wonder It he rode on tree
passes?
A Chicago millionaire has given a
trained nurse who attended him
through a serious Illness a check for
$5,000. Romance must be dead In
Chicago. A Pittsburg millionaire
would have married the nurse.
It transpires that our do-nothing
Water board in' carrying out its special
mission to force immediate compulsory
purchase of the water works has spent
about $50,000 to prevent immediate
compulsory purchase.
Judge Landls may be postponing
the assessment' of the fine on the
Standard Oil company until Secretary
Cortelyou can make a little more room
In the crowded vaults of the federal
treasury. ' 'i
Nature Deata the .Hydrant.
Chicago Record-Herald.
Tha man who last spring paid out good
money for sixty feet ot garden hose Is be
ginning to think that his Judgment was
poor.
A t'onrrete Fact.
Plttsbury Dispatch.
Nebraska's 23,000,000-bushel wheat crop Is
certainly worth more than Bryan's oratory
but It does not follow that It Is more Inter
esting, The wheat crop Is a concrete fact.
A Matter of Interest.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Japan certainly does not expect to bor
row money In this country to help hor to
fight us, but she probably thinks, and not
unnaturally, that some of our friends might
help her.
Is the Uniform the 'IhlngrT
Chicago Record-Herald.
An English military man says there will
be no more wars after soldiers quit wearing
uniforms. It Is not difficult to imagine that
tha recruiting offices would be rarely visited
If warriors had to parade in their every
day clothes.
A Georgia Hero.
New Tork Post.
While the aroma of the forty cocktails
is still distinctly discernible, Hoke Smith,
aa governor of Georgia, signs a prohibition
bill Involving a personal loss of $60,000. All
over the country we may now expect little
children under Instruction to look first at
this picture and then at this.
Suppression of Peonage.
Baltimore American.
The spirit which stirred the whole coun
try to "noble rage" at the oppression of
Cuba by Spain and which eventually led
to the freedom of the Islanders at the
hands of Americans, might wlth profit be
revived to some extent in the putting down
of peonage In our own country. Publlo
opinion Is hardly aroused enough, con
cerning this practical revival of slavery.
GETTING OCT Or rOLlTICI.
On Railroad Manager Thinks II
lias Had Enousvh.
Chicago Record-Herald.
President Winchell ot the Rock Island
railroad says that that corporation will
not oppose In the future legislative meas
ures and political action that It may con
sider detrimental to Its Interests. It will
leave legislatures alone and keep out of
politics. It will accept the laws passed
both by state legislatures and by congress
without protest and attempt to comply
with them, "believing that If we can show
that they are Inimical the people will make
the modification experience may suggest."
Such abstinence was never known In the
case of railroads or other corporations or
cttlsens generally. It la going beyond the
needs of the situation becuuse anyone who
has Interests Involved In legislation has a
right to be heard before legislative com
mittees. So revolutionary Is It that Its con
sequences can only be guessed at. If all
railroads adopted the plan It would not only
deprive the lobby of business, but make
many legislators wonder what their busi
ness was. Among those would be the j cHkyENNE, Wyo., July IS. (Special
specialists In regular bills who never Intend Telegram. ) Engine No. 1C42 on the t'nln
anything mora than a threat and a touch. pacino blew up this morning at Latham,
They could find no comfort In prui4als I e,t of here, killing an unknown man
which the railroads Would Ignore and their 1 wno wal riding with the crew and fatally
fellow legislators ridicule. Probably, there- ' njUred Robert C. Atkins, fireman; E. B.
fore, abstinence on, the one side would uny and Head Prakeman Charles How
promote abstinence on the other. Probably j r,i, all of Rawlins, Wyo. The unknown
the pssslvlty ot the roads would not only mn was Mown to pieces and the Injured
discourage the regulators, but diminish
the desire In all quarters for new legisla
tion, el rue prodding a nonreelster Is the
poorest sport In the world.
CONLEY AT THE CONVENTION
Says White Baptists Awaited Invita
tion from Colored Brethren.
FIRST DISTRICT MEETING ON
Dr. Conley Tells Delegates Character
and Colored People of the
West Will Solve the
Hare Problem.
The Initial proceedings of the fourth
annual session of the First District con
vention of the Colored Baptist church
began Thursday morning at Zlon church
Twenty-third and Grant streets, The open
ing addrers was delivered by President
T. U GrJ filths of Des Moines. Rev. O. W.
Wright, I). D., of Omaha made the address
of welcome on behalf of the state and city.
Rev. J. W. Conley, D. D., of the First
Baptist church of Omaha delivered the
address of welcome on behalf of the
white Baptists of the city and state.
He called attention to a newspaper
Item relative to the alleged lack
of courtesy on the rnrt of the white Bap
tist churches of Omaha toward tho con
vention and said no discourtesy was In
tended, but that from the fact that the
whlto Baptists had not been Invited to the
convention, the natural presumption was
tho convention preferred to confine Itself
exclusively to its own people.
Character Only gnlotlon.
During his address Dr. Conley said:
"There Is but one solution of the race
problem and that Is the question of char
acter, the perfection of true manhood and
true womanhood. The colored people of
the west are going to shape tho destiny of
the entire colored race of this republic."
Victor Rosewater, editor Of The Bee, de
livered a brief address before the conven
tion, extending the delegation a cordial wel
come on behalf of tho press of Omaha, as
well as a welcome to the city on behalf
of Its citizenship.
The address of Mr. RoRewater 'was re
ceived with applause and upon Its conclu
sion President Griffiths remarked that this
convontlon was truly a cosmopolitan one.
In that representatives of the tribes of
Shem, Ham and Japhet were present.
Mrs. George A. Mundln responded on
behalf of the church. Her address was
scholarly and brilliant.
The response to the address of welcome
was made by Rev. B. F. Abner, A. M., D.
D., of St. Louts and was replete with re
ligious fervor.
Work of Organisation.
The remainder of tho morning session
was devoted to the organization of the con
vention and the announcements of the sev
eral committees.
The afternoon session assembled at 2
o'clock, the devotional exercises being pre
sided over by Rev. J. W. Pitts of Inde
pendence, Mo. His sermon waa upon the
theme of "Christian Unity"
Following the sermon came the reports
of the enrollment committee and the ex
ecutive board. Corresponding Secretary
O. C. Mason, D. D., of Rock Island, 111.,
submitted his report as did Treasurer J.
B. Winrow of Independence, Mo., and Field
Secretary G. W. Harts of Topeka.
The annual Sermon was preached by Rev.
D. A. Holmes of Davenport, la.
SCHOOL LEVY NOT LOWER
Rate Kzpected to Be as Mnch aa at
Present Dae to Increase In
Expenses.
At the adjourned meeting of the Board
of Education Friday at noon the levy for
taxes for the year 190S-190& will be fixed
and certified to the taxing authorities. It
is thought the levy will not be lower than
that for the current year, which Is 16 mills
on the dollar. While there has been some
desire to decrease the levy present Indi
cations are that more will be required
for the next school year than for the
present one. This Is due. In a measure,
to the expected Increase In population,
which will require more teachers, to ex
pected advance in the price of fuel, to a
slight Increase In salaries of janitors and
to the tendency of all supplies to advance
In a measure for the several years.
The construction of the Vinton street
school will call for the full building ap
propriation of $25,000, so no reduction is
anticipated in this Hem. .
There Is some complaint over the law
which requires the board to make its levy
practically two years before the money Is
r.eeded, as It requires the taking of a num
ber of chances which would not be neces
sary were the levy made for the year Im
meldately following.
EARLY CLOSING UNSETTLED
One Merchant Soarsts Giving
Day Off Instead of Five
O'clock.
Half
Representatives of the Omaha Woman's
club. Women's Christian Temperance union
and Young Women's Christian association
held a conference Thursday afternoon with
the one merchant who has not yet agreed
to the plan of closing the retail stores at 5
o'clock every day except Saturday, but no
definite agreement could be reached. He
would not agree to the B o'clock closing,
but requested that the committee confer
again with the other retail merchants and
ask that Instead of closing at E o'clock
they five their woman help an afternoon
off each week, the plan followed by his
establishment. The women have agreed to
go over the ground again In the hope of
reaching some understanding, but will ex
pect some agreement by Monday.
POWELL IN SEA OF CATFISH
Omaha Man Pulls Oat Pounder as
Faat aa He Liken to
Work.
George B. Powell, chief grain inspector
of the Omaha Grain exchange, has written
from Lake Shetek, Minn., that he la pulling
one-pound catfish out of tbe lake as fast
as he likes to handle them. With pike
and pickerel he said he had not much luck.
though he expected to become better ac
quainted with them In a day or two. A re
cent rainstorm took millions of game fish
over the dam and they are now trying to
get back Into the lake, so that the water
below the dam Is black with them. Mr.
Powell says the farmers come and spear
the flah with pitchforks, hauling them
away in wagons for their hogs.
BIG LOCOMOTIVE ""EXPLODES
Crew, Living at Hnwllns, Wro., la.
J tared and I'nkaown Man
la Killed.
were blown a great distance and horribly
mangled. The company haa appointed a
committee of cttlsens to investigate tbe
catastrophe.
Tell Them Yoa ICnow!
You may tell yotst i fiends,
on out "say-so," that when
they buy a package of the
genuine A hue hies Afiosa
Coffee they get the best of the
coffee trade
No coffee of equal quality can be
sold in this town for the same price,
whether it be sold out of a bag or a bin,
or under some romantic trade-mark.
You may tell them you know and that
Arbuckle Brothers, the greatest coffee
dealers in the world, will stand for it.j
JLBVOXJJB BBO&i New Tork Ot.
PCVISHINO PETTY CHEATS.
Contemptible Method of Grocery
Graft Exposed In C'oort.
Chicago Tribune.
The Washington judge who fined a seller
of strawberries heavily for using boxes
with raised bottoms, giving his decision
after a strong denunciation of people who
resort to such devices to c'ofraud the pub
lic, will find praise from all slds. The
actual loss to tho buyer In the case of a
berry box of deficient capacity Is small,
but that fact only makes the meanness of
the thing more apparent.
The average cltlsen has to take the meas
ures used by the grocer on trust. A pock
measure may hold a peck or It may not.
A "bushel" may be almost anything. The
buyer Inquires the price of the article de
sired. The seller gives tha answer. That
part of the bargain la in the open. The
rest of the transaction, so far aa honesty Is
concerned, Is In the hands of the dealer. If
he wishes to permit the use In his store of
measures which 'are not standard, he has
every opportunity to do so, particularly
whore a little shaving can be done without
attracting attention.
The corner grocer who has a fixed place
of business and an established trade 1b
less likely to resort to petty cheating than
the wandering peddler who sells from a
wagon and whose place of residence Is
unknown to his backdoor patrons. But
there Is reason to believe that a great deal
of this small business Is done every day.
If all the complaints of housekeepers were
collected in a book they would furnish evi
dence that the frequent newspaper Joke
about short weights and faulty measures
has substantial basis In actual experlenoe.
Both national and local governments have
wrestled with the problem. There la oc
casional inspection of weights and meas
ures by officers appointed for that purpose.
But the ease with which false measures
may be substituted for the certified ones
Is clearly apparent. After all, people must
depend upon the honesty of the dealer. It
Is probable that the large majority of those
who supply the dally needs of the house
hold are honest. But when one Is detected
selling by short weight the meanness of the
thing is so obvious that every one rejoices
over the aeverest possible penalty. A fine
of $150 for using a strawberry box with de
ficient capacity Is pretty heavy, particu
larly since the maker of the box and not
Its user may have been to blame. Still, It
Is a good thing occasionally to localize
responsibility. It is unlikely that one
strawberry seller at least will use small
boxes for a while, and other offenders will
take warning from the Incident
PEHSO.AL NOTES.
By a master stroke of loglo, the National
Educational association espouses peace and
simplified spelling simultaneously I
At one sitting of a Brooklyn court one
prisoner was sentenced to a year for killing
a man and another to nine years for pick.
Ing a pocket. The pocket must be pro
tected. Leading German physicians have peti
tioned the kaiser for the establishment of
sight tests for autoists. Even In Germany
autolsts are unable to see people who are
In the way.
Mark Twain's daughter. Miss Clara Clem
ens, has arrived In Boston to study music.
She Is tbe possessor of a remarkably pure
and musical contralto voice, and will
study oratorio and opera.
General Lawrence and Senator Galllnger,
who are In Paris, on learning that a female
descendant of Paul Jones was living there
In absolute destitution, visited the aged
woman, paid up her rent and outstanding
debts and placed a comfortable account in
the bank for her.
"Oulda," the English novelist, whose real
name la Louise de la Ramee, has lost all
her money and haa been granted a pension
by the government of $760 a year. She Is
living in a milkman's squalid cottage at
Massatosa, eight miles from Lucca, her
former home In Italy.
The ordinary postal card will after
August 1 mean even more than It now
does. After that date It will be permissible
to write messages on a part of the face
side of the card. Just as Is now possible
with the picture variety. Tbe front should
be reserved for the postscript and the pass
ing of the letter writer will be considerably
hastened.
As to
;IIE mere quoting
of 20 per cent
children's light
And the suits will be as good as ever next spring.
We close Saturday evenings at 9 o'clock.
Browning, King & Co
E. S. WILCOX, Manager.
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SUNNY GEMS.
Knlcker Planned your vacatlonT
Bocker I don't know whether to have a
bad time having a good time or a good
time huvlng a bad time. Philadelphia
Ledger.
"Sklmmerhorn, will you Indorse my note
for a small amount?"
"I ll do better tlitin that, Bkrtdles. I'll
lend you the money myself If you have
anything to put up as security." Chicago
Tribune.
"Go ahead," wrote the author to the
critic, "and give my new book to the devil."
And the critic replied: "Don't know
about that. I've been on good terms with
the devil for some time, and I rtnn't care
to offend him." Atlunta Constitution.
"You kin alius find some one to listen to
yoh hard luck stories," said I'nrle Eben:
"but you never kin tell whether he Is
sympathlzln' wlf you or congratuluttn' hla
self on havln' mo' sense." Washington
Star.
Dicky Tou don't b'lleve that storv about
Little Red Riding Hood an' the wolf, do
you?
Kitty Course I do.
Dicky Well, if you'll Jlst write to Pres
'dent Roosevelt an' ask him about it he ll
tell you It's a fake. Philadelphia Press.
'Gosh all hemlock!" exclaimed the first
farmer, "ain't yer struck water yet? How
deep hev ye gone?"
" Bout a hundred feet," replied the other,
placidly.
"An' ain't ye discouraged?"
"O, I dunno. I can't say I ain't glttln' a
long well."-Phlladelphia Press.
"How did Jlhbs first come to be smitten
with the pretty girl he's engaged to?"
"He said he was hard hit with the first
look she gave hlin."
"And yet that must have been a gluncing
blow." Washington Heruld.
"Pop!"
"Yes, my son."
"Why do hens get up so early In the
morning?" ,
"Because they get tired standing up all
night, I supppose, and they want to lay a
little." Yonkers Statesman. .
TUB Ul EST Or THE Ul EKl LOtJl
There's a certain class of people
When we take a grind re vie.
Who are restless always searching
For something that Is new.
Their ego Is the orbit
On which the whole world turns,
And most significant the truth
Which their small mind discerns.
II.
They've had every kind of ailment
From measles to Bt. Vitus,
And had several operations
For so-called appendicitis.
The osteopath and the masseur
Have kneaded every muscle
And when they have the nose-bleed
They count each red corpuscle.
HI.
They've tested all the food-stuffs;
Tried everything that goes.
They've filled up on cold water
From their temples to their toes.
They've wasted half a life-time
And quite a pile of pence
Because at first they scorned to take
One grain of common sense. B. N. T.
SWEAT ODORS
often peculiarly strong, are
oroetimei inherited, some
time char selenitic oi cer
tain physical duturbsnce.
Whatever the cause, they
may be overcome, usually
entirely to, and the general
akin condition greatly im
proved by the faithful,
liberal use of
Pond's
Extract Soap
C Fuat, this soap is a mild, soothing, penetrating
cleanser which not only purines the surface but en
ten into the pores, at the same time carrying in the
Pond's Extract which, being a perfect antiseptic,
so purines the (lands theraelea that their healthy
acton lenders the excretion more healthy in char
acter. C. lu whiteness indicate iu purity. From
pour drugglU.
Armour & Company
Sole Llrsnase from Pond's Extract Company
Prices
of low prices for low qualities
in clothing is not likely to beguile the judge of
good goods like ours.
From now on we are muking a reduction
on all our men's, boy 6' and
weight clothing, and at the
present prices you will pay only proportion
ately for part of a season's wear.
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