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THE OMAHA PATLY ' HEE: MO X DAY, .TULV 1007. 'Hie Omaha Daily Hll KOUNLKD BY EDWAJiD ROSE WATER. VICTOR KOBE WATER, LD1TOR. F.ntersd at Omaha poatofflce as second class matter. TEHM8 OP SUBBCRIPTION. Lally lt (without Sunday), one year..$4W IhI1 Iiw and Hunuay. one year bunilalr Bee, one year J-JJJ Saturday lieo, on year 60 'DfcJLIVKUKD BT CARRIER. Inf1r Bee (Including Sunday), per week..r5o Ially Uce (without Sunday), per week. . .10a Evening- Be (without Sunday). PrT week. e Evening He (with Sunday), per week....l0 Addra nil complaints e! Irregularltle la dullvery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha Th Bee Building. Bouth Omaha City Hall Building. Council Bluffs 1C Scott Ptret. Chh-aao 1840 Cnlty Building. , . New fork IMS Home 1,1 f Insurance Bid. Washington 601 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to new and edi torial matter ahould bo addressed, Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only 2-cent stamps received In payment of ma.ll accounts. Personal rhecks, except o Omaha or eastern exchange, not accepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska. Douglas county, ss: Chnrlei C. Itcsewater general manager of The Boo Publishing Company, being duly sworn, savs 'hat the actual number of full and con.nlete copies of The Pally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Be printed during the month of June, 1W7, waa as follows: ' 1 38,530 17 88,480 2 36,500 It 36.490 36,630 If 30,480 38.690 20 38,310 6 36,410 21 38.320 38,810 22 36,610 7 36,630 23 35,730 8 38,800 24 38,300 9 35,900 28 86,580 10 36,660 26 86,650 11 36,930 27 36,570 12 30,830 21 86,470 13 36,840 29 36,860 14 36,930 20 36,980 15 37,170 It 35,800 Total... 1,04,330 Lena unsold and returned copies. , 10,388 Net total 1,083,831 Dally average 36,187 CH4.Rt,-8 ROSE-WATER, General Manager. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before m this 1st day of July, 1907. (Seal) M. B. HUNUATE. Notary Public WlllC.V OUT F TOWIf. pomrlly should bar Th Be malUd to them. Adair will h changed ma often as requested. Corea may now be listed on the market aa Japanned ware. The tariff may got ashamed after all the talk about It and decided to reform Itself. Canteloupea are plentiful on the market, and now and then you may find a ripe one. The weather man should be told that the desire Is for 4 Greater Omaha, not a Hotter Omaha. "Hell Is not ureached enough" says the Christian Endeavor World. But It ia practiced too much. Reports from Jamestown Indicate that the exposition will be in fine shape by the time set for closing. Mark Twain Is on his way home. Now look out for the announcement that he is a contributor to the At lantic. "Is it true that age improves wine?" asks a correspondent. Sure. The longer you leave it alone, the better it is tor you. An Indiana woman declares she has not spoken to a man for fifty years. Probably too busy speaking of him to speak to him. Something must have happened to the military editor of the warlike World-Herald. He has not exploded tor several hours. Two weeks more for candidates' fil ing under the new primary law. A lot of new horses can be entered for ie race In that time. man named Dullett is a candidate far sheriff in a Kentucky county. Dul letts are always prominent in Ken tucky political affairs. The Japs have appointed Marquis Ito to deal with Corea. There is a suspicion that the marquis deals from the bottom of the deck. Evidently the president is not a candidate for re-election. He is re fusing to see even Rough Riders at Oyster Bay, excrpt by appointment The country at large will think bet ter of Ban Francisco when the city placet a few bribers in Jail to keep company with the bribe-takers already landed. A New York paper has an article about "Judge Parker's Close Call." That must refer to some recent event as his other call' In 1904 waa not. at all close. J ease R. Grant hus not yet launched his boom for the democratic presi dential nomination. He seems to be having trouble In finding someone to second the motion. Senator Hopkins of Illinois doea not believe there will be any tariff revision until after the next presidential elec tion. Senator Hopkins must have been talking with his old friend Speaker Cannon. 5 The Omaha Street Railway company promises to have thirty-five new cart ready to go Into action within a few months. The street railway people are thorough believers in the policy of holding out hope to the strap bangers, the Auvic dims or rt err. Corea, the "Land of Morning Fresh ness" holds a pathetic place among the nations of the world. VI Heul, who ascended the Coronn throuj vhen but 12 years old, ruling an Incapable people with conspicuous incapacity for many years, has been dethroned and his nation marked as spoils for the restless, acquisitive, energetlo Japan ese. In a misguided moment, old Tl Heul who bas been allowed to have nominal sovereignty over his country and people, sent a delegation to the peace conference at The Hague to protest against the spoliation of his empire by the Japanese. The powers had agreed that Corean Interests at The Hague should be represented by Japan, and the conference refused rec ognition to the Corean delegates. Events moved swiftly then. The Jap anese secured the abdication of Yi Heul and elevated the crown prince to the throne at Seoul. The first duty of the new sovereign will be to hasten to Toklo and apologize to the mikado for his father's sins. At 'first blush, sympathy will na turally lean toward Corea and its de throned monarch. Yet Corea is paying the penalty of sleeping too late. The country was wrested by the Japanese from China In 1894, Japan agreeing to maintain the safety and independ ence of the Corean Imperial household and to advance the nation in the art of government. Japan has done this most thoroughly, but the Instruction has all been in the art of government by the Japanese. Corea'a foreign af fairs were placed In the hands of the Japanese government by the treaty of Portsmouth and since that time Japan bag become absolutely dominant In in ternal and domestic affairs of . the Hermit kingdom. Japanese influence has become paramount in the Corean peninsula and Corea exists only in name. The future of the nation rests with Japan. FOR EFFECTIVE MEDICAL SKRV1CE. Reform that comes from the inside is usually effective and lasting and for that reason the medlcine-taklng public will find cause for encouragement and congratulation In the efforts being made by the American Medical asso ciation, an organization representing the best in modern medical service, to Improve the condition of medical edu cation In the United States. A com mittee of this association, after a three years' study of conditions throughout the country, has made a report recom mending larger endowments for medi cal colleges, more care in the granting of practitioner's diplomas and a gen eral betterment all along the line. In its report, the committee says: There are 160 medical schools In the United States alone; us many or mora than there are In all the countries of Eu rope combined. Of tbla large number only about 60 per cent are sufficiently equipped to teach modern medicine, JO per cent are doing poor work and need to make great improvements, while about 20 per cent are unworthy of recognition. If the public realised the enormous dif ference that exists between well-trained modern medical service, and Ignorant, In efficient medical service, they would soon demand and obtain the needed reforms. The committee may be mistaken in its assumption that the public does not realise Its danger from incom petent physicians, but the public has been more or less helpless for years, owing to lack of the support now offered by the medical association. In many states there has been a sad lack of laws regulating the practice of medicine and these states have been used as dumping grounds for the grad uates of low grade medical schools. Schools of this kind have flourished in many cities, turning out their grad uates to experiment on a helpless pub lic. But the sentiment against such practices has been pretty thoroughly aroused and nearly all the states have passed laws restricting the practice of medicine and making it well nigh im possible for the graduates of the get-wlse-qulck schools to be licensed to practice. The day of the cheap doctor, who learns by experiment on helpless vic tims what he should have learned by study, ia rapidly passing. Graduates of medical colleges are very generally required to bo worthy of their titles. Nevertheless, it is a significant sign that the demand for better service and better equipment "in modern medical practice should be emphasized by the American Medical association. A OOUD BEOIXMXO The Board of Education has made a good beginning toward holding down the tax burden which must be borne by Omaha property owners the coming year. The tax rate in Omaha is made up of the levy for state government, the levy for county government, the levy for school government and the levy for city government. The school board has actually reduced the rate of the school levy, as compared with this year, from 1C mills to 14 Mi mills. It remains for the authorities upon whom the duty devolves to ( fix the other elements of the aggregate tax rate to be equally considerate of the taxpayers. The promise la made that the county levy will be measurably smaller for the coming year than the last levy. The state levy, likewise, should be smaller, or at least no larger than it hag been. This puts it up to the mayor and council to bold the city levy down to actual requirements. Everyone will admit that the city levy last year was foolishly made too low so low a to hamper the legiti mate operations of the city authorities. This mistake should not be again re peated. But that will not justify lav ish estimates nor the Imposition of taxes beyond what U really teeded. The $50,000 cut out last year vy order or me mayor was not spent and so does not have to be made good, except aa work that should have been done may have been deferred and must be taken care of now. The talk about gathering $250,000 more into the city treasury the coming year than was taken in from taxes last year is overshooting the mark. If the mayor and council will do their duty by the taxpayers the new tax levy will be kept within reasonable bounds with out in any way stinting or embarrass ing any branch of government. TRUST BUSTING OVERDOSE. According to the business men of Texas, the democratic legislature of that state overdid the trust-busting business. Mass meetings of business men are being held in all the larger cities of the state appealing to the governor to call an extra session to repeal one of the laws passed, which threatens to work untold hardships upon the commercial Interests of the state. The late Texas legislature passed lawa abolishing passes and franks, pro hibiting the drinking of liquor on trains in the state, requiring landlords of hotels to furnish bed sheets nine feet long, forbidding wire service) to brokers and bucket shops, levying a tax of 60 per cent on all firearms sold, abolishing cock fighting, requiring foreign life Insurance companies to In vest 75 per cent of their Texas re serves In Texas securities, and dis qualifying negroes for school trustees. It also strengthened an anti-trust law by contpellng corporations to produce their books and their servants to tes tify, and gave the courts power to en force civil liens against corporations that violated the law. Then, to cap the climax, the law now being de nounced by the merchants was rushed through. This law makes It a felony for any merchant or trader to deal In trust made goods. Any person acting as an agent or dealer in trust-made goods ia subject to Imprisonment for from two to ten years, and the law spe cifically provides that the dealer's ig norance of the character of his goods will furnish him no immunity. It pen alizes the goods, even In Innocent pur chasers' hands, as if they were adul terated or dangerous. It also prohibits any dealer from taking the exclusive agency for any line of goods. Texas merchants contend that the enforce ment of the law would expose them to imprisonment under conditions which they are powerless to prevent. They have no way, they insist, when they order goods from a wholesale firm, of ascertaining whether the goods are made by a trust or by an Independent manufacturer. In certain lines, too, the Independent manufacturers can not meet the demands for their prod ucts, and the enforcement of the law would bo Instantly followed by an in crease in the price of these goods made by Independent manufacturers, and thus work hardships upon both the dealer and th consumer. The case is an interesting one and it looks, on the surface, as though the Texas solons had allowed zeal to becloud judgment. Resort is to be had to a test suit to determine whether the new primary law really puts an end to fusion by prohibiting the same name appearing on more than one primary ballot, or whether it permits a candidate to affil iate with two parties at the same time. If the law permits fusion of democrats and populists It must also permit fu sion of other parties as well. It might be easy for a man to assert that he affiliates with the democratlo and pop ulist parties, but could anyone truth fully declare that he affiliates with the democratic and prohibition parties? Dogs are personal property by ex press declaration of the laws of Ne braska, and someone has discovered that all the dogs in Douglas county are assessed for taxation on a one-fifth basis at $517, while the dogs in Lan caster county are assessed at $3,713. That is the worst blow yet to Omaha's pretensions to being "the dog town" of the country. The railroad traffic men are particu larly urgent that people should lay In their supply of coal for next winter right now, but they offer no induce ments in the way of reduced rates that would pull down the prices apprecia bly. The way to make people buy winter coal in midsummer is to offer It to them on the bargain counter. Prospects are that the school levy end the county levy for the coming year will be materially reduced, while the city levy will be materially greater than last year. The school board and the county board are republican boards, while the city is under demo cratic administration. Comparisons are Summer resorts are complaining that the abolition of free railway passes Is seriously Interfering with their business. That may explain also why certain faces are now familiar at local country clubs which were only cccaslonal visitors while the free pass was rampant. King Oscar's appeal to his subjects to return to Sweden and aid In build ing up the Industries of their native land looks like a scheme to drive Jim Hill's country Into bankruptcy and puncture the presidential boom of Governor Johnson of Minnesota. The Omaha Central Labor union l)as J just chotrtn a new set of officers, retlr ing the president, who pronounced himself against repetition of the fake labor primaries. Does this mean that we are to have another labor ticket this fall run da up In the same old way? The Benevolent aud Protective Or der of Elks has voted to extend hon orary membership to the noble animal whoso name It bears. This will en title four-footed elks to the same fra ternal protection as two-footed elks. Senator Beveridge announces that ho "will have something to say later on." Indeed he will. He will probably have something to say until the jaultor turns out the lights, and he may even try to talk in the dark. It costs only $5 to advertise your name by filing for nomination for county office at the coming direct pri mary. But the filing fee is only the first payment on an Installment con tract. Omaha furnishes the new head of the National Live Stock exchange and will also entertain its next annual meeting. Omaha, or rather South Omaha, is a live live stock town. "Why does the democratic party of Pennsylvania allow itself to be bossed by Colonel Guffey?" asks a southern paper. Guffey, he pays the freight. Another war is scheduled for Cen tral America next week, although the personnel of the combatants has not been announced. Novelty of the I.rsaon. Chicago Record-Herald. Wo call attention to the fact that one may be opposed to war with Japan without running the slightest risk of being referred to aa a mollycoddle. Suspicions Bet at Heat, Baltimore American. The Oil trust denies that It 1b a monopoly or has tried to atlflo competition. This ought to be a great consolation to Mr. Rockefeller, who, not knowing anything about the business, may have had uneasy suspicions. Arbitration nnd Conciliation. New York Tribune. The Board of Conciliation in the anthra cite coal industry, It la reported, has not a single complaint or case left on Its docket. A state of profound peace In tho mining regionB appears to demonstrate the wisdom of the agreement between the oper ators and the miners reached fourteon months ago, after much show on both sides of Irreconcilable antagonism. Back to nnslneaa Sense. Portland Oregonlan. Hereafter 10 cents In ordinary postage tamps will secure special delivery of mall. Heretofore a special stamp haa been re quired. This stamp waa not always pos sible to secure, and much inconvenience resulted. The supernumerary stamp waa, from the first, wholly unnecessary, except that the law required Its use. Ten cents In ordinary stamps would have covered the financial part of the transaction then as now. Persona who use the mall for emer gency or quick business dispatch are able and willing to pay the added toll for prompt delivery. Thoughts on the Constitution. New York Sun. The constitution was not designed to promote righteousness but to Insure jus tice In government. Publlo clamor has no regard for the con stitution and the constitution haa no re gard for publlo clamor. A legislator enacting lawa without a knowledge of the constitution Is like an architect building a house without plana. Despotism destroys with fire and sword; altruism ia like the insidious worm breed ing decay. The constitution does not reo ognlze either. 1 The constitution sets no limit upon ambi tion except the ambition to be extra-constitutional. The constitution cannot be changed either by epigram or epithet. BACK TO THK CO.'l ITUTIOIf. Btarnlflcant Contest Between State stnd Federal Courts. Springfield (Mass.) Republican. This Is a cry being raised more especially by those who would preserve the rights and powers of the states In protection of busi ness lnteresta aa against present Washing ton tendencies to bring the great cor porations under close national control. And our federal or dual system of government possesses a value In th maintenance which makes It worth the most careful preservation. But the fact cannot be lost sight of that the Integrity and power of the states are now being far more aeverely assailed by the very interests whoch are talking up state's rights and crying out against the centralising tendencies of the Roosevelt ad ministration. We note two case which are giving rise almost to a rebellious at titude on the part of "sovereign" states in the effort to maintain some degree of con trol over their own affairs. Judge Lochren of the United States court at Minneapolis, who curiously enough Is an old school state's rlghta democrat, has enjoined the attorney general of Minne sota from enforcing the new railroad rato reduction law;' and the newspapers out there are asking whether a state whose laws may be held up or set aside for an Indefinite time by a federal judge at the Instance of a private person, cun be said to have any power or rights or govern ment worthy of the name. The state at torney general contends that he cannot be enjoined by a federal court at th Instance of a citizen or citizens of another state, and tie appeals to the eleventh constitu tional amendment, claiming that this Is a suit In equity against the state of Min nesota which the said amendment would rule out. But meantime he will observe the Injunction. More critical Is the situation In North Carolina, where a similar Injunction for a similar purpose and of similar origin Is be ing practically defied by CJovernor Qlcrm and the state officials acting under his orders. He declarvs that North Carolina will resist to the utmost this inference of the federal courts "with the enforcement of "the criminal lawa of the state," and he sends letters to fifteen superior or state court Judges applauding the action of one of them who directed the grand Jury to find Indictments against railroad agents who charge more than I4 cents per mile for passenger tickets. "Pack to the constitution?" Well, there la an eleventh a well aa a fourteenth amendment, and here Is certainly an effort to maintain the powera of the states against federal encroachment. It la to be feared, however, tnat this Is not the kind of state rights which those people have In mind who are loudest In denunciation of President ltoosevelt's centrallxliig efforts. rtoiwij Anot t m:w yokk. nipple on th Cnrrent of Life In th Metropolis. The measure of Greater New York as a summer resort cannot b taken from -reports of occasional heat waves which make humanity and material things lzl In the canyons and crowded tenements of the city. The metropolis must be considered the hub from which radiate rail and water routes to scores of summer resort within fifty miles. For the tourist the cltv Is only a lodging place. Ho engages a comfortable room In a hotel or an apartment house, dines where he plense's and goes nnd come at will, finding some new watering place of Interest each day and returning at night In time to miss rtr'er Mosquito. Within a half hour's ride from the Brooklyn bridge there are many summer resort that are popular with tourists, such as Coney Is land, Manhattan Beach, Pea Gate, Brigh ton, the Rockaways, Long Beach and many other places. The resorts can be reached by rail or boat, and the excursion are delightful and Inexpensive. A trip to Coney Island Is perhaps one of the most delightful and popular sails with New Yorker this summer. It costs only 40 cent the round trip, and the trim boats pas many points of Interest, Including Fort Hamilton, Fort Wadsworth, the Statue of Liberty, Gov ernor' Island, Barren Island and Kills Is land, where 6,000 Immigrants land every day. The short trip la perhaps the most Instructive to be had In the country. The boats pas every type of craft, from a skiff to the largest ocean liner. There are to be aeen hundreds of tug, excursion boats, smart yachts, tramp ship filled with every conceivable clas of merchan dise and live stock. West Indian schooners laden with fruit and flowers, and govern ment cutters on the constant lookout for pirates and smugglers. Among New York's extensive plan for bridge facilities to Its outlying suburbs Is the erection of an Immense span to Jersey. The construction of a Hudson bridge noar Fifty-seventh street would open up the very best of New York suburban residential ter ritory. What other great city possesses a pluteau of twenty-five square miles area, healthfully high above a beautiful river, and, as soon as a brldgeway la opened. within a half hour's trolley ride of the heart of the city? The Hudson river bridge, within ten years after lt opening, would give Jersey an added million of population. The problem of a bridge over the Hudson at New York has long been discussed and planned, says the Broadway Magazine. For Borne years two rival private companies ag itated bridge projects, one to be located at Twenty-third and one at Fifty-ninth street. The Twenty-third street plan waa known as the North river bridge project, and waa chiefly Instituted by engineers and practical men, who obtained a congressional charter. The Fifty-ninth street plan was called the New York and New Jersey bridge project, and was mainly backed by politicians and political Interests. The Incorporator of the North river bridge project are men whose name com mand confidence. Among them are Jordan L. Mott, iron and Bteel manufacturer; Thomas F. Ryan, capitalist; F. W. Roeb llng, bridge engineer; Edward F. C. Young, prominent In Jersey City; Gustave Linden thai, engineer and ex-brldge commissioner; Samuel Rea, vice president of the Pennsyl vania railroad, and the late Garrett A. Ho bart, vice president of the United States. Mr. Llndenthal state that this bridge can be built in four yeara if necessary; if the capital Is all secured and a start made In 1908, people will be crossing; In 1912. Moving 7,600-ton weight by the power of human elbow grease alone; that is the feat to be accomplished In the moving of the old Montauk theater, now tho Imperial of Brooklyn, from Its present situation on Ful ton street and DeKalb avenue to a new site on the extension of Flatbush. avenue. The theater building, of stone and brick, ninety feet high, 300 feet long by eighty-five feet wide at one end and 167 feet at the other. Is to be raised bodily from the ground, with all Its Interior construction Intact, turned around and shoved over so as to have its new entrance facing on the Flatbush ave nue extension and Its rear on Hudson avs nuo. If successfully accomplished thta will ba the greatest feat In the history of house moving. Nothing llko It ever has been at tempted before. Hence engineers and me chanics will watch the progress of the work with close Interest. The contractors Bay the theater building a it stands weighs approximately 7,600 tons, and In maktng their preparations they are basing their cal culation on this estimate. To move the theater and set It down on It new site will cost about $100,000. In raising the building 1,600 steel Jackscrews will be brought Into use, and In moving It laterally forty screw of Bteel, each six feet long, will be employed. A force of about fifty workmen will be engaged constantly during the moving operations. Four months will be allowed for the completion of the removal, but the contractors say they expect to finish the Job in less time than that probably three months. Pay for overtime will be asked by twelve members of the petit Jury of Passalo county, New Jersey, that haa Just been discharged by Judge Francis Scott. This unprecedented course will be followed by the Jurors because, while trying a murder case, they were kept under guard In a hotel for five evenings, and were also un der surveillance the whole of one Sunday. The Juror Bay that If other Jurors who only had to hear cases during the day and were allowed to go home when court adjourned are entitled to $2 a day, they should be paid double. In consideration of what they had bo undergo when their work for the day waa done. They are to send a petition to Supreme Court Justice ntney, asking him to pay them for overtime. If the court grants their request, a new precedent will be established in the state. The sarzarac cocktail ha arrived In New York and Indications point toward this novel Introduction playing to a successful season's stand. The birthplace of this en chanting specialty was New Orleans. It true pedigree la found In the following formula: A tumbler Is basted with ab sinthe, succeeded by a dash of peso or Florida bitters; then comes half a Jigger of French vermouth, capped with a liberal supply of the component material of chief value, brandy, whisky or gin, aa th pal ate of the customer prefers. Thla tipple ought not to be frapped. The Ice, which la placed In a serving glass, should only be spoon stirred. A generous series of "zarzos" la calculated to make the aver age custodian feel like declaring dividends lnstanter. Another candidate for popular bar favor Is called the "maiden' dream," and la composed of three part benedlctlne and one of cream. The latter Ingredient be ing of lighter weight, naturally stay put at the top. The line of demarkatlon la as clearly established aa are the enacting clauses In a pousae cafe. A third recent appetiser on the market la maid of acid phosphate, angoatura bitter and sloe gin. The new night pollc court will go Into operation soon. Two Judge are to be ap pointed, one of whom will alt all of one rWght, and the other the next. One object of th court I to prevent arrested men and women from falling Into th hand of those sharks, the professional bondsmen. Most of the night arrest cau I dlaposwd of without tli actd 0! ball Klin A SKA PMK. COMMENT. Kearney Hub! Th Inlon raclQo and Burlington road not only want there own assessment reduced, but also ask tl1.1t tho valuation of other property In the various counties be raised. Th nerve! Ord Journal: The Journal may not ap prove all the doings of the republican ad ministration In this state, put we give Governor Sheldon credit for one good act performed, turning Tom Majora down flat. Now if the board would fire Thomas we'd like It. Stanton Ticket: Ths federal court of ap peals has sustained the findings of the lower court and ha held that Bev. George O. Ware must pay $1,000 fine and serve one year In Jall. He wa convicted of being a party to making fraudulent land entries In the western counties of Nebraska. Thla decision makes land grabbing a most un popular occupation. Clark son Herald: The supreme court haa handed down a decision upholding Governor Sheldon' veto of about a quarter million of the appropriation made by the last leg islature. That body exceeded the lawful limit and th governor would not stand for It. There wa nothing tor the court to do but uphold his action. All publlo offi cial should keep within the law. Sterling Sun: If th train on all the Ne braska road ara crowded as they are along this Una, the Nebraska railroads will have a hard time showing that th -cnt fare Is bankrupting them. With bo many people traveling and the hundreds of pass carrier under the old order now paying Just like other people. If the roads are not making money, they must have been losing a lot.of it before the change in the taw. Aurora Republican: There has been one exhibition of nerve in Nebraska ahead of that of th express companies who ab solutely Ignored the new law reducing ex press ratee In Nebraska 28 per cent, and that la the Btunt of the bucket shop keep er who are defying the anti-bucket shop law on the theory that they are the "real thing" when It cornea to dealing In grain and that they can produce the goods when It cornea time for the October delivery. Schuyler Free Lance: Nebraska's anti pass law I a farce. It looked like It when It wa passed and wa probably so In tended. Nebraska should do legislative business a they do In Texa. There the anti-pass law means business and even lawyers respect and obey It. There any violation of the law la punishable by a fine of $5,000 to be levied against the cor poration. The person issuing the pass or frank Is liable to a fine of $3,000 and Im prisonment for from six months to two years and any person not entitled to a pass who applies for one is subject to a fine of from $500 to $3,000. Texans who travel on railroads are paying full fare, for obvious reasons. Fremont Tribune: If the railroads of Nebraska would not Bend a single man to Lincoln to pester the member of the legislature they would fare aa well. When ever bill in which they are concerned are to be discussed If they will send their rep resentative to appear before committees and make their arguments they will never be barred and the roads will fare even better than they have been faring of lata. The old plan was too Impudent and brazen. In the old "oil rooma" nets were sproad to entrap the member. Liquor waa served, cigar were distributed, ticket to theatre were given out, passes were to be had In profusion and a retinue of lobbyists were at the elbows of the members per petually to direct them according to the railroad plan. If there was refusal women were Imported and In one case a senator was kidnaped and hustled out of the state by special train. It was a rotten regime, carried on with a high hand. The people tired of It and when they threw off the yoke of railroad domination they discarded it for good and alL Central City Record: Judge Munger re fused the application of six express com panies for an Injunction restraining the state from putting Into effect the reduc tion provided for by the last legislature. Several other Judges have taken a like course lately in similar cases. Thla doe not mean by any mean that these cor poration have been denied their legal rights. They still have ample opportunity to come Into court and show that the rates prescribed are unjust If such be the case. The Injunction has been considerably over worked In th last few years, and we are glad to see a halt called. Corporations had a habit of waiting until the last moment before a law took effect and then getting out an Injunction restraining Its operation. Week and month generally went by be fore the case got thrashed out in the courts, the result being frequently, as wa foreordained, , that the corporation was beaten. That was all right for the big fellows, for they could recover, but the small fry had to go on paying the same old rate, or suffering ths same Injustice, while the case dragged ita Blow length along, and they had no recourse In the end, their interests being too small to law about. Injunctions are all right In certain caats, but they have been woefully abused in the past. PEHSONAL NOTES. "Out in Nebraska, M aays the Boston Transcript, "they're making cheap gas from corncobs; hence the renewed hopeful ness of Mr. Bryan," The Duchess Vendome, a sister of the future king of Belgium, is coming to America in August to hunt beara In Col orado. She la a great sportswoman and has done much hunting in the Tyrol and Black Forest. Thla la not the first time Georgia haa had a stiff prohibitory law. Twenty years ago the restrictions were as drastic as those proposed by the new law, but very few white men who had the price went thirsty. Ben Vanaaek, who, five year ago, aold newspapers on the streets of Milwaukee and played a cornet In a newsboys' band, has been awarded the grand prize for cornet playing by tho National Conserva tory of Music at Paris. The descendants of Jonathan Fairbanks, who emigrated to this country In 1633, of whom Vice President Fairbanks 1b one, will hold a family reunion as usual. In Boston, beginning July SO. The vice presi dent and Mrs. Fairbanks will attend. Reverdy Johnson, who has Just died In Baltimore, waa the last surviving aon of the late Reverdy Johnson, who waa at torney general In President Zachary Tay lor's cabinet and United State senator and minister to the court of St. James In turn. You prove your intelligence when you pick Arbuckles' Ari osa Coffee instead of the mis branded, misnamed "Mocha & Java," as the cheapest good coffee in the world. riKriS AND OI.O 8ltOF.. Know led e Kevealeri hy Hmesresfi Into Unman Character. Now York Sun. If the Investigators In the field of so called criminal psychology continue their researches the world need never be In Ignorance of any Individual's real char acter. Incidentally, a great ninny Innocent men runy appear to liuve Imblts which they never regarded as evidence of a crim inal nature. This will be merely the pen alty of progress In science. In the end It will be Impossible for the guilty in escape, and the temporary sacrifice of a few of the Innocent need not count In the greater march of progress. A Gorman delver In this popular field has Just penet rated deeper than any of his col leagues. His ability to lay bare the es sence of a man's character la not limited to his knowledge of the deep significance lying In the way he may wear his hat. He Is able to analyze his nature merely from the study of his old shoes. The ac curacy of thla method of Induction may l.- understood from the results In certain case. If the wear of a pair of shoes after two months shows equal use of the heol and Bole In both shoes, they enclosed the feet of a conscientious and energetlo business man or a faithful official. If wear Is greater on the outer edge of the sole and heel, the wearer was fickle and fond of adventure of the heart, or he was daring and head strong. Weakness and Indecision tiro tha qualities Of the man who first wears out the Inner edge of Ills shoes, and modesty Is the predominating trait of the woman who treata her footgear In the same way. A man's hat appears to betray him Just as shamelessly to the piercing gaze of the scientist. If It sits directly on the top of Its wearer's head he Is pedantio and tire some. A little to one side, It proclaims him not too sertous, amiable and easy going. The degree of Ms obliquity may change character Indications momentously. Too great a tilt bespeaks impudence, and audacity. Yet these qualities seem unim portant In comparison with the disposition that lurks under a hat sitting too far back on Its wearer's forehead. ' His dis tinguishes characteristics are careless ness, conceit, aelf-consclousness nnd a lack of all sense of financial responsibility. Whoever suspected of such an evil nuture a fat man with his straw hat sitting far back while he mopped his brow on a hut dayT He may not know the significance of his act, but the criminologists do, and they know more, that tho further back he tilts his hat la correspondingly greater degree does he possess all the qualities that this baleful habit reveals. It Is the complain ing, melancholy and depressed man that Jams his hat down over his brow and al ways wears It like that, which might Beem excuse enough for any man to fall Into such a frame of mind and might readily be cause Instead of effect. It adds Its testimony, however, to the Importance of being careful about one's ahots and hata When th criminal Investigators are around. USES TO A I.AVOII. "You say you are not doing so we'l with your legal publishing department?" "No; business has fallen off consider ably since everybody is practicing the un written law." Baltimore American. "Do you think I might try to strike Cold cash for a tennerT" "You might try, but I'm sure you would never make a hit." Philadelphia Press. Hotel Manager Have the Barker round fault again today 7 uotei cierk 1 es, sir. Thev complain a much a If they were gutting their board free. Harper's Weekly. "What Is your Impression of un ideal railway system?" "An Ideal railway" Answered tViA wen rv traveler, "la one whose trains arrive an unctually and safely as tho dividends. UBUlllglUIl CM.UT, "You!" snorted the rich old man, "jrou marry my daughter? Why, you're a beer guzzler, sir!" "Tea," replied Nervey, "but after my marriage I'd stop all that. 1 expect to be able to afford wine then." Philadel phia Press. "Believe me," snld old Gotrox, "although I'm an old bachelor I'm sure I could be a frood husband. One Is never too old to earn" "Nor too old to yearn," Interrupted Miss Pechls; '"also, I mltrht mid, you're not too old to spurn." Baltimore American. City Cousin (effusively) My wlfo and I, Cousin Joshua, certainly have spent a very pleasant month on your beautiful Slace. We feel that we owe you u groat eal. Country Cousin So you do, and when air you a-goln' to settle It? Indianapolis News. Freddie Have you told me all the fulry stories you know, ma? Mrs. Cobwlgger Yes, dear; all except the one your papa tells ine. Harper' Weekly. "Madam." snld Wlttlous to his land lady as he took his place at the dinner table, at the fourth consecutive appear ance of the veal, "why do you so persist ently snub us?" "I don't snub you, Mr. Wlttlcus," an swered the landlady, uneasily. "I don't know about that," he returned, reproachfully. "This Is the fourth time you have given us the cold shoulder." Baltimore American. A SO.U OK CONTENTMENT. Tuck. In the guff that once was current in tho magazines of rot We were told that any dub could hit the target every shot. We were told that If we tollnd from morn to midnight we could reaeh Heights from which the world's success,' liked to pose and smirk and preach. We were taught that careful saving of oqr pennies waa the thing; We should cut out all the frivols youth should never have Its fling. Grind and grub and grub and grinding these were sure to win the rai-e; But today we learn that riches are a ter rible disgrace. Once the man who made some money was considered to have At'.' Something worthy emulation by the other fellow's son: Once wo learned that 111 tie Willie, who refused to go and play, But would rather stick to business, waa the hero of the day. In the mottled books they louned us front the libraries of yore All the manly virtues centered In the boy who swept the store. Now, he'd better be a horsethlef or a bandit, don't you know, Than a tight wad sitting watching for his bank account to grow. 'TIs s pleasant change. I tuke It; for be neath the old regime. Though I groped for glory's glamor, I could nuver grab a gleam. Something told me I should nutt although I bent Methuselah'a time. Make a fortune I'm delighted they've dls- ( covered it's a crime. Now, when I am broke and shiftless, whan I owe my every friend Who, when I was prone to borrow, was So careless as to lend, I shall swell with conscious righteousness, specific cause of wl.lch I th thought, "I know I'm honest, 'caua I kept from getting rich."
