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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."
