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HIE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, JULY 2(1, 1007. j ! The Omaha Daily Bel FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSBWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. Entwed at Omtht postoffic as seoond rlass matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Bh (without Sunday), one year..M.X) 1k1I Tie and Sunday, one year 0 Hunday Uee, on year Saturday Uee, on year DEI.1VKRKD BT CARRIER. Dally lie (Including Sunday), per wek..Wc Daily be (without Sunday!, per week...l0o Kvenlng Re (without Sunday), per week. e Evening Be (with Sunday), per week... .100 Addreiia all complaint cf Irregularities In delivery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Oman The Bee Building. South Omaha City Hall Hulldlng. Council 1) luffs-16 6cott Street. Chicago 1B40 Unity Building. New York ISO Home IJf Insurance Bldg. Washington 601 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communication! relating to nw and edi torial matter ihould be addressed, Omaha tics. Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, payahlo to The Re Publishing Company. Only 2-cent stamps received In payment of mall accounts. Pergonal check, except oi Omaha or eastern exchange, not accepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas county, ss: Charles C. Rosewster general manager of Th Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, says 'hat the actual number of full and complete copies of Th Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Be printed during th month of June, 1WJ. was as follows: 1 3fl,630 11 36,480 1 86,490 1 86,480 20 86,310 11 86.330 11 36,610 31 88,730 14 36,300 li 86,680 26 36.6C0 27 36,670 St 86,470 2t 36,860 SO 85,980 35,600 1 36,820 4. 3t,0 3S.410 3.aio . . 3S.S30 3M00 . . 38,900 36,6t0 . . 36,930 It.. It.. 11 36330 11 36,940 14 36,930 It 87,170 38,800 Total... 1, 094,830 Less unsold and returned coplea.. - 10,388 Net . total 1,083431 Dally avsrag 86,187 CHiLJ3 -. ROSEWATER, General Manager. Subscribed in my presence and sworn to before me tbla let day of July, 1907. (Seal) M. B. HUNG ATE, Notary Public when out er town. Sabaerlbera leavlas; th city tea, porartly shoald hav Tb Be mailed to tbeaa. Ad area will be changed as attest mm requested. The Coreyans of Pittsburg are being snubbed like the Coreans at Seoul. There Is a suspicion that Colonel Watterson'6 dark borso Is a victim of spavin. A low tax rate In any city la always a drawing card for capital seeking In vestment. 1 The government la advertising for experts on railroad books. What a chance for Mr. Harrlmaa. Alfred Austin announces a book-of his poems will soon be on sale. It Is kind of him to give proper warning. Former Senator Peffer explains that he wears his whiskers tc please his wife. Some women are easily pleased. Up to date the south has not taken Jesse Grant's presidential boom se riously enough to shut It up or lynch tt Omaha's triumph as a convention city only waits more ample and better hotel facilities to take care of big crowd. ' L very Inch of human skin contains 3,500 perspiration pores," says the Chicago Journal. And all of them working overtime. Japan and Corea have made a new treaty. The latest report from the emperor of Corea Is that he .has be come a walking delegate. This world-wide Theatrical trust may become popular In America If It will only send most of our stage at tractions to foreign countries. Considerable concern Is felt over the ilsappearance of the son of a Pittsburg millionaire and his automobile. The automobile was an expensive one. Denmark refuses to consider a prop osltlon to sell any of Its islands to the United States. This country has some islands it might sell, at reduced prices. Several inches of snow fell in Sweden last week. King Oscar's ap peal for his wandering subjects to re turn home Is being supported by the lements. Lieutenant Colouel Ayres has been retired from the army, but It was Mrs. lyres who sassod tlij commandant at 'Vest Point and who shows no symp onis of retiring. August Belmont says the Balarles paid lu this country are too small. He aiust figure that if salaries were larger i would take In more money at the luoierous race tracks. , It would be Interesting to know what that customs board which ruled hat Canadian geese are not birds vould decide to be the proper classifi cation for lame ducks. Mark Twain Is home with a ut de gree and a bunch of relics, but It Is loped he, will not spring any English lokes on the country, at least until he weather gets cooler. Colonel Bryan's admission that "government ownership is not an issue," makes It unanimous again ex cept for Mike Harrington, Edgar How ard and Harry Bromo, who constitute the Nebraska Government Ownership )eagu. STATE OR rEDKRAL JURlSblCTluX. The clash between the state and fed eral authorities in North Carolina over urlsdictlon for the adjudication of railway laws Is so marked by pyro technics and personalities that submis sion to even-handed Justice demanded by the merits of the case can only come later. The sharp conflict In North Carolina, however, should em1 phaslze the points at issue so that in he end there will bo no escaping a determination of the questions squarely and unequivocally. Whether the state or federal courts are to be paramount is not to be decided either by Issuing injunctions or proclama tions, or by calling out the militia or the regulars. The dispute in North Carolina Is only part of a much larger problem whose solution is being worked out in many other states, as well as where the railroads are seek ing refuge in the federal courts to escape or nullify regulation by state authority. The North Carolina cases spring from state legislation reducing passenger fares to a maximum of 24 cents a mile and providing penalties for de manding more. A ticket agent of the Southern railway was arrested and sentenced by a state court to Imprison ment for violating the law. Judge Jetter C. Prltchard of the federal court Issued a writ restraining the state au thorities from enforcing the law and also granted an application for habeas corpus, releasing the convicted ticket agent from custody. The state au thorities, supported and directed by Governor Glenn, are Ignoring the or der of the federal courts and arrested the railway officials defying the state law. Connected with this conflict are charges against Judge Prltchard, promises of Impeachment proceedings against htm and lurid talk about call ing out the militia to enforce the or ders of the state authorities and the decisions of the state courts. Under such conditions the danger Is that the real Issues may be largely lost sight of, which are to define the lino of demarkatlon between the powers of the state and of the nation to regulate railway traffic. Up to this time It has always been assumed that federal Jurisdiction is exclusive for Interstate commerce and state Jurisdic tion exclusive for trade between points wholly within the state lines, subject, however, to the guaranty of the federal constitution against confiscation of property. When congress was discussing the rate regulation law, the railroads played up the duty of the states' to regulate, but now that the states have undertaken to exercise their functions In a manner distasteful to the rail roads their clever lawyers have con cocted a theory that action by con gress bars action by the states. If the furor precipitated by the disturbance In North Carolina hastens the proceed ings that will give us a final decision by the United States supreme court, It will not be without producing some good. EFFECT OF PASS ABOLITION. Atlantic City has been filing a bill of grievances against the people of Pittsburg and a passenger official of the Pennsylvania railroad files a cross bill which throws an illuminating light on the effects of the abolition of the railway pass upon railway passenger traffic, particularly during the sum mer months. Atlantic City's sustenance comes from the tourist traffic and the observing citizens and officials of the town have called attention to the fact that during the present season less than 1,000 visitors to the seashore re sort have registered from Pittsburg, whereas In former rears from 20,000 to 30,000 Plttsburgers landed at At lantic City during the height of the season. Atlantic City wants to know why, and the Pennsylvania railroad official furnishes the answer. The Pennsylvania runs tralnsfrora Pittsburg to Atlantic City. Pittsburg is the home of many stockholders of the road, the home of many of the company's biggest patrons and ship pers and the political capital of the western half of the state. In the old days, the Plttsburger who failed to carry an annual pass over the Penn sylvania did not amount to much. The Pennsylvania used to run daily ex cursion trains from Pittsburg to At lantic City every hour, during the heated term, for the accommodation of the passholders. With the abolition of the passes this year, the tourists from Pittsburg find plenty of room on the regular trains without crowding. The saving on special excursion trains, which were run without revenue from tho passengers, has been a big item and the railroad company has prof ited, even If the effect has been dis astrous on the resort keepers at At lantic City. This railroad spokesman admits that the 2 -cent fare, established by law In Pennsylvania, looks like a gold mine product compared with what the com pany used to receive on Its business between Pittsburg and the Beashore. What the company has lost in the favor of former passholders it has more than made up by the saving of the operation of special tratr.s for the accommodation of deadhead. The railroad companies, as well as the fare-paying patrons, are profiting by the abolition of the free pass system. With the gates thrown open a pain to fusion it is the privilege of any can didate for office to seek a nomination on any or all party tickets. Four years ago three republican candidates for district Judge in this district played the game so as to get on the democratic ticket on th pretext of "nonpartisan ship." If the democrats run short of ( material again they can, no doubt, find republican patriots willing to serve under their banner. ROGVE8' UJLLKRT RECORDS. Simple Justice to innocent men ac; cused of crime Is provided In an act rassed by the New York legislature and signed by Governor Hughes, pro viding for the removal from police records of photographs and Dertlllon records of persons acquitted of crim inal charges against them. The adop tion of the Bertlllon system of meas urements of persons arrested on crim inal charges was due to the claim, long accepted by police officials, that a man once a criminal Is always a criminal, and the system has been of wonderful aid to the police authorities of the world in the apprehension and Identification of old offenders, of whom detailed descriptions and photographs are supplied to the rogues' galleries of the police departments In all large cities. Dut the police have gone to the extreme on the theory that a man once charged with crime Is always a sus pect and have subjected every accused man to measurement by the Bertlllon system and to having his photograph taken and filed for future reference. Tho number of persons charged with crime, however, who are Innocent of either crime or criminal Intent is nat urally very large and there can be no excuse for retaining the photographs and measurements after Innocence has been established. There is no good reason why such records should be kept with their possibility of future annoyance of the man or the humilia tion of his family. The New York law was passed as the result of an agita tion started by Roland B. Mollnoaux, once sentenced to death for murder, but afterwards adjudged wholly Inno cent. Upon his acquittal he demanded the removal of his record from the books of the police, but was refused, and his persistence led to the passage of the law now In force. As a matter of common Justice to Innocent men wrongfully accused, a similar law should be placed on the statute books In every state. 1 7TB LAW OF AUTOMOBILES' Automobillsts who have been re cently arrested in Omaha for violating the rules of the road are trying with remarkable regularity to beg off on the ground of innocent ignorance of what' is required of them. While the drivers of self-propelling machines are presumed to know the law, it may not be amiss to remind them of the con ditions upon which they are permitted to run at large by edict of the last Nebraska legislature: 1. Every owner of a motor vehicle must have the same registered with the secretary of state and take out a license costing $1 per year. 2. The registration number assigned by the secretary of state must be dis played conspicuously on the auto mobile. 3. Maximum rates of speed are: Ten miles an hour "in the close-built-up portions of the city, town or village;" fifteen miles an hour "elsewhere in a city, town or village;" twenty miles an hour "outside of the city, town or village." 4. Upon approaching or traveling "a crossing of intersecting public high ways, or a bridge, or a sharp curve, or a steep descent," the driver must keop his machine under control at a rate of speed less than previously specified. 5. On a signal by putting up the hand from a person riding or driving a restive horse, or other domestic animal, the motor vehicle must be brought immediately to a full stop, and, If traveling In the opposite direc tion, remain stationary long enough to allow the horse to pass, and, If In the same direction, must use reasonable caution in passing the horse or animal. 6. Every automobile on the public. highway must exhibit one or more white lights In front and a red light In the rear "during the period from one hour after sunset to one hour before sunrise." Violation of any of these rules con stitutes &. misdemeanor punishable for the first offense by a fine not exceed ing $25 and for subsequent offenses by a fine not less than $2 5 nor more than $50, "or Imprisonment not exceeding thirty days In the county Jail." The wise automoblllst will obey the law. It Is planned to tak Mr. Fairbanks for an automobile ride during his vtslt In Lincoln, August S. But, for goodness sake, keep him off of O street, unless you wish to behold the spectacle of a dizzy, seasick vice president. Lincoln Star. So there are other cities beside Omaha that have street pavements that resemble most the billowy waves of the ocean. According to evidence before the Ne braska State Railway commission, a physical valuation of the express com panies would show wide discrepancy between money invested in the business and stock issues floated on Wall street. Pity the poor express companies which, should they be compelled to submit to rate reduction in Nebraska, might not be able to distribute a 200 per cent dividend more than once in four or five years. "I concern myself very little about President Roosevelt," says Governor Vardaman. ,"I concern myself not at all about Governor Vardaman," says the president. Looks like a tie. Bet ter shake stain. Every department of city govern ment will spend all th money which tho mayor and council may place at its disposal. It is the duty of the mayor and council, however, to Impose taxes only for what is really needed, no more and no less, and give the tax payer the benefit of every doubt. Now that he has decided that the democratic candidate for supreme Judge may bear two party labels, fusion organs may give Judge Sedgwick some credit for determlr.lag cases on the law rather than to promote his own per sonal Interests. The anti-slot machine order of the Board of Fire and Police Commission ers not only stands, but stands with the additional endorsement of two Judges of the district court. The slot machine operators had better let it go at that. Tho opening of Twenty-fourth Btreet seems to have struck a snag in the form of a technical defect In the ordi nance as passed by the council. It is better to find the technical defects now than later. The Elks must be in training to see how much heat they can stand be fore the clock strikes eleven. After their Philadelphia experience, they have decided to try Dallas, Tex., next year. I . Shirting; the Wreath. Portland Oregonlan. For the present tho country will shed few tears at the sight of Bryan removing the white wreath from the resting place of free silver and laying it on government owner ship of railroads. Promoting; Competition. Indianapolis News. Instead of being a combination, of course, Ithat arrangement between the Western Union and the Tostal to divide' the profits on certain telegraph business may be merely a shrewd scheme, according to modern business Ideas, to foster competi tion. Boost for the Home Grown. Chicago Record-Herald. The health department sounds a warn ing against the advisability of eating home grown vegetables when one goes to the country. To the many people who have gone Into the country and been fed exclusively on canned goods this warntng will seem superfluous. Look That Way. Kansas City Star. Judge Munger of the United States dis trict court for Nebraska refused to grant an injunction sought by the express com panies to enjoin the enforcement of the new law reducing express rates In Ne braska. From this it appears that a court does not have to grant a temporary in junction unless It wants to. On a Firm Foundation. New York Herald. The country Is all right. It was going ahead a little too fast, and the halt In speculation and this year's drastic reduc tion In the market valuation of those "highly decorated pieces of paper" In Wall treet have put on the brakes without In terfering with the basilar development In the country's prosperity. One Question Start Another. . Springfield Republican. Justice Brewer 'of the United State su preme cou-t has put this question In the course of an address the last week: "Sup pose through such laws as Missouri passed, the railroads should- actually lose money on carrying freight and passengers, will the state make the loss good to them?'' That is a searching 'inquiry, yet not more so perhaps than this: Suppose the rail road should raise rates above the require ments of a fair return upon their capital; will they make good the loss to their patrons? BRYAN'S LAST DELIVER ANCH. Kept In the Air. Now York Times (Ind. dem.) Mr. Bryan's latest explanation Is that federal ownership of the railroads Is not to be a special object of the democrats campaign, but to be a sort of perpetual sword of Damocles hanging over the heads of the American people. It Is to be ne glected as an Immediate Issue, but to be kept In the air. Nevertheless, tho rail road question Is Mr. Bryan's chosen Issue. Not a word of the tariff. Where la the Tarty Nonl Washington Post (Ind.). Mr. Bryan now Insists that the demo cratic party la the only mechanism that can regulate the railroads. In bis latest pronunclamento he carefully refrains from describing the democratic party, or giving any clew to what It la. He does not betray his hiding place, nor does he Indicate by what marvelous process it will regulate the railroads while remaining itself the most unregulated Institution on American soil. He merely describes it as "the democratlo party," and lets It go at that Some Pertinent Question. New York World (dem.). Since the Madison Square Garden speech Mr. Bryan has taken up a new political toy, the Initiative and referendum, which he made a cardinal Issue of democratic faith In his Jefferson day speech at Brook lyn. He advanced It again In his "What Is a Democrat?" letter to the World, while carefully Ignoring the government owner ship Issue for reasons now better under stood. What new popullstlo or socialistic. issue he will have by 19o8 for the demo cratlc party to subscribe to Is beyond the ken of human foresight. But In view of all the circumstances th World may be pardoned if It repeats two questions which It asked In Its editorial of August 30, 190. entitled "Mr. Bryan's Blind Pool": If the American people considered Mr. Bryan unsafe in 1896 and 1900, wherein is he safer now? In what respect Is he a cooler counsellor or a wiser leader than he was then? Bark to the Tariff. Washington Herald (Ind.). We regret that Mr. Bryan devotes so little attention to the tariff question, which presents some very live aspects at the mo ment". W would like to hear from him on the problem of the treasury surplus and a to th desirability of federal taxation In order to curtail th redundant revenues of th government. A etlritrg manifesto on i hi topic would, we are sure, arouse en thusiasm among many wavering follower of Mr. Bryan, who still cling to old-fash loned notion about the wrongfulness of overtaxation and the wisdom of economy In public-expenditure. 1'pon what theory of governmental functions, may we not Inquire, Is It more Important to reduce th revenues of th railroad than to lower thoa of the government? Why should the government hammer down railroad rates when tt 1 Itself filching nearly lp,W,00C a year from the pockets of the peopl. without rendering any sort of service thr lor? BITS OF WASIUKUTO LIFFi. i Minor Deenes and Incident Sketched on th Spot. "Our dog Pete," the scrappy purp of the Wblte House, whose exploits have pro voked considerable shirt-sleeve gaiety, has broken out In a fresh spot. Just for a change and for dental .exercise. Since the president vacated the While House for the summer Pete has made his home with a doctor, who guaranteed three square meals a day. This ought to have satisfied any ordinary dog, but Pete has lived too long within range of "his master's voice" to be a mollycoddle pup. He preferred nice, fat politicians and personal representatives of royalty to alley cats. Last Friday a lineman in the employ of one of the telegraph companies . dropped down In Pete's particular back yard to connect up a wire, but about the only con nection he made was with the dog's teeth In the calf of his leg. First aid was ren dered the Injured man, be was sent to his home, and to Oyster Bay was telegraphed the news that gave Pete tho "double cross." The lineman procured a stout club, which he intended to break over the dog's back, but so securely and finally has Pete been removed from Washington and Its environs that even Marshal Collins, with a spy glass and a warrant from the mayor, could not locate blm. ( As soon as the president became cogni sant that Pete had added another crime to his already long list he ordered Charley, the negro footman, to go over to Washing ton to secure the dog and convey him to parts unknown. It was at first decided by Mr. Roosevelt that the dog must die, but Archie's pleadings were so urgent that the president reluctantly commuted his sen tence to life Imprisonment. Charley arrived In town on Saturday, and Monday Pete, with the stub of bis tail drooping pitifully, the fire and fury gone out of his eyes, his protruding teeth cov ered by an extra strong musxle, was con fined In a steel cage and put aboard a train and has by this time begun the ex piation of his many crimes and misde meanors. The bureau of corporations hopes to have completed by the time congress meets Its report on the Inquiries Into the business affairs of the following Industrial combl, nations: Oil, tobacco, steel, lumber, har vester, telegraphs, canals, coastwise traffic and cotton exchanges. Within two weeks the bureau will make public another re port on the Standard Oil company. This one will relate to prices and profits of the oil business and will enable the publlo to understand why the stock of this corpora tion commands such an enormous figure. This report will be followed by another, giving the result of a special Inquiry Into the new oil field In the Interior state and In the California district. Lastly, there will be a report on the foreign trade of the Standard Oil company. Agents of the Department of Commerce and I-abor are still abroad studying the field In Europe, the orient and Africa. Information as to the operations of the Harvester trust will be used by Attorney General Bonaparte In determining whether a successful prosecution of the great cor poration can be maintained. It Is said now that the attorney general will not be able to make up his mind In th harvester coses until fall, as he has Just started ton a long vacation, which will occupy him at least two months. The Investigation of the general sub ject of patent rights Is the latest Inquiry undertaken by the bureau. It Is to have particular reference to the abuse of the right of patents by officers of the govern ment who have perfected their Inventions In the laboratories and on the time of the government, while occupied In' their official duties. The work of removing the piers of the old Long bridge has progressed" steadily In the last two weeks, and now all the piers are down to low water and two dredging ma chines are at work removing the draw pier and the piers on each side the channel down to the bottom of the river. The contract for the removal of the old wooden Long bridge called for the taking down of the stone piers on the shoal water on each sldo the channel to low water, and In deep water they are to be removed entirely. The tearing down of the woodwork of the bridge was started In the early part of March last and the contractors have had a large force of men continuously on the work since that time. In addition to mov ing the piers, the stone causeway which formed the approach to the bridge on the Virginia shore Is also being blown up and removed so that the river tides can have full flow past the Virginia shore. "I have been somewhat amused, " says United States Treasurer Treat, "to observe the newspaper criticism of the new ten dollar gold certificates. It has been de clarod that the similarity In appearances of the new note and the $30 gold certificate Is so striking that persons are making the error of handing out tens for twenties. I have heard no complaints from persons who have had 0 bills forced upon them Instead of tens. "Really, I cannot understand why the new gold certificate should be criticised. The points of difference between It and the $30 note are so marked that no one should be deceived. The decoration and lettering are wholly different. One bears the portrait of George Washington and the other the portrait of Michael Hlllcgas, the first teasurer of the United States. Certainly no one ought to confuse the likeness of the father of his country with that of Michael Htllegas." FEItSO.VAL XOTF.S, A New York swindler arrested after a long series of successful operations declares that his city Is "dead easy." A monument has been erected to Anna Holxel In the Schlossgarden at Mannheim, Germany. She Is th wife of a carpenter, who, in ITS, saved the poet Schiller from a debtor's prison. The sultan of Turkey has Anally overcome his opposition to th telephone, and has or dered that the ministry of communications work out a project for supplying Constan tinople with telephones. The prlnc of Wales spends most of his leisure tlm In reading and pasting stamps in a stamp album. He has on of the finest private colectlons In Europe, all of which he has classified and pasted himself. The man who raptured Santa Anna's cork leg, the most Interesting relic of th Mall ear war, 1 still living at San Rafael, Cal. His name Is Edwin Elvln Elliot, and he was a member og the Fourth regiment of Illinois infantry. The people of Clearmont county, Ohio, are forming plans for the erection of a tablet to the memory of General Grant at Pt. Pleasant, where he first saw th light of day, April 27, HC2. Th vent 1 to be in connection with the Cincinnati homecoming In September. It. Pleasunt. the birthplace of Grant. Is a little hamlet on th Ohio river, about twenty-five miles above Cin cinnati. It's ripping story of Clemenceau. fit for Immortality, they are tailing In Parts. Perhaps Ha merely an adaption of a very old one. As sent by one of the correspond ents. It reads: .When the lunatic Mallle fired upon President Pallleres as he was returning to the Klysee jlare after th review of July 14. the presidential secr tary, Jean Lanes, exclaimed with emotion. "Two balls!'' Clemenceau, with S pleasant smile, bowed gracefully to President , r'alliere and .aid. "tin for ach of us." f GARFIELD AMAZED AT STATE Secretary of Interior Pronounces Na- bratka Kingdom of Wealth. W. H. MAKSS PRAISES IT, TOO Industrial Commissioner of Burlln ton and Cnblnet Officer Complete Trip Over Thl Portion of Great West. "The greatness of the state overwhelmes me; I had no Idea Nebraska was such a vast kingdom of wealth. The crops are astounding." This was the utterance of Secretary of the Interior Oarfield after he had com pleted a tour across Nebraska. "I figure the crops of Nebraska wtll be on a par with those of the bumper year, said W. H. Manss of Chicago. Industrial commissioner of the Burlington road, who has Just returned from an extensive trip through Nebraska and Wyoming with Sec retary f Interior Garfield. "The corn of Nebraska has grown a foot and a half In the last two weeks, the alternating hot days and night rains being Just the thing for the crops. "The country around Sheridan never had so much rain as this season, the crops are great and never looked better. The Big Horn Basin country Is turning out to be the greatest country in the world for the raising of sugar beets because of tiie nature of the soil which seems to put so much saccharine In the beets. We thought the Colorado country was good with from 18 to IS per cent of saccharine, but around Billings there Is from K to 22 per cent and In the Big Horn country It runs from tt to 24 per cent. It Is so good that an or ganlxatlon with 1100,000 capital has been formed, known as the Seed Breeders as sociation to raise seed and to test all kinds of seed for breeding purposes. White Pine Timber. "Another good thing which Is being over looked Is th large quantities of white pine lumber In the Black Hills country. There are hundreds of thousands of acres of this timber land, which th cinch bug has In tested and spoiled th trees of which by eating away the bark, but the lumber Is still good and the government has given permission to out the timber. Two camps already have been started and there Is room for many more. In this day when white pine Is so scarce, her la a splendid opportunity. "In many sections the wheat crop Is most surprising, especially th macaroni or Durhain wheat. Around Bedford it wtll run 40 to 45 bushels to the acre. "Secretary Garfield was a most thoroughly surprised man as he Journeyed over Nebraska, He said ho had no Idea of the great agricultural resources of th state and was more than taken back at the Immensity of the corn fields and the crops which are being raised. H predicted a great era of Intensified farming for th the western part of tho state and the Irri gated portions of Wyoming. Demand for Information. "Never since I have been connected with this work has the demand for information been as great as at present by persons who are looking for locations, both for Industries and homes. The west Is growing so fast It Is hard to supply the demands for building material and I have Just been arranging for the location of a cement factory In the northwestern portion of th state to provide that material, which Is used so extensively In Irrigation work and building. "We visited the coal mines at Oebo and I think that coal Is better than the Rock Springs coal. We had the Burlington geo logist along and examined the mines olosely. We found a solid bank without a seam, which was 6 or 7 per cent higher In grade than the Sheridan coal and 6 per cent less In moisture." Secretary Garfield did not return with Mr. Manss, his duties taking htm a differ ent route. Mr. Manss came to Omaha for th pur pose of looking at Seymour park, whr Shimer Chase propose to establish an Industrial city. The Burlington line runs through the park. Shimer St Chas say they are In communication with a number of manufacturing enterprises which may be secured for Omaha when proper trans portation facilities have been assured for Beymour park. ONE CAR OF PERFECT WHEAT Grades No. 1 Hard nnd Weighs Slaty Pour Pounds to th Bushel. One car of wheat is In Omaha from which one can take a handful of 600 grains and fail to find a single imperfect grain among them. The grain grades No. 1 hard and weighs sixty-four pounds to the bushel, a phenomenal weight. No better grain I grown anywhere, say the dealers. The wheat was raised at Plymouth, Neb., and was shipped to Omaha to the Hamilton company. The same concern received from Gladstone, Neb., a car of wheat grading No. 1 hard and weighing sixty-three pounds to the bushel. The J. F. Twamley & Bon company has received a car which weighs sixty-four pounds to the bushel. It Is said by th grain men that a large amount of this fine quality grain was grown this year In the southern part of the state. Two-thirds of the present wheat receipts at Omaha la new grain, and It is averag ing about sixty-three pounds. OMAHA TO IRRIGATION MEET Commercial Club Is Asked to Sand Delegate to Congress t Sacramento. The Omaha Commerlcal club has received an Invitation to send delegate to the fif teenth National Irrigation congress, which will convene at Bacramento, Cal., Septem ber t to 7. The club Is asked to send two delegates. Mayor Dahlman will be entitled to appoint ten men to represent Omaha, the county commissioners five to repre sent Douglas county and Governor Sheldon may appoint fifteen to represent the stats. All countlu may have a representation and all the larger town may send dele gates. H. H. Andrews of Callaway, Neb., Is one of the vice presidents of the organ isation and W. R. Akers of Scott's Bluff Is a member of th executive committee. Simultaneously with the congress there will be held at Sacramento an Interstate ex position of Irrigated land and products and forest products. The California state fair wtll begin September 1. Arbuckles Ariosa Coffee U cleaned, roasted and packaged by machinery without the touch of a hand. A machine, constructed in our own hop, packs the coffee, weighs it, wraps.it, and seals the wrapper automatically. It reaches the cup the cleaned, moat wholesome and cheapest good cof f e la th world. XUHJCiaS aUbOflw Nw Tfk Ot August Fiction Number McClure's fiction is always distinguished for its quality and sheer human interest. The August fiction number is no exception. Although introducing a number of writers new to the magazine world, the stories are of the sort that will later bring fame to each. It seldom happens that a magazine has the op portunity of presenting so many new writers with such distinguished work. Note the list and the new names : TIIE GREAT NORTH ROAD By MARY S. WATTS EZEKIEL IN TRANSIT By LUCY AGNES PRATT AN IDYL OF TIIE YARDS By MAUDE RADFORD TIIE TOWER OF TIIE DOG By M. GAUSS THE KNUCKLE-FUSIIER By V'lIX, ADAMS THE LONG SHIFT By EUGENE RHODES ALI KARA v By JAURS noiTEa Besides this splendid fiction, the August number offers four articles of unusual im portance : TIIE PHYSIOGNOMY OF LINCOIJM By TRUMAN 11. BARTLETT This Is a singularly uplifting and illumi nating study of Lincoln, written by a frrc-at sculptor and Illustrated with por traits and life masks. At a presenta tion of Lincoln tho article it a worthy companion to Miss Tarbell's "lie Knew Lincoln." HIE AUTOBIOGRAPHY' AND CONFESSION OF HARRY ORCHARD Only a fragment of the story Is to ba oea In evidence against the three offi cers of the Western Federation of Miners, but the complete autobiography will bo printed in McClure's. HOW MRS. EDDY'S HUSBAND WAS INDICTED for an alleged conspiracy to murder. How the case created a sensation in Lynn and in Boston, but was nolla prossed and never came to trial. CAN AMERICANS AFFORLU SAFETY IN RAILROAD r TRAVEL ? This Is the most important contribution to a subject of more than national inter est that has yet appeared in print, McClure's Magazine All News-stands, 10 Cents. $1.00 a Year. FLASHES OF FUN. "It's a funny thing;, but that sexton looks like a lot of people I know about here." "It Isn't a bit strange; he Is rlna-or for the whole town." Baltimore American. '1 notice that you writers use a groat deal of tobacco. Ios is stimulate your brains?' "I don't know. Rut It makes you forget that you're hungry." Cleveland Leader. "I tell you. young man, we want brains in this business." "I know you do; your management shows it." Washington Herald. "Jinks Is an undoubted genius." "Hut he acts like an ordinary man." "Well, all geniuses have their little eccen tricities." Laoulsvllle Courier-Journal. Merchant I though you told me he was a man of very good churacter. Quibble I gues you misunderstood ma. I said he was a man of good reputation. Chicago Record-Herald. Whnt would you call the color of Mrs. Bwlftley's hair?" "I think Id call it fickle." Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Papa." said th fashlnnsble daurhter, "I muKt have my appendix cut out. All th girls are doing It now." "All right." responded the old ninn, "but In that rase I'll cut out the automobile you've been talking about." As he went downtown tho girl was think ing It over. Philadelphia ledger. TUB FOOLISII MAID. Baltimore American. A fair maiden sat In her bower alone. Sing ho for a lover, sing high! Her Teauty It sparkled like stars In th night, Her laugh It was merry and gay. And knights came afar for her hand, But she only laughed on at each new, luckless klght, , For love was hers to command. Sing ho for a lover, sing high! "Why should I heed Iov when be kneels here my slave?" Sing ho for a lover, sing high! "I send htm away with a toss and a wave, And never he dares say nay. And then If I beckon, he flics to my side. And kisses my feet for a look; So why yield him rule?" said the maid In her pride. "Why should I the rule of Love brookT" Sing ho for a lover, sing high! But time, the old traitor, the maiden's ' youth stole, oi Bins ho for a lover, sing high! y And then he demanded her beauty as toll, Next thing, ha was taking her away. And once more she slis In her bower alone, For Ixi ve has grown tired and Is gone; Though all sh will promise, forever h'g flown, And left her, lost chaees to mourn. Sing ho for a lover, sing high! Vi