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THE OifAITA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY, JULY ."0. 1D07. The Omaha Daily Be. FOfNDED BT EDWArjJD ROSEVTATKR. VICTuK ltUSEWATtR, EDITOR. Entered at Oiimlia postof&ce as second last matter. TEKM4 OF SUBSCRIPTION, pally Bee (without 8cinuy), one year..$4.W Daily itcfi and Hiinutjr, one year .uu Sunday bee, one year il.o0 Saturday Bee, ,., year I.M DELI VERED BT CARRIER. I'aily Rea (including Sunday), per eik..l. i'aily Bee (without Sunday i. per weeK..ltf: iiventi.g Bh (without bundsyi, ,er Weak uc livening- Ra (with Bunrtayi. ppr mk..l"0 Address all complaints of irreiculurltles la dsllrery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building South Omaha city Uall Building. Council Bluffs-is Htoit Street. Chkago lt-t Cnity Building. ew lurk lJOs Home l.l Inauranca Bid. VVaehing ton ml Fourteenth Street. CORRESRONUEMCE. Communications relating to news and edi torial matter ahould be addressed, Omaha , Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to The Hee Publishing Company. Only 2-cent stamps received In payment of Diall accounts. Personal checks, txcept on viiiaha or eastern ext-hungs, not accepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. V' f Nebraska, Uouglas county, as: -hrles C. Rosewater, general manager r Ihe Bee Publishing Company. nelng ? worr. says that the actual numlvt J rull and complete copies of The Dally Morning .Evening and Sunday Bee printed uring tha month of June, Mu7. waa af follows: M.530 IT. II. 1. 36,480 36,490 86,480 I. 36,600 36,630 I.... ,S90 10 86,310 36,410 SS.810 ' 8S.630 BSOO 88,900 36,660 11 36,630 I 36,830 1 36,640 1 86,930 11. It. It. ... 86.330 ... 36,610 ... 36,730 14 36,300 It . . . 36,680 16 36,660 17 86,670 II 89,470 19 86,860 10 86,960 IS. 16. 37,170 36,800 Total... 1,034,320 Leas unsold and returned coplaa. . 1089 ' Net total 1,083,831 aJljr average 36,137 CHARLES C. RGSEWATER. B,,K.rt... . General Manager. fc5or! n ,m.y P'" nd sworn to .u. Vm thl lat fay t July. 1907. tseal il. B. h ungate, Notary Public WHES OUT OP TOWN. Subscribers leaving the city tem. orarlly ahonld hare The Bee nailed to them. Addreaa will be hanged aa often aa requested. Contrary to usual practice, the army a8 laid aside itg Ayrea. President Roosevelt Is surprising the country again by proving that he knows how to rest. Commissioner Bingham has ordered the New York policemen to be civil and polite. " 'Gwan." "I am a fool and a weakling," wrote a St. Louis lawyer. Then he proved his case by committing suicide. - Filipino agitators whoasBert that they prefer Japanese to American rule ahould read up on the history of Corea. The pledge of economy and low tax levies is one of the promises of the democratic city platform which no longer counts. Railroads are learning that while they may defy the state courts, It U not at all profitable to persistently efy public sentiment. Carrie Nation has deferred her plans or reforming Pittsburg. Probably 8he Is waiting until she can first trade ber hatchet for an axe. One more week for candidates to file their names for tha official primary ballot. There are no signs, however, I any great land office rush, A DaniBh scientist has succeeded In producing bsr in the form of a tab let. It will be lu great demand by druggists In prohibition states. While preparing hero medals for presidential candidates, It should be remembered that Colonel Dryan has 4Td fusion's life several times. Fire-eater Hobson doubtless, figures that it is entirely safe to sound the tocsin of war from a Chautauqua plat form erected on a Nebraska prairie. Harry Orchard still , Insists he has been telling the truth. It is common knowledge that a man may tell a He bo often that he will believe It him self. The explanation offered by Sheriff McDonald to excuse the notorious grafting In his office Is that "they all io It" That explanation won't go this time. (' The federal government has donated a warship, a little the worse for the wear, to the naval militia of Missouri. Now let Japan do Its worst. The coun try la safe. "Roosevelt has gathered wisdom as the dayg have gone by," says Bryan's' Commoner. " Even Mr. Bryan can not help calling attention to the difference between Mr. Roosevelt and himself. Tha Chicago Inter Ocean has scored a big scoop over all Its contemporaries by the discovery that the entire west In ablaze with enthusiasm over Speaker Cannon's presidential boom. More than $14,000,000 In matured government bonds on which Interest ceased July 1 have not yet been pre sented for redemption. Times can not be so very hard with the bondholders. The committee) of the' Alabama leg islator appointed to Investigate the books and accounts of Booker Wash ington's Institute at Tuikegee regrets to report that everything was found la first-class abap. JAPAT8 DREAM Or EM PI HZ, Japan apparently Is making no se cret of its plans for the future enlarge ment of its sphere of Influence. Hav ing secured absolute domination of the affairs of Corea, Viscount Hayashl, the Japanese minister of foreign affairs, discussing the recent treaty and the action leading up to It, Is quoted as saying: If the lesson of the fata of Corea can be so regarded by China, It may have warned that government to put Ita house in order. Some of the elder statesmen of Japan have been contending that Japan's immediate work is in the orient and that there could be no ex cuse for talk about war with the United States. Viscount Hayashl makes it plain thp.t the energetic Japanese have their eye on China, with a desire and intention eventually to effect a consolidation of the yellow races Into a mighty coalition dominated by Japan. . Perhaps the history of the last dozen years has served to justify Japan's confidence In Its ability to un dertake the mighty task of moderniz ing China. Since the war of 1894, the world has understood that Japan is the more powerful nation of the two, In spite of China's greater size and population. Japan's defeat of Russia gave the Japanese a secure foothold In Manchuria, in which region the Japanese already exercise complete domination of commercial and Indus trial Interests. China will naturally refuse to sub mit to this program of absorption or spoliation without a struggle, and the other great powers which have zones of Influence In China will naturally re sent threatened Japanese encroach ment, but whether any outside influ ences can prevent the realization of Japan's dream of conquest is open to question. At most the conquest will hardly come as the result of an open war, but rather through tha exertion of Japan's resistless energy and de termination to make Tokio the real If not the nominal capital of the empire of 600,000,000 people now embraced In Japan, Corea and China. Japan's plan is evidently to secure mastery of China by bringing that empire, with Corea, Into touch with the world, under Japanese tutelage. Such a com bination would give Japan almost lim itless strength as a world power, as sure its ascendancy in the orient and fulfill the dream of Japanese empire. help wanted. More opportunities are open for men and women willing to work in America today than at any previous time in the history of the country, and absolutely no excuse exists for Idleness on the part of the able-bodied. Proof of this assertion is found In the applications for workmen on file with the commis sioner of Immigration in Washington. The commissioner recently sent a letter of inquiry to governors, labor com missioners, heads of big corporations and other officials and individuals in different states, as to the demand for labor in different sections of the coun try, the purpose of the inquiry being to aid In the distribution of Immigrants arriving at New York City and other Atlantic ports. The replies that have been received form one chorus of "Help Wanted." Massachusetts, according to Governor Guild, "wants laborers throughout the stafte, both In agricultural and manu facturing Industries." Oregon sends through its governor, an urgent ap peal for "all classes of workmen, married or single, union or non-union, just so they are willing to work for good wages." Maryland, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas and nearly every state In the south echoes the demand and expresses the fear that the south will not get its share of the Incoming flood of workmen from foreign shores. The call for help Is but another proof of the generally prosperous condition of the country. Every industry Is flourishing and every enterprise prom ising lucrative returns. The man who is willing and able to work has no seri ous difficulty in securing his chance to share In the profits. rvsioy BY DIRECT mix ART. The democratic World-Herald seeks to quiet the fears of an lnqulsiilve fu- slonist as to the difficulties of fusion under the new primary law by assur ing him that a candidate seeking nom ination on both the democratic and populist tickets "will have all the pro tection he needB." It admits, how ever, that the law does interpose a troublesome obstacle in the way of practical fusion, because to secure fu sion at the polls on any candidate that candidate must first have gained at the primaries a plurality vote of both rartles, or, to be more exact, of each party separately. This is a significant admission, be ing equivalent to saying that hereto fore fusion has been accomplished in Nebraska by dictation of the political bosses and that populist candidates have been forced on the democratic ticket and democratic candidates forced on the populiat ticket who could nover have hoped to receive a plurality vote of the rank and die of these re spective parties. Fusion has been a product of the discredited convention system and it could never have reached the established status It has held for more than ten years were the nominations made by direct vote of the members of each political party. It is safe to say, for example, that had the present primary law been opera tive a year ago George W. Berge would have been the populist nominee for governor and In all probability the democratic nominee, too, instead of A. C. Shallenberger. Tha oold truth U that fusion aa practiced in this state has teen noth ing more nor less than a clever device to nullify the real wishes of the voters and to cajole them into accepting nominees for whom they would not stand of their own accord. DEPVl'Vt.A TED Mr TCRK" FARMS. Western farmers will read with in terest, if not amazement, that a con vention of farmers and officials in terested in the development of the agri cultural interests of the slate has been called to consider what action can be taken to prevent the further depopu lation of New York farms. We have heard, out here in the west, wonder ful stories of the richness of the farms "back in York state" and of the great wealth from the operation of the farms, orchards and dairies there. But the announcement conies, from offi cial sources, that since 1880 farm lands in New York have fallen in value by $170,000,000 and that more than 12,000 farms have been aban doned, while some agricultural dis tricts have lost as high as 60 per cent of their population. Experts of the De partment of Agriculture at Washington have been asked to attend the coming convention and present planB, if they have any, for .the re-population of the New York farms and the improvement or rejuvenation of the abandoned lands. That such conditions should be re ported from New York, particulary at a lime when land values throughout the west are Increasing every year and when farm products are commanding a better price than ever before in the history of the country, is certainly sur prising. It is now proposed that the Department of Agriculture establish model farms in every school district in the farming region of New York for in struction with special reference to the adaptability of the soil to special crops. These experiments are expected to prove' that the abandoned farms may still be worked with good profit by Increasing the products in special de mand and convenient to a ready mar ket. Many reasons are offered for the ex odus from the New York farms. Soil experts state that, while the soil of the abandoned farms is not so fertile as in former years, it is still capable of pro ducing good crops and could be re stored to its former value in short time by a proper fertilizing and rotation of crops. The real reason probably is that the farmers are paying the pen alty of prosperity. The development of the commercial and manufacturing in terests of the towns and cities of Now York state has been so rapid that premiums are paid for the services of the farmers' boys in different indus tries. Labor has been commanding such prices In industrial and com mercial lines that the farmers have not been able-to secure needed help and have been compelled to give up farm ing except on a small scale., Then the farmers of New York, as is the custom everywhere, have been in the habit of taking everything from the soil and returning nothing, with the result that the fertility of the farms has been seriously impaired. The decrease in the value of the prop erty of the New York farmers 13 proof that something Is wrong. The ten dency to desert the rural districts Is a serious menace to the future of the agricultural interests of the nation. FR O rO R TlOHA L MILL LEVIES. The final figures of the new grand assessment roll for Nebraska, al though still subject to revision by the State Board of Equalization, consti tute a complete vindication of the position of The Bee against propor tional mill levies in place of specific appropriations for state institutions and of the action of the legislature in adopting the resolution to the same effect, Introduced and championed by Representative Tucker of this county. The grand assessment roll for the coming year foots up $328,700,337.27, as against $313,080,301.02, upon which the last state levy was Imposed. The Increase in taxable property, therefore, is $16,640,036.27, and for every mill levy will bring into the state treasury an additional revenue of $16,640. Had the legislature made new appropriations on the propor tional mill theory it would have been giving the ' beneficiaries in each case that much more even than they de manded. The result for this year, however, would have been of small moment besides what might have been looked for next year when the quad rennial assessment of real estate val ues Is to be had and when it is safe to expect an increase in the assess ment roll of not less than $25,000,000, and perhaps much more. With this object lesson before us it is to be hoped the scheme for "pro portional mill levies whenever pro jected again, as It surely will be, will meet with still less favor. Now that the harm has been done, a whole lot of people are finding occa sion to denounce certain provisions of the new Nebraska child labor law, which, while it was pending before the legislature, no one but The Bee and its editor had the hardihood to criti cise. The child labor law. If enforced, will make lots of trouble for Innocent and deserving people, and If not en forced will have the same demoraliz ing effect, of other dead letter laws. One of the attorneys to whom the Water board Just voted $7,600 of the taxpayers' money for services in pre venting "Immediate compulsory pur chase of the water works" is headed for Europe to spend some of the do&u. Tha other vaUs bcuurA lawyer, who got only $7,000, is ety lng home to help the railroads fight "hostile" legislation. It is never safe to anticipate a Jury's verdict Here is Collier's Weekly ousting all the officers of the Western Federation of Miners from their posi tions on the cv of a vindication for one of the accused by acquittal of the crime for which he was being tried. Is it likely that the federation will dis miss an officer after such a vindica tion T One of the eastern papers has dis covered that an excursion of Omaha business men went ail the way to Boise last month for no other purpose but to view the participants in the Moyer-Haywood trial. This will be "news as is news" to the bunch of toosters who carried Omaha's banner to the Pacific coast and back. William Jennings Bryan has defined a democrat as one who believes in the rule of the people. Specifically ap plied locally, this means the rule of a conference committee representing the Dahlman democracy and the Jackson ion club trying to get together on a division of the pie. New York papers are minimizing the accounts of the murders committed daily in that city, Just as they would smear them all over the front page under startling headlines if they had been committed at Tombstone, Ariz., or Yubadam. The emperor of Corea signed the new treaty with Japan voluntarily as soon as he looked out the palace win dow and saw five regiments of Japa nese soldiers lined up ready for busi ness. According to the gas commission er's testing machine aa translated by the veracious World-Herald, Omaha is enjoying $1.07 gas. Won't the gas commissioner please make another test? Democratic campaign managers say they will have 6,000 speakers In the Pennsylvania state campaign this fall. Pennsylvania democrats have more orators than voters. Every man in the village of Kerl- sova, Hungary, has emigrated to the United States. Kerlsova must look like the average American summer re sort in early autumn. Rivalry of Heroes. New York Sun. , Mr. Fairbanks and Mr. Bryan have scored a point apiece in the hero game. It is Mr. Falrbank's next move. Coasolatlon. Chicago Record-Herald. It ahould always be remembered that people who go crazy over base ball might have gone crazy over something worse if they had not become interested in the na tional game. , ,,ri- , ... . . Convenient" Chan ares. Washington Post. Mr. Bryan may change his mind about a few of his paramount Issues, but no one experts him to change his mind about de siring to occupy the White house for a term or two. Stand from Under. Philadelphia Press. It la stated authoritatively that at a big rHnner to be given In Lincoln soon Colonel Bryan will formally announce himself a candidate for the presidential nomination. But his friend Willis Abbott didn't wait for the dinner; he Just made the announce ment before breakfast. Opposition to Senator Knox. Kansas City Star. The conclusion reached by Senator Knox of Pennsylvania that In his race for presi dent he will have "only the opposition of Taft" la not altogether correct. There Is the opposition of several million people behind Taft which the senator from Penn sylvania will be compelled to reckon with. Tabloids Instead of Tabs, New York Tribune. A Danish inventor having succeeded In putting up beer In tablet form, local op tion now becomes a farce everywhere, save In the arid regions. Incidentally the fore sight displayed In the government's irri gation policy la almost supernatural. What is a land flowing with milk and honey In comparison with one whose streams are potential Pilsner? PATENTS A TBl'ST BULWARK. Baying; Up and Suppressing; Important Invention s. New York Journal of Commerce. The extent to which the patent law is a bulwark of trusts In this country is not generally appreciated. The exclusive patent right Is the one real monopoly granted by the government Itself and di rectly protected by It. It Is not a monop. oly for the inventor alone, but for any one to whom he may assign his patent and who may make use of It or not. It Is seldom the inventor that gets any great advantage or profit. This buying up and suppressing Inventions Is a gross abuse which can. only be remedied by a radical change In the patent law. Everyone who makes a useful and val uable invention should be assured of his reward In a fair return from its use, but even he ahould not have the exclusive use of It, much less one to whom he may sell the right. It should be for the bene fit of tha public and all to whom It may be made useful should be able to avail of It upon Just and reasonable terma. Thus It could be made an agent of com petition and progress Instead of the main stay of monopoly. Dr. Lyon's PERFECT ' Tooth Powder Cleanses and beuutifles the teeth and purifies tha breath. Used by people of refinement bx over a quarter of a century. Convenient for tourists. rairARto Y NOTES ON OMAHA SOCIETY Miss Hazel Connell Keepi Open House for Her Guest, WEEK 0PEXS WITH QUIET CLUBS Invitations Ileittn Com to a; for Lanch. eons, Largest of Which Will lie Given by Mrs. Oeoraje A. Joslyn Tuesday. Sunday night suppers at the clubs were by no means numerous and nono of them were large, none exceeding eeven covers, while the majority ranged from two to four. Among those who entertained at the Country club were: Mr. and Mrs. Charles Clapp who had three guests; W. B. Rob erts, Ave; Mr. and Mrs. C. It. Qulou, two; K. Walters, three; ,F. J. McShnne, three; Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Cotton, five; Mr. and Mrs. Ward Burgess, three; Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Teters, two; J. Baldwin, three, and Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Baum. two. The largest supper at the Field club wns given by Mr. J. 1 Rowlands who had six gueota. Others having guests were: F. O. Baker, two; W. A. Flxley, three; II. Eld ridge, three; Fred Hamilton, two; Aubrey Potter, two; F. Metz, three; Vr. Sliahk, two; E. N. Stannard, two; James Atlnn, three;' P. C. Heafey, three; Mr. and Mrs. M. Murphy, two; James Spencer, three. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kountzo had four guests at Happy Hollow; C. A. Nordstrom, three, and a dozen others entertained ono or two guests. Pleasures Past. Friends of Miss Connell and Miss Hazel Connell were privileged to mei-t their guest, Miss Eftee of Montpellor. Vt., Sunday even ing when they received informally In her honor. During the evening many embraced the opportunity of meeting Miss Etoe and enjoyed the hospitality of her hostesses. Mrs. I-uther M. Ielsrnrlng, fornii-rly Miss Ethel Wilcox, of this city, ent.-rlalned at luncheon Saturday at tho home of her mother. Mrs. George A. Wilcox, In honor of Miss Lou Lelsenrlng of Santiago, Cal. Shasta daisies and asparagus forn formed a pretty centerpiece and covers were laid for eight. Mrs, Philip Potter entertained a parly of at luncheon at the Field club Mon- seven day. Prospective Pleasores. Mrs. George A. Joslyn has Issued Invita tions for a luncheon of fifty covers to oe given Tuesday at the Country club In honor of Mrs. William A. Redick, who has re cently returned from the east. The date of the lawn social to be given at the residence of Mrs. miner inr Church of the Good Shopard has been changes from August 2 to Thursday, Aug ust 1. Personal Oosslp. Mr. Russell Burket, brother of Senator Burket, Is the guest of Mr. Fred Thomas. Miss Harper of Ottumwa, la., and Miss Ollbreath of 1. Plata, Mo., have returned home, having come to Omaha to attend the Blackburn-Carey wedding. Dean and Mrs. Beecher and children were the guests of Dr. and Mrs. Allison at their summer home at Coffman Satur day. Tuesday morning Miss Louise McKnerson and her guest, Miss Smedlcy, MIfs Marie McShane and Mrs. MeFherson, will leave In their new car for Iike Okoboll. where they will meet Miss Margaret McPherson, who has been the guest of friends at the lake for the last two weeks. Miss Smed ley will leave from OkoboJI for her borne In Salt Lake City. Mr. Hugh MeWhorter will drive the car from Omaha to OkoboJI and the party may be accompanied by an other party In the Van Brunt car from Council Bluffs. Mrs. Henry Hiller and son, Mr. Morton Hlller, left "Monday - for Lofce OkoboJI to Join the rest of the family, they having a cottage there. General and Mrs. C. F. Manderson leave Saturday to spend the month of August at Poland Springs, Me. Mrs. A. Mandelberg and daughter, Miss RoBlna, are In Atlantic City. Mrs. Sloman of. Detroit Is the guest of her sister. Mrs. A. D. Brandcls, at her country home near Florence. Miss Helen Forbes left Monday to spend the coming month at Lake OkoboJI. Dr. and Mra. J. P. Lord and family ar rived home Sunday from Dixon, 111. Mrs. Herman Cohn and Miss Hazel Cohn have returned from Elkhart Lake. Mrs. Peycke of Kansas City Is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Arthur F. Smith. Mr. Peycke returned home Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. E. W. North have returned from their wedding trip to Denver and the mountains of Colorado and are at home at the Dunsany. Mr. and Mra. E. B. Dake and daughter. Miss Gertrude, have returned from Denver and Colorado Springs. I'UllhO.VAL NOTKS. Wyoming has found a 300-foot lizard, but that's nothing to some of the things they see out there. The New York woman who ate a dinner of ham and cabbage, with cucumbers, Ice oream, soda water and cherry pie on the aide, la dead. Police Commissioner Bingham of New York advises policemen to club any poli ticians who bother them. Ferhape there really is to be an era of reform In the metropolis. The greatgrandson of Robert Burns, the poat, has recently been acting aa Judge of the police court of Louisville. His name Is J. Marshall Chatterson, and for many year he has been an attorney In Louisville, Ky. In New York on the surface lines you can ride S7 miles ror 6 cents; in Phila delphia, 20 miles; in Chicago, 24 miles; In St. Louis, 22 miles, and in Baltimore, Bos ton, Detroit, Pittsburg, San Francisco and Washington distances vary from 13 to 17 miles. On Omaha lines you can ride from Benson to Albright, IS miles, for a nickel. These figures make the railroad rate of t cents a mile look mighty big. Governor Hughes of New York has ap pointed Mortimer Grant Barnes, a well known civil engineer of New York City, to be a member of the board of advisory en gineers for the barye canal. He is a grad uate of the University of Michigan and has a varied experience In the construction of waterways. Including tho Birmingham ca nal In Alabama, the Sault Ste. Marie canal. the Illinois and Mlusissippl canal and the Panama canaL Havana papers of tha 22d Inst, feature the celebration In honor of the settlement of the Cuban clgarmakers' strike. It was pulled off on Sunday, the 21st, and was the biggest labor event ever seen in the Cuban capital. Governor Magoon's activity In bringing about a satisfactory settlement of the dispute made him the hero of the oc casion. He was pelted with flowers, com plimented in speeches and acclaimed the best governor Cuba ever had. Sydney Talbot, aged 68, a tugboat engineer, and an American, now plying his trade at London, England, and who had worked all his life without an ailment, was takun to a hospital suffttrln-r from a slight stroke of paralysis a few weeks ago. Talbot has always been temperate In the use of t- bacoo and alcohol, but Is not a teetotaler. He confidently expects to live and work for six or seven years more, baaing his Idea on the facts that his father was H, his mother .106 .aol his sister 1A wbsa the ' Fire and Smoke Sale Having our insurance adjusted for all merchandise outside of our safe, be ginning Tuesday morning July 30, I will offer at a great sacrifice the follow ing goods that are slightly damaged by smoke: FINE LEATHER BAGS AND PURSES UMBRELLAS, GOLD AND SILVER MOUNTED OPERA GLASSES CUT GLASS ROGERS' SILVER PLATED KNIVES, FORKS AND SPOONS All Goes at 50c on the $t.00 It will pay you to call ca.rly Pi POLITICS IX NEBRASKA. neaver City Tribune: Now is the time to make a noise like a candidate If you ex-' pect to gut in ofllce. sterling gun; Is It not a little strange how few fellows there seem to be who want public omce when they have to de pend on tha vote of all the members of their party for a nomination Instead of tho manipulations of a few in a county convention? Primrose Record: In these days of In dependent voting, with party ties growing looser every campaign, the politician has a great deal of temerity who flaunts his deals and Intrigues In the face of the pub lic and then appeals to party allegiance to pull him through. The candidate depending on a few "close friends" In each precinct for his nomination Is likely to have a rude awakening after the primaries aro over. Beatrice Express: The populist party of Nebraska has been resuscitated by a de cision of the supreme court, and Its Identity has been sufficiently restored to give com fort, if not much aid, to tho democratic orKanlzatlon. We are glad the court was able to so act. We approve of perpetuat ing, If possible, a show of populist organi zation on the humane ground of encourag ing democracy, which Is none too cheerful and hopeful even with tho fancied help of ostenslblo fusion. Howells Journal: There Is a happy lot of political medicine mixers In Nebraska. We refer to the bunch who were contending for fusion. The cause for their rejoicing is the handing down of a decision by tho I supreme court holding that fusion Is per missible under the new primary law. The decision, so far as Colfax county Is con cerned, Is of no ooneo.uence, as fusion Is a thing of the past here, where the two old parties have long since come to the wise conclusion that they con run their own shows without any side attractions. York Times: "It Is not generally under stood that we have a railway commissioner to elect this fall. Mr. Clark of Omnha, was appointed to fill a vacancy, by the governor and his successor will have to be elected this fall. This Is a very Important office. Tho commission Is new and Its policy and usefulness are yet tn be developed. We want stroiiK, fearless and honorable men on the commission who will not be afraid to do things nor too Indolent to do them. The commission can be vastly beneficial to the people of the state If It Is composed of the right kind of men. When dispute arises between a citizen and a railroad company the latter has a vast advantage In every way. It should be made easy and Inexpensive for him to appeal to the commission for re dress. There Bhould be no red tape and the way should be made plain. York Times: One objection to the primary law from a party standpoint Is the tempta tion in a prullmlnary campaign to go too far in an elTort to defeat an opposing can didate. Republican papers should not mis represent republican candidates nor fur nish material to the opposition for use when the real struggle comes on. Neither should they say things that will handicap themselves. This Is what we most fear in the present campaign. We have no fear that the people of the state will turn Judge Sedgwick down. There Is no possible rea son for it and no chance that they will do It. He carried the state by twelve thou sand two years after "his present opponent had been defeated by eighteen thousand, making a difference of thirty thousand In Judge Sedgwick's favor, and these were republican votes. They are all here now, pi actlcally, and Judge Sedgwlckxhas gained prestige with the people during his term of oftlce. Ha will be nominated, but cer acing food U I nerves I atritive food for heal thy appetites S' lengthening food for sturdy muscles The most nourishing wheat food Ur.eeda Biscuit ! s 1 3 In dust NATIONAL ri W mil tain papers are saying things now that will vmbarass them In the campaign and that Is whon we need them. It Is not so Im portant whether they ara for 'or against him now as It will be after the third of September. If Judge Iteuan should decide to enter the race, which we understand he Is very reluctant to do, the Times hopes nothing will be said against him that would Impair his chance of election should he be nominated. JJEItnV JI;.KS. "I object to your attention to my daugh. ter!" cried the irate parent, and thereupon kicked the young man out of the boust. As lie picked hlniNeit up the rejected, suitor murmured meditatively, "I admit that the old man's objections carry weight." i'hlludulphia Press. "Miss Eleanore," said he, as they sat ort the beach in tho moonlight, "will you murry me?" "This is so sudden!" she cried. "My love?" ho asked. "No," she replied; "your nerve." Judge. "So you think the president has the right Idea shout haymaking?" "Yes." answered Farmer Corntassel; "he did what every other man In the business would do If ho could go throiikh with one day'a work and let It go at that." Wash ington btar. The Judge rodo by while Maud Muller whs raking hay. "He's no good," said Maud; "if he was a candidate he would be doing the raking himself." Herewith she nlnned the flirtation In the bud. New York Sun. I heord Mr. Chevalier the other tW.ftt' tell Miss oldglrl the years evidently att .J still for her." "So they do. She's been 25 ever slnca I whs u kid lu knickerbockers." Baltimore American. "The minister Is going to preach next time on the. original slu." . - r"' "I think," declared Mrs. Bmartset, "wsj all oiight o go." "Why?" :- "lteeuuse sin nowadays Is so unoriginal." Loulsvillo Courier-Journal. "It seems to me, my dear," said -Mrs. Stiles, "your bathing suits nre rut en tirely too low in the neck. Now look at May Hoxley; see how -modest her suit la In that regard." "Ma," replied Miss Stiles, "It Isn't mod esty with hor, but a mole." Philadelphia I'ress. He-So you persist engagement? She Most decidedly In breaking oft tha What do you run ror? He oh, about 40. Better think It overi It may be your lust chance. Harpers) Weekly. "(iOT 'KM AUAIX." "He's gut "em again, " the neighbors say. As the village poet passes their way L'p the vlllago street with a dreamy look "Them's the symptoms, plain as a book." "Got 'em again," yes. "Got 'em again1 The poet sat in his meager den; His head wns swuthed In a towel wet. l'ust midnight and he composln' yet. His fire was out, his light burned low, ' Hut his heart within was all aglowv And his thoughts kept rhythmic pace with his pen, Which si-t-med to say, "He's got 'em again." His faraway look and disheveled hair Betokened there'd been a brainstorm there, "Oh, what what word will rhyme wltli ten?" Quoth a voice at the keyhole, "He's got 'em again. His verses go out In the monilng mall. And his heart knows no such word aa fallf Fond hopes are kindled In his breast, So he dreams Ids drenm and knows no rest. Till the days pass by-a week or more-! The neighbors see him as before And they know full well, f-ir he looks a ghost. That he's "got 'em again" by the morn ing post." BAYOLL NETRELB, for steady moisturt and proof packages BISCUIT COMPANY