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IIIK OMAHA DAILY HEE: SATUTTDAT, AUGUST 10, 13OT. Tiif. omailv Daily lira FUl'NDED BY EDWARD ROSItWAThfl. VICTOR ROSKWATER. tDITOIV. Entered at Omaha postofflc aa second class matter, TEKMS CK "SUBSCRIPTION. telly Bee (wltheut Sunday), one jrear..H L-aily Bee and unay , one year Buntlsy Bee, one year,. Saturday iiee, -one year PELJ VKHKD BY CARRIER. lally Bee Uorlu.iing Sumlay;, par week..Uo fally itee (althoui Sunday, par week..MS: Evening Bee (without Sunday), per weak tc iArnug bee wuh Sunday I. per Addma all complaints of Irregularity in delivery to CUy Ctrculatlen Department. OFFICES. Omahe-The Bee BuUdlnr' ' bouih Onialia-Clty Hall Building. Ccumfll BluRa-U Bcoit Street. Chicago lfrM) Unity Building. . New Vork IMS Home Life Insurance BIO. Vt ashlngton 601 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Pomtnunk atloos relating to new and edi torial roaner ahould b addreased, omalia Bee, Editorial Lepartn-ent. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order payable to Tne Bee Funnelling Cempany. Only l-rent stamps received In payment or mall account, l'eraonal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchange, not accepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Stale of .Nebraska. Douglas county, ss: Charles C. Roaewater, general mntw of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, says that the actual ""J"'.'" of full and complete copiea of The 1N Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed luring the month of July. l91. wai a follows: 1 30,240 Z . 39,190 1 86,189 4 38.E00 6 38,840 ... 36,490 f .. 96,600 j7 36,700 H ..... . 36,480 Iji 36,810 20 36,800 2l 38,880 21 37,370 1 86,670 14 36,830 jj 36,430 it 36,400 37 30,700 1 36,900 1 36,810 .36,340 36,430 36,330 36,340 38.C0O W.IM 3CsS0 21 19. 10. SI 36,400 41,370 96eW0 36,890 Tota. .1,13800 Less unjold and returned copies . . 10,338 Net total ". .... ,l,ial.8B Dally average i.....r 36.1M CHARLES C. R08EWATEH. . Oeneral Manager. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me ihla let day of August, 1901. ISeal) M.'B. liUNuATK Notary fublta. OUT Or TOWH. Subscribers liarlsg the City teaa porartly -. shealm Ure . Tke Dee nailed fv tktm. Andreas will ! (huutrd aa of tea aa reaarste. "Life Is lull of. trials," 8ayB the Louisville Courier-Journal, Bud It was not discussing the Caleb Towers case, either. No suggestion has yet been made that a popular collection be taken up to pay the Standard Oil fine. "I hare tried to do right," - says John D. Rockefeller. "It at first you don't succeed, try, try again." No southern governor is at his best unless he cats a live railroad president as an appetizer every morning. "A fine of $29,240,000 appeals to Imagination," says the New York Sun. It also appeals.. tp the supreme court. Milwaukee officials are 'trying ' to "mature, a plan" to, stop gambling. The .way to stop gambling is to stop it. Governor Sheldon has come to Omaha for a Judge advocate on tils official staff. Ha is a Judge all right. Colonel Watterson declares that Governor Hughes of New York Is "a statesman and honest man," Just as though the combination were unusual. An exchange refers to "Air. Bryan's last platform.". The reference is evi dently Intended to be to Mr. Bryan's latest platform. lie has not prepared bis last one yet, Eight hundred-Indians have Joined the ' Baptist church In, Oklahoma. What a cheering sign of civilization's progress when Indians get that close to tho water:waan. "It Is a crime to accept money for poetry," says' William Dean Howells, Possibly, but the number of offenses of tbat character Is not large enough to occasion any undue alarm. That Pennsylvania contractor who made 1,100 per cent profit on the capllol building Job makes the Stand ard OU, with Its measly 68 per cent profit, lookr Ilka a piker. The esteemed democratic World Herald descants editorially under tho distressing caption,' "What is Pie?" Referred to Mayor "Jim" and th lemocratlc patriots In the city hall. An Indiana man has been arrested a charge of insanity simply because 9 Insisted on throwing mud at jassersby.' -Chances are he la a poll Uclan, gettrng.in practice for the fall -ampalgu. An AUanta policeman .Insists that he saw a red snake with a blue tall and his whiskers tied in a bowknot under his chin.' Perhaps Georgia has oot been too hasty In passing that prohibition law. It Is to be noted that the private secretary of the senior senator of Ne braska has been re-elected secretary of the Kpworth league which operates :he Chautauqua at Lincoln. This ought to Insure a reciprocity in the making of cbautauqua lecture dates. The Omaha street railway company la getting a lot of free advertising on the strength of its paid advertising in structing patrons how to get on and ff Its cars. But it Is results that tell, ind If the appropriation lor settling lamage aults and paying JudfmenU reduced the company will have no Lick com lag TW! f NHtf Atwtn. ,- Southern opposition to he tleino crattc nomination of William Jennings Bryan for president next year Is be coming more and rftoe pronounced, although the prime moron In the ag itation for a southern' man apparently feel that they are leading a forlorn hope. Senator Bacon of .Georgia Is urging Senator Daniel of Virginia, while a number of southern editors and statesmen are trying to inflate a boom for Senator Culberson of Texas. As the agitation develops, the one fact Is made clear that the leading demo crats of the south are not In sympathy with Mr. Bryan's outline of the issues to be made paramount In the next campaign. His recantation of the declaration in favor of government ownership of railways has not satis fied the south, particularly as he makes "railroad regulation" the para mount issue, while expressing the opinion in advance that regulation will fall, and then llloglcally asks that he be given charge of the plan of reg ulation In which he has no faith. Democratic leaders In the south be lieve regulation will cure the Ills that now plague the business of Interstate transportation. This is the contention of Senator Culberson, John Sharp Wil liams, Senator Daniel, Senator Bank head, Senator Bacon and all the men In the south whose Judgment has heretofore been considered sound and good by the southern voters. Senator Bacon is outspoken on this proposi tion. In outlining the policy of the party for the coming presidential fight he declares the paramount Issues' should be a revision of the tariff and opposition to the centralization of power in the federal government. On two of the issues raised by Mrv Bryan the Georgia senator says: " .' '" ' The democratic platform must contain an emphatic and specific repudiation of tha In itiative and referendum and tho ownership of railroads by the government. Otherwise, they will cling to us like '.the ..shirt ' of Nessus. ' V. The shirt of Nessus was a" garment of exceeding discomfort to the gentle man who was compelled to wear it. lone, if our mythology la on straight, dipped the shirt in the blood of a slain monster, having been told ; that- it would prove a love philter, and then gave It to her husband, IIerculeB, to wear. The love philter theory failed. The shirt proved to be poisoned and Hercules could not remove It. He could not even get It laundered and the poison caused sores which Itched and bled and finally caused his death. " It is but natural that SenatoV Bacon should dread the fate of the demo cratic party If It must continue to wear the shirt of Nessus. The garment Is already Inoculated with the virus' of free silver and antl-imperlalfsm,' ' ,o the discomfort of the wearer and to the peril of his political health.'It would seem like courting suicide to submit the shirt ip. another bath in. the extract of government ownership-and the initiative, and referendum so. dis tasteful to southern democrats. JJu.t If the party's only hope of'escaporom the fate of HercnJos lies Jn its aUKy to get a new shirt Its foredoomed de feat Is inevitable. 'a' FHASCE' atytCS TO TERMS. ; The meat packing Industry o! the United States has gained .a very marked concession by the terms tf a trade agreement Just entered lnt,o be tween France and the United States, which puts an end to .the threatened tariff war between the, two countries. By lta terms France removes its ban against the Importation of American live stock and also agrees to accept the Inspection certificate of the. fed eral government on dressed meats. The French government alBo agrees to continue the minimum duty on Porto Rico coffee 8-nd to make, certain con cessions on American-made shoes and other manufactured articles.- H The dispute with France arose from the negotiation of the recent tariff reciprocity agreement with Germany. Tne Berlin government made customs concessions to the United States cov ering 9.5 per cent of all American exports to Germany, and In return se cured certain concessions on German products, Including a reduction of the duties on sparkling wines from Ger many. It Is estimated that the United States exporters will save at least $7,000,000 annually on the goods sent to Germany under the new trade agreement. France promptly de manded a similar reduction on French champagnes and other sparkling wines, but tho authorities at Washing ton refused to consider such conces sion unless France would remove Its restrictions on American meats and other manufactured products. After much, negotiation, accompanied . by threats of tariff war and trade re prisals, France' has Indicated a will ingness to agree to our. demands,, and the new trade agreement Is being pre pared, covering all the point in dis pute. ' . ' The concession Is regarded as most Important to the American meat pack Ing Industry and the live stock In terests, which have for some years been practically barred,, from France. It Jwlll admit our live stock to France on the same conditions as to Great Britain tbat is, that thiy shall be slaughtered within ten daya after ar rival. This will open a new market tor American hogs and cattle on the hoof, that has been closed for years. In return for these concessions the United States authorities agree to a reduction of the tariff duties on French champagne. - . Borne leading standpatters are -protesting against these agreements, ln- I stating that they form breaches in the rift wail and the American Pro- tec tire Tariff leeaue Is demanding that ratification of the treatl be defeated by the United States .senate. The State drpnrtment officials contend that the agreements are made under a pro vision of the Dingier bill, making them Undkig without action by the senate. The question 'Is certain to be brought before congress and will 'form a part of the tariff discussion that can not much longer be avoided. o.z.r TAt.K. . Former Senator William V. Allen persists in parading his intention to attack the validity of the direct pri mary law enacted by the last Ne braska legislature. Yet, although an election under the law Is scheduled for September 3, next,' up to this time be has done nothing but talk. Ex Senator Allen's grievance Is that a dl tect primary law with a closed ballot confining voting to avowed members of each political party interrupts the freedom of the franchise and that It Is nobody's business with what polit ical party any man affiliates, much less the business of the officer of the primary election who Is required by the law to get that Information before he hands out a. ballot. The real trou ble with Senator Allen's objection Is that It has been made before and has already been passed on by the supreme court, the opinion being rendered by the populist member of the court. Judge Holcomb, who said such a re quirement was perfectly proper and absolutely necessary to insure the in tegrity of party nominations. It Is a safe guess, therefore, that Senator Al len will not start his l6ng-prorhlsed suit to annul the primary law unless he is eager to pay the costs. ' TH$ OAHBAflK MVDDLti- ' OMAHA, Aug. 8. 1907.-TO the dltor Of The .Bee: I find this new garbage collec tion system lias got us all muddled. The old garbage haulers are still coming around, while we arc told wa have to wait for the new- garbage haulers.' Can we' have our garbage hauled aa before, or hiust we conform to all the foolish regulations pro claimed In the Interest of the new garbage haulers? . , HOUSEHOLDER. This inquiry seems to simmer down to two inquiries, which The Bee has addressed to the city authorities: 1. Is there anything in the law or ordinances preventing anyone from hauling garbage? 2. Is there anything In the law or ordinances compelling householders to permit' the concern holding the city contract to take the garbage? To both of these questions the an swer has .been given In the negative. That is to say, there Is nothing to pre vent householders from going along as they have been before the new deal If they want to continue to pay for the removal of their garbage. There was, no doubt, an Intention on the part of the rendering company which recently procured a contract with the city to perfect Its agreement by additional or dinances to "give It van absolute ' and exclusive monopoly. These ordi nances, however, - have not yet been passed by'the city council and there Is serious question as to their validity if passed as proposed. The Bee ventures to repeat the sug gestion, which it has made several times, that the final and satisfactory solution of the garbage problem will c.ome only when the city undertakes, by Itself or by contract, to remove all household garbage and refuse at the public expense. The Lincoln Journal has figured It out that property owners In that city will have to pay $16.16 on each $1,000 of full valuation to defray the ex penses of government, this presumably Including everything In the way of di rect taxes, whether for state, city, county or school purposes. Here In pmaba the aggregate tax payment for next year foots up about $16.60 per 11,000 of valuation, which would not be comparatively excessive, providing the basis of valuation were the same Jn the two cities. In all probability the Lincoln values are proportion ately lower, so tbat the Lincoln tax rate 1b really less than the nominal rate, and, on the other side, the city tax levy made by Omaha's mayor and council Is measurably greater than It should be on lines of economy. Com parison, however, cannot fall to be of Interest to taxpayers In both cities. The World-Herald talks about It being "four months' since the Sibley express rate act became a law of the state of Nebraska." Hardly four months. The Sibley act did not be come a law until three months after the adjournment of the legislature, and It then allowed the express com panies thirty days more to publish the new rates. It has been operative just about four days Instead of four months. All this, however, Is mere technicality, which has nothing to do with the question of enforcement. It Is now Intimated that Uncle Sam will take over the management of the Jamestown exposition In order to pro tect the creditors and secure the money advanced by the -government. In other words, the proposition is for Uncle Sam to treat the Jamestown ex position like a Latin-American re public. The Boston Record asserts tbat "each visitor to Old Home, week came with a paper collar and a f 1 -bill and refused to change either." This elm ply shows the commercial tendency of the age, when Boston places the dol lar before the bean pot. One reason for establishing an all night police court In New York was to abate the nuisance of having a horde of professional bondsmen hanging around and making small fortunes by balling out unfortunates who did not want to remain In Jail all night. The nuisance might have been remedied by throwing the professional bonds men In Jail. It la gratifying to note that the 2 cent rate laws hare not Interfered suf ficiently with the revenues of the Union Pacific to prevent declaration of the regular quarterly dividend of 2H per cent. - Tills 10 'per cent an Bual dividend talks louder than atlthe poverty pleas, put up In court by Mr. Hsrrlman'a "lawyers and subordi nates." ;. - The new primary . election law is keeping the attorney general busy an swering questions. Here in Douglas county we have had practically the same law In operation for the last two years, so far aa local nominations were concerned, and the experience gained under the old primary law ought not to be lost under the p.ew. Our automoblllst friends do not seem to realize the risks they are run ning in disregarding the law regu lating speed and requiring the display of lights after nightfall. A Jail sen tence or two would bring them to a better understanding of what they owe to the public. Any candidate for nomination who wants to pull off the ticket need not hesitate because of alleged legal ob stacles. He can show his good faith by filing his withdrawal and trust the county elefk to forget to print his name on the ballot. A Japanese merchant was held up and robbed of $19 -as he was leaving Tacoma. No race-question was In volved in the incident. The man sim ply paid the penalty of trying to leave Tacoma with that much money on his person. The Standard Oil company declined the offer made by Judge Land Is to al low It to furnish testimony showing that Its rebating deal with the Chicago St Alton was its first offense. The company is honest about some things. The presidential boom of Senator Culberson of Texas Is being urged anew. One of the strongest argu ments In Senator Culberson's behalf Is that he Is nothing like his col league, Senator Bailey: Mr. Archbold declares that the story that the Standard would raise tbat $29,240,000 by Increasing the price of oil was the Invention' of a malicious competitor. .When dlil the Standard get a competitor? ....,,, Polae and Tern pern tar A boat Right. Kansas '-CltjM Btar. Frank If. HltchcocU fir assistant post master general, has been sent out thla way to "feel the west's-pulfte."- The- west's pulse, thank you, Wflf be fbund much more satisfactory than Its temperature. Perlah the Thought. ' Portland Oregonlan. They say that ' In Lincoln, Neb., there Is a movement of citizens regardless of past 'political affiliations, j to push Mr. Bryan for the presidency,. as a means of "booming" the city.. But Isn't this "placing the dollar above the man?" San Franolwo'B New Mayor. . San Francisco Chronicle. . The best thing which can be said ot Mayor Taylor, Is that his election Is a shock to every man and every Interest hav ing a desire te exercise -unofficial control of any department of our city government. No' one who knows Dr. Taylor can Imagine him as "controlled" by anybody. He will be a real mayor. The supervisors whom he appoints will be men who have his per sonal .approval, no matter by whom first suggested. And we may say that no cltlien whom he may ask to serve the city in that capacity will have sny right to refuse. An Open Qoeatlon. St. Louis Republic. Vntll the court of last resort has adjudi cated some of the pending cases the coun try will remain In doubt as to the Condi tions under which the exercise of the leg islative power In the regulation of rail roads will Invite Judicial restraint. For the present we are practically without prece dents to Indicate how far regulation may go without taking the form of confiscation It la ao completely an open question, there fore, that discussion Is the natural prelude to platform phrasing and the. best method of developing a correct party sentiment. IX THE DAJT9 OF BIO THINGS. And the BlffaTt U the Earnest Strl last After Jaatlce. " Chicago News. It would be Interesting to now whether Americans as a people are better and hap pier In 1907 than they were In 1Wi7. Wa believe that they are. To what extent has their material pros perity contributed to this result? The great fortunes of t)day were undreamed of a hundred years ago, while the moderate competence of the present would have been great fortunes In the early days of the re public. Poverty today Is, we trust, not so hopeless aa It was a century ago. There Is work in abundance for those who want work. The lights of the individual are more carefully guarded than In tho old days of white bond servants and black slavery, of press -gangs and Imprisonment for debt. 1 As people grow in enlightenment they grow to reapect 'more and more the per sonal rights of others. Monstrous wronra long upheld by force of law are wiped out by law. As wealth becomes more plenti ful It grows less sasred In the eyes of tho governing classes and of the courts. Jus tice Is greater than property. Tho people's vested light to happiness Is more Important than any man's vested right to oppress them by virtue of old privileges. Because a maa Is wealthy he shluea no longer with a divine light, lie la a mere man after all. When a Judge of the federal court fines a great corporation millions ot dollars for breaking the law and the people applaud the vertdct the country feels that the reign of dollars Is ' over.' Just laws must be obeyed. Money Is worthies when weighed against light. Here la a great gala for humanity. ' In the day of big things the biggest thing in the earneat striving aftor Justice for every man, OTHF.1l LANDS THAN QfRS. Half of the householders of Great Britain are In a panto, and all of them are franti cally Insuring themeolvee against liabilities of which they know nothing except that they are bound to be bothersome and may be overwhelming. This alarming situation Is described by Sidney Brooks, London correspondent of Harper's weekly. "The cause, of the anxiety." says Mr. Brooks, "Is an set of Parliament thot came Into force on July 1. The title of the art looks harml aa enough. It la called Workmen's ComjK nation Act. We have had many such acts before, and they have not dis turbed the peace of the English fireside. But this-one Is both more stringent In Its provisions and far wider In Its scope than any of Its predecessors. When I say that for the first time In the history ot British Industry It makes householders legally and financially responsible for any accidents that may befall the domestic servants they employ, I have said enough to account for the national alarm. It Is not often that legislation touches the home, or that the average man, still less the average woman, Is affected In any vital and personal Inter est by what Parliament may do or undo. The principle of employers' liability Is an old and familiar one. But hitherto It baa scarcely ever made Itself felt outside the spherea of business and Industry. A man could forget all abdut It when he reached home, and as for women, there was vir tually no occasion for them even to think of It. All that Is changed by this act. Every one who employs a servant Is now doomed to study the beauty of employers' liability In his own household, and will count himself lucky If his experience of how It works does not make vast Inroads on bis balance at the bank." In the matter of protecting young and old from Injury by trolley cars, some European cities set an example worthy of emulation. Dresden appears to be In advance of all others In safeguarding Its people. Thomas H. Norton, American consul at Chemnlti, reports that the authorities' of Dresden, four years ago, offered $2,500 In prls?s for the most effective safety fenders. Over 400 devices were submitted and tested. The first prise of $1,000 was awarded to a local merchant whose. Invention was tried for months under every conceivable condition. Life-slxed leather manikins were put on the car tracks by night and day In all possible positions, and without exception they were "deftly picked up and carried along without suffering the slightest In Jury." From lay figures the experimenters advanced to dogs, which came through the tests with equal success. Finally bottles filled with liquids were allowed to stand before cars going at full speed, and passed the ordeal without mishap. Then It was decided to attach the successful fender to all tho cars '.In the city. "Interesting -In this connection," concludes the consul, "Is the fact that Dresden Is one of the few cities In Germany owning Its Street car lines, and that the care bestowed -upon In suring safety In the streets Is an outcome of municipal ownership." Although the Manchurlan railway lon was guaranteed by the Japanese govern ment, Liondon Investors took but little moro than half of It, and the rest of It Is left on the hands of the underwriters. The profits of tho railroad are problematical, and tho Japanese government la enormously over loaded with debt. In the lnt year the funded debt has been Increased $105,000,000 through the funding of short time obliga tions Issued to meet war expenses. Taxa tion has been carried about as high as It will go, and the government Is committed to enormous expenses for fortifications and warships. The Japanese budget shows that while $S5,000.000 was spent on the army and navy for the current year, there Is to be an Increase of $55,000,000 next year. In a coun try whose total revenue Is only ;15,00O,0T, an outlay, of $140,000,000 for the army and navy Is Indeed heavy. Japan's debt per capita la today five and a half times as great as It was only six years ago. Even In this last year of peace the debt roae 7,000. 000, which for so poor a country is a big sum. Ever since the present British ministry began its efforts to save something to thn taxpayers from the enormous expenditures upon the army and navy following the Boer war tbe opposition papers In England have been Bhoutlng that the ministry waa leaving the country unprotected and was sacrificing national security to Its cheeseparing policy. The great review which has Just occurred was probably designed to silence this, or nt least refute it to the public apprehension. There were IKS vessels of the home fleet In the review, and The London Mall says not one of them was In the review of 187, and few' of them approached twenty years aco, "The home fleet Is thus a thoroughly mod ern force," This home fleet "was assem bled without drswlng a single ship from the main fleets In commission. It represents only the reserve of the navy, the second line behind the Channel, Mediterranean and Atlontlo fleets." After this display of naval force It seems' as If John Bull might slaav quietly at night. Dn..vin. of Josef Tlchatschek. whose Lone hundredth birthday was celebrated In musical circles on July 11, a Prague paper says: "He was the original Wagner sln M was the one who laid the founda tion for Wagner's great triumphs. As tho name indicates, he was a Bohemian, corn In 1807. the son of poor weavers at Weck elsdorf. He began his career as a chorus boy In the Benedictine cloister near his home snd, like msny other great singers, be studied medicine, but deserted the Vienna university to become a momber of the Boyal OpeVa. In 1138 he went to Dres den, where he won bis laurels, and where he remained In active service for thirty two years. In October. 1841. the first per formance of 'Rlensl' took place at Dresden, Wagner was a struggling musician In Paris at the time and the performance won for Wagner the directorship of the Dresden opera. From that day forward there waa a brotherly friendship between tho master and the singer, which lasted until Wagner died." . ... ' French law gives the authorities of every village and commune complete eontrol over posters. "No' one," writes Consul General Mason, 'Is permitted In Ftance to deface streets and public placea with crude, os tentatious announcements of bis business or other subject. Billboards are Infrequent In Paris, and are generally, built perma nently Into a wall, where they aie taxed according to their auperficlal area When a building la In construction and board screens are erected to shield the public from dust and other annoyance, such tem porary screen will soon be covered with posters of amusements and other business, but each poster so displayed has been previously submitted to the authorities, a license obtained, and each sheet bears the canceled revenue stamp, according to Its else." Tke lnalltlT Jape. Portland Oregonlan. Japanese, proud of their new patriotism, like to show It by making sketches of our forts and defenses, such as they are, round about our coasts. It's all right; fur It may Interest them and won't do us any hurt. Borne one of c jr officers saw a Japa nese visitor furtively making a sketch on his cuff. "But why didn't you stop htmf" "It amused me,.' he answered, "and I only said. 'Step In, you delighted ass, and I'll give you photographs o taa whole works 1' A hammock lor two; Just you and the glorious little ginger snap. Tor what belter company could you wish? POLITICAL DRIFT. Senator Jeff Davis of Arkansas will be obliged to raise "hall Columbia" In the senate without the active assistance of Vardaman of Mississippi. Judge Keneaaw Mountain Landls suggest to his friends that a regulation base ball bat Is about the right thing to apply to the aoft spot of those who are booming him for the presidency. William F. Eheehan, former lieutenant governor ot New York, speaking of Alton B. Parker s recent visit to the southern states, says that Judge Parker has been growing In publlo estimation for the lost two years. A rumor Is floating about on the super heated air of Illinois that William E. Mason Is going to butt Into the senatorial campaign in that state. Unfeeling para graphed classify Mason's ambition as a midsummer Joke. ' Inspired by the progressive example of Texas, the lawmakers of Georgia are de termined, to regulate the length .of bed covers In hotels and boarding houses. Since the advent of Hoke Smith as gov ernor every loyal Georgian admits the need of covering the extremities. A bill has been Introduced In the Alabama legislature, and has passed the senate, ap propriating $15,000 for a statue In honor of the lata Senator Morgan, to be placed in the statuary hall of the capltol at Wash ington. This tribute follows swift upon the decease of the venerable senator. William Ii. Hearst, Bryan's f rlenda - are recalling, mado a formal, announcement at Ban Antonio on November 18 lost as fol lows: "I will never again be a candidate. I shall oontlnue to live in New York and advocate and support the principles of re form which I have always stood for, but those principles are now sufficiently under stood by the general publlo for It to be no longer necessary for me to be a can didate." . w . Senator - Foraker Is confronted with a herculean task In keeping political lines In repair. His pastures afford poor picking for the boys whose seal must be measured by succulent fodder. The clover Is knee high in neighboring fields and with every passing breese waves an Irresistible sug gestion to those with keen appetites. Even Boss Cox of Cincinnati could not pass It by. He Is In clover and proposes to stick to a good thing. Sweet Singer of Tennessee. J Springfield Republican. An Indication of what Is In store for the country when Senator "Bob" Taylor of Tennessee takes his seat comes from the Chautauqua, lecture circuit, on which he seems to be a shining ' light. Recently he lectured In Lincoln, Neb., and his talk was described next morning In the local paper as "a beautiful picture of words, a poem, a song," but It was cruelly added that "he did not tell bis hearer much that they did not already know." The United. States senate does not enthuse much over that kind of oratory or mistake Itself for a Chau tauqua meeting, as Senator . "Bob'" will In time discover. 1 IVA They're snappy and have r- w I ff 1 1 il fast enough ginger. j , vi M "Upwards of two million children in the United States go hungry to school or go wrongly fed. 1 WHEAT FLAKE CELERY is an ideal summer and mm it lojuuivc m us ciieci ana ncn m iiesri forming ingredients; supplies the tissue salts in f,nfrir5nr nna produces stamina, The Lanflc Grocery Company la our three departments Grocery, Meat Market and Bakery we can supply you with everything good to eat at prices tbat cannot be equalled. OBOCZBT SErAXTsTBsTT Best Granulated Sugar, SO pounls for ) 1 CO Nice fresh Soda or Oyster .Cracker, per pound 6c Olnger Snaps, per lbj 5o Sweet Pickles, per dozen So Sour P-'-Jes, per dosea Se Nice ft Mackeral, each THe Best Creamery Butter, per lb 8 to THE LANGE 24th and Cumin Sis. si a tmm i T-7rM SMILING K KM AH KB, "Wheat Is going up now. Isn't ItT" re marked the casual reader of the papers. yes," replied the young speculator with a chuckle. "It s the wheat Just now that's behind the dough." Baltimore American. "Have you ever done anything to make a human soul happier?" asked the unsuccess ful applicant for a loan. "Yes," said the other. "I've listened r tlently to more hard luck tales like ypurs than any man I know of. Uqod morning." Chicago Tribune. "I wonder why a dog chases his tall?" "A sense of economy." "Economy 7" "Yes; can't you see he Is trying tr make both ends meet?" Washington Herald. The magistrate looked ' severely at the chauffeur. 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