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4 TIIE OMAHA DATTjY BEE: FRIDAY, AUGUST 1G, 1907. Tim Omaha Daily Dee. FOUNDED BT EDWARD ROBEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATKrt, EDITOR. RnUrefl at Otnaha poetofflce aa eecond claas matter. terms op ai'UHcrupnoN. pally Bea (without Sundry), one year..H0O ttly Bn and Sunday, one year.... ' Sunday B. on year ISO Saturday Km, on year 1.M DEL.IVFJRTD BT CARRIER, pally B (Including Sunday), par week..IBc pally Be (without Sunday). per week.. loo Evening Bee (without Sunday), per week So Evening Bee (with Sunday), per week..lo AddrcMM ail complaints of Irregularities In delivery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. Houth Omaha City Kali Building. Council Bluffs 18 Scott 8treet. Oilcago 1640 Unity Building. New York 150 Home Ufa lnauranra Bl'Jf. Washington toi Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Ctimmunlratlona relating to newt and edi torial rnatter should be addreased, Omaha Ba, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or poatal order payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only t-eant stamps received In payment of mall accounts Personal checka. except on Omaha or aaatern exchange, not accepted. STATEMENT OP- CIRCULATION. Mate of Nebraaka, Douglas eounty, aa: Charles C. Rone water, funeral manager H The Bee Publishing Company. being uly aworn, pays that the actual number f full and complete eoptee of The Dally Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee printed during tha month of July. 1907. waa aa folio we: MJ40 ' IT. M.70O i. M.1M II M.480 88.180 II. , 88,810 4.. ss,soo io.. ,eao 38,840 11 18,580 SS.490 II 87,870 7 18,600 tl 36,670 86,100 14 36,530 36,310 tl 36,430 1 36,340 36,400 XI 86,430 7 36,700 1 86,330 II 38,400 II 86,340 II 41,370 14 81,600 II 36,880 X 86,780 II 36,80 14 86,060 ' Total ..... 1433,330 Lass uneold,and returned coptea. , 10,338 Nat total J.....M81.888 Daily average 86,188 , CHARLES C. ROSBWATKR, General Manager. Bubaerlbed In my preaence and aworn to before ma thla 111 day of Auguat, 1907. (Seal) M. B. I1UNOATB. . Notary Public WHEN OUT OF TOWN. aboerlhcra learlaar th city tem porarily ahoald have Th Baa aaa.ll to then. Addreaa will b okaagt aa often aa reqaaataal. WaJl street la Buffering from retri bution for paat recklessness, Candidates filed for places on the officii primary ballot may withdraw. But will they? The promised ordinance to vote bonds for a, municipal gas plant threat ens to be twins. ' ' "Where will woman stop?" asks the Washington Herald. At the store of the man who advertises. , ... 1 ? : The Jftstadard OU ls lo bo sued In Manila for f 4 0,0 00 unpaid customs fees. The lawsuit follows the flag. The trouble with Wall street seems to be that the unexpected always hap pens when they are not looking for it. Harry Orchard must regret his Ina bility to be present In Morocco while this wholesale assassination la going "The Ding-ley. tariff is the nation's greatest revenue getter,"ays the New York .Tribune. With Judge Landls a slose second. . "Of what avail la the wealth of Rockefeller without sympathy?" asks Cardinal Gibbons. It Is available for 'he payment of fines. According to Chancellor Day the "Standard Oil has nothing to conceal." The day of concealment is over, since the Chicago Alton peached. Another saddening feature of the situation is that ft lot of very valuable Arabian horses lire being killed In the French effort to pacify Morocco. Japan has decided that a meat diet Is necessary for its army. There ia a suspicion that China has been selected as meat for the Japanese soldiers. It la proposed to establish ft college In St Louis where women will be taught to look well. It will not be rsoesaary for Nebraska women to at tend it "Uncle Sam's trust busters are fighting against unequal odds," says a 8t Louis paper. Equal odds ought o be something of a novelty, even in it Louis. i The striking telegraphers are to save a benefit ball game. The next benefit should be for the patrons of the telegraph offices who have been est off from service. Mrs. Tingley. the Theosophlo leader, says the world seems to be getting worse Instead of better. This Is ft little surprising, as Mrs. Tingley Is not prominent on Wall street. 1 A new Cracker trust with 130.000.- 000 capital has been organised In the east -The next report from Washing ton will probably be that the Depart ment of Justice wants a cracker. The campaign for better streets mast go on uninterrupted If every thing Is to bs spick-span for th Ak-Bar-Bea influx. Only about seven weeks remain to finish up the Job. It Is to be noted that the slot ma ehlne ' operators have conveniently neglected, so tar, to take an appeal In the ease they brought to enjoin the pollco board from putting these gam bling devices oat of basin, OYER LOOK IX Q A FX W TH1KQS. Our amiable democratic contempor ary, the World-Herald, Is overlooking a few things in Its excitement over the charges and countercharges as to the responsibility for the failure of the state to recover In th Hartley bond suits. It is tremendously agitated about the "disgraceful exhibition of the Department of Justice at war with the supreme court" In Nebraska, and reads Its usual moral to apply the rem edy by voting the democratic ticket But In the Hartley business It will hardly do the democratic party any good to rake over the cold embers. People may have short memories, but some of them recall the aid and com fort which the democratic World Herald extended to the great embes cler at the time he was being exposd and prosecuted, and the soothing poul tice It applied when he was paroled and again when he was finally par doned. Aside from that, some people still remember the evidence of the demo pop governor, which proved to be the drawing card for the defending sure ties in their attempt to evade liability. This fusion governor testified under oath that before approving the bond of Hartley's second term he checked up with him the funds on hand and accepted as equivalent to cash a cigar box full of paper cats and dogs sup posed to be certificates of deposit on banks which never paid up. When it comes to tracing responsi bility for the loss of the money stolen by Bartley It will be Impossible to draw party lines. The Bartley busi ness figured for years in Nebraska politics, but it was supposed to have been finished by the conviction of the culprit and the subsequent repudiation of the governor who liberated him from prison. No cases growing out of the Bartley embezzlement are now pending In any court and there is no good reason for trying to regalvanlze this dead Issue. PEACE CONFERENCE RESULTS. If the sporting editor were reporting the proceedings of the peace confer ence at The Hague he would probably announce the game called on account of darkness, without ft run being made by either side. The conference has been In session eight weeks and, on the eve of adjournment, a summary of the proceedings shows little accom plished other than the adoption of an academic resolution reciting that dis armament Is desirable. No action looking to disarmament v has been taken. The conference has been com pelled to be content with "approving something which It admits- can not be accomplished for many years. Al though the English delegates insisted that failure to declare for disarma ment "would be a lame and Impotent conclusion, calculated to . undermine the moral condition of the conference and to stultify its proceedings in the eyes of the world," yet the conference failed to make the declaration. The- peace conference has some pos itive acts to Its credit, including some small extensions of the rules of land warfare, ft better naval prize court, Im provement of the position of neutrals, limitations of the use of floating mines, an arrangement for a naval Red Cross and ft few minor agreements relating to war rather than to peace. Alto gether, the net results of . the confer ence must be listed as theoretical rather than practical. STATE AND FEDERAL LAWS. Judge Jones of the federal court, who granted the Injunction restraining the enforcement of the Alabama rail road rate law, has directed attention, In a decree modifying his order, to the fact that the real question at IsBue will not be settled by the final decis ion on the merits of the rate laws. The issue between the state and fed eral courts, on the question of Juris diction, has not been settled snd will cause, as Judge Jones declares, end less conflicts of authorities until de termined and decided in an emphatic manner. Judge Jones modified his or der of injunction at the request of both parties to the controversy, but. In so doing, took occasion to condemn the state law and to deblare that the "rightful place of the constitution and the laws of the United States in such Utiga'tlon" had not been passed upon in the decree. The court said: No nne with any aenaa of responsibility for their utterances wtll deny that thla complainant had the right under the cou rtltntlon and lawa to appeal to thla court for the protection of the right It claims. No one will deny that Its bill presented a "case tn equity" of which thla court had undoubted Jurisdiction. Tet aome havu urged, to fan the passion of tha people, that the great principle of equity should be bent to the preeaure of tha hour, and that in thla case at leaat a court of equity should not preserve tha atatua quo and pre vent Irreparable Injury while tha final right la being aacertalned, aa well aa adjudging that tight when aacertalned. It la pass ing atrange Indeed that In order to deprive thla aultor of his rlghta In court a novel doctrine la preached among the people that no order of tha inferior court, whether federal or atata, ought to be obeyed by local authorttlea until tha highest court of appeal has finally passed upon auch rlghta, Buch a doctrine wipes out and destroys tha Inferior courta and atrlkea down tha juris diction which the constitution glvea them. Tha court would have exhausted all tha power the law glvea for the execution of Ita process If you had Inalsted on tha protection of Its, writs.. Under tha etrcum stancea, nothing remains but to grant tha order that you ask. All of this switching and manipula tion of the legal machinery has not changed the Issue at point The power to grant injunctions is as clearly estab lished as- any other power possessed by' the courts. This power was exer cised in both th Alabama and North Carolina cases and the rights in the matter have not been decided In either case. Whether th federal pcaer f ailed to sustain the courts, or whether the railroads wished to avoid a teat, the Issue between the state and federal courts has not been met and cannot be In the pending cases, cwlng to the con cessions made by both parties to the litigation. The cases will now go to the supreme court on the constitutionality of the disputed rste laws, snd in such form the conflict of Jurisdiction be tween the federal and state courts need not be passed upon at all. To that extent, the situation is unfortu nate. Tha question must be met, and the sooner the better, for the railroads, the state and federal authorities and the public. retirement or jonn w. oatks. With a citizenship, counting the colonial possessions, approximating 100,000,000, America can lose ft rather prominent personage now and then without causing any undue concern or creating any unfillable void, but the nation, rich, prosperous and resource ful as it is, can not view with indiffer ence the announcement that John W. Gates is going to abandon this devoted country to Its fate and make his future home in England. The country is not so rich in big men that it can allow Gates to leave without a feeling of dis tinct, if not Irreparable, loss. John W. Gates has had a mighty busy career for a score of years and has done much to demonstrate the fact that optimism hates a piker. As ft product of the breezy west he has done more than any other man in the last dozen years to make little old New York sit up and take notice, even to the point of realising that the United States Is not bounded on the west by the Jersey river. Gates has been de scribed as a gambler and has never re sented the imputation. He has bet the New York crowd to a standstill on many propositions, shoving railroads, gold mines, smelting plants and banks Into the center of the table with as much nonchalance as would mark an ordinary matching of nickels for the stogies. He has been whipped In the game of high finance occasionally, but the winner has always realized that he had been in a fight He made his fortune, a big one, and now he Is going to England to live. He has Joined Boss Croker, James J. Van Alen, Wil lie Waldorf Astor and other Americans who have expatriated themselves. While decrying stock gambling and the manipulative methods employed In high financial circles In Wall street, the west particularly will admire the Gates method of playing the game. When old-time gamblers of the street were watching the cables and basing their plays on reports from Paris, Lon don and Berjln, Gates kept his face turned to the west He played the productive fields, mines and factories of the west against the pesslntsm of Wall street and he won. He never lost faith in the , greatness of , the re gion west of the Alleghenies and he owes his fortune to that fact. In the Wall street gambling someone has to win. While Gates Is a gambler, he has always played on the high card, bet ting most of his money on the ace of prosperity. He has, of course, the right to make his home In England, but It Is an odda-on bet that he will get mighty lonesome before long and soon change his mind and his resi dence. Ex-President Green of the Real Es tate exchange is said to be all out up because $100 was voted out of the ex change treasury to reimburse part of the expenses of the tax committee, which represented the organization In promoting the terminal tax bill before the legislature last winter. There was nothing to prevent Mr, Green or any other member of the Real Estate exchange from waiting on the legisla ture at his own expense, as did many other citizens, but no one who had a hand in the fight for the terminal tax law ever discovered the near presence of Mr. Green. One complaint made by out-of-town visitors and respectfully referred to the proper authorities: Strangers coming In at the railway stations seem to have difficulty In getting informa tion to guide them in reaching pointa of destination uptown. An intelligent police officer co-operating with polite conductors and motormen would Im prove this situation materially. Prince Yl Sang of Cores, who is vis iting in New York, has been sentenced to death for his appeal to The Hague against Japan's treatment -of Corea. The prince, having thought the matter over carefully, says he believes he will disappoint Japan by refusing to keep the date fixed for his execution. According to the latest rotated rul ing from the county attorney's office all the names on the official ballot to be voted at the coming primaries will be rotsted. Whether the variegated opinions of the law officers will rotate again remains to be seen. Congressman Murdock of Kansas advocated tariff revision In a speech the other day with Speaker Cannon in the audience. Murdock will have a lot of fun trying to catch the speaker's eye at the coming session of congress. It Is now proposed by a number of railroad men to establish a school of railroading tor the instruction of young men who want to go into the business. The cbslr of rebstlng should gp to th Alton. An old photogrsph of the big guns of the democratic national campaign of 1804. with our own Colonel John G. Maber of Nebraska decorating the background for Parker, Hill, Murphy and Taggart, is going the rounds of eastern pictorial publications. This should be tho signal for Colonel Maher's typewriter tp commence click ing once more. Walter Leon Sawyer wants Mr. Car negie to make provision for poor, struggling anthers who can not get their books printed. It might help If Mr. Carnegie would give them Jobs In his steel mills. The primary election for all polit ical parties in Nebraska will be held throughout the state Tuesday, Sep tember S. Mark It down on the cal endar and govern your vacation ac cordingly. England Is going to build another battleship 60 per cent larger than the Dreadnaught. A sense of security fol lows the thought that th boat draws too much water ever to get up tha Missouri. Senator Tillman laments the fact that the "south is losing the seed corn of statesmanship." Yes, and re ports Indicate that the south Is also losing the barleycorn of statesman ship. The design on the new $10 gold pieces shows the eagle in flight in stead of sitting with drooping wings. Perhaps that explains why It is getting more difficult to keep $10 gold pieces. Common Example. Indianapolis News. Well, hasn't the Standard juat as much right aa the Steel trust to sell Ita prod ucts cheaper abroad than at home? Other wise what would be the use of all our un paralleled prosperity? Explottlae; aa "Old Saw." Chicago Inter Ocean. These are the days when the people who poaaeas tha faculty of thinking that no news la good news will not worry even though they do not receive the message that otherwise they would have been look ing for. Ia Telegraphy F.aaentialf Philadelphia Record. Although the telegraph atrlke will cause gret Inconvenience to business, It will show that the world can get on when It must with much less wire than has been imagined. To the masses of men the tele graph la not nearly as necessary as it la to tha men who live by working the In struments. Patting; Somebody In Jail. Wall Street Journal. Attorney General Bonaparte la right. The beat way to stop rebates and other viola tions of law ia to put' somebody In jail. It la necessary, however, to be sure that "somebody" la really guilty, and la a principal and not a. .mere agent In the crime. "Putting somebody In jail" has this advantage over.th big fine or other method of punishment. It. strikes at the guilty trustee, and does not Injure tha In nocent Investor. .' Coatent wltMas of -Booster. - New York-Bun.' With emotions which we shall not at tempt to describe -we record tha simple fact that the Hon. 'Foster Wight Cobura. the prose laureate of appropriate agricul ture and the invisible boomer f Kansas, declines in the eame breath to become either governor of the Sunflower state or secretary of seeds in Mr. Roosevelt's cabi net. His present office is good enough for him; we may truthfully add that Coburn is good enough for his present office. Senators by Popular Vote. St Ixuls Globe-Democrat. In about one-fourth Of the states senators are now named by the people themselves, and In no case has a legislature failed to ba governed by their action. Under the new primary law In Missouri tha voters of thla state at the general election of No vember, 1908, will Indicate their preference for a senator to succeed Stone, whose term expires March 4, 1909, and whose place will ba filled by the legislature to ba elected next year. But tha legislature will be In structed as to a choice, and Missouri will thus move Into line with numerous other statea. It la possible that a senatorial candidate who received more votes than any other might nqt belong to the party carrying the legislature. In which caaa the popular aystem would not ba mathemati cally effective. There ara also plurality problems connected . with a situation tn which there ara many candidates, but It la probable that Missouri's next senator will ba clearly singled out at the polls a year from next November. OMAHA It AW HA WED. A Scoffer from Way back See-ITs Oat Load. New Tork Sun. Tha weat la "flush," phonographs emitting grand opera solos In every parlor, devil wagons filling tha remotest barn, but can Nebraska stand a raise of the governor's salary from 2,500 to 110,000? The Hon. Jamea C. Dahlman, national committeeman and ex-cowboy mayor of Omaha, who stumps tha Paclflo alope for Bryan when he has nothing else to do, announces his can didacy for governor on tha platform of live and let live salary for that offloer, "to keep hlra from being a grafter," Jim means to cast no reflection upon the Integrity of Governor Sheldon; It la simply his pict uresque way of reminding tha voters that ha la a square, white man himself, and sug gesting to them that they would do well to make him their governor. Hang the In crease! He doesn't want 1t, and he knows' the granger legislature would never vote it. Where there's a will there's a way. Jim blew Into Omaha a few yeara ago from a short grass ' country where he had been sheriff, and hardly had he found a boarding place before ha ran for mayor on tha democratic ticket aa the cowboy cand'date. It waa a novel and breathleaa Idea. On tha atump Jim said auch daring things as this: "I want to aay to you people of Omaha that I am still a cowboy, and if any of your graftera and crooks coma at me when I'm mayor I'll rope 'em and tie "em and brand 'am quicker than I ever roped and Vied a steer, and that's going soma." Tha Omahana hawhawed and elected Jim Dahlman. He was later made a national committeeman by an admiring democra y that likes Its heroes raw. Jim promises that if he Is exalted to the dignity of gov ernor the farmers may call at the capltol in their shirt aleeves. That Idea Ought to take, too. Mr. Bryan himself has alwaya made It a point In hie Nebraska tours to avoid oatentatton and a clean shava. He heartily Indorsee Jim Dahlman for gover nor and will make up aa shlftleaa and un bruahed aa Jim .himself for tl.e canvaaa of tha back eountlee where Jim ia atrong with the herders. The election for governor occurs in and so does tha election for president. Jim and Bill wUl ooal their Interest BITS OF WASIIISUTOX I.1FK. Minor Seeaes aa Inrldenta Sketched oa tha Spot. "Main I'nlted States" la good enough for Secretary Wllaon for ornamental purposes as well as for vocal exercise. No mattet how sonorous and Impressive other lan guages may be. none satisfies the eya or beats the ear drum of "Tama Jim" as pleasantly aa the lingo of the natives. Bo when hla eye fell upon the worda, 'Fructuf,M "Cir-ales" and "Flodrea," w rle graven on the pedestals of the new $3.000,0no j agricultural building, Secretary Wllaon pounced on Dr. Beverley T. Galloway, chief of the bureau of animal Industry, and remarked: "Doctor, what do those worda mean?" "Why, that la the Latin for fruit, and the others mean cereals, flowers and for ests." replied the scholarly Galloway, "Well, why don't we aay ao, then, and cut out this foolish Latin?" was tha prompt reply. Orders were then and there given that the atone cutters erase the offensive worda and substitute English. Dr. Galloway closed the Incident by re marking that It waa Juat as well to change them, as there was no such Latin word as "forestes" anyway, and that, at least, would have to be changed. The new Vnlon railroad station at Wash ington will be supplied with a unique fea turea special entrance and reception room for the president of the United States. Tho president's entrance Is an archway of mar ble, thirty fleet In width, says Rene Bache In tha course of an Interesting article in Harper's Weekly. "On alighting from his carriage beneath It, the foremost cltlsen of the nation will step Into a vestibule of noble proportions of tha same width aa lha archway, and twenty feet In depth. In this vestibule the persona who accompany him will be waited upon by trained at tendants, while the president himself will seek privacy In a room aet apart for his exclusive use on tha right hand adjoining. The 'President's Room,' as it Is called, will ba most beautifully and luxuriously furnished. Costly oriental ruga will cover the floor; the celling will be done In gold and color, and the walla will be paneled In blue silk. In the middle will be a tablo suitable for writing, provided with a solid silver Inkstand and other appurtenances to match this and all the other artlclea of furniture being of mahogany. All of thla luxury will not coat the chief executive a penny, but will be paid for out of the pockets of the railroad companies." A curloua delusion exists among a great many persons to tha effect that when a letter 1s registered and dispatched In the mall the United Btntcs undertakes to guar antee the sender against its loss and will Indemnify the owner for all damage in the event that It goes astray. As a matter of fact this Is a wholly false Impression. Third Assistant Postmaster General A t Lawnhe aaya It remained for a country lawyer to wake up the officials of tha Post office department on the subject by calling their attention to the wording of the reg istry circular which was formerly circu lated broadcast over the country. It said something about the government "Guaran teeing the safe delivery of the registered letter or parcel." ' The real truth Is the government does nothing of the kind. When the country lawyer put in a claim against the Post office department for a, client who had lost money by reason of the destruction of a registered letter, the department officials sat up and took notice of the wording which was cited to them by the attorney. The result was an immediate cancellation of the guarantee feature. Mr., Lawshe saya the registered fee Is a great, protection to the ' sender, for it en ables government officials to trace the reg latered letter or parcel right to tha person who lost or stole It. That ia the only protection It affords, but It amounts "to a great deal. Mr. Lawshe says that the loss of registered mall will not amount to one one-thousandth of 1 per cent of the amount transported. When a postal car Is lost in a railroad wreck and the registered mall is burned, there Is no way to reimburse tha sender, except under a new law which requires the sender to 'make oath to the value of the contents and then upon application and proof) of same being sent he Is only en titled to be indemnified to the amount of 25, providing the original amount was that much or more. Bo If a postal car or ship Is destroyed and the registered mall abso lutely lost, the sender of money or valu ables through the malls is sure to be a loser, although that la tha safest way to send It. In all cases of accident the flrat thing done by those reaching tha malls Is to save, If possible, the registered mall. Then the other mall Is considered. In cases where the mall goes down With ahlps tha government officials always make an effort to raise the mails and dry them out so that they, will And their way to their des tination. An old employe of the pension office who resigned his position because the com missioner of penalona had diacovered that he had loaned money to an employs under him and was collecting large Interest on the loan, waa allowed to give "111 health" because of tha resignation. According to the story of his friends, this employ was tha victim of circum stances to some degree. They say ha loaned tha money to the employe under him seven years ago and that tha loan was outstand ing at tha rate of 8 per cent a month when the order of the commissioner of pensions against .such practlcea In tha office went Into effect. The loan went on and tha em ploye, now discharged, continued to accept the Interest. In some way Commissioner Warner, who Is strongly opposed to "money shark" practices, heard of tha matter and the employe, who ia a veteran of tha civil war, resigned. There is In Washington a man who for three years and a half haa not worn a hat. Tha name of this cltlsen with an antipathy for headgear and a disregard for conventionality la O. U Shorey. an employe of tha Department of Commerce and Labor. , "Wearing a hat la more a habit than anything else and probably descended to us from our feudal ancestors, who wora ateel helmets to prevent being knocked in the head by their warring neighbors," said Mr. Shorey. "I reached the conclusion soma time ago that a hat waa burdenaome and have not worn one summer or winter for over three years. . I find that my health la improved and that my hair, which was Inclined to fall out, is now as thick aa In my younger days. I am not endeavoring to poae as an arbiter of fashion, nor am I the leader of a new cult, but ao far as I am personally concerned, no hat for mine." Death has dlacloaed tfial tha government has for twenty-six years refused to pay tha expenses Incident to tha funeral of President Oarfteld. William R. Bpeare. a veteran undertaker of Washington, died a few daya ago, and it haa been dlacloaed that tha moat valuable aat of his estate Is a claim against the government for aerv' Ices incident to tha funeral of Oarfleld. Boon after tha Garfield funeral congress appropriated money to defray all expenaea, and tha secretary of the treasury appointed a commission to investigate all bills. All those preaentlng claima were required to file receipted bllla. Speare, who had his to tha government a receipt In full for hla own ideas about business, refused to hano, services in advance of receiving his money. As payment could only ba made upon such receipt, the handa of the government Were tied, and for twenty-als yeara Speare has been trying to obtain a settlement. Ap peals have been made to congress by Speare to secure the payment of his ac count Now that tha claim will pass Into other handa, It la probable that this bill will be paid, by tha Speare heirs agreving to comply with the government's requlrf-meats. NEBRASKA TRESS COMMENT, Beatrice gun: Roecoe Pound haa punctured Some of the charges made against Jiirtg. Sedgwick by tha Office Seekers' syn:ll a;e. lie shows that It waa because of the Incom petency of Norrls Brown, who had char of the case In the courta, that tha Baiter bondsmen were released. Norfolk Preaa: It Is about time for the Slate Railway commission to stop monkey ing with the express companies and get down to business. Tha commission can either control express rates and enforce tha state law or It can't and the quicker It la found out which Is true the be ter. Stromsburg News: The railroads are under the Impression that this country Is approaching a grave crisis In Its In dustrial, commercial and financial history which. If not averted will check material advancement and prosperity for years. Whether the i-ent fare and the reduction of freight rates has caused this bilious outlook for the future, they have neglected to state. Lynch Journal: It Is our opinion that either Judge Sedwlck or Judge Reece will make a good and very acceptable supreme judge and we see no reason why the sup porters of one should vilify or belittle the other. Pick out your man and Siva him good clean support and be able to meet the1 other fellow and shake hands with him aa a friend and be able to support him If he gets the nomination. Teeumseh Tribunal: State Treasurer Brian asks that the levy for state pur poses be raised one-half mill In order that we may wipe out the state debt while we sre able to stand the tax. From one point of view we believe that tha state treasurer Is right. However, If we were out of debt, how long would It take us to get In again? We contracted the present debt In violation of the constitution, and what assurance have wo that history- will not repeat It self? Friend Telegraph: The express compa nies doing business In this state Instead of lowering their rates HS per cent as re quired by law are engaged in quibbling with the Railway Commission over, rais ing the cream rate. It Is the duty of the commission to see to it that the whole sale robbery of patrons, so long practiced by the expresa companies doing business In this state, cease, and that these com panies obey the law and cease their at tempting to play horse with the commis sion. Beatrice Bun: Did It aver occur to the man who works In the field during the hottest of the harvest daya In order that he may pay the taxes that enables tha of fice holders to take vacations, that his vacation season never arrives? We have a Very nice genteel line of gentlemen who are making easy money and taking vaca tions, while the man who earns tha money that pays the other fellow never gets a vacation until Gabriel toots his horn. The last legislature increased tha salaries of tha county officers and added to tha num ber and pay of their clerks, so that now a man who haa the good fortune to draw a county office makes more clear money and has less to do than the man who op erates a business with a capital of tfiO, 000 invested. The farmers pay tha freight, while the boys take vacationa and let the clerks do their work. Oakdale, Sentinel: The coming primary election will afford an opportunity for the voters of each political party to say who shall ba their candidates for offloe. If the rank and file take enough interest In the matter to attend the primaries, the selec tion of tha tickets may ba taken entirely from the hands of those who pose as party boases. But to do this, voters outside the towns must take an Interest and attend tha primaries. Tha fine Italian hand of tho would-be boss can ba seen In several of the announcements of candidates recently made. The machine politician dies hard. It's up to the voters to make his death cer tain. Look up the records of the announced candidates, consider their qualifications, and nominate the men who show the least symptoms of ring rule. Geographical lo cation will not receive aa much consider ation as under the old convention plan, yet there Is no need to name the entire tickets from one town. Aa Effective Poller. New York Sun. Governor Ma goon's policy of catching In surgents dead or alive may dampen the ardor of tha fiery sons of Cuba. STYLE am Proor " a SJSaiB 3 " Tho Mallorj Cravenette Hat his qualities of style snd material which would make it a leader, even though it had not the added value that comes from the famous Priestly Cravenette (rain- roofing) process. This process, as far as hats are concerned, i exclusive with the Mai lory Cravenette Hat. W a have all the shades and shapes that have the sanction of careful dressers in the great fashion centers. Si-owning, King $c Co E. S. WILCOX, Manager. PERSOAI. OTE. The way straw hate are going on th bargain counter expressa (he trade con viction that summer la waning After alt, the Irish crown Jewela ere not stolen frout Dublin nastle. They were merely appropriated and pawned. With the two schools for aeronaut In France doing better than they expected to do, as the story -.. tha air should aoon be fillet! with full-fledged aeronaute. Dr. T. Kubo of Toklo Imperial univer sity, Japan, la In Baltimore, taking nr. post-grniluate work in gynecological sur gery at the Johns llopklna University Med leal achool, under Prof. Howard A. Kelly. Iong distance swimming In the occat Isn't aa eaay as It looks Not one cf tin Boston old-home week swimmers sot sny where near Boston light, and of the fifteen men who started Sunday to swim from Brooklyn bridge to Coney Island, only sis covered tha whole distance. During a recent hot spell a young Kan sas farmer went about his work wearing, three suits of clothes, stuffing them par tially with hay for greater warmth, and his neighbors Immediately hurried him of! to the lnaane asylum. There are somi things too eccentric even for Kansas, II seems. Addlcks of Delaware, who la now a finan cial derelict, la brought Into view once more by a divorce suit filed by his third wife. The third Mrs. Addlcks has three quarters of a million dollars given her by Mr. Addlcks. He had moreover paid his second Wife 1150,000 to give up her claim on him when he married wife No. 3. Captain Charles deF. Chandler of the United Btates signal corps has been di rected to proceed to the Jamestown expo sition for temporary duty pertaining to military aeronautics. An aeronautical con gress Is to convene there during October. The signal office Is availing Itself of aU sources of profitable Information on the general subject of airships. Sl.WV OEMS. "Ever been In Siberia?" asked the re porter. "K.r yes." answered the distinguished Russian refugee. "I took a knoullng there one summer." Chicago Tribune. "So If Brotherly runs for office he will have tho support of all the fraternal societies?" .... "Ves; you aee, he la the lodge-lcal can didate." Baltimore American. "Woman la considered the weaker vessel," she remarked, "and yet" "Well?" he queried, as ahe hesitated. "And yet," she continued, "man Is tha oftener broke." Chicago News. "I've hoard so much of 'the Inventions of the devil.' " said the new arrival, "that I've often thought I'd like to meet the gen tleman. Are you he?" 1 "I am." replied his Satanic Majesty. "Well, say, can't I be of some aervlce to you? I waa a patent attorney up there. Philadelphia Press. "Will you holler for help If I try to kiss yVou won't need help; I'll hold perfectly still." Houston Post. . Stern Uncle What you lack, my boy, is '"f'apegrace Nephew O, I don't know, uri ele I once held a Job for two weeks as an elevator starter.-Chtcago Tribune. "Why does a fellow on a small aalary, like Smallchlnk, dress so ,r?va"antly "He's afraid people will think he is poor." "And why does old millionaire Kegger colne dress so shabbily ?" "He's afraid people will think he Is rich. Puck. it,.... aiinceriiteA in demonstrstlng that astronomical theory of yours?" "Certainly not," answer mo - scientist; "as soon as an aatronomlcal a ft loses half Its value aa a aubject for magaslae articioa.- wauiMBi.u si. J 'Tlf B POOR R All. WAY MAJf. Boston -Transcrlpt-I would not bo a railway man In thla degenerate day. When the pass has been abolished And the editor must pay; Whon every Ink pot In the land Is working overtime To prove all railway presidents Ara steeped In fraud and crime. I would not be a railway man In thla exacting age. When the unlona are demanding Leas hours and higher wage; When every ahlpper on the line Would put behind the bars That lucklese wight, the railway mas. Because there are no cars. ' I would not be a railway man In this disturbing time. When every hayseed statesman Attempts hla neck to climb; With lawa to cut down earnings. And laws to tax them mora. With endless complications And persecutions sore. I would not be a railway man At this deatruettve date, A target for the journals, A footbal for the atate, , I'd let them take the railways And run them as they'd like; I would not be a railway man I'd quit my job and strike. SERVICE them in MI