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4 TUB OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 2U 1907, TitE Omaha Daily Bee roUNDKIJ BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROSKWATER, EDITOR. Kntered at Omaha postofflce as second las matter. TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION. ally Bee (without Sunday), one year.. 1400 ally bee and Bunday. one year unday Bee, one yer. J -W snurday lie, on yeer. l.M DELIVERED BT CARRIER. a!1y B (Including Sunday), per week..T5c lly Bee (without Sunday), per weeK..10c Cvenlng Bee (without Bunday), per week c tvenlng Bee (with Sunday), per week. .100 Address all complaints of Irregularities In lellverjr to City Circulation Department. OEFICKS. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha City Hall Building. Council Bluffs 15 Bcott Ptreet. Chicago UM I'nlty Building. New York 16 Home Ufe Insurance BWg. Washington ffl Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to newa and edl nrlal matter ahould be addressed, Omaha See, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order layahle to The Bee Publishing Company. Dnly 8-rent atampii received In payment of hall accounts. Personal checka, except on maha or eastern exchange, , not accepted. STATEMENT O" CIRCULATION. Itat of Nebraska, Douglas county, ss: Charles C. Rosewater, general manager f The Bea Publishing Company, being luly mm, says that the actual number If full and complete copies of The Dally Morning, Uvenlng and Sunday Bee printed luring the month of July, 19u7, was as :oiiowa: 1. 86,340 38,190 38,180 38,500 8540 88,480 83,600 38,900 38,910 88,840 36,480 36,330 86,840 85,500 17. ... 80,700 It 38,480 19 86,510 20.. 36,530 21 35,550 28 87,970 6. 9 I4gata 1 21 24 25 38,570 38,580 36,420 36,400 2 27 36,700 2t 35,400 41,370 80. II. 3680 36,890 86,780 86,690 Total 1,139,390 Lass unsold and returned copies . . 10,335 Nat total 1,191,585 Dally average 38,183 CHARLES C. ROSEWATER, General Manager. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before in this 1st day of August, 1307. Ideal) M. 13. H UNGATE, Nntuv Publio. WHES OUT OB TOWN. Sakaerlfcer leaTlnar the city tem porarily should have Th Be mailed to them. Address vrlH ba causa ged a often as requested. The publio will not despair so long as the letter carriers refuse to strike. Standard Oil stocks are now down to 1423 a share. How much have you lostt Morocco doubtless would prefer to have its civilization administered in homeopathic doses. Secretary Taft wants it made plain that he is not trying to steal any of Colonel Bryan's political clothes. George) Bernard Shaw thought he was drowning tha other day, but, like most ot Shaw's thoughts, it proved to be untrue. Richard Harding Davis knocked down a man who called him an imita tion Englishman, Davis Wants to be taken for the real article. The projection ot another Fonta nelle slate may make pertinent the old question, "Are you a republican, or are you a Fontanelle?" . Germany's claim of 41 per cent of the world's supply of wireless teleg raphy cannot be accepted by this coun try so long as the strike lastB. "Billy" Mason cannot be very sin cere in his campaign for re-election to the United States senate from Illinois. He is making speeches every day. Attorney General Bonaparte insists that he wants to put some trust mag nate in jail. The magnates might shake dice or draw lots for the honor. Cozey is to organize another "army of the discontented." He will. have to look for bia recruits ' in Wall street this time instead ot on the western prairies. The annual crop ot newly organized political clubs is springing up in the usual profusion. The quotations on the market for endorsement will be posted shortly. A Venezuelan court has fined the Asphalt trust in the sum ot $5,000, 000. The name ot the Keneeaw Mountain Landia of Venezuela is not given in the cables. It should be distinctly understood that the announcement that "King Edward has the most remarkable col lection of sticks in the world" does not refer to the House of Lords, - King Ak-Sar-Ben Is said to be con aldoring ways and means of Infusing a little more ginger among the crowd who watch th annual street pageants The way to snthusa is to enthuse. physicians have discovered a St Louis boy who possesses only a table- spoonful of brains. . Nothing but his youth keeps Mm from being a shining light in society of the Newport brand. Eugene Schmlts wants to be re elected mayor of San Francisco aa a vindication. The trouble with the proposition ia that it would then be ' nececaary to do something to vindicate Ean Francisco. Th World-Herald la willing, for Its part, to have the democratio randldat choaen by th democratio rank and file. World Il.rsU. Always excepting wfcen ita editor wants th democratic juoroinaUon for congress, rntsiDEXT nooanrtLrs MOGBAM. Napoleons of high finance and rep- eBentallves of the speculative inter ests who have been clamoring for some fflcial expression to allay the nervous ness ot Wall street, will get little con solation from what President Roose- elt said at Provincetown, Mass., on occasion of the anniversary celebration of the landing of the Pilgrims. In re sponse to these frantic appeals for some statement that would stamp out hysteria, the president makes It ex ceedingly plain that the administra tion can not abandon its policy, but must go ahead with Us work of reform and law enforcement, to the end that the country may be rid of the flagrant abuses too long endured. At the same time, he gives assurance that It was the purpose of the administration fear lessly to defend property against all unjust attacks. "No individual, no corporation obeying the law," the pres ident declares, "has anything to fear from this administration." Reviewing the work and character of the Puritan pilgrims, the president notes principally the changed condi tions of our national life and the ne cessity for change in our laws and gov ernmental methods. For five years the administration has been pursuing a policy toward the defiant corporations deemed necessary to the future wel fare of the nation. The president de clares that experience has demon strated the need of a far more efficient control than at present "over the busi ness use of those vast fortunes, mostly corporate, which are used In Interstate business." On that subject he uses these words: There Is no objection in the minds of this people to any man's earning any amount of money If he does It honestly and fairly, If he gets It as the result of spe cial skill and enterprise, as a reward of ample service actually rendered. But there a growing determination that no man shall amass a great fortuno by special priv ilege, by chicanery and wrong-doing, so far as it is In the power of legislation to prevent; and that the fortune when amassed shall not have a business use that Is anti-social. As to his further program; the presi dent declares in favor of a national in corporation law, giving the federal government a supervisory authority over all Interstate corporations similar to that now exercised over national banks; laws permitting such useful combinations as are made with abso lute openness after approval by the representatives of the government; laws to punish trust offenders by Im prisonment as well as by fine; more liberal laws for the protection of em ployes, and laws giving federal author ities wider power over the public health. While the president has offered no strikingly new additions to his pro gram for future legislation, his ad dress Is significant as serving notice on the country that there ,1s to be no halting and no turning backfrom the advance steps already taken. The ad ministration, under President Roose velt's direction, has worked an eco nomic revolution, the effect of which must be felt for years to come. The establishment of publicity and fairer methods of competition, the destruc tion of the vicious system of rebates and discriminations by railroads and the enactment of laws for "a square deal" In the great business institutiona of the country are the triumphs of the Roosevelt administration, and they have been achieved without real in Jury to legitimate property rights. No one wants to return to the old regime of rebates, discriminations, stock in flation and nonenforcement of the law. The work has been well accomplished and the country will approve the pres ident's course In determining for a res olute continuance of his policies to their logical conclusion. THE C ALU OT THIS WDVSTBTXS. The call ot the railroads for at least 1,000 men for immediate employment In the coal mines ot Wyoming and Utah, with the certainty of a more or les8 pronounced shortage in the winter fuel supply it the call is not answered, serves to emphasize the abnormal con dition ot the labor aupply of the coun try. For Borne months there has been almost a labor famine In the Industrial centers of the east and, notwithstand ing the unusually large immigration arriving at New York each day, the de mand for workmen far exceeds the supply. The west la also beginning to feel the shortage of labor, which Is really the only factor in sight that threatens to check its industrial ex pansion. The largest steel plant in the world will be opened at Gary, Ind., next week, and 'the operation of the mills and the business of the city which has eprung up as the new plant has been built, will call for more than 20,000 workmen of all grades. Steel trust offi cials report greatest difficulty in secur ing the help needed. Cripple Creek has sent out a call for at least 1,000 miners, with assured wages ranging from $3 to $6 a day and Bteady em ployment. Attractive as this offer Is, the mine owners have difficulty in re taining working miners on account ot the more urgent call, with higher wages offered, from the gold fields ot Nevada. From the Michigan copper mining region cornea the complaint that men can not be had ia sufficient numbers to meet orders for larger quantities of ore than it Is possible to produce with the working forces ob tainable. With the farms, factories, mills, railroads and mines bidding against each other for workers, tbe wage- earner occupies an enviable position While the immigration has been more than 1,000,000 a year for several years exceeding 1,800,000 ia 10, every section of the country is still crying for more help. The farmera are pro ducing more cereals and other prod ucts than ever before, the mineral out put Is breaking all records, the rail roads are hauling more merchandise and every activity offers evidence of steady, If not increasing, business. As long as the "Help Wanted" sign Is out the wheels of industry must be revolving. OAS AO A IX. It is hardly probable that anything The Bee may say on the subject will have any weight with the democratic mayor and council in their determina tion to ask the people to vote them authority to issue $3,500,000 of bonds with which to purchase the local gas plant. The Bee is free to say that be tween the purchase of the present plant and the waste of several million dollars in constructing a duplicate plant for purposes of alleged competi tion, It would favor the purchase scheme. Aside from that, however, it seems to us that the democratic mayor and council would be putting the cart before the horse, even It they had the backing ot a unanimous pub lic sentiment in favor ot the object to be attained. Why should Omaha be asked to vote $3,600,000 of bonds to buy the pres ent gas plant? Does anyone know whether it can be bought within the limit of $3,500,000, or whether $3,500,000 is not a largely excessive figure? Some years ago we voted $3,000,000 in bonds to buy the water works, but when the appraisement came In it was for more than $6,000, 000 and the bonds have never been is sued. The outcome of the water works purchase proposition will be either the voting of more bonds or an extension of the contract with the water company on more favorable terms. So far as purchasing the gas plant Is concerned, Omaha is in exactly the same position that It was with respect to purchasing the water works. By express terms ot the gas franchise or dinance the city has reserved the right to buy the plant at any time without paying for franchise value. It may buy either by appraisement, under the three-appraiser plan, or by exercise of the right of eminent domain. If the appraisement plan were chosen the city would name one appraiser, the gas company another and the two would select a third. If the right of eminent domain were relied upon the city would apply to the proper Judicial tribunal, who would appoint all of the appraisers on the nomination of the city. In the first case the city would probably be bound by the appraise ment. In the second place it might be free to approve or reject if the fig ures were not satisfactory. Any ordinary business man, expect ing to buy a piece of property, would find out what it waa to cost before borrowing money to pay for it. If the city of Omaha wants to buy the local gas plant, why should we not make the appraisement first and find out whether a satisfactory price can be had before voting bonds in any sum that would be notice to the gas company of how much we were will ing to pay? One candidate for the republican nomination for county treasurer is re ported to have already started out in speephes before improvement clubs to abuse The Bee and its editor, not with' standing the fact that he has just made several pilgrimages to The Bee office begging for support. Inasmuch as he is not on the political map it ia hardly worth while to tell the people the real foundation of his grievance. The time limit for candidates to withdraw primary filings haa expired without any rush at the counter. Some people think a $5 filing' fee cheap to find out with mathematical precision the difference between the number of friends who promise to vote for them and the number who actually deliver the goods. It waa to have been supposed that Brother-in-law "Tommy" Allen had learned enough not to write letters aa chairman of the democratio state com mittee. The object lesson of last year, however, seems to nave gone un heeded. Chairman Allen's strong point Is in making deals with the rail road lobbyists. The Zt. Gaudens designs for the new gold coins may not be accepted because the projection upon the coin is a bas relief which would prevent the coins from being stacked in a pile. The American people will not want to be bothered with gold coins that can not be stacked up aa evenly and easily aa poker chips. In asking for bids for printing the official primary ballots the county and city clerks ought to request figures for printing with and without rotation. Thla would, at least, let th taxpayers know just bow much in money the ro tation foolishness ia likely to cost them. According to official reports fifty four officers and nlnety-flve private soldiers were killed and forty-seven officers and fifty-two privates were wounded in "maintaining order" in Russia, during the month of July. Russia must be as turbulent as New York City. Secretary ot State Junkin has gone to the trouble to make an official rul ing to the effect that votes cast by dem ocrats for candidates for republican nominees are not to be counted toward putting them on the republican ticket The prime object tf nominating by di rect vote Is to make sure that the rank and file of each party choose the candi dates to carry the party banner. It would be the height of absurdity for anyone to try to construe the new pri mary law into permitting democrats to make republican nominations or vice versa. "Is there anything wrong In the president of the United States listen ing to the representatives of Wall street?" asks the Wall Street Journal. Nothing at all, except the standing ad monition against wasting time. An association ot eastern barbers has decided to refuse to cut the hair of men who use safety razors. That's a big Inducement for some genius to Invent a machine with which a man can cut his own hair. In closing his address at Columbus Secretary Taft said there were a num ber of minor issues which he did not have time to discuss. While he men tioned no names, Senator Foraker is probably one of them. The Standard Oil company's divi dends for the seven months of the year amount to but 80 per cent No telling what the company might have divided if it had not been harassed by federal courts. Secretary Taft rather enjoya travel ing, but he would be willing to stay at home for four years, beginning with March 4. 1909. ' Sweating Oil. Baltimore American, The unfortunate oil octopus cart hardly look In any direction, state or federal, without taking for the burden of Its song th mournful refrain, "They're after mo." Why Some People Worry. Chicago Record-Herald, Attorney Oeneral Bonaparte says people who have not violated the laws have no cause to fear. The amount of confidence his statement has not restored Indicates that the lawbreaklng haa been pretty gen eral. Serenity of tha Former. Baltimore American. "Uncle Joe" Cannon holds views very much opposed to those of Mr. Rockefeller, who fears that the country Is plunging headlong Into business ruin. Uncle Joo says while the bulls are trying to gore the bears and the bears are baiting th bulls, the farmers are happy, which is all that Is necessary, and that It won't hurt the nation to let others do the worrying. Legal Mean of Strike Settlement. Portland Orcgonlan. The publio, which Is paying the bills and is every day losing what little love it might have had for the corporations, or for some of them, would like to sea the men secure all that the traffic will bear, but it would also welcome the enactment of legislation which would place the settlement of these differences in other hands than those of disgruntled employes and overbearing em ployers. Rllroskd.jMl Standard Oil. . Railway Age. The Standard Oil company has been a leech upon the .railways of tha United Btates for many years. By means of th tremendous pressure It has been enabled to bring to hear It has extorted vast sums from the carriers, both directly In th form of rebates and Indirectly In other forms. There can be no question that If thla great corporation shall finally ba held to have broken the law and shall be heav ily punished, the ultimate effects will be most salutary for both the public and th railways. MECHANICAL, TELEGRAPHY, The Need ot Automatic Printing; Tele graph Instruments. Springfield (Mass.) Republican. The strike ot the telegraph operators has doubtless suggested to many minds the advance that would be made by the in troduction of automatlo printing telegraph instruments. The process of transmitting Information by telegraph might then be re duced by the elimination of two distinct stages, that of sending the message in the Morse oode and that of receiving It and translating It back again, both of which now require expert and practiced men. If such instruments were In general use to day the country would not be at the mercy, as It is more or less, of these specially trained men whose places are difficult to fill. There would be one occupation less In the world, but it Is unnecessary, at thts lata hour to refute the false theory that society suffers any real hurt In such ways or that there Is any real reduction of op portunity. The world progresses by the elimination of unnecessary labor. But It will probably come as a surprise to most people to learn that a practical printing telegraph Instrument was Invented and In actual use In this country over fifty years ago. This was House's printing telegraph which was largely used In tha United States until about 1860. It was simple in principle though complicated In construc tion. The letters of the alphabet, a period and a blank, or twenty-eight spaces In all were engraved on the rim of a type-wheel, upon the shaft of which was a scape-wheel of fourteen teeth. By means of a retracting spring and an electric magnet the type wheel could be revolved at will and any desired letter be presented by breaking and closing the eleotrlo circuit. But more successful instruments have been Invented since then and the automatic printing telegraph or "ticker" which records the stock market quotations and which Is In every-day use uiil Instantly suggest Itself. The "ticker" was originated In New Tork In 1867, has been Improved by many In ventors and Is In use all over the world today, many hundreds or thousands of In struments being operated by a single In dividual at the central exchange. Rut that House's automatlo telegraph for ordinary messages went out of use must ot course have been due to Its not being able to oompet with the speed achieved by ex pert aenders and receivers using the Morao cod. Since then, however, there has been a tremendous advance In electrical ap paratus of every nature and It has b.n said that the only reason why automatic printing telegraph Instruments have not already been put In general use In America haa been the conservatism of vested and practically monopolistic Interests. If this Is true, today must b the dsy of regrets; the two big telegraph companies must sigh for the Inventions they are said to have smothered. At all events necessity Is still th mother of Invention and th present strike must hasten the coming of the per fected automatic machine which In Its final form Will rrobably require at one end no roor than the ability to strike th key of a typewriter, while at the other end of th wire It automatically records th message. XF.BRASKA FRF.9S COMMENT. Beatrice San,: King Horn never reared h'i head quKs so high nor save off so haughty a look as at present. This la the sort of weather that makes him smile. Stantsn Ticket: The railroads are not so cheerful In obeying the 2-cent law as they were In th cne ding away with the passes. Long Pine Journal: A shortage of rear admirals Is reported by the Navy depart ment. It won't be long before we can send them down a bunch of disappointed candi dates for district Judge, If that will help any. Beatrice Times: It should steadily be borne In mind by the voters of Nebraska v ho Insisted on tho enactment of a primary election law for the nomination of public officials that thoy have tho power to make It a success by turning out to the primaries, but that they will kill It too dead to skin It thev shall fall to do this. Ord Quia: They ought to elect more edi tors and fewer lawyers to the legisla ture. Lawyers are schooled In making things as blind as possible, to use as many words and convey as Indefinite Ideas as they can. On tho other hand, editors are schooled In the art of saying things clearly and to the point with as little verbiage as possible and with no ambiguity. Nearly every law on the statute books Is capable of sundry Interpretations, wherefrom the lawyer In later years will get his money back. Take, for Instance, the new law rela tive to primary elections. It Is full of ambiguities, absurdities and contradictions. Sentences are mixed and probably trans posed, and a Jumble generally Is made of an effort to say something, but It Is hard now to say what. It starts off to tell, In one place, how the county clerk shall prepare a written sample ballot to hang up In his office and winds up with an obscure description ot how the ballots shall be printed, and It fails utterly to tell what shall be done In the makeup of the bal lot. It ever a thing needed editing it Is the new primary ballot. Beatrice Express: The public does not feel very cheerful over the crippling of tho news service of the country, and If re ports' are true officers of the telegraphers' combination, operating for the American Tress association, did not act within the bounds of reason In urging their grievance. They wired Melvln E. Stone, manager ot the American Press association, that he would be given twenty-four hours In which to yield concessions of higher wagos and shorter hours. Stone had no authority to grant the request, and as the American Press association la not St money-making organization and carries no surplus, a plan of Increasing wages would have to be adopted to meet the demands if they were conceded. Thus It was impossible, within the time mentioned, to call together the fifteen members of the board of directors scattered In different parts of the country. The operators were already receiving for day work 10 per week and 60 cents per hour for overtime, and for night work $35 per week and 70 cents per hour for over time. Bo they were not suffering from wicked lack of compensation, and could at least have delayed Injury to the publio until sufficient time had passed for their demands to be properly considered and acted upon. Crete Democrat: The only way out of the everlasting grind which aur public school teachers have been placed by the wild normal erase sweeping over our country as a result of a deslra on the part of the big headed superin tendents to earn a salary during vacation, ia for the colleges and universities to In crease their facilities for Instructing teach ers or prospective teachers In matters cov ered by the aforesaid craze and thus relieve the 'public of the heavy expense, and per mit the over-worked and tired teachers at the end of the school year to take a rest and recuperate strength for the next year. Hera we have a lot ot so-called junior normals In different sections of the state to which teachers must go and spend most of their vacation listening to the peculiar Ideas of the several wise superintendents who are engaged by some other wise guy to Instruct the tired teachers during the hottest period of the year, In some new fangled methods of teaching, which som crank has evolved In his poorly balanced belfry. That which a person needs In order to teach Is, first, good home train Ing; second, an education; third, govern ment, neither of these can she or he get at the Junior normals set up by a lot of cheap legislators at tha behest of design ing superintendents to make a show and earn some money. ' It costs the taxpayers many thousands and does them no good. Central City Democrat: State Superin tendent McBrlen has been getting after some school districts of the state that have been suspected of padding their censuses, with rather astonishing results. In 1905, for Instance. Hastings came to the front with a reported school population of 4,383. Tlie enrollment of the schools showed up but J.ZS8, which looked a little suspicious. Last vear. belnir under fire, the census enumer ator could find only 2.611 eliglbles to school privileges In all the city, and as the en rollment shows 2.S53, the census appears reasonable. In Grand Island the census for laos showed 2.6S6. while the enrollment in th schools was only 1,630. Fremont and Kearney have shown even greater discrep ancies. As each nr.me on tho census rear lot r la worth some S3 per year to the dls trlct, it can easily be seen why a district hmild make Its list as large aa pnssime those mentioned apparently profiting by from 11.000 to 13.000 per year by their little deception. .There Is little chance for the smaller districts to pad their censuses to any appreciable degree, and the excess the fraudulent districts get Is thus tanen irom the smaller and weaker ones. We are glad to see an effort made to stop this kind of thieving from the public treasury and hope it mav.be made entirely successrui. as means to that end It might be a good thing I for tha legislature to provide that any dis trict eullty. through Its census enumerator, of stuffing its census should hav Its state apportionment cut off for the next turee years. FKHSOKfAI. JiOTBSi Emperor William and King Edward met the other day and kissed each othor sev eral times. Luckily neither carried a gun Daniel Worcester, said to be the original "Uncle Tom" of the original "Uncle Tom's Cabin" company, Is still living In Roxbury, Vt. One of the t wo ' Edinburgh houses asso ciated with the name of Blielley, Is In pro cess of demolition. It was In this house that he wrote his "Refutation of Deism' and "Queen Mab." Dr. Harry T. Wiley, chief of th bureau of chemistry of the United 8tates Depart ment of Agriculture, Is to attend the fiist annual world's fair pur food show which is to be held In Chicago In November. Thomas Pry or Gorem, said to be th political leader of Oklahoma, la Mind and has been i since the age of 11. He la one of the most sought lawyers and has been active In all campaigns since he went there from Mississippi. The enforced popularity of the water wagon provokes from Colonel Watterson a woful lament for the rising sons as In "Old Kentucky Home." "Instead of th rich red blood of Virginia," he exclaims "Ice water shall flow through the veins of the people." To the sideboard, patriots. and banish tb (rest! Perfect Womanhood The greatest menace to woman's permanent happiness in life la tho suffering' that comes from some de rangement of the feminine organs. Many thousands of women have realized this too late to save their health, barely in time to save their Uvea. To be a successful wife, to retain the love and admiration of her hus band, ahould be a woman's constant study. If a woman finds that her ener gies are flagging, that she gets easily tired, dark shadows appear under her eyes, she ha backache, head ache, bearing-down sensations, ner vousness, irregularities or the "bines," she should start at once to build up her system by a tonlo with specific powers, such as Lydia E. Pinkham's the great woman's remedy for woman's Ills, made only of roots and herb. It cures Female Complaints, such aa Dragging Sensations, Weak Back, Falling and Displacement. Inflammation and Ulceration, and all Organic Diseases, and is invaluable In the Change of Life. It dissolves and Expels Tumors at an early stage. Subdues Falntnesa. Nervous Prostration, Exhaustion, and strengthens and tones the Stomach. Cure Headache, Oeneral Debility, Indigestion, and invigorates the whole female sytero. It is an excellent remedy for derangements of the -Kidneys in either sex. NEBRASKA FROM DAY TO DAY Quaint and Carlon Features of Life In a Rapidly Growing State. Early nird A young fellow In our town went to see his lady love the other night and must have had an Interesting time, be cause when he said good-by, he discovered that her father had borrowed his bicycle to ride down to the butcher shop to get some meat for breakfast. Deciding to make the best of It, he accepted an Invita tion to break bread with the family, and promised, upon going, to come again when he could stay awhile. Wakefield Republi can. Girls In a Scrap We learn that two young women In a vicinity several miles north from here got Into a fight last Sun day. One of the girls had a buggy whip and the other used her fists. They were separated before they had done each other serious damage. The fight was over a case of eavesdropping on the telephone, of which one of the girls accused the other. Tha young woman was talking to her beau, and the conversation was overheard by the eavesdropper. Columbus Telegram. Licensed to Call Names Lawyers stand up In court houses before Jurors, In the presence of large audiences, and denounce men as liars, scoundrels, thieves and per jured vlllians, and when court adjourns the men appear to harbor no 111 will against them. But let a newspaper faintly Inti mate that a man's character Is blemished , and he ha to confront a horse pistol, stand a libel suit or suffer what the people think to be the greatest of all mortifications lose a subscriber. Humphrey Democrat. Job for W. F. A. M.-W. P. A. Melten- dorff on Tuesday cam Into possession of his bird dog, Soulard, which was kidnaped thirteen months ago by some member of the Sioux tribe. . The pup waa taken from Its owner when but 4 months old, but came back la first class condition which, con sidering the Item of a year's feed. Is In favor of the owner, but It looks to us as though Mr. Meltendorff will have to get busy and learn the Bloux language In order to get any work out of the dog thla year. Valentine Republican. A Norfolk woman was Immensely pleased the other night by a compliment which her husband paid her. Tha woman's neighbors have considered her a heavyweight and have said so. In taking a drive she and her husband came to a bridge over which hung a sign: "Unsafe for heavy loads." The man drove over without tho slightest apparent fear of danger, and the woman naturally felt flattered. Norfolk News. In a Predicament Zob Cox Informs us that the young liveryman at the Diamond livery has run away with his wife. Zeb says this is not the first time that this fellow has kidnaped some other man's wife and there will be something serious happen to him if he doesn't get a woman of his own. The marshal is now looking for someone to wash dishes for him until his wife's return. Long Pine Journal. Nature Fake On Wednesday morning P. W. Roland was attacked by a swarm of bees which approached him from the rear, Covering himself and team almost In an Instant. Both he and the horses were very warm and the bees stung furiously. Andy Guy happened to be near at hand and ran A Great Roast! Over a ton of Arbuckles' Ariosa Coffee is roasted at a time, in a largo revolving cylinder, which drops tho coffee through heat again and again until each bean is uniformly roasted. No other coffee is in suffi cient demand to afford such scientific and perfect prepara tion. The sales of Arbuckles' Ariosa Coffee exceed the sales of all other packaged coffees combined, and this scientific roasting, which no othes coffee can afford, by its very magni tude, reduces our cost to a minimum, and enables us, with our other advant ages, to give better value in Arbuckles Ariosa Coffee than is possible for any. 'one else. Arbuckles' Ariosa Coffee is the cheapest good coffee in the world, and the best of all for you. AMBVCKUC BROS., New Zurk Ctt , f its 1 1 i ' 1 1 imri t Vegetable Compound across the road to his house, getting a dish pan with which he soon set up a din that attracted the bee and caused them to settle in the grass. This undoubtedly saved Mr. Roland's life, aa he could not possibly have fought more than a few minute la the Intense heat. The horses simply rolled and stumbled about until the bees left them. Both man and beasts were literally covered with stingers. Dr. Pac happened to available and th patient waa made easy as possible and It Is thought will recover In good time. Guide Rock Signal. FLAM1K9 OF Flit. "My son," said the aged trust magnate, "be honest, upright and above all thing be truthful. Never tell a lie." "I won't, fattier," answered the noble boy, with flashing eye, dilated nostril and glowing cheek. "I'll refuse to answr," Chicago Tribune. "Do you regard yourself as a servant of the republic?" "Oh, yes," answered Senator Sorghum; "but the fact that I am a servant of th republic doe not make me forget that I am tha political boss of my particular dis trict. "-r-Washlngton Star. "Hasn't Kloaeman proposed to Belle yet?" "No." "Why, I'm sure he wants to marry her.H "Yes, but he's not sure that the engage ment ring he got back from May will fit Belle." Washington Herald. "Please send my bathing suit by mall. I forgot to pack It in my trunk," wrote th wife from the eashore. "Can't find It. You know you took my field glasses away with you," said th hus band In his letter of reply. Tonkers States man. "Brains In woman should count for mors than beauty." "O, but, Miss Sweetly, your beauty Is too strong an argument on the other aid of the question." Browning's Magaslne, Proprietor Mr. Adsum, th combination to our vault is exceedingly Intricate, in volved and hard to retain. Do you wan to tackle It? v 1 Assistant Bookkeeper--!, think I o-e-can hold It, Mr. Benson. I w-w-wear a 1 hat and I have an imp-p-p-pediment In my speech. Chicago Tribune. t "You don't seem to display any tatarMt in these theories that animals talk?" "Certainly not," answered th brusqo cltlsen. "I see no possible need of an In crease In the present supply of conversa tion' Washington Star. "It was one of these personally conducted tours." "And how are they?" "All to the good. Postcards were brought to us at every town. Often we didn't have to leave the train." Houston Chronicle. THIS SPENDTHRIFT. Katherlne Lyman In the Argonaut He left so little, did you say? He had so brief a time to stay, 'Twas hardly worth his while to gathet Dross of our little earthly day. The things that other people prise He gave to others, being wise, Being so heavenly foolish rather. That kept his gains for Paradise, ' Hardly a keepsak did he leave. And all his gold was fugitive. He kept those things that will not perish. For him th widow and orphan grlav. He gave with a light laugh Indeed, As he and gold were 111 agreed; Held It the poorest thing to cherish, Save that it filled another's need. He had his Pilgrim's Scrip of Hope, And Living Waters In his cup. The Staff of Faith that stlli suffices The stumbling soul to lift it up. Being so soon a traveler, Of earthly things he had no care; But on the road that's Paradise's He went the lighter, being bare. vT