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THE OJIAIIA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, AUOUST 22, 1007. Tim Omaha Daily Bee, FOUNDED BT EDWARD R08EWATER. VICTOR ROSETVATER, EDITOR. RtittrM at Omaha postoftlce as second class natter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. rai:y Bee (without Bunday). ona year. WO I 'ally Bee an bunday, on year J -0 Bunday Bee, ona year. ...... J BaUirday Bee, ona year..... 1-M ! PELIVBIRED BT CARRIER, fatty Baa (Including Sunday), per wek..ffc )!ly Baa (without Sunday, per week..lOo Evening Boa (without gunaay), par week ao fcvsnlng Bee (with Sunday), per week. .100 Addrese all complaints of Irregularities In delivery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha City Hall Building. Council Bluffs H Scott Btreet. Chicago 16) Unl'y Building. New York W Home Ufa Inauranca Bldg. Waahlngton 601 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communlcatione relating to news and edi torial matter ahould bo addressed. Omaha Baa, dltorlal Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only t-cent atampa received In payment of majl account. Personal checka, except on Omatia or eastern exchange, not accepted. STATEMENT Or CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska. Doualaa county, aa! Charlea C. Hone water, aeneral manager of Tha Bea Publishing- Company, being duly aworn, aaya that the actual number of Till and complete copies of The uauy Mornlnsr. Evening and fiumlay Bea printed during tha month of July, 1907, waa aa lollowa 1 t I 4 I. ......a . ....... .'rrr.w. 10 11 .ea 13........ II 14 IS........ M.B40 M,10 CU4)' 3S.6O0 33,840 86,480 85,000 8S.SOO ; 86,810 86,840 86,430 86,320 86J40 86,780 17 86,700 II 86,480 1 16,610 20 38,030 80,560 87,870 88,070 S4... ... II . . 21....... 10 II 36,580 86,430 36,400 80,700 35,400 41,370 30380 38,890 14.. .... ... 86.SS0 Total 4 1,133,300 Lesa unsold and returned copies. . 10,336 Nat total 1,121,985 Daily average 36,183 CHARLES C. ROBEWATBR. General Manager. Subscribed In my presence and aworn to Daior m ima lav nay ot August, aui. (Seal) M. B. H UNGATE, Notary Public. , WHEN OUT OF TOWN. ubewrlbers leaving the eity tem porarily should a The Be mallet to them. Addrese will b chaagcd aa oftea aa requested. Tha Georgia colonels are agreed hat the prohibition, enactment la a blue law. The Standard Oil company Insists It Is not guilty and also promises not to do It again. Apparently all the crops are failures In Wall street, with the exception of the rumor crop. . Latest reports Indicate that the Jamestown imposition will be finished In Ume for Its finish. Anyway, -Secretary Taft makes It plain that he does not wear, gum 6hoes when he goes into a political race. S'aturally the women are highly in dignant over the extortions of the Cor set trust. It touches them very closely the king of Slam declares that he Is brother of the sun, but that is prob ably Just his way of announcing that he is a warm number. Among the items ot contingent fund expenses of the United States senate for. the last session appears "Lemons, S19." Who got them? Quite a movement has been started In Colorado looking to the settlement of future Industrial disputes by arbi tratlon instead of dynamite. ' Japanese spies appear to have se cured photographs and drawings of all of our fortifications and defenses ex cept Richmond Pearson Hobson. "Will the earth dry up 7" asks a scientist. Not while Bourke Cockran Senator Beverldge, Chancellor Day and Richmond Pearson Hobson live, Only four more Ak-Sar-Ben inltla tloni. Those who do not take the In ltlatlve soon to become subjects may expect to bump up against the refer end urn. President Small's announced pur pose to raise a strike fund of f 1,000, 000 for the telegraphers cornea a little late. The time to raise a strike fund Is before the strike. A New York minister says it would take only $100,000,000 to convert the world. This la a lot of ciphers for those who have been taught .to be lieve that salvation is free. When it gets down to practical politics It Is tor republicans to file the real objection to Colonel Watterson' efforts to deprive Mr. Bryan ot the democratic presidential nomination, Under a new law the man who takes a drink of whisky on a train In Texas Is subject to a fine, just as though a traveler were not sufficiently punished by being compelled to drink Texas whisky. A Berlin scientist has invented machine by which Invisible objects may be photographed by invisible light That Is the kind of a machine needed to get a photograph of demo cratic chances in the campaign this year. J, Hamilton Lewis is telling the Paris newspapera that Japan and the United States are certain to have war over the Philippines. This is highly reassuring, la view of Lewis uneaualed record in predicting things that never come true. KOT 50W. BUT SOOS. William Jennings Bryan has pub licly declared that, although In favor of government ownership and opera tion of railroads, he realises the time Is sot yet ripe to make that a para mount Usue and is, therefore, ready to abandon its advocacy while the pol icy of government control and regula tion is being tried out. Mr. Bryan would have the people bellove that he Is yielding the question ot govern ment ownership and that those who oppose government ownership may support him without scruple. Some of Mr. Bryan's close friends, however, who are listed with him in the cause of government ownership are not so diplomatic in their expres sions. Of the original Bryan men In Nebraska who have always gone the full length with their leader none can take rank ahead of Edgar Howard. Judge Howard was one of the delega tion to the Chicago convention, which gave Mr. Bryan his first presidential nomination In 1896, and through his Columbus Telegram frequently voices the inner councils ot the Bryan cult. In his last Issue he comes out flat footed on the government "ownership question, insisting that the Govern ment Ownership league, recently formed as a Bryan auxiliary, has not gone out of business, although it may have suspended operations. This - Is what he says In his own words: While tha friends and advocates of gov ernment ownership are ready to recognise the. situation, they are not ready to sur render tha principle for which they con tend. The Telegram has long advocated government ownership of railroads. We shall continue that advocacy, sowing a bit of aeed here and there-whenever we find soil prepared for such sped, but we shall not ask that our party conventions In state or nation shall at this tlmo try to raise 'he question of government ownership above those other public problems which com mand more ready attention of the voters. It has been charged In some quarters that the Nebraska friends of government ownership have abandoned that lssu and have consented to lta burial. Nothing is further from the truth. Whea a man be comes converted to the cause of govern ment ownership he never abandons the causa. He may at times consent that some other public question shall take precedence In some certain campaign, but he remains true always to the faith that la In him, al ways awaiting a favorable opportunity to advance his cause. No friend of government ownership need be discouraged. The leaven Is working. Government control has failed dismally, and will always fall. Government owner ship may be delayed, but It will arrive in due season, and the arrival will bring re lief to the American people from the rough hand of the criminal rich who now own and operate the railroads of the republic. Colonel Bryan says government ownership of railroads Is not an issue, but Edgar Howard puts it up where it must be an Ibsuo without waiting for the aid or consent of Mr. Bryan or anyone else. If Edgar Howard speaks as a Bryanlte oracle nothing can elim inate the government ownership Issue from the 190$ campaign short'of the elimination of Mr. Bryan as a candi date. REFORM PROGRAM SPOILED. 'Governor Hoke Smith of Georgia emerges' from a contest with the legis lature with little to show In the way of reform legislation promised during his campaign for governor. The legis lature broke up in a riot, due to the governor's personal work on the floor of the senate In favor of some railroad regulation legislation. The present railroad commission of the state, com posed of three members, is hostile to the governor, and a terrific fight was made against his bill increasing the membership of the commission, to five and enlarging its powers. The measure was passed In the last hours of the session, after a continuous fight of thirty hours, in which the governor was openly denounced for his lobbying methods. The only other measures urged by the governor favorably con sidered was the bill for the disfran chisement of the negroes. His anti lobby, anti-pass and all bis bills for taxing the railroads and public service corporations were defeated. The pro hibition bill was not one of the gov ernor's measures, although he did not oppose It. Public Interest, outside of Georgia, will be most concerned In the franchise law adopted by the state. It is the latest expression of labored Ingenuity to keep the ballot out of the hands of the black' man. The new law restricts the suffrage privilege to all who have served In any war among the troops of the state, confederacy or nation, or who belonged to the military forces ot the state during the civil war, or who have lawfully descended from those who have served the confederacy or the state In a military capacity; like wise "all persons ot good character who understand the duties of good cltlxenship." The prospective voter must be able to read correctly In the English language any paragraph or section in the constitution ot the state or the United States and also be able to write it correctly when read to him by one of the registrars. On the surface, the law would ap pear to contain nothing In conflict with the constitutional amendment extend ing the right ot suffrage to the negro. Its efficacy as an instrument ot dis franchisement lies in the opportunity It affords for the white registrars to apply so rigorously what seems like a general and Impartial test as to befog the understanding of the negro ap plicant for registration and balk his Just and laudable purpose. It is frankly confessed that the value of the law as a disfranchisement device lies In its skillful enforcement by white election officers, who, when other tests fall, may refuse the ballot to the negro be cause he falls, in the Judgment of the election officials, to "understand the duties of good citizenship." While possibly within the letter of the federal constitution the spirit of It Is utterly defied by this scheme which may be so manipulated by the election officials that the white cannot lose and the black cannot win. Tttt YTORLlfS WHEAT CROP. The wheat of the world la In the hands of the speculators from the time the farmer plants his crop until he gets the harvest In his bin. When the latter result Is accomplished, the wheat supply changes from a specula tive element to a reality that can be measured in bushels, and a degree of accuracy marks the statistics relating to the world's needs and the supply available to meet It. The harvest of 1907. both of win ter and spring wheat crops, has now reached the point where a reasonably accurate accounting may be made. American farmers will be particularly interested, therefore, In the estimates prepared by Beerbohm ot London and the Liverpool Corn Trade News, two recognized authorities, on the require ments of importing states and the probable surplus of exporters, com pared with actualities in 1906. The figures of the Corn Trade News are as follows: REQUIREMENTS. 1907. 1906. Quarters. Quarters. United Kingdom tf.OOO.GO 26.200.000 France l.0,000 1.800,000 Germany ; 11.000,000 ,000,000 Belgium and Holland.... 8.600,000 8.800.000 Italy S.flno.euo 6,5"O,OO0 Spain and Portugal 2.000.000 1,000.000 Scandinavia 2,000,000 2,000,000 Switzerland 2,300,000 2,300,000 Greece SuO.OOO 800,000 Austria-Hungary 1,600,000 Total continent 84,700,000 Total Europe 61,700,000 Ex-European countries.. 10,000,000 Sl.000.000 67,iO.OOO 10.800,000 Grand total 71.700.000 67,500,000 1906. Quarters. 18.600,000 6,100.000 11,0X,OOO ,6o0,000 13,660,000 8,700,000 8,700,000 700,000 1,030,000 SUPPLIES. 1907. Quarters. ltV.OOO.OUO 4.0UO.O0O 15,000,000 6,000,000 United States Canada Russia Balkan States Argentina 14,000,000 Australasia 4,600,000 India 4,000,000 Austria-Hungary .. Minor countries 1,000,000 Totals 62,600,000 67,680,000 Beerbohm's estimates place the re quirements of Importing countries at 6,900,000 quarters, or 47,200,000 bushels (the term "quarter" used in foreign markets representing eight bushels), greater than that of the Corn Trade News, Beerbohm placing the needs of France, Germany, Italy and Austria above the estimates of the Corn Trade News. Both authorities, however, agree that the deficiency in probable supplies below requirements is extraordinary, amounting, according to the Corn Trade News, to 9,200,000 quarters, or 73,600,000 bushels. For many years the surplus has been In excess of requirements'. Accepting the estimates of these au thorities as fairly accurate, the out look for the' American wheat grower Is very promising. While the American crop is likely to be about 100,000,000 bushels short of last year, the natural Increase In the demand for' borne con sumption, coupled with the unusual shortage in other wheat producing na tions, assures an enhanced price for the product that will more than offset the loss In bushels. What the democrats In Omaha think of their chances at the coming election is pretty clearly indicated by the with drawal of all the democratic filings for the Board ot Education, leaving a clear field for the candidates who may be nominated on the republican ticket If the democrats thought they had a ghost of a show to make a fight for anything they would fill up the gaps all along the row so as to be able to come to the battle line with a full complement of soldiers. China complains that the Christian nations of the world are trying to de feat Its crusade for the abolition of the use of opium. It Is one of the queer conditions that appear in history occasionally that the nations which profit most by selling opium to the Chinese also spend the most money In sending missionaries to tell the Chinese how sinful and degrading the opium habit is. . A move is said to be on foot to get a rehearing in the Kearney Normal school case In which the supreme court upheld Governor Sheldon's veto of an $85,000 appropriation. But perhaps this Is simply an idle rumor designed to dim ' the pyrotechnics which the Kearney Hub has been set ting oft against Judge Sedgwick. Our amiable democratic contem porary is very much afraid Douglas county republicans may put up a good winning ticket this year without cut ting the lines of factionalism deep enough to let any democratic office seekers crawl In. That explains its resurrected solicitude for the Fonta nels Indians. The claim la put forth that the dem ocratic mayor and city council have now redeemed all the promises made to procure their election. WUh the maximum tax levy allowed under the city charter, imposed for the first time, the promise ot an economical administration looks like 10 cents. A Roman Catholic bishop at Mil waukee has put a ban oa rice throw ing at weddings, declaring that the custom is "unpleasant, dangerous and a relic of barbarism." The bishop is right and hla order will be applauded by everyone except the tool friends ot the happy couple. While our democratic editor-congressman is over in Paris talking against parcels post, his paper here In Omaha comes out with a half way en dorsement of the scheme. The wires m ust have gotten crossed somewhere. Alarm over the prediction ot a scientist that the world is going to dry up, subsides a little when It is learned that the scientist in question lives in Georgia, where a prohibition law becomes effective next January. There are slate makers and there are also slate breakers, but the nomi nations will be made under the direct primary law, In which all the voters of Omaha and Douglas county will have a determining voice. Having for the first time produced a western golf champion, It wouldbe a pity for Omaha to lose him so soo The competition for golf champl. i, however, Is pretty strong these days. If the World-Herald has taken out any copyright on the question which It originated, "Are you a republican or are you a Fontanelle?" It should put up notice against Infringement. San Francisco had several cases of bubonic plague, but the people are not alarmed. They are not afraid ot anything after- their long experience with bubonic politics. Pnh It Ip Stream. St. Louis Times. The hundredth anniversary of steam- boating In the United States has been cele brated by a revival of traffic on the Mis souri. Distinction and Difference. Minneapolis Journal. When you come to think of it. Mr. Taft'a definition of the difference between Roose velt and Bryan Is rather neat. Roosevelt believes In the Individual and trusts him; Bryan Is afraid of the Individual and dis trusts him. Impulse of the ulad Hand. Kansas City Star. Mr. Bryan's defense of southern mv. ernors In their controversy with federal judges would bo more convincing If Mr. Bryan were not so much Is need nf .r,,,th. ern support In tho next democratio na tional convention. . Different Kind of Peril. St. Loula Republic. When Senator Dubois comes all the wav from Idaho to Illinois to announce that the country Is still In peril from polygamy In Utah, the country will hop that It Is not peril of the kind that explodes when tha front gate Is opened. Royal Grand Army Host. Philadelphia Record. There Is something big and broad and picturesque In the hospitality of General William J. Palmer of Colorado. Ha waa not contented with Inviting a half doaen of his old comrades of tho Fifteenth Pennsyl vania cavalry to Join htm at his home In the shadow of Pike's Peak, but Insisted upon entertaining them all and Upon foot ing all their bills. He has gone "Old Homo Week" one better; he has Instituted "Old Camp Week. HOLDING COMPANY DEVIOUS. v Obnoxious Principle n Preached by Defenders of 'Monopoly. New York Journal of Commerce. Few deny that the real Oil trust," tha alleged monopoly which controls W per cent of the petroleum Industry and trade of the country, Is the Standard Oil company of New Jersey, and yet directly through Its own organization It does comparatively little of the actual owning of assets and operating of Industries In Its vast business. It has some large refineries In New Jersey and some valuable pipe lines for tran sporting crude petroleum, but for tho moat part ft carries on this business through subsidiary companies In different states or groups of states, using them as its own Instrumentalities. It has caused these companies to be organized under various state laws, It owns their stock, and from their dividends tho earnings from which Its own dividends are paid are mainly derived. It Is not a mere holder of stock In several Independent corporations like an ordinary individual, but these corporatlona are practically a part of ltrclf, the organs and limbs through which It operates. They are tha constituent members of Its own organization, through which its functions are exercised. They act In response to its central ' will determined by its board of directors, of which their boarda are the mere Implements. Now. to contend - that under these cir cumstances Its responsibility and obliga tion in regard to these, constituent or sub sidiary corporations and their violations of law are no different from those of tha ordinary individual stockholder in a rail road or other corporation seems a trifle absurd, and It Is hard to believe that courts will ao hold when the question cornea to a test. If It were to be so established, tha difficulty of holding a great corporate combination In subjection to law would be many times multiplied. The control of Its capital "could bo massed In a huge holding corporation, organised under tho laws of a state allowing the largest liberty, while the capital Itself could be distributed among as many separata corporations In different atatea as might be desired and lta prac tical operation could be carried on through these, with responsibility divided up pro portionately. If It had occasion to disre gard law In any particular locality or In a score of localities for the purpose ot main taining or strengthening Its monopoly, It could take the chance with the assurance that It could not be held to account, but only tha subsidiary company through which It acted in each particular Instance. That company alona could be held legally re sponsible and It alone would have to bear the penalty, which would be limited to Its capacity for standing It. Such a fine as It had to pay might 'be severe upon its separata treasury, but It would only slightly impair the Income of the "parent com pany." Even it it wera bankrupted and. Its assets exhausted It could be easily replaced by a new organisation whose capital would coma from the original source and out ot tha earnings of all the other subsidiaries. We would respectfully dissent from this view of the responsibility of trusts formed by means of the holding company device and of their relation to tha law of the land. Wo do not believe that It can be maintained under the law as it is, and If it could be it would behoove the law-making power to make It otherwise aa speedily as possible. It Is our idea that trusts and tha magnates who direct their conduct and grow rich by their operation should be held responsible for the acta which are dona through the Instrumentalities they create and control, and should bear the penalties for those acta when they are in violation of law. Otherwise they can defy law and public authority with impunity for an Indeuntte time, making resistance to tha enforcement of law a profitable part of ttulr business. The doctrine of these defenders of monopoly la obnoxious to every principle of Justice or equity and It la depreutlng to Mud It preached kg in fluential organs of public opinion. BITS OP WAJHIIOTM MFF1. Minor Keenea and Incident Sketrhed on tha Spot. What is classed as the largest and finest specimen of concrete bridge construction Is now under way In Washington. This bridge carries Connecticut avenue, one of the capital clty'a finest boulevards across Rock creek and the valley through which the little stream flows. Tha structure con sists of five great arches, having a total length of 1,0 foet, and will cost $1,000,000. No stone blocks whatever are being used In Its construction, yet It takes minute Inspection to distinguish the moulded con crete blocks from sawed granite. The next largest concrete bridge In existence Is that of the Illinois Central railroad across tha "Big Muddy," which Is, however, only one fifth the slse 'of the Connecticut avenue bridge. The Illinois Central bridge, built In 19ii2, consists of three HO-foot arches, re quiring lS,i(io cubic yards of concrete. The Washington bridge has five 1D0 and two eighty-foot arches; lta width Is flfty two feet, and 80,000 barrels of cement wera used In making the concrete for Its seven arches and five huge piers, which rise to a height of 122 feet. Two and one-half million feet of lumber have been required for false work. Such figures maka little Impression upon the mind one must see It to realise the amount of material but there liava been used 100,000 tons of broken stone, 34,000 tons of sand and 14,300 tons of cemont. A noteworthy feature of the big concrete bridge will be the twenty-eight powerful lampa which will be arranged along lta length and approaches. These are special high rower lamps of BOO candle power each, and they will shed a soft, mellow glow for a distance of more than 1,000 yards. The bases of the lamps will be cast' In concrete. Standing six feet from their foundation of the bridge, they will sup port columns rising sixteen feet In the air, making the lamps In all nearly twenty five feet tall. General John M. Wilson, retired. Is a man who does things and does them, usually, In ways that other men would not think of. It was he who completed tha build ing of the Washington monument, and he had It in charge for many years. When tho question of putting an elevator In tha shaft for tho accommodation of the public was first mooted, relates tho Wash ington Herald, many people were afraid, and this fear continued after the elevator waa successfully Installed. Once Oneral Wilson waa called before a congressional investigating committee and asked if he were quite certain that the elevator was perfectly safe. "No," he replied, "I am not." "What?" a congressman aald. "You come here and tell us that It la now car rying passengers and you don't know whnther It Is safe or not?" "I cannot guarantee It," replied tha gen eral; "all that human skill ana ingenuuy rtn in make It perfect haa been done, but even while you gentlemen sit here something may have smashed, if .imr.lv a little object lesson of the generals belief In tho fallibility of human devices. Some time later there was a heavy thunderstorm and lightning struck the monument. No perceptible damage was done, but there was some thought that tha "capstone," which is -.- ioi mlsrht have been Injured. It aeemed that the only way to And out waa to send a man to examine iu j ,v. i,iMiiiir or a scaffold, a certain requireu mo " v .. rlak to the workman, and a cost of about $2,000. The general had anomer . friend In charge of tha United States Naval observatory. ' Pleas. turn your atronge.t Instrument on .yj " ' . ,ni he aald. "and of my monument see If it la all right." In a few ".omenta the cap was under a most rigia mep." and it was found to bo intact. The penalon roll of the United States amounts to nearly iiss.wu.wu v n.!.,. i. rii.trthuted among $86,971 per sons. Pension vouchers go to nearly every .. i h. wnrlrt. and the amount thus distributed Is about $750,000 annually. Can ada haa 2,657 persons on our ron wuu -innm nnnuallv: Germany comes next, with' 800, who get $86,000 a year. There are five penaloners in Hong K.ong, ien in India, twenty-one in weigium ma Of the various atatea in this country Ohio leada off in total amount, wnn receive $14,900,000 an nually; Pennsylvania, 88.829 pensioners, with $18,22,000; New York followa with 89, 240 pensioners, receiving $11,835,000; Illinois, with 69.704. gets $9,903,000, closely followed by Indiana, with 61,440, receiving $9,916,000. while Michigan Is sixth, with 41.674 pension ers, getting an aggregate of $G,436,000. In the District of Columbia thera ara 8,740 persons drawing $1,357,000; Alabama has $,943, who get $504,700; Florida, $.862. $509,400; Georgia. J.632. $486,900; louialana, $.630. $806,100; Mississippi, 4,856. $588,600; North Carolina. 4,204. $567,200 ; 8outh Caro lina, 2,096, $U69,0OO; Tennessee-, 19.288, $2,753. 900; Texas, 8,913. $1,800,600; Virginia, 8,866; $1,280,800; Arkansas, 10,997, $1,480,300; Ken tucky. 27,244, $3,850,400; Maryland, 12.771, $1,720,100; Missouri 60.434. $7,900,000; West Vir ginia, 12.211. $1,740,800. In the New England and the middle atates the number of pensioners and the aggregate amounts to each state are: Matno, 18,741, $2,856,200 New Hampshire, 8,212, $1,208,400; Vermont, 8,347, $1,877,200; Massachusetts, 40,610, $5,250,800; Rhode Is land. 6,4fi8. $28,100; Connetlcut. 12,611. $1,680, 600; New Jeraey, 20,886, $2,450,200; Delaware. 2,683, $381,900. Other figures and amounts are: Alaska, 79. $10,100; Arizona, 8C2, $118,900; California. 26,888, $3,360,200; Colorado, 8,747, $1,220,400; Idaho, 2,263, $311,800; Indian Territory, 4.S21, $580,600; Iowa, 86.132, $5,800,000; Kansas, 39, 076, $5,400,700; Minnesota, 16,207, $2,100,800; Montana. 2,082, $290,100; Nebraska 16,108, $2,175,100; Nevada, S64, $50,000; New Mexico, 2,106, $310,000; North Dakota. 2,013, $289,900; Oklahoma, 9,236. $1,296,000; Oregon, 7,940, $1,047,300; South Dakota. 4.392. $628,000; Utah. 1,028. $131,700; Washington, 10,312, $1,338,200; Wisconsin, 27,044, $3,870,900, and Wyoming, 93. $126,800. Not everybody remembers that the White houae haa a gold table service which has been In use on state occaslona since the Van Buren administration. Tha service is made up of four large candelabra, five fruit dishes and eight table mirrors, which ara ao fashioned that they can be made into one enormous centerpiece. It is claimed that thla service Is one of the handsomest In the world, and Impresses even diplomats who have seen the elaborate table docora tlona In the courta of Europe. It appears, however, that Uncle Sam'a gold plecea are In need of furblsl-.lr.g, and Jewelers from New York. Philadelphia and Baltimore have submitted bids for tha work. Railroad Managers Catching On. Springfield Republican. Aa a result of the government exposure of Standard Oil bleeding of the railroads on their lubricants, It la reported that the roads generally wll Investigate their pur chasing departments or themselves and stop the business. The managers can do no less than thla In Justice to their stock holders. Instead of devoting so much time to warding off "attacks" from tha state and federal governments, would It not be well that they ahould give aome time to losses and attacks front those of their own financial household t Roll or Glide, :ri PERSONAL NOTES. Lord Alverslone has the distinction of having made the longest legal argument on record. This was when he appeared as counsel for his country before the Venesue lan Arbitration commission, and his ad dress occupied sixteen consecutive days. Alderman Bulger of Kansas City has Just returned home from a trip around the east, taking In the Jamestown exposition. He gave his neighbors his opinion that "maybe art Is on the bum In Kanaas City, but I didn't see anything on my trip but what we have skinned forty ways from the Jack." Miss Junla McKlnley, a cousin to the late President William McKlnley, the founder of the first chapter of the Daughters of the Revolution in the United States, and one of the best beloved women In Atlanta, Ga., haa Just died In that city. Miss McKlnley took the keenest delight In genealogical re search and was conceded to be the most accomplished and best genealogist In the southern states. Up to the time of her death aha carried on a vory Interesting correspondence with Jerome Bonaparte and Princess Mathilde Bonaparte. By the will of Dx. William Thomson, ophthalmologist and pioneer In the field of antiseptic surgery, which was admitted to probata In Philadelphia, the bulk of an estate valued by tha testator at $1,300,000 Is bequeathed to the widow and six chil dren. Tho will namea the four sons of Dr. Thomson, William G., Archibald G., Wal ter B. and George G. ' Thomson, and the Fidelity Trust company as the executors of the estate. Besides theae four sons, the heirs Include two daughters, Caroline II. Roberts and Sarah D. Watrlss. Dr. Thom son was a brother of the lata Prank Thom son, president of the Pennsylvania rail road. THE FALL ELECTIONS. Importance of the Contests In Many States. Leslie's Weekly. Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Jer sey, Maryland, Mississippi and Kentucky elect governors In November, 1907, and most of these state, as well as a few others, will choose one or both branches of their legislatures. Tha contests In Rhode Island, New Jersey and Maryland will be of spe cial Interest to the country. Rhode Island, which gave a plurality of nearly 17,000 to President Roosevelt In 1904, haa elected a democrat to the governorship several times recently, and has a democratic governor now. New Jersey, which was once called the northern projection of tha solid south, and which until 1896 was about as reliably democratio as South Carolina, is being "clalmedy by the democrats this year. Maryland has been a doubtful state for the past dozen years, swinging from one party to the other. McKlnley carried it In 1896 and 1900, and In 1904 the division was so close that nobody knew who had the state until the official count was made. Then It was found that out of a total vote of 224,000, Parker beat Roosevelt by only fifty-one votes. These states, holding their elections so close to the big national canvass, will show the direction and the force of the partisan currents. When the republicans carried Maryland and Kentucky for governor In 1895, the country saw that the drift waa decidedly In favor of the republicans for a big canvass twelve months later. When Roswell P. Flower carried New York for governor in 1891 by a 48,000 margin, and Horace Boise carried Iowa, these wera among the portents of the democratic land slide In 1892, which placed Cleveland in the presidency. Foraker'a defeat at the polla for governor ot Ohio in 1883 by Oeorge Hoadly ' waa one of the Indications of that awtng of the country away from the re publicans which was to defeat Blaine in 1884 and send Cleveland to the White house fbr his first term. Some of those state elections of 1907 may be Important aa "pointers" of the direction In which the political wind will blow in 1908. What Two Tests Are Necessary in Buying a Piano? 1 Your eyes and your good judgment when you see it. 2 The reputation of the store that offers the piano for sale. iso one need ouy an interior piano no matter bow ignorant one may oe in tho matter of what qualities a good piano should possess, he has only him self to blame if he selects and pays for an Instrument which after little use becomes a disappointment, its tone harsh. Its case warped and Its action heavy. DISCRETION This Is the one needed companion of the person set ting out to buy a piano. He needs no "professional" friend to aid him in a selection nor is It necessary that he himself have a personal knowledge ot music. Discretion this Is the only re quirement. Anyone looking over a display of handsome Instruments can Quickly select the one, which In style of finish suits his taste most and which will be most appropriate for the home In which It will be placed. But, as to finality? Here then Is where DISCRETION should play a part. If the buyer has little knowl edge of the store In which he Is deal A. Hospc Co., .We do expert tuning ONE PRICK Slip or Slide, but get to the grocer's quickly for a golden package of The happiest, snappiest Ginger Snaps everknovnin Gingerville. NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY PASSING I'l.E AS A JiTRlKS. "Well, well," snld Tess, "there goes Ida Strong. When I saw her Inst sho waa pos ing as a bachelor girl. That's her hobby." "No, that's her hubby, that man with her. She dropped her ' hobby for him." l'hlladulphia Press, "I hear a report that old Hunks and hlg family are getting along pencrahly now." ' "The report Is true, old Hunks is away on his vacutlon." Chicago Tribune. Knlcker Here's a physician who says there Is some connection between t lie ap petite for candy and strong drink. Docker There Is. When you huve had a night with the Ixiys you bring her home a box. New York Sun. Patience Peggy said everybody turned around to look at her today. Patrice Oh. do her shoes squeak aa bad aa all that? Yonkera Statesman. "That flanancler snys ho would never take anything to which ho did not con sider himself entitled." "No," answered Miss Cayenne; ''but In such matters he Invariably relies on tha advice of the shrewdest lawyer he can find." Washington Star. "Charley has fallen in love with a girl with a red head and a fiery disposition." 'That accounts for It." "Accounts for what?" "He always alludes to her as his llama. Baltimore American. "I noticed that your wife didn't look very well this morning." said Nexdore. "O! It's nothing serious," replied Mar ryat, smiling. "I remarked that her eyes Were very red and tearful." "Yes; It's merely a case of what you might call "millinery hysteria'." Catholic Standard and Times. "And you were never concerned in graft of any kind?'' "Never." answered Senator Sorghum: "the name had not been Invented when I laid the foundation for my present for tune." Washington Star. "What part of the going-away In sum9 mer do you enjoy the most?" . "The coining back." Indianapolis News. "John, what was that awful noise In the bath room Just now?" ."Don't ..worry. . my dear,'' replied John, sleepily, "It was merely a crash towui falling." Milwaukee Sentinel. "Here's a fine testimonial the Bluffy's Medical Ronso cdmpany Is printing." "What Is It?" "Man says he was totally blind, but after taking ten bottles of their remedy he could see pink elephants." Cleveland Leader. Gladys When are you going to foreclose on Gerald? Esmeralda To foreclose? What do yott mean? Gladys I saw you sitting In the conser vatory last night, and you seemed to haW a lean on him." Chicago Tribune. "SIMMIJH MO A HI)." Chicago Post. Corn In cans And old potatoes. Shriveled peus And sud tomatoes. Doubtful beef, lough bread and biscuit; Custard pie But who will risk Itf- Weary men Ami weary women Tennis, goifln', lioatln', swlmmln'. Hammock down. Chairs tnken, and a Spoony pair On the veranda. "He's a chump," And "She's no lady!" "Did you hear About Misa Sadie?" Up at six For breakfast forage Sawdust feed, Kggs from cold storage. Gnsts and bugs, Mosquitoes, chlgres Water filled . With wlg-wag-wlggers,. Man who swears And wife who mutters. Dame who bites Each word she utters. Girl with youth A-leanlng to'rd her Some are bored And aome are borederl ' f ing, and cannot conscientiously put en tire dependence In the word of the salesman, then DISCRETION' should tell him that he is in the wrong place. If. on the other hand, he knows the store to be one whose reputation for fair, square deallDg is Impregnable and one which has built Its success on tha practice of giving satisfaction to every customer, then DISCRETION should tell bim that whatever is said In that store may be depended on and that no matter what piano he might select, be It low priced or expensive, he would get the full worth of the money ex pended. The A. Hospe Company Invites In vestigation of Its record. It Is the big gest piano store tn the west and for that there must be some good reason. Tou will find our friends everywhere. Talk to them. At the present time the Hospe store Is conducting their 33rd Annual Mid summer Sale. In that sale are rev markable bargains in new and used pianos. It will pay you to Investigate. 1513 Douglas St. and repairing. NO COMftI3SIOrf