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HIE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1907. Tite Omaha Daily Bee FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSE WATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. Entered nt Omaha pcstofflc as second class matter. - TBRMB OP 81 BHCRimON. Ially Mee wlthnnt Bunds?), one year.. MOO I 'ally lire and Sunday, one year Pumlsy Bee. on ear !M Saturday Bee, one year IM DEL1VIJRED BT CAPRIER. VW Bee (Including 8Jfday), per week. .15c Dally Hee (wlthnut Sunday), per wek..loc Kvenlng He, (without 8 inday). per week o Evening Bee (with Bundajr). per week.. 10c Addr all romplalnta of Irregularities In delivery to City Clrrulsttnn Department. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. rVinth Omaha City Mall Hulldlng. Oounrll.Uluffa 15 Hmtt Street. Chicago 1S I'nily Hullelng. New York-K") Home Life Insurance Bldg. ' Washington 5"1 fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi torial matter ahould be addressed. Omaha Bee, Kdltorlal lepartment. . VREMITTANCE8. Remit by draft, express or postal order payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only 2-eent stamps received In payment of mall account.. Personal checka, except on Omaha or eastern exchange, not accepted. STATEMENT OF" CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas county, aa: Charles c. Roaewater, general manager of The Hee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, aaya that tha actual number of ruil and complete copies of Tha Dally Morning, Evening and Sunday Be printed durtng the month of July. HOT, aa follows: 1... 36,240 17 W.70O l....iji' 30,190 II 86,480 36.180 1 .10 4 86,600 It.. 66,830 E 85,840 11 15,560 30,490 It 87.670 1 35,600 SI 36,670 1 36,600 24 88.630 9..4 36,310 21 36,430 10 86,340 IS 36,400 11 36,480 11 , 36,700 12 36.330 2 35,400 It 36,840 1 41,370 H 35.400 10 88,880 IS..:....-. . 88.780" 11 38,890 It.. 4 86490 - Tot . 1,138,330 , Lea. unsold and returned coplra.. 10,330 N'l-t total 1431.988 Lmlly average...' 36,163 CHARLES C. ROSEWATIOR, . . Oeneral Manager. Subscribed In my presenco and sworn to before me thia 1st day of August. 1W7. iHeal) M. B. HUN GATE, , Notary Public. ' VHEX OUT OF TOWIf. Subscribers leaving; the city tem porarily ahanld have) The Be mailed to them. Addreaa will be ikanfrd aa often aa reqeeetea. The, government ia preparing to get after the highbinders of tha Reaper trust. 1 The Corset trust proposes to keep a straight front. against federal inter-, ference. .-':." . . . , Secretary Taft says the trusts have brought trouble on themselves. Also on the rest of us. ' v It looks us If the courts had decided to apply the absent treatment to that suit against Mrs. Eddy. One of the American islands In the Pacific is said to havo disappeared. Better search Jaitan first- .. . . t Tho rival "prea bureaus" conducted from the state capital will now move up the sparker for a home run spurt. The Muoia are fighting as bravely as they did 700 years ago, but, unfor tunateiy for them, with the same kind of weapons. Attorney General Bonaparte an nounces that he is getting me, ma chinery in shape"t0 make pulp of the Paper trust. Many a young man just back from his vacation doubtless wishes he could trade his coat of tan for aa overcoat of commerce. Just between us, did you know there was such a ola-e as Province- town before the president made 8 speech there? It is estimated that there are 200. 000.000 copies of tho B'ble In the world. The number in daily nee is soncwhat less. One of the local country clubs i learning again the old lesson that pro fessional champions are expensive lux uries and hard to keep. Senator Foraker is utterly dis pleased with Secretary Taft's speech, and the secretary's friends are, ac cordingly, the pore pleased, Incidentally, the public Is in danger of learning to save the difference be tween the cost of a I-cent stamp and a ten-word telegraphic message. It is possibly true, as the Standard Oil company asserts, that Judge Lan dla made 116 errors, but he also bat ted out enough home runs to win the game. The Cuban is admittedly lacy by nature and Governor Magoou'a report on the sanitary conditions of the islaud indicates that the Cuban Is dirty by choice. ' It ought to be- cheering to Colonel Bryan to note that Secretary Taft takes it for granted that Bryan will be the democratic nominee for. president next yoar. 1 Any of your friends unregistered cr moved since last election? See that they take out transfers or are specially registered, so they can vote at tha coming primary. Thcro must be method as well as road.r.c-n In that amendment to th primary law cutting out filing fees which wns tacked on In the losUlature ! by a prominent Fontanoller. It was I to 'give" the touching Committee more j room to raise the price of ntanelle endorsements. ntctPTion or tatts ernecn. At various times since the projection of Taft as a presidential possibility a year or more ago, seme criticism has been offered that the big and popular secretary of war, while warmly cham pioning the "Roosevelt policies," was not taking the country sufficiently into his confidence on what would be the "Taft policies" in rase of his election. The comments of the press on Mr. Taffs key-note speech, delivered at Columbus, in which his presidential boom was formally launched, indicate that the secretary has lost no prestige by deliberately adopting tjje Roosevelt policies and pledging his eirnest effort to secure their Vontinuanee as the ad ministration policy, In case, of his suc cession to the presidency. Almost the entire press of the coun try accepts Mr. Taft as "a man like Roosevelt."- The New York Herald re gards the speech as "a restatement of Mr. Roosevelt's views, reassuring lo buuiuess Interests." The -New York Tribune is confident that the secre tary's views "represent In the main the political tendencies of the day and re flect the well grounded wishes of a great, majority of the people. "' The Sun, never favorable to Mr. Roosevelt, calls the speech "the second Incarna tion of Rooseveltlsm," and asks if there is "In all political' "history so ex traordinary an Instance of perfect complaisance on the part of the Aaron of a somewhat difficult Moses." Mr. Hearst's paper is satisfied to ask whether Mr. Taft's address was ' "a speech or an echo?" The AVall Street Journal, one of the leading financial organs, says "the Taft speech is sub stantially the Roosevelt speech ex pressed in Taft language." Tho New York Times, which has been fighting Mr. Roosevelt's policy relating to trust prosecutions, declares that "it is chiefly In the Boberness and greater moderation of his language, in the avoldanro of over-emphasis and of fero cious denunciation that the secre tary's speech differs from the compo sitions of the executive pen." The New York Journal of Commerce finds comfort in the "calm? deliberate and Judicial" manner in which Mr. Taft discussed all the Issues. Outside of New York City, the com ment is almost unanimously favorable. The Springfield (Mass.) Republican protests against "this effacemen of Taft" and the -secretary's "apparent exultation In . shining In the light of another man," but, aside, from that, the editorial expressions are practi cally all of approval. The ,. Boston Globe, the Philadelphia papers, both democratic and republican, the Titts-' burg press and all - the , newspapers outside of New York accept with com mendation Mr. Taft's apparent willing ness to assume the role of a disciple at the same time as of leader and to make his campaign on a promise to further the Roosevelt policies,, '3 . .West oX. the Alleghenles .there is io division of opinion on the point that Mr. Taft ia In fullest sympathy with and may be impllclty trusted to carry on the main policies of the Roosevelt administration, so popular in the great west The Atlanta Constitution, the leading democratic newspaper of the south, voices the sentiment in that section that "if we are to have a re publican president, Taft would suit the south better than any other after Roosevelt." Mr. Taft has apparently deliberately elected to urge no other ambition than to defend and extend the acts and proposals of his chief, whom he serves and loves. The preponderance of preBS opinion is that he has acted wisely. CANDIDATES FOR JIEX0M iyATIOX. Following the established practice, all the republlcana now filling their first termsas county officers are ask ing for renominatlon at the hands of the party. Unless there should be some special reason going to the in capacity or dishonesty or these officers their renominatlon should be accorded aa a matter of course. Those seeking renominatlon on the republican county ticket include the following: County Judge Charles Leslie County Clerk D. M. Haverly County Superintendent.. W. A. Yoder County Surveyor Herman Beal County Cotnmlaaloner..Fred Brunlng County Commissioner.. P. J. Tralnor Police Judge Bryce Crawford Judge Leslie was not The Bee's pre ferred candidate two years ago, but, as we have already said, he has disap pointed all forebodings by conducting his office radically different from his discredited predecessor and lt 'lsdne to his good record that be has no one competing against him this time. County Clerk Haverly finds himself likewise without opposition because his fitness is uuiversally conceded and because also be represents the old sol dier element ot the party, which is en titled to recognition. , County Superintendent Yoder was originally appointed to fill a vacancy and elected last year to complete the term. He has been attending strictly to business and in a manner that de serves commendation. Without dis paraging the qualifications of his op ponent, it is enough to say that he hus been a resident of Doughs county for scarcely a year and isfcpreaalng his claims too soon. j , ' County Surveyor Beal has no one else In the running because of his in ch iiUlous devotloa to the duties cf his olflcf. which ho is filling with pains taking oblllty. County Commissioners Brunlng and Tralnor both havo opposition, bat It U opposition" only of tho sort springing from a desire cf eorncone HsA for the Job. Thcso two corumlajionors are entitled to their full share of credit for the reforms and economies worked by the reorganised county board. Mr. Brunlng is as much entitled to renom Inatlon as Mr. Tralnor, and both are aa much entitled lo renominatlon as was County Commissioner Kennard a year ago. . Police Judge Bryre Crawford is an other candidate fortunate enough to be In line for renominatlon without competition as a tribute to faithful service and a good record. With these men renominated and supplemented cm the ticket with strong candidates for the other county offices, Douglas county republicans can face the contest at the polls in No vember with aggrcsshe confidence. Murk moey fob pax am a. The encouraging news comes from Panama that more money is needed for canal construction. The most en couraging feature of the report is that the 'additional funds are not required for sanitary improvements, adminis trative expenses, buildings or any of the other purposes that have hereto fore caused the chief drain on the treasury, but that the money is Im peratively heeded to pay for labor and for construction material which is being u Bed much faster than calculated In the estimates on which congress made appropriations for the work until the end of the fiscal year next June. According to Colonel Goethals the progress In excavating has been faster than anticipated and that unless he can have about $8,000,000 more than was appropriated by congress for the present fiscal year's work he will be compelled to reduce the working forces before the end Of the year. Colonel Goethals makes it plain that the $8,000,000 requested does not represent an increased coBt in the cflnal, but simply indicates that . the fork is being pushed forward more vigorously than was hoped for. Theru should be no hesitancy on the par,t of congress passing a deficiency appropri ation bill for the amount designated ty tho army engineer in charge. The people want the canal completed at the earliest date possible and will approve any action that promises to v hasten that consummation. The record now being made furnishes a hearty en dorsement of the. wisdom of the pres ident's action in taking the construc tion of the canal out of the hands of a semi-political commission and plac ing it in charge ot the array engineers. , ,THE TARIFF AKD THE COOItTS. The American Protective Tariff league, the watchdog of the standpat-" ters, proposes to inject a new element into the tariff controversy by appeal ing to the courts to decide whether any power other than the American congress has authority to make a tariff, or to tinker with tariff sched ules already made. An importer has been secured who will go into the courts to seek judicial nullification of the trade" treaty perfected between the United States and Qermany. At a re cent meeting of the board of managers and the executive committee of the league 'resolutions' Were' adopted pro nouncing against the trade agreement for these reasons: Contrary to law; Contrary to tha policy of protection i Injurious to American labor; . ... Unfair to the honeat American Importer', who buya In the foreign market and make entry at the price ho la compelled to pay; Demoralising to tha cuatoma service gen erally; , And ia effect a material and indiscrimi nate reduction in tha tariff, which ahould be made only after hearings granted, and then by the legislative branch of the gov ernment. Secretary Root, who is responsible for the negotiation of the trade agree ment between the United States and (jermany, insists that ho has made no tariff, but has acted entirely within the scope of authority granted under a section of the Dlngley law, which tl Iowb certain concessions to be mads in the trade with favored nations, in return for, like concessions. Mr. Root contends that his action was essential to prevent a tariff war, Instituted by Germany, that would have resulted disastrously to our export trade. The American Protective Tariff league contends that, while Secretary Root had authority to make certain concessions to Germany, in tho matter of reduction of duties on argols, wine lees, champagne and brandy, he had no authority to -incorporate in . the agreement a clause providing for a new method of fixing the invoice value of goods offered for admission at American ports. The league insists that this is a clear violation of a fed eral law, known as the customs ad ministrative act, and that such euan-;os as those provided in the Germar American trade agreement can legally be made only by an act of congress. That is the proposition on which the American Protective Tariff league pro poses to take the question Into the court 8. It appears . that Secretary Root, while insisting that he has acted en tirely within his rights, has held up the trade agreement with France, modeled after the agreement made with Germany, until he shall have hd an opportunity to test the temper of congress as to the German agreement. To this end several commissions have been appointed to visit France and Germany for the purpose of Investiga ting the conditions of export markets and their regulations governing in voicing spd f'tig of valuations. These rorim?3sWns r-" expected to report to congress In De-cumber and upon the ronrequtnt coigrrsolonel action wlli defend the fate of the trade agree ments m.tde or pending. The first net result of the contro versy will be the forcing of the tariff question to the fore at the coming ses sion of congress and making it an im portant, if not a paramount, issue in the coming presidential campaign. Governor Sheldon does not propose to play cat's-paw In any scheme to bolster up the railroad end ot the rate controversy. The governor is fast getting on to the corporation tricks. He saw how one was pulled off when the railroad tax agents flashed letters signed by state officers before the State Board of Equalization to prove selling value of underassessed realty and he Is keeping his eyes open against being caught in any such game. The privilege of the immunity bath should be denied to the Boston Globe man who is responsible for the state ment that ample arrangements were made to feed the multitude that gath ered at Provlncetown to hear and see President Roose"velt "so that the throng of visitors did not have tor re sort to the sand which is there." Tho Burlington has rescinded an In creased rate due to the mistake ot a subordinate as soon as attention was called to it through the new Staia Railway commission. Hitherto the railroad always took the benefit of nil mistakes. Are you properly registered from the place where you now reside? If not, you will have to have the correc tion made at the city clerk's office at once, if you want to vote at the pri mary to be held a week from text Tuesday. It is not to the credit of the invest ing public that ' city bonds should go begging while fake mining concerns have to keep the presses working over time to print stock fast enough to sup ply the demand. The get-rich-quick spirit is not dead. John D. Rockefeller has collected that $73.95 due him as witness fees in Judge Landls' court. All he has to do now is to add to it $29,230, iSC 05 and he will have enough ro pay that fine. Richmond Pearson Hobson declares that he sees war with Japan. Hob son, it will be remembered, resigned from the navy on account of his de fective eyesight. It may yet be necessary for John R. McLean to step in and Arbitrate the differences between the editorial writ ers on his Washington Post and his Cincinnati Enquirer. . . It will be time enough to put up the sign, "Last Campaign Pledge Re- deomed " whan Movni-'"Tlm" AoKvava the goods to the boys in the shape of that promised wide-oifen town. Not a word in the 'democratic World Herald about calling.1bij 'VlnBonbaler to, pnt it back. . Ia, this because Vln- sonhaler managed . "father-in-law'B" senatorial campaign last year? A Colorado Judge jtays that women's votee sell out there ipr $15, while the votes of men can be bought for $2. That's about the difference also in the cost of women's and men's hato. ItldlcDloaa reaalmtam. Baltimore American. Mr. Bonaparte's suggestion that the pre aent situation can be remedied by big finan cial Interests obeying th laws is bo eaav and simple that.lt seems as though It naraiy neeaa suggestion. The gloomy pic tures drawn of the country going to ruin because the law are enforced have a aide which very nearly approaches the rldlcu loua. Teleft-raph Rerrnlli (or Railroads. Philadelphia Record. The railroad companies appear to ' be taking advantage of the strike of tha com mercial telegraphers to obtain expjrt re cruits for their own line. This will enable the strikers to better meet the difficulty of subsistence pending arrangement with em ployers; but we do not observe that the railroads are paying the advanced wages demanded. The Fresldeat'a Center Shot. Springfield (Mass.) Republican. Perhaps the president was unduly per sonal In hla remark when he spoke of "certain malefactors of gTeat wealth" who havo combined "to bring about aa much financial stress as they possibly can In or der to discredit the policy of the govern ment," but few will doubt that It la a true saying. Every one knows who are the men referred to, and It Is equally well known that they have not In times past hesitated to break the speculative market when It suited their schemes apd purposes. CLOSING OUT RELIEF WORK. Removal of Refugees from Has Fran cisco I'arkn. San Francisco Chronicle. When, from the necessity of the ease, the public parks were given over to be In habited by refugees moat of us felt, what ever we mny have said, thut If the parks were restored to the uses for which they were created within five years, It would be as mucji as could be expected. More than orie-thlrd of the refugees have nl realy gone, and the rest must soon follow. There is no lonser any necessity for their remaining. There Is no refugee able to work who could not by this time have pro vleVd himsrl( with a home as pocj aa he had before, and If rents are temporarily higher than formerly It Is becsuse of the Increased prices of materials and labor necessary In construction. Tho net ground rent la less than, before the Are. There has been a mole notice, and no one In the city need go houseless. Between Insurance and relief money, household belongings' hnve been replaced, and In many Instances far more than replaced. For any refugees who are unable to support themselves the rlty has mailj ample provision elsewhere. The refugee coltagea have been a great benefaction. I? In a few cases urtWorthy persons abused charity by renting their unhurried lio-v at extortionate rentala while they can-red in the paiks for a year, no great harm was done as II turned out. frr rnrre hundreds if cottages were built which wnre never occupied, while In a mul titude cf rases po jr.lon of the cottage haa led to the acquirement of a permanent home, which would otherwise- have been unattainable. OTHER LAMDl THA OURS. The political principles embodied In tha term "Home Rule" are more prominent In world affairs now than ever before. As a rallying cry agafnst oppression or alien aggression. It echo.-s from the Ganges to the Mississippi, from the Shannon to the Tellow Sea, lilfferlng In details In different countries, the main purpose la the same. Famine stricken India demands a reorgani sation of the present system of F.rltlsli rule so as to give natives just recognition tn the government they support, and Is wag ing a vigorous campaign through the me dium of the Bwadeaht organisation. "India for the Indians" la the eltrrilfV-ant standard around which the Intelligent natives are rallying, emphasizing their determination by systematic boycott of British goods. The movement takes on the main features of Sinn Fein In Ireland and Is aggresslvely dlrected against the tenderest part of Al bion's constitution British trade. China Is awako and rapidly consolidating the vast empire for the double purpose of self de fense and modern progress. Japan haa definitely proven Its right to a large place on the map of the world. In the United States the dominant idea of home mlo finds a reflex in the revival of "States' rights" arguments provoked by corporate outlawry. So a protest against misrule and aggression, by nations or corporationa, the wide diffusion and vitality of the home rule idea Is symptomatic of human uplift and progress the worlcj over. The transformation In China Is pro nounced momentous by a writer In Tech nical World. 'Towerful viceroys, like Chang Chlh Tung and Yuan Chi Kai, are sowing their provinces with schools of western learning, and the sixteen other provinces are doing the same. The broad minded Tuan Fang, viceroy of Nanking, who has traveled much, has actually or dered the erection of an Immensu girls' school In hla capital city. And the old literary examinations have been abolUhed, offerlnga to the dead prohibited, and cult! vated Chinese educated In America and England are fast rising Into prominence. The Chinese penal code, 2,000 years old, haa ben entirely revised, and horrible tor tures and methods of capital puniahment, such as the 'slicing' and strangulation, abolished forever. Nine thousand miles of railroad are under construction, Including one line from Peking to Hangkow, and to descend obruptly to smaller thlngs-but with vast social consequences the em press dowager lias declared against the footbinding of the women. An Imperial edict has gone forth, and societies have been formed In all parts of the emnlre against the ancient practice, and each of me eight great viceroys has put forth proclamations of his own aralnut it Truly, China is awakening from Its Bleep ing sicKness, guided and directed by Japan. But aurely the most significant of all the many signs Is the momentous edict giving warning of the total suppression of the opium traffic and smoking all over the empire, which Is to be accomplished within ten years. Each year the area of home grown poppy la to be reduced 10 per cent; otherwise land will be confiscated. On other hand, a bonus will be given for eany cessation In culture." Official figures from Johannesburg show that the gold output of the Rand district In the Transvaal Held in South Africa waa about 165,000,000 for the five months of 1907 covered by this report. It amounted to $120,000,000 for 1906. At the rate of produc tion which has been Shown trrtm Ih. h.. ginning of January to the end of May this year the yield for the twelve months of 1307 will be considerably greater than that of 1908. which waa 20,000,000 above that of 1906, and the Utx output broke all records l He pi ne prospective high record depends upon the . necessary labor. Im portation of Chinese coolies has been atopped juid some 16,000 of this class of mine workers, are. to. be. returned tn thii. native land. This makes the situation ominous for tho mine workers. There Is a possibility,, therefore, that the continuous gold Increase of the last few years will now oe cnecKed for a time, although It seems likely, on account of the stort which was obtained early In the year, that 1907 will pass the big record which was made by 1906. "Will the row at Casablanca develop Into a holy war?" is a question discussed by observers of events In Morocco. It is ad mitted that the attacks of the Moors on Europeans and the counter attacks by the French are sufficient to fan the flames of fanatic war, lacking onlv a lender, '"riiat the next holy wor, whenever It comes." says me New York Tribune, "will far sur pass In bitterness and range the Soudan hostilities of Mohammed Ahmed is firmly believed by many atudents of Islam. And there are several significant facts war ranting this fear; above all others the seal with which Mahometan leaders from Morocco to Mindanao have been striving to bring together the thousand warring sects of Islnm Into one universal organiza tion. This movement has apparently gone far enough to simplify considerably tho task that a would-be Mahdl must do. Many sects have hopes that some day a Mahdl, the great successor of the prophet, will come to lead all true believers In a final triumphant war against the infidels and to divide all the world's wealth equally among the faithful. The good efforts of the Pan-Islamists may thus readily b made to help the wildest fanatirlam and greed If only a youndrel clever and fan atical enough arises to lead the hosts. Has such a man arisen? The western world Is nit yet sure." In lieu of a regularly organized and fully equipped census bureau In England, the Beard of Trade, with limited resources, does what It can to tabulate the growth of the rmnlre of King Edward. Its third an nual "Statistical Abstrart of the British Empire,"' for 1905, which has Just I?. -en iKSued. bristles with Interesting faets. The British empire now contains a population of about 4OCl.C0n.0OO In Us more than 11.000, OfO square miles of srea. h-it tho total white population Is only about BS.OOO.f.O, or less than the population of cjermany. The total population of Australia is stated to be 4.057JOO. In the enormous continent of Australia, outside cf the four cities of Sydney, Melhourne, Adelaide and Brisbane, there are only 2.7M.IW per.ple. In 1S.6 there were 4,721, fiv) people within the Jurisdiction of the London county qouncll. Other great cities of the empire are Mont rnl, Toronto, Cape Town, Johannesburg-, ITotig Kong and Singapore. In into the total hr.ports of the t'nlted Kingdom amounted to :.S1S.C00.iXO and the total ex-, ports to l.M.00O,OM. while the total exports of the empire amounted to !,?45,O0O.0OCi. The coal production of the United Kingdom amounted In 11105 to 231000,000 tons, while that of the rest of the empire together aggregated only 29,j00,Cf0. The Iron oro production of the empire, which was al most entirely that of the Cnited Kingdom, amounted, to IS.fleO.CU) tons. The United Kingdom Tateed 60.00000 bushels of wheat, while Canada produced r0n.6ro.C00 and India SlS.eoi.OOJ biVhels. The report aa a whole presents a remarkable record of what a relative handful of white men, approxi mating l2.cro.C0O In number, have been able to do In the administration of over ll.CXiO.OOO square miles of territory, confin ing some 320,000,000 people of bundied of race and language. a POLITICAL DRIFT. The demand for political lightning 'rods grows as the mercury climbs down. Salaries of officeholders In New Tork City have been Increased W0,C0O within a year. Senator Foraker Intimates that no brand of party reform Is genuine unless It bears his label. The appearance of the -postal card con vobb and the straw vote forecasts the ap proach of political vaudeville. Some amateur ollticlnns In New York think they can head off Bryan by uniting on Lieutenant CJovernor Chanler. It coMt Pennsylvania $!W,000 to find out Who got the state capltol loot, and an equal sum Is available for the prosecution of the looters. The failure of Tammany Hall to con nect with the meal tub In New Tork City becomes painfully evident by the fact that a mortgage for 1X7.000 is about to be placed on the society's headquarters. Judge Austin L. Crothers, the democratic nominee for governor of Msrylond, was a farm boy In his youth, and later taught school for a number of years before he began the study of law. He Is a bachelor. The Pennsylvania democrats have taken their platform, the present campaign, from the decalogue, "Thou shalt not steal," and the republican denounce it as flat blas phemy to drag the Holy Scriptures through the mire of Pennsylvania politic. The Dally New of Hattlesburg. Miss., ha offered Governor James K. Vardaman $7,600 a year, the same salary ha would re ceive as t'nlted State senator, to assume the duties of editor of the paper, and the governor ha replied that he will be glad to consider the proposition. . Following the custom of hi predeces sors, Governor Hughe of New Tork 1 booked for an extensive tour of county fair, at which he will give a vocal ac counting of state affair. The governor I the proud , father of a .baby girl ad can munch a wisp of hay without feazlng hi wTilsker. ' ' - .x CHORDS WITH PUBLIC BELIEF. Imprisonment mm a Core-All for Of- fendlnar Heads of Trust. St. Loul Times. One high-pitched note In Secretary Taft's Columbus declaration ring in full accord with majority sentiment In both great par ties, In all parties. The ecrotary of war and the president whom he eulogized have no patent right on the announcement that ' the best way to curb the illegal practice of the trust 1 to send the responsible head of such an offending corporation to prison. This ha been urged before, by men who are con spicuous In opposition to the theories in power. But it will gratify and satisfy the people to be told authoritatively that such is the present view of a leading repub lican candidate for the presidency. The publlo la disgusted with punishment by fine. The public believes that to fine a predator)' octopus a part of the spoils It ha filched from the pockets of the public itself I precisely like punishing a high wayman by making him restore a percent age ot what he has just taken from his victim. TTiere seems to be growing union of opinion upon this matter of making im prisonment something to be feared by the big law-breakers. The more indelibly this knowledge 1 stamped upon the minds of the commercial pirate who have believed that the possession of many million ren dered their owner Immune from the or dinary processes of law, the nearer the country will approach to better feeling be tween the maase and the classes. The Limit ot Trouble. Portlaud Oregonian. Poor old 'Frisco Is certainly getting more than her share of trouble. With the horror of the earthquake not yet forgotten, came the disgraceful graft exposures, and for months the work of reconstruction has been hampered by labor troubles. ' Now comrs the bubonic plague. Fortunately a city that has been nerved up to survive the earthquake and fire and the Echmiti regime, can regard thia latest affliction as only moderate. Actual Reductions i HEX, in the course of business, it becomes desirable to dispose of the season's broken lots of Men's and Boys' Suits, we do so by such price reductions as means a saving to our customers. We also have several small lines of Men's Bhirts at greatly reduced prices. "We have a few dozen Star Blouses now on sale at half price. New styles in Men's and Boys' Fall Hats are now waiting for you here. JBfownbtg, Ming 81 Co "R. S.WILCOX, Manager. If you want to start an ff 1 appeme Doom let the children know you have package of to Ginger Snaps. Can't be beat NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY MIAKIXG TUB LEMON TREES. Knleker Was your auto speeding? Hocker No. the l.-mdscapo ya going by too fast. New York Sun. "I hear Mr. Awl King, the big financial magnate. Is going to take the buth for his health." What kind? Hot baths?" "No; Immunity baths." Baltimore Amer ican. "There's nothing like exercise to stim ulate growth," said the man who posed as an authority uion physical culture. "It doesn't always," replied the other man. "I've got a young fox terrier that exerciss hla stumpy tall- every time any ono speuks to him, but' tho tall doesn't seem to grow any." Philadelphia Press. Judpe What brought you here? Prisoner Two policemen. Judge Drunk, I suppose? Prisoner Yes; both of them Chlcaga News. The ardent Cuban patriot had raised an artny of seventeen men and started a revo lution. "But what do you expect to achieve by It?" asked one of the newspaper - corre spondents. "Immortality!" he exclaimed. "Did you ever hear of one of us empire builder get ting killed? Not on your machete!" Thereupon, to avoid being run In by the police, he took hi devoted band and hiked for the mountain fastnesses. Chicago Tri bune. THE WORRYIXO BROTHER. Uncle Remus' Magazine. Satin enmo a-chasln' me lively tbroo' d night; Bun me fum de shadder ter de breakln er de light; An' I can't climb ter heaven an' de yuther place In sight, An' I don't know what'a a-conHf!" on ter-morrtr! He run me oh, he run me de e fur he kin see; . He swim de ragin' river an' ha climb de burn' tree; An' I wonder what he wantln' wid a sinner po' e me? ' An' I don't know9 what' a-comin' oa ter-morrerl He sho' got time I tell you! ter be run 1 nln' roun' lak' dat! Wisht de harrlcane would head 'Int, OV de eavtquake th'oWJm flatly. De sinners sho'll ,t burnln" on" Be grid ' die whar dey at : An' I don't know what's . a-coinin.' oa ter-morrerl and those 6harp, shooting, agon, izing pains drive you almos( crazy, take Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills, and get relief. They driv out the pain by their BoothinJ effect upon the nerves, yhen, taken as directed they are harnv less, and leave no bad after-effects'. That 's the reason they ara so popular with all who us them. Your drutrrist can tell i you what others in your locality i think of them. i i i "I do positively thWik that tr, Mile Antl-l ala pill are the beat medicine eve rut unan the market. I find them so rest ful and soothing, and without any ba4 after-effects. I have suffered with neu ralgia so that my system would last ache and quiver and I cannot take opiate; but 1 can take these tablets, and they always relieve me. No one that suffer with neu ralgia need fear to take them as I know tbey will not form a habit, (or It there wa any opiate In them I could not take lham. Just one In tha morning when I tt bad and I eaa do my work all day." MRS. W. H. BURKETT, Macon, Oa, Sr. aCU Aatl-rata. Till are sold Yf your aragrlat, who will gna rente that the first paokag will benefit. It St (alia, be will ratura yoar sueuey. 8S Ooaeo, as cent. Htvir sold la balk. Llile3 Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind. i if s :
