TIIE OMAIIA DAILY DEE: MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 0. lf07.
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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
State of Nebrssks, Douglas county,
Oeorge B. Tsschuck, treasurer of rhe
Beo publishing Company, being duly
worn, aaya that tha actual number or
full and complete cop1e of The Daily
Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee printed
Jurlng the month of August, HOI. waa as
1 M.7G0 17 36,840
i 84,940 II SB.BOO
S S7.040 19 B7 1B0
4 S6,00 20 37.000
... 8T.440 II 200
M.830 22 8B.390
1 36,700 21 36,680
8 36,580 14 38,960
36,600 21 38,600
10. '. 36,820 - 36.780
11 88,880 IT 80,80
II 37,340 21 86 480
II 37,110 19 86,800
14 86,700 10 ' 86,840
It 36,770 II 36,140
16 36,880
Total ,..i,188.3a0
Less unsold and returned copies. 11446
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Daily average.
1,134,974
36,364
GEO. B. TZ3CHUCK.
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WHEN OI'T Or TOWN.
Subscribers leaving the city tem
porarily aaoald kT The Be
mailed to theas. Address trill be
chanced aa aftea as reuaested.
The Shipping Newa estimates 11,000
vessels in the world. This must be
egcluslve of schooners.
James Hazen Hyde announces that
he will remain permanently In Paris.
For this relief, much thanks.
'Brazil has fined the Standard Oil
company a measly f 50,000. Still, Brazil
claims to be a first class power.
' The Alton railroad may yet have to
resort to the "information wanted"
columns to ascertain who owns it.
; The fact that Secretary Taft ts com
ing home by the Trans-Siberian rail
way Is proof that the road 1b standard
broad gauge.
Paul Morton tells a Paris editor that
Secretary Root is perfectly square. Is
that the square Root that the school
children learn about? 1
.The president's plans for the trip of
the battleships to the Pacific have been
approved by all of the authorities ex
cept the New York World. '
When Colonel Bryan makes bis
speech at Lincoln he might fix the
; date to which he has postponed carry
ing out his plan of government owner
ship of railroads.
The price of anthracite coal at the
Pennsylvania mines is (3 a ton. The
difference between that figure and the
amount you pay goes to the railroads
and the middlemen.
. A big- Chicago meat packer is ill
from ptomaine poisoning. It was
Playwright Hoyt, we believe, who de
clared that it was not safe for Chicago
packers, to eat all they can.
The opposition to the "old home
week" celebrations must have had its
origin with the housewives who have
had to do all the cooking for the desir
able and undesirable gitests, ,
Walters, in convention assembled,
have declared that they want to have
the tipping system abolished. The
waiter can forget a lot between the
convention, .hall and the dining hall.
Grover 'Cleveland's health is not
very good just now. That and other
reasons will probably prevent him from
being a guest at the coming wedding
of LiUluokalaal, once queen of Hawaii.
The president is going right ahead
with the preparation of his annual
message to congress, regardless of the
fact that the Washington correspond
ent have already completed that docu
ment. A Boston girl, worth $1,000,000 in
her own right has just married a man
because she tell In love lth the poems
he wrote. Still, there Is a general im
pression that there Is no money In
writing poetry.
'The rural trolley lines," aaya the
Chicago Journal, "are responsible for
the disappearance of the long-whiskered
' farmers." Not " altogether. The
automobiles hit a few of them and
gome die naturally.
An award of $200 has been offered
by Governor Sheldon tor the appre
hension of the alleged murderer of a
Gage county woman. No reward has
been hung up yet. however, for the ap
prehension of the Thurston county
uderer of Loris Higgins.
MR. hkarst n a skit rolr.
This Is evidently the open season tor
political phenomena, and the most
startling thing in that line offered up
to date is the remarkable change of
position of William Randolph Hearst
on the relations between the classes
and the masses, between capital and
labor. For many years Mr. Hearst's
chain of papers, extending from New
York to San Francisco, has done more
than any other one Influence to arouse
claae hatred. He has insisted that all
laboring men are being trampled Into
the' dust, that representative govern
ment no longer exists, that the In
tegrity of the courts has been destroyed
and that an official title Is nothing but
a shield for corruption. He has sought
persistently to make the "common peo
ple" believe that their liberties are in
danger and that they must fight for
their lives against the men who have
prospered. But a lightning change has
come over the spirit of the -Hearst
dreams. In his Labor day address at
Norfolk, Va., Mr. Hearst said:
The great financial promoters, organizers,
executives of America, are worthy of recog
nition and reward. They work as hard as
any of us, and 'their work Is absolutely
necessary to the full production of the
riches out of which are paid here In Amer
ica the highest wages In the world.
Iet them have a liberal share of that
wealth as long as that Is the Incentive
which stimulate them to useful activity.
Lt them have wealth as long as It Is
honestly acaulred through enterprises that
! benefit the whole community.
The riches they amass and call shelr own
are seldom spent In extravagance and
luxury upon themselves, but are put back
Into new Industries to produce more wealth
and give employment to more men.
It is hard to believe this to be the
utterance of the same Hearst who ap
plauded the act of Csolgo2 and has
heaped vituperation upon every mil
lionaire whose wealth has come from
corf-orate Investments, but the extract
Is taken from one of Hearst's own
a
papers. It Is a rare sight to witness
William Randolph Hearst urging the
"masses" to be law-abiding and insist
ing that the "capitalists" be allowed
to enjoy the fruits of their enterprise
and their industry. Is Saul also among
the prtiphetaT Somehow, the words
sound hollow and Insincere, coming
from a man who has outdone himself
in fomenting the so-called "class"
hatred and antagonizing the laborer
against the capitalist. But Mr. Hearst
goes further and says even more
strange things:
I have no patience with the prejudices
which exist between alleged classes, when
the classes themselves do not really exist.
There Is no reason for hostility between
employer and employe, between capitalists
and wage-earners. Capital Is but the ac
cumulation of wealth which employer and
employe create together. Wages are but
the division of profits. If the division Is
not Just, It can always bo made so by
arbitration, and there Is stilt no- occasion
for conflict.
A condition of class such as has been
developed In Colorado Is a curse to this
country. There should be no prejudice
entertained by the capitalist toward the
laborer, and there should be no prejudice
by the laborer toward the capitalist. There
should be an appreciation of the essential
part which each plays In the creation of
wealth. The man who digs the precious
metal from the earth la worth his wage.
The man who tells him how to find the gold
deserves his profit.
Perhaps Mr. Hearst has decided that
he fan make more by reversing his
former position. Perhaps it would be
better to welcome this evidence of his
return to sanity and conservatism, were
it less difficult to accept his conversion
as sincere. The suspicion holds that his
record has been made up on his atti
tude toward the "masses" and the
"classes." His editors and cartoonists
have been too busy helping make up
that record, and the public, until con
vinced by a long term of his probation,
will incline to the opinion that it la
too late for Hearst to repent.
The Moving Finger writes; and. having
, writ.
Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line. -Nor
all your Tears wash out a Word of It.
PKACM, PACT TOU CtJiTltA Z, AMERICA.
President Roosevelt and President
Diaz of Mexico have tentatively agreed
upon a plan bearing upon the future
relations of those trouble-breeding re
publics of Central America. These
five nations, composed of hot-headed
peoples who are jealous, pompous and
filled with over-sensitive ideas of their
dignity and honor, have heretofore
been much given to revolutions, with
or without provocation. '
For years the United States and
Mexico have been content to allow
these neighbors to settle their differ
ences among themselves. But lately
American and Mexican capital has
been going Into Central America, de
veloping the exceedingly rich resources
of the dlffereot.republica. As a result
every' upheaval endangers the interests
and Investments of the United States
and Mexico and other foreign coun
tries. The Impetus toward prosperity
given by these- Investments has also
encouraged the presidents of the vari
ous republics to make overtures to the
UaHed States, looking to a settlement
of future differences by peaceful
methods. The five Central American
republics are soon to hold a confer
ence in Washington to reach an agree
ment, it possible, under which their
future differences, if any may arise,
shall be referred to the United States
and Mexico for adjustment.
Much of the credit for this is be
lieved to be due to the efforts of Secre
tary Root who. during his recent tour
of Latin America, urged upon the
stronger powers the necessity of exer
cising a restraining Influence by purely
peaceful pressure upon their more
pugnacious neighbors.. Mr.- Root's ad
vice was accepted as assurance that
the United States would be willing to
act as a good friend in case of trouble
and accordingly the first appeal was
made to the United States. The Wash
ington authorities accepted the re
sponsibility, with the understanding
that Mexico should be taken as co
judge. After preliminary diplomatic
interchanges, this has been agreed
upon and for the first time in their
history the Central American republics
have fair promise of peaceful solu
tion of future quarrels.
rn-o tyrgnsTAtK commerce com
missions. Charles A. Prouty, one of the most
active members of the Interstate Com
merce commission, calls attention to
the tremendous task placed upon that
body by congress and expresses plainly
his conviction that the commission will
soon have to ask for relief against
overwork. Mr. Prouty, In effect, sug
gests that another commission be
created, with solely Judicial powers, to
pass upon the many problems of law
arising ont of disputes between the
railroads and the shippers.
As the law now stands, the Inter
state Commerce commission is the
prosecutor and judge, in cases coming
before it, and, in addition, is charged
with the collection of evidence and
the preparation of cases upon which
It must finally decide. Mr. Prouty
wants the executive functions of the
commission transferred to a depart
ment bureau or to a new department
created for that purpose. . In his ad
dress advocating these changes before
the American . Bar association Mr.
Prouty said:
If the Interstate Commerce commission ts
vested with a Jurisdiction so tremendous In
extent, and of such finality, every effort
should be made to provide a body adequate
to the trust. That commission under the
present law la charged with two seta of
duties, requiring diverse qualifications for
their discharge. It stands, first, as repre
sentative of the government, to see that
these highways are In fact riibllc. It is
commanded to enforce the provisions of the
act to regulate commerce. It must see
that rates are reasonable and just, that
the practices and regulations of railways
are not oppressive, that the penalties pro
vided by tha act are enforced. In the near
future Its powers must be extended to the
operation of the railway as well. These
duties are largely executive. They can best
be discharged by a single head, responsible
to the executive and answerable to the
spur of popular criticism.
Second, this commission Is In essence a
judicial trlbuaal which hears and decides
complaints. The qualifications of such a
body are the exact oppoaite of the other.
Its membership should be numerous, so
that Its decisions may be the resultant of
independent minds. It should be entirely
withdrawn from all political and personal
Influences, and It should have time for the
deliberate consideration of the matters com
ing before it.
Mr. Prouty cited the Spokane case
to illustrate the character of the work
now devolving upon the commission.
Spokano is asking for Pacific coast
rates, although 400 miles farther east
than Seattle. The Union Pacific, reply
ing to Spokane's petition, contends that
compliance would mean an annual loss
of $8,000,000 on the business actually
handled last year, or 4 per cent on
$200,000,000. Mr. Prouty explains that
in a case . like that the commission
should have ample time for delibera
tion, undisturbed by the details of ad
ministrative work something impossi
ble, under existing conditions. Since
the enactment of the new rate law the
Interstate Commerce commission has
been flooded with business requiring
thorough investigation and calling In
dividual members of the commission
to all parts of the eountry. Some re
adjustment of the work will have to
be made by congress, although perhaps
it need not be exactly aa Mr. Prouty
has laid out.
PKIMART AFTERMATH-
Douglas county republicans have
reason to feel satisfied with the after
math of their recent primary election.
The atmosphere is decidedly encour
aging for general acquiescence in the
results and the candidates who lost
out, as well as the candidates who
won out, are for the most part evincing
a 'disposition to stay In the harness
and pull for party success at the polls
In November.
The contrast as between nomina
tions by direct vote this year and some
of the slates fixed, up in conventions
of previous years cannot fail to strike
the average observer. While there is
doubtless disappointment among those
who fell down, and more or lees re
sentment at broken promises of sup
port, the crimination and recrimina
tion of sell-outs and trades are
noticeable chiefly by their absence.
There are no delegations that went
back on instructions and no conven
tion floor combinations based on divi
sion of patronage. There is no talk
even of contests, although some of the
nominations are made by compara
tively close margins.
It is to be expected that the demo
cratic opposition will endeavor to fo
ment discord within republican ranks
because democratic success in Douglas
county is possible only through repub
lican division, but the republicans
were never In better position to with
stand such machinations of the polit
ical enemy.
The Dahlman Democracy has just
unveiled a painting of Mayor "Jim"
amidst great enthusiasm and rattling
of glasses. The ' painting is pro
nounced almost life-like and especially
strong in backbone. The one omis
sion most noticeable is the lack of a
coiled lariat around the left arm, but
this may yet be supplied by encasing
It in a rope frame. It is said that the
painting waa made to order to fit a
particular panel in the executive man
sion at Lincoln.
The scheme to declare a street a
boulevard long enough to have it
paved out of the park fund at the gen
eral expense instead of at the' expense'
of the abutting property owners has
worked so well in several Instances
that It Is being advocated for the pur
chase of public parks through the Is
sue of park bonds chargeable against
all the taxable property. All these
schemes are simply subterfuges to get
away "from the long-establlBbed rule
requiring the property benefited to
bear the cost of public Improvements
to the extent of their benefits.
Two milkmen Just fined in police
court for short measures explain that
their utensils are the usual ones sold
by hardware dealers. With this tip It
might be a good idea for the inspector
of weights and measures to round up
the dealers and confiscate any short
measures which they may carry in
stock. That suggests the question,
Did anyone ever hear of any long
measures being detected In use?
The democratic World-Herald pro
poses to amuse Itself again this year
by reprinting a ' lot of reprints from
The Bee, which It used in 1899, when
Reese was running for supreme judge
the last time: To borrow a trite ex
pression, a great many things have
happened since 1883, whence these
excerpts date, which the democratic
organ will take care to forget.
Uncle Henry GaMa'wav Davis, aged
82, rises up in West Virginia long
enough to remark that he must not
be considered as a candidate for the
vice presidential nomination next year.
While his health Is robuBtly good, the
slump in Wall street has loosened some
of the hoops on his bar'l. '
The attendance at the Nebraska
State fair this year shows an actual
decrease as compared with last year,
although much heavier than the year
before. The abolition of the free
passes must have stopped a lot of reg
ular customers from taking in the
show. j.
William Randolph Hearst Insists
that "there Is no reason for hostility
between capital and labor." Then
why, for the land's Bake, has Mr.
Hearst been writing all those double
leaded editorials for years, trying to
get Capital and Labor to put on the
gloves and fight it out?
"Secretary Taft will receive more
opposition in the republican convention
than he deserves. All the people who
oppose Roosevelt "will oppose him,"
Bays the Portland Oregonlan. If he
has no more opposition than that his
way should be easy, :
"If yon attempt to leave Chicago for
a late vacation you do so at your own
risk," saye the Chicago Inter Ocean.
A person always taltes a risk in trying
to get out of Chicago with money
enough for vacatioa'expenses.
It is figured up in KnoX county that
the recent direct prlrdary made it cost
$2 a vote. A lot of jleople in this vi
cinity have spent as much as $2 a vote
and even then failed to get enough
votes to make a plurality.
Senator Depew has returned from
Europe without creating any ripple.
Times have changed since the senator
used to be met at the wharf by a regi
ment of reporters eager to receive his
typewritten Interviews.
A burglar went through a hotel at
Baden-Baden and robbed all but the
American guests. He doubtless figured
that the landlord would attend to that.
What MUM Have Beea.
Cincinnati Enquirer (Ind. dem.).
If William 3. Bryan had got on the old
fashioned platform, say a year ago, with
the plain purpose to stay there and not
nod and bend to the breeses, he would have
been well dh the way to the White House
by thla time.
The Lut Resort.
New York, Tribune.
Inventions, like the. bountiful rain of
heaven, fall alike on the just and the un
just. The poolroom keepers, thwarted by
Plnkertons, telegraph companies and high
fences, are now sending their news by wire
less telegraph.
Tea Fat Years.
- Philadelphia Record.
Farmers have had ten years of good
crops and good prices. In most of the
years they have had hoth. Pendencies In
one corn and one cotton crop were more
than made good to them by high prices
Last year they took In more money than
ever before, and thla year they are likely
to take In a billion dollars mora than they
did last year. They will buy freely many
sorts of merchandise . and they will have
money to Invest. Good business Is about
as certain as It can be for another twelve
months. "V .
Bleed Ip by a Prince.
Springfield Republican.
Prince WUhelm of Sweden aeems to be
a sensible and wholesome young man. and
he will leave a pleasant memory behind
him. The sest of youth has enabled him
to take with ease and pleaaure the pace
which his energetic welcome everywhere
brought. His observations aa, recorded
by the reporters, have been In the main
keen and sensible. When asked what Im
pressed him most during his visit, he re
plied: "The life, the go, the smartness,
rush and dignity of business that la ap
parent everywhere. . Everybody seems to
work, and all are good-natured and jolly
about It." That Is not a bad summary
of the American habit.
Middle West Farmers.
New York Evening Post.
With such a fertile soil and the high
prices obtained for all foodstuffs, the
farmer of the middle west is fast grow
ing rich. Instead of borrowing money
at 10 per cent he haa money to lend.
His children are educated at high school,
agricultural college or university. The
younger men at least conduct their farms
on scientific methods. Thttr houses ars
pleasing architecturally, often country
villas aet tn ample and well-kept grounds,
and Oiled with all urban conveniences.
He haa a telephone In his house, and
the trolley af bis door; very often both
are local companlea, owned and managed
by the farmers themselves. It would be
hard to find any man who works with
his hands as well off as he.
OW PRESIDENT 11, FIHI0 LIXR
Oaly Dae Available Democratic Leader
la the arth.
New York Tribune.
Whet northern democratic leader Is there
who can replace Mr. Bryan? Ex-Judee
Parker was. from the vote-getting point ct
view, an unhappy substitute. Who wants
to try to bell the cat. to head the move
ment for "disposing" of Mr. Bryan? Sen
ator Tillman put the case rather brutally,
but not Ineptly, when he said the other day
that there was no full si sod democrat at the
north except the Nebraskan. Mr. Bryan
committed a year ago a flagrant error if
Judgment from the politician's point Of
view when he declared that he favord
government ownership and operation of all
the Instrumentalities of Interstate com
merce. He thereby chilled the devotion of
the south and grossly affronted the north
era conservatives who were getting ready to
welcome him as a potential "conservative."
Yet. what advantage has been taken by
northern opponents of this tactical blunder?
Mr. Bryan has been allowed to spend a
year reefing and filling on the government
ownership Issue, and the south Is turning
to him again as the party's only available
presidential candidate, since It realises that
he can hold together better than any one
else the heterogeneous elements lighting
under the democratic banner. The parly
needs Mr. Bryan more than he needs the
party. For that reason "disposing" of him
Is at present what might be called an un
ripe and barren Ideality.
Knox and Foraker.
Cincinnati Enquirer (Ind. dem.).
It Is said Mr. Knox will get Into com
munication with some strong western men.
Senator Foraker Is one of those mentioned
as one a meeting with whom would be mu- 1
tually desirable.
These two senators have their eyes set on
the same glory. Only one of them can get
It next year perhaps neither of them. If
they can manage to monopolise between
them, men of such resources and such high
qualities In diplomacy ought to land the
honor on one of them without affront to
either. The arms of Foraker would be
open to Knox rather than to any of half a
dosen other candidates who have long stood
hitched to the pole. Mr. Knox, we would
have no doubt, would prefer Foraker to
the administration pick.
The field is open. Only Roosevelt can
close the gate, and that must be with only
himself In the running.
Even at that there Is going to be a dis
position to throw the whole opportunity
open to everybody.
No Unit Rule Among; Republicans.
Leslie's Weekly (rep.).
It was In the nstlonal convention of 1880
that the unit rule was formally and prob
ably finally abandoned by the republicans.
William H. Robertson and some of the
other New York delegates wanted to break
away from tha Instructions of their state,
which would bind them to vote for General
Grant for a third nomination, and the con
vention sustained them. This weakened
Conkling, who waa the leader of the Grant
forces In the convention, and atarted the
feud between Conkling and Robert so .1.
which had tragic consequences after Oar
field, the nominee of the convention, and
the victor In the election, appointed Robert
son to be collector of the port at New York.
The fight which this Robertson feud startei
split the republicans In New York, ham
pered them In other states, gave Cleveland
his Immense majority for governor tn 1883,
and mads him president In 1881
No serious attempt has been made to re
store the unit rule In the republican conven
tion since 1880. The individual delegate
votes as he chooses, regardless of the
uka.ee of the bosses. In thla respect re
publican conventions are more democratic
than are democratic conventions. Likewise
they are more national; Through, the unit
rule atate sovereignty asserts itself decis
ively In democratic assemblages.
Hashes and Cnnnloi.
Springfield (Mass.) Republican (Ind.)
The Hughes presidential possibility has
reached that stage of development where
some one suggests the running mate and
thus constructs a ticket. "Hughes and
Cummins" Is the combination being passed
around for critical' Inspection. The gov
ernor of Iowa Is the person with whoso
name such liberties are being taken,
whether with his approval or not no one
ventures to say. Governor Hughes hss had
a week of cattle shows and of course he
has made no "breaks." What strikes your
politician in his attitude is the great suc
cess he is having In displaying the utmost
Indifference to the presidential theme. Mr.
Hughea is not In the least concerned In the
presidency, according to the appearances,
and he cannot be induced to discuss it or
even consider It. It la Just such an atti
tude, say many old-tlmsrs, that becomes
the governor beet and which Is most likely
to Increase popular Interest In him.
New York View of It.
New York Herald (Ind.)
Taft against the field means Taft plus
Roosevelt against the field. But It means
Cannon against Taft, Hughes against Taft,
Foraker against Taft. Cortelyou agalnat
Taft, Knox against Taft. LaFollette against
Taft. Fairbanks against Taft. Crane against
Taft and Cummins and Shaw against Taft.
Thus It means a combination of favorite
aona against the secretary of war In seven
great states, all of them now with repub
lican governors New York. Pennsylvania,
Massachusetts, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin
and Iowa. Back of that it means a fight
for every delegate In the southern states,
where an antt-Taft propaganda is under
way. The strategy of the Taft opposition
Is to keep him from getting any delegates
In the following states:
Nsw York, 78; Pennsylvania, 68; Massa
chusetts. C; Illinois, 54; Indiana. 30; Wis
consin, 16; Iowa, 86; total, 804.
Desperately Hard I .
Brooklyn Eagle (Ind. dem.).
A cltlsen who was used to curtain lec
tures fell aaleep during one of those min
istrations and awoke after a while to find
his wife still laying doarn all kinds of law
to hlin. He observed her sternly and asked;
"Woman, are you talking again, or yet?"
Which Incideiit Is recalled by the per
sistence with which certain soothsayers
Iterate their belief that Bryan la the only
possible candidate of the democracy. Ia
the party so desperately v hard up as all
that?
Senator La Foltette's Boons.
Chicago Inter Ocean (rep.).
If the Hon. Robert M. LaFollette has
any frlenda to whose counsels he heark
ens, and by wnose Judgment he is guided,
they should take him aside and firmly Im
press upon him that, while they think he
Is a great man, he will not do as a presi
dential candidate. They should do this as
an obvious duty of friendship and as a
simple act of human kindness.
Oae Combine at a Tins.
Philadelphia Record.
The administration at Washington can,
not be expected to do too many things at
once. When the Standard Oil company
shall have been put Into the hands of a
receiver and dissolved the administration
promises to proceed la like manner agalnat
the anthracite coal combination. Yet thera,
are Impatient people who conceive that
there la nothing to prevent the government
from carrying oa both processes at once.
Women Avoid
Operations
When a woman suffering' from
female trouble is told that an oper
ation is necessary, it, of course,
frightens her.
The very thought of the hospital,
the operating table and the knife
strikes terror to her heart.
It is quite trne that these troub
les may reach a stage where an ope
ration la the only resource, but a
great many women have been cured
by Lydla E. PUkham'a Vegetable
Compound after an operation has
been decided upon as the only cure.
rne strongest ana most grate iui
statement possible to make come from women who by taking;
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
made from native roots and herbs, have escaped serious operationa, aa
evidenced by Miss Rom Moore's case, of S07 W. 86th 81, N.Y. She writer
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:-"Lydla . Pinkham's Vegetable Compound haa
cured me of the very worst form of female trouble and I wish to express
to you my deepest gratitude. I suffered intensely for two years so that
I waa unable to attend to my duties and was a burden to my family. I
doctored and doctored with only temporary relief and constantly objecting
to an operation which I was advised to undergo. I decided to try Lydla
E. Plnkbam'a Vegetable Compound; it cured me of the terrible trouble
aad I am bow in better health than I have been for man years."
This and otber auch caaea should encourage every woman to try Ly
dia E. IMnkbam's Vegetable Compound before she aubmlta to an operation.
Mrs. Plnkham'5 Standing: Invitation to Women
Women suffering from any form of female weakneaa are invitad to
promptly communicate with Mrs.' Pinkham. at Lynn. Mass. From the
symptoms given, the trouble mar
way of recovery advised.
SAFETY DEVICK" ON RAILROAD
Hare t aefnl Patents Been Suppressed
for Pecan In ry Reasons?
Portland Oregonlan.
An expert Is investigating for the Inter
state Commerce commission the safety de
vices for railways that Have passed to
patent, the purpose being to determine
whether railroad companies have bought
valuable patents and suppressed them for
pecuniary reasons, regardless of the de
mands O' public-safety. Whatever the out
come of the investigation. It will no doubt
be assa'led as untimely, since It may affect
Investments in railroad securities, already
unsettled by the telegraphers' strike and by
the rate Investigations of recent months.
This objection will not meet with public
approval, since It Is the recognized duty of
railroad managers to provide every possi
ble protection to the traveling public.
Moreover, the railroad companies should
weloome any process that will allay the
suspicion that patenta on valuable life
protecting appliances have been bought up
and pigeonholed with the double purpose
of avoiding the expense of adopting them
and of preventing rival Interests from get
ting hold of them. We do not suppose, as
the New York Commercial suggests, that
as a mater of fact a well informed and
practical railroader can be found In the
country who does not believe every ISrge
railroad Interest In the country, whether
steam or trolley and for that matter every
extensive manufacturing Interest has
scores of patents bought up and shelved,
for purely pecuniary reasons.
It la the bearing of suoh acta on the
lives and safety of the very public from
which railroads receive rights and priv
ileges not otherwise obtainable that Just
now concerns the Interstate Commerce
commission, in the general view of the
corporate interests, human life Is cheap.
To make this assessment pass muster, how
ever. It Is necessary to make a show of
protecting It, to the limit of human In
gennlty as represented by safety devices,
applied to the rolling stork of railroads
and the powerful machinery harnessed to
manufacturing Interests.
Human rife is, Indeed, more than cheap;
It ts the cheapest of all commodities in a
commercial age so cheap. In fact, that the
captains of Industry and arbiters of trans
portation interests find it cheaper to pay in
such damages as are fixed by statute for
the relatively ' few killed In travel and
labor than to reduce these fatalities to the
minimum by equipping their plants and
trains with safety devices. This Is the
whole story, between the lines of which
la read the tact that patents for safety de
vices of unusual merit are stored away
purchased and controlled but not used.
Pl'MSHl lA.HU GRABBERS.
Reseat Additions to the Number of
Coav lot lona.
Chicago Tribune.
A United States district Judge In Call
fornla has sentenced two of the men con
nected with western land frauds to ten
years' imprisonment in Jail, with an ac
companying fine Of $1,000. The news of
this penalty will be received with satisfac
tion everywhere. The frauds have con
tinued for a long time. Prominent men
have been connected with them and pow
erful Influences have been active to pro
tect those who have been accused of par
ticipation. In some instances the guilty parties have
been permitted to go. free. .In other cases
there have been small fines and a mini
mum penalty in the shape of Imprison
ment. Where large amounta of money are
Involved and farreachlng conspiracies for
exploiting lands, a small fine or Imorison
ment for a day or two have had no terrors.
But a ten years' sentence Is different.
That Is a real penalty.
A few such cases will clear up the situ
ation wonderfully. If the spirit gets abroad
to punish the big offenders there will be
more care taken. Even If the Imprison
ment and fining of these two men repre
sent but a small part of therunlshment
which should be meted out, there will be
general satisfaction with the action of the
court In making the penalty severe. There
has been loo much leniency In the psst.
Glass House Goodness.
Wall Street Journal.
A NeW York manufacturer went south
last winter to gather Incriminating evidence
for use m a speech In the United Btates
senate on the subject of child labor In
southern fsctorles. Recently the same
manufacturer has been forced to dlschsrge
a number of boys and girls who were work
ing under the legal age In his own factory,
In ths vicinity of Aurora, N. Y. Evidently
the auroral beams of light hsd not shone
through the glass house in which people
should not live If they would throw stone
at neighbors.
You may buy coffee which
costs you a trifle less than
Arbuckles' Ariosa Coffee, but
you really pay more for it and
do not get as good coffee.
Don't get confused Arbucklet' A riot a
Coffee is really the cheapest good coffee ia
the world.
In sealed packages for your protection.
AUCXUfl BOOa ) York Cl(x,
be located and the quickest and surest
PERSONAL. 50TES,
Unless Walter Wellman and his polar air
ship gets away f rom Hammcrfest within the
next few days the public will engage in
another kind of hammerfest.
When four or five aons Of wealthy ntts
burg men were surprised at poker a few
evenings ago they fled, leaving a Jackpot
with il.200 in it. The police down that
way may be expected after this to keep a
sharp lookout for gamblers.
Lieutenant Colonel Elijah W. Halford.
pay department, United Slates army, was
retired yesterday, having reached the stat
utory age of 64 years. Coksnel Halford Is
attached to headquarters Inf the Depart
ment of California at Ban Francisco, and
Is one of the most widely known officers
In the pay corps of the army. He waa
private secretary to the late Tresldant
Harrison from 1888 to 1893. '
President A. II. Btlckney, of the Chicago
Great Western railway, has returned from
abroad, where he has been for some time
nast In consultation with atockholders and
bankers. He says that the financial plan
which has been under consideration for a
lopg tlmo to provide funds for the road for
the next ten years has been practically
completed and will be announced as soon
aa It has been approved by the company's
attorney.
The Carl Schurs memorial committee.
New York City, la receiving contributions
almost dally from various parts of tha
country. One contribution this week was
from an old veteran of the civil war, who
sent Ills subscription out of money he had
saved from his pension. . The commtttco
report subscriptions received since the last
announcement of $532.50, bringing the total
fund to $79,662.46.
PASSING PLEASANTRIES.
"Sir, I have called to ask the hand of
your daughter. tt me add that my time
is limited.
. "What's that?''
, "I BSjy my time Is limited,"
one yours. v irvciana I'iBin 1'eaieTT
"Didn't you win anything tn your suit
for damages."
"No."
"Why didn't yoti engage a bright lawyer
to take your part?" . I
"I did, but he took my all." Philadelphia
Press.
"Me good fellow," said the English tour
ist, "kin you direct me to a place where
one mny get a good drink?"
"Well," replied the thirsty native, "I kin
direct yer better to place where two kill
git a good drink." Baltimore American.
"Mr. Nervey," said the girl's fathnr, "It
seems to nie you sit up entirely too late
with my daughter."
"Don't - worry about that, sir." replied
Nervey, "I never require much sleep."
Philadelphia PreBS.
Influential Parishioner Doctor when do
you start up the works again?
The Rev. Dr. Fourthly (with great se
verity) Divine strvlce ,wlll he resumed next
Sunday morning, Mr. Hlggsworthy, at 11
O'clock. Chicago Tribune.
Bacon My wife Is going to take up th
study of two new languagna.
Egbert Why, she speaas four different
languages now. doesn't she?
"Yrs, but she has overworked those!"
Yonkers Statesman.
"Do you think that tho automobile la
only a fad?"
"Certainly not." answered the motorist.
"But pedestrlanlsm is doomed. With ao
tomoblles constantly increasing In number
it Is only a question of time before people
who walk will become extinct. "-Washington
Star. .
THE CHANGE.
Chicago Record-Herald.
The clouds were all tumbled and ragged,
' And the morning was laden wl-.h lain;
A little boy knelt at the casemnnt
With his noso flattened out on the pane;
The drops trickled down on the wlnduw,
. And the tears on his cheeks ran a mce;
Oh, he was so sad! The day whs so oad,
That somehow It showed in Ms faco.
He cried and he fretted and scoHed,
Till the little dog went from I. Is side
Afraid, and the little .White klttJii
Crept Into the closet to hide.
And the little tin soldiers were standing
Way up In the attic alone.
For the little boy knew of nothing to do,
But kneel at the window and moan.
The clouda Journeyed on o'er the heavens
Till a little light streak of th sky
Phone into his eyes, till they brightened.
Ana tne tears on his race were uii ary.
Then the glad sun burst out like a blos
som, And the smile spread all over lita faco;
When the sky was all blue, his napplness
grew,
Till Joy was all over the place.
The dog wagged his tail and was merry.
And the kitten came down through the
hsll
She purred, as he stroked her, und told
her:
"The day la all right aftrr all."
And the little tin soldiers were marching
Until they were tired of the drill,
And a sleepy-eyed boy, with a heart full
of Joy,
Climbed Into his bed and was still.
