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TIIE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1907." Tim Omaha Daily Bee FOCKDED BY liDWAHD ROSEWATIvR. VICTOR ROSE WATER, EDITOR. EnUrfd t Omibk postofTice as second class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, pally lira (without Sunday), one year. M 00 Ua-lly Bw and Sunday, ons year I1 Sunday Bee. one year 2. SO Saturday Bee, one year I W DELIVERED BT CARRIER Pally Tee (Including Sunday), per week..lSe JJally Bee (without Sunday;, per wek..lOo Evening Bee (without Sunday), per week o Evening Bee (with Sunday), per week. ..10c Address all complaint of lrregularltls In delivery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha.Trj Bee Building. South Omaha City Hall Building. .Council BlufTa IS Scott Street. , Chicago 16) Cntty Building. New fork IV Home J.lfe Insurance Bdg. ; Washington M)l Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communication! relating to newa and edi torial matter ahould be addressed. Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order Seyable to The Bee Publishing Company, nlr J-oent etampa received In payment of mall account. Personal checka, except on Omaha or eastern exchange, not accepted. , STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas county, ys: . Oeorge B. Tsschurk, treaaurer of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly worn, aaya that the actual number of full and complete coplet of The Dally Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of Asfast, 1807. was as follows: 1 88,750 17 W,640 S M.MO II MO0 t 87,(HO II 87190 35,0O 20 87,000 87,440 II 38,640 88,830 22 38,390 T. ....... 36,700 22 36,980 t 36,880 14. 36,960 t 36,660 21 86,600 16 36,880 26 38,780 11 36,660 27 36,880 12 , 8740 21 36 480 11... 87,110 2 36,800 14..; 86,700 80 36,640 It 38,770 II 36,140 II 86,860 Total 1,138,320 Less unsold and returned copies. 11,340 Net total..... 1,126,974 Pally average 38,364 GEO. B. 'TZ8CHUCK, Treaaurer. Subscribed in my presence and sworn to before me this llat day of Auguat, HOT. ' (Seal) M. B. HUNQATE, ' ' Notary Public, - WHES OCT OF TOWS. labeorlbers leaving; the) elty tens- porarll? should havs The Baa ' r mailed to them. Address will ho changed as often as requests. ; Morocco Is getting unusual promi nence In world history, but the price is enormous. .' Fourteen populists still boast the name In this county where used to be nearly 4,000 of thorn, ' ' "Can money continue easy V asks a Wall-street organ. It can, if it keeps out of Wall street. All the PittBburg millionaires are returning from their vacations. The theatrical season has opened. Why are people always ready to be lieve anything they.heaf against the coal dealer andth BtlUtmanT It looks as if Mr. Harrlman were still leaving his business in Nebraska to his "lawyers and subordinates." At last accounts Judge Keuesaw Mountain Land 1b was refusing to turn on the water for the Alton's immunity bath. "Shoes will be worn .longer than usual this year,1 says a fashion note. They certainly will be if prices keep loarlng. The Literary World says, "We need i great journal of criticism." On the contrary, the need is for great litera ture to criticise. Managers of lyceum bureaus may as veil begin to book Wafter Wellman 'or his series of talks this winter on Adverse Winds." One of Georgia's new. laws prohibits fishing on Sunday. It will not be such a hardship, since another law prohib its the carrying of bottled bait at any time. , Secretary Root is said to have gained twelve pounds of flesh at Mul doon's sanitarium. If Secretary Taft ever feels the need of a rest he will 9ght six of Muldoon's. The Woman's Home Companion taya the old-fashioned nightcap is doming into style again. The old fashioned nightcap has never been out f style, even in prohibition states. Please take note that in the latest appeal to the federal courts to nullify itate authority, "the only good rail road" in Nebraska Is associated in full partnership with all the bad railroads In Nobraska. Nan, Patterson has filed a protest gainst the newspapers which reported that she was carrying on high jinks at Pittsburg. . 8he IqsIbU that when she Is in Pittsburg she does not do as Plttsburgers do. Stfll. it is going to be difficult to jonvlnc the country that the presi dential contest next year Is to be de eded by the result of that mayoralty Ight between Tom Johnson and Con iresBman Burton at Cleveland. Oliver II. P. Belmont wants the Newport authorities to change the public roads so the common people cannot get so close to his new home there. Why common people should want to get near Belmont is not ex plained. Congressman Hull says he can dis cuss the Philippines question freely now, "because I have no financial in terests there." Sounds, like an Inti mation that congressman is not sup posed to discuss national problems freely IX he has financial Interest Jn them. TRAIL or THE IAXD FRAMS. Those who predicted that vigorous prosecution of persons Implicated In the looting of the public lands In the western states would cease with the retirement of Ethan Allen Hitchcock from the cabinet are apparently slated for disappointment. Mr. Hitchcock started the crusade, which resulted In exposing a system of gigantic land, mineral and timber frauds, extending Into nearly every state west of the Mississippi and in the conviction of many prominent people enmeshed in plans for robbing the government. The opposition aroused in certain political circles against Secretary Hitchcock was intense, but It was not sufficient to secure his removal until he had es tablished the foundation for a general prosecution of these offenders and his plan Is being carried out by his suc cessor. When Senator William Borah was indicted about seven months ago for conspiracy to obtain public lands by fraud great Influence was brought to protect him from prosecution. It was finally agreed that his Indictment should not be made public until he had been given opportunity to appear as counsel in the Haywood case. But the prosecution of Senator Borah will now proceed. It is admitted that the prosecution is not popular in Idaho, as 6hown by the expressions of leading business men and political leaders of the state, who Insist that the senator Is not guilty of anything more than a technical violation of the law as at torney for the men charged with hav ing conspired to defraud the govern ment, s It is not unusual to find such senti ment worked up in favor of men charged with land frauds. The whole history of exposures in connection with these cases shows that those who have profited most by them are "prom inent citizens" and, in many cases "influential politicians," while the vic tims of the frauds have had little share in voicing public opinion. In order to make the opportunities to find homes on the public domain attractive, congress passed most liberal land laws, furnishing opportunities for the syndi cates to secure control of millions of acres of valuable property intended for the use of the people. The laws to protect these lands from the grabbers and looters have been either Inade quate or have failed through skillful evasion. The crusade to protect the rights of the homeseekers and actual settlers came late, vafter most of the desirable property had been gobbled up by the syndicates, but the admin istration is evidently determined not. only to save the remnant of the public domain for the persons for whom It was originally Intended, but also to punish the most flagrant offenders. QERMAyra threat or trade war. Germany Is apparently taking the lead in a revival of an European trade alliance against the United States. The plan Is by no means new, hiving been advocated at different seasons for many, years without causing ..serious alarm and without materallzlng in any tangible form. According to Berlin ad vices, the present movement Is sched uled to Include Germany, France, Bel glum, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Den mark and possibly, Russia, for the purpose of retaliating against the American high tariff schedules. Just at this time, regardless of the question of tariff rates, the United States has nothing to fear from a trade war scarecrow. Should Germany, dis satisfied with the terms of the recent reciprocity agreement, which the sen ate may not ratify, attempt To bar American goods from its markets, it would be the greatest sufferer. Most of tt)e tonnage of: the German Com mercial fleet, the second largest In the world, is supplied from American farms and factories, and adverse ac tion by the German government to curtail trade with the United States would impair one of Germany's great est industries. Any attempt to bar American goods from foreign markets would result in a retaliatory tariff which would increase prices of food stuffs throughout the European world, for every country on the eastern hemi sphere must depend, to a greater or less extent, upon the United States for a large proportion of its food supplies. Great Britain, with free-trade and the ships with the greatest capacity In the world, would simply snap up the car rying trade dropped by the continental powers and the promoters of the trade war would be the greatest losers from It, rvTVRt or the philipptkms. y Congressman Hull of Iowa, chair man of ifce house committee on mili tary affairs, is in the dumps over the outlook In the Philippines. He ex presses regret that the United States has the islands and predicts that "we will get lots of grief out of them," al though he declines to join the. New York Herald In urging an auction sale of the archipelago to some foreign na tion. Mr. Hull says he lost a large amount of money in a lumber enter prise in the Philippines and sees no way of getting any of it back. He de clares that American .business men are discriminated against In the islands and that there is too much talk about self-government, whereas the Islanders are only half civilized and will not be ready for self-government for fifty years. He expresses the belief that greater economies should be practiced In the government of the lslandstbat the'number of salaried officers should be reduced and that the United States should make up its mind to hold the Islands for a halt a century or more, until the natives are educated to the point of governing themselves.- - In the meantime the New York Herald Is going ahead with Its propa ganda for the sale of the Islands and printing Interviews with leading men throughout the country every day. While many of our people regret that the United States took over the Philip pines, a very limited few as yet favor selling them, or turning them over to the tender mercies of some other na tion. The Herald asserts that the islands have already cost us $400,000, 000. They have cost not to exceed half that amount, but they will continue to be a financial burden for some time to come, even though the Philippine gov ernment will assume a greater share of the burden, from year to year, as the resources of the islands are de veloped. The question of expense, while weighty, wllr not be allowed to be the controlling one. The American plan for encourastag the educational, ag rlcultural and industrial development of the Philippines will be carried out until the residents and natives are fit to decide for themselves what Is best to be done with the islands. UXTEXADLE. The demand of two defeated repub lican candidates for district judge In this district for certificates of nomina tion on the ground that the votes polled by them bb candidates for the demo cratic nomination, If added to the otes polled by them as candidates for the republican nomination, would give them the requisite plurality is un tenable. s The reasons set forth in the formal demand on the secretary of state and tho State Canvassing board are specious, and perhaps plausible, but by no means convincing. The plea is made that the primary law Is intended to provide for fusion and that this fu sion is a fusion of political parties rather than a fusion of the candidates. The fact Is that all the law-makers in tended to do when they opened the door to fusion was to permit the vari ous political parties, if they so 'de sired, to nominate the same men for the game offices at the same time, but there was no intention to permit the voters of one political party to deter mine who should be the candidate of any other party. The nomination for district Judge on the republican ticket is as sepa rate and distinct from the nomination for district judge on the democratic ticket as is the nomination for su preme judge from the nomination for district judge. A candidate could with equal propriety file his name for ono office on one ticket and another office- on a second ticket and still an other office on a third ticket and then 8Bk to have all the votes cast tor him added up to give him the nominations for all three places. Should such a demand as la now inade be, recognized the logical conse quence would be to make the primary election take the place of the regular election. Every candidate of every party for every office would have his name filed on all tickets and each candidate receiving the highest num ber of votes at the primary would be entitled to the nomination by all po litical parties, giving him a practically uncontested election at the polls. Un der such conditions the . November election would be altogether super fluous because the winners would have been conclusively determined at the preceding primary. Party lines and party organization would be com pletely obliterated. Every one of the republican candi dates for district Judge, endorsed by the democrats, agreed in advance not to run against the republican nominees in case he failed to secure the repub lican nomination. One of them has already sent In his withdrawal from the democratic ticket and the other two should do the same. The total republican vote of Doug las county in tho recent primary elec tion was 7,049.' The vote given Gov ernor Sheldon in Douglas county last fall was 9,555. In other words, the primary brought out nearly 75 per cent of the usual republican voting strength in this county. Who said the primary vote was light? New York City's issue of $40,000, 000 In bends Is being taken rapidly at 103. The bonds when offered a few weeks ago found no takers. Then they were cut Into smaller sizes and the people are taking them readily. New York Is learning that the people have money, even if Wall street is worrying over car fare. The high vote polled at the Douglas county primary Is registered for the renomlnatlon of County Judge Leslie. That should be regarded as a popular expression approving the marked dif ference, between the conduct of the office under Judge Leslie and under his predecessor, Judge Vinsonhaler. The name of Andrew Jackson Hans corn will be best known to future gen erations through Its identification with the beautiful park acquired by Omaha through his generosity. Hanscom park will be a monument everlasting, bringing joy and pleasure to hundreds of thousands every year. Omaha is extending an Invitation to the National Prison association to hold Its next annual meeting here. It Is also sending a delegation to James town to urge the League of American Municipalities to schedule Omaha for its next convention. This looks a lit tle more like business. A Cleveland man picked up and pocketed a penny which had fallen from the cup of a blind musician. A Pennsylvania baker visited the shop from which be had been discharged and mixed all the materials In the place, including the yeast, so that when the proprietor arrived the place wae choked wUh dough to the door. Prepare your ballot to vote for the meanest man. la it not a pretty spectacle for a lawyer employed at a big fat salary by the taxpayers of Omaha to defend the people's rights In their water works litigation to be appearing as the paid attorney of one of the law defying railroads trying to overturn the people's right to reasonable freight rates? Bu It. Is all right with Wright. A Campaign Thought. Baltimore News. The race Is not alwaya to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor the election to the beet hftnd-shakor. Winking; the Other Rye. Minneapolis Journal. The State department at Washington deeply regrets the attacks on the orientals In British Columbia, but its regret is tem pered by thankfulness that It occurred on the soli of Japan's ally. Acting; the Part. Indianapolis News. Tho American Philosophical society has refused to elect a railroad president to membership on tho ground that he Is not a philosopher. As a rule our railroad presi dents are trying to take things philosoph ically today. . southern Chivalry. Baltimore American. -Southern chivalry never appeared to bet ter advantage than In tho courteous, refusal of southern headers to contest with Bryan the nomination. This attitude shows fine appreciation of the Irreducible minimum of democratic probability in tho next election, and a disposition to permit Mr. Bryan to occupy the vanishing point as he seems Intent upon doing. What a Western .Trip Does. ,Wall Street Journal. It Is remarkable how a trio across the country changes the point of view of a Wan street man. Even B. II. Harrlman, who has made the trip many times, and who is thoroughly posted as to the resources or every section of the land, has had his faith In the future wonderfully augmented by his last journey to San Francisco. Wall street no longer troubles him, for he has been out Into "tho big country," away from tho sky scrapers and among the nuo- ple who are producing the actual wealth. A KNOCK FOIl WALL STREET. Mr. Harrlman Waxes Eloquent About Western Development. Washington Tost. The supposition still held In some quar ters that Wall street Is- a barometer of business conditions jW tho United States is badly shaken byMr.,E. II. Harrlman, who has Just returned from a trip through tha west. He cannot be accused of Ignor ance of his subject when 'he discusses Wall street, and ho Is equally competent to Judge of material conditions in tha west where he Is the greatest Individual factor In business. Mr. Harrlman declares In an interview that Wall street is a f aUe re flector of the country's condition, when it reflects at all.' He points out that fluctua tion In the price of stick does not Indicate tho real value of sucVin securities, nor the condition of the""eotitry. "Out In the west, the southwest," and the northwest, the people are tOC busy 'making money to lose time In searching the future In the hope of having trouble develop for them," was the way 'Mr; Harrlman put It. "Passenger and freight traffic has- been enormous on all lines, crops are big, the manufacturers are running their concerns to full capacity, and the merchants are laying ln big lines of expensive goods. The material. If not the gpeculatlvo, wealth of the country Is enormous." The time has gone by when Wall street manipulators could create a panic In the United States. They cannot now even at tract the attention of busy men to their con tortions over stock fluctuations. The owlish financial articles speaking of "losses of $3,- Ofln.OOO In values" and predicting disaster In consequence of such shrinkage are tho sub ject of jest among men Who deal In material and not fictitious things. Card players may bet millions among themselves, and there may be appalling shrinkages and panics around the green table without upsetting the country's finances. Tho country Is as Indifferent to the gambling In Wall street as It Is to tho betting of card players. The man who raUs crops and the man who buys them and the man who handles them are dealing In real things, and they are busier now than ever before. Mr. Harrlman has done good service by exposing the falsity if tha common assertion that Wall street' Is the reflector of the business of the country. COMPARISON THAT HURT. Arcldents on Drltlnh and American Railroads. Philadelphia Ledger. Great Britain has fallen from the high position which It attained for one year, when it was able to report that not a single passenger had been killed In train accidents; but Its record in this respect Is still so vastly superior to that of the United Statea that to make a comparison at all seems like straining a point. The figures for the United Kingdom for liiOfl, Just made available by tho Board of Trade, show that the toll In life and Injuries paid by the British people for the railway serv ice was 1,109 killed and 7.J12 Injured. Of this total, however, only fifty-eight passen gers met death In train accidents, and 108 passengers were killed and 1,949 were In jured In ways other than through tha wrecking of trains. This Is slightly above the average for the previous ten years, and corresponding Increase In the number of casualties among the railway employes Is attributed to the exceptional activity In freight traffic during the year. Although the number killed In propor tion to the Journeys taken In 1906 was nearly doubled In comparison with the average for thirty years, the accident rec ord of the British roads Is clean in com parison with that of the American. In the first three months of the present year no fewer than 421 persons were killed and t.930 were Injured In train accidents alone, while the accidents of other kinds brought the total up to 1,293 killed end 19.270 Injured or 124 more than the number killed and 12.0ON more than were Injured in the entire year 1S08 on the railroads of the. United King dom. For the entire fiscal year ending June ). 1906, tha last for which the official fig ures are available, the American railways killed 4,126 passengers and employes and Injured 66.716. This showing is sufficiently appalling, but when a closer study of tho statistics re vealsas It does that the casualties are greater In certain localities and on certain lines of railways than on others. It would seem to be time the American people did something about It. That "something" has taken shape In the legislation for the com pulsory employment of safety appliances, but tha situation laid bare by the statistics shows that, compared with the emergency. the remedies are plUfally Inadequate BITS OF WASHINGTON LIFE. Minor "penes and Incidents Shetched on tha Knot. The business methods of Tubllo Printer Btllllngs Is of little concern to the general public, but they furnish a clue to the fre quent "knocks" which Mr. Stilling! re ceives In some of the nwnrv if- Btllllngs took the Job under a hot fire of criticism and opposition. Being a practical printer, ne undertook to run the ihrni r practical lines, and to do that effectively was obliged to weed out the Incompetents ana arones. mat Is an unforgivable of fense in Washington. He also found that the printing ofTice had been turning out thousands of books and reports which were of no Importance or benefit to any one, but were stored away In warehouses to h covered with dust and waste valuabU space. The method which Mr. Btllllngs In troduced to do away with the orintln nr an oversupply of these documents Is worth quoting: "To do away with the printing of an over. supply of these documents I began to print a nrst edition, a second edition, and so on, as the private publishers do when a new novel Is put out. Last year. In printing the Agricultural Year Book. I printed a first edition, and found that the supply would not meet the demand. Consequently I printed a second edition, and was able to supply the needs, and did not h.iv superfluous copy on hand, but cut the total edition down by several thousands. If I had accepted the estimates I would have printed several thousand copies more than would have been needed, and theso would have been taken to the warehouses to bo stored away with thousands of other use less volumes. In cutting down the edition to the approximate number necessary to meet the demands, the force of binders and pressmen, of course, had to be cut down, as It was not necesssary to keep the whole force there." Mr. Stilltngs reports that he has at pres ent as good a force of workmen and as competent a set of officers as It would be possiblo for any one to secure, and lie be lieves these to be co-operatUig with him for hotter things. While realising that there Is some enmity existing toward him self, as a whole he believes that the gov ernment printing office force Is In sympa thy with his plans for more efficient serv ice. Some ridicule has followed an order of Mr. Suitings requiring tho heads of the several divisions to be addressed as "Mr. Mrs. or Miss," but there is plenty of busi ness sense In the regulation. Mr. Btllllngs thus defends It: "do Into any large establishment and ask the officials If they permit their under offi cials to yell across a desk for 'BUI' to do this or 'Bill' do that. It Is always 'Mr. Jones,' 'Miss Brown.' and Is nothing but right. Familiarity breeds, contempt, and if the foremen do not respect each other, how can they expect their nien'to do so? The order was Issued merely to uphold the dignity of the office, as private establish ments have found expedient." Arthur Simmons, for nearly forty years a doorkeeper In tho upstairs vestibule of the president's house at Washington, wus one of the few remaining types of a class now rapidly vanishing and never to be. re newed or Indeed replaced. Born a slave In North Carolina and educated as slaves were In his day by the example of the masters and mistresses to whom destiny had assigned htm, "Arthur" developed through the evolution of that accident Into the most exacting and most radical of aristocrats. This Is yiot to say "that he acknowledged tha standard of wealth, gorgeous raiment, or the noisy ostentation of official power. On the contrary, says the New York Sun, he clung to tha old models and methods of appraisement, and the gentleman of his simple, antiquated philosophy was as much a gentleman In poverty, as In affluence. He Idolized Lincoln as one of nature's noblemen who had the grand air despite his ill fitting clothes and his awkward demeanor. He bowed down before Grant as a conqueror In real fields. President Arthur delighted every fiber of a hqart tha yearned tor mojeity of manner and splendor of environment. Cleveland won I his everlasting love by one act of kind i ness to the high bred but Impoverished la&les who once "owned" Simmons and with whom, ever since his translation to Washington, the faithful ex-slave had maintained a fitful but always respectfully affectionate correspondence. He angered some of Benjamin Harrison's understrap pershardly the prebldent himself and was exiled to the Treasury department. Cleveland restored him In 18P3. William McKlnley kept him on. After the accession of Roosevelt, under the dispensation of Loeb, Arthur Simmons met his final and Irrevocable downfall. He was removed from the White House to the Department of the Interior, and there, at the swing door of some small executive subordinate, he dwindled Into obscurity and death, Amzl Smith, superintendent of the docu ment room of the senate for forty years, known to every public man of his genera tion, and renowned as the possessor of a memory so marvelous as to exctte universal comment, dli'd recently at his Washington home. Mr. Smith's work In the document loom was recognised as being of the great est importance. Tho methods used there were due ulmost entirely to him. He en tered the document room forty-three years ago as first assistant. He was a farmer's son and grew up In Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, where ho was born. He was educated In the pub lic schools of his native county, and served ninety days In a Pennsylvania regiment during the civil war. ' Soon Mr. Smith's peculiar fitness for the work became manifest, and within a few years h rose to be Its head. It was con ceded by all who camo In contact with Mr. Smith officially, says the Washington Post, thtit no man was better fitted for the place he held. His memory was excep tionally acute. Not alone for public bills, documents, reports and executive communl catlons, which year after year found their way by the thousands Into both houses of congress, had ho peculiar recollection, but he never forgot a face or a building which he hd once seen. It took him but a moment to indicate where any document In the vast storehouso over which lie presided could be found. It made no difference to Mr. Pnilth that the document called for was many years old or that It was comparatively unimportant, he could always produce It. Senator Oeorge of Mississippi once' said to him: "Vou might burn up all the In dexes In the senate, Amzl, and you would still be all right." Onco tin late Senator Pettus of Ala bama wished to obtain some information In regard to a minor point which was con tained In a certain law which had been I asced years before. He could not get what he wanted and applied to Mr. Smith. Without looking up a reference of any sort. Mr. Smith went to the bookshelf, picked out a certain volume, fingered Its pages rapMly, and In a few minutes said: "Yes, here It Is. I thought that I recalled the passage to which you referred." With amasement. Senator Pettus said: "Well, I never saw anything like that. I've heard stories about your wonderful memory, but I doubted them, or thought, at least, that they were greatly exagger ated. But now I bellevs," MOTHERHOOD ine nrst requisite of a food mother la good health, and the eg. perienee of maternity should not be approached without eaxeful physical preparation, aa a woman who la in good physical condition transmit to her children tho bleaalnga of a good constitution. Preparation for health mater- Plnkbam'a Vegetable Compound, which is made from native roots and herbs, more successfully than by any othar medicine because it gives tone and strength to the entire feminine organism, curing displacement, ul- Mrmtlnn ftn 1 n 4 - m rv. - i mA . 1. - a u h . uw v.vu . ,uu result la leas suffering and more than thlrtv vaara j 4 - , Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has i been the standby of American mothers In preparing- for childbirth. NotewnatMfa Tam..rv..- fi ot w tutu c v & , . ... . . - . . .. - .u v..uo.".,. , v.. . . 7!r:rIB'r Mrs. Pinkham:-"! wish Lydia E. in I.Wltaa MP IU.I.I mm. M innoam S veirciaDie Compound. A neighbor who had learned ft T.V106 4 th'" trTin(r period of a woman's life nrjred me to try na 1 a,d . and I cannot sav enoug-h In rearard to the -rood it did me 1 recovered nnfoiri u iv k, t,.i.i. PenJy tor the peculiar weaknesses and ailment of women. It has enred almost every form of Female Complaints, rrrac-crlnir Rensa t ons. Weak Back. Falling- and Displacement, Inflammation, Ulcera. rl?iDi5u.nd1.Or,rnJ0 ni"eea of Women and la invaluable In preparing- for Childbirth and during the Chang of Llfo. Mrs. Plnkham's Standing Invitation to Women Women sufferiDfr from any form of female weakness are Invited to -." .un,. i inxnam, at L,ynn, Mass PERSONAL NOTES. Wellman may not be able to get away this season, but as he views it now he will have nothing to do next year during the long summer but discover the north polo. .... It looks as If we would have to do with out the north pole for a while longer the wind Won't blow to suit Wellman, and he can't afford to go In any old kind of gale. Dr. Henry H. Rusby, dean of the Now York College of Pharmacy, Columbia uni versity, has boon appointed official expert In drug products for the United States gov ernment. Jules Vacherot, vice president of he Nation Horticultural society of Franc", and chief gardener of Paris, has arrived In New York and will remain In this coun try until the end Of October. A Boston woman offered her landlord kiss If tie would receipt- for a month's rent. Owing to the fact that the ug'j of chivalry is dead, he not only declined the kiss, but tried to have the police put the woman's furniture out oh the sidewalk. Paderewskl frequently sits at his Instru ment until well Into the small hours of the morning, says TId-Blts. Hence he seldom rises until 9 or 10 a. m., and immediately he is 'dressed he ' gets to work, generally practicing on the piano, but often compos ing. He keeps to his task until 1 o'clock, and not a minute earlier does he break his fast. . Admiral Charles S. Pperry, ono of the American delegates to the conference at The Hague, has made his presence felt In discussion of naval matters, and espe cially In the matter of the establishment of prise courts. Admiral Sperry wa's born In Brooklyn In .1847, and graduated at the Naval academy lit 1866. Since 1903 he has been on duty In Washington. ' His home Is in Connecticut. " ' One of the most cherished possesslo.ii of the family of General W. B. Curtis, who commanded a brigade in the Army of West' Virginia, is a handsome plpo, made out of a limb which was wrenched from tha famous apple tree at Appomat tox beneath which General Lee surren dered the forces of the confederacy to Grant. The pipe was carved by a Penn sylvanlan of General Curtis' command. COST OK LIVING. ' , It Is Higher Became the Dnallty of Living; Is Oetter. Portland Oregonlan. On all sides we hear that the cost ef living Is higher. So it Is. But the' main reason is that the quality of living Is higher, too. Few are content with the style of living that was accepted without ques tion or discontent In former times. They want better, and will have It. They are not to be blamed for this. But It ought to be taken into account by those who are continually laying, in tone of complaint, that cost of living has. greatly Increased. People want, and will have, better houses, better furniture, greater variety of food and better, more travel, better clothes. If rents have "gone up," It is because better dwellings, rooms and offices are required. They must be well ventilated, prepared for lighting and supplied with warming and toilet conveniences . everything must be "modern." Thers nrust be scientific plumb ing, with pipes for water, gas and heat ing, and electric wiring and gas and electric light fixtures; water boilers, piped for hot and cold water, with tubs and bowls for washing, and toilet basins and porcelain bath tubs, proper sewer connections, and maintenance of "modern" streets and side walks. Such houses and all pertaining to them cost more than the poorer ones, the Inconvenient shacks, however roomy, of former time; the taxes are higher, and occupants must pay more rent. Houses of the old style could be had for the old prices, but people do not want them; and they are very right The simpler life of the earlier time would not cost mora than similarly simple life would cost now. But people who can af ford It snd most think they can afford It want better. Goods of the ordinary or cheaper kinds, such as we were wont to use In the earlier day, now find small and slow sale. The young miss, of country or town, wants syllsh shoes and hat; the young mother feels that she must dress herself and her baby with "some style;" the older matron must have gowns that be come her. Entertainment of friends costs money; and In the modern time "social ex penses" are not the least of the house hold. Nor are men's club and fraternity expenses unimportant Items. You see the "cost of living" grows, all along the line. Even tha churches have social features that can be sustained only with a fine bit of expense. Everybody that Is anybody must keep up with his set or her set; and If we could take you through our establishment, and show you the vast care and cleanliness which produce the old original egg and sugar coated ArbuckleV Ariosa Coffee, no one could ever tempt you to change to any other coffee. ajlbugKU BAPfL Trk CM fcii-V in i ESTER bllO children healthy at birth. ' For more M.HMkiiokiew lurKMTun tnil every expectant mother knew abont Her advice Is free. It's quite right, too. It Is the same, rela tively. In city, town and country. When we remark that the cost of living Is higher, let us not forget that our tables and table ware, equlpago and ornaments are more sumptuous. And musical instruments abound. The time has not yet passed from living memory when not ono house: in ten In all the west was even partially rarpttd. Yet actual necessaries, staple goods, are now much cheiiper than 'hen. Good farm wagons can now be had In Oregon for one third of tho money once paid for them; axes and tools of all kinds aro much cheaper. So of substantial clothing. Staple foodstuffs, except meats, are not higher. But everybody now wants the best cuts, and the butchers must rack their Ingenu ity to get rid of the loss desirable without ruinous loss. . 81X.W GEMS. "I thought you said you never gambled." "I never lo." i ! "Then why have you bought that basket of cantaloupes I C lilcagu it'.'Coi d-llerald. "It Is a wonder that successful hair dressers do not ImiUito tho Indian pro cesses." "Why?" "Because the Indian tribes are noted for their success In ruislng hair." Baltlmoro Amcrlcun. "I don't see how Inveterate temperanco advocates can ever make up their minds to go to Europe.." "What an Idea! Why not?". "Becauau there. coms a point In their occun trip when they are hound to be halt seas over." Philadelphia Press. "Did you take his bill to his room as ho requested ?" "Fifteen minutes ago.'"' "Weil, peek over me transom and see if he has fuinted; he hasn't kicked about the size of 11 yet." Houston Post. "Can you read the future?" she asked. "Yes," he replied. "There Is a light young man who Is going to destroy j our domestic peace." - '1 know It!" she watld'""It is 1he gii collector." Baltimore American. "You say this young friend of youra youiJ want to get a position for Is of a dogged ' disposition?" "yes." "Then why not get him a Job as a barker'" Baltimore American. "I saw Mrs. Parker kissing a pug dog this morning." "What of it?" "Shocking taste, I call It." "Oh. I don't know. Have vou seen Mr. Parker? " Clevelund Leader. "I thought you said you were golna- ta make this play realistic." It Is realistic, llie characters are drawn with infinite skill and" "But the millionaire who breaks the laws gets dragged off to Jail." Chicago-Record Herald. Friend Business seems to continue ernod with you. street Car Magnate ies, most of our pas sengers continue to hang on. Town Topics. i "Do vou know who that old gentleman Is talking to our hostess?" asked Mrs. Blun derer of the lady sitting beside her. J liat. answered llie lady coldly, "Is my son." "Oh!" gasped - Mrs. Blunderer In confu sion, "he's a Rood deal older than you arc. is ne noti cjppincoti s. MOTOH J) A.N I A. Gellett Burgess In Smart Set. I C I have a motor-runabout. And have often wondered - How I could ever do without My car, which cost... ,....800.00 i It plays me many a HrtTe Joke; I well recall my fix . When my left sleerlng-lplndle broke That cost exactly .....(.00 The other day I brok my chain, ' It gave me trouble, plenty; But still, I oughtn't to complain, it only cost 4. SO My carbureter wouldn't work I tried till I was blue; v ' 1 " , " a- UB and charged She went so fast, when this was done, She seemed to be alive! And then my pump refused to run.1 A new one cost ma.,... '.5.00 And I was happy Just a day, And then my Joy was o'er! My battery failed. I had to pay For cells , . ft.. I ..1.41 I thought that I bad known the worst, And dared to laugh at fate; , When suddenly my tire was burst; 1 , New shoe cost....,", .38.00 And then my radiator went; ' A new one.., , 27.00 Repairs to brake, a lever bent, A dust cap '., J. 11 And now I was a little vexed: My lamps went hack on me! It was my generator, next. They stuck me 13.01 This tinkering wltl) my marhlno Was not because. I blundered; . , With garage, oil and gasolliia, , V I spent another ....100 00 TOTAL. -But still, I've had a niuiith of fun, ' t Despite repair shop rows, and ' ' m After It all it said and done, f I've only sVent 1,000.00 mmrtm a a a