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I I TlIE OMAIIA DATLY BEE: WEDNESDAY. SElTOlBKR 2.V1007. 5 5 2 1 .V I u 1; i I i t t Hi 1 3 The Omaiia Daily Itet, rouNDto bt jdwaAd roscwater VICTOR ROSEWATER.yEDITOR. Entered at Omaha Postofne a ond class mattar. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Jlty Be twlthmt Sunday). on year.44 W pally Bn and Sunday. n yar. J Bunds Bn, on year Saturday lirm, one year DEUVERKD BT CARRIER. Daily Be lncludlng Sunday), per k..Se Dully Be (without Sundar), per weefc.lOe Evening Rr (without Sunday). per w'ea Jo Evening Br (with Sunday). per week... we Address all complaints of Irrerularltlea ln delivery to City Circulation Department. officfb. Omaha-Th Bee Building. South OmahaCity Hall Building. Council -Bluffs-II Scott Btrt. Chicago is Unity Building. . . New forte 1MW Ilomi Llf Insurant Bag. Washington Wl Fourteenth .Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communlcatlona relating to news and edi torial matter should be addreseed, Oman Be. Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, expreoa or potl order payable to Tha Bee Publishing Company. Only t-cent stamps received In payment or mall aocounta. Personal chcM. exrapt on Omaha or eastern exchange, not acceptea. STATEMENT OP CIRCULATION. Ctata of Nebraska, Douglas county, '-. George B. Taechuck, treasurer of The Bea Publishing Company, being Ouly worn, aaya that th actual numb or or full and complet copltt of The PV,r Morning. Evening and Sunday Be printed during- tha montluof August. 107, waa a followa: . I M.T50 n., . i ,4o it ?5'"S2 17,040, 1.. a 4 ss,oo' tf 2-J22 7,4o ... t :2'S22 M.tso . n SH!2 1 34, TOO , tt. ; i a,e .14........ I .GO it... 3S.600 i ..,.;. , SS'H2 ii as.Bno :t It S7.B40 2 i1 II 3,H0 !.. ? 14 36,700 10 JfcMO II M.T70 Jli SS.140 1 ' Toui "... t ..... . ;'; ; . . .t,uv3M Leaa unaold and retarded cop lea. 11.S4S Net total. .". . . Pally avraaj 3S.3M , OEO. B. TZ3CHUCK. '' . : Treasurer. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me thle Hat day of Auffuat, 1107. (Seal) , M. B. HUNOATB. Notary Public whkM out or Town. baerlbCra tear Ins tha lr tesa rarll? hala have Th Baa mail . taem. Adarasa will b ckaattl aa aftast mm rqaetS. A good, stiff breeze will, dissipate he moth bail odor in a few hours. Cleveland la beginning to hope that the Tomjohns6n habit is not incurable. It would be interesting " to know what the Kentucky courts do between Caleb Powers trials. ... ,.'.-. The drouthy time at the clubs has been postponed again, but the shadow ot the ltd hangs over them all. "There is no harm in dancing, if, you dance alone," says Rev.: D,r. Clark. And no fun iij it, either, doctor. The housewife has caught step with the advance in" prices in other lines and is putting her preserves up.' When it W44fttcMroetri about hla fortune Air,. Rockefeller shows tl)e big difference between gel and forget. The New Jersey democrats have named one Katzenbach for governor. 3ounds like an open defiance of the lid. A new generation has taken hold of the management of the Standard OH company; The needs is for a regen vration. Delegates at The Hague conference have refused to apply the principle of arbitration to the adjustment of their own differences. The gathering of the political clans at Lincoln is attended with much less of fuss and feathera than in the past, but the result will be as effective. President Roosevelt cannot be blamed for being interested in that mayoralty fight at Cleveland. Every other politician in the country is. Latest advices are that Mr. Cortel you shows no Indication of having re ceived the New York World's demand for his resignation from the cabinet. "A New Jersey girl claims that her broken leg was cured by faith. Her'a is larger than ours," saya the Nash ville American. How do you know? "Stick to the truth." advises the Washington Post. Times would be mighty lively In Washington if that advice were generally accepted there. King Ak-Sar-Ben'a advance guard is at the outskirts of the city and will be welcomed with the cordial hospitality that always has been extended by Omaha. Those democratic editor who are worrying about whom Colonel Bryan will name if he decides not to run himself are going out of their way to, borrow trouble. Andrew Carnegie has told a Glas gow audience that New York is the best governed large city in the world. 3ttll. some folks insist that the Scotch jense of humor is dull. Senator Foraker is unduly alarmed f bout the- safety of the American con stltution. . Senator Beveridge will re turn from Germany in a few days and resume bis duties aa special custodian at it. , . . Mississippi authorities have discov ered a well-nigh forgotten law, passed In 18$ 4, making the acceptance or giv ng of a railroad pass an Indictable ffense. Inquiry shows that nearly ivery member of the legislature car ries a pas, ao the repeal of the obnox lous law cannot long be delayed. "AS JSUVSTKIAt COMMISSION. Secretary Straus of the Department of Commerce -and l.abor Is, taking active steps looking lo the Organiza tion of an Industrial peace commis sion, with a fund ft $1,000,000 at Its disposal for the promotion of peao between employers and employes. Ha has not outlined his plans fully for raising the fund, except to explain that it is aimed to secure the needed money by additions to the $40,000 which the president turned over to the com mission, authorized by congress, from the Nobel peace prize which was awarded to him last year. This com mlfflon is to consist of seven persons, Including a justice of the supreme court and twe members of the cabinet, whose powers have already been de fined by a federal law. It is Impos sible for the commission to do any aggressive work with the limited means at Its disposal and Secretary Straus propose to Increase the Roose velt nest egg to a round tl.000.00P, the Income from which It Is estimated would meet the demands Of the com mission. President Roosevelt has done much to encourage the wider action of such an organisation. The most notable of coal strikes in the history of the nation was settled by the arbitration plan, at the president's suggestion and the executive and departmental Influences have several times been exerted to bring about settlement of labor disputes. Compulsory arbitra tion has never been, popular in Amer ica and the formation of such a com mission as that proposed by Secretary Straus seems to offer the best solution yet suggested for the settlement of Industrial strife. The commission, as at present constituted, is- given the right to offer its intervention. It may investigate, advise and use all moral force to bring about and preserve In dustrial peace. Perhaps that . is all that could be expected of such a body, but that is much. The importance of the work out lined for the comml8fllon is. appreciated both by employers and employes andj It seems unfortunate that the country should wait for contributions before the fund is sufficient to enable the commission to get to work ln earnest. IHB COM1SQ OF.MB.'WV- ' Americans generally will be disposed to change their minds about the' lack of progresslveness and shrewdness on the part of Tsl Anthe empress dow ager of China, If she carries out her promise to send Wu Ting-Fang back an minister to the United States. Mr. Wu served hla country ln that capacity at Washington and made a record for" cleverness that has not been surpassed by any diplomat ever accredited to'thls country by any power. He did every thing th'at Americana do. He became ft base ball crank, studied athletics in ail their branches, knew every, member of congress and much of the local.cpn dltlona In nearly-eveYy eengretoBal district in the nation. .: He. was a walkr. ing interrogation poiirt and absorbed information and facts like a human sponge. After it was all over he left the impression that he was guying the persons of whom he bought informa tion, for he always ended the interview with some pungent and pertinent re mark which showed" that he had given much prior Ihought to the subject on which, he was apparently so densely ignorant. China is considering the establish ment of a new Parliament and Is mak ing an apparent effort to encourage more friendly relations with the United States ln both a commercial and diplo matic way. Thla program could not be advanced more rapidly ln any other way than by the return of Mr. Wu to Washington, where a cordial welcome awaits him. LABELS OS CANNED GOODS. Determined effort is being made by the manufacturers of canned goods throughout the country to induce the secretary of agriculture to defer the, enforcement of the provision of the pure food act which requires the label on canned goods to state "the sub stance of the product and the place of manufacture." The chief argument used in' making the appeal 1b that the manufacturers have already had printed labels, costing at least $500,- 000, that would be lost by the enforce ment of the act. The argument of the canners will not hold. They have had ample no tice of the operation of the law and all of its provisions, and it must be their loss if they have not made prep arations for observing the federal act. Incidentally, the fact that their present labels do not meet the requirements of the law, in other wordSj.do not state in substance the contents of the can, is the best argument In the world for the destruction of the labels and the printing of new ones that will give the customer some substantial hint of what he la buying. The time Is past when a manufacturer can mix a little water and glucose and label it "Pure Ver mont Maple Syrup," or pass canned rabbit off for "8elect Canned Chicken." The man or woman.who buys "Chjolce Canned Veal" wants some assurance that the can la not filled with goat meat or something leas palatable. When the purchaser pays the price for a big tin of "York State Apples" he does not want to be disturbed and angered by opening It to find it filled with parodies on the original Garden of Eden fruit. The label question is a simple oue. If the manufacturers have supplies of them that do not meet all of the re quirements of the federal law, the defect may be remedied by the use of "stickers" supplying the omissions, ff the labels' were prepared for the de- reptlon of the customer, they should have hover been used at all and the sooner they are destroyed the better for all concerned. In the matter of canned goods, most of the Americans are from Missouri. Dr.LAYISO Hit MAILS. ' The request of the New York Cen tral railway for remission of some of the tines that have been Imposed upon it for delay in delivering the malls carried by it under contract calls at tention to some of the rigorous meth ods employed by the Postofflce depart ment to secure prompt and proper transit of the malls of Ihe country. In the last year the government collected over $830,000 from railways for their failure to live up to the exact specifica tions Of their contracts and the New York Central has a'ready been fined $37,000 for delayed mall trains In the first quarter of the present year. Under the contracts with the gov ernment the railroads are subject to fines for carelessness and negligence ln'handllng mail as well as delay ln delivering it.' The bulk of the fines collected last year came from such of fenses as not picking up pouches at the stations, leaving the mail out in the rain or snow, dropping It where it would be run over and nlmilar acts of carelessness. Some of the regulations appear unusually seyere, but it must be remembered that a very large pro portion of the commercial business of the nation is conducted through the malls, and any delay in the matter of transmission or delivery Is liable to work great hardship and heavy loss upon merchants and. men lh all lines of business. The government is to be commended for enforcing these .rules and inflicting the heaviest allowable penalties for lapses. That is the surest guaranty of effective service. K H-AN1KD-CLEANER STREETS. OMAHA. Sept. 53. To tlie Editor of Til Bee: la there any reason .why Omaha streets should be so dirty? We aend our trade excursions to the coast and . spend thousands of dollars to inform the Inhabi tants of the states and, cities visited that Omaha Is on the map. We spend more an nually to make the Ak-Sar-Ben carnival attractive ln order , to bring; people to Omaha to show them our city. We are striving, with success, to extend our busi ness relations to the east and west. Omana boasts business buildings and houses un excelled for beauty and convenience west of Chicago. We are called the Gate City. We think we are Important In the highest de gree, and" we are. But our atreets! If Omaha's homes were as dirty as Its streets Omaha would be quarantined by the whole United States. If Omaha's morals were aa rotten as her streets are dirty Sodom and Gomorrah would be religious retreats ln comparison. This execrable condition of our public thoroughfares ia an unmitigated disgrace to; a city of Omaha's Importance. There Is no satisfactory reason for tt. It hurts the city financially far more than the cost of cleanliness, for it makes an intensely disagreeable impression upon strangers that they dd not foftot: Ana wnalt shall be said of the annoyance and Irritation it causes our own cltlsens? Why do we per mit this condition of things? . NEWMAN II. BURDICK. - The condition Dr. Burdick com plains of has been borne with more or less of patience by,( .thej, people, of Omaha for a long time, but.lt seema that tlie limit has nearly been reached. Several causes' exist for the unkempt Etate of . Omaha's streets. First among these must be listed the ineffi cient and utterly inadequate street cleaning 'department. In' his zeal to reduce the tax levy Mayor Dahlman cut his cloth much smaller, than the garment required, with the result that the fund for street cleaning was far below what would ordinarily have been needed to do the work properly. Added to this shortage in fund is the inefficient organization ; for cleaning the streets. . Omaha has never had a really first-class ' street cleaning de partment, but the one that now exists Is probably the worst of its kind. Con tributing to the general result Is care lessness on the part of the citizens; themselves, especially the contractors on public and private ' work. Ordi- nances existing for the regulation of dirt hauling, street opening and the like are ignored with a cheerfulness that is only equaled by the persistence with which these people disregard the plain letter of the law. The time is here when Omaha must pay more attention to sweeping and sprinkling its streets. The broad thoroughfares of the city have long been Its boast, and 'much money has been expended ln paving and otherwise improving these streets so as to make them worthy of the great city of which they a, re a part. And now we are come to the time. when- we can no longer neglect them as they have been In the past and are today. Mayor Dahlman and bis fellow democrats still have time ln which to redeem themselves in this regard. 'It is hot likely that they will, for they are too busily engaged in playing the game of peanut politics. If they will only cease chasing "dollar gas" and other wlll-o'-the-wlsps and pay more atten tion to the practical questions involved In municipal housekeeping ihey will have come nearer to "redeeming their pledges" than they have in all the bun combe they have fulminated during the past year and a half. Omaha must have better care given to Its streets than it has had since Mayor "Jim" and bis associates entered office. The Masons made a display that must have astonished even the mem bers of the craft. The strength of this order, was never more potently exhibited than in the column that marched in celebration of the golden Jubilee of the Nebraska grand lodge. The Plnkerton Detective agency's expense account for the special train that carried Moyer, Pettlbone and Haywood to Boise Includes the follow- ing Items: "1 loaf rye bread. 15 cents; 1 loaf white bread, 10 cents; 3 dozen budwelser,. $9;,1 dozen bottles whiskey, $22.60." The account has been allowed by the court and It is too late to kick about It, but they appear to have been unduly extravagant in the matter of bread: Omaha Is ready to receive the, Ak-Sar-Ben crowds. Visitors will find the town somewhat torn up a condi tion that cannot be avoided when great building operations and public im provements are under way but our guests will easily excuse this state of affairs, as it is but an evidence of the general prosperity of the Kingdom of Qulvera. The Sixteenth . Infantry comes to Fort Crook more or less a stranger to rttnaho on ft if. nutnlo hut th offlpArtl,,lshln t0 tn Sround. ..... . . . . their new neighbors have a warm spot for Uncle Sam's army, and that here Is one community in which the uni form does not bar its wearer from entrance anywhere. The Baltimore Sun says that If Mr. Roosevelt becomes an editor after his retirement from the presidency the staff will have to work seven days a week. The staff would be without a Job, as Mr. Roosevelt would do all the work. Editor . Josephus Daniels of the Raleigh News and Observer says that Bryan Is stronger ln the south than any southern democrat." That would be Important and significant If it helped his chances for carrying any northern state. "The only good road ln Nebraska" makes a somewhat surprising showing that its intrastate earnings almost quadruple its Interstate earnings for the. month of July. The 2-cent fare has not' been such a wretched bad thing-after all. "The cold winds of November can cot 'chill the summer ln the soul," says the Baltimore American philosopher. Perhaps not, but they can chill the hearts of those who. spent their coal money on August vacations. Extra nollcemen are, to be provided for tha Ak-Sar-Ben period, but this is more of a formality than anything else, for the reason that Ak-Sar-Ben crowds ln the past have needed very little at tention from the peace officers. Robert L. Owen, who will be one of the United States senators from Okla homa, says he is one-third Cherokee and two-thirds Irish, . That's a combi nation' to start' fun when he gets his Irish up and goes on the warpath. Prepare to Tarn In. Philadelphia Press. When the president makes his seventeen days' disappearance ln the canebralcea of Louisiana perhaps the wicked, corporations will be able to get.. a deeegfetaieep. . , General Joe Wheeler's Hecord. .Buffalo Express. ( The government authorised the Inscrip tion of General Joe Wheeler's confederate rank on his tombstone In Arlington ceme tery. It was notto be expected that It would rule otherwise. Titers was no dis position to blink his old confederate ser vice when he was fighting with the Ameri can troops at Santiago. What Did They Do with Itt. Pittsburg Dispatch. The detectives' expense account on the train' which took Moyer, Haywood and Pet tlbone to Boise contains items showing the expenditure of 25 cents for two loaves of bread and $31.60 for three' dozen bottles of Budwelser and one dozen of whisky. Prac tical men conversant with the custom ln such' cases are wondering what In the world they did with so much bread. Farrela Pont Sure Ceaae. Brooklyn Eajrle. If tlie signs of the times are read cor rectly, congress will have to consider a federal parcels post before many moons, and the fact that the senior senator from this state is the head of an express com pany, that Is in duty bound to protest against that kind of a post,' will make no material difference. If the-scheme were ex perimental, the delsy in Its consideration would be understood, but It operates so well abroad that one la forced , to conclude that It 'Would do almost as well here. Claeh Beat a Gold Ulae. Philadelphia Record. . One result of the hearing that Is going on In New York ought to be a sharp ad vance ln the price of Standard Oil shares. They have been proved to be remunerative beyond the dreams of avarice, and the ratio of profits run, in the language of a lawyer in a somewhat similar case, out of percentage and Into grand larceny. Tho remorseless suppression of competition, largely by combinations with railroad com panies, enabled the OH trust to pile up profits about equal to the national revenue before the war. AX APPEAL FOR THE FARM. 1 i Independence aid Happiness Flaarlah oa the Moll. Governor Hughes, In Leslie's Weekly, When you get out where a man has a little elbow room and a chance to develop, he has thoughts of his own. His thinking Is not supplied to him every night and every morning,' and he Is less of a machine and more of a man, ao that I do not think that the farmers need to be' looked upon, or want to be looked upon, aa dependents of the state. They do not come to the state government asking alma. They aro aelf-rellant, they re Intelligent. What we want in connection With agriculture Is what we want In connection wtth every other field of noble efrdrt. We want train ing, w want Intelligence, we want scien tific method, we want direction, we want the way shown, and then the man can walk in It. There Is no reason why the same care and Intention and akill and scientific consideration should not be devoted to agri culture aa to industry and the technical tradea. The men who are running away from the farms too frequently make a mis take, and some day In New Tork and rhe day la rapidly approachlng--our young men, ln larger numbers, will wake up to the fact that they have a pretty good chance on the farm, and that they may be to a greater degree Independent and happy in life If they stay where their liapy lots were cast in connection with their fathers' farm or an other which they may be able to procure. iiorsn AiNH T m;w iobk. .' Ripple aa tie arrent af I I e la the Metroaall. Summer rang down the curtain In Greater New Tork last Saturday evening with a succession of thrills calculated to jar the oldest Inhabitant and the younger ones. Hall. wind, lira and flood coneentrst'r-rt their energies In a farewell stunt, with lightning flash and thunder rrawh giving local color and onorrlty ' to the scene. The storm swept over Long Island, paid Its respects to Msnhnttnn Islsnd. and left ita marks on New Jersey. Steeples and flsg poles and other high things attracted the lightning, and it destroyed some of them. The wind tore roofs and smashed through windows, and the following rain did not help the situation. A Inrge section of the superstructure of the eastern end of the Blackwell'e Island bridge was knocked to pieces, the heavy timbers falling to the ground. A bolt of lightning ' struck the 175-foot section and so weakened It that two or three heavy gusts of wind brought the whole piece A bolt of lightning- atruck the flHg pole on the Manhattan Storage company's ware house, at Lexington avenue and Forty second street. The pole was nearly 100 feet high and at least twelve Inches In diameter. It was broken Into five pieces, which fell Into Lexington avenue. L. J. Klckham of 1H0 East Thirty-ninth street was driving a carriage by when a piece of the flag pole fell by his horse's nose, and ao rloae that a rope attached to the end of the pole tangled up with hla horse's feet. Klckham got down, turned his horse around and raced buck up Lexington avenue. Patients 4n Bellcvue hospital saw a bolt of lightning strike tho flag pole on top of the Cornell Medical college building at First avenue and Twenty-seventh street. A ball of Are stood for a moment on top of thevpole. The Cornell flag was burned oft the pole. The lightning ripped open a four-foot section of the pole and a spear like piece sailed down to the street below, narrowly missing several people. . In Williamsburg a bolt of lightning split In two In midair, striking a church and a hoRpital three blocks apart, damaging both buildings and aettlng tlie occtrpanta In a panic. The hospital, St. Catherlne'a, la at Bushwlck avenue and Ten Eyck street. The church, the German Roman Catholic church of St. Nicholas, Is at Devoe and Olive streets. On the hospital is a tower 170 feet high, surmounting which was a five-foot gilt cross. This cross was hurled Into the court yard just as an ambulance was coming in from the Ten Eyck street side. The cross missed the horse by th fraction of a foot. One hundred and sixty patients were In the hospital and It was hard work quieting them. Brooklyn's . hailstorm lasted about five minutes and stretched from the business section of the city to Flatbush. , Th hall broke no records for else, but there was plenty of it and it drove horses nearly frantic The wind was almost a hurricane in some parts of the city, and many trees wene blown down. Traffic along the Brighton Beach line was Interrupted for about thirty minutes because of two big trees that fell over the depressed tracks near Woodruff avenue. One fell In front of a train and brought it to a stop just as another brushed the top of the train. Neither did any damage to the train. In Brooklyn more than sixty trees were blown down, many fences Were blown away from their ports, cellars were flooded, traffic was delayed on all lines and two small fires were started by the lightning. New York's newest hotel de luxe, the Plaia. which cost $12,800,000 to build and 11.250.000 to furnish, has 1,200 rooms and 1,900 servants, was thrown open for In spection to newspaper men' last Saturday. Eighteen stories above ground and four underneath, the Plaxa, which la at Fifth avenue and Fifty-ninth street,- aeema more like a big' home than a hotel. And. Indeed, home life ia one of the featurea planned for It, for apartments have been provided where the whole family can be housed with as much privacy aa in a residence all' its own. Besides, above the tenth floor are a number of bachelor apartments. The Plaaa will have no Inside court. But every room will be an outside room, fronting on Fifth avenue or Fifty-ninth street, or looking over roofs toward Fifty eighth street. But It Is In the cafe arrangements that the Plaza people think they have scored. Two great dining rooms are on the ground floor, with a tea room between and. a men's cafe to one side. The dining rooms.' are fitted with glass partitions on the tea room sides that can be removed and make one vast banqueting hall of the three. The dining rooma aredone In white and gold, with an old rose carpet, a scheme, ' It Is declared, which will enhance the beauty of the women diners, be they pale or bril liant. s The ball room Is fitted with a stage that Can be raised and made a part of th bal cony. - 1 Below tlie street a system of ventilation keepa that part of the hotel as cool aa the topmost story. ' t ' In explanation of how ao costly a hotel could provide quarters at popular rates. It was said that the renters of 110 and ill apartments were expected to make up the loss on the cheaper rooms. Hundreds of victims of the Msrdl Gras celebration at Coney Island have been treated In hospitals and dispensaries for Inflamed and sore eyes, caused by the throwing of confetti. It is also predicted by physicians that the rubbing of "tick lers" on the faces of the merrymakers will cause an .epidemic of skin diseases. Al though the police have received strict orders to stop the nuisance it seems to have gone on unabated since the opening of the celebration on Monday. For the spreading of disease, particularly tuberculosis, promi nent physicians of New York say that the confetti Is an excellent medium. It. is thrown In the faces of thousands of per sons filling their eyes and moutha, and when the crowd goes home the streets are nearly an inch deep with tlie stuff. It Is then picked up and resold, after it tun been trampled upon and covered with dirt, and Is again thrown inta the faces and moutha of the people. Mid-air love-making is the newest wrinkle hi New Tork wooing. etectlve Oraney discovered It when he rushed to St. Ignatius' school In East Eighty-fourth street ln response to a burglar alarm from the sisters. He found Matthew Belltleld, Swede, height C feet 4 Inches, weight 198, dangling by one hand to an Iron girder KO feet in the air in a building In course' of erection next door to the school, while with the other he wafted "spirit kisses" to his Olga, who stood at a window of the convent. Beilfleld explained that he waa about to go on a job that would keep him away from the neighborhood of the school for a year, so he had gone to bid his sweet heart au revolr. It was th only way, he Lsald, because the sisters were strict. "What is th young woman's name?" asked Magistrate Breen in night police court. "I'd rather not tell." said Beilfleld. "but It's going to be Beilfleld." There Are Other. Brooklyn Eagle. Of the two prospective democratic sena tors from Oklahoma, one la blind and the other a Cherokee. Well, other states hav "Injuns" In congresa, and some members are a good as blind. lM.lrJJr CreamgtdSl The finest In the world When ordering ask for Dr. Price's by name. the grocer, may forgel the kind you are wxmtomed ta.J THE RAILROADS AX D THE PEOPMJ Clarkson Herald: Some newspapers, when they can trump up no other chargo against a man, accuse hlti-. of being a railroad tool. It Is a mean charge and well cal culated to Injure the candidate it Is pre ferred against, and the voter should In vestigate tor himself before accepting it as true. Fremont Herald: Railroad station agents at small towns. are always most always cranky or discourteous, or both. Why Is It? Why, simply because they are not re quired to be otherwise, as they are In the larger places. There are two remedies. The company can apply one and any muscular man who can wield a club can apply the other. Vtlca SurTi The republican county cen tral committee, In session last Saturday, passed strong resolutions In regard to the railroad corporations delaying the railroad commission In getting proper rates Into ef fect and Instructing the delegate to up hold the governor In calling a special ses sion of the legislature" to make laws com pelling the railroads to come to time. This is a good move on tho part of the republi cans of this county and no doubt would receive the sanction of every republican voter. Kearney Hub: It Is understood In Lin coln that Governor Sheldon will call a spe cial session of the legislature ln the event that Judge Munger gives the railroads a permanent Injunction against the commis sion to restrain that body from putting the proposed reduced grain ratea Into effect. It Is not easy to believe that Judge Munger will grant a perpetual Injunction In the absence of testimony as to the rea sonableness of rates, but if he should, per chance, do so the governor's duty would be plain. David City Press: The selection of Mr. Aldrich of this city to act as advisor to the State Board of Railroad commission ers will give considerable satisfaction to I not only the people, of this Immediate vi cinity, but also to the people of Nebraska at large. The board, however, was no doubt somewhat surprised when their newly appointed attorney told them in language which could not be misunderstood that he did not agree with what they had attempted and that a new start should be made. From reports received the board was rather ln a frame of mind to agree with Aldrich. Central City Nonpareil: In their defiance of the authority of the State Railway com mission, the railroads, of Nebraska have finally crossed th Rubicon and are now In avowed rebellion to state regulation. It la now to' be determined who Is the bigger, the state of Nebraska or tlfe rail roads. .-In the language of Senator Brown It Is time to see whether the' "railroads are to govern Nebraska or whether Nebraska la to govern the railroads." In the fight nrhlnh la . nVwttit :' t r nripn thn kinta m A " - ministration can rest usureu tutti it wiu be backed In Its efforts to establish the sov ereignty of Nebraska by the united senti ment of the people. Wood River Sunbeam: When will the' railroads ever learn that enough Is enough? They evidently found that the fight they put up to evade paying their just taxes resulted most disastrously to them. Again they found that the people of Nebraska meant business when they elected men to office who had the backbone to make and enforce laws men who oould not be In fluenced or changed one whit by corpora tion tactics, yet the railroads still Insist on carrying their big game of bluff to the limit that of resorting to the federal court for injunctions restraining the officials from doing their bounden duties. It's carrying the thing too far and the people of the state won't atand for such treatment. They have elected officers In whom they . have the utmost confidence to enforce the laws, and when offend rs of state lawa restrain the officials from doing their duty It Is time to call a. halt. . But the people of Ne braska, have a whole lot of satisfaction In knowing that we have state officials who 'Will call every bluff that the railroad or any other corporation may make. If they Insist on getting off on technicalities we have a governor who has the backbone to call A special session tf the legislature whj will see to it thaWlawa are made and that law - are enforced and they will atand the test. It's time that the railroads of Ne braska were beginning to see . things through different glasses. THOROUGHNESS! Thoroughness in Everylhing Big or Utile The few words tell the cause of Klin ball superiority. Its owners are, an army; its friends number millions. In the most remote corners of the coun try the Kimball Is enjoyed. Its popularity Is universal. It's the piano of the peopl. one known to possess everyessentlal of superior con struction. Its reliability Is as famous as Its name. It Is an Instrument that will not fall you. Kimball pianos are sold under th strongest guarantee. They are better to day than they have ever been. Fnr years the watchword of their makers tins been EVOLUTION. Never satisfied with what had been done the Kimball family haa steadily and earnestly striven for yet bet ter achievements. The result the Kim ball Piano is absolutely the best made at the price for which It is sold. L mm 1513 Douglas Streets. r WE DO EXPERT P1ANU TUNING AND REPAIRING Carbon Nut 56.25, Lump $6.50 It la excellent fur rooking and lirating clean, quick and lasting. We have aold coal in Omuha for twentjr-flvc jcure, and we know thin to be the beat i-oal vtr offered here for tlie price. - . We -also fll the beat Ohio and Western coals, together w)th Cherokee, Walnut Ulotk. etc., down to $1.75 per ton. Om HARD COAL Js the l., U A W. HCRANTOV the bent coal mined. Also aell Arkaaaaa Anthracite and Hemi-Anthracite. ...... For genuine comfort before a cheerful grate fire burn our bard wood chunks during, the rl hilljr evenings aoon specialty with s. COUTAPJT C. SQUIRES PEHOXAI. OTE.' f Robert Plnkerton left an estate of $.1,. 000.000. Evidently there is money In private detecting. Richard Robblns of Boston has started a movement to mark the birthplace of Ben jamln Franklin. ( . ,,. . Ex-President Cleveland's trouble, accord ing to Vt. Josph P. Bryant,' i-gout, and hla physician says there Is no cause foi alarm. The kaiser when out shooting' some times leads a severely simple life. He has a shooting lodge near Sylttkehsmen made of plain boards covered with bark and hidden away in the woods. Prof. Thaddeus 8. C. Lowe of Pasadena," Cal., who recently celebrated his seventy. Ilfth birthday, was the Inventor o -the com prcsHcd Ice machine and in 1S45 mado th first artlilral ice ever produced ln this country. ... Prof. Paul Clemmen, wlio' was selected by the emperor of Germany' to deliver a course of lectures at Harvard university, has arrived In New Tork. Me is widely known as a student' of fine arts, and has held tho chair of the history' of art and literature at Bonn university since 1902. Lord James of Hereford has signed an appeal just printed In England, for sub-, scrtptions toward the establishment of a 1 library In memory of Dlekens. He polnl out that "the memorial will be. no mere monument (Mr. Dickens, In his will, ob jected to such tributes), but will be a most valuable aid to writers and students," MERRY JING1.ES. ; "I supposo It's always hog-kllllng; tlm In your town. Miss Packer," sneered tin New Yorker. . ... ; "O! yes," replied the fair visitor from Chicago, "but don't let that keep you from, visiting us. We always protect oir guesta" ' Philadelphia Press. ' ' " "A lyric Is so called because ln anclsnt times It was a poem intended for use by a lyre." "Just like the fish story In modern Uraea, eh?" J3alUmore American. Patience And you say he la a deceitful man? Patrice Well, I should say so! Why, he had a cap made out of sticky fly paper ' , .to cover his bald head. Tonkers States-., man. - ' ' "I don't see why Peckham should make poor mouth all the time. He commands a, good salary every week of his life." "Ho may command It, bnt his wife de , munds It every week." Philadelphia Prosa, He 1 1 understand you have been 'attending; an ambulance class. Can you tell me what Is the best thing to do for a broken hearts , She Oh, yes. Bind up the broken per tlon with a good band, bathe In orange blossom water and apply plenty of rawl rice. Guaranteed to be well In a month.- Judge, ...., ' First Chorus Olrl Nellie ain't feelln, well. She's gotta sore throat.- ' Second Chorus Girl Chef, : 'the ' 1tMvr fl "" 'er putting on airs like a primmer donn,- Kansas City Post. A , Mrs. Lapsllng was telling the caller all about Johnny'a narrow escape, ,. "I declare," she said, "I thought ha would choke to death before we could get the doctor. He'd got a piece of green appla fast in hla theosopliagUH and it wouldn't go either way." Chicago Tribune.' WHEN ADAM GOT HOME LATE. Chicago Record-Herald. When Eve sat In the shade at night And waited while the moments passed. Of course she did not have the right When Adam came In haste at last To call him names or pull his hair Or turn her back to pout or pine, .. Because her loving husband n er Brought any atrangers home to dine. When Adam found that ho waa late I wonder what excuse he made? He could not blandly tell his mare What I tell mine when I'm delayed; He had no extra work to do . ; Because some clerk had gone away, There was a lack of lodges, too, ' In good old Father Adam's day. He could not tell her that a train Had jumped the track and gone to ' amnsh. Nor that lie had remained to sain ... A little extra bunch of cash; He could not hand his wife a check To bo for her exclusive use, Thus making her fall on his .neck Without demanding an excuse. Tet Adam's case was not to had. He had no boss to serve, 'tis true; Tb extra duties that he had ' . Were far between and very fewi Put if upon his sleeve a hair Py any chance was ever, blown. ' y Fv never asked how It got there. She alwaya knew It was her own. That's why you hear so much about Kimball tone. That's why you hear o much about Kimball action. That's Why each ciihh' Is of such artistic design. That's why, ln short, every Kimball sold earns satisfaction. . Both quality and economy are obtained by every Kimball buyer. Vou can buy one In this store for J60. That price 1 the lowest In the United States for this make piano. And bHldes it Is not neces sary to pay tfie whoje amount at one time. Eight dollars a month will buy a Kimball here and th only charge for the privilege of buying under the time payment is a small interest per annum. Besides Ktmbail,-we are factory repre-. sentatlves for Kranlch & Barn, Krakauer, Bush & Lane, Hallet & Davis, Cable. Nelson. Weeer Bros., Melville Clark, 11. P. Nelson, Cramer, etc., eac. If you cannot call, write for catalogue and. price. COMPANY; to whip, rine kindlug is also V 1406 PARNAM Tsl. Doug. S30 )