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6 THE OMAHA DAILY 'BEEi THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1907 T' ' -MV DV1LV CEE i,. ..I1.D BY EDWARD ROSEWATEIt. VICTOn ROSEWATBR. EDITOH. - , . .. . ., i k i I i . Entered'-st Omaha Poatofflc MO-nl class matter. TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION. rally Bee (without "undsy), one year.. $4 W ' Daily Brt and Sunday, on year J Sunday Bee, on year W . Saturday Bee, on year 1- DELIVERED BY CARRIER. . Pally Be (Including Sunday), per wWk..1fc I Dally e (without Sunday), pfr week. .10c i Kvrntng le (without Sunday), per week e i Evening Bee (with Sunday), per week...lpo ' Address all complaints of Irregularities In J delivery to City Circulation Department, i OFFICES, i Omaha The Bee Building. ? South Omaha Clry Hall Building-. , Council Bluffs IS BcOH Btreet. ' ''hlcago 1640 Unity Building. i New York 1508 Horn Lit Insurance Bide. Washington SOI Fourteenth Street. ' CORRESPONDENCE. i Communication relating to news and edl Morlal matter ehould be addressed, Omaha ' Bee, Editorial Department, j REM11TANCES. : Remit by draft, express or postal order payable to Th Bee Publishing Company. Only 2-cent stamp received In payment or mall account. Personal check, except on , Omaha or eastern exchange, not accepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas county, ss: Charlea C. Rosewater, general mtnittr i of Tha Bee Publishing Company, being duly .worn, aaya that the actual number ot 'full and completa coplea of The Dally Moaning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of September, 1907, waa aa .follow: ..... ! i 5,too it ,eo ! i M,MO IT , t 18,00 II S6.M0 . 4 aa,io it M.B00 1 5 38,350 20 M.9S ; ...,..... 36,40 21. : ae,7o ,' 7 SS.840 21. . ! "830 95,600 21...., S7,3f0 i . 36,140 36,830 10 38,630 85 3660 36,470 2 36,630 12 36,370 T 86,600 11 34,030 21 36,660 14 36,610 J 35,660 IS 35,400 10 3860 .. .. V ... - Total 1.093,470 Lees uniold and returned coplea. s.887 Net total Daily average 36,116 CHARLES C. ROSEWATER, General Manager. Subscribed In my preaence and sworn to before ma this 80th day of Septem ber. 1907. (SMl) . M. B. HUNOATE. 1 Notary Public wiie out or TOWW. ' gnbserlnera leaving tha city ten. pornrily stoonld '. have The Be mailed to' them. Address will k changed as often as requested. In that Louisiana bear hunt Wall street's sympathies will be with the bears. Bank clearings continue to show gains In, all parts ot the country ex cept th speculative centers. " Scientists have discovered that it la 148 degrees below zero 124 miles up in the air. Almost as cold as Medicine Hat. The end seat hog is now trying to see how much annoyance he can cause by currying a smolderlngv cigar into the closftd ar. ' ) 1 According to the latest claim of the scientists the germ of hydrophobia has been found. It- should be compelled to wer.r a muzzle'. "Trade reports ere Irregular," says Bradet reefs. So some of the grand Juries have discovered by examination of tha hooka of the trusts. Maine citizens are pledging them selves to cat no meat for ten days, as a protect a".alust the high prices. Malno thrift is proverbial. "Traffic is growing five times as fast as the facilities of the railroads for moving it," says James J. Hill. The people, as usual, are to blame. New York papers . are discussing what Governor Hughes stands for. The things that Governor. Hughes will not stand for are more interesting. With the addition ot a theatrical company and a dental parlor to the big ocean liners, the sea traveler may now have all the discomforts of home. The Japanese are trying to float a loan In the United States. That is certainly putting Secretary Taft'o as surances of undying friendship to the test. Roger Sullivan of Illinois has with drawn bis opposition to the nomination of Mr. Bryan. G rover Cleveland and Judge Parker are still oft the reserva tion. Pig iron has fallen In price $1.60 a ton. Now la the time to lay in your winter's supply of pig Iron, the only commodity on the market that is not going up. In looking around tor a man for second place on the national ticket the democrats should not overlook Cap tain Hughey Jennings of the Detroit base ball -taam. Railroad workmen cook, lighter men and ctgarmakers are on a strike at Havana. Still some people contend that the Cubans are slow to adopt American ways. . That St. Lout minister who asserts that there arc no automobiles tn heaven must base his opinion on the old accepted theory that they have flying machines there. if taa railroads had . spent more money on equipment and leas la fancy dividends and syndicate deals, the mov ing ot the $7,000,000,000 crop of the v American farmers would not be cans lng so much worry. ' The southern tctto.i Ruiuera are cot satisfied with th. :u. -.j.,1 law. It threatens to Interfere with the busi ness ot Ailing bottles with cottonseed oil and labeling It "Pure Olive Oil. from Lucca, Italy." rnlB MASSACIIV8KTTS MIDDLE. Massachusetts, the former storm center of partisan politics, with po litical lines closely draws, presents a style of scrambled politics that would have been the envy of Colorado and some other western states In the days when political parties and factions were born over night. State conven tions of both the republican and demo cratic parties have been held with a resultant mlx-up that will make It Interesting for the Bay state voter in the coming state election. The demo cratic convention split in two, nom inating two tickets, each claiming reg ularity.' One democratic faction named Henry M. Whitney for gov ernor, on a platform of which the principal plank demands Immediate tariff revision and liberal reciprocity with Canada. The other democratic faction named General Charles W. Bartlett for governor, the platform touching but briefly on national Issues, but bitterly denouncing the railway merger recently effected in Massachu setts. , With their forces thus divided, the democrats, of course, have no hope whatever of carrying Massachusetts this fall, and the opposing leaders are already charging each other with be ing responsible for the defection in the party ranks. "The Whitney supporters call attention to the fact that he came within 1,100 votes of being' elected lieutenant governor last year", while the democratic candidate for governor was defeated by 20,000. The returns showed that Whitney received a big republican vote and was, therefore, from a purely political standpoint, the logical candidate of his party for gov ernor this year. No democrat is ever able to carry Massachusetts unless many republicans prefer him to their own candidate. The Whitneyites say that William Randolph Hearst of New York is chiefly responsible for the split In the party convention. The Hearst Influence was behind General Bartlett and refused to consider any compro mise. The Bartlett supporters, on the other hand, charge the Whitney fac tion with Indifference to the railway merger, over which the state has be come aroused, and place that as their real reason for refusing to accept the Whitney candidacy. ; The significant feature of the repub lican convention, which renominated Governor. Guild and all the state offi cers, Is the open and avowed platform declaration for a revision of the tariff. The platform. is understood to have been written by Senator -Lodge. It calls upon the republican national convention to adopt a plank In its platform declaring for a special ses sion of congress Immediately after March i,. 1909, to revise the tariff on protection lines.- Massachusetts has long been a stronghold of protection, and the fact that both republican and democratic conventions of, the state (agree in demanding- tariff revision has a significance which .congress and the country cannot welf overlook. '".-;" TUB SCVTH'S LABOR PROBLtiy. The state-aided emigration from Ei rope to South Carolina is proving . disappointment. The experiment was based on a misunderstanding of Vie. law of supply and demand and (he wage factor that cuts so much figure In the movement of workmen. The state set aside a fund, supplemented by private 'subscription, to induce immigrants to settle in South Caro lina, where work in the cotton fields and factories, lumber mills and on the farms was abundant. Some 600 immi grants were brought to SouCT-Carolina recently, at the expense of the state, and given employment? but they have refused to stay "put." High, hopes were raised that a way of solv ing the labor problem in the south had been discovered and a plan adopted for enlarging the white industrial pop ulation over against the negro, but the results have fallen far short of expectations. Senator Latimer de clares the $20,000 expended In in ducing the foreigners to locate In South Carolina a total loss, as hardly a man of the 600 has remained In the state. They have all drifted off, at tracted by better wages or more con genial surroundings elsewhere. The trouble with the Bouth is that It has never been able to break away from the cheap labor habit. Prior to the civil war all menial work was done by slaves, and since the war the negro has continued to do the manual labor at a very small wage. While the west and north have been Divine bleb wages for all kinds ot labor, skilled and unskilled, the south has clung to the old system of paying small wages and getting little done. The European countries from which the Immigrants ceme understand this, and It has been almost v impossible to Induce Immi grants to locate south of Mason and Dixon's line. They understand that wages are low and that they must compete with the negro workmen and, most unfortunately, be classed by most southerners as "poor white trash." ' The south would offer wonderful op portunities to the workman and in- waiur it moor conditions were mora satisfactory. The timber, iron, cotton and agricultural resources are ex tremely rich and await development Great progress baa already been made, but much more could be done It labor were paid according to its merits and given the recognition It deserves.- The "new sooth", must rid itself of the prejudices of the old eouth. The decision by one of the district Judges in the northern part ot the state upholding the validity of votes cast for name written In on the pri mary ballot would, if generally fol lowed, nullify the main provisions of our new primary- law sod completely destroy the Identity of political parties. The state canvassing board, however, has taken a position adverse to the counting of votes for wrltten-ln names and the decision referred to Is not likely to affect anything but the purely local condition out of which it has arisen. . PARCELS POST PL AS 8. Postmaster General Meyer has prac tically completed the form ot recom mendation he will make to congress for the establishment, or rather en largement, of the parcels post system. The postmaster general announced some time ago that he would make such a recommendation to congress, but has only now given publicity to the details. According to the present program no new legislation will be asked, but an amendment of existing laws will be sought to give wider scope to the system. "We have a parcels post now," says the postmaster gen eral, "but the limitation upon the weight of packages' and the high rates charged make it of little service to the general public." The postmaster general -will ask con gress to reduce the rate of postage on packages to 12 cents a pound, Instead of 16 cents as at present; to increase the limitation on the weight of pack ages to eleven pounds, Instead ot four as at present; to establish a parcels post with a rate of 6 cents for the first pound and 2 cents for each additional pound. This would make a charge of 25 cents for carrying an eleven-pound package any place in the United States through the malls. It is a little surprising that ao little progress has been made in this country toward the development of the parcels post system. In the Harrison admin istration Postmaster General Wana maker made a recommendation for the establishment of the system on broader lines and gave six reasons for its adop tion. The express companies then had an influence in the senate more pow erful than Mr. Wanamaker's six rea sons, and but little has been done since that time to secure favorable congres sional action. Senator Piatt" of New York, representing the express com pany of which he is president, will doubtless fight all action favorable to the postmaster general's recommenda tions, but neither Senator Piatt nor the express companies are as strong In public affairs as they once were and the prospects, for the adoption of the system are reasonably bright. ' THE "VNFORTCHATE' PILOT. Democratic organs are shedding great gobs of inky tears over the sus pension by order ot -the president of the pilot of a Mississippi river steam boat for offending against the rules of navigation. They are dolefully pic turing the pilot as an innocent victim of presidential wrath and endeavoring by distortion of the , facts to arouse public' sympathy in bis behalf and re sentment against the president. The local democratic organ, for example, in its zeal to manufacture political capital, referring to the Incident, says: "True, it is rumored -that his vessel came near colliding with that carrying the president, but this is unanimously denied by passengers on, both ships, who say that at no time were the two ships within one hundred feet of each other." What transparent evasion! It Is always easy to find people to guess differently with eye measure ments ot distance, but in this case, whether the unfortunate pilot came within fifty or only within one hundred feet of the boat carrying, the president, is immaterial. There . Is no question that the in truder broke through the line, not once, but repeatedly, "In defiance of or ders from the harbor patrol and in dis regard of the conditions of the license under which the pilot was operating. In the steamboat procession down the Mississippi each boat had Its place relative to the pilot boat and the presi dent's boat and nothing but incompe tence or willful disobedience ot orders could have brought the derelict steam boat across the line In advance of the president. Even had there been no risk of collision whatever, the offense would have called for discipline and punishment. In making his complaint and in sug gesting what the penalty should be the president's dispatch to the supervising inspector Is all conditioned on the one phrase, "it such procedure is possible." It seems that the procedure thus ad vised for the suspension of the license of the pilot was not only legally possi ble, but proper and practicable. No one conversant with the facts will find anyone to blame for the plight of the "unfortunate" pilot but himself. Actual cash In the custody of the city treasurer, as counted by the city comptroller, toots up to over $1,350, 000. That is altogether .too much money to keep tied up at nominal in terest when the city has obligations out bearing much higher rates. If we had some real financiers in the city council they would devise a plan either to prevent the piling up ot so much city money or to have it offset against outstanding debts. The Nebraska Railway commission has put a time limit on Missouri Pa cific trains to keep them within the safety point ot its roadbed. The max imum speed must not hereafter exceed twenty-five miles an hour for passen ger trains nor twenty miles an hour tot freight trains. Now, if the com mission will only make this the mini mum speed aa well people who travel on that particular railroad might note an improved service. Every candidate for the republican nomination for district judge la this district whose name likewise appeared on the democratic primary ballot promised over his signature not to run against any republican nominee. Only one of these candidates was nom inated on both tickets. One of the three who lost out promptly filed his resignation from the democratic ticket. It is up to the other two to move. "Ohio grew enough wheat this year," says the Cleveland Leader, "to make a barrel of flour for evry man, woman and child in the state." Ne braska grew enough to supply home demands and furnish another barrel of flour to every man, woman and child In Ohio, If they need it and have the price. The Water board has at last let out the Information that two of the ex pert engineers it has engaged are to draw $1,000 apiece, while the third is to have a retainer of $1,000, with an indefinite engagement at $25 a day for excess time. Expert engineers cpme a little cheaper than lawyers, but the taxpayers foot all bills. The democratic World-Herald lets the cat out of the bag in Its latest ebullition of nonpartlsanshlp bun combe. It admits that what It Is after Is the patronage. To get the patron age the democrats must capture two of the three supreme Judgeships one at a time. The annual meeting of the Union Pacific has been pulled off according to schedule with the re-election of all the old directors, keeping Mr. Harrl mao entrenched in , full control. As long as the stockholders draw 10 per cent dividends they may be depended upon to stick with Harriman. Still another bond proposition Is to be submitted to the voters of Omaha this year to provide $30,000 for the construction of .a new fire engine house. The . Water board should hurry with its $4,000,000 scheme be fore all the front seats are taken. If it will ease the mind of Edgar Howard, he may accept as authentic the information that The Bee stands by its endorsement of Judge Reese when he ran as the republican nom inee for supreme Judge in 1899. Next question? With two democratic tickets in the field in Massachusetts and the Hearst Independence . league organizing In every countr of the state, Senator Lodge is evidently Justified in predict ing republican , success at the polls this year. President Gets thai Goods. Washington Post. While Senator . Foraker r-as been get ting nothing but warmed-over atmosphere from tha . colored brethren, the president has received a gold-headed cane from the KeokttK contIrBr. : rWhafS the answer? . I 'I I Hi I . Ther-WU the Exercise. MUr.tiapolls Journal. President Jijaey'oH, having given orders that colonels intbe army must undergo a test to show whether they . can ride, the rear admirals of tha navy are now pre paring themselves for a swimming contest. No Halt tn Law Enforcing;. ' Baltimore American.. ; Tha president;; declares that. he will not call a halt 'in hlw: policy of enforcing the laws. Th hfir alternative seems, then, for those who are breaking them to make up their minds to obey them, and the hand made panics will then stop automatically. Collect the Fines First. Pittsburg Dispatch. Since J. J. Hll! has Issued the flat that tha government must grant bonuses to help the railroads build the needed new tracks it is no more than an obvious duty to collect those fines for rebating so that tha government Can have tha money ready. Stabled Patriotism. Boston Transcript. The man who owns the house in Albany in which General Sheridan was born has been tempted to tear it down, but has been restrained by patriotism. Now ha proposes to convert it Into a stable. Prob ably this is intended also to commemorate "the horse that won the day by carrying Sheridan into tl) fray, etc." , Tha President's Activities. Philadelphia North American. Roosevelt's u oil vltfos in statesmanship are so various that the people he serves forget that he haa wrought for the nation in a doitn field with greatness equal to that attained in one by almost any of his predecessors. He has been guiding the law abiding and driving the law-breaking classes of this country over the hill ot danger. We doubt If many among us have stopped lately to look beyond and tako ac count of the far-reaching endeavors of tha president and the workings of his policies. I'm warranted Criticism by Judges. Springfield Republican. That judges are engaging In hasardous business when they assail the legislatures that enact the reduced fare laws, impugn ing their motives and decrying their knowl edge. Is clear from the indignant tone ot Governor Johnson ot Minnesota in com menting upon Judge Lochren's language in granting an Injunction against tha Minnes ota commodity rata law. His honor appears to have gone to an unwarranted extreme In lecturing a co-ordinate branch of gov ernment. It Is certatin that the Judiciary would not consider It decent for legislatures to pass resolutions criticising the bench in much the same style. In a contest for public sympathy tha legislatures would be quite as likely to win out as the Judges, In case these unflattering observations ahoukl continue. Irrigation as n Wealth Prodnecr. Wall Street Journal. Two favorable features stand out prom inently tn tha progress ot arid region farm ing. One is fHa incorporation of live stock and the other tha enormous productiveness of fodder crops such as alfalfa. One great obstacle to developing the small farm In tensively Is tha scarcity of labor. But her aa elsewhere mechanical devices are help ing tha owner to lay tha foundation for a new type of rural prosperity in tha United States. When the student of tho money movement looks for soma of tha millions which have gone out from, tha large dla tnbutlng centers of tha west and have never returned, he could find them without dim cult y, if ha had earaiarked them In advance, doing duty In dry farming districts, where wealth and comfort and skill and all that goes with them tn farming prosperity are t be found all the year. BIT" OP WAMI1-XGTOW I.IFF3. Minor eenea and Incidents Sketched on the Snot. Presldrnt Roosevelt may "lay down tha law" tn cnrnArmttons. order lasy army offi cers to take horseback exercise, requlrj admirals to practice swimming, compel n tr. r.vir. in mnt for tall timber and do other things brnttlns; the nation s chief ex ecutive, yet Washington gossMps are in clined to wager a pink lemonade that he will not be able to repress his daughter Kthel s desire to enter Washington society this winter. Ethel Roosevelt U a little more than 17 years old. Her sister, now Mrs. Long worth, was not much older than that when she made her bow. It is sure Ethel does rot wish to be kept any longer In the school girl class. True, Mrs. Roosevelt has Informed the women of the cabinet cir cle that Ethel positively will not -make her debut" this winter; but It Is pointed out that the girl has expressed herself as le alrous of getting Into the whirl. Even a speechmaklng father may bo won over by the nonpolltical eloquence of a pretty young daughter. Miss Ethel Is two Inches taller than her father. She is a blonde, with a clear complexion and abundant gold-tinted brown hair. And dignified! She offers a great contrast to her vivacious half-sister. The Vnlted States government gave awny in the neighborhood of 120000 farms to homestead Settlera during the last year ac cording to the report of the commissioner bt tha general land office. The. acreage taken under the homestead and other laws aggregated 17.853.636. tMvt.led Into W-acre tracta, thla would make 111.460 -farms. But In many cases the homesteaders took less than 180 acres. Homestead settlement took place In all the public land states, with the exception of Louisiana and VfyomUv. According to the figures, Louisiana has 5.446 acres more public land now than It had last year, and Wyoming 1.143.890 acres more. The "nVlals ssy the only way to account tor It Is that homesteaders have- been relinquishing claim in those states and taking them elsewhere. Alaska reported nohom-stead- ing at all. . . The following will show the number of acres homesteaded during' the last year and tha number of acres of public land still remaining for entry, by states: . Arrrl still Homesteaded. open to entry' States. Alabama . Alaska ... Arizona .. Arkansas California Colorado Florida .. Idaho .... Kansas .. Louisiana Michigan VT4nnt.anta 11.700 156.820 3fiS,035,975 46.519,946 1,497,142 80,891.048 24,WK.7!ffl 437JT74 30.066.944 815.754 M8.674 286.419 2.154.256 44,834 88.114 49,799.614 S.543.1K1 61.158.6R1 47.269.582 2.899.6S5 27.700 17.730.929 7,830,765 37,209.144 . 4,989.937 16.940 36,724,337 .... 81.SW .... JWB.667 .... 2.012.M7 .... 3,571.25(1 .... 129 926 .... 1122.926 .... 16.75 8.447 .... 19.78H .... 353,295 Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska . lvjovaita 40,WH K.v Mexico ... 1.621.0S6 1.1J4.J86 66.8X9 1.9M.720 S42.9S2 1.070.487 1,271.043 19,660 North Dakota . Oklahoma , Oregon Bouth Dakota Utah Washington . Wisconsin Wyoming Totals 17.858,636 792,238,707 This is tha time of tha year when we have nO difficulty In tracing tha frost line," said ah official of the Treasury department "You see, It's this way. Late In tha spring and early in tha summer farmers and other frugal people put away their savings in stoves, which, with Using at mospheric temperature are temporarily put out of commission. Now you would think that man of that, typo before atartlns; up the flres In the fall would first think of the wad, but they don't. The fire Is started, and up goes the paper money In smoke. Then charred money begins to pour In on the treasury for redemption. "If we had no other way of rinding It out we would know from the burnt money that is sent in for redemption that the frost Una begins in. Maine In September. In like manner wo trace It southward and west ward. A day or so ago It struck Green rnnntv' Indiana, a little early for that re gion at this season. The claims for redemp tion are now coming In qulta regwariy, dui as October advances and parlor stoves are lighted for the winter they will coma in in ever-Increasing numbers." A Waahington woman discovered some time ago that her German, nurse was destroying tha money, orders she pur chased to remit to the fatherland. She had torn up within tha last five years more than $509 of money orders, thinking they were receipts for the money deposited in the office at Washington, to herold mother In Germany. ...v. i- i..nM.ni t he fsot that thaTS haa accumulated in the national treasury millions of dollars, posalDiy ten millions, -i it,. .atahiiBhincnt of tha present sys tem in K64. The government assume tho role of trustee for vne sate iransier ui money from one Individual to another, and tha protection is nearly perfect, yet Uncle Sam can not always remedy tha careless ness or Ignorance of parsons buying money orders. An official, speaking of the system, saia: . uu nroMimulatlon of money Is steadily being augmented from year to year, and unless the people oecome oener acquainted with the character of a money order transaction the accumulated sum promises to become almost fabulous. This money has accumulated through no fault of tha United States. The system Is perfect and instructions relating to it are clear and ample. "For one thing, it la known that persons purchasing money orders ignorantly de atroy them, believing that the order con stitutes nothing more than a receipt. Many persona are also In the habit of purchasing money orders before traveling from one place to another, with a view to converting them Into cash as needed, and these are lost through carelessness, by Ore or other- . "It also frequently happen that orders are sent to wrong addresses, and after re peated attempta to find the payee or re mitter, are sent to the department, together with advices, aa unpaid." Did you know there was only a three day supply of one-dollar bills in the United States treasury, only a two days supply of two-dollar bills, and only a ten days" supply of five-dollar bills? Well. It's a fact, and United States Treasurer Treat snnounce that. In spite of everything he can do, he can t make enough small bills to keep pace with the demand. The treasurer fears that In the course of the next three or four weeks the supply of ones, twos, and Uvea will run out and the people trading at etorea with ten, twenty and fifty-dollar bills will have to take aiiver "cart-wheels" in change. Mr Treat says that the cause of the scarcity la hut Inability to hire enough skilled laborers at government wages to make th notes. Obstacle tn tha War. Kansas City Star. Only two obstacles appear to present theinselve in opposition to the schema of tbe reactionaries la the republican party to defeat Taft for the presidential nomi nation ngxt year by uniting tha south and tha east against him. The first one Is that Mr. Taft will carry the south; Ths second Is that Taft will carry the cast. Outside of these two defects, however, tbe plan may really be cousldered as "formidable." The Best CooxJnir of the superior sort is what every, house wife strives to do, and it's the kind every housewife does who uses the genuine as an ever-ready helper in preparing many dishes. Makes cooking and baking questionably better by Improving thequality. appearance and delicacy. Two " famous cooks give valuable suggestions in our book of Original Recfpoa and Cooking Help. ; Tells how bread, graviea, soups, jellies pastries, sauces msv be improved in a wonderful way. Sent free. fcewr be without th genuine K.lnirford's OnwestiCora 8tarch-the standard of quality for over hslf a century. I n. excelled for parity ; fine.it for every use. Made lor over fifty years at Oswego. All grocers, pound package, lo cents. T. WNGSFORD 4 RATIONAL STAKCH PERSONAL NOTES, It appears that Ida Tarbell's brother Is one of the oil men whom Mr. Rockefeller's company has aqueexed. Standard OH naturally refused to recognize her as a disinterested reformer. ' Walter Soott, the late Inventor and builder of printing presses, was one of the thirty-nine Inventors who wer mentioned by the commissioner of patents as having obtained patents each year for twenty-five years. Colonel M.. Emmet Urell, commanding the Second regiment. District Columbia Na tional guard. Is being urged as commander of the Medal of Honor legion. He la a vet eran of both the civil war and the war with paln. Harry B. Clow, . who aucceeds Fred Q. McNally as president of the Rand. McNally & Co. publishing house. Is a son-in-law of the lata Andrew McNally, founder of the big Chicago printing company. Mr. Clow la 39 years old. The youngest mountaineer who ever set foot on the Jungfrau summit la Ida Ltechtl. She is only 10 -years old, and Is tha daughter of the Jungfrau railway manager. Sha was born and raised among the Alps, and learned to climb like a goat when hardly more than an 'infant., Luther Wright Mott, who ha been ap pointed superlntednent of banks of New York state by Governor Hughea, is a mem ber of a -family of bankers. He waa born In ' Oswego in 1874, and graduated from Harvard at the age of 22, since which tlino he has been connected with different bank ing institutions, . CUBAN LAND SCHEMES. American Promoters 'Working; OS Somo Gold Bricks. Mrs. C..R. Mlllor In Leslie's Weekly. Ca maguey Is the home ot the land specu lator, and the scheme Is of American origin and promotion. Land -has boon freely purchased in Cuba, especially In the interior of the island, and In many In stances car has not been taken to secure good titles. In fact, owing to tde unset tled condition of that country for many years, with Imperfect records and uncertain marriage relatione, it is difficult to deter mine where the title is vested, or who, ha the right to make , a valid conveyance. But such conditions do not deter ths (and operator, who will run chancea of the title being accepted through lgnoranace or con fidence, or who, when confronted with the flaws, will have in existence a guaranty company to Insure the title, the solvency of which may be more doubtful than the tltla Involved. Of marvelous fertility is Uils land, it one chooses to rely upon the extravagant statements made hy tha pro moters. In this way not only are sales made, but also more capital for further exploitation is solicited. But when the scheme Is analyzed It Is discovered that the main Idea of the company, when formed, is to be managed by tha pro moter at n good salary. It will further be discovered upon investigation that it will be many year before the land could possibly produce what the promoters claim could be produced in a year or two. But the principal harm of these scheme lies in the fact that so much of the soil under their control 1 where the palmetto lives, and wherever that scrubby bush shows itself It la a sure sign of shallow soli, and without a large outlay of money very lit tle can be produced fror it. Bay State Kept Awake. New York Tribune. Massachusetts seems to crave political excitement. 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Costlier materials and more luxurious trimmings for those who want to pay the difference. ' Whatever the price, we give you the best. Browning, King '& Co E. 8. WILCOX, Manager. c Y ""k Cooldng CORN STMlCli (4 a SON. Cfcswecjo. N. CtMTftRT. : HOW IT WORKS IX OHIO. Railroad Gains Under the Tw.(n( Fnro Law. Philadelphia Record. Ohio's 2-tent fare law Is giving prett good results, according to figures compiled) by tha Railroad commission from th re ports of the companies. Tho law went Into operation March 10, 1906, and In the fiscal . year ending June' 30, ; 1907, most of the i railroads show larRer . earnings from pas sengers alone thnn for the average of tha five previous year. In some cases tha returns for the last fiscal . year are not so largo as tho five-year average, but the fol lowing llgures are striking, anjl they show the farts as to much 'the greater part of the railroads: ' . . Averacs 190?. or 5 Years ...$3.?n;.840 $3.flMt.591 2.8.615 2,119.919 .. 1.IM.625 1,28.454 .. 2,fi-J0.3:7 2. 178,663 .. 1.750.23 1.611,013 Baltimore & Ohio..'... t'.. C. C. & St. L "Nypano" P. Ft. W. & C, P.. C. C. & St. L. .... There are roads whoso earnings hava fallen off, but the returns from, most of them are not caculnted to create alarm In, the minds of tho Shareholders. LAUGHING LINES, "Now," said the cooking school teacht "can any young woman tell mo what th pie plant it?" 'I suppose," replied a bright girl, "that that's just another name for pumpkin."- Philadelphia Press. ' "He hasn't got that pretty typewriter anyj more, has he?" "No: she's got him now. They wera married last week." Houston Post. Husband (suspiciously) This document looks as though It might have come from, the Black Hand. .Wife Well, what, of itT- It's only tha receipt the man gives me after I had palil him for delivering and putting in tho coal, Baltimore American. "Does your minister go in for highet criticism?" "Hire criticism! Well, yes,' he does com plain sometimes that Ms salary's too small. If that's what you mean." Indianapolis News. . , Sappy She has the prettiest mouth tn tha world. Chappy Oh. I don't know. . I'd put niln. up against It. Smart Set. - 7a11 Tam't- ihat vnnth. tthA In Aftlllnff nit you rather a raw one? Belle Yes; that la why I Was roasting nun. rsaiiimore uiuiricsn. Lawyer Now, see here; before your case I want to know If you're gul Prisoner Am I guilty? D'yer 'spose be fool enough ter hire the most expensive, lawyer in town If I was innercent? Nen) Orleans Picayune. "Why, yes," said Cutting, "f belleva X did say you were always lying about yours self." "Sir!" cried Bragley, "I won't stand thai sort of talk. I'm a gentleman, slrl" "There you go again!" Philadelphia Press. 1 "What do you want o' tha editor?" aske the office boy, blocking up tho doorway. "I have a manuscript poem," said the long-haired caller, "which I wish to sub mit for his Inspection." The office boy closed the door, but reap peered a moment later. "Nothm" doln". Wo ain't prlntln' ni poetry now," he aald, slamming tha 'door , In the caller lace. i "Bard out!" exclaimed the poet, tearing I his hair. , "Chestnut!" yelled the boy over the parti. I tlon. "I've heard that 'un before." C1U ! cago Tribune. ROOSEVELT. OUR LEADER. ? No borrowed- dignity he wears, ' In right of his own powers he standi. No need haa be of princely airs. . Such inborn forces ha commands. See, here a tru, an honest man.' Who scorns the wiles of littleness, A stanch and tried American, ' Who knowa the way of true auccess. A man of broadest sympathies. And wisest views of human needs, A leader In the higher ways Of faithful and unselfish deeds, Omaha.. BE'RIAll F. COCHRAN1. Is to love children, and no' home can be completely happy without them, yet the i i ii i i t. oruca.i mruugu wuilu uic ex. pectant mother must pass usually is so full of suffering, clanger and fear that she looks forward to the critical hour with apprehension and dread. wmtsn Mmi