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TIFR OMAHA DAILY I1EE. THURSDAY. FEHUUATtY 1.1. 100 Tim Omajia Daily Bee. FOUNDED BY EDWARD HOBE WATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER. EDITOR. Entered at Omaha rostofflcs at second matter. TERMS Or BUBBCRIPTION. Tally Bea (without Sunday ), ona year..MK IUlly Bee and Bunday, one rear Sunday Fee, on year IMI Saturday Bee. ona year 160 DELIVERED BT CARRIER: Pally Bee (Including Bunday), per week..ro Pally Bee (without Bunday), per week. .100 Fvenlng Bee (without Sunday), par week ftc Evening Ben (with Bunday). per week..lOo Address all complaints of Irregularities uciivary 10 tity circulation uaparuiivni. OFFICES. Omaha The Be Building-. South Omaha City Hall Building." Council Bluffs 1ft Scott Street. Chicago 1640 trnlveraltv Building. New York 1608 Home -Ufa lnaurance ounaing. Waahlngton 725 Fourteenth Street N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications miatlnar to news and edl torlal matter should be addressed, Omaha ea, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or poetal order payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only 2-cent stamps received In payment of mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or (astern exchange, not accepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, as.: George B. TsscLuck, treasurer of The Bea Publishing Comoany, being duly sworn, eaya that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Daily, Morning, Evening and Bunday Bee printed during the month of January, 1905, was as fol lows; 1 96,800 17 38,300 t, ......... 38,120 II 38,180 38,390 19 38,400 4 38,400 . 20 38,050 t 35,300 II 38,410 .... 38,340 11 38,140 - 7...'....... 38,000 ' SS 38,380 . .... 38,890 24..... 38,480 ...'. 38,380 . 25 8&ri40 10 38,410 26 30,lb0 11 38,330 27.. 38,140 12 30,180 28.. 37,130 12 38,430 ' ' 29 38,080 14 3M80 20 38,330 IS 38,300 21.......... 38,980 1 38,100 Totals 1,193,890 Less unsold and returned copies. . 8,450 Net 'total... 1,114,840 Dally average. , 30,983 " ! GKOROE B. TZSCHUCK. Treasurer. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 1st day of February, MOS. ROBERT HUNTER, Notary Public- WHEJf OCT OB TOWS, Subscribers leaving; the city tern porarlly should hare Tha Bea mailed to them. Address will b eUaaged as aftea aa requested. Ohio seta the pace, with Taft far la the lead. There, re apparently more Water loos than Lodls for the Napoleons of finance this year. Still, Russia can hardly expect to get back ..Into, the heavyweight class by whipping Turkey. . After all the fuss about it. Secretary Taft seems to hold' the Florida keys to the polltlcartltuatloit. ' Some real winter, may be expected at any time now. The ball teams are preparing- for their spring practice. A Robert Burns club has been or ganized In St. Loati. The report falls to 'state what office Burns Is seeking. As Russia and Turkey are both bankrupt, they might arrange a fight for a fair division of the gate receipts. The fleet has passed the Straits of Magellan and not a Jap torpedo nor a dynamite bomb found thus far On the trip. Congress Is to be asked to look after the hobo. Congress has work enough on hand without undertaking police duties. . ' Might as well prepare for gardening and other spring work. Atlanta re ports a practically total failure of the Georgia peach crop. More detailed reports from Ohio will probably disclose whether the po litical , remains of Senator Dick have been located In the debris. Russia and Turkey are making preparations for war. There would be a lot of unbiased spectators of a fight between those nations. The Dahlmanltes have made all the noise, but the Jacksonlans have named two out of the three Denver conven tion delegates. Wily old Jacksonlans. The school board puts it up to the Health department to enforce the vac cination order. The school board and the health commissioner should get together. It Is stated that there are 15.000 wild horses In Nevada. Recent legis lative events out there Indicate that the state 'Is also Veil supplied with wild asses. Street car horses. In New York ae to be provided with blankets. The company should go further and provide blankets for the passengers on the horse car lines.' That simplified spelling board ought to have a heart to heart talk with Mme. Kommlsarshoffskaya, the Rus sian actress who is coming for a tour of this country. New Yorkers are wondering why Charles W. Morse decided to return at once to this country after he had ar rived at London. Chances are he thought of something he had over looked and came back after It. The Aldrlch bill will be debated In the senate for two weeks. Few will listen to the speeches, fewer will, read them and not a vote will be changed by the debate. Senate customs, however, must be observed. mm rmnr trmart. The first presidential preference vote recorded by primary election in Ne braska emphasises the large prepon- derance of public sentiment in this state for Mr. Taft to succeed President Roosevelt. This Is probably the first direct primary Vote held in the United States In which the rank and file of the party have been offered a ballot con talnlng the names of all "announced" candidates for president with the Invi tation to Indicate their choice. In this primary, which wae held In Cedar county, Mr. Taft had more than 2 to 1 over the next highest man, and with the votes registered for Mr. Roosevelt by those reluctant to accept as final his refusal to run again, would have more than 3 to 1. While It is safe to assume that the preponderance of Taft sentiment Bhown by this vote is representative of the attitude of republicans throughout Nebraska, the Impracticability of hold ing a preference vote primary at this time of the year, and entirely outside of the primary law. Is demonstrated by the ridiculously small vote polled, be ing less than 2 50 In a county which contains over 2,000 republican voters. In other w6rds, not one-eighth of the republican vote is represented. Last year, when the regular primary was held to nominate candidates on the state ticket, Cedar county republicans cast over 500 votes, which means that at the recent primary less than half the number of republican voters par ticipated Vho had taken part in the preceding primary. If similar preference votes were taken In all the ninety counties and the same "ratio maintained not over 25,000 republicans would be brought out to the polls in the. whole state. Some counties may do better than Cedar county in this respect, but oth ers will surely do worBe. Cedar county, too. Is a fairly well settled county as compared with the sparsely populated counties In the western part of the state, and this' first Indication tends to prove the wisdom of the state committee In making the presidential preference vote optional. with the dif ferent counties rather than to force It upon any county against the wishes of the republicans there. ROUT OF SEAATOR FORAKER. The overwhelming defeat of Senator Joseph Benson Foraker in his fight to divide the Ohio delegation to the com ing republican national convention and to secure opposition to the candidacy of Secretary Taft for the presidential nomination is fraught with more im portance than would attach ordinarily to a" state contest between rival aspi rants for party leadership. The' re sult, which gives the entire state dele gation, Including ' the delegates-at-large and the congressional selections, to Mr. Taft, with not a vote against him in the coming state convention, is a notable endorsement X?f the secretary of war and of the esteem in which he Is held in his state. It is a signal de feat of Foraker, who has been a strik ingly prominent figure in Ohio and na tional political affairs for more than a quarter of a century. Regardless of the merits of the fight between the two men, there is a deeper significance in the result, a significance that must contain a- lesson and a hint to the republicans of other .states. The Foraker opposition, while ostensibly directed at the candidacy of Mr, Taft, was in reality an opposition to the poli cies of President Roosevelt. Senator Foraker has been the acknowledged leader of the anti-Roosevelt forces in the United States senate. He opposed the president on the question of rail way rate regulation,' on Cuban reci procity, In the Brownsville incident and upon every issue that has loomed large in the public eye in the last six years. In his fight for the Ohio delegation to the national convention, Senator For aker has sought to strike the president over the shoulders of the secretary of war. The result shows that the people of Ohio estimated his position and his op position at their true worth. Ardept admirers and supporters of Foraker are numbered by thov thousands in Ohio, but they balked when their per sonal allegiance and friendship for him was put to the test of supporting him in opposition to the policies of the pres ent administration. The result at the primary polls is emphatic notice that the republicans of Ohio will tolerate no attempt to turn the party buck from the progressive path on which ' It Is traveling. DEMOCRATIC "HARMenr." "The King of France and ten thou sand men marched up the hill and then niarthed down again." This spectacular performance has Just been repeated by the warring Dahlmanltes and Jacksonlans of our local democracy, with the small dis crepancy that the two together could not muster ten hundred men If they came to a shbwdowa at the polls. The result is that the "handful of renegades," as so dubbed by 1 Mayor "Jim," has won "a- positive victory over the embattled hosts marshalled behind the fleshpots of the twin city adminis trations In Omaha and South Omaha, and the only contention left is over the division of the delegation that Is to represent Douglas, county In the democratlo state convention. When this is adjusted the appeal to the peoJ pie by the much-vaunted direct pri mary will be auandoned and the little bunch of bosses will constitute them selves the, duly accredited representa tives of the rank and file of democracy without waiting for the aid or consent of any one el bo on earth. V All this is characteristic of deuioc- racy, or "the rule of the people." as she is known within the sacred pre cincts of the Dnhlman club rooms and the Jacksonlans' headquarters. So Douglas county will be on hand In full force at the democratic state conven tlon with a "harmony" delegation that will have to be searched at the door for revolvers, knives, lariats, branding irons and other harmless concealed weapons. WORLD'S WUMAT COHSCMPTIO. Some of the European statisticians have been conjuring with the data rela tlve to the world's production and con sumption of wheat with results that must be Intensely Interesting to the wheat growers of America. The fig' urea show that the number of bread eaters of the world has increased some thing like 40 per cent in the last decade, while the production of wheat has Increased but slightly. The sta tlstlclans estimate that the number of eaters of wheat bread has increased from 510,000,000 to 570,000,00 in ten years, while in the United States the acreage devoted to wheat has been re duced in that time and the newer wheat growing countries of the world have not made up the deficiency. In other words, the wheat crop of 1906 produced an average of five and. three- quarter bushels per head for the bread eaters of the world, while the crop of 1907 fell short of that by three-quar ters of a bushel for each consumer. The number of bread eaters is. of course, increasing every year without corresponding Increase of wheat acre age. In 1902 the growers of the United States had 62,000,000 acres planted to wheat. The acreage in 1907 was 4 8,000,000 and statistics fail to show that the newer wheat countries have made up the loss. There has beep a constant decrease in the acreage devoted to wheat in all of the eastern and lake states for the last ten years. In the Missouri valley Btates there has been an increase of nearly 60 per cent in the wheat growing arqa since 1880, while in Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, In diana and Illinois, states that were once heavy producers of wheat, the land has been turned to other pur poses, leaving the total wheat area, which is now confined almost exclu sively to the Missouri valley states, but little larger than It was twenty-five years ago. Experts estimate that the population of the United States will be at least 130,000,000 in 1930, by which time this country will require for home con sumption every bushel of wheat raised, unless there is a marked and unex pected expansion of the wheat area of the nation or production of wheat sub stitutes. It is estimated that such a population would demand for home needs a wheat crop of at least 700,000,- 000 bushels, or an 'Increase of-about 20 per cent over the crop of 1907. The food supply is therefore likely to touch this country more nearly in the Imme diate future than people generally rea'llze. It adds Interest to the efforts of the Department of Agriculture t introduce intensified farming and to increase the productiveness of our farm lands, for which large opportuni ties are evidently possible. ROOSKVELT AND THE CORPORATIONS. Members of the high-finance brigade who have been vlelng with each other in coining phrases abusing President Roosevelt for his attitude toward cor porations and "malefactors of great wealth" manipulating corporation af fairs for their own financial gain will no doubt view with consternation the statement of Judge Elbert Gary, head of the United States Steel corporation, perhaps the largest business corpora tion in the nation, in which he com mends the president's policies and in sists that they have worked to the good of the business interests of the coun try. In his annual report to the stock holders of the United States Steel cor poration Judge Gary says: The reiteration of tfte oft-stated prin ciples of the president of the United States has Increased my feeling of responsibility toward tha stockholders I represent, to ward our competitors, toward business men and toward the public, and our relations have been Improved. I don't hesitate to make this confession. According to my be lief, business la dune on a better basis and on a higher plane because of what I have referred to. The democratic press, the Chancellor Days and the paid and unpaid apolo gists for the "interests" may continue to rail at the president, charging him with responsibility for the late panic and insisting that he is Bearing invest ors and preventing a rapid and com plete restoration of confidence, but the public knows, and the corporation man agers know even If they will not admit It, that Judge Gary has spoken the truth about the actual effect of the president's policies upon the business and financial interests of the nation. They know that back of the laws passed exercising greater control and supervision over the affairs of con cerns engaged in interstate commerce Is an awakened public sentiment and conscience that demands the elimina tion of abuses In the conduct of quasi public corporations and will be content with nothing less. They understand that there has been a marked better ment in the administration of affairs that are controlled by directors, due perhaps more to the awakened senti ment in favor of such reforms than to any laws that have been passed provid ing for them. The Wall Street Journal, reconited everywhere as . a representative of the big financial interests in New York, emphasizes Judge Gary's statement thus: The Wall Street Journal has during tha last year not infrequently criticised Presi dent Roosvvelt fur what It bel loved to be tha unnecessary Intemperance and un- timeliness of some of his utterances. It has believed that this has intensified the financial strain to which the whole world has been subjected. But It repeats now what It has said more than once In the past, that In the coming years when tha history of these times Is written tho ml takes of Roosevelt will ba forgotten, while tha record of his really magnlflcont cru sada for equal opportunity, fair ompctt tlon and higher standards for the trustee hip of wealth will be a glorious memory. The life Insurance companies an nounce that they are resuming the making of loans on western farm prop erty. Why not? They have been collecting their premiums from w3t cm policy holders, right along and there Is no good reason hy the money collected in the west should not, at least in part, be returned through the loan department. The trouble with some of these life Insurance companies in the past has been that they have been disposed to regard all the money collected from the policy holders as merely a relief fund for the benefit of Wall street speculators. We are glad to know that they are at last getting away from this idea. After calling each other all the vile names In their vocabularies and hur ling deadly defiance at one another, the Dahlmanltes and the Jacksonlans agree to embrace for Bryan's sake That is the excuse given to the public for not fighting it out to a finish, but back of the screen may be discerned the real reason, which is that one "dassent" and the other "doesn't dare." No one will deny that Omaha's streets ought to be better cleaned, and more frequently cleaned. Clean streets, however, will not be had by carrying on the street-cleaning payroll more foremen, timekeepers and tool house watchmen than brush wlelders and shovel handlers. Senator La Follette admits, through his campaign bureau, that he is cam paignlng more for the sake of a chance at the nomination in 1912 than be cause he thinks he has any show this year. He must have a notion that President Taft will not seek a second term. The promoters of the National Corn show are going about it as if they mean business, and with the proper support from our local business inter ests they will make this exposition a blue ribbon event. The czarina of Russia has Issued an order forblddina the women of her court to use tobacco. The czarina does not care to have her .ladles pat tern too much after New York society. 'Martin W. Littleton refuses to Join in the effort to feet Harry Thaw out of the asylum. ; Littleton may have an idea that Thaw is insane for more than publication purposes. Wonder If the members of the Ne braska delegation at Washington re alize what little disturbing excitement their deadlock over the collectorship is creating at home. Our old friend, George H. Maxwell, talks as if he were still drawing his salary from the railroad combine, with the express companies possibly putting in a little to boot. "What better are we than Russia?" asks Chancellor Day. Don't know ex actly, but we are willing to have Chan cellor Day spend a few years in Russia trying to find out. No Rest on tha Way. Washington Herald. Perhaps no man in tho world has a clearer idea of what It means to hit a toboggan slide when not looking for It than the late premier of Portugal. Coaveatloa Janitors. New York Sun. The national committees of the two major political parties are only the Janitors of the conventions. In spite of their efforts to convince the public that they are the whole I. -w. In tho Canal Way. Indianapolis News. Whllo the payment of 21,000.000 back taxes on the estate of Marshall Field still leaves the state a good deal to the bad, doubtless the loss can be made up by duly assessing smaller and less skilful property holders. ruins I p 1'ablie Debts. Wall Street Journal. National, state and municipal debts seem to be growing, the world over. There was a time when public discussion gave some attention to the reduction of these obliga tiona. But today much more attention is being given to the means of removing the limits of Indebtedness on the part of cities than to the reduction of obligations. In the public finance of nations, the limits of Indebtedness are to be found rather In the borrowing capacity than In anything else. The question whether debts are be ginning to Impair the productive efficiency of the people is last of all to be consid ered. Weigh Yourself and then after a few weeks weigh your. Rlf sin. If you are losing weight take SCOTTS EMULSION. Breathe fresh air day and night Eat simple food. Try this for a few weeks. Then weigh yourself again. The expe rience of thousands of men, women and children is that Scott's Emulsion Increases the weight. It contains a power that produces new flesh. This simple treatment often cures coruump tien, All Dratsktsi 80c aaa IIM. BITS OK WAMHNOTON LIFE. Minor Scenes and Incidents Sketch on tho Snot. Some of the secretaries of congressmen In Washington are becoming offensively nervy toward their paymasters. They wsnt more money; Indeed, a few with more gall than discretion Insist on grttlng all the congressional payroll calls for, 11.500 a year, and propose to organize a union to enforce the limit. I'nder the law congress men draw 11,600 a year for clerk hire. Th money Is paid them upon a certificate that the clerical assistance has been employed, In numerous Instances the congressmen draw all they are allowed and then pay a clerk ISO or $75 a month. In other In stances the congressmen keep all the money In the family by employing a wife or child as clerk. Should tho secretaries suo. ceed In the direction Indicated, thrifty con gressmen will be deprived of "due com pensatlon" for handling the money and for their society. "Sundown doctors" are an institution pe culiar to Washington. They are an amla ble company of medical practitioners who ply their trade only after nightfall. Not that theso gentlemen prefer darkness to light If they had their d ruthers, say the Louisville Courier-Journal, nor are their deeds of a questionable complexion that looks best In tho shade. Sundown doctors have no ways that are dark or tricks that ara vain. They are as open as the daythat they may not utilise, If they practice their profession by candl light rather than by the sunshine that' Uncle Sam's fault, not their own. Sundown doctors begin to get busy only after 4:30 In the afternoon. From 9 to that hour, poor souls, they are holding their noses to the grindstones over the govern ment desks, for one must live, don't you know, however soaring one's scientific ambition, and t'nele Sam's wages do come In mighty regular and hnndy. So that In a pigeonhole Is the story of the origin of the struggling fraternity of sundown physl clans at the federal capital. There are thousands of Instances. Young physicians with their careers yet to carve secure clerkRhips In some of the govern mental departments of Washington In or der to keep the pot bubbling while they are getting their medical education after office hours. Their diplomas thus labori ously achieved, they hang out their shin gles tentatively, holding fast, however, to tnelr government positions until securely established professionally. A Job in' the hand, you know, Is worth a whole city di rectory full of uncaptured patients. .Never let go a sure thing till you are sure of a surer. The pretty young wife of a nuv.i r.rti- irigiuenea 10 aentn at a diplomatic dinner on finding herself on thp flrm rtt iha president of the United State Bh rerately canvassed her brain for some- ming 10 say, Decause she did not mean to let President Roosevelt think her atimi.i but brilliant thoughts would not come. At last sne caught desperately at a straw. She had Just returned from a trip to "Oh, Mr. President, were von ever in Cuba?" she asked. She heard him choke n invmn KhnKii. and there was a siisnicinim iwinici. hni.in his glasses, but he turned a face toward ner mat was polltelv aravn. "Yes," he replied. "I Was In Pi I ha rn m Dusmess trip in the spring of 1898." Then she realized what aha lnj She was dumb for the rest of that dinner ana sne naa mild hysterics afterward at ltome. She has told her husband, too, that it lie ever mentions Cuba to her she will apply for a divorce. Rut tha n.ui considers It one of his best Jokes and tells it on ni nisi: if. Judge Alton B. Parker has como to tha rescue of the American Federation of La bor with a novel defense of the published boycott. A stove company secured an In junction against the American Fodcratlon- ist, organ of the federation, which re strained this paper from printing "unfair" and "we-do-not-patronlze" lists. The ground taken was that this is a boycott system and Illegal. The federation law yers met the stove company on this same ground and argued It. President Samuel Gompers, after the first court granted tho Injunction, readied for another string to fasten on his bow. Par ker Is that string. And the former demo cratic presidential candidate has shifted the union defense to the argument that re straint of the Federatlonlst by Injunction is an unconstitutional restriction on the freedom of the press. He begs the ques tion altogether as to whether publication of the lists constitutes boycott. If It does he suggests that the remedy lies entirely in a aamage suit brought before a civil court. Parker's theory is that no court can Is sue an Injunction to restrain a newspaper frqjn publishing anything, because, bv an improper use of this method, a court could establish a censorship over newspapers. He has In his favor a decision to that effect of the New York court of appeals while he sat on that bench. A supremo court re view of this theory will be valuable. A bunch of senators were going up an elevator, when some of them took a notion to haze Mr. Knox, who was among the number. "I notice from the morning papers that you are losing strength," said Senator Curtis. "I may ba losing strength, but I am taking on flesh," replied Mr. Knox. "I observe you had a fire out at your houso, remarked another senator. "Was It caused by tho hot air In your presi dential boom?" "No," said Mr. Knox. "I took homo two copies of the president's last message. Theso became short-circuited and were so warm that it started the fire." Senator Oallinger of New Hampshire Is the unofficial editor of the upper house. The senator has been, In former stages of his career, both an editor and a printer so that ho Is eminently qualified for the position which has been accorded to him by general consent. Sometimes as often as. half a dnzen times a day tho senator from the Granite state rises and moves to amend the various bills which come be fore tho senate by making this or that change In spelling, grammar, or usage of words and phrases, In each Instance lils suggestion tending to Improve the English of the document, make more clear Its mean ing or correcting typographical errors. nequaled in Lunaa aad Magnrllain. Philadelphia Record. Mr. Bryan Is voluble, vociferous and vol ininous; but his originality Is not equal o the demand he makes upon It by his luch speaking. He Is a wonder; but he as not the gift of saying new things on ew occasions or of putting old Ideas Into ew garments that was exhibited bv Candi date Greeley when he ran for president, or r Benjamin Harrison when he purmltted mself to make stumping orations. In the matter of lungs and magnetism, however, liryan IS unequaled. niahtrona Itetrluutloa. Philadelphia Record. It Isn't often that righteous retribution falls so promptly aa It did when the chief Kentucky dealer In wholesale and retail assassination was shot by his own son. Kentucky la old enough to stop tha ven dettas and the attacks of "night riders" on tobacco dealers whom they dlt'lika, For quickly and perfectly, delicious hot biscuits, hot breads, cake and pastry there is no substitute for v I o l ) f i r mmwrum The active principle of which Is derived from grapes, pure cream of tartar, the most wholesome of all fruit adds No alum Ho llmo phosphaioa Thoae caring for health Alum U a ftharp, poUonout, mineral acid Study the label. Bay only wberc cream of tartar Is named. THEY TALKED TOO MUCH. Railroad Pro pert lea Hart by the Cries of the Managers. Chicago News. Senator Newlands declares that It was not the Hepburn rate regulation act, but the outcry of railroad magnates against It as confiscation, that brought about last ear's decline In the market value of rail road securities. The senator from Nevada, who Is now, as he was In 19(M, a member of the committee on Interstate commerce In the upper house at Washington, spoke strongly to this effect the other day before the Traffic club of Chicago. He was re plying to an attack on legislative bodies by a Harrlman attorney, who denounced regu lative legislation as oppression. The facts are on the side of Senator Newlands. The rate regulation act was approved June 29, 1906. The gross earnings of the railroads of the United States for the year ended June 30, 1908, were $2,K5,765,17. In lliOT, as shown by the annual report of the Interstate Commerce commission Issued three weeks ago, they were $2,SS5,313,Ou: This Is an Increase of 1260.147,835. These gains In' the railroads were due largely to the fact that enforcement of the rate regulation law prevents the most dom ineering trust from securing rates lower than those granted to any other shipper, however small. That such is the case seems to be admitted by W. C. Brown, senior vice president of the New York Cen tral lines, in an Interview based on Senator Newlands remarks. Mr. Brown says "From a helpless condition of rebates and preferential rates the Hepburn law has released the railroads, and Its value can hardly be overestimated, both to tha rail roads and to a gretat majority of tho pub He which did not participate in nor profit by such practices." When the railroads were beginning to profit by the Hepburn law and business was brisk, In the fall of 1906 and the first three quarters of 1907, they could not sup ply the demand for cars. They tried to sell bonds to raise money to Increase thctr equlpment. Yet officers of railroad cor porations kept on proclaiming that the railroad companies hud been hurt by leg lalatlon. It was a cry of "Wolf!" when there was no wolf. But the Investors took them at their word and declined to buy the bonds. It is high time for railroad officials to Join with President Roosevelt and the mem bers of congress In furthering wise govern ment regulation, which will Insure stable values for stocks and bonds, since it will provide safety and fair profits for In vestors. FKHSONAI, NOTES. A hapeful statistician has figured out that this country would have received over 197,000,000 in taxes on dowries had the pro posed law on the subject been enacted years ago. Probably ihe oldest fireman in the United States Is James R. Hopkins, of Somerville Mass. Mr. Hopkins has been for fifty-five years In active service and for thirty-seven years ho has been chief engineer of Ule de partment. Mrs. Humphry Ward Is expected to ar rive In New York In March, an while In this country she will be the guest of Mrs. Frederick W. Whltrldge, of New York, who, being tho daughter of Matthew Arnold, Is her cousin. The vUit will bo the first Mrs. Ward has ever made to America. Mr. Merrit O. Chance, of Illinois, who has been appointed auditor of tho Postofflce department, has been connected with that department of the government since 1888. It was largely through his efforts that the Departmental Base Bull league, which in cludes teams from the different government departments has been such a success. Horace White, tho veteran editor of the New York Evening Post, who retired a few years ago after long service, spoke In Springfield. III., the other evening before he State Historical six lety on the subject 'Abraham Lincoln In 14." Mr. White covered the celebrated Liincoln-Douglas de bates In that year, when he was a young reporter. The Trail In every business deception is prac tlced by some. In every city there are merchants who resort to unscru pulous Tiifthods in order to get the money. They are the men who would exclaim If their perfidy was discov ered: "I'm no reformer! This con dition was good enough for my pre decessors, and they were as honest as I am." Years ago the Hospe company found deep ruts in the piano business; rut that had been traveled for many years and showed loose practices in piano dealing. We resolved that we would pull away from them that we would blase hrough an unknown country. . We discovered that It appreciated our ef forts to safeguard Its Interests. A. HOSPE CO., Branch Houafs: Council Bluffs, We do Expert l'lono making sv v A must aroid ahtm powders. M1HTIIFI I, REMARKS. Knlcker Mr. Hill says we must stop ghost dancing. Booker Yes, that's the only way to make It walk. New York Sun. "Don't worry," said the customer, as the tobacconist examined his nickel, "that coin's all right." "Oh, I guess It will pass." replied the tobacconlxt, "but it isn't as good as it might be." "Huh! neither is this cigar." Baltimore American. "Isn't It wonderful to note the progres the Japanese have made In acquiring our western civilization?" "Yes until you hear what a wretched botch they make of it when they try to swear." Chicago Tribune. Helma Lea (romantlo and full of enthu siastsIsn't It delightful to sit here on the deck and watch the sun sink to rest In the boundless deep? Hardy Porte (entirely empty) You bet! It'll be time to eat again pretty soon. Chi cago Tribune. "Have you got a 'faf part In that new political play?" "Couldn't have more 'fat' In It." "What Is It?" "I'm th fellow In charge of tha pork bar'l." Baltimore American. "Think of the simple, truth-telling charac ter of George Washington!" "Yes," answered Senator 8orghuin; "but there wasn't aa much competition In Ameri can politics then as there Is now." Wash ington Star. THE HUMBLER WALKS. Nashville American. We cannot all attain the heights ' ' Where fame serenely sits J With icicles around Its eyes And snowballs In Its mltts; But we can seek the modest seats Where lowly people dwell. For If we cannot climb aloft We can fall down a well. Not everyone the gracious gifts Uf greatness may attain, For when they start out for succesa They catch another train. Their aim is for the palace car And for the through express. But when they board the local freight They get another guess. And does It matter very much As far as we can see? A hundred thousand years from now, Pray who will wiser be? Or are we any happier If we can win applause And get so mighty and so strong We play tag with the laws? There Isn't, we are often told. By those who have been there. Much satisfaction to the soul l' In the highest chair. It's better, then, to Jog along v Without a sigh or sob. To stay down In the ranks and find Contentment with the mob. SYMPTOM Do not always make their presence known by falling of Bight. Red Lids, Headaches, . Nervousness, Stomach Disorders In most rases ran be traced to Imperfections of the eyes. We do cure troubles of the above kind with glasses. HUTESOII OPTICAL GO. KXCLl'HIVK OITICIANS 213 Kouth Sixteenth Street. Factor on the promlea. Is Distinct Now we can refer to results. Th Hospe One Price No Commission Plan has made this one of the greatest Piano Stores In the west. Nervous? Yes, we were, a bit. But we kept on until we taw daylight and knew we were on the right road. We found that the public could dis criminate between the false and tbe true way of plauo dealing; that It wt with us from tbe first; the largest stock of pianos and our prices are the lowest tn the United States. We are factory distributers for Kranlch & Bath, Krakauer, Kimball, Bush & Lane, Hallet & Davis, Cable Nelson, Melville Clark, Weser Bros., Cramer, etc. If you can't call, don't fail to write for Catalogue B and prices. 1513 Douglas St. la.; Lincoln, Neb.; Kearney, Neb Tuning aad Repairing. ' eye .1