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TTTE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, MAKCII 27, 190S. Tite Omaha Daily Bee FOUNDED BT EDWARD ROSE WATER. VICTOR RG81I WATER, EDITOR. Entered at OmAha Postofflce as second class matter. TERMS OF BUBBCRIPTION: Dally Wee (without Sunday), one ) tar.. MOO Dallv Hee and ttundav. on, year 99 Sunday Due, one year Saturday Bee, one year DKUVCHLD BT CARRIER: 2.50 1.60 Dally Bee (Including (Sunday), per week.150 Daily bee (without Sunday), pr week.lja Evening Bee (without Sunday), per week o Evening Hoe (with Sunday), per weeklOo AOdreas all complaints 01 irru" In delivery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES: Craah The Be Building. . South Omaha City Hall Building. Council Pliff!i 16 Scott Street. Chicago-1640 University Building. New York lads Horn Ufa lnsuraacs 8'illdlng. . Washington 7JS Fourteenth Street N. W. CORRKBFONDENCE. Communications relating to new and edi torial matter should ba addreaaed. Omsha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by .draft, express or postal order payable to The Bse Publishing company. Onry S-rent stamps received In payment oi mall account. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepteu. STATEMENT OV t-rRCTJLATION. . . State of Nebraska, Douglas Coutny. as.l George B. Taachuck. treasurer of Tne Bee Publishing comoany. being duly worni says that ths actual number of full and complete coplea of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of February. 1908. was as fol lows! . , 1. 88,780 H .10 1 30.300 17 ...,.... 8S.1BO IS. .......... 4 96,930 If M.7S0 SM10 SO 86,800 86,030 II 86,340 T.. ......... 88,840 II M.930 . ..... ...... 88130 II 86,000 I 88,000 14 80,300 10. ..4. ...... 88,800 16 86,870 11 86,100 ! 38,490 II..... 86.100 It...... '86,860 II. .......... 8600 II..... 86,380 14. .......... 88.100 II 86,860 II 8S1V0 .l,O48,e00 Less unsold and returned copies. 0,437 Net total..... 1038,113 Daily average,......;. 88,831 GEOKGJ2 B. TZ6CHUCK, Treasurer. Bub scribed In my presence and sworn to befors me this ii day of March, 1901. .ROBERT HUNTER. Notary Public WHEN OUT OF TOWN. Subscribers leavtagr the) city tea, orarllr . shoals),, hava The Bee aallcd to theaa. . Addreaa will be ebeaa-ed, aftca as reqaeetea. , Burn th weeds, "but be sure to spare the houses. ' " It Bema that distance lends en chantment to a strictly distance tariff. In addition to navigating; th globe th American fleet la circumventing tremble. ' March would not be recognisable as the real thing were It not . for the - March winds. "The whites must rule the south," lays the president of the University of Virginia. They do, don't theyT - Th president apparently haa ob jections' to allowing congressmen to remain longer In the ranks of the un employed. It is a little early In the season for such cases, but a Missouri man has already been sent to the cooler for stealing Ice. The president's message was a mild ' Biotlc that" he does not agree with Speaker Cannon's plan for an early adjournment of congress. If th no-treat law should be en forced by the Bouth Omaha polloe board a Is threatened, nothing but a miracle could stop annexation. A Detroit judge haa, decided that It Is not a violation of law to talk back to a policeman. ' Perhaps, but It Is usually a violation of discretion. "Roosevelt Is the best tool the moneyed oligarchy ever had," says Wharton Darker. The moneyed olig archy doubtless wishes this were true. Spokane-, la advocating the use of "creosoted wood", for street paving. Ivery growing city has to pay the penalty of that expensive experiment. "We jseea a business man for presi dent," says a writer In Spare Moments Well, Augustus Helnie Is available, as he has plenty of spare moments Just now. It is reported that Bourke Cockran is to turn bis attention to literature He might prepare a series of volumes on "Political Parties to Which I Have Belonged." Judge. Prouty of Des Moines is go ing to try for the nomiuation for con gress against Captain J. A. T. Hull, This is one of the regular numbers on the Iowa political program. Tfco. president of. Haytl iayB every thins? in the republic Is tranquil. He has special reference, perhaps, to the leaders of th Insurgent movement, all otwhom have been executed. , A correspondent located at Erivlan in th Caucasus, Is convinced that the city, was founded by Noah. Iteports from the Ohio river furnish the sus picion that Noah also founded Pitts burg. Another treasury official has re signed to become president of the Knickerbocker Trust company of New York. The . Treasury department ought to charge tuition for training bank presidents. , Th chairman of the democratic state committee gives it out already that he expects to win in Nebraska this year.' He said' the same thing last year and the year before, but only got tttiatea worse each succeealv try. the PBiaivtsrs hesbaok. The keynote of. President Roose velt's latest message to Congress Is a demand for legislative action on a number of subjects of great Impor tance to the-American people and upon some of which complications have arisen by reason of recent court deci sions. Some leaders In both branches of congress have apparently become committed to a policy of Inaction, pre ferring to defer consideration Of most of those questions until after the presi dential election. The president. In ef fect, protest against this policy, de claring that there is yet ample time to take up the various bills that have been Introduced and given partial con sideration by committees In both branches of congress. The president urges legislation at this session as follows: The child labor law. An employers' liability law for In terstate carriers. A modification of the law of Injunc tions in labor disputes. Amendment of the interstate com merce law to allow combinations of railways, under proper supervision, for beneficial and proper purposes. Federal supervision of all agree ments between corporations, labor, farmers and others engaged In supply ing either capital, labor or products for Interstate commerce. A permanent Inland waterways com mission. The adoption of some plan of col lecting data on tariff to be used at a special session of the sixty-first con gress to revise the revenue laws of the nation. The two new features in this pro gram are the plans for a tariff revi sion and the suggestion that laws be enacted more clearly denning the status of labor organizations and the relations that should exist between the different contributors to Interstate commerce. On this latter proposition the president outlines no specific plan, but he holds It absolutely essential that the rights of laborers and farm ers to organize be equally legalized as the rights of capital to form organi zations and combinations. He holds that all the Interests engaged In the Industries essential to the country's welfare should have equal protection under the law. He suggests that all such combinations should be under the supervision of federal authorities. Most of the recommendations made by the president have been discussed and considered for months, some for years. The president voices public sentiment In urging early action on these subjects and thus places the re sponsibility for failure or delay squarely up to congress. THS 8VOAR TRUSTS BEPOHT.' While the publlo may not find spe cial interest in the report of the American Sugar Refining company the so-called Sugar trust just made public, the report nevertheless Is sig nificant in the fact that it ,1s the first time this corporation has ever taken the public into its confidence. The Sugar trust has been a close corpora tion for many years. It has resisted In the courts every effort made to force publicity from it. Its sharehold ers have been allowed to know but little of Its operations, but the com pany haa yielded to the demand for greater publicity of corporation affairs and announces that hereafter it will make complete annual reports of its business. Incidentally, the report shows that the company haa a capital stock of $90,000,000 and earned in 1907 a net profit of 18,749,291, leaving a surplus of 12,449,361, after paying a 7' per cent dividend. While the report is not nearly so detailed, as those furnished by some of the other big corporations, its publication is an acknowledgment of a legitimate demand for information concerning the great corporations that deal In commodities and whose opera tions bo vitally affect the welfare of the whole people. TARIFF Rt VISION COM ISO. The Illinois republican convention, dominated by th flends of Speaker Cannon, who has heretofore stead fastly opposed any change in th tariff, has declared In unequivocal terms for tariff revision at a special session of congress Immediately after the In auguration of th next president on March 4. 1909. The tariff revision resolution was presented with the ap proval of Speaker Cannon7 as the plat form was brought from Washington by Congressman Boutell, one of the speaker's closest personal friends and political advisers. It had been reported that the platform would call for "re adjustment," but at th last moment the word "revision" was substituted. The tariff plank of the platform is as follows: We therefore recommend to our dolega tlon to the republican national convention that they urge upon the convention the wisdom of declaring for a revision of the tariff, to be mode at the next session of oongress or at a special session of the Sixty-first congress, to be obnvened im mediately after the Inauguration of the next president, March 4, lSOft. We believe that our tariff should contain a provision for minimum and maximum rates the minimum rates firing full pro tection, the maximum rates to be Invoked for retaliating npon foreign countries that discriminate against American products. We believe that two mala Ideas should pervade all the provisions of the tariff: First, that the protective principle so pre vail In all the schedules that, American farmers, workmen and producers shall be given the first oall on the home market and, secondly, that no Illegal or unjust combination, trust or monopoly shall find encouragement or shelter In any of Its provisions. The convention also declared in fa vor of the appointment of a joint coav ruitte of th house and senate to com pile data regarding the tariff schedules and to report to the new congress, which will be charged with the duty of making the revision. The action of the Illinois republicans Is significant in showing that even the most ardent "standpatters" have finally recognized the growing demand for tariff reform. The tariff declaration of the Ohio platform, generally accepted as the keynote of Mr. Taft's campaign, has met with such universal commendation that opponents of revision have evi dently seen the folly of resisting any change in existing schedules. Business conditions, the state of the federal treasury and th pressure of public opinion are evidently having their ef fect and the declaration of the Illinois republicans makes it certain that the republican national platform will specifically favor tariff revision at a special session to be held in the spring of next year. SO MVMCIPAL JdlLLKKNWM. If people have the idea that the adoption of . the commission plan of city government would of itself be im mediately followed by the municipal millennium they will do well to get the notion out of their heads. Des Moines is In the process of choosing its first set of city officers under the commis sioner plan, but judging from perusal of the local newspapers a city election for commissioners is not very different from a city election for the usual bunch of aspirants for city hall berths. One of the candidates for commissioner has addressed a public appeal "to' the people of Des Moines," asking for their support and telling what may be expected if they do not rally behind him to prevent the franchlsed corpora tions from capturing the whole works. Among other things, he says: These Interests do not expect to turn the voters from mo In this election, but will under, cover of villainous attacks corrupt the ballot, as haa been done before, even to the extent of purchasing false counts. Overconfldonce Is my greatest danger, and I ask that my friends exercise the greatest vigilance. There is no law that these In terests fear that will cause them to hesi tate to accomplish my defeat. Think of this from Des Moines, which is to be governed by commis sion, the very notice of which was to make all evils that beset other cities vanish into thin air. Apparently the municipal millennium is not to be cre ated by merely . writing it on the statute books. SLASDERIHO DENVER. All - these stories in circulation about Denver's preparations to raid the visitors to the forthcoming demo cratic national convention must be made of the whole cloth. They are vile slanders concocted by malicious miscreants and pushed along by po litical bushwhackers who want to keep people away in order to reduce the ac claim which will greet the third-time nomination of Mr. Bryan for the pres idency. Of this there can be no question, be cause we now have the word of Judge Edgar Howard, just returned from a personally conducted tour of inspec tion, that all the dismal forebodings about Denver's Inability to care prop erly for ths crowds are without rhyme or reason. He says: I talked with scores of Denver people regarding the claim of the eastern news papers that Denver will be unable to care for the convention crowd, and that stran gers will be robbed by hotels, restaurants and other public service houses. I am sat isfied 'hett is nothing In the claim. I priced thc rooms at various hotels and re served quarters at a good house at a rate no higher than was charged by the Omaha hotels during our late state conventions. I got "Old Crow" for fifteen, two for twenty-five, a shine for 10 cents and a pleasant smile from every business man, no matter whether I bought or rubbered. ' That settles It! No died-ln-the- wool Bourbon democrat, who haa the price, need stay away from Denver for fear of being robbed. So long as he can get "Old Crow" for "fifteen" and two "Old Crows" for "twenty-five" there can be no lack of enthusiasm. We take it that there was no watered stock In the "Old Crow" or Judge Howard would not have bought two. The World-Herald la quoting from the Nebraska democratic platform to show that "the only way for the states to escape from the thralldom of the federal Judiciary" Is therein outlined. Why not quote from the platform on which the republicans last went be fore the voters of Nebraska T Omaha Is now connected by long dis tance telephone with practically every city, town and village in its trade ter rltory. We will now Bee whether the towns, which sought to Justify their doing business at other points by the excuse that Omaha shut out the inde pendent telephones, will change their practice as they promised. After the reconciliation with Roger Sullivan, why shouldn't Colonel Bryan square it up with "Tom" Taggart as well? It remains only to pass the pipe of peace around to "Boss Murphy, "Pat" McCarren and "Fingy" Connors and raise the banner of re form over them all. Manager GUlan of the Auditorium ought not to have told the Real Estate exchange how nearly enough money was sunk in the gold brick lottery as would be' needed to put on the perma nent roof. That is one chapter in th Auditorium history that would look better expunged. As it seldom rains in Denver it will not be necessary to establish a check room in the democratic convention hall for th us of umbrellas and rain coats. It might be a good plan, how ever, to fix up a check room for those who want to deposit their hatchets and long knives. Governor Sheldon's expedition to Washington has brought about the de sired solution of the cattle quaran tine problem. The governor will b apt to be called on again when other troubles need to be smoothed out. Ten teachers in the domestic science department of the Kansas Agricultural college have resigned owing to in ternal dissensions. Probably Just giv ing the students a practical demon stration in domestic affairs. It might make a pleasant feature of the Denver ' convention to have a society formed of tho men who have placed Mr. Bryan in nomination for the presidency or made seconding speeches. One of our Omaha improvement clubs has resoluted against compul sory vaccination. Vaccination marks evidently do not come within the ac cepted definition of public improve ments. The biggest trust company In Co penhagen has failed. It was not wholly unexpected, as Mr. Hamlet served notice many years ago that there was something rotten in Den mark. The World-Herald should give the names of the four new men President Bryan would place on the supreme court bench qt the nation in order to rob that body of its conservatism. Real Test of Cosrase. Minneapolis Journal. In "Spain they art calling him Alfonso the brave, because he went to Barcelona. But has he ever been in Ann Arbor, Mich.T A t'nlqee Discoverer. Kansas City Star. The duke of Abruzzl Is an explorer of no mean renown. He has not only lod an expedition toward the south pole, but he Is the first titled foreigner to discover gold In West Virginia. Iowa Idea Tagged. Brooklyn Eagle. The Iowa Idea now seems to have evolved Into a conviction that Taft should be nominated. Anyway, he has all the Iowa delegates carefully boxed up with instructions they dare not evade. Business on the Up Grade. Indianapolis News. YY tk M A hu.lnii.. ann..ri to h ImnmV. lng so rapidly that there Is little doubt that ere lonu we shall once more be en joying that comforting and reassuring feel ing that there is a real car shortage. What a Fight It Weald Be. ' Cincinnati Enquirer. It would be .very Interesting to give China and Japan about three years to prepare for war with each other, and then have all the war powers besides keep hands off, and let China and Japan fight It out. No more)-Interesting war, and none so fruitful of results to the world could be fought. Anything we can spare on the event will go' on China. How Wo Woald Fix Ea. Chicago Record-Herald. Over in Germany the reporters refuse to publish news concerning the doings of the Reichstag when the Reichstag Insults the press. Our reporters have a better means of getting revenge. They proceed when they are Insulted by legislators to report all that the offending legislators do and say. The legislators usually do and say so much that they wish to have passed over that few Insults are hurled. ' Saa-ar Trast Pabllelty Philadelphia Record. The Sugar trust Is trying publicity In modest doses. It haa Issued a very brief summary of its financial condition, with the statement that further details will be given if they are desired by all ef the stockholders. . "If, however, the agitation with regard to publicity should result la a law specifying what Information shall be given to stockholders the directors declare they will promptly comply with It." Here Is evidence of a remarkable change of heart on the part of the trust. It will, obey the law hereafter. That la more than it has dons In the past, for It refused to the state of Massachusetts and to the United States census ttos;natIon required by the state and federal laws, respectively. IIOW BRYAN'D IYSTEM WORKS. Clever Methods of Sappresslasr ON feaatve Opposition. James Creelman in Pearson's. Let the Wall .street conspirators in the democratic party attempt to organize trouble In any part of the country by pick ing out and supporting a conservative can didate for the presidency. As soon as the movement begins to at tract attention It will somehow happen that Mr. Bryan Is to lecture for 50 per cent of the ticket money In the particular stats er neighborhood where the conserva tive candidacy Is being pressed. The "original Dry an men" simultaneously an nounce In the local newspapers that a ban quet or reception meeting Is to be held In Mr. Bryan's honor on the occasion of his visit. This forces politicians to Join In the compliment or run the risk of inviting the vengeance of Bryan men at the next election. The result Is a stir In the local news papers. Interviews, an active discussion In political circles, paying sudiences at Mr. Bryan's lectures, a rattling political speech from him, and a series of confidential political conferences. In which his manly, good-natured and magnetic way of dealing with voters a breesy, familiar clap on the shoulder for one, a vaguely exalted epi gram for another, a pointed joke for still another, and a defiance of Wall street, Cleveland, Ryan, Belmont and ths "subsid ized press" for all soon frightens the local conservative politicians Into inactivity or a hurried acceptance of "peerless nesa" as a regrettable but Inevitable element In the supreme democratic leadership. It Is hard to find a politician who does not realise that If Mr. Bryan cannot him self be elected president of the United States, no man In his party can succeed against his opposition or without his hearty approval. But how could Mr. Bryan travel con stantly about the country, hire halls snd bring audiences together If he had to foot the bills hlmselfT" Where would he get the monryT How would he support his family T How would he keep the Com moner going? How would he acquire United States bonds as a comfort and guarantee against Increasing years and a possible decline of radical sentiment? Mr. Bryan Is open and honest about his business success. lis makes bo secret of his Droflta. ROtTlfD ABOrt NEW YORK. Ripples os) tho Cwrreat of Life la th Metropolis. High on ths honor roll of heroines of the hatpin carve a niche for the bas-relief of Mrs. Mary Vaequls, domiciled within hailing distance ef New York's Hall of Fame. Mrs. Vaoquls was putting the fin ishing touches on a hand embroidered angel cake when a male Intruder dashed by her for the kitchen door. Being something of a sprinter herself, the woman let go a scream and Jumped after the heavy villain and grappled with hlra at the head of a flight of stairs. A rough and tumble wrest ling round followed, lock holds, the hold was tenacious enough to last till both rolled to th bottom of the stairs. When a police man arrived to Investigate the racket Mrs. Vaequls was perched on the equatorial region of the Intruder with her hatpin In serted In his flesh to keep him quiet. None of the angel cake was used In slugging the rascal. "Talk about diamonds going down In value," said a man quoted by th Sun; "It's nothing to the habitual decline of th oyster pearl. When you first discover a pearl en a half shell In some fashionable restaurant you give a little exclamation of surprise and the waiter hastens up to as sure you that your find Is worth H60. Then you give the waiter double what ths tip ought to be and really feel like you ar cheating him as you sneak out of the place. When you reach home you wake up all the family and show this gem premium of a late supper. Tour wife thinks that the bauble is not worth more than $100, for she saw the same thing In a department store for 175 only the other day. In the morning a hurried visit to the Jeweler re veals the fact that your pearl Is worth about 117.50 polished by an expert, who wants 115 for polishing It. In the end you give the famous pearl to the Janitor and he In turn pledges It for 15 cents." With more than 1,000 high school girls using mental telepathy to force the Issue, the board of estimate last Friday approved an appropriation of $000,000 to build a new high school t be called the Washington Irving High school. Some time ago ths land was purchased and all that was needed was the money for the building. Petitions signed by every pupil In the school and several thousand others, were sent to the board. At 10:30, when the board con sidered the matter, all class duties were laid aside in the present school, and every pupil was asked to think hard and urge on the board affirmative action. "Approve the money and give us a new school," was said mentally by the entire school, and the mental process apparently had Its effect, as the board passed ths appropriation. New York was Introduced to a novelty In surface car transportation last Saturday, when pay-as-you-enter cars were placed In operation on the Madison avenue line from Harlem to Brooklyn bridge. The cars are so arranged that the passenger makes his entrance by one doqr and his exit by one of two doors at either snd of th car. Passengers are supposed to give the con ductor the exact tare on entering the car. Those not having the exact fare step aside on the large platform until change Is made, when they are permitted to pass Into th car. One hundred and fifty of the new cars were in operation last Saturday and rail road officials pronounce them a success. "After every big East Side wedding th dentists of the quarter reap a harvest," said a dental surgeon. "It is the-broken teeth that keep us busy. I do not mean that the guests raise a row and knock out one another's teeth. Oh, no; It's ths wed ding cake that does the mischief. Over here bakers mix .Into wedding cakes every kind of a charm from coins and tiny china dolls to plain tin tags. In the course of the festivities many a luckless guest Is bound to crack a tooth on that indigestible part of the wedding feast. At various times the wedding cake victims have talked of getting up a petition Imploring the bak ers to omit all gritty Ingredients, but up to date th snapping of teeth goes merrily on." People wanting office space in New York never seem to let a little matter of rent stand In the way of acquiring It. There Is such a demand for room In the lower part of town that long before a skyscraper Is completed all the desirable offices and space are gobbled up. The enormous sums paid for office room by corporations and firms are astonishing. In the Empire building, where the United States Steel cor poration has Its offices, the rent is said to be over S3 a square foot, or mors than 11,000 a room, and some companies occupy several floors in this building, each representing an annual fortune In rentals. The same prices obtain In the Trinity building, where Charles M. Schwab has a suits of offices, and where the rental is estimated at $30,000 a floor. It Is said that these prices are matched by those obtaining in the Equi table, Singer and Terminal buildings. Ths two latter are, respectively, the tallest and largest office buildings In the world. Store space In any of the big skyscrapers aver ages about $15 a square foot, or $6,000 a year for a small store of 400 square feet. The highest rental In the world is paid by a cigar dealer for a small store at Broadway and Wall street. His rental Is said to be $35 a square foot, or about $40,000 a year. There Is something like an epidemic of hydrophobia In New York City and vicinity, and the full extent of It Is being withheld upon the theory that thereby the spresd of Imaginary phases of ths trouble will b spared. Dr. Darlington, commissioner of health, admits that there is an epidemic, and It Is learned by a reporter of th New York Herald that at two hospitals fifty oases are being treated, while a physician Is quoted as saying that there are pro baby as many more patients not In hospitals. It Is said at the vital statistics bureau that within a year or two there have been more oases of rabies than usual for forty years back. PERSONAL NOTES. The Sugar trust's net earnings of nearly $8,000,000 must sound pretty sweet to the stockholders. The "night riders" may ruin ths tobacco beds of Kentucky, but the cabbage patches of Connecticut still flourish. ,- , Truly, China Is waking up. It has reached ths stage of publlo Indignation meetings and open air orators. Thus the blessings of civilisation make their way. Alexis Nord, president of the black re public of Haytl. who has been threatening France with war because It refuses to give up some lnsurrectos who have taken refuge In Its consulate, is an Interesting type of the pure-blooded negro. His crinkled wool Is snow white and his long bony face seamed and wrinkled. He U nearly 88 years old. Portraits of cabinet ministers are painted at Washington by all sorts of ar tists with all kinds of paint and hung In their departments, and It Is reported - (hat Secretary of State Root has recently at tempted to bribe a messenger In the War department to carry to the cellar and lose the "portrait" painted for bun when he waa secretary f war. Don't Bake Beans ( 'With all your trouble you can't gct( anything half so good as Van Camp's It Isn't yonr fault, but you It requires a fierce heat to and you cannot apply it. That U whv home-cooked That is why you regard them as heavy food. Deans, above all foods, need to be factory cooked. Our ovens are heated to 245 degrees That's why our bdans are digestible And we bake in live steam, so all are baked well without browning or breaking-. That's why they are mealy, yet uutty. They are baked in the cans the beans the tomato sauce and the pork all together. Thus their delicious blend. You can't do as we do, because you lack the facilities. Why bother to try it? Let us cook for you. Van Camp's pork and beans baked with tomato sauce We use Michigan beans, picked over by hand from the choicest part of the crop. Only the whitest, the plumpest, the fullest-grown. ' Our tomatoes are not picked green and ripened in ship ment, but ripened in full on the vines. That gives to our sauce its superlative zest. We could buy beans for one -seventh, and sauce for one -fifth what we pay We pay $2.10 per bushel for our beans, though beans are sold as low as thirty cents. We could buy tomato sauce, ready made, for exactly one-fifth what we spend to make it. Ne wonder if some brands sell cheaper than ours. But you will sever accept them after you once try Van Camp's. 10, IS and 20 f per can. Vmm Ctmp Pocktas Company, Indianapclit, Ind. FEDERAL COURT DECISIONS. laaestractlble States. fit. Louis Qlobe-Democrat (rep.). The states are Indestructible, and so Is the nation. Not a word can be found in any supreme court decision to the con trary, and some of the discussion going on Is consequently pointless. There waa a Urn when th excessive claims for state lights made a great deal of trouble for th American people. v Treasl Teward Centrallsatloa. Minneapolis Journal (rep.). We are traveling pretty fast in this coun try toward a more centralised form of gov ernment. Ws took a long stride In that direction lately when the supreme court of the United States handed down Its de cision 'in the oase of Attorney General Young, declared by th federal court In contempt for violation of an Injunction by that court. Ne Victory for the Railroads. Kansas City Star (Ind.). There is no lasting comfort for the rail ways in th decision of the supreme court Of the United States concerning the Min nesota and North Carolina conflicts of Jurisdictions. There Is no cause of dis quietude to the people In this decision. This country is simply finding out, by investiga tion and capable study, whst bodies whether national or state or both are to control the railways and compel them to give a square deal to the people. Diminished Stat Powers. Pittsburg Dispatch (rep.). It can hardly fall to appear to the ordi nary and possibly unlnstructed mind that th power of the state to regulate Its cor porations Is severely Impaired when the practical result of further Judicial theories s to establish In the United States courts a power of veto over the state regulation. Th extent of the latter power looks to the popular view quite large when more than one or two cases are on Veoord In which United States Judges have declared rates to be "confiscatory" at which cor porations themselves have done business for the sake of the profit that they yielded. Large Qaestloa la Reserve. Chicago Tribune (rep.). One of the contentions of the railroad lawyers In ths Minnesota case Is that a state has ho light to regulate intrastate rates and commerce. They argued that such regulation necessarily affected lnter states rates and commerce, which are sub ject to federal control, and thus encroached on the domain of the national government. Th supreme court refused to pass on the merits of this proposition, but Justice Peck ham says. In his opinion, "th question Is not, at any rata, frivolous." Doubtless this serious ouestlon will be presented again In such a way that the supreme court will have to meet it squarely. As yet It has gone no further than to say that a state must not be guilty of Injustice In th regu lation of Intrastate commerce. COOPER TELLS REPORTER WAY rein a .r.nnnmrT iciir'o oiinnrn No man in recent years ha been more successful in restoring human health than L. T. Cooper. During his stay In Chlcage, and while he was meeting thousands of people dally, he gave the following rea son for th remarkable demand for his medicine to a reporter: Mr. Cooper said: "My New Discovery Is successful because It corrects the stomach. My theory Is that few can be sick if the digestive apparatus Is working properly. It naturally follows that few can be well with a poor digestion. "I know from experience that most of tired, half-sick people that are so common now-a-daya have half-sick stomachs. Put the stomach la shspe, end nature does the rest, The result Is general good health. My medicine does this. That is why fifty thousand people her In Chicago are using It who never heard of me ' until a month ago." Among the fifty thoussnd mentioned by Mr. Cooper who used his medicine In Chi cago Is Mrs. Hilda Pflueger, living at 110s Alnalle Avenue. This Is the statement she makes concerning her experiment with the medicine: "I have been sick for sis years with lack the facilities. break down the fibre of beans, beans are hard to cm LINES TO A LAUGH. "I feel," said the young man with the long hair, as he leaned against the editor's denk, "that I have a message.'" "You do, eh? Well, we're getting all our stuff In that linn from the Associated Press." Chicago Kecord-Herald. "Yes," said the would-bai author. "I've taken a house' In the country, but it will bo necessary for me to engaKe a gardener. There's quite a plot of ground around the house, too much for me to handle." "Yea," replied Crlttlck, "you never cnuld handle a plot, could you?" Catholic Stan dard and Times. First Motorist (on country road) How aro ths roads In the next state? Second Motorist Dangerous. First Motorist Why, I heard they were aa smooth as a billiard table. Seoond Motorist They are, but not a darn one of them Is equipped with the block system." Chicago jtooord-Herald. Oracle I said sometnlnr to Jack vester- day which he said made him the happiest man on earth. Daisy And so be accepted you? Clove- land Leader. "How do you manage to keep your Ook so long?" "By cheerfully making Such lltt'e con cessions as she demands. She- stays home one afternoon In the week, has the use of the parlor every other night and the ex clusive use of the automobile on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays." Washington Star. HIS FATHER'S PIPE. Detroit Free Press. Last night when pa an' ma went out I sneaked Into the den An' got pa's pipe an' had a smoke, Jus' like the grown-up men; I got his 'baccy Jar an' filled The bowl an' struck a light, An' puffed away Just like my pa; Oh, I was brave, all right. I Jus' blew clouds of smoke about, An' then I made two rings; An' then I understood Jus' why A pipe such comfort brings. Oh. Gee! I had a. bully time, A reg'lar dandy treat; Excep' that something made me sick That I had had to eat. I guess I must have cat too much Of apple pie an' cheese, Cos while I sat a-smokln' there I sorter felt my knees Begin to shake, an' then the things Went round an' round an' round; The cellln' got loose from the walls An' rested on the ground. The mantel shelf Jus' danced a Jig. The sofa was a-swlng; I tried to lie down there awhile, But couldn't catch the thing, An' then my head began to awlm, My eyes, they both got blurred; I trlod to rail our' hired girl, But couldn't say a word. An' so I lay upon the floor. Which rocked Jus' like a boat; I felt like burning up, - My tongue stuck In my throat. I never was so sick before, 1 can't explain Jus' why I got that way, unleas, of course, It was that apple pie. My ma came home an' found me ther, Aa sick aa I could be; Bite saw the pipe upon the floor. An' ao she said to me, "You've smoked your father's pipe, you hsve, It's made you sick, I'm glad." She wouldn't b'lleve me when I said It was ths pie we had. stomach trouble. I was always hungry, but did not dare to eat much, as I had severe pains in my stomach, and also through my body. I could not sleep at night and was very restless. I was also very nervous, and would have severe heart aches. I was constipated, and always felt bloated after eating. "I had tried many remedies, but couli secure bo relief, until one day I notice. 1 In the newspapers what wonderful results Cooper's medic'lnes wers accomplishing In Chicago. I decided te try them, and shortly after commencing ths treatment I began to feel better. I did not have those severs palna In my stomach, and I could sleep at night; my appetite improved, and I can now eat well. 1 am feeling like a new woman. "I am very thankful to Mr. Cooper for what his remedies have done for me. They have restored me to good health, and I would advise any one w!to suffers as I did to try them." We sell the Cooper .medicines. They are easily the most celebrated preparations ever Introduced In Oris country, growing In popularity dally. Beaton Drug C'u