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..ii THE OMAHA DAILY REE; TIIUTiSDAY. ATOIL , "0. IMS; Tr.r, Cmaha- Daily Era FOL:jtDED BT IDWAKD ffOftWATSR. ' VICTOR BOSEWATBft, KPITOR. ' 1 1 1 "' ' 1 " ' 11 ' Fnf.erM at Oman Toatoffic aa second- ciua iMitr. ! TERM or UBBCIUrTIOKi Dally lira (without Bund:. on (l..$IJ Dally lire and guiidey, p year Bunrtay JBe. on ?tT, eaiuitJay Be, en yaar DELIVERED Or CARRIER: Dally Be (including flunkey), $ wk.J& Daily Be (without Bui.lr, par . wt-a.l9 i.venlrig Bee (without fcunoaj), pf we K M tivmlni lira (with Sunday .v par H.N Artdrea all roteplaima of irregularities lu delivery t tity Ctrentatloa DtpartaneoL OFF1CS.8: . Omaha Tbe Be Btilldlna:. '" ' South Omaha-City Hail luilldlng. ' cmmnll Xlnrfa 14 Seott iret. Chicago 10 University Building. , Naw York-Rooms IU4-11UZ, Ho. U Wart Thirty-third Sjtret. Washington r. Fourteenth rHreet N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communication relating to tit and JI torlal matter should addTA. Oman be, auditorial Department. ' REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, espraa or poatal prdr payable to 7 ha Be Publishing cfMmfanjr. Only t-cent ninra received to payroant ct mail account. Personal ebech. excant on Omaha er eastern zuhnca. not sccept. STATEMENT OF CTrKTTJtiATION. (fata of Nebraska, Dougia Cmmty, '.! Oqnrrm B T'-hoik, traaeurer Of Th Be Publishing cempeny.. bain duly aworn, y that taa actual nnmBer of fu.l and cnmiilpti cop' of The ,,i,lrj Mornlnr. K Evening and Finiflay re ptinteB during tha month of Karen, 1ISI. waa i roiiowst tBKIIp e,ee ss.aew 90,430 ,rn 3S,S0 ga.ifte 15,009 S.4eQ so.rrs at.o Sa.ue SS.S7S 8, .SCO a lg.. .. tt. to!,...;..,, ii W,8itl i... t... 4,., 4,39 J.PMt e.S3 I, (I t . $ S . I ......... , .... 3,0 sa.sso 3. 680 6,529 11.. IS.. .'4.. It.. It. Total Laaa unauld and roturnad copt.t Nat tola!. ... f L)t.lly vra. ........... .1 .... v 4jJOKG ft. TitSCHUCK, v , iraurar. SubacHbfd In wr proaertc mil 'n to haior in thi lt tlt of ApHI, 198. (SeftiJ ' iiOlliiiRT HUN1 k-rt. ; - ', . Notary PubUfl. wukm tj ur TOWI. . ' . barlbr th tMr ta. pararilr akU Vk tailed thaaa. Addraaa will fc vhu4 lt mm r The Bupposed aettlomcnt o( Omab'i vaccination controversy evidently uiuu't lake - . - --:- What U mea .t by 'emergency cur rcutj ?" aski a aabmrllier. Ever hav to iiawn your overcoatt Ralsull bega leave to report that tho details 'of hla -assassination were very much exaggerated-. The local branch ot the Missouri River Navigation, congress, will now imtke a noise like a steamboat The houae passed 1,800 private pen sion bills in one day. That'a one way to add elasticity to the currency. Tho Toceuvly "organised ' new: idia Isarty want rreldent 'Roosevelt to run ngtttu. That's not a new" idea.; JoHcph Lciter, tha wheat king, la going to be married. He has at last got into one' market that he cannot corner. The term, "the idle rich.' ia a mis 1 I nomer. Most of them are busy .either I in the divorce courts or before the grand Juries. While Mr. Taft is at Panama It might be -a good plan to have him drop down to Venezuela to tell Castro what. we think of blm. UubbIii has bought five new battle whips. When Japan needs some new ones it may decide to go over and take them away from Russia. ' ,. ' "H looks like Bryan and defeat," eays a democratic newspaper In Massa chusetts. ! Just another way of re marking that It looka natural. The New York legislature has made tt a felony for any person to conduct a "bucket shop" In that atate. street's fcaui must be protected. Wall , Most of the aspirants for the repub lican presidential 'nomination appear to be worried because ao many ot their longed-for delegatea are "at large." (Germany has decided to build fonr battleships of the largest type, instead ot two, as was originally planned. The kaiser has no congress on hla hands. Thrf new comptroller t the currency at Washington la said to be a fine athlete,' He may consider himself matched for a wrestle with the money tjuestioa. ' Colorado la" all for Taft and ao Is Arkansas. The transmlsslssippl con tlngcnt.'in the Chicago convention promises to be an almost aolid phalanx behind the b'g ar socretary. The king of Italy wants the duke of the Abrutzl to await a year before marrying Mlaa EUlns. H U a safe feUcs that Senator Elklus tildes with U. king on that proposition. The end ot the tight for 3-cen fares in Cleveland was, celebrated witu one day ot tree rides tor every, one who boarded the street cars. That sort iJ a celebration could not happen in Omaha without colliding with the Nebraska anti-pass law. The only vsy to make aure that the Missouri rler U glen due considera tion in aay scheme for national water way ia.t rowwent. Is for the people aicr& tb-j Mldiourl river to show them ttlvts -i -!iy wideawake and alert !th tlictto fcluug the tHlitr great navl- t::i,' 6iHu.4, mm- VKsrsrvy tin. mrA.v. Although Mr. Hryan threw a tirautl- ru! rerbal bominat at Mr.- Ilpartt In tba St. Jxul convention four yeara ago, Mr. Hart la not throwing any bou- queti In Mr. Bryan a direction riant now. It la to be expected that .-MY. Hearet would antagonize all .. the republican prtaldential as pirant, but bo seems to go out of hia . way at th name time to hand' Mr. Bryan a package.- Mr. Hearnt'e Chicago Examiner of two daya ago editorially deprecates the clalma of Mr. Bryan, asserting that e ia "the beneficiary of the delay and-timldity of hla party and of bia opponents." and adding that "if Gov ernor Johnson had marched boldly and unhesitatingly into the arena when the anti-Bryan conference was held iait autufan, the chances are that he might have bad the nomination." Mr. Bryan'i handicap la aized up by Mr. Hearst's Examiner, as follows: ' Mr. Bryan will hava to fight tha preatljra Ot two succeaalv defeats the last lniom parablr greater than the first. . He will hava to fight the lmprflon; which he doc not a,-cm able to remove. that ha 1 an extremist, end this increaa infly conservative ae will not understand his all-too-sudden repudiation of his ad vocacy of government ownership and other reforms unaccompllahable at present. He will hava to fight the etalenes of candidacy 'which has been almost the only one that democrats of this generation have known. Jle will have to combat the protest against his long and almost absolute dicta tion both to the leaders and to the rank anfl file ot Ms party. And he will surely buffet a great , and Increasing apathy felt toward blm among his own friendsnot lesa those ot the once solid south than those of the ever doubtful east and west. Mr. Hearst's Examiner ia plainly convinced, that Mr. Hearst would have been the democratic nominee laat time instead of Judge Pfcrkef "had Mr, Bryan supported him aa be should, and reasons from that that Mr. Bryan is more Interested in hla own personal triumph than In the triumph of princi ple. According to Mr. Hearst, the nomination of Bryan at Denver will be brought about by the vote of Illinois, delivered through Roger Sullivan, horn Bryan denounced as '"a hlgfa ayman and robber," and "there ia no evidence that Sullivan baa ever re pented of the political crimes that ealled forth these endearing epithets." So long aa Mr. Hearst ia of thia mind he will not support Mr. Bryan a RogeSullivan'a nominee, FHCS TRADE BSJECTKD- Statesmen, politicians and students current events, both In England and the United 8tates. have-been of fering various explanations ; for the surprising defeat ot Winston Churchill, member of the new British cabinet, for re-election In the Manchester dls trlct One claim la that his rejection was due to Fremlef Asquith's refusal to bring In a home rule bill. , From other sources 1Mb argued thatthe lib eral parly's policy of , reducing the umber of Inn licenses was responsible for the Churchill overthrow. The suf ragettes are also credited with part ot the victory and the new educational till Is also assigned as one cause for estrangement ot the voters. After all haa been 6a Id on the prop osltlon,- however, the conclusion is forced that Churchill's defeat is due to the growing sentiment In England in favor of an abandonment of the long- established free trade policy, the most cherished heritage of the liberal party. . Manchester, as one of the prin cipal manufacturing centers of Eug land, 'has wearied of free trade and the consequent exposure to unre stricted competition with the manu facturers ot the world. The recent re port of an Industrial commission, ap pointed by the crown to Investigate the rtsulta of the tree trade policy on the industries of the kingdom, was most unfavorable to the Cobdenltea, and Manchester is the first district' to re flect the British sentiment on the sub ject at the polls. In a broader way the Churchlir de feat la another Indication that the country has had its confidence lu the liberal government Impaired and that the time for a dissolution of the Par liament and an appeal to the country can not be much longer deferred. COTTOS FRODVCTWX AXD tltlCKS. Cotton has fallen in price to belo 10 cents a pound and southern plant ers are again raising the cry for limit' Ing the acreage in order to hold prices of the great ataple at the level they be- jieve h tnouid ie,. The "noid-your- cotton cry Is not a new one in the south nor in other parta of the conn try. Cotton growers have agitated such a policy for some years, and only a few years ago , some enthusiastic supporters ot the plan went to the extreme ot burning patt ot their sur plus crop to keep the prices up. The same plan has been advocated by the Society ot Equity and other organlza tions among the farmers, but it has Invariably failed of successful prac ttce. Advocates of the limited produc tion theory contend that they are adopting the same tactics employed by commercial combinations that tie cure control of a commodity and then arbitrarily advance the prices. The scheme has not worked out in farm products, however, simply because the very attempt to limit acreage and thus prices has furnished an incentive to other growers to plant more In order to take advantage of the expected en bancement of prices. The tobacco war in Kentucky is an illustration of the futility of such rebtrk'Uve plans. The barley tobacco Is grvwn In a very limited area and the planters agreed to curb their crops to secure fancy price ior me product, i-acn grower. however, apparently conceived the idea of planting a little more than CRoal and the result has been the "night rldera' " raids, arson, murder and an archy. The cotton growers and other pro ducers of sgricultural conimodlttea will have to be content with allowing the old law of supply and demand to fix the prices of their wares subject only to a beneficent Providence. i HOW MUCH IS tliTCRl Thomaa Fortune Ryan, recognized as one of the leaders or tqe captains of industry In New York, with large interests in life insurance companies, traction' companies, railroads and nearly all of the greater corporations, I rag started a heated discussion Dy testifying before a New York grand jury that the stock of the American railways consist of 95 per cent of water. Mr. Ryan was defending the course of the Metropolitan Traction company when he made the assertion. "The roads," testified Mr. Ryan,' "cost only 6 per cent of the 'capital stock Issues, and were built with bonds. These great issues of stock were noth ing but pure water and tre now ac cepted by banks as collateral for loans and financial dealings." Slason Thompson, regularly em ployed publicity agent for the railroads, rushes Into print with a vigorous de nial of Mr. Ryan's statement. He contends that most of the "railroads', particularly those in the east, "were built and maintained from the legiti mate proceeds of stock and bond tales," and asserts that most of the western roads have paid dollar for dollar on the stock issued. Mr. Thomp son's use of "stock and bond" in lis enumeration of the resources from which railroads carried on their con struction - and maintenance work, neither adds to nor detracts from Mr. Ryan's statement. Perhaps Mr. Ryan's assertion is something of an exaggera tion, but the public has long been convinced that, as a rule, American railways have been built with money raised on mortgages and bonds, while the stock has usually gone to the promoters as a reward for their enterprise. The burden has then fallen upon the public to pay excessive ship ping and passenger charges to produce the dividends which have given the watered stock its value as a security. Allowing liberal discount for exag geration, the Ryan testimony fur nishes ample justification for the de mand that the pumps heretofore used to get water Into the railroad capital ization should be now applied to get ting the water out and that transpor tation rates be based on'actual cost ot building, ' equipping and operating with a fair return only on the capital actually Invested. THK OJM2VD ARMX'S FUIVRK, Grand Army posts throughout the country are debating the advisability of adopting some method of perpetu ating .the organization.. Death's rapid thinning of the ranks has caused a renewal or consideration ot thia prop osition, which, although presented (to the national encampments a number of times has failed of action of a defi nite character The fundamental principle of the Grand Army of the Republic was loy alty to the flag and the unity ot the states, and this principle will always be worthy of encouragement. The Grand Army, while numerically strong, was a constanCobJect lesson in loyalty and patriotism. It has done much in advancing these causes by Memorial day exercises, , the observance of flag day in the public schools and by par tlcipatlon in all patriotic demonstra tions. Of late years the mere cost of maintenance of the organization baa become a heavy burden upon the mem bershlp and, the time is rapidly ap proaching when the Grand Army ac tivities will have to be abandoned un less Its burdens and Its principles are consigned to younger hands. The Sons of Veterans Is apparently the most logical successor of the Grand Army, but it has never received spe cial recognition or encouragement from the parent organization. No other organization is qualified to the heirship and It is doubtful if the Sons of Veterans could fittingly keep ud the work. Many members ot the younger organization were in the spanian-American war, v. men was never recognized by the civil war vet erans as more than a mere skirmish and there , sl.Bht Droaue(,t or har. rnftntzina- the difference between th Grand Army and the Spanish War Vet erans. The old Grand Army Is distinctly a product of the civil war. lthas stood tor patriotism and the Integrity of the nation, appealing to the rank and file of the men behind the guns. Its work ba8'been of a peculiar character. Per haps it were better to adopt some plan by which the precious Hags and me mentos owned by the . Grand Army posts throughout the country should bo ultimately turned over to tbe his torical societies of the different states or to tbe national museum for pres ervation and -that the splendid work which the Grand Army has carried on should be declared finished when tapa shall have been sounded for the last veterans. The Grand Army'a work will live forever in American history, "The uncertainty as to the outcome at Chicago la as profound aa ever. hus the St. Louis Globe-Democrat The uncertainty ia whether the name of any other candidate than Mr. Taft will be presented at the convention Our democratic city councilmeu are holding $120,000 lu n reinvested balance in the net-r fund drawing 2 per cent lnUSel from the bank in bleb. 4t is delimited. ' This money represents the proceeds of bonds that re. bearing approximately S per cent nterest, e that the taxpayers are holding the sack for over $3,000 a year by reason of this unbuslnesnllke ransactlon. This is only one'sample of democratic economy. To the anxioua Inquirer who takes exception to The Bee's statement that Nebraska is now exposing Its first bachelor governor to the dangera of leap year, citing other governors who have been eligible for the matrimon ial market, we answer that all the previous unattached occupant of the executive office were wldowera and that there Is a, Vast difference between widowers and bachelors. ' The "only democratic congress man from Nebraska has taken an other fall out of the Beef trust, fol lowing bis previous exploit ot taking a fall out of the Paper trust. The only tangible result ao far, however, is to swell the profits of the concerns that sell to the government the paper con- umed by space filters and Congres sional Record. The explanation Is still forthcoming why, after complaining last year that Its property was ' over-assessed, the only good railroad in Nebraska should this year return under oath tbe same property at from three to feur times the valuation It placed on it last year. "Does Michigan want Bryan?" asks the Detroit News. As soon as tbe au- wer Is received, will the News please send a prepaid telegram to Fairvlew, Neb., and thus relieve the anxiety of a gentleman who la deeply Interested. Count Bonl is said to be on the trail ot hla princely cousin, De Sagan, determined to engage him InAnother duel. They might, recoup their fallen fortunes by charging an admission fee to these farce fights. As another .evidence that our present court house facilities have been outgrown, we are aboift to have grand Jury with no place to put It unless It crowds some one else out ot house and home. - - The president of Guatemala is shooting conspirators and revolution ists at the rate of eighteen a day. This almost equals the Haytl record for the dispatch of undesirable citizens. "The democratle party is a state's rights party or it Is nothing," says Senator Rayner of Maryland. As the democratic party la not a state's rights party, the conclusion is plain. Tea ' Yrara1 A;o and Sow. Chlcagi Tribune. Ten yeara ago todfly Vnlted States crula- ere wero preying 6n Spanl.tli commerce. Today both couitj$aVar able to rejotco over the fact tbet iV Vnited Statea last year Imported tJ.(KK?.000 worth of goods from Spain. .. ' , It tie With Thia. - New . York World. Like many other Americans, Lincoln sometimes wore a beard and, sometimes did not. Like others, hia friends probably told him when ho was, wearing, ona that ho would look betttV without and when, he was not wearing one that he would look better with It. The brardlena statue that Omaha criticises la, accurate. Sculptors naturally prefer the, bare face.- A IMtlablo Admlaalon. Philadelphia Record (dom.). - Driven to the wall with hla reckless chargea of corruption, Mr. Bryan makea the pitiable admlaalon that he knotas of no corporation or individual who Is en gaged in corrupting delegatea to vote against giving him a two-thirds vote in the democratic national convention. He knows only those who are corrupted, and of this he needs no, other proof than the fact that they are apposed to his nomina tion. - Mailing! Paat PU-aaare's Ha ante. Springfield Hccord. It appears to have beon definitely con cluded that the, war fleet ort Its return voyage from the waters of Asia shall not stop In any of the ports of Europe. What! Shall our gallant tars after their long cruise around the world be denied the op portunity of dancing by moonlight on the Bosphoroua or the Kivlera? Since this halt would cost very littler, and would contribute much to the enjoyment of our seamen, the prealdent should be persuaded to revise hla decialon. the: i clunk sisaso.ii. Ataioapherle UiaUirbaacea Related ta Kvra-at Deal Taction. St. Loula .Republic. i lie - cyclone acaaon does not open a the same time for al parta of the Misata- aippl valhy. What la popularity called the opening of the aeaaon this' year shows In return of lose of life during the last few weeka at points In tha northweat, lu Texas, in the gulf statea and In what were once the heavily timbered states ot the middle Mississippi. Similar reports are certain to come fro hi Kansaa and other prairie status west ot the Mlasiaaippl and south ot the Missouri, If the aeaaon opens still later in tha statea between the Ohio and the lakes, they also now expect the cyclone locally as an Incident of their connection with the baain ot tha Mlaalaalppl.. Probably the general cauaea of these con ditlon will be fully understood In tho near future aa an Inevitable Incident of almoa phere circulatlotia, aa lq the vast area be tween two great mountain chains the aun "moves nortli" in spring and summer with hardly a bill high enough to be called mountain between the mouth of tha Mlaais- alppl river and the Arctic circle. Practic ally, the Osarka are r.ow our only effecllv wind-breaks, and they, too, have their cy clones. While efforts to reatore tho forests have high value, regarUU-H of ttuir possible ef fects aa wind-breaks, tha condition of the future ii.ual : b accepted as those which belong to a county past the hope ot protec tion from audi denae forexta aa tlioau of the middle MlMiMipi. The increase of fatal!- tiea from cyclones belong to the Increase of civilisation, which nut only cut away the wood but multiplied tl number of towns in tbe area left unprotected by wind-brcaka. The conaeijuent lose of life certainly increas ing from uccadu to Uecada la deplorable. If it Is tuevttabl-4 the fact that it Is, no likely lu equal tla.t ivaulllug from the in creased use of .-fvam and electricity will prevent . - ;' '-- " ittl- " """ ' ' " ' THUKE-t F.T FTtE IV Cl.r.VELASli (Ins ( Mater Tom Joaoaoa'a fT Veers" War. Peace rrlgna In Cleveland. J-cent fares triumph, tha opposing traction companlea , ave turned their property over at the , fixed price and retired from the field. Thus ends' a remarkable seven year' war waged by Mayor Tom L. Johnson for J cent fares and universal transfers on the treet railways of Cleveland. The cam paign was marked by fierce . battles, in fantry akirmlxhea afld cavalry raid in the omaln of politics and In the forums of the court. Occasionally the controlling com pany won a victory, only to have th fruits of It snatched from Its grasp by the wide wake and aggrosalve strategist of John son s war board. Mayor Johnson fought the opposition with remarkable vigor and persistency and won hi triumph becauoof the formidable support of the people. At the outset of the campaign the entrenched Nraetion compa nies floored the mayor's demands for a re duction from 6 cents. The franchise of the consolidated companies wsa found vul nerable. There were numerous blow holes in It. aonit streeta were unoccupied which he franchise blanketed and the company'a right on Important streets were limited. Mayor Johnson brought about the organisa tion of tha Forest City company and as sisted In financing It. The city was asked to grant this company a franchise to oner- ate a street railway on the unused streets. conditioned on carrying passengers for ( cents each. Two year' hot fighting, re sulting In tha re-election of Johnson and a friendly council, effected the first bresoh In the entrenchment of the street railway Crowd. 1 The fact that Mayor Johnson was finan cially lntereated In the new company gave the opposition a club with which to attack the move In the court. It was claimed that the franchise of the Forest City com pany was void on the ground that the law expressly prohibited city officer having an Interest In city contracts. This conten tion was sustained In the lnVer courts but reversed In the court of last resort, the court ruling that the fct of the mayor advancing money for preliminary work did not constitute a violation of the law. Freed by the courta to go ahead, the new com pany Invaded the territory defined , In Its grant, put tracks on street on which the right of the old oompany tiad expired and, pressed every advantage which the city authorities, led by Mayor Johnson, could grant. The death grapple came In the camnalan for city officers last fall, when Mayor Johnson, nominated for the fourth time. put squarely to the voter the Issue of 8- cent fares and the retirement of the old company from business. The republicans. upportlng the street railway aldo of tho question, nominated Theodore Burton, the Cleveland congressman, and annrhinced a platform promising peace and a satisfac tory compromise of the war. At the height of the campaign Candidate Burton announced on behalf of hi ticket that a settlement would be made on the baaia of seven farce for a quarter for any time of day or night and eight fares for a quar ter during specified hours of morning and evening. The eleventh-hour concession did not impress the electorate, and Johnson was endorsed by an emphatic majority. Defeated at every point, the old street railway, company then opened negotiations with Mayor Johnson with a view to aban doning tha field. Th company appointed F. H. Qoff. an attorney, aa mediator, with full power to act. Ketrotlatlone progressed peacefully until the price of the com pany' stock was reached. Mayor -John- aon proposed $50 a share. Mediator Qoff ln aisled on $45 a share. For two week set tlement was up In the air. The street car people reduced their terms to $ and finally announced $55 aa their minimum price. Acceptance ef the laat named llg- urea wa paesed up to the city council, the member of which called mas mcfet tng to learn the temper of the people. A remarkable outpouring of Voter wa had at these mas conventions, and 40,000 votes were recorded in favor of the settlement and only WO against It. Thereupon mo council accepted and the mayor signed the $56 peace pact, the old company trana ferred Its property to the holding company and retired from business. " The baaia of settlement In brief i lhat the property of the Cleveland Electric rail way, 224 mile of track, with cara, power houses and equ4pment and a large amount of unused real estate shall be valued at $.1,000,001), The twenty-fourmllea of track owned by the Forest City line, that haa always been a 3-cent fare road, shall be valued at $1,800,000. These are to be con solidated aa the Cleveland City railway and leased to the Municipal Traction com pany which agrees to take care of th prop erty, pay all taxea, Insurance? maintenance and pay per cent on the Investment to the stockholdera. . .. , Tha consolidated company haa arranged to reorganise with an authorised capital of $3i,0uo,000 ao that betterments can be paid for from new etock issued. A a guarantee to the company atockholders, the ordinance agreed upon provide thft't If the J-ceut fare company cannot pay the per ceut dividend and falls eleven montha be hind, the Drooerty Shall revert to tne original owner, with a franchla at alx tickets for 25 cents. The flrat figure waa aeven tickets, but the change waa agreed upon when the company reduced the valua tion of It property for the purpose of tho lease. . A alrlklua feature ot the settlement la that the transfer of the property of the old company to the new iquecse $10,530,000 worth of water out of It capital atock". It. was eaaily and quickly doiw and did not et the carpel. The directors of tne com iianv met ttflll reduced the capital stock from $,4o0,0u to $12.810.00U. The elimina tion of $lu,5J0,uu0 of water permit the old company to go Into the reorganised Cleve land Railway company at its real value. The new aharea of atock that will be tsaued will have a par value of $109 each, but man who had 100 aharea before will have milv ftftv-flv ahare now. There are TH t, wnnlitera. but alx of them have a con trolling .interest. . Th Miinicloal Traction company now controls a4 mile of electrlo railways, coij olldatlon of what wa thre line. The, Cleveland -Klectilc collected m.000,000 fare last year. At 5-cent fare it would have been $,0&0,tWO. The Municipal Trao tlon receipt have averaged tl.OSO a day at 3 centa a ride, which mean an average of 36.0UI passengers dally. That would mean $iJ.2o0 per year at S cents a ride, if no charge la made for transfers and not count ing the extra fare to point outside the city, the receipt of the company will still el 'ceed $1,IMMU0 a year. -rka Mvodoo Lola. - Philadelphia Presa. Somebody haa made the rather blood curdling discovery that the silver quarter la an unlucky coin. It haa thirteen alar, thirteen lettere on the acaoll held In the eagle' beak, thirteen marginal feathers on each wing, thirteen line in the shield, thirteen horlaontal bars, ihtrteen 'arrow beads, and thirteen letters in Its name. All this ia ecary enough, but there are plenty of even day people who will not overlook the fact that thirteen quarters make thre dollars and a (UiU(-lm )uu tali get that mauy. , . Uzlz Ircia Pure Gtztz Cream ol Tcrlc? W 3 " ' ' ' V 'J '" "III SIiMtls the Food from Hum: PERSONAL NOTES. New York has a visiting Spaniard who kills-bulla for fun. There ought to be a place for blm at the abattoir. Frank Gould says his wealth, has been a cut so to him, but a divorce action seems no more welcome because calculated to lessen the wealth. William Dudley Fnulkn of Indiana, the civil service reformer, has the reputation of using more adjectives In his speeches than any other orator. A Chicago man beat a fellow who had hot the daughter of the first, destroying her eye. For thl the father wa arrested and, after remaining In Jail two weeks awaiting trial, killed himself In a not un natural disgust at justice. Wesley Markwood, who begun to serv the government as a messenger boy In the War department in 1K35, Is now, after fifty-five years' of continuous ser vice, at the age of tl years, still serving the government a "messenger boy" In the Department of Agriculture. Prof. Wallace Atwood of the geology and physiography department at the Uni versity of Chicago has been appointed by the United Statea geological survey depart ment to survey the coal fields of Alaska with a view to ascertain their value and to determine the best place to establish a coating station for the Navy department. The Roya College of Surgeons of Eng land has presented to the Harvard Medical school, through Dr. Walter G. Chase, about aeventy engravtnga and metzoa of cele brated medical men. These, together with loan collections of Dr. Chase and Dr. E. B. Young, numbering about IIOO, have been ar ranged for exhibition In the Warren Ana tomical museum in th admlnl ration build ing of tbe Harvard Medical school, Cam bridge. In. honor of 11 ailver anniversary, April 11, the Milwaukee Journal Issued an elab orate number of alxty-four pagea, the title page garbed in a riot of color as gorgeoua a the. aun glint ot Milwaukee barber on a summer morning. Filled with copious note of jubilation. It columns vibrant with the strength of success and filled to over flowing with illustrations, descriptive wrlteups, historical review and artistic business announcements, the Issuo fittingly commemorate the silver jubilee of the Journal and applauds the skill, enterprise and business sagacity of the publishers. St'RPRIKES OF THE FAR WKST. Fatnre Possibilities Greater Than Paat Realisation. Wall Street Journal. , The country traversed by our grtt trana- continental railroads has been a land ot aurprlsea from the beginning. There wa a time when the o-called "Great American Desert'' was looked upon a forbidden terrl tory or no possible use to the country. Then there waa also the so-called "Staked Plains'' of the southwest, which were looked upon aa unsafe for man or beast to traverae alone because of the quaqnilre and bogs that tradition said abounded there. Further north" were the. forbidden moun tain which, to ' tha explorers' and to the travelers of early daya, held out no induce ment an habitations for man. Gradually, however, settlers worked their way westward, first with pasturing flocks, then with their habitations and their farm implements, their mastery of license meth ods of cultivation, and their capacity for control of the stream for Irrigation. Fol lowing this came the search for -minerals all over the vast territories which comprise fully a third of the L'nited Stales. With this the timber became more and more valuable for building and mining use. Now the greatest field for railway exteiallon seem to lie among these very mountali oua regiona and once foraaken plains. The Southern Pacific, for Instance, hju become a great money earner. The Great Northern haa outlived the decades when people laughed at the hardihood of James J. Hill for venturing to lay a railroad "across the Rickles to the Puget Sound region. Lastly the St. Paul management is forging lts way across the continent because ot its belief In still greater surprises In the re sources of till territory which existing fa cilities have hardly begun to touch. Just as the far west haa surprised the rest of the country In the past, ao It undoubtedly will continue to aurprlse It In the future, aa the. main llnea ot exploitation are laid down and th power of man and nature are organised to revest- the wealth that la still latent In theae regiona whoao nioun talnoua commonwealths form tile backbone of th continent. Pretty Accarata fiueaa. Washington Post. Considerable speculation la being In dulged In as fo what Thouiaa Jefferson would do" If he were back here. He would doubtless listen to the dlaeuaalon for a while and then yearn for the quiet' of his tomb again. , Ko oilier Extract ol Bel Suaai the ajutJlty mm taa . parity I ava MlMr aa law aa UEBIG Company's Extract of Beef , Juat svwra beet, klgaly camdeawad. TbW blue signature oa tha gcouiaa i ' 1 vv- - A fETIOV OF MAJORITY. , . temocratl Authority Concedes 'Elec tion of Republican. rretaei.' New York WnrM-dem4'H William H. Taft will ba nominated for president by the republican national con-" ventlon. . , it If William J. Bryan, ia to bei.,ta demo crattV! candidate Judge ,Taff election t certain. Theie need be no .anilely, aa to the outcome of another Bryan campaign; no Increased Industrial suspense, no further shutting1 down of factories, no new recruits to the army "of unemployed. v ' The opposition to Judg Taft'S nomina tion has practically Collapsed. ' He haa' a majority 'of the delegatea already' elected. He has back of him all the power, prestige and popularity of the Ttoosevelt arlmtnlstra- ' tlon. None of the other candidates ha any considerable support outside- hla-own taf. -Most of them can count on only a com--pllmentary vote. None ef them could de liver hi delegate to Hughe or Cannon or Knox or Fairbanks. All four of theae opposing candidates are personally friendly to Taft. In the end they will prefer his nomination to the alternative of Roosevelt' rcnomlnation, knowing that they must take one or the other. Tire sooner they make this position plain the better It will be for the country. All of them know that Taft is aure to be nominated. All ot them should realise that public assurance of his nomination would bo a great stimulus to prosperity. By re moving popular uncertainty' as ta the ac tion of tho republican ' convention thc would aid greatly in the restoration of con fidence. For if Mr. Bryan la as sure of the democratic nomination as he pretend nothing remaina In doubt but the sis ot Judge Taft s majority. L.ll OHl.Ma LINKS. "Has Jenks been playing any more monkey trick sT" ' "1 am afraid ao. He has started, so he says, an apiary." Baltimore American. ,- -, -".. .! 7 i-i n f V "Your speech created loud . applause tn the galleries." said the colleague. "Yes," answered Hie statesman. But when you get applause you can never be sure whether It ia due to admiration for your sentiments or the way you handle your voice." Washington Star. "Some people say," remarked the talk ative man, "that, the .making -of good whixky is a finei art." "Huh!" exclaimed the candid distiller, "If easy enough to make good whisky, but to make bad whlxky and then get people to drink It that'a where the lino art come in." Philadelphia Press. Casaitis Hrutus, what would you say If I were to tell you that Julius declare himself the biggest man in Rome and ' worthy of a crown? Brutua Great Caesar! "Pooh," said Mis.i Oldglrl, 4,I en- gng-a wnen i was inirieen: 'You've found that was a very unlucky age to begin with, haven't you'.'" said little ' Mis Uiddy. Clevelund Plain Dealer. "Vou mean to aay yoii voted for a man whom you do not know?" "Yep," answered Father Corntossel. "I never even heard him talk. I vole for tilm 'cause I was much obliged to him for not. comln' around and Interrupt in' me at any work." Washington Star. "Your honor," said the attorney frrr the landgrabbers. "1 ask. that tho Jury be In structed to acquit. My clients are nut guilty." "You speak with a confidence bavrdly war-.' ranted by the evidence," responded tha court. "But. you honor," resumed the attorney, "I myself have visited the acette of the alleged crime, and I give you my word that the land ia right there yet." Philadelphia Presa. ' . A PHIL'S MI'SSTIlia.S. "Okalee" the black bird sings , ' High in budding tree; Sits and sings and swings and Dirge luid melody, r Silver lies the marsh below, Green the ruahes tw, 8(ari--t gleam 111 comrade's wings, Flying, flying free. Jut the sweetest touch of spring Is my red wing's note; On a flood of memory, i Dreaming. I'm alloat. . ,. .. All the April paths I've trod. ' ' In gay company, Are remembered aa I hear Red wing's 'Okaloe." Omaha. . --EMILY WOOfV REFINEMENT and super iority in a store do not necessarily moan high prices. - Our eyeglasses and spec taeles are first quality and prices are uniformly right. iACTCRY.' ..t.w.Ltl.il'i.ALj U-. ,$' vi r