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4 THE BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, APRIL 19, 1900. The Omaha Daily Dee POUND ED BT EDWARD ROSEWATER, VICTOR ROBE WATER. EDITOR. Entered at Omiht postofflce a econd rlm matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily Ffe (without Sunday), one year...$4W Dally Bee and Sunday, one year .00 PEIJVERED BT CARRIER. Pally Be (Inrludlnir Sunday), pr wk ISe tlly Bra (without Sunday). per week.. 10c Evening Km (without Sunaayt. VT week " Evening pee (with Sunday), per week.. 10e Sunday Be, one year BW Saturday be, on year IH Addresa all complaint, of Irregularities la delivery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha The Be Tiulldlng. South Omaha Twenty-fourth and N. Council Bluffs 11 Scott Street. Lincoln 61 Uttl Building. Chicago 16M Marquette Building. New York Room 1101-IJ01 No. M Wilt Thirty-third Street. Washington 72S Fourteenth Street. N. W. . - CORRESPONDENCE. Comraunfcatlons relating to new an edi torial matter should be addressed; Omaha Bee, Editorial Depsrtment. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or poatAl order, ravahle to The Bee Publishing Company. Only l-rent atampa received In payment of mall account. Personal checka. except on ' Omaha or eastern exchangee, not accepted. STATEMENT Or Cf TICTJIATIOM. Ftate of Nebraaka,. Douglas County, : George B. Taarhuck. treasurer of The Bee runiienmg company, being duly sworn, eaya thst the actual mimttr of full and complete copies of The Dally. Morning. Evening and Sunday Pea printed during the month of March. 19U9, was aa follows: 1. .......... S,B30 IT MM I lt,lN II S8,tM 1 '. . S9.300 II ,000 SSJMO 10 StSO 38.S39 tl CT.B50 88.710 I J..,, MI,M0 ? STooo it M.rro i 3S.S40 14 saao ss,ioo "tl :,mo i o ti .... saeo II 88330 If,. 0,500 ii 8,to ' ii t?,oo i M,ieo it ss.oeo 14 ..... 87,000 - . 19 S8.S70 la 30, II. l. ........ . Total . MOMao Less unsold and returned copies.. 10498 Nat total i 1,17.1 BS Dally averaga SS.S1T GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Treaaurer. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before ma this lat day of April. 190. M. P. WALKER, ' (Seal) , Notary Public WHEN OUT Or TOWlt, ' Sabscrlbers leaving- tha eltj teaa. porartly ahoald kare Tke Baa Mailed ta these. Addrwaa will k ckem;! aa aftea aa reejsjootoel. The sultan of Turkey 1 being dis turbed entirely too much at night for a sick man. . There la one Invasion which never worries the English public that of the American tourist. Indiana Is experimenting with the shotgun cure, for night riders. Con sistently applied it ahould be a success. Under the new law the city collector of St. Louis will be compelled to give a bond of $13,000,000. That should hold him for a while. Ex-President; Eliot's list of the six best books dqesjioj; include theTeytsed foot ball rulem Does he think the modem university a failure? 'Don't get scared and think It Is an earthquake if yon hear something un usual. It is about time for the explo sion of some base bell phenoms. (Jcorxe Gould has Joined the Opti mist club. Strange what an effect the adjournment of tho legislature Always has on railroad magnates. Just think what Castro must bo suf fering at yrescnt, marooned on a slow boat when there Is so much he would like to ?ay where It could be heard. A Philadelphia educator says Chil dren are all liars. How often have we wished visitors at the family home would take that view of children's re marks. .. Missouri reports ,an earthquake. Possibly the tremble was only ' the collision of the prohibition resolution from the legislature with St. Louis sentiment. "Dick" Croker pitched the firat ball of the league season in New York. He dd not stay the game out, however, aa New York long ago "got onto" Rich ard's curves. Bryan has declared that Secretary of War Dickinson docs not represent the south. Just when or how did Mr. Bryan acquire the right to be the spokesman for the south? Wrestler Gotch is said to have re ceived $14,000 for his fourteen min utes' work in disposing of the Turkish wrestler. That bcata a wheat corner if he could keep up the gait. New York papers insist that the politicians are knifing Hughes. For a man who has been knifed so often he manages to have good success in keep ing out of the political hospital. Patten's wheat corner continues to draw money Into the pocketa of the in side manipulators, but a few days of growing weather In the wheat belt will take a lot of the support away from thil clique of gamblers. The democratic councilmen who re cently voted down ordinancea levying an occupation tax against the public service corporations In Omaha are now asking re-election on a platform prom ising to levy such a tax. This la the normal democratic Idea of consistency. "Dollar Gas" waa a mighty shout when the democrats went Into power In Omaha three years ago, but the con umera and the city as well are paying the same figure that prevailed then. The only reductions that have been made in charges for light In Omaha have been brought about under repub lican administration, and the voters realize this. A Faithful Servant. The sudden death of City Engineer Andrew Rosewater deprive the people of Omaha of a faithful servant. Prac tically the whole of his professional life waa devoted to the service of the city and he was engaged up to the very last moment In attending to the oner ous duties of that most responsible office. - The designing and construction of all the public worka of Omaha, a task particularly difficult in view of Its rapid growth from an overgrown town to a metropolitan city, Is to be credited to him, and the future growth of the city, so far as respects the extension and perfection of these public works, must needs be along the plana which he has outlined and for which he has laid the foundations. In the case of City Engineer Rose water, as so often happens, the value of efficient and conscientious public service has not beep appreciated at the time of rendering it, but will be meas ured at-Its true worth In later years. As city engineer Mr. Rosewater stood unfllnchinglyfor the Interests of the public and kept on the firing line whenever those . Interests were menaced by selfish schemers or unscru pulous contractors. Even his worst enemies will concede that he was abso lutely Incorruptible and unswerving in fidelity to the city, and It wae this very characteristic of incorruptibility that raised up against him the succession of antagonism and opposition and cul minated in the enactment of a law making the office efective In order to harass and embarrass him, If not to end his official career. His premature death has been, doubtless, hastened by the overwork devolved upon him by the failure to give him sufficient help and the excite ment necessarily arising from these constant contests. Whea a public servant serves the people faithfully and efficiently more than a quarter of a century In a public office of such im portance and dies a poor man, as he has died, he has earned a popular tribute to his memory. Increased Gold Output. Figures compiled by the London Statist ahow that for the year 1908 the world'a output of gold was $409, 000,000, the largest since any record has been kept of the yield of precious metals, and without doubt the greatest in the history of the world. It is more by $9,000,000 "than for the preceding year and by $19,000,000 than for the year 1906. The outlook is for further expansion, as there haa been no serious working out of present fields and pres ent methods of mining and extracting the gold have greatly decreased the loss of metal in the process of milling and reduction. The figures, of gold production are especially, interesting as bearing upon the high prices prevailing all over the civilised world. Increase of consump tion in food products in the ratio it bears to production plays a part, but It ia the. general verdict of political economists that Inflation of circulating medium is always accompanied by higher prices. As gold has become by common consent the circulating me dium of all the great commercial na tions, this vast influx of that metal can scarcely fail to have had its effect. Substitution of silver confessedly would not remedy the matter, for the possibility of its production is prac tically unlimited. Time will work a readjustment of the relation of' all things measured by money, but all artificial means are bound to fall now as they have In the past. A Masterpiece in Figurei. If railroad managers err in any direction, which la not to be admitted, the ripe Judgment shown in placing experienced newspaper men In charge of their publicity bureau makea ample amends. In that particular line their wisdom outshines an arc light In a fog. Any doubter open to conviction can readily convince himself by an exam ination of the latest brochure from the railroad publicity bureau at Chicago. It beara the Imprimatur of Slaaon Thompson, together with some relevant remarks of an edifying and enlighten ing character. Mr. Thompson is an artist among figures. He is charmed with their company, and generously conveys slabs of the charm . to the reader without price. But the only figures exuding genuine charm are railroad figurea, grouped in imposing arrays, for which Thompson Is Justly famous. All others are base deceivers. To Institute com parisons would be a waste of time and space. A mere outline of the reasons which Inspired the artistic production will serve to whet the edge of curiosity and give the wide circulation Its merits deserve. , In a heedless moment the statis ticians of the Interstate Commerce commission put out a set of figures showing railroad earnings for a series of years past. The figures were grouped by calendar years. The ex hibit for 1907 included nine of Jhe most prosperous months In railroad history and three months of the de pression following the October panic. The figures for last year did not look aa blue as tearful prophets predicted, and the railroad losses by this group ing were not sufficiently imposing to paralyse otfenalve agitation. Instantly Mr. Thompson leaped Into the breach. With the skill of an expert and the enthusiasm of a revivalist, he smote the official deceivers hip and thigh and tossed the fragmenta on the dump. Then began the joyful task of making railroad figurea trumpet the truth. Choosing October, 1907. aa the basing point of calamity, he developed pyra mid after pyramid of figures, stretch ing like signal towers over main lines and sidetracks, until the group picture of disaster was as gruesome as a head-on collision. Mr. Thompson's showing of losses outshines all records of calamity and leaves the official fig ures hopelessly In the rear. That waa the intention. Second only in 1m presslveness Is the delicate Insinuation that the railroads were the only suf ferers by the panic. None else lost a dollar. Yor delicacy of touch, effective grouping, and matching of colors, the figure work of the bureau Is a master piece. If Mr. Thompson's salary does not rise to the level of his skill the public must conclude that railroad managers not fully appreciate art for art's aake. Education in the South. A recent meeting at Atlanta is sig nificant of the progress being made In the new south. That the south has set about solving the industrial prob lem In an energetic manner has long been apparent, but up to the present it haa lagged behind In an educational way. Statistics of illiteracy make a sorry showing tor that section and un til the fault is corrected thoughtful students of political life will see slight hope for the . elevation of Its people. Its labor is largely ignorant and there fore inefficient, and social conditions on the whole anything but encourag ing. The Atlanta meeting was called tor the purpose of evolving a strong and uniform system of universal education and It brought together the most ad vanced thinkers of the south as well aa educators from the north to contribute from their experience. One meeting cannot be expected to solve so great a problem, but the recognition of the fact the problem exlsts, together with a desire to solve it, will make this gath ering a milestone in the progress of the south. There Is ho sentiment so difficult to change as the conservatism ol Ignor ance, and neither the prime movers In this enterprise nor outsiders should be disappointed if immediate results do not appear. The 'entire country is in terested In the question almost as much as the south, so closely linked are the interests and welfare of all sections. It is a small beginning on a great task, but a little energetic leaven can permeate a whole loaf. Signs of the Times in Trade. One of the most encouraging signs In the trade situation la the large number of orders for structural steel being placed with the mills. The steel Industry has long been regarded as the most sensitive nd reliable of trade barometers and these reports will lend encouragement to other branches of business. The most favorable feature of the situation is the fact that the orders being placed are not confined to any one particular line, but Indicate a buBy season in all branches of the steel in dustry. ' The railroads, which have been ' chief among the pessimistic forces, have Joined the ranks of the optimists and are large buyers both of rails and of bridge and other kinds of structural steel. Next in point of sig nificance, and greater even in volume, is the great demand for structural ma terial for new buildings. . . In neither of these lines could orders have been called out after a period of depression except as a response to an immediate and pertain demand. Men of small means aud limited knowledge of conditions often Invest under ad verse conditions, but seldom or never is It the case that large sums can be drawn out for constructive Investment without a practical assurance of a re turn based on a knowledge of condi tions. The orders furthermore come from all sections of the country. Other industries, if they have not already done so, are sure to fall In line with these two great factors, and there can be no reasonable doubt a general return to Industrial and trade activity la alreadv on the way. The west has kept up Its courage and gone ahead through it all and welcomes the evidence the east Is falling into step. The platform adopted by the repub licans of Omaha la a fair, frank and honest pronouncement on the matters which are chiefly concerned in the city campaign, and In which the citizens are most Intereated, and the record of the republican party for redeeming its platform pledges Is a guaranty of the good faith in which the promises are now made. Governor Shallenberger should re member the fate of the man who kicked the ladder by which he climbed. When the governor was a candidate bis references to Omaha were very much different In tone from those he is now Indulging in at meetings In the smaller cities of the state. Editor Scott of Portland says he does not care to be ambassador to Mexico. He knows" how much fun there is In directing great public in stitution like a dally newspaper and does not care to play second fiddle, even with the trappings of an ambas sador. Washington women have cleaned up the streets of the capital city. Omaha women may save their efforts until after election. The present adminis tration could not find work for all the political pluggers if the work were accomplished now. A German professor asserts whale's milk is the Ideal food. If wheat con tinues to go up some substitute for bread will be a necessity and aa all of us have whalea in the family rain barrel the information is timely. The democratic cry of "DollaV Gas" sounds a little silly when taken In con nection with the record of the demo cratic council during the last three years. Happy tlaails at tke Plow. Boston Herald. Haprv farmers who can go ahead with their planting and crop raising unhindered by tariff prospects! Aa larataatary Vpllft. Chicago Tribune. Experience shows thst resembling an un popular member of the Turkish cabinet Is fully as dsngerous as tickling the left hind foot of a temperamental mule. Keeplasr l'p elik the Procesoloa. Baltimore American. More attention should be paid by this government to aeronautics. "Frsnce. Ger many and Italy ara all ahead of the United States lit this respect. Caaatlaar Cblvkoaa Before HateklaaT St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Mr. Bryan expects to be the next senator from Nebraska If the democrats can carry the state In 11 and the present republican member, a strong campaigner, can be re tired at the end of one term. Nebraaka Is normally a republican state, and may con elude that It haa done enough for a favorite son on whom ' three strikes have been called. CHEAP FLINGS AT JUDGE, Seaator Bailey's Refleetlona Reseated la 1k Soatk. Charleston News and Courier. Senator Bailey's assertion that "there ta scarcely a federal Judge of twenty years' service In the I'nlted Statec who hd not become arbitrary.' Irritable and somewhat tyrannical" will scarcely be received seri ously in South Carolina, whose sovereign rights have been sustained In the last week by a decision of eight of the nine Justices of the supreme (federal) court of the re public. Tha truth Is that the south has every reason to be satisfied with tha decisions of the federal courts since the war between tha states. The "civil rights" decisions and tha policy of the courts in regard to the southern suffrage laws have been tha south's main defence when sectional and partisan feeling ran highest - agalnat tha south. Not all federal Judges are perfect neither ara all state judges; but tha whola people of the United States have every reason to trust the federal and state judici aries so far as any Instrument of human government can be trusted. Tha opinion of Justice White, a southern man, in the dispensary case Is no new revelation of that gentleman's admirable equipment for service In the highest court of tha land. Mr. Bailey's expression is simply aji echo of the nonsense that a olasa 01 ao-cauea statesmen nave inaufgea cur ing the last fourteen yea re. Mr. Bailey heatd a man named Bryan aay something of that kind at soma time or other and Is not conscious that he Is not original when he repents It in different words. PECULATION IN COMMODITIES. A Peraa of Gambling tkat Skoald'B oppressed. Baltimore American. On the Chicago Board of trade every year mora than ' four tlmea as much wheat Is sold aa was ever grown during any year In the whole world. The same thing, with ootbon .aa the commodity gambled In, happans on the floor of tha New ' York Cotton exchange. In " both wheat and cotton the price has often been advanced, to.. Inflated proportions by transactions thai, hays been purely gambling transactions that Is, in tha finale; no wheat or cotton has actually been transferred from seller to buyer. The main evil of gambling In products which enter Into dally consumption is that the price of the commodity Is really advanced by the process. Millers have already felt obliged to make a raise in the price of flour because of the great raise In tha price: by the manipulation of wheat "futures." Of course, those who are managing the speculative deal are putting out the talk that there Is a world shortage In wheat; that there Isn't , enough of the bread grain to go around, etc. That' sort of scare haa been worked ao often that It Is surprising that It should ever be heeded. Sully worked cotton up to 17 cents per pound by continuing to buy and keeping up the ding-dong that there was not enough cotton In tha world to supply tha demand for shirtwaists. Sully fin ished his csmpalgn "busted" and there hss been enough cotton to go round ever since. Joe Lelter sent wheat up to $2 and there was an early rumor that ha had coined millions. When the truth wss known It was found that his father, who went to his -rescue, was out 14,000, 000. A LESSON FROM GERMANY. River .laaprovesncBts aa Booster of Conaaaereo. . Philadelphia Inquirer. There are pbject lessons coming o&t of Germany which are of great Interest to Philadelphia locally and to the United States at large. '"- Germany Is adding to Ita artificial water way a a canal which will connect the Rhine with tha city of Hanover. The canal will eventually be extended to the Elbe. TO understand the significance of this under taking It must be remembered that three large rivera reach the coast from the In terior of Germany the Rhine, which pro vides tha bulk of the traffic In freight for the Netherlands city of Rotterdam; the Elbe, which gives to Hamburg Its great shipping port, and the Oder, which, passing to the eastward of Berlin, resches the Baltic at Stettin. Between these rivers run the Ems, which enters the North sea at Emden, and the Weser, which gives Bra men Its commercial importance. When tha proposed canals are completed the German traffic on the Rhine which goes to Rotter dam can be diverted to- German porta. In deed, a barge from the Rhine could be towed to Emden, Hamburg, Bremen, or Stettin. The present commerce of the German rivers is greater than that pf Germany on tha ocean. This has been made possible because the. rivers have been improved at government expense. Barges carrying, tot tons ara towed by powerful tugs and make good time even ag-alnst strong currents, freight is picked up at numerous river porta. The railways run directly to the quays and warehouses, discharge goods for tho barges, receive goods in return and tha river transportation rates ere so low that the great steamship lines running from the German seaports take aboard, cargoea that have been handled ao Inexpensively that they can be laid down In foreign countries at a profit In aplie of tariffs and ail com petition. Germany Is making all possible uas If its rivers, and this ia where cornea In tha les son which tba United States has not yet learned. Tba Inland water routes of our ewn country ara stupendous They offer cheap transportation. If wa ara to extend our rofnmerce they must be developed. A commission haa at last been authorised by congress to consider the whole matter. What la needed la progressive, systematic development that and a bond issue to prosecute tha work. Washington Life kvaaias 0f tsMdaweo a4 VwleoSeo skat Stark tba mftMl of areata at tke XfaMea's Oafttai. The passage of the census bill with a clause transferlng from the congressional pie counter to the Civil Service commis sion the appointment of enumerators pro duced gobs of grief among the army of office seekers In Washington, ft la as tlmsted that about 2,000 persons, men and women, have had shattered their hopes of finding some way to reach the federal treasury without the annoyance of a civil service examination. But congress could not overlesp one veto and the certainty of another to pleas the faithful. "Wash Ington, writes a correspondent of the Brooklyn Eagle, "is full of persons who claim legal residence In New York, Ohio and elsewhere. Perhspa they were born In those states or their fslhers were residents there before them. Hundreds of so-called New Yorkers In Washington have not been In the Empire state for five or ten years. When the government needs a large army of fresh employes these so-called New Yorkers, who have lived In Washington nearly all their lives, step to the front and grab the plums. It la figured that the limitations in the census bill will put an end to this 'hogging of government Jobs by Wash Ingtonlans." v In the blue book on "Foreign Rela tions" mad public by tha Stat depart ment last week appears some corre spondence showing thst on July 14, ltOf, Assistant Secretary Bacon mad inqui ries of the Italian ambassador regarding the status of an American, girl who ahould marry an Italian nobleman. Officials of the Stat department posi tively deny that the Interrogation had any reference to. the prospective msrrlsge of the duke of the Abruxsi and Miss Katherlne Elklns. that International romance having not been started when the Inquiry was made. Any specific statement as to the persons then Inter ested and whose marrtage was probably under consideration la refused by the of ficials. It is known that later, when the court ing of the duke of the Abruxsi was ap proaching a crisis that Senator Elklns re quested friends in Russia to ascertsln and advise him what would be the status of his daughter If she married Into tha royal family. He was notified that the marriage would be considered morganatic unless the Italian Parliament could sub sequently repeal Its legislation, leaving the marriage In the same position as If the act ' of recognition had not been passed. It Is understood here that Senator El klns did not make any request of the State department to ascertain for him the status of American women marrying either a member of the royal family or an Italian nobleman, but had the Investi gation conducted by one of his personal friends at that time In Rome. Merchants of Beattle, aroused by a report that the special Issue of stamps being pre pared to commemorate the Seattle exposi tion are to ahow a cake of ice on which la a seal dormant, have entered protests A dispatch was sent by the Chamber of Commerce to Secretary of the Interior Bal llnger urging him to make an effort to have the design changed, for one of the objects of the fair is to show the world that Alaska can raise other things besides Icebergs. The dispatch says: "A scantily clad Indian picking straw berries or a miner with his head enshrouded In mosquito netting while lie works under a blaililg sun would not be amiss, but a seal cooling his flippers on a cake of Ice is aa Inappropriate as a fur lined coat fn the Panama canal son." - ' "That the sale of Intoxicants under proper regulation helps rather than injures the cause of temperance haa a practical ex emplification in England," remarked T. J. Brune of Omaha, quoted by the Washing ton Post. "While traveling In Cheshire my attention was called to the efforts of some persona to prevent the Installation of a bar In a new workmen's club In Mlddlewich, and I was told of the experience of a simi lar organisation in Winnlmgton. The latter club waa started In 1891, on teetotal princi ples, with a desire to serve the best In terests cf the men, and $H'becsme mem bers. In 1892 the number fell to 619, the following year to 362, and the next year to til. The men had been In the custom of going to Norwich for smusement, and It was to counteract the mischief caused by these visits that the club was atarted, but no sooner had the novelty of the club worn off than the men resumed their old habits. , "In September, 1894, at the pressing re quest of the members, the club began the sale of Intoxicants, and has continued to do so. It is a fact that from that time on, I am told, the men of Winnimgton became steadier. Their wives and children were taken better care of, and their homes were better equipped with furniture. It is a remarkable fact also, that the brewer's dray Is rarely seen on the streets of Wln nlngton, and the men no longer spend their off hours in Norwich, but frequent the club, where they can get all the amuse ment they want, and if they care to drink can get whatever they desire." G. E. Winter, of Chicago, while in Wsshington, expressed the belief the Windy City will within a few years out strip New York in population and resources. "Chlcsgo," said Mr. Winter, "la bound' to be bigger than New York within the next decade. It Is almost there now and growing rapidly. It Is true aeaporta have an advantage over Inland cities, but even with thst handicap, the great metropolis of the west. Is rapidly overtaking tha city in Manhattan. Nothing can hold back ita progress. "There are other citlea In 'the west that are forging ahead with giant strides, like Denver. Omaha, Seattle, and 'Frisco," added Mr. Winter. "The east is played out, compared to the west In the matter of growth." John J. Boobar, librarian of the house of representstlves. is preparing a card Index of the Congressional Record. To Index the speeches of the Fifty-ninth congress alone required more than 20,000 cards. It Is faith ful even to the smallest detail, and' the cross-references ara abunOant enough to enable even the amateur to find that for which he is seeking. Mr. Boobar took up this work more ss a pastime thsn anything Ise. Cottlagr Oat tka Jokers. Wsshington Star. There will be no joker In the tariff bill when completed. Too many conflicting Interests are Involved. Too many experta are on guard. Every day's work in the senate will be cast up and a balance struck that evening by men capable of doing It. Particular car will be taken with the propositions submitted to the conference committee. And after ' tha conference Is ever the men advising tha president as to dstails will know their business and his wishes thoroughly. Jokers bearing against the public would be expensive to the re publicans, and many sharp eyes are on th lookout KX PARTS INJUNCTIONS. Coort of Appeals Reader m Notable Oplalow. Wsshington Herald. An interesting sequel to the remarkable railroad war of nearly two years ago In Alabama, wherein the contending forces on one side ware Governor Comer and the legislature, and en the other Judge Thomas G. Jones of the federal court and the IulavU'e ft Nashville and other railrt-sd companies, has been written In a recent oplrlon of the United Btatea court of ap peals for the Fifth Judicial circuit. Ia IMft the Alabama legislature undertook the re duction of railway passenger farea to 3',j cents a mile and the establishment cf lower freight rstes, beside providing an elaborate system of enforcement, with heavy penal ties, the whole warranted injunction proof by revisions designed to place the mechan ism of enforcement outside the Jurisdiction of the federal courts. Judge Jones, a man of strong will and positive views, when applied to by the railroads, ecunsol for which set up t;i ususl pleas of confiscation and destruction of property rights, enjoined the new statu tory rates In sweeping decrees which af fected In their term every state official charged with the execution of law. For a time It looked S If there would be open conflict between the federal c urt and the state official cf Alabama, but, after a war of words, the matters In controversy were lert to the arbitrament of the rourt. Now come the court of appeal to wipe eut every one of the Injunction Issued by Judge Jones In pursuance of what he be lieved to be Ms aworn duty, and In accord ance with hi conception of the law then existing. Since 1907. however, much water ha flowed under the judicial bridge, and ex parte Injunctions against the regulation and fixing of public service rate have be come less frequent snd less approved of in our higher court. The opinion of the court of appeal under consideration shows strongly the Influence of two recent deci sions of the United Ststes supreme court, both strongly upholding the right of public regulation of public monopolies and depre cating the InUrference of the federal court with such regulation cn ex parte claims of confiscation. We refer to the opinion of Justice Peckham. in the New York Gas company case, and to that of Justice Moody In the Knoxvllle Water company ca?. Fol lowing the precedent and the reasoning of these two decision, the court of appeal dissolved the Injunctions sgainst the Ala bama railway rates on the broad ground that no real case of confiscatlcn had been made out, that no aatlsfactory evidence hd been presented to the court thst the lower rates would hav . affected the property right of the complainants, and that the new rates were not on their fac o un reasonable as to' wsrrant their injunction without a trial. The evidence before the court consisted merely of affidavits giving opinions as to the effect of rate which had not had a day's trial. There had been no practical tet of their Influence over In come, which might conceivably have been favorable. An element of uncertainty ex isted that could only be overcome by actual test of th new rates. The practice of re quiring such a test before granting an In junction was commended. Speaking gen erally of the attitud of the court toward legislative change In railway, rate, tba opinion says: "Such statutes, not apparently extreme or unjust, should hot, in our opinion, be sus pended at all on ex parte opinion affi davits. The courts cannot, as a rule, yield their right of judgment to the opinion of Interested expert who are not even aub jected to cross-examination. If they did so. In railroad law, the regulation of rstes J would become obsolete, and In criminal law ; murder would ceaae to be a punishable crime." The opinion, aa a whole. Is a complete vindication of th right of the stat of Ala bama to regulate railroad rates, and to hav It regulative legislation given a fair trial, free from th intervention of the federal courts. , HIGHWAYS OF TRADE NEGLECTED Opaortealtle sooth 4irlra tkat Are Pasaeel Up. Springfield Republican. James O. Blaine will te longest and most honorably remembered for his earnest In sistence that the United Btatea ought to command th trad of the American conti nent. There has been brought to light a letter which he WTOte to Congressmsn Mc Klnley, nineteen years ago, that ia well worthy of reproduction, as follows: "It Is a great mistake to take hides from the free list, wher they have been for so many years. It Is a slsp In the face of the South Americans, with whom w are trying to enlarge our trad. It will benefit the farmer by adding I to I per cent to the price of his children's shoes. . It will yield a profit to the butcher (Beef trust) only, the last man that needs It. The movement is Injudicious from beginning to end in every form and phase. Please atop it be fore it sees light. Such movements as this for protection will protect the republican party only Into speedy retlremtnt." The truth of the position then taksn by Mr. Blaine ia mora generally realized by republicans today than It wa then: but, despite the wise efforts made by Elihu Root, when secretary of atate, to bind tits republics of the continent more closely to gether, our progress in that work has been less than It ought to hav been. By right of propinquity ths mills and the merchants of this country, ought to be supplying our neighbors to the south with the goods they need more fully thsn Is th esse. Our peo ple must lesrn to cater directly and Intel ligently to the trade of South America, and we make discouraging alow progress In this field. Kaslsrraista Floeklac la. PIERRE. 8. D., April (Special.) As an Indication of the manner in which new settlers are coming Into central and western South Dakota this spring, the rec ords for Waste In the west and Harrold In the central portion of th state show up a example In that line, with other place making practically equal showing. At Waata for March, forty cars of emigrant goods were unloaded, most of them being for settlors on homesteads In that part of th country. At Harrold, th record for thut month was thirty-five cars, these being' the effects of those who hsd pur chased deeded lands at prices ranging from til to t'A an acre. But all are coming to help build up the state and are showing their fslth by bringing th goods to begin active farming life In th atate, and help to Increase its productiveness. Plas Sositk Davketau PIERRE. 8. D.. April 11 (Spe clsl.) Traveler on th line be tween her and Huron ay that fully 100 power breaking outfita are to be aeen from th train between th two towns. This means that there will be an Immense amount of pralrl sod turned over this year, and whft a part of this will be planted to oat most of It will be put Into flax, which will mean tha heaviest crop of that grata ever raised In this part of th state. To Divine tke Stat. EDGE MONT. 8. D., April IT. (Special. V Th petition to put to th referendum vote th division of the stat of South Dakota ha been atarted and th voter of th Mate will be asked to sign tha petition. Industrial Expo for Gate City Proposition to Be Diicniied tt Com mercisl Club Manufacturers' Committee. F. E. Sanborn, "chairman of the manu facturers committee of the Commercial club, has called a meeting ef hi commit tee tor early In th week to discuss plans for an Industrial exposition to be held In Omaha during th early fall. The exposi tion will be a display of goods mad in Omaha. HOW HEIRS OF ENTRYMAN MAY PROVE HIS CLAIM He Mwat Skew Botk Realdeneo aad Caltlvatlo of Vmm4 roorteea Moatk. A decision- hss been received at federal headquarters from th general land efflce that Is ef general .Importance. home steaders and particularly to siren as have taken up homesteads under the Klnkald act. who are due te "prove up en their claims In the near future. The decision slate that In order' to eia ble the heir of a homestead entryman to submit commutation proof ef his entry, he must show both residence en and cultiva tion of the land for fourteen months by the entryman or the heirs, or partly by both. The same rule applies In case whepr coin mutation proof I submitted by the widow of the entryman. Heretofore it has only been necessary for an entryman or s-n heir to show either residence or cultivation of tha land for fourteen manths. rmscsAL kotes. Russian workmen dissatisfied with thr. slxe of their Easter tips killed the tipsier on th spot. In this country he ia permitted merely to starve. Thirteen Jurymen will be selected te, try a San Francisco graft case. The thir teenth I expected to ect only In case en of the dosen gets hit with a bomb or something. President Gompers of the American Fed eration of Labor, will visit Europe tills summer to study and report upon the In dustrial, sociological and econoniio condi tions of the laboring people In England, Germany, France, .Sweden and Italy. He will sail June 23. '' Announcement made that th bronse tatue of James J. Hill, which will be placed In the center of the ground at the Alaska-Yukon-Paclflc exposition In nearly completed Th statue Is of. heroic sise and will be set upon a granite pedesv tal. At the close of the exposition It will be placed permanently on tlia campus of th State university. Mrs. Tyjuls Herts was the leading rep resentative of tha California club in try ing to secure the paasage of the equal guardianship bill, which was defeated the other day In the state senate of California, and which waa dealgned to give mothers equal control with father over their child ren. Because of th defeat the Suffragists of California r redoubling their efforts for equal franchise. Glfford Plnchol, speaking In Providence last week, gave Mr. Roosevelt the credit of having atarted th movement for th conservation of th country's natural re sources. Whereupon a man present arose and said:. "Perhaps Mr, Roosevelt wa th saan behind the gup. but the .man behind the gun was Glfford Plnchot. I hav heard Mr. Roosevelt himself, aay that Mr. Pinchot originated th movement." i Tke Jok aad tke Pay New York Press. : The human race needs to learn that pay doesn't go with the Job. It goes with ths service performed In tha Job. Harrtman's Job, which Is probably wostlt 110.000,000 a year, wouldn't be worth $9 a week If It was held by a man who couldn't fill It TAB,! TRIFLES. . "What a look of admiration you had on your face while she wa singing!" "I suppose I did." "You admire her singing then?" "No, I admire ber nerve." Houston Post "He tells me hi wife ha a very strict sense of honor." "Yes?" "Just to test her be haa sent himself sev eral postcards marked 'personal,' snd he says she never reads them." Cleveland Plain Dealer. Book Agent Madam, here I an admirable work I hav on how to manage servant a. Housewife Don't want it. Yeu can't get any help In this town to manage. Book Agent Then here Is a still better series on self help. Baltimore American. The ancient Egyptian sculptor was chis eling the mouth of ths Sphinx. "I am making the smile that won't eom off," he said. ' But, alts! He neglected to make a nose that wouldn't come off. Chicago Tribune. "I can't last much longer, my dear," said old Mr. Kloseman, who waa nearlng hi end: "but, ah! It s good to think that even after death I'll be near, you and watch over you." "Well er really." replied the soon-to-be young widow. "If that's true, Silas. I'm afraid mv extravagance will pain you ter ribly." Cathvlio Standard and Tlmea. "Do you think 'that -part ' of the show which la being brought forward so prom inently la a good as It seems T" "Well, we must take at Its fac value anything which Is featured." Philadelphia Press. Deacon Hardesty Mr. Muntobura, you must come to our ehurcb next Sunday morning. The Rev. Dr. Upliff is going to preach for us. . ; Mr. Muntoburn I'm not sure I have ever heard of him. Is h such an. eloquent preacher? Deacon Hsrdesty I don't ' know about that, but he's the most wonderfully sue- . cessful r church debt raiser there Is In ths country. Chlcsgo Tribune. SPRINGTIME MEM0ME3. . . . os-apasBBB James Whttcomh. Riley. In spring, whan th fren gits back in the trees, . ' And the sun comes out and stays, And yer boots pull on witn a. guod, tight squeese, ' - ' And you tnlnk of yer barefoot days; When you ort to work and you want te not. And you and yer wife agrees It's time to spade up the garden tot. When th green git back in tbe trees Well 1 work 1 th least o my Idee When th green, you know, gits back Jn lb trees 1 When th green git back In lli tree, and beea Is a-bussln" roun' again In that kind of a lasy go-ss-you-pleas Old gait they bum roun' in; When th groun all bald wher th hay rick stood. And th crick's rts, and th brees Coaxes ths bloom In th old dogwood. And th gwn git back In the tree I Ilk, aa I say. In sleh scenes as these, The time when the green gits back in th trees! ' ' ' . When the whole tsllfeathers o' winter tlm Is all pulled out and gone! And th sap it thaws snd begins to Climb, And th swest it starts out on A fellers forred. a-STtllln' down . At the old spring on Ms (tDees-. I klndo' like jest a-loafln' roun' When l he green gtta back In th tree Jest a-pottertn' roua' aa I dura plesse, When the green, rett know, gti back U th tree. , (