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TTTE BEE: OMAHA,- MONDAY, JULY 19, 190!).' Tim Omaha Daily Bee FOUNDED BT EDWARD ROBE WATER. VICTOR HOSE WATER, EDITOR. Entered at umthi postofflce as second clsss matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally ? (without Punter) one year.."" Dally Bee and Sunday, on year -W DEUVERED BT CARRIER. Dally Bee (Including Piinday), per weefc..1&e Dally life (without Sunday), per week..lo Evening Rm (without 8'mday), per week n Evening Be (with Sunday), per week..lK- Hundsy Bee, one year tt W Saturday Bee, one year I W Address all complaints of Irregularities In delivery to City Circulation Department OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha Twenty-fourth and N. Council Bluff 15 Scott Street. Lincoln 618 Little Building. I'hlrago IMS Marquette Building. New York-Room 1101-UOJ No. .M West 1 hlrty-thlrd Street. Washington 726 Fourteenth Street, N. W. ' CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edt t rial matter should be addressed: Omaha Doe, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to Tbe Bee Publishing Company. Only 1-cent stamps' received In payment of mall accounts. Personal check, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, pot aocepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Stnte of Nebraska. Douglas County, s.: George B. Tssohuek, treasurer of The ltee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, says that the aotual number of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sundsy Bee printed during the month of June, I'M, was as follows: 1 41,870 IT 1 41,380 18 41.860 3 41.980 . It 41,880 4 41,880 tO 40,000 8 41.690 81 41,760 0 99,800 tt .... 41,870 7 1B0 93... 41,860 8 41,640 94 41,70 t ,, 41,630 83 44,640 10 41,660 94) 41,680 11 ;.; 41,630 97 40,030 19 49,040 98 41.TM 13 40,300 89 41,70 14 48.970 80 41,670 15 41,940 16 41,840 Total. .1,847,900 Returned Copies.,,.,....... ., 9,290 Net Total 1,938,080 Dally Average.". 41,t GEORGE B. TZ3CHUCK. Treasurer. Subscribed In my presenre and sworn to before me this 1st day of July, 1!K. (Seal) M. P. WALKER, Notary Public Subscribers leaving; the city tem porarily should have The Dee mailed to them. Address, will be rhaaged as often as rvqaested. Omaha Is In for sky-scrapers, but not for a sky-scraper city tax rate. Our new minister to China, Charles It. Crane, ought to be able to help lift that country out of the rut. I A rye face presented at the proper place often defeats the Intent of tbe most stringent prohibitory law. Atlantic City has voted a tax on baby carriages. Just wait until ex Presldent Roosevelt hears of It Some of the congressional ball play ers may be asked by their constituents to explain how they got to first base On a pass. The attack on the legality of 3,000 Chicago marriages may not be an un mixed evil if It saves a whole lot of work for the divorce court. An Ohio saloonman bought an ele phant for advertising purposes. Prob ably wanted to demonstrate to, his cus tomers what a real thirst looked like. The Old shah of Persia declined to receive a deputation to inform him that be was out of the shah business. He already knew it, and repetition is painful.' - A man's cork leg saved him from drowning near New York the other day, which 1b proof of the old saw that afflictions are sometimes blessings In dlBguUev'. Another member of the Bayard fam ily has assumed the leadership of the Delaware democracy, which would In dicate there Is something In a name la Delaware at least . "Let the people rule" Is the demo cratic slogan, but the only people who have any license to rule are those who congregate habitually in the Dahlman Democracy club rooms. Mr. Bryan Insists that Mr. Taft's statement on the tariff is equivocal. MV. Bryan is "purposely obtuse," for every member of the conference) com mittee underftanda what he meant i How unkind to rol the paragraph ers of their chance by stating in the announcement that it was not a Bap tist church in Washington which had put a swimming pool In the basement Things have surely come to a pretty pass when the Dahlinanltes are driven to the necessity of drafting candidates for olP.ce. Democratic confidence In a successful result must be considerably below par. The wild and woolly west is not the only place where the bandit flourishes. That trick turned on the German-Russian frontier would have done credit to the boldest stage robbers of Ameri can pioneer days. Attorney Oeneral Wlckersham as serts that It will be easy for-any cor poration which desires to do so to comply with the proposed tax law. Un doubtedly true, but corporations no more than individuals like to pay taxes. John W. Kern of Indiana men tlqn his residence lest sonv night have forgotten tha gentleman Is out , In an address scoring the democrats who voted (or high tariff duties. Whether these democratic senators are right or wrong, from a party view point, they have one thing In their favor they carried their own states tot tall , - t ... Excenire Express Ratei. The Interstate Commerce commis sion has formally held that express rates on Interstate business are too high and ordered the various com panies to submit new tariffs on or be fore October 1. 'A' formal complaint on the rate from New York to Boise, Ida., opened up the entire Question and developed a number of Important facts. ' One of them was that while practically all express rates were too high, rank discrimination was being practiced against all points reached by only one company and where goods were transported over the lines of mora than one company to reach their destination an exorbitant charge was being made for transfer. While the larger problems of rail road freight transportation were threshed out, the express companies escaped serious notice, but it was only a question of time when their ex actions Would be reached, though it has been a matter of common knowl edge that they practiced discrimina tions more flagrant than those of the railroads and paid enormous dividends on a small actual capitalization. The express business is a vital part of present-day commerce and Its reg ulation is part of the regulation of In terstate carriers. The rates charged, according to the commission's find ings, are so lacking In system and so chaotic that it will be a difficult prob lem for the commission to make the needed readjustment unless the com panies respond in good faith to the or der for rate revision and abolition of discriminations. Japan Desires Peace. One of the most notable and Im portant contributions to recent inter national discussions Is the Interview with Prince Ito of Japan on the as pirations and alms of his country. Probably no other man Is so well qual ified to speak for Japan as Prince Ito, both from the standpoint of authority and knowledge. His declaration that, above all things, Japan desires peace Is reassuring, particularly as it is coupled with reasons which apparently guarantee his sincerity. , Never a rich country, It Is a matter of commoa knowledge that Japan is struggling to recuperate from the waste of Its great war with Russia and that national de velopment Is straining Its resources. Japan's position bow 1b too well es tablished for wise men to jeopardize It by deliberately engagTng In needless wars. The Ito statement should, reas sure many in this country who pretend to believe that Japan seeks to assail the United States. Prince Ito's an alysis of Chinese conditions is fully as significant as his outline of his own country's ambitions. Without partak ing of tha yellow peril hysteria, he clearly points out that the situation is pregnant with dangers against which the world must look for relief to the wise men of China itself. In this he Is at (Variance with the large school of foreign political doctors who advocate continued Intermeddling and coercion, a policy against which tbe United States has always contended. The two theories are based on different concep tions of what the unrest in China means, the yellow pell advocates In sisting that It Is a menace to all the rest of the world, while Prince Ito sees in It possible destruction and disin tegration of the empire itself. . If Japanese statesmen can assist In guiding China through Its perils they will have accomplished a great thing for Japan, China and the rest of the world. . - . Shortage of European Crept. European erop conditions hold out no promise of lower prices for Ameri can grain. Over half the grain-producing sections of Europe are reported below the average and In some sec tions much below, while in the most favored places they are not above normal. This Indicates conclusively that there will be an active demand for the surplus food grains of the United States and Canada because the reserve crops of the southern hemisphere and storage In Europe Is rather below than above the average. Should there be abundant crops In Argentina and elsewhere in the south ern hemisphere the demand may les sen In December and January, . but that it too far In the future to Influ ence prices for tbe present or Immedi ate future. With the increasing home consump tion and an assured market at good prices for any surplus the United 8tates may have, our farmers need not worry about commanding good prices for this year's yield of grain. County Commissioner Kennard. There Is a touch of the pathetic In the death of County Commissioner Kennard, which will cause the com munity more than the usual regret at the loss of a conscientious public offi cer. Mr. Kennard' was just complet ing a second term as member of the county board, and cherished the hope that his health, although noticeably falling, would still permit him to present himself for another vote of confidence in the form of a re-election, which would undoubtedly have been accorded had the people been given the opportunity. As a member of tia board, as well as in the capacity of private citizen, Mr. Kennard left a record most cred itable to himself, and commanding the grateful approval of tbe taxpayers to safeguard whose Interests he partlcu uarly concerned himself. His part In paving tbe way and Instituting the preliminaries for a new court house, commensurate with the growing needs of the largest dry and county in the state, will find commemoration In that handsome building when completed. Mr. Ktanard'a public service, although never of the sensational or gallery play variety, will be universally con reded a substantial and faithful per formance of duty, fully justifying the high esteem In which he was held by all who came In contact with him. June Importa and Exports. Treasury statistics for June show that for the first time since 1807 the Imports Into the United States exceed the exports. This is not necessarily alarming, for It emphasizes the falling off of foodstuffs exports, due to en larged home consumption, coupled with only a moderate crop. It Is of partic ular Interest that the figures show a large increase In raw materials Im ported for domestic manufacture and also of partly manufactured goods for finishing In this country and in addi tion a large Increase In the exports of American manufactured goods. 'The Imports of raw materials are the nat ural result of the revival of Industry In the United States. Significant of Industrial develop ment Is the statement of manufactured goods exported to Europe. In 1895 the total was only 162,600,000, while for the year ending July 1, 1909, it was $173, 000,000, a gain of almost 20 per cent. Exports of manufactured goods to other parts of the world also show a gratifying increase. Exports of foodstuffs are always limited by home consumption and crop yields and cannot be enlarged materially through special effort but there is no limit to exports of manufactures, except ability to compete with other nations and thereby finding a market. So far as production Is concerned there is prac tically no limit In the manufacturing field. As a manufacturing nation the United States leads the world, but it leads mainly through the immense home consuming power, our foreign trade In manufactures being still In significant in comparison with that of Qreat Britain, Germany and France. As indicative of national growth It is encouraging that American manufac turers are rapidly gaining a stronger position in foreign lands. A diversified foreign market means stability and more steady employment for American labor as well as enlarged production. The Lincoln Star seems to be greatly alarmed for fear some of the coming state conventions may indorse candi dates before the primaries. It is true there Is nothing in the law to prevent such an indorsement, and if all tha candidates who are filed would agree to submit their claims to the conven tions of their respective parties It would probably be the best thing pos sible for all concerned. In the ab sence of such an agreement on the part of the candidates, however, no conven tion Is' likely to load itself down with unnecessary grief. It is plain enough that the city coun cil has let the heads of the various municipal departments make up the budget without questioning the de mands of any of them or inquiring carefully as to whether the requested appropriations could be reduced with out serious detriment to the public service. To take the words of those who spend the money, appropriations out of the city treasury can never be too large, but If the Interest of the tax payers are consulted the limits of ex penditures can be held down. Will some one explain why we have not had an outburst for many weeks about the water furnished Omaba be ing contaminated and requiring filtra tion or boiling before using7 Isn't it the same water we have been getting all the timet Or Is It because the water bond election Is dead and burled? Or may we expect the water to become suddenly germ-laden again as soon as the Water board wants an other vote of confidence. Not one of our Nebraska delegation In congress got on either base ball team to decide whether the pennant should fly over the republican or over the democratic slde of tbe house. Candidates for congress from the sev eral Nebraska districts should be re quired next time to qualify by a test on the base ball diamond. John D. Rockefeller declares that if he had his life to live over he would do the same things again. We cer tainly hope John D. will change his mind in his reincarnation, for with the knowledge gained by previous experi ence there would be no telling what he might not do another time. After spending 105 days ' walking from New York to San Francisco, Pedestrian Weston has concluded that be does not like it there and will walk back. If he' will put Omaha on his rqtum itinerary he may find some thing that suits him and save a part of bis Journey. If-you read It in the local democratic organ, when President Taft makes his trip to the Seattle exposition It will be "a junketing tour," but when Governor Shallenberger heads in the same direc tion It will be simply a little outing. That's democratic nonpartlsanshlp. Although the city attorney of Lin coln resigned because of overwork and underpay, strangely enough no trouble seems to have been encountered In se curing another attorney of high stand ing to take the place. The maximum and minimum fea ture of the new tariff bill will have a' chance to go j& work, as soon as It becomes a law, on those French tariff discriminations. Two men were killed, two fatally wounded in Mississippi In a battle over a cow and after It was all over the only peaceful thing In the com munity was the cow, which continues calmly to chew Its cod. Aa Opening ter Strategists. Pittsburg Dlpatch. While all the Persians are fighting In stead of weaving- It would be a food stunt for some American financial strategist to get a corner on artlstlo ruga. . One Variety Lsteklnv. at. Louis Times. Those much-heralded new lavatories In the $4.060, 000 senate office building are de signed to furnish every known variety of bath except the Immunity kind. Aa Kmphatte. Warning. Wall Street Journal. After a few more examples of the folly of trlng to smuggler dutiable articles into America perhaps people will learn to be as honest with the government as with an Individual. Will He Guarantee Paneralf Boston Transcript Castro's prayer to be permitted to die In his native land would probably be granted could he give satisfactory assurance that there would be no delay In his utilisation of the privilege once accorded to him. Old World Strennoslty. Boston Herald. Our side of the world Isn't holding Its own with the other aide for political ructions. Peril In Persia, continued trouble In Turkey, agitation In Arabia, India and Egypt uneasy, and now an upstart Rhogl capturing the holy capital of Morocco. Truly, the heathen do rat. Raral Foatof flees Van labia. Louisville Courier-Journal, tip to the year IMS, the number of post erities in the United States constantly In creased. Since that year the number haa been diminishing. In 1901 the number of offices waa 74,169. In 1908 the number was CLISg. With the extension of rural delivery the rural postoffloe la vanishing. Problem of Keeping Cool. New Tork Sun. The whole question of keeping cool dur ing the neated term resolves itself Into a question of motion and diet. If yoit wish to be warm rush about and drink Iced water or tee,, gunle alcohol and beer, and read the tariff debates. Vloe versa, drink warm tea, discard meat and alcohol, but not your flannels. In the tropics they eat hot spiced food. There's a reason. Among the Tall tenders. New Tork World. Out of 130,796,27 spindles in work In all the world at the beginning of last March the United Kingdom had nearly (3,(00,00 and the United States a little less than 23. 000,000. Of other countries trailing along, Germany led the lint with almost 10,000,000. Of the cotton supply of the world for the season 1907-1908 Americans fields furnished over 12,000,000 bales In a total of 14,307,000. We have the crops and the tariff, but the empire of the spinners Is still beyond our gates. Meager National Reward. Cincinnati Enquirer. Congress has many times given Its vote of thanks to commanders of Its armies or navies, and occasionally freely scattered bronse medals for special acts of bravery, but its recognition of great services in science or art have been very Infrequent, evidently forgetting that "peace has Its victories no less 'renowned ' than war. When our fathers broke away from the mother country and' established a republic. In tlielr haste to out from the new government the: bad-features of the old they went to the extreme and forgot to leave in some things that are good. IlEAL THING), IM THIRSTS. Kansaaa Choose Between the Gov ernor and a Loaded Locker. St. Paul IDispatch. We have been hearing much. If not too much, about the manner In which the prohibition laws are being enforced In Kansas, but the latest reports from that state show that the Kansas thirst has not been conquered, but Is alive, potent and far-reaching. The Illustration of this fact comes In a report from Topeka, to the effect that the Topeka olub, described as "the height of Kanaas swelldom" haa voted to keep its "locker" system, even at the penalty of losing the governor of the state aa a member. The test came when Governor Stubbs wrote to the directors of the olub stating that, as governor of a prohibition state, he would not belong to an organisation which maintained a "locker" system built to ac commodate liquors for members. The di rectors took the matter under advisement. They agreed without a dissenting vote that they were fond of the governor, but that when It came to getting along without a governor or without their boose, they would try leaving the governor's name off the list of members. In effect, the de clared, "We love you. Governor, but oh, you boose." WESTON'S WONUBRFVL. FEAT, Footing; tt from Ooeaa to Ocean In One Handred Days. St Louis Times. The extraordinary feat just accomplished by Edward Payson Weston eclipses any endurance performance of record. He started to walk' from New Tork to San Francisco In 100 days. The distance he traversed is reckoned to be 1,975 miles. Practically he "walked forty miles a day for three and a half months. The fact that Weston was five days behind his schedule at San Francisco In no way detracts from the merit of his performance as a marvel In athletics. He was not trying to break a record, but to make one. No other man ever went so far afoot so fast. A North American Indian of the virgin time might have been capable of crossing the continent In 100 days; some of the hardier African tribesmen might be capable of such recurrent fatigues, but we doubt either probability. No Marathon runner, no four-footed beast ever foaled, sould duplicate Weston's speed from the Hudson to the Golden Gate. If the old man had not suffered incipient sunstroke In the Sacramento valley which caused htm to falter, but could not make him stop' he might have met the rough-hewn schedule ha had set for himself. Weston's accomplishment, however, is In no sense a triumph for American ath letes or an American system ef athletics. It la a performance purely personal. It Is an achievement of Edward Payson Weston himself, and probably no other walker In the world could equal it. Think yout This man Is threescore and ten years old. He lacked much helpful at tention. He waa not mollycoddled on his way. Many hardships other than those of his mere pedestrlanlslng he endured. Behind the salient birth-given and prso-tloe-molded Iron constitution and steel muscles of the man, behind bis Indomitable force of will, lay a life of temperance and three-score years' devotion to open air exercise. Frugal In diet and sparing of stimulant, Weston, even at 70 years, was trained to the hour by the habits of a longer lifetime than falls to most. His feat Is a fine and significant expression ef what temperance may la some measure do tor any ef ue Persian Politics Revolt, What It Partes da, and the .maters ef te oetswy. The success ef the nationalist forces ef Persia In driving the obstinate Mohammed All Mlrta from the throne and Installing his son, twejve years of age, as shah, marks an epoch In the country's affairs as Impressive aa the recent upheaval In Turkey. Both are political convulsions springing from like cause despot lo Indif ference to the needs and demands of the governed. The change In Persia haa a deeper significance than a change of rulers. Colonel Mesrop Nevton Khan, for mer secretary of the Terslan legation In Washington and at one time aide-de-camp of Muzsaffar-el-dln, grandfather of the new shah, In an Interview In the New Tork Sun explains the motives of the lead ers and what the changes signify. Ife says: "The present difficulties In Persia Illus trate one very salient fact, and that la that Mohammedlam aa a political agent Is a failure. Ws see It In Morocco, Tunis, Algiers, Egypt and now In Persia, This revolt means that the Independence of Persia seems to be doomed. "After the Russian-Japanese wrr Russia became tractable and she and England divided Persia up Into "spheres of Influ ence,' Russia taking the north and Eng land the south. For more than a year the Turkish troops have been' In the west ern part of Persia. They moved right In and have ruled there ruthlessly. I look for no conflict between them and the Russians at present. The Russians will probably wait until the Turks find them selves tied up In political and military operatlona elsewhere and then will politely Invite them to move out of Persia which they may do, "When the troubles arose over the con stitution and tt was abrogated the outly ing provinces wouldn't have it Previous to that these provinces had seat In com plaints about their local and provincial rulers, men who had lived by graft and who had ruled moat arbitrarily and often cruelly, and these were removed. They all came to Teheran and they surrounded the shah. "Instead of listening to the good advlee of the foreign ministers about constitu tional government and making the beat of things, the shah listened to the army of dlsgrunted ones. He also objected to the doings of the Ignorant parliament The members were unfit to rule ever the coun try. The people knew nothing of repre sentative government "Parliament annoyed the shah by Inter fering with his prerogatives and meddling with the finances. Before that time the shah was his own finance minister. All the revenues of the kingdom were his. He took what he liked for himself, and if there was anything left over he -paid sal aries to his government . agents. It an noyed him to have this privilege of han dling the money Interfered with, and he listened to the malcontents. "The shah haa never had an army. The fighting spirit has nearly disap peared from the Persians. Tha so called Cossacks are simply a brigade of Persians In Teheran, wearing uniforms like the Russian Cossacks, and hence the name. They have Russian officers also. Outside of this force, at Teheran the shah's army Is one on paper. His Cos sack force is now outside Teheran and can't get In. Its military strength prac tically amounts to nothing. "The Russians are already In control of -Tabrls, which la really the most Impor tant city of Persia, The force that Is sweeping down or Teheran came largely from Baku, In the Russian oil fields by the Caspian sea. "On some accounts it Is fortunate that the nationalists now occupying Teheran, which consist chiefly of the Baktlarl tribe from the south and west arrived there first The shah is probably at his summer palace at Sahabgranleh, twenty miles or so from Teheran. He can do nothing there. The reform element la In the saddle. It Is not offending the for eign powers. It Is trying to re-establish parliament "Russia and England will really rule, and the complications will come when Turkey Is Invited to move out of the west. For a year there has been an archy. This must come to an end,, and It means, as I have said, the doom of tbe Persians as an Independent people.' There being only six miles of railroad In Persia, no one cares particularly what time It la, "and noon of one day aa an nounced by the firing of a cannon at the drill ground may differ by aa much aa half an hour from noon of the next day without arousing comment. One of the servanta of the municipality of Teheran Is told off io the sole duty of winding an eight-day clock In one of the towers; "be tween which there Is nothing for him to do but smoke his water-pipe and alp his tea. Sunset according to the Persian reckoning, is always at 11" o'clock mid night Saloons are non-existent but arak (made from raisins, containing 90 to 10 per cent Of alcohol) and native wtnea can always be purchased at any of the ahopa In the basar, Slnoe the Koran, while It con demns alcohol, haa nothing to say about opium, many who religiously eschew alco holic Indulgence find solace la the degrad ing and deleterious practice et opium smoking. As for transportation, Teheran boasts a systsm of horse cars a very good horse can be bought for 0 and there Is one little toy railroad six miles In length ruiy nlng from -the city gate, where the horse cars stop, to the Moslem shrine of Shah Abdul Astn, The horse cars obligingly pause In front of the cafea and wait If the passengers choose to take refreshment or a pull at the long stemmed water-pipes, for the hurly-burly and hustle of western civilization are utterly Incomprehensible In the alow-going, placid country of Iran. The difference In railway fare between the first and third classea, for the ene ride It Is possible to take, Is 1 cents; and the first-class pasaenger enjoys a cup of tea for nothing. The villas of the wealthy residents of Teheran and their abundant gardena are In the cooler, ele vated hill retreats on three sides of the city. From June until November Is the dry seaaon. during, the rest of tha season the purlieus of the city are themselves mad beautiful with all manner of blos som and fruition. Strain oa the President. Boston Herald. President Taft is said to show in his face the effects of offlolal care. The cam era even haa eought him without bis smile. No wonder. During the past tew months he has traveled enough and made speeches enough to kill a horse. And many 6f his tasks have been the result of .wholly un necessary demanda upon time and strength that ought to be aaved to matters far more Important . Emharraaalag Spills. Chicago Record-Herald. General Plcquart the French minister Of war, was thrown from hie horae while parading In front of 00,000 troops and 500,000 spectators. He must have felt as badly em barrassed aa a man who spills soup on the tablecloth when he la invited out to dla- ' . . . - NONPARTISAN JVDICIART. Attempting Too Mack Rendered Jfe trash Act Inralld. Chicago Record-Herald. It la not surprising that la the progress toward direct primaries, and beyond that toward nonpartlnanshlp In certain nomina tions, occasional mistakes are made In the framing of Iowa, In Illinois, for example, the primary laws have been made uncon stitutional by the machinations of enemjes of their passage. But sometimes even the friends of such legislation will violate nec essary constitutional limitations. This latter appears -to have been the case In Nebraska wtlh the new state law de signed to take nominations for Judicial and educational office entirely out of party hands. This law went so far aa to prohibit political parties from in any manner what soever Indorsing, recommending, censuring, criticising or referring to any candidate for state or county offices of these two kinds. Now the supreme oourt of the state has held that the prohibition violates the provisions of the bill of rights In the state constitution granting ' the rights of free speech and free assemblage. The law might perhaps, have been sus tained with the elimination of this clause, but there were still other defect In It It contained a prohibition against using more than BOO names from any one county In the nominating petition of any oandidate for ehlef Justice or judge of the supreme oourt Thla provision, designed to compel Candi dates to have more than a strictly local following, appeared to the court as an in terference with the constitutional require ment that elections must be free and with out hindrances to the exercise of the fran chise. As a majority of the court regarded thla clause essential to the purpose of the law, the law waa set aside entirely. If the Nebraska law had eontented Itself with prescribing what should not appear on the official ballot there Is no reason to think It would not have been UDheld Doubtless the Nebraska legislature at the next opportunity will paas an amended bill, securing all that Is possible for the present In this direction. A constitutional convention ultimately can consolidate and complete the reform. ' PUT A RAN ON COCAINE. Easiest Drug to lee and Moat Dan gerous tn Effect. . Philadelphia North American. Of all the vicious, habit forming, char acter and health wrecking drugs, cocaine Is the easiest drug of all to use. It Is bought aa a solid, white substance. It Is then crushed, with a pencil usually, then taken upon the thumb and sniffed Into the nose, precisely like snnff. It Is one of the most exhilarating of all drugs. Later there are terrible reactions, until the "fiend" has to use the drug constantly to bf even decently ' comfortable. Finally there are complications and he dies. Statistics concerning the results of co caine are lacking. But It has been In every city as It has been In Philadelphia, where It was proved In open court that scores of boys and girls In this city are addicted to the cocaine habit; that pur veyors of the drug have even approached the pupils of the public schools, and that the opiate can be obtained In almost any part of the Tenderloin. Police officials have had good cause to learn that one result of the use of the drug is to breed in the "fiend" the desire to make converts to Its use. And In most cases the choice falls upon children of tender years. The schools for thieves, the eolteges of crime of the modern Faglna that exist In every large city, find cocaine tbe most potent of the corrupting Influences necessary for the. education of the Juvenile pickpocket and sneak thief. For the aake of that whole race, for the sake of the children forced dally Into con tact with evil In congested city districts, for the sake of the humanltarlanlsm that Is causing the whole world to help lift the ourse of opium from China, let us;look at home and force congress to take the first step toward casting out the devil of cocaine. PERSONAL NOTES. Attorney General Jefferson D. MoCarn of Nashville, who successfully prosecuted the Coopers for tbe murder of Senator Carmack, Is to be a candidate for governor of Tennessee, General Castro Issuing proclamations from Santander, Spain, Is a droll failure as an exiled Napoleon planning his return from Elba. No steamship company would sell him a ticket home. Qeorge' W. Emery, who died reoently at his home In Marshfleld, Mass., was terri torial governor, of Utah during the admin istration of President Grant. At one time he praotlced law tn the office of Benjamin F. Butler in Beaton. One of the great hotels of New Tork will have as an adjunct a splendid yacht so that guests may be taken to Europe with out having to touch ebows with the merely respectable. But alas, they must use the same wind and waves, and the common variety of seasickness. Cruel husbands will take notice that Judge Honors of Chicago, In granting a decree of separation to Mrs. Arthur Lw Al drlch, on the ground of cruelty, haa fixed her alimony at half Mr. Aldrlch's Income, with halt his estate, valued at 1600,000, when the estate la awarded. The supreme court of Minnesota, having annulled an act of the degislature ap propriating 8600,000 for highway Improve ments Governor Johnson Is considering the calling of an' extra session of the leg islation for the purpose of submitting a constitutional amendment permitting state assistance for good roads. If the call Is Issued It Is likely the governor will In clude consideration of the proposed In come tax amendment to te federal con stitution. 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Whatever else may have been ac-oi pllshed when the extra session shall have Xkk finally adjourned, the signs and portents seem already to warrant the conclusion that the democratle party will have be. a split asunder, divided hopelessly, anil i-. revocably, by the divergence of view th..' has developed among the stalwarts of tl.e party upon the tariff Issue. The "Sv! l South" la already a mlsnmrner In polttk u nomenclature when tbe politics has refn . ' ence to tariff policy. Texas and Alabama are entirely at outs when It comes to fix ing a principle upon which the tarlft should be readjusted.' Texas, being yet mainly an agricultural state, srfws a disposition to stand pat upon thw ancient theory of a tariff for revenue only. In a fecett Issue the Hous ton Post argues thus: "The south la a producing section. Its chief resources are raw materials and It will never consent to compete In the markets of the worM on what Is sells and be confined to the American market for what It buys. It will object to selling Its wool, hides, imiikIi rice, raw sugar and other products on a free-trade basis, and buying Its clothing, ahoea, dressed rice, refined ' suk-nr and hardware on a protection basis." Title sounds truly like a whoop hahded down from the Roger Q.' Mills perktd. But Texas needs only a -few more c i- ton mills and a few more blast furnaces to bring about the same change ef view upon Uift matters which has come to Virginia, North Carolina, Alabama, Ten nessee and Loulslna. At present it seems that the demoo ratio party, 'as a national organisation, has no common ground to stand on. Its last formal declaration the Denver platform haa been completely dis regarded by more than half the represen tation of the party.ii). the United States senate and has been treated with not much greater regard by the party representation In the house. The sage of Lincoln, Neb., spesklng through hla personally conducted organ, The Commoner, remarks. In a recent Issue: "The .cause of the people Is moving forward; even the enemies of the public are, by their opposition, making- more clear the distinction between democracy and plutocracy." Whatever this oracular utterance may mean the fact la probably not lost upon so acute an observer as Mr. Bryan that the party for which he assumes to be spokesman Is Irretrievably divided and completely adrift MIRTHFUL REMARKS. "The artist over the way was boasting to me thsx his work IS now being hung on the line." "Humph I So Is his wife's." Baltimore American. "I don't see that her college education has Improved her much." , "No?" "No. She helps her mbther with the housework Just as If she hadn't been edu cated." Detroit Free Press. "How can you reconcile your previous statements with your present opinions?" "I don't want to reconcile 'em," answered Senator Sorghum. "My desire Is to keep them so far apart that they can be con sidered as strangers." Washington Star. "He's a regular contributor to your pa per. Isn't he?" asked the caller. "Oh, yea," replied the city editor, "but we haven't used any of his stuff for years." "But I thought you said he was a regular con tributor?" "So I did. He contributes Just the same." Yonkera Statesman. - "Young man," said the stern parent, "when I was your age I'had to work for a living." "Well, sir," answered the frivolously In clined youth, "I'm not to blame for that, I have always disapproved of my grand father's attitude. li,, the aoatter.I'mtfhloago Record-Herald. Rankin Why don't you open a savings account? - , Fyle I guess I'll have to; they've shut down on me where I've been running a spending account Chicago Tribune. Sociologist Do you have much trouble keeping down expenses? The Toller Not so much as keeping up the revenue. -Milwaukee Journal. "Old chap, what are you a-rowlntt those umbrageous side whiskers for?" "I'll tell you If you won't say anything about It. I know of a lg department store where there's going to be a vacancy In the floorwalkers Job in few weuka, and I'm going to apply for it" Chicago Tri bune. "Harold," said the young woman, reso lutely, "I promised my mother I never would marry any man without asking him how he stood on the great .question of woman suffrage. You will have to itell me how you stand." "I'm opposed to It, Bella," bluntly an swered the young man. , "Well er that's ail I promised mamma; I didn't bind myself to refuse any good man Just because he now, Harold, yoei stop that)" Chicago Tribune. TEST OF A nSHERMAN; Detroit Free Press.' ' ' The world has many anglers, but Real fishermen are fewi An angler loves to sit and chat About the sport with you. He'll tell you how he loves the game, How he could spend all day Caating a baited hook for bass In rlvsr, lake or bay. And yet the angler Is a man Oh, there are lots of them Who will not quit his bed to fish At 4 o'olock a. m. The 'fisherman, will rise at dawn. And quickly slip away To cast his line Into the deep Before It's break of day. The angior, though, the night before Will swear that he will rise, But when the fisherman gets up. It Is In vain he tries To rouse the angler from his sleep He sticks unto his cot; To flshf Well, X guess not The fisherman will row a boat For miles and miles and mllea, And, catching but a fish or two. His faoe Is wreathed in amilee. The angler wants a cushioned seat And room to stretch and yawn; A place to sleep It they don't bite And weariness comes on. -The morning star knows fishermen. And smiling, welcomes them; The anglers, though, tt never sees - They sleep till (t, m, See "Tone's Spier Talks." . : ..V.-,vr attured hy the air-tight cook book. Ask