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TIIF, BEK: OMATTA. TIIfKSDAY. JfLY 20. 1900. Tire Omaha Dmly Re rOL'NDEI) BY rUWARD ttoSF.'VATKIl. VICTOR P.O.-KWATER. KDITOU. F.ntered at omaha poetofrice as second class muter. terms or SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Bee (without Sundnyl one year.. I TO I'aily K" and Sunday, one year --0J fiF.I.I V'KRHi BY CAKRIKR. Tally Pee (Including Hunflayl. per week..!: Iallv Bee (mlthout honnayj. pr .10 very to City OFFICES. Omaha-The Bee Building. South Omaha-Twanty-fourth and :s. Council Bluffs-15 Hoott Htreet. Unroln1l Utile Building. Chlcsgo-lM Marquette Hulldlng. New York-Rooms 1101-1KU No. S4 est Thirty-third Street. - Washlngton-72 Fourteenth Ptreet, N. -CORRESPONDENCE. Communications reletlng to news and edi torial matter ahould be addressed: Oinaha Bee, Editorial Department. RKMITTANCF.8. Remit hv draft express or posts! order, p..b ) to The Bee Publishing Company Onl? I rant .tamp, received ln p.rni.nl of mall accounts. Personal . he, "cept " Omaha or eastern eachangee. not accepted. STATEMENT OF C1RCCDATION. State of Nebraska. Douglas bounty. ss . : Oenrge R. Tsschnck. treasurer of The Publishing Company, being duly sworn says that the actual nurnner of " na complete copies of The De llv Mo'nln. Evening and Sunday Be printed during mo month of June was as follows 41.880 41,850 41 850 1 41.37V t 41.380 41,180 4 41,850 41.80 18,100 V 41,480 44,040 t 41,030 10 41,680 11 41.830 IS 48,040 13 40,800 14 43.870 18 41,840 18 i 41,840 18 IB 80 81 88 83 84 88 88 40.000 41,780 4.M 87 88 88 80 40 030 41.790 41,780 41,870 .i 1.947.300 Returned Coplee. M Net Total 1,838,080 1 . tallr Ararat- UKORUIS a. 1 V.a-n i rw. Treasurer. - .nd .worn to before , . thl. 1st "WALKER Notary Publto. Raibacrlbonra leawlaa? F ,rm" porarllr afcowM hare Tbe B mailed to eoa. Addre-ea wtll be cbaaaed mm ofte aa requested. In the populist lexicon nonpartisan- ship still means plsymg tau u me democratic kite. ' When Jim Hill agrees to boost Omaha's coming Corn show it insures a good, big boost. Tba tariff aviators found Mr. Taft too heavy a load to lift and they were forced to come down. Tbero U considerable discussion go- ing on as to what is net income. a the man who has one. fond dead with A Chicago man was a half smoked cigar In his hand. My, h.,r those Chicago cigars must hB but l nose tBW flerco. t ..t. si roq to secure a divorce tn Eneland but there are some advan- ..... in that you do not have to live a . r, year in Reno. aMaMsawaaaaaaa I ui,. r,,Ment of Colombia sent his reainatlon by cable from Germany, That was probably safer tnan aenver- . ing It In person. Bpeeders' pictures In the roughes' gal- lery. Up to date that is the first effort to classify them. Indications are that the battle- Evening Bee (without r.-moa ). V" "' in" 1 deavored to befog the issues ny insin fJAtJt protestations of adherence to AdeV. .r,V."V.r1rr;(li..'.nU? m spurious nonpartisans!. Circulation -jne repUDlican declaration " scarred veterans of the tariff war will commend itself to everybody, except be homo before long to tell their con- perhap8 a limited few who think them stltuents all about U. selves entitled to special privileges, The only kind of a platform which republicana could adopt with the ap- proval of the democratic organs would be a democratic platform. - 1 .. . ' uo"r"or 7 , " When should bo put out of politics. hen lAhnaAii in nil t n r I hi ill i lt 1. flxod up .atl.factorlly It may pui some politicians out of Office. t. rr.ir.rado aends a woman to con- .nrf TTnc.le J o la still speaker, . . . . w can aeo where tne committee on acoustics gets a new member. m Wanted A chairman for the demo- cratlo state committee to advUe demo- erata not to vote tor democratic candi- datea because they are democrats. The Increase from 2 to a 3 per cent dividend rate on eteel stock due to business revival answers the question why that stock haa advanced so stead- ilv of late. - i A Chicago man wants a oivorco oause hie wife hit him with a pie. But tf It was a really good pie he snouia be able to etway with It without in- convenience. The Omaha city council Is making almost aa much of a task over enacting those occupation tax. ordinances as congress Is making over the enactment of the tariff tax law Eastern financial Journals comment on the bright outlook of weitern bank- mk. !, tYiM urnm and the era. t urn wo.i u banks have the money to pay for them and everybody Is happy. I Tha latest Venezuelan developments ladleata that Castro not only desires to h. hurled in Veneiuela. his native land, but would gladly bury a few of hta enemiea there berore his own turn cornea. Another proof of the intense non partisanship of the democratic WorM- Herald may be found In Its refusal to print tha republican platform resolu- tlona In full. Imagine tha squeal would emit If The Bee failed to print Um democratic reaoiuUoaa In full. The Platformi. Anyone who reads the platformi promulgatPd by the several political parties at their state convention" at Lincoln dispassionately will eee that the republicans have put forth a clean cut document, standing squarely on the republican record and appealing for continued Purport for republican candidates, while the democrat and their slie partner populists have en tariff Is as specific and definite as any such declaration could be, short of at tempting to fix the enact rate of duties which should be embodied In the schedules. Nebraska republicans un qualifiedly endorse the stand taken by President Taft in the matter of tariff revision and suggest that unless he secures from congress a bill conform ing to his Idea of "revision downward within the limitations of the protective principle" he should use his veto, and for such a veto will have the backing of the party In this state. The republicans Invite comparison, or rather contrast, between the perma nent benefits and substantial reforms given the people by the lata republican legislature and the partisan buncombe that characterized the measures put on the statute books by the late demo crat)c iegpiature. The republicans, 4V880 furthermore, Insist that belief in re 41,730 publican doctrines and profession of republican faith are no disqualification . v. i .i 4 ., t l neHA hut nn the uwiii i ii juumni .'. contrary, that a republican nomination naa Deen accepted, and should be again .. - afnmn rf er,mnotncv and trustworthiness. On the subject ol partisanship the democratic recora la Victim nn na convincing Droof of the . . fh nrf,pnt democratic v ' ' preieUHC III lltillioi lioiiiibuii. , ,, i. ins aemocrawu iuu i"'y" forms are again the Dr. Jekyl and Mr Hyde for the democratic candidates to dodge behind. One platform prom Ises county option, which it promised last year, only to meet with repudla tlon by the law-makers elected on it Roth platforms naturally defend the deposit guaranty law because they can- not shake It off, notwithstanding the taci mai meir uwu itij lcuc.o ... the legislature denounced it as a De trayal of tneir promise to me peopie Tno crocodile tears over the early demise of the fake nonpartisan Judl- clary act should fool no one. If the democratic and populist masqueraders ODDOse(j party nomination for judclai 0fflce8 they would not put any candidates up under their party label. hut would rather run them bv netltlon. candidates have hoisted the duplex party designation gives them no claim to votes as par "sans there Is no reason for any cam- palgn in their behalf by the demo lMot nsniil!at oro-anlvfltlciTl And p""" i""1 " - . ihri,ic,, ,n. votera are fthlured not to support democratic candidates oecnuso ui moir asked to oppose republican candidates, even dates are, because of their partisan DUl, To submit such political thlmble- rigging as a platform Is quite In line wnu nuuu.c..t ui."... ...v- aemocraiic canumaieo uic uui iuai IlllPjr Biovi yv;uiiotO nuvs nv a.a same time try to fool the people by false professions of nonpartlsanshlp. Equality at the Customs House. Collector Loeb of the Port of New- Y . i88Ue(i an order which will Instructing customs officers to treat romine from abroad eiactIy the Bame A cu8toni of many yearg Btandlng permitted baggage of returning tourists of high standing to Inasa through on the owner's statement and perfunctory examination. Recent I .! ,k(Ad lhat ,he eoVern- l had Qut of ,arge Lmmlnf. nf Pvenue bv neonle who would be shocked had anyone inti- mated they were practising fraud. i xA ViAnAdr man nr wnrtiori noorl ha .. offended at a critical examination of Daggage wnicn lue nw prestnuea iuu any deviation from the praqtlce is contrary to the principle of equality before the law. There is no legal pre- sumption that the rich tourist who 'makes Europe every year is nonest land the one In moderate circumstances wno had taken the trip of a lifetime g a smuggler. In fact, the records pr0ve the contrary if they prove any- thing. The result of the reforms in- stltuted after the smuggling discloa have ore tnen doubied the cus- t0ms revenues collected from the per- 80na, baggage of returning travelers Lnd there , no TO(?ana of knowing how much more has been collected by com pelllng former professional smugglers to send their goods through the usual Importing channels. Fair Treatment for Immigrants. Numerous complaints, some of them apparently well founded, of hasty and Ill-considered action by immigration inspectors in deporting aliens ha I , v.. . ,cvv immi.,.. I ,... i itAn hiiPAa i urimn in iinif iv i nn mi I l IVU VIII MW waaawa av - - J v - migration restriction law s were en acted to Keep oui uuue8iraoie8, ou the Immigrant seeking admission after having met the requirements at the point of departure. Is entitled to fe presumption or oemg eugio.e i enter and certainly snouia not De turned back on flimsy charges or mere - suspicions. A notable illustration of hasty action was the deportation of the niece of a wealthy Louisville man returning from a trip abroad, because It she had unfortunately spent he money until she did not have the re- I quired $25, and although, she tele- graphed for money on arrival, she had been placed aboard an outgoing ship and started for Europe before the uncle could come to her relief. The girl herself was an alien, though she had previously lived some years with her uncle. The objects of the Immigration law- are manifestly good and are intended to prevent the V'nlted States from be ing the dumping ground for the dis eased and criminals and to keep out contract labor. The efficiency of the law Is not Impaired by giving the Im migrant a reasonable opportunity to meet the challenge of his right to enter. The trouble with the Inspec tors appears to be that they have con sidered the measure of their efficiency to be the number of people deported and in their zeal have doubtless ex cluded many worthy immigrants. The new order is not a hint for the methods, but for a Just administration of the Inspectors' duties in accordance with the long settled policy of the United States. Bleached Flour Prosecutions. An authority which is usually well Informed and accurate quotes Secre tary of Agriculture Wilson as stating that he had Instructed hts inspectors to seize all bleached flour offered for Interstate shipment and to prosecute the shippers. If the secretary has taken the action Indicated it will be a surprise and a disappointment to the millers in the w Inter wheat belt w ho for some time have been trying to get the validity of the secretary's ruling into court where It could be tested. Ordinarily the proceeding outlined by the secretary would be the corpect one for Intentional vlolaters of law, but the bleached flour controversy is on a different plane. There Is no disposi tion to violate the law, but an honest difference of opinion as to what the law Is and no serious harm can come by permuting trade to continue in statu quo until the courts can settle on the construction of the statute and the validity of the secretary's ruling. The interests Involved are immense and the persons affected are many. The millers deny that the bleaching of winter wheat flour, Is an adulteration. taking nothing of value from the pro duct and adding nothing harmful to it. It renders it more attractive in appearance and makes it bring a bet ter price, enabling the winter wheat miller to compete with the spring wheat product. The contention of the millers is sustained by the British gov ernment experts and by American chemists of high standing. As Nebraska produces about 40, 000,000 bushels of winter wheat an nually and Kansas a considerably larger amount, the secretary's action, If he is correctly quoted, would have far reaching effect. If Mr. Wilson simply desires to get a test case Into court as speedily as possible, he will be in line with efforts the millers have been making ever since Mr. Wilson's original ruling against bleaching was announced. Sparring for an Opening. Senator Gore's suggestion that dem ocrats permit anti-Cannon republicans to be returned to congress unapposed Illustrates how inherently weak the democrats themselves know their posi tion to be. They are divided not only in the degree of protection, but on the basic principle of protection it self. They have behind them a re cord of discredited issues which they once proclaimed necessary to the sal ation of the country, and ever pres ent is a leadership which is distaste ful to a large portion of the party. The only possible object to be obtained by the Gore plan would be to try to in sert an element of discord in the re publican party which might permit the emocrats to slip In where the merits of their own case would not avail. The republicans, of course will not object to the democrats permitting a lot of good republicans to return to congress without opposition, but they will not be deluded regarding the ob Ject of the proposal. i The suggestion of Senator Gore however, brings out the pertinent ques tion what the Oklahoma senator would do with the so-called Cannon demo crats in the house and the democratic senators who worked for the same end n a different manner. If these demo crats were eliminated from the demo cratic party it would cut a sorry fig ure numerically in congress. Another feature of Senator Gore's suggestion is not calculated to breed harmony in his own party. Some anti-Cannon republicans represent dis tricts containing aspiring democratic statesmen who will not be willingly sacrificed to the Oklahoman's pan. They are encouraging themselves In the belief that the republicans out of sympathy with the Insurgents might prefer democrats to anti-Cannon re publicans. Nothing but counting the votes will disabuse their minds and even If doomed to fall they want the chance to stand in the limelight for a few months every two years. , The new battleship Michigan Is said to be the fastest craft of its class afloat. That makes twenty-eight bat tleshlps In the navy, four building and two more authorized. Kven If the United States Is not hysterical. It is certainly doing Its share in keeping up the battleship competition. The democratic state convention slapped the late Douglas county dele gatlon In the face for beating the in ltiative and referendum in the recent legislature. If this keeps on Douglas county's democratic law-makers will be absolutely friendless political orphans. The Minneapolis pastor who Illus trated his Sunday sermon by snapshots of hosiery taken at street crossings certainly went the limit of sensational Ism, but the only wonder is that he did not get his head punched while procuring the photographs. The Crelghton Medical college Is commencing the erection of a new building adjoining its present site. The Crelghton Medical Is a strong institu tion and destined to future greatness, but we suggest that looking ahead would wsrrnt considering now the in evitable change of location. The In trusion of a freight depot and railroad tracks In Immediate proximity has made the present site unsuitable for educational purposes and the prospect of a new building and equipment In Omaha for the medical department of the State university, with which Crelghton will always be In friendly rivalry, should make the Crelghton university authorities realize what is needed to maintain the high position their medical college occupies. Colorado Springs has Just gone un der a home rule charter manufactured by its own people, which is decidedly different from the home rule charter thrust upon Omaha manufactured at Lincoln by nonresident demo-pop law makers. At the present carrying capacity It would only require 250,000 aeroplanes o land an army In Oreat Britain with out any artillery or other equipment, which would indicate there was no im mediate danger of an invasion In force. Just to show the Frenchmen that hey are still in the game, the Wright brothers took up a passenger and kept him in the air for over an hour. All hat was needed was a little Incentive to induce them to do something. According to edict of our Juvenile court officers, parents are to be prose cuted for their children's violation of the curfew ordinance. Reversing the Biblical threat of punishing children for the sins of their parents. The Philadelphia Inquirer says that the west might get the harvest hands it wants if it would only send along return tickets. Why anyone employed In the west should want to return east is beyond comprehension. The governor of Alabama advises the legislature of that state to place it In the dry belt. If this thing keeps up the south will soon be no place for a man with a thirst unless he belongs to a locker club. The czar of Russia cannot even go visiting in peace, and he has no con gress to keep him at home, either. Who wants to be a czar, anyhow, when the base ball and fishing seasons are on? Great Britain calls Us new style of battleships "super-dreadnaughts.' If Germany should gain another lap it will require a new word in the naval dictionary. Senator Stone of Missouri may use the gum shoe In politics, but it is the mailed fist for the car porter who does not act up to suit him. Danser In Overfeeding. Kansas City Star. Tha high tariff senatora seem to be pro ceedlng on the theory that the easiest way to kill the octopus is to feed It until It dlea of indigestion. Always Hoom at the Bottom. Chicago Record-Herald. Notwithstanding the slurs that have been cast upon the Missouri river, that stream continues to contain enough water to en gulf trains which happen to fall into It. Bllndneaa ot ill Temper. Philadelphia Record. The reactionaries of the senate, who are applying tha epithet of "Jelly fish" to President Taft, ara strangely oblivious to the tenacity, not to say downright oh atlnacy, with which he haa clung for years to hia policy In regard to the Philip pines. They will be apt to find before they ara much older that ha la not tha man they took him for. Complimentary, bat "Eaeuee fa." Buffalo Courier. A prominent New Zealander Is quoted as saying that If Germany should whl Kngland. New Zealand would not acknow ledge a cession of Ita territory to Germany, but would 'run up ,the American flag rather than submit to German rule. While grateful for the compliment. Uncle Sam would like to be excused from shoulder ing any mora trouble in the far east. PERSONAL NOTES. July 1 a man committed murder In Lon don. July 23 he was tried, this procedure taking an hour, and condemned to death. Even the causual observer cannot but notice that things are done differently here. When King Edward travela In Europe he occupies his own cars. Except when In actual us the king's railway carriages are atored In Brussels and aent to Cher bourg, Calais or Flushing, according to Ihr royal destination. All but one of the aenatora and all but eleven of the representatives In con gress live (during the session) on Wash ington streets, avenues, squarea and cir cles' having tha aristocratic "N. W. tacked to their names. An eccentric spinster of White Plains. N. Y.. after living for fifty yeara as a rei-luse. haa Just died leaving a million. She did not leave It to anybody, but Just aimply left It. The amount of hap piness she got from her million might be worth trying to figure out. An Oklahoma postmaster explained to the department a trifling delay in the mails as having been occasioned by tha rareleasness of a citizen who had ahot another cltisen In the poatofflce and mussed the place up. Aa the postmaater not only withheld approval, but expressed actual annoyance, the delinquency was overlooked. The record for lung hypothetical quae tlons. the New York Sun explalna. wa made many yeara ago In the celebrated Hoyt will case in the New York Surro gate's court, when Dr. Frank Hamilton, the famous army surgeon. asked a question of t.lM words by General R. F. Butler, of Massachusetts, whose oppos ing counsel waa Senator Ellhu Root, of New York. Washington Life hart Skatohaa ef tmeldanta and Xplsodaa that Mark tha Vroa-raaa af Xraata at tba aonal Capital. An extra session of cona-resa Is a source of unalloyed Joy and an extra dividend for Waehlrifrton Bonifaces. A rich, ripe and corpulent corporation melon distrib uted In appattilna- chunks Infuses hardly lesa happlnets among tha stockholders than Washington feela In entertaining con gresa during the usually dull summer months, tt makes Ufa worth while undsr ordinary circumstances. But with the ad dition of the tariff hobby, happiness ra diates from the faces of landlords as ge nially aa morning sunshlna. Since early In March thera has been a lobby In Wash ington filling most of tha first class hotels. A senator quoted by the Washington cor respondent of the Boston Transcript esti mated that $1.000. 09 haa been spent by this lobby. "And It ought to be said," contin ued the senator, "that the money such a lobby spends does not go to corrupt con gress. There has not been a whisper of scandal In connection with the making of the tariff bill. The Immense sum of money has gone for what might be called du ctalonal' work. The men who ware sent here by the protected Interests came under Instructions to do everything possible to convince members of congress that this or that should be done." The tariff lobby really began moving on Washington last winter, when tha ways and means committee began holding hear ings. Before those hearings were well ad vanced most of the great manufacturing Industries had opened offices here and had assigned the ablest and most adroit men In their employ to atay In Washington until the tariff bill was signed by the president. Many of the manufacturers es tablished headquarters in the hotels; others preferred to gd to office buildings. Before the bill passed the house the largest and probably the most expensive lobby that ever came on to Washington was well settled and ready for business when the bill got Into the senate, for the plan waa to do the real effective work In that lobby. Generally speaking there are about as many groups of lobbyists as there are schedules In the tariff bill. Many individ ual manufacturers have sent men here to look after rates in which they were spe cially Interested, but the general plan was to have a group of men, under the direc tion of a "man In charge" look after an entire schedule. Thus, looking after chem icals, oils and palnta, would probably be half dosen men who occupied the same office. Another group looked after the earthenware and glassware schedule, an other watched the rates on metals and manufactures thereof, another group watched out for the sugar schedule and so on through the bill. One of the high priced groups of men conducted the campaign for a duty on hides. This lobby waa financed by the cattle growers association of the southwest. The lumber dealers, who were determined that the duty on lumber should not be taken off. have not abandoned tha field since last March. They started out by giving a banquet to which many mem bers of the house of representatives were Invited. The tobacco people kept a watch on guard for more than four months be fore there waa a movement that necessi tated a call to arms. The call came when Senator Beverldge introduced his amend ment Increasing the tax on tobacco and cigars. Possibly the ablest and best trained lobby of all is the one representing the wool growers and the woolen manufacturers Several months before congress met In extra session the wool and woolen people met at Chicago ana decided there should be no change In th tariff rates affecting their Industry. When ocngress met In extra session they were ready for business. I Next to the wool and woolen people the manufacturers of cotton goods have main tained the most effective lobby. The Ark- wright club of Massachusetts and the cot ton lobby are pretty much the same. Well, what doea such a lobby do? some one asks. It "labors'' with the right peo ple In the senate and house. In the making of this particular tariff bill the "laboring" was done chiefly In the senate. The beneficiaries ot the tariff are keen enough to know that when the members of the finance committee ot the senate sit down to decide what the rate on a particu lar article shall be they will want some one to come In and give them a few "facta." If the country had a tariff com mission there would not be so much field for lobbyists; but there is no official source to which the tariff makers can go for In formation and so the natural thing la tc call in the representatives of the manu facturer! whoae products are under consid eration. Every lobbyist is, of course, pre pared at all times to respond to a call for information from the finance committee or from any senator. When he Is called he presents his case and his "facta" lo the most "disinterested" wsy. Of course he has no "axe to grind;" he is simply on here to give the tariff makera any assist ance it Is possible tor him to render. There are the men who appear before the committee and the men who call on sena tors at their homes and show them why this ought to be or that ought not to be The printing bill of the lobbyist would startle the country If it could be obtained. Tona upon tons of briefs have been turned out and distributed among the aenatora and representatlvea. Probably the moat worn out group of cltlsena In the United States at the mo ment are the Washington newspaper oor respondents. Washington when It la hot Is mighty hot. These newspaper corre spondents have been constantly on duty night and day aince December 1, and aome of them aay they are worn to a fraxxle. They have been compelled to be alert at all houra of the day and night for changes In the tariff achedulea affecting the atates In which their newspapers are published The work of a few United States aenators and a few members of the house or repre sentatlvea on thla tariff bill haa been in tensely arduoua, but the vast majority have had a dull time, and yet have been com pelled to remain In Washington. But all the correspondents have been knee deep In work In the hot season In the hottest city of the country. President Taft is aa fond of automobiles aa Roosevelt waa of horses, and he putr hla machines to even more practical use than Roosevelt did hia steeds. Now that he la living the bachelor life and trying to get through a tariff bill at the same time, the president is combining business with pleasure in a moat delightful way. Hla favorite performance after dinner is to hunt up one of the conferees by tele- ' phone-Bereno E Payne la a favorite vl tlm whirl around to the statesman's home In his car and take him riding. Tha presi dent Is too social to confine his conversa tion wholly to business topics, but many a doubtful tariff rate geta overhauled In the course of the run and both men aeek their couches cooler and wiser, president Taft baa tour automobiles. Is Your Money well invested or is it lying iu , pome pi a op perhaps not alto- gether too safe? If not needed for some time why not put it to work Earning Money Our 3 per cent Certificates of Deposit are in an absolutely safe form of ivestment, backed bv T2 .000 fi00 nf assets. First National Bank of Omaha United States Depository. 13th and Farnam Sts. ATIOAI, IRRIGATION PROJKCT8 access of the Plaas Developed la the "Went. New York Tribune. By the completion of the Gunnison tun nel, In western Colorado, reported in re cent press dispatches, attention Is directed anew to the magnificent work now bring done by the federal government In making available for cultivation extensive tracts of land at present absolutely worthless. Eight or ten of the smaller reclamation projects, now completed In the west, provide for the irrigation of about 220,000 acres. Five which ara almost finished will add nearly 300.000 acres to the total, and seventeen others, still under way, embrace not far from 1,800.000 acres more, which require only a little water to develop the highest fertil ity. One of these aims to redeem from 150.000 to 200.000 acres In the Uncompahgre valley, In Colorado, and It Is to supply that region that a slx-mlle tunnel has been cut through the mountains from the Gun nison river. Dams and canals must be constructed, however, before the tunnel can be utilized. The general plan of which thla tunnel Is a unique feature, Is practically without a parallel. Other governments have un dertaken large Irrigation enterprises, either to give employment to unoccupied work men or to promote agricultural prosperity, or to attain both ends together, but the money which they spent was a permanent Investment. The United States Is following a different program. Arrangements have been made to recov'er every dollar devoted to reclamation work from those who will be benefited, and when It has been re turned It will be used over and over again for similar service. A scheme which will Increase the value of taxable property In more than a doxen states and present tempting possibilities to farmers and gar deners who are looking for new homes, yet without costing the prime mover in the work a cent, is certainly remarkable as well as beneflclent. It Is noteworthy also because It was fairly initiated before Mr. Roosevelt advocated a more compre hensive policy of Conserving national re-act-rces. A TRUST AN D ITS VICTOR Y. Tobacco Combine Geta Aronnd a De partment Order, Washington Herald. The tobacco trust does not seem to have "lost out," after all, in the secretary of war's prohibition against the award of contract, by army subsistence officers and the Isthmian Canal commission, for tobacco to the forty or fifty firms com posing what Is properly known as the tobacco trust." It now appears that any one having no direct connection with the companies In that trust may purchase Us products and sell them to the government. This means that the government will pay a higher price for the product of the tobacco trust than It haa been charged for those articles hitherto. The trust. which waa supposed to be the object of oflcial rebuke and punishment, Is restored to Its former privileges, with the govern ment "paying the freight." Thla nullification of the righteous Indig nation of the Department of Justice, where the order of the secretary of war is under stood to have originated, is one of the peculiar result of dealing with trusts when they are guilty of the restraint of trade. It will be an easy matter for the managers of the tobacco companies In the trust to find wholesale or retail dealers who will handle the product without any loss to the trust In ita relation to the government. The "Independents," who have cherished the notloS that they would now have an opportunity to bid for government orders without running, up against the competition of the tobacco trust, will view this latest development with no great sat isfaction. The secretary of war has found It impossible to refuse to purchase the trust's product when It comes from con tractors not of the trust, and he has s.i Informed the army subsistence officers and the Isthmian Canal commission. Conquering- the Air. St. Louis Republic. When a twenty-foot monoplane crosses the English channel In half the time of a quick steamship the birds may take notice that man has set out upon a conquest of the air aa complete aa that In which he baa won over the domain of the fishes. SMOOTH, aromatic, appetizing, invigor ating. That de acribes Old Golden Coffee perfectly. There's not a trace of the "bitter" o often noticed in other coffees. Every pound is uniform in quality de licious, mellow and full bodied. Old Golden never disappoints. Set ties quickly pours clean. Ask your grocer for a pound in the strength-aroma-retaining package. Tld by Tf 25 Cmntt a Pound. TONE BROS., Das Molnea, low. UilUtt (Aa hMM 7 mm Mrt. 5mc. iiiH HCTl'BN OK PROSPKRIT, Finances of (he Country .ow In Nor mal Condition. San Francisco Chronicle. Compared with the fever of speculsiion which existed In this country for two three years previous to October, 1907. op commerce and Industry cannot be Mil. t active. Compared with conditions as th were previous to l'.KIO they are very artivi Indeed. The business of the country Is n "u In a normal condition, which means Um money la abundant and forthcoming for h vestment for whose products there is an existing demand, while there Is nun h h i toin In putting cash into enterprises who.-.' profits will depend on development et lo be made. There Is not much cUspo-H In i on the part of lliose who have munn i" expose It to any serious riBk. There Is no question of a veiy Ihii; llgltlmate demand for Increased nansi . tatlon facilities, and the railroads ate shutt ing their conviction that there is no leas 'i to expect lower prices by givinc rn large orders for nil klndx of cini.onieni. Taking the crops of the country as h who e. It now looks as If the tonnage f i tha: source to be moved this season will bi tin winter wheat will be nearly maiie jjooil by the excellent spring w heat crop and I In other cereals may be crop record bicakcr-v While It Is yet too early to Judge uf the Indian corn crop, the plant looks well and the acreage Is over 7.000.00U in excetsa of that of last year. The cotton crop Is likely to bring in as much money as any cotton crop ever harvested. With thin anstirsnc' of at least a normal distribution of mom y among the people, factorlen ate rrsuniing business in all Industries, but on a con servatlve normal basis. MIRTHFUL REMARKS. Daughter Father, dear father. oni yu forgive John and me tor eloping.' Father. Dear Father Yes, It you ci elope again right hus.-jikikc. Meenlster And why didn't ye come lo the kirk last tSawhath? Sandy I had nowt but a shillln' in my claes. That's ower muckle siller to pit in th' contribution box all at ain tune.--Cleveland Leader. Adam mused. "Our case was peculiar." he said: "v doubled up before we ate the apple." V- tor Min. Six hippopotami put their heads togeti.H and framed up a concerted plan of attack But when they tried to rush Mr. K.jose velt he broke up their formation with two well directed shots. "That's the way I smash the trusts." le smilingly said, "and the Hippo mist is no exception." Cleveland Plain Dealer. "Please, sir, me gratidmudder " "Tell a new one, Johnny." "Promised to take me to de games t"d If you'll lemme off." He got off Kansas City Journal. "Mrs. Younghride. w ho thinks she know all about It. makes me fairly h.H when she starts to preserve us." sighed th" Pear. "Yes." chorused the Cherries. .Lnsnt she Jar you!" Baltimore Ameri an. "Hard work." said the ready-made ph: sopher, "brings the greatest hnpninrs. life." "Yes." answered Farmer Cornioss "specially when you kin affoi,; somebody to do tt fur you "--W sh in Star. OLD ACQUAINTANCE. Washington Star. BUI Stigglns surely is s mun Of consequence 'round heie; There's scarcely any one who ctn Be mentioned but you'll l"n Bill plpin' up with hrishtenin' eve. In accents loud an' slow: "The party you ie' mentioned- hy I knowed him years ago'" He says thst tennis he has flnjecl A lot with Theodore. And Bill has heen s heap dismayed To see his golfln' seme And. speak I n of the tariff war. When evervboriv else Calls Mr. Aldrlch "Sens lor" He always rails bin. "Ncls..- ''' -, ' Jes' fur a tent we handed out Some names from ancient lv-. , He never show ed a sign of donhi He knowed 'em all of y.no With Sim-rates he'd made I i home In Athens. O-hi-o. And helped J. Caesar lm M up U one In Georgia, years ago. It didn't modify his glee When gravely we Innuhfcl x If Ananias mightn't be A friend whom he admiird All placidly his way he goes Thev keep us wonderln' si 111 The folks that old Kill F'isgins k,ioc Who never heard of Hill. i OLD GOLDEN COFFEE 181