Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 19, 1910, Page 6

THE OMAHA DALY Bm-:. TOl'KDED BY IDWARD RO.EWATEH. Vl(_“I'OR ROIIIWATER. EDITOR. Fntered at Omaha postoffice as second- matier, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. aily Bee dnciuding Sunday), per woek: -4 aily Beo (without Sunday). per. W ally (without Sunday), one y ally Bunday, one yoar DELIVERED BY CARR 'vening Bee (without Sunday), per week. .mlnl Beée (with Sunday), per week 60 one_year. all complaints of irregularities |n Cireulation Depariment. P ) - Bee th Omaha—Twenty. fourth and N. ‘?nell Bluffs—15 Scott Street. ol Litte Buildipi Chil Marquette B T’“ 'ty -thi d.—snoom - Fty-thire treet, Washington—72 Fourtesnth Street, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and «ditorial matter shoul be addressed. Omaha Bee, Editorial rtment. REMITTANCES. Remit by dr-n, uvr.u or al order 535“' to ok ¥ adeounts. Forsonnl checks por ml-hlln' Company, Omaha or eastern exohange, n Adare sdliver t Of a; men‘l of xcept on noepled STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. of Nebraska D:ulu Connty.‘ I;L ": Tachuck, treagurer bl Com; being _duly o m’:&'u.: nuiiber ot UCK, ‘Treasurer. and sworn of Subscribed o my n resence mgl:dou me this ’l M Kiotary Bublic. the city tem- porarily 4hould have The Bes mailed to them. Address will te changed as often as requested. et i Do not get too thirsty for your sas- safras. Anybody else.in South Omaha who wants to be county commissioner? Graft gets sore eyes when the searchlight of publicity is turned on. Bryan refusing to talk politics by wireless! . This is indeed an age of wonde Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched, and don’t pick your gruit untll it is ripe. Is Mr, Hearst trying to play the role of the prodigal son? If so, is Father'| Democracy ready with the calf? The Nebraska State Board of Op- tometry should fit Governor Shallen- berger with another pair of glasses. The natural inference. is - that the judge who decided that prunes are not pastry’ s trying to placate the land- lady. Good! Halley's comet has been sighted and it is much ¢loser than was expected, being but 2,000,000 miles away. —e John Temple Graves has been ac- cused of “hitching his ‘wagon to the stars.’”’ Sure it is a star and not the comet? The suffragettes who participated In the late riots have proved one qual- ification for going to polls—they are able to meet the crowd. A Ylle‘protemr has just caught a glimpse of the comet on its way west _lnd ,pronounces as a base canard the report that it has lost its tall. A Kentucky weman tells the suf- fragists in convention that what they need s courage. Pregident Taft doubtless would take issue with her. Those ¢ensus enumerators did not figure on doing a mid.winter stunt with snow on the ground, or they would doubtless have ln-med on more money. Mr, Bryan just could not let the colonel be the only traveler to “stir *em up.” The difference is one rouses the living, the other raises the dead tssues. The Chicago woman who gave a friend $135 to kill her husband asso- tiates with cheap friends, who are but a trifie above the Pitisburg couneil- man class. e Fruit men and truck gardeners fear the worst and hope for the best. what about the poor housewife who will have to do her flower gardening over again? e Every man has his hobby. Mr. Morgan's {s collecting “‘old masters,” Mr. Roosevelt's collecting wild animals snd Emperor Willam's is collecting twutomoblles. A southern paper says too many|taken to be on the But Tariff Board Results. The taritf board provision of the new tariff law seems to have justified iteelf already as an advanced step in political and economic reform and to have paved the way for a permanent commission with full snd specific pbéwers, such as the president has recommended to congress. It may be just as well that con- greas delayed to act on the president's recommendation, for by giving an op- portunity to experiment with the tem- porary board it has enabled him to show what may be accomplished under the administration of a permanent body. By appropriating $76,000 to employ help In determining the appli- cation of the maximum and minimum tariff clause, congrees has enabled the president to vindicate the wisdom and value of that clause as well as the principle of the tariff board. But the chief temporary advantage of this con- cession lfes in the fact that it may lead to more sclentific and satisfactory re- visions of certaln schedules, an end much desired by the president, but which, probably, congress falled to dis- eern. The president Is asking $250, 000 for the further work to complete his present plan. Hxperts must be employed to look into costs of produc- tion and trade conditions in the United States and abroad, and it is believed that congress will not refuse to re- spond. The maximum and minimum tariff, which applies to countries discrimi- nating against us the 'maximum schedule, and to countries not dis- criminating agalnst the United States the minimum rate, has already oper- ated to secure the admission of about 656 per cent of all American products to foreign countries free and to ob- tain the minfmum rate for nine-tenths of those articles that must pay a duty abroad, Rather than submit to the im- position of the additional duty, foreign countries have made concessions which amount to a very material revision of the American tariff. The tariff board was well nigh indispensable in ob- taining these results. Its service was to investigate the tariff relations be- tween the various countries and the United States, advise the president and assist the Department of State in formulating the terms of agreement. The work of the board is the best argu- ment \in favor of a permanent com- mission with more unrestricted powers. Democrats’ Sham Battle. In an unguarded moment of candor a democratic leader in the house the other day disclosed the whole motive of his party in the anti-Cannon fight by saylng that if the republican in- surgents could succeed in ousting the speaker at this session of congress they might then go home and tell their con- stitutents what they had done and THE BEE. but to fall back upon his constitutional right of invoking the ald of the crown to compel the House of Lords to vote for the anti-veto bill. But with Mr. Asquith’s ultimate triumph still much in doubt, the over- shadowing point of interest at this time is the concessions John Redmond has gained for his people, No matter what the ministry may decide to do, it will have to treat with the Irish members and may have to make home rule the paramount issue in the next election as the price of Irish support for the government program. The Lot of the Juror. OMAHA, April 16.~To the Editor of The Bee: You are on the right track when you say the way to get better juries is to ralse the pay of the juryman. They have raised the pay of everybody else around the courts—the judges, the stenographers and the ballifs, but the juryman is expected to work for the same old §2 a day. A busi- ness man drawn on the jury gets excused, but a man who would be earning $3 or ¥ a day at his trade has to stay and pocket the loss. JUROR. The high cost of living problem we have with us, and nowhere does it hit much harder than on the man drawn for jury service. “Juror” shows up the facts very clearly that explain why we have so much trouble getting capa- ble and intelligent men to serve on the jury, and yet litigation involving thohisands and hundreds of thousands of dollars, to say nothing of cases in which life and liberty are at stake, is submitted to twelve good men and true whose time is appraised as worth $2 a day. The $2 a day jury fee may have been somewhere near a fair com- pensation thirty or forty years ago, but not in these days of 25-cent beef- steak and 30-cent butter. In the re- adjustment of business to new condi- tions the juror should not be left out in the cold. Courage and Regrets. Courage seems to be a matter of temperament after all, as well dis- played in the forum as in the forest. It may not require imminent bodily peril to summon it forth. Demure, if determined womanhood, may some- times form the test of its stability. The man who in this day steps out on a platform in front of a convention hall filled with women who believe in the elective franchise as the panacea for public 1ills and quietly remarks, “Ladles, I do not belleve in woman's suffrage,”” forces himself at once into the hero class, whatever may be said of his discretion. The fact that some of the less demonstrative of the dele- gates have taken It back cannot, in the least, be regarded as detracting from the sublime courage displayed. The president has given to the country a new aspect of valor genuinely in keep- ing with his temperament, Bat the president who gave the good women a thereby remove the issue of Cannon- ism from the coming campaign. “But the démocrats would be left holding the bag,” he naively added. And that is all there is'to this entire furore so far as the democrats are concerned. Not a democratic member of the house has the remotest desire to temove Cannon at this session, nor the faintest idea that it will be done. It would destroy all their stock In trade it it were done, whereas his retention, they believe, would leave some hope of democratic success at the next elec- tion. The democrats know that if the speakership were declared vacant to- morrow they could not elect a demo- crat to the place except by insurgent votes and since it is not a matter of principle with them, but of political expediency, they have absolutely no choice between Uncle Joe and any other républican, If they can go on with their sham battle against the speaker until the end of the ession without dislodging him they will have achieved all they undertook at the outset and then in the congressional campalgn will go before the people with the plea that they did all they could to unseat Cannon, hut were blocked by the- republicans. 2 John Redmond’s Vietory. The king and Mr. Redmond seem to hold the key to the situation in the British parliament. Premier Asquith’s victory in passing the resolutiqn abol- ishing the lords’ veto power plainly discloses the fact that the government, before it could even hope to get its budget through, had to come to terms with -the Irlsh and make tariff con- cessions for Nationalisis votes and the prime minister openly announcad his intention to call on the crowa for enough new peers to override the pres- ent body If the latter refused to vote for its own officlal decapitation, Mr. Asquith's victory is pronounced, but at the same time involves his own peril and that of the ministry, for if he fails at last to carry to completion the government’s program the ecabi- net must resign or recommend the dis- solution of parllament and the premier says he would mnot forego such a recommendation ‘“‘except under con- ditions securing that In the new Parliament the judgment of the peo- ple, as expressed at an election, will be carried into law,” setting forth the desire of the present ministry to dic- tate terms for the succeeding one. Although the king'g sympathies are de of the com- flemocrats in Tennessee are crazy and|mons, it is yet possible he may dis- too many in Maryland are fools, still(sent to a move #o revolutionary as us in the dark as to the rest|that proposed as a last resort, candidates mvmc&.hmnmnllfll- state-wide '. but should he do so he will there and then fine lesson in self-restraint must not be allowed to décelve himself with the be- lief that the women who expressed thelr disapproval of his utterances'with such .penetrating clearness have for- gotten what he sald just because some others of their organization sent their “regrets’” to the White House. Re- grets are one of the inalienable rights of a woman even if the ballot is not and if she chooses to throw them out as a decoy with an eye to the future that is also her right. The point of this lesson for Mr. Taft is to rest on his laurels and not hazard glories won cn potential peril. Really Funny. ‘While Lincoln has just voted itself dry again for at least apother year, the' funny thing is that even before the campaign is over the Excise board should be getting busy revising its rules and regulations to make it casier to get drinkables in a dry town. While Havelock was wet and Lincoln dry the Excise board promulgated & rule pro- hibiting the delivery of wet goods In| Lincoln for family consumption, im- posing the mnecessity on the thirsty mortal in search of a quencher to patronize the street car running to Havelock and carry the bottle or jug home with him in person. Now to accommodate the refrigera- tor traffic, it is proposed not only to authorize household delivery In wagons, carefully labeled to disguise the eargo, but even to license three or four central distribution stations, con- ditioned only that nothing be drunk on the premises and no consignments handled unless in original packages or bottled in bond. The clubs that have been so popular in Lincoln are, of course, to continue unmolested in a dry town. Does prohibition course it does, look at Lincoln. prohibit? ot If you don’t believe it, If the fire insurance companies took in over $38,500,000 in premiums in Ne-| braska last year and paid out less than $1,600,000 in losses it may be barely possible that they are charging rates that are excessive. Just recall the re- cent Invitation to underwrite the Omaha city hall, which brought out identical bids from every Insurance agent in Omaha and a bid from South Omaha $1,200 lower. The bringing out of Judge Dean means that the democrats of the Bixth distriet are determined that no avallable material shall be overlooked.—World-Herald. ‘What rot! It means nothing of the kind. It means that a bunch of scheming democrats in Judge Dean's back yard want to make sure that the be drawu into the political maelstrom, QII Edward, l‘ his lssue and of course, 1d hake loubt the 'W like to have, avolded it gates are shut against him running for supreme judge again next year. Our old friend, Bdgar Howard, has OMAIIA TUF'SDAY APRIL tickets in advatce of the next legisla- ture. Edgar should let the public know who buncoed him with that hot alr etory. County Assessor Shriver sces all kinds of trouble ahead growing out of the elective deputy assessor business. But that was all foreseen and deliber- atély ignored by the late democratic legislature, which forced Nebraska to take this step backward. Just as everybody was settling him- self in the consoling belief that'all is lovely, comes the official note from the Vatican that the Vienna nuncio’s call on the colonel was entirely unofficial. after all, the Rev. Mr. Tip- ple was only aspiring to the record of the Rev. Mr. Burchard, who emitted his famous and fatal alliteration of the three R’s at the wrong time. Johnny Bull should not get sore be- cause his Lord Kitchener received no more attention in the United States. He came through just as the base ball season was being opened. The one regret Americans must feel as time for Mr, Roosevelt's return ap- proaches is that he shaved off thoge African whiskers without giving us a chance to look at them ) In Class by Themselves. Baltimore American, Mr. BryAn's resurrection of siiver puts him in the class of the Mad Mullah and the king of Abyssinia, who never kmow when they're dead. \ Knocking @t the Gilt. ‘Wall Street Journal. Being a member of congress is not what it was. A bill prohibiting acceptance of telegraph and express franks bids fair to knock another bit to gilt from the ginger- bread. Can’t Get Away from It. Chicago Record-Herald. “Distributers, not producers, fix the prices of farm products” is the conclu- sion that has béen reached by F. D. Co- burn, secretary of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture, Whether he is right about it or not, the fact remains that the con- sumers pay the price i Handy Package in the Bin. Washington Post. Postmaster General Hitcheock's $10,000,000 saving, added to Becretary MaoVeagh's $60,000,000 income increase, makes a harvest of $60,000,000 already stored in Uncle SBam's bins—sgecure from boll weevil, chinch bug, black rot, drouth, flood, frost and other enemies of Beretary Wilson. Under Which Banner? Springtield Republican. No lawyer who has been. a. rallroad torney for the vacancy in the United B!,!el supreme court—such is the demand upon the president by the Nebraska State Rail- road commission.. But why confine the exclusion to raflroad lawyers? Are other lawyers for the great industrial trust y more free from bias, or are the sald trusts any less of a menace to the rights of the people than .the raliroads? This is all rather rough on.the corporation lawyer and decldedly restrietive of the tield from which the, president could make & mature selec- tion for the supreme bench. Batting fhe Spealker. Philadelphia Bulletin. In more than one respect Speaker Can- non's political record may be open to criti- clsm. But even those persons who regard him as unduly autpcratic or as.lacking in progressiveness, will be apt to think. that there Is something rather petty im the at- tempt to take away the automobile which has been assigned to the speaker's use. It an effort were made to stop furnishing vehicles at public expense for all impor- tant officlals of the government, it might be strongly defended, Making Uncle Jo- seph a special target ih this respect does not seem a manly way to fight him. A STRONG PARTY MAN. Roosevelt Characteristic Overlooked in Political Speculation. Cleveland Leader. All reports of Théodore Roosevelt's plans and purposes, after reaching his own coun- try, have to be taken with many doubts. They are never authorized, and often they are false. Yet there is much reason to be- Heve the repeated assertions, publicly made, that he will take™a more active part in working for republican success, especially in New York, his' own state, than any former ex-president ever did. These statements are probably because Colonel Roosevelt has always been a steunch party man. He has worked and fought for freedom and progress in his party, but he has always held that it is an organization which affords more ef- ficlent means than any other for obtaining good results in government and in the civic progress of the nation. He has had little patience with men who decry party government or belittle parties as instru- ments for working out the plans and pur- poses of the people, As for restralning precedents, it Is easy to foresee that they could not interfere matesially with Theodore Roosevelt if he decided that he ought to take a more direct and open part in politics than other men, imilarly situated, though fitting for them. suth barriers mean little or nothing to hi when large questions and great inter are at stake, Qur Birthday Book April 19, 1910, Samuel Avery, chancellor of the Univer- sity of Nebraska, was born April 19, 1865, at Lamoille, Ill. He Is a graduate of Doane college and of the University of Nebraska, later specializiirg in chemistry at Heldel- berg. He was professor of chemistry in the university prior to his elevation to the position of chancellor & year ago. John Dalzell, congressman from the Pitts- burg district, is 65. He is one of the old- timers in house, and a member both of the 0ld and new rules committee, Napoleon B. Broward, former governor of Fiorida, was born April 19, 1857, He is a native of Florida, and has visited In Omaha. Wayne McVeagh, the big Philadelphia lawyer, was born April 15, 1833 He was attorney general under President Garfield, and is & brother of the present secretary of the treasury. Bmmett G, Solomon, deputy county treas- urer, is 4. He was one term county com- missioner, and later county comptroller until that office was aBvlished. L. G. Lowrey, president and manage of the American Electric dompany, was born suddenly quieted down abbut the “fixers” whom the public service cor- porations have hired to nail down candidates for the state senate on all April 19, 1878 In Omaha, where he was educated In the public schools and Creigh- ton college. He has been In the electric business with various concerns sinco 1893 ‘|and the annual physical test. 10 191u. Army Gossip Matters of Interest On and Dack of the Firing Line Gleaned from the Army and Navy Begister. the stpply of heavy furniture for officers’ quagters. The latest onder will thé regular alowance of articles, according to the standard designed, for those bulld- ings which have been recently completed and have not received this equipment. The contract will also embrace two articles for all officers’ quarters, being additions to the schedule of heavy furniture hitherto installed. One of these articles in a ma- hogany divan, with wooden seat and with- out upholstery of any kind, belng Intended for the sitting roo so-called “hall tree” or hat rack. It is es- timated that it has cost about $600,000 to equip officers’ quarters with the heavy turniture. The allotments for this pur- pose hereafter made annually will be only for the equipment of new quarters of the restoration of condemne@ furniture. During the joint maneuvers ih Massa- cusetts in August of last year Major Gen- eral Wood had’ placed to his credit funds to cover expenses in connection with the care and entertainment of foreign military attaches. The sum was transferred to the chiet quartermaster for disbursement and $98.66 was disbursed for dinners, luncheons and meals furnished the attaches from August 13 to 2. The assistant comptroller of the treasury has refused to allow pay- ment of this sum, on the-part of the gov- ernment, on the ground that there is no provision of law which authoriges the mili- tary authorities to invite foreign military attaches to be guests of the United States at joint maneuvers, and that there is no other appropriation under control of the depart ment avallable for such ekpense. There s one vacancy existing fn the corps of chaplains of the army. This is the position to which it was proposed to appoint Second Lieutenant C. P. Titus, Fourteenth infantry, now on duty in the Philippines, who as an enlisted man of volunteers distingulshed himself on the ex- pedition to Peking. Lieutenant Titus holds the certificate of a theological school in Colorado, but he falled to qualify for the chaplaincy upon his examination before a board of officers convened at Manila. The vacancy now existing in the corps was filled originally by a clergyman of the United Brethren denomination, and, if there are qualified candidates rrom that sect, it is probable that the cholce will be In that direction, following the pollcy of the y| War department in maintaining the present proportionate representation of religlous bodles. The War department {s in receipt of the reports from officers at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.; Fort Myer, Va., and the Army War college, to whom were referred the tenta- tive general order prescribing the regular physical exercise by walking and riding The com- ments, for the most part, are unfavorable to the order, as It has been framed. It Is pointed out that the requirements, so far as horseback riding is concerned, are ex- cessive and would be too severe upon anie mals, especlally where an average of six miles an hour for six days a week must be maintained. The scheme is criticised as making no provision for climatic conditions likely at certaln seasons of the year to greatly Interefere with any regular rid- ing—or, for that matter, walking. It has been proposed, among other things, that greater discretion be permitted individual officers and that the responsibility of granting exceptions be intrusted to com- manding officers, by which process the War department will be relleved of much correspondence in the matter. Then, too, it s understood that General Wood, the next chlef of staff, entertains some im- portant views concerning the physical test and it 1s possible that the whole question will be lald aside until General Wood comes to Washington. The order, as it has been sent out for trial and remark, has obtained tew Indorsements, largely for the reason that it 1s not sufficlently elastic in its re- quirements and overlooks the posibility of interruptions on account of weather and other ciroumstances. Senator Warren's bill, which provides for the dropping from the army register of officers who are confined by sentence of civil court to prisons or penitentiaries, will, if it 1s enacted Into law, be applied imme- diately to Captain Peter C. Halns, jr., of the coast artillery corps, and Captain Thomas Franklin of the subsistence de- partment. As the bill was originally worded, it came very narrowly avolding the issue in Captain Franklin's case, the phraseology made It apply to those who are_ sdafined to “state” places of incar- ceration, while Captain Franklin is in a fed- eral institution. The law is also necessary in Captain Franklin's case beyond that of the case of Captain Hains for the reason that the separation of the former officer from the service could not have been caused by nominating and cofirming a successor. This is a proceeding which the military author- ities nave refrained from taking, lest it might some day prove a dangerous pre- cedent, and, of course, it could not oper- ate excepting In a position to which an officer might be appointed by the president with, senatorial approval. Captain Frank- Iin s an officer of the subsistence depart- ment, to which appointments are no longer made, vacancies in the corps being filled by detalls from the line, The detafl.of a Ime officer In place of Captain Franklin would not operate to dispose that officer from the army. The Warren bill will ac- complish a desired end without resorting to unsual proceedings and meet similar conditions hereatter. PERSONAL NOTES, A medal was presented to Dr. Horace Howard Furness of Philadelphia, by the founders of the New Theater for his dls- tingulshed services in the cause of dramatic art in America, the first awarded. Dr. Lyman Abbott, at a dinner in New York, interrupted with & wittielsm a chorus of voices pralsing the oratorical powers of the suffragettes. “How true it is,” said Dr. Abbott, “that, as Keats said, a thing of beauty may be a jaw forever.” Bishop Green of Ballarat, complains that there is too ‘much praying for the king. “While Anglicans are loyal, we do not want to pray for his majesty five times in the course of one service,” says he. It hardly scems loyal to imply that King Edward needs so much praying for. Captain Thomas Spight, who fought in Walthill's brigade when he was & boy, but is now a congressman, has asked the country to notice that besides the two Mississippl senators five other senators, Balley of Texas, Gore of Oklahoma, Clarke of Arkansas, Newlands of Nevada and Chamberlain of Oregon began ilfe as Mis- stusippl bables, J. H. Van Rensselear, & nephew of the late B. H. Harriman, let for New York! (o tender his resignation as general agent of the Harriman lines in the southeastern states, which position he has keld for the last elght years, Van Rensselear's reslgna- tlon becomes effective May 1, when he will assume the presidency of the Rallway l.vh Equipmess eamgpany s T The quartermaster general's ofice Is about to award the contracts which will complete include the other article Is & The report made to the comptroller under date of March 29, 1910, that this bank bas months. shows Time Certificates of Deposit $2.034,278.61 3% % Interest pald on certiticates running for twelve irst National Bank of ()maha NEBRASKA PRESS COMMENT, Hastings Tribune: And now they are naming bables after Hon. G. W. Norris Such is fame, Walthill Times: Every time a business man leaves his home on the reservation these days someone announces that he has gone to Omaha to be arrested. Hastings Tribune: Willlam J. Bryan says he doesn’t want any demonstration madg for him upon his arrival in New York. Perhaps William has heard how the New Yorkers look upon his county option views, Grand Island Independent: Mr. Bryan is coming back, too! But one doesn't hear 50 much about 1t, and the public generally, appears not to care particularly. For the moment it does not even know from where he's returning. Hastings Tribune: From far off Porto Rico comes the news that Willlam J. Bryan {s not golng to be a candidate for the United States senate. Evidently Representative Hitchcock got just a little closer to Bryan's ear than did Bdgar Howard, Callaway Queen: Bixby, of the State Journal, says he admires a man who is open and above board as to where he stands on all questions. However, we have not heard Bixby say anything about the stand Jim Dahlman has taken on the re- moval of the state capitol. Plattsmouth Journal: If Omaha had taken on the activity for river navigation two years ago, they might have had an increase in their population that would be worth while. The people of Kansas City subscribed over $1,000,000 to buy boats for the lower Missourl, between Kansas City and St. Louls. Think of that! Aurora Republican: It becomes more and more apparent as the days go by that Senator C. H. Aldrich of David City is the logical candidate for the republican nomi- mation for governor. Mr. Aldrich was the leader in the senate in the 1907 session of the legisiature, a session which did more for the welfare of the people than was ever before or since accomplished by any assembly in Nebraska. Auburn Granger: Election returns from over the state do not confirm the state- ments of the enthusiast Who could see that the wave of antl-siloonism was sure to engulf the saloon business. The returns we really on the right tfack and armed with the proper facts and moved by right- eous impulses in all cases where the license system is being opposed? Schuyler Sun: Whenever the country newspapers find forelgners invading the fleld of the home merchants with goods and merchandise and selling them to farm- ers, they are asked to arise and whack the Intruders and advise the farmers to buy their goods of the home merchants, And when foreign printing houses send thelr representatives among the merchants and business men, many of these same merchants give them their orders and get inferior work. for the money. That's recl- procity. Together They Form the Cream of Transportation Business, Philadelphia Record. The action of the Interstate Commerce commission in curbing to some extent the rapacity of the Pullman monopoly encour- ages_the hope that the combination of ex- press companies will not much longer practice thelr extortions upon the Ameri- can people. These express companies, that are skimming the cream of transportation, of course could not despoil the public if railroad presidents und directors did not share the booty, at the expense aiso of thelr stockholders, toward whom the offi- cals hold a fiduclary relation. The less the spoll of the express companies the larger would be’the legitimate dividends of the railroad stockholders, Publicity, which the corporations o much dread and which congress is hesi- tating to enforce, will reveal what railrosd presidents and directors are sharing in the express plunder, and that alone ought to be sufficient to cause a dissolution of the nefarious connection. But if this should fall, the next legislative step of necessity will be to denounce and punish as & mis- demeanor the holding of express company shares by rallroad officials. When the common carriers of the country perform their obligations to transport and deliver all freights intrusted to them the express companies will Qisappear for want of em- ployment. Thus one cause of the exorbi- tant cost of commodities will be remove: It under existing law the Interstate Co: merce commission has power to prescribe the rates of upper and lower sleeping berths it has power also. under the same law to reduce the rates of interstate ex- P ——— It lPULLMAN AND BXPRESS CHARGES Araphoe Ploneer: cock where he fs. Aurora Sun: Scarcely anyone fn Aurora seems to favor the candidacy of Mr, Hitche cock for United States senator. Hastings Tribune: The Omaha World. Herald is scared clear out of its boots lgsi Hon. George W. Norrls be made um; publican nominee for the senate next fall Nemaha Republican: It {s a good thing that Bryan gave his permission for Hitch- cock to run for the United States senate. It affords Hitchcock his only excuse for running. Paplilion Republican: Hitehcook calls these weekly trips from Washington “home runs,” but it looks like this senatorial can- didate is sliding down “uneasy street.”” Hls popularity in Sarpy county s raplaly waning. Nemaha Republican: Congressman Hitche cock s fortunate. His candidacy for the United States senate occuples top o' col umn, next to the pure reading matter po- sition In the columns of the Omaha World« Herald, St. Paul Republican; Gilbert M. Hitoh« cock says that Bryan reposed In him the secret that under no ciroumstances would he be a candidate for the senate. The testimony 18 objected to on the ground that it is inconsistent, improbable, and that the witness has a political blas and fnterest. Oakland Independent: Editor Hitchcock of the World-Herald has announced him- self as candidate for senator. It will mean a big fight—and we hope he won't win, be- cause he Is wrong on some of the impor- tant questions that are pressing for so- lution, and s on the wrong side of the fence to do this state the good that a re- publican will. MIRTHFUL REMARKS. “‘Some men's idea of heaven," said Uncle Jerry Peebles, “is an everlastin’ ball gams with the home team forever winnin'." Chicago Tribune. We say keep Hitch. ‘‘Pardon me, governor,”” began the inter- viewer, ‘"I “‘Certainly, certainly,” replled the Ten- nessee executive, reaching for a blank. “What are you gullty ot?"—Ph!lldllphm Ledger. sl pothms it bnge” kifew ' man who Wwas simply wild to be In the public eye, and yet was tlnkledd to death When he was finally in general are rather discouraging. Are |shelves ““He must have been an idiot.” “No, he wasn't. He was an author.'— Baitimore_American. “I'm afrald I won't be able bill for some time, doctor,” uld 1l ful patient. “H'm," replied the physician, who Is a patural diplomat, “there are two points I forgot to mention in my advice, You'd better quit ‘smoking and cut out & meat diet."—Washington Star. y your o grate- “I always feel, after 1 have spent an hour or two in your company,” he sald, “that I am a better man.” “It {8 very good of you to say o, repiied. “Don’t hesitate to come often. Chicago Record-Herald. he Patron (to restaurant proprietor.)—Look here, sir, this clumsy fellow has split my soup down my back. Proprietor (to walter, sternly.)—Bring this gentleman a full order of soup in- stantly.—Boston Transeript. Landalord—W! New Arrival—It s | auitabie. sheiter for It obliged to keep it flying, up lh-rm? Landlord—Yes, 1 . My terms for uests with ships are cash in advance.— 'own and Country. “When a_woman marries and then di- vorces her husband Inside of a weeck, what would you call it?"" “Taking his name In val Tiger. e U WHEN MOONEY STINGS THE BALL Somerville Journal. When Murphy bunts, and gets to first, We cheer his feat with pride; The ball twists slowly down the line, And never rolls outside. When Casey makes a sacrifice, His deftness moves us all, But oh, the real hi-hi-ting comes When Mooney stings the ball! Princeton For Mooney has & nervous way Of handling bat. The pitchers hate to watch his eyes They don't know where the; A He aundl there ready with the stick J”“ the sphere to fall, And oh, the crowd lets out & vell When Mooney stings theé balll” Yes, Moone; as des by fe To make s L fete, wi {h pitchers mourn, oots and lhl wides by with scorn. rdless of 1| cmwd the umplre's call, er the plate— Then Mooney stings the ball! ? It moves us when the center fleld Pulls down the fly he's cursed, It thrills us when the shortstop's throw. Cuts off a man at first. But, oh, the fierce excitement when, The bases filled, we all press transportation. Silencel great hindrance to th shrink from the which seem is borreat to them, and of disease which ‘surel of s thoutht and so they endure ly progresses from Plerce, Buftalo, N. Y. Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Presori the wo-ul functions, .uuw pain R e gives it You can't afford to for this non-alcobolic m?l up, and howl, and dance and yell, When Mooney stings the ball! The instinet of modesty mdum-—nhw bad to worse. Il correspondence @s sacredly coafideatial. Address Dn. l. '- and u‘% -mwfi'—‘ It Makes Wo-k Women Sick Women Well. & secret postrum s & sybstitute OF KNOWN COMPOSITION,