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Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-26
Personal NOTES.

Secretary Root has a formidable string
of LII. DIS to his name. Hamilton, Yale
Columbia, Williams and Princeton uni
versites have contributed.
John David Rodener at present connected
with the library OF congress, succeeds Dr.
F. U. n. Dainter to the chair Of German
and French in Roanoke college.
When T. p. O'Connor visits this country
early in the autumn ne will have the time
of his life. Few men have had the beneht
Of a wider advance introduction than Tay
Pay
Congressman GARNER of Texas represents
the greatest goat raising region in the
world. There are more than 100000 goats
in the twenty-five counties composing his
district.
For the first time in his career NJ. Ed
mond Rostand has written a play es-
pecially for an American actress, having
just finished a comedy in blank verse for
Miss Eleanor Robson.
Santos Dumont has began experiments
with flying machine which he has just
completed in Paris. 1t is in the form Of an
enormous bird 300 feet long, weighing 80
pounds and driven by a twenty-four horse
power motor
Senator Dryden, in reference to his $GS, 900
salary, says modestly that ability COM
mands price. So good OF him to explain.
1t seems a little tough that the head Of
the Rockefeller reception committee should
be sheriff.
The modest Senator Clark of Montana
conceived the idea of decorating the doors
OF Pennsylvania capitol building with
bronze heads of eminent Pennsylvanians."
The senator's efigy is among the number
He is a Pennsylvania by birth.
Alfred s. Niles, who has been appointed
a Judge by Governor Warheld Of Mary
land. was born in York, Pa, lin 1860. He Is
a graduate of Princeton, has practiced law
in Baltimore for many years, and for two
years was dean of the Baltimore Law
school.
Princess Won BueIow, wife of the Ger
man chancellor. remarked to the kaiser
recently that her mansion needed cleaning,
and he asked her IL he might help her.
She assented. Next day she received sew
| eral large crates and an autograph letter
from him, saying that he was doing his
share of the cleaning by sending ton OF
soap.
Renouncing fashionable society and for
saking his life profession, that of law,
Holton James, nephew of Henry James,
| the novelist, and nephew of Prof. William
James, head of the philosophy department
of Harvard and scion of one of the oldest
and richest families in the country, has
chosen to live the simple life of a cow
herder and dispenser OF milk on a farm
near Seattle, Wash.
c. 1. Crawford, who recently won the re-
publican nomination for governor Of South
Dakota, threw up his attorneyship of a
railroad and fought all over the state for a
primary election system and an snti-pass
law, saying: I'VE want one 80 that we
can run this state ourselves We want the
other so that we'may know the railroads
are not running anything more than the
railroads" Two years ago he secured 400
of the 100 state convention delegates, but
this year he secured 800.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-26
PENNSYLVANIA WORTHLESS.
Collection OF Bronze Emgies
on Capitol Doors.
IndianaDolis News

The covering OF the great bronz doors
at the main entrance Of Pennsylvania new
state capitol have once more been removed
and the people are again able to feast their
eyes on the features of the great states
men that adorn them. Among the heads
are those OF Governor Pennypacker, SEN
ator Quay, Senator Penrose, Senator w. A.
Clark and Israel Durham. The men who
arranged the scheme Of decoration evidently
forgot that such men as William Penn,
Benjamin Franklin. Alexander James Dali
las, Albert Gallatin, Robert Morris, Andrew
Gregg Curtin and Benjamin Rush ever had
anything to do with Pennsylvania.
These doors will preach a strange sermon
to the youth OF the great state of Pennsyl-
vania. Quay, as everyone knows, robbed
the state treasury more than once, and dur
ing his life he represented all that was COR
rupt and rotten in politics. Penrose is now
engaged in a desperate fight to maintain
the supremacy of ring rule in state politics.
Pennypacker is chiefly famous for his ad-
miration of Quay. whose kinsman he was.
Clark is a millionaire senator from a west
ern state who happened to be born in Penn
sylvania. While Durham was the big man
in the gas ring in Philadelphia that plum
dered the city of millions Of dollars. Thus
we are to understand that there are peo-
pie in Pennsylvania who think II proper
to erect monuments to corruption, crime,
greed and mere wealth. Great public serv-
ice counts for nothing. The men that re-
fiected glory on the commonwealth are
passed by in contempt. All that Is needed
TO complete the picture is that the statue
OF Quay shall be placed In the grounds OF
the capitol on the site that has been pre-
pared for II.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-26
INCREASE OF RAILROAD EARNINGS

INCREASE OF RAILROAD EARNINGS.
The remarkable average increase OF
1924 per cent in railroad gross earn
ings for June in comparison with those
of the same month of last year signally
reflects the prosperous state of bust
ness, railroad earnings being accepted
as one of the most reliable indices of
trade conditions. For the June traffic
figures, although covering official re-
ports of a mileage of 1855, on which
the accepted trade estimates are made,
are carefully selected to represent
every section of the country and all
the great basic industries. The story
of increasing freight volume is the
same, whether as regards the trans
continental lines or those which par
ticularly serve the grain, the lumber,
the cotton or other regions productive
of distinctive commodities, except only
the exclusively coal districts, which, on
account of recent labor troubles. have
not quite reached normal conditions.
The most suggestive fact. however,
is the strong probability that the net
earnings will show relatively much
higher increase than the gross, al
though the precise rate cannot as yet
be stated, But the important point is
already entering into actual business
and financial calculations. that the
abolition of rebates through enforce
ment of the law is even now operating
as a strong factor in swelling the
/ profits OF the roads. Not only is the
tonnage increasing so that on sub
stantially the same tariff rates as here
tofore the gross earnings correspond
ingly increase, but also. since more
nearly the full amount of charges paid
in is retained by the roads. the net
earnings tend to be even greater.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-26
THE TRUE CAMPAIGN ISSUE.


with the committees Of the two
great parties organizing for the active
campaign, the issue becomes palmer
every day and is narrowed practically
to the one question, whether the coun-
try will grant the presidents request
for a republican majority in congress
to cooperate with him in more COM
pletely carrying out his policies.
There cannot be a shadow of doubt
that II President Roosevelt himself
we're a candidate. and a verdict we're
to be returned in the form of a vote
on his election. that he would sweep
the country as he did two years ago,
or that popular approval would be
even stronger than it was then. 1t
will not be easy to find a congressional
district in which the opposition candi-
date will have the hardihood to seek
election as an expression of popular
disapproval of the president or popular
demand for reversal of his program.
Certainly no such opposition tactics
will be ventured in any close or de-
batable constituency.
Yet this in general is the actual issue
as truly as If Theodore Roosevelt's
name we're at the head of the repub-
lican ticket this year or was the sole
name on the republican ticket to be
voted for or against. If the people are
really for Roosevelt and approve his
administration and want his policy on
vital issues supported and continued
the remaining two years of his term,
the only possible way to do 1t effec-
lively is to send to the national house
and senate republicans who are
pledged and by their characters and
records bound to hold up his hands.
1t cannot be done, as President Roose-
welt himself gives notable evidence OF
realizing. by electing a democratic ma
jority in the house. which. because OF
the approach of the presidential cleo
ton, must be under special temptation
to manufacture party capital.
The very situation. from the stand
point of party necessity as we'll as
public policy, makes it the duty OF
republicans to back up the president
and force the issue by selecting for
members of the house and senate only
those who have shown by their records
that they can be relied upon and whose
very names will be to the people sufi-
cient guaranty of sincerity.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-26
GRAIN FROM THE DRY REGION


The proportion to the whole crop Of
tho grain produced this year on west
ern land beyond what formerly was
regarded as hOpelessly outside the
rain belt of course, cannot yet be pre-
cisely stated. but Il is known TO be
very great. and is commanding atten-
ton not only in the grain trade. but
also among farmers throughout the
older states. The wheat and other
small grains grown far beyond the
ninety-eighth meridian. not little Of
1t on land that was abandoned for
farming ten or fifteen years ago, turn
out to be the finest quality of this
years yield. And this crop. following
as It does abundant crops for a series
of years, goes far 20 change the RUblic
judgment, once believed to be final,
as to the character of that region.
The most remarkable fact is that the
revolution cannot be attributed TO in
crease of rainfall alone. as might
naturally be inferred. The reports
show that in considerable districts,
particularly in the southwest, moisture
was materially below the average dur
ing the growing and ripenIng period.
and yet the yield both as to quantity
and as to quality is in nowise inferior
TO that in other parts Of the subhumid
belt where there was more rain. The
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-26
SUMNER sHOCKERs.

Newlywed-My wife only allows me three
hooks In the closet to hang my wardrobe
on.
oletimer-Don't worry. Before you've
been married long enough one hook will
be enough for all your wardrobe.-Stray
Stories.
Marie, II James asks you to marry him
tonight, tell him to speak to me-"
And II he doesn't, mamma?"
Tell him l want to speak to himH-
Woman's Home Companion.
,Cynic (savagely) They say, the fashion
able mother OF today recognizes her baby
only by looking at the nurse.
Fashionable Mot1'r (unmoved)-How ex-
traordinarily clevV,, when one changes
nurses so often! 1 always tell ours by
the mail cart.-London It'd Bits.
Where are you of to in such a hurry"
ITO the doctor for my husband"
What's up with him?"
He tells me he has got hepatitis dy-
spepsa, rheumatism, enteritis, gastritis,
appendicitis, nephritis and cerebro-spinai
Holy terrors! Where did he get all
that7"
why, a man induced him to buy a
medical dictionary, and he's just begun
reading it."-Brooklyn Citizen.
Mr.. Wholesale-:My boy, hope you save
50.
Boy-Yes, sir; I save 81 a week.
Mr.. Wholesale-Ah, knew l was paying
you too much! After this III give you
Papa says" remarked the heiress, that
you're mere fortune hunter"
well now, my dear" replied the shTewd
face is your fortune and that's what at
tracts me.'-Philadelphia Record.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-26

Not content to let the State Board
of Health alone make a record. the
State Board of Veterinarians has set
a new precedent by refusing a license
to practice in Nebraska to an ambi-
tious horse doctor, who has been una
BILE to meet the tests prescribed to
prove his ability. When the state sue
ceeds in protecting four-footed animals
from veterinary quacks there may be
hope for the same protecting arm to
be thrown around those who walk on
two feet
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-26

MAKING TIE PARTY PLATFORM.
disposition Is manifested in GER
tain quarters to criticise the action OF
the executive committee Of the repub-
lican state committee in selecting in
advance Of the convention a provis-
ional resolutions committee to draft
the platform. This action Is de-
nounced as "a usurpation Of power"
and 'in violation Of all Nebraska prece-
dents" and part of "a scheme to draft
specious resolutions calculated to be-
fiddle the honest delegates in the con-
vention."
There is no question that the selec-
ton Of a resolutions committee in ad-
vance of the organization of the con-
vention is 'in violation of all Ne
braska precedents," although no more
so than was the inclusion in the call
two years ago of the nomination OF
candidate for United States senator.
The only question is whether the limo
walton is a good one or a bad one. The
action of the executive committee is
in pursuance of a mandatory resolu-
ton unanimously adopted by the full
state committee. and the resolution,
so that, II it is part of "a scheme" it
is one fathered by the so-called re-
form element of the party. The power
Of the committee is restricted to the
J,N - re IN
the convention and it will remain with
the convention to accept or reject the
provisional resolutions committee and
to vote its platform up or down as 1t
sees fit.
The idea of having the party plat
form carefully prepared without un-
due haste in ample time to be pre-
sented to the convention in finished
form instead OF being slapped together
under high pressure at the eleventh
hour will commend itself to most peo-
pie and in fact is in line with repub-
lican precedent in a number of states.
With the personnel of this committee
known and advertised, every repub-
lican with a suggestion for a platform
plank should feel free to formulate
and submit IL to the chairman or mem
Der for his district. and it should be
incumbent upon the committee like
wise to take into consideration all the
resolutions touching upon national
and state issues that are now being
passed from time to time in the differ
ent county conventions.
The platform to be adopted by the
coming republican state convention
should be truly expressive of the pre-
vailing sentiment on public questions
of the rank and file of the party
! throughout the state in plain and un.
mistaKable language and the candi
dates nominated on 1t made to under,
stand that they are pledged by it and
will be expected to carry out its prom
ises. The pre-convention appoint
ment of the resolution committee car
bring about this desired result, and Il
it does not it will devolve on the con
vention to repudiate it and provide fol
the framing of a platform that doe:
conform to the popular demand.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-26
DREAM FISHING.
Baltimore Sun.

Baltimore sun.
do not 20 to fish for fish;
go to catch the day
When up the dawn he comes to swish
The river mists away.
do not go because l know
The fish are sure to bite
90 to catch the songs that flow,
The dreams that greet my sight.
I do not go to fish for fish,
go to hsh for news: -. .....-s
Along the shore a mile or more r'E9N'"s
To visit Mrs. Muse.
often find her daughters nine
Upon the beach at play,
And then the pleasure all is mine
To hear the things they say.
1 do not go to fish for FISH,
l go to be like one
Who joys to sit a while and smile
Just lonely with the sun;
Just with the chatter of the breeze
Just with the friendship of the trees
And of the birds beside.
I do not go to FISH for ish,
have no time for that;
l go to stray away day
Beneath my wide-brmmed hat
go to drift, or slow, or swift,
Where sometimes comes TO cleanse and liz
The dust that's in my throat
I do not go to fish for fish,
l hardly care at all
II any fish come at my wish,
Good luck or Ill befall;
go to fish with mem'ry bait
Upon the singing stream,
And generally II Is my fate
Instead Of fish, to dream.
To dream and drift and swing and float.
To loaf the lonely hours
Along the shore where glides my boat
To lunch and smoke and dream again
The days long golden span;
To paddle home at night and feel
Just like another mani
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-26
EVIL OF EASY CREDIT.
Moral as Well as Economic Danger In
Modern Condition.

New York World.
That people Of moderate resources are
much given TO living beyond their means
in the effort to keep up with their richer
contemporaries is a fact long established.
The Massachusetts Bureau of Labor Stats
tics arrives at this old conclusion by new
route. In so doing it suggests that to the
extensive employment Of credit and the in
stallment system moral as well as economic
unwisdom may attach.
The bureau has gathered figures 20 show
the uncollectible indebtedness Of the people
OF the state. They are very large figures.
A disregard is IN evidence, amazing In the
aggregate of it's results, OF the claims OF
butchers, grocers and other small trades
men II Is implied in the report that 10 the
spreading OF the installment business 20 an
extreme much of this evil is traceable.
Credit has become 50 easy that the re-
sponsibilities OF debt are more lightly re-
garded. AS against traders, too, who
merely keep books an immense advantage
for collections rests with dealers who hold
contra cts, with forfeiture Of goods as one
OF the penalties of missing regular pay
ments.
The argument is not against the Install
ment principle. More often than not the
system OF part payments is a great help.
II II a special providence to msuy young
people starting at housekeeping. II has as
sisted in the building Of countless homes.
These accomplishments Justify It's mainte-
nance
But that the system is abused there can
be no dispute. Extravagancs loses it,
warning face when II IL represented by a
small sum per week OF per month instead
Of large sum cash down
Such csudftfous as the Massachusetts
bureau has revealed would would he shown
also, II il likely in View York Thsy are
worth thinking about
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-26
where the Consumer GETS On.
Chicago Chronicle

Coincdent with intelligence of the set
Element Of the Ohio coal miners strike
comes the intimation that the price of coal
will be fractionally advanced because Of
the short supply on hand" In other
words, the miners and operators having
adjusted their differences now purpose to
make the consumer foot the bills This
is a contamination so common that it or
dinarily excites little comment, but in
the present aggressive state of the public
temper it may lead to legislative action
that will not be entirely satisfactory either
to the miners or the operators. The oper-
alton of 'gouging" tine public is not so
safe as II once was.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-26

II no one can build another gas tank
in Omaha without the consent of the
owners of every foot of property
within l 1000 feet, and the present gas
gets such consent. what becomes of
the promise in the democratic city
platform to force a reduction in the
price of gas by granting a second fran
chise to a competing company? 1t
looks very much as If that gas tank
mandamus were one OF those heads
win and tails you lose" cases, so far
as the gas company is concerned.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-26

The railroad tax agents have en-
tered objection before the State Board
of Equalization to the real estate as
sessment because the real estate is as
sessed only once every four years,
while the assessment of railroad prop
erty is made each year. But If the
railroad assessment is substantially
the same as it was the year the real
estate was assessed, notwithstanding
the notorious increase of earnings and
stock values, 1t would behoove the tax
bureaucrats to go away back and sit
down and maintain a dense silence.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-26

1t is time for the Real Estate ex.
change to make another demonstration
against excessive tax rates by county,
city and school district. OF what use
is 1t to achieve a measure of reform
in assessment of property II the tax
rate is not also to be restricted in the
interest of economy?
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-26
ono HoReful siEn.
Phfladelphia Record.

II is refreshing 70 learn that since the
exposures In the Thaw scandal II has be-
come dificuIt TO get chorus girls in New
York The temptations that surround them
are manifold, and II some girls are scared
away from stage entrances and others are
thoroughly warned OF the pitfalls among
which they viii walk, there win be taNur
hroksn haarts and wasted uxoA
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-26

The democratic World-Herald in
sists that the proposition to avoid nom
mating a candidate for United States
senator by inviting all the candidates
TO run by petition will be presented to
the democratic state convention. but
admits, in an aside. that no one ex-
poets 1t to be accepted. Apparently
all that is now wanted by its foster
sponsors is TO be let down easy.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-26

The men selected by DR.. George L.
Miller TO settle the water works ques-
ton do not seem to be climbing over
one another 70 serve in that capacity.
The good doctor may have to resort
TO a draft to I'LL up his committee.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-26
One Of the newly elected democrat

One OF the newly elected democratic
city councilmen is trying to resurrect
the initiative and referendum law,
which was put on the statute books by
the last fusion legislature. but made
dependent for its operation upon rat
ineation by the city. This was not in
the democratic city platform, but pre-
sumAbly It was not rejected. but
merely overlooked.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-26

experiencing the unprecedented build
ing expansion, which is most pro
nounced in this city. AS all this terri
tory is comprised in Greater Omaha,
we can all take pride in it and share
the benefits.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-26

In taking Texas. Arkansas and
Louisiana from the states under the
control of the western branch OF the
democratic congressional committee
the party shows wisdom. for it would
be difficult for It to prepare political
arguments which would apply alike to
the north and the solid" south.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-26

The trial Of Oregon land fraud cases
at the national capital will give a bet
ter chance to secure an unprejudiced
jury than were the cases tried at home
but there will probably also be
fewer spectacular performances by the
lawyers
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-26
Demonstration of Confidence.

The entire issue OF so, 10000 OF per cent
Panama canal bonds has been subscribed
for. the bids averaging above 1884. This
Is believed TO be the first time that any
government has succeeded in selling per
cent bonds at a premium Whatever infiu-
enee peculiar currency conditions had In
making this price. the bids are nevertheless
a remarkable demonstration OF financial
coundeEce In continued prosperity.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-26

Omaha erected fine auditorium
building for the special purpose OF
taking care of large national gather
ings, Omaha should go after some of
the big conventions, II only to keep its
Auditorium busy.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-26

Advices from Russia telling of
plans" of either side to the contest
are more or less imaginative. as events
show that the only plan" being car
ried out Is that of making the other
fellow" as much trouble as possible
regardless of results.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-26
Greatest show on Earth.
TAFnaro n1az-a II.~.1l

The courts have decided that II. H.
Rogers must give up s2.500,O 900 which he
pocketed while he was acting as trustee
Of a gas company II he would build
fence around himself and charge for the
privilege Of seeing him give 1t up he could
confidently count on large attendance
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-26

AS japanese merchants have pur-
chased the entire river front at Antung
American promoters may find an OPP
portunity to float few railroad bonds
II China would only take the ban from
foreign spectators.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-26

The resolutions of the Interparlia-
mentary union conference regarding
eontraband of war seem to prove that
interested parties are more anxious to
preserve trade than to make appeals
10 arms brief and decisive.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-26

The announcement that Tammany
hall may support Hearst for governor
of New York will cause the tiger to
look like a hearth-rug kitten to the
original exponent of yellow journalism.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-26
suREestion for smith.
Brooklyn Eagle.

There may be spectacles of wilder effort
and deeper despair than that of a 300
pound woman boarding an open car, but
we have never seen them. And a good
share Of the despair belongs to the people
who have to sit next. Derricks are Justly
demanded from our street car companies.