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Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-29
OPTIMISM OF THE aouLps.


George Gould and his associates in
the railroad business have refused to
share any Of the gloomy forebodings
of other railway financiers as to the
outlook for either the immediate or
remote future of the transportation in
terests in this country. The one great
problem which confronts all Of the rail-
roads," says Mr.. Gould, lis to furnish
facilities to handle the business of the
country, which is growing at an UNI
pfecedsnted rate and Is already taxing
the facilities of transportation COM
panies beyond their limit. l have no
fears for the future. The country was
never so prosperous nor the outlook so
bright as at the present time" Mr..
Gould adds an endorsement of Presi-
dent Roosevelt's railway policy and eX-
presses a belief that good would result
from the adoption Of some system of
judicious government supervision over
Issues of railway securities.
Moreover, stuyvesant Fish, recently
elected a member OF the board of d.
rectors of the Gould system OF rail
roads, furnishes evidence in an inter
view that the Gould optimism is to
take the form of deeds. rather than
words. He explains that Mr.. Gould
proposes to commence the general re-
construction of the railroads of his
entire system, intending to spend about
500, 100000 a year for this purpose,
the work to extend over period Of ten
years. This is no philanthropic move
on the part of the Goulds. They simply
recognize that the country gridironed
by their rails has developed traffic
far beyond the possibilities of existing
facilities and that improvements. must
be made to care properly for the busi-
ness offered at profitable rates. The
determination of the Goulds to spend
a vast sum OF money in improving their
roads is proof that they see no posi-
bility Of a serious halt in the progress
of prosperity.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-29
SAVING TBr AMERnAT hAcr.

DR.. Charles F. Aked, the newly i'm
ported New York pastor, and Luther
Burbank, the plant expert, have both
sounded warnings within the week
against dangers which threaten the fu-
ture Of the American people. DIT. Aked,
fresh from Europe, devoted his first
sermon to discussing the immigration
question as presenting a problem for
solution by the American people. He
spoke pointedly Of the menace to the
nations future which is a part Of the
cargo OF each immigrant-laden vessel
arriving 1t our ports. 1T is ques-
ton" said Dr. Aked, whether the
primal American stock is vitiated by
the interpermeation of an inferior
race" and he urged great caution in
the admission of immigrants and In
their education and instruction after
their admission.
Prof. Burbank sees a similar danger,
but he has a different remedy, I'VE
are more crossed" says he, than any
other nation in the history Of the world
and here we meet the same results that
are always seen in a much crossed race
of plants. all the worst as we'll as all
the best qualities of each are brought
out in their fullest intensities." Prof.
Burbank would have plant cultivation
methods adpoted in population rearing,
crossing and development, combining
by gradual process the dollhouse speci-
mems with the hardy outdoor wild
plants, to the flnai production of per
feet species. Some such method, he
insists, is essential to the saving Of
Americans of the future from the evil
influences that come over with the i'm
migrants from inferior European
countries.
Both DR.. Aked and Prof. Burbank
are worrying themselves needlessly
about the dangers that threaten the
primal American stock" The Inter
permeation" of the races has been
going on since the days, now being
celebrated at jamestown, when the
Anglo-saxon landed in Virginia for
permanent settlement. The "interper-
meation" has been going on for about
500 years. The broadened field Of OPP
portunity in America has furnished un-
limited opportunity for the immigrant
to throw OF and overcome his "inferi-
GRITTY" and he has taken advantage Of
It to an extent which robs the warnings
of racial alarmists of their terrors.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-29
Personal AND OTHERWISE.

Now the young mans fancy may safely
turn to straw lids.
Just as the country is about To open a
few cans OF hot air anthracite barons
delicately hint, Now is the time TO III
your bins"
Advices from the vicinity indicate that
Medicine Hat has put on the Id and taken
a vacation. The strain Of working over
time will tell.
Chicago has a Judge Fake and New York
a Judge Fagin. Yet ordinary lRymen are
expected to keep a straight face In the
presence OF either court.
The lawyer Patrick. who has been prac-
ticing his profession during his detention
in the death house, now that he Is a pris-
oner for life has been compelled 20 give
that up. He Is now learning the building
trade.
Lieutenant General Macarthur has gone
from San Francisco to Seattle 70 meet
General Kuroki, who will arrive there on
May 1. General Macarthur and his stan
viii escort the distinguished japanese war
rior 70 the jamestown exposition.
Missouri commands admiration In stand
ing up for home industry The st. Louis
Globe-Democrat insists that Frank James
should not be condemned for holding up
the Chicago Alton trains. as his work
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-29
THE BrcgER PRICE LEvELs.

The bureau of labor at Washington
has Just completed the compilation Of
statistics secured from a wide investi-
cation into the cost Of living for the
year 1905. The figures now published
relate to wholesale prices, and the
bureau is at work upon returns show
ing retail prices which will be printed
In July. The consumer will not be sur
prised to learn that the Wholesale
prices of living commodities are still
increasing and are higher than at any
other time in the seyenteen-year period
covered by the bureaus investigations.
Wholesale prices on 25S commodities
reached a higher level in 1906 than
at any other period since 1889. The
average for the year was SO per cent
higher than for 1905, ass per cent
higher than for 1897 and 22.4 per cent
higher than the average for the ten
years ending with 1899.
The Investigations by the bureau in
cluded prices of farm products, food,
clothes and clothing, fuel and lights,
building material, drugs and chemicals,
furniture and house furnishings and all
Of the necessities of living. In but two
groups was a decrease in prices shown
in 1905, compared with 1905, in farm
products and drugs and chemicals. The
average price of farm products In 1906
was but one-half of 1 per cent less
than for 1905. not enough to make
any appreciable difference in the
family's butter, egg and milk bills.
Food as a whole increased 3.6 per cent
over the average prices for 1905, the
increases being in fish, fruit, hog prod
ucts, rice, milk and vegetables. Minor
decreases were shown In coffee, eggs,
beef, sugar. -four and tea. These de-
creases we're in wholesale prices only
and were not noticed in retail prices.
OF the seventy-f1ve articles included in
the clothing group, sixty-six showed an
increase in price, five we're stationary
and only four showed a decrease. Coal
and fuel prices increased and there was
big boost in metals, building ma
terials and all articles entering into
house construction and house furnish
ing.
officials of the bureau of labor make
no attempt to explain the causes of the
rise and fall of prices, explaining that
the causes ''are too complex, the rela-
tive influence Of each too uncertain, in
some cases involving too many eco
nomic questions to permit their dis
cussion in an article dealing only with
the facts and figures" The consumer,
however, has his own explanation OF
the causes. While he may blame some
to trust combination and the manipula-
ton of prices in food supplies, he
knows that the old law Of supply and
demand is working overtime. With
work for every man, at advanced
wages, with an unequaled export de-
mand, with the population increased
greatly by natural growth and immi-
grafton, the mills and factories and
farms have been overtaxed to supply
eager customers waiting with cash in
hand. The people are buying more and
better goods than ever before and in
creased prices are inevitable until the
factories and farms get ahead of the
demands upon them.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-29
LESS PUBLICATIONS. BUSINESS:

Nov that the district court has
handed down its decision in the man
damus suit brought to determine who
is city engineer, the people OF Omaha
who pay city taxes and want to get
the worth of their money will all join
in a petition that we may have less
politics and more business In the city
hall.
While the councilmen have been
playing peanut politics to connect
democratic pie biters with the pay
roll, the real work of the city admin
istratlon has been neglected or OBJ
structed.
The streets of Omaha are in a de-
pIorable condition, not only impeding
trafic and endangering the lives OF
people passing over them in fast
moving vehicles, but they are abso-
lutely repellant to visiting strangers
who would otherwise have the most
favorable impression Of our city. The
asphalt repair plant should be started
up at once and kept busy until the
holes in the pavements are patched.
New street improvements which have
been ordered for months have been
waiting for the council to clear the
track for the public works department.
There is no good reason why our pave
ments should not be laid and com
pieted for once without waiting until
after the open season is over and the
cold weather sets In in the fall,
1t is high time for the ofncials In
the city hall to give some eonsidera-
ton to the demands of the public and
70 work together 80 far as the public
interests require. even If TO do so they
must cut out personalities and politics.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-29
THE JAMESTOWN FAM.


Minna Irving in Leslies Monthly.
Where Pocahontas strung her beads
Beside her wigwam door,
And Captain Smith with rapture hailed
The green and wooded shore.
Loi all the nations of the earth
Bring treasures, rich and rare,
To where Virginia sits in state
And holds the jamestown fair.
Where long ago the painted brave
Propelled his birch canoe,
The fleets of mighty naval powers
Are anchored on the blue;
A thousand silken banners gay
Are fluttering in the air,
And batteries from every ship
Salute the jamestown fair.
1t is Virginia's proudest day
Three centuries of renown
In war and peace have won for her
A fadeless laurel crown.
The fruits OF all her years Of toll
Are proudly garnered there
Beneath the countless clustered room
That mark the jamestown fair.
From Indian tepees she has reared
The palaces OF trade,
From strings of savage wampum shelIA
The gold of commerce made
The smoke from her tobacco crops
Is fragrant everywhere,
And like an azure aureole
Surrounds the jamestown fair.
Virginia Is "at home today
Among the glittering spires
Arising from the ashes gray
OF ancient council fires,
And ready to receive her friends
With pride beyond compare,
She opens wide her spacious gates
Behold the jamestown fair.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-29

next block, and Mr.. Taft cannot be in
more than three or four places at once.
IL is hoped war with Nicaragua may
be averted. particularly ss We are right
on the eve Of an international peace
conference at The Hague and also be-
cause the American volunteers will
soon be needed in the harvest fields.
Il might be a good scheme to get
santo Domingo, Venezuela, Cuba, Mica
ragua, Salvador, Honduras and other
South and Central American countries
to agree upon a schedule. like base
ball league, 80 that trouble would not
be breaking out in more than one place
at the same time.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-29

Prof, Finley Ellingwood, NJ. D., OF
Bennett Medical College, Chicago, says
OF Golden Seal root: vt is most
superior remedy in catarrhal gastritis
inflammation of the stomach) , chronic
constipation, general debility, In con-
Valescenoe from pTotraCted levers, in
prostrating night-swcats. It is an i'm
poTtdnt remedy IN disorders Of the tComb.R
This agent, Golden Seal root, Is an
important ingredient of Dr.. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription for woman's weak
nesses, as well as of the vGolden Med
ical Discovery DR.. Ellingwood com
tinues, ain all catarrhal conditions 10
is useful"
Much more, did space perSnit, could
be quoted from prominent authorities
as TO the wonderful curative properties
possessed by Golden Seal root,
We want 10 assure the reader that
"Golden Medical Discovery" can be
relied upon to do all that is claimed for
Golden Seal root in the cure of all the
various diseases as set forth in the
above brief extracts, for it's most
prominent and important ingredient 10
Golden Seal root. This agent is, how
ever, strongly reinforced, and its cura-I
tive action greatly enhanced by the
addition, in just the right proportion
of Queens root, Stone root, Black
Cherrybark, Bloodroot, Mandrake root
and chemically pure glycerine. All OF
these are happily and tremendously
blended into a most perfect phar-
maceutical compound, now favorably
known throughout most of the civilized
countries of the world. Bear in mind
that each and every ingredient entering
into the Discovery has received the
endorsement oil the leading medical
men OF our land, Who eRC6I each article
named ABOVE in The highest term6 /
What other medicine put up Tor SAFE
through drugglsIs can show any SUCH
prQfesst0ndL endQIsement Z For dys.
pepsia, liver troubles, al chronic catar-
rhal affections of whatever name or
nature, lingering coughs, bronchial,
throat and lung affections, the UDis-
covery" can be relied upon as a sover-
eign remedy.
A little book of extracts treating OF
all the several ingredients entering into
DIR. Pierce's medicines, being extracts
from standard medical works, of the
different schools Of practice will be
mailed free TO any one asking (by postal
card or letter., for the same, addressed
TO DR.. r. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y, and
giving the writer's full post-office ad-
dress plainly written.
Don't accept a substitute Of unknown
composition for this non-secret MEDI.
CINE OF KNOWN COMPOSITION
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-29

was not near as profitable and artistic as
the recent looting Of the system.
How can this great and glorious govern
ment hope to attain permanent peace while
at the same time 1t abolishes mirrors and
puts women workers in the nations print
shop in peril Of appearing on the streets
with a smudge on the nose?
Jack London, the novelist, started on
Tuesday from San Francisco in his yacht,
the Shark, on his seven-year voyage
around the world. Accompanying the
author are his wife, Captain Eames, Her
mon stolE, friend, and a Japanese cook
The first stop of the Shark will be at
Honolulu.
The women's Civic club Of New Haven
has investigated the play Nathan Hale"
The investigator reports: 81 didn't see
anything immoral, but think it is against
public interest to let a short, fat man
take the heroic role of Nathan Hale. No
fat man should be cast in patriotic roles"
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-29

Symptoms. II you have bitter or
bad taste In the morning, poor or vari-
able appetite coated tongue, foul breath,
constipated or irregular bowels, feel
weak, easily tired, respondent, frequent
headaches, pain or distress in vsmall OF
back" gnawiug or distressed feeling in
stomach, perhaps nausea, bitter OF sour
Wrisings" in throat after eating, and
kindred symptoms OF weak stomach
and torpid liver, or biliousness, no
medicine will relieve you more promptly
or cure you more permanently than
DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery.
Perhaps only part OF the above symp-
toms will be present AZ one time and
yet point TO torpid liver, or biliousness
and weak stomach. Avoid all hot bread
and biscuits, griddle cakes and other
indigestible food and take the cGolden
Medical Discovery" regularly and stick
TO its Use until you are vigorous and
strong.
OF Golden Seal root, which is one of
the prominent ingredients of UGolden
Medical Discovery" DR.. Roberts Barth-
GLOW, Of Jefferson Medical College, SAYS:
"Very useful as a stomachic (stomach)
tonic and in atomic dyspepsia, Cures
gastric (stomach) catarrh and head
aches accompanying same"
DR.. Grover Coe, Of New York, says:
FHydTastis Golden Seal root) exercises
an especial influence over mucous sur
faces. Upon the liver it acts with equal
certainty and efficacy. As cholagogue
lliyer invigorator) It has few equals"
DR., Ooe also advises II for affections Of
the spleen and other abdominal viscera
generally land for scroiulous and gland.
ular diseases, cutaneous eTuptlonsA In.
digestion, debility, chEnnic- diaFThea,
constipation, also in several affections
peculiar TO women, 6pd in all chronic
arrangements oi--th4 liver, also for
chronic -in6ammatNOn OF bladder, for
whicb/Dr. Goa, says ut lie one OF the
most reliable agents Of cure
Pr6 John King, NJ D late of Gin.
einnatf; -eAstAeE OF the AMERICAN Dis.
PENsAToRY, gives 1t a prominent place
among medicinal agents, reiterates all
the foregoing writers have said about
It, as does also Prof. John NJ. ScuddeF,
M. D., late Of Cincinnati. DR.. Scudder
says: vt stimulates the digestive pro-
cesses and increases the assimilation Of
food. By these means the blood is en-
Ttched. - the consequent improve
ment on the glandular and nervous sys-
TENS are natural results" DR.. Scudder
further says, in relation to it's general
effect upon the system, there is no btedi-
cine IN use about tohich there is such
general uHdFimity of opinion. It Is Uni-
versdlly regarded as the tonic, useful
IN all debilitated states -
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-29

Nobody else kicks about little things likI
that!"-Chicago Tribune.
policeman links was fired for perniciouA
activity"
'"Pernicious activity"
THE same He insisted on patrollng his
beat."-Washington Herald.
A chesty delegation reached the white
House with intent to correct the presiden-
tial views.
:We'n show him." they said to one an
other, with confidence.
An instant later there was a swish and q
thud as of a lusty farmer failing grain.
And now, gentlemen" said the presi-
dent, when there came an interval OF quiet,
what else can /, as a servant of the peo-
pie whose aim is to please, do for your"
would II be too much 70 ask you" said
the chairman, feebly ito instruct your
esteemed Loeb TO ring for the ambulance?'
PHILADELPHIA Ledger,
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-29

The inviolable freedom of the press
has been invaded by the institution
by the faculty of a Nebraska college
OF a censorship over the student pub
lication. This invasion Of a sacred
right guaranteed by the constitution
should be Indignantly resented and re-
sisted. No college newspaper can be
considered successful until 1t has out
witted an attempted censorship.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-29
Putting Water on ROOseveIrs wheel.
Kansas City star

About the most Obscure son OF a great
man is Mr.. Jesse r. Grant son Of Presi-
dent Grant Il Is true that he once at
tracted some attention by renOuncing the
party Of his father and Joining the ranks
OF the democracy under the leadership Of
Mr.. Bryan. For this he was several times
cautiously-very cautiously-mentioned for
the presidency by the California Hearst
papers Now he invites attention again
by attacking the president. Every day
somebody puts water on the presidents
wheel One day Il Is Foraker. another il
is Burton another Il Is Thurston, an
other Il Is Hartman, another IL Is Debs
and another Il Is Wordsworth. The dis
placement OF young Grant is small, but thu
country win be made glad that Il hasn't
a president who would meet the approval
OF this faulthnder.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-29

William Jennings Bryan has suf-
fered the frst severe setback in his
propaganda for government ownership
Of railroads. The battery Of high
school debaters, right out Of Mr..
Brysn's home town Of Lincoln, has
been silenced by the representatives
of the Omaha High school, arguing for
private ownership and operation, sub
iect only to government regulation.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-29

According to the report of the city
comptroller, Omahs's Water board has
spent $24,S94.S5, Of which $4,000 in
round figures has been absorbed for
salaries Of the water commissioners,
its lawyers, engineering experts and
stenographers. And no municipal
water works to manage yet!
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-29

Hoboes will drop Cleveland from
their itinerary, now that the police
judge there is sentencing them to take
daily baths whether they need them
or not.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-29
Prominence and Privacy.
New YORK Iribun'

In prohibiting newspaper men from con-
gregating on the White House grounds or
going 20 the White House dOOrs-front
or back-after nightfall the president is
merely calling attention to the fact that
he has a home and wants to enjoy IL.
There lie no reason why his prominence
should deprive him Of all privacy and
peace.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-29

No postoflce red tape should be al
lowed to prevent prompt transporta-
ton Of the mails between the Omaha
pOstof1ce and depots and substations.
The Postoffice department will surely
find some way to give Omaha people
modern mail facilities rather than
force them back to the pony express
of pioneer days.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-29
A LAZY LIVER

May be only tired liver starved liver 1t would be stupid
well thing to beat starved because he Jagged
in his work So in treating the tagging, torpid liver It great
lash with strong drastic drugs torpid liver is but
indication of nouhed enfeebed body whose
Start with the stomach allied of digestion
working how quickly your
liver will become active Dr. Perces Golden Medical Discovery has
made many marvellous of "ver complaint" torpid liver
the digestion nutrition Il
activity of the stomach secreons Of
the making glands eanses the poisonous
aons liver of the burdens imposed upon the
deer tion ofoffer Koreans
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-29

That midnight marauding expedi-
ton of the democratic city council into
the city engineers once proves TO
have been in vain. That is the sort
of amusement, however, most enjoyed
by some of the councilmanic states
men.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-29

The railroad managers have been
too busy with trafic to institute those
proceedings in bankruptcy which they
assured us we're certain to follow the
passage of railway regulation bills.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-29

Commander Peary needs but $50, 900
more to equip his expedition for an
other dash at the north pole. It would
te worth while to subscribe it for him
and let him chase the north pole back
where it belongs, instead of allowing
IT, to float around over the corn belt.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-29

Speaker Cannon places his fayorite
brand OF emphasis on a denial that he
Is helping the Fairbanks boom. Can
mons first choice for the place is a
grizzly whiskered statesman from Dan
vile, H., who has twice been speaker
Of the house OF representatives at
Washington
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-29

President Roosevelt has intimated
that he is not going into the presi-
Dental game, either on his own ae-
count or for the purpose Of making a
acrihce hit to advance Secretary Taft
IN the bases.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-29

One of the lumber concerns included
in the suit brought by the attorney
general under the antitrust law to
dissolve the Nebraska Lumber Deal
ers' association objects to the report
of the referee. Some people do not
know when they are well treated.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-29

A dog may have the status of prop
erty in Nebraska, but that concession
does not authorize any dog owner to
set vicious animal at large. The
dog population of Omaha could suffer
material reduction without injury to
the community.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-29

Lord Kitchener says that a flying
column OF infantry should not carry
pianos and kitchen ranges with them.
Certainly not. The British soldier In
The field should limit his extra baggage
to his umbrella, bath tub. evening
dress and a few essentials of that char
acter
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-29
Greedy MIX dealers curBsd.

AS the situation now stands, any milk
dealer using bottle under the proper
size, or not properly marked is liable to a
fine Of from IS to 500 for each offense.
The swindllng of milk consumers by the
use OF fraudulent bottles is a peculiarly
mean offense, and any dealer guilty OF IL
should be punished
Omaha daily bee., 1907-04-29

The democratic candidate for vice
president should be a good cam
paigneri" says the Houston Post. It
would help more II he could make a
noise IKE a cash register.