Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 23, 1901, Page 6

! l \ THE ©OMAHA DALY BEE. E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. “TPUBLISHED EVERY MORNING TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. aily Bee (without Bunday), One Year..$8.00 ally Bee and Sunday, One Year... fl"l‘ Tilustrated Bee, One Year 20 Bunday Bee, Ohe Year 2.0 | Baturday Bee, O P ld)‘ Twentleth Century One Year.. 1.0 OFFICES, Omaha, The Bee Bullding. South Omaha: City Hall Bullding, Twen- ty-ffth and M Streeis. Council Blufts: 10 Pear] Street, Ch 1840 Unity Building. ork: Temple Court shington: 1 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi- torlal matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorlal Department. BUSBINESS LETTERS. Business letters and remittances should be addressed: The Bee Publishing Com- pany, Omaha. REMITTANCES, Remit by draft, express or postal order, payave to The Bee Publishing Company. July 2-cent stamps accepted in payment of | mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not anccepted. THE BEE PUBLISBHING' COMPANY el STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss.: George B. Tzschick, secretary of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and | complete coples of The Evening and 8 month of June, g 4,050 . 39,450 48, 860 26,060 25,980 Net total sales. Net dally average GEORG Bubscribed in my pre before me this 30th day of June, A. D., 1001 M. B, HUNGATE, Notary Publie. — e PARTIES LEAVING FOR SUMMER, Parties leaving the city for the summer may have The Bee by went to them regularly notifying The Bee Busin office, in person or by mall The ad » will be changed an often as desired. Tt 1s certainly correct to speak of the strike of the truck drivers in #an Fran- clsco as a tleup. Cleveland, Mliss,, reports a more than usually qulet Sunday. Only one negro was killed and two wounded. If you are going to strike, now 1s the time to do it—it Is easler to strike than to work this kind of weather. The most comfortable lodging house for gentlemen of lelsure without visible means of support is the city cooler. Unless St. Peter leaves the pearly gutes ajar the long-distance rain prayers are llable to evaporate before they reach thelr destination. There is no hope for Kansas. Water 1s scarce and the Carry Natlon smashers have started in again to destroy the supply of beer. Style is all right In its place, but the mayor has done the sensible thing in al- lowing the policemen to discard coats this kind of went!mn The government I8 now receiving bids for winter clothing for the Indians. It would be an easy matter now to trade a fan for a good overcoat. While the coroner is reaping a golden harvest from sulcldes during this torrid weather the county judge Is losing every day Ly the slump in the demand for marrluge certificates. Arizona rauchmen are turning their at- tention from Rocky mountain sheep to Angora goats. With the temperature at 112 in the shade at Phoenix, Ariz., mo- hair blankets are not liable to be In de- mand for some time. Bryan has advised the prospective bolters In Ohio not to do it. A public letter 1s a good refuge to hide behind sometimes, but Bryan will shed no tears if his populistic following in that state should knife the ticket, ——— The Spanish Parliament has decided not to investigate the question of who was responsible for the disasters of the war with the United States. With the exawmple of the Schley-Sampson contro- versy before them It is not strange that the Spanish shirked the task. e A spurfous sclentist wants to know why lightning so often destroys churches and so rarely destroys saloons. 1f the spurlous scientist had ever studied the law of electricity he would have known thut lightuing strikes tall timber, but never strikes hazel brush, There are Intimations in the yellow press of England that a war between Russia and Great Britain |s among the possibilities. To a man up a tree It would look us though Great Britain had plenty to engage its attention at present without taking a twist at the Bear's tail. — Our amlable double-header contempo- rary is sufferfug from another attack of political jim-jams over the pretended discovery of horrible plots and counter plots by the republican county and clty muchine, All this because half a dozen executive committeemen of the county republican committee held an informal conference about the impending county cawpalgn. The cup of sorrow of ex-President Kruger of the Transvaal is certalnly full to overflowing. His country is overrun by a hostile army, himself an exile and his faithful wife dead in the land which they can no longer call thelr country and whose funeral he cannot attend. Kru- ger I8 a sturdy character, but this last burden 1s likely to prove more than he can bear. | they are pestiferous. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: "UESDAY, VICIOUS NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE. When newspaper enterprise is directed to the gathering and publication of cur- rent news in attractive shape it Is com- mendable, but so-called newspapers which devote their energles and rack the braine of their staffs in producing fantastic flctlon are as perniclous as Instead of cater- ing to the healthy appetite of the public their sole alm Is to stimulate the ab- normal craving for the sensational and pander to the viclous. One of the best {llustrations of this is found In the Sunday issue of the Chi- cago American. A double-paged series of {llustrations s printed, headed “Dis- graceful Scenes at the Omaha Bull Fight!" It depicts bulls In the act of tossing unfortunate men Into the alr, charging with untamed fury upon others and winds up with the figure of a-dead bull, dispatched to satisfy the craving for gore on the part of the ar- tist. To still further humiliate the peo- ple of this state and city the pictures of the governor and staff are printed in the attitude of viewing the bloody and brutal spectacle, Such fakes are utterly inexcusable. The paper printing it cannot truthfully plead ignorance. The alleged tight did not take place in Omaha In the first place. In the second place, no such scenes as those depicted took place any- where in Nebraska and the publishers and editors of the paper knew It, for it is a matter of common potoriety that the alleged bull fights were a fake and that the bulls were too tame or too tired to even chase the gally-decked Mexicans around the ring. These alleged fights were concluded a week before the paper was printed and the publishers are de- barred from making the plea they were misled. The reading matter which accompa- nied the illustrations was no less mis- leading and untruthful than the ple- tures. The very language which the American quotes, deprecating the bull- fight feature of the South Omaha show and which was credited to the Lincoln Journal, was taken from The Omaha Bee, but credited to the other paper to further falsify and mislead as to public sentiment in Omaha. The people of Omaha, of the state and even of South Omala, outside of a small clique, did not approve of the contests, as was amply evidenced by the fact that specta- tors were few, so few in fact that the projectors of the “enterprise” lost money on it. If it was ever their intentlon to give a genuine exhibition of bull fight- ing the authorities and the Humane so- clety put a quietus upon It early in the game. It was a fake, pure and simple, only excelled {n magnitude by the Il lustrated effort of the Chicago paper. And this is what passes for ‘“enter- prise” with a certain class of papers, chief among which are the several pub- lications put forth by the proprietor of the sheet In question. With one breath they preach benevolence and the better- ment of the world and then use up sev- eral telling lles which would have put the anclent biblical champion fabricator to the blush. With a great flourish the publisher seht a minister out to Omalia with the announcement that he was at Iiberty to spend thousands to prevent the fight and then deliberately perpé- trated a lying fake, which could have no other purpose than to demean and humil- late the people of this state. If such en- terprises are newspapers and others are to fall in and pursue the same course humanity had better go back to the days when the news of the day was retailed over the back-yard fence. INDUSTRIAL DEPRESSION [N GERMANY. All advices show that there is great in- dustrial depression in Germany and the sitvation seems to be growling steadily worse. According to the last report to the State department of the American consul at Bremen, unfavorable condl- tlors exist in almost every Industrial occupation in Germany. He states that the monthly reports as to the number of persons who are necessarily idle and frultlessly seeking employment are alarming. To aggravate the situation Germany Is harvesting poor crops. The consul notes as elements that constitute an industrial crisis diminishing oppor- tunities for work {n the industrial cen- ters, a gloomy outlook for the agrarians owing to short crops and a fall in prices due to overproduction In manufactures. He expresses apprehension that the trade of the United States with Ger- many will be serlously affected if the crisis 1s not relleved. Such belng the situation In Germany it fs somewhat remarkable that there should still be agitation in that country in favor of tariff regulations that would discriminate against the food products of this country and thereby render the conditions yet more serious for the Ger- man consumers. It s not difficult to un- derstand that German manufacturers should favor tariff rates that would pro- tect them against American competition, but in the face of the possible distress that is threatened that country by rea- son of the crop fallure it is strange that there should be any sentiment in favor of the agrarian policy of a high tariff on the products of agriculture. Yet it 18 reported that the new tariff as drawn contemplates the jwmposition of dutles on agricultural products that are up to the limit of what the commercial treatles with Germany will admit of and these schedules would be, so far as the United States 18 concerned, almost pro- hibitive as to our agricultural products. It would seem to be self-evident that Germany cannot stand this kind of pol- ley. 7To adopt it would mean an amount of distress to her people which it Is quite lmpossible to foresee and the effect of which could not tail to be very dis- turbing soclally and politically, A coun- try whose Industries are depressed and millions of whose people are idle can- not afford to adopt a tariff policy that would make the cost of living higher for her people and of all the couuntries of Europe Germany s perhaps the last one where the adoption of such a policy could safely be made. As to the effect of the conditions In Gerwany upon the trade with that coun- try of the United States, It is to be ex- pected that it will be unfavorable. We shall probably be able to sell as much to Germany of our agricultural prod- ucts in the coming year as we did in the past year, because she must have them, but we shall export less manu- factured products to that country, as indeed we are likely to do to most of the countries of Europe. It appears prob- able, however, that the aggregate of our exports to Europe this year will oot be materially less than during the past year and if there is any falling off it will be in manufactures and not in agricultural products. C—— DOUGLAS COUNTY F The official exhibit of Douglas county finances for the first six months of the present year has jJust been made pub- lic by the county treasurer, The receipts from all sources aggre- 36 and the disbursements , leaving a balance in the hands of the treasurer of $151,524.63. Out of the $405,247.73 expended, $130,- 176.82 represents the contribution of Douglas county to the state treasury. Among the interesting items of moneys standing to the credit of varfous funds we note the sum of $8,437 in the fee fund, which represents the surplus from all fee offices of the county; $2,705.80 in the road Improvement bond fund, which represents what is left from the sale of $150,000 of bonds issued for pav- ing county roads. While the amount realized from the sale of these bonds was $151,412.56 the amount actually paid for paving and repairs is $145,- 584, but the rats that have found thelr way Into that cheese have nibbled up about $5,000 of the money realized from these bonds. A remarkable feature of county finan- clering is presented In the exhibit of $17,026.30 of outstanding interest bear- Ing warrants in the face of a surplus of over $150,000 in the treasury which Is drawing no interest. Another extraordinary item of this exhibit Is found in the collection of $11,186.42 for the Douglas addition judg- ment fund and the transfer of §8,000 from this fund to the general fund. The Douglas addition represents the tract of land formerly part of the poor farm, which had been lald out into town lots and sold at auction during the boom days. This sale was an- nulled by the courts, bonds were fs- sued, the proceeds thereof, aggregating $100,710.50, were used to relmburse the purchasers. In addition to this bond issue the county levied a special tax of 2 7-10 mills in 1895 and again in 1897, which ylelded considerably more than was needed for the full settlement of all claims, The surplus of this ex- cessive tax, amounting to $23,5615.51, has been thrown Into the county dump, otherwlse known as the general fund, in- stead of being placed In the sinking fund to be applied to the redemption of the bonds. How the enormous sums which find thelr way Into the general fund are ladled out is not disclosed by the semi- annual statement of the county treas- urer, Suftice it to say that nearly $650,000 has been squeezed out of the taxpayers of Douglas county during the last six months for the maintenance of county and state government, five-sixths of which, or about $540,000, has been con- | tributed by the taxpayers of Omaha. In view of the fact that the city taxes are this year nearly three times as high as the county taxes, the aggregate con- tribution of Owmaha taxpayers for the maintenance of state, county and city government for the last six months has been approximately $2,000,000, exclusive of special clty taxes. The assistant superintendent of the salary and allowance division of the Postoffice department {s in Denver look- ing for suitable locations for sub-postal stations which are to be in running or- der by September 1. In this effort to improve postal facilities the Washing- ton official is heartlly seconded by the | postmaster of Denver, who appears anx- fous to secure the best facilities for the convenlence of the patrons of the office. This is in decided contrast with the post- master at Omaha, who has manifested vigorous opposition to the proposed lo- cation of a sub-station In the vicinity of Walnut Hill. The objection of the Omaha postmaster to the establishment of sub-stations Is that they cause trouble and inconvenlence to the main office em- ployes. Surely that ought not to out- welgh the demand for improved facill- ties In the suburbs for the convenlence of the patrons of the postoffice. With the departure of the forelgn troops from portions of China the na- tives are agaln causing trouble and the authorities are unable to control them. There is a possibility that the excesses of foreign troops will be like the sewing of a crop of dragon's teeth., Naturally superstitious and resentful when they think they have been wronged, the ef- fects of these outrages are likely to kindle a fire beside which the former outbreak will be child's play. In deal- ing with such people it is always well to follow the policy of General Crook with the Indians—fight when it is neces- sary, but always be just. The promoters of the 8t. Louis world's fair have started thelr advertising cam- paign with the discovery of a mastodon graveyard. The bones of any old mega- therium or pterodactyl will do to adver- tise the mamwmoth fair. It was sleepy old St. Louls that startled the world some years ago by the announcewment of the discovery of a mammoth cave under the bed of the Mississippl at the point where the engineers were making ex- cavations for the foundation of the great Eads bridge. The cave was never heard of agaln and the suspicion is en- tertained that a similar fate will over- take these mastodon remunants, The Britlsh House of Lords has re- versed the verdict of the high court of justice, which held that it was lawful for strikers to persuade others not to take thelr places. That a body con- stituted as is the House of Lords should have the power to overturn the verdict of the highest judges in the land Is a strange rellc of the past in, British ju- j Qiciary. There are many bright wminds | threatened on account of the Northern JULY 23, 1801, in the House of Lords, 1t s true, but this | or any other hereditary body i& bound | to be of mediocre ability taken as a whole, ! ——— The marked decline in railway stocks and Industrials cannot fail to have g very beneficlal effect upon Investment In farm lands and city property. So long as speculative investments In stocks offer tempting inducements to Investors | they preferred to take the risk incldental | to stock speculation, but with a down- ward tendency fn this class of invest- ment capital will be invested in realty | in the long run, as it offers the most re- liable security, m——— Truth Boiled Down. New York Tribune. The best bed now Is a bathtub, ——— Closer to the Throne, Globe-Democrat Nebraska citizens have scored a strong point by praying for rain a week fn ad- vance of the Missour{ date. Influence of the Dollar, Philadelphia Ledger. The only people in this country who take the British side in the South African war are those who have mules to sell. From First to Fourth, Boston Transeript. Boston Is put down as the fourth tea port in the United Stat At the opening of the revolution it was the first, at least upon one occasion. Purity Their Great Hold. Washington Post. We are glad to know that effort to corrupt the democratic party met with such an Ignominious failure. It is most gratifying to feel that the gentlemen who were in charge of the Bryan campaign last year would rather be pure than be pap peddlers. Aguinaldo’s Misplaced Sympathy. Kansas City Journal. This is the season of the year when the railroads are called upon to meet large losses. Recently a Topeka paper had an editorial deeply sympathizing with some farmers In Ellis county who had lost their entire wheat crop through a fire set by a traln. That sympathy properly belonged with the Union Pacific railroad. The rail- roads pay lberally for crops destroyed by their trains. It probably §s the rule that they pay every time as much as the crop is worth and sometimes thuy pay more. Malicious Assaults on Schley. Kansas City Star. The Intemperate terms in which Mr. Maclay has attacked Admiral Schley in his “History of the United States Navy" will tend to strengthen that officer's popularity. No matter what errors Schley may have made, a virulent and prejudiced pereonal attack upon him will only react against his opponents. It Is unfortunate that Sec- retary Long should have given approval to any part of a work which contains pas- sages so manifestly unfair as those in this history referring to the battle ot Santlago. An historlan who , cannot report recent events accurately ought not to expect cred- ence to be given his account of happenings of a century ago. Community-of-Interest P! New York Evening Post. The placing of one railway property In the hands of a committee selected by its chiet competitors hag never before been 80 carefully carried out, Here, If any- where, the ‘“community-of-interest” plan ought to be falrly tested. Whatever may be the general result, one thing is certain— that in each important question of policy which arises, bearing on the Interests of a rival rallway, a representative of the out- side road will have a volce. There can at all events no longer occur those sudden and secretly concelved attacks on the business of competing lines, demoralizing to values and disturbing to general trade, which marked the history of these companies in the '80s. A Great Panic-Smasher. Bt. Louls Globe-Democrat. J. Plerpont Morgam is the great panic- smasher of the age. Two or three con- vulsions have been arranged for Wall street In the last two months and Morgan has headed them off. On the first and most serious occasion he was on the other side of the Atlantic, but the cable kept him in communication with Wall street and he sidetracked the cataclysm which Pacific fight. He has done the same more than once since he arrived at home a week or two ago. Here Is a function in which monetary magnates of the older days sel- dom figured. Drew, Commodore Vander- bilt, Jay Gould and most of the other great financlers precipitated more flurries than they averted, though, of course, some of the wrecks which occurred in their time came without their intervention ana damaged them pecuniarily. Morgan, how- ever, 18 a benevolent plutocrat, who ought to be applauded by even William J. Bryan. RIGHTS OF WITNESSES, Significant Ruling by One of New York's Court New York Tribune. The appellate division in reversing the Judgment obtained by Frank D. Mowbray against Howard Gould makes some deserved criticism of a practice which has been steadily growing in our courts. It was high time that somebody in authority should come to the rescue of witn and limit the abuses of cross-examination. It was also time that a certain class of law- yers were taught that they could not make litlgation the excuse for the satisfaction of grudges, the ventilation of scandals or the levying of blackmail by threats to spread tis private affairs of their oppo- nents before the public in the trial of suits in no way involving those affairs. The opinion of Mr. Justice McLaughlin, to which there is no dissent, should be con- sldered a charter of liberty to the poor witnesses who have hitherto frequently been subjected to the insinuation and abuse of crose-examiners for the sole purpose of making them ridiculous or bringing them into disgrace. The justice says: “It cannot be that because a party re- fuses to submit to a demand made upon him, and himselt goes upon the witness stand to contradict testimony given by his adversary, he can by reason of that fact be compelled to divulge the secrets of his life, unless such secrets are connected with or have some bearing upon the matter be- ing tried. A party, when he becomes a witness, is entitled even on cro nation to be protected. Witnes some rights which courts are bound to re. spect. Attacks of the kind set out in this record cannot be made upon one's private life under the guise of cross-examination. Their purpose is either to coerce the party into a settlement or else to unduly and unjustly prejudice the jury against him. Such examinations tend to bring the admin- istration of the law and a trial of action into disrepute and to lessen the respect which litigants have for the courts.” That 1s good sense as well as good law, and 1f trial courts would heed it we should bave our records filled up with less irrele- vant testimony, giving reason for revers- als, and might approach more nearly to New Jersey in the promptness an mess of our justice. | last Thursday | moter {s to provide cool & 1 GOTHAM. HT AND SHADE 1IN Etchings of Scenes and Events in New York City. The deep sea hotel equadron of John Ar- buckle, coffee king, went into commission The purpose of the pro a air for all who have the price, $2.50 per night, which sum Includes supper and breakfast. The flee consists of the 1,000-ton sailing ship, Jacob A. Stamler, which salled for years between New York and Havre; the yacht Gitaua; the Hermit, once a pilot-boat, and the ocean tug, John Harlin. The Stamler is a three- master, full rigged, and can accommodate 250 passengers. The upper deck, protected by a watertight awning, s fitted with bunks and bunks surround the dining-room deck. These bunks are converted into seats during the day. The Stamler has fifty-four staterooms, each accommodating from two to four persons. All of these arc fitted with washstands and several have bathtubs, On the main deck there is a handsome apartment for women and a smoking room | for men. On this deck are also a pantry and three large staterooms. The Gitaua and the Hermit are the same size, each registoring about 100 tons. Each will ac- commodate forty persons. The Hermit is reserved for men, while the others are for both men and women, The tug John Harlin, which s known as “the father of the fleet,” will take them each evening out to sea, returning with them about 6:30 a. m., in time to enable all aboard to reach thelr places of busincss Aside from being used as a tug, the Harlin will algo be used as a prison. In case any arrests are made during the night the prisoners will be put aboard her and In the morning turned over to the police. c—— The Jacob Stamler Is a temperance hotel No beer is sorved and any guest who smuggles liquor aboard and fs caught at it will be put in the brig and then put ashore at the nearest point. ““We have every reason to believe that a temperance hotel will succeed,” sald Com- modore Fields, who is Mr. Arbuckle's right- hand man afloat and ashore. “There are thousands of quiet, temperance folks In this city who are not cranks and who can enjoy a good time, and who will be de- lighted to have a place that is free from the features to them annoying which are £0 characteristic of most of the resorts around New York. There is to be no rowdylsm and not the slightest hint of scandal or immorality.” Mr. Arbuckle desires that the lodgers shall form congenial family parties. His dining room s arranged with that in view. The profits will be ‘contributed to charity by Mr, Arbuckle, who belleves that these deep sea trips will become popular. A new question in journalistic ethics has been raised in Brooklyn. It is this: “If a physiclan in a hospital kisses one of the nurses much against her will, and declares that he will do it again should the chance be offered, should this fact appear in pub- lic print?” The president of a hospital board has declared that such affairs should not so appear. His assoclates disagreed with him. They unanimously declared that such pub- lication would do more to keep the frisky young doctors within bounds than a dozen hospltal rules. The doctors themselves are agalnst publielty. A remarkable scene was enacted In a New York church last Thursday. The deaf, the lame, the halt, the blind, gath- ered at the little church of St. Jean Bap- tiste, in Seventy-sixth street, just off Lex- ington avenue. It was the beginning of the novana, or nine days' service in honor of St. Anne, mother of the Blessed Virgin, and a relic, a plece of the bone of her fore- arm, sca.cely three inches long, was on view for the afflicted, who went to be cured of their {lls. There was a tremendous crowd. The church holds hardly 1,000, sitting and standing, but fully 3,000 sought entrance, overflow- ing Into the street, where trafic was completely blocked. St. Anne's day is July 25. Thursday's services were held to dedicate the new crypt in the basement of the church, the gift of Miss Anne Leary of 3 Fifth avenue. Miss Leary arrived early In the morning. Archbishop Corrl- gan was there when she took her place alone In the front pew. He stepped down from the altar and grasped her by the hand with words of congratulation. Miss Leary knelt down and the archbishop blessed her. Then the doors were thrown open. Half the crowd were in some way afliicted. There were big men who were paralyzed, little childrén with thelr legs fastened In iron, pretty girls who were deaf and dumb, many blind; bables afficted wita epllepsy and women with crutches, all struggling to get close to the relic. Charles Frankle had, perhaps, read in his youth the story of a boy who played the part of Robinson Crusoe In New York, an ingenious youth who discovered a dis- used lumber yard, built himself a house thereln and, as the stories used to end, lived happily ever thereafter. Charles improved on this program. He dlscovered a fine vacant house near Mount Morris park and made it his home. He gained his first entrance through a coal hole, and then possessed himself of the key to the basement dour. He then went to work in a sclentific Crusoeing manner. A room on the top floor was selected. To it he took a table and two chairs that were found in the house. He owned an old bag and carried it to the park, where he filled it with leaves. Two or three trips supplied him with enough for a soft bed. He piled them up in a corner of the room and spread over them two old lace curtains of which he had become in some way possessed. He carried needed water from a hydrant in the park. Newspapers served him for a tablecloth. A closet in the room made a convenlent larder and In it were found a sausage, a loaf of bread and pepper and It. He made a collection of wooden plates and disused fruit cans. A candle stuck in a bottle gave him light, After he was fairly settled he wrote his name on a card and put it on the outside doorknob, so that the postman could leave his mail. Just as he was fairly settled some one gave a pollceman the tip and Mr. Frankie gave up the frult of his labors and went to fail. JAPAN'S MONU ENT TO PERRY, National Gratitude for Crenting an Open Do Philadelphia Ledger. On July 14, 1853, Commodore Perry of the United States navy landed at Kurihama, Japan, on a mission to establish trad and intercourse with the isolated Japaneso nation, which had previously resisted the most persistent attempts by varlous na- tions tu break through the barriers main- talned against forelgners and things for- eign. The mission was completely suc- cessful, and the formal treaty, which was afterward slgned and ratifled by both coun- tries, was the beginning of modern Japan. To America belongs the honor of opening the way for probably the most rapid and remarkable change in any people in his- tory and the American assoclation of Japan, composed of Intelligent and promi- nent Japanese, decided to erect a monu- ment at the very spot where Commodore Perry landed forty-elght years after the event, in order to keep in the ‘‘memory of their pesterity” one of the most glori- ous days In their history. The advance of the Japanese has not only been wonderfully rapid, but it has Forelbly proceeded in such a thorough and all- | the people. | by the allied troops the Japanese soldlers were the equals of the best in equipment, discipline, courage and efficiency. More surprising still, their conduct in the field as absolutely correct. The looting, the murder and the cruelty were confined to the soldlers of European natlons, while the Japansse, who have but just emerged from a stato of stagoant, semi-clvilization, acted in the field with entire forbearance and bumaaity. The civilization which the Japanese have o quickly acquired seems to be something more than a thin veneer and writers who treat of the changes wrought in Japan are confident that the wonderful awakening In the land {s accompanied with something of the spirit of real clvilization. Of Japan's industrial advance, in apite of temporary financial straits, due to the heavy cost of its army and navy, there is no doubt, and from its progress the United States and other natlons that trade with it have shared the benefit, C Perry deserves a monument in Japan and his memory is abundantly worthy of high honor at home. His was a genufne triumph of civilization, accomplished without blood- shed, resulting in peace and giving a nation the etimulus to develop In accordance with Its own genius and by its own efforts. A race evolved by melf-help wisely alded fs Illkely to prove strong and useful to the world, PERSONAL NOTES, According to a New York dispatch *'the hat manufacturers of the coungry are now talking combination. Probably their talk will not be wholly through the article of wear in which they are principally inter- ested Once more the balance wavers on the total-abstinence question. Tolstol's doctors attribute his latest rally to his teetotalism. But the testimony of any cheertul moderate drinker of 102 years or more will turn the scales. Descendants of Edward Ball of Bradford, Conn., who are blood relations of George Washington, will hold a reunion at Keuka Park, N. M., August 27, 28 and 29, Wash- Ington was a cousin of the Virginla branch of the family. General Fitzhugh Lee has decided that the business in which he has determined to engage upon retirng into private life near Richmond, Va., will be “of an Industrial characte: but beyond this he has refused to make any statement for publication. J. Plerpont Morgan, for all his tremend- ous lmportance in financial and other af- fairs, owns a pet name which, however, none but bis wife dares use. Mrs. Morgan not infrequently calls him ‘‘Ponty the name belng a relic of sparking days. David Bennett Hill Is growing a trifle stout—not paunchy, but enough to show that he is livihg well. A Chicagoan who last week saw the New York man for the first time In several years says the sena- tor looks to be in splendid physical condi- tion. Hugo Jones, the assistant city chemist of Chicago, whose Invention of a coal consum- Ing battery has attracted attentlon, Is a German by birth, a graduate of the Real Gymnasium, Rawitsch, Germany; the Uni- versity of Breslau and the University of Chicago, from which he has the degree of B. 8. The new novel of New York lite, by the author of “Chimmie Fadden,” Mr. B. W. Townsend, has a character named Mrs. Cas- sidy, an old Irishwoman, who remarks to the heroine: ‘“‘Your ma must take up the burdens of the rich, and, with the candle burning at both ends, go chasing down the corridors of time, as the dear dead poet says, with drums beating to the greater glory of Bt. Patrick. Beauty, as th dead poet says, is but skin deep, but Ire- land, says he, is deeper than a well, and abldes, he says, forever." Elaborate preparations are being made in Milwaukee for the formal reception in honor of General MacArthur on his re- turn to his home In that city about Sep- tember 1. It s proposed by several who are taking an Interédt in the preliminary plans to urge business houses to make an effort to exceed any previous attempt in the way of decoration. The governor will probably be asked to send the entire Natlonal guard to the city and the United States government will be asked to have in the bay on the day of the arrival of the general such craft as can be brought to fire salutes. —_—— No Work, No Grub. Minneapolis Times. The fact that the government is gradu- ally doing away with the distribution of rations to Indiane is an encouraging fea- ture, Of the 268,000 Indlans mow in the United States only 45,250 draw rations regularly. Another not {nconsiderable body, about a fourth as many, on the av- erage, are now cared for as needed when #ickness or lack of work demands help. Among theso last are most of the Indians who have grown old and have been d serted by thelr young relatives. Clvillz tion has not yet bred this trait out of the Indian, and this fact will make it difficult to abolish the system of ratlons, though as now reckoned it will only be about five years more before it is practically done. —— One Cure for Perjury, Buffalo Express. There is no doubt that perjury is now regarded by many persons as a matter of little interest except to the parties in case. The fact is that perjury is an evil which affects the public at large, as it tends to diminish respect for the courts Frequent punishment for perjury might not stop the practice altogether, but it would greatly reduce it. During the occupation of China | Advantagen mmodore | THE HAPPIEST PEOPLE, pervading manner as actually to transform | — Amerieans Enjoy Pose Ll ed by Few Other People, Hoston obe People who have the largest liberty enfoy 1ife most. In this respect no class of poople have so large an opportunity for cnjoyment as Americans, except, possibly, tho Swias peasants. In 8witzerland the peopls are as froo as thelr native air; it s a children's | 1and; people live for thelr children, and out |of some 85,000 heads of families 65,000 own |property. Switzerland has rmade treaties |ot perpetual peace with all nations. She {haa the referendum, by which laws enacted ihy its assembly are referred back to the |People of their sanction. It has abolished {capital punishment, educates the heart, |conacience and jmaginatton of the child and pensions teachers. But the Swiss peasant not more happy than the American and does not get more out of life. A contented people do not emigrate To the eye of the traveler the French are {the happlest people in the world. French peasant life Is a charm and the soclal life in the citles a kind of enchantment. The |French love music, art and the festive |scene. They are free and have vivacity |But to be happy one must have wider hori- zons than a gay life; the faith of the solid virtues the old Huguenots hold in spiritual things. As a rule, the land of Pa lacks this conaclousness of soul attainment which it once had. The same may be sald of Germany and of Italy. Americans are the freest, tho best paid the'best housed and best fed of the peoples of the world. These material things do not make perfect happiness, but contribute to- ward it. The happlest people are those wh have the largest soul content. A free people who live a simple life f virtue, faith and contentment get the most out of lite. In this respect the America of the days of Jefferson was ideal and (he rural life of the states {s &0 today. Tha school, the free church, the library, the club, the opportunity of travel, are the means of that happiness, and in these agen- cles no people are so well supplied ac Americans. The electric car s now making the advantages of the city casy to the coun try. To share fine libraries s a common privilege. The literature of the world hera 15 as open to the poor as to the rich and in the great parks of the cities everyons to all intents may own a farm. Americans, whether they be native or adopted, do not emigrate. The boat of tha Ages {8 theirs. They are the happlest peo- ple In the world. P —— MIDSUMMER SMILES, Claney—~Phwat" i hrubble In th' alley heyant? o ogan—Some o' th' b'ys fed Casey's go-af A dozen av these cannon crackers, an' row dhey're thryin' t' git him t' ate a box o matches, Baltimore Amerfean: th' ¢ Washington Star: “De man_dat speaks de troof,” wald Uncle Eben, perves a heap of credit. But he wants t be kyahful not to talk any mo' dan fs ab solutely necessary.' Philadelphia Press: on your hat, my boy?" boarder. allug da. Why don't you put remarked the sum- mer “Don't you kno ro ltkely to be sunatriokz:’ " KPOW you'r Yes, I know, but it I go home with dad ketches me there'll be a son struck, anyhow Detroit Free Pres “‘Library ~=Would rou like a hll!(\rh‘u’l“l‘\"n\ nohoung Woman—No; I'd like a hysterical Pittsburg Chronicl, 1 - Tt hars Shrontd Mr. Bloomfleld—The overtime to t demand for coin 849 RANDE. YIS ["nrarmnn'-‘l)lm‘rldv'}'hlr seems to be a e cloeing of the mills ) foc the closing of the mills and the Washington Star: " “Did you say that vous parents were poor but honest pesple’ asked Senator Sorghum, ln!l'll'l'l‘d l{"‘ young man. mine, ‘m’” one of the peapla that had to struggle and tofl. fust becsusg my parents were selfish and inaisted n having the luxury of a clear consclence. " Puck: Teller—The complete list of thi ear's Fourth of July c 1t o L onourtl uly casualties {s put at ttendant time open- Grimshaw—When |t comes to celebrating Independence day the United §tates. Cruly h’_"'l(‘,'npl’“‘“flb“"#h v 6. Madge—She was fn a collisi nad all the entmel aeruped oft on s a4 "r?;fllli r”;'\wdhlll'k\' ihhl‘dv\’;ifl' If she'd taken ader she'd havi the 0 el serap & header she'd have had the enamel scraned Cleveland Plain Dealer 'L"n 'o('lflh‘vr»—!}lr. you h‘ ve disgraced your m, and must be pro ourt- | g e promptly eourt he Alleged Culprit—Pardon me, general t was'a borrowed uniform thar 1 v ™" The Commanding OMcer—The point tg well taken, and the case is dismissed, ——— WATERY LINES TO J. PLUVIUS, DE- LINQUENT. ) The Command- Mnn.nlour Pluvius, &1l vous plait, Can’t we have some rain taday ? E'en though goutte a goutte it be, Gratefully accept |t we, For on earth Is great dearth )f Water! Water!! Water!!! Jupe, old fellow, can't you see We are suff'rink horribly, Just because you stand around, And perforce ‘keep parched (he Holding back What we lack Most: Water! Water!! Water!1l How can_you be so distralt And let Welsh have't all his way Hout our being bolled or fried, 8ana cuticle or en hide, While we nche Jugt to_take To Water! Water!! Water!!l ground, Lese majesta! you will cry That #o free of epeech am I Bue 1 fear net pun}l‘nhgwnl orse than that which you have Unprovoked: 4 9 8059 Earth unsonked-- Bans Water! Water!! Water!!y You'll be sorry, by and by, If you longer Keep things dry: It. Mon Dieu! {t come too late, Mortals won't apprecate What vou do They Il be through Vith Water! Water!! Water!1t ALERED MARSCHNE Omaha, July 2 “Its Pretty Hot” And our assortment of **Pretty Hot" weather wear- ables are on the move. Light serges Seersuckers, F'lannels and other light Jfabrics are pleasant for these extreme days, besides a fine assortment of soft shirts thin Underwear and other details of the Hot Weather costume. Straw Hats at 35¢, 50c and $1.00, only three prices, and those cool electric fans of ours to do your trading under, perfect comfort awaits all who enter here. Stop and do your shopping before 5:30 P. M. If possible we close then to give our boys an oppor tunity to enjoy these warm eévenings the best they can. Saturday evenings Browning, at9 P. M. King & Co. Exclusive Clothiers and Furnishers. R. S. Wilcox, Manager. ore Cl s Saturday Nights at D O'clock, Other Event at 5,30, a