Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 23, 1903, Page 6

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Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted THE BEE PUBLISHING' COMPANY. 12c 7o STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, #s.: George B, Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Puolisling Company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and complete éoples of The Daily, Morning, Evening and Sunday Beo printed during the month of May, 1903, was as follows g 128,450 81,080 80,780 80,860 80,870 80,040 .30,830 28,230 30,830 80,700 ..80,750 80,680 80,660 81,850 EFEEEE e Less unsold and returned coples. Net total sales.... Net average sales. .. 4 GEOR! ., TZSC Subscribed in my presence and sworn to before me this 8ist day of May, A. D. 19. 4B HONGATE, (Seal y Public. Chicago is wrestling with the garbage problem and Omaha will have to follow suit before the end of the present year, Adjournment of the Jupanese Diet does not seem to have disturbed the international equilibrium to any alarm- ing extent. 2 e ——— We note that in the latest issue of the Tammany Times the advertisements are nearly all of fire water, fire works or fire hose. It's a good combination. e rd Having nothing else to fight over, the Iowa democrats will try to take another fall out. of the queéstion of reaffirmation of the Kansas @ity platform vagaries, iy Governor Cummins of Iowa is having things all his own way in the county conventions this year. It was different two years ago when he was first nom- inated. —— If King Peter is so disposed he can appropriate our Fourth of July for his triumphal entry into Belgrade and his assumption of the reins of Sbrvian gov- ernment. Attorneys who are pald by the year for knocking down corporation assess- ments will bear watching, even when they have their abode in the suburb of Dundee. rural A man has been driven insane over in England by imagining he is the king. Several people have reached the verge of insanity on this side by imagining they held all the kings. Sy It is hard to make people belleve that an Ohlo man has not designs upon the White House. That is why Senator Hanna finds it necessary at every op- portunity to deny harboring presidential ambitlons. — The clean bill of health presented by Cuba in its complete freedom now from yellow fever and smallpox testifies to the thorough job which the American fumigating brigade did when it was in charge down thére, — Why shouldn't those Jackson jail boarders have an allowance of whisky daily in addition to their meals? TIsn't the Jackson jail in Kentucky and does not the constitution expressly probibit cruel and unusual punishments? The South Omaha Board of Review should hew to the line, let the chips fall where they may. In the assess- ment of property they should be gov- erned by the principle of equal justice to all and special privileges for none. An amiable contemporary in a languid mood telle us that “man’s inventions are clever and unique, but they remind us with the passing centurles of the Umits as well as the possibilitics of human kind." If that is not as clear as mud an explanatory diagram will be furnished free. —_— In allowing the Jews of London with- out molestation not only to resolve in NORTHW EST AND RACIPROCITY. There s no question that in the north western states there is a strong senti ment favorable to reciprocal comme relations with Canada and it s very to increase. heen 1, Wi to furt of reciprocity with our northern neigh bor has been organized and entered upon its campaign. Representative Bede of the Duluth district says the people of his state are more Interested in this question than ever before and he ex- plains that this new awakening I8 due in large measure to the agricultural evolu tion of the northwest. While a generation ago Minnesota was exclusively a wheat producer outside of the lumbering Interests, now there is diversified farming and Mr. Bede ex- pressed the opinlon that in twenty-five years from now Minnesota will not pro- duce a bushel of wheat for export, be- cause other crops are more profitable, and in half that time the great export- ing flouring mills of Minneapolis and Duluth will shut down unless they can grind the Canadian crop. Last year the Canadian northwest produced 60,000,000 bushels of wheat, which Is only a be- ginning. The natural market for this wheat is Liverpool and the natural out- let for it is through Minnesota. “Our railronds would like to carry it, our mills grind it and our ships bear it to the markets of the world,” said Mr. Bede. “It 18 in the Interest of the Canadian wheat raiser that we afford him this competition and it can in no way harm our producer to let the Cana- dian product pass through our terri- tory, for it will reach the world market in any event. If we remove our tariff of 25 cents a bushel on wheat Canada would not impose an export duty as ehe does on logs, but would leave it free in the interest of her own farmers.” The resolution adapted by the recent convention of mlillers, in which the northwestern milling Interest was well represented, strongly urging reciprocity with Canada, probably was inspired by the .vlew that is creating sentiment in favor of this pollcy in the northwest. At any rate this declaration of an ex- tensive and important industry has made no little impression and given con- siderable encouragement to the advo- cates of reciprocal trade relations with the Dominfon. What seems assured is that the northwest will be earnestly allied with New England in urging the reciprocity cause and the united efforts 'of the two sections in this direction, alded by friends of the policy In other quarters, may ultimately lead to nego- tiations for a treaty, though at this time there appears to be no prospect of this. There continues to be talle’ of recon- vening the high joint commission for the purpose of framing a reciprocity treaty, but there i{s no authoritative in- formation that this .will. be done. Neither government, it appears, is dis- posed to take the Initiative in the mat- ter. sentlment has warked in Minnesc business in particularly league the cause osts BUREAU OF CORPURATIONS. This new bureau, which is expected to be of great service to the public, will be ready to begin active operations July 1. Commissioner Garfield has been busy preparing the way by the collection of all necessary data as to state laws regulative of corporations, decisions by the courts, methods of organization, capitalization and other statistical mat- ter which will be needed for reference. It 1s stated also that the president is taking a great deal of interest in the work which the bureau will have to per- form and has consulted with federal Judges who have handled suits brought under the Sherman anti-trust law as to the best methods to be pursued by the bureau in gathering the information rel- ative to corporations authorized by the law. ‘While it is expected that the bureau of corporations will perform the duties assigned to it thoroughly and impar- tially, care will be taken to avoid doing anything that might work an injury to a corporation which is not offending against the law. of the bureau to investigate the organ- ization and methods of management of all corporations engaged in interstate commerce, but making public the re- sults of the Inquiry is in the discretion of the president. No corporation that is complying with the laws, it 1s need- less to say, need fear any injury from the new bureau. Ounly those whose or- ganization and methods are unlawful will experlence any trouble. The new bureau was not created to crush are legally organized and managed. PROJECTED COTTON MILL TRUST. The latest succepd. was'held at Charlotte, N. C., last week The development of f | south, It is within the power cor- porations, but merely to see {hat they movement of trust pro- moters looks to the merging of southern cotton yarn mills and it is expected to A conference of manufacturers THE OMAHA DAILY likely St far considered the plan seem generally | to regard it with favor, although it} really does not ke a desirable thing for the future of a { cotton manufacturing industry in tl It would manifestly wis to depend upon a healthy growth, such Ins the industry hag been having, and keep out of the clutches of eastern pro moters. would prove a disadvantage, the manufacturers who have thus look substantinl | be MORE LIGHT WANTED. | There is no divergence of opinion in this community with regard to the de sirability of the projected Platte river power canal. It does not require an argument to convince our business men | that a power canal would prove of in calculable advantage to the industries already estublished and would, more- over, stimulate the investment in new manufacturing enterprises. Up to date, however, the power remains n | paper project. To gure, the pro- moters of two rival canul projects—one at Fremont and one at Columbus—have periodically eclaimed to have secured financial backing that will enable them to proceed with the work of construction without delay, but as yet promise has not been supplemented by performance. The last public announcement carries with it the assurance that Manager Kenyon of the South Omaha stock yards would in the near future assume the general management of the Fremont power canal and push the work to suc- cessful completion within twelve to eighteen months. It has also been given out in this connection that J. Ogden Armour and a number of other heav capitalists have been enlisted to back and finance the enterprise. While this information is very gratify- ing to everybody interested in the progress of Omaha, there is a general desire for more definite information than we have yet been able to obtaln. In other words, the people of Omaha are extremely anxious for more light on the power canal project than they have yet been able to obtain from parties who claim to be on the inside. All efforts to secure positive information regarding the financing of the Fremont or Colum- bus canal projects have falled to elicit such definite information as would war- rant The Bee in declaring that the enter- prise has reached a stage when all doubt of its final achievement has been dispelled. Let us have more light on the power candal by ell means and if any conces- slons are to be asked of Omaha or South Omaha that can be reasonably granted we feel gure that both cities will pull together to expedite the project to a successful completion. canal be Government cwnership of telegraph lines is always unobjectionable when the investment holds out no hope for dividends, but government telegraphs are viewed as a very dangerous experi- ment whenever they are projected in paying territory. This explains why the government Is about to establish tele- graph communication between the Alaskan islands and the mainland of the United States by way of Seattle, for which purpose 1,350 miles of submarine cable has been manufactured expressly for Uncle Sam under the supervision of General Greely. A saving of one-half of 1 per cent on a bond issue of $480,000 would amount to $2,400 a year or $48,000 at the end of twenty years. A saving of | 1 per cent interest would effect a saving of $96,000 in twenty years. There is no danger that Omaha would have to pay more than 4 per cent interest on its bonded indebtedness ten years hence. On the contrary, there is every prospect of an improvement in the city's credit and a corresponding reduction in the Interest rate at the end of the next decade. A ——— Before the County Board of Equaliza- tion reaches a final conclusion concern- ing the assessment of South Omaha packing house plants Attorney Selby should be invited to make a more plaus- ible explanation about.the mistake in the assessment figures caused by the assessor's alleged game band, That game bears the earmarks of the heathen Chinee. There is a slight contrast between get- ting diplomas in Omaha and in Cam- bridge, Mass., where one of the mem- bers of a graduating class of the public schools declined to participate in the graduating exercises because he had an antipathy to the mayor, who had been selected by the school board to dis- tribute the diplomas. Has it really come to this that a graduate of the Omaha High school is obliged to invoke the power of the courts to compel the issue of a diploma, which s withheld from him to satisfy the spleen of a martinet who has sought | to give himself airs by seeking to en- | force Russian army barracks discipline? | BEE: TUESDAY Friday real Thus do and lent wi they 10 Mo hela In the Matter of Grace, we see that they the imaginary throw were kind themselves snakes not er on non Philadelphia Record Peter Karageorgevitch, calls himselt king by grace of God." But the ins of Alexunder know better by whose grace Peter now reigns over the Servians Protest of Patr) New The old Liberty too, s k Tribune. Bell I8 an interesting Object, and it is to be wished that every American might sec it But it ought not to be carted around the country as though | it were the band wagon of a clrcus. Its place is in Independence hall, and there It should be kept for all time. “How Soom We Are Forgotten." Philadelphia Press. Bhortly after the death of Captain Grid- ley, who commanded the flagship in the battle of Maniia bay, there was an en- thusiastic movement among the people of e—the late captaln's eclty—to ralse a fund for a sultable monument. That was not so very long ago, but apparently it is long enough for the prpject to be lost to vlew, since the newspapers are now asking what has become of it. It is not a new ex- perience. Sehooling Per Capita. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Statistics show that the average amount of public schooling per capita In this coun- try is 908 days. That e, there would be 98 days for each inhabitant if it were dis- tributed around. Fifty years ago the aver- age was 420 days, and at the beginning of the nineteenth century it was but 82 days. The nation gives the school children of | tod twelve times as much schooling as th ungsters recefved 100 years ago. This certainly Is a gratitylng showing. CONDEMNING 11E CRIME, Attitude Toward Servian Batchers. Cineinnati Commercial-Tribune. In sharp contrast with the hypocritical Russian note congratulating King Peter on his “accession” s the direction of Prime Minister Balfour to the British minister at Belgrade to withdraw from the kingdom, and to, absent himself dur- ing the coronation ceremonfes and until further orders. The direction was brought about by the Intense horror which per- vaded England, in common with the rest of the world, over the slaughter of Alex- ander and his queen, and, though the British minister will, in time, again take up his duties at Belgrade, the insult has been glven directly by the Lion to the Bear, and It was fully and completely deserved. But the czar may not have England alone as a power with whom he will have to reckon. The army was his tool In the murders at the palace, and in demanding of the legislative body the proclamation of Peter as king of Servia. The army s made up of tools willing to follow thelr officers, whose taste for blood may bring them into confiict even with the czar, fot they are hotheads as well as tools, utterly without manhood, honor or principle—as their recent acts have shown. Possibly, it the other European powers would allow the_coronation ceremonies to be witnessed only by Russian officlals, the czar might be brought to a realization of the opinion in which he {s held—an opinion beginning to take shape and form at Kishineft and culminating at Belgrade. : England’s the TRUST IN PRESIDENT. Roosevelt Will Do Hls Duty in Present Postoffice Muddle, New York Sun. The most confident and circumstantial statements alleging the president's inten- tion to mitigate his actlvity in certain di- rectfons in the matter of punishing rascality in the Postoffice department—if such be proven—fail to shake to the extent of the thousandth part of a hairbreadth of vibra- tion our bellef that he will let no gullty man escape. This beliet {s positive. It is grounded in the principle of noblesse oblige. It has been strengthened by Mr. Roosevelt's own frequent and eloquent references to the rigld requirements which duty imposes | upon character in a post of responsibility. it is not Theodore Roosevelt who will give | up the hunt because the trafl shows big game behind the boscage. | “Don't draw unless you mean to shoot" 18 the middling good proverb which ex- presses his congenital and characteristic philosophy of action. He has drawn, and therefore It may be assumed that he means to shoot. Accordingly, it makes no difference how specific are the accumulating reports that represent the president as hesitating to prosecute where prosecution might result in political inconvenience to himself as a can- didate. They will meet with no credence in this quarter until they are legibly at- tested by Mr. Roosevelt's signed manual. Just as little do we believe that the presi- dent {s directly or remotely responsible for the promulgation of the theory that the name of his dead and honored predecessor now constitutes a bar to prosecution—in effect, a statute of limitations—in the case of proved offenses committed by subordi- nates when McKinley was alive. NAVY GENERAL STAFF. Example of the Army Good Enough to Spread. Cleveland Plain Dealer, The act creating a general staff for the army does not become operative until some time In August, but so much fs expected of it in the way of improved administra- tive methods that the navy s prepared to adopt & similar system, and Becretary Moody is reported to have given the plan his approval. In the navy the need of a | general staff has never been so apparent as In the army. In the former service the detall system—what the politicians would call rotation in ofice—already prevalls, and the bureau chiefs, detailed for four years, and the general board of the navy already form something like a general staff. The JUNE 23, | that to consider the plan proposed and the sentiment was generally favorable to it. This plan is somewhat different from those ordinarily employed in combin- ing or consolidating industries, but the That the refinement of education is ever becoming more acute is shown by the summer school just opened in Omaha to teach superintendents how to new plan is not yet worked out in detal, but it proposes to have responsibility go hand in hand with authority, and to center this responsibility in one man who will he the actual commander of the navy as the army chief of staff will be the real com- mander of that service. 1903 BRIDERY IN TICS, Calendar. Boston Transcript The current number of the Christian En- deavor World gives prominence to a tribution by Governior Garvin of R Island concerning ““The Evils of Britery The first thought that such a titl convey to a mind regulated by a consclence is that a discussion of that sub- Ject Is entirely unnec Why not dis- cuss the evils of theft, of highway robbery, of murder? Be the evils are uni versally acknowledged. They self-evie dent. Yet there is many a theft committed i« lews dishonorable than the act of elther giving or taking a bribe. Men have even committed murder under great provo- cation and the fmpulse of sudden and vio- lent passion, and paid the penalty for their rash violence, who would have scorned to ofter or receive a bribe. Bribery 1s a thing that fs all evil. It has no redeeming feature and, in the great majority of instances, no extenuating circumstances can be urged in its behalf. There is perhaps no meaner, more despicable or more vulgar crime in the whole calendar than that of bribery. Still, %o perverted are men's minds and distorted thefr standards with respect to the distinctions between right and wrong, honor and dishonor, that it is sometimes necessary to get down to first principles and start with the ethical rudiments, as we would to effect an entrance for knowledge into a dense or clouded mind, 8o perhaps Governor Garvin has not undertaken to discharge an entirely unnecessary office, His opportunity of knowing what bribery does to debauch men in public service and demoralize public administration has been exceptional. He has been a public servant himself for many years and has had a wide fleld of observation with respect to the methods of men in political movements. Moreover, he has had object lessons and in- tensive demonstrations, for there is prob- ably no state In the union that in the amount of bribery to the square inch sur- passes the boss-governed and boss-bought state'of Rhode Island. “Bribery in elections,” he says, “is con- doned by not a few citizens” Probably these men would not steal unless the temp- tation was very large or the pressure very great. They would not pick a man's pocket, but they would filch his independence and debauch his manhood without a qualm of consclence. They rob him of what should be of more value than anything he can got into his pocketbook, no matter how capa- clous. “Readiness to buy votes” he con- tinues, “is almost always accompanied by a readiness to change the result of an elec- tion by other means. Tn the beginning estimable gentlemen who supply the elec- tion funds * * * would refuse to con- tribute if they knew the fund was to be used to hire election officers to commit per- Jury and falsify election returns. And yet they have little excuse for lgnorance. Year after year the state boss of Rhode Island publicly exhorts the city and town com- mitteemen of his party, by whom super- visors and other election officers are nom- inated, to select their smartest young men for those positions, the purpose evidently being to cheat the other side In elther the casting or the counting of the ballots." It is perhaps easier to understand and sympathize with the pessimistic doubts of the Providence Journal as to the efficacy of a democratic form of government, after reading some extracts from Governor Gar- vin's paper, for instance this one: ‘“When members of any legislative body, be it mu- nicipal, state or national, secure thelr elec- tions, not by a free vote, but through pur- chased majorities, and when such mem- bers, either because of thelr numbers or by successful leadership, can shape legis- lation, as is constantly oecurring, a gov- ernment by the people has in that locality already ceased to be. * * * The agents of the state, not being responsible to the community over which they exerclse au- thority, and whose taxes they expend, will eventually be controlled in their action by partisan or persenal considerations. That is to say, they will exercise their powers viclously and to the detriment of the in- habitants of the municipality.” The reme- dies that he suggests are none too hope- ful. He advises education primarily, and then general discussion of the iniquity of the practice; also prompt publicity by un- bought citizens when they have knowledge of It in a particular instance. But it Is the consclence that nceds educating. Tt is not a question of reason but of character, and on- normal ssary use are tion 18 controlled by bribery to that extent is it degenerate and characterless. PERSONAL AND G RAL. Charles M. Schwab appears to be re- slgned, notwithstanding he refuses to do it The Carnegle libraries throughout the country are full of Fourth of July orators just now. Everett Kimball, assistant at Harvard, has been appointed instructor in history at Wellesley. Hearing that Hetty Green had bought an automoblle, Uncle Russell S8age went and ordered a mausoleum. 8. 0. Collins of New York City, a young colored fanitor, is to have an exhibition of lapdscap. paintings at the world's fair, St. Louts. Prof. Woodworth and his assistant, Wil- Jam H. Volek, of the University of Call- fornia, are now engaged in suppressing the pecullar insect pests that are preying on the California wheat crop in certain parts of the state. 8ir Chentung Liang Chang, the new Chi- nese minister to the United States, visiteq Andover college, his alma mater, the other day and in a speech to the students re- called the day he participated in a base ball match, making a three-base hit and winning the game. Charles M. Schwab, president of the United States Steel gorporation, will have as his guests in Atlantic City, from June 2% to July 1, twenty young women, com posing the class of '02 of the Industrial school of Homestead, Pa./ The graduates will make the trip to Atlantie City in Mr. Schwab's private car Loretto. It is sald that George B. McClellan is slated for mayor on the Tammany Hall ticket to make the race against fusion and Seth Low, in New York. McClellan fs the son of the union general of the same name, and has been active in Tammany affalrs for a number of years, having served several years in congress. Lecturing at the Royal Institution on the to the extert that a city, state or the na- | Meanest, Most Deaplenble Orime in the | atauy. THE KEYSTONE WATCH CASE CO. There is a Guarantee of 25 years behind every JAS. BOSS s Watch Case It's the only gold fifled ease ¢ Ita wearing quality by test o #0ld and worn since 1883, Remember when buying 8 watch, and i ng mark—stamped inaide. it on i Bom case with the Keystone trade- \oj Send for booklet. Philadelphla. ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK, Ripples on the Current of Life in the Metropolis. What Magistrate Zeller termed “the most dastardly plece of work” in his recollec- tion was the alleged slashing with a razor Friday night of John Shannon by Joseph Ferlanto, a barber, just because the former refused him a “tip” when he asked for one. According to Shannon's story, as told to Maglistrate Zeller, he went into Ferlanto's shop to get a shave. He was a patron of long standing and rarely ever forgot to “tip” the barber. After he was shaved Shannon forgot to “tip" Ferlanto, and the latter did not te time in calling his at- tention to the fact. “Since you've reminded me," sald Shan- non, “I have no intention of giving it. “I'll teach you not to forget to tip me in the future,”” Ferlanto is alleged to have re- torted, “and I'm going to do it right now.” Ferlanto opened a razor and jumped at Shannon. He slashed Shannon’s lips and cut them completely open. Ferlanto was held in $500 for examination, Magistrate Henry J. Furlong, in the Gates Avenue police court, Brooklyn, de- clded it was a misdemeanor to call a woran an ‘“old maid.” Miss Mary L. Story had Mrs, Lizzsle Fits- patrick summoned to court. They have been living at 722 Gates avenue, and trouble arose between them. Miss Story complained that Mrs, Fitzpatrick had an- noyed her. “Did you call her names?" asked Magls- trate Furlong of Mrs. Fitzpatrick. “Yes, 1 414, was the reply. ““When she annoyed me T told her she was an old mald. I also told her she was jealous because she didn't have a man, as T have.” “You have admitted enough to prove the plaintift's case,” sald the magistrate. “When one woman calls another woman who happens to be over 30 vears of age and unmarried an old mald, the first woman is gullty of disorderly conduct, which is a misdemeanor. I shall therefore hold you for the court of specfal sessions.” “This fe only a trivial matter, the defendant's counsel. “On the contrary, it is a very serfous matter,” returned the court. pleaded Two policemen, one wearing the uniform of the bicycle squad, stood on the corner of Thirty-eighth street and Fifth avenue and exchanged professional views on life as they found it. “You bet this is a great old town,” said one, reflectively. ‘Full of ups and downs for a good many. I just saw a feller goin’ down the avenoo In one of them big red automobiles, with a nice girl sittin' beside of him. Both of 'em talkin’ and smilin’. A year ago last April I arrested that feller for stealin’ a bottle of milk off of the end of a milk wagon. And now here's him in bis own whiz cart. Beats all.” “If anything were needed to prove that mankind are like sheep,” sald the short man with the bitter smile, “the doubter ought to go to one of the elevated stations where the company has installed two ticket sellers. If half the people would go to one window and half to the other, nobody would be delayed and all would work splen- But nobody ever saw this happen. Suppose the place is empty at some par- ticular moment and that twenty-two men then file in at regular intervals of four feet. The first man sees the nearest window and makes for it. Eight men follow him without looking to right or left, and there is congestion there and some cursing of the company. All of a sudden the ninth man gets to the top of the stairs and sees the vacant window. It fs an inspiration, and he rushes over to it. Numbers 10 to 19 follow him, and they pile up there and fidget while the first window s deserted. The last three men finally jump for it and almost fight to see which gets his ticket first. It is often pointed out as an exam- ple of masculine superfority that men know how to form in line and walt for turns, while women don't; but to form in two lines 1s a thing the human race doesn't seem to have learned.” Some proprietors of shops where phoro- graphs are sold have adopted & new scheme for directing attention to their goods. Aware that music will attract a erowd quicker than almost anything else, these phonograph dealers have removed the glass from parts of their show windows, through which project the large ends of the brass horns attached to the instruments inside. These phonograph records seem to be endowed with perpetual motion, grind- ing out with ceaseless regularity ragtime, operas and xylophone solos, The sound of the music can be heard far enough to at tract crowds and block the lewalks Dentistry and vaudeville sesm be & strange combination, but a metropol dentist has taken this plan to make him self popular and to amuse the public at the same time. His stock in trade consists of & large canvas tent, at one end of which a large stage is erected with gaudy red wings and a drop curtain of the same hue. Gas line lamps light up the interfor. Singers. conjurers and “‘funny men” constitute the “ollo,” and after thelr acts the dentist makes his appearance. Bedecked with din monds that contrast strangely with the dress of the audience and the fixtures of the interfor, he gives encouragement to those desiring to present themselves ar his subjects and for the delectation of the orowd. Men and women, old and young to an boys and girls, there seem to be a-plenty and one after another goes through the operation to the great amusement of the rpectators. What the morrow may & forth only those who have their teeth ex tracted may ever know. MEANT FOR FU “‘Mrs. Strucket affects the antique in her house decorations.” “‘Yes, she told me the other day she was h;nrlt-br:;k;n because she couldn't get the shades of her ancestors for her parl dows."—Truth, ot Mother—Tommy, what's the matter with your little brother? Tommy—He's crying because I'm eating my, cake and won't give him any. fother—Is his own cake finished? Tommy-—Yes'm, and he cried while I was eating that, too.—Philadelphia Public Ledger. ‘“‘Are you troubled with cockroaches or other insects about your premises, ma'am?" inquired the man with the pack, who had succeeded in gaining an audience with the mistress of the mansion. “No, sir!” she sald, glaring at him. “We are not troubled by cockroaches or other insects! “Don’t mind ‘em, hey?" cheerfully, shouldering his “Well, there's nothin, one's ‘afflictions. Goo cago Tribune. he rejoined, pack again like getting used to day, ma'am.’—Chi- Cousin Clara—Uncle Jim_ fs absolutely prodigal In his generosity, but at first we thought he was dreadfully mean; you know he refused to give a_single cent for the children’s firecrackers? Miss Callery—But how was he generous? Cousin Clara—He pald for all the sticking- plaster and bandages.—Harper's Bazar. “Mamma,” said Dolly after she had lis- tened to a discussion of the day’s news, “‘doesn’t the Lord know how big this coun: try_ia? “Why, dear,"” ex.l; “what do you mean “Well," replied Dolly, “the York prayed for rain, and out In Kansas!"—Cincinnati Tribune. “How did_old Hardfax enjfoy his trip through the Thousand Islands?’ “Not very well. He put in all his time counting them.’—Chicago Tribune. med mamma, shocked, people {n N t landed ‘wa Commercial The next morning he read in the papers that his wite's fete champetre beggared d scription. “Then I am not alone in being Deggared by it!" he exclaimed, and a strange _comfort crept into his’ desolate heart.—Puck. “I suppose,” sald the visitor to police headquarters, “that every ofiicer knows a rogue when he sees him #Sure,” replied the desk sergeant, “but every officer doesn't seize a rogue when he knows him."—Chicago Dally News. He—Look, look! I think that man oyt in_the breakers is drowning! She—Oh, heavens! and I have left my camera at home!—Judge. Tsora—Your name 8 8o curious. ‘Azile—Yes; I'm named for my rich aunt Bliza; but I turn it hindside before.—De- troit Free Press. Didn’t Take the Car: 1 saw a drove of hogs one day Go walking down the streets; No doubt they walked because they could Not find enough end seats! —Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune. e———— MY VAOATION MECCA. Lawrence Porcher Hext, in Leslie's Weekly. I will not spend vacation's days Beside a_summer aea, Nor will 1 seek the pleasant ways Ot gay humanity. Upon no mountafn’s rugged crest Will T unfold my tent, But in a place of peaceful rest My moments will be spent. 'l journey to a quiet spot, Beyond a shady lane; The threshold of A moss grown oot My feet will cross n?)lln' And then her lips I'll fondly press, Her form I will embrace Tl look upon the lovelin: Of her angelic face, We'll stroll together, side by side, And, gazing In her eyes My heart will thrill with manly pride And love that never dies For, in that cot of humble charms Abides my purest joy My mother walts with open arms To welcome home her boy. Clothing That Fits. If you want a well fitting suit let us show you the possibilities of our summer clothing, ready to wear. It's a fact that the custom tailor won't fit you g basic principle is the familiar one. The promoters propose what appears to be a perfectly falr arrangement, so far as the manufacturers are councerned, but there is emhodied a scheme to draw liberally from the public for the benefit of the promoters. In this respect the plan is quite in line with well known trust methods and it is this that may futerfere with the carrying out of the |organization would effect a very warked project. improvement in the retail trade. One It is possible that a combination of | way to stand up for Omaha is to the cotton yarn mills, if effected on | patronize home industry. sound principles, might prove of eco- nomic advantage to the industry. There o eigre Glol jight be & saving in the cost of wan- | o, (0, yores n:;‘:ndv are sufficient evi- agement and expenses reduced in other | yonce that the governor of Massachusetts directions. Consolidation, however, that |is not merely an ornamental officlal would involve the exploiting of inflated retardation of the earth's motion, Prof. | Gearge H. Darwin sall the time would come when the length of day would be pro- longed to fifty-five of the present days—'a very lelsurely age to live in," he inter polated—and when the moon's journey round the earth would occupy ffty-five days. It is the common impression that Gov- ernor Dockery of Missouri has no military record, but “Private’” John Allen, the fa mous story teller of Tupelo, Miss, says he learned when in St. Louls attending the dedicatory exercises of the St. Louls world's fair that this is a mistake “Pri- vate” Allen says he met an old farmer on the grounds who seemed especlally well informed regarding Missourl history and politics. ‘He had a war record to start with or he never could have got along in Missour,” suggested the Tupelo state ““Well," replied the tarmer, “he didn't have Wmuch of & war record. Teward the end of the war he joined a company of home guards with the stipulation that the com pany was not to go out of the county unless the esemy came in.* l teach teachers how o teach. The next step will be an institution to teach tenchers how to teach superintendents | how to teach teachers how to teach, It is quite probable that some | woula uch system make for greater simplicity and efficiency. In both War and Navy depart- ments there has been too much command by committee, with the actual command vested In a civilian secretary, who is al- ways a politician and very often not much else. The chief of the staff would be al- ways responsible to the secretary of the navy and the latter would always keep under his own control certain matters of policy and finance which congress has per- sistently refused to turn over o a purely military authority. Under the proposed change some of the most important duties now performed by bureau chiefs will ne turned over to the general staff and this body will deal directly with all questions relating to preparation for war and its eonduct when once begun. In either army or navy & general staff properly selected and organized is literally the brain of the service. If it confines itself S the proposition of the pro- Not the Booze nd. to its proper functions it can do vast serv- Cineinnati Commercial Tribune. fce in the way of co-ordinating and direet- moters contemplates, could not resultin | 1y, rattiers and three large blackspakes | ing all the offensive and defensive agencies any benefit to the industry and most |'were killed by policemen in Pittsburg last [ of government. as well on his first trial as we will off hand..- and we'll fit your purse twice as well as he, sympathy with their persecuted breth- ren, but to denounce the Russian gov- ernment as responsible for the out- rages, the British government serves no- tice that it has no close alllance with Russia which would lead it to shield the czar's officials. 1If it were some (other country, the British government might act differently. If all the members of the Business | Men's association could be induced to | buy all their clothing, furniture and bric-a-brac exclusively in Omaha the $10 $122315 Ete. No Clothing Fits Like Ours. Major J. B. Pond, the noted lecture manager who has just died, was responsible probably for launching more peaple of varying degree of prominence upon the lecture platform than any other one man. Major Pond's wide reputation as a successful impressario of oratorical talent made it easy for him to prevail. upon men of fame to turn thelr names into gate receipts. His place will zot be easily filled. Summer hats and furnishings of superior styles and qualities. Browning e 5 @ R. S. Wilcox, Manager. Evidence of Activity,