Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 16, 1903, Page 11

EDITORIAL SHEET. ‘THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE. gL o Rece e 3 PAGES 11 TO 20. g L B o o sl e e e e NTABLISHE JUNE 19, 1871 OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUS 16, 1903. COPY FIVE O THE NELIARLE sTORK. HAYDEN: 7. .2 ways crowded with buy. for pure A rs. asing summer goodsa. No time like the present All of our waists, skirts, sults and light wrappers must be sold within the next 30 days. We must have room for the Fall Prices no ohject, (Goods which are arriving daily. WOMEN’S WAIST DEPT. Your choice of any white waist on our counter made of fine lawns, batiste and linens, trimmed in imported laces and embroid- eries, insertions, hemstitching and Mexican drawn work—sold as bigh as $10.00, on sale Monday at ... $6.00 WAISTS FOR $1.46 Your choice of any colored wash waist in our house made of fine grass linens, India linens, madras mulls, mousseline de soie, fancy and elaborately trimmed-—worth up to $6, Monday . ${,45 476 dozen waists in fine lawns dimi batiste and linens—worth up to s, percales, madras, $4.00, for . 800 dozen waists in all colors and materials made to sell up to $3.50, on sale Monday at ......... o es i ’ 200 dozen walsts in all colors, mad ete, worth up to $1.75, for .. e of percale, lawns, linens, There is about 10 dozen of those wash skirts left, made to sell up to $4.00, on sale Monday at . ... 200 women's choice silk waists, nic worth up to $10.00, on sale Monday at $1 ly trimmed and finished, 25, $2.50 and... §3.90 .25, 200 silk waists in Peau de Soie Taffeta and Crepe de Chine— worth up to $10.00, for ... New tailor made suits arriving daily. Over 20 styles to select from-—all new mixtures and styles, prices from $12.50 to....$45 200 suits left from our spring stock, worth up to $27.50—on sale at, each ........... Bee the “Czarina” un Special Handkerchief Sale Monday ndkerchiefs From the Penny Stock—This line of goods we are forced to close out on account of being over- crowded for room. Wao will sell on Monday all ¢ hand- 1 kerchiefs for .... o All 10c handkerchiefs Tic Not over one dogen to a customer, These are linen, fancy border and mourning handkerchiefs. or . Y All 15 handkerchiefs for .... 2o Our own notion department will open for business on Monday morning with & epecial sale of 10c combs for. combs for .. W'y 16¢ hose’ supporters or ... Two spools of Brooks' famous sflko Business Bringing Barg The Convincing Sort, the Kind to Gre te a Desire to WE LEAD THEM ALL IN SILKS e gr you can save money. Omaha and sarrounding country: p— atest stock of silks in the entire west—the department where every shade and weave of silk can be found. KEarly showing of new Fall Silks. Watch our silk sales and Hundreds will be pleassd with these phenomenal bargains. at Black Taffeta Deal —Our buyer just closed the biggest purchase of black taffeta ever made by a western house, and at these prices tlfey certainly will create a furore in|s2.oo TABLE LINEN s1.25— BLACK TAFFETA— 19 in. wide— 29c 27 in. wide— worth 63c, for BLACK TAFFETA — BLACK TAFFETA— 27 in. wide~ 69¢c worth $1.00— BLACK 27 in. wide— worth 81,23 TAFFETA— BLACK TAFFETA— ‘ 36in. wido— oac worth 81,50— worth 50c, for We offer in the world for money New White Lining Taffeta— o7 7 in. wide--on special sale. ... 395 Changeable Siiks figured—beautifu! colors— on sale for.. in both plain and Black Peau de Sole~Fine for coats, waists or en- tire dress—27 inches wide—worth 81.50, for only lew White Satin Duchesse—1’ure silk in most handsome quaiities—none better | No disputing the fact that Winslow Taffeta is the best sil] Our rule is to fill mail orders promptly. Try and see. splendld gr some worth $1.00 and 81,25 for - 38c/ some remarkable bargains in fine black Peau de Soie. Black Paau de Sole—All silk — de for a low | } inches wide— a 100, 01 1§ ' 75¢, 98¢, $1.50, $1.75| Imported White Louisene Rich White Silks—worth 81.50, for ... Handsome New Taffeta Dress Silks —in most ex quisite styles, genteel, nobby, oxclusive, smartest fashions, only Elegant Fancy Silks—over 500 pieces— ;Grand Silk Bargain of Sliks and Novelty Waist Silks, for. bacause it wears best, it is the original wide taffeta. Send in your orders for silks, we fill them at once, est prices. $4.00, 83.00, $2.00 and §1.00 per yard Lupin’s Black Cheviots at $5.00, $1.50 yard. and §8.50 per yard. Samples sent free on application. $4.00, Priestley’s and Lupin's Volles at $3.00, We have ten times COLORE at $5.00, THE LEADING DRESS GOODS HOUSE OF THE WEST. Our Fall Dress Goods are all in and ready for inspection. varfety than all the other Omaha houses combined, and on account of our large quantities we have by a great deal the low- We still continue to lead in all the finest made fabrics in Europe and America—none have ever yet excelled Lupin of France, Priestley of England or Frederick Arnold of Germany. BLACK DRESS GOODS Priestley’s Black and Mottled Libelines more styles, more shades and more ' D DRESS GOODS Frederick Arnold’s mixtures and novelties at $3.08, $2.98, $1.98 and 08c per yard. $3.00 and $2.00, $1.50, #1.25, Popular pric 30e, in b $1.00 d Botany’s finest made American goods at $2.50, $1.98, 98¢, 75¢ and 50c¢ per yard. dress goods at 10¢, 15¢, 19¢, 250 and ck and colors. Mail orders filled promptly, satisfact ion guaranteed or money refunded. Carpet and Drapery Specials Extra good quality of Granite Art Bquares, all colors and designs. cotton for s Laces and Embroideries ‘The lace and embrol lity, styles and assortm ry business is our eclalty, and we endeavor in price, to be the head lace and embroldery house in the west. @ promise you to duplicate for less money any line of lace or embroidery that you can furnish us a sample of. Monday we have our special lace and embroldery sale. At these sales you can buy laces and embrolderies for less thanone-half their regular value. We 'Inld counter; and a %o to three times the price asked for them. have on.Monday a 2c lace counter; a counter. At any of these you lace counter; & 12%4c lace find goods worth from two i W:n will also have four counters of embrolderies worth ten cepts 500 dozen spool SPECIAL BOOK e Novels for .1.....000000, 25¢ Stationery for ....... GRAND SPECIAL cotton at 15¢ per dozen. None sold to dealers, 2 ‘ SALE MONDAY SECRETARY SHAW'S SHOES Omaba Knight of Orispin Makes Them All to His Order. PECULIAR SHAPE REQUIRES SPECIAL LAST All shoes worn by the secretary of the United States treasury are made in Omaha. That s to say, the footgear of Lesiio M. | Shaw of lowa is manufactured especially 0 order in this western city of superl advantages, notwithstanding the shoe- | making skill that obtains at the nailonal | eapital. It I8 no passing famey of Secre- | tary Shaw, but & matter of convenence. Long befors he was called to his pr"enl' position “Mr. Shaw had his shoes bullt in Omahe, and the other day his last order | was enpressed to Washington | €. J. Palmauist ' the man who makes | the secretary's shoes. He has & small shop &4 07 South Fifteenth strest. Tho small mom = half flled with wooden lasts of eurious feet, a8 the proprietor for many | yenrs made a specialty of manufacturing cuvering for pedal extremities that we out of the ordinary. He came here B and has been & sobbler ev since. O Apell 5, W8, Mr. Shaw passed by Pamauint shop. n| he then located in'the Kar-| Buch Builfing at Fifteenth and Douglas #reots. The lawyer-banker from Denison was in Omabe attending & big Methodist mweting. Mo nesded & pair of shoes and Be knew By past exy that shoes ol s Be wanted could mot be obtained W e stock of any deaier, either in or out of Omana. | The Palmauist sign about shoes made to order was observod By the Denison man, | and his vibsequent action was acoelerated By the fact that thero was no shocmaking W€ & Bigh order in Ris own town. He went W, ok off Mw old shoes and had Puim. Quist sietoh the outiines of his feet. Yot & Pollty Feot. M (his case the feet are the thips e not rdinary feet in word. The it membor has outpointed the oft In more ways than one. and hardly woukd ML Little Billlg with the same emo- o an 0 the e wonder ful Trilby. This (s 1ot (o nfer that the secre- Wy of the tensury has Big feet. They e merely & good No. & but & customary No. & would come 4 lcng way from mak- M@ the seeretary feel cumfortabile. My Shaw Wrote Dis own name Mrous 1 dhainaker Puimaoiet s order book Mo wiwo marked S0 W & UWttle reserved | wmetton m the pege and handed Puimquist the moiey. Lamtly the lowa man enjoined n pencil that the shoes be shipped by ex- R That waw the frst of many orders Since W owes Mled M Shew has nol been able rence They wenme of the oot the hem His last lotton, weitten on the of Woial sutionery Pa € the ssoretary of Wmands patent leathers, sume- —. wd ad- | ar snviiieg on Ws Gt ather than Oniana mado shoes and he stilh onlls n-vl the | soclety and being neces dolngs In the east. The patent leather question had been a burning one for some time, however. Mrs. Shaw had made a speclal call on Shoe- maker Palmquist to induce him to use the shiny leather, but the latter had politely refused, saying that he could not make it perform the peculiar office necessary to correctly cover the secretary's feet. But the last letter bore a command. "Make them at my risk;” sald the secre- tary, “try the experiment.” So Palmquist labored and succeeded, and the other day he received $16 and the secretary's thanks. Life of His Footgmear. It is a curfous fact that while “Leslie M. Shaw was directing his energies to the Ssary at all the big {law and the banking business he used to wear out four or five jeurs of shoes each year. After the oratorical Inundation of 1806 and the governor's chair was consid- ered nome too good for him, the yearly consumption of shoes dropped off percepti- bly. It actually got down to three the last year. But now in the cabinet position it appears the secretary uses his feet even less than when rullng Iowa, for he has worn out but two pairs since called to be a presidential adviser. There was a time when Mr. Shaw thought serfously of having his shoes made else- where than in Omaha. This was just after his election as governor and before he left Denisofi for Des Moines. He called on Palmquist and demanded his wooden lasts, which were handed to him. He placed them in & suit case and sald that inasmuch as be was golng to live in a city, he would let some Des Moines shoemaker do the Job. The Des Moines shoemaker, whoever he was, tried und falled, and within a year the lasts came back Palmquist, who fuily expects to keep them for life. It"has been a year or two since Secre- tiry Shaw paid the Omaha shoemaker a visit. The latter does not care to discuss his distinguished patrow or his orders for fear of offending him. PRATTLE OF THE YOUNGSTERS, Teacher—What do the letters LL. D. after & man's name signity? Bright Pupil-That he's a lung and liver doctor. Mamma—As you have been such a good boy today I have given your sister 15 cents to buy ice cream for you both Little Elmer—-Which of us is to have the 10-cent plate, mamma * Johnny—Grandpa, have Grandpa—No, my gone. Johnny—Then I think I'll let you hold my cociles while [ go and play you any teeth? child, they have all Ave you enjoying your lttle man™* Enjoying my tactie reply vacation, my vacation!” was the ees- 've had three stone bruises, six warts, a4 biack eye and a sprained ankle You couldn't expect much more than that in one vacation, could you ™" Little Esther—Mamma, wasn't I born on July B Mamma- Yos. dear. Little Esther—Goodness graclous, but that was 4 narrow escape. Mamma—What do you mean, Esther? Little Esther - Why mamma. If there had Wing thet he never positively demanded | been only thirty days in July I wouln't - -uu“cuww‘nnmmuu 6x9 at.. THx9 at . 9x9 at . 9x12 at y 9x12 Tapestry Rugs, worth $19.50, at 9x12 Axminster Rugs, worth $20.50, at..$22.48 9x12 Body Brussels, worth $32.50, at ..$26.00 5,000 mill samples of Lace Curtains—the entire line of a'prominént manufa&turer— 2 and 2% yard lengths, worth up to $10.00 per pair—all go at, each, %c and 15¢ Curtain Swiss, at, yard .. e at, yara- T o tal Tapestry, at yard E Flannel Department Two cases white wool flannel— worth 2%c per yard .... Kimona Sulting—plain colors—worth lic per yard ....... Extra heavy twilled Shaker Flannel ~—regular 150 per yard . Extra fine Comforters—satin— worth 15c per yard . i Black and white, blue and white heavy twill ‘Shirting—regular 12%c, i per_yard 9 R 8ilk finish quilting, fino patterns for comforters, worth 18 per yard One lot crochet honey-comb, with or with- “out fringe, ‘extra fine qu né'k white G8 bed spread, worth up-to $2:%, eac! One lot genuine Marsellles bed extra heavy, worth up to $3 each . PeTR g ealie. - size 11-4 gray cotton.bed ankets, each ..... enced opticlan at Special Low Pi 3 Gold flllgd frames, lfia oo Optical loparfinont Don’t Delay—come at {0¢ once if your eyes trouble you | First-cldss glasses fitted by our experi- styles, guar- ‘anteed 10 years, valie $8.60. 300 T R IR P HAYDEN BR 0S. Linen and Domestic Depts. T hese departments are the and the prices we are ma BOe TABLE LINEN 25c— Extra heavy Cream Scotch Damask and full bleached Union Damask-—&0c s quality—Monday at, yd [ 7S¢ TARLE LINEN 52 1-2e— Extra heavy qualll Silyer Bleached Table Linen, guaranteed all pury 2’ linen, value, Monday at, yd... c $1,00 TABLE LINEN TSe- This is one of the strongest numbers we have In stock: inches wide orig- 15 mnal Silver, 1 quality, at, yd........ 196 72-Inch_extra heavy double S8atin Damask Table Linen, all the new patterns, wide, open_borders, $200 value, Monday at, yd........... R HAY DEN: THE RELIABLE STORE, strongest in the big store— king bave made them so. $1.00 TABLE LINEN 60c— 72-inch full bleached satin fintsh Table Linen, all the up-to-date patterns, se $1.00 value, at, yd.... 82,00 NAPKINS §1.40— % size all linen bloached Napkins, fast edges—$2.00 value—at, doz. ’ DRESSER SCARF S~ Hemetitched with two rows drawn work —up to 2 yards long—at 3¢, 49¢, ' ls 60c, and.... Py ul STAND COVERS— To match above searfs, at!each ' 25 20c, 4%, Te, 8¢ and.... veun » 15 YARDS FOR $1.00— S soft finish bleached muslin, wide, well known brand— Monday 15 yds. for, yard In the Grent Domestic Room Monday we will sell the St. Joo stock, the St. Louls stock and the Penny est slaughter prices ever attempte They consist of Linens, Fall W ized Goods, Perenles, Glnghams, nels, ete. other Lo 10¢, 12 1-2¢ and 15¢ Goods for Ge—" $-inch Percules, regular price 124, 15 Piques, all dai) colors, 10c; plaid ging- hams; over 3,00 vards of 12%c, 15c and 2% wash goods ac sold up to ¢, all o on sale at 12 1-2¢, 15c and 19¢ Goods at 7 1-2c— Alaska Fleec 1l fall colors, 15e uble-fold fine p 5c fine dark sateens and a_large of wash goods that sold for 16c, 1%c and ic per yd., all go in this sale at, yd... 1Pe, 26¢ and 3o Goods at 10— 86-inch imported percales, regular 1, e and 1% fleece cerized flannels: 19 Asilka, 2%c double-fold Scotch plajds for school dresses, 19 imported madras cloth—wash goods that sold up to 5o oslery and Underwear stock at the great- in Omaha vholesale stocks purchased for fall 1903 at less than 50c on the dol stings, Flannelette: Madras, Calicoes, We make the following prices on these goods andidefy any e in the west to duplicate them. Thete stocks were mew r. lecced line Mercer- Quilts, Blankets, Flan- EXTRA SPECIALS— 25C MULLHOUSEN FRENCH lsc FLANNBLIITTES AT N veveene 20C FREN AT oo6n sate 15C FRENCH FLAM AT. s 7C LINING C 12 Yards Cambric $1L00— 12%c snow white cambric, yard wide, Monday 2 yards for..... 12 Yards English Long t'lnl!h $1LO08~ 15¢ English long cloth, soft finish, 5 Yards Sheeting 98c— oo 4 81 inches Monday 6 yards b X 3c 1 il go on sale Oc fine bleached sheoting, to-use Specal sale all day in our ready Sheet and Pillow Case Department. Another G We reat Trunk Sale have bought from two of the leading Trunk manufacturers of the country their eatire line of sample and finest on the market sortment and great one who upprec h these pattern scrutiny to which th most trunk dealers of the country, the wort ehic trunk off wholesale prices and offer them Thelr goods are known as the best There is an immense as- varioty in _make and style. tes the extreme care with runks are made, and the ¢ are subjected by the fore- will _recognize of the values offered “as @oon as the ‘We secured them at 33% per cent at %, saving trunks are seen. $2.50 to $30.00. Dress Sult Cases from $§1.98 to . Valises to . trom d0c Hardware, Stoves and Housefurnishings special Monday Sale in Basement BPECIAg CUT ON ALL REFRIGERATORS AND _ICE gg%bgLEAN and will make the price. We have them up from GASOLINE STOVES must it T:‘;:Gpl':‘mé .dl? BURNER DANGLER, At this sale, with oven, for. THE BEST #BURNER GASOLINE SROEN | DOORS- Befors stor EN D ore B lee Cut prices on ail kinds, GAR up from ower for. 1-quart tin pudding pans 2% 2-qt. tin pudding pans. ¢-qt. tin pudding pans. Vegetable brushes Spring rat traps Hardwood towel 2 boxes wax tapers Fancy wood salt bo: 2 boxes tooth picks EN HOSE—The best Cotton Hose, se: pefore taking them to warehouse—want to SELL be sold this week and will regular $18, Is_‘s ng them away will Useful Coods at Prices that Will Make You Extra largs tin basin Plo plaies .... Tin cups . Spring mouse trap Scrub brushes .. Potts' fron handles . 4-0z. bottle machine oll. Dover egg beaters.... Heavy wire coat hangers. Asbestos matts . SHERIFF'S VIEWS ON CRHE Text of Paper Read by President Steiner Before Sheriffs’ Oonvention. STARTLING INCREASE IN OFFENSES NOTED Figures ghat Tell a Most Unwelcom Story and Some Conclusions Drawn by Sociologists and Criminologists, John Steiner of Dubuque, Ia., president of the Interstate Sheriff's association, Thursday morning delivered an address be- fore the soclety on the subject of the in- crease of crime in the United States, in which he said: “A recent article in a soclological jour- nal said: ‘Crime and pauperism do not present an attractive subject for study. They are on the dark and forbidding side of human life’ but it is our duty, as sheriffs, to study these questions, no mat- ter how unpleasant they may be. It does not contribute to our self-complacency as a people to be informed, as we are, that more crimes were committed in this coun- try in 1%2. than ever before in Americar’ history; that the number of murders fi- creased 12 per cent in a single year, while the increase in sillcides was much larger— those among women being actually trebled. This is & kind of record-breaking which we might surely wish to be spared. The total number of murders and homicides of various kinds for the year was 884, as compared with 7862 in 1901, A remarkable feature in this connection was the remark- able Increase in murders committed by burglars, thieves and highwaymen, the number being 333, as compared with 198 In 1%1. The lynchings reported in 1802 show & decrease, being but %, compared with 135 in 1%L The record of embessling, for- gery, defalcations and bank wrecking for 192 shows a considerable Increase, the total amount involved being $6.769,1%5, as compared with $4,08,569 in 190l The losses are distributed Stolen by publie officlals, $18,498; from banks, $2,610,330; by | agents, $1,02.641; forgeries, $539,6%; from loan assoclations, $471400; by postmasters, #1.22; miscellaneous stealings, $1,457.6M. Observation of Medi “Facts and figures bearing upon this same subject, but of still more weighty and significant character, and a wider scope In time and area, are given out by Dr. Arthur McDonald of the United States bureau of ‘education. “As a result of his iInvestigations he declares that within the last thirty years, throughout the world in general, ‘there has been an increase, rela- tve to population, in crimes, sulcide, In- sanity and other forms of abnormality.’ According to Dr. McDonald, those of our own states that show the greatest educa- tion and intelligence, as the north Atlantic, contral and western, also exceed in in- 1 Authority. ence is due, in our opinion, largely to the fact that more care and vigilance are ex- ercised in looking after paupers, criminals and insane persons in these states than in other sections of the union. “It s Dr. McDonald's statement, also, that young people, as compared with adults, have committed more crimes as soclety has developed; that suicide among them has Increased as it has, also, among women in all countries, Food for Refiection. “In the midst of our rejolcings and mutual congratulations over the big crops, good wages, abundant employment, general pros- perity and freedom from war and pesti- lence, this ghastly record as to our own country obtrudes itself with startling and ominous significance. Regarded from any point of view—soclal, humanitarian or re- Uglous—it may well ‘give us pausy,’ it may well set our educators, leglslators, religious teachers and soctal reformers to thinking deeply and searching widely for causes and remedles. As to causes and remedles no one 1s now in position, it seems to us, to make pogitive and dogmatic statements. Many things and many Influences contribute to the situation, and it is hard to say which are largest and most dominant. Hon. G. Shaw Lefevre, an English writer, in treat- ing of this subject as it relates to England, where crime and pauperism are increasing faster than they are here, attributes it chiefly to ‘hard times,’ lack of employment and ‘the Increased cost of the ¢ vessities of lfe None of these, except the last, is now operative here. In Dr. McDonald's opinion the increase is due more to rapld develop- ment of the world in general than to any specific cause. “The high pressure of mod- ern civilization,' he says, ‘puts an abnormal strain upon the nervous system as com- pared with the muscular system. Thus the electric car, automobile and telephone tend to make people exercise less and think more. A reaction has,set in already through the development of systems of physieal cul- ture. The less cost of living and the in- crease of wealth, with the luxurles of the table, have tended to overeating, which, in connection with the lack of exercise, has had its evil effects and doubtless procured an additional reaction upon the nervous system. When the nerves are unatrung by overpressure the will may become weak, depression and pessimism set in and loss of self-control follow, with its consequent ab- normal actions, leading to crime and other, eoctal evils. *“This increase of nervous tension, Dr. Mec- Donald thinks, is chiefly accountable for the increase of crime and insanity among women 4nd youth. Due to Faulty Educatl, “Without assuming to know of a cer- tainty what are the leading, or all, of the contributing factors in the present increase of crime in this country, we venture to be- lieve that, in the last analysls, they may be found in that lack of moral training in our public schools which President Eliot has recently pointed out with so much force and truth; in the greed for gain, mad scramble for wealth, to which our present prosperity only seems to add a keener zest; to the lax and unwise administration of ot jalls and prisons, many of which are fit'y sanity, nervous diseases, juvenile criminals |to our shores, larger last year than ever and pauperism. But this apparent differ- | before characterized by our ablest penologists as nothing more than ‘schools of erfme;’ o the enormous flow of low grade immigrants to the unchristiap attitude gener- ally assumed by Christidn soclety toward ex-conviets; and, lastly, to the procedure of our criminal courts and the methods and practices adopted both in the prosecution and defense of criminals. “Each of the causes we bave thus uuoll would justify separate and extended treat- ment. We can only dwell briefly upon the 1 which, in our opinion, is among the chief of all. A significant fact bearing upon this very point is furnished In the state- ment that while there were nearly 9,000 murders and other homlcidal crimes in 1902, there were only 14 legal executions. After counting out the few states where capital punishment is not inflicted, and allowing a large margin for the increasing indispo- sition of judges and jurors to visit the death penalty upon any one, we still lack a sufficlent explanation for the fact that not one homicide in sixty in 1902 suffered the extreme penalty provided for this erime, Delays of Justice. “But worse than all else, in our opinion, is this matter of criminal procedure, are the Interminable delays in criminal cases, the methods followed In the make-up of trial jurles, the extreme latitude allowed to lawyers In the defense of criminals, and the technicalities and subterfuges resortod to in securing appeals, new trials snd re- versals of Sudgment. “New York Itself has furnished several notorfous and flagrant examples of abuses of this sort during the past year, cases where there has been a clear miscarriage or perversion of justice stmply because lawyers and judges have seemed to care more for the ‘anise and cumin' of legal procedure than they have for the Interests of soclety or the punishment of crime. It has come to pass that no matter how heinous & crime may be, how clear, posi- tive and indisputable, to the lay mind at least, may be the incriminating evide no certainty whatever can be entertained that the criminal will ever be adequately punished. With means to command a bril- liant array of legal defenders to fight his case from court to court, up and down and back apd forth, through the whole inter- minable series,the actual merits of it are soon lost to sight in a conflicting mass of ‘expert' testimony, a pewildering maze of technicalities, quibbles, precedents, rulings and opinfons, while months and years go on and no one suffers for the crime ex- cept the victims of it, while not a few de- rive substantial profit. A long list of spe- cific cases before the criminal courts of this country in recent years might be cited, if necessary, In support of these assertions. “We believe that these delays and uncer- tainties, these never-ending hagglings and quibblings in criminal trials, these fre- quent reversals of judgment on purely tech- nical points, operate as a direct and positive encouragement to some kinds of crime and are more responsible than any other one thing for their present Increase. If the other criminal classes reason on these things, and it ls reasonable to suppose that they do, they may well take the ground that no matter what the offenses they com- mit, they stand more than a fair chance of ing punishment, providing they em- ploy suficient legal talent and kick up enough legal dust to obscure the course of justice and delay final judgment until death, oblivion or the ordinary accidents of life have disposed of them in some way more regular if not more kindly. General Effect of\ Practice. “All this applies with special crimes against property, where, statistics show, the increase is sreatest and to breaches of public trust, such as pearly all our municipalities are reeking force to as the with today. It is in precisely this class of crimes that wealth, high socfal connections, and political influence come in fo retard the course of justice, if not, as often hap- pens, to defeat it entirely. A refreshing exception to the rule here has recently oc- curred in St. Loyls, but that only goes to prove the rule. 4 “But, as we have sald, whatever may be the causes of these increases of crime, dis- case and depravity in our country and else- where, they argue a condition of things which no one concerned for the well-being of humanity. can rightly or sately ignore. They, mean in & word, that unless our high and advanced civilization is saompanied with & corresponding, or greater, degree of moral and spiritual development, the work of the home and the church, the increase of intelligence and material resources and ad- vantages will be more of a curse to the world than a blessing. “As a writer has sald: ‘There is one sure way of making the people in the world bet- ter and that is for each person to contribute a mite. Make others better and more hu- mane If you can, but don’t let them make you as inhuman or wicked as they are. Not all of us can be presidents of humane so- cleties, but all of us can put into practice ourselves that which we say ls good for others to do." " WANTS A POLICY ON PATTI Milwaukee Manager Unable to Secure Protection Against Failure to Appear. Manager Oscar F. Miller of Milw.ukee {s trying to get an insurance company (o insure the life of Mme. Patti for three months and a half, the time that will elapse before her appearance in Milwaukee. o made application to threé companles and has been notified by two of them that they cannot write the policies without an ex- amination. The Milwaukee agent of one of the companies held the question open until he heard from the home office, “I have pald in advance half the $11,80 1 guaranteed for the Milwaukee concert,” sald Manager Miller, “and under the con- tract a large share of the money advanced is forfeited in case she is prevented from appearing here by accident or death. It is life until her appearance. “In England they have companies which infure for a short time without examina- tion. I am inclined to think that there is no company doing business in America that will do it. If an examination is insisted upon it will cause several weeks' delay. As all mansgers who have made contracts with Manager Grau for Patt! concerts de- sire to carry Insurance on Pattl's life for a short time, it seems to me that some American company would find it to its in- terest to write the policies."—Chicago Chronicle. Correc Her. The beautiful girl stood weeping. sweetheart from Boston was golng home. “Tears!" she sobbed, “b—bitter tear Her cultured and learned lover gazed down reprovingly. Vot bitter tears, he sald sharply, “any schoolboy knows that tears are composed of chioride of sodium and water. Study your chemistry.” And with a scornful laugh he vanished.—~Chicago News. to protect fayself that I want to Insure her | Her | WIDE TIRES FOR ASPHALT Greater Width of Heavy Vehicle Wheels Advooated at the City Hall NARROW RIMS HARD ON THE PAVING Leading Engincers Discuss Advan- tages that Could Come from Such ®n Innovation Were it Intro- duced in Omaha, In connection with the condition of as- raalt streets, the sabject of wide tires has Been broight up at the city hall and a considerable xgitation toward better pro- toction in this manner is under way. Most of the leading cities of the coaniry have ordinances specifying minimum widths for loads of various welght, but Omaha has no such law, During the last ten years sev- eral attempts have been made to get such an ordinance passed, but they havd falled. A well known engincer recently sald: “It is a well understood fact that narrow tires for heavy loads are terribly destruc- tivo to any kind of street pavement, no less than to the maintenance of good country roads, and theye is & general ten- dency to require by law that all (e wagons and other vehfcles used in transporting heavy loads shall be equipped with tives of specified width. With the growing use of asphalt pavements, however, thjs is more than ever !mperative. hicago has an ordinance requiring tires t e inches wide tor all loads of §,000 pounds or over, but odditional widths for extra heavy loads are being urged. City Englnecer's view. City Wgineer Rosewater Coes not take 80 scrious a view of the damage done by | narrow tires, but sgrees that they are | inimical to the iong life of pavements of | all kinds. *The subject is a rood one for the iLmprovement clubs to egitate,” he says. “The wagons of the larger travafer and drayage compaaies in Omaha Lave three | inch tires, but are frequently Joaded to the | extent of five and six tons, which in tfe | judgment of engineers should require tires from four to five inches wide “Another cause for the disintegration of asphalt which Engineer Rosewater I8 urging be prohibited is the Indiscriminate |and excessive sprinkiing, which he says |is done by a private concern haviog & monopoly on the business and making contracts direct with the people served. “The sprinkling is under no regulation,” |says the engineer. “Many times the | asphaltum is kept molst all day. The mud |and the water is allowed to stand and | given no chance to dry or evaporate. It s injurious. “The charter gives the city the right to divide It into sprinkling districts and con- tract for the service to the lowest bidders, | This plan would have certain advantages, among them being that the nonresident property owner would be compelled to pay for sprinkling before his property, whereas business men and others who desire the sprinkling have to stand all the expense. Champ It it's n e taste and sparkle you want, I'l | bring you Cook’s Lmperial.