Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 17, 1909, Page 4

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State of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss: Geotge B, Tzschuck, treasurer of The Bee ublishing ocompany, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Daily, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printe during (he month Sf April, 1905, was a8 follow: 1 . 41,090 18 . Mm% 1 . 40350 20 40,620 2 40,410 45,880 . 45,530 . 48,880 .. 45,350 . 48,360 1,236,410 11,909 ieturned coples. . Net total. .1,328,207 bully average.... .. 3 40,840 GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK, Treasu or. I!Itnt; nd‘:w"nrn to ud" 0 WaLKER _ Notary Publie. Subscribed in my Letore me thin st WHEN OUT OF TOWN, Subscriberd leaving the city teme uld bave The Bee mailed to them. Address will be chan # often me requested. Up to the present no one has thought to call Speaker Cannon the “Crime of 78."” The average daily fire loss in the United States is $800,000. This great country has money to burn. Even the policemen in Lincoln must get on the water wagon. That town is certainly going to be dry. A Russian prince 18 said to be a clown in an American circus. If he is a good clown the public will forgive him, 3 i ha 1) Europe complains that the Wright Hrothers are fallures socially. They are something of highfliers for all that. A movement has been started in Cincinnati to commence the work day earlier. More time wanted “‘Over the Khine,” ———— The records of our county court show that lots of defeated candidates | bave started contest cases, but that none of them ever won out. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt says half the men she knows are lobsters and the other half are shrimps. Mr. Catt evidently has been misbranded. An arbitration board to adjust the differences between the Omaha bank- | ers and the South Omaha bankers could be kept real busy right now. The sugar trust has discharged tlie weighers who defrauded the govern- ment out of $2,000,000. Uncle S8am probably will furnish them a job. Mayor Jim wants to keep his ap- pointive list under the hat as long as possible. The “ingrates” who are on the black list know it without waiting to be told. Automobile men paid $109,000 in taxes into the New Jersey treasury since the first of the year. When it comes to being thrifty Jersey takes: the lead. — o State Board.of Assessment .is again discovering that all the Ne- braska railroads are paying taxes on _assessments far in @xcess of the valua- tions put on them by their tax agents. Etrange! New The government at Washington is going into the ice making business. From the chunks handed out there, in the past, officeseekers are inclined to the opinion the supply has always been ample. Thomas L. Hisgen, the late candi- date for president, has proclaimed the fact that the Independence league fis dead. The infant mortality rate is al- ways high and this child never was strong except in lung power. It has been found necessary to dis- charge another grand jury investigat- ing Governor Haskell and the alleged land frauds. For a man so anxious to meet the issue the governor is decid- edly lax in keeping appointments. Railroad Regulation. Most railroad men have arrived at the point where they are willing to admit that government regulation is not only a necessity but also not an unmixed blessing to the roads them- selves, Few in high places among raliroad managers and owners remain who can see nothing but evil in re- straints placed upon them. Yet Presi- dent Ripley of the Santa Fe in a re- cent interview in Chicago i8 quoted as tollows: The railroads of the west have but one thing to fear, and that is meddlesome and malicious Interference in the conduct of their business in legislatures and com- missions having ho Interest in the prop- erty and no knowledge of rallroad mat- ters; elected, not to do justice, hut for the sole purpose of getting as much as possible out of the corporations ftn in- creased service and reduced rates. I think that public sentiment has changed slightly and is less tolerant of persecution of rallroads, but there are yet some politic- fans who have not found this out. No one of intelligence has any de- sire to cripple the railroads in the ex- ercise of their legitimate functions, to hamper their growth or to make thelr operation unprofitable, The railroeds represent millions upon millions of invested capital on which thelr owners are entitled to fair returns But the confiseation of railroad investments is not now and never has been demanded. The issue has been to compel the rail- roads to cease known abuses—exces- slve charges, discriminations, building up a favored few at the expense of the many, inadequate service, and reck- less exposure of life and limb. In the fleld of national legisiation both the test of practical operation and the adjudication of the courts has surtained, almost without exception, as reasonable, the restraints placed upon the roads and the majority of state Iaws have also vindicated tham- selves. What have our law makers done, as examples of what Mr. Ripley might term meddlesome legislation? Congress has enacted a law foreing the roads to equip trains with air brakes and safety couplers for the protection of the life and 1imbs of paesengers and raillroad employes. It w necessary to compel the roads by law to cease employlng boys and girls to handle messages on which the safety of train operation depended. It Was necessary by law to force the roads to cease working employes excessive hours until physical exhaustion not only threat- ened their health, but endangered the lives entrusted to their care. Laws had to be passed to stop rebates and to prevent discrimination between ship- pers and localities. Laws had to be passed to abolish the wholesale Liib- ery of legislators and the subversion of public sentiment by means of passes. In the field of state legislation and commission rulings there are other just as pertinent instances. It required government interference to compel the roads to provide depot facilities de- ‘merided by common decehiey, to main- tain stations where business required it, to furnish ears to shippers when needed and to respond to numerous other reasonable demands for the ac- commodation of the public, aside from the matter of fixing rates. Does Mr. Ripley consider all these laws ‘“meddlésome and maliclous in- terference’” or ‘Intolerant persecu- tion?" Does Mr. Ripley think the pub- lie will sanction any backward step along these lines or regulations of the roads? If he does he is alone among rallroad men and doomed to disap- pointment, y Applying Business Methods. The report of the commission to investigate departmental methods has brought prominently to lightigome wasteful practices in the purchiide of supplies. The system in vogue was the gradual growth of the years since the government was founded. Each department has always purchased for itself and the result has Ineyitably been, if not extravagance, at least lack of economy in purchase President Taft proposes to remedy this if po bla by the establishment of a gingle purchasing department, such as 1s maintained by all large private cor- porations, which shall do the buying and contracting for staple articlos for all the departments. > The inauguration of this plan, which means such a revolution of methods, out it the efficlency of the principle can be tried out by means of €0-0p- eration between the various depart- ments in the purchase of the class of supplies used in common Dby them. Probably no reform in purely admin- fstrative methods to compare with this in magnitude or importance has' been discussed, and if a practical trial shall prove it to be effective it will mean the saving of many thousands of the taxpayers’ money, It is in such things as this Mr, Taft {8 demonstrating what he means by & business administra- tion. One Ship's Queer Cargo. The steamer Berlin arrived in New York last week with one of the most cosmopolitan cargoes ever landed in that port. In addition to the average run of every-day passengers an un- usually large number of couples were returning from bridal tours, and to make things seem ~matural to them there was also on board a consignment ot 20,000 canaries. In addition the ship carried 5,000 frogs, 200 snakes, 100 monkeys and a miscellaneous col- lection of other animals. Since we have been’disillusioned by being told that the destroved signal corps balloon can be replaced for $2,000, we do not see how the airship can ever supplant the automobile. If the automobile is to be put off watch it will have to ba by some locomotion device that is more expensive, The personal belongings of return- ing travelers are generally known to contain among the enrios collected on trips abroad all kinds of gueer things, but nothing except the scanning of a eargo list of any of the great ships will givé an idea of the many and strange thi; which come in as an interchange of commerce between the nations, this consignment simply being an fllustration. The fact is too com- mon to attract attention among the regular visitors to the wharves or the customs officials and except in the case of a large importation like the one ar- riving last week never known to the public. The complexity and scope of a tariff bill is also brought forcibly to mind by such importations, for nearly all the articles mentioned in this cargo are dutiable at rates provided for in the pending bill as well as in its predeces- sors, so If you think you are wise enough to frame such & measure, just take a look at the ramifications of the field you must cover. A Lesson from Galveston. Outside of the appointive commis- sion which has jurisdiction over the city of Washington, the commission which governs Galveston is commonly regarded as the original type of the commission plan of city government in | this country of which the other com- mission plans have been imitations or adaptations. The commission plan of city government has been advocated wherever it has been adopted chiefly by the so-called reform elements and too often hailed as a utopian scheme equivalent to a perpetual guaranty of high standard and efcient administra- tion of municipal affairs. The city election just held in Gal- veston, however, discloses the fact that the reformers are no more cer- tain to control under a c¢ommission form of government than under any other form. In the Galveston election the whole board of city commissioners aspired to re-election, but the mayor, who was the head and front of the re- form program, was defeated by a candidate of the reactionaries running on an independent ticket. It is even hinted that the outgoing mayor-com- missloner stood as a strict construc- tionist, while his successful competitor rallied the liberal vote made up largely of the classes who prefer a more free and easy management of the city. G veston's mayor-elect, by the way, is also a lawyer, contradicting the im- pression that popular prejudice against lawyers is an insuperable bar to a law- yer landing in a mayoralty chair. The Galveston election does not con- demn the commission plan of city government, but it does re-inforce what The Bee has several times said with reference to it, that the success or failure of municipal government de- pends entirely upon the character of the men put into municipal office irre- spective whether they are called ‘“‘commissioners” or merely ‘“‘mayors’ and ‘‘councilmen.” If there is real call for reformers they can be elected just easily under one plan as undéer another, and if the reform element is in the minority the adoption of the eommission plan of government will not by itself cure all the evils or put the reformers in the saddle. Influence of the Democratic Party. Mr. Bryan at a banguet in Colum- bus, O., declares that never in the history of the world had a political party exercised a greater influence in national affairs than the democratic party during the past twelve years. By what process of reasoning Mr. Bryan arrives at this conclusion is even more mysterious than his “‘mys- tery of 1908 Duyring the twelve years mentioned the party has not been in a position to place upon the statute books of the nation a single law or put into operation a single pre- cept of its creed. Commencing with 1896 it has gone down-to humiliating defeat as regularly as election time came around. From a strong and com- pact minority able to exercise a salu- tary check upon the majority it has deteriorated until even this function is lost to it, as is made only too plain in the present session of congress. In the house organization the party di- vided, and in the senate, when some republicans objected to certain sched- ules of the tariff bill, the proffer of assistance from the democrats to change them was of no service be- cause the democrats were hopelessly divided. Looking to the future, Mr. Bryan himself has been kept busy declar- ing that many of the men who have I been elected as democrats are not en- will necessitate legislation, but with- | titled to wear the party label and his opponents just as vociferously pro- claim that Mr. Bryan is not a demo- crat. If there is any rule by which a genuine democrat can be distinguished it is yet to find acceptance. The fac- tions rather than the party are organ- izing and lining up for the control of the next democratic national conven- tion, with every indication that the contest will be a bitter one between hopelessly divided elements. How democracy in an impotent mi- nority and rent by internal dissension can have been thée vital force in the affairs of the nation during the past twelve years no one but Mr. Bryan can see. Lincoln may have to have a special election to straighten out the kinks in an issue of high school bonds recently voted on which the election officers failed to make proper canvass and certification of the returns. A law requiring civil service examination for election officers will be the next thing in order. For some reason or other the dem- ocratic organs are not wildly excited over the refusal of the supreme court to seat the Shallenberger judicial ap- pointees. Apparently this is a case of fishing in the politicai pond from which the democrats hoped for little and expected less, It turns out that the juror who tried to borrow money from the lawyer in the case he was hearing Is himself a OMAHA, MONDAY, MAY Jawyer. That makes his error of Jjudgment all the more inexcusable borrowing money from a lawyer. — Latest reports indicate, as careful observers expected, that the estimate of Armenian victims of the Turkish uprising had been exaggerated. Ten thousand is now said to be the num- ber. The deliberate murder of this large number is beyond the compre- hension of peoples of other lands and emphasizes the neceseity of the powers holding the Turk to a more strict ac- countability for his doings. ——— between Omaha and Council Bluffs starts out on the theory that Douglas | county is to pay three-fourths of the cost and Pottawattamie county one- fourth. That s where the hitch, if any, is likely to be. Japan has given another indication that it is awake and keeping abreast of the times. Without making any fuss about' what it was doing it is now announced that a Jap army officer has invented a safe and easily managed airship. President Roosevelt has taken a rest trom his hunting and commenced work on his typewriter. This will af- ford the taxidermists an opportunity to catch up. Room at the Top. , Washington Post The United States honors the return of the Wrights by presenting to them the freedom of the alr, and they can go as far as they like. Upholding Written Law. New York Sun. To the twelve men of the jury in the Halns case are due the admiration and the gratitude of every citizen who desires that the written law and not the unwritten law shall continue to be the law of this land. A Success, as Burstings Go. 8t. Paul Ploneer Prese. Tieutenant Ware, who made the flight in the army balloon at Fort Omaha, de- clared that, “aside from the burating of the gas bag, the flight was an entire suc- e Inasmuch as the bag burst just as the balloon reached the ground it would seem to the layman that the bursting also might be classed as a great success, as burstings go. Roosevelt and His Ralds. Brookivn Eagle There Is a conviction in some minda that ex-President Roosevelt may not have fired a gun since his arrival In Africa. He probably has, but the very readable ac- counts of his raids on wild animals lack, in the opinion of a correspondent, that “verisimilitude of detail which tends to dis- establish credulity in reticulated intellectu- alit When our correspondent's mean- ing shall have wrought its way to sim- plicity, Mr, Roosevelt will be en route for home. * ‘ No Oppésition Party. Indignapolls News. The democratic party has of late years been through man¥ trials and tribulations. But nothing has done s0o much t6 weaken it as this revefatfon of its Inefficlency. Tariff reformers Who belong to no party, but whose only purpose is to get rid of protection, will not find It easy to work with the democratic party in the future 1t will be impossible to feel that even the best platform means anything, impossible to have much faith In the professions of the men who seem to have marched straight into the Aldrich camp. Verily, we need an opposition party. But where are we to get it? Snapping Political Ties. New York Post. Westerners are snapping party tles the question of the tariff, partly because they resent its burdens and injustices, but more because they are Jealous of New Bng- land wealth and of the capital of New York and the middle states, which appear to/them to be using Senator Aldrich as an amanuensis to write our tarlff dictation. The revolt is really that of the radical west and south against the conservative east. It was no causal thing that western senators pointed out and denounced the dominance of New England senators In the finance committee of the senate, and in other powerful committees of that body “There spoke & sectional distrust and dislike which may be prophetic of a sweeping readjustment of parties before many years have passed. on AN ERROR OF POLICY, | Brect of Congressional Limitations m Secret Serviece, New York Tribune. Some significant testimony | the merits of the dispute last winter | tween President Koosevelt and the hous of representatives over the employment of | the secret service has been given by H. L. | Stimson, former United States district at {torney for this district, who has been en | ®aged in prosecuting the sugar weighing fraud cases. Mr. Stimson says that the | government has been greatly hampered in | bringing to justice the authors of those frauds because congress persisted in limit ing the functions and activities of the fed- eral secret serviee. Trained detectives were needed In these prosecutions, but the | secret service men who should have been available were not allowed by congress to {be detalled for work outside the limiied province of pursuing and suppressing counterfeiting. The house of representa- tives mistakenly Insisted last winter that the scope of the activitles of the govern- ment's only trained force should be so lim- ited, although President Roosevelt pointed out that the secret service could do vai- uable work in helping to expose land frauds and crimes in general against the govern- ment, and had done such work with | marked success and to the great advantage | of the public The Tribune criticised the house of repre- sentatives for its shortsightedness in crip- pling the secret service, the more so *hat no satisfactory reason was ever given for limiting the work which it should do. Mr Stimson shows how great a handicap was thus put upon the government in combat- ing crime and fraud. He says here are many men In the secret serv ice with broad experience whg would be of Invaluable service to us fraud Investigations. But we cannot use them. Here is one of the most important cases the government has prosecuted in year! and we are hampered by the lack of investigators. A lot of special treasury agents have been assigned to help, and they are working hard and with some results, bearing on in the old service, men who have worked on similar cases in the past and who know how to get at things." Congress at its next seasion should take note of the situation which It created and repair an obylous blunder. The executive department should be alded, not hindered. in Its efforts to enforce the laws. il lawyer ought to know the difficulty of | The proposition for a free bridge | in ‘the weighing | 17, | 1909 Roosevelt One of the comic campaign last fall the Count Tolstoy wrote behalt Bryan. In this letter Count Tolstoy advo- cated the election of Mr. Bryan on the &round that he was the representative of the party of peace, of anti-militarism From the point of view of, American poli- tics, the incident possessed no importance beyond furnishing materfal for the humor- ous columns of the newspapers. But it had A certain real interest as indicating Count Tolstoy's worth as a moral guide. He advo cated Mr. Bryan on the theory that Mr. Bryan represented peace and anti-militar Iam. Now there was but one point In the platform of either politica! party in 198 | Which contained any elen:'nt of menace to the peace of the world. s was the plank in the Bryanite platform which de- manded the immediate exclusion by law of All Asfatic laborers, and therefore of the Japanese. Couvpled with it was the utteriy meaningless plank about the navy, which was, however, intended to convey the fm- pression that we ought to have A navy only for the defense of our coasts—that is, a merely ‘‘defensive’ navy, or, In other words, A quite worthless navy. Now I have shown In a preceding editorfal that at this present time there ls neither justification nor ex- | cuse for such a law—and this wholly with- out regard to what the future may show. The exclusion plank fn Mr. Bryan's plat- form represented merely an idip threat, a wanton insult, and It was coupled with What was intended to be a declaration that the policy of upbullding the navy, which has been 8o successfully carried on during the last gézen years, would be abandoned Any man of common sense, therefore ought to perceive the self-evident fact that the only menace to peace which was con tained In any possible action by the Ameri- can republic was that contained In the election of Mr. Bryan and the attempt tn put Into effect his platform. That Count Tolstoy did not see this affords a curious lllustration of his complete inabllity to face facts; of his readiness to turn aside from the truth In the pursuit of any phantom. however foolish; and of the utter fgtulty of those who treat him as a philoso- pher, whose philosophy should be, or could be, translated into actfon. features of the politieal was letter which on ot Mr. Count Tolstol is & man of genius, a great novellst. “War and Peace,” “Anna Kare- nina," “The Cossacks,” “Sebastopsl,” are 8reat books. As a novelist he has added materially to the sum of production of his eneration. As a professional philosopher and moralist T doubt if his influence has really been very extensive among men of action; of course it has a certain weight among men who live only in the closet, in the library: and Among the high-minded men of this tvpe, who, Wecause of thefr sheltered lives, naturally refect what fs tm. moral, and do not have to deal with what is fantastic, In Tolstoy's teachings, it I probable that the really lofty slde of these teachings gives them a certain sense of spiritual exaltation. But T have no ques- tion that whatever little influence Tolstoy has exerted among men of action has told on the whole, for evil. I do not think his influence over men of action has been great, for I think he has swayed or domi- nated only the feeble folk and the fantastic folk. No man who possesses both robust common sense and high ideals, and who strives to apply both in actual living, is affected by Tolstoy's teachings, save as he is affected by the teachings of hun. dreds of other men In whose writings there are o« stonal truths mixed with masses Of what is commonplace or erroneous. Strong men may gain something from Tol. stoy's moral teachings, but only on condi- tion that they are strong enough and sane enough to be repelled by those parts of his teachings which are foolish or fmmoral, Weak persons are hurt by the teachings, 8tll, T think that the mere fact that these weak persons are Influenced sufficlently to be marred means that there was not them a very great quantity of potential usefulness to mar. In the United States we suffer from ,grave moral dangers; but they are for the most part dangers which Tolstoy would neither perceive nor know how to combat. Moreover, the real and in The Outlook, May 15. on Tolstoy dreadful evila which do In fact share In his denunclation of and attack upon both good and evil are usually not evils which are of much moment among us. On the other hand, we are not hable to certain Kinds of wickedneas which there is real Aanger of his writings fnculcating: for it is a lamentable fact that, as is so often the case with a certain tvpe of mystical sealot there Ia In him a dark streak which tells of moral perversion. That side of his teach ings which I8 partially manifested in the revolting “Kreutzer Sonata ein do ex- ceedingly little damage in America. for it would appeal only to decadents; exactly as It could have come only from a man who, however high he may stand in cer- taln respects, has in him certain dreadtul qualities of the moral pervert The usual effect of prolonged” and ex- cessive Indulgen in Tolstoy!s Amer- fean disciplés I8 comie rather than serlous. One of these dlsci LN instance, not long ago wrote a book on American mu nicipal problems. which ascribed oir eth fcal and social shortcomings in municipal matters in part to the a'n of “militartem.” Now the mind of this particular writer in making such A statement was influenced not In the least by what had actually oc- curred pr was occurring in our citles. but by one of Tolstoy's theorlea which has no possible bearing upon American I\fe Militariam fs a real factor for good or for evil In most European countries. In Amer- fea it has not the smallest effect one way or ‘the other; it Is a negligible quantity There are undoubtedly states of soclety where militarism 18 a grave evil, and there are plenty of circumstances in which the prime duty of man may be to strive against it. But it Is not righteous war, not even war itself, which fs the absolate evil, the evil which is evil always and under all clrcumstances. Militarism which takes the form of a police force, municipal or na- tional, may be the prime factor for up- holding peace and righteousness. Militarism is to be condemned or not, purely accord- ing to the conditions. 8o eating horse meat fs In iteelf & mere matter of taste; but the early Christian missionaries in Scandinavia found that serfous evil sprang from the custom of eating horse meat in honor of Odin. *It s literally true that our very grave munioipal problems In New York or Chicago have no more to do with militarism than with eating the meat of horses that delties; and A crusade against one habit, as an element In munlcipal retorm, is just about as rational as would be a crusade against the other. Oliver Wendell Holmes sald that It had taken a centurs to re- move the lark from American literature; because the poets insisted upon writing, not about the birds they saw, but about the birds they had read of in the writings of other poets. Militarism as an evil in our soclal life fs as purely a figment of the ‘mazination as the skyiark in our litera ture. Moreover, the fact that in spite of this total absence of militarism there is so much that is evil in our life, so much need for reform, ought to show persons who think that the destruction of militarism would bring about the millennium how completely they lack the sense of perspec- tive. m on tor To minimize the chance of anything bu willful misunderstanding, let me repest that Tolstoy s a great writer, a great novellst; that the unconscious Influence of his novels ts probably, on the whole, good, even dlsregarding their standing as works of art; that even as a professional moralist and philosophical adviser of man- kind in religious matters he has some ex- cellent theories and on some points de- velops a nobla and elevating teaching; but that taken as a whole, and if generally diffused, his moral and philosophical teach- ings, 8o far as they had any influence at| all, would have an influence for bad; partly because on certaln points they teach down- right immorality, but much more hw';lu!r' they tend to be both foolish and fantastic, and ¥ logically applied would mean the extinction of humanity in a generation. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. SOME MISTAKES OF MR. Rules of Actlon of Party Representa- tives Considered. Charleston News and Courler (dem.). In his letter to the Florida legislature Mr. Bryap exposes his want of accurate understanding of democratic principles. Mr. Bryan is quite mistaken when he de- clares that “there are two schouls of thought In regerd to the duty of an of- ficial; the aristocratic theory is that the people elect representatives to think for them; the democratic theory is, on the | contrary, that the people think for them- | selves and elect representatives to give legal expression to their thoughts and to volce thelr sentiments.”” There are no such “two schools.” Such a division 1s physically Impossible In this republic. A candidate and the people are parties to a contract. The candidate expresses his views and pledges himself to u course of action. He Is bound by fmplication to sup- port the demands of his party platform, | unless he put the people on notice before | election that he is out of sympathy with It, | in whole or in part. If he be a party candi- | date, he promises thereby to submit te party | authority, which, in congress, s the cau- | Mr. Bryan's theory is that a public offi- clal should the people’s puppet, that when he accepts office he effaces himseif as a free agent, and that he reserves to | himself only the function of reglstering | what he concelves to be the people's will Until the “Initiative and referendum" ex- pedient shall become a feature of our gov ernmental system, Mr. Bryan's theory is| tmpractical and contradictory. That this | expedient has not been adopted implies that | .the people delegate to their representative | full freedom of action as to all questions | arising during his term of offic cept | those in regard to which he has voluntarily | detined and ltmited his course before elec tion. The anxiety of officlals lest they be | defeated for re-election probably Induces | them to suppress their convictions more than they should In the hope of conclliating the srate. The fact that the people {should bear in mind {s that a representa- tive who would be dishonest with himsel? in order to propitiate them, would be none 100 good to sell himself to a third party Moreover, Mf. Bryan betrays an habit- ual and fatal bent towards demagogy when he speaks of ‘the aristocratic theory.”" He knows that this country has no “aristo- | crats.”” If he mean that the rich constitute a caste he should speak of them as “the rich” and not attempt to turn against them & prejudice which s cherished in old coun- tries towards a class of hereditary nobles. Granting, for the sake of the argument | only, that the rich in Aferica constitute a ate class, and one out of sympathy with | democrais, the truth remains that | the rich are in no sense “aristocrats,” but rather a more common and vulgar crew than are the plain farmers, lawyers, doctors and shop-keepers. “Captain Kidd" was a great pirate and amassed wealth, but Le was not an aristocrat; no more is the truat magnate who robs the people by using false welghts BRYAN | cus. * be elec | cours at the custom house. But Mr. Bryan, re- solved to instigate popular malice against the wealthy, deliberately appropriates a, term which has nothing to do with weaith, and applies it because it is effective for| his purpose. It is in little ways of this have been sacrificed to pagan | PERSONAL NOTES. Carrle Chupman Cart remarke that hall rest are shrimps. There is much roon n Carrie's taste in th acquaintances. for improvement selec tion of male The peach-hasket hat subserves @ useful purpose, A youns woman In New York. thrown through the glase wind shield of a taxicab, was protected Ly her voluminous headgear from being cut by the flying splinters. It is strange that an American should be the only wor mber of the Royal Geo- { Braphical society of England. Mrs. French |Bheldon, formerly of New Orleans, occu ples this singular position. She {8 not alone the only female “fellow.” but the last. Oscar Beeley, & civil war veteran, who had authentic records to show that he was the first to enlist In New York state when the first call for volunteers was sent out, died at Muskegon, Mich., from an oid gun- shot wound received at the battle of Shiloh, Long Is the list of waifs who have be come famous. It Includes Sir Henry M Stanley, Queen Catherine the Good, Alex ander Hamilton, R Bonheur, Edgar Al len Poe, Rachel, Leonardo da Vincl, and dates back as far as Moses. All these were homeless children Mrs. Gertrude Barney, the pretty and telephone operator the Montgom (Mo.) authorities refused to seat as city collector when she elected to that office last November, because, As & woman she was ineligible, was married to her man- {ager in that campaign, E. H. Ham, county republican chairman state food in- pector has proved that if an { | | and WHERE MILLIONS ARE WASTED Kansas City Times. The of bad roads in America, {cording 0 a recent statement from the | Agricultural department was $59,000,000 last | year, as compared to the cost of transport | Ing the same tonnage of crops in France | These figures apply merely to the hauling of the principal crops. This is only an estimate of the partial loss to the farmers, because it embodies only a part of the products hauied over the public highways. The average haul in this country is 0.4 miles. It costs 26 | cents a mile for wagon transportation. In France the cost is 13 cents a mile, or only one-half the cost in the United States | The tremendous drain of bad roads on ! the resources of the agricultural districts | 18 startiing. It falls with more welght, of | course, upon the strictly agricultural states, such as Kansas and Missourl. No other in- dustry could stand this persistent drain’ upon its profits. It fs endured by the | tarmers, however, because this country has { never had any other kind of roads Tne mere fact that the American farm- | ers have becorie aceustomed to bad roads | does not change the facts. Neither does |1t excuse the pollcy of neglecting to save | the millions now wasted by bad roads. WHITTLED TO A POINT. “My wife and I never argue—we get along heautifully."” “How do you work it?" “When anything's wrong 1 al that it's my fault and she nev, with me. ~Cleveland Leader. cost ys figure ¢ disagrees “What part of a rallway tra'n do you regard s the most dangerous:' Inquired the nervous man. he dining car,” answered the dyspeptic. shington Star very optimistic woman, “My wife Is a “Irdeed, she s “Noticed it, have you!" when I, was talking with her yester- she sald ‘that If' vou ever died sha would marry again, because she felt sure that she could do better next time.*—Hous- ton Post. many thousand America_every year. “What assimilates them Into good Amer- fean citizens?” “Base ball. “Yes, [ immigrants come —Loulsville Courler-Joutnal 8he (Indignantly)—You had no business to kiss me! He—But it wasn't_business; It was pleas- ure.~Detroit News-Tribune Pessimist—Don 't rrows the drama waid? Realist—1 have are buying seats in more American has think _this a tendency down neticed that more people the orchestra.—Balti- 1 suppose you know, barber,” said Pe with a wink at the man in the other ¢ “trat the hair on a man's head grows at the rate of three-millicnths of & yard in a second." “No, I never heard that before," sald the barber, beating a tattoo on the strop with his razor, “but I know there's a spot on kind that Mr. Bryan has exposed his dema- gogic predilections ever since he has been in public life. He can't conceal them. Big Opening for Nerve Tonfe. Chicago Record-Herald. the German navy maneuvers which are to be held before long in the Baltic sea the most powerful fleet ever assembled under one flag will, it is re- ported, be visible. Anvone who has a good nerve tonlc ought to be &ble to do a big buginess in England while the maneuvers are in progress. During Tactica of a Model Bryanite. Kansas City Journal Oklahoma will feel deeply humiliated, of if Governor Haskell should be found gullty of fraud by a jury of his fellow citi zens. But, after all, convietion would not be very much worse than exhausting the legal technicalities in an effort to escape trial on the merits of the case. the hack of your head where the hair wouldn't grow as much as that in a million years."—Chicago Tribune LET OUT A WHOOP. #t. Louls Republie. It you're feeling dull and blue, 4 » Cheer up! There is joy in life for you, Cheer up! it and mourn and mope, looking for a rop forget with life there's hope. Do not let your spirits droop, Do not Don't Don't Cheer up! Cheer up! Swing your hat, let out a whdop. Cheer up! Do not get disconsolate You will win the smiles If you only work and Cheer up! Do not go around depressed Cheer up! Cheer up! Live your life, enjoy its zest Why be gloomy? Why repine? §top your brooding, ceass to whine, Soon you will be feeling fine, Cheer up! Married Mz’sery People often rely on nature unaided to correct evil but it doesn’t corrective medicine away with married unh the bottom of 'a deal of 1 lack of cheerful yielding should be One aim of to do appiness. At misery is found Mean self- ishness is as surely due to ill-health as famine is to failure. per—a third fault—is of stomach _disorder. when stomach and liver balanced tone. The first si Ungovernable tem- largely the outcome s I these causes disappear are keyed to a finely gn of on-coming Bilious- ness, Indigestion or Headache, should suggest old Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery No other known medicine contains so complete a curing-power for disordered stomach and many a conflict between man Take pains, how, strongly ou having yo torpid liver—"Twill ‘avert and woman, » mot to insist too ur own way excepl with the druggist—insist that he give you Dr. Pieres’s Golden Medisal Dissovery. Constipation is always aggravat ing. A costive person is hardly fit to associate with—while free and easy bowel action tends to make the grouchy grumbler a cheerful optimist, lovable and full of hope. Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant move bowels gently once a da Pellets, taken now and then, That's enough. the men shie knows are lobsters and the Y,