Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 1, 1909, Page 4

_THE OmAnA™ DANY BEE FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSE VICTOR ROBEWATER, WATER DITOR tered at Omaha postoffice as second- class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTIO! Daily Bee twithout Bunday). one Dally Bee and Sunday one year DELIVERED BY CARRIER Dally Bee (including Bunday), per week Daily Bee (without Bunday). per week Evening Bee (without S8unday), per week Evening Bee (with Sunday), per week Bunday Bee, one yei Baturday Bee, one year $2.50 IR Address all complaints of irregularities in | delivery to City Circulation Department OFFICES Omaha—The Bee Bullding. Bouth Omaha—Twenty-fourth and N. Counci] Bluffs—15 Scott Street, Lincoln—618 Little Buflding. Chicago—1048 Marquette Building. New York—Rooms 1101-1102 No. 34 West Thirty-third street. ‘Washington--73 Fourteentl: Street, N. W, CORRESPONDENCE Communications relating to news and edi- torlal matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to The Bee Publishing Company ly 3-cent stampe recetved im payment of mail accou Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted STATEMENT OF CYRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, s8 George B. Twschuck, treasurer of The Bee 'ublishing Company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and complete coples of The Dally, Morhing, Evening and Bunday Bee printed @uring the month of April, 198, was as tollows . 41,090 a7,130 Total, . 1,238,410 Returred coples.......oivuee ot _total Dally average . GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK, ‘Treasurer. Bubscribed in my presence and sworn to before me this lst day of Mw 1909, M. P. WALKER, Notary Publie. WHEN OUT OF TOWN. the clity tem hould have The B A Speaking of bandits, the police have three of a kind, but failed to fill in the draw. Now that the assessors i.>ve finished their part of it, it will be up to the Board of Equalization next. — Joy riding has been made larceny in New York state. But stolen pleas- ures are proverblally the sweetest. ——— St. Joseph 1s clamoring for 600 girls. Is that all our Missouri neighbor needs before the census man comes around? Los Angeles reports one divoree for every four marriages. Evidently the matrimonial lemon needs no protec- tion, . ‘Wonder {f successful m: ry of the steering apparatus of the automobile fits a person to steer a dirigible bal- loon. Bpeaker Cannon dearly loves a joke, but this sitting around waiting for the senate to act on the tariff dill is no Joke, —— " The Peruvian rebellion lasted for three hours. Some of those South American wars are almost as serious as French duels. —_— The town of Zephyr, Tex., has been blown away by a torpado. What else could one expect-—a tornado is but a zephyr grown up. A newly discovered comet is said to be traveling several million miles a minute, If it isn’t careful it may be arrested for scorching. The site of the city of Pittsburg once sold for $176, but then neither party to the trade had to divide up with a Pittsburg councilman. The eclipse of the sun June 17 will be total only at the north pole. Walter Wellm; will have to hurry to get there in time to take observations. You may call it & corner or what- ever you please, but the fact is that with the close of May it was not Mr. Patten who settled in the wheat deal. It is barely possible that in his de- sire to fmprove the quality of whisky, Dr. Wiley has been stirred to activity by somepne who purchased a drink in a prohibition town. As fhere are more retailers than there are wholesalers, and more whole- salers than there are manufacturers, it is perfectly safe to put all the blame for high retail prices on the manufac- turer. The Carnegie Steel company booked more orders during the last three months than during the entire year 1908. That looks as tuough there were something doing in the industrial world, A Chicago woman earned a dollar for misslong by shaving her husband. It is quite possible that her husband would prefer to have her get the money next time in the usual way while he is asleep. an act volding leases for apartments that prohibit occupancy by families with ehildren. That promises to be a popular measure. It's dollars to doughnuts that it makes its appear- ance at the next session of every legis- lature in every state that contains cities that bave gf™tment houses. ,a40 | efforts of the police of Omaha, South | On the Wrong Foot. The state press seems to have got- ten off very badly on the wrong foot |in conmection with the recent train Irobbery on the outskirts of Omaha. | | Getting a bad cue from the local vel- low journals that have been for years |libeling the police and misrepresenting |Omaha as a haven of professional |eriminails, these country papers imme- diately jump to the conclusion that | this train robbery afforded proof pn'l-‘ tive of police ineficiency and conniv- ance with criminals. Under the head of “Rotten Omaha," |tor example, the Nebraska City Preses, which is chronically blackguarding our city, indulges this characteristic out- burst: Crooks who are able to break into banks, steal anything looge, even rob the United States mails, seem to have an immediate harbor as soon as they reach Omaha. The local authorities are either unable to han- | dle the criminal classes or else the re sponsible heads are In “cahoots” with the thieves. Another paper constantly suffering with Omaha-phobla, the Kearney New Era Standard, sagely remarks: Omaha seems to be headquarters for a bunch of pretty desperate men. After this, how will they be able to persuade the timid east that Omaha is not in the limits of the wild and woolly west? Still another paper, printed in the same town, the Kearney Hub, which is usually sensible and level-headed, de- clares: There is & susplclon creeping into the minds of a few people that there is some- thing wrong with the police administra- | tlon of the city of Omaha. When a mail | train s looted and the robbers are swal- lowed up in the maw of that city, where | they undoubtedly had their rendezvous, | there Is an appearance of ‘“shutting the | other eye” when these fellows are around. | It 80 happens that before these inky | lugubriations were even dry- the pcr-‘ petrators of the train robbery were in the toils as a result of the combined | Omaha and the detectives working on | the case. It turns out, further, that the ren- dezvous of the train robbers was not in Omaha, unless South Omaha is to be considered part of Omaha, although its police administration is entirely separate and distinct. It turns out, further, that the train robbers were newcomers and strangers to the community, had been in the neighborhood only a few days, had been operating in other cities equally boldly and had escaped the police of those cities. Instead of finding Omaha - a safe haven they came to grief here for the first time. Instead of finding the police admin- istration ‘“‘shutting the other eye,” they ran up against a police adminis- tration that caught them napping. Even if the train robbers had suc- cessfully gotten away from Orhaha, as they had from other cities in which they had committed crimes, it would have been no sertous indictment of the police here or in- South Omaha. : A professional crook -is -ltable ‘to ‘drop into any city in the country at any time, pull off a job and get awdy, but that would be no test of faithfulness and eficiency of the police department, Wonder 1if these papers and the othérs that have made the traln rob- bery their excuse for similar reflec- tions upon Omaha's badness will have the decency to retract and do what they can to repalr the damage of their uncalled-for comment, Georgia Strike Settlement. The settlement of the strike on the Georgia railroad has averted what promised to be a serious complication. The railroad officials and the em- ployes have taken cognizance of the fact that they were raising an issue which promised to be more far-reach- ing than a simple labor difference and have agreed to arbitrate. The race question, always acute in the south, brought into the controversy factors which had no direet interest in it and it was from this source that serious tronble was menaced. In averting such a conflict all con- cerned are to be congratulated al- though they would have appeared in better light if they had never raised the race issue. The country is looking to the south to solve the race ques- tion and the tendency of the best | thought there is directed to the prob- lem. Disturbances such as those caused by this strike only delay the solutlon by stirring up passions. The agreement for the settlement of the strike by arbitration was just as feas- ible before the outbreak as after it and the best interests of all should have dictated an earlier recourse to it. A Monument to the Regular. The dedication at Gettysburg of a monument to the regular soldier is an | act of belated justice. The deeds of the volunteer have been sung in song and story and many monuments have been erected to his memory. No fault can be found with this for he deserves all his tributes. The volunteer dis- played self-sacrifice and courage of the | highest type. From the foundation of the government it has been the policy to maintain a small standing army, relying on the volunteer in times of | war and the volunteer has never failed his country. The regular army has | never been large enough to form more | than a nucleus of the nation's fighting force, but his training and discipline have been an invaluable asset; it has been the military leaven which vital- ized the entire mass. The regular has no state and no home community to sound his praises, | and his numbers were so few in the | civil war that he was almost ignored later in the distribution of credit marks, yet he came from the same source as the volunteer—the body of the American people and with the same |ell,”” but before the paper wa THE BEE: OMAHA, TUESDAY, entitled to like recognition. It is fit- ting that a monument should be reared to him at Gettysburg, the pivotal battle of the great conflict, Conquest of the Air, The difficult problems of aerial nav- Igation are by no means solved, but wonderful progress has been made in recent years toward their solution. In the heavier-than-air machines the Wright brothers of thie country are easily in the lead, but in the class of dirigible balloons American ingenuity must for the present yield supremacy to Count Zeppelin of Germany. The remarkable feat of sailing 456 miles from a point in Bavaria to Berlin and |then returning is so far In advance of other adronautic achievements as to put it in a class by itself to navigate the air are at the mercy of the elements and the air currents, if strong, are still an insuperable ob- stacle to the control of flight and changing temperatures similarly fatal to long continued ones. The success of Count Zeppelin and the Wrights indicates clearly that the principles on which such machines de- pend have been discovered and in large measure mastered. Present knowledge, however, does not permit of the appli- cation of sufficlent power to overcome the obstacles of even slightly unfavor- able weather conditions. The machines are too frail to sustain the weight of more powerful éngines or to resist the effects of their vibration. These difi- culties must be met before either class of air vehicles can become of practical use, either for war or in peace. The failure, so far, to meet these require- ments is not to be wondered at, neither is it discouraging, but it is rather an encouragement that so much has been accomplished in the comparatively short time since the first substantial progress was achleved. The first practical use of the air- ship has been foreseen by military men and the armies of all nations are working industriously for their per- fection. Whether air locomotion will ever be a factor in every ddy affairs can no more be predicted than could the present day use of the telephone, the telegraph and the steam engine at the time of their incipiency. Exports and Imports. Less than one-tenth of the manu- factures of the United States are ex- ported while the imports of manufac- tured articles equal less than one- twentieth of the home product. These are the figures of the statistical ab- stract prepared by a bureau of the De- partfnent of Commerce and Labor. Another exhibit contained in the re- port shows that the proportion of the total manufactures exported has been steadily increasing since 1850. In that year it was .066 per cent and in 1905, the last year in which comparative fig- ures are obtainable, it was .082. In the latter year the value of exported manufactures was™ $895,000,000. In some respects these figures might be misleading because the bureau classes as manufactures, cured meats and grains which have been converted into foodstuffs. Such articles reduce mate- rially the value of exports of what is ordinarily called manufactured goods. There has been a decrease, however, in recent years, of the per cent of food- stuffs exported which would indicate that the amount of other manufac- tures exported had increased more than is indicated by the figures. The really noteworthy part of the report is the summary of the total value of the manufactures of the | country. In 1850 they were estimated at $1,000,000,000, while in 1905 the estimate had risen to $16,000,000,000. Of this vast sum, $10,000,000,000 rep- resented the valuation added to raw material by the process of manufac- ture, Foreign commerce is valuable and worth fighting for but the immensely greater size of the domestic trade in manufactures and the labor required to add that $10,000,000,000 to the value of raw material makes a home market worth still more and must not be ruthlessly sacrificed or impalred. Irrespective of political affiliations, people like to see men in public office who have backbone and refuse to be stampeded. The people of Omaha ad- mire the stand taken by the six repub- lican councilmen in making the six democrats come to them in the organ- ization and insisting on having a re- publican chosen to preside over the body. They will admire them for con- tinuing to stand up and get as many republicans into appointive places they can get. If they show the white feather and run to cover at the first onslaught of the democratic organ, that did its best to keep each and every one of them out of office, they will fall down several notches in the public estimation. The republicans in the council are not expected to play cat's paw to help quarreling democrats to pull their chestnuts out of the fire, Mr. Bryan's Commoner gleefully re- produces the dispatches that “‘the federal grand jury in Tulsa, Okl,, refused to indict Governor Hask- run off the press the grand jury had brought in indictments against Governor Hask- ell. No one will find fault with Mr, Bryan for his sympathy for his friend, but we wait to see whether the next issue of the Commoner will go into as much detail about the indictment as the last one does about the count un which the grand jury failed to bring in a bill, The number of share holders in the | Pennsylvania railroad has increased from 22,045 in 1897 to 57,540 at the last dividend period. Other corpora origin he naturally performed his duty in the same courageous manner and is ticns make a similar showin®, which would seem to indicate that concen- announcing | tration of capital in large corporations does not necessarily mean a concentra- tion of ownership. Gambling and {mmorality are said {to have increased in Cuba the | Americans surrendered control and the country’s finances are also in poor |condition, The Cuban republic ap- |pears to have a serious time of it |learning to walk, every time [Sam resigns his job at the ‘nlrlnzl. since leading An lowa doctor has issued an ap- | peal to men to shave off their beards |on the ground that they are unhealth- |ful germ breeders. If tradition is to |be believed, Methuge,ah wore a beard |and it is up to the smooth shaven to | All efforts | equal his record before putting on the | ban. It the republican city councilmen were only willing to take orders from Mr. Hitchcock his paper would laud |them to the gkies—until the nest elec- | tion, when he would throw them down | for the meanest and most disreputable | democrat. Being still in need of money, Texas |has tacked $200,000 more onto the Standard Oil company's fine. If the be nothing to levy on when they seek to collect from the Standard. —_— ““Not one democrat stands for Tom Lee,” shouts Mr. Hitchcock's paper in big, black type. How about Mayor Jim, who can claim to represent a few democrats himself? A Gentle Reminder, San Francisco Chronicle No serious damage was done by earthquake which shook some of the mjddle western states yesterday, but the quiver was lively enough o remind the people of the visited reglon that California has ro monopoly of selsmic disturbances. Light on a Lonesome Boston Herald. For unccnsclous humor the news of the day doesn't often exceed that dispatch from Austria, which Includes in the pros- pective budget ‘“a supplementary income tax on bachelors, widows and childless married couples, and also on matches." Subject. Not in His Line. Chicago Record-Herald. During a fight which Senator Joe Bailey of Texas tried to have with a newspaper man the other day the senator used lan- guage, it is alleged, that'was unfit to print Still, nobody ever claimed that Bailey was sent to the senate for the purpose of rais- ing its standard of respectability. Who Gave Them the Tip? St. Louls Star. Wonder who. coyld have possibly given the Importers of champagne, diamonds, lace, fine china, artificial flowers and sim- flar articles a pointer as to the prospective increase in tariff gharges? It is said that hundreds of thougands of dollars worth of these things have, been and are being rushed under existing rates, and, of course, all will be sold at advanced prices when the new tapiff goos into effect. But wouldn't it be a.gped joke on somebody if by any chance the (afiff increase miscued? Type of Cubon otn.” New' York Tribune. Two distinguished . Cuban atriots™ bearing the titles, respectively, of ‘“gen- eral” and ‘“colonel,” have been arraigned @ second time on charges of conspiring to overthrow. the government of the republic. As they are already serving sentences for petty swindling, their quality is not In doubt. Instead of dignifying them with punishment as comspirators or revolution- i8ts why not turn them loose at the ena of thelr present sentences and trust to their getting sent up again for chicken stealing or picking the pockets of blind beggars? Such practices seem to be the measure of ability of a certain type of Cuban “pa- triot.” TAKING A LARGE CONTRAOT. Presbyterian Thunders Against Use of Tobacco. St. Louls Globe:Democrat. The Presbyterian church has done great and mighty works. It has belted the globe with its missionaries, and it has suppressed much smoke once rising from fires bullt for the making of cannibal feasts. It has plugged many holes through which the devil's smoke once rose into the world. It has put out many fires of hatred, malice and all uncharitableness, the smoke of which is always black and smells badly. But now it Is golng up against the smoke in which none of the evil attributes named can be found. My Lady Nicotine is no cannibal. She wooes us to such love of our fellow man that we would rather keep than eat him. She flaunts the devil to his face and her smoke is as that of & backfire bullt against him. And her smoke, if it be worthy of her, is never black, but blue, and it i3 as the odor of sweet In- cense. The men who love her love her with a passionate devotion which even the stern logic of Calvinism may not cool ‘What the Presbyterian church might do if 1t should thunder forth & threat of banishment for disregard of the Denver resolution, 1t is not for us to say. But when the brethren omitted the penalty it strikes us that some of them must have gelt that the session was growing long and that it was a long time between smokes. All Who Would Enjoy good health, with ite blessings, must un- derstand, quite clearly, that it involves the question of right living with all the term implies. With proper kuowledge of what in beet, each hour of recreation, of enjoy- ment, of contemplation and of effort may be made to contribute to living aright. Then the use of medicines may be dis: pensed with to advantage, but under or- dinary conditions in many instances s simple, wholesome remedy may be invalu- sble if taken at the proper time and the California Fig Syrup Co. holds that it is alike important to present the subject | truthfully and to supply the one perfcet | laxative to those desiring it. Consequently, the Company’s Syrup of | Figs and Elixir of Senna gives general satisfaction. To get its beneficial effects buy the genuine, manufactured by the California Pig Syrup Co. only, and for sale o all i druggie. JUNE Unele | other states do not hurry up there will | 1, ' 1909. Army Gossip Matters of Imterest On 4 Back of the ‘Firing Line Gleansd from the Army and Navy Register. General James Allen, the chief signal officer of the army, left Washington on Tuesday for Omaha and Fort Leavenworth. Kan, for the purpose of observing the officers are engaged. Very little work is contemplated at the signal corps depot at Omaha during the present year, but some thing s proposed In the way of military aeronautics and fleld work generally at Fort Leavenworth, to which place from Omaha has been sent on a practice march field company D, under Captain W. H. Oury. Tt is expected that that company will re- main at Fort Leavenworth about a month, taking part with Company A in exercises and other demonstrations for the benefit of the signal corps officers under instrie- tion at that post At the termination of that perlod the company from Omaha will return to its statlon. The program of mil- Itary aeronauties at Fort Leavenworth | has not been definitely determined upon, but it is intended to do much work in the {Mine of observation with the dirigible. A | balloon of that type which has been at | Fort Myer, together with the gas plant | trom that post, has been shipped to Leav- enworth, Among the most important of the ques- | tions which are to be settled by the mili- tary authorities is that which has been submitted to a specinl hoard of army of- ficers, of which the head is Colonel H. A | Greene, Tenth Infantry, and which 1s to | hold its sessions at Rock Tsland Arsenal. The problem before that board is the de- termination of the burden of the foot-sold- fer In an effort to ascertain if it may be reduced in welght or In what direction and by what means it may be modified. | At present, the soldier carries very nearly one-half his own weight in the way of arms, accouterments and clothing—or, to be more exact, he has a dead weight of | fifty-elght pounds and eight ounces, of which forty-six pounds and four ounces | | are his arms ana accouterments. Thera are some things lacking which experts con- lder should be a part of the material he must carry in the fleld when in fighting trim, The folly and futility of existing methods of determining physical fitness on exam- ination for promotion in the army were never better shown than by a recent ex- | ample where a medical officer, well known in the service for his expert surgteal skill and recognized by the profession In civil life as an authority on abdominal diseases, was summarily retired because he did net reach certain utterly unnecessary standards of physical powers. This officer, in the prime of manhood, and a leader in the sur- gical profession, has recently been called | to the chair of surgery in a prominent med- feal college and unanimously elected by the trustees dean of the faculty, a position | calling for the greatest mental activity and administrative ability of a high order, 1f not for foolish, and we may hope fleet- ing standards of athletic activity. The law of compensation, however, still holds £ood, the loss to the army is the gain of the college which thus acquires the ripe fruft of this officer's experience. Consideration has been given by the gen- eral staff of the War department to the issue of the slicker, in place of the pon- cho, to all troops and reports have been received from commanding officers of ar- tillery ' districts and of regiments 'of In- fantry, cavalry and fiéla artillery ‘on the relative advantages, according to their ob- servation and experience Wwith those two articles. The preference is expressed for the slicker as permitting greater freedom of movement, as compared with the poncho, the objection to which & that being of rub- ber, it fs apt to crack when folded, is costly, and not durable. It has been de- cided to submit to the infantry equip- ment board, in session at Rock Island, the poncho, the slicker, and a combination cape and shelter tent, invented by Lieutenant Charles H. Mason, Nineteenth infantry, for examination and practical test. It is de- sired to obtain a recommendation of a sult- able garment which will serve the purposes | of the poncho or slicker. The reports which have been made on the subject will be forwarded to Rock Island with the sample garments. There has also been sent to Rock Island the new campalgn hat as tentatively adopted by the generdl staff. This hat is somewhat lower in the crown and stiffer-in the brim than the present article of headgear. The tnstructions to the Rock Island board are that the new hat shall be critically examined in comparison with the service hat, the latter worn with the Alpine crease and the Montana peak. The deciston of the War department to no longer sell to dealers obsolete small arms, in order to prevent their avallability for filibustering expeditione and the like, 18 resulting in the placing on sale of num- bers of obsolete rifles of foreign armies. Advertisements of these rifles are appear- ing in newspapers all over the country. There seems to be a great many of the Swiss Vetterll thirteen-shot rifle on the market. Sporting goods dealers in differ- ent citles are advertising them for sale, | the prices ranging in various places from $4.95 to $1.96. Numerous applications are being recelved by the adjustant general of the army from graduates of technical schools and uni- vesrities who desire to take the examina- tion, to be held July 12, for appointment | as second lleutenant In the coast artillery | corps. The interest in the examination is | quite unprecedented and the prospects ure that there will be a lirger class than that which took the examination for coast ar- [ tillery commissions last February. It can- not b known how many vacancies are available until the appointment of !\Ih‘l year's graduates from the Military acad- emy. TO GRA | Latest Stimulus to Mental and Physi- eal Effort. Minneapolis Journal. 1f Nebuchadnegzar were alive today, he might be elected past president of the Al- falfa club of Creighton university, Ne- braska, where it has been discovered that students may be fed exclusively on al- falfa, and still “make the team.” But the students of Creighton do not go out and nibble. They gather their alfalfn. dry it and grind it into flour. 1t is then an easy process to construct alfalfa gems, alfalfa pancakes and sifalfa mush. Ple- crust made from alfalfa is sald to be just the thing. But, alas! aifalfa is not much work at those places In which signal corps | | eratic | | in a bank which has | A Strong Bank {14 is the best place for Savings. You cannot more safely invest your savings than by taking out a 8% Certificate of Deposit Cash and Reserve Funds $5,500,000.00 Total Assets of over...... }18,000,00‘0.00 The latest published statement shows that this 5L, bank has interest bearing certificates of $2,086,687.49 FirstNational Bank of Omaha DIG TO THE BOTTOM, Detection Prosecution of Sugar Trast rnads, New York Sun The moral support of all good citizens of New York is due to Collector Loob, if he 1s In fact beginning a vigorous effort to uncover the corrupt relations that have existed between one of the most power- ful of the great combinations of capital known as trusts and dishonest employes of the United States in our custom house. The hand of justice has already been laid heavily upon the nape of the neck of this defrauder of the government the American Sugar Refining company That concern has been compelicd to dis Forge a part of the proceeds of its ystem pled with the sugar trust's affairs In the custom house itselt 0o gation by Mr. Loeb can be too atfe rascality. The Department of ing, no process of reorganization can be too thoroughgoing, no purification of the service can be too persistent to euit a It sti- h- Jus- relation be traced to its terminals in both directions, and let the penitentiary open for the corrupters as well as the cor- rupted! There is now fn Washington an honest president, incapable of arresting the hand of justice while he himself trades some plece of conviction tor some personal or politieal advantage. There is a secretary of the treasury who Is credited with a genuine wish to get to the very bottom of the rottenness already in part exposed. There is a public sentiment demanding the punishment of every person concerned in the sugar trust-custom house conspiracy and fraud. Collector Loeb’s opportunity Is present and urgent. — e MONEY PILING UP. Dangerous Abundance Around Specu- ative Pit. New York World. From every speculative pit in the coun- try comes the report that money is easy. Money is easy, of course, when it {s abun- dant, and when, the big gamblers can bor- row It at cheap rates of interest. While the use of money may be had at nominal cost in the centers of speculation, it fs noticeable that most commodities are high and that legitimate business is not wholly satisfactory. Men Interested In productive enterprises do not always find money easy. It money and credit were as cheap to them as they are to the manipulators of stocks, grain and cotton, there would be no regular weekly reports of the increas- ing movement of currency from the in terlor of New York. Money accumulates here because there is a demand for it in speculation and be- cause, In thedry at least, it cannot be em- ployed to advantage In business. To what extent country bankers openly discriminate sgainst productive enterprises paying high es of interest in favor of a betting game In which the returns for the use of money are only nominal can be imagined, but not exactly determined. It must be large. Under these conditions it may be well for those who are inclined to look into the nature of chings to Inquire whether the prosperity which all are seeking and many signs of which are visible has been sought in the right place. There is noth-| ing substantial in speculation. In com- parison with the genuine activities of labor and capital it is as a hubble to a battle- | ship. If prosperity first shows ftself in| crazy speculation, with the financial re. sources of the country largely devoted to the game, someone should make an inspec- tion of fts foundations. —_— e Leoking in Right Direction. Loutsville Courler-Journal. “What is a democrat?’ asks a St. Louis contemporary. “On the lumber echedule, at least,” it answers, “more than haif a pro- Rectionist.”” There certainly seem to be times when in looking for democrats it might be advisable to go to the lumber room. —_— Masterful Geuneralship, Springtield Republican: Senator Aldrich has yet to be beaten on a single important item in his tariff bill He knew what he was about in fixing up that measure. He was looking for demo- rather than republican votes and had them in his pocket when he reported the bill tice, iIf we are not mistaken, is stll occu- | and | corrupter of the servants of the people, | PERSONAL NOTES. A French court har ovdoved the Princes de Sagan to pay a pote given by Count Bonl for a loan (o"cbvey Mis &urting ex penses. el il o President Tatt had hesn pbnung a biigit future for the southern WERYoes, bt What they really lack (s & ros#VHAL far tie i mediate present York scem (o be in e sl oceasionally is di covered, yesulty Sin T but it Jars, the pringipal from rung of the social ladde A S Soclety women of New smuggling in dr volume. The operatior then never s abou al and Monctaly loss; her Louis magiwtrate yas jese tife’bench and $0 a month to cis ut $lay per day ot-healty, and there will be a geneial nupe nd 1L i g the by Wing'" there is some.iis pis about the microbes fo for & N saYS (he bLucwll 1o, sweep w He says he 15 i glce tiae However, w cloud raised s ay W “The move Jefterson,” Bus community now well aware of the put-| N0 BUDDOIt from his relauvie . wousn it ridity of this whole business. Let the guilty | has been agitated for some )ears. Yne ar rest of a promoter Who was te relaf % per cent of the collectigny lie agercapiaing certaln coolness. 1t alro di uch 1 the line of what passes (or pupites seryic Willlam Allen White's first nove Certain Rich Man,” is to be publisned o June. Mr. White was borm.fn_iseiigas. He still lives In Kansas ana hisiwory s a Kansas story, though the stat’y this case represents the whoie coundys Its char- acters represent a large pordlon of the country and its big dramatic ot |s closely interwoven with the develogmibni v the country. H alts BREEZY TRIFLES. —— ‘ou ever wrie on gh.empty stom- asked the mere mam. exclaimea the |ile##§ - person, —ruek ‘Do ach?"’ sirl a am a poet, not a ‘attog ariu The Grouch—Y¢s, 1 think they:ought to do away with all these June Eraguales. The Optimist—Marey, no! what would be- come ‘of the newspaper parsglaphe.s’ Cleveland Plain Dealer. “1 understand your hughand Is something fter-dinher speaker.’ . TBrking - Wi y 5 ins, ot ANRN O G AR e u i “the r4 n we can't Keep a cook."— Washiniton Har . © Lo “'Is one apt to get bruised in learning to ride. the bicycle? “Not It you make it a rulg tv stop when the bicycle stops. “What do you mean?" “Some riders keep on going. —Louigville Courler-Journal. Friend—Now, if I-were bullding a house, e I < Owner—Step around the corner, please, and you'll find a house L'm putting up to carry out the ldeas of my:friends, This is one I'm bullding to sult myself,.—Judge. Boss—I'd llke 0 'glve you employ- young .man, but there Is no work The ment, to_do. The Applicant—That's just the sort of job 1'd like, sir, If the salary were satisfactory. —Cleveland' Leader. " I Tutterson—Did Bronson leaye a will? Smithers—Yes—that is, he lett & widow, and she'd represent all the will Bronson had for twenty-fiva years.—Harper's Weekly. “Sir, I wish to shake your hand." “What for?" s “In recognition of the great vucrifiee you are making for the future of. Yo naiive eity,” . e the wrong mani 1 have IrAnKemEn s 1o Move awa: ou_must by Just completed from the city. 'Yes, sir; t ~—Houston P BALLAD OF THE BACHELOR, < < ar. ' Oh, the girl that | Must be mild ax a i ‘s what T had reference to* foyr Of a heavenly hue With bits of spun gold-in he Oh, the girl 1 adore Must be twenty With figure of bea Oh, her skin inust i And her teetii imust o The tints of the dawn in he: The mald that | cherl To love till 1 porish Must love me in sunshine and snow, Must be laughing and ga) Let me have my own wa And know how 1o cook Add to mew. But the maid that I.wed, After all 1 have said May break my fond dreama uite smash; F] Though 111 feel auite repaid te get an old maid I 1 With milllons of doHars cash. ~ cheaper than wheat flour. The only object in eating alfalfa seems to be to stimulate a | new line of advertising. We may soon ex- “alfalfine” on the bill boards | on the boarding house | pect to see and “alfslfate” bill of fare Then Teddy Wi Philadelphia Press Mr. Roosevelt is to remain In Africa for |a year. At rate of diserimination | | the big game in the dark continent cannot | possibly hold out for that length of time. Back, present use where syrup takes, The Syrup of Purity and Wholesomenes: The most delicious for griddle cakes of all makes—or any A pure, wholesome food. In 10¢, 35¢, and soc air-tight tine, A book of covking and o e e CORN PRODUCTS New York