Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 4, 1910, Page 6

'nm owuu DAILY "BEE! ¥ou anD BY mwu\n ROSEW. ATIK — VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. e e it Bntered at Omaha postoffice as second- class matter. " TERMS OF SUBACRIPTION 3 k. 160 The First Year. The first year of President Taft's administration as chief exeeutive of the country is just being completed, and while it must be admitted there are more or less murmurings of dis- content over the prevalling high’cost of living and the apparent slowness o |in carrying out campaign promises and Sunday, one year... 600 DELIVERED BY CARRIER Evening Bee (without Sunday), per week,bc Evening Bes (with Bunday), per week. 10g Sunday Bee, one yea Saturday Bes, one i Address all complaints of Irreguiaritios in delivery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha—The Bee Building. Bouth Omaba—Twenty.fourth and N. Coundll Bluffs—18 Boott Street. Lincoin=¢I§ Litus Buflaing Chicago~1348 Marguette Bufldihg. New ¥ork—Rooms 1101-1102 No. U West Thirty-ghird Strect ‘Washington—725 Four!"nth Street N, W. CORRESPONDE! Communiogons relating o news and editorial _matter should be addressed Omaha Bée, Editorial Department. . REMITTANCES, Remit by draft, express or postal order payable to The Bee Publishing Company, Only 2-cent stamps recelved 3 payment of mn -y - inal ehecks, ucm on L] T ehst xeh ted. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, 8s.: ‘Taschuck, freasurer of The ing Company, being duly 5 ihat, the ectual umber of plete coples. of The ally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bes p inted during the month of February, 1910, was as follow: Total seeeese Returned) coples. .. Net total .... Daily average....... 43, GEORGE B, TZSCHUCK, Treasurer. Subscrived in 1y Krunnu and sworn ta before me this 28t of February, 1910. RTHUNT) R, Notary Publle. Subscribers leaving the city tem- porarily should have mailed to them. A changed as often as reques: Colonel Roosevelt has been - ac- corded the treedom of. the city of Lon- don. What will he do with it? / el Judging from ‘what Dallas can do when it gets started, the riot in Cairo looks like a game of tiddlewinks, ) —— Since the Estrada army has been crushed the insurgents in Nicaragua will keep still for a couple of weeks. d —— ‘ The farmers of this country possess 76,000 automobiles and it is estimated that next year's crop will beat even that. The “frat" is making trouble in the Lincoln High school. The “frat” is a 8004, thing, for.6choal-children to keep S e John D. Rockefeller's son will de- vote his time to giving away his father's money. Not the first case of a son being adept in that line, ! 1 Superintendent Davidson of Omaha now heads the department of school superintendents of the National Edu- cational assoclation. Congratulations, In this age of health improvement would it not be a good plan to invent some remedy for the extreme nervous- ness of the. trust officlals now being investigated? The plan of Senator Beveridge to run the government on Alaskan coal royalties sounds good, but it is a bad timé to begin to hedge on the corpora- tion income tax. A Detroit man has just been fined $5 for drinking twenty-five gallons of soup, but at the present price of soup he must *have made money by the transaction, anyway. The Real Estate exchange seems to think that what is wanted for Omaha 1s not"ag expert water analyist, but an oxpen sireet cleaner. Strange how per- verse gome people are. ' pe e ———— Beef. tpust, ice trust, milk trust, oil trust and a/number of others are all on the carpet explaining the why and the wherefore of the thusness of the| price of 'the whichness. ' The organization of & local aero club of course at ohce suggests progress on a higher plane.—World-Herald, We think it ought to be hailed as the llt“ Aaddition to our accumula- tion of W ocletie Wlth‘.}he approach of Easter the suffrag! keep her mind on suffraglsging. The Easter hats promise to be more dis- tracting and enchanting than ever, | . is. ealling for help. s #does it want? Several have gone there for practioce. up the price a little; that is the way they do it back east, Omata 18 fivd second place in the government reports among all the corn markets in the country. Omaha is right in the middle of the corn belt and some mflll be the biggest corn mar- ket of all. ¢ \bout half of the total number of in South Omaha perticipated in the recent city primary, and at least 65 p.r cent of the vote usually polled unu.ounn. Not. go bad from this TR e It Olrll out that Jerry Howard's Wvo record is endorsed in the | primary by permitting In third in the race for on. Never min is baving an awful time to which the administration I8 trying to redeem, nearly every one c¢oncedes that the president has made the best M of trying conditions and that the coun- try is enjoying prosperity in-a’degree seldom béfore known. For his first year President Taft has to show the new tariff law, enacted at the special session of congress called for that particular purpose, un- der which the Industries of the coun- try have been steadily expandimg and the revenue of the government con- stantly increasing. President Taft signed this bill to make it a law, and has more than once afirmed his con- viction that, while by no means per- fect, it is a decided improvement over the Dingley law which it supplanted. The president has likewise put him- self on record from time to time on nearly all the current issues, outlining the legislation which he thinks ought to be enacted in orcer to clinch the Roosevelt policies inaugurated by his predecessor. The cases * instituted against the trusts under the Sherman law are being prosecuted, and the rate law is being invoked to prevent the efforts of the railroads to raise their schedules of transportation eharges. While there has been some friction 'here and there in the omefal family, the most conspicuous of which has produced the' Ballinger-Pinchot con- troversy, the most notable feature of the new administration has been the movement for retrenchment all along the line with a view to cutting off un- necessary expenditures and placing the government on a more economic basis. It goes without saying, of course, that the democratic opposition will give Mr. Taft no credit whatever for what he has done so far. But that is what usually happens on that score. Four years ago when Mr. Roosevelt was completing the first year of his elective tenure of the White House the democratic organs were likewise assalling him as a “gallery player” and a ‘“‘do-nothing,” and’ they would be barking up the same tree, no mat- ter what republican might be presi- dent, 8o long as the democratic candi- date failed to land. President Taft has no bed of roses, but neither has he shown the white feather., Wireless Telegraph Laws. The difficulty experienced recently in communicating with a sinking ship by wireless telegraph because of the interference of an experimental sta- tion-and ‘a. student operdtdy bas.demy lations for the protectfon of the wire- less service against indiscriminate ‘and irresponsible hindrance. -It ‘is a mat- ter of serious import, not only threat- ening the destruction of property values, but of human life as well. No one will for a moment question the value of the wireless telegraph and its offspring, the wireless telephone. They are of economical construction, requiring much less expense than the regular wire system, and are of in- estimable value because of their un- versal practicality, especially in emergency. Under any and all circum- stances the protection afforded to life on the high seas against disaster due to storms or accident would of itself make protection imperative. That is the prime veason for it. But, in addi- tion, the service would need guarding in times of international trouble in order that every possible’ leakage of news or of officlal communication might be precluded. The request now being made of con- gress to pass laws restralning irre- sponsible individuals from further im- pairing and Interfering with the efi- clency of the service will probably be considered favorably. It is a practical request and will appeal to all as rea- gonable and desirable. Every device or invention of a like value merits every reasonable protetion; Which can be thrown around it by tederal statute. Senator “Jeff” Davis. A southern statesman recently de- clared that “it would be better for Arkansas it Senator “Jeft” Davis were not allowed in Washington.” It would also likely prove better for : Senator “Jeft"” himself it indications mean any- thing. From the time he took his seat in the United States senate until today the mention of his name has brought forth merely a smile of amusement. It is not only because of his freak ideas and fire-brand oratory, but it i§ be- cause of his “breaks’ on matters con- cerning which he is but slightly in- formed. At first he was put down as injudicious and people smfled,’ buf that is past; now he is a joke and.peo- ple openly laugh. He is not taken se- riously even by his demoeratic col- leagues. In his recent appearance before the house committee on public lands, which had under consideration the “sunk lands” of eastern Arkansas, Senator ‘Jeft” for once became so humorous as to be serious. In ad- mitting before the committee that he was to recelve a ‘‘good fee" for his services as an attorney if & eertain bill became a law he has put himself in a very deplorable position. One senator from Kansas found himself in grave difficulties for a somewnat slmilar of- fense and Senator “Jeff” ghould have profited by the exampl His open confession concerning tha “fee” may cause him several wakeful hours be- onstrated the need of rules and regus| THE BEE prove also that this action will require more than an explanation. A man of the pecullar nature and oddities of “Jeff” Davis of Arkansas Is wasting his talents in the senate. Active in season and out of season, bolsterously oratorical at every oppor- tunity and a radical of the radicals when it comes to playing to the gal- leries, he has made a name for him- self the nation over as the most bois- terous joke of the United States sen- ate, And the funniest part of it al is he does not seem to realize it. A Car Fare Mystery. In the tabulation of the expenses in- curred in running the county govern ment last year are two items for street car fare charged up to the probation officers and the Detention home, aggre- gating $520.46. Assuming that this investment in street car fares was at the retall price of 5 cents per ride, this means that the county pald for 10,409 rides In connection with the work of rounding up mischievous youngsters, | or for an average of nearly thirty rides a day for every day in the year, in- cluding Sundays, Christmas, New Years, the Fourth of July and each and every other holiday. Of course, this riding in street cars is much cheaper to the taxpayers than |, riding in carriages or automobiles would have been. But if everyone for whom street car rides were bought at public expense got their full money's worth some of them must have been riding around town from morning until night, and perhaps have slept in the cars so as to be ready for the first run out the next day. Children who want free street car rides should connect up with the probation officers. A Billboard Decision. The supreme court of Missouri ha3 Jjust handed down a decision in a bill- board case which ought to contribute materially to the campaign against the billboard nuisance, not only in that state, but throughout the country. The decision upholds the right, al- most without limitation, of the city of 8t. Louis to regulate and control bill- boards erected and maintained within its city limits. The opinion of the court declares that the average bill- board display is a constant menace to public safety, health and morals; that the billboards constitute hiding places and retreats for'criminals and that the city has a legal right to enforce re- strictive regulations on billboards or to abate them as a nuisance altogether. As a consequence the injunction which a big billboard agency had secured to prevent interference with a most con- spicuous and objectionable exhibit of advertising signs has been dissolved and the decigion of the lower court re- versed, with specific afirmance of the validity of the St. Louis blliboard ordinance. If the law as laid down in Missouri rests on the same principles as does the law in other states the authorities vested with power to regulate and con- trol the billboards have all the legal backing necessary to cope with them, and if these nuisances are permitted to continue and to spread it will be the fault of the city officials, and not be- cause of want of authority. Democratic organs are now shedding crocodlle tears over ‘the pitiable spectacle” of Secretary Wilson and in- ‘timating that Mr. Taft made a great mistake in retaining him in the cabi- net. When the cabinet was forming, however, the retention of Mr. Wilson to give him an opportunity to make the record for length of service as a cabinet officer was decidedly popular, and had he been dropped at that time these same democratic organs would have assalled Mr. Taft vociferously for refusing to keep the one department head who had been in the harness con- tinuously under President McKinley and President Roosevelt. It was un- derstood at the time that Secretary ‘Wilson would ask to be retired after another year's service, but now the ef- fort is being made to delude people into the bellef that the impending change, when it comes, will be a con- fession that a mistake was made in the original composition of the Taft cabi- net, State Auditor Barton wants to stop the practice among certain insurance companies by which the officers absorb the interest paid on deposits of cur- rent funds, which interest should go to the benefit of the policy holders. Auditor Barton is becoming altogether too inquisitive and too particular about such little legitimate grafts as that. It seems they have been having trouble with {mported Anti-Saloon league agltators up in Michigan, and the prospect is fair that the experience will be repeated in Nevraska. The im- ported reformer has no limits to his zeal and no counterweight to balance his ignorance of local conditions and trade issues. It s going to be impossible for the Boston women to go down town at all this summer if they wear the latest style hats. The streets are so erooked and narrow and the hats are so large. It one should get into an ordinary street with one of those hats it would take a wrecker to get her out, If the courts stop work on the new court house, at any rate the judges will be among the chief sufferers by the deal, for if completion of the build- fng should be thrown over the next ju- dicial election some of them might be taking chances on ever occupying those beautiful court rooms. e No wonder Philadelphia has been having a strike and riot all in one. One of its-litérary socleties recently OMAHA, THURSDAY held a heated debate over the ques- tion, “Resolved, That it is better for a girl to remain a jlited old maid than to marry another man for spite.” A Chicago physician says that the love germ works in the center of the nervous system. This goes to explaln why love is so often a gnawing sensa- tion in the vieinity of the solar plexus and consumes &11 the nerve the poor fellow has, From the fact that it takes a gen- eral to command a Nicaraguan army of 180 men, there must be a good deal of similarity between the armies of that country and San Domingo. That ratio is 6,000 officers to every 3,000 t Indfanapolls News. As further evidence of the awful hard time the rallroads are having It is noted that the Pennsylvania increased its net in- tome $6,951427 and pald cash dividends mounting to $19,173,742 during 1909. Poor Form of Rellef. New York World. The decision of United States Judge Kohlsaat that Insolvent corporations while In the hands of recelvers do not have to pay the corporation tax will hardly in- duce corporations hostile to the tax to seck that form of rellef. Too Many . Sioux City Tribune. There may be a few men in Nebraska who have not yet been mentioned for an office, but all this goes to prove that the population of the Cornhusker state is in- creasing so rapidly that it is impossible to count and align them all as they come. A Rare Find. Chicago Record-Herald. A Chicago woman has had her husband taken into court and lectured because he #pends too much time reading about prize fights and base ball players., The remark- able thing about the case Is that the woman could find a court that was willing to administer the lecture. —— Quietly Put to Sleep. ! Philadelphia Bulletin. Amid all the fuss and controversy over the postal deficit, the plan to experimente with the parcels post idea on a few rural delivery routes in order to ascertain if this would not promise an increase in the rev- enues of the Postoffice department, seems to have been quiefly laid on the shelf, Possibly the big express companies could explain why. L Showdown from the Sioux. 4 Stoux City Journal. Noting that the ‘total vote in the late commission plan special election was only bout 5,000, the Omaha Bee suggests that Sloux City would hate to have its census population bullt up on this figure by the usual ratio.” That's right. But it all the candidates vote and induce all of their friends to vote at the forthcoming primary Sioux City will be quite willing to let that total vote figure as the basis for a census estimate. NORTH DAKOTA RATE CASE. Important Issues Argued im Federal Supreme Court, Chiéago News. North Dakota’s legislature has passed a law making tHe Crate for hauling coal within that atate wonsiderably lower than the rate hithertosprevalling. The object is to render it possible to mine and ship Mgnite coal, which is found in large quan- titiés in the state. The rallroads affected have brought suit to test the validity of the law. The case had a hearing on ap- peal: this week in the United States su- preme court at Washington. The proceeding is important because it involves a question of rate making power with respect to commodities which hereto. fore has not been olearly raised before the federal supreme court. The raflroads do not contend that thelr business within the state of North Dakota, taken as a whole, is unprofitable. Thelr argument {s that this particular rate Is made too low. Coun- sel for the state take the ground that the rallroads’ complaint as to the injustice of a partlcular rate cannot be heard unle they are prepared to show that thelr bu ness as a whole Is unprofitable. It is gued further that If the rallroads may at- tack separate rates as fixed by the gov- erning authoritles, they can make a flasco: of public regulation. The principle of legal rate making for which the rallroads are contending in this ltigation s at varlance with their own practice. Théir usage fs to charge what the traffic will bear. Rates rendering it unprofitable to mine and ship North Da- kota's lignite coal are higher than the traffic will bear. Rallroads aim to carry no commodities at less than operating cost. But they frequently make rates which, while leaving & margin of profit above operating cost, are unprofitable is main- tenance, repair, Interest and expenses of general management are taken into ac- count. If' the governmental authorities, in fixing rallroad rates, may not follow the same prinelple they will be handicapped in trying to protect the public's interests. I Our Birthday Book March 4, 1910 John W. Crawford, better known as “Captain Jack, the Poet Scout,” was born March 4, 1847. He s a native of Ireland and a typical frontiersman, and served under General Crook in many Indian wars, “Captain Jack” wused to write for The Bee as traveling correspondent In the early days, and is new in great demand as 4 lecturer and poet. Gévernor B. F. Noel of Mississippl is 64 years old. He 18 & lawyer and served in the Spanish-American war. Dr. Henry B. Ward, formerly dean of the medical department of the University of Nebraska and who went to the Uni- versity of Illinols last year, was born March 4, 1865, at Proy, N. Y. Dr. Ward put through the merger of the Omaha Medical college with the State university, and used to give his personal attention to the clinical courses given te university students here at Omaha. Augustus F. Kountze of Kountze Bros., bankers, was born March 4, 1570, and is the eldest son of the late Herman Kountze of this city. Aagustus F. Kountze resides in New York City, where he has charge of the financial interests of the big bank- ing house. Alfred 1. Creigh, the real estate man officing in The Bee bullding, was born March 4, 184 He s treasurer of the cor- poration known as Crelgh Sons & Co,, and succeeded to the business of his father, the late Thomas A. Creigh, which had formerly been conducted as the O. F. Davis Real Estate company. Ralph R. Rainey, paying teller of the United States National bank, s just 30 years old. He was born at Brownville and graduated at the University of Nebraska. His banking experience began with the Union National and extended to the United States National when the former was ab- | sorbed. !| belleved that it cost the government an MARCH Isit Shrewd Move? How Postmaster General Ritchoook Drew Public Atten- tion to the Fostal Abuses. H. B. Chamberlain in the Voter. Frank Harris Hitchcock, postmaster gen- eral of the United States, is a shrewd and careful performer. Possessed of intelli- gence and a first-class education—he is a Harvard man—his talents have been em- ployed so effectively that he has held a government job since 181 He Is quick in action, too, as will be conceded by those who witnessed the way in which he slipped ffom under the presidential boom of George B. Cortélyou and boosted the Taft game when he concluded that the big man was to be the winner. Recently Mr. Hitchcock has been consid- erably in the public eye because of his report concerning the Postoffice depart- ment, in which he charges the loss to the carrying of magazines and the maintenance of the rural free delivery aystem. Just why he made the statements he did, is beyond my understanding at this moment. I do not think that Mr. Hitchcock himself average of O cents a pound to transport magazines by mail whilo they were paying but 1 cent. If he aid, he s sufficlently shrewd to know that the government s paying the rallway companies too much, He ought to know that the express compan- fes have a book rate which is less than the mail rate. He ought to know that the express companies in some instances and the fast frelght lines of the raflway com- panles in others will make deliveries of magasines at less. cost than the govern- ment. In apparently attacking the magazines as responsible for the postoffice deflelt, with a side slap at the rural free delivery service, I do not belleve, as others do, that he made a mistake. I do not belleve that he thought his compliment to the daily newspapers was actuated by a desire to gain thelr support as against the maga- zines, He was shrewd enough to know that the dallles carry many columns of magazine advertising and would stick by the periodical publishers. Frank Harrls Hitohcock 1s a careful, methodical, painstaking, alert, shrewd, politiclan. He intends to hold his job and get a better one some day. He s capable of building up a strong political machine and in the Postoffice department he has the best chance in the country. He is not carelessly antagonizing the maga~ zine publishers, nor the farmers along the rural free delivery routes. No, in- deed! What he is after is the railroads. He knows that the big transportation companies have been charging the govern- ment altogether too much for carrying the mails. He also knows how difficult it has been to break the rate maintained by the companies. He knows that the rall people have always secretly combined to hold the mall-carrying rate high. How could he defeat their conspiracy? By writing such a report as he did. By getting the presi- dent to stand for it. By bringing the attention of the country to the facts, albeit 1| were merely to emphasize the point. there were some exaggerations—but these The magazine publishers, frightened, started after Hitchcock. The dally news- papers took up the fight. The farmers feared the loss of the rural free celivery. And then, without Mr. Hitchcock having to employ a single expert, without his belnig oblied to dlcker with the ralroads, a hundred different Independent investi- gations are started to find out just what it costs to carry the mail. It is iscovered that members of congress shamefully abuse the franking privilege, that fake public documents are authorized to evade the postage rate, that the various departments of the government are loading a great portion of their expense on the postoffice, so that Mr, Hitchcock 18 unable to make a good showing. Of course, Mr. Hitchcock could no at- tack the other departments. He could not read lectures in integrity and ethlcs to cabinet officers and members of congress. He would be laughed at and become un- popular. He wanted to reduce the deflcit in his department. He wanted to hit the rallroads and the members of congress and bring the attention of the people to thelr derelictions. - How could it be done? Presto! Hitchcock thinks quickly. He made his report concerning magasines and the rural free delivery. He attacked those who could defend. The trick was turned. The facts are coming out. Soon we may expect to learn of mall-carrying contracts with the rallroads that are fair to the government and perhaps we shall arouse public oplnion sufficlently to prevent a fraudulent use of tho franking privilege, not to mention the abuse of the public document act. Frank Harris Hitchcock Is about the shrewdest politiclan in the country, and he Is golng about that postal defleit as earnestly as he s boosting his own politi- cal ambitions. | — e KNOCK ON PATENT GRABS, Is the Government Over-Generous to Inventors? Charleston News and Courier. The United States and all other ctvilized countries are generous to inventors. This country grants patent rights that are ex- Clustve for a long term of years, thus as- suring, as far as can be done, to the in- ventor of a meritorious article a full re- turn for his service to the natfon. How- ever, it is questionable if the government Is not too generous when it in no way limits the profit which the inventor Is to make from his invention. Some years ago a man obtained a patent on & basic principle used in all gasoline motors. His invention was of little prac- tical value until some other man or men perfected the motor car. Now every auto- mobile manufacturer in the United States pays a royalty to this Inventor and his profits are out of all proportion to his de- serts. He has taken advantage of a sit- uation and is using the government of the people to tax the people. Would it not have been perfectly proper for the patent office to have determined the price at which this inventor should have permitted the use of his invention? There is another man who invented a new shaving apparatus. It Is sald that he exacts & profit of 300 per cent on every one of his articles sold. Plainly this is not fair. It is as bad as a protective tariff. The list might be carried on indefinitely. It seems that the government should de- vise some scheme for preventing inventors abusing thelr rights. No man should be allowed to exact an unfalr profit from a necessity simply because he happened to invent it. He should recelve a large re- ward, no doubt, but the government should grant patents in such form that continued monopoly of & product would be impossible. ‘We do not know exactly how It could be done, but there Is doubtless some way. Edison might have made the price of elec- trie cars prohibitive had he followed In the wake of some of the grasping Inventors The Drink breakfast. Take it at lunch. and you'll sleep like a top. and good for all. Runkel’ PERSONAL NOTES. Arich man while In the guise of a la- borer won the heart of a girl he wanted. With true feminine instinct she stayed wap after he had thrown off the disgulse. “Chanticleer” has at least contributed a of thought” to British politics. Punch deplets Asquith, Balfour, Redmond, O'Brien and Kier Hardle, all chanticleers, and each saying, “My sunrise." It seems the Boston clerk who stole a lot of the Institution’s money was in receipt of a salary of $12 weekly. He should have been content . with one automoblile. Keep- ing two, as he did, was beyond his means. To ascsrtain whether his wife knew how much a “queen high flush of hearts" was worth if the dealer “spiked an ace, drew to three jacks and caught the second ace Charles B. Helfenstofn kept a detective in his home In Chicago. In the subsequent showdown Mrs. H. beat Charley to the divorce court. On his death bed George Fafrchilds, a farmer residing near Laneaster, O., re- lated to his famlily that they would find a hidden treasure under the barn, but it should not be molested until after he was buried. The family decided, after once dismissing the matter, to look for the treasure and found a box burled under the barn that contalned $,000 In gold and &reenbacks. George Washington Beckham of Frank- lin, N. H, has a reputation as a fiddler which has gone far and wide during the last fifty yeas He humbly declares that he is not @ violinist, but a plain, ordinary. fiddler. Playing for old-fashioned kitchen Jjunkets and hoe-downs has been his long sult, and for nearly half a century his services have been solicited for thousands of such affairs. SEED CORN PERIL. “A Macedonian Cry” Reverberating Through Iowa. Bloux City Journal, Test your seed corn! Towa newspapers are making, this a Macedonian cry this year, and with good reason, The taking of the advice gener- ally by farmers means tens of millions of dollars in Towa pockets next winter. Gen- eral disregard of the advice will mean re- lative hard times in lowa next winter. Corn is not the whole thing here, but it is the biggest thing in sight. The speclal need for seed corn warning this spring lles in the fact that last year's Iowa crop was away below the average for reproductive purposes. The coming of the early freezeup in October, without any preliminary frost, found a good deal of the corn soft. In an alarmingly large propor- tion of it the reproductive germ was killed outright. More damage In this direction was done to corn in the crib during the abnormally cold weather of the winter. As a consequence an unusually large per- centage of home grown corn available for seed s worthless for that pur This is not a guess. The fact has been demon- strated In numerous tests under the aus- pices of the Ames experiment station and by private agencies. The corn may look all right and feel all right and yet be utterly lacking in germinating quality. The only way to make sure that the corn is it for seed is to test its germinating qual- ity, and use only such seed as proves its tertility, If all the farmers of Towa selected thelr seed corn on looks it is a practical. cer- tainty that there would not be half an average crop of corn In Iowa next fall. The net loss on this short crop might be more than $100,000,000. The danger s ap- palling enough [n its proportions to make any one who Is Interested in Iowa pros- i1 perity sit up and take notice. A little trouble and @ very modest ex- pense In securing seed corn that will grow will purchase absolute insurance against the threatened short corn crop in Iowa this year. The farmer who Is not going to this trouble and expense is committing financlal sulcide. ' Cable Companies and the Wireless. ' Cleveland Leader. Another cable is to be lald under the Atlantic between Europe and America. The cable companies are not much afraid of anything which scatters as widely as the wireless system does so far, and b sides the reach acroy still a little too great for the Marconi marvel, A. HOSPE CO., City. Gentlemen: We made the above rewards rule of contest and selected the who went before him. A reform of some Kind is noeded. i The undersigned, test of your company in your square forming contest, beg leave to report that we find that Miss Ruth Drexel Omaha, is entitled to first prize; Joseph Brielm Omaha, to second prize; and F. O, Gross, Hastings, Neb, to third vrln‘ Ideal For Every Meal Now is the time to drink Runkel's Cocoa. Drink itat Drink it before going to bed Runkel's Cocoa is always good You'll enjoy its delicious creamy flavor. You'll feel its energizing influence. s Cocoa has just what you need of nourishment-—all that you crave in flavor., Contains more sustaining power than a pound of beef at one-half the cost. Light because it's made right, Fullest in strength—finest in quality. No other drink will satisfy after you have enjoyed Runkel’s Cocoa. ) At all Grocers in all Cities RUNKEL BROS., Inc., Mirs., 445 to 451 West 30th St., New York cnn! CHAFF. ‘“What a rolling Itone. Jimson 1s? he been doing any elub work lately?" “‘Yes, and has been making quite & llrIk- ing Impression at it.: at sort of club work is he doin doing police duty in the Philac phia. strike. —Haltimore American, Has gh town, fsn't 1t?" ot up & scheme to hold rm Old tomo Week' here and had to glve It up. No former resident would fome back without being arrested the' minute they struck the town."—Life. “Did you read the eminent che pre- answered the llllhtl bibulous “It's the most touching tribute to brandy and soda that I ever saw.'. Washington Star. “I knew that man was going to ask me to fill out some sort of a document.” “How could you tell?” “He had a biank expremnn on his face when he came in." Louls Star. They stood at the door, farewell, and told him not to forget. “All right,” he sald. *“But give me a lock of your hair, then." Lifting her hand to her shining tresses she detached a small curl and gave it him, saying: “Now don't lose that one. I want to wear it when 1 go to the reception to- morrow. Tell that hair dealer to match it exactly."—Chicago Post. Briggs—Have you ever met a woigan that you really understood? Z Griggs—No. Just as I was on the foint of understanding her my money gave out. ife. She_bade him Smart Aleck—Why do you talk about “‘up- Ifting?" You never heard of anybody downlifting, have you? Simple Sue—Yes, when anyone raises feathers.—Baltimore Amerlcan. Caesar looked worried. “They tell me,” he sald, “that Casslus has signed the antl-meat Dltdtm And from that moment he feared the worst.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. “That chlld gets everykhln it wants." “And still it never gets what it really needs.” “You surprise me!"" “It needs a:spanking.''—Houston, Post, ‘What did you think ‘welcome—Boston Young Playwrigl of my climax? Critio—It was Transeript. ‘8o your ‘ntl'flmnt g t the bfl(lbr‘ ot you in’that controversy? “In one way," replied Senator Sorghum. Ttls oontracts for lectures and articlos amounted to considerably more than mine."—~Washington Star, most “It says here that men are goin! ter wear clothes ter match th' halr this win- ter.” ‘hat's gon er make it kinder cold fur th’ bald-headed fellers, ain't it?'—Life. DAD'S TIME. J. M. Lewis in Houston Post. The sun slidés down the western sky, The treu make longer shadows on '.hs Thi £y ayin i let her die, Bor “hen shera déad then 1t shall come The !nl?leri of the world will hike for ome, | WIIl leave their tasks and take the home- § ward wey. And after supper in the summer gloam wx%| watch their little children run and Night time s dad's time, that's when he ‘uts out the worry and cuts out the care, And goel glad-hearted where the chil- n be, And I.ll them scramble up and muss his And lots ‘them dig into his pockets, t00, In search of Something there that aoody And lhe.yuhnd always ere their search s som-:v';x‘:nh in some deep corner something sweet, 'Tis that he works for, for the homing The homeward walk, the Tush of little The hlndl‘ouu(ratched to clasp his hanas cl g i to W little bits o' T::l: (luie and escort him to the doon, Their daddy! and climb up to reach his folks who run kiss: Toll s forgotten, worry fades b B formotton. oty S et this, 1s plenty, after grace I8 ual AR it le Pl Y At uanse it each one. He looks about at every tousled head And -lxhn contentment ere his meal's beg He ll.un- o the chatter and the din The uaugmer and the glggling, and is Day Tn the mother's, her's to revel In, But. m\;) the night's the happy timé for to $300 Kimball Piano Prize Won by Miss Ruth Drexel Harte March 3, 1910 selected by you to judge the eon- e, 4824 Capitol Ave., r, 25619 Cuming St., strictly according to your printed above, owing to their correctness, originality of design and unusuval nsllnell, Very respectfully, FRED F. PAFFENRATH, Mgr. Nicoll the Tallor, J. KAHN, of Megeath Stationery Co., BIDNEY SWANSON, Prop. Cllln‘t Restaurant, Other prize winners will be notified by meil. The original of this letter is on file at A. HOSPE CO., 1513-15 Douglas Street W ¥ 2 §