Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 14, 1910, Page 6

THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY APRIL 14, 191 THE OMAHA DAILY. BEE. FOUNDE EDWARD ROSEWATER. Kntered at class matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. = Dally Bee (including Sunday), per week.153 y Bee (without Sunday), per week Iuo ly B (without & ay), oLe yur,.;tw Daily Bee and Sunday, one yeaF......... DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Lvening Bee (without Sunday),per Wweek g B Dok week “Omaha postoffics’ as second- .o Evenin (with Sunday), 'y Bunday Bee, one year baturday Bee, one y Address all complal @éliver to City Circulat! OFFICES. Omal The Bee Bullding, Bouth Omaha—T wenty-foufth and N. Council Bluffe—15 Boot Strest. Lincoln—518 Little Hubding. Chicago—1548_Marquette Bullding. pliew_ York—Rooms 1i0I-1102 No. hirty-thira Stree Washington—72 Fourteapth Street, N. W. cunnuswnunfi:am" tid Communications relating R «diiorial matter should -be addressed: Umaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express gr postal order gt Company. payale to The Bee Publignidg Company; noail except on Omabha or e accepted. M West amps reccived in P Personal chec! STATEMENT OF, CIRCULATION. | State of Nebraska, Dou as County, st eorge Taohi Bee l!ubll-mn' Coingany, belng d\ly‘ ¥worn, says that the aoctual DUMbEL < full and complete coples of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sund: Hea printe during ihe month .af ‘March. was ow. as follows: 45,770, . 43,810 48,760 42,630 49,860 41,600 42,940 43,760 1930 GEO. B. TZ!C[;UCK. Treasurer. (Subscribed in my presence and sworn o before me ist_day o 1910, i W ALKER. Notary. Publie. Subscribers leaving the city tems porarily ahould have The Bee mailed to them. Address will be changed as Often as requested. - = 3 What chance has Boni against the sultan of Turkey with his eighty-two titles? - Why do tha'prel rey;u refer to Mr, Bryan as the former presidential candidate? ——— Selsmic shocks in Kansas should disturb no one. Look what the state has survived How big is Omaha? You ought to be able to make as good an estimate as your neighbor. It doubtess requires more nerve to say you reached the top of Mt. Mc- Kinley than to reach it. L A 4 The Ohio man who says he can talk to chickens lays himselt open to the charge of being fowl-mouthed. The trouble naem-bto‘ be that the cows of today are trying to beat the one that jumped over the moon. The democrats of lowa have begun their task of trylng to find a paschal lamb for the governorsaip nomination, If Omaha's fire limity are to be en- larged it should bg'done now as a pre- ventive rather than later as a regret. The colonel does not seem 'to have slowed down to thé Earopsan gait, elther, in preparation for his London visit. e No, a woman ‘will ‘not be justified by any unwritten law'in using a hat- pin even on the ‘census man who asks her age. o - Btiquette, - we. are- reminded, will prevent King Edward from'entertain- ing Colonel Rposevélt. That was the trouble, also, &t Rome. The Billie: Patterson conundrum and “How Old is Ann?'" were lessons in the First yeader beside the new, problem of the'weosi of living. —_—— Old Sol denled his smile to the American assoclation on:4ts opening of the profesdional bace bdll season, but he will soon-warm up to the game. It seems that one’ Jjohn W. Kern also recelved Wicopy of the Bryan let- ter, whose gdhuineness has been- in doubt. ‘Will “sfme one pléase tell who —_——— If the country should go ahead and produce as much ‘wheat as last year it would be stilj all right even if Cottton King Patten has predicted a slump of 50,000,000 bushels. =8 ':'—?:—, —— 1t the newly glected Normal school heads are not-members in good stand- ing of the Nebraska Schoolmasters’ club they will do well to apply for membership forthwitli it they want to avold rough salling. Now that the Maryland legislature has adjourned, a eivic league in Balti- more is giving its efforts to killing night-prowling cats, using the under- handed methdd of luring the vietim into a patchiof catnip, then escorting it to a body of ‘water for the rest, ~* The pro 6 are that Milwaukes will De benefited ral than Injured by w0~ clalistic World-Herald, It & soclalistic . government will ‘be an impréybment ‘aver a democratic city government, which it replaces in i n some other ;vlm mo- Freight Rate Problem. Railroads are plainly preparing to raise the general level of freight rates. Their spokesmen are reiterating through every avefiue of reaching the publie ear reasons from their stand point for demanding such a raise. One writer says the cost of living hi all but taken the profit out of the rall- road busines and he sees in in- creased frelght rates the only saving clause. There are always two sides to every question, but it will be diffi cult to justify higher freight tariffs by the assertion that railroad earn- ings are disappearing so long as the reports of nét profits continue to tell thelr eloquent stories of annual stock dividends. g Of the fact that the general cost of living has materially increased the cost of raflroading there is no doubt. The railroad employe who received a maximum wage ralse three years ago of 17 per cent has to meet with it the greater ralse in food prices and the railroads are confronted with the clamor for again advancing wages and, one writer argues, without cor- responding advance in rates. This writer proceeds to show that along with wages rallroad equipment and material have gone up from 20 per cent for track spikes to 116 per cent for cross ties and that locomotives have jumped from $12,000 to $20,- 000, freight cars from.$700 to $1,000. He asserts that approximately 70 per cent of all gross earnings go into wages and maintenance, ‘While some of these statemeuts are undeniable, others are not. In the first place, 70 per cent is more than the average amount that railroads pay out for wages and maintenance altogether. In the next place, the lo- comotive that'cost $12,000 ig not the type which today costs $20,000, nor is the new $1,000 car identical with the . $700 car. The new locomotive and the new car are as much greater in earning power as they are in price. They are what makes possible freight trains of sixty and seventy cars in- stead of thirty and forty. Consolida- tion and concentration is the policy of the railroads, not only in their financial, but in their physical opera- tion as well. They cut off large out- lays In wages and maintenance, and this {8 one way railroads have of de- fending themsélves against the rapac- ity of the highev-costliving problem. Enormous luc-eases in taxes is like- wise cited in this list of advances. But it should be said that it has only become fashiopable of late ‘to ' tax railroeds, particalarly in the west, as they really should . have. been .taxed long ago. In many western states they have only’ begun to bear their ghare of the burden of tavation. The increased taxes cannot be' used with 28’ goad effect ps ingreased wages and equipment in showing why rates should rise. $ Out of all this fog the observing spectator may perceive one distingt tay of light yet which has been lost sight of by the railroad spokesmen and that is the handsome enlargement of passenger earnings, which, while the small’ side. of the . railroad. busi: mess, must se taken into account in striking the balance. With the elim- ination of the pass even in states with the 2.cent fare, passenger revenues have increased tremendously. Travel improves under the impulse of gen- eral prosperity just as doed freight traflic, which is reaching proportions which, unless the railroads expend vast sums for terminals, will swamp them In the next few years. Reliable and Unreliable Statistics. The Bee has received several com- munications from readers passing de- cidedly uncomplimentary remarks on some of. the statistics which we have been printing to guide those who may wish to estimate the returns of the 1910 census. The figures which we have been printing, however, ' have been taken from the official records, and if there is anything wrong with them the fault is to be found, not with us, but with the authorities wupon whom the duty of keeping these rec- ords devolves. Everyone will admit that the figures on the school census are so contradic- tory that they furnish the evidence tor self-conviction. The school cen- sus, as taken in Omaha, is a delusion and a snare. For years it was paddeéd deliberately and coarsely, and when the school board turned over a new leaf, seven or elght years ago, the er- ror wert in the other direction of care- less and partial enumeration, so that the later school censuses are abont as unreliable as the earller ones. When it comes to vital statistics of births and deaths, the blame for the defects, it any, is to be divided. Reg- Istration of births and deaths belongs to attending physicians, and there is no gaestion but there is too much for- getfulness, to use a mild term, The apparent discrepancy because of the constant excess of deaths over births does not necessarily reflect on the re- liability of the figures. In the first place, Omaha has a large number of bospitals drawing patients ' from the entire western country, and t\u large part of hospital deaths are not of our own population. Again, in any new city, most of whose people have come from other places after reaching adult years, the upper age classifications ars Clsproportionately large and an excess ot deaths over birthg would not be un- natural. - The chances are, however, that the death record is more naarly correct, because burial permits have to be taken out, than Is the birth rec- ord, which can bé more easlly over- looked with impunity. 2 This examinatiop of our statistical records shows thé importance of hav- Mg thém correct, and will do -some good if it leads to Improvement that will make them more reliable, Business Before Pleasure. The insurgents in congress seom to be waking up to the fact that they will share responsibility with the reg ulars for the redemption of platform pledges by the passage of measures urged by the president and demanded by the people. If they can attend to this business first and then find time to punish the speaker, that Is their privilege. To waste time in per- sonal controversies and go home con fronted by unredeemed promises will be as much to their detriment as to the others. It Congressman Murdock of Kansas, cne of the most radical of insurgents, had this thought in mind when he said, “the speaker can continue to make these defis until after the ad- ministration legislation is disposed of,” it is encouraging, for it indicates a determination to transact business first and indulge in the little play of roasting Mr. Cannon only as a side issue. Knowing that political expedi- ency will take care of the speaker ship, the country is not concerning itself much with that at present. If there were real probability of unseat- ing Mr, Cannon at this session the nat- vral American instinct for sensation wowld be more ready to respond to the Murdock innuendo Events transpir- ing since the speaker’s removal from the rules committée, while showing general approval of that reform, also indicate more plainly a serious desire for support of the president in the en- actment of the laws he has proposed. Popular response to Mr. Taft's ad- dress calling on ccngress for works rather than words is conclusive as to the will and temper of the public, and it is gratifylng to note this evident purpose on the part of the insurgents to give business the right-of-way. A Fall-Down in Chicago. The notion has been quite common that Chicago had reached the ideal solution of the street rallway problem when, a few years ago, it renewed the expiring franchises on a partnership | arrangement by which the city was to get 61 per cent of the net profits after making allowances for certain items cf interest, depreclation, extensions, ete. The balance sheet which has just been struck for last yoar shows that Chicago’s share of the profits will be $47,765 less than it received the year beéfore, notwithstanding the fact that the gross receipts of the combined draction companies were nearly $1,000,000 more. In . other words, while the street railways in Chicago have been taking in more money year by year, every item of expense has been Increasing even faster, s thot the actual payments into the city trens- ury are less. f ohds ! Contrast this sitnation in ‘Chidago with that in Omaha, whete the exac- tion from the franchised corporations for the use of the streets is based, not on net profits, but on gross income— not in the form of a partnership ar- rangement, but in the form of a 3 per cent occupation tax. Chicago's reve- nue from its street railways shrinks while the business expands, whereas in Omaha if the business expands the oc- cupation tax mnust increase in the same ratio. The incentive for the company to make improvements and enforce economies under our plan is much stronger because the saving all goes toward profits, whereas in Chicago there are no very strong brakes on the tendency toward extravagance because halt of the costs comes out of the city. It strikes us that the Omaha solu- tion of the street railway problem is preferable to the Chicago plan, Count Witte the Man, Count Witte stands out as boldly in his controversy with General Kuro- patkin as he did when representing Russia at the Portsmouth peace con- ference that brought to an end the war with Japan. Though personal in itself, Kuropat- kin's challenge to a duel and Witte's refusal becomes a matter of national repute and international. coacern. Russia has reached the time in its his- tory when it needs men at the head of its public institutions who do not submit every whimslcal dispute to the arbitrament of deady weapons. Witte's offense was a criticism that modern Russian military commanders lacked moral courage and were prone to blame others for their own fail: ures—a grievous attack on Kuropat- kin, but how far, in the light of the general’s subsequent conduct, the truth? Does Kuropatkin's capricious impulse to run Witte through with a sword or shoot him answer the question? In the eyes of the world Count Witte .acquitted himegelf .with distin- guished triumph and brought to his nation substantial concessions by his part in the Portsmouth treaty, and when his work as arbitrator was done he quietly withdrew from the public wvlew, not untll, however, he had re- celved the sharpest kind of back-fire ‘at home along with the gratitude for his service. This is his first reappear- ance on Russla’s stage of politizs for a long time, but he brings back with him the same stolid character on which the spotligkt shone before and reflects the hope of a new, brcader and better national spirit. ExJudge Dean of the supremg court, who was appealing for votes last fall as a ‘‘nonpartisan” candidate 'for re-election, will run this fall as a ‘partisan democratic candidate for con- gress. The .‘‘nonpartisan” cloak 1Is oue that can easily be put on and off from | | stitutions, as occasion _demands. Will Judge Dean be less partisan when asking voters to elect him to congress 8s, a rebuke to repudblfthns than he was when asking repablicans to forget party affiliations to keep him on the bench as a preténded ‘‘monpartisan?” Somebody wants an. accounting of the promotion fund that secured the franchise in Omaha for the Indepen- dent Telephone company. There is a well-defined rumor that quite a bunch of it went to lather a man who molds public opinion through one of our amiable local contemporaries. The report that brooms may go up in price because of a scarcity in broom corn suggests that since 1906 they have gone up 80 per cent. Remedy, more vacuum cleaners. Of course, it is understood that this democratic jubilation over republican Indiana's attitude toward the tariff bill is all in the hope of a democratic senator instead of Senator Beveridge. Perhaps that Bryan letter was sent by a roundabout route just to make talk to envelop It In mystery and thus secure it attention in off-set to the big news from the lion hunter's trail, A municipal garage and automobile | repair shop will next be in order to take care of all those autos that are being bought for our city officlals at taxpayers’ cost. South Omaha is threatened with some election contests as an aftermath to its recent campaign. Flection con- tests in this neck of woods have sel- dom panned out. It has surely come to a pretty pass when “Brother Charley” has to verify a letter signed by William J. Bryan in order to make people believe it is the real thing. Truth Comes High. Washington Herald. On account of the high cost of Investi- gating, the senatorial committes appointed to Investigate the high cost of living finds Itself in need of a trififng. $65,000, as & starter. Jim Hill as & Booster. New York. World. From lodking with glaomy depression upon the future of a wasteful nation “Untle Jim" Hill has suddenly become a “hooster” in view of the pending crops. Is it possi- ble that we are not exhausting our re- wourossiso Susle we-tdanedt Or. W’ Thole Jim" taking means to conserve his na- tural huoyancy of temperament? i Anclent and Modern Colo New York Sun, Great Britain has just Jaunched its ninth Dreadnought, the Colossus, which will have a /Aisplacement of 23,000 tons and carry ten twelve-inch guns. The Colossus of Rhodes was raised to gommemorate the defense of that place against Demietrius Poliorcetes end is sald to have beén composed of the engines of war hé abgfidoned. It was twelve years bullding &nd’8ost $170,000. Less than -three years will sifffice for putting the modern ‘Colossus to’#éa ready” to ‘dls- charge its destructive Brofidsides against a foe, and 1t will cost:$5000,00 Rhodes re- pelled the invader ‘908 B.5C., or @218 years ago. To the lapse of “time,’ all' that has occurred ‘in the interval, and the potenti- ality and preparedness-~ef ~the civilized world for war as never before, the atten- tion of the peace socfetits is invited) but in no spirit of cynicism, CONTROLLING TRUSTS. Simplielty of the Hammer Devised in Canada. ‘Washington Post The people of Canadalng ago reached the conclusion that combines are in re- straint of cheap lving. Although the burden of high prices n¢ver was nearly 80 heavy as on this sld¢ ‘of the line, the government is asking the enactment of a law which will still more simply and ef- fectually tie the hand§ of the trusts. Hitherto the anti-monopoly law has sad- dled the costs of legal proceedings on the complaining consumer, who had to obtain a decision from the court, before the gov- ernment would take up, the case, that a conspiracy to promote the advantage of manufacturers or dealers at the expense of the consumers existed. The remedy applied was reduction or abolition of the tariff on the products of the combine un- der complaint. Tho simplified mode of procedure pro- posed by the government authorizes any six persons to go before a judge and es- tablish a prima facle case of monopoly, whereupon the matter is sent before & board of three“members.for final declsion. It it be found that there is & monopoly, the government may lower or repeal the tariff and impose a fine of $1,000 a day on offenders who continue to -charge ex- tortionate prices. Our Birthday Book April 14, 1910, Danlel K. Peasons, philanthropist, was born April 14, 180. He Is a millionaire Who started practicing medicine, branching out into real estate in Chicago and Illinols. He has for years made it his principal business to give his money away to educational in. chietly the smaller denomina- tional colleges. George L. Barton, hesd of the Barton Printing company, 1s 4§ ydars old today. He was born in Detrolt and learned his trade 48 an apprentice, beginning at the age of 12. He edited a paper at Loup City for a little while. H. M. Goulding, president of the Omaha Bottling company, was born April 14, 158, at Kearney. He ledrned the telegraph busi- ness and served with the Western Unlon for elght years before going into his present business. Major Danlel E. McCarthy, quartermaster for the Department of the Missouri, was born April 14, 1869, at Albany. He Is a graduate of West Point and has seen service in Cuba and the' Philippines, as well as in this country, and has had rapid promotion on his record. A. W. Scribner, tax commissioner of the Union Pacific, 1s 6 years old today. He is & natiye of Wisconsia where he was educated at Reipon college, and went Into the rallrcad business as telegraph operator way back in 1672 He has been with the Union Pacific since 1861, Lieutenant General Adna R. Chaffeo United States army, retired, was born April Hg 15 a pative of Ohlo, and was retired afefr serving continuously for forty ye General Chatfee will be remembersd as having commanded the American army | he sald. ) Washington Life The Insugural Orowd, What it Will Cost, Years of Retired Presi- dents, ond a Budding Statesma: If Uncle Joe Cannan had not so great a surplus of years, he would be a sure-thing praposition for the middleweight champion- ship of the political arena. No matter how much men differ about Cannonism, every one possessing sporting blood cannot help admiring the scrappiness of Uncle Joe. He is there with the goods every time. In- surgents and democrats lash him with hot air, but he comes out of the gale with as warm a counterblast as he recelved In this respect he shines. Invective Is his forte, and scorn rolls from his tongue as blistering as the breath of Sahara. As the record now stands, his opponents have scored In two rounds, but Joe Is still in the ring as frisky as any scrapper in search' of exerclse. Swift, shifty and slick, he counters on ‘the enemy fore and aft, and he works the publicity end of the game as cleverly as he pockets the ballots of the Danville district. Just now Uncle Joe is the central figure attracting delegations of visitors to the national capital. Young and old and middle-aged turn thelr spot- lights on him and strive to meet him. Public curlosity due to extensive advertis- ing is deftly encouraged by Uncle Joe and turned to his own advantage. He Is never too busy to meet and shake hands with delegations, and talk to them In & fatherly fashion. He never fails to impress his visitors before they leave that he is not the terrible creature he has been painted and published. They hang on every word that drops from his lips, and young people especially are delighted with his fatherly manner, both of speech and demeanor, and they depart with only the kindliest of feel- ing for him. Each young man or young woman, or old man or woman, for that matter, upon returning home becomes a defender. ] One day last week a group of college students from New York paid their respects to the speaker. In his talk to the young men he complimented them on their ad- vantages, but added that knowledge gained at college was of little value unless backed up with courage and energy. Years ago, he said, he had received a diploma from a law college, He had started west from Cincinnati with his diploma, and probably would have gone further west if he could have stood oft the conductor of the train any longgf. As it was, he stopped in cen- tral Ilinols, in & new town of a new ccunty, instead of going on to Chicago. He rented a little room or an office, spent his last 50 cents for a frame for his diploma and hung it up in his office. Kor two months not a single individual beside | himse® crossed the threshold of that office. He was standing off his landlord and his boarding house keeper, and both were get- ting uneasy. One day he entered the of- fice, looked at the diploma and decided it would never bring business or fortune. He Jjerked it from the wall, tore it from its frame, cut it into strips with his pocket- knife, and stamped it on the floor. "The diploma In itself was of no use to me,” “I mention this incident of my lite merely to point out to you that before prosperity and success come to a man starting in life he must come into con- tact with his fellow men, apply the prac- tical side and keep up his courage. I kept up my courage, and by and by began to get on in the world.” The boys heartily cheered the sentiment and voted Uncle Joe “a jolty good tellow."” There As a sound of typewriters by day and by night In the senate and house office buildings, relates the Washington Times. They are tokens of the primaries which are to shorten or lengthen the political career of many & contemporary states- man, Scores of extra stenographers are at work. They have been recruited from all over the city of Washington and some of them have been imported from the home states and districts of the senators or rep- resentatives whose campalgns are now be- ing conducted from this city. There are other signs of the canipaign, too. Thousands of bags of congressional mail are being hauled from the office buildings and from the departments. This mail s carrled in huge vans, These vans go lumbering down Pennsylvania avenue almost every hour in the day. Fiiling ‘the two office buildings are the working forces of the individual senators or members. They are addressing the thousands of packages of free seeds or malling out the thousands of coples of speeches or writing the thousands of letters to influence constituents, The whole presents a busy scene and might lead the uninitiated to believe that being a senator or being a representative entalls a vast amount of “busine Rapid transit as it perhaps had never been dréamed of by any other man has been offered to the Postoffice department by an Effingham, (IL) inventor, This Inventor had a scheme to run a railroad train at the rate of elghty miles an hour for 600 miles without stopping, which he claimed would unload passengers, mail and baggage meanwhile. His device would whirl the most delicate passenger out of the car into the station without lessening the speed of the train or injuring the passenger. It would do the same with mails, he said. On the grounds that congress gave to the Postoffice department no authority to buy railroad equipment the invention has been declined, but the inventor has written to President Taft, offering free use of the scheme and suggesting that his appolntment as chairman of the Pana- ma canal commission will be considered adequate return for a little while, any- way. “Vietor, I'm glad to see that you're not smoking today.” Thus was the Kansas Insurgent repre- sentative, Victor Murdock, accosted by a trim little old lady with & black satin sun- shade, as he was leaving the house office bullding. It was Mrs. Myra McHenry of Wichita, the congressman's home, and she wanted to talk to him about lots of things. Mr. Murdock had to forego the opening of the house, for Mrs. McHenry, Wwho w@s at one time Mrs. Carrie Nation's right bower i the Kansas anti-whisky fight, is an iusistent conversationallst, “I am trying to stop smoking, Mrs. Mc- Henry,” said the congressman. *I find that 1 was doing a little too much of it.” Oh, Victor, I'm so glad," she answered, ow, I want you to quit Insurging, too; but if you must insurge, don't insurge al the time; be moderate about it; be tem- perate. I know your mother well, Victor, and she would be better pleased if you wouldn't insurge so much. Really, I don't belleve she'd like it at all If she knew how you were golng o . Mr. Murdock bowed and hastened to the house, “Mrs. McHenry 13 almost as much of a regular as Uncle Joe Cannon,” ha sald. — roeal Good Wil Washington Herald. Senator Tillman's charge that the news- papers made Mr. Roosovelt Is, 'n a meas ure, ‘perfectly true. However, the new. that marched to the relief of the beselged | Papers must admit that Mr. Roosevelt made legutions at Peking, China, in 190, them mighty Interesting. A Baking =) The great Baking Powder of the country— used in millions of homes—never \Phosphate) D2 PRICES CREAM Powder Received the highest award . at Chicago World’s Fair PERSONAL NOTES. Senator Flint of California says he can- not afford to run again. The high price of senatorships set by millionaire prede- cessors sadly handicaps a man of moderate wealth, A Chicago court decrees that the law al- lows a married mdn to be a little prodigal with his earnings. This is a case where man’s judiclal Lumanity to man will make countless husbands rejoice. Mrs. Imogen B. Oakley of Philadelphia, 1s the first woman to be Invited to appear officially at the annual dinner of the National Civie Reform league. She was Introduced by Mr. Choate and on her ap- pearance every man present rose to his feet and applauded. Mrs, Julla Ward Howe has started among Boston women & movement to study ap- plied /economics relating especially to the increased cost of living. It is her hope that this movement will become national and will be considered seriously by women throughout the country. The tallest member of the new Parlia- ment will probably be found to be Dous- las B. Hall, the unionist’ representative for the Isle of Wight, who Is no less than six feet five inches in height. He ls run very close, however, by Sir Randoif Baker, the new unionist for North Dor- set, who s one-half Inch shorter. Wilkielm Volght, allas “Captain Koepe- nick,” the cobbler who made all Germany laugh by masquerading s an army offi- cep, arresting the mayor of a small town anfl raiding the munieipal treasury, ar- rived in New York by way .of Canada, and is now retelling to Germans here the story of ‘the sdventure which made him famous. A NEW BERTH RATE. ——— Proposed Cut Into the Pullman Com- pany’s Melon. Chicago News. After hearing complaints on the subject, the Interstate Commerce commission has ordered certain reductions in charges for sleeping car services. These reductions re- late only to rallroad lines operating out of Bt. Paul to Chicago and to the north- west, But the principles enunclated in the decision are of general application and therefore are of great Importance. In the tirst place, the commission rules that the earnings of the Pullman company e excessive and that its charges for service are too high. In the second place, the commission holds that the charge for upper berths should be less than that for lower berths. The justice of the latter rul- ing is obvious, With the fundamental principles thus outlined for rate-making on sleeping cars there should be & general movement for the reduction of rates through the applica- tion to other situations of the present rul- ings. It is unfortunate that Commissioners Krapp snd Harlan have seen fit to dis- sent from the decision in question, but there can be little doubt that the position of the majority of the commission will prevail. Regulation of sleeping-car charges already has been too long delayed. The argument of the dissenting commis- sloners Is that the patron of the sleeping car now gets abundant beneflts in exchange for his money and that to lower the charges would be to discriminate against the passenger in the day coach. This smacks of a desire to keep the day coach passenger where he 1s. Why not lower sleeping-car rates to & reasonable figure and thus give the day coach passenger a chance to enjoy the sleeping car's benefits? Here one meets an important element of the Pullman system's success. The high rates give the Pullman car & considerable degree of exclusiveness and so render It especlally attractive to a large propqrtion of its patrons. This, however, does not || walked along. “Whither away? alter the fact that persons of small means are entitled to all the conveniences of travel they can pay for at reasonable rates. TAPPING THE FUNNYBONE, lady,” exclaimed thrifty man to his extravagant “you're carrying too much sail.” “Why should that worry you?' she rew torted. “Because I have to raise the wind: that's why."—Cathollc Standard and Times. the witey “Look here, my “Will you have anything on your face, sir, when I am through?" asked the h:lrh(‘r‘ “You might leave my nose there, answered the man in the chair, who had already been cut several times.—Buffala Express. She (on the liner)—So you've crossed the ocean quite often? He—Hundreds of times. Why, do you know, 1 actually recognize about half the waves we meel She—Indeed! B: Boston Transeript. thelr crests, I suppose,— Mistress (In awed voice)—Nora, my huse band is just raving over those chops yi sent up. ' He says they are raw and he's acting like a wild man, The Cook (placidly)—Thin, sure, mum, if he is acting lolke a wolld mon raw meat is just th' food for him.—Chicago News. “It the world were to come to an end today would it find you prepared?” de- manded the evangelist. The editor blanched. “After we've used the biggest type in the office to put head: lines over a South American war? Good Lord, n he cr His dismay was pitiful, pitiful than genuine.—Puck. yet not more “I hear,” sald Mrs. Oldcastle, hat Dr, Cutler has recently turned to osteopathy." ““You don’t say,” replied her hostess aftes she had tossed a §6 gold plece to the hurdy gurdy man outside and told him to move gr.d“l nl'\lvu.vl Q"WC‘Y:IG something of that nd to happ i m, DIdOL ypu ever hotice that 14 A to NAVe 8 “htony stare?’—Chicago Record-Herald, “Hullo, Billle," sald the freshman to a classmate, who was whistling blithely as he “I'm goin’ up to Dr. Cuttem’'s to be exe amined for appendicitis,” said the other. “Geerusalem! You don't seem to be very much worried about it said the first “Oh, no,” smiled Billle, “There won't be anything doing. I've never been able to pass an examination the first time in all my tair young life."—Harper's Weekly, TO OUR WARBLERS. (“Our most beautiful, most abundant and least known birds.”—From Chapman's “The Warblers of North America.”) Stay, O little winged throngs; Longer here abide; Bring us cheer of merry songs Till the summer tide! Linger, little Yellow-Throat, In the thicket glooms; Myrtle, Biackcap, let us note Wings amid the blooms, Bl.ak-PolL Bay-Breast, Black-Throat- reen, Hooded-Warbler quaiat, Redstart with coquettish mien, Nashville with sweet plaint, Stay, and feast on tasseled oak; Wait, O Black-Throat blue; Chestnut-sided minstrel folk, Blde, the summer throuyh. Mourning, Blue-Winged, Frairie, Ping Palm, Magnolia gay, Bright Blackburnian, féathcrdd fine, Oven-Bird, Cape May, Busy Creeper, black and white, Chat, and Orange-Crowned, And Prothonotary bright In the swamp-woods found, Linger, stay your pinions fleet; Loiter while we hear ‘Water-Thrush, Canadian sweet, And Parula dear. Chirp, Connecticut, full free, Call, Kentucky, call; Sing and whistle, Tennessee, From yon alder tall, Let your tiny trfll be heard, Rare cerulean blue; 8ing to us, O Summer-Bira Golden songs and true! Little birds from dlstance dim, Do ye somehow know Ye but do the will of Him Who bids you onward go? REBECCA FARSON M'KAY. Chicago. that this bank has paid on certificates running for months. 4 The report made to the comptroller under date of March 29, 1910, shows Time Certificates of Deposit $2,034,278.61 3% % Interest twelve irst National Bank of ()md h(l