Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 25, 1910, Page 4

THE OMAHA DALY BEE FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR. ered at Omaha postoifice as second matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTIO 3 Bee (Inc'uding Sunday), per week.153 Bee, (without Sunday), per week 1K Beo (without y o year..}.00 Bee and Sunda; ¥ e DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Evening Bee (without Sunday). per week 6¢ Evening Bee (wih Sunday), per week... 10¢ Bunday Bee, one year., ceenenr 4200 Baturday Bee, one year............ 1.50 Address all compiainis of Irregularities 1o deliver to City Cireulation épartment. K FI0k Omaha—The Bee Buuding Bouth Oma enty-fourth and N. Council Bluffs—15 Scott Streel Lincoln—gia Little Buliding. Chicago—lids Marqueiie ding New York—Kooms 11011102 No Thiriy-tnira Stieet . Washlogton—71% Fourteenth Street, CORKESPONDENCE. s Communications relating to news «itorial magter sbould = be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. . Remit by ‘Qratt, express o postal ord payable to Fhe Bee Publishing Companyy Unly 2-cent stamps recsived in nu"\“““ g mall accounts. Personal checks, exgept Of Omaha or esstern exchange, not agoepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, Dougias County. s George 'B. Tzchiick. ireasurer of Bee Publishing Company. sworn, says the: the actual full «nd compiete coples of Morning, Evening and Sunday Hee during ihe month of March, 1910 as follow: 42,870 e 48,770 43,110 43,310 P 42,760 ! a0 oty 41,800 42,660 3 43,140 ::'m 43,830 43760 42,490 4,710 43,660 43,160 990 43,310 44,980 41,700 43,130 43680 Daily Daily Daily Daily M West N W. The number of ‘tne Dally, Ree printed was Total Returned copte Net total. Dally & ‘ . 4844 GEO. B. TZSCHUCK, Treasurer. resence and sworn 1st_day of March, M. P. WALKER. Notary FPubile Subscribed my to before me this i porarily should have walled to them. Addr ch d as uften as requested. Prices may be falling, but most peo ple have to be told about it. The Omaha base ball club opened the season most appropriately. —_— Those men h‘Igner up }nre like the upper berths, they are lower now. The man with his ear to the ground in Europe can hear something these days. ——— Neither Mr. Hearst nor Mr, Bryan has the nerve to guess on the other's riddle. ’ i e What is the population of Los. An- geles? asks the, Times. tourists? —————— Wall street shys ‘‘Easy money until fall.” Now is the time to make touch, then, —— The March, lon apparently missed his cue, but he is making up for any time he lost. —_— In the meantime the Omaha city council should gee that the fire limits are extended. fotsios cmoman g The question of race suicide has narrowed down to the point of qual- ity, not quantity. —_— It the French do not like the way T. R, handles’ their language let them say 8o, if they dare. It is more appropriate to say the Daughters of the Revolution are still insurging, Instead of again. e e e That was & practical thought for Mr. Alfred Austin to begin his latest poem with the word, “Ldsten.” There is a teminiscent between “Dan | Sulley's Corner cery” and Jim Patten’s cornered ton. —_——— “That's a miée chair you have, Taft, showed him House. The St. he knows.something about the play, anyhow. Mrs. John Arthur Johmeen is said to wear $20,000 worth of dlamonds. | Her husband may need some of them | after July 4. . | i Thus far they have not reported the name of the Parisian who dared to! eriticise the colonel’s French in that | speech at the Sorbonne. The woman suffragists should take | comfort in Maude Adams as the| Chantecler and realize that the stage will stand for it, anyway. James: Henry Stark, a tory his-| torian, has discovered that Paul| Revere's ride was a fallure after all. Well, it brought the results. The number of people who will ind that they were ‘‘mentioned” by Mark Twaln Is Nkely to be very large, but the claimants who were mentioned by name needn't worry. 3 Mr. Anthony Drexel, who marrjed Miss Marjorie Gould, has little thought for the populace when be raises the ante to $1.75 for a cup of tea and twe hard-boiled eggs., Apnd he ate that breakfast in _the City of Brotherly Love at that. being duly | Residents or | al connection Gro- cot- | ob- | served Mr. Bryan as his friend, Mr. | around the White | Louls bachelor who says he 18 too rich to win a wife proves that | !nary to that which must | within | forestry, so the Burkett bill is timely ! Rooseveltism in France. If it were not for the natural impulse of the French people, thers might be | occasion for surprise at the profound | sensation Colonel Roosevelt's Sor- | bonne speech caused, for it ronu'lneu nothing strikingly new. But, old or new, Mr. Roosevelt's words, uttered with characteristic vigor, were sound in wisdom and doctrine and if France really has been so deeply touched by them, the effort may be well worth | whilee. He said some things the | French people needed to know and | needed to have said to them, and he | went into the vitals of that most deli- {cate of all questions in France, race | suf¢ide, with his customary <zeal and, it appears, stirred the French mind more by that than anything else he sald. The effect is 8o acute that Roose- veltism is instantly made the dom- | inant issue in an election in progress | and political speakers shout his name and principles approvingly to large au- diences and are heartily applauded. Surely it cannot be that Paris never | heara before ot this Roosevelt crusade against race suicide. He has been pro- mulgating that for many years, Does | it mean, then, that Paris, in its eager- |ness to be courteous to America and {its distinguished citizen, ylelds itself so cordially to his hobbles? Or fis | Paris really in earnest and did it only | want to be told face to face of this | national habit to plunge the issue into state polities with a demand for gov- ernmental treatment? We are inclined to think that some | of this impetuous ardor will die down, but there can be no doubt of the salu- tary and healthful effect of this speech. It is a good match for that address at the University of Cairo, in which Col- onel Roosevelt struck at a national weakness, shaking all Egypt and half of Europe. An American newspaper has re- ferred to Mr. Roosevelt dérisively as “The United States Advertisement Abroad.” He is, indeed, and his is the kind of advertising any country of free speech, free thought, free action and virile manhood wants, advertising that makes the world look up instead of down. Mr, Hill Goes Fishing. When James J. Hill left Chicago the other day for the Pacific northwest {te said he was going fishing. The | public will hope he is and that he | catches a lot of fine fish, has a good time and comes back refreshed in | mind and body. Excellent trout streams are to be found in the Pacific northwest and the air is invigorating, the scenery pic- turesque and restful. Where could Mr. Hill go for more complete recrea- tion? He needs it. He has been so ‘unusually serious of - late, his three leading rallroads have been |unable to declare greater than 8 per ' cent dividends, and urgent necessity of raising freight rates to provide larger revenue has been pressing so heavily upon him— all these things have combined to wear lon Mr. Hill, It is gratifying if he has | heard the call of the wild and will mistic man, though he insists he was neyer a pessimistic. But Mr. Hill, we observe by more careful scrutiny of his remark, did not | say he was going fishing to catch fish. | There .is more in that Pacific north- west that a good fisherman may catch | beside fish that swim in mountain streams, The pretty f{llusion is more nearly dispelled when we consider Mr. Hill's company on this fishing trip— Charles F. Baker, president of the First National bank of New York, and George I'. Steele of J. P. Morgan & Co. This may be, but it does not look, like a party of old-time fishermen. A few little unbranded railroads are straying at large up in that beautiful garden of the gods and Mr, Hill and former Senator W. A. Clark of Mou- | tana are said to have angled for them away from the suspicion that Mr. Hill will land that game. But we hope he has just gone for an old-time rest. Tree Planting in Nebraska. The passage of Arbor | marked by the introduction In United States senate of a bill its purpose the , | school of forestry in Nebraska. |to the people of Nebraska and the country at large does not require ar- gument, The attention that has been given to scientific forestry during the last few years has been but prelimi- be given coming decade. All the debate and discussion of conservation has turned principally on the point of the if it serves mno other purpose than to emphasize the importance of its gen- eral purpose. Nebraskans have not been awake to their opportunities in this regard. While we have boasted of the citizen- ship of J. Sterling Morton, who founded Arboriday, our practice of his precepts has been but desultory, The planting of trees on Arbor day has been along lines rather more than hap- hazard. Individuals have gone out and put down trees where vmyv.llld. but the public, as such, has hid lttle or no part in the ceremony. What is most desirable is that some effort be tious of the state forest reterves under state. control that will bring in time manifold recompense: The feamibility of this proposition has been demon-! strated by private investigators, ul the come back to us a more happy, opti-, g0 many times it is difficult to get il'“ found the bait which he believes | day was the | pre- pared by Senator Burkett, having for | establishment of a That such an institution would be of service TAK BEE: OMAHA, MONDAY APRL 25, L ment, and that it has been so long neglected in Nebraska can only be ac- counted for by the indifference of our people. What Did Mr, Bryan Mean? Mr. Bryan dropped a remark in New York soon after he landed from his South American tour that has not been explained or understood, but has given |rise to some perplexity among his countrymen, “I have a right to a title that I sel- dom use, ‘Colonel.” I've long since ceaged court-martialing.” Court-martialing is a military term, carrying with it a suggestion of pun- ishment. Does Mr. Bryan mean he has ceased punishing his enemies and is now at peace with the entire demo- cratic party? Does he mean he is go- ing to pursue the even tenor of his way from now on as a high private in the ranks, ready to follow where his commanding officer may lead? Or does he mean simply that he is going to continue as an unavenging Nemesis in pursuit of that illusive phantom that has led him on three fruitless expedi- tions already? It Mr. Bryan means that he is at peace with the democratic party and from now on will preach harmony in its ranks, then we may safely take it that he means to work for the party and its success in all seasons and quar- ters. This view must then lead us to the conviction that Tom Taggart has nothing to fear as to the support of Nebraska’s peerless orator in his quest for the senatorship in Indiana. It may be that none of these guesses as to what Mr, Bryan meant has hit the mark. If so, then we shall abide in the hope that Mr, Bryan will him- self declde to work out the puszzle. The Philadelphia Enquirer has solved the meat problem. It has dis- covered 6,000,000 acres surrounding the Gulf of Mexico that will grow the kind of hyacinths that go sixty tons to the acre and form the staple article of diet for hippopotamuses, whose meat, it says, is excellent. What more is necessary to knock the bottom out of the meat trust? Eat the hippo. What is this little joke Mr, Hearst is playing? He sends John Temple Graves to democracy with the olive branch of peace—on certain condi- tigns, chiefly that the democratic party will endorse Hearstism and then slips over to the White House and tells Mr. Taft that he i8 making good from the word go. It appears that the storage of food supplies hag had an effect opposite to that looked for by greedy speculators. If Mr, and Mrs. Ultimate Consumer can recoup any on the winter's ex- penses by cheap prices in the spring, they will bless the cold storage man. Houston wants to be counted out of that combine of cities that propose to behave themselves on the Fourth. Houston deserves something for being honest, anyway, and it probably will not be any worse than the best city that promises to be good, Mayor Gaynor of New York has vetoed a bill for advertising wagons for the city’s use, saying, ‘“Advertise in the newspapers.” Which indicate that New York has a mayor with some common sense. ——— The democratic spouters who have been omitted from the campalgn com- mittees' Chautauqua circuit needn’t worry. Enough kinds of democrats exist in Nebraska to furnish all with an audience. - Costly fires that have been raging in the west during the last few weeks are a tribute to somebody's careless- ne The lesson is so plain, and its application go easy, that it is likely to be neglected. —_— The Washington telegraph operator who smoked an ordinary cigar for ninety-four minutes and thirty seconds | without allowing it to go out, must | have started his career as a messenger boy, Another point that may well be i kept in mind s that many of the men who are shouting loudest for Roose- velt now, shouted loudest against him when he was president. St. Louis papers bewalil the fact that fifty citizens of Pike county, Missouri, have migrated to Canada. Why should a man be blamed for wanting to leave Pike county Jack Johnson says Omaha’s recep- tion was more cordial than Chicago's farewell. Leaves a fellow in a quandary whether to laugh or cry. — The Business Men's league of St. Louis is planning to abduct the presi- dent of the United States., A weighty scheme. Fireproot! St. Louls Globe-Demoerat. Mr. both, and its author himself it he could Injure either. A Pair of Thinks. Chicago News. President Taft is right in thinking that Governor Hughe: would make a good jus- tice of the supreme court, but he would| the business methods of these days than it make & still better president of the United States. Every Little Helps, Philadelphia Record. The little drop in the price of flour would made to establish in tile waste sec-|{seem to justify a little drop In the price a little Bvery of bread, or. what is equivalent, addition to the welght of the loaf. little helps, ) A Modest Combiaa Indlanapolis News. Please v Hearst's attempted comparison of Taft and Roosevelt is Intended to Injure would congratulate note that the harvester trust well as by the United States luvom-lmu gives the credit fpr its large in- | sideration, crease in business to the prosperity of the tarmers, instead of claiming that the pros- perity of the farmers is due to its large increase in business. Qhicago Tribune. In buying an automobile it is better to select one of a kind that can be obtained without inortgaging anything as a pre- liminary, belng careful, at the same time, to see that you have emough money In bank to pay for a year's repairing. A trast. Cleveland. Plain Dealer (dem.) On August %0, 1906, Willlam J. Bryan ar- rived in New York from a world tour. Hs was greeted by thousands of men from all parts of the country and halled as the next president of the United States. On April 17, 1910, Mr. Bryan again reached New York aftet a world tour. He was grected by only a few personal friends. Even the newspapers paid almost no atten- tion to the arrival, Politics, though full of surprises, offer few more startling contrasts than this. Hero and a Moses today; a discard to- morrow. | Hurtful Perform. Springfield (Mass.) Republican. Nor Is such a performance as that of the New York assembly, in defeating the in- come tax amendment to the federal con- stitution, calculated to improve republican prospects. This is sald with the utmost respect for Governor Hughes, who hi contributed so powerfully toward the re- grettable action which New York state has taken on this Important issue. Virginia and New York must now be counted in the negative; all tho other states which have thus far acted have favored the measure. And Massachusetts seems headed for unholy alllance with the obstructionist: Boycotting Trust Products, Philadelphia Bulletin. Secretary Dickinson's scheme to prevent thé purchase of trust products by the War department has received what seems to be a knock-out blow in the opinion of At- torney General Wickersham that the gov- ernment must buy its supplies wherever they can be secured the cheapest, regard- less of the source which offers to furnish them. While the policy of A governmental boycott for goods produced by combina- tione of capital condemned by the courts for unlawful acts was doubtless well meant, it was apparently not wise. The surest way to deal with the trust iasue is through the processes of the judicial tribunals, backed by whatever legislation is required to curb monopoly, ! —_— FAVORED SONS OF TOIL. Riches Pouring Into the Coffers of Fnrmers. Sfoux City Tribune. The farmers of the United States are getting rich. The output of the American farm Is doubling In valuo every ten years. Ac- cording to statistics glyen out by the Agri- cultural department at Washington the value of the wealth produced on farms in the United States in 1399 was §2,460,000,- 000, Ten years later it was $4,717,000,000 . Ten years later, or last year, it was u.?an,ow.-! 000. In our fierce scourging of the trusts and | in the nation-wide movement to enforce legal restriction of big business it is well enough to keep In mind that the farmer is dolng pretty well himself. These figures from the Agricultural department take no account of the tremendous increase in the value of farm lands. With the country doubling in popylation every thirty or forty years, and the demand for food growing more and mgre, there is no good reason why the bread and meat producing lands of Towa, Nebraska and South Da- kota should not double in value within the next twenty years. These cattle and hogs and corn and wheat lands that are worth $100 an acre now will be worth $20 an acre in few years. Why should these lands not advance from that to $300 or 3400, as the home demand for food advances? The outery of twenty years ago for jus- lce to the poor, down-trodden farmers s not heard any more in the land. The farmer still has something coming to him | in the way of lower and more equitable freight rates, and the like, but taking it all together, he is pretty comfortable and is not asking for sympathy. He has really become another class of Americans with sufficient repose to think, and thinking makes him a governor and government is getting better as he governs. P —— ASK THE STENQGRAPHERS., | What They Know Would Help In- vestigntors Mightily, Indianapolls News. The success of a woman stenographer of this city in bringing to light what appears to be serious Irregularities in the sale and delivery of coal suggests a field of possibili- tles for the investigation of doubtful busi- ness transactions that has hardly been touched. Next to the head of an estab- lishment—otherwise, and affectionately known as the boss—probably nobody knows quite 50 much about that concern's ways of doing business as its stenographers. And it is entirely possible that when it comes down to an actual matter of detalls the knowledge of the stenographers exceeds that of the head of the establishment. The stenographer occupleés a confidential rela- tlon with her employer. Indeed, the or- dinary employer places so much confidence in his stenographer that as a part of his plant he regards the typlst only a shade more serlously than he does the typewriter. Thus ghe secrets of the business are lald bare to her in a series of successive dic- tations. And on the whole doubtless the | typist Is safer than the typewriter, for the typewriter frequently’ makes & record that goes by mall into hands that may prove careless, while the utmost discretion is the most marked characteristic of the sue- cessful typist. Now while the stenographer's relations with her employer are of the most confi- dential nature, the secrecy of these rela- tions Is not protected by law, as in the case of a lawyer and. his client or a doetor and his patient. She can be required le- gally to testify to anything she knows in an investigation by, for instance, & grand {Jury, It is entirely probable that she would promptly lose her job if she did so, but that is merely one of the penalties of the profession. Besides, in a good many cases, no doubt, when the investigation was con- cluded there would not be much left of the job anyhow. Every bad trust in this country, every combination In restraint of trade and every law-violating business concern has one or more stenographers in its employ. It can {no more do business without them under can ‘avoid letting them Into the deepest secréts of the business that s done and the wals of doing'it. This Is the place where the man higher up, It he be guilty, must reveal himself in all his Iniquity When one reflects that no man is a hero to his valet, on# shudders to think of how the head of a bad trust must be regarded by the stemographer if she is bright enough to upderstand the conditions which sur- round her—and she generally ls. | OGrand juries on the trall of the trusts will do well to take these facts Into con- { party leadership. The Old Guard Bditorial Expressions on the Announced Retirement of Senators Aldrich and Xale Rest Well Earned. Washington Post (ind.). The senators from Rhode Island and Maine will exceptionally long and honorable service, and it s to be hoped that they will enjoy, in good heaith, a well-eatned rest. Significant Changes Brooklyn Eagle (Ind. dem.). The retirement of both signalizes the in the eastern what time is heading The significance of growth of republicanism states toward revenue reform, public opinion in the south toward protection. this is extreme. Am Honorable Career. Des Moines Capital (rep.). The country owes Senator Aldrich a debt He is a man of clean hands The senate will of gratitude, and patriotic purposes. miss his wise counsel and good judgment., The country will miss his patriotism and high mindedness. Future generations will do him honor, and the historian will rec- ord his good work. Change for the Better. Chicago Tribune (rep.). The prospects of the president's pro- gram brighten with the impending change in the senate, aithough that change will not come till the next session. Neverthe- less its moral effect will be widespread in lines of the party policies will more than ever assured. now be Age Thins the Ranks. Philadelphia Bulletin (rep.). President Taft has been relying on the support of what has come to be known as the “Old Guard” in congress—the men, who, like Aldrich, Hale and Cannon, were | the chief sponsors of the tariff bill of | 1909, which they forced upon him; but it looks now as if the active ranks of the “Old Guard” may be greatly trimmed down by age itself, even if not by politi- cal revolution, long before the close of his administration. Masterful Public Man. Providence (R. 1) Tribune (rep.). Perhaps Nelson Aldrich cannot be called a statesman, though If he should suc- ceed In his ambitions regarding the cur- rency he would command a new respect from even his present detractors, but he has certainly proved himself a very in- fluential and masterful public man and richly earned such rest and peace as all will hope may now come to a long, la- borfous and not always fairly judged life on which the evening shadows begin to fall. 0ld Guard Up Against It. Indianapolls News (ind.) All this can mean only one thing and that is that the people everywhere are deeply stirred. The old guard is up against such a fight as it never knew be- fore. It is not a strife between factions, but rather one between the people and those who have arrogated to themselves the right to manage their affairs and to dictate party policies. The movement is one for emancipation from the business- political control which has for so long oursed the country. About the Same Thing. Springfleld (Mass.) Republican (ind.) The ‘‘old guard” does not surrender; it resigns, which comes to about the same thing, Its two great senatorial chieftains leave behind them able lieutenants—Lodge, Root, Crane and others, and around these the republican leadership of the senate will doubtless be ‘reorganized. But Its power will not be like that of the depart- | ing leadership. It will have to bend more to the influences of insurgency within the party, or it will be engulfed. The old order has changed, and in the changing New England's great and long-continued prestige in the senate will suffer, Means Much for the People. 8t. Paul Plonoer Press (ind. rep) The old oligarchy was nearly always solidly arrayed against legislation de- manded by the country west of the Alle- ghenles. It opposed statehood for the ter- ritorles, bitterly fought irrigation, recla- mation and reforestry plans. It succeeded for years in defeating postal savings legis- lation and long referred favorable rallway rate legislation. It managed for years to shape all tariff legislation to suit the in- terests of New England and New York and nearly always succeeded in blocking any and all measures not indorsed by the big combination of eastern capital. The passing of the oligarchy promises to bring the people Into thelr own. Notable Changes. St. Louls Globe-Democrat (rep.). Some notable changes have taken place in the senate's membership in recent years, By the resignation of Spooner and the death of Quay of Pennsylvania, Hanna of Okio, Platt of Connecticut, Allison of Iowa, all republicans, and Gorman of Maryland, and Morgan and Pettus of Alabama, dem the personnel of that chamber has been altered in a striking way. By the retirement of Aldrich and Hale a little over ten months hence other gaps will be | made in the ranks of the “old guard. Hale and Aldrich will be missed, but their party will go right on legislating in the interest of political sanity and progress. New Chapter in Party History. New York Evening Post (Ind.). The growth of the insurgent movement is & manifestation of returning health that must hearten every bellever in democratic institutions, and must rejoice particularly every republican who recalls the days when | his party meant something quite different from tariff:worship, and sought whose value could not be measured in Wall street. _All signs point to the opening of a new chapter in the party's history; and it that chapter cannot be filled with a record as inspiring as that which filled its early years, every good republican may hope at least that it will free itself from the odlum which three decades of money-worship have brought upon it, by a sincere effort to deal wisely with the less inspiriting but more difficult problems of the present day. Signs of the Tim Boston Herald (ind, The general manager of the National senate never considered it necessary to go before the people to summon them to counsel with him. Such party leadership was his lald no such duties on him. But there has come about a new conception of The people are awaken- ing to their responsible part in politics. They are appreciating thelr privilege in the | control of legialation. leaders who can lead us as well as com- mand, and who wil ability to those whom they expect to fal- low loyally. The people are asserting thel right to control party organizations and demanding that they who furnish the votes are entitied to first consideration; even In preference to the speclal interests which furnish the funds. They are electing leave office with records of the congressional campalgn, since the path for progressive legislation along the | which is written unglossed by the critics. | | observation objects | |in public life and public honest. | throughout the world as the representative | recognlze account- | ANOTHER NAVAL CRUISK, A Practice Voyage and n Reminder Incidentally. Baltimore American. An Important record of the world tour |of the battleships of the Atlantic fleet {1 contalned In a volume of clippings In the Navy department, which gives ac- counts from papers the world over of the itinerary of the ships of Uncle Sam. This is a literary record, but the more practical record is found In the standard of efficlency attalned by the men who manned the ships, the demonstration of the worth of American shipbullding and the faot that the nations have accommo- dated their views to the United States as & naval power of the foremost character. The appropriate naval officlals are now at work upon plans for another tour of the ships that may be coextensive with the one that has entered into history as being unique In all respects, It appears assured that the American battleships which will include four Dreadnoughts, will make a cruise to Gibraltar, possibly on through the Sues canal, and probably to the far Philippines, returning after a voyage rival- Ing the historic one, save that the route would be reversed. Hampton will be the point of departure and the point of return. The former great voyage was not a show parade, but a practical cruise with ma- neuvers and technical work of a kind that duplicated the conditions under which the ships would be operated in time of war. The fleet, Indeed, went to sea with full complements of men, with magazines stored with ammunition, with stores and supplies exactly as though setting out for armed strife. The ships would have been ready for action at the drop of a hat. The con- templated tour will be of like nature, al- though the ships of the fleet will probably not be kept so close together as In the former case. It is planned to have them break up Into four divisions in the Medi- |terranean #o ms to permit a visit to the principal Mediterranean ports. President Roosevelt favored these occasional cruises upon a vast scale, believing they were the very best tralning possible for the Amer- lcan seaman and their officers. They will | doubtless feature in the future as & part of the strenuous work that will keep the Amerlcan navy fit. Such crulses will also enforce the fact that the United Stutes Is destined to be the foremost naval power. Follewing the wake of Colonel Roose- velt's tour, the projected cruise will keep the United States in the forefront of for- elgn nations and lllustrate the principle of peace and preparedness for War. Certalnly it Is important in the east to keep the people awake to the fact that the United States, through its Pacific posse slons, borders upon Asla and can never consent to relinquish in any particular the responsibilities it sustains to the trade of the orlent. RAGTIME PREACH Bishop Deplores ville in Sermons. New York Sun. Bishop MelIntyre of St. Paul, Minn., re- cently made an address to the students| seeking admission to the Troy Methodist | conference, in which he made a phrase whose aptness overbalances its possible lack of dignity. “Ragtime preaching,” sald he, “is not what is needed.” He deplored the pitchforking of poetry, politics, litera- ture, and travel talk into sermons, and told the candidates they would attain the only kind of success which a clergyman should strive for by ardently preaching the great truths of the church, but not by following the custom of clergymen who “serve religion cold.” Also, the bishop exhorted them to be content with small salaries, and not to seek continually for better appointments. *You will never lack money if you are faithful,” sald he. ‘I never knew an active Methodist minister who was In want." Sturdy old doctrine, the sort of talk which {s not the fruit of any kind of mod- ern thinking, of any faith diluted with an eye to expediency or an ear to Mammon, with a hand open for personal benefits or a foot turned toward the way of the scorn- ful. Steady, unswerving devotion to that Methodist Vaunde- Talk for fishermen apostles, missionaries, men with no marching orders except the| 0ld “Go ye and preach the gospel.”" After all, the pews respect that sort of talk when it falls from the pudpit. Tough old sinners know the difference between stralght talk like that, with its appeal to the hignest ethical instinct in man, even though the smell of brimstone has lost its power to move the soul. It is not reported that the bishop specified brimstone as an irgredient In the theological spring medi- cine whose administration he urged. But he knew, as everybody ought to know, that rosewater s not a tonic, and that the cnurch which depends on tawdry or even overornamental images of religion in place of simple exhortations to clean minds and pure hearts grows more pitffully ineffec- tive every year. No earnest, able man like Bishop Me- Intyre really condemns the allusion to literature or travel or politics which may drive home an incldental point. But he 1s evidently of the opinion that a preacher's work 18 to expound the Bible and to meas- ure men and actions by that rule and not to forget that he Is preaching instead of lecturing. There are men who do not like sermons, especially if they are long ones, Buch may stay away from a church where sermons are preached, but if the preacher has 3t In him to talk like Bishop McIntyre we Imagine he will not lack for listeners who will be the gainers by his words, and who will come back again'to hear more of them. —— A PROFO D OBSERVATION Concerning ihe Ten Commandments in Politics, Chicago News. | Tom Reed once made the sarcastic re- | mark that Roosevelt was the man who re- discovered the ten commandments. The | was more profound than the| maker of It roalized. Count Apponyl, in welcoming Rnosevelt | to Budapest, showed the world-wide ap- precation of the same trait in tion's popular leader when he sald: **With American politics we have nothing to do. You are a private cltizen In your own country, but you are recelved everywhere | in Europe with honors befitting the most powerful rulers. This s in recognition of the fact that you are the most conspicuous living representative of moral improvement If the United States furnishes the most revolting spectacles of dishonesty in public life, it 1s gratifying to know that at the same time the country's most popular figure 1s the man who stands pre-eminent of public honesty. Thls fact demonstrates | that the moral fiber of the great mass of | the people Is sound, Another Guess in 0 Wall Street Journal, Automobile men estimate that more than 5,000,000 a year is earned by the railroads through carriage of automoblles. An es- timate of what the farmer earns through | towing disabled cars is now In order. Dolug Quite Well for a Trust, Washington Star. It has been estimated that the steel| trust pays ap annual profit amounting to € per cent of the actual value of ifs prop- erties. The other % per cent is fpossibly | nowadays this na- |J SHADES OF OLD MARCUS! What Would the Copper King Thiy of This Spectaclet Cle nd Leader. “It is understood from maembers of family of Count Sigray, who marrled M Harriet Daly, daughter of the late Marcus | Daly, that the bride's dower was $6,000,00 Of this amount, however, only $60,000 will be immediately at the disposal of the brid groom, that sum to be applied to the sett ment of the count's debts. The comforta balance of $6,400,00 remains an America investment from which the young are to draw the Interest.” 80 runs a recent society note In a Nev York paper, and the shamo of the happer ing 18 8o common that it excited no com ment, notwithstanding its affront to the dignity and sanctity of marriage and the low standard of both manhood nud woman- hood which it implies. Here s & man, solon of one of the proud- est of Hungarian families, with a pedigree that stretches back to medieval days; hero is & girl, born in the land where woman- hood is rightly esteemed; delicately rearad; fastidious, like all of her sex, in vironment; proud of hey position ing In her money, using ft as & pedestal to raise her above the ruck of humanity and as a barrier to keep her aloof from the here, then, are a man and a woman, w It there's anything ennoblfng in birth ani claritying in weaith, should be models for the rest of the world. And yet there isn't a laborer on the strect who has less manhood; and millions of poor girls doing humble work hold them selves higlier. What would a decent workingman thinl of himself if he went to a girl's father and demanded that his debts should be paid before he married her; what would the girl herself, no matter how lowly her posi- tion, think of such a sordld, degenerato suitor; and what would the rest of the world accustomed to think of men as bravo and self-respecting and of women os fino and white-souled, say of such a pair? In this Sigray case, the American gl is the worse offender. The count who makes traffic of his title, has been brought up to such transactions, detestable as they are. But there Is no such excuse for the 8irl who consents to such & cheap and unwomanly bargain. No matter how badly the marriage turns out, she wil have bought her unhappiness with her title, ' PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE, Mr. Halley's high flyer rises without the aid of an alarm clock, Had the convicts Grigware and Murdock shown any abllity as posts they would not have had such a strenuous rum for Iberty. couple ) Has anyone observed loaves of bread swelling with pride over the reduced price jot wheat? A nineteen story shanty on Nassau street, New York, Is to be torn down to make room for a thirty story modern building. The mayor of New York has vetoed an appropriation for an automobile on the ab- surd ground that walking is good for an oftice holder, Senator Chauncey M. Depew says the fumor that he is to retire from the senate is “the premier joke of 1910." The point will be visible early fn November. ‘Tho Cornell professor who won a contest by smoking a cigar for eighty-five min- utes could have smoked considerably more had the cigar been longer, Bui if he was demonstrating something, there Is some curlostly to know what it wus, The first lady apothecary in Germany has succeeded In passing her examinations, She is Fraulein von Gusnaf, aged 2. She has now proceeded from Berlin to Darm- stadt, where she has been engaged as apothecary's help in a pharmacy there, Ladd Cheney, of Blue Job, N. H., who is 90 yesrs old, has been driving a team of horscs all winter; Willam Tebbetts, of Center Sandwich, who Is also ¥, does all his farm work unaided, and Calvin Col- burn, of Milford, who is 80 years old, is an active blacksmith, i POINTED PLEASANTRIES, “Some women lhaycen rious person. o “'Yes,” repliea Miss Cayenne, ‘‘they ara And by the way, did you ever notice a man Wwho was fixing himself up to have his Pphotograph taken®'—Washington Star. are terribly vain," “'Our baby has been so cross b X been cutting a toot e Y Wait and see how “That's nothing. crosser he will be when he's 0ld enough to have his teeth cutting him.’—Baltiitiore American, “You say she I Women's Corner?" No. She wrote 80 many articles on how to make over last year's hats that her re;fl:;l began to suspect she was a ma; no longer cditor of the “Why does a woman enjoy being sad over the misfortune of a tictitious heroine at a matinee,” sald he. now,” replled she. “Why enjoy scolding the baseball umpire about something that doesn't per- sonally concern him?'—Washington Star } “‘l suppose we will soon be hearing the Joke about the big fish that got away.” “My friend,” replied the\ fishermnan, with food atspresent prices the fish that gels away is not a joke. It is a calamity.”— Chicago Post. Your wife seems vexed with you.” “Yes," replied Mr. Meekton. “It's all my fault, ~ Henrletta was reading one of her Speeches to me. I grew !nattentive and broke in with laughter where the manu script called for applavse.’ —Washingtol Star. Creditor—I ask you for the last pay me $5 you owe me. | Debtor—Thank goodness! to that silly question time to There's an end that was an admirable speech you made at the club the other evening on the obligations of citizenship. I've been intending to tell you so ever since 1 heard it. We need more of that kind of tall But what are®you looking 8o gloomy about this morning, colo Ne bad news, I hop “Dash it all, yes! I've b = Chicago Tribune VANITY OF WEALTH. 8. E. Kiser in Record-Herald. He has fifty million dollars—more that, some pcople say; I coud live a year in comfort on his in come for a day; He has half a dozch autos and a yacht and private car He has servants who are richer than the greatest scholars are, But his wife is oft the subject of rude jests among her “friends,” And he has the kind of fingers that blunted at the ends. “Colonel, 1 drawn on a than He can travel where he pleascs, he can come and g0 at will; He can leave his work to others, profits pile up still; There are none to give him orders, none to bid him go or stay; When the monthly bii s are brought him they produce no new dismay; But he has a cherished daughter under alien skies Where her titled husband beats her for th sake of exercise. and his living He has fifty million dollars—tully that maybe more When be bathes a servant rubs him; th a footman at his door But his wifn will ss'dom suffer him to pase beyond her sight, An ho often touses wildly gen he ough he can ond to sleep, at night He can purchase Inrds and castles travel east or west But he can't induce contentment to reside sacrificed for appearance's sake, inside his vest. “ &