Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 23, 1910, Page 5

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Remit by draft, express or postal order payable to The Bee Publisuing Company Only 2-cent stamps received in payment of mail accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchange, not accepted Ge | ve | 3 West STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. of Neuraska, Douglas County, 88, eorge IS, chuck, treasurer of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn. says that the actual number of full and complete coples of The Dally, Morning, lvening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of April, 1910, was as follows: 1. Returned coples Net total, Dally averag: GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK, Treasurer. Subscribed in my presence and EWOrd to betore ms this 4 day of May, 1id. M, P. WALKER, Notary Puoile. —_— Subscribers leaving the city tem= porarily should e The B mailed to the Addresses will be changed as o About time to bulld that Platte river power canal once more. All we hope now ig that it will not occur to June to try to out-April, May. Oh, now; Mr, Astronomer, you have had a fair chance. Do not talk comet to us now. A Chicago paper has raised the ques- tion, “What to do with the Chicago river?” Can it be filled up? Those publio aehool contests, af rate, are highly s ul in making, the younsters expert lungsters, A Chattanooga paper wants to know how they éan harmonize the demo- cracy of Tennegsee. Give it up. Kick on the weather all you will, you must admit it has been a good season for catching grafters, eh Pitts- burg? It is to be noted, also, that Mayor “Jim" 18 not missing any chance to get offt his welcome-to-our-city speech these days Of course, if the Commoner were the only newspaper there would be no need of keeping the art of oratory and public speaking alive. Oklahoma {8 prompt in announcing the annuai advent of the tornado. We will have ours in this end of the tor- nado belt in about a month. The news reportsa say John D. Rockefeller, jr., has assumed the task of purifying New York. If so, he has at least tackled a man’'s job. Still, Stenographer Kerby will scarcely offer as one recommendation when he seeks another job, the reason why he was fired from the last. New Jersey papers are advertising the fact that there is health in Jersey's pine lands. Perhaps, but some people will decline to go there even for that ponsideration. San Francisco's mayor seems to have advertised his city as lidless not in vain. Ten national and one inter- national conventions are scheduled for that town this year. Congress appropriated § the expenses of the Ballinger-Pinchot fnvestigation and it cost so far only $15,000. Who says the economy streak has not struck Washington? Somehow we cannot help feeling about this question, “Can Jeffries come back,” that he has not a great ways to come, though he had gone a long distance in the other direction. Jacques de Lesseps duplicates the feat of Louis Bleriot in crossing the British channel in an aeroplane. Soon the channel will begin to think it Is not such a terrible thing to cross after all. Nebraska farmers will appreciate the report of Colonel Goethals that op- erations on the canal at Panama are proceeding as well as could be ex- pected in view of the unprecedented wet weather. ‘What's thi An Injunction against the strikers at Havelock under the |to Neutrality on the Canal. The resolution looking toward neu- trality of the canal introduced in the by Representative Keifer of Ohio seems to have every prospect of adoption as it should have. It seems meet the favor of the minority leader, Champ Clark and that of Mr. Tawney, a stalwart republican chair- man of the appropriation committee and of the president, so that its suc- cess should be assured. Such a resolution is essentially a measure in the interest of peace and commerce. It would be a sheer waste of money and denial of our boasted poliey for international peace to avold treaty arrangements with other coun- house us to fortify the Panama with forts and battleships. We might thus have to spend more money to make the canal safe from attack without the presence of men-of-war. At present only the United States and Great Britain are obligated to observe neutrality on the canal, just as they are on the Great Lakes, but under the terms of this resolution treaties would be negotiated with the other powers by which they too would subscribe to similar pledges. The pur- pose, i8 to establish a system of reg- ulation such as governs the Suez canal, toward which all the nations are neutral. Such an arrangement will make it incumbent on the United States tc do no more than provide adequate police patrol for the canal and the American property rights on each side of the canal will not be jeopardized, either. No Banking Monopoly. In an address to a group meeting of bankers at Hastings Governor Shallen- berger is reported to have advocated limiting the number of banks that may be chartered to do business in Ne- braska, his professed purpose being to prevent mushroom growth. An abso- lute limit on the number of banks to be chartered would, of course, be giv- ing those banks already chartered a legal monopoly which would be practical monopoly if the state were the only authority that could issue bank charters. It happens that the state is not the only authority with power to charter banks, so that the monopoly could not be effective unless a limit were also placed on the num- ber of national banks to be chartered in each state by consent of the comp- troller of the currency. But if the policy of monopoly were the right one for each state it would be equally de- sirable for the national banks, and would lead eventually to a complete banking monopoly. It {8 hardly necessary to intimate that the people will not take kindly to Governor Shallenberger's new scheme it this is what it means. Applications for bank chartérs in Nebraska are now passed on by the State Banking board, and this board should have, and doubtless has, authority.to refuse a charter for any good reason support- ing a presumption that the bank would be dangerous to the community. But there can be, and should be, no arbi- trary discrimination or personal pref- erence, but rather absolute equality before the law. for all who comply in good faith with its provisions. Nebraska is not ready for a bank monopoly, and ti¢ wonder is that the idea should have had to wait to be fostered by a governor elected as a democrat on a platform fulminating against all special privilege. Pugilism in Politics and Religion. Business, politics and religion are now involved In the Jeffries-Johnson fight to say nothing of sport and are bound to be important elements, no matter which man wins. The pugi- listic aspect has long been over- shadowed by the commercial and now the other two forces combine to crowd it still further into the background. To begin with a fortune is pat up in the stakes and many fortunes are comprehended in the revenue expected from the moving picture show, which Is by far the biggest feature in the whole extravaganza. These moving pictures are counted on to draw im- mensely at the box office and institute the commercial asset of the fight. Even the religious forces which are at- tempting to prevent the fight recognize this fact and are centering their op- position on it, more really, than on the fact that a prize fight is to be held in California. And in their disgust they have struck a responsive chord among most people. If the governor of California and other law officers think they are going to escape, the day of reckoning as the penalty for refusing to interfere with the big fight they are probably reckon- ing without their host. They are threatened with opposition from the church forces when they come up next time for election, for taking the posi- tlon that they are powerless to inter- fere. So we need not be surprised to have the Jeffries-Johnson prize fight- moving picture show-enterprise figure as the paramount issue in California politics state election. Remember the Fly. At last there is indication that spring means business, and after spring comes summer, but the first approach of warm weather netes the arrival of the housefly. People should regard it as no joke to join in a crugade against this dangerous little insect. Now that they know his propensities for dis- tributing disease germs they should not hesitate to curb them by killing the fly Flies breed best about garbage and shadow of Falrview? Still, what has government by injunction got to do with the initiative and re erendum snd eounty opua,-' refuse. This should be a reminder to all householders to see that their gar- bage and refuse are properly disposed of and kept as far as possible from the tries that would make it necessary for | al house, even while they must be kept at all Flies, of course, should be kept out |of the house, and especially out of a| gick room They wiil bring disease |into the house on their feet and also carry it out if they get into a room where a person lies ill. One way to keep flies out of the house is to keep food and milk and everything else that may attract them covered. But if the fly gets in the house he may be suc- cessfully combatted in his course of mischief. If you cannot hit him with sufficient force and =sccuracy every time to cause death, try a 5 to § per cent golution of formaldehyde with a little sugar and place it where you think the fly will be most likely to | light. The Municipal Year. In its ruling on a license case that there is nothing in the law to prevent the city authorities from making the muncipal year with reference to the term of licenses to sell liquor corre- spond with the municipal year for other fiscal purposes the supreme court makes possible the standardiz- ing of certaln features of our city gov- ernment and suggests other changes to simplify still further our adminis- trating machinery. While the point at issue in this case was whether lUcense holders should pay an extra $1,000 for four months' license be- cause of the change in the law making our Omaha Police board elective in- stead of appointive, it is of wlder‘ scope than that in its ultimate effects. The city and county now have their municipal years corresponding with the calendar year, but the school board still holds to an obsolete fiscal year running from June to June. It {8 this overlapping of the school board’s year with the calendar year and fiscal year of the city and county that has made our school board finances inexplicable. It would be highly advantageous to have the fiscal year the same for all our agencles of local goverament. This brings up another annoying discrepancy which should be remedied, namely, the diversity of the tax years which we must now submit to. Our city taxes are payable and delinquent at one time, our county personal taxes at a different time and our county real ostate taxes at still another time, pro- ducing utmost confusion to the taxpay- ers and entailing unnecessary expense on city and county and also on the in- dividual taxpayer. Tbore is no good reason why our varlous tax levies should not be consolidated so that one tax bill may be rendered for the whole amount due each year, even though they may be payable in semi-annual installments. Here is an opportunity for some constructive work by our financiers. Man Necessary Part of Family. The National Conference of Chari- ties and Corrections h made - the significant discovery that “man is a necessary part of the family.” It reached this goal through its pursuit of the problem of the widow's com- fort. So it has intimated that mar- riage is the remedy for dependent women and that therefore widows should wed. In his presumption mere man has flattered himself that he was not only a necessary part, but the head of the household, so that he may not go into ecstacies at once over this magnanimous concession, though he should accept it on the scriptural theory that we come up to our just reward by degrees, ‘‘First the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.” Certalnly it is most appropriate and must be conclusive that this con- cession should come from thosé good women who have never yet had the advantages of a husband, and must admit the lack of at least one essential to their complete happiness. The advocates of this theory left the intimation that man's necessity in the family rested on a financial basis. Of course this would be the natural in- ference, since it is declared that mar- riage is the remedy for the dependent woman., Necessity, of course, implies a sense of indispensability and does not stop at comprehending. privilege or even option, so that the fiat is quite restrictive in its limitations, conceding no more to man than he may be able o find or develop in the contingency f his future conduct. For which let man be duly thankful and hope, persevering the while, Contrasting Mr. Bryan in that measly little old Washington hall meeting and in that magnificent New York assemblage buried under a bower of such fulsome eulogies as ‘‘uncontaminated soul,” and ‘‘peerless philosopher,” certainly makes it seem that a “prophet is not without honor save in his own country.” Emperor Willlam's good taste and decorum displayed at the funeral of Edward VII has been taken as cement- ing the bond of friendly relations be- tween the British and Germans. In more than one way, the affliction of the king’s death has been turned to good account for the substantial wel- fare of his own country. 4 —_— Now, they have discovered after these dozen years that Colonel Roose- velt was wounded in his trigger hand as he charged up San Juan hill and that is why he could not shoot any better in Africa. What did they ex- pect him to do—devastate the jungles? And now Des Moines is undergoing an investigation of its water supply with reference to its sufficiency for fire-fighting purposes. If Des Moines MONDAY, MAY furnish a few water-logged statesmen who are practiced at spouting. The receiver of the Independent Telephone company returns its fran- chise In Omaha for taxation valued at $20,000. Judging from circumstan- tial evidence it cost the promoters all of that. The Toledo Blade takes a whack at one of its esteemed compositors by re- marking that a typographical error in the poet laureate’'s recent ode to King Edward made it worse than it really was. Mo Phenomena, Washington Star. One of the rematkable things revealed by Mr. Roosevelt's tour is the amdunt of enthusiasm that can exist when thera is no base ball game, Au Vutgrowih of Freedom, Brooklyn Bagle. Representative Walter 1. Smith of Towa wants to prohibit any printing by news- papers of stories about prize fights. In a free country freak contralety is to be expected. Closing Out Sales, St. Louls Globe-Democrat. Another large tract of government land Is soon to be thrown open to settlement. The day is fast approaching, however, when Uncle Sam will be obliged to retire from the real cstate business. Need Looking Into. New York Sun. There must be something radically wrong with the examination system at Annapolis when a elass of young men who have already passed the test at their graduation go to sea for two years only to find on their return that practicaily halt of them are rejected and presumably retired to private life. Public Criticism, Baltimore Amerlican. The governor of New Jersey says he would not’ seek an elective office agaln on account of the severity and annoyance of public criticism, This eriticlsm may be sever and sometimes unjust, but It is necessary, as the check of all others in this country, on official conduct. The people are the rulers and they have the same right as have other employers fo express dissatisfaction with the public work not done according to thelr wishes, Thelr employes may, like others, tom- plain of it, but they cannot avoid it; in- deed the brave among them rather court it. The best course to pursue is to de- serve as little as possible of severity in it The Public Should Be Shown. Philadelphia Ledger. If the increase of rallroad passenger and freight rates has really been made necessary by the increased cost of rail- road operation—the advances In the cost of supplies and in the rate of wages paid—the changes will doubtless be made. But the public may reasonably ask that the necessity shiall be demonstrated to the satisfaction of Smpartial and disin- terested experts, it any such can be fouad. It was upon the same principle that sane-minded people objected to the indiscriminate attempt not many months ago to impose arbitrary limits upon rail- way passenger faros/ especially in view of the fact that no! steps were taken to ascertain the actull conditions governing the service performed or its cost to the carriers, In all fairness the public in entitled to a reciprocal consideration. PREVENTABLE LOSS, An Industrial Problem of Natfon- ‘Wide Importance, Boston Herald. Haf a million persons in the United States are injured in accldent each year. The estimated economic loss by reason. of these accldents is a quarter of a billion. The bulldings consumed by fire in the United States each!year If placed on lots of sixty-five feet frontage would line & street reaching from New York to Chi- cago. A person journeying along that street would meet an injured person every 1,000 feet, and at every three-quarters of a mile he would see the charred remains of a human being. We are paying a tax for the preventable loss of $366,000,000, or enough to build the Panama canal. These startling figures are presented by Mr. Ferd C. Schwedtman, chairman of the committee on industrial Insurance of the Natlonal Manufacturers’ assoclation. They are backed by official figures from United States statistical authorities, They are the summons which calls the American public to prompt consideration of the problem of conserving resources of the nation. Next week when the Natlonal Manufacturers’ assoclation meets in New York, it will de- vote almost its entire session to the dls- cussion of industrial ‘accidents, and means for thelr prevention, This is an industrial problem of no mean Importance, for directly or indirectly in- dustry must bear the burden of this need- less waste. Employers' liability laws, cem- pensation acts and statutory regulation of factory appllances and laws compelling tho proper protection of the life and health ot werkers, are generally assoclated In the public mind with so-called “labor" legislation, suggested and promoted by labor organizations and forced an unwills ing employers. It |s significant that the Natlonal Assoeiation of Manufacturers, a body of employers, has undertaken an ex- tensive campalgn to ‘educate employers to the Importance of equipping thelr plants with labor-saying devices, to devise means of preventing accidents, to offer its ald in every way toward advanced legislation insuring to tho workingman more imme- diate and just compensation for accidental Injury, enforcing on the employer a larger degree of responsibility than is defined under existing. liability laws. Our Birthday Book May 23, 1910, Henry M. Teller, formerly United States senator from Colorado, was born May 2, 18%, at Granger, N. Y., and is there- fore S0 vears old today. Mr. Teller led the freo silver bolt of the St. Louis conven- tion, and was even mentioned in connec- tion with the presidency as a sixteen to one candidate, W. T. Thompson, attorney general of Ne- braska, s 49 today. He was born at Fen- nimors, Wis., and practiced law at Central City until he became deputy in the attorney general's office, and later was elected two terms as attorney general. Weldon 8. Heyburn, United States sena- tor trom Idaho, was born May 2, 1862, in Delawaro county, Pennsylvania. He is & lawyer by profession, and has been in the senate since 1903, Willam H. Clark, secretary and tres: urer of the Nonparell Laundry company, is Just 9 He was born In Vineland, N J., and came to Omaha in 1889 from Indians to take a position with the Cudahy Packing company, which he retained for fifteen years untll going into his present needs outside experts Omaha might|busy T, Where Kings Rest Westminster Abbey First of Eng- land’'s Royal Tombs, with Wind- wor Second in Number. Ot the thirty-six relgning kings quest only fifteen have been Westminister abbey, while ten have Interred at Windsor, Including the buried more. cate that royalty regards Windsor present and future burial place of land's kings and queens. Other roy graves are widely scattered. the New York Sun, noted in history. was burfed at Caen, France, that In those days BEngland was but Rufus, was burled at Winchester, tho shrine of the great Saxon King Alfred the Great, a fitting sepulchre for kings. Henry 1. the youngest son of the Conqueror, died in France, but his remains were taken to England and placed in the magnificent abbey which he had built at Reading, now in ruins, Stcphen, after a turbulent reign, found a resting place in what was then known as “the king's little town of Fervesham." Henry Plantagenet, who died at Chinon, found a grove among the plous monks at Tontevraud, and so did the llon-hearted King Richard. The hand of King John, who signed the Great Charter, rests In Worcester cathedral. Although the hallowed dust of King Fd- ward the Confessor was placed in his “New Church” at Westmiuster it was afterward taken to the palace nearby, where it re- mained until the relgn of King Henry 111, who removed the Confessor's coffin to its present place in the abbey. Henry III was the first of the Norman kings to ha burled there, although his heart was sent to the abbey at Fontevraud. His son, Edward I, erected the tomb over his father's remains, which is still one of the sights of the abbey. Edward I, ‘Longshanks’ was buried at Westminster, and as late as 1774 his tomb was opened. He was dressed in his royal robes, with a sceptre in his right hand. The body measured € feet 2 inches. The tomb was fastened securely In the presence of the Dean and Chapter. His unfortunate son, Bdward II, was burled at Gloucester, but his grandson, King Edward 111, was Interred in Westminster. Richard II and his “Good Queen Anne" of Bohemia were buried In Westminster, but his successor, Henry 1V, expressed a wish to be buried in Canterbury cathedral near the grave of his distinguished uncle, Edward the Black Prince. Henry V, probably the most popular king of England, for “England neler lost a king of so much worth,” rests in Westminster abbey, and his tomb Is an object of inter- est. The first king buried in the Chapel Royal of St. George's, Windsor, was Henry VI, surnamed “Henry of Windsor,” for he had been born in the castlo, and It 18 re- markable that his rival and successor, King Edward 1V, was bured in the same chapel, and thus the two roses of York and Lan- caster rested together In the same temple, and it Is here that after the lapge of more than five centuries “Edward .the Peace- maker” will be burled, whose ancestry can be traced step by step to those first two kings Who found a sepulchre at Windsor. The remains of the young King Edward V when they were found in the Tower were carefully interred In the abbey by order of King Charles IL The body of Richard, who had “made poor England weep in streams of blood.” was flung into a grave at Leicester. The erection of the chapel at Westminster by Henry VII and his burlal there are matters of history, but it is a curious circumstance that his son, Henry VIII, was interred at Windsor, while his three children, Edward, Mary and Elizabeth, were buried in West- minster, the remains of the two sisters belng placed in the same tomb. Jame I was burled in Westminster, but his grave had been entirely lost sight of until at last Dean Stanley brought to light the huge coffin which had been placed in the vault of Henry VIL The Dean In- vited Dr. Tait, the archbishop of Canter- bury, to be present at the opening of the coffin. As the lild was raised the dean sald:. “Let us stand aside so that the first Scotch archbishop may be the first to look on the remains of the first Scotch king of England.” King Charles I, after his exe- cution at Whitehall, was burled in St George's, Windsor, and as there Was no name on the coffin it was opened in the presence of the prince regent (George IV) and then carefully sealed. James II was buried at St. Germaln, France, where he died expressing a wish that eventually his body may be taken to Westminster. Willlam III and Queen Mary 11 were entombed in Westminster, and also Queen Anne and her nineteen chlidren, not far from the grave of Charles II and sev- eral of his illegitimate children, Oliver Cromwell, hough he had the body of “Charles Stewart” to Windsor, left careful instructions that he should have a royal grave for himself in the ab- bey. Visitors to the abbey are stlll shown “Oliver's vault,”” but the body Wi at the restoration of Charles, taken from the vault and treated, as Dean Stanley sald, “with every dishonor which a poor revenge could sui e George 1 was burled at Hanover, George II, in Westminster, George 111 and George IV at Windsor, and Queen Victoria et Frogmore, near Wind- T ”'rn-n have been no kings Interred in Bt. Paul's cathedral, and only one royal prince, John of Gaunt, the “time honored Lan- caster” of Bhakespeare, whose descendants occupy nearly all the thrones of Europe ex- cept that of Turkey. Kensall Green has one royal tomb. It s that of QGeorge, duke of Cambridge, the uncle of Queen Mary III, who requested that he should be placed beside the body of his morganatic wife, Miss Fairbanks. The late king attended the funeral. e e A Comstructive Party. Cleveland Leader. It this administration program-—or this part of the work the president has hoped that congress would finish during the pres- ent session—can be gotten out of the way before final adjournment, the republican party will be able to go before the country once more as the great constructive force in national affalrs. It can again ask the support of the people of the United States with & strong appeal to the practical com- mon sense of the masses who realize in the final test, that nothing s of much value in public business which cabnot be brought to tangible results. —_— There Are Others to Come. ‘Washington Herald, A democratic optimist has discoversd that the coming of a comet may fore- shadow possible democratio victory. 1f Halley's comet falls to turn the trick, this gentleman may console himself with the reflection that. another one salled away Into space in the early 80's that will return in 800 years, and queens of England since the Norman con- in been | Inte Kirg Edward and Queen Victorla at Frog- The two later burials elearly indi- the | ng- | A writer In in calling the roll of | former monarchs, points out their resting places and soms of their characteristics as Willlam the Conqueror thus showing a colony of France. His son, King Willlam When Then be careful. their freshness and strength are called for, it’ To ~famous for uniformit; | Jean for fres| lavor and best carefully in_milling are sealed in air- m{h If not al name ane oo, ™ ONE oLD DING POOR LO'S MO — How Pinchot's Burenu Dug Into a Tribal Fuand. New York Evening Post. “Grossly unbusinesslike conduct” is the charge made against one of Gifford Pln- chot's subordinates in the bureau of for- estry by the Indlan commissioner, and if tho facts are as stated most people will wish that some dramatio punishment could overtake him, even though not the slightest criminality attaches to his actions. For elghteen years the Menomince Indians worked hard at lumbering on thelr reser- vation, making a profit of $3,500,000, which, with other revenue, gave them a tribal fund of $3,000,000. Then came a declsion to place these lumber-making Indlans under the control of the bureau of forestry. Fd- ward A. Braniff, a recent graduate of the Yale forestry school, soon made the money fly. An Injurious act passed by congress cost the Indlans about $700,00 of their profits and then Mr. Braniff helped on the ®00d work. For unnecessary roads $10,000 was expended; for improving a stream $50,00. The stream was to have floated logs down to the saw mill erected by Mr. Braniff, but atter the $50,00 was expended 6 per cent of the logs carelessly declined to float or lost a large part of their value while in the water—such are the advan- tages of science when given to Lol Mr. Braniff's lumber mill cost $264,700, with a capacity of 45,000,000 feet of lumber, when the law permitted the cutting of only 20,000,000 feet; unnecessary expense heré, $120,00. The saw mill being carefully erected alongside of a marsh, $6,00 was spent In piling to make it a good lumber yard and $82,00 worth of lumber used In piling will s00n have to be replaced. Altogether @ wise congress and the for- estry bureau seem to have done away with at least §1,000,00 of the Indians' savings and the forestry buredu incidentally has shown itself totally unfit, in the Indian commissioner’s opinion, to conduct a simpl lumbering enterprise upon a busiriess basi: Now it would be unfair to the forestry bu- reau to condemn it generally for one such ghastly mistake—particularly scandalous because the government abused a sacred trust when it forced such a loss upon its own wards—but it is just this sort of blun- dering that s, we belleve, responsible for much of tho feeling in the west against tho forestry bureau. With all due regard for Mr. Pinchot's eminent service, which we have always fully appreciated, we be- lieve that abler executives can be found Chicago people are taking the pledge not to kiss anybody, and, if the other person sees them first, will have no difficulty in keeping it. Mrs. Taft has become a member of the Washington Humane soclety. She sent in her application a few days ago. Mrs, Taft has always taken a great interest in the work done by the humane soclety in Cineinnatl, A farmer in North Dakota, who has re- sided in that state seven years, admitted under oath that he did not know the name of the president of the United States. It is scarcely necessary to add that he was accepted as a juror, Miss Blanche Stuart Scott has started from New York for her cross-country au- tomoblle tour to San Franclsco, running her own machine without a chautfeur. Ml Stewart lives in Rochester, N. Y., and says that the distingulshing feature of her tour will be that it will be an entirely “manless” attalr. The list of aspirants for the republican nomination for governor of Wisconsin now includes: Lieutenant Governor John Strange, Captaln Willam M. Lewis of Racine, Francls E. MoGovern, & leading lawyer of Milwaukee; Senator H. W. Barker of Sparta and Senator E. T. Fai~ child of Milwaukee. One can hardly imagine Sir Hiram Maxim, who celebrated his seventieth birth. day recently, in the prize ring, and yet he Not so very far from The Bee office 18 & merchant wha has been in busi- ness for twenty-five or thirty years, and he has never advertised. He will tell you so himself; in fact, he is proud ot it, and when you eome to think of 1t it is quite a feat to stay in business thirty years without advertising. To all questions as to why, his an- “I am doing very well with- And so he {s, doing very well—nothing more. He has a fine store, excellent goods, charges falr prices, knows merchan- dizing, but he has never told the peo- ple, never taken the general public into his confidence. Year after year he has been content to “‘do very well.” If all men were content with “very well” this might answer, but they are not; abler men have entered the fleld, men who are never content, men who make the success of today the stepping stone to a bigger success for tomor- row. Men who have seen the possl- bilities of advertiging their store, their goods, thelr prices, their knowledge to the people. Btores have grown up all around this contented man, big stores with big men at the head of them; they are |erowding him; he is not doing so well; he s losing ground every day. The surface of advertising possibill- ities In Omaha hasn't been scratched. . |™nts 1s @ big community, and it 1s)salenne will be Rat-tasting and insipid. particle of their fine seasoning properties Then, as soon as ground, they 3 t boxes—no chance for air or moisture to weaken or cause deterioration. Spices are dependable —always uniform—always the best. Ton ‘here .E two kinds of spices— TONE BROS., Des Molnes, lowa. Blenders of the celebrated A . . the Recipe Calls for Spice— Make sure of your spices, Don't take chances with spices u!m Imvr; lost or your cooking When spices always best to use BROS Spy [t hness, for strength, for cooking results. " Every guarded SAlcON CINNAMON MUSTARD SHov PEPPER ALLSPICE PENANG CLOVES NUTMEQ JAMAICA GINGER ETC., ETC Tone’s your grocer’s, send as hi 10c. " We will send reg. il pack d our cook s Spicy Talhs. ROS. and “others.”* QOLDEN COFFEE. confessed that In his young days he though ot adopting a pugllistic caveer. Dut wh he was 14 years old his inventive faculty made itself mogifest. As a lad of 4 he invented & whetl hub and a clpckwork mousetrap; then he evolved the first In- candescent electric lamp; in 1884 a kicking gun gave him the idea which ulthnately resulted In the deadly Maxim. PASSING PLEASANTRIES, “I'll tell the public that eve to mee this play,” sald the press agent. “Don't do that," replied "th& manager. “The plays people flock to seo arc those they oughtn't to.'—Washington Star. ybody ought Optimist—He has an honest face. Pessimist—You can’t always go on that, Optimist—What makes you apply that axiom in this case? Pessimist—He borrowed my favorite novel and my umbrella.—Baltimore American. ‘‘What relation,” added the “did Plato sustain to Socrate: answered the young man with was the end man. He got off the gags. Plato was the interlocutor,” ~Chicago Tribune. Instruotor, “DId_you see that vaudeville performe who puls on a suit of clothes while en: cased In a tight-fitting metal ““Where'd he learn It, in a Houston Post. Husband—Say, Lottle, what been copying Biankem's catalogue for Wite—I haven't been copying Blankem's catalo all—that's just my shopping list —Harper's Bazar. Do you belleve in fate?’ he asked, as he snuggled closer. ');W.ell,” ;lmxwer-dhlho girl, “I belleve that what's golng to happen will happen.’— Cornell Widow. ot i i 'Why, even her smile is artiticlal.” “Good heavens! Do you suppose sho ought that at a drug store, too?" “Maybe she did, Men have been known to buy smiles at drug stores.”’~Bingham- ton Age-Herald, | be 1 Church—I feel some eoncern about my son. Qotham—You mean the one in college? Church—Yes; you see they are talking of abolishing foot ball, Gotham—Oh, 18 he a foot ball player? Church—No, but he's studylng to be a surgeon!—Yonkers Statesman. “I see where Jorkins was so badly in- Jured in the street that he had to be taken 8 hospital, Do you know what was tho knockout drops.” Two bricks dropped on hin head rom the new bullding he was pass- tate THE FOLLOW-UP-EE. Douglas Malloch in Puck, Oh, I am the Follow-up-ee— The fellow Who gets ev'ry letter From folks who have something that's better They're anxious to sell unto me. 'Twere useless to fly or to flee— 1 know that the letters would find me; Wherever 1 journey I see Processions of letters behind me. I've moved, but the letters were there— (I'm sure there is some one who tattles)— ‘While the van was unloading my chattels The carrier stood on the stair Piled high with my regular share Of purple and blue imitations Describing some wonderful ware, With suitable recommendations, John Jones, who has autos A letter & week would all He wrote me, and wrote me—and got me. He writes 80 exceedingly well He got at la neath the spell. 1 struggled a1 @l struggled—and fell; I read what Le said—and I bought it. But thy Wh to sell, ot me. e sure-enough “follow-up” man s labored the hardest to reach me Is the one who Is willing to teach me To master a “follow-up” plan, He tells me just how he began, And says, it I only will try it, He'll prove how an article can Be boosted so millions will buy it. Let me say, as a Follow-up-ee, The tip that I really am needing Is not any scheme of succeeding With form letters 1, 3 and 8 The thing that's attractive to me Is not any ‘follow-up' system; The plan that I'm seeking, you sec, Is some kind of way to reaist ‘em! Talks for people who sell things growing. Let's get together and grov with it. Advertise in The Bee and teil 1560, 000 people about your store every dey. Team work is a big factor in the success of any retall business—pro- prietor, manager, heads of depart- ment and salespeople, cepecially sales people, all working toward a common end. We lay stress on ‘‘Salespeople,” be- cause to our way of thinking a trained and efficlent corps of salespeople {s most important. You may have the best goods manu- factured, but without & trained sales- force your goods will remain on your shelves. The man behind your counter is your personal representative, your cus- tomers judge you by him, you are held responsible for him to the same extent that you are held responsible for tue goods you ofter for sale. A pleased customer 18 a good adver- tisement, and good treatment wili go far toward pleasing your customers Gentlemen, the right sort of good: advertised with the right sort of copy to 160,000 people every day will get the customers Into your store, but up to you to hold them, The Bee will furnish the -du-n‘&-» matter and the readers, but you must do your part by furnishing traiucd t 1