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

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REMITTANCES. s 40 Hemit by drafy, express or postal vrder payable Lo ths Tee Tuvlishing Company. Only 2-cent stamps received in payment of mail wccounts. Personai cirecks, except onl Omaha or eastern exchange, not accepted. U Sein 1 STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. County, #8; { o B. Tzschuck, surer ¥ 53 “bll-hmg Company, being dul; !won:‘. ways that the lwhll nimber of full un complete c g‘h: DNIId 4 Evening und“ printed a 3 month o y, 1910, was as follow 41,300 17 Net totat Dally average. GEORGE B. TZSC Bubseribed'In my presence and sworn to t day of May, 110, betoro mo thls st day of May, LAY Notary Publie. porarily ‘should have 'The B matled to them. Addresses will ax often ms requested. ] A Baltimore man has just taken his bride for a 16,000-mile honeymoon walk. The piker! —ee There were thifrty suicides in Phila~ delphla during May. Appropriate number for the finish. [ “Straws point the way the wind blows,” but'this June weather has not yet let many of them out. e Again Dr. Cook declares his inten- tion to &0 forth once more as a dis- coverer. Oh, please, dector, don't. — New York is golng to spend $125,- 000,000 for water. And yet some folks say the water wagon has passed on. With the sundry ciyil bill and the rallroad bill out of the way, congress can proceed to a speedy finish it {Twill. “1'd rather be speaker for two years thi United States senator for eight- een,” says Champ Clark, Whom has he got 1t in for? ? Convict Erdman should have no dif- fieulty in getting his old pal and fellow reformer, Elmer Thomas, to testify to Strong Points in the Bill. Unquestionably the railroad bill which has passed the genate contains many provisions of the most vital ben- efit to the ‘people and will, when further shaped up in conference, be ac- cepted as & remsonably satisfactory measure. It is'not to be expected that the bill ghould meet every demand of | extremists in or out of congress, but it is encouraging to realize that it is go0od enough to obtain the voté of every republican genator and six democrats. Even Senator La Follette saw so much virtue in it that he yoted for it in spite of the failure of many of his amend- ments. The most conspicuous clause in the bill is that providing for a court of commerce, and, while the ultra consti- tutionalists express doubt of its valid- ity, the practical side of the provision will strike a popular chord. The larg- est gingle {ndustry in the country, ex- panding, with such constant strides, requires a tribunal of exclusive jufis- diction as much as the people’s inter- ests require it and the proposition for co-ordinating the powers of the court with the federal judiclary ought to se- cure u safe and direct harmony of action. This arrangement will tend to lighten the burdens of the regular courts and thus make for more speedy hearings in other classes of litigation as well, The long and short haul clause, over which there was mote debate than any other except the court of commerce, represents a compromise, but fortu- nately one in which all elements appear to have agreed. Of course the insur- gents claim a distinct victory by make ing it impossibie for a rallroad to charge more for a short haul than long one unlees authorized by the Interstate Commerce commission. Insurgent or not, the provision promises & wise safe- guard, and there was another amend- ment offered by the insurgents, which, it germane to the vital subject matter of this bill, would not have weakened it any. That related to the limitation of continuous employment of any man to fourteenm hours. This proposition looks both to the physical wellbeing of the employe and the safety of the pub- lie, which is always at the mercy of the trainmen. The passage of the bill by the senate marks another long step for the ad- ministration toward the complete per- formance of its legislative program against the most persistent and aggra- vating obstacles and clears the track for other measures of scarcely less im- portance. Knox Scores a Triumph. The type is hardly cold on an edi- torial in a fault-finding paper criti- cizing Becretary Knox's policy in Nie ragua and concluding that it “has doubtless weakened American prestige in the Central and South American re- publics,” when the report comes that the secretary of state's offer of media- tion between Peru and KEcuador has been accepted by both countries and that they have agreed to end their preparations for war which have been in progress for months. ‘Whatever may have been the effect of Becretary Knox's conduct of the Zelaya case, it certainly has not weak- ened the prestige of the United States in that part of the world, but, if any- thing, has increased that prestige, if the Peru-Ecuador situation is to be taken as a criterion. The acceptance by these two coun- tries of the Knox terms of peace is a his reputation. J ——— “Elihd Root refuses to tell what Mr. Roosevelt said to him,” says a head- line. Monstrous; what can Mr. Root be thinking about? Chinese ghouls, we are told, are desecrating graves to get hair for ex- port. Might think of this when you buy your black switch. . —— That California pugllist who killed bis opponént in the ring and was con- visted of manslaughter doubtless argued also that “it was just a boxing mateh.” —— It the British Lion at home thought by throwing its jungles open to the colonel, it would escape getting its tall twisted, it proved to have a foolish thought. Judging from the visible earmarks that verdict for damaj for $16,- 666.67 looks like a compromise—in fact, the whole case looked compromis- ing trom the start. - The Philadelphia Press says, “Look- ing for gubernatorial booms in Penn- sylvania is like looking for com you don't see them.” What, has the job fallen into such disfavor. Now, since Bt. Lo has arranged that aviation meet, they might revive that classic old lullaby, “Meet me at Sain Loulee-Loulee, Meet Me at the Falr.” Oh, you Forest park chigres! —— Mr. Roosevelt is engaged to speak in twenty-four states. Another proof that Mr. Hearst was right when he said the people were anxious for Mr. Roosevelt to quit his public speaking. ' few eminent Nebraskans mentioned as possible can- United States senator, but to planking down $50 be overcome by reluctant hesitation. triumph for the State department. The South American temper may be ever so quick on the trigger, but the fact re- mains that animosities of long stand- ing existed between these states and their amicable adjustment had been despaired of up to the time of the Knox proposal, and even then other diplo- matg appeared to give no great cred- ence to the hope of averting hostilities. It is not 8o much because a mighty war has been averted, but rather for the sure proof of American influence in the south, that this example in diplo- macy must be viewed in the United States with complacency and dispas- slonate consideration. The Peru-Ecuador dispute originated over boundary difficulties and serves to recall the fact that the United States has been signally successful in settling boundary controversies in South Amer- fca, the most conspicuous triumph be- ing in the case of Venezuela. The Human Side. The loss by President Taft of his cap and gown on the eve of his ad- dress at Bryn Mawr serves only to re- call the embarrassing aecident that happened to him in Russia, when, as the guest of the czar, he was just about to take the carriage for @ public function given in his honor. Then at Bryn Mawr he also lost his overcoat and his aides were unable to find ft, so that he had to board the train without it. His cap and gown, to be sure, turned up, but not until he had ad- dressed the youpg women in his erdi- nary business suit. Of course, there is no particular thought of gloating over the presi- dent’s dilemma, but it semehow does the ‘rest of the human family a little g0od to know that, After all, they and those in highest stations are subjeet to the same annoyances; that forgetful. ness spares neither age nor rank. Parents often scold their ohildren when they forget, saying if their minds were on what they were doing burg. In the former case one might well imagine that the chief executive of the nation felt a little embarrass- ment in being obliged to face the grad« uates of so ceremonious a school as Bryan Mawr in his traveling suit, and certainly it requires no stretch of the imagination to come to the conclusion that delnylyx a royal banquet until a tallor,could stitch up a pair of trousers would tend to ruffle a man's disposi- tion. Of course, a man with the affairs of @ great nation on his mind might be expected to forget such trifiing mat- ters as those Imposed by fickle fashion, and then, too, trousers are liable to rip no matter to whom they belong. But Just the same it is just such little un- foreseen occurrences that constitute the “touch of nature that makes the whole world (feel) kin The Governor's Perquisites. Secretary of State Junkin has gone to the trouble of compiling some fig- ures to combat the current impression sedulously spread by interested par- ties that to serve as governor of Nebraska involves a great financial sacrifice because of the inadequate compensation. It is true that the salary of $2,600 fixed by the comstitu- tion strikes most people as ridiculous, and when contrasted with governors’ salaries in other states makes Ne- braska look decidedly parsimonious, but Mr. Junkin calls attention to the numerous perquisites thaf have gradu- ally attached themselves to the gov- ernor’s office, and which, when added together, make a figure which is not necessar{ly discouraging. In addition to the $2,500 salary the governor of Nebraska has free use of the executive mansion, for whose maintenance an additional $2,600 a year is provided, and an extra allow- ance of $840 for a special care-taker. The governor also has a traveling ex- pense appropriation of $500 a year, the whole totaling $6,340 plus rent- free use of the mansion. This leaves out of account a few little perquisites like flowers furnished from the insane asylum conservatories and potatoes from the penitentlary farm. The office of governor, therfore, measured a8 against employment by some pri- vate corporation is worth in dollars and cents to the incumbent not less than $7,600 a year, which is not so bad considering what most of our gov- ernors would have earned if they were working for someone else than the public. In this connection Mr. Junkin omits to note that all these perquisites are pocketed by the govermor in direct violation of the letter and spirit of the comstitution, which expressly declares that he shall receive a salary of $2,600 and that neither he nor any of the other state executive officers shall “'re. celve to their own use any fees, cosf interests, pefquisites of office or other compensation’ in addition to that pre- soribed in the constitution. We have had governors who conscientiously re- fused to draw an appropriation for house rent, but gradually the barriers were broken down and the supreme court kindly came to the rescue by finding an underground passage by which the compensation could be in- creaged by calling the perquisites “equipment of ofice.”” Instead, there- fore, of having the salary of our gov- ernor known and fixed, it has come to depend upon the bounty of each suc- cessive legislature in responding to the entreaties and lobbying for liberal executive mansion appropriations. If some future supreme. court should some day get back to the comstitution there might be need to raise the gov- ernor’s salary, but so long as it is elas- tic and expansive under this fake “perquisite” system the people will hardly be distressed by the financial sacrifice cry. Ex-Governor Folk's candidacy for the democratic presidential nomination in 1912 was launched at a Idve feast attended by 400 Missouri democratic politiclans. No message was read, how- ever, from the head bogs at Fairview sojourning in London. It ex-Governor Folk has not yet secured his ticket-of- leave he had better apply at omce be- fore he gets in bad too far. No signs yet on the part of Gov- ernor Bhallenberger of calling that extra session of the legislature to in- itiate the referendum in Nebraska. What s foxy governor! He must have known what he was doing when he made the condition precedent that three-fifths majority of all the mem- bers should sign up an agreement to vote “‘yes" on the scheme. In the course of his Detroit speech, the president happened to remark with reference to congreas, “and I hope they will do something final before the summer is ended.” ‘“Before the sum- mer {s ended.” So he has evidently serv.d notice on the chautauqua ora- tors that they are expected to stand by their guns. That reminds us, our overworked Water board twice adopted lengthy resolutions setting forth how exorbi- tant and excessive are the rates ex- acted from water consumers in Omaha. The {ssue was sald to be lower water rates, ‘not next year nor next month, but now.” What about it? Roosevelt should be silenced should himeelf undertake the job when Mr. Roosevelt returns. But let him arrange Wwith the undertaker first. The explosion in the moving pic- ture theater at Norfolk, with the nar- row escape of women and children in the audience, admonishes the proper authorities in Omaha to check up the numerous moving picture shows in this city and to enforce the adoption of every precautionary measure for safety. A stitch in time saves nine, and careful inspection of these amuse: ment places may save some lives. ——— One of our spicy contemporaries in- timates that the plan to raise a $50,000 campaign fund by church contributions to {inance the anti-saloon movement in Nebraska this year may, account for some of the jostling and shoving among the head push of the reformers. We'd hate to think that The Subsequent Victors. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Smuts, Sauer and Herzog are the names of the three leading members of Premier Botha's cabinet. The Boers have con- quered, after all. A Light that Fails. Indianapolis News. Somehow the theory of the raliroads that a general increase in frelght rates is necessary to protect the general public doés not seem to penetrate. Speak from Experience. Philadelphia Ledger According to Mr. Bryan's paper, the democratic party s tn no mood to be trifled with. A man who has trifled three times with this respectable organization ought to know. Putt t “on the De Bufalo Express. The accused sugar men are putting the blame on officlals who have passed be- yond the reach of earthly law. The living, with prison staring them in the face, cannot afford to be squeamish about loy- alty to the memory of the dead. Nearing the Damger Line, Boston Transcript The chaplain of the national house of| representatives may have with perfect propriety prayed for deliverance from muck rakers, but when the he coupled muck rakers, but when he coupled liable to the charge of seeking to affect th coming election. Chaplains cannot be too careful In selecting sins to be re- proved. ’ Joke on J. Muil Baltimooreo American. With their usual slowness to see a joke, the English are just beginning to realize what & joke on themselves the giving of the freedom of Londoon to Colonel Roose- veit was. But it is just dawning on them; they have not wakened up to the full Im- port of the fact that the lion's tall has been subjected to a strenuous twist. Baltimore American. One of the most touching Incidents of Decoration day in New York was the hom- age pald at Grant's ‘tomb by eix old veterans In gray, and the recognition of this tribute by the veterans in blue who stopped to exchange a brotherly handclasp with thelr former enemies. If anything could show that the rancor of that conflict has passed away such &n incident as this ought to do it Visions of the Alr. Springtield Republican. The vision of 10,000 military aeroplanes in time of war, sweeping actoss the contl- nent on a campaign of invasion is Hudson Maxim's contribution to the discussion of the flying question. And it must be ad- mitted that the flights this spring, between London and ‘Manchestér, And between Al- bany and New York, compel more serious attention to aeronauties In war time. It should be remembered, however, that these flying squadrons' could never conquer a country or even a oity until they came to earth, and that when they did land their troubles would begin. DR. KOCH'S GREAT WORK. Invaluable Service Rendered the World by German Investigator. Philadelphia Record. | About thirty five years ago Dr. Koch rendered invaluable service to the world by his investigation of anthrax or splenic fever, a disease greatly dreaded by owners of cattle and sheep. This discovery ralsed Mm from the position of a country doctor to & world-famous medical authority and gave him the opportunity of studying tuberculosis, the germ of which he isolated nearly thirty years ago. Tuberculin, which he invented, has not proved, as he hoped, a specific for tuberculosis, but it has been a valuable aid to doctors in dlagnosing the disease in human beings and animals, but chiefly in the latter, becausé there are other m: of ertaining If a human being has the disease, Dr. Koch declared that tuberculosis was not communicated from animals to man- kind, and medical opinion in this country and England has strongly contradicted him, and it has been repeatedly stated that he had been refuted. And yet at the recent meeting In Washington of the National So- clety for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosls a resolution was adopted, based upon exhaustive investigation in New York, saying that only about 2 per cent of the cases of tuberculosis can be traced to milk and these are wholly among very young echildren. The position taken by these American experls was very nearly as comprehensive as that which Dr. Koch had taken, and which had arrayed against bim most of the Emglish-speaking doctors. HAD HIS MEASURE TAKEN, Response (o the Solemn Challe: from Fairview. New York Sun. A question that would be tragic in tone It it were not decidedly humorous In sug- gestion, and that would overflow with pa- thos If it were not chock full of material for mirth is addressed to Governor Judson Harmen In today’s number of the Com- moner by Hon. Willlam J. Bryan: “‘Are you ready to have your measure taken?" Without waiting for OOVGrlzor Harmon's reply we venture the unofficlal conjecture that the democratic governor of Ohio fs, in faot, getting ready to have his measure taken. That s to say, we belleve from var ous Indications that he and many of his friends and admirers, including the ob- servant mayor of this town, are awake to the possibility that the democratic national convention in the early summer of 1912 may nominate him for president of the United States, and that the Hon. Judson Harmon may consequently become the subject of measurement early In November of that same year. We advise Governor Harmon to respond to the solemnly uttered challenge from Lin- coln. Surely Mr. Bryan has the right to know, he himself having been measured In the sense aforesald not less than thrice, as follows: Electoral Willlam McKinley Yo Willlam J. Bryan. Willlam McKinley. William J. Bryan.. . Willlam H. Taft. William J. Bryan. The peremptory question, therefore, pro- ceeds from one who has had his own meas- ure taken.: 6, 1910. Around New York Ripples on the Ourrent of Life as Seen in the Great Amerioan Metropolis from Day %o Day. A drastie reorganizallon of the welghts and measures of New York City has been effected by Mayor Gaynor, and the new appointees given sharp orders for en- forcement of law against short welghts and measures. Cheating by these means is notorious, but extremely difficult to deteot and punish. In the poorer sections of the city, where the people are obliged to purchase food and fuel in small quantities, they are cheated right and left by short weights and measures. The need of a vigérous cam- paign for honesty and fair dealing Is apparent, among sellers to well-to-do, as among the cheap cheats of the poor. The president of & butter com- pany charged with marketing short-welght packages of the product defended the prac- tice in these words. “From churn to table the butter is never for a moment exposed. Now, under these circumstances, how the dickens can you welgh butter without welghing its envelope? Our butter is put in heavy cartons of pasteboard, all paraf- tined. They cost 3600 a carload, and we cer- tainly are not going to give them away. No, the packages are not labeled two pounds, They are merely known as two- pound package! Each carton decreased the butter welght three ounces, so that the actual quantity of butter in a two-pound package was twenty-nine lnstead of thirty-two ounces. The purchaser pald the butter price—3 cents & pound—for the weight of the car- ton, which netted the butter company a much higher percentage of profit than the butter. “Now, you little rascal go and get ‘kid- napped’ again, and you'll be welcomed home in the same glad manner,” exclaimed the perspiring father of 12-year-old George Hymanowitz, of 48 Rockaway avenue, Brownville, as he released the yelling boy from across his knee and laid aside & well- used slipper. “Just give him one more for me, please,” requested Police Captain Isaac Frank, of the Brownville station, who approved heartily of the operation that had just been finished. “‘And one for me,” and ‘A couple of more for me,” chimed in Detective Charles Lowe and Philip Hoorter. “Gee, I felt like I sat on the comet,” George later ruefully contided to & chum. “I won't sit down for a month.” George disappeared last Thursday after- noon. His parents searched frantlcally for him. The police took up the hunt on Fri- day when hia mother rushed into the Brownville station and showed a postal card inscribed in pencil saying: Send $500 at once to Saratoga lots or your kid George will be out up and shooted in pleces and killed rite knowe. Saratoga Park, Saratoga avenue and Hal- gey street, also known as Saratoga lots, has been used for several days by a Wild West sw. The police hunted the show grounds and found George. The gypsy queen and Hindu princess who tell your fortune for a cent in the phonograph rooms give it to you printed on a card. High in a 8 case and life- in form the lady s with one hand outstretched over an array of playlng cards and when you have dropped your cent in the slot In the machine’s base the lady up &bove moves her hands back and forth over the faces of the cards before her and looks very wise and then in a moment there is popped out to you from below a bit of pasteboard on which you will find your fortune. - The newest of these fortu tellers talks it right into your ear; she is calied the telephone girl. Like the others, the telephone lifesize, high In & glass case on tal containing the mechanism; but the ap- paratus is somewhat different. Here you find arrayed, over which the hand of the tigure sways, the same layout of playing cards; but here instead of a raven perched at the fortune teller's elbow you find ris- ng fromn the table In front of her the curved arm of the telephone transmiter, which is placed at a helght convenient to e telephone girl's Iips. thA! onz corner of the base of this ma- chine is the slot to put the cent in, and on the other corner of the customary hook hangs & telephone receiver. Drop a cent in the t and place the recelver at yw: ear and “There is trouble in store lor'ynn says the telephone girl, ‘but den't b.e alarmed, yow'll come out all right, Don't Jean on others, but trust yourself and go ahead,'” and so on. When a navy bluejacket begins to ob- jurgate the paymaster's eyes for the qual- ity of the grub and opines that the ‘fore turret’s starboard gun crew could not hit the Mauretania at 100 yards, his malady is called “the grunts." MINISTHRS SALARIKS. Innccurate Impression Conveyed by Springtield Republ “Salaries of clergymen average $56 a voar In the United States''—so0 reads a Wash Ington dlspateh lately sent out over the country giving a small summary of the results of the census taken in 198 and now | about to be published. It cannot be said to convey a listed accurate Impression. | With the exception of the Methodist and | Baptist bodies, the larger and best known | denominations show average ministerial | salaries much above the given average. | The Unitarian averages $1682; Protestant Eplucopal, $1,22; Universalists, $1,288; gen- eral convention of the New Jerusalem, $1,283; Jewish, $1,222; Presbyterian, 81,1 Reformed church, $1,170; United Presby- | i Congregational, $1.082, and Presbyterian, $1,08. Quite often, In addition to the salaries as appearing in | the census, the clergyman is provided with housing, and funeral and marriage fees | and the like provide some additional source | of revenue, often considerable. Probably | it cannot be maintained, on the basis of | the above avera that eclergymen are | greatly underpald, as compared with the averages obtaining in other professions. | When it comes to the Methodist Potestant body, for example, which shows an average below even the low average for all de- nominations—below $633 a year—it must be sald that complaint of underpay seems to be well grounded, even after taking into consideration .such gains from free rent and fees as have been noted D T —— RATE RULING SUSTAINED, Supreme Court Eases @ Short Ha Mol Kansas City Times Justice for the people living west of the Missouri river, and the correction of an anomalous freight rate situation based on conditlans that no longer exist, are the results of the United States supreme court decision declaring valid the order of the Interstate Commerce commission requiring & reduction of 15 per cent in the freight rates from Mississlppi river to Missouri river points, on through-billed freight The rallroads charge, on first class freight, 8 cents a hundred pounds for the thousand-mile haul from New York to the Mississipp! river and # cents for the 800-mile haul from the Mississippl to the Missourl river. Relatively to the distance the rate west of the Miss!ssippl river is two and a half times the rate east of the river, There are no conditions which justify such a wide difference. The present rates Were established at a time when the trafflo west of the Mississippl river was relatively small and may have been justified at one time on the ground of the relative density of traffie. It is a conceded principle of transportation that a large volume of frelght can be hauled at & cheaper rate than a small volume. But no such ditfer- ences exist at the presant time between the density of traffic east and west of the Mississippt river, as to justity a rate per mtle 250 per cent higher for the west end than for the east end of the haul. —— RAILROAD INCOMES, | Frelght Rate Squeese Shown to He Indianapolis New The declaration of the shippers that road profits have steadily and largely In- creased is supported by the Financial World, which finds from an original ex- amination of the officlal figures that since January 1 twenty-three railroads have in- creased dividends, resumed payment of divi- dends or declared Initial dividends, and that raiiroad dividend increases over 1909 amounted to $15,008,708. On the other hand, sixty-three industrial corporations in- creased, resumed or declared initial divi- dends involving a dividena increase of $42,- 621,00 more than 1%6. Commenting on this state of affairs the Financial World says: “If these figures prove anything, they | show that both the rallroads and the in-| dustrial companies have been fairly pros-' perous and that their incomes have been increasing substantially to offset the in- creased operating expenses.’’ Porhaps the suspicion is justified that the raliroads are demanding a good deal more in the way of rate advances than they ex- pect to get, in order to have a basls for advantageous compromise. This is an old and often muccessful method, but under the circumstances it seems rather un- worthy of the rallroads and even danger- ous, because public sentiment is by no means so complaisant or credulous in re- #ard to such things as it used to be. [ — Mediation ana FPeace. New York Tribune. The acceptance of Mr. Knox's plan for mediation between Peru and Eenador and the widespread popular and official commendation of it in other South Ameri- can countries appear to have put a pretty effectual quietus upon the chatter about the peacemaking work of the last few It means that Jack ls “sore on the sy jce"" and is screwing up courage to “§0 over the side’—desert. They had a ‘“grunter” on the Montal which eame up Saturday to the navy yard from the Tompkinsville anchorage. In some manner the grunter got over the side. A mob of men, women and children ai- vined his purposs and chased him into Alderman Cornell's barn at Clifton. The executive of the Montana gave a de- tachment of bluejackets shore liberty for the purpose of going back to Clifton for the recaptured ‘‘grunter,” because he is the crew's mascot, & healthy, highly intelli- gent pig, black as & cosl-pas Laura Hays, 3 years old, was playing in front of her home, 111 Bast One Hundred and Twenty-sixth strest, when she got her head caught between two plckets In an iron fence. 8he squirmed and wri d in vain. Several hundred persons gathered around her, including her mamma and there was & great wealth of suggestions. But Laure stuck. A policeman worked awhile, then called two firemen with erowbars. They couldn’t push the bars apart. An ambulance sur- geon came from Harlem hospital, but he had nothing in his surgical case that would release Laura. Then Lieutenant Kellehar had a brilliant jdea. He sent for some vaseline, had it heated until it was liquid and rubbed it coplously to the posts. Soon, Laura's head, after half an hour of captivity, slid out eas- ily and gracefully amid wild cheers from the crowd. Our Birthday Book | June 6, 1910, Nathan Hale, the famous American pa- triot who was hanged as & spy during the revolution, was barn June 6, 178, In Coven- try, Conn. He ' gave up the school he was teaching to go Into the revolu- tionary army? and was one of the first martyrs to the cause. Bamuel Dickis, champion of prohibition, whs born June 6, 1881, in Canada. He was one of the managers of the prohibition campalgn in Nebrasks in 130. He has been cheirman of the prohibition national com- mittee. and is now president of Alblon col- lege, Michigan, » years having. been undone. The policy of this country toward its southern neighbors remains unchanged and it is being pur- sued with efficlency and tact. The Gun Was Loaded. Philadelphia Record. The poor raliroad companies do not ap- pear to have reflected when making thelr last move to raise rates of frelght and passengers that the government, gun | Miss Estelle PERSONAL NOTES. fiying and gray cloth cap Aviator Curtiss, when when not so fly, wears a little and bites his moustache. If the weather man would ealendar for a minute, he might ¢ that this is the accepted time for pienios, Thirty-six Indictments against grafting public officlals, puts Schenectady, N. Y in the Pittsburg class, and gives Illinols a run for the jackpot The oldest mald in the country Is believed to be a resident of Duluth, Miss Victoria Kaschura, & native of Germany, who lives with her niece and is 14 years old. Over $1,000,000 worth of Panama hats has been pinched by the custom house authorl ties In New York. The weather man is not the only enemy of the sumfor head study the | plece. In a race for the first marriage license issued In the Borough of Bronx, N. Y., Gettings beat Miss Mary O'Connell by a neck. The Iatter's front tire run shy on air on the last lap. Edwin Gould, jr., aged 16, will be mora of & man at 26 for having learned how It feels to be footsore and hungry. That Is a bit of knowledge that in some way or other every millionaire's son should acquirg The record of 120 in the shade at Yuma Ariz., lends new point to the old story of the wicked soldier, long stationed there who, departing this life and going to his own place, had to send back to the fort for his blankets, Canada has lost one title to fame—its smallest man, and one of the smallest in the world. Edward Hupman, 35 years eld, dled recently at his home in a Nova Scotis village. His helght was two feet nlue inches and he wpighed thirty pounds. Miss Nettie A. Long is sald to be the only woman in America who owns and manages an Automobile station. The gar age 1s known as the Lake Shore Auto Sta- tion, and Is In Chicago. She has been In the business more than two years and pe: sonally inspects each car before it is al lowed to leave the garage, * CHEERY CHAFF. Mrs, Youngwed—I make the bread rise. Floorwalker—Alarm clocks second aisle to the right, madam.—HBoston Transcript. want something 1o “Ther a fellow out in Chicagh who has written & book to prove that a college edu- man's career.” Why, many of thé best ball signed right out of American. 's a lovely avimotor you've got, Ann. Did you buy it here in New ] Ann—-Yes, it I8 bully for speed and ei durance; just the sort of machine would want to make end-week visits San Francisco or Palm Beach.—Baltimore American. ‘Do you find the cost of living any higher than it was, say, tive years ago?"’ “'Yes, sir. Two of my daughters have got married since.”"—Washington Herald, I see they have stopped kissing at rail- way stations in France because it delays the trains.' “‘Um. When it comes to kiesing one's best #irl good by, what is a rallway system, anyway ?"'—Life. er fohgit, son,” said Uncle KEben, ‘dat @ soft answer turns away wrath. But remember also dat de effect will be mo' lastin’ if you mixes in some hard sense.’ whington Star, Nan—I'll say one thing for poor Tootie, though; she has lots of nerve. ‘an—Nerve I8 a feeble word for it. She has a mouthful of false teeth, you know. Well, one day she asked me if it hurt to have one's teeth extracted?—Chicago Rec- ord-Herald, The re of, the plnk sheet wera dis- cussing exploit in puttvg ap,end to the career of Goliath. “Of course, that doesn't land him in the heavywelght' pugllist class,' they said, but it qualifies him as a slab artist in any major league base ball club. For In every age of the world, be it ob- served, your true fan has been prompt to recognizé real talent.—Chicago Tribune. * ROSARY OF MY TEARS. Father Ryan. Some reckon thelr age by years, Some measure theil' life by art, | But some of their daya by the flow of their And life by the moans of their heart. The dlals of earth may show The length, not the depth of years, Few or many may come, few or many may go; But our time is best measured by tears, AR! not by the silver gray That creeps through the sunny hair, And not by the scenes we pass on our way— And not by the furrows the finger of care In forehead and face have made; Not 80 do we count our years; Not by the sun of the earth—but the shade t our souls—and the fall of our tears. For the young are ofttimes old, ! Though their brow be bright and fair, “'hlln.thelll:l hlood beats warm, their hearte cold— O'e{nm m the springtime—but winter is e And the old are ofttimes young, When their hair is thin and white; And they sing in n,e as in youth they sung, And' they laugh, for thelr cross was light. But bead by bead I tell The rosary of my years, From & Cross to a crown they lead—'tis of strife tury of sleep; d of a long stream of life and tears of the deep. A thousand joys may foam On the billows of all the years; But never the foam brings the brave back passengers that the government gun now. Talks for people Buying Advertising. Do not try ‘“to be a good fellow” with regard to your advertising just to please the newspapers. Do not use space in newspapers simply because they are urgent in solieiting your ad- vertising, or because you are afrald you are going to offend the newspaper in which you do not advertise. Selecting a newspaper that will bring eatisfactory results for your advertising is a common sense proposi- tion. It Is not necessary to be a Sher- lock Holmes to be able to walk into a man's library and form a fair estimate of the occupants of the house by a glance at the books on the shelves. Are they serious or frivolou Are they people of culture, or low taste? Are the books there merely to satisfy their vanity, or have they been read? These and a dozen other questions an- swer themselves at the flrst glance. Pick up a newspaper and you can tell a great deal about people who read it. Does the paper appeal to the intellect, or to & depraved taste for the sensa- tional? Is the paper an educational, or a demoralizing force? Is the paper truthful and sincere, or is it shallow and careless as to the veracity of its statements? Is it clean, or unclean? What kind of advertisers use the pub- lication? Those that seek to sell home— It reaches the haven through tears who sell things goods on merit, or advertisers whose statements are, on, the face of them, fraudulent, or copy {8 unclean, and which must reach an unintelligent or depraved audience in order to pay the advertiser? Answer these questions with regard to & newspaper and you will know its readers. A newspaper Is the dally history of the whole world's happenings for a period of twenty-tour hours. The front page is sup- posed to contain the most important news. This page shows not only the editor's estl- mate of what were the most important things, which happened during the last but also refiects the character and in- of the reader. Is the trial of some profiigate, arrested for murder, which 18 given & leadline half way ‘dcross the page, the most important event happening in the whole world? Is the Alsgusting story of a divorce in high soclety the thing which should bé recorded as thé most im. portant event of the day? This must be the opinion of the editors of a certain varlety of newspapers, as told by their front pages. Look aver the front page of another paper on the same day and you will find the real history of the progress of the warld, a record to which future writers of bistory will refer. One fs & newspaper and the other merely the worthy c r of the dime novel, which has been driven out of the field by this so- called “yellow journal.” Select & newspaper In & communiy, vhich goes to the people who think. T are certain publications In every co munity, which represent the best of (hey American jornalism. Intelligent people @4 Intelligent buying e ’ ant " € ¢