Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 30, 1910, Page 6

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Uiy é-velil miataps Bl ACCuWALS, el Vgsia ur' sealeiln eXchAURe, L acvepled. Daily Daily baiy Duuy Vi UF CLISCULATION. BLALO OI svvu.aska, LOUgIAS CUULLY, B8 George B, Asscauck, ueasuier Of di Beo Fuvisiiig ColpaLy, velnk Wiy BWOLL Bays Luke luo BCLuML HULIDEE UL LUl siu Suiupicic Luples ol Lhe MY, BVenios auu bubdey bee priicu durig bue WOLLA UL Mky, LU0, WS e LOUUWSE I Returneu Coples . Net Total ... Dully Average . Bubscribed in my presence and sword (0 Jelore me this slst day of May, Wl M. P, WAL, Notary Fubue e —— . ] Subseribers leaving the oity tem« porarily should have The Hee mailed to them. Addresses wili be changed as often as req wsted. And think of a Georgia legislature meeting in this kind of weather. It is snfl_n toss-up between the golden rule ‘and the big stick as Shib- boleths of authority. Mr. Hill has been made a doctor of laws, but even at that e cannot doctor up the statutes to suit. Is this Harmon boom really a move- ment for the governor of Qhio, or sim- ply anything to beat Bryan? Colonel Watterson thinks Kentucky should advertise. Well, what has it been doing for the last fifty years? The renomination of Governor Pat- terson in Tennessee prompts the in- quiry, Will guns be barred im the campaign? It Colonel Roosevelt's Cairo speech bas already come to bear frult in the execution of the premier's assassin it was not delivered in vais :Magna Charta 18 to be read from the steps of the New York City hall on the Fourth of July. Reno does not need that sort of spur to its patriotism. —— While putting motoreycle policemen {n uniform, the plain clothes detective should also be labeled so the crooks may have a signal to duck at first sight. i S—— The original Peck's bad boy is re- ported to be dead at the age of 40. Go on, Peck’s bad boys, like the Tom Sawyers and Huckleberry Finns, never dle. And now it is intimated that the Tesignations of those anti-Saloon in- surgents were only anticipating sum- mary ejection from the organization. Perish the thought! President Taft goes to Beverly for a well-earned vacation. He has put in some hard blows for the people and they will not begrudge him a restful summer at his cottage home. ——— Our democratic congressman wants it distinctly understoood that he has a habit of running for only one office at & time, and only every other year when he does not take a trip to Europe. ——— ‘What should be done with paving contractors who keep our streets torn up for weeks and months without vis- ible offort to complete the work and open (hem to trafic? Don't all speak at once. ——— J. Plerpont Morgan has added his little epigram to that of the late Mr. Vanderbilt by saying, “I don't care what the public wants.” This really does not cofne as any great shock to the public, for it had just about begun to suspect it —_— Omaha is to have a fine new foundry and iron works establishment added Important Judicial Ammnhunh Bix judicial appointments are to be made by President Taft within the near future and general interest at- taches to his action. He must name & new associate justice of the supreme court to take the place to be made va- cant by the retirement of Justice Moody and five judges to constitute the first court of commerce created under the provisions of the new rail- road rate law. The Transmississippi country, from the river to the Pacific coast states, is without a representative on the su- preme bench, and while these appoint- ments are not determined by geo- graphical selection, there is no reason why Justice Moody's successor should not come from this great section, which was in the field with candidates for the late Justice Brewer's placa which the president gave to Governor Hughes. In view of the rapid devel- opment and the diversity of industries in the west, it would be well if this section were permitted to furnish a member of the supreme court thor- oughly familiar with its own peculiar interests, well, not only for the west, but also for the court and the country- at-large. A fear has been voiced in the east that the president, who makes the original selections for the court of commerce, is likely to name one or more of the present members of the Interstate Commerce commission and the objection is urged that, while ex- perfenced enough for the place, the na- ture of the commissioners’' service would tend to disqualify them for these new judicial functions, since they had so long been dealing with railroad rate matters from the stand- point of the prosecutor. We believe this fear is not well grounded and that the president may be trusted to make no appointment that might jeopardize the success of this court of commerce, which is largely of his own conception. Bidding for Tourists, The ancient capital of Austria has gone into the business of advertising for tourists, with a preference for Americans, who, of course, have the most money and are the best spenders. This advertisement appears in many newspapers: WANTED-Tourlsts from forelgn coun- tries, America preferred; all sorts of in- ducements offered; visitors have only to make known their demands. Address City ot Vienna. Evidently the lines of competition for these desirable American tourists with their plethoric money bags are being tightly drawn and Vienna, which perhaps has not been getting its share, proposes to go after the game strong this year. Thls suggests that the American tourists might reap some benefit from the competition them- selves. If they are so desirabie why not capitalize their popularity? Why not demand certain exclusive conces- slons, in the form of rebates if they wish, or otherwise? ,But why should the preferred American visitor not get more for his money than the other fellow? Still, what Vienna is doing in this way to build up a profitable tourist business may contain a hint for some of our own enterprising cities. If it is worth while for Vienna to make an extra effort to get this business during a few brief summer months, it surely would be worth while for an American city, which has sinilar attractions and inducement to offer, to make a similar bid to keep some of the money at home that now goes abroad. We are accustomed to let the resort keepers and railroads do all the pro- motion work to build up and stimulate the tourist traffic. But if it is a pay- ing proposition to them perhaps it might be made to pay the cities them- selves to trump in with them and do | team work in exploiting their drawing cards. Quite a Remarkable Verdiot. It {8 remarkable that a New York grand jury specially called for the pur- pose after six months of exhausiive investigation finds that no organized white slave traffiic exists in that city and it must be exceedingly gratifying to the best citizens all over the land to have this assurance. The chief sig- nificance of the jury's findings, how- ever, lies in the fact that J. D. Rock- efeller, jr., who gave so generously of his time and vast means to combat what was believed to be a systematic movement of this character, was fore- man of that grand jury. This tends to give a ellmax of authority and in- tegrity to the verdict and to compel its acceptance in the best of faith by the peope generally. This is a splendid vindication for the fair name of New York, in which good people everywhere must feel a degree of satisfaction, and if it indl- cates that no such ‘organized system exists in this country it ought to give us still greater gratification. As to those persons who gave currency to the charge with such reckless zeal, the judge to whom the grand jury sub- mitted its report seems to have hit the keynote when he sald: “It is a mer- ited rebuke to the slanderers of this city.” White slavery, so-called, is an atro- clous crime that ought not to be tol- to its industries. Every manufactur- ing plant acquired adds to the popula- tion by giving employment to wage workers, and likewise helps boost bus- iness generally. Qur good friends down at Lincoln are trying to make a wet and dry lasue ‘out of an election to vote sewer bonds, 80 that if the bonds are carrfed it will be a dry ry, while if they fall the wets will . Looks a little far- fetched at this distance. “w i erated anywhere, but defaming char- acter, whether of an individual or a large body of individuals, is an atro- cious crime that should also be se- verely dealt with. Those zealots who made these sweeping charges which six months of laborious Investigation could not sustain probably would ex- cuse themselves by saying that they ught 80, but that does not miti- gate the great wrong they have done New York and other cities. This verdict ought to teach the im- portance of knowing what one is talk- ing about before making such serious charges. ober-minded people are often deterred from lending their in- fluence to worthy moral and social re- forms just for the reason that they lack confidence in so-called reformers, who, as in this case, when the test comes, prove to know absolutely noth- ing of their own knowledge, but base al their wild defamation on hearsay or imagination. Sporadic cases of white slavery un- doubtedly exist in this country and the federal government itself has taken steps to break it up, and while this grand jury report censures the instiga- tors of unprovable cuarges, it offers no comfort whatever to any engaged in this criminal business. Not a Question of Cowardice. The Omaha Bee seems to take consider- able pleasure in publishing from time to tlme anonymous articles reflecting upon the administration that Dr. D, 8. Wood- ard is giving to the Lincoln insane asy- lum. We desire to say, In the first place, that this anonymous business is mean and cowardly; and, in the second place, (hat Dr. D. 8. Woodard bails from Aurora, and that in this community, where he has been well known for years, he is respected and estecmed as a man of character. There is no one in Aurora who would for a moment believe Dr. Woodard capable of doing the small, mean things with which he is charged by this Bee correspondent, who has not enough manhood to sign his name. —~Aurora Sun. if there i8 a place where no question of cowardice is raised in giving pub- licity to an anonymous letter it is in institutions where helpless inmates are completely at the mercy of those ac- cused of mal-administration and abuse of power. The inmate of the Lincoln Insane asylum, who wrote to The Bee, referred to, had “enough manhood to sign his name,” but the editor of The Bee deliberately withheld it from pub- lication apprehensive that it might get the writer into trouble. The effect of that publication was described by the same correspondent in a letter, whlch reads: Dr. Woodard is mad. The employes say he is “greatly disturbed.” He is “going to find out who gave that information to The Bee if it's the last thing I do in life.”” He also Las said, “It's a bitter pfll to swallow.” The exposure of the special at- tendant fake and the cut flower deal created a sensation in this neck of the woods, and it i{s true every word of It That inside information should get out is what hurts Dr. Woodard. 1 am placing a whole lot of confidence in you, so keep my name away from Dr. Woodard, It cer- tainly would be bad for me if he should find out where The Bee gets its informa- tion, The “anonymous business” s evi- dently not so “mean and cowardly” as the mismanagement business which it has exposed, and which the good dem- ocratic doctor has not been able to dis- prove. No one will take the trouble to dispute that the doctor is “‘respected and esteemed” in the community “where he has been well known for years,” nor that he earned some kind of a fat job by doing nomln service for the democratic ticket. But for all that the unfortunate insane, who be- come wards of the state, are entitled to the very best care and treatment which can be provided for them, but which they have not been getting since our democratic governor put all the official positions on the -political pie co\nnter. . The special grand jury which has been making a thorough investigation of the subject 1n New York reports that it can find no evidence of any or- ganized trade engaged in what |is called the ‘“‘white slave” traffic. A little while ago we were told by our sensational yellow journals that a branch of the international organiza- tion ot “white slavers” had agents do- ing a regular business in Omaha. But if there is no such organization, of course, it can have no branch in Omaha or elsewher: The city of Omaha has been en- Jjoined from opening a street across a railroad track without compensating the railroads. If that is to be the rule, as perhaps it should be; it ought to work both ways with the railroads compensating the city when they ask to have a street closed. All the troubles of the anti-Saloon league workers are always charged up to paid agents of the breweries work- ing inside or outside of the ranks. In the present schism of the Nebraska reformers, which side is under suspi- cion with having connected with the brewery pay roll? Hoke Smith is again grooming him- self for another race for governor of Georgla. Perhaps Hoke has his eye on the democratic presidential nomi- nation. It would be interésting to have a marathon between him and Harmon—two members of Cleveland’s cabinet. 1t seems the first duty awaiting Mr. Bryan on his home-coming is to con- stitute himself an arbitration commit- tee between Brother “Charley” and “‘Met,"” at least one of whom has got- ten off the reservation during his ab- sence. ‘“When the cat's away the mice will play. — ‘With Governor Harmon and his fol- lowers in Ohlo refusing to stand aside and the democrats of his own te turning his picture to the wall, Mr. Bryan must feel that the title, “Peer- less Leader,” is only ornamental. Life at Oyster Bay is sedentary. The colonel told the newspaper men the only exercise he could get around was cutting down trees and pitching hay. Must seem mighty tame after a season in Africa. New York will not hold a world's fair to commemorate the three hun- dredth anniversary of the settlement of Manhattan island, as the committee of business men appointed by the| mayor to consider the proposition has| reported adversely on it. Make way for New Orleans and San Francisco. Imprimatare of Fafthfulness. Washington Post Most congressmen go back to the bosom of their constituents with u sense of duty well done, to say nothing of an appropria- tion for thelr distriot. ribe of IMint"” Wonders. Chicago Record-Herald United States Senator Gore says he was offered a bribe of $0,00. Various mem- bers of the lllinols legisiature will wonder why in the world he didn't take the money The « oM Tra Democrat. In referring to the changed aspect of af- tairs f congress and the eapacity of repub- licans to get together, a democratic mem- ber from Georgla says: “The republican party Is a wonder.” This view is correct, but could have been reached fifty years ago, or in any subsequent year. Conee & a Good Front. Chicago Inter Ocena. To be able to “put up a good front” is well—for the few minutes when It counts. But after that it doesn't count at ali. Booner or later, and as a rule very quickly, the other man will insist on knowing what there i behind the front. And If there is nothing but front the procession moves on and the devotee of the “gospel of the good front” wonders why he is not in it. The American Invasion. Springfield Republican. Eleven transatlantic llneérs left New York for Europe Saturday with about 5,000 first cabin passengers and many more in the second and third capins. It is cal- culated that they cartied away in money and leiters of credit some $25,000,000, which is no doubt a glaring overestimate. But| what they actually aid take s enough to show that the average American Is not being ruined by the high cost of living. Protection Not for Wrongdoers, Harper's Weekly. To secure at least fair treatment for Americans anywhere abroad—that is one privilege of a great power which we ought to exercise. Lord Palmerston's famous civis Romanus speech of 180 has never been effectively answered. Nobody has ever glven a good reason why an English- man should not be permitted to feel, where- ever he may be, “that the watchful eye and the strong arm of England will protect him agalst injustice and wrong.” Neither Is there any reason why an American should not have the same feeling—provided al- ways, of course, that he doesn't get the noton he Is going to be protected in doing wrong or Injustice to people of other coun- tries. ROBBING THE INDIANS, Exorbitant Fees Charged Wards of the Govermment. Kansas City Star. The government s under especial obliga- tlon to prevent the robbing of the Indians through the medium of exorbitant at- torneys’ fees, as well as to investigate the charges of bribery made by Senator Gore in connection with ceftain contracts be- tween the Indians and their private at- torneys. In all their tribal relations, at least, the Indians sre wardy of the government. Therefore, in all their tribal affairs where legal service is needed, the government should furnish such service, and it should be as efficlent mg'it is possible for the Indians to progure. by any other means. There should be no place in the prosecu- tion ot any claims advanced by the In- dians for a private attorney. He is an in- terloper. He Is & whoily unnecessary mid- dleman. At least, if the government Is not now prepared to furnish as good ser- vice, free of cost, to the Indians as he can get by paying enormous fees to private lawyers, then the government should put itself in readiness to render such service. The Indians should not be able to get from the government, through private at- torneys with influence in Washington, any- thing to which they are not entitled. And anything to which they are entitled should be procurable through attorneys pro- vided by the government. The group of attorneys presenting the present Indian contracts for approval are said to have a 10 per cent arrangement with the Indlans which would net them several million dollars In one instance and still more millions in another, It the contracts are allowed. The same interests already have taken from the Indians 470,000 for procuring the government's ap- proval of certain contracts represented in & single case. Yet the attorney general of the United States, head of a cabinet department, who represents all the people—that is, the gov- ernment—recenves only $12,000 per year. He would have to serve fifty years to earn s much as one of the private at- torneys.in the present case is reputed to have received for a former service involv- ing much smaller gross fees. The Department of the Interior employs a special solicitor for the Indlans. It pays this man $5,00 per year. It would take this solicitor 120 years to earn, in this of- ficlal capacity, what ome of the private attorneys received for a single transaction. If this man is not competent to procure for the Indians all they are entitled to, then some other man should be employed. If the pay is not émough to procure the right kind of man, then the pay should be increased. The government should elim- inate the private lawyer from the Indian business at least so far as tribal affairs are concerned. For that matter, the same thing should apply to all private contracts with the In- dians, tribal or individual. Indeed, the In- dlan fee scandal is only another argument in favor of the government-pald counsel in general, whether In criminal or civil cases. Our Birthday Book Juse 8u 1910, Robert P. Forter,-who was director of the census in 189, was born June 20, 1%, in Norwich, England. He is & newspaper man and has had experferice on a great many American newspapers, and is now attached to the Times, in London. Frank M. Blish, manager for R. G. Dun & Co., 18 just 45 today. He was born in Wilmington, IlL, and studled at the Uni- versity of Iilinols at Champaign. He en- gaged with R. G. Dun & Co., at Rock Island, 1, In 188, and later became head of the office at Lincoln, from which he was transferred to Omaha in 1901 Dr. John J. Foster, the dentist, was born June , 1812, at Monmouth, Il He graduated from Ohlo college and practiced at Pawnee City 1n this atate, later at Wash- ington, I, and in Londen, Eng., before | clatms. loeating in Omaha. Frank H. Myers, real estate and mort- gage broker ln the New York Life build- ing, was born June 3, 151, on a farm in Wisconsin. He started out in business in I-ml!-m-.o-—uwo.mnmun a8 a member of the firm of \Benson & Myers, which has since incorporated with him as president of The Benson & Myers company, * Washington Life The Inaugural Orowd, What it Will Cost, Years of Retired Presi- dents, ding Statesman. Precedents decorated with the ages banishes whatever surprise was felt over the action of congress iIn shelving during the closing hours of the session an appropriation to pay the $100,00 awarded Richard Parr for discovering the crooked welghing devices of the sugar trust. The secretary of the treasury has authority to pay $25,000 of the award, but the balance must be piovided by congress, and con- gress is scandalously averse to paying such There is not A worse government In ..e world in this respect,” ooserves the Washington correspondent of the Wrooklyn Eagle. “The claims that are (iled against the government and that are declared to be £00d by the court of claims are yearly dis- regarded without compunction by congress. Usually there is annually a big claims bill, which the house cuts to the bone and afterward the senate pads and (hen the bill dies In conference. “The result is that many righteous claims are never paid by the government. The clalmants even die and their heirs continue the unequal contest. Of course, In & large number of Instances the claims are now held by clalm attorneys who have specu- lated in them, and thi} fact has not a‘little 10 do with the refusal of congress o act on them, but, all in all, the government is a miserably delinquent debtor, and while there has been considerable complaint and much fulmination, congress has never been impelled to act. “Lonely figures haunt the corridors of the capitol buttonholing Inditferent members and urging them to pass claims that have been pending in some cases fifty and seventy-five years. It is to be hoped that Parr’s friends_will see that action on his claim is taken promptly and that he may not be added to the long line of forlorn walters," us of A man named Bowers, residing in Mem- phig, Tenn., bombarded congress with fran- tic appeals to pass Senate bill No. 803 be- fore adjournment. This is a bill drawn in the interest of the consumers with a view to reducing the cost of living. It I8 intended to break up what is declared to be a boycott by wholesalers of retallers who cut prices. Bowers has been spending a lot of money on printed pamphlets rela ing experiences he says he has haa with various supply companies. It sems that Bowcrs finds it a:fficult to buy supplies now because he under- sells the retall traue. rie gives facsim- ilies of letters written by big houses re- fusing to furnish him with goous unless he will agree to maintain stanuard prices. An Interesting order has come to light in Washington In the official correspondence of the governor of Guam. Captain E. J. Dorn, U, 8. N, who ordered him- self to accompany the Supply to Olon- gapo for its annual docking and waue In the Philippines “to carry out such business for the island government as could not well be delegated to others, including nego- tiations for certaln specimens of the flora and fauna of these lslands desirable for in- troduction into Guam; consultation with the prison authoritles relative to status of prisoners from Guam, and exchange of island currency into American money." The comptroller of the treasury has held that Captain Dorn's order to himself can have no effect other than authorized by the secretary of the navy, who authorized the Supply to Olongapo. The jurisdiction of Captain Dorn is limited to the island of Guam and any additional duties be- yond that must be Iimposed by higher authority, An analysis of senatorial oratory turned out during the session classes Senator Clay of Georgla as the prize shouter. When ne makes a speech in the senate h's volce carries beyond the chamber and out through the varlous corrtdors. As the doors swing open persons In the rotunda and near the su- preme court may hear bunches of ora- tory from the direct.n of the senate. Otten strangers hearing the nolse are de- celved into ...nking somc..ng exciting is happening. They hurry in and find that Clay is simply talking about the cotton bo:l weevil. And the odd part is that the Georgla senator is not aware that he talks louder nan the average senator. He 18 not strong and at the end of every speech s physically exhausted. Yet he must go on in & nigh pitch or not at all. Senator Tillmen was another screamer. He was alwavs stenwrian, No matter what he sald he threw his whole weight into it; and his veaemence is thought by many to have brought on his ill health, at la:t bursting a bloou v in the brain. His friends frequently remon- strated with him and urged him to lower his volce, ‘44d I holler? he would “I dia not know that i _dia. I suppose I can't help it” Representative Coudrey of 8t. Louis easlly plucks the session's record for freak bills. Mr. Caudrey's finishing stroke was a bill “‘prohibiting conductors on street railway cars in the District of Columbla fr.m expectorating on their hands and fingers when issuing tickets or transfers to passengers. The bl provided a penalty of $6 for tne first of- fense and $10 for each and every offense thereafter. Anot er of his emanauons decreed “that any Individual, firm or corporation owning and displaying on the outsice of & bullding, or on any street or venue wi.sin e Jistrict of Columbia, a clock which shall no* be rumning at all times of the day or night and not kept within two minutes of the correct east- ern standard time, snall be iable to a fine of $i6 for each and every offense.” Along in the winter Mr. Coudrey became possessed of the idea that Washington laundries had entered into an unholy combination whereby they sought to ele- vate and majtain prices, browbeat ineir pairons anc/ faciatate the fraying of cuffs and cotlars, He introduced a bill calling for the appointment of a special committee of five members to “investi- gate the agreement or combination that appears to exist between the leading laundries in- the District of Columbia." The geniws reformer from Missourl is not at all distressed because his panaceas are smothered almost at birth. His con- sclence is sausfieu with having pointed the way. If congress falls to see the wisdom of his measures so much the worse for congress and _the suffering multitude. NO LONGER “FREE AS AIR.” Control and Regulation of Wireless Telegraphy. . Cleveland Plain Dealer. American alr to not to be free. It fs to be put under legal restraint. The senate has passed a bill to regulate wireless teleg- raphy, and to compel all wireless teleg- raphers to procure licenses and act under federal control. If the house concurs In this measure it will soon be an offense for anyone to monkey with the atmosphere, At present there are many amateur wire- less telegraphers in the United States. Some of them are mere boys, whose mechanical turn of mind has taken this form of ex- ression. These young enthuslasts not only ‘are able to read all welghty government messages, but they also, it ia sald, serl- ously Interfere with transmission, The wire- less, at any rate, has become so import- | ant that the senate belleves it is time to stop having it used as a plaything. Probably some such regulations as that proposed by the senate bill 18 wise and de- sirable. One of the chief drawbacks of the Marconi system has been its complete lack of priv Almost anyone can set up his | receiving apparatus and read all the flying | messages. Cipher codes may be used, but even thus it 18 difficult to assure secrecy, for many ciphers may be solved by men who turn thelr attention to such problems. 1t Is difficult to se how the proposed law will remedy the existing difficulties. 1t may help some, and may put some schoolboys out of business, but the task of regulating and controlling the air looks even too big for the great American government, Wire. less wire tapping 18 s easy and simple that a large army of detectives would be re- quired to keep the air clear of cavesdrops pers. ROOSEVELT'S AMAZING INDUSTRY Few Travel Correspond Produce® Much Copy. Edward Marshall in Columblan. A few days ago I talked with two men, Important In tie councils of tie pub- lishing house for whom, since he started oun his journeyings, Mr. Roosevelt has written for print—the Outlook and Serib- ner's Magazine. Both have been, of course, more or less constantly in commu- nleation Wwith the traveler, and both told me that they had rcason to belleve Mr. Roosevelt to have been tremendously and pleasantly surprised by the enthusiasm of his welcome in far countries. Both spoke with something kin to awe of his great industry; both especially commented on the evidence of foresight and method afforded by the progress of his great journey almost without a change, upon the lines lald down soveral years ugo ,and the delivery of his copy with & precision and perfcction which would have been a credit to the most care- tully expert journalist | His literary labors during his absence were, indeed, amazingly extensive. Few tralned correspondents, traveling for the exclusive purpese of getting material for publication, have on similar journeys pro- duced more manuscript, and never was bet- ter “copy” sent to editors by any man working under such extremely trying cir- cumstances as have, sometimes, surrounded the production of his. His manuseripts, prepared in the field, show all those evi- dences of thought and care which would be properly expected had they been written in his library at Oyster Bay. Mr. Bridges of Charles Schibner's Sons, showed me some of them the other day. Each is in the colonel's own handwriting. The only time, during all his African travels, when he even had a typewriter avallable, was when he was at Ju Ju farm. All other matter which he sent across the sea was written with a pencll In his own char- actertstic and easy script. Indeed, at Ju Ju farm, the only times when a typewriter was used were on a few occasions when more than the usual number of duplicate coples were to be made, s Ever WIRELESS S$TOCK SWINDLE. —_— Devices Tried on Warships and Re- Jected as Uselews. Army and Navy Register. It is gratifying to note that the postoffice authorities have awakened to the uncon- scionable swindle perpetrated on the people ot this country by the United Wireless Tele- graph company. It has taken the officials a long time to get the information which mont! ago justified the prosecution of stock jobbing concerns, which have been misrepresenting the wireless telegraph and wireless telephone situation. Nearly two years ago the Navy department attempted to enlist the co-operation of the Postoffice department is getting after certain people. who were selling stock in & wireless tele- phone company largely on the assertion that the systém had been adopted by the government and the instruments made by the company were permanently installed on all ships of war. As a matter of fact, the wireless telephone apparatus was re- moved from the ships of the Atlantic fleet as useless. Notwithstandini; this fact, one company made much of the liction that the navy had adopted the systemi and stock was sold to people who could ill zitord to part with thelr small savings. Thoss who undertook to expose the fraud were tbreat- ened with suits for libel. The allegations of the naval authorities were sustained in all particulars and were followed by the ultimate embezziement of a large part of the funds by one of the officials of the company. The pity of the whole situation is that the government has not been able to act until so many people, estimated at no less than 28,000, have been complacently robbed of their investments. Of course, it is easy enough to say that & man or woman who has money o invest should make the pre- liminary investigation to ascertaln the merit of the speculation and there ai sufficlent warnings of a general character In the newspapers against the swindlers. But it ought not to be possible for the government authorities to overlook brazen misrepresentation which seeks to give a marketable value to alleged official in- dorsement or adoption of the device for ‘which stock s thus sold. “You can’'t tell me that advertising pays every msn that goes into it,” said a nonadvertiser to me awhile ago. I have never said advertising pays every man who goes into it, because all men don’'t go into it in the right way. Half-hearted-once-in-a-while adver- tising won't pay. Exaggeration won't pay. Misrepresentation won't pay. Red-flag-brass-band-methods won't pay. Advertising not based upon true worth and merit never will pay. Advertising is & man's game, and must be played accordingly. Success- ful advertising requires the highest type of business instinct, energy, judg- ment and integrity. More than that, Aids Nature it takes patience covery in PERSONAL NOTES."' Paris dressmakers are warring @& to whether women's skirts shall be wide or | tight. The wearers of the garments, need- less to state, have nothing (o say about it. Those who have examined Mr. Jeffries at close range have confidence that his strength is sutficlent to pick up and cprry the White Man's Burden without mueh grunting. . A Montana lumberman is accused of having cut timber worth $211,864 from gov- ernment land. A his offending covers twenty years, his moderation must be recogniged. Up to the close of businces last Sulurday night 219 gambling lic had been in- sued at Reno, Nev, each costing Visitors to the town are thus assured of ample facilities for reducing their rolls. J. 3. Farahan, president of the Ilinois Central raliroad, has arrived at Carlsbad for the cure. He will have John W, Gates to chum with soon, for the wpectacular ex-plunger has telegraphed his family that he will arrive next week. It uny of the old-timers want to knew where John G. Carlisle, former secratary of the treasury, Is, let them learn that he's & plcture of vigorous health on the steeets of New York, clad In a light gray ;thin sult with frock coat and white stovepipe hat. Lowering all records for the walk egress the continent, “Jack" Kldredge, % years old, arrived in San Francisco the other, day covering 4,000 mlles in seventy-seven dayi Eldredge's porformance won him & purse of $2,000 offered by the Ioston Athletio club for anyone covering the 4,000 miles within 100 days. SUNNY GEMS, “What kind of fence mending Is it you statesmen are supposed (o do wheén you go home for the summer?" “'A little hedging, as a rule,” replied Sen~ ator Sorghum.—W ashington Star. “I suppose the order Mri husband from letter?™ “Not a bit of it. Baltimore American. Bang sent her the seashore was & dead It was a live wire'—~ My boy, I'm hunetl and shall have to sell the autor “Horrors, dad; 1 eould never walk."” “You'll get used to IL In time. You can carry a_ wind shieid at trst."—Loulsyille Courier-Journal. “How did the street oar. company come to fire um old. conductor? I ihought he ull. id, but he didn’ 1t on the dash "~Buffalo Exp: “Why are you so enthusiastic over oppo to prize fights? Do you disiike pugilists? “Not at all. But 1 dislike to have their pleturesque and interesting debates inter- rupted by vulgar physical gencounters.’ Cnicago Record-Herald known' peopie for life by simply imagining they had dis- covered the north pole."—Washington Star, “So you like the seashore better than the mountains ? “No, indeed; I prefer the mountains,' “Then why are you going to the sea~ use It 18 easler there to get into the Baltimore American. “What have you got thu hole under your back yard fence for?" ghbor's chickens through into my garden. “Why, you were complalning the other day about their flying over the fence.' “That was because I couldn’t catch ‘em and_wring their necks. I made that hole s0 I couid stand over it and swat the blamed hens as they c¢ame throus Well, do they come through it No!"’~Chlcago Tribune. ADVICE TO SUMMER GIRLS. Detroit Free Press. was pretty as a picture with (.haekl of russet tan, ithing suit was something good She her u 8o .ha took a l'lmmlnx lesson from a handsome college m: Such a very Pandsome college man was he. Round her head her halr was matted in the fashionable way, And she wore & bun to elevate the crown. And she wore a lot of curls, as all maldens do today, The most expensive curls that come in brown. In the water they went splashing just as ayly as could be, And the insters on the porches wore & frown, For they never thought they'd ever live such awful sights to see, That young man should be driven out of town. But, alas for that young malden, and alas for that young man, A Jhlor ' wave ‘oame dashing o'er the foam, And it swept away her tresses as a wave of water can. Swept away her halr pins also and her comb. The lake was strewn with riuglets, to the west there ailed her bun, Here and there a switch was Lobbing up and down, In the distancé you could see her store curls dancing in the sun, Those most expensive curls that come in brown.. And a sadder little maiden never hurried to the shore, ‘When she realized her wealth of hair was gone; The :nol'll ,af this story—must I really tell t o'er Is not to go In swimming with your ‘phonies Talks for people who sell things and time to let the work of constant repetition convince and educate. Most men who do business on a broad basis advertise liberally, intelli- gently, forcefully, regularly, bocause they have learned that wide publicity of true worth and merit pays, and pays big. Those are the sort of hu-lnm men The Bee wants in its advertising ‘col- umns because The Bee Is read in the homes of intelligent people to whom honesty, worth and merit appeals. Isn’t it time, Mr. Merchant, te take some thought of the 120,000 subscrib. ers of The Bee who are waiting, money in hand, to buy honest goods, honestly advertised? The great success of Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medicel Dis- weak stomachs, wasted bodies, weak lungs, and obstinate and lingering coughs, is based on the recognition of the fundamental truth that "O-M- Medical Disco -‘, tissue-repairing, wiuscle-mal and concentratsd form, ith *supplies Nature with body- iring A S this h.lp Nature [ h-dnmnuflthlednmm‘im h“oThufilAupbobodyndthnbyMwollh@d-‘ coughs. The re-establishes “Discovery’ and short establishes sound vigorous health, Iln-'duluolnu 1¢ Is probably something better FOR HIM::-it pays nnus Bat you are thinking of the cure wot the protit, se there’s mothing *‘just as dood’’ for you. Say so. thhno-("-- Medical Adviser, In Plain lh.luu ”p‘- mm illustrations, newly v, ( l 1 i ] i