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THE BEE: OMAITA, THURSDAY. AUOUST 31, 1011. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE FOUNDED BY EDWARD R08EWATER . i VICTOR ROSEWATER. EDITOR. Kntaied at Omaha potoff1c a second lass matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Sunday Be, on year Ssturcav Bn, on year I'aily He (without Sunday), on year.. Il!y Be and Sunday, on year DELIVERED BT CARRIER Evnln Be with Sunday). per month. 2 64 1 .! 4 0) (.00 . t c . 4o Ially U (Including; sunoayi, per m I.ally He (without Sunday). ter mo A A Arm all rnmnlllnll Of IrrCKUHriU" In delivery to City nrculatton Department OFFICES. Omaha-The Bee Building. fcmith Omaha -4U N. Twenty-fourth St. Council Muffs 15 Scott St. Lincoln W Little Building. Chicago IMS Marquette Bulldln. KaniMJi City Reliance BulldlnK. New Tork 34 West Thirty-third St. Wahlnton-725 Fourteenth St.. N. CORRESPONDENCE. Communication relating to new and editorial matter should be addressed Omaha !e. Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, ex pre or postal order payable to The Bee 1'ubllshtns; company. Only i-cent stamna receive In payment of mall accounta. Personal check except on Omaha and eaatern exchange not accepted. JULY CIRCULATION. 47,931 State of Nebraska, County of Douulaa, . Dwiaht Williams, circulation manager of The Be Publishing company, being duly sworn, eay that the average dally circu lation, leu apolled. unused and returned rnpif. for the month of July, 1911. waa 47.M1. DWIOHT WILLIAMS. Circulation Manager. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me thl 2d day of August, 1911. (Seal.) ROBERT HUNTER. Sabecrthers leaving the city tem pornrllr should havi- the Be mailed to them. .tdilr ivlll be ruanacd aa often mm r . fil. Altogether too mdn., broken along with the . ords. are rec- It there were aught in names, one might hope that Miss Force could hold Colonel Astor in check. Now it is put In the form of a ques tion, "Are vacations harmful?" Not Unless you make them so. The Republic asks, "Does St. Louis require a new emblem?" Perhaps not a much as a new court house. This cry against the gallery gods seems Inconsistent. Where would the stage heroes be without them? The theft of Mona Lisa must be af fecting Americans strongly, for one has written a poem on the subject. , It Is getting around to that time of year for Ezra Meeker and his two bay bull to show up. And he I on the way. An exchange says Niagara Fall are not neglected. No, a fool bob up every now and then to slide over ami under. The Honorable Gotch says he ha a new hold. After he throw Hack he will have still another on the gate receipts. What has happened to those royalty rich marriages? One can almost count the counts who are now winning Amer ican bride. With accumulating experience In en tertainlng big conventions, Omaha ought to be getting it dowa to a sys tem before long. France 1 more disturbed, appar ently, over the disappearance of pretty Mona Lisa than the threatened clash with Germany. Any one else want to get a little free advertising by opposing the com mission plan of city goverameat? Don't all speak at one. Omaha will try to make President Taft's stay here pleasant, even though his time schedule renders a ride on Ak-Sar-Iien's goat Impossible. If It could be put to a general vote it Is safe to say that the people of Omaha would record themselves over whelmingly against any railroad strike. "When will lynchlngs cease?" be wails a correspondent to a Philadelphia paper. Probably when courts and juries and the administrators of law tighten up on common stnse justice. The superintendent of the new rail way mall division, with headquarters at Omaha, ha at last been officially designated. The new superintendent cannot get busy too soon to suit us. Just to ahow that his heart is right the mikado added to all his conces sion to the ciar the highest decor' tlon the Imperial power enabled him to confer on the daughter of the Rub tlan ambassador. Tb fire department wants the army officers to agree upon a set of rules to (overs at Fort Omaha, so that when in alarm of fire 1 sounded the firemen may know which to fight first, the sol flier or the fire. Writing to the New York Bun aa Ansley (Neb.) man says that It th lemocratlc ticket next year is Bryan lad Wilson it will carry Nebraska by 10,000. But the next democratic ;lcket will not be Bryan and Wilson 4asMassaMaaNiaasasMsaiaaassssssss Down In Lincoln the district judge eaten for re-election gives out a pub lo expression of thanks to his friends a which he say incidentally, "A ma ho cannot accept defeat just M grace- Hilly a he would have an election lot big enough to be In publlo life. lorn of the defeated la thl vicinity ihoald take that home with them and Beep os IV ' Starting the Parcels Post. Postmaster General llltchcock reit erate bis desire to inaugurate parcel post In the rural districts before ex tending It to urban territory. He would give ua a partial parrel post as a starter In order not to Interfere with the operation of the regular post office machinery. The postal system of this country I tremendous and com plicated and its service to Important to every activity of life that !t would not do to Interrupt the steady, con tinuous flow of the malls. Those who Imagine, however, that the government desire or lnternd to withhold the par cels post from cities longer than 1 nec essary may take comfort In the assur ance that a general parcels post I the ultimate object. Every extension the Postofflce department has made has been upon exactly this basts of small beginnings. The rural free delivery service was a very restricted affair at first, whereas today it cover the en tire country. It would have been next to Impossible to have made It general at the outset. Postmaster Oeneral Hitchcock pro poses to urge congress In December to enact a law giving hi department authority to eetabllsh parcels post on rural mail routes. If congress acts upon his recommendation and It can hardly help It then we may look for ward In the very near future to an enlargement of the function of our postoffice to correspond with what is done on the same score In other countries. Promoting- Uniformity in Laws. The American Bar association has for several years been doing It most notable work In promoting uniformity in law, and this year in it annual convention It recommend the enact ment of a uniform law on wife and child desertion. Here I a list of some of Its achievements In the direction of uniformity already, which shows that Its effort have not been in vain. Negotiable Instrument act, thlrty-flv tatea, two territories, two possessions and the District of Columbia; warehouse re ceipts act, twenty-one states and terrl tOrlea and th District of Columbia; ale act, eight states, and one territory; bills of lading; act, six states; transfer of stock act. five state. Time and money are wasted and justice often cheated because of the variety of statutes In different states governing the same subject. Why should not statutory' law, wherever conditions are alike, be more nearly uniform in all the states? In common law there are fundamentals which do not change with state or national boundary lines, and in some of the statutory classifications there ought to be the same basic harmony. Wife de sertion 1 wife desertion, whether committed in Maine or California, and can scarcely be dealt with with facil ity and satisfaction) If what is a crime in one state Ir no offense at all in an other. In this and numerous other form of law violation, greater uni formity among the state would sim plify procedure, lessen the difficulties encountered In requisition and ex traditions and contribute vitally to speedy Justice. Those whose infractions come under the head of evasive crime are usually Informed on the loopholes of state laws and oftepi take advantage of statutory defects, making it difficult, if not impossible, to bring them to ac count or to indemnify their victim. Uniformity in law on subject prop erly demanding uniformity would do away with the twilight zone. Perhaps the American Bar associa tion may decide to lend its support to the movement for a uniform law on marriage and divorce. It would be satisfying a very lively popular de mand, we believe, and exerting a wholesome and much needed Influence. The statutory law in the several states 1 perhaps at variance nowhere more widely than it is on thl. It ranges from no ground for divorce whatever In 8outh Carolina to any old ground In Nevada. Yet the fact that the fam ily 1 the social unit and its integrity essential to social safety is unvaried by state lines. ? i The Express Business. In 1908 the Interstate Commerce commission reported the operation in thl country of eighty-five express companies doing an interstate busi ness. The majority of ' people had never heard of but six of these eighty five companies and, a a matter of fact, these six so completely dominate all the others as to make the latter's existence merely nominal. It Is doubt ful If any one business In the United States is held more tightly -and abso lutely within the grasp of a few men than the express business, yet this combine seems to have escaped the serious attention of the democratic agitators, who spent so much time in the recent extra session of congress starting investigations. In 1907 these six dominating com panies did a business which covered 87.5 per cent of all the express mileage In the country and earned 93 per cent of the total gross receipts and 79.6 per cent of the total net Incomes of all express companies. These are official figure compiled in the. government's record for 1910 . They are rather con vincing a showing that the express business of the United States is eon ducted by a trust. The aggregate capital of the four leading express companies American, Adams, United States and Wells Fargo In 1909 ii 148,000,000; their ag gregate gross income was 8101, 091,683 and th aggregate net income, 111, 140,897. In 1910, however, the Well Fargo company Increased Its capital from 18,000,000 to 114,000,000. In 1909, it declaim a stock dividend of 88.1 per cent and a regular dividend h In 1910, It de- dared an extra dividend of 300 per cent. No wonder It hKreased lis capi tal stock. In 1909 the American' stork and regular dividend were re spectively 19.8 and II per cent; Ad ams, 23.8 and 12 per cent; United States, 8.9 and 8 per rent. Whenever congress get ready to probe the ex press business In earnest. It certainly wU have no difficulty In finding basic facts and figures. Commission Flan Opposition. Friend of the commission plan of city government must not delude them selves Into the notion that it will be adopted unanimously at the election this week just because there is no or ganized or noise-making opposition. There Is just enough latent opposition to the commission plan in Omaha to call for a warning to those who favor It to get busy to offset the negative votes sure to come from various sources. 1. The ins who are holding office in the city hall are more or less dis quieted as to the future which the commission plan holds for them, and some of them will be against it. 2. Certain public works contractors are undlsgulsably hostile to the com mission plan. They know what pull they have now, and they do not want to give It up. 3. Liquor dealers are justly in censed over the action of Mayor Jim in fixing the election on Saturday, compelling them to close down two days in succession, and some of them may emphasize their displeasure by voting "no." 4. Members of organlxed labor are not a unit on the commission plan. The groundless fear that it Is a scheme of the enemies of organized labor Is apt to Influence quite a num ber of them adversely. 6. The regular ward workers are naturally against new experiments which may impair their usefulness in future elections. As a rule they would rather hold to what they have than take a chance on something doubtful 6. Those opposed to the commission plan on principle because they dis agree with the plan a a whole, or find fault with the particular form em bodied in the Nebraska law, may be counted on to vote against adoption. All these elements put together are still a small minority of the whole community, but an active minority might cast more vote than a listless and indefinite majority. Advocates of the commission plan must not let themselves be caught napping. Our amiable democratic contem porary, which ha been knocking the commission plan of city government at every opportunity, has at last found one point in its favor, namely, that no yellow-dog candidate can claim sup port because he wears the party label Well,' that democratic sheet ha never refused to support a democratic noml nee on the ground that he was a yel low dog, and It remains to be seen whether it will ever change the habit. I If It Is an improper diversion of public funds to appropriate money for medical instruction at the state uni versity, a lot of ottier objects for which legislative appropriations are regularly .made will be in danger of being likewise ruled out on strict con struction of the constitution. Upton Sinclair must be finding It hard to "come back." First he gets himself arrested and derives only a moderate amount of publicity from that; then he sues his wife for divorce, and it begin to look as if the public had turned a deaf ear to him. Members of the recent Nebraska legislature are to hold a reunion and experience meeting at the state fair. When the Douglas county bunch Is called on to report they will have a sad tale to tell of the Ingratitude of republics, or, to be more exact, of democrats. .. I Just to make It interesting we ven ture a guess that the total vote in the recent state wide primary will prove to equal almost 80 per cent of the total vote polled in Nebraska in the election In November. Los Angeles will have a squad of policemen on roller skates. Skates and rollers, separately, have been known among policemen in other cities, but this is the first time they have been merged. I Misdirected Taleat. Chicago Record-Herald. The Copenhagen reporter who showed how easy It wa to steal a portrait from the Danish museum could better hlm relf and make us of hi talents by coming to America and obtaining employ ment on a yellow Journal. Fact Ontahlaea Fiction. New Tork Tribune. Real ea adventure ar oiten stranger than th fictitious one. Until It hap pened, probably no on would hat be lieved that a man could be reacuei alive and uninjured from th cabin of a scow which had turned turtle and been ten hour bottom up In th watar. Ha Raah for Amy roiaaataalou. Baltimore American. It seems ther I a econd-lleutnant famln la th army, and enough applica tions are not coming In to fill th need. But young men of th day ar too busy either In breaking their neck with motor ear or marrying susceptible heiress to bother with passing xaot!ng examinations. plylaar a Us( Felt Waal. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Th postmaster general says ha I con vinced th parcel Pt. with careful super vision and proper adjustment and organlaa- tlon, will b en of th largest rvtkut pro ducer In th department. Ther la vry Indication th Inauguration of a parcels post will b advocated by axt su mmer by both Rational convention If, Indeed, th neeary legislation I not enacted by eon gra thl winter. of 10 per cent, oklntBaclwanl IlibDay inOmalm COMPILED FHOM BKE. FILES 1 rT Al'til'ST 81. Thirty Year Ago George A. Custer, Toet No. 7 held an adjourned meeting at th Young Men's Christian Association room, corner Tenth and Farnam, to conaMer matter con nected with attending th O. A. R. re union at Lincoln. Th call was signed by C. H. Fitch commander, and F. W. Moon adjutant. Very good water waa supplied from th hydrant to visitor at th water work today. The Western New pper union, whose establishment was burned out recently, ha secured a lot at th corner of Twelfth and Harney, and will rebuild at one. K. C. Moorehoua baa been appointed general freight agent and J. H. Buchanan general paasenger agent of th Sioux City and Paclflo railway. Th general freight and paasenger department will remain at Missouri valley aa befor. Mr. Moore houa waa formerly assistant general freight agent and Mr. Buchanan traffic auditor. Mia Anna Fooa returned from her vaca tion trip to Columbus, Ohio, and her sister. Miss Kate Fooa, teacher In th Third ward school, from her trip to Georgetown, Col orado. Mr. C. H. Dewey baa returned from a trip to th east. Simeon Bloom, a prominent attorney of this city, left for Cincinnati, hi old home. He will be absent for aome time, and his many friends wish htm a pleasant visit. K. B. Chandler went east this after noon. Twenty Years Ago Th Omaha Presbyterian Theological seminary waa formally opened with elab orate ceremonies In which citlaen of Omaha, without regard to church affilia tion, took part. The exercise were held at First Presbyterian church and th opening address - wa mad by Rv. W. J. Harbha, D. D. LL D., then of Tecum- h and professor of didactic and polemlo theology. Th original sit of the sem inary wa to be Seymour park, offered at what waa regarded aa an attractive figure, by Dr. George L. Millar, Dr. M. B. Lowri waa the first president and with these, formed th faculty announced that night: Dr. Marsha, Rev. Stephen Phelpa, D. D; Rev. John Oorden, D. D; Rev. Charles J. Sterling, D. D., and Rev. T. L. Sexton, D. D. The Be contained an elaborate ana highly illustrated article on th New Boyd theater, which It mentioned as "A Modern Temple of Thespls." After all the fuss mad over th dis banding of th Omaha league ball team, It was oontlnued and appeared In a local gam against Denver, of which George Tebeau was then first baseman and cap tain. Chief of Pollc Seavey receives a letter of appreciation for th police service dur ing th smelter strike, from President Ouy C. Barton of the smelter. ' About seventy of tb friends of John M. Hazleton, retiring general secretary of th Young Men' Christian Association tend red hlra a banquet at the Toung Men' Christian Association building. Mr. and Mr. Joseph Garneau gave a mall card party In honor of Misses Sharp and Aiken. Friend gave C. W. Keith a. surprise birthday party at his horn In Dundee. Ther were preaeot Mr. and Mr. E. A. Benson, Mr. and Mr. J. B. Carmlchael, Mr. and Mr. William Shannon, Mr. and Mrs. w. H. Hancock, Mr. and Mr. W. K. Kurts, Mr. and Mr. R. C. Patteraon, Mr. and 'Mr. Keller, Mr. and Mr. M. A. Upton, Mr. John T. Bhannon, Miss Perkins, Miss Benson, Mr. Thomas Thomp son of Davenport. Mr. and Mrs. Flnlay son. Ten Years Ago Dr. and Mrs. Swing- Brown returned from a two months' vacation at Shelter Island Height and Asbury Park, N. J. B. F. Schurig, city electrician, went to Niagara Falls to attend th national con vention of municipal lctriclan. Th marriages of th day ware: Chri Berger and Emma E. Nelson, Joseph MIrasky and Carrie Kcktor, Charles Hou weart and Dora Curling, Benson; Harry Q. Ros and Nellie B. Brown. Th first contest for th Cartan golf cup at the Country olub resulted In a splendid victory for H. Lawrls, whoa scor was: Groas 79, handicap 6, net 74. Annie May Kingsburg, ls-year old daagh ter of Mr. and Mr. F. H. Kingsburg, died at th family home, 300S California street Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Morton returned from Chicago. Mr. Morton spent th summer in Portland, Me., and Mr. Morton met her at Chicago. Word waa received by Father F. J. Judg of the death of his brother, Father Andrew Judg of Fremont. People Talked About Alderman Stephen W. Soruton of Dover, N. H., Is thought to be th youngat man holding a similar offlo In New England. Mr. Bcrutoa la tt year old. Dea Moln raise a vigorous howl agalnat tb graft of a ho shining parolra In doubling th prlo during th atat fair. What drives th point Into th raw flesh I that Greek brigand mak no distinction between resident and visitor. Hundred of th thousand of out-of- town popl who rushed Into Canonsburg, Pa., th morning after th theater disaster started a riot In their eager scramble fof souvenir of tb heartrending calamity. Th feeble-minded asylum of thl country ar not getting their du. Continuous performance of rag tlm muslo by machinery at Coney Island sc effected th nerves of th policeman that unable to reach th melodious mechanism, b swatted a raucous pilor Into Insensi bility. "Justifiable aberration" wa th verdict of th Jury. After working vnty-flv year in coal and other mine. Georg Stockholm of Plymouth, Lussrn county, Pa., tb oldest actlv miner In th anthracite region, re tired from tb mines and for th balanc of hi day b will enjoy a rest. Stock holm 1 now O years old and started to work In th mine when a boy of T. Mrs. John C. Luk, a society woman of Birmingham, Ala., ha mad a bust of President Taft that ha been very much admired. Th president himself 1 aald to hav been very much pelaaed with It. Mra Luk Is on of a number of southern woman who hav beoom Interested In sculpture and ar making name for them selves. Attar mor than a quarter eantury of ervlo ea th supreme bench of Massachu setts, aa chief justlo for mor than ten year of that tlm, Marcus P. Kuowltua ha ont hi resignation to Governor Fo on aocount of eye trouble. He was com pelled to give up hi work last May and for th last als week ha been at Bel grade lake. Mala. Around New York ftlppl ob th Current of Ztlf a Ba la tb Great Ajnarloaa Metropolis from Day ta Say. Mayer Gayaor Waaa. Th question whether Mayor Oaynor has fully recovered from th wound inflicted upon him on August . 1910. has been brought into discussion by th mayor's statement on th anniversary of the hooting when he wa presented with a loving cup. On that occasion he said: "And now It ha pleased Ood that at last th principal caus of my lingering physi cal Improvement should wear Itself out, and that my general health should he re stored." This Is taken to mean that th bullet had worked Itself out of the mayor's neck through the back of hi mouth and that nnture has eliminated the poison of th lead. But a physician who was as sociated with the specialists In charge of th caa I quoted as expressing the belief that the bullet ha not been eliminated and that It 1 almost certain to remain In It present position through th remainder of th mayor's lifetime. Thl physician also declare that, while th bullet Itself I unlikely to gtv further trouble, the damage originally don by It to th nerve which supplies the vocal cord was Irreparable and that the. mayor Is Indulging In vain hopes If h think that he can ever again take his place a a campaign orator. It Is ald that at the small assemblies which the mayor has briefly addressed since he re covered hi speech he has articulated with considerable difficulty and has been In terrupted by frequent coushlnR. His voice Is declared to lack Its former clearness and Its carrying power Is so slight that only the closest listener can follow hi words. Rea-alattna Street Advertlaln. New Tork City has an ordlnanc that no advertising trucks, vans or wagons shall be allowed in its street under a penalty of $10 for each offense. Under thl ordi nance the authorities sought to restrain the corporation operating stage on Fifth ave nue from displaying advertisements on the outside of it 'buses. The court of appeals of the state held that the use of stages for advertising purposes was not a neces sary or essential Incident of the company's franchise giving It the right to carry pas sengers. Appealed to the United Ptates supreme court, the decision of the lower court was affirmed, Justice McKenna In his opinion holding that, if the right claimed by the Fifth Avenue Stage com pany actually existed. It existed also In the case of all wagon owners, "and there might be such a fantastic panorama on the streets of New Tork that objection to It could not be said to have prompting only In an exaggerated esthetic sense." The ordinance does not Interfere with business notices on ordinary business wagons when engaged In the regular work of the owner and not principally for advertising pur poses. Profits in Draa Stores.' A New Tork drug merchant who Is not a druggist at all h l only a merchant, and hence makes a great success of It in the drug store business thinks of requiring his various clerks and prescription artist and soda fountain manipulators to wear the whit and somewhat spotless uniform of the hospital attache. Ha 1 wonderfully In sistent on having everything quit clean. One of the most accomplished graduates in pharmacy had to be discharged th other day because, after repeated warnings, he left th door of on of th showcases open and thus admitted to the company of the soap and th perfumery a considerable number of house flies. There I a very comfortable home atmos phere In thl particular drug store; canary bird singing on th top of th aoda foun tain; an easy chair to sit in if one Is tired; a pollt nod of recognition for the new cus tomer aa well a the old, whether h come or goes; the little package, which you order In th morning, all ready for you a you rush to catch th train at evening; every egg for the various egg drink fresh aa a daisy that day; quit a satisfactory lunch eon at th aoda fountain at th noon-hour; chicken aandwlche and buttermilk and that kind of thing; and th buttermilk la good or th druggists' most uniqu cus tomer wouldn't com downtown for It from Twenty-third street every day. Many a New Tork drug ator take In S500 a day ovar th soda fountain counter, and anywher from CO par cent to 00 par cent of this 1 profit, mor or less more, If you make th ice cream yourself, and It 1 good and goes wall; less, If you buy all the supplies. Thar I one drug store In lower Broadway which receives over Its soda fountain counter In a year 1122,000; but that Is a very big place, and along with this Immen soda fountain business goes a big business generally, employing probably 2U0 people. World' Tradlnar Station. New Tork I coming to be on of th greatest distributing center In th world. Foreign marchandise to the value of 36, 000,000 waa brought Into New Tork harbor In mi and reshlpped to foreign ports. Such merchandla Is carried from New Tork to mor than aeventy different countries. The greater part of thl foreign merchandise Is carried to Canada, Germany, France, Belgium, Cuba, Mexico and Argentine In th order named. Canada alone, our larg est customer of foreign merchandise, re ceived nearly $14,000,000 worth laat year. South America and West Indian ports show a rapidly developing trad in the im ported article. Last year an Inoreaa of fully 60 per cent waa registered over th previous year. CANADA'S FIGHT FOR RECIPROCITY Are Aaaerleaa Trusts Famlshta th Sinew of Wart Harper o Weekly It I not a bit surprising to learn that th Canadian liberal, now fighting for reci procity, have accuaed certain of our big trust of taking a hand in th struggle. Naturally, the particular trust accused ar th lumbar trust, th paper trust, and th beef trust. Ther ar two reasons why the charge should not surprise anybody. One Is that If any sort of evidence can be got to support It the effect should be very dam aging to th antl-reclproclty aid. It would be a mighty effective answer to the con servative charge that th American trust are only waiting for th wall to com down and will than rush In and monopolize Canada's trad and Industry. Apparently ther ar a good many Canadians who hav really believed that There la also In th charg a fin opening for eloquent appeala to tb prld and th purity of th Canadian electorate. W ahould be sur prised. Indeed, if the astute liberal leader hould neglect so obvlou and promising a line of attack. The other raon why th charg waa to be expected Ue la th Inherent proba bility of it substantial truth. Does any. body doubt that the three great combina tion spent money In tie effort to defeat reciprocity at Washington? Was ther not evidence that they were really responsible tor a great part of th opposition which took th form of an uprising of th farm ers against that policy? Why, then, should thy not oppose It at Ottawa also, and wlta th ami method and weapons ? POPPING OF BIO GUNS. Chicago Tribune: It must give Mr. Bryan a painful shock to think that Mr. Tatt Is making thia swing around th circle aa an vowed candidate for th presidency. Chicago Tribune: This Is such a lame country that Mr. Taft fears he will hot hav tlm to visit mor than twenty-four state during his present circumgyration of the periphery. Washington Tost: Th fact that Presi dent Taft 1 to be carried through Tope k a. Kan., by a team of long-eared mulea may be symbolic of the manner In which demo cratic mistakes may cause his re-election. Sioux City Journal: ' After being under fir continuously for a long tlm It finally occurred to President Taft that It might be a good Idea to unllmber the big gun and aim a ahell In the general direction from which the popping was coming. Pittsburg Dispatch: Kx-8peaker Cannon Is thoroughly convinced that the house did things much better when It conducted Itself according to his order. Speaker Clark Is just as positively of the opposite opinion. But then both of them were equally sure of it before the experiment was made. St. Louis Republic: "No man aver de clined the presidential nomination and no man ever will," aays Champ Clark. No not In a country where every mother's son Is taught to seek It from the cradle up. One of the best things about this country Is that every baby Is an embryo chief execu tive. GRINS AND GROANS 'Little boy, wouldn't you like to come to our church?" "What is your church, ma'am?" "The one with the tall steeple Just around me corner. "I guess you don't know our family very' well, ma am; mat is wnere my aaa preaches." Chicago Tribune. "Will you have another potato. Miss Greenleaf ?" "No, 1 thank you." "Pleas do. Really, we can afford It." Detroit Fre Tress. ' "Any Interesting places mountain hotel?" "Of course," replied Mr. around that Oroucher, "I Women's Secrets There is one men in the United States who has perhaps heard more women's secrets than any other man or woman in the coontry. These secret are not; secrets of guilt or shame, but the secrets of suffering, and they have been confided to Dr. R. V. Pierce in the hope and expectation of advice and help. That few of these women have been disappointed in their ex pectations is proved by the fact that 98 per cent, of all women , treated by Dr. Pieroe or his able staff, have been absolutely and altogether cured. Soon a record would be remarkable il the case treated were cambered by hundreds only. But whan that record applies to the treatment of more than hal(-a-mil-lion women, ia s praotioe of over 40 years, it is phenomenal. and entitle Dr. Pierce to the gratitude aecorded him by women, as th first of specialists ia th treatment of woman's' diseases. Every seek woman may consult ui by letter, absolutely without charg. AU replies are mailed, sealed in perfectly plain envelope, without any print ing or advertising whatever, upon them. Writ without fear as without fee, to World's Dispensary Medioal Association, Dr. R. 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Ar. haven't heard thrm mentioned. h"t ' e . an depend on fin.lin l'ver a i-f t Rear's l. n." Pevll s K.lbow.' Ppook Ho. k and the reM of the cuitomary catal'5 w ashliiKton Star. J Mv ao.ul wonuin," all I1 the social re eem to be slightly .1 nv clearly ...-... -w.-.tir fkilMren see obstreperous. Have you any ni'j . fined theories about brlnKt'i: up our 11"' K ones by scientific methods?" No I haven t. inaflam, answer much-tried mother, as she firmly a-rasp a squirming child In one hand slipper In the other. "I'm bringing them up by hand."-Halllmore American. CALL OF THE COOK. Puck. Oh. when t married Linda 1 asked her: "fan you cook?" She Jut looked wise and answered: "I know my little book.' -And since that tlm he's fed me on di.S a la France. V With Sweden, Spain and India thrown rti when there's a chance. I've breakfasted on waffles with Jam and mayonnaise, For lunch I've seen spaghetti cooked In fifty different way; And when I'm called to dinner quit often ther will be HunKarlan poiilah on th board, Scotch cones and Russian tea. My appetite is hearty, and I dote on slmpl food, ... But If I should confess It my wlf would call me "crude." So all my meats are etuffed and braised, croquetted and saute-d, My vegetables au gtatln-ed, my desert are glace-d. I'm steeped In spice and curry, Tm tit&P with crumbs and paate (I'm pretty sure that nothing In our kitchen goes to waste). And when, with all my hungry soul, I yearn for Irish stew, I hear the carol of the cook: "Just test this Swiss ragout!" I slRh for beefsteak simple, but my algh- Ing la In vain. I'd give a whole week's salary to see an ei?g cooked plain. I love a boiled potato, but always, 'pon my soul, They're minced with peppers, nuts or cheese, or served en casserole! How I would rellxh pork and beans! 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