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14 The Omaha Sunday Per E. ROBEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERT MOP.NINQ. TERM8 OF CBUCRIPTION. DELIVERED BT CARRIE". Dally Bra (without Bunday), per cPy,l''-',!S Illy Bea (without Sunday). Ier we Dally Bee (Including Bunday). per week.iic Sunday B'e, per copy . Evening Bee (without Bunday). per w.K c Evening Bee (Including Sunday), Pr a-tek ,uc Complaint of Irregularity In del I very ahould be addressed to City Circulation De .rment. orrlcE8. Omaha-Tha Bee Building. flouth Omaha-City Hall Building, Twen-ty-nfth and M Streets. Council BlufTa 10 Pearl Btreet. Chlcag-v-lM.) Unity Bullim. New fork 23?H Pnrlt Row BjI ding. Waahlngton 601 Fourteenth Btreet. CORRESPONDENCE. Communlcatlona relating o n wa and edl lorlai matter ahould he aloreaied: cmabi Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, ex, res or pcatal crder, payable to The Bee publishing Company. Only J-cent atampa accepted In payment of mall accounta. Personal checka. except on Omaha or eaatern exchanges, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. atm v.hiWt rinnvina County, aa. t iimrn Tt. Trhurk aecretary of The F Publlehlng Company, being duly sworn, thB thm ontiai number of full ana r.i.. r,i. t,t Th Dnllv. Morning Evening and Bunday Bee printed during the month of April, li, waa aa follows: 1 Sl.TTO 1 81,000 17 81,040 lg 81.B80 1 2D.1B0 20 81,800 21 81,49" 2J Bl.TIO 23 81,020 24 31,640 26 31,030 26 8T.1T0 27 31.9TO 28 81,610 29 81.BBO M 81,180 t ItX.BOO S 32.000 4 82.SSO B SO.BSO ...' 81,810 7 81,50 t 81.CBO t Sl.BSO JO 31.6TO 11 83,6.10 12 SJ0.410 1J 31,020 U 81.BKO iS 81,000 Total Lees unsold and returned copies, ...0B0.8HO ... 10,433 Net total sales 9,T Net average aalea 31.331 OEORQE B. TZSCHUCK. Subacrlbed In my preaence and sworn to before me this 1st day of May, A. D. 1903. M. B. HUNOATE, (Seat.) Notary Public. With so many ieople on the strike It will be Struck, a wonder If some one is not How would Mr. Fred Nash do for mayor, with his lawyer, C. C. Wright, for city attorney T 1 There Is time yet for the peach crop to be destroyed several times more be fore the fruit is gathered In. The light for tax, reform will be car- rled further forward by the election of I Fred Brunlng for tax commissioner. By the promulgation of the new rules prohibiting the use of explosive matches In New York City, Mr. Parlor Match has been forced out on a strike. The power canal, the acquiring of de aired public utilities and, knocking out the Thomson-Houston electric light mo Pally Pes (without Bunday), One Tear.. I l.nlly Bee and Sunday. O.ie Yrar Illustrated Bee. One Tear Bunds Bee, One kir ? Saturday Bee. One Yenr L" Twentieth Century Firmer. One Yar.. l.w popoly can safely be left In the bdsl. . . , .. . . . or uity Attorney vuub.u. If President Roosevelt's popularity In the west continues to grow apace, It will not make much difference whether the trust magnates of the east oppose bis re-election or favor It Marina- brought himself to the point r rHno a Hk hat. the chances id. " I pear brighter for Governor Mickey to don a dress suit before he makes bis exit from the executive office. If President Hoosevelt bad any Idea that the perpetuation of the race was In danger, the sight of the school children who have been greeting him by the hun dreds and thousands at every stopping point on his tour should completely allay his fears. Nebraska has the cheering consolation that although many states were rep re ented at St Louis by numerically larger delegations, none of , them contributed more gold braid or brighter buttons In adornment of the uniforms disported by the colonels of the staff. A few governors, congressmen and other uotables seem to have gotten Inst In the shufile at the dedication exercises at St Louis. The shock, however, was not so harmful to their comfort and well-being as It was disastrous to their sense of their own importance. By bis service as member of the last Board of Review William J. Hunter forfeited the support of all the big cor- porate tax shirkers, but at the same time he earned a claim upon the support of every home owner and small property owner whose burden was lightened. In the light of the democratic appeal for Howell which is to be the prelude for the re-election of Judge 8ulllva. a democratic legislature, democratic state officers and a democratic United States senator, we can understand why that police commission declsiou was ren - dered Just In front of the city election. The good roads movement appears to be focusing on the question whether the money for road building shall be sup piled at least In part out of the national treasury or shall be furnished by the states or local divisions of the states. The strange part of the situation is that the advocacy of nationalization comes largely from the south, which In years gone by would have resented the very Intimation as an unwarranted Invasion of states lights. The southern states have discovered that they arc far be hind In the matter of good roads and they are not at all averse to havlug the people of Hie north help out In paying the bills for betterment This doultlea . explains why the national good roads movement has suddenly had an acces sion of vigorous support from promlnvnt leader la public lift all through the south. THt BOOMtR MAXirtXTO. The tat commltte of the Real Eatate exchange lias Issued a manifesto to the citizen of Omaha on behalf of the can didacy of Erastus A. Benson for mar or with alt specific reasons why it has espoused the cause of the boomer can didate In preference to all others. The first reason given Is that they favor Benson because he Is In favor of equal taxation and because be Is not In favor of giving away valuable fran chises worth millions of dollars to the city. That declsratlon Is as deceptive as it Is attractive. It conveys the in ference that other candidates, notably Frank E. Moores, are opposed to equal taxation and In favor of giving away franchises worth millions of dollars. As a matter of fact, Frank E. Moores has shown a good deal more Interest In equal taxation than Mr. Benson, who has taken no part in the tax reform campaign. He was kept off of the tax committee of the exchange because he was lukewarm. Nobody can give away franchises, whether valuable or worth less. Under the present charter the mayor and council have no power to grant franchises and no franchise is Is valid unless the proposition Is first submitted to the people and ratified by a majority of the voters. For a second reason the boomer mani festo solicits votes for Benson because they allege "that the man best qualified should be mayor of Omaha." What qualifications has Erastus A. Benson for any public office? In the conduct of public affairs, as In business, ex perlence qualifies men. Erastus Ben son has had no experience whatever In public office and in private business he has been a complete failure. Thirdly, the manifesto declares that Benson should be supported because he Is an honest man and a generous man. Nolwdy will question Mr. Benson's gen erosity, although no evidence of It can be found within the city of Omaha, but his honesty has been questioned In some business transactions. For example. Mr. Benson was a director of the Ne bra ska Savings bank when that concern collapsed and only a very short time before It closed its doors his bank stock was offered for sale to J. J. Smith, member of the present Board of Educn tton. Is It possible that Mr. Benson did not know that the bank was In solvent and the stock worthless when he tried to unload It upon an Innocent purchaser? The story of Mr. Benson's wildcat land speculations in Kansas also arouses a very grave doubt as to the honesty of his methods, but, of course, as Marc Antony said of Brutus and Casslus in his oration on Julius Caesar, "Brutus is an honorable man." For the fourth reason whv the cltl Eens of Omaha are asked to support Mr. Benson we are told that he has been a mo8t enthusiastic and public-spirited citizen, and that he bought land and built up the flourishing suburb of Ben son, donated the town hall and made a a large land gift to the Catholic Orphan age, etc. Crediting Mr Benson with a su , , .uburba .nd away town lots to attract purchasers of cornfield land platted into blocks, streets and alleys, we fall to see any benefit that Omaha has derived by his operations. The money Invested In the suburb of Benson contributes nothing towra the expenses of municipal gov a. I l L ii a a erumeoi in vmaua, wiuie umana nas "landed hundreds of thousands of dol lars for pavements and public roads leading to Benson that would hare been more advantageously spent on lmprov Ing property within the city limits of Omaha. The mere fact that Mr. Ben son Induced other people to build houses In the suburbs on the Install ment plan does not necessarily make him a public benefactor. Fifth, the citizens of Omaha are asked to vote for Benson because "be is a man of the people and a careful student of problems leading to the bet terment of the conditions of the work lngman." Conceding all that. It Is olso true that there are hundreds If not I thousands of men In Oraaba Just as pop- ular as Mr. Benson who are studying the same problems, but who have not yet been proposed for the mayoralty of Omaha. Studying problems Is one thing and solving them Is another. Lastly, we are Informed that the sign- I ers of the manifesto will vote for Eras tus A. Benson because he already has ' done much for Omnha and will do more for Omaha If elected mayor. Most 1 people who are not Intimately ac- qualnted with Mr. Benson's activities would want to know Just what he has done for Omnha before they entrusted I to him the management of a cortoratlon I with more than one hundred million dol- lars worth of property. The manifesto Is deceptive through out ami me assertion that the men whose names are attached will all sup port Benson Is a piece of rank Impos ture. At least one of the men whose name has been appended, A. P. Tukey, I declares that he never signed the docu 1 went and has not given anybody au thorny to sign his name, and further more that he will support Frank E, Moores for mayor and not Erastus A. Benson. With these few remarks the boomer manifesto Is dismissed from further notice, L0S1XU HMR THADB. The course of Germany toward Yeoea- uela Is said to have proved very dam aging to her South American trade and this is by no means Incredible. Indeed It was freely predicted thst such would be the rase, even German merchants In Venesuela and some of the other coun tries of South America manifesting their reseotmeut by refusing to buy goods from their native country. According to a Berlin correspondent of a New York paper, tbo statistics of the first two months of the present year reveal that Germany Is steadily losing In tb commercial' game la South America a against Great Britain and the United THE OMAHA Bute. This, It Is said. Is especially true In Braxll, Venesuela, the I Tlata states, Colombia and Teru, where Ger many was sweeping all opposition aside but twelve months ago. The change is ascribed to Germany's unwise naval policy and characteristic aggressiveness. arousing the animosity of government authorities and Inhabitants. The cor respondent observes that Germany Is now discovering that its naval policy Is not a good auxiliary to the extension of Its trade with South America. It would seem that thero was never more auspicious time for American manufacturers and merchants to seek South American trade than the present, but they are probably not well prepared to take advantage of It. Whether or not Germany will be able to recover what she has lost of tbla trade Is a question, but probably Great Britain rather than the United States will reap whatever advantage Is to be derived from the competition for the commerce that Germany has sacrificed by reason of her course toward Venezuela. WHAT WILh HEPCBLICANS MH A frantic appeal to democrats has Just been Issued over the signatures of local democratic leaders, namely: G. M. Hitchcock, Ed P. Smith, James P. Eng lish, James E. Boyd, George W. Doane, C. J. Smyth, A. N. Ferguson, Richard L. Metcalfe and W. C. Bullard, urging them to rally to the support of Ed Howell and the candidates on the dem ocratlc city ticket by pleading how much a victory would mean for the democratic party. The reasons given as the basis of the appeal are embodied in this paragraph of the circular: In the first place, democratic success at this time In all probability will mean democratlo control of the city for many years to ccme. It will mean a greatly In treated vote for the re-elec'.lon of Judge Sullivan to the supreme bench thla tall It will probably mean the election of i solid democratic' delegation to the next legislature from this county and It may mean the election of a democratic United States senator from Nebraska. What will republicans who are being cajoled into helping the democrats by voting for Benson have to say to this? Every republican In Omaha knows that two votes for Benson are the same as one vote for Howell and that the Ben son diversion is simply a movement to turn the city government over to the democrats. How many republicans want to band the city over to the democrats not only for the next three years but for many years to come? How many republicans want to In sure the re-election of the outgoing dem ocratic Judge of the supreme court this fall? How many republicans want to con tribute to sending a solid democratic delegation from this county to the next legislature with the chance of giving the democrats the selection of the next United States senator to be chosen for this state? We may be sure the democrats will omit nothing to whip their rank and file Into line for the democratic candi dates. But the democratic appeal is the strongest kind of an argument for re publicans to vote for Frank E. Moores and the other nominees on the republi can ticket CHAS1RU HAISBOHH. Some visionary supporters of Erastus A. Benson are still trying to make them selves believe that there Is a prospect of his election next Tuesday. These credulous people do not seem to com prehend even the elementary principles of a political campaign. They do not seem to grasp the stubborn fact that no one can be elected mayor next Tuesday unless at least 7,000 votes are cast for him. Where will Mr. Benson get 7,000 votes or even half that number? The aggregate number of vote cast for mayor in the First, Second and Third wards of Omaha three year ago was 5,848 and It Is fair to assume that at least 0,000 votes will be polled in those wards by the three candidates for mayor next Tuesday. Bo far a we can learn Mr. Benson has comparatively an Insignificant following east of Sixteenth street It Is doubtful whether he can muster more than 100 democrats in all three of the wards and a very extrava gant estimate of his strength would be 10 per cent of the entire vote, or 600 all told. It would be extravagant to credit Mr. Benson with more than 28 per cent of the total. vote of the six upper wards, which, exclusive of the socialist vote. will aggregate In the neighborhood of 10,000 votes or at the furthermost, 2,500 votes for Benson. , While Benson may receive more than 25 per cent of the republican vote In the Seventh and Ninth wards his proportion of the democratic rote in the six upper wards will not ex Qeed 10 per cent The wildest estimate of Benson's strength, therefore, will not credit him with more than 8,100 votes all told and that, to use a slang phrase, means that "he Is not In It" for a moment His campaign managers are simply chasing rainbows. CITT ATTi)BHMT CVXSKIL. For over thirty years W. J. Connell has been actively and prominently Identified with Omaha. His loyalty to this city has never been questioned. Since he anchored here as a boy he has been persistent and aggressive for the upbuilding of a greater Omaha. He has done much along that Hue. The Leavenworth street grade and the Far nam street grade, over which thousands of people now travel dally little realls lng how such grades were created, are the resnlt of fights of years' duration which he Inaugurated and conducted to a successful end. In all things be has been aggressive and progressive. In going up the it ream be has naturally dUturbed the current and created some hostility. But even bis enemies con cede hi ability, hi falrress and bis manliness. A city attorney he ha ac compllshed much for the city. Judges DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, and lawyers alike bear testimony as to bis ability and success in the courts. The viaducts, depots and shops, worth many millions to Omaha, stand as mon uments to his skill and efficiency In se curing and protecting the rights and In terests of the people. I ....! HOWBLL'H APPtAL TO CATHOLICS. The pathetic appeal to the Catholics of Omaha made on behalf of Edward E. Howell by the World-Herald forcibly recalls the anti-Catholic crusade that swept over this city only a few years ago and drove Catholic teachers from the public schools and evicted Catholics from the court house and In the city hall. As the culmination of that cru sade William J. Broatch was elected mayor of Omaha and men who were the most rampant In the persecution of Catholics were given positions of honor and trust on the bench and In almost every Important office at the disposal of the people. When Edward E. Howell was pitted against Frank E. Moores as candidate for mayor six years ago his affiliation with the anti-Catholic dark lantern cabal proved to be a bar to bis .success despite his vociferous denials of his A. P, A. record. In this Instance, curses like chickens, came home to roost, and Mr. Howell's ambition' to become mayor of Omaha was not gratified. It was decidedly Indiscreet on the part of the World-Herald, which was no toriously the mainstay of A. P. Alsm In Its palmy days, to venture upon a spe cial appeal to Catholics to rally to the support of Howell when up to this time no allusion had been made to his part in the ontl-Cathollc crusade. In touch ing that tender spot in the Catholic mind and memory the World-Herald forces to the fore front reminiscences that cannot fall to Irritate and aggravate Catholics who passed through that try lug ordeal of proscription and persecu tion on account of theln creed. Whether they rue In a frame of mind to condone Mr. Howell's offense or ac cept his disclaimer of being Identified with Johnny Thompson, Wlnspear and Covell Is problematic. CPW1 THt tit auKUR. In the present municipal campaign the Swedish-American republicans will undergo a crucial test as to their party loynlty. They are brought face to face with the question whether the ties of kinship and political creed are stronger with them than the ties of party and the principles for which the party of their choice stands. It will remain for them to disabuse the prevailing popular im presslon that attachment to the men of Swedish birth or descent is greater with them than their allegiance to the party or its principles In other words that Swedes will vote for Swedes no matter on what ticket they are nominated and no matter how competent or worthy their competitors may be. wnen manes u. lxmecK was a re publican he was honored by the repub llcan party with a place In the state senate and received the support of Americans and men of all nationalities that professed the republican faith, When he deserted that party to become silver republican he lost all claim upon the support of Swedish-American republicans Just as he did of all other classes of republicans. Whon he passed out of the silver republican party to the democratic party be widened the dis tance so much more and severed all the tie that might have bound republican of his own nationality to him In tbo past. There is no more reason or excuse .for Swedish-American republicans to desert William J. Hunter, his competitor, who Is eminently qualified and worthy than there would be for republicans to desert Mr. Wahlstroin, the Swedish-American candidate for building inspector, who is also competent and worthy to fill the place to which he aspires. It is an open secret that Mr. Lobeck was nominated by the democrats not merely with a view to seducing Swedish- American republicans from their path of political duty, but also to create a breach In republican lines and carry with It a general desertion of other can didates on the ticket It now behooves Swedish-American republicans to vindi cate their honor and prove their devo tion to the principles of the republican party by loyally supporting Its candi date. OPPOSITION TO ROOHItrKLT. Reports of opposition to President Roosevelt and of efforts in certain quar ters to defeat him for nomination by the next republican national convention are not at all surprising. His position re garding the combinations which are be lieved to be violating the laws and his manifest determination that the laws applying to these combinations shall be enforced have Incited against him the hostility of the trust magnates and those who support the monopolistic policy they stand for. A prominent In diana republican Is reported as saying that he bad been very much Impressed with the exteut and force of this hos tility, particularly In New York, and he advised those who are supposed to be looking after th political Interests of the president that the fences of hi own state ahould be immediately repaired. This gentleman said that the grounds of objection to Mt. Roosevelt, both among the politicians and the business community, seem to be vague and un reasonable. "The general sentiment ap pears to be based upou bis hostility to the trusts and much of it can be traced directly to the decision In the Northern Securities merger case. At the same time It Is admitted that President Roosevelt bed nothing whatever to do with the enactment of the law upon which that decision wa baaed." The complaint of course Is thst he Is re sKinslble for the proceedings that have been Instituted against the combinations la other words that he ha faithfully performed hi sworn duty to see thst the laws are enforced, without fear or MAY 3, 1903. favor. A New York correspondent of a Chicago paper says': "When you get down to business and ask what the president's opponents Intend to do to de feat his nomination and election they will tell you first that the. republican national committee will not be able to collect any funds In business circles, and, second, that the railroad Influence throughout the country will be used against him. Details are not given, but only the general threat that unless he mends his ways and shows a different disposition toward the 'money Interests' and 'business Interests' of the country the railway king will organise their employes against him." There are not lacking Indications of this hostility to Mr. Roosevelt. It has been plainly disclosed by newspaper champions of the combinations, con spicuous among which Is the New York Sun. It will have no Influence, It can be confidently asserted, on the course of the president and if it have any effect upon the people It will be to strengthen him In their confidence. The action which the president has taken for the suppression of illegal combinations and for putting a check upon monopolistic movements has the unqualified approval of the great majority of the people. The power of the combinations Is great. No one will be disposed to underrate It But we do not believe It can prevail against the popular demand for a presi dent who fearlessly and faithfully in sists that the Interests of the people shall be protected against monopoly and that corporations which exist in viola tion of the laws shall not be tolerated. We think It unmiestlonable that Tresl dent Roosevelt is at this time stronger , 41w, . . , . ... .u n,,,u.r commence man ever oe- iore nnn uis nomination next yenr Is as certain as any future political event can be. NATIONS AT THIS AX POSITION. The events of the past week at St Louis may reasonably be expected to stimulate feeling abroad favorable to the great exposition In that It Is open a yeor hence and which there Is every reason to believe will be ready at the appointed time. The representatives of foreign governments have learned from personal observation what Is contem plated and they know that the men who are in charge of this great enterprise have the ability, the energy and the means nt their command to accomplish what they have set out to do. The visit to St Louis of the diplomats of Euro pean governments has given them an Insight into what Is proposed that will enable them to Intelligently Inform their governments and we venture to predict that they will give an account of the prospect that will be entirely satis factory to the managers of the expo sition. So far as appears there Is a very gen- eral disposition abroad to be well ren- resented at the Louisiana Purchase Ex- .v.. '"". ""?re la every reason to expect, will have a magnifl- cent exhibit. The appointment of the Prince of Wale aa chairman of the British royal commissioners, a manifes tation of the king's Interest in the exposi tion, promises to have a most salutary effect in inducing British manufacturers to send their products here. The prince himself Is showing a most enthusiastic interest in the matter. At a meeting of the commissioners a few days ago he urged British manufacturers to make a generous display of their goods, point ing out the good results reasonably to be expected from doing so It Is altogether probable that thi. " " ",lPeiner Prooauie that tbl ap- peal to the manufacturers of England win nave some influence upon those of other foreign countries. It has been re - nnrted thnf tho ma ..,..,.,. " ui ver- many will Ignore the exposition, but muBt furnish 'the president with a gratify thia seems hardly credible. They are lng reminder of the fact that ha hit upon a shrewd business men, who are looking for every opportunity to extend their ,o m V " exiena weir trade. Whatever may be their Irrlta- tlon In consequence of American compe- tltlon, It Is most Improbable that they win "Dite off their noses" by bovoottlnsr ,nie"Bl "'"pa" -at T..i- i.i . ous sdmonltlons concerning race auiclde. U1. mbh.uu. n iBUrea mat r ranee will lnve a splendid ex- hlblt of her arts and manufactures for Of all forelirn cniintrl h . .. ' reeis tne greatest pride In this com- memoratlon of the most Important event In her relation with the United Statea Other European countries, when they nave neen Drought to fully realise, as tney undoubtedly will be by their rep- rcsemauvea uere. tne scone of th. Louisiana Purchase Exposition, will make generous provision for the ex hibition of their products and resources. so mat it seems safe to predl-t that the foreign display nt St Louis will be the largest and finest ever niartA r world's fair. ir mere Is a man on the republican council ticket who Is not In every way superior to his opponent In the race, he haa not been pointed out. With every one of them elected Omaha will have a business council thst may be depended on to attend to the public business with out waiting for the aid or consent of tne corporation managers. A Leas Felt Want. Philadelphia North American. Why doesn't Mr. Carnegie begin nearer home and give a tempi of pescs te the democratic party? Bat Tinea Hits Cksagtl. Detroit Free Press. There was a time when visit to th pop would hare cost Edward his throne, his head snd a lot of other personal property. Aa Override Melaa. Chicago Poet. Tb original syndicate thst underwrote th steel trust deal has Just cut a $60,000, 000 melon sad dlsbsnded. And there sr person who wonder St workmea organising and demanding mors pay. A Toe far Paaalaalata. Baltimore American. Tba permanent retirement of the Declara tion of Independence In It original docu ment will furnish flu subject tor pessi mists who Ilk to pick ut gruesome mea of th universal disintegration of aU talsg geed. PERSONAL AND OTHESWIIB, Tie bolsterousnees of May day might b forgiven tt It was accompanied by a bunch ot hot sir. The "ehlld-llte and bland" Chinee Is wlaa enough to keep the apare cards Op bis sleeve when Adamtad hedges. Some significance may be extracted from the fart that President Roosevelt did not encounter the April frost in Nebraska. It coat a New York man $3.40 for trying to draw a trolley car with his teeth. Out west he could hang on a strap tor & centa. Cleveland has organised a club ot bald headed men. This Is the Brat inatance on record of halrlesa aages flocking together for protection snd sympathy. Tb Indianapolis Journal la no longer controlled by the News boys. Hereafter the paper will ruitls along with common every day news and Charley Henry. Benjamin Thaw, brother-in-law ot the earl ot Yarmouth, refused to thaw out during the hitch. To ask him to melt In April weather was too much for his tem per. It Is fortunate for Edward II that he Is familiar with the highways and byways of political cemeteries. Experience will be helpful In locating the hole In the ground. New York's noted grafter, when ques tioned In Sing Sing prlaon, gave his occu pation as "gentleman." Gentleman, like the mantis of charity, covers a multitude of sins. Myalgia la tba doctor's name for a apecles of rheumatism caused by handling large bunchea of money. No matter what terrors the name contains, people will take the risk. Tho staff of the governor of Georgia at the world's fair dedication waa so large and resplendent In the trappinga ot colonels that It overflowed the grounds and hit the plks. There la where the Goorgls colonel shines. American helresaee anxious to emulate 'h9 'rl h, p'? tb Pited P"" tw s moldy title with s loafer attached ean do B0 by .Mwerin, the advertieement of two German counts In the New York Herald. Tncr ,eek "marriage with ladles" possess Ing from half to two millions of good American coin. Half a million each Is dead cheap for remnants of royalty. Philip Doblln, the versatile genius who executed a marvelous somersault before s congressional committee last February, waa before s New York court recently. charged with Jumping a board bill. The merciful solomon ot the bench remarked that as Phil was a politician abandoned by hla friends he was not responsible for his sets. He was ordered to go and Jump no more. A ministerial reformer in New York, de siring to acquire a bunch of warm Informa tion at Drat hand, halted at the box office of a theater where "A Fool and His Money" held the boards. The domlnls wanted to know If the play taught the les son suggested by the title. "It will cost you $1.60 to And out," remarked the box office man. The remark whetted the curiosity of th dominie and he parted with his money. PRESIDENT MADE A HIT. Pvpalar Interest Excited by Domestic Topic. Chicago Record-Herald. The sddreas of Mary A. Llvermore ot Boston, In which she took iasue with Presl dent Roosevelt on the "rsce suicide" quea- !,on' fn of evidences of tba intensely bumsn Interest when he ventured to chide Americans for th growing habit of having small families. No utterance of th prealdent has excited such lively snd extended discussion as th one in which he declared It to be the patriotic duty of Americana to rats large families of chil- dren, In taking laaue with the president Mrs. Llvermore said: "The need la not more children, but bet ter ones. It would not be race suicide If we were to have more homes Into which only two or three children were born, quality snd character signify more than a horde." Whether this sentiment Is generally in dorsed or not no on will be Inclined to underestimate the value sod importance of "Quality" In th rearing ct children. Th only lroubl, wlth the argument of Mrs. uvermor I that th tendency to have fewer children does not conduce to the da 1 velopmnt ot better ones, ss on might b I led to suppose I ,,.,.,.,, v.- h. At.r...lnn ,lT 100,0 of PPu'sr interest when ha Uck,ed the " ulct,1" Jstlon In his ylgoroui brttty nd candid style. His auditorium speech on the Monro doctrine, hla dlscuaslon of truat legislation and revl- ,lon tne tariff, sr all ot slight popular Hls abl plea for a larger navy did not evok such popular concern aa bis pies for I larger families All of which ahows that when the presl- I ilnnt wants tn arouse Dooular enthusiasm h. mu.t touch MD thou domeatio tooie. that era close to tb live of th people and which he handles with such rare felicity 'nd re,re,Illn ""0' Schmoller & Mueller FARN An STREET PiatlO CO. FAUNAnSTRBBT IT'S THIS WAY JlE haw tome Burt Bargain! in lutnn them with thou left from tlie the lot thit week at atloniehitig pricet. guaranteed. Call or write. ir,n Decker Bros. Piano, fancy Circassian Walnut case, abso lutely flrat-class condition adapted to parlor or atudio , Iver & Pond Piano largo lzo great bargain. 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LoulsvlHs Courler-Jonrnsl: The Rev. William Dixon ot Trovldcnce, R, I., be been dlsmlseed from church because of plagiarism, which he admitted. Th dif ference between Mr. Dixon snd most other plagiarlsta, both in snd out of the pulpit, la thst Mr. Dixon admits his offense. Chicago Chronicle: Let us hop that the Nebraska clerical dignitary who has beco arrested for shooting songbirds will re ceive the stripes ot Justice well laid oa. Apart from the absolute brutality Involved In killing larks snd robins th proceeding Is an open violation of th law, which I particularly disgraceful to a clergyman. Indianapolis Journal: Thst waa a tunny message which the Protestant Alliance ot London wired to King Edward's secretary at Rom expressing Its "Intense regret that our Protectant King Intenda to visit th pope,, who la described in the" homilies of our established church ss sntl-Chrlst." It Is not likely that King Edward's orthodoxy or morals will receive sny harm from an Interview with the good old man in th Vatican. Minneapolis Tiroes: Th Almighty It blamed for so many things In this world that It Is not surprising to learn that Mrs. Hetty Green has recently said 'Mod seema to bless me In my suits In court" The case In court referred to was one against a Presbyterian church over th foreclosure of s mortgage, out of which Mrs. Green managed to get $1,600 more than ahe had asked for In the first place. The Inference of Hetty's remark Is thst Providence is for some reason displease! with the Presbyterian church. DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES. He Are you superstitious? She Not a bit. He Well, then, I enn make a clean breast of It. You are my thirteenth bride. New York Sun. "Why do you think the affair la platonlcT'' "Because neither has any money and both want It." Chicago Poet. He Well, you were no chicken when I married you. She No? Considering what I got I wa an early bird of some sort. Detroit Free Press. "My gracious! denr," aald thx Chlcsgo bridegroom, "you were awfully nervous during the ceremony." "Yes, lt'a my nature," replied the fair Chicago bride. "1 suppose I'll be Just os nervous the next time. "Chicago Tribune. "Do you believe In luck?" "Sometimes. Bee that fat woman with the red hat over thereY" "Yes." "Twenty-two yeHra ago ahe refused to marry me." Cleveland Plain Dealer. "He's so foolish," said the one In whit. "Foolish?" returned the one In gray. "Yes. Why. he wants me to marry him." "Oh, then he la foolish." Chicago Post. Clara Does Harry help you With the house cleaning? Harriet-Well, he hanga the pictures crooked and doea the grumbling. Detroit Free Press. "What do men do when they get In the legislature, pop?" "Why, they do corporatlona, my son." Yonkera Statesman. Kate Is there much difference In their oclal position? Nell Oh, yea. Her father gela a aalary, and his father gets wages. Somervllle Jour nal. She She calls herself M-a-e, but th lan't the way her nam appear tn in family Bible. He Perhapa ahe doesn't think the Tamil r Bible ahould be accepted literally. puck. SERMONS I FLOWERS. W. D. Neablt in Chicago Tribune. ("The flower appear on th earth, th time of the ainglng of birds Is come, and the voice of the turtle la heard In our land." The Song ot Solomon II, 12.) Th common kind o' flowers! Lord, you made a lot o' them I Th daisy In the medder Is aa clean a sny gem; The wild rose In th thicket la th ripest kind o' red It' purty, and lt'a happy look at how It holds Its head! Them little dutchmen's breaches Is a fa vorite o' mine; I like to stumble on 'em with my eyes, an' catch their shine. An, then, the johnny-Jump-upa, noddln' sort wnen I go by, as blue an' glad an' ca'm midsummer sky. helpful ss the The blaxln' dogwood blossoms 1 How they I flash along the road . .' Come a-bloomin' In a minute, till a feller thinks it's snowed! Lord, the hawtree holds a sermon that Is sent direct from you; An' the bendln' cherry branches, an' the elder bushes, too. There's the perky dandelion bobbin' up sq fresh an' bold. Till the whole enduring hillside has lti polkydota of gold: An' the bloraomin' May apple, hldln' Under- neam tne treea. Sends a tlngltn' sort o' flower till It coaxes out the bea. The common kind o' flowers! Lord, I guess they like to grow An' to Mil the air with gladneaa Just be cause you love them ao. Lord I try to understand them an' my heart beata In accord When I bend an' whisper to m: "For this blessing, thank the Lord!". neu and tlightly used piano. Wt will Great Special Furchate Sale and offer Termt very eaty. 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