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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, JTJXE 30, 190ft., The Omaha Daily Bee E. HOBEWATKR EDITOR. ' ' Entered at Omaha Postofflce aa tcom class matter. TERMS or SUBSCRIPTION. Isl1y Be (without Sunday), one year 14 I ally Bee and Sunday, one year JJ Sunday Bee. one year W Saturday Hee, one year 10 TELIVERKD BT CARRIER Dally Dee (Including Sunday), per week He lallv Bee (without Bunrisyi, per week.. 12c evening Bee, (without bunuay). per week. c Kvenlng Be (with Sunday), per week.. 10c Kunriay Bee, per copv c Aririres compisjnts of Irregulsritlei In de livery to City Circulation department. OPTICE8. Omaha-The Bee Building. Bon i h Omaha City Hall Building. Council Bluffs 10 Pearl 8treet. hlcsgo 1o Cnlty Building. rn York liV Home Life Ins. Building. Washington 1 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communication relating to news and edi torial mutter ehoilld be addressed: Omaha Hep, Editorial Department. -REMITTANCES. Remit bv draft, express or poatal order psvable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only 2-ront itampi received aa payment ax mail account. Personal check, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPAN1. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglaa County, : C. C. Roeewater, general manager of The He PuhliBblng Company, being duly eworn. saj that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally. Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee printed duitiig i lie month or Mv, iitus, was aa toiiowe: 1 ,it70 16 81. MO 2 jvt.nao 17 aino I 81.870 lg 81.KUO 4 Xl.fKIO 1 8S.2T0 f. 32.3ZO 30 O,n0 SO.OftO 21 81,920 7 8I,M 22 1 ,WM II 81.MM 23 81,030 81.SAO 24 l.O0 10 ai.BOO 24 81,8.10 11 SI.OAO 2 ;iX-4tXI 12 a3.2oO 27 81.H.10 13 HO.tHMI - 21 81.HT0 14 81.700 29 81.740 is ai.sao o hi .ft so SI 31,040 ToUl OMt,B70 L.tnm unaold coplea lO.MMI Net total aalea 78.eJ4 Dally 'average 81,870 'C, C. ROSEWATER, General Manager. Subacribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 4th day of June. IMS. tSeal) M. B. IIL'NQATK, Notary Public. WHEH OUT OF TOWH. Sabserlbern tearing; th elty tem porarily should bare Tha Bee mailed to them. Address will be chnagred aa oftea as reqaeated. Despite the outbreak of Mexican miners the Yaqul holds hla own as the Kourge of Sonora. Electric current for lighting Omaha's streets manufactured out of SlO-a-ton coal is a luxury afforded to few cities. In selecting a new forage grass for Nebraska the object should be to get 3ne which .IJ1 defy a drouth one day tnd withstand a flood tha next. Talk of drouth will now have to be put back In cold storage for a mora propitious time. Nebraska crops are doing quite well, thanks to the recent rain. With Nlcaraugua taking the part of 3uatemalan revolutionist the dream Df Filibuster Walker of a1 United Cen tral American nation may yet be real ized. , John D. Rockefeller is said to be Tearful of anarchists. Does thtg ox plain why he has put the ocean be tween himself and some of his busi ness associates? Building permits In Omaha since January 1 aggregate more than $2,000,000.' The year 1906 is sure to be another record-breaker for us In the building line. The experience of a Nebraskan In Montana should cause prospective in vestors in cattle ranches 'to ascertain where fences are standing before part ng with their money. Now that an open hearing is (o be had in the Dreyfus case there Is some hope that the defendant will receive full justice, but France can hardly af ford to let the matter rest in doubt. The comparative efficiency of an am liHsrador and a minister will be dem onstrated In Turkey. Mr. Leishman will now have the pleasure of dunning the sultan without awaiting the royal will. ' That member of the British Parlia ment who has bon unseated for glvlug a garden party to his constituents will probably realize that politics and society are only permitted to mix after the returns are In. South Omaha Is up against a claim for $30,000 damages for personal in jury said to have been received from a defective sidewalk. An expenditure of $30,000 would pay for a whole lot of new sidewalks. The ' anythlng-to-beat Rosewater" bunch Imagine that they have a mo nopoly of the intelligence of this com munity. In this they are likely to Ond themselves badly fooled when the votes are counted. ' San Francisco's relief committee has sold 11,000.000 pounds of flour sent by those who desired to aid distress, which -would indicate that San Fran ciscans no longer feel the need of lean ing on the staff of life. It having been established In court that llorado corporations cannot be legally considered parties to conspira cies. I ha, idea of Incorporating local onions may grow in favor with the Western Federation of, Miners, v -1 - ; . If that technological Institute at Chicago named for Armour will gradu, ate man capable of operating a sani tary packing house without Increasing ipensea It will not only reflect honor on the name of its chief supporter, but be worth aJl it coats. 1 RKTBOfiPKCTITK AST PROSPECTIVE. The Bee has Just com pie fed It thirty-fifth year. During all of this time The Bee has been a dally reflec tion of the views on public questions of 1U founder and editor, Edward Rosewater. For thirty-five years it has fought the battles of the people day In and day out, Irrespective of consequences, until today the logic of events has produced the most striking vindication of the policies It has ad vocated and the course it has pursued. Policies steadfastly advocated by The Bee from its very birth, onre de nounced as radical and out of ques tion, have become the principal features of the present day legislative program, accepted as a matter of course as the least that could be done to satisfy public sentiment. From the . outset The Bee and its editor have been fighting against cor porate Interference la government af fairs. It has been demanding strict government control of railroad trans portation and effective regulation of rates for both passenger and freight traffic. It has demanded full publicity of all corporate transactions and re pression of trust evils by which gigan tic trade combinations have been able to oppress the consuming public. The Bee has exposed fraud and cor ruption and rottenness in public office wherever found and demanded punish ment of those betraying official trust, more insistently, If anything, when the offender was of Its own political faith than of the opposite party. The great fight for equal taxation in Nebraska, waged by The Bee and Its editor, for years almost alone, hag finally reached its culmination, and while much yet Is to be accomplished, the progress already made would never have come but for the good work which this paper has done in the cause. , In all these thirty-five years The Bee and its editor have been foremost in every enterprise designed to build up Nebraska and develop Its resources. Not content with mere preaching, faith has been shown by works. The Bee is a Nebraska institution, Intimately identified with the state and dependent upon its people. It has advertised Ne braska far and wide and is recognized among the great newspapers of the country. The past is its best promise for the future. The Bee will continue along the lines mapped out at-the start, voi cing the real sentiments of the people, pointing out the pitfalls and dangers confronting them and exerting Itself to the utmost for good government, high morals and widespread prosperity in the Interest of all the people. AOItEEMEXT Oy IltSPECTtOS. The basis of final agreement on the meat inspection bill between the presi dent and the house committee on agri culture Insures speedy enactment of a measure which will be both thorough and practical. The; agreement Includes all the main points as to Which the president has been most solicitous and tenders mere specific and direct the provisions of the substitute prepared in the house committee for the bill as it passed the senate. While the house committee has yielded on some points, the president recedes as to taxing the cost of Inspec tion upon the packers ors by an ar bitrary fee per head of live stock, and agrees to defraying it out of the na tional treasury. At no time, however, was the president wedded to the former method, having explicitly de clared In his special message to con gress that His main concern was to avoid failure of inspection through In adequate appropriation for Its support by some subsequent congress. The house bill, In the amended form, pro vides against, this so far as it Is pos sible to do so, thus securing the sub stance of the president's original pur pose. It Is' safe to predict that the inspec tion measure In the final form which It will take in conference between the two houses will be made more strin gent rather than reduced below the basis now agreed upon between the president and the house committee. And it is noteworthy that the big pack ers are beginning to. show a disposi tion to abandon effort to prevent or delay effective inspection. POSSIBILITIES OF t'REE ALCOHOL' Probably no measure passed at this session of congress, outside of rate control legislation, will have such far reaching practical result as the act exempting denaturlzed alcohol from taxation. Although the new law will not go into effect till January 1, prep arations beyond all enumeration are already going forward to utilize the industrial advantages which It affords. The manufacturing and trade journals are full of account of this activity, planning and experimentation, and agree in the opinion that the use of dtrnaturized alcohol will even be far more extensive than the most sanguine anticipations before the law was en acted. It Is noteworthy that a multitude of manufacturers. In some rases the great combines and associations, are already producing new machinery and adaptations of old machinery in which alcohol will supplant other fuels, to be ready for the market as soon as the law la effective, while experiments for lighting and heating purposes are causing corresponding changes. Not less Interesting are the arrangements tor manufacturing' alcohol, abundant capital : belug available for new dis tilleries, in addition to preparations to enlarge the output of existing ones. A great many communities In the west, where the grain and other raw materials are so abundant and cheap, have taken steps to-orgacla distillery companies at which alcohol will be made only In the undrinkable form. , Calculations, too, are handicapped by tha fact that the Treasury depart ment bas so as yet announced the conditions under which denaturlzed al cohol shall be manufactured. The act clothes the department with very wide discretionary powers for the purpose of protecting the revenue, so that their exercise will have much to do not only with the price, but also with the char acter of the new. Industry. It la be lieved thst the depsrtment will follow a liberal policy and permit small local distilleries as far as possible. The an nouncement of the revenue regulations will almost certainly give a great im petus to a movement that is already going forward so rapidly. THE REPUBLICAN JVBILKE. The celebration of the fiftieth anni versary of the republican party Is ap propriate, both for the Importance of the event It commemorates and for its suggestions of present expediency. A party which during most of the half century since It became a truly na tional organization has been so related to American conceptions of. duty and Interest as to be trusted with direction of public affairs except for only a dec ade altogether, represents a movement worthy of study. Two facts In the early days of the party should stand out more prom inently in popular contemplation than they do. In the first place, while the party was organized In response to growing liberal and moral sentiments. It was distinctly and thoroughly con servative. Though' It grew out of Im pulses and convictions to which hu man slavery was repugnant, the repub lican party was not originally an abo litionist party, and both In its platform on which Fremont was nominated in 1856 and In that on which Lincoln was elected president in 1860 did not pro post to Interfere with slavery in states where slavery constitutionally existed, but only to prevent Its extension out side of them. Into United States terri tories, which would later become states of the union. The paramount party purpose thus was essentially the reverse of radical. Hostile to slavery on moral, humani tarian and economic grounds, It yet did not lose sight of the value of the union and of the sanctity of the con stitution, arid with faith in the right eousness of the cause and In the In tegrity of the people It proposed a program at once conservative and lib eral, progressive and practical. And no party In critical times , was ever more completely personified than re publicanism in Lincoln, in whom cau tion and farsightedness were as con spicuous as his humanitarian sympa thies were profound. In like manner original republican- Ism came opportunely to represent the adequacy of the federal constitutional powers generally as the instrument of rapidly developing needs tor national government as against narrow a.nd. ob structionist states right views and prejudices. The exigencies of civil war enormously accelerated the evolution of nationalism, but its results merely anticipated the demands which unpar alleled industrial and commercial de velopment have since created. Reflection should admonish Intelli gent republicans that identically the same spirit which directed the party In Its origin, conservative In cardinal points, but facing honestly and cour1 ageously towards tire future, with pos itive and progressive practical attitude on vital questions. Is the only spirit In which It can maintain its prestige and serve the substantial Interest of the people. The move on the part of the. county board, sitting as a board of equaliza tion, to raise the assessments of realty within the business area of Omaha at this time notwithstapdlng the revenue law provides for quadrennial assess ments only raises a nice point of law. ii tae board can revise realty assess ments whenever it sees fit we will then be back to the annual assessment of realty Instead of assessment once every four years as the law contemplate. It 1b also questionable whether there Is any authority to select arbitrarily a particular district for increase, leaving all the realty in the county outside of that district unchanged, which would amount In effect to reducing the valua tion of the realty whose assessments are left stationary. If any part were to be reassessed it should all be re assessed. If the county board Intends to re distrlct the county into commissioner district porresponding with the lines of the new ward boundaries estab lished In the city of Omaha, It should not put off action too long. Ample notice should be given of the new ar rangement of the districts whatever it may be and the district lines should be drawn so aa to make as little change as possible from present districts, while at the same time keeping to the ward boundaries for convenience of voters. As the law now stands tha commissioner districts affect only the nomination of the commissioners and not their election Inasmuch as the peo ple of the whole county vote for com missioners from each district. The rotation ballot outrage perpe trated at the Instigation of the Fonta nelles Is Intended to disfranchise a ma jority of the voters of Douglas county from participating in the coming pri mary election. We do not believe, however, our people will sit idly by and allow themselves to be tricked 1n this manner'. Every republican who like fair play should prepare to as sert his rights by making a cross-mark after every one .of the eighty-three delegates who will go to the state con vention in the Interest of Edward Rosewater for senator, no matter how much time It takes to mark the ballot. Our public school janitors are enti tled to public sympathy for being re quired to go through the summer with out any Interruption la their work while the school teachers are off en Joying themselves at summer resorts and the children are playing at home or on the streets. The school janitors, however, will meet the requirements of the occasion with no more grum bling than necessary to relieve their mental distress. Oovernor Hoch says he finds It Im possible to pay all personal and polit ical debts by appointing friends to of fice. This matter Is Important enough to warrant a special message to the legislature at least In Kansas where every man is a patriot to the extent of being ready to serve his state for a consideration. gees Hla Dnty Clearly. Chicago Tribune. The nrenirient anneara to feel that in the present emergency he bas to do tha talking for something like 80,000.000 people, ann n has no disposition to shirk the Job. cared by the Knacks. Chicago News, wham tha trusts hear a knocking at ths door these days they do not know whether It is opportunity trying to present tnem with something good or a big stick getting ready to moke them be good. , Norway's Crawalagt Bst. New Tork Tribune, with the roronatton of King Haakon this week, and then the German emperor's offi cial visit to him early next month, the fin touch will be given to Norway's es tablishment among ths sovereign powers of the world. A Mess gnggestloa. Washington Post. Thousands of clnb women who are send ing petitions to congress asking sn In vestigation of the Industrial condition of women in the United State could help some by stating how they treat their own hired girls. Saaplclons Verified. Cleveland Leader. .v.iv accurate scientific authority Informs the public that "The United States In 1904 produced 99 per cent oi me enure world's known production of natural gas." Somehow It Is hard to feel much surprise on reading this news. More Trosable for Pedestrians. Chicago Chronicle. Yh.... i. rennrt that Mr. Edison' an nounces that in a few days now everybody will be able to own and operate an automo bile, because he, Mr. Edison, ha found cobalt In North Carolina, ir this reaiiy means everybody there are likely to be more wrecks In every street than there k.... h..n rm the COS it of PURSt SOUnd. The majority of people cannot run a tea kettle successfully, to say noming oi an automobile. If anybody at all la to be left to go afoot ha is not likely to be very grateful to Mr. , Edison. ' Warlike Answer to Theorists. ' Philadelphia Ledger. While members of th British Parlla ment are joining tiroes' of other nations In the academic discussion of the problem of disarmament. tua British navy Is giving an impressfV demonstration of the real policy of the empire as to Its control of the sea. The concentration In homo watere of the largest naval forca aver assembled by a single power, or perhaps ever brought together by any combination of powers, msy be Interpreted as tha national answer to the theorists. Al though the exercises will be in mere Imi tation of war conditions, the direction and aim of the operations give them a sinister aspect in strange contraat with the talk of peace and disarmament heard at th European rapltala. NO BERR FOR OLD gOLDIRR". Legislation Against Canteens at Soldiers' Homes. New Tork Sun. The vote In the house on Mr. Bower sock's amendment to the aundry civil ap propriation bill excluding any state or ter ritorial soldiers' homje In which canteen Is maintained from a share 'of the appro priation settled the question of restoring the canteen to the army, so far as the Fifty-ninth .congress Is concerned. If the old soldier cannot have his beer within the limits of the home grounds, the less responsible young soldier must go without It or, rather, both must resort to the dive near the home or post to take a social glass, with all the consequences In volved. , V . It was the plea of Mr. Gardner of Michi gan that the government should throw "around the old soldier, the weak soldier, the decrepit old soldier," Its arms of pro tection and make the evening of bis life one of sobriety' and contemplation, and not the testimony of officers of soldiers' homes, as cited by such visionaries as Mr. Ooulden of New Tork, that stampeded the house to pass the amendment by a vote of 109 to a. If the house could have been convinced by the testimony of honest and self-respecting men It would have, heeded the fol lowing admission of Representative Brown low, one of the managers of the board of control over soldiers' homes: "There Is not and has not been In the United States any man more fanattcHl on the subject of the use of Intoxicating drinks than myself. I never taated a drop of whisky, wine or beer; I never smoked a cigar and I never took a chew of tobacco. And 1 went Into the management of the Mountain Branch home (Tennessee) aa much prejudiced agnnst the sale of In toxicating drinks In isny shape, form or fashion as any man In this country. But after careful Investigation, after visiting all of the national homes, and after going in there and making a diligent search for all of these things that you complain of, I came to the conclusion that the canteen In the horns was an absolute protection to those who were addicted to the use of In toxicating liquors." A protection because In the vicinity of every soldiers' home there Is a blve of loir groggeries selling the vilest stuff that was ever put In a human stomach, places to which old aoldlers repair when denied tho temperate use of a light heer at the home. A ehesf of statiatics fanatically compiled by the superintendent of the Antl-8.1loon league turned the scale against the manly avowal of Representative Brovnlaw. Proof of the scrupulously proper manage ment of canteens st the homes was as a straw in the gale of austerity thst swept over the house. In vain Mr. Tawnev of Minnesota died tha president, the secret ery of war and the chief Just te of the Supreme court as believers in the canteen. The. house had Its eye on the con greHS elections of next November. Xot '.o be snersed at is the prohibition vote In clo- district. "Hiree per rent beer for the old soldiers who. as Mr. Ooulden said, "re quire some mild stimulant In the rinsing years of their useful and heroic llvesV Not i beer It aingle vote la to be lost tberebj : norsn aott krw tork. Disaster. It is difficult for people at a dtstanrs to measure ths depth of grief that over whelms hearts stricken by disaster. Ther are few whole-hearted people who will not feel a throb of sympathy for those whose homes and lives were blighted by th Plocum disaster In New Tork harbor, two years ago. The Rlocum, an excursion best, loaded with children, their mothers and friends, was burned to the water's edge and 1.000 lives sacrificed by firs and water. Iast Friday, June II, the second anniversary of the disaster, 4,000 persons gathered !n the Lutheran cemetery at Middle Village, Long Island, to psy fitting tribute to the memory of the victims and deck their grsves with garlands of flowers. Through the long ceremonies conducted by the organisation of the General Slo cum survivors, lasting all afternoon, re lates the New York Times, men wept like broken-hearted little children, while the women sobbed and were so overcome with emotion that many of them had to be taken from the crowd around the monu ment and stretched out In the grass be tween the graves furrowing the nillsides. When th little girls from Public Schools 13 and 25, eighty of whom were survivors of the dlssater or sisters of chil dren who lost their lives, sang "Leal, Kindly Light," many of them had to stop because of their sobs. Ten little girls kept their voices from breaking and ssng while th tears coursed down their round cheeks. The stolid nature of the east side Ger man Lutheran could not maintain Itself yesterday when four deep walls of hu mans formed about the space beneath which were burled the unidentified dead. Mothers and fathers who would have found some surcease of sorrow In look ing upon the faces of the dead, but to whom even this was dented, wept In one another's arms.. On the speakers' stand was a woman with a little girl In her arms and her husband beside her. Th mother's face showed a terrible scar, left by her ex perience on the morning of the disaster. She was beyond being comforted, and ner nusband was so distressed that he was helpless. A the mother sat in view of the multitude the little girl in her arms kept wiping away her tears with her handkerchief and kissing her eyes. The organisation of the General Sloeum Survivors Is no sllk-hatted east-side affair. It is made up of men, women and child ren who wear black badge and whose association insignia Is a gravedlgger's spa'de, festooned with ribbons of black. This de sign wa brought out to the headquarters of the organisation, in Neldersteln s Grand hotel, and was viewed by the members. Through that section of the east side spreading around St. Mark's Lutheran church, at 123 Sixth street, the observance of the day began early. Shops kept by those who had suffered affliction were closed. Scores of buildings showed flaas at half mast or bound with black. Parents with their broods were out In their Sab bath clothes, starting early for the long ride to th cemetery. The school children wore mourning bands on their arms and the black and white badges of the organi sation on their breasts. Special trolley cars took them from Seventh street and Avenue A to the Williamsburg bAdge. There was none of the cheerful, happy, holiday atmosphere as the little ones crowded Into the cars. A peaceful neigh borhood. which had suffered the loss of 1,000 of Its people In a few hours, showed yesterday that the loss had not been for gotton and that it la not less keen for the two years that have passed. In the amphitheater 6f low. gently-rising hills around the Slocum monument the crowds were packed, some of the older women In their quaint little bonnets and old-fashioned ornaments, sitting upon graves or leaning acalnst tombstones. Th air was still In the heat of the afternoon when the sound of muffled drums turned th faces toward a wide avenue arched by willows and graceful elms. The sound grew nearer. Then the Instruments of a military band playing softly the March Funebrs by Chopin were heard. The mounted police appeared In the framework of trees, then the band and then 100 little girls In white and 100 little boys. Back of these came the older members of the organisation. Th tread was In keeping with the slow and solemn measure of Chopin's music, and the columns of mourn ers seemed swaying as It came Into the open. Before a word was spoken by President Charles Derach the women were weeping and the men were looking uneasy. The women placed flower upon the graves Of their dead and held in their emotion a they performed this duty, but, with a multitude or sorrowing and afflicted peopl standing about, and with the solemn music In the air, there grew a resistless feeling of pain at heart, and. a If In a second the thousands of faces dropped Into a many pairs of hands. "We cannot tell why It happened," said Mr. Dersch. with a vole that quavered. "W don't know why It was done, but there they are, the onea 'we loved and saw go away for a happy, innocent day of rest and simple pleasure. The most Innocent and the best found themselves with only the choice of drowning or burning to death. "We have had no redress; nothing has been done as yet to make those who robbed us of our beloved ones to pay for that rob bing. But I feel sure that aa there la a , God and a Redeemer In heaven their pun ishment will come to them." Mr. Dersch pointed out that despite the fact that some of the bereaved bnea had lost their minds, some hsd committed sui cide, and other had died before their time because of their Borrow, the organisation would not let the day of the disaster be forgotten or th memory of the victims gs unhonored. It wa a sad party that took the cars for the eaat aide again. There was hardly a pair of eyes not red and swollen from weeping. , PAT OP ARMY OrriCKRi. Secretary Tmft Coasters General Corbla'a Plaint. New Tork World. When General Corbln, with questionable taste, complained In addreaslng the West Point graduates of the low pay they would receive In the army. Secretary Taft promptly countered by speaking of low sal aries aa "a method of developing character which you ought not to lose." And he added: "I am pretty sure that your salaries for ths next five yesrs, low aa they are, are pay that the average professional man would be delighted to be sure of In the first five yeaiw of, his work. Th truth is that your pay Is not munificent, but you can live on It. and It ha th great merit of relieving you from that Intense anxiety that troubles so many members of the learned profeaHlons that of keeping the wolf from th door. -We are apt In this sge of wealth to at tach too much Importance to money. W ought to have more peip' who, whin they have amassed a competence, would stop and devote themselves to public affairs." With so many public officials corbtnlnx and shewing about the country these com mencement days, it la of great public value to have In high plaet a man who talks com mon snsj Complies with the pure food laws of every state BAKK1G II r 1 1 T II Cslutset Is mad nj5Li,II slbt to select. - makes UrM. easily direstej Rread. Blcnitr . Hnntry: therefore, It I recom mended by leading physicians and chemists. F f? fl N fl t! Y Ia nl? Ctlastet you are alwsvs assured f. U U II U M I 0i - oot1 bskinart therefore, there Is' no waste of material or can: It will Powder power. mmm-m the "THE AGE OP CLAMOR." "Pnblle KtIIs Cannot Re Cared by Whispering- Attnlnst Tbns." Chicago Tribune. One of th speakers at a convention re cently held here said regretfully that "we are drifting Into an age of clamor." He la disturbed by the noise made by people shouting for the abatement of real or fancied evils. He wishes they would lower their voices and discuss with gentlemanly composure the reforms they advocate. The difficulty Is that In an age of business and bustle he who talks In a "still, small voice" cannot be heard and might as well keep silent. A man must clamor and shriek In order to be heard and command at tention. - Moat reforms have had to be clamored for. They could not have been obtained otherwise In reasonable time. If they had been asked for mildly and conservatively the persons whoa purses would be touched would have maintained a discreet silence and the general public wuuld not have been stirred to action. Ther would hav been no factory or child labor legislation If it bad not been clamored for. The pack era ar Improving conditions In their houses. They object to the clamor that has been raised, and say that If they had been told quietly of evils that ought to be remedied they would have attended to the matter. Perhaps they might have done so, but generally the persons who gently suggest to the men. In charge of a work shop of factory that they ahnuld make ex pensive Improvement ar told to mind their own business. There are some desirable reforms which ar unattainable merely because several men with strong lungs are not shouting for them and giving highly colored ac counts of dreadful conditions which would disappear if th reforms were Introduced. Attention was called twenty years ago to many of th life Insurance abuses which have recently been exposed. . The state ments were not made vociferously enough to catch the public ear. and the bouse cleaning In the companies wa. left for th "ago of clamor." It Is true that cranks, visionaries, pseudo reformers, and mischief makers are clamoring for unwise or vicious legis lation a loudly aa genuine reformer are asking for needed legislation. They at tack Imaginary evils as strenuously as the others do real evils. But the false re formers are no more noisy In his Sge than they hav been in preceding ages. Th public In not In th habit of taking for gospel all that It hears from irresponsible Individuals. It usually remains unmoved by their clamor and heeds only that of persons whom it looks on as measurably responsible. Society cannot get along without clamor. It Is the great agent for the removal of abuses. Those who complain the most of Its strident, discordant voice are the ones who are directly or Indirectly Interested In the continuance of the bad conditions against which, clamor Is raised. Thus rail road men think there has been an un necessary clamor against railroad manage ment. Deep seated evils cannot be eured by whispering against them. PERBOXAI. ROTES. Sen Francisco esrnestly wishes that earthquake would be as discriminating as lightning In the matter of striking twice In th same place. ' There is a giant more than nine feet tall about to land- at New Tork. and hla press agents have already got th Immi gration officials to threaten to send him back. Dr. It W. Morley, professor of chemis try, and Dr. George Trumbull Ladd. pro fessor of rhetoric, have been retired with Carnegie pensions from the faculty of the Western Reserve university. The manager of the Cincinnati telephone exchange has provided punching bag to train hla girl operators in the manly nrt. The heads of mashers are soft enough, but the Idea Is to reach the spot with speed, force and precision. On October 1 at Washington the mili tary monument In memory of General George B. McClellan. commander of the Army of the Potomac, Is to be unveiled. President Roosevelt is to mske the speech of the day. Th general s widow Is now 71 and at Hamburg for her health. Th only member of the United States senate from the south who is rated as a millionaire, according to the Atlanta News. Is Jamee P. Taliaferro of riorldn. who Is a native of Virginia, served as a confed erate soldier in the civil war and made his money In lumber and banking enterprises. 3P? Knabe Catechism Question. What is the best Piano in th world? Answer. The Knabe. Q. Why Is It the best? wr.r since It was put In the market it has been the choice of the . most skilled musicians of the world, because of its perfect tone nd c. o But are there not other Pianos, with splendid tone and action? I A You mlaht find a Piano that; wouid ploase ou as you examined It, whan new. but In none of them do you i in my way approach the beautiful' tone of the Knabe, and particularly, vou would find It impossible to st-cure, the same durability In any other Piano. , q But I am in moderate clrcum- stances; would I be Justified In paying; the price of a Knab? A. The Knabe Plsno Is the cheap-; est Piano in the world when all thej cost for the care of the Piano for a A. HOSPE CO. 1513 Douglas Street Omaha Neb. The Art ttwM ml th Weat. CALUMET POWDER of the finest materials po- tine. Calumet is pnt op in alr-MrM keep! onrcr tbsn any other Raking on In market aid bas more raising 3- t'fllllflET Issorsrefb.lrandsclea- H IU M K, I tlflcallr prepared tht t,s nentralltatinn of rngredlenls is absolutely perfect. Therefore, tooa rrepsrea wltn wsluniet is Ire from Rochalle Plaits, Alum, or any Injurious substance. $1,000.00 ghrea for any substance In- jnriona to neaiui tonnd in Catumot CU BWOMEJI AD A MOIEI. FLAT. Aa Exhibit of the Happy That with Variations. New York World. Three rooms of the old state house Is St. Paul, Minn., have been converted Ints a model five-room flat. It Is demonstrated that this flat ran be furnlshej in acrorj with the simple life for 1100; that on 1100 a month a newly married roup I can keep up the establishment and save In the first year 1.100 toward building a bouse of their own. This demonstration Is under the aus pices of the Nattonat Federation of Women's clubs. Some of the delegates are so charmed with It aa almost to wish that they had time to be housekeepers-themselves. A woman lecturer talks In tn model flat about protelds and carbohy drates and those other things without which marriage Is Inevitably a fallur. In one of the eaat side settlements in New Tork there are shown what might be furnished rooms In any tenement house. Their outfitting complete cost tTt and tney ar In excellent taste. They are open to the Inspection of the blushing bride am brides-elect of th thickly populated dis trict. No on has counted th humble homes which, have been patterned after th settlement exhibit. They are many, and Into each of them good taat with thrift ha obtained entrance. It Is nothing against th practicality of th federation Idea of domeatlc culture by example that opportunity saw first 'the workers at far less than $100 a month anl came to them on their own terms. With th next advanc of tha happy though, should arise a school In artistic house fur nishing for millionaires who hesitate. SMILING LINES. "Senator, what Is your attltuda on ths graft auestiont" "My attitude on th graft question." re plied Senator Badger, "has never changed since I first entered politics. I have al ways mad It a point to never allow my two hands to get acquainted with on another." Milwaukee Sentinel. They took him to th sanitarium moaning feebly. "Thirty-nine, thirty-nine," he whispered. "What does he mean by thatT" the at tendant Inquired. ' ' "It s the number of buttons on the back of his wife's new frock," the family doctor explained. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Benedict Arnold had just betrayed West Point. ' ' ' "I was trying." he explained, "to prevent the prematura celebration of the Fourth of July." Herewith certain lover of quiet were fain to overlook the peccadillo. New Tork Sun. , Sir Isaac Newton had discovered th law of gravitation. "fd like to see anybody get around that!" h said. m ' Consulting th records nd satisfying himself that no supreme court ever had declared it unconstitutional, he proceeded to divide it Into sections. Chicago Tribune. "Our cashier wants a vacation this sum mer," said the vie president of the bank. "He'd like to get away, he says, for about three weeks." "Good." replied th president. "That re moves a weight from my mind. I win be ginning to be at raid his accounts might be in such shape that he wouldn't dar to go away." Chicago Record-Herald. A JlJfE MORNI1G. Bayard Taylor. Oh! have you not seen on some morning In June, ' When the flowers were In tears and the forest In tune. When the billows of morn brok bright on the air, On the breast of th brightest, soma stsr clinging there? Some sentinel star not ready to set. Forgetting to wane and watching there yet? . , How you gssed on that, vision of beauty the while. m How it wavered till torn by the light of God's smile. How It passed through the portals of pearl like a bride, How It paled as It passed and th morning stsr died? , The sky waa all blushes; the lark was all , bliss. And the prayer of your heart was Be ray ending like this." So mv beautiful dove paased away from life's even; So the bluh of her being was blendd with heaven; So the bird of my bosom fluttered up in the dawn, A window was open, rtiv darling wss gone. A truant from tears, from lime and from For the angel on watch took the wan derer lu. And when I shall hear the new song thst I shah know tier again notwithstanding her By those eyes full of hesven. by the light And "heVmlleVrle wort here she will surely wear there. period of years is considered, and If you should ever want to sell It you would find that for the amount In vested and the length of time you'd had it you'd get a much larger per centage. of the original cost as com pared with any other Piano. A Knabe will last you a lifetime and then be a valuable heirloom for the coming gem eratton. Q. Who make the Knabe? A. It Is made by two direct de scendants of the original founder, William Knabe. For several genera tions the Knabe have been bred to the making of this Plsno. Each gen eration has added to Ita glory. Q. What Is the cost of a Knabe? A. We sell a Cabinet Knabe tor 1450, which contains every attribute of the most expensive Knabe. except the rase is of modest design. With a reasonable rash psyment we will de liver the Knabe and vou may pay the balance at 120 a month,