THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, JTJXE 30, 190ft.,
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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:
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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
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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
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"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.
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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
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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,
