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G T1IE OMAIIA DAILY BEE: "WEDNESDAY, ,tUNE 5, ' 1007. We t Tin: Omaha Daily Ull i toumjed nr EDWARD ho8ewater. VICTOR ROSE WATER, EDITOR. Entfrd at Omaha poitofflc cond- ciam matter. TERMS Ol" 8CB8CR1PTION. raiir lira 'without Sur.day), on year. .MOO lruiy H Hml Wunday one jraar BundHjr one )rr I-J Saturday B, ona year IjEL.1 VERED BY CARRIER. Dully he (Including Sunday), per wek..l5e DhIIvIim (without Sunday), per week. ..10c livening lire (without Sunday), per week. 80 Evening Bee (with Sunday), per week. ...10c Adrlrea all complaint of IrTeuularltlea In delivery to Clly Circulation, Department OFFICES. Omaha The Bee riuildlng. South Omaha City Mall Building. Council Bluffi 16 Scott Street. Chicago IMO I'nlty Butldlnjr. New Vork l&Ki Home Ufe Inmiranca Blflf. Washington 601 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communl.-atlona relating to newa and edi torial mn.tlr should he addreaaed. Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. nemit by draft, exprees or poatal order, pHyahle to The Bee Publlehing Company. Only J-oent stamps received In payment or mnll accounts. I'rraonal checks, except on Omahf or eastern exchanite, not accepted. THE BEE MBU8H1NO COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CTRCVIATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss. Charles C. Hosewater. general manager of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, snys that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee print! during the month of May, 107, was ne follows: 1 35,650 18 35,760 2 88,810 19 83300 3 35,390 20 38,370 4 33,410 21 38,690 5 34,300 22 38,610 3S.C80 23 38,800 7i 38.480 24 38,600 .. 35.8C0 28 35,800 9 35,720 28 34,600 10 35,890 71..... 35,480 11 30,330 2S 38,810 12 34,680 29 38,010 13 33,430 30 35,630 14 35,380 31 35,010 16 33,330 IS. 35,460 Total... 1,096,680 17.......... 33,360 Less unsold and returned copies 9,667 Net total 1,080,P63 Dally average 30,063 CHARLE8 C. ROSEWATER. General Manager. Subscribed in my presence and sworn to belore me tills 31st day of Moy, 1907. (Seal) M. B. Ht'NGATU, Notary PuIjWc WHEN OVT OF TOWS. Snbacrlbers leaving the city tem pore, rl ! y should bare The Bee "mailed to them. Address will changed aa often as requested. ' Admiral Coghlan has retired from the navy. Hoch dor Coghlan. Governor Sheldon la enjoying the spot light with the trade boosters. A scientist has discovered that bul lets carry disease germs. Avoid bul lets. "Western rivers are raging," Fays a New York paper. Natural result of being crossed so often. Ray Stannard Baker says that the southern people do not eat much pie. The southern people vote the wrong ticket. Senator Foraker says he fears "the man on horseback." Most of us are more afraid of the man In the auto mobile., The Houston Post tells of a black bass that leaped from the water and ate up a jackrabblt for luncheon. Na ture faklrl A Wall street broker has been, fined for tossing an apple core Into the gut ter. It la against Wall street rules to leave any core. . Financial .return, showing the divi dends of the telephone companies for the last year upset the general Idea that talk Is cheap. "I have nothing to say about any body or anything," said Dr. Park hurst as he sailed for Europe. The doctor, must be ill. If Senator Foraker loses out in Ohio ha ought to' be able to land a good ob as head of the literary bureau of the democratic national committee. High school cadets encamped at Glenwood will quite likely, taste some af the; bjtter of army life unless the weather man concludes to be kinder. "And far across the city the eleva ted trains rattled like red worms," ays the New York Sun. Of course iou know bow a red worm rattles. Nebraska's new railway commission Inds that It has plenty of work to do. The most important before 'It as yet is 'n Just what manner it will proceed. President Eliot would like Harvard o withdraw from Intercollegiate ath letics. "Withdrawal would save Har- 'ard a lot of humiliation from defeats. Charles Schwab is advertising his M. 000,000 home in New York for tale. Some Nebraska farmer will rotably buy it as Boon as he Bells his vheat. Colonel Bryan seems determined to eke his, show on the road again in .908. even if the O. O. P. has secured ontrol of all the chief attractions and ho best show sites. A man who spent a year in a Rus sian prison says he has learned to elk by a system of raps. He will be 1 valuable acquisition to the minority u politic nl conventions. The Omaha trade boosters are keep ing up their record as rain makers Whether they will be as welcome for ills faculty in the northwest as they re in NebaiUn remains to be seen. A son cf A6so"lnte Justice Harlan of the Un'te.1 States supreme court declares that the Bible is not infalll bio. Flrct tM:g you know that young man way get cn ida thnt the supremo co'rt of the United States U not in. :i:vu . EFFECT OF THE ntKSIDKHTS SPEECH. The railroad managers, the specula tive interests in Wall street and the public generally have had time to di gest the speech made by President Roosevelt at Indianapolis on Memorial day In which he outlined his future policy toward the railroads of the country, and the result, as shown in expressed opinions of the document, Is both inatructlve and Interesting. Some- of the financial magnates who had hoped that the president would take a back track are disappointed. Others who had hoped, or feared, that he would make another advance and possibly place himself in the Bryan Debs class of rabid anti-corporation ex tremists are likewise disappointed. The public, the Investors and the honest railroad men who have followed with approval the administration's course in railway legislation and recommen dation, welcome the president's pains taking review of the transportation problem and its needs, and his ex pressed determination to take no back ward step in his policy of enforcement of the law for the general good. Railroad men are finding encourage ment In that part of the address in which the president expresses his firm intent to uphold the rights of prop erty. The president has made it plain that nothing contemplated will affect the value of existing shares in railway recurltlcs, - but that future issues of stock shall be subject to rigid inspec tion by the government, for the pro tection of both the Investors and the railways themselves. The president's propositions to place railways under the same supervision that Is now exercised by the government over national banks, .and to require the widest pub licity in connection with their fiscal affairs, are admitted by leading rail road men to be steps in the right direc tion. The investors and the public have never questioned the advisability of legislation to such ends. Perhaps the greatest opposition of railway men is to the president's plan for a physical valuation of the rail ways. Senator LaFollette and some other leaders in the fight against rail road domination and railroad abuses have urged this plan as furnishing a basis for valuation and taxation of rail road property and for a reduction or adjustment of rates. President Roose velt distinctly states that physical val uation is no sufficient measurement of rate, although It will be of use in connection with the duty of determin ing future capitalization. He makes It plain that he does not believe rail roads are overcapitalized, but says it is quite probable that the real value of the railroads of the country today is In excess of their capitalization. He declares that the success and develop ment of the country depends upon al lowing investments In railway property to earn a liberal return. Study of the president's address must convince even the railroad mag nates that the president has no intent to injure railroad securities, but rather to protect them. In behalf of the gen eral welfare, and that his program for future legislation, on the transporta tion question calls for Justice and equity to all interests concerned. None but the railroad wreckers and specu lators can take a despondent view of it. QUEER CA8F. OF COLOR BLINDNESS. 'Attorney General Bonaparte is a res ident of Baltimore, where the race problem Is. always an issue in political campaigns. For several years the dem ocrats of the state of Maryland have been making a determined, but unsuc cessful, effort to secure the disfran chisement of the negro, after methods adopted in some of the other southern states. Some of the leading republicans of the state rather endorse the demo cratic plan, in .secret, but oppose it for political purposes. Attorney General Bonaparte's attitude on the negro question has been made clear by an address he made during the municipal campaign in Baltimore. Discussing the administration's action In the case of the riots at Brownsville, resulting in the president's discharge of a battal ion of negro soldiers, ' General Bona parte said: A colored soldier who makes a bad rec ord as a soldier Is a danger as well as "a dlagraoa to all colored Americana, but It la no less true that a colored voter who sells his vote or a colored eltlxen guilty of crime or sunk in laslness or vice Is also a danger as well aa a disgrace to Ma race. Unquestionably, Attorney General Bonaparte is right. The bad negro sol dier and the corrupt negro citizen who sells his vote is a disgrace to his race. There is no room for argument on that point. However, the bad white soldier and bad white man who is sunk in sloth and crime and sells bis vote Is Just as culpable as the negro who com mits a similar offense. ' If there is any degree in the offense, the white man Is the more guilty, as he has had more opportunities to learn better. General Bonaparte's address is valuable only as showing on what slim threads a real southerner can hang an argument against the negro. THE BILLBOARD. Pittsburg is Just now having an ex perience which may be duplicated in nearly every city of importance in America. The billboard nuisance there has grown to an extent that has become Intolerable and the citizens are now demanding that the author ities take steps to abolish the hideous signs that detach the clty'a thorough fares. The straw that broke the camel's back in Pittsburg was the erection of an enormous sign board opposite the new Carnegie institute, of which the Smoky City is so proud. On this was painted an alleged reproduction of one of the works of art exhibited at the Institute. It represented a wood nymph coatemplatirg with ecstacy the alii bhe ta to ia conjunction with a lovely display of plumbing fix tures. Incidentally the billboard en closed a fashionable boarding house to such an extent that the place had to go out of business. In Omaha this point has scarcely been reached, although the insult to good taste glares at the public all over the city. There is not a section but has been Invaded by the billboard with Its hideous display of garish col ors, Incongruously smeared, to an nounce to the waiting world the merits of somebody's near food or denatured whisky. Apart from the aesthetic con sideration is the effect of the billboard on the public health. The city physi cian complains that rubbish Is dumped back of the billboards in various parts of town, In several Instances becoming a most pronounced nuisance. He has been unable to secure service- on the owners of the property and conse quently this menace to health has been removed at the expense of the public or not at all. It is within the province of the city council to regulate and control the bill board, and some step should be taken in this direction at once. The most efficacious method so far has been to tax the billboard out of existence. TEN MONTHS' FOR BIOS TRADE. ' Detailed reports of the federal bureau of statistics on the foreign commerce of the United States for April, with completed figures for the ten months of the present fiscal year, furnish enthusiastic encouragement for officials at Washington who have been persistent in their predictions that while our exports of agricultural prod ucts and raw materials might be ex pected to decline from month to month, on account of the remarkably rapid Increase in the demand for home con sumption, the foreign demand for American manufactured products would more than make up the usual total, thus retaining a healthy balance of trade in America's favor. The sta tistics at hand show that there has been a decline, both for April and for the ten months of the fiscal year, in "foodstuffs In crude form" and in "foodstuffs partially manufactured." The decrease in these two items of commerce for the ten months aggre gated about $19,000,000,38 compared with the ten months of the preceding fiscal year. To offset the decline in the value of exported foodstuffs the country showed a gain In the export of crude materials for ,manufacture, over the correspond ing period of last year of about $7,000,- 000, while the exports of manufac tured products showed an Increase for the ten months of about $20,000,000. Of this amount some $13,000,000 was In manufactured iron, steel and copper products. The figures show that America is slowly, but very surely, progressing in the direction of consuming more and more of its food production and raw material for manufacturing and Just as steadily increasing its output of manu factured products for the markets of the world. The change is gratifying as showing the increased demand in the markets of other countries for the fin ished product of American labor. TO CHEW-OR TO BOLT. The eating public will be in a terri ble stew Jf it attempted to follow the advice and directions of the scientific experts who have been devoting so much of their time In the last few years to a study of what we should eat and how we should eat it. Dr, Irving Fisher of Yale has Just completed a course" of highly .edifying lectures on the subject of mastication, the gist of the series being that every morsel of food, from soup to nuts, should be chewed at least thirty times before, swallowing. The arguments advanced in support of his advice are absolutely unanswerable, or were until good old Dr. Wiley, the chief chemist of the De partment of Agriculture, took a hand In the discussion and Issued a new set of rules. While Dr. Fisher Is supported by a long line of distinguished precedents, Dr. Wiley's advice la not to be lightly ignored. He has conducted experiments with "poison squads," sampled all the whiskies in the world, and bases most of his advice on the results oTpersonal observation or experience. Here is what he says about eating: Don't chew your meat bolt It Flesh aating animals never chew their food; they bolt it. Man, by chewing his meat, makes It Indigestible. The saliva mixed with the meat forms an alkaline. Before the meat can be digested the alkaline must be neu tralised. Chewing mechanically Is a good thing, for It breaks up the meat, but prac tically It is a bad thing, for It makes it hard to dlgeat. Of course, chewing la bene ficial when eating starchy substances. Under such circumstances, with emi nent doctors disagreeing, the average citizen will continue to follow his cus toms and his instinct, eating what he pleases, chewing it as much or as little as he deems necessary and taking chances. The boys at home and the men at the quick lunch counters will follow Dr. Wiley's advice and bolt It. If the unidentified writer who thinks he has discovered a discrepancy be tween The Bee's editorial columns and it news columns will only take the trouble to read a little farther along in the president's Memorial day address, he will discover that Mr. Roosevelt said exactly what The Bee says he said. King Ak-Sar-Ben's army is now be ing enlisted and some valiant fighting men are being mustered in. At the rate at which the work was started the corps will be the most numerous ever assembled under Samson's banner: by the time It takes the field In Septem ber. . The decision of the Indiana supreme court that the licensing of the saloon is not contrary to food constitutional government will take much of the force'out of the contention of the Kearney county protestant. who is now before the supreme court of Nebraska arguing that the state has no right to license or regulate 'in any other way save prohibition of the liquor traffic. Oscar Lovell Trlggs, the Chicago university professor who declared that he . preferred Mary McLane to Long fellow and thought John D. Rocke feller a greater genius than Shakes peare, has been sued for a divorce. Mrs. Trlggs should be content to base her claims for a separation upon her husband's Writings nnd speeches. General Attorney Bailey Waggoner of the Missouri Pacific exonerates Chairman Tom Allen from the odium of being a Missouri Pacific pass holder. This, of course, will be gratifying to Mr. Allen's friends In Nebraska and even those who do not like him will agree that the explanation is satisfac tory. Complaint is made in Havana that every time the police plan to raid a gambling den the gamblers get a tip from some Inside source. Still, some pessimists Insist v that It Is difficult to get Cubans to adopt American cus toms. Government Chemist Wiley says there Is no reason why a man should not live to be 100 years old. That ought to cause Speaker Cannon to treat his presidential boom more kindly. Who "Mocha" Beat. Chicago Record-Herald. Admiral Coghlan has gone on the retired list. Emperor William sends word that he expects to be on the active list for many years to come. Coming Battle In lows. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The candidacy of Governor Cummins for United States senator will, be a test of the tariff revision sentiment In Iowa as well as an object lesson In the direct primary movement. Higher Stnndnrd of Coodact. Wall Street Journal. What Is taking place Is a readjustment of conditions to a higher standard of con-! duct. Transactions which a few years ago would have been accepted by public opin ion as In the regular order of things are now regarded In a totally different light. They appear odious and wrong. Therefore business Is readjusting itself to this higher law. This la not retrogession, but prog ress. Stealing; Wattemon'a Thunder. New York Tribune. Senator Koraker is talking about "the man on horseback" and the "Mexlcanlza tlon of the republic." We thought that Colonel Watterson had taken out letters patent on those somewhat shopworn but still pregnant phrases. The colonel was at his best as a political prophet when he foretold the "Mexlcanlsation of the re public" If Judgo Alton B. Parker were to fail of election In 1904. The Iron Trade nitrometer. Philadelphia Record. Iron production continues to beat all records. There is no slackening In that In dustry. The production of pig In the first four months of this years was 8,692,208 tona, i nenrlv half a million tons more than " In 1 the same third of the year before. That j rate of production would carry the output for the year over 2,0O0,OOO tons, .or about a million and a half tons more than last year. This barometer of business gives no warning of an approaching atorm. The Peple nnd the) Corporatlona. Kansas City Star. If these great corporations deal fairly with the public, there will be no danger that their Held will be Invaded by the people. No such corporation, city, state, or national, has ever been harassed by public clamor so long as it has given good service at reasonable rates and has "minded Its own business." It Is when these con cerns give poor service on the one hand, and demand that dividends be paid on large Issues of watered stock on the other, and when they send lobbies to city councils, legislatures, and to con gress to defeat the wlllxof the people, that the spirit of popular self-respect asserts Itself. Seeking; Senator Allison's Shoes. Springfield (Mass.) Republican. Governor Cummins of Iowa has added aplce to the political situation by formally announcing that he will make a fight for the aeat Irf the aenate now occupied by Senator Allison. Senator Allison's' term will expire In March, 1909. the day after his 80th birthday. He has never admitted that he will not be a candidate for re flection, though he has failed notably In health In the last year. But Cummins' attacks on the tariff have bean so out spoken that the standpatters have mat the announcement .of his candidacy by Immediately taking ateps to perfect an organisation for the election of on of their own tribe, whether Allison himself or a new man. Iowa will have a primary nomination for the first time next year, and her voters wilf then have an oppor tunity to make their choice for the senate. This circumstance adds to the Interest of the prospective fight. ' THE NATION'S TIPPING FIND. Government Officials Yield to the Debanlng Practice. Pittsburg Dispatch, Tho latest development on the tipping subject Is calculated to Impress the public with a sense of Its helpfulness. It has been difficult enough for each Individual to abjure the vogue of tipping In hla per sonal practice. But that la surpassed by the official disclosure that we have all got to pay for tipping whether we ourselves tin or not. That is the final result of a recently an nounced decision at Washington. It has long been an Issue between auditing of ficers and government officials who have to travel In the public service whether In their expense accounts the fees to waiters are to be allowed as expenses. The auditing officers have long resisted that claim; but they have Anally agreed to a compromise by which each government official traveling In the discharge of his duty Is allowed 40 cents a day for tips. That la estimated to add to the national expenses the sum of $106,000 annuclly. Thua the people of the United States have to pay. No matter how strenuous antl-tlpplng we may be when we purchase any duty or excise-taxed article we help to tip the Pullman porters and the waiters at table. True, the amount per capita is not Imposing. The contribution of a family Of Ave to the government tipping appro priation will be about a cent In fifteen months. But as In the more direct mattwr of versonal tipping It Is not the amount of money that trouhlos us. It la the prin ciple, or rather the absence of principle, tbat grind us. ROt ND ABOt'T XKW YORK. Ripple on tho Cnrrent of Life In tho Metropolis. A majority of New Yorkers do not know their own town aa well as the "pro vincials" who only see Its distinctive fea tures in the picture papers. "This Is the Washington arch," said a born resident sent out by a lms 1 house to guide a party of Omaha tenderfeet. "Looks more like the Dewey arch," suggested one of the pilgrims, who had the rlcture In his mind's eye. "By the shades cf Hell Gate, you are right," replied the resident after a few painful thinks. "Why. 1 live within a block of this square and yet have not noticed It enough to know It at first glance. Visitors pay more attention to these things than we do." The explan tton revealed a common characteristic. To thousands of native New Yorkers much of the city and Its suburbs Is an undiscovered country. Thousands live and die without ever having penetrated Into certain districts of busy Harlem. ThcYe Is a considerable class who rarely. If ever, go as far uptown as Ninety sixth street.. There are thousands of for eigners on the JCant Side who live their lives within very limited boundaries, to whom Forty-second street I a remote boundary, to be visited once In years. Business was dull In the West Side po lice court and Magistrate Cornell was tell ing Magistrate Harris, recently elected, all about the way things are done, when a big policeman pushed a very black man In front of the de.sk and told a much excited negro woman to step on the bridge. "Dls gemmen here, done come to my house dla noon time an' when he went away dere warn't nothln' 'tall left of de furniture,"' said the woman, when she had become sufficiently composed. While the woman was talking the pris oner was trying to catch the eye of the court, and then he began to give a high sign. Magistrate Cornell arose from his chair and leaned over the desk. "Are you a Mason T" he asked the pris oner. The prisoner grinned and said that he was. "I thought so," said the magistrate. "For the last, five minutes you have been trying fb give me some sort of sign of distress. Now, I am not a Mason, and you have made a big mistake. If I were and you tried that game on me I'd send you up to Hart's Island to djg graves for a time." New Yorkers still own upper Fifth ave nue. All the talk of this section being overrun by outsiders la without "founda tion, If the best available data Is to be be lieved. The personnel of the city's smart society Is constantly changing, of course. Ward McAllister's 400 ellglbles may have become 4,000 available and the residents On Fifth avenue come from many states, as befits tho cosmopolitan spirit of the greatest of American cities. But the newer additions to society do not rule. They do not even predominate. Knickerbocker families hold their own. Next In power Is the New York family of four or five generations' standing. Then come the children of the men of New Knglnnd and New York state who came to Manhattan after the boom began in the city early In the thirties. When these are accounted for there are very few va cancies In the seats of the social mighty. Now and then a wealthy man or an ambitious woman may climb Into one of them. New York society, however, has become more and more of an established Institution. The rulers are all natives of Manhattan. Such were the conclusions after a can vass this week of the residences In Fifth avenue from Forty-seventh street to An drew Carnegie's home at Ninety-second street. A list was prepared of the rep resentative people living in the forty-five blocks. Then the questions were asked In each case: Where did these New York ers come from? How long have they or their families resided In Manhattan? The canvass comprises 119 ' names. Cf this number sixty-eight, or more than one half, are natives of Manhattan. Most of them belong to well-establlHhed families, and fifteen are of Knickerbocker lineage In the strictest sense. "Four of our best customers," said a woman employed In a Fifth avenue 'la dles' hair dressing establishment,' "are men, bald old gentlemen who would be hideous were It not for the tga and toupees we make them. These pieces, of the exact color and texture to suit each one's complexion, are very ex pensive. Each old gentleman owns from two to four, the extra ones remaining with us to be kept clean and glossy when not In use. We've had these same four customers for years and have carried them from solid black or brown Into the pepper and salt atage, and In one case down to venerable white. One Is a wealthy west erner who comes to New York regularly for a change of hair. The other three live nearer New York, but not In It. I doubt If a soul In their own towns sus pects the falsa hair." A Sixth avenue restaurant has been try ing the French custom of having little tables on the sidewalk, and the effect on Sixth avenue pedestrians Is "amusing. The first day they lined up on the curbstone and waited solemnly for the first person who would sit at one of the tables. No end of persons went Into the restaurant, but though each paused for a moment by these publicly placed tables none quite summoned the courage to eat there, and all went In to the seclusion of the Inner rooms. The crowd on the curbstone grew. It was not a chaffing crowd they bad no Intention of making fun of the tables or the peoplo wbo might be sufficiently un conscious to sit and drink there. Their attitude waa one of respectful wonder. This waa a new custom, and they were not going to make up their minds about it until they saw Just how It worked. While TOO Japanese sailors were being treated to luncheon In the Twenty-second regiment armory one day last week one of the Swedish waiters thought he saw hla opportunity for a little graft. . He put a quarter in a glasa and set It ostenta tiously on a table th front of the little Bailors. One cropheaded boy put a Japa nese 10-sen piece In the glass reluctantly and passed It along. His comrade on the left did the same thing. Then tho third man calmly emptied the contents of the glass Into purple handkerchief, folded up the coins and tucked the bundle Into his blouse. The waiter demanded hla coin, but of course the Japanese sailor could not understand him; he simply smiled. Abe Hummel, the New York lawyer who was convicted of conspiracy In connection wrth the Dodge-Morse divorce case,' ban been assigned In Rlackwell's Island prison to the work of assorting vegetables In the storeroom, from which he will trundle them to the kitchen In a wheelbarrow. He declares his Intention to write a book of his prison "and other" experiences, and not a few residents of New York City are somewhat perturbed over the forthcoming publication, for Mr. Hummel la understood t? have a great deal of awkward documentary evldvtti la his possession. Tor Any Substance Injurious to Health Found in i Calumet airing "Best By Test" Two Only High Grade Baking Pawoo Sola at a Moderate Priee. Complies with til STATE snd NATIONAL Pure Food Laws. All Grocers Are Authorized to Cuarantee This rERflOl At, BOTES, Former Senator Spooner of Wisconsin Is settling down In New York City. Michigan farmers cheered the president, but the president cheered the farmers, too. Now let the president shoot up Qrover Cleveland's "Fishing and Shooting Sketches." A New York subway passenger fell In a fit the other day when a woman thanked him for the seat he had offered her. This recommendation was adopted at a national conference of Dunkards last week: "We advise our men against the wearing of neckties and fashionable hats." How about the women? Holllns Randolph, who has been chosen to read the Declaration of Independence at Jamestown exposition on July 4. Is an Atlanta attorney, and the great-great-grandson of Thomas Jefferson. Mr. Ran dolph Is a native of Virginia and a gradu ate of the University of Virginia, of the class of 1S95. The emperor of Oermany, who recently accepted tho honorary membership to which he was elected In the American Cross oY Honor, has presented to that order a life sleo bust portrait of himself In uniform and helmet. The, royal arms form part of the top of tho heavy gilt frame, while beneath the picture Is the autograph of the emperor and the date 1937. A memorial to Henry Ward Reechrr. who was a native of Litchfield, Conn., Is to be erected under the auspices of the Litchfield County University club. The site will bo at the birthplace of the Recch crs, and Its form will be announced at the meeting of the club In June, when the Rev. Pr. Lyman Abbott will give an address on the Beoi-hers and the Rev. Dr. Stowe, son of Harriet Beecber Stowe, will speak on "Uncle Tom's Cabin." SATISFACTION IN SERVICE. Consider thr TMnnsnre of Ttoty Fatth fn'ly Iot". Wall Street Journal. It Is the Inspiration of accomplishing things which we know to be of genuine service to others that keeps the msjority of efficient men and women at work In the places they occupy. The thing In which B. H. Harriman Is said to take large satisfaction Is the stop ping of the overflow of the, Colorado river, thus saving from Inundation hundreds of families whose all was staked on the ca pacity of the railway engineering corps of the Southern Pacific to accomplish what the government had failed to accomplish. The Joy of helpful service keeps many a one at an otherwise thankless task against which criticism and opposition might, but for this kind of encouragement, defeat the purpose of endeavor. Secretary Taft says that the Joy of achievement keeps him at work. It was Carlylo who said that one of the best gifts to men was the oppor tunity to do something for somebody other than one's self. STRAW HE Season for its time but it We have the straight-brirri sailor shape in different proportions to suit every face. There are the flexible straws, too. in a number of popular ; shapes $1.00 to $10.00. i A full assortment of fancy hat bands for young men. ', SPECIAL Wednesday and Thursday, broken lines of $1.00 and $1.50 Shirts at 85c. Browning, Ming & Co K. S. WILCOX, Manager. ; In Piano Buying The Index Finger of Ecoiv my Points straight to our store for many reasons. Think of tha doubt and un certainty you avoid. Think of dealing In a house which gives you the best for the least money, which distributes the most famous pianos in the world and sells them for the smallest amount. IT PAYS TO THINK! In buying a piano you want an In strument that comprises durability, artistic appearance and sweetness of tone. You want an instrument made by the most expert and experienced Piano builders. We handle only these kind.. With every Piano In our store goes our personal guarantee, and with every one our assurance that nowhere else In the United States are the same Instruments quoted at a lower price. Our Iric Are the Ixnret FIRST Because we save the cus tomer the commission paid by other houses for bringing or recommending customers to tbelr stores. A. H0SPE CO., 1513 Douglas St. Writs for Catalogues and Prices. Powder MERRY JINGLES. Editor of agricultural paper) Davidson, what la the outcome of your investigation Into the condition of the peach orchards? Assistant Fruitless. Chicago Tribune. . "You used to be a stand-patter," said the student of the tariff. "Yes."' answered the eminent politician, "but conditions have changed. A new deal occasionally Is just aa necessary as a square deal." Washington Star. , Customer What have you got that's strictly fresh? Grocer One moment, please. lf-e, Johnny, watt on the lady. Cleveland Plain Dealer. "How are yon feeling? I heard you wer very much run down thla spring T' "Not so very much. Only two Sutot struck me; I dodged all the rest." Balti more American. "I ruppose you ssplre to write your nam on the scroll of fame?" "Well," replied the young lawyer, "that may come later. Just now I'm trying U ret It written on a corporation payroll." 'hlladclphla Ledger. The fire Insurance agent waa running for the ofllce of tax aasessor. "Such a thing as that would. never dot It Is contrary to public policy!" exclaimed the taxpayers. And his defeat was overwhelming. Cht- cago Record-Herald. THE ALl'MIH VAMPIRE. A scholar there was and he mads hli prayer, (Even as you and I.) To a Greek and a Latin pony there (The teacher said the boy didn't care) But the boy just smiled a smile that was rare (With a twinkle In his eye.) "O, th "t'-i""8 you waste Is knowledge efTaced," Palu n-arher with warning hand; "You surely should be In the class below." (And the scholar went In the class be low) And commenced to show his hand. An Almunus there waa and his mental goods he spent, (Even r.n you and I.) He cr-"ied his studies with a sure In tent, (Wh.. n surprised the teacher this work well meant.) For It wasn't at all his natural bent But he was In the "faculty eye." t O, the Lettn he jammed and the Latin be crammed Did banruit all Cicero clanned. He ol'e--.i the teacher who dldn t knon why. a (Anc , w w know that ahe never knew why) ' This Aiumntii poured out his sand. : Old Virgil as stripped to his Roman hide. (Could it still be the faculty eye?) That ei-.-rcd thla Alumnus on his sapient ride. (For on the school record he tried To rei - -Ser his studies and forget blui yes, (As ne neaved a heart-heavy sigh.) And It Isn't the faculty or teacher's blama That stung In hla white-hot face It's co-'ng to know that they never knew why, (Ar -ing at last they could never know why) That there waa "a girl In the case." Omaha. SAM B. SMITH. HATS- Straw Hats has taken is here. SECOND Because we buy in th largest quantities for spot cash. THIRD Because our selling pries for Pianos is less than any house In the United States. Besides selling under the One-Price plan we give eac customer the assur ance and guarantee that their money is as good as anyone's else. We carry more than 300 Pianos In stock. in Omaha alone. 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