THE OMAIIA DAILY DEE: FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1007. Tire Omaiia Daily Del rOUNDEU BT EDWARD ROSEWATEJV VICTOR ROSEWATER, EDITOR Entered at Omaha poetofflce aa eecond clasa matter. TEJtMa OF SCBSCRlTION. ally Bee i without Sunday), ene year.." lnlly Bee and Sunday on year Sunday !)., on. yemr J i Saturday He, otic year Ma DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Daily b (Including Sunday), per week. .18 Dally Hee (without Sunday), per week...lOe Evening Ree (without Sunday, re' week So Evening Uee (with Sunday), per week..,.10o Addles all complaint! of irregularities la delivery to City Circulation Ieparunsnt offices. Omsha-The Bee duildlng. South Omaha City Hall flulldlng. Council blutTs-16 Bcott Street. t'hlcsgo ltic fnlty UulMlnjr. New York 1?K Home Ufa Insurance Bldg Washington inl Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to newa and edl (orlal matter should be addressed, Omaha He. Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to The Be Publishing Company. Only 2-oent itampa received In payment of n-.nll account. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchange, not accepted. STATEMENT OF- CTTRCT7T.ATION. State of Nebraska. Dougl County, aa. Charles C. Roeewater, general manager of Tha Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, aava that tha actual number , ..11 - 1 1 . - M T I T I .. tun nu complete copies oi i nw awkj. Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee print d during tha month or May, ml. was as follows: 1 88,650 II... 3S.7M 1 8B.610 It... 3,8O0 t SB,90 20 88,370 88,410 :i 88,600 84,300 !!..... 86,810 t 86,680 St 35,800 1 88,460 14 36,0 1 88,850 86,800 38,780 . tt 84,000 10 BS.SS0 . 17 86,460 M 85,30 it 88,810 34,880 It .' 88,010 'I 88,430 10 38,630 U 38,380 tl 36,810 16 36,030 1 .'. 36,400v Total .'..1.8M,M 17 36,860 ' Less unsold and returned copies 8,0T Net lotal f 1,0843.863 Dally average 86,003 CHARLES, C. ROPEWATER, Qenaral Manager. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to berore ma this list day of iiay, 1807. . (Seal) M. B. HUNGATE, Notaiy Public. WHEN OCT OF TOWN. Subscribers leaving thm city teas perarlly shoald ssrt Tha Bee nailed to then... Address will be Bo It said to the credit of the women of Idaho, they are not sending, flowers to Harry Orchard. i The Knox presidential boom seems to be running on pneumatic tires, and without a blow-horn. ' . Editor Watterson has asked the newspaper paragraphed to please quit making light of his dark horse. The Fourth of July is the One day In the year that the average American boy wants to prove that he Is not a mollycoddle. An Investigator asserts that "meas urements show that the Japanese have Increased In size hi lata years." Hebd measurements! The moth is said to be destroying the trees In New England. The lum ber trUBt moth Is dohig Blmllar stunts In the far west. "Kissing must go," declared Dr. Knopf at the annual meeting of the Conference of Charities and Correc tions. It does, doctor. The latest democratic ticket la .John son of Minnesota for president and Johnson of Ohio Vor vice president. A clear case of t'po much Johnson. In commenting on the Russian sit uation the newspapers up to date have heroically refrained from remarking that it sounds like the crack of Duma. Senator Knox refuses to retire from the presidential race, even after the published announcement that he is to have the active support of Senator Foraker. Joe Weber sayo the rich men of the country are depleting the'ehorus. The general impression has been that the chorus was depleting the rich men of the country. "What," asks the New York Mail, "is the June bride of last year dolngT" Chances are that she is taking particu lar pains to see that baby gets hrough its first summer all right. . Mayor Schmlts says he does not see how San Francisco is going to get along with him in jail. The wonder ' la that the city survived so long with Schmlts and Ruef out of jail. A visitor at the Jaraestown exposi tion has been fined 12 0 for kissing a Norfolk girl. All the commodities and necessities down that way seem to be ruling at exposition prices. The political pipe-dreams being In- cubated hereabouts for consumption by the uninformed bear unmistakable earmarks that Indicate their paternity as well as their motive. A competition between the various public enterprises in Omaha that are looking to the community to furnish funds to complete new buildings is hardly In order. One thing at a, time, A Department of Agriculture expert declares that wolves kill from 10 to 15 per cent of the cattle on the public ranges each year. The cattlemen will be terribly angry when they get that information. A freight department spokesman of the Burlington denies that it Is going to ignore the Aldrlrh maximum freight rate law. The chances are that the Burlington law department has been and is devoting no little time and at tention to the Aldrich freight rate bill. what the board sirnciD io. Deputy County Attorney Magney has furnished the county board with an opinion Intended to relieve the sheriff from the necessity of turning back the money he has been pocketing, which he has collected from Sarpy county and the federal government for lodging their prisoners in the Douglas county jail. The deputy county attorney quotes a long array of sections out of the compiled statutes relating to the government of county jails and the custody of prisoners which have nothing to do with the case except to establish the legal right of federal, city and county authorities to confine their prisoners in the Doug las county Jail if they do not have sufficient jail facilities of their own and comes to this sage conclusion: It has been the universal custom- tn this Mate for the sheriff to make contract rela tive to the care of all prisoners confined In his Jail aside from those of his own county and to collect for the same. The deputy county attorney, how ever, Is careful to leave a string out by winding up bis official communica tion with this remark: The question Is not entirely free from doubt, as there Is no specific statute fover Ing the point, hut In my Judgment a claim of this character cannot be maintained against the sheriff as the law'now exists. The . trouble with this opinion is that it assumes, as its language indi cates, with reference to the sheriff's control over the county jail that it is "his Jail," when In fact It Is not the sheriffs Jail, but was built and is maintained by money drawn from the taxpayers of Douglas county. The sheriff may be under obligations to take. in outside prisoners on agreed terms, but that does not justify him in converting to his own use the money thus collected. If the sheriff can rent out the Jail proper to the federal gov ernment, or to the Sarpy county au thorities, and keep the money he gels from them, he can with equal author ity and propriety rent out the front part of the jail now used as living quarters bythe Jailer to other lodgers and deposit the money to his own bank account. No matter how the lawyers may split hairs, the ordinary man can see no difference in the sheriff selling to Sarpy county authorities the soap, clothing, medicines and supplies paid for by the taxpayers of Douglas county and pocketing the money than selling the same or other articles paid for by the taxpayers to anyone else and pock eting the money. Because this graft has been the "universal cuBtom" does not make it legal nor prevent the county board from demanding and enforcing reim bursement. If the custodian of the court house or the superintendent of the county hospital should rent out space and collect money from occu pants the county board would be hot ou their trail. The thing for the county board to do is to figure out what la due to the treasury from the present sheriff and his predecessor and offset it against their claims against the county. If the sheriff then wants to go into court to establish his right to retain the graft It will be his priv ilege to do so. ' , RESPONSIBILITY FOR ACCIDENTS. In an address before the Master Car Builders' association at Atlantic City Secretary Moseley of the Interstate Commerce commission makes' the charge direct, in "language that admits no misinterpretation, that "too tight fisted boards of directors are respons ible for a majority of the railroad ac cidents of the' last year." ' He asserts that the railroad directors of manV lines "pay too much attention to the stock market reports and not enough to railroad management and proper rolling stock." declaring that if the car builders, whom he was addressing, had their-way there would be no cause for complaint about unsafe and Insufficient equipment. He illustrates-his asser tion by citing figures shoeing that railroad companies, within the year, had paid fines amounting to (28,000 for violating the safety appliance laws and 'that these fines could have been avoided by the expenditure of $68.03 In labor and material for repairs. It should be a measure not only of economy but of humanity for railroad companies to keep their rolling stock and equipment in proper repair. Ac cidents are inevitable on railways, but the safety of passengers and employes should under no circumstances be en dangered by criminal carelessness on the part of the railroad company In falling to furnish the best possible equipment. Secretary Moseley's se vere arraignment of the directors who operate railroads from Wall Btreet is accompanied by the comforting assur ance that the federal authorities are determined upon a policy of vigorous enforcement of the safety appliance laws. WAR OX THE HOUSE OF LORDS. Great Britain is preparing for a campaign that promises to be much more exciting than any that has been held for years, the paramount issue, being a test vote by the country on the question of practically abolishing the House of Lords and making the House of Commons the supreme laounaklng, authority. Premier Campbell-Banner-man has prepared the following reso lution to be moved In the House of Commons on June 24. That In order to give affect to the will of the people aa expressed by their elected representative, it is accessary that tha power of tha other house to alter or reject bills passed by this house should ba so re stricted by law as to secure that within the limits of a single Parliament the final de cision of the House of Commons ahall pre vail. The resolution. . If adopted by the commons, would have no Immediate effect, nor is It certain whether It would accomplish anything toward the solution of the problem that has be come acute. It is more than probable that it is designed merely as a cam paign rallying cry by the liberal gov ernment, which has failed to make any marked record In keeping, with its ante-election pledges and will soon have to go bqfore the people again. It would be interesting at least to have the question submitted to the people for the purpose of ascertaining how general is the sentiment, now rampant in the commons, for the elim ination of the lords from legislative affairs. No one contends that the House of Ixirds is a representative body. It rarely opposes the action of the com mons, the peers usually contenting themselves with formally ratifying the work of the commons. In fact, one of the strongest arguments used by the supporters of the upper chamber Is that It Is obstructive only at rare intervals. It Is contended, too, that the British people really love the lords and would not approve any plan for dissolution or curtailment of their power, however much they may at times ridicule them. Should the people show a decided desire to have the sentiment expressed by the Bannerman resolution carried into effect, Great Britain would be con fronted by a serious governmental cri sis. The prospect of a square test of national sentiment on the question of abolishing the lords would make the next campaign In England exceedingly Interesting. THE CONQUEST OF THE TROPICS. Colonel W. C. Gorgas of the United States army has evidently been car ried away by his enthusiasm over the work of the army in redeeming Ha vana and the Panama canal zone from the grasp of pestilence and contagion and making them habitable and healthful. So marked has been the development of those countries under the new conditions that Colonel Gor gas ventures the confident prediction that the tropics will become the chief center of the world's civilization and activities. He contends that the re turn there to man is more abundant for a given expenditure of v energy than in any other part of the globe, and that man's profit Is greater be cause he is required to spend less in clothing, fuel and physical comforts essential to life in the temperate sone. The history of the world is a refu tation of Colonel Gorgas' confidence in the ultimate triumph of the tropics. Indolence Is indigenous In the vicinity of the equator. Experience shows that the man who removes from, the temperate zone to the troplcB performs marvels, for a time, wooing riches from a fruitful soli, under pleasant climatic conditions, but that it- does not last! The very atmosphere of the tropics, however sanitary the condi tions, is an opiate to ambition and en ergy. Colonel Bob Ingersoll once said thai if the most enlightened and ener getic family of New England were, to remove to the tropics the descendants in a few generations would be wearing breech-clouts and robbing cocoanul trees for their food. The colonel's picture is not much more overdrawn than Is that of Colonel Gorgas, In his vision of the tropics as the center of the world's best civilizations and In dustrial activity. Marked development mtiBt come to the tropics, since it has been demon strated that northern energy can create and maintain wholesome and suitable conditions for labor there. The resources of the tropics are rich and apparently inexhaustible. They will be exploited by men and capital from the temperate zones. Conditions in the tropics will be bettered in every iespect, but the Improvement will not be wrought by men who have spent their lives in the torrid land. The de velopment will come through imported energy, the supply of which must be periodically renewed, and the storage battery of such energy in this country is located some distance north of the Gulf of Mexico. After tha university has lost a few mora members of Its faculty perhaps the state of Nebraska will realise that something; must be done. Lincoln Star. - The university has been losing mem bers of Its faculty continuously ever since it was established and will keep on losing members of its faculty from time to time no matter what is done. It is the fate of all western universi ties to te the training schools to try out new men and to lose them In the course of time, if they develop extraor dinary teaching ability. If the state of Nebraska can keep a few strong men as heads of its main departments all the time, it can take Its chances on a changing personnel In the less im portant membership of its staff. The World-Herald has suddenly dis covered that the slot machine Is an evil and a standing Invitation to gam bling. The cause of this sudden dis covery Is plainly the simultaneous dis covery that the extinction of slot ma chine gambling was one item on the original reform program mapped out for the police board at the time of Its appointment by Governor Sheldon. When the board acts, watch the World-Herald claim thatIt did It. A Philadelphia minister has re signed because his congregation crit icised htm for falling to have his trousers creased. That congregation should get a tailor for its pulpit the next time. Quite a bit of the Nebraska state school fund has been Invested in the past in securities bringing as low as S per cent Interest returns. A chance to put a million dollars Into gilt-edged Douglas county bends at S H per cent would be a good proposition for the state financially as well as In other respects. Our old friend, John Jenkins, Is to be transferred to another post In the consular service because "his useful ness as American consul at San Salva dor has been Impaired" by entangle ments In the fight between Nicaragua and Salvador. .The Nebraska man comes from fighting stock and could not be expected to sit Idly by while a good scrap was on. It is reassuring also to note that there is no intima tion that hlB fighting qualities have been impaired. Mayor Hoctor of South Omaha has stolen a march on Mayor Dahlman of Omaha and succeeded in being first to touch off his Fourth of July proclama tion. The South Omaha mayor may not swing the lariat or Juggle the words in the dictionary as cleverly as the Omaha executive, but he has his eye out to the main chance all the time. , ' . It is reported that John D. Rocke feller has been seen walking on tho streets In New York "gesticulating vehemently." Perhaps he has been reading some of the federal reports on the doings of the Standard Oil com pany. Washington has officially decided that tobacco is a necessity for laborers on the Panama canal. Washington should also convince certain manufac turers that tobacco Is a necessity in the manufacture of cigars. Richard Croker declares that his father was not a blacksmith, but a gentleman. Blacksmiths are natur ally congratulating themselves. Accurately Slaed Cp. Washington Herald. If Mr. Roosevelt really did succeed In "bottling up" Mr. John Temple Graves at Norfolk, It simply demonstrates the' cor rectness of Mr. Graves' Idea that the presi dent Is a corker. Aa Appalling; .Thoasxht. Chicago Record-Herald. Colonel Bryan says President Roosevelt chooses his official advisers front among those associated with corporations. It Is harrowing to think what tha president would have done to the corporations If his advisers had been chosen from the plain people. Pathos of Part la sr. Brooklyn Eagle, Colonel Elijah W. Halford is to, be re tired from the army, luckily, without a wound or a scar of one. He has been deputy postmaster gvneral aver sine he was private secretary to President Harri son. , The passing of veteran heroes Is al ways a trifle sad. ,, CHANGES IN HI'HUME COURT. President Roosevelt's Appointments anal Those te Cum. Lealje's Weekly. Of tha nine members of the supreme Court President Roosevelt has appointed three Associate Justices Holmes, Day and Moody. Chief Justice Fuller and Associate Justice Harlan are each 74 years of age and can retire at any time on full pay. In 1908 Associate Justice Peckham will ba 70 and will be In a position to step down without losing any of his salary. Rumor has reoently been saying that each of these Is soon to retire. These and three other members of the present tribunal were there when Prsldent Roosevelt entered office. If tha seats of any two of these six persons should be vacated for any cause within the next two years a majority of the supreme court of March 4. 1949, at the end of the present presidential term, would be Roose velt selections. This -would break all tha precedents, except in the case of Washing ton, within whose service the court was created. . President Roosevelt Is a consolidations of the Marshall type, but the Industrial and social problems which have arisen In K the last few years and .of which nobody In Marshall's day ever dreamed, would Im pel Marshall to make a still further swing to the strong central government side if he were here today. It is probably the present executive's desire, following the custom of all his predecessors, to put men of his own way of thinking on tha bench, so far as he can, do this without entirely obliterating the opposite party. The chances are that Mr. . Roosevelt will be able to talk through the supreme court of the immediate future even more frequently and more potently than federalism talked through the court during the first third of the nineteenth century through Adams' appointment of John Marshall. mollycoddle: despots. Some Remarks oa Chancellor Day's Lamentations. New York World. Chancellor Day of Syracuse university, weeping over the Wan street mark-down sale of slips of engraved paper aa "six bil lions of shrinkage in the properties of the people" is like an awestruck child watch ing a drunken man write checks and touch lighted matches to them. "Gee! He's burnln' up money!" 'whispers round-eyed Jimmy perhaps a future chancellor and moral mentor of youth. Dr. Day more successfully appeals for j sympathy when because of the federal rail road rate law and the state public utUitles law he shrieks that "The distinction between the executive, judicial and legislative order la disappear ing In a form of oligarchy named commis sions, with an autocracy at its head as tyrannical and supreme as the world has ever known." Writing as a strong man In bis agony under the triple despotism of a president In Washington1, a governor In Albany and a pretty unanimous public opinion every where, Chancellor Tj la a sight to make one turn his pitying eyes, away. Yet is he sure that the autocracy which most of his fellow victims approve Is really the worst that could be inflicted upon a hap less people? A mediaeval autocrat would have tickled Dr. Day's soles with white-hot pokers to make him more cheerfully divide his Stan dard Oil endowment. A "Tedesco" gover nor gtaneral In Venetla In 1K2 would have shut him, within Silvio Pelllco In the hot roof cells of the ducai prison for the crime of free speech. Napoleon I would have exiled him. Louis Napoleon would hava silenced him in Jail. Croinwell might have hanged him. t Dr. Day eats well. He sleeps well. He talks well from a stock ticker viewpoint. No autocrat gags him or pulls hts teeth or bolls him in oir; Has h not fallen upon an age of weaklings and mollycoddle despots? He should cheer up. Worse has been: there may ba worse to coma I BITS OF WAJHIMiTOK LIFE. Minor Scenes and Incidents ketrhet on the Spot. Washington scribes who have endeavored to fasten upon ITesldcnt Roosevelt t lu st Igma of carrying a revolver In Ms hip pocket are skurrylng for shelter. Gun ex pert Pat Mastcrson. a western quick shooter transplanted in Now York. Is aft.r them, not m-lth a gun hut the mightier pen. Henr Ing the report that the outlines of a gun was felt In the president's hip-pocket by the man who tied the masonic apron atrlnps at the cornerstone laying In Washington, Masterson let go a characteristic whoop and denounced the allesator. I'nllnihrrlng a pen or pencil he shot the report full of holes In th!s conclusive fashion: "Prosi dent Roosevelt Is a man of sense and Juils; ment and of wide Information when It conies to sldearma. He knows what they are made for and how to handle them, and he also mtist know that in the event of being placed upon his defense he could be shot dead several times while extracting a gun or any other sort of weapon from his hip pocket. "The gun fighter the man who knows how as well as when to use a firearm places It either In a holster on his right side or In his coat pocket, where It may be seised Instantly and brought Into action without delay. A half second may mean a whole lot In this sort' of encounter, and nobody knows It better than the president, who never got his Ideas on the subject studying melodramas written Just off Broadway." It happened on one of the Vnltod States cruisers now at Hampton Roads, relates the Washington Herald. A lieutenant, hav ing met two very charming women while ashore, Invited them on board for luncheon. They camo and were shown over the ship. They lingered long in the lieutenant's room, which was daintily furnished, and they ad mired his photographs of home. When he was summoned on derk he left them there. Returning, he took them to luncheon, and, having to go on duty In the afternoon, he excused himself so as to get Into uniform. Aias: ne round that every button on his best coat had been cut off. and then he remembered that one of his fair guests had been rather Importunate on tha souvenir question. He got her alone after luncheon and accused her of the'' theft, and after some prevarication she con fessed that the buttons were In her cor sage. With some firmness the lieutenant led the culprit to his cabin, pointed silently to the denuded coat on the bunk, pro duced needle and thread, and, going out, locked tha door on the outside. In half an hour he returned, unlocked the door, found that his coat was once more tn ex cellent order, and then with great gal lantry bowed the lady over the side. She has not been Invited to luncheon on the same ship since. One of theseever old but ever new propo sitions that probably will receive some at tention at the coming session of congress Is the signing of mail by cabinet officers. Sqme of the new men who hava come In with the Roosevelt administration, espe cially some of the younger men who were shuffled in on the last round of cabinet Changes, have been seriously discussing the subject. They say that the hardest manual labor of a cabinet Job la signing tha mall, ac cording to law. " Some of the secretaries spend two hours a day In the busy season simply signing their names. A messenger stands at their elbows and removes and blots the sheets as fast as they are signed, and the secre tary does not any more know what nine tenths of the .things are that he Is signing man tr tnev wrn writi.. in characters. . It is the law. and has to ba complied with, but It Is only a dally grind, for all the cabinet officers hate It, and It wastes about two hours of the secretary's time that he might very profitably devote to something else. It used to be that treasury notes anri bonds and the like harf to be signed by hand, but the Job got so big that the treasurer and the comptroller could not possibly have managed it and the anti quated law was changed. "High finance Is not confined entirely to Wall street." said John E. Wllkle, chief of the secret service. "I saw an example of It the other day that made me dizzy. "One of the clerks In the treasury wanted to go to the ball game. Ha hod but 25 cents, his exact admission, mil nothing for carfare. "He announced that he would raffle his 25 cents for 2 cents a share. Eighteen clerks took chances. One won the quar ter for 2 cents, but the thrifty promoter had 25 cents for his ticket, 10 cents for carfare, and a cent for an afternoon paper." With the announcement that President Roosevelt will return to the government at the end of the fiscal year a great Dart of the 126,000 appropriated by congress ror nis personal traveling expenses comes the realization that he has revolutionised the habits of traveling as they have for merly been practiced by the chief execu tives of the country. Since the appropriation was made the president has used less than $5,000 for his traveling expenses, and there have been none of the glorious dashes in spe cial trains, with every luxury attached, which were once the accompaniments of presidential tours. The president's trips are never, of long duration or for very long distances, and he travels so 'simply as to keep tha ex penses down to the lowest possible mini mum. ' Commissioner of Pensions Warner has taken steps to compel the return of thou sands of dollars to old soldiers swindled out of the beneht of bounty land war rants. A year ago Mr. Warner ascertained that beneficiaries under the military bounty land laws had been systematically de prived of the greater portion of the value of their warrants by sttorneys to whom they had Intrusted their cases, and that such attorneys had resorted to question able, unprofessional, and illegal conduct In connection with that class of claims. Under the law, land warrants can only be Issued on military service performed prior to March 3, 1855. If the soldier Is alive tha warrant is Issued to him. If he Is dead and has left a widow It Is Issued to her. If there Is no widow, then to his heirs, and If there are no heirs It may be Issued to the ad ministrator of his estate, and It follows that soldiers or their widows are persons advanced in years and In many cases In reducej clrcumstancui An Investigation disclosed the fact that four different firms of attorneys with prin cipal offices In Washington and branch office In Chicago, Denver. Cleveland, and Detroit, who had procured bounty land warrants or duplicates thereof for their clients, had obtained from their clients.' before the warrants were Issued, orders that the warranta should be delivered to the attorneys when Issued, and then the attorneys, well hnomlng the value of the warrants, would purchase them, paying only from 50 cents to $1 60 per acre, and selling tbem on the market for iA leaat 11.50 par acre. Mr. Warner decided that these four Arms had been guilty of fraudulent and unprofessional conduct, and served notice on them to show cause why they should not be disbarred Pianos Easily Bought and Easily Paid for Everyone recognises the dealrshlll'.y of owning a I'luno. Kveryone realties that a piairoless home Is an Incom plete, home. Hut not eM-ryone rtn spare from his business a; one tl:n the entire- amount necessary to pur chase an InmruMicnt. The plan of Hospes store not only makes the artusl selecting of a i'l ano ensy. but arranges that the pay ing for It shall be Just as easy. These Is no necessity of doing without I ho advantage of a I'lano merely liocmne you may fed you can't pay for It in a lump sum. Many petsntis have their tunds invested at better than X per cent and do not care to disturb them and this condition Is fully pro vided for by us. Any piano In our store which you select, can be paid for on the Ittile-a-month plan. It means simply th;U you pay us a small amount e.h thirty days for the use of the Instru ment, every payment being credited to you so that at the end of a certain A. Hospe Co. SEND FOR FREE CATALOGUE AND PRICES PERSONAL SOTKI. The Carl Schurs Memorial committee has already received more than 171,000 to wards the mnmprlal to be established In honor of that statesman. . Emperor William has approved the great scheme for the construction qf a stadium In Grunewald forest In the outskirts of Berlin. It is to be provided for tho pub lic, and as proposed, will be a model of the Greek stadium, with daily olympian games. Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, chief of the divi sion of chemistry In the Agricultural de partment, has been engaged by the French government to make a scientific Inquiry into th charges that French wines hava been grossly adulterated. He will soon sail for France. Senator Beverldge )jf Indiana sails for Europe this week, and will be married before his return to Miss Katherlne Eddy of Chicago, a sister of Spencer Eddy, sec. retary of the f ntted States legation at Berlin, and a niece of Mrs. Marshall Field. Mr. Beverklge's wife died seven years ago. Miss Helen Cannon, daughter of the speaker. Is one of the most noted hos tesses as well as one of the most cultured women In Washington. She is a firm be liever In the highest education of women, a great reader, speaks several languages, which she learned during the years she spent abroad, is a splendid singer, and holds the record In the high official set for pedestrianlsm. William Le Baron Jenney of Chicago, a pioneers In steel building construction, died at Los Angeles, Cat., Saturday, at the age of 74. He was a native of Falrhaven, Mass., received a technical education at Cambridge, Mass., and in Paris, served In the civil war as an engineer, and In 1883 constructed at Chicago for the Home In surance company the first of th esteel In surance building In the world. Government Snaps Cartnlled. Philadelphia Record. It is related that Secretary Garfield has been handling his broom with some vigor In sweeping out cobwebs In the Interior department. Among other things he found in the patent office a discreetly conducted library, well provided with romances to beguile the leisure hours of the over worked clerks. . No sooner waa tha dis covery made than the three women librarians were discharged And, the books trundled oft to the magnificent congres sional library. Formerly most of tha de partments were provided with these li braries, and the last remaining Is In tho treasury, where It is no longer needed. !Iicillry Sals F BOYS' for Friday and Saturday. We have Celebrated mam W two grades, which we wish to close out before stock taking July 1st. We have 15 dozen of the $1.00 grade, which will go for ... fl8)5L And S dozen of the $150 grade, AP which will go for . . . . . iLoVcP These blouses are all the Star Brand and as every mother knows what this celebrated blouse is, they should not last long at these low prices. They come in neat and dark effects,' also plain white, and we have them in , all sizes. We will place them on sale Friday morning, and we would advise an early inspection. A Shirt Special for Friday and Saturday broken lines of men's negligee shirts that sold QP for $1.00 and $150 . . . .... R. S. WILCOX, Manager. i time you become Into full ownership or the instrument. inn nieimn meon.-i that you are not only buying a I'lano. but saving money eacn month that would otherwise o for something trivial. 1'or every 1'iano In our store there Is but one price. The price is ihe same to the Installment buyer as to the man who pays all at Once. Wa simply require small Interest per an num for the privilege of buying hy the month. No other store In the l nited Slates offers lower prices than the Hospe store and few, it any, h.iv the same scale for the time and the cash customer. Many I'lano houses ssv they have one price for every one, hut Investigation will prove tho fallacy of their declaration. The Hospe store ABSOM'TNI-Y conducts its business on a one price basis. If you want a Piano don't liesltata because you can't pay for It all at once. Call on us and let's talk tha matter over. 1513 Dougl&s St. MIRTIIFVL REMARKS. "Actors have not much of a regard for ties, have they?" "Neither would you. If you had to trea4 so many of them underfoot." Philadelphia Ledger. "Father," asked little Rollo, "what la a Jingo?" "A Jingo, my son. Is a man who Is firmly convinced that somebody other than him self ought to go out and whip somebodr." Washington Star. Nebuchadneszar was eating grass. "The question is," he explained, "whether I am a nature fake or a man fake." ' The ancients were fain to give it up. New York Sun. "Well, old man." said Slnnlcksnn. after the performance, "I oertalnly was sur prised to see you In private theatricals" "Yes," replied Brlghtley, "but. you see. If I didn't appear on the stage I'd prob ably have to sit In the audience and ba bored to death." Philadelphia Press. "Is your son proficient In any foreign languages?" "Well," answered Farmer Corntossel, " dunno as he's much on French or German; but he kin understand every word of tha base ball nesea." Washington Btar. "Even if you do allow animals tha right to reason. It is easily pro-ed that their reason Is of a very weak kind." "How do you prove it?" "Because a dog will always agitate tha tall end of a discussion, while a cat is generally on the fence." Philadelphia, THIJfKI.V O' MOTHER. S. E. Riser In the Record-Herald. Thlnkln' o' mother," ha said, "and thlnkla o' what she'H tv Was the reason I didn't give up and start to the bad that day; ' Thlnkln' o' mother again and thlnkln' o what she'd feel Is the reason I ain't a thief the money D luv-rv vu Bie.au "Thlnkln' o' mother at home was tha rea son I went ahead Facln' the world agatn, no matter wha people said; Thlnkln" o' mother waa all that could ever ' have held me back When I stood on tha pier that night, whara the water was deep and black. "Thlnkln' o' mother. I stopped whoa mr 1 blade waa raised tn the air, And I uttered a prayer instead o' do In' that dark deed there! Thlnkln' o' mother, I tried when It seemed) to be useless to try, And I ain't goin' hungry no more, and I'm lookln' you square In the eye I "Thlnkln' o' mother, that's all; you pat tha story in i rhyme; ' - - It ain't no beautiful tale, there's nothhr about It sublime; But tell the feller who's down I'm peaatn the lesson to you To just keep thlnkln' o' mother, and I . guess that he'll worry through." BLOUSE WAISTS thirty dozen of the Star Blouses, in