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TIIE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1007. Tim Omaha Daily Bee. FOUNDED BY KDWAJtt) ROSE WATER. VICTOR ROSEVVATER. EJ31TOR. t;ritrd at Omaha postofTke second class mutter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Hee (without Hiindsy). one year..!4X I mil View and Sunday, one year ("0 f-'unday Bee, one (far I 5" Haturdav Bee, im rnr I. SO DEI.IVERK1 HY CARRIER. Dull'- Kea (including P'inday), per weok..l"e Iallv ! (without Sunday), per week...inc Kventng Bee (without Hunday). per week. c Evening Hee (with Sunday, per ww-li l"c AddrfM all complaints of Irregularities In delivery to City Circulation Department. OPT' ICES. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha-City Hall Building. rwinrtl muffs if. Poott Street. Ch'rago 1W0 Unity Building. New Vork l.Vtt Horn Life Insurance Bldg. Washington SOI Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi torial matter should ho addressed, Omaha Bee, Editorial l)etrtment. REMITTANCES. Remit hy draft, express or postal order, payable to The Bee Puhllahlng tympany. Only I -cent stamp received In payment of mail account Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchange, not accepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btste of Neoroska. Douglas county, : Charles C. Hoeewster, general manager of The Bps Publishing Company, helng inly sworn, says that the actual number f full and complete copies of Tha Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed luring the month of May, 1907, was as 'ollows: M,VK 85,810 35490 35,410 II 35,700 II 33,800 10 35,370 1 35,030 J2...; 35,610 35,600 t 33,090 15 85,800 II. 34,600 IT 85,460 II 35,610 1 80,010 10 36,080 SI 36,810 34,300 35,680 7 35,480 t 38,660 05,730 It 36,880 11 36,390 it 84,650 1 36,480 1 88,380 II 36,830 1 35,480 Total. ,.1,06,690 85,380 Lass unsold and returned copies 8,687 Net lotal Xo83.!3 Daily average 36,063 CHARLES C. R08E WATER, Oeneral Manager. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me thia Hat day of May, 1907. (Seal.) M. B. H UNGATE. Notary Public WHEN Ot'T OF TOWIf. Subscribers leaving the city tern, pararflr shoald save The Bee Mailed them. Addrpx will bo The tetanus germ la beginning to sit up and take notice. "We never smile on Sunday," says the Nashville American. Got a lid? It'e a poor paving contractor who hasn't some kind of an excuse for de layed work. "Handle your best friends like your cash," advises the Baltimore Ameri can. It does not eeem right to change them that often. J. Ham Lewis Bays the American people have grown tired of fads and fancies. Lewis ig not now holding any public office. Mayor "Jim" says he Is not a Ne braska pioneer, but he wishes he were. There are some things even Mayor "Jim" can't lasso. "Nearly all freethinkers,'.' observes the Houston Post, "are men." Yes, but men are not In the majority among the free speakers. Omaha does not want any destruc tive fires, but if It must have them, it would like to put the tattle-trap tinder boxes on the preferred list. There would be less complaint about the price of meat or other necessities If the people knew the prices were fixed by competition and not by agree ment. . A Paris physician has discovered that breathing Is an Important factor in the treatment of tuberculosis. Why not? Breathing Is an important fac tor In living. Carrie Nation may be something of a nuisance, but she had admirable courage. She Has just announced her intention to undertake the task of re forming Pittsburg. "Th people own the eorporatlons," tayn Judge Grosscup of Chicago. Pos sibly,! but somehow the people are not la evidence when the dividends are being passed around. The Young Men's Christian assocla Uon building fond solicitors declare that giving to public enterprises Is a habit. Omaha people ought to have the habit hy this time. New York will have its new drink Ing water reservoir completed In twelve years. Many New Yorkers will not care if they have to wait longer that that for water for drinking pur poses. The king of Slam and the special representative of the emperor of Ja pan are both visiting In Lon don, but they ' seem unable to get any of the spotlight while Mark Twain is in the town. Tom Lawion says that it Mr. Roose velt will run again he will get 40 per cent of the democratic vote. Judge Alton B. Parker will testify that Mr. Roosevelt got about 40 per cent of the democratic vote the last time he rao. A tadical reduction has been or dered la the railroad freight charges between Kansas City and 8t Louis. It Is ferbaps but a rolnlcldtnce that the reduction took effect the same day that a line of freight steamers began operating on the Missouri river be tveam th two Missouri cities. OCVASIOyALLT SISLvO TUB LViHT. It is refreshing to And the head of, one great railroad system of the coun try earnestly championing every Im portant feature of President Roose velt's railway policy, as outlined by him in his Memorial day address at Indianapolis. B. F. Yoakum, chair man of the executive board of the Rock Island system and a man who has operated railroads from the field Instead of Wall street, contributes an article to the World's Work In which he favors strongly direct federal con trol of railroad capitalization, inspec tion of railroad accounts and opera tions and a complete and fair adjust ment of the Interests of the public, the railroad and the government He ex presses the opinion that tho time has gone by when a railroad could go ahead and work out its plans without consulting the Interests of the people. In the course of his article, Mr. Yoa kum says: The public demands that the railroads of tha t'nlted States shall be so regulated by law as to prevent future Injustice In their management or "discrimination In their con duct. The government of the t'nlted States Is shaping its administrative policy to that end. As a railroad manager and as an In dividual, I heartily endorse this policy, and shall do all I can to promote such a course. The Hepburn Set Is effective and is both Just and wise. As time goes on the ma chinery for tha reinforcement of the act will Improve and should Improve, and the enlightened railroad managers will co operate with the government and with tha people to enforce the law. J believe In lite principle of the act, which Is that there shall be Uniformity of charges without Illegal discrimination or unlawful devices to one class of shippers or communities aa against another. Enlightened railroad managers are slowly coming to the conclusion that the solution of the railroad problem Is to be found In the co-operation with the people through the government. Nothing suggested In the president's outlined policy has been successfully attacked by any of his opponents. The limitation of future security issues, un der federal restriction, is admitted by all to be essential to stability in rail way stocks and bonds, while the valua tion of existing railroad properties Is a necessary preliminary step. It is agreed, too, that there should be no mystery in the accounts of railroads. Their books should be subject to in spection by federal authorities as openly and freely as the accounts of national banks. These are the car dinal points of the president's pro gram and Mr. Yoakum places himself in accord with every one of them. Even the railroad managers who have been most active in opposing the president are beginning to admit that the only true basis of public con fidence in railroads and ;rallroad se curities is to be found In better rela tions between the people and the rail roads. The president has pointed the easiest way to reach this goal, as will be thoroughly realised by the railroad men In due time as one by one they see the light. TUB POWER OVEH COMMKHCX The announcement that the address to be delivered to the graduating class of the Yale law school by Senator Knox would be the keynote of his presidential platform certainly was un fair to the senator. The press and the politicians have been scanning the address carefully, searching for hid den political meanings and have been disappointed. The address was by Knox, the lawyer, not by Knox, the presidential aspirant, and was deliv ered to a class of young men about to be admitted to the bar. To such an audience, Senator Knox Bhowed the good taste of eschewing politics and discussing the relation between thai federal government and the states, a question of constant Interest to attor neys that has been given special promi nence by recent enactments of con gress and which promises to be made more prominent by reason of further efforts to extend the power of the federal government over interstate transactions. Possibly political significance may attach to Senator Knox's careful effort to point out the line of demarcation between federal and state powers, In which he declines to go to the length proposed by President Roosevelt and some of his most ardent supporters for future federal legislation. He differs from the president far enough to deny that the power of congress to regu late Interstate commerce "Includes tho regulation of the instrumentalities of commerce and likewise the power to regulate persons by whom the article of commerce Is produced in respect to matters disconnected with commerce." This is clearly aimed at the bill of fered by Senator Beverldge prohibit ing the shipment in Interstate com merce of the product of child labor. Senator Knox vigorously attacks that proposition as an attempt to override the barrier between state and federal Jurisdiction, for which the constitution affords no shadow of authority. He also combats the Idea that "In respect to natural products which are prime necessities congress can prohibit com merce in them between the states in order to enforce its conception of what would be a wise police regulation of a Btate." , Senator Knox has done well thus to call attention to a mistaken Impres sion that tho congressional legisla tion on the subject of Interstate com merce furnishes a panacea for all pub lic evils. People are prone to think the federal government can constitu tionally accomplish everything that seems good and this results in a crop of high expectations that cannot pos sibly be fulfilled. If congress could use the power of Interstate commerce regulation to control the production of articles employed in that commerce, the sanitary conditions to be observed, the hours, pay and age of laborers to be employed. It could exercise the entire police power of the states. The maintenance of the distinction be tween state and federal Jurisdiction Is of greatest Importance both to tbe state and to the nation. It Is useless to urge the desirability or popularity of measures that congress has no power to enact. Those who demand the impossible In federal legislation only hamper those who seek in a rational way to locate responsibility for wrongs and to apply practical and practicable remedies. run firemevs wvble shift. The Board of Fire and Police Com missioners has a hard nut to crack in the firemen's double shift law, which is to become operative next month. While the law as passed contains sev eral serious defects which might im pair Its validity, they are all of tech nical character and hardly to be called in question by the board, if by anyone. The real difficulty presented Is that the legislature has decreed a limit of twelve hours' service dally for each member of the Are department without providing the means of increasing the number of firemen to keep the differ ent fire companies at their full present strength all the time. So far as the financial resources of the fire depart ment are concerned they cannot be augmented whatever this year and can be augmented next year by only a few thousand dollars by no possibility to the extent required to pay additional salaries to forty or fifty more firemen. Under the circumstances but one course seems open and that is to re adjust the working hours of the Bre men in the most practicable maimer so as to give the maximum number of men on duty at the periods when the fire risk is supposed to be greatest. The rules must at the same time be revised so that firemen off duty shall be subject to call In emergencies with severe penalties for failure to respond when needed. Much diversity of opinion still exist as to thejeasiblllty of the double shift scheme for a fire department, but a little experimentation should soon show Its advantages and weaknesses and help determine whether the double shift should be maintained or modified or abolished by the next legislature. The Union Pacific is about to adopt a new policy for inquiries into wrecks that will commend itself to the public. For every accident that occurs an offi cial investigation will be made by a board Including not only representa tives of different departments of the railroad, but sIbo at least one member selected from the locality and entirely free from railroad connection. The findings of the board will make public the facts and the conclusion as to the cause of the accident and the outside member left free to agree with his railroad associates or to put in a mi nority report placing the blame as he sees It In case of disagreement. That these investigations can and should do much toward fixing responsibility for railroad wrecks goes without saying, but the new order is most significant In indicating a disposition on the part of the railroad to do all in its power to prevent wrecks. In the finality, of course, It devolves upon the railroad company to make such use of these reports by disciplining negligent em ployes, making needed improvements and enforcing precautionary measures, as will reduce the frequency of recur ring accidents. The World-Herald goes into a double-distilled spasm over a report in the Lincoln Journal that the mention of the name of Bryan at an initiation meeting of Ak-Sar-Ben had been fol lowed by a chorus of groans. Such an unprovoked exhibition, If true, would have been discourteous, to say the least, but the Indignation of the World-Herald must be regarded as largely made to order, because the Lincoln Journal had already in a pre ceding issue made this correction: An Omaha man who came to Lincoln yesterday denied with some asperity the report that Mr. Bryan's name had been re ceived with groans by the Ak-Sar-Ben In that city. "What happened was this," he explained. "A speaker mentioned Mr. Bryan and Governor Sheldon, and received so much applause that he felt emboldened to go on with some flattering reference to Mr. Mickey. Then some unregenerate peo ple in tha audience were ao rude as to laugh and show disapproval. If there were any groans they were not meant for Mr. Bryan." That is a horse chestnut of another color, It Is up to the World-Herald now to make its correction. But will It? Or will It rush as valiantly to the defense of former Governor Mickey as to the defense of Bryan? Boston Is following the lead of Louisville with a home-coming week for former residents to be held in con- nectlon with a mid-summer carnival. It Is probably too late to take up such a scheme for Ak-Sar-Ben's festival this year, but it might be worth while considering for some future time. Omaha would be crowded to overflow ing if only a fractional representation of all the people who have lived here from time to time could be brought back for a week of revlsltatlon and reunion. Complaint Is made because sieve bottomed wagons hauling earth are spreading their contents over the boul evards. This Is an abuse that ought to be stopped. But the dumping of dirt in this fashion on the boulevards is no worse than the dumping of dirt and refuse in the same manner on the paved streets. Our ordinances should be amended to require all such hauling to be done in tight-bottomed dump carts and the sieve-bottomed wagon absolutely prohibited from doing bus iness within the city limits. No other city of Omaha's site still stands for this remnant of town-siting days.. Colonel Bryan lost a nightshirt on a sleeping car in Kansas. It was found by Conductor Jefferson Davis and turned over to Station Agent William McKlnley, who returned it direct to Mr. Bryan, who doubtless suspected for a time that President Roosevelt, whom he accuses of having stolen most of his clothes, had also swiped his nightie. A London cable says that Mark Twain was highly pleased . when he saw the king. Many a man has befn highly pleased to see a king, particu larly If he had a couple of them be fore the draw. A congressional convention down in Oklahoma took 160 ballots at one ses sion without making a nomination. Although It is not yet In Nebraska's class In this respect, Oklahoma must be ready for statehood. The United States has s?nt a gun boat to Central America "to protect American Interests," In case of war be tween Guatemala and Salvador. The United States navy has a habit of re sponding to fire alarms. The latest democratic ticket sug gested is Johnson of Minnesota for president and Hoke Smith of Georgia for vice president. If they could get the vote of all their namesakes their election would be a cinch. Detective McPartland moved to Den ver from Pennsylvania to escape the vengeance of the Molly Magulres. Dis cretion will probably suggest another change of residence for him after the close of that trial at Boise. Deposits In Nebraska state banks have increased by nearly $12,000,000 within a year. It looks as If the peo ple of Nebraska were not only of a saving disposition, but had something to save. Emory Grubb has been pardoned from the Missouri penitentiary. Gov ernor Folk could not resist the appeal of the man's wife, who Insisted that she wanted her Grubb free. A Comfortable Saurplsjs. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Uncle Sam's net cash balance Is nearly $100,000,000 larger than at this time a year ago. Absurdly large, say tha democratto papers; and yet It Is easier to point with alarm to a deficit. An Interesting- Possibility. Brooklyn Eagle. The purpose of the Interstate Commerce commission to overhaul's German steam ship company as a putative American trust suggests that Grandfather's Sword may yet be Invoked against the Big Stick. Encouraging Kvll Ways. Portland Oregonlan. It Is plain that the tramp evil and all the evils that grow out of It are coddled and encouraged by the system so generally In vogue of suspending the penalty of va grancy on condition that the vagrant leaves tha town. A more unrighteous method, or one more calculated to encourage ar.d perpetuate vagrancy than this, could not well be devised. Troth Ilnrta. San Francisco Chronicle. General Funs ton probably wishes that he had entered Into no explanations of his reasons for not allowing the regulars to parade In this city on Independence day. To moat sensible persons his course aeems to have been prompted by a desire to avoid unpleasantness, but there are plenty of people In San Francisco to whom the presence of the representatives of law and order would be objectionable, and they be long to the kind ready to misrepresent mo tives and statements. Hence the fuss over the declination. TUB JIATIO.VS WKAI.TII. Remarkable Expansion ana Wider Distribution. Brooklyn Eugle. The census of 1900 determined the wealth of the United States to be a little over $94, 000,000,000. The best estimates made de termine that by the beginning of the year of 1907 that wealth had grown to be $115, 000,000.000. This would Indicate that the census of 1910 will show the wealth to be not leas than $128,000,000,000. These are tig urea that may perhaps be better compre hended from thi statement that if this great wealth were equally divided each man. woman and child in the country would have possessed on tha first of Jan uary, 1901, the sum of Il,S6.s. There Is a prevailing belief that thia great Increase of national wealth haa taken place within the last few years. This be lief Is largely due to the visible evidences of the accumulation of the great individual fortunes that have dasxled the eyes of the j country. It It were so, and If In the accumu lation of these vast Individual fortunes there had been a proportionate Increase ct the national wealth, or, if such accumula tions had been just so many additions to tha general wealth t would not have been ao bad. But the evidence Is rather that in the growth of the national wealth tlun haa been an Inside process of concentration into the hands of a few. It waa not until tha year li&O that the statistics were taken on which an accurate determination of national wealth could be made. . That waa fifty years ago. The average percentage of Increase haa beun 70.11. The total Increase has been 365 per cent. But the story is told In tha detail. For the decade ending In 1660 tha increase of the national wealth was 128 per cent; for that ending 1870 It waa $1 per cent: for that of 1SH0, 40 par cent; for that of IK). 54.71 per cent; and for that of ltOX 446 per cent; while for seven years of tha decade ending 1910. tha Indications are that tbe percentage for tha whole ten years will be 37.14 per cent It will thus be seen that tha percentage for alxty years has gradually diminished, and, in the periods when large Individual fortunes have been rolled up. Here is a problem for sociologists to solve. Tha increase of wealth has bean enormous, even though tha percentages of Increase have shown diminution. And while this has been going on there has beea a tendency not to a wider distribu tion of tha growing wealth Into the hands of tha many, but toward a concentration in tha vaults of the few. OTHER LA5DH THAT OI RS. Marcellln Albert, the peasant leader hailed aa the aavler of the wine growers of south ern France, haa discovered how much easier Is the task of starting a popular con flagration than putting It out. Tha strike or boycott of the government, begun aa "a peaceful revolution," waa quickly precl- I pltated to the verge of civil revolt, and brought Into action with surprising i promptness the military arm of the govern ment. The celerity with which the army appeared In the disturbed districts effec tively showed the determination of the government to vindicate Its authority and uphold the law. Tha legislative branch of the government moved with like promptitude In passing a measure cal culated to afford the relief sought by the wine growers. The latter attribute their misfortunes to the manufacture and sale of adulterated wine. The new law pro hibits the manufacture and sale of chemical Wine and Imposes a heavy tax on sugar used In adulterating native wine. It Is evident tha government does not expect the law will afford the relief the wine growers demand. Premier Clemenceau has urged diversity of erops In the districts affected as the best means of securing permanent relief, and offered In behalf of the government five years' exemption from taxation. But the people seem wedded to tha Industry followed for centuries, and for the moment give little heed to the advice. Besides the havoc wrought by adulterated wine, the native Industry contends against overproduction, diminished consumption of pure wine, a marked Increase In beer drinking and the Insidious Inroads of the absinthe habit. The outlook Is far from cheering for the wine growers, and It la not surprising that the overawed peasants, falling to secure all their demands, are concentrating their wrath on M. Albert. The savior of yesterday becomes the dis credited leader of today. By a vote of nearly 3 to 1 the House of Commons passed the resolution presented by the British prime minister, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, expressing the sen timents of that body In favor of restrict ing the right of the House of Lords to defeat Indefinitely ministerial measures passed hy Parliament. The resolution ac complishes nothing. It Is merely a gust of Parliamentary hot air, which will not disturb the lordly Indifference of the peers to public sentiment generated by the liberal party. The House of Lords as at present constituted Is a moribund annex to the tory party, exhibiting symptoms of life tinctured with gross partisanship only when a measure of popular Interest comes from tho commons with liberal party sanction. In former tlmea when the peers rejected ministerial measures of vital Importance, enough nw peers were created to change Its political complexion. Similar action Is not deemed practicable now because the body Is already overloaded with dead weight. The liberal party alternative Is to limit the power of the upper house so that measures twlces sanctioned by the elective representatives of the people shall became laws during the life of a single Parliament. The tory peera Insist on an appeal to the country on every measure rejected by them. Such a plan would Involve frequent elec tions, keep the country In continuous poli tical turmoil and bankrupt the liberal party treasury. As the case stands the liberals are unable to redeem their pledges of re form legislation, and In some way must restrict or overturn the co-ordinate power of the upper house or go out of business. Having severed the ties which bound It to Sweden, Norway now seeks Individual ity In language. The national Parliament passed 8 law authorising a change from the present spoken tongue of the country, which consists of made-over Danish. There have been some very slight modifications In the pronunciation and the grammar, but Danes and Norwegians understand each other at once .and the literatures of the two countrlea are really a unit. But from time Immemorial there have lurked In Nor way many peasant dialects, dialects thnt vary so much that peasants from one end of the country talk Greek to peasants In another end. These tongues are rich and racy, they are alive, they smell of the soil and they throb with the heart. Fifty years or more ago there came Into fashion an effort to preserve these tongues In the country's literature. The written language began to gather up quantities of these ex pressive spoken terms. BJornson headed the movement and started the fashion, and his books borrow some of their remarkable qualities from this broadening of his vocab ulary. That broadening carried with It a broadening of Interests and sympathies. From these healthy beginnings there grew up a widespread endeavor that soon over shot Itself, became an exaggeration and re ceived Its proper epithet in "maalstraverl." From Innocent enrichment of the language the enthusiasts passed to the point of at tempting an entire upheaval of the lan guage. BJornson suddenly became a purist and set himself against this tide of whole sale Iconoclasm. The act of Parliament providing for a distinctive languuge of ac cords with the nationalist spirit which made independence possible. An American traveling abroad, evidently Something of a landlord himself, expresses admiration for the German system which takes the troubles of the landlords and places them on the shoulders of the tenants. In Germany the law protects the landlorls and aa a consequence house rent Is cheaper. For Instance, the tenant Is required to sign a contract, and the breaking of this would mean the forfeiture of all your furniture, besides, a sojourn In prison. Tou may sub let, but you must live up to your contract. Should any damage be done to the wall paper, mirrors, etc., the tenant Is required (nay, compelled) to repaper and replace. The tenant Is provided with a latch key. Should he happen to lose It, he Is obliged to provide new keys and locks for the whole house. The old key many have fallen Into unauthorized hands. Coal bins and closets shelves used for kindling wood absurd! Such tricks are Impossible In Germany. When your contract expires and you hand over your keys, you've got to leave every- j thing In about the same state and condl- j tlon you found It. Moving without paylne, rev Can't be done. Can't remove any tt your household goods until your rent Is ra'(" 'n full. And so on. Justice Is dealt out with even hand to landlord and tenant. Will the Increase In the price of dressed meats in tho Vnlted States bring about conditions which now prevail In Germany, where, due to the acarclty of becf. the people have accustomed themselves to eat ing horse and dog flesh, Is tho question In a Washington dispatch. In Germany about 182,000 horses and 7,000 dogs are slaughtered annually for food. Horse flesh Is generally advertised In the German newspapers, and most titles In the empire have at least one market which makes It a specialty, main taining that It has a higher percentage of nourishment than beef, veal, mutton or pork. Consular reports received st the State department say that advertisements appear regularly In the German newspapers for dogs to be slaughtered, and often whn the available supply mas low valuable animals are stolen to be converted Into food. Sidestepping a Jon. Washington Post. Although one Judge has decided that a mollycoddle 1a one who shirks Ms part ef the world's work, tha average boy la going to continue sidestepping the Job of splitting kindling wood as long as ha it' a POLITICAL DRIFT. Arthur Pue Gorman of Maryland, son of the late Senator Gorman, Is attracting at tention for his clever work as a political boss. The governors of Pennsylvania, New York and Massachusetts each have vetoed and defeated measures pensioning veterans of the civil war. It Is solemnly announced that New York aldermen were beaten to a fraiile by Phil, adelphla aldermen In a game of highball. Quiet drinkers prove wonders when their capacity Is challenged. The New York Bun admits to Its columns letters praising Governor Johnson of Min nesota as a democratlo possibility for pres ident. Oovernor Johnson carried a repub lican state twice; Bryan carried a repub lican state once. The passage and approval of tbe bills providing for a recount of the mayoralty vote In New York City will not facilitate a settlement of the Issue as much as ex pected. As soon as Hearst moved ' last Tuesday McClellan countered and the new law la hung up in the courts until the ques tion of constitutionality Is settled. William R. Hearst announces that a na tional conference for the purpose of boost ing Ma Independence league will be held In New York next fall, probably In September. The call Indicates that several hammers will be prepared for action on the demo cratic party If the democratic party falls to take advice from the right quarter. Thomas Pryor Gorem, the political leader of Oklahoma, is blind and haa been since he was 11 years old. When he accidentally shot his right eye out with an arrow gun. Three years before a playmate. In a boyish passion, blinded his left eye with a stone. He Is one of the most sought-for lawyers In hla atate and has been active in all campalgna In Oklahoma since he went there from Mississippi. Senator Bacon of Georgia, who will be the ranking minority member of the eorr. mlttee on foreign relations, now that Joh;t Tyler. Morgan Is dead, will have to preven'. the ratification of many treaties if hs equals the record of his predecessor in that respect. During the thirty years he waa a member of the senate Mr. Morgan probably killed more proposed conventions with other powers than any other man In the history of congress. John Oscar Sheets, Pennsylvania's com ing state treasurer, is of Pennsylvania Dutch stock, a graduate of Muhlenberg college, the Baldwin Locomotive works and the coal trade.' He's u great-great-grandson of the John Jacob Mlckley who In 1777. when the Brltiah were moving upon Philadelphia, carried the liberty bell In his farm wagon to Allentown, where It was safely hidden In the basement of the Re formed church 1WIMH1NO THAOKUIES. Melancholy Side of miner Oatlng Pleasnres. Baltimore American. The drowning storlea are much alike one summer after another. Sometimes It Is the strong swimmer, full of coufldonca In his powers to keep afloat Indefinitely, that la suddenly attacked with the paralysing eranp. At other times It l the Inexperi enced youth, wading in shoal waters, who suddenly steps off. a ledge Into deeper water. Too often the water fatalities are caused by the sportive Idiocy, of the peren nial Individual who rocks the boat. These are the three motives, so to express it, that lead to nearly all the drowning acci dents. In other words, most drownings are from lack of proper precautions and might have been avoided. . Aa to the paralytic cramps which some times seize those In the water, thrh Is a mishap which cannot, of course, be fore seen. Every swimmer, however, should take the possibility of such a disaster into consideration before he makes a venture- SATURDAY NIGHT AT EIGHT O'CLOCK A SALE OF DRY GOODS 25o and 28c all fiilk Taffeta Ribbons, 5V2 and b inches wide, plain colors, all shades for lCc yard. Cotton Challie, pretty designs, usually 6V-c, for 2c yard. Stamped Pillow Tops, various designs and col ors, from burlap, linen, etc., worth up to 50i, for 7c each. Ten-cent quality India Linon, 5c yard. GET TIIE IIABIT OF ATTENDING OUR SATURDAY NIGHT BARGAIN SALES Thos. Kilpatrick & Co. If you want to start an appetite "boom" let the children know you have package of hi Ginger Snaps. Can't be beat NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY some effort. The Individual who cannot swim should never wade In water that is above the waist line without wearing a life preserver. Hctter still, ho should never go out over knee deep until he learns to swim. As to the fool thnt rocks the boat, whut more Can be added to the oolumhs of lit erature than have alreudy been published for his discouragement? Apparently lie cannot be weeded nut; It Is impossible to eliminate him as the evil genius of tha festivities of many and many a summer outing. LAl'GHINO OAS. "Was anybody drowned?" "Well, not to speak of; Just the fellow who'd rocked the boat." Philadelphia Ledger. Physician Your boy will pull through all right.- He has a wonderful constitution. Mr. Tyte-i'hlst I am giui to hear It, doctor. In making out your bill, of course, you will not mnke me pay for what his constitution haa done In pulling him through. Chicago Tribune. 'They claim that Schmltz was the first violinist to boss a city." "Well?" "But there waa Nero." Washington Her ald. "Ned, dear boy. I want you to enjoy yourself at this party. Now what can I do for you particularly?'" "Don't bother about me, old chap. Any old thing will do for me." "Then I'll get you Miss Antique for a partner." Baltimore American. Stella What was the summer resort like? Bella-A hamlet, with Borneo left out. New fork Sun. "The man who carried off the highest honors In his class hopes to a get a $ Instructorshlp In a western college." "How about the man at the foot of tha class "He's ell right and tidy. One of the big baaa ball leagues has given him a three year contract to pitch for It at $5,0u0 a year." Cleveland Plain Dealer. ' Your enormous fortune has resulted in comfort and ease for yourself and your "Well, I dunno that it has." answere.l Mr. Cumrox. "It has compelled mother and the girls to put in a terrible amount of hard work givln' ma lessons in etlquet." Washington Star. Wooer Sir, your daughter Kate loves me, and while she says 1 may take her, I do not want to rob you of her Father (dryly)-l see. Just a case of contls-Kate. Baltimore American. "It's easy," began Mr. Jolley, "to obey the Biblical Injunction when one's neigh bor Is a pretty girl." "But surely," replied the bright girl next door, "it Isn't easy for you." "O yes; I refer to tha command to Move thy neighbor.' " "Yes, but the command Is really iove thy neighbor aa thyself.' "Philadelphia Press. IIMHERTOWN. Baltimore Sun. I love the life of Buromertown, when whistles blow at five. And tollers with the 11 pe of song coma hurting from the hlvel I love the life of ftummertown, when Sat urdays at one The offices are empty and the holiday's begun! Oh, lasy. daisy Summertown, where les- senlug tiatfice reels. And labor rests a little bit. and slower whirl the wheels! I love the life of Summertown, with half the town away, And all tbe spacious steamers running round trips on the bay; Wtith bloomy gardena open where tha rubber plant and palm Give a gentle Imitation of the real old tropic balm; Where parka with globea are gleaming through tha sultry evening hours And the "vodeville" lights its tapers 'neattt the papier-mache flowers! I love the life of Summertown, with win dows boarded tight. And all the happy people far away tn lanes of light; I love the Blackened purpose and the let ting down a bit Of grind and strews and struggle, with Its valor and Its grit, Tha whistles sounding early and the tolling throng set free With time to pluck a blossom or to dream beneath a tree!