THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, AtTOUST 20. 1907. The Omaha Daily Bee FOUNDED BT EDWARD ROSE WATER. VICTOR ROSE WATER, EDITOR. Entered at Omaha postofflce as second cl matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, nelly Hee (without Sunday), one year..$4 00 Daily Be and Sunday, on year Sunday Bee, one year.... 1 60 Saturday Bee. on year LW DELI V BR ED BT CARRIER. Dally Be (Including Sunday), per week..lc Ially Bee (without Sunday), per week..l0o Evening Bee (without Sunday), per week 60 Evening Bee (with Sunday), per week. .100 Addreea all complaints of Irregularities In delivery to City Circulation Department Or-nuna. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha-City Hall Building. Council Bin IT a IS Srott Wreet. Chicago 1B4A Cnlty Building. New York-IMS Hom Life Insurance Bldg. Washington 601 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Cnmmurtkatlons relating to new and edi torial matter should be addressed, Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. . REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express ar poatat order psyame to Tht Bee FuMtaning company. Only 2-rent stamps received In payment of mall accountx. Hereon I check, except on Omaha or eastern exchange, not accepted. STATEMENT Of CIRCULATION. 8tate of Nebrsska, Douglas county, aa: Charles O. Itoeewater. general manager of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, rays that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of July, 1907, waa a loiiowa: 1. 98.840 38, ISO 38,180 34,800 88,840 88.700 8,480 33410 88,530 85450 87.870 38,670 38,630 36,430 36,400 88,700 33,400 41,370 8480 86,890 1. v. . . t ft. , . t tft.V 88,490 1 85,800 88,800 .,....:,, 88,810 10 ' 88,840 1 11 38,480 12 86,380 It 38,240 11 35,500 IS 88,780 1 30,830 ' Total 1,133,390 Leai unsold and returned copies. . 10,338 Net total...; 1J.L98 Pally average 36,183 CHARLES C. ROSEWATBR, General Manager. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to "before mo this 1st day of August, 1907. (Seal) ) U. B. H UNGATE, Notary Public. WHB.X OUT OB" TOWS. . abscrlbers leaving- the city ena Itorarlly . should hava The Be mailed them. Addrcaa will be chanced aa ofteai aa reqaested. Instead of flying over the pole, Walter Wellman Is still thinking over it The nobility in England has started a' crusade against tips.' 'The nobility evidently needs the money. Governor Sheldon hag issued a La bor day proclamation which reads as if he had really written it himself. Speaker Cannon has decided to tfet even with his doctor and the Tobacco trust at the same time by cutting down on his cigars to three a day. Secretary Talt came out of that Kansas wreck with no more injury thahv followed his head-on collision with Senator " Foraker la Ohio. The New York Herald is urging the United States to sell the Philippines. If Mr. Bennett feels that way about It he might put in a bid for them. The new Singer building in New York was planned to be forty-eight stories high, but the newspapers add a story or two to it every morn In 3. The local Ohio society is to be re organized. It is a trifle late to get any more Ohio men on the tickets as candi dates for offices to be filled this year. This agitation for a magacine with out advertising is all wrong. The advertising is the most attractive fea ture of many of the magazines of the day. 1 An eminent Russian official predicts that Japan would win in a war vtth the United States. In the light of re cent military history, Russia's .-ag-gerated notion of Japan's prowess is excusable. While insisting that Kentucky is the worst governed state In the union, Colonel Watterson is too true to his party to seek to remedy the condition by supporting the -republican candi dates for office. Mr. Bryan Is not-satisfied with Mr. Taft's policyiYWhen you come to think seriously about it, you could hardly expect Mr. Bryan te be, satisfied with any leading republican's) policy, jut at this season of the year. ' ' It Is said , that vagrancy Is costing the railroads of the United States about f25.0OO.O0O a year. In spite of the tramps, the coat of wrecks and fines for rebating, the railroads still seem to be doing tolerably well. As he Is coming home by the Trans slberlan railway, Secretary Taft ought to take' with' him that six-gallon din ner' pail presented to him by Kansas admirers. Eating stations are a long ways apart on the Tranasiberlan. Mrs. Yerkes has secured a divorco from Wilson MIxner and a decree of the courts prevents him from getting married again during her lifetime. It looks as though MIxner might be com pelled to go to work for a living. The fact that a comet Is visible to the naked eye of anyone living In Omaha wao is willing to take a look at It at 4 "O'clock la the morning Is still not an acceptable explanation for the man who stays out all night. The famous train robber. Emmet Dalton, Is promised the Job of running a hotel at Topeka, If he can secure a parden. He should not be pardoned Just for the purpose of allowing him to into the hold-up business again. FLACIXa THE BLAME. Wall street car suffered another blow, delivered this time In the house of its friends. Jacob H. Schlff, head of the International banking house of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., and recognised as one of the most eminent financiers in Amer ica, has filed a note of protest and dis sent against the chorus of frenzied financiers who have been making a concerted and determined effort to blame upon President Roosevelt the stringency that prevails In Wall street and the more or less unhappy state in which many of the leaders of specula tive Interests find themselves. In the course of a carefully studied Interview, at his summer home at Bar Harbor, Mr. Schlff says: To blame the federal admlnlHtratlon for the difficulties In which we find ourselves Is both thoughtless and unjust. Even If the excesses which the great prosperity of re cent years has had In Ha wake had been permitted to continue unchecked, before long a situation would have developed prob ably far more difficult and serious than the crisis through which we are now passing. President Roosevelt Is certainly not to blame for tho many abuses In corporate management which hsve devetoped and which he hss had the courage to lay bare. At present. It Is true, we have to suffer In consequence of the president's uncompro mising atttltude, but posterity la certain to profit by It This M bringing the Wall street chickens home to roost, although it may be embarrassing to some of Mr. Schlff's associates among the captains of Industry. He sprees with President Roosevelt that while the remedies pro posed for existing evils seem drastic and a little severe on the patient, their administration is absolutely necessary for the future health of the country. He Is not so happy, however, in his suggestion that the president should change his policy a little in dealing with law-breaking corporations. On that point Mr. Schlff says: it wotuu no doubt tend toward a re-es tabllshment of better conditions If prosecU' Hons were to cease, with the understand ing that violations of the law on the part of corporations will hereafter be relent lessly punished, both as far as the cor poration and Its executive officers are con cerned; that established concerns which for years have carried on their business tin. molested shall not now be sought to be dissolved, but that hereafter no incorpora tions will be permitted, which In the opin ion of the Department of Justice would even tend toward a restraint of trade and commerce. Mr. Schlff also expresses regret that "no effort has been made on the part of the government to reach an under standing with the corporations through which the necessity for these harass ing prosecutions may cease." The pres ident has made it very plain, In his public addresses, that proBecutlous will cease whenever the corporations cease violating the laws. The remedy lies entirely within the corporations, which have too long gone on the theory that a law passed by congress need not be heeded until some department -of the government should notify them that It Is to be enforced. . ... . Mr. Schlff's interview is a valuable contribution In that It recognizes that the administration is not responsible for the difficulties now existent In the world of finance. BCNCUMhK BVS1XESS. jlayor Dahlman has signed the gas bond ordinance and the democratic World-Herald takes this as its cue to prate about the fulfillment of "every pledge on which the democrats went before the citizens of Omaha at the last municipal election," ' which, It says, Is "a record to be proud of." The pledge, however, was not to is sue bonds, but to give the people dol lar gas, and while no one would wel come that consummation more than The Bee, we apprehend that before we are through with It the people will discover that the gas bond ordinance is simply another piece of buncombe business to put the city to the expense of some more high-priced lawyers without any tangible relief to the peo ple who pay the gas bills. - It will be remembered that the en actment nearly five years ago of a law for the compulsory purchase of the water works "immediately, If - not sooner," was likewise World-Heralded as a great popular victory, but that the only outcome so far has been the ex ploitation of the city treasury to the extent of $75,000 to $100,000 to pay salaries to a do-nothing Wajer board and fees to experts and lawyers en gaged to prevent the purchase of the plant. If the present gas proposition is of the same cloth with the "Immediate compulsory" purchase of the water works scheme of five years ago, as It appears to b. the hoasted fulfillment of "every pledge" by the democratic city administration will be taken at its proper discount by "the citizens of Omaha." DKCKASEt) friFrS' 81STKRS. . One of the most remarkable legisla tive struggles in modern history has been ended by the passage through the British Parliament of the bill permit ting a man to marry the sister of his deceased wife. For nearly a century, or, to be more exact, since 1835, the British law has prohibited such mar riages and the question has been con stantly and persistently before Parlia ment in one form or another. Books have been written on the subject and it has been a most fruitful source of sermons. ' editorials, cartoons and merry Jests, but the House of Lords has obstinately refused to' assent to the repeal of the old law, although the new measure has passed the House of Commons many times. The Idea thatNnarrlagea of this kind were Immoral came Into Britain with tho reformation and Henry VIII hav- Ing been one of the most ardent advo cates of the measure. In 1885, at the request of a favored duke who had married the sister of his deceased wife. Lord I.yndhurst secured an act of Par liament making all marriages with de ceased wives' sisters valid at that time, but making them Illegal in the future. The British clergy has strenuously op posed every effort since that time to repeal the Lyndhurst law. The arch bishop of Canterbury made a final Im passioned appeal against the adoption of the measure which has Just passed Parliament The effect of the new law will be far-reaching In England. It Is esti mated that about 1,800 suh unions are contracted every year and that about 9,000 children are born "Illegiti mate," under the meaning of the old law. The new law, which is retroac tive, will legalize all marriages with deceased wives' sisters that have taken place since 1835, although It will not disturb property which may have (hanged hands under the old law. In its, effect upon the life and morality of the people of the country the new law can not be other than good. A KEW DEMOCRATIC RICHMOND. Despite the suspicion that tho an nouncement that Tammany hall would boom Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, lieu tenant governor of New York, for the democratic presidential nomination was started as a Joke, some eastern democrats, probably spurred by their desire to find a candidate upon whom they might unite in opposition to Col onel Bryan, are beginning to sit up and take notice, as though they were prepared to accept Mr. Chanler's can didacy in all seriousness. One thing in Mr. Chanler's behalf Is that he has no public record that need be explained, dodged, evaded or forgotten. He served one term in the New York legislature without creating (any particular disturbance. His chief flalm to distinction lies in the fact that he was elected lieutenant gov ernor last year by a majority of 11, 886,' on the democratic ticket, while Governor Hughes, republican, was elected governor over William Ran dolph Hearst by 75,000. It may be explained that Mr. Chanler was per sonally very popular with both demo crats and republicans, while Mr. Hearst, who headed the Chanler ticket, had opposition in both political camps. Mr. Chanler belongs to the house of Astor and was born In Newport. He Is a veteran of the Spanish-American war, a man of great wealth, has traveled abroad, has written several books and Is said to be in line with some of the leaders of his party on national Issues. No democrat ever was nominated for president without more of a state and national record than is possessed by ;Mr. Cbanler, but there Jsj nothing in the law to prevent audi nomination. He has "carried New York," which Is always looked upon as a political asset for a presidential candidate of either party. The fact that he has the sup port of Tammany may be considered a handicap at the start, but the sup port of that organization is not to be scorned when It comes to selecting the New York delegates to the democratic national convention. The Chanler boom may be more important than It looks. It would be a good idea for Ak-Sar-Ben to adopt the two rules which have helped make the Gridiron club ' of Washington famous and which are an nounced by the presiding officer Just tefore the guests sit down to the ban quet: Reporters are never present. Ladiea are always present. If the Grand Mufti would make a similar announcement preceding the Ak-Sar-Ben exercises each week, to gether with a hard and fast time limit on the speakers, the performance would be vastly Improved. It looks as if the voters of this city and county would be compelled to wrestle again with the misleading and confusing rotated ballot. When a voter finds himself compelled to hunt for the names of the candidates oppo site which he wishes to make a cross he should remember that this devious device is t6 be charged up to the bril liant statesmen who form the Fonta nels machine. The Nebraska district for the collec tion of Internal revenue has Just been enlarged by the addition of the state of Iowa to the territory reporting to the office here. Omaha ought to be headquarters for every division of the federal government activity, and It will be if our representatives at Wash ington take full advantage of every point In our favor. Sir Spencer Pockllngton Maryon Wllson, bart., objects to the American custom of sending letters to strangers beginning "Dear Sir." He Insists upon being addressed as "Sir Bar onet." . That Is the only thing Sp?ncc. old boy, has done to warrant his being addressed in any terms. Secretary Taft eiplalns that the Oklahoma constitution is all right ex cept that It la pretty well filled with a mixture of socialism, anarchy and populism and might be rejected if presented to the president as the ter ritory's credentials for statehood. The deputy state food commissioner gives a good send-off to samples of Omaha Ice cream which be has been Inspecting and analyxing. That is comforting, although the Ice cream season Is about half over. " Next time he will please make his testa at least as early as the annual soda fountain openings. Mayor McClellah of New York de clares that the time has come to prac tice municipal economies. He made the discovery Just after he found tl;at the city treasury was empty and ibat the bond buyers refused to take any more of the city's securities. Omaha and South Omaha national banks have Just made record-breaking exhibits In response to the last call of the comptroller of, the currency. Omaha has a right to boast of the soundness and eonservativeness of Its banking Institutions. Cash on hand belonging to the city la the custody of . the treasurer amounts to over $1,400,000. The city must be the biggest contributor to that record-breaking bank deposit total dis closed by the national bank state ments. Training for the Race. Minneapolis Journal. Uncle Joe Cannon'a great act of cutting down his cigars from twelve to four a day ought to popularise him with those wives who can't see any sense In their husbands smoking so much. Benefits of Forced Abstention. Brooklyn Eagle. A convict, just pardoned, has served twenty-seven years In a state prison. He la 66. In good health and able to earn a living. The district attorney who prose cuted and the Judge who sentenced him are dead. Forced abstention from truffles and champagne haa Its advantages. The Straw and the Cocktail. Baltimore American. Someone has been mean enough to take a straw vote among the ministers of In diana to find out Just how Mr. Fairbanks stands after his cocktail escapade. There have been itmes when straws show which way the wind blows, but In this case It shows how the cocktail goes, or does not go, with the church people. Spread of Pnblle Intelligence. St. Louis Republic. The United States are now manufacturing and using paper at the rate of $188,000,000 a year, an Increase, according to late official estimates, of about 80 per cent since 1900. It is an enormous Industry, created chiefly by the Increasing demand for newspapers and growing with It, aa evldenoe of the Increasing spread of public Intelligence. No Room for Two Flags. Boston Transcript. While the Philippines continue to be an American possession there is no room, even In that vast archipelago, for two flags. The Philippine government has not acted any too strenuously In suppressing the display of the Katlpunan flag, which is less the emblem of the "Philippine Re public" than of protest against our rule. Joyous and Refreshing. New York Sun. It Is joyous and refreshing to hear Mr. Bryan, that stern apostle of the straltest sect of state's rights f men, crying out against centrallatlon. Mr. Bryan has grand centralisation plans of tils own, but they must not be confounded with those of the opposition shop. Id tits pathetic resistance to the other great conservative Mr. Bryan reminds ona of Mn-JeJromtah Fllntwlch, a peculiarity of whose -temper waa that he wouldn't be swallowed alive, -i Penalising Wrongdoers. Philadelphia Preas. The president's determination to punish wrongdoing by corporations with the min imum of loss or Inconvenience to the share holders Indicates that he would ratlter In most cases put the president of the cor poration In the penitentiary than Impose a heavy fine 'on the corporation, which would come out of the dividends of the shareholders. But the stock of the Stan dard OH company being largely held by the Rockefeller family and Ms associates In the business, a monumental fine upon the corporation will fall mosUy upon the men responsible for the conduct of the monop oly, and while the Imprisonment of the "Btandard OH crowd" would be Impressive, the Landls fine comes pretty near to an swering the ends .of justice. AWAY WITH WAR TOYS. 1 1 Banishment of Tin. Soldiers aa m Peace Offering. New York Sun. Oh, ye hard-hearted . toymakers of Nurnberg! Beware, mercenary and stiff necked generation of venders of play things! The wrath of Pittsburg falls upon you and the scorn of Boston's antl Imperialists Ilea in wait for you. Yet In the latter town there be compensation, for inasmuch aa you have refused to give over your pernicious practice of manu facturing tin soldiers for children to play with, you have ' shown sympathy for that Medford fountain of eternal youth with which Boston bedews Its Ancients and Honorables. The peacemakers have with alren voices called upon you to abandon the making of toys which may cultivate warlike tendenclea in boys. Tou have sternly re fused. The Ancients and Honorables ac claim you In toast and oag. You will continue to make and sell peashooters, leather helmets, lead swords and the thrice blesaed toy drum, whose snarling beat has through countless ages sum moned millions of families to Internecine war. You have realised that if you cease to make these toys the twentieth century boy will turn backward the pages of tho world's annals till ha comes to the pre historic chapter. Can you not aee him, marching slowly, but Inevitably to the rear along the path 1 of civilisation, abandoning the patent air gun for the old crossbow and that for the older simple bow and Anally arriving at the Javelin? Can you not picture him giving up the sword and the buckler of Richard Coeur de Lion for the plla and testudo of Sclplo Africanus and In but a little time coming to the good old club of prehistoric manT (Jan you not see him In your mind's eye chasing little sister around the backyard with a broomstick, and proclamtng In falsetto tones his un dying conviction that "Carthago (or some thing else) delenda est?" And what next? With piercing shriek and threatening arm the Infuriated mother swoops down upon him and snatches from him hla primeval weapon. At last he lsleft dependent on what a certain eminent orator once called thoae weapons with which God and nature had provided him. The still undaunted spirit of the warrior makea one last flicker in his breaat and he swats little sister with his flat ao that ahe falls to tha earth, and falling utters a sound, and darkness covers her eyes. But now the flickering Are burns low, and with one last sputter of mumbled defiance dies out entirely. The boy re tires Into a far corner of the garden and. seating himself under the shade of a tall -rose bush, proclaims In lordly utter ance his new faith: "Take away the tin sword. States can be saved without It." ROlD ABOUT JJEW YORK. Ripples on the Correct of Life In the Metropolis. There are picnics and picnics, mostly good In their way. some Indifferent and yellow, and each conducive to a voracious appetite. Rut there la no picnic In other sections of the globe like the political pic nlc which has become a feature of life In the metropolis. Usually a striking affair, the appetite brought Into action rivals tha swallowing of a late meal by the hungry denlscns of the soo. One of these picnics was pulled off by the Jefferson Tammany club one day last week. It was a picnic from the opening to the closing of the gates. Grub was free and there ... lid on the essentials. But th- feast waa u.-.ujeo. 1 wo nours beyond the appointed time, producing ominous murmurs of dis content. When the grub came t.OOO hungry mortals made a rush, and then there was something doing. One hungry son-of-a-gun called for a second helping, whereat a waiter tilted his nose. A deftly pitched piste caught the nose on the up course ana nattened It. Fifty waltera rallied be hind the owner of the squashed nose and cauerea crockery In every direction. In a second the air was full of grub, table utensils and hot exclamations. The mob rushed tho waiters Into the kitchen and out again, demolishing that flimsy strue ture as though It waa paper. A riot call brought 10 policemen to the scene and when they finished exercising their clubs fourteen picnickers were carted to the hospitals, four waiters went the same route and nearly every policeman lost a section of his coat In the shuffle. "The fight," one chronicler sagely observes, "took all the tuck out of the picnic." Flelschmann's famous "bread line" will soon disappear from Broadway. The bak ery which for many years has nightly given a wagonload of bread to suffering and starving pilgrims after the bells of Grace church next door tolled the hour of midnight will be rased In the spring and the bakery will occupy a larger and more modem building uptown near Central park. The "bread line" Is beyond a queetlon Greater New York's sweetest charity. Many years ago when Flelschmann, the wealthy baker, died a provision was found In his will that "no man ahould be turned away who asked for bread at my bakeshop." As a result the "bread line" was estab lished. The bakery Is located at Broad way and Eleventh street next to Grace church, with the St. Denis hotel opposite, and Wanamaker's store on the corner. At o'clock every night the bread line be gins to form and precisely at midnight a half dosen attaches of the bakery begin to distribute bread and rolls to sometimes as many as 600 men and women. And as these almost famished wanderers shuffle up to the door of the bakery with hat In hand or aprons stretched to receive a half loaf of bread or a few rolls there Is no better place In the world to study human nature, for the line Is a heterogeneous 'one every class and type of humanity la rep resented, from the professional yeggman and tramp to the educated man and woman who through adverae circumstances and drink have been reduced to poverty. William P. Holmes, a policeman of the West One Hundredth street station, risked his life the other night by walking from the roof of one flve-story building to another on a plank eight Inches wide to capture a bur glar, George Tanner, 18 years old. He was caught attaching a rope to a chimney on top of the flve-story apartment house at 82 West Ninetieth street preparatory to lower ing himself down to the windows of apart ments he wanted to search. Holmes got a board not more than eight Inches wide and perhaps ten feet long. He ascended the stairs of No. 80 and gained the roof. The policeman extended the board across the alrshaft between the houses and found there was a margin of only four Inches of board resting on each roof. He was Just preparing to walk across on the plank when he was discovered by Tanner. Tanner, like the villain In the melodrama, rushed toward the edge of the roof with the Intention of knocking away the board, which would have thrown the policeman to the bottom of the areaway, sixty-five feet below. Holmes whipped out his re volver and commanded the young man to stop. The order was reluctantly obeyed by the villain and tha hero walked across the board, landing safely" on the adjacent roof. Tanner had In hla possession a kit of burglars' tools. He was held in 13,000 ball for a farther hearing. One of the sights of New York, to be shown to every rural relative whether from Harlem or beyond. Is the new building which is beginning to rear Its forty-one stories far above the ruck of ordinary sky scrapers' roofs In Broadway. Each day, during the noon hour, the crowds that swarm In Broadway and tha nearby cross streets, standing still to look up under shading hands at the workmen climbing the slender steel beams, high In air, almost block the streets, sometimes requiring the services of several policemen to keep trsf flc moving at a regular pace. Many and strange are the remarks and comments heard by one who stands at the curb and watches the passing crowd. "Der piggest pulldlnk In der vorld." de clared the German to his friend. Just ar rived, "Ach, eighteen hun'ert feet, und dey pullds It by electricity." , Behind him are a pair from the country, who on the day before have toured the upper part of the city In a "rubber-neck" automobile and thereby gained sufficient confidence to venture forth unprotected. They stand motionless In the middle of Broadway, heedless of the Jostling throng sround them, she leaning on hla arm, ex changing comments regarding the height of the. building aa compared with the Bunker Hill monument. A rather Interesting case has Just been settled In New York and a form of order Is about to be Issued perpetually enjoining the Publishers' association from Interfering with the sale of supplies to the book coun ters of cut-rate stores and from discrim inating against their proprietors. The test wss brought by Mscy Co. because of the following conditions: If the retail price of a book Is $1 50 snd the publisher sells at wholesale for SO cents, the small or re tall delercan meet the Jobber's prices and atlll sell for a profit. But the large stores buy In Jobber lots and sell at retail, thus eliminating the middle man and sell ing at a good profit below the published retail price. The publishers undertook to protect the smaller book dealers by In creasing their own selling prices snd re bating to auch concerns as were not proven responsible for cutting rates. This would have worked except for the New York law against unfair trade competition and trusts and under this law Macy A Co. brought suit and won. The court of appeals has de cided In their favor and there la no appeal to federal courts, so the matter Is estab lished for the entire state of New York. The largeat flag In the world floats from the tallest building In the world. The bunt ing was raised yesterday In honor of Rob ert Fulton's great work to humanity to commemorate the hundredth birthday of the first steamboat. The flag. which was raised over the Singer building at Broad way and Liberty street, measures twenty nine feet by flfty-nlne feet and consists of the I'nlted States emblem on a ground of white. It Is known ss the pesce flag and wss raised under the auspices of the Laguu of Peace. It floats from the thirty-fourth floor of the Singer building, which now stands 43S feet from Broadway's pevament. Dr. Price's Wheat You cannot make good blood out of poor food. If you desire a healthy body you must have pure blood, so it is most important that the food that enters the stomach should make good Hood. Dr. Price's Wheat Flake Celery Food is a food wholesome, pure and nourishing, made from nature's productwheat. 174 PERSONAL NOTES. ' Mark M. Pagan, the popular and ag gressive little mayor of Jersey City, whb Is making a stand for l-eent trolley fares In his municipality, began his active life ss a newsboy. The only surviving veteran of the Mexi can war In Vermont Is John Merrill Good win, of Ryegate. Hla four great grand fathers served In the Revolutionary war snd his father in the War of 1812. The great-grandson of Robert Burns, the poet, has recently been acting as Judge of the police court of Louisville. His name Is J. Marshall Chatterson. and for many years he has been an attorney in Louis ville. The members of the family of the late Thomas E. Stlllman of New York, have presented to Lisleul, France, an addition to a local hospital where accident cases, especially automobile esses, are to be treated. The gift Is made In the memory of Thomas E. Sllllman, who died In the hospital a year ago. The 112,000 chimes presented by H. C. Frlck to the Calvary Protestant. Episcopal church in Pittsburg have been hung. At their first ringing on Thursday evening last the public were surprised to hear In the program of religious hymns such secular songs as "Waiting at the Church" and You Splash Me and I'll Splash You." Thomas P. Walsh, the" wealthy Colo- radian, and owner of Wolhurst. near Den ver, has made the fallowing announcement In his home papers: "We request our sporting friends not to shoot doves or any other birds on Wolhurst estate. They bring up their young on the grounds proper. They are almost domestic In their tsme ness, and are very near and dear friends of . ours. Bo we appeal to every local sportsman to spare them." Prof. Thomas O. Masaryk of the Cseeh university of Prague Is a visitor In this country, and will remain the guest of his son at Bridgeport for several weeks. He has become known for his efforts In behalf of Hllsner, sometimes spoken of as the "Austrian Dreyfus." Prof. Masaryk Is about fifty years old, speaks English flu ently and is welt posted on conditions In this country, having delivered a course of lectures at the University of Chicago Ave years ago. . , John Frits), Ironmaster and inventor, fa mous for his perfection of armor plate pro cesses, celebrated the etghty-flfth anniver sary of his birth at his home In Bethle hem, Pa., on August 21. He began life as a blacksmith In 1838, and In his long career has been Identified with almost every im portant step In the process of making Iron and steel, which hss resulted In an Increase of the American product of 1,000, 000 tons In 1828 to upward of 26.000,000 tons In lsOS. CATCHING AT STRAWS. Bryan's Criticism of President Roose- relt'a Speech., Springfield (Mass.) Republican. Mr. Bryan might better have left unsaid his reply to President Roosevelt's Province town speech. It only serves to portray the havoc which the radicalism of the new republican dispensation Is playing with tha radical democracy. The opposition leader emphasises par ticularly the president's statement: "I be lieve In a national Incorporation law for corporations engaged In Interstate com merce. Mr. Brran construes this to in clude railroads, and thereupon sounds the tocsin agalnat the dangers of centralisa tion. This is all well In Its wsy. but It cannot but be remembered that Mr. Bryan himself favors a federal license for state corporations engaged In Interstate com merce, and this Implies about as close a national control of corporations as would a federal Incorporation act. As mstters stand, however, the demo cratic contest of next yesr will not be with Mr. Roosevelt, but more likely with Mr. Taft, and he has said In regard to the control of railroads: "I do not think that In order to accom plish a good which the federal government with Its greater resources snd wider geo graphical reach can bring about more quickly and efficiently, the constitutional limits upon federal action should be blurred out or an undoubted federal power should he expanded by doubtful construction Into a field which realty belongs to the state." This Is accordingly a consideration of the rights of the ststes with which Mr. Bryan cannot easily quarrel. It is evident that upon the railroad snd kindred Issues he will have to return to state and national ownership In order to LACK MUSIC AND Is Your Home One of Which Boasts Not the If bo, why delay longer? Why permit your family to wish .for a piano and wish In vain? It's to your interest to make your home as happy aa possible. It's to your Interest to surround your wife and children with a bright whole some atmosphere. - No factor In home life is so useful In inspiring cheerfulness aa a piano, besides it is a mark or refinement and affords your sons and daughters an op portunity to acquire that without which no education can be complete, a knowledge of music. You are neglecting not only your own best Instincts, if you have not a piano, but stunting the personality of your little ones. A. HOSPE CO., 1513 DOUGLAS STREET WE DO EXPERT PIANO REPAIRING AND TUNING. Flake Celery Food create any very sharp distinction between the radical democracy and the republi canism of Roosevelt and his political lega tees. The present pronouncement from Lincoln, Neb., will prove effective only In strengthening the Impression that Bryan is very desirous of the next democratlo nomination. SMILING REMARKS, ' "Many a man." said TTrtcle Ebon, "finds It hard to realise dat dar ought to be any .. . . tt i, a huuu uii'na anu aa easy mark." Washington Star. "I ve got the moat saving girl I aver had. "Is that so?" "Yes. Only yesterday she: broke our best candelabra and at once suggested that we could use the cut glass pendants for paper weights." Cleveland IMuIn Deulcr, Mrs. White (svmpathetlcallv) So your husband Is In trouble again, Maud? Mrs. Black (cheerily) No'm; he's out o trouble dt-Bs now de scoun'rol's In Jail.-. I Oaddle When I saw him last night he waa painting up the town with all his heart and soul. Wise Well, when I saw him this morn .,r.,h5 TV reKrptlng It with all hla head. Pliiladelphla Press. Mrs Mommer According to this paper, boiled cow's milk Is not good for babies. Mr. Mommer I can see where the paper Is right. A raw cow gives better milk than a boiled one. Chicago News. "You don't seem to sympathise with Hopper because all three of Ills daughters have turned out so badlr." "No, confound him: He, used to spend most of his spare time telling me how to raise my boys. "-Chicago Record-Herald. "A dentist who wishes to change hla business ought to succeed as a real estate agent." "Why so?" "Because like a real estate man, he makea his living out of his patrons' achers," Baltimore American. "I suppose you ran for office because you wanted to serve your country?" "Young msn," answered Senator Sorg hum, "I never go out of my way to con tradict anybody. As a candid man I can only say that In auch a case you are entitled to your own supposition." Wash ing Star. ' "But what will you do," asked his con fidential friend, "If they Imprison you?" "If they threaten to do that.'" answered the financial magnate, with a frown. "I'll send orders to my agents to start the biggest panic this country ever saw," Chicago Tribune. Church That man is an end-seat hog, all right. Gotham How do you know? Church Because ha tried to get the end seat away from me. Yonkera Stateaman. "Have you any confidence In the theory that people think with their feet?" asked ope scientist. "None whatever," answered the other. "In this era of two-steps and rag time the Idea would be horrible!" Washington Star. Percy You didn't stay long in the quiet little town where you went last week to rest up. Gyboy Didn't stay long? I was there forty-eight hours, and there wasn't a blame thing pulled off In all that time but a teachers' convention, an auction sale and a prayer meeting. Chicago Tribune. VACATION IN TUB COUNTRY. Houston Post. I sought tall elms, Andjwplars tall, And for country ways, And I sought 'or all We've been taught to seek Where the fields are wide And the simple farmer And wife abide; I sought fresh butter, And butter beans. And roasting ears, And fresh beet greens And a life of pleasure And slothful ease. And for cottage cheer. And for cottage cheese. I thought of the morning And evening chores. And hearts thst were bigger Then all out doors, And a quiet nook, When the day was spent. In the shaded porch; And was well content With the thought of these, But I failed to get The things I wanted. And haven't, yet; The roosters awoke me At two a. m. How I raved, and wished For a plague on them! And the skeeters msde Life a poisoned wreck. And the bugs got on me From heels to neck. And the dog all night Payed at the moon. And the world was Crooked and out of tuns! And the farmer's wife. Such a sweet old thing,' Was a gossip rare, And her tongue could sting, And did, her neighbors Far and wide. Oh. Lord, how ahe skinned The whole countryside! YOU LACK WISDOM the Incomplete Abodes Influence of a Piano? . Perhaps you hesitate, believing you can not afford the cost. But have you thought the matter over carefully and have you Investigated? Do you know that the Hospe plan puts a piano with in the reach of all? A few tlollars down and a little each month Will buy one at our store. We have the largest stock In the entire wet, from which you can make a selection and in that stock are Included pianos made by the best known factories In the world. No commissions are paid by the Hospe Company and on each piano there is but One price. It means economy to buy of us because our prices are the lowest and our pianos the best. If you cannot call, write.