THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, AtTOUST 20. 1907.
The Omaha Daily Bee
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VICTOR ROSE WATER, EDITOR.
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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.
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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.
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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.
