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4 TTTTC OMAHA DAILY PEE: TUESDAY, MAY 12, IMS. The Omaha Daily Bee, FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSE-WATER VICTOR ROSBWATER, EDITOR. Enured at Omaha Postofflca a aecend claas matter. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Dally R (without Bunday). one year.. M J" Dally Bee and Sunday, one year 60 Sunday Bee, one year " 60 Saturday Bee, one year M DELIVERED BY CARRIER: Dally Bee (Including Sunday), per week. 15c Dally Bee (without Sunday), per week..lOo Evening Bee (without Sunday), per week so Evening Bee (with 8unday). rer week...l'o Addreee all complaints of irreiilarltis In delivery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES: Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha City Hell Building. Council Bluffe 15 Scott Street. Chicago HMO University Building. New York-Rooms 1101-1102. No. U West Thirty-third Street. Washlngton-725 Fourteenth Street N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi torial matter ahould be addreased: Omaha bee. Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or poa' order payahle to The Bee Publishing company. Only 2-cent atampe received In payment of mall account. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchangee, not accepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, sa.: George B. Txschuck, treasurer of The Bee Publishing company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally. Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of April, 1908, was as follows: 1 38,940 1 36.S80 36.BO0 17 36,600 1 38,790 18 37,140 4 37,010 19 38,960 B 38,800 20 36,820 6 37,080 21.... 36,980 7 37,040 22 36,480 37.040 2 3 38,880 I 37.140 24 38,850 10 37,080 25 38,650 11 37,090 2 38,800 12..... 37,050 27.. 38,780 II 37,340 28 38,930 14...' 37,380 29 36,990 1 37,130 JO 38,970 Totals 1,108,530 Less unsold and returned copies.. 11,341 Net total 1,097,179 Dally average 38,573 OEOKQE B. TZSCHUCK, Treasurer. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to befote me this 1st day of May, 1908. (Heat.) ROBERT HUNTER, . Notary Public WHEN OUT OT- TOffH. abacrlbera leaving; the city tern stormrily shoald have The Be anal led to them. Address will be ehsussjped as eftea aa requested. The weather man has earned a place on street cleaning pay roll. La Porte Is furnishing facts more strange than the regular output of In diana fiction. Admiral Schley promises to be a good press agent for Omaha when he returns to the east. A New York man swallowed a watch spring and an administrator is now winding up his affairs. Republican delegates are showing a disposition to be for any candidate, so long as tho candidate Is Taft. j Dr-rr.ocrats have already decided that Mr. Dryan will carry Ohio'. He alwcj-3 dor3. In the summer months. "What will bo the. result of the fleet's visit," asfcs the San Francisco Chronicle.' Headaches, for a starter. The railroad kings and high finan ciers are shouting, "Let us alone!" It Is an old cry with violators of the law. Mr. Bryan says he has learned to feel at home in New York. He is now anxious to learn to feel at home in Washington. "Nelson W. Aldrich is the only candid republican leader," says Colonel Watterson. The colonel means canned Instead of candid. President Roosevelt has been criti cised for speaking of "My people," but he has never been guilty of referring to "My congress." Minister Wu Ting-fang Is advising his countrymen to obey their wives. He wants to see the Chinese become more like Americans. Russia has bought five new battle ships and will begin to feel like a naval power as soon as It can buy some good commanders and sailors. The crop-killer is meeting all kinds of difficulties In Nebraska this year. Nature is apparently taking pleasure in killing the crop-killer. Speaker Cannon Is said to have for gotten all about a recent birthday an niversary. , The speaker Is Infringing on a feminine prerogative. In Philadelphia a marriage was caused by a cup of coffee. That's a reversal from the usual form where coffee furnishes grounds for divorce. Statistics show that 33,000,000 drinks were sold in Washington last year. Still, some folks contend that congress has cot been doing anything. Senator "Jeff" Davis should take notice that physicians have discovered a method of removing the venom from the tongues of certain dangerous vipers. A proposition to build a wall along ihtj bouudary line between the United States and Canada should not be en couraged. The tariff wall answers the purpose. Mr. Bryan may not go to the Denver convention, but he will doubtless have a trusty friend telephone to him fre quently as to what Roger Sullivan and Judge Parker are doing. Speaking of the signs of returning prosperity, a Paris cable announces that Mrs. James SUUman of Naw York bought thirty hats In one day from a Parisian milliner. THE DRIFT TO TA FT. The work of selecting delegates to the republican national convention at Chicago will be ended with Saturday of this week, under the rules adopted by the national convention. The re sult to date eliminates all question of Mr. Taft's commanding lead and the certainty of his nomination. Repub lican conventions will be held this week in Louisiana, Idaho, Michigan, North Dakota, Montana, California. Oregon, Washington, Texas and Georgia. These. states will add 138 delegates to the list and Mr. Taft will receive practically all of the delegates, with the exception of those from Louisiana and Oeorgla. The Georgia delegation will probably go unln structed. The California delegates may be directed to vote for the renom lnation of President Roosevelt, with Mr. Taft as the unanimous Becorid choice. The political developments of a month illustrate thfe drift of repub lican sentiment of the nation to Mr. Taft. The statement Issued by the managers of Mr. Taft's campaign on April 11 showed 231 delegates pledged to Mr. Taft. The statement issued on May 9 shows that Mr. Taft has 417 directly pledged, with a total of 554 assured, while but 491 are required to nominate. Eliminating all the unin structed not known to be favorable to Mr. Taft, the conventions of the week will place him with considerably more than 500 delegates absolutely pledged to his candidacy in- the convention on June 16, Even if the war secretary's following was not so large and en thusiastic, the hopelessness of the op position uniting on any other candi date would make his nomination cer tain. Some of the states that have instructed their delegates for favorite sons will, after the preliminary ballot, cast their votes for Mr. Taft. It is ad mitted that perhaps a majority of the New York delegates will go to Mr. Taft, after a complimentary vote for Governor Hughes, who'l3 no longer seriously considered as a candidate for the presidential nomination, having practically decided to continue his work as governor of New York for another term. The Illinois delegates, now pledged to Mr. Cannon, will prob ably be found voting for Mr. Taft early In the balloting. It is certain, at least, that they can not be trans ferred to the support of any other candidate. One fact, reassuring to the party, is that the contest for the different state delegations has developed but very little bitterness, and Mr. Taft, according to all present indications, will go to the Chicago convention as the presidential nominee,, supported by a party that is united on its policies and ready to do battle for the triumph of the party, under the leadership of the logical successor " of ! President Roosevelt. I.CRKAS1SQ RAILROAD RATES. It would seem hardly necessary for the president to bo called upon to deny the report that.through the Interstate Commerce commission, the administra tion has agreed to tho proposal of the railroad presidents of the country to allow an advance In freight rates, in order to reimburse the railroads for the losses they are alleged to have sustained during the recent Industrial and business depression. The asser tion was "made in the United States senate that such an agreement had been reached and even Senator For aker, who cannot be accused of being a defender of the president or his pol icies, took occasion to remark that the charge was silly, because the entire policy of the president had been di rected to a reduction of freight rates, rather than to an increase In them. Mr. Franklin K. Lane, a member of the Interstate Commerce commission, has also denied the report and coupled It with the intimation that the com mission has found nothing in the rep resentations of the railroad kings to Justify their plea for the privilege of advancing freight rates. The railroad presidents appear, how ever, to have decided to increase freight rates about 10 per cent, al though no time has been announced for placing the new rates Into effect. They estimate that the Increased rate will add about 1200.000,000 a year to the railroad revenues and they insist that they must have this additional In come or cut wages or go into the hands of receivers. It will be difficult to convince the shippers that it is not a mistaken policy for the railroads of the country, or any Important part of them, to Join in an advance of rates at this time. While the railroads have suffered losses from . the depression that has prevailed in commercial and industrial circles, they are no greater sufferers from that cause than are the manufacturers and merchants and the laboring men who have been thrown out of employment. An at tempt to secure relief by advancing freight rates would only make matters worse and would retard the revival of activity instead of encouraging it. The surest way to relieve the business depression is to have its burdens shared as equally as possible, instead of throwing them all on the shipper and the consumer. Railroads have already reduced ex penditures by laying off workmen, de ferring Improvement plans and by other methods and they must continue this policy, tnstead of increasing charges, which would be the surest way to continue the depression and re tard the return to normal conditions. There is no place In the whole network of business where an increase of prices will afford relief from existing busi ness burdens., .What the railroads might gain by an advance of freight rates would be at the expense of ship pers and consumers and against gen eral business recovery. Every ad vance in rates will Berve to further re strict the buying capacity of the pub lic and the volume of consumption, upon the Increase of which the rail roads must look for their profitable business. The dull days In the trans portation Industry will pass more quickly if rates are kept at their pres ent level, or even lowered. ttDERAh SECRET SERVICE, Overzcalous democratic politicians in congress are making much fuss over the appropriations by congress of money for the secret service work of the government. It has been custo mary for the different executive de partments to borrow secret service men from the treasury department, from time to time, as their services, for special work were required. A pro vision incorporated in the sundry civil appropriation bllU now pending in con gress, prohibits this loaning of the services of the secret service men and has opened the way for a general on slaught against what the democratic orators denounce as "a spy system." They contend that the government has no need of a secret service force, ex cept those employed by the treasury department for the detection of coun terfeiting. Sentiment In this country is unques tionably overwhelming against a se cret service system that would, or could, be used as such systems are used In Russia and some of the older coun tries, for political espionago or for personal profit by high officials,, but there Is a strong suspicion that this new found opposition to the secret service system is based on other grounds. Within the last few years, the administration has been using se cret service officials to secure enforce ment of laws that have been long dor mant and the results have been very painful to some of the violators of the laws. For the fiscal year ending with last June, the government paid $66,539 for civil service men in the Department of Justice alone. These men, sixty three in number, were employed in se curing the evidence which resulted in the exposure of the land frauds in the west, the Standard oil rebate cases, the beef trust investigation and in other important cases that attracted the attention of the country and the prosecution of which has done so much to abolish rebating and bring the big corporations and syndicates of the country to an appreciation of the fact that the federal laws are to be en forced and the pubic interests pro tected and respected. In addition to the men employed by the Department of Justice, the De partment of State has had seven secret service men, engaged in diplomatic affairs; the Department of Commerce and Labor has had three, employed chiefly In immigration work; the War department has used four men and the Navy department three. The Interior department has employed a number of special inspectors and secret serv ice agents. It is openly charged In Washington that the agitation against the use of these agencies of the gov ernment has its support and origin among those who have been most keenly affected by the administration's activity in detecting and punishing vi olators of the law. A government espionage system Is wholly repugnant to the American spirit, but there should be great hesitancy on thepart of congress In reducing the appropria tions or placing restrictions on the use of a secret service for the enforcement of the laws for the public good. rUBLIC SERVICE PUBLICITY. The publicity campaign started right here in Omaha by our local street railway company with a view to getting in closer touch with the public is bearing fruit elsewhere as well. The United Railways and Elec tric company of Baltimore has Just concluded a remarkable series of ten bulletins, which have been printed as advertisements in the Baltimore pa pers, discussing for the benefit of its patrons many of the problems of street railway traffic and the relations be tween the public and the company. The Baltimore public service corpor ation has taken up in detail the taxes and other payments which it makes for the support of government in order to show that it is bearing Its full share of tax burdens. It has discussed the free transfer question and undertaken to prove the' value of this concession to those who pay car fare. It has exhibited in full its capitali zation account with comparisons of its own mileage investment and that of similar companies in other cities. It has analyzed in detail the popula tion, distribution and growth of Balti more, emphasizing the part the street railway has played in bringing about better housing conditions. , It has explained the difficulties of rush-hour traffic and the obstacles to uninterrupted service In stress emer gencies. It has uncovered the shady business of the "shyster" lawyer and false claimants, who endeavor corruptly to profit by he Inherent difficulties of transportation in a large city. Finally, it has tried to indicate how the company and the traveling public could be mutually benefited and has Invited suggestions, criticisms and complaints. What is the most striking about this publicity campaign is the different at titude it discloses on the part of great public service corporations than was taken by them as a whole up to within a few years. The managers of public service corporations are gradually re alizing that they can accomplish more by taking the public into their confi dence than by bidding defiance and re sisting every public demand, right or wrong, and they are also realizing that the best way to keep in touch with patrons and public Is by Judicious ad vertising publicity. "If we cannot elect Bryan, we can elect no one," says the Louisville Courier-Journal. "Mr. Bryan cannot be elected," says the New York World. "Bryan, if nominated at Denver, Is scheduled for certain defeat," says the New York World. "Bryan will be beaten before the polling places are opened," says the Brooklyn Eagle. These democratic newspapers seem to have a very keen appreciation of the Political situation. Colombia wants $10,000,000 dam ages because, it alleges, Uncle Sam aided the Panama revolution. Colom bia should file its claim against Wil liam Nelson Cromwell and the three members of the Junta who "aroBe as one man" and cast oft the Colombian yoke. Senator Bailey boasted that he would carry Texas by 100,000Nns a vin dication of his record and leadership. He Bcraped through by a majority of less than 16,000. A few more vindi cations of that kind and he will find himself in the minority. A man has been adjudged Insane In Washington because he tried to make a speech from the house gallery. He must have been crazy to try to make a speech from the gallery or the floor without getting permission from Mr. Cannon. "Our whole system of government is antiquated and utterly Inadequate,". says a Boston lecturer, who seems to be out of his element. He should be writing editorials for the New York Sun. The Methodist general conference at Baltimore will consider the "time limit" on pastors The question re fers to the length of the parson's stay at a church and not to the length of his sermons. Chicago is to have a conference of reformers who want better provisions made for the care and treatment of convicts. Provision for the better care and treatment of the wives and chil dren of convicts would also help. In spite of ordinances and warnings the automobilists are taking too many risks of maiming pedestrians on the crowded streets. Plans are apparently being laid for ha4ng the next automo bile show held in the police court. The nasto of a church at I.a Ind., recently commended Mrs. Guin ness as a woman of great courage and determination." Her Drivate gi aveyard proves it. A proposition has been made to print newspapers on black paper, uting white ink. It would be appropriate for the Commoner to try the experi ment in Its issue Just after election. A census report shows that wages are higher in Nebraska and other states in the( west than they are east of the Alleghanles. Come west, young man, and grow up with the pay check. Where, Oh Where f Indianapolis News. Only a few days ago the news came that we were to have a bumper winter wheat crop and now' New York has Jumped the price 3 cents because the crop is short. Where do' we get off? Jobs Await Him. Washington Herald. As strenuous as Mr. Roosevelt has been in the last few years It la aa nothing to what he will have to be if he does every thing he Is credited with an Intention to do Immediately after he retires from the presidency. Lares to Pass By. St. Louis Times. Persons of sound mind and a bit of ex perience take these matrimony notices for what they are worth and pass on, but there are, unfortunately, a large number of' per sons yet on earth who are lured by this cheap type of dangerous fakery. The Salrlt of Peace. Baltimore American. In the celebrations of Memorial day in Philadelphia public schools the orators will be cautioned against reviewing the gory details of battles of the civil war. This course Is to be commended. After all. It is the spirit of peace and rest, of which Me morial day is commemorative, of those who gave up their lives in the struggle, not the struggle nor its causes. Jeff as a Lightning- Calculator. Springfk-ld Republican. It Is always well to be exact In matters of fact. Senator Jeff Davia meets this re quirement without flinching in his calcula tion that the monopoly plutocrats have robbed the American people of $29,433,600,000. 080 mere trillions these are within the memory of living men. Jeff's method of calculation was thus expressed: "Adam, Indeed, had he survived till this day had computed 11,000 every minute since his ex pulsion from Paradise, must have HveJ 60,0"0 other years to have completed his task." Really, Jeffs closing curse, begin ning: "Go, damnable Imps of pelf and greed!" didn't do Justice to the subject. Rerklrsa Waste of Life. St. Louis Globe Democrat. In the last seventeen years over 23,000 men have lost their lives In American mines. The rate Is 3.40 per cent In the United States. In Great Britain 1.29. and in Belgium and France each less than 1 per cent. The showing on the railroads Is even worse. Proportionately aix times as many persons are killed on American rail roads as on those of Europe. It Is esti mated that 273,000 factory employes In the United Statea are Injured annually. In New York City alone the average of vio lent deaths has reached l.toO a year. In fire losses and fatalities a similar margin against this country is seen. A spirit of recklessness exists In these matters that demands investigation and action on the part of congress and every state legislature. "F1GIITIM1 Son" F.VAM' C A RFF.lt Last of the Civil War Officers to ep Aside. There Is no more Interesting personality In the United States navy than rear ad miral Rohlry D. Evans, who rounded out a notnblo career s a seaman by command ing the famous battle fleet In Its Journey from Hampton Roads to San Francisco. When his flag was lowered from the peak of the Connecticut last Friday, the first surrender In his enreer cf forty-five years was recorded. Rut It was rot a sur render to an enemy, unless we put Father Tlmo in that class. Singularly befitting his record Is the fact that it began with a fight and ended with a grand frolic In the Golden Oate. Evans was 1 years of age when he en tered the naval academy in 1SW. When the war broke out his family, being Virginians, endeavored to end his schooling at the academy In order that he might enter the confederate service. His mother went so far as to tender his resignation, but, later, it was withdrawn and the young midshipman graduated ahead of his time In 1SC3. He at once entered the service of the union and fought gallantly to the close of the war. The writer saw him at the naval review in New York in 1R03. and was particularly struck with his pug nacity of countenance and the halt In his walk. The former does not debar one from service in the navy, but an Impedi ment in the limbs usually means retire ment from the service. Admiral Evans Is an exception to the general rule. Thf Injuries which resulted In a misshapen leg were received in two engagements the naval assault on Fort Sumter in August, 1SV5, and the combined attack on Fort Fisher in Janunry, 18ft". He was an en sign on one of the ships attacking Fort Sumter and had charge of two gtins. A shell came through the porthole, cut a trench In the deck and broke his knee cap. He refused to go below to the sur geon. Stretching himself in the trench made by the shell he fought his two guns until the fight was over. Conspicuous gal lantry marked his action at Fort Fisher. By the toss of a coin he won the leader ship of an attacking party of 100. He was the first to mount the scaling ladder and reach the parapet, only to receive a bullet In the knee and three other wounds, and fell inside the fort desperately In jured and a prisoner. The following day the fort was captured and Ensign Evans fell Into the hands of his friends. For this action congress awarded him a gold medal, and a little later paid him the rare honor of continuing htm on the active list and exempted him from physical examination as to disability. Admiral Evans was for several years an Instructor In seamanship in the naval academy. Many of the younger officers of the navy were under his tutelage at that Institution and upon practice cruises. While he was always strict and often sar castic in his remarks to the youngsters, tie was at the same time xealous to make good officers out of them. An officer who was a midshipman under Evans Bays that one day at seamanship drill he, as a royal-yardsman, made an error In send ing down yards. Evans from the quarter deck ordered him to "lay fown from aloft and comb the hayseed out of his hair." "It was a pretty severe rebuke," said the officer. "Ha thought that his rebuke would do the work, and I am happy to say that it did." Admiral ' Evans was placed In command of the gunboat Yorktown In 18M. The vessel entered the harbor of Valparaiso when the relations between Chill and the United States were strained. It was here the admiral achieved the .sobriquet of "Fighting Bob." The Yorktown was small and carried but few guns, but what she lacked in armament her commander made up In nerve. The Yorktown was anchored directly In front of one of the water bat teries, a shot from any one of which would have sunk her. ' Shortly after the arrival of tho vessel the Chilians had torpedo practice. They had a number of small boats fitted with long arms on which the torpodoes were placed, and, as the only vessel in the harbor was the Yorktown they made her the point of attack, much to the displeasure of Admiral Evans. He stood on the deck for some time watching the maneuvera of the small vessels until he could stand it no longer. He then ordered the ship cleared for action and the guns were loaded. His cutter was ordered away, and he visited the com manding general of the city. He lost no time in saying that he wanted the torpedo boats taken out of the harbor within half an hour, and hs request was granted. Later on the Yorktown became the asylum of several political refugees who were wanted by the Chilian authorities. A demand was made for them and refused. Then the Chilians Induced the commander of ono of the European ships to inform Captain Evans that unless tho refugees were surrendered three Chilian cruisers would follow the Yorktown to sea and se cure them forcibly if necessary. Captain Evans consulted with the refugees, telling them If they wished to remain he would defend them while his ship was afloat. They decided to remain. Captain Evans informed the messenger of the decision, adding this characteristic postscript: "Say to the officer commanding the Chilian squadron that while my little ship might not last more than thirty minutes it will make a h 1 of a lot of trouble while It is afloat." Next day the Yorktown, cleared for action, steamed out of the harbor, with the refugees on board, but ihe CM1 an crull ers did not follow. From 1R93 until the Spanish war, Evans was captain of the Indiana. In lS9i he transferred his flag to the Iowa, which he commanded in Cuban water and drove the battleship Into the thick of the fight at Santiago. Shortly after the conclusion of peace he was advanced to the rank of rear admiral, and for five or more years he'ld command of the Atlantic fleet. Evans Is credited with being the author of several sayings of pictueresque pro fanity current in the navy. While at Val paraiso he is said to have informed the town authorities that if his sailors were molested he would "make h 1 smell of gar lic." In discussing the Chilian embraglio later with Secretary Herbert ho said it would please him greatly to "make Span ish the official language In h I for the next five years." Early In 1SD3 he rounded up a rartlcu''ly elusive Canadian poacher In Bering ten. Boarding the sloop Evans found the skipper wrapped with the British flag and fiery red whiskers. The spectacle r'led Evans and ho concluded he had run against a human pillar of fire. In addition to the luminous color Bcheme the skipper opened his battery and let go a volley of profanity that took Bob almost off his feet. Now, Bob has a pretty extensive ac quaintance with burning words, but the variety and plctueresqueness of the skip per's profanity convinced Evans that he was a novice by comparison. To give addi tional emphasis to his denunciations, the kipper gave an Imitation of an Indian war dance. The man continued to yell at such a rate that Evans decided to musxle him. Suddenly stooping he seize! with both bands a huge blubber fish that lay on the deck and slapped the Canadian with It fair In the face. The thing was of about the Consistence and pastiness of a '-' i ' ' If vnn nrm f J care what you J eat if '-..i V f 1 II Ik' I don't if care whether H it is clean or i don't care whether it con- jj tains any real nutriment or t not there's no use trying to I interest you in f hrcfidefl Wheat jf It contains the greatest amount of body-building material in a form that is easy to digest Try it for I breakfast. For breakfast heat the Biscuit in oven, pour milk over it (hot milk in winter) and a little cream. If you like the Biscuit for breakfast you will like toasted TRISCUIT (the Shredded Wheat wafer) for luncheon or any meal with butter, cheese or marma lade. At your grocers. Jellyfish, but the blow had enough force nevertheless to knock the hysterical Ca nadian British flug and all Into the water. A moment later, he arose, full of brine, sputtering and breathless to the surface. By the time he had been fished out and hauled aboard all his defiance of Bob Evans had disappeared. Worse yet, he had lost his British colors, and was quite con tent to listen to what the Yankee com mander had to say. WHY DATES WERB JTOT RAISED Railroad Presidents Feared Opposi tion of Shippers. New York Evening Post, May 9. In well informed quarters two reasons were given today for the decision reached by eastern railway officials at yesterday's meeting to postpone the proposed Increase in freight rates until after the presidential election first, the opposition of shippers, and, second, the arguments presented by representatives of some of the roads that the step would hurt rather than help busi ness. It was declared that there was no truth In the stories that the increase was post poned until October or November because of the work attached to getting up now schedules. While railway officials admitted that there was no signs of Immediate recovery In earnings, the consensus of opinion was that by November the necessity for in creasing freight rates will have disap peared. An Increase in earnings and a further reduction In expenses is expected to bring about the desired results. When conditions are favorable it is believed that a readjustment of rates in some cases will be effected. PEKSOM AI, NOTES. Secretary Taft is at Colon. There he may be expected to make a full stop. Harriman is asking for a loan of such size aa indicated that he intends to keep right on doing business. Dr. Robert Koch, the famous German bacteriologist, is In San Francisco, enroute for Hawaii and Japan, where he Is to pur sue scienticlc studies. Andrew Carnegie has given 200,000 to the Mechanics and Tradesmen's associa tion of New York City. This sum Is to be added to the endowment fund of the organ iiation. Mr. Carnegie has long been a patron of the association, which carries on an extensive educational work. All women love Samuel M. Foster of Fort Wayne, Ind., but they don't know It. Mr. Foster Is the president of a national bank, a life Insurance company, a hospital as sociation, an Investment company, a arge knitting mill and a heavy stockholder in many of Indiana's leading enterprises. He is a Yale graduate, a brilliant after-dinner speaker and a good many other things. But it is for none of these that he la so popular. Why, then? Listen: He invented the shirtwaist. a..,ir Henrv C. Hansbrough of North Dakota and Second Assistant Postmastet General McCleary, formerly cnairman or v.- hn. nhrarv committee, were pre sented with a set of engrossed resolutions at a dinner tendered them the otner even ing in Washington by a delegation of the i.. nf rVilumbua of New York. The presentation was in recognition of their efforts to secure tne appropriation uy mo ..nn,nt nf lioo.orio for the erection of a statue of Columbus In the plaxa facing the new Union passenger station in wasning-ton. A Sweet Vou Can't Beat T o "snW and They're best when made with COm SYRUP Delightful on bread. Best for every thing that's better In air-tight tins, Xlf You Don't Caro What You Eat- C . Crd ZZ not if vou sr i Wm LINES TO A LAUGH. "So you are going to run a strictly par tisan publication?" "I am." "What will Its motto be?" "All the news printed to fit." Philadelphia Frosa. "Why do you wish to be a street car con ductor when you grow up, my boy?" asked the minister. "Because they always have such nice, dirty hands," said the small boy who ob served things. Detroit Free Press. "Professor," said the student of psy chology, "how do you explain 'the gift of tongues' some people say they have?" "Some people lie," responded the profes sor briefly. Philadelphia Ledger. "Did you ask that man why he paid rent Instead of owning his own home?" asked ono real estate agent. "Yes," answered the other. "He said ha didn't. Ho kept moving." Chicago Record Herald. "George, you'd better speak to father to night." "Why, dearest?" "He's feeling unusually cheerful. The conductor forgot to ask him for his fare." Cleveland Plain Donler. "Some men," said Uncle Eben, "Is like an alarm clock. You knows dler remind ers is foil yoh good, but yoh does hate tl listen to 'em. ""-Washington Star. "Old skinflint bit the dust last night." "Why, Ixiw'd It-happen?" . "I owed h!m twenty and paid It In gold; 4 he hit it to see if it was good." Houston ToBt. Mr. Singerly Do you know that new tune ju haunts me. Mrs. Singerly No wonder after the way you've murdered it. Smart Set. "I knew of a tired, old brain worker who went to a photographer Instead of a doc tor." "What did he do that for? "Because he heard the photographer had a good head rest." Baltimore American. "Your friend Grlgsby Is a very queer and very inconsistent sort of a man. Henry." "How so, dear?" "At the base ball game today the crowd veiled to kill the umpire, and when I asked Mr. Grlgsby why they wanted to kill the man, he replied because the umpire was a dead one." Baltimore American. WHEN MAN IS USELESS. A man Is handy round the house Moat everv dav. as you'll agree; He's handy at house-cleaning time. At any rate lie ought to be. At canning time he seals the Jars, He'a useful summer, spring and fall; But on the day the seamstress comes. Then man is of no use at all. f A man Is never In the way When there are picture frame to glial His wife is glad to have htm near When there's a chicken coop to build. If there are papers to be burned. It's fine to have a man to call; But let the dressmaker arrive And man la of no use at alL Ah, yes, a useless thing J man When there Is sewing to be done; There's not a corner In the home That he may call his own not ona. No place for him to sit and smoke, I'pstairs or downstairs In the hall; He's Just a common nuisance then. And Is no earthly use at alL The woman folks are glad to see Him grab his hat and rush away When he la near they always act Afraid that he is going to stsy. They tell hint not to come for luncn. Nor even call them on the 'phone; When there's a seamstress In the house Man has to live his life aloTie. Just let a seamstress enter there And man is insignificant; He cuts no figure not as much As dons the family rubber plant. They do nut want to see him round. They tell him he Is in the way; He Is a useless thing, unt - Until the seamstress wants her pay. cincer bread? with a syrup on. J0c 25c, 50c CORN PRODUCTS MFG. CO. i