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1 -1 J! ? HE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY, JUNE 2. 1903. The Omaha Daily Dee FOUNDED BT EDWARD ROSEWATEH VICTOR ROBEWATER, EDITOR. Entered at Omaha Po.tofflc Seevind clas. matter. TERMS Or SUBSCRIPTION: pally B (without Sunday), on year..M W Dally Bee- and Sunday, on year J 00 Bunday Bm, ona year J Saturday Baa, ona yaar DELIVERED BT CARRIER: Dally Be (Including Kunday), per week.IRe Dally Bn (without Sunday), par wee. .la Evening Be (without Sunday), par waek to Evening Bee (with Sunday), per wek...lOo Address all complaint, of Irregularltle. In dellvary to City Circulation Department. OFriCF.8: Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha City Hall Building. Council Bluf fa IS Scott Street. Chicago 16 Marquette Wdg. New York-Room. 1101-1103, No. M vVeat Thirty-third Street. Waahlngton-7X Fourteenth Street N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communication, relating to newa and edi torial matter ahould be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Depaitment. REMITTANCES. . Remit by draft, express or poatal order payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only I-rent atampe received in payment of mall account. I'eraonal cherka, except on Omaha or eastern eaohanges, not accepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION: Ptata of Nebraska, Douglas County, aa.: George B. Taschuck, treasurer of Tn Hoe Publishing company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full ana complete coplee of The Dally, Horning, Kvenlng and Hunday Bee printed during the month of May. 1908, waa aa followa: l a.40 ie ae.xoo 38,680 S , , .3S.700 4 30,830 B ...36,860 3S,S80 7', 84,610 ,.38,370 38.1S0 10 39,300 11 38,350 18 38,310 13 ......38,180 14 88,090 !... 35,880 17 36,060 IB 36,830 19 36,960 SO 36,830 fll .35,930 aa 38,860 83 35,800 94 38,100 86 38.000 86 35,900 87 85,990 88 35,880 89 35,880 30 35,460 81 35,9M Totals ...1,130,690 Lees unsold and returned copies. 8,880 Net total X,X10,710 Dally average . , , GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK, Treasurer Subscribed In my presence and "worn to before ma mis isi oay oi J""". M. P. VAL,JvOxt, Notary Public. WHEN OUT OF TOWN. Subscribers leaving the city tem porarily should kt The Baa mall te theam. Address will b chaaged aa ! as relocated. The Iowa primary contest Is now up to the battle of the ballots. Won't someone please remind the weather man that June is here? "More Gould Troubles" la the head line In a New York, paper. Railroad or family? - . Jv Mr. Carnegie Is now writing poetry, He may have the satisfaction of dying a poor poet, if not a poor man. It begins to look aa though the cam palgn fundi this year would be com posed largely of emergency currency. It Is only natural that Senator-to-be Cake of Oregon should be accused of having used dough in the primary fight. 8enator Foraker may now have some difficulty In maintaining his member shlD in the association of headline hunters. Oklahoma and Texas are both very wet states Just now, In spite of the fact that moBt of their counties have gone dry. Secretary Wilson announces that the outlook is particularly promising for all kinds of , crops. The speech crop Included. Mayor "Jim" declares that It he had had 116,000 more Berge would have been elected governor of Nebraska In 190i. How? All the billboards in two Oklahoma cities were wrecked by a recent storm The news should come under the head of "Public Improvements." A German professor says that An drew Carnegie does not use good Eng lish. Perhaps not, but he can count on bis money to talk fluently. Hearst is gaining In the recount of the mayoralty votes tn New York, but he doubtless hopes he will not be elected before his term expires. Commercial reports from all parts of the country Indicate that there will be precloua little Inducement for the emergency currency to emerge. A Philadelphia man has been sent to jail for stealing a street car. He should have incorporated himself and taken the whole street car system. Most folks will want a good deal of salt served with that story of Hetty Green having spent 120 a plate for a dinner to a select few of her friends. "Men should be as honest la poll tics as they are la business," declares a New York paper. Most politicians are just as honest as most business ien. Kebraska yields the long distance talking championship, which It has held for fifteen years, but it will not promise not to try to recover It at some future time. The failure of congress to adjourn in time forced several senators and representatives to put their Memorial day addreaaea in cold storage. But there will be other Memorial days. "It Bryan Is elected," says the Mem phis Appeal, "Governor Haskell of Ok lahoma will be made secretary ot state." It it high t'm to have a re union of all the men who have served la one or more of Bryan's cabinets. A democratic dilemma, By his record-breaking talk. In thement printing office at cost and de- senate against the adoption of the emergency currency bill, Senator 1a bii. u haina- hailed by democratic organs aa a champion of the people, a man with the courage of his conviction, fighter against the aggressions of the money power, a republican worthy of ' V, , ' , democratic admiration. But they do not venture to explain, why, if his cause waa Just, the democrats in the senate failed to confe to his support . at me critical mouicui. oi Democratic acclaim Of La Follette S bravery and courage and independence ,. .... m.r r Mm I would doubtless appeal more to him If he could forget that at the final test, when he looked around for volunteers to fill the breach he had made by his daring charge, he found himself practically alone. No help of BPending that $15,000 sent to Ne any kind was proffered except by braska by the democratic national 'Qum Shoe BiU" Stone of Missouri whose sincerity In the cause was never free from suspicion and by the vener- able Gore of Oklahoma, blind of eye and physically Incapable of carrying on the assault. The brainy, resourceful pugnacious Culberson of Texaa, leader of the senate minority, had retired to hold communion with the commissary department The fiery Daniel of Vlr- glnla was asleep in hia tent. The beauteous Bailey was In Texas or on the way. The learned Rayner oi Mary- land was writing a letter of sympathy to Colonel Stewart of Fort Grant. Arli. The quarrelsome Money of Mlsslsslppl was preparing a treatise de- fending southern laws, disfranchising the negro. The pitch fork-wleldlng Tillman was on his way to Europe, Those famous democrats.Jiacon, Bank- head, Martin, Paynter 'and "Fiddlin1 Bob" Taylor had accepted pink tea en- gagements, leaving the WiBconsIn AJax to lead the forlorn hone alone. ... . . . : . . Deserted by the men who had cheered him on at the start, La Follette gave way only when his voice broke at the . uujiBioBue ui me uneven, connici. It remains for the democrats to ex- - 1 Plain their failure to follow the flKhtluK La Follette. They can not base it on morai oojecuon 10 a iiiiDuster, ior naa not the democrats been playing at fill- buster for weeks in the house? They can not argue acceptance of the cur- rency bill, for most of them voted against it. Apparently their only ex- . pianavion is mat mey carea. notning about the merits of the measure be- yond the possibilities it offered them to manufacture democratic campaign thunder If the democratic ,eaders insist that Senator La Follette was right in his fight against the meaaurn. they convict themselves of cowardice by their recorded failure to rally to his support rosTAl, SERVICE 1MFROVEMESTM. Tn annnnneln. V... HaplaiAn -."a ".v... l" "'x I the evening delivery of mall In New York City Postmaster General Meyer very frankly nolnta out our ahortrom- . In mail ' r- k. ,7." - ' " i American Cities 88 compared With the European capitals. Ha Bays: The postal service In our tare. rin.. i. not what It ahould be. and la not ud to the tandard of London. Pari, and Berlin in London one can write a letter and get an answer the aame afternoon. In Pari, and Berlin they have service, which are almost aa expedltioua aa the telegraph In this country The noatmastnr irnnoral'. -,i,i.i.m ""'ulu I ftf II.. l A 1 will be recognized aa just, but condi tlons are radically different In Eu opean capitals. Most of the large European cities are compactly built, many Of them With a population of 1,000,000 or more covering a smaller . , ...... I area man is inciuaea in the mail de- livery district In Omaha. The service, too, has been established for many years and more closely adapted. through experience &nd experiments. to the needs and demands of natron. General Meyer's strictures ' however ara welcomed a w . are welcomed, as they carry the lm- pnea assurance on his part of an ef- fort to supply existing deficiencies and make every possible improvement in our postal service. He expresses his wish to have the American city dellv- erles Improved to the European stand ard. The program la one nf nm. 1 j bv- ..v I I" -.!: ' "U la: PUDUC WIU P predate every step of the department in that direction. Paddixq the record. Members of both parties in the house at Washington united, in the Closing days Of the session. In per- peiuaung one or me anuses long prac- tired nn tho nnhllo tiir vt,.rii.. u.... f n,in . 'h . lu'r, . 7 to print speeches In the Congressional Kecora ror rive days after adjournment, Thla means that every congressional dlatrict In thA ronn.rv win Ha : , " T "wu"u uuiius vue coming campaign with speeches never delivered, but prepared solely for use aa campaign rlnnimmi. v k,, K. . .. ' The chief objection to the leave to print plan Is that it allows members Of congress to insert in the official record "whatsoever they may evolve out of their Inner consciousness" and these rulminatlons go to the public without the answer and challenge that would have met them Jiad they been uttered In debate on the floor. The plan violates parliamentary privilege. Is unfair to all sides and calculated to mislead. Durfng the session of t-;i gress, a member vs frequently alio to to extend my ri'narks In the 'Record." j and this privllf f. s generally abused, i although other members have tiwh recourse and ail, opportunity to rtjly to speeches prlnttnl under such toadi tlona. There Is no r Lance, however, to reply to speeches prepared and piluted after the adjournment. ' Another objection to the system is the needless expense It entails upon the government. Copies of the Con gretsnlonal Record containing thoae speeches are furnished by th govern-1 hirered by the thousands or hundreds cf thousands to rnembera or to cam- nalm mmmlitMa Tona nf thla campaign material are sent out under the franks of members In every cam-1 palgn and the government pays fori distributing them. Each year the . . , . . postmaster general files figures to prove that If the franking privilege were abolished the Postofnce depart- ment would be self-sustaining. Instead ' uavwg w muei in idbuii osiiqi oi from f 10, 000, 000 to 111,000,000. TTTrrzZTZZZZTZ ... r . - , .,,,.-.. wbat became of tbe moseyI Mayor "Jim" graciously comes to the rescue of Brother-ln-Law "Tommy" Allen by assuming to him- 8ej au tne prestige of getting and committee In 1904. Mayor "Jim1 8ayg that the money was paid In three installments through Brother-ln-Law Allen and that It was all spent In the Btate campaign, "not one penny of It going Into the national campaign or to Mr. Bryan." The first question that propounds itself Is, What became of the money? if it was spent for legitimate cam- palgn purposes, why should it not have gone to the democratic state commlt- tee and been accounted for the same as other campaign contributions used ,n behalf of the democratic state ticket? Why should the money have been paid out through Mayor "Jim" unless it was to be UBed In places that would not seem proper for the state committee to put It? The second question which pro- pounds itself Is, Why did not Mayor "Jim" comply with the law requiring him to file a sworn statement of the recelDt and exnendlturea of hl Mm. . ' palgn fund? Mr. Bryan and hie fellow democrats have been prating loud about campaign publicity, but here we - . . .. nave Mayor Jim coniessing to tne I handling of a $15,000 pot and keeping I it dark in defiance of our state law In. tended to provide publicity for this very ining. If the money went through Brother- In - Law Tommy Allen's hands surely Mr. Bryan must have heard about It, Mayor "Jim's" assurance to the con- trary notwithstanding. But even If I ne Knew notning aDOUt It at the time, he knows about it now. Here Is a chance for Mr. Bryan to put in prac- tlce what he is preaching on campaign publicity by ,nslstlng on Mayor "Jim" filing his account even at this late day. If the award of the Iowa senator- ship were to be determined by the country at large Senator Allison would unauestlonably be returned bv an overwhelming vote in recognition of ki. i a ciuucui ocmw as b ua- tlonal lawmaker and . Governor Cum- mins out on the waitinr list. The nut- rnm. however will h rf,,mi,t J ' k,." ...i"?? bivuv uj mo iuuui-.u 'uwnui ", where factional lines have been BO Strongly drawn that both Sides Claim ho nnneHon t i . j ,vi v.. - A. . ' ... . " T"' luo u"uul 01 ln OB1JO" maKe certa,n tne winner. The Charleston News and Courier, admittedly one bf the ablest demo- " ' . buiobs aemo " ouum, h;i. We Delleve that nine-tenths of th. nAnnl I ... . . In South Carolina without respect to their political predilection, will rejoice with tha jsews ana courier at the dawning of the "7- ..H.lntir ,..., rf. .111 1 . 1. . i , , I him is that ha la tha mo.t Doouiar e.ndi. whom the republlcana can nominate. " w,n te,t Mr- Taft' courage to go t A, - - m I i""""1"" " cueeriui wnen ne Know tn'i the political enemy reela iD wy toward him. . . ...... 1UBr" ro 4 ol cmiaren anv- lag automobiles through the crowded 8treet of Omaha. They ought to be absolutely disQuallfled from assuming t. u j .uUUuB uca m- Chines with or Without the consent Of their parents. The danger to the nub. Ho is even greater than the risk to the l" luo I Brigands are Bald to be lying In I urai in CM.a.i. ,kA Ubm, xr t. a. i ..en lUfl IU Paris automobiles. Still, those auto- moouisu wno paid the toll when In- dlana farmers dug them out Of the tnnw drlfta will nor r.. M.hton , . . . . anyining oioenan nriganas may do. OI course, the result Of the Chicago convention has not been absolutely set- tied, but It Is a safe wager that Mr L ..' ... . .. 1 V U 1 yacBUOn aummer at Murray Bay. Canada, as haa been his custom. , Tr .w. x. " . - "o Jim is also lo nanaie tne J3.600 which will be produced by the assess - ment on tha N'ehrauli lialontu ... . it .. alternates to Denver if they all re- spond to the touch. - And t0 thlnk ot tnat 115.000 of d Parker-Ryan-Wall street money as BDent mrougn aiayor Jim ana Brother-ln-Law "Tom" in a vain effort t0 elect Kerormer Brge governor of Nebraska. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw Is to receive 11.000 a month aa a aort of voluntary alimony a. long as she behaves her- self. Aa long as She behaves herself she Will not need $1,000 a month, even in New York Governor Johnson won all hearts In Alabama," says a Tuskegee tele- gram. Perhaps, but he failed to win even a majority of the votes, so the neart narvesi win not neip mm any at Denver. Mr. Bryan's official press agent an nouncea that enough returns are In to make It certain that his chief will be nominated on the first ballot at Den ver. He evidently does not take Into account the possibility which Is wor trine - the democrats World-Herald. that aome of the delegates may violate thetr instructions. f ' Plttaburg Dispatch, our w.tw.y, w.re aU ,mprov.d the railways might b a little lese confident about putting up rataa because tha country not 'urnl,h tr"K nouh t0 ,uU them. . Sh is AH Right. Chicago Newa. I JJPl ln" pessimist ana mo luiuiy I'pnwu L. ..... . .. ... ,.. ,.. they will. All tha rest of tha world. In- eluding the dressmaker, la lost in admira tlon of her- What's tha I act Tha situation Is this, simply this: Mr. Bryan cannot be elected, and Mr. Bryan will not allow any other democrat to be elected. I And after Bryan the deluge. "'" apitfram. New York Evening Post. There la an old Latin epigram descriptive oi tna growin or the Austrian empire wnicn runs, - wars let other nationa wage, inou, Austria, are lucky In marriage. But oi late years Austrian archduchessea nave been proving the epigram falae. Something- to Rank On. New York Tribune. The preaident of a Chicago bank says that ft" Hening to Mr. Bryan a remarks "tZX. that the orator h(ld th9 slightest concep- tlon of what a bank deposit Is." Can it be tnat Mr- Bryan keeps, his lecture tour re celpta In a stocking under his bed?" THE GREAT PRICK WE PAY. What the Celebration of July 4th Costa in Life and Limb. 'CVnlurv Mae-nzlne. The fitting celebration of Independence y l question on which patriotic Amer- i.n. or. u.,.i . n wldl dlveri nt ,. ,,min(, ., it nuaht to be observed aa noisily aa posaible, the other believing that our uatlor.al birthday la too . . k .-,,i hw in " . And Hf.nvriA nf m , a. w a lrnnw fnnr ",. ' . ' ,,,..,. L.k..,. .!,., I tolerate it themseKe., and escape to the i"u' iu i" Z!!:' T" 1 "Zw.1 including the smairboy, and the big boy. too, is heedless, if not ignorant, of ail that our n01""1 stands ror. ani minus cr it " " . w"c" im,m" ' e unreBiraiutJu. The figures which Indicate the price that Py for each of our yearly celebrations ,re ,0 PPallln8 that one would suppose a IrdlPrr!,' trr annua! Z. For the last five yeara the journal of the American Meaieai Aasociation naa enaeav "It ".1""?". -.r. h. W an(j human usefulness; and although these are admittedly incomplete compiled, as they are, almost entirely from newspaper reporta Instead of, from records of hospl- V dispensaries ana pnysicians-iney from tha ETaveat doss ble arraignment or I the recklessness which is willing to pay 1 ... uch P"ce for 'Jolly day. Tney anow that during the celebration or live national birthday., from 1903 to 1907. Inclusive. 1.153 cenoni were killed and Z2.G20 Injured, or I the Injured, elglt suffered total and 19 Partial blindness: SS) persons lost their arma, legs or hands, ana l.tm losi one or more ringers. Jiui these ngures, startling a, they are, convey only a faint idea of the Buffering, both physical and mental, which went to awell the total cost of these flve holiday.. In thi. we must also In- C1Uae e "na OI,en ,no""'"; anKUlsh 0l tne injured, the suspense of en- Ure famnies while the late or soma lovea V. . l th. hsIanM- th. bnrrnr nf a future of sightless years, the pinching pov- . - I erty now the lot of many because of the death or maiming of the breadwinner. iiov.1t all camb about. Orll and Development of a scheme . , , " .M ku HIV iriCllUB Ul POtl ntBIJ a.v " ....a Hng over tno way William J. Bryan did not embarrass their hero on the subject of pub- neity ior campaign contriDuuon. in. siory Senator Burrow., chairman of the aenat. commUtee on prlvege, and elections, and how the letter rame to be made pubiio, is not without interesting details. About three week ' Pernr Bolmont- wh0 u at the head of an organi.ation deeply interested ln ,ecuring legislation providing for the publicity of contribution., called on the secretary of war and .aid to him: Mr' lK " .7 , you " , un , ,, Ject of publicity for campalng contrlbu- "I'm fir It." aald tha secretary of war. "Then why don't you write a letter to flonatn? Ttiirrnws savin as much." said M? Bf.mont: I I ea, i win au wmi, repucu mi. a a. i.. The letter waa written that afternoon Mr. Taft marked It personal, because he did not desire to be put in tne awituaa ot orn- dally or aeml-officially requesting leglsla- .. ,, fh. .h.,t n( nubllcitv for contrt- hutlona. 1 A few day. after the letter had been written, Mr. Belmont whispered Into the I ear winiam k. enanaier, rormer senator from New Hampshire, that Mr. Taft had written .uch a letter. Here wa. a great opportunity for Mr. Chandler to get in some of the fine work for which he is noted, and o he went straight away to the capltol and finding Senator Burrow. ,aid to him: I ! understand you have a letter from 1 Secretary Taft on the subject of campaign I contributions. Senator Burrow, evaded giving a direct aniwer by uyln( that h. had received no official communication of any kind from the aecretary of war. Mr. Chandler then sked ,r he h,d recelved a P"0"41 Burrow. repUed that lf ne had r.celveii a personal letter it was a matter between Mr. Taft. By this time Mr. Chandler felt that ha waa after big game. Tha assumption was that Mr. Taft haa written an evaalve let ter to the chairman of tha committee on I privilege, and election., that he had gone on record aa favoring publicity for cam- J,t electlon Bo th fonner aenator frora New Hampshire got busy. Someone got in I communication with William J. Bryan, od aa a result of tha auggestlona made, tha candidate ior tne democratic nomina tion unl Vfr Taft th t1frflrrjkm AlisKpjitlnff tnat the two ,eadn, candidates for th. presidency Join hands In favoring publicity, Peraon. who had a part in getting Mr. ,h ' m.. . h. n,, of war: and great wa. their disappoint- ment when Mr. Taft, In answer to the Bryan telegram, made public tha letter he had written to Senator Burrows a letter In which he cams .out flat-fooi J" a publicity law, BOrm ABOUT JfEW YORK. Ripple on the t'arrmt of Llfa in the Metropolis. The biggest clock In the world la ticking tn aecnnds. rolntlng the r8lng minutes nt otha'to'wer o7a "actor? Jersey City, It can be Been and the time noted from the New York side of the r,v"- Heretofore the vv.stmir.ster dial. on the Parliament building In London held the rord abroad, with diameter of twenty-two and a half feet and an area of square feet In thla country the dials n th rhifrhia city hall were the largest, measuring twenty-five feet across and havlna- an area of 490 sauara feet The Jersey City clock has an area of more than twice of cither of these, the dial being iniriy - cigni leei across ana lis aren i.i.m . ' . Th. ,,, .. ...n.v feet long and with its counterpoise weighs nearly one-third of a ton, while the ponder ous weight that moves the mechanism weighs Just 2,1X10 pounds and the whole clock approximately sis tona. Across the dial of thla clock twenty men of average size could- stand shoulder in shoulder. Instead of the usual transparent dial, lighted from behind at night, the hands are outlined with Incandescent lights. Brilliant red llghta mark each numeral and an incandescent lainn each minute mark Thesa twen,...four lncn,8 apart. Thus th d f ,, n nd travei8 twen tv.four whos everv minute, or more than nil a nille a dHV Twenty-five years ago there occurred one of tne wonders of the world. It was the opening on May 24, 1SS3, with a great dem onstration of the Brooklyn bridge. In com memoration of that event American flags were flung to the breeaes yesterday from the top of the great stone towers. For a few years after the opening wise acres, looking up from the ferryboats, held many conferences 'aa to how long the structure would last. They never dreamed that the, bridge could possibly stand the strain put upon it for a quarter of a cen tury. In fact, soon after the opening there was much discussion over what was termtd the "folly of permitting heavily laden wagons on the roadway. Whle the record of the number of persons 'crossing the bridge Is no longer kept, the number of trolley cars alone crossing gives a fair "... 71 ca n"w cross me orioge every oay boo each car seats ljtty persons; therefore the PanRers In these alone would be about 200,000 per day, or over 70,000.000 year. In the first year that the cable roa was considered enormous. The times lo twenty - five years Is the measure of the ,""01" ThTtootaiight ofWstTars at the New York tower cauaed a panto and a crush which resulted In the death of twelve persons. This Is the most ap palling of the accidents In the long life of the structure. J. P. Morgan, George Westtnghousa and several other prominent men have gone Into of th(j Hote, aotham Rnd not gaUsf,-d Wth the way thlngg WMe g0')n(? und(.f tne oM arrangement, have canceled the contract ,3' w report afloat that the real reason for the change waa that the lessees were far be hind In tha matter of rent and that rather than have tha arrears pile up to enormous figures the owners decided to run the hotel .h-m,ive. The rent of th. hotel i rso.ooo Th , t d n whlch the Gotham ,tand8 co8t tMt0nOt the hotei building more than ,2.000.000 and the furnishings J500.000, .,, fiKnimnn i .11 ' - xieutenant. Archibald Taggart. the big st pollcemlR ,n Nw Tork, six feet six )ncheB tall Bnd m n,,r.A .f,r twentv ver on the fore He will become a butcher. Taggart earned several medals for bravery. He comes of a Newburg family noted for the number and ,ze of tg members. There are eight gons Bnd ,hree daughters, whose total weight Is 2.344 pounds, an average of 213 pounds, and whose total height Is sixty- eight feet three inches, an average of six twJ ana a na.r inone.. ine ra.ner. now dead, stood six fet in height and weighed more than 300 pounds. The mother I. r,t a ,.ra trn mma - o - Two sparkling Sixth avenue salea girls seated themselves In an elevated car op posite two young broker, from Wall street. I washed my hair last night, Alice, and I can never do anything with It after wash It," said one. "That's Just what did," snld the other, "and I can't either." A pause. "It waa nearly 10 o'clock when I washed my hair last night, Alice, and since then I can't do a thing with It, tucking In some stray locks. "Well, that's Just the time I washed mine and I can't do a thing with it either." The two brok er, listened, as did all the passenger In the nearby seats, and there was scarcely another subject mentioned by the girls that did not end with "I can never da anything with my hair after I wash It Beaching their station, the two broker. arose to leave the car, and one, stumbling over the girls' protruding shoes, politely removed hi. hat and said: "Pardon me I washed my feet last night, and I never can do anything with them after I wash them." The car roared. Ella Van Dross, a young colored girl waa tried before Judge RosaUky in genoral sessions on the charge .that when Joseph Kayatt, a white man from Yonkers, asked ner in me nun vi cecum, avenue whether the Joneses lived on the floor above, she stealthily removed a pocketbook containing $10 from his pocket. The Jury deliberated only a few minutes and then returned with their verdict. The giri. mucn aisiui Dea, was iea w me Dar. The foreman arose. "We find the de fendant not guilty," he sold, As the late prisoner was turning to leave court Judge Rosaltiky called out: "One mo ment, Ella. Be careful not to let any mon suspicion fall on you, whether you are in nocent thi. time or not." "Oh, Judge," said the girl, "Ah nevah done It befoh, an' fo' de Lord Ah nevah will again." The Jury looked amaaed. "That'a one on you, gentlemen," re marked the Judge, and all the court room laughed. Kxtremely doggy women In New York fashionable aet have taken up with some thing new in the way of leashes. A little gold clasp fastened to the bottom, of tl skirt at one side is snapped into the rin of the dog collar. Two women with dogs attached were in one of the uptown depart ment stores the other day. Apparently th dogs had been broken to the skirt leash, for they trotted along at the side without once getting under the feet of the owne and without getting tangled In the crowd One of the women had her dog fastened to tho bottom of a long coat and this seomcd to be belter than the skirt clasp, althoug she had to keep the coat buttoned. A good many persons who saw the women won derad what would happen lf two of th sklrt-ieacnea aogs iook a nnuon m m It up. Morltera Flabberaaated. Minneapolis Journal. And to thltJt that five years ago some folks were saying Theodore Roosevelt wa. a nice civil service sort of a fellow, but didn't understand politics, DAINTY pastries, pies and desserts delicious, attrac tive, out of the ordinary are the pride of the cook who uses GDSWEGSGD 5S, For filling for cream, lemon, rhubarb, pineapple, strawberry anJ other fruit pies, nothing equals Kingsford's. It makes them delicate and delicious. Improve your cooking by following "Original Recipes nd Cooking Helps" by two cooks who know. Free Insist upon the old reliable Kingsford'l OiwegoCorn Starch. Pound packages, 10c. T. KiNGSFORO & SOH. C 3 WE GO. N. T10lll. tTMCN CO., toccussas FIRST OF THE DREADNOUGHTS. Launch of the Michigan Marks a err Era In the Mary. Philadelphia Press. With the launching of the Michigan In the Delaware river from Cnmden, the new nRvy" of the t'nited States enters on Its third stage. The first came when four cruisers were built twenty-five years go. The second arrived when the four battleships, which were at Santiago were planned and launched from ten to fifteen years ago. The third comes with the launch off the first all big gun battle ships, the other being bullfc In this city. With these vessels the United States for the first, time takes an even start with other powers In the naval race. When the cruisers were built, other powers had been launching cruisers for twenty yeara. Battle hips had been building as long when the Massachusetts waa planned. But the Michi gan repreaents the Dreadnought type, less than three years old, and the United States from the atart matchea any power In them but England. The Michigan Is not only 16.000 tons, and therefore larger than Ita predecessors and close to the Dreadnought at 17,900 would be as big If naval expert's advice had been followed but its battery Is all con centrated. Instead of guna of 12-inch. 8-Inch and 16-Inch it carrlea eight 12-Inch guns where other battleships as big carry four. Thla not only doublea the amount of fire on one vessel, but It Is .believed that eight guns firing together on one battleship can do far more than tho divided fire of four guns each on two battleships. No one has yet tried this in act,lon. At Santiago at point-blank rangea of under two miles no 12-inch or 13-inch gun hit anything, but a revolution haa taken place alnce then In naval markmanshlp. The Japanese ara believed to have used their 12-Inch guns with effect at Shushlma and began fire at a range of four miles. personal Notes. Perhaps President Talllere. will show Parla to King Edward the nxt time he crosses the channel, and perhaps he doesn't need to do so! The foolklllor anticipates a merry and strenuous three months as a result of the beginning of the open season for the fool who rock, the boat. Society in Kalamaioo delights In Inno vations. A shower of mud which de stroyed the bridal gown waa the parting salute given a recent bride. Rice was scarce and mud was plentiful. A Greek prince, an English duke and a French dukelet are browsing In the short graaa of greater New York. Father, of blooming heiresses have troublea of their own and there la nothing doing. Chicago get-rlch-nulcker. who put $6o0,- 000 Into a IlO.OOO.ono gold mine, haven't the consolation of an autographed plctur) of the artlstlo roper-ln. But the certifi catea are handsome -enough to frame. A most ungrateful desperado cornered in Tennessee, whose lawyer wa. unable to save hla nec) begged the Judge to expe dite his descent to the lower region, bo that he could "prepare a red hot recep tion for hi. counael." Paul Bartlett of New York has been given the. contract for th modeling of stat uary to complete the decoration of tha pediment of tha house wing of the capltol In Washington, at a fixed cost of 175.000. Of this sum probably $70,000 will be paid to Mr. Bartlett. The apread of prohibition had not made Itself manifest aa late at the end of last year, In a reduction of the native drink bill, according to figures presented by the American Grocer. It calculates an expen diture for the year of t13,J33.8U0 on beer, 1504,794,400 on distilled spirits, and $118, 466,000 on wines, or a total for alcoholic beveragea of about $1,466,5X4,000, compared with $1,450,855,400 In l!. The consumption per capita of distilled apirlts Increased from 17.53 gallons In 1!I08 to 1.63 In 1907, while the per capita consumption of beer In creased 1.04 gallons and of wines 0.12 gal lons. The use of tea shows a declining tendency, while the opposite Is true for coffee and cocoa. LE MAIRE'S LYROS is known tha world over as th only depilatory that will successfully temov Buperfluou. hair in thre minutes, leaving; th skin perfectly mootb and without th slightest uac ol redness or Irritation. LE MAIRE'S FRENCH BEAUTY REQUISITES " Lrrs f.rfliM Hair Himiwr).., SI- Hrsinl Shin 1.00 Vl.i.l Cl Cr .SO Crm Batrl i IntfUltl swSr) prtMt r.rm rit.it r i.ea Crsma A Ski ClMSM''- . . .1 IvikailM Oram Tbcy Charm and Satisfy Because They Beautify Th LB MAIRK CREMES ar mad from original French (ormulaa, and will NOT GROW HAIR ON THE FACE nor do thy fill up th pore lik th various grease cremee on tha market. Th nam L Mair i a guarantee ol excellence and purity. Maaafacntni by LI MAI RE COMPANY. Ckiu(. U. 9. A. Call aa tt a rree SaaiaJe a ts aire Hrsiaala Skis Paa at MYERS-DILLON DRUG CO., Sole Distributers. - ' leth taft rir&am 0trta, Omaha, Vtb. T.avwr. vt ' i I thy Sixty-six Years of Superiority ! i 9 on request T. PA!SIG PLEASANTRIES. 'Fortius knocks one at .very man's door." es," answe-er. Mr. Slrue Parker, "but there are so many knoekera abroad in the land that it Is difficult to distinguish thorn." Washington Star. JudKe Remember, witness, you are sworn to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. WitneRf. juie. rm tryin my aurneu pt to do it, but that pie-faced slob of a lwyr over there won't let me! Chicago Tribune. iRome Was burning, but Nero continued to fiddle. Why not7" he said. "Hetty Green 1. enameling her face while Gage Park la drowning." Putting a little more resin on hi. bow, ha played louder than ever. Chicago Tribune. Sealing himself on the porch, ha wiped his perspiring brow. "I am going to ask you the old, old ques tion," he said to the girl at hi. side. "Never mind asking It," she said, wiping her brow In turn. "Yes, it 1. enough for nie." rhlladellipia Ledger. "Wouldn't you call me a good gardener If I told you that I raised all the vegetables for my family In our own back yard!" "Nope." "Wouldn't you call that good gardening?" "Nope; that's Just plain lying." Houston rost. . Mr. YouiiRley I heard an awfully funny Joke today about an Irishman in an auto mobile. Mr. Youngley Yes, dear, I heard It. Mrs. Youngley O! you mean thing! I Wanted to tell it to you. It wa. so funny. Mr. Youngley Go ahead, dear; It will be even funnier the way yon tell it. Phila delphia Press. "Jane," yelled the poet, why dont you ,' keep that kid quiet? What's the matter , with It?" . , "I'm sure I don't know," replied his piitler.t wife. "I'm singing one of your lullabies to the llttltt darling." Philadelphia Press. "George Washington wa first In war?" "Yes." "Ond first In peace?" "Yes; and first In the beart. of hla countrymen." "Ita a good record. But I wonder whether he had nerve enough to be first to wear a atraw hat?" Washington Star. At last the entire visible stock of lumber had been used up. "What'o the matter," asked the father of a larga family, rwtth hstn the old wooden bedstead plied up in the attics?" Her was a practically exhaustless source of supply that nobody had thought of, and mankind eagerly adopted the suggestion and ran up the price remorseless on laa paper trust. Chicago rrtnune. OLD FRIENDS. Baltimore American; Soon, two dear old frlunds we'll welcome, vet friends who are evar young, Friends whose rare and wise condition. have been shown in every tongue, And who come about this season, Just aa do the birda and flower., And who help to brighten up a many of llfe'a dullest hours. We are always glad to see them, and wo greet them with a smile. Though in it maybe twinkle. Just a srark of harmless guile. When we know how on the problem, of the ege they will dilate, They are the college orator, th fair girl graduate. They know It all. God bles. 'em! a. wa knew it all before, When at their age we, too. wer full of wisdom and of lore, They're ready to fight battle, that th 1 world Is righting aim, - To win them, to bring out all good and crush out all tha 111. The world has waited for them true, with. i some impatient fuss i Just aa when we were leaving school, we' found It wait for us, .... And listened with restful aw wiuie loudly we did prate, ' When we were college graduate, or a fair girl graduate. And now we alt and .mile with an Indul gent pity's touch At tho hoys and girls, who are so sure they know so very much. And yet we'd miss their earnestness, their . eagerness to be Borne use to struggler. In the tide of life's hard human sea, Their bright enthusiasms, their big plana we'd miss them all. For we remember our own pang, when wa went to the wall With our reforms but cheer them, now, for really they aro great. The handsome college orator and th fair girl graduate. Han. WhlUMf ,tf , Nu4 iPrftl HarnlMt) fo uriin iff Tlnt.il Naa aJ LI). .11 Hair h Salp P4 ft) Ony Hair RMUftr lAftM 00 rio Cam) Pw4 Kim 4 TMU -,) "TW'rP''rts.ssi y I i .HI ; i
