Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, July 02, 1908, Page 4, Image 4
THr ' t Fl A DAILY BEE: THURSDAY. JULY 2. 1003. ' I Tiif, Omajia Daily Bee. FOINDKI) BT EDWARD ROBE WATER. VICTOR R08EWATEB, EDITOR. Entered at Omaha postoffice lis second class matter. TBHMS OF RfllSCRIPTION: Daily Bee (without Sunday), on year..H.cO Dally Bee ami Kundav, one year ) Sunday Bee. one year 2.M baiMday Hep, fine year l ow DELIVERED BY CARRIER: Daily Hee (Including Sunday), per week. .15c Daily Bee (without Sunday), per week..l')c Exenlng Hp (without Sunday), ppr week tic Jj.vui.ttig Bee (Willi Sunday, per wppk lor AdUiess all complaints nf Irregularities In U'llvuy lu City Circulation Department. OFFICES. ( miaha The Bee Building. Snutu Omaha City Hall Building. 'Ouncil Blutfs li Scott S'rcct. Imago IrtS MaiMUeitc building. .New York- Humus ll'-l-l lo. .No. 34 Wist Tiun -third Street. aHliiiiglon--;& Kout lecni li Street N. W CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and rill loiial matter should be aildi tus-d . Omaha ho', Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only i-cent stamps received In payment of mail accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. STATEMENT OF C1HCILATION; State of Nebraska. Douglas County, ss : (ieorge H. Tcacnuck, 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 8umlay Bee. printed during the month of June. was as follows: 1 36,630 15 38,490 9 35,740 3. 36,030 4 . .33,800 5 35,760 6 35,1-30 7 35,900 8 .35,950 9 35,910 10. . 35,970 11 36,350 19 36,030 13 35,890 14 ....36,050 15.... 36,080 16 38,490 17. . r 35,930 18 39,110 19 36,460 SO .... 35,890 91 35,750 99 36,480 33 36,099 94 38,340 95 36,600 86 36,070 38 35330 99 36,500 30 36,330 Totals 1,089,090 Less unsold and returned copies.. 9,677 Net total 1,078,313 Dalley average 38,977 GEORGE R. TZSCHT'CK. Treasurer. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 1st day of July, 19M. . M. P. WALKER, Notary Public. WHEW OPT OF TOWS, Subscribers leaTlnax tha city tem porarily should hart Thai Baa inn I led to them. Address will be changed as often aa requested. It is now up to July to make good. The bt' ain roller Is working at Den ver nil right. A hot air gun has been Invented. It will not be needed In the political campaign. Richmond Pearson Hobson may be expected to show up at Denver with a resolution endorsing his war with Jn;tan. It U understood that Mr. Bryan has Informed himself that he will accept the nomination ,he Is about to tender to himself. fon:e democrat! are born great, kc li'C achieve greatness and some Bet ortl the nomination of William Jen nings Bryri. "On to Lx liver" Is now the cry of the demr.-riats. They will be onto Denver after they pay their conven tion week bjll8. Mr. Bryan says the democrats must place the man before the dollar. In thla country every roan is supposed to be after the dollar. Mr. Sleeper, the American charge d'affaires at Caracas, has made report to the Washington authorities, which 8hows that he Is no dreamer. The up-to-date drugglBt will see to It right away that his supply of arnica and sweet oil is replenished In antici pation of the Fourth of July calls. Colonel Bryan claims 708 Instructed or pledged delegate. That Is peril ouBly close to the number by which Mr. Taft was nominated at Chicago. Any pretended republican who is willing to shoot his party In the back can easily get a hearing through the columns of the local democratic organ. The month of June In Omaha has et a new high water mark for mar riage licenses. This financial depres sion cannot be so depressing after all Local arrangements at Denver would never have been perfected had anything happened to prevent Mayor Jim from arriving on the scene In It must have been an oversight on Mr. Bryan's part that he did not sell his speech on government ownership of railways to the phonograph com pany. The Filipinos are surely becoming civilised. A dozen Filipino boys have been arrested because they were over heard plotting to kill their school teacher. The airship experts might find more enjoyment In their work If there were some laws limiting the speed of air ships and a few fat coppers in balloons patrolling the course. A Montana man while drunk went to sleep In a cage with Hon. These showmen will lose some of their lion If they are not more careful about pro tecting them from jagged Montana men. ad eminent pnysician naa con tributed an article on how to treat the small boy to prevent lockjaw or te tanus on July 4. The best way Is to fend him to his aunt In the country ithout any spending nionn, A FIRE-EATF.K PF.TKAJ, The old hotiso of congress; won't be what It iis'd to be, when the new body meets next March. The democrats of the Sixth congrppslonal district of Ten- pssee have decided to retire from public Bervlre John Wesley Gaines, who has been the nar-flre eater and the Alarm-to-battle sounder on the emocratic side of the house for twelve ears. During; that time he has slept with the constitution for a pillow and the rights of man for a coverlet. He as spent his waking hours In the rena of public debate, meeting all comers, and has never yet lowered his arm, or his voice. He has Injected life Into the consideration of pension tills and made hilarious the days de- oted to ordinarily dull topics like the revision of the revised statutes or he Spanish war claims. He has given the minority about the only claim It has had to distinction for the last half dozen years. Still Mr. Gaines will leave congress with ono prestige of which he cannot be robbed. His name appears more rerpiently In the Congressional Record than does that of any other member. He has not made more speeches al though he has tried to do so but he has seen to It that no member ever got a set speech in the Record wlth- ut some such Interpolation as this: Mr. Gaines Mr. Speaker! Tha Speaker The gentleman from Ten nessee. Mr. Oalnes Will the gentleman from Nebraska yield for a question? Mr. Pollard Certainly. Mr. Gaines Will the gentleman from Nebraska please tell me And Mr. Gaines would wander off nd ask some juestlon about the Chinese court of chancery or the crop outlook In Buffalo county, or some question equally Irrelevant to the sub ject of the Nebraskan's Bpeech and then resume his seat, satisfied with the assurance that Mr. Gaines of Tennessee would find his name In the Congressional Record next morning. If the gentleman on the floor talked more than ten minutes Mr. Gaines would Interrupt again. He made an ffort to appear at least once on every page of the Record and he rarely missed his calculation. Perhaps the sum of human knowlete has not been increased by these tactics, but In the days when distinction In any field is difficult of achievement, Mr. Gaines of Tennessee is entitled to whatever credit belongs to his unique method of making a record for himself. THE HEARST RECOUNT. . The one pleasing result of the elec tion contest in New York City, in which W. R. Hearst made a three ears' fight to oust George B. Mc- Clellan from the mayor's chair, is the abundant proof that the result of the municipal election of 1905 in that city was not a fraud. The country at large has long been under the Impression that a fair election' In New" York City was an Impossibility'. Each election result 1b followed with charges of bal lot box stuffing, bribery, coercion and gigantic frauds bo often repeated that their truth has been generally accepted., Mr. Nearst evidently believed them, for he has resorted to every means afforded by the law and has incurred great expense in securing a recount of the ballots. The result shows that about one-seventh of 1 per cent of the votes were affected by the recount and the gains and losses divided practically even between Mr. Hearst and Mr. Mo- Clellan. The outcome does not bear any special glory or credit to Mayor Mc Clellan. He haB resisted by every de vice known to the law the attempts to recanvasB the vote and this oppo sition gave Mr. Hearst opportunity to pose as a martyr. Had Mayor Mc- Clellan taken the position at first that he did not want the office unless hon estly elected, the recount could have been made promptly and the case set tled within a few months Instead of dragging through the courts for three years. Mayor McClellan's opposition to a recount lent color to Mr. Hearst'B charge that a political conspiracy had been successfully made to defeat him. THE TOST A L DEFICIT. The postal deficit for the year end ing with June 30 was about $13,500, 000, the largest in the history of the country with the exception of 1905, when the deficiency amounted to $15, 000.000. The deficit for 1807 was $7,500,000, nd the postmaster gen eral attributes the decrease in reve nues this year to the business depres sion that set in last October. L'p to that time the revenues of the depart ment had shown a good increase over the business of 1907, and if normal conditions had obtained in the busi ness world the deficit at the end of the fiscal year would have been practically nominal. The deficit is not a large amount, in view of the exceptionally large ex penditures that have been made in the last few years in the development and extension of the rural free delivery service and other improvements in postal facilities. The expenses of the department are now annually more than $200,000,000, and there has been a deficiency in the receipts for all but twelve years since the service was es tablished. The expense of the rural free delivery service ia about $25,000,000 a year, but the reports show that this service is becoming a great revenue getter for the department and that a fair share of the expense of its main tenance has been offset by the discon tinuance of small postofflces in the country districts. The department has issued notice that rural free delivery will not be continued on roads that are not kept in condition to be traveled with, facility and safety at all seasons of the year. The effect of this is to cause great improvements to be made In the highways of the country, pro ducing a general benefit that probably more than offsets the cost of the rural delivery service. It is not the design of the govern ment to make the postal service a source of profit, but every postmaster general makes a determined effort to place the service on a self-supporting basis. This could be done quickly by the elimination or strict regulation of the franking privilege, as the cost of carrying needless public documents and reports sent out by members of congress and the departments is greater than the deficit. Reform in this direction, however, will be diffi cult, as congressmen are naturally slow to limit their personal privileges. CREDIT ASD 1XSVRAXCE The National Association of Credit Men in their annual convention at Den ver devoted much discussion to the problem of fire insurance and fire pre vention, which is attracting the atten tion of trade organizations throughout the country. While the plans of the association for making proper insur ance a condition to the extension of credit, particularly in the case of mer chants In small towns where fire fight ing facilities are limited have not been fully developed, the agitation of the question Is certain to produce good results in checking the annual fire loss, which 1b greater in the United States than in any other nation. The report of the insurance committee of the association contains the following: It seems a fact beyond denial that there Is an Immense loss each year In the United States, much of which could be saved, taking as a comparison the loss sustained In other countries of relative commercial Importance. The total average fire loss In the United States each year Is about $200,000,000. Recent figures are quoted to show that the per capita loss In this country averages about J 2. 2 5, In compari son with about 33 cents In Important European countries. Taking large cities as a basis for comparison, the average yearly fire loss In Berlin is about 1150,000, while In Chicago the loss Is close to $5,000,000. These comparisons show con clusively to any thinking Individual that the United States Is sadly In need of bet ter fire protection, whether It be in build ing construction, fire apparatus or more precaution on the part of the assured. The committee recommended ' the adoption of the fire marshal law, al ready in force in some states, and the adoption of plans for making careful investigation into the causes of fires and prosecution where there appears to be evidence of incendiarism or arson. It also declared against the valued policy law. The credit men apparently appreci ate another important matter in con nection with fire insurance. The com mittee's report particularly censured the form of policies used by many, if not most, fire insurance companies, as serting that these policies were so worded as to deceive the average policyholder as to the extent of the in surance company's real responsibility In case of fire loss. The committee recommended the adoption of a form of policy that would be so plain and easy of understanding that the mer chant of ordinary business sense could know absolutely the obligation the in surance company took on itself and that imposed on him. This, it was argued, would lessen the amount of litigation over policies and encourage merchants to carry more adequate in surance. The association decided to begin a campaign of education for the purpose of teaching merchants that their insurance strengthens their credit and also for the purpose of in ducing a better understanding be tween insurance companies and their policyholders. Nothing but good can come from any action of this kind, de signed as it is to reduce the size of the national ash heap. AX EXCOURAOIKO SIOX. One of the most encouraging signs In the industrial firmanent, particu larly for Omaha and Nebraska, is to be found in the order just given for the immediate resumption of construction work on the Union Pacific. Mr. Har rlman is a shrewd business man and will not invest his company's money anywhere unless convinced that con ditions warrant its outlay with a reasonable assurance of profitable re turns. Mr. Harriman has planned colossal Improvements all along the Union Pa cific, of which the work in band con stitutes an Important part. Starting the construction gangs out again at this time means not only employment for wage workers and the purchase of materials, thus putting money into cir culation, but is designed to make the Union Pacific before long a double- track road without sharp curves or heavy grades, and thus make it much more serviceable as a highway for the transportation of passengers and freight. Omaha as the headquarters city and eastern terminus of the Union Pacific cannot fall to share in the benefits ac crulng from these improvements and from the strengthening of the Union Pacific, the most distinctive Omaha road, among the great railway systems of the country. Omaha a future growth and prosperity is bound up in the future growth and prosperity of the territory to the west of us, and it Is in that territory in which the money for the reconstruction of the Union Pa cine is to be spent. A German scientist says that ehll dren are more likely to Inherit the disposition and traits of their fathers than those of their mothers. That explains why there are so many mean children in the world. The appeal of our amiable demo cratic contemporary to the negro la to divide the negro vote. If the demo crats are entitled to any part of this negro vote, why did they not ask for all of it? Is not an appeal for half of the negro vote a confession on the part of the democrats that they are entitled to none of It? Negro voters will re member the time-tried axiom, "United we stand, divided we fall." The New York Sun declares that President Roosevelt was defeated for a third term. As he was not a candi date" for the nomination, insisted he would not have taken It if it had been tendered to him and used every ef fort to prevent the consideration of his name for the place, his defeat can not be very galling. That $100,000 Bryan campaign fund which is being raised by Mayor Jim's chief lieutenant is pronounced a myth. If it goes the same way as the $15,000 entrusted to Mayor Jim by "the old Parker gang" four years ago it will be very much like a myth. Uncle Henry Gassaway Davis has changed his mind again and says h Is going to be married, whether his grandchildren like it 'or not. He Is determined, however, not to play the role of the "bar'l" in the democratic drama this year. Senator Depew has gone to Europe, giving the seventh annual explanation that Mrs. Depew Is going to Paris to be treated by "Dr." Worth and "Dr." Paquln for the dress disease. Those Nebraska penitentiary con victs are getting their annual vacation a little earlier than usual. If it lasts much longer it may Berlously Interfere with their habits of industry. The June rainfall, according to the weather bureau experts, was above the normal. The next thing in order is an official disquisition on the 'mean" temperature for June. That slate-breaking stunt pulled off by the club women at Boston must have been inspired by a determination on the part of the women to show that they are apt pupils in politics. A British commission Is coming to this country to find out all It can about American fish. The commis sion is cautioned against believing all It may hear about American fish. Pnt Your Throats In Order. Minneapolis Journal. If Bryan is not cheered for 48 minutes at Denver, tha convention will have been failure. Particular aa to Colors. St. Louis Times. Mr. Bryan's reported preference to Gray for the vice presidency seems to Indicate that he is afraid of a dark horse. Well Worth the Price. Baltimore American. T ie great republican national convention at Chicago cost $60,OUO. It was worth at least $30,000,000 to the business of the country. ... New Terrors in Mailt. New Y6rk Tribune. The proposal to surmount graves with glass headstones Inclosing photographs of the deceased threatens to add a new terror to death and an added melancholy to the graveyard. A Spectacle for the Gods. New York Sun. It must have been a grand sight when the Hon. Joslah Qulncy called on Mr. Bryan and pledged himself to support him. With what enthusiasm, what passion, Mr. Qulncy must have sworn allegiance. Legal Sararerr on Oil Trnst. Pittsburg Dispatch. If success of the government In the suit to dissolve the Standard Oil combination verifies the prediction of the prosecuting counsel, that It will restore competition and reduce the price of oil, It will bo much more successful than the famous victory over the beef trust. The people are In a Missouri state of mind about trust-busting. Mr. Taft and "Imperialism." New York Times. It is a curious fact that In all the com ment on the nomination of Mr. Taft for the presidency it Is only In the journals of the continent of Europe that any al lusion Is made to the "Imperialism" of which he may be supposed to be a repre sentative. In 1900 the votes of a consid erable number Of Americans of unusual Intelligence and patriotism were given to Mr. Bryan despite his manifold disqualifi cations because he stood for the opposition to "Imperialism," and, though this feeling was weaker In 19n4, It was appreciable. Today, If It exists, it Is pretty nearly silent. Government by Commission. Kansas City Times. Omsha Is now Interesting Itself In the commission form of government. Three members of Its real estate exchange visited Des Moines to study the plan under which that city la operating. They have made their report In the form of an absolute recommendation that commission govern ment be adopted as the new city charter. The enemies of commission government are those who know the least about the plan. In every city where It has been adopted trie people are practically unanimous In Its praise. In none of them could there be mustered a respectable opposition to It. Every student of municipal affairs who visits any of these cltiea becomes an ad vocate of the omnmlssion plan. What more convincing proof of Its wisdom and Us efficiency could be offered to reasonable men? TAILING THE TICKET. Provoking Levity In Presence of the Pterins One. Philadelphia Record. Runing mates for Mr. Bryan are cropping out on every side. Most of them we do not remember to have heard of before, but we do not doubt they are excellent men well worthy of honors at the hands of the Denver convention. Mr. Bryan la reported to be willing to hove any one of thtnt. He Is quoted as welcoming Mr. Sullivan of Iowa. He seems to be on extremely friendly terms with Mr. Sullivan of Illinois, whom he excommunlca'ted from the party a couple of years ago, and two or three men In the east whose rames escape us are reported to be quite satisfactory to him. In fact, the first place on the tlrket Is the only one that he Is said to be particular about. His reported wish to have Judge Qray or Governor Johnson for a colleague, aa a representative of the more conserva tive elements of the democracy. Is entirely credible, but It recalls the lints: There was young lady from Niger Who went out to ride on a tiger. They came bark from the ride With the lady Inside, nd a siuU on tUe face of the tiger. KOlD A HOl'T NEW YORK. Hippies on the C'arrent of Life In the Metropolis. New York authorltl-s are waging a war of extermination on unmutiled dogs. Plate laws require dog licence and this Is now supplemented with a n uxile order, the lat ter causing an outburst of. indignation from friends of the animal. A letter from M. Bontaux In the New York Herald, ex presses the prevalent criticism. The writer directs attention to the city of Constanti nople, where dogs circulate free as air and rahlcs Is unknown. He alleges that the muiillng of dogs Is a piece of cruelty to ani mals. A man, says ho, perspires through his skin, a dog by way of his mouth. A niuislo limiting Its breathing power, drives the animal wild, and produces the very con dition that the "wise ones" of the Board of Health seek to avoid. "Our sympathy Is with M. Bontaux and the dogs," says the Herald. "May his educational cam paign be as successful." The New York Times devotes nearly a page to a review of the war on rabies and summarises the situation In these words: "There are ap proximately 2.0O0 dogs In New York City. Not more thsn 4E..wo of them are licensed, as the laws of 1S94 require they shall be. The number of stray dogs Is estlmsted at l.W.non. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Is directed by the laws of ISM to catch and kill unlicensed dogs and stray cats. They are being seized at the rate of 300 a day. Last year 10S.CT9 were caught and killed. From January 1 to June 22, 1W, the number thus disposed of was 46.947. For the corresponding period this year the number was iS,5ffi. The In crease Is 46 per cent. Any or all stray ani mals may develop and spread rabies. For three years hydrophobia has been on the increase In this city. In lHT fourteen per sons died of It here. This number Is far In excess in some cases three and four times the number of deaths recorded from the disease, according to the latest available reports for the great cities of Europe and America." At a men's cafe, one night, a young American a barber fell In with an Eng lishman. The latter was berating the Yankees for doing all manner of business In their shops and for not following the bet ter English plan of sticking to one branch. The next day he swaggered Into the bar ber shop to be shaved. The barber gavo his face Van extra good soaping and left him, at the same time seating himself to read. The Englishman kept quiet for a few minutes, when, seeing his attendant read ing, he brurted out: "Why don't you shave me, sir?" "You will have to go up the street for your shave,' quietly replied the barber. We only lather here." The sand sculptor, long a familiar figure at Atlantic City, has Just reached Coney Island. The dead Indian with an arrow In his side and a dog lying close by In an attitude of grief who have been seen by Plttsburgers at Atlantic City year after year, are at the beach at Coney Island this summer. The work Is very skillful. The Indian lies there, with one foot cpoased over the other, In an attitude so natural that it ia hard to believe that It Is only sand after all. You see the workman mold ing him out of the sand before your eyes, so you know It Is so. Alongside of the work of art Is spread a sheet. On this the looker-on throws his coins. It la a profit able game so far and the sculptor Is gather ing In the shekels because it Is new to Coney. The crowd In lower Broadway stopped and listened. Bunches and rows of faces looked down from the windows In the tall office buildings. An itinerant vender of that cheapest of musical Instruments, the mouth organ, merely a bit of tin, had been whistling modern airs that one hears from the orchestras. Somehow they hadn't made a hit. The vender, a tall, lank young man. ceased whistling. The crowd kept on Us restless way. After a short wait the vender placed the tin again between his lips and tried another air. Here and there people fell out of the crowd, stopped and listened. First one and then another, and then more, handed out a nickel apiece. The fellow had played "Cavellerla Rustlcana." After he had sold a number of his tins the crowd began moving again. Business for the vender was running down. He placed a lit tle Instrument once more between his lips. The sound emitted filled the street. It rose to the tops of the skyscrapers. It stopped the crowd on either side of the thoroughfare. People In the passing open cars turned and peered. The vender was surrounded by a crowd which purchased all his stock. The music was written In this generation, but It took hold upon the iijubb ui iiuiimuiiy una Drougnt it to a standstill In the busiest street In the world the old air your grandfather heard when he was courting, "How Can I Bear to Leave Thee?" The opening to tho public of the new Singer building observation balcony offers an opportunity to see New York all at once, instead of a spot at a time. The balcony Is on the forty-second floor, 648 feet above the curb. It gives a sightseeing radius of thirty miles In all directions, and, being the highest observation tower In the world. It affords a view never before possible except from an airship. The tower has a platform with a high railing, which comfortably accommodates about forty peo ple. Express elevators run from the main corridor on the first floor, making the trip In one minute, while two men are stationed on the platform to point out sights to tin visitors and to supply pertinent information on all points. A New York policeman arrested a boy who was playing ball In the street. Th prisoner was taken Into the children's court, where he received a lecture on ths Iniquity of having a good time on the public thoroughfares. The Judge explained the danger there was of hurting some oni and also culled attention to the fact that the street Is not the property of the culprit and asked him to tell to whom the streets belong. The little prisoner answered. "D automobiles," and the court discharged him. Higher even than the cloud-piercing peak! of the Singer and Metropolitan Ufe build InRS will be a new structure to be erected for the Equitable Life Assurance society. Plans were filed with Edward S. Mur phy, superintendent of buildings. The building will occupy the present site of the Equitable, on the block bounded by Broadway, Nassau, Pino and Cedar streets, and. Incrtiillng a tower, will rise to a height of sixty-two stories, 9K feet above tho curb line, exclusive of a flagstaff, which will measure to the tip 15 feet more. The estimated cost will be about $15,000, (InO. The top of the Metropolitan tower Is 663 feet and that of the Singer building 612 ftt. Democrats In llepobllraa (ablaets. Philadelphia Itecord. Mr. Wright Is the third democrat to enter the Roosevelt cabinet. But Mr. Straus had h.ld office under President McKlnley since he had undtr President Cleveland, and Mr. Morton lad never held tvny office or figured at all In politics. Mr. Stanton was a Buchanan democrat so far as ih public was aware when President Lincoln's nomination of him to be secretary of war "fell like a bombshell" In the senate, a contemporary account i When soup and gravy arc smooth and rich and delightfully flavored, you may rest assured they were thickened with Two of America's most famous cooks, Janet M. Hill and Alice Cary Waterman, say that Kingsford's Oswego Corn Starch is invaluable for improving the delicacy and palatability of the finest dishes. It stands first, hip.hest, best; the most uniformly excellent corn starch on the market. Read what these two cooks say in Original Bee! pes and Caoklag Helps Sent free on request. Grocers, pound packages, 10c. T. KINGSFORO ft SON, OSWEGO. N. T. national starci company, succeimh PF.RSOX!, NOTE.' Suffragettes to the number of 100.010 p-o-pose to surround the House of Commons. Tlin necessity for airships becomes dal y more apparent. President Roosevelt had a perfectly cork ing time with a publisher the other day. Tho publisher agreed to pay $100,' 00 for the president's written story of l.ls two years' hunting experiences In Africa. The female statistician has figured that there are exactly 1,294,50 bachelors In the I'nlted States or, at least, there were at the time the figures were compiled. It Is only during leap year that such sad and melancholy facts come to light. Governor Regis H. Post has returned to .Ban Juan, Porto Rloo, after a two months' absence. He states that he dis cussed with bnnkeers In New York the question of issuing bonds to carry out tiie irrigation plans In Purio Rico, and that he probably will call an extra ses sion of the legislature to enact the neces sary laws to make the loans. Mrs. William E. Corey, wife of the presl- dent of the United States Steel corpora tion, has announced her plans for ti.e is tabllshment of an American ' opvra house In Paris, at which only American artists would appear. Mrs. C.orcy Intends to make this Franco-American theater the ceniral feature of a school of operatic art, where poor students, boys and girls, from Amer ica may study under the best foreign masters. The chief director will be Jean de Reszke. Among the facts ascertained at the recent meeting of governors which may appear In the next census tabulation on gubernatorial whiskers came to light and it Is this: Gov ernor Hughes Is the only governor in the United States with dark whiskers. Gov ernor Harris of Ohio, Governor Dawson of West Virginia and Governor Brooks of Wyoming have what pass for beards, but they are all off color; gray, streaked and craggly nothing a constituency would care to swear by. BRYAN AND COMMON ESK. "Nomination of a "tamp Speech for President." Washington 'Post. Colonel Henry Watterson tells us that the common sense of the country will elect Colonel William J. Bryan, president of tha United States, which, we take to be a re flection on common sense. In the consensus It is held that when Colonel Bryan Is chosen president It will be the triumph of the hysteria of the country. Indeed, If In the courts of absurdity. Colonel Lryan were Indicted for tho offense of practicing com mon sense, he could succesfully plead an alibi, and establish It by the asseverations of Colonel Watterson, numerously, emphati cally and dogmatically given In all the years 1896-1918, both inclusive. Nobody ought to know better than Colonel Watterson that the triumph of his favorite at Denver will be this, and nothing but this: The nomination of a stump speech for president. What has he ever said that will live, except his borrowed figure of the cross of gold and crown of thorns that tha event made asinine? What has he advanced to challenge the common sense of the country, except a batch of nonsense? Government ownership? He ran away from It; but his party will have to tote It If he be the nominee. Initiative and refer endum? He couldn't qarry Mississippi on that with William K. Chandler the oppos ing candidate. The more vigorous chase of the octopus? The country demands and will have rest from that. Common sense wants common sense In the White House, and common sense knowns common sense when confronted with it In the big road. Politically. Mr. Bryan Is an agitator ready to adopt any fad. He has fled from pillar to post In chase of absurdities to spring on the peo ple. Colonel Watterson is a democrat, and none knows better than he that the heart and the soul, the mind and the strength, of Jeffersonlan democracy Is the curtail ment of governmental power at Washing ton, and Colonel Watterson ought to know that every aspiration of William J. Bryan Is to augument that power. Common sense, indeed! PATHIOTISM THAT COPNTS. Ilascle Calls for I'nlted Efforts la Maklnsr Thlnas Better. Editorial In Century Magazine. The conference (of thn governors of the states at the White House, May 13-15) took on from time to time the aspect of a con fessional. Not a single speaker took Issue with the alarming facts presented in re gard to every field of our national wealth. Floods, erosion, change of climate, waste of natural gas, diminution of sea food, and the impairment of great scenic beauty, were touched upon more lightly but not less significantly. But If a pessimist might have found In these statements occasion, for complacency, the same could not bt said of the cynic, who would hav(e ben distressed by the unfailing response which greeted every note of altruism. Tho deep Impression of the peril was not more marked than the conviction that a remedy must speedily be found. The serious and devoted spirit as of men administering a solemn trust was Inspiring, and at times electric In its manifestation. Dr. Edward Everett Hale struck the keynote In the passage which preceded his invocation, and the fervor with which the whole assembly Joined him in the Lord's Prayer was most Impressive The patriotism of making things better was the bugle-call that aroused every one to enthusiasm, whether It was sounded by Mr. John Mitchell, setting forth the needs of stronger safeguards for tho lives of miners, or by Mr. Horace MacFarland in his plea for the protection of beautiful scenery aa a val uable, and the- most generally distributed, natural asset of the country a form of wealth to be left unimpaired to our chil dren's children. It would not have sur prised any on If the conference had closed Its session with the singing of "My County 'tis of Thi' 9S sty.s(x a Years H Superiority. CORN STARCH LINKS TO A SHIt.E. "Toor man!" sold the kind lady. "Hon did you go blind?" "Well, mum," answered Tired Tresdwell "de foist time dat 1 noticed It was when l wss out lookln' for work." Chicago Record-Herald. "He seems to be very strongly attached to his nrw motor cur." "He wasn't the last time I saw him on the road. He whs about twenty feet above it." Philadelphia Press. Miss Runkerhlll Have you read Scott's novels?" Miss Laker All but his "Emulsions." 1 have seen It advertised a nrfat many times In Chicago, but I have never been abla to get a copy. Judge. "Why are you so persistently Inclined t legislative Inaction?" "Because," answered Senator florghum. "people are never satisfied, and It is nett.i to have them Hopeful about what you ar aolnir to do thmi rilsumvitnteri In wbar vou have Hlready done." Washington Star. J y 1 "You here. .Tames!" exclaimed the slum worker, visiting the Jail. "Yes'm.'" replied the new prisoner, who was In for burglary. "Well. well. I certainly am surprised." "So was I, ma'am, or I wouldn't ba here." Baltimore American. Teacher (examining new boy) Henry do you know anything of mathematics? How do you extract the square root? New Boy (from Kentucky) I never done nothln' like that ma'am. You have to use a corkscrew, don't you? Chicago Tribune. Stage Manager The girl that takes th part of the sleeping beuujy In the show can't go on tonight. Business Manager Why not? Stuge Manager She ate a Welsh rabbit and she can't sleep! Yonker Statesman. Knh'ker Are they a bridal couple? Rocker No. By his devotlin I should Judge she Is a cook he is taking out to the suburbs. New York Sup, T1I1J CHEERING MESSAGE. Cleveland Leader. Were you ever 'way down on your uppers. With never a cent to spend, Your prospects blue, your board overdue, And nowhere to find a friend? In a strange and pitiless city, Have you come to tho end of your rope. When out of the past came a letter, at last With a message of love and hope? I was all of those things I've writ of Forgotten and down and out, With never a dream of a gleam of a benn. Of light to bo hopeful about, .-.e ' So I said, "What's the use? I ll end It! One shot, and my pain Is still!" Then the postman (Fate?) brought a not from my mate My old-time school chum, Bill! One friend who hadn't forgotten! One tie to the old earth yet! My heart's blood leapt, where It long had slept, y And the tears on my cheeks were wt, . It was God who sent that letter To stay the fatal shot. One note of love, and we rise above Our fate, and our woes are not! "Dear Bob!" Ah. the same old nickname. We were chums In the schoolboy days: There's a sacred debt that I can't forget. Though fortune has parted our ways. "I hope that you're well and happy, fc I was always vour friend am still; Remember that ten that I lent you then? Please settle-I need It. "B1UL." DURING JULY W E KEEP a large force of Cutters nrwl TnllFi kiiav V. u InolliHInu i - nr TronMeri wl:h everv suit an extra p" orderfor the rrie of suit alone. SUIT AND EXTRA TRDUSERS $25 to $45 There's little profit In It ror us. but i cleans up the surplus stock and assures to us your next order for fall garments. HICOLL'S SPECIAL! Blue Serge Suit and Trousers $25 E.SI..L..-L,Li. 1 ji-jLtasu WILLIAM JERIIEMS' SONS 00-11 South 15th St. Colgate Beat the :::Enfllish::: Colgate & Co. certainly "Out-Horod.4 Herod ' In prod icing a Transparent Oly cerine Soap, so m-Hr In )uallty and appear ance to a well known English brand, thai thev themselves refuse to market mora of it, believing it neiir in quality that it might be called an Imitation. fob-gate v Co. at once ord'r-d sold ALL STOCK T HI THAN HALF TUB PRO Potir'.D I'KIt'E. We wu fortunate enoiig.'i to get nearly H carload of the Col gate k Transparent Glycerine Hosp and sail as fullou". as long as It lasts. ONE CAKE o .NK DOEN fAKEH tec ONE Glto.S.S CAKErt bO Tib is the llggext Soup alue ever offerei In this city. Sherman & McConnell Drug Co. Corner PUh and Dodge Bis. Owl Drug Go. Corner 16th and Harney Bts. KCIIOOI.ft. Potter College!! OWLIaTO BM, TUCTT For higher education of young women. Terr Beieo j -jdorsed by two IV. a vicv-yf cstucuka. ovws svr aataioMi president. ba4 for e I logos. 'V