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TIIK OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JULY 5, 1903. Tiie Omaiia Sunday Ita FOUNDED UY EllWAKU riOHKWATKU. VICTOIl HOSEWATKH, BDlTOIl. Entered t Omaha postoffice a second class mutter. TERM3 OK BUIWItlPTlO.N: I'ally Una (without Sunday), one year..Kro J'4y He and Sunday, on year " tiumlny Bee, on year 2 5'i Saturday Hec, one year 1-W DKLIVEKED UY CAHKIEK: I 'ally ltr (Including Sunday), per wcek..lGo Dally lie (without Sunday), per we.-k..lvu EvfMlng He (wit hunt Humlayi. per week '' Everjng liee (with Himdayj. per week Uic Address all complaints of Irregularlt lea In delivery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omuha The Hee Hultillng. Suuth Omatm-Clty Hall Building. Council Hluffs-lft Scott Street. Chicago IMS Marquette Building. New York Knorns 1101-1102, Nu. M West Thirty-third Street. Washington -T26 Fourteenth Street N. W. COKRESl'ONDENCE. Coinmunlcatlona relating to news and edi torial matter should he addressed: Umalia Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Itemit by draft, express or postal order payable to The Beo Publlshlrjg Company. Only 2-cent stamps received In payment of mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Umaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION: Etatu of Nebraska, Douglas County, as.: lifurKf U Tsschuck, treasurer of The lice publishing coiiipany, being duly sworn, Bays that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning. Evening and Sunday Beo printed during tho month of June, 13t. was as follows: l.t 30,690 IS 38,490 2... 35,740 JO 38,40 3. 36,080 17 33,930 4. 35,800 18 39,110 S 36,760 1 30,460 6.. 35,830 80 35,890 7 35,900 81 36,750 8.; 35,960 88 36,480 39.910 83 36,09 10 35,970 84 38,340 11 36,360 85 36,600 18 36,080 88 36,070 13., 35,890 38 35,830 14 36,050 89 36,500 19.. 36,080 30 36,330 Totals 1,089,090 Less unsold and returned copies.. 9,677 Net total 1,079,813 DaUey average 35,877 ' GEO ROE B. TZSCMUCK, Treasurer. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before ma this 1st dav of July. 190R. M. P. WALKER, Notary l'ubllc. WHEW OtTT OP TOWIf. Subscribers lea Tin the) city torn porarilr ekoald bar Tha On walled la them. Address will ba chanced aa often aa requested. Irrigation projects In Nebraska are to be classed this year with watered stock. Tho anti-injunction plank a,t Denver Is being made of some very knotty ma terial. Mrs. I. Begin of Tacoma has been granted her fifth divorce and is ready to begin again. It will bo noticed that Mr. Bryan Is not worrying so much Just now about the republican platform. With the Fourth In the past, It Is in order to begin planning to do your Christmas shopping early. Joel Chandler Harris is dead, but "Uncle Remus" will live as long as children love good Btorles. It does not matter much whether Betsy Ross or someone else made the flag. It is a ;rood one and still waves. The crar und the Duma have agreed to spend $64,000,000 for the Improve ment of the Russian army. It needs it. Prominent democrats will have only another day or two to decline some thing that has not been offered to Ihem. Champ Clark is in favor of the im mediate annexation of Canada. Champ ought to hurry to Denver and launch lis new issue. Japan has shown Its kindness again by deciding to allow the Chinese to build a railroad with Chinese money on Chinese soil. Commander Peary says he is "Just is confident as ever" of his ability to reach the north pole, but does not say bow confident that Is. July 28 has been fixed as the date for breaking to Mr. Taft the news that he was nominated for president In Chicago last month. There is one redeeming feature about these sermons and speeches that are being circulated by the phonograph route. You can shut off a phono graph. Sir Thomas Lipton announces that he is going to make another effort to capture the America cup. Sir Thomaa Is the regular W. J. Bryan of yacht racers. James J. Hill has given up his Paris house, because his family does not care to live in Europe. It Is sus pec ted that Mr. HlU's money is also homesick. A Cleveland man offered to sell one of his fingers for $300. Too much when three fingers can be bought for 15 cents, except on Sunday and after midnight. Proceedings have been commenced against au alleged Laundry trust In St. Louis. The case should be heard by the Judge who has the divorce docket, aa he is familiar with tho methods of airing dirty linen In court According to Bradstreet'a. most of the cities of the country are getting back to the "Increase" column In the report of weekly bank clearings Oinaba la the one city In the country that has been, in. that column right alo&f, OUR At IK PLEDGED STATESMAN. If making two blades of grans grow where but one grew before la to bo re garded as a human benefaction, what Is to be said of making two statesmen stand where but one stood before? The democracy of Nebraska used to recognize but one overtowering leader, but, lo and behold, a second new fledged statesman has suddenly blos somed forth to divide the effulgent glory. While Bryan may be the astral cen ter of the democratic constellation at Lincoln, at Denver tho sun, moon and stars are rising and setting and pursu ing their orbits at the beck and call of Mayor Jim. Would anyone know who should preside over the deliberations of the coming convention aa temporary chair man or permanent chairman, it is Mayor Jim who carries the message to Garcia. Does anyone inquire what kind of an anti-injunction plank the platform will contain, it is to Mayor Jim that he Is referred as tho fountain head of in formation and Inspiration. If Judge Parker wants, to Introduce his proposed resolution of tribute to Grover Cleveland he will first have to secure Mayor Jim's permission. No one, as yet, knows who is to have second placo as running mate with Mr. Bryan, but the edict will be issued in due time, as soon as Mayor Jim Is ready to take the convention delegates into his confidence. Our own Mayor Jim is on the ground as the specially appointed confidential commissioner of Mr. Bryan. For the coming democratic candidate he will organize the convention, promulgate the platform, ratify the nominations, record the adjournment and stand ready to receive all the $15,000 con tributions to the campaign Jackpot which the Wall street gang may be willing to chip In. Great is Bryan, and Mayor Jim is his prophet. Let all good Nebraska democrats fall down on their knees and salaam. THE OLYMPIAN GAME. All nations which cultivate physical courage, endurance, brawn and skill in athletics are particularly interested Just now in the Olympic games soon to be held in London. American ath letes have carried off most of the honors In each of the Olymplaaa tjaua far held, and the team we are sending to England this year is expected again to bring back the championship of the world, although several of the American representatives have been 111 and the team is not up to the desired standard on that account. The old world experienced some thing of a shock when the Americans captured the honors at the first Olympian games. The British sports men, and athletes particularly, held the opinion that their contestants were certain to make a clean sweep. They figured that British blood would tell and that the long years of training In the British universities had developed invlncibles in the athletic fields. They did not believe It possible that a money-chasing people like the Amerl cans had ever found time to foster the love of physical beauty, strength, cour age and athletic skill that distin guished the old Greeks and mode the Olympian games In ancient times the classic athletic contests of the world The groundlessness of this mistaken assumption was discovered when the contests were held and American ath letes took nearly every prUo in. sight. Since then the American athlete has had high standing in the respect of the lovers of outdoor sports throughout the world. If the Americans can not capture the honors this year, the win ners will know that they have beaten world beaters. COPPER AND CARTOONIST. The police chiefs of the country, through a resolution adopted at the recent annual convention of their na tional association, have made a merito rious, If futile, protest against the lib erties taken by actors and cartoonists with the humble policeman. The reso lution denounces the caricaturing of policemen on the stage or in the pub lic prints as calculated to work injury In the public mind and to interfere with the proper discharge of police du ties. While thinking people will cordially Join in a demand for more tender treatment of the policemen, 1t la doubt ful If the fulmluation of the chiefs will have the desired result. Tho custom of poking fun at the copper Is of long standing. Some of the alleged funny papers would be dull and atule if they failed to picture the policeman flirting with the cook or getting a flue meal passed to him at the kitchen window while the burglars are carrying the silver out the front door. The surest sign of the heated season la the picture of the fly copper taking a glass of foaming lager at the side entrauco while the sergeant's back is turned Then there is the sketch of the 200- pound officer in blue making glorious capture of the small urchin who has pinched an apple from the fruit stand The companion piece to this is the policeman sleeping soundly ' in shaded corner of the park while high waymen are holding up pedestrians and relieving them of their valuables All this, of course, is pictorial libel because in real life the average police o finer has a keen appreciation of his obligations as the preserver of the peace and as the foe of crooks and criminals. To an exceptional degree policemen are honest, hardworking and efficient. It may be, as charged by the chiefs, that the caricaturing of the copper by vaudeville actora and cartoonists tends to injure the pollee- man'a standing and his wotk, but It will probably go on. The policeman Is the natural enemy of the small boy In the boy's mind -and larger boys enjoy his discomfiture and revel In his undoing. This does not imply disre spect for the law nor personal objec tion to its agents, but simply manifests one form of American humor. The hit at the copper may be an stale as the stage Irishman with the pink whiskers, the German monologlst with double bay windows, the mother-in-law Joke and a score of others of the old familiar brand over which our grand fathers laughed, but it still hangs on and it will take more than a resolution by the police chiefs to produce a new line of Jokes. SINGLK-IIEADED CITY V O XE R Nil EN T. Just as new experiments with the commission form of municipal govern ment are attracting attention a move ment is on foot in Washington, where he commission plam has been In effect for many years, to get back to a single headed city administration. The sug gestion of a one-man executive for the nation's capital city has the endorse ment of President Roosevelt and seems, likewise, to be growing in favor with the people of Washington who will be most directly affected. The Washington Post has been gath ering opinions from mayors of dif ferent American cities, many of whom have responded and none of whom, it says, undertakes to defend the division of responsibility system. Mayor Brand Whitlock of Toledo, elected as an Independent on a repub lican platform, declares: Certainly, I think It would be better for the District of Columbia to be governed by one executive head rather than by a three-headed commission. t'nder the board plan, or under any adaptation of It, such as the commission plan, responsibil ity is distributed and hence the people do not know whom to blame for what goes wrong. The board plan was got up by politicians' and for politicians, and it can be operated successfully only with a ma chine and a boss. The bane of this sys tem Is that the boss never holds office himself, and the people cannot get at him. Under the federal plan, If there la a boss he la the people's boss, and they can remove him when they get tired of him. Former Mayor Cutler of Rochester takes this position: My experience lends me to believe that for any executive function a single head much better than a board or a com mission. Mayor Speer of Denver expresses himself tersely: I believe In one executive head for city government. Divided responsibility has not) proved satisfactory to our people. Mayor Malone of Memphis has a similar response: My experience as mayor leads me to believe that a city government is no ex ception to the rule that every large In stitution should have one responsible head. These expressions, which are In the nature of expert testimony, are at least worth considering in connection with the arguments advanced by the advocates of commission government for cities. THE CONVENTION M10W. One hundred thousand people trav eled varying distances from all parts of the United States to be present as spectators at tho Chicago convention. Nearly as many will make the Jouruey to Denver to look in on the democratic national convention at work building its ticket and platform. Personal in terest in the aspiring candidates, or private concern in the questions at Issue, or mere love of the political game played on a large scale will ex plain part of fhe drawing power of a great nominating convention, but not all of it. Another factor must bo reck oned with, and not as the least, and that is the perfection of the convention as a spectacular show. The making of a presidential ticket brings together the leaders of the party the men people read about who command the public eye. On no other occasion do they get together where they are exposed to open view in such numbers and with such contrasts. So far as actual proceedings are concerned a national convention Is simply a gigantic enlargement of the Btate con ventions, and district conventions, and county conventions, with which most people are fairly familiar, but by this very enlargement a spectacularlsm is added nowhere else to be found. Twelve to fifteen thousani people in one huge hall, changing from inert list lessnegs to excited frenzy amidst un quellablo uproar constitute a spectacle peculiar to American politics. At every big convention there is talk of clearing the galleries and making the meeting a tamely deliberative session, restricted to the delegates and neces sary attendants, yet the fact is that the participation of the spectators is an integral part of the convention insti tution and without the onlookers It would be hardly recognizable as a convention. The big national conventions of the powerful political parties may undergo further changes and may even give way to an entirely different piece of machinery, but in the present form the show feature is all conspicuous and Its Importance Is not to be underesti mated. JJlfc PHYSICIAN IK POLITICS. At the recent meeting of the Amer ican Medical association one of the leading physicians of the country made an appeal to his fellow practitioners to "get Into politics" for the special purpose of securing better laws gov erning the practice of medicine and for various reforms in sanitation and dis ease prevention. He urged that these reforms would be slow of accomplish ment If left to laymen, as most of the legislation desired deals with technical subjects and that the lay minds are not easily convinced of their import ance nor the public prepared for legis lation which physicians may consider absolutely essential to the public welfare. The physician should be welcomed Into active participation In politics, al though not for the specific reasons thus urged. That argument, carried to its logical conclusion, would de mand the presence of school teachers, plumbers, architects, railroad men, merchants and special representatives of every calling In our legislatures In order to procure proposed reforms on which they claim to have expert knowl edge. The need In politics and official life Is not so much for experts In spe cial lines as for men who possess good Intelligence, firm Integrity and sound Judgment and have a keen ap preciation of public needs. Of the professional men, the physician should be well equipped for a study of the actual, living needs of the people. He is the daily visitor to the homes of all classes of citizens. He is often their confidant and has many opportunities to learn public sentiment. The physi cian may exert a great and wholesome influence in politics and public life if he uses the knowledge gained In his practice, not merely in behalf of medi cal and sanitary reforms, but in use ful advocacy of reforms of all kinds. What has become of all those state forestry commissions which the gov ernors attending the Natural Re sources Conference at Washington promised to appoint as soon as they got home? Can it be that after they returned they discovered that they would first have to get legislative au thority to redeem their promise? Judge Prentiss of Illinois has Just declared at a banquet at Lincoln that Roger Sullivan and his delegates from Illinois had been elected by fraud and corruption. That is what Mr. Bryan said about Roger Sullivan and his delegates at St. Louis in 1904. Some of the democratic papers In the east are promising to bolt the ticket to be named at Denver, but it Is believed tho Commoner wtll give the candidates its cordial support. A western Judge has decided that Adam and Eve were married by a common law ceremony. perhaps. Anyway, there is an absence of wit nesses to prove the contrary Mr. Hearst may as well understand now that If his candidate for the presi dency of the United States is defeated in November he need not expect to get a recount of the ballots. Senator Stone of Missouri has de clined to meet Governor Folk in a Joint debate. Senator Stone has a reputation for being light-footed, but he is not light-headed. Oklahoma's blind statesman, Sen ator Gore, win have no opposition In his own party to his re-election. . He can read his title clear to another six years in Washington. "Mr. Cleveland had no military record," says the Detroit Free Press, which apparently forgets the long war Mr. Cleveland conducted against his own congress. The National Educational associa tion proposes to encourage spelling contests between different cities. They will do more good than spellbind ing contests. Caleb Powers Is apparently not as anxious for his liberty as he was be fore Governor Willson pardoned him. He is going to be married. Perish the Thought. Cleveland Plain Dealer. It Is strongly rumored that Mr. Bryan's nomination will be followed by an editorial Indorsement In the Commoner. Holiday Slauatater. St. Louis Times. More Americans nave been killed and in jured up to date in celebrating Independ ence day than were killed and Injured in the actual task of achieving Independence. Marvels of Burster?. Chicago Post. Another lacerated heart has had two s'.ltches taken In It by the surgeon. These scientific marvels are going to have an effect on susceptible Juries at future breach of promise trials. I.r isons of Experience. St. Louis Republic. If there Isn't another car shortage this year, after the big crops are ripe, it wll! be because the traffic manugers have learned from last year's experience soma new tricks for keeping the loaded cars moving. Western Cheer for Kaatern Pessimists. Boston Trunscrlpt. The senior vice president of the New York Central, who has been on a tour of observation through the west, thinks "this year's crops will mean more dollars to the farmers and more tons of freight to tho railroads" than ever before. Gratefulness of Hepublles. St. Louis Times. The country will never object to the pensioning of Its presidential widows. The man who Is elected to the chief magistracy of the land ahoud never feel it necessary to give thought to the puerilities of mere livelihood in ccntemplatlng his own future or that of his dependent closo kinsmen. A ovl Kinrrirnrt, Boston Transcript. The four hundredth annlversay of any event on the soli of the United States will be a novel experience for this country, but that is what the Porto Illcans purpose to give us on the twelfth of August In com memoratlon of the launching of that Island Into the world's history by Ponce de Le n. The peaceful conquest of that attractive possession nearly ten years ugn by General Miles may also be Includrd in the memorial exercises, as the United States will be asked to send a de'i-gate to ti e ceremonies It will bo a four days' program, observe! not only In Ponce and Sail Juan, but In all the towns of any size. The island probably has now over a million of popu lation. Business Is improving. education Is becoming more general and if the Porto Rlcans are not self-governing they are nearer to It than they ever were before, a fact which they, stem to acknowledge and appreclal Et I LAR SHOTS AT TUB rt LPIT. Washington Tost: JTophrt Elijah Howies estate, when settled up, was found to con sist of only 11.3m That wit! hardly last till the expiration of the 1.0 years to elapse before he returns. Chicago News: When the minister on go ing away for the summer leaves a supply of sermons on phonograph records the members of the congregation may send tin funnels to listen to them. Cleveland Leader: That Boston clergy man who says that the old-fashioned, spooning courtship has gone out of style ought to come out and ride some evening on one of our dimly lighted suburban cars before he says that again. Philadelphia Ledger: A Trenton minister who considered disgraceful the spectacle of two girls In bloomers taking exercise under the direction of their father has been tin panned out of town by Indignant misses. He was too disturbed In his good mind to notice whether these wore bloomers or not. New Tork Tribune: The Massachusetts bishop who has ordered collections In a Worcester church to be taken by the cash register system evidently is not afraid that this businesslike Innovation will lead to others, such as trading stamps, bargain days and "satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded." PEHSOSAl, AXD OTHERWISE. Oood morning! Have you swabbed that burn? Johnny got his gun all right. Did the gun get Johnny? The Chicago woman who fasted for forty days must have saved enough on her meat bill alone to pay the undertaker. Affairs will presently Luke Wright on the RJo Grande. The new secretary of war has ordered troops to that section. The sixty-two-story building which Is projected In New York wtll probably serve as a hitching post for aerial navigators. The proposed autobiography of John D. Rockefeller will not contain aij Introduc tory note from the ptn of Miss Ida Tar- bell. Although Caleb Powers has bepn out of a Kentucky prison only a few weeks, he Is reported to be on marriage bent. Oh, Liberty, how fickle thy charms! marriage to a young woman with a record of five divorces. What becomes of the constitutional provision guaranteeing "the pursuit of happiness," with variations? Anticipating a rush of campaign putriots this fall, a Cincinnati councilman wants tho city to establish a home where respect able visitors might sleep off "that tired feeling" without publicity. Carping critics turned their barbs on the Omaha Judge who enjoined a woman from talking over the back fence. How insigni ficant his dictum appears in contrast with that of a Minnesota judge who forbids re- To keep the muzzle on the mouth of the convicted Cashier Montgomery of the col lapsed political bank of Allegheny, Pa., the assistant looters of the Institution are skurrylng for about 12,000,000 with which to pay tho depositors. The prlco of alienee comes high, but the PennsylvarJa grafters must liavo It. Dr. James P. Rymer, an English sur geon, who has practiced his profession In England, the United States and Canada, has set out from Edmonton for Fort Oood Hope, 1,800 miles to tho north, with the idea of permanently practicing his profes sion among Eskimos and Indians. He does not Intend to return to civilization for at least three years, and then only for a brief visit. Editor Lummls of Out West heads a crusade for reform In the pronunciation of Los Angeles. "Every self-respecting per son," he says, "with the fear of God and love of California before his eyes," should pronounce It Loce Ang-el-ess, as this local Jingle explains: The lady would remind you, please, Her name Is not Lost Angle Lees, Nor Angle anything whatever. She hopes her friends will be so clever To share her fit historic pride The "g" shall not be Jellified. "O" long, "g" hard, and rhyme with "yes," And all about Loce Ang-el-ess. M1IAT IS A SAXE SUNDAY? Judicial Interpretation of Sabbath Observance. New York World. Justice Gaynor's decision in a Sunday ob servance case brought up from special ses sions was Important, not because It may Set a moving picture manager free, but be cause of its iinn declarations on the Issue of "the still Sabbath." The Justice, writing the majority opinion of the appellate division In Brooklyn, con sidered the idea of a legislative Intent so to stop "what Is called desecration of the Christimi Sabbath" as to prevent the courts from spttlng bounds to the statute. Bald he: When It Is considered that nowhere out side of the British isles haa the Old Testa ment notion of a still Sabbath ever existed In the Christian world. It Is Impossible to attribute to the aggregate Chrlstlon mind, as rather fuirly represented In our legisla ture, with such a vsrled national lineage In Its membership, any such purpose. Christians of no nation, church or sect ever enlertained the Old Testament notion of a still Sabbath, but favored and prac ticed Innocent and healthy exercises and amusements after church on Sunday. John Knox visited John Calvin on a Sunday afternoon St Geneva and found him out back at a game of bowls on the green. The principle approved by the court Is that of a Sunday which, like all other days. Is made for all men. It Is not for a part of the community a minority, In fact to enforce upon the whole community Its strictest, narnwest conception of how far the conduct orderly on six-sevenths of the week shall bo considered disorderly on the other seventh. There Is much need of a legislative Intent to make this point per fectly plain In law. WHY IIIRE1 A I'HKACIIEBT Canned Sermons FoIIott Canned Masle In Churches. Springfield (Mrfss.) Republican. Canned sermons are to be the fashion In Chicago this summer during the vacation season. Among those who favor the use of the phonograph Is Rev. Jenkln Lloyd Jones, pastor of All Souls' church, who is ready to furnish "records" of his sermons to any church of any denomination which wants them. He says: "A raster who wishes to take a vacation during the ex treme heated spell of July and August can regale his congregation with these sermon.-,, and I'll guarantee they will be Interest ing." Certainly the innovation la interest ing. The up-to-date twentieth crr.tury church, equipped with canned sermons and (nnned music, will only need to lay In some praying machines fitted with electric motors to reach a state of automatic per fection. But have the preachers fullv con sidered the consequences which might fol low this innovation they have so light heartedly taken up? It is all very well to have an automatic substitute through the hot months. But suipse the machine proves more eloquent than the man? Why should a church pay $3.0(0 a year for ex cellent but wooden senuors when It can listen to grea' pulpit orators for a trifling sum? We may yet see the preaching for the whole country done by a half-dozen silver-tongued speakers, constituting the canned sermon trust, and undertaking to supply any brand of doctrine that may be called tor. with a sideline In funeral and wedding services. Any deacon can turn tha handle, and the line of goods can b ex changed It not satisfactory, FREAK I.RTTRRS IN TAFT MAIL Girls Ask for His Thin Lock, Babies Earned After Illm. Philadelphia North American. Sjcretary Taft's mall has always been a heavy one, and his assistants ara probably the busiest men In Weshhlgton at all times, but for the last month his correspondence has multiplied erxirniously and Ihe type writers In his private office In the War de partment rattle like. an automatic gun In action. Women Inquire If he drinks or smokes, and many suggest weight reducers. He Is constantly petitioned for autographs, and writes them till he Is In danger of pen paralysis. Some letters are sollctous as to his health, others ask appointments, but all show that be Is recognized as a big and sympathetic man. Even tho baby naming has begun. His first name, William, coupled with the Howard, has already been used to dis tinguish half a dozen children from their less fortunate relatives. Several have been named Wlllam Taft. and there promises to be an unprecedented crop of "Bills," In the next rising generation, but a few years after the army of "Theo dores" has grown up. One mother, however, who has a soft spot In her heart for the secretary, hesi tated to name her boy after him. be cause she fenrs the Taft part would be vernaenlarlzed into "Taffy." and she hates nicknames. In her uncertainty she wrote the following letter: "My baby Is Just 2 weeks old, and we want to name him afier you. William Taft , but we are Just a little bit afraid to do It. If we do so, the boys might get to calling him 'Taffy,' which Is a good nickname as nicknames go; but we detest them all. When you were a boy were you railed "Taffy1? If not, we will have him christened Immediately. We will call him Wlillam Howard If they culled you 'Taffy.' The secretary's reply la not recorded but It Is safe to say that the little Maryland boy will be called WIHlHm Tuft, for In stead of being called "Taffy," the reere tary was always called plain "Bill." The prize proposition thus far, how ever, comes from a young woman's semi nary up in New York state, where a girls' club Indites tho following request, prop erly signed by the president and counter signed by the secretary. "Won't you do something for us? Wa girls have formed a Taft club, and we are going to work awfully hard for you. We are not going to ask you for your auto graph or your picture, but . Just a little lock of yoor hair for us to treasure and keep In our clubroom ns a memento." If the hair went back by return mall the secretary Is more generous than are most men of his age, and, although he still finds it unnecessary to attempt the Fairbanks wave, he, nevertheless, realizes that every lock counts. He hears frequently from Yale men of all descriptions, each pledging undying support. One letter reads: "I am of the class of '99, and nm a Bryan democrat, as are my father and my four brothers, but we are all going to vote for you in November, and six votes in Kentucky count." NEBRASKA AS AN OBJECT LESSOR. Thlnsra the Peerless One Flouted Have Coma to Pass. Cleveland Leader. One of the most remarkable advances In the general level of land values which has been recorded In recent years has taken place in oentral Nebraska, which Is Bryan's country. The average rise In the market price in the last seven or eight years Is stated at about 100 per cent. In many Instances It has been 200 per cent or more. Farms not well located, and hence at the bottom of the market, sell for fio to 120 an acre, instead of t4 to M an acre ten years ago. The best farm land has brought 100 an acre. In exceptional In stances. The noteworthy feature of this situation Is the utter defiance of economic laws, as laid down by Bryan. The things which have happened are precisely those which he said could never take place without "the free and unlimited colnago of silver at the ratio of sixteen to one, without waltintf for the aid or consent of any other nation," etc. Mr. Bryan has been mocked by events and flouted by the development of his own state. Everything has gone wrong with him. as a prophet. Ho has been stranded on the shore of a Dead Sea of withered predictions and blighted theories. Such conditions are enough to put any campaign in mourning at the outset. They make the Bryan fight a dismal affair be fore It begins. Knocking on (he Wrsther, Pittsburg Uazette. The, citizen who comes around mopping his face with a damp handkerchief and between puffs that are painful telle you how unmercifully hot It Is, ought to go to Jail. The chances are that tho man to whom he mentions the weather was ftlrly comfortable a minute before the hot man transmitted the suggestion of excessive heat, but at once he feels like a wilted cabbage leaf. Why don't people keep their hot weather thoughts to themselves? Possibly because misery loves company. It is fine to ask and answer your own questions one can't Quarrel with himself, you know. Best Brand of I.ibrrty. St. Louis Republic. Governor Magoon says there Isn't n s'ngl; case of yellow fever in tho Island of Cubi. That Is the kind of liberty that the natives need the most. The Great Teacher is the Apollo Piano Time was when the average family was either virtually without the refining influence of music or had to depend upon the mediocre playing and limited repertory of some member of the family who had taken lessons. Thus it was that the appre ciative delight of music was starved in man) a potential musician. Now all 1b changed. The Apollo brlugs to the home the immeasurable wealth of the world's treasure house of mu&ic. No one need be dependant upon others for musical treats. The best part about the Apollo is that those who do not know a note can play the music of the masters. More than that, the musically untaught often excel edu tated musicians In plnylng the Apollo, for the n'ui-.ou that quality in piano play Ing depends altogether upon musical ftellng and apprclation, and not at all upon the ability to read notes. For the children growing up, the Apollo fb great teacher, as well as a means of amusement. It is a friend Indeed to tha hostess, for it Is the king of entertainers. As a health giving meauB of recreus tkm for the business man it is commended by noted doctors. Kemember that no Piano Flayer gives such scope for musical expression as the Apollo. You will find it easy to play and easy to buy. Call today and see about it. If jou can't call, write for particulars. A it) I.I X) PLAVKII TIAXOH 30O to 1,000. ICasp payment. ! APOLLO PLAY Kit PIANOS $ftOO to l.OOO. Easy payments. i ' A. HOSPE CO., Braacb Honaca . Lincoln, Kearney, SKFIMO BOlI.Bn DOWlf. Publlme victories ar first won In com monp'.ace days. The worst thing about any evil J1 ' Its frullfulness. Conscience Is tlie answer of my life to the light I have. The only way lo u.e a great opportunity Is to serve It. The life has left any truth when It needs lsws to defend It. The ruin of gold makes the golden rula seem s;idly unreal. Tho pessimist kills all hope because hap piness Irritates him. Living a double life is killing each half of llf. with the other. The cunl ulum cf character may often In volve painful c'rcumstanccs. He Is never worth thinking much about who thinks most of himself. Tho eye single to the main chance always misses the great opportunity. The best way to cure the fear ot man is to lose the love of mammon. There is only one way to the hearts ot men, it Is the way ot your own heart. He who expands his house needs to have a enro not to contract his heart. A resolution to go to heaven will not help you much If you get on the wrong train. It's a difficult thing to lift up the man who is down while you're trying to win a smile from the mnn who put him there. Many a mnn who prides himself on being a law abiding person would be surprised ta ice himself In the light of tha law of love,- Chicago Tribune. DOMESTIC PLEASANTRIES. "I hear Mrs. Straltlace la opposed to al sorts of society functions and entertain She is-. She Is that narrow-minded that she wouldn't even entertain an idea. ' 4 Baltimore American. "But. George, dear, how can we pos. slbly live? Your Income won't more than, half support us." "O. ves. it will. After we are married, pet, I "won't have to bring you any mors, hot house flowers, you know." Chlca Tribune. "A man lives and learns," remarked the husband with some bltternesn. "Well, the school of experience doesn't bar co-eds," retorted his wife. LoulJvllle Courier-Journal. Mrs. KJones Did Mrs. Psmlth wear her new ball gown? Mr. KJones Really, I didn't notice what she had on. Mrs. KJones Ah, that was it. then. I heard that It was hardly noticeable. Cleveland Leader. "Ethel, you should not monopolize all the conversation." "When will I be old enough to, mam ma?" Y'onkers Statesman. "What alls me, doctor, Is that I have been burning too much midnight oil." "Not at all, my young friend. It'a a candle you are using, and you have been burning It at both ends. Chicago Tribune, "You haven't many pianos here In the poorer quarter of the city, have you?" "No, and you haven't many hlgn chairs In tho social cenler, have you?" Houston Post. t "Truth," sententlously remarked tha press Sgent, who had just proffered a "true Story Oat really happened," "lies at tha bottom of a well." "Yes," drearily remarked the dramatlo editor, "and It Is one of the things which hot air can't raise from there." Baltimore American. "I am so sorry you are not Interested in these aerial flight problems, Mr. Simp kins," sighed the Sweet Young Thing to the Interminable Bore. "Why?" asked the latter, a little mysti fied. "Because I should so love to tea yoti fly." Philadelphia Press. "How do you manage to get so mucl or your way in your ramtiy? "Very simple, I assure you. When tn wife and I differ, I find out beforelianl what she wants and then order ner to dt that way. - Naturally, alia doe tilne."-J Baltimore American. "Never marry a man to reform him, m dear," counseled Aunt Hephzlbah. "If yo do reform him he'll hate you for It, anc If you don't you'll always be pitying yourj self for having married a man who wasn't good enough for you." Chicago Trlbun Mrs. Avenue My good woman. It would give us great pleasure to help to broad eg your life. Do you believe In the club foi women? Mrs. Tenement Sure, mam, the old roll Ing pl. i-i easier to handle and jet ai good. Philadelphia Press. TIIIS MORNING AFTRR. W. P. Nesblt. 'TIs tho last red firecracker Left lying alone; All Its former companions Are bursted and gone. Not one of Its kindred Nor loved one Is nigh To observe Its last sputter Or hoar Its last sigh. It lies on the sidewalk But none takes it up Little Willie has wandered Downtown with the pup To Inquire of the doctor If dogs prow new tails. For a hunch of firecrackers Filled puppy with walls. Uncle Thomas Is resting Upstnlr.i on a cot He must Iny on his stomach, HI'; hack Is so hot; Pocr olsl grandpa Is moaning lit grizzled d"spalr, For a wayward skyrocket Took his beard and hair. Papa has his head bandaged In coverings neat. And a surgeon is fixing Tho burns on his feet; Mamma thinks she'll recover The use of her arms. Though the redflre that burned them Caused eight fire alarms. 'TIs the last red firecracker Where It was flung down El" the mantle of silence Fell over the town; There's no one to explode It; It lls where It fell And must wait for Ignition Till someone gets well. 1513 Dougla St. York, Neb.;, Council Blutta, La.