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I TITE OMAHA DAILY BEE; TUESDAY, JITLY 7. 190S. Te Omaha Daily DeK FOUNDED nV EDWARD ROSEWATER VICTOR ROP E WATER, EDITOR. Entered at Omaha postofflce second class matter. TBRM3 OF RfBflCRIPTION: Dally Bee (wltho:it Hunday). one year..W) Dally lin an1 Punday, on year 00 DELIVKRKDBY CARRIER: Dally Roe (including Sunday), per week. .15c Dally Bee (without Sunday), par Evening Bee I without Punday), per week 4c Evening Bee (with Sunday), per week. ...Ik Punday Bee, one year 2 J Saturday Bee, one year 1 BO Address all complalnta nt Irregularities In delivery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. Routh Omahn-.-Clty Hall Building. Council Ruffa-15 Bcott Street. 'htrago-lM8 Marquette Building. Now York-Rooms 1101-1102, No. 4 West Thirty-third Street. Washington 7 Fourteenth Street N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi torial matter ahould tie addressed: Umaha lice Editorial De pnrtment. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal orJf r pavahle to Tne Hen Puhllahlrjg Company. Only 2-cent stamps received In payment of mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION: Etste of Nebraska, Douglas County, as.: Uenrge B. Taachuck, treasurer of The LVe Publishing oinpany, being duly aworn, suya that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally. Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of June. 1, ai as follows: 1 ..35,880 IS 38,490 3 35,740 3 36,030 4 35,800 I 38,790 e 35,eao '." 35,500 0 35,900 B 35,910 10 38,970 11 36.350 13 36,030 13 38,890 14.. :.. ..39,050 13 36,060 19 38,400 17 35,920 18 39,110 19 36,460 SO 35,890 81 3S.7B0 22. 36,400 83 36,093 84 38,340 85 36,600 86 36,070 28 35,830 99 36,600 30 36,330 Tctals 1,089,090 Less unsold and returned copies., 8,677 Net total 1,079,313 Dtlley average 38,877 GEORGE B. TZ8CHUCK, Treasurer. Subscribed l:i my pr-rnce and sworn to before tue this 1st Any of July, IOok. . . M. P. WALKER, ' Notary Public. when out Subscriber learl porarlly ahunld Mailed ta tbeiu. bunged as often OF TOWS, nsj the city tera hare Th Ilea Address will b as requested. OiLata needs an enlarged Union ttatitn and needs It ladly. Mr. Taft Is not Roing to let his golf suffer Interference from politics. Talk about Mayor Jim's backbone. He has not dodged a single camera since he landed In Denver. The man who Is looking for work end hoping he won't find it should keep away from the wheat belt In the west. In case of a deadlock at Denver on the vice presidential fight, Adlal E. Stevenson's address Is still Blooming ton, 111. Uncle Henry Gaasaway Davis has served notice that both he and his check book have retired from national politics. The experience of some of the trans continental delegates with washouts Is likely to put a danyier on the Irri gation plank. Under the rulings of the Depart ment of Agriculture you may now be able to Identify oleomargarine with out taEtlng It. Esnator Depew says that more peo ple die from over-eating than from drinking too much. Not with meat at present prices. An exchange says that Jack Lon don writes only when the fit takes blm. London's readers will not chal lenge the statement. The Denver convention Is a mile above the iea level, but the list of rice presidential aspirants Is long enough to reach to It. At last accounts Mr. Hearst had not yet accepted the Invitation to make his Independence league a trailer to the Vaniocratlc trolley car. "Talk costs nothing," says the At lanta Constitution, which evidently does not own a phonograph or pat ronize the long-distance telephone. It looks as though Senator Piatt would win the last divorce suit brought against him, but it is a case where he loses If he wins. "Hypocrite," "trust tool" and "ghoul" are some of the pet names applied to Judge Parker by Colonel Watterson. It is pleasant to find the democratic brothers living In peace and unity. .Vr. Taft has resigned every office over held in order to go higher. As there is nothing higher than the presidency of the United States, It may be accepted as certain that he will stick through his term. It i announced that President Roosevelt will send a message to con gress recommending one-man rule for the District of Columbia. The presl dent -will learn, by observing the re ports from Denver this week, how one- man rule works. It Is announced from Denver that Mr. Bryan is a candidate without an official headquarters there and that he does not need headquarters. That as sessment on the Nebraska delegation for a 3,600 entertainment fund must have been. eaUraljr unnecessary ex travt.a. THE DIELOF THK COlOAtlH, The e-plstol-ary Interchange be tween "Colonel" Dryan of Nebraska and "Colonel" Ouffey of Pennsyl vania makes all the other political fireworks let loose on the glorious Fourth look like wet powder fizzles. The Roman candle volley touched off at Falrvlew has been answered with a giant cracker fulmlnatlon from Denver, which has sent splinters fly ing In all directions. According to "Colonel" Bryan, "Col onel" Ouffey is a corporation wolf In fcheep's clothing, who has been rolling the democratic waters and Is unfit to mix with Bryan and his immaculate intimates, such as Mayor "Jim," Roger Sullivan, Tammany "Boss" Murphy, "Flngy" Connors, "Gumshoe Bill" Stone and other democrats In good standing. Colonel Guffey answers that his cor poration money and personal assist ance were good enough for Bryan In 1896 and 1900, and when it comes to executing the Job of political boss. he yields the palm to the sage of Falrvlew. Having shot off their pistols at long range, the two combatants are threat ening to clinch with bare flats and may resort to unprofessional weapons unless bystanders Interpose. That the peace and harmony hovering in thick chunks over the democratic pow-wow at Denver should be broken by such little family Jars Is distressing and de plorable, EDCCATlSn THE INDIAN- When Francis E. Leupp was made commissioner of Indian affairs a few years ago, one of his first official acts was the cancellation of an order issued by his Immediate predecessor calling upon the Indians to get their hair cut. The hair-cut order had been issued by former Commissioner Jones because he had sat for four or five years receiv ing delegations from Indian tribes throughout the country and had visual proof of sanitary reforms that might be accomplished if Borne active barbers could git to work among the abor igines. The Indians came very nearly rising In a general revolt, Insisting that If they had their hair cut, the next order from Washington might re quire them to go to work. Mr. Leupp had lived in New York and New England and what he did not know about Indians he made up in his knowledge of human nature. He can celled the hair-cut order and directed that the Indians be supplied with all the soap and crash towels they needed or it might be hoped they would need later. As a result, the bids Just opened Jn Washington for supplies for the Indian agencies for the country for the next fiscal year call for 512,000 pounds of soap and 53,000 yards of crash toweling. Mr. Leupp knew that if the Indian could be taught to ac quire, the habit of washing, he might be led to higher things. In Justlflcai tlon of this idea, the order for soap has been increased each year and this year 2,300 dozen "coarse combs and 2 50 dozen hair brushes have been added to the list of supplies to be forwarded to Lo. Proof Is at hand that the scheme has worked, like a charm. First came the soap and towels. Then the coarse combs and hair brushes were added, and now Mr. Leupp announces the ac complishment, gradually, of what Mr. Jones of Wisconsin desired to bat out on the first pitched ball. It is formally announced that an official barber will be stationed at each Indian agency and reservation for the purpose of cut ting the Indian's hair and doing a little missionary work by introducing him by degrees to the Joys of talcum powder, eau de cologne, a neck shave and the higher evidences of an effete civilization. THI QUESTION OF FRANCHISES. Kansas City, In the throes of a charter revision, is grappling with the question of franchises, which is Irre pressible in all large cities. The fran chise section upon which the subcom mittee of the Kansas City charter board has agreed embodies the follow ing points: 1. Any franchlae granted by the council must be submitted to a vote, of the people If within alxty days from the passage of the ordinance CO per cent of the registered voters of the city petition for It. I. The city council may, on its own mo tion, provide, lij granting a franchise, that It ahall not take effuct until ratified by a vote of the people; In audi cases an elec tion must l e held. S. Any franchise granted to any corpora tion for a perlcd of more than thirty years cannot be valid until ratified by a vote of the people. 4. Any extenaion of any existing fran chise granted earlier than two years from the date of the expiration of the existing franchise must be submitted to a vote of the people. No petition Is then required for a referendum. It is mandatory on the council to submit it to a vote. In support of its proposed section the subcommittee urges that these four checks will serve successfully to prevent any very vicious franchise grabs. Such franchise provisions may be In the nature of reforms in Kansas City, but they would work in the opposite direction if they were to be incor porated into a new city charter for Omaha. We believe the present pro visions of the Omaha charter with ref erence to franchises, although they could be advantageously amended in one or two minor matters, are much better calculated . to protect public rights than Kansas City's proposed limitations. In Omaha no franchise of any kind for the use of the streets by public service corporations can be granted by the city without a submission to the voters. In Omaha no franchise ran be granted or modified without full notice by publication, thus effectually block ing dark night Jobs. In Omaha no new franchise can be granted without a stipulation for a percentage royalty to the city in addi tion to regular taxes. If the granting of a franchise is of such importance that it should have popular sanction, if it exceeds a period of thirty years or constitutes an ex tension more than two years in ad vance of the expiration of the existing franchise, there is Just as much reason why it should require popular sanction if it stops at twenty-five years or ex tends a franchise already expired. Omaha surely can give Kansas City pointers on dealing with franchises for public service corporations. THE HUMILIATION OF PARKS B- Judge Alton B. Parker, the chosen democratic standard bearer in the presidential campaign of four years ago, and still the nominal head of his party in the nation, evidently made u grave mistake when he assumed to attend the impending convention as a delegate from his state. Judge Parker Is on the ground at Denver, but he is attracting scarcely more attention there than the most Insignificant back woodsman commissioned to represent an obscure constituency. Judge Parker evidently labored under the delusion that he could go to Denver and exercise at least as potent an Influence as was exerted by Mr. Bryan as a delegate to the St. Louis convention that nominated Par ker in 1904. Four years ago Mr. Bryan as a delegate from Nebraska, although in the minority, succeeded in shaping the platform more or less to his liking, and while he failed to block the nomination of Parker, as he set out to do, he made himself the central figure in the memorable scene that followed the receipt of the famous gold telegram. Judge Parker at Denver, however, is conceded no other privilege than to ornament a seat in the delegates' sec tion of the convention hall. The resolution which he prepared In eulogy cf the late President Cleveland will not be permitted to go into the con vention record. The chances are that someone else than Judge Parker will represent New York on the platform committee, and the whole speaking program has been carefully engineered so as to snuff out any ambition of the last presidential nominee to be heard by the democrats gathered in Denver. It is safe to say that never before has a man who led a great political party In a contest for national political supremacy been subjected to such hu miliating treatment. An outsider would suppose that Judge Parker owed his party an apology for having taken Its commission in the face of fore doomed defeat and that he had been sentenced to sit on the mourners' bench for the remaining years of his life. One of our yellow Journal contempor aries Is emitting saffron-colored shrieks over the water works assessment fixed by the county assessor and confirmed by the County Board of Equalization, in timating that it must be the result of a corrupt bargain. In the first place, It falsifies the assessment of the water works, which, including its taxable real estate, Is $4,291,000, and not the $3,500,000, set upon the personal property alone. Without venturing an opinion on what the valuation should be. The Bee does not hesitate to say that the assessment of the water works is, Indeed, a puzzler. On one tide we have the water company In sisting on purchase by the city at the $6,000,000 appraisal, and on the other side we have the Water board de nouncing the appraisement as exorbi tant and fraudulent and grossly exces sive and contesting it in the courts. The water company would, doubtless, be glad to pay one year's tax on the full amount If it could thereby cinch the sale at $6,000,000. How far peo ple may differ in Judgment as to values is shown by the fact that the same yellow Journal, which is now sure there is something rotten in a tax assessment of $4,291,000. has been as serting all the time that the property Is not worth over $3,000,000. When it comes to newspaper enter prise the Chicago Tribune, with its western spirit of "go ahead." may be depended on to outdo the most preten tious metropolitan dallies of New York. Although republican In poli tics, no newspaper in the country has made the extensive preparation which the Tribune has made to handle the news of the democratic convention at Denver with as much detail as It be stowed on the republican convention In its own city. It will go even to the extent of publishing In Denver a local edition of the Tribune, containing an the convention news and the most im- nortant of its other regular features. Of course, national conventions come only once in four years, but they af ford comparative tests of newspaper energy and facilities seldom presented elsewhere. The local democratic organ puts quotation marks around the tine "Colonel" in referring to wr. uuney. Isn't that a little dangerous? Its an even wager that the "Colonel" at tached to Mr. Guffey's name represents as much service on the field of battle as does the "Colonel" attached to Mr. Bryan's name. Former Senator William V. Allen of Nebraska has formulated an In junction plank Intended to leave the enjoining powers of the court unim paired. Senator Allen used to sit on the bench himself. The death of Coroner Davis causes sincere regret to a large circle of his friends. Although holding office but a few months. Coroner Davis had started out to make an exemplary record as a public official fully up to what had been promised for him when he was seeking election last fall. The chairman of the republican national committee will disclose hls identity in time to let the democrats know what they are up against before they choose a campaign manager to play the other end of the game. Colonel Guffey charges Mr. Bryan with being ungrateful. We know of another distinguished democrat who once told Mr. Bryan he would not forget "the sting of ingratitude." Denver wants assurance that it will be a four days' convention. Denver put up more money for its convention than Chicago and It wants an equal chance to recoup. ' Keep This In Mind. Kansas City Star. The next president of the United States III be of the progressive school. It la up to the people to see to It that he is not handicapped by a. reactionary congress. Leaves Them to Their Fate. Chicago Tribune. Having sounded his solemn warning, the Hon. Tom Dawson may wash the ;csr.onsl blllty and printers' Ink off his hands and let matters take their course. He can not be blamed for anything that happens. An Unsympathetic Prophet. Cleveland Plain Dealer. That Iowa prophet who predicts the end of the world In October evidently has no sympathy with the hope and fears that are a part of the closing weeks of a presi dential campaign. Missouri Harks Backward. Philadelphia Record. A Missouri Judge lias gone back to Adam and" Eve for a precedent In deciding upon the validity of a marriage contract. It Is this learned and rational treatment of questions of law that Increases our rev erential respect for the Judiciary. Judicial Are Mahta. New York World. Two decisions from the bench on scrip tural subjects are reported. A Kansas City Judge rules that our first parents In the Garden of Eden contracted a common law marriage, and Justice Uaynor decides In effect that "the Sabbath was made for man." Who Will Tall the Klttf New York Sun. What respectable, responsible, conserva tive democrat of the old democracy lives today that is willing for the sake of the vice president's title and salary, and a gambling chance with death, to become the stool pigeon of Bryanlsm, such as It has been, Is, and wHl continue to be? Increasing; Industrial Activities. Philadelphia Record. Substantial Improvement In buslnops con ditions Is evidenced by the fact that the Allls-Chalmers machine works, In Mil waukee, have been Incrcas ng their force of men steadily for several weeks, as the In crease In orders In the last three months has been from 30 to 60 per cent. Construc tion work In extending the Harriman lines, suspended several montha ago, has Just been resumed. ,The Milwaukee and St. Paul road has resumed full working hours in Its Dubuque shops, , What Become of the Coins? Philadelphia Press. The Philadelphia mint In the fiscal year which ended last Tuesday made 137.133.777 separate pit ces of money. These coins were worth $126,755,848. Now it happ;ns that this same mint .has been converting gold and silver bullion or metal alloys Into coins for many years and several other mlnta In the country have also been work'ng steadily. If the nation's population Increased 1,0(10,000 in the last year the Philadelphia mint made for each person 137 coins. Who has that money In his possession? More than 81,000,000 pieces of the new money were pennies, so that every citizen of the United States got a new cent since last June. Typical Mrbraaka Flatter, San Francisco Chronicle. A man named Gandy, who lives In Broken Bow, Neb., took the trouble to learn law In order to get even with a railroad which he fancied had done him an Injury. He has been hammering away for sixteen years and in the Interval he has coat the transportation corporation with which he had a row a great deal of Inconvenience and some money. Gandy, In addition to being a wealthy man, has a reputation for fearlessness. It Is said he Is the only man who ever rode a wild buffalo bull. Evi dently his early experience qualified him for his later undertaking, for In tackling a big railroad corporation he must have had aa lively a time as when he took his bison ride. STATES JiEKDEI) TO WIJI, Calculations of Special Interest to Democratic Rainbow Chasers. Philadelphia Press. The democratic party was once able to win with the solid south and New York. Later It needed the solid south, New York and another state like Indiana or the three states meeting at New York, New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. The apportionment made on the census of 1800 added only twelve votes In the electoral college to the south and twenty six votes to the northern state, Ir.oluding Oklahoma. The solid south, 1S9 votes, nnd New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, fifty-eight more lack twer.ty-flve votes of a majority. A fourth large northern state or two lesser ones are now needed to giv a democratic majority for president. Oklahoma, seven votes, is not enough. This would still leave eighteen votes to be got somewhere. If Bryan le to be elected this year he must carry every southern state, he must get the electoral vote of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, and he must add to this besides Oklahoma some one of the larger states between Ohio and Nebraska. He must carry his own state, for Instance, which he has not done rlnce 196. The day Is over when the democratic party can concentrate on New York or on New York arvi Indiana, as in the past At least three northern states besides New York must be carried, unless the democratic ticket wins some one big state like Illinois, which It has never won on a presidential election save witli Cleveland, In 18S2. The odds are, therefore, more heavily against a party which rests on the solid south for Us vote than aver "before. Each census sees the northern states make a relatively larger gain. When a presidential election comes In 113 on the basis of the census of It 10. New York and five medium glaed states will be needed with the' solid south to carry the electoral college for a democratic candidate. Moreover, the republican majorities In the northern states grow. They da not diminish. They were never larger than lr the past four yeara. ARMY 00lf I WAMllXOTOX. Carrent Kventa Gleaaed from the Army and ir Register. The Army signal office has plivert con tracts this week for enough f 1-1.1 artillery telephones to complete the Issue of that Instrument to th field artillery branch. This Is the type of telephone which has been adopted after extensive teats In the field and some of the artillery commands have already been equipped v 1th the 'phone. The chief signal ofrirer of the army has been advised that during the next or seven weeks there Is likely to be a trial of the dirigible balloon and the aeroplane, for which contracts were awarded several months ago, subject to the result of a prescribed test. The Beldwln dl-lgihle balloon Is expected to be presented for trial at Fort Myer, Va.. In the latter part of tho present month, while the aeroplane, constructed by the Wright Bros., will be ready for trial late In August. Under the contract requirement the former vehicle must make a speed of sixteen miles and the latter that of thirty six miles per hour. The course must be five miles out and an eotinl distance return. with flying start. A board of signal corps officers will conduct the test and one of the members will probably accompany the contractors In tho experimental trip. A plan for establishing a general service corps for the army Is again under con sideration In the general staff of the War department. A bill ta now pending In congress with provision for such a branch, but the measure does not meet with entire approval. Its principal defect seems to be that not enough compensation la pro vided for the members of such a corps. It is appreciated thut with the demand for skilled labor the pay must be at least equal to what Is received by the same class of employes In civil life. In the plan which Is under discussion, due regard will be paid to thla necessity. It Is the Intention to present the draft of the bill to congress at the beginning of the next session. Army staff rides have evidently become an Institution In the military establish ment. Following the ride of student of ficers of the army war college over the Virginia battlefields there Is the ride of some thirty-two officers who have been on duty at the Leavenworth army schools. Of this number of officers eight were on duty at Leavenworth as Instructors, twenty-two as students, and two belong to tho Mexican army who have been at tending tho Institution. The officers left Leavenworth on Wednesday for Manassas Junction, Va,, which place they plan to leave today for a ride which will Include Antlnfam and Gettysburg. The ride will last ten or twelve days. The officer In charge is Major J. F. Morrison. It la observed that many recommenda tions are being made involving the dis charge without honor of enlisted men who have been convicted by civil courts and sentenced to terms of imprisonment. In moat of these caaes the data submitted by the military authorities having knowledge of the case is extremely meager. If It Is possible to do, It Is suggested, It would be well that those making application for discharge without honor should go Into details as to the length of service of the man concerned and the general character of the offense for which he has been con victed. It is quite possible to conceive of many cases In which tho conviction was for an offense the nature of which does not necessarily carry disgrace with It. In such cases, the release from their con tract of enlistment soldiers who may be of further use to the United States would not appear to be to the best .In terests of the government. The officials of the surgeon general's office of the War department are much gratified at the results, achieved during the last week, of the notices sent broad cast concerning the examination of candi dates for appointment aa first lieutenant and assistant surgeon In the army medical corps. These examinations wi:i take place at army posts in tho neighborhood of the homes of the candidates on Ajgust 3, and those who are found qualified will Join thoso who have been provisionally ap pointed as a result of the examination recently held. It began to look as if there would be little Interest manifested In tha coming examination, a circumstance which was difficult to explan In view of the legislation which was enacted at the last session of congress for the benefit of the medical corps personnel. The applications, however, have come In an unprecedented rate during the past week and there are now eighty-two completed applications, with tho prospect that thera will be 1C0 candidates authorized - for examination. There are now more than fifty vacancies In the Junior grade of the army medical corps and thero will be about thirty-two next .January. Pt'l19HIN THE l.NI'IDDLE," Present Day Application of A. Ward's II amor. Indianapolis News. On one occasion when Artemus Ward had taken his "onparalleled show" to Utlky, N. Y., he tells us that his sttentlon was suddenly drawn to a man making an as sault on Ills group of the twelve apostles with a distinct object, punching and smash ing at one figure with unrestrained force and fury. "What air you doin'7" screamed Artemus, aa he reporta It, "that air Judas Iscarrlt." "That's it," shouted the Irate citizen, "I want it understood that no in- fiddle can show hlsself In L'tiky with Im punerlty." Like most real h'iorlsts, Arte mus only typified his time. At a Sunday morning Bible class in a Chicago church there was grave discussion as to whether Secretary Taft was an "inflddle." The query was Introduced by the class leader, and after a strenuous hour there was post ponement for more accurate information. "If the story Is true," the leader says, "we not only will vote against him, but work against him." It is refreshing In these days of alleged laxity to find the martyr spirit abroad, ready to do battle for the vindication of Omnipotence. The assurance Is thus double sure that "no Inflddle can show hlsself hereabouts with Impunerlty." He'll get what Judas Iscarrlt got at Utlky. Commending such seal to the uttermoat of Its deserving, we may also offer consola tions, and In so doing may answer again an oft Iterated question to the News. Mr. Taft Is a Unitarian, as his father was bo fore him. He often attends the Episcopal church In Washington, aa Mrs. Taft docs regularly. We presume that will be taken fur a bill of health by the sealoua Bible class of Chicago. ' But we can do better than that, adding to the specifications re garding Mr. Taft'a church affiliations the positive statement that he is not an Infidel. There are no Infidels. They are as extinct In the twentieth century as the dodo. They began to die out when the strenuous style of preaching that used to bang the Bible and beat the dust out of the pulpit cushion began to lose vogue. As the fires of eternal torment ceased to flame, began to burn lurid and finally went out, the figure of the infidel faded; and In the broad light of day, where religion is now finding itself, the infidel has vanished like a wraith. God's sunshine has shown that there was nothing to him. It was only in the artificial light of a trrrihle and terrorizing theuloxr that he was visible. SJR(BF(WI8ID9 Sixty-six Years of Superiority. Just the thing to go with all kinds of fresh or stewed fruit, either as a delicate sauce to pour over the fruit or as a blanc mange or pudding to serve with it. Before another meal drop postal for 44 taw Grocers mm T. MNGSFORD & SON, Oswetjo, Natleaal BREAK WITH CASTRO COMPLETE Diplomatic Relations Are Severed and Yet -o Stnte of War Exists. NEW YORK, July .-The break in diplo matic relations between the United States and Veneiuela, hlch resulted in the with drawal of Jacob 81eeper, the American charge d'affaires, from the Veneiuelan capital. Is far more complete than was at first generally believed. The full text of diplomatic notes which passed between Mr. Sleeper and Dr. Jose de Jesus Paul, the Venezuelan minister of foreign affairs, sub sequent to the withdrawal of Mr. Sleeper, Indicates that not only are the friendly re lations Interrupted, but completely severed. In his letter notifying the foreign minis ter of his intention to leave the Venezuelan capital Mr. Sleeper wrote that In view of the Venezuelan government's persistent re fusal to give redress "for the governmental action by which all American Interests have been destroyed or confiscated," and "In view of the tone and character of the com munications received from the Venezuelan government," he believed that "the further presence In Caracas of diplomatic represen tatives of the United States subserved no useful purpose." Dr. Paul's reply to this communication was made In the same tone which charac terized previous communications made to the American representatives. It declared that President Roosevelt has persisted In asking redress for American Interests and Individuals without any Justice and right, and that Venezuela Is not blameable If it does not permit the nation to be "wrested of Its rights." A request for "safe con duct" made In Mr. Sleeper's letter is re fused on the ground that as no state of war exists the Venezuelan government did not consider It fit to grant It. OMAHA'S WATER TROUBLE. Coasnmptlon of Dilated Mad Attracts Attention. Bt. Louis Times. The city of Omaha has refused to pay the water company Its annual rental. The city charges that the company agreed to furnish unadulterated water. Chemists and other forms of common sense have been brought in to the end that It has been de termined that the water supply Is mostly mud. A man having a mind for mathematics has figured it out that the people of Omaha drink thirty-one tons of solid earth every day. St. Louis knows what this means; it once drank mud as a part of its dally regimen; but It learned a secret that Omaha ought to try. Without some at tention, any water supply that originates In the bosom of the Missouri river must be faulty. Ingalls or some other western genius once said that the Missouri was too thick for navigation and too thin for cul tivation; but science can help a lot If It is allowed to intervene. St. Louis water was once the color arl consistency of chocolate. It waa said to be healthful, although It didn't look It. The water of today Is all but 100 per cent pure. It Is good to look at and fine for drink. A YEAR OF BIG MINTAGE. Home and Foreign Ontpnt of the Mints. Wall Street Journal. Ninety per cent of the coinage by the United States In the fiscal year of 1908 con sisted of gold eagles, a coin which proba bly not one In a hundred people sees as often as once a year. Altogther the coin age of the country comprised seventeen different varieties, seven of which were for the Philippine islanda in pesos and eentavos, and one of which of the same denomination was for account of the Mexi can government. The number of pennies turned out averaged a little less than one for each Inhabitant. The total coinage for continental United Slates was fc-'15.714,tl'. This has been one of the most active yeara in the history of national minting. Of this amount I179.23S, S37 were in gold and (16,632,477 n sliver, or about the ratio of one of silver to twelve of gold. The coinage for the Philippine islands Included more than 25.000,000 pieces valued at 118.121.825. or more than the total silver coinage for the United States. PERSONAL NOTES. Lo, the poor Indian? Not so any longer. Red men in Wisconsin have 11,000,000 on de posit tn banks. The man who prophesied that the sun was growing excessively hot is probably enjoying a siesta in a tropical bur.galuw. There will be barrels of snow at the Dt n ver convention. Think of a politician paus ing In his mad career to tap a barrel of snow ! A doctor who says there is more In sug gestion than most doctors admit, cites as JULT SXLITXKT. Tor delivery during the month of July, we are offering the best quality of Pennsylvania Hard Coal at $10.00 per ton. Our Hard Coal is the SCRANTON the same grade we have sold for over twenty years. Government tests and long experience prove that this is the best of the Anthracite Coals the highest in heat, the lowest in ash, and does not clinker, but burns to a fine white ash. Our supply is dry, bright, newly mined coal. We also offer at reduced prices, for July delivery, the best Arkansas Anthracite and Semi-Anthracite, and the various grades of Soft Coal usually sold in this market. Our CARBON NUT at $6.50 is an excellent Cooking Coal hot, quick, clean, lasting, and is fast taking the place of high priced coal. ornox, io riuiv bt. Telephone. Dottslaa 30 Teleaaaaa. lad, A-MM I Original Rectpea and Cooking Helps " and learn what a practical cookinf aid Kings lord Otwcgo Corn Starch really is. Its many met will surprise you. Tor making; custards, blane manges, ices, puddings all dishes that depend for goodness upon corn starch quality Kingsford's has been chosen by best cooks for three generations. pound packages toe -IOC ' R . N. Y. 1 USMsVSnKBU Starch Co., Successors proof that a small boy sucking a lemon can put a brass band out of business. Sympa thetlcally the mouths of the players water until their wind is shut off. Ten members of the late President Cleve land's cabinet survive, Richard Olney, Dor M. Dickinson. Judsou Harmon, John Q; Carlisle, David R. Francis. Norman J. Cole man, W lllam F. Vilas, Hoke Smith, Charles' 8. Fairchlld and Hilary A Herbert. A Chicago woman lawyer has Just won a 1.T0.000 foe for successfully contesting case In which a tS.COO.OnO estate was in volved. In face of this arguments to prove that woman In professional life Is a, failure fall rather flat with 0,000 worth of arguments to the contrary. Former Mayor Charles H. Denlson, classed as the richest man In Williamson county, who died suddenly at Marlon, 111., on Friday June 1, the date of Mr. Cleve land's funeral, was a warm friend of tho former president. They were born In tho same year and lived close neighbors aa boys. LAUGH1K8 L1.NK9. "My son has finished another year at college." "With credit, I hope." "Well, no. He was conditioned In both tennis and base ball." Louisville Courier Journal, "My wife plays a wonderful game of whim, doesn't she?" said Mr. Rllgglns. "Wonderful," answered the expert, who had been her partner. "I don't know when I have met a player who surprised me more frequently." Chicago Record Herald. Arabella Lll Is going to marry Dick, Is she? Isn't that Just too ridiculous to talk about! Kstella I ahould say not. It's too ridicu lous to keep still about. Chicago Tribune. Motorby (sternly) I hear you're getting rake-offs from botti the repair man and the ice dealer? New Chauffeur (In surprise) But, sir, didn't you advertise for an experienced chauffeur, who thoroughly understood his business? Puck. They were looking at that celebrated statue, the Venus of Mllo. "But where are the hands?" asked Mrs. Pneurltch. "They were laid off, madam," explained the polite attendant, "in consequence of a disastrous break in marb!; stock." Chi cago Tribune; "Another hero dat deserves a medal whether he gits it or not," said Uncle Kben, "Is de man dat goes right along tendln' to business ' wlfout no complaints 'bout de hot weather." Washington Star. Bacon Do you believe that when a man marries his troubles begin? Kgbert Not always. Sometimes a fel low's troubles begin when he asks the girl's father. Yonkers Statesman. "Uncle Jim Hastings umpired the game between the Stars and the Comets." "What! Say, how did he look when he got through?" "He looked all right. Uncle Jim stands six feet-two and weighs 240." Cleveland Plain Dealer. The porch climber hesitated. "I'm only doing this," he muttered, "be cause getting in on the ground floor has never made any money for men in a busi ness way, and It's up tn me to get even with the world somehow." Convincing himself by this specious rea soning, he softly pushed up the window and climbed Inside. Chicago Tribune. THE BOY WHO DIDM'T PASS. Detroit Free Press. A sad faced little fellow aits alone In deep disgrace, There's a lump arising In his throat, tears streaming down his face; He wandered from his playmates, for he doesn't want to hear Their shouts of merry laughter since th world has lost Its cheer; He has sipped the cup of sorrow, he has drained the bitter glass, And his heart is fairly breaking; he's the boy who didn't pass. In the apple tree the robin sings a cheery little song, But he doesn't seem to hear It, showing plainly something's wrong; Comes his faithful little spaniel for a roup and bit of play, ' But the troubled little fellow sternly bids him go away 1 AH alono he sits in sorrow, with his balr a tangled mass. And his eyes are red with weeping; he's the boy who didn't pass. How he hates himself for falling; he csa hear his play mate Jeer. For they've left lilir. with the dullards gone ahead a half a year; And lie tried so hart to cenquer, O, ha tiled to do lila bust. But now he knows h's weaker, yes, and duller than the rest He's ashamed to tll his mother, for he thinks she'll hut him, too The little boy who didn't pass, who failed of getting through. Oh, you who boast a laughing son and speak of him as bright, And you who love a littln girl who comes to you tonight . With sii.illng eyes and dancing feet, with honors from her school, Turn to that lonely little boy who thinks he la a fool And take him kindly by the hand, the. dullest In his class. Ha Is the one who most needs love, the boy who didn't pass. Coutant Cl Squlroo f