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TILE REE: OMAHA. TUESDAY. AUGUST 10. 1900. Hie Omaha Daily Bel FOl'NDED BT EDWARD ROSE WATER. VICTOR ROSE WATER. EDITOR. Entered (t Umiht postofflce ond elks muter TERMS tK Pl'BSCRIPTION Daily Pee (without Rundsyt one yMr..H' Dally Bee and Sunday. one year DELIVERED BT CARRIER, tolly pea (Including Hundivi, per week..le Pally Bee (without "undey), per wk..i Evening Bh (wlthcui Sunday), per week So Evening Bee (with 8ondav, per week. lOr Sunday Kn. one year t?.i Saturday Bee. on year 1 Address all complaints of Irregularities In delivery to City CI-eulaMon Department. OFFICES Omaha The Bee Building fcouth Omaha Twenty-rourth and N. Counrll Bluffs IS Scott 81 reel. Lincoln M l.lttle Building. Chicago 1MB Marquette Building New York Room 1NH-1102 No. 34. Weal Thirty-third Street. Washing ton 728 Fourteenth afreet. N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communlratlona relating to news and edi torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee. Editorial Department. REMITTANCES Remit by draft. express or postal order, navahia i Th u.i Pnhiiahln Company. Only t-cent stamps received In payment of mail account. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska. Doualaa County, as Georae B. Tsschuck. tresaurer of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn says that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dallv. Morning. Evening and Sunday Be printed during the month or July. 19W. was aa ioiiows . . .41,740 , . .4J.T80 . . .42,090 . . ,40,t3Q , . .48,160 , . .41,930 . . .41,080 17. . It. . 19. . 20. . . 21 . . 12. . 21. . . . .41.910 . .40,300 . .41,940 , . . 41,780 . . .43,430 , . .41,890 , . .41,910 1 41,970 1 41,810 10 41,780 11 40,880 It 43,830 It 41,740 It 41,710 1 5 41,870 IS 41,740 Total Returned copies .. Net total 2 41.800 2h 40,180 2f 41,970 27 .41,680 2 41,840 St. SO. . . .41,940 . . .41,890 . . .41,580 . . 1,893,040 9,838 1,883,413 Dally average 41,388 OEORQE B. TZSCHUCK. Treasurer. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before m this 2d day of Anguat, 1909. (Seal) M. P. WALKER. Notary Public. Subscribers leaving; the city tem porarily ahoald hare The Be nailed to them. Address will be A Punxsutawney man swallowed Mb false teeth. It is supposed that ho was trying to tell where he lived. The police board has at last done one thine that elicits the commenda tion of the World-Herald. Hooray! Taft'i Southern Policy. Commencing with the beginning of republicanism, with Lincoln, every re publican president has made overtures toward a dissolution of the solid south. Each effort has been made with hope ful generosity, but each bas enaea in comparative failure. If there Is one which secured greater results than the others It was McKlnley's appointment of "rebel brigadiers" in the Spanish war; and if there Is one personality which might have attracted southern democrats "from their party it was Theodore Roosevelt. Yet It may be reserved for President Taft to make a cleavage of more last ing and reasonable sort than the coun try ever before saw. The time Is more auspicious, chiefly because the econ omies of the south and the policies of the republicans who adhere to the president are close together. It has been the existence of a "black and tan" attachment to the re publican party which has interfered with political fellowship between dem ocratic and republican whites in the south. An organisation composed of spoils-seeking, unprincipled whites and blacks, jealous alike of honest men of both races, has prolonged . the ani mosities of the carpetbag era and hardened the contempt with which the regular voters of the two national par ties have regarded republican organ izations in the old slave states. Mr. Taft's plan is to make a distinc tion between states Mke Kentucky and Missouri, which are sometimes carried by the republican party and may there fore be classed as doubtful and prop erly treated in patronage as repuD llcans, and solidly democratic states like South Carolina and Louisiana, which are yet to be won In open n a tlonal battles. Such a plan could not have melted the solid south thirty years ago any more tnan nuinerioru B. Hayes' efforts ended the control of the democrats. But Taft comes at a different, time. His own personality Is different; .ie south has gained vastly In education and wealth and in the fellowship of wealth and educa tion. The negroes care less about the minutlve of mere politics and more about higher successes, where there Is a dlBtlnct gain all around in the un derstanding of life's problems it Is not impossible that united ideals may sub merge race fears and prejudices. Mr. Taft's hope does not seem wholly reasonable, but It is not Impossible that he will work It out. 1 At any rate, Mayor Jim would hav a cinch in beating Governor Shallen- berger out in a bald-headed men's race. Omaha nearly equals St. Louis as aa all around grain market. Next year the rivalry will be with Minneapolis, and the next with Chicago. St. Louis and Minneapolis go backward. Senator Aldrlch'a manufacture of history in the next session is to con slst of a currency measure. On bond currency and. a central bank, Aid rich is sure not to be a standpatter. Under the law it is mandatory on the city clerk to provide about four tmes as many primary election ballots as can possibly be used. The surplus ballots would make good shelf paper And now they say that longevity can be promoted by removal of part of the Intestines. If so, appendicitis will soon cease to occupy the place in sur gical fashion it has held for some years. Omaha is climbing up as a grain market. It is also climbing up as a butter market, and Is climbing up gen erally as a market for all the tributary trade territory. Omaha Is decidedly 1b the climbing class. but any employe may Increase his ben efits by additional payments. The lloston A Maine railroad, with 27,000 employes, is the first to try the new plan, and If It works out success fully, this or some modification of the Massachusetts plan may be expected to secure foothold In other states having a large industrial population. The Grand Army's Future. Decoration day last spring was a better test than the summer's encamp ment of the declining numbers of the Grand Army. Except in the large cit ies, and In a few country sections, where the veterans are specially nu merous, the celebrations of Decoration day were scantily attended. In many places, where the day was rainy, there was a mournfully light outcomlng. The old men are losing In numbers and In ability to meet the vicissitudes of weather. Last May, as during this week, the annual event sa many camps either disbanded or financially unable to maintain the small expenses of regular meetings. Without changing radically its sub stance and purpose, the Grand Army must soon cease to be; and It would be better to quietly close Its honorable existence as the chief qualification of membership disappears than to trans form Its personnel and profess to be come something other than union sol diers of the greatest American conflict. Pay all honor to the veterans of the Grand' Army at their memorial days and encampments. For the nation's lifetime, let It remember the men who fought to preserve It. And when the time naturally comes, let the Grand Army dissolve quietly until the last man holds the last celebration. thorlty over teamsters and chauffeurs by raising his hand or blowing a whis tle. Omaha Is Indeed becoming met ropolitan. The University of Minnesota boasts that it has more self-supporting stu dents than any other educational Insti tution. Relative numbers may be open to doubt, but It Is a great honor to the west that all of its state univer sities exhibit large attendance of self supporting students. Another honor is that a remarkable proportion of these students rapidly develop into successful cltUens. The west Is the stronger for Its pride in self-won learning. Army Gossip Matters ef Interest Oa aad Back ef the rirtnf X.laa aliased from tba Army aaa JTery Kegiater. If it is "the man and not the label" for supreme Judge, why not also the county Judge, for police judge and for Justice of the peace? Why should the democrats be trying to nominate candidates against present Incumbents of these offices where there is no fault found with their ability or integrity If there were a few more deposit guaranty laws to be tested In this vicinity our Water board lawyer might yet get a belated trip to Europe In spite of the Water board's wicked re fusal to make any more payments on account without an Itemized bill. Young Mr. Wlllard of New York is the latest successful aeroplanlst. The experts are not Improving, but they are getting more numerous. Out of num bers there will sometime come high skill and sure performance. Witness automobilists. Philadelphia ' business men all be lieve that a tariff revised about enough Is always followed by a boom. There is no variation of view on the tariff among Philadelphia business men. Their un changeable motto la "upward and onward." President Taft Is meditating upon what southern stales are to be gath ered into the republican lol l by means of census appointment a ti 1 good ad vice against bourbonism. Anybody can make that guess and save him the trouble. Gains in Medicine. A few years ago a group of gifted medical men in the east began tc praise the work of Dr. Charles K Sajous, which was mainly In the direc tion of "Internal secretions, the products of adrenal and thyroid glands and the action of the pituitary body." These secretions had before been obscure. In Europe and In this country the work of Sajous was seri ously 'examined ' and "proclaimed to have earned a place among the really epochal discoveries. The essential truth supposed to have been estab lished by the study of theee "Internal secretions" is that they are the auto protective agents by which the body la stimulated into producing within Itself the enemies of bacilli and curing disease. In the August number of the Med ical Times Dr. J. Madison Taylor of Philadelphia makes the positive asser tion that by the Sajous results ..the practice of medicine and the adminis tration of drugs have been simplified bo that the practloner easily ascertains what to do in given cases. In short, Dr. Taylor's claim la that the evoca tion of self-curing agents is a matter of course and entirely sure. This is whal laymen would call a large order. Most physicians will hesitate to adopt the sweeping simplicity of treatment forecast by Dr. Taylor. But he utters a splendid optimism and arouses a con gratulatory feeling that disease, if not ended, may be brought to that Irre ducible minimum which would be next door, to self-petuatlng perfect health. Laymen cannot argue with Dr. Sajous or Dr. Taylor, but they can take com fort In the thought that the self-curative powers of the internal secretions have the faith of brilliant and indus trious men. 1 Strikes and Prosperity. There Is more or less truth In the paradox that strikes and other labor troubles do not indicate lower wages and starvation, but rather high wages and abundance. During the period of the highest wages ever known there was an almost unbroken series of great strikes. When hard times brought actual distress to industrial centers, labor contests ceased. As prosperity reappeared, strikes began to threaten In Pittsburg, Chicago, New York, New England and Philadelphia. The reason for the truth of the paradox Is evident. If It points now to strikes, there Is some compensation In the thought that without a higher level of earnings and a wider ambition to live well, the workers would not rlBk such contests. Employers are re luctant to suspend profits when prof Its are constant and high; and that Is the time of high wages and liberal pur chases In the class which works with Its hands. If the state treasurer of Nebraska tried to distribute his deposits of state money approximately according to the amount contributed in taxes Omaha and Douglas county depositories would be entitled to a lot more of the treas ury funds. Another kidnaping case excites the curiosity of mothers and children. The Viviano children will turn up, but the Incident stirs human nature while it lasts. Charley Ross and Willie Whitla were types of an eternal pathos. Where Are the Shackles f New York Tribune. Governor Johnson wants the west to cast off Its "shackles." But who ever shackled the free, strenuous and self-re llant west? Beyond Reach of Stanitpat Wrath. Chicago Record-Herald. "Uncle Joe" has punished the house In surgents by deposing them from the various committees. Fortunately must of the In surgents outside the house cannot be reached by the Danville disciplinarian. There is a lull between the tariff debate and the president's corporation movement which can be devoted to the settlement of the base ball league con tests. Otherwise these fiscal and finan cial matters would receive superficial attention. How the Aldrlch-Cannon ma chine is going to take revenge on the insurgents becomes more and more a joke. The Insurgents are the only re publicans who are sure of re-election by increased majorities. In the mat ter of revenge they will take care of themselves. Oa motion of a defuncto state sena tor from PaplMlon a meeting of Ep worth leaguers at Lincoln has reso luted a demand upon the governor, who hails from Alma, to oust the mayor and police commissioners of Omaha. This la home rule as prom ittd by the democratic platforra High prices of stocks support the moderate statement of Senator Clapp that it is reasonable not to force an argument on cause and effect, to re mark that, a we the case In Dlngley days, the enactment of the tariff law will be folio, el by. business prosper ity, for ah 'Insurgent Senator Clapp shows a pU-ajaut optimism. Old Aye Pensions. Most European governments have some form of old age pension for worklngmen In which the employe, the employer and the government par ticipate, but experiments along this line In the United states have been limited. With the exception of retire ment pensions to public servants, mil itary and civil, the s'ate of Massachu setts Is the first to give official recog nition to a pension system for work lngmen. The state has followed closely the lines of corporation pro cedure In insurance and pension for superannuated employes. "Unlike the European plan, however, the state contributes nothing except the ma chinery of control. The law requires voluntary agreement by the corpora tion, company or individual employer Involved and three-fourths of the em ployes before the pension system be comes operative and insurance even then la not compulsory upon the em ploye. The employer and the insured employe each contributes to, the pen sion and Insurance fund and each, with the state, has representation In the governing body that is to adminis ter It. To provide against the objection that employes change around so much that the Insurance would lack stability It Is provided that should the employe leave bis place or be discharged his money, less the beuVflts already re ceived, should be retrneJ to him. The payments and the eneflts are to je proportioned to salVy received. Psychical Metamorphosis. A lot of newspapers are just now in dulging in learned discussions sug gested by mysterious disappearances and reappearances, accompanied by Inexplicable lapses . of memory and psychical metamorphosis, metaphysical duality and similar terms of un-under-standable language are called into requisition to inspire wondering awe. We would not undertake to deny that there may be notable instances of pe culiar mental aberration by which per sonality is transformed, but the usual mysterious disappearance requires no thought-concealing words to describe It. We take from an official report made for the year 1893 by the coun selor of a well known life Insurance society Justifying the policy of his company in resisting, death claims tainted oy rraud the following extract: In a distant western city a man occupying a high public office was said to have been drowned. Claim was made by his alleged widow for tbe payment of hla recently la sued policy of 110,000, and the complete out fit of hla uaual wearing apparel, Including outer and undergarments, aa well aa his hat and shoes, left In the boat found drift ing on the little lake on which he was known to have gone out on the day of his disappearance, seemed to hla friends to leave no doubt that he had been drowned while bathing, although, notwithstanding the lake was small and comparatively shallow, the body could not, after the most diligent search, be found. An Investigation disclosed the fact that before starting for the lake on that day the man had bought a cheap suit of clothes and a pair of bro gans. which were not found in the boat or otherwise accounted for. Months of pa tient, persistent search followed, during which we were publicly and privately be rated for our temerity In daring to ques tion the death of such prominent, up right man. This clamor did not deter us, however, from the performance of what we had conceived to be our duty to the living members of the association, and at last we were rewarded by finding, not a corpse or ghost, but the man alive and well, con cealed in an obscure town of another state. working aa a common laborer under an as sumed name. It Is needless to say that the claim was withdrawn and the man himself only too glad to escape a criminal prosecu tlon upon the plea that he had wandered away while suffering from temporary aber ration of mind, all evidence of which, how ever, wholly disappeared as soon as thi danger of punishment seemed to have passed. Psychical metamorphosis Is no doubt a polite and scientific phrase, but things are not always what they seem Senatorial Lemons. New York Tribune. Now that the labors of the extraordinary session ate over, the house of representa tives discovers that It did Its work unre freshed by official "sparkling lemonade." If the senate's free lemonade supply had any causal relation to Ita tariff legisla tion, we hope that the house-will continue to endure thlrat land practice household economy. rr . Let It Uo at That. Chicago Tribune. The new tariff law confers many sub stantial benefits upon consumers. It con- alns novel features, notably the provision for maximum and minimum duties, whlc.i is confidently believed will vindicate their usefulness. Under the new law there will be leas evasion of duties than of old. It meets with President Taft'a approval. That should convince the public of Us ubsiantiul merit. The Tenth cavalry, of San Juan fame, Is back in Its native land and posted well up north, renewing discus slon of the negro problem. Tbe Tenth cavalry suggests the solution of the negro question, and It is that there is no social question, while the economic and ethical questions must gradually settle themselves, for the final reason that there is no other way of reaching a conclusion. Omaha is to make an effort to en force rules of the road, particularly upon centers of traffic In tbe down town business district. We have long waited for Omaha to reach the poln when a tall policeman in uniform a the street Intersection shows his au BASELESS A SSI MPT I O.N S. Comparative Power of Weat and Kaet In Conarreea. Charles M. Harney, In Leslie's Weekly. The absurdity of the assumption that the east, in Its own Interest, frames the govern ment's laws and shapes the government's policy can readily be pointed out. Every president who haa been elected since Buchanan entered office, over half a cen tury ago, haa been a western man, ex cept Cleveland and Roosevelt; and Roohe velt, though in an emphatic degree a na tlonal man, without any sectional blaa or leanings of any sort, has done more to ad vance the west'a interests than any other president whom the country has had, not even excepting Lincoln, who signed the homestead act of 1843. The speaker of the house Is from the sunset side of the Al leghanles. So are a large majority of the republican members of congress. Ho, like wise, are a large majority of the heads of the committees of congress. If the west has any particular Interests separated from those of the east. Its sons In the presi dency and In congress for the past few decades were capable of promoting them. A new state was created in the west a year ago Oklahoma, with five members In the popular branch of congress. Two more western atatea Arlxona and New Mexico will be created in the next few years. In the allotment of members of congress which will be based upon the census of 1914, the west will make gains aa compared with the east, and thus further Increase Ita lead over the east In house and senate. Take the case of New York, which aoms persona In the west Imagine dlctatea the selection of presidents and the framing of laws for the country. New York had a ninth of the members of the electoral col lege aa recently as 1840. when the republi can party elected Its first president. New York had lesa than a twelfth of the elect oral college which sent Taft to the white house. In the vote of 1912. which will re elect Taft or choose aomebody else. New York will probably have only a thirteenth of the electoral college. In a general wav thla shrinkage of New 'York's relative strength In the choosing of presidents and members of congress shows how the east la losing even that small semblance of as cendency In the national balance which II had within the early recollection of the younger element of the men who cast their ballots on November I, 190s. The center of the country's population la In Indiana; the center of the country's manufactures la In Ohio. Each Is moving westward. Chicago, Cincinnati, and St. Louis are great manufacturing centers The west's growth In the industries given It as lirge an interest In the tariff and In the maintenance of a sound currency as Hie east has or aver had. The legislation along these lines ran no longer be charged with sectionalism. Sllverlsm In the shape which It had When the first Bryan convention met has no longer any standing in the west. The old prejudice In the west against national banks, a prejudice which goj back as far as Jackson's assault upon the centralised I'nlted Rtatea bank of his day Is near its en I The urgent deficiency appropriation act will straighten out the Irregularity in the law relating to Ue payment of the death benefit In the care of officers and enlisted men of the army, navy and marine corps. By a curious mlx-up In the army appro priation act of the last session, the death benefit since July 1 may only be paid In those casts where the officer or enlisted man died "In line of duty." This was not the leatrlctlon Intended by the author of the law. Senator Paeon, or by those who Joined with him In lis enactment. It wax desired to place on the payment of the death benefit only a condition that the death was not caused by the misconduct of the deceased. This more liberal provi sion, which will save much trouble In the determination of the question of line of duty, was Incorporated In the urgent defi ciency bill as It was reported to the senate by Mr. Hale and will serve a very useful purpose, as well as a Just one. The examination of candidates for the regular medical corps of the army has been completed at various places In the United States and the Philippines. Of the candidates authorized to present themselves before the examining board, about 1MI passed the physical examination and com pleted the professional examination. AH the papers have been received excepting In the case of the examinations held In the Philippines. It will be a month or more before It Is possible to announce the names of the qualified candidates, who will then be eligible to appointment to commlslsons In the medical reserve corps .and enter the class at the army medical school In Wash ington. Another examination tinder the surgeon general of the army will be that of candidates for appointment as first lieutenant In the medical reserve Corps, for which purpose forty-one boards have been detailed to convene at various places. There are about 125 candidatea who will be authorised to take the examination. There are now- 151 officers on the active list of the medical reserve corps. A circular concerning examinations for the eligible list for promotion to the grades of master signal electrician and first class sergeant In the signal corps has lately been Issued. The examinations will be held In March of each year. They will be con fined to first class sergeants of not less than one year of excellent and unbroken service In that grade In the case of eligi bility for advancement to the grade of master signal electrician, and to sergeants of not less than six months of similar service In the rase of eligibility for ad vancement to the grade of first class lieu tenant. Applications for permission to take the examinations from men serving at places other than In the Philippine Is lands must reach the office of the chief signal officer of the army not later than February 1 of each year. Candidatea In the Philippines for these examinations will be designated by the chief signal officer of the Philippines division, and their nimei must be furnished the chief signal officer of the army not later than January 1 of each year. The passing of either examina tion does not Insure promotion, 'but the examinations are only Intended to estab lish In the office of the chief signal of ficer of the army a list of men mentally qualified for advancement to the higher grades when vacancies occur. "The military authorities foresee that con gress at the next regular session will do little or nothing In the way of legislation which Is outside of that contained In the regular appropriation act and from present Indications a spirit of unprecedented pru dence, not to say downright parsimony, will prevail to disastrous effect In the matter of new construction. The estimates In the War department have been pruned relentlessly In accordance with the Instruc tions of the president, who has consulted with the leaders In congress. There Is a chance that senators and representatives will take upon themselves the responsibil ity of Inserting provisions for new work, being Induced to that end by the demands which will come from their constituencies. So far as personal legislation Is concerned, the War department will confine Its efforts to two measures, according to the present Intention of the secretary of war. One of these Is the eOO-offleer bill, which has been flagrantly Ignored by congress, and the other la the measure for the Increase of the corps of cadets at the Military aca demy. The former bill will be Identical In form and phraseology with that which has been before congress. No changes will be made In the text despite the request to that end from various sources. The Steady Growth of this bank is largely because of fifty-two yonrs' careful, con servative banking method ?, coupled with courteous, liberal treatment of customers. J Women particularly amreei- ate the department for their exclusive use. OFFICERS: C T. KOrXTZE, rresitlent. F. H. DAMS, Vice President. I. Ii. KOI NTZE, 2d Vice President. T. Ii. DAVIS Cashier. I. ALLISON, Assistant Cashier. tjh 0- 1 In. mm I 1 iJ-Ls.jl lajsajajamsm First National Bank of Omaha United States Depository. 13th and Farnam Sts. THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM. . Hastings Tribune: The platform as adopted Is Mil that any good, progressive republican can ask for. Beatrice Express: The platform adopted by the republican state con vention avoided hysteria and pyro technics. It was characteristic of sound, even-tempered republican policies. It firmly upheld the republican administra tion, pointing out the strength of the party, and In temperate terme showing up. the weakness and pretense of the opposition Plattsmouth News Herald: The repub lican platform has the right ring. Its en dorsement of Taft and the republican dele gation In congress in their fight for a downward revision of the tariff was timely and to the point. Prolonged applause greeted the reading of the tariff plank. There Is certainly no doubt about Ne braska being In line with President Taft In his fight for a redemption of platform and pre-election promises. Osceola Record: The recent re publican state platform commends Presi dent Taft In his recent utterances on the tariff bill and goes to the ex tent flf saying that the republicans of Ne braska will support the presidential veto in case the tarlf measure does not fullv conform to the platform promise of revi sion and revision downward. If the stand patters looked for a message of nope from Nebraska they looked In the wrong direc tion. York Republican: The republican plat form agr?ed upon at Lincoln was quite In the line which good taste and fair deal ing required. The gathering waa held at a critical time for making platforms be cause important legislation, engaging an extraordinary session of Congress, was In an uncertain and half-digested state and not In the ripe state of completion which would render It possible to applaud and endorse unequivocally, or, on the other land, to criticise the work. The conserva tive and moderate tqjie of the resolutions would therefore seem to be dictated by good policy as well as good Judgment. York Times: But the convention waa conservative and wise. It di.l not go out of the way to find trouble, but made a real republican plat form. It la Indeed cheering, after all the dawdling, yielding to democratic railing and confession of faults that, do not exist, by republicans, to have a clean, clearcut dec laration that the republican party is right, as It has slfMys been, that the constant cries of the democrats are as wrong aa they always have been and that we have everything to be proud of and nothing to be ashamed of. The declaration fully en dorsing the president Is patriotic and wise. It not only meets the approval of the legions of honest voters in this state, but It is right In prfnciple and Invites confi dence. PERSONAL NOTES. The west needs an army of laborers and Is calling for volunteers. Resort to con scription may yet be necessary. I'r. Alexander Graham Bell, whose aero plane was w recked in Canada the . other day, after several sucoes-sful short flights, has been an advocate of the tetrahedral principle, which has been employed with such notable success In kite construction. A shining example of the lawyer out for the dough Is Clifford W. Hartrldge of New York. He plucked the Thaw family for tlOl.noo. Is suing for 193.009 more, and caps the iimm of professional ethics by appearing as a witness against hla former client. Miss Lucy Burns, who was drrested for taking part in the suffragette meeting In London, June 20. Is a Vasear graduate and a student of modern languages at the t'nlverslty of Bonn. Miss Alice Paul, who waa among those taken In charge by the London police. Is also an American woman and holds the degree of master of arta. State Hcnator Krnest R. Ackerman of New Jersey, who Is now abroad, is one of the best known and most enthusiastic col lectors of postage stamps In this country. So large Is his collection that he had set apart one room In his homo In Plainiield as a stamproom, In which are aome of the rarest stamps so dear to the heart of the philatelist. LINES TO A SMILE. Mother ( horrified! Knima. is this true that I hear'.' lld you allow Fred to give you kisses? Paughter (demurely l No. Indeed, ma; I returned every one of them. Baltimore American. The carver at dinner held up a rib ol fiork and observed humnroufly: "Here, adles, In what Kve was made of." "Yes," returned one of the ladles, "and from very much the same kind of critter." Boston Transcript. "Lucky dog. that man Bosworth." "Haa he come Into a fortune?" "No. he has secured a certificate froir. his doctor showing that he haa organic heart trouble. When an Insurance agent at tacks him hereafter he will merely have f show his certificate." Chicago Record Herald. "How does you huithand manage In the winter when the automobile season is over?" "Klnc. He takes up bowling and tries to kill the plnboys." Puck. it. The speculation In which armv officers are Indulging concerning the Identity of the officer who shall succeed General J. F. Bell as chief of staff of the army has been enriched by the addition of several names of ellglbles. Hitherto the choice of those engaged In filling the position so far In advance of the vacancy' has been con fined to Generals Ieonard Wood. William H. Carter and T. H. Barry. This pre supposes that the selection will favor an officer of the rank of major general. In which grade General Carter will be by that time. But some people are pondering why It should be expected that the next chief of staff need be a major general. He may. Indeed, be selected from among the brigadiers, as was General Bell when he was detailed as chief of staff, t'nder ordi nary condltlona Generala W. W. Wlther spoon might be detailed, but his tour of duty with the general staff has already ex pired and he must serve two years with troops or outside the general staff before he becomes eligible again with that body. A new name which has appeared this week Is that of Brigadier General Clarence R PMwards, chief of the bureau of Insular affair who la understood to prefer other duty and who may be made a major gen eral during the preaent administration. A more probable detail to duty as chief of staff is that of General Tasker H, Bliss. recently In command at Manila and now at the head of the Army War college, or Brigadier General Arthur Murray, chief of coast artillery, who is spoken of as an eligible of experience and as the possessor of the administrative qualities required of the chief of staff. National Suffraae In Governme New York Sun. So far as the whole west is concerned, it nominates a large majority of the candi datea for president of both the partiea that elect presidents, generally has one of Its own sons In the White House, and for some time now has been represented In the speaker's chair. So far aa the northwest Is concerned. It makes Its Influence felt In national affairs in proportion to the ability Its representa tives display, and we could name several gentlemen from that section who have been quite aa potent aa spokesmen In con gress during recent years. The unavoidable conclusion is that If the east has more Influence In congress than It Is entitled to on the basis of population, the cause must be found In the preponder ant ability and experience of its representatives. President Taft mu a Leader. ' Washington Star. The republlcana are to be congratulated on the fact that the White House Is still open to VI the party leaders. All are as welcome as though no tariff difficulties had existed. House regulars and house In surgents, senate regulars and senate In surgents, will continue their visits to the president, and by him be well received. He denounced nobody while the battle was on, and was denounced by nobody. He con ferred with everybody seeking a confer ence, and expressed himself frankly. By nobody was he misquoted or misunder stood. On nobody did he seek to fix bad faith. The president, then, la still his party's leader, esteemed by both factions and con aulted by both. "What do you suppose It Is that IS over erowdin' de cities'.'" axked Meandering Mike. "I dunno." answered Plodding Pete, "un less It's dls habit farmers Is Kit tin' Into ot adverilsln' fur harvest hands. "-Waehitii-ton Star. Hoax It'a a good thing Methuselah wasn't a woman. Joax Why? Hoax The world would never have known how old she really was. Philadelphia itecoin. "John can you afford to let me go to the country for a month?" "Nope." "Are you sure?" "Of course I'm sure. When are you going to start?" Houston Post. "Why do you always go out on the bal cony when 1 hesjln to sing, John? Can't you bear to listen to me?" "It Isn't that, but I don't want the neigh bors to think I'm a wife-beater." Kansas City Journal. An Eneoarasilas! Salute. Washington Herald. Mr. Taft's message to the country anent the new tariff law somehow reminds one of that cheerful party who meets you In the morning after and. In response to your anxiously Inquiring look, says. "Oh, brace up. You don't look ao bad!" Well Klmed In Ftcarea. Wall Street Journal. On August 1 the I'nlted States had a net public debt of a little more than, 11.000.000.000, and a . omblned public and private wealth estimated at not less than $130,000,000 000 In bl lions we trust. Aa Awfnl Example. New York Tribune. A former college . athlete and ball player haa Just walloped five highwaymen with hla fists, sending one to the hospital In definitely and holding two more for the police. Another awful example of the evil of college athletics! If he had confined himself to Jackatones and backgammon he would not have been guilty of handling hla fellow men ao rudely. SUCCESSFUL OPERATIONS. Health Culture. They removed the patient's glstard. chopped his Ilium away; They took out his pink appendix and his largest vetebra; Set his breathing through a goose quill they Inserted In hi throttle. Took his liver from Ita moorings and pre served It in a bottle. In the lining of hla stomach they discerned a little flaw Thev dispensed with It. replaced It with a throbbing ostrich craw; Many another inward trinket they hacked out of him beside All "successful operations" but the patient, strangely died. A "successful operation," In the lingo of the crafj. Is the one that lets him excavate your person, fore and aft; Iets them make a cross-wise section of the gourd that holds your brain. Lets them whittle out the fixtures they declare were made In vain. "What a dreadful Ignoramus the Creator was!" they sigh; "All these things had been omitted were He wise as you and I?" Then they whet their little scalpels, lav your epidermis bare. And with "skillful operations" send you up the golden atair. Oh, my brother, when you find me muaslng up a railroad track. With my legs and lights and sweetbreads plied up neatly on my back. Do not notify a surgeon let me die In peace or pieces; I am wearied out with' reading of the numerous deceaxes That result when they "autcessf ully" have operated on Some poor devil who has swallowed all their anasthetic con Gently ah. but surely'-klll me while I fight, with fleeting bresth. 'Gainst "succesBful operations" that result In certain death. SB A TrT nOYTS No si s s s at . a msr i m -m. u m woman can be htppr ithout children: it is her nature to love them as much so as it is the beautiful and pure. The ordeal through which the expectant mother must pas is so full of dread that the thought fills her with apprehension. Therevis no necessity for the reproduction of life to be either very painful or dangerous. The use of Mother' Friend prepares the system for the coming event, and it is passed without any danger. This remedy is arched externally. ind has carried thousands of women through the crisis with but little suffering. oak eomtatalne Informatlna ef raise 0 ail expectaDt mother united Iw, s24j?7I0 meBUlMTOH OO. AUmmtm. 0m Pimm.