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4 The umaha Daily IJfx FOUNDED I?Y FDWAUD IVJSEWATEIl. V1CTOK IHJSKWATKIl. EDITOR. Entered at Omaha puslolfice a second class mailer.' TERMS or Ht'HSCRIPTION. Xal)y Bee onc'uding tSunlay, I'T week. 11 Dally Jiee. (without Sunday.), per wueK.loe. Dally Hi-o (without Sui:ila.). one year. .J4 Daily Di e and Sunday, one y-ar IjELIVEKED I1T CARRIER.' Evening H.e (without Sunday. per week. Go Evening t'tre (with bunelayj. per week... .10c burday Bee, one year - f' baturday lifts, one year Address all compiulniH of irregularities In deliver to City Circulation Department, or HL'W Omaha The lie Huiiuing. ' South Omaha Twenty-fourth and N. Council Ululfs IS Scott htreel. Lincoln all, UltU iJuudlllK. t. incago 1 Marquette l.utldlng io. 34 Went Nw l'ork Rooms liui-uoi 1 lilt I -IIUKI H'.f.f-t. ' ,v Washington-;) Eourtcepth Street, r. CORKEbPUNiJEfcC-E. Communications relating to news and editorial matter aliould be addressee Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. I1KM1TTANCKS, ... k- trt- m nostal order payable to The Bee Publishing Company. j principles approvingly to large BU only 2-cei.l stanza rocilved in payment o i ...,. mail accounts. Personal check, exoepi , Omaha or etmtern exchange, nut udcepiau STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. during the month of March. U'". as followa; t 45.770 , I 42,810 1 43.7U0 4 4atao 42.6C0 ( 41,600 1 42,940 ' ,. 43,760 43,719 I 43,160 II 43,310 11 4a,Mu II 41.700.. 14 43,130 I 1 4a,tMkt I 48,870 n'.W. 43,110 lt 43,030 It !!!',,,-- 43,090 10 '!.... 41,800 43,140 il.... ...... 411,830 g" 43,490 -t4 '!! 43,660 jj"'.,! 42,60 U.,., 4a,6U 11 41.400 gg 43,610 oa 43.770 0 43,410 i 43.7W Total ". ......... , . 1.328,400 Returned copies..... t. t..t 10,730 Net total v 1.315.60 Dally average. 43.441 OKU. M. TZSCHUCIC Treasurer. Subscribed la my presence and sworn to belore m tuU gist day of March. IvlV. M. P. WALlvtli. Notary public Sobacrlbera ItavUg tUe city Iroa porarlly ahvald hurt The Dee uiullcd to thi-ai. Addrcas will l ckuBHcd aa oltn rencsted. Prices may be falling, but most peo ple have to be told about it. The Omaha base ball club opened the season most appropriately. Those men : higher up are like upper berths, they are lower now. the The man with his ear to the ground In Europe can hear something these days. Neither Mr. Hearst nor Mr. Bryan has the nerve to guess on the other's riddle. ' What Is the population of Los. An geles? asks theTimes. Residents or tourists? i Wall street says "Easy money until fall." Now is ' the time to make a touch, then. The March, lion apparently missed his cue, but he is making up for any time he lost. . ', In the meantime the Omaha city council should see that the fire limits are extended. ', , . The question of race suicide has narrowed down to the point of qual ity, not quantity. If the French do not like the way T. R. handles their language let them say so, If they dare. It is more; appropriate to say the Daughters of, the Revolution are still lnsurging, instead of aguin. That was a , practical thought for Mr. Alfred Austin to begin. his latest poem with the word, "L-lsten." There is a (reminiscent connection between "Dan , Sulley'a Corner Gro cery" and Jim '.Patten's cornered cot ton. 1 "That's a nice chair you have," ob served Mr. Bryan as his friend, Mr. Taft, showed' him around the White House. : ' The St. Louis, bachelor who says he Is too rich to win a wife proves that he knows , something about the play, anyhow.'' ... .... Mrs. John Arthur rJohnrgn Is said to wear $30,000 Worth of diamonds. Her husbaud may need some of them after July 4. Thus far they have not reported the name of the Parisian who iarej to criticise the colonel's French in that speech at the Sorbonne. The woman suffragists should take comfort In Maude Adams as the Chantecler and realize that the stage will stand for it, anyway. James Henry Stark, a tory his torian, hs discovered that Paul Revere's ' ride was a failure after all. Well, it brought the results. The number of people who will find that they were "tneutioned" by Mark Twain is likely to be very large, but the claimants who were mentioned by name needn't worry. Mr. Anthony Drexel, who married Miss Marjorie Gould, has little thought for the jopulace when' be raises the ante to f 1.T5 for a cup of tea and twa Lard boiled.. egi's. . And .he ate that breakfast in .the City of Brotherly Love at that. Elate of Nebraska, Dougaa County. s-. George H TichiicW. treasurer or i Bee Publishing Company, being auiy sworn, aaya that the actual number oi full tnd conipmto copies of '1 ne L,a,': Itorn.nir Ki,mn, and Sunday Fee prime" win Rooseveltiim in France. If it were riot for the naiirat Impulse of the French people, thpr,e might be occasion for surprise at theprofound Kensatlon Colonel Roosevelt's Sor bonne speech caused, for It contained nothing strikingly new. But, old or new, Mr. Roosevelt's words, uttered with characteristic vigor, were sound in wisdom and doctrine and If France really has been so deeply touched by them, the effort may be well worth while. He said some things the French people needed to know and needed to have said to them, and he went into the vitals of that most deli cate of all questions in France, race suicide, with his customary xeftl and, it appears, stirred the French mind more by that than anything else he Baid. The effect is so acute that Roose veltism Is instantly made the dom inant issue in an election In progress and political speakers shout bis name Ult'tltt'B UllU ttltr ll'-ai III ttiauucu Surely it cannot be that Paris never heard before of this Roosevelt crusade against race suicide. He has been pro mulgating that for many years. Does It mean, then, that Paris, in its eager ness to be courteous to America and its distinguished citizen, yields Itself so cordially to his hobbles? Or Is Paris really in earnest and did It only want to be told face to face of this national habit to plunge the issue Into state politics with a demand for gov ernmental treatment? We are Inclined to think that some of this impetuous ardor will die down, but there can be no doubt of the salu tary and healthful effect of this speech. It Is a good match for that address at the University of Cairo, In which Col onel Roosevelt struck at a national weakness, shaking all Egypt and half of Europe. An American newspaper has re ferred to Mr. Roosevelt derisively as "The United States Advertisement Abroad." He is, indeed, and his is the kind of advertising any country of free speech, free thought, free action and virile manhood wants, advertising that makes the world look up instead of down. Mr. Hill Goes Fishing. When J.tmes J. Hill left Chicago the other day for the Pacific northwest he said he was going fishing. The public will hope he Is and that he catches a lot of fine fish, has a good time and comes back refreshed in mind and body. Excellent trout streams are to be found in the Pacific northwest and the air is invigorating, the scenery pic turesque and restful. Where could Mr. Hill go. for more complete recrea tion? He .needs it. He has been go unusually serious of - late, his three leading railroads,, ha ve been j unable to declare greater than 8 ' per cent dividends, arid the1 urgent necessity of raising freight rates to provide larger revenue .has been pressing so heavily upon him all these things have combined to wear on Mr. Hill. It is gratifying if he has heard the call of the wild and will come back to us a more happy, optl-. mlstlc man, though he Insists he was never a pessimistic. But Mr. Hill, we observe by more careful scrutiny of his remark, did not say he was going fishing to catch fish. There , is more in that Pacific north west that a good fisherman may catch beside fish that swim in mountain streams. The pretty illusion is more nearly dispelled when we consider Mr. Hill's company on this fishing trip Charles F. Baker, president of the First National bank of New York, and George F. Steele of J. P. Morgan & Co. This may be, but it does not look, like a party of old-time fishermen. A few little unbranded railroads are straying at large up in that beautiful garden of the gods and Mr. Hill and former Senator W. A. Clark of Mon tana are said to have angled for them so many times it is difficult to get away from the suspicion that Mr. Hill has found the bait which he believes will land that game. llut we hope he has just gone for an old-time rest. Tree Planting; in Nebraska. Tho passage of Arbor day marked by the Introduction In United States senate of a bill was the pre- pared by Senator Burkett, having for its purpose the establishment of a j school of forestry in Nebraska. That , tuch an Institution would be of service to the people of Nebraska and the country at lurge does not require ar gument. The attention that has been given to scientific forestry during the j last few years has been but prcllml- I nary to that which must be given within the coming decade. All the debate and discussion of conservation lias turned principally on the point of forestry, so the Burkett bill Is timely if It serves no other purpose than to emphasize the importance of its gen eral purpose. Nebraskuns have not been awake to their opportunities in this regard. While we have boasted of the citizen ship of J. Sterling Morton, who founded Arbonday, our practice of his precepts has been but desultory. The planting of trees on Arbor day has been along lines rather more than hap hazard. Individuals have gone out and put down trees where they liked, but the public, as such, has had little or no part la the ceremony. What is most desirable Is that soma effort be made to establish, in ifie waste sec tions of t,he state forest reserves under state control that will bring in time manifold recompense: The feasibility of this , proposition has .been demon! etrated by private investigators, as well as by the United States govern- nient, and that it has been so long neglected In Nebraska can only be ac counted for by the indifference of our people. What Did Mr. Bryan Meant Mr. Bryan dropped a remark in New Tork soon after he landed from his South American tour that has not been explained or understood, but has given rise to some perplexity among his countrymen. "I have a right to a title that I sel dom use, 'Colonel.' I've long since ceased court-martialing." Court-martialing is a military term, carrying with it a suggestion of pun ishment. . Does Mr. Bryan mean he has ceased punishing his enemies and is now at peace with the entire demo cratic party? Does he mean he is go ing to pursue the even tenor of his way from now on as a high private in the ranks, ready to follow where his commanding officer may lead? Or does he mean simply that he is going to continue as an unavenglng Nemesis In pursuit of that illusive phantom that has led him on three fruitless expedi tions already? If Mr. Bryan means that he is at peace with the democratic party and from now on will preach harmony in Its ranks, then we may safely take it that he means to work for the party and its success In all seasons and quar ters. This view must then lead us to the conviction that Tom Taggart has nothing to fear as to the support of Nebraska's peerless orator In his Quest for the senatorshlp in Indiana. It may be that none of these guesses as to what Mr. Bryan meant has hit the mark. If so, then we shall abide in the hope that Mr. Bryan will him self decide to work out the puszle. The Philadelphia Enquirer has solved the meat problem. It has dis covered 6,000,000 acres surrounding the Gulf of Mexico that will grow the kind of hyacinths that go sixty tons to the acre and form the staple article of diet for hippopotamuses, whose meat, it says, is excellent. What more is necessary to knock the bottom out of the meat trust? Eat the hippo. What is this little joke Mr. Hearst Is playing? He sends John Temple Graves to democracy with the olive branch of peace on certain condi tions, chiefly that the democratic party will endorse Hearstism and then slips over to the White House and tells Mr. Taft that he is making good from the word go. ' It appears that the storage of food supplies has had an effect opposite to that looked for by greedy speculators. If Mr. and Mrs. Ultimate Consumer can recoup any on tho winter's ex penses by cheap prices in tb-a spring, they will bless the cold atorage nan. Houston wants to be counted out of that combine of cities that propose to behave themselves on the Fourth Houston deserves something for being honest, anyway, and it probably will not be any worse than the best city that promises to be good, Mayor Gaynor of New York has vetoed a bill for advertising wagons for the city's use, saying, "Advertise in the newspapers." Which Indicates that New York has a mayor with some common sense. ' The democratic spouters who have been omitted from the campaign com mittees' Chautauqua circuit needn't worry. Enough kinds of democrats exist in Nebraska to furnish all with an anritAnP.A Wi Costly fires that have been raging In the west during the last few weeks are a tribute to somebody's careless ness. The lesson Is so plain, and its application so easy, that it is likely to be neglected. The Washington telegraph operator who smoked an ordinary cigar for ninety-four minutes and thirty seconds without allowing it to go out, must have started his career as a messenger boy. Another point that may well be kept in mind is that many of the men who are shouting loudest for Roose velt now, shouted loudest against him when he was president. St. Louis papers bewail the fact that fifty citizens of Pike county, Missouri, have migrated to Canada. Why should a man be blamed for wanting to leave Pike county? Jack Johnson says Omaha's recep tion was more cordial than Chicago's farewell. Leaves a fellow In a quandary whether to laugh or cry. The Business Men's league of St. Louis is planning to abduct the presi dent of the United States. A weighty scheme. Fireproof I St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Mr. Hearst's attempted comparison of Taft and Roosevelt Is Intended to injure both, and its author would congratulate himself If he could Injure either. A Pniv of Tblnlta. Chicago Newa. President Taft la right In thinking that Governor Hughe would make a good Jus tice of the supreme court, but he would make a still better president of the United Stales. Krery Little Helpa. Philadelphia Record. The little drop in the price of flour would seem to Justify a little drop In the price of bread, or. what Is equivalent, a little addition to the weight of the loaf. . Every little belps. ' r ' A Modest Combination. Indianapolis News. Pleaaa note that the harvester truat modstly gives the credit lyr its large in- crease In biiftlne to the prosperity of th farmers. Instead of clnlmina; that the proa perlty of the farmers Is due to tta large Incruase la business. Important Precao t Ions. Chicago Tribune. In buying an automobile It Is better to select one of a kind that can be obtained without mortgaging anything as a pre liminary, being careful, at the snme time, to see that you have enough money In bank to pay for a year's repairing. A Contrast. Cleveland Plain Dealer (dem.) On August 30, l:t08, William J. Bryan ar rived In New York from a world tour. H was greeted by thousands of men from all parts of the country and hailed as the next president of the United States. On April 17, 1910, Mr. Bryan again reached New York aftef a world tour. He was greeted by only a few personal friends. Even the newspapers paid almost no atten tion to the arrival. Politics, though full of surprises, offer few more startling contrasts than this. Hero and a Moses today; a discard to morrow. Ilnrtfnl Performances. Springfield (Mass.) Republican. Nor Is such a performance as that of the New York assembly In defeating the In come tax amendment to the foderal con stitution, calculated to Improve republican prospects. This . Is said with the utmost respect for Governor Hughes, who has contributed so powerfully toward the re grettable aotlon which New York state has taken on this Important Issue. Virginia and New York must now be counted In the negative; all tho other states which have thus far acted have favored the measure. And Massachusetts seems headed for an unholy alliance with the obstructionists! Doycottlnic Trust Products. Philadelphia Bulletin. Secretary Dickinson's scheme to prevent tho purchase of trust products by the War department has received what seems to be a knock-out blow In the opinion of At torney General Wlckersham that the gov ernment must buy Its supplies wherever they can be secured the cheapest, regard less of the source which offers to furnish them. While the policy of a governmental boycott for goods produced by combina tions of capital condemned by the courts for unlawful acts was doubtless well meant, It was apparently not wise. The surest way to deal with the trust issue is through the processes of the Judicial tribunals, backed by whatever legislation Is required to curb monopoly. FAVORED SONS OF TOIL. Rlchea Pouring: Into the Coffers of Fnrniera. Sioux City Tribune. The farmers of the United States are getting rich. The output of the American farm Is doubling In valua every ten years. Ac cording to statistics given out by the Agrt cultural department at Washington the value of the wealth produced on farms in the United States In 1899 was 12,460,000,- 000. Ten years later it was $4,717,000,000 . Ten years later, or last year, It was $8,760,000, 000. In our fierce scourging of the trusts and In the nation-wide movement to enforce legal restriction of . g, business it is welL enough to keep In mind that the farmer Is doing pretty well bjmselt These figures from the Agricultural department take no account of the treniandous increase in the value of farm lands. .; Witi the country doubling in. population every thirty or forty years, and tb,e demand for food growing more and mpre, there is no good reason why the bread and meat producing lands of Iowa, Nebraska and South Da kota should not double In value within the next twenty years. These catUe and hogs and corn and wheat lands that are worth $100 an acre now will be worth $200 an acra in a few years. Why should these lands not advance from that to $300 or $400, as the home demand for food advances? The outcry of twenty years ago for jus tice to the poor, down-trodden farmers is not heard any more In the land. The farmer still has something coming to him In the way of lower and more equitable freight rates, and the like, but taking It all together, ho Is pretty comfortable and Is not asking for sympathy. He has really become another class of Americans with sufficient repose to think, and thinking makes him a governor and government Is getting better as he governs. ASK THB STBNQGRAPIirSRS. WhM They Know Wonld Help In. reatlratora Mightily. Indianupolls News. The success of a woman stenographer of this city In bringing to light what appears to be eerlous Irregularities in the sale and delivery of coal suggests a field of possibili ties for he Investigation of doubtful busi ness transactions that has hardly been touched. Next to the head of an estab lishmentotherwise, . and affectionately known aa the boss probably nobody knows quite so much about that concern's ways of doing business as Its stenographers. And It Is entirely possible that when It comes down to an actual matter of details the knowledge of the stenographers exceeds that of the head of the establishment. The stenographer occupies a confidential rela tion with her employer. Indeed, the or dinary employer places so muoh confidence in his stenographer that aa a part of his plant he regards the typist only a shade more seriously than he does the typewriter. Thus he secrets of the business are laid bare to her In a series of successive dic tations. And on the whole doubtless the typist Is safer than the typewriter, for the typewriter frequently" makes a record that goes by mall into hands that may prove careless, while the utmost discretion Is the most marked characteristic of the suc cessful typlt. . .. - Now while the stenographer's relations with her employer are of the most confi dential nature, the secrecy of these rela tions Is not protected by law, as . in the case of a lawyer and his client or a doctor and his patient. She can be required le gally to testify to anything she knows In an Investigation by, fur instance, W grand Jury. It Is entirely probable that she would promptly lose her Job if she did so, but that Is merely one of the penalties of the profession. Besides, In a good many cases, no doubt, when the 'investigation was con cluded there would not be muoh left of the Job anyhow. Every bad truat In this country, every combination In restraint of trade and every law-violating business concern has one or mors stenographers In Its employ. It can no more do business without them under the business methods of these days than It can avo'd letting them Into the deepeHt secrets ( of the business that Is done and the way of doing "It. This Is the place where the man higher up. If he be guilty, muBt reveal himself In all his Iniquity. When one reflects tsat no man Is a hero to his valet, one shudders to think of how the head of a bad trust must be regarded by the Ktenographer if she Is bright enough to understand the conditions which sur round her and ahe generally is. Orand Juries on the trail of the trusts will do well to take these facts into con-s'deratloa. The Old Guard XAitorlal Expressions oa the Announced Betlrement of Benators Aldiioh and Hale Rest Well F.arnr. Washington rost (Ind ). The senators from Rhode Island and Maine will leave office with records of exceptionally long and honorable service, and It la to be hoped that they will enjoy, In good health, a well-earned rest. la-nlflrant t'hnnsiea Brooklyn Eagle (Ind. dem.). The retirement of both signalise the growth of republicanism In the eastern states toward revenue reform, what time public opinion In the south Is heading toward protection. The significance of this Is extreme. Aa Honorable Career. Pes Moines Capital (rep.). The country owes Senator Aldrlch a debt of gratitude. He Is a man of clean hands and patriotlo purposes. The senate will miss his wine counsel and good Judgment. The country will miss his patriotism and high mlndedness. Future generations will do him honor, and the historian will rec ord his good work. Chance for tho Better. Chicago Tribune (rep.). The prospects of tjie president's pro gram brighten with the Impending change In the senate, although that change will not come till the next session. Neverthe less Its moral effect will be widespread in the congressional campaign, since the path for progressive legislation along the lines of the party policies will now be more than aver assured. A are Thlna the Ranks. Philadelphia Bulletin (rnp.). President Taft has been relying on the support of what has come to be known as the "Old Guard" in congress the men, who, like Aldrlch, Hale and Cannon, were the chief sponsors of the tariff bill of 11)09, which they forced upon him; but It looks now as If the active ranks of the "Old Guard" may be greatly trimmed down by age Itself, even If not by politi cal revolution, long before the close of his administration. Masterful Pnbllc Man. Providence (R. I.) Tribune (rep.). Perhaps Nelson Aldrlch cannot ' be called a statesman, though If he should suc ceed in his ambitions regarding the cur rency he would command a new respect from even his present detractors, but he haa certainly proved himself a very In fluential and masterful public man and richly earned such reBt and peace as all will hop may now come to a long, la borious and not always fairly Judged life on which the evening shadows begin to fall. Old Gnard I p Aaralnat It. Indianapolis News (Ind.) All this can mean only one thing and that Is that the people everywhere are deeply stirred. The old guard is up against such a fight as It never knew be fore. It Is not a strife between factions, but rather one between the people and those who have arrogated to themselves the right to manage their affairs and to dictate party policies. The movement Is one for emancipation from the business political control which has for so long oursed the country. About the Same Thinar. Springfield (Mass.) Republican (ind.) The "old guard" does not surrender; It resigns, which comes to about the same thing. Its two great senatorial chieftains leave behind them able lieutenants Lodge, Root, Crane and others, and around these the republican leadership of the senate will doubtless be 'reorganized. But Its power will not be like that of the depart ing leadership. It will have to bend more to the Influences of insurgency within the party, or it will be engulfed. The old order has changed, and in the changing New England's great and long-continued prestige In the senate will suffer. Means Much for the People, St. Paul Plonoer Press (Ind. rep.) The old oligarchy was nearly always solidly arrayed against legislation de manded by the country west of the Alle ghenlee. It opposed statehood for the ter ritories, bitterly fought Irrigation, recla mation and reforestry plans. It succeeded for years In defeating postal savings legis lation and long referred favorable railway rate legislation. It managed for years to shape all tariff legislation to suit the In terests of New England and New York and nearly always succeeded In blocking any and all measures not Indorsed by the big combination of eastern capital. The passing of the oligarchy promises to bring the people Into their own. Notable Ckaacti, St. Louis Globe-Democrat (rep.). Some notable changes have taken place In the senate's membership In recent years. By the resignation of Spooner and the death of Quay of Pennsylvania, Ilanna of Ohio, Piatt of Connecticut, Allison of Iowa, all republicans, and Gorman of Maryland, and Morgan and Pettus of Alabama, dem ocrats, the personnel of that chamber has been altered in a striking way. By the retirement of Aldrlch and Hale a little over ten months hence other gaps will be made In the ranks of the "old guard." Hale and Aldrlch will be missed, but their party will go right on legislating In the Interest of political sanity and progress. New Chapter in Party History. New York Evening Poat (Ind.). The growth oi the Insurgent movement is a manifestation of returning health that must hearten every believer In democratic Institutions, and roust rojolce particularly every republican who recalls the days when his party meant something quite different from tariff-worship, and sought objects whose value could not be measured in Wall street. .AH signs point to the opening of a new chapter In the party's history; and If that chapter cannot be filled with a record as inspiring as that which filled Its early years, every good republican may hope at leaat that It will free Itself from the odium which three decades of money-worship have brought upon It, by a sincere effort to deal wisely with the less lnaplritlng but mors difficult problems of the present day. Blarna of the Time. Boston Herald (ind.). The general manager of the National senate never considered It necessary to go before the people to summon them to counsel with him. Such party leadership was bis laid no such duties on him. But there has come about a new conception of puny leadership. Tho people are awaken ing to their responsible part In politics. They are appreciating their privilege In the control of legislation. They are electing leaders who can lead us as well as com mand, and who will recognise aocount ab.llty to those whom they eipect to fol low loyally. TUe (.oople are asserting tli1r right to control parly organisations and demanding that they who furnish the votes are entitled to first consideration, even In preference to the special Interests which furnuth the funds. , ANOTHER NAVAL Cllt'lsa,. A Practice Vera Reminder Incidentally. Baltimore American. An Important record of the world tour of the battleships of the Atlantic fleet is contained In a volume of clippings In the Navy department, which gives ac crunts from papers the world over of the Itinerary of the ships of T7ncle Sam. This Is a literary record, but the more practical record Is found In the standard of efficiency attained by the men who manned the ships, the demonstration of the worth of American shipbuilding and the faot that the nations have accommo dated their views to the I'nlted States as a naval power of the foremost character. The appropriate naval officials are now at work upon plans for another tour of the ships that may be coextensive with the one that haa entered Into history as being unique In all respects. It appears assured that the American battleships which will Include four Dreadnoughts, will make a cruise to Gibraltar, possibly on through the Sues canal, and probably to the far Philippines, returning after a voyage rival ing the historic on, save that the rout would be reversed. Hampton will bo the point of departure and the point of return. The former great voyage was not a show parade., but a practical cruise with ma neuvers and technical work of a kind that duplicated the conditions under which the ships would be operated In tlmo of war. The fleet, Indeed, went to sea with full complements of men, with magasines stoiej with ammunition, with stores and supplies exactly as though setting out for armed strife. The ships would have been ready for action at the drop of a hat. The con templated tour will be of like nature, al though the ships of the fleet will probably not be kept so close together as In tho former case. It Is planned to have them break up Into four divisions In the Medi terranean so as to permit a vlflt to the principal Mediterranean ports. President Roosevelt favored these occasional cruises upon a vast scale, believing they were the very best training possible for the Amer ican seaman and their officers. They will doubtless feature In the future as a part of the strenuous work that will keep the American navy fit. Such crulsea will also enforce the fact that the United States la deatlned to bo the foremost naval power. Following the wake of Colonel RoobS velt's tour, the projected cruise will keep the United States In the forefront of for eign nations and Illustrate the principle of peace and preparedness for war. Certainly It Is Important In the east to keep the people awake to the fact that the United States, through Its Paclfle posses sions, borders upon Asia and can never consent to relinquish In any particular the responsibilities It sustains to the trade of the orient. RAGTIME PRE! ACHING. Methodist Bishop Deplores Vaode Tlllo In Sermons. New York Sun. Bishop Mclntyre of St. Paul, Minn., re cently made an address to the students seeking admission to the Troy Methodist conference. In which he made a phrase whose aptness overbalances Its possible lnck of dignity. "Ragtime preaching," said he, "Is not what Is needed." He deplored the pitchforking of poetry, politics, litera ture, and travel talk into sermons, and told the candidates they would attain the only kind of success which a clergyman should strive for by ardently preaching the great truths of the church, but not by following the custom of clergymen who 'serve religion cold." Also, the bishop exhorted them to be content with small salaries, and not to seek continually for better appointments. "You will never lack money If you are faithful," said he. "I never knew an active Methodist minister who was In want." Sturdy old doctrine, the sort of talk which Is not the fruit of any kind of mod ern thinking, of any faith diluted with an eye to expediency or an ear to Mammon, with a hand open for personal benefits or a foot turned toward the way of the scom ful. Steady, unswerving devotion to that which Is written unglossed by tho critics. Talk for fishermen apostles, missionaries, men with no marching orders except the old "Go ye and preach the gospel." After all, the pews respect that sort of talk when it falls from the pudplt. Tough old sinners know the difference between straight talk like that, with Its appeal to the hlgnest ethical Instinct In man, even though the smell of brimstone has lost Its power to move the soul. It Is not reported that the bishop specified brimstone as an Ingredient In the theological spring medi cine whose administration he urged. But he knew, as everybody ought to know, that rosewater Is not a tonic, and that the cnurch which depends on tawdry or even overomamental Images of religion in place of simple exhortations to clean minds and pure hearts grows more pitifully Ineffec tive every year. No earnest, able man like Bishop Mc lntyre really condemns the alluBlon to literature or travel or politics which may drive home an incidental point. But he Is evidently of the opinion that a preacher's work Is to expound the Bible and to meas ure men and actions by that rule and not to forget that he Is preaching Instead of lecturing. There are men who do not like sermons, especially if they are long ones. Such may stay away from ,a church where sermons are preached, but If tho preacher has It In him to talk like Bishop Mclntyre we imagine ne will not lack for listeners who will be the trainers by his words, and who will come back aguin to hear more or tnem. A PROPOUND OBSERVATION Concerning; the Ten Commandments In Polities. Chicago News. Tom Reed once made the rarcnstlc re mark that Roosevelt was the man who re discovered tho tn commandments. The observation was moro profound than the maker of It realized. Count Apponyl, In weloomlng Roosevelt to Budapest, showed the world-wide ap preciation of the same trait in this na tions popular leaner when he snld: "With American politics we have nothing to do. You are a private cltlacn In your own country, but you are received everywhere In Europo with honors befitting the moet powerful rulers. This la In recognition of the fact that you are the most conspicuous living representative of moral Improvement In public life and public honesty." If the United States furnishes the most revolting spectacles of dishonesty In publlo life, It Is gratifying to know that at the same tlin th country's most popular figure la the man who stands pre-eminent throughout the world as the representative of public honesty. This fact demonstrates that the moral fiber of the great mass of the people Is sound. Another Guraa In Order. Wall Street Journal. Automobile men estimate that more than 18.000.000 a year is earned by the railroads through carriage of automobiles. An es timate of what the farmer earns through towing disabled cars la now In order. Dolus; Unite Well for a Trust. Washington Star. It has been estimated that the steel trust psys an annual profit amounting to 15 per cent of the actual value of Its prop trllee. Th other S5 per cent Is possibly SHI)K OF OLD MARCl I What Wonld the Cupper Kins; Thin', of Thla peetarlf Cleveland Leader. "It Is understood from mmiibera of the family of Count Slgray, who married .Mis Harriet Paly, daughter of the late Marcu laly, that the bride's dower was Ifi.fluO.imi. Of this amount, however, only fcirtO.OOO win be Immediately at tho disposal of the bride, groom, that sum to be applied to the sett!. . mcnt of the count's debts. The comforts!. balance of &.400.0UO remains an American Investment from which tho young couple aro to draw the Interest." So runs a recent society noto In a New York paper, and th Blimnc of the happen ing Is so common that It excited no com ment, notwithstanding Its affront to the dignity and sanctity of marriage and tho low standard of both manhood uud woman hood which it Implies. Here Is a man, scion of one of tha proud est of Hungarian families, with a pedigree that stretches back to medlcvai days; hero Is a girl, born in the land where Woman hood Is rightly esteemed; delicately reared; fastidious, like all of her sex, in her ,n vlronment; proud of her position; glurvlng In her money, using It as a pedestal to raise her above the ruck of humanity ami as a barrier to keep her aloof from the mi, here, then, are a man and a womun, hi.. If there's anything ennobling In birth ana clarifying In wea.th, should be models for the rest of the world. And yet there Isn't a laborer on th street who has less manhood; and millions of poor girls doing humble work hold them selves higher. What would a decent worklngman thlnK of himself if lie went to a girl's father and demanded that his debts should be paid before he married her; what would the girl herself, no matter how lowly her posi tion, think of such a sordid, degenernto suitor; and what would tho rest of tho world accuHtomed to think of men as bravo and self-respecting and of women as fine and whlte-souled, say of such a pair? In this Slgruy case, the American girl Is the worse offender. The count who makes traffic of his title, has been brought up to such transactions, detectable aa they are. But there is no such excuse for the girl who consents to suoh a cheap and unwomanly bargain. No matter how badly the marriage turns out. she will have, bought her unh.applne.ss with her title. PEBS0NAL ANjj OIHEHWISE. ' Mr. Halley'a high flyer rises without the aid of an alarm clock. Had the convicts Qrleware and MuWlnxii shown any ability as posts they would not nave had such a strenuous run for liberty. ' lias anyone observed loaves of bread swelling with pride over the reduced price of wheat? A nineteen story shanty on Kyuun street. New York, Is to b torn down to maxe room for a thirty story modern building. The mayor of New York has vetoed an appropriation for an automobile on the ab surd fcround that walking is good for an office holder. Senator Chauncey M. Depew says the fumor that he Is to retire from the senate Is "the premier Joke of 1910." The point will be visible early In November. Tho Cornell professor who won a contest by Binoklng a clirar for elirht v.fiw. ...i.,- utes could have smoked considerably more had the cigar been Jonger, But, ,lt he was demonstrating something, 'there u ,,m curiostly to know what it was. The first lady apothecary In arnn has succeeded In passing her examinations. She Is Praulein von Gusnar, aged 21. Klie has now proceeded from Berlin to Darm stadt, where she has been engaged as apothecary s help in a pharmacy there. Ladd Cheney, of Blue Job. N. W . OrhA Is 80 years old, has been driving a team oi horses all winter; William Tebbetts, of Center Sandwich, who Is also so, does all his farm work unaided, and Calvin Col burn, of Mllford. who Is 80 veara old i. . active blacksmith. POINTED PLEASANTRIES. "Some women am M,.IKlr m ....I.. -- ... w .v.t.u.j ,un, rail the censorious pemon. res, replied Miss Cayenne, "they are. And by the way, did you ever notice a man wtio waa flvlnff- itin.uaie o ............ u. ilia photograph taken? "W ashington Star. "Our baby has been so cross because he's been cutting a tooth." "That's nothing. Wait and see how crosser he will be when he's old enough to have his teeth cutting him." Baltimore American. "You say Bhe is no longer editor of the Women's Corner?" "No. She wrote bo many articles on how to make over lust year's huts that her readers began to suspect she was a man.'' Puck. "Why does a woman enjoy being sud over the misfortune of a fictitious heroine at a matinee," said lie. "Oh, I don't know," replied she. "Why does a man enjoy scolding the baseball umpire about something that doesn't per r r i sonally concern him?" Washington Stu 'I suppose we will soon be hearing tho Joke about the big fish tliat got nway." "My friend," replied the fisherman, "with food at present prices the flbh that seta away is not a Joke. It Is a calamity." Chicago Post. "Your wlfo seems vexed with you." "Yes," replied Mr. Meekton. "It's all my fault. Henrietta was reading one of her spetches to me. 1 grew Inattentive and broke In with laughter where the manu script called for applause." Washington Star. Creditor I ask you for the last time to pay me 15 you owe mo. ; iJebtor Thank goodness! There's an ml to ttiat tllly queblion. "Colonel, that was an admirable speeoli you mode at the club the other evening on the obligations of citizenship. I've l.eim Intending to tell you so ever since 1 heard It. We need more of that kind of talk nowadays. But wliut are you looking so gloomy about thlH morning, colo'icl? No bad news, I hope." "Iaah It all, yes! I've been drawn on a Jury:"-Chicago Tribune, v . .. VANITY OF WEALTH. 3. E. Kiser in Record-Herald. Ho has firty million dollars moro than that, some ptople, say; . I cou d live a year in comfurt on his In come for a day; He has half a dozen autos and a yacht and prlvatu cur; He haa servants who are richer than the giiiatcm scholars are, But hia wife Is oft tho subject of rude Jestj among her "friends," And he lias the kind of finger that ur blunted at the ends. He can travel where he pleases, he can cumo and go at will; Ho can leave his work to others, and his profits pile up still; There are none to give him orders, none to bid him go or stay; When the monthly till a are brought liltn they produce no new dismay; But ho has a cherished daughter living under alien skits Where her titled husband beats her for th., sako of cKerclao. He has fifty million dollars fully tliat end maybe more; When be bathes a servant rubs tilm; tliere' a footman at his door; But his wife will jin suffrr him to ps beyond her sight. And he often toe wildly he ouc'i' to sleep, at nlsht: He ran riurchae lirds and css'lis; he 'fin travel east or west But he can t Induce contentment ta reside Inside his vest.
