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10 THE BKK: OMAHA. THfKsnAY, MAT 12. 1910. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE, fuL'.NI'ED T?t EDWARD nOSEWATEft. VICTOR P.OSEWATEK. EDITOR Entered ( Omaha poatofflce a second c.ast matter. ' TbltM OF SLBSCIUPTlON'. Pally He (including Sun-lay), per woek.loc I'aily Pee (without Sunday), per week. lc i'aily his (without Hundayl, one year. .W W i-'aily and Sunday, one year W UtUVtiltLU BY CAKKIfcH. ttenttig Wee (Without Pundayt. per week. Sr. r.vening le ilth Kitnuay), per week... 10c unoay Jrtie. one year -w t-atumay lice, one year ' w Addr ail vomplainta of Irieguiarltica In tlelivtiy to City In uimion Department. OFFICES. Omaha The-lice Huildmg boui h (jmnha'i ent -fourth and N. council Mliilfn 15 Kcoit ititt. Mucoid ols Utile Huilding. t hkano 1,'ilS Maioictie Huilding. New Vork Rooms 1101-UW .No. 34 West 1 mi iy -mini street. asliington-Jjo Fourteenth Street, N. . COKKKSPONDKM K. - 'ommupiranona relating to hew and editorial matter hould be addreased: timthi Hue. Kditorlal Department. UKMITTANCKS. Keirtll by aialt. exiiea or portal order r.-a'lH to The Bee Publishing Company, only 2-cent stamp received In payment of mail accounts. Pcrtoual checks, except on umaiia or eastern exchange, not accepted. bTATEMEXT Or CIRCULATION. Mate of .NehraFka. Douglai County, as.: George H. Tztchuck, treasurer of Tha Heo Pubhsning Company, being duly sworn, aaya that the actual number of full and complete eopte of The Daily, Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee printed during tha month or April, lio, kii a roiiowi 1 .....43,800 ..... 41,130 t 43,910 1 48,100 4 44,400 6 43,770 t 43 840 17. ,. 43,300 It 43,380 )y .43,480 jli. 43.680 21 ... . 2 ! . . it.... Hi ... . .... tJ.... :..., :.... HI).... , . .43,880 . . ,48,830 ,..43,100 ...41,400 , . .43,840 ,..43,830 , . .48,800 , , . 48,890 . . .43,760 , . .43,970 1.. I.. I. . 10. . 11.. It. . 13.. . .43,690 , .43 030 , .43,080 , .44,bC0 ..48,840 . .43,580 .43,800 14 43,680 li 43.YO0 Tolal Itelurnuil copies . , 1.384,840 ......... ... 10,431 Net total , ...,.1.374.119 Dally avenue 43,470 UfcUltUB tt. XZSCHUCK. Treasurer. Kubcrlbed In my preaenca and aworn to before uiti this 2d day o( May, UUO. 31. P. WALKER, Notary public. KnlMrIbra leaving tba elir teni- purarlly aliuald hate The Be mailed to tbeni. Addrenars Mill be ttbauKed ftttu urn rarntea, 1 love my llonn, but, oh, you (lilt dik! White slavery must go, too. There ia no color line whin It comes to that. Soliloquy In Humlet'H castle: "To be or not to be a candidate." Uoston Transcript. Ghost talk. Wonder If Major "Jim" will put his anti-sky-scraper Idean into his plat form? Was all this agitation over the germatic kiss started jusi. spptl that Berlin greeting? A play has been found hat was too tough for New . York. . Wbnder .. what it could have been? The nation must feel an Interest In knowing what the supreme court will do to Mr. Justice Hughes' whiskers. The bate ball team with a catcher by the name of Love ought to catch them all, especially In the spring games. The king of Siarn will pass right through Utah with those forty wives, too. In the shades of Brlgham Young! Mr. Hearst Is really not provoking any uproarious applause with hla lat est fulminatlona. He has cried "Wolf" too often. It was an Irony of fate that Nord Alexis of Haytl should die In a bed after all bis experiences on blood stained battlefields. What the republican party needs badly la another Mark Manna Wail Street Jour nal. To tell us to "let well enough alone?" In casting about for a man to nomi nal e the mayor of New York for the presidency the democrats will not have to waste time considering W. R. Hearst. Editor Hitchcock is already to shy his castor into the senatorial ring, but doesn't propose to make the toss until he gets final and definite word from Fairview. Omaha's ball team opened the season with perfect eclat. Visitors will please take notice that the Ttourke family is now playing on it? own green grass. John 1.. Sullivan Is going to report the Jeffries-Johnson fight for a syndi cate of papers, but it is safe to say the "Big "Un" will not --write as 4Joe Choynskl trains Jeff along the esthetic lin. s Labor troubles cu the new court house having been adjusted, it is In arder now for the contractors and workmen alike to show the pubyc what can be done in the way of rapid construction. The federal court baa again upheld the United States pure food law. n aim ply means that makers of food - products must live up to tho require ments of the statutes or defend them selves court. Detective William Burns and Pros ecutor Francis J. Heney, who became famous fighting the Evil One in Kan Vrrncisco, have landed big bertha in York. And Mayor McCarthy of the coast city says the lid la off and gmn to stay off. The Railroad Bill. The railroad bill crossed over the summit of Its rocky road when it passed the house and is now on the downward rourse to ultimate success. In the aenale the friends of the bill claim to have forty five votes assured In the compact formed under the re cent "call to arms" t rally round the administration program. This does not Include several strong possibilities yet in the republican ranks and others on the democratic side. In the house the bill was passed by a vote of 200 to 126, n much larger majority than might have been ex pected In view of the continuous ful mlnationa against it from certain members. In this number were many Insurgents and ten democrats. This Inspires the belief that when the final vote comes In the senate Insurgents and democrats will break ranks there also. The assured nucleus of forty live senators still leaves forty-seven outside the compact, but the balance of hope In such a count must emphat ically be on the side of the bill, for there can be no question of the power to break Into the outstanding forty feven, who are not organized and many of hom staid out of the forty five compact only because they pre ferred not to commit themselves in advance and not because they were inimical to the bill. Implacable fees of the administra tion still Insist that it has been de feated in this bill because of amend ments, but so long as President Taft Is natlBflrrI with the status of the measure, this criticism will have to be discounted. The president expressed himself as highly gratified on hearing that the bill passed the house. lie believes In its virtue and efficiency to meet certain needs and is not discon certed by the fact that It has been amended in minor ways since its introduction. . The Quern's Message. Queen Alexandra's message to the people of Great Britain acknowledging their expressions of sympathy and sor row on the occasion of the" king's death is permeated by that dominant spirit of democracy which mado Ed ward VII a most popular monarch and a power for world peace and progress. It Is suggestive of a homely solicitude for the commoners' welfare which not even the spontaniety of so eventful an occasion could .have provoked and which could have come only from the source of deepest conviction. It is im pressive in its simple sincerity, betray ing unmistakably the fact that tjie in terests of the Britons have lain heav ily upon the hearts and at the hearth stone of their sovereigns. There is nothing formal or fulsome about, the queen's note. It is most matter-of-lact In Its composition as well as spirit, subjective only of a Wife's supreme sorrow and genuine appreciation of the fact that that sor row, too -sacred for trespass, is yet shared by millions of her own people. Somehow it is wholesome, this inter course between an -adored queen and her countrymen, even though it must proceed from the recess of a broken heart through the medium of national grief. - Death is the common leveler of life, a democracy of sorrow and such incidents must serve to teach that there Is, after, all little distance between the stations of the ruler and the ruled, a lesson which, if properly learned, should conduce to a healthy national life and character. Financial Diplomacy. The solidarity of the world's money market after weeks -of disturbing eviants, culminating in the death of King Edward, cannot fail to reflect much credit upon the American finan ciers who negotiated the shipment of more than $50,000,000 in gold to Eu rope, ichiefly to .England, within the last few weeks. This action, criti cised at the time as Ill-advised, now appears as a master stroke in financial diplomacy, a real episode in interna tional money matters. Its large share In preparing the market to withstand tbe stresa of circumstances that were to come is not to he Ignored. When these enormous shipments ! began from New York to London the question arose, would not our own market fail to find compensation for Its loss of gold, no ruarter what bene fits accrued to the British market? Now, before we have had time to an swer this question, comes the news that American railroads have success fully placed $1,500,000,000 of new se curities In ICurope. . Undoubtedly this is one of the fruits of this gold ship ment and nothing has transDired at j home to offset the advantage. Nor have such potential factors as the pas sage of the budget by the British Par liament, tne rubber speculations and the king's death produced any reac tionary influence. Grave fears were entertained as to the effect of the budget with its tax-levying provisions. Arrears in taxes had been deferred pending action on the budget and Lon don financiers realised that much of the money necessary to meet the Income- tax demands was on deposit In London banks and would have to be withdrawn. When transferred to the Bank of England these credits would reappear as public deposits, Increasing the bank's liabilities and requiring In creased reserves. When these' gold shipments organ the Bank of England showed a reserve of 6.200.000 below the samo date a year before, the lowest reserve re ported since 1899. Since then the re ceipt of American eagles have brought England's gold holdings up fully $28. 000.000 and the danger apprehended as a result of the budget confusion has entirely disappeared London's financial status has settled down on a solid basis and the world's finances have been strengthened with confi dence tasel on actual ability and it has all come about, largely, If not en tirely, as a result of this gold ship ment by the United States. There's the Rub. Discussing the pending income tax amendment along usual lines, a con tributor to the Journal of Accountancy indulges in this reflection: 1 In a fen- years e shall have fifty-two Mates. In a few yeara there will be enough Mates to amend the constitution and prac tically wipe it out without coiiKUltlnR, with out the votfn of a !l.iale one of the thirteen oiijtinal nutc. It . was the boast In the hoiiHe and in the pentite luvt year t'lmt the south and west would carry thU amend ment through, and In a few yearn, as 1 say, there will bo fifty-two states, and the thir teen original states will no longer count. Evidently, there's the rub. The thirteen original states have had the Idea up to this time that they should have some superior qualities and abro gations over and against the other states that have been let Into- the sis terhood from time to time after the republic was founded. It is apparently exasperating to the original states to contemplate the possibility of the country growing so largo that they may some day lose the controlling In fluence which they have thus far main tained. Whether the pending constitutional amendment is adopted or whether other amendments are submitted and ratified, the equality of the states, tak ing into consideration their relative population as represented In the lower house of congress, Is a condition and not a theory. Certainly, the newer states of the west will never concede that the original thirteen states have a monopoly on the wisdom and patri otism of the country. The meeting of Kaiser Wilhelm and former President Roosevelt contains more of genuine interest than any re ception the distinguished American has had abroad, cordial and whole some as all have been. In the first place, the two men have been close friends by correspondence for years, mutual admirers and students and ad vocates of much in common. All Americans and German-Americans in the United States, as well as Germans at home, must share the deep spirit of this Berlin event. Emperor William showed a most discriminating sense of good taste when he arranged a sham battle, engaging 12,000 men, for the edification of his guest. The South Omaha insurance man who slipped into the Omaha field Is going to have a chance to make good one way or another. He will either deliver the policies contracted for or forfeit his certified chucK. A few such experiences as this will have a bene ficial affect on all biduers for dty work. . While the city council is extending Its authority to destroy dilapidated buildings within the present fire limits, it should not overlook the necessity for extension. Now is the time to widen the area from which frame buildings and flimsy construction of any sort should be excluded. Farmer Burns, whom Jeffries says he simply must have to continue his training for the big fight and whom Gotch insists on having for his train ing to wrestle Zbyszko, is, you must bear in mind, a citizen of Omaha. If Governor Shallenberger really wants to move to Texas, perhaps Ne braska might spare him on the ground of reciprocity, for it was Texas that gave Nebraska Omaha's present mayor. Take that, Texas. Somehow John Temple Graves seemed a much larger man as the editor of an Atlanta paper and citizen in his own right of that city than he does as Hearst's man Friday. Our Birthday Book May 13, 1910. Right Rev. Richard Scannell, Roman Catholic bishop of Omaha, waa born May 12, 1S45, In County Cork, Ireland. He was ordained to the priesthood In 1871, coming to the United States and made blxhop of Concordia. Kan.. In 18S7, being transferred to Omaha In 1S91. William Allien Smith, United States sen ator from Michigan, is 61. He Is a native of Michigan and represented the Grand Rapids district in the lower house before his elovatlon to the senate. Rev. Frank Crane, now on the lecture circuit, but formerly pastor of the Firn Methodist church in Omaha, was born May 1-'. lwil. at I rbana. III. Dr. Crane was back in Omaha last year to help cele brate tuo 'clearing of the church from debt. George E. Woodbury, author. Is 66. He was born at Beverly, Mum. He held the professorship In English literature in the University of Nebraska, going from there to Columbia, university, from which he retired In l!04. Henry Cabot Lodge. I'niucl stales sen ator from MaMHai-husiCiis. is celebrating his sixtieth birthday anniversary. He was born in Huston and hoMs all kinds of liteiary degrees from Harvard and several other universities awarded for his work as a historian and autiior. He is fre-iiui-ntly referred to as "the scholar In politics." Senator Lodge pres'ded over the last republican convention. Guidon W. allies, president of tho Omaha A Council ISluffs Street Hallway company, w- born May 12, at Itb.'n- ford, N. V. Mr. VVattlts ha had a vaik-d business career, beginning with teaching aehool. practicing law, banking, president of 111' Ti ansinlasisaippt. txposilion, presi dent vt the NilKnial Corn show ami othe. ciileipil.ea too numerous to mentiou. 11. V. Moorr. director and liousa sales mill f'U F. P. Klrkendall & Co., shoe matJifai'tta i v. if lie wan boi n in I.un to. l'l.. and has been w tli Ins pienent. voirpany ten ycat s. and previously old rhoe.-5 fnr Vv". V. Murae company and the Bet.neil company. Around New York Klpplaa oa tha Onrraat af Xlf as 0a la tbe Oraat America Kstrojieus fro a Bar to Say. Since the Hoard of Health of New York Issued Its older prohibiting the operation of smoking automobiles after July 1, mO, ptople whose nostrils have been shocked by gasoline stench hav expressed their Joy and appreciation by Irttets to the boaid. One of the Joyous epistles brought a suggestion which the board approves and Is disposed to pie8 ,l adoption on manufacturers of motor cars. "Compel all owners and make! a of automobiles." wrote the wine guy, "to arrange the exhaust pipe so that any amoke ejected therefrom will come over the front of tha car and give the occupants the first crack at their ojnn product. It la Just as prac ticable for tha exhaust pipe to be made to lead forward as behind. I. lenses should be withheld from all cars until such change has been made. By this method those riding In the car will get the full benefit of the stench they may cause and will take good care to stop It Imme diately." Five youngster are now In the Children's society wondering why Justice Hoyt, In the children's court, broke up their expedi tion to go west to fight Indians. Tha boys, all cloae to 12 yonrs old. formed a club to exterminate the redmen. They had learned about Indians In dime novels. They planned to make, their start Tues day afternoon, and were seen trying to board a westbound freight train of the New York Central Just before It drew out of tha yards In Went Fifty-seventh atraet. A policeman questioned them, and they could not explain their purposa to satisfy him. ao he took them to the West Forty-aeventh street police station. When the boys were searched their pocketa yielded a roll of gauze bandages, two boxes of pills, a Urge package of courtplaster. two bologna rings and three loaves of bread. A lad namd Davis was the spokesman when Justlc; Hoyt called them to the bar. "We wanted to kill off a few- Indians." hi explained, "and we caved our money In a club for a few week. Thcra were a lot of things we needed, such as guns and am munition, but we had only enough money to buy the real necessities. If the In diana should attack its before we had our guns we certainly would need bandages and courtplaster. so we bought those things and enough feed to last us for a few days, until we struck the redmen's haunts!" Justice Hoyt questioned tha parents, and learned that the boys have always bscn regarded as model youngsters. No ono knew of their purpose to wipe out the red skins. It Is expected between r.,000 and !0.KH men will march In the parade welcoming Colonel Roosevelt on June 18. The aecte tary of the reception committee has re ceived app'Joatlons form civil, military and political organisations, expressing their expectation of marshaling nearly 40,000. Los Angelas will Bend a party of from twenty five to fifty representatives clt'zena. The Spanish war veterans have asked permis sion to erect an arch of "Welcome" over Fifth avenue, near Twenty-third strrel. Captain Cosby, secretary of the recep tion committee, says every effort will be made to keep the affair from being toi stiff and formal. Colonel Roosevelt will make but one address In response to Mayor Oaynor'a welcome. At the request of Colonel Roosevelt no dinner has been planned. The ex-presldent will probably go to Oyster Bay on the evening of his arrival. Mateo Dehomoto who has a bootblack stand in Fifty-third street, will have to shine 1,000 pairs of shoe at five eo.us a pair without profl. to himself. This Is not on account of a freak bet. but the re sult of the Inexorable law as Inter preted by the Supreme TOurt. tiebomoto vsed o own a stand on the opposite cor ner. Ife sold that place to Antonio Pet teducati for $42S and signed an agreement that he Voulrt not re-establish in business within six blocks of the old stand. When Bebotnoto started shining shoes right across the street, Fetteducatl obtained an Injunction. Debomoto had never seen an Injunction before and kept on shining, whereupon tha court fined him A Harlem young man who had paid arduoua court to a charming young wo man of athletic tendencies was lately en countered by a friend at one of the fashionable restaurants. Instead of the usual Intended he had with him his sister, whom he was en tertaining with all the devotion that an Talks for people The buying public the workers and spenders the real "backbone" of the country, are demanding quality goods. Hysterical advertising of under priced goods and exaggerated values bavo gone out. The opportunities for bonest and in telligent retail merchandising through honest and intelligent advertising have never been so great aa now. The readers of newspapers are educated and Intelligent people, they know qualities, they want quality, they will have quality, If not from one mer chant, tbeu from another. The retail merchant Is broad enough to realize the possibilities of meeting the time and condition with quality rather than quantity and profit, who can realize the possibilities of adver tising absolutely dependable good3 and backing It up with his reputation will make friends of his customers. They will have a reason for preferring his store to any other. To such a merchant here is w hat we offer in the way of quality and service: 42,000 home subscribers; over 150, 000 interested. Intelligent and edu cated readers who want quality goods and have the money to pay for them. You can reach these 150,000 read ers In a four-inch apace in our adver tising columns three times a week for $611.52, or about $50 per month. We have adJed to our' A-lvertising Department an Advertising Service of quality which will help to make your space more productive. Phone Douglas 138 an1 a repre sentative will call. It Is an unfortunate moment in a man's life vhrnit has erased to b. tossible for tym to add to his store o convictions, or to modify some of at dent suitor might bestow tip"" his Ideal. , "Where Is ur sweetheart?" asked the friend. Tarted forever." said Ihe late Koineo. "For keeps. In order to forget t r?W show ing my hitherto neglected sister the time of br life." "If you will pardon my curiosity" be gan tha friend. "I will." Interrupted the youth with hearti ness. "1 will tell y.Mi an. One day this week t saw her run alongside a fast mov ing surface csr In the street and Jump on like a man. It Is all off." A raloon keeper Informed a friend the other day that he was debating a proposi tion he had made to himself, to sell out his fit waters, and go In for soft drink. "But not the modern milk-and-water and sasparllla or lemonade varieties. I would starve to death In a month, with nothing more sensational and attractive as an advertisement. "When I was over In Iondon in the fall, I ran serosa a lot of queer ones. 1'erhaps I may be the providential Instrument chosen for their Introduction Into Ameri ca. "For Instance, there was C'ydio. a mild form of cider, that sparkles In the glass, and tickles all tha way down the throat. Then there was Ovaltlna, a soothing, yet tasteful combination of eggs, malt, milk and cocoa. Another was Hygtana, a cocoa and ale that gripped the spot like the real thing, but did not go to the head." "Huppoaa you ring a few of them in on your bar," suggested his hearer. "And have the place mobbed by my customer?" was the response. 'WHAT'S IN A KIXS'S MMBEIlf 8aaersll4lena Peoil Cast n Shadow on Fifth." Cleveland Plain Dealer. Someone Is sure to come along a ad re mark that the English kings who have been designated as "Fifth" have not en Joyed long Uvea or happy reigns. There have been only three of these: Henry V. ruled from 1413 to 14J2. Kdward V was king In 148$, and now comes Georve V. Henry V was a Just king and an able general. He practically completed the con quest of Fiance, but died suddenly at the early ag of 3S, after a reign of only nine years. His work was undone by Joan of Arc shortly after his oeath. Edward V was only nominally king of England. He was 13 years old at the death of his father, Edward IV, and waa mur dered within a year by his uncle and guardian, who became king under the title Richard III. It Is, of course, extremely foolish to argue from the reigns of Henry V and Edward V that the reign of George V will not be long and peaceful and prosperous. But such analogies never escape the at tention of the delvera after the curious facts Of history. It hat often been noted that "Third" was a lucky designation for an English king. With the exception of that of Vic toria the longest reigns have been those of Henry III, Edward III and George III, who occupied the throne flfty-alx, fifty and sixty years, respectively. Unfortunately for the analogy, however, Edward III, reigned less than three years. The Middleman Kxclndrd. Chicago Record-Herald. The cost of Mvlng is not advancing in England, because the consumers are getting their food from the producers without per mitting the middlemen to dip in with both hands. There. Is a possibility that the American consumers will some day wake up, but their alarm clock seems to have been set for a very late hour. bid the Uorernor Duckf Sioux City Tribune. The four republican members of the Ne braska State Board of Assessments, after waiting several days for Governor Shallen berger who is a member of the board and who waa out over the state attending democratlo banquets, raised railroad as sessments In Nebraska $1,339,928. ntf flcnltlt-a of lllwrmamrnt. Philadelphia Record. Before delivering his disarmament speech in Chrstlania a sepclallst of that city rec ommended to the ex-president that he should give his voice a rest. This waa ap parently useless advice. It is as hard for him to disarm as It la for the military na tions to whom he recommends It. Wireless Train Dispatching. New York World. Wireless telegraphy is to be used for train despatching on the Union .Pacific. Such a system should prove Invaluable In correcting mistakes In train orders before the collision occurs. who sell things those which he already holds. It marks the point where be has ceased to be Intellectually alive and has be come an Intellectual relic. Dr. C. H. Parkhurst. Xenapnpera for Candy Stores. When Loft, the candy man, started to advertise, only a few years ago, the largest space he thought he could af ford waa a two-Inch advertisement. He bad a small store, very little money, but he had a lot of pluck, en ergy and ability. He kept that two-inch advertisement running as steadily as tbe ticking of a clock. And, above all, tie had the good aense to reiterate one thing only viz., good, pure candy at a reasonable price per pound. Tbe business grew rapidly. His ad vertising space Increased slowly but steadily. He never splurged or used sensational advertising. It was constant, everlasting reitera tion of quality and price. People who lead his advertising , announcements believed them, and, believing, bought. The point about tins story is that there are at least 200 merchants In New York (and scores In every city) who can commence advertising as Loft dtd and make a success, of It if they will also do as Loft did back It up with the goods. Any ehrewd advertising agent can conduct a successful advertising cam paign for a beginner by running two-' Inch advertisements several times a week In a few papers that give a lot of attention to small a'ivcrilscTiicnis. W. C. Freeman, In the New York Mall. Mrs. Crawford: If jour hesband can't eat any breakfast, what Ane he do? Mn. Crabsba: Devours The Bee CRtAM A Cuarantca af LI 3 it, Sweaty Pure, YfholC3QStto Foctt PERSONAL NOTES. Numerous tourists who met Dr. Cook in South America will be surprised to learn that he was never there. Chicago promises to become presently on of the country's must Important pro ducing centers for graft Indlettnents. Francis Heney, who Is particularly bad medicine for grafters. Is going to live In New York, which naturally strikes him as a fine field. The statue of Mr. Roosevelt which is to ba'erected In Medora, N. 1J has been dis approved by him on the ground that there should be statues of nobody except persons a long time dead a class to which Mr. Roosevelt does ndt belong. However, h has consented to pose for this particular statue because the Medora people are de termined to have it. Harry Whitney and Paul .1. Relney, mil lionaire sportsmen, hunters and explorers, have completed their plans for a hunt ing expedition around Labrador and the Arctic this summer. On board the large whaler, Booth Ic, under command of Cap tain Hartlett, commander of Peary's ship Roosevelt, they will leave Sydney, Cape Breton Island, some time next month. Ninety-six years old and conducting a pedestrian search for two daughters, Frank Schraum, a yetcran of the Mexican and civil wars, tramped Into Pittsburg from Cleveland more like a husky lad than a battle-scarred centenarian. The old man made the trip, he says, in three days, and if he does not find any trace of his daughters will continue on east ward afoot. There has Just died at Florence the countess Tahon. She was the last r.f the .Vespucci family. Amerigo Vespucci, it Is well known, gave his Christian name to the continent, of Ametics, and she traced her descent from the celebrated navigator. Half n century ago the countess was a personage of note. She played her part In the Garlhaldlan move "rflent and she. was an Intimate friend of Mazzlni. MUNICIPAL WASTR. Increased Tax Hardens Wlthont Ade quate Rrtnrni. M. T. Herrlck In Review of Reviews. The bonded indebtedness of American cities as a whole Is increasing much more rapidly than municipal assets, and the taxes for operating expenses are becoming more burdensome each year. In 1902 the percent age of the revenue of all the cities in the country to their debt was 37.3. By 1909 this percentage was decreased to 25.9. The net public debt of forty-nine cities. Including New York, Increased 47.71 per cent from 1899 to IPOS, while during the same period the Increase In the assessed valuation of all taxable property In these cities advanced but 12.ES per cent. In cities above 3(10.000 in population the municipal expenditures In creased 20 per cent per capita from 1902 to 1907. If this Increase continues the pleasure of taxation will fo;n become Intolerable and credit exhausted. In Chicago Professor Charles E. Merrlam, at the head of a special council Investigat ing committee, reports that nearly half of the water pumped by the city Is wasted, while a very large percentage of the water rates are not collected. He anserts that his investigations will show an, annual leak age In all departments of at least $7,000,000, or about one-third of the amount now re quired to run the city; and in this state ment he Is supported by a former chairman of the finance committee, who declares that he could save one-third of the annua! budget If he could work without political Interference. The evidence Is conclusive that In mu nicipalities, counties, states and the na tional government Itself there Is a vast and growing amount of extravagance In the administration of public business. SUNNY GEMS. "That man told mo he would marry and settle down." iidn't he?" "Will, ne mm i led, but he didn"t settle down. He's bren up In the air rvor fcini-c." Puck. "Aie you goinx to plant a garden tills summer?'' "Well, If it is half the worrv and ex prmie I found one last rummer I thlcl; tha garden lil plant me. " Haltimore American, "Have you completed your graduation essay?'' ".No," replied Mildred. "I read it over to father nud he understood every sen tence. l't got to rewrite It and put In more words of four syllables. ' VVasliins ton Star. Phi) siiian 1 have told you to lake lung alka in the opt n air, and yuu are not do- . log it " 1 Confirmed Ijyspeptic-I know It, doctir. hut you told ine 1 was to take them rut mi empty stomach, srd I never ha an (inpty Htnmsi-h." Washington (r ur. "Wilh these naiea of voun. ' i.tid the ofrielrl Inspector, " on give ovfrweigiit Insiej.l of underweight." "Yew. j know It." tesponded ti e giocar. ; "and I l ave the trade of all tne nur.g ! mother In town. They all my theFe scales are tne only one that welis.H tneir babie. col recti) ." I'nU ago Tribune j .ludge liis-up says the real Irulh about , that Mom Carlo stor is ihsr til I. !tj of cr'rtlt went into l'ie Jituurii y. ,rd it didn't come cut i'i th- wash. I Rut the next msn who finds Minder without, money la the lit tie pilnclpality ot d Fifty Ycaro w tho Standard 11 r n i -a- J w mm .i m Monaco mustn't expect that a secon laundry story will be accepted with tin. questioning confidence. It would be liko a cUnr enne of too muclt lye In the determent. 'lev-eland Plain Dealer. V "Why can't they hase an opera upon aji American theme?" "We hfive no peasantry to lrrln& in as a chorus." "Make It a base ball opera and Intro duce a chorus of enthusiastic fans."-. Louisville Cntirir r-Journal. "Why has Mendelssohn's 'Spring r4B,f no words?" " "I guess he figured that words wouldn't be needed. Everybody Is nil stuffed tip with Influenza In the spring and. can'k articulate. Chicago t'ost. "That fellow Is daffy on patents, s, Isn'l he?" "Ye; he even wears patent leathe boots." Washington Herald. The Host What piece will you have, Miss Tootsle. Miss Toatsle Please carve me Ihe left souara tnngcnl east to seventy-six f ment above the lolti diugnnal to fn parallel to Oh. I beg pardon; I learned the cuts In cooking school.-Puck. LAMENT OF A BENEDICT. IVtroit Free Press. Mie siRhrd f(- a pony cart, hairy ana black. She. alghed for a tube gown a few week ago. Sho sighed for a "princess" that down the back, closed J rra ok fhe yearned for a cloak for the. opc show. She sighed for a ling with a solltulre In It, She HlKlifd for mine puffs and an Im ported rat. When a fashion comes In rhc must liava It that minute, file's sighing today for a chantlclcr hat She's not melancholy or gloomy or sad. She's winsome, and pretty and fair to be hold. By nature she ever: Is sunny and glad. It's onldom she wishes ,to nag or to scold. Her method is artful, she droops her brown eyes And reads from the papers tho lat9 fash ion chat, Seea something she wants, and she sigh and she sighs. She's sighing today for a chantlcler hat She sighed for a set of lynx furs till aha got 'em. Sho ."Iglied for a toque and a turban of 1 mink; She Hlghed for silk stockings for weeks till I bought 'em. Her slgha I em tearful will drive me to rttlnk. She sighed for a cape nrHjtaty and tides- x' did- I l Till the size of my bank roll Is siendef and flat. It seems that her sighing will never be ended. She's started to algli for a chantleler hat. Pianos (Settle .eaoei Upright Pianos in oak cases, in mahogany cases, in walnut cases, selling for $75, $90, $100, 5125, $135, $175 and $185. Ten dollars takes one home There air ei" J'Iuhoh to select from not new ones but nearly I'iaii'iM Hint aro every bit as kooiI. Instrument that have hardy had any line; phinos we tookvin ns part pay cm our $.175 I'liiyer I'lanos, nf. trr which I lie tiliiycr buyer pays the Imluiice off on KIO monthly Installments. How en' II 1h to own h plnno Hint every ono can piny fjsl- vi net- MM- (. Kciiiejnbcr we have hiul new pianos for StfMi. $1 cr week bujH tlirin. When IuijIiik n piano -r play er plnno It's I'OI.L ACS in your io krt l visit the bevl, t ho most i-eliahle. aa yviv 1513-1515 Dongas St. T. S.- Have yoar plaro 'vnr 4 t 4 f