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HIE ItEE: OMAHA, MONDAY, MAY 23. 1010. Hie omaha Daily Hee JL'NUED BY KUU'AKD ItOsEWATEH. VlCTull HUSKWATKIU. EDlTulC iCntercd at Omaha puatoftico as second . matter. , TEIIM3 OF SUUtSCIUt'TIuN. Oally live (including (Sunday), per wuck.lJ Ually Bee (without 8unda, pr weoK..lwo baaly ilea (without hunuay;, one )ar..HW Dally lies and Sunday, one yvar -w iJb.LlVt.lt.U UY CAKUlt-H. Evening lie (without bundayj, per neek.Gc fcvenlng lite (with Isunuay), per week....lw ISunUay bee, one year $Z to baluiuay lieu, one year lM Address all tompiaiia; of irregularities 1,1 delivery to City Circulation DepwtineiiL OFFlCKli. Omaha The Bee Building. Kuulh UmaJia '1'weniy-rourth and N. Council lilutfs 16 ticutt fclreet. Lincoln tils Little Building. ' Chicago li4S Marquette liuilding. N kork Rooms Uul-llW o. J4 West Thirty-tnird fcitieet. Washington 7j6 Fourteenth Street, N. W. COttilESPUNLliNK. Communlcatlona relating to new and editorial matter should be addreaBed: Oinaii Bee, Editorial UeparimcuL KJSMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order payable to The Bee i'ublisi.lng Company. Only H-cent stamps received In payment 01 mail accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchange, not accepted. STATEMENT OIT CIKCULA'HON. Btate of Nesraaka, Douglas County, sa.t Ueorge B. Tsschuck. treasurer of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Pally, Morning. Evening and Hunday Be printed during the woaia 01 April, mu, was as ioiiows; 1 43,800 1 42,730 S a,10 IT 43,300 $ 42,100 II 43,380 4 44,400 19 43,680 ,,.43,770 10. 43,680 411,840 : (1 43,860 1 4J.6H0 '. la 43,630 1 43 680 it 43,100 ,43,060 It.. 41,400 10 44.6C0 It 43,840 11 48,840 l( 43,830 II 43,680 '' 17 43,600 II 43,800 IS 43,80 14 43,680 ' Z 43,760 II 43,700 10 43,970 Total 1.884,640 Returned copies ...... 10,431 Net total M74.119 Ually average 43,40 OjlOKUH B. TZ8CHUCK. Treasurer. Subscribed in my presence and swora to before ma tola Id day of May, 1S10. ii, y. w'ALKEn, Notary PuDtio. Iibserlkers leaving? the city tens orartlr ' should have). The Be anallea to the a. Addressee will be ehaaarea aa oftea aa reqeeated. About time to build that Platte river power canal once more. All we hope now la that It will not occur to Juno to try to out-April, May. Oh, now, Mr.. Astronomer, you have had a fair chance. Do not talk comet to ua now. A Chicago paper has raised the ques tion, "What to do with the Chicago river?" Can It be filled upT Those pujbllo achool ..contests at .any rate, are highly successful in making, the younsters expert lungatera. A Chattanooga paper wants jto know how they can harmonize the" demo cracy of Tennessee. Give It up. Kick on the weather all you will, rou must admit It has been a good season for catching grafters, eh Pitts burg? It s to be noted, also, that Mayor "Jim" la not missing any chance to get off his welcome-to-our-clty speech these days. Of course, If the Commoner were the only newspaper there would be no need of keeping the art of oratory and public speaking 'alive. Oklahoma is prompt in announcing tho annual advent of the tornado. We will have ours in this end of the tor nado belt In about a month. The news reports say John D. Rockefeller, Jr., has assumed the task of purifying New York. If so, he has t least tackled a man's Job. Still, Stenographer Kerby will scarcely offer aa one recommendation when he soots another job, the reason why he was fired from the last. New Jersey papers are advertising the fact that there Is health In Jersey's pine lands. Perhaps, but some people will decline to go there even for that consideration. San Francisco's mayor seems to have advertised his city as lldlesa not In vain. Ten national and one Inter national conventions are scheduled for that town this year. Congress appropriated 125,000 for the expenses of the Dalllnger-Pinchot Investigation and It cost so far only $15,000. Who says the economy streak has not struck Washington? Somehow we cannot help feeling about this question, "Can Jeffries come back," that be has not a great waya to come, though he had gone a long distance In the other direction. Jacques de LeBseps duplicates the feat of Louis Blerlot In crossing the British channel in an aeroplane. Soon the channel will begin to think It Is not such a terrible thing to cross after all. Nebraska farmers will appreclat the report of Colonel Goethala that op erations on the canal at Panama are proceeding as well aa could be ex pected In view of the unprecedented wet weather. What's this? An Injunction against the strikers at Havelock under the shadow of Falrvlew? Still, what has government by Injunction got to do with the initiative and re; ereuduni and anunty option Neutrality on the Canal. Tho rPKolutlon looking toward neu trality of the canal Introduced In the ouse by Representative Kelfer of Ohio seems to have every prospect of doption as it should have. It swms to ruoet the favor of the minority leader, Champ Clark and that of Mr. Tawney, a stalwart republican chair man of the appropriation committee nd of the president, bo that Its suc cess should be assured. Such a resolution ia essentially a measure in the interest of peace ana commerce. It would be a sheer waste of money and denial of our boasted policy for International peace to avoid treaty arrangements with other coun tries that would make it necessary for s to fortify the Panama with forts nd battlebhlps. We might thus have spend more money to make the canal safe from attack without the resonce of men-cf-war. At present only the United States nd Great Britain are obligated to bserve neutrality on the canal, Just s they are on the Great Lakes, but nder the terms of this resolution treaties would be negotiated with the other powers by which they too would subscribe to similar pledges. The pur pose. Is to establish a system of reg- lation such as governs the Suez canal, toward which all the nations are eutral. Such an arrangement will make it Incumbent on the United States tc do no more than provide adequate police patrol for the canal nd the American property rights on ach side of the canal will not be eopardized, either. No Banking Monopoly. In an address to a group meeting of bankers at Hastings Governor Shallen berger is reported to have advocated limiting the number of banks that may be chartered to do business in Ne braska, his professed purpose being to prevent mushroom growth. An abso lute limit on the number of banks to be chartered would, of course, be giv ing those banks already chartered a leital monopoly which would be a practical monopoly If the state were the only authority that could issue bank charters. It happens that the state is not the only authority with power to charter banks, so that the monopoly could not be effective unless a limit were also placed on the num ber of national banka to be chartered in each state by consent of the comp troller of the currency. But If the policy of monopoly were the right one for each state it would be equally de sirable for the national banks, and would lead eventually to a complete banking monopoly. It la hardly necessary to Intimate that the people will not take kindly to Governor Shallenberger'a new scheme li this Is what H means. Applications for bank charters in Nebraska are now passed on by the State Banking board. and this board should have, and doubtless has, authority, to refuse a charter for any good reason support ing a presumption that the bank would be dangerous to the community, ' But there can be, and should be, no arbi trary discrimination or personal pref erence, but rather absolute equality before the law. for all who comply in good faith with its provisions. Nebraska is not ready for a bank monopoly, and tUd wonder is that the Idea should have had to wait to be fostered by a governor elected as a democrat on a platform fulminating against all special privilege." Pugilism in Politics and Beligion. Business, politics and religion are now involved In the Jeffries-Johnson fight to say nothing of sport and are bound to be important elements, no matter which man wins. The pugi listic aspect has long been over shadowed by the commercial and now the other two forces combine to crowd it still further Into the background. To begin with a fortune is put up In the stakes and many fortunes are comprehended in tho revenue expected from the moving picture show, which Is by far the biggest feature in the whole extravaganza. These moving pictures are counted on to draw lm mensely at the box office and institute the commercial asset of the fight. Even the religious forces which are at tempting to prevent the fight recognize this fact and are centering their op position on It, more really, than . on the fact that a prize fight is to be held in California. And In their disgust they have struck a responsive chord among most people. If the governor of California and other law officers think they are going to escape, the day of reckoning aa the penalty for refusing to Interfere with the big fight they are probably reckon lng without tneir nost. iney are threatened with opposition from the chuich forces when they come up next time for election, for taking the posl tion that they are powerless to inter fere. So we need not be surprised to have the Jeffries-Johnson prize fight moving picture show-enterprise figure as tho paramount issue In California politics state election. Remember the Fly, At last there is indication that spring means business, and after spring comes summer, but the first approach of warm weather notes the arrival ot the housefly. People should regard it as no joke to join In a crusade against this dangerous little Insect Now that they know his propensities for dls trlbutlng disease germs they should not hesitate to curb them by killing the fly. Files breed best about garbage and refuse. This should be a reminder to all householders to see that their gar bage and refuse are properly disposed of and kept as far as possible from the house, even while they must bo kept at all. Flies, of course, should be kept out of tho house, and especially out of a sick room. They wlil bring disease Into the house on their feet and also carry it out if they get Into a room where a person lies ill. One way to keep flies out of the house is to keep food and milk and everything else that may attract them covered. But if tho fly gets In the house he may be suc cessfully combattcd In his course of mischief. If you cannot hit him with sufficient force and accuracy every time to cause death, try a 6 to 8 per cent solution of formaldehyde with a little sugur and place It where you think the fly will be most likely to light. The Municipal Tear. In Its ruling on a license case that there Is nothing in the law to prevent the city authorities from making the munclpal year with reference to the term of licenses to sell liquor corre spond with the municipal year for other fiscal purposes the supreme court makes possible the standardiz ing of certain features of our city gov ernment and suggests other changes to simplify still further our adminis trating machinery. While the point at issue in this case was whether license holders should pay an extra f 1,000 for four months' license be cause of the change In the law making our Omaha Police board elective in stead of appointive, it la of wider scope than that in its ultimate effects. The city and county now have their municipal years corresponding with the calendar year, but the school board still holds to an obsolete fiscal year running from June to June. It 1b this overlapping of the school board's year with the calendar year and fiscal year of the city and county that has made our school board finances Inexplicable. It would be highly advantageous to have the fiscal year the same for alt our agencies of local government. This brings up another annoying discrepancy which should be remedied, namely, the diversity of the tax years which we must now submit to. Our city taxes are payable and delinquent at one time, our county personal taxes at a different time and our county real estate taxes at still another time, pro ducing utmost confusion to the taxpay ers and entailing unnecessary expense on city and county and also on the in dividual taxpayer. Tbore is no good reason why our various tax levies should not be consolidated so that one tax bill may be rendered for the whole amount due each year, even though they may be payable In semi-annual Installments. Here is an opportunity for some constructive work by our financiers. . Man Necessary Part of Family. 'The National Conference of Chari ties and Corrections haa made the significant discovery' that "man is a necessary part of the family." It reached this goal through its pursuit of the problem of the widow's com fort. So it has Intimated that mar riage Is the remedy for dependent women and that therefore widows should wed. In his presumption mere man has flattered himself that he was not only a necessary part, but the head of the household, so that he may .not go into ecstacles at once over this magnanimous ' concession, though he should accept it on the scriptural theory that we come up to our Just reward by degrees, "First the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear." Certainly it is most appropriate and must be conclusive that this con cession should come from those good women who have never yet had the advantages of a husband, and must admit the lack of at least one essential to their complete happiness. The advocates of .this theory left the Intimation that man's necessity in the family rested on a financial basis. Of course this would be the natural In ference, since it is declared that mar riage is the remedy for the dependent woman. Necessity, of course, Implies sense of indlspensabillty and does not stop at comprehending - privilege or even option, so that the flat is quite restrictive in Its limitations, conceding no more to man than he may be able o find or develop in the contingency of his future conduct. For which let man be duly thankful and hope, persevering the while. Contrasting Mr. Bryan In that measly little old Washington hall meeting and in that magnificent New York assemblage buried under a bower of such fulsome eulogies as uncontaminated soul," and "peerless philosopher," certainly makes it seem that a "prophet is not without honor save in his own country." Emperor William s good taste and decorum displayed at the funeral of Edward VII has been taken as cement ing the bond of friendly relations be tween the British and Germans. In more than one way, the affliction ot the "king's death' hai been turned to good account for the substantial wel fare of his own country. Now, they have discovered after these dozen years that Colonel Roose velt waa wounded In his trigger hand as he charged up San Juan hill and that Is why he could not shoot any Detter in Ainca. wnat aid they ex pect him to do devastate the jungles? And now Des Moines la undergoing an investigation of its water supply with reference to its. sufficiency for fire-fighting purposes. If Des Moines needs outside experts Omaha might furnish a few water-logged statesmen who aro practiced at spouting. The receiver of the Independent Telephone company returns Its fran chise In Omaha for taxation valued at 20,000. Judging from circumstan tial evidence it cost the promoters all of that. The Toledo Blade takes a whack at one of its esteemed compositors by re marking that a typographical error In the poet laureate's recent ode to King Edward made It worse than It really was. Modern Phenomena Washington Star. One of tho renialkahle things revealed by Mr. Roosevelt's tour is the amiunt of enthusiasm that can exist when ther? la no base ball game. ' An MntayriMvlh of Fieedom. Brooklyn Eagle. Representative Walter I. Smith of Iowa wants to prohibit any printing by news papers of stories about prise fights. In a free country freak contraioty la to bo expected. . (lonlnur Out Siilea, St. Louis QIobe-Domocrat. Another large tract of government land s soon to be thrown open to settlement. The day Is fast approaching, however, when Uncle Sam will be obliged to retire from the real estate business. eel Look I n w Into, New York Sun. There must be something radically wrong with tho examination system at Annapolis when a clans of young meui who have already passed the test at their graduation go to sea for two yean only to find on their return that practically half of them are rejected and presumably retired to private life. I'nblic Criticism. Baltimore American. The governor of New Jersey ears he would not' seek an elective office agiin on account of the severity and annoyance of public criticism. This criticism may be sever and sometimes unjust, but it Is necessary, as tho check of all others In this country, on official conduct. The people are the rulers and they have the same right as have other employers to express dissatisfaction with the publlo work not done according to their wishes. Their employes may, like others, com plain of It, but they cannot avoid It; In deed the brave among them rather court it. The best course to pursue is to de serve as little as possible of severity in It. The Fnblfo Should Be Shown. Philadelphia Ledger. If the increase of railroad passenger and freight rates has really been mado necessary by the Increased cost of rail road operation the advances In the cost of supplies and in the rate of wages paid the changes will doubtless be made. But the. public may reasonably ask that the necessity shall he demonstrated to the satisfaction of impartial and disin terested experts, If any such : can be found. It was upon' the same principle that sane-minded people objected to the indiscriminate attempt not many months ago to Impose arbitrary limits upon rail way passenger fare especially In view of the faot that 'no?a)teps were taken to ascertain the actual 'conditions governing the service performed or Its cost to the carriers. In all fairness the publlo la entitled to a reciprocal consideration. preventable: loss. An Industrial Problem of Natlon- , Wide Importance. ' ' Boston Herald. Haf a million persons in the United States are Injured .in accident each year. The estimated economic, loss by reason, of these accidents Is a. quarter of a billion. The buildings consumed by fire In tho United States each! year if . placed on lots of sixty-five feet frontage would line a street reaching from New York to Chi cago. A person journeying along that street would meet an Injured person every 1,000 feet, and at every three-quarters of a mile he would see the charred remains of human being. We are paying a tax for the preventable loss of $3(36,000,000, or enough to build the1. Panama canal. These startling figures are presented by Mr. Ferd C. Schwedtman, chairman ot tho committee on Industrial Insurance of tho National Manufacturers' association. They are backed by official figures from United States statistical authorities. They are the summons which calls the American public to prompt consideration of the problem of conserving resources of the nation. Next week when the National Manufacturers' association meets In New York, it will de vote almost Its entire session to the dis cussion of industrial 'accidents, and means for their prevention. This Is an industrial problem of no mean Importance, for directly or indirectly In dustry must bear the burden ot this need less waste. Employers' liability laws, com pensation acts and statutory regulation of factory appliances and laws compelling tho proper protection of the life and health of workers, are generally associated in the public mind with so-called "labor" legislation, suggested and promoted by labor organizations and forced an unwill ing employers. It 3 significant that the National Association of Manufacturers, a body of employers, has undertaken an ex tensive campaign to 'educate employers to the importance of equipping their plants with labor-saving devices, to devise means of preventing accents, 'to offer Its aid In every way toward advanced legislation Insuring to tho workingman more imme diate and just compensation for aocldental Injury, enforcing on the employer a larger degree ot responsibility than Is defined under existing liability laws. ; 1 ( Our Birthday Book Kay 83, 1910. Henry M. Teller, formerly United States senator from Colorado, was born May 21, 1S30, at Granger, N. Y., and ia there- fore 80 years old today. Mr. Teller led the free silver bolt of the St. Louis conven tion, and was even mentioned In connec tion with the presidency as a sixteen to one candidate. W. T. Thompson, attorney general of Ne braska, Is 49 today. He was born at Fen nlmore. Wis., and practiced law at Central City until he became deputy in the attorney general's office, and later was elected two terms as attorney general. Weldon S. Hcyburn, United States sena tor from Idaho, was bora May 23, VI2, In Delaware county, Pennsylvania. Ho Is a lawyer by profession, and has been in the senate since 1903. William II. Clark, secretary and treas urer of the Nonpareil Laundry company. Is just 40 Ho was born In VIneland, N J., and came to Omaha in lts9 from Indiana to take a position with tho Cudahy Parklng company, which he retained for fifteen years until going Into his present busU t.; Where Kings Rest Westminster Abbey Jlrst of Eng land's Royal Tombs, with Wind sor the Second la ITnmber. Of the thirty-six reigning kings and queens of England sines the Norman con quest only fifteen have been burled In Westminister abbey, while ten have been Interred at Windsor, Including the Ir.te Kirg Edward and Queen Victoria at Frog rrore. The two later burials clearly Indi cate that royalty regards Windsor as the present and future burial place of Eng land's kings and queens. Olher royal graves are widely scattered. A writer In the New York Sun, In Calling the roll of former monarchs, points out their restltm plHeee and some of their characteristics as noted In history. William the Conqueror waa burled at Caen, France, thus showing that in those days England was but a colony of France. His son, King William Rufus, wan buried at Winchester, the Bhrlne of the great Saxon King Alfred the Great, a fitting sepulchre for kings. Henry 1, the youngest son of the Conqueror, died In France, but his remains were taken to England and placed In the magnificent abbey which he had built at Reading, now in ruins. Sttphem, after a turbulent reign, found a resting place In what was then known as "the king's little town of Fervesham." Henry Plantagenet, who died at Chlnon, found a grave among the pious monks at Fontevraud, and so did tho lion-hearted King Richard. The hand of King John, who signed the Great Charter, rests in Worcester cathedral. Although the hallowed dust of King Ed ward the Confessor was placed In his "New Church" at Wcstmlustor it was afterward taken to the palace nearby, where It re mained until the reign of King Henry III, who removed the Confessor's coffin to Its present place In the abbey. Henry III was the first of the Norman kings to ho burled there, although his heart was sent to the abbey at Fontevraud. His son, Edward I, erected the tomb over his father's remains, which is still one of the sights of the abbey. Edward I, "Longshanks," was burled at Westminster, and as late as 1774 his tomb was opened. He was dressed In his royal robes, with a sceptre In his right hand. The body measured ( feet I inches. The tomb was fastened securely In the presence of the Dean and Chapter. Ills unfortunate son, Edward II, was burled at Gloucester, but his grandson. King Edward III, was Interred in Westminster. Richard II and his "Good Queen Anne" of Bohemia were buried In Westminster, but his successor, Henry IV, expressed a wish to be buried In Canterbury cathedral near the grave of his distinguished uncle, Edward the Black Prince. Henry V, probably the most popular king of England, for "England ne'er lost a king of so much worth," rests In Westminster abbey, and his tomb is an object ot inter est. The first king burled in the Chapel Royal of St George's, Windsor, was Henry VI, surnamed "Henry of Windsor," for he had been born In the castlo, and It Is re markable that his rival and successor, King Edward IV, waa buried In the same chapel, and thus the two roses of York and Lan caster rested together In the same temple, and it is here that after the lapfe of more than five centuries "Edward .the Peace maker" will be burled, whose ancestry can be traced step by step to those first two kings who found a sepulchre at Windsor. The remains of the young King uawara V when they were found In the Tower were carefully Interred in the abbey by order of King Charles II. Ths body of Richard, who had "mado poor England weep in streams of blood." was flung into a grave at Leicester. The erection of the chapel at Westminster by Hnnrv VII and his burial there are matters of history, but It Is a curious circumstance that his son, Henry VIII, was Interred at Windsor, while his three children. Edward, Mary and Elisabeth, were burled In West minster, the remains of the two sisters being placed in the same tomb. .. Jame I was burled in Westminster, but his grave had been entirely lost sight ot until at last Pean Stanley brought to light the huge coffin which had been placed In the vault of Henry VII. The Dean In vited Dr. Talt, the archbishop ot Canter bury, to be nresent at tho opening of the coffin. As tho Ud was raised the dean said:. "Let us stand aside so that the first Rnoteh arohblshoD may be the first to look on the remains of the first Scotch king ot England." King Charles I, alter nis exe cution at Whitehall, was burled In St. George's, Windsor, and as there was no name on the coffin it was opened in the presence ot the prince regent (George IV) and then carefully sealed. James II was burled at Et Germain, irrnce. where he died expressing a wish that eventually his body may be taken to wtmlnster. William III and Queen Mary II were entombed In Westminster, and also Queen Anne and her nineteen children, not far from the grave of Charles II and sev ri of his illerltlmate children. Oliver Cromwell, although he had sent ko hndv of "Charles Stewart" to Windsor, left careful instructions that he should have a royal grave for himself In the ab bey. Visitors to the abbey are still shown niiver'a vault." but the body was, at the restoration of Charles, taken from the vault and treated, as Dean Stanley saia, "with every dishonor whloh a poor revenge could suggest" Of the four Georges, George I was burled at Hanover, George II. in Westminster, George III and George IV at Windsor, and Queen Victoria at Frogmore, near Wind sor. There have been no kings Interred la Bt Paul's cathedral, and only one royal prince, John 'of Gaunt, the "time honored Lan caster" ot Shakespeare, whoeo descendants occupy nearly all the thrones of Europe ex cept tbat of Turkey. Kenaall Green has one royal tomb. It Is that of George, duke of Cambridge, the uncle of Queen Mary III, who requested that ho should be placed beside the noay hi. morsanatlo wife, Miss Fairbanks. The late kin attended the funeral. A Constructive Party. Cleveland Leader. t tv, administration program or this part of the work the president has hoped that congress would llnisn auring me pres ent session-can be gotten out of the way before final adjournment, tho republican party will be able to go before the country once more as the great constructive force In national affairs. It can again ask tho support of tho people of the United States with a strong appeal to the practical com mon senso of tho masses who realize In the final test, that nothing Is of much value in publlo business which cannot bo brought to tangible results. There Aro Others to Come. Washington Herald. A democratic optimist has discovered that the coming of a comet may fore shadow possible democratlo victory. If Halley's comet falls to turn the trick, this gentleman may console himself with the reflection that. another one sailed away into space In the t-Jirly 10's that will return in too years. When the Rccipo Calls for Spice Then be careful. Make sure of your spices. Don 1 take chances wiili spices that have lost their freshness and strength or your cookinir will be fc-it-tastino- and Inmnlil whn er. sue laucu iui, ii aiways dcsi to use , T0IEPltt$ famous for years for freshness, for slrenglh, for uniformity of flavor and best cooking results. Every particle oi Iheif fine seasoning properties is puarded carefully in milling. Then, as soon as ground, they are sealed In air-tight boxes no chance for air or moisture to weaken or cause deterioration. Tone's Spices are dependable alwavs SPI).DI.a 1'OOK LO'9 MONEY. Hovr Flnchot'a rturena Ilnar Into a Tribal Fund. New York Evening Tost 'Grossly unbusinesslike conduct" Is the charge made against one of Clifford Pln chot's subordinates In the bureau of for estry by the Indian commissioner, and If tho facts are as stated most people will wish that some dramatlo punishment could overtake him, even though not the slightest criminality attaches to his actions. For eighteen years the Menominee Indians worked hard at lumbering on their reser vation, making a profit of $3,800,000, which, with other revenue gave them a tribal fund of $3,000,000. Then came a decision to place these lumber-making Indians under the control of the bureau of forestry. Ed ward A. Dranlff, a recent graduate of the Yale forestry school, soon made tho money fly. An Injurious act passed by congress cost the Indians about $700,000 ot their profits and then Mr. Braniff helped on the good work. For unnecessary roads $40,000 was expended; for improving a stream $50,000. The stream waa to have floated logs down to the saw mill erected by Mr. Dranlff, but after the $50,000 was expended 65 per cent of the logs carelessly declined to float or lost a large part of their value while in the water such are the advan tages of science when given to Lo!. Mr. Branlff's lumber mill cost $254,700, with a capacity of 48,000,000 feet of lumber, when the law permitted the cutting of only 20,000,000 feet; unnecessary expense here, $129,000. The saw mill being carefully erected alongside ot a marsh, $C6,000 was spent in piling to make It a good lumber yard and $32,000 worth of lumber used In piling will soon have to be replaced. Altogether a wlso congress and the for estry bureau seem to have done away with at least $1,000,000 of the Indians' savings J ana me lorestry Dureffu incidentally has shown itself totally unfit, in the Indian commissioner's opinion, to conduct a simple lumbering enterprise upon a business basis. Now It would be unfair to the forestry bu reau to condemn It generally for one such ghastly mistake particularly scandalous because the government abused a sacred trust when it forced such a loss upon its own wards-but It Is Just this sort of blun dering that Is, we believe, responsible for niuoh of tho feeling In the west against tho forestry bureau. With all due regard for Mr. Plnchot's eminent service, which we have always fully appreciated, we be lieve, that abler executives can be found for his office. PERSONAL NOTES. Chicago people are taking the pledge not to kiss anybody, and, If the other person sees them first, will have no difficulty In keeping It. Mrs. Taft haa become a member of the Washington Humane society. She sent In her application a few days ago. Mrs. Taft has always taken a great interest in the work dons by the humane society in Cincinnati. A farmer in North Dakota, who has re sided In that state seven years, admitted under oath that he did not know the name of the president of the United States. It Is scarcely necessary to add that he waa accepted as a Juror. Miss Blanche Stuart Scott has started from New York for her cross-country au tomobile tour to San Francisco, running her own machine without a chauffeur. Miss Stewart lives in Rochester, N. Y., and says that tho distinguishing feature of her tour will be that It will be an entirely "manless" affair. The list ot aspirants for the republican nomination for governor of Wisconsin now Includes: Lieutenant Governor John Strange, Captain William M. Lewis of Racine, Francis E. McGovern, a loading lawyer of Milwaukee; Senator H. W. Barker of Sparta and Senator E. T. Fair child of Milwaukee. One can hardly imagine Sir Hiram Maxim, who celebrated his seventieth birth day recently, in the prize ring, and yet he Talks for people Not bo very tar from Tha "Bea office ia a merchant whq baa been la busi ness for twenty-five or thirty years, and he has never advertised. He will tell you so himself; In fact, he la proud of It, and when you eome to think ot It it Is quite a feat to stay in business thirty years without advertising. To all questions as to why, his an swer 1b: "I am doing very well with out It." And so he is, doing very well nothing more. He has a fine store, excellent goods, charges fair prices, knows merchan dising, but he has never told the peo ple, never taken the general public into his confidence. Year after year he has been content to "do very well." If all men were content with "very well" this might answer, but they aro not; abler men have entered the field, men who are never content, men who make the success of today the stopping stone to a bigger success for tomor row. Men who have seen the possi bilities of advertising their store, tholr goods, their prices, their knowledge to the people. Stores have grown up all around this contented man, big stores with big men at the heal of tbem; they are crowding him; he Is not doing so well; he ts losing ground every day. The surface of advertising possibili ties in Omaha hasn't been scratched. This Is a big community, and It Is SHICO" CINNAMON MUSTARD $H0T PEPPER AUSPICI PENANQ CLOVES NUTME0 JAMAICA . GINGER ETC, IT& uniform always the best. do! at your jrrncrr', fit J hit name anrf JO. We mill nnd rr alar rttail parAase an our caea. two. " Tone's Spicy Tallk: " There ore two kinds ol pice TONE BROS, and "ctfirrj." TONE ROS., Des Moines, Iowa. Rltnders rf the eeltbrated OLD GOLDEN COFFER. confessed that in his young days he though ot adopting a pugilistic career. 15 ut when be was 14 years old his Inventive faculty made Itself mrifest. As a lud of 14 h Invented a whe-l hub and a clichwoik mousetrap; then he evolved the first In candescent electric lamp; In 1.SS4 a kicking gun gave him the Idea which ultimately resulted In the deadly Maxim. PASSING PLEASANTRIES. , "I'll tell the public that everybody ought to see this play," said the prr?s aprent. "Don't do that," replied thiV manager. "The plays people flock to see arc those they oughtn't to." Washington fetar. Optimist He has an honest face. l'CHslinlHt You can't always go on that. Optimist What makis you apply that axiom In this cue? l'esMml&t He borrowed my favorite hovel and my umbrella, Baltimore American. 'What relation," added the Instructor, "did Plato sustain to Socrates?" "Socrates." answered the young man with the bad eye. "was tho end man. He got off the gags. Plato was the interlocutor," Chicago Tribune. "Did you see that vaudeville perfdrmer who puis on a suit of clothes while en cased In a tight-fitting metal cylinder?" "Where'd he learn It, In a sleeper?" Houston Poet. - . Husband Say, Lottie, what have' you been copying Blankem's catalogue for,? . Wife 1 haven't been copying Blankem's catalogue at all that's Just my shopping list Harper's Bazar. "Do you believe in fate?" ho asked, as he snuggled closer. "Well," answered tho girl, "I believe that what's going to happen will happen.' Cornell Widow. - "Why, even her smile Is artificial." ' ' "Good heavens! Do you suppose shn bought that at a drug store, too?" "Maybe she did. Men have been known to buy smiles at drug stores." Bingham- ton Age-Herald. Church I feel some concern about my son. Gotham You mean the one In college? Church Yes; you see they are talking of abolishing foot ball. Gotham Oh, Is he a fpot ball player? Church No, but he's studying to be a surgeon! Yonkers Statesman. "I see where Jorklns was so badly In jured In the street that he had to be taken' to a hospital. Do you know what waa tho matter?' . "Yes; knockout drop" "Knockout drops on . the publlo street I Impossible!" "Not at all. Two bricks dropped on hlii head from the new building he was pass ing." Yonkers Statesman. THE FOLLOW-UP-EE. Douglas Mallooh In fuck. Oh, I am the Follow-up-ee The fellow who gets ev'ry letter From folks who have something that's better They're anxious to sell unto me. 'Twere useless to fly or to flee I know that the letters would find me; Wherever I Journey I see Processions of letters behind me. I've moved, but the letters were there (I'm sure there Is some one who tattles)-. While the van waa unloading my chattels The carrier stood on the stair Piled high with my regular share Of purple and blue Imitations Describing soma wonderful ware, With suitable recommendations. John Jones, who has autos to sell, A letter a week would allot me. He wrote me, and wrote me and got nve. He writes so exceedingly well He got me at last, 'neath the spell. I struggled ai 4A struggled and fell; I read what lie said and I bought it. But the sure-enousrh "follow-uo" man Who's labored the hardest to reaob mo Is the one who Is willing to teach me To master a "follow-up" plan. Ha tells me Just how he began, And says, If I only will try It, He'll prove how an article can Be boosted so millions will buy It. Let me say, aa a Follow-up-ee, The Up that I really am needing Is not any scheme of succeeding With form letters 1, t and $. The thing that's attractive to me la not any 'follow-up" system; The plan that I'm seeking, you aeo, Is some kind ot way to resist 'em! who sell things J growing. Let's get together and grow with It Advertise In The Bee and toil 150, 000 people about your store every day. Team work Is a big factor in th success of any retail business pro prietor, manager, heads of depart ment and salespeople, especially sales people, all working toward a common end. We lay strews on "Salespeople," be cause to our way of thinking a trained and efficient corps of salenpeoplo ( most important You may have the best goods manu factured, but without trained sales force your goods will remain on your shelves. Tho man behind your counter la your personal representative, your cus tomers Judge you by Mm, you aro held responsible for him to the same extent that you aro held responsible, for tu goods you offer for sale. A pleased customer Is a good adver tisement, and good treatment will u go far toward pleasing your customers. Gentlemen, the right sort of good advertised with the right sort of ropy to 150,000 people every day will pel the customers into your store, but it up to you to hold tbem. The Bee will furnish the ad matter ana the readers, but voti must do your part by furnishing triiicd saleab "