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I 12 TIIE BEE: OMATIA. SATURDAY, JUNE 4. 10in. I'Hie umaiia Daily Dee, rjL"NliKl BY KIY'AHl HONEWATEK. VICTOR IIWBWATKH, EDITOR. Kntereri at Omaha postofflca aa seound- :. matter. TEKMd OK gUUSCKlPTlON. lally Re (Including Pundayj per week. ,15c lJUly I-iee t without euniloi. per week. ,l)o l)ny ilea (wiinout tund, una r...$4.(M laiiy iee and (Sunday, oi.e year a.w) DKMVEKKD BY C Ail 111 Ell. kvening iee (without ?jnday, per week.. c Sunday b-e. on year.;".:....."...?.V.'u fcklurnay Hep, one year 1.M . Add rem all complain In of Iriegularlties in 011 vol y io city circulation uepamnuni. OFFICES. Omaha Tha Bee Building. ' South Omaha Twenty-fourth and N. Council Bluff IS fcott Hirewt . Lincoln-Mil Little Building. Chicaau-IMI) Marnuttle lluildlng. ' New York Fto.rma 1101-lKH No. 34 West Thirty-third Street. Washington Fourteenth Street, N. W. CORRKSSPONDKNCK. Communications relating to news and editorial matter should lie addreased: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order caahle to The Bee Puoliah na Company. : Only 2-cent stamps received In payment of mall accounts. Personal checks, except " I Omaha or eastern exchange, not accepted. I STATEMENT OK CIRCULATION, tiougla County, as: , tjt&tn of Nebraska OenrR H. Tzarhtick. treasurer of The Bee I i i h 1 1 h I n u Company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and Complete coplea of The Dally, Momma Evening and Hunday Bee printed during the month of May, I1H0. was aa follows: 1 41,300 3 43,450 I..., 43,880 4 43,810 t 48,680 43,640 .7 43,680 17 43,830 18 43,030 19 43,860 ID 43,000 21 43,000 21 41,460 ii 43,740 24 43,330 '.'5 43,090 1 41,370 43,150 10 43,880 11 49,870 12 .....48,600 II 43,030 14 43,850 IS 41,500 16 43,110 Total Returned coj tea , 2 43,370 27 43,400 2 43,660 ' Z'zZi 1,336,810 iaa I Net total 1,316,335 Daily average... 43,358 GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Treasurer. Subscribed In my presence and aworn to before ma this Slat day of May. 1910. M. P. -WALKER. Notary Public. Sobacrlbere lra.Tlng tha cltr tent . porarlly sheald have) The Bee walled to theus. Addreaaea will ' chanced ntt often aa requested. ' Just the same, the Ice man has noth ing on us these days. Thla thing of crossing the English channel in an airship is getting to be routine, Johnny Bull seems to feel that in exchange for the right hand of fellow- hip he got back the mailed fist. it seems that me anti-saioonists. no frore than the liquor men, can dwell long together in peace and harmony, If the portfolio of secretary of base : ball is ever created during the time of President Taft, Ty Cobb is Bure of the place. Girls, here la a Newark man who admits he wants to get married, but dreads to propose. There Is your chance. Thnaa "men hlrher nn" In thflP" Rnaar trust, fraud are almost a. 1- te 88 the turkey around Thanks- giving time. The original "Uttle Eva" has again passed away, showing that she does not propose to be outdone In death by King Menellk. The anti-oral betting bill passed the New York legislature a few days after John, W. Gates, decided a f 3,000 deal by the flip of a coin. In Its tax return the Omaha Street Railway company confesses to the pos session of 350 cars. . But the strap hangers are from Missouri. City Attorney Burnam had his name printed on the brief in the water works case, but in Justice to blm it should be said that be got no further in It . Bringing that railroad bill to final passage Is like leading a balky horse to water. Sometimes scares it off at the very last minute every time. Land a-raftera are said t ha Indus. trlouslr onerating In Seminole countv. Oklahoma! Oh, In Oklahoma? Never! " "Is If tou do not believe it. ask Haskell. Philadelphia gold brick men charged with swindling wealthy Eng- llshmen are to be prosecuted. What will they do with the wealthy English- rflfs; Mr. Belmont's horse turned a somer- sault, which must have reminded the xew loraer oi buiu pumiciaus n naa met in the bygone days of democratic warfare. Scientists tell us that the earth la 7J.ouu.vuo years ota. uui we are precluded from observing its anniver- sary. for they have not given us the exact date of its birth. On the surface It looks as If Walter I. Smith, in the Ninth Iowa district just across the river, were running against two United States senators and tine candidate for congress. With reference to their serial joint debate we move that the deputy state 1iW enrnmlaaloner and th aneratar f .tat. h. .Ivan leave to nrlnt futura In.t.ltmAnti iaIp Awn ,vnnn it la nulta alanlflcant that aoon after thn mloBel'a deoarture the kalaer has an operation performed on his right hand the one he shakes with. More than one European monarch has felt th nnwer r.f that rood rlrht- Abolish Cabinet Office t The president, It Is understood, will be asked during he com'ng summer to consider the propositi' . f recom mending to congress the nolltlon of the Department of the Interlor"tid the substitution of a Department of Public Works, leaving the affairs of the Interior to a bureau created for the purpose. Those said to favor the change declare that it offers means of rconomy and facility in business and that they believe the president will bo view It after he has taken time to study the subject, though he has given no suggestion as yet of his views. As outlined the proposition contem plates merging In the new department all such enterprises as the Panama canal, public lands, forestry, Interior, public health and Irrigation, tending toward a more centralized administra tion of these affairs. It is Insisted that It la in no way connected with the present Halllnger-Pinchot controversy and would, If brought about, require Hnrh limn for read itiRtment of details inciaeni to me inmifce urn nut. iu dis turb the Incumbency of the secretary of the Interior during the present ad ministration. But never in tho history of the coun try has any cabinet office been -abolished or the number of cabinet mem bers lessened. While tho Interior cfe partment has outgrown Its usefulness in certain directions, yet with the ex panding policies of conservation and development, the work now Included under this department becomes stead ily heavier and more varied. Nor Is It apparent now that such a change would do away with the system of subordinate bureaus, one of the ob .44i9oNect Bought under the plans. It is, Indeed, a question If It would not mul- tlply the number of these bureaus In oloBjt r t eatilrat tham homiBA (hA same work that is being done today would have to be continued and new work would be constantly arising. If it were simply to be a rearrangement of jurisdiction and redistribution of work, it would not make much differ ence whether the name Is changed or not. Back from Canada. Census enumerators have made the discovery that many American farm ers who Bold out and went to Canada are coming back to the United States and are resuming business in the west where they left off when the Canadian boomer captured them. After actual trlal tDeT found conditions less allur ing in the Dominion than they bad ex- pected and decided that the& could not, for many years to come, if ever, offer real Improvement over things as they exist today south of the line. This Js not surprising and, as the enumerators Indicate, the return of the Americana who went north will continue. The fact Is that, without disparaging the Canada soil, its re- i0Urces and opportunities, there never was a time nor a country that offered greater Inducement for working the land than the present in the United States. Land of every description is available here, semi-arid, requiring irrigation and the deep, black soil that is neither susceptible to nor dependent Java aa aa 9 tI f ak 1 wv nn rt m a a J "-""5 uu, more than that th v8tem f Irriga ,on' bck!d r the Krnment, be- ing pusaea, wun ampie capital and en ergy so as to place the reclaimed area ltnin easy reach of men in most mod- est circumstances. The call of the wild is ever enticing, but tter th novelty of the frontier wears on and the chill of the first Canadian winter has thoroughly soaked In, It is natural for men to turn their faces homeward and count the cost of biasing new trails In a new country as compared with the less rig orous life required in the states, with the possibilities of the future in both cases reckoned 111 the bargain. Education and the Home. rresiaeni l arc gave the young women of Brya Mawr some sound ad Vce in his definition of higher educa tion for women, laying stress upon the importance of the borne as woman's great sphere of usefulness and forcibly dissenting with the view that college training unfits young women for the sacred duties pf wife and mother. I ul " ""w counsel, out It is rrw I J a. a . . wholesome and wise and it could be DMae y "e women in charge of . . m tne8e enilnarie8 with great profit to me) present ana ruiure1 generations. Too many girls in college and private Knools have taken up with a prevail- ing heresy that the home Is not their "rst nl mo"t important field of actlr ty ana too many isaaers or mougnt In this country have helped to spread this dangerous fallacy. The president pointed out the die junction Between me innuence or an academic education and the tastes that lead one to It, a distinction which those prone to criticise the conduct and I ichtvementa of college graduates do not aiwy, m,ke. He declared that not th .ducation unfit a man or WOman for home or business, but the tastes of tha Individual. Certainly "the mental discipline, power of rea soning, cultivation and comparison of ideas" which a college education brings could not possibly, In them selves, so unfit men and women and it is only ignorance of the subject that contends that they do. A subtle suspicion will inevitably obtrude itself on the mind of the ob nr,n er,on wno rd tna P uvui ruuivwi iul Its syfrvuvuuou inn neeu lor juat. sue a a iaia at mis par ticular time. It is high time that woman s colleges ana coeducational Institutions were addressing them selves with more earnestness to the aorlous duty of exalting the home and I its Influence oa the nation in the minds of the young women who come under their tutelage. Suih ideas should be Inculcated along wtth the regular instruction and make it un necessary for those outside the colleges to dwell upon the Importance of these lessons. The notion that education and culture are not demanded In the home In the Innermost circles of do mestic life, Is based upon a false and unhealthy view of tho most solemn obligations of society. : The Fatal Misstep. Whilo the whole proceeding from be ginning to end as engineered by the Water board to acquire the water works was a succession of, mis steps, It must be plain to every one now that the final and fatal misstep was the voting of the $6, 500,000 last year to provide the money to pay the full price of $6,263,295.49, as fixed by the appraisers. The Bee at that time pointed out that the voting of these bonds was altogether premature, that such an ex pression at the polls would be equiva lent to an affirmance by the city that the appraisement was fair and just, and notice that we were ready to take over the water plant at that figure We called attention to the fact that the case Involving the specific performance of the contract was pending In the United States supreme court, and that the voting of the bonds would in some way come within the purview of the court and exert an influence there. The brief submitted by the water company lawyers, on which the su preme court decision must have been won, Includes among other things the following: Point XII. Through action taken by the ! Water board of tho city of Omaha since the record in this rase van made up, and by the voters of the city In respect to the acquisition of the water works in question, the pending proceedings for a review in the Judgment below has ceased to hava any legitimate merit or excuse. Here follows the text of the order of the Water board for the submission of the bond proposition in the sum of $6,500,000, the appeal to the people of Omaha to vote these bonds over the names of the members of the Water board, and a certificate showing the re sult of the canvass of the vote, and continues: It appears that more than two-thirds of the voters In the city interested in the question were not only In favor of thti purchase of tha entire system, but were willing to vote bonds enough for the price fixed by the appraisement. It transpires, therefore, that not only was the voting of the water bonds last year premature, but It was decidedly prejudicial to the city's case, if it had any. No attempt has yet been made to sell the bonds, . and there would be ample time to vote bonds after the court had definitely decided just how much we were to pay for the works. It is even possible, and more than pos sible, that we may yet have to vote another issue of - bonds before the transaction involved in the transfer of the property can be completed, and certain that we will have to vote more bonds before the plant can be strength ened with a new main from the Flor ence pumping station and supplied with the needed extensions. The position of The Bee with reference to the bonds has surely been vindicated. Our old friend, Edgar Howard, writes a pretty good republican edt torial in spite of his democratic pre tentions. He says that high prices of farm products make prosperity, and no one has a right to complain about them. The only thing he forgot to add was that these prosperous times come only when republicans are In con trol of the government at Washington. How many would have voted for the city to buy the water works when the proposition for Immediate pur chase was first submitted if they had been advised that the purchase price would be $6,263,295.49? Don't all speak at once. The announcement of Governor Folk's plan to stand for the democratic nomination for president in 1913 calls for another open letter in the Com moner, giving notice to this new aspl rant what he must do or "prepare to stand aside." The only wonder Is that Reformer Elmer Thomas has not started to take up another church collection to help his old friend and pal, Convict Erd man, out of the uncomfortable position in which be finds himself. I dissent from tne view that an academic education unfits a man or woman for business," said President Taft at Bryn Mawr. And yet people will Insluate that he and "Uncle Joe' are of one mind. The new collector of Internal rev enue at New York Is a dentist. Evi dently the government has found that collecting taxes Is like pulling eye teeth and believes in summoning ex perts to do It. A physician from Des Moines has been caught robbing apartment houses in Memphis. No necessary reflection on the commission form of municipal government, although both these cities have it. The fact that John L. fears Jeff is not training properly ought to alarm no one. John L., we recall, never trained at' all, which1 explains why James J. Corbett became champion so soon. The report of Mr. Bryan's lecture' in London says that he prefaced his re marks with the declaration that "as an outsider he did not regard himself as sufficiently informed to enable blm to discuss politics with intelligence." Mr. Dryan's modesty Is overpowering when he is in London, but it does not stop him from declaiming politics in Nebraska after a three months' ab sence in South America, and giving orders to Governor" Shallehbergcr the very moment of returning. Jtit for Kxcrclse. St. Louts Ulobe. Democrat. Mr. Bryan'a open letter to Governor Harmon shows that the Ncbraskan may be tired of tho referendum, but Is JuNt beginning to take up the Initiative. There Are Ofher. Washington Herald. Mr. Ill van scorns not to have recovered entirely from the hallm InHtlon that the Hrynn rainbow is the only one equipped with a real bag of gold or Is it silver? at the end. llnrklnK Against n Ilia; Pull. Houston Pout. 1'tspite the effort of the Commoner to read Governor Harmon out of the prtv, probably' a half million Ohio democrats nipy by it pood long grip on the cables hold him in. Waste In Kallrond Operation. Wall Street Journal. It costs our railroad about 1,000.0"0 a day for the single Item at fuel, and a quar ter of that Is sa hi to be wasted. Increased economy in thla respect might be made to benr a good part of the burden which Is to be shifted to increased ratea. Iloosler Hoots at History. Washington Herald. Governor Marxhul's abatement that Mr. Roosevelt deliberately forced tho nomina tion of Mr. Taft. In order to pave the way for a third term for Roosevelt, is a trifle baffling, In view of the undisputed fact that Mr. 1 Roosevelt might have had the hlrd term then and there had he so elected. Defining "Free White Persona." New -ork Tribune. Kthnology was an uncultivated Science when congress declared more than 100 cars ago that only "free white persona" should be admitted to naturalization. The. courts now wrestling with that phrase Have tho hard task of harmoniz ing what the lawmakers a century ago really meant wtth what they probably would have meant If they had had the benefit of later ethnological researches. Savins Bank Philanthropy. Brooklyn Eagle. State Superintendent of Banks Cheney refers to savings banks as institutions organized to care for the money of the frugal poor." These frugal poor do not realize how well the savings bank philan thropists look after their money until they try to borrow some of it on a mort gage and have to pay for searches and the examination of the title, to say noth ing of the appraisal and the survey with ncidentsln 'i.ius we see that tne frugal poor are really only that branch of the uman lamily that does business with the receiving teller. Sweet Bnneta of Thieves. Indianapolis News. Ho one ever supposed that the hired ands of the sugar trust ware stealing from the government for the benefit of the trust Just for the fun of the thing and unbeknown to the beneficiaries of their thefts. Hired hands do not do that. sort of thing, least of all with skillful devlcea to affect scales and with an elaborate ' tern of warning lights. The thieves were hired to do what they did. Tha men" higher up were directing and paying for the rob bery of the government. Lovely business for eminent millionaire monopolists to be engaged in! A sweet coterie for congress to allow to prey on tha people! POLITICAL DRIFT. Illinois democrats seem to be the only persona who kneaded tha senatorial dough. Hon. Sydney Emanuel. IMudd, congress man from Maryland, has declined a renoml- natton In his district, having decided to retire from public life. For the first time ainca Oklahoma became state, the full-blood Cherokee Indians have decided to take part la politics, and will vote at the August primaries and the November election. The Chicago Trlbuna offers a reward of $5,000 for legal proof of the identity of all members of tha ''syndicate'' which put up tha money which was used, according to four confessions. In bringing about the election of Senator Lorlmer. . No one has yet volunteered a satisfactory reason for the difference In the published schedule of vote prices In the Illinois legis lature. Senators were rated at $2,500 and representatives vt $1,000 or less. . Both were on an equality at the "Jackpot," which netted $700 each. Fifty-two years continuously in office, John Laws of Orange county, N. . C, at the age of So, again la in tha field as a candidate for register of deeds. Ha Is de clared to be the oldest officeholder In the United States, and has weathered many po litical upheavals. It is not doubted that be will come out victorious in his latest battle at the polls. There is likely to be a picturesque ele ment in the contest for United States Sen ator In Missouri. Tha blacksmith candi date; John F. Breckenrtdge, has secured tha requisite Dumber of names on his petl tion and will make the race on the social tot and labor ticket. Ha Is an Interesting figure, having followed for years the Wild West show here and abroad as a steer roper. Though he has never received a hero medal, ha has earned one, having saved the lives of seven persons In a hotel fire in Brussels, and two In a fir at Jack lonvills, Fla. Our Birthday Book un , 1810. Bev, B. Fay Mills, the evangelist, was born June 4, !&, at Kahway, N. J. Ha held meetings In Omaha last winter, and carried on a controversy wtth the regular denomination preachers In Lincoln only few weeks ago. David Cole, president and treasurer of the David Cola Creamery company, la celebrating his 53d birthday today. Ha was born In Blair's Cove, County Cork, Ireland and cams to this country In 1374, beginning business in Omaha six years later aa commission merchant, being engaged in various branches of tha business down to tha present. Ha served four ytara aa member of tha Board of Education, and. Is prominent In all the local business organisation a. David M. Fitch, attorney-at-law officios In The Bee building, was been June 1S82. Brunswick, Mo. He Is a graduate of ilia Omaha Law school, and held a post tion for five years In the county Judge's office. Fred W. Rothery, office- manager for tha Miller Hotel company, is 21 years old to?tj H wss born in Qulncy, 111., mov lng here with his father's family when 7 yeara old. He worked his way up from telegraph messenger boy with 'the I'nstal Telegraph company to general clerk In tha superintendent's office before taking his present position. In Other Lands Bid Lights oa What la Trans, plrlog Among the Hear and Tar JTatlona of tha Barth. The exhibition of the "Big Slick" In Guild hall. I.ondon, and the vocal tribute paid In II M I Juatly celebrated peace maker, justified the fears felt In certain British clrclrs . since Mr. Itocs-.'velt'a speeches at Khartum and Calio. A purl from tha questionable propriety of a stran ger and a guext hutting Into the internal politics of a nation, there are good rea sons why Great Britain does not welcome suggestions on governing ICgypttans with a club. In the flint place, Great Britain's hand in Kgypt Is very , much weakened by the privilege of extra-terrltorlHlity en joyed by citizens of other countries. Should a "big stick" club the native agitators Into silence. It would be easy to find a radical German, or a Frenchman, or an Italian, to keep up the revolutionary agi tation for a price. Those foreigners could not bo suppressed offhand. They could not be arrested, nor their houses searched without the ' consent of their respective conKuls. Proceeding against a foreign sub ject without official consent renders the government liable for heavy damages. For every Egyptian revolutionist put out of commission southern Europe could furnish a scoro. Swinging a "big stick" on the natives would serve no good end while the government's hands are tied In dealing with foreign revolutionaries. Conditions In India furnish equally cogent objections to the Roosevelt method. One of the chief reliances for peace In India rents on the religious divisions of tho people. Were the Mohammedans and Hindoos united for political ends, British rule would soon see it finbsh. The religious leaders of both dlvslons are diligently coddled the Mo hammedans through the priesthood of Tur key and the Hlndoose through provincial potentates. An open rupture with , ,the Kirvntlan HmneHling even nominal con trol of the ancient la'nd, would atlr' the whole Mohammedan world and Intensify a very critical situation in India. In these circumstances swinging a "big stck" would ba as decreet as dropping a lighted match In a powder house. In cleaning and fumigating the Ylidls Kiosk, following tha kidnaping of Abdul Hamld from Constantinople, the secret archives of the exiled sultan were brought td light. In those papers are compressed the secret service operations of the empire during Abdul's sultanate, together with de tailed reports of tho most elaborate spy system In Europe. 1 The dethroned sultan was extremely suspicious of his official servitors, playing each faction or group against the other, and obtaining from fa vored members of each reports on what the others were doing or likely to do, liberally sprinkled with suspicions and aspersions. The product of this system of espionage fills 360 large chests, and con tains enough political dynamite to blow up several divisions of tha Young Turk's party. That' tha archives are considered dangerous Is Indicated by the opposition ot the grand vizier to Parliamentary demands for their publication. , A vote on tha ques tion was postponed on the grand vizier's personal appeal. In the hands of the gov ernment the reports can he used, when oc casion arises, to destroy opposition, or blast individual reputations by Insinuation. Members ot Parliament already assailed by Innuendo Insist on' one of two courses either Immediate ' publication or destruc tion. The founder' of 'the famous collection, while bewailing- his X&te at Salonika, would be cheered mightily if he but knew that the relics of -hip career , are giving his enemies many a -bad 'hour. ' ; A distinguished Norwegian, ' Loveland, formerly head of the ministry, has Just published a striking ' story; of those two great men, Ibsen and' BJornson, which he vouches for as having ' coma direct ta him from BJornson's. lips,' oa bis seven tleth birthday. BJornson had Just re turned from a visit to Ibsen, who was then unable to read, and gradually dying. Even his mind showed some loss of Its great power. Appalled at the sight of the great wreck, BJornson walked about the room unable to ponceal his feelings. "This is terrible, horrible, to have to lie in this condition," he muttered. Then, turning to Ibsen, with the appalling directness of one of Ibsen's own characters, BJornson asked him If it were not unendurable to lie in that helpless condition.- "But" so BJorn son told the story "Ibsen only bit his lips hard and said, 'No one shall hear me com plain no ' one.' " Curiously and sadly enough, BJornson himself died by inches, lingering in precisely the same pitiful eon dltlon which had so aroused his dread and sympathy in Jbsen's case. M In a thoughtless, Indiscreet way Ameri cans hava frequently applauded tha oh I nese custom of chopping off tha heads of bankers who happen to lose the funds of depositors. Not because Americans favor cruel sport, or lacked a sympathetic tear for suddenly bereft relatives. Their emo tions hava been stirred by tha efficacy of a treatment that forbids an encore. Another custom much less Impressive developed during the negotiations for the Chinese railroad loan of J;,000,000. A standpat na tive objected to foreigners participating In the loan, and sent his protest written with the blood of his severed finger to the Inv perlal minister of communications. It was the standpat way of emphasizing his feel ings. American devotees of Prince Nicotine who contemplate touring Franca tills sum mer should post themselves on the new customs regulations governing tobacco car ried by travelers. AVomon and children are not allowed to bring Into Franca any tobacco without paying duty. The amount allowed men, duty free, is now limited to ten cigars, twenty cigarets and about one and one-tblrd ounces of tobacco. More than this amount subjects tha traveler to heavy penalty. The government has a monopoly of the sale of tha weed and discourages competition by outsiders. Besides it has a staggering debit ot 7,wiv,o.uw and a copi ous annual deficit. S.tinlMOMOU C It AFTERS, A l.arae Speelsaeai la the Lliaellsht la Illinois. Chicago News. When ha la the product ef a city environ ment. tha ordinary American political grafter Is not much given to hypocrisy. Ha alms to be considered a sort of Robin Hood, who preys upor tho powerful and divides his booty with the poor or spends it lu conviviality, with boon companions State Senator D. W. Holstlaw of Marlon county, who has confessed that ha was paid a bribe of $3,500 to vote for Lorlmer for senator. Is ef a different type, and one mora difficult to understand. Ha Is what may ba called a sanctimonious grafter. Measured by the standards of tha com munity In which ha lives, Holstlaw Is man of wealth. When called to Springfield to teatify before tha grand Jury he was lust returning from a church convention In Hallimore. The principal bills Introduced In the legislature by hlin wera one pro vldlng for the visitation of orphans i family homes and another designed to re strict the sale of liquor. According to his own confession Holstlaw was mora than a mere receiver ot bribes The report made to the comptroller under date cf March 19, 1910, shows that this bank has Time Certificates of nopneit $2,034,278.61 3Va Interest paid on certificates running for twelve months. ' lli.(0)7iTrThf? m. -mri il iBimiSiii Ha took the aggressive in seeking to In- uce furniture houses to corrupt him and thers in exchange for a dishonest contract with tho state. It was for lying to the grand Jury about some of the facts In con nection with these proceedings, that he was. Indicted for perjury. Fearful of a success ful prosecution and a penitentiary sentence on thla account he turned state's evidence. Although pobiug In politics as an opponent of the liquor traffic, he did not hesitate, nc- ordlng to his own story, to go for his bribe money to a saloon in Chicago owned by an other state, senator, John Broderick. .The common rough-necked, boodler one can at least understand, bu It Is hard to fathom the workings of tho mind ot the sanctimonious grafter. It is when men ot. this weak and contemptible type become a part of the system of graft that the regime of corruption Is aspeclally liable to over throw. , CHANGE ON THE RANGE. Clarence M. Smith In New York Times. Sure one big change has hit this range pince i no summer or sixty-nine, When I blew West In hopeful quest Ot a lalaualloosa mine: Whloh 1 regret, the same ns yet Has eluded my efforts fine. Weren't no hand at washing sand, Nor at BwlnKTinar a ainele-lack: The mining game was much too tame or a lad tike your uncle Mac pulled my freight at a rapid gait And burned up the homeward track. But I digress, which I confess Is a fail I ii it I sometimes own: I'll start aaaln for to explain Of how modern the ranae has arown. Since 1 punched steers for Wild Hill Specrs Ana nia .Duuay, uia ute Aiaione. We thought It right to pick a fight, And your enemy' Dunctuate With slugs of lead till he fell dead, But that custom Is out of date; For now they go a leetle slow it's the fashion to arbitrate. In them old days we couldn't raise On a section of sagebrush land No crop but cows, which same would Drowse On the cactus which thrived on aand: The grub we had, I'll simply add. Was the kind that s mostly canned. Now sea tha crops, from spuds to -hops, That are raised In this arid state; There ain't no rain, but pipe the grain. Since we learned to irrlaate: The record made with ditch and spade Js a marvel to contemplate. In frontier daya we sang the praise Of tha skate with the ten-mile gait; But he'a paseay the motor shay sent tne oroncno to naunng ireignt. And now I hear, about next year, All the ranchers. will aviate. We hesitate to punctuate With a six-gun the foe we hate: We arbitrate and irrigate- Soon we punchers will aviate. Sure one big change haa hit this range. since i serveu my novitaie. LINES TO A LAUGH. 'What was the first speech of the thrown Jockey when he was pulled from under his mouniT Ha looked up and took in tha situation. Then he said, feebly, 'This la a, horse on me.' "'Baltimore American. Brown What have you rot against that man Smlfh? H has dona noma very good things. Jones Yes, but l happened to te one or them. Life, "Sorry to be late, but my alarm didn't work thla morning." 'What sort or an alarm is it?" 'I depend on a huckster who yells 'straw berries!' and he'd put on a low-yelced sub." Philadelphia Ledger. 'You really should Interest yourself in culture," said the young lady from town. u do. replied armor Uomtossel: "oyster culture, bee culture and agriculture." Washington Star. Bread." said the lecturer, "is the corner stone of health." 'By Jove, Polly, said Jinks, on tne way home, "that fellow must have heard of your biscuits." Harpers weewy. 'Mr. Grlmea," said the rector to ths vestryman, "we had Better taae up trie col lection before the sermon this morning." Indeed?'' 'Ya. I am aolnc to preach on the sublect of economy." Stray Stories. Charitable Person I thought you were blind. . Meaaar well. ap, times is so nam just now and competition' is so keen that even Talks for people If you should advertise to sell silver dollars for 90 cents most people would think they were counterfeit and wouldn't buy them. But if you adver- Used to sell new, clean, gerraless pa- per dollars for a dollar and 10 cents and Put up a right good argument you would get some buyers. In other words, when you put your sales argument on a cut in price people look upon your offer with suspicion; IOOK upon your u . ' they look for the sand in tne sugar, the worm in the apples; the shoddy in the wool - Offer what Is really good, that you " . . . , . . m yourself know is good at a fair price and tell why the goods are right, and you will find that people will come to your store to buy not only what you your wio iu advertise, but what is more Important. for the things you don't advertise. They come because you have Impressed them through your advertising, that vours Is the hind of a store with which' they want to deal. You can make everyone know that you select your stock with care, with taste, with pride, and that you are back of every yard and stitch that goes out through our door. Prices won't uui luivua do It alone. Price counts ouly when Jhe reader knows what the godHs are, If A ill! Hi i iii I'llWBI I I World's Best Pianos A.HOSPE GO. HAVE TKE LEADERS Mason : Hamlin u Pianos have no equal for tone or touch. Kranich & Bach Pianos have stood high In the estimate of the musical public for thirty five years. Krakauer Pianos recommend themselves. You can't find one In use that is not considered the best by its user. Kimball Pianos There are 200,000 and over in actual use both in America and abroad. Bush & Lane Piano with its 20-year factory war rantee and Its most excellent architecture of case design can't ba beaten. Cable-Nelson Piano As good as the $360 kind still sold tor a great deal less, and It's as reliable as the clock. . Hallet-Davis Pianos made Just seventy years You never saw one of them that -was worn out. We - have a . record of some Hallet-Davta Pianos, which had but one tun ing in 18 years. Cramer Pianos Made In quarter sawed oak, walnut and mahogany cases $2T6 is charged by "elsewhere" We advertise to sell this for 10. TEN DOIjJLARS TAKES ONE nOMK ONE DOLLAR WEEK LY PAIS FOR IT. Sample Pianos from A No. 1 firms are placed on our floors at prices $165, flT8, $185. with free stool and, scarf. Buy Now, It'a Your Opportunity A.HOSPE CO. 1S1S-1B15 Douglas St.' Pianos Toned by Expert Toners a blind roan has to keep his eyes opm nowadays if he wants to do anything at all. -Life. "I am wedded to music," said tho ope singer. J "You evidently think so,' said tha lead' of the orchestra, "or you wouldn't daro treat it as you do." VV ashlngton tur. "Do you suppose your father objuets me because of the fact that I am a poet''l "Oh. dear, no. Pa has a Judicial mln and never believes In condemning on hear-' ay evidence." Chicago Beoord-Hcrald. Maude That girl is a lifelong friend ol mine. Ethel Dear me! And she doesn't l"ok a day over 40. Boston Tranncript. who sell things so it is the goods you are advertising. er aU. V You can make people read about wl,, , make j.our'Beuingalk lutcrestlug. To hol(j the traje after you get; it, of course, you must have good goods, fait prices, honesty, sincerity and courtesj lu u u" x young married woman voiced 'a pro- test. "1 wih I could go Into Junes 4 wmm a wnno.u """"'.," Jones or Mr. Smith following m around, Jt.B nlce t0 hav- tiem 1W lne)r ,n DUt. they stand over my- iiouidrf until i wish 1 was a roan and could swear. v - Jones & Smith isn't the .tore. butMs u a true story and It's an Omaha store. !... gum merc,ntI carry tllr perB0IW,i t. tentlona to the breaking point. Many i woman feels that she has to bitv tiiiwi whether aha like- them or not, a ajwiear email to the proprietor. .Afitr s whJ foe, 0l(tewhere. . An(1 , th. pri)prietor doesn't s?a her she is vexed, too. Human nature la a funny thing, anyway. Isn't It? Advertising breeds furmallty; famlllarltj breeds confidence. Ml you thlt )ou rfad advertising, Advertise unto othars if ye.UQtud tl aV their trade should come unto you. trglnnln,. are bard but t''V'i of a ar ,,,, jongest deferred' H l wlUl th, roan who pruuailUnilt , Allf vertistng.