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TIIE BKE: OMAHA. TUESDAY, .TUNE 1910. 'hii; ruMAiiX Daily Bee, I-OlNDED BY EDWARD HOSEWATKlt. V1CTOU ItUSEWATEU, EDITOR. Entered at Omaha postofflc aa second clasa matter. , TEHM3 OF gUBSCKIPTlO.V. Dally Bee (including Sunday) per week..l.c Dully Be (without Sunday), per week.... WW i 'all y Heetwilnwul eunday;, one year...J4.W Daily bee and Sunday, one year DEUVEKED BV CARRIER. Kvsning Keo (without Sunday), per week..c Evening bee (with Sunday), per week....Wc Sunday B-e, one year M-j" Saturday bee, one year luW Address all complaints of Irregularities In delivery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. omaha The Bee building. South Omaha 1 wtnty-tourth and Council bluffs it. Scott Street. Lincoln SIX Little building. Chlcago-1648 Marquette building. New Vork Rooms 1101-llttt No. 31 West Thirty-third Street. , , Washington 12m Fourteenth Street, N. W. - CORRESPONDENCE. Communication relating to news and editorial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. ' . . Remit by draft, express or postal order payable to The Bra publishing Company. Only J-cent stamps received In payment of mall accounts, bers.nmi checks, except on Jmaha or eastern exchange, not accepted. Temperatures at Omaha yesterday. STATEMENT OF. CIRCULATION. Itate of Nebraska, Douglas County, as; Ueorge B. Tzschuok. treasurer of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, ays that the actual number otvfull and .nnl.. it Thtt l'A.tlV. Moi'IUiiH livening ami Sunday Bee printed during the monm o.. i? ." . . . . i. . '.43,ao 2... ....... 48.480 48,880 4... , ...... 48,810 5....... ....48,680 6....;... -48,640 7....... . . .48,690 t... ..).. .41,370 43,160 10..... 43,660 11. .48,670 12.. ..J 48,600 IS ..... , ... .43,080 1........'.48.5 IS..,.. 41,000 ll 43,030 I i :...a,6o . AS A I la'ooo 22 4.1,45 2S..........43.740 24.. .43,830 aa'avo 74 43,400 21 43,560 29.. 10.. si.-. 1'300 .44,180 IB..... 43,110 Total "...'.1,386,810 Returned c,o; le ..... . ...... "" M16.886 Net total Dally average'..,... 48,358 1 . ' . GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK, . ... -. .Treasurer. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me thia list day of May, 1910. . V M. P. WALKER; v ' Notary Public. Knbscrlbers leavlagr the cltr era poparlly should have The Be unjlei j them. Addresses will be changed am of tern a eaeeted. - Despair not! up to us. - June may yet warm Perhaps that Guild Hall speech wa8 just a trick to see if he could arouse the English. Thomaa A. Edison ' tells us that ether is the power of the future. Chloroform next. Now Rudolph Spreckels says he will reform Chicago. As completely as he reformed San Francisco? 't Uncle Sam seems to have put the ball on those railroad rate raisers just before they touched the plate. Kentuckians think congress too in' different to its requests because It does not give a dam for Green river. Right now Is the time to ask If the Interstate Commerce commission will have control ot the airship traffic. Will n6t some lover of science put up a prize, for an aviation iriai om Esopus, N. to Fairview, Neb.? - Anyone else want to buy $6,500,000 ot Omaha 4 per cent water bonds run ning thirty years? TJon't all speak at once. Officers of the Anti-Saloon league refuse to be diverted. They are con tinuing to saw .wood and collect money. Governor Harmon should take cour age. men always rait in me esoma tlon ot Mr. Bryan when they get the nresldenttal fever. A man traveled from Germany to Chicago In eeven and one-half days and then stood down on Water street and wondered why.' The. present status of the rate- raising business w anomer reminder that sometimes government by injunc tion comes lu right handy. The preacher who uses signboards to advertise his church probably acts on the scriptural Injunction of making the works of Satan to praise the Lord. It remains to be seen whether that long distance telephone will work be tween Grarid Island and Fairview as well as it did between Fairview and Denver. A Cincinnati gin ciiraoea aown a rope to reacn per lover ana get a lew lines ia the paper, while Dorothy Ver non drew a whole book for a similar caper some years since The prosecution of the Beef trust will now ask the supreme court In New Jersey to dissolve that combine. ' Why not make the request of the packers? They would, doubtless, grant it with great pleasure. Thomaa E. Watson saya he la again ... .. . a democrat, i nomas J. waison Wat-Thnmaa. E oh. yes. we havn him. He once ran for vice president during one of the Bryan races. And an h la a democrat. So waa David B. jjDI - Secretary of State Junkin nasi proved by official statistics that no governor ot Nebraska need go out of the office poorer than when he went in, in spite ot the paltry $2,500 salary, so long aa the numerous "perquisites are lying about looae. That ought to help mak ,mUiion brisker, Control and Not Destruction. The fallacy of the theory that de mands destruction of the whole Insti tution of private property as a means to so-called economic Justice Is that it regards Individual Wealth as beyond control, thereby imputing to govern ment an inherent weakness it does not possess. In ,the first place, all the abuses of the laws of supply and de mand have not been due to private property as' an institution, and In the next place, if they had been, socialism would not necessarily be the panacea. This republic la not ready to admit its Inability to control wealth even when organized in gigantic forms. It has grappled with and brought to complete and permanent ' solution problems much mora formidable and it muy be depended upon not to fall here. It Is proper, sane regulation rather than abolition of wealth that Is wanted' and which we will have in the. United States, all the vagarious' theorists to the . contrary .notwithstanding. This Is clearly outlined by President Taft in his. Jackson, Mich., speech, when he says the Issue is being framed with "respect to the institution of private property," and' dissents from those who charge all the economic evils to the abuse of this power and advocate its destruction as the only way-of es taDiiBinng aa equilibrium .between tne masses. There Is no danger that socialism will ever triumph so long as the people keep their faith in a popular govern nleni so full of opportunity for lndl vlduftl effort- Tll policy of "destruc tlon", means groping for a last resort, means weakness and despair,' and we are not'giving up in this "country to- dav: we sn not niacins a breruium on - ' . ! Human weakness, dm qn personal effort and organized gritand we are showing considerable progress in curb- 'ng an controlling, directing and regu- iRiing, ine poweriui accumulations or wealth and making them contribute to the development of our national life and industries aa agencies' of useful ness rather than a mere mechanism of oppression. , . , The Example of Darius Green. According to the .mother of Charles K. Hamilton, one of the ambitious avi ators .who will compete-in the tlight from New York to St. Lours for a prize of 30,000, her son was originally in spired by the story of Darius Green and His Flying Machine, and all his life has been dreaming and working over airships. , It may be that. other of the twentieth century aviators, pos sibly the Wright brothers, or Farnam, or Curtlss, or even the foreigners, Ble riot, Paulhan or Santos-Dumont, got their first notion of aerial navigation from the same simple source. At any rate we may admit that this crude per-, sonage in his naive way has sent hjs influence on. down through history jo be felt in the enlightened, progressive age of the twentlelU'century, as a genuine' boon to science and world economy. But before we proceed too far In our. marveling over tne wonaeriui feats that are being accomplished, it might be well to go back into history and see It the advancement of the (present day is altogether unprece dented. Between 1823 and 1830 Rufug porter made a cigar-shaped dlriible balloon strikingly like the one in which Santos-Dumont achieved such fame, and Henri Gilford, the French inventor, constructed a steam- propelling airship which was aT crude model of the modern. machine. Nor will the man who succeeds in flying from New York to St. Louis be the first to travel that distance in air. In the latter '50s a flight was made from St. Louis to a point 1,200 miles distant In the atate of New York in just twenty hours. So that the present human birds have really some pretty fair records to break. But of course there is a vast differ ence between what Is being done today and what was done three-quarters ot a century, ago. Then men "merely sailed somewhere through space by means of balloons, while today they are working toward the perfection of systematic aerial navigation, brlnidnic thelr ..rCrart under definite control with a view of making them practical means of transportation. And yet the power of the example ot the Darius Greens is felt through every triumph we are achieving. A Congress of Activity. The present congress will go down In history aa one of the busiest and most prolific of results. More actual constructive legislative has been en acted during this first regular session I of the Taft administration than Is usu erj.cted in three years, and the great feature about it ia that the over whelming part ot this legislation is that the people have been clamoring for it. For the benefit of those who believe congress haa been indolent It might be stated that during the present cession 28,897 bills have been intro duced in the house and 8,219 in the senate. It is Impossible forv the lay mind to conceive, without study, the detal1 comprehended in these figures LnJ try fr.Dn. la Tint rn A r 1 1 Hlnnvn i ..c. , even yet Before that time, may be reached It has some of the most vitally Important measures to dispose oi. cniei among tnese are me ranroao. . . conservation, state tiood and postal sav ings bank bins. It ia well that tne repuollcans and democrats have come to a working I agreement in taking up these measures. The democrats have consented to defer immediate action on the statehood bill so aa to give precedence to tne con Nervation meaaures, securing the prom llse that statehood win pe acted ujjon before adjournment, whenever that may be. The people may rest reason ably assured now that they will secure the enactment of laws on these sub jects. This la an assurance which the antl-admlnistratlon organs were not willing to concede a few weeks ago, when they were telling the people that they need not expect congress to give them any railroad bill, any conserva tion or postal savings bill, but the railroad bill is on the way and the conservation bills probably will be voted on before many days, while the others will come in short order. By the time congress adjourns and the members go home to seek endorse ment at the polls, there will in all probability have been written urion the statute books at Washington ample material In the form of long-demanded lawa to warrant any member who helped writ them there asking . a vindication from the voters. What Ails Eoyal Europe. The recent death of one European monarch and the serious Illness of three others prompts a solicitude of broader scope than just personal anxiety. The posslblitles of so much physical ailment among the crowned heads are not pleasant to contemplate either In continental Europe or abroad, for talk as .we will about the nominal power of the throne, It commands an influence and sustains a relation whose transter to other hands produces in convenient effects. It will be a long time before Great Britain will be able to set down anything like an accurate estimate of the result upon national affairs of the king's death and even private business has not yet been able to relapse into normal condition since the sad event. Today the crown prince of Sweden is conducting the affairs of the nation because King Gustavus Is too sick to do so. Emperor William of Germany is known to be In very uncertain health and was obliged "to delegate some of bis official functions to his eldest son for a time, while the young King Al fonso of Spain is reported to be alarm ingly .ill. Added to all this sickness of royalty is the news that President Fallieres of the republic of . France contemplates resigning on account of his health, and that M. Briand, prime minister, may succeed him.. The question must force itself "on the public mind: What has gone wrong with 'the official heads of so many European nations. In case of the republican, Fallieres, we have his own reported statement that he wishes simply to retire from public Hfebut in the case of the royalty It seems that some sort of contagion had struck the throne and given new signi ficance to the old saying: "Uneasy rests the head that wears the crown." . .The New Test. Notice is "given by our amiable dem ocratic contemporary that the signing of "Statement No. 1" Is to be the new test, and presumably the only test, of the democracy of aspiring candidates for the legislature. All democrats who sign "Statement No. 1" will look alike to it and be commended to the confidence and favor of democratic voters. . Just sign "Statement No. 1" and all past misdeeds will be forgiven. The notorious boodler and the chronic grafter may have, an Immunity bath by immersing himself in "State ment No. 1." ' All the corporation cappers or other disreputables in the late Douglas dele gation may reinstate themselves as democrats In good standing by swal lowing a dose of "Statement No. 1.' Any liar whose word is at discount and whose bond is below par can float bis paper as a legislative candidate on the democratic ticket by signing up for "Statement No. 1." "Statement No. 1" Is the new polit ical divining rod that will. tell the true democrat from the false, the real art! cle from the counterfeit. Oh, If we had only had this infallible test before the "sting of Ingratitude" got in its work! In Iowa. The political spotlight is right now on Iowa, where the Impending pri maries will soon tell who's who In the Hawkeye state. Although the pri maries are to determine the make-up of the tlcketa of all parties, the inter est is centered almost wholly on the republican side of the fence,' and there on the renominatlon of members of congress who have been standing with the regular organization. The per sonal participation of the two United btates senators from Iowa pleading for a repudiation of the regulars as an endorsement of their own insurgency has drawn factional lines sharply and diverted the Issues in some measure from the personalities of the opposing candidates for primary preference. It remains to be seen, however, whether Iowa republicans will vote to retire the men who have represented them longest in the house and have the best records of public service to their credit, simply because they have refused to enlist under the insurgent banner and to take orders from the senators rather than from their own constituencies. The democrata natu rany regard tne ractional fight in Iowa aa grist to their mill and are aald to be lending assistance to the Insur ems, wuubq success tney reel sure would be to their advantage. If that is the case, republicans looking on as unprejudiced outsiders would prefer to see the strong men who have made the Iowa house delegation a positive influence, renominated, re-elected and kept in the forefront. Mrs. Grover Cleveland returns from Vnrnn with her children, aavlnr aa to her observance of woman suffrage, "1 have no time to vote after I have done my duty to my children to whom I have devoted my life." There is a moral in that. Returning to face that Judgment for $6, 263, 296. 49. President Barlow of the Water board says the next prob lem will be to And the best man to manage the water plant for the city. How can there be any problem about that when everyone knows the whole scheme from Its Inception was de signed to fit Into the job one R. B. Howell, who haa been the chief actor in the bunco game? It is not a ques tion of the best man to manage the water works, but of the only one who can manage It the man who has all the other members of the Water board hypnotized, and who Is only waiting for them to persuade him to sacrifice himself. Mr Roosevelt might cite in his own defense, not only the fact that he was given the freedom of the city, but that May 21 the London Spectator declared, "It would be a thousand pities if Mr. Roosevelt should leave us without speaking to the English people and speaking quite plainly what he has to aay of them and their work here and abroad." So far as Is known the Spectator has found no room to com plain since the Guild hall speech. The primaries in Pennsylvania, like those in Ohio, indicate almost com plete victory for the so-called regular republicans, the insurgents getting but a single look-in in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania, too, is the home of the Saturday Evening Post. The democratic state committee re8olutes the advice to democratic leg islative candidates to sign up under the Oregon plan. What has the dem ocratic state committee got to do with It, anyway? Let the people rule. Not a single ex-governor at the funeral of ex-Governor Mickey, al though Nebraska has five living ex governors. Nebraska's ex-governors are scattered almost to the four quar ters of the globe. Mains; I p at the Finish. New York World. Senator Cummins now says that he will ote for the administration railroad bill, as amended. I'p to date his favorite occupa- ton haa been rolling rocks on the track. Bnalneaa Men and Pnblle Office. St. Paul Dispatch. Four business men selected by business men to run the legislature In Indiana, excused themselves on the ground that they were too busy. So they will stay at home and curse tha professional politician who will represent them In tho legislature. J Lamentations Noir Dae. Indianapolis Journal. With the supreme court sustaining a relght rate reduction, an injunction to prevent a freight ' rate increase and the railroad bill all ' shot to pieces, the rail roads must begin' to suspect that reports of our present prosperity are greatly ex aggerated. HK GATHERS THEM IS. Activities of "the Western Kill-Joy" of Democracy. New York World (dem.). When the late Governor Johnson of Min nesota was In the , flesh Mr. Bryan held him In high regard, tempered only by a gnawing fear that he might have some plutocratic friends. Governor Harmon of Ohio is now con spicuous enough to merit and receive the same distinguished attention. Mr. Bryan looks with favor upon this great demo crat also, but he entertains a sickening doubt of his courape. One of these days the painful discovery will be made at Lincoln, Neb., that Mayor Gaynor, although a great and good man. haa his faults. Any other gentleman of Jeffersonlan tendencies who chances to be elected to hlfh office will be likely also to fall a few inches short of the Bryan standards. In this fashion are the hope of democ racy blighted aa they bloom. The eagle eye of the western kill-joy is upon them. Like death the reaper, he cuts them down; like the gravedigger, he gathers them in PERSONAL NOTES. English men of letters have treated Roosevelt with consideration, but Kipling threatens to write a poem about him. The Prussian Parliament's favorable action on the kaiser's request for a raise of aalary seems to be a further recognition of the high cost of living. The bar of England has lost its hair dresser, John Carter, to whose shop by Temple Bar, a relic of London in the merry days when Henry VIII reigned, came each day junlori, K. C.'s and judges of the high oourt. He died recently at the age of 73. Because ms conscience nun mm, a penitent sinner haa sent 2 centa to the gov ernment, official recording of the episode costing the government 11. If the fellow' conscience hurts him any more and he really loves hla country he will suffer In Silence. Mrs. Charles Netcher of Chicago Is act ing manager and owner, with her children of one of the largest department stores in the world. The store covers 15 acres of floor space, represents an Investment of more than $15,000,000 and employs tipwatd of 1,000 persons. Out of several hundred papers submitted to the international congress the one of a woman doctor of Chicago, Dr. Bertha von Hoosen. was chosen to be read before the association at Its meeting in Budapest It waa one of two written in the English language that were choaen, the other being the production of an eastern doctor or dls Unction. Our Birthday Book XOM , 1S10. Ralph E. Valentine, assistant manager In Omaha of tha American Surety com pany of New Tork, waa born June 7, 1873, at Ottawa, Kan. He Is a graduate of Washburn college and of the University of Kansas. He waa in the bonding and real estate business from 188S to 190)1, when he moved to Omaha, going Into partnership with Philip Potter In the same business. Edward A. Smith, attorney-at-law, with offices In the Neville block. Is Just 3. He waa born here tn Omaha and graduated In law from the University of Iowa, and has been practicing hers for more than ten years. Army Gossip Matters of laterest O. Baek of the rtrlaf Ui Oleaae froas the Army aaa Wevy kegiater. 14 Is understood that the authorltlea at the mounted service school at Fort Riley have been experiencing (some trouble with the class of officers which some regimen tal commanders recommended for detail at the school under the belief that the Intter Is an elementary school of equitation, where poor riders can be taught 10 stick on a horse. The time waa. perhaps, when the mounted service school mas of this character, but that time has passed, and Its present aim Is to turn out officer-graduates competent to act as Instructors for their regiments In regimental riding schools. H is contemplated that only the finest horsemen be sent from each regiment, and the regulations require regimental com manders to make their recommndatlons for student officers on the basis of "seal In their work and special adaptability for ad vanced equitation and horse training, and excellent physical condition." So stren uous Is the physical feature of the course that the certificate of a medical officer Is required to accompany the regimental corq mander'a Indorsement. Despite the fact that the War depart ment has adopted and promulgated a policy which placea the Joint army and militia maneuver camps of this year on a very practical basis, with the minimum amount of construction at these places, numerous requests are being received In Washing ton from the army quartermasters In charge of camp construction. It is quite evident that the expense in that particular will be only slightly leas than it has been In previous years and It will still be within the restrictions Imposed by the secretary of war. who desires that the camp shall approach as nearly as possible the condi tions which would prevail In the field In time of war. with an absence of what may be called camp comforts and only such con veniences as are necessary contributions to camp sanitation and the protection of the health of the troops. The officers who are at work on the program of exercises will observe the Injunction of the secretary of war to have everything on a work-a-day basis. By this means the militia commands which are to participate In these camps will derive the experiences which would be their lot If they took the field In the pres ence of an enemy. Tho infantry officers who have been glv, Ing attention during the past year to the equipment and apparel of the foot soldier, have been much Impressed with a new type of shoe, which Is the subject of a report received by the surgeon general of the army from British military sources The new shoe appears to obviate some of the difficulties which arise from breaking in new shoes while soldiers are on a cam paign. By the arrangement a soldier may re-sole and heel his own shoes. The new type has four soles. The outer and middle soles are constructed of compressed and specially treated leather. The outer sole is removable and may be easily attached. The heels are also Interchangeable and are constructed of two stout layers of spe cially treated leather compressed at a pressure of 10,000 pounds to the square inch. The expert who makes the comment on this subject says: "WVien we consider the large number of people who wear their heels down unevenly, the advantage of ba ng able to shift them from one boot to the other, ao as to Insure their being worn down evenly,,' Is obvious. The uppers of these boots are also treated by a special' process which makes them extraordinarily toft and flexible, and also absolutely waterproof, and what is still more remark able, no amour t of soaking In water makes them lose (heir -flexibility on subsequent drying, even before a fire., The military authorities have before them this week an Interesting question sub mitted from the United States military prison at Fort Leavenworth. Sums of money of $8 and 15, respectively, were taken from two members of the prison guard, being -ecelved by them In con sideration of surreptltoualy conveying money to convicts. Another sum of $! wr.s taken from a coi vict who had received It from a civilian for delivering newspapers on the prison reservation. The money waa confiscated in each case and turned Into the convicts' mess fund. It has been sug gested by the Inspector general of the army, who icported the facts, that a rule could be ad'ltd to the prison regulations to authorise such action. The men have been punished in the regular way and H is held by the War department that the confiscation and disposition ot the rroney was unauthorised oy law. It will be necessary, therefore, to return the money to the men ficm whom Jt was taken. The commandant of the prison has ample au thority to punish prisoners for infractions of the rule in regard to the unauthorized receipt of money and he has full authority to take Into his custody and hold for the convicts' benefit fund any money which he may receive while In prison from any source. I Is held mat tne money was tne property of the soldier from whom It waa taken. Were It nut for such ownership, it would not be possible to dispose of It in the manner reported, The unusual circumstances attending the treatment In the last illness of Major Ed ward Chynoweth, Seventeenth Infantry, who died at Fort McPherson, Ga., haa re sulted In the promulgation by the secre tary of the war of a rule which has been generally observed, although not formally prescribed. In the case of the late officer a civilian physician of Atlanta, Ga., waa calle din and the treatment waa entrusted to him, although there were on duty at Fort McPherson three army surgeons available for this service. The sudden and critical Illness of Major Chynoweth war ranted the family of that officer in their action, but the government, by a decision of the comptroller, to which reference haa I been made In the Army ana Nary Register, has disallowed the claim of the Atlanta civilian physician for the medical attend ance rendered. The point hinged on the fact 'that Major Chynoweth was removed to the hospital In Atlanta. A difference of opinion was evident between the cbelf sur geon of the department and to surgeon general of the army concerning tha ability of the local army medical officer to treat the case. It ha been decided that the facilities and equipment at Fort Mc Pherson were sufficient to perform the operation and the transfer of the patient to a hospital In Atlanta, under the circum stances, relieved tha army medical officer of the professional responsibility and the government of the liability for the expense ot medical attendance on th part of the Atlanta physician. gpacalatlaa- Ka tares. Philadelphia Record. Insurgent republicans take much comfort from the letter of Mr. Roosevelt to Rep resentative Hamilton Fish. The mighty hunter wants to see "Ham" a soon a he arrive in New York; from which It I as sumed that Cannon and hi cohort of stand-patters will eom In for a lambast ing. Wasn't it risky, though, foe Repre sentative Fish to make the receipt of that letter public? Greater men than he have been consigned: to the Ananias club for lea offense. . The report mad to the comptroller coder date of March SB, lilt, shows that this bank baa Time Certificates of Deposit 3 Va Interest paid on certificates running for twslva montha. SEEING OMAHA. Fremont Tribune: Omaha Is looking tor n easy place to light. The He tries to point out that the surprise 4ll be if tbe census shows more than 130.000. Broken Bow Beacon: The supreme court has decided that Omaha shall take Ita water works from a private corporation St an appraisement of t,MS.2M and Omaha is sick of the deal. She will experience on a large scale something of what Broken Boa- had to experience In taking over ita water plant. Grand Inland 'Independent: The admis sions ot the man Erdmau, at Omaha, of his connection with other crimes, enacted and contemplated, are sufficient to stamp him aa a strange sort of a reformer to be associated with Rimer Thomas, attorney for the Anti-Haloon league and kindred or ganizations In the metropolis. Pb pillion Times: Omaha received a final knockout decision In the city water works affair when the United States supreme court decided that the city would have to buy the plant from the private owners at the appraised valuation of 16,2W,296.49. Sarpy county's court house bonds for $100,- 000 looks rather small beside these stag gering figures. David City Pre.;: Omaha will have to pay $2,263,2116.49 for the water plant. This Is the decision of the supreme court af ter five years' litigation. This was the price put on the plant by two of the three appraisers in 1906, the appraisers having! ---- 1 w . . 1 . . 1 ,ruiA . . . . I ueeii apinmiieu in iraa. jinrr a. lima mui litigation to determine when the sale be came effective, and what the earnings of the water company have been, the mat ter will' be settled, .which ought to be before Halley's comet comes again. Beatrice Express: Omaha, like most ot the Nebraska towns, haw come to the con clusion that she waa expecting too much of the 'census this year. Dissatisfied with the government enumeration, the Commer cial club of that city had a private census taken, with tbe result that It was found there were several thousand leas people in Omaha than was counted on earlier In the year. The gain over the 1900 census will be small. Similar results In practi cally all the other toWna of the state lead to the conclusion that the census ten years ago was padded, considerably. Battle of the Tltaoa. Indianapolis News. A battle of the Titans la In prospect un less the government "lays down." On one side the combined railway of the country, representing the greatest mass of wealth ever united in a common cause, directed and controlled by the ablest captains of in dustry and the most astute legal talant in tho country. On the other, the government, which somehow always seems to have the hardest kln of time to make headway against the powerful Interests; perhaps for the reason that It seldom to able .to com mand as able and devoted counsel as the Interests, or to work with the directness and singleness of purpose that they dis play. 1 1 1 Expectations aad Resalta. Chicago News. On the other hand,, with the perfecting of the arts of railroad building and of railroad running and with the large in crease In the volume ot traffic, one might reasonably expect rate reduction. Talks for people Fllw-l Systems. . I th. tha rnllnaa 1 remeuiuci Glee club used to sing, which went something like this: "T w ten dollars to O'Grady, ... ...., hiv h had a mortgage auu jv" " . on my me. best prlnter-,you can find. Pay a little He duns me every day in the morning, more for good work and be proud of it. And at night he sends his wife." The first problem in a mail order busi- O'Grady may not have teen familiar "-in he land or real estate business U uraay iuj w v .tor school and in tnany other lines. hov- with "follow-up systems, but he cer- ,ver to gM lnnulrtes Put 1h lnnulrlM talnly had some of the elements of a will be of no value unless you are pre- rood one. Pred to take care of them when you re- A mall order catalogue house figures on receiving ordera from Zo to u per cent of their inquiries. Your school needs the same careful business man- cement as a mall order h'ouse. When agemeni as a a mail order house receives an inquiry as the result of an advertisement they are not satisfied to send one letter or . .1.. . TTn. circular In reply and then stop. Un- less they receive the order tha inquirer hears from them with as many as from six to thirty letters or circulars before 10 , J, . ..,hU v.. they give him up aa a possible buyer. It is not sufficient to send a letter and a catalogue and then stop if no further reply Is received. A series of six or eight letters should be carefully prepared, courteously, but insistently, nutting forth the reasons Why your putting lurlu goods should be Dougni. , Don't try to tell the whole story in. one letter. A good pllow-up tetter snouia letter never contain more than one page. Make one or two point In a letter. It hou!d be written In good, plain Angio-aason, so that the most almpl mind can under stand it. Don't talk above in neaaa or th average man or woman. The educated man will not misunderstand good terse English, put what you say should be plain to th uneducated man or woman as well, It I a good pi an to have small elroulars, or booklets, for enclosure with letter, each strengthening your mala argument, Th firt letter may bring no returns; the third may bring io returns; the fifth may bring no return; but th whole series of lx. taken together, may do the work. What will this cost? Possibly JB cents In postage aad printed matter for following das Jips WW- WW- I IN Nil nil I ihfciJtLSHl 1, t TTTTTi 1 .J LINES TO A LAUGH. "Anvthlng unusual about her wedding? Yes." "What was It?" The fact that It was her weddings Houston Post. Little Brother (who lias Just been given some candv) If I were you. I shouldn't take sister yachting this afternoon. Arden Suitor-Why do you say that Tommy? Little Brother Well, t heard her tell mother thle morning that she feared she'd have to throw you over. Llpplncblt'e Mag azine. . Nodd Mourn for me. old man; t' mar ried .a woman with absolutely no sense of humor. Todd That's nothing to my croam. Nodd What's that? Todd My wife has one. Life. Houston How do you suppose ths Egyptians managed to get' the pyramids where the are? Mulber'- Oh. their congressmen prob ably franked them. Puck. "That elocutionist believes la dressing the part for any recitation. "How do you mean?'" "Why, when ahe rend the story about the sailora deserted on the lonely Island she wore a costume of maroon, and at her lec ture on Celtic wit her dress was trimmed with Irish point." Baltimore American. Britannia was ruling the waves. ..... . 1 JI ,u '. .-II - .A m.aIU-JW WOnoer ni- limn l ipm in- i' wnin-w. g 'em or get off "em." she remarked. ' Herewith she felt she had escaped the worst. New York Sun. I saw you kiss sister last night. 1 'Did you, Bobby? Here a a quarter for you .'1 Thanks. And then I saw you kiss the maid in the hall." "Ureal Scott! Here's to!" Life. "Miss Gabble Is a remarkable tatkr, isn't she?'' "I should say. She's a Marathon talker. She can cover three paragraphs and six teen sentences without taking breath." Cleveland Plain Dealer, THE QUARREL, Roy Farrell Greene In Leslie's. She had beared . and beseeched me to change my position. To view the affair in the same light that she . Had done, but I vowed under no such condition Could 1 be Inveigled with her to agree. Then ahe argued the question at issue with fervor, r.ir ' And emphasized strongly, her , "darling" and "dear." But, seeing that none ot these tactlca would aerve her,. She used then a woman's perogatlve tears. She had scolded me sharply. with sarcasm cut me. She'd flayed me with Iron's tools, And vowed If her wish was torlurln respected thesld shut me In some close asylum for obstinate foolnl But seeing that none of these things seemed to move me. And keenly discerning with only deaf eart. I'd listed her outburst, she sought to re prove me By sobbing her heart out in copious team And then (what would you do? I ask it It sincerely:) I pardoned her temper, and owned, the way. That I'l been a brute, but that loving hei dearly I oould not get mad at a thing she might say. For It's easy to turn from a plea that'f appealing. And it'a easy to list an arraignment thai seara. But show me a man who's so cold and tin feeling, He'll not yield a point to a woman ! tears! who sell things up each Inquiry. Suppose that after fi) , lowing up twenty Inquiries, you sueceeT () m,,,, one M)e out of lw(intv a r. ult ThM wou)d put th(j cogt or your sale on a profitable basis. Don't use cheap stationery and circular lar 1 th " yu r not loc" city, to the nearest large city and go to "Vm.; "...1 "'"l tim ke The Bm 6ut t ukM palnf Btudy and good business management to turn inquine into orders. . . 1 . . ' k a man succeed not because be advert tiea hi business, but because he live it; becauea he eat it. sleep it, dream it. uiida air castles about it. Put your name to the front: your own pcrftonaity Thu m trm(mdoUi force ln advertising. . people like to know in- dividual. They like to feel that they are b"n- served by men; not simply getting their goods out of the hopper of a tread- and tha American people enjoy kicking they prefer to kick individuals. It mighty unsatisfactory, for instance, to kick an express company or a railroad or Brown, Smith A Co. One can't hit the bull s eye. Advertisements are written to appeal to ,v, people. an(i nothing can get Into the hrt of humanlly BO e,,My an another n,art. t Tha man who never builds air cast! never build castles of any kind. t Breathe Ihe breath of life Into four ad vertisements. It I safe to say that nine out of every ten advertisement which w see are aa dead aa Egyptian mummies. They are beautifully decorated; twined around with fine linen; draped . and boxed for burial. They have eye and noee and mouth, . but they neither sea nor speak. They don't even smell. Their faces are either mad of putty or are chiseled out of beautiful marble. There Is no throbbing in,le. if you have faith In your goods and the public ha faith In you the circuit 4 ora' plet. Th advertisement la slmp X tht transmitter through which your tkith operate. 1 t I X i 1 i ,1 . . 2 7