12 THE BEE : CWAHA', SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1910. Tins Omaha Daily Bee FOUNDED BT EDWARD IIOSEWATER. VICTOIl ItOSEWATKIt, EDITOR. Entered at Omaha postotfice second tlaae matter. TERMS OF BUBaCBtlFTION. . Dally hi (including ttunday), per week. 15c Dully Jtee twiuiuut eSundayj, per week..lUc lally lieo (without bunuay;, one ear.4.uu laiiy Hie and Mumlay, one year S.U0 DELIVEIlhD UY CAIUUEK. Evening bt (without tfunuay). per week. 6c luvunlnu Hee (with Wundayj, per week.. 10c Uunday Bee, one year..... 2.iM . fcaturuay Bee, una year 1-W Addreca all complalnta of Irregularitiea In delivery to City Circulation Jjepn tment. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. South Onialia 1 wenty-tourth and N. Council Mlulfs 16 tjcott Street. Lincoln 01S little Building. Chicago lo4 Alarijuetie building, j Mew York-Kooina U01-llttf Ho. U Weat 1 Thirty-third Street. Washington V& Fourteenth Street, N. W. COHREtirONDENCE. 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Tsschuck, treasurer of The Bee i'uullsnlng Company, being duly sworn, aay that the actual number of full and ,1 complete coplea of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the , month of May, lulu, was as lollows: 1,1 41,300 17 43,630 ' 42,450 IS 43,0.30 '.., 43,880 , 1 43,660 . 4.. 43,810 20. 43,000 , . 6 43,680 21 43,000 : ,6 43,640 22. ...... ...41,430 43,690 23 43,740 ' S 41,370 21 43,330 ; .. 43,150 23 43,090 lO 43,660 26 43,370 11... 43,570 27 43,400 ,'J2 43,500 28 43,650 Via 43,030 24 41,300 14 42,950 . 30 43,370 .15 41,500 . 31 44,130 116 43,110 Total .....1,326,210 Returned coplea ' 9,985 Net Total 1,316,335 Dally Average 42,358 OEORGE B. TZSCIIUCK. ,1 Treasurer. ' Subscribed in my presence and sworn to 1 before ma this ilft day of May, la 10. M. JP. VVALKEIV .. . Notary Bublic. . ' Subscribers leaving the city teiu- vorarilykould liave Th Ilea ' mailed to them. Addresses will be i changed aa often aa requested. i . ' 1 After all, we might be able to stand more conservation and less conversa tion. 1 1 Most any of these aviators ought to be ablo to break the record for a high Jump. , Congress seems . so near the end many members can smell those hot breakfast biscuits already. V Anyone with one -eye shut can see Oyster Bay gradually looming up and resuming its place on the map. If that Missouri blacksmith is elected to the senate he may do some hammering that will bring results. ... Perhaps the explanation is that Mil lionaire Duke did not propose to be outdone by Nat Goodwin, an ordinary actor. v Five o'clock in the morning is a lit tle early, but Colonel Roosevelt has been up before that hour at other times. Even the colonel's ship has run ahead of time and bad to be deliber ately delayed to get within the schedule. So Brother Jim Corbett thinks it is imply cruel for Governor Glllett to atop the fight. What does he think of the fight? The Omaha seminary is to have a new president, who will find Omaha people ready to assist him in hia work when be comes. No observing, person can help but be truck with the fact that John Bull began to discuss his future only after he had sailed for home. That Baltimore girl who wants 15,000 because a man merely asked her for a klsa would doubtless demand a million if he had got it. The Finns wish Russia bad shut them out, while tho Jews are protest ing against being shut out Rather puts Russia In between fires. una almost, lorgoueu U1111 liua now lumped on the colonel for that speech. Mr. Shaw,sMr. Hearst beat you to it. ... Victor Murdock attributes Walter I. Smith's renomlnatlon to his great per sonal popularity. Well, personal pop ularity Is not a bad asset in politics, la ltT Mr: Hill, Mr. Brown, Mr. Ripley and a few other railroad magnates ought to follow the tardy example of the late Mr. Harrlman and quit trying to bluS the people. It la not so much a matter of Mr Bryan's running every four years as it la that he shall have the people, dis cussing it for the intervening four rears. The epistolary interchange between the several candidates for congress is a welcome diversion Just now. If it baa no other effect, it proves that each of these gentlemen takes himself a rlously. A Los Angeles telephone company Is giving ita hello girls voice culture to make their answer more pleasing to customers. The twect-volced . girl U the only pleasing thing about the telephono aa it is. The Homecoming Roosevelt. America stands on tip-toe to re ceive Theodore Roosevelt and the whole civilized world will look on with the same Animated zeal with which it has followed him on his triumphal march through the capitals of Europe. He la, in fact, the central figure of the universe, the most commanding per sonality Just how and the welcome of his own people will come as the natu ral climax of the long train of ovations he has received since emerging from the African Jungles. There is but one limitation to the cordiality and zeal that will characterize his reception and that is to be found in the welling enthusiasm of the man's own dynamic force, so that It would be folly to ques tion its spontaneity. Roosevelt is a character that would command admiration and challenge at tention anywhere. His fame preceded him to Europe, bo that it was not un natural that monarchs and proletariat vied to do him honor. But, after all, there Is a deeper lesson and It ought not to be lost on the American people that the man in the minds of all these people stood for certain political ideas and Ideals which sway the world, whether it be in republics or mon archies. Unparalleled an event in his tory as is Europe's acclaim of Roose velt, it is vainglorious in its effect upon us unless we catch the deeper significance of it all. Fom the heart of the dark conti nent to Alexandria and Cairo in Egypt, from Rome to London, this private American citizen went and com manded honor for himself and his country. All eyes are on him in his homecoming and no one can doubt that he is stronger in the hearts of his countrymen than ever before. . ,. From Congress to Legislature. , Former Congressman J. Adam Bede of Minnesota, once the "humorist of the house," has announced his candi dacy for the Minnesota legislature, saying, "It will be a pleasure to me to take the humblest part in the upbuild ing of our state." And, of course, peo ple laughed. But Bede, like the natu ral humorist, meant them to laugh or take his utterance seriously, Just as they chose. As a matter of fact, it has a serious side that is highly com mendable. Bede, with his six years' experience in congress, ought to be able to give better and more in telligent service as a state lawmaker than if he had never been a member of the national legislature. If Mr. Bede was qualified to serve in congress and Duluth and -vicinity seem to think so then he ought to be qualified to serve in the legislature, and he la not so old that the light of ambition could have gone out in his soul, bo that if his services at St. Paul are acceptable it is not improbable that his district may call on him to go back to Washington. Mr. Bede is known here and most everywhere else, for while congressman he made ex tensive lecturing tours, defending his policy with the argument that he was congressman for the whole people, not alone for those who resided in the Eighth Minnesota district Republicans in Tennessee. The popular revulsion against Gov ernor Patterson in Tennessee, caused by his pardon of Colonel Cooper, the slayer of former Senator Carmack, will, in the Judgment of leading south ern papers, defeat the democratic ticket in that state this year if Gov ernor Patterson does not get out of the way. The people, without regard to party. Lave not abated their feeling of resentment of the governor's action, but as time proceeds this feeling seems to become more deep-seated and wide spread and there is no effort at con cealing the determination to do away politically with Pattersonism, whether It means the defeat of the democratic ticket or not. Republicans have been making steady gains in Tennessee and other southern states and a republican vic tory this year in the state elections even obtained ' under such circum stances would go far toward intrench ing the party and giving it a foothold for substantial progress. Tho repub lican party has more solid ground than the result of upheavals in the opposing party on which to base the hope of ultimate success in the south. The south's business interests are those that peculiarly call for protection, for the application of the , fundamental principles of republicanism, and it can be only a question of time at best until a larger proportion of the southern voters come to see this plainly enough to give .up tradition and political preju dice that binds them to the democratic chariot Virtue of Saving. Congress ' thia year appropriated $85,267! to pay interest on, funds in vested in the army depository by fed eral soldiers and $57,267 for the same purpose went to the naval depositors. Army men have Invested $1,861,200; the navy, $1,431,600. The. interest payments are carried In the regular army and navy appropriation bills. The force of these facta Is that the government is teaching Jts soldiers and sailors to save their money. Congress some years ago provided savings de partmeats for them, whereby they might turn back to their paymasters as much of their earnings as they pleased and draw 4 per cent Interest annually1 on It The result has been remarkable. Men who before squan dered their money as rapidly as they drew it now are saving it, and many of them have snug accounts ta their credit . But the benefit is not only on the financial side; it is moral and physical as well. Putting their sur plus in the government's depository means keeping it out of the waste places that give dissipation and de basement only in return. The men have better moral characters, stronger physiques and more money, while the government has a steadier set of men. What this system has done for the army and navy the postal sayings bank may do for the larger number of peo ple of all classes who are not in a po sition now to patronize the regular banks or have never learned the habit of saving. This is one of the strongest and unassailable arguments In favor of this law which is about to be com pletely rounded out at Washington. Unless we are greatly mistaken, this Is destined to become one of the most popular and ' beneficent laws congress ever enacted. Work for the Wage Earner. In the news columns will be found from day to day items concerning the demand for labor in various parts of the country. Kansas is coming to the front with its annual clamor for 40, 000 harvest hands. Before the Kan sas fields are gleaned Nebraska will be demanding men, and all summer long the farmers of the country will be calling for help, and high wages will be paid to thousands. Industrial enterprises of various sorts are calling for men daily, and the skilled and un skilled alike are employed steadily throughout the land at the highest rate of wages ever known. The opponents of republican policies insist there Is no prosperity in the land. Just what veil they will now adopt to obscure their vision matters not, they will still refuse to admit the fact that never in the history of the United States were its people as busily engaged in profitable and productive effort aa they are now. With factories running full time, with railroads plac ing orders for new equipment that they may carry on their business, and with farmers clamoring for help to take care of the early harvest, the out look for a calamity campaign 1b not very encouraging. King George's Salary. Kaiser Wllhelm has recently had his official allowance raised 20 per cent, which brings it up over $3,000,000, we are told. King George V of Eng land, on the other hand, does not yet know what his stipend will be, but that has not daunted the king In the least, nor made him querulous about his new position. He is proceeding just as if he had exact knowledge of every detail of bis Income and outlay. The compensation of Britain's ruler is fixed by Parliament at the beginning of each reign. No one seems to have any definite idea aa to whether Parliament will be disposed to cut off any of the army of royal parasites or supernumeraries dependent on the king's Income, necessitating its enormous proportions, and there is a belief in some circles that the new monarch will have about the same amount as was at the dis posal . of hia father, Edward VII, which was a little less than $3,350,000 a year, not a mean Income even for a king with so many others to look out for, as it left him a snug net sum. Parliament was much more lavish with Edward than it was with hia mother, Queen Victoria, who took the throne in 1837 on a pitiful $1,900,000 a year. But the queen and her retinue were not as demanding on the public ex chequer as the late king and his period.- Parliament voted annually a reve nue of $2,350,000 to Edward, of which 1600,000 went for salaries of mem bers of the royal household, $65,000 for charities and $550,000 for the per sonal use of the king andC'ueen and the balance for various household needs. In addition to this civil income Edward received $300,000 a year as the revenue of the duchy of Lancaster. Besides that grants were made for the king's children, $100,000 a year to the prince of Wales alone. But the prince was not obliged to eke out a livelihood on this meager sum, for he drew $200,- 000 a year also from the duchy of Cornwall. The same Parliament that fixed' these Incomes likewise provided a pension of $350,000 annually for Queen Alexandra, should she survive the king, so that the next Parliament probably will have plenty of precedent to guide it When the sheriff of Cheyenne county leaped Into his automobile, gave pursuit and overtook a fleeing horse thief, he practically, shattered the last vestige of the old west. There was a day in Sidney when no aspirant for public office would ever have un dertaken the sheriff's feat. Alas! even the wildest and wooliest have become so tame that any of them will ride in an automobile, and some of them will even wear silk bats. If Nebraska democrats could do all they promised the people of Merrick county, this world would certainly be a lovely place to live In. The unfor tunate fact is that no democrat in of fice ever undertook to carry out the pledges of his platform. He is too busy thinking of a new promise to make in order to delude people into voting for him a second time. The Nebraska druggists are very busy debating defects in their own business, . and are proceeding In the direction of reform with commendable zeal. This is one function of the trade association against which no objection will lodge. St. .Paul papers are enthusiastically proclaiming that President Lew W. Hill of the Great Northern railroad was converted to conservation by the former forester's speech. Merely to keep the record straight, It might be stated that when In Omaha last winter attending the National exposition Mr. Hill was ardently advocating conserva tion and a few months later helped organize the Minnesota' Conservation congress. The state of Colorado proposes to insist on entertaining the pent-up Anti-Saloon league detective, so he will be sure of board and lodging no matter how he comes but with the Nebraska courts. One at m Time. Sioux City Journal. Congressman Norrls haa decided that a canary bird in the hand la better than a pair of nightingales in the bush. Who Carea for Tomorrow f Pittsburg Dispatch. Senator Heyburn Insists that posterity will be able to look out for Itself. It will have to If we let the monopolists grab the country's natural resources. "Sooner Strrnnoslty. Kansas City Star. Governor Haskell Is probably the only executive In the union who could pick up the state capitol, pack It away in a suit case and carry it to another town. Old Iron Between Lids. Washington Herald. One of the first things every promising democratlo presidential prospect Is to be Invited to do, apparently, is to walk up and eat a slice of Old Dr. Bryan's bumble pie. The Teat to Come. Boston Transcript. If congress votes to erect a statue ot Tllden in Washington what a nice time somebody will have In drawing up an In scription that shall be historically accurate and at the ame time satisfactory to "the two great parties." It Was a. Mighty Strnrl, Springfield Republican. One of the mighty differences between the two branches of congress over the rail road bill has been whether the new court should be entitled "the commerce court" or "the court of commerce." The house favored the first and the senate the second, and the house wins 10 the conference com mittee report That's the Question. Chicago News. Now Roosevelt Is coming back. What thent The warm welcome to be given him by his fellow countrymen does not neces sarily signify that he Is to have another term as president It does signify, however, that the Roosevelt policies and the Roose velt Ideals have taken firm root They have survived the strong efforts of the Interests to stamp them out The seed of his sowing has survived and the results will be In creasingly beneficial to the whole body of the people. FIRST NEBRASKA DISTRICT. Cnndldsvcr of Will Hayward for Re. publican Nomination.- Sioux City Tribune. Will Hayward of Nebraska City, secre tary of the national republican committee and chairman of the Nebraska committee, baa resigned the Nebraska chairmanship in view of his candidacy for congress. Mr. Hayward is supposed to be somewhat of a standpatter, owing to his close con nection with the national committee. And yet his well known opposition to Joe Can non and his publia utterances against the Cannon machine make him somewhat of an insurgent. Mr. Hayward Is a bright young man with good ability; with an attractive personality, a square character and of high standing In the First Con gressional district where he is well known. Ills father, Judge Hayward, was elected United States senator some years ago as the result of one of the progressive movements-against railroad Influences in Ne braska. , The ycung man Hayward, then a student in the State university in Lin coln, imbibed his father's tendency to re sist corporation rule In politics, and the young man has on many occasions shown himself a rugged insurgent against the old machine methods. The district . Is naturally republican by about two thousand majority, but they voted Congressman Pollard out two years ago on account of his persistent cham pionship of Speaker Cannon. BACK-TO-THK-SOIL, COLONIES. One Movement Planned on Business Lines. Cleveland Plain Dealer. One difficulty with the back-to-the-farm movement though perhaps not Its chief one. Is that those whom It is designed particularly to benefit lack a working plan. They do not know how to go at it. Even assuming that a city man wants to go back to the soil and become producer how shall he go about ltT This question la answered by the National Farm Homes association, of which Governor Hadley of Missouri la president. Hadley has become one of the foremost of the back-to-the-farm agitators. Perhaps his organisation is thinking primarily of -the development of Missouri and tha southwest; yet could Its plan be carried out Ita benefits would ex tend far beyond that Hadley and his as sociates propoae to establish In sections of the southwest where land Is cheap colonies each of thirty-two families. Each fam ily Is to have forty acres and In the center of the group of forty-acre farms will be a central farm of 160 acres to belong to the organization and be operated as a model for the rest Not one cent of capital will be necessary for one to take advantage ot this opportunity to get back to the soil. Each farmer win be given ten years to pay for his plot of ground, which, fully equipped with buildings and machinery, will be furnished him by the association. For the city man, to whom farming la a mysterious art, the central model farm will be ready alwaya to suggest methods and Indicate results. Our Birthday Book fuse It, 1910. James Montgomery Flagg, artist and Il lustrator, was -born June 18, 1877, at Pel ham, N. Y. His work is to be found in many of the high clasa magazines and periodicals. Ueorge W. Hoobler, western representa tive of N. W. Huluey & Co., bond brokers, Is 43 today. lie was born In White county, Ohio, and was for many years employed by the Richardson Drug company, and later a member of the firm of Porter, Ryer son & Hoobler, from which he aold out his Interest a year ago to take hia present position. John E. Vtt, general agent of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, waa born June 18, 1S49, in a log cabin In Missouri. He went Into the railroad business in 1S69 and haa atayed with It except for the period he was commercial agent for the Lincoln Business association and commissioner for the Omaha Commercial club, going back In his present capacity seven years ago. In Other Lands Bide Lights on What Is Trans, ptrlng- Among the IT tar and Far Stations of the Earth. Talk of compromise In Great Britain is gradually tending toward a temporary set tlement of the pending Issues between tho House of Commona and the House of Lords. Both opposing parties appear di-slroms of delaying a general election, which the is sue, if pressed, Would precipitate. Leaders desire time to rlieneure the political ten dencies of King George and avoid a prema ture contest Involving royal prerogative. BcneeAn the tumult of party organs Is a current of public sentiment pressing for political pc-s.ee, until business and industrial affairs revive. Other equally powerful In terests urge an armistice, and each warring party appears willing if the opposition eon cedes Its point. There's the rub. The lib erals cannot concede muoh without endan gering the support, of the nationalists and laborltcs. For the party as ' whole, any compromis which sanations the continued disparity ot party members In tfce House of Lords twelve to ties to one liberal must prove abortive to a conMruotive poMtleal organization. The negotiations for a com promise, now, believed to be under way, may be more productive of good result than party prophets imagine, 'ltoy&l pres sure backed by business Interests are forces which politicians cannot ignore with safety. The French minister of war, General Brun, proposes an imposing fleet ot air ships and aerial craft aa a feature of the nation's military system. It will consist of a fleet of fourteen "cruisers," capable of performing flights of BOO kilometers, end six "scouts" of smaller dimensions lor re connaissance work at close quarters. Both classes of craft would be capable of navi gating art an alttude out of fire range. For housing this fleet and maintaining lit . In commission, there will be constructed sheds, hydrogen factories, and repair shops with a special view to field requlrcnvonts. General Brun has hlmselt Inspected most ot the large French airship works, and found ample' opportunities for practical training, both for officers and men. ... The sentence of death Imposed on War- danl, the Egyptian fanatic, who assassin ated Prime Minister Boutros Pasha, was referred to the grand mufti for confirma tion. That functionary Is the chief eccles iastical lawyer of the Mohammedan com munity In Egypt What ho decrees is law with his people. But in this case he proved too skillful In legal hair-splitting for his own good. In his opinion the verdlot was not in accordance with the Koran, for the reason that nowhere does the sacred law mention a revolver as a deadly weapon, and, furthermore, no true believer deserves death for putting a Christian out of pain. "We must face the fact," comments the London Spectator, "that when Warda.nl goes to be executed the grand mufti's opin ion will, of course, be ignored a great many Mohammedans all over Egypt will be Inclined to the belief that he died a martyr to the true faith. That being so, some thing will have to be done to strengthen the law In regard to the killing of Christ ians." . v William J. Hall, a member of the Tale mission at Chang Sha, China, details in a letter to the New York Independent the origin and progress of the- Chinese riots In that city last Apr!. . Mr. Hail confirms what the dispatches at. the time stated to be the primary cause' of the outburst namely, poverty and the Increasing price of rice. While the officials of the province and of the city were discussing ways and means of relieving ' the" distress, the pov erty stricken people were played upon by agitators, who intimated .that exports of rice by foreigners 'caused high prices and left the people without enough of that necessary staple. Very little talk along that line waa needed to start the fires of racial hatred. Hungry and meroenary mobs attacked the various missions, de stroying them by fire and looting the resi dences and store houses of the forelcners, burning down the custom house through which the exported rice went to ships. The foreigners fled to ships in the harbor and thus escaped harm during the three days of rioting, looting and incendlarissm. Mr. Hail states the authorities captured and beheaded n number of the leaders, hut otherwise showed no zeal In suppressing disorder and protecting property. , Americans who cry out against mad dog snares In midsummer usually cite Con stantinople and Its countless dogs and th absence of hydrophobia, as proof of the senselessness of local frights. But the Turkish capital no longer permits dogs the freedom ot the city, and their number Is decreasing rapidly. For xweeks past brigades of dog catchers have been rushing through the city leaving ruin, so far sb the dog population was concerned, In their train. Lassos and wooden hooks and cages began the work; somewhere In merciful obscurity it was completed. Today all that is left of the great crowds of dogs that nnro hunker! at their ease In the capital's thoroughfares are bales of newly tanned hides, which, no doubt will begin to ar rive In America next winter In the form of "wolfskin" Jackets for women, muffs, gloves and boas. The world moves and Spain moves with it The victory of Premier Canalejaa at the recent elections prompts the announce ment that the government will shortly issue a decree permitting publlo worship by non Catholics. As the law is now, protestanta are permitted to worship, but only in pri vate houses. ' Outside the embassies of protestant powers no protestant churches are permitted In Spain. Under the Spanish republlo there was freedom of worship, but on the restoration of the bourbons old re strictions were revived. An enterprising American showman has recently been reaping a golden harvest by exhibiting moving pictures In tha cities of Arabia. One of the exhibitions was given in the palace of the sultan of Oman. The sheiks cheerfully paid the prices of ad mission 65. S3 and 10 cents. The Russian budget for 1910. which re cently passed the Duma, Includes an ap propriation of I99M40 for constructing and testing airships, including dirigibles. Air ships are hereafter to be attached to mili tary garrisons throughout the empire, The pioneer aerial lighthouse has just been completed at Spandau in Prussia. On a horizontal wooden ring thirty-eight powerful Incandescent lamps are placed, making a luminous halo to guide the aviator at night A siren will probably be Installed to assist la foggy weather. ., I Orerdolnar a Ucu'l 'lb In. Washington Star. Mr. Pint-hot explains that' no new party Is contemplated for promoting the cause of conservation. Of course not. Certainly Mr. Rooaevelt, who la a politician all around and all through, would not lead or follow a movement with ao little, If any thing, to support It- The only thing con aervatlon has to fear la being forced out of its true meaning and position by over sealous champions, who, either from too great haste, or from Inexperience In poli tics, may make enemies where tuey should make frianda for the cause POLITICAL DRIFT. Owing to a ruling of court, the famous political "Jackpot" of Illinois will not be opened up for some time. Those who are sitting in the game are not sura ot their hands. Francisco J. Madero, a Mexican so In discreet as to become a candidate for prealdent against President Diaz, Is cool Ing his ardor in a commodious jail. Kn thualastlc supporters of the administra tion Inelst on a walkover for their favorite. Legislative fish stories told to the grand Jury of Sangamon county, Illinois, show that a aandbagglng bill was suppressed for I2.r,00. Assurances were given that for an additional $1,500 any measure fathered by the flshrrman would be put through the legislative mill. A Pennsylvania orator, after decorating the statue of Mother Stanley Quay In the palace, of graft at Harrlaburg, without batting an eye, cut loose with this exor dium: "History will accord him a place as one of the men woo stood In the fore front of patriotic effort for the best In terests of Pennsylvania." Senator Shlvely of Indiana ta starting fires on the trail of John W. Kern, the democratic candidate for the brogans of Senator Beverldge. When Mr. Shlvely captured the acnatorshlp a little over a year ago, Mr. Kerns charged that eight votes were bribed away from him. Now the senator demands that Mr. Kerna prove his assertion or retire from the race. Hoosier republicans are forgetting their own troubles as they watch the democratic fracas. , MR. ROOSEVELT'S TRIP. A Remarkable Journey Without Par allel In Hlatorr. Collier's Weekly. No mortal man ever made a Journey any thing like the fifteen-month expedition of ex-president Theodore Roosevelt, which be gan within three weeks of his successor's Inauguration, and which was planned to end this 18th day of June. Private citizen Roosevelt returns to us now recognized the world over aa the most versatile, the most energetic, the most outspoken, and, alto gether, the most surprising of living Amer icans. He comes back to his native land after shooting lions and elephants, zebras and antelopes, monkeys and rabbits; riding In royal carriages and in pleblan public Hcondolas, on camels and on cowcatchers; reciting Dutch rimes to Boer farmers, quot ing Arablo to Moslem savants; declining to visit the pope under restrictions, and re fusing to receive Protestants who had made themselves offensive to that very pope; telling the Egyptians at Cairo that It would be a long time before they were fit to govern themselves; at London Informing the English that they still hafl things to learn about governing Egypt; commending Flemish Industries and condemning French "race suicide;" and representing the United States as a special ambassador at the funeral of Edward VH the week after be ing hailed as "Mela Freund Roosevelt" by William II. Talks for people A day or so ago a lady was looking over some suits for her small son In a well known clothing store. She said to the clerk: "The material in this suit doesn't seem quite up to the mark of the last suit I bought, but If you say It's all right I believe you, because I have never bought anything here that wasn't exactly as you represented." Speaking of the incident later, the proprietor of the store said: "Every customer we have would say tho same thing if you asked them, for the sim ple reason that everything we sell is exactly as we represent It to be. "In all the years I have been in bus iness I have never permitted a mis statement in my advertising, nor al lowed a clerk to overstate the value of an article in order to make a sale. "Everything that's sold over my counters Is sold on its merits abso lutely, and everybody that knows me and my store knows that fact. "In my advertising I have held to the principle of giving the best that I had and never trying to fool the peo ple, and I advertise to everybody, in the newspapers that everybody reads." We are not too, modest to say that a big portion of this merchant's adver tising appropriation goes to the adver tising columns of The Bee. Mr. Merchant, it is not the easiest thing in the world to get a good name, but it is the most valuable asset a bus iness man can have. There is only one sure way to get it, and that is by telling the truth to the people day by day and week by week In the advertising columns of The Bee. The Bee has 150,000 dally readers to whom you can talk at the cost of 98 cents per inch of space used. It is for you to decide whether or Now in Press Theodore Roosevelt's OWN BOOK African Game Trails Gives la Book Form the Sole Account of His AFRICAN HUNT WRITTtN BY HIMSELF AGENTS WANTED NOW In every ( City, Town and Village to handle Colonel Roosevelt's Great Book Early Subscription Filled by Fir$i Copies from the Press. FCR FULL AGENTS' PROSPECTUS WHITE TO CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONSV 153 FKth ytvenue " NEW YOIlK TAPrCIO THE FUNNYB0NE. "I thought you smoked 8-cont clgfirs?" "Pn I do. Don t you like ttil oneT this oneT in lmprelon t ) t ciK.tr." Hilia'-i "Well, it certainly gives an heing more than a s scout delphia Ledger. "What's making all that nolw?" askoit the mmmnr gueft. "Surely you are nut running a thrashing machine at thia time of year." "No," answered Farmer Coi-noswel; "the boya ni figuring up the farm's profits on our new rapid calculating machine." Washington Star. "Who was this fellow Pepvs and what Is hta claim to fnineT" "Hia clailm 1o fame is welt founded, my friend. He's the man who kept a dairy for more than a year. "Courier Journel. Clerk Ah! You're the ge.-.t we sold a bottle of hair restorer to last week, t re member you. Hack for another bottle? Gent No. I come to see If you could direct o to the wig department. Cleve land Leader. Doctor (grimly) Why do you think your husband's mind Is affeoted, madam? Young Wife I'm sure It is, doctor, -tor last night when my husband came home h told me he was going to stnrt a zoo and begin with a ,mon calf and a sun dog. Baltimore American. Little Boy (studying hia lessons for the next morning) Papa, how many make A million? Father About one In a million, my dear boy. Now don't ask me any tnoio ques tions. New York Times. "What makes the trust magnate lock to worried?" "He has Juat read that the American farmer la very prosperous, and he frela that he must have overlooked something." Houston Post. Owlett I had an awful time thinking up an excuse to give my wife, whon 1 got home from the club last night Aacum Did sho demand one? Owlett Of course; 1 got homo so early it Dlqued hor ci-rlosltv Catholio Standard and Times. Magistrate You aro found guilty of knocking down the plaintiff ,nml robbing him of everything except a gold watclk What have you to say? Prisoner He had a gold watch? Magistrate Certainly. Prisoner Then I put In a plea of Inpanlty. New York Telegram. AN ANXIOUS POLITICIAN. Washington Star. Ef Mandy ever gets tho voto, I dont know nnni All uu. I couldn't run for aherlff as I've boon In tendln' to. I wouldn't even have the norvo to try to As trustee ot tho county or as school com- IIIIBSIUIIOI. . 'Cause Mandy's known mo, ill and well, In happiness an' grief. An' when my Judgment faltered her's has , come to my relief. 1 When my mlsluken notions laid, some' cherished prospect low, . . She smiled a little, but she never Said "I told you so." But how could I stand up an' speak with grave, Impressive air With Mandy lookin' on out In the audience somewhere. Of course, she'd never say a single word to undeceive The crowd. But all the time she'd ba -a-laughln' In her sleeve. who sell things not you want these people for your friends and followers.. A newspaper publisher once hired a new managing editor. The new editor was Am bitious and waa determined to make the paper print more news than any of Its rivals. He had splendid plans; but, chiefly, he would not give the reader more news than ever before, and news, that was printed in no other paper. Everything' Went beautifully, until one night, just at the time the forms were due to be closed, over the wires came a most Important piece of news. The presses were ordered held so as to get it into the paper. It would certainly not be in the other papers. Ie would be a great "scoop." The only thing he overlooked waa that he held the presses so long that the mail wagons failed to catch the train, which reached the towns, for which the edition was printed. The great piece of newa was In the papers; but they lay at the station and never reached the subscribers. It happened that the papers missed trio train again. It happened a third time and then the publisher introduced the ambitious managing editor to his successor. If a publisher prints the best newspaper on earth and it does not reach the subscri bers to be read, the papers are Just about as useful as last year's bird nests. The moral of thia la, that you may have the best goods on ydur shelves in. the United States, but if you fall to secure buyers for the goods they might Just as well be Junk. To get buyers, let people know what you have through newspaper advertising. NEWSPAPER ADS BEST. That there Is no advertising so effective' as newspaper advertising Is the opinion ex pressed by Mr. A. W. Oreen, president of the National Biscuit company. "Newspaper advertising we have found the best, taken all around," says Mr. Green. "Billboard advertising is good, but It re quires too much time and attention, Tho boards have to be watched to see that they are In good condition and the advertise ments constantly have to be renewed. We have very little trouble with the news papers. Magazine advertising la well enough, but it is slow." MBHB 1